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WHITE AND PULASKI.
INDIANA.
HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL.
ILLUSTRATED.
CHICAGO: F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS. 1883. 40
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PREFACE.
T HIS volume goes forth to our patrons the result of months of arduons, un- remitting and conscientious labor. None so well know as those who have been associated with us the almost insurmountable difficulties to be met with in the preparation of a work of this character. Since the inauguration of the enterprise, a large force has been employed-both local and others-in gath- ering material. During this time, most of the citizens of both counties have been called upon to contribute from their recollections, carefully pre- served letters, scraps of manuscript, printed fragments, memoranda, etc. Public records and semi-official documents have been searched, the news- paper files of the counties have been overhauled, and former citizens, now living out of the counties, have been corresponded with, all for the purpose of making the record as complete as could be, and for the verification of the information by a conference with many. In gathering from these immerous sources, both for the historical and biographical departments, the conflicting statements, the discrepancies and the fallible and incomplete nature of pub- lic documents, were almost appalling to our historians and biographers, who were expected to weave therefrom with some degree of accuracy, in panoramic review, a record of events. Members of the same families disagree as to the spelling of the family name, contradict each other's statements as to dates of birth, of settlement in the counties, nativity and other matters of fact. In this entangled condition, we have given preference to the preponderance of authority, and while we acknowledge the existence of errors and our inability to furnish a perfect history, we claim to have come up to the standard of our promises, and given as complete and accurate a work as the nature of the surroundings would permit. Whatever may be the verdict of those who do not and will not comprehend the difficulties to be met with, we feel assured that all just and thoughtful people will appreciate our efforts, and recognize the importance of the undertaking and the great public benefit that has been accomplished in preserving the valuable historical matter of the counties and biographies of many of their citizens, that perhaps would otherwise have passed into oblivion. To those who have given us their support and encourage- ment, and they are many, we acknowledge our gratitude, and can assure them that as years go by the book will grow in value as a repository not only of pleasing reading matter, but of treasured information of the past that will become a monument more enduring than marble.
OCTOBER, 1883.
THE PUBLISHERS.
CONTENTS.
PART I .-- HISTORY OF WHITE COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
PAGE.
Military Committees. 67
Number of Men Furnished. 69
Opening Scenes. 51
Patriotism in Monticello 52 Presidential Campaign of 1860. 49
42 Recruits 67
Regiments, Sketches of. 74
Cession Treaties, Indian
Changes of Boundaries ..
Circuit Court, Sessions of
Circuit Judges ..
Clerks ...
Common Pleas Judges
County Agents ...
County Commissioners
County Library
County Seat Question
County Seminary
County Statistics, 1880
Court Houses and Jails.
Drainage.
Educational Statistics.
Election Tables.
Introductory
Location of County Seat.
High School Building.
106
Hydraulic Companies.
94
Industries.
89
Mills
Monticello.
86
Monticello's Incorporation and Town Of- ficers 97
Monticello's Early Schools. 103
Monticello's First Building. 89
Monticello's First Plat .. 88
Monticello Items 96
Monticello's Later Merchants, etc. 92 Monticello's Present Business Interests. 93
Mt. Walleston Village 85
Newspapers, Early 100
Norway Village. 85
Norwegians, The 83
Proceedings of Town Board 99
Prof. G. Bowman's School. 105
Religious Organizations, Early 108
School Bonds. 107
Additional Volunteers .. 59 School Trustees. 108
Aid to Soldiers, The First .. 55
Another Company 66
Bounty and Relief. 72
Bowman's Company. 60
Call to Arms. 51
Company, The First. 57
Continued Efforts at Enlistment.
59
County Conventions
61
Drafts, The 61-68
First Sacrifice, The. 52
Flag and Sword Presentation. 58
Fourth of July, 1862. 61 65
Fourth of July, 1863.
Husband Wanted 62
Infantry, Twelfth 74
Infantry, Sixty-third.
75
Infantry, Ninety-ninth. 75
Infantry, One Hundred and Sixteenth. 75
Infantry, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth 76
Joy and Sorrow 72 Settlement. 112
Loyalty ... 54
Mexican War. 48
Militia, County 47
CHAPTER IV.
PRAIRIE TOWNSHIP 112
Birth, First 119
Bridges. 125
Brookston, Town of.
121
Churches .. 120
Creation of Township. 113
Death, First ..
