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ILLUSTRATED HISTORICAL ATLAS OF ST. JOSEPH COUNTY INDIANA
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INDEX TO ST. JOSEPH COUNTY ATLAS.
MAPS, PLATS, Etc.
PARK
Centre Township
86
Clay Township 62
Crum's Point, Plat of. 41
Eastern Hemisphere
101
Gennan Township
54
Greene Township.
46 and
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Harris Township
68
Indiana, State of ..
92 and
93
Fields, Stephen
39
Howland, Rosalinda.
39
Hammond, Mrs. M. B
45
Haven W. A
61
Irvin, E. M.
70
Knepp & Houser
48
Kane, Lydia
61
Longley, Thomas
83
Lee, E. T.
42
Locke, G. W.
29
Lindenman, Jacob
85
Laidlaw, John
85
Longley, Andrew
80
Plainfield, Plat of
40
Miller, J. D.
59
South Bend City, Connected Map of .... 15
South Bend City, East part .18 and South Bend City, West part. .26 and 27
St. Joseph County .
2
Union Township.
62 and
63
Mckenzie & Bowen
45
United States.
96 and
97
Main, John
39
Warren Township 40 and 41 Notre Dame 8 and
Western Hemisphere 100
West Troy, Plat of
40
Walkerton, Plat of
41
VIEWS.
Adams, Joseph
89
Beach & Keedy .22 and 23
Betz, Jacob
61
Boles, John
71
Barrett, Mrs. D.
19
Chirhart, J. H.
42
Clenny, William
83
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Service, J. H.
37
Smith, Job.
39
St. Phillip's Church
81
Swaim, J. M.
49
Tromp, John
42
Teel, Simeon
83
Ullery, John F
53
Vrooman, Daniel
71
Whitmer, Jacob M.
56
Webster, Menzo
30
Webster, Lester
Williams, Samuel
81
Webster, Jerome A.
30
Webster, Aaron A
30
Webster, Lester.
30
Wagner, David
42
Wells, Joseph B
Washington Block
43
BIOGRAPHIES.
Adams, Joseph
36
Barrett, David 36
Clenny, William
3.3
Cook, Elias Rev.
36
Holloway, Thos. L.
32
Jewell, D. B
33
Lineback, Elijah. 32
Lock, Wm ..
36
Laidlaw, John
32
Locke, G. W
29
Moon, Chas. W.
36
Moon, James
33
Miller, William
16
Pearse, Frankland
36
Rush, Wellington
33
Rohrer, Mrs. Charlotte T.
32
Rerick, Henry
33
Rudduck, John
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Rupe, Jacob.
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33
Swaim, J. M.
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Savidg, T'hos.
30
Stephens, Peter C
32
Smith, Job.
33
Teel, Simeon
32
Ullery, John F
53
VanLiew A. O
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Webster Family
51
ST. JOSEPH CO. DIRECTORY.
Centre Township
i04 and 105
Clay Township
91
German Township
95
Greene Township.
104
Harris Township
103
DuComb, P. P.
36
Lincoln
-99, 102
Liberty
- 94 and
95
Mishawaka and Penn Township,
60, 66, 76, 82,
84
Madison Township.
98
Olive Township.
102 and 103
South Bend City and Portage Township,
50, 52, 58,
60
Union Township.
84,90 91
Warren Township.
105
MISCELLANEOUS.
History of Churches in St. Joseph Co. 24, 25
History of South Bend and St. Joseph
County
·- 3, 4, 7, 10, 11, 14, 17
History of Notre Dame ..
--- 17, 20, 21
History of St. Mary's Academy -- 38 and 44
History of St Joseph's Catholic Church,
21 and
24
History of Studebaker Manfacturing Co.
28
Service, George H.
35
Savidg, R. M.
-30 and
32-
History of Mishawaka
17
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Cole, Joseph O.
19
Dick & Kamm
77
Dunn, Reuben.
57
Dillman, L. G.
