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Elihu Barber Taft Papers

 Collection
Identifier: mss-831

Scope and Content Note

The Elihu B. Taft Papers include correspondence, notes, speeches, essays and other writings, travel brochures and publications on places of interest, newspaper clippings, and family genealogies. Many of the letters which are filed in the correspondence folder were originally part of an autograph collection formed by Taft. The most notable of these are listed separately in the Notable Correspondents section. The collection as a whole has been arranged alphabetically by subject.

Dates

  • 1737-1938

Creator

Access:

Collection is open for research.

Publication Rights:

All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted in writing to the Curator of Manuscripts.

Biographical Note

Elihu B. Taft, son of Eleazer and Ellen Barber Taft, was born in Williston, Vermont on March 25, 1847. He attended Williston Academy and the University of Vermont (1867-1871). After taking his degree in 1871, Taft studied law at the firm of Wales and Taft in Burlington. He was admitted to the Chittenden County Bar in 1873. He married Lucia A Johnson in 1875, and the couple resided in Burlington thereafter. On the motion of E.J. Phelps, at the February term, 1879, Taft was admitted as an attorney in the U.S. District and Circuit Courts. He was appointed U.S. deputy collector of internal revenue of the third district of Vermont in 1874, and served until he resigned in 1881. Taft was active politically on both the local and state levels. He served several terms as school commissioner and as one of the Board of Aldermen of the City of Burlington. In 1888 he was elected senator for Chittenden County, and served one term. His extensive travels included trips to Yellowstone National Park, Yosemite Valley, Mexico and the southwestern United States (1887), Europe, the middle east, and Asia (1889).In 1894 he attended the Columbian Exposition in Chicago, and wrote a paper on what he saw. Taft was a Republican and a Free Mason, and he reached the 33rd degree before his death in 1929.

Extent

0.6 Linear Feet (2 boxes)

Language of Materials

English

Additional Description

Abstract

The Elihu B. Taft Papers include correspondence, notes, speeches, essays and other writings, travel brochures and publications on places of interest, newspaper clippings, and family genealogies.

Physical Location

Library Research Annex; contact uvmsc@uvm.edu for access.

Additional Information

Notable Correspondents

  1. Barstow, J.S. to E.B. Taft1881, May 25
  2. Buckham, M.H. to E.B. Taft1901, February 21
  3. Collamer, Jacob to Chauncy Jones1860, June 8
  4. Collamer, Jacob to Joseph Wright1860, June 8
  5. Fairbanks, Erastus to D. French1860, January 27
  6. Farnham, Roswell to Washburn and Marsh?1862, February 1
  7. Foote, Solomon to Henry Stevens1860, June 4
  8. Foote, Solomon to U.S. Min. Austria1860, June 4
  9. Foote, Solomon to U.S. Min. London1860, June 4
  10. Fuller, Levi to E.B. Taft1888, September 5
  11. Fuller, Levi to E.B. Taft1889, January 5
  12. Hall, Hiland to Secretary of Navy1841, March 3
  13. Haskins, Kittridge to E.B. Taft1902, May 11
  14. Hopkins, Theodore to E.B. Taft1888, January 19
  15. Hyde, A.W. to A. Palmer1832, June 15
  16. Lowery, H. to Levi Woodbury1834, February 28
  17. Marsh, George P. to E.B. Taft1860, June 23
  18. Marsh, George P. to E.B. Taft1909, June 12
  19. Marsh, George P. to E.B. Taft1909, July 6
  20. Ormsbee, Ebenezer to E.B. Taft1888, February 6
  21. Page, Carroll S. to E.B. Taft1890, December 3
  22. Page, Carroll S. to E.B. Taft1890, December 6
  23. Page, Carroll S. to E.B. Taft1892, April 9
  24. Page, Carroll S. to E.B. Taft1914, April 22
  25. Pingree, Samuel to Charles P. Marsh1865, May 4
  26. Pingree, Samuel to E.B. Taft1885, July 28
  27. Proctor, Redfield to E.B. Taft1892, April 9
  28. Robinson, Moses to Abraham Jackson1787, December 11
  29. Sargeant, Jabez to James Robinson1804, November 29
  30. Slade, William to Secretary of Navy1839, February 19
  31. Smith, E.C. to E.B. Taft1900, June 11
  32. Stevens, Henry from E.B. Taft1860, June 4
  33. Taft, William H. to E.B. Taft1909, March 5
  34. Tichenor, Issac to Orsemus Merrill1816, February 29
  35. Van Ness, C.P. to Joseph Anderson1817, November 15
  36. Washington, Booker T. to E.B. Taft1898, October 12
  37. Washington, Booker T. to E.B. Taft1900, October 3
  38. Washington, Booker T. to E.B. Taft1901, February 14
  39. Washington, Booker T. to E.B. Taft1901, October 10
  40. Washington, Booker T. to E.B. Taft1902, February 18
  41. Washington, Booker T. to E.B. Taft1903, November 2
  42. Washington, Booker T. to E.B. Taft1904, December 5
  43. Washington, Booker T. to E.B. Taft1905, May 16
  44. Washington, Booker T. to E.B. Taft1905, October 11
  45. Washington, Booker T. to E.B. Taft1906, October 11
  46. Woodbury, Urban A. to E.B. Taft1894, October 13

Finding Aid & Administrative Information

Title
Elihu Barber Taft Papers, 1737-1938
Status
Completed
Date
2003
Language of description
Undetermined
Script of description
Code for undetermined script
Language of description note
English

Repository Details

Repository Details

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