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MARQUETTE, THE PEACE MAKER
A STANDARD HISTORY
OF
KOSCIUSKO COUNTY INDIANA
An Authentic Narrative of the Past, with Particular Attention to the Modern Era in the Commercial, Industrial, Educational, Civic and Social Development. A Chronicle of the People, with Family Lineage and Memoirs.
HON. L. W. ROYSE Supervising Editor Assisted by a Board of Advisory Editors
ILLUSTRATED
VOLUME I
PUBLISHERS THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY CHICAGO AND NEW YORK 1919
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PREFACE
Kosciusko is one of the live counties of Northern Indiana, the progress and present prosperity of which are founded upon a variety of physical qualities and a rare diversity of mental traits. The head waters of Tippecanoe River spread over portions of its territory, and bring it within the beautiful and fertile domain of the Wabash Valley. Building stone and cement, grains, fruits and vegetables, sleek dairy herds, the ungainly but invaluable swine, and the noble steed, now being relegated to minor consideration, have all their parts in the progress, prosperity and historie position of Kosciusko County.
Progressive farmers and merchants, alert and edicated lawyers and judges, high-minded men and women giving their best to educational and religious advancement, have also made this special section of the Hoosier State a eredit to the human type for which it stands. Intel- lectual and religious natures from every section of the United States find solace and inspiration in the world-famed Chautauqua Assembly at Winona Lake, and thousands who are tired mentally and physically seek the beautiful lakes and well appointed summer resorts of Kosci- usko County as surcease from their unrest and exhaustion. And never do they seek in vain. Nature seems here in her best and most invig- orating mood.
Thus have large manufactures, finished farms, haudsome summer homes, charming villages on the shores of sunny lakes, growing towns and cities, and a great advancing section of Indiana come into being within the memory of men and women now living. They, and their children and grandchildren, have proven their loyalty to the country of which they are prond to be a part, by dying for it in three wars: and it is with pleasure that the editors of this history are able to say that Kosciusko's participation in the most glorious, unselfish confliet of them all, has been fittingly set forth in its pages.
Of necessity the work is imperfect, but all identified with it have spared nothing to make the record as complete and authentic as pos- sible. To all our assistants hearty thanks are extended.
L. W. RovsE.
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CHAPTER I
THE FRENCH AND BRITISH NORTHWEST
FAINT FOOT PRINTS OF LA SALLE AND MARQUETTE-THE IROQUOIS CRUSH THE ILLINOIS-DECISIVE BATTLE AT STARVED ROCK-L.A SALLE HEADS NORTHWESTERN INDIAN LEAGUE-AT THE FORT OF ST. LOUIS-VINCENNES AND FORT CHARTRES FOUNDED-FRENCH EVACUATION OF THE COUNTRY-THE BRITISH MASTERS-THE BRIT-
ISH NORTHWEST
