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Ewing, Thomas, 1789-1871.

Family papers, 1815-1905.

35.5 linear feet.

5 linear inches of photographs.

"Guide to the Microfilm Edition of the Thomas Ewing, Sr., Papers" (Univ. of Notre Dame Archives, 1967). Item list.

U.S. Senator from Ohio, Secretary of the Treasury in the Harrison and Tyler administrations, and Secretary of the Interior in the Taylor administration. Philemon Beecher Ewing of Lancaster, Ohio, an Ohio Supreme Court judge, was his son. John G. Ewing, professor at the University of Notre Dame and lawyer, was his grandson.

Correspondence, letters, books, ledgers, and docket book of Thomas Ewing; correspondence of his wife Maria (Boyle) Ewing; letters and papers of Philemon B. Ewing, his sisters, his wife, Maria Rebecca (Gillespie) Ewing, and members of her family: her sister Eliza Maria Gillespie (i.e., Mother Angela), her brother, Neal Gillespie, her mother, Madeline Miers Phelan, and her stepfather, William Phelan. Also Phelan estate papers, diaries, sermons by Father Neal Gillespie, correspondence and business papers (1835-1896) of John G. Ewing, and photographs.

Available in microfilm (6 reels) for purchase from University of Notre Dame Archives, 607 Hesburgh Library, Notre Dame, IN, 46556. The Ewing Family Papers were acquired from the estate of John G. Ewing following his death in 1927.

EWI : CEWI; GEWI; MEWI


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