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THE ELLIOTT FAMILY.
The Elliott family are to-day thoroughly American, as this brief sketch will show you. Back as far as 1740 an emigrant colony, from adjoining counties in England and Wales, settled in the vicinity of Mobsic Bay, Gloucester county, Virginia. In this colony were the first members of the Elliott lineage, and they settled on a new plantation within about four miles of where Yorktown was located, and began life in this magical new country-this Eldorado-upon a farm.
It was upon this farm in Gloucester county, that Peter Elliott, the father of the author, was born in 1774. He was but a small boy when Lord Cornwallis surrendered his army to General Washington, but he remembered many events of that long siege and of the final events of the War of the Revolution. He remembered when the red-coats were encamped upon the family plantation, and how the dashing young
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officers often secured him to carry delicate love notes to the blushing young Tory maidens of that locality. These young English officers, some of them at least, were even quartered in the dwelling of the family. And many a time was he trotted on a red-coat's knee, while his father was in the depleted ranks of the little patriot army under General Washington and his generals.
When the first call for soldiers was made in 1776, the oldest of the three Elliott brothers at once enlisted in the service of the thirteen colonies. Sometime in the course of the war the other two entered the army, and as it happened each brother was in a different division of the troops. They were in many contests in the course of the long struggle for freedom, and it happened that all three were in the strug- gle at Yorktown, and cach was wounded there in a final onslanght upon the works of the entrenched British. Wounded and broken down from long years of exposure, they were taken home. When white-winged peace came at last, they did not survive many years to enjoy it. The names of these three Revolutionary soldiers were James, Thomas and Robert Elliott. They died comparatively yonng.
During the winter campaign against Yorktown, the patriots groomed their horses in caves dug in the hillsides and arranged with props like rooms in coal mines. The three brothers were in the charge made by Washington and his generals upon the breastworks, and tradition has it that this was a bold and bloody conflict, in which many personal heroic adventures were performed. It is with pleasure that the author recollects that he has walked over the old breastworks at Yorktown, and had depicted to him by the old soldiers the contest that waged there for liberty many years before. These old war ruins are yet vivid and elear in his mind and heart. The fireside history of this glorious victory is deeply imbedded in his very nature, and it seems to him, when he thinks of it, that there is no country on the face of the earth equal to his own beloved land, over which the star-spangled banner waves in beauty and glory.
James and Thomas left many sons and daughters. The descendants of one became sea-faring men, and of the other merchants and traders, near Baltimore. Numerous relationships have been discovered, and some of them have been traced back to their origin by the author. Robert Elliott, the grandfather of the author, married a Dobson, and she bore one son, named Peter. After the death of Robert, the widow married James Hall. Their daughter, Martha, married a man named Ranson ; their son, John Hall, Martha's brother, was a prominent figure at one time in commercial affairs, at Richmond, Virginia, and
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to-day his son, Joseph Hall, has, with even more success, followed in his father's footsteps.
Peter Elliott was born November 29, 1774, in Gloucester county, Virginia, as heretofore stated. He was brought up, or as they say in Virginia, raised on a farm. When nineteen years old he went to Richmond and bound himself out to a man named Mr. McKin, a car- penter. When the Whisky Rebellion, as it is called, broke out in western Pennsylvania he was drafted to help suppress the revolt. The troops were ordered to rendezvous at Fort Pitt. The prompt meas- ures of President Washington quelled the trouble without much difficul- ty. Afterward young Peter Elliott returned to Richmond and finished his trade apprenticeship. He pursued his occupation with Mr. McKin until he was twenty-four years old, when he married Miss Jane Mor- ton, a sister-in-law of Mr. McKin, and a descendant of English ances- tors. Their only child died in infancy, and the mother herself died within a year after her marriage. About a year subsequent to his wife's death, Peter Elliott married Miss Mary Pritchett, of Richmond. To them were born Ann Elizabeth, June 13, 1809. She married Alexander Duval, and is to-day residing in Louisville, Ky., a widow, in feeble health. William Morton Elliott was born Jannary 15, 1812. He was a physician and a minister, and a man of exceeding fine quali- ties. His death occurred December, 1874.
