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Processed by:
Paul Brockman
17 December 1993
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 mss. folder (17 letters), 1 reel of microfilm
COLLECTION DATES: 1837-1856
PROVENANCE: Mrs. Lucile Carr Marshall (Mrs. T.J.), Indianapolis, October, 1957.
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society.
ALTERNATE FORMATS: Microfilm
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: Samuel and John Carr Papers (SC 178, OM 10); Carr Family Papers (M 607)
ACCESSION NUMBER: 94.0029X
The two main individuals involved in this collection's correspondence are brothers Joseph Carr (1796-1844) and Thomas Carr, Jr. (1807- ?). Joseph Carr was born in Pennsylvania and came to Indiana in 1806 and married Nancy Drummond in 1818. They had twelve children. Thomas Carr was a farmer who settled in Clark County and served in the Indiana Militia in the 1820s. He was also elected Clark County sheriff in 1826 and was a Democratic Party member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1846-1851.
Sources: Baird's History of Clark County Indiana, 1909, p. 811 (Joseph Carr).
Biographical Directory of the Indiana General Assembly, Vol. 1, p. 56 (Thomas Carr).
The collection consists of seventeen letters mostly to Thomas and Joseph Carr from family members and friends, 1837-1856. Included are letters from John Bowell and James Drummond in LaPorte County, Indiana, members of the Carr family in Louisville, and Indianapolis, and U. S. Representative John Carr from Washington, D.C. There is also a letter from Jeff (Jefferson C.) Davis (1828-1879) fighting with the U. S. Army in Saltillo, Mexico, January. 1847. Most of the letters contain family related and personal information although the letters from John Carr and Jefferson C. Davis mention politics and the Mexican War respectively. The letters have been microfilmed (F 1166).
MAIN ENTRY: Carr, Thomas, b. 1807
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Carr, Joseph, 1796-1844
Carr, Thomas, b. 1807
Bowell, John
Drummond, James, fl. 1840s
Carr, John, 1793-1845
Davis, Jefferson Columbus, 1828-1879
Mexican War, 1846-1848--Indiana
United States--Politics and government--1837-1841
Clark County (Ind.)--History--Sources
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