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Adam W. Snyder letter
Collection — Box: 82
Identifier: MS-SC1439
Scope and Contents
Letter, Oct. 27, 1834, to James Semple, past Illinois Attorney General and member of the Illinois legislature, in Edwardsville re: support of Major Webb over Reynolds and the possibility of trading for Semple's "gig".
Dates:
Created: October 27, 1834
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Adams County Bicentennial Commission records
Collection
Identifier: MS-BC4
Overview
Authorized October 22, 1974 by the Adams County Board for the purpose of coordinating activities that involved the people of the county in celebrating the Bicentennial year, initiating additional projects, and creating an awareness of what was to happen during the Bicentennial. Members to the commission were appointed by the County Board. Charles Radel served as chairman of the commission which met monthly, with all members of the commission to be present, as well as the chairmen of each...
Dates:
1974 - 1977
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Adams, Katharine K.
Collection — Box: 154
Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2188
Dates:
Created: Date missing
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Adams-Snyder Family Papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-BC5
Abstract
Family from Springfield, Illinois, consisting of lawyers and farmers. James Adams (1783-1843) was Springfield's first attorney. His son, Lucian B. (1816-1882) was also an attorney and a justice of the peace. Lucian married Margery A. Reed (1824-1890) and had four children: Harriet L., Enola A., Eldora J., and James L. (1848-1931). James L. was a fruit farmer and truck gardener. He had two children from his first wife, Florence Roe; and two children from his second wife, Laura Snyder...
Dates:
Created: 1813-1989; Other: Date acquired: 00/00/1982
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Adeline J. Geo-Karis papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-BC239
Scope and Content
The Adeline J. Geo-Karis Papers, 1973-2007, consist of 53.42 cubic feet of constituent correspondence with smaller amounts of legislative bills, newsletters, reports and newsclippings. Geo-Karis’ work as a state representative and her terms as a state senator are documented. The Alphabetical Files can be used only with Geo-Karis’ written permission, but the rest of the papers are open to research. The collection is divided into six series: Illinois House of Representatives Papers,...
Dates:
1973 - 2007
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Adin and Dexter Baber papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-BC30
Overview
Edgar County (Kansas and Dudley, Illinois) livestock and grain commission merchants.
Business correspondence, shipping records, contracts, and sales and purchase records documenting the livestock commission business of A. Baber and Company, a local firm with an Indianapolis, Indiana, office, and Dexter Baber’s grain and livestock operations.
Business correspondence, shipping records, contracts, and sales and purchase records documenting the livestock commission business of A. Baber and Company, a local firm with an Indianapolis, Indiana, office, and Dexter Baber’s grain and livestock operations.
Dates:
1840 - 1949
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Adin Baber Collection
Collection
Identifier: AV-01-05-Baber
Dates:
Existence: 1892 - 1974
Found in:
Audiovisual Collection
Adin Baber Hanks Genealogical Collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: MS-BC29
Scope and Contents
Contains correspondence, documents, and miscellaneous papers used for writing several studies of the Nancy Hanks family and for compiling the genealogy, "The Hanks Family of Virginia and Westward..." (privately printed, Kansas, Illinois, 1965). A hundred or more books about the Hanks family accompany the papers.
Dates:
Other: Dummy Date
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Adlai E. Stevenson Family Papers
Collection
Identifier: MS-BC611
Scope and Contents
The Adlai E. Stevenson I Family Papers, 1830-1966, consist of 2.3 linear feet of original materials and 2 rolls of microfilm copies of materials the originals of which are not found elsewhere in the collection. These materials include correspondence, invitations, certificates, speeches, recipes, research notes, scrapbooks, photographs, diaries, unpublished papers, news clippings, published material and genealogical material concerning the private lives and the public careers of the Adlai E....
Dates:
1830 - 1966
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
Adlai E. Stevenson II Collection
Collection
Identifier: AV-01-06-Stevenson II
Dates:
1900 - 1965
Found in:
Audiovisual Collection
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