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M. G.
REYNOLDS HISTORICAL GENEALOGY COLLECTION
ALLEN COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY 3 1833 00805 4170
Daniel McDonald
20 th
A TWENTIETH CENTURY HISTORY
OF
MARSHALL COUNTY INDIANA
ILLUSTRATED
HON. DANIEL MCDONALD AUTHOR AND EDITOR
V.1
VOLUME I
CHICAGO THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY 1908
1794133
CONTENTS.
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
I. PRE-HISTORIC AGE.
II. COMING OF THE POTTAWATTOMIE INDIANS.
III. REMOVAL OF POTTAWATTOMIE INDIANS.
IV. INDIAN TREATIES.
V. INDIAN BORDER WARS.
VI. PAU-KOO-SHUCK-A GHOST STORY.
VII. INDIAN LOVE-MAKING AND MARRIAGE.
VIII.
IX. RECOLLECTIONS OF OLD INDIAN CHAPEL.
ARROW-POINTS, INDIAN RELICS, ETC.
X. MONUMENT TO POTTAWATTOMIE INDIANS.
XI. NORTHERN INDIANA IN 1829.
XII. POTTAWATTOMIE MILLS-BEN-NACK'S VIL- LAGE.
XIII. OLD-TIME TAVERNS.
XIV. PIONEER EXPLORING PARTY.
XV. FIRST WHITE SETTLERS.
XVI. MARSHALL COUNTY AS THE WHITE MAN FOUND IT.
XVII. GOVERNMENT SOIL SURVEY OF MARSHALL COUNTY.
XVIII. PRELIMINARY ORGANIZATION OF COUNTY.
XIX. RIVERS AND LAKES-FLOWING WELLS.
XX. MAXINKUCKEE LAKE.
XXI. TOWNS AND VILLAGES.
XXII. PIONEER LOG CABINS.
XXIII. HOME-MADE GARMENTS-SPINNING AND WEAVING.
XXIV. EARLY ROADS IN MARSHALL COUNTY.
XXV. SPRINGS AND DUG WELLS.
XXVI. CLEARING UP FARMS.
XXVII. JAMES M. GREER'S RECOLLECTIONS.
XXVIII. FARM MACHINERY-HARVESTING.
XXIX. FARM PRODUCTS-COON AND DEER HUNTING.
XXX.
SAW MILLS-WIGWAMS AND HOW INDIANS LIVED.
XXXI. PRIMITIVE BRICK-MAKING.
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XXXII. FISH AND FISHING STORIES.
XXXIII. HUNTING BEE TREES.
COURTING AND MARRYING. PIONEER MILL-POLKE'S CEMETERY.
XXXIV. PIGEONS AND PIGEON-ROOSTS. XXXV. XXXVI. XXXVII. EARLY AMUSEMENTS. XXXVIII. RAISING TOBACCO. XXXIX. XL. XLI. XLII. XLIII. XLIV. XLV. XLVI. XLVII. LITERARY SOCIETIES. XLVIII. MOZART MUSICAL CLUB. XLIX. L. LI
BLOOMER COSTUME-FOURTH OF JULY CELEBRATION.
TWO OF THE EARLIEST PIONEERS.
PLYMOUTH'S FIRST BUSINESS FAILURE.
COURTS OF MARSHALL COUNTY.
JUDGES AND OTHER OFFICERS.
SKETCHES OF COUNTY OFFICERS.
BENEVOLENT AND FRATERNAL SOCIETIES.
MISCELLANEOUS ORGANIZATIONS.
LII.
OLD-TIME DOCTORS.
LIII.
MARSHALL COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY.
LIV. LV.
TEMPERANCE ORGANIZATIONS.
LVI. MARSHALL COUNTY'S ONLY PRIZE FIGHT. THE OLD BRASS BAND.
LVII.
WEIRD AND STRANGE HAPPENINGS.
LVIII.
CEMETERIES AND SEMINARIES.
LIX. LX. THE OLD FORGE. LXI. THE OLD-TIME FIDDLERS.
LXII.
THE TELEGRAPH.
LXIII. LXIV. LXV.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS.
BRIGHTSIDE TRAINING SCHOOL.
HENRY HARRISON CULVER.
PLYMOUTH AND OTHER POST OFFICES.
POLITICS IN MARSHALL COUNTY.
SPIRITUAL RAPPINGS.
