Adams Earl 1819- 1898 This article first appeared in the TCHA newsletter Weatenotes, Vol. XI, No. 1, January-February 1982 Adams Earl, next to youngest in an old-fashioned household of 15 children, was a strapping youth of 17 when the family migrated from Fairfield County, Ohio to Tippecanoe County, Indiana in the winter of 1836-37. On […]
Clipping, Collecting and Pasting: Assembling Scrapbook Narratives Part 1 of 3 By Mary E. Anthrop Lafayette – Feb. 15,th 1891 “To my niece Georgie I want this book to belong after me. In it will be found many an account of old times, and settlers long passed away in Lafayette, Indiana the home of your […]
Janeral Tootle (c. 1827-1892) Underground Railroad Conductor and Civil War Veteran By Mary E. Anthrop “… free (African Americans) in Indiana had some rights which white men might find it prudent to respect.” Lafayette Daily Courier July 5, 1860 An 1860 arrest in Crawfordsville, an alleged station on the Underground Railroad, illustrates the […]
Kinship and Migration The African American Population in Lafayette after the Civil War By Mary E. Anthrop A “Lost Letter” from the Christian Recorder (Philadelphia) Curious notices, like the one above, appeared frequently in the African Methodist Episcopal Church newspaper, The Christian Recorder, in the years at the end of the Civil War. Known as […]
100 years ago, two Lafayette men made the trip of a lifetime. Leaving in November, 1922 and returning in June 1923, Dr. Richard B. Wetherill and Thomas Duncan traveled the length of Africa by steamer boat, canoe, train and on foot. Wetherill was a recently-retired Lafayette physician and amateur anthropologist and historian who had already […]
“Tippecanoe and Tyler, Too!” The Great Whig Rally of 1840 Part I By Julie Dichtl Editors Note: This article first appeared in the Tippecanoe County Historical Association’s newsletter, Weatenotes, Vol. 24, February 1991. The author served TCHA as Volunteer Coordinator and Weatenotes editor before joining St. Elizabeth Hospital as Director f Volunteer Services in June, […]