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Amelia Roberts journal

Collection — Box: 72

Identifier: MS-SC1278

Scope and Contents Descriptive diary of trip by waterways through Pennsylvania, Virginia, Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. Travels to Charleston, Pekin, Peoria, and to Spoon River. Attends some social activities. Describes a storm and finding a boat wreck while on the river, how helpful the husbands are to wives in the west and several encounters with Indians. Returned to New York via Chicago, Milwaukee, Detroit, Buffalo and on to New York. Includes typed transcript.

Dates: Created: 1835

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Frederick S. Mojonnier diary of a voyage to America

Collection — Box: 60

Identifier: MS-SC1059

Scope and Contents Typed transcript of diary kept by Mojonnier on the family's trip. Briefly details each day of their trip by stage, sleigh and train to Havre, France where they spent several days before sailing. On board ship he details the weather, any family problems, passenger problems, sea life they observe, a ship wreck and their entrance into the Mississippi with the help of a tug boat. He describes the boat they take to St. Louis and the sights he sees along the way.

Dates: Created: Undated

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Harriet Newton Terhune reminiscences of pioneer days in LaSalle County

Collection — Box: 70

Identifier: MS-SC1258

Scope and Contents Handwritten memoir. At the age of 92, recalls trip from New York via covered wagon and passing through Chicago "one house only", building their house on the prairie, problems getting supplies, what they ate, maintaining a tinder to start fires, and starting a prairie fire by accident, making candles, stage coaches passing by, and seeing the first passenger train.

Dates: Created: March 27, 1918

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Hiram Root letter

Collection — Box: 74

Identifier: MS-SC1299

Scope and Contents Letter to Ormail Clarke in Oswego, New York telling him of the great opportunity in Illinois i.e. cost of land, quality of land, wages and "handsome flats or meadows called prairies". Tells him to come and to tell Dr. Tyler they will want him as soon as possible.

Dates: Created: July 20, 1818

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Jason Robbins papers (Rushville, Illinois)

Collection — Box: 75

Identifier: MS-SC1311

Scope and Contents Four letters to Jason Robbins discuss Illinois land, its fertility and beauty. Discuss land, crop and livestock prices. Mention trip from Ohio and family back there. Some anecdotes about life on the prairie and the people settling there.

Dates: Created: 1835 - 1836

Found in: Manuscript Collection

John Phelps reminiscences

Collection — Box: 66

Identifier: MS-SC1169

Scope and Contents Typed transcript of reminiscences tell of his numerous journeys, businesses and successes and losses. Tells of his long journey from Virginia to New Orleans to meet with his regiment in time to fight in the Battle of New Orleans. Discusses his numerous business ventures including building a raft to take whiskey to St. Louis to sell using a crew of novice sailors. His business with the lead mines in Galena, Ill. Mentions interactions with Thomas Carlin, a relative of his wife; Governor Reynolds...

Dates: Created: 1874

Found in: Manuscript Collection

John Reynolds papers

Collection — Box: 70

Identifier: MS-SC1264

Scope and Contents Six letters, 1823-1854, to Reynolds family in Tennessee discusses family news, land conditions in Illinois, some of his land deals and current events on a state and national level, including his swearing in as governor, the Illinois Michigan Canal, railroads and his allegiance to Jackson. Letter, July 1829, to J.M. Peck re: running for governor and Peck's school and work. Letter, May 1831, re: Meeting at Vandalia in June to select seminary lands probably along the canal route. Letter, July 8,...

Dates: Created: 1823 - 1858

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Lyman Meacham letter

Collection — Box: 59

Identifier: MS-SC1023

Scope and Contents July 24, 1879 letter to General John A. McClernand regarding his service in the Black Hawk War and his remembrance of the wilderness of the prairie when he first traveled through it. Sent in response to a request for information re: men who had served in that war.

Dates: Created: July 24, 1879

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Reminiscences of pioneer life in Illinois, ca. 1830-1860

Collection — Box: 70

Identifier: MS-SC1257

Scope and Contents Typescript of reminiscences of life in Illinois during the 1830's and 1840's. Gives some genealogical information about his family in Scotland and their first coming to the U.S. Relates stories of living on the prairie, the extreme cold of 1832, building their first house, living off the land and among the Indians and numerous related problems. Recounts stories of bees, wild hogs, rattle snakes and rabid dogs. Tells about building the first school, the teachers, and anecdotes about attending a...

Dates: Created: Undated.

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Sarah F. (Prescott) Sleeper letters

Collection — Box: 80

Identifier: MS-SC1405

Scope and Contents Letters to her family, the James Prescotts of Deerfield Center, New Hampshire. The first is sent from Livingston Falls, Maine and makes references to the war and the draft and advises that she would "skedadle to Canada". The next three letters are from Illinois and discuss family and friends and the differences between the farms, the climate, the roads, cost of living and the illnesses in Illinois and New England. Describes Lincoln's funeral as "wicked to spend so much money in such a way."...

Dates: Created: 1863 - 1865

Found in: Manuscript Collection

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