History; County government; Pioneers; Families; Farm life; Farming;
Mr. McCormick describes his work as an "An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with an Extended Survey of Modern Developments in the Reclamation of Lands and the Progress of Town and Country".
View is of a two-story brick building on corner of Rail Road Street and Clark, downtown Colfax, IN. Clark Street entrance/stairway leads up to Masonic Hall – Plumb Lodge No. 472. The Colfax Bank entrance faces R. R. St.
Picture is of the first brick Christian Church building constructed in Midway (Old Town), now known as Colfax, IN. View also shows a house on far left and a barn, far right.
Picture shows downtown Colfax, looking to the east on Railroad Street; turn-of-the-century stores, shops, business buildings, horse & cart, and sidewalk gas pumps.
View includes frame building of Tink Thompson's Blacksmith Shop, frame building (far left); left, unidentified man; center, Tink Thompson; right, Maude (Ball) Thompson, wife.
Colfax, Schuyler, 1823-1885; Presidents--United States--Correspondence; United States--Politics and government--1873
Handwritten letter from President Grant to Schuylar Colfax, who had served as his Vice President during Grant's first term of office. Colfax served as Vice Presidentuntil March 3, 1873. The letter was written on Grant's inauguration of his second...
