Letter : Adelong, New South Wales, [Australia], to Postmaster, Chatham, Illinois, 1866 May 18.

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Letter : Adelong, New South Wales, [Australia], to Postmaster, Chatham, Illinois, 1866 May 18.

Inquires as to the whereabouts of his family from whom he has not heard since 1852; gives some details on his life and mining in Australia.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7270557

Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Baker, Edward Dickinson, 1811-1861

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Born in London in 1811 to schoolteacher Edward Baker and Lucy Dickinson Baker, poor but educated Quakers, the boy Edward Baker and his family left England and emigrated to the United States in 1816, arriving in Philadelphia, where Baker's father established a school. Ed attended his father's school before quitting to apprentice as a loom operator in a weaving factory. In 1825, the family left Philadelphia and traveled to New Harmony, Indiana, a utopian community on the Ohio River led by Robert O...

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