Buchanan, James, 1791-1868
Person
Dates
- Existence: 1791 - 1868
Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:
Daniel S. Dickinson Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dickinson
Abstract
Daniel S. Dickinson was a prominent Civil War politician from New York, a conservative Democrat who worked toward compromise before the war began. During the war, he sought to quash Union internal political disagreement and after the war he remained in politics. He was commended by the public and politicians on both sides of the conflict for his oratorical skills and genial manner. This collection is mainly composed of correspondence to that effect, as well as some letters on the subjects of...
Dates:
1799-1892; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1860
David Tilden Brown Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-1819
Abstract
Letters, receipts, contracts, 2 manuscript maps, and drawings pertaining to Brown's activities in Nicaragua around 1848-1850. Brown traveled to Central America in 1849 planning to establish a cheaper and faster commercial route west from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean across the isthmus of Nicaragua. Brown and several associates formed the Compañía de Vapores de Nicaragua and, on March 14, 1849, negotiated the first treaty with General José Trinidad Muñoz for exclusive rights to steamship...
Dates:
1848-1866; Majority of material found in 1849 - 1849
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- Canals -- Nicaragua -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Canals, Interoceanic -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Compromise of 1850 1
- Correspondence 1
- Correspondence -- 1801-1850 1
- Invitations 1
- Legislators -- United States 1
- Manuscript maps 1
- Manuscripts, American 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Manuscripts, Spanish 1
- New York (State) 1
- Nicaragua -- History -- 1838-1909 -- Sources 1
- Nicaragua Canal (Nicaragua) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Photographs 1
- Physicians -- Nicaragua -- Correspondence 1
- Political parties -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- Politicians 1
- Presidents -- United States -- Election -- History 1
- Slavery 1
- Speeches 1
- Steamboat lines -- Nicaragua -- Sources 1
- Texas -- Annexation to the United States 1
- United States -- Confederate States of America 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 1
- Wilmot proviso 1 + ∧ less
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