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Family history

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 2 Collections and/or Records:

Bertha A. Fleming papers

 Collection — Folder S471
Identifier: S0471
Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of autographed, signed letters from Bertha A. Fleming and others in Indiana, Oklahoma, Illinois, Wisconsin and New York, in 1929 regarding family business and photocopied and typed histories of institutions in Warren County, Indiana, including a commercially printed booklet concerning the 94th anniversary of Williamsport Christian Church.
Dates: 1853-1966

Paul Dresser and Theodore Dreiser collection

 Collection — Folder S0381
Identifier: S0381
Scope and Contents The oldest item is the Old Mill time book, which Johann Paul Dreiser, Sr., manager of the Sullivan Woolen Mills, kept from March 1895 to 1901. A. R. Markle wrote a 9-page, typed article entitled “Paul Dresser‟s Birthplace.” There are several newspaper articles, which have been photocopied, about the family. A two-page article from The Rendells, Inc., entitled “Dreiser Answers Legal Objections to the Highly Controversial Text of His America Is Worth Saving‟ reports that he wrote the book in 1940...
Dates: 1895-1949