Overview of the Collection
|
| |
Repository Name:
|
|
University of Oregon Libraries
Special Collections & University Archives
1299 University of Oregon
Eugene, OR 97403-1299
URL: http://libweb.uoregon.edu/speccoll/index.html
|
| |
Collection Number:
|
|
Ax 042
|
|
| |
Creator:
|
|
Stevens, Hazard, 1842-1918
|
|
| |
Title:
|
|
Hazard Stevens Papers
|
|
| |
Dates:
|
|
1885-1913 (inclusive)
|
|
| |
Quantity:
|
|
21.75 linear feet
11 boxes, 11 flat files, 6 volumes, 9 scrapbooks
|
|
| |
Languages:
|
|
Collection materials written in
English.
|
| |
Summary:
|
|
Hazard Stevens was born in Rhode Island in 1842 and educated in New England. His father, Major General Isaac I. Stevens was governor of the Washington Territory. Hazard served in the Indian war from 1855-1856 and later in the Civil War. Thereafter, he moved to Washington territory where he worked for the Oregon Steam Navigation Company, then as Internal Revenue collector form the Territory and eventually became a lawyer and worked for the Northern Pacific Railroad.
Stevens, along with P. B. Van Trump, climbed what would later be named Mt. Rainier in the first recorded ascent to the summit. By the 1880s Stevens returned to the east coast, building a home in Dorchester Massachusetts. He became active in regional politics, including an unsuccessful run for congress. This collection contains correspondence, documents, diaries and ephemera related to Stevens life, professional pursuits and business matters.
It also contains considerable information dealing with the life of his father and the history of his family, reaching back to the 19th century.
|
| |
Biographical Note
Hazard Stevens was born in Newport, Rhode Island on June 9, 1842. His great-grandfather was Colonel Daniel Lyman, who served in the Revolutionary War, and his father was Major General Isaac I. Stevens, who was governor of the Washington Territory.
Stevens attended Chauncy Hall School in Boston, and served as a volunteer in the Indian War from 1855-1856. He enrolled in Harvard College in 1860, but left at age nineteen to join the army during the Civil War. After his appointment to Captain and Assistant Adjutant General of the first brigade on October 19, 1861, he served under the command of his father. He fought in the Battle of Fredericksburg and served in the Battle of Fort Hunger, for which he received the Medal of Honor.
After the war he traveled to the Washington Territory, where he worked for the Oregon Steam Navigation Company in Wallula. In May, 1868 Stevens moved to Olympia to work as an Internal Revenue collector for the Washington Territory. While in Olympia, he studied law and became a lawyer. Stevens worked as an attorney for the Northern Pacific Railroad Company beginning in 1870, during which time he helped stop timber stealing on public land and organized a successful effort to bring the railroad to Olympia.
Stevens also climbed Mt. Rainier with P.B. Van Trump, which is the first documented account of explorers reaching the top. He wrote about the climb for the November 1876 issue of the Atlantic monthly. In 1874 he was appointed by the President to investigate British land claims on San Juan Archipelago.
Stevens built a home in Mount Bowdoin, Dorchester, Massachusetts in 1880 and was elected to the House General Court. He helped reform the city charter and worked on a tax limitation bill. In addition, Stevens was a founder of the Massachusetts Reform League. In 1901 he published a book about his father, The life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens.
In recognition of this and his life's achievements, he was given an honorary MA degree by Harvard College. In 1908 Stevens ran as a congressional candidate but was not elected. He helped found the Mount Bowdoin Library. Stevens died in 1918.
Content Description
The Hazard Stevens Papers contain correspondence, documents, diaries and ephemera related to Stevens’ life and work in the Washington Territory and New England. Also included are papers relating to his father, Isaac I. Stevens, who was a Major General and Governor of Washington Territory, and papers concerning Stevens family history and genealogy extending back to the late 17th century. A large number of correspondences are found in files and letterbooks and a large assortment of ephemera is contained within the numerous scrapbooks.
