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Of the fraternities, Wakarusa has a lodge of the Masons and an Eastern Star chapter; the Knights and Ladies of the Maccabees, and there is a Grand Army post of some forty members, with a Woman's Relief Corps as auxiliary. The Search Light Club, an organization of ladies who devote themselves to different lines of study in literature and art, is one of the leading clubs of the county. Mrs. Charles Frash is president, and Mrs. H. M. Freed is secretary.
Wakarusa is now a fourth-class postoffice, but the present post- master, who is a man of enterprise and public spirit, hopes soon to bring it into the third class. There are three rural delivery routes that center here.
HARRISON TOWNSIIIP.
Beautiful as a landscape. rich and fertile in soil, populated by as fine a class of fariners as will be found in any similar section in the state,
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Harrison township has long heid pre-eminence as the agricultural para- dise of Elkhart county. Fine farms are the rule here, the growing of premier grain crops and the raising of fine stock is the one absorbing pursuit of the inhabitants, and therefore we may little expect to find here any commercial development. Excellent roads cross the township in all directions and lead away in convenient distances to Goshen, to Elk- hart and to Wakarusa, so that the people have no need for a town in their midst. Independent. progressive, prosperous, the farmers of Har- rison township find all the comforts of life each within his own home- stead, and when other advantages appeal to them they have the means to go after them. Good schools have been maintained from the early times to the present, and the township is noted for the number of its country churches. There are ten churches and no postoffice. At one of the crossroads four churches may be counted within a distance of two miles.
The Goshen Democrat, in December, 1847, tells of the recent estab- lishment in Harrison township of a postoffice called Cabin Hill, of which Solomon P. Yeoman was postmaster. This office was in the western part of the township, and was discontinued after a few years. Some time later the demand for a postal station was gratified by the establish- ment of one where a community called Southwest had formed. South- west is located at the crossroads dividing sections 20, 27, 34 and 35. 1 short distance to the south runs the Logansport diagonal road, so that this was a very favorable spot for a town. A postoffice was maintained at that point, with some interruption, up till a recent time, when the rural delivery displaced it. At the present time Southwest contains a general store owned by H. N. Garberick ; a substantial brick schoolhouse, three churches in the immediate neighborhood, and perhaps a dozen families. About a mile south of Southwest is the only lake in this part of the county.
The townships of Baugo. Concord, Cleveland and Osolo have one center-the city of Elkhart with its seventeen thousand inhabitants. This city supplies nearly all the advantages of business, industry, society, amusement and religion which the people of these townships would seek at any community center, and for this reason the little embryo communi- ties which at various times have come into existence are now at best nothing more than a local name. Baugo township has Jamestown or "Jimtown," a well known locality because one of the oldest settlements in the county, but no longer possessing any business importance. Will-
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iam Richason and James Davis built the sawmill which formed the in- dustrial nucleus of this place. James Davis laid out a village there about 1835, its location being on Baugo creek in section 26. Samuel Cotterel had the first store. The first schoolhouse in the township was also built there. The Methodists built a chapel there in 1854, and some twenty years later the Baptists also erected a house of worship.
Francis Rork, who settled in the western part of Cleveland township about 1830, kept a public house there for some time, and this might be said to have been the first common gathering place of the settlers of that community. The first school was also held in a cabin belonging to Mr. Rork. There is a community in the northern part of the town- ship called Yankeetown, which came into existence in 1878 as a result of agitation to build a church. There have been several other church communities, but no center deserving of special consideration.
Osolo township, the " lake " township, is likewise destitute of vil- lages. The first schoolhouse was built, on section 20, in 1838, and in the following year a postoffice was established on the west side of Chris- tiana creek, with Alpheus Bugbee the first incumbent. The office was continued only a few years.
Outside of Elkhart the only center in Concord township is Dunlaps Station, in section 26, on the inter-urban electric line, and formerly a station point on the Lake Shore Railroad. Dunlaps is the seat of the county asylum, and also marks, approximately, the site chosen by the commissioners for the first county seat of Elkhart county.
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CHAPTER X.
