1834: Maryland Doctor Heads to the Wild West of… Illinois!
Steven | January 22, 2011
I’ve been transcribing a wonderful letter from 1834 that I wanted to share. Dr. William Grimes of Maryland is writing his childhood friend Adam Glossbrenner, a newspaper editor in York, Pa. who is writing a history of the area at the time of the letter. Grimes wants Glossbrenner to move with him to the “frontier [...]
