Iowa

Benjamin F. Beazell tells Theodore Roosevelt that he has traveled through many midwestern states and all republicans he meets are dissatisfied with William H. Taft and will not vote for Taft even if nominated. Beazell states the dissatisfied businessmen and farmers are true blood republicans, not insurgent republicans. Beazell believes the office will seek out Roosevelt despite Roosevelt not seeking office and offers to help in any way he can.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-12-12

Creator(s)

Beazell, Benjamin F. (Benjamin Fell), 1864-1947

Charles M. Miller copies part of a news letter sent by Janette Miller from her missionary post in Angola, Africa. Janette Miller describes the climate, weather, and details the long trip from Lisbon to the village where she lives and works. The men, women, and children she helps to educate and teach Christian ways are also described. Janette Miller ends saying she trusts her African friends and reminds the reader that there are cousins of the tribe she lives with in the United States who are suffering because of what her race did to them.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1911-06-18

Creator(s)

Miller, Janette, 1879-1969; Miller, Charles M. (Charles Marshall), 1852-1914

North Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area job completion record for project #11 for fine grading near upper Cedar Canyon, including a job narrative, maps, and job allocation request form with a list of materials needed.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1937-06-11

Creator(s)

Horton, Robert B. (Robert Brooks), 1911-

North Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area job completion record for project #14 to conduct a grade line survey beyond Cedar Canyon, included is a job narrative, job completion information, and job allocation request form with a list of materials needed.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1937-08-20

Creator(s)

Horton, Robert B. (Robert Brooks), 1911-

North Roosevelt Recreational Demonstration Area job completion record for project #9 to work on one mile of park road above Cedar Canyon; included is a job narrative, job completion information, approval papers, and job allocation request form with a list of materials needed.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1938-05-20

Creator(s)

Horton, Robert B. (Robert Brooks), 1911-

President Roosevelt has received praise for Minister to Denmark Maurice Francis Egan, along with John Wallace Riddle and David Jayne Hill, from Nicholas Butler Murray. Roosevelt is confused by the rates of depression and tendency toward socialism in Denmark, a country of farmers. Mississippi is the most agricultural state in the United States, and Roosevelt concludes that although there are many great Mississippians, a mixture of farmers and townsfolk is the best population to have.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1908-10-05

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt informs Governor Cummins of Iowa he will review the issue with Secretary of War William H. Taft and looks forward to seeing Cummins at Keokuk, Iowa.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-08-13

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

President Roosevelt regrets that he will be unable to travel to Iowa. He hopes to see William Greene Dows in Washington, D.C.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1901-09-14

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Leslie M. Shaw has looked into reports of forty bank failures in Iowa last year, and the facts do not support that claim.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-20

Creator(s)

Shaw, Leslie M. (Leslie Mortier), 1848-1932

Robert John Thompson encloses a letter to President Roosevelt in which he suggests the issuance of a series of small denomination bonds could finance the building of the Panama Canal and help prevent bank failures in the United States.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1905-01-17

Creator(s)

Thompson, Robert J. (Robert John), 1865-

Secretary of the Navy Morton returns a letter to William Loeb. The letter is from former Iowa Railroad Commissioner Frank T. Campbell, whom Morton describes as an impractical railroad official.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-22

Creator(s)

Morton, Paul, 1857-1911

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson explains that the Department of Agriculture promoted planting a kind of wheat that needed little rain in the semi-arid west. Farmers are planting it and bringing it to millers in Minnesota and Iowa, and the millers are complaining because this grain is damaging their machinery. Though Wilson met with the millers, they continue to complain about the introduction of a new grain in their “millers’ paper.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1904-12-06

Creator(s)

Wilson, James, 1835-1920

William H. Taft stands with a gavel in his hand as the delegates select President Roosevelt as the nominee. In the audience are Secretary of State Elihu Root, Secretary of the Treasury Leslie M. Shaw, Speaker of the House Joseph Gurney Cannon, Senator Joseph Benson Foraker, Vice President Charles W. Fairbanks, and New York Governor Charles Evans Hughes. A balloon in the top right-hand corner shows William Jennings Bryan and William Randolph Hearst holding signs that read, “Gov’t Ownership” and “Socialism” respectively as they step on Minnesota Governor John Albert Johnson.

comments and context

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1907-03

Theodore Roosevelt writes about his hunting trip with his brother Elliott to his sister Anna. After hunting in Iowa they have decided to move to Wisconsin. He says when they will be returning and asks that his sister please send his belongings.

Collection

Harvard College Library

Creation Date

1880-09-12

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Ray H. Mattison thanks Roy P. Johnson for his hard work gathering and sending him research materials regarding the authenticity of Theodore Roosevelt’s Maltese Cross cabin. The information Mattison has gathered from interviewing old timers backs the authenticity of the cabin thus far, although he still has more people to interview. Mattison believes Hermann Hagedorn is incorrect in saying that Roosevelt went to Red River country in Nebraska in 1882, because there is Red River in Nebraska. He notes a paragraph in Roosevelt’s 1920 autobiography in which the President talks about his first trip to Fargo, North Dakota in 1883, not 1882.

Collection

Theodore Roosevelt National Park

Creation Date

1949-07-23

Creator(s)

Mattison, Ray H., 1903-1980

President Roosevelt speaking to a crowd

Collection

Library of Congress Prints and Photographs

Creation Date

1903-07-28

Creator(s)

American Stereoscopic Company

The Mayor of Des Moines, Iowa, has requested families with a “goodly number” of children to be present when Theodore Roosevelt visits. It includes a cartoon with the caption, “The mayor of Des Moines has requested that all the large families turn out to welcome our president and prove that Iowa is not threatened with race suicide.”

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1903-04-02

Creator(s)

Bowman, Rowland C. (Rowland Claude), 1870-1903

On behalf of Theodore Roosevelt, his secretary thanks C. R. Riley for his letter and the clippings he sent.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-09-07

Creator(s)

Secretary of Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt is pleased by Albert Shaw’s writing in the Review of Reviews. Roosevelt discusses his views of the Progressive Party as a new party comparable to the Republican Party after it broke away from the Whig Party. Roosevelt discusses the Progressive Party running as a third party and also agrees with Shaw about the Vice-Presidency.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-08-03

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919

Theodore Roosevelt writes John C. Kelly about the organization of a Progressive party movement in Iowa and expresses his frustration with those aligned with the Republican party.

Collection

Library of Congress Manuscript Division

Creation Date

1912-07-10

Creator(s)

Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919