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LAKE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
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For Reference Not to be taken from this room
History of Lake County
VOLUME 10
Publication of the
Lake County Historical Association
OFFICERS 1928-1929
President Vice-President Secretary-Treasurer Historical Secretary
JOHN B. PETERSON JESSE WILSON EMMA HUEHN ARTHUR G. TAYLOR
JOHN O. BOWERS ARTHUR G. TAYLOR SAM B. WOODS Editorial Committee
CALUMET PRESS, GARY, INDIANA 1929
LAKE COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY
16157737
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF TIMOTHY HORTON BALL Preacher, Teacher, Historian
HOBART Ref. 977.299 Ola V. 10
FOREWORD
This volume has been compiled and published pursuant to a resolution passed at the annual meeting of the Association in 1928. It undertakes to report activities of the Association during the past five years, or more particularly proceedings of the last five annual meetings, together with the recording of some of the outstanding local events of this period. The compiling committee has had considerable trouble in the assembling of manu- scripts containing the addresses delivered at the meet- ings, and, in fact, has been unable to publish all the ad- dresses so made, because in some cases manuscripts have not been obtainable. In some instances speakers spoke without manuscripts, and, for lack of stenographic ser- vice, such addresses have, unfortunately, not been pre- served, and thereby many interesting incidents remain unrecorded. However, with the aid of the Secretaries a fairly complete list of the addresses delivered and pa- pers read, together with their respective contents, ap- pear herein.
It may be noted that the preservation of historical ma- terial would be greatly enhanced by the deposition with the Historical Secretary of copies of addresses delivered and papers read, and also by stenographic service at the annual meetings of the Association. Without such or similar method much that should be reduced to record is preserved, if preserved at all, only by tradition. Each year marks the passing of some actors from the local stage, and with their passing, tongues that might have spoken become silent and hands that might have written become still-forever. This Association welcomes the opportunity to preserve by record the experiences and the deeds of our pioneers.
We regret that the data and manuscripts for the com- pilation of this volume have not been more numerous, but we believe that in points of interest and merit this volume will help to maintain the high standard set by its predecessors.
We gratefully acknowledge our indebtedness to all who have aided us in the collection of material.
THE COMMITTEE.
The Generosity of the following Lake County Citizens has made the publication of this book possible.
Harry L. Arnold, Gary
Gallus J. Bader, Whiting
Frank S. Betz, Hammond
Charles W. Chase, Gary
William P. Gleason, Gary
Hazel K. Groves, East Chicago
Harry Hall, Gary Henry G. Hay, Gary
Milton D. Heiny, Gary
C. Oliver Holmes, Gary Carl Kaufmann, Hammond
Frank Kleinschmidt, Gary Joseph Kyle, Crown Point
Horace S. Norton, Gary Fred J. Smith, Whiting H. Burgess Snyder, Gary A. Murray Turner, Hammond William E. Whitaker, Crown Point
COMMERCIAL HOTEL.
COMMERCIAL HOTEL, CROWN POINT (Formerly Hack House)
Table of Contents
Page
Title Page
3
Dedication
4
Foreword
5
Patrons 6
Bibliography of Lake and Porter Counties.
