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Anna Ridgely Hudson Diaries
Collection
Identifier: BC304
Overview
Young woman in Springfield, Illinois, who wrote about her social and religious activities and her feelings about these, while growing into womanhood as the daughter of a prominent Springfield banker, Nicholas H. Ridgley. Anna was one of thirteen children. Her father came from Maryland, where his father owned a tobacco plantation. In 1835 he was appointed the cashier from the State Bank of Illinois and remained with it until it closed. In 1866 he and two of his sons formed the Ridgely National...
Dates:
1860-1862, 1865-1872
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Manuscript Collection
Anna Risse Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-BC760
Abstract
Anna Risse worked in the Illinois governor's office from the 1930s to the 1970s, serving as stenographer or secretary for governors Louis Emmerson, Henry Horner, Dwight Green, and Adlai Stevenson II. The collection contains letters and greeting cards written to and from Risse, many of them from Ambassador William Blair and Governor Stevenson. The collection also contains newspaper clippings and photographs.
Dates:
Created: 1932-1978; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/2014
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Anne Willer papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-BC696
Abstract
Member, Illinois House of Representatives (6th district, Democrat) from LaGrange, Illinois, 1975-1980. House committee memberships included Human Resources, Judiciary II and Personnel and Pensions. Also member of Special Committee on Correction Industries, Legislative Council, Conference of Women Legislators and League of Women Voters.Correspondence, hearing transcripts and reports concerning Willer’s involvement with hearings on teen pregnancy sponsored by the Conference of Women...
Dates:
1978 - 1980
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Anonymous, Parody on "Wait for the Wagon"
Collection — Box: 127
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2016
Dates:
Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Anonymous, "The Christian Hero & the Union"
Collection — Box: 109
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 1826
Dates:
Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Anson Patterson letters
Collection — Box: 65
Identifier: MS-SC1148
Scope and Contents
Four letters to Helen and one to Auntie discuss his activities, occurrences and the cost of items at Nashville, his feelings about the war and the Confederacy. Mentions those from home who are doing well, sick or dead. Describes a deserter being discharged and the music played.
Dates:
Created: 1862 - 1863
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Anthony, C.
Collection — Box: 251
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 3332
Dates:
Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Anthony C. Sasso
Collection — Box: 205
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2500
Dates:
Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Anthony L. and Henrietta E. Knapp Papers
Collection
Identifier: BC388
Overview
Democratic member of the U.S. Congress from Jerseyville, Illinois, elected in the fall of 1861 to replace John A. McClernand. Served in the 37th and 38th Congresses (1861-1865), practiced law in Chicago, Jerseyville, and Springfield. Married his cousin Henrietta E. Knapp on November 24, 1863, and had one surviving son Anthony Wheeler. Knapp also served in the Illinois state senate from 1859-1862.Collection consists of diaries, a speech and several letters. The diaries kept by...
Dates:
1855 - 1892
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Anthony Potts papers
Collection — Box: 67
Identifier: MS-SC1204
Scope and Contents
Diploma from Edinburgh College of Medicine, 1785. Three small cards from the school with Potts name written in, 1785, 1786. License to practice medicine in Illinois, 1825, signed by John Todd, President of the Board of Censors and others.
Dates:
Created: 1785 - 1825
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
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