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Francis Trowbridge Sherman Papers
Collection
Identifier: VAULT-Case-MS-5282
Abstract
Correspondence of Francis Trowbridge Sherman of Chicago, and his traveling companion, Henry A. Ballentine, documenting their travel overland to the California gold fields and experiences there, 1849-1850. Also photocopies of a few of Sherman's (colonel 88th Illinois Infantry) letters regarding the Civil War and his Chicago business, business and family correspondence of father F.C. Sherman, family records, and newspaper clippings.
Dates:
1849-1894
Woods Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Woods
Abstract
Correspondence, writings, documents, genealogical research notes and photographs relating to the Woods family, descendants of Henry Ruiter (originally Hendrick de Ruyter) of Canada. Collected and preserved by Frank H. Woods, Jr. of Illinois, to be used for a complete (unfinished) family history, most of the material concerns Frank H. Woods's great-grandmother, Fanny M. Woods, his grandfather Frederick Moffatt Woods, and his father, Frank H. Woods. Included is a large group of Fanny Woods's...
Dates:
approximately 1775-1975; Majority of material found within 1820 - 1975
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- Alabama -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Sources 1
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- California, Northern -- Description and travel 1
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- Correspondence -- California, Northern -- 1801-1850 1
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- Correspondence -- Middle West -- 1901-1950 1
- Correspondence -- Middle West -- 1951-2000 1
- Correspondence -- Southern States -- 1851-1900 1
- Courtship -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Diaries -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
- Families -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
- Grandparent and child -- Middle West -- History -- 20th century -- Sources 1
- Lincoln (Neb.) -- History -- Sources 1
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- Nashville, Battle of, Nashville, Tenn., 1864 1
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- Overland journeys to the Pacific -- History -- Sources 1
- Parent and child -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
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- Plantations -- Louisiana -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
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- Ballentine, Henry A. 1
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- Clark, Daniel Newton 1
- Cochran family 1
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- Ruiter, Henry 1
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- Sherman, Electa 1
- Sherman, Francis C. 1
- Sherman, Francis Trowbridge 1
- Sherman, Haley & Co 1
- Sherman, Martha E. 1
- United States. Army 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Infantry Regiment, 15th (1861-1865) 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Light Artillery. Renwick's Elgin Independent Battery (1862-1865) 1
- United States. Army. Illinois Regiment, 88th (1862-1865) 1
- White, Fanny Woods, 1822-1893 1
- Woods, Charles Ryland 1
- Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1868-1952 1
- Woods, Frank H. (Frank Henry), 1905-1980 1
- Woods, Frederick Moffatt 1 ∧ less
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