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DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to "folks" or siblings, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845, 1848, 1851, 1854

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Open book DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to "folks" or siblings, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845, 1848, 1851, 1854

Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to "folks" or siblings, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1845, 1848, 1851, 1854

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1845, 1848, 1851, 1854

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 hills covered with groves of oak, hickory and elm, the trees grouped a few together or far apart, very large, the ground under them smoothe as the grass plot of a dooryard. The slopes and level fields look so finely, loaded with their heavy crops of grain and corn:- every thing around betokens wealth and plenty. Jerusha (Mrs. Clark) is well situated, her husband is evidently well off, has a lumber yard now, formerly a carpenter, - is building a handsome house on a farm one mile from the city, intending to move there after it is completed, and sell his house in town. I like his appearance well,- the land on his farm is worth eight hundred dollars an acre in coal, exclusive of the fine soil for cultivation. He had five children when Jerusha married him, she has had four, in the five years she has been married; buried one; her oldest little girl looks some as aunt Williams did, her boy much like the Williams's; in all she has six girls and two boys, oldest 16, the youngest three months. Jerusha has the same meek, mild, and quiet way, but energetic and systematic: She is certainly a superiour woman. I enjoyed much more in intercourse with her than I anticipated, she seems to be liberal in views, open hearted, certainly appears sincere as well as affectionate. She as well as Abby and Lucy did every thing to make my visit pleasant. Abby (Mrs. Haldeman ) moved to Z. last fall, he is getting into practice some, is derived from the Dutch, - a good man with education, but not intelligence in general, or liberal views: he is seven years younger than she is: they are

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 1 Folder 22

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 2822px × 3567px 57.63 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_22_004_002.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDRJ

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