Indiana

Abstract Elijah Coffin's scrapbook includes his handwritten notes, typed materials, and published clippings. It features published materials on the history of westward expansion and pioneers, and the history of Indiana, as well as typed excerpts from a history of Kentucky (by Scudder), a history of Virginia (by Cooke), and Daniel Boone. In addition to material focusing on the history of the American West, the scrapbook includes excerpts from histories of Mesopotamia, Russia, Babylonia, Sumeria,...

Abstract The letter of William Huddleston, a spiritualist, sees Huddleston reporting on his Spring 1872 efforts to run a newly-opened church out of his hometown, Lotus, Indiana. In the letter, Huddleston reports: "We have a Church in the hearing of my home, which just closed 15 days [of?] distracted meeting. I have been in attendance all of the latter party thereof; and have labored with my magnetism, Psycology [sic], and 'will' to counteract their efforts, and they have died a shameful death without...