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TopicAccession #Description Summary
ChautauquaMC General File: Newsletter of the North Manchester Historical Society, Inc. 

Newsletter of the North Manchester Historical Society, Inc., Volume XXVI, Number 3, August 2009, article by John Knarr.

Chautauqua

 
History: Indiana, Town of North Manchester and LocalMC2009/34 

Author, Theodore Dreiser, visited North Manchester during the summer of 1915.  His observations of the community were included in his autobiography, "A Hoosier Holiday."  John Knarr writes about Dreiser's family and includes material on the Snap/Snepp/Sheneb/Shenep/Schneb/Schnebb family as well as on the Fruit family.

A second article, "A Trip to Niagara Falls, 1925," was discovered among papers donated to the North Manchester Center for History by Descendants of Ellis and Harold Miller. 

 
Town of North Manchester: PayrollMU2012/35 John Knarr, North Manchester historian, researched the three largest employers in North Manchester; Manchester College, the Public Schools and Peabody Seating Factory.  This information was obtained in 1940- Jobs and Wages as reported in the 1940 U.S. Census.  The 1940 Census report was released to the public on 2 April 2012, 72 years after it was taken. 
Town of North Manchester: Smith, Frances and FamilyMC2008/07 

Smith, Frances:

Frances Smith, Manchester College alumni, Class of 1923, and her historical North Manchester family.

 
 


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