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      <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88027697" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Mathews, Mason O., active 1884-1887</persname>
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    <abstract id="aspace_39e16d9e67942a97ff7a396afca1766f">The 24 letters are addressed to Mason Mathews, a Lewisburg attorney and father of Governor Henry Mason Mathews and cover the years 1873 until his death in 1878. Another letter to Mathews daughter, Sallie Patton is incomplete. One deed, dated 1836, is witnessed by Mathews as a justice of the peace. Frequent correspondents include: John Echols, John W. Johnston, Walter N. Johnston, and Howard Shriver.</abstract>
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    <subject source="ingest">Estates and estate settlements.</subject>
    <subject authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85071142" source="lcsh">Justices of the peace</subject>
    <subject source="ingest">Lawyers - letters and papers.</subject>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n2002079594" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Echols, John, 1823-1896</persname>
    <persname authfilenumber="http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n88027697" source="Library of Congress Name Authority File">Mathews, Mason O., active 1884-1887</persname>
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