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Blatchford family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates: 1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839-1965

Boyce-Gilbert family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Boyce
Abstract

Reproductions of diaries, correspondence, photographs, and genealogical information about the Boyce-Gilbert family, beginning with the diary of Le Roy Boyce, a Cortland, New York native and successful Chicago drugstore owner. Collection also includes diaries from Simeon Leonard Boyce beginning in 1869 and Elizabeth Boyce Gilbert beginning in 1910. Collection contains an extensive family tree documenting the genealogy until 1898, and biographical sketches of Boyce family members.

Dates: 1831-2000

Catherine Eddy Beveridge papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beveridge
Abstract

Correspondence, papers, and diary of Catherine Eddy Beveridge, and also correspondence, papers, photographs and genealogical information collected by Catherine Eddy Beveridge related to her family.

Dates: 1703-2004; Majority of material found within 1870-1910

Charles Andrews Heath Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Heath
Abstract Chicago businessman, founder and president of Continental Seed Co. Includes Charles Andrews Heath's diaries, 1880-1949, with typed excerpts, which discuss the Haymarket Riot, the World's Columbian Exposition, the World's Parliament of Religions, the Galveston flood, several wars, and many Chicago related events. There are also typed transcripts of 1912 European trip letters from Heath's wife Jennie and children Alice and Albert, photographs of Heath and his family, including the European...
Dates: 1880-1999

Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Fairbank-Graham
Abstract Correspondence, personal and business materials, documents, diaries, writings, photographs, and maps of the Fairbank and Graham families. These families were connected by the marriage of Nathaniel Kellogg Fairbank, a prominent Chicago businessman, and Helen Beeckman Graham, daughter of East Coast industrialist John Andrew Graham. Collection also includes materials of the Carpenter family, through the marriage of Helen Fairbank and Benjamin Carpenter, and three generations of the Nathan S....
Dates: 1775-1980; Majority of material found within 1870 - 1920

Marsh-Roberts-Mack Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-MarshRM
Abstract Papers of the Marsh, Roberts, and Mack families, many members of whom were wealthy Chicago residents. Materials include correspondence, travel and personal diaries, business, property, and estate documents, genealogical materials, photographs, and other personal ephemera. Also contains materials from related families including letters and estate litigation of early Chicago pioneer Daniel Elston, who was related to the Marsh family via the marriage of Sarah Clark to George B. Marsh, as well...
Dates: 1706-1984; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1950

Melville E. Stone papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Stone
Abstract

Correspondence and other materials pertaining to the life and work of Melville E. Stone, founder and editor of the Chicago Daily News and general manager of the Associated Press.

Dates: 1815-1954; Majority of material found within 1890-1929

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Husband and wife -- Correspondence 2
Ambrotypes (photographs) -- 1851-1900 1
Autograph albums 1
Autographs -- Collectors and collecting -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Bangor (Me.) 1
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Businesspeople -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
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Central America -- Description and travel 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
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Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
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College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
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Cortlandt (N.Y. : Town) -- Genealogy 1
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Dakota Indians -- Land tenure 1
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Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
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Foreign news 1
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Genealogy -- Connecticut 1
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Golf clubs (Sporting goods) -- United States 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 -- History -- Sources 1
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Haymarket Square Riot, Chicago, Ill., 1886 1
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American Medical Association 1
American University of Beirut 1
Associated Press 1
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902 1
Bartlett, Helen Birch, 1884-1925 1
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Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949 1
Beveridge family 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Beveridge, Catherine Eddy, 1881-1970 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Blatchford, Paul, 1859-1925 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1767-1828 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1820-1893 1
Boyce family 1
Boyce, Helen, 1875-1920 1
Boyce, Le Roy Merrick, 1810-1849 1
Boyce, Simeon Leonard, 1850- 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Chapin family 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Clark, Robert R., 1834-1907 1
Clemens, Samuel Langhorne, 1835-1910 1
Colton family 1
Cornell University 1
Cornell family 1
Crane, William H., 1845-1928 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
Debs, Eugene V. (Eugene Victor), 1855-1926 1
Eddy family 1
Elston, Daniel, 1790-1855 1
Elwell family 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Field, Delia Caton, 1853-1937 1
Field, Eugene, 1850-1895 1
Field, Kate, 1838-1896 1
Field, Marshall, 1834-1906 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
Frewen, Moreton, 1853-1924 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Gifford family 1
Gilbert family 1
Gilbert, Elizabeth Boyce, 1892- 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953 1
Heath, Charles A. (Charles Andrews) 1
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. 1
Holder family 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
International Medical Congress 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
Lusitania (Steamship) 1
Mack family 1
Mack, Katherine Eleanor Roberts, 1910-1999 1
Marsh family 1
Marsh, Bertha S., 1860-1945 1
Marsh, Marshall S., 1856-1925 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Noyes, Frank B. (Frank Brett), 1863-1948 1
Nye, Bill, 1850-1896 1
Peary, Robert E. (Robert Edwin), 1856-1920 1
Pernichief, Octavius, 1829-1877 1
Potomac Wharf Company 1
Pynchon family 1
Roberts family 1
Roberts, George R., 1885- 1
Roberts, Katherine Marsh, 1885-1932 1
Roosevelt, Theodore, 1858-1919 1
Russell, Sol Smith, 1848-1902 1
Sheldon family 1
Spencer family 1
Spencer, Franklin Fayette, 1817-1890 1
Stead, W. T. (William Thomas), 1849-1912 1
Stone family 1
Stone, Herbert Stuart, 1871-1915 1
Stone, Melville Elijah, 1848-1929 1
Taft, William H. (William Howard), 1857-1930 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
Vassar College 1
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 1
Williams family 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
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