Collection ID: LMC 2210
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Summary

Creator:
Champ, George W.
Abstract:
The Champ mss., 1836-1931, consists of the papers of Indiana physician, businessman, and postmaster George W. Champ, 1830-1905.
Extent:
6 Boxes (5 standard, 1 custom)
Language:
Materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

[Item], Champ mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

Background

Biographical / Historical:

Dr. George W. Champ was born February 6, 1830, in Botetourt County, Virginia and married Elizabeth Ann Nation on January 4, 1983. He was an Indiana physician, businessman, and postmaster.

He was appointed postmaster in New Lisbon, Indiana on September 20, 1861 and enrolled in the 106th regiment of the Indiana Minute Men in 1863. In 1864, after being mustered out on July 15, 1863, Dr. Champ was commissioned as first assistant surgeon in the 139th regiment of the Indiana volunteers. He mustered out after 100 days, on Sept. 29. Shortly thereafter, on October 11, he was licensed as a physician at New Lisbon, Indiana.

The details of Dr. Champ's medical education and practice are not known. His papers provide only an undated memorandum book of medical notes as evidence of his medical career. However, he was licensed as a physician in New Lisbon, Indiana on October 11, 1964 and in Dublin, Indiana on September 18, 1865. Dr. Champ was also an accomplished businessman, a postmaster of New Lisbon, Indiana, and an activist for prohibition. He died May 19, 1905.

Scope and Content:

The Champ mss., 1836-1931, are papers of George W. Champ, 1830-1905, Indiana physician, businessman, and postmaster.

Included in the collection are a bound list of taxpayers of Dublin, Indiana, 1868-1869; unbound minutes of the Dublin town board, Feb. 10-July 29, 1879; papers, 1880-1905, of the Dublin agricultural company, manufacturers of agricultural machinery, consisting of undated bylaws, an 1899 assessment sheet, an 1889 report, assignments of patents for agricultural machinery, 1880- 1886, 1880 bills pasted in a merchants account book, May 1, 1836- Apr. 15, 1861, etc.; undated bylaws of the Wayne agricultural company; minutes of the Dublin natural gas company, no. 2, Jan. 18-Apr. 25, 1889; bound minutes of the board of trustees of the United Brethren in Christ, Dublin, Ind., June 11, 1930-Feb. 9, 1931, unbound minutes, Sept. 22, 1930, and Feb. 23, May 2 and 19, 1931, and correspondence, 1888-1889; bound minutes and a membership list, Jan. 3, 1901-Apr. 6, 1905, and unbound papers, consisting of programs, etc., 1897-1906, of the Dublin, Indiana, local of the Woman's missionary association of the radical United Brethren in Christ of the White River conference; bound minutes of the Woman's Christian temperance union of Dublin, Indiana, Dec. 4, 1883-Feb. 3, 1893, and unbound minutes, Dec. 20, 1892, and Jan. 3-Apr. 18, 1894; a bound volume of financial records of the Indiana junior prohibition home guards, including a membership list, Aug. 30, 1891-Feb. 27, 1896; bound minutes, Nov. 20, 1888-July 12, 1893, and an undated constitution of the Jackson township prohibition club, [Wayne county, Ind.]; correspondence, 1888-1908, with relatives and friends relating to the national election of 1888, politics in Michigan, 1888, Virginia, 1894, and Kansas, 1897, opposition to freemasons, 1889, and the passage of a liquor law in Michigan, 1888; and an undated memorandum book containing medical notes, etc.

The first folder in Box 1 of the collection contains biographical material.

Acquisition information:
Gift: 1962
Arrangement:

This collection is organized into five series: I. Correspondence & Writings; II. Legal Documents & Printed Materials; III. Volumes; IV. Photographs; V. Miscellaneous.

Physical location:
Lilly - Stacks

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Champ mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.

CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
1200 East Seventh Street
Bloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
CAMPUS:
Indiana University Bloomington
CONTACT:
(812) 855-2452
liblilly@indiana.edu