Modern Manuscript Collections: Family Papers

Adams, John, 1735-1826. SEE Strauss, Herbert R., 1899-1974. Herbert R. Strauss collection of Adams family letters, 1763-1829.

Ade, George, 1866-1944. Papers, 1865-1971.
6 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works, newspaper and magazine clippings, photographs, miscellaneous pictorial items and memorabilia documenting the literary and personal life of George Ade, Midwestern journalist, humorist and playwright, best known for his Chicago Record column, "Stories of the Streets and of the Town," and for his Fables in Slang.
Subjects: Literature; Family; Journalism
Call Number: Midwest MS Ade (formerly Ad)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Adler, Dankmar, 1844-1900. Papers, 1865-1897.
9 cubic ft.
Correspondence, short autobiography, writings, articles, genealogy, books, clippings, photographs, and pictures relating to Dankmar Adler, Chicago architect and sometime partner of Louis Sullivan. Also other materials accumulated by Joan W. Saltzstein, Adler's great granddaughter, for her study of Adler and his numerous architectural projects, including the Auditorium Theater.
Subjects: Arts; Chicago; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Adler
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 1
Finding Aids:
Selected catalog cards for small portion of collection in Miscellaneous Small Collections: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Main body of collection available by appointment only.

Andruss, William B. (William Benajah). Diary and commissions, 1855-1876.
0.1 cubic ft. (8 items)
Amboy, Lee County, Ill., merchant and operator of a daguerreotype studio. Diary, Mar. 10, 1855 - Apr. 3, 1856, documents Andruss' daily activities, travel, photography business, and emigration via Bellevue, Mich., with his family to Amboy. Also seven commissions and appointments to public office in Lee County, 1860-1877.
Subjects: Business; Family
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3002
Collection Stack Location: Vault 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.

Aten, Henry J. Papers, 1896-1910.
0.5 cubic ft.
Material collected by Henry J. Aten of Hiawatha, Kansas, for a history of the Aten family, consisting of family letters, clippings, documents and copies of wills.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Aten
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Atwater, Adeline. Papers, 1932-1956.
1 cubic foot (2 boxes)
Literary manuscripts, autobiography and diary of Adeline Lobdell Atwater, Chicago writer. In her autobiography, Atwater writes about the Iroquois Theater Fire, birth control, divorce and her children's education in the Montessori Method. She also writes about her ten years in New York working at art galleries.
Subjects: Literature; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Atwater (formerly At)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 36 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Babcock, Orville Elias, 1835-1884. Papers, 1792-1947, bulk 1865-1884.
8 cubic ft.
Orville E. Babcock, soldier and engineer, served as Ulysses S. Grant's aide-de-camp during the Civil War and as Grant's private secretary during his presidency. Collection includes correspondence, documents, photos, memorabilia, clippings, and maps dealing with Babcock's military service, service to Grant, the Santo Domingo annexation movement, the Whiskey Ring scandal of 1875-6, and the Babcock family.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Babcock (formerly Ba)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog Cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Badger, Elvira Sheridan. Papers, 1859-ca. 1930, bulk 1859-1878.
1 cubic ft.
Three personal diaries and one diary fragment kept by Elvira Cecelia Sheridan Badger of Kentucky and Illinois, spanning the years 1859 through 1878. Also popular antebellum piano music compiled and bound for Badger before her marriage. Diary entries concern the daily lives of a well-to-do family, including their 1861 move to Chicago, Illinois. Sentiment in Kentucky regarding the approach of the Civil War, relations with and freeing of the family's slaves, and news of the war are also noted.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Badger
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 12
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Ballard, Eugene F. Papers, 1907-1933.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Materials of Eugene F. Ballard of Denver, Colorado, kept for his genealogical work to be entitled Ballard Family. Consists of a hard-bound record book and a few letters relating to his quest for information.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 69
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Ballenger, Thomas Lee, 1882-1987. Papers, 1730-1968, bulk 1835-1968.
7.5 cubic ft. (15 boxes and 14 rolls).
Writings, and genealogical notes and charts by Thomas Lee Ballenger, teacher, historian, and author, relating to Cherokee and Oklahoma families and the history of the Cherokee Nation, together with Cherokee documents, photographs, and artifacts collected by Ballenger.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: Ayer Modern MS Ballenger
Collection Stack Location: 3 60 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Barker, James Madison, 1886-1974. Papers, 1920-1970.
49 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman, director of Sears Roebuck and chairman of Allstate, and Newberry Trustee, 1948-1965. Barker's papers consist of documents, letters, speeches, and essays regarding the Newberry and his Chicago and overseas business activities; personal diaries; and information about the Barker family, including the family newsletter, "The Lake," which documented daily family activities and observations of Chicago life.
Subjects: Business; Family; Newberry Library
Call Number: Midwest MS Barker
Collection Stack Location: 3a 54 8-12; 3a 54 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Barkhausen family. Papers, 1854-1889.
0.1 cubic ft.
Small collection of family documents, all in German, relating to the Barkhausen family of Mequon, Manitowoc County, Wisconsin. Includes correspondence, 1854-1862, a small notebook, ca. 1857-1872, and an account book, 1888-1889.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 74
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Barlow family. Papers, 1816-1851.
17 items (1 portfolio)
A small collection relating to two men, both named William Barlow, possibly father and son. Consists of letters, a poem, a notebook of a sermon and a draft of an address to the American Institute in Washington, D.C. by Rev. William Barlow, correspondence from William Barlow the younger to Matilda Richards Barlow, and an undated, unidentified cabinet photograph of two women.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS 41
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.

Barnes, Alfred. Papers, 1834-1838.
0.1 cubic ft. (1 folder)
Seven letters from Alfred Barnes of Hartford, Connecticut, to his sister Julia A. Barnes of Northhampton, Massachusetts and Evansville, Indiana. Letters discuss family news and personal business, mostly about trying to find a livelihood.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 75
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Barnes, Edward A. Papers, 1865-1893.
0.5 cubic ft.
Journals from 1865 to 1895 kept by amateur Chicago poet, Edward A. Barnes. Also, a large group of printed poetry and music.
Subjects: Family; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Barnes E
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Barrett, Samuel Eddy. Barrett family papers, 1829-1948.
0.1 cubic ft.
Primarily letters of Samuel Eddy Barrett to his wife Alice Barrett, written while traveling in the Far East, 1906-1907. Also one 1829 letter and several 1948 letters regarding Barrett property in Cornish, New Hampshire.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 76
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Barstow, C. H. (Charles H.). Papers, 1870-1891.
0.5 cubic ft.
United States Indian Service employee stationed at the Crow Agency, Montana Territory. Mainly correspondence, 1875-1891, written by C.H. Barstow at the Crow Agency, to his sister, Eliza, and brother, Rogers L. Barstow, in Massachusetts. Also several letters from Barstow's wife to his sister and brother, miscellaneous correspondence of Rogers Barstow, other family members, and friends, and a Nov. 10, 1887 issue of The Montana Stock Gazette.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3014 (Formerly Ayer MS 55b and 55c).
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.

Batchelder, John Davis, 1872-1958. Papers, 1876-1957.
1 cubic ft.
Miscellaneous collection of John Davis Batchelder, turn-of-the-century independently wealthy Midwesterner who lived mostly in Europe, collecting books and objects of interest. Includes a diary, a journal, diplomas, lists of objects, and annotate volumes of Shakespeare, and a photograph album.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Batchelder
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Beckwith, Mrs. John. Papers, ca. 1890-1910.
0.1 cubic feet (1 folder)
Eleven calling cards presented to Mrs. Beckwith by members of prominent Chicago families including the Armour, Field, Lodge, McClurg, McCormick and Palmer families.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 125
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary description: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Beezley, Charles F. Papers, 1930-1960.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box)
Correspondence between Charles F. Beezley, Jr., and Florencio Molina Campos, and between Beezley and Stanley Pargellis from various places, 1943-1947. Also carbons, clippings, printed matter.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Beezley
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Bentley, R. Ford (Robert Ford), 1909-1994. Papers, 1910-1988.
2.5 cubic ft.
Personal, family, and professional papers including: photographs and genealogical materials relating to Robert Ford Bentley, Chicago marketing and advertising executive with the Miehle Printing Press and Manufacturing Co.
Subjects: Business; Family; Printing and Book Arts
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Bentley
Collection Stack Location: 3a 52 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Beveridge, Catherine Eddy. Papers, 1703-2004, bulk 1870-1910.
6 cubic ft. (11 boxes and 1 oversize box)
Papers of Catherine Eddy Beveridge, Chicago diarist, socialite, and philanthropist, consisting of her diary, correspondence, photographs, and other materials. Also correspondence, writings, photographs and genealogical information concerning to the Spencer, Eddy, Caton, Beveridge and other related families, and an album containing correspondence from participants in the 1893 World's Parliament of Religions.
Subjects: Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Beveridge
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 10
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.

