Plat book of Cass County, Indiana, 1950, Part 1

Author: Murphy, Charles D.
Publication date: 1950
Publisher: Logansport, Ind. : [Cass County], [1950]
Number of Pages: 60


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PLAT . BOOK


OF


CASS COUNTY INDIANA


1950


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Prepared by CHARLES D. MURPHY, Cass County Surveyor


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A BRIEF OUTLINE OF THE DUTIES OF A COUNTY SURVEYOR'S OFFICE


The surveyor, whose office is provided for by the Constitution, is elected for a two-year term by the voters of the entire county.


The county surveyor has few duties within corporate limits of any city or town unless a County Circuit Court drain is involved or he has a Circuit Court order.


The basic duties of a surveyor are to keep records of all section- corners throughout the county and to supervise all civil-engineering work in the county including the construction of highways, bridges and culverts. These latter duties are often shared, in such counties as ours, with a county highway supervisor, who is appointed by the County Commissioners to be responsible for the construction and maintenance of highways and culverts.


To construct and maintain the Circuit Court drainage systems · are the primary duties of a county surveyor. When petitions for drainage construction are filed by residents of the county and the court approves them, they are referred to the county surveyor. Then the county surveyor makes all necessary surveys, reports to the court, and presents maps, profiles, plans and specifications, estimated costs and assessments of benefits and damages thereon. With each drainage project two viewers are appointed by the court to apportion the costs among those benefited and to decide the proper compensations for those sustaining damages. Any ditch assessment levied against real estate under Circuit Court drain- age projects becomes a lien against that particular property and, if left unpaid, may be entered upon the tax duplicate of the affected real estate.


The surveyor has other important and time-consuming duties which are subject to the approval or direction of the Circuit Court.


B. S. Civil Eng. Purdue University


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Your County Surveyor


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CASS COUNTY PLAT BOOK


This plat-book has been assembled and published in response to many requests made by businessmen, county officers, farmers, and other residents of the county. It concerns itself with that area in north central Indiana which has been known for more than a cent- ury as Cass County. Conveniently arranged in alphabetical order are detailed maps of the fourteen townships in the county. These maps show the location of railroads; federal, state and county high- ways; bridges; range and township lines and section numbers; towns and villages; natural and artificial Circuit Court drainage systems; and --- perhaps of greatest interest --- the names of the owners (according to the 1949 re-appraisements) of practically all the farms, both large and small, at the mid-point of the Twentieth Century.


Also included are much less well known plats of a number of the largest towns in the county together with the most recent map avail- able of the county seat, the city of Logansport, which is on the banks of the Wabash and Eel (shown on the older maps as L'Anguille, pro- nounced long-EEL) Rivers at the point where these westward flow- ing rivers form a wishbone.


This book contains two maps of the county as a whole. One of these, we believe, is unique --- entirely without an antecedent though it has long been needed. It shows the areas served by the several rural routes of each post office in Cass County.


Also, laboriously compiled from the United States Census Bureau records at Washington, D.C., a Population Study of Cass County and its various sub-divisions during the more than a century of growth- from 1830 through 1940 - has been tabulated. Space is provided for the insertion of 1950 census statistics which will be available soon after this book is published.


The Cass County Plat-Book contains vital information and we trust that it will be of interest and value - lastingly worthwhile to any resident or land-owner in Cass County.


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PRESENT CASS COUNTY OFFICERS


Cass County Circuit Court Cass County Circuit Court Clerk Prosecuting Attorney County Assessor County Auditor County Treasurer County Sheriff County Surveyor County Coroner Superintendent of Schools Health Commissioner Board of County Commissioners


Dept. of Public Welfare Agricultural Agent Supt. of County Home Matron, Children's Home Court Reporter


Probate Commissioner Superintendent of Highways Court Bailiff Sealer of Weights and Measures Custodian


Judge Clifford O. Wild George W. Cline Tom Hirschauer J. Stewart Buchanan Paul C. Barnett James E. Kitchell Claude Berkshire Charles D. Murphy Dr. Milton B. Stewart Raymond S. Julian Dr. E. A. Spohn Delbert Smith Fred H. Moss Ralph Eberts Veffa B. Smith, Director John W. Connelly Fred Bullick Oda C. Parks Irene J. Whitehead Chas. K. Michael Elmer Shuman Everett E. Sage Elmer Elliott Joseph H. Kline


Township:


Trustee:


Advisory Board


Township:


