Steele-Winters family papers, 1860-2009, bulk 1900-1970.

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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MacMurray College.

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Winters, Robert Ulney, 1908-1978.

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Steele, Georgia Baker.

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Civilian Conservation Corps (U.S.)

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The Civilian Conservation Corps, a federal agency, was created as part of the New Deal in 1935. From the description of Civilian Conservation Corps photograph collection [graphic]. 1936. (Santa Fe Public Library). WorldCat record id: 38548415 On March 31, 1933, congress passed the Emergency Conservation Work Act, creating the Civilian Conservation Corps. On April 5, the president appointed Robert Fechner of Tennessee as Director of Emergency Conservation Work. Fechner, a vic...

Winters, Helen Steele, 1912-1999.

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Pioneer families who settled and farmed in and around the Bureau County area of Illinois. Forrest G. Steele was born in 1882 in Dover, Illinois, the son of George and Eliza Hensel Steele, both of whose families had homesteaded in northwestern Illinois since the early 1800s. He married Georgia Mae Baker in 1909. Georgia M. Baker was born in 1884 in Tiskilwa, Illinois, to parents Amanda and John Wesley Baker. She attended De Kalb and Northwestern Universities and taught sc...

Baker family.

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Steele family.

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Winters family.

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