The Resource Ewing family collection
Ewing family collection
Resource Information
The item Ewing family collection represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
Resource Information
The item Ewing family collection represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Indiana State Library.
This item is available to borrow from 1 library branch.
- Summary
- This collection comprises personal and business papers from the Ewing family, particulraly the brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing and their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana and numerous other locations in the Midwest, ranging from 1818-1887, regarding land speculation; the fur trade; trade and relations with Native Americans and Hoosier pioneers; the settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest; the development of Fort Wayne; state and national politics; and internal improvements. The bulk of the collection encompasses the Ewing brothers' correspondence, accounts, receipts, legal documents, indentures, and other papers related to their business interests (1825-1866). Papers concerning the "Indian trade" include correspondence, letterbooks, and accounts relating to their trade with the Potawatomi and Miami peoples in northern Indiana and Kansas (1820s-1850s), the Sac and Fox Nation in Wisconsin and Iowa (1840s-1850s), the Menominee tribe in Wisconsin (1850s), the Winnebago, Ottawa and Chippewa, and Sioux peoples in Minnesota (1850s-1860s), and the Osage and Shawnee peoples in Missouri and Kansas (1840s-1850s). There are also papers relating to legal agreements and land purchases between the Ewings and various Native individuals; the Ewing brothers' involvement in Indian removal in Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota during the 1820s-1850s; as well as their correspondence with the U.S. commissioners for Indiana Affairs and other federal officials concerning federal policy toward Native peoples, the activities of federal Indian agents, and the Ewings' and other traders' claims against individual Native Americans (1820s-1850s). W.G. Ewing's letters from Washington, D.C. about his lobbying on behalf of Indian traders (1840s-1850s) and the Ewings' account books, including ledgers for their trading posts in St. Peters, Minnesota (1845-1847) and Westport, Missouri (1852-1865), also contain pertinent information with regards to the Ewings' relations with Native Americans in the West.The remaining business records for W.G. and G.W. Ewing Company constitute correspondence, letterbooks, and accounts concerning fur trading operations in Indiana, Michigan and the West during the 1820s-1850s; correspondence and accounts with their agent in the East, Suydam, Sage and Company of New York (1825-circa 1850); papers relating to their competition and agreements with the American Fur Company and Pierre Chouteau and Company (1820s-1850s); and correspondence concerning the fur markets in England and Germany. Other papers, such as correspondence, deeds, receipts, indentures, and volumes of plat maps and lists of sale, concern the brothers' real estate ventures, including the Ewings' property in Fort Wayne and northern Indiana, Chicago, Missouri, and St. Paul and Winona, Minnesota (1820s-1860s); the Wabash and Erie Canal and the canal lands purchased by the brothers (1830s); and the Ewing Addition in Fort Wayne (1823-1859). Other materials in the collection comprise correspondence and accounts for their general merchandise business in northern Indiana; correspondence relating to state and national politics (1820s-1850s); family correspondence, especially about family finances (1820s-1880s); receipts and other items concerning personal expenses; and the business papers of their father, Alexander Ewing, regarding his trade business in Fort Wayne (1818-1827).The remaining papers concern the administration of the Ewings' estates (1854-1889) by the estate agent, Byrum D. Miner, and executors William A. Ewing and G.W. Ewing's son-in-law, Jesse Holladay, after the death of W.G. in 1854 and G.W. in 1866, including correspondence, accounts, and letterbooks, particularly regarding the settlement of accounts and the management of the family property in the Midwest.Large oversize materials in the collection comprise a W.G. and G.W. account sheet with J. Byrne, Jr. (1854); a list of W.G. and G.W. Ewing's heirs concerning their joint Washington, D.C. property (1868); two abstracts of title for Josette Beaubieu's reserve (1853, 1859); hand-drawn plan maps of Ewing property in Wabash and Fort Wayne, Indiana; Chicago and Cairo City, Illinois; and along Lake Superior in Minnesota; a sectional map of Kansas Territory, as well as maps of Delaware lands in Kansas owned by the Leavenworth