Beschreibung:

Four letters, from 1856 to 1918. The first is dated 27 May 1856 and is mostly a receipt [original spelling retained]: "Received May the 27 1856 of Christian Tabler Executor of William Tabler decest Sum of Thirty five (?) dollars and fourteen cents being distribut Share of the Second defered payment of the farm Sold under the will of William Tabler he decest." and signed William Tabler. With integral leaf addressed to Christian Tabler, Opequan Mill Berkley County, Maryland. ANS, 1p, Elizabeth, NJ, 10 July 1879, on Board of Education letterhead. Signed by John C. Rankin, Jr., President. Making arrangements with Benjamin Williamson (presumably a lawyer) to go to the Attorney General and attempt to "...[recover]... the money appropriated by the State last January." John C. Rankin Jr. (1848-1903) was the youngest son of the Rev. John C. Rankin, Presbyterian minister and missionary (Hindustan, India, where his four children were born) and classmate of Augustus Clark Kellogg. The younger Rankin served as mayor of Elizabeth, NJ from 1890-1898 as well as on the Board of Education, and worked as a stationer and printer in New York City. (John C. Rankin Co.) ANS, Fact, Clay Co., Kansas, 18 March 1884. Mostly personal [his spelling retained] "I thot I wood rite to sea whether you ware all living....the Children have all got good farmes and duing first rate." Signed J. Newton to A.S. Newton. Includes cover to A.S. Newton, Beverly, Washington Co., Ohio. ALS, Laigne France, 24 Nov. 1918. On U.S. Army notepaper, with photo of an army unit in training. Addressed to his wife. Mostly personal, but one of the few we have seen mentioning the Influenza epidemic of 1918. After telling her that he had not received any letters in a while, "I know there must be a lot of them some place. There is only one thing I am anxious to know about and that is, if you are all well. I hear that the Spanish Flu has been very bad....Well, Edna this is the first Thanksgiving we haven't been together in the last seven years. Still we have a lot to be Thankful for...." Signed John L. Dilger (?), Co. B 330th Inf. A.P.O 762, American Ex. Forces, France. Dilger was born in Atlantic City, and at various times lived in New Jersey and nearby parts of Pennsylvania (Berks, Reading, etc.) He married Edna Eager about 1910. He departed for France from New York City in August 1918 aboard the "Ceramic" with Headquarters Company, 346th Kinfy, 87th Division. Dilger returned to Hoboken, NJ aboard the "Iowan" in April 1919 with the 158th Infy. He died in Ft. Lauderdale, FL in 1972. Condition: First is a bit rough, but the others are good to very good.