Stow family Papers, 1820–1923
Held by The Filson Historical Society
Creator: Stow family
Title: Papers, 1820–1923
Rights: For information regarding literary and copyright interest for these papers, contact the Collections Department.
Size of Collection: 6 cu. ft.
Location Number: Mss. Mss. A S891
Scope and Content Note
This collection centers on several generations of the Stow family, Methodists and farmers in Switzerland County, Indiana in the 19th century. Members of the Stow family immigrated to Indiana from western New York as children, and letters document the psychological impact of migration. Letters and diaries written by Stow family members and their acquaintances document many aspects of 19th century life. Agricultural work and methods are prominently featured, as the Stow family and their extended relations were primarily farmers. Many Stow family members were active members of the Methodist Church, and their papers document 19th century Protestant religious practices, including revivals, preaching, temperance activities, and mourning the dead. The collection also pertains to student life from early childhood through the college years. In addition, the political environment of the 1850s and 1860s surfaces in the collection; letter writers discuss their viewpoints as well as temperance and abolitionist activities. Other subjects often referenced in letters and diaries are social events and relationships, the buying and selling of goods, the weather, and the sicknesses and deaths of family and community members. Family and friends write letters from states across the country, including New York, Ohio, Kansas, California, and Alabama. (For further elaboration on the collection’s themes, see Ellen Stepleton’s “Description of the archive & its themes” in Folder 1.)
Folders 1-6 [Binders 1-2] contain information about the historical context and provenance of the collection. Several folders include genealogical charts and compiled research on letter writers.
Folders 7-15 [Binder 3] contain correspondence of the Hyde family. Many of the letters were written by Judith Hyde Manser’s sisters, who remained in Steuben County, New York when the Mansers immigrated to Indiana. Letters discuss relatives and friends, agricultural practices, and social and religious events, touching on familial separation, aging, and impending death. Another significant part of the Hyde correspondence are letters of Calvin C. Hyde, an immigrant to Kansas and active participant in the Free State Movement.
Folders 16-22 [Binder 4] contain correspondence of William Manser and his family. William was a merchant in Cincinnati, Ohio who became owner of the ironworks the Covington Rail Mill. His letters relate to his business interests as well as to personal matters, especially his resentment of his younger brother and his sense of superiority over his rural Indiana relations. The letters of his wife Mary Elizabeth Barrett Manser record the financial difficulties she experienced after the death of her husband, and the seamstress trade pursued by two of her unmarried daughters.
Folders 23-36 [Binder 5] contain the letters of Edward Manser and his wife Fannie Caffee Manser of Cincinnati, Ohio and Covington, Kentucky. Edward Manser’s correspondence touch on his employment at various commercial firms, including his father’s ironworks the Covington Rail Mill. A few letters discuss his military service during the Civil War with the Navy, where he was an executive officer aboard tinclads Petrel and Peosta on the Mississippi. Finally, there are letters relating to his uncle’s farm in rural Indiana, including Manser’s efforts to attract African American laborers to work on the farm, and the shipment of hay to market in Covington.
Folders 37-44 [Binder 6] contain Manser family correspondence, including the families of Catharine Manser Stow’s younger sisters: Harriet Manser Seymour Malin, Lucinda Manser Wells, and Angeline Manser Slawson Graham. A significant portion of the correspondence relates to the school career of Oliver E. Seymour at Moore’s Hill College. Also of interest are two letters written by Edward Wells, a federal soldier serving in Reconstruction-era Alabama.
Folders 45-52 [Binder 7] contain the letters of George and Olive Manser Winchester and their daughters. Much of the correspondence was written by George W. Winchester, a Methodist circuit preacher in Indiana for several decades in the late 19th century. His letters report on the results of his ministry: accessions of believers into the church, true converts and backsliders, the construction of church buildings, and sales of subscriptions to Methodist publications. Family correspondence also discuss the career of daughter Claribel “Clara” Winchester, who taught music privately and in the public schools and directed church choral groups.
Folders 53-57 [Binder 8] contain correspondence of the Stow family. Brothers Uzziel and Shelomith Stow, both farmers, frequently write about agricultural work. Their mother Livia Hayward Stow’s letters contain information about recruiting a teacher to instruct children in Marble Hill, Indiana. All practicing Methodists, the Stows also occasionally comment on church meetings and visiting preachers.
Folders 58-69 [Binder 9] contain general correspondence, 1833-1895, received by Uzziel Stow. Letters regard sale of land and agricultural products, land management, and reports from friends about the prices of agricultural commodities in various cities. Several letters concern the activities of the Methodist Episcopal Church, especially its involvement in the temperance movement and Christian education. Of especial interest are the letters of David Deal, a Methodist minister in California during the Gold Rush, as well as those of Marshall Bennett Hyde, a minister who established a school to educate Mormon children in Ogden, Utah.
Folders 70-75 [Binder 10] contain general correspondence, 1847-1890, received by Catharine Manser Stow. Several letters recommend domestic workers. Other letters are written by former employees who worked in the Stow household or as farm laborers. Letters touch upon social events, such as Uzziel and Catharine’s 50th wedding anniversary in 1884. Of particular interest are several letters from Sarah Wigglesworth, a former housekeeper to the Stows, who fell upon hard times after the desertion of her husband and left her daughter in the care of the Stows.
Folders 76-81 [Binder 11] contain the correspondence of Hiram and Baron Stow. Hiram Stow’s letters document his education at Hanover College’s grammar school in 1847 and at Indiana Asbury University in Greencastle, Indiana in 1853. Baron Stow’s letters consist of his childhood correspondence, primarily from friends and classmates, and letters written to his brother Loring who was away at school.
Folders 82-87 [Binder 12] are comprised of the correspondence of Loring Stow. Loring’s letters touch on his education at various institutions: Hanover College’s grammar school in 1847, Indiana Asbury University in 1856, and Farmer’s College near Cincinnati, Ohio in 1858-1859. Of particular interest are letters documenting a student/faculty disagreement at Indiana Asbury University and correspondence describing hot air balloon contests in Cincinnati. Several letters written in 1860 describe a trip to New Orleans via flatboat to sell a hay crop.
