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Chris Harter
11 March 1997
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.
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RELATED HOLDINGS: None
ACCESSION NUMBER: 1996.0455
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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.
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.
MAIN ENTRY: Vermillion County Free Gravel Road Assessment Certificate, 1895
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Perryville and State Line Free Gravel Road (Vermillion County, Ind.)
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