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COMBINATION ATLAS MAP
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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 1157897
MAPS.
PAGE
United States,
6,7
Indiana, - Cass County,
10,11 47
TOWNSHIPS.
Adams,
93
Boone 84
Bethlehem,
61
Clay,
62
C'linton,
68
Deer Creek. 73
Harrison,
88
Jefferson,
74
Jacks +0,
83
Miami,
85
Noble, Tipion,
78
67
VILLAGES.
(LOGANSPORT-Special Map.)
Anoka, 50 62
Adamsburo,
Clymer,
68
Galveston,
50
Georgetown,
94
Hoover,
93
Hemquan City,
50
Lincoln,
Lewisburg,
Lakeville,
94
Royal Center, 50
Twelve-Mile P. O., 93
Waverly,
85
Wallton. 94
Young America, 50
LITHOGRAPHIC VIEWS. LOGANSPORT.
Ackerman, T., Residence, 58
Atkinson, W. H.,
56
Baldwin, L. P., The "Castle." 53
Bringhurst, Thomas H., Residence, 55
Brown John, Residence, 52
Court House and Jail, 48
Centennial Block, 60
Helin, Thomas B., Residenee, 54
Himnuelberger, Isaac, Residence, 57
63
Hagenbuck, William, Residence,
63
Kahlo, Charles, Residenec, 65
Murdoek, A. J., Residence, 52
Merriam, J. C., 53
Opera House, 57
Pratt, D. D. (deceased), Residence 55
Parker, E. T., Residence,
63
Peck, John H., Store,
56
Rice, E. S., Residence,
Shroyer, A. R., Residence, 58
Smith, Mrs. A. L., tt 65
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St. Vincent De Paul Church,
44
Snider, W. H., Interior of Store, 56
Uhl, Dennis, Residence, 59
Ubl, Joseph, 59
Uhl, J. D., & Co., " Empire Mill 59
Uhl, Charles H., Residence,
57
Water Works,
58
Washburn, G. P., Interior,
5G
Wilson, Thos. H., Residence,
55
ADAMS TOWNSHIP.
Eurit, Stephen, Residence, 90
WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP.
Martin, Francis S., Residence, GG
Tousley, W. R., =
64
Vigus, C.,
=
64
Woodling, James H.,
=
64
Biddle, Horace P., 29
Bringhurst, T. H., 37
Bell, Maj. Daniel, 28
Barron, Joseph, 29
Barrou, Joseph G., 29
Brown Family, 3-
Costenborder, John,
38
41
Conrad. D. H.,
Dean, R. E.,
42
Eurit, Stephen,
38
Ewing, George W. 29
Ewing, William G., 29
Fitch, G. N., 29
Foglesong, Daniel, 41
Gallahan, W. C., 42
Grable, Samuel, 41
Hamilton, Allen, +
29
Helm, Thomas B., 54
Hageubuck & Parker, 37
Hauey, W. W., 33
41
Hyre, A., 42
Jacobs, Samuel, 34
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Jamison, Win.,
41 33
Lasselle. Chas. B.,
Lawler, Father F.,
37
90 Lewis, James A., 41
37
Jacobs, Samuel,
McMillen, Robert, 32
33
MeMillen, John,
33
Kesling, Perry, Jr., and Family,
82
McMillen, Thos. J.,
34
McFadin, S. L.,
34
Leffel, Arthur,
40
Merriam, Rice & Co., Myers, John,
69
Lawler, Father Francis,
44
Martin, Francis S.,
38
McMillen, Jolin (deceased),
36
Neff, Jonathan, Porter, Benjamin,
42
Pratt, D. D., -
29
Manly, W. T. S.,
43
Peek, J. H.,
37
Messenger, J. B., McSheehy, H. J., 36 32
Martin, Francis S., and Family,
66
Shields, Arnet,
37
Shafer, John,
42
Gallahan, W. C., 87 Myers, Jobn, and Wife,
Williams, John, =
87
Pratt, D. D. (deceased), 31
86 Parker, E. T., 63 Voorhis, H. M.,
Puterbaugh, Henry, and Wife
81
Walker, George B., 29
Porter, Benjamin, and Wife, 65 Watts, Israel, 41
Randall, C. H., 32 Williams John,
Renbarger, George, 43
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Sprinkle, John, and Wife, 75
Shields, Arnet, and Wife, 91
'Taber, Hon. Cyrus, 35
Costenborder, John, Residence, 79 Tipton, Gen. John, 31
Fry, Henry J.,
81
Taylor. A. E.,
36
Uhl, Dennis, 43
Walker, Geo. C., 35
Watts, Israel, and Wife, 76
Woodling, Jawes H., and Family 64
Wilson, David, 72
Williams, Jobn, and Wife, 87
Wasbburn, G. P., 56
Yantis, B. F., 40
Hoover, Mrs. Rachel, Residence, 90
92
Morris, Dr. J. M.,
92
BETHLEHEM TOWNSHIP.