Trustee


Advisory Board


Adams


Marion Hopkins


Carl Dillman


Harrison


Dallas Brown


Burton Ramsden Leo Crimmons John Murphy


Bethlehem


John T. Conrad


Harold Moore


Jackson


Max Chambers


Harold Myers


George B. Maudlin


Harry Couk Merrill Bevington


Boone


Walter J. Smith


Volna Ritz


Jefferson


Paul Stuart


Fred Searight Burton Nethercutt


Clay


Don G. Callender


Thomas Gerrard


Miami


Stella Henson


Robert Barr Fred Barnett Henry Balsbaugh


Clinton


John Conn


Noble


Allen Moss


William Rhodes Harvey Heckard Harold Barr


Albert Busard


Deer Creek


Floyd Stafford


Tipton


Virgil Turner


Floyd Rush Olin Mays Carl Shaff


Eel


Loyd Copeland


Herbert B. Eltzroth Chas. E. Jones Amiel Sailors William Justice Elmer Chambers Darrell Merrill Herbert Nelson Harry Cohee Parker Beall


Washington


Chas. Stephenson


E. C. Garver Wm. H. Jones


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POPULATION STUDY OF CASS COUNTY


United States Census Figures for Cass County and its townships, incorporated towns including Logansport (1830 - 1 950)


Date of organization or incorporation


1830 1840 1850


1860


1870


1880


1890


1900


1910


1920


1930


1940


1950


1835 Adams


474


743


807


886


962


974


984


994


981


970


(


)


1836 Bethlehem


664


1012


993


1163


1113


1047


999


992


908


892


(


)


1838 Boone


594


951


1262


1440


1680


1807


1802


1733


1562


1558


(


)


1880


Royal Center


(Incorp.)


306


399


527


657


909


900


777


865


(


)


Royal Center


1832 Clay


642


776


814


833


838


765


745


683


681


671


(


)


1834 Clinton


666


865


1021


991


1415


1568


970


1779


2145


2730


(


)


1842 Deer Creek


664


1132


1271


1607


1672


1557


1376


1271


1106


1113


(


)


Deer Creek


1829 Eel (Outside


(


)


708


160


221


724


1033


1189


279


387


583


(


)


Eel


1831


Logansport (Town) 488


( 2251)


Logansport (City)


)


2979


8950


11198


13328


16204


19050


21626


18508


20177


)


(


)


1847


Jackson


488


1262


1519


1606


1655


1 725


1 748


1732


1564


1538


(


)


1870


(Incorp)


390


415


658


691


666


735


)


Galveston


1831


Jefferson


734


953


1285


1135


1127


1096


1029


992


913


969


(


)


Jefferson


1831


Miami


669


804


1008


895


938


926


854


838


824


745


(


)


Miami


1836


Noble


743


1047


904


953


916


1141


1221


1056


978


984


(


)


Noble


1 840


Tipton


837


1283


1808


1982


2015


2038


1975


2038


1896


1942


(


)


Tipton


1922


Onward (Incorp.)


135


127


(


)


(


)


Walton


1 842 Washington


822


1317


1220


1544


1580


1406


1195


1188


1106


1101


(


)


Washington


Rural


658


13864 15243 16413 17824 18341 17318 16707 16010 16731


( )


Urban


488


2979


8950 11198 13328 16204 19050 21626 18508 20177 ( )


1828-


1829


Cass County


1146


5480 11021 16843 24193 27611 31152 34545 36368 38333 34518 36908 ( )


1830


1840


1850


1860


1870


1880


1890


1900


1910


1920


1930


1940


1950


(


Logansport Harrison Jackson


1836 Harrison


773


1011


11 71


1157


1189


1258


1231


1132


959


935


1 904


Galveston


(


453


469


498


579


713


685


710


Onward


1873


Walton (Incorp.)


Insert


Adams Bethlehem Boone


Tabulation reproduced through courtesy of L'Anguille (LONG-EEL) Valley Historical Association of Logansport


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A conservation program on any farm is built on a land-capability inventory which shows 'type of soil and its percent of slope and degree of rotation.


A good farm plan should use every acre in keeping with its natural capability. Many times, this involves changes in land-use and field-layout, so that rotations and soil-saving practices can be carried out more effectively.


A common rotation, to maintain soil-structure and internal drainage on nearly level clay land, such as Crosby silt loam, is corn, soybeans, grain, meadow, and meadow. On the more open-type soil, such as Metea fine sandy loam, a rotation of corn, grain, meadow, meadow, and meadow, is recommended to main- tain soil organic-matter and structure. On the more sloping soils, additional conservation practices, such as contouring, are necessary to reduce soil erosion.


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EQUALITIES 1 chain = 66 feet = 4 rods = 100 links (one link = 7.92 inches) 1 rod = 16 1/2 feet = one pole = one perch = 25 links = 1/4 chain 80 chains = one mile = 320 rods = 8 furlongs = 5,280 feet = 1,760 yards 1 acre = 43,560 square feet = 10 square chains = 160 square rods


One acre is equal to a square whose sides are 208.71 feet in length


A Congressional township area is 36 square miles and contains 23,040 acres. (If sections are full size and not fractional) Each full section contains 640 acres.


