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Charles Latham
25 October 1995
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 2 items
COLLECTION DATES: 1836, 1853
PROVENANCE: Timothy H. Bakker, Halvor Americana, Clarendon Hills, IL 60514, 28 June 1995
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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OTHER FINDING AIDS: None
RELATED HOLDINGS: M 353, OM 160, F 225, F 159N David Hedden
ACCESSION NUMBER: 95.0581
David Hedden (1802-1895) was born in Newark, N. J., the son of Stephen and Sallie (Peck) Hedden. Educated in the local common schools, he moved in 1820 to Floyd County, Indiana. After clerking for a year in a store, he became a partner for twenty years with Elias Ayers. In 1845 he sold the store and bought a mill. It burned, but he bought another, which he managed until retiring in 1856. In 1840 he married Elizabeth Wood, and they had seven children.
Source: Biographical and historical souvenir for the counties of Clark, Crawford, Harrison, Floyd, Jefferson, Jennings, Scott, and Washington, Indiana (1889), Part 1, 88-89
This collection contains two letters addressed to David Hedden.
In the first, dated 27 February 1836, W. C. Shipman of New Albany tells Hedden, then in Philadelphia, of the death of Mrs. Hillyer, describes a mishap when he fell out of a sleigh, and discounts his intentions toward Miss Gillette.
In the second, dated 6 March 1853, Pastor J. M. Stevenson of New Albany, writing to Hedden at Corydon, discourses on moral and religious topics.
MAIN ENTRY: Hedden, David, 1802-1895
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Hedden, David, 1802-1895
Floyd County (Ind.)--History--Sources
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