Pawnee and Western Railroad Company and the Winnebago agency in Minnesota (circa 1830s-1860s); and newspaper sheets (1848-1863). Full sheets of newspapers, originally used to wrap and transport the Ewings' business papers, include the following publications by state: Illinois: Chicago Daily Democrat (May 18, 1854); Chicago Daily Tribune (May 19, 1854); Daily Chicago Journal (December 28,1854); Cairo City Weekly Gazette (March 5, 1863; April 9, 1863)Indiana: Fort Wayne Times (July 27, 1848; February 15, 1849; September 19, 1850); Fort Wayne Times & People's Press (February 24, 1848; April 27, 1853; May 4, 1853); Wabash Gazette and Intelligencer (January 2, 1862)Kansas: Kansas Public Ledger (April 25, 1851; May 23, 1851; June 6, 1851; June 13, 1851)Maryland: Baltimore Sun (July 21, 1851; August 19, 1853)Minnesota: Saint Paul Pioneer (December 20, 1862); Mankato Weekly Record (May 9, 1863); Winona Daily Republican (June 8, 1863)Missouri: St. Louis Republican (February 12, 1848); St. Louis Weekly Reveille (May 14, 1849)New York: New York Herald (May 4, 1849; April 2, 1853; June 28, 1854); New York Tribune (September 9, 1854)Washington, D.C.: The National Intelligencer (July 16, 1850; March 10, 1855); The Republic (April 17, 1851); The Daily Globe (July 17, 1852; August 6, 1852; August 7, 1852)Wisconsin: Superior Chronicle (April 12, 1862)
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Extent
- 57.0 Cubic feet
- Note
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- Three-fourths of the Ewing family collection was calendared during the 1920s-1930s. The resultant card catalog, which contains item-level entries listed by date and person's name, is available for browsing on-site in the Manuscripts reading room. The uncalendared portion of the collection largely comprises the Ewing family estate papers (1866-1880s)
- Processing Information: Collection processing completed 2016/12/22 by Brittany Kropf. EAD finding aid created 2016/12/28 by Brittany Kropf
- Label
- Ewing family collection, 1818-1889
- Title
- Ewing family collection
- Inclusive dates
- 1818-1889
- Subject
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- Sauk Indians
- Accounts
- Adoption
- Advertisements
- Allen County (Ind.)
- American Fur Company
- Avaline, James
- Bank notes
- Bearrs, Daniel, 1809-1884
- Boarding schools
- Bond, Charles
- Bond, Lavinia Anna, 1835-1910
- Bourie, John B
- Brenton, Samuel, 1810-1857
- Bright, Jesse D., (Jesse David), 1812-1875
- Bright, Michael G., (Michael Graham), 1803-1881
- Broadsides
- Buel, Alexander Woodruff, 1813-1868
- Business
- Business enterprises
- Businessmen -- Indiana
- Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902
- Cadastral maps
- California -- Gold discoveries
- Canals
- Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866
- Catholics
- Checks
- Cherokee Indians
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Cholera
- Chouteau, Pierre, 1789-1865
- Chute, Richard
- Cincinnati (Ohio)
- Circulars
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
- Clippings
- Cole, A. A., (Alphonso Albert), 1818-1862
- Contracts
- Coquillard, Alexis, 1795-1855
- Correspondence
- Council Bluffs (Iowa)
- Crawford, Thomas Hartley, 1786-1863
- Cumberland Road
- Dakota Indians
- Death
- Deeds
- Delaware Indians
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Diseases
- Dowling, Thomas, 1806-1876
- Dry-goods
- Education
- Ewing Chute & Co
- Ewing Edsall & Co
- Ewing Walker & Co
- Ewing family
- Ewing family,
- Stout, Elihu, 1786-1860
- Studebaker, Mary Louisa
- Students
- Sturgis, Charles E
- Sturgis, Louise Ewing
- Sturgis, William
- Sweetser, Madison, 1809-1875
- Taber, Cyrus
- Telegrams
- Texas
- Texas -- Annexation to the United States
- Textiles
- Tipton, John, 1786-1839
- Travel
- Travel costs
- Tyler, John, 1790-1862
- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
- W.G. & G.W. Ewing Co
- Wabash and Erie Canal (Ind. and Ohio)
- Walker, Lavinia Ewing
- Walkter, George B
- Washington (D.C.)
- Webber, Charles W., (Charles Wilkins), 1819-1856
- Whig Party (U.S.)
- Winnebago Indians
- Wyandot Indians
- Ewing, Alexander H, 1803-1847
- Ewing, Alexander, 1769?-1827
- Ewing, Catharine Esther
- Ewing, Charles Wayne, 1798-1843
- Ewing, Charlotte F
- Ewing, Charlotte Griffith, 1780-1843
- Ewing, Esther Bearss, 1809-1871
- Ewing, George Washington, 1803-1866
- Ewing, George Washington, 1841-1872
- Ewing, Harriet Bourie
- Ewing, Oliver H, 1831-1861
- Ewing, William A
- Ewing, William Griffith, -1854
- Ewing, William Griffith, 1830-1866
- Families
- Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
- Findlay, Charles
- Fire insurance policies
- Fish, Charles
- Fitch, Graham N., (Graham Newell), 1809-1892
- Fort Wayne & California Mining Association
- Fort Wayne (Ind.)