. On the death of his second wife, which occurred shortly after the birth of her only son, Peter Elliott married again, and this time a Miss Ann Brown, a daughter of Stephen Brown. She was born Sep- tember 24, 1790, in London, England. She was a woman of many lovable qualities and a true helpmeet.
When the awful holocaust occurred in the Richmond theatre in 1811 Miss Brown was there. She remembered being pressed towards the door in the wild rush, and of being thrown down in the panic that pre- vailed and was trampled upon, and when she recovered consciousness she was lying in a ditch somewhere alone. Some one had dragged her unconscious form from there for safety. She was scarred and cut with iron hcel-taps, and the scars remained till the day of her death. It will be remembered that the Governor-elect of Virginia was so hor- ribly charred by the fire that his body was only identified by a gold watch chain worn around his neck. The names of all the dead, who are buried in one wide grave, are carved upon a monument that marks their final resting place.
This union with Miss Brown brought forth three children. Robert was born August 4, 1813. He died in infancy ou October 20, 1814. 31
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Joseph Peter was born April 3, 1815. Sarah A. was born May 12, 1819, and died August 12, 1820.
After the death of Ann Brown Elliott, Peter married a fourth wife, and this time it was a Miss Godfrey, of Lynchburg, Virginia, formerly of Richmond. No issue resulted from this union.
Peter closed his business affairs in Richmond about the time of his marriage to Ann Brown and located in Lynchburg, where most of his children were born. His pursuit as a contractor and builder brought him neat and substantial gains. In time, however, he settled farther west in the pioneer country, and took up his residence in Lexington, Kentucky, in 1824, where he added the wagon-maker's and black- smith's trades to his other labors. He owned slaves there as he owned them in Virginia, and the refractory ones gave him considerable trouble to manage, and with his business worries he began to decline in general health. He always sympathized with the sentiment that would liberate the slaves, believing freedom to all to be right in a land of the free and a home of the brave. When poor health overtook him he found homes for his slaves in Lexington, quit his business and came to Evansville, where he lived with his son Joseph Peter Elliott. This was about 1849. Joseph Peter, the author, settled up his father's affairs in 1850, disposed of his property in Lexington, and managed his funds thereafter. He died on the 24th of June, 1863. He sleeps to-day in Oak Hill Cemetery.
He was a man of many sterling qualities, faithful in agreements, correet in his moral instincts and true to his friends. He was a mem- ber of the Methodist church. He was a patriotie citizen and a lover of his country. He believed in its institutions and its destiny, and he loved and honored the flag, the stars and stripes that led his father to victory and established a country without an equal upon the earth.
Joseph Peter Elliott, as already stated, was born April 3, 1815, at Lynchburg, Virginia. He was named after Joseph of biblical fame. It was his mother's delight to read that story to her young son. Before he could read he could repeat this romantie history by heart, so often had she read it to him. She was a religious woman and was often called from her secret devotion to her meals by the servants.
What little schooling the author got was in Lexington, Kentucky, and from his sister, Elizabeth (Mrs. Duval.)
The family resided about ten years in Lynchburg, and came to Lex- ington, Kentucky, in 1824, traveling by teams through the wilderness. That was, in fact, the only means of transportation in these pioneer times. His mother, Mrs. Ann Brown Elliott, had died the previous
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year in 1823. The author set out from there in 1836 to become the architect of his own fortunes, and spent the first winter in Louisville, learning the saddlery business. In February, 1837, he settled in Evansville, where his long life has been spent. His elder brother, William Morton, had come in December, 1826, prospecting for busi- ness and had rented a house in which to conduct the saddlery busi- ness.
