Newberry Library - Furber Family: Furber, Joseph M. (Samuel's brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Furber Family: Furber, Joseph M. (Samuel's brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

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Title Furber Family: Furber, Joseph M. (Samuel's brother), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1851

Creator Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898

Date 1850-1851

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 you say that father meaned to sell in good earnest, but do not know what he intended doing; he writed us that he is determined uppon coming to Minnesota, if he seled I hope the mill, wish you could believe it for your interest to come to, wish you would come out in the Spring and pay us a visit if it is but a flying one, think you would be amply paid for your time and troubleI am endeavoring to build me a comfortable house expect to finish it by june next if I do not paint, Should I paint, shall not get into it until fall, will cost me about $800, above the foundation, or wall, when it is compleated it will be paid for, I have already paid out Scince I came on to this place over six hundred dollars in cash aside from my house $200, for land $280, for team and wagon, about $200, load in lumbering the year before I came hereI made quite a raise that fall my per diem while in the Legislature (sixty days) made $360, expended about $50

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Archival Collection Title Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers, Midwest Manuscript Collection

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Call Number Midwest MS Metcalf Box 3 Folder 62

BibID 821787

Rights Status No Copyright - United States

Contributing Institution Newberry Library

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IIIF Resource Type Canvas

Size 3064px × 3865px 67.80 MB

Filename 998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_62_001_003.tif

Unique Identifier NL11FEYL

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