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Descriptive Summary of the Collection
Scope and Content of the Collection
Series 1: Correspondence, 1873-1909
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Inventory of the Lambert Tree Papers, 1821-1933
Machine-readable finding aid encoded by Jane Venanzi, 2009. ©2009. |
Descriptive Summary of the Collection |
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| Creator | Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910 |
| Title | Lambert Tree Papers |
| Dates | 1821-1933 |
| Extent | 5 linear feet (8 boxes, 1 oversize box) |
| Abstract | Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities. |
| Language | Materials are in English. |
| Repository | Newberry Library, Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections |
| Collection Call Number | Midwest MS Tree |
| Collection Stack Location | 3a 43 1 |
Administrative Information
Cite As
Lambert Tree Papers, The Newberry Library, Chicago.
Provenance
Gift, Ronald Tree, 1947.
Processed by
Jane Venanzi, 2009.
Access
The Lambert Tree Papers are open for research in the Special Collections Reading Room; 1 box at a time (Priority III).
Ownership and Literary Rights
The Lambert Tree Papers are the physical property of the Newberry Library. Copyright may belong to the authors or their legal heirs or assigns. For permission to publish or reproduce any materials from this collection, contact the Roger and Julie Baskes Department of Special Collections.
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Biography of Lambert Tree
Cook county lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and US minister to Belgium and Russia.
Lambert Tree was born in Washington, DC November 29, 1832, the son of a post office clerk. He began his education in private schools in the capital, attended the University of Virginia, then continued on to read law and was admitted to the bar in 1855. That same year, he left the East for Chicago, where he became a wealthy and influential figure. Starting as the junior partner in Clarkson and Tree, Tree’s business steadily prospered. In 1859, he married Annie J. Magie, daughter of H. H. Magie, a Chicago pioneer who had settled in the area in 1832. In 1862, Tree returned from a vacation in Europe to practice law without a partner. By 1864, he was president of the Chicago Law Institute and in 1870, he was elected to the Cook County Circuit bench. For Tree, the capstone of his achievements came in July of 1885, when President Grover Cleveland appointed him Minister to Belgium. He worked in Brussels for three years before being promoted to Minister to Russia in 1888, a position he occupied for only a month before the inauguration of Republican president Benjamin Harrison caused his resignation. Tree had one son, Arthur, who married a daughter of Marshall Field, who he later divorced for desertion.
Tree was a strong and opinionated Democrat, who not only influenced the party but ran for office several times, running for Senator against General Logan in 1884 and losing by one vote. Though he was unsuccessful at getting a seat in Congress, he was chosen as a delegate at large from Illinois to the Democratic national convention in Chicago, which nominated Grover Cleveland with Tree’s enthusiastic support. Tree’s position as a “Gold Democrat” caused him to disagree with Bryan and his free silver platform, which lead to Tree’s withdrawal from active participation in his party. As a judge, Tree was noted for his stand against corruption, making one of his first official acts an investigation of the city council, starting a trial that made the first conviction for corruption in Illinois. He was later encouraged to run for mayor during the world’s fair, but refused to consider it.
Lambert Tree continued to make contributions to the city of Chicago. As a patron of the arts, he commissioned a statue of French explorer La Salle while in Brussels, which he gifted to the city and was unveiled at its new home in Lincoln Park in 1889. For this, the French made him an Officer of the Legion of Honor. The Trees also created the Tree Studios in 1894, paying for a low-rent, well-lit building which became a haven for many artists. Tree was the President of the Illinois state historical library board from 1892-1895, served as a trustee of the Newberry Library from 1892-1910, and was one of the incorporators of the American Red Cross. He owned the entire block bounded by North State, Ohio, Cass, and Indiana Streets and was well respected. Tree died of a heart attack on Oct. 9, 1910 while returning from overseas.
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Scope and Content of the Collection
Correspondence, speeches, and miscellaneous material of Chicago judge and diplomat, Lambert Tree.
This collection consists mainly of letters to Judge Tree, with many drafts of outgoing replies, mostly to and from fellow politicians and diplomats (inculding Adlai Stevenson, Grover Cleveland, William Howard Taft, John P. Altgeld, and Carter H. Harrison), and Chicago colleagues and friends. Content ranges from the political issues of the day, to political appointments, invitations, and letters of introduction. In addition, there are letters between family members, the bulk of which are from Lambert Tree and his two brothers, Joseph and Charles, to his father, Lambert Tree, Sr. during 1859-1860. These letters describe every day life and business in Chicago and Norfolk, Virginia, respectively, including details on fishing, weather, and views on marriage. Additional letters and mementos concern Lambert Tree, Sr.’s job at the post office in Washington D.C. The family papers include an album of newspaper clippings kept by Judge Tree’s wife, Annie Josephine Tree.
Along with the correspondence are passports, certificates, and papers connected with Lambert Tree’s political career, as well as clippings concerning the La Salle Statue he commissioned in Belgium and gave to Lincoln Park, and letters congratulating him on his appointment to Minister to Belgium. The collection also includes drafts of numerous speeches given by Tree and newspaper clippings detailing his political views and reporting his death.
Narrative descriptions of the subject matter, types of material, and arrangement of each series are available through the Organization section of the finding aid.
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Organization
Papers are organized in the following series:
- Series 1: Correspondence, 1873-1909. Box(es) 1-6
- Series 2: Miscellaneous, 1885-1910. Box(es) 7
- Series 3: Family Materials, 1821-1933. Box(es) 8
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Selected Search Terms
The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the Newberry Library's public catalog. Researchers desiring additional materials on a particular topic should search the catalog using these headings.
