Washington County (Ind.)

Jonas B. Berkey collection

Collection — Folder S0110

Identifier: S0110

Scope and Contents This collection includes 21 photocopies of materials from Salem, Indianan. Included are papers dealing with Morgan's Raid, stock shares in various Salem businesses and schools, and receipts. Also included is a 9-page copy of coffin accounts, 1873-1880, of Washington County, Indiana, listing coffin sales to individuals.

Dates: 1852-1880

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Jonas B. Berkey collection

Livonia Presbyterian Church history

Collection — Folder S2274

Identifier: S2274

Scope and Contents This collection includes photocopies of a history of the Livonia Presbyterian Church of Washington County, Indiana written by Rev. Samuel E. Barr in 1876. Rev. Barr's "historical review" of the church and of Presbyterianism in the region was written in response to the recommendation by the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church of the United States that histories of the churches under its care should "be gathered up and presented for reference in future days."

Dates: 1876

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Livonia Presbyterian Church history

Salem Christian Church collection

Collection — Folder S2211

Identifier: S2211

Scope and Contents This collection includes a typewritten copy of "Charter Members of the Salem Christian Church in 1842," a six-page composition by Lennie Martin Berkey consisting of biographical sketches of the first 26 members of the church (circa 1942). The collection also includes a typewritten copy of "A Great Church is Born," a 1942 script for a play containing a prologue that recounts the establishment of the Disciples of Christ and the Christian church taken from a program prepared by Mrs. Cecil...

Dates: 1942

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Salem Christian Church collection

Second Judicial District of Indiana missionary district meetings records

Collection — Folder S2082

Identifier: S2082

Scope and Contents This collection includes a copy of a transcription of a notebook titled "Record of Missionary Meetings of the Second Judicial District of Indiana, 1854-1965." The record book contained the minutes of missionary district meetings from 1854 to 1863, the Washington County, Indiana Cooperation Organization meeting meetings from 1863 to 1865, and "A Short Sketch of the Church of Christ on Millcreek, Washington, Indiana," an essay written in the notebook by Josiah T. Johnson around 1902. The copy was...

Dates: 1854-circa 1902

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Second Judicial District of Indiana missionary district meetings records

Thomas H. Trueblood letters

Collection — Folder S1323

Identifier: S1323

Scope and Contents This collection has five letters with three envelopes. The letters are addressed to Thomas H. Trueblood, who was a Quaker, living in Washington County, Indiana. The first letter from D. J. Banta, dated December 18, 1885, is about farming, economic conditions, the government, and the temperance movement. He mentions Thomas A. Hendricks and the Democratic administration. The next letter is typed on onion skin paper with the letterhead: Morrison, Plummber and Company, Wholesale Druggists, Chicago,...

Dates: 1885-1888

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Thomas H. Trueblood letters

Washington County collection

Collection — Multiple Containers

Identifier: S1707

Scope and Contents This collection contains various items related to Washington County, Indiana, including photostat copies of the constitution, reports, and other documents of the Salem Indiana Peace Society from 1818 to 1829 and undated; a typed abstract of information regarding indentured servants in the county from 1828 to 1891 compiled by Claude E. Cook in August 1966; a typewritten copy of "Highland's Country," a historical sketch written by Lillie E. Trueblood in August 1936 for the Washington County...

Dates: 1818-1966

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Washington County collection

Washington County Historical Society collection

Collection

Identifier: L194

Scope and Contents This collection includes letters; typed documents, including newspaper clippings; financial and legal documents; official township records; meeting minutes, speeches and writings from Alice and Albert Williams and others in Salem, Indiana and Washington County, Indiana and elsewhere ranging from 1818 to 1967 regarding financial and legal business, family histories and reminiscences, items from newspapers, and speeches and writings.

Dates: 1818-1967, undated

Found in: Rare Books and Manuscripts / Washington County Historical Society collection