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Fort Chartres, 20, 21, 58
Fort Wayne & Western Railroad, 73
Forty-eighth Regiment, 128 Frankenberger, Charles, 199 Franklin, John, 165 Frazer, Daniel, 214 Freeland, Abram, 43 Freeland, Abram J., 470 Free school system, 88
French Indiana, 20 French Missionaries, 17 French, Moses F., 372 French titles to lands, 21 French traders, 17 Friedline, Fred & Company, 197 Fry, Daniel, 266
Frye, David K., 704 Foster, Timothy, 294
Foster, William, 257, 258, 293 Fountain Park Assembly, 160
Fountain Park Chautauqua, 161 Fourth Battery, Light Artillery, 131 Fox, John P., 301
Garrett, John M., 123
Garrison, J., 314
Gates, Everett, 342
Gehres, A. W., 316
Geizelman, Alexander L., 493
Geizelman, Emma R., 493
Gilbert, James H., 155
Gillam, John, 163
Gillam Methodist Episcopal Church, 149 Gillam township, 77
Gillett, H. A., 209
Gilman, William W., 198, 634
Girard, William T., 124
Givin, Jesse C., 55
Gleason, David D., 648
Glick, G. M., 311
Gobin, H. A., 159, 306
Goddard, John D., 266
Goddard, Reece, 134
Godfrey, Samuel, 308
Goff, Statira B., 777
Goodacre, Isabelle, 316 Goodland, 179, 193, 202, 203, 208, 239, 293-299; warehouses and eleva- tors, 294; water works, 296;
churches, 298 Goodland Grain Company, 295
Goodland Herald, 298
Goodland's Public School, (view) 297
Goodnow, Aaron M., 223
Gragg, Bernard B., 317, 318
Gragg, Elsie, 318
Graham Edward, 341
Graham, Edwin, 287
Graham, W. H., 291
Graham, William H. H., 213
Grand Army of the Republic, Rens- selaer Post No. 84, 153
Grant, Alton, 465
Grant, Garland, 466
Grant, Shelby, 56
Grant township, 198, 202, 203
Graves, Daniel, 256
Graves, Daniel M., 130, 236, 272
Graves, Lawrence, 199
Graves, Milton E., 778
Graves, Robert O., 56
Greathouse, Charles A., 91, 237
Green, A. H., 147
Greenway, J., 311
Grevenstuk, Gerrit, 647
Gridley, Etta, 318
Gridley, Willis A., 317 Griffes, J. L., 160
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Griffin, Fred L., 159, 161 Griffin, John, 58
Griggs, Henry T., 502
Griggs, Mrs. W. P., 314 Griggs, W. P., 301, 318
Grindle, Alfred, 54
Group of the Early Settlers of Ren- selaer, (view) 134 Gumm, Walter L., 161, 535 Guthridge, Albert G., 117, 123 Guthridge, A. J., 164 Guy, Jasper, 484
H. & D. plant, 295 Hall, Andrew, 198, 563
Halleck, A., 53
Halleck, Abraham, 402
Halstead, Chester H., 406
Halstead, David T., 55, 134, 407
Halstead, Everett R., 405
Halstead, Micah B., 403
Halstead, Orpheus C., 404
Ham, Mrs. Ephraim, 256
Hamerton, J. T., 298
Hamey, F. W., 191
Hamilton, Edward H., 199
Hamilton, Louis H., 375
Hamilton, Robert, 199
Hammerton, Elias, 675
Hammerton, George H., 676
Hammond, E. P., 63, 121, 123, 124, 214
Hammond, Edward P., 117
Hammond, Edwin P., 64, 201, 209, 258
Hammond, J. B., 167
Hammond, Joseph P., 55, 351
Hammond, Stewart C., 42, 351
Hand, S. G., 155, 156, 490
Hanging Grove township, 51, 77 Hanging Grove, 166
Hankle, Lemuel, 43
Hanley, Charles, 56
Hanley, Charles W., 63, 209, 349 Hansson, Johan, 415
Hardy, Abraham G., 56
Hargrave, Richard, 308 Harmon, T. H., 314
Harrington, W. A., 731
Harris, Benjamin, 199
Harris, Henry O., 508
Harrison, William H., 24, 27