GOSHEN.
In the land of Goshen let them dwell.
Genesis.
The city of Goshen, at its beginning, was the result of official enact- ment. Many cities now famous as centers of commerce and population owe their origin to accident or the chance grouping of people into a social community. But Goshen was deliberately selected as the central city of Elkhart county, where should be located for all time the seat of justice and civil government and where should, in the hopes of the founders, grow an important and populous center of trade and business activity.
We have elsewhere said that the first site selected for the seat of justice was unsatisfactory. Accordingly the general assembly annulled the action of the first commissioners and appointed a new set, who at the session of the board of justices in March, 1831, rendered the following report : " The undersigned commissioners who were appointed by an act of the general assenibly of the state aforesaid, entitled an act to relocate the county seat of justice for said county agreeable to an act entitled an act for fixing the seats of justice in all counties hereafter to be laid off, report that they met at the house of Thomas Thomas in said county of Elkhart, on the third Monday, being the twenty-first day of March, 1831 : and after being duly sworn according to law proceeded to examine the different sites for a town in which to establish the seat of justice for said county of Elkhart. And after having made full and satisfac- tory examination as aforesaid, as well the former site selected as others, they are of the opinion that the present site should be vacated, and have selected the south fraction of the northeast quarter and the north fraction of the southeast quarter of section nine. in township 36 north, of range six east of the principal meridian line. the Fort Wayne land office dis- trict : Provided, the two fractions do not exceed the maximum quantity of one hundred and sixty acres to which the county has right of pre- emption by an act of Congress, 24th of May, 1824. by locating the county seat thereof on the same: and, further, should said fractions ex-
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ceed the quantity of acres above described, then, in that case, we select the first above described fraction and recommend the purchase of the other by the county commissioners; and the undersigned have further selected the name of Goshen as a suitable name for said town as afore- said."
The name of Goshen is said to have been suggested by Oliver Crane, who afterward conducted the sale of lots in the new town, and this sug- gestion was adopted as indicated in the above report. It seems that this name was not chosen with any reference to the biblical Goshen, the fat and fertile land where sojourned the brethren of Joseph in Egypt, but the predecessor of the Elkhartian Goshen was the Goshen of New York state.
Within a short time the land comprising the new county seat was secured and a special meeting of the board of justices was called in June. 1831. At this meeting Oliver Crane, county agent. was instructed to have the land platted and to advertise the sale of the lots for July 20. George Crawford, the first civil engineer in the county, was employed to make a plat of the town. This was done and the sale came off as ad- vertised. It will be of interest to present the names of those first pur- chasers of lots as recorded in the report submitted by the county agent : Samuel Good, Jacob Sneltzer, Richard Britton. Jesse C. Charlton. Hugh Hannah, William Runyan, Jacob Studebaker, Luke Hulit. Christopher Mires. John Jackson, Isaac B. King, Geo. McCollum. Elias Carpenter, James Bishop, Catherine Bishop, John W. Violette. Nicholas Carpenter, David Barnhazel, John McConnell, Rinehart Cripe. William G. Camp- bell, Mary Blair, Madison William Cornwell, John Carpenter, Samuel Modi, Isaac Hagle, Thomas Thomas, Geo. Crawford. W. C. and G. W. Ewing, Jos. Carpenter, Win. Latta, W'm. Bissell, W. G. Wright, Isaac B. King. Thomas Powers, Win. Waugh. Win. Hagle, Henry W. White. Thomas G. Hall, Alexander L. Morrison, John Miller, Mathias Dawson. Henry Mathew, A. Galentine, James L. Smith, Thomas Reece, Wash- ington Modi. The total amount received from these sales was $2,607.75. an average of about $48 per lot.
William Waugh and family were the first persons to have the honor of settling on the new town site. William Bissell erected the first house and opened the first store. He was granted a license to estab- lish a grocery store by the commissioners. The home was erected on the southeast corner of Sixth and Washington streets. Old Bishop Waugh was a town character during those early days. He held the
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position of janitor and court crier, as well, for many years. His voice, on a fair day, could be heard anywhere within a mile radius of the court house, and he was noted for being a great practical joker.