Names
- Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 -- Correspondence
- American National Red Cross
- Democratic Party (U.S.)
- Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 -- Correspondence
- Huggins, E. L. (Eli Lundy), 1842-1929 -- Correspondence
- Newberry Library. Board of Trustees
- Tree family
- Tree, Lambert, 1800-1881
- Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910
- Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910 -- Correspondence
- Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910 -- Political activity
Subjects
- Ambassadors -- Belgium
- Diplomats -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Lawyers -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Art patronage -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- China -- History -- Boxer Rebellion, 1899-1901 -- Personal narratives
- Correspondence -- 1801-1850
- Correspondence -- 1851-1900
- Correspondence -- 1901-1950
- Judges -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago
- Norfolk (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources
- Parents and adult children -- Correspondence
- Secession -- Virginia -- Public opinion
- Speeches -- 1851-1900
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1865-1900
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Container List
Series 1: Correspondence, 1873-1909 |
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| Letters to Judge Lambert Tree, together with drafts of outgoing replies, concerning national, local, and international politics and diplomacy, as well as affairs in Chicago. Also includes routine correspondence regarding invitations, introductions, and appointments. National. political, and diplomatic correspondents include Adlai Stevenson, Grover Cleveland, and William Howard Taft, and also Thomas F. Bayard, Isaac Bell Jr., Walter Q Gresham, Robert McLane, William Ralls Morrison, Robert B. Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William M. Springer, Richard W. Townshend, William F. Vilas, and George W. Wurtz. Chicago and Illinois correspondents include John P. Altgeld, Eliphalet W. Blatchford, John Vance Cheney, W. C. Goudy, Carter H. Harrison (d. 1893), George P. A. Healy, Samuel Insull, L. Z. Leiter, Robert Todd Lincoln, A. C. McClurg, Robert Sanderson McCormick, Joseph Medill, Honore Palmer, Erskine M. Phelps, and W. F. Story. There is also considerable correspondence from Mabel Boardman of the executive committee of the American National Red Cross, from Compagnie des Bronzes regarding the LaSalle statue, and from Eli Lundy Higgins who was in China during the Boxer Rebellion. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 1 | 1 | Adee, Alvey Augustus, 1886-1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 2 | Alger, R.A., Sep. 30, 1902 | |||||||||
| 1 | 3 | Altgeld, John P., 1893-1901 | |||||||||
| 1 | 4 | Anderson, C. P., Jan. 1909 | |||||||||
| 1 | 5 | Armour, Philip D., Oct. 1, 1890 | |||||||||
| 1 | 6 | Armstrong, Mary Stuart, Apr. 25, 1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 7 | Arnot, Raymond H., 1902-1909 | |||||||||
| 1 | 8 | Bailey, M. B., Jul. 11, 1885 | |||||||||
| 1 | 9 | Baker, John H., May 17, 1885 | |||||||||
| 1 | 10 | Baker, William T., 1891-1892 | |||||||||
| 1 | 11 | Barbey, Edouard, calling card, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 12 | Barrett, John., Jun. 1899 | |||||||||
| 1 | 13 | Barringer, Paul Brandon, 1901-1902 | |||||||||
| 1 | 14 | Bayard, Mrs. Thomas F., 1898-1908 | |||||||||
| 1 | 15 | Bayard, Thomas F., 1886-1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 16 | Beauclerk, Evelyn A., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 17 | Bell, Isaac, Jr., 1886-1888 | |||||||||
| 1 | 18 | Belmore, Somerset Richard Lowry-Corry, Jul. 6, 1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 19 | Bernard, C., 1888-1892 | |||||||||
| 1 | 20 | Bigelow, Grace, Jul. 7, 1888 | |||||||||
| 1 | 21 | Bigelow, John, 1888 | |||||||||
| 1 | 22 | Billings, Frank, Jul. 19, 1905 | |||||||||
| 1 | 23 | Black, John C., 1890-1909 | |||||||||
| 1 | 24 | Blackman, Walther, Oct. 31, 1886 | |||||||||
| 1 | 25 | Blackstone, T. B., Nov. 17, 1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 26 | Blaine, Anita McCormick, n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 27 | Blaine, James G., 1889 | |||||||||
