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Charles Latham
31 January 1994
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item
COLLECTION DATE: 1849
PROVENANCE: Robert G. Hayman, Carey OH, 19 November 1993
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
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ACCESSION NUMBER: 94.0083
Clayton Brown (born ca 1830) lived in Richmond, Indiana. His parents, Benjamin and Mary Anne Craig Brown, were married in Ohio in 1827. They were members of the Society of Orthodox Friends.
Millicent Ann Strattan lived in New London, Howard County, Indiana. Joseph Strattan, probably a relative, was a member of a group, which had a gravel road built to Kokomo in 1867 and ran it as a toll road. The center of New London is Edgerton's Addition.
Sources: Edna J. Payne, Memories of New London (1936), p. 6
Historical Atlas of Howard County (1876)
History of Wayne County (1884), vol. 2 p. 276
This collection consists of one item, a letter dated 8-15-1849 from Millicent Ann Strattan of "near New London," Howard County, Indiana, to Clayton Brown in Richmond. In addition to a page assessing degrees of negligence in letter-writing, the letter mentions cholera epidemics in Lafayette, Salem, and "the little town of Boston." It also mentions relatives: Hugh Maxwell, Thomas Edgerton, and "Unkle Andrews."
MAIN ENTRY: Strattan, Millicent Ann
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Strattan, Millicent Ann
Brown, Clayton, b. ca. 1830
Cholera--Indiana
New London (Ind.)
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