TAFT, WILLIAM H. 1857-1930.

TAFT, WILLIAM H. 1857-1930.
4 Typed Letters Signed ("William H. Taft") to Cleveland H. Dodge, 4 pp total, one on White House letterhead, and 3 on Red Cross letterhead, June 4, 1908, to December 9, 1911, clean, folds.

Taft responds to an April 15, 1911 telegram from Dodge, that he has already sent reinforcements for the troops in Douglas, Arizona, where the insurgence of Pancho Villa and his revolutionaries was spilling over the border into the U.S. The Phelps Dodge Corporation held extensive copper mining concerns in Douglas and neighboring Bisbee, Arizona. Also included are three letters appointing Dodge to the International Relief Board of the Red Cross.