These headings reflect representative of what topics might be found in the correspondence and scrapbook files. Most of the financial records for the Dubois family appear to have been handled by Mrs. Dubois. So, with few exceptions, the financial records have been consolidated and maintained in the Edna M. Dubois Collection. Some of the scrapbooks and letterbooks have overlapping dates. Most of the newsclippings are not identified ads to source.
Memorabilia ranging from invitations to photo albums fill the last few boxes of the collection.
Born on May 29th, the fifth child of Jesse and Adelia Morris Dubois, in Crawford County, Illinois. 1857 Moved with his family to Springfield, Illinois. Graduated from Shurtleff Preparatory School, Alton, Illinois, and enrolled at Yale, where his brother Jesse was also a student. 1875 Was appointed Secretary of the Board of Railway and Warehouse Commissioners of the State of Illinois. He resigned the following year.