Rush County (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 18 Collections and/or Records:
309th Observation Squad, United States Air Corps Reserve, Indiana aerial photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P069
Scope and Contents
This collection includes black-and-white aerial photogrographs from 309th Observation Squadron of the United States Air Corps Reserve in Indiana ranging from 1931 to 1936 regarding counties and Civilian Conservation Corps company sites around the state. Photographs are stamped with the squadron's information and include the pilot's name and the date.
Dates:
1931-1936
Center Township, Rush County, Indiana collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2248
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photocopies of items related to Center Township, Rush County, Indiana, including docket entry records of the justice of the peace from November 1830 to September 1831; school attendance records for District No. 3, Township 15, Range 10 from November 1845 to February 1846, certified and signed on March 27, 1846 by the teacher, Gabriel F. Sutton; the treasurer's book of the Shiloh United Presbyterian Church Sabbath School containing entries ranging from 1884 to 1892; and...
Dates:
1830-1892
Friendship Chapel Methodist Protestant Church register
Collection — Folder S2723
Identifier: S2723
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a register from Friendship Chapel Methodist Protestant Church in Rush County, Indiana ranging from 1841-1889 regarding church history.
Dates:
1841-1889
Isaac Miller papers
Collection — Folder S0962
Identifier: S0962
Scope and Contents
This collection contains Isaac Miller's financial documents and receipts from Lebanon County, Pennsylvania, ranging from 1806 ot 1904, including documents regarding the estate of Henry Miller (1806-1856); financial documents and tax receipts from Fayette, Rush, and Hamilton Counties in Indiana (1858-1881); papers listing Miller's personal property sold at auction on October 29, 1869; a page from the 1904 Quaker periodical, The American Friend; and undated advertisement cards from various...
Dates:
1806-1904
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Isaac Miller papers
Jacob Witmer collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1398
Scope and Contents
This collection contains correspondence and legal documents ranging from 1927 to 1930 regarding the estate of Jacob Witmer of Shelby County, Indiana and administrated by his nephew John H. Wilson. The collection also includes Velma Whitmer's notebook containing transcriptions of letters written by her mother and grandmother (1901-1907) and poems written by herself and her sister Mary (1912-1914); an April 29, 1837 deed signed by Nathan H. Wilson of Bartholomew County, Indiana granting land to...
Dates:
1837-1932, undated
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Jacob Witmer collection
John Kennedy Gowdy collection
Collection — Folder S0531
Identifier: S0531
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a carbon copy of a typewritten document excerpted, with some additions, from the Centennial History of Rush County, Indiana in 1921 regarding the life of John Kennedy Gowdy.
Dates:
circa 1920s
John Nipp, Sr. reminiscences
Collection — Folder S2197
Identifier: S2197
Scope and Contents
This collection has the original handwritten, three-page draft as well as the two-page typed transcript of John Nipp Sr.'s reminiscences written on December 24, 1935, with a description of the old log schoolhouse circa 1855-1856 in Washington Township, Rush County, Indiana.
Dates:
1935 December 24
John Wood account book
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S1940
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an account book used by John Wood containing entries ranging from 1818 to 1852. Entries regarding the sale of whiskey start around 1825 and there is a June 10, 1852 notation by R. Robbins, the administer of his estate. Also recorded in the volume is a song titled "The Prisoner's Hope"; cures for various illnesses, including cholera, dropsy, mortification, joint pain and toothache; and recipes for farm animal conditions and other domestic remedies. The second folder in...
Dates:
1818-1852
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John Wood account book
Katherine P. Mondor collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: G-008
Scope and Contents
This collection includes lineage charts, Family trees, notes, and correspondence from Katherine Mondor, and her family in Indiana ranging from 1800 to 1995 regarding her families genealogy. The collection also contains various certificates, deeds, diaries, family photographs, travel logs, snapshots, pamphlets, and postcards from her travels. Families included in this collection are; Parrish, Heaton, Hartman, Carroll, Ross, Parsons, White, Dill, Males, Covalt, and Gard
Dates:
1800-1995
Found in:
Genealogy
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Katherine P. Mondor collection
Literary Thresher periodical
Collection — Folder S1609
Identifier: S1609
Scope and Contents
This collection comprises a handwritten periodical entitled, Literary Thresher, volume 1, issue 1, from Walnut Ridge, Rush County, Indiana presumably during the late 1800s, regarding literary critique and interests, purchase of the periodical, editorials, and the reasoning behind the publication's name.
Dates:
circa 1875?