Folders 88-98 [Binder 13] consist of letters written to Loring Stow by his friends. Many of the correspondents are Loring’s college friends from his years at Indiana Asbury University in 1856 and Farmers’ College in 1858-1859. Several of the female correspondents are friends of Loring’s sister, Viola, many of whom are studying at Elizabethtown Female Seminary in Ohio. One mysterious woman named Isabella Gleason writes several flirtatious letters to Loring, believing him to be the young man she was taken with while riding a train near Indianapolis.
Folders 99-110 [Binder 14] contain letters written by Viola Stow Dufour. Viola’s letters from the 1850s primarily concern her education at Elizabethtown Female Seminary in Elizabethtown, Ohio, including discussion of her studies and daily life at the boarding school. Viola’s letters from the 1860s-1880s, most written to her mother Catharine, document her life as a mother of young children. In a final series of letters, 1889-1912, Viola relates news of the family and happenings in the Stowtown area to her daughter Lella, who has left Indiana for distant places.
Folders 111-126 [Binder 15] consist of the correspondence of Julia Stow and Lemuel Bledsoe. Included are letters written by Julia Stow while she was a student at Elizabethtown Female Seminary from 1856-1859. Other letters document the courtship of Julia and Lemuel up until their marriage in April 1860. Letters to Lemuel from 1860-1900 include ones from his cousin after the death of Julia in 1865 and from his sister Bettie Bledsoe and his son Benjamin as Bettie, her husband, and Benjamin traveled to New Orleans via flatboat in 1870-1871.
Folders 128-139 [Binder 16] contain the correspondence of Horace Stow, his second wife Almira, and their children. Horace and Almira’s letters document Horace’s farming endeavors, financial troubles, and their family’s health issues in the Indiana counties of Jefferson, LaPorte, Starke, and Grant in the 1840s-1850s. Letters from their adult children discuss agricultural work, sicknesses, and schooling in the second half of the 19th century. Horace’s 1896 memoir [Binder 16 appendix] recounts his childhood back East, his family’s trek to Indiana, and his life there.
Folders 140-151 [Binder 17] contain letters of members of the Dean family: Uzziel’s sister Abigail Stow Dean, her husband Argus Dean, their son Hiram and his wife Harriet “Hattie” Wells Dean, and their other children William, Franklin, Mary Livia, and Abigail “Abbie.” Most of the letters are from Hattie, writing from Otto and Marble Hill, Indiana to her Aunt Catharine Stow about fruit crops, sicknesses and deaths, social activities, the weather, and housekeeping in the 1860s-1890s. A few letters from William, Franklin, and Mary Livia reference some of William and Franklin’s Civil War experiences in the Union Army.
Folders 152-154 [Binder 18] hold the late 19th and early 20th century correspondence of Frank and Viola Stow Dufour and some of their adult children. Most of the letters are from female family members writing about the weather, sicknesses, their travels, sewing projects, Methodist fundraising events, and news from Vevay and Florence, Indiana. Also included are letters about the death of Frank and Viola’s son Loring and a 1918 letter written by Loring’s son Wilfred.
Folders 155-165 [Binder 19] consist of miscellaneous sets of correspondence to Stow family members in the second half of the 19th century. Included are letters from former Stowtown teacher Mary Tatterson and from Henry Manwaring, whose brother Thomas Manwaring had been an itinerant book peddler in southeastern Indiana. Other letters are from members of the Brown and Chamberlain families; from Amzi and Charles Godden, both of whom move to southern states and write defensively about slavery; from Robert G. Simpson in Crawfordsville, Indiana; from Robert Quincy in Marion County, Illinois; and from Lorinda “Laura” Washer and Solomon Washer, Jr., who write about farming, German Americans, and Reconstruction policy.
Folders 166-179 [Binder 20 and appendix] consist of Civil War-era letters to Stow family members from Union soldiers Josiah Thompson, Moses Cole, George Cole, Jehial Hammond, Benjamin Bledsoe, John Hall, Phelix Gallagher, and Newton Kirkpatrick. These men write from Indiana, Kentucky, Tennessee, Arkansas, Alabama, Maryland, and Kansas, describing camp conditions, politics, and engagements with Confederate soldiers and guerrilla bands.
Folders 180-184 [Binder 21] contain miscellaneous papers of Uzziel Stow, including 1840s receipts for the Methodist newspaper Western Christian Advocate, an 1849 farm contract with G. W. Winchester, 1856-1858 receipts and contracts relating to the Log Lick Turnpike, and 1857-1863 contracts and accounts for the development of the fairgrounds for the Switzerland and Ohio County Fair in Enterprise, Indiana.
Folders 185-189 [Binder 22] and folders 190-193 [Binder 23] hold copies of land titles, warranty deeds, and other legal and financial records of Uzziel Stow and a few other family members from 1823-1859. Papers include the 1840 will of Jonah Stow; an 1846 account register of Horace Stow; and legal documents relating to Uzziel’s guardianship of Mary Louise, William, and Oliver Seymour. Many of the papers have sustained mold damage; in addition to the originals, photocopies and some transcriptions are included.
Folders 194-232 contain a bound map, road logs, diaries, and account and memoranda books belonging to Stow family members and a few other individuals from 1839 through the 1890s. These journals document agricultural work, transportation by road and river, purchases and sales of goods, social relations and activities, and sicknesses and deaths. Folders 207-212 hold diaries of Uzziel Stow that have sustained severe mold damage. Photocopies of the pages of the diaries are available. These files are restricted to in-house viewing. Please see the reference desk or email gro.l1714717592aciro1714717592tsihn1714717592oslif1714717592@hcra1714717592eser1714717592.
