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Simon Stevens letter, 1874.
MANUSCRIPTSMCII : Box 32 : Folder 10
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Title:
Simon Stevens letter, 1874Stevens
Creator/Contributor:
Stevens, Simon., creatorAbstract:
Four-page holograph letter dated March 29, 1874 from Simon Stevens in New York to his mother on letterhead stationery. He
writes about floating a $9,000,000 loan in Europe and negotiating a treaty with Mexico. He also writes about his brothers
and sisters and his own children.
Date:
1874 (issued)Subject:
n-us-caCorrespondence
Note:
Simon Stevens was born in Barnet, Vermont in 1825. He moved to Lancaster, Pennsylvania to enter his cousin Thaddeus Stevens'
law practice, and passed the bar in 1844. Stevens moved to New York in 1860 and became renowned as a corporation advisor in
riparian rights. He later became president of the Tehuantepec Railroad, was the brother of bookmen Henry (1819-1896) and Benjamin
(1833-1902) Stevens, and was a good friend of both Horace Greeley and James G. Blaine. Stevens died in New York on August
28, 1894.
Stevens.
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.
Physical Description:
print
1 file folder; 14 3/4 x 9 1/2 in.
Language:
English
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CaliforniaCopyright Note:
Unrestricted. Please credit California State Library.