Manuscripts

Susan E. Wilcox was born in May of 1866 or 1867. She graduated from Springfield High School in 1884 and from Wellesley College in 1887. Her teaching career began at Springfield High School in 1888 and ended with her retirement in 1935.

545 Thomas Maurice Lawrence Jr. was born in Springfield, Illinois on January 2, 1897, the son of Thomas M. Lawrence Sr. and Nettie (Barnstable) Lawrence. He went on to become an insurance and bond salesman, marrying when he was nearly 50 years old to Greta Wilkinson.

This collection is comprised largely of materials containing the published prose and poetry of Vachel Lindsay in formats such as posters, newspapers and magazine articles, booklets, pamphlets magazines and books.

Composed primarily of newspaper clippings, sheet music, correspondence, and manuscripts of singer and composer Vaughn DeLeath.

Materials related to Virginia Prince’s service with the YMCA and American Expeditionary Forces 1918-1919, course catalogs Lowthorpe School, Groton, MA, Christmas cards from Virginia Prince, and Virginia’s landscape design plans for properties.

The Watts-Val, John Jr., Dave, and Bob- were a well-known family of druggists in Springfield, Illinois during the latter half of the twentieth century.

The collection includes leases, receipts, and correspondence from the Carpenter family.

John Louis Florville Levonle later William Florville (Fleurville) (1807-1868) was Haitian-born. After his parents died, he moved from Haiti to Baltimore, Maryland where he attended Catholic school and was an apprentice in a barber shop. He moved to New Orleans to set up a barber shop and then St. Louis. He arrived in Springfield in 1831. In 1832 he married Phoebe Roundtree, a former slave.  He was a barber and businessman whose shop on Adams Street between Fifth and Sixth streets became a regular meeting place for Springfieldians, including Abraham Lincoln. The surname has a variety of spellings Floriville, Fleurville, De Fleurville.