42
Dixon, Hezekiah.
67
Davis, J. E
83
Dunn, James T
81
Follmer, Mrs. John 88
Fawcett, Thomas B.
37
Liberty Township
54 and
55
Lakeville, Plat of
40
Mishawaka (north part), Plat of __ 78 and 79 Mishawaka (sonth part), Plat of_ _ 72 and 73
Madison Township 68 and 69
North Liberty. Plat of
40
New Carlisle, Plat of
41
Olive Township.
. 34 and
35
Osceola, Plat of_
41
Miller, N. S .. 61
19
Miller, William
16
Miller, Adam
67
Minnick, Jacob.
74
9
North Liberty Manufacturing Company,
48
Phoenix Block
74
Pearson, Joseph
43
Reynolds, James
39
Rittinger, Theo.
39
St. Mary's Academy
12 and
13
St. Joseph's Catholic Church, School, etc.
75
Savidg, R. M. 70
Shidler, A. W.
64
Smith, Michael
65
Wynn, Jonathan
33
Wells, Joseph B
33
Lincoln Township
4G
Portage Township
31
Penn ;Township
86 and
87
Hupp, Michael
33
Miller, A. N.
88
Holloway, George.
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SAINT JOSEPH COUNTY HISTORY,
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HISTORY OF SOUTH BEND.
FATHER MARQUETTE, in r673, passed up the Illinois and Kan- the densely wooded regions, the decayed vegetable mould of the
In 1829 Benjamin Potter settled in Clay Township. Some kakee Rivers, and across the Portage " to the St. Joseph of the prairies, and the peat-beds of the marshes and natural meadows, say he came the preceding year. John Hagne, Mr McCombs, Lakes." This was probably. the first discovery of this lovely river There is a large percentage of silica in most of the soil, and and others came this year into the same township, and John by any European, and if tradition be irne, he reached the river wheat consequently has always been an abundant crop. Corn is Smith, David and Aaron Miller into German, and William Holt about two miles from where South Bend now stands.
excelled nowhere east of the Mississippi except in Illinois. Fruit and S. I. H. Ireland settled in Penn.
is easily raised, and in large quantities, and of excellent quality.
In 1830 emigrants began to pour into the county in large
The prairies are not large, but beautiful, and the land there is numbers, and small communities were formed in Olive, Greene, worth $1oo per acre. The principal ones are Terre Coupee,
German, Clay, Centre, Penn; and Harris Townships. The nine miles in length, situated in Olive Township; Sumption's, in Rushes, Druliners, Vails, Garwoods, Nickersons, Egberts, Whites, The Potowatomie tribe were the principal occupants of the Green Township; Portage, in German Township; Harris, in Carskaddens, Boyds, etc., settled in Olive. The Sumptions, Ru- country. French traders at a later period came among them- Harris Township, and Palmer's, in Centre Township.
pels, Antrims, Whitmers, Birds, Rudducks, stopped in Greene ; the Hollers, Ritters, etc., in German ; the Cripes, Longleys, etc.,
The marshes along the Kankakee River are becoming gradually drier each succeeding year, and one of the most extended peat- iu Clay : the Millings, Peckovers, Palmers, Roses, etc., in Centre ;
As early as 1820, Pierre F. Navarre came here, married an beds in the state has been discovered here. It is upwards of the Skinners, Cottrells, Wests, Smiths, Eustlers, etc., in Penn ; Indian woman, and had a large family of boys and girls, some of sixty miles in length and about three miles in width, lying on the llarrises, Bells, Millers, Ringles, Baldwins, etc., in Harris whom were highly educated, and when the tribe was moved be- both sides of the Kankakee, and is from ten to fifteen feet in Township. Space forbids the further mention of many promi- yond the Mississippi, he went with them, but returned, and died depth. This will become by-and-by invaluable as fuel, and will nent nien who came the following years, but a very respectable December 27, 1864, and is buried in Notre Dame Cemetery. His also furnish an in inexhaustible fountain for the manufacture of list will be found among the old settlers whose biographical sons are still with the Indians in Kansas, and one of them is a gas. sort of chief among them.