Dr. King is said to have erected the second house on the village plat, and in a very short time Goshen took on the appearance of a thriv- ing, enterprising village. The first postoffice, however, was not estab- lished until the month of June, 1832, William Bissell, the first merchant of the town, receiving the commission as first postmaster. By 1833 Goshen had a population of two hundred. There were forty log cabins on the town plat, three stores and a log hotel or tavern. Abner Stilson was the landlord, having been granted a license to keep a tavern in 1832 at the May term of the board of commissioners. In the fall of 1833 another place of public entertainment, the National Hotel, was built by James Cook.
Contrary to general opinion, life was not more strenuous in those days than it is now. It was certainly more simple, it lacked the fever- ishness and bustle of the present day, and there was more leisure in which to taste the homely joys that society and community life afforded. No one would dare say that twentieth century ideals and methods of living are inferior to those of the past, but they are very different, and it is well for the modern man to pause now and then and hark back to the olden times and return to some of the virtues and simplicity of the olden days.
All holiday and festival occasions were celebrated then with even more gusto than now, and, it is to be believed, the joy was more natural and wholesome. In the tension of the present a day of pleasure can be little more than a short period of relaxation and recuperation for the urgent duties of the next day, while an old-time holiday was anticipated for weeks, was spent with a zest and energy and unrestrained flow of spirits that brought each succeeding hour to a climax, and then for weeks following was looked back upon as a red letter day of happy mem- ories. On national holidays the countryside was aroused and flocked to the county seat in much the same manner as they do to-day. There was a celebration of the Fourth of July at Goshen in 1832, and Joseph H. Defrees was the orator of the day. The date of the first Thanksgiv- ing was on November 25, 1841.
It will be interesting to notice some of the market quotations of the thirties as showing what the Goshenites had to pay for their house- hold staples. In the first issue of the Goshen Express in 1837 the prices
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of provisions are listed as follows: Flour, per barrel, $7.00; wheat. $1.25; buckwheat flour, $3.00; corn meal, 621/2 cents: corn. 50 cents; oats. 371/2 cents ; potatoes, 371/2 cents ; chickens, picked. 25 cents ; eggs, 8 cents : beef, per pound, 614 cents : pork, 181/2 cents ; lard, 1272 cents; tallow, 15 cents. From this it will be seen that for some things we now pay more and for some articles less, while a commodity like tallow, so much in demand then, could hardly be found in the ordinary store of to-day.
The Express of March 4, 1837, tells us editorally something about Goshen and neighboring towns. Concerning Goshen, "we have never seen a more beautiful site for a town, the ground being almost perfectly level, and elevated thirty feet above Elkhart river. At the present time there are eight stores-all of which do a good business-several gro- ceries, two taverns, and one or more of almost every description of mechanics and professional men. The number of inhabitants now may be safely estimated at 500." There follows a " prospect " which we of later generations have not seen realized, owing to progress taking an- other direction, namely, as " being the point where the canal from Fort Wayne to Lake Michigan and the railroad from Maumee bay to Michi- gan City will intersect each other."
In July, 1841, a newspaper item exclaims with pride: " Ten stores in Goshen, with two imperial newspapers!" The business and journal- istic enterprise of the county seat was clearly keeping pace with the pop- ulation.
With the rapid increase in population and the development of all interests it soon became evident that the village of Goshen was out- growing its infant clothes and must soon be arrayed in the garments befitting its size and its dignity among municipal organizations. Anent this subject, and descriptive of the condition of Goshen, is the following extract from an editorial of August, 1837: " We have a beautiful town plat and as handsomely situated and well laid off as any other village in the country. Our streets and alleys are broad and convenient, but before they can present that appearance originally designed by the par- ticular arrangement, stumps must be pulled, holes filled and other ob- structions removed."
