Hadley, Herbert Spencer (1872-1927), Papers, 1830-1943

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C Hadley, Herbert Spencer (1872-1927), Papers, 1830-1943
6 15.2 linear feet, 35 volumes on 58 rolls of microfilm

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INTRODUCTION
The papers of a Missouri Republican lawyer, politician, educator, and author
include correspondence, letterbooks, scrapbooks, manuscripts, photographs, cartoons,
and miscellaneous material. Originals in storage.

DONOR INFORMATION
The papers were donated to the University of Missouri by an unknown person in
September 1943 (Accession No. 43), Henrietta H. Lammert on 20 January 1973
(Accession No. 232), and the Kansas State Historical Society on 5 May 1980 (Accession
No. 4280). Additional material was deposited on contract by Agnes L. Haskell on 1 May
1945 (Accession No. 232) and transferred from the State Historical Society of Missouri
on 10 June 1982 (Accession No. 4438).

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH
Herbert Spencer Hadley was born in Olathe, Kansas, on February 20, 1872, the
son of Major John Milton Hadley and Harriet Beach Jones Hadley. He earned an A.B. at
the University of Kansas in 1892, received an LL.B. with first honors from Northwestern
University in 1894, and received LL.D’s from Northwestern in 1909, the University of
Missouri in 1910, Missouri Valley College in 1911, and Harvard in 1925. He married
Agnes Lee on October 8, 1901. They had three children: John Milton, Henrietta, and
Herbert Spencer.
Hadley was in general practice in Kansas City, 1894-1898; first assistant city
counselor in charge of trial work for Kansas City, 1898-1901; and prosecuting attorney of
Jackson County, 1901-1903. He became widely known for his successful prosecution of
legal offenders. As attorney general of Missouri from 1905 to 1909, Hadley successfully
prosecuted cases against the Standard Oil Company, railroads, the Harvester trust,
insurance and lumber trusts, and the race track gamblers of St. Louis.
After serving as governor of Missouri from 1909 to 1913, Hadley resumed
practice in Kansas City as special counsel for railways west of Chicago in the federal
valuation of railways project, 1913-1914. Hadley moved to Colorado for his health and
was professor of law at the University of Colorado, 1917-1923. He returned to Missouri
to become chancellor of Washington University in 1923, a position he held until his death
on December 1, 1927. He was the author of many articles and Rome and the World
Today.
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SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE
The papers have been arranged into the following thirteen series:

Correspondence
Reports, Reference, and Miscellaneous Material
Financial Records
Messages to the General Assembly and Secretary of State
Press Releases
Speeches
Writings
Biographical Sketches
Photographs
Cartoons
Memorabilia
Letterbooks
Scrapbooks

More complete descriptions of the series are in the folder list.

FOLDER LIST

Correspondence Series

f. 1 1830-1901. Material deals with family matters, some relating to father
John M. Hadley, and early life.
f. 2-4 1902-1907. Material on early legal and public service careers including
attorney generalship of Missouri.
f. 5-56 1908. Campaign matters, congratulations on election to Missouri
governorship.
f. 51-371 1908-1912. Official correspondence from period as governor. Large
number of invitations to speak. Also deals with Republican politics and
campaigns and the presidential campaign of 1912. Includes some personal
material discussing building of log house, hunting, farming, and family
milling business.
f. 372-416 1913-1914. Illness, family milling business, life in New Mexico, work as
counsel for Federal Valuation of Railways project.
f. 417-481 1915-1916. Possibility of running for senator from Missouri and Missouri
Republican politics.
f. 482-521 1917-1922. Illness, life in Colorado, work as professor of law at the
University of Colorado, writing and promoting of Rome and the World
Today, family milling business.
f. 522-665 1923-1927. Appointment as chancellor of Washington University and
material dealing with the running of the university, children and family
problems, illness, work with the American Law Institute.
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f. 666-673 1927-1943. Letters of condolence to family on Hadley’s death.
Correspondence of widow, Agnes Lee Hadley, about her husband and,
especially, his work as governor.

