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R Cahoon, Benjamin Benson, 1846-1923.
142 Papers,
1868-1923.
One folder, photocopies.
This is miscellaneous correspondence of
an attorney and land agent in Fredericktown, Madison County, Missouri. The papers concern the land business,
litigation in progress, and state politics.
There are several letters from Missouri governors and officials, and
Cahoon’s biographical sketch of Judge William Carter. There is also an original photograph of Cahoon, 1878.
Benjamin Benson Cahoon was a native of
Smyrna, Delaware. He began reading law
after service in the Civil War, and he passed the bar examination in
Washington, D.C., in 1868. He moved to
Madison County, Missouri, in the same year, setting up practice in
Fredericktown. He was appointed Madison
County attorney in 1869, and served as circuit attorney for the 20th Judicial
Circuit in 1870-1872, but he never ran for public office. He enjoyed an extensive legal and land
business throughout southeastern Missouri, and was joined by his brother,
Medford H. Cahoon, in a firm styled Cahoon & Cahoon.
A larger group of Cahoon’s papers has
been previously cataloged at the Western Historical Manuscript
Collection-Columbia as collection number C81.
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