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CHAPTER II
THE AMERICAN NORTHWEST
CLARK AS ITS FATHER-CONQUERED TERRITORY ERECTED INTO COUNTY OF ILLINOIS-FRENCH REBEL AT LIBERTY-ORGANIZATION AND DIVI- SION OF NORTHWEST TERRITORY -- THE COUNTRY OF THE ILLINOIS AND THE WABASH-INDIANS CROWDED BY WHITES-PROPHET'S TOWN FOUNDED HARRISON, TECUMSEH AND THE PROPHET "FIGHT IT OUT"-INDIANA AND HARRISON IN THE WAR OF 1812-BATTLE OF THE THAMES RIVER, DECISIVE AMERICAN VICTORY-PEACE MOVE- MENTS-THE PUBLIC LAND SURVEY-CREATION OF THE STATE AND ITS ORIGINAL COUNTIES STATUS OF THE COUNTRY IN 1816- DEPARTURE OF THE REDS-PROGRESSIVE ORGANIZATION OF COUN- TIES 11
CHAPTER III STORY OF INDIAN DISPOSSESSION
INDIANA TRIBES USUALLY OF THE ALGONQUIN FAMILY-MIAMI CON- FEDERATION IN INDIANA-THE POTTAWATOMIES-GREAT WESTERN
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NATION OF THE MIAMIS - JESUIT MISSIONARIES AMONG THE INDIANA MIAMIS - FUR TRADERS AMONG THE MIAMIS - MLAMIS AND POTTAWATOMIES (1765) - TREATY MAKING AND CAMPAIGN- ING - GREENVILLE TREATY OF NORTHWESTERN TRIBES - WAYNE DEFINES THE PURPOSES OF .INDIAN RESERVATIONS - REPLIES OF THE CHIEFS - THE FINAL ADOPTION OF THE TREATY - IN- DIANS DIVIDED BY WAR OF 1812-HARRISON,' GREAT INDIAN TREATY MAKER-THE POTTAWATOMIES OF NORTHERN INDIANA-FIRST MIGRATION OF THE POTTAWATOMIES-GRAND COUNCIL OF AUGUST. 1838-MENOMINEE'S ELOQUENT DEFI-GOVERNOR WALLACE DE- SCRIBES THE POTTAWATOMIE MIGRATION (1838)-LAST OF THE POT- TAWATOMIES LEAVE IN 1840-INDIAN VILLAGES IN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY-THE MIAMI CHIEFS, FLATBELLY AND WAWWAESSE-POT- TAWATOMIE CHIEFS AND THEIR VILLAGES-ACCOUNTING FOR "BONE" PRAIRIE-MONOQUET'S END AND SUCCESSOR-BENACK AND HIS HUNDREDTH TONGUE-WARNER OUTWITTED BY CHECOSE-THE EEL RIVER INDIANS IN 1835-SAMPLE OF INDIAN FUN-GRAVES DESCRIBES NOTED CHIEFS-ESTIMATED INDIAN POPULATION . . . . . 29
CHAPTER IV
STATISTICAL, POLITICAL AND OFFICIAL BACKGROUND
INDIANA'S POPULATION BY DECADES. 1800-1910-INDEPENDENT IN- DIANA'S POLITICAL RECORD-ELECTORAL AND POPULAR VOTE, 1816- 1916-TERRITORIAL OFFICERS, 1787-1816-UNITED STATES SEX- ATORS AND STATE OFFICERS. 1816-1919-THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1816-THE CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION OF 1850-51-AMENDMENTS TO THE CONSTITUTION-THE COUNTIES AND THEIR NAMES-OFFICIAL STATE FLOWER AND FLAG-INDIANA STATE SONG .59
CHAPTER V
SETTLEMENT BEFORE CIVIL ORGANIZATION
ELKHART COUNTY ORGANIZED-KOSCIUSKO ATTACHED TO IT-DIVIDED INTO TOWNSHIPS-TURKEY CREEK TOWNSHIP SET OFF-PLAIN TOWNSHIP CONSIDERED A PRIZE-ROSSENL' IND OSSEM-OTHER PIONEERS OF THE PRAIRIES-ELIJAH HARLAN-JOHN B. CHAPMAN
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-- THE PIONEER MILLS-EARLY TOWNSHIP SURVEYS AND SUR- VEYORS-PIONEERS OF TURKEY CREEK TOWNSHIP-JOHN POWELL, FIRST PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP SETTLER-OTHER SETTLERS OF 1833 -- SETTLERS OF VAN BUREN ANTE-DATING 1836-VILLAGE OF MILFORD PLATTED- JAMES WOODDEN, PIONEER OF HARRISON TOWNSHIP- THE RISE OF LEESBURG-AS COUNTY'S SEAT OF JUSTICE-PROM- INENT MEN OF PLAIN TOWNSHIP-THE HARLAN FAMILY-THE ERWINS-JOHN THOMPSON-ABRAHAM CUNNINGHAM LOCATES ON BONE PRAIRIE-FIFTEEN DAYS' OVERLAND TRIP IN INDIANA-THE OLD-TIME NEIGHBORLY WELCOME-UNION LABOR WITHOUT UNION HOURS --- HENRY RIPPEY-THE FIRST SCHOOLHOUSE AND TEACHER -WILLIAM C. GRAVES-THE BLAINES OF LEESBURG-THE TIPPE- CANOE LAKE REGION-FIRST RELIGIOUS SERVICES AND PREACHERS. 81
