Archive of the Wesley Garner Family of Iowa, Presidential Memorabilia

Item Details

Lot inclusive of:

• 1884 Cleveland – Hendricks ‘The People’s Choice’ campaign ribbon with cut-out photographs
• Rare folded paper puzzle, representing William Henry Harrison and his Cabinet, produced as a novelty by the Jewel Gasoline Stove company.

Provenance
Colonel Wesley W. Garner to
Mrs. R. Sherman Johnston, Columbus City, Iowa.

Wesley W. Garner (1815-1889) having arrived in Iowa in 1840 via Pennsylvania and Ohio, Wesley, a conveyancer by trade, also working as a farmer, Notary Public, school master and merchant, as well as serving the Union Army as Captain and then Colonel of the Union Guards; late in life returning to farming and running for public office.

Condition

both with wear consistent with age

Dimensions

Measures the ribbon

Item #

18DAL306-004