Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives
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Charles Latham
13 January 1992
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 6 folders
COLLECTION DATES: 1872-1974
PROVENANCE: Willard Heiss, Indianapolis, August, 1979
RSETRICTIONS: None
COPYRIGHT: Held by Indiana Historical Society
ACCESSION NUMBER: 91.0645x
NOTES: Postcards and views of Richmond transferred to Visual Collections; printed material on Richmond, Centerville, Salisbury, and Earlham College transferred to Print Collections
Beverly Younts lived in the 1960s and 1970s at 2414 Northwest B Street in Richmond, Indiana. Her husband, Charles Younts, apparently attended Morton and Boston High Schools and became a member of Richmond Common Council in 1964. Mrs. Younts was interested in local history, especially that of Centerville and Salisbury. She and her husband were interested in Earlham College.
Minnie Stivers was the wife of Charles W. Stivers, publisher of the Liberty Herald, a weekly paper in Liberty, Union County, just south of Richmond. Minnie Stivers was a prolific writer of occasional verse.
This collection consists of correspondence, lists, one bound volume, sketches, and photographs. It is arranged by category.
Folder 1 contains correspondence 1872-1974, most of it concerning Beverly and Charles Younts. In Folder 2 is some incidental material about Richmond city government about 1965. In Folder 3 is historical material about Centerville and Salisbury.
Folder 4 contains the journal of Minnie Stivers, with entries from 1909 to 1945. The entries begin with a partnership agreement of 1910 between Charles and Orion Stivers concerning the management of the Liberty Herald. Next comes a journal by Minnie Stivers kept for a few weeks in 1915; then copies of thirty years of her occasional verses; then a number of recipes.
Folders 5 and 6, stored separately in Visual Collections, contain photographs and sketches. In Folder 5 are six snapshots, two basketball team photographs of ca 1922, two pictures of a prom in 1928, two portraits, and a group picture of the Richmond Common Council in 1964. In Folder 6 are twelve pencil sketches of trees, one marked "Elwood Morris" on the back.
MAIN ENTRY: Younts, Beverly
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Younts, Beverly
Younts, Charles
Stivers, Minnie, fl. 1890-1945
Recipes--Indiana--Liberty
Newspaper publishing--Indiana--Liberty
Poetry, American--Indiana--Liberty
Richmond (Ind.)--Politics and government
Centerville (Ind.)--History
Salisbury (Ind.)--History
Liberty (Ind.)
Wayne County (Ind.)
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