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- Identifier
- wwu:29288
- Title
- 1865-10-13 Letter from M.L. Stangroom to his mother
- Date
- 1865-10-13
- Digital Collection
- Stangroom (Marc LaRiviere) Papers
- Type of resource
- Manuscript
- Object custodian
- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
- Related Collection
- M.L. (Marc La Riviere) Stangroom papers
- Local Identifier
- stangroomletter18651013
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- Transcript: Stangroomletter18651013 [Page 1] San Francisco 13th October 1865 My Dearest Mother I don't know how long it has been since I wrote to you and only know that it was since I last heard from you. San Franciscans are only settling down from the excitement of a lively Earthquake which we
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Transcript: Stangroomletter18651013 [Page 1] San Francisco 13th October 1865 My Dearest Mother I don't know how long it has been since I wrote to you and only know that it was since I last heard
Show moreTranscript: Stangroomletter18651013 [Page 1] San Francisco 13th October 1865 My Dearest Mother I don't know how long it has been since I wrote to you and only know that it was since I last heard from you. San Franciscans are only settling down from the excitement of a lively Earthquake which we had last Sunday, by far the worst experienced since the settlement of the coast by Americans. It shook down several brick houses and cracked almost all, more or less. We live in a wooden house and feel quite safe, though the ceiling plaster of my office was transferred almost bodily to the tables and carpet. No one was killed and only a few hurt by falling materials. A few weeks ago, we also had a convulsion in the RailRoad Company which resulted in Mr. Lewis being deposed and my being appointed in his place "Chief Engineer of the Western Pacific RailRoad Company," rather an imposing title, especially to untraveled ears, but not of very much importance here. I think [Page 2] I have done pretty well so far, considering that I had to fight the whole crowd at the beginning. The President and Chief Engr. have both had to leave, and the Contractor has to take his orders from me, and although he hates me as bitterly as any man can hate one whom he has tried to injure and suffered himself from the recoil, I try to get along as pleasantly as possible. The English Company's representatives are expected out here in a few weeks, and if they come I have no idea of what position I shall obtain – if any. If they do not come, I suppose I shall remain in my present position for a while at least. My salary is raised from 300 to 400 per month but my expenses are proportionately increased, [illegible scratched out lines] but it is a comfort to think I have no one to blame for it but myself, and I don't do that much since I have left off "worrying." Charly is well and growing in manliness more than in size. He is naturally delicate though he has the buoyancy and spirits which seldom [Page 3] accompany weakness or ill health. He is beginning to take great interest in his lessons and makes good progress. He is as good a little fellow as I want him to be and I am very happy at being with him so much. I am now able to be in San Francisco two or three times a week. I am and have been well, though I am physically very weak and thin compared to what I was some years ago. I am beginning to get old. I have no doubt it sounds laughable to you to hear me talk so at a little over 33, but that in California is equal to 43 in staid old England at least. I suppose you have paid your visit to Charlotte, seen and gloated over all your grandchildren (but one), and returned home. Although we are not working very fast on the RR, I am kept riding about out the country from one end of the Line to the other, 175 miles, and from both to here so as to have very little time on my hands, which suits me exactly, but it is a good excuse for being an infrequent correspondent. I don’t remember when I wrote (or didn't write) last to Charlotte. Send her my love when you write and also give it to Mat and Lucy. I suppose [Page 4] you are not in any alarm about the Fenians, though I suppose you have some apprehensions about the Cholera; those are about the two only topics of European news now the talk of the Atlantic Cable has died away. There is a prophecy of several years' standing by an old Spaniard that San Francisco is to be "wiped out" tomorrow by an Earthquake, but I do not think it certain to take place on that account. How does Mat like his business so far? I hope it is one that will ensure him steady employment and that he will have sense to see that that in time cannot fail to be profitable. My strong wish to that effect is based on the knowledge that I have not realized it myself at any time until now. I am in a hurry, so goodbye, my Dearest Mother, with best love to Papa. Believe me Your very affectionate son M. L. Stangroom [illegible scratched out portion] God bless you all
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- Identifier
- wwu:29282
- Title