CHAPTER VI
PHYSICAL FEATURES OF KOSCIUSKO COUNTY
JOHN B. CHAPMAN, GODFATHER OF THE COUNTY-PATRON PATRIOT OF KOSCIUSKO COUNTY-KOSCIUZKO, THE FIRST ABOLITIONIST- THE COUNTY'S NAME REALLY KOSCIUSKO-AREA AND BOUNDS- TIPPECANOE RIVER, PRIDE OF NORTHERN INDIANA-OTHER LAKES OF THE COUNTY-TOPOGRAPHY OF THE COUNTY-SURFACE GEOLOGY -DEPTH OF LAKES-SUNKEN LAKES-COMPOSITION OF THE DRIFT 104
CHAPTER VHI
POLITICS, FINANCES AND STATISTICS
FIRST COUNTY OFFICERS-SHERIFF ISAAC KIRKENDALL-JUDICIAL. FINANCIAL AND LEGAL -- A VERY TEMPORARY COURTHOUSE-THIE OLD JAIL-NEW COUNTY BUILDINGS IN 1848-WARSAW'S CRITICAL YEARS-TERRITORY PROPOSED TO BE CLIPPED FOR LEESBURG-UPS AND DOWNS OF WARSAW-OSWEGO PUSHED AS COUNTY SEAT C.A.N. DIDATE-NATIONAL POLITICS ENTERS-WARSAW THE FINAL VICTOR -PETER L. RUNYAN, SR .- LIEUT. JOHN RUNYAN-THE THIRD COURTHOUSE-THE COURTHOUSE OF THE PRESENT-THE COUNTY INFIRMARY-KOSCIUSKO BY CIVIL DIVISIONS, 1890-1910-VALUE OF FARMS-VALUE OF TOWN AND CITY PROPERTY- TOTAL WEALTH OF KOSCIUSKO COUNTY -- FINANCES OF THE COUNTY . 111
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CHAPTER VIII
THE BENCH AND BAR RECORD
CIRCUIT COURT HAS STAYING QUALITIES THE OLD EIGHTH AND NINTH CIRCUITS-PRESIDENT JUDGES AND THEIR ASSOCIATES-SAM- UEL C. SAMPLE, FIRST PRESIDENT JUDGE-FIRST ASSOCIATE JUDGES OF THE COUNTY-EARLY CIRCUIT COURT IN ACTION-YOUNG BEAU BRUMMEL 'SQUIRES-WENT TO THE BOTTOM OF THE CASE JURIES -APPEALS TO THE JURY-SPECIAL PLEADING, EARLY NIGHTMARE- FLICKERING TORCHLIGHT OF JUSTICE- PRESIDENT JUDGES OF THE NINTH CIRCUIT-THE CIRCUIT COURTS OF TODAY-SHIFTING OF THE COUNTY IN THE CIRCUITS-JUDGES OF THE TENTH CIRCUIT-JAMES L. WORDEN-JUDGES OF THE FOURTEENTH CIRCUIT-JUDGES ELISHA V. LONG AND WALTER OLDS-FIFTY-FOURTH CIRCUIT JUDGES- JUDGE JAMES S. FRAZER-JUDGE LEMUEL L. ROYSE JUDGE FRANCIS E. BOWSER-THE PROBATE COURT AND ITS JUDGES-THE COUNTY'S PROBATE JUDGES-THE COMMON PLEAS COURT AND JUDGES-COURTS OF CONCILIATION-COMMON PLEAS COURT ABOLISHED-COMMON PLEAS DISTRICTS-COMMON PLEAS JUDGES FOR THE COUNTY-THE PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS - DISTRICT PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS - CIRCUIT AND COUNTY PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS-THE 'SQUIRES OF THE COUNTY-DUTIES OF JUSTICES OF THE PEACE-THE JUSTICES OF TODAY-THE KOSCIUSKO COUNTY BAR-GEORGE W. FRASIER- ANDREW G. WOOD-PRACTITIONERS OF TODAY 129
CHAPTER IX
EDUCATIONAL DEVELOPMENT
