Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives
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Charles Latham
October 1989
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 manuscript box
COLLECTION DATES: 1850-1940
PROVENANCE: Gift of Margaret S. Daniels, Indianapolis, Indiana, November 1953
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
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: None
ACCESSION NUMBER: 53.1102
NOTES: Two pamphlets that came with this collection were transferred to Printed Collections
Wylie Johnston Daniels (1888-1951) was born in Indianapolis, the son of a prominent lawyer, Edward Daniels. He graduated from Wabash College, then went to Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he earned a Master of Engineering degree in 1913 and then served as instructor.
For twenty-one years Daniels was an official of Indianapolis Belt Railroad. He was secretary-treasurer of the road when he retired in 1943. He was the author of "The Village at the End of the Railroad,", a history of the Madison and Indianapolis Railroad first written as a paper for the Indianapolis Literary Club and later published by Indiana Historical Society (IHS Publications, Volume 13, 1941).
Sources: Materials in collection
Indiana Biographical Series, Vol. 37, pages 21, 23
This collection, filling one manuscript box, contains letters and miscellaneous family papers and photographs. It is arranged topically.
Folder 1 contains an early nineteenth-century (title page missing) book on bridge building with flyleaf signatures by Daniels's great-grandfather and his four sons. Folder 2 contains letters of reference (1847-1861) concerning the bridge-building skills of Joseph J. Daniels, Daniels's grandfather.
Folder 3 contains three letters (1850-1852) addressed to a grandmother, Mary. D. Fitzhugh in Madison; Folder 4 the typescript of the Civil War diary of a great-uncle, James W. Daniels; Folder 5 two club papers written by Mrs. Edward Daniels.
Letters complimenting the author of "The Village at the End of the Road" are found in Folder 6; some general correspondence of Daniels in Folders 7-8; and material about the family's Burt Lake property in Folder 9.
Folder
1 Book on bridge-building with signatures of of Stephen Daniels and his four sons
2 Correspondence and references of Joseph J. Daniels, 1847-1861
3 Letters to Mary D. Fitzhugh (grandmother) 1850-1852
4 Diary of James W. Daniels (Civil War)
5 Mrs. Edward Daniels[?]-- Papers on Fanny Kemble and Mrs.Oliphant
6 Comments 1939-1940 on "The Village at the End of the Road"
7 General correspondence I
8 General correspondence II
9 Material on Burt Lake property
MAIN ENTRY: Daniels, Wylie Johnston, 1888-1951
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Daniels, Wylie Johnston, 1888-1951
Daniels, Joseph J., 1826-1916
Daniels, James W., fl. 1861-1865
Madison and Indianapolis Rail Road Company
United States. Army. Ohio Cavalry Regiment, 4th (1861-1865)
The village at the end of the road
Bridges--Design and construction--Textbooks
Soldiers--Ohio--Ironton
Real property--Michigan--Burt Lake
United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865
Burt Lake (Mich.)
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