LXXI. BANKS AND BANKERS.
LXXII. MARSHALL COUNTY'S MILITARY RECORD.
LXXIII.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION.
CLOSING WORDS.
LITERATURE-MUSIC-ORATORY.
PROGRESS OF PUBLIC SCHOOLS.
RELIGIOUS ORGANIZATIONS.
NEWSPAPERS OF MARSHALL COUNTY.
THE RAILROADS.
LXVI. LXVII. LXVIII. LXIX. LXX. DESTRUCTIVE FIRES.
INDEX.
Act to Organize Marshall County, 82.
After the Indian Wars Had Ceased, 39. Agricultural Conditions, 75.
Agricultural Fairs, 233. Allman, Mayer, 416.
Andrews, Charles L., 498. Antiquarian and Historical ciety, 128.
So- Argos, 119. Argos Globe, 303. Argos Newspapers, 303.
Argos Public Schools, 121. Argos Reflector, 303. Armantrout, Aaron, 623.
Armantrout, Lucinda, 623.
Arrow Points, Indian Relics, etc., 48. Aspinall, Novitas B., 445. Associate Judges, 206. Attorneys at Law, 200. Au-be-nau-be, Death of, 10; Anec- dote of, 10. Au-be-nau-be Village, 9.
Ball, Prosper A., 558. Baltimore & Ohio Railroad, 333. Banks and Bankers, 386. Banks, Luther, 622. Bates, William F., 603.
Beaver Dams, 160. Beck, Annetta, 606. Beck, John F., 605. Ben-ak Village on the Tippecanoe, 9. Benevolent and Fraternal Societies, 222.
Berger, George, 423.
Berger, Noah, 637.
Berger, Samuel C., 638.
Berkey, Noah, 621.
Biggs, James, 613.
Blissville, 133. Bloomer Costume, 191.
Blue Ribbon, 306.
Boating and Fishing Club, 236.
Bock, Leonard, 587.
Boggs, Frank P., 596.
Bogus Mexican Dollar, 316.
Bold Robbery, 315.
Bollinger, Frank H., 634. Bondurant, Clinton A., 428.
Boot Makers, 161.
Borton, T. A., 468.
Bourbon, 114. Bourbon Advance, 298.
Bourbon Banking Company, 390.
Bourbon's Colleges, 118.
Bourbon Cornet Band, 117.
Bourbon Democrat, 298.
Bourbon Fair, 235. Bourbon Independent, 297.
Bourbon Mirror, 298.
Bourbon News, 298.
Bourbon's Newspapers, 297.
Bourbon, Postoffice, 364.
Bourbon's Town Schools, 119.
Bowell, C. B., 646.
Bowman, Hiram F., 629. Boys, Samuel E., 517. Bradley, Edwin J., 492.
Branch of the State Bank, 388. Bremen, 123. Bremen Agricultural Society, 235. Bremen Banner, 299.
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Bremen Clipper, 299. Bremen Enquirer, 299.
Bremen Gazette, 299.
Bremen Newspapers, 299. Bremen Postoffice, 364. Brightside, The Julia E. Work Training School, 345. Brooke, Keim F., 460. Buck Ague, 161.
Buffalo, 3.
Burgener, Samuel J., 464. Burr Oak, 134. Bussard, F. J., 644.
Carbiener, Jacob, 505. Carrier's Address, 300.
Cavender, Jacob, 428.
Cemeteries, 318.
Chase, Myron, 415. Chief Pokagon's Love Story, 43.
Church Monitor, 296.
City Hall and Engine House, 114.
Civil Townships' Boundaries, 89. Cleaning Wheat, 164.
Clearing up Farms, 156.
Clerk's Office, 215.
Climate, 78.
Cline, Oliver, 535- Colfax and Turpie Debates, 374. Commissioners, 211.
Commissioners' Court, 199.
Committee on Resolutions, 302.
Common Pleas Court, 198.
Common Pleas Judges, 200.
Conger, William H., 435. Coon and Deer Hunting, 166.
Cooper, Charles F., 599. Corey, Melvin L., 568.
· Corn Planting, 159. Coroners, 211. Corse, Fred, 527. County Agent, 306.
County Auditors, 209.
County Clerks, 208. County Infirmaries, 344.
County Seat Located, 83.
County Treasurers, 209. Court House, 337.
Courthouse, Present, 337.
Courts of Marshall County, 196.
Courting and Marrying, 183. Cressner, Luther R., 643. Cromley, Jacob J., 543. Culver, 125.
