Ira J. Anderson oral history transcript

Description: Transcript of an oral history interview with Ira J. Anderson, conducted by Jerry Handfield for the Indiana State Library on May 12-13 and June 22-23, 1976, concerning his life in Perry County, Indiana, family, World War I service, travel, farming, and his career in state politics and as state fire marshal.
Origin: 1976
Created By: Indiana State Library; Anderson, Ira J. (Ira Jefferson), 1894-1991
Contributor(s): Handfield, F. Gerald
Source: http://indianamemory.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p16066coll40/id/1979
Collection: Indiana State Library Oral History Collection
Rights: http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC-EDU/1.0/
Copyright: In Copyright - Educational Use Permitted
Geography: Uniontown, Indiana, United States
Subjects: Oral history
Oral histories
Interviews
Interviewing
Indiana--History
Anderson, Ira J. (Ira Jefferson), 1894-1991
Perry County (Ind.)
Indianapolis (Ind.)
Family history
Travel
World War, 1914-1918
Soldiers
Farming
Agriculture
Politicians
Politics and government
Indiana. General Assembly
Fire marshals
Fires
Education
Schools
Diseases
Typhoid fever
Street-railroads
Theaters
African Americans
Racism
Labor unions
Hospitals
Central State Hospital (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Democratic Party (Ind.)
Republican Party (Ind.)
Edenharter, George, 1857-1923
Railroad travel
Billings (Mont.)
Montana
Anaconda Copper Mining Company
Copper mines and mining
Industrial Workers of the World
Spokane (Wash.)
Washington
San Francisco (Calif.)
Ocean travel
Nursing
Male nurses
Segregation
Race discrimination
New Orleans (La.)
Camp Zachary Taylor (Ky.)
Draft
New York
France
Submarines (Ships)
War neuroses
Influenza Epidemic, 1918-1919
Pershing, John J. (John Joseph), 1860-1948
Dogs
Hunting
American Legion
Prohibition
Alcohol trafficking
Law enforcement
Gangsters
Vigo County (Ind.)
African Americans
Ku Klux Klan (1915- )
Depressions
Depressions--1929
Roosevelt, Franklin D. (Franklin Delano), 1882-1945
New Deal, 1933-1939
Martin, Nancy Alice, 1881-1934
Violence
Claypool Hotel (Indianapolis, Ind.)
English Hotel and Opera House (Indianapolis, Ind.)
Townsend, M. Clifford (Maurice Clifford), 1884-1954
Schricker, Henry F. (Henry Fredrick), 1883-1966
Cannelton (Ind.)
Handley, Harold W. (Harold Willis), 1909-1972
Arson
Fire fighters
Explosions

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