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Cole family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Cole
Abstract New England and Chicago Protestant missionary family. Includes letters and family documents from John A. Cole, a civil engineer, active in the U.S. Christian Commission during the Civil War. After the war he worked with and educated freedmen, women, and children in Washington D.C. through the Lincoln Industrial Mission and the recently established Howard University. He met his wife, Julia A. Cole (née Alvord) through his work with the Lincoln Industrial Mission and Howard University, who...
Dates: 1842-1945; Majority of material found within 1854-1928

Endicott Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Endicott
Abstract

Correspondence, photographs, and other miscellaneous material pertaining to the Endicott family and relatives of the Redden, Castle, and Smith families. These families lived primarily in the towns of Greenville, Stubblefield, and Villa Ridge, Pulaski County, Illinois. Topics discussed in the correspondence include marriage, domestic life, illness, and religion. Miscellaneous items include an account book, a paper written about dairy farming, and calling and greeting cards.

Dates: 1868-1986

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

John Drury-Marion Neville Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Drury-Neville
Abstract

Correspondence, clippings, manuscripts, artwork, personal materials, and photographs of author and journalist John Drury, and his wife, journalist and painter Marion Neville.

Dates: 1860-1970

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

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

Trumbull Family Papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Trumbull
Abstract

Correspondence, diaries and photographs of the Trumbull family of Chicago from 1876 until 1956. The collection gives candid insight into the lives of the young Trumbull sisters while studying music in Vienna through their letters home to Chicago. The most sizeable contribution of correspondence comes from prolific letter-writer Florence Trumbull, who wrote regularly to her sisters and mother, Mary Elizabeth Foster Trumbull, over the course of five decades.

Dates: 1876-1990; Majority of material found within 1876 - 1950

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Correspondence -- 1851-1900 6
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 5
Brothers and sisters -- Correspondence 4
Correspondence -- 1801-1850 4
Photographs -- 1901-1950 4
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Photographs -- 1851-1900 3
Photographs -- 1951-2000 3
Sisters -- Correspondence 3
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 2
Diaries -- 1901-1950 2
Abolitionists -- 1850-1860 1
Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
Abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Alcoholics 1
Amateur arts 1
American Civil War (1861-1865) 1
Antislavery movements 1
Antislavery movements -- Kansas 1
Architecture -- Middle West 1
Architecture, Domestic 1
Authors, American 1
Benefactors -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Bureau County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Chattel mortgages -- Illinois 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chesterton (Ind.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century 1
Children's writings, American 1
Christian education 1
Civil engineering 1
Clippings -- 1901-1950 1
Clippings -- 1951-2000 1
Conduct of life -- Religious aspects -- Christianity 1
Congregational churches -- Sermons 1
Congregational churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Correspondence 1
Courtship -- Correspondence 1
Courtship -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Debtor and creditor -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Deeds -- Illinois -- Bureau County 1
Diaries -- 1851-1900 1
Divorce -- Illinois -- Cases 1
Divorce suits -- Illinois 1
Elections -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Ethnic neighborhoods -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History 1
Evangelistic work 1
Faith -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Correspondence 1
Families -- Illinois 1
Families -- Indiana 1
Families -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- New York (State) -- Oneida County -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Family farms -- Indiana -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Family farms -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farm life -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farm life -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Farm life -- Kansas 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Illinois -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
Farmers -- Indiana -- Pendleton -- Diaries 1
Food writing 1
Free Soil Party (U.S.) 1
Freedmen -- Education -- Southern States 1
Freedmen -- United States 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- Sources 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Genealogical tables -- 1901-1950 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Indiana 1
Genealogies (histories) -- Pennsylvania 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 1
Historic buildings -- Middle West 1
Homeopathy -- Methods 1
Homeopathy -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Hyde Park (Chicago, Ill.) -- Social life and customs -- 19th century 1
India 1
Indiana -- Genealogy 1
Iroquois Indians 1
Journalists -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Lahore (Pakistan) 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
Librarians -- Indiana 1
Madison County (Ind.) -- History 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois 1
Manuscripts, American -- New York (State) 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848 1
Mexican War, 1846-1848 -- Public opinion 1
Middle West -- Buildings, structures, etc. 1
Missionaries 1
Music -- Instruction and study -- Austria -- Vienna 1
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Names
Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977 1
Alford family 1
American House Hotel (Princeton, Ill.) 1
American Missionary Association 1
Barrows, Ella Cole 1
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Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company 1
Clark, Herma, 1871-1959 1
Cole family 1
Cole, John A. (John Adams), 1838-1932 1
Cole, Julia Alvord, 1847-1934 1
Derleth, August, 1909-1971 1
Downs family 1
Drury, John, 1898-1972 1
Endicott family 1
Endicott, Louis E., 1869-1939 1
Everett family 1
Everett, Robert, 1791-1875 1
Field, Henry, 1902-1986 1
Fleming family 1
Fleming, Daniel Johnson, 1877-1970 1
Fleming, Elizabeth Cole 1
Forman Christian College (Lahore, Pakistan) 1
Frederick, John T. (John Towner), 1893-1975 1
Fussell family 1
Fussell, Charles Lewis, 1840-1909 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Howard University 1
Illinois Grand Trunk Railway Co. 1
Indiana University 1
Kendall, Milo, 1819-1905 1
Lerner, Leo A. (Leo Alfred), 1907-1965 1
Leschetizky, Theodor, 1830-1915 1
Lewis family 1
Lewis, Graceanna, 1821-1912 1
Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949 1
Lewis, Louise, 1895-1986 1
Lincoln Industrial Mission 1
Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
Mead family 1
Neville, Marion, 1901-1967 1
New York Medical College and Hospital for Women 1
O'Brien, Howard Vincent, 1888-1947 1
Peck family 1
Randolph, Vance, 1892-1980 1
Shaver, Cornelius 1
Shaw family 1
Short family 1
Short, Annie Trumbull, 1884-1954 1
Smith, Henry Justin, 1875-1936 1
Spectorsky, A. C. (Auguste C.), 1910-1972 1
Swain, Joseph, 1857-1927 1
Thomas family 1
Trumbull family 1
Trumbull, Fay, 1878-1947 1
Trumbull, Florence, 1881-1954 1
Turbyfill, Mark, 1896-1990 1
Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education 1
United States Christian Commission 1
YWCA of the U.S.A. 1
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