Diary : Moravia, N.Y., to Calif., Mar. 19 - [Dec.?], 1849, 1871.

Newberry Library

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The Newberry was founded on July 1, 1887 and opened for business on September 6 of that year. The Newberry’s establishment came about because of a contingent provision in the will of Chicago businessman Walter L. Newberry (1804-68), which left what later amounted to approximately $2.2 million for the foundation of a “free, public” library on the north side of the Chicago River, if his two children died without issue. After the deaths of Mr. Newberry’s daughters and then, in 1885, of his widow, t...

Edward E. Ayer Manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Jennings, Samuel C.

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Physician, overland traveler, and California gold miner. In 1849, Samuel C. Jennings, a married resident of Moravia, N.Y., joined the Ithaca Company, a company of overlanders formed in Ithaca, N.Y. Departing Ithaca on Mar. 21, 1849, the company traveled via Wilkes Barre, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, and St. Louis to Independence, Mo., where they set out equipped with pack mules, horses and two wagons for the Santa Fe Trail. From Bent's Fort, the party, guided by a Mr. Kinney ...

Ithaca Company.

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