U.S. Sen. William Boyd Allison Personal Library Collection

Item:	William Boyd Allison Personal Library Collection
LJTP No.:	600.007
Medium:	Book
Author:	Variety
Publisher:	Variety
Date:	1800-1908
Place:	Variety
Period:	Pioneering America 1800 – 1860 Civil War America 1861 – 1865 Post-Civil War America   1866 – 1900 20th Century; Part 1 1901 – 1950
Keywords:	William Boyd Allison
Citation:	Book.  William Boyd Allison Personal Library Collection. Library of John T. Pregler, Dubuque. (Source: Library of John T. Pregler)
Remarks:	The personal library of U.S. Senator William Boyd Allison (R-IA) was donated to the City of Dubuque’s Carnegie-Stout Public Library by Allison’s personal secretary Mrs. Jennie A. Brayton (1853-1925) as part of CSPL’s Allison Memorial Collection. Mrs. Brayton was the personal friend of Senator Allison and presided over his Dubuque, Iowa and Washington, D.C. households. Upon her death in 1925, Mrs. Brayton left Allison’s personal collection of approximately 1,500 books to Carnegie-Stout Public Library.

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List of Books from the Allison Collection:

AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLISHER	DATE	NOTES
Adams, Henry	Historical Essays	Scribners	1891
Adams, Henry	History of the United States	Scribners	1887-91	9 vol. set
Andrews, C.C.	Brazil It’s Condition and Prospects	Appleton Co.	1887
Andrews, I.W.	Manual of the Constitution of the United States	VanAntwerp, Bragg and Co.	1887
Bancroft, G.	History of the U.S. From the Discovery of the Continent	Little Brown and Co.	1862-1874	10 Vol. plus extra Vols. 4 & 8
Bartlett, John	Familiar Quotations	Little Brown	1881
Bates, W.W.	American Navigation	Houghton, Mifflin	1902
Bayle St. John	The Memoirs of the Duke of Saint Simon	Dickers and Son		3 vol. set
Blackburn, H.	The Pyrenees	Sampson, Low and Co.	1879
Bryant, W.C.	Library of Poetry and Song	Ford Co.	1879
Cogswell, E.C.	History of Nottingham	Deerfield and Northwood	1878
Cummings, R.G.	Five Years of a Hunter’s Life in the Far Interior of South Africa	Harper and Bros.	1850	Vol. II
Curtis, W.F.	The Capitals of Spanish America	Harper	1888
Dabney, W.D.	The Public Regulation of Railways	Putnam’s and Sons	1889
Demolins, E.	Anglo-Saxon Superiority: To What It Is Due	Scribner’s and Sons		1st English edition
Digby, W.	Prosperous British India	T. Fisher Unwin	1901
Eastlake, C.L.	Hints on Household Taste	Osgood and Co.	1877
Elmes, Webster	A Treatese on the Law of the Customs	Little Brown and Co.	1887
Follett, M.P.	The Speaker of the House of Representatives	Longmans, Green	1902
Haines, H.S.	Restrictive Railway Legislation	Macmillan Co.	1905
Hallam, H.	Hallam’s Works	Little Brown	1854	9 vol. set
Harvey, P.	Reminiscences and Anecdotes of Daniel Webster	Little Brown	1887
Haupt, L.M.	A Move for Better Roads	H.C. Baird and Co.	1891
Helper, H.R.	The Three Americas Railway	W.S. Bryan	1881
Hickey, Wm.	Hickey’s constitution of the United States	Murphy and Co.	1879
Higgonson, T.W.	Old Cambridge	Macmillan Co.	1899
Hilton, G.S.	The Funny Side of Politics	Dillingham and Co.	1899