Binder, Carroll, 1896-1956. Papers, 1910-1967, bulk 1920-1955.
19.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, clippings, photographs, works in manuscript and print, and other papers of Carroll Binder, who served as labor reporter, war correspondent, foreign correspondent, publisher's assistant, editorial writer, and foreign service editor at the Chicago Daily News, and as editorial editor at the Minneapolis Star and the morning and Sunday Tribune. Also included: material on leftist organizations including the Workers Party of America and I.W.W., family correspondence, chiefly of Binder's wife, Dorothy (Wilton) Binder, and some genealogical information.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Social Action; Women
Call number: Midwest MS Binder (formerly Bi)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 9-10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Blackburn family. Papers, 1803-1907.
0.1 cubic ft. (2 folders)
Papers of A. B. Blackburn, A. W. Blackburn, W. H. Blackburn of North Carolina, and other family members. Consists of correspondence, journal account book, financial documents, deeds, wills, Civil War documents, and other miscellaneous items.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 71
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Blatchford family. Papers, 1830-1990.
96 cubic ft.
Extensive collection of letters, photographs, scrapbooks, diaries, writings, and genealogical research materials centering around Chicago lead manufacturer, Newberry Library founding trustee, and Christian social activist Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford, his wife Mary Williams Blatchford, their parents and grandparents, and the families of their children, especially son Paul Blatchford, but also daughter Amy Blatchford Bliss. Families represented most heavily include Blatchford, Williams, Bliss, Lord, Fowler, and Alberts. Among the many gems in this massive and wonderful collection are letters to Mary Williams Blatchford while she attended Yale as a special student (1854-1855), Civil War letters of E. W. Blatchford (Chicago Sanitary Commission) and his uncle Edward Williams (U.S. Christian Commission work at military hospitals), courtship, post-marriage, parent-child, and travel correspondence of succeeding generations, scrapbooks and correspondence re World War I military hospitals in Europe, and correspondence, photographs, reports, and pamphlets regarding the American University of Beirut, Lebanon, and the Middle East.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Newberry Library; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Blatchford
Collection Stack Location: 3a 51 8-10; 3a 56 1-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Blatchford family. Papers - Additions, 1835-1948.
0.5 cubic feet (2 boxes)
Small collection of papers mainly of Eliphalet Wickes Blatchford and Edward Williams Blatchford, pertaining primarily to the opening and administration of the John Crerar Library (1897-1910) and the history and operation (1916-1918) of Illinois College in Jacksonville, Illinois. Also pre-Civil War materials of John Blatchford and Eliphalet Wickes, and few later items from Paul Blatchford.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Blatchford 2
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog .
Inventory: Online.

Blatchford, E.W. (Eliphalet Wickes), 1826-1914. Papers, 1836-1914, bulk 1880-1914.
10 cubic ft.
Chicago lead pipe manufacturer, co-executor of Walter L. Newberry's will, and first president of the Newberry Library Board of Trustees, 1892-1914. Papers include letters, notes, documents, photographs, scrapbooks and clippings relating to his family, his business ventures, his work at the Newberry, and his involvement with Chicago social, charitable and educational organizations.
Subjects: Business; Family; Newberry Library; Religion
Call Number: Archives 02/15/01 (formerly Bl)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 6 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Summary and photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Guide to the Newberry Library Archives.

Bowe, Augustine Joseph, 1892-1966. Papers, 1903-1966.
15 cubic ft.
Personal and literary papers (correspondence, writings, photographs, and scrapbooks) of Chicago lawyer, jurist, civic leader and poet Augustine Bowe, documenting his active involvement with Poetry: A Magazine of Verse and Loyola University, and the family and philanthropic activities of Bowe and his wife, Julia.
Subjects: Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Bowe (formerly Bo)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 3-4
Finding Aids:
Catalog cards for selected correspondents: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.

Boyce-Gilbert family. Papers, 1831-1996.
0.3 cubic ft.
Copies of LeRoy Boyce journal, Simeon Leonard Boyce journal, Elisabeth B. Gilbert journal, and "The Gilbert Genealogy" by Leonard B. Gilbert, 1996. Also photographic copy of Helen Boyce's dollhouse book, ca. 1899.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Boyce
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Briggs family. Papers, 1837-1910.
0.1 cubic ft. (1 folder)
Letters between Briggs family members of Ohio and Indiana.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 72
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Brown, Edward E. (Edward Eagle), 1885-1959. Papers, 1715-1959.
12 cubic ft. (21 boxes)
Correspondence, bills, receipts, sailing orders, scrapbooks, clippings, photographs, memorabilia and other documents and papers relating to the Brown family. Includes records of Capt. William Brown's sea voyages in the early 1800's, material relating to Chicago lawyer Edward Eagle Brown and his father, Chicago lawyer and jurist Edward Osgood Brown (1847-1923).
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Brown (formerly Bp)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level Catalog Card: NUCMC (1966).
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Bunch, Alma L. Papers, 1860-1958.
0.5 cubic ft.
Mostly photographs of Chicagoan Alma Bunch and her family and friends, plus a small amount of memorabilia retained by Bunch. Also genealogical correspondence regarding the name "Bunch," written in the 1950's.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Bunch
Collection Stack Location: 3a 37 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Carpenter family. Papers, 1869-1947.
0.5 cubic ft.
Material relating to the Carpenter family of Chicago which includes correspondence, documents, a volume of 1890 court cases, extensive genealogical letters and documents, photographs and memorabilia.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Carpenter family
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Carter, Thomas Butler. Papers, 1831-1898.
0.1 cubic ft.
Forty-five letters from Thomas B. Carter of Chicago to his cousin Aaron Carter in New Jersey which give interesting descriptions of early Chicago. Also, a few other letters and minor family documents, 6 studio photos, and two advertising cards.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 127
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Cartwright Family. Papers, 1877-1982.
1.5 cubic ft.
Three generations of an Ohio family that moved to Evanston, Ill., in the early 20th century and whose members were primarily journalists, including Charles Merritt Cartwright (Chicago Tribune and Chicago Inter-Ocean editor), Stanley Levering Cartwright (Chicago Tribune reporter and editor of the National Underwriter), and Ruth Russell, Stanley's wife (feature editor for the Chicago Daily News). Papers include biographical information, correspondence, photographs, clippings of Charles Merritt Cartwright's articles for the Inter-Ocean, and articles written by Ruth and Stanley Levering Cartwright.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cartwright
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Chandler, Daniel Lyman. Papers, 1855-1860.
0.1 cubic ft.
Letters written by Daniel Lyman Chandler from Chicago and the Kansas Territory between 1855 and 1860.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 128
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.

Coker, Robert Adams. Letters, 1823-1832.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence of West Newbury, Massachusetts, native and mathematics teacher Robert Adams Coker, who graduated from Harvard in 1831, and died of tuberculosis in 1833. Letters from friends and family begin when Coker was around sixteen, and include Harvard friend George C. Coombs, and Coker's employer John Lee Watson, at the Highland School near West Point. There are also letters from Coker to his family describing his teaching situation and his declining health. Also photocopies of letters from the Harvard College Archives.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 130
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Colby, Carlos W. Papers, 1821-1937, bulk 1861-1865.
1 cubic foot.
Second Corporal, 97th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, Company G.
Consists of 129 letters home, 1862-1865, from Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, and Florida, describing all aspects of daily camp life, covering such topics as accommodations, food, clothing, health, weather, scenery, transportation, and weaponry. The letters also reveal social and racial attitudes, moral and mental states, and patriotic sentiments and contain observations on military leaders (Ulysses S. Grant). Colby includes graphic descriptions of particular battles and skirmishes (Vicksburg, Fort Blakely, and Jackson). There are also 12 Civil War letters of future brother-in-law James Rowe, 1862-1865, who served as an infantryman and hospital steward, reminiscences by Colby, and tintypes of Colby as a soldier.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10014
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Cox-Allen family. Papers, 1862-1865.
1 cubic ft.
Courtship letters between Gideon Winan Allen, a student at Madison, Wisc., and Ann Arbor, Mich., and Annie Cox of Madison. Allen was a Copperhead Democrat; his letters contain a student's views on the war and politics.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Cox-Allen (formerly Cox)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.

Cross, Louis J. Diaries, 1932-1973.
3 cubic ft. (3 boxes)
Diaries of Louis J. Cross, lifelong resident of Chicago and the near west suburbs. Cross was a devout Catholic, devoted father, a bond salesman who became a partner first at Paul H. Davis & Co. and later at Hornblower & Weeks-Hemphill Noyes. Diary entries record all his daily activities, and there are a number of clippings slipped or pasted in. Included are a number of adverse comments about FDR and Truman, and also monthly personal sales figures, stock market averages, and investment trends.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Cross
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Dahlgren, John Adolphus Bernard, 1809-1870. Papers, 1858-1870.
0.1 cubic feet.
Collection contains 46 letters from U.S. naval officer and inventor of ordnance John Adolphus Bernard Dahlgren to his sister, Martha Matilda ("Patty") Dahlgren, one letter to his son Ulrich (1842-1864), and a letter to "Mary." The collection also includes one letter from Ulrich to his Aunt Patty, and a letter from F. A. W. Davis to Dahlgren, regarding Dahlgren's nephew Bernard. Printed poem and newspaper clippings relating to Ulrich's death in an attempted raid on Richmond, Virginia are included as well.
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS E5.D136
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.

