Rutherford B. Hayes Presidential Library & Museums

John Little

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Introduction
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content
Inventory

Biographical Sketch
John Little was born in Greene County, Ohio on April 25, 1837. Little graduated from Antioch College in 1862 and was admitted to the bar in 1865. He held numerous elected positions: Mayor of Xenia, Ohio, 1864-1866; Greene County, Ohio, Prosecuting Attorney, 1869-1873; Ohio State Congressman, 1869-1873; Ohio Attorney General, 1873-1877; and United States Congressman, 1885-1887. Little was appointed by President Benjamin Harrison to the Venezuelan Commission in 1889. He died in Xenia, Ohio on October 18, 1900.

Scope and Content
The materials in the John Little collection range from 1875 to 1898. The bulk of the collection is correspondence and newspaper clippings dating from September 1885 to January 1887 relating to the House of Representatives investigation of the alleged purchase of a U.S. Senate seat by Henry B. Payne (Democrat, Ohio) and Standard Oil in 1884. Representative Little was chairman of the investigating committee. There are eleven pamphlets concerning the United States Venezuelan Claims Commission of 1889 to1890. Little served as Venzuelan Claims Commission president. Photocopies of correspondence between Little and President Rutherford B. Hayes and one photograph of Little make up the rest of the collection.

Inventory
Ac. 680
128 Items

1. Correspondence 1875-1885
2. Correspondence Feb. 1886 – May 1886
3. Correspondence June 1886
4. Correspondence July 1 – July 15 1886
5. Correspondence July 16 1886 – Aug 7, 1889
6. Correspondence Undated
7. News clippings
8. Publications:
-The United States & Venezuelan Commission Claim of Gowen & Copeland
-Before the United States & Venezuelan Commission In the Matter of the Claims of the 
  Executors of John Donnell, & Hollins & McBlair against the United States &  Venezuela
-Before the United States & Venezuelan Commission William Idler & John Hazeltine, vs. The
  United States & Venezuela
-United States & Venezuelan Commission Claim of Wm. H. Aspinwall vs. The United States of
 Venezuela
-Documents Relating to the Question of Boundary Between Venezuela & British Guyana,
  Volume II 1896
-Documents Relating to the Question of Boundary Between Venezuela & British Guyana,
  Volume III 1896
-False Reasoning of Silverites and Populism Exposed, 1896
9. John Little Photograph 1898             

List of Correspondences:

Anonymous
Breaden, J.E., Jr., Greenville, O. July 8, 1886
Brown, Beverly W., Delaware, O. July 6, 1886
Brown, Thomas S., Bellefontaine, O. July 6, 1886
Bryan, F.C., Akron, July 10, 1886
Buchanan, A.C., Piqua, O. to N.H. Albaugh, Cols., Mar 10, 1886
Buck, J.T., Mt. Gilead, O. July 13, 1886
Carpenter, F.G., Wash. C.H., O. July 7, 1886
Cary, J.C., Xenia, O. July 6, 1886
Cochran, Negley D., Toledo, O. Dec. 15, 1886; Jan. 5, 1887
Cougill, Thomas A., Kennard, O., June 8, 16, 1886
Crisswell, R.W., Affidavit, Jun. 17, 1886
Culbertson, Wm. C., Mt. Vernon, O. July 23, 1886
Cuneo, Pietro, Upper Sandusky, O. July 10, 1886
Cunningham, F.M., Lebanon, O. July 7, 1886
Davis, W.Z., Marion, O. July 8, 1886
Doherty, John W., Woodsfield July 5, 1886
Dunbar, David, Manchester, O. to John Sherman, May 14, 1886
Eckley, H.J., Carrollton, O. July 7, 1886
Entrekin, John C., Anonymous letter to, March 1, 1886
Everett, S.T., Cleveland, O. June 16, 1886
Fisher, J.E., Cols, O. June 19, 1887
Flickinger, Samuel J., Cols., O. to George H. Taylor, July 9, 1886
Foraker, Gov. J.B., June 3, 1886
Frazer, Orange, Wilmington, O., July 5, 1886
Glover, J.C., Cadiz, O. July 12, 1886
Groce, Charles E., Circleville, O. July 10, 1886
Guilbert, W.D., Caldwell, July 10 1886
Harris, Lovell B., Upper Sandusky, O. March 26, 1886
Hathaway, I.N., Chardon, O. July 5, 1886
Hayes, R.B., JL to Haymaker, K.V., Defiance, O., July 16, 1886
Hester, Urban H., Van Wert, O. July 6, 1886
Higgins, John W., Waverly, O. July 10, 1886
King, J.H. Painesville, O., May 31, June 17, July 15, 1886
Little, John. To J.M. Comly, Dec. 24, 1875
Little, John. To Chairman, Repub. Comm. Lima, O., July 1, 1886
Little, John. To R.B. Hayes
   July 27, 1875
   June 14, 1876
   March 10, 1877
   Jan 24, Feb 22, 1879
Testimony, Washington, June 28, 1878
Telegram, to A.E. Lee, Nov 9, 1876
To R.B. Hayes, Aug 3, 7, 1889
To J.H. Newton, Newark, O.
To J.S. Robinson, June 12, 1886
Telegram, A.T. Wikoff, Dec. 6, 1876
Notes, July 1-2, 1886
Little, John, and B. Butterworth, circular letter, July 17, 1886
Little, John, Andrade, Jose and Findlay, J. V. L., to the President (printed), Venezuelan claims
   Commission, Sept 2, 1890
McCurdy, John A., Troy, O. July 26, 1886
McIlvaine, J.L., New Philadelphia, O. July 28, 1886
Morey, J.L., Hamilton, to Thomas Cougill Feb. 19, 1886
Price, James L., July 5, 1886
Probasco, Henry P., June 16, 21, 24, 1886
Raynolds, Thomas C., Akron, O. July 15, 1886
Rickenbaugh, J.C., and Dr. H.L. Wenner, Tiffin, O. July 20, 1886
Robinson, J.S., Kenton, O., JL to, Telegram, June 12, 1886
Russell, L.A. Cleveland, O. June 28, 1886
Sherman, John, Anonymous to, June 7, 1886 (copy) David Dunbar, to: May 14, 1886
Soule, H.E., to Thomas A. Cougill, Feb 19, 1886 to W.S. Mathews, Feb. 3, 1886
Stanbery, E.M., McConnelsville, O. July 6, 1886
Swigart, J.R., to JL, June 12, 13, 1886; Statement n.d.
Tayor, James B., Wooster, O., To JL, July 5, 1886; to Charles T. Clark, March 1886
Tompkins, Emmett, Athens, Telegram, June 7, 14, 1886; statement n.d.
Tyler, George H., Chillicothe, O; July 6, 9 1886
S.J. Flickinger, to G.H. Tyler July 9, 1886
Vanscriver, S.F.A., Norwalk, O. July 9, 1886
Vorys, A.L. ,Lancaster, O., July 14, 1886
Wenner, Dr. H.L. and J.C. Rickenbaugh, Tiffin, O. July 20. 1886
Winder, Royal J., Urbana, O. July 8, 1886
Young, Hon. John B., To J.A. Wolf, Sep. 30 1885