Barnhart mss., 1813-1962
Summary Information
Repository
Lilly Library (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Lilly Library
Indiana University
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Creator
Barnhart, John D. (John Donald), 1895-1967.
TitleBarnhart mss., 1813-1962
Collection No.
LMC 1057
Extent
706 items
Language
Materials are in English
Abstract
Consists of the papers of John Donald Barnhart, 1895-1967, professor of history at Indiana University.
Access Restrictions
This collection is open for research.
Biographical Note
Born September 22, 1895, in Decatur, Illinois; son of John D. and Effie Frances (Clothier) Barnhart; A.B. degree, 1916, Illinois
Wesleyan University; A.M., 1919, Northwestern University; Ph.D., Harvard University, 1930, under the direction of Arthur Meier
Schlesinger and disciple of Frederick Jackson Turner; appointed as teaching assistant at University of Minnesota, 1920-1921
and Harvard 1924-1925; head of department of history at Nebraska Wesleyan University 1921-1923; associate professor of history
at Indiana University 1925-1926; associate professor of history at West Virginia University 1926-1933; head of social science
department at West Liberty State Teachers College, 1934-1936; associate professor of history at Louisiana State University
1936-1941; associate professor of history at Indiana University in 1941, appointed professor in 1946; chairman 1948-1953;
professor emeritus, 1965-1967; editor
Indiana Magazine of History, 1941-1955; historical contributions include numerous articles, book reviews, and four books,
Henry Hamilton and George Rogers Clark in the American Revolution in the West (1951),
Valley of Democracy: the Frontier Versus the Plantation in the Ohio Valley (1953),
Indiana: From Frontier to Industrial Commonwealth (4 vols., 1954), co-authored with Donald F. Carmony, and
Indiana: the Hoosier State (1959, rev. 1963), co- authored with Donald F. Carmony, et al.; chairman of Indiana Territorial Sesquicentennial Commission,
1950; member of American, Southern, and Mississippi Valley Historical Associations; member of the executive committee of the
MVHA 1942-1946; member of its Board of Editors 1954-1956; president of Indiana History Teachers' Association 1947-1948; president
of Indiana Historical Society 1957-1959; member of its executive committee 1949-1967; during World War II chairman of Indiana
War History Commission; in 1950's and 1960's served as a member of Advisory Committee on History to the Secretary of the Navy;
member of the Bloomington, Indiana, Rotary; married Zella Marie Petty, January 3, 1917; children, John Dale (deceased), Frank
Alvin, Frances Mary (Zorn); died December 25, 1967, Bloomington Hospital, Bloomington, Indiana, and buried in Decatur, Illinois.
Scope and Content Note
The Barnhart mss., consist of letters from and to eminent American historians, professors, educators, politicians, publishers,
archivists, and friends, and material for his publications which includes letters from Ninian Edwards to Isaac Shelby, 1813-1814;
notes and copy of 1860 census of Salt Creek township, Jackson County, Indiana; letters from steamboat captain, James A. Payne,
to his step-daughter, Mrs. Katherine F. Sterrett, 1864-1878, on the unsettled conditions which prevailed in Louisiana after
the Civil War. They were printed in an article entitled "Reconstruction on the Lower Mississippi" in the
Mississippi Valley Historical Review, XXI, no. 3 (December, 1934), pp. 387-396.
There is also a World War I diary by Georgia Elizabeth Finley 1873-1943, a dietitian and former Indiana University faculty
member in the Home Economics Department, who served with the American Red Cross in France in the Vosges Mountains from December,
1917 to February 1919; financial reports, notes, and minutes of Indiana War History Commission 1943-1951; and microfilms of
material relating to the Old Northwest in other repositories as follows: (1) Godlove Stein Orth letters, Library of Congress
and Indiana State Library. (2) Thomas Worthington papers, 1801-1827, Library of Congress. (3) "Slavery, inconsistent with
justice and good policy" by D[avid] Rice, published Lexington, Kentucky, 1792 (4)
Kentucky Gazette, 1791 Oct.-Nov. and 1792, Jan.-April, Library of Congress. (5) George Rogers Clark papers, 1766-1782, Jan. 12 and 1782, Jan.
17-1810, Dec. 9, Missouri Historical Society. (6)
Centinel of the North- Western Territory, 1793-1796, Ohio Historical Society, Columbus, and Philosophical Society of Ohio, Cincinnati. (7) Haldemand papers and documents
of early and mid-eighteenth century (in French), Canadian Public Archives. (8) Jonathan Jennings letters, Indiana State Library.
(9)
Scioto Gazette, 1800, July 11-1802, Oct. 2, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio.
Note on Indexing Term - "World War, 1939-1945": During World War II Barnhart served as the chairman of the Indiana War History
Commission. There are
financial reports, notes, and minutes of the Commission dated 1943-1951.
The collection also contains a few printed items
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Indexing Terms
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Names
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Barnhart, John D. (John Donald), 1895-1967.
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Barnhart, John D. (John Donald), 1895-1967 --Correspondence.
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Edwards, Ninian, 1775-1833 --Correspondence.
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Shelby, Isaac, 1750-1826 --Correspondence.
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Finley, Georgia Elizabeth, 1873-1943 --Correspondence.
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Administrative Information
Acquisition Information
Acquired: 1968
Usage RestrictionsPrior arrangements are not necessary before coming to the Library, however,
patrons from out of town are encouraged to communicate with the Library in
advance of their visits to ascertain availability of materials.
Photocopying permitted only with permission of the Curator of Manuscripts, Lilly
Library.
Preferred Citation
[Item], Barnhart mss., Lilly Library, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
Processing InformationProcessed by Austin Alexander.
Completed in 2012
Box 1
Correspondence, 1813-1938
Box 2
Correspondence, 1939-1962
Box 3
WWI Diary of Georgia Elizabeth Finley, 1917-1919
Box 4
Notes, Photographs and other Printed materials
Box 5
Microfilms
Box 6
Postcards collected by Georgia Elizabeth Finley during World War I in France