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This collection contains a cluster of brief letters from Lorado Taft to George C. Miles of Washington, Ill. Taft refers to his "Solitude of the Soul" and his "Fountain of the Great Lakes." Taft and his secretary also thank Miles for the wild flowers which Miles sent to his Midway ...

This collection consists of a 27-page diary kept by Sara Jane Tanner as she traveled through Illinois and Iowa in 1874, as well as a photograph of Tanner and one of her husband. Sara Jane (nee Spaulding) Tanner (1832-1924) was born in Granville, New York. She married Oscar M. Tanner in ...

Terence A. (Terry) Tanner, the respected antiquarian book dealer and owner of the Chicago-area Hamill & Barker Book Sellers, was born in Chicago in 1948 and grew up in the city's south suburbs. In the late 1960s Tanner moved to Galesburg, Illinois, to attend Knox College, where he majored in mathematics. ...

Robert Nicholson Tate came to Illinois in 1839 and later formed a partnership with John Deere. After his partnership with Deere dissolved in 1852, Tate manufactured plows on his own. This collection contains a microfilm copy of Tate's typescript reminiscences and diary beginning with his school days in England, and ...

Marietta Busey Tawney, a member of the early Urbana family and a graduate of Vassar College in 1899, returned to Urbana in 1930 when her husband, Guy Allen Tawney, was appointed to the University of Illinois faculty. She immediately became active in civic and welfare activities, and served as an ...

This volume is a record of the life of a commercial salesman who traveled across central Illinois between April and August, 1913. When in Decatur, he drew up a plan to issue a newspaper to be entitled "The Far Goer: A Weekly Journal of the Open Road." The journal would ...

Henry W. Taylor owned Taylor's Agricultural Warehouse in Freeport, Ill., during the mid-nineteenth century. This collection contains a single item, a four-page form letter written by Taylor to promote an assortment of products (straw stackers, threshing machines, etc.) sold by his agricultural warehouse. The Nebraska State Historical Society donated this ...

This collection contains the family papers of the Taylor-Langworthy families of Princeton, Illinois. Joseph I. Taylor (1822-1876) was a lawyer from Princeton, Illinois. In 1850, he married Sarah Ann Langworthy (1824-1909). They eventually had seven daughters. Sarah's father, Cyrus Langworthy, had moved to Princeton, Illinois, in 1834, where he was elected ...

In this letter to B. O. Jones on Mar. 18, 1893, W. F. Teague (b. 1819) of New Columbia, Massac County, briefly writes of his father coming to Illinois in 1817, of others in the neighborhood, and of the bears and turkeys then in the area.

This collection contains correspondence between Dorothy Lamon Teillard and the Kubicek family, letters about Teillard, and other materials. Dorothy Lamon Teillard (1858-1953) was the daughter of Ward Hill Lamon, Lincoln's bodyguard and friend. Her mother died while Dorothy was an infant, and she was raised by her father's sister in Danville, ...

Temple B'nai Abraham was first established in 1921 as an Orthodox Jewish congregation in Decatur, Illinois, before transitioning to Reform Judaism in the early 1930s. This collection contains materials that document the history of the temple's administration, members, liturgy, events, and religious school from roughly 1910-2017. Temple B’nai Abraham was established ...

This collection contains photocopies of two sets of letters from the Templeton family of Illinois and Pennsylvania. The first set of letters, dated 1832-42, were written by James Templeton of Hennepin, Ill., to his brother Samuel of New Berlin, Pa., and discuss bookselling, land costs, farming conditions, and the shortage ...

This collection consists of one letter written April 17, 1865, from Bessie Tero [?] in Rockford, Illinois, to her mother, Mrs. B.C. Tero, in Genesee County, New York. The letter includes detailed sections on the public reactions to the surrender of Robert E. Lee and the assassination of Abraham Lincoln. Bessie ...

The Thebes Courthouse Project was an historical research project initiated by the University of Illinois Cooperative Extension Service in 1973. Grenville C. King, Jr., a graduate student in History, was engaged to research the history of the courthouse, both to strengthen an application for restoration funds and to inform the ...

Charles G. Thomas of Galena, Ill., wrote this letter to his son, C. L. Thomas, at school in New Haven, Conn. He refers to others in the family as well as to several acquaintances. His reference to Galena's "burnt district" suggests that he might have written this letter in 1849.