Daland, Emily Eliot. Papers, 1916-1933.
0.2 cubic ft.
Mainly letters of Emily Eliot Daland of Massachusetts to Helen Gerard in Florence, Italy, regarding her daughter Pauline Gerard's small estate, of which Daland was guardian. Topics in the letters include World War I shortages and hardships, the influenza epidemic, women's suffrage, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. Also family photographs.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 155
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Darrow, Jessie Ohl. Darrow family scrapbooks, ca. 1881-1925.
2 cubic ft.
Four scrapbooks of newspaper clippings, school papers and a few pieces of memorabilia, including two scrapbooks kept by Clarence Darrow's first wife, Jessie Ohl Darrow, one by her son Paul Darrow, and one by someone unknown, possibly Jessie. The books contain many articles by and about the career of Clarence Darrow; also, some articles referring to Greeley, Colorado, sometime home of Clarence Darrow's son Paul, and a collection of Paul's early school papers.
Subjects: Family; Social Action
Call Number: Midwest MS Darrow
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Davis, Charles A., fl. 1900. Papers, 1854-1901.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Charles A. Davis left Cincinnati, Ohio, on May 22, 1900, to take a job as a court reporter in Manila after the Americans had taken control of the Philippines. His wife, Bess, joined him in Manila in 1901. This collection consists of letters and photographs that describe Mr. and Mrs. Davis' lives in Manila. It also includes a travel journal in Spanish from 1854, titled "Memorias sobre las Yslas Filipinas," that Mr. and Mrs. Davis acquired.
Subjects: Family; Photographs; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 1980.
Collection Stack Location: Vault 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.

Dawes, E. C. (Ephraim Cutler), b. 1840. Papers, 1836-1905, bulk 1855-1895.
4 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, mementos and scrapbooks of Union Army officer (1st lieutenant and adjutant, major, 53rd Ohio Volunteer Infantry) and industrialist Ephraim Cutler Dawes, covering his military service (in Tennessee, Mississippi, and in Sherman's advance against Atlanta, until he was wounded on May 28, 1864. Also documents Dawes' activities in the rail and coal industries. Includes a letter from P. H. Sheridan.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Dawes (formerly Daw)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 10
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog record for copies of diaries and letters, 1861-1863
Catalog record for Diary, 1862-1865
Inventory: Online.

Dawson, Mitchell, 1890-1956. Papers, 1810-1988.
39 cubic ft.
Illinois attorney, journalist, literary agent, poet, and patron to Carl Sandburg, Robert Frost, Theodore Dreiser, Marcel Duchamp, William Carlos Williams, Maxwell Bodenheim, and Robert McAlmon. Dawson's papers include his works and correspondence, as well as diaries, correspondence, photographs, memoirs, etc., of George E. Dawson, and other members of the Dawson, Manierre, and Hahn families.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Dawson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 4-5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Deal, George, ca. 1825-1964. Papers, 1862-1975, bulk 1862-1864.
0.5 cubic ft.
Fifty-five letters and fragments of letters from George Deal, Ohio Union soldier in the Civil War, to his wife Sarah Cole Deal. Also, photographs of Sarah and George Deal, photocopies of army service records, three Confederate bills, and a few genealogical notes made by Deal's grandson.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10030
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.

Deane family. Papers, 1779-1893.
0.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, sermons, deeds, wills, and estate inventories of three generations of the Deane family of Connecticut and Illinois, including many letters from Lucretia Dean Gore, whose husband was a Congregational minister near Peoria, and her daughter, Mary Gore Richardson, who by 1893 was in Chicago. Topics include religion, illness and death, life in LaMoille, Illinois, family news, etc. Also letters of young cousin-friends Lucretia Mason Dean and Lucy Bond, 1802-1809, regarding courtship and other issues.
Subjects: Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Deane
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Dukes family. Papers, 1772-1900.
1 cubic ft. (6 volumes)
Correspondence of three generations of the Dukes family, of Shropshire, England, including Thomas Farmer Dukes, an attorney at Shrewsbury, William Henry Dukes, a chemist at Worcester, Thomas Farmer Dukes' son, Thomas William Dukes, and his children: Thomas, Henry, Robert, Edward, and Eliza. Correspondence is pasted in three volumes of the 1805, 1818, and 1821 censuses of the county of Shropshire. Also an album of carte de visite photographs of European royalty, political dignitaries, writers, and others; an indexed book of food and wine recipes, medical remedies, and instructions for making inks, varnished, cements, etc.; and a commonplace book.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Modern MS Dukes
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Endicott family. Papers, 1868-1994.
7.5 cubic ft.
Letters, photographs, and printed memorabilia of a downstate Illinois family with ties to New Castle and Richmond, Indiana, and Benton, Kansas. Additional family names include Redden, Gould, Smith, Dodge, and Fergus living in Greenville, Stubblefield, Villa Ridge, Pulaski, and Chicago, Illinois. Letter topics include women's employment and education, farming and hired help, poverty and loneliness, and Bryan's campaign.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Endicott
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Everett family. Papers, 1820-1930, bulk 1850-1890.
9 cubic ft.
The majority of this collection is family correspondence dated between 1850 and 1890. The collection covers several important movements in nineteenth century America, including the revivals of the second Great Awakening, abolition, temperance, women's rights, rights of African-Americans, and moral reform. Printing, education, immigration, and religion are all discussed within the papers. Papers include materials of Robert Everett, the pastor of a Utica, N.Y., Welch Congregationalist church and publisher of a Welsh religious reform magazine that was pro-abolition. Also included are letters and materials of Mary Howell, a graduate of New York Medical College and Hospital for Women, who was involved in the suffrage movement, and Cynthia Everett, a member of the American Missionary Association who taught freedmen in Norfolk, Virginia and Charleston, South Carolina following the Civil War. Includes a letter describing the Chicago Fire of 1871.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Everett
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 13
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available.

Fairbank-Graham family. Papers, 1827-1945.
25 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, photographs, journals, genealogical materials, business correspondence and documents centered around Helen Graham Fairbank and Nathan Kellogg Fairbank of Chicago, their parents and children. Letters and documents document the business activities of Chicago industrialist Fairbank and New York and Maryland industrialist John Andrew Graham, travel to Europe and South America, Eastern schooling, Lake Geneva summers, and civic activities including the Chicago Symphony, and Chicago clubs. The Carpenter and Beeckman families are also represented.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Fairbank-Graham
Collection Stack Location: 3a 38 14; 3a 57 1
Finding Aids:
Partial inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Fitch, Edward. Papers, 1852-1856.
0.5 cubic ft.
Primarily a series of letters between Luther Fitch of Portland, Maine and his son Edward in Chicago. Luther was a judge in Portland, Maine; his son sought his fortune in Chicago, and the letters document his requests for clothing and money. The subletting of Abraham Lincoln's apartment when he went to Congress is discussed. Some correspondence with Mrs. Luther Fitch, one advertising broadside, and biographical information are also included.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: VAULT Ruggles 121
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 30 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.

Fleming, John C., b. 1844. Papers, 1862-1906.
0.5 cubic ft.
Private, Chicago Board of Trade Battery, Horse Artillery, Illinois Volunteers.
Papers include letters, 1862-1865, written home to family from Kentucky, Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, mainly regarding camp life and daily activities.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Fleming (formerly Fl)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 11
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Flentye, Henry. Papers, 1852-1915.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Documents dealing with Henry Flentye's considerable land purchases in Chicago, Northfield, and Jefferson, including one autograph document from Walter Loomis Newberry, Aug. 2, 1858. Also builder's specification and architect's drawings for Flentye's home in Jefferson.
Subjects: Business; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Flentye (formerly Fle)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 11
Finding Aids:
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebook.

Franklin, Robert Scott, 1872-. Scrapbook, ca. 1890-1931.
3 folders.
Disbound scrapbook compiled by Robert Scott Franklin of Chillicothe, Ohio, which includes the following: photostat of the diary of Lt. James Swearingen recording the march from Ohio to Chicago, April-Aug. 1803, to oversee the building of Ft. Dearborn; detailed genealogical notes on Swearingen, Strode, Worthington, and Franklin families; copies of Swearingen letters; 2 portraits of Swearingen, miscellaneous notes, and newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 108
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Goodman, Kenneth Sawyer, 1883-1918. Papers, 1910-1919.
19 cubic ft.
Works in manuscript and print, programs, clippings, photographs, artifacts and memorabilia of Kenneth Sawyer Goodman, Chicago playwright, poet, and leader of the "little theater" movement in the early 20th century. The Goodman Theatre was built in his memory, after his early death. The collection also includes material from other members of his family (including journals and photographs).
Subjects: Family; Theater; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Goodman
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3-4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Goodwin, Paul. Goodwin family papers, 1802-1913.
0.5 cubic feet (1 box)
Correspondence of the Goodwin family from New York and Chicago. Includes some business correspondence, business records, and military records. Primarily correspondence from Solomon Goodwin of New York, a builder for the Mohawk & Hudson Railroad, and his son, Edward P. Goodwin, student at Amherst College, Mass., minister of First Congregational Church in Chicago, and Middle East traveler (1870).
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Goodwin
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Goodwin, Solomon, 1755-1833. Papers, 1776-ca. 1820.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box)
Three volume manuscript autobiography, together with a Revolutionary War soldier's journal, 1776-1777, and a manuscript concerning the "ancestors, connections, and descendents of Solomon Goodwin.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS E5 G 634
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 1
Finding Aids:
Catalog records, Online Catalog: - Autobiography and Genealogy.

