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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.
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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
Jim Martin Donald Berlet Ellsworth Leffert
Frank Hoover
William Wray
Clyde J. Davison
Harry Bridge Otto Kennel
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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
Charles D. Hume, President
R. B. Whitsett, Research Director
Clay Clinton
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The Cass County Soil Conservation District wants to express its appreciation for the useful information contained in this plat book.
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.
Therefore, your "handy reference facts on land-measurements" are timely and useful.
-- Soil Conservation Motto --
"There's a proper use for every acre; let's put every acre to its proper use."
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.
Sec. 22, T27N., RIE.
2,640
2,640
1,320
80Ac.
160 Ac.
1,980
660
2,640'
1,320
60Ac.
20Ac. 0
1,320
7330
990
1,320
1,320
1,320'
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2,640
80Ac.
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10Ac. :
80Ac.
2,640'
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10 660' 2.52.5
Vital information to landowners concerning acreage, dimensions, and descriptions of fractional parts of a full section, under the United States Rectangular Surveys and Legal Descriptions is por- trayed by the adjacent diagrams.
Sec. 22, T.27N. RIE.
N1/2 OF NWI/4
NORTHEAST
QUARTER
W3/4 SI/2 NWI/4
EI/4SI/2NWV/4
NWI/4 SEI/4
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S1/2 NI/2 SWI/4 SEI/4 SWI/4 SWI/4 SEI/4 N1/2 SEI/4 SWI/4 SEV/4 SE1/4 SEI/4 SWI/4 SE1/4
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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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