Here the author's life has been open and known of all men. The first twenty-five years of his life in this city were devoted exclusively to saddlery manufacturing. Many learned the trade under his direc- tions. The last he did in that line of industry was filling contracts with the government in 1861-2, during the war. He made six hund- red cavalry saddles and equipments for an Indiana cavalry regiment, and the harness for a park of artillery consisting of six pieces and seventy-two horses. He then became a merchant and pork packer, a line of trade he followed up to about 1880. After that, for about five years, he traveled through the south for the Heilman plow works. He was elected as magistrate or justice of the peace in 1889, a position he is still filling. In middle life he dealt largely in real estate and laid out several additions to the town.
During the war he was active in the protection of the city. At that time he was township trustee, and had much to do with the care of the fugitives from the south. He served as a member of the council almost all along through the history of the town, and after it became a city, and was a member of the various boards connected therewith, doing his work with great care and concern for the general welfare. To glance briefly at the author's domestic life is the next step in this condensed family history. He was married to Miss Mary Ann Harri- son, daughter of Elisha Harrison, who figured in the early legislature of Indiana, in September, 1838. She was a kind and tender woman. To them one child was born, but both mother and child died in Octo- ber, 1838.
He married his second wife, Miss Mary Louisa Wheeler, daughter of Rev. Joseph Wheeler, October 6, 1839. She was boru in London. She was a woman of many fine and estimable qualities, and trained her family in the fear and admonition of the Lord. This union brought forth the following children, all born in this city : Edward Peter, Mrs. Mary Louisa Oakley, Lizzie Early Elliott, John Wheeler, Joseph Brown and John Douglas Elliott. But death has invaded his home and taken some away. John W. died September 12, 1850; Lizzie
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Early, died April 18, 1853, and Joseph B., died February 11, 1885. The mother of these children died June 5, 1853.
The author married his third wife, Margaret Reilly, July 19, 1854. She became a mother to the bereft children, trained them with careful Christian grace, and was so kind to them that they loved her as dearly as they ever could have loved their real mother. No children were born to them. Mrs. Margaret Reilly Elliott died, full of grace and Christian character, beloved for her temporizing power and great sweetness, on August 16, 1889. She was born in Drummond, county of Armagh, Ireland, May 10, 1810, and came to this country in 1839, and to Evansville in 1843. "Cousin Margaret Reilly," as she was affectionately called, was a willing and capable helper wherever sickness, sorrow or charity made its appeal. She never thought of her- · self until she had brought comfort and relief to others. She was a shining example of cheerfulness and contentment, and her gentleness radiated out and made others softer and better. The local press, in noting and noticing her death, complimented her highly and paid a beautiful tribute to her sweet memory.
And now, you will permit us to complete this family record. Wil- liam Morton Elliott, M. D., whom yon will remember, married Miss Hannah Ellison, November 9, 1831. To them were born the follow- ing children : William W., born Jannary 21, 1833; Mary Elizabeth, November 17, 1836; Thomas M., December 30, 1838; James P., May 26, 1840 ; Hannah E., December 15, 1845, and John G., June 13, 1851.
His sister, Mrs. Ann Elizabeth Duval, wife of Alexander Duval, was the mother of the following children : Henry, born May, 1836 ; Virginia, May 20, 1839; Claudeus P., September, 1840; Louis E., November, 1845, and Mary E., May, 1848.
Edward Peter Elliott, son of the author, was married to Miss Annie E. Leonard, who was born in Mt. Vernon, Ind., November 8, 1846, and the date of their marriage was May 9, 1866. The dates of the births of their children are as follows : C. Fred., born February 5, 1867; Mary L., May 12, 1868; Bessie E., September 23, 1869 ; Net- tie C., October 16, 1871 ; Joseph P., October 15, 1878; James M., April 24, 1880; Edward Leonard, June 3, 1885, and William Man- ning, February 11, 1887. James M. died August 12, 1880.