119
Landholders, First
11
Marriage, First.
119
Masonic Lodge.
119
Mills, Early 120
Poll Lists, Early 114
Pioneer Schools 118
Press, The. 126
Springboro Village. 119
Storm of Sleet .....
125
Surface Features
125
85
Paupers, County
Politics
Population.
Probate Judges.
Proceedings of Commissioners
Recapitulation of Taxes, 1882.
Recorders
41 41 41
Seminary Trustees.
Sheriffs.
40
Soil, The
12
Statistics of Interest
29
Surveyors. 41
Three Per Cent Commissioners 41
Treasurers
40
CHAPTER II.
CHAPTER III.
UNION TOWNSHIP
79
Banking .. 95
Elections, Early 80
76
Sanitary Efforts. 71
Subsequent Enlistments. 58
Union Meeting at Norway 53
War of 1812. 48
War Meetings. 56-62
White County Companies.
70
PAGE.
Act of Formation 15
Agricultural Society. 33
Alarms, Indian 14
Assessors .. 41
Associate Judges
Auditors 40 13 Renewed Efforts 66
17 19 41 41 42
41 40 26 35 26 36 24 12 37 43 11 20
Medical Society ..
34
Mound-Builders, The.
Old Settlers' Association.
12 36 31 42
36 42 21 39
School Examiners
Secret Societies 102
Settler, First.
83
Wool Carding. 84
TOWNSHIP HISTORIES.
Roll of Honor.
Election of November, 1836. 80
V
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER V.
PAGE.
HONEY CREEK TOWNSHIP 126
Birth, First ..
Churches ..
133
Death, First. 130
Elections, First 128
Mills
129
Miscellaneous 135
Newspapers. 1335
Officers, First. 128
Railways .. 130
Reynolds, Town of ... 130
Reynolds, Incorporation of. 134
Schools
133
Secret Societies ..
132
Settlement, First 127
CHAPTER VI.
JACKSON TOWNSHIP .. 136
Agricultural Association. 148
Anti-Slavery Petition 142
A Storm.
145
Birth, First.
141
Burnettsville
144
('hurehes
('reation of Township
138
Death, First.
141
Élections, First ..
139
Farmington Seminary
145
Giame. 140
Idaville
146
Indians
140
Jurors.
141
Marriage, First
1.11
Morality
141
Mormonism ..
143
Oldest Resident.
153
Post Offices
144
Schools.
141
Settlement, First.
136
Sharon
145
Town of Hannah. 146
Violent Deaths. 147
Vital Statistics 141
CHAPTER VH.
PRINCETON TOWNSHIP 154
Ague in 1844 157
Birth, First ... 158
Boundaries of Township. 155
('hurches ..
158
Creation of Township 155
Death, First. 158
Elections, Early
156
Flood of 1844
157
.Justices of the Peace
162
Marriage, First. 158
Origin of Name.
155
Railroad.
159
Schools
158
Seafield Station
159
Secret Societies
161
Nettlement, First.
154
Tavern, First ..
159
Woleott, Town of .. 159
Wolcott's Present Business 161
CHAPTER VIII.
MONON TOWNSHIP .. 163
Birth, First. 170
Dead Town, A 166
Death. First .. 170
Early Comers 164
Elections, Early 163
Indian Mounds 169
Indian Scare
165
Mills, Early
171
Miscellaneous Itens.
176
New Bradford, Town of ..
173
Pioneer Life. 169
Post Offices. 172 Religious Organizations. 175 Schools and Teachers 174
Secret Society 176
Settlement 164
Suicides, ete. 175
Wedding, First
170
CHAPTER IX.
PAGE.
BIG CREEK TOWNSHIP 178
Ague .
183
Birth, First. 183
Black Hawk War.
182
Chalmers Village
188
Deer and Wolf Hunt of 1840. 187
Deatlı, First.
183
Early Difficulties
183
Elections, Early 180
Hotel, First 183
Indians 182
Internal Improvements 181
Land Entries .. 181
Marriage, First. 183
Preachers, Early 18.1
Schools ...
184
Settlers, First. 178
Spencer House 181
Wheeler Station. 184
CHAPTER X.
LIBERTY TOWNSHIP 189
Churches
194
('reation of Township. 192
Death, First
193
Elections, First 192
Land Entries, First 190
Marriage, First .. 193
Miscellaneous 19G
Pioncer Homes 191
Post Offices 195
Schools, Early 193
Tax Payers of 1843. 190
CHAPTER X1.