Conrad, David H., Residence,
60
CLAY TOWNSHIP.
County Asylum,
49
Rohrer, Joseph, Residence,
92
CLINTON TOWNSHIP.
Homburg, Christina, Residence,
75
Myers, A. B.,
69
Neff, Jonathan,
=
70
Porter, Benjamin, 65
Shafer, John,
72
DEER CREEK TOWNSHIP.
Sprinkle. John, Residence, 75
Wilson. David, =
72
72
HARRISON TOWNSHIP.
Foglesong, Daniel, Residence,
91
Jamison, William, 89
Stevens, George W., 89
Seward, Harrison,
91
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP.
Price, Allen, Residence,
76
JACKSON TOWNSHIP.
Campbell, John, Residence, 60 McMillen, Robert,
Lewis, James A.,
=
71
MIAMI TOWNSHIP.
Cox, Charles G., Residence, 86
Dean, R. E.,
=
86 Myers, A. B., and Wife, 69
Taylor, A. E., 69
39
Tipton, Gen. John,
38
Taber, Cyrus, -
28 42
Hyre A., =
NOBLE TOWNSHIP.
Shields, Arnet, Residence,
91
TIPTON TOWNSHIP.
Adrian, J. A., Property,
80
Bishop, George W., Store, 81
Himmelberger, Isaac, Property, 82
Kesling, Perry, Jr., Residence, 85
Kesling, Martin, 82
Lewis, Williau R., 71
Puterbaugh, Henry,
81
Snyder, Henry,
80
PORTRAITS.
Adrian, J. A ,
39
Biddle, Horace P., 31
Barron, Joseph (deceased), 31
Barron, Joseph G., 32
Bell, Maj. Daniel, 54
Bell. W. H., 39
Coleman, A., - 39
79
Dubois, George W.,
40
Ewing, William G.,
35
Ewing, Gen. George W.,
35
Eurit, Stepheu, and Wife,
90
Fitch, G. N.,
39
Fisk, Charles W.
51
Grable, Samuel,
40
Grable, A. B.,
Hamilton, Allen,
35
Haney, Wm. W.,
31
Hagenbuck, Wm.,
63
Helm, Thomas B.,
54
Huttery, H. D.,
36
Hoover, John (deceased)
90
Hoover, Mrs. Rachel,
Justice, J. M.,
39
Messinger, J. B.,
Kesling, George, and Wife,
36
Lasselle, Charles B.,
59
34
Louthain, Wm. P.,
43
36
McFadin, Samuel L.,
43
Randall, Chas. H.,
37
Rice, Elihu S.,
Voorliis, H. M., 87 Neff, Jonathan, and family, 70
53
38
Wolf, Simon
42
Watts, Israel,
76
Shultz, J. B., -
36
Washburn, G. P.,
38
40
Hoover, John,
Wolf, Simou,
= =
94 94 74
Onward Station,
77
Washington,
Eel. 62, 67,77
Kinnaman, Wm. B.,
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Justice, J. M.,
70
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OUR INDIAN HISTORY. BY THOMAS B. HELM.
