Box 5

Summary From the Collection:

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).

Summary From the Collection:

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).

Scope and Contents Questions over the issue of slavery, being debated at the national level. Newspapers capture the build up to the Civil War with titles like "political history of slavery," "the slavery question," union or disunion," abolition agitation,"slaveholder's rebellion," "the law of treason," "suppression of newspapers [with seccessionist interests]," and "An Important Proclamation [Lincoln to Congress, 1861." The final clipping is an "Oration: Delivered by R.Z. Johnson, Esq. at Silver City, Idaho...

Summary From the Collection:

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).

Scope and Contents

Ruby City, Idaho

Summary From the Collection:

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).

Scope and Contents

cases with notes, opinions

Summary From the Collection:

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).