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Cumback mss., 1835-1904

Summary Information

Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
1200 E. Seventh St.
Bloomington, IN 47405-5500
Phone: 812-855-2452
Fax: 812-855-3143
Email: liblilly@indiana.edu

Creator
Cumback, Will, 1829-1905.

Title
Cumback mss., 1835-1904

Collection No.
LMC 1239

Extent
72 items

Language
Materials are in English.

Abstract
The Cumback mss., 1835-1904, consist chiefly of correspondence with prominent political figures, army officers, lawyers, poets, journalists, and personal friends.

Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Biographical Note

William Cumback, 1829-1905, was a lawyer and congressman from Indiana.

Arrangement

Materials are arranged chronologically.

Scope and Content Note

The letters deal with national and state politics, 1854-1897; elections, 1856, 1860, 1880, 1884, 1896; army finances, 1864; slavery question as it related to Kansas, 1855; governorship of Montana, 1864; governorship of Idaho, 1870; minister resident to Portugal, 1870; position as a member of the cabinet or a Mexican mission, 1897; and efforts of friends to nominate John Addison Porter for governor of Connecticut, 1898. Included are also land grants, 1835-1856; commission as a lieutenant-colonel, 1865; certification of election to Congress, 1854; certificate of election to the Indiana Academy of Science, 1889; resolutions favoring prohibition and opposing the further extension of slavery by the Decatur County Democratic party; and a book of autographs of President Franklin Pierce, members of his cabinet, members of the Senate, and members of the House of Representatives of the 34th Congress, 1856.

Among the correspondents are Timothy Patrick Andrews, Benjamin William Brice, Samuel Bryan, Will Carleton, Cassius Marcellus Clay, Howell Cobb, John Coburn, Schuyler Colfax, Neal Dow, Hamilton Fish, James Glover, Jr., Horace Greeley, Benjamin Harrison, Rutherford Birchard Hayes, William Steele Holman, Joe D. Howland, Samuel Porter Jones, Abraham Lincoln, John Uri Lloyd, William McKinley, John McLean, Louis Theodore Michener, J.D. Mooney, Oliver Perry Morton, Meredith Nicholson, Godlove Stein Orth, Alfred Pleasonton, John Addison Porter, John Sherman, William Tecumseh Sherman, Edwin McMasters Stanton, Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Thomas DeWitt Talmage, James Maurice Thompson, John Palmer Usher, and Lewis Wallace.

In addition, the collection contains printed speeches by William Cumback.

Administrative Information

Acquisition Information
Acquired: 1952
Usage Restrictions
Prior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however, patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.

Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly Library.

Preferred Citation
[Item], Cumback mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Processing Information
Processed by Craig Simpson.

Completed in 2014


Series: Box 1 Kansas Election Contested. Includes speech by Will Cumback, 1856 

(printed, bound)

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Book of Autographs. Congress, 1856 

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Biographical Material [image]View item(s)

1850, Apr. 17.  Western Christian Advocate. Clipping. [image]View item(s)

1851, Feb. 4.  Glover, James, Jr. to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1854, Aug. 21.  Holman, William Steele to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1854, Oct. 27.  Colfax, Schuyler to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1854, Nov. 27.  Wright, Joseph A. Certificate of election of Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1855, Apr. 16.  Colfax, Schuyler to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1855, Apr. 14.  Orth, Godlove Stein to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1855, Oct. 29.  Colfax, Scuyler to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1855, Dec. 7.  Bryan, Samuel to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1855, Dec. 12.  Cumback, William to Shombre [?], Henry J. [image]View item(s)

1856, Mar. 15.  Bryan, Samuel to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1856, Jun. 7.  Howland, Joe D. to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1856, Jul. 14.  Mooney J. D. to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1856.  Printed. Cumback, William. Speech.. On the Politics of the Country... Washington, 1856  [image]View item(s)

1857, Jun. [8?].  McLean, John to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1857, Jul. 29.  Cobb, Howell to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1857  Printed. Cumback, William. Politics of the Country... Washington, 1857  [image]View item(s)