Mary Louisa Elliott was married to James Allen Oakley, September 3, 1863. The fruit of this union is Miss Margaret.
And this is the family record. Sernpulous care has been exercised to omit everything that would seem egotistical or fulsome in the eyes
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of friends and the general reader. Much has been left unwritten, much that might be added with profit ; but the writer preferred to give only an outline, leaving the reader to supply all omissions.
BROWN FAMILY.
The anthor's mother was a Brown, as you well remember. It is the purpose now to give a family tree of a part of the Brown race. Ed- ward Brown was a son of Stephen Brown, the father of the author's mother, Anu Brown Elliott. Edward Brown married Miss Elizabeth Godfrey, and to whom there were born Edward and Sarah (Mrs. Rock), twins, Edward dying young and Sarah still living in Gordons- ville, Va .; Elizabeth (Mrs. Benson), who died in 1853; Dr. Samuel P. Brown, who died December, 1896; Douglas Brown, who was a captain in the Mexican war and died at Pennington, Mississippi, on his way home after peace had been obtained; and Lucy, (Mrs. Pettitt), still living in Columbia, Virginia. After the death of his wife Edward Brown married Miss Martha Rucker, of Amherst county, Virginia. Out of this union there came Edward Brown, who was born in 1836; William Brown, who was born in 1839; Philip F. Brown, wbo was born June 2, 1842; Mary F. Brown, who was born in 1845, and Ben- jamin R. Brown, who was born in 1847. The mother of these children died in the autumn of 1847, and the father in the spring of 1852. They were of a kind, loving disposition, and their children loved and revered them. For many years the father was superintendent of the Episcopal Sunday school in Columbia, Virginia. Both parents sleep in the church yard at Columbia. The parents of Edward Brown lie in the church yard at Richmond, Virginia.
Phil F. Brown was born at Columbia, Fulvanna county, Virginia. An orphan at eleven years, he began life under trying circumstances. At the age of sixteen he accepted a position in a large general mer- chandise store, where he was engaged for the next two years. He joined the army and started for Norfolk April 19, 1861 ; served on General J. C. Pemberton's staff; was in the seven-day battle around Richmond; was severely wounded at Crampton's Gap September 14, which practically ended his military career. After his recovery he clerked at the old American hotel in Richmond, and soon after bought the lease on this hostelry, but three days afterward, when the Union forces entered the evacuated city-April 3, 1865-this hotel was burned. In October he became cashier of the Exchange hotel. He
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conducted a hotel at Petersburg subsequently, and in 1870 went to " The Baths," in Rockbridge county, and three years later he went to Blue Ridge Springs. He is now the proprietor of this popular resort in Botetourt county, Virginia. He has at the same time managed successfully large hostelries in Chattanooga, Atlanta, Ocala, New Orleans and elsewhere. He has a wide reputation as a landlord. In 1891 he was elected to the house of delegates, a position he filled creditably, with honor to himself and good to his constituency.
APPENDIX.
On page 191 the name of Mrs. Lucy Archer Hunting should be added as one with a highly cultivated soprano voice. She sang often in local concerts and oratorios.
The statement on page 191, that Dr. Charles S Archer is a music teacher, should be made to read a music " leader."
In the list of vocalists on page 191 should be included the names of Mrs. Thomas Wheeler, Mrs. Fannie Tileston Henson, Mr. William Tileston and Mr. Charles M. Tileston.
Prosecuting attorneys of the first Indiana district : John Law, 1818; Charles J. Battell, 1830 to 1835; John Pitcher, 1835; James Lockhart, 1846; John Ingle, A. L. Robinson, Luke Stinson, C. A. De Bruler, William Henning; John Brownlee, 1870 to 1880; William H. Gudgel, 1879 to 1883; Philip W. Frey, 1883 to 1887; A. J. Mc- Cutchan, 1887 to 1891; John W. Spencer, 1891 to 1895; A. J. Clark, 1895 to present time.
