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DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

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Title DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1842-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1842-1851

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 Wisconsin has the largest school found of anystate in the Union; arriving in part from governmentlands given by Virginia - the sixteenth squaremile of every township of 36 square miles is appropriatedfor school, but -by a law of the state, it is all in thehands of the state to be apportioned by them: I supposethis is equitable, since this school section is liableto be a marsh or other unproductive land, in the caseof Southport ten miles from this, it is actually all in thelake, of course valueless: in this place one third is in thelake, the remaining two thirds comprises the finestpart of the city and is valued by commissionersappointed by the state of $88 000. If this sum hadbeen left at the disposal of the town literary institutionsmight about of every grade. I believe public schools aresupported generally about as in Maine or Mass, but - poorerteachers and more backward schools: but in this place onaccount of some dissatisfaction and dispute relativeto the valuation of school lands, the people havebeen very remiss, no public schools have been establisheduntil now some efforts are making to do it.Southport the place above named has an excellent building,a flourishing school of six hundred pupils with

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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 15

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3185px × 3414px 62.25 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_15_007_005.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDOL

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