TT has long been recognized as an accepted faot, by those whose opportu- nitics have enabled them to form a just judgment in the premises, that the great Indian family which occupied this territory at the time when the white man first traversed these wilda round about was that known os the Algonquin, embracing the kindred tribes who inhabited the greater part of tho territary cast of the Mississippi River. Of these tribes, the principal was the Mintis, who, as esrly as 1660, exercised a general control over the particular territory in which wo are personally interested.
Subsequently permissive, and in many instances aggressive, enorosoli- ments began to be made by other tribes of the same grent family. Among those permitted, nt different periods, to enter and occupy portions of tho Inrgo extent of territory claimed by tho Miamis were branches of Pottawato- wie, Shawnnoe, Delaware nnd Kickapoo trihes. So far as appertains to our present purpose, the Miamis were the occupants, chiefly, of the territory south of the Wabash River, while the Pottawatomies were the scknowledged owners and proprietors of the territory north of the Wabssh. Along the borders, however, there was a somewhat promiscuous intermingling, in the Intter days of their control, of isolated elements of these two tribes and others nearly nllied to them, especially along the borders of Eel River.
In a letter, written by B. F. Stiekney, an Indinn agent ia the service of the United States, dated August 27, 1817, and addressed to Thomas L. Me- Kiancy, Superintendent of Indinn Affairs, the following statements occur : " All the Mismis and Ecl River Miamis are under my charge, about one thousand four hundred in number; and there are something more than two thousand Pottawatomies who come within my agency." "The Miamis and Eel River Miamis reside, principally, on the Wabash, Mississinewa and Eel Rivers, and the head of White River ; the Pottawatomies on the Tippecanoe, Kankakee, Iroquois, Yellow River and St. Joseph of Lake Michigan, the Elkhart, Mismi of the Lake, the St. Joseph emptying into it, and the St. Mary's River."
The firat general trenty, perhaps, in which the several tribes of the Al- gonquin family in the original Northwestern Territory-embracing those named above-were participants, wns that at Greenville, in the Territory of the United States Northwest of the Ohio River, on the 3d day of August, 1795. It was thero that the various tribal interests wero fully discussed, and the separate rights of ench considered with reference to their past and future relatious with the whito people. Fifteen tribes and branches were represented in that council, the deliberations af wbich commeneed on the 16th day of June and terminated on the 3d day of August, 1795, with the unanimous neceplanes, by the several representatives present, of the several provisions of that important treaty in which they were respectively iutor- ested, It was during the continuance of this eouneil that Little Turtle, n representative chiof of tha Minmis, defined the traditionary boundaries of their territory. Addressing Oen. Wayne, he said :
" I hope you will pay attention to what 1 now say to you. I wish to in- form you wbero your younger hrothers, the Miamis, live, and also the Pot- tnwatomies of St. Joseph, together with the Wahash Indians. You have pointed out to us the houndary liue between the Indians and the United States, but I now take the liberty to inform you that that line cuts off from this Indiaus a large portion of country which has hsen enjoyed hy my fore- fatbers, tims immemorial, without molestation or dispute. The prints of my ancestors' houses are everywhere to be seen in this portion. It is well known hy all my brothera present, that my forefathers kindled the first fira at Detroit ; from thence he extendsd his lines ta the head watera of the Sciota ; from thenee, to its mouth ; from thenee, down the Obio to the mouth of the Wabash ; and from thence, to Chicago, on Lake Michigan."
One of the provisions of this trenty, which materially affeoted the inter- ests of this locality, was that which allowed " to the people of the United States a fres passage by land and water, as one and the otber shall be found convenicut, through their country from Fort Wayne, along the portage aforesaid, which leads to the Wabash, and thenee down the Wahash to tho Ohio." Allowing, niso, to the people of the United States the free use of ths harhors and mouths of rivers along the lakes adjoining Indian lands, for sheltering vessels and boats, and liberty to land their cargoes when necessary for their safety.
