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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
Milo Kendall Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Kendall
Abstract
Vermont native who settled in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, in 1846 and practiced law there for over sixty years. Papers include extensive records of Kendall's legal practice, family correspondence, and real estate records.
Dates:
1798-1925; Majority of material found within 1845 - 1906
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- Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 1
- Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Bureau County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
- Chattel mortgages -- Illinois 1
- Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Children's writings, American 1
- Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- College prose, American -- Maine 1
- College students -- Maine -- Correspondence 1
- Courtship -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Debtor and creditor -- Illinois -- Cases 1
- Deeds -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
- Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 1
- Diaries -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
- Diaries -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
- Divorce -- Illinois -- Cases 1
- Divorce suits -- Illinois 1
- Du Quoin (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Elections -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Families -- Correspondence 1
- Families -- Maine 1
- Families -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Families -- Ohio 1
- Family farms -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Farmers -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
- Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
- Illinois -- Genealogy 1
- Invoices -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
- Law -- Study and teaching -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
- Lawyers -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
- Leases -- Illinois 1
- Ledgers (account books) 1
- Legal instruments -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
- Maine -- Genealogy 1
- Male friendship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Manuscripts, American 1
- Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
- Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Public opinion 1
- Milo (Me.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
- Practice of law -- Illinois -- Princeton -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Princeton (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Railroad accidents -- Illinois -- Cases 1
- Railroad engineers -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Railroad law -- Illinois -- Cases 1
- Railroads -- Right of way -- Illinois -- Cases 1
- Railroads -- United States -- Consolidation -- History 1
- Real estate business -- Illinois 1
- Real estate business -- Law and legislation -- Illinois 1
- Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Scrapbooks 1
- Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 1
- Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Personal narratives 1
- Speeches 1
- Temperance -- United States -- Public opinion 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Public opinion 1
- United States -- Politics and government -- 1861-1865 -- Public opinion 1
- World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.) 1 ∧ less
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- American House Hotel (Princeton, Ill.) 1
- Bowdoin College 1
- Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 1
- DeWitt family 1
- Furber family 1
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