Folders 233-243 contain songbooks and school items. Included are an undated “Revival Hymns” booklet and a songbook compiled in 2016-2017 with music and lyrics of songs referenced in the Stow papers. Among the school items are early 1853 issues of the newsletter “The Student’s Offering,” published by students who attended a Stowtown school; student essays and a Latin exercise attributed to Hiram and Loring Stow; Loring’s list of students involved in a faculty/student disagreement at Indiana Asbury in 1856; and 1857-1859 catalogs and a photocopy of an anniversary address for Elizabethtown Female Seminary in Ohio.
Arrangement Note: Upon arrival at the Filson Historical Society, a large portion of the Stow papers were housed in three-ring binders. Documents were removed from binders for ease of use, with the original location of the material noted in the folder listing.
Related Collections:
- Stow family added papers, Mss. A S891a [021×28].
- Stow family photograph collection [018PC4 and 021PC24].
- Museum item: 19th century carton from perfume and ink manufacturer Apollos W. Harrison, Philadelphia.
Biographical Note
The collection centers on the family of Uzziel Hayward Stow (1809-1890) and Catharine Manser Stow (1811-1899) of Switzerland County, Indiana. Uzziel and Catharine shared New England ancestral origins, as well as similar experiences migrating from western New York to southeastern Indiana as children in the late 1810s. Independently, their parents settled in Cotton Township, Switzerland County, Indiana in the early 1820s, and there Uzziel and Catharine ultimately met. They were married in 1834, and for the remainder of their lives resided at “Stowtown,” south of East Enterprise, Indiana. They had four children: Hiram S. Stow (1835-1853), Loring B. Stow (1838-1860), Viola A. Stow Dufour (1841-1912), and Baron P. Stow (1847-1864). Tragically, the three sons of the family all died young.
The Stows were farmers who by the 1850s were entering upon prosperity, due in part to the sheer industriousness of Uzziel Stow, and his pursuit of “improvement” in agricultural practice and technology. The family home was situated in the Ohio Valley, along one of the major inland transportation and migration routes of the day. The Stows were active members of the Methodist Episcopal Church and commentators on matters of importance to the church during the mid-19th century. Uzziel and Catharine are buried in the family cemetery at Stowtown.
For more information on Uzziel and Catharine Stow and their extended relations, consult the descendant charts and person reports in Folders 3-6.
Sources:
- Ellen Stepleton notes on the origin of the Stow archive. [Mss. A S891 / 1]
- Descendant charts and person reports. [Mss. A S891 / 3-6]
Folder List
Box 1
Folder 1 [Binder 1]: Notes re: provenance, organization, and index of letter writers and recipients
Folder 2 [Binder 1]: Switzerland County, Indiana maps and geographical information
Folder 3 [Binder 2]: Descendants charts
Folder 4 [Binder 2]: Person reports, A-G
Folder 5 [Binder 2]: Person reports, H-M
Folder 6 [Binder 2]: Person reports, P-Y
Folder 7 [Binder 3]: Index to Hyde family correspondence
Folder 8 [Binder 3]: Correspondence of William Hyde, Jr. and family, 1820-1848
Folder 9 [Binder 3]: Correspondence of William Hyde, Jr. and family, 1851-1858
Folder 10 [Binder 3]: Correspondence of William Hyde, Jr. and family, 1860-1865
Folder 11 [Binder 3]: Correspondence of William Hyde, Jr. and family, 1866-1870
Folder 12 [Binder 3]: Correspondence of William Hyde, Jr. and family, 1871-1884
Folder 13 [Binder 3]: Correspondence of Mary Hyde and Calvin C. Hyde, 1846-1856
Folder 14 [Binder 3]: Correspondence of Calvin C. Hyde, 1857-1859
Folder 15 [Binder 3 appendix]: Transcribed letters of Calvin C. Hyde, 1856-1859
Folder 16 [Binder 4]: Index to Manser family correspondence, including transcriptions of William Manser’s letters
Folder 17 [Binder 4]: Correspondence of William Manser, 1829-1839
Folder 18 [Binder 4]: Correspondence of William Manser, 1845-1860
Folder 19 [Binder 4]: Correspondence of Mary Elizabeth Barrett Manser, 1860-1888
Folder 20 [Binder 4]: Correspondence of Mary Elizabeth Barrett Manser, 1889-1892
Folder 21 [Binder 4]: Correspondence of Mary Adelia Manser Keckeler, 1845-1884
Folder 22 [Binder 4]: Correspondence of Theophilus Turner Keckeler, 1858-1859
Folder 23 [Binder 4]: Correspondence of Theodore Manser, 1860-1862
Folder 24 [Binder 4]: Correspondence of Augusta Manser, 1860-1870
Folder 25 [Binder 4]: Correspondence of Ella Manser, 1874-1877
Folder 26 [Binder 5]: Index to Edward and Fannie Caffee Manser correspondence
Folder 27 [Binder 5]: Correspondence of Edward Manser, 1853-1858
Folder 28 [Binder 5]: Correspondence of Edward Manser, 1859-1860
Folder 29 [Binder 5]: Correspondence of Edward Manser, 1861-1863
Folder 30 [Binder 5]: Correspondence of Edward Manser, 1864
Folder 31 [Binder 5]: Correspondence of Edward Manser, 1865-June 1868
Folder 32 [Binder 5]: Correspondence of Edward Manser, July-December 1868
Folder 33 [Binder 5]: Correspondence of Edward Manser, 1869
Folder 34 [Binder 5]: Correspondence of Edward Manser, January-May 1870
Folder 35 [Binder 5]: Correspondence of Edward Manser, June 1870-1871
Folder 36 [Binder 5]: Correspondence of Fannie Caffee Manser, 1871-1877
Folder 37 [Binder 6]: Index to Manser family correspondence, including the families of Harriet Manser Seymour Malin, Lucinda Manser Wells, and Angeline Manser Slawson Graham
Folder 38 [Binder 6]: Correspondence of Harriet Manser Seymour Malin and family, 1860-February 1866