Various treaties having been made with the Indians by Gen. Cass, then Governor of Michigan, and others, and their lands having been purchased at divers times and places, they were re- moved in r840-43, per order of the General Government into Iowa, under the conduct of Alexis Coquillard.
The Potowatomies were a kind and gentle people when not ex- cited by liquor. Many of the old settlers regretted their depart- ure from the country, and the Indians seemed equally reluctant to go. In many instances, they came to the cabins of the whites and bid them " good-bye," while flowing tears showed the depth of their feelings on leaving the hunting-grounds and graves of their fathers.
At first, the only access into this country were the Indian trails from Fort Wayne and from Detroit, which intersected al Niles, Michigan, and a third trail along the shore of Lake Michi- gan to the mouth of the St. Joseph River ; and when the first set- tlers came with their teams, they were obliged to cut their own roads.
For thirty-five or forty years the emigration to the West went around this beautiful valley by the lakes, and regions beyond received accessions in population, while the Indians were the principal occupants here. When it became known to the people of Ohio and Pennsylvania what an Eden was secreted in the St. Joseph Valley, emigration was directed hitherward.
There were no roads, as we have said ; no bridges, no houses, no mills, and the pioneer was obliged to bring his supplies with hin for the first year or two.
The trials and sufferings incident to a new country settlement found no exception in St. Joseph County. The most undaunted courage and bravery were necessary, and how well the battle was fought and won the present state of affairs plainly indicate.
Men who came as day-laborers can now be found worth as an agent of the American Fur Company, and is one of the $roo,000.
With the early settlers came the itinerent preacher of the Gos- work gives a very interesting account of John Jacob Astor's
pel, and churches were soon organized in this wilderness. Aniong the first were the Methodists and German Baptists, or Dunkards. The prevailing fevers and other "ills that flesh is heir to" soon attracted the attention of the physician, and with saddle- bags, pills, and quinine, he found his way hitler. The year 1838 was especially noted for great mortality among the settlers. There were not enough well ones to care for the sick.
In the purchase of real estate, organization of the county, and the establishments of the courts, the lawyer, desiring that all dif- ferences should be amicably adjusted according to law-came, and immediately found a corner in some log-cabin, and fell to Col. Lathrop M. Taylor came next in September. 1827. He was an Indian trader and agent for a Fort Wayne firm. He was work, and St. Joseph County Bar has always, in point of talent, maintained a high standard among the legal fraternity of In- elected the first clerk and recorder of the county October 18, diana.
TOPOGRAPHY.
There is not in all the West a more interesting county than St. Joseph, of Indiana. Having traveled with private conveyance all over it from north to southi, from east to west, and witnessed Spring's bursting buds, Summer's bloom, and Autumn's fruitage, man Township. and the gorgeous coloring of its forest leaves when Nature gave evidence of departing life,-having gazed upon its garden-like prairies, its majestic forests, its rolling pasture lands, and bending wheat fields, we venture the above assertion without fear of suc- cessful contradiction.
Henry Painter and Eli Smith settled in or near South Bend, Israel Rush, and Willian and Timothy Moat in Penn Township the same The surface of the country is pleasingly diversified, and the year, and Jacob Cripe, Daniel Eiler, and Samuel Cannon took up Jacob Harris,
soil responds bountifully to the labor of the husbandinan.
their residence in Clay Township. It will be remembered that John Hague.
As we pass from township to township, we notice the light this was long before the county was organized or the townships sandy soil of the original oak openings, the dark sandy loam of laid out.
A large number must have come into the county in r830. Colonel Taylor says in this year he secured 128 names to a peti- tion to the Legislature to get the county seat changed to South Bend.
ORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY.
January 29, 1830, the Legislature of Indiana passed an Act, forming St. Joseph and Elkhart Counties.
