Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography

Samuel Wilkeson (Herringshaw, 1914)
Type: Description
Citation:
Thomas William Herringshaw, ed., Herringshaw's National Library of American Biography (Chicago: American Publishers’’ Association, 1914), 5: 698.
Body Summary:
Wilkeson, Samuel G., journalist, was born May 9, 1817, in Buffalo, N.Y. He was for twelve years a staff writer on the New York Tribune; and its war correspondent in the army of the Potomac. He was the editor and owner of the Buffalo Democracy and of the Albany Evening Journal, having bought out Thurlow Weed in 1865. He was secretary of the Northern Pacific railroad company since 1869. He died Dec. 2 1889, in New York City.

George William Curtis, detail

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 30, 2010.
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photograph
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Geo. Wm. Curtis
Source citation
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress

George William Curtis

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Geo. Wm. Curtis
Source citation
Brady-Handy Photograph Collection, Library of Congress

Confederates seize Union supplies in Chambersburg, Pennsylvania, October 1862, artist's impression

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, July 30, 2010.
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Original caption
The Rebels Exchanging Their Rags for U.S. Army Overcoats at Chambersburg, PA. – [Sketched By Mr. Davis]
Source citation
Harper's Weekly Magazine, November 1, 1862, p. 693.

“The Rebel Raid on Chambersburg,” Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, October 13, 1862

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Cropped, edited, and prepared for use here by Don Sailer, Dickinson College, July 30, 2010.
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Original caption
The Rebel Raid on Chambersburg
Source citation
“The Rebel Raid on Chambersburg,” Milwaukee (WI) Sentinel, October 13, 1862, p. 1: 1.
Source note
Original image has been adjusted here for presentation purposes.

Inside the "The Wigwam," during the 1860 Republican Convention, Chicago, Illinois, artist's impression, detail

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 29, 2010.
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Original caption
The Republicans in nominating convention in their wigwam at Chicago, May 1860
Source citation
Prints and Photographs Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
Original first appeared in Harper's Weekly on May 19, 1860, pp. 312-313. 
Cropped from larger image, also available here.

Inside the "The Wigwam," during the 1860 Republican Convention, Chicago, Illinois, artist's impression, zoomable image

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Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 29, 2010.
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Original caption
The Republicans in nominating convention in their wigwam at Chicago, May 1860
Source citation
Prints and Photographs Collection, Library of Congress
Source note
Original first appeared in Harper's Weekly on May 19, 1860, pp. 312-313. 

"The Wigwam," site of the 1860 Republican Convention, Chicago, Illinois, floorplans

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Notes
Sized, cropped, and adjusted for use by John Osborne, Dickinson College, July 29, 2010.
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drawing
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Original caption
Interior Arrangement of the Wigwam. From a plan, with slight additions, appearing in the Press and Tribune, May 14, 1860
Source citation
P. Orman Ray, The Convention That Nominated Lincoln: An Address ... (Chicago,IL: University of Chicago Press, 1916), 7.
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