- Fox Indians
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Fur trade
- Fur traders
- Godfroy, Gabriel, 1783-1848
- Godfroy, John F
- Godfroy, William
- Gold mines and mining
- Governors -- Indiana
- Governors -- United States
- Green Bay (Wis.)
- Hamilton, Allen, 1798-1864
- Hannah, Samuel, 1789-1869
- Hanover College
- Holladay, Jesse
- Holladay, Lavinia Harriet, 1837-1906
- Hood, Susan
- Hood, William N, 1891-1838
- Illinois
- Indian Removal, 1813-1903
- Indiana -- Politics and government
- Indianapolis (Ind.)
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America -- Treaties
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
- Jesuits
- Johnson, John, -1817
- Kansa Indians
- LaFountain, Francis
- Laframboise, Joseph
- Land speculation
- Lasselle, Hyacinth, 1777-1843
- Lea, Luke, 1783-1851
- Leavenworth (Kan.)
- Leclerc, Pierre
- Legislative bills
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Logansport (Ind.)
- Lyttle, William
- Maps
- Marcy, William L., (William Learned), 1786-1857
- McCarty, Jonathan
- McClelland, Robert, 1807-1880
- Menominee Indians
- Merchants
- Meshingomesia, Chief, 1782-1879
- Miami Indians
- New York (N.Y.)
- Newspapers
- Noel, Smallwood
- Noel, Sophia C
- North Providence (RI : Town)
- Ojibwa Indians
- Olmstead, Daniel
- Oregon Territory
- Osage Indians
- Oshkosh, Chief, 1795-1858
- Ottawa Indians
- Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877
- Pamphlets
- Parks, Joseph, 1925-
- Pepper, Abel C, 1793-1860
- Peru (Ind.)
- Pettitt, John, 1807-1877
- Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869
- Piqua (Ohio)
- Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851
- Politicians -- Indiana
- Politicians -- United States -- 19th century
- Polk, James K., (James Knox), 1795-1849
- Potawatomi Indians
- Presidential candidates
- Presidents -- Election
- Presidents -- United States
- Quapaw Indians
- Real estate investment
- Real estate management
- Real estate management -- Indiana
- Real property
- Report cards
- Richardville, Jean Baptiste, 1761-1841
- Robinson, Solon, 1803-1880
- Saint Louis (Mo.)
- Saint Paul (Minn.)
- Salt Lake City (Utah)
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Santa Fe (N.M.)
- Account books
- Serial publications
- Shawnee Indians
- Sioux Nation
- Slocum, Frances, 1773-1847
- Smith, Oliver H., (Oliver Hampton), 1794-1859
- Language
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- eng
- eng
- Summary
- This collection comprises personal and business papers from the Ewing family, particulraly the brothers William Griffith (W.G.) and George Washington (G.W.) Ewing and their companies in Fort Wayne, Indiana and numerous other locations in the Midwest, ranging from 1818-1887, regarding land speculation; the fur trade; trade and relations with Native Americans and Hoosier pioneers; the settlement of Indiana and the Old Northwest; the development of Fort Wayne; state and national politics; and internal improvements. The bulk of the collection encompasses the Ewing brothers' correspondence, accounts, receipts, legal documents, indentures, and other papers related to their business interests (1825-1866). Papers concerning the "Indian trade" include correspondence, letterbooks, and accounts relating to their trade with the Potawatomi and Miami peoples in northern Indiana and Kansas (1820s-1850s), the Sac and Fox Nation in Wisconsin and Iowa (1840s-1850s), the Menominee tribe in Wisconsin (1850s), the Winnebago, Ottawa and Chippewa, and Sioux peoples in Minnesota (1850s-1860s), and the Osage and Shawnee peoples in Missouri and Kansas (1840s-1850s). There are also papers relating to legal agreements and land purchases between the Ewings and various Native individuals; the Ewing brothers' involvement in Indian removal in Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota during the 1820s-1850s; as well as their correspondence with the U.S. commissioners for Indiana Affairs and other federal officials concerning federal policy toward Native peoples, the activities of federal Indian agents, and the Ewings' and other traders' claims against individual Native Americans (1820s-1850s). W.G. Ewing's letters from Washington, D.C. about his lobbying on behalf of Indian traders (1840s-1850s) and the Ewings' account books, including ledgers for their trading posts in St. Peters, Minnesota (1845-1847) and Westport, Missouri (1852-1865), also contain pertinent information with regards to the Ewings' relations with Native Americans in the West.The remaining business records for W.G. and G.W. Ewing Company constitute correspondence, letterbooks, and accounts concerning fur trading operations in Indiana, Michigan and the West during the 1820s-1850s; correspondence and