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Boyce-Gilbert family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Boyce
Abstract

Reproductions of diaries, correspondence, photographs, and genealogical information about the Boyce-Gilbert family, beginning with the diary of Le Roy Boyce, a Cortland, New York native and successful Chicago drugstore owner. Collection also includes diaries from Simeon Leonard Boyce beginning in 1869 and Elizabeth Boyce Gilbert beginning in 1910. Collection contains an extensive family tree documenting the genealogy until 1898, and biographical sketches of Boyce family members.

Dates: 1831-2000

Charles Saeltzer papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Saeltzer
Abstract Correspondence, certificates, vouchers, orders, muster rolls, and a diary belonging to Charles Saeltzer of Mansfield, Ohio, dated between 1846 and 1865, and documenting his training and certification as a teacher, both in Germany and Ohio, and his service as a member of the 10th Ohio Cavalry Regiment during the Civil War. Most of Saeltzer's early papers are his teacher certifications from the German government, dated between 1846 and 1853; similar certifications from the state of Ohio are...
Dates: 1846-1865; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1865

Charles Williamson papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Ayer-MS-1006
Abstract Extensive correspondence, documents, a journal describing an information gathering trip to Turkey of Charles Williamson, politician, British government agent, and developer of central New York State lands in the late 1700s. Williamson is suspected to have been involved in the "Burr Conspiracy," an episode in history in which Burr was accused of treason. Collection also includes research materials compiled by Isaac Joslin Cox, a scholar who wrote several articles on the Aaron Burr...
Dates: 1775-approximately 1940s; Majority of material found within 1790-1810

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

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

Thomas Mather Papers

 Collection
Identifier: VAULT folio Graff-2707
Abstract

Letters, diaries, account book, map and biographical sketch, most in connection with Mather’s activities as one of three commissioners appointed by the government to survey and mark a route from Missouri to Santa Fe in 1825.

Dates: 1825-1886

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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Abolitionists -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County 1
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Brothers and sisters -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Burr Conspiracy, 1805-1807 -- Sources 1
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Businesspeople -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Chester County (Pa.) -- History 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- Sources 1
Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
College prose, American -- Maine 1
College students -- Maine -- Correspondence 1
Colonial agents -- Great Britain -- Biography 1
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Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
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Genesee County (N.Y.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Genesee Region (N.Y.) -- Biography 1
German Americans -- Ohio -- Mansfield -- Correspondence 1
German Americans -- Ohio -- Mansfield -- Diaries 1
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- Latin America -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Great Britain -- Foreign relations -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871 -- History -- Sources 1
Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Illinois -- Genealogy 1
Indiana -- Genealogy 1
Invoices -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Iroquois Indians 1
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Italy -- Description and travel 1
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Male friendship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
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Memoirs -- 1851-1900 1
Milo (Me.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Muster rolls -- 1801-1850 1
Muster rolls -- 1851-1900 1
New York (State) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Orders -- 1801-1850 1
Orders -- 1851-1900 1
Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Pendleton (Ind.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Pennsylvania -- Genealogy 1
Photographs -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- 1951-2000 1
Quaker abolitionists -- United States -- History 1
Quakers -- Genealogy 1
Quakers -- Indiana -- History -- 19th century 1
Quakers -- Pennsylvania -- Chester County -- History 1
Railroad engineers -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Railroads -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Real property -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Language
German 1
Spanish; Castilian 1
 
Names
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
Bowdoin College 1