Sorry for not responding Bill, but I thought it was such a great idea
that surely you'd be inundated with replies. It sounds great to me, but
then I'm the sort of person who really enjoys such things.
If you're voluntering, just do it! I'll read it --and even save it on
disk. It sounds fascinating on so many different levels. General
history, getting inside someone's head, the Madison connection and the
Indiana General Assembly (I used to work for the Senate) are all reasons
for me to be interested.
If you do a webpage, send us a link.
Judy
Bill Brewer wrote:
Hello, did anyone see this when I originally sent it? Is the listowner
there?
Is anyone there, or does everyone just think this is a dumb idea. Some
comment, please?
Bill
----- Original Message -----
From: Bill Brewer <wwb(a)ix.netcom.com>
To: <INJEFFER-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Monday, July 26, 1999 9:47 PM
Subject: [INJEFFER-L] John Lyle King Diaries
> Has any thought been given to possibly transcribing the John Lyle King
> Diaries
> for the Web? John Lyle King was born in Madison about 1823. In his early
> twenties he began keeping a diary, which grew to eleven volumes. He
studied
> law in Madison under Judge Lyle, an uncle. He also served in the state
> legislature
> in the 1850s, and finally moved to Chicago sometime in the mid-1850s, in
> time to
> be there for the Great Fire. He was present at the meetings which formed
> the
> Republican Party, and for that reason the volumes of his diary covering
that
> period
> are of historical interest. The diaries themselves are in the Indiana
> Historical
> Society Library in Indianapolis. I know that a few pages have been
> transcribed,
> and are in the Genealogy Department of the Madison Library, but it does
seem
> that
> the volumes covering his life in Madison, before moving to Chicago would
be
> of
> great interest to this group.
> Bill
>
>