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Eden-Martin family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Eden
Abstract
Papers pertaining to the family of Illinois U.S. Representative John R. Eden (1826-1909). The majority of the material primarily concerns John R. Eden’s daughter Rose, her husband Ivory J. Martin, and their children. The papers also contain correspondence and material relating to the Taylor and Pifer families, who were the in-laws of Rose and Ivory’s son, Robert W. Martin. (Robert Martin married Ruth Pifer, daughter of Hattie Taylor and Finley Pifer).
Dates:
approximately 1827-1961
Eden-Martin family papers - Additions
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Eden-2
Abstract
Letters of Ivory J. Martin of Sullivan, Illinois, to his daughter Olive Eden Martin, while she was a student at the University of Illinois, and later when she lived and taught in LaSalle, Illinois. Also includes a few letters to Olive from her mother, Rose Eden Martin, siblings, and friends. The letters are published in R. Eden Martin’s 2017 book, As Ever: The Letters of I. J. Martin to His Daughters: Olive Eden Martin and Mabel Martin George.
Dates:
1905-1941
Frederick John Rank papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rank
Abstract
The Frederick John Rank papers contain his diaries from 1875-1939, which record his daily life and touch upon his work as a packer for Montgomery Ward. A bound volume about Rank's diaries, compiled by Rank's great-granddaughter Janet Rank Spaletto, is also present. Additionally the papers contain family correspondence, some of which relates to Rank's son's attempt for an assistant postmaster general appointment.
Dates:
1872-2013; Majority of material found within 1875-1939
Lutz-Chamberlin family papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lutz-Chamberlin
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families, ranging from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. The Chamberlin correspondence consists of George E. Chamberlin’s letters written when he was a student at Dartmouth and subsequently as an officer in the Civil War, plus letters of other Chamberlin family members, mostly through the 1860's. The Lutz correspondence consists of...
Dates:
1844-1992
Margaret Hampton Steele Letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele
Abstract
Letters of Margaret “Maggie” Hampton Steele to her cousin and future husband Silas W. Hampton, primarily from 1859 and 1860. They are written from Terre Haute, Indiana, where she attended the Female College (1859), and from her family's residences in Grandview, Illinois, and later Topeka, Kansas. Steele’s minister father moved his family to Kansas in support of the free-state faction, settling in Topeka as minister of the First Presbyterian Church. Letters discuss her courtship with Silas, her...
Dates:
1859-1864
Steele-Winters Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Steele-Winters
Abstract
Correspondence, estate papers, family records, farm related accounts, diaries, cards, scrapbooks, yearbooks, oral histories, and photographs of the Steele and Winters families. Both families were early homesteaders and farmers in rural northwestern Illinois, settling in and around Bureau, Sangamon, and Winnebago Counties in Illinois in the early 1800s. Their extended families continue to live and farm in these areas to the present day.
Dates:
1860-2009; Majority of material found within 1900 - 1970
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- Georgetown Visitation Academy (Washington, D.C) 1
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- Hartnell family 1
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- Lutz family 1
- Lutz, Adeline Louise 1
- MacMurray College 1
- Martin family 1
- Martin, Ivory John 1
- Martin, Olive Eden, 1887-1968 1
- Montgomery Ward Workers of Chicago 1
- Peck family 1
- Pfeiffer family 1
- Rank, Augusta "Gussie" Minnie 1
- Rank, Carl Frederick 1
- Rank, Frederick John 1
- Rank, Laura Augusta 1
- Spaletto, Janet Rank 1
- Steele family 1
- Steele, Georgia Baker 1
- Steele, John Armstrong 1
- Steele, Margaret Hampton 1
- Taylor family 1
- Terre Haute Female College (Terre Haute, Ind.) 1
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