Julia Butler Newberry and family papers, 1800-1921.

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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Clapp, James, 1785-1854.

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Clapp family.

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Newberry, Julia Butler, 1818-1885.

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Devereaux family.

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Slingluff, Jesse,

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Julia Butler Newberry, born Julia Butler Clapp in 1818, was the wife of Walter Loomis Newberry, a prominent Chicago businessman whose fortune went to establish the Newberry Library. Among Julia Butler Newberry's immediate family (other than her husband and her two daughters Julia Rosa and Mary Louisa) were her father Joseph Clapp, brothers Benjamin C. Butler, Nicholas Devereux Clapp and James Clapp, Jr., aunts Mary Butler Devereux and Elizabeth Butler, and uncle John Cla...

Kernan family.

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Newberry, Walter Loomis, 1804-1886.

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Butler family.

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