WEST POINT TOWNSHIP 196
Birth, First. 200
Death, First 200
Election, First .. 199
Formation of Township.
198
Forney Post Office .. 201
Land Entries, First 199
Marriage, First 200
Meadow Lake Farm 201
Ministers and Churches. 200
School Interests 199
CHAPTER XII.
CASS TOWNSHIP 202
Birth, First. 205
Church Interests 208
Creation of Township. 205
Drainage 208
Educational Growth 206
Election, Early .. 207
Marriage, First. 205
Pioneer Life. 202
Post Office.
208
Preacher, First. 208
Tax Payers of 1851 207
CHAPTER XIII.
ROUND GROVE TOWNSHIP 209
Births, First.
212
('hurch
212
Creation of Township
210
Death, First ..
219
Elections, First 211
Land Entries 211
Marriage, First 219
Origin of Name 210
Post Offices 212
Schools
2212
Settlement, First. 210
Then and Now. 213
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
Big Creek Township. 374
('ass Township ... 423
Iloney ('reck Township). 281
Jackson Township. 304
Liberty Township. 397
Monticello, City of. 215
Monon Township .. 357
130
151
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CONTENTS.
PAGE.
Prairie Township. 260
Princeton Township .. 338
Round Grove Township. 426
Union Township 250
West Point Township. 407
PORTRAITS.
Burns, John and wife 63
French, Chester C. 267
High, Jonathan 384
Love, J. M. 329
McAllister, J 401
Price, Asenath 98
Price, Peter. 82
Spencer, George Armstrong. 185
Spencer, Thomas
257
Stine, H. S. 311
Timmons, John G. and wife 347
Turpie, Mrs. Emma J 239
Turpie, J. H. 222
Turpie, Mrs. Mary F 212
Turpie, William. 204
Virden, Samuel. 293
VIEWS.
Elevator of J. & W. W. Raub .. 365
Farm Residence of J. P. Carr .. 115
Presbyterian Church of Monticello 45
Farm Residence of John F. Price. 419
Public School Building of Monticello. 27
Farm Residence of H. M. Wheeler. 149
Farm Residence of G. W. Wolverton 167
PART II .-- HISTORY OF PULASKI COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
Abstract of Property and Taxes, 1881 468
Infantry, Twentieth. 498
Agents, County. 473
Agricultural Society. 465
Assessors. 473
Associate Judges. 474
Old Militia System 481
Rebellion, The.
484
Roll of Honor 501
Sketches of Regiments
498
Suppression of the Democrat. 492
Table of Regiments ... 496
Three Months' Men 486
TOWNSHIP HISTORIES.
CHAPTER III.
MONROE TOWNSHIP 504
Additions to Winamac .. 521
Banking. 520
Bridges 519
Business Blocks 521
516
Churches. 533
515
Elections
510
Ferries.
519
Miscellaneous Items.
456
Old Settlers' Association
469
Orders, County
459
Organization of County.
450
Petroleum Company ...
465
Politics.
474
Poor, County
463
Postmasters
520
Professions
519
Schools
532
Secret Societies
528
Settler, First 507
Settlement ...
504
Subsequent Improvement. 508
CHAPTER IV.
SALEM TOWNSHIP 535
Agricultural Society 545
Business, Present. 541
540
Creamery 545
Drainage ..
545
Elections, Early
538
Fatalities.
542
Francesville.
541
Game
547
Geological Characteristics. Hay.
547
Land Entries
538
539 Marriage, First .. Militia. 545
Newspapers. 542 Organization. 535
Religion 543
Excitement at Winamac. 485
Fall of Sumter. 484
Secret Societies. 544
First Company 486 Settlement 537
522
Industrial Growth.
514
Later Progress
509
Manufactures
517
Merchandising.
515
Probate Judges
474
Railroads.
465
Recorders
472
Representatives. 473
Roads, County and State.
458
School Examiners 473
Seminary, County 462
Sheriffs 472
Soil, The. 446
456
State Senators. 473
Statistics
467
Surveyors.
473
Table of Land Entries. 457
Three Per Cent Commissioners. 473
Townships. 464
Treasurers. 472
Treasury Statement. 469
CHAPTER II.
