Manuscript Collection Inventory
Illinois History and Lincoln Collections
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
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1
Blair-Stifler Family Papers, 1835-1976
Box 1:
REBECCA STIFLER
Correspondence, 1849-68
WARREN LEVERETT (1805-1872)
Correspondence, 1858-72
Invitations, 1859-70
WASHINGTON LEVERETT (1805-1889)
Correspondence, 1864-88
MARY ANN LEVERETT (1812-1901)
Correspondence, 1835-45
1862-1871
1872
1873
1874
1875-79
1880-84
1885-88
Box 2:
1889-91
1892
1893
1894
1895-96
1898-1901
Undated
Invitations, 1874-99
Quarterly Statements, Upper Alton Baptist Church, 1894-99
Box 3:
WILLIAM HENRY STIFLER (1840-1895). See also Oversize Box 34.
Correspondence, 1859-71
1872-80
2
1881-84
1885
1886
1887
1888
1889
Box 4:
1890
1891-92
1893
1894 (2 folders)
1895 (2 folders)
1896
Undated
Box 5:
Address Book, undated
Autograph Book, 1873
1880
Bank Account Books, 1890, 1895
Canceled Checks and Receipts (4 folders)
Box 6:
Canceled Checks and Receipts (2 folders)
Clergyman’s Vade Mecum, 1870-73
Conference Notes, 1891-3
Diaries, 1859, 1864, 1869
1881
Financial Account Books, 1871-74
1881-84
Box 7:
Funeral Sermons, 1882-95
Invitations, 1888-90
Life Insurance Policies
Marriage Certificates, 1872-76
1877-79
1880-83
1888
1889
1890
1891
3
Box 8:
1892
Membership Cards, First Baptist Church, Sioux Falls, S.D., 1893
(2 folders)
Miscellaneous
Mortgage, 1889
Notebooks, 1864
1866
1867
1883
Box 9:
1893-95
undated
Notes for Sermons and Bible Study (7 folders)
Box 10:
Pastoral Visiting Record, 1869
“Pastor’s Complete Handbook and Register,” 1875
“The Present Attitude of the Roman Catholic Church to American
Institutions,” undated
“A Record of God’s Dealings with the Band of Hope in Shurtleff
College,” 1869
Register of Church Members, Pana, Ill., 1870
Report to Board of American Baptist Home Missionary Society re:
Roger Williams University Incident, 1887
Returns of Marriage, 1880-84
Rock Island Prison Barracks Materials (includes “Recollections
of the Civil War”), 1864-91
Scrapbooks, 1860-69
1877-91
1890-95
Box 11:
Sermons, 1862-69
1870-73
1874
1875
1876
1877
Box 12:
4
1878
1879
1880
1881-82
Box 13:
1883-84
1885-87
1888-90
1891-92
1893
1894
Box 14:
1894 (2 folders)
1895 (2 folders)
Undated (2 folders)
Box 15:
Undated (7 folders)
Box 16:
Undated (7 folders)
Box 17:
Undated (6 folders)
Box 18:
Undated (7 folders)
Box 19:
Specifications for Building of W. H. Stifler, 1889
Statements of Church Affairs, 1878-9
Subscribers List, Baptist Brevities, 1889-90
Treasurer’s Book, Missionary Society, Roger Williams University,
1885
Troy, Ill., Materials, 1867
MARY LEVERETT GREENE (1839-1918)
5
Correspondence, 1860-79
1880-83
1884-88
1889-90
1895-1917
Unknown Dates
WILLIAM WARREN LEVERETT (1841-1872)
Correspondence, 1862-72
SARAH BROWN STIFLER (1845-1948)
Correspondence, 1855-65
1866
1867
1868-70
Box 20:
1871-72
1873
1874-75
1877-80
1881-82
1883
1884
1885
Box 21:
1886
1887
1888
1889 (2 folders)
1890
1891
Box 22:
1892
1893
1894
1895 (2 folders)
Box 23:
6
1896
1897 (2 folders)
1898
1899
1900
1901 (2 folders)
Box 24:
1902
1903
1904
1905
1906 (2 folders)
Box 25:
1907 (2 folders)
1908
1909-11
1912
1913-14
Box 26:
1915
1916-17
1918
1919
1920-24
1925-28
1929
1930
Box 27:
1931 (2 folders)
1932
1933-40
1941-44
1945 (2 folders)
Box 28:
1945 (7 folders)
7
Box 29:
1945 (2 folders)
1947-48
Undated (2 folders)
Bank Account Book, 1899-1908
Canceled Checks and Receipts
Diaries, 1863-65, 1867-68
Box 30:
1869
Financial Account Books, 1892-96
1895-1901
1897-1901
1899-1913
Greeting Cards (2 folders)
Box 31:
Greeting Cards (6 folders)
Invitations, 1892-1903
Box 32:
1904-5
1906-9
1910-14
1915-31
School Notebook, 1857-58
LUCY LEVERETT GREENE (1867-1919)
Correspondence, 1873-90
MARY ATHERTON STIFLER (1875-1889). See also Oversize Box 34.
Correspondence--From, 1880-86
1887-89
Box 33:
Correspondence—To, 1884-88
Drawings
Financial Account Book, 1886
Miscellaneous
8
JULIET LEVERETT STIFLER (1877-1953)
Correspondence, 1884-93
1895 (2 folders)
1896-1941
WILLIAM WARREN STIFLER (1883-1954)
Correspondence, 1884-95
1896-1901
Box 34:
1902
1903 (2 folders)
1904 (2 folders)
1905-12
Box 35:
ROY BLAIR (1886-1971)
Correspondence, 1901-4
1906 (2 folders)
1907 (2 folders)
1908 (6 folders)
1909 (6 folders)
1913-14
1919-29
1930
1934
Box 36:
1938-48
1949
1950-9
Greeting Cards
Miscellaneous
Newspaper Clippings
Visitors Book, Funeral, 1971
LUCY STIFLER BLAIR (1887-1976)
Correspondence, 1887-99 (2 folders)
1900-3 (4 folders)
1904
9
1905 (3 folders)
1906 (2 folders)
1907 (2 folders)
Box 37:
1908 (8 folders)
1909 (7 folders)
1910-11
1912-16
1917-18
Box 38:
1919-28
1930-6
1937-42 (2 folders)
1943-4
1945
1946-51
1952-5
1956-70
1971
1972-6
Composition Book
Drawing Book
Financial Account Book, 1922-5
Greeting Cards (2 folders)
Invitations
Miscellaneous
Newspaper Clippings
School Writings
Spelling Blanks, 1896-7
Box 39:
THE BLAIRS (ROY AND LUCY)
Correspondence, 1911-19
1923-39
1940-2 (2 folders)
1943
1944 (2 folders)
1945
1946
1947
1948 (2 folders)
10
1949 (2 folders)
1950 (2 folders)
1951 (2 folders)
1952
1953
Box 40:
1954
1955
1956
1957
1958 (2 folders)
1959 (2 folders)
1960
1961-2
1963
1964 (2 folders)
1965
1966-71
Greeting Cards (4 folders)
Box 41:
Greeting Cards (6 folders)
Box 42: OVERSIZE
WILLIAM HENRY STIFLER
Estate and Pension Matters, 1889-99
1900-1
1902-4
1906-12
Notebook, 1872
MARY ATHERTON STIFLER
Scrapbook, undated