| 1 | 28 | Bland, Richard P., Mar. 16, 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 29 | Blatchford, Eliphalet Wickes, 1885-1908 | |||||||||
| 1 | 30 | Blodgett, H. W., n.d. | |||||||||
| 1 | 31 | Boardman, Mabel T., 1905-1909 | |||||||||
| 1 | 32 | Bonnat, W., May 6, 1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 33 | Borthgrave, Paul, Count de, Apr. 26, 1889 | |||||||||
| 1 | 34 | Boutell, Henry S., 1905-1908 | |||||||||
| 1 | 35 | Bowker, Alfred, 1901-1903 | |||||||||
| 1 | 36 | Bradley, Joseph P., Nov. 17, 1887 | |||||||||
| 1 | 37 | Breckinridge, William Campbell Preston, Mar. 18, 1886 | |||||||||
| 1 | 38 | Bristow, B. H., Jul. 13, 1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 39 | Brooke, Mary T., Feb. 4, 1899 | |||||||||
| 1 | 40 | Brooks, Frank H., Nov. 11, 1893 | |||||||||
| 1 | 41 | Brower, A. T. H., Nov. 24-26, 1897 | |||||||||
| 1 | 42 | Brown-Sequard, C. B., 1877-1885 | |||||||||
| 1 | 43 | Brugmann, Georges, 1886-1889 | |||||||||
| 1 | 44 | Bruwaert, Edmond, 1889-1894 | |||||||||
| 1 | 45 | Bryan, Henry, 1888-1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 46 | Bryan, Joseph, May 1904 | |||||||||
| 1 | 47 | Bryce, Lloyd, Nov. 4, 1891 | |||||||||
| 1 | 48 | Butler, Charles Henry, Apr. 6 | |||||||||
| 1 | 49 | Byford, W. H., Mar. 3, 1885 | |||||||||
| 2 | 50 | Cachard, Henry, Jan. 28, 1887 | |||||||||
| 2 | 51 | Calvo, Carlo, Dec. 19, 1888 | |||||||||
| 2 | 52 | Campbell, W., Aug. 23, 1906 | |||||||||
| 2 | 53 | Cantigalli, R., 1892-1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 54 | Carlisle, C., Aug. 10, 1885 | |||||||||
| 2 | 55 | Carpenter, Fred W., 1905-1909 | |||||||||
| 2 | 56 | Carroll, Marian Mulligan Apr. 6, 1885 | |||||||||
| 2 | 57 | Carter, John Ridgely, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 58 | Caton, John Dean, 1884-1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 59 | Causey, J. W., Jul. 15, 1892 | |||||||||
| 2 | 60 | Charlier, Joseph John, Nov. 14, 1888 | |||||||||
| 2 | 61 | Cheney, John Vance, 1907-1908 | |||||||||
| 2 | 62 | Chicago Club, May 14, 1892 | |||||||||
| 2 | 63 | Cleveland, Frances, F., 1892-1907 | |||||||||
| 2 | 64 | Cleveland, Grover, 1889-1907 | |||||||||
| 2 | 65 | Clory, Robert, Mar. 19, 1902 | |||||||||
| 2 | 66 | Cogordan, George, calling card, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 67 | Commissioners of Lincoln Park, 1889-1894 | |||||||||
| 2 | 68 | Compagnie des bronzes, 1888-1889 | |||||||||
| 2 | 69 | Condon, R. J., Dec. 1, 1904 | |||||||||
| 2 | 70 | Corbin, Henry C., 1892-1907 | |||||||||
| 2 | 71 | Cordier, Alphonse, calling card n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 72 | Cotton, Mrs. Charles Stanhope, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 73 | Craigie, Mary E., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 74 | Crisp, Charles F., Feb. 16, 1892 | |||||||||
| 2 | 75 | Cullom, Shelby Moore, 1902-1907 | |||||||||
| 2 | 76 | Curry, I. S. M., 1888-1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 77 | Cutting, Marion Ramsay, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 78 | d'Aumale, duc 1889 | |||||||||
| 2 | 79 | d'Auxy, la duchesse et marquisse, May 1888 | |||||||||
| 2 | 80 | de Burenstam, Charles 1890-1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 81 | de Chimay, Prince, 1889-1891 | |||||||||
| 2 | 82 | de Chimay, Princesse, 1891-1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 82a | de Lalaing, Jacques, 1889 | |||||||||
| 2 | 83 | de Leon, Arturo, 1886 | |||||||||
| 2 | 84 | de l'Espine, Comte, calling card, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 85 | de Marney, Victor, Nov. 14, 1888 | |||||||||
| 2 | 86 | Deneen, Charles, S., Jun. 17, 1905 | |||||||||
| 2 | 87 | Dent, Thomas, Feb. 3, 1906 | |||||||||
| 2 | 88 | de Sainte-Foy, L. R., n.d., 1895 | |||||||||
| 2 | 89 | d'Herwynen, Baron Gericke, calling card, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 90 | Evans, Charles, Sep. 24, 1896 | |||||||||
| 2 | 91 | Fertig, James W., Nov. 19, 1904 | |||||||||
| 2 | 92 | Floyd-Jones, De Lancey, Nov. 1, 1888 | |||||||||
| 2 | 93 | Gage, Layman Judson, 1899-1901 | |||||||||
| 2 | 94 | Garnett, Algernon, S., 1904-1905 | |||||||||
| 2 | 95 | Gilder, Richard Watson, 1894-909 | |||||||||
| 2 | 96 | Gillespie, George Lewis, 1907-1909 | |||||||||
| 2 | 97 | Gillespie, Phoebie McM, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 98 | Gofrelin, Martin, Jan. 14, 1890 | |||||||||
