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Harlow N. Higinbotham Letters
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Higinbotham
Abstract
Collection of 49 letters primarily to Chicago merchant and businessman Harlow Niles Higinbotham from friends, family, and associates during the Civil War.
Dates:
1861-1865
William H. Munroe Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Munroe
Abstract
Personal papers and documents related to Sergeant William H. Munroe of the Chicago Mercantile Battery and his father, Henry H. Munroe. Correspondence, discharge papers, and two broadsides related to the war are included along with family obituaries, certificates of professional appointment, letters of reference, a last will and testament, and a patent for rheumatism treatment.
Dates:
1794-1920; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1920