Prosecuting attorneys of the Vanderburgh criminal court: Wil- liam P. Hargrave, H. A. Mattison, James B. Rucker and Richard Hodson.
INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
Agent, County
131
Calvary Baptist Church .
264
Akin Family .
445
Canal
100
Allopathy .
197
Canal Commissioners
102
Althouse, Miss Tamar 152
Canal Litigation
106, 108
Ancient deed . 457
Captivity of Isaac Knight 34
Ancient Order United Workmen . 302
Cases in Court 157
American Protective Association . 318
Catholicity, History of . 275
Archer, Samuel M .
390
Census of 1819 .
62
Architecture, Early . .
23, 56, 153
Charity Lodge, K. & L. of H 308
Arminius Lodge, K. P
302
Christian Church
269
Assessors, County
134
Churches
237
Associate Judges
135, 160
Cintura, Prof. J .
195
Assumption Parish
276
Citizens' National Bank
210
Attorneys, City .
72
City Attorneys . 72
Attorneys, List of
149
City of Evansville, History of 72
Auditors, County .
130
Civil Townships
115
Audubon, John J .
157
Author's Arrival in Evansville .
14
Code of Practice .
139, 140
Babcock Family
374
Colfax Lodge, I. O. O. F 294
Bank of Commerce
213
Commissioners, County .
127
Bar, present
152
Conkey, Horace . 474
Battell, Charles I
137
Cook, Hon. F. W 418
Bayard, Samuel
395
Cook, Ziba H
482
Ben Hur Lodge .
297
Councilmen
72
Blount, Henry F
342
B. M. A .
223
County Auditors
130
B'nai Moses
275
Bonds, County
114
Boone, Daniel .
25, 27
Britton, Thomas P 484
Brown Family .
493
County Sheriff's
132
Bryant's Station, Siege of
26
County Surveyors
132
Building and Loan Association
213
County Treasurers .
129
Burke, M. F .
141
Courts . . . . 135, 143, 146, 147, 157, 159
Business Industries
89
Court of Common Pleas .
143
Business Men . .
15
Court of Honor
318
Butterfield, Charles H
146
Court Houses
153
Clerks, County
132
Baker, Conrad
Bands
185
Colored Masonry
286
Bittrolff, John L., Sr
472
Coroners, County
133
57
County Agent . 131
County Assessors 134
B'nai Israel
274
County Commissioners. 127, 161
County Coroners.
133
County Indebtedness
114
County Officials
127
County Recorders
131
B'nai B'rith
74, 145
Col. Foster Camp, S. of V
340
Banks
208
Common Pleas, Court of . 143
Blackford, Judge
318
County Clerks .
132
496
INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
Court Lamasco, I. O. F 312
Court Practices . 139
Cox, Maj. Joseph B . 363
Excelsior Lodge, A. O. U. W . 303
Executions, Legal 158, 159
Fairchilds, Ira A 57
Criminal Court
146
Curnick, Theophilus 475
Custom House
225
Cutler, Dr. George A 478
Darlington 153
Davis Family
449
Debt, County .
114
Degree of Honor, A. O. U. W 305
First Canal tow 105
Denby, Hon. Charles .
365
First
Cumberland
Presbyterian
Dentistry .
204
Church
259
Descriptive Record, G. A. R . 302
Diana Rebekah Lodge 295
First German M. E. Church . 244
First Hanging
158
Dyer, Azro .
107,147
Eagle Lodge, 1. 0.0. F 291
Early Architecture . 23, 56, 153
First School
167
Early Manufacturing .
93
First Settlers . .
21, 29, 30
Early Taxpayers .
117
Early Threshing Methods 58
First Town Election
61
Early Times and Customs 56
First Voting Places 115
First White Male Child Born Here . 21
Formation of Vanderburgh County . 60
Foster, The Family of 403
Foster, John H
148
Foster, John W
406
Fraternal Legion
310
Fraternal Union
316
Equitable Aid Union 318
Estill, Capt. James . 25
Eureka Lodge, Order of Unity . 316
Evangelical Lutheran St. Emanuel's Church . 272
Evans, Gen. Robert M .