by William J. Hamilton 9
Report of Secretary, by Emma Huehn 22
Report of Historical Secretary, by Arthur G. Taylor 24, 207
History of Lake County, 1833-1847, by Solon Robinson 35
Growth of Lake County, From a Social Viewpoint,
by C. Oliver Holmes 68
Merrillville, by Hiram Barton 73
Early Days in Lake and Porter Counties, by Darus P. Blake 77
Indian Trails and Mounds in Lake County, by Armanis F. Knotts
90
Father Marquette, by Tom Cannon
96
Aims and Objects of Old Settlers' Association, by Frank B. Pattee Lake Station, by Arthur E. Patterson
102
History of Lake County Sanitarium, by Herbert E. Graham
113
A Pioneer Doctor, by Hattie Palmer
115
Hessville and Joseph Hess, by Alys Hess
117
Gottlieb Muenich, Pioneer of Hammond, by Emma Huehn 119
Henry Huehn, by Emma Huehn 120
Reminiscences, by Mrs. J. L. Hill 121
John Wood, by A. J. Smith 123
A Pioneer Account Book, by Henry S. Davidson 128
Crown Point in the 1870's, by Schuyler C. Dwyer 134
Obadiah Taylor, by Arthur G. Taylor 139
Address Upon Dedication of Marker to Memory of Jabez Clark and Melvin Halstead, by Schuyler C. Dwyer 143
Life of a Circuit Rider, by Merritt F. Stright 149
Schools of Eagle Creek Township, by Mrs. Joseph E. Brown 152 Public Parks-
Gary, by W. P. Gleason 162
Hammond, by A. M. Turner 167
Rural, by Edwin F. Knight 170
Dream Cities of the Calumet, by John O. Bowers 174
The Passing of the Pioneers, by Sam B. Woods 199
Addenda. 207
Index
209
Illustrations
Commercial Hotel, Crown Point Frontispiece
Residence of Solon Robinson, Crown Point 40
Old California Hotel, Merrillville 73
First School House in Hobart 87
Old Audubon Hotel, Lake Station
109
First School House in Lake County
121
Wood's Mill, Deep River
124
First Catholic Church, St. John
170
Plats Dream Cities of the Calumet-
Liverpool
178
Section of Colton's Map of Indiana, 1838
182
City West
186
Manchester 192
Town of Bailly
196
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Bibliography of Lake, Porter and LaPorte Counties
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A brief selection from the Gary Public Library col- lection of books on the Calumet-Kankakee region ex- clusive of the Dunes and local Gary material.
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BY WILLIAM J. HAMILTON
No other county in Indiana has so fine a series of printed reports of the local historical society as has Lake County in its Old Settlers Association Publications. Even "The Pocket" section with its Lincoln tradition and the assistance in recent years from the State Historical Bureau has nothing to match our series for the years of the nineteenth century.
To a large extent Lake County's pre-eminence in this field is due to the unflagging zeal and energy of the man who for years served without recompense as the Association's His- torical Secretary-Rev. Timothy Horton Ball. Born on Feb- ruary 16, 1826, too early to be a native son of Lake, he was brought here from Massachusetts as a small boy in 1837. He died in Sheffield, Alabama, November 8th, 1913; but most of the seventy-six years between 1837 and 1913 he spent with- in the borders of Lake county. From the date of issue of "Lake County, Indiana from 1834 to 1872", published in 1873, to the "Reports of the Historical Secretary of the Old Settler and Historical Association. . . 1906 to 1910" Mr. Ball's name was associated with the splendid series of reports of which we have spoken. His name does not appear in the 1911 report, which, although issued in printed form, does not carry the name of the Historical Secretary who compiled it.
Solon Robinson and Timothy Horton Ball are the names which must be cited together whenever the written history of Lake County is mentioned, and oddly enough the two sur- names are bracketed in the issue of almost the first piece of Lake County publicity. Once the county had been established the newly selected commissioners at their first meeting April 5th, 1837, appointed Solon Robinson, clerk, and "made pro- vision for county maps". Of the result, we quote from "Lake
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County, 1834-1872," p. 241, "The first mapping in the county was done by Solon Robinson, the maps being colored by Mrs. Jane Ayrault (Horton) Ball, (Timothy's mother) the first resident painter in water colors. It seems strange that not a solitary one of the hundreds of those first maps, colored at Cedar Lake, can now be found in the county."
The Indiana State Library has a copy of Robinson's "De- scriptive map of unsold lands near the head of Lake Michigan, embracing part of Porter and all of Lake County." The Gary Public Library has a photo-static reproduction only. Are other copies of the original issue known to members of the Association ?
The Robinson family was honored by a marker unveiled at the meeting of the Association at Crown Point, August 27, 1921, while the Balls were similarly honored by a marker un- veiled at the Cedar Lake Meeting of the Association, Septem- ber 15, 1923.
Next in point of time would be mentioned "The Claim Regis- ter, containing the General Record and Constitution of the Squatters Union of Lake County." This Mr. Ball says-page 24 of "Lake County, 1834-1872"-was in his possession, and he describes it on page one of the volume as "a document of 1836, twelve inches by seventeen in size, containing eighty pages which I (T. H. B.) accidentally found in Kankakee City." Is the present location of this Claim Register known to anyone?
