Hall-Ketcham Family Collection

Donated by: Mr & Mrs Charles Blair

Accession: 1995.001

General Condition of Collection: Good

Morris Hall

Miscellaneous papers and photographs in possession of Elizabeth J. (Betty) Ketcham at her death (1993) and donated by the Blairs who came into ownership of them. Mostly Hall, Barnes & Ketcham family documents, letters and photographs from Stockton, MO; Salem, NJ; Phildelphia, PA; Woodstown, NJ and other various locations associated with family members including Harwood Hall, who worked for Indian Affairs and was posted at various western locations. Also includes limited information on Elizabeth J. (Betty) Ketcham who was an employee of the U S State Department (Information Services). She graduated Carthage High School in 1931.

Among the local (Carthage, MO) items: Ozark Wesleyan College financial/endowment papers, Drake Hotel stock documents, some correspondence and papers of Dr Cassius M Ketcham and Dr Elizabeth Lawson Hall Ketcham, estate administration papers of Marsh Coates of Clinton but which contain invoices from Carthage businesses, attorney B H Esterly, and Dr C M Ketcham, administrator, and property papers of the Doctors Ketcham for Carthage. A photograph, two books and newspaper clippings on Dr Elizabeth Hall Ketcham's friend Esther Pratt who was a long-time English teacher at Carthage High School, are included in the collection, too. There are some miscellaneous artifacts in this grouping (ie. Dr Hall's surgical scissors, St Mary's Guild of Grace Episcopal Church Cook Book, Jasper County Courthouse postcards) that were not processed as part of the MHRAB cycle 3 archival project but which will be processed into the collections of the Powers Museum during 2005-06 as time permits.

At this date, only loose family photographs of Carthage residents and/or of the principal family members have been accessioned, but three early (c 1860-1880) photograph albums with photos from non-Carthage locations have been accessioned as albums (NOT by individual photographs) at this time. Harwood Hall family photographs have NOT be accessioned and are found in AR Box 1995.01, folder # 1.

Dr. Elizabeth Lawson Hall

Contact has been made with appropriate historical societies/museums regarding some of the materials including: Stockton/Cedar County Historical Society, Stockton MO; Salem/Salem County Historical Society, Salem NJ; Chemawa School, Chemawa OR; Liberty Memorial, Kansas City MO

The resources of the Jasper County Archives will also be searched for information (ie. Marvin VanGilder Collection and the Carthage Press Clipping Files) on the Halls in particular, as Dr Elizabeth Hall was often written up in the paper for her practice begun in 1893. Although not the first female doctor in Carthage, she did practice the longest, retiring around 1933. Also, she was active in the Rhoda Fairchild Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution (consult archival collection of the Carthage DAR for her activities) and Dr Ketcham's certificate upon joining the local chapter is included in the Hall-Ketcham Collection holdings.

Rebecca Barnes Hall

Additional organizations will be contacted over the course of 2005 regarding the Harwood Hall materials that reflect various western locations.

Consult AR Box 1995.001 contents list in front of box for outline of holdings and photocopies of various newspaper clippings of biographical interest. Please note: On-site researchers can use Past Perfect software search capabilities to find additional subjects and names from those listed below.

Collection Subjects
Arizona Territory
Bureau of Indian Affairs
Cabinet Card Photographs
California
Carthage High School
Carthage Hospital
Carthage MO
Carthage Physicians
Carte-de-Viste Photographs
Chemawa Indian School
Chemawa, OR
Clinton MO
Daughters of the American Revolution (Rhoda Fairchild Chapter)
Death & Dying
Doctors & Medicine
Drake Hotel
Funerals
Genealogy Charts/Wheels
Indian Territory
King George, V
Narcotics
Native American Schools
Oklahoma
Oregon
Ozark Wesleyan College
Passports
Philadelphia PA
Prohibition Act
Photograph Albums
Photographs
Poetry
Property Taxes
Quakers
Quapaw Boarding School
Riverside CA
Sac & Fox Agency
Salem NJ
Salem Institute
Stockton MO
Tintype Photographs
U S Department of the Interior
U S Department of State
U S Patents
Woodstown NJ
World War I

Collection Names
Barnes Family Genealogy
Coates, Marsh O
Esterly, B H
Hall, Clem
Hall, Elizabeth
Hall, Harwood
Hall, Fannie Dean
Hall, Lily
Hall, Mary J
Hall, Morris
Hall, Phoebe
Hall, Reba [?Rebecca]
Hall Family Genealogy
Ketcham, Elizabeth J "Betty"
Ketcham, Dr Elizabeth Lawson Hall
Ketcham, Dr Cassius M
Ketcham Family Genealogy
Lawson Family Genealogy
Pancoast Family Genealogy
Pratt, Esther
Sharpless, Robert

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