accounts with their agent in the East, Suydam, Sage and Company of New York (1825-circa 1850); papers relating to their competition and agreements with the American Fur Company and Pierre Chouteau and Company (1820s-1850s); and correspondence concerning the fur markets in England and Germany. Other papers, such as correspondence, deeds, receipts, indentures, and volumes of plat maps and lists of sale, concern the brothers' real estate ventures, including the Ewings' property in Fort Wayne and northern Indiana, Chicago, Missouri, and St. Paul and Winona, Minnesota (1820s-1860s); the Wabash and Erie Canal and the canal lands purchased by the brothers (1830s); and the Ewing Addition in Fort Wayne (1823-1859). Other materials in the collection comprise correspondence and accounts for their general merchandise business in northern Indiana; correspondence relating to state and national politics (1820s-1850s); family correspondence, especially about family finances (1820s-1880s); receipts and other items concerning personal expenses; and the business papers of their father, Alexander Ewing, regarding his trade business in Fort Wayne (1818-1827).The remaining papers concern the administration of the Ewings' estates (1854-1889) by the estate agent, Byrum D. Miner, and executors William A. Ewing and G.W. Ewing's son-in-law, Jesse Holladay, after the death of W.G. in 1854 and G.W. in 1866, including correspondence, accounts, and letterbooks, particularly regarding the settlement of accounts and the management of the family property in the Midwest.Large oversize materials in the collection comprise a W.G. and G.W. account sheet with J. Byrne, Jr. (1854); a list of W.G. and G.W. Ewing's heirs concerning their joint Washington, D.C. property (1868); two abstracts of title for Josette Beaubieu's reserve (1853, 1859); hand-drawn plan maps of Ewing property in Wabash and Fort Wayne, Indiana; Chicago and Cairo City, Illinois; and along Lake Superior in Minnesota; a sectional map of Kansas Territory, as well as maps of Delaware lands in Kansas owned by the Leavenworth Pawnee and Western Railroad Company and the Winnebago agency in Minnesota (circa 1830s-1860s); and newspaper sheets (1848-1863). Full sheets of newspapers, originally used to wrap and transport the Ewings' business papers, include the following publications by state: Illinois: Chicago Daily Democrat (May 18, 1854); Chicago Daily Tribune (May 19, 1854); Daily Chicago Journal (December 28,1854); Cairo City Weekly Gazette (March 5, 1863; April 9, 1863)Indiana: Fort Wayne Times (July 27, 1848; February 15, 1849; September 19, 1850); Fort Wayne Times & People's Press (February 24, 1848; April 27, 1853; May 4, 1853); Wabash Gazette and Intelligencer (January 2, 1862)Kansas: Kansas Public Ledger (April 25, 1851; May 23, 1851; June 6, 1851; June 13, 1851)Maryland: Baltimore Sun (July 21, 1851; August 19, 1853)Minnesota: Saint Paul Pioneer (December 20, 1862); Mankato Weekly Record (May 9, 1863); Winona Daily Republican (June 8, 1863)Missouri: St. Louis Republican (February 12, 1848); St. Louis Weekly Reveille (May 14, 1849)New York: New York Herald (May 4, 1849; April 2, 1853; June 28, 1854); New York Tribune (September 9, 1854)Washington, D.C.: The National Intelligencer (July 16, 1850; March 10, 1855); The Republic (April 17, 1851); The Daily Globe (July 17, 1852; August 6, 1852; August 7, 1852)Wisconsin: Superior Chronicle (April 12, 1862)
- Biographical or historical data
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- Alexander Ewing was born May 28, 1769(?) in Pennsylvania. He fought in the American Revolution, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel. Ewing married Charlotte Griffith (1780-1843) and they had several children, including Sophia Charlotte (1796-1867), Charles Wayne (1798-1843), William Griffith (1801-1854), Alexander Hamilton (1803-1847), George Washington (1804-1866), Lavinia (1809-1835), and Louise (1819-1887). Alexander Ewing died in January of 1827 and was buried in Fort Wayne, Indiana.William Griffith (W.G.) Ewing was born to Alexander and Charlotte (Griffith) Ewing on October 18, 1801 in Detroit, Michigan. He made his living as an entrepreneur through real estate speculation and many forms of trade, and lived in Fort Wayne, Indiana from 1822-1854, where he and his brother, George Washington (G.W.) Ewing, were partners in the firm of W.G. and G.W. Ewing Company. W.G. Ewing married Esther Bearss (1809-1871) about 1828 and they had two children: William Griffith, Jr. (1830-1866; born William Griffith Wallace, to William and Hannah Wallace. Last name changed to Ewing upon adoption by W.G. and Esther Ewing) and Charlotte F. (1836-1871). W.G. Ewing was the director of the Fort Wayne