An Incident. 497 Bounty 493
Calls for Troops
497 Disloyalty 490
Draft, The .. 491-494
Infantry, Ninth .. 498
Infantry, Forty-sixth .. 499
Infantry, Eighty-seventh. 500
Mexican War .. 482
Auditors 472
Board of Commissioners
455
Buildings, County
460
Circuit Court.
457
Circuit Judges
473
Clerks.
472
Commissioners.
472
Common Pleas Judges.
474
Coroners.
473 451
Creation of County.
450
Drainage.
447
Drift, The.
445
Election, First
452
Election Tables
475
Indians, The
Jail
Land Offices.
462
Library.
462
Medical Society.
464
Business, Present
449 462
Early Events
Incorporation ...
Newspapers.
530
Squatters, The
College, The
536
Enlistment, Continued. 493
Schools 539
PAGE.
County Before Organization.
vii
CONTENTS.
CHAPTER V.
PAGE.
HARRISON TOWNSHIP.
548
Accidental Death.
555
Monterey Village 604
Origin of Name. 598
Pioneers Living .. 601
Roads 603
Settlement. 598
CHAPTER X.
CASS TOWNSHIP 608
Belfast 613
Churches 614
Drainage 612
Early Occurrences. 611
Elections 608
Fatal Accident 615
Post Office. 614
Products. 612
Schools 614
Settlers, First .. 611
Trustees, First 614
612
CHAPTER XI.
RICH GROVE TOWNSIIIP. 616
Churches .. 620
"('ranberry" Township. 621
616
Death, First .. 621
616
Gundrum Station. 621
Justices'of the Peace.
617
Marriage, First.
621
Mills, etc .....
618
Origin of Name.
617
Property Protection
621
Road
620
Schools.
619
Settlements. 618
620
CHAPTER XII.
JEFFERSON TOWNSHIP 622
Accident, An
624
Birth, First 624
Churches.
625
('reation of Township. 622
Death, First. 624
Early Experiences. 629
Land Entries 626
624
Marriage, First ...
624
Mastodon, Remains of a 630
Mills. 626
622
Schools 630
Settlement ... 623
Violent Deatlı 630
CHAPTER XIII.
BEAVER TOWNSHIP 631
Birth, First 635
Churches. 635
Death, First.
635
Early Customs
633
Early Events. 635
Elections 631
Land Entries
632
Marriage, First ..
635
Origin of Name.
631
Schools
631
Settlers. 632
CHAPTER XIV.
FRANKLIN TOWNSHIP. 636
Civility
6-10
Drainage
640
Educational Interests
6.11
Elections ..
638
Jacobs House 639
Land Entries 636
Origin of Name 63G
Incidents, Early. 602
Inn, First .. 602
Landholders, Early 599
Marriage, First.
601
Mills 602
Miscellaneous
603
Bridge.
553
Church,
552
Creation of Township. 548
550
Elections, Early
549
Incidents.
551
Mooresburg.
555
Mooresburg Mill.
553
Notes and Incidents.
555
Origin of Name
548
Politics.
557
Roads.
551
Saw Mill. 554
553
Settlement, First 549
Spring Election, 1882. 556
554
CHAPTER VI.
INDIAN CREEK TOWNSHIP. 557
Birth and Death. 563
Bridges.
Churches
566
Education. 565
Incidents.
559
Marriage, First.
563
Mill, First.
562
Miscellaneous
569
Mound-Builders 620 560
Pearl Divers. 567
Physical Features. 561 563
Pulaski Grist Mill
564
Settlement ... 559
Settler, First. 557
Voters, Early.
557
CHAPTER VII.
WHITE POST TOWNSHIP. 571
Affrays. 581
Birth, First .. 578
Churches .. 582
Death, First. 578
Directory of Medarysville.
586
Drainage ..
579
Elections, Early. 573
Incidents.
577
Marriage, First.
578
Medarysville .. 581
Miscellaneous Notes. 586
Mystery, A 580
Newspapers. 584
Origin of Name. 571
Physical Description. 574
Post Office. 578
Schools
579
573
CHAPTER VIII.
VAN BUREN TOWNSHIP 587
Churches. 596
Detectives. 594
Election, First ..
588
Elections, Subsequent ..
588
Hardships 591
Hunters.
590
Land Entries
588
Rosedale Village
595
Schools
595
Settler, First. 587
Star City 592
Statistical 592
CHAPTER IX.
TIPPECANOE TOWNSHIP. 598
Boundaries, First. 598
Bridges.
