Processed by
Evan Michael Day
12 June 2003
Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269
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VOLUME OF |
2 folders. |
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COLLECTION |
2 September 1861–5 May 1862 |
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PROVENANCE: |
Stephen E. Towne, 3126 N. Medford Ave. Indianapolis; Joan E. Hostetler, Heritage Photo Services, 815 N. Highland Ave. Indianapolis |
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RESTRICTIONS: |
None |
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COPYRIGHT: |
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REPRODUCTION |
Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained from the Indiana Historical Society. |
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ALTERNATE |
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RELATED |
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ACCESSION |
2000.0293, 2000.0349 |
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NOTES: |
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Daniel Tyrrell, the son of Elijah Asahel and Clarissa Meeker Tyrrell, was born on 3 April 1815, the youngest of eight children. Sources indicate he grew up in Trumbull county, Ohio, and left to study medicine in Pennslyvania. Tyrrell would gain three medical degrees in his lifetime.
After his medical education, he returned to Trumbull to practice as well as run a farm. Tyrrell married for the first of three times (being widowed twice) in 1836 to Minerva Alderman. He had four sons by her before her death in 1853. He moved to Claremont, New Hampshire, in 1857, where he met and married Frances Augusta Hunt the same year. Sources indicate he had one daughter by her, about a year after the removal of an ovarian tumor. She died in 1865.
Tyrrell practiced there until moving to La Porte, Indiana, in 1861. Two of his sons enlisted in the Union army, Gilbert Tyrrell in the Indiana 35th Infantry, and Sylvanus Tyrrell in the New Hampshire 5th Infantry. Dr. Tyrrell himself joined the Illinois 53rd Regiment as a surgeon about 1864 and marched with Sherman across Georgia.
After the war he moved to Kansas, at the urging of his wife who was already taking residence there. In 1867, two years after her death, Tyrrell married Louisa Goodheart. She brought three sons and two daughters from a previous marriage. Daniel Tyrrell apparently continued his practice until his death in 1890.
Sources:
Ancestry Plus (http://www.ancestry.com), accessed 29 May 2003
History of Stark County, Illinois as cited in Ancestry Plus (http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec?htx=message&r=5535&p=surnames.tyrell&m=31) accessed May 29, 2003
American Civil War Research Database (http://www.civilwardata.com), accessed 29 May 2003
Stark County Illinois, Online Library (http://www.usgennet.org/usa/il/county/stark/books/index.htm) accessed 29 May 2003
The collection consists of six letters written by Daniel Tyrrell in La Porte, Indiana. Five are addressed to a L. J. Brooks in New Hampshire, and one is written to a Mr. and Mrs. Bingham. His letters cover a time span from September 1861 to May 1862.
Tyrrell mentions his wife’s improving health, and his approval of the support for the war in La Porte, but deals primarily with financial concerns. Tyrrell instructs Brooks in handling his account and getting renters to pay their dues, and arranges for his son Gilbert to receive some clothes and to ride to La Porte. The January letter indicates he did indeed make it.
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CONTENTS |
CONTAINER |
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28 October 1861–18 January 1862 |
Folder 1 |
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2 September 1861–5 May 1862 |
Folder 2 |
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