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From: "Bill Brewer" <>
Subject: Re: [INJEFFER-L] John Lyle King Diaries
Date: Wed, 28 Jul 1999 15:37:13 -0700


Hello, did anyone see this when I originally sent it? Is the listowner
there?
Is anyone there, or does everyone just think this is a dumb idea. Some
comment, please?
Bill

----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Brewer <>
To: <>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 9:47 PM
Subject: [INJEFFER-L] John Lyle King Diaries

> Has any thought been given to possibly transcribing the John Lyle King
> Diaries
> for the Web? John Lyle King was born in Madison about 1823. In his early
> twenties he began keeping a diary, which grew to eleven volumes. He
studied
> law in Madison under Judge Lyle, an uncle. He also served in the state
> legislature
> in the 1850s, and finally moved to Chicago sometime in the mid-1850s, in
> time to
> be there for the Great Fire. He was present at the meetings which formed
> the
> Republican Party, and for that reason the volumes of his diary covering
that
> period
> are of historical interest. The diaries themselves are in the Indiana
> Historical
> Society Library in Indianapolis. I know that a few pages have been
> transcribed,
> and are in the Genealogy Department of the Madison Library, but it does
seem
> that
> the volumes covering his life in Madison, before moving to Chicago would
be
> of
> great interest to this group.
> Bill
>
>

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