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Ephraim C. Dawes papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dawes
Abstract

Letters, diaries, scrapbooks and writings of Dawes and others, miscellaneous personal and military items, relating to Dawes’s service in the United States Civil War as adjutant and major in the 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry. Also material relating to his historical interests and his subsequent activities in the rail and coal industries in the Midwest.

Dates: 1836-1905; Majority of material found within 1855-1895

Everett family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Everett
Abstract Primarily correspondence of the Everett family, concerning family news and health issues, and also covering abolition, temperance, women's rights, rights of African-Americans, and moral reform. Printing, education, pioneer life, and religion are all discussed within the papers. Papers include materials of Robert Everett, the pastor of Welsh Congregationalist churches in Oneida County, NY, and publisher of Y Cenhadwr Americanaidd (The American Missionary), a...
Dates: 1794-1949; Majority of material found within 1838 - 1927

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

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

Rodgers Family Papers

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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 -- 1901-1950 5
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 4
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 4
Manuscripts, American 3
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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 3
Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 2
Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 2
Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 2
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 2
Parent and child -- Correspondence 2
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Abolitionists -- 1850-1860 1
Abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Amateur journalism -- Ohio -- Warren -- Specimens 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Antislavery movements -- Kansas 1
Atlanta Campaign, 1864 -- Personal narratives 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Businessmen -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Correspondence 1
Businessmen -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Social life and customs 1
Coal -- Maryland -- Maps 1
Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Coal mines and mining -- Middle West 1
Coal trade -- Maryland 1
Coalfields -- Maryland 1
College prose, American -- Maine 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Maine -- Correspondence 1
College students -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Congregational churches -- Sermons 1
Congregational churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 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 -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Du Quoin (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Maine 1
Families -- New Hampshire -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- New York (State) -- Oneida County -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Ohio 1
Family farms -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Family farms -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farm life -- Kansas 1
Farmers -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Free Soil Party (U.S.) 1
Freedmen -- Correspondence 1
Freedmen -- Education -- Southern States 1
Freedmen -- United States 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- Sources 1
Genealogies (histories) -- 1901-1950 1
Homeopathy -- Methods 1
Homeopathy -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Illinois -- Genealogy 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Industrialists -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
Invoices -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Jackson (Miss.) -- History -- Siege, 1863 -- Personal narratives 1
Lake Geneva (Wis.) 1
Logbooks 1
Love-letters 1
Maine -- Genealogy 1
Male friendship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Manuscripts, American -- New York (State) 1
Maryland -- Genealogy 1
Medicine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Correspondence 1
Middle West -- Genealogy 1
Middle West -- Rural conditions -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Milo (Me.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Mothers and sons -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Mount Savage (Md.) -- History 1
New England -- Genealogy 1
Oregon National Historic Trail -- History 1
Oregon Territory -- History -- Sources 1
Osawatomie, Battle of, Osawatomie, Kan., 1856 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources 1
Parent and child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Photograph albums -- 1851-1900 1
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1851-1900 1
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Names
American Medical Association 1
American Missionary Association 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
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Blackman, George Curtis, 1819-1871 1
Bowdoin College 1
Carpenter family 1
Carpenter, Helen Graham, 1868-1945 1
Cutler, William Parker, 1812-1889 1
Davidson family 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1817-1904 1
Davis, N. S. (Nathan Smith), 1858-1920 1
Dawes family 1
Dawes, E. C. (Ephraim Cutler), 1840-1895 1
Dawes, Rufus R., 1838-1899 1
De Freitas, Helen 1
DeWitt family 1
Eleanor Association 1
Everett family 1
Everett, Robert, 1791-1875 1
Fairbank, Nathaniel Kellogg, 1829-1903 1
Fairbanks family 1
Furber family 1
Gales family 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, Norman Wait, 1846-1916 1
Harris, Stanley Gale 1
Hill School (Pottstown, Pa.) 1
International Medical Congress 1
Kirkland, Wallace 1
Lane family 1
Lane, Clayton, 1895- 1
Lane, Dorothy Bent 1
Letcher, John, 1813-1884 1
MacLean, Annie Marion 1
MacLean, M. H. (Murdoch Haddon), 1872-1954 1
MacLean, Pearl Emma Harris 1
Marietta College 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, 1822-1898 1
Mount Savage Iron Company 1
New York Medical College and Hospital for Women 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
Union Central Life Insurance Company 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States. Army 1
United States. Army. Ohio 53rd Volunteer Infantry (1861-1865) 1
University of Wisconsin 1
Yale University 1
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