Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, 1827-1935, bulk 1850-1897.

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Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, 1827-1935, bulk 1850-1897.

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Correspondence, writings, diaries, and journals documenting family and rural life, as well as early business correspondence and records, and a few photographs, all pertaining to Isaac Stevens Metcalf and the Metcalf, Furber, and Putnam families.

10.8 linear feet (20 boxes and 1 oversize folder)

Newberry Library

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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...

Midwest manuscript Collection (Newberry Library)

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Bowdoin College

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Furber family.

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DeWitt family.

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Mason, R. B. (Roswell B.), 1805-1892

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Civil engineer. From the description of Letter to R.F. Barnard, 1845. (State Library of Massachusetts). WorldCat record id: 70968030 ...

Putnam family.

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Rich family.

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DuQuoin Coal Company

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Illinois Central Railroad Company

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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

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Railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois during the second half of the 19th century. Isaac Stevens Metcalf was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, on Jan. 29, 1822. His father, Isaac Metcalf, had married Lucy Heywood in 1810; she died childless in 1820. In March 1821 he married Anna Mayo Stevens Rich, the widow of Charles Rich, by whom she had had three children (named Charles, Elizabeth Anna, and Almeida). Isaac was born to Metcalf and Rich,...

Metcalf, Antoinette Brigham Putnam, 1829-1875.

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Putnam, John Milton, 1794-1871

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Metcalf family.

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