The Power of Personal Persuasion in Immigration Letters To Family and Friends in the Netherlands by guest blogger Mary Anthrop Today family and friends take advantage of technological platforms, such as Facebook, Instagram and Twitter, and even Zoom, to “stay connected.” In the mid 1800s hand written letters linked family and friends across the continent […]
Why did my family end up in Tippecanoe County? By guest blogger Van Sherry Wondering why my family ended up in Tippecanoe County prompted me to begin some genealogy research. After many years, I solved the mystery surrounding my Great Great Grandfather Isaac Hursh, a Lutheran Minister. He came to East Germantown, IN from Ohio […]
150th Anniversary of the Passage of the 15th Amendment By guest blogger, Mary Anthrop “The event to be celebrated is one of the most memorable in the world’s history. It is no light thing to lift into the body politic four million people heretofore as a class, robbed of the products of their labor, and […]
Artifacts from the excavations at Fort Ouiatenon A beautiful array of assorted buckles, mostly shoe buckles An ivory fine toothed comb, for getting lice out of the hair! Some paste glass stone rings, made of brass, from the Ouiatenon artifact collection. A pair of silver cufflinks from TCHA’s Fort Ouiatenon artifact collection. In the […]
Interview with Policeman Paul Klinker “This is 1933; there’s no place to work. And this job is a hazardous job, but someone got to do it.” Sometime in the late 1970s, in an oral history interview Paul Klinker recounted his experiences as a Lafayette policeman during the Great Depression of the 1930s. This excerpt recalls […]
“What Hath God Wrought?” By John M. Harris Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the Tippecanoe County Historical Association Newsletter “Weatenotes” Vol. VIII, No. 2 for May 1974. His name was Morse, Samuel Finley Breeze Morse, painter of portraits and sometime dabbler in electronics. He was tall, thin and 52 years of age with […]