Collection ID: LMC 1566
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Summary

Creator:
Judah, Samuel, 1798-1869 and Judah, Samuel Brandon, 1846-1928
Abstract:
The Judah mss., 1787-1927, consists of the papers of Samuel Judah, 1799-1869, lawyer of Vincennes, Indiana, and members of his family, particularly of his son, Samuel Brandon Judah, 1845-1928, stock raiser of Vincennes, Indiana.
Extent:
2 Boxes, 1 folio, and 1 folio (oversize)
Language:
Materials are in English .
Preferred citation:

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

Background

Biographical / Historical:

Samuel Judah, 1798-1869, was an Indiana lawyer and politician. He was born in New York City on July 18, 1798, the son of Samuel Bernard Judah and his wife Catherine Hart. He received a B. A. from Rutgers College in 1816, the first Jewish person to do so, and was admitted to the bar at New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1818. In 1818 or 1819 Judah moved to Vincennes, Indiana where he was admitted to practice as an attorney in the Supreme Court of Indiana. He married Harriet Brandon of Corydon, Indiana on June 22, 1825. Judah served as a member of the Indiana House of Representatives from 1827-29 and 1837-41; U. S. District attorney for Indiana from 1829-33; and Speaker of the House in 1840. He died on April 24, 1869, in Vincennes, Indiana.

Samuel Brandon Judah, 1845-1928, was a stock raiser and farmer from Vincennes, Indiana. He was born on December 26, 1845, the eldest surviving son of Samuel Judah and Harriet Brandon. He attended Vincennes College for several years before spending one year at the Rensselaer Institute and finishing his studies at the Polytechnic Institute in Pennsylvania, where he graduated in 1865. Judah was then named an assistant assessor of internal revenue for the First District of Indiana, and he would eventually become the Deputy Internal Revenue Collector for Indiana. He married Emily C. Burnet on November 15, 1871, and they had two sons. In addition to his work collecting internal revenue, Judah also worked as a farmer, stock raiser, and real estate agent. He died on September 21, 1928 in Vincennes, Indiana.

Scope and Content:

The papers in this collection consist of biographical and genealogical material on the Judah family, law office correspondence, political correspondence, deeds, letters and papers concerning the management of real estate belonging to the Judah family, family letters, bills, receipts, and shares of stock.

Included are a farm ledger, 1827-1856, of Samuel Judah; typescript copies of three papers by Samuel Judah: "The history of Vincennes," "The Origin of the Masonic Society," and "The Guilds"; typescript copy of a "Journal of Trip from New York to Vincennes and Return in 1827" by Samuel Bernard Judah, father of Samuel Judah, which was published in the Indiana Magazine of History XVII (1921), pages 338-352; two papers, "Burnet Heights" and "Legends of Vincennes" by Samuel Brandon Judah, son of Samuel Judah. Forms printed by Elihu Stout and two receipts signed by him are in the collection.

Correspondents include: Cyrus McCracken Allen, Conrad Baker, Cromwell Woolsey Barbour, Isaac Blackford, George Boon, Ratliff Boon, John Bouvier, John A. Brackenridge, Joseph Blair Carnahan, Willard Carpenter, John M. Clark, Henry Clay, Richard Andrew Clements, Henry P. Coburn, James Collins Jr., Joseph Hutchins Colton, John D. Defrees, Demas Deming, Joseph Ketchum Edgerton, Abner T. Ellis, Elisha Embree, Edward Everett, James Farrington, Robert Henry Fauntleroy, Calvin Fletcher, James Abram Garfield, Curtis Gilbert, Willis Arnold Gorman, Samuel Henderson, William Hendricks, Elisha Mills Huntington, Andrew Jackson, John M. Judah, Noble Brandon Judah, Samuel Judah, Samuel Benjamin Helbert Judah, Samuel Brandon Judah, Amory Kinney, Henry Smith Lane, James Franklin Doughty Lanier, Samuel Merrill, Morton & Smith, Horatio C. Newcomb, William Ellis Niblack, Harriet Noble, Lazarus Noble, Noah Noble, Mrs. Mary Jane (Robinson) Owen, Robert Dale Owen, William Owen, Benjamin Parke, Samuel Wilson Parker, Lewis Baldwin Parsons, Charles Bingham Penrose, John Pettit, Sheridan P. Read, Addison Locke Roache, John Stuart Skinner, Caleb Blood Smith, Thomas L. Smith, Milton Stapp, Alphonso Taft, Lewis Tappan, John Palmer Usher, James Whitcomb, and Asa Whitney.

Acquisition information:
Purchase: n.d.
Arrangement:

This collection is arranged following original order.

Physical location:
ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility) - OVFlat; ALF (Auxiliary Library Facility); Lilly - Folio

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PREFERRED CITATION:

[Item], Judah 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