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Charles S. Whitman papers, 1868-1947, bulk 1910-1937

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Call No.: MS#1337
Bib ID 4079470 View CLIO record
Creator(s) Whitman, Charles S., 1868-1947
Title Charles S. Whitman papers, 1868-1947, bulk 1910-1937
Physical Description 5 boxes (5 boxes)
Language(s) English .
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The collection consists of addresses, press releases, memoranda proclamations, and other papers by and in regard to Charles Seymour Whitman (1868-1347) who was the District Attorney of New York County from 1910 to 1914 and Governor of New York State from 1915 to 1918. The material ranges in date from 1910 to 1937. The material is confined for the most part to drafts of the Governor's speeches to various groups on such subjects as the NEW YORK STATE PENAL CODE, unification of state laws, public health, education, and agriculture. Also, a typed memorandum on Whitman's ancestry and a few miscellaneous items. There are not papers or correspondence of a personal nature in the collection. The material is mostly in typescript. There is also a microfilm of Lt. Charles F. Becker's testimony in the Rosenthal murder case.

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Single photocopies may be made for research purposes. The RBML maintains ownership of the physical material only. Copyright remains with the creator and his/her heirs. The responsibility to secure copyright permission rests with the patron.

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Identification of specific item; Date (if known); Charles S. Whitman papers; Box and Folder; Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Columbia University Library.

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Reproduction Note

Type of reproduction--Microfilm in part

Immediate Source of Acquisition

Source of acquisition--Oral History Project. Method of acquisition--Gift; Date of acquisition--1950. Accession number--M-50.

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Processing Information

Cataloged Christina Hilton Fenn 09/--/89.

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August 2020 PDF replaced with full finding aid, YH

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Agriculture -- New York (State) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Becker, Charles, 1870-1915 Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
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Education -- New York (State) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
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Public health -- New York (State) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID
Trials (Murder) Portal CLIO ArchiveGRID

History / Biographical Note

Biographical / Historical

Charles Seymour Whitman was District Attorney of New York County, 1910-1914, Governor of New York State, 1915-1918.

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Charles S. Whitman papers, 1868-1947


Box 1 Testimony in Becker Case, New York Supreme Court

Box 1 Addresses at the dinner to Charles S. Whitman, 1912 December 12

Box 1 Address, Probation, 1915 November 15

Box 1 Address, The New England Society of Cleveland and the Western Reserve, 1924

Box 1 Charles A. Becker, Statement from Ossining, 1915 July 20

Box 1 Address, Syracuse State Fair, 1915

Box 1 Address, Public Health, 1915 September 7

Box 1 Partial Address, State Finances, 1916

Box 1 Address, Mahoning Valley McKinley Club, 1916 January 31

Box 1 Address, Preparedness, 1916 February 26

Box 1 Address, Appropriation Methods, 1916 February 5

Box 1 Address, Representing the American Bar Association at Montreal, 1916 March 4

Box 1 Address, Naturalization, 1916 April 5

with duplicate copy

Box 1 Address, Silk Association of America

with duplicate copy

Box 1 Address, Sunday School Union, 1916 April 8


Box 2 Address, Chamber of Commerce, 1916 April 3

Box 2 Address, Charles B. Hughes, 1916 April 22

Box 2 Statement, As to Charles S. Whitman's Attitude toward Republican Presidential Nomination, 1916 April 22

Box 2 Address, at Gettysburg

Box 2 Address, National Need of Defense, 1916 January 29

Box 2 Address, The Interest of the Executive in the Education of the People, 1915 October 21

Box 2 Speech by Charles S. Whitman nominating Charles E. Hughes for President, 1916

Box 2 Address, Medical Society of New York State, 1916 May 16

Box 2 Address, Smith College Commencement, 1916 June 20

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Williams College

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Dedication of St. John the Divine, 1916 June 28

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, G.A.R., 1916 June 28

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Opening of Barge Canal Lift Lock, 1916 June 30

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, American Newspaper Publishers Association, 1916 April 27

Box 2 Address, Unification of the Laws of the States

Box 2 Address, Adelphi College, 1916 April 7

Box 2 Address, American Industrial Education and Vocational Training Conference

Box 2 Address, Bronx Board of Trade, 1916 February 11

Box 2 Address, War Speech

Box 2 Address, Buffalo Exposition

Box 2 Address, National Education Association, 1916 July 3

Box 2 Address, Politics and Public Health, 1916 May 30

Box 2 Address, Livermore Memorial

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, New York State Fair, 1916 September 14

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Remington Celebration, 1916 August 30

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Lincoln Memorial Statue

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Orange County Fair

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Wyoming County Pioneers

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Philip H. Sheridan, 1916 October 7

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Charles S. Whitman's Report to the Voters of the State of New York, 1915-1916

Box 2 Memorandum in Re Direct Tax Bill

Box 2 Address, American Federation of Catholic Societies, 1916 August 20

Box 2 Address, Democracy and Disaster

Box 2 Address, American Prison Association Congress, 1916 October 10

Box 2 Address, On inauguration or Charles S. Whitman as Governor, 1917

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, State Finance

Box 2 Address, Republican Reform of State Finance

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Third Degree

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Buffalo Republicans, 1917 January 29

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, Frederick Douglas, 1917 February

with duplicate copy

Box 2 Address, G. A. R., 1916 May 28

Box 2 Address, The Irish in America

Box 2 Address, Fourteenth Infantry, N.G. of N.Y.