Gookin family. Papers, 1864-1922.
3 cubic ft. (6 boxes)
Family correspondence, including letters from Chicago banker, artist, calligrapher, and designer Frederick Gookin to his wife, Marie S. Gookin, 1897-1922, documenting Chicago friends, city life, and sports when Mrs. Gookin was away. Also other family letters, diaries of Mary H. Gookin and her mother Elizabeth A. Gookin, 1864-1896, including one regarding daily attendance at the World's Columbian Exposition.
Subjects: Family; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Gookin family (formerly Go)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Graves, James Taylor. Papers, 1850-1891, bulk 1862-1867.
0.25 cubic ft.
Mainly Civil War (1862-1863) and European trip (1867) letters of James Taylor Graves addressed to his family. Graves' Civil War letters, written from Camp Miller at Greenfield, Mass., en route to Louisiana via New York City, and from various places in Louisiana, discuss camp life, ship transport, the treatment of Negroes, Southern guerrillas, skirmishes with Confederate forces, the siege of Port Hudson, and other topics. Written during a summer tour of London, Paris, Switzerland, Italy, and Germany, Graves' 1867 letters provide a detailed description of his travels to his family at home.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10010 (previously Miscellaneous Small Collections)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog card: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks

Hambleton, Chalkley Jay. Hambleton family papers, 1871-1932.
1 folder (4 letters and 1 clipping)
Four letters relating to the Hambleton family, one of which is a long and detailed account of fleeing the Chicago Fire of 1871 written by Emma L. Hambleton. Two letters and a clipping concern the Hambleton ranch in California; and one is by Vera Stock Wolfe, daughter of conductor Frederick Stock, containing amusing anecdotes about her father.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 22
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Harris, James Duncan, 1836-1862. James D. and Joseph W. Harris papers, 1824-1862.
0.2 cubic ft.
Mainly letters written by the brothers to their relatives while serving with the 30th Massachusetts Infantry Regiment. Letters of James D. Harris from occupied New Orleans (Apr.-Aug. 1862) document daily military life, battlefield horrors, and northern attitudes toward the South and its citizens. Letters from Joseph Whipple Harris describe life aboard ship in Panama and a visit to Hawaii in 1861. Also James D. Harris' pre-war letters containing descriptions of Chicago, materials documenting Joseph Whipple Harris' death, and miscellaneous family correspondence.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Harris J
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Harris family. Papers, 1837-1957
21 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, photographs, daybooks, ledgers, school papers, genealogical material, and memorabilia centering on Norman Wait Harris, founder of the Harris Bank of Chicago, and his wife, Emma Gale Harris from New Hampshire, and their parents, grandparents, children and grandchildren. Major families represented include Harris, Gale, Bent, Wingate, and MacLean. Collection includes the daybooks of New Hampshire physician Jonathon Greeley Gale, whaling ship logs, 19th century letters from the Bent family on the Iowa frontier, the courtship and husband/wife correspondence of Emma Gale Harris and Norman Wait Harris, and Stanley Gale Harris and Muriel Bent Harris, and letters of Dorothy Bent Lane written from various foreign embassies, 1917-1950. There are also student papers and correspondence, diaries, and many photographs of family members, Yosemite in 1900, and Lake Geneva, 1910-1915.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Harris family
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 2-3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Harrison, Carter H. (Carter Henry), 1860-1953. Papers, 1637-1953, bulk 1840-1950.
11.25 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, clippings, photographs, and memorabilia relating to five-time Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison IV (1860-1953) and his family, particularly his wife, Edith Ogden Harrison, and his father, Chicago Mayor Carter Henry Harrison III (1825-1893). The collection also includes a number of letters, autographs, and miscellaneous other documents from famous people that were not originally directed to Harrison or his family, but which Harrison kept as collectibles.
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Harrison (formerly Ha)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 39 1-2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online catalog and NUCMC (80-159).
Inventory: Online.

Hayden, Hannah. Letters, 1806-1866.
0.1 cubic ft.
Mainly letters written by Hannah Hayden from Hartford and Springfield, N.Y., to her parents and siblings in Windsor, Connecticut, discussing the details of everyday life: birth, death, accidents, sickness, meetings. Hayden and her husband had twelve children between 1803 and 1822, and ran sawmills in both New York towns.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 136
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Heath, Charles Andrews. Papers, 1880-1949.
0.2 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman, founder and president of Continental Seed Co. Includes typed excerpts from the diaries, 1880-1949, of Charles Andrews Heath, which discuss the Haymarket Riot, the World's Columbian Exposition, the World's Congress of Religions, the Galveston flood, and several wars. There are also typed transcripts of 1912 European trip letters from Heath's wife Jennie and children Alice and Albert, and a photograph of Heath.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Heath
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Höfeln family. Papers, 1831-1897.
1 cubic ft.
Chiefly letters from Germany to Charlotte Fischer, both before and after her marriage to Andreas von Höfeln, with whom she emigrated to Tazewell County, Illinois around 1850. Their son, Alexander Andrew Heflin worked for railroads in Kansas.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Höfeln (formerly Ho)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.

Hoffmann, John Augustus. Hoffmann family papers, 1789-1901.
0.1 cubic ft.
Correspondence and documents relating to the immigrant Hoffmann family, especially John A. Hoffmann of Illinois and Franz Joseph Hoffmann in Dubuque, Iowa. By 1901, the family had established a feed and fuel company in Wilmette, Illinois. All material is in German.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Hoffmann
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

How, Fisher. Papers, 1836-1842.
0.1 cubic ft. (1 folder)
Correspondence and documents relating to the creation and ownership of a land company in Steuben County, Indiana of which Fisher How (sometimes spelled Howe) of New York City was a shareholder and director.
Subjects: Business
Call Number: Midwest MS 83
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Howe-Barnard family. Papers, 1812-1980, bulk 1848-1950.
27 cubic ft.
Letters, writings, diaries, etc., covering over 150 years of family life in New England, Illinois, and Indiana. The bulk of the material centers around Alice Lucretia Barnard (1829-1908), one of the first woman principals in Chicago schools, Edward Gardiner Howe (1849-1931), a pioneer in incorporating field trips into scientific education classes, and Annie Lyon Howe (1852-1943), a missionary and educator in Japan for over forty years and founder of Christian kindergartens there. Also the Civil War letters of six family members.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Howe-Barnard
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 10-11
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Midwest MS information file available

Hurd, Ann Augusta Jaquins. Hurd-Arno family correspondence, 1834-1921.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Letters of a Wisconsin family mainly written by Mary Olivia Hurd Arno to her mother, Ann Augusta Hurd, 1886-1897, concerning domestic matters, pioneer settlement and land speculation in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and the Dakota Territory, and the financial hard times of the 1890's.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Hurd-Arno (formerly Hur)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Hutchinson, Charles Lawrence, 1854-1924. Papers, 1854-1924.
3 cubic ft.
Chicago merchant and banker, art collector, founder and president, 1882-1924, of the Chicago Academy of Fine Arts (later Art Institute), and University of Chicago trustee. Papers include correspondence with many prominent Chicagoans, clippings, and scrapbooks.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Hutchinson (formerly Hu)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 6-7
Finding Aids:
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Isham family. Papers, 1875-1923.
0.2 cubic ft.
Typescript letters and photographs of the Isham family of Chicago, including Dr. Ralph N. Isham, Katherine Isham (Mrs. Ralph W. Farwell), Harriet Isham (Mrs. George A. Carpenter), George Snow Isham, Nelson R. Isham, and also Charles N. Isham of Little Falls, N.Y. In addition to family portraits, there is a photograph of the U.S. Marine Hospital in Chicago, where Dr. Isham was surgeon in charge. Correspondence discusses the practice of medicine, travel in Russia in 1883, and an 1875 boat accident on Lake Michigan.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 102
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Jefferson, Thomas, 1743-1826. SEE Strauss, Herbert R., 1899-1974. Herbert R. Strauss collection of Thomas Jefferson letters, 1780-1823.

Johnson, Richard Colles. Richard Colles Johnson - Colles family papers, 1685-1998, bulk 1754-1998.
6.5 cubic ft. (13 boxes)
Personal papers of Richard Colles Johnson, long-time Newberry Library bibliographer of American literature and history, including his own correspondence and writings, but also an extensive collection that Johnson gathered of the papers of the Colles family of Ireland, which consist of the correspondence, subject files, photographs, art work, and writings of a number of Colles family members, but particularly Christopher Colles, 1739-1816. Christopher Colles was an engineer, inventor, and promoter who came to America in 1765. He was one of the first Americans to design a steam engine and to propose a canal connecting the Great Lakes with the Hudson River.
Subjects: Family; Newberry Library
Call Number: Midwest MS Johnson R
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 7
Finding Aids:
Preliminary Inventory: With collection.

