High School Diploma, Bluffton, Indiana, Nellie Elizabeth Mason, 1891

Sermons, diaries and subject files including correspondence, biographical information, photographs and files relating to the International Order of Good Templars. A run of the Hoosier Methodist newspaper, for which Rev. Backus served as editor, was separated from the collection. Sermons in the collection are a sample selected from the original accession. The collection is divided into five series: subject files, sermons, diaries, photographs and oversize items.