Culver City Herald, 303.
Culver, E. R., 346.
Culver, Emily J., 346.
Culver Fire Department, 128.
Culver, Henry H., 346.
Culver, H. H., 346.
Culver Military Academy, 346-357.
Culver Postoffice, 364.
Dawson, Moses, 576.
Day, Elias, 521. Dead Indian Chief, 7.
Deeds, Henry A., 447.
Den of Wolves, 160.
Destructive Fires, 116.
Destructive Fires at the County Seat, 383.
Dietrick, Christian H., 529.
Dietrick, John R., 538.
Dietrick, Mary A., 529.
Dietrick, Peter E., 451.
Ditty, L. G., 490.
Donelson, 135.
Dolph, Albert W., 422.
Driven Wells, 155.
Durr, Charles C., 628.
· Early Amusements, 188. Early Auditors, 216.
Early Jury System, 205.
Early Merchants and Landlords, III. Early Roads in Marshall County, 144. Early Schools and School Teach- ers, 254. East LaPaz, 134.
Eckert, George E., 481.
Editorial Convention, 301.
Edwards, Stephen, 421.
Eidson, J. W., 609. Election Days, 376.
Eley, Lorenzo D., 570.
Elizabethtown, 133.
Ellis, Eda L., 614.
Ellis, Isaac N., 614.
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Enders, Christian, 471. English, William H., 640. Ettinger, George D., 611. Everly, William, 575. Exchange Bank of Culver, 128.
Fairmount, 130. Farmer's Monthly, 296. Farm Machinery and Harvesting, 165. Farm Products, 166. Feeding Cattle, 158. Ferrier, J. O., 539- Fifer, Jacob, 604. Fire at Culver Military Academy, 386.
Fire of January 3, 1866, 384.
Fire of February 6, 1895, 385.
Fire of March 22, 1857, 383. Fire of September 20, 1858, 386. Fire of December 16, 1851, 383. Firestone, Cephus, 562. First College Student, 115. First Congressional Convention, 374. First County Jail, 342. First Courthouse Erected by the County, 336.
First Editorial Meeting, 301.
First National Bank, 388.
First Permanent Lawyer, 200.
First Presidential Election, 378. First Schools, 256. First State Bank, Bourbon, 390.
First Treasurer's Report, 218. First White Settlers, 63. Fish and Fishing Stories, 177. Fishing and Game Club, 237.
Fleet, A. F., 346. Flowing Wells, 90. Fort Wayne & Chicago Railroad, 333. Fourth of July Celebration, 192. Fourth Ward Embroglio, 108. Fries, William, 458. Future of the Pottawattomies, 33-
Gandy, Nathaniel, 463. Garn, Samuel A., 453. Garver, H. M., 544.
General Tipton's Report to Gover- nor Wallace, 25. Gerard, Andrew R., 636.
Gerard, Charles C., 636.
Getting Lost in the Woods, 162. Gilmore, James A., 477.
Going to Church, 158. Gonter, Charles A., 419. Gould, Samuel W., 579. Government Soil Survey of Mar- shall County, 74. Grand Reception, 294.
Grant, Jones, 560.
Graverson, John, 496.
Greer's Recollections Times, 158. Grimm, Gottlieb, 454.
of Early
Grise, John F., 473. Grist and Saw Mills, 68.
Haag, Jonas, 545. Hall, Henry B., 510. Hand, William E., 469.
Hanes, James E., 431. Harris, S. E., 619.
Hartman, George D., 626. Hatfield, George W., 614.
Hayes, Charles E., 448.
Hayes, Samuel J., 486.
Heckaman, Edward, 476.
Hendricks, William G., 495.
Hess, Isaiah, 594. Hildebrand, J. W., 533.
Hildebrand, Maria, 533.
Hildebrand, William, 532.
Hitchcock, G. F., 545.
Hogarth, Ed. S., 515.
Hogate, James, 625.
Hoham Block Burned August I, 1872, 385. Holm, Moses, 426. Holtzendorff, Charles F., 639.
Home-made Garments, 142.
Home of the Hardy Pioneer, 65. Hoover, William L., 468.
Houghton, Thomas, 434. House of Representatives, 214. Howard, Walter S., 427. How They Cooked, 164. Huckleberry Marsh, 132.
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Huff, Alfred A., 601. Huff, Clinton, 562. Huff, George W., 513. Humrichouser, Henry, 559. Hunting Bee Trees, 179.
