Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts and Archives Department

FLORENCE BAXTER THORNTON
PAPERS, 1919-1962

Collection #
BV 1748-1749

Table of Contents

Collection Information
Scope and Content note
Cataloging Information

Processed by
Charles Latham
1 March 1993

COLLECTION INFORMATION

 VOLUME OF COLLECTION:

2 bound volumes

 COLLECTION DATES:

1919-1966

 PROVENANCE:

Florence Baxter Thornton (Mrs. George Douglas), 6 July 1966

 REPRODUCTION RIGHTS:

Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society

 RELATED HOLDINGS:

BV 2641, Baxter Family Chronicle; SC 1030, McLaughlin-Jordan Papers

 ACCESSION NUMBER:

1966.0705

 

SCOPE AND CONTENT

This collection consists of two looseleaf notebooks.

  BV 1748 is the record book of reunions of First Infantry Company, Second Officers Training Camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, from 1919 to 1962. It includes notices of meetings, minutes, mailing lists, newsletters, and attendance lists. This was a social group, simply the annual reunion of a World War I service group. Attendance at reunions ran between twelve and twenty.

  BV 1749 contains family history collected by the donor, Florence Baxter Thornton (b. 1879). There are typed accounts, photographs, and photostats of letters and documents. Pages are numbered, and there is a table of contents. Some of the families documented are: Baxter, Jordan, Goodlin, Ansley, McLaughlin, Kimberley, and Riggs.

  Originals of some of the Jordan and McLaughlin documents and letters are in SC 1030, McLaughlin-Jordan Papers, also given by the donor; she also produced a book about the Baxter family which is in the Genealogy Division of Indiana State Library.

CATALOGING INFORMATION

For additional information on this collection, including a list of subject headings that may lead you to related materials:

  1. Go to the Indiana Historical Society's online catalog
  2. Click on the "Local Catalog" icon.
  3. Search for the collection by its call number, using the letter or letters designation and four digits (e.g., M 0715, SC 2234).
  4. When you find the collection, go to the "Holdings" screen for a list of headings that can be searched for related materials.

 

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