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Milo Dec. 22nd 1835 My Dear Son, I have suffer'd considerable anxiety about you because of the extreme cold last week- was not you very cold before you got there how do you like your place and employment? Did you call on Mr. P. what did you say to him and what did he tell you. You will of course try to be a good boy & do your duty in every respect toward Mrs. Parker and her family endeavor to be cheerful and pleasant constantly - I advise you to make a confidant of Mrs. Parker I know or think I know that she is a kind hearted Christian woman therefore tell her your feelings and troubles if you any and write to me all you feel and think - be earnest and engaged in trying to benefit yourself -now is your time for improvement. I charge you my Dear boy not to neglect reading the Bible and prayer consider that your Safeguard your talisman I want you should attend the sabbath school constantly and endeavor to get your lessons and understand them well and pay good attention and try to profit by the sermons you hear. Remember you are hearing and learning in action for Eternity and not think to much about what your fellow creatures will think of you - probably very few will notice you at all and tis of very little consequence what those few think of you compared with the approbation of God and of your own conscience You know and believe that "one thing is needful,, be often at the throne of Grace God is equally accessable to the humble praying Soul from every place and though we are seperated for a time may our prayers often assend together to that God whose ear is always open to the petitions of the humble penetent - let your first thought in the morning be towards God in praise and prayer for direction and Guidance through the day. 27th I expected a letter from you last week. I hope you have one all ready to send by Mr. Forrest Turner who will carry this - if you have not done it I want you should get your patern for a jacket and send it by him. I shall try to have him call at Mrs. Parkers as he goes in tomorrow and as he returns the next day. I shall send you 2 pr Stockings, your Grammar & if you should want any other book that we have here write & I'll send them Have you bought any Books? what do you study? how do you get along? but in the first place what school do you go to? your Masters name? No. of scholars etc? Do you have any time to study evenings? Furnish yourself with books but be as economical about it as you can with propriety perhaps you can very consistently borrow some you can ask Mrs. Parker (or Mr. Pomeroy) and suffer yourself to be retarded in your studies for wont of books Do be diligent and try to be expeditious in all you do and you'll get the more time for studywrite write write particularly from your affectionate motherkeep a journal A. M. Metcalf
Title
Metcalf, Anna Mayo Stevens Rich (mother), to Isaac Stevens Metcalf, Isaac Stevens Metcalf family papers, 1835-1836
Creator
Metcalf, Isaac Stevens, 1822-1898
Date
1835-1836
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 3 Folder 73
BibID
821787
Size
3165px × 4721px 85.53 MB
IIIF Resource Type
Canvas
Filename
998217878805867_mms_metcalf_box_03_fl_73_001_001.tif
Unique Identifier
NL11FF8C
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