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19th Feb Saturday night 10 o' clockEver Dear son Eliab Have made one pair of your shirts thecoarse ones we have been rather busy this week but wantedto, and did finish one for because of such a good opportunityto send em - your thread was hardly good enough & notenough of it but it is just as well as we had enough.Lucy is the girl to make bosoms & collars I wish you wouldlook at Josephs and just see how nice they are.Any time when you or Joseph want shirts (not if they havelinen Bosoms tho') I should esteem it a privilege to make them.In regard to settlement that Joseph said something aboutwhat can I say or do - hadn't I better let it all go I doubt notthat C. would willingly supply me with whatever he thinks.I need as long as I live if he has the means of doing it even ifit should take a much greater amount of property than belongsto me. He may not always, feel so but I guess he would.Perhaps I had better leave it all with him - Trusting -He is in the hands of an overruling God.If I should live to see the time when I cannot labor I mightfeel more dependant than would be agreeable to such a proudspirit as mine - but if it is best I think I can bring myselfto it - We have said almost nothing about it since last July andhave hardly thought it (I don't love to think of it) but as I am upon itI'll answer Josephs question as far as I can - The title is rested inme without any mortgage or draw back, is legally perfected by registry.I have an impression that the note was for 12 hundred dollarsand that it was given 10 or more years since but I have notseen it since nor said anything about it or known whereit is - it was witness'd I think by Henry B Sargent.It isn't best to think it a matter of any consequence for you all knowthat I cannot be willing to have anything like grand or hardthoughtsWill you take an early opp to return this as I wish to reply to it now while flush of leisure & short of cash.
Title
Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac, Joseph, and Eliab Metcalf (AMSRM's sons), Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835, 1845, 1848
Creator
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898
Date
1835, 1845, 1848
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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Contributing Institution
Newberry Library
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Call Number
midwest ms metcalf Box 4 Folder 86
BibID
821787
Size
3514px × 4414px 88.79 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_04_fl_86_004_002.tif
Unique Identifier
NL11FGD5
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