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Frontier and pioneer life -- Indiana

 Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings

Found in 99 Collections and/or Records:

Kate Milner Rabb, "A Hoosier Listening Post" clippings

 Collection — Folder S2133
Identifier: S2133
Scope and Contents This collection includes two clippings of Kate Milner Rabb's Indianapolis Star column, "A Hoosier Listening Post." The first article was published on December 29, 1928 and relates information about an old pocketbook that once belonged to Hoosier pioneer James Marshall and was given to the museum of the Washington Historical Society in Salem, Indiana by Marshall's grandson Chalres W. Kinney. Rabb describes a list of goods to be disposed of at a sale...
Dates: 1928-1929

Lasselle family photographs

 Collection — Folder SP080
Identifier: SP080
Scope and Contents This collection includes carte-de-visite and daguerreotype portrait photographs of the Lasselle family from Fort Wayne, Indiana and New Orleans, as well as unknown places, ranging from circa 1841 to 1876, depicting three of Hyacinth Lasselle's children, Charles, Stanislaus, and Marie Louise, and several descendants--Francis J. Lasselle, Sophia A. (Lasselle) Nettlehurst DeWald, Hannah Nettlehurst, Apolline Julie (possibly Blanc, b. 1860), Joseph Wilfrid Sidney Blanc (b. 1862), Mary Frances...
Dates: circa 1841-1876

Lennie M. Berkey collection

 Collection — Folder S0111
Identifier: S0111
Scope and Contents This collection includes a 13-page, typed biography of Mary Adaline Brock, written by daughter Lennie Martin Berkey in 1941, covering Mary's life from her birth in 1858 through the Civil War period. Also included is a 2-page note written in 1943 by Lennie, with additional recollections of her mother during this time period, including a memory of Morgan's Raid during the U.S. Civil War.
Dates: 1858-1943

Lucy Morerod Detraz collection

 Collection — Folder S0357
Identifier: S0357
Scope and Contents This collection includes an undated 11-page handwritten biography about Lucy Morerod Detraz by her niece or nephew in Indiana regarding Detraz and the history of Vevay, Switzerland Couny, Indiana.
Dates: circa 1903-1916

Mace family letters

 Collection — Folder S1406
Identifier: S1406
Scope and Contents This collection includes eight letters written to and from Macy family members ranging from 1816 to 1826. Mary Hardy Mace wrote five of the letters, including one sent from Ontario (New York?) to Benjamin’s brother Ely at Tewksbury, Massachusetts on November 10, 1816 and four letters sent from Washington (Clark County), Indiana to Benjamin’s parents in Tewksbury (November 3, 1817 and September 10, 1820), Benjamin’s brother Isaac (September 9, 1818), and to her "parents, brothers and sisters" in...
Dates: 1816-1826

Madison County Native American murders statement of expenditures

 Collection — Folder OB022
Identifier: OB022
Scope and Contents This collection includes a December 21, 1824 statement of expenditures written and signed by Indian Agent John Johnston regarding the costs "arising out of the murder of nine friendly Indians in Madison County Indiana by sundry Citizens of the United States in March 1823." This opening statement on the document uses the incorrect date of 1823 instead of 1824. The document is an itemization of a number of different expenses, including the coroner's inquest fees; the cost of guarding the...
Dates: 1824, 1873

Marion County Bible Society collection

 Collection — Folder S2200
Identifier: S2200
Scope and Contents This collection includes materials from the Marion County Bible Society and Indianapolis Sabbath School Union ranging from 1823 to 1859, including an Indianapolis Sabbath School Union pupil accounts book during 1827 to 1828; questions for a Bible class; the system of rules from the committee of religous instruction, probably for the governing of the sabbath schools (1827); annual reports from the superintendant of the Indianapolis Sabbath School Union and its board of directors (1824); a...
Dates: 1823-1859

Marion County, Indiana history drawing prints

 Collection — Folder S2571
Identifier: S2571
Scope and Contents This collection includes 35 undated prints of drawings put from an unknown artist depicting scenes and places in the Indianapolis and Marion County history, which are as follows:1. Two pioneer hunters where Fall Creek meets White River (1800s) 2. Four riders on horses with covered wagon on trail (mid-1800s) 3. Surveying the new state capitol (1820) 4. Four men meeting about planning of Indianapolis (1820-1821) 5. Governor Jennings and wife on horseback going to Washington, D.C....
Dates: undated

Mary Faye Hite, "Dreams Do Happen" manuscript

 Collection — Folder S2296
Identifier: S2296
Scope and Contents This collection includes a copy of "Dreams Do Happen," a manuscript containing a collection of essays written by Mary Faye Hite and compiled in circa 1980. The essays cover a variety of topics, including family history, country and pioneer living, nature, travel, and historic people, places, and events. Many essays have a patriotic theme and one essay, "Political Issues," relays her opinion regarding the Equal Rights Amendment, and how estates should be settled. Another essay, "Home Remedies,"...
Dates: circa 1980

Mary J. Aborn collection

 Collection
Identifier: L001
Scope and Contents The largest part of the collection consists of papers of Ebenezer F. Lucas (1807-1871), which include his correspondence regarding the operation of the Wabash and Erie Canal; correspondence, surveys, and legal documents relating to his business and land interests in Warren County, Indiana; and papers relating to the 1860 census. The collection also includes Mary J. Aborn’s correspondence and writings in relation to early Warren County history and the removal of Native Americans from...
Dates: 1815-1907