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Auction: 342 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1018

Small Archive of Samuel Fessenden Papers. Fessenden (1847-1908), lawyer, politician and Civil War veteran, was the son of Congressman Samuel C. Fessenden; born and raised in Maine, he moved to Connecticut after the Civil War, where he served as a member of the state's House of Representatives and Senate, and as State Attorney for Fairfield County. Archive includes: extensive 1896-1903 legal and business correspondence, mainly from John B. Cotton of Needham & Cotton, later Cotton & White Attorneys, much of it revolving around the State of Connecticut's (and other states') claims against the US Government for reimbursement of expenditures incurred by the Civil War; newspaper clips with "Henry Romeike - Newspaper Cutting Bureau" tags; 'Claim of the State of Maine for Reimbursement…made to defray war expenses'; Aug. 25, 1884 letter from Republican NJ State Committee Chairman Garret A. Hobart to Fessenden, probate court documents; two copies of his 1880 address at the unveiling of the Danbury's Soldier Monument; his 1897 bank book; Dept. of State 1881 special passport for his father Samuel C. Fessenden, US Consul at St. John, New Brunswick (damaged at center); a copy of his father, Samuel C. Fessenden's "Selections from the Speeches, Sermons, Addresses etc." (New York 1869); and a copy of his uncle, Treasury Secretary, William Pitt Fessenden's 1869 Memorial Addresses (Washington 1870). Good to Very Fine. Ex Evans Kerrigan Collection. [100+]

Estimate
$100 to $150