The boundaries of St. Joseph were as follows :
" Beginning at range number two west from the second prin- pal meridian of the State of Indiana on the northern line of the state ; thence running east to where range number three east in- tersects the state line; thence south with the range line thirty miles ; thence west to range two west ; thence north to the place of beginning."
In May, 1830, the county seat was located on a farm owned by William Brookfield, and subsequently called the " McCartney Farm," about two and a half or three miles northwest of South Bend in German Township on section twenty-seven ; some say thirty-four and thirty-five. The town was called " ST. JOSEPH," and was very pretty-on paper,- but May 12, r831, the new Com- missioners, consisting of Absolum Holcomb, Chester Sage, Col. John Jackson, and William M. Hood re-located the county seat at the Village of South Bend.
The county was organized August 27, 1830.
Adam Smith, Lambert McComb, and Levi F. Arnold were commissioned as justices of the peace by Gov. James B. Ray, and, meeting at the house of Alexis Coquillard, they were sworn in by L. M. Taylor, the first clerk of the county.
L. McComb was elected President of the Board, and the County was thus organized.
l'his Board appointed John D. Lasly, County Treasurer ; bond, $1,000 ; James Nixon, Assessor, and Daniel A. Fullerton,
Keith, Constables ; Jacob Cripe and John Heag. Overseers of the Poor ; Daniel Eiler and Samuel Cannon, Fence Viewers. Samuel Hanna & Co., and the American Fur Company were allowed to vend foreign merchandise by paying a license of Sto each.
Monday, September 6, 1830. The Board of J. P. met at the house of A. Coquillard. Grand Jurors were drawn for the No- vember term of the St. Joseph Circuit Court, and were as fol- lows :
Samuel Cannon, Jacob White, John Clyburn, William Ea- hart, Adam Keith, John Bauker, Samuel I.ceper, Charles Labby, Henly Clyburn, Ganriel Druliner, Zacheriah Grant, Jacob Cripe, Benjamin Potter, James Nixon, Thomas Clyburn, Philip Fail, Louis San Comb, Joseph Adams.
PETIT JURORS.
Paul Egbert,
Samuel Johnson,
John Druliner,
Jacob Egbert,
Daniel Eiler,
John Rouleau,
C. B. Overrocker,
Jacob Ritter,
John Whitaker,
Jacob Rhue,
Benj. Coquillard,
Alexis Coquillard,
John Wills,
Barzilla Drulinger,
John Skiles,
Lewis Shirley,
Joseph Rohrer,
Richard Harris,
Horace Markham,
Nathaniel Steele,
Samuel Garwood,
sketches and family histories appear in the following pages of this work
THE WATER-SHED.
A line drawn from the east part of the county four miles south of the St. Joseph River, and extending due west to Bolin's Lake (a little to the west of south from South Bend), thence a iit tle to the west of north to the head waters of the Kankakee, thence northwest to the northwest corner of Warren Township, marks the water-shed of St. Joseph County. To the north and northeast from this line the streams flow into the St. Joseph River, and to Lake Michigan, reaching the Atlantic Ocean through Lakes Huron, St. Clair, Erie, St. Lawrence River, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence; whereas to the south and southwest they flow into the Kankakee, and down the Illinois and Mississip- pi, reaching the Atlantic through the Gulf of Mexico.
A mill-race has been dug from the head waters of the Kanka- kee to the St. Joseph River at South Bend, and the waters of that river made to flow by the assistance of art in both directions from this fountain head,-so level is the division line of the water- shed. 'l'he name " St. Joseph " was derived from a French Catholic missionary who died and is buried near Niles, Michigan. The Indian name of the St. Joseph River was " Sockwock."
EARLY SETTLEMENT.
