Isaiah L. Kephart to Horace Kephart, September 2, 1888, page 1

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Isaiah L. Kephart to Horace Kephart, September 2, 1888, page 2

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Isaiah L. Kephart to Horace Kephart, September 2, 1888, page 3

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Isaiah L. Kephart to Horace Kephart, September 2, 1888, page 4

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Isaiah L. Kephart to Horace Kephart, September 2, 1888, page 5

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Isaiah L. Kephart to Horace Kephart, September 2, 1888, page 6

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Details
- Format
  - Letters (correspondence)
- Type
  - Text
- Extent
  - Dimension: 8" x 5"
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Identifier
  - HL_MSS12-05_01_01_001_01
Transcript

Westfield, Ill. 9-2-‘88 Dear Horace, Your good letter of 22nd inst. came in due time. We are glad to learn that Laura and the babe are doing so well. Laura may well at. tribute her success to her “never having worn a corset, high-heeled shoes, or other fashionable monstrosities.” That agrees exactly with what Mis. Elizabeth Cady Stanton once said in a lecture which your mother attended. If ^the mothers and daughters of today would only heed such lessons, how much better it would be for them and the race. We congratulate Laura and her mother on their good sense, and you on your good luck in scoring such a wife. As to an ancestry, I am glad you are interested in looking it up. But it is a

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Description

This September 2, 1888 letter from I. L. Kephart to his son Horace Kephart lays out the Kephart family tree in what is a rudimentary genealogy of the paternal side of Horace’s family, seemingly at Horace’s request. In addition, Isaiah recounts to Horace he was invited to Clearfield County, Pennsylvania to preach at a “campmeeting,” or church meeting, with all of the expenses paid by the church. Afterwards, he writes a few brief paragraphs on how Horace’s family in Massachusetts is doing, and discusses briefly the upcoming election, before signing off.
Details
- Creator
  - Kephart, I. L. (Isaiah Lafayette), 1832-1908
- Format
  - Letters (correspondence)
- Type
  - Text
- Date
  - Date original: 1888-09-02
  - Date digitized: 2019-08-26
- Extent
  - Dimension: 8" x 5" - 16" x 5"
  - Pages: 6 pages
- Subject - Topic
- Location
  - Clark County (Ill.)
- Source institution
  - Western Carolina University
- Source Collection
  - Horace Kephart and Laura Mack Kephart Family Collection
- Identifier
  - HL_MSS12-05_01_01_001
- Related material
  - This transcription has been provided by WCU student Aria Rose Ashburn (MA English), whose annotated version is available at Https://libres.uncg.edu/ir/wcu/listing.aspx?id=31289
- Repository
  - Western Carolina University Hunter Library

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