| 2 | 99 | Gordon, Nelly K., 1905, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 100 | Goudy, W. C., 1880-1889 | |||||||||
| 2 | 101 | Grant, Frederick D., May 10, 1904 | |||||||||
| 2 | 102 | Grant, Ida H., 1904-1909 | |||||||||
| 2 | 103 | Grant, Memorial Meeting Invitation, Aug. 8, 1885 | |||||||||
| 2 | 104 | Gravier, Gabriel, Feb. 3, 1890 | |||||||||
| 2 | 105 | Grey, Charles F., Feb. 3, 1933 | |||||||||
| 2 | 106 | Gray, George, 1886-1898 | |||||||||
| 2 | 107 | Greely, Henrietta N., n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 108 | Gregory, S. S., 1897-1907 | |||||||||
| 2 | 109 | Gresham, Walter Q., 1885-1895 | |||||||||
| 2 | 110 | Grey, Aug. 15, 1897 | |||||||||
| 2 | 111 | Guerette, E., Nov. 9, 1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 112 | Gunsaulus, F. W., Sep. 9, 1905 | |||||||||
| 2 | 113 | Hardin, Amelia McLaughlin, 1902-1908 | |||||||||
| 2 | 114 | Harlan, John M., 1894-1906 | |||||||||
| 2 | 115 | Harrison, Carter H., 1886-1893 | |||||||||
| 2 | 116 | Hart, Lady Hester Jane, 1893-1907 | |||||||||
| 2 | 117 | Hart, M. M., 1906-1907 | |||||||||
| 2 | 118 | Hart, Nolly B., 1906 | |||||||||
| 2 | 119 | Haulleville, Baron, Mar. 30, 1886 | |||||||||
| 2 | 120 | Hay, John, n.d. | |||||||||
| 2 | 121 | Hay, Maria Jones, Jan. 10, 1896 | |||||||||
| 3 | 122 | Healy, George P. A., 1879-1892 | |||||||||
| 3 | 123 | Henderson, William R., Oct. 27, 1892 | |||||||||
| 3 | 124 | Hendricks, Thomas A., 1885 | |||||||||
| 3 | 125 | Herbert, H. A., 1894 | |||||||||
| 3 | 126 | Hewitt, Abram Sr., n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 127 | Hitt, Robert R,. April 24, 1896 | |||||||||
| 3 | 128 | Hitt, Sally R., n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 129 | Holdom Jesse, Nov. 12, 1904 | |||||||||
| 3 | 130 | Holmes, Oliver Wendell, Aug, 1890 | |||||||||
| 3 | 131 | Hopkins, John P., Dec. 1863 | |||||||||
| 3 | 132 | Hornsby, Rebekah Black, 1909 | |||||||||
| 3 | 133 | Howe, Haughwont, Apr. 12, 1889 | |||||||||
| 3 | 134 | Huggins, Eli Lundy, 1896-1907 | |||||||||
| 3 | 135 | Humphry, J. O., Jul. 18, 1905 | |||||||||
| 3 | 136 | Hunt, Wilson G., Nov. 22, 1886 | |||||||||
| 3 | 137 | Huntington, H. A., 1886-1897 | |||||||||
| 3 | 138 | Hyde, Charles Cheney, Jul. 11, 1905 | |||||||||
| 3 | 139 | Institute de France, Jan. 16, 1890 | |||||||||
| 3 | 140 | Insull, Samuel, Mar. 1907 | |||||||||
| 3 | 141 | International American Monetary Commission, 1891 | |||||||||
| 3 | 142 | Isham, Edward S., 1892-1901 | |||||||||
| 3 | 143 | James, Edmund J., 1904-1907 | |||||||||
| 3 | 144 | Jenkins, M. A., 1907-1909 | |||||||||
| 3 | 145 | Jewett, Ellen R., n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 146 | Johnson, Allen, May, 1906 | |||||||||
| 3 | 147 | Jones, C. H., Oct. 3, 1892 | |||||||||
| 3 | 148 | Jones, David B., n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 149 | Jones, J. R., n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 150 | Jones, James K., Aug. 16, 1900 | |||||||||
| 3 | 151 | Jooris, J., Sep. 17, 1888 | |||||||||
| 3 | 152 | Joostens, Maurice, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 153 | Kauffman, Rebecca H., Jan. 6, 1909 | |||||||||
| 3 | 154 | Keen. Gregory B., Apr. 9, 1895 | |||||||||
| 3 | 155 | Kerfoot, Samuel H., Sep. 10, 1885 | |||||||||
| 3 | 156 | Knickerbocker, J. C., July 30, 1888 | |||||||||
| 3 | 157 | Kohlsaat, Herman Henry, 1896-1901 | |||||||||
| 3 | 158 | Lake Mohonk Conference on International Arbitrarion, 1907-1908 | |||||||||
| 3 | 159 | Lambermont, baron, 1890-1892 | |||||||||
| 3 | 160 | Lambert, George T., 1908 | |||||||||
| 3 | 161 | Lamont, Daniel Scott, 1888-1891 | |||||||||
| 3 | 162 | La Salle, Madame Georges de, (includes photographs), 1889 | |||||||||
| 3 | 163 | Lathrop, Helen, Jul. 30, 1905 | |||||||||
| 3 | 164 | Lathrop, John A., 1903-1904 | |||||||||
| 3 | 165 | Lawrence, W. E., Aug. 15, 1885 | |||||||||
| 3 | 166 | Lawson, Victor F., Oct. 17, 1886, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 167 | Lax, Jules, Nov. 28, 1888 | |||||||||
| 3 | 168 | Leach, Josiah Granville, Feb. 17, 1903 | |||||||||
| 3 | 169 | Leake, W. S., 1900 | |||||||||
| 3 | 170 | Leeds, Charles C., 1888-1907 | |||||||||
| 3 | 171 | Le Ghait, A., 1889-1895 | |||||||||
| 3 | 172 | Leiter, L.Z., 1891-1900 | |||||||||
| 3 | 173 | Leiter, Mary, 1897-1906 | |||||||||