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LOOKING BACKWARD, AROUND, -- AND FORWARD!


Soon after the year 1500, three western European nations - - Spain, Britain, and France --- had established "beach-heads" on North America's eastern coast, and were beginning the slow westward march "from sea to shining sea".


By the beginning of the eighteenth century, FRANCE had penetrated deeply enough into the continent to have reached the inland region treated in this present Plat Book, -- the area now known as THE NORTHCENTRAL INDIANA COUNTY OF CASS. 1


This area's first white visitors came in from the East, -- down the Eel and Wabash Rivers, which then were excellent for travel by canoe. The Miami Indians now settled down in perma- nent villages to prepare annually thousands of animal skins and furs for shipment to France. Because these first villages all were along EEL RIVER, the Indians of our region became known as the EEL RIVER MIAMIS. Their own name for that stream was KE-na-PO-ko MO-ko (meaning "Snakelike Fish"). But white men, finding this name long and confusing, translated it into French as L'Anguille, which means "The Eel". English- speaking persons commonly pronounced this LONG-EEL, but eventually translated it into English as simply "EEL". The L'Anguille (LONGEEL) Valley Historical Association of Logans - port has, in its own name, revived the French equivalent L'Anguille, which appears on many of the older maps.


Being more delightfully short, the Indian name WABASH, which in the Miami language means "DAZZLING-WHITE", has been retained by all, and now is nationally known. In many places this stream's bed and banks are of exposed limestone. When the sun is shining brightly and the river is not too high, this ap- pears astonishingly white. This is strikingly evident just east of the Third Street Bridge which connects Logansport's business district with Biddle's Island. Even in aerial photographs, the great expanse of white stone is very conspicuous.


Largest and most important of Cass County's former Indian villages (now being studied by L'Anguille association members) -- was "ye OLDE TOWNE of Snakefish" (now locally called simply Olde Towne) in what are today CLAY, ADAMS, and, for a while, MIAMI TOWNSHIPS. According to at least one leading Hoosier historian, Olde Towne was for a time the home even of LITTLE TURTLE, greatest of all the Miamis, and one of the greatest inter - tribal war-chiefs the world has ever known.


To the everlasting glory of Old France, let it be forever remembered that Frenchmen from Canada treated our region's Indians with understanding, sympathy, kindness, generosity, and respect. When thus treated, these Indians were a cordially friend- ly people. The British who came later, -- though haughtier or less democratic, at least treated the Indians civilly, and with fairness and respect for their property rights. The Eel River Miamis rather liked the British, but greatly preferred the French.


Because most Frenchmen of this area sided with the "American rebels" during and after the Revolutionary War, our region's Indians might have done likewise. But unfortunately, many of the American frontiersmen were so ignorant that they regarded the Indians not as human beings but merely as animals, and as having no more property rights · than does a pack of wolves ! Without waiting for the government to purchase from the Indians the Indian hunting ground north of the Ohio River, these Ameri- cans swarmed into what is today southern Indiana and became trouble-making trespassers and squatters. They defiantly built rail fences directly across even main traveled Indian trails ! In making their unlawful clearings, they sometimes even started great forest fires which frightened away all the game! As these "premature Hoosiers" grew in numbers, the Indians' survival itself, as well as their happiness and industrial or commercial prosperity, was threatened.


When goaded to desperation by these great wrongs, our re- gion's Indians -- with British approval -- struck back at their would-be destroyers, and with all their might. "Paleface fire- water" doubtless made the Indians at times behave like savages in their treatment of these squatters in what is now Southern Ind- iana. When Kentuckians red-bloodedly rallied to the support of their troublemaking Hoosier cousins, the increasingly terrible feud promptly spread to also Kentucky, and soon developed into a long and bloody border war. Blinded by emotion, the Indians and the Kentuckians tried to outdo one another in vindictive re- taliation.


If President George Washington had not intervened, this needless bloodshed and anguish might have continued for dec- ades. Being at a distance, he saw the entire matter in its proper perspective. Although he temporarily lost much of his popular- ity in Kentucky, and ran the risk of that entire district's seceding and attaching itself to eager SPAIN (which now was established just across the Mississippifrom western Kentucky), President Washington courageously went directly to the very roots of the entire trouble. He ordered the squatters to abandon their homes in what is today southern Indiana, and to return to Kentucky;


1 Named in honor of Michigan's first great statesman, Gen. LEWIS CASS who helped honorably extinguish the Indian title to much of northcentral Indiana, and whose statue now stands in a place of honor in the rotunda of the National Capitol of Washington.


he commanded the incredulous Kentuckians to quit invading the "Indian Country" north of the Ohio River; and he tried his ut- most to get the Indians to calm down and to consent to the hold- ing of a conference. When the frenzied Indians continued their terrible raids on Kentucky, and even put to death as "spies" the messengers of good will the President sent to them, it be - came necessary to strike them a sharp blow, to bring them to their senses.


