Scope and Content Note Letters and related material received by the Arkansas lawyer, jurist, legislator, and politician Jesse Turner, who was a pioneer settler in Van Buren, Arkansas, pertaining to his law practice there and to political and other affairs in Arkansas, especially as regards railroad development, Reconstruction, efforts to secure a federal appointment for William Minor Quesenbury, the duel between Solon Borland and Benjamin J. Borden, the creation of Franklin County, and Archibald Yell's campaign...

Scope and Content Note Correspondence, legal documents, financial records, and photographs pertaining to the William Wilson family. Significant correspondents include Alfred McIlroy Wilson, Augustus H. Garland, Samuel P. Pittman, Jesse Turner, and Wilson family relatives in Texas.Many of the documents in this collection were published by Walter J. Lemke in a booklet titled The William Wilson Records (Fayetteville: Washington County Historical Society, 1960). In 1981 some...