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Charles Latham
13 March 1992
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 ledger
COLLECTION DATES: 1886
PROVENANCE: Robert M. Taylor, Jr., Indianapolis IN, 30 January 1992
COPYRIGHT: Held by Indiana Historical Society
ACCESSION NUMBER: 92.0180
Clinton J. Utter of Hartsville, Haw Creek Township, Bartholomew County, Indiana, was the son of Reuben B. Utter, a prosperous farmer, and Lizzie Stewart Utter. In 1886 he was operating a store in Hartsville, selling in quantity hardware such as coal hods, drills, augers, carpet stretchers, cut nails, bread knives, and cowbells, but also some furniture-- beds, chairs, and dressers-- and some dry goods and produce. In 1887 he was elected financial secretary of a newly formed chapter of the Knights of Labor.
This collection consists of one account book covering the year 1886. Written in a rather elaborate script, it is a little puzzling, because on some days it seems that the business is wholesale hardware, on others furniture, and on others what might be expected in a country general store.
MAIN ENTRY: Utter, Clinton J., b. ca. 1864
SUBJECT ENTRIES: General stores--Indiana--Hartsville
Business records--Indiana--Hartsville
Merchants--Indiana--Hartsville
Hardware stores--Indiana--Hartsville
Hartsville (Ind.)
Bartholomew County (Ind.)
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