Joseph Winskill papers, 1824, 1850-1855, 1976

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Winskill, Joseph

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Three letters (1850, 1853) by Winskill, a lead miner in the Town of New Diggings (Lafayette County, Wisconsin), written to his sister Jane Atkinson and her husband James in Cumberland, England. The...

Three letters (1850, 1853) by Winskill, a lead miner in the Town of New Diggings (Lafayette County, Wisconsin), written to his sister Jane Atkinson and her husband James in Cumberland, England. The detailed letters include discussion of lead mining, food prices, and cholera in New Diggings, domestic bliss with his wife Eliza, the birth of their children Caroline and Horace, illness and death of family members, and differences between American and English customs. Also included is Jane's English birth certificate (1824); typed copies of 1850 and 1855 census enumerations for the Winskill family in the Town of New Diggings; and two letters (1976) written by Sarah E. Crann of Wales, Great Britain, providing family history and background. Jane Atkinson was Crann's great grandmother.

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