Improved Order of Red Men, 228. Incidents of Later Politics, 370. Independent Order of Odd Fel- lows, 225. Indian Age, 4.
Indian Border Wars, 37.
Indian Chief Po-ka-gon's Letter, 29. Indian Doctor, 160. Indian Love Making and Marriage, 42.
Indian Treaties, 35.
Indiana Greenbacker, 295. Indiana Tocsin, 297. Interesting Historical Information, 400. Inwood, 130.
Jacoby, John R., 474. Jacoby, Marcus A., 547. Jarrell, Henry L., 432. Johnson, Charles, 487. Johnson, John E., 414. Johnson, Luther, 617. Jones, Elmer E., 523. Jones, John R., 440. Judges and Other Officers, 205. Judges of Common Pleas Court, 206.
Kaszer, J., 472. Keen, A. A., 501. Kellison, Charles, 556. Kitch, Edward S., 561. Kizer, James H., 596. Knights of Pythias, 227. Knoblock, T. Frank, 549. Knoepfle, Christian, 523. Koch, Willis, 439. Kreighbaum, Ira J., 472. Kuhn, Fred H., 563. Kuntz, Adam, 482. Kyser, Franklin M., 531.
Laird, Anna E., 604. Laird, S. A., 635. Lakes, 92. Langenbaugh, John F., 632. LaPaz, 134.
LaPaz Postoffice, 365.
La Porte and Plymouth Mail Route, I48. Lawhead, W. E., 643.
Lee, Thomas B., 615.
Leitch, J. P., 631.
Leland, John W., 585.
Lemert, Lewis L., 541.
Lemler, George W., 506.
Leonhard, John W., 478.
Lindquist, N. S., 441.
Linksville, 129.
Literature, 247.
Literary Societies, 24I.
Local Option, 305.
Local Reminiscences of the War, 393. Logan, Harley A., 474.
Logansport & South Bend Traction Company, 334.
Mail and Magnet, 294. Marmont, 125.
Marshall County as the White Man Found It, 70.
Marshall County Bank, 387.
Marshall County Democrat, 291.
Marshall County Library, 23I.
Marshall County Medical Society, 283. Marshall County Military Record, 391.
Marshall Comty's Only Prize Fight, 307. Marshall County Republican, 290. Marshall County Trust and Say- ings Company, 390. Marshall County Watchmen, 230. Marshall and St. Joseph County Old Settlers' Society. 240. Marshall, Killing of, 12. Martin, Jacob, 571.
Martindale, Elijah C .. 530. Masonic Lodges, 222. Matchette, A. C., 618.
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Matthew, William H., 508. Mattingly, Charles T., 483. Maxinkuckee, 135.
Maxinkuckee Lake, 95. Maxinkuckee Postoffice, 365. McClure, L. W., 572. McClure Library Association, 232.
McDonald, Daniel, 409.
Mckesson, William, 451.
Meetings in the Woods, 269.
Meno-mi-nee, 12.
Menominee Village, 5.
Meredith, Benjamin F., 608.
Metsker, Clay W., 504.
Mill Dams, 68.
Miller, Amos C., 520. Miller, Daniel W., 443.
Milner, Thomas, 457.
Mind Reading, 381.
Miscellaneous Organizations, 230. Monument to the Pottawattomie Indians, 50. Morlock, Daniel R., 447.
Morlock, Fred C., 491.
Morlock, George P., 564.
Morlock, John, 499.
Morlock, Joseph S., 519.
Morris, Edmund, 527.
Mosher, James L., 553.
Mound Builders, 3.
Mozart Musical Club, 246. Music, 247, 251.
Myers, Frederick H., 459. Myers, Jacob E., 418.
Nees-wau-gee, 7. Nees-Wau-Gee Village, 6. Neu, Charles H., 609. Newman, Charles W., 559. Newspapers, 286. Nickel Plate Railroad, 334. Ni-go, Anthony, II.
Norris, Norman S., 530. North Salem, 135. Northern Indiana in 1829, 53.
Noted Indian Chiefs, 39. Nusbaum, Charles E., 507.
Oak Hill Cemetery, 320. O'Blenis, R. C., 588.
O'Keefe, William, 420. Old Brass Band, 310. Old Forge, 322.
Old Mill Dam, The, 70.
Old Pierce, the Horse Thief, 313.
Old Settlers' Society, 239.