.
. 49, 57, 60, 63, 139, 158, 159, 216
Evansville Camp, Fraternal Legion . 310
Evansville Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons . 285
Evansville Council, Fraternal Union 317
Evansville Division, K. P . 299 291
Evansville Encampment, I. O. O. F . Evansville Lodge, F. & A. M . 284
Evansville Lodge, Order of Elks . 313
Evansville & Newburgh R. R . 227
Evansville, Progress of . . 61, 63
Evansville, Settlement of . 29, 154
German Socialists
55
Gilbert, F. M .
467
Girty, Simon .
26, 27
Glover, John F
481
Golden Rule Lodge, K. of H .
310
Goodlett, James R. E .
136
Goslee, Fred D .
196
284
Freemasonry .
Free Methodists
243
Friendship Council, Fraternal Union 317 307 Freundschaft Lodge, K. & L. of H . Game 95
Gavitt Family
378
German Baptist Church . 265
German Evangelical Zion's Church . 271 German Lutheran St. Paul's Church 272
German Lutheran Trinity Church . 244
German National Bank . 211
Evansville & Terre Haute R. R. . 226, 229
Evening Star Lodge, A. O. U. W .. 304
Crescent City Lodge, K. & L. of H . 307
Crescent Lodge, I. O. O. F . 288
Farragut Camp, Sons of Veterans . 339
Farragut Post, G. A. R. 321 Farragut Woman's Relief Corps 338 Fickas, John B., Reminiscences by . 51
Fighting Indians . 25
First Avenue Presbyterian Church . 262
First Baptist Church 263
Dunham, John M
136
First Lady Lawyer .
152
First National Bank
209
Early Transportation
98
Edmund Family 357
Edson, William P
145, 152
Elliott Family . 487
Elliott, J. P. . . . 14, 19, 20, 156, 217, 275 Embree, Elisha 137
Endowment Rank, K. P . 301
First Steamboat
55
First Freewill Baptist Church 268
497
INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
Grace Presbyterian Church . 250
Jacobi, Capt. Otto F 394
Grainger, Ira P .
143
Jails .
156
Griffith, C. M
143, 349 Jean, Charles F . 480
Grill, Col. John F
392 Jefferson Ave. Cumberland Church . 259
Groscurth, John
473
Judges
135, 143
Gumberts Family
466
Hall, Samuel .
137
Handy, John B
. 145, 152
Hanging 158, 159
Hard Times
112
Keller, Charles
473
Hargrave, William P
146, 147
48
Kingsley M. E. Church 241
Harrison, Elisha .
. 67, 68
Knight, Isaac, Captivity of 34
Harrison, Gen. William H . 28, 33, 50, 64
Knights of Honor .
309
Hart, David 27,28,135
Knights and Ladies of Honor 305
Hebrew Orders . 318 Knights of the Maccabees . 313
Heilman, William
367
Knights of Pythias 296
Hester, William A
347
Knights of St. John .
318
History of the B. M. A
223
Knox County 65
History of Catholicity . 275 Kratz, Christian 412
Holy Innocents Memorial Church . 256
Laird, David T . . 107, 141
Home for the Friendless 220
Lamasco Camp, Fraternal Legion .
311
Homeopathy 197,198
Hopkins, Edward 143
Hopkins Family
383
Law, Judge John .
112
Hornbrook, Thomas 143
Legislature. .
60, 67, 133, 134
Leni Leoti Lodge, A. O. U. W . . . 303
Lessing Lodge, A. F. & A. M . 286
Household of Ruth, I. O. O. F 295 Liberty Colored Baptist Church . . 268
Hovey, Alvin P .. 138 Liberty Council, Chosen Friends . . 315
Howell 230
450
Lilliston, John W . 137
Howell Lodge, A. O. U. W 305
Lilly Lodge, K. & L. of H . 306
Howell Lodge, K. & L. of H 308
Lindsay, G. W .