- 1866-01-23 Letter from M.L. Stangroom to his mother
- Date
- 1866-01-23
- Digital Collection
- Stangroom (Marc LaRiviere) Papers
- Type of resource
- Manuscript
- Object custodian
- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
- Related Collection
- M.L. (Marc La Riviere) Stangroom papers
- Local Identifier
- stangroomletter18660123
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- Transcript: Stangroomletter18660123 [Page 1] San José 23rd January 1866 My dearest Mother I have just received yours of the 24th November. A week ago today I met with an accident which proved very slight but from which I could not expect to escape alive once in twenty times. I was always lucky in th
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Transcript: Stangroomletter18660123 [Page 1] San José 23rd January 1866 My dearest Mother I have just received yours of the 24th November. A week ago today I met with an accident which proved very sli
Show moreTranscript: Stangroomletter18660123 [Page 1] San José 23rd January 1866 My dearest Mother I have just received yours of the 24th November. A week ago today I met with an accident which proved very slight but from which I could not expect to escape alive once in twenty times. I was always lucky in that way and have more reason now than ever to consider myself so and to be very thankful. I was on a hand car, which is a light railway carriage worked by two men turning a crank and which we use to travel rapidly over the Line. I was turning the crank for the sake of exercise and we were going very fast (about 25 miles an hour) when my foot slipped on some mud in the bottom so as to let my body fall forward onto the crank handle. That threw me over, making me turn a complete somersault and strike on the top of my head 12 or 15 feet ahead of the car which then of course passed over me and ran on some hundred feet before they could stop to come back to me. Everything was in my favor: 1ᵒ that my head struck on soft ground between instead of on one of the wooden ties or sleepers, which are only 21 inches apart and lay between them until the Car, which is only 10 inches high, passed over it and struck me across the thighs. My legs must have been bent like this [diagram of accident], but both my boot heels tore [Page 2] off so as to let them straighten out without breaking. The whole result was two dislocated ankles, one [ditto] elbow and wrist, one broken rib, two badly bruised thighs, and general soreness all round. I was carried to bed and kept soaked in whiskey for four days and nights and yesterday was brought downstairs. Today I can travel round on crutches and have little doubt but that in a week I shall be all right again. Isn't that almost too much luck for one man? You may remember that I have very strong muscular legs, in fact the muscle on my thighs is greater than I almost ever saw and the Doctor remarked that that only had saved me from two broken legs. I have had very little pain and have only to keep quiet. My relations with my employers are pleasant enough in every respect but that of getting my pay, and that is more than I can accomplish just now, but I intend to make a stand for it before long. The Contractor, like the sneaking bully and coward he is, after apologizing and professing all possible friendship, has lately been working again to get me discharged although I have done everything in my power not only to be but to appear reasonable; but such a bitter feeling exists between him and my employers that they would retain me to spite him if for no other reason. We are now of course open enemies, and I have made public his entire course towards me, viz. [rest of letter missing]
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- Identifier
- wwu:29285
- Title
- 1866-10-10 Letter from M.L. Stangroom to his mother
- Date
- 1866-10-10
- Digital Collection
- Stangroom (Marc LaRiviere) Papers
- Type of resource
- Manuscript
- Object custodian
- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
- Related Collection
- M.L. (Marc La Riviere) Stangroom papers
- Local Identifier
- stangroomletter18661010_a
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- Transcript: Stangroomletter18661010_A [Page 1] Steamer Arago Wednesday Morng 10th Oct 1866 My Dearest Mother We are about eighty miles from New York and expect to get in at six or seven this evening, which will make our passage from Falmouth about 13 ½ days. We may consider ourselves fortunate in do
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Transcript: Stangroomletter18661010_A [Page 1] Steamer Arago Wednesday Morng 10th Oct 1866 My Dearest Mother We are about eighty miles from New York and expect to get in at six or seven this evening,
