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Everett family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Everett
Abstract Primarily correspondence of the Everett family, concerning family news and health issues, and also covering abolition, temperance, women's rights, rights of African-Americans, and moral reform. Printing, education, pioneer life, and religion are all discussed within the papers. Papers include materials of Robert Everett, the pastor of Welsh Congregationalist churches in Oneida County, NY, and publisher of Y Cenhadwr Americanaidd (The American Missionary), a...
Dates: 1794-1949; Majority of material found within 1838 - 1927

Harris-MacLean family papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Harris-MacLean
Abstract Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, writings, genealogical material, and memorabilia detailing the life and travels of several wealthy Chicago families, mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. The Harris family side is Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Other major related families represented include Gale, Bent, Lane, and...
Dates: 1784-1980; Majority of material found within 1880-1940

Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Metcalf
Abstract Letters, diaries, daybooks, scrapbooks, and business documents of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, a Bowdoin College graduate from Milo, Maine, Illinois Central Railroad division engineer, and Du Quoin, Illinois resident, his wife Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (originally of New Hampshire), their parents, and children. Included are many letters written from college, family letters, Illinois Central Railroad business correspondence with R.B. Mason and other records of railroad construction, and...
Dates: 1827-1955; Majority of material found within 1850 - 1897

Rodgers Family Papers

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Identifier: Midwest-MS-Rodgers
Abstract Correspondence, essays, financial and legal documents, genealogies, journals, newspaper clippings, and four photographs relating to the Rodgers family, descendants of Rev. John Rodger (1735-1812). The papers document the life of an American pioneer family in Virginia, Kansas, Illinois, Iowa, Oregon, New Mexico, and California, and cover topics such as farming life, homestead claims, politics, livestock and grain industries, and religion. There is an overland journal penned by Andrew Rodgers,...
Dates: 1773-1925; Majority of material found within 1830 - 1890

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Husband and wife -- United States -- Correspondence 3
Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 2
Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
Manuscripts, American 2
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 2
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Abolitionists -- 1850-1860 1
Abolitionists -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
Antislavery movements -- Kansas 1
Bankers -- Illinois -- Correspondence 1
Business records -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Coal mines and mining -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
College prose, American -- Maine 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
College students -- Maine -- Correspondence 1
Congregational churches -- Sermons 1
Congregational churches -- United States -- Clergy -- Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1801-1850 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1801-1850 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
Diaries -- United States -- 1901-1950 1
Du Quoin (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Illinois 1
Families -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Iowa -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Maine 1
Families -- New Hampshire -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- New York (State) -- Oneida County -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Families -- Ohio 1
Family farms -- Kansas -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Family farms -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Farm life -- Kansas 1
Farmers -- Maine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Free Soil Party (U.S.) 1
Freedmen -- Correspondence 1
Freedmen -- Education -- Southern States 1
Freedmen -- United States 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Kansas 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- Sources 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Homeopathy -- Methods 1
Homeopathy -- United States -- History -- 19th century 1
Illinois -- Genealogy 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Invoices -- Illinois -- 1851-1900 1
Lake Geneva (Wis.) 1
Logbooks 1
Love-letters 1
Maine -- Genealogy 1
Male friendship -- United States -- Correspondence 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Manuscripts, American -- New York (State) 1
Medicine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Correspondence 1
Middle West -- Genealogy 1
Middle West -- Rural conditions -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle West -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Milo (Me.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Mothers and sons -- United States -- Correspondence 1
New England -- Genealogy 1
Oregon National Historic Trail -- History 1
Oregon Territory -- History -- Sources 1
Osawatomie, Battle of, Osawatomie, Kan., 1856 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources 1
Parent and child -- Correspondence 1
Photograph albums -- 1851-1900 1
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Private presses -- New York (State) 1
Railroad engineers -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Railroads -- Illinois -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rural women -- United States 1
Sanatoriums -- United States -- 20th century 1
School prose, American -- New York (State) 1
Sermons -- New York (State) -- 1751-1800 1
Sermons -- New York (State) -- 1801-1850 1
Sermons, American -- 18th century 1
Sermons, American -- 19th century 1
Sisters -- Correspondence 1
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion -- History -- 19th century 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Personal narratives 1
Temperance -- United States -- 19th century 1
Temperance and religion 1
Tintypes (prints) -- 1851-1900 1
United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Personal narratives 1
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American Missionary Association 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
Bowdoin College 1