DAYS OF INDIVIDUALITY AND CONFUSION-STATE TREASURER AS SUPERINTENDENT OF SCHOOLS-STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION- TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES ESTABLISHED EARLY WORK OF SUPERIN- TENDENT AND HIS DEPARTMENT-STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION MORE PROFESSIONAL-THE RECONSTRUCTION OF 1865-THE COUNTY EXAMINERS BROUGHT UNDER CONTROL-COMMISSIONED HIGH SCHOOLS ESTABLISHED-MAKING TEXT BOOKS FAIRLY UNIFORM- COUNTY BOARD OF EDUCATION CREATED-STATE BOARD IN CON- TROL OF TEXT BOOKS-COUNTY SUPERINTENDENTS ADDED TO THE BOARD-COMPULSORY EDUCATION AND ITS LOCAL ENFORCEMENT- THE BETTERMENT OF RURAL SCHOOLS-REGULATING EFFICIENCY
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AND PAY OF TEACHERS - TEACHING OF AGRICULTURE, MANUAL TRAINING AND HOME ECONOMICS-EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM NOW IN FORCE-OBJECT LESSON IN THIS CHAPTER-STRICTLY LOCAL- SUPERINTENDENT SARBER'S SKETCH OF COUNTY SCHOOL SYSTEM -- EARLIEST SUBSCRIPTION SCHOOLS-"FRAMES" AND "BRICKS"- RURAL CONSOLIDATED SCHOOLS-HIGH SCHOOLS OF COUNTY-FIRST SCHOOLS IN NORTHERN TOWNSHIPS-TIPPECANOE AND HARRISON, TOO-JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP-WASHINGTON AND CLAY-SEWARD AND FRANKLIN TOWNSHIPS-PRESENT. STATUS OF COUNTY SCHOOLS -PASSING OF THE "GOOD" OLD DAYS 153
CHAPTER X
HIGHWAYS OF TRAVEL
THE PIONEER WHITE MEN'S TRACES-PITTSBURGH, FORT WAYNE & CHICAGO (PENNSYLVANIA) RAILROAD-PIERCETON AND WARSAW SECURE CONNECTIONS-COMPLETED TO PLYMOUTH, DIVISION TOWN -- CLEVELAND, CINCINNATI, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS (BIG FOUR)-THE GOSHEN, WARSAW & WABASH RAILROAD PROJECT-CINCINNATI, WABASH & MICHIGAN RAILROAD FIRST TRAINS ON THE PRESENT BIG FOUR-NEW YORK, CHICAGO & ST. LOUIS (NICKEL PLATE)- THE WABASH AND BALTIMORE & OHIO ROADS-THE WINONA INTER- URBAN RAILWAY-RAILROAD STATISTICS OF THE COUNTY-THE GOOD ROADS MOVEMENT IN THE COUNTY-MILES OF ROADS, BY TOWN- SHIPS-GRAVEL ROAD BUILDING-AUTO LICENSES AS PROMOTERS OF GOOD ROADS-THE BUGGY AND THE GAS CARRIAGE 171
CHAPTER XI
AGRICULTURE AND LIVE STOCK
RECLAIMED LANDS-LOCAL PHASES OF AGRICULTURE AND AGRICULTUR- ISTS-THE TIMES OF THE SICKLE AND THE FLAIL-THE REAPING HOOK AND THE CRADLE-"GROUND-HOG" THRESHING MACHINE AND FANNING MILL-CORN HUSKING BEES REPLACE LOG ROLLINGS -WOOL AND FLAX WORKED INTO "HOME SPUN"-CORN AND THE HOMINY MORTAR-BRINGING THE WHEAT TO GRIST-STRONG POINTS OF TODAY-KOSCIUSKO COUNTY CATTLE-DAIRY PRODUCTS-HORSES AND COLTS-SHEEP AND WOOL-HOGS-POULTRY AND EGGS-
CONTENTS
CLOVER HAY AND SEED FLOURISH-AT THE FRONT AS RYE PRO- DUCER-GOOD ONION AND ONLY FAIR WHEAT COUNTRY-FARMS AND RURAL POPULATION --- PROGRESSIVE AGRICULTURE-THE COUNTY AGENT AND HIS WORK-FARM DEMONSTRATIONS-HOME PROJECT WORK - STATE FAIR EXHIBITS AND COUNTY AGENTS' CONFER- ENCES-WORK COMMENCED IN KOSCIUSKO COUNTY-THE FIRST YEAR'S WORK-FINE WORK OF THE EMERGENCY LABOR BUREAU --- IMPROVEMENT OF WHEAT AND CLOVER-RAISING THE RYE GRADE- CULTIVATION OF HEMP AND MINT 185
CHAPTER XII
THE COUNTY IN THREE WARS