branch of the Indiana State Bank and as a member of the Whig Party. He briefly delved into politics, serving as an Indiana state senator from 1838-1841, before unsuccessfully running for office as a U.S. congressman in 1847. W.G. Ewing died on July 11, 1854 and was buried in Fort Wayne, Indiana.George Washington (G.W.) Ewing was born on December 10, 1804 in Monroe, Michigan. He married Harriet Bourie and they had several children, including Oliver H. (1831-1861), Lavinia Harriet (1837-1906), George W., Jr. (1841-1872), Willie G. Ewing (1844-1847), Catharine Esther, and two unnamed infants. G.W. Ewing traveled extensively for business and lived in several locations including Fort Wayne (1822-1830), Logansport in Cass County, Indiana (1830-1839), Peru in Miami County, Indiana (1839-1846), Westport and St. Louis, Missouri (1846-1854), before moving back to Fort Wayne (1854-1866). Like his brother, he served as an Indiana state senator, though for the Democratic Party, from 1836-1840. G.W. Ewing died on May 29, 1866 and was buried in Fort Wayne, Indiana.Lavinia Harriet Ewing was born to G.W. and Harriet Ewing on April 24, 1837 in Logansport, Indiana. She married Jesse Holladay (1825-1907), who later served as an executor of Lavinia's father's estate. Lavinia Holladay died on February 17, 1906 and was buried in Evanston, Illinois. Sources:Items in the collection."Administrator's Notice." Fort Wayne Times, December 21, 1854, 2. Accessed May 13, 2016. http://www.access.newspaperarchive.com.Ancestry.com. "William G. Ewing." 1830 United States Federal Census. Accessed May 13, 2016. http://search.ancestrylibrary.com.Ancestry.com. "William G. Ewing." 1850 United States Federal Census. Accessed May 13, 2016. http://search.ancestrylibrary.com.FindaGrave.com. "Col. Alexander Ewing." Find a Grave Index. Accessed May 13, 2016. http://www.findagrave.com.FindaGrave.com. "George W. Ewing." Find a Grave Index. Accessed May 13, 2016. http://www.findagrave.com.FindaGrave.com. "Lavinia Harriet Ewing Holladay." Find a Grave Index. Accessed May 13, 2016. http://www.findagrave.com.FindaGrave.com. "William G. Ewing." Find a Grave Index. Accessed May 13, 2016. http://www.findagrave.com.
- The Ewing brothers formed the firm of W.G. and G.W. Ewing Company, a trading house in Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana, operating from 1827-1854. The company's activities included fur trading in Indiana, Michigan and the West, in association with the firm of Suydam, Sage and Company of New York (1820s-circa 1850); trading with Native Americans in northern Indiana, Iowa, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Missouri, and Kansas from the 1820s to the 1860s; and general merchandise business in Fort Wayne and other locales in northern Indiana. The company also engaged in real estate investments in Fort Wayne, Chicago, St. Louis, Minnesota, and elsewhere in the Midwest. The brothers also formed several other partnerships with local businessmen, such as Richard Chute in Minnesota, to aid their interests in specific regions.Sources:Items in the collection.Trennert, Robert A., Jr. Indian Traders on the Middle Border: The House of Ewing, 1827-54. Lincoln, NE: University of Nebraska, 1981.
- Cataloging source
- ISL
- Location of other archival material
- Materials relating to this collection may be found in the following collections in Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN: S447: William G. Ewing papersS1825: George W. Ewing papersS2844: William G. Ewing articleL062: Hamilton family papersL160: John Tipton papers
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
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- 1769?-1827
- 1803-1866,
- 1801-1854
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
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- Ewing, Alexander
- Ewing, George Washington
- Ewing, William Griffith
- Miner, Byrum D.
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Ewing family,
- Avaline, James
- Bearrs, Daniel
- Bond, Charles
- Bond, Lavinia Anna
- Bourie, John B
- Brenton, Samuel
- Bright, Jesse D.
- Bright, Michael G.
- Buel, Alexander Woodruff
- Butler, William Allen
- Cass, Lewis
- Chouteau, Pierre
- Chute, Richard
- Clay, Henry
- Cole, A. A.
- Coquillard, Alexis
- Crawford, Thomas Hartley
- Dowling, Thomas
- Ewing family
- Ewing, Alexander H
- Ewing, Alexander
- Ewing, Catharine Esther
- Ewing, Charles Wayne
- Ewing, Charlotte F
- Ewing, Charlotte Griffith
- Ewing, Esther Bearss
- Ewing, George Washington
- Ewing, George Washington
- Ewing, Harriet Bourie
- Ewing, Oliver H
- Ewing, William A
- Ewing, William Griffith
- Ewing, William Griffith
- Fillmore, Millard
- Findlay, Charles
- Fish, Charles
- Fitch, Graham N.
