Ephemera, 1841-1904.

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Ephemera, 1841-1904.

Postage bill (1841); Chicago Light Artillery ball invitation (1854); ticket to state fair at Peoria (1862); ticket to Chicago Academy of Design (1870); Odd Fellows' and Masons' Building Association, Quincy, Illinois certificate (1871); envelope (1887); ticket, Chicago to Indiana Harbor and return (1903); 2 tickets to Democratic National Convention in St. Louis (1904).

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Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library

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Chicago Academy of Design

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Jones, K. K. (Kiler Kent), 1825-fl. 1880.

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Quincy, Illinois businessman and farmer, and former Chicago newspaper editor and grain dealer. He was involved in Republican politics. From the description of Correspondence, October 25, 1876-March 4, 1877. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 230922081 ...

Chicago Light Guard.

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Odd Fellows' and Masons' Building Association (Quincy, Ill.)

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Volk, Leonard Wells, 1828-1895

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Leonard Wells Volk (1828-1895) was an American sculptor. Born November 7, 1828 in Wellstown (now Wells), New York, he was one of twelve children of Garrett and Elizabeth Gesner Volk. At sixteen he began work as a marble cutter in his father's shop in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Four years later, in 1848, he went to St. Louis, Missouri, where he opened a studio and studied drawing and modeling independent of formal instruction. Stephen A. Douglas, a cousin of Volk's wife, became inter...