Lane-Elston family papers, 1775-1936.

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Lane-Elston family papers, 1775-1936.

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The collection includes Henry S. Lane's personal and political correspondence and various certificates of election and commissions from the Mexican War. Also included are the personal correspondence of Pamela and Joanna Lane; Joanna Lane's travel accounts of her trip to Italy and Israel in 1882; and the Civil War correspondence of Lane's nephew, Henry Lane Stone, a soldier in the Confederate Army. The papers of various other family members, particularly Isaac C. Elston and Harold Taylor, are also a part of the collection. Of note are a large number of letters regarding the 1860 Republican Party elections and letters to Thomas A. Hendricks, Lane's political opponent, concerning their campaign. Other materials contained in the collection include the Crawfordsville Land Office Record Book, 1830-31; nine hand-drawn maps of several townships in Vermillion County, Indiana; and genealogy material. Prominent correspondents include: Ovid Butler, Israel T. Canby, William G. Coffin, Schuyler Colfax, E. B. Collins, J. D. Cox, John R. Cravens, Will Cumback, Jonathan Defrees, John B. Dillon, Ebenezer Dumont, Jacob Piatt Dunn, Calvin Fletcher, Horace Greeley, Walter Q. Gresham, Thomas A. Hendricks, George W. Julian, Higgins Lane, Solomon Meredith, Godlove Orth, Robert Dale Owen, Daniel D. Pratt, William H. Seward, Thomas G. Slaughter, James Speed, and James Wilson.

6 document cases, 2 oversize folders, 1 photograph.

Indiana Historical Society Library

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Indiana Historical Society Library

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Indiana. General Assembly. House of Representatives

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Elston, Isaac C. (Isaac Compton), 1798-1867

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Isaac C. Elston, also known as "Major," was a store-keeper in Crawfordsville, Ind. in the 1820s. He became wealthy by land speculation, banking, and investment in railroads. He founded Elston National Bank of Crawfordsville, laid out a portion of the New Albany and Salem Railroad, and owned much of the land on which Lafayette, Ind. now stands. He had nine children. A daughter, Joanna, married Henry S. Lane, later governor of Indiana. Another daughter, Susan, married Lew Wallace. His son, Isaac C...

Elston family.

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United States. Congress. Senate

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Whig Party (Ind.)

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Hendricks, Thomas A. (Thomas Andrews), 1819-1885

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Thomas Andrews Hendricks (September 7, 1819 – November 25, 1885) was an American politician and lawyer from Indiana who served as the 16th governor of Indiana from 1873 to 1877 and the 21st vice president of the United States from March to November 1885. Hendricks represented Indiana in the U.S. House of Representatives (1851–55) and the U.S. Senate (1863–69). He also represented Shelby County, Indiana, in the Indiana General Assembly (1848–50) and as a delegate to the 1851 Indiana constitutiona...

Republican Party (Ind.)

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Stone, Henry Lane

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Lane family.

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Taylor, Harold, 1862-1936

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Lane, Henry Smith, 1811-1881

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Governor of Indiana, member of the U.S. House of Representatives, and U.S. senator. From the description of Papers, 1828-1909. (Indiana University). WorldCat record id: 700522747 Mexican War soldier. From the description of Letter, 1846 Nov. 5. (Filson Historical Society, The). WorldCat record id: 46613665 ...

Lane, Joanna Elston

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