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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.

 

1868, Oct 14           Certification of Cahoon’s study of law under N. B. Smithers, Kent

                                 County, Delaware.

1870, Apr 08          Joseph W. McClurg, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1878, Jan 24           Photograph of B. B. Cahoon, Fredericktown, Mo., by A. J. Fox,

   St. Louis, Missouri.

1879, Apr 05          John W. Emerson, Ironton, Missouri.

1880, Jan 23           William Einstein, St. Louis, Missouri.

1880, Feb 20          Henry S. Shaw, Ste. Genevieve, Missouri.

1885, Feb 10          Charles Deguire, Fredericktown, Missouri.

1894, May 24         William Stone, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1895, Mar 20          G. Spencer Merrill, Anchor Ranch, Mine La Motte, Missouri.

1895, Mar 26          William Stone, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1895, Oct 15           John Rothensteiner, Fredericktown, Missouri.

1895, Oct 16           William Stone, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1896, May 07         William J. Stone, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1902, Jan 05           Alexander M. Dockery, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1902, Nov 17         Alexander M. Dockery, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1903, Dec 08          Joseph W. Folk, St. Louis, Missouri.

1907, Nov 20         Herbert S. Hadley, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1911, July 10          Robert M. LaFollette, Washington, D.C.

1911, Aug 01         Herbert S. Hadley, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1912, Aug 13         Walter Monday, secretary to Woodrow Wilson, Sea Girt, New Jersey.

1912, Aug 26         Herbert S. Hadley, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1913, Feb 10          John J. Glennon, Archbishop of St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri.

1913, Apr 11          Elliott W. Major, Jefferson City, Missouri.

1914, Apr 16          Henry Cabot Lodge, Washington, D.C.

1914, Jun 08           Reed Smoot, Washington, D.C.

1916, Dec 20          Frederick D. Gardiner, St. Louis, Missouri.

1921, Sep 12          “The Old Time Lawyer…,” an address by B. B. Cahoon, Sr., on the

   life and character of Judge William Carter, delivered at Marble Hill,

   Missouri

1921, Nov 01         B. B. Cahoon to the Bank of Farmington, Missouri.

1923, Sep 10          Arthur M. Hyde, Jefferson City, Missouri.

 

 


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