| 3 | 174 | Leiter, Nance, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 175 | Leman, H. W., Oct, 19, 1889 | |||||||||
| 3 | 176 | Lemmon, A. I., Mar. 29, 1887 | |||||||||
| 3 | 177 | Liang-Ching, Chentung, Dec. 9, 1905 | |||||||||
| 3 | 178 | Lincoln, Robert Todd, 1886-1907 | |||||||||
| 3 | 179 | Loomis, Mary H, n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 180 | MacMahon, J. A., Aug. 10, 1894 | |||||||||
| 3 | 181 | MacVeagh, Franklin, 1893-1909 | |||||||||
| 3 | 182 | MacVeagh, Wayne n.d. | |||||||||
| 3 | 183 | Magee, Charles L., 1905 | |||||||||
| 3 | 184 | Magee, Rufus, 1888-1889 | |||||||||
| 3 | 185 | Magrudor, B. D., Feb. 9, 1906 | |||||||||
| 4 | 186 | Manning, Margaretta, 1907-1908 | |||||||||
| 4 | 187 | Margry, Madame A., 1896 | |||||||||
| 4 | 188 | Margry, Pierre, 1887-1892 | |||||||||
| 4 | 189 | Marr, W. W., Aug. 20, 1885 | |||||||||
| 4 | 190 | Mason, Edward G., 1892-1896 | |||||||||
| 4 | 191 | Mason, William E., Feb. 1898 | |||||||||
| 4 | 192 | Mathews, Shiler, Mar. 20, 1905 | |||||||||
| 4 | 193 | Maury, Nannie Bell, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 194 | Maury, WIlliam A. 1894-1908 | |||||||||
| 4 | 195 | Maynard, George C., Mar. 19, 1897 | |||||||||
| 4 | 196 | McArthur, L. L., Aug. 7, 1905, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 197 | McCagg, Ezra Butler, 1879-1897 | |||||||||
| 4 | 198 | McCalla, B. H., Oct. 12, 1888 | |||||||||
| 4 | 199 | McClellan, Ellen M., n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 200 | McClurg, A. C., 1888 | |||||||||
| 4 | 201 | McCormick, Cyrus H., 1885-1896 | |||||||||
| 4 | 202 | McCormick, Katherine, 1899, n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 203 | McCormick, Nettie Fowler, 1906-1908 | |||||||||
| 4 | 204 | McCormick, Robert Sanderson, 1895-1905 | |||||||||
| 4 | 205 | McCormick, Ruth, Aug. 2, 1905 | |||||||||
| 4 | 206 | McCreary, James B., Jan. 3, 1902 | |||||||||
| 4 | 207 | McLane, Robert M., 1886-1889 | |||||||||
| 4 | 208 | McMurdo, E., Sep. 16, 1888 | |||||||||
| 4 | 209 | McNally, Thomas J., May 1885 | |||||||||
| 4 | 210 | McPherson, J. R., Mar. 2, 1893 | |||||||||
| 4 | 211 | Medill, Joseph, 1897-1898 | |||||||||
| 4 | 212 | Merritt, M., n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 213 | Michael, William H., Sep. 25, 1906 | |||||||||
| 4 | 214 | Miles, Nelson A., 1894-1906 | |||||||||
| 4 | 215 | Ministry Foreign Affairs, Brussels Sep. 1902 | |||||||||
| 4 | 216 | Mitchell, George H., Aug. 20, 1889 | |||||||||
| 4 | 217 | Monies, R. B., n.d. | |||||||||
| 4 | 218 | Moore, John Bassett, 1889-1898 | |||||||||
| 4 | 219 | Morris, Mrs. John, Jan. 18, 1902 | |||||||||
| 4 | 220 | Morrison, William Ralls, 1885-1903 | |||||||||
| 4 | 221 | Morse, S. E., Apr. 24, 1897 | |||||||||
| 4 | 222 | Morton, J. Sterling, July 1886 | |||||||||
| 4 | 223 | Moulton, L. W., Jan. 5, 1885 | |||||||||
| 4 | 224 | Munez-Ortega, A., 1887-1810 | |||||||||
| 4 | 225 | Murray, W. H., 1892 | |||||||||
| 4 | 226 | Neef, Walter, Sep. 10, 1901 | |||||||||
| 4 | 227 | Neele, J., Jan. 5, 1904 | |||||||||
| 4 | 228 | Newhouse, Ida H., Mar. 19, 1898 | |||||||||
| 4 | 229 | Nourse, I. E., Jun. 5, 1888 | |||||||||
| 4 | 230 | Ohnesorge, Natalie, baroness d', 1907 | |||||||||
| 4 | 231 | Ormesson, comte d', calling card, 1890 | |||||||||
| 4 | 232 | Otis, Elwell Stephen, 1901-1902 | |||||||||
| 4 | 233 | Oultremont, John d', count, 1889-1891 | |||||||||
| 4 | 234 | Orleans, Henri d', Duc d'Aumale May 3, 1889 | |||||||||
| 4 | 235 | Palmer, Bertha Honore, 1901 | |||||||||
| 4 | 236 | Palmer, Dampier, 1897 | |||||||||
| 4 | 237 | Palmer, Honore, 1901-1905 | |||||||||
| 4 | 238 | Palmer, John M., 1891-1895 | |||||||||
| 4 | 239 | Paris, Bibliotheque nationale, Jan. 11, 1889 | |||||||||
| 4 | 240 | Parkhurst, John G., 1880-1890 | |||||||||
| 4 | 241 | Parkman, F., Jan. 14, 1890 | |||||||||
| 4 | 242 | Patterson, Elinor, c.a. 1888-1907 | |||||||||
| 4 | 243 | Patterson, Raymond, Mar. 16, 1892 | |||||||||
| 4 | 244 | Patterson, Robert, 1896-1901 | |||||||||
| 4 | 245 | Peck, George R., Jan. 4, 1905 | |||||||||
| 4 | 246 | Penny, James, Sep. 30, 1889 | |||||||||
| 4 | 247 | Perkins, Charles K., Jan. 8, 1890 | |||||||||
| 4 | 248 | Perrin, J. Nick, ca. 1896 ca. 1896 | |||||||||
| 4 | 249 | Peyton, Colonel H. E., 1895 | |||||||||
| 4 | 250 | Phelps, Delos P., 1893-1897 | |||||||||
| 4 | 251 | Phelps, E. S., Sep. 26, 1888 | |||||||||
