Our website is experiencing excessive traffic and some features might be unavailable temporarily. We apologize for the inconvenience.
Portal Search
Search Results
Letter to John Wentworth about Dr. Joseph Walker
Unsigned letter, on letterhead of Williams & Thompson (attorneys), gives a biography of Dr. Joseph Walker, an army surgeon who married a woman who owned a plantation with enslaved people located near Platte City, Missouri. Walker, who sympathized with the pro-slavery party, spent part of the Civil War years in Chicago but returned to Missouri and was killed by a
These results are from the the following archives
Chicago History Museum
1601 N. Clark Street Chicago, IL 60614 Access to archives and manuscripts at the Research Center.Sort & Filter
Topics
- Poetry (1)
- Anonymous writings (1)
- Families -- Missouri -- Platte City (1)
- Physicians -- Illinois -- Chicago (1)
People
- Wentworth, John, 1815-1888. (1)
- Walker, Joseph, -- d. 1864 (1)
- Wentworth, John, -- 1815-1888 (1)
Archives
- Chicago History Museum (1)