Madison County (Ind.)
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 27 Collections and/or Records:
John G. Fisher land patent
Collection — Folder S2232
Identifier: S2232
Scope and Contents
This collection includes the land patent issued to John G. Fisher on October 2, 1834 for 80 acres located in the Township 18 North, Range 7 East in Fall Creek Township, Madison County, Indiana. The certificate (No. 13873) was issued at the land office located at Indianapolis, Indiana and signed for President Andrew Jackson by his secretary A. J. Donelson and by Elijah Hayward, Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Dates:
1834/10/02
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John G. Fisher land patent
John L. Forkner papers
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2204
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the personal and business papers of James L. Forkner ranging from 1835 to 1938 and includes correspondence and documents from his time as mayor of Anderson and his historical research on the history of Madison County; correspondence regarding Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) and local memorial events; and invitations and programs for community activities. Some items of note include a song written for a Rev. James Maynan (1835); part of an account book of Joseph Lee...
Dates:
1935-1938
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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John L. Forkner papers
Josiah H. Hamman and Emma J. Hamman indenture
Collection — Folder S2736
Identifier: S2736
Scope and Contents
This collection includes an indenture from Emereth E. Luse and Henry P. Hardie in Madison County, Indiana from 1916 regarding land in Kosciusko County, Indiana.
Dates:
1916
Lauretta J. Powers appointment certificate
Collection — Folder B019
Identifier: B019
Scope and Contents
This collection contains the certificate of appointment of Lauretta Powers to the office of Postmistress of Ingalls, Indiana by the Postmaster General of the United States Albert Burleson.
Dates:
1919/06/05
Lucinda Shafer, Gulf War letters
Collection — Folder S2941
Identifier: S2941
Scope and Contents
This collection contains photocopies of letters received by Lucinda Shafer from servicemen and women overseas during the Persian Gulf War in 1991.
Dates:
1991
Madison County collection
Collection — Multiple Containers
Identifier: S2086
Scope and Contents
This collection contains several typewritten transcriptions of items related to Madison County, Indiana, including a February 4, 1846 letter sent to Washington and Catherine Allen in Lake County from Harrison and Jane Allen and postmarked from Alexandria; excerpts of newspaper clippings ranging from 1882 to 1883 from a scrapbook that belonged to Willard Makepeace of Chesterfield; a circa 1885 advertisement card for the Magic Pill Co. with Gid D. Searle, Druggist, Anderson, Indiana stamped on...
Dates:
1846-1952
Found in:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
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Madison County collection
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
Margaret Michel school records
Collection — Folder S2206
Identifier: S2206
Scope and Contents
This collection includes Margaret Michel's 1912 souvenir booklet from the Jobe School of Pipe Creek Twp., Madison County, Indiana; her Elwood Public School report cards from 1913-1919; and the program from her Elwood High School graduation on May 29, 1919.
Dates:
1912-1919
Markleville East Christian Church history
Collection — Folder S2074
Identifier: S2074
Scope and Contents
This collection includes a photostat copy of a "History of the East Christian Church, Markleville, Indiana from 1849 - 1967" written by Ruth Williams Keesling Dane. Also prepared for the Ensign Humphrey Madison Chapter of the Indiana Daughters of American Colonists (DAC) as "History of the Church of Christ (Disciples) of Adams Twp., Madison Co., Ind. from October 1849 - October 1967," the typewritten history includes photographs of Francis M. Williams, Nora Gilmore Gwinn Williams and Rev. Carl...
Dates:
1849-1967
Nibarger family photograph collection
Collection
Identifier: P058
Scope and Contents
This collection includes photographs and an autograph album from the Nibarger family in Indiana ranging from circa 1880 to 1948 regarding family members, group photographs, and World War II soldiers. One photograph has a letter written on the back from Orville Nibarger to his sister and brother (possibly Ida and her husband Duke) on July 2, 1948 regarding sale of a house
Dates:
circa 1880-1948
