CAUTHORN-STOUT FAMILy
PAPERS, 1780–1953

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Series Contents

Cataloging Information

Processed by

Paul Brockman
30 May 2001

Revised 2 February 2004

Manuscript and Archives 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:	3 manuscript boxes, 1 oversize folder
COLLECTION DATES:	1780–1908
PROVENANCE:	Mrs. Lawrence Risch, Vincennes, Indiana, June 1952 and September 1952
RESTRICTIONS:
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:	1952.0607; 1952.0907
NOTES:

Prominent individuals in the family papers include Elihu Stout (1786–1860), John Francis Bayard (1786–1853) and Henry S. Cauthorn (1828–1905). Elihu Stout was a printer and publisher in Vincennes, Knox County, (1804–45). He published Indiana's first newspaper, the Indiana Gazette (1804–06) and the Western Sun (1807–45). John Francis Bayard was an officer in the French army under Napoleon and a Vincennes businessman (1820–53). Henry S. Cauthorn was Stout's grandson and Bayard's son-in-law who studied at Indiana Asbury University (DePauw) from 1845–48 and a Vincennes attorney, 1851–1905. Cauthorn also served in the Indiana House of Representatives (1871–81) as a member of the Democratic Party and held numerous city and county offices.

Sources:
A Guide to Manuscript Collections in the Indiana Historical Society and the Indiana State Library, pp. 28–29.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection includes Elihu Stout's receipts, accounts and other documents relating to his publishing and personal business (1805–51) and materials submitted to him for publication. John Bayard's papers contain business documents (1819–48) and letters from his family in Grenoble, France (1822–33, 1849), and letters from his son, Samuel Bayard, in Evansville, Vanderburgh County, to his mother in Vincennes (1856–62). Henry S. Cauthorn's material includes correspondence with his friends from Indiana Asbury University (1846–50), correspondence regarding his Vincennes business interests, correspondence regarding state Democratic Party politics and the Indiana state legislature (1860–80), and his diary (1870). Other materials in the collection include receipts and legal documents of French inhabitants of Vincennes (1780–1810), and an unpublished biography of Elihu Stout by Valerie Knerr (1953).

series CONTENTS

Series 1: Cauthorn, Bayard, and Stout Families, 1780–1953

CONTENTS	CONTAINER
Receipts and Land Documents in French, 1780–99	Box 1, Folder 1
Financial Papers and Documents, 1800–09	Box 1, Folder 2
Indenture, 2-27-1805	OM 0399
Financial Papers and Documents, 1810–12	Box 1, Folder 3
Financial Papers and Documents, 1813–15	Box 1, Folder 4
Financial Papers and Documents, 1816–19	Box 1, Folder 5
Financial Papers and Documents, 1820–29	Box 1, Folder 6
Financial Papers and Documents, 1830–39	Box 1, Folder 7
Financial Papers and Documents, 1840–45	Box 1, Folder 8
Correspondence and Papers, 1846–47	Box1, Folder 9
Correspondence and Papers, 1848–49	Box 1, Folder 10
Correspondence and Papers, 1850–52	Box 1, Folder 11
Correspondence and Papers, 1853–59	Box 2, Folder 1
Correspondence and Papers, 1860–69	Box 2, Folder 2
Diary, 1870 and Journal, n.d.	Box 2, Folder 3
Correspondence and Papers, 1870–78	Box 2, Folder 4
Correspondence and Papers, 1879	Box 2, Folder 5
Correspondence and Papers, 1880–1908	Box 2, Folder 6
Printed Materials, 1839–89, n.d.	Box 2, Folder 7
General Papers, n.d.	Box 2, Folder 8
General Papers, n.d.	Box 3, Folder 1
General Papers, n.d.	Box 3, Folder 2
Funeral Notices, Trade Cards, Invitations	Box 3, Folder 3
Elihu Stout Biography by Valerie Knerr, 1953	Box 3, Folder 4
Elihu Stout Newspaper Clippings	Box 3, Folder 5

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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Collection #

M 0041, OM 0399

CAUTHORN-STOUT FAMILy PAPERS, 1780–1953