The Andrew Wylie Family Letters - Indiana University Bloomington

Fiske, Rev. George. Pastor of Episcopal Church in Richmond, Indiana 1838-1855, died February 1860.
Flack, James. Nephew of John Anderson, grandson of Dr. John Anderson for whom Andrew and Margaret named
their eleventh child.
Foster, Dr. William C. b. 1798 Maryland; Bloomington physician.
Gorman, Willis Arnold. 1814 -1876. Born Flemingsburg, Kentucky. Died St. Paul Minnesota; educated at home;
admitted to the bar 1834; graduate of Indiana University Law Dept 1845; served several terms in Indiana Legislature;
first Governor of Minnesota.
Gwathmey, Isaac Benjamin “Ben”. 1822-1856. Native of Shelbyville, Kentucky; graduate of Indiana University
1842, and Harvard Law School; gaining reputation as an outstanding lawyer when he died.
Hamill, Dr. Robert. b. 1809 Ohio; Bloomington physician, later moved to Chicago.
Helton, Michael “Mike”. Native of Heltonville, Indiana; an Indiana University junior in 1851, non-graduating
classmate of Anderson Wylie.
Hight. probably Milton Hight. b. 1823 Bloomington, Indiana; 1847 graduate of Indiana University Law Dept; for
some years a merchant, and then a miller (his father’s business); also a Justice of the Peace, Treasurer of Indiana
University 1862-67; married Sarah McCalla of Bloomington.
Hughs, Rev. Levi. Pastor of Presbyterian church in Bloomington 1847-1851; married Amanda Maxwell, daughter of
Indiana University Trustee David Maxwell.
Hume. Probably David Hume McDonald; Indiana University graduate 1852, classmate of Anderson Wylie; M.D.
from University of Louisville; Louisville physician and Methodist preacher.
Ingersoll, Mr. Overseer of Lihue sugar plantation where John stayed while in Sandwich Islands.
Jenkes, Joseph Sherburne. b. 1804 Providence, Rhode Island d. 1888 Terre Haute, Indiana; lawyer of Vigo County,
Indiana; Trustee of Indiana University 1841-1852.
Johnston, George H. b. 1798 Virginia; Bloomington merchant, owner of dry goods store patronized by the Wylies.
Jullien, Paul. Famous young violinist. see 5/2/54
King Kamehameha III of Hawaii. 1814-1854. King of Hawaii 1825-1854; promulgated Hawaii’s first constitution
in 1840, obtained diplomatic recognition of Hawaiian independence by US, France, and Great Britain. see 12/21/54
Know Nothings. A greatly increasing rate of immigration to the United States beginning in the 1840s encouraged
U.S. citizens’ nativism. Anti-immigration organizations grew up particularly in Eastern and Southern states, but
efforts to learn something of the leaders and designs of the political movement were answered with “we know
nothing.” By 1850 they had discarded the secrecy format and formed the American party. Dissolved over slavery by
1860.
Lathrop, John Hiram. 1799-1866. Fourth President of Indiana University, 1859-1860. Lathrop was born in
Sherburne, New York, 22 January. Salutatorian of his graduating class at Yale in 1819. Taught in various colleges
in the East. Elected first President of the University of Missouri at Columbia in 1840. Chancellor of University of
Wisconsin 1849-1859. Accepted the twice-offered presidency of IU in 1859, but after only one year he returned to
the University of Missouri as a professor, and later was reelected president there. Lathrop died of typhoid fever.
Leake, Catherine Ritchie “Aunt Kate”. 1804-1858. Born Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. Died 1858 in Bloomington;
sister of Margaret Ritchie Wylie; married Rev. Samuel Leake of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania.
Leake, Rev. Samuel S. From Canonsburg, Pennsylvania; married Margaret Wylie’s sister Catherine Ritchie.
Leeds, Kate. Elder sister of John Wylie’s wife Lizzie
Leeds, Lizzie. Native of Richmond, Indiana; a Quaker; married John H. Wylie spring 1851; one daughter, Irene; d.
24 March 1856 of tuberculosis.
Leeds, Noah S. Richmond, Indiana; brother of John Wylie’s wife Lizzie Leeds Wylie.
Letherman (Letterman), Anne “Cousin Annie”. Daughter of Jonathan and Anne Letherman.
Letherman, Anne Ritchie “Aunt Anne”. 1798-1870. Sister of Margaret Ritchie Wylie. Married Dr. Jonathan
Letherman, physician of Canonsburg, Pennsylvania. An ardent secessionist in 1863, as was her son Will. Son Jack
was an officer in the Union Army.
Letherman, Dr. Jonathan “Jack”. Son of Dr. Jonathan Letherman, a physician of Cannonsburg, Pennsylvania, and
Anne Ritchie Letherman, a sister of Margaret Ritchie Wylie. Doctor of medicine and an officer in the Union forces
during the Civil War at Antietam and other battles. Petitioned Congress for formation of the first Army Ambulance
Corps, which was refused at first but finally granted in 1864. He turned to private mining business in California after
the war.
Letherman, Mary. Daughter of Jonathan and Anne Ritchie Letherman; cousin to the Wylie children.
Letherman, Will. Son of Johathan and Anne Ritchie Letherman; cousin to the Wylie children.
Lib “Cousin Lib, Cousin Liz”. Daughter of John and Ellen Ritchie.
Lind, Jennie. 1820-1887; famed operatic soprano dubbed “the Swedish nightingale”; toured U.S. in 1850 under
sponsorship of P. T. Barnum; see 11/4/50, 5/2/51.
Locofocus. 1836-formed faction of the Democratic Party favoring a strict hard money policy; condemned Jackson’s
soft money policy and closure of the National Bank; named for the matches they used to light their meetings.
Maime “Mary”. Daughter of Samuel and Maggie Wylie Martin.
Marshall, Charles. b. 1830 Warrenton, Virginia; graduate of University of Virginia; Indiana University Professor of
Mathematics 1849-1852; “though a young man when he came to Bloomington, and boyish in his appearance, he soon
commanded the respect of all, students, professors and citizens, by his courteous manner, his scholarship, and his
aptness to teach.” (T A Wylie, Indiana University, Its History, p. 116).
Martin, Margaret “Maggie” Wylie. 1826-1898. Born in Washington Pennsylvania, the eighth child of Andrew
and Margaret Ritchie Wylie. Married Rev. Samuel Martin 17 May 1849 in a double wedding with her sister Irene
and Joseph Bell. Accompanied her husband as a missionary to Ningpo, China 1850-1858. Samuel and Maggie
continued to serve the church after their return, in Lancaster, Texas; Carlisle, Indiana; Grandview Illinois; Winnebago
Indian Agency, Nebraska; South Mound and Oswego, Kansas; Sullivan, Indiana; and Mt. Vernon, Missouri.
Everywhere they worked for very low pay and with few material comforts. Maggie was mother of seven, four of
whom where born in China. Maggie died of a paralytic stroke in Seligman, Missouri and is buried there. Her son
Claudius lived in nearby Joplin, Missouri.
Martin, Samuel Newell Depeu. Born 11 January 1825 at Livonia, Indiana, son of Presbyterian preacher Billy
Martin and Susan Lawson Martin. A.B. from Indiana University in 1846, and A.M. from McCormick Presbyterian
Theological Seminary in New Albany, Indiana. Samuel became a Presbyterian minister, as did his two brothers
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