- Godfroy, Gabriel
- Godfroy, John F
- Godfroy, William
- Hamilton, Allen
- Hannah, Samuel
- Holladay, Jesse
- Holladay, Lavinia Harriet
- Hood, Susan
- Hood, William N
- Jackson, Andrew
- Johnson, John
- LaFountain, Francis
- Laframboise, Joseph
- Lasselle, Hyacinth
- Lea, Luke
- Leclerc, Pierre
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lyttle, William
- Marcy, William L.
- McCarty, Jonathan
- McClelland, Robert
- Meshingomesia
- Noel, Smallwood
- Noel, Sophia C
- Olmstead, Daniel
- Oshkosh
- Owen, Robert Dale
- Parks, Joseph
- Pepper, Abel C
- Pettitt, John
- Pierce, Franklin
- Poinsett, Joel Roberts
- Polk, James K.
- Richardville, Jean Baptiste
- Robinson, Solon
- Slocum, Frances
- Smith, Oliver H.
- Stout, Elihu
- Studebaker, Mary Louisa
- Sturgis, Charles E
- Sturgis, Louise Ewing
- Sturgis, William
- Sweetser, Madison
- Taber, Cyrus
- Tipton, John
- Tyler, John
- Walker, Lavinia Ewing
- Walkter, George B
- Webber, Charles W.
- American Fur Company
- Cumberland Road
- Ewing Edsall & Co
- Ewing Chute & Co
- Ewing Walker & Co
- Fort Wayne & California Mining Association
- Hanover College
- Sioux Nation
- W.G. & G.W. Ewing Co
- Wabash and Erie Canal (Ind. and Ohio)
- Whig Party (U.S.)
- Accounts
- Adoption
- Boarding schools
- Business
- Business enterprises
- Businessmen
- California
- Canals
- Catholics
- Checks
- Cherokee Indians
- Cholera
- Dakota Indians
- Death
- Delaware Indians
- Diseases
- Dry-goods
- Education
- Families
- Fire insurance policies
- Fox Indians
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Fur trade
- Fur traders
- Gold mines and mining
- Governors
- Governors
- Indian Removal, 1813-1903
- Indiana
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America
- Jesuits
- Kansa Indians
- Land speculation
- Menominee Indians
- Merchants
- Miami Indians
- Newspapers
- Ojibwa Indians
- Osage Indians
- Ottawa Indians
- Politicians
- Politicians
- Potawatomi Indians
- Presidential candidates
- Presidents
- Presidents
- Quapaw Indians
- Real estate investment
- Real estate management
- Real estate management
- Real property
- Sauk Indians
- Serial publications
- Shawnee Indians
- Students
- Travel
- Travel costs
- Winnebago Indians
- Wyandot Indians
- Allen County (Ind.)
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Cincinnati (Ohio)
- Council Bluffs (Iowa)
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Fort Wayne (Ind.)
- Green Bay (Wis.)
- Illinois
- Indianapolis (Ind.)
- Logansport (Ind.)
- New York (N.Y.)
- North Providence (RI : Town)
- Oregon Territory
- Peru (Ind.)
- Piqua (Ohio)
- Saint Louis (Mo.)
- Saint Paul (Minn.)
- Salt Lake City (Utah)
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Santa Fe (N.M.)
- Texas
- Texas
- United States
- Washington (D.C.)
- Leavenworth (Kan.)
- Label
- Ewing family collection
- Link
- Note
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- Three-fourths of the Ewing family collection was calendared during the 1920s-1930s. The resultant card catalog, which contains item-level entries listed by date and person's name, is available for browsing on-site in the Manuscripts reading room. The uncalendared portion of the collection largely comprises the Ewing family estate papers (1866-1880s)
- Processing Information: Collection processing completed 2016/12/22 by Brittany Kropf. EAD finding aid created 2016/12/28 by Brittany Kropf
- Arrangement
- Arranged in the following series and subseries:Series 1: W.G. and G.W. Ewing and family business papers, 1818-1878Subseries 1.1: General business papers, 1818-1878, undatedSubseries 1.2: Real estate and legal papers, 1824-1889, undatedSubseries 1.3: Fur trade papers, 1827-1861, undatedSubseries 1.4: Papers related to Native Americans, 1825-1863, undatedSeries 2: Ewing family estate papers, 1826-1887Subseries 2.1: Ewing family estate papers, 1826-1866Subseries 2.2: W.G. Ewing estate papers, 1849-1869Subseries 2.3: G.W. Ewing estate papers, 1866-1887, undatedSeries 3: Ewing family personal papers, 1826-1869Series 4: Volumes, 1823-1877Subseries 4.1: W.G. and G.W. Ewing business account books, 1823-1866, undatedSubseries 4.2: Ewing family estate books, 1846-1877, undated
- Carrier category
- unspecified
- Carrier category code
- zu
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- unspecified
- Content type code
- zzz
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 17544985
- Extent
- 57.0 Cubic feet
- Governing access note
- This collection is open for research
- Media category
- unspecified
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- z
- Ownership
- This collection was received by Rare Books and Manuscripts as a donation from Mary C. Ewing on 1922/06/D6.