Jordan, John W. Letters, 1892-1901.
0.1 cubic ft.
Letters from Col. John Ward Jordan, Louisville, Ky., to his nephew Scott of Chicago, mainly concerning Jordan and Ward family history.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 94
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Judson, Clay, 1892-1960. Papers, 1800-1963.
2 cubic ft.
Correspondence, writings, photographs and memorabilia of Chicago lawyer Clay Judson. There is World War I correspondence with Judson's mother, his wife-to-be, the artist Sylvia Shaw, his father, William Voorhees Judson, and son, Clay Judson Jr. Also speeches and articles relating to Judson's law practice and his active involvement with the America First Committee and the Brookfield Zoo; photographs of family and of France and Germany during World War; and materials relating to family genealogy.
Subjects: Family, Politics and Government; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Judson C
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 7
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Kendall, Milo. Papers, 1845-1907.
12 cubic ft.
Vermont native who settled in Princeton, Bureau County, Illinois, in 1846 and practiced law there for over sixty years. Papers include extensive records of Kendall's legal practice, family correspondence, and real estate records. In addition to serving as a record of affairs of law in the town and county, the legal records document Kendall's forty-year relationship with the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad for whom he secured the right-of- way through the county. There is at least one Civil War speech, and there are broadsides, pamphlets and other materials regarding Princeton affairs and local politics.
Subjects: Business; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Kendall
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Kendall, Nathan R. Nathan Kendall and Abby J. Reed Kendall papers, 1842-ca. 1940 (bulk 1842-1911).
4 cubic ft. (7 boxes).
Correspondence, writings, documents of Nathan Kendall and wife Abby J. Reed Kendall of Massachusetts, Indiana and Illinois, including many letters to each other before and after marriage in 1857, as well as numerous letters to and from members of their families, friends and former students. Some correspondence and documents concern overland travel to California begun in 1849.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Kendall-Reed (formerly Ayer MS 470a and Ayer MS 3114).
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Kirkland, Joseph, 1830-1894. Papers, 1842-1939.
1 cubic ft.
Chicago businessman, lawyer, and writer associated with Hamlin Garland, who was part of the movement to develop realism in American fiction. Kirkland's papers consist mainly of his letters to his family, together with manuscripts of some of his works, and photographs. Also later family correspondence, and articles about Kirkland.
Subjects: Family; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Kirkland (formerly Ki)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 40 11
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Photocopies of catalog cards: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks

LeMoyne, John V., 1828-1918. Papers, 1851-1875, bulk 1852-1889.
ca. 175 items (2 boxes)
Mainly incoming letters to Chicago lawyer and Congressman, John V. LeMoyne, from his Washington, Pennsyvania family, including his abolitionist father. Many of the letters caution against real estate speculation and reveal strong religious beliefts.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS LeMoyne
Collection Stack Location 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Leonard, Charles S., b. 1835. Papers, 1862-1897.
.25 cubic ft. (1 box)
Civil War military service documents of Charles S. Leonard, together with correspondence and forms relating to Leonard's efforts to correct his service record and obtain military pension and bounty payments. Also genealogical notes, possibly relating to Leonard's attempt to qualify for the Society of Mayflower Descendants, a deed for the sale of 160 acres in Norton County, Kan. and a few newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10012
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Summary and Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Lewis, Lloyd, 1891-1949. Papers, 1863-1954.
20 cubic ft.
Correspondence, work manuscripts, and family memorabilia of Lloyd Lewis, managing editor of the Chicago Daily News, 1930-1945. After 1945 Lewis focused on writing historical biography and defining and creating the Newberry Library's Midwest Manuscript Collection. Correspondents include Carl Sandburg, Adlai Stevenson, Sinclair Lewis, Frank Lloyd Wright, and many others. Material documenting Quaker life in 19th-century Indiana is also present.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Religion
Call Number: Midwest MS Lewis (formerly Le)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 11-12; 3a 30 5
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog card: Online Catalog.
Article: The Newberry Library Bulletin, 2nd Ser. No. 4 (July 1950), p. 111-113 and p. 114-120.
Inventory: Online.

Lewis, Louise E. (Louise Evangeline), 1895-1986. Papers, 1809-1974.
8 cubic ft.
Chicago teacher, 1913-1915, statistician, 1918-1922, advertising writer and executive, 1923-1947, who received her Ph.B. from the University of Chicago and was the sister of Chicago historian and journalist Lloyd Lewis. Lewis' papers include family documents, extensive correspondence and research notes regarding Lewis family history, and her financial records.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Lewis Louise
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 12-13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Lutz, Adeline Louise. Lutz-Chamberlin family papers, 1844-1992.
2 cubic ft. (4 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Correspondence, writings, business and legal documents, photographs, clippings, genealogical materials, and postcard collection of members of the Chamberlin and Lutz families,including George E. Chamberlin's letters written while he was a student at Dartmouth and officer in the Civil War.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Lutz-Chamberlin
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 8
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

MacLean family. Papers, 1898-1954.
4 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
Extensive correspondence between Pearl Emma Harris MacClean, M. Haddon MacLean, a Harris Bank executive, their children, and members of their extended family, which details the life and travels of a wealthy Chicago family mainly during the first three decades of the 20th century. Also includes courtship letters and honeymoon papers, a cashbook and notebook kept by Pearl Harris as a child, photographs, M. Haddon MacLean's correspondence regarding personal financial affairs, the Harris Bank, and religion (with Rev. Ernest F. Tittle of Evanston), and some Harris family documents.
Subjects: Business; Family; Religion; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS MacLean
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 8
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Mason, Francema A., 1837-1911. Francema Mason - Otis Mason correspondence, 1863-1876, bulk 1863-1868.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box)
Nineteen letters from Otis Mason, a sergeant in the Civil War to his Illinois wife, Francema Otis. Twelve letters from various friends and family, and a wedding invitation are also included.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10021
Collection Stack Location: Vault 35 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

McCormick family. Financial records, 1890-1956.
3 cubic ft. (8 volumes)
Volumes containing ledger, journal, and/or cash disbursement entries for Cyrus McCormick, 1890-1935, Nettie F. McCormick real estate, 1923-1956, Anita McCormick Blaine, 1923-1944, Fowler McCormick, 1927-1941, and Harold Fowler McCormick, 1928-1935.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS McCormick family
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

McLean, Edgar Teamster, d. 1920. Papers, 1859-1868.
0.5 cubic ft.
122nd Illinois Infantry; 2nd and 1st Lieutenant, 2nd Alabama Colored Infantry (later 110th US Colored Infantry). Correspondence, writings, and official military documents of Civil War 1st Lieutenant Edgar McLean, 1859-1868. Includes incoming family correspondence of McLean with his mother, Sarah F. McLean, and other relatives and friends who lived in Jersey and Macoupin counties in Illinois. Also correspondence from McLean's cousin, James S. Jennings, who served with the 137th Indiana Infantry in Tennessee.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Women
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10024
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Special Collections information file available.

McNally family. Papers, 1788-2001.
27 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, scrapbooks, photographs, cemetery records, wills, and obituaries of several generations of the family of Andrew McNally I of Chicago, founder of the Rand McNally Co., a publishing firm specializing in cartography. There is much material concerning Andrew McNally I, his Chicago home, and especially his Windermere Ranch in what became La Mirada, California, including the ranch's olive oil plant and McNally's efforts to promote settlement in the area. Also extensive materials relating to Civil War general Emmons Clark (grandfather of Margaret Clark McNally) and the Vilas family, who operated Chicago businesses and had a summer estate in Thousand Islands, New York.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS McNally family
Collection Stack Location: 3a 30 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection Available by appointment only.

McNary, Oliver Clarkson. Papers, 1873-1886, bulk 1882-1886.
14 items (3 folders).
Printed and handwritten army orders and letters written by Army contract surgeon O.C. McNary during from Indian Territory to his family in Kansas and Pennsylvania.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 3128 (formerly Ayer MS 555a)
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.

Meeker, Arthur, 1902-. Papers, ca. 1850-1972, bulk 1920-1945.
4.5 cubic ft.
Chicago writer of an economically and socially prominent Chicago family. Meeker's papers consist mainly of family correspondence documenting life on Chicago's Prairie Avenue at the beginning of the 20th century and Meeker's own background and literary career. There are fifty-five letters from English writer E.M. Delafield, and one from Chicago poet George Dillon, as well as personal materials, notes, and photographs.
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Literature
Call Number: Midwest MS Meeker
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Metcalf, Isaac Stevens. Papers, 1832-1903.
18 cubic ft.
Letters, diaries, daybooks, scrapbooks, and business documents of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, a Bowdoin College graduate from Milo, Maine, Illinois Central Railroad division engineer, and DuQuoin, Illinois resident, his wife Antoinette Brigham Putman Metcalf (originally of New Hampshire), their parents, and children. Included are many letters written from college, family letters, ICRR business correspondence with R.B. Mason and other records of railroad construction, and records of a private business partnership - the DuQuoin Coal Company. Families represented include Metcalf, Putnam, and Rich.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Metcalf
Collection Stack Location: 3a 32 13
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Morgan-Gardner family. Papers, 1789-1903.
0.1 cubic ft.
Journal written during July and August of 1789 by George Cadogan Morgan while traveling in France during the French Revolution; a manuscript autobiography by Richard P. Morgan describing his childhood in England, 1808 voyage to America and travel there from 1812-1815, and settlement in Massachusetts where he was involved in railroading; a typescript memoir of George C. Morgan who was born in 1833 in New York, came to Illinois with his railroad engineer father in 1843, and became a civil engineer in Chicago; a manuscript memoir of Henry A. Gardner whose father worked on the Illinois and Michigan canal; and typescripts of the journal and autobiography.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Morgan-Gardner
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Morse-Keith family. Papers, 1804-1933.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Papers centering around Charles Ansel Morse (1835-1894) who settled in Chicago in the early 1860's, establishing a wholesale clothing firm. In 1864 Morse married the sister of Chicago alderman Morgan L. Keith. The bulk of the collection consists of letters home to family in New Bedford, Mass. There are also calling cards of many early Chicago residents, genealogical documents, and a few photographs.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Morse-Keith
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Newberry, Julia Butler - SEE Slingluff, Jesse, collector. Julia Butler Newberry and family papers, 1800-1921.

