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Acquisition Information

John L. Heider, UB graduate of the Law School, donated the warranty deed with Millard Fillmore's signature (Series IV. Documents as Chancellor of the University of Buffalo and other miscellaneous records, box/folder #1.20).

Richard W. Trolley, a 1954 UB graduate of the School of Dental Medicine, donated a hand written Fillmore letter dated September 14, 1851 to the University Archives in 1991 (Series I. Correspondence and Memorandum as U.S. President, box/folder #1.18).

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Collection processed by: Archives Staff

Finding aid encoded by: Jessica Tanny, June 2008

Series I. Correspondence and Memorandum as U.S. President, 1850-1855

Arrangement: Arranged chronologically

1.3			Letter: Secretary of the Treasury, Thomas Corwin to U.S. President, Millard Fillmore, July 19, 1850    [autographed letter signed]
1.4			Resolution to Congress, July 24, 1850
1.5			Memorandum: "The President desires the opinion in writing... to the following questions" regarding the territory of Mexico: U.S. President, Millard Fillmore to Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, July 25, 1850    [autographed letter signed]
1.6			Memorandum: two questions proposed to the Cabinet, August 24, 1850    [handwritten note]
1.30			Presidental pardon to Thomas Philips who violated an Act of Congress by bringing an excess of passengers to the United States in 1847, September 3, 1850    [handwritten and sealed with signatures of both Secretary of State, Daniel Webster and U.S. President, Millard Fillmore]
1.7			Memorandum: list of nominations unconfirmed by the Senate to the President, September 29, 1850    [handwritten note]
1.8			Letter: General Land Officer, Charles Gratiot to U.S. President, Millard Fillmore, November 23, 1850    [autographed letter signed]
1.9			Letter: Attorney General, John J. Crittendon to U.S. President, Millard Fillmore regarding Crittendon's opinions on two cases: a land claim by the state of Iowa and the land settlement between Thomas L. Ogden and Joseph Fellows and the Seneca Nation of Indians set from the 1842 treaty, December 2, 1850    [letter signed]
1.10			Memorandum: Department of Treasury Auditor John B. Gallagher to U.S. President, Millard Fillmore regarding refuting the claims brought against the President by John L. Watson of Georgia, December 5, 1850    [autographed letter signed]
1.11			Memorandum from the Department of States regarding a list of people appointed consular commissions, December 6, 1850    [handwritten list]
1.12			Memorandum: Commissioner of Indian Affairs, Luke Lea to Secretary of the Interior, Alexander H. H. Stuart regarding land claims set in the 1832 Tippecanoe treaty with the Potawatomi tribe, December 18, 1850    [autographed letter signed]
1.13			Memorandum: handwritten copies of two letters from George Harrington and D.H. Abbell regarding the appointment of Joseph Kershner, 1850
1.24			Letter (draft): U.S. President, Millard Fillmore to Austrian diplomat, Johann Georg Hülsemann(?) regarding the diplomat's displeasure over a recent speech made by Secretary of State Daniel Webster, circa 1850    [handwritten draft in ink with pencil corrections]
1.14			Seating plan for presidential dinner, January 9, 1851
1.15			Letter: Attorney General, John J. Crittendon to U.S. President, Millard Fillmore regarding the authority to grant a request made by the Marshal of the Southern District of New York, January 17, 1851    [letter signed]
1.16			Letter: Attorney General, John J. Crittendon to U.S. President, Millard Fillmore regarding the settlements on surveyed lands including Beaver Island, April 30, 1851    [autographed letter signed]
1.17			Report: Senate resolutions and acts reported for the weeks of September 18 and September 27, 1851
1.18			Letter: Millard Fillmore to Benoi Thompson regarding Fillmore's reasoning for not appointing Thompson Post Master General, September 14, 1851    [autographed letter signed]
1.19			Memorandum to the U.S. Senate regarding a transcribed letter to Secretary of State, Daniel Webster in regards to the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, December 1851
1.22			Letter: Chief Clerk to the Secretary of State, William Hunter to U.S. President, Millard Fillmore, circa 1852; includes list of vacant foreign consultant positions.    [autographed signed letter]
2.5			Dinner menu: "A Dinner Given by Mr. Peabody at the Star and Garter [Hotel], Richmond [London], to the Honorable Millard Fillmore, Late President of the United States", June 25, 1855; includes clipping on the sculptor, Harriet Hosmer.
1.23			Memorandum regarding statutes in relation to the Public Land office, undated
1.25			Memorandum: brief of recent acts from the District Courts of New York State, undated
1.26			Memorandum: list of judges, attorneys, and marshalls in the state of California compiled for Secretary of State, Daniel Webster, undated    [initialed "D.W." handwritten note]
1.27			List of candidates for executive departments cabinet posts, undated
1.28			Memorandum concerning California judicial appointments, undated
1.29			Bill (draft): creating an executive department headed by the position of Executive Secretary to record all proceedings of the President's Cabinet and all correspondence between the President and his Cabinet.    [handwritten in ink with pencil corrections]

