The Kindred Curator

I adore old newspapers. Whether I’m looking for an ancestor or researching something for work, I always find something intriguing. This week was no exception. I especially love advertisements. They really give me a sense of what life was like during a certain time period. Case in point…this 1895 advertisement for French Crepons. That’s not what initially caught my eye, but being me, I had to look it up to see precisely what kind of fabric it was. Crepon is…

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In a small, rural community of southeastern Indiana lived a pioneer farmer – William Warder Hamilton. “Warder” migrated to Decatur County from Kentucky in the fall of 1842, where he purchased a hundred-acre farm in Clinton Township. Uncle Warder, as the local citizens lovingly referred to him, was a consummate businessman and farmer throughout his life. When he died in 1907 at the ripe old age of eighty-five, he still owned the first land he bought in 1842, and he…

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