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Goodwin family papers

 Collection
Identifier: Midwest-MS-Goodwin
Abstract

Correspondence of the Goodwin family from New York and Chicago. Includes some business correspondence, business records, and military records. Primarily correspondence from Solomon Goodwin of New York, a builder for the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, and his son, Edward P. Goodwin, student at Amherst College, Mass., minister of First Congregational Church in Chicago, and Middle East traveler (1870).

Dates: 1802-1913

Harris-MacLean family papers

 Collection
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

Rodgers Family Papers

 Collection
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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Parent and adult child -- United States -- Correspondence 2
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Ambrotypes (photographs) 1
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Business records -- United States -- 1851-1900 1
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Cabinet photographs -- 1851-1900 1
Cairo (Egypt) - Description and travel 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- Genealogy 1
Chicago (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Clergy -- Illinois -- Chicago -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
College students -- Connecticut -- Correspondence 1
Correspondence -- 1751-1800 1
Correspondence -- 1951-2000 1
Correspondence -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
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Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1801-1850 1
Daybooks -- New Hampshire -- Newton -- 1851-1900 1
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Families -- New York (State) -- Correspondence 1
Farmers -- Middle West -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Freedmen -- Correspondence 1
Frontier and pioneer life -- Middle West -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Genealogical correspondence -- United States 1
Illinois -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Lake Geneva (Wis.) 1
Logbooks 1
Love-letters 1
Manuscripts, American -- Illinois -- Chicago 1
Medicine -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Middle East -- Description and travel 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
Mothers and sons -- United States -- Correspondence 1
New England -- Genealogy 1
Oregon National Historic Trail -- History 1
Oregon Territory -- History -- Sources 1
Overland journeys to the Pacific -- Sources 1
Photograph albums -- 1851-1900 1
Photograph albums -- 1901-1950 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1851-1900 1
Photographs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- 1901-1950 1
Religion 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 18th century -- Sources 1
Rockbridge County (Va.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rome (N.Y.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rural families -- United States -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Rural women -- United States 1
Sanatoriums -- United States -- 20th century 1
Slavery -- United States -- Public opinion 1
Spanish-American War, 1898 -- Public opinion 1
Tintypes (prints) -- 1851-1900 1
Upper class families -- Family relationships 1
Valentines -- Specimens 1
Virginia -- Politics and government -- Sources 1
Voyages and travels 1
Warren County (Ill.) -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Whaling -- New England -- History -- 19th century -- Sources 1
Whitman Massacre, 1847 1
Women college teachers 1
World War, 1914-1918 -- Personal narratives 1
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Amherst College 1
Bent family 1
Bent, Clara Ames Wingate 1
Bent, George Payne, 1854-1930 1
Davidson family 1