1860, Jun. 15.  Clay, Cassius Marcellus to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1860, Jun. 15.  Lincoln, Abraham to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1860, Oct. 24  Greeley, Horace to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1863, May 27.  Andrews, Timothy Patrick to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1864, Apr. 5.  Usher, John Palmer to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1864, Apr. 6.  Andrews, Timothy P. to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1864, Nov. 3.  Cumback, William. Check to William Cumback [image]View item(s)

1865, Jan. 10.  Cumback, William to Brodhead, John M. [image]View item(s)

1865, Mar. 24.  Brice, Benjamin W. to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1865, Jun. 5.  Cumback, William to Brice, Benjamin [image]View item(s)

1865, Jul. 7.  Stanton, Edwin McMasters to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1865, Jul. 6.  Adjutant General's office. Copy of discharge of William Cumback [image]View item(s)

1870, Jan. 3.  Morton, Oliver Perry to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1870, Feb. 7.  Fish, Hamilton to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1704, Apr. 17 – 1881, Sept. 20.  Newspaper facsimiles [image]View item(s)

Box 2 1871, Feb. 18.  Morton, Oliver Perry to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1871, Feb. 20.  Colfax, Schuyler to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1871, Feb. 21.  Morton, Oliver Perry to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1871, Feb. 24.  Morton, Oliver Perry to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1871, Feb. 25  Morton, Oliver Perry to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1871, Feb. 25  Morton, Oliver Perry to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1871, Apr. 1.  Pleasanton, Alfred to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1871.  Colfax, Schuyler to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1871.  Morton, Oliver Perry to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1874  Printed. Cumback, William. Temperance and the Ballot-Box... Cincinnati, 1874  [image]View item(s)

1879, Nov. 11.  Sherman, John to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1881, Mar. 15.  Harrison, Benjamin to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1882, Nov. 23.  Stephens, Alexander H. to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1883, Jun. 14.  Hayes, Rutherford B. to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1884, Mar. 5.  Harrison, Benjamin to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1884, Oct. 17.  Michener, Louis Theodore to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1884, Nov. 11.  Sherman, William Tecumseh to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1885, May 13.  Dow, Neal to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1886, Apr. 17.  Jones, Sam P. to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1886, Apr. 30.  Harrison, Benjamin to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1887, Feb. 15.  Sherman, John to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1887, Mar. 14.  Hayes, Rutherford B. to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1887, Apr. 16.  Sherman, John to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1889, May 14.  Indiana Academy of Science. Certificate of election of William Cumback [image]View item(s)

1887, Jun. 8.  Sherman, John to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1892, Jan. 12.  Carleton, Will to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1893, Dec. 13.  Wallace, Lewis to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1896, Jan. 22.  McKinley, William to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1896, Jun. 29.  McKinley, William to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1897, Jan. 13.  Sherman, John to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1897, Feb. 26.  Sherman, John to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1897, Oct. 6.  Porter, John Addison to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1898, Feb. 5.  Porter, John Addison to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1898, Mar. 25.  Thompson, James Maurice to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1903, Jan. 18.  Wallace, Lewis to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1903, Jul. 27.  Coburn, John to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1903, Oct. 26.  Lloyd, John Url to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

1904, Apr. 30.  Cumback, William. The Divine Right of Kings [image]View item(s)

1904, Aug. 23.  Nicholson, Meredith to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

Undated.  Talmage, Thomas DeWitt to Cumback, William [image]View item(s)

"Rebel Terms of Peace!" Print of broadside [image]View item(s)

Box 3 Jackson, Andrew. Grant of land... to William Ryans [image]View item(s)

Pierce, Franklin. Grant of land... to Jane Coates [image]View item(s)

Democratic Party, Indiana. Decatur County. Washington Township. Resolutions [image]View item(s)

Pierce, Franklin. Grant of land... to Samuel Galloway [image]View item(s)

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