Collection #
SC 2339
JOSEPH MCCLURE
LEDGER, 1829-1861
Table of Contents
Processed by
Charles Latham
29 February 1992
USER INFORMATION
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 3 folders
COLLECTION DATES: 1829-1861
PROVENANCE: Wabash County Historical Museum, Wabash IN,
June 1962
COPYRIGHT: Not held by Indiana Historical Society
ACCESSION NUMBER: 62.0606
NOTES: This collection was formerly listed as BV 160
Joseph McClure was the first storekeeper at Kellers Station, now Rich Valley, in Wabash County, Indiana. (Neither place is listed in the Postal History of Indiana.) He was the son of Samuel McClure and Mary Stewart McClure, who were the first permanent white settlers in Wabash County.
McClure ran a typical all-purpose general store. He dealt in whiskey, dry goods, grain, lumber, and clothes. He also did a good deal of "holling," and apparently ran a tavern and a sawmill.
This collection, filling three folders, consists of a carbon copy of a transcript of a ledger covering the years 1829-1961. The transcript was made by Mrs. Helen Tibbs of Wabash. The ledger was loaned for copying by Mrs. Mary Baker of North Manchester.
To the transcript has been added a list of names appearing year by year in the ledger.
MAIN ENTRY: McClure, Joseph, fl. 1829-1861
SUBJECT ENTRIES: General stores--Indiana--Wabash County
Business records--Indiana--Wabash County
Richvalley (Ind.)
Wabash County (Ind.)