Hartley, C. W., 295
Hartley, Charles, 195
Hartman, Louise, 158
Harwood, Riley C., 751
Hathaway Brothers, 154
Hatch, J. A., 255, 256 Hawkins, Ann, 256, 261
Hawkins, Barnett, 199, 562
Hawkins, Edgar, 305, 322 Hawkins, Geo. C., 266 Haymond, William S., 17 Haynes, Mrs. John, 316
Hazelton, Royal, 41, 133, 164 Healey Clark, 148
Healey, George H., 149, 533
Healey, Joshua, 123, 147
Hemphill, Marcus H., 55 Henderson, William, 56
Henkle, John A., 43 Henkle, Joseph C., 43
Henkle, Lemuel, 55
Henneberger, Anthony, 609
Hensler, Christian, 495
Hensler, Jacob A., 496
Herriman, George M., 195, 713
Herriman, Mrs. George M., 713
Hershman, Francis M., 721
Hershman, John, 304, 319
Hershman, John R., 195, 300, 302, · 327, 659 Hershman, R. E., 302, 303
Hershman, William H., 236
Hervey, O. P., 212, 236, 333
Hess, Andrew, 191, 319, 322, 693
Hess, David, 195, 322, 694
Hess, E. E., 302, 303, 318
Hess, E. S., 199
Hess, Edward, 302, 656
Hess, Egbert S., 546
Hess, Elmer E., 700
Hess, Etta, 318
Hess, Mrs. David, 314
Hess, Reuben, 56, 198, 386
Hess, Sherman, 690
Hicks, Andrew, 466
Hicks, Fred A., 156, 467
Higgins, John, 199, 251, 254, 255, 265, 483 Higgins, Ruth, 284
Hillis, George H., 755
Hinkle, Benjamin, 52
Hinkle, Wesley, 134
Hobbs, Clifton J., 56
Hoerstman, H., 167
Hogan, J. W., 311
Hogs Ready to be Shipped from Rem- ington, (view) 155
Holly, Guy P., 773
Hollingsworth, Emmet L., 145, 146, 532 Hollingsworth, George K., 145, 532
Hollingsworth, Thomas, 531
Holmes, C. Oliver, 298
Hooker, Joseph E., 712
Hoover, George O., 480
Hoover, Lucy A., 480
Hoover, W. H., 55
Hoover, William I., 56, 448
Hoover, William M., 412
Hope, Valerius P., 756
Hopkins, Clinton, 134
Hopkins, George A., 705
Hopkins, J. D., 56 Hopkins, Joseph M., 56 Horses, 11, 14
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Horticulture, 13 Hosier, Charles E., 766 Hudson, John, 593
Hughes, Levi, 159 Hull, J. H., 159
Hull, John H., 308 Humston, M. L., 341
Hunt, Job, 176
Hunt, Judson J., 146
Hunt, Lewis W., 583
Huntington, Ella, 736
Hurley, Willis, 720
Hurst, J. S., 265
Hurt, Clyde, 285 Hutton, Cornelius, 159 Hutton, Joseph T., 195
Iliff, Charles F., 638 Iliff, Joseph F., 637 Illinois country, 22 Illustrations
Rural Scenes in Both Counties, Frontispiece Vol. I; Food for Prai- rie Fires, 5; Jasper County Live Stock, 8; Northwest Territory of 1787, 23; Old Time Sawmill, 46; The First Jasper County Court- house, 50; The Courthouse of 1865, 53; Courthouse of the Present, 62; Familiar Object on the Early
Roads, 71; Reclaimed Swamp Lands, 81; Rural School of Today, 88; Log Cabin's Center of Inter- est, 96; Robert H. Milroy, 119; The Old Milroy Homestead, 120; The Memorial Monument, 122; Group of the Early Settlers of Rensselaer, 134; Old Mills Along the Iroquois River, 138; Bird 's-Eye View of Rensselaer, 143; Rensse- laer High School, 145; Main Build- ing of St. Joseph's College, 151; Ready to Be Shipped from Rem- ington, 155; Remington's Water Tower, 157; Mr. and Mrs. John Ade, 177; Alexander J. Kent and Wife, 180; The Newton County Courthouse, 196; Williams Ditch Triers, August, 1916, 222; Manual Training Exhibit of Today, 232; Domestic Science Products, 235; Cooking Class in Operation, 238; Exhibit of Soil Products, Newton County, 246; Lyons Memorial Tab- let, 263; Public School, Kentland, 280; Carnegie Library, Kentland, 283; Water Works Plant at Kent- land, 287; Business Street of the Present Goodland, 294; Goodland 's Public school, 297; Brook High School Building, 301; Carnegie Li- brary Building, 316; Morocco High