603
Cholera. GO2
Death, First. 601
Elections, Early. 600
Railroad 640
Settlement ..
637
Sunday School. 640
('reation of Township
Elections, Early
Land Entries.
Pulaski Village
569
Schools.
Wey's Mill.
Wild Game
Trustees
Liquor License.
Origin of Name ...
Settlement
PAGE.
Deceased Pioneers.
viii
CONTENTS.
BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.
PAGE.
Beaver Township. 768
Cass Township ... 764
Franklin Township 770
Harrison Township 694
Indian Creek Township. 702
Jefferson Township 767
Monroe Township ..
671
Rich Grove Township.
765
Salem Township. 674
Tippecanoe Township. 749
Van Buren Township. 733
White Post Township. 725
643
PORTRAITS.
PAGE.
Barnett, William C. 646
Brown, Ira.
454
Brown, Mrs. Sophia.
487
Dilts, M. A. 609
Holsinger, John J. 627
Huddleston, W. S 575
Thompson, W. H 524
Thompson, G. W 525
John R. Conner 542
John Shill.
558
Winamac, City of ..
VIEW.
Keller, Bouslog & Co.'s Business House ... 505
PART I. HISTORY OF WHITE COUNTY.
CHAPTER I.
BY WESTON A. GOODSPEED.
THE SURFACE AND SOIL-DRAINAGE-PREHISTORIC INHABITANTS- THE INDIANS-CESSION TREATIES-PUBLIC LAND SALES-CREATION OF WHITE COUNTY-ITS ORGANIZATION-SUBSEQUENT BOUNDARY ALTERATIONS-THE EARLY COURTS-ACTS OF THE COMMISSIONERS -FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT-COUNTY BUILDINGS-SOCIETIES AND ASSOCIATIONS-INDUSTRIAL STATISTICS-LIST OF PUBLIC OFFICERS -POLITICS-MISCELLANEOUS NOTES OF INTEREST.
" We have no title deeds to house or lands; Owners and occupants of earlier dates, From graves forgotten stretch their dusty hands, And hold in mortmain still their old estates."
TF the Drift Deposits which cover all White County to the depth of many feet were cut through, the Niagara limestones of the Upper Silurian Period would be disclosed. The time is coming in the future when this vast storehouse of excellent stone will be quarried as coal is now quarried in many parts of the earth where the surface is compara- tively level. After these beds of stone had been deposited (so the geolog- ical story runs) there came a time called Glacial when all this latitude, and northward, was locked up in vast mountains of ice. Huge glaciers pushed their way southward in obedience to controlling laws, grinding lown the elevations of earth and transporting the soil to latitudes far- ther south. After this came icebergs, the successors of the glaciers, which continued the process of conveying the soil southward. All of White County is covered with this foreign soil, often to several hundred feet in depth, which has come here from British America. As it was deposited here long before any human beings inhabited, the earth, it may
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be considered as having merited the title of " Old Settler." All are fa- miliar with the characteristics of these deposits, usually called "The Drift." They vary all the way from alluvium (fine inorganic material and vegetable mold mingled) to huge bowlders, which may be seen scat- tered all over the surface of the county, and found as far down as the Drift extends.
The Soil .- The soil of the county gives rich promises of great future wealth. There is a large percentage of low or level land, much of which is yet too wet for cultivation, but which, some day, when suitable drain- age is furnished, will be like a garden. Many of these tracts of land are underlaid with extensive beds of bog iron ore, occasionally in such abun- dance as to give promise of future utility when profitable means of work- ing them are devised. Some portions of the soil are quite sterile, owing to a superabundance of sand or clay. Tracts of rich and beautiful prai- rie land are found in various portions. Clusters of low oaks occur on the sandier tracts, far out from the larger water-courses. Heavy timber is found on Tippecanoe River and at other places. High bluffs along the river afford fine views of extensive and beautiful tracts of country.
Drainage .- Within the past fifteen years not less than $200,000 has been expended in constructing open ditches. Many miles of tiling have been laid during the same period. Perhaps over $100,000 has been ex- pended in drainage during this period. Comparatively little was done in this direction until fifteen years ago, and the greater portion of what has been accomplished has been done within the last six years. Twenty years hence the surface will be well drained, and splendid crops will be raised where now the song of the batrachian resounds. This work must neces- sarily go on comparatively slow, as the public funds will admit.
