Templeton family letters
Scope and content
Letters (1832-1842) from James Templeton of Hennepin, Illinois to his brother Samuel Templeton of New Berlin, Union County, Pennsylvania, on bookselling, land settlement, the costs of land, animals, building, weather conditions, crops, and the need of money. Letters (1849-1856) from Sam Templeton of Freeport, Illinois, to Philip Grass of New Berlin on labor, land, produce, interest costs, the need of a post office and craftsmen, a description of a prairie fire, and on the raising of wheat and oats, on disease, politics, the sale of Templeton's house and land in New Berlin, and the possibility of exchanging them for land in Center, Illinois.
Dates
- 1832-1856.
Creator
- Templeton family. (Family)
Extent
1 folders. (1 folder.)
Language of Materials
English
- Agriculture -- Illinois -- Hennepin.
- Booksellers and bookselling.
- Grass, Philip.
- Grassland fires -- Illinois.
- Hennepin (Ill.) -- Climate.
- Illinois -- Politics and government.
- Illinois -- Rural conditions.
- Illinois -- Social conditions.
- Labor -- Illinois -- Freeport.
- Meterology -- Observation -- Illinois -- Hennepin.
- Migration, Internal.
- Real property -- Illinois -- Hennepin.
- Real property, Exchange of.
- Templeton, James.
- Templeton, Sam.
- Templeton, Samuel.
- Weather -- Illinois -- Hennepin.
- Description rules
- Appm
- Language of description
- Undetermined
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
Repository Details
Part of the Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections Repository
2B Carl A. Kroch Library
Cornell University
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