Reports, Reference, and Miscellaneous Material Series

f. 674-752 Reports, reference, and miscellaneous material
f. 675 Medical charts and other materials relating to Hadley’s illnesses in
1914 and 1924
f. 683-686 Railroad company audits and briefs from cases prosecuted during
tenure as attorney general
f. 687-724 Governor’s materials relating especially to state committees,
commissions and boards and major topics of interest such as
equalization of assessment, boxing regulation and redistricting
f. 725-731 Campaign materials such as posters, broadsides and platforms
relating to state and national Republican campaigns, 1901-1924
f. 732-733 University of Colorado material, 1917-1923
f. 734 Rome and the World Today, 1922-1923
f. 735-738 Washington University, 1923-1927
f. 739 Federal Valuation of Railways, 1913-1915
f. 740-746 American Law Institute, c. 1923
f. 747 Missouri Association for Criminal Justice, 1923-1925
f. 748-750 National Crime Commission, 1925
f. 751 Rockefeller Foundation, 1925
f. 752 Hadley Vocational School, 1930-1932

Financial Records Series

f. 753-763 Personal ledgers, receipts and bills
f. 764-769 Attorney general and gubernatorial materials
f. 770 Washington University materials

Messages to the General Assembly and Secretary of State Series

f. 771-784 Messages recommending veto or passage of bills, and discussing budgets
and creation of committees, 1907-1913

Press Releases Series

f. 785-790 Releases from term as attorney general including those from campaign for
governor.
f. 791-799 Releases from term as governor including those from the 1910 and 1912
Missouri state and national election campaigns. Also 1910 recount
controversy between William Joel Stone and Joseph Wingate Folk for
Senate seat.
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Speeches Series

f. 801-954 Speeches, arranged chronologically, given over the course of Hadley’s
entire career. Topics include historical and legal matters, political issues,
activities as attorney general and governor, and promotion of Washington
University, 1895-1927.
f. 913 List of speeches delivered, 1923-1927

Writings Series

f. 955-1028 Articles on legal, historical and political topics, reports for legal
organizations, and drafts of book, 1906-1926. Arranged chronologically.
f. 955 “Account from the beginning” on the Standard Oil Case, c. 1906
f. 963-1011 Rough drafts from Rome and the World Today, c. 1922
f. 1013-1022 American Law Institute reports, c. 1923
f. 1023 National Crime Commission reports, 1923

Biographical Sketches Series

f. 1029-1040 Brief articles, obituaries, a M.A. thesis, and a longer work written about
Hadley, 1906-1940
f. 1034-1039 E.R. Schauffler’s typescript biography of Hadley

Photographs Series

f. 1041-1060 Photographs taken during entire career, including family members and
personal and political friends, c. 1872-1927
f. 1041-1042 Childhood, family and early political career
f. 1043-1058 Governorship, staff, official occasions. Gift albums from Missouri
Republican Committee, Missouri Naval Reserve and Missouri
National Guard.
f. 1059-1060 Includes official occasions at Washington University

Cartoons Series

f. 1061 Original drawings made by political cartoonists for national newspapers
on the Standard Oil trust litigation, 1905-1906 and the 1910 Stone-Folk
controversy resulting from the 1908 U.S. Senate race.

Memorabilia Series

f. 1062 Political buttons and ribbons.

Letterbooks Series

v. 1-4 [Interfiled in financial records when reprocessed]
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v. 5-8 Copies of personal and some official letters. Subjects include social
invitations, lecture engagements, farming, travel, state and national
politics, and financial matters such as the administration of the family
milling business and the estate of Hadley’s father, John M. Hadley.
v. 5 18 January 1909-9 February 1911
v. 6 10 February 1910-13 January 1911
v. 7 14 January 1911-24 February 1912
v. 8 24 February 1912-10 January 1913
v. 9-25 Copies of official and political letters sent during Hadley’s term as
governor. Major subjects include appointments and appropriations for and
management of state institutions, boards and commissions; state penal
system; state judicial system; regulation of railroads, liquor sales, boxing,
prostitution and fireworks; election laws; immigration; road and waterway
improvement; home rule; employer’s liability legislation; racial violence;
monuments and memorials; new capitol building; national and state
Progressive and Republican campaigns--including Taft and Roosevelt.
v. 9 11 January -7 May 1909
v. 10 7 May-16 July 1909
v. 11 16 July-1 November 1909
v. 12 1 November-29 December 1909
v. 13 29 December 1909-30 March 1910
v. 14 30 March-10 June 1910
v. 15 10 June-31 August 1910
v. 16 31 August-7 December 1910
v. 17 10 December 1910-9 March 1911
v. 18 6 January-19 April 1911
v. 19 10 March-16 May 1911
v. 20 13 May-18 August 1911
v. 21 18 August-18 November 1911
v. 22 18 November 1911-16 February 1912
v. 23 16 February-3 May 1912
v. 24 2 May-25 August 1912
v. 25 26 August 1912-10 January 1913