School, 336; View on State Street, Morocco, 341
Indian Corn Fields, 34
Indian Trails in Jasper County, 70
Indian treaties, 29
Indiana public lands surveyed, 39
Indiana Territory, 24
Indianapolis, Delphi & Chicago Rail- road, 73 Indians, 16
Ingram, Andrew, 63
I. O. O. F., Brook Lodge No. 427, 319
Iroquois Press, 147
Iroquois river, 1, 101
Iroquois township, 197, 202, 203
Irvin, James, 154
Irwin, J. C., 159
Irwin, James F., 55
Irwin, Robert F., 595
Irwin, Schuyler C., 142, 143
Jackson, David I., 55
Jackson township, 197, 202, 203
Jakway, Adelbert G., 298, 615
James, H. E., 148
James, H. E. & Company, 148
James, Horace E., 13, 147
James, R. B., 56, 147 James, Reuben H., 123
Jasper and Newton counties consoli- dated, 47 Jasper Banner, 147
Jasper county,
47;
bounds,
44;
county seat, 47; courthouses, 51; courthouses, 52; population, 76; area, 77; property valuation, 77; township areas, 78; personal prop- erty valuation, 78; in the Civil war, 114
Jasper county courthouses, the early Rensselaer courthouse, 52; brick courthouse of 1856, 52; courthouse burned, 52; the courthouse of 1865, 53; the courthouse of 1898, 53 Jasper County Agricultural and Me- chanical Association, 82
Jasper County Agricultural Society, 82
Jasper County Democrat, 148
Jasper County Live Stock (views) 8
Jasper Republican, 148, 158 Jasper Savings & Trust Company, 146 Jefferson Township, 197, 198, 202, 203 Jenkins, Alfred, 198
Jenkins, George G., 198
Jenkins, John, 219 Jenkins, N. F., 199 Jennings, Jonathan, 30
Jensen, A. L., 167
Jensen, Englebret, 654 Jensen, Thomas, 654 Jessie, C. A., 311
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Johnson, Benjamin F., 132
Johnson, C. B., 299
Johnson, Cecil E., 56
Johnson, Charles M., 148, 158 Johnson, D. M., 342
Johnson, John F., 198
Johnson, Silas, 170, 177, 184, 191 Johnston, John Z., 199, 277
Johnston, Ora C., 491
Johnston, Walter E., 490
Jones, Acquilla, 224
Jones, Cornelius, 305 Jones, Dexter R., 53
Jones, Ezra B., 199, 291
Jones, Lemuel C., 55
Jones, Morris, 304, 325
Jones, Morris A., 256
Kentland public school, 281
Kentland Woman's Club, 282
Kenton, Omar J., 473
Jones, W. H., 314
Kenton, Simon, 164, 473
Kenton, W. M., 42, 136
Kern, Moses A., 149
Jordan Township, 77
Jouvenat, Charles, 158
Kessler, David, 177
Kessler, Robert B., 754
Kight, Isaac, 674
Kilgore, Mort, 297, 610
Killenberger, William L., 236
Kankakee river, 1
Kankakee township, 51, 77
Kankakee valley, 1
King, Orris, 276
King, Sidnial, 134
Kinneman, John G., 619
Kannal, Harvey J., 400
Kay, Daisy, 343
Kitt, A. J., 158, 288, 298
Kay, M. D., 198
Knight, Dorothy, 120
Knight, Joseph R., 143
Knight, Mildred, 120
Keefe, Patrick, 192, 193
Knights of Pythias, 318
Keene, Albert S., 655:
Keene, Nathan T., 655
Keener township, 51, 77
Kolhoff, Joseph, 476
.