Folder 39 [Binder 6]: Correspondence of Harriet Manser Seymour Malin and family, March 1866-1892
Folder 40 [Binder 6]: Correspondence of Mary A. Wells Allen, 1868-1911
Folder 41 [Binder 6]: Correspondence of Edward P. Wells, 1875
Folder 42 [Binder 6]: Correspondence of Emma Wells, 1875-1886
Folder 43 [Binder 6]: Correspondence of Emma Wells, 1888-1890
Folder 44 [Binder 6]: Correspondence of Angeline Manser Slawson Graham and family, 1878-1890
Folder 45 [Binder 7]: Index to Olive Manser Winchester family correspondence
Folder 46 [Binder 7]: Correspondence of Olive Manser Winchester and family, 1852-1857
Folder 47 [Binder 7]: Correspondence of Olive Manser Winchester and family, 1858-1860
Folder 48 [Binder 7]: Correspondence of Olive Manser Winchester and family, 1861-1866
Folder 49 [Binder 7]: Correspondence of Olive Manser Winchester and family, 1867-1884
Folder 50 [Binder 7]: Correspondence of Olive Manser Winchester and family, 1890-1891
Box 2
Folder 51 [Binder 7]: Correspondence of Olive Manser Winchester and family, 1892-1894
Folder 52 [Binder 7]: Correspondence of Olive Manser Winchester and family, 1899-1911
Folder 53 [Binder 8]: Index to Stow family correspondence
Folder 54 [Binder 8]: Correspondence of Livia Hayward Stow, 1843-1854
Folder 55 [Binder 8]: Correspondence of Uzziel Stow, 1847-1859
Folder 56 [Binder 8]: Correspondence of Catharine Manser Stow, 1853-1859
Folder 57 [Binder 8]: Correspondence of Shelomith Stow, 1843
Folder 58 [Binder 9]: Index to general correspondence received by Uzziel Stow
Folder 59 [Binder 9]: Correspondence received by Uzziel Stow, 1833-1838
Folder 60 [Binder 9]: Correspondence received by Uzziel Stow, 1839-1840
Folder 61 [Binder 9]: Correspondence received by Uzziel Stow, 1845-1848
Folder 62 [Binder 9]: Correspondence received by Uzziel Stow, 1849-1853
Folder 63 [Binder 9]: Correspondence received by Uzziel Stow, 1857-1868
Folder 64 [Binder 9]: Correspondence received by Uzziel Stow, 1872-1875
Folder 65 [Binder 9]: Correspondence received by Uzziel Stow, 1876-1882
Folder 66 [Binder 9]: Correspondence received by Uzziel Stow, 1883-1887
Folder 67 [Binder 9]: Correspondence received by Uzziel Stow, 1888
Folder 68 [Binder 9]: Correspondence received by Uzziel Stow, 1889-1895
Folder 69 [Binder 9]: Empty envelopes addressed to Uzziel Stow, 1858, 1883, undated
Folder 70 [Binder 10]: Index to general correspondence received by Catharine Manser Stow
Folder 71 [Binder 10]: Correspondence received by Catharine Manser Stow, 1847-1860
Folder 72 [Binder 10]: Correspondence received by Catharine Manser Stow, 1864-1876
Folder 73 [Binder 10]: Correspondence received by Catharine Manser Stow, 1877-1883
Folder 74 [Binder 10]: Correspondence received by Catharine Manser Stow, 1884
Folder 75 [Binder 10]: Correspondence received by Catharine Manser Stow, 1886-1890
Folder 76 [Binder 11]: Index to Hiram S. Stow and Baron P. Stow correspondence
Folder 77 [Binder 11]: Correspondence of Hiram S. Stow, 1847
Folder 78 [Binder 11]: Correspondence of Hiram S. Stow, February-October 1853
Folder 79 [Binder 11]: Correspondence of Hiram S. Stow, November-December 1853
Folder 80 [Binder 11]: Correspondence of Baron P. Stow, 1858-1859
Folder 81 [Binder 11]: Correspondence of Baron P. Stow, 1863-1864
Folder 82 [Binder 12]: Index to Loring B. Stow correspondence
Folder 83 [Binder 12]: Correspondence of Loring B. Stow, 1847
Folder 84 [Binder 12]: Correspondence of Loring B. Stow, 1853-1856
Folder 85 [Binder 12]: Correspondence of Loring B. Stow, 1858
Folder 86 [Binder 12]: Correspondence of Loring B. Stow, January-April 1859
Folder 87 [Binder 12]: Correspondence of Loring B. Stow, May 1859-1860
Folder 88 [Binder 13]: Index to general correspondence received by Loring B. Stow
Folder 89 [Binder 13]: “A” surname correspondence received by Loring Stow, 1856-1859
Folder 90 [Binder 13]: “Bonham, Thomas” correspondence received by Loring Stow, 1858-1866
Folder 91 [Binder 13]: “Bra” surname correspondence received by Loring Stow, 1858-1860
Folder 92 [Binder 13]: “Brown – Bruner” surname correspondence received by Loring Stow, 1856-1860
Folder 93 [Binder 13]: “C” surname correspondence received by Loring Stow, 1859-1860
Folder 94 [Binder 13]: “G-H” surname correspondence received by Loring Stow, 1854-1859
Folder 95 [Binder 13]: “J-M” surname correspondence received by Loring Stow, 1858-1859
Folder 96 [Binder 13]: “Ricker” surname correspondence received by Loring Stow, 1859-1860
Folder 97 [Binder 13]: “Robbins” surname correspondence received by Loring Stow, 1856-1859
Folder 98 [Binder 13]: “S-W” surname correspondence & empty envelopes received by Loring Stow, 1856-1860
Box 3
Folder 99 [Binder 14]: Index to Viola Stow Dufour correspondence
Folder 100 [Binder 14]: Correspondence of Viola Stow Dufour, 1853-1857
Folder 101 [Binder 14]: Correspondence of Viola Stow Dufour, January-March 1858
Folder 102 [Binder 14]: Correspondence of Viola Stow Dufour, June-December 1858
Folder 103 [Binder 14]: Correspondence of Viola Stow Dufour, January-February 1859
Folder 104 [Binder 14]: Correspondence of Viola Stow Dufour, March-May 1859
Folder 105 [Binder 14]: Correspondence of Viola Stow Dufour, June 1859-1860
Folder 106 [Binder 14]: Correspondence of Viola Stow Dufour, 1865-1882
Folder 107 [Binder 14]: Correspondence of Viola Stow Dufour, 1883-1887
Folder 108 [Binder 14]: Correspondence of Viola Stow Dufour, 1889-1900
Folder 109 [Binder 14]: Correspondence of Viola Stow Dufour, 1901-1912
Folder 110 [Binder 14]: Empty envelopes addressed by Viola Stow Dufour, undated
Folder 111 [Binder 15]: Index to Stow-Bledsoe family correspondence
