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Illinois. Canal Commissioners. Records, 1836-1863.

Title: Records, 1836-1863.

Correspondence concerning construction, finances and maintenance of the Illinois and Michigan Canal. Also includes several bills, contracts and documents. Bulk of the correspondence is addressed to Joel Manning, Edward B. Talcott and David Leavitt. Other correspondents include J. B. Ford, Jacob Fry, William Gooding, Alfred Guthrie, Charles Oakley, Charles H. Ray, Robert Stuart and William Whaley.

ArchivalResource: 247 items.

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French, Augustus C., 1808-1864. Papers, 1841-1852.

Title: Papers, 1841-1852.

300 letters from state financial agents in New York and London, England re: debt. 100 letters re: Illinois-Michigan Canal. 50 letters dealing with Illinois Central Railroad. 50 letters dealing with the St. Louis dike. 20 letters re: problems in Massac County. A series of letters dealing with administrative problems at the Jacksonville Asylum. Several letters re: violence at Bishop Hill colony including a sworn statement from the abused woman, who the troublemakers demanded be returned to her husband. Other topics include building a state university, housing women in the Alton prison, the sale of Quincy House, the return of a French-Negro kidnapped and taken to Missouri as a slave, Illinois as a place for German immigrants, David Dale Owens as head of the Geological Survey, Reverend Chiniquy and Canadian emigrants in Iroquois County, one letter from Dorothea Dix re: Alton Prison and the Jacksonville Asylum. Political commentary in many letters including those from John Wentworth, Sidney Breese, Stephen A. Douglas, Orlando B. Ficklin, Philip Fouke, Thomas L. Harris, John Hogan, William Jackson, Joel A. Matteson, John A. McClernand, Elam Rust, Peter Sweatt, James Shields, Lyman Trumbull, Elijah Wilcox, Timothy Roberts Young and C. Zarley.

ArchivalResource: .84 linear feet (2 boxes)

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