Docent Donn Smith has been busy poking around the attic of the Mather Homestead and he's found treasures abound! Check out his blogs which document his findings including artifacts from 250 years of American life - a bible from 1743, a girl's dress from the 1860's, Stephen Mather's camera, a love letter written by Stephen Mather to his wife ❤️ and more.  Oh the stories they tell!  
 

Bad enough Loyalists raid your house… Deacon Mather and his pursuit of a Revolutionary War Pension

“What shall we name the baby?" From family suggestions to a 21st birthday letter from dad.

“Whose garden was this? It must have been lovely…”

Enigmas in the attic…two 175-year old documents

Vests of interest: the latest attic discovery.

Under the watchful eye… Bertha Mather McPherson upbraids Professor Joseph Lawrence Sax

“…to take up my new duties at Washington…” Letters from Stephen Mather to George C. Purdy

Travels of the little lost sheet.How a woven heirloom made its way back to the Mather Homestead.

The French Connection. An 1869 Letter from Samuel McPherson to his brother Theodore

“Come down and see my etchings…”A discovery on the Homestead basement floor

“…and bequeath my watch, piano and books to my son Stephen Tyng Mather…”

In the days before Kindle… Three centuries of books and four selected first editions

Stephen T. Mather, cub reporter Stephen Mather, The New York Sun, and James G. Blaine

Another Yule Blog from the Mather Bookshelf

A Yule Blog from the Mather Bookshelf

“You say tomato, I say… ”The dedication of Stephen Mather High School, Chicago, Illinois

The Horace Albright Letters

“How was your birthday?” “It was a blast!” A look at the Many Glacier Sawmill “episode”

All in the Families: A genealogical look atfour more Mather family marriages.

Kissing Cousins: A genealogical look atfour early Mather family marriages.