Another document of vital importance quoted in "Lake County, 1834-1872," is called there "Robinson's Records." This document is in the form of a lecture which was given in the Old Log Court House not long before its author left this state to enter on life in New York. This will be printed in the records of the Association for permanent preservation, although it did appear in the Lake County Star issued at Crown Point, September 15, 1916. The original manuscript of the address, delivered in 1847, is said to be in the posses- sion of Mr. Claude Allman, of Crown Point.
Books, Pamphlets and Documents of Lake County
The Old Settlers Association series, preceded by the two Ball volumes, which should be counted as a part of the file.
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Ball, Rev. T. H .- Lake County, Indiana, from 1834 to 1872. Chicago J. W. Goodspeed, 1873. 364 p. map.
Ball, T. H., Editor and Publisher for The Old Settlers Ass'n of Lake Co.,-Lake County Indiana, 1884; an account of The Semi-Centennial Celebration of Lake County, Sept. 3 and 4, with historical papers. . . Crown Point, Lake County Star, 1884. 488 p. illus.
OLD SETTLERS ASSOCIATION OF LAKE COUNTY, IND .- Reports of the Historical Secretary. . . from 1885 to 1890. "Printed in accordance with the vote of the Association instructing the Historical Secretary to have printed 200 copies for the members of the Association, Crown Point 1893." Hammond, Ind., Cleveland & Glotfelter, 1893. 42p. port. paper covers.
Reports of the Historical Secretary. .. from 1891 to 1895. "Printed in accordance with the vote of the Association in- structing the Historical Secretary to have printed 200 copies for the members." Crown Point, Lake Co. Star, 1895. 47p. port. paper covers.
Reports of the Historical Secretary. . . from 1896 to 1900. "Printed in acordance with the vote of the Ass'n instructing the Historical Secretary to have printed 300 copies for the members." Crown Point, Register, 1901. 88p. port. cloth.
Reports of the Historical Secretary. . . from 1901 to 1905. Crown Point, J. J. Wheeler, 1905. 100 p. Two issues; paper covers and cloth bound. Paper covered edition carries list of officers : Pres. O. Dinwiddie, V. Pres., Mrs. J. Fisher, Sec., Dr. J. L. Hill, Treas., T. A. Muzzall, Custodian, S. B. Woods, Hist. Sec., T. H. Ball.
1837-1907. Papers read at the meeting. . . August 28th, 1907, with some revisions and additions, these papers having been prepared for what was considered the seventieth anniver- sary of the permanent settlement of Hanover township, T. H. Ball, Historical Secretary. Hammond, Cleveland Printing Co. 1907. 31p. paper covers. Cover title "Hanover papers and Hon. S. C. Dwyer's address, September, 1907."
Old Settler and Historical Association of Lake Co. Ind., "called sometimes, for a shorter name, The Lake Co. Histori-
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cal Society." Publications. .. Officers of the Association: Pres. Sam B. Woods; V. Pres., John Hack; Rec. Sec'y, Mrs. H. Groman; Curator, Mrs. Pattee; Treas., Miss Edith Dinwiddie; Hist. Sec'y T. H. Ball. Crown Point, J. J. Wheeler, [1909]. 29p. paper covers.
"Introductory note: The Association was organized July 24, 1875. An account of its organization and short records of nine meetings can be found in "Lake County, 1884", pages 366 to 371. And in that work can be found the full arrange- ments for the tenth meeting and the Semi-centennial Celebra- tion of the county.
"Since 1884 the annual reports of the Historical Secretary have been published for the members of the Association every five years, making four small volumes, one of 42 pages, one of 47, one of 88, and one of 100 pages, making in all 277 printed pages. Along with these twenty-one reports have also been published some papers written by B. Bryant, Mrs. Ur- sula Jackson Bonnell, Mrs. J. Fisher, Mrs. M. J. Cutler, and Miss Ethel M. Hathaway. Another volume of reports is soon to be published, and we will then have in print twenty-six an- nual reports and eight papers, not including the "Hanover Papers" of 1907, which were published in that year; and it has seemed approprate to make a separate publication of the following papers and so to call this Publication Number Six."
