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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

Edward Eagle Brown family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Brown
Abstract

Materials pertaining to the family of Chicago banker Edward Eagle Brown, primarily of Brown's father Edward Osgood Brown, great grandfather William Brown, and descendants in the Ipswich and Salem Massachusetts areas.

Dates: 1749-1955; Majority of material found within 1810 - 1900

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

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

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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

Lutz-Chamberlin family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Lutz-Chamberlin
Abstract Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families, ranging from the 1850’s to the 1990’s. The Chamberlin correspondence consists of George E. Chamberlin’s letters written when he was a student at Dartmouth and subsequently as an officer in the Civil War, plus letters of other Chamberlin family members, mostly through the 1860's. The Lutz correspondence consists of...
Dates: 1844-1992

Milo Kendall papers

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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

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

Walter Ansel Strong Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Strong
Abstract

Correspondence, personal documents, photographs, and family materials related to Walter Ansel Strong, publisher of the Chicago Daily News from 1925-1931.

Dates: 1847-2008; Majority of material found within 1912 - 1931

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Peck family 2
A.C. McClurg & Co. 1
Abercrombie, Gertrude, 1909-1977 1
Adams, Daniel W., 1821-1872 1
Alexander family 1
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Alexander, Robert Spruel Crawford Aitcheson, 1819-1867 1
Alford family 1
American House Hotel (Princeton, Ill.) 1
Barrows, Ella Cole 1
Bates family 1
Beauregard, G. T. (Gustave Toutant), 1818-1893 1
Bell, Laird, 1883-1965 1
Beloit College 1
Brown family 1
Brown, Edward E. (Edward Eagle), 1885-1959 1
Brown, Edward Osgood, 1847-1923 1
Brown, William, -1833 1
Bryan, William Lowe, 1860-1955 1
Chamberlain family 1
Chamberlin, George E. 1
Chandler, Harry, 1864-1944 1
Chicago Daily News, Inc. 1
Chicago Literary Club 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
Dartmouth College 1
Derleth, August, 1909-1971 1
Downs family 1
Drury, John, 1898-1972 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
Gookin, Elisabeth A. 1
Gookin, Frederick W., 1853-1936 1
Hansen, Harry, 1884-1977 1
Hartnell family 1
Harvard Law School 1
Howard University 1
Illinois Grand Trunk Railway Co. 1
Indiana University 1
Kendall, Milo, 1819-1905 1
Lawson, Victor Freemont, 1850-1925 1
Lee, Robert E. (Robert Edward), 1807-1870 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
Lutz family 1
Lutz, Adeline Louise 1
McClellan, George B. (George Brinton), 1826-1885 1
Mead family 1
Neville, Marion, 1901-1967 1
O'Brien, Howard Vincent, 1888-1947 1
Osgood 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
Strong family 1
Strong, Albert Bliss 1
Strong, Erastus Albert 1
Strong, Jonathan W. 1
Strong, Josephine Webster 1
Strong, Walter Ansel, 1883-1931 1
Swain, Joseph, 1857-1927 1
Thomas family 1
Tietjens, Eunice, 1884-1944 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. Army. Vermont Infantry Regiment, 11th (1862-1865) 1
Waller family 1
Waller, James B. (James Breckinridge), 1817- 1
Waller, William S. 1
Webster family 1
Webster, Towner K. 1
Weisiger family 1
Wickliffe, Robert C. (Robert Charles), 1819-1895 1
YWCA of the U.S.A. 1
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