Among the papers are manuscripts by Hazard Stevens, including those for his book The Life of Isaac Ingalls Stevens. Prominent topics such as Internal Revenue files, railroad matters, Indian treaties, Isaac Stevens and family history are organized in individual series. The information contained herein could be of great value to researchers studying business and finance in the Washington Territory, American military history and late 19th century politics.
Arrangement
Collection is organized into the following series: Diaries and Record Books; Correspondence Files; Railroad Files; Publications Essays and Address Files; Legal and Miscellaneous Document Files; Hazard Stevens Family File; Indian Treaty Files; Scrapbooks
Administrative Information
Separated Materials Photographs in this collection are stored separately under call number PH101.
Use of the Collection
Restrictions on Access Collection is open to the public.
Collection must be used in Special Collections & University Archives Reading Room.
Restrictions on Use Property rights reside with Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries.
Copyright resides with the creators of the documents or their heirs.
All requests for permission to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to the
Manuscripts Librarian in Special Collections & University Archives. The
reader must also obtain permission of the copyright holder.
Preferred Citation [Identification of item], Hazard Stevens Papers, Ax 042, Special Collections & University Archives, University of Oregon Libraries, Eugene, Oregon.
Subjects
This collection is indexed under the following headings in the online
catalog. Researchers desiring materials about related topics, persons, or
places should search the catalog using these headings.
|
| |
| Stevens, Hazard, 1842-1918--Archives |
| Stevens, Isaac Ingalls, 1818-1862 |
| Northern Pacific Railroad Company |
| Stevens family |
| Indians of North America--Treaties |
| Lawyers--United States |
| Tax collection--Washington (State) |
| Diaries |
| Manuscripts for publication |
Detailed Description of the Collection
The following section contains a detailed listing of the materials in
the collection.
| |
Diaries and Record Books
|
| |
Container(s)
|
Description
|
|
Dates
|
| |
|
|
Diary
|
|
1897 |
| |
|
|
Diary
|
|
1899 |
| |
|
|
Diary
|
|
1902 |
| |
|
|
Diary
|
|
1904 |
| |
|
|
Diary
|
|
1905 |
| |
|
|
Diary
|
|
1917 |
| |
|
|
Diary
|
|
1918 |
| |
|
|
Account book
|
|
1870-1874 |
| |
|
|
Cash book, personal accounts
|
|
1914-1918 |
| |
|
|
Cloverfield Farm account book
|
|
1914-1918 |
| |
|
|
Memoranda book "Adirondacks No. 1"
|
|
1887 |
| |
|
|
Memoranda book "Adirondacks No. 3"
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Memoranda book "Adirondacks No. 4"
|
|
1889-1891 |
| |
Correspondence Files
|
| |
Container(s)
|
Description
|
|
Dates
|
| |
|
|
Letters Sent
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (originals)
|
|
1856-1856 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (originals)
|
|
1867-1885 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (originals)
|
|
1905-1911 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (originals)
|
|
1912 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (originals)
|
|
1913 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (originals)
|
|
undated |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (copies)
|
|
1866-1879 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (copies)
|
|
1883-1888 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (copies)
|
|
1889-1896 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (copies)
|
|
1897-1901 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (copies)
|
|
1902 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (copies)
|
|
1903-1905 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (copies)
|
|
1906-1917 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (letterbook)
|
|
1872-1874 1889-1892 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (letterbook)
|
|
1882-1888 |
| |
|
|
Letters Sent (letterbook)
|
|
1892-1895 |
| |
|
|
Letters Received, General
|
|
|
| |
|
|
Adams, Charles F.
|
|
April 17, 1906 |
| |
State House (Boston) preservation
|
| |
|
|
Ainsworth, John C.
|
|
March 28 1874 |
| |
Northern Pacific land purchase
|
| |
|
|
Alexander, E. P.
|
|
August 28, 1908 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Alexander, Ebenezer
|
|
January 8, 1901 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Allen, J. B.
|
|
December 3, 1876 |
| |
Legal and financial affairs
|
| |
|
|
Appalachian Mountain Club
|
|
December 1905 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Appleton, Nathan
|
|
March 16, 1898 |
| |
Letter in Boston Transcript on Cuba
|
| |
|
|
Bailey, C. P.