Reports of the Historical Secretary. .. from 1906 to 1910. "Printed in accordance with the vote of the Association, Aug. 25, 1909. Pres. Sam B. Woods; V .- Pres. John M. Hack; Rec. Sec'y Mrs. H. Groman; Curator, Mrs. Jessie Pattee; Treas. Miss Edith Dinwiddie; Hist. Sec'y T. H. Ball." Crown Point, J. J. Wheeler, 1910. 95p. cloth.
(Note: On page 28 occurs a statement with which many an amateur historian will feelingly sympathize. Mr. Ball in his report for 1906 quotes from the East Chicago Globe, which "Speaking of the value of these reports of the Old Set- tlers Association presented by the secretary annually since 1875 closes with the statement, 'Rev. T. H. Ball is no doubt doing a work which future generations will appreciate' ". Mr. Ball's rueful comment is "I hope they may, but I hope our citizens, when this report comes to them in book form, will show a financial interest therein.")
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Report of the Historical Secretary. . . and papers. Crown Point, Register Print, 1911. 72p. cloth.
(Note p. 17: "Our publications." In answering some ques- tions addressed to me by the Librarian of Congress who want- ed a full set of our publications I found they are not well num- bered. The numbers as I finally sent them to him are as follow :
No. 1. Reports 1885-1890.
No. 2. Reports 1891-1895.
No. 3. Reports 1896-1900.
No. 4. Reports 1901-1905.
No. 5. Hanover papers, 1907.
No. 6. Papers of 1909.
No. 7. 1906-1910, called Reports 1910.
No. 8 is expected to contain one report and to bear the date 1912." No. 8 is undoubtedly this 1911 Report.
Historical Records. .. 1924 compiled by the Historical Sec- retary. Officers elected August 15, 1923: Pres. August W. Stommel; V .- Pres. A. J. Smith; Sec .- Treas. Emma H. Leary; Hist. Sec'y James W. Lester. [Gary, Calumet Press.] 63p. cloth.
Papers Delivered Before Old Settlers Ass'n, But Privately Printed Or Existing Only In Manuscript
Allman, Claude Settlement of towns and cities in Lake Co. (Printed in Gary Evening Post, 27 Aug. 1918).
Knotts, Armanis F .- Facts about cities and towns of Lake Co., a tentative article. (Printed in Gary Evening Post, 27 Aug. 1918).
Knotts, A. F .- Indian trails, towns and mounds in county. (Printed in Gary Evening Post, 27 Aug. 1918).
Kopelke, Johannes-The Bench and Bar of Lake County, Ind. For the Old Settlers meeting and Historical Ass'n at Crown Point, August 28, 1918. (Foreword dated August, 1919). 31p. paper covers.
Knotts, Armanis F .- Solon Robinson, an address delivered at Crown Point, August 27, 1921. 30p. Typewritten manu- script, copies in Gary Public Library and Indiana State Li- brary. Resume in Gary Post-Tribune, August 27, 1921.
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Belman, Wm. C .- Bartlett Woods, 1818-1903. "Address .. . delivered. . . at 46th Annual meeting of Lake County Histori- cal and Old Settlers' Ass'n, August 26, 1922, at Hickory Ridge Farm. .. A bronze tablet commemorating Bartlett Woods was unveiled. . . " 20p. paper covers.
Other Lake County Material
Ball, Timothy Horton. (Historical)
Genealogical records of the Dinwiddie clan of Northwestern Indiana, T. H. Ball, editor. Crown Point, J. J. Wheeler, 1902. 120 p. ports. Cover title, "Dinwiddie clan records."
Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake Co. Ind. with a compendium of history 1834-1904. Lewis Pub. Co., 1904. 674p. ports., Chicago.
Binder's title, "Lake Co. Ind." (Note, from Old Settlers Ass'n reports 1901-1905, P. 96: "A few words may be re- corded in regard to the large work called an 'Encyclopedia of genealogy and biography of Lake Co. The name of Ball is on the back and the title page says 'Rev. T. H. Ball, editor in chief', and these facts have led some to think I was the real publisher or had a financial interest in the sale. I had noth- ing to do with the publishing of the work or the price of the book. I made editorial contribution, was author of the first 167 pages and contributed the manuscript of 13 other pages. The Lewis Publishing Company treated me handsomely, paid me promptly for my writing and gave me three copies of the book.")
Francis Ball's descendants; or, The West Springfield Ball family, 1640-1902. Crown Point, J. J. Wheeler, 1902. 80p. (Not in Gary Public Library.)