Hole, James	National Railways	Cassell and Co.	1893
Home, D.	The History of England	Little Brown and Co.	1854	6 vol. set
Hudson, J.F.	The Railways and the Republic	Harper & Bros.	1886
Kellogg, R.U.	Life and Death in Rebel Prisons	Stebbins	1865
King Lake, A.	The Invasion of the Crimea	Harper and Bros.	1864	3 vol. set
Kirke, E.	The Rear-Guard of the Revolution	Appleton and Co.	1886
Lodge, H.C.	The Story of the Revolution	Scribner	1898	2 vol. set
Longfellow, H.W.	In the Harbor	Houghton, Mifflin	1882
Madison, James	Letters and other Writings	Lippincott	1865	4 vol. set
Mansfield, E.O.	The Life of General Winfield Scott	Barnes and Co.	1846
McNeill, G.E.	The Labor Movement: The Problem of Today	A.M. Bridgman	1887
Meyer, H.	Government Regulation of Railway Rates	Macmillan Co.	1905
Michels, Ivan C.	The Current Gold and Silver Coins of All Nations	R.S. Menamin	1880
Morse, John T.	Abraham Lincoln	Houghton Mifflin	1893	2 vol. set
Motley, J.L.	History of the United Netherlands	Harper & Bros.
Newcomb, H.T.	Railway Economics, Railway World	Railway World Publishing Co.	1898
Owen, R.D.	The Debatable Land Between this World and the Next	G.W. Carleton and Co.	1872
Paine, Halbert E.	A Treatise on the Law of the Elections to Public Offices	Wm. H. Morrison Publising	1888
Parsons, F.	The Heart of the Railroad Problem	Little Brown	1906
Patton, Jacob H.	Natural Resources of the United States	D. Appleton Co.	1888
Prescott, W.H.	Biographical and Critical Miscellanies	Lippincott	1864-1868
Prescott, W.H.	Charles the Fifth	Lippincott	1864-1868	3 vol. set
Prescott, W.H.	Conquest of Mexico	Lippincott	1864-1868	3 vol. set
Prescott, W.H.	Conquest of Peru	Lippincott	1864-1868	3 vol. set
Prescott, W.H.	Ferdinand and Isabella	Lippincott	1864-1868	3 vol. set
Prescott, W.H.	Phillip the Second	Lippincott	1864-1868	3 vol. set
Ranke, L.	The History of Popes	Bell and Daldy	1873	3 vol. set
Rea, G.B.	Facts and Fakes about Cuba	Munro’s Sons	1897
Salt, H.	Animals’ Rights	Macmillan	1894
Schulz, Carl	Life of Henry Clay	Houghton Mifflin	1887	2 vol. set
Seward, F.W.	Seward at Washington	Derby and Miller	1891	2 vol. of 3 vol. set
Stealey, O.O.	Twenty Years in the Press Gallery	Prorting Co.	1906
Stickney, A.B.	The Railway Problem	Merrill Co.	1891
Timbs, J.R.	Anecdote Lives of Wits and Humorists	Bentley and Sons	1852	2 vol. set
Triggs, Oscar	Chapters in the History of the Arts and Crafts Movement	Bohemia Guild, Chicago	1902
Tunell, G.G.	Railway Mail Service	Lakeside Press	1901
Wagner, C.	The Simple Life	Maclure, Phillips and Co.	1903
Walker, H.	Intermarriage	Lindsay and Blakiston	1872
Walton, Clifford S	The Civil Law in Spain and Spanish America	Lowdermilk and Co.	1900
Warner, C.D.	My Summer in a Garden	Houghton, Mifflin	1892
Watson, T.E.	The Story of France	Macmillan Co.	1879	2 vol. set
Whittier, J. G.	The Poetical Works	Hougton, Mifflin	1886
Winthrop, R.C.	Winthrop’s Addresses and Speeches	Little Brown	1852
Wyckoff, WMC	The Silk Goods of America	Van Nostrand 1879
	John Paul Jones, Commemoration at Annapolis, April 24, 1906	Government Printing Office	1907
	The Congo	G.P. Putnam’s Sons	1906