Folder 112 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Julia C. Stow, 1855-1856
Folder 113 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Julia C. Stow, 1857
Folder 114 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Julia C. Stow, January-June 1858
Folder 115 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Julia C. Stow, July-December 1858
Folder 116 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Julia C. Stow, January-April 1859
Folder 117 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Julia C. Stow, May 1859-1860
Folder 118 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Lemuel Bledsoe & Julia C. Stow, 1858
Folder 119 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Lemuel Bledsoe & Julia C. Stow, Jan.-Feb. 1859
Folder 120 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Lemuel Bledsoe & Julia C. Stow, March-May 1859
Folder 121 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Lemuel Bledsoe & Julia C. Stow, June-August 1859
Folder 122 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Julia C. Stow to Lemuel Bledsoe, Sept.-Dec. 1859
Folder 123 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Lemuel Bledsoe & Julia C. Stow, Jan.-Feb. 1860
Folder 124 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Lemuel Bledsoe & Julia C. Stow, March-April 1860
Folder 125 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Lemuel Bledsoe & Julia C. Stow, May 1860-July 1865
Folder 126 [Binder 15]: Correspondence of Lemuel Bledsoe, 1870-1900
Folder 127 [Binder 16]: Index to Horace Stow family correspondence and transcriptions of Horace & Almira Stow letters
Folder 128 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of Horace & Almira Stow, 1841-1845
Folder 129 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of Horace & Almira Stow, 1846-1847
Folder 130 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of Horace & Almira Stow, 1848-1850
Folder 131 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of Horace & Almira Stow, 1851-1880
Folder 132 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of Livia Stow Branham & William Branham, 1859-1871
Folder 133 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of Mary Elizabeth Stow, 1852
Folder 134 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of Abigail Stow, 1848
Folder 135 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of James Howard Stow, 1847-1859
Folder 136 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of Edward Stow, 1851-1858
Folder 137 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of Harriet Stow, 1863
Folder 138 [Binder 16]: Correspondence of William Stow, 1876-1889
Folder 139 [Binder 16 appendix]: Two renditions of Horace Stow’s memoir, 1896
Box 4
Folder 140 [Binder 17]: Index to Dean family correspondence
Folder 141 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of Argus and Abigail Stow Dean, 1870-1877
Folder 142 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of Hiram and Hattie Wells Dean, 1862-1877
Folder 143 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of Hiram and Hattie Wells Dean, 1878-1879
Folder 144 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of Hiram and Hattie Wells Dean, 1880-1882
Folder 145 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of Hiram and Hattie Wells Dean, 1883-1884
Folder 146 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of Hiram and Hattie Wells Dean, 1885-1887
Folder 147 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of Hiram and Hattie Wells Dean, 1888-1901
Folder 148 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of William Dean, 1856-1862
Folder 149 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of Franklin Dean, 1864
Folder 150 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of Mary Livia Dean, 1862
Folder 151 [Binder 17]: Correspondence of Abigail “Abbie” Dean, 1864-1883
Folder 152 [Binder 18]: Index to Dufour family correspondence
Folder 153 [Binder 18]: Correspondence of Frank and Viola Stow Dufour family, 1881-1899
Folder 154 [Binder 18]: Correspondence of Frank and Viola Stow Dufour family, 1900-1923
Folder 155 [Binder 19]: Index to letters of selected correspondents
Folder 156 [Binder 19]: Correspondence of Mary Tatterson, 1855-1859
Folder 157 [Binder 19]: Correspondence of Henry and Thomas Manwaring, 1857
Folder 158 [Binder 19]: Correspondence of Henry Manwaring, 1858-1861
Folder 159 [Binder 19]: Correspondence of Brown and Chamberlain families, 1847-1858
Folder 160 [Binder 19]: Correspondence of Amzi Godden, 1851-1854
Folder 161 [Binder 19]: Correspondence of Amzi Godden, 1857-1860, 1890
Folder 162 [Binder 19]: Correspondence of C. C. Godden, 1856-1860
Folder 163 [Binder 19]: Correspondence of Robert G. Simpson, 1867
Folder 164 [Binder 19]: Correspondence of Robert Quincy, 1859-1874
Folder 165 [Binder 19]: Correspondence of Laura Washer and Solomon Washer, Jr., 1856-1887
Folder 166 [Binder 20]: Index to Civil War correspondents
Folder 167 [Binder 20]: Correspondence of Josiah C Thompson, 1860-1861
Folder 168 [Binder 20]: Correspondence of Josiah C. Thompson, 1862-1863
Folder 169 [Binder 20]: Correspondence of Josiah C. Thompson, 1864-1870
Folder 170 [Binder 20]: Correspondence of Moses Cole, 1862
Folder 171 [Binder 20]: Correspondence of George W. Cole, 1861
Folder 172 [Binder 20]: Correspondence of Jehial D. Hammond, 1861
Folder 173 [Binder 20]: Correspondence of Benjamin S. Bledsoe, 1861-1862
Folder 174 [Binder 20]: Correspondence of John Hall, 1864
Folder 175 [Binder 20]: Correspondence of Phelixe “Felix” Gallagher, 1865
