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Charles Latham
21 May 1993
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item
COLLECTION DATE: 1837
PROVENANCE: Thomas J. Moebs, Williamsburg VA, 19 May 1992
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
RELATED HOLDING: pam f F 532 .W2 E39 (printed circular without attached letter)
ACCESSION NUMBER: 92.0253
Henry Leavitt Ellsworth (1791-1858) was born in Windsor, Connecticut, the son of Chief Justice Oliver Ellsworth. He graduated from Yale in 1810, and married Nancy Goodrich. In 1819-1821 he was president of Aetna Insurance Company. In 1832 he was commissioner to supervise the settlement of Indian tribes west of Arkansas. He was Commissioner of Patents from 1835 to 1845. An agriculturist as well as a federal functionary, he has been called the father of the United States Department of Agriculture.
Source: Who Was Who in America (Historical Volume)
This collection consists of one item, a printed circular with attached conjugate leaf. The circular, signed by Henry L. Ellsworth on 20 February 1837, announces the partnership of John Curtis and Edward A. Ellsworth, in Lafayette, Indiana, to act as a land and loan agency in the Wabash and Maumee valley. This area was expected to be opened up by construction of the Wabash and Erie Canal. On the second page is a letter from Curtis and Ellsworth to Swepson Whitehead of Norfolk, Virginia, enclosing seventeen land certificates, and a receipt from Henry Ellsworth for $2,000 in payment.
MAIN ENTRY: Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 1791-1858
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Ellsworth, Henry Leavitt, 1791-1858
Ellsworth, Edward A.
Curtis, John, fl. 1820-1837
Land companies--Indiana--Lafayette
Real property--Wabash River Valley
Lafayette (Ind.)
Wabash River Valley
Maumee River Valley (Ind. and Ohio)
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