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Letters to Amanda Conner from Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co. Educational Division. Material: paper. (a) Letter. Size: 8" x 10 1/2". Description: white lined letterhead of Ivison, Blakeman, Taylor & Co., Publishers of The American Educational Series, Chicago, dated April 21, 1876; to Miss Amanda C. Conner, Blooming Grove, Minn.; message: "Madam, Replying to your postal card 17th Inst. Price of Spencerian Key is $1.50. Theory of Spencerian Penmanship, 40 c. Can send either by mail postpaid upon receipt of price. Safest way to remit is by money order or registered letter. Yours truly, Edward Clark". (b) Letter. Same as (a) except for message, "I send you by mail today a copy of the Spencerian Key to Penmanship in response to your favor of 20th inst. Please accept my thanks for the order and $1.50 received. Yours truly Edward Cook, Coulter". (c) Envelope. Size: 3 1/2" x 6". Description: yellow envelope addressed to Miss Amanda C. Conner, Blooming Grove, Waseca Co., Minn., postmarked Chicago Ill., April 21 with return address of the Ivison, Blakeman Taylor & Co. in Chicago, Illinois.Context
Miss Amanda C. Conner of Blooming Grove and James Wilson (J.W.) Cleland were married October 3, 1877. Amanda was born September 11, 1852, in Indiana, and came to Waseca County with her parents in 1856.
Sadie Lilly was a cousin of Amanda Conner on her mother's side.
Mother Sarah Lilly Conner moved with her husband and family to South Dakota in 1883. She died there in 1900.
Amanda's husband, J. W. Cleland was born September 27, 1847 in Delaware County, NY., and was one of nine children born to Rev. and Mrs. W. J. Cleland. He came West with his family in 1863. He carried on the homestead farm until 1885, when the place was sold and he purchased a small farm on the west shore of Clear Lake, near Waseca.
J. W. was stricken by paralysis while working about a threshing machine. He never recovered from the stroke and died after a very prolonged illness, July 15, 1903.Lexicon
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Category 08: Communication ObjectsCreate Date
March 20, 2019Update Date
March 3, 2026