Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts and Archives Department

PHINEAS PICKETT
PAPERS, 1849-1920

Collection #
M 0051

Table of Contents

Collection Information
Historical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Box and Folder Listing
Cataloging Information

Processed By:
Paul Brockman
23 April 1997

COLLECTION INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION:

1 box

COLLECTION DATES:

1849-1920

PROVENANCE:

Willard Heiss, Indianapolis, IN, 1955, February 1972, April 1972.

RESTRICTIONS:

None

REPRODUCTION RIGHTS:

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

ALTERNATE FORMATS:

None

RELATED HOLDINGS:

Heiss, Willard C. Pickett-Allen Family Letters (CS, 71, .P5, 1954)

ACCESSION NUMBERS:

1955.0018, 1972.0207, 1972.0410

NOTES:

 

HISTORICAL SKETCH

Phineas Pickett (1850-1932) was born in Randolph County, Indiana, and moved with his parents, Joseph and Sarah to Howard County, Indiana, in 1855. Pickett taught school in Howard County from 1871-1874 and later was engaged in farming near Poplar Grove. In 1875 he married his first wife, Evangeline, who died a short time later. In 1879 Pickett married Harriet Kerr and in the early 1890s they moved to a farm near Plainfield in Hendricks County, Indiana. Pickett was a devout member of the Society of Friends.

Source: Heiss. Pickett-Allen Family Letters (unnumbered text).

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

The collection contains papers and correspondence of Pickett and his family. Materials includes Joseph and Sarah Pickett's marriage licensee (photostat), 1849, their warrantee deed to property in Howard County, 1860, and a railway pass for the Indianapolis, Peru, and Chicago, Railroad, 1868. Also included are Phineas Pickett's teaching licenses and examinations for Howard and Cass counties, correspondence with relatives in Glasgow, New York; Quakerville, Kansas; and Winchester, Jericho, and Plainfield, Indiana, 1882-1903. Phineas Pickett's business papers contain materials regarding renting property in Hendricks County, 1893; his insurance policy with the German Baptist Tri-County Protective Association, 1899-1902; tax receipts, 1903-1904; an agreement with the interurban Chicago & Northern Indiana Railway Company of Indianapolis for right of way through Pickett's farm in Irwin Township, Howard County, 1904; and several letters to Indiana colleges regarding the donation of his books on the Society of Friends to their institutions, 1920. The collections also contains Pickett's copies of the Western Friend, 1879-1890 (volumes 1-11), a Society of Friends monthly journal printed in Baxter Springs, Quakervale and Varck, Kansas.

BOX AND FOLDER LISTING

BOX 1: Correspondence and Papers, 1849-1920
FOLDER CONTENTS

1

Family Papers & Correspondence, 1849-1875

2

Teaching Licenses and Examinations, 1871-1873

3

Correspondence and Papers, 1882-1893

4

Correspondence and Papers, 1895-1904

5

Correspondence, 1920

6

Western Friend, 1879-1880

7

Western Friend, 1881

8

Western Friend, 1882

9

Western Friend, 1883

10

Western Friend, 1884

11

Western Friend, 1885

12

Western Friend, 1886

13

Western Friend, 1887

14

Western Friend, 1888

15

Western Friend, 1889

16

Western Friend, 1890

 

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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