Folder 176 [Binder 20]: Correspondence of R. N. Kirkpatrick, 1862
Folder 177 [Binder 20]: Miscellaneous envelope, c. 1861-1865
Folder 178 [Binder 20 appendix]: Transcribed letters of Josiah C. Thompson, 1860-1870
Folder 179 [Binder 20 appendix]: Transcribed letters of Moses Cole, George W. Cole, Jehial D. Hammond, Benjamin Bledsoe, John Hall, Phelixe Gallagher, and R. N. Kirkpatrick, 1861-1865
Folder 180 [Binder 21]: Index to Miscellaneous papers of Uzziel Stow
Folder 181 [Binder 21]: Receipts and contract with G. W. Winchester, 1840s
Folder 182 [Binder 21]: Receipts, contracts, etc. re: Log Lick Turnpike, 1856-1858
Folder 183 [Binder 21]: Contracts, accounts, etc. re: fairground improvements at Enterprise, Indiana, 1857-1863
Folder 184 [Binder 21]: Miscellaneous receipts, accounts, etc. of Uzziel Stow, 1863-1883
Box 5
Folder 185 [Binder 22]: Deeds and contract of Uzziel Stow, 1823-1833, including photocopies and transcriptions
Folder 186 [Binder 22]: Deeds and land survey notes of Uzziel Stow, 1837-1839, including photocopies
Folder 187 [Binder 22]: Deeds, accounts, etc. of Uzziel Stow, 1840-1848, 1840 will of Jonah Stow, including photocopies
Folder 188 [Binder 22]: Deeds, mortgage, etc. of Uzziel Stow, 1849-1853, including photocopies and transcriptions
Folder 189 [Binder 22]: Deeds, mortgage, etc. of Uzziel Stow, 1856-1859, including photocopies and transcriptions
Folder 190 [Binder 23]: Deeds, guardian report, etc. of Uzziel Stow, 1860-1864, including photocopies and transcriptions
Folder 191 [Binder 23]: Deeds, receipts, etc. of Uzziel Stow, ca. 1866-1879, including photocopies and transcriptions
Folder 192 [Binder 23]: Deeds, receipts, etc. of Uzziel Stow, 1880-1895, including photocopies
Folder 193 [Binder 23]: Uzziel Stow bank checks and revenue stamps, 1882-1888
Folder 194: Mitchell’s Map of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois & Michigan, 1839
Folder 195: Road logs of Uzziel Stow and Catharine Manser Stow, 1851
Folder 196: Road log and memoranda of Livia Hayward Stow, 1851
Folder 197: Diary of Uzziel Stow, Catharine Manser Stow, and Baron Stow, January 1854-June 1859
Folder 198: Diary of Uzziel Stow, January 1856-May 1857
Folder 199: Diary of Uzziel Stow, January 1858-April 1859
Folder 200: Diary of Uzziel Stow, January 1860-January 1861
Folder 201: Diary of Uzziel Stow, January-December 1861
Folder 202: Diary of Uzziel Stow, January 1862-January 1863
Folder 203: Diary of Uzziel Stow, January-December 1863
Folder 204: Diary of Uzziel Stow, January 1864-January 1865
Folder 205: Diary of Uzziel Stow, February 1866-May 1867
Folder 206: Diaries of Uzziel Stow, June 1867-July 1868, April 1872-May 1890, SanDisk drive
These files are restricted to in-house viewing. Please see the reference desk or email gro.l1714717592aciro1714717592tsihn1714717592oslif1714717592@hcra1714717592eser1714717592.
Folder 207: Diary of Uzziel Stow, June 1867-July 1868
Folder 208: Diary of Uzziel Stow, April 1872-October 1874
Folder 209: Diary of Uzziel Stow, November 1874-May 1876
Folder 210: Diary of Uzziel Stow, October 1877-December 1881
Folder 211: Diary of Uzziel Stow, January 1882-December 1884
Folder 212: Diary of Uzziel Stow, January 1885-May 1890
Box 6
Folder 213: Diary and accounts of Uzziel Stow, July 1868-October 1870
Folder 214: Diary and accounts of Uzziel Stow, October 1870-March 1872
Folder 215: Accounting memoranda of Uzziel Stow, 1857-1860
Folder 216: Accounting and other memoranda of Uzziel Stow, 1859-1860
Folder 217: Accounting and other memoranda of Uzziel Stow, ca. 1860-1865
Folder 218: Accounting and other memoranda of Catharine Manser Stow and Uzziel Stow, 1862-1879
Folder 219: Account book of Hiram Stow, Loring Stow, Uzziel Stow, and Catharine Stow, September 1853-May 1891
Folder 220: Diary of Loring Stow, January-December 1854, including transcription
Folder 221: Diary of Loring Stow, January-December 1858, including transcription
Folder 222: Account and memoranda book of Loring Stow, September 1858-March 1859
Folder 223: Account book of Loring Stow, January-April 1860
Folder 224: Diary of Baron Stow, January-December 1860
Folder 225: Diary of Baron Stow, January-December 1861
Folder 226: Diary of Baron Stow, January-July 1864, including transcription
Folder 227: Diary of Josiah Thompson, March-September 1861, including transcription
Folder 228: Accounting memoranda of Viola Stow Dufour, ca. late 1860s
Folder 229: Accounting memoranda of Francis (Frank) R. Dufour, 1894
Folder 230: Sawyer’s record book, 1860
Folder 231: “Revival Hymns” booklet, undated
Folder 232: A Stowtown songbook, compiled in 2016-2017
Folder 233: Notes on “The Student’s Offering”
Folder 234: “The Student’s Offering,” January 1853, including photocopies and transcription
Folder 235: “The Student’s Offering,” ca. January-February 1853, including photocopy and transcription
Folder 236: “The Student’s Offering,” ca. early 1853, including photocopies and transcriptions
Folder 237: “The Student’s Offering,” ca. March 1853, including photocopies and transcriptions
Folder 238: Student essays attributed to Hiram Stow and Loring Stow, ca. 1852-1855, including photocopies and transcriptions
Folder 239: Student essays unsigned, ca. 1850s, including photocopies and transcriptions
Folder 240: Latin exercise of Hiram Stow, ca. Fall 1853
Folder 241: Loring Stow’s list of students involved in revolt at Indiana Asbury, Fall 1856
Folder 242: Elizabethtown Female Seminary catalogs, 1857-1859
Folder 243: Elizabethtown Female Seminary address by Rev. Thomas Spencer, 1857, photocopy
Subject Headings
Abrams, Robert Rodgers, 1831-1919.
