| | Abstract: | Jerome B. Burrows was captain of the 14th Independent Battery, Ohio Volunteer Light Artillery, Mayor of Painesville, Ohio (ca. 1866), and judge of the Seventh Circuit Court of Ohio. His son, Jerome S. Burrows, was a student at Western Reserve College (late 1870s) and proprietor of The Painesville Telegraph. The collection consists of letters to Jerome B. and Jerome S. Burrows and other members of their family concerning personal and legal matters, the operation of The Painesville Telegraph, Republican Party politics in Lake County, Ohio, and political and economic affairs in Kansas and Iowa during the mid-1850s. Correspondents include Julius C. Burrows, Ezra B. Taylor, S.H. Tolles, and other United States Representatives, judges, and lawyers. | |
