Adelaide Sutton Gilbert Correspondence 1876-1893

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Adelaide Sutton Gilbert Correspondence 1876-1893

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Resident of Spokane, Wash. Letters to family members in New York state, chiefly detailing the daily life of an upper-middle class family. Includes information relating to Gilbert's husband, Frederick W. Gilbert, and his activities as civil engineer and division superintendent for Northern Pacific Railroad, domestic help, clothing, social life, the weather, and daily events in the Northwestern communities in which she lived prior to moving to Spokane, including Brainerd, Minn., Portland, Or., Missoula, Mont., Coeur d'Alene, Idaho, and Sprague, Wash.

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Eastern Washington State Historical Society/Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture Joel E. Ferris Research Library and Archives

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Northern Pacific Railroad Company

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These documents are duplicate copies from the papers of George A. Brackett, now part of the Northern Pacific Railroad collection at the Minnesota Historical Society. From the description of Papers. 1864-1914. (Tri-College Library). WorldCat record id: 18832082 Isaac "Ike" Gravelle was born in Canada in October 1871. He came to the United States in 1886. He was sent to the Montana State Prison in May 1891 on a conviction for horse stealing. After his release in 1893 he worked...

Gilbert family

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Gilbert, Frederick W.

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Gilbert, Adelaide Sutton, 1849-1932

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As the wife of Frederick W. Gilbert, a civil engineer and division superintendent for the Northern Pacific Railroad, Adelaide Gilbert moved to wherever the railroad transferred her husband. Beginning in Brainerd, MN in 1881, they moved westward to Portland, OR in 1883, to Missoula, MT in 1885; to Coeur d’Alene in 1888; to Sprague, WA in 1890; and finally to Spokane in 1891. From the guide to the Adelaide Sutton Gilbert Correspondence, 1876-1893, (Eastern Washington State...