The Mound Builders .- Prior to the period from 1838 to 1842 the territory now comprising the county of White with all the adjacent lands was the home of the Indian tribes. Here they had lived back as far as the knowledge of the Caucasian race extends, and much farther back as is proved by Indian tradition. If they were the descendants of that ex- tinct race of people called " Mound Builders," who inhabited all this sec- tion of country at an earlier date, it may be stated on the best of au- thority that the Indians had occupied this land long before the Christian era. Perhaps a majority of authorities on the subject deny the kinship of the Indians and the Mound Builders, and allege that the latter were a distinct race of human beings of whom the former knew nothing save what was derived from their crumbling bones and habitations. All agree, however, as to the antiquity of the earlier race. Some writers place them back as co-existent with the old Babylonian and Assyrian nations. Others still make them relatives of the Aztecs or Peruvians who occupied
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the torrid region of the Western Continent when Columbus resolutely di- rected the prow of his little vessel westward across the Atlantic. The truth can never be known. They had no historians; they were bar- barians. They had never experienced the pleasure of being " written up," and had never been asked to put their names down for a copy of the county history. Consequently their history remains a mystery more pro- found than that of Eleusis. It remains for the civilized to appreciate the value which history affords to the human race.
There have been discovered within the limits of White County, usually on high lands contiguous to some stream, about fifteen mounds, con- structed in all probability by the Mound Builders, thousands of years ago. As these are described in township chapters, nothing further will be added here, except a few general statements. The mounds found in this section of the State are usually sepulchral, sacrificial or memorial. The first contain the decaying bones of the dead ; the second contain ashes, charcoal and the charred bones of animals and even human beings who were immolated to secure the favor of the Being worshipped ; the third were erected to commemorate some great national event. All three kinds are found in the county, the first mentioned being most numerous.
Indian Cession Treaties .- How the Indians came here, succeeding as they did the earlier race, is not known, and probably never will be. They were here when the whites first came. The Pottawatomies were found in possession of the soil, though the Miamis claimed some rights of occupancy. On the 2d of October, 1818, at a treaty concluded at St. Mary's with the Pottawatomies, the following tract of country was ceded to the Government :
Beginning at the mouth of the Tippecanoe River and running up the same to a point twenty-five miles in a direct line from the Wabash River, thence on a line as nearly par- allel to the general course of the Wabash River as practicable to a point on the Vermil- lion River twenty-five miles from the Wabash River, thence down the Vermillion River to its mouth, and thence up the Wabash River to the place of beginning.
On the 16th of October, 1826, they also ceded the following tract of land.
Beginning on the Tippecanoe River where the northern boundary of the tract ceded by the Pottawatomies to the United States at the treaty of St. Mary's in the year 1818 in- tersects the same, thence in a direct line to a point on Eel River, half way between the mouth of said river and Parrish's Village, thence up Eel River to Seek's Village (now in Whitley ("ounty ) near the head thereof, thence in a direct line to the mouth of a creek emp- tying into the St. Joseph's of the Miami (Maumee) near Metea's Village, thence up the St. Joseph's to the boundary line between the Ohio and Indiana, thence south to the Miami (Maumee), thence up the same to the reservation at Ft. Wayne, thence with the lines of the said reservation to the boundary established by the treaty with the Miamis in 1818, thence with the said line to the Wabash River, thence with the same river to the mouth of the Tippecanoe River, and thence with the Tippecanoe River to the place of beginning.
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HISTORY OF WHITE COUNTY.
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The following letter explains itself :
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR, GENERAL LAND OFFICE, WASHINGTON, D. C., December 9, 1882.
W. A. GOODSPEED, EsQ., Winamac, Indiana.
Sir :- In reply to your letter of the 27th of October last, setting forth that you want the following information for historical purposes, to wit : "When and where were the gov- ernment sales of land in White and Pulaski Counties, Indiana ?" I have to state that Townships 25 and 26 north, Ranges 3, 4, 5 and 6 west (White County) were offered at Crawfordsville, Indiana, November, 1829, June, 1830, and October, 1832. Townships 27 and 28 north, Ranges 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 west, in White County, were offered at Winamac,* Indiana, November, 1830, March, 1832, and March, 1839. The land in Pulaski County was offered at Winamac, Indiana, in September, 1838, March, 1839, and March, 1841.
Very respectfully,
M. MCFARLAND, Commissioner.
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