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn247199250
- (OCoLC)247199250
- Terms governing use
- Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Type of unit
- 74 manuscript boxes, 5 cubic foot boxes, 3 small oversize boxes, 9 large oversize boxes, 17 volumes, 4 large oversize folders
- Label
- Ewing family collection
- Link
- Note
-
- Three-fourths of the Ewing family collection was calendared during the 1920s-1930s. The resultant card catalog, which contains item-level entries listed by date and person's name, is available for browsing on-site in the Manuscripts reading room. The uncalendared portion of the collection largely comprises the Ewing family estate papers (1866-1880s)
- Processing Information: Collection processing completed 2016/12/22 by Brittany Kropf. EAD finding aid created 2016/12/28 by Brittany Kropf
- Arrangement
- Arranged in the following series and subseries:Series 1: W.G. and G.W. Ewing and family business papers, 1818-1878Subseries 1.1: General business papers, 1818-1878, undatedSubseries 1.2: Real estate and legal papers, 1824-1889, undatedSubseries 1.3: Fur trade papers, 1827-1861, undatedSubseries 1.4: Papers related to Native Americans, 1825-1863, undatedSeries 2: Ewing family estate papers, 1826-1887Subseries 2.1: Ewing family estate papers, 1826-1866Subseries 2.2: W.G. Ewing estate papers, 1849-1869Subseries 2.3: G.W. Ewing estate papers, 1866-1887, undatedSeries 3: Ewing family personal papers, 1826-1869Series 4: Volumes, 1823-1877Subseries 4.1: W.G. and G.W. Ewing business account books, 1823-1866, undatedSubseries 4.2: Ewing family estate books, 1846-1877, undated
- Carrier category
- unspecified
- Carrier category code
- zu
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- unspecified
- Content type code
- zzz
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Control code
- 17544985
- Extent
- 57.0 Cubic feet
- Governing access note
- This collection is open for research
- Media category
- unspecified
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
- z
- Ownership
- This collection was received by Rare Books and Manuscripts as a donation from Mary C. Ewing on 1922/06/D6.
- System control number
-
- (OCoLC)ocn247199250
- (OCoLC)247199250
- Terms governing use
- Legal title, copyright, and literary rights reside with Rare Books and Manuscripts, Indiana State Library, Indianapolis, IN. All requests to publish or quote from manuscripts must be submitted to Rare Books and Manuscripts.
- Type of unit
- 74 manuscript boxes, 5 cubic foot boxes, 3 small oversize boxes, 9 large oversize boxes, 17 volumes, 4 large oversize folders
Subject
- Sauk Indians
- Accounts
- Adoption
- Advertisements
- Allen County (Ind.)
- American Fur Company
- Avaline, James
- Bank notes
- Bearrs, Daniel, 1809-1884
- Boarding schools
- Bond, Charles
- Bond, Lavinia Anna, 1835-1910
- Bourie, John B
- Brenton, Samuel, 1810-1857
- Bright, Jesse D., (Jesse David), 1812-1875
- Bright, Michael G., (Michael Graham), 1803-1881
- Broadsides
- Buel, Alexander Woodruff, 1813-1868
- Business
- Business enterprises
- Businessmen -- Indiana
- Butler, William Allen, 1825-1902
- Cadastral maps
- California -- Gold discoveries
- Canals
- Cass, Lewis, 1782-1866
- Catholics
- Checks
- Cherokee Indians
- Chicago (Ill.)
- Cholera
- Chouteau, Pierre, 1789-1865
- Chute, Richard
- Cincinnati (Ohio)
- Circulars
- Clay, Henry, 1777-1852
- Clippings
- Cole, A. A., (Alphonso Albert), 1818-1862
- Contracts
- Coquillard, Alexis, 1795-1855
- Correspondence
- Council Bluffs (Iowa)
- Crawford, Thomas Hartley, 1786-1863
- Cumberland Road
- Dakota Indians
- Death
- Deeds
- Delaware Indians
- Detroit (Mich.)