Box 2 Address, Old First Presbyterian Church of New York

with duplicate copy


Box 3 Address, Lincoln, 1917

Box 3 Address, National Defense Convention, 1917 March 27

Box 3 Address, Preparedness, 1917 March 27

Box 3 Address, Wicks Bill

Box 3 Address, Hamilton Club, 1917 April 7

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, Y.M.C.A., 1917 April 9

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, Patriotic Mass Meeting, 1917 April 15

Box 3 Address, Farmers' Institute of Orleans County, 1917 March 14

Box 3 Address, Y.W.C.A., Dedication

Box 3 Address, Methodist Episcopal Church, 1917 May 11

Box 3 Address, Reception of Marshal Joffre, 1917 May 11

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, American Manhood

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, American Manhood, 1917 May 20

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, Niagra Pioneers

Box 3 Address, LL.D. conferred by Syracuse University, 1917 June 13

Box 3 Address, Soldiers Memorial

Box 3 Address, American Manhood, 1917 June 13

Box 3 Address, Conference of Mayors, 1917 June 14

Box 3 Address, Italian Mission, 1917 June 21

Box 3 Address, Fiftieth Anniversary State Normal School Brockport, 1917 June 26

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, G. A. R., 1917 June 27

Box 3 Address, Erie Canal, 1917 July 4

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, Patriotic Meeting, 1917 July 4

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, Dedication Soldiers and Sailors Monument Gloversville

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, Cliff Haven, Catholic Summer School, 1917 August 2

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, To the Army of the United States

with duplicate copy

Box 3 Address, War Speech

Box 3 Address, Law

Box 3 Address, The Bar and the Future

Box 3 Address, Tendencies in Present Day Law

Box 3 Address, The Bar Faces the Future


Box 4 Address, A Hundred Years of American Law

Box 4 Address, Speech to Fruitgrowers, 1917 August 8

Box 4 Address, Y.M.C.A. (Not used, spoke extemporaneously), 1917 August 13

Box 4 Address, Women Suffrage, 1917 August 29

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, American Labor, 1917 August 27

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Conscription, 1917 September 2

Box 4 Address, State Fair, 1917 September 13

Box 4 Address, Chamber of Commerce, 1917 October 4

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Women's Division, State Defense Council, 1917 October 9

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Trades Journal Representatives, 1917 October 12

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Southern Commercial Congress, 1917 October 15

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Schuyler Mansion, 1917 October 17

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Automobile Exhibition, 1918 January 5

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Used No 97, 1917 October 14

Box 4 Address, Mass Meeting to Honor Armed Services, 1917 October 21

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Reception for Ambassador Jusserand, 1917 October 19

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Liberty Loan, 1917 October 22

Box 4 Address, Sheep Raisers, 1917 October 30

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, American Federation of Labor, 1917 November 12

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Women Suffrage, 1917 November 13

Box 4 Address, Y.M.C.A., 1917 November 15

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Fiftieth Anniversary Washington Heights Methodist Episcopal Church, 1917 November 18

Box 4 Address, New York State Waterways and Their Commerce, 1917 November 27

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, King's County Republican Committee, 1917 December 11

Box 4 Address, Lincoln Celebration, 1917 February 12

with duplicate copy

Box 4 The Governor's Message, 1918 January 2

Box 4 Address, National Security League, 1918 February 23

with duplicate copy

Box 4 Address, Ulysses S. Grant, 1916 July 15

Box 4 Address, Port of New York, 1918 January 28

Box 4 Address, Patriotic Meeting, 1918 March 7

with duplicate copy


Box 5 Address, National Education Association, 1918 February 26

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, Sunday School, 1918 June 25

Box 5 Address, Chamber of Commerce 150th Anniversary

Box 5 Address, Chamber of Commerce, 1916 April 5

Box 5 Address, Honor of Tardieu, [1916?] April 6

Box 5 Address, Honor Ambassador, 1918 March 27

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, Dairy Exposition, 1918 May 20

Box 5 Address, Ulysses S. Grant, 1918 April 27

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, Health Officials, 1918 June 25

Box 5 Address, Knights of Pythias

Box 5 Address, Flag Day, 1918 June 14

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, New York Press Association, 1918 June 25

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, Historical Society King's County, 1918 August 25

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, State Federation of Labor, 1918 August 27

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, Dedication Experiment Station of New York

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, State Fair, 1918 September 12

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, Americanization, 1918 September 12

Box 5 Address, Grange Convention, 1918 November 13

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, Anti-Liquor Traffic Association, 1918 November 21

Box 5 Address, Canada and the United States, 1918 November 22

with duplicate copy

Box 5 Address, League of Nations

Box 5 Address, Theodore Roosevelt, 1919 February 8

Box 5 Address, Home Service Mobilization Meeting, 1919 May 18

Box 5 Address, Booker T. Washington, 1916 May 25

Box 5 Address, Conservation Commission

Box 5 Address, War Speech

Box 5 Address, Incomplete Speech, Public Service Commission

Box 5 Incomplete Speech, Universal Training

Box 5 Laws of Various States, Canadian Province, and Newfoundland Relating to the Censorship of Motion Pictures by William E. Hannan, 1918 July

Box 5 Minutes, New York State Conference, G. A. R., 1917 November 8

Box 5 Ancestry of Charles S. Whitman

Box 5 Letter, Introduction to Diplomatic and Consular Officers, United States, 1910 June 22

Box 5 Letter, Louis W. Stotesbury to Charles S. Whitman, 1929 September 4

Box 5 Letter, Reverend Edgar C. Burns to Charles S. Whitman, 1937 June 23

Box 5 Thanksgiving Proclamation, State of New York, 1916


Box 6 One complete card index file of Charles S. Whitman's speeches