Collection #
SC 2299

PRESLEY B. ESKEW
FAMILY PAPERS, 1851–1922

Collection Information

Biographical Sketch

Scope and Content Note

Cataloging Information

Processed by
Charles Latham
26 December 1990
Updated 22 November 2004

Manuscript and Visual Collections Department
William Henry Smith Memorial Library
Indiana Historical Society
450 West Ohio Street
Indianapolis, IN 46202-3269

www.indianahistory.org

collection INFORMATION

VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder

COLLECTION DATES: 1851-1922

PROVENANCE: James and Carol Harrison, Fishers, IN, 12 December 1990

RESTRICTIONS: None

COPYRIGHT: Held by Indiana Historical Society

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: None

ACCESSION NUMBER: 1991.0156

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH

Presley B. Eskew, of Fayette County, bought land in Hamilton County in 1851. He died before 1864. Amos H. Eskew was living in Hamilton County 1863-1883. His wife was named Mary. Frank A. Eskew ran a grocery store in Eagletown, Hamilton County, between 1886 and 1904. He owned farmland in the county, which he rented out in 1922.

SCOPE AND CONTENT NOTE

This collection, filling one folder, contains deeds, a bill, and some recipes. It is arranged chronologically. The deeds trace members of the Eskew family as given above. Jesse Raines and W. G. Clark also appear on an agreement of 1913. There are also three recipes, two for liniment, one for a cure for "hog collery."

CATALOGING INFORMATION

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