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Eliab Parker Mackintire (1797-1864) was a Massachusetts state legislator. Collection consists of Mackintire's letters, mostly from Boston and Charlestown, Mass., to his son-in-law and daughter, Rev. and Mrs. William Salter, of Burlington, Iowa. Topics include church affairs, business and economic conditions, the Mexican War, education, politics, travel on the Great Lakes, railroad building in the West, discovery of gold in California, and Mackintire's career as a member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives. less