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to come when you are wanted, won't you? I should think you would have wanted your Botanical books this fall, have'nt you? You regret that you did not get information in Drawing last summer. Possibly it might have been some assistance to you, but I conclude our Drawing is of a very kind from yours, and done by different rules, or rather no rules at all compared with yours. I would suppose it would be much easier getting your lines etc. exact by the use of instruments then by mere skill as we do, though I am pretty certain you would not so soon acquire a correct eye. I am very glad if you anticipate a "easy time" this winter. I had supposed it would be very different. I mentioned that Eliab was home a while ago, but did not tell you that he came home sick. He was really quite unwell - pain in the side, very yellow skin and eyes and other symptoms of liver complaint. We feared he would be sick as I was, but he dosed with cherry bark etc. took a bottle of it back with him, and is now better than for some time past. We joked him about Lizzie Quimby's marrying Fellows and going off, having an effect on his health and spirits! I suspect, and he intimated, that there will be the considerable effort and maneuvering by the Browns in May Marston's behalf. Guess E. does'nt like her very much. Joseph writes that he has now the best boarding place he has had since he went to Bangor. Eliab says there is a pretty girl there - a kind of "blue stocking." Spose 'twill have any effect upon Jos. By the way, tell me all about Lucy Williams and her smart bean?. I have an idea from all I have heard of her that she is very handsome, very witty, very accomplished etc. etc. As for Cousin Maria I suppose her to be a great good-natured, common sense, strong minded girl, very much like Uncle Joseph. Aunt and cousin Hannah I did very much dislike, and all I hear confirmed my former feeling. The rest I know nothing at all about only that Aunt Conant is very homely and very clever, and that Aunt Esther don't know how to manage children. I have a great desire to go there and see and know something about the folks, but don't expect I ever shall. I rec'd a very good letter from Mary
Title
Furber, Lucy M. (sister), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf (also from Samuel W. Furber; also to Antoinette B.P. Metcalf), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1846-1856
Creator
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898
Date
1846-1856
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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Contributing Institution
Newberry Library
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Call Number
midwest ms metcalf Box 2 Folder 33
BibID
821787
Size
2956px × 3642px 61.64 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_02_fl_33_008_003.tif
Unique Identifier
NL11FE6F
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