Daughters of the American Revolution
Organization
Found in 19 Collections and/or Records:
John N. and Martha Denny papers
Collection — Folder: S2493
Identifier: S2493
Scope and Contents
This collection includes documents regarding the affairs of Dr. John N. Denny and his wife, Martha McConnell Denny in Indiana, ranging from 1849 to 1939. The bulk of materials are related to Dr. Denny concerning his medical training and practice, as well as his license to teach in the Common Schools of LaGrange County, Indiana and matters relating to family burials.Martha Denny's papers concern her work as a schoolteacher, including two licenses, and as a member of the Daughters of...
Dates:
1849-1939
LaGrange County collection
Collection — Folder: S1683-01
Identifier: S1683
Scope and Contents
The collection consists of three items from LaGrange County, Indiana, including an undated advertising card for the Lima Manufacturing Company's Queen windmill in Lima, Indiana (currently Howe); a short, typed history of the LaGrange courthouse of 1843 and an account of a gavel made of the wood from the 1843 courthouse, which the LaGrange de Lafayette chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) returned to LaGrange County, after 1923; and a seven-page, typed narrative by Dan Wisel...
Dates:
1843-1934
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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LaGrange County collection
Mary Louise Sator family collection
Collection
Identifier: L488
Scope and Contents
This collection includes correspondence, papers, diaries, genealogical research materials, books, pamphlets, periodicals, photographs--including cartes de visite, tintypes, and negatives--35mm slides, and realia from Mary Louise Sator, Mary Cleason O'Hair, and O'Hair, Brady, and Sator families in the Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, and the United States, ranging from 1827 to 1994, and undated, relating to family life and homes, interests, careers, and family history pertaining to the O'Hair,...
Dates:
1870-1995
Mary Smiley photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P070
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs from Marie Stuart Edwards and the Shirk, Stuart, and Edwards families in Lafayette and Peru, Indiana and Marion, Ohio, as well as photographs, letters, and scrapbook pages from Mary Castner Smiley in Denver, Indiana, ranging from 1876 to 1990, regarding Edwards' women's suffrage activism (circa 1920-1922) and war work during World War II; family portraits of Edwards and three generations of the Stuart and Edwards families; the Shirk-Edwards House in Peru,...
Dates:
1876-1990
Maude Vestal collection
Collection
Identifier: L384
Scope and Contents
The bulk of the collection consists of Maude Vestal’s diaries (1920, 1925-1932) and papers, ranging from 1920 to 1940, largely regarding the Wendell Willkie Notification Committee (1940). The Willkie papers principally pertain to the planning of the official notification ceremony in Elwood, Indiana, on August 17, 1940. The collection also contains family and business correspondence; papers regarding her guardianship of Ann Catherine Shaffer; reports on clothing production by Red Cross...
Dates:
1920-1940
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Maude Vestal collection
Mildred Morgan collection
Collection — Folder: S3190
Identifier: S3190
Scope and Contents
This collection contains primarily photocopies of papers and photographs collected throughout the life of Mildred Morgan. Included are several newsclippings, photographs, Mildred Morgan's application for the Daughters of the American Revolution, an appointment as probation officer to the Vanderburgh Circuit Court, and various other papers. The materials were created mainly in Vanderburgh County, Indiana from 1949 to 2000.
Dates:
1949-2000
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Mildred Morgan collection
Schlotterback family collection
Collection
Identifier: L458
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence and documents of the Schlotterback and Fait families regarding events such as reunions, graduations, and funerals and also correspondence regarding membership in the Sakakawea Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) and the National DAR (1892-1957). The bulk of the collection consists of photographs of the Schlotterbacks and their extended family (1882-1918, undated). One item of special note is a notebook containing the genealogy of the...
Dates:
1882-1957, undated
Ura Sanders papers
Collection — Folder: S1755
Identifier: S1755
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an undated, autographed letter originating in Gosport, Indiana regarding Old
Liberty Church.
Dates:
ca. 1831-1867
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Ura Sanders papers
Wilson and Guthrie family papers
Collection
Identifier: L180
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of land grants, indentures, deeds, and receipts of the Wilson and Guthrie families ranging from 1818 to 1919. Also included is a certificate of patent given to a Benjamin Boorman in 1867 for an improvement of the flour bolt; Dr. Robert I. Wilson's certificate appointing him a Postmaster in White County, IN (1847); Dr. Wilson's United States Internal Revenue license to practice medicine (1865); his Physician's License from 1885; and a letter regarding his...
Dates:
1818-1938
