Papers, 1816-1872.

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Papers, 1816-1872.

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Letters, usually written while on buying trips, to his wife. Usually discuss family business, Springfield news and friends. Sometimes refers to his buying. One letter refers to some problems within the Presbyterian church in Springfield. One letter from New Orleans, Feb.?, refers to the sabbath being used as a parade day for fun and frolic and discusses the goings on. Letter from his sister Ann and his wife, Susan. One notice, signed by Lamb and David J. Baker, 1825, of two pauper's public sale in Kaskaskia, to last for one year.

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First Presbyterian Church of Springfield.

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Lamb family.

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Lamb, James L., 1800-1873.

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Springfield, Ill. merchant who came from Fayette County Pennsylvania 1820, first settling in Kaskaskia where he was in the mercantile and pork packing business. He married Susan Cranmer, of Cincinnati, in 1824. They moved to Springfield in 1831, where he continued a mercantile and pork packing business. The Lamb family had been Quaker, but James was an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Springfield and a director of the Theological Seminary of the Northwest in Chicago. From th...