|
|
|
| |
|
| |
|
|
Baldwin, George H.
|
|
September 16, 1894 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Bates, William C.
|
|
March 3, 1908 April 7, 1908 |
| |
|
|
Beard, W. G.
|
|
August 18, 1902 |
| |
Land values, Allen Island
|
| |
|
|
Belknap, George
|
|
May 24, 1901 |
| |
Article in Boston Transcript
|
| |
|
|
Benedict, G. G.
|
|
June 6, 1886 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Bingham, Kate S.
|
|
January 1, 1904 August, 25, 1905 January 2, 1916 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Bixby, F. G.
|
|
June 19, 1882 June 21, 1882 |
| |
Purchase of an Irish Setter
|
| |
|
|
Boardman, Joseph
|
|
April 11, 1890 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Booth, M. S.
|
|
July 7, 1879 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Boughton, W. D. L.
|
|
August 17, 1895 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Bowditch, V. Y.
|
|
July 30, 1908 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Bowen, James L.
|
|
June 29, 1888 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Broadhead, J. (2nd Comptroller's Office, Treasury Dept.)
|
|
October 24, ca. 1866 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Broar, A.
|
|
February 25, 1867 |
| |
Recollection of early days
|
| |
|
|
Brodie, Paul
|
|
November 20, 1893 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Brooks, Quincy A.
|
|
September 22, 1866 December 10, 1868 December 13, 1868 March 4, 1907 |
| |
Postmastership of Portland; asks for money
|
| |
|
|
Brown, Eleanor A.
|
|
July 5, 1907 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Brown, Oscar V.
|
|
June 3, 1901 September 14, 1901 August 27, 1902 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Bryan, Edgar
|
|
April 18, 1903 |
| |
Washington Pioneer Association
|
| |
|
|
Bryan, William J.
|
|
March 28, 1902 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Burbank, A. N.
|
|
January 7, 1902 July 14, 1902 September 4, 1902 September 5, 1902 January 25, 1904 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Burwell and Johnson, Tacoma
|
|
September 16, 1902 October 7, 1902 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Callow, A. L.
|
|
December 27, 1892 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Canfield, Thomas H.
|
|
August 25, 1889 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Cann, Thomas H.
|
|
January 27, 1908 |
| |
Washington Pioneer Association
|
| |
|
|
Carr, A. H.
|
|
June 21, 1897 September 14, 1897 |
| |
Stevens Post #1, G. A. A.
|
| |
|
|
Carr, Samuel
|
|
January 31, 1905 |
| |
Sale of Olympia Co. stock.
|
| |
|
|
Carter, Fred
|
|
September 26, 1902 November 4, 1902 March 8, 1903 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Carter, Fred (from A. S. Canton)
|
|
December 6, 1902 January 9, 1903 January 22, 1903 February 24, 1903 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Casey, A. P.
|
|
February 25, 1907 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Catlin, John
|
|
January 17, 1867 Febrary 1, 1867 |
| |
I. I. Stevens pension problems
|
| |
|
|
Caton, A. S.
|
|
May 19, 1902 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Cavanaugh, Thomas H.
|
|
August 27, 1901 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Charles River Embankment Co.
|
|
|
| |
Accepting offer to build bridge
|
| |
|
|
Church and Reynolds, Tacoma
|
|
August 8, 1889 August 10, 1889 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Clark, W. A.
|
|
July 29, 1867 August 1, 1867 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Clarke, Albert (to William Lloyd Garrison)
|
|
January 16, 1891 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Cockrell, F. M.
|
|
|
| |
Promotion of Captain Eskridge
|
| |
|
|
Coffman, A. L.
|
|
November 18, 1902 March 16, 1903 April 16, 1903 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Coleman, A. L.
|
|
December 7, 1866 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Conner, Charles C.
|
|
January 25, 1908 March 23, 1908 |
| |
|
|
Cowness, John
|
|
December 19, 1888 December 25, 1888 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Crandall, Lulu D.
