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We would have to be done in the spring if not now, & I want to find a place by myself for several reasons; I think it would be best on every account to take this course mow except the expense and I do not yet know what we could be boarded for I want a good long letter of comfortable advise and wholesome, on every subject from your, do not neglect us as we have you in writing.. E.A.R.It seems a long time since we have heard from Boston; and I very much want to know how you get along on your studies, and every thing else. A Mr. Hatch of the Bangor Classical School keeps our school and a Singing School. at ? Mills. This winter, He he is a very pleasant man, and is studying for the Ministry I believe. Charles has sold the oxen and slow cow to a Mrs. Mowers innkeeper near Bang for $1,20 $30, down $90-. We have threshed 3- bushels of mowed Oats with the horses and cattle, and lots of see hay.. It took about 47 bushels of Wheat to pay the grain note and as we had but 72 our whear is all gone but the Seed already [upside down]Now in regard to J. if I had the means I dont but of what I should be allowed to have him go with Isaac ? necessarily common grounds, we must obey I cant exactly see any other way but for him to come right here in the spring if we could provide him with money for board and Mother it seems as if it would be much better for him to stay but where?...and if it could be so I have heard it would be for me not to see him and know all his fretting and ? his joys and sorrows Oh how I long to fold to my bosom the dear dear weary boy but perhaps after all his ? the best for him to come home his board has been so accustomed to ? here for reflection and another summer work on the farm would brace up his system and give him former health perhaps. If tis best for him to try to get into something and stay there for aye his trouble I should think to get a chance where he could get enough to pay his board especially as he would not be a tolerable specimen? by next spring you know that boy that boarded with Mrs. Peterson did and I assume he did not have half as much as J but in the first place is it best for him to look forward to that as a permanent business I have thought that there is hardly any business that has as many temptations to hope? and deceive as I ? it so hard to maintain the sheer integrity of the christian character Let me know soon whether J starts to come home, he could be admitted to that school again next fall or winter if we think want to. Wont A. come here next summerI wish we were situated so that A. could come here and stay all summer. It would be better for her health. I suppose we have a good pleasant place and I think skillful Physician.About when etc. I suppose she would not think it would possibly do for James. I have been reading Commandment Mr. Hatch lent it me, a feast I've had. I do feel that I am so sinful and so unfaithful that I deserve no More that is good at the hand of God I do desire to feel possibly a Way to take what he puts upon me let it be what it willBostonAnn & JosephDec 15, 1838[across letter] Mrs. Anna M. Metcalf Milo Me
Title
DeWitt, Elizabeth Anna Rich (half-sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother), 1832, 1835-1839, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers
Creator
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898
Place
United States
Subjects
Bowdoin College
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Brothers and sisters
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DuQuoin Coal Company
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Illinois Central Railroad Company
Description
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Summary
Correspondence, writings, diaries, and journals documenting family and rural life, as well as early business correspondence and records, and a few photographs, all pertaining to Isaac Stevens Metcalf and the Metcalf, Furber, and Putnam families. Family correspondence was used to keep all of the branches of the family in touch with each other when family members moved away. There are many instances where multiple family members wrote on one letter to one or more other family members, and some people even wrote "family letters" that were intended to be shared amongst parents, siblings, and the like. Topics of family correspondence tend to be related to religion, daily activities on the farm, weather, and the news of friends and relatives (births, deaths, sicknesses, etc.) Business records of Metcalf's pertain to land ownership, railroad engineering and construction, and running a coal mining business. The mid-19th century business records also document tax payments and some reports including labor and payroll expenses. There are a few drawings and sketches from Metcalf's tenure as division engineer of the Illinois Central Railroad. The first accession of these family papers was a donation of the letters between Charles W. and Albina Rich, given by Grace Leadingham, Charles Rich's granddaughter. This gift was facilitated by Keyes D. Metcalf, 17th child of Isaac Stevens Metcalf.
Biographical/Historical Note
Railroad engineer, farmer, and businessman of Maine, Ohio, and Illinois during the second half of the 19th century. Isaac Stevens Metcalf was born in Royalston, Massachusetts, on Jan. 29, 1822. His father, Isaac Metcalf, had married Lucy Heywood in 1810; she died childless in 1820. In March 1821 he married Anna Mayo Stevens Rich, the widow of Charles Rich, by whom she had had three children (named Charles, Elizabeth Anna, and Almeida). Isaac was born to Metcalf and Rich, followed by Joseph, Lucy, and Eliab. Isaac Metcalf (father) died in Boston in 1830, and the family relocated to Milo, Maine, where half-brother Charles had purchased a farm. Isaac Stevens Metcalf lived there with his mother and siblings, preparing for college and working on the farm until he entered Bowdoin College as a sophomore in 1844. He graduated there in 1847, having taught school while studying engineering. He surveyed and built railroads in New England until the spring of 1850, when he became a division engineer on the southern section (near Centralia, IL) of the Illinois Central Railroad. Metcalf worked closely with the Chief Engineer, Roswell B. Mason. Metcalf remained on the job until the line was completed to Cairo, IL, in 1855. While in central Illinois, Metcalf purchased land and with his partner Chester A. Keyes laid out the railroad town of Du Quoin, which was officially dedicated on Sept. 20, 1853. On Jul. 5, 1852, he married Antoinette ("Nettie") Brigham Putnam, the daughter of prominent New Hampshire minister John Milton Putnam. The couple had twelve children, three of whom died young. They settled in Elyria, Ohio, in Nov. 1856, to be near Metcalf's half sister, Elizabeth Ann (also known as Ann Elizabeth), and more family joined them within the next ten years. Metcalf and family lived in Elyria for over 41 years, farming and running a flour mill while Isaac Stevens Metcalf maintained business interests in Du Quoin, Illinois (real estate and coal mining). Antoinette died Aug. 14, 1875, and three years later Metcalf married Harriet Howes. That couple had six boys. Harriet Howes died of pneumonia Dec. 7, 1894, and Isaac Stevens Metcalf died Feb. 19, 1898, age 76. A more complete Metcalf genealogy family, focusing on the children of Isaac Stevens Metcalf, is available in the Special Collections Department information files. The genealogy was compiled by Keyes DeWitt Metcalf, 17th child of Isaac Stevens Metcalf.
Extent
10.8 linear feet (20 boxes and 1 oversize folder)
Format
Business records
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Correspondence
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Diaries
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Genealogy
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Invoices
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Manuscripts, American
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Personal narratives
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Records and correspondence
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Sources
Archival Collection Title
Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers
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Midwest Manuscript Collection
Rights Status
No Copyright - United States
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Call Number
midwest ms metcalf Box 1 Folder 3
BibID
821787
Size
3030px × 4876px 84.57 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_03_008_004.tif
Unique Identifier
NL11FDDM
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