Lake of the Red Cedars; or, Will it live? Thirty years in Lake. A record of the first thirty years of Baptist labors in the County of Lake, by Timothy Horton Ball. Crown Point, Author publ. 1880., 357p. map.
Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900, or, a View of our region through the 19th century. Crown Point, Valparaiso, etc. Donohue & Henneberry Printers, of Chicago, 1900. 570p. maps.
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Two issues seem to have been made in which the contents are identical, but the cover titles are slightly different, as follows: Northern Indiana from 1800 to 1900 T. H. Ball, N. W. Indiana T. H. B.
The Sunday Schools of Lake, an account of the commence- ment and growth of the Sunday Schools of Lake Co., Ind., from about 1840 to 1890: a semicentennial volume. Crown Point, T. H. Ball, editor and publisher for the Lake Co. S. S. Union, 1891. 200p. ports.
"Creek War" and "Glance into the great Southeast" are two historical works not relating to Lake County.
Ball, Timothy Horton. (Religious and literary)
Annie B. the dying girl. Crown Point, 1893. (not in Gary P. L.)
Essays or papers. 1. Three great questions. 2. The judg- ment, the conscience, and the task, as connected with man's responsibility to God. 3. The garden agony. 1896. 34p. (not in Gary P. L.)
Guidance of the Holy Spirit in interpreting Scripture. Crown Point, Donohue & Henneberry of Chicago, 1893. 25p. paper covers.
History of education, an essay read before the Lake County Teachers Ass'n at Lowell. Crown Point, 1893. 16p. (not in Gary P. L.)
Home of the Redeemed and other discussions. Crown Point, Register Print. 1899. 200p. Donohue & Henneberry of Chi- cago, Binders.
The Homes of Lake. Crown Point, Register Print. 1885. 23p. paper covers.
Inspired Scriptures. Crown Point, Wheeler, 1903. 106p.
Nature. Providence. Grace. Crown Point, Hammond, Cleve- land Print. 1908. 34p. paper covers.
Notes on Luke's gospel. Crown Point, 1889. 120p.
Origin of the nations, old truths for new readers : an ethno-
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logical study of the 10th chapter of Genesis. Crown Point, 1897. 29p. paper covers.
Poems and hymns. Crown Point, 1888. (not in Gary P. L.)
The Prairie Voice, volume 1, number 1. Crown Point, 1878. (not in Gary P. L.)
Principles of church government-authority, the New Testa- ment, by Y. N. L. Crown Point, 1877.
Scripture teaching on the immortality of the human soul, by Y. N. L. Boston Rand & Avery, 1861. 36p paper covers.
Two Greek particles. Hammond, 1905. (not in Gary P. L.)
Blatchley, Willis Stanley .- Geology of Lake & Porter coun- ties. Indianapolis, Ind., Dept. of Geology, 1897. 104p. illus.
Reprint from 22nd Annual report of Indiana Dept. of Geology.
Cannon, Thomas H., Loring, H. H., and Robb, C. J .- His- tory of Lake and Calumet region of Indiana, embracing Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties : an historical account of its peo- ple and its progress. Associate Historians, Charles E. Hayes, W. R. Adams, Indianapolis, Historians Association, 1927. v. 1, Historical; v. 2, Biographical.
Goodspeed, Weston A. & Blanchard, Charles. Counties of Porter and Lake, Ind .: historical and biographical Chicago Battey, 1882. 771p. illus., ports. Lake County Material, pp. 401-771.
(Note: Timothy Ball in "Lake County, 1884", p. 482, takes up with spirit, not to say asperity, certain suggestions made by the Goodspeed history of inaccuracies in "Lake County, 1872." Probably Mr. Ball did not altogether feel that the following note made up for the lack of quotation marks in the pages of the Goodspeed volume. Goodspeed, p. 401: "Much of this chapter one is taken bodily from a small volume on the history of Lake county published some ten years ago by Rev. T. H. Ball.")
Green, Silas E. (first Postmaster at Jerusalem, Indiana, generally called Calumet, or East Tolleston) -The Tolleston tragedy [a poem based on the poachers' war with the guards
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of the Tolleston gun club, 1893]. Hammond, published by the author, n. d. 3p. leaflet.