THE CIVIL WAR-THE FIRST THREE MONTHS' REGIMENT (THE NINTH) -REORGANIZED FOR THREE YEARS AND AS VETERAN REGIMENT-THE ELEVENTH INFANTRY ( THREE YEARS)-THE TWELFTH (ONE YEAR AND THREE YEARS)-GEN. REUBEN WILLIAMS-THE THIRTEENTH REGIMENT (THREE YEARS)-THE SIXTEENTHI INFANTRY (ONE YEAR)-THE SEVENTEENTH ( THREE YEARS)-THE TWENTIETH (THREE YEARS) INFANTRY-TWENTY-FIRST REGIMENT (THREE YEARS) - TWENTY-SECOND INFANTRY REGIMENT - TWENTY-SIXTII INDIANA INFANTRY-THE TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT-THIRTIETHI REGIMENT (THREE YEARS) - THIRTY-FIFTH REGIMENT (FIRST IRISH ) REGIMENT-THIRTY-NINTH INFANTRY ( AFTERWARD EIGHTI CAVALRY )-FORTY-FIRST INFANTRY (SECOND CAVALRY )-FORTY- SECOND REGIMENT OF INFANTRY-FORTY-FOURTH INFANTRY- FORTY-SIXTH AND FORTY-SEVENTH REGIMENTS -- FORTY-EIGHTII REGIMENT - THE FIFTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT - FIFTY-NINTH AND SIXTY-EIGHTH REGIMENTS-THE SEVENTY-FOURTH REGIMENT-
LIEUTENANT RUNYAN AT KENESAW MOUNTAIN-LIEUTENANT KUDER AT JONESBORO-CHARLES W. CHAPMAN, COLONEL OF THE SEVENTY-FOURTH - JOIIN N. RUNYAN - SEVENTY-SEVENTH REGI- MENT (FOURTH CAVALRY ) -EIGIITY-THIRD AND EIGHTY-EIGHTII REGIMENTS-NINETIETH REGIMENT (FIFTH CAVALRY ) -ONE HUN- DRED AND EIGHTEENTH REGIMENT (SIX MONTHS)-ONE HUNDRED AND NINETEENTH (SEVENTHI CAVALRY)-ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-SEVENTH REGIMENT (TWELFTH CAVALRY )-ONE HUNDRED AND TWENTY-NINTH REGIMENT-THE ONE HUNDRED AND THIR- TIETH-ONE HUNDRED AND THIRTY-EIGHTH REGIMENT -- ONE HUN- DRED AND FIFTY-FIRST AND ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-SECOND-
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LIGHT ARTILLERY FROM KOSCIUSKO COUNTY-SOLDIERS OF THE CIVIL AND THE WORLD'S WARS-GRAND ARMY POSTS-THE SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL-IN THE SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR-COMPANY H, ONE HUNDRED AND SIXTIETH REGIMENT-KOSCIUSKO COUNTY IN THE WORLD'S WAR-REALIZING THAT THE WAR EXISTED-VOLUNTEERS GET THE START OF THE DRAFT-OFFICERS AND ORGANIZATIONS IN AUGUST, 1917-BARTOL AND SWIHART SAIL FOR FRANCE -- FIRST EXAMINATION OF REGISTRANTS-FIRST LIBERTY LOAN AND RED CROSS DRIVES-KOSCIUSKO COUNTY MEN OFF FOR CAMP BENJAMIN HARRISON-DR. MILFORD H. LYON LEAVES FOR FRANCE-THIRD INDIANA REORGANIZED AS ARTILLERY-A HOOSIER OPENS THE WAR FOR THE AMERICANS-COUNTY'S PART IN SECOND LIBERTY LOAN DRIVE-JAMES R. FRAZER, COUNTY FOOD ADMINISTRATOR --- COUNTY'S FIRST GOLD STAR-HOME GUARD ORGANIZED-OFFICIAL STATE MILITARY BAND-LIEUT. J. F. HORICK, WORLD'S CHAMPION PISTOL SHOT-FIRST PERSONAL BATTLE NEWS-VERY SUCCESSFUL THIRD LIBERTY LOAN CAMPAIGN-SALE OF WAR STAMPS-LIEUTEN- ANT BARTOL AT CHATEAU THIERRY-THREE THOUSAND MEN REGIS- TERED-HIGH SCHOOL BOYS ENROLLED-FOURTH LIBERTY LOAN -- FIRST MAN OF THE NEW DRAFT-WINONA LAKE TRAINING CAMP OPENED BOYS OF BATTERY D ARRIVE IN FRANCE-THE UNITED WAR WORK FUND- THE RIOT OF PEACE-AMONG THE LAST HOME VICTIMS-TOTAL MAN POWER OF THE COUNTY-AT THE CLOSE OF THE WAR 203
CHAPTER XIII TOWN AND CITY OF WARSAW
PIONEERS OF THE WARSAW NEIGHBORHOOD-FIRST STORE IN THE TOWN- SHIP- JOHN B. CHAPMAN, WARSAW'S GOD-FATHER-PIONEERS OF THE WARSAW NEIGHBORHOOD THE COUNTY SEAT PLATTED -FIRST CABIN AND STORE IN WARSAW-PIONEER LOCAL INDUSTRIES- BUILDINGS AND RESIDENTS OF 1837-POTENTIAL CONGRESSMAN WIL- LIAMS-HARD RAISING FROM THE GROUND- FIRST POSTOFFICE AND EARLY POSTMASTERS-JOSEPH A. FUNK, PIONEER TEACHER-IN- CORPORATED AS A TOWN-BIRTH OF LOCAL SYSTEM OF PUBLIC INSTRUCTION-PRIVATE FIRE DEPARTMENT ORGANIZED -FAMOUS INDEPENDENT PROTECTION ENGINE-GETTING FIRE WATER UNDER DIFFICULTIES-BECOMES PUBLIC FIRE DEPARTMENT-FIREMEN AS UNION SOLDIERS-FIRE OF 1866-EXPANSIONS OF THE DEPARTMENT
