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Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

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Title Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, to Antoinette Brigham Putnam Metcalf (wife), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1866

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1866

Place United States

Subjects Bowdoin College, Brothers and sisters, DuQuoin Coal Company, Illinois Central Railroad Company

Format Business records, Correspondence, Diaries, Genealogies, Invoices, Manuscripts, Personal narratives, Records

User-Contributed Transcription of your old scholars, is to be married in a few weeks to Edward Ross. You remember him I guess, handsome chubby faced boy; and his sister like him, Abby Ross from Vergennes or Tuttle's Prairie. And Abby Ross is to be married at the same time to young Dyer, Son of Dr Dyer. Dr Wall's partner in business. G. Willard Wall, the promising young lawyer, "the most promising young man in this part of the state", by courting or pretending to court the daughter of Old Nettleton, the Catholic Merchant. Abram Mitchell is building a large brick house here; will be the largest & finest house in Town. The great Public Square or Park is fenced with a fine black fence wood, but looks like iron though heavy

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 7 Folder 182

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 1776px × 2788px 28.37 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_07_fl_182_013_006.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FJV6

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