Collection #

SC 1827
OM 0080

John Tipton
Papers, 1828–1838

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Contents

Cataloging Information

Processed by

Paul Brockman
February 2006

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION:	1 folder, 1 oversize folder
COLLECTION DATES:	1828–1838
PROVENANCE:	C. Wesley Cowan, Cincinnati, Ohio, December 2003: Timothy Bakken, Clarendon Hills, IL, July 1982; Huntington Public Library, Huntington, IN, April, 1980; Ira N. Spreecher, Albuquerque, NM, 1962; Forest Sweet, March 1956
RESTRICTIONS:	None
COPYRIGHT:
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS:	Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society.
ALTERNATE FORMATS:
RELATED HOLDINGS:
ACCESSION NUMBER:	2004.0080; 1982.0708; 1980.0420; 1962.0032; 1956.0009
NOTES:	Artificially created collection.

BIOGRAPHiCAL SKETCH

John Tipton (1786–1839) was a militia officer, politician, Indian agent, and land speculator who was born in what became Sevier County, Tennessee. Tipton’s father, Joshua, was killed by the Cherokees in 1793, and he and his family moved to Harrison County in Indiana Territory in 1807. Tipton was active in territorial government serving as county’s justice of the peace and sheriff. He also rose to the rank of colonel in the Fifth Regiment, Indiana Militia. Tipton also served as a commissioner on the relocation of county seats and the selection of a site for the state capital in 1818. In March, 1823 he was appointed Indian Agent at Fort Wayne and served as a commissioner to negotiate a treaty with Miami and Pottawatomie in 1826. Tipton served as Indian agent until December 1831 when he was elected to the U. S. Senate to fill the vacancy caused by James Noble’s death. He was elected to a full term the following and served until 1839. In August, 1838, Governor David Wallace authorized Tipton to form a volunteer company of soldiers to remove the Pottawatomie from Indiana. He died at his Logansport home in April 1839.

Sources:

The John Tipton Papers. Indianapolis : Indiana Historical Bureau, 1942. .
Reference Room Collection: F 521 .I38 (Indiana Historical Collections, Vol. 24).

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This artificially created collection consists of letters written by John Tipton. Included are letters by Tipton to Governor Noah Noble in June 1832 and to President Andrew Jackson in July 1834 referring to land negotiations with the Miami Tribe and land documents pertaining to the development of Huntington, Indiana in the 1830s.

CONTENTS

CONTENTS	CONTAINER
Letters by Tipton, 1828–1834	Folder 1
Plats of Huntington, Indiana, 1838, n.d.	OM 0080, Folder 1

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