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Box 1

 Container

Contains 1 Result:

Letter signed Willard P. Hall, Platt City, to Thomas Reynolds. Recommendation of Achilles Jaspers for State Receiver. The active business life which Mr. Jaspers has living eminently fits him for the office…and not this only, but his stern unflinching Democracy and integrity will make his appointment most acceptable to the vast majority of our citizens in this part of the state., 1863 July 11

 Item — Box: 1, Folder: 2
Scope and Contents From the Collection:

The collection contains primarily letters of Hall family members to family in Virginia and Missouri discussing family news, farming, their enslaved labor, their legal and political careers, the Mexican-American War, the California Gold Rush, and the John Brown raid on Harpers Ferry. Correspondents include Willard P. Hall and wife Anne E. Richardson Hall, mother Statira Hall, and siblings William A. Hall, George H. Hall, Mary Hall, and Anna Hall.

Dates: 1863 July 11