[Genealib] Publication Profiles Significant Individuals From the First 50 Years of Seymour, Indiana

[Sellers, Charlotte]

Saving Seymour Stories: Tales From the First 50 Years is a new 52-page publication of the Seymour Museum, Inc., in Jackson County, Indiana. The tales are "retold" by Charlotte Sellers, museum board member who also is the Jackson County Historian.
 
Copies are $19.99 each plus $5 postage and handling. Checks payable to the Seymour Museum, Inc., may be mailed to Charlotte Sellers, Local History Specialist, Jackson County Public Library, 303 West 2nd Street, Seymour IN 47274. Email csellers at myjclibrary.org. Phone 812.522.3412 ext 240. 
 
More About the Publication:
 
Profiles gleaned from newspaper reports, government records and other sources give chronological personal perspectives on events from Seymour's founding at the planned crossing of two railroads to the town's development through the 1890s. Proceeds from the publication support the museum which has been organized to continue telling the story of the south central Indiana city of Seymour.
 
Featured are Meedy and Eliza Ewing Shields, founders; Travis Carter, a carpenter who with his wife, Esther Killey, bought the first lot and built a contracting business while participating in manufacturing ventures for a half-century; Dr. Jasper R. Monroe, a physician and surgeon whose newspaper recorded both local community life and his personal development as a leader in the national Freethinkers movement; Monroe's friend, Mayor Samuel W. Holmes; and the Hon. Jason B. Brown, an eloquent and controversial lawyer (accused by "private eye" Allan Pinkerton of protecting the notorious Reno Gang headquartered in the Seymour area) seen as a mercenary who changed political parties for personal gain and as "a true friend of Seymour." 
 
Charlotte Sellers
Local History Specialist
Jackson  County Public Library
303 West 2nd Street
Seymour IN  47274
Voice 812.522.3412 ext 240
Email csellers at myjclibrary.org
 
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