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Dean family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Dean
Abstract Correspondence, sermons, deeds, wills, and estate inventories of three generations of the Dean family of Connecticut and Illinois. Includes many letters from Lucretia Mason Dean and her daughter Lucretia Dean Gore, whose husband was a Congregational minister. Also letters between a young Lucretia Mason Dean her cousins and Hitty, Lucy, and Betsey Bond before her marriage to Reverend Darius Gore, regarding courtship and other issues. Additional topics include religion, illness, death, and...
Dates: 1779-1893

Waller Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Waller
Abstract

Primarily letters of the Waller family, a wealthy, large, educated family from Kentucky, and later Chicago, pertaining mainly to matters of family activity, family devotion to one another, and especially health. Also included are a family genealogy, biography, and letters from Henry Clay and P.G.T. Beauregard. Related family: Alexander

Dates: 1803-1938; Majority of material found within 1803 - 1888

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Adams, Daniel W., 1821-1872 1
Alexander family 1
Alexander, Robert Spruel Crawford Aitcheson, 1819-1867 1
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 1
Bond family 1