Keith, Alice, 120
Kummer, A., 311
Kelley Grain Company, 154
Kurrie, Harry R., 732
Kelley, G. W., 316
Lacy, James, 331
Kennedy, John, 748
Kennedy, Joseph, 607
Kennedy, Sarah A., 749
Kenoyer, Aaron, 265
Kenoyer, Frederick, 47, 176, 289, 342
Kenoyer, Jacob, 175, 288, 312
Lamb, Virgil, 219 Land values, 78
Kenoyer, Lewis, 738 Kenoyer settlement, 175
Landon, H., 161
Langdon, Henry L., 652
Kenoyer, W. H., 198
Kent, Agnes, 260
Kent, A. J., 191, 192, 197, 256, 277 Kent, Alexander J., 179, 194, 276, 354
Kent, Alexander J. and Wife (por- trait), 180
Kent, Carroll C., 181, 193, 285, 358 Kent, John A., 357
Kent, Mrs. A. J., 260
Kent, Rosamond C., 357
Kent State Bank, 285
Kentland, 179, 193, 194, 202, 203, 208, 275-292
Kentland's fire of December, 1870, 277
Kentland 's municipal water works, 281 Kentland churches, 288 Kentland Chapter, Royal Arch Ma- sons, 292 Kentland public library, 282
Jones, Schuyler C., 199
Jones, Thomas J., 646
Jordan, John, 42, 165 Jordan, Sarah L., 513
Kesler, George, 43
Julian, 208, 345 Julian, J. B., 345
Justifiable larceny, 229
Kankakee improvements, 219
Kankakee marshes, 100
Kimberlin, R. O., 290
Kindig, Samuel G., 741
King, Henry F., 417
Kankakee Valley Draining Company, 219
Kannal, George, 399
Kirkpatrick, Carrie, 282
Kirkpatrick, Delia, 282
Kendall, J. M., 343 Kendall, Mrs. James, 314
Knox, Turner, 55
Kolhoff, Henry, 474
Kolhoff, John, 475
Keiser, Jacob, 147
Kennedy, Frank, 599
Lacy, James W., 175 Ladies Fountain Park Improvement Association, 162 Lake township, 197, 202, 203
Lake village, 208, 345
Langdon, Herman R., 653 Lansing, Peter, 149 Law, Algie J., 341, 745 Lawler, John J., 716
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Lawlessness, 172 Lawrence, Ida, 303 Lawrence, John F., 574 Lawton, E. W., 289 Leaming, Cyrus, 256 Lear, Hugh, 152 Leatherman, James, 134 Leatherman, James N., 55, 146, 354 Lee, John H., 779
Lyons, John B., 193, 257, 264, 269, 390 Lyons, John, Jr., 303 Lyons, Laban, 773 Lyons, Lawrence E., 740
Lyons Memorial Tablet (view), 263
Lyons, Morris, 306, 309, 319, 322, 323
Lyons, Mrs. Aaron, 26
Lyons, Mrs. John B., 256, 261
Lefler, John, 166
Lefler, Michael, 166
Legras, J. M. P., 58
Le Masters, L. W., 237
Leopold, B., 318 Leopold, Bernhart, 317
Leopold, Moses, 143
Lewis, Frank E., 666
Lewis, Isaac M., 686
Makeever, John, 134, 347
Makeever, Madison, 43
Malaria, 94
Mallatt, William, 42, 136, 165
Malone, Richard, 345
Man from Mong, 216
Lilley, E. F., 160 Lincoln township, 198, 202, 203 Little, Ziba F., 624
Littlejohn, William D., 743
Marble, Horace, 167
Marion, Francis E., 678
Marion, Lewis, 344
Marion Township, 77
Markets, 98 Marshall, George E., 148
Martin, A. L., 198 Martin, Charles, 169
Martin, Edgar L., 751
Martin, Mrs. Thomas, 314
Martin William, 723
Martin, William D., 341, 764
Martin, William H., 192, 212
Martindale, John C., 53, 457
Martindale, Samuel, 198, 199
Louisville, New Albany & Chicago
Railroad Company, 74 Lowe, David E., 319
Lowe, Greenberry G., 199
Lowe, Mrs. James, 256
Lowe, Mrs. J. Bennet, 317
Lowe, Mrs. John, 256, 261
Lucas, Ross, 750
Luers, J., 150 Lund, Eric, 195 Lynch, Charles W., 266
Mayhew, Hopkins & Miller, 142
Mayhew, Horace A., 159 McCain, C., 290 McCain, Richard C., 237, 556
McCarty, John, 147, 287, 319