African American cooks.
African American children.
African Americans – Employment.
Aging.
Alabama – History – Civil War, 1861-1865.
Allen, Mary A. Wells, 1838-1920.
Anti–Catholicism.
Antislavery movements.
Antislavery movements – Kansas.
Arkansas – History – Civil War, 1861-1865.
Arkport (N.Y.).
Agricultural exhibitions – Indiana.
Agricultural laborers.
Agriculture – California.
Agriculture – Illinois.
Agriculture – Indiana.
Agriculture – Kansas.
Agriculture – Nebraska.
Agriculture – New York (State) – Steuben County.
Alcoholism – Indiana.
Armstrong, Irvin, 1841-1884.
Artists – Indiana.
Bee culture.
Bledsoe, Julia C. Stow, 1843-1865.
Bledsoe, Lemuel, 1832-1906.
Boardinghouses – United States.
Bonham, Thomas, b. ca. 1838.
Booksellers and bookselling.
Braden, Andrew D., 1835-1919.
Branham, Emma, 1841-1924.
Brown, Maggie R.
Bruner, John B., 1828-1913.
Building stones – Indiana.
Business enterprises – Indiana.
Business enterprises – Ohio – Cincinnati.
Calloway, Thomas B. (Thomas Bond), 1841-1905.
Cameras – United States.
Canning and preserving.
Cattle.
Cattle herding.
Children – 19th century.
Cholera – Indiana.
Christians – Indiana.
Christians – Ohio – Cincinnati.
Christians – New York.
Christmas – 19th century.
Churches – Indiana – Design and construction.
Cincinnati Observatory (Ohio).
Cincinnati (Ohio) – Social life and customs.
Cincinnati Rover Guards.
Circuit riders – Indiana.
Clark, Betsy Maria, 1839-1864.
College students – Indiana.
College students – Ohio.
College students – Ohio – Societies, etc.
Commerce – United States.
Confederate States of America.
Consumer goods.
Copperhead movement.
Coppock, William J., 1835-1912.
Courtship – Indiana – 19th century.
Courtship – Kansas – 19th century.
Courtship – New York – 19th century.
Courtship – Ohio – 19th century.
Crime and criminals – Ohio.
Cycling.
Dairy cattle – Indiana.
Deal, David.
Dean, Harriet “Hattie” Wells, 1849–1917.
Death – Psychological aspects.
Dentistry – Indiana.
Depressed persons.
Desertion and non-support.
Diphtheria.
Diseases – Indiana.
Diseases – Ohio – Cincinnati – 19th century.
Diseases – New York – 19th century.
Divorce.
Domestic animals – Infancy.
Doty, Lucinda Hyde, 1794-1876.
Droughts – Indiana.
Drugs – United States.
Drugs – Overdose.
Dufour, Belle, 1883-1979.
Dufour, Viola Stow, 1841-1912.
Education, Secondary – Indiana.
Education, Higher.
Elderly poor.
Elections – Indiana.
Elizabethtown Female Seminary (Elizabethtown, Ohio).
Falls of the Ohio (Ky. and Ind.) – Navigation.
Farm equipment – Indiana.
Farm equipment – Illinois.
Farmers’ College.
Fayette County (Ind.) – Description and travel.
Fire insurance.
Fires – Indiana.
Flatboats.
Floods – Kentucky – Gallatin county.
Floods – Mississippi River.
Floods – Ohio River Valley.
Foster children.
Fourth of July celebrations.
Fraud.
Free African Americans.
Freezes (Meteorology).
Funeral rights and ceremonies.
German Americans – Indiana.
Gleason, Isabella, b. ca. 1840.
Gold mines and mining – California.
Gold mines and mining – Colorado.
Graham, Angeline Manser Slawson, 1821-1897.
Graham, Clifford Clayton, 1861-1948.
Graham, Ida Mae, 1864-1956.
Granville Female Seminary (Granville, Ohio).
Greensburg (Ind.) – Description and travel.
Gristmills – Indiana.
Guerrillas – Confederate States of America.
Hannegan, James D., 1837-1887.
Hanover College.
Harrison, Griffith, b. ca. 1830-1832.
Hay trade.
Hickman, Robert Best, 1840-1863.
Horses – Indiana.
Hot air balloons.
Housekeeping – Indiana.
Hunting – Indiana.
Hyde, William, 1764-1822.
Hyde, Delinda, 1821-1889.
Hyde, Mary, b. 1830.
Hyde, Calvin Clarke, 1832-1874.
Hyde, Milton Avery, 1818-1899.
Hydrotherapy.
Indiana – Description and travel.
Indiana – History – Civil War, 1861-1865.
Indiana Asbury University (Greencastle, Indiana).
Indians of North America.
Infants – Weaning.
Inheritance and succession.
Invitation cards.
Irish Americans – Indiana.
Iron industry and trade.
Jackson, Melissa, b. ca. 1839.
John Shillito & Co. (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Jones, Samuel Jefferson, 1827-1883.
Kansas – Emigration and immigration – History.
Kansas – History – 1854-1861.
Kansas – History, Military – 19th century.
Kansas – Politics and government – 1854-1861.
Keckeler, Mary Adelia Manser, 1832-1923.
Keckeler, Theophilus Turner, 1829-1898.
Kentucky – History – Civil War, 1861-1865.
Land speculation – Ohio River Valley.
Land titles – Indiana.
Lane, James Henry, 1814-1866.
