Horace Harmon Lurton
Location of Papers

Correspondence with Lurton in the Mixter Family papers.

Horace Harmon Lurton Papers, 1860-1914. 1 linear ft. (250 items)   Contains Lurton's correspondence while attending the University of Chicago, and while a prisoner at Camp Chase, Ohio, and Johnson's Island during the Civil War. Most of the letters are addressed to A. W. B. Allen, of Bridgeford & Company, Louisville, Kentucky. Other correspondents from a later period include William Rufus Day, John Marshall Harlan, Joseph R. Lamar, Whitelaw Reid, Theodore Roosevelt, Elihu Root, William Howard Taft, and Edward Douglas White. NOTE: Many papers were destroyed by Justice Lurton's widow.

Papers of Horace Harmon Lurton, 1860-1914. [Mf. 151] 1 reel of microfilm from the Library of Congress containing 150 items. Register available. Collection consists mainly of Lurton's correspondence including seventeen Civil War letters, some of which were written from Fort Donelson and later Johnson's Island prison, where Lurton was imprisoned until 1865. Also included are accounts, addresses, reports, and other items, 1860-1914. Correspondents include Lord Alverstone, John Marshall Harlan, Charles E. Hughes, Theodore Roosevelt, William H. Taft, and other prominent individuals of the period. Correspondence with Lurton is also located in the Jacob McGavock Dickinson papers.

Correspondence with Lurton in the John Marshall Harlan papers.

Correspondence with Lurton in the Henry F. Severens papers and the Peter White papers.

Correspondence with Lurton in the James Clark McReynolds papers.