McCarty, William T., 715
McColly, Benjamin D., 56, 454
MeColly, Clark, 454 McCoy, Alfred, 73, 82
Lyons, Bennett, 304, 305 Lyons, Ella, 309 Lyons, Fred, 585
Lyons, J. B., 304, 334 Lyons, John, 169, 176, 191, 305, 322, 323, 331, 332
MacDonald, Julius L., 315, 316
Major, John F., 55
Majors, George, 159 Makeever, Daniel S., 494
Lewis, John Q., 56
Lewis, Margaret J., 685
Lewis, William R., 265
Light, Albert, 256, 265, 267
Light, Hugh M., 711
Manual Training Exhibit of Today (view), 232 Marble, Henry W., 167, 538
Live stock, 7, 98
Lockwood, Jesse M., 199
Lockwood, Rufus A., 64
Logansport & Peoria Railroad, 194, 207,293 Logan, Larkin C., 644 Logan, Will C., 298 Log Cabin's Center of Interest
(view), 96
Long, Abram F., 373
Long, Samuel, 43, 373 Longwell, Fred H., 56, 200, 302 Lough, F. L., 155
Loughridge, James H., 410
Martindale, Teresa B., 457 Maxwell, Theodore F., 266 Maxwell, W. T., 258 May, Charles G., 155
May, Charles V., 55, 482
May, Jacob A., 585
May, Robert W., 481 Mayhew, Charles P., 56
Lynch, George W., 707
Lyons, Aaron, 42, 169, 305, 387 Lyons, Abel, 259 Lyons, Aunt Polly, 256
McCoy, Thomas J., 142 McClellan township, 198, 202, 203
McCray, Elmer, 558 McCray, Eliza, 559
Lyons, Mrs. Luther, 317
Lyons, Mrs. Samuel, 314
Lyons Soldiers' Memorial Tablet, 264
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McCray, Greenberry W., 283, 284, 285, 383
McCray-Morrison Elevator, 280, 284
McCray, Mrs. W. T., 282
McCray, Warren T., 193, 282, 284, 285, 346, 381
Milroy, Robert H., 117, 119, 121, 123, 141
Mccullough, John, 159
Mccullough, Samuel, 43, 170, 187, 198
Milroy township, 51, 77
Milroy, V. A., 120
Mineral Springs, 2
McDaniel, Asa, 149
Mitchell, Robert C., 147
McDermott, L. M., 342
Mitten, William E., 237, 611
McEwin, James W., 148
Modern Woodmen of America, 320
McGowan, Thomas, 143
Monou Railroad, 208
McHolland, David A., 254, 257, 265, 267
McHolland, David H., 256
McIntosh, James, 302
McIntosh, Mrs. James, 318
Moore, Samuel, 270
McJimsey, Joseph, 163
McKee, G. V., 160
Morgan, J. D., 265
Morlan, Charles, 143, 144
McKinley Park, 303
McMillen, William L., 551
McMullen, J. W. T., 308
Morocco Courier, 341
Morocco High School (view), 336
Morocco Woman's Club, 343
Meadal, Charles E., 594
Morrison, J. L., 284
Means, Samuel A., 726
Mount Ayr, 74, 202, 203, 208, 343
Memorial Monument (view), 122
Murphey, George H., 596
Merchant, George A., 710
Murphy, John, 176, 335, 336, 337
Merchant, George F., 304, 715
Murray, George E., 414
Merchant, John H., 236
Murray, Henry B., 55
Merchant, Joseph, 302
Murray, Hugh, 295, 618
Meredith, H. W., 312, 314
Myers, Alexander, 198
Merideth, Mary, 256
Myers, John, 176
Merideth, Mrs. Henry, 261
Myers, Mrs. John, Sr., 314
Merkle, Jacob, 55
Myers, W. H., 341
Messmann, Anthony, 299
Methodist Episcopal Church, Brook, 306
Naylor, Isaac, 63
Naylor, Isaac B., 169
Neisz, Benjamin F., 236
Neisz, William, 305
Nelson, James, 192
Nelson, James M., 236
Newell, Benjamin, 526
Meyers, George F., 143, 448
Meyers, William, 447
Meyers, William D., 468
Miami and Pottawattamie titles ex- tinguished, 29 Miamis, 16, 18, 30
Miller, Daniel B., 56
Miller, David, 672
Miller, John, 56
Miller, Philip, 198
Miller, Samuel, 126
Milligan, Sanford F., 759 Mills, 98
Mills, C. H., 146