By a subsequent treaty, to which the Wyandots, Delawarey, Seneens, Showanoes, Miamis, Chippewas, Ottawas and Pottawatomies were parties, on the 8th day of September, 1815, the provisions of the treaty of Greenville, ahove referred to, and all other tresties to which the several tribes were parties, respectively. wore agreed to anew and again ratified and confirmed.
While this provisions of those saveral treaties only affected the interests of this locality generally, their relevanoy is pertinent to the means wherchy we acquired the rights and privileges wo now enjoy. The rights whiel bave been thus ecded to the United States were, at a period antecedent to the dates of these treaties, held in common hy the various tribes who volun- tarily, hy their joint not, transforred those rights to their white brethren.
THE MIAMIS.
It has been correctly said that the Miamis were, of the Algonquin family, wboso dominions extended from the most eastern extremity of New England westward to the waters of the Mississippi, embracing the territory uorth from the Oulf of Mexico to the laud of the Esquimaux. Everywhere throughout this vast expanse, branches of their primitive family were to he found, tracing their lineage hack to the parent stook. But, while it is true that they were descendanta in direct line " of those who greeted the colo- nists of Raleigh at Roanoke, of those who welcomed the Pilgrims at Ply- mouth," they only sustain that relation in common with numerous other kindred trihes, and are only entitled to especial consideration because of their enjoyment, by inheritance, of more of the elements in affinity with the parent stem than their less consanguinous neighbors, heing, also, more pow- erful in competition with them. Bancroft says, too, "The Miamis were mora stable, and their own traditions preserve the memory of their ancient limits," illustrated by the regular tracing of Little Turtle, at the treaty of Greenville, elsewhere noted. The same reputable historian snys further: "The forests heyond Derroit were at first found unoccupied, or, it may he, roamed over by hands too feeble to attract a trader or win a missioanry ; the Ottawas, Algonquin fugitives from tho basin of the magnificent river whose name commemorates them, fled to tho Bay of Saginaw and took pas- session of the whole north of the peninsuln as of a dereliet country ; yet the Mismis occupied its southorn moiety, and their principal mission was founded by Allouez, on the banks of tha St. Joseph, in the limits of the present State of Michigan."
In 1670, the Miamis were the most powerful confederney in the West, when, it is said, an army of five thousand men could be called into the field. It is also stated that, " in the early part of the eighteenth century, the Pot- tawatomies had crowded tho Minmis from their dwellings, at Chiesgo. The intruders came from the islands nenr the entranes of Green Bay, and were a branch of the great nation of the Chippewas. That nation, or, os some
write, the Ojibwas, * beld the country from the month of Oreen Bay to the head waters of Lake Superior, and were early visited hy the French st Snult St. Mary and Chegoimegon."
Notwithstanding the fact that they met with occasional reverses, they continued to be a leading snd influential tribe, leaving the impress of their namo on many of our Western rivers.
Again, speaking of tho Mismis, it is said they possessed a quiet, perse- vering, but determined, nature. To illustrate: " If the death of a brother wss to be revenged, they proceeded quietly about tho work. Patience, nt such a time, was enlled setively iuto plny ; and, if needs he, months might roll nway bofore a blow was struck." While this is generally truo of most Indian tribes, it was especially truo of the Miamis. A caso in point is re- membered by many of the earlier residoats of Cass County. Many years befors, from some cause, whether imaginsry or real, sn offense was commit- ted by one Thorntown Miami against nnother, which was kept in remem- brance until tho favored opportunity presented itself. On the occasion referred to-the event having traaspired on the evening of February 24, 1885-No-kn-me-na, bettor known as Capt. Flower, a primeipnl chief of the Miamis, was stealthily murdered by a druaken Indian called " Lame Maa," on the south side of the Wabash, opposite Logansport. It seems that Lame Mon had long and silently nursed his wrath, and only wnited the arrival of the opportune moment. During the day and early evening preceding, he had been laying around one of the trading bouses, considerably intoxicated, wstehing his victim. Later in the evening, he dissppeared, and was not again heard or noticed until, on the following morning, it was announced that Copt. Flower had been killed the night previous, to compensate for an old grudge. An editorial notice in the Telegraph of February 28, 1835, thus refers to him : "Copt. Flower was one of the finest looking Indisns belong- iug to the Miami nation, and his death is regretted by a large number of friends and nequaintances." This was but one notable instance of the mnuy that took place in this locality, exemplifying & peculiarity of the Mismi notion as strikingly characteristic, perhaps, as nny belonging to otber nations.