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-"CHIEFLY FOR SPORTING PURPOSES"-FIRE DEPARTMENT IN 1875-76-BUILDING OF SCHOOLS IN 1872-73-PUBLIC SCHOOLS AT MUNICIPAL INCORPORATION-THE HIGH SCHOOL OF 1904-NEW CENTER WARD SCHOOLHOUSE-PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM OF TODAY- THE WARSAW PUBLIC LIBRARY-PUBLIC UTILITIES AND NECESSITIES -- WINONA ELECTRIC LIGHT AND WATER COMPANY-THE WARSAW GAS COMPANY-COMMERCIAL TELEPHONE COMPANY 253
CHAPTER XIV
WARSAW'S CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES
FIRST WARSAW CHURCHI, TAMARACK CABIN-M. E. CONFERENCE AND LOCAL ORGANIZATION-PAY OF EARLY M. E. CIRCUIT PREACHERS- FIRST METHODIST CAMP MEETING-FIRST AND PRESENT SABBATH SCHOOLS-METHODIST EDIFICES-M. E. HOME OF TODAY-FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH-CHRISTIAN CHURCH OF WARSAW-THE BAPTIST CHURCH -- THE BAPTIST TEMPLE - UNITED BRETHREN CHURCH-THE BRETHREN CHURCH OF WARSAW-OTHER RELIGIOUS BODIES-SECRET AND BENEVOLENT SOCIETIES-THE MASONIC BODIES -THE ODD FELLOWS OF WARSAW - KNIGHTS OF PYTHIAS AND PYTHIAN SISTERS-RED MEN AND MODERN WOODMEN-THE ELKS, EAGLES AND MOOSE-OTHER ORGANIZATIONS 274
CHAPTER XV
LOCAL PRESS, BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIES
THE LOCAL NEWSPAPERS-THE KOSCIUSKO REPUBLICAN -- WARSAW DEMOCRAT AND NORTHERN INDIANIAN-LAKE CITY COMMERCIAL- GENERAL WILLIAMS RESUMES CONTROL-LATER RECORD OF THE NORTHERN INDIANIAN AND TIMES-THE WARSAW UNION-THE LOCAL BANKS-STATE BANK OF WARSAW-LAKE CITY BANK- INDIANA LOAN AND TRUST COMPANY-BUSINESS AND INDUSTRIES- THE WARSAW COMMERCIAL CLUB. 289
CHAPTER XVI
WINONA ASSEMBLY AND TOWN
FIRST IMPROVEMENTS FOR SUMMER RESORTERS-BEYER BROTHERS AND SPRING FOUNTAIN PARK-CARNAHAN'S MILITARY PARK-FIRST
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SPRING FOUNTAIN PARK ASSEMBLY-DR. SOL C. DICKEY APPEARS -ASSEMBLY SITE PURCHASED OF BEYER BROTHERS-WINONA ASSEMBLY AND ITS FOUNDERS-THE INDIAN MOUND -- PHYSICAL IMPROVEMENTS-A PEN PICTURE OF THE WINONA ASSEMBLY BY DOCTOR DICKEY-CAUSE OF FINANCIAL EMBARRASSMENT-WINONA ASSEMBLY GROUNDS-THE WINONA BIBLE CONFERENCE-SIDE CONFERENCES-CONFERENCE AGAINST CRIME-THE PROPHETIC CONFERENCE-CHILDREN'S MUSICAL PAGEANT-RED CROSS WORK -THE I. A. E .- SCHOOLS AND COLLEGES AT WINONA LAKE-THE WINONA COLLEGE-WINONA COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE-INDIANA UNIVERSITY BIOLOGICAL STATION -- THE WINONA CHURCH - THE. 297 TOWN OF WINONA LAKE
CHAPTER XVII
SYRACUSE AND LAKE WAWASEE
CENTERS OF BEAUTY AND PIONEER SETTLEMENT -- SYRACUSE FOUNDED -THE CHURCHES OF SYRACUSE-THE SYRACUSE SCHOOL-TOWN OF SYRACUSE-THE JOURNAL -- THE LIBRARY AND THE CHAUTAUT- QUA-NINE MILE CHANGED TO WAWASEE LAKE- WAWASEE STA- TION - GEORGE W. MILES, SUMMER RESORT PIONEER - THE OLD FISHING DAYS -- FIRST IMPROVEMENTS AT WAWASEE-INITIAL WORK IN FISH PROPAGATION-ORIGINAL SITE OF WAWASEE STATE HATCH- ERY-EXTENSION OF THE STATE HATCHERY-DEATH OF GEORGE W. MILES - SOUTH PARK - LAKE VIEW - OAKWOOD PARK - VAWTER PARK --- CROW'S NEST AND WAVELAND BEACH .319
