Bailey, Harold Balch - autograph book

Containers:
Box 19, Folder 3
Scope and content:

Contains signatures of:
  • Ulysses S. Grant [Union Army general and United States president]
  • Ambrose E. Burnside [Union Army general]
  • William Tecumseh Sherman [Union Army general]
  • Philip H. Sheridan [Union Army general]
  • J. Tyler
  • J. Davis
  • Henry P. Baldwin [Michigan governor]
  • Levi P. Morton [United States vice-president]
  • Hannibal Hamlin [United States vice-president]
  • William Claflin [Massachusetts governor]
  • Douglas Sladen [English author]
  • [S. W. Lincoln Jr.?]
  • Grover Cleveland [United States president]
  • Frances Folsom Cleveland [United States first lady]
  • Rutherford B. Hayes [United States president]
  • John J. Audubon [naturalist]
  • Joshua L. Chamberlain [Maine governor]
  • Benjamin F. Butler [Union Army general]
  • Geo. H. Hepworth [minister and journalist]
  • Walter Harriman [New Hampshire governor]
  • Horace Greeley [newspaper editor; 1872 presidential candidate]
  • Joseph [W.?] Donahue
  • James M. Harvey [Kansas governor]
  • John W. Geary [Pennsylvania governor]
  • John Hoffman [New York governor]
  • Hans von Bulow [pianist]
  • Lucius Fairchild [Wisconsin governor]
  • Robert W. Chambers [American author]
  • Henry Huntly Haight [California governor]
  • Geo. S. Boutwell [United States secretary of the treasury]
  • Henry L. Pierce [Massachusetts congressman]
  • Charles [illegible]
  • E. M. Pease [Texas governor]
  • H. L. Dawes [Massachusetts senator]
  • William Gaston [Massachusetts governor]
  • Alexander H. Rice [Massachusetts governor]
  • Henry W. Longfellow [poet]
  • William Dean Howells [author][with poem]
  • Margaret J. Preston [poet]
  • Oliver Wendall Holmes [United States Supreme Court justice][with poem]
  • William Cullen Bryant [poet and newspaper editor]
  • Nathaniel B. Shurtleff [Boston mayor]
  • Aaron V. Brown [United States postmaster-general]
  • Marshall Jewell [United States postmaster-general]
  • Morrison Remick Waite [United States Supreme Court chief justice]
  • William Worth Belknap [United States secretary of war]
  • Asa Gray [Harvard University professor of botany]
  • Olive Thorne Miller [naturalist and children's writer]
  • James Parton [author/biographer]
  • Bayard Taylor [poet]
  • Thomas Hughes [English author]
  • [illegible]
  • Frank Stockton [author]
  • William R. Marshall [Minnesota governor]
  • W. L. Champney [artist][with drawing]
  • P. A. Rearick [United States Navy captain]

Access and use

Location of collection:
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University
Special Collections, University Libraries (0434)
Newman Library
Virginia Tech
P.O. Box 90001
560 Drillfield Drive
Blacksburg, VA 24062-9001
Contact for questions and access:
Phone: (540) 231-6308
Fax: (540) 231-3694
Parent restrictions:
The collection is open for research.
Parent terms of access:
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