- Diseases
- Dowling, Thomas, 1806-1876
- Dry-goods
- Education
- Ewing Chute & Co
- Ewing Edsall & Co
- Ewing Walker & Co
- Ewing family
- Ewing family,
- Stout, Elihu, 1786-1860
- Studebaker, Mary Louisa
- Students
- Sturgis, Charles E
- Sturgis, Louise Ewing
- Sturgis, William
- Sweetser, Madison, 1809-1875
- Taber, Cyrus
- Telegrams
- Texas
- Texas -- Annexation to the United States
- Textiles
- Tipton, John, 1786-1839
- Travel
- Travel costs
- Tyler, John, 1790-1862
- United States -- Politics and government -- 19th century
- W.G. & G.W. Ewing Co
- Wabash and Erie Canal (Ind. and Ohio)
- Walker, Lavinia Ewing
- Walkter, George B
- Washington (D.C.)
- Webber, Charles W., (Charles Wilkins), 1819-1856
- Whig Party (U.S.)
- Winnebago Indians
- Wyandot Indians
- Ewing, Alexander H, 1803-1847
- Ewing, Alexander, 1769?-1827
- Ewing, Catharine Esther
- Ewing, Charles Wayne, 1798-1843
- Ewing, Charlotte F
- Ewing, Charlotte Griffith, 1780-1843
- Ewing, Esther Bearss, 1809-1871
- Ewing, George Washington, 1803-1866
- Ewing, George Washington, 1841-1872
- Ewing, Harriet Bourie
- Ewing, Oliver H, 1831-1861
- Ewing, William A
- Ewing, William Griffith, -1854
- Ewing, William Griffith, 1830-1866
- Families
- Fillmore, Millard, 1800-1874
- Findlay, Charles
- Fire insurance policies
- Fish, Charles
- Fitch, Graham N., (Graham Newell), 1809-1892
- Fort Wayne & California Mining Association
- Fort Wayne (Ind.)
- Fox Indians
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Fur trade
- Fur traders
- Godfroy, Gabriel, 1783-1848
- Godfroy, John F
- Godfroy, William
- Gold mines and mining
- Governors -- Indiana
- Governors -- United States
- Green Bay (Wis.)
- Hamilton, Allen, 1798-1864
- Hannah, Samuel, 1789-1869
- Hanover College
- Holladay, Jesse
- Holladay, Lavinia Harriet, 1837-1906
- Hood, Susan
- Hood, William N, 1891-1838
- Illinois
- Indian Removal, 1813-1903
- Indiana -- Politics and government
- Indianapolis (Ind.)
- Indians of North America
- Indians of North America -- Treaties
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
- Jesuits
- Johnson, John, -1817
- Kansa Indians
- LaFountain, Francis
- Laframboise, Joseph
- Land speculation
- Lasselle, Hyacinth, 1777-1843
- Lea, Luke, 1783-1851
- Leavenworth (Kan.)
- Leclerc, Pierre
- Legislative bills
- Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865
- Logansport (Ind.)
- Lyttle, William
- Maps
- Marcy, William L., (William Learned), 1786-1857
- McCarty, Jonathan
- McClelland, Robert, 1807-1880
- Menominee Indians
- Merchants
- Meshingomesia, Chief, 1782-1879
- Miami Indians
- New York (N.Y.)
- Newspapers
- Noel, Smallwood
- Noel, Sophia C
- North Providence (RI : Town)
- Ojibwa Indians
- Olmstead, Daniel
- Oregon Territory
- Osage Indians
- Oshkosh, Chief, 1795-1858
- Ottawa Indians
- Owen, Robert Dale, 1801-1877
- Pamphlets
- Parks, Joseph, 1925-
- Pepper, Abel C, 1793-1860
- Peru (Ind.)
- Pettitt, John, 1807-1877
- Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869
- Piqua (Ohio)
- Poinsett, Joel Roberts, 1779-1851
- Politicians -- Indiana
- Politicians -- United States -- 19th century
- Polk, James K., (James Knox), 1795-1849
- Potawatomi Indians
- Presidential candidates
- Presidents -- Election
- Presidents -- United States
- Quapaw Indians
- Real estate investment
- Real estate management
- Real estate management -- Indiana
- Real property
- Report cards
- Richardville, Jean Baptiste, 1761-1841
- Robinson, Solon, 1803-1880
- Saint Louis (Mo.)
- Saint Paul (Minn.)
- Salt Lake City (Utah)
- San Francisco (Calif.)
- Santa Fe (N.M.)
- Account books
- Serial publications
- Shawnee Indians
- Sioux Nation
- Slocum, Frances, 1773-1847
- Smith, Oliver H., (Oliver Hampton), 1794-1859
Genre
- Pamphlets
- Telegrams
- Textiles
- trueTreaties
- Circulars
- Deeds
- Legislative bills
- trueMaps
- Report cards
- Clippings
- Contracts
- trueCorrespondence
- Account books
- Advertisements
- Bank notes
- Broadsides
- Cadastral maps
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