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Charles Latham
20 October 1995
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 folder
COLLECTION DATES: 1902-1974
PROVENANCE: Sue Beach, Muncie, IN, 23 August 1995
RESTRICTIONS: None
REPRODUCTION RIGHTS: Permission to reproduce or publish material in this collection must be obtained in writing from the Indiana Historical Society
COPYRIGHT: Retained by donor
ALTERNATE FORMATS: Some of the letters are found in F 53, Col. G. H. Healey Letters and Scrapbooks
OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: None
ACCESSION NUMBER: 95.0710
This collection contains material relating to the Healey family, living mainly in Rensselaer, Jasper County, Indiana.
Joshua Healey (1838-1880) was born in Canada, and moved to the United States at the age of nineteen. He served in the Civil War, as a captain in the 9th Indiana Regiment, as a major in the 128th, and as a colonel in the 151st. With his wife, Julia Ann Howland, he moved to Rensselaer in 1865. He died of diabetes.
The second generation of the family was George Howland Healey (1872-1945), who in 1893 married Stella Naomi Hough (1875-1974). After gaining newspaper experience in Tennessee and Missouri, he returned to Rensselaer in 1907 to become publisher and editor of the Republican. He served as a colonel in France at the end of World War I.
The children of the third generation of the Healey family were Henry Sylvester (1892-1894), George Warren (1896-1945), Vera V. (1898-1975), Ivah Maud (1900-1989), Adna Julia (b. 1905), and Homer Max (1915-1990).
Sources: Materials in collection
History of Jasper and Newton Counties (1916), 533-534
Biographical history of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Benton, Warren and Pulaski Counties (1899), 725-727
This collection, filling one folder, contains photcopies of records of the Healey family, 1902-1974, put together by family members in a booklet.
Pages 1-7 contain transcripts of Julia Ann Howland Healey's account of first coming to Rensselaer in 1865.
On pages 8-39 are transcripts of letters written by Colonel George Howland Healey when serving with the A. E. F. in France in 1918-1919.
Pages 40-54 contain transcripts of family letters 1932-1974. The collection ends with an index and a family genealogy.
MAIN ENTRY: Healey Family papers, 1902-1974
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Healey family
World War, 1914-1918--France--Personal narratives
Soldiers--Indiana--Rensselaer
Rensselaer (Ind.)
ADDED ENTRIES: Healey, George Howland, 1872-1945
Healey, Julia Ann Howland
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