Show moreTranscript: Stangroomletter18661010_A [Page 1] Steamer Arago Wednesday Morng 10th Oct 1866 My Dearest Mother We are about eighty miles from New York and expect to get in at six or seven this evening, which will make our passage from Falmouth about 13 ½ days. We may consider ourselves fortunate in doing even so well as this, as we had very rough weather for six or seven days, so rough as to cause much excitement and some confusion owing to the breaking of furniture. The Persia (as we learn from the Pilot who has just come on board), the second best Cunard Boat whose passage is generally 9 or 10 days, was out 13. The Saxonia, the Crack Boat of the Hamburg Line, generally out 10 ½ to 11 days, was out 17, and the Ville de Paris, the famous French Boat, came very near to foundering. So by comparison, we did very well indeed [Page 2] For a short period of six or seven hours, the gale was the strongest the Captain had ever seen during 25 years on the Atlantic ocean. We lost one poor fellow overboard (a sailor) and got about 1500 [pd?] for his widow and orphan. Some of the big bugs also subscribed among themselves $650 for a testimonial to the Captain, but I did not feel called upon to contribute although I consider him a good sailor and a gentleman. We had great fun during the three or four roughest days, though the poor women and some few of the men suffered a good deal. This turned out to be an American ship and the passengers are almost all American and a pleasant set enough. I have spent most of my time in the smoking room and have only spoken to one lady (age 52) who sits near me at table with her family since I came on board, so although there are several nice-looking girls on board, I cannot be accused of flirting much. I expect to land this evening and, if early enough, [Page 3] to go up to the Brez's. Tomorrow I expect to get my letters and, unless there is something in them relieving me from hurry, to leave by the California Steamer at noon if there is room in her. If I send this, you will know I have gone. In the event of my staying, I shall go overland, starting about Monday. My pipe has been universally admired and envied and, as during the turmoil I smoked and smoked and smoked, I think nothing but a special providence could have kept it from being broken. We have now calm weather, and the only likely contingency about one getting on shore tonight is that we may be detained at quarantine until morning, though that is improbable and would make it almost impossible for me to catch the other steamer. A fortnight has already and when you get this a month will have passed out of the next three years. I suppose you feel already as if you had been dreaming, as I shall [Page 4] also feel when I get settled down again, but it will be a very happy dream to look back to and think over, and I feel triumphant over fate to the extent of three happy weeks of which I made use and of which I cannot be robbed. I feel well and in good spirits and much more disposed to look forward a few years than I expected to be willing to do. Whatever may have led to it or whatever may be the result of my prolonged absence, I am very very glad I went and think it will not only have given me a short happiness but give a better tone to my life until we meet again. Goodbye, dearest mother, with all possible love to Pa and Charlotte. Your affectionate Boy M. L. Stangroom Tell Charlotte I will write to her next and to give my love to Charles.
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- Identifier
- wwu:29278
- Title
- 1866-10-10 Letter from M.L. Stangroom to his sister Lucy
- Date
- 1866-10-10
- Digital Collection
- Stangroom (Marc LaRiviere) Papers
- Type of resource
- Manuscript
- Object custodian
- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
- Related Collection
- M.L. (Marc La Riviere) Stangroom papers
- Local Identifier
- stangroomletter18661010_b
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- Transcript: Stangroomletter18661010_B [Page 1] [Steamer] Arago Wednesday 10 Oct. 1866 My Dear little sister If I wish you to keep your promise about writing, I must set the example, though there is not much in the scenes of shipboard that would interest you unless painted by a more lively pen than m
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Transcript: Stangroomletter18661010_B [Page 1] [Steamer] Arago Wednesday 10 Oct. 1866 My Dear little sister If I wish you to keep your promise about writing, I must set the example, though there is no
Show moreTranscript: Stangroomletter18661010_B [Page 1] [Steamer] Arago Wednesday 10 Oct. 1866 My Dear little sister If I wish you to keep your promise about writing, I must set the example, though there is not much in the scenes of shipboard that would interest you unless painted by a more lively pen than mine is today. If you had come with me I do not think you would have seen the humorous side of things, though anyone with a keen appreciation of gymnastic feats and tours de force could see plenty to admire, or rather laugh at. I was singularly fortunate in escaping from all the ridiculous casualties which occurred to nearly all who were well and able to be up on decks or in the [Page 2] smoking room. That was for two or three days a perfect pandemonium. The motion of the ship, being such as to make it impossible to sit on the fixed seats without holding on and often not then, often a sudden lurch would send five or six off their seats and to the other end of the room like rocks out