Newberry, O. P. (Oliver Perry), 1831-1874. Papers, 1860-1895.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Mainly correspondence of Cameron, Mo., resident Oliver Perry Newberry, 1860-1867, primarily relating to his Civil War service in the Union army (Lieutenant, 13th Missouri Infantry; captain, Company I, 25th Missouri Infantry, Company I; major, 5th Missouri State Militia); and cabinet, carte-de-visite and a few tintype photographs of Newberry family and friends dating primarily from the 1880's.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Newberry
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Newberry, Walter Cass, 1835-1912. Papers, 1840-1908.
2 cubic ft. (9 boxes)
1st lieutenant, captain, Company E, 81st New York Regiment Volunteers, 1861-1863; major, lieutenant colonel, colonel, 24th New York Cavalry, 1864-1865. Correspondence, legal documents, and other documentation relating to the finances of Walter Cass Newberry and Henry Warner Newberry; correspondence, manuscripts, paperwork, and photographs related to the Civil War activities of the 24th New York Cavalry and Walter Cass Newberry's military history. Appendix to papers includes statements of Newberry's military record, and regimental rosters (including lists of those who died in action and of disease), a descriptive book (listing soldiers' names, ages, birthplaces, dates of enlistment, and remarks), and photographs of members of the 24th New York Cavalry.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Newberry WC (formerly Ne)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 3
Finding Aids:
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks

Newcomb, John Bearss, 1824-1896. Papers, 1737-1896, bulk 1837-1896.
3.5 cubic feet (7 boxes)
Correspondence and personal material of John Bearss Newcomb, Elgin, Illinois schoolmaster and businessman. Also extensive genealogical records of the Newcomb Family, daybooks and miscellaneous legal and business items. Historical items relating to the town of Elgin, Illinois in the 19th century and some Civil War records.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Newcomb
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.

Niemann family. Papers, 1825-1960.
1 cubic ft.
Baptismal, marriage, confirmation, teacher's, naturalization, death, and other certificates of the German-American Niemann family of Chicago. Also probate documents, newspaper clippings, tax bills, World's Columbian Exposition ephemera, and other memorabilia.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Niemann
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Parish family. Letters, 1884-1896.
0.5 cubic ft.
Letters written mainly by Martha Ellen Luey Parish, the wife of Chicago cabinet hardware manufacturer Charles Pomeroy Parish, to her father in Greenfield, Mass. The letters concern domestic matters and touch upon such community topics as electrification, the bicycling mania, fires and fire insurance, and the remains of the World's Columbian Exposition. There are also several letters discussing an alcoholic brother.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Parish
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 10
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Pearce, Christopher Gardner, 1811-1882. Papers, 1839-1851.
1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Mississippi and Ohio River steamboat owner and captain, and resident of Cincinnati, Ohio. Collection consists mainly of correspondence between Pearce and his wife, Jane Ann Sackett Pearce, which includes news of Pearce's river trips and of home and family. Many letters highlight Mrs. Pearce's fear that her husband would be involved in a fire, wreck, or other riverboat disaster.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Pearce (formerly Pe)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Perry, Henry. Letters, 1849-1850.
13 items (1 folder).
Letters written from New York City, Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, San Francisco, and Sacramento by Connecticut native and Gold Rush participant Henry Perry regarding his experiences en route to San Francisco, his return voyage from Hawaii, and economic and living conditions in gold rush San Francisco and Sacramento.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT box Ayer MS 709
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.

Peterson, Alma Schmidt. Papers, 1911-1930, bulk 1913-1915.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Letters of Alma Schmidt Peterson of Chicago to her parents (Emma Seipp Schmidt and Dr. Otto L. Schmidt) while on tours of European and American spas with her grandmother, at Mt. Vernon Seminary, 1913-1914, and to her husband after her marriage in 1919. Also letters from various Seipp family members in Germany in 1914, and from a German soldier-admirer, 1914-1915. Topics include attitudes toward the impending war in Europe, the treatment of chronic illness, and the school and vacation experiences of a well-off young woman.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Peterson
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Peterson, William H. (William Hartin). Papers, ca. 1880-1980.
3 cubic ft. (4 boxes)
World War II letters of William Hartin Peterson while a radar man on the U.S.S. Arkansas, 1942-1945, together with other military service documents. Also materials collected by Peterson, an engineer with the Pullman Company, relating to the town of Pullman and the company, and two Chicago world's fairs. In addition, there are photographs and other materials compiled in albums that relate to the Johnson and Peterson families and document life in Pullman and the Swedish-American community in Chicago.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Peterson W
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Pond family. Papers, 1800-1900.
0.1 cubic ft.
Genealogical records, possibly gathered by Elihu B. Pond of Ann Arbor, Michigan. Includes information on the following families: Bartlets (Guilford), Meigs (Devonshire), Footes (Massachusetts, Connecticut), Wileys (Kalamazoo), Leavenworth, and Bayles.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 144
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.

Prussing, Eugene E. (Eugene Ernst). Papers, 1856-1936.
0.5 cubic ft.
Chicago and Hollywood lawyer, and the son of Ernst Prussing, a Chicago pioneer real estate agent. Includes material relating to the younger Prussing's two books on George Washington, and a manuscript autobiography which covers his early years in Chicago and contains considerable information about his father. The elder Prussing was a follower of Carl Schurz and a member of the Free Soil Party. He was involved with the underground railroad and the Sanitary Fair movement, helped to organize Das Deutsche Haus and the Germania Mannerchor, and was a member of the Chicago Board of Education. Also family photographs and clippings.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Prussing (formerly Pr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 1
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Selected catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.

Pynchon, Edwin. Pynchon family papers, 1856-1888.
1 folder
Family miscellany relating to Lucius K. Pynchon and Dr. Edwin Pynchon of Chicago. Includes medical diplomas, 1883 passport, property inventories from Buffalo and New Orleans, two letters, and three carte de visite photographs of family members.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 88
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Reynolds-McBride Family. Memorabilia, 1865-2001.
8 boxes and 1 oversize box
The Reynolds Family collection covers the period from 1865 to 1935 and includes several hundred documents based very largely in Chicago but with a strong connection to Manchester, England. The Anita Reynolds McBride diary collection covers some thirty years of Chicago activity, but focusing attention on the thirty years ending in 2001.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Reynolds-McBride
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 11
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Rice, Henry. Letters, 1862.
0.1 cubic ft.
Six letters, Sept. 14-Oct. 15, 1862, from Camp Peoria in Peoria, Ill., from Henry Rice of the 103rd Illinois Infantry to family in Lewistown, Ill., describing military life in the camp. Included with the letters is an envelope addressed to "Mrs. Amory Rice, Lewistown, Fulton County, Illinois," illustrated in red and blue with the seal and motto of the United States.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10006
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.

Rich, Charles W., 1808-. Letters, 1853-1854.
0.5 cubic ft.
Letters between Charles W. Rich, in DuQuoin, Illinois, and his wife Albina, in Milo, Maine. Letters from Charles detail his work on the Illinois Central Railroad.
Subjects: Business; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Rich (formerly Rij)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Roberts, John Montgomery, 1807-1886. Diaries, 1830-1886.
7 items (7 volumes)
Descriptions of farm life in Tazewell County, Illinois, including discussions of routine farm activities, farming expenses and property valuations, illnesses and medicinal cures, family births and deaths, local events, and weather conditions. Also trip accounts by Roberts and his wives, descriptions of the technical aspects of making lithographic plates and miscellaneous sketches of Robert's home and towns he visited in Illinois.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3157
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.

Rodgers family. Papers, 1773-1925.
4 cubic ft.
Correspondence, journals, post office, church, tax, and financial records, and other papers of a family of pioneers of the Midwest and West, especially Oregon and Washington. Includes letters and writings of Andrew Rodgers, considered by the family to be one of the most important men. Letters are mostly from unknown people to unknown people, of interest because of their descriptions of conditions and early hardships. Of special significance is an Overland Journey journal (1840?).
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Rodgers family (formerly Rk)
Collection Stack Location: 4 Link
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog and NUCMC 67-1964.
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.

Rowley family. Journals, 1851-1887.
0.1 cubic ft.
Collection of journals regarding the Rowley family's farming life on the outskirts of Chicago. Entries kept by Mrs. Rowley and detail personal events, agricultural conditions, weather, and social events in the city of Chicago and environs.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 96
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Russell, John J. Letters, 1861-1864.
0.2 cubic ft.
Twelve letters of John J. Russell of Sterling, Illinois, documenting his service as a sergeant and 2nd lieutenant in Company B of the 13th Illinois Infantry in Missouri, Mississippi, and Alabama. Russell writes to his brother, Charles, and sister, Julia, from Rolla, Franklin, and Heetsville, Mo., Vicksburg, Miss., Cairo, Ill., and Bridgeport and Madison Station, Ala. One letter (Dec. 6, 1861) is written on stationery containing a printed vignette portrait of McClellan.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10020
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Special Collections information file available.