Mills, Charles E., 56, 143 Milroy, C. E., 120 Milroy, Donald, 120
Milroy, Harry C., 120
Milroy Homestead, The Old (view), 120 Milroy Park, 120
Milroy, Robert, 120
Mccullough, W. I., 159, 161
McCurry, Howard, 198
Montgomery, Jolın, 305, 322
Moody, Bessie, 343
Moody, Gideon C., 117, 123
Moore, John M., 642
Mooreman, Milton J., 266
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Mckenzie, W. E., 307
Morocco, 178, 192, 202, 203, 208, 335- 343
McNary, J. B., 158
McReynolds, B. C., 306, 311
Methodist Episcopal Church, Kent- land, 289 Methodist Episcopal Church, Morocco, 342
Meyer, Frank B., 143
Newell, Mrs. B. F., 314
Newspapers, 147, 158
Newton, 52, 136; platted, 137; re- named Rensselaer, 139
Newtou county, 48, 49, 168; county seat fights, 189; courthouses, 194, 195; townships, 197; population, 201; real estate valuation, 203; personal property valuation, 203; taxable property, 203; finances, 203; roads, 204; railroads, 207; judges, 209; lawyers, 212; boards of education, 236; examiners, 236; school superintendents, 236; physi- cal features, 244; in the Civil war, 251; roll of honor, 272; newspa- pers, 286
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Newton County Chronotype, 286 Newton County Courthouse (view), 196 Newton County Democrat, 287
Newton County Enterprise, 286
Newton County, Gazette, 286 Newton County Poor Farm and Asy- lum, 196 Newton County Union, 286
Newton Lodge No. 361, F. & A. M., 291
Newton township, 77
New York Central System, 208
Nichols, John L., 434
Nichols, Samuel R., 55
Ninety-ninth Regiment, 270
Ninth Regiment, 117
Noble, Alice, 314 Noble, W. P., 314
Noland, William, 43
Nork, John D., 55
Norris, Bertha, 343
Northwest Territory of 1787, 23
Nowels, Daniel, 42
Nowels, David, 40, 134
Nowels, Ezra C., 55
Nowels, George, 133
Nowels, John, 40, 133
Nowels, Mrs. David, 42
O'Brien, E., 192 O'Brien, Edmund H., 213 O'Connor, John, 56 Odell, Anthony, 266 Old Mills along the Iroquois River, (view), 138 Old Time Sawmill (view), 46 .
O'Meara, Sylvester, 134 One Hundred and Fifty-first Indiana Volunteer Infantry, 272 One Hundred and Twenty-eighth Reg- iment, 271
Oosley, Joseph, 166 O'Riley, Dennis, 460 Ormiston, George, 629
Osborne, John L., 686
Osborne, W. Frank, 56
Osborne & Pierce, 295 Oswald, J. W., 298 Overacker, C. F., 148 Overton, Robert, 166 Overton, William, 166 Owen, R. J., 167 Owen, Samuel H., 187, 190
Palmer, C., 290 Parcels, Edgar M., 143 Parke, Benjamin, 30 Parker, Francis M., 439 Parker, George, 510
Parker, Hugh, 199 Parker, Robert, 82, 160, 166, 167 Parker, Samuel, 134
Parker, Thomas R., 43 Parker, William A., 199
Parkinson, Addison, 42, 145
Parkinson, John G., 41
Parkinson, Joseph V., 42
Parkinson, Mrs. W. K., 42 Parkinson, Robert A., 55
Parkinson, William K., 42, 83
Parkison, George B., 358
Parkison, Harvey E., 476
Parkison, William H., 476
Parkison, William K., 476
Parr, 74 Parsons, Elisha, 199
Parsons, Henry, 199
Parsons, Samuel H., 58
Patrick, William A., 199
Patterson, J. P., 299
Patterson, Rev., 316 Patton, William, 159
Paul, Henry A., 299
Paulus, Bernhard, 702
Peacock, Harriet, 260
Peacock, John, 198, 254, 276
Peacock, Sarah A., 260
Peck, Charles H., 378
Peck, C. H., 161
Peck, Daniel W., 377
Peck Family, 376
Peck, Frank L., 380
