Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives

CLAYTON BROWN
LETTER, 1849


Collection #
SC 2393


Table of Contents

User information
Historical sketch
Scope and Content note
Cataloguing information

Processed by
Charles Latham
31 January 1994


USER INFORMATION

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

ALTERNATE FORMATS: None

OTHER FINDING AIDS: None

RELATED HOLDINGS: None

ACCESSION NUMBER: 94.0083


HISTORICAL SKETCH

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


SCOPE AND CONTENT

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."


CATALOGUING INFORMATION

MAIN ENTRY: Strattan, Millicent Ann

SUBJECT ENTRIES: Strattan, Millicent Ann

Brown, Clayton, b. ca. 1830

Cholera--Indiana

New London (Ind.)

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