of a catapult, and there they would roll backwards and forwards a tangled mass of human beings, pipes, and spittoons, several times before getting hold of something to stop them. It was great fun to me who happened to hold on at the right time and had a constant performance for my benefit. A great many were bruised and clothes spoilt, [Page 3] but strangely no bones broken and all entered into the fun of the thing though occasionally a few "cursory remarks" would escape from some of the victims. Those who preferred to stay below got some thrown out of their berths, others inundated in them when seas were shipped, and at meals more nutriment was generally taken externally than internally. Sometimes during a few moments of fancied security, we would be eating and all at once the tables would be cleared at one sweep, leaving only the cloth and racks on the table. As I told Mama, I have not made any sensation among the female portion of the community, though the males who have dubbed me "San Francisco" seem [Page 4] to think in their envy at my having been always on the laughing side that my antecedents are of an uncertain nature with a tendency toward a belief in an acrobatic or "circuitous" career. I also improved my mind on occasion by interchange of thought and puns. Here's one: Who was the first man mentioned in the Bible? Give it up? "Chap I!!!!!!" The weather is pleasant and the sea calm, though we have got into such a habit of rolling that we can’t break ourselves of it all at once, and writing becomes difficult under the circumstances. Goodbye, Lucy – give my love to Matthew and believe me your affectionate Brother, M. L. Stangroom Write often
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- Identifier
- wwu:29293
- Title
- 1866-11-06 Letter from M.L. Stangroom to his mother
- Date
- 1866-11-06
- Digital Collection
- Stangroom (Marc LaRiviere) Papers
- Type of resource
- Manuscript
- Object custodian
- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
- Related Collection
- M.L. (Marc La Riviere) Stangroom papers
- Local Identifier
- stangroomletter18661106
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- Transcript: Stangroomletter18661106 [Page 1] San Francisco Tuesday 6th November 1866 My Dear Mother I write these few lines in haste to tell you I have arrived safe, sound, and in good health and spirits. We had a pleasant voyage and arrived here on Sunday morning. I found Charly and the Colburns al
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Transcript: Stangroomletter18661106 [Page 1] San Francisco Tuesday 6th November 1866 My Dear Mother I write these few lines in haste to tell you I have arrived safe, sound, and in good health and spir
Show moreTranscript: Stangroomletter18661106 [Page 1] San Francisco Tuesday 6th November 1866 My Dear Mother I write these few lines in haste to tell you I have arrived safe, sound, and in good health and spirits. We had a pleasant voyage and arrived here on Sunday morning. I found Charly and the Colburns all well and glad to see me back again. Louise was very much pleased with your presents and Charly also, as well as with Charlotte's. He and I have played at Spellicans every evening since I came. He has grown and is quite healthy and strong. On Monday morning I settled [Page 2] right down to work in the office and my employers were very cordial and appeared glad to see me. The work stopped last week, but I expect to commence it again in a week or two and am now making estimates to determine whether to go to work at the end of the first 20 miles near San José or at Sacramento. If we do the latter, I shall have to be at Sacramento most of the time for the next few months but should in that case be down here at least once a week. We have got rid of the troublesome Contractor on the works though there is a [Page 3] heavy lawsuit pending between him and us, which, when it comes to trial, will be very exciting and perhaps amusing. Colburn is not doing as well as he did for a year or two, having put everything he could take and scrape together into an invention of which I do not think he will ever derive any benefit, and I expect to have to help them a little for some time to come. I expect to have to go up to the Stockton tomorrow to be gone some days and will close with best love to Pa, Mat, and Lucy and to all at Geneva when you [Page 4] write to them. Tell Lucy I will write to her in my next when I have more time. Tell her to send her picture if she has not already done so and to write often. Believe me, my dear mother, your affectionate son, M. L. Stangroom
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- Identifier
- wwu:29281
- Title
- 1866-12-03 Letter from M.L. Stangroom to his family
- Date
- 1866-12-03
- Digital Collection
- Stangroom (Marc LaRiviere) Papers
- Type of resource
- Manuscript
- Object custodian
- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
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- M.L. (Marc La Riviere) Stangroom papers
- Local Identifier
- stangroomletter18661203
