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"Facts and Reminiscences, Recorded by Hon. James R. Berry" September 20, 1906; an autobiographical account by former Arkansas school teacher, lawyer, Madison County clerk, state legislator and Auditor of State (1868-1872) who was Governor Isaac Murphy's son-in-law and, for two years, his private secretary. Included is material pertaining to the history and genealogy of the Berry and related families.

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This collection is comprised of two manuscripts. The first manuscript, Walking My Lonesome Valley, by Colbert S. Cartwright, was privately printed in 1993 in Fort Worth, Texas. The manuscript, described as Cartwright's autobiography, is extensively annotated by an unidentified person. The second manuscript, The Second Reconstruction in Little Rock written by civil rights activist Nathaniel R. Griswold, is unpublished.

Scope and Content Note MS, PrMS, PR, TS Correspondence, legal documents, military forms, receipts, promissory notes, and other items comprise Joseph Robinson Rutherford's papers. The papers pertain to family concerns; Company "A", Arkansas Home Guard Militia; carming, the sale of Seth Thomas clocks, and other business interests. Upon moving from Tennessee to Benton County, Arkansas in 1851, Joseph Robinson Rutherford began a varied career as farmer, businessman, politician and...

Scope and Content Note Letters, diaries, ledgers, legal documents, and printed items dealing with a wide variety of Arkansas subjects and people. In addition, fragile ledgers may be viewed on 2 reels of microfilm. Included are nine letters, written from 1866 to 1876 from Fort Smith (Sebastian County), Fayetteville (Washington County), Little Rock (Pulaski County), and Washington, D.C., by James E. Trott, George William Sellers, Charles Whiting Walker, Elias C. Boudinot, Margaret Waterson, James M....

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...

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The collection includes correspondence, biographical sketch draft, and research materials regarding D. P. Upham collected and generated by historian Blake Wintory.

Scope and Contents Letters pertaining to the professional, business, political, and other affairs of David Walker, Fayetteville, Ark. lawyer, jurist, politician, legislator, and state supreme court justice. Part of the material relates to the affairs of the Whig Party and to the Civil War and Reconstruction in Arkansas, and to the Arkansas Industrial University in 1874. Correspondents include: John D. Adams, Mark Bean, John J. Clendinin, John R. Eakin, Elbert Hartwell English, Augustus Hill Garland, Lorenzo...