The town grew in importance and it became necessary to select a board of trustees to look after the interests of the town. Accordingly an election was held November 23. 1839, and John Cook, D. Parrott, A. Stilsen. A. Galentine and J. S. Raymer were elected trustees. The
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town was governed by this board and its successors until 1854, when the town was incorporated as a village. Under a petition to the county commissioners, June 7, 1854, an election was ordered for June 28, when the question was submitted to the electors and almost unanimously car- ried. The following names appeared on the list of voters: John Hunt, A. A. Norton, T. L. Wilbarger, C. K. Hoops, George W. Meyers, T. L. Powell, A. B. Grubb, James Blair, B. A. Grubb, Erwin Vinson, Eb. Raymond, John Gortner, Thomas Todd, L. H. Noble, F. Voiral. S. E. Davis, Jas. Lauferty, J. D. Devor, Joseph Ashbrook, Michael Wey- bright, Jos. Silver, W. A. Thomas, C. S. Hascall, Hiram Whittaker, A. L. Hubbell, M. M. Latta, A. C. Jackson. F. M. Denny, B. G. Crary, Norman Teal. A. P. Frink, S. C. Brainerd. J. W. Irwin, Michael Murry, Sam Bottomfelt. Smith Chamberlain, Elias Gortner. W. L. Bivins, G. W. Richards, G. W. Fosdick, Leander Sherwin, S. Geisinger, Henry Cook. J. L. Crary, W. W. McVitty, Melvin Hascall. F. Jackson, William Bean, John Cook, T. R. Albright, John Keck, P. M. Henkel, J. H. Defrees and a number of others. The commissioners acknowledged the legality of the vote within three months, and in September declared Goshen an incorporated town.
For about fourteen years Goshen was content to remain in the town class. During this period there were additions to the city as to territory as well as in population, and finally the time came for the erection of the town into a city. To test the voice of the people in this matter an election was held on April 18. 1868, at which 391 votes were cast favoring the formation of a city government and 31 opposed the movement. In due time the city received its charter, and on May 5 of the same year the first city election was held, at which the following were chosen as the first to direct the affairs of Goshen city :
1868. First officers : Henry D. Wilson, mayor ; LaPorte Heefner. clerk; Jos. Lauferty, treasurer: H. G. Hale, marshal: J. \. S. Mitchell, city attorney: Jas. Allison. assessor: G. B. Walter, chief fire engineer ; Geo. T. Ager, civil engineer. Board of Health-M. M. Latta. W. C. Harrington, W. W. Wickham. Councilmen -. A. Norton. M. B. Snyder, H. U. Lincoln, Samuel F. Eisenhour, Geo. B. Walter, M. B. Hascall.
Since that first election a long and honorable list of men have had the direction of the municipal organization, and as the present prosperity and the wonderful past progress of the city have been largely due to
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these men it seems fitting that their names should be made a matter of record in this history.
GOSIIEN CITY OFFICERS, 1868-1905.
1868-69. H. D. Wilson, mayor; LaPorte Heefner. clerk ; Jos. Lauferty, treasurer : H. G. Hale, marshal; W. E. Pooley, assessor ; J. A. S. Mitchell, city attorney; A\. Yeakel, chief fire engineer: Geo. T. Ager. civil engineer. Board of Health-M. M. Latta, W. C. Harrington. W. W. Wickham. Councilmen-Henry Bartlemay, Nathan Pooley, H. J. Beyerle. W. W. McVitty. S. F. Eisenhour, M. B. Hascall.
1869-70. MI. B. Hascall, mayor: LaPorte Heefner, clerk: Jos. Lauferty, treasurer : Charles D. Henkel, marshal : Wm. Pooley, assessor ; J. A. S. Mitchell, city attorney; W. A. McAllister, chief fire engineer ; Geo. T. Ager, civil engineer. Board of Health-M. M. Latta, P. D. Harding, George Cleis. Councilmen-W. A. McAllister, Christian Hin- derer. S. F. Eisenhour. Moses Simmons, H. Bartlemay, H. J. Beyerle.