In August of 1791, General JAMES WILKINSON with an army far larger than George Rogers Clark had needed in cap- turing Vincennes, invaded what is today Cass County, with in- structions to strike hard BUT HUMANELY at Olde Towne, which now was known to be an outstanding "base" for murderous mid- night raids on Kentucky settlements. Though sending detach- ments into (what are today) all of Cass County's townships ex- cept Clinton, Wilkinson reported armed clashes with Indian warriors in only three, Miami, Clay, and Adams. On August 7th, one detachment had a sharp encounter with a party of warriors in or near Bloody Hollow, west of present New Waverly. Evi- dently mistaking this small detachment for a party of trespass- ing American hunters, the Indians fled without realizing that an entire American army was nearby! Next day, in their all-out attack on Olde Towne, more than half a thousand mounted rifle- men charged across Eel River from near the spot where the local chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution in very praiseworthy action, has since -- in 1922 -- placed a gran- ite monument.


Because Olde Towne was caught by surprise, and when most of its warrior gangs were absent, the battle, fortunately, was short. In the two actions, eleven or twelve were killed, in- cluding TWO United States soldiers. Both of these were vol- unteers from the commonwealth of Virginia's Kentucky District2 Militia, and one of them, Pvt. John Bartlett, is known to have been a seasoned veteran of the Revolutionary War. After occu- pying the three -mile - long town overnight, burying the dead, burn- ing hundreds of wooden wigwams, and leaving a written notice for the chiefs to "come in for a conference", the army trium- phantly returned to Kentucky, taking along, as requested by the President, many captured squaws and Indian children.


(In 1939, five hundred people interestedly assembled on this lonely old battlefield and town site, west of Hoover, to witness the L'Anguille Valley Association's unveiling, with elaborate mili- tary ceremonies, Georgia white marble monuments at the graves


of the two American soldiers killed in this 1791 action. In 1941, as part of the L'Anguille-sponsored observance of the 150th anni- versary, these were re-dedicated during another memorable military ceremonial. At that time, Indian War veterans' bronze markers were added, and the graves were inclosed with a sturdy steel picket fence. The L'Anguille (LONG-EEL) Valley Histor- ical Association has been successfully frustrated in its repeated all-out efforts to get this historically and patriotically hallowed spot into Government hands for proper preservation and res- toration. Its loyal members, however, have continued doing much to bring to public attention this supremely colorful phase of northcentral Indiana history, and to honor these Kentucky soldiers who gave their very lives for our country, and on what is today Cass County soil.)


In order to recover their beloved squaws and papooses, Olde Towne's chiefs at last consented to a series of conferences, in one of which President Washington himself took the leading part. In these sessions, the government acknowledged the Ind- ians' ownership of all of what is today Indiana (except only Vin- cennes and its immediate vicinity); their perfect right to refuse to sell it; and their right to punish troublemaking American tres- passers and squatters. Our region's delighted Indians at once accepted the friendship of the United States, entirely stopped their raids on Kentucky, and took no part in even the 1811 Battle of Tippecanoe. Increasingly harrassed by American squatters, however, the Eel River Miamis during the War of 1812 despair- ingly allied themselves to the British, who hoped to expel all Americans from what is today Indiana. British defeat in that war left our region's Indians at the mercy of the United States. Being now greatly reduced in numbers, the Miamis vacated all of what is today northern Cass County (including even the site of Olde Towne) to make room for their more numerous POTA- WATOMIallies and kinsmen, and moved to the south side of the Wabash River.


In 1818, LEWIS CASS and other U. S. Commissioners per- suaded the Miamis to sell all of what is today CLINTON TOWN- SHIP, a northwestern slice of WASHINGTON TOWNSHIP, and much of southwestern EEL TOWNSHIP, including land on which much of the southwestern portion of the city of LOGANSPORT now stands. The government at once surveyed this newly pur- chased land, cut it up into suitably sized tracts, and, as soon as the Miamis had moved eastward from it, offered these for sale to lawful, permanent American settlers. The first of these to arrive was ALEXANDER CHAMBERLAIN, a native of New York state, who had previously settled farther down the Wabash, near present Terre Haute. In 1826, on the south shore of the Wabash, directly across that stream from the mouth of Eel River, he erected first a small log cabin for his family, and later a rather large and barnlike two-story "inn" (or hotel).3 3




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