Edwin B. Janes Collection mssHM 25466-25675

Gayle Richardson
The Huntington Library
February 2021
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, California 91108
reference@huntington.org


Contributing Institution: The Huntington Library
Title: Edwin B. Janes collection
Creator: Janes, Edwin B., 1901-1943
Identifier/Call Number: mssHM 25466-25675
Physical Description: 3.75 Linear Feet (3 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1746-1900
Abstract: A collection of material assembled by Edwin B. Janes, Ohio autograph and manuscript collector.
Language of Material: Materials are in English.

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Preferred Citation

[Identification of item]. Edwin B. Janes collection, The Huntington Library, San Marino, California.

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Gift of Edwin B. Janes, in memory of his wife Isabelle Kelley Janes, 1942 and 1943.

Biographical / Historical

Edwin B. Janes (1901-1943) was an autograph and manuscript collector of Cleveland, Ohio. He lived in Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga, Ohio, for about 10 years. He died on 16 May 1943, in Los Angeles, California. Albert Gallatin Riddle (1816-1902), was a lawyer, Republican legislator, and author. Riddle served as a member of the Ohio House of Representatives (1848-1850) and then as the state representative in the Thirty-seventh Congress. In 1863-1864, he was consul at Matanzas, Cuba. After the Civil War, he practiced law in Washington, D.C. and was retained by the State Department to aid in the prosecution of the assassins of President Lincoln. From 1877 to 1889, he served as law officer of the District of Columbia. Andrew J. Williams (1829-1901), was an Ohio lawyer, Democratic politician, and amateur historian. In 1861, he briefly served as 2nd Lieutenant of Company D of the 7th Ohio Infantry regiment; in 1864 he was drafted and served as U. S. Army paymaster. After the war, he practiced law in Missouri, and by 1880, he had moved to Cleveland, Ohio. Williams was one of the leaders of the city's Early Settlers' Association.

Scope and Contents

A collection of 238 items which consists of manuscripts and letters assembled by Edwin B. Janes. The first series of miscellaneous manuscripts contains individual letters by American political, military, and literary figures of the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. Included in this material is a leaf from the docket of the court in Painesville, Ohio, detailing the conviction of Joseph Smith, Jr., of assault and battery of his brother-in-law Calvin W. Stoddard (April 21, 1835), also documents relating to slavery and abolitionism, a small group of correspondence of John Stuart Skinner, and a group of letters and military records related to the Civil War in Ohio. The second series, arranged alphabetically by author, is the professional and political correspondence of Albert Gallatin Riddle, chiefly letters addressed to him from 1847 to 1870. The third series, arranged chronologically, contains personal, professional, and political correspondence of Andrew J. Williams (1852-1900).

Processing Information

Processed by Huntington Library Staff, circa 1945. In 2021, Gayle Richardson created the finding aid derived from a legacy in-house summary report.

Arrangement

Organized in the following series: 1. Miscellaneous manuscripts (1746-1895); 2. Correspondence of Albert Gallatin Riddle (1842-1870); 3. Correspondence of Andrew J. Williams (1852-1900).

Subjects and Indexing Terms

Antislavery movements -- United States -- History -- 19th century
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Ohio
Lawyers -- Ohio
Legislators -- Ohio
Legislators -- United States
Manuscripts, American -- Collectors and collecting -- Ohio
Slavery -- United States -- History
Cleveland (Ohio) -- History
Ohio -- History -- 19th century
United States -- History -- 18th century
United States -- History -- 19th century
Collections (object groupings) -- Ohio
Letters (correspondence) -- United States
Military records -- Ohio -- Civil War, 1861-1865
Personal papers -- Ohio -- 19th century
Professional papers -- Ohio -- 19th century
Burr, Aaron, 1756-1836
Chase, Salmon P. (Salmon Portland), 1808-1873
Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889
Emerson, Ralph Waldo, 1803-1882
Riddle, A. G. (Albert Gallatin), 1816-1902
Skinner, John S. (John Stuart), 1788-1851
Smith, Joseph, Jr., 1805-1844
Tennyson, Alfred Tennyson, Baron, 1809-1892
Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852
Welles, Gideon, 1802-1878
Williams, Andrew J., 1829-1901

Box 1, Folder 1-113

Miscellaneous correspondence and manuscripts 1746 January-1895 April

Scope and Contents

HM 25466-25578
Box 2, Folder 1-31

Albert Gallatin Riddle material 1842 April-approximately 1870

Scope and Contents

Letters addressed to Albert Gallatin Riddle; HM 25579-25609
Box 3, Folder 1-67

Andrew J. Williams material 1852 January-1900 June

Scope and Contents

Includes correspondence and ephemera; HM 25610-25675.