1870-71. M. B. Hascall. mayor: C. N. Fassett, clerk: \. A. Nor- ton, treasurer; Charles D. Henkel. marshal: Israel Wyland, assessor ; J. A. S. Mitchell, city attorney; M. S. Davis, chief fire engineer : Geo. T. . \ger, civil engineer. Board of Health-M. M. Latta, P. D. Hard- ing. George Cleis. Councilmen-H. K. Thomas, H. Bartlemay. H. J. Beverle. Christian Hinderer, Joseph C. Beck. S. F. Eisenhour.
1871-72. J. A. S. Mitchell, mayor: C. N. Fassett, clerk; . 1. A. Norton, treasurer : L. A. Hascall, marshal: Israel Wyland, assessor; W. .A. Woods, city attorney: E. Gortner, chief fire engineer ; Geo. T. Ager. civil engineer. Board of Health-P. D. Harding. M. M. Latta. W. W. Wickham. Councilmen-S. F. Eisenhour. Henry Bartlemay, D. M. Fravel, Christian Hinderer. H. K. Thomas, H. J. Beyerle.
1872-73. Same as previous year. O. F. Dewey, chief fire engi- neer : Geo. T. Ager, civil engineer. Board of Health-M. M. Latta. W. A. Whippy. P. D. Harding. Councilmen-S. F. Eisenhonr. Henry G. Hale, Henry Bartlemay, D. M. Fravel. Christian Hinderer, Christian Schaefer.
1873-74. George Freese, mayor: W. . \. Bradford, clerk; . 1. A. Norton, treasurer: Andrew Myers. marshal ; I. Wyland, assessor; R. M. Johnson, city attorney : O. F. Dewey, chief fire engineer : George T. Ager. civil engineer. Board of Health-W. A. Whippy. W. W. Wickham. A. C. Jackson. Councilmen-Charles B. . Alderman, D. M. Fravel. P. 1. Welch. H. G. Hale. H. Bartlemay, Christian Hinderer.
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1874-75. Same as previous year. Board of Health-II. . 1. Whippy, A. C. Jackson, W. W. Wickham. Councilmen-Charles B. Alderman, D. M. Fravel, P. \. Welch, H. G. Hale, J. B. Slaughter, Christian Hinderer.
1875-76. Charles B. Alderman, mayor: W. B. Bradford, clerk : A. A. Norton, treasurer : AAndrew Myers, marshal; Israel Wyland, as- sessor; R. M. Johnson, city attorney: O. F. Dewey, chief fire engineer : Geo. T. Ager, civil engineer. Board of Health-W. A. Whippy, .1. C. Jackson. P. D. Harding. Councilmen-Jacob Butterfield, D. M. Fravel, Henry Kolb. P. A. Welch, H. G. Hale, J. B. Slaughter.
1876-77. Same city officers with exception of Lew Wanner, city attorney.
1877-78. Charles B. Alderman, mayor: John B. Walk, clerk ; Adam Yeakel, treasurer: Andrew Meyers, marshal: James Blaine, as- sessor ; Lew Wanner, city attorney ; Jas. Drake, fire chief ; Henry Cook. civil engineer. Board of Health-W. A. Whippy. P. D. Harding, J. N. Smith. Councilmen-H. G. Hale. P. A. Welch, J. B. Slaughter. A. M. Parsons. J. A. Carmien, Henry Kolb.
1878-79. City officers same as previous year. Councilmen-A. M. Parsons, James O. Smith, Christian Engle. W. A. Bradford, John Rieth, John McAuley.
1879-80. Charles B. Alderman, mayor: Austin B. Slattery, clerk ; Christian Schaefer, treasurer : Henry Cook, city engineer: Lew Wan- ner, city attorney ; W. A. McClenathan, fire chief: James Barnes, mar- shal : James L. Freeland, street commissioner. Board of Health-M. M. Latta, P. D. Harding, W. A. Whippy. Councilmen-A. M. Par- sons, James O. Smith, Christian Engle. W. A. Bradford, John Reith. John McAuley.
1880-81. Same as year previous with exception of F. D. Finney. fire chief : Andrew Meyers, street commissioner. Councilmen-A. M. Parsons, James O. Smith, Christian Engle. W. H. Venamon, Henry A. Gore, W. H. Miller.