Linxweiler, George
30, 413
Hughes, William 348
List of Attorneys .
149
Humboldt Lodge, A. O. U. W 304 List of Business Men in 1837 . 15
Iglehart, Asa 107, 144
List of County Officials . 127
Igleheart Family .
458
List of Justices of the Peace 162
Indian Manner of Life . 42, 43, 44
Lockhart, James
137
Indian Treaty
30
Logan, Col . 127
Indian Wars . 25 Lone Star Lodge, A. O. U. W 304, 320
Ingle, John, Jr .
137
Louisville & Nashville R. R
227,231
Ingle Street M. E. Church 240
Lunkenheimer Family
349
Ingles, The 399 Mackey, David J . 398
Introduction .
9 Maier, Peter 148
Isaac Knight's Captivity
35
Manhattan Camp, I. O. F
312
Ivanhoe Commandery, K. T
287
Manufacturing Enterprises
93
Judicial Circuits . 159
Judicial Execution
159
Justices of the Peace .
161
Justice, Temples of .
153
Harringtou, Charles, Adventure of .
Kersher Shel Barsel . 318
Home Forum .
314
Land, William M .
145
Lauenstein, Frederick 392
La Vallette Commandery, K. T 285
Hospitals . .
197, 223
Hospital for Insane 223
Liberty General Baptist Church 265
Howell, Lee
143
Howell Shops
231
List of Farragut Post, G. A. R . 323
Independent Baptist Church 266
32
198
INDEX.
PAGE
PAGE
Marine Hospital . 223
Martha Lodge, K. & L. of H . 307
Peddling Wagons . 99
Matthias, Prof. C . 194
Mattison, H. A
142
Peoria, Decatur & Evansville R. R . 227
Pennington, John J., M. D 382
MeCrary, John 135, 143
McFarland Chapel 267
Pianists
191, 192
McGary, Hugh
Pitcher, Jobu . 145, 152
. 23, 25, 27, 29, 57, 58, 60, 135, 153, 158
Plows
59
McJohnson, Charles 67
Politics .
95
Mechanics' Foundry 468
Postoffice
225
Practice of Law
140
Military Orders
321
Present Bar .
152
Milksickness 200
Prices
98
Modern Woodmen of America 318
Moore, Joel W. B . 145
Morning Star Lodge, I. O. O. F. 287
Music .
184
Musical Associations
186
Pythagoras Lodge, F. & A. M 286
Ragon, F. H .
352
Railroads . .
225
Rapp, George 55
Rebecca Degree, I. O. O. F . 293
Recollections of Schnee
18
Recorders, County
131
Red Cloud Lodge, K. of H 309
·Nisbet, Watkins F .
360
Redmen
315
Notable Court Cases
157
Odd Fellows' Burial 21
Reformed Church in the United
States
273
Reilly, William
357
Reitz, John A .
369
Old National Bank
267
Representatives in the Legislature .
133
Old Baptist Church
267
Olive Lodge, K. & L. of H . 306
Olmsted, William
136, 284
Order of Elks
313
Order of Forresters
312
Organists
192
Original Families
21
Orion Lodge, K. P. 296
Orphan Asylum
221
Other Orders
318
Otto Lodge, K. & L. of H .
306
Park Lodge, K. & L. of H . 308
Salem Methodist Church
245
Park Memorial Presbyterian Church
260
Salt
57
Parsons, Byron .
452
Parrett Family .
385
Parrett, William F
141
Patrons of Negley's Mill
96
Robert Morris Chapter, Order of East-
ern Star .
286
Robinson, Andrew L.
145, 146
Rosenkranz, Carl F
344
Rowley, Nathan
69, 143, 161
Royal Arch Chapter, Melchisedec . . 286
Sanitariums
197, 223
Sarah Lodge, I. O. O. F .
