Series 3 - John and Annie Gass letters

298pp

Kerby A. Miller created transcripts of the Gass Letters from photocopies provided by PRONI. The original manuscripts are held by PRONI [reference number D1396].

Materials pertaining to the John and Annie Gass letters, which consists of two letters, one written in 1868 by John Gass to his brother, and another written in 1872 by Annie Gass to a friend. Both letters were sent to Markethill, County Armagh. John Gass was from near Milltown, County Armagh and emigrated in 1828, settling in Attica, Indiana, where he would eventually become Mayor and a successful businessman. Annie Gass, his niece, emigrated sometime around 1873 and joined John Gass in Indiana.
The series contains: typed and handwritten transcripts of the letters; photocopies of the original letters; photocopied pages from secondary sources related to Indiana; biographical research and Kerby A. Miller's research notes; a copy of Historical Sketches of the Wabash Valley, by J. Wesley Whicker (1916), reprinted by Attica Potawatomi Festival Committee in 1976; census research; photocopied and typed transcripts of newspaper clippings; abstracts of the letters and other letters in the larger Gass family collection held in PRONI; and Miller's correspondence with researchers, librarians, the Fountain County Historical Society, and the Warren County Historical Society.