Peck, Isaac L., 380
Peck, James 1., 380
Peck, Mary E., 380
Peck, Maurice B., 380
Peck, William E., 379
Peck, William 11., 266
Pence, D. S., 236
People's Press, 287
Pepper, Abel C., 31, 33
Perkins, Judson H., 55, 438
Perry, J. G., 192
Persail, Albert, 55
Peters, W. S., 314
Pettit, John, 63
Pfrimmer, D. A., 197, 198
Pfrimmer, William W., 236
Phegley, David, 42
Phegley, Jackson, 42, 479
Phelps, Aaron O., 774
Phelps, Isabelle B., 775
Phelps, John W., 592
Phelps, Oscar, 276
Phillips, John, 56
Phillips, John R., 56 Phillips, Simon, 43, 56, 134
Piankeshaws, 19 Pierce, F. C., 198
Pierson, Henry C., 394 Pilot Grove, 179 Pioneer schools in Jasper county, 90
Pioneer times at Brook, 321
Platt, Charles, 55, 56 Pleasant Grove postoffice, 165
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Pleasant Ridge, 74 Plummer, William, 178
Pokagon, Simon, 33
Polke, William, 32 Ponsler, Mrs. Joshua, 314 Poole, Warren E., 518
Population, 16
Porter, Asa, 423
Porter, Burdett, 584
Porter, John C., 143
Porter, John J., 530
Porter, Rice M., 423
Porter, Robert B., 56
Porter, Walter V., 423
Postill, Charles W., 579
Post, J. C., 82
Pottawattamies, 16, 29, 30, 31, 33 Pottawattamie village, 106
Potts, James, 768
Powell, Jacob, 32
Powell, John W., 56
Powell, J. Z., 31
Powers, G. C., 156
Powers, Simeon S., 211
Prairie fires, 3, 328
Pratt, Benjamin W., 297, 505
Presbyterian Church of Kentland, 290
Presher, Edgar L., 572
Presher, Melissa W., 572
Price, Charles H., 55
Price, D. M., 43
Price, John, 49
Price, Myrt B., 56
Probate court, 64
Profit, George, 31
Rhoades, Edward D., 420
Property valuation, 77
Rice, Clair M., 703
Prophet, The, 26
Protsman, David A., 171, 752
Public School, Kentland (view), 280
Puett, Austin M., 242
Rich, Jacob D., 303, 318, 590
Pulver, David, 178, 179
Rich, Mrs. F. C., 314
Pumpkin sirup, 99
Rider, George D., 193
Riley, James Whitcomb, 274
Risser, R. G., 284 Roadruck, Benjamin, 177
Roberts, Preston F., 708
Robinson, George M., 55, 56
Robinson, Wallace, 143
Robinson, William, 134
Rockwell, Oscar B., 671
Rogers, E. E., 316
Rogers, James P., 760
Randle, E. J., 146
Randle Family, 418
Randle, J. T., 42
Randle, Thomas, 41, 49, 72, 135, 163, 418
Rankin, J. J., 342
Ransford, Nettie, 318 Rapids of the Iroquois, 136 Rapids of the Rockwise, 34 Ravenscroft, Sampson, 360
Recher, L. S., 237
Reclaimed Swamp Lands (view), 81
Redding, Jefferson T., 266
Redding, Joseph, 175
Reed, Anna, 303
Reed, Ethel, 303
Reed, Nathan J., 56
Reid, John M., 289
Remington, 154-162; corporation, 156; churches, 159 Remington Journal, 158
Remington Press, 159
Remington public library, 156
Remington township, 76
Remington's Water Tower (view), 157 Rensselaer, 52, 74, 77, 133-153, 141; churches, 149; gets railway connec- tions, 74; schools, 144; waterworks, 144; societies, 152
Rensselaer Baptist Church, 149
Rensselaer City, 142
Rensselaer Evening Republican, 148
Rensselaer Gazette, 147
Rensselaer High School (view), 145
Rensselaer Post No. 84, Grand Army of the Republic, 153 Rensselaer Presbyterian Church, 149
Rensselaer Republican, 148
Rensselaer Union, 147, 148
Rensselaer's Catholic History, 441
Retterath, Frank J., 613
Reynolds, Alfred W., 214
Reynolds, John, 254
Purdy, Arnet G., 766
Purkey, Alonzo, 199
Purkey, Alonzo E., 600
