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