Flower and Coues family scrapbooks, 1858-1912.

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Flower and Coues family scrapbooks, 1858-1912.

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Newsclipping scrapbooks of Lucy Louisa Coues Flower (Mrs. James Monroe Flower), Chicago social welfare leader, and of her brother Elliott Coues, an ornithologist. The collection also includes materials by and about her father Samuel Elliott Coues, a merchant and reformer; her brother Samuel Franklin Coues, a surgeon; her son Elliott Flower, a journalist and dramatist; and her daughter Harriet Dean Flower Smith Farwell. Topics include Mrs. Flower's teaching in Madison (Wis.).; child welfare and political activities, service on the Chicago Board of Education and the Chicago Woman's Club; the Chicago high school named in her honor, her election in 1894 as a trustee of the University of Illinois (the first woman elected to a state office in Illinois), the Illinois Training School for Nurses; her brother's letters from China in 1860; and various scientific interests of Elliott Coues.

1 linear ft. (2 boxes)

Chicago History Museum

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Chicago History Museum

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Flower, Lucy Louisa Coues, 1837-1921.

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Chicago Woman's Club (Chicago, Ill.)

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Flower, Elliott, 1863-1920

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Farwell, Harriet S.

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Madison High School (Madison, Wis.)

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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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Chartered as Illinois Industrial University 1867; adopted name University of Illinois in 1885 and know as the Urbana-Champaign campus; became University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1966). From the description of Afro-American Studies and Research Program records, 1980-1984. (Fisk University). WorldCat record id: 70970126 ...

Coues, Samuel Elliott, 1797-1867

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Coues, Elliott, 1842-1899

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American naturalist. From the description of ALS, 1874 Aug. 25, Rocky Mountains, lat. 40° N [Montana], to Thomas George Gentry. (Rosenbach Museum & Library). WorldCat record id: 122617038 William Clark requested that Nicholas Biddle, scholar, statesman, and financier, write a narrative of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, which was published in 1814 as "History of the Expedition of Captains Lewis and Clark." From the guide to the Nicholas Biddle correspondence,...

Illinois Training School for Nurses (Chicago, Ill.)

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Chicago, Ill. Board of Education

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Coues, Samuel F. (Samuel Franklin), 1825-1916

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Samuel Franklin Coues, of New Hampshire, was born on 17 Sept. 1825; he died on 1 May 1916. Coues received an M.D. from Jefferson Medical College in 1849. He entered the U.S. Navy and became an assistant surgeon, 1851, surgeon, 1861, and medical director, 1876. From 1884 to 1887, Coueswas president of the naval examining board in Philadelphia; in 1887, he had charge of the naval hospital in Chelsea, Mass. Coues retired with the rank of rear admiral in 1906. From the description of Ess...

Flower Vocational High School (Chicago, Ill.)

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