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RUTHERFORD B. HAYES

Currency:USD Category:Collectibles / Autographs Start Price:150.00 USD Estimated At:300.00 - 400.00 USD
RUTHERFORD B. HAYES
(1822-1893) Nineteenth President of the United States and Union brigadier general. Manuscript L.S. as Governor of Ohio, 2pp. 4to., Columbus, Feb. 3, 1868 to the Chairman of the House Finance Committee. In part: "...one of the contractors for completing work on the Deaf & Dumb Asylum finds himself unable to proceed without a payment for work already done. The item of $40,000 in the appropriation bill passed by the General Assembly...is for 'continuing the work upon the building' and I do not feel authorized to use any part of it to pay for work already done...". Very good. In 1827, the Ohio legislature authorized the creation of the Ohio Institution for the Deaf and Dumb. The institution opened in 1829, in a rented house in Columbus. The building Hayes constructed remained in service until 1953, and the institution still teaches the handicapped today.

Estimate: $300 - 400.

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