Collection context
Summary
- Creator:
- Graham, Robertson, 1795-1885
- Abstract:
- The Graham mss., 1844-1874, consists of the papers of Robertson Graham, 1795-1885, farmer and frontiersman of Monroe County, Indiana.
- Extent:
- 1 folio
- Language:
- English .
- Preferred citation:
[Item], Graham mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Background
- Biographical / Historical:
Robertson Graham, 1795-1885, the eldest son of Thomas and Jane (Cloyd) Graham, was born on 7 November 1795 in Kentucky. As early as 1814, the Graham family settled in what became Monroe County, Indiana. A member of the National Party, Graham fought in the battle of New Orleans in 1815 and settled in what would later become Bloomington, Indiana, in 1818. He kept a hotel in Bloomington for many years. In August 1821, he married Phebe Moberly, 1784-1846. In 1849, he married widow Sabina Loughmiller Horner, 1810-1893. He had seven children by his first marriage and two by his second. Graham died on 14 June 1885.
Biographical material on Robertson Graham is found in Charles Blanchard, ed., Counties of Morgan, Monroe, and Brown, Indiana ... (Chicago, 1884), p. 604; The Republican Progress (Bloomington, Ind.), p. 3, col. 5.
- Scope and Content:
The papers in the collection consist of an account book of Graham and Sutherland, merchants of Ellettsville, Indiana, May 10, 1844-1852; land grants to Robertson Graham and William Graham in the district of lands subject to sale at Clariton, Iowa, 1856; a fragment of a letter relating to the Morgan raid written by Joseph Loughmiller in [1863]; mortgages to and by Robertson Graham, 1864-1865; and Monroe County, Indiana, tax receipts to Robertson Graham, 1874.
- Acquisition information:
- Gift: 1954
- Arrangement:
This collection is arranged following original order.
- Physical location:
- Lilly - Folio
Access
- RESTRICTIONS:
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- TERMS OF ACCESS:
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- PREFERRED CITATION:
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[Item], Graham mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- LOCATION OF THIS COLLECTION:
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1200 East Seventh StreetBloomington, Indiana 47405-5500, USA
- CAMPUS:
- Indiana University Bloomington
- CONTACT:
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(812) 855-2452liblilly@indiana.edu