An ancestor of mine, George Marks, was on the Lafayette city council in the late 19th century. Any ideas on where some of those records might be? I'd really be interested in a photograph of him.

I just did a quick search at newspaper archive.com - narrowing the results to Indiana and sorting with date ascending and it looks like there might be some articles there. it is free to join and the articles with green or red next to them are ones you can see.