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- GLC#
- GLC00723.01-View header record
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- September 5, 1868
- Author/Creator
- Smith, Gerrit, 1797-1874
- Title
- [Check to Salmon P. Chase for $1000 for Howard University]
- Place Written
- Peterboro, New York
- Pagination
- 2 p. : Height: 7.1 cm, Width: 19.2 cm
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- Reconstruction
On verso, endorsed by Salmon P. Chase with a note to pay O. O. Howard on order. Also endorsed by Oliver O. Howard, H. Huntington and A. Van Allen (both bank cashiers), and several others. Contains several bank stamps. Tipped in measurement is 9.3 x 21.5 cm.
Smith, a politician from New York, served as a U.S. Representative from 1853-1854. He was a noted philanthropist and social reformer active in anti-slavery campaigns and women's rights, among various other issues. Chase was a U.S. Senator from Ohio 1849-1854 and 1861-1862, Secretary of the Treasury during the Civil War, and Chief Justice of the Supreme Court 1864-1873. Howard served as a Union General in the Civil War and as the post-war head of the Freedman's Bureau. He established Howard University in Washington, D.C. chartered on March 2, 1867.
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