CHAPTER XVIIE
PIERCETON AND WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP
PIONEER SETTLERS OF WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP-MAIN EVENTS OF THE EARLY TIMES-UNCLE JOHNNY MAKEMSON-SOME PIONEER MAR- RIAGES-THE SUMMERVILLES AND JOHN DUNHAM-THE RYERSON CEMETERY - PIERCETON FOUNDED - THE TOWN INCORPORATED - CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES - THE PIERCETON OF THE PRESENT FINANCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL 334
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CHAPTER XIX
MILFORD AND VAN BUREN TOWNSHIPS
SETTLERS OF 1833-35 - A FEW FIRST THINGS - EARLY VILLAGE OF MILFORD - INCORPORATED AS MILFORD JUNCTION - WATER WORKS AND FIRE DEPARTMENT-ELECTRIC LIGHT AND POWER-INDUSTRIES AND BANKS-THE MILFORD MAIL-MILFORD'S PUBLIC LIBRARY- THE SCHOOL-LOCAL CHURCHES AND LODGES 342
CHAPTER XX
HARRISON AND LAKE TOWNSHIPS
FIRST SETTLERS OF HARRISON TOWNSHIP-PALESTINE POSTOFFICE- RISE AND DECLINE OF PALESTINE-ATWOOD RISES-TOWN OF MEN- TONE-EARLY SETTLEMENT OF LAKE TOWNSHIP -- OLD VILLAGE OF SILVERLAKEVILLE-SILVER LAKE OF TODAY .349
CHAPTER XXI
ETNA AND CLAY TOWNSHIPS
PIONEERS OF ETNA TOWNSHIP-VILLAGE OF ETNA GREEN-EARLY SETTLERS AND EVENTS OF CLAY TOWNSHIP- FIRST PERMANENT RESIDENT-FIRST UNION SCHOOL AND CHURCH-THE VILLAGE OF
CLAYPOOL 355
CHAPTER XXII
PLAIN AND TIPPECANOE TOWNSHIPS
LEESBURG, THE OLD COUNTY SEAT-INCORPORATED AS A TOWN- RAILROAD AND NEWSPAPER-CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES-BANK AND FLOURISHING MILLS-VILLAGE OF OSWEGO THE DECLINE OF OS- WEGO-TIPPECANOE LAKE RESORTS-TIPPECANOE TOWNSHIP, AN- OTHER LAKE REGION-PIONEER SETTLEMENTS-ROAD AND MILLS BUILT-VILLAGE OF NORTHI WEBSTER .359
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CHAPTER XXIII
SEWARD AND JACKSON TOWNSHIPS
SEWARD TOWNSHIP WELL WATERED-EARLY SETTLERS AND EVENTS- BURKET-JACKSON TOWNSHIP-EARLY SETTLEMENTS AND SET- TLERS-VILLAGE OF SIDNEY .369
CHAPTER XXIV
THREE RURAL TOWNSHIPS
PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP -- IT'S PIONEER WHITES-INDIANS REFUSE TO BE MADE FARMERS-GALVESTON PLATTED JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP AND ITS SETTLEMENT-THE MARSHY BARRIER-A POWERFUL SINGLE VOTE-GRAVELTON-SCOTT TOWNSHIP SETTLED MILLWOOD AND
HECKAMAN 372
CHAPTER XXV
FRANKLIN AND MONROE TOWNSHIPS
FOREST LAND ALONG INDIAN HIGHWAY-PIONEERS. DRIFT IN-FIRST BIRTII AND MARRIAGE - SCHOOL AND CHURCH COME TO STAY - BEAVER DAM POSTOFFICE - PRIMITIVE INDUSTRIES - VILLAGE OF SEVASTOPOL-MONROE TOWNSHIP-THE PIONEERS-MILLS-TOWN- SHIP ORGANIZATION- FIRST AIDS TO AMERICAN DEVELOPMENT. . 377
History of Kosciusko County
CHAPTER I
THE FRENCH AND BRITISH NORTHWEST
FAINT FOOT PRINTS OF LA SALLE AND MARQUETTE-THE IROQUOIS CRUSH THE ILLINOIS-DECISIVE BATTLE AT STARVED ROCK-LA SALLE HEADS NORTHWESTERN INDIAN LEAGUE-AT THE FORT OF ST. LOUIS-VINCENNES AND FORT CHARTRES FOUNDED-FRENCH EVACUATION OF THE COUNTRY-THE BRITISH MASTERS-THE BRIT- ISH NORTHWEST.
