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Blatchford family papers

 Collection
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

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

Lambert Tree papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Tree
Abstract

Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.

Dates: 1821-1948; Majority of material found within 1821-1933

Morse-Keith Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Morse-Keith
Abstract

Papers centering around Charles Ansel Morse (1835-1894) who settled in Chicago in the early 1860s, establishing a wholesale clothing firm. The bulk of the collection consists of letters home to family in New Bedford, Mass. There are also calling cards of many early Chicago residents, genealogical documents, and a few photographs.

Dates: 1833-1938; Majority of material found within 1864 - 1872

Parish Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Parish
Abstract Consists mainly of correspondence from Martha Ellen Luey Parish of Chicago, IL to her father, Lester Lyman Luey, of Greenfield, Massachusetts. Also included are a few letters written by his son-in-law, Charles Pomeroy Parish. The letters concern domestic matters and touch upon such community topics as electrification, the bicycling mania of the late 19th century, fires and fire insurance, and the remains of the World's Columbian Exposition. There are also several letters discussing an...
Dates: 1884-1896

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Newberry Library. Board of Trustees 2
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Altgeld, John Peter, 1847-1902 1
American National Red Cross 1
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Barnard, Harry, 1906-1982 1
Barrows, Ella Cole 1
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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
Cole family 1
Cole, John A. (John Adams), 1838-1932 1
Cole, Julia Alvord, 1847-1934 1
Crerar Manuscript Collection (University of Chicago. Library) 1
Democratic Party (U.S.) 1
Fleming family 1
Fleming, Daniel Johnson, 1877-1970 1
Fleming, Elizabeth Cole 1
Forman Christian College (Lahore, Pakistan) 1
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General Society of Colonial Wars (U.S.) 1
General Society of Mayflower Descendants 1
Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1825-1893 1
Howard University 1
Huggins, E. L. (Eli Lundy), 1842-1929 1
Illinois College 1
Indian Rights Association 1
Keith family 1
Lincoln Industrial Mission 1
Lord family 1
Lord, Charles V. 1
Lord, Daniel Walker, 1800-1880 1
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Luey, Lester Lyman 1
Mead family 1
Morse family 1
Morse, Charles Ansel, 1835-1894 1
National Metal Trades Association (U.S.) 1
National Society of the Colonial Dames of America 1
New England Church (Chicago, Ill.) 1
Parish, Charles Pomeroy 1
Parish, Martha Ellen Luey 1
Peck family 1
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Tree family 1
Tree, Lambert, 1799-1881 1
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Union Theological Seminary and Presbyterian School of Christian Education 1
United States Christian Commission 1
United States Sanitary Commission. Chicago Branch 1
Williams family 1
Woman's Board of Missions of the Interior 1
YWCA of the U.S.A. 1
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