Box 248
Container
Contains 1 Collection or Record:
Reconstruction Correspondence
File — Box: 248, Folder: 4
Scope and Contents
From the Collection:
The Elisha Wolsey Peck papers include account books, personal and legal correspondence, election returns, invitations, meeting minutes, and receipts. These materials relate to Peck's family, finances, business, law practice, membership in the Rising Virtue Masonic Lodge, and service to Alabama during Reconstruction. The material relating to the Reconstruction period is particularly significant, as Peck served as president of Alabama's Constitutional Convention of 1867 and was...
Dates:
1837 - 1887