Sackett, Mary. Papers, 1841-1945, bulk 1841-1849.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 portfolio)
A journal kept by Mary Sackett when she and her family emigrated from New York state to Laona, Winnebago County, Illinois, 1841-1842, three numbers of a manuscript pioneer newspaper with original work done by members of an Illinois reading circle in 1849, a recipe for taffy, some penmanship exercises and two colored drawings. Also, photocopies of genealogical material relating to the Sackett family collected in 1945.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 38
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Sayers, Lionel. Papers, 1856-1980.
15 cubic ft.
Correspondence, photographs, manuscript and printed music, programs and much other material of this Chicago Symphony Orchestra librarian and composer. Sayers was born in London and studied at the Royal College of Music before moving to Chicago in 1920, where he became a percussionist for the CSO under Frederick Stock before a promotion to librarian. His papers include a wealth of information on the CSO and prominent figures such as Eric De Lamarter, Stock, Theodore Thomas and many others; also included are Sayers' collection of opera librettos and advertisements from 1856 to 1880, financial records, and a large amount of family correspondence and memorabilia.
Subjects: Family; Music
Call Number: Midwest MS Sayers
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 3
Finding Aids:
Authors of letters and documents, and subjects of photographs: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Scofield, Hiram, 1830-1906. Papers, 1857-1906.
2 cubic ft. (5 boxes)
Forty-four diaries, 1857-1906, together with a few letters and miscellaneous items, documenting Hiram Scofield's Civil War service as an officer with the 2nd Iowa Infantry and commander of the 47th Colored Infantry Regiment, and his post war personal and professional life as a Washington, Iowa, attorney.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Ruggles 426
Collection Stack Location: Vault 29 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.
Special Collections information file available.

Scott family. Papers, 1806-1866.
0.1 cubic ft.
Genealogy of the Scott family, as descended from Sergeant William Scott of Jessamine County, Kentucky. Civil War certificates and discharge papers for Corporal James Scott of Piqua, Ohio. Three letters and three wills regarding family members in Piqua ca. 1840-1860.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 146
Collection Stack Location: 3a 58 14
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Scribner family. Papers, 1806-1923.
0.2 cubic ft.
Approximately 300 loose pages of genealogical research notes bearing dates of 1910-1913 and pertaining to the Scribner, Freekman, and Heckley families, extending back to the 17th century. Twenty-seven photographs mostly of Scribner family members and their homesteads in Maine and New Hampshire from 1864-1900.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 147
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 9
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Shaw, Rue Winterbotham, 1906-1979. Papers, ca. 1930-1970.
1.0 cubic ft.
Letters and notebooks to/from Rue Winterbotham Shaw, past president of the Arts Club of Chicago, reflecting her mid-20th century life in Chicago and involvement in the arts. Also includes three notebooks of genealogical material on the Winterbotham, Baldwin, and Rosecrans families. Also includes letters from Anthony Burgess and Jean Dubuffet, and postcards from Alexander Calder.
Subjects: Arts; Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Shaw
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 9
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Authors of letters and documents: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebook.

Shaw family. Papers, 1825-1849, bulk 1837-1849.
0.1 cubic ft.
Thirteen letters and one receipt relating to the Shaw family of Jacksonville, Illinois. Details social, business, and agricultural conditions in early Illinois. Related family: Russell of Jacksonville.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 148
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog.

Sherman, Francis Trowbridge, 1825-1905. Papers, 1849-1894.
0.2 cubic ft. (1 box).
Correspondence of Francis Trowbridge Sherman of Chicago, and his traveling companion, Henry A. Ballentine, documenting their travel overland to the California gold fields and experiences there, 1849-1850. Also photocopies of a few of Sherman's (colonel 88th Illinois Infantry) letters regarding the Civil War and his Chicago business, business and family correspondence of father F.C. Sherman, family records, and newspaper clippings.
Subjects: Business; Civil War; Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 5282
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Inventory: Online.
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Special Collections information file available.

Siebert, Frank T. (Frank Thomas), 1912-1998. Papers, 1926-1987, bulk 1940-1956.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box)
Correspondence and other materials of physician, linguist, and book collector Frank T. Siebert. Mostly incoming correspondence to Siebert from his mother and a woman friend that he courted over a period of about fifteen years, with a few letters from friends and relatives, physicians, medical schools and associations. Included are three letters concerning his Indian research. Also, a small collection of memorabilia consisting of a poem, some receipts for professional dues, a tiny unidentified baby photograph and other miscellany.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Siebert
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 4
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Slingluff, Jesse, collector. Julia Butler Newberry and family papers, 1800-1921.
0.2 cubic ft.
Miscellaneous material relating to Julia Butler Newberry and her family. Contains original letters of Julia B. Newberry and her immediate family, 1830-1880, and photocopies of correspondence of the Butler, Clapp and Devereux families. Also, financial correspondence, a diary of Mary B. Devereux (photocopy), a small unknown diary, genealogical research on the Butler, Devereux, Kernan families, a few receipts and a photocopy of an 1877 probate record for the estate of Walter L. Newberry.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Newberry J
Collection Stack Location: 3a 41 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog
Inventory: Online.

Smith, Helen Ainslie. Papers, 1875-1895.
1 cubic ft.
Author of books on the ancient world and colonial American history. Smith's papers contain correspondence with family and friends, family photographs, work notes, and other materials.
Subjects: Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Smith
Collection Stack Location: 3a 24 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Smith-Dewey family. Papers, 1870-1990.
79 cubic ft.
Genealogies, publications, photographs, armories, letters, and documents pertaining to the family histories and forebears of Edward Byron Smith, former chairman of the Northern Trust Corporation of Chicago, and of his wife, Louise Dewey Smith. Papers also include documents pertaining to Northern Trust's founding by Smith's grandfather, Byron Laflin Smith, and the family's ongoing relationship to the corporation. There is also considerable correspondence and other material of the author Frederika Shumway Smith, and Admiral Dewey.
Subjects: Business; Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Smith-Dewey
Collection Stack Location: 3a 28 13-16; 3a 30 13-16
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Spencer, Platt R. (Platt Rogers), 1800-1864. Papers, 1822-1915.
28 cubic ft.
Penman, poet, and educator who created the Spencerian system of penmanship, a highly successful endeavor in part because it was taught by his entire family. In his later years, Spencer became active in the abolitionist movement. Papers describe family life and conditions during the Civil War. Also included are the letters of son Lyman T. Spencer, a quartermaster's sergeant in the 2nd Ohio Artillery Regiment, stationed in Munfordville, Kentucky, and Cleveland, Tennessee. Collection includes: letters, reports, reprints, writing samples, clippings, drawings, copybooks, artifacts and photos.
Subjects: Civil War; Family; Printing and Book Arts; Women
Call Number: Wing Modern MS Sp
Collection Stack Location: 3a Link; 3a 53 4-5
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Storrs family. Papers, 1787-1960, bulk 1900-1960.
7.5 cubic ft.
Letters, memorabilia, journals, clippings, and photographs pertaining to John H. B. Storrs (1885-1956), a Chicago-based Cubist painter and sculptor most famous for the statue of Ceres atop the Chicago Board of Trade, and his wife Marguerite Deville Chabrol Storrs (1881-1959), a successful fiction and non-fiction writer who used the pseudonym "Marc Debrol." Also included is a folio manuscript dating to the French Revolution, detailing people alive at the time, possibly related to the Deville Chabrol family.
Subjects: Arts; Family; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Storrs (formerly Stj)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 42 8
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Strauss, Herbert R., 1899-1974. Herbert R. Strauss collection of Adams family letters, 1763-1829.
17 items.
Collection contains autograph letters by John Adams (11), Abigail Adams (3), John Quincy Adams (2) and Samuel Adams (1).
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 6A 81
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 47 4
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collection Notebooks.

Strauss, Herbert R., 1899-1974. Herbert R. Strauss collection of Thomas Jefferson letters, 1780-1823.
43 items (2 vol.)
41 letters in Jefferson's hand, 1 printed item, and a copy of a Jefferson letter in his daughter's hand. Collection includes an 1789 letter from Jefferson to John Jay, largely in code (Item #1), a personal letter to his daughter Patsy (Item #3), Jefferson's memorandum on wines (Item #12). One Jefferson letter includes an autograph reply in French by General Thaddeus Kosciuszko. Transcriptions of some letters are available in the Newberry Library exhibit catalog, Thomas Jefferson: A Life With Letters (Call # Ref E332.795 N4 1993b).
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 6A 80 and VAULT Case MS 79
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 36 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Catalog cards for selected items: Manuscript Card Catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Tietjens, Eunice, b. 1884. Papers - Additions, 1847-1972.
5.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, works, a few photographs, and miscellaneous material relating to Eunice Tietjens, Chicago poet, novelist, lecturer, associate editor of Poetry: A Magazine of Verse, and active figure in the Chicago Literary Renaissance. Also material relating to the Hammond and Strong families, Eunice Tietjens' daughter, Janet Tietjens Hart, and Eunice Tietjens' first husband, Paul Tietjens; and three boxes of photographs of family members and literary associates (Mary Aldis, Edgar Lee Masters, Vachel Lindsay, Harriet Monroe, Sara Teasdale, etc.).
Subjects: Family; Journalism; Literature; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Tietjens 2
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Tree, Lambert, 1832-1910. Papers, 1821-1947, bulk 1877-1909.
7.5 cubic ft.
Correspondence, speeches, drafts, documents, photographs, scrapbooks, and newspaper clippings relating to Lambert Tree, Cook County lawyer, judge, politician, philanthropist, and U.S. diplomat in Belgium and Russia. The collection contains some Tree family material, commentary on the state of the Democratic Party under Grover Cleveland and William Jennings Bryan, and numerous items related to Tree's social, political, philanthropic, and diplomatic activities.
Subjects: Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: Midwest MS Tree (formerly Tr)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Manuscript Card Catalog and NUCMC (60-988).
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Selected authors of letters: Database of Names in Manuscript Collections Notebooks.
Article: The Newberry Library Bulletin, No. 8 (December 1947), p. 3-8.
Currently in process: contact Curator for access.

