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- 1852-1907 (Creation)
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Photocopies of the letters were provided to Kerby A. Miller by PRONI from the original manuscripts deposited by Aiken McClelland. Sadie H. McClelland, widow of Aiken McClelland, gave Kerby A. Miller permission to publish the Greenlees Letters via her letter of 21 March 1991. The original manuscripts are held in PRONI [reference number T2046].
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Kerby A. Miller's typed transcripts and abstracts, and PRONI's catalogue of, 26 letters written by emigrant Andrew Greenlees to his brother John in Magheramorne, County Antrim between 1852 and 1907. Greenlees emigrated circa 1852 and initially settled in upstate New York working in an iron foundry. By 1856, he had moved in with relatives in Ottawa, Illinois and soon becomes a farmer. Greenlees began his family here shortly thereafter. In March 1874, the Greenlees moved to Rice County, Kansas and remained there as farmer until either 1896 or 1906, after which time Greenlees is in Oklahoma.
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The reference copies of these letters, along with Miller's compiled research on the Greenlees family, are located in P155/37/4.