Scope and Content: Petition to the United States Congress from George Shannon of Jefferson County, Indiana, dated November 1812. Shannon describes the threats and dangers of living on the frontier in the Indiana Territory,...
William Maxwell Blackburn was born in Carlisle, Indiana on 30 December 1828. He graduated from Hanover College with a B.A. and A.M. in 1850 and 1854, respectively. Blackburn attended Princeton Theological Seminary from...