Parish family papers, 1884-1896.

World's Columbian Exposition (1893 : Chicago, Ill.)

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The World's Columbian Exposition, also known as the Chicago World’s Fair, was organized in celebration of the 400th anniversary of Christopher Columbus’s landing in America. The fairgrounds, open from May 1, 1893 until October 30, 1893, were designed by Frederick Law Olmstead and covered more than 630 acres in Jackson Park and the Midway Plaisance. Daniel Burnham oversaw the construction of nearly 200 new buildings for the fair, most of which were designed in the Beaux-Arts style. 27 million peo...

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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Luey, Lester Lyman

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Parish, Martha Ellen Luey

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Materials primarily related to Martha Ellen Luey Parish, married to Chicago cabinet hardware manufacturer Charles Pomeroy Parish. Martha Ellen Luey was born in 1850 in Greenfield, Massachusetts, the daughter of Lester L. Luey and Mary Moody Luey. The third of five children, she lived with her family in Greenfield until she married Charles P. Parish on December 27, 1881. Charles Parish's family was from Omaha, Nebraska, but Charles and Flora, his sister, grew up in Kenosh...

Parish, Charles Pomeroy

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