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Great Fire, Chicago, Ill., 1871

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

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Bowles,Samuel III, 1871 October

 File — Box 2, Folder: 42
Scope and Contents

The first item in the file is a Western Union telegram from George M. Pullman in Chicago to Sam Bowles, reporting that the "fire is still raging business part of the city" but that Mary is safe and with the Pullmans. Three subsequent letters have Mary writing from her trip West (Milwaukee and then Denver).

Dates: 1871 October
Found in: Amherst College Archives and Special Collections / Bowles-Hoar Family Papers / Series 1-9: Bowles Family / Series 3: Samuel Bowles III and Mary S. D. Schermerhorn / Sub-series E: Samuel III and Mary S.D. Schermerhorn Bowles: Correspondence to Each Other

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