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- Transcript: Stangroomletter18661203 [Page 1] Sacramento 3rd December 1866 My Dear M or N, as the case may be I have been driving and tramping round to such an extent through the mud and rain for the last three weeks as not to member to which of you I wrote last, but know on general principles that I
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Transcript: Stangroomletter18661203 [Page 1] Sacramento 3rd December 1866 My Dear M or N, as the case may be I have been driving and tramping round to such an extent through the mud and rain for the l
Show moreTranscript: Stangroomletter18661203 [Page 1] Sacramento 3rd December 1866 My Dear M or N, as the case may be I have been driving and tramping round to such an extent through the mud and rain for the last three weeks as not to member to which of you I wrote last, but know on general principles that I should have written to someone long ago. However, if you pass it round, it will not be "robbing" anybody. I left San Francisco three weeks ago today, came here by land 170 miles, and have been having surveys made between this place and Stockton (40 miles from here) to determine the best route. I hope to commence work here in the course of a month or two and if so shall be up here most of the time next year. Some parties here want me to make a reconnaissance for a Railway from here to the extreme S. E. corner of California, Fort Yuma, about 700 miles, but I am afraid I can't get away to do it without losing my position here, though I should like it very much indeed, [Page 2] as it runs down through a wild Spanish and Indian country, among the Apaches, who have become a bugbear among all who have gone down to Arizona and that section of the country. If they can wait a month or two, I may be able to get away as I don’t think it would take me over two or three months to do all they want and to see as much of the country and of the Noble savages as I want. I wrote from San Francisco telling I found Charly very well indeed and everyone glad to see me back again, my employers very cordial, and everything pleasant, except the probability of not being able to get money from them very easily. That, however, will not worry me if I can keep drawing enough to get along with. In fact, I am quite "renovated," am in good health and spirits, and don't care about anything that happens to be going wrong enough to m'en faire du mauvais sang. I hope to get my surveys here completed so as to get down to San Francisco in time to put something in Charly's stocking on Christmas Eve, and if not, then at all events for New Year's Day. I am very thankful that Mark writes in such good spirits. He is quite a new man. [Page 3] This is not by any means a lively town at present, or indeed at any time but during the few months of the session of the Legislature. Stockton is just about as dull but I am stopping at little roadside houses most of the time and have enough to do during the day to make me ready to go to bed pretty early and so it does not make much difference to me where I am. My principal assistant, Frank Hinckley, the one I left in charge during my absence on my flying trip to see you, is with me most of the time and by dividing our spare time together kill it more easily. He is a nice young fellow and (this is for Lucy) [over?] six feet high and with a splendid heavy dark moustache, the regular "Moustache triste" that she admired so much in the picture at the Crystal Palace. I have not seen her mare since my return as I am using my other team but hear that she and her colt are in fine order. If she (Lucy) were only here to ride her, there is splendid mud from a few inches to a few feet deep everywhere, the finest "falling" she could possibly get. Isn’t it too bad. My meerschaum continues to color, but not in as regular a manner as I could desire; it may, however, sober down with age. I commenced years ago to lose my hair; I had the first gray ones pulled out and held up exultantly to my horrified gaze some time since, [Page 4] but never until yesterday have I known myself to be spoken of seriously as "the old man," which was the descriptive term applied to me by a landlord speaking to one of my assistants (a mere boy of twenty-seven or eight). We must all come to it, but he might have spared my feelings and kept it from me a little longer. Enclosed is a scrap from a newspaper, sent me by Daniel Brez, attempting to be descriptive of our passage in the Arago. The fellow who wrote it was down in his berth most of the time and knows nothing about it, but what he says is true enough, as far as it goes. I wish you all a very happy New Year and the young folks a merry Christmas, including Charlotte, in the latter not so much on account of the Year of her Birth as the Day thereof. My best love to you all, Pa, Ma, Lucy, Mat, Charlotte, Charles, and all the little ones. God bless you. M. L. Stangroom I had a letter, forwarded to me from New York, which missed me there, begging me to go to Washington to hear a personal explanation. I am glad I did not get it, though I don’t think I would have gone. It is much better as it is.