Railroads, 207 Rall, Harris F., 307
Ramsay, Thomas, 630
Randall, John W., 199, 286
Randle, James T., 41, 419
Randle, Edward J., 420
Root, C., 287 Root, S., 277 Rose, William C., 212, 236, 287
Roselawn, 208, 345
Ross, Charles E., 256
Ross, William, 254, 255, 276
Roush, Edward, 195
Roush, Mary, 155
Rowen, Alexander, 43
Rural School of Today (view), 88
Rice, Henry, 314 Rich Brothers, 295
Rich, Frank C., 198, 542
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Russell, William, 170, 187, 199 Ryan, John W., 598 Ryan, Mrs. John W., 284
Sacred Heart School, 582
Sage, Charles E., 622
Sage, Eliezer W., 491
Sage, George W. T., 622 Sage, Warren W., 623
Sager, Jacob H., 255, 266 Sailor, Jeremiah, 265 St. Ange, Louis, 20
St. Augustine's Roman Catholic
Church, 149
St. Clair, Arthur, 24, 58
St. Joseph's Catholic Church of Kent- land, 290 St. Joseph's College Main Building (view), 151
St. Joseph's College, Rensselaer, 150, 442
Shunk, Dominic, 167
Sickafoose, C. A., 313, 314
Sigler, John A., 661
Sigo, Moses, 589
Silver, J. A., 52
Simpson, Abram, 143
Sims, Carrie M., 120
Sink, John D., 56
Sizelove, Samuel R., 199, 544
Skinner, James, 507
Skinner, Jira, 199, 265
Skinner Lola, 508
Smart, Adonijah, 255, 266
Smart, Isaac, 198, 255, 256, 266
Smart, John, 206
Smart, John W., 761
Smith, Elem G., 291
Smith, George W., 266
Smith, Henry, 134
Smith, John B., 236, 290
Smith, John L., 308
Smith, Joseph, 47, 332
Smith, Joseph A., 665
Smith, W. H., 61
Snell, T. T., 298 Snip, Tunis, 662
Snyder, A. M., 304, 312, 313, 314
Snyder, David S., 128
Snyder, H. T., 318
Soldiers Aid Society, 260
Soldiers' Aid Society, Rensselaer, 116
Sources of educational revenue, 90
Sparkling, Joseph W., 42
Sparkling, Mrs. Joseph, 42
Sparling, Henry A., 42
Sparling, Mrs. Samuel, 42
Sparling, Samuel, 42, 165 Sparling, Samuel L., 55
Spencer, James, 147
Spinney, Charles, 198
Seventeenth Infantry, 127
Shaefer, Joseph, 266 Shaefer, Mrs. Finley, 256, 261
Shaeffer, James, 699
Shafer, Fred, 236
Shafer, J. F., 265
Shafor, John W., 234
Shagley, J. P., 306, 307, 311
Shappley, G. D., 314
Sharp, Alexander, 170, 187, 199
Shaw, Mrs. William, 42
Shearer, Mollie, 158
Sheep, 14 Shepard, Otis, 199 Shideler, Adam, 187
Shideler, Adam W., 199
Shields & Dilley, 148
Shirer, Lewis P., 56
Shockey, William P., 149 Shortridge, Lemuel, 43
Shriver, Elijah, 170, 187
Shriver, Elijah I., 199
Shriver, Noah E., 733
S. S. Peter and Paul's Church, 608 Salrin, Joseph N., 664 Saltillo, 163
Saltillo Bridge, 72
Sammons, Hume L., 237, 488
Sands, Charles M., 144
Sands, Martin V., 668
Sarver, Jolm C., 763
Saunderson, James T., 192, 213
Sawyer, James, 311
Sawyer, Moses C., 199
Sayers, Lester A., 167
Sayers, L. W., 43
Sayler, Henry, 43
Sayler, Isaac, 134, 342
Sayler, Micah, 134
Schanlaub, Sidney, 341
Schanlaub, William O., 236, 237, 578 Schmitz, John M., 581 School funds, 90
School lands, 38, 85
School Savings Bank, Goodland, 239 Schraack, Frederick, 56
Schuette, Paul, 729 Schuh, Albert J., 198,
Schuster, Godfrey F., 576
Scoonover, Albert, 214
Scott, George W., 56, 776
Scott, Washington, 776
Sears, Frank J., 56 Sego, Meddie, 722 Seifert, Augustine, 151
Sell, Edward W., 691 Sell, Ephraim, 193 Sell, John A., 494
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