DAVIS, Cushman Kellogg, 1838-1900



Courtesy U.S. Senate Historical Office

Guide to Research Collections

Minnesota Historical Society
St. Paul, MN
Papers: 1861-1913. 8 cubic feet. Chiefly senatorial papers including correspondence, speeches, clippings, and miscellaneous papers. Included is information on national politics, civil service reform, railroad legislation, the Republican party, reciprocity, currency questions, the Alaskan boundary, forestry, the election repeal bill, the Monroe Doctrine, the American Protective Association, the St. Lawrence waterway, the 1892 election, Macalester College, Indian agents, the Farmers’ Alliance, and the Spanish-American War. Finding aid available online.

Papers: 1874-1882. 4.75 cubic feet. Gubernatorial records including material on “frontier relief” and grasshopper relief, pardons, applications for and appointments to office, railroads, and public lands. Finding aid available online. Also miscellaneous items in various collections, portraits, and published speeches.

Papers: 1878-1941. 106 cubic feet. Davis, Kellogg & Severance law firm records. Case files and letterpress books of this firm, of which Davis was a partner. Many letters concern the partners’ personal and family activities and their political interests. Finding aid available online.



Syracuse University
George Arents Research Library
Syracuse, NY
Papers: Correspondence in Levi P. Morton papers, 1860-1912.


University of Michigan
Bentley Historical Library
Ann Arbor, MI
Papers: Correspondence in John Patton papers, 1888-1905.


University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA
Papers: 1882. 1 letter. To Horace Howard Furness.