Drawer 4
Contains 53 Results:
Wayne County Manuscripts
Includes Daniel Ulrich papers (1824-1873); John & Daniel Ulrich papers (1796-1904); Albert Votaw family papers (1832-1922); M.H. Jenks, Brief sketches of a tour of Indiana (1838); & notes on teaching methods in Richmond public schools, ca. 1880.
Wayne County Manuscripts: Quaker Materials
Includes miscellaneous letters and other items, some by Charles and Elijah Coffin and Barnabas Hobbs. Also a hand-written newspaper and a letter from Earlham College and a typescript of a history of West Richmond Monthly Meeting.
Wayne County Manuscripts: Canals, Turnpikes, and Railroads
The bulk of the collection pertains to the Whitewater Valley Canal Co., including letters, property lists and account books.
Wayne County Manuscripts: Richmond Area Materials
Miscellaneous items, including letters, mostly mid-19th century, relating to the Richmond area.
Thomas Marshall Family Correspondence
Wayne County (Economy, Indiana) Quaker family. Many items are letters from sons in the Union Army in the Civil War. Also a diary of a trip to Colorado in 1905 by Orlando Marshall and 84 letters to Alonzo Marshall and his family, 1857-1922.
Sketches of Early Newport
Daniel Huff (1816-?) was a Wayne Co. Quaker and wagon shop owner in Newport (now Fountain City). Oliver N. Huff (1852-1937), his son, was a doctor. The mss. relate to the history of Newport and anti-slavery activities.
Sarah Ratliff Civil War Letters and John Miller Legg Diary and Memorandum
Civil war letters written to Sarah Ratliff (1859-1914): The bulk of the collection consists of letters written her by three of her brothers, two cousins and a friend while in the Union Army. John Miller Legg's (1831-1911) Diary and memorandum: Rush Co. farmer. The typescript of the diary also includes a history of the Legg family (p. 116-118) by Alice Rebecca Legg Mayse
Meredith Papers
Soldier, businessman, politician & Quaker in Cambridge City, Ind. Includes miscellaneous papers and correspondence of Solomon Meredith, 1785-1879, his diaries, 1838-1872; papers of David H. Meredith, 1861-1864; diaries of Henry C. Meredith, 1863-1897; papers of Virginia C. Meredith relating to the 1893 Columbian Exhibition, 1893-1896.
Quaker Women's Diaries: 18th-19th Century
Quaker Women's Diaries: 18th-19th Century
Rachel Wilson: Account of Rachel Wilson's religious visit to Friends in America, carefully transcribed from her manuscript for the information and benefit of her children and near relations by Deborah Braithwaite. Betty Gregory Bishop Diaries: Covers 1779, 1783-1801 and 1 vol. (by a daughter?) for 1809.