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Blatchford family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Blatchford
Abstract Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss,...
Dates: 1777-1987; Majority of material found within 1839-1965

Catherine Eddy Beveridge papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Beveridge
Abstract

Correspondence, papers, and diary of Catherine Eddy Beveridge, and also correspondence, papers, photographs and genealogical information collected by Catherine Eddy Beveridge related to her family.

Dates: 1703-2004; Majority of material found within 1870-1910

Charles Andrews Heath Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Heath
Abstract Chicago businessman, founder and president of Continental Seed Co. Includes Charles Andrews Heath's diaries, 1880-1949, with typed excerpts, which discuss the Haymarket Riot, the World's Columbian Exposition, the World's Parliament of Religions, the Galveston flood, several wars, and many Chicago related events. There are also typed transcripts of 1912 European trip letters from Heath's wife Jennie and children Alice and Albert, photographs of Heath and his family, including the European...
Dates: 1880-1999

Goodman family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodman Family
Abstract

Papers, letters, photograph albums, cards, genealogical materials, diaries, and travel memorabilia from the family of Marjorie Sawyer Goodman Graff, daughter of playwright Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, and her mother, Marjorie Robbins Hopkins.

Dates: 1795-2003; Majority of material found within 1880-1995

Gookin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Gookin
Abstract Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Marie Gookin was away, as well as Frederick Gookin's activities while on business trips to New York. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elisabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition, and...
Dates: 1861-1922; Majority of material found within 1883-1921

McNally family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-McNallyF
Abstract Letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, cemetery records, wills, and obituaries of several generations of the family of Andrew McNally I of Chicago, founder of the Rand McNally Co., a publishing firm specializing in cartography. There is much material concerning Andrew McNally I, his Chicago home, and especially his Windermere Ranch in what became La Mirada, California, including the ranch's olive oil plant and McNally's efforts to promote settlement in the area. Also extensive materials...
Dates: 1788-2002; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1993

Waller Family Papers

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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

Winterbotham-French family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Winterbotham-French
Abstract Correspondence, personal materials, diaries, financial and estate documents, genealogical research, and photographs of the Winterbotham and French families who were united by the marriage of John R. Winterbotham III and Chloe T. French. Papers include correspondence pertaining to Chloe Tyler French's work at Mathieson Alkali Works, courtship letters between Seth B. French and Mary Tyler Duffy, and letters and photographs of Hilah French, an aunt of Chloe Tyler French, who served at a Red...
Dates: 1850-2005; Majority of material found within 1900-1950

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A.C. McClurg & Co. 1
Adams, Daniel W., 1821-1872 1
Alexander family 1
Alexander, Robert Spruel Crawford Aitcheson, 1819-1867 1
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American University of Beirut 1
Barrows, John Henry, 1847-1902 1
Bartlett, Helen Birch, 1884-1925 1
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 1
Berryman, Clifford Kennedy, 1869-1949 1
Beveridge family 1
Beveridge, Albert J. (Albert Jeremiah), 1862-1927 1
Beveridge, Catherine Eddy, 1881-1970 1
Blatchford, E. W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914 1
Blatchford, Frances L. (Frances Lord), 1866-1958 1
Blatchford, Mary Emily Williams, 1834-1921 1
Blatchford, Paul, 1859-1925 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1767-1828 1
Blatchford, Samuel, 1820-1893 1
Chapin family 1
Chicago Literary Club 1
Clark family 1
Clark, Emmons, 1827-1905 1
Colton family 1
Cornell family 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Dewey, Ken 1
Eddy family 1
Elwell family 1
Field, Delia Caton, 1853-1937 1
Field, Marshall, 1834-1906 1
Fowler, Barbara Blatchford 1
French family 1
General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Gifford family 1
Goodman Theatre (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Goodman family 1
Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918 1
Gookin, Elisabeth A. 1
Gookin, Frederick W., 1853-1936 1
Graff, Marjorie Sawyer Goodman, 1914-2009 1
Heath, Charles A. (Charles Andrews) 1
Hibbard, Spencer, Bartlett & Co. 1
Holder family 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
J. H. Winterbotham & Sons 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
Lord, Mary Patterson 1
Mathieson Alkali Works, Inc. 1
McNally family 1
McNally, Andrew, 1836-1904 1
McNally, Andrew, 1909- 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
Neff, Wallace, 1895-1982 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 1
Pynchon family 1
Rand McNally and Company 1
Sheldon family 1
Spencer family 1
Spencer, Franklin Fayette, 1817-1890 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
United States. Army. New York Infantry Regiment, 7th (1861-1863) 1
Vilas family 1
Waller family 1
Waller, James B. (James Breckinridge), 1817- 1
Waller, William S. 1
Weisiger family 1
Wickliffe, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1819-1895 1
Williams family 1
Winterbotham family 1
Winterbotham, Chloe T., 1922-2012 1
Winterbotham, J. H. 1
Winterbotham, John R., 1919-1995 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
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