Orsa F. Overstreet
DePauw University Class of 1889
DC 2073, 2074

Dr. Orsa F. Overstreet Papers
Class of 1889

Size: 0.80 linear feet (2 document cases)

Restrictions: none

Accession: P90-36

Provenance: donor

Processed by: Joan Stevens and Tiffany Booth, 1996; revised by Wes Wilson, Jan. 2002

Biographical Sketch: One of Orsa Fred Overstreet's obituaries states, "He was a font of knowledge concerning facts and figures of Greencastle and Putnam County history, and often supplied the background for articles of a historical nature."

Overstreet was born in 1867 and his family moved to Greencastle when he was seven years old. His father, a dentist, (as was Orsa F. and his son, Ralph) set up a dental office and practiced 57 years. Orsa graduated from Greencastle High School in 1885 and spent the next three years at DePauw. In 1891 he received his degree in dentistry from the Indiana Dental College. After operating an office in Dayton, Ohio for a few months, he came home to practice dentistry for the next 48 years, retiring in 1938.

He and his wife, the former Jessie Joslin of Crawfordsville, enjoyed traveling and visited all the states in the Union and provinces in Canada. Their summers were spent in Bay View, Michigan, where there was a colony of Greencastle people. His wife died in 1927 and Overstreet died in 1959 at the age of 92.

Collection Statement: The collection contains materials collected by Dr. Overstreet and donated by him to the Putnam County Historical Society. Included is wide variety of Putnam County material and correspondence between Dr. Overstreet and Wilbur F. Kurtz, former Greencastle resident and DePauw University graduate. This collection is a photocopy of the original located in the Putnam County Public Library.

DC 2073

folder 1: Booklets

folder 2: Kurtz Correspondence

folder 3: Kurtz Miscellaneous

folder 4: Kurtz Sketches

folder 5: Miscellaneous

folder 6: Obituary

folder 7: Recollections

folder 8: Recollections

DC 2074

folder 1: Recollections (taped by A.W. Crandall)

folder 2: Research on Local Burial Sites

folder 3: Scrapbook

folder 4: Stories of Putnam County

folder 5: Story-Alpha Chi Omega's 70th Reunion

folder 6: Transcontinental Trip-1910

folder 7: Weiks, Jesse & A. Lincoln

folder 8: Winsey's Sketch of George Howard

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