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Tuesday night 14 --45A Corps of Sappers & Miners in service & pay of No. 6 Smith, are now quartered upon Almeida at $1.25 per man a week. They are well supplied with the utensils & implements suitable to their vocation & labor industriously from the rising of the sun until the going down of the same. I have 15 compositions to read in my school tomorrow. 22 names on the fire list. Joseph M. Metcalf I had just got my pen in hand & Jo came in & must needs write still. L. sent you a letter Friday by A. Hill containing a verid picture too high colored perhaps intended to send the bundle by him but it was not quite ready. I sent it down last evening to send by Mr. Cutts but having just learned that Mrs. H. Sargent & James Hoxie are going to Bangor tomorrow, & so Charles has gone down to get it to send by her & then you can have an opportunity to send up a letter or bundle. She expects to come back Friday or Saturday. L. goes to school quite steady goes from home most of the time Hands it much better than I expected the walk does her good the she stops a night at the corner frequently or she would get hir'd out perhaps. I do believe that Joseph is a first rate teacher notwithstanding all the fuss they have tried to make I want to hear all about you think and feel and do - do you live near to God or are you like the rest of us cold stupid and indifferent. I hope you see Ann occasionally and tell her the news from home we have not written to her since she went away fine chance for Almeda to board Smiths men if she can get along with the work & I guess she can you know she cant always do what she must do however negligent about things that could be let alone
Title
Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother) (also from siblings), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1844-1851
Creator
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898
Date
1844-1851
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 3 Folder 76
BibID
821787
Size
3137px × 3919px 70.38 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_76_001_001.tif
Unique Identifier
NL11FFDQ
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