Edwin and Wilfred J. Whitefield papers, [ca. 1854]-1918.

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Edwin and Wilfred J. Whitefield papers, [ca. 1854]-1918.

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Microfilmed letters, diaries, articles, and miscellany of Edwin Whitefield, a Minnesota artist and townsite promoter, and of his son Wilfred, also an artist.

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Whitefield, Edwin, 1816-1892

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Edwin Whitefield was born in England in 1816, immigrating to the United States ca. 1840. Between 1840 and 1855, he studied and taught drawing in New York and New England. In the latter 1850s, he became a real estate speculator in the Minnesota territory and became involved in land and and townsite promotion in what is now Kandiyohi County and the Sauk River Valley, Minn. Between 1860 and 1864 he lived in Chicago, but spent his final years in Massachusetts until his death in 1892. Edwin's son Wil...

Taylor, James W. (James Wickes), 1819-1893

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U.S. Treasury agent (1859-1869) and U.S. Consul to Winnipeg (1870-1893). From the description of Papers, 1846, 1851-1893. (Rhinelander District Library). WorldCat record id: 17842806 Attorney; author. From the description of Papers, 1849; 1862-1870. (State Historical Society of North Dakota State Archives). WorldCat record id: 17998655 James Wickes Taylor, consular officer, author and journalist, was born in Starkey, New York. He graduated from Hamilton ...

Whitefield, Wilfred, 1839-1926

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