Indiana Historical Society - Manuscripts & Archives
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Charles Latham
19 February 1996
VOLUME OF COLLECTION: 1 item
COLLECTION DATE: 1859
PROVENANCE: Mary Lafferty, Wheaton, MD, 18 January 1996
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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: 96.0238
This collection contains the certificate of the marriage, according to Protestant Episcopal rites, of Ezra Ayres Carman to Ada Salmon in Jeffersonville, Indiana on 22 November 1859. Carman (1834-1909), born in Metuchen, N.J., graduated in 1856 from Western Military Institute in Kentucky, and then taught mathematics at the University of Nashville in Tennessee. He served in the Civil War, first as colonel of two New Jersey regiments and then as a brigadier general. From 1871 to 1875 he was comptroller of Jersey City, N.J., and from 1877 to 1885 he was chief clerk of the U. S. Department of Agriculture. Rev. James Runcie, who signed the certificate, was rector of St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Jeffersonville from 1855 to 1859, and became chaplain of the local penitentiary in 1857. The county history records that "he was a man of genial personality, and upon his departure left none but friends."
Sources: Materials in collection
History of Clark County (1909), 232
Who Was Who in America, Vol. I
This collection contains one item, the 1859 marriage certificate of Ada Salmon and Ezra Ayres Carman, signed by the Rev. James Runcie at Jeffersonville.
MAIN ENTRY: Carman, Ezra Ayres, 1834-1909
SUBJECT ENTRIES: Carman, Ada Salmon--Marriage
Carman, Ezra Ayres, 1834-1909--Marriage
Marriage licenses--Indiana--Jeffersonville
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