LaGrange County (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Chauncey H. Brooks papers
Collection — Folder S169
Identifier: S0169
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed, signed letters from Chauncey H. Brooks in Alabama and Tennessee ranging from 1863/07/18 to 1863/10/07 regarding war and home life.
Dates:
1863/07/18-1863/10/07
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Chauncey H. Brooks papers
Daniel R. Yoder collection
Collection
Identifier: L388
Scope and Contents
The diaries and loose papers in this collection date from Daniel R. Yoder ranging from 1880 to 1892. the diaries offer a view of activities and entertainment in elkhart and LaGrange counties of Indiana. School activities are regularly reported up to 1888, and farm chores are given in as much detail as the duties of teaching. Churchgoing occurs throughout all evenings of the week, with Yoder reporting his attendance at Mennonite, Dunkard, and Amish meetings. Family visting is recorded, with...
Dates:
1880-1892
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Daniel R. Yoder collection
Della Lindley collection
Collection — Folder S1893
Identifier: S1893
Scope and Contents
This collection is divided evenly between two families, the Denny family of LaGrange County and the McConnell family of Noble County. Materials related to the Denny family date from 1858-1939 and include a teacher's license, academic admission slips, a license to practice medicine issued by the United States Internal Revenue, and receipts. Items relating to the McConnell family date from 1849-1932 and include the diagram of a plat for a graveyard, a teacher's license, a notice of acceptance...
Dates:
1849-1939
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Della Lindley collection
Florence Emerson Heffley manuscript
Collection — Folder S624
Identifier: S0624
Scope and Contents
This collection contains a draft of the manuscript, "A Little Girl of the Sixties," by Florence Emerson Heffley. The manuscript is 48 typewritten pages and includes handwritten corrections and a few pages of additional notes. Heffley's narrative relates stories and genealogical information about her great-grandparents, Abraham and Sarah Dayton Jacobus, her grandparents Hettie and Luke Allen Emerson, and her mother, Almira Georgiana Herbert, the "Little Girl of the Sixties," from 1818 to 1938. ...
Dates:
1818-1938
Harvey M. Appleman memoirs
Collection — Folder S2861
Identifier: S2861
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a typed document from Harvey M. Appleman in Boyds, Maryland ranging from 1872 to 1960 regarding his life, education employment and observations.
Dates:
1871-1960
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Harvey M. Appleman memoirs
Indiana Department of Natural Resources photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P038
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the photographs from Indiana Department of Natural Resources in Indiana from 1967 and undated regarding state parks, nature sites and recreation areas, historic sites, landmarks, memorials, museums, and buildings around Indiana.
Dates:
1967, undated
John H. Eash papers
Collection — Folder S398
Identifier: S0398
Scope and Contents
This collection includes autographed entries from John H. Eash in LaGrange County, Indiana ranging from 1919 to 1942 regarding personal and business transactions.
Dates:
1918-1942
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John H. Eash papers
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
Julia and John Seagley collection
Collection — Folder S1160
Identifier: S1160
Scope and Contents
The collection includes the biographical manuscript, “The Lives of Julia and John Seagley, My Great Grand Parents” by Birdena Voight. Voight wrote the manuscript on 26 Nov 1934 as part of a course requirement when she was a student. The collection includes two manuscripts, one original and one copy, 13 pages each, with an additional cover page.
Dates:
1830-1904
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
