Papers, 1907-1944.

Clark, George Rogers, 1752-1818

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Surveyor; noted Indian fighter in the American midwest in the latter half of the 18th century. From the description of Documents, 1778-1818. (Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library). WorldCat record id: 28287330 American Revolutionary Colonel in the Old Northwest. Clark first came to Detroit from Cleveland in 1817, and was followed by his parents in a commercial fisherman and deputy collector of customs in China, Mich. (from M.P.C., I, 501-507: Clark's "Recollections".) (blue ...

Indiana Historical Society.

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Butler College

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Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

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Abraham Lincoln (born February 12, 1809, Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville, Kentucky-died April 15, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was the sixteenth President of the United States from 1861 until his death by assassination. He was the son of a Kentucky frontiersman, Thomas Lincoln, and Nancy Hanks. In 1816, Lincoln moved to Pigeon Creek, Indiana, where he worked on his family's farm. Following his mother's death two years later, he continued working on farms until moving with his father to New Sa...

Coleman, Christopher Bush, 1875-1944

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Coleman, a native of Springfield, Ill., attended Yale University, the University of Chicago, and Columbia University. He taught history at Butler College in Indianapolis from 1901 to 1919, and at Allegheny College from 1920 to 1924. He returned to Indianapolis in 1924 to serve as head of the Indiana Historical Bureau and also later the Indiana Historical Society. Until his death, he was a chief spokesman for history in the state, and was active in numerous historical projects. From t...