The first white settler in St. Joseph County after Peter F. Navarre was Alexis Coquillard, who came in the Spring of 1824. Those who had preceded him were French Indian traders, and instead of opening the country to cultivation, had intermarried with the Indians and adopted their mode of life and customs. Mr. Coquillard was, therefore, the first to commence the work of civilization, and his name appears upon the first records of the Courts, land sales, etc.
He established a trading post with the Indians at South Bend,
many mentioned by Washington Irving in his " Astoria," which efforts to gain that profitable traffic over to our national advan- Collector of Taxes; Benjamin Potter, Thomas Skiles, and Jacob
tage. Coquillard was a Frenchman, and was born in Detroit. He spent much of his time among the Indians, and being a man of large frame and powerful muscle, weighing about 250 Ibs., he was held in high esteem and was also greatly feared by them. They talked of electing liim chief at one time, and his trading post on the banks of the St. Joseph River was a favorite resort for all the tribes in Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan. He was killed by falling from a building in r854. His widow still resides in South Bend.
1830, and has held a prominent position in the business and civil concerns of the county during the past forty-seven years. He was appointed the first postmaster June 6, rg29.
Lewis San Comb, Job Brookfield, Timothy Smith and family settled in " South Old, " as South Bend was then called in r827, and William Brookfield two or three miles down the river in Ger-
Samuel L. Cottrell came in the year 182g and was appointed sheriff of the county in 1831 and in 1834. His widow still lives in South Bend.
The mouth of the St. Joseph River was discovered by that dis. tinguished French explorer, LASALLE, in 1679, where he arrived in a vessel called " The Griffin." He called it the " River of the Miami's," from the name of an Indian tribe living upon it.
established trading-posts, intermarried, and wielded a great in- finence over tliem.
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HISTORY OF SAINT JOSEPH COUNTY -CONTINUED.
These juries were never called into service. the county, and lot No. 341, on said town plat, for the use of the place of election was designated at Lot Day's house. At the September 14, 1830. The Board allowed Thomas J. Evans United Brethren to build a church thereon, and lot No. 403 to March term, the election for Penn Township was ordered to be $51 ; John Berry, $87; Daniel Worth, $108; Gillis McBean, $27, the German Baptist denomination, and lot No. 234 for the Pres- for locating the sent of justice of St. Joseph County, and ordered byterians, and four acres of land for a public graveyard. that the Treasurer pay the same ont of thic first moneys that may These liberal offers carried the day, and South Bend became come into the Treasury from the sale of the lands belonging to the capital of St. Joseph County, permanently.
the said county.
William Brookfield was appointed Agent of St. Joseph County ; bond, $5,000. November 25, 1830, William Brookfield was ordered to sell lots at the county seat, laid out on section 27, German Town- ship.
The townships laid out by the Board of Justices of the Peace, Nov. 25, 1830, were as follows :
'Ordered, That all the district of country lying west of the out: Ist, Portage; 2d, Centre; 3d, Highland. The inspectors range line dividing ranges two and three west of the second prin- of election were John Egbert, for Centre; Hiram Dayton, for
cipal meridian of the State of Indiana, shall form and constitute a township in the aforesaid county, to be known by the name of Michigan township, and the sheriff of said county is ordered to notify the citizens of the aforesaid township by written notifica- tion to meet at the house of Lewis Shirley in said township on the 18th of December, 1820, to elect one justice of the peace for said township."
This township was not included within the bounds of St. Joseph County, but they extended their jurisdiction over it.
" Ordered, That ranges one and two, west of the second princi- pal meridian of the State of Indiana, shall constitute one town-
ship, to be known by the name of Deschemin township; " sheriff a service for which the owners would just as soon he had neglected to notify the citizens to meet at the house of John Druliner to altogether. William Clark was appointed county surveyor, and elect a justice of the peace was ordered to procure certified copies from the registers of dif-
"Ordered, That all that district of country lying and being ferent land offices where laud had been sold; field notes of town- from the second principal meridian of the state until the center of ships, ranges, sections, fractional sections, as originally surveyed,
range two east, shall constitute German township, and the sheriff and deposit them in the recorder's office of St. Joseph County, citizens of the county of St. Joseph assemble at South Bend on
is required to notify the citizens to meet at the house of David according to law. Miller to elect a justice of the peace.
