Letter : to Mr. W.M. Camp, Chicago, Ill., 1916 Feb. 18, 1919 Mar. 6.

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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Spalding, Henry Harmon, 1803-1874

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Reverend Henry Harmon Spalding, pioneer Presbyterian missionary in the Oregon Territory, was born on November 26, 1803 in New York. In 1836, after successfully applying for an appointment under the auspices of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions, Spalding traveled overland to Oregon with his first wife, Eliza Hart Spalding, and Marcus and Narcissa Whitman. Later that year he founded the Nez Percé Indian mission at Lapwai, where he remained until the Whitman Massacre in 1847...

McBeth, Kate C., 1832-1915

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McBeth, Sue L., -1893

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Crawford, Mazie.

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Mazie Crawford moved from her home in Ohio to the Nez Perce reservation in northern Idaho in 1895. There she joined her aunt Kate McBeth and began assisting her in missionary work among the Nez Percé Indians. Kate McBeth and her older sister Sue McBeth had arrived on the reservation in the 1870's and dedicated their lives to the religious and educational mission. From the description of Letter : to Mr. W.M. Camp, Chicago, Ill., 1916 Feb. 18, 1919 Mar. 6. (Ne...

Camp, Walter Mason, 1867-1925

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Born in 1867, Walter Mason Camp was a civil engineer who worked for the railroad and spent many summers traveling throughout the country interviewing various participants and survivors of the Indian wars. He died in 1925. From the guide to the Camp mss., 1873-1918, (Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)) Railway engineer; editor; and, (avocationally) a historian of the Indian Wars of the U.S. Plains, 1865-1890. He avidly researched the Indian wars from 1890 to 1925...