| 4 | 252 | Phelps, Erskine M., 1886-1888 | |||||||||
| 4 | 253 | Phillmore, W. P. W., Sep. 23, 1903 | |||||||||
| 4 | 254 | Ponthos, Count Pierre van der Straten, ca. 1888 | |||||||||
| 4 | 255 | Porter, F. J., Jan. 5, 1880 | |||||||||
| 4 | 256 | Porter, James D., Jan. 12, 1885 | |||||||||
| 4 | 257 | Potter, Howard, Apr. 15, 1891 | |||||||||
| 4 | 258 | Pullman, Mrs., calling card, Mar. 11, 1909 | |||||||||
| 4 | 259 | Pullman, George M., Jun. 25, 1894 | |||||||||
| 4 | 260 | Putnam, James O., n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 261 | Quigley, J. E., Archbishop, 1905 | |||||||||
| 5 | 262 | Quinby, William Emory, May 27, 1893 | |||||||||
| 5 | 263 | Quisnerieux, L. de la, Apr. 6, 1890 | |||||||||
| 5 | 264 | Reber, Cicelia Miles 1908 | |||||||||
| 5 | 265 | Ribot, M., Jul. 19, 1891 | |||||||||
| 5 | 266 | Roberts, J. E., 1907-1909 | |||||||||
| 5 | 267 | Robinson, Albert G., 1906 | |||||||||
| 5 | 268 | Rodenbough, Theophilus, Francis, Dec. 7, 1889 | |||||||||
| 5 | 269 | Rolin-Jacquemyns, Feb. 9, 1887 | |||||||||
| 5 | 270 | Romero C., Oct. 25, 1892 | |||||||||
| 5 | 271 | Romero, M., 1893 | |||||||||
| 5 | 272 | Roosevelt, Robert B., 1888 | |||||||||
| 5 | 273 | Root, Elihu, 1904-1909 | |||||||||
| 5 | 274 | Rouen, l'Archeveque de, calling card, Jan. 18, 1890 | |||||||||
| 5 | 275 | Roustan, R., Feb. 6, 1890 | |||||||||
| 5 | 276 | Russell, Martin, J., 1886-1889 | |||||||||
| 5 | 277 | Sadler, Sir J. Hayes, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 278 | Sanford, H., 1886-1889 | |||||||||
| 5 | 279 | Schweinitz, 1889 | |||||||||
| 5 | 280 | Schofield, John McAllister, Feb. 8, 1895 | |||||||||
| 5 | 281 | Scott, James W., 1891-1895 | |||||||||
| 5 | 282 | Seawell, Molly Elliot, 1908 | |||||||||
| 5 | 283 | Seeberger, A. F., Sep. 15, 1888 | |||||||||
| 5 | 284 | Sheldon, Henry I., Oct. 17, 1888 | |||||||||
| 5 | 285 | Shope, Simeon P., Aug. 24, 1899 | |||||||||
| 5 | 286 | Singleton, James W., 1881-1888 | |||||||||
| 5 | 287 | Smith, Hoke, Dec. 27, 1893 | |||||||||
| 5 | 288 | Sneyers, Augustus, 1888-1889 | |||||||||
| 5 | 289 | Snow, Mrs. Margaret Butler, 1908 | |||||||||
| 5 | 290 | Societe de Geographie, Paris, Jan. 17, 1890 | |||||||||
| 5 | 291 | Spooner, John C., 1905 | |||||||||
| 5 | 292 | Springer, William M., includes clippings, 1877-1895 | |||||||||
| 5 | 293 | Spuller, E., calling card, Jan. 27, 1890 | |||||||||
| 5 | 294 | Stanton, Edgar, Sep. 13, 1888 | |||||||||
| 5 | 295 | Stevens, Frank E., 1909 | |||||||||
| 5 | 296 | Stevenson, Adlai E., 1892-1893 | |||||||||
| 5 | 297 | Stewart, John H., 1889 | |||||||||
| 5 | 298 | Stone, James S., 1900-1904 | |||||||||
| 5 | 299 | Stone, Melville, E., n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 300 | Story, W. F., 1875-1881 | |||||||||
| 5 | 301 | Suffolk, Daisy, 1906 | |||||||||
| 5 | 302 | Taft, Helen H., 1909 | |||||||||
| 5 | 303 | Taft, William Howard, Jul. 15, 1908 | |||||||||
| 5 | 304 | Taylor, B. W., 1907 | |||||||||
| 5 | 305 | Taylor, E. S., 1889 | |||||||||
| 5 | 306 | Taylor, Hobart C., Sep. 8, 1893 | |||||||||
| 5 | 307 | Terrell, A. W., Nov. 21, 1894 | |||||||||
| 5 | 308 | Terrell, F. H., Aug. 1, 1891 | |||||||||
| 5 | 309 | Thayer, Samuel R., 1901-1908 | |||||||||
| 5 | 310 | Theymens, May 13, 1891 | |||||||||
| 5 | 311 | Tompkins, Charles H., 1889 | |||||||||
| 5 | 312 | Townshend, Richard W., 1885-1888 | |||||||||
| 5 | 313 | Tree, Arthur, 1907, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 314 | Tree, Ellen F., May 27, 1908 | |||||||||
| 5 | 315 | Tree, Joseph, 1897-1907 | |||||||||
| 5 | 316 | Tree, Lambert to Campbell, Mrs. Colin, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 317 | Tree, Lambert to President Carnot, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 318 | Tree, Lambert to Clampittt, John W., n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 319 | Tree, Lambert to Prince Czartoryski, Aug. 22, 1893 | |||||||||
| 5 | 320 | Tree, Lambert to Dallin, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 321 | Tree Lambert to d'Altena, Count Borthgrave, 1889 | |||||||||
| 5 | 322 | Tree Lambert, to Dana, Apr. 7, 1905 | |||||||||
| 5 | 323 | Tree, Lambert to de Villeneuve, Count, Mar. 17, 1899 | |||||||||
| 5 | 324 | Tree, Lambert, to de Villeneuve, Countess, n.d. | |||||||||
| 5 | 325 | Tree, Lambert, to Porferio Diaz, Jul. 27, 1899 | |||||||||