Tripp, Samuel V. Letters, 1849-1906, bulk 1849-1876.
44 items (1 box).
Correspondence, dating mainly from 1849 to 1876, of California emigrant Samuel V. Tripp, addressed primarily to his mother and sister in Ohio, regarding his life in the Northern California gold region and later in Southern California.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3219
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Tubbs family. Account book, 1805-1818.
1 folder.
Account book and miscellaneous notes relating to the Tubbs shipbuilding business in Duxbury, Mass. Includes entries for costs for goods, employee pay, and other expenses.
Subjects: Business, Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 99
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Varney family. Papers, 1833-1853.
0.1 cubic ft.
Twenty-six deeds and documents pertaining to the Varney family's land holdings in Penobscot County, Maine.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 91
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Walden, May, 1865-1960. Papers, 1870-1972, bulk 1892-1959.
3 cubic ft.
Papers of May Walden, wife of Socialist publisher Charles H. Kerr from 1892 to 1904, consisting of letters, diaries, literary manuscripts, account books, clippings, photographs, memorabilia, and publications relating to the Socialist movement. Also included are items relating to May Walden's daughter, Katharine Kerr Moore.
Subjects: Family; Social Action; Women
Call Number: Midwest Ms Walden M (formerly Ker)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 43 1
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Waller family. Papers, 1803-1887.
2.5 cubic ft.
Primarily letters of the Waller family, a wealthy, large, educated family from Kentucky, pertaining mainly to matters of family activity, family devotion to one another, and especially health. Also included are photographs, a family genealogy, biography, and letters from Henry Clay and Mrs. John Quincy Adams (Anna). Related family: Alexander.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Waller
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 1
Finding Aids:
Modern Manuscripts information file available.

Walton, Edward Seymour. Letters, 1900-1919.
0.1 cubic ft. (1 box)
Letters from the Philippines, 1900-01, with the exception of one dated 1911; letters from Trieste, 1918-19; and other miscellaneous material.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS folio E5 W175
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog.

Walton, Emma Lee. Journal, 1922.
0.5 cubic ft.
Travel journal in two volumes kept by Emma Lee Walton of Chicago on a trip to Europe in 1922. Also, her 1922 passport.
Subjects: Family; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS 103
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Warner-Haskins family. Papers, ca. 1860-1945.
1 cubic ft. (2 boxes)
Photographs, dance programs, a few pieces of correspondence, and other memorabilia of the Haskins and Warner families of Chicago and Lake Forest. Of particular interest are the instruction manual, notes, and other materials relating to Mrs. Rawleigh Warner's World War II American Red Cross Gray Lady service at Great Lakes in North Chicago, a Century of Progress Exhibitors season pass, and European travel documents. Includes many unidentified family portraits from the 19th and 20th centuries, some from early photography studios such as Brand and F. A. Place in Chicago, Charles Murr in Joliet, and Hough in Downer's Grove. Also snapshots of Miami and Orland, Florida, taken ca. 1918-1919, and photographs of a 1908 outdoor gathering at "Walden" in Lake Forest.
Subjects: Family; Photographs; Women
Call Number: Midwest MS Warner Haskins
Collection Stack Location: 3a 23 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Washington, John Augustine, 1821-1861. Letters, 1859-1860.
1 folder (5 letters)
Photocopies of five letters from Washington to his wife written while visiting Chicago and the Midwest just prior to the Civil War.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS 65
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 3
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Watson, Theodore. Letters, 1861.
0.1 cubic ft.
Company H, 3rd Illinois Volunteers
Watson, a miller from Hillsboro, Montgomery County, Illinois, was mustered into Company H of the 3rd Illinois Volunteers on April 26, 1861. Throughout his three months of service, Watson wrote letters to his brother, John Watson. The letters describe food, shelter, leisure activities, fortifications, company and regimental officers, and church services at Camp Defiance in Cairo, Ill.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT Case MS 10023
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Welling, Harriet Walker. Welling Family Papers, 1899-1988.
0.5 cubic ft. (1 box).
Correspondence, writings and documents relating to Harriet W. Welling, her husband John P. Welling, and his father, John C. Welling. Material of John C. Welling relates to ownership and disposition of a Canadian lumber company and land. Material of John P. Welling relates to World War I military records and European travel. Harriet W. Welling material includes memoirs of her life in Chicago, and histories of Chicago clubs; and correspondence and documents regarding her bequests of art and antiques to several museums.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Welling
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 2
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.

Wham, Benjamin, 1891-1969. Papers, 1915-1988
2.5 cubic ft.
Photographs, documents/mementos, scrapbooks, published articles, and Chicago Literary Club papers relating to the life and career of Benjamin Wham, a prominent lawyer and circuit court judge in Chicago. Papers also relate to the life and teaching career of David Wham, son of Benjamin.
Subjects: Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Wham
Collection Stack Location: 3a 57 8
Finding Aids:
Summary: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks
Modern Manuscripts information file available.

Whittelsey, Chauncey, 1746-1812. Papers, 1707-1852, bulk 1731-1811.
412 items (2 boxes)
Papers of Chauncey Whittelsey (1746-1812) of Middletown, Connecticut, relating to his clothing business, civic duties and activities as Army supplier during the Revolution and into the 1790's. Includes numerous land deeds to his father-in-law, Seth Wetmore.
Subjects: Business; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Whittelsey (formerly Wh)
Collection Stack Location: 3a 44 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.
Inventory: Online.

Willard, L. S. Letters, 1862-1865.
19 items.
Major and aide-de-camp to General McPherson of the 11th Illinois Cavalry. Includes Willard's letters to his parents and brother in Brimfield, Peoria Co., Illinois, Camp Benton Barracks, St. Louis, Tennessee, and Louisiana. Letters from March 1862, are addressed from the Camp Benton Barracks in St. Louis.
Subjects: Civil War; Family
Call Number: VAULT folio Case MS 10031
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 35 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.

Williams, Eleazar, 1789?-1858. Papers, 1758-1858.
33 items (2 boxes).
Letters, documents, sermons, writings, including Indian language mss, of missionary Eleazar Williams, descendant of Indian captive Eunice Williams, pertaining to Oneida and Menominee affairs, and the Williams family.
Subjects: Family; Indians and the West; Religion
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 999
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 27 3
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online Catalog.

Williams, Stephen, 1693-1782. Papers, 1716-1753.
6 items (1 box)
Correspondence, 1716-1753, between Longmeadow, Mass., clergyman Stephen Williams and his father, Rev. John Williams; his brothers, Rev. Eleazer Williams of Mansfield, Conn., and Rev. Warsham Williams of Waltham, Mass; his son, Nathan Williams, then a student at Yale College; and Rev. William Williams of Hatfield, Mass. Subjects include the estate of a relative, family illnesses, college living expenses, resistance of worldly temptations, trips to New York City and Boston, a land controversy with neighbors, etc.
Subjects: Family; Religion
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 3208
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 26 2
Finding Aids:
Collection level catalog record: Online Catalog.

Williamson, Charles, 1757-1808. Papers, 1775-1946.
7 cubic ft. (12 boxes, 1 oversize box, and 1 v.)
British officer, land promoter, secret agent, and advisor to the British government. Correspondence, journals, etc. relating to Williamson's early activities, 1775-1791, his colonizing efforts in New York State, 1791-1803, and his later relations with statesmen. Early papers (mainly family correspondence) discuss Williamson's army service, capture and imprisonment, farm management, and Constantinople mission. Correspondence, 1791-1803, with family, Robert Morris, Sir William Pulteney, Robert Troup, Patrick Colquhoun, John Johnstone, and colonists, and others documents Williamson's opening of the Genesee lands to settlers and promotion of internal improvements there.
Subjects: Business; Family; Politics and Government
Call Number: VAULT Ayer MS 1006
Collection Stack Location: VAULT 25 2
Finding Aids:
Collection-level catalog record: Online catalog.
Inventory: Modern Manuscript Collections Notebooks.

Willy family. Papers, 1871-1945.
0.5 cubic ft.
Family genealogy, approximately seventy studio photographs pertaining to the family of John Willy (1859-1944), editor and publisher of the Hotel Monthly, editor of the National Hotel Reporter, and founder of John Willy, Inc., a prominent Chicago-based hotel forms publisher. Included are issues of the Hotel Monthly and supply catalogs published by John Willy, Inc. A mid-nineteenth century diary of Willy's forebear, Thomas Willy of Ilminster, Somerset, England, is included.
Subjects: Business; Family
Call Number: Midwest MS Willy
Collection Stack Location: 3a 35 1
Finding Aids:
None. Collection available by appointment only.
Modern Manuscripts information file available.

Wilson, Bernard E. Papers, 1915-1993.
1 cubic ft.
Newberry Library reference librarian and later cataloguer of special materials (rare books, music), 1959-1986. Wilson's papers include personal records (diplomas, photographs, civil service papers) and correspondence re his Newberry appointment and with friends and family, European trip diaries, estate files, and records of the Hattie Strong Foundation.
Subjects: Family; Newberry Library
Call Number: Archives 12/15/05 (unprocessed)
Collection Stack Location: 4a 12 14
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