Close
Digital Collections
Statement on Potentially Offensive Materials
Help
Rights and Reproductions
Log In / Sign Up
0
Selected
Invert selection
Deselect all
Deselect all
Click here to refresh results
Click here to refresh results
Go to Login page
Loading details...
You do not have the permission to view Original image
Add to collection
Download
Share PDF
Get link
Transcription
User-Contributed Transcription
They would be. Then in the long rides & stormy weather of another winter I would ear the old, and save the new one for another summer. Say now, will you not give directions as to price, style of trimming etc. and let me send one right up? There seemed to be so much to think about and so little time to think when I was at Milo, many things were forgotten as usual. I hardly know what Mother concluded about her parasol. It seemed all the way home as if I had hardly seen any of you. Shan't Samuel and I go keep Pa's farm, live up there with you always? I half want to - only I am not fit for a farmer's wife. Mrs. Thaxter and Lissie Doe were down Sat. afternoon. I staid stowed some split peas for dinner Sunday, and built a rice pudding - Peas real good. Toast and strawberries for supper. Eliab came down. Guess I'll go lay down now, and finish my letter after Lucy comes. Mother's account which she wished for I have taken from Samuel's day book. If she can pick out all the shoes, she will do better than I can. 'Tis just the same as your so I won't send it. I have bought 1/2 doz. more 'kerchiefs - two for Albina. Tell Almeda I did not think what I was about when I took the 3.00 for Lucy's use & behoof, as I intended to get her whatever she needed. With her permission I will forthwith use a part of it to get her bonnet - will she not write immediately her wishes & conclusions? The bacon is good as ever, Mother, & I am cooking it for dinner this day Teusday. Pegotty is "pretty comfortable." Samuel has gone strawberrying - making a business of getting some to preserve. Lucy got here safe and sound last night- pretty tired from jolts and jams. Has helped me make some bread, and pies from the green strawberries & currants. Samuel, Jane & Bridget picked eight pounds yesterday, which with Samuel's assistance I preserved this forenoon - had more than I expected to get. They are not near so thick here as at Milo. And so Isaac's going away - it seems as though he must'nt, and yet I know 'tis best. I am glad he has so good an appointment. What in the world will poor Josie & Mother * all the rest of you do? All losing your father & guardian at once? The matter of Alfred Holman shall be inquired into, & information given as speedily as possible.
Title
Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Anna Mayo Stevens Rich Metcalf (mother) (also to siblings; also from Samuel W. Furber), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1850-1856
Creator
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898
Date
1850-1856
Place
United States
Subjects
Bowdoin College
,
Brothers and sisters
,
DuQuoin Coal Company
,
Illinois Central Railroad Company
Description
Use the link to the finding aid for a fuller description of collection contents that explains the use of the name and subject terms appearing in this catalog record.
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
,
Correspondence
,
Diaries
,
Genealogy
,
Invoices
,
Manuscripts, American
,
Personal narratives
,
Records and correspondence
,
Sources
Archival Collection Title
Isaac Stevens Metcalf papers
,
Midwest Manuscript Collection
Rights Status
No Copyright - United States
Newberry Open Access Policy
The Newberry makes its collections available for any lawful purpose, commercial or non-commercial, without licensing or permission fees to the library, subject to
these terms and conditions.
Contributing Institution
Newberry Library
Link to Catalog
View finding aid
|
View record
Call Number
midwest ms metcalf Box 1 Folder 23
BibID
821787
Size
2828px × 3561px 57.66 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_23_008_002.tif
Unique Identifier
NL11FDSN
Help
Need help finding, searching, sharing, or downloading? Check out our
help page
!
Linked assets