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Edwards family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Edwards
Abstract

Letters, documents, photographs, and printed ephemera centering on John C. Edwards and Lydia Martin Edwards, and their immediate families, both of whom settled near Chicago in the 1840s.

Dates: 1800-1982; Majority of material found within 1847-1908

Fairbank-Graham Family Papers

 Collection
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

Harris-MacLean Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris-MacLean
Abstract Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, writings, genealogical material, and memorabilia detailing the life and travels of several wealthy Chicago families, mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Harris family side is Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Other major related families represented include Gale, Bent, Lane, and...
Dates: 1784-1980; Majority of material found within 1880 - 1940

Henry J. Aten Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Aten
Abstract

Letters from Nicholas Harris to Henry J. Aten of Hiawatha, Kansas, clippings, notes pertaining to the Aten family genealogy, and a photocopy of the family history initiated by Aten and continued by other relatives.

Dates: 1896-approximately 1920

Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Metcalf
Abstract Letters, diaries, daybooks, scrapbooks, and business documents of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, a Bowdoin College graduate from Milo, Maine, Illinois Central Railroad division engineer, and Du Quoin, Illinois resident, his wife Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (originally of New Hampshire), their parents, and children. Included are many letters written from college, family letters, Illinois Central Railroad business correspondence with R.B. Mason and other records of railroad construction, and...
Dates: 1827-1955; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1897

Lewis family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-LewisF
Abstract

Correspondence, documents, personal materials, genealogical research, and photographs of the Lewis and related families collected by Louise Lewis, sister of Chicago journalist Lloyd Lewis.

Dates: 1775-1977; Majority of material found within 1850-1950

Loren M. Knowles family papers

 Collection — Box: AV USB 1
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Knowles Family
Abstract Correspondence and transcriptions thereof, account and estate documents, government records (such as birth, marriage, and death certificates, documents, and letters), news clippings, genealogical research material, photographs, and compilation of information concerning the Knowles family and the related Adgate, Balzhäuser, Brewster, Christian, Cokenhour, Helvig, Hoyal, Hyde, Jackson, Kauffman, Klauder, Lamson, Michell, Oliger, Weigand, and other extended families, located primarily in New...
Dates: 1784-2015; Majority of material found within 1811-1961

Rodgers Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rodgers
Abstract Correspondence, essays, financial and legal documents, genealogies, journals, newspaper clippings, and four photographs relating to the Rodgers family, descendants of Rev. John Rodger (1735-1812). The papers document the life of an American pioneer family in Virginia, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico, and California, and cover topics such as farming life, homestead claims, politics, livestock and grain industries, and religion. There is an overland journal penned by Andrew Rodgers,...
Dates: 1773-1925; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1890

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Correspondence -- 1801-1850 6
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 5
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 4
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Correspondence -- 1951-2000 3
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 3
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Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 3
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Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 2
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 2
Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 2
Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Genealogies (histories) 2
Illinois -- Genealogy 2
Parent and child -- Correspondence 2
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 2
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 2
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Barrington (Ill.) 1
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Carpentersville (Ill.) 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
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Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Clinton County (N.Y.) -- History 1
Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
Clippings -- 1951-2000 1
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Coal trade -- Maryland 1
Coalfields -- Maryland 1
College prose, American -- Maine 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Maine -- Correspondence 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Courtship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Cumberland (Md.) -- Maps 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1801-1850 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- 1901-1950 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
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Female friendship -- Correspondence 1
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Illinois -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Illinois -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
Indiana -- Genealogy 1
Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
Invoices -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Iroquois Indians 1
Kansas -- Genealogy 1
Lake Geneva (Wis.) 1
Ledgers (account books) 1
Legislators -- New York (State) -- History -- Sources 1
Librarians -- Indiana 1
Licking County (Ohio) -- Genealogy 1
Licking County (Ohio) -- History 1
Logbooks 1
Love-letters 1
Love-letters -- Illinois 1
Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
Maine -- Genealogy 1
Male friendship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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Names
Adgate family 1
Adgate, Asa 1
American Medical Association 1
American Mothers 1
American Tract Society 1
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Aten family 1
Aten, Henry J., 1841-1913 1
Balzhäuser family 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
Bowdoin College 1
Brewster family 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Christian family 1
Cokenhour family 1
Davidson family 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
DeWitt family 1
Downs family 1
Edwards family 1
Edwards, John C., 1836-1908 1
Eleanor Association 1
Epworth League (U.S.) 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Furber family 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Gales family 1
Garfield, James A. (James Abram), 1831-1881 1
Graham family 1
Graham, John Andrew, 1808-1883 1
Harris N.A. 1
Harris Trust and Savings Bank 1
Harris family 1
Harris, Emma Susan Gale 1
Harris, Muriel Bent 1
Harris, Nicholas 1
Harris, Norman Wait, 1846-1916 1
Harris, Stanley Gale 1
Helvig family 1
Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) 1
Hoyal family 1
Hyde family 1
Indiana University 1
International Medical Congress 1
Jackson family 1
Kauffman family 1
Kirkland, Wallace 1
Klauder family 1
Knowles family 1
Knowles, Beatrice Michell 1
Knowles, Hannibal 1
Knowles, Julia Adgate 1
Knowles, Loren M. 1
Knowles, Sarah E. Clark 1
Lamson family 1
Lane family 1
Lane, Clayton, 1895- 1
Lane, Dorothy Bent 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Louise, 1895-1986 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
MacLean, Annie Marion 1
MacLean, M. H. (Murdoch Haddon), 1872-1954 1
MacLean, Pearl Emma Harris 1
Marshall Field & Company 1
Mason, R. B. (Roswell B.), 1805-1892 1
McLean family 1
Metcalf family 1
Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam, 1829-1875 1
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens 1
Michel family 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
Oliger family 1
Order of the Eastern Star 1
Pernichief, Octavius, 1829-1877 1
Potomac Wharf Company 1
Putnam family 1
Putnam, John Milton, 1794-1871 1
Rich family 1
Rodger, John, 1735-1812 1
Rodgers, Andrew, 1789-1849 1
Rodgers, C. M. (Calvin Melancthon) 1
Rodgers, Eliza Paine 1
Rodgers, Isabel Ireland, 1830-1912 1
Rodgers, Mary Davidson, 1790-1879 1
Rogers family 1
Swain, Joseph, 1857-1927 1
Thomas family 1
Union Central Life Insurance Company 1
Weygand family 1
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