294
Sawyer, Ben .
159
Schiller Encampment, I. O. O. F. .
292
Niblack, William E. 140
316
National Union .
318
Negley's Mill
94
Newburgh .
60, 93
Pride of Hope Lodge, I. O. O. F 296
Pritchett, Frank 470
Probate Court 143
Prosperity
.
112
Musical Expression
189
Myerhoff, Capt. Charles H . 217, 338
National Fraternal Union .
Oddfellowship
287
Officials, County
127
Ohio Valley R. R . 227
Revenues, First Tax .
111
Rheinlander, John .
314
Richardson, Robert D
142
Rising Star Lodge, I. O. O. F
290
Roads .
. 57, 98
Parvin, James D . 463
People's Savings Bank .
212
Mayors 72
Physicians 197
Military History 214
Reed Lodge, F. & A. M .
284
499
INDEX.
PAGE
Schiller Lodge, I. O. O. F 289
Taxes
68, 111
Schnee, Recollections of Early Times
18
Taxpayers
117
Schools .
166, 170
Teachers .
167, 168, 170, 175
Temples of Justice
153
Tennessee & Ohio River Transporta- tion Co 227
Secret Orders .
284
The Home Forum
314
Senators, State .
134
The Old Soldiers' Club
341
Settlement of Evansville . 29
Thomas, J. B
351
Shanklin Family 354
Tinker, M. Z.
188
Torrence, John
230
Sheriffs, County 132
Shook, William 139
Siege of Bryant's Station .
26 Townships 67, 115, 167, 168
Silver Cloud Lodge, K. of H .
310
Transportation
57, 98, 225, 227
129
Masters . .
285
Trinity General Baptist Church 266
Simpson M. E. Church
242 Trinity M. E. Church 237
141
Trustees, School .
76, 167
Smith Gavitt
Camp,
Fraternal
United Brothers of Friendship . 318
Legion
311 Vanderburgh County . . 60, 63, 65, 67, 159 93 Vanderburgh Court, I. O. F . . . . 312
Sons of Veterans 339 Vanderburgh Lodge, A. O. U. W. . 302
Springdale Mission 253 Vanderburgh Lodge, I. O.O. F . . 296
Spiritualist Society 274 Vanderburgh, Judge Henry . 61, 63, 65, 66 Vincennes 28, 29, 31, 33, 55, 64
'Squires
161
Stacer, Conrad 138 Vocalists aud Pianists 191
State Senators 134 Voting Places . 115
Stephens, Silas 138, 349
Wabash and Erie Canal 100 to 108
Stinchfield Family
421
Wagner Lodge, K. P 298
Stinson, Ben . 360 Wagnon, William 135, 143
Wahkee Tribe, I. O. R. M
315
Storton, William . 464
Walker, Capt. William 216, 218
St. George Lodge, K. P 297
Walnut Street Presbyterian Church 245
St. John's Evangelical Church . 270 Warren, George W . 185, 192
St. Paul's Church 253 Warrick County 67
"Straight Line" R. R 226
Weever, Charles S., M. D 409
Straub, Jacob . 414 Weever, John B., M. D . 411
Stringtown
93 Weintz, Jacob 484
Superior Court 147 Wesley, John 338
Superintendents, School 172, 173 Woman's Relief Corps 338
Surveyors, County
132
Woodmen of the World
317
Taj Mahal Temple
301
Y. M. C.A .
279
Shanklin, John, vs. City of Evans- ville .. 107
Town Elections .
61
Town History .
67
Town Trustees of Evansville .
68
Silver Star Lodge, K. of H .
309
Treasurers, County
Trib of Ben Hur .
Simpson Council Royal and Select
318
Smith, Ballard .
Smith, Thomas
Stinson, John B
143
PAGE
School Examiners .
172
School Superintendents
172, 173
School Trustees
76,167
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