Hardesty's sectional map of Lake county, Indiana. Chicago, 1875. Note: Parallel columns beside the map give "History of Lake Co. Ind." and "alphabetical list of subscribers who are the prominent business men and farmers of Lake Co."
(Gary Public Library has photographic reproduction of original in possession of Chicago Historical Society. Infor- mation is desired by the Gary Public Library concerning any Lake county maps issued between that by Robinson, 1840? and this by Hardesty, 1875?)
History of a case; or, From journalism to jail and out again, with illustrations and temperance songs. Hobart, H. C. Han- son, [1896]. 16p. pamph.
Howat, Wm. F .- Standard history of Lake Co. Ind. and the Calumet region, under supervision of Wm. F. Howat, assisted by A. G. Lundquist, A. M. Turner, C. O. Holmes, Geo. W. Lewis, Capt. H. S. Norton, John J. Wheeler, Albert Mack. Chicago Lewis Pub. Co. 1915. 2v. illus. ports. v. 1, Historical; v. 2, Biographical.
Lake County, Indiana. Clerk of Lake Circuit Court-Mar- riage record of Lake county from the organization of the county, Feb. 15, 1837. Typewritten mss. record, obtained by Bess Vrooman Sheehan, (Mrs. Frank J. Sheehan), of first 100 marriages solemnized or licensed in Lake Co., Feb. 1837- October 1843.
Matson, N .- Memories of Shaubena, with incidents relat- ing to the early settlements of the West. Chicago Cook, 1870 269p. (not in Gary P.L.)
Robinson, Solon. Letters, dated Dec. 16, 1834, and Feb. 25, 1835, written to the Madison Republic and Banner. Gary Pub- lic Library has photostat copies, also the letters as reprinted in Gary Evening Post, 27 August, 1918.
Letters, articles, etc., appearing in the Albany, N. Y., Cul- tivator, Ser. 1, v. 4, Ser. 2, v. 3. 1838-1846.
Me-won-i-toc; a tale of frontier life and Indian character;
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exhibiting traditions, superstitions and character of a race that is passing away. . . N. Y. News Co. 1867.
Copies of two other works of Robinson said to have been written before his removal to New York about 1850, cannot be located in any collection. These are entitled : "The Will",* and "The last of the Buffaloes." The latter title may have been an earlier presentation of material later used in Me-won-i-toc, one section of which might have been appropriately so named.
United States. Census Bureau. 1840 Census-Census re- cord for Lake County, Ind., as taken by Lewis Warriner, Octo- ber 1840. (Photostat copy.)
Note: The names of the 266 heads of families listed may be found in Cannon's "Lake and Calumet Region", 1927, p. 98.
United States. Soils Bureau. Dept. of Agriculture Soil Survey of Lake county, Ind., by T. M. Bushnell, U. S. Dept. of agriculture, and Wendell Barrett, Indiana Dept. of Geology. Advance sheets, Fields operations, Bureau of Soils, 1917. Wash. Govt. pr. off. 1921. 48p. maps. pamph.
Porter County
Bowers, John O .- The Old Bailly Homestead. Gary, [Cal- umet Press]1922. 12p. illus. pamph.
Cannon, Thomas H., Loring, H. H. & Robb, C. J .- History of Lake and Calumet region of Indiana, embracing Lake, Porter and LaPorte counties; an historical account of its peo- ple and its progress. Associate historians, Charles E. Hayes, W. R. Adams. Indianapolis, Historians Association, 1927. v. 1, Historical; v. 2, Biographical.
Gay, Deborah H (Shults)-One of the earliest authentic histories of Porter Co. Ind., from 1832 to 1876. 12p. pamph.
Goodspeed, Weston A. & Blanchard, Charles. Counties of Porter and Lake, Ind .: historical and biographical. Chic. Battey, 1882. 771p. illus, ports. Porter county, pp. 11-398.
Hardesty, A. G .- Illustrated historical atlas of Porter Coun- ty, Ind. Valparaiso, 1876. (not in Gary P. L.)
History of Porter Co. Ind .: a narrative account of its his- torical progress, its people and its principal interests. Chicago
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Lewis pub. co. 1912. 2v. v. 1, Historical; v. 2, Biographical. (not in Gary P. L.
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