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- wwu:29295
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- 1873-12-26 Letter from M.L. Stangroom to his sister Charlotte
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- 1873-12-26
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- Stangroom (Marc LaRiviere) Papers
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- Manuscript
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- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
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- M.L. (Marc La Riviere) Stangroom papers
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- stangroomletter18731226
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- Transcript: Stangroomletter18731226 [Page 1] Canal Headquarters 26 December 1873 My dearest Charlotte We just got your letter of the 16th November and are very glad to hear you are in better health than you were. We thought of you and drank your health yesterday and wish you and yours a very happy N
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Transcript: Stangroomletter18731226 [Page 1] Canal Headquarters 26 December 1873 My dearest Charlotte We just got your letter of the 16th November and are very glad to hear you are in better health th
Show moreTranscript: Stangroomletter18731226 [Page 1] Canal Headquarters 26 December 1873 My dearest Charlotte We just got your letter of the 16th November and are very glad to hear you are in better health than you were. We thought of you and drank your health yesterday and wish you and yours a very happy New Year as well as many returning happy Birthdays. We [missing] your pictures some time ago [and] thought them very good. We [missing] here together and expect to [missing] for some months excepting [missing]. I intend to send [missing] after the holidays [missing] his teacher who [missing] his scholars to [missing] been enjoying his [missing] during the six [Page 2] here and has developed physically enough to make me glad of having kept him away from school so long. He has all the shooting, rowing, riding, and driving he wants. He is a fair shot and handy enough round a farm but is too timid naturally ever to become a good horseman. Emily has a very nice horse which she rides and drives, a perfect pet but full of life and spirit. Charly rode out with me this [morning] on him and got thrown [off but] I of course made him [missing] again. Emily [missing] had much practice [missing] takes to it very [missing] make a good [missing]. Three months [missing] run down [missing] and took a [missing] in San Francisco [missing] very much and [Page 3] at the end of the time rented our house furnished for the winter. Emily then went to Sonoma and spent a month at her mother's and came back here, I having run down to fetch her a fortnight ago. We are very comfortable and only hope that the discussions in the Company will not be the cause of my having to leave here now we are settled. Our winter has commenced a month earlier than usual and we have already had some rain and much mud, but I am pretty well used to it, and Emily can find plenty to occupy her and keep time from dragging when she has to stay indoors. Her health is good and so is that of the children in general, though Johnny is just recovering from a closing up and inflammation of the eyelids caused, [Page 4] I think, by a cold. I have been well since the warm weather and consequent malarious fever left me, a couple of months ago. Mabel and Johnny are both nice, engaging children. The former, a reqular Stangroom, is improving in look and manners every day and is now in our opinion an very nice looking and behaved little girl. Johnny is, as he always was, the beauty of the family and is very attractive. We often wish you and your family and father and mother would pull up stakes and move out here so we could be all together and although it might seem rather rough to you at first, I think it would in the long run be best for you all as long as you are not wedded to any old country tastes and prejudices sufficiently to prevent you from enjoying a new life. In a monetary point of view, you with your caution and my [rest of letter missing]
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- Identifier
- wwu:4192
- Title
- 1890 South Bellingham
- Date
- 1890
- Description
- Original Inventory Number: 0578.
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- Campus History Collection
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- still image
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- Campus History Collection
- Local Identifier
- CHC_1890-0002
- Identifier
- wwu:4196
- Title
- 1890 View of the Town from High Street
- Date
- 1890
- Description
- Date from typed label on photo verso. Photo of New Whatcom in 1890, from High Street. New Whatcom later became Bellingham. Two copies in file.