The great tresty entered into by the Miamis and the Commissioners on the part of the United States, under the provisions of whieb the first im- portant eession of territory in this part of Indiana was made, was conelnded on the 6th of October, 1818, at St. Mary's, Ohio. The boundaries of the territory embraced in this cession were substantially the following : " Commenoing near the town of La Oro, on the Wabash, where the Salnwonie unites with the Wahash River; running thence through Wabash and Orant Counties into Madison County, its southeast corner was about four miles southeast of Independenes, at the center of Section 17; thenee running south of west, with tho general course of the Wahnsh River across Tipton County, close to the town of Tipton, just north thereof, to where it intersects a line running north and south from Logansport, which is the western boundary of lloward County, one mile west of Rango line No. 1, cast ; thenee north to Logansport ; thence up the Wabash to the mouth of the Salamonie, the place of beginning. There was contained within these boundaries 930,000 acres. The greater part of this reservation remained in the hands of the Indians uutil November, 1840, when it was relinquished, heing the last of their claims in Indiana."
By the treaty of October 23, 1826, held at Paradise Springs, known ns the old " Treaty Orounds," the chiefs and warriors af the Miamis, in coun- cil with Lewis Cass, James B. Ray and John Tipton, Commissioners repre- senting the United States, ceded to the latter power " all their elaim to lands in the State of Indinna, north and west of the Wabash and Miami Rivers, and of the eession made hy the said tribe to the United States, hy the treaty concluded at St. Mary's, October 6, 1818." By further provision of the some treaty, the State of Indiana was authorized to lay out a canal or road through any of the reservations, and for the use of a consl, six chains along the same were appropriated.
In payment for this, they received $31,040.53 in goods, $31,040.53 in ensh. The following year, 1827, they received $61,259.47 in addition; of which $36,000 was annuities, and in 1828, $30,000. After that date, they wers to receive a permanent aunuity of $25,000.
Again, in 1884, the Oovernment purchased of them 177,000 aeres, in- oluding the strip saven miles widlo, off the west side of the reservo, in what is now Cnss, Howard and Clinton Caunties, which was transferred to the State of Indiana, to he used for the completion of the Wabash and Erio Canal from the mauth of the Tippecanoe River. A strip five miles wide, along the Wahash, had been previously appropriated to the construction of the canal to the mouth of the Tippecanos. The consideration paid for this WAR $835,680.
By treaty of November 6, 1838, they made a further cession to the United States of certain lands reserved by former treaties. Finally, on the 28th of November, 1840, they relinquished their right to all the remaining lands in Indiana, except certain specifie reservations, for which they received the sum of $550,000, and agreed to vacate these lands within five years. They did not move, however, until 1847.
POTTAWATOMIES.
This tribe is also of the Algonquin family, being a branch of the great Chippewa, or, as some write, Ojibway, nation, which, at the time of our first account of them, about the middle of the seventeenth century, occupied and held the country from the mouth of Oreen Bay, to the head waters of Lake Superior. This nation wns visited at an early date hy the French at Sault St. Mary and Chegoimegon.
At a later day, they appear to bave migrated southward ; formidable bands of them having gained a footing on the territory of the Miamis near the southern extremity af Lake Michigan, partly hy permission and partly by force. Since that time, they have been recognized as occupying the ter- ritory to the southward of Lake Michigan, on the Tippecanoe River, thenes to the horders of the Wahash on the northi.
