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

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 Business is now very lively here: the wheat begins to pourin, the merchants are busy buying and shipping it. I saw a notice froma Buffalo paper lately that there came on the upper lakes to that citybetween one noon and the next, 17 steamboats and 70 schooners withhalf a million bushels of grain. One man not two miles from herehas one enclosed field of wheat containing 160 acres. It is reapedby a machine worked by horses on the trot reaping from 15to 20 acres in a day. In Michigan, as I was informed by aclergyman from there who presided here a week ago, - theyhave a machine which at once reaps, thrashes, and puts thewheat into bags! there last one I suppose attached to the machineand taken off as fast as filled. There is much rivalry betweenthe boats of the upper lakes and the railroad company throughMichigan, - by the latter route, one can go from here to Buffaloin 34 hours, fare five dollars. A gentleman living next doorbut one to us, has just returned from New York; - he transactedhis business in that city and was at home again in just 4 hoursless, than six days, from the time he started. What think you of that?The census of this place has been recently taken showing not quite5000 inhabitants; there are 15 or 16 physicians though theplace has always been distressingly health, - an equal number oflawyers I presume though I have not heard their numbermentioned, - there is no decent school for boys - only one that I know of and that taught by a Dutchman not quite so tall as I am.The only school for girls of an importance is the Seminary under the careof Mrs. Kew J.M Hopkins and her assistant, lately procured from'the east', Miss Beck who has the name of being a very good teacher.

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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 × 3999px 72.91 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_15_006_007.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FDOG

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