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Lawyers-Idaho-Boise-Records and correspondence.

 Subject
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Found in 17 Collections and/or Records:

Allen B. Eaton papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0077
Summary

Correspondence concerning National Recovery Administration activities in Idaho; letters from James P. Pope; paper regarding the Boise Library Board, of which Eaton was a member; articles concerned with national politics in the 1940s, and miscellaneous photographs and personal papers.

Dates: 1915 - 1973

Benjamin Walker Oppenheim papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0442
Summary Collection includes both legal files and personal papers. The original acquisition of 7 ft. included legal files from Oppenheim's practice, 1937-1945; accounts from his law partnerships with Shadrach L. Hodgin, 1913-1927 and Jacob M. Lampert, 1920-1937; and other miscellaneous materials. The original acquisition is unprocessed. In 2003, 1.25 cu. ft. of additional materials related by Mr. Oppenheim and his family were donated by a granddaughter, Jane Miller Jacobsen. A preliminary inventory...
Dates: 1914 - 1970

Charles F. Koelsch papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0152
Summary

Correspondence, clippings, case files, notes, and memorabilia concerning Koelsh's career as lawyer, judge, and legislator. Includes a speech introducing William E. Borah, notes and materials for Idaho vs. Haywood, and drafts and final copy of a review of the Haywood case written for the Idaho Mining Association in 1946.

Dates: 1894 - 1962

Charles P. McCarthy papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0009
Summary

Includes two college notebooks dealing with property law (1901-1902); notes, pamphlets, financial papers and day books (1905-1909); correspondence including letters from W.E. Borah, D. Worth Clark, and C.C. Cavanah; legal papers (1909-1911) relating to Boise Cold Storage vs. O.S.R.R. Co., Boise City vs. Ada County (regarding road poll tax), and a grand jury investigation of the meat trust.

Dates: 1892 - 1912

Frank Chalfant Sr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0143
Summary

Miscellaneous legal papers including the Idaho Construction and Building Company's articles of incorporation; indentures and agreements; Supreme Court briefs and transcripts of appeal; two scrapbooks (1940s) concerning the controversy over liquor sales.

Dates: 1899 - 1959

Frank Martin Sr. papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0088
Summary Correspondence, legal documents, and subject files. Correspondence with William E. Borah and D.W. Davis about a government pardon for Harry Orchard; minutes of the Associated Distributing Company (Boise, Idaho); motion for pardon of Paul Corcoran and miscellaneous records relating to More's Creek placer claims (Boise County), The Boise Valley Canal Company, the New York Irrigation District, the Mountain Home Cooperative Irrigation Company, stock certificates of the Goodman Oil Company...
Dates: 1875 - 1936

Fred Jason Babcock papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0319
Summary

Political and personal papers (1930-1933); opinions of the Attorney General (1930-1932); and legal case files relating to the First National Bank of Caldwell; the Western Gold Corporation, Boise; the Rocky Bar Mining and Milling Company; and many other mining companies.

Dates: 1930 - 1939

Hamer H. Budge papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0317
Summary

Case files from Budge's law office in the Idaho building, Boise, Idaho.

Dates: [195-?]

Harry S. Kessler papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0015
Summary Printed booklets of briefs, complaints and appeals in the Idaho Supreme Court (1894-1953); personal and legal papers (1915-1955), including transcripts of the Idaho vs. Village of Garden City (in regard to gambling), and the beer tax legislative fight of the 1950s; papers and correspondence dealing with the termperance movement including scrapbook, flyers, and campaign material regarding Kessler's attempt to gain the 1932 Democatic nomination as candidate to the U. S. Senate. Also includes...
Dates: 1894 - 1955

Henry Z. Johnson papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0039
Summary

Correspondence, legal briefs, and miscellaneous records relating to Johnson's work on the Idaho State Council of Defense, and newspaper clippings regarding Idaho territorial history, prominent Idahoans, and Idaho politics.

Dates: 1869 - 1947

J. F. Martin records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0173
Summary

Case files from a brief period of Martin's law career. Cases includencluding Associated Oil Company vs. Community Associated Gasoline Company, and State of Idaho vs. Idaho Contracting Company.

Dates: 1935 - 1941

James Henry Hawley papers (1887-1945)

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Identifier: MS 0048
Summary

Correspondence relating to Hawley's law practice, including letters pertaining to the conspiracy trials of officers of the Western Federation of Miners for crimes associated with the dynamiting of the Bunker Hill and Sullivan concentrator at Wardner, Idaho, in 1899 and for the assassination of Frank Steunenberg in 1905; correspondence and reports relating to mining operations in which the Hawley family held an interest.

Dates: 1887 - 1945

James Pinckney Pope papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0080
Summary

Personal and office correspondence, case files, miscellaneous office bills and receipts, personal clippings and personal files relating chiefly to Pope's law practice in Boise, Idaho, and to Idaho and national affairs of the Democratic Party during the 1920s.

Dates: 1910 - 1931; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1916; Majority of material found within 1919 - 1930

John T. Morgan papers

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0018
Summary

Collection includes political, business, and legal correspondence (1864-1890); legal opinions.

Dates: 1864 - 1899

Richard Z. Johnson papers [ca. 1870-1955]

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0014
Summary

Correspondence and financial records relating to Johnson's law practice in Boise and Silver City, Idaho, and to his term as attorney general of Idaho; scrapbooks concerning U.S. politics and the Civil War (1859-1862), Johnson's law practice and addresses (1862-1898), and the trial of William D. Haywood (1907); ledgers from the firm of Davenport and Johnson, Ruby City, Idaho Territory (1864-1866, 1865-1867).

Dates: 1870 - 1955

William B. Davidson records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0079
Summary

Scattered case files and miscellaneous records of this Boise attorney.

Dates: 1905 - 1912

Wood and Wilson (Boise, Idaho) records

 Collection
Identifier: MS 0286
Summary

Official, political, and personal correspondence of Fremont Wood, United States attorney and judge; and Edgar Wilson, U.S. Representative from Idaho (1899). Included are letters by Wilson as chairman of the Idaho Republican State Central Committee (1892-1894).

Dates: 1886 - 1909