Hezekiah R. Thomas, born in Wales and a printer by trade, enlisted in the U.S. Navy on Sept. 2, 1862. This collection contains a photocopy of his diary between Aug. 27, 1862, and July 22, 1863, during his service as a landsman on the U.S.S. [i]Miami [/i]in the lower Chesapeake ...

This collection consists of a photocopy of a letter written by John R. Thomas to his mother following the Civil War. John R. Thomas served in Company I of the 117th Illinois Volunteer Infantry from 1862 to 1865, mustering out as captain of the unit. The letter was written by John ...

Samuel Kinney Thomas of Alton, Ill. enlisted as a private in Co. G, 2nd Ill., on June 17, 1846. His letters, written from Port Tavaca on Aug. 3, 1846; from San Antonio on Aug. 10, 1846; and from Buena Vista on Apr. 4, 1847, describe his experiences in the U.S.-Mexican ...

William Thomas, a prominent citizen in Jacksonville, Ill., served as a circuit judge, a member of the Illinois General Assembly, and a trustee of several state institutions in Jacksonville. In this reminiscence, Thomas recalled his horseback journey from Kentucky to Illinois, and his first year, 1826-27, as a school teacher and ...

This collection includes a volume of corrected proofs of Charles Manfred Thompson's Master's thesis (University of Illinois, 1910), "A Study of the Administration of Thomas Ford, Governor of Illinois, 1842-46," as printed in Evarts Boutell Greene and Thompson, eds., [i]Governors' Letter-Books, 1840-1853, [/i]Collections of the Illinois State Historical Library, Vol. ...

Jean Alice Scharre Thompson (1926-2011) was an avid collector of books, magazines, and ephemera that mainly relate to the woman's suffrage movement. A few items concern temperance, prohibition, the Klan, and other secret societies. The collection includes, first of all, a wide range of prints, drawings, cartoons and other graphics, often ...

This collection contains ledger books relating to farms in Champaign County, Ill. James Thomson (1819-1890) made entries in two volumes, mainly between 1857 and 1873, for his land in Crittenden Township. Two more volumes contain entries between 1912 and 1947 by Thomson's daughter Sarah and her husband William W. Wise. ...

This collection contains photographs documenting Grant and Emma Thornton's lives and time at the Chicago Parental School and St. Charles School for Boys, now the Illinois Youth Center, as well as a few publications regarding the two institutions. The Chicago Parental School (1902-1975) and St. Charles School for Boys (1904-Present) were ...

This collection contains photostats of 9 letters, 1843-1845[?], exchanged between George Throop and his family. It also contains copies of some of these letters and others as printed in Olive Cole Smith, comp., [i]Ancestral Charts of George Addison Throop... [/i](1934). The letters discuss communitarian topics, including Fourierism, plans for a ...

[i]Through the Years: African American History Comes Home[/i] was an exhibit on African Americans in Champaign County, Ill. Displayed at the University of Illinois' Krannert Art Museum in the fall and winter of 1996, the exhibit was developed by the Champaign County African American History Committee, in collaboration with the ...

George W. Thumb, of Morris, Ill., enlisted as a private in Co. D, 36th Ill. Vol. Inf., on July 15, 1861. His diary includes entries between Oct. 20, 1862 and Feb. 25, 1863, with a few entries between Apr. 2 and May 16, 1864. He mustered out as a corporal ...

This collection contains microfilm copies of letters of Samuel Tilden concerning New York politics, elections, the Free Soil movement, the law for the government and organization of Texas into a territory, and the issue of slavery. In 1955, Norman Graebner acquired the film, made from the originals in the New York ...

In this letter of Sept. 7, 1827, John Tillson, Jr., postmaster of Hillsboro, Ill., writes from Kingston, Mass., to E. J. Warren of Hallowell, Maine, regarding his plans for traveling with his family to Illinois.

This collection contains a letter from Tom Tilton, a traveling salesman, to his parents in Harrison, New York. Tom Tilton was a traveling salesman who lived in the United States during the 19th century and traveled to several cities in Illinois. His parents lived in Harrison, New York. The collection consists of ...

This collection contains a notebook and notes used by Charles J. Tinkham of Homer, Illinois, a surveyor, civil engineer, and businessman. The notebook, evidently compiled in 1856 or 1857, and entitled Field Notes of the Original Surveys of Champaign County, Illinois, contains 102 pages of plats and 40 pages of ...