Legal documents – Indiana.
Lewis, Cornelia A., 1845-1928.
Lightning rods.
Lookout Mountain (Appalachian Mountains).
Major, Lydia Hyde, 1797-1877.
Hurlbut, Mary Ann Major, 1824-1905.
Malin, Harriet Manser Seymour, 1815-1891.
Malin, Joseph, 1793-1877.
Manser, Augusta, 1850-1934.
Manser, Edward, 1840-1872.
Manser, Ella, 1852-1932.
Manser, Fannie Caffee, 1848-1929.
Manser, Judith Hyde, 1788-1871.
Manser, Mary Elizabeth Barrett, 1815-1910.
Manser, Theodore, 1847-1876.
Manser, William, 1808-1874.
Maps – 19th century.
Medical instruments and apparatus – 19th century.
Mental illness – 19th century.
Marriage.
McCulloch, Clara Eugenia, 1843-1860.
Methodist Church – Social life and customs.
Methodists – Clergy.
Methodists – Indiana.
Methodists – California.
Middle West – Emigration and immigration.
Minstrel music.
Moores Hill College.
Morgan, John Hunt, 1825-1864.
Mormons – Education.
Music teachers – Indiana.
Musical instruments.
New Year – United States.
New York – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Public opinion.
New York (State) – Politics and government, 1775-1865.
North Western Christian University (Indianapolis, Ind.).
Ohio Female College.
Orchards – Indiana.
Panama – Description and travel.
Parent and child.
Parent and adult child.
Parenting.
Parsonages – Indiana.
Patent medicines.
Pets.
Photography – 19th century.
Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869.
Physicians – Indiana.
Pike’s Opera House (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Pioneers – Indiana.
Pioneers – West (U.S.)
Plant varieties.
Postal service – Indiana.
Postal service – United States.
Practical jokes.
Presbyterian Church – Indiana.
Presidents – United States – Election – 1856.
Presidents – United States – Election – 1860.
Presidents – United States – Election – 1868.
Professions – United States.
Psychiatric hospitals – Ohio.
Public opinion.
Quakers – Indiana.
Quilts.
Race relations – Ohio.
Railroad accidents.
Railroads – 19th century.
Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877).
Religious gatherings – Indiana.
Rental housing – Ohio – Cincinnati.
Revivals – Indiana.
Revivals – Ohio.
Ricker, Benjamin J., Jr., b. ca. 1840.
Ricker, Rosella, 1842-1898.
Riots – Ohio – Cincinnati.
River boats.
Roads – Indiana.
Robbins, Irvin, 1839-1911.
Rural-urban migration.
Sage, Henry L., b. ca. 1847.
Sawmills.
Schools – Kentucky – Boone County.
Schools – Indiana.
Schools – Ohio.
Sewing.
Seymour, Oliver E., 1850-1922.
Seymour, William Newton, 1844-1920.
Sex role.
Shannon, Wilson, 1802-1877.
Sharp, Olive Hyde, 1802-1838.
Shaw, Anna Howard, 1847-1919.
Shaw, William C., 1833-1874.
Sheep.
Shurtleff College (Alton, Ill.)
Sibling rivalry.
Singing schools – Indiana.
Slavery – Alabama.
Slavery – California.
Smith, Catharine Winchester, 1856-1909.
Songbooks.
Sons of Malta.
Spring Grove Cemetery (Cincinnati, Ohio).
Southern states – Social life and customs.
Stow, Almira Kingsley, 1811-1866.
Stow, Baron, 1847-1864.
Stow, Catharine Manser, 1811-1899.
Stow, Hiram, 1835-1853.
Stow, Horace, 1805-1898.
Stow, Livia Hayward, 1784-1858.
Stow, Loring B., 1838-1860.
Stow, Shelomith, 1819-1901.
Stow, Uzziel Hayward, 1809-1890.
Stowe, Harriet Beecher, 1811-1896.
Student-administrator relationships.
Student housing – Indiana.
Sugar crops – Indiana.
Sumner, Edwin V. (Edwin Vose), 1797-1863.
Swine.
Teachers – Kentucky – Boone County.
Teachers – Indiana.
Telephone.
Temperance – California.
Temperance – Indiana.
Temperance – Ohio.
Tennessee – History – Civil War, 1861-1865.
Theater – Indiana.
Thompson, Josiah C., 1841-1930.
Throat – Cancer – Patients.
Tobacco.
Traditional medicine.
Transportation accidents – United States.
Tuberculosis.
Turkeys.
Typhoid fever.
Typhus fever.
U.S. Coast and Geodetic Survey.
United States. Army. Indiana Cavalry Regiment, 3rd (1861-1865).
United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 50th (1861-1865).
United States. Army. Indiana Infantry Regiment, 52nd (1862-1865).
United States. Army. Indiana Infantry, 140th (1964-1965).
United States. Army. Indiana Light Artillery Battery, 2nd (1861-1865).
United States. Army. Ohio Calvary Regiment, 7th (1862-1865).
United States. Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen, and Abandoned Lands.
United States. Fugitive slave law (1850).
United States. Navy – Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865.
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Medical and sanitary affairs.
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Medical care.
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Religious aspects.
United States – History – Civil War, 1861-1865 – Women.
United States – Politics and government – 1865-1877.
Washington (D.C.) – Description and travel.
Water – Health aspects.
Weather.
Weaving – New York (State).
Wedding anniversaries – Indiana.
Wedding anniversaries – New York.
Weddings – Indiana.
Weddings – Ohio.
Wells, Edward P., 1844-1904.
Wells, Emma A., b. 1851.
West Milton (Ohio) – Social life and customs.
Whaling – Massachusetts.
Wigs.
Wills.
Winchester, Claribel, 1864-1952.
Winchester, George Washington, 1823-1893.
Winchester, Olive Manser, 1823-1901.
Women – Education.
Women – Education – Kentucky.
Women household employees.
Women’s clothing.
Yancey, William Lowndes, 1814-1863.
