Archive Record
Metadata
Title |
Solomon Foot Papers |
Object Name |
Documents |
Creator |
Park, Trenor W. |
Other Creators |
Frederick Holbrook, Paul Dillingham, Etahn Allen Holbroook |
Dates of Creation |
1854-1866 (bulk 1861-1862) |
Scope & Content |
Chiefly letters to Solomon Foot (1802-1866) who served as United States Senator from Vermont. Includes forty-eight letters between 1854 and 1866 (bulk 1861-1862) from or on behalf of Governor Erastus Fairbanks to Foot; (1854, 1861) seven Civil War letters from Governor Frederick Holbrook (1862-1863), eight letters from Paul Dillingham (1862-1866). |
Administrative/Biographical History |
Born in Cornwall, Vermont in 1802, Foot attended Middlebury College. He was admitted to the bar 1831 and practiced in Rutland, Vermont. Elected state representative 1833, 1836-1838; delegate to the Vermont state constitutional convention 1836; prosecuting attorney 1836-1842; U.S. representative 1843-1847; U.S. Senator 1850, 1856, 1862. He died in 1866 in Washington, DC. |
Related People |
Boynton, Edward C. Dillingham, Paul Fairbanks, Erastus Foot, Solomon Holbrook, Frederick Ripley, Edward Hastings Russell, William P. Train, George F. Hitchcock, Ethan Allen |
Search Terms |
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865. |
Credit line |
Bequest of Hall Park McCullough |
Catalog Number |
2009.163.144 |
Parent Object ID |
2009.163 |
Child Records |
Solomon Foot Papers |