| 5 | 326 | Tree, Lambert, to Dickinson, Don M., 1893-1900 | |||||||||
| 5 | 327 | Tree, Lambert, to Doane | |||||||||
| 5 | 328 | Tree, Lambert, to d'Oultremont, Count, Jun. 1889 | |||||||||
| 5 | 329 | Tree, Lambert, to William W. Ireland, Jun. 18, 1906 | |||||||||
| 5 | 330 | Tree, Lambert, to Jewsbery and Brown, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 331 | Tree, Lambert, to Kimball, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 332 | Tree, Lambert, to Kohlsaat, C. C. n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 333 | Tree, Lambert, to Lefens, T. J., n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 334 | Tree, Lambert, to Leiter, Mrs. L. Z., 1897-1906 | |||||||||
| 6 | 335 | Tree, Lambert, to McCagg, Mrs. Ezra Butler, 1904-1908 | |||||||||
| 6 | 336 | Tree, Lambert, to McCormick, Mrs., n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 337 | Tree, Lambert, to Mitchell, John J., Mar. 4, 1907 | |||||||||
| 6 | 338 | Tree, Lambert, to Olney, Richard, June 12, 1895 | |||||||||
| 6 | 339 | Tree, Lambert, to Palmer, Mrs. Potter, 1901-2 | |||||||||
| 6 | 340 | Tree, Lambert, to Phillips, W. H. C., May 5, 1906 | |||||||||
| 6 | 341 | Tree, Lambert, to Rice, J. M., n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 342 | Tree, Lambert, to Rives, Mrs. Jeannie, 1903 | |||||||||
| 6 | 343 | Tree, Lambert, to Roosevelt, Theodore, Dec. 22, 1902 | |||||||||
| 6 | 344 | Tree, Lambert, to Roustan, Theodore, Mar. 9, 1890 | |||||||||
| 6 | 345 | Tree, Lambert, to Rucker, D. K., n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 346 | Tree, Lambert, to Sanford, Cara, Dec. 4, 1904 | |||||||||
| 6 | 347 | Tree, Lambert, to Sanford, Mrs. Henry, Oct. 14, 1895 | |||||||||
| 6 | 348 | Tree, Lambert, to Sawyer, Mrs., Jul. 15, 1894 | |||||||||
| 6 | 349 | Tree, Lambert, to Scott, Mrs., n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 350 | Tree, Lambert, to Scudder, Kathleen, Sep. 16, 1905 | |||||||||
| 6 | 351 | Tree, Lambert, to Smiley, Albert K., ca. 1908 | |||||||||
| 6 | 352 | Tree, Lambert, to Smith, Byron L., n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 353 | Tree, Lambert, to Smith, George W., Jan. 24, 1895 | |||||||||
| 6 | 354 | Tree, Lambert, to Stoutenburgh, Mrs. Francis A., May 2, 1907 | |||||||||
| 6 | 355 | Tree, Lambert, to Tanner, John R., Dec. 31, 1896 | |||||||||
| 6 | 356 | Tree, Lambert, to Thurber, Apr. 21, 1893 | |||||||||
| 6 | 357 | Tree, Lambert, to Von Eitueldt, Edmund, Feb. 4, 1888 | |||||||||
| 6 | 358 | Tree, Lambert, to Vrooman, Dr. and Mrs., Jan. 7, 1909 | |||||||||
| 6 | 359 | Tree, Lambert, to Waller, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 360 | Tree, Lambert, to Walter, Wellman, 1897-1898 | |||||||||
| 6 | 361 | Tree, Lambert, to White, Peter, n.d. | |||||||||
| 6 | 362 | Tree, Lambert, to Wigmore, John H., 1904 | |||||||||
| 6 | 363 | Tree, Lambert, to Willing, Mrs. H. F., Feb. 1, 1898 | |||||||||
| 6 | 364 | Truax, Charles H., Dec. 14, 1900 | |||||||||
| 6 | 365 | Trude, A. S., Jun. 2, 1885 | |||||||||
| 6 | 366 | Turner, Will, Jun. 13, 1905 | |||||||||
| 6 | 367 | Van Reypen, William K., 1905 | |||||||||
| 6 | 368 | Venable, Charles S., Feb. 18, 1888 | |||||||||
| 6 | 369 | Vignaud, Henry, 1889-1896 | |||||||||
| 6 | 370 | Vilas. William F., 1885-1896 | |||||||||
| 6 | 371 | Villard, Oswald Garrison, 1908-1909 | |||||||||
| 6 | 372 | Vivian, Lord, 1888 | |||||||||
| 6 | 373 | Washington, Booker T. (includes enclosure), 1904 | |||||||||
| 6 | 374 | Washington, L. Q., Jun. 4, 1887 | |||||||||
| 6 | 375 | Weber, Jessie Palmer, Sep. 28, 1905 | |||||||||
| 6 | 376 | Weede, M Jan. 26, 1890 | |||||||||
| 6 | 377 | Wermth, Ad., Jan. 23, 1893 | |||||||||
| 6 | 378 | Wharton, Francis, Jul. 10, 1885 | |||||||||
| 6 | 379 | Wherry, Alice G., Aug 10, 1885 | |||||||||
| 6 | 380 | White, Horace, 1907 | |||||||||
| 6 | 381 | Willard, Mary B., Dec. 26, 1888 | |||||||||
| 6 | 382 | Williams, R., Apr. 23, 1891 | |||||||||
| 6 | 383 | Winchester, Boyd, Jan. 13, 1892 | |||||||||
| 6 | 384 | Woodhouse, James, Oct. 12, 1906 | |||||||||
| 6 | 385 | Wurtz, George W., 1888-1893 | |||||||||
| 6 | 386 | Miscellaneous inquiries (includes photo), 1873-1903 | |||||||||
| 6 | 387 | Anonymous, regarding house, Oct. 1884 | |||||||||
Series 2: Miscellaneous, 1885-1910 |