The Hoosier State, especially Northern Indiana, has always been in the highway of travel and development, whether flowing from the north to the south, or from the east to the west. Grand and inevitable result: The commonwealth and its people have, from the earliest historic times, absorbed many diverse elements and given birth to a distinct type of manhood and womanhood, noted for its energy, initiative and versatility, As a section of the American Union, it illustrates the recognized family and racial principle, that human strength, elasticity and promise of balanced growth are fairly guaranteed by the flowing together of numerous streams of blood of intrinsic purity and vitality. If the parent body is not continu- ously fed by these incoming springs, or streams, it becomes sluggish and vitiated, like the old royal houses of Europe, or the nations which bar out all other races than their own. Northern Indiana and Kosciusko County, in a marked degree, share with American com- munities, as a whole, this secret of continuous and cumulative progress. It is the purpose of this history to illustrate that fact in detail.
The steps which approach the creation of Kosciusko County, pass- ing along wide sweeps of history, commence to fall nearly three centuries before its geographical limits were defined. In 1541 De Soto ascended the Mississippi from the south and penetrated the country to a point considerably above the mouth of the Arkansas,
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laying the groundwork of French Louisiana, and during the first third of the seventeenth century the Catholic orders of France estab- lished missions among the Indians of the Upper Lake region. Later, the fur traders and the Jesuits co-operated, and Marquette loomed as the great figure of the Catholic Church in the Northwest. In 1675 he died quietly and piously on the shores of Lake Michigan.
FAINT FOOT PRINTS OF LA SALLE AND MARQUETTE
It was La Salle, however, who was to leave his footprints, faint though they be, upon the history of Northern Indiana. Both priest and cavalier were of the real nobility, and Rene Robert Cavalier Sieur de La Salle was to follow in the footsteps, perfect the dis- coveries of Father Jacques Marquette, and broaden the scope of New France. In 1669, six years before the death of Marquette, excited by the reports of the Indians in regard to a river which rose in the country of the Senecas and flowed to the sea, he started with a party of twenty-four maintained at his own expense, on a tour of discovery. After overcoming the most vexatious difficulties, he reached the Ohio and descended it to the falls.
Returning to his trading post of LaChine, and pondering his plan of discovering a new route to China and the East, La Salle was startled by the reports of Marquette and Joliet. This seemed, to his eager mind, the first step toward the realization of his dream, and centering everything in the enterprise, he sold his property and hastened to France, where he secured loans of money, and prepared to carry out his plans upon a large scale. Constructing a large vessel -the Griffin-he set out with a party of thirty men and three monks, August 7, 1679, for the scene of Marquette's discoveries. He first conceived the idea of securing the country, thus discovered, by a series of forts, which should form a barrier to resist the encroach- ments of the English, who were gaining a strong hold on the Atlantic border. This received the encouragement and aid of Frontenac, who was then governor general of Canada, and, rebuilding Fort Frontenac as a base of operations, he set sail for Lake Michigan. Arriving at Green Bay, he loaded his vessel with furs and sent it, under the care of a pilot and fourteen sailors, on its return voyage. Waiting there for the Griffin's return until forced to give it up in despair, he set out with canoes to pursue his enterprise, and landed at St. Joseph. Following the river bearing the same name, he reached the Kankakee by a short portage, and passed down that river to the Illinois.
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Marquette's mission had been established near the present site of Utica, in La Salle County, Illinois. There, in December, 1669, La Salle found an Indian town of 460 lodges temporarily deserted, and, passing on to where the City of Peoria now is, found another village of about eighty lodges, where he landed, and soon established amicable and permanent relations. With the consent of the tribes, La Salle soon built the Fort of Crevecœur, a half a league below, and then early in March of 1680, set out for Fort Frontenac, in Western New York, and thence to Montreal to repair the loss of his vessel, the Griffin.
IROQUOIS CRUSH THE ILLINOIS
In the meantime the Jesuit faction engaged in fierce competi- tion with him in securing the peltry trade of the Indians and, jealous of La Salle's success and the English of the Atlantic border, united in stirring up the Iroquois to assault La Salle's Illinois allies in his absence. "Suddenly," says Parkman, "the village was awakened from its lethargy as by crash of a thunderbolt. A Shawnee, lately here on a visit, had left his Illinois friends to return home. He now reappeared, crossing the river in hot haste, with the announcement that he had met on his way an army of Iroquois approaching to attack them. All was in panic and confusion. The lodges disgorged their frightened inmates; women and children screamed ; startled warriors snatched their weapons. There were less than five hundred of them, for the greater part of the young men had gone to war."
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