Tunnicliff, Rigby, and Staton families papers
Language: eng
Number of pages: 6000
Subjects: Correspondence; Hydrotherapy; Louisiana Purchase Exposition (1904 : Saint Louis, Mo.); Temperance; Description and travel; Methodist Church (U.S.); Social life and customs; History
Description: Correspondence, writings, notes, genealogical material, printed material, and newspaper clippings.  Chiefly correspondence of John Cooper Tunnicliff, his wife Cornelia Hunter Tunnicliff, and their six children of Galesburg, Ill., and later of Moline, Ill.  Also includes correspondence of Cornelia's mother, Sarah Ellen Hunter.  Subjects include family affairs, the Methodist Church, temperance movement, hydropathy, trips to England in 1878 and 1909, and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis.  Genealogical material pertains to the Cooper, Hunter, Rigby, Smith, and Tunnicliff families.
Notes: Open to research.

Gift, Mack S. Staton, 2005.

transferred to Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.

American families living chiefly in West Virginia, Illinois, and Iowa.

Collection material in English.

Finding aid available in the Library of Congress Manuscript Division and at http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/eadmss.ms009267