Series II. Records as U.S. Congressman 1840-1842

2.2			Index of tariffs, duties, customs, etc. kept by Millard Fillmore, 1840    [5 x 7 green leather covered memo book with tabbed indexes]
2.3			Index to the President Message and Accompanying Documents kept by Millard Fillmore, 1841-1842    [5 x 7 brown leather covered memo book with tabbed indexes

Series III. Personal and Family Documents 1833-1854

2.1			Millard Fillmore's memorandum book, Buffalo, New York, June 28, 1833; includes partial genealogy, Grosvenor Library Bulletin, Volume 3, number 3, March 1921.    [7 pages]    [3 x 5 paper booklet handwritten in pencil]
1.1			Letter: Abigail Powers Fillmore to Millard Powers Fillmore, April 25, 1849    [photocopy of an autographed letter signed]
1.2			Letter: Millard Fillmore to Millard Powers Fillmore, April 25, 1849    [photocopy of an autographed letter signed]
2.4			Obituary for Mary Abigail Fillmore, published in the Buffalo Commercial Advertiser July 28, 1854
2.8			Alphabetical catalog of Millard Fillmore's library, undated    [1 volume]

Series IV. Documents as Chancellor of the University of Buffalo and other miscellaneous records, 1874, undated

1.20			Deed: Millard Fillmore to William Kuhn warranty deed recorded in the Erie County Clerk's Office registered in the city of Buffalo, September 9, 1853
1.21			Letter: Millard Fillmore to Orasmus H. Marshall regarding Fillmore's official resignation as Chancellor of the University of Buffalo, February 24, 1874    [photocopy of autographed letter signed]    [Original letter in the collection Marshall Family Papers, 1762-1908 located in Archives and Special Collections, State University of New York at Oswego. <http://www.oswego.edu/library/archives/>]
2.6			Envelopes and calling cards, undated; includes E. Everett, W.H. Seward, W.B. Sprague, D. Webster.
2.7			Autograph of Union Civil War General, John Reese Kenly (1829-1891), undated

Contributors

Corwin, Thomas, 1794-1865

Crittenden, John J. (John Jordan), 1787-1863

Gratiot, Charles, 1786-1855

Kenly, John Reese, 1822-1891

Lea, Luke, 1783-1851

Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852

State University of New York at Buffalo. University Archives.

Subject Terms

United States--Politics and government--1849-1853

State University of New York at Buffalo--Archival resources.

Related Resources

University Archives Resources

4/1/458 -- Millard Fillmore Anniversary Ceremonies, 1960-present

4/1/956 -- Government Publications from the Libary of Millard Fillmore

Other Resources

Digitized Millard Fillmore Papers at the State University of New York at Oswego Archives and Special Collections:
-- 1817-1864: <http://www.oswego.edu/library2/archives/digitized_collections/fillmore1/>
-- 1850-1861: <http://www.oswego.edu/library2/archives/digitized_collections/fillmore2/>
-- 1862-1864: <http://www.oswego.edu/library2/archives/digitized_collections/fillmore3/>

The White House website. "Biography of Millard Fillmore." Last accessed 23 June 2008 <http://www.whitehouse.gov/history/presidents/mf13.html>