Scrapbooks Series

v. 26-39 Books consist mainly of newspaper clippings covering career and family
history. Post-1927 material was assembled by Hadley’s widow and deals
with family, friends, and events relating to Hadley’s career. Subjects
include campaigns for county prosecutor, attorney general, and governor,
as well as work in national campaigns; the Republican and Progressive
parties; Theodore Roosevelt; major cases and trials such as the Standard
Oil trust prosecution; activities while governor; work in Colorado and at
the University of Colorado; work as chancellor of Washington University;
legal activities; and public addresses.
v. 26 1899-1901
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v. 27 1894, 1902-1906
v. 28 1905-1908, 1916
v. 29 1906
v. 30 1906
v. 31 1906-1908
v. 32 1901-1907
v. 33 1907-1913, 1923-1927, 1934
v. 34 1915-1923
v. 35 1923-1927, 1915, 1930
v. 36 1927-1941
v. 37 1904-1932
v. 38 1909-1923
v. 39 1923-1933

INDEX TERMS

Subject Folders Other Image
Abbott, Augustus Levi (1858-1934) v. 20
Abbott, Herbert v. 5,6
Abbott, Lawrence Fraser v. 23
Abbott, William H. v. 20
Aber, M. D. v. 12,18
Abercrombie, R. M. v. 10,11,13,14,19
Abernathy, Frank v. 7
Adams, D. E. v. 6,14,16
Adams, Harry M. (1867-1932) v. 16
Adams, Thomas Sewall (1873-1933) v. 16,17
Adcock, J. A. B. v. 9,10,11,17
Aero Club, St. Louis, Missouri v. 11
Aeronautical sports--Missouri, St. 1053 y
Louis, 1910
African Baptist Church 807
Agricultural credit v. 25
Agricultural machinery 1055 y
Agriculture--Study and teaching v. 18
Aikins, Thomas J. 402,405,407,408,411,440,449, v. 7,13,14,15,17,21,
452-456,458,460-462,475,476 22
Airplanes 1053 y
Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, 775 v. 5,10
Seattle, Washington, 1909
Alber, Louis John (1879-1962) v. 5
Albers, Clifford H. v. 7
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Subject Folders Other Image
Albus, John v. 13
Albus, Joseph v. 11,12,14
Aldrich, Chester Hardy (1862-1924) v. 20,21,22
Alewel, William 712
Alexander, A. J. v. 5,13
Alexander, DeAlva Stanwood (1845- v. 12
1925)
Alexander, H. E. v. 9,15
Alford, R. L. v. 16
Allan, George H. v. 13
Allan, Henry J. 1040
Allee, W. S. v. 20,21
Allen, Andrew Aniel (1857- ) v. 14
Allen, Benjamin Franklin (1872- ) v. 10,19,25
Allen, Edgar (1892-1943) v. 6,13,15,21
Allen, Ford A. v. 12
Allen, Leon Menard (1863-1936) v. 13
Alley, Hadley J. 73
Allison, Mary Lee v. 13
Aloe, Louis P. v. 24
Alsop Process Company v. 5,6
Alvord, Clinton v. 25
American Land and Irrigation v. 17,20
Exposition
American Law Institute 513,514,521-526,528-530,533,
535-537,540,543-545,549,550,
552,553,561,571-573,575-
577,587,595,598,614,660,665,740
-746,914,917,925,1013-1022
American Road Congress 1171-1174
American School of Osteopathy, 65,105,209
Kirksville, Missouri
American Women's League 80,81,87,88,117,126,133,
136,138
American Women's League Art 87 y
Institute and School
Amick, William K. v. 9,10,13,14,16,17,
21,23,24,25
Amidon, Charles Fremont (1856-1937) v. 5
Anamosa, George W. v. 13,16
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Subject Folders Other Image
Anderson, Benjamin McAlester (1886- v. 16
1949)
Anderson, Benjamin McLean (1854- v. 9
1940)
Anderson, Peter v. 9,10,20
Anderson, Thomas L. v. 9,20
Andrae, Henry (1866-1921) 94,381,513,687 v. 6-25
Andrews, Benjamin R. v. 7,16
Andrews, M. L. v. 7
