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Munn, John, 1805-1882. John Munn papers, 1824-1873.

Title: John Munn papers, 1824-1873.

Primarily journals kept by John Munn relating his thoughts and activities (40 vol., 1824-1873); plus a few other items, including a Connecticut 1st Infantry commission (1828 Apr. 23) and a receipt for purchase of a slave named Nelson (1836 Sept. 17). The journal entries mainly detail travel and places. Topics include Munn's business activities as a store clerk in Hartford (Conn.) until 1828, store owner and banker in Canton (Miss.) ca. 1834-1849, and investor in Chicago (Ill.) real estate and railroads. They also cover Munn's activities as a resident of Utica (N.Y.) ca. 1849-1865 and his illnesses and family matters. Also mentioned are business and political conditions: slavery, presidents, the Mexican War, the Civil War, public events, lectures, and holiday celebrations. His journals also document travel by stagecoach, train, river, lake, canal, and ocean vessels; and places where Munn resided briefly or visited on his frequent trips, including Chicago, New York City, New Orleans, London, Paris, and Montreal. The collection also includes a sampling of family photographs. The Munn journals comment on prominent people, including Henry Ward Beecher, Lewis Cass, Henry Clay, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edward Everett, John H. and Juliette Kinzie, Wendell Phillips, Thurlow Weed. Also mentioned are his nephew Henry Clark of Chicago, and Lydia Sigourney of Hartford, Additional places in the U.S. described include Brooklyn (N.Y.), Burlington (Iowa), Cincinnati (Ohio), Davenport (Iowa), Nauvoo (Ill.), Niagara Falls (N.Y.), Pittsburgh (Pa.), Rock Island (Ill.), St. Anthony's Falls (Minn.), Sharon Springs (N.Y.). Also included are comments on politics in Georgia (1825, 1828), Mississippi (1843), and South Carolina (1832). Microfilm: Reel 1, vol.1 to vol.10 (1824-1831 Dec. 25); Reel 2, vol.11 to vol.17, p.207 (1832 Jan. 30-1848 Feb. 18); Reel 3, vol.17, p.207 to vol.19 (1848 Feb. 22-1850 Aug. 11).

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (6 boxes, 1 wrapped v.)3 microfilm reels : neg. ; 35 mm. (Camera neg. of v. 1-19).3 microfilm reels ; 35 mm. (Reader copy of v. 1-19).

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Illinois Central Railroad Company. Records, 1851-1859

Title: Illinois Central Railroad Company. Records 1851-1859

Scrapbook of typescript, manuscript, and printed material relating to the Illinois Central Railroad Company, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, John Frink Express Company, and American Express Company. Includes letters, instructions to agents, orders, bills, receipts, contracts, rates of fare, and additional reports of local railroads and other companies, including Western Union.

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Bronson, Arthur. Arthur Bronson papers, 1829-1871.

Title: Arthur Bronson papers, 1829-1871.

Correspondence, land conveyances, accounts, receipts, abstracts of title, deeds, mortgages, leases, foreclosure papers, indentures, and other legal documents, mostly relating to Bronson's real estate business and transactions in Chicago, elsewhere in Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, and Michigan. Correspondents include agents, land speculators, and many businessmen especially in Chicago and in Milwaukee. Topics include land speculation, surveys, preemption claims, and day to day operation of Bronson's business. Bronson's association with Chicago politician Hiram Pearson, ca. 1835-1844, is represented by over 100 items. The collection is arranged in two parts: part one is miscellaneous papers in chronological order, and part two is composed of papers involving well-known businessmen, divided into folders by name and the folders filed alphabetically. Collection includes a 20,000 dollar bond for Canal Block no. 1, June 13, 1838, signed by many leading businessmen; also a statement of leased lots in Block 1 and an account of rents from Jan. 1 to Nov. 1, 1840; and abstracts of title for lots in Block 1. Also present are papers re. the conveyances made by Billy Caldwell of land reserved to him by the Treaty of Prairie Du Chien in 1829 and other land. There is a copy of the charter for a Chicago cemetery (later Lincoln Park); items re. Beaubien family land claims; and letters from John Temple in the early 1830s about the astonishing growth of Chicago and the potential increase in land values that would be created by building a railroad or canal. Papers, ca. 1839-1844, detail the financing, construction, and furnishing of the elegant hotel known as the Lake House for 100,000 dollars at the corner of Kinzie Street, Rush Street, and Michigan Street in Chicago. A few items related to the Galena and Chicago Union Railroad Company. Several letters by Charles Butler concern property in Indiana near LaPorte; other items concern litigation about later ownership of Archibald Clybourne's 12-acre farm.

ArchivalResource: 3 linear ft. (5 boxes)1 microfilm reel : neg. ; 35 mm. (Camera neg. of Frederic Bronson land book)

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Illinois Central Railroad Company. Records, 1851-1859.

Title: Records, 1851-1859.

Scrapbook of typescript, manuscript, and printed material relating to the Illinois Central Railroad Company, Galena and Chicago Union Railroad, John Frink Express Company, and American Express Company. Includes letters, instructions to agents, orders, bills, receipts, contracts, rates of fare, and additional reports of local railroads and other companies, including Western Union.

ArchivalResource: 1 v. (251 p.) ; 33 cm.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/55819086 View