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Hazard Stevens Papers, circa 1861-circa 1930

Overview of the Collection

Creator
Hazard Stevens
Title
Hazard Stevens Papers
Dates
circa 1861-circa 1930 (inclusive)
Quantity
1 plus oversize containers, (2 linear feet)
Collection Number
Cage 696
Summary
This collection consists primarily of military commissions, correspondence, and reminiscences, official appointments, awards, and miscellaneous items.
Repository
Washington State University Libraries' Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC)
Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections
Terrell Library Suite 12
Pullman, WA
99164-5610
Telephone: 509-335-6691
mascref@wsu.edu
Sponsor
Funding for encoding this finding aid was provided through a grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Historical Note

Hazard Stevens (1842-1918) was a prominent military officer who served in the Civil War, receiving the Medal of Honor for his service. After the war, he moved to the Washington Territory, where he worked for the Oregon Steam Navigation Company and the federal government. In Olympia, he studied law and became an attorney. He practiced law in Washington and, later, in Massachusetts. Among his noteworthy personal accomplishments was the first documented ascent of Mount Rainier, with P. B. Van Trump, in 1870.

Stevens was the son of Isaac Stevens, first governor of the Washington Territory (1853-1857), and Margaret Lyman Hazard Stevens.

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Content Description

This collection consists of military commissions, correspondence and reminiscences, official appointments, awards, and miscellaneous items.

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Administrative Information

Arrangement

Arranged in three small series, plus a group of oversize items.

Acquisition Information

This collection was purchased by the Washington State University Libraries in 2002; it was previously owned by the Stevens family.

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Detailed Description of the Collection

  • Correspondence and personal reminiscences, 1865-1916, undated

    Container: Box 1, Folder 1

  • 2: Awards, honors, appointments, 1886-1916

    • Description:

      Certificates permitting Stevens to practice law, 1870-1878; Appointments as notary public, 1870, 1873.

      Container: Box 1, Folder 2
      Location: 2: Awards, honors, appointments, 1886-1916
    • Description:

      Commission, Captain, 14th United States Infantry, 1866; Notice of election, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 1876; Letters related to Medal of Honor, 1894, 1916; Medal of Honor Certificate, 1916.

      Container: Box 1, Folder 3
      Location: 2: Awards, honors, appointments, 1886-1916
    • Description:

      Letter (copy) by President Grant appointing Stevens commissioner to ascertain British citizen claims and Hudson's Bay Company holdings in Washington Territory, 1874; Letter from Secretary of Interior Delano, 1874; Appointment as warden of Boston, 1883; Notices of election to Massachusetts legislature, 1884, 1885; Note certifying Steven's election to the Society of Cincinnati, 1887.

      Container: Box 1, Folder 4
      Location: 2: Awards, honors, appointments, 1886-1916

  • 3: Photographs, miscellaneous, circa 1861-circa 1930

    • Description:

      Photographs of Stevens, ca. 1861 and ca. 1887; Photograph of Dedication of Memorial Tablet placed by Marcus Whitman Chapter, Daughters of the American Revolution, ca. 1930.

      Container: Box 1, Folder 5
      Location: 3: Photographs, miscellaneous, circa 1861-circa 1930
    • Description:

      Broadside, U. S. Tax Notice, Washington Territory, 1870; Deed, documenting sale of land by David and Tabbitha Kincaid to the Northern Pacific Railroad, witnessed and notarized by Stevens, 1872; Issue of The Volunteer (newspaper), including a biographical sketch of Isaac Stevens, 1891; Program for commemorative exercises at Camp Washington, Spokane, 1908; Invitations, 1911.

      Container: Box 1, Folder 6
      Location: 3: Photographs, miscellaneous, circa 1861-circa 1930
    • Description: Military commissions

      Including Major, Assistant Adjutant General of the Volunteers; Brevet Lieutenant Colonel; Brevet Colonel; Brevet Brigadier General.

      Dates: 1865-1866
      Container: Oversize 7
      Location: 3: Photographs, miscellaneous, circa 1861-circa 1930
    • Description:

      Certificates, Notary Public and Justice of the Peace, Massachusetts, 1857-1908; Harvard Law School diploma, 1900; Certificate, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, 1876; Certificate, Medal of Honor Legion of the United States, 1895.

      Container: Oversize 7
      Location: 3: Photographs, miscellaneous, circa 1861-circa 1930

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Subject Terms

  • Stevens, Hazard, 1842-1918.
  • Washington (State) -- History -- 19th century.
  • Washington (State) -- History -- 20th century.

Finding aid prepared by Cheryl Gunselman.
2012

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