Thieme & Wagner Brewing Company By Pete Bill, TCHA Board President While I was watching television, up popped yet another Ancestry.com commercial promoting the personal ways in which individuals have traced back their family lineage. What piqued my interest in this particular commercial was the person’s name who was giving the personal testimony: David Thieme. […]
Wetherill Archive Highlight: The Fay Oma Wainwright Collection TCHA has over 200 processed collections in the Richard B. Wetherill Archives. Each of these collections is carefully inventoried and studied by staff and volunteers at TCHA in order to create a finding aid that will assist researchers in finding the information they need. The first collection […]
Family & why their story matters By Quentin Robinson, Tippecanoe County Historian I recently finished a book which reminded me why, I think, learning about our family history is important or at least what drives those of us who do study and record the history of our families. Written by Ian Frazier it is called […]
They Were All Just People by Quentin Robinson, County Historian Whatever you do, don’t start researching your family history unless you want to find out that your ancestors were just ordinary humans, with all the ordinary quirks, characteristics, and problems we have today. It’s pretty easy to think of “the good old days” as something […]
The Mail Order Bride by Quentin Robinson, County Historian I recently encountered an interesting family history story concerning Martha Ann Goss (1832-1895). She is not an ancestor of mine, but was the mother of Malinda Barton (1852-1918) who married one of my great great grand uncles, William Robinson. I had always wondered how William […]
Welcome to the Tippecanoe County Historical Association’s Blog! We hope that this regular blog post will become a source of interesting articles about local history, a forum for debate and research, and a chance for TCHA members to contribute their research and interests for the good of the Association. In 2018, TCHA will celebrate its […]