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Albert L. Davis Collection

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Identifier: BC151

Overview Collected newspaper and journal articles about the Spanish American War and the 3rd Illinois Infantry in which his son Clarence O. Davis, chief trumpeter, served in the Puerto Rican campaign. Albert was an undertaker in business with S.S. Christiansen in Joliet, Illinois. Albert was a photographer in Joliet after the war and eventually moved to Dublin, Indiana. The 3rd Illinois Infantry, under the leadership of Col. Fred Bennitt, arrived at Arroyo, Puerto Rico and joined the battle that...

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Albert Louis Loud Papers

Collection

Identifier: BC423

Overview Assistant engineer in the North Pole and Trans-Atlantic attempts by dirigible, 1909-1911. Loud was born in Virden, Illinois and was an assistant to his brother-in-law Melvin Vaniman, a photographer, engineer and inventor, who was also a Virden native. Loud accompanied Vaniman on Walter Wellman’s third attempt to reach the North Pole by dirigible in 1909 and his 1910 attempt to cross the Atlantic Ocean. Loud also assisted Vaniman in trials for a second trans-Atlantic attempt, but retired from...

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Albion (Ill.)

Collection — Box: 254

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 3397

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Albion (Ill.) Public School and Reading Room

Collection — Box: 262

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 3525

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alexander & Howell

Collection — Box: 102

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 1709

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alexander, Ashley H./Alexander-Ackerly Family Papers

Collection — Box: 1

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 13

Scope and Contents Family correspondence written to Adaline A. Ackerly, including 12 Civil War letters from her brother Ashley H. Alexander of the 12th Illinois Cavalry, Co. A. Ashley Alexander's letters include brief descriptions of battles at Harpers Ferry, West Virginia; Sharpsburg, Maryland; and Fredericksburg, Virginia, as well as life at Camp Butler in Springfield, Illinois.

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alexander, Milton K.

Collection — Box: 165

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2234

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alexander Sympson Corps No. 70, Woman's Relief Corps

Collection

Identifier: MS-BC12

Overview Founded in 1887 in Carthage, IL as the woman’s auxiliary to Alexander Sympson Post No. 455 of the Grand Army of the Republic in order to aid the Post in their efforts to aid and assist Civil War veterans and their families. The GAR was formed amidst the turmoil of Reconstruction in an effort not only to aid and assist the veterans who had fought for the cause, but also to affect political action for the veterans. Dr. Benjamin F. Stephenson who had been a surgeon with the Fourteenth Illinois...

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alexander, William

Collection — Box: 135

Identifier: 02-08-001-Small Collection 2086

Found in: Manuscript Collection

Alfred J. Henderson Papers

Collection

Identifier: BC277

Overview Alfred Henderson, a MacMurray College (Jacksonville, Illinois) professor and one time chairman of the history and government department, was born in England, the son of Alfred W. and Alice Dalby Henderson, but became a naturalized U.S. citizen in 1917. He was raised in Rochester, New York and worked for Eastman Kodak after graduating from high school. He then attended the University of Rochester where he received a B.A. and a M.A. and went on to earn his Ph.D. in history from Duke University....

Found in: Manuscript Collection

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