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Lucy June 1839but lots of Ellises go. [in pencil] We have got two pretty beatiflies of Libby's, as ever you saw in your life. We had but had one of them killed. Sister Lute.Dear Isaac Brother I can't fix one of Joe's steel pens on. So a wrong stick, and he is using the right one, so I have to hold the pen right in my fingers, but I guess I won't any longer. So now I'll begin with the tother one. Isaac, I can tell you something that is very good news to me. I don't know as you will care about it either way. The "folkses" have sent for me to go to Boston to help Almeida do her work, Although I expect I shall see you 'face to face' & tell you about it before you will read this ere epistle. So no more of that now. "Brother Joe" has wrote or written so much to you that I suppose he has told you all the news. But I believe he has not told you about the "new neighbors." There is Austin & Mellen Rye & Barnard, Warren, Enoch, Augustus and Edward Ellis. They are trying to learn to navigate I guess, for they are down in the brook, paddling about on a raft that they made, every rainy day and half the time beside, most. Dolly has fatted up at a great rate; Mr. Shaw has offered Charles 20 dollars for her, but he asks 25. By the time he wants her again he will ask 30, I suppose. There has been a tall freshet here. The water did not quite cover our Intervale, but did Mr. Ellis's. Mother wrote to James and "amongst um" to let little Lucy come here with Martha when she comes back. but they said No. We did not expect they would let her come however. I don't know as Marm told you that Martha Lee and Moses G. are going or rather have gone with Naomi to Charleston Hospital. Is'nt it a pity I could'nt have known they wanted me there this Summer, soon enough to have gone with Martha? What beautiful showers we had the 2ed of June, didn't we? only the ground was so full of Water, that it did not seem to do much good. 'Ieus' why don't you buy ruled paper? it is so much better to write on, and does not cost but a little more than the other. I went to Sebec to meeting the 19th of May. Mr.Sewall preached. I expected to start for Boston, the 6th of this month, but Mr. True Stubbs had the promise of our waggon to go to Brighton, so I could not.June 4th We received your letter last night. Mr. Everett and Jim Dennett had the waggon. Jim he is going to Boston. was on his
Title
Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1839
Creator
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898
Date
1839
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
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
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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 29
BibID
821787
Size
2895px × 4706px 77.99 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_01_fl_29_001_001.tif
Unique Identifier
NL11FE2L
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