Old Time Doctors, 279. Old Time Fiddlers, 324. Old Time Taverns, 59.
Oids, John M., 549.
Oratory, 247, 252.
Organization of First Religious So- cieties, 272. Orthography of Maxinkuckee, 97. Osborn, Samuel, 484. Osborn, John, 640.
Panama, 129. Parker, E. E., 543.
Parks, Ada M., 621.
Parks, Brodie W., 616.
Parks, John W., 41I.
Parks, Sinclair, 620.
Pau-koo-shuck-A Ghost Story, 41. Pesch, M. A., 563.
Peter, Martin L., 442.
Petit, Father Benjamin Marie, 16.
Pickerl, Jonathan, 581.
Pigeons and Pigeon Roosts, 181.
Pioneer Ague, 161.
Pioneer Exploring Party, A, 61.
Pioneer Hogs, 159.
Pioneer Log Cabins, 137.
Pioneer Mills, 187.
Plake, George M., 506.
Plank Roads, 151. Plymouth Organized as a Town, 105. Plymouth and Other Postoffices, 358. Plymouth Bank, 386.
Plymouth Banner, 289. Plymouth Chronicle, 296.
Plymouth Commandery Drum
Corps, 236. Plymouth Fire Department, 112. Plymouth Glee Club, 237. Plymouth Greys, 392. Plymouth Journal, 286.
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Plymouth, Kankakee & Pacific
Railroad Company, 334.
Plymouth & Ligonier Railroad Company, 335. Plymouth Pilot, 287.
Plymouth Silver Cornet Band, 312.
Plymouth, South Bend & Niles Railroad, 335.
Plymouth State Bank, 388. Plymouth String Band, 236.
Plymouth, the County Seat, 100. Plymouth's First Business Failure, 194.
Pokagon, Chief Simon, 29. Political Riot, 372. Politics, 366.
Politics Seventy Years Ago, 368.
Polke's Cemetery, 188.
Ponader, L. Frederick, 551.
Pottawattomie Indians, 5.
Pottawattomie Mills-Ben-nack's
Village, 55. Praying Bands, 306.
Pre-Historic Age, I.
Preliminary Organization of the County, 79.
Present Infirmary, 344.
Presidential Elections, 377.
Preston, H. P., 438. Primitive Brick Making, 174.
Primitive Saw Mills, 171.
Principal Physicians, 281. Probate Court, 197. Probate Judges, 206.
Progress of the Public Schools, 253.
Prominent Judges, Brief Sketches of, 199. Prosecuting Attorneys, 206. Public Buildings, 336. Public School Library, 233.
Radcliffe, F. E., 618. Railroads, 330. Railsback, William, 584. Raising Tobacco, 190. Ramps, 162. Ramsay, Charles W., 567.
Rea, Oliver A., 494. Reception to Paroled Soldiers, 395.
Recollections of the Old Indian Chapel, 47.
Recollections of Rev. Warren Tay- lor, 18.
Recorders, 210, 220.
Reeve, C. A., 600.
Reeve, C. H., 600.
Religious Discussion, 279.
Religious Organizations, 269.
Removal of Menominee and His Band, 20.
Representatives in the Indiana Leg- islature, 207.
Restitution, 295.
Rhoade, Christian, 537.
Richey, Samuel R., 461.
Rivers and Lakes, 90.
Sarber, Perry E., 550.
Sarber, William M., 410.
Saturday Club, 243.
Schaefer, George W., 627.
Schilt, William F., 525.
Schlosser, Henry, 540.
Schlosser, Perry N., 580.
Schroeder, James M., 582.
Schroeter, John G., 603. Scofield, A. M., 449. Scofield, William, 448.
Second County Jail, 343. Second Poor Farm, 344.
Secret and Benevolent Societies, II7. See, Jesse L., 612.
Seiler, Christian, 557. Seiler, I. L. D., 509.
Seltenright, F. M., 489.
Seminary, The, 319.
Seminaries, 318.
Severns, James B., 598.
Shafer, Abram, 501.
Sheriffs, 209.
Sheriff's Office, 219.
Sherland, William M., 437- Shirk, H. Y., 498.
Sickly Season of 1850, 280.
Singrey, Hoy L., 548. Sketches of County Officers, 213. Slayter, C. M., 55I. Sligo, 130.
