Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to [Unidentified], February 4, 1870

COLUMBUS, OHIO, February 4, 1870.

MY DEAR SIR: — The Soldiers' Orphans' Bill has been under consideration one day in the Senate. No serious opposition has been developed and decided support was given in quarters not heretofore relied on. I entertain no doubt of its passage within a week or ten days through the Senate, and in the House its passage is only a question of time. I anticipate the necessity of naming a board about the last of this month.

Your views of General Keifer and General Barnett are also mine. I think I gave you my notions also of Generals Buckland and Coates. Think over the good loyal Democrats for one name. A well known party man, loyal during the war but in the Democratic party, if he can be found, is preferred if friendly to the institution.

Sincerely,

R. B. HAYES.

[Unidentified.]

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, pp. 86-7

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Judge William Dickson, February 4, 1870

COLUMBUS, OHIO, February 4, 1870.

DEAR JUDGE: — I am in receipt of your letter of yesterday in relation to the appointment of members of the board of trustees of the Ohio Medical College. Unless there is some reason for delay, the nominations to fill vacancies occurring January 1, 1871, should be sent to the Senate at the present session. In the absence of reason for a change, the present members should be reappointed, and the vacancy filled by a person those actively interested in the institution will name, or at least approve. I take it all this is what you wish. If you have other views as to any member, I will thank you to let me know. You need have no hesitation on account of your own name being in the list. You will be reappointed in any event, so that the only open question is as to your associates. I agree fully with your views about Drs. Wright and Dodge, and Messrs. Ball and Dutton.

Your address is good reading. The short paragraph about the waste of talent and genius in politics is of more account than perhaps you thought. Why not make it the theme of an address? The idea is often seen in sermons or the talk of non-politicians, but with your knowledge of the inside of politics, and with your ability justly to estimate a politician's value, you could make much of it.

Sincerely,

R. B. HAYES.

HONORABLE WILLIAM DICKSON,
        Cincinnati, Ohio.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 87

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Mr. A. T. Goodman, February 4, 1870

COLUMBUS, OHIO, February 5, 1870.

MY DEAR SIR: — I am in receipt of your favor of the 4th as to the St. Clair papers. I hope there is a fair prospect of the passage of an act authorizing their purchase, but I am not sanguine. Of course, nobody would think of the State buying them for the Cincinnati or any other local society. If bought they will be deposited in the State Library. I agree with you that your title by discovery, if they are to be given away, would give you a claim to be considered.

Sincerely,

R. B. HAYES.

A. T. GOODMAN, ESQ.,
        Cleveland, Ohio.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 88

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Jesse Hawley, February 5, 1870

COLUMBUS, February 5, 1870.

DEAR SIR: — I am in receipt of your favor of the 3d in relation [to] codifying the laws of Ohio. It is undoubtedly a great inconvenience and a serious evil that our laws are so voluminous. I quite agree with you that a revision as often as once in ten years is necessary. But I fear we shall never see our statutes again in a single volume of proper size for common use. If we can have them in two or three volumes with one index, it perhaps is doing as much as can be expected.

Very respectfully,

R. B. HAYES.

JESSE HAWLEY, ESQ.,
        Salem, Ohio.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 88

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Captain Alfred E. Lee, February 16, 1870

COLUMBUS, OHIO, February 16, 1870.

DEAR LEE: — Your note came during my absence north. A note to Delano from me, if my friends at Cincinnati are well informed, would do you more harm than good. But I send you a note, not addressed, in general but strong terms. I do not feel like interfering with Colonel Powell, and do not wish the note used to procure his removal. But I doubt the wisdom of your using it at all with Mr. Delano.

Sincerely,

R. B. HAYES.

CAPTAIN A. E. LEE,
        Delaware, Ohio.

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COLUMBUS, OHIO, February 16, 1870.

Captain A. E. Lee, of Delaware, Ohio, is a gentleman whose ability, integrity, and business experience fit him to fill with acceptance and creditably to the Administration any revenue office he is likely to desire. He has a capital record as a soldier, is a Republican whose soundness and effective work are beyond commendation. No worthier appointment could be made.

R. B. HAYES.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, pp. 88-9

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to Sardis Birchard, February 20, 1870

CINCINNATI, February 20, 1870.

DEAR UNCLE: — I came here to meet the Kentucky Legislature and spoke to them from the same platform with Mr. Pendleton. All satisfactory.

Just before coming Jay Cooke advised me to take my choice immediately of certain Duluth property which he could get me. I dispatched him that I would take one hundred and sixty acres for eight thousand dollars. I know nothing of terms of payment, but am satisfied that it is a great bargain. No doubt the terms of payment can be complied with somehow. It is one and one-fourth miles from the dock and depot and next to the town property.

Sincerely,

R. B. HAYES.

S. BIRCHARD.

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, p. 89

Governor Rutherford B. Hayes to [Unidentified], February 22, 1870

COLUMBUS, February 22, 1870.

DEAR SIR: — I am in receipt of your "History of the Guilford Branch of the Dickeman Family," and am greatly obliged to you for it. My father came to Ohio in 1817, thus separating from all his New England relatives, and died before my birth, so that I have not had an opportunity to learn much of his family. A Hayes record was published by George W. Noyes, of the Oneida Community in the State of New York, but the fullest account of my grandmother's family I have ever seen is in your pamphlet. There is an impression in the family that Grandmother Chloe Smith Hayes was a very superior woman possessing real genius. The Mead family, all having talent as artists, trace this quality to grandmother. The most distinguished member of the family is Larkin G. Mead, a sculptor of wide reputation. You may have heard of him as the boy who made the snow statue in Brattleboro twelve or fifteen years ago. He is the sculptor and architect of the great Lincoln Monument at Springfield, Illinois, and his studio in Florence probably receives as many orders as that of any artist.

Sincerely,

R. B. HAYES.

[Unidentified.]

SOURCE: Charles Richard Williams, editor, Diary and Letters of Rutherford Birchard Hayes, Volume 3, pp. 89-90

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 16, 1863

warm and clear

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 17, 1863

a snowey day and we all had to go on picket down at Port Royal.

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 18, 1863

it raind all day long and the snow nearly all melted of by nite and we still stade on picket

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 19, 1863

cloudy but no rain and we returned to our Regiment

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 20, 1863

warm and clear

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 21, 1863

warm and clear

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 22, 1863

a very bad day it snowed and the wind blew all day and at nite the snow was about a foot deep.

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 23, 1863

day was warm and clear but the snow dident melt no great deal

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 24, 1863

warm and General Stokes Bregaid and General Lautons (Lawton?) had a snow ballen

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 25, 1863

a warm sunshiney day

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 26, 1863

a raney day and nearley all of the snow was gone by nite.

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 27, 1863

warm and cloudy and our Brass Ban got back from Richmond.

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30

Diary of 4th Corporal Bartlett Yancey Malone, February 28, 1863

the last day of February was coal and cloudy. And Mr. Portland Baley of Company D. 6th Regiment N. C. Troops was shot to death to day at 2 oclock with musketry.

Now the dark days of winter is gon And the bright days of Spring is come.

SOURCE: Bartlett Yancey Malone, The Diary of Bartlett Yancey Malone, p. 30