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- Campus History Collection
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- still image
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- Campus History Collection
- Local Identifier
- CHC_1890-0001
- Identifier
- wwu:4197
- Title
- 1899 Banquet at Byron Hotel
- Date
- 1899
- Description
- Banquet at Byron Hotel (now Leopold Hotel) in New Whatcom (now Bellingham) on Tuesday, March 28, 1899 to celebrate the appropriation of operating funds by the State Legislature for New Whatcom State Normal School. Framed portraits of President McKinley and Governor John Rogers hang over the room's entryways. Part of Centennial Collection (2000) Additional prints available
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- Local Identifier
- CHC_1899-0001
- Identifier
- wwu:22576
- Title
- 1899 Catherine Montgomery
- Date
- 1899
- Description
- Critic teacher, primary grades, 1899-1909; Supervisor, Primary Dept., 1909-1910; Supervisor, Primary Dept. & Teacher, Special Primary Methods, 1910-1915; Assistant Superintendent, 1919-1923; Supervisor of Primary Grades, 1923-1926. BA University of Washington; Special work, San Francisco State Normal School, Kansas State Normal School (Emporia). Additional print available
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- Campus School Collection
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- still image
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- Campus School Collection
- Local Identifier
- CSPC_1899-0001
- Identifier
- wwu:5559
- Title
- 1899 Main Building
- Date
- 1899
- Description
- Typed label on photo verso: Main Building Summer 1899. Negatives Available. Two additional prints available (5 x 7 in.). Original photo color sepia.
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- still image
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- Local Identifier
- CHC-OM_1899-0001
- Identifier
- wwu:5588
- Title
- 1899 Main Building
- Date
- 1896-1897
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- Campus History Collection
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- still image
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- Local Identifier
- CHC-OM_1899-0002
- Identifier
- wwu:5575
- Title
- 1899 Main Building
- Date
- 1899
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- Campus History Collection
- Type of resource
- still image
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- Campus History Collection
- Local Identifier
- CHC-OM_1899-0003
- Identifier
- wwu:22577
- Title
- 1899 Sarah (Sadie) Rogers
- Date
- 1899
- Description
- Superintendent of Model School, 1899-1900. Additional print available
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- Campus School Collection
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- Campus School Collection
- Local Identifier
- CSPC_1899-0002
- Identifier
- wwu:4189
- Title
- 1899 View from Main Building Across High Street
- Date
- 1899-1900
- Description
- Original inventory #0661.1. "Centennial Collection" photograph
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- Campus History Collection
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- CHC_1899-0002
- Identifier
- wwu:4802
- Title
- 1900 Faculty
- Date
- 1900
- Description
- Pictured Left to Right: unidentified, [Robert Vaile], Catherine Montgomery (standing), Ida Baker (sitting), unidentified, Edward Mathes (sitting), Francis Eply (standing), [Avadana Millett] (standing), [Jane Connell] (sitting).
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- Local Identifier
- CHC-FAC_1900-0001
- Identifier
- wwu:26115
- Title
- 1900 Fairhaven High School graduates - eleven high school students and two teachers pose with floral bouquets in celebration of graduation
- Date
- 1901
- Description
- Front caption: "1901 Fairhaven High School Graduates. Larelle German, Bill German, Prof. Hughes." Top row (R to L) __; Myra E. Hanspeter; Robert S. Hopkins; Miss Carrie Bachtle (teacher); __; __. Bottom row (R to L): Henry Makino; Grace Auld; William or Lavalle German; Gertrude L. Anderson; Eugene S. Hoskins; William or Lavalle German; Professor W.J. Hughes. See also GB2297.
- Digital Collection
- Biery (Galen) Papers and Photographs
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- still image
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- Center for Pacific Northwest Studies
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- Galen Biery papers and photographs
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- gb1244
- Identifier
- wwu:5614
- Title
- 1900 Main Building
- Date
- 1900
- Description
- Negative available (5 x 7 in.)
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- Campus History Collection
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- still image
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- Campus History Collection
- Local Identifier
- CHC-OM_1900-0001
- Identifier
- wwu:5879
- Title
- 1900 Senior Class
- Date
- 1900
- Description
- Class of 1900. Pictured Left to Right: Margaret J. Clark, Pauline Jacobs, Clara Norman, Ruth P. Pratt, Hattie B. Thompson, Emma Mythaler, Kate M. Schutt, Florence M. Griffith. Photo published in The Normal Messenger, June 1900, p. [2]. Original inventory #0807. Photo is reproduction of published photograph. Additional prints available
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- Campus History Collection
- Local Identifier
- CHC-STU_1900-0001