Illinois--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
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Hale S. Mason Family papers
Collection — Box 57
Identifier: MS-SC1007
Scope and Contents
Many letters from Sabrina and her sons to their father while he was in California. A few letters from Hale to his family. They give news of the family both in Illinois and New York. The farm, William's work as telegrapher and Edwin's as teacher. They discuss their friends in Lockport and Joliet. William frequently gives the political news both state and national, whether California will be a state, the Free Soilers, the Fugitive Slave Law, the Whig party and local political elections and...
Dates:
Created: 1848 - 1866
Found in:
Manuscript Collection
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Hale S. Mason Family papers