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Slumber Song of a Vanished Race, 34. Smallpox, 281. Smith, Thomas D., 565. Snyder, Benjamin, 429. Snyder, David E., 511. Soice, Oliver G., 450. Soils, 78. Sons of Malta, 229. Sour, Edwin, 526. Spanish-American War, 396.
Speyer, H. M., 513.
Spinning and Weaving, 142. Spiritual Rappings, 379. Springs and Dug Wells, 152. Stafford, William, 577. Steinbach, Henry, 624. St. Michael's Academy, 260. State Exchange Bank of Argos, 390. State Senators from 1835 to 1908, 207. Stevens, A. E., 441. Stevens, S. N., 466. Stilson, A. F., 467. Street-lighting, 109.
Stringer Graveyard, 318. Stringer, John T., 502.
Strohecker, Dorus, 412. Strole, Samuel G., 433- Stump Speaking, 369. Sugar Camps, 166. Sunshine, The, 296. Surveyors, 210. Surveyor's Office, 221.
Taber, Henry C., 446. Taber, Melissa J., 591. Taber, Thomas O., 589. Taber, Sarah J., 446. Tallman, Homer H., 554. Teegarden, 133.
Teegarden Postoffice, 366. Telegraph, 326. Telephone, 328. Temperance Organizations, 303. Terrific Explosion, 314. Third Jail, 343. Thirteen Club, 238. Thomas, Andrew J., 591.
Thomas, John D., 623. Thompson, Alfred A., 425. Thompson, Erastus J., 430. Tippecanoe Postoffice, 366. Tippecanoe Town, 136.
Tippecanoe Town Station, 137. Totally Deaf Operator, A, 327.
Township Library, 233. Township Schools, 260. Towns and Villages, 100.
Treasurer's Office, 217.
Trennel, John, 631.
Tribbey, Thomas, 524.
Troup, William H., 546.
Troyer, Percy J., 424. Two of the Earliest Pioneers, 192. Tyner, 13I.
Unger, Harry L., 542. Union Town, 125.
Van Buskirk, Charles, 630.
Vandalia Railroad, 334.
Vangilder, Frank, 415.
Van Vactor, Mark K., 413.
Van Vactor, Miles, 552.
Van Vactor, Riley, 417.
Van Vactor, William, 436.
Village at Wolf Creek, 9.
Vink, C. C., 610.
Vollmer, Jacob, 555.
Vollnagle, Daniel, 439.
Voreis, Daniel C., 553.
Voreis, George W., 455.
Voreis, William, 569.
Wahl, George F., 518. Walnut, 129.
Warner, Oliver J., 644.
Warnes, William W., 515.
Watkins, Coleman E., 536.
Weaver, Henry D., 641.
Weird and Strange Happenings, 313. Weissert, John, 489.
Welborn, Otice M., 646. Welborn, William H., 479. What Became of Menominee, 16.
Whiteman, M. D. L., 476. Whitesell. John E., 529.
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Whitesell, Joseph C., 455.
Wickizer, Frank M., 641.
Wigwams and How Indians Lived, 171. Wireless Telegraphy and Tele- phony, 329.
Wise, Adam E., 470.
Wiseman, B. W. S., 573.
Wolf Creek, 130.
Worsham, James A., 607.
Wright, Edward M., 560.
Wright, William D., 467.
Yantiss, William L., 606. Yellow River Road, 150.
Yellow River Valley, 72.
Yockey, Joseph A., 485.
Young Men's Library Association, 232. Young, William F., 452. Young, William T., 593.
Zehner, David, 456. Zehner, William, 462. Zimmerman, Albert R., 638.
EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
When the writer entered into an agreement with the publishers of this work that he would write a History of Marshall County, he was fully aware of the herculean task that loomed up before him. He had had considerable experience along the lines of historic writing, and knew that to gather the data and compile and write such a history as would be satisfactory to the patrons of the work, and creditable to the writer and to the publishers as well, would be a laborious work not easy of accomplishment.
The writer was the author of the first history of Marshall county ever written, and for nearly thirty years was the editor of the Plymouth Demo- crat, during which time he gathered much data and wrote many articles on historical subjects, expecting at some future time to write another history of the county, greatly revised and improved. That time has come in the writing of the present history. The facts contained in the first history writ- ten by him in 1881 and in the sketches written for his paper from time to time, will be used in this work as occasion may require, as facts never change and history cannot be written without them.
