VERMILLION COUNTY
FREE GRAVEL ROAD ASSESSMENT CERTIFICATE, # 399


Collection #
OM 366

Table of Contents

User Information
Biographical Sketch
Scope and Content Note
Cataloguing Information

Processed by
Chris Harter
11 March 1997


USER INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item

COLLECTION DATES: 1895

PROVENANCE: Vermillion County Museum Society, 116 North Gilbert, Danville, IN 61832

RESTRICTIONS: None

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

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: None

ACCESSION NUMBER: 1996.0455

NOTES:


BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

B. O. Carpenter (fl. 1878-1895) was Senior Vice-Commander of the Grand Army of the Republic, Richard E. Spotswood Post, No. 188, in 1878. He purchased and began operation of a flouring-mill in Perryville, Indiana (Vermillion Co.) in 1882.

L. A. Morgan (b. 1836) was a native of New York. He settled in Vermillion County in 1848. He was a dealer in groceries, and, in 1884, was Master of Finance in the Knights of Pythias, Vermillion Lodge, No. 113.

No information located in available resources for Humphrey Marshall.

Sources: Biographical and Historical Records of Vermillion County, Indiana. (1888) p. 293, 297, 298.
The People's Guide: A Business, Political, and Religious Directory of Vermillion County, Indiana. (1874) p. 317.


SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection consists of a Free Gravel Road Assessment Certificate, No. 399, issued in Vermillion County. It is signed by B. O. Carpenter, Superintendent of Perryville and State Line Free Gravel Road, and stamped and dated, February 2, 1895, by L. A. Morgan. It lists Humphrey Marshall (fl. 1894-1895) as the owner of the land on which the Perryville and State Line Free Gravel Road was to be built.


CATALOGUING INFORMATION

MAIN ENTRY: Vermillion County Free Gravel Road Assessment Certificate, 1895

SUBJECT ENTRIES: Perryville and State Line Free Gravel Road (Vermillion County, Ind.)

Roads--Indiana--Vermillion County--History--Sources

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