VOLWILER MSS.
The Volwiler mss., 1898-1958, consist of material collected by Albert Tangeman Volwiler, 1888-1957, historian, on Benjamin Harrison, president of the United States from 1889-1893 for a biography. Volwiler taught history at Wittenberg College in Springfield, Ohio in the 1920's, taking a leave from 1925-1926 to teach at Indiana University. In 1934 he was appointed professor of history at Ohio University and was head of that department from 1947-1955. He was the author of George Croghan and the Westward Movement, 1741-1782 and The Correspondence Between Benjamin Harrison and James G. Blaine, 1882-1893 among other books . He pursued his research for the Harrison biography for many summers, but died in 1957 before completing the work.
The collection is organized into the following series: I. Correspondence; II. Research and notes; III. Drafts; IV. Miscellaneous. An inventory is available.
The correspondence includes Volwiler's concerning his research and copies of Harrison's letters. There are also eight original letters, 1898-1899, from Harrison to his clerk Everard F. Tibbott (see: II. Research and notes. Subjects. Venezuela. Correspondence).
Gift. 1967, 1991
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