This collection contains a scrapbook of photographs, sketches, and notes from a camping trip taken by several young men and women in June-July 1913. The group, with many members of the Tjaden family, camped at Zeller’s Point near Peoria, Illinois. The Tjaden family lived in Peoria, Illinois, in the 20th century. ...

This collection contains the correspondence of David Todd and Charlotte Farnsworth, as well as correspondence to and from John Todd, David's brother. The letters discuss topics including religious beliefs, politics, slavery, Owen Lovejoy, Oberlin College, the Civil War, Abraham Lincoln, and life in Illinois. David Todd (1821-1874) was a minister in ...

On March 5, 1898, D. H. Tompkins, Secretary of State of South Carolina, wrote to H. S. Swain of Chicago indicating that "the railroads are now paying their taxes," pursuit to the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in [i]In Re Tyler [/i](1893).. Clark Spence of the University of Illinois Department of History ...

This collection consists of a record book from the Tonica Music Association of Tonica, Illinois, from 1902 to 1906. The village of Tonica, LaSalle County, Illinois, was founded in the mid-19th century as a stop on the Illinois Central Railroad about a hundred miles southwest of Chicago. The Tonica Music Association ...

Daniel Torrey (1808-1896), a master scythe maker, owned a wagon and blacksmithing shop in Payson, Adams County, Ill. In the 1830s Torrey moved from his home state of Maine to Quincy, Ill., and later, to Payson, where he established his shop. In 1856 he moved to Missouri and, after 1870, ...

This collection contains two letters from Caleb Atwater Townsend in New York to his brother Eben Townsend, in Andover, Illinois, in 1839 and 1850.  Caleb wrote to his brother about improvements the brothers needed to make in Andover to make the land more desirable to settlers. Caleb Atwater (1779-1858) and Eben ...

This collection contains papers related to Thomas D. Toy. Materials include Civil War military documents, personal papers, and Toy family genealogy. Toy, born in Pickaway County, Ohio in 1842, lived in Washburn, Illinois at the time the Civil War began. He enlisted in the 47th Illinois Volunteer Infantry on September 4, ...

Lyman Trumbull was a leading figure in state and national politics of his day. In 1855, after service as a state legislator, Illinois secretary of state, and Illinois Supreme Court justice, he was elected to the U.S. Senate, finishing his third term in 1873. This collection contains photocopies and transcripts of ...

This collection contains documents collected by C. E. Tucker, Jr. in 1855-1925. The collection consists of two Court of Common Pleas in 1855 and 1861 (documents similar to others in the Public Record Office which, except for samples, have been destroyed); bonds of the City of Philadelphia and of its ...

Fred H. Turner (1900-1975) graduated from the University of Illinois in 1922, and, as assistant dean, dean of men, and dean of students, 1922-66, devoted his career to the University. Between 1946 and 1974, he made and numbered wood cut prints for friends at Christmas time. He depicted buildings not only ...

This collection contains correspondence and other papers of Frederick Jackson Turner, a historian who worked at the University of Wisconsin and Harvard University in the early twentieth century, specializing in the American frontier and the Midwest. The collection includes originals and carbon copies of correspondence, notes, and publications. Frederick Jackson Turner ...

This collection contains the papers of Jonathan Baldwin Turner, an educator, agriculturalist, and theologian. The collection includes correspondence, sermons, legal papers, agricultural papers, and documents concerning Turner's involvement with Illinois Industrial University, which would become the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Jonathan Baldwin Turner was born December 5, 1805 in Templeton, ...

Albert Tuxhorn (1908-89) was Champaign City Attorney, 1935-42 and 1951-76, and was active in the Illinois Municipal League and the National Institute of Municipal Law Officers. He also was a member of the Champaign School Board (Unit 4), 1949-52. This collection, which Tuxhorn donated to the Illinois Historical Survey in 1976, ...

The Twenty-Eight Club was organized in 1928 as a social and service organization for the wives of University of Illinois faculty members. The group evolved over the years until it was absorbed by the University Women's Club. This collection contains correspondence (1956-58), meeting minutes (1960-70), three treasurer's reports (1931-62, 1934-52, ...

The Tye River, in central Virginia, begins at the base of the Blue Ridge, flows southeast through Nelson County, and enters the James River in Buckingham County, about twenty miles northeast of Lynchburg, Va. According to an 1855 gazetteer, the Tye River Warehouse was a post office in Nelson ...