Considering the etymology of their language there seems to be a marked signifiennee attaching to their name. Pottawatomie is a compound of the word Put-la-tea signifying a blowing out or expansion of the checks, as in tho act of hlowing & fira, and me, a nation, the name, therefore heing inter- preted, means a nation of fire blowers. It has been stated, on apparently good authority, that the application of their name is derived from the facility with which they kindled and set ta hurning the anciant council fires of their forefurthera.
On the 18th of July, 1815, tho Pottawatomies, desiring to enter into re- lations of friendship with the United States and place themselves in a proper position before the world, concluded a trenty, tha first separate one made by them, tho ohjef element of which is set forth in Scetion 2, in the following words :
" There shall he perpetual peace and friendship between all the people of the United States of America and all the individuals composing the said Pottawatomie Trihs or Nation."
By tho provisions of a treaty, made and concluded at St. Mary's, on the 2d dny of October, 1818, they ceded to the United States all the country comprehended within the following limits : " Beginning at the mouth of the Tippceanoc River, and running up the same to s point twenty-fivo miles ia n dircet lino from the Wabash River ; thence, on n lino as nearly parallel to the geaoral courss of the Wabash River as practicable, to n point on the Ver- milion River, twenty-five miles from the Wabash River ; thence dowa the Vermilion River to its month, and thence up the Wabash River to the plseo of beginning. The Pottawatomies also cede to tho United States all thoir claim to the country south of the Wabash River."
The treaty of most importance to the people of this locality, made by this tribo with the United States, was at Paradise Springs, near the mouth of tho Mississinewa, upon tho Wabssh, on the 16th day of October, 1826, by the provisions of which the United States acquired the right to all the land within the following limits : " Beginning on the Tippecsuoe River, where the northern boundary of tho tract eeded by the Pottawatomies to the United States, by the Trenty of St. Mary's, in the year 1818, interaccts the sume, thence, in a direct line, to a point on Eel River, half wny between the mouth of the said river and Pierish's village ; thence up Eel River to Seek's village, aear the hend thereof; thenee, iu n direct line, to the mouth of a creck empty- ing into the St. Joseph's of the Miami, near Meten's village ; thence, up the St. Joseph's, to the boundary line between the States of Indiano and Ohio : thenec, south to the Miami ; theaee, up the same, to the reservation st Fort Wayne; thence, with the lines of the snid reservation, to the boundary established by the trenty with tho Mismies in 1818; thence, with the said line, to the Wabash River ; theuce, with the same river, to the mouth of the Tippecanoe River, and thence, with the said Tippecanoe River, to the place of beginning. And the said tribe also cede to the United States all their right to Iand within the following limits: Beginning st a poiut on Lake Michi- gan, ten miles duo north of the southern oxtreme thereof, running thence due enst to tho land ceded by the Indians to the United States, hy tho Trenty of Chicago ; thenee south, with the boundary thereof, ten miles; thence, west, to the southern extreme of Lake Michigan ; thenee, with the shore thereof, to the place of beginning."
By a further provision of the same treaty, for the purpose of building the Michigan Road, they made nn additional cession " of a strip of land, com- mencing nt Lake Michigan, and running thenes to the Wabash River, one hundred feet wide, for n road, and also, one section of good land contiguous to the said road for each mile of tho same, and also for ench mile of a rond from the termination thereof, through Indianapolis to the Ohio River, for the purpose of making a road," connecting those extreme and intermediate points.
In addition to the treaties already referred to, the Pottawatomies con- oludod nineteen other trenties with the United States, eeding certain reserved interests, from time to time withheld, until, by the provisions of the final treaty concluded by them on the 11th of February, 1837, with John T. Douglass, a Commissioner on the part of the United States, at the City of Washington, they eeded all their remaining interest in the lands in the State of Indiana, and agreed to remove to a country provided for them hy the President of the United States, southwest of the Missouri River, within two years from tho ratification of said trenty. The treaty was ratified nt the end of one week from ita consummation, and they were removed west- ward in the Fall of 1838 and 1839 following.
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