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Subject: Draper Papers
Date: Wed, 10 Jan 2001 20:53:59 EST


Just thought I would advise everyone that the Draper Papers cover a wide
area, and not particularly the Midwest. Lyman Draper lived (I believe on
the Erie Canal) among Old Revolutioners. He was very enchanted by their
stories and began writing down their information. His brother-in-law
supported him as he traveled all over the then United States visiting old
soldiers and/or their families, collecting along with the stories, lists and
lists of person who were early settlers in an area, Bible records, deeds,
etc, anything he could get his hands on, and was not, as I understand it, too
particular about lifting public records. Late in life, he was hired by the
Wisconsin Historical Society. He had all of his trunks of papers shipped to
Wisconsin. He left all of his manuscripts, etc. to the Wisconsin Historical
Society. When they went to his home to "collect", they found every room in
his home stacked high with all of his "jewels" and were "hard put" to get
through the home. Lou in Indiana

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