|
|
February 3, 1908 |
| |
Membership, Old Ft. Dalles historial society
|
| |
|
|
Crawford, S. L.
|
|
November 3, 1903 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Cross, Charles F.
|
|
April 5, 1904 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Cullen, William
|
|
September 28, 1902 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Cullum, George W.
|
|
May 21, 1889 |
| |
Information on I. I. Stevens
|
| |
|
|
Cushman, W. H.
|
|
January 31, 1907 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Dabney, P. P. (Title Guarantee Trust Co.)
|
|
July 18, 1906 September 13, 1907 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Davenport, Thomas W.
|
|
January 7, 1904 |
| |
Refers to "Recollections of an Indian Agent."
|
| |
|
|
Day, L.
|
|
March 8, 1868 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Dennison, B. F.
|
|
July 17, 1891 October 30, 1891 February 1, 1892 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Deutsch, William
|
|
November 1, 1877 September 5, 1888 |
| |
Fidalgo Island, Allen Island
|
| |
|
|
Dickerson, J. B.
|
|
December 5, 1871 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Donworth and Howe, Seattle
|
|
September 10, 1897 October 14, 1897 October 18, 1897 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Dudley, J. M. and H., Johnstown, N.Y.
|
|
December 31, 1889 January 6, 1890 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Dye, Eva E.
|
|
November 2, 1900 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Eddy, W. T.
|
|
April 5, 1898 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Eliot, Charles W.
|
|
March 31, 1880 |
| |
Declines Harvard A. B. for Hazard Stevens
|
| |
|
|
Ellsburg, George C.
|
|
December 29, 1902 March 14, 1903 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Ellswick, C. V.
|
|
November 11, 1899 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Emery, Woodward
|
|
May 29, 1893 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Emmonds, L. F.
|
|
July, 24, 1871 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Eskridge, Oliver Stevens
|
|
December 18, 1895 July 20, 1896 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Eskridge, Sue Stevens
|
|
August 12, 1889 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Evans, Elwood
|
|
September 29, 1895 |
| |
Papers. Shannon vs. Stevens
|
| |
|
|
Failing, Henry
|
|
March 9, 1890 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Felt E. J.
|
|
January 15, 1907 December 10, 1907 November 23, 1908 |
| |
Receipt of power company reports
|
| |
|
|
Ferry, C. P.
|
|
April 17, 1902 August 1902 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Forbes, J. M.
|
|
June 12, 1893 |
| |
Promise of political favors
|
| |
|
|
Fort Stevens Lincoln Military National Park Association
|
|
June 1, 1901 |
| |
Misc. Appointment as member of legislative committee.
|
| |
|
|
Fox, Charles B.
|
|
October 22, 1886 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Freeman, John R.
|
|
October 10, 1903 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Fuller, Edward N.
|
|
April 8, 1903 February 16, 1904 March 8, 1904 |
| |
Washington Historical Society
|
| |
|
|
Gaby, Daniel
|
|
February 28, 1898 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Garfield, S.
|
|
October 26, 1869 |
| |
Appointment of public service
|
| |
|
|
Garland, B. F.
|
|
February 20, 1900 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Gillette, P. W.
|
|
March 8, 1872 December 22, 1877 February 14, 1882 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Gillis, A. H.
|
|
June 15, 1902 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Gillis, A. J.
|
|
Februart 12, 1907 October 11, 1907 |
| |
Asks information on Leschi
|
| |
|
|
Gould, John M.
|
|
July 24, 1907 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Gracie, Archibald
|
|
January 14, 1908 |
| |
Recollections of his father with Issac I. Stevens
|
| |
|
|
Grand Army of the Republic - Stevenson Post 26 - Roxbury, MA
|
|
June 6, 1887 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Grant, L. A.
|
|
November 18, 1887 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Greenhalge, Oscar
|
|
May 12, 1904 |
| |
|
| |
|
|
Griffiths, Stanley A.
|
|
May 10, 1905 |
| |
Document, Resolution against Ezra Meeker book
|
|