Native Americans in Illinois collection, 1684-1970.

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Native Americans in Illinois collection, 1684-1970.

Correspondence, maps (1684-1939), books, brochures, histories, and other printed material relating to Native American history and culture including Indian trails and villages in Chicago, relocation of Native Americans, United States trading houses, Fort Dearborn, and trees used as markers on trails. Includes histories written by J. Seymour Currey, Frederick Starr, Phyllis Connolly, Milo M. Quaife, and J. Evarts Greene.

.5 linear ft.

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SNAC Resource ID: 8057634

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Greene, J. Evarts (Jeremiah Evarts), 1834-1902

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Jeremiah Evarts Greene (1834-1902) was a civil engineer, lawyer, soldier in the Civil War, an editorial writer for the _Worcester Spy_, and Worcester postmaster. From the description of Papers, 1842, 1848-1910. (American Antiquarian Society). WorldCat record id: 191259390 ...

Starr, Frederick, 1858-1933

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Starr was born in Auburn, NY, Sept. 2, 1858; graduated from Lafayette College in 1882, and received his Ph. D in 1885; professor of biology, Coe College, 1883-87; Curator of Ethnology, American Museum of Natural History, New York, 1889-91; professor and Dean of the Science Dept., Pomona College, 1891; assoc. professor, Univ. of Chicago, 1895-1923; publications related to Mexico include: Some first steps in human progress (1895), American Indians (1898), Indians of Southern Mexico (1898), Reading...

Quaife, Milo Milton, 1880-1959

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Milo M. Quaife was born in Nashua, Iowa on October 6, 1880, the son of Albert E. and Barbara S. (Hine) Quaife. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1908. Dr. Quaife taught at Lewis Institute in Chicago, Wayne University and the University of Detroit. He served as superintendent of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin from 1914 until 1920. He was editor and founder of Wisconsin Magazine of History to 1.922 and managing editor of Mississippi Valle, Historical Review, 1924-1...

Connolly, Phyllis.

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Currey, J. Seymour (Josiah Seymour), 1844-1928

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President of the Evanston Historical Society; local trustee of the township of Evanston. From the description of Papers, 1869-1929. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 70926572 ...