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| Papers and drafts of speeches concerning Lambert Tree's positions as Minister of Belgium and Minister of Russia, as well as newspaper clippings about his political views, and various awards and certificates. There are also papers concerning Tree's inclusion to the Legion of Honor and his participation in the Chicago branch of the Red Cross, and additional speeches and resolutions. Tree also kept a booklet and newspaper clippings commemorating the LaSalle statue that he donated to the city, as well as a scrapbook full of congratulations and memorabilia connected to his appointment to Belgium. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 7 | 388 | Articles regarding Tree's political views, (see oversized box), 1900, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 389 | Certificates, (see also oversized box), 1885-1893 | |||||||||
| 7 | 390 | Clippings-biographical and obit., 1910 | |||||||||
| 7 | 391 | La Salle Statue, booklet and newspaper clippings, Oct. 1889 | |||||||||
| 7 | 392 | Minister to Belgium (credentials, speech, recall notification), 1888-1891 | |||||||||
| 7 | 393 | Minister to Russia (credentials, speeches, notification, telegram, recall), 1888-1889 | |||||||||
| 7 | 394 | Officer of the Legion of France (notification, acceptance), 1890 | |||||||||
| 7 | 395 | Passports (see also oversized box), 1888-1894 | |||||||||
| 7 | 396 | Program for banquet, n.d. | |||||||||
| 7 | 397 | Red Cross, Illinois branch of America, signed by Lambert Tree, 1905 | |||||||||
| 7 | 398 | Resolution, Illinois State Convention, authored by Lambert Tree, 1894 | |||||||||
| 7 | 399-400 | Scrapbook containing letters and memorabilia re: Belgium, 1885 | |||||||||
| 7 | 401 | Speeches (political, memorial, etc.) 1901, n.d. | |||||||||
Series 3: Family Materials, 1821-1933 |
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| Family correspondence and other materials. There are letters from Lambert Tree and his brothers, Charles and Joseph, to their parents, describing life in Chicago and Norfolk, Va., 1859-1860. Of particular interest are Lambert Tree's 1859 letters descriping his courtship and marriage to Anna Josephine Magie, his business dealing with "Old Abe Lincoln," (Springfield, Ill., undated, ca. Feb. 1859) and September letters describing the U.S. Fair in Chicago. These letters also contain commentary about local and national business and politics. Brother Joseph Tree's letters from Norfolk emphatically express Southern and secessionist sympathies, and comment extensively on the John Brown affair. They also talk about the Norfolk shipping and railroad affairs. In addition, there are letters by Lambert Tree's son, Arthur, his grandson, Ronald, and his wife; an essay by his sister, Jeannie Tree Rives; correspondence and mementos re the senior Tree's post office position, and a scrapbook containng newspaper clippings kept by Anna Josephine Tree. | |||||||||||
| Arranged alphabetically by individual. | |||||||||||
| Box | Folder | Contents | |||||||||
| 8 | 402 | Rives, Jeannie Tree, essay, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 403 | Rives, Jeannie Tree to L. G. Thomas, Mar. 25, 1905 | |||||||||
| 8 | 404 | Tree, Annie Josephine Magie, letter and receipt, 1884 | |||||||||
| 8 | 405 | Tree, Anie Josephine Magie (scrapbook containing clippings and writing), 1872 | |||||||||
| 8 | 406 | Tree, Lambert Sr. - Correspondence from Tree, Arthur, 1877, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 407 | Tree, Lambert Sr. - Correspondence from Tree, Charles M., 1859 | |||||||||
| 8 | 408 | Tree, Lambert Sr. - Correspondence from Tree, Joseph B., 1858-1860 | |||||||||
| 8 | 409 | Tree, Lambert Sr. - Correspondence from Tree, Lambert (includes one from Lambert Tree Sr.), 1858-1872 | |||||||||
| 8 | 410 | Tree, Lambert Sr. - Correspondence from 3rd Baptist Church, 1834-1835 | |||||||||
| 8 | 411 | Tree, Lambert Sr. - Correspondence regarding employment in post office and mementos, 1837-1880 | |||||||||
| 8 | 412 | Tree, Lambert Sr. - Incoming--Various, 1839-1866 | |||||||||
| 8 | 413 | Tree, Lambert Sr. - Miscellaneous, Personal, 1821-1881, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 414 | Tree, Mary (sister of Lambert Tree, Sr.), 1859-1860 | |||||||||
| 8 | 415 | Tree, Ronald, clipping and letters, 1932-1933 | |||||||||
| 8 | 416 | Tree Family History, author unknown, 1905, n.d. | |||||||||
| 8 | 417 | Tree Family, Miscellaneous Correspondence, 1932-1933 | |||||||||