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Samuel L. Gilmore papers

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Correspondence, tax receipts, patent, and memorial

Resolutions of City of New Orleans, will, appointment, legal papers, and business papers

Minutes of the Louisiana Port Investigation Commission and New Orleans and San Francisco Company

Legal pamphlets while Samuel L. Gilmore was assistant city attorney and city attorney

Samuel L. Gilmore papers, 1876-1910 | Louisiana Research Collection

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Collection Overview

Title: Samuel L. Gilmore papers, 1876-1910

ID: LaRC/Manuscripts Collection 618

Primary Creator: Gilmore, Samuel Louis, 1859-1910.

Extent: 4.0 Boxes

Arrangement: The collection is arranged by topic as follows: personal papers, legal papers, minutes, and legal pamphlets. The collection consists of four boxes.

Subjects: Citizens League (New Orleans, La.), City attorneys., Gilmore, Samuel Louis, 1859-1910., Louisiana Port Investigation Commission., New Orleans and San Francisco Railroad Company., Pickwick Club of New Orleans., Resolutions, Legislative., United States. Congress. House.

Forms of Material: Contracts., Correspondence., Legal documents., Pamphlets.

Languages: English

Scope and Contents of the Materials

This collection consists of personal letters (1879-1910); legal papers (1879-1910); minutes of the Louisiana Port Investigation Commission and New Orleans and San Francisco Railroad Company (1908); and legal pamphlets (1880s-1910). Samuel Louis Gilmore (1858-1910) was New Orleans City Attorney and later a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1909-1910. There are numerous resolutions for the City of New Orleans for the years 1876 to 1879 in the collection.

Biographical Note

Samuel Louis Gilmore (1859-1910), father of Samuel Louis Gilmore, Jr., and Martha G. Robinson, was born in New Orleans and graduated from public schools. He graduated from Seton Hall College at South Orange, New Jersey. Gilmore received His bachelor's and his master's degrees before attending law school at the University of Louisiana, which would later become known as Tulane Law School. He was a member of the law firm J.C. and S.L. Gilmore and in 1896 he was appointed New Orleans City Attorney. In addition, he was a presidential-elector and voted for Grover Cleveland. His other activities included memberships in the Pickwick and Southern Athletic Club, carnival associations, and the Citizens' League (1896). In 1909 Gilmore became a member of the United States House of Representatives in Washington, D.C., until his death in 1910.

Subject/Index Terms

Citizens League (New Orleans, La.)
City attorneys.
Gilmore, Samuel Louis, 1859-1910.
Louisiana Port Investigation Commission.
New Orleans and San Francisco Railroad Company.
Pickwick Club of New Orleans.
Resolutions, Legislative.
United States. Congress. House.

Administrative Information

Repository: Louisiana Research Collection

Access Restrictions: Collection is open to the public. No known restrictions.

Use Restrictions: Physical rights are retained by the Louisiana Reserch Collection. Copyright is retained in accordance with U.S. copyright laws.

Acquisition Source: Martha Gilmore Robinson.

Acquisition Method: Gift.

Preferred Citation: Samuel L. Gilmore papers, Manuscripts Collection 618, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 70118.

Finding Aid Revision History: Finding aid information entered in Archon by LAC Group in 2011.

Other Note: OCLC Number: 810924440

Box and Folder Listing

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[Box 1: Correspondence, tax receipts, patent, and memorial],
[Box 2: Resolutions of City of New Orleans, will, appointment, legal papers, and business papers],
[Box 3: Minutes of the Louisiana Port Investigation Commission and New Orleans and San Francisco Company, 1908],
[Box 4: Legal pamphlets while Samuel L. Gilmore was assistant city attorney and city attorney, 1880s-1910],
[All]

Box 2: Resolutions of City of New Orleans, will, appointment, legal papers, and business papers

Folder 1: Resolutions of City of New Orleans, 1876

Specifications for building McDonogh Number 7 School.

Contract for lighting city streets with coal oil lamps.

Contract for lumber.

Folder 2: Resolutions of City of New Orleans, 1877

Contract for construction of flood gate in Peoples and Gentilly Ridge Canal.

Contract for repairing plank road on Market Street.

Permit to drain Algiers into Verrett Canal.

Publishing ordinance in New Orleans Daily Democrat.

Sale of burial lots in Lafayette Cemetery Number 1.

Contract for repairs to the Supreme Court (Chartres and South Peter).

Contract to repair McDonogh Schools Number 1-6.

Specifications for building McDonogh Number 8 School.

Contract to repair Fire Company Number 22 Engine house.

Contract to repair Madison School House (Prieur and Palmyra)

Contract for repair of plank roads in 1st and 2nd Districts.

Contract to repair Claiborne Street Canal.

Lease of Westwego Ferry and Carrollton Ferry.

Contract for ballast.

Contract for making license plates for carriages.

Lease for Louisiana Avenue Ferry.

Folder 3: Resolutions of City of New Orleans, 1878

Contract for making license plates for carriages.

Contract for lighting street lamps with coal oil.

Quit claim for transfer of land on Esplanade and Barracks (The United States Mint) back to the United States.

Folder 4: Resolutions of City of New Orleans, 1879

Lease with promise of sale of St. Patrick's Hall to the City of New Orleans.

Contract with New Orleans Gas and Light Company for lighting with gas the streets, markets, public squares, and municipal buildings in New Orleans.

Contract for plank roads.

Sale of franchise of the New Orleans City Railroad Company.

Folder 5: Thomas Gilmore will, 1891

Folder 6: Appointment of Samuel L. Gilmore as city attorney, 1896

Folder 7: City attorney's account with the City of New Orleans, 1896-1899

Folder 8: Texas Pacific Railway Company, right-of-way, 1897-1898

Folder 9: Samuel L. Gilmore business papers, 1898-1899

Folder 10: Samuel L. Gilmore business papers, 1901-1904

Folder 11: Elizabeth A. Gilmore estate.

Folder 12: Samuel L. Gilmore business papers, 1905-1906

Folder 13: Legal papers of Board of Commissioners of the Port of New Orleans and Public Belt Railroad Commission, 1908

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