Scope and Content Records of the Society such as minutes from meetings (1895-1970) and lists of holdings; ledgers, journals, and records of such early explorers and residents of the area as Captain Josiah Bartlett of Portsmouth, New Hampshire, John Brownfield, William Burnett, Marvin Campbell, Lathrop Minor Taylor, Horatio Chapman, Schuyler Colfax, Alexis Coquillard, and Alonzo Delano, a merchant from Mishawaka; records of local companies, including S. Hanna & Co., T.B. Roberts & Co., and George Wyman...

Scope and Content

Civil War Records recounting the war and post-war activities of Saint Joseph County residents; with correspondence of soldiers, including Lt. Col. Alfred B. Wade and Schuyler Colfax; the records of various Saint Joseph county war offices, including registers of the sick, wounded and dead; and records of activities of several Indiana infantry regiments, among them the 73rd Indiana Infantry (1862-1924).