1881-82. Officers same as previous year, with exception of J. Gortner as councilman in place of W. H. Venamon.
1882-83. P. D. Harding, mayor: W. E. Gortner, clerk; C. H. Schaefer, treasurer; C. E. Hawes, marshal: I. A. Simmons, city attor- ney : F. D. Finney, fire chief : Henry Cook, city engineer ; Andrew Mey- ers, street commissioner. Board of Health-A. J. Irwin, S. Trump, A. Wade. Councilmen-W. H. Miller. H. A. Gore, W. H. Venamon. E.
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M. Albright. D. W. Hattel, J. B. Cobb. Water Works Trustees-L. Wanner, superintendent : J. C. Kerstetter, C. M. Harris, C. Hinderer.
1883-84. Officers same as previous year, with the exception of J. Ml. Peters, treasurer. Councilmen-J. B. Cobb. E. M. Albright, D. W. Hattel. C. A. Davis. Wm. Gross. G. E. Ricketts. Water Works Trus- tees-H. Crowell succeeded Kerstetter.
1884-85. J. B. Cobb. mayor: W. E. Gortner, clerk: J. M. Peters, treasurer: HI. Hutchinson, marshal: I. A. Simmons, city attorney: F. D. Finney, fire chief ; Henry Cook, city engineer : John McAuley, street commissioner. Board of Health-F. M. Cornell. S. Trump. A. Wade. Councilmen-Win. Gross. C. A. Davis, G. E. Ricketts, J. F. Scott. F. V. B. Minnich, J. B. Drake. A. E. Schrock in place of Harris on water board.
1885-86. Officers same with the exception of J. Allen, fire chief and Andrew Meyers, street commissioner. Board of Health-C. C. Spark- lin, succeeded Cornell. Councilmen-D. D. Fitch succeeded Ricketts. 1886-87. P. D. Harding, mayor: J. P. Hawks, clerk; J. H. Lott, treasurer : S. C. Self. marshal : I. A. Simmons, city attorney : John Sno- barger, fire chief : Henry Cook, city engineer; John Yontz, street com- missioner. Board of Health-Same as previous year. Councilmen-D. D. Fitch. Wm. Gross. C. A. Davis, J. B. Drake. Jos. Smith, Chas. Kohler. Water Works Trustees-Same as previous year.
1887-88. City officers same as previous year. Board of Health- A. J. Irwin, secretary. Councilmen-J. B. Drake. Chas. Kohler. Jos. Smith, D. D. Fitch, G. R. Thomas, J. T. Finch. Water Works Trus- tees-L. Wanner. superintendent : Eli Davis, H. Crowell, E. W. Hawks.
1888-89. C. W. Miller, mayor; W. A. Pegg. clerk: J. H. Lott. treasurer : S. C. Self. marshal: 1. A. Simmons, city attorney ; John Sno- barger, fire chief : Henry Cook, city engineer: N. Pooley, street com- missioner. Board of Health-A. J. Irwin, secretary. Councilmen -- Charles Kohler. G. R. Thomas. D. D. Fitch. W. B. Kreider. J. W. Kronk. F. O. M. Hascall. Water Works Trustees-Same as previous vear.
1889-90. City officers same as previous year. Councilmen-Charles Kohler, F. O. M. Hascall, W. B. Kreider. J. Gallagher, G. R. Thomas, A. ITeefner. W. R. Ellis replaced Crowell on water board.
1890-91. J. H. Lesh, mayor: I. D. Wolfe, city clerk: E. C. Wil- son. treasurer : S. C. Self. marshal. 1. A. Simmons, city attorney : John Snobarger, fire chief : Henry Cook, city engineer ; J. Kloppenstein, street
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commissioner. Councilmen-George Ort and W. Il. Whitehead, suc- ceeded Kreider and Hascall. Water Work Trustees-J. O. Smith suc- ceeded Hawks.
1891-92. City officials same as previous year. Councilmen-1. Heefner, L. W. Vail, E. D. Chipman, Charles Kohler, W. H. White- head. George Ort. J. D. Overholt succeeded Davis on the water board.
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