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Allamakee county Letters & Diaries

This page was updated April 6, 2009

If you have a letter or diary to contribute, please email your information to Sharyl



None of the letters & diaries have been edited, although some possibly contain words or phrases offensive to modern readers.

  • Letters - written by Dr. Thomas H. Barnes & his wife Julia A. Orr Barnes - 1854 & 1884

  • Letter - written to Moses & Isabella Ross by daughters - August 1856

  • Letter - written by Benjamin Ratcliff to his sister - April 1858
    Includes a poem about their log cabin written by Benjamin's daughter

  • Letter - written to relatives by William & Emily Thompson - November 1860

  • Letters - written by David McGoon & Samuel Ackerly, published in The True Latter Days Saints Herald - 1870

  • Letter - from J. W. Foster to Alfred B. Foster & wife - December 1877

  • Letter - from J. W. Foster to Alfred B. Foster & L. Foster - before 1879

  • Letter - written to Mr. Alfred Foster by Florence Ida Foster - February 1879

  • Letter - from John B. Murray to his father Michael in Ireland - March 1881

  • Letter - written to J.H. Jones, Waukon from San Francisco, CA about the 1906 San Francisco earthquake

  • Letter - written by soldier George Aschom to his family from Germany, 1919
    New! April 2009

  • Diary - partial diary of Sidney Thor Koontz written during his WWI overseas duty in England & Ireland

  • Letter - from Geo. Coppersmith written to the Allamakee Journal & Lansing Mirror, 1930


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