Washington Charles DePauw family papers
Collection Statement
This collection contains information, arranged in alphabetical order, on the DePauw family. There is also a copy of the DePauw will included with a DePauw family genealogy. In addition, there is a copy of the "Fifteenth Anniversary of Ordination to the Priesthood" by Rev. Dr. Gommar A. DePauw. Finally, there are 2 volumes of 'de Pauw' family history.
Dates
- 1834 - 2009
Access Restrictions
Collection is open for research.
Usage Restrictions
Copyright interests for this collection are held by DePauw University.
Biographical Sketch
Born in Salem, Indiana, Washington C. DePauw entered the working world at age 16 upon the death of his father. Some 25 years later, his investments in real estate and government bonds, along with ownership of such enterprises as woolen, flour and saw mills, iron-working plants, railways, and the American Plate Glass Works, yielded him an annual income said to be the largest in Indiana. Although his life was marred by much personal tragedy, Mr. DePauw was undaunted in his devotion to social causes, the church and education. Through his will he had planned to establish in a metropolitan setting a major university that would bear his name. However, the trustees of Indiana Asbury University, of which he also was a trustee and from which two of his sons graduated, persuaded him instead to commit certain funds (eventually totaling about $700,000), his energies, and his name to the institution in rural Greencastle. Arrangements were completed on January 17, 1884, Indiana Asbury University became DePauw University.
Extent
0.61 Cubic Feet (2 document cases, 2 volumes)
Language of Materials
English
See also
Ambrotype of The DePaw House hotel believed to be in New Albany, Ind., DC 1789, Cased Image 16
Letter of Mrs. H. M. Burham in Oxnam file 1930-1931
Records of the Joint Board of Trustees and Visitors of DePauw University
re. papers of 1882-1884 which show various actions when DePauw gave
money for the endowment of Indiana Asbury University.Methodist Review, Vol. 72, 1890, pp. 383-398, “Washington Charles DePauw” By John Clark Ridpath
Oxnam file 1928-1929, DePauw Family folder
Photographs - See picture file
Poucher scrapbook Volume VI, pg. 101-seq. “Several pages of testimonials to W. C. DePauw”
“The Dream of Washington C. DePauw” by George B. Manhart, The DePauw Magazine, Vol. XXIV, No. 1, Winter 1959-1960
Chapel Address by Dr. George B. Manhart “Some Past Benefactors” January 6, 1960
Putnam County Banner, January 12, 1865 for short article on W. C. DePauw
being the richest man in the state.
Glass ruler with "DePauw" etched on it. Used by the DePauw Plate Glass Works as advertising. Given to Dr. A. W. Crandall by Dr. W. M. Blanchard. Located as artifact number 985.123.1, in container DC 2077.
Folder in D.C. under Dr. G. B. Manhart for “Nineteenth Century River Town”
By V. M. Bogle - tells of Washington C. DePauw in New Albany
Dr. Clifton Phillips states there is a good deal of material on DePauw Plate Glass
factories in these references: U.S. Tariff Commission, Testimonies of W. C. DePauw
House Documents, or 1885 or 1886, N. T. DePauw
See the book “The History of the Ohio Falls Cities” Call No. 977.2 H 67
for article on the DePauw Plate Glass Works of New Albany, Ind.
Plan for DePauw Plate Glass Works: Oversize Drawer 21, Item #10
Clara Barton and Dansville ... compiled with the approval of the Clara Barton
Chapter No. 1 of the American National Red Cross. Privately published 1966.
Pg. 395-415 for DePauw material
Hoosier Genealogist, pg. 63, Vol. 7, No. 5, Bartholomew County Probate Records,
1821-1829
Michael O’Brien document case #514 and microfilm nos. 218 & 418
Greencastle Woman’s Club for paper “W. C. DePauw and his Greencastle
Houses” written by Winona Welch Man 5, 1971
Wildman Correspondence, letters to and from H. DePauw, 1951
DC 230, Folder 12 “D Miscellaneous”
Humbert Correspondence, letter from H. DePauw to Jerome Hixson;
Letter from Hixson to Humbert re Wildman, DC 252, Folder 1
“Correspondence - Miscellaneous “D-F”
Haffner, Gerald O. The Glass Industry of New Albany, New Albany, Ind.;
Indiana University Southeast Bookstore, 1982
TP853.I6H34
- Title
- Washington C. DePauw family papers Benefactor
- Status
- Completed
- Author
- Sheraya Smith
- Date
- 2/22/2018
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Code for undetermined script
- Language of description note
- Description is in English.
Repository Details
Part of the Archives of DePauw University and Indiana United Methodism Repository
Roy O. West Library
405 S. Indiana St.
Greencastle Indiana 46135 United States
archives@depauw.edu