" Ordered, That all of that district of country lying and being from the centre of range two, east of the second principal merid- ian of the state, and thence running east to the eastern boundary ing of St. Joseph County, shall constitute Portage township.
Aaron Stanton was appointed inspector of election in Michi- gan township, John Egbert, of Deschemin township; David Mil- ler, of German township.
COUNTY COMMISSIONERS.
January 19, 1831, the General Assembly passed a law, organ- izing the Board of County Commissioners, and abolished the Board of Justices of the Peace.
On the first Monday of September, 1831, said board met at the house of Alexis Coquillard. David Miller and Joseph Roh- rer presented certificates of election, and were sworn in. The " St. Joseph County, Indiana," around the margin.
Among the dealers in South Bend, John McLellan was an active thriving town - turning ont an immense amount of board adopted a seal with the insignia of an cagle and the words licensed to retail foreign and domestic groceries. The number work from her varions manufacturing establishments -from some of stores and taverns at that time were amply sufficient to meet all demands. cause or other emigration at a later period began to set into South Bend, and she has far outstripped her rival.
At the same session, jury panels were drawn-both grand and petit. Seventy-five cents were allowed for each wolf-scalp, At this session, the clerk was required to publish a statement At the January term, 1836, Green township and Harris town- agreeable to the act of the Legislature to encourage the killing of of county expenses, which was published and placed on file, and ship were organized, and at the March term a township agricul-
wolves, approved Feb. 10, 1831.
September 6, 1831, the Board ordered the establishment of a 'show our growth in wealth and material prosperity.
ferry at the east end of Water Street in the town of South Bend, over the St. Joseph River.
N. B. Griffethi was licensed to keep said ferry, and to keep a good flat or boat sufficient to carry two horses and a wagon at one time.
two.
Specifications to erect the first court house were made at this session, and the county agent was ordered to give notice of the same in the Northwestern Pioneer, Feb. 6, 1832. The contract was closed with Peter Johnson to build the court house.
At the March term the Board appointed Aaron Miller county treasurer, and laid off Penn township, naming the house of Joseph
October 22, 1832, the Hon. John R. Porter, presiding judge, Pemberton as the place of holding the elections; also laid out held the first circuit court of which there is any record in the Olive township, and appointed the place of holding elections at county. It was held in the bar-room of Calvin Lilly's tavern.
Daniel A. Fullerton was sheriff, and L. M. Taylor, clerk. The attorney's who were admitted to practice at the bar (not Lilly's) were Jonathan A. Liston, Elisha Egbert, A. Ingram, Thomas B. Brown, Wm. M. Jenners, and C. K. Greene.
'The first case was a divorce suit, and as it was successful, it seemed to give cast to this species of litigation, and the slight ten- ure of the marriage tie at the present day in Indiana, may have been influenced by this decision.
The second case was for libel, and the third a criminal case for selling liquor to the Indians by a woman.
The first probate court was held Jan. 5, 1832, by John Banker and Chapel W. Brown, associate judges, at the house of Calvin Lilly.
James P. Antrim was a justice of the peace, and acted as pro- bate judge, and took his seat February, 1832.
The first court house was contracted to be built, and was com- menced in 1832, at a cost of $3,000. It was finished in 1837.
In the May term of1833, John Rush was appointed Trustee of The present one (see R. C. book, P. 146) was built in 1854, and cost $35,000. The first jail was built in 1831, and the second in
The field notes of the state road from the Yellow River tothe 1860, at a cost of $35,000. The county poor farm and house, sit- mouth of Trail Creek, surveyed by A. Burnside, were placed on uated about a mile east of the city limits, is valued at $20,000. record at this session. See first book "Record of Commission- ers " " page 133.
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