Manuscript Register

This document describes a collection of materials held by the
Special Collections Department
University of Iowa Libraries
Iowa City, Iowa 52242-1420
Phone: 319-335-5921
Fax: 319-335-5900
e-mail: lib-spec@uiowa.edu

Posted to Internet: March 2003

Acquisition Note: This collection was donated to the University of Iowa Libraries by Miss Frances Flick in 1959.

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Inventory

1. Biography (typewritten form) of Thomas E. Corkhill, born on April 24, 1822. Pioneer Iowa Methodist circuit riding minister (came to Iowa in 1849) teacher, physician; founder of Iowa Wesleyan College, Mount Pleasant; secured passage of law establishing reform schools at Eldora and Mitchellville; chaplain of 25th Iowa Infantry in Civil War.

2. Ledger accounts of Thomas E. Corkhill, treasurer, Iowa Reform School, 1870-1873; Isaac T. Gibson, treasurer, 1868 auditing report signed by J.S. Parvin, President of Reform school 1874; certification by succeeding treasurer

3. Certificate of appointment of Thomas E. Corkhill signed by Governor of Iowa Samuel Merrill as Trustee of the Iowa Reform School

4. Certificate of appointment of Thomas E. Corkhill as trustee of Iowa Reform School signed by Governor John H. Gear, May 2, 1878

5. Land grant to Ford Barnes, September 1, 1851 – 40 acres, Fairfield, Iowa District – Millard Fillmore

6. Land grant to Sally Christy (widow of John Christy) 40 acres, October 2, 1854 – Franklin Pierce

7. Reprint from Oskaloosa Daily Herald, October 26, 1895, by Col. Swalm, entitled “The Iowa Industrial School – The Boy-Saver and Man-Maker of the Reformatory Systems.” Inscribed on the back in pencil “Originated in the heart and mind of my father, Rev. T.E. Corkhill”