Andrews, W. N. v. 20,21,22
Anheuser-Busch, Inc., St. Louis 771
Ansel, Martin Frederick (1850-1911) v. 14,16
Anthony, Robert A. v. 10,12
Anthony, William A. v. 19
Anti-Saloon League v. 12,13,21,25
Anti-Semitism v. 22
AntiTrust law v. 5,7,8,9,12
Anton, Peter 238
Apportionment (Election law)-- 136,138,139,716,791,797,851, v. 13,15,17,19,20-22
Missouri, 1910s 883
Arbuckle, James v. 16
Arkansas Rate Cases v. 9
Armstrong, George v. 20
Arnhold, Elizabeth v. 16
Arnold, Mercer (1878- ) v. 6,13,15,16,20,21,
23,24
Arnold, Ruskin v. 13
Arp, J. B. v. 8
Arthur H. Clark Company v. 8
Ashley, John v. 18
Askew, Frank D. v. 6,20
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe 714 v. 11,14
Railway, Company
Atkeson, William Oscar (1854-1931) v. 10,15,17,19
Atlantic Chautauqua Association, v. 5
Atlantic Iowa
Auerswald, George A. v. 5,10,14,17,19,23
Austin, Oscar Phelps ( -1933) v. 6
Automobiles 1048,1054,1055 y
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Subject Folders Other Image
Aydelett, Samuel T. v. 6,17
Ayres, George F. v. 6,9
Babb, J. G. v. 9,13,19
Babler, Jacob L. (1872-1945) 426,429-431,436,440,446,448- v. 10
450,453,455-461,463,466-468,
470,505,571
Back-to-the-Farm Movement v. 14-17,25
Bacon, Francis (1561-1626) 1024
Bahnsen, Carl v. 16
Bailey, Edgar G. 304,307 v. 22
Bailey, John M. v. 17
Bailey, Ralph Emerson (1878- ) v. 15
Bailey, W. T. v. 19,21
Baker, John T. v. 16,17,19,23,24
Baker, Sam Aaron (1874-1933) 606,661 v. 1`3
Baldridge, Howard Hammond (1864- v. 25
1928)
Baldwin, Elbert Francis (1857-1927) v. 25
Baldwin, Roger W. v. 14
Baldwin, William Wright (1845-1936) v. 10
Ball, David A. 846,848 v. 20,37
Ballinger, Richard Archilles (1858- v. 16
1922)
Bancroft, Edgar Addison (1857-1925) v. 6
Bank of Chamois, Chamois, Missouri 626 y
Banks and banking--Law and v. 18
legislation
Barksdale, Jas. D. v. 13
Barnes, Charles M. v. 22, 24
Barnes, Clarence A. v. 7,14,16,24
Barnes, S. S. (1906- ) v. 21
Barnett, Charles v. 10
Barnett, James D. v. 19
Barns, William Eddy (1853-1915) v. 12,13,16,17
Barr, William Francis (1865-1937) v. 6
Barrett, Jesse W. (1884-1953) 571,576,581,585,598,602,603
Barrows, John C. v. 23
Bartholdt, Richard (1855-1932) 64,169,259,263,347,449 v. 11,19-24
Bartholomaeus, George v. 12,13
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Subject Folders Other Image
Bartlett Agricultural School for v. 20,25
Negroes
Bartlett, Clara v. 7
Bartlett, Fred H. v. 5,6
Barton, Clara (1821-1912) 332 v. 24
Bassford, Homer S. (1870-1938) v. 21
Bassman, Agnes 687
Bates, John Coalter (1842-1919) v. 7
Bates, Thomas v. 10,16,19
Batley, Charles v. 17
Batten, John H. v. 15
Baugh, Ben v. 20
Baughman, Gus v. 32
Baxter, Clarence G. v. 15,22
Bayless, George C. v. 19
Beach family 1031 v. 36
Beach, Albert I. (1883-1939) 538-540,573,577,581,601,622, v. 5-7
629,652,656,664,1031
Bear, Sam E. v. 6
Beardsley, Henry Mahan (1858-1938) v. 7,9,13,19
Bechler, Albert L. v. 10
Bechler, John L. v. 10
Bechly, F. W. v. 8
Becker, Edwin J. v. 21,22
Becker, Francis P. v. 19
Becker, H. W. v. 15
Beecher, William H. 514
Beef 787 v. 8
Belding, George R. v. 16
Belding, H. W. v. 11,15,16
Beldwing, George R. v. 15
Bell, Charles C. (1848-1931) 656
Bell, George T. v. 8,21
Bell, Harry W. v. 9
Bell, M. Fred v. 6
Bell, Nicholas M. (1842-1931) v. 17
Bellamy, Edward C. v. 8
Belmont, August (1853-1924) v. 16,17