The writer came to Marshall county with his parents in 1836, when a mere child ; when the county was also in its infancy, and almost a wilder- ness, with few log cabins, no churches or schoolhouses and no public build- ings; and as he has grown to manhood and age he has seen it developed from year to year, from a population of a few hundred to more than 25,000, with churches and schoolhouses on every hand, magnificent county buildings, five lines of railroads, telegraphs and telephones, and everything that can be desired to make life comfortable and enjoyable.
Time is swiftly passing away. Already three-quarters of a century has gone since the first white settlement was made, and the few now living who were here then must soon depart to "that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns." While they yet remain it is deemed advisable to obtain the facts within their knowledge and place them upon permanent record for the benefit of those who come after they are gone.
In the preparation of the matter for this work, the writer has not the remotest idea that perfection will be attained; on the contrary, he is abso- lutely certain it will not; therefore the reader must not expect it. His ex- perience in gathering statistics from various sources has already convinced him that the correct data in all cases cannot be obtained. During the period of the organization of the county, and for many years afterwards the rec- ords, especially as to dates, are very unreliable. The files of the county papers have been found to be deficient in regard to the very things it was
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EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION.
desirable to know. Weeks and weeks would come and go, and either notlı- ing worthy of note transpired, or the editor did not think it worth while to bother his head about such trivial matters as local news. If reference was made to anything of a local nature, it seems to have been stated in the briefest manner possible, without any regard whatever to details. The oldest in- habitant, too, cannot call to mind dates with any degree of certainty, and so, upon the whole, the sources from which information must be derived are not sufficiently numerous and reliable to enable the historian to insure the reader that he will in all cases demonstrate to a mathematical certainty every propo- sition that may be touched upon as the work progresses. When the work shall be completed, there will, undoubtedly, be found many omissions. Among the many scenes and incidents that go to make up the history of the county, it will be a miracle should nothing escape the historian's notice. Each reader will undoubtedly peruse the work with a view of finding some- thing with which he was familiar, and, if he fails to find it, will probably make up his mind that the historian purposely omitted it. Unfavorable criticisms of this kind are expected, but the consciousness of knowing that every effort has been made to gather everything worthy of insertion shall stimulate the historian to bear up under these afflictions until the storm shall have passed.
In the beginning of this work it has been deemed advisable to incor- porate in the first pages a brief sketch of the pre-historic age when the mas- todon flourished in this part of the country, coming on down to the Mound Builders, and especially to give a complete and truthful history of the Pot- tawattomie Indians, the first owners and inhabitants of all this part of the country, who were here in peaceable possession of the lands when the first white settlers made their appearance in this county, which has never before been presented in consecutive order, and is now for the first time placed on permanent record in the présent History of Marshall County.
Hoping that the arrangement of the matter found in the following pages will meet the approval of the people of Marshall county, for whom it is in- tended, the work, with all its imperfections, is respectfully submitted.
Plymouthı, Indiana, 1908.
DANIEL MCDONALD.
HISTORY OF MARSHALL COUNTY
I. PRE-HISTORIC AGE.
Indications of the beginning of the first animal life in the territory now composing Marshall county is found in the discovery of numerous bones of the mastodon. In June, 1874, Mr. Oscar L. Bland, while bathing in a pool in Deep creek, on the farm of his father, Alexander Bland, in the northeast corner of Walnut township, Marshall county, Ind., found a very large tooth, whose weight at that time, including the debris connected with it, was about eight pounds. Further search was made, and within a few feet another tooth, about the same size, was found. Further examination of the banks of the stream was made, and, some 200 feet farther up, several very fine specimens of the remains of what must have been a very large animal, were found. The "find" naturally created quite an excitement in the neighbor- hood, which extended all over the country, and many exaggerated descrip- tions of the relics and the supposed size of the animal were made by news- paper correspondents and others. In December, 1874, a correspondent of the Warsaw Northern Indianian had the following in relation to it :
"Mr. Alexander Bland has discovered on his farm near Bourbon a great number of large bones of an unknown animal, that, according to careful measurement, was certainly a huge old monster, the largest ever known. Several of the teeth are in a partial state of preservation and weigh over eight pounds each, and several of the ribs are almost like the ribs of a man- moth man-of-war ship in size, the other bones being proportionately large. One of the officers of the Academy of Sciences of Chicago came here to investigate the remains, and pronounced the animal to have been over sixty feet tall and of proportionate length! The bones are to be carefully col- lected and sent to the Academy Museum in the city, as of rare value to antiquarians."
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