Diary: Joseph A. Gilpin, October 27, 1886 to August 25, 1895

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Joseph A Gilpin, Atlanta Ga, (3) May 18, 1888

Jospeh A. Gilpin Jan 20th 1889 Baltimore Baltimore County Maryland (4)

Joseph A Gilpin, Sandy Spring, Montgomery Co, (1) Md. June 1st 1886

Joseph A Gilpin Denver City, (2) Arapahoe Co. Colorado. P.O. Box 2320. Jan 6th 1887.

Senor Jose de Gilpin, (5) Ciudad de Mexico, No. 627 Calle de Bucarelli Mexico. [?] La [Sturbide?] Fonda En Calle de San Francisco.

31 Diary, beginning October 27th, 1886 Written in [?] October 27 Get up early

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for the West at 10 a.m. after checking or rather telling the baggage master to Check my trunk to the city of Chicago, he charged me 25 cts for storage it gave me the bill of storage, telling me I could get my trunk in Chicago by presenting it to the bagge master at thatplace. At this juncture my mother bide one good by with many Christians aloud traveling & about [sharthers?] the train was a fast [enderees?] & in a very short time I was shimming by the pretty little town of Bawed which I had left the morning before. One train stopped in Washington & often a half hour it started on its western course through the city, though us [?] when traveling I god "turned around." & [?] vain endeavors to read a Chicago daily which I [marchasped?]. I kept looking out the [nordows?] at the country, which to me seemed entirely unlike Maryland country & I seemed to be carried south ward instead of westward, after a few miles of travel in this state of mind I asked a passing conductor if I were in Virginia or Maryland to which he answered very good naturedly "Its Maryland sir." I was greatly relieved by this answer & I settled myself back in my seat trying to imagine to the best of my abi lities that I was going westward & down south ward as it really seemed to me. My journey