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Ochmig Bird.
1858
William T. Daly.
1854
Win. McMullin ...
Jolın Johnson
1855
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W. H. McDonald.
1856
Alexander Wiley ...
Wm. MeLaughlin.
1858
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Isaac Hall.
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... Oliver R. Jefferds .. Joseph A. Strout ...
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J. W. Me.Arthur ...
R. D. Robiuson ...
Byron D. Miner ...
1862
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Alexander Wiley ... William T. Pratt ...
Clement A, Reckers
1864
1865 Henry J. Rudisill.
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Henry Monning ... John McCartney ...
1867
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J. S. Goshorn.
James H. Smart ...
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1868
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John Ring.
Chas. A. Zollinger. ..
John M. Koch ....
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1871
1872
1873 William S. Abbott.
Michael Schmetzer .. Jos. Mummer, Ir ..
Augustus M. Webb.
Frank Gladio
1874
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1875
( Platt J. Wise. } ¿C. Munson .... .
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William Gaffney ...
Jacob Goeglein .....
1877 Martin E. Argo ...:
1878
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TRUSTEES OF THE SEVERAL TOWNSHIPS OF ALLEN COUNTY FROM 1859 UP TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1880. COMPILED BY COL. J. B. DODGE.
Date
WAYNE.
WASHINGTON.
SPRINGFIELD.
ST. JOSEPHI.
PERRY.
MADISON.
MONROE.
MARION.
MAUMEE.
MILAN.
1860
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1861
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Ashury B. Todd.
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James Laughlin ..
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1862
1863 Isase W. Campbell.
1864
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John McQuiston ...
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Jos. Chorpening ...
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1866
1867 John G. Maier ....
1868
John Archer ... ...
Daniel Shordon ... Daniel Eby
Joseph Hunter .... Johu Flaugh.
... Asbury B. Todd
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1871
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1872
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1873
Jacoh Kell.
Daniel Manahan ..
J. Knappenberger. Leroy Sprague. 11
1874 John E. llill.
1875 Jolın Hamilton .....
Damel Shutt,
JJolin Fry. ..
l'homas S. Ileller .. Fredk. Zollinger ... Frank M. Schirm .. Albert W. Brooks.
1870
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1877
Jerome D. Gloyd ..
1878
1879 + [ J. Hamilton. }
Frank M.Johnson.,
{ J. Lingarıl. S
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* From 1825 to 1830, the business of the County was transacted hy the Board of Justices, composed of the Justices of the Peace of the County.
+ John Hamilton died September, 1879, and Joseph Llugard wus appointed to fill the vacancy.
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Henry Barnes.
J. Vaughan ..
Ambrose Ashton ... J. W. Linden.
Jacob Saylor ...... Wm. Aldermau.
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Morgan llarrod ...
Joseph Smith ....
Alvin Hall.
1865
John Spindler.
1869
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Thomas Hood ..
... Sol. Benninghoff.
1870
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G. W. Breckenridge lacob Hillegnss .. Daniel Eby .........
George Shookman. lobn Freidline
David H. Lipes ...
.George H. Ashley. Ira C. Whiting.
1859 Clemens A. Reckers Jas. M. Hamilton .. Ammon Fox.
Timothy Hogan.
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Reuben J. Dawson.
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L. S. Bayless. ]
1885
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John P. lledges .. Robert Fleming ... S. M. Black
Joseph Berkey .....
Christian Parker ..
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R. Stark weather ... =
Robert Briggs.
Joseph Hall. =
1842
Edward Colerick ..
Zerue Pattee.
1846
Samuel S. Morss ...
Henry J. Rudisill.
J. M. Wilt .. 1
Simeon Biggs.
Peter Parker. ..
C. E. Goodrich
Henry Dickerson ..
F. D. Lasselle ......
T. M. Andrews.
1857
( John B. Bluc ... Francis L. Furst
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John P. Waters
Michael Crow .... ...
Jolin Shaffer ... ...
1861 G. F. Stineleomb.
1863
John A. Robinson
Nathan Butler.
William Long ......
Jolin Begue.
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Wm. II. Goshorn ..
Jneoh Hillegass .... John C. Davis.
1870
. Joseph D. Hance ...
.l. Hillegass
Heury K. Turner.
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1876
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J. G. Mariotte .....
Martin E. Argo.
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Jolin Flickenger. J. Fredericksou ... Leroy Sprague. Jacob Saylor. =
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Allen llamilton. ... Anthony L. Davis
William Rockhill .. James Wyman.
Francis Comparet.
1826
Moses Thorp ....
Abner Gerard.
1830 Robert N. Hood ... 1831 Allen llamilton ... =
Francis Alexander =
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1834
.. Thos. W. Swinney. Jos. L. Swenney ...
Horace B. Taylor. =
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Platt J. Wise ...... Wm. A. Jackson ...
David H. Lipes.
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Ferd. McLane.
William H. Harter. Daniel Eby
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LIST OF OFFICIALS.
TRUSTEES OF THE SEVERAL TOWNSHIPS OF ALLEN COUNTY FROM 1859 UP TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1880-Continued.
Date.
LARE.
JEFFERSON.
EEI. RIVER.
CEDAR CREEK.
ADANS.
ABOIT.
PLEASANT.
SCIPIO.
I.A FAYETTE.
JACKSON.
1859 John Crofford ..
Wm. Harper ... Jolın Nail,
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D. E. O' llerrin .... William Rider ..
B. Schnelker
Lott S. Bayles ...
Jacob Smith Jacob Fisher
Abram Jackson ... Henry L. Riley.
Jacob Mooney.
1860 Milton Waugh.
F. A. Roy
John Deyer ..
Charles Il. Smith John Spraukle ..
James Ireland.
Jolin McLare ...
Rich'd Castleman.
1862
1863
G. W. Ritter.
James McCrory ..
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Johu Sprankle .....
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A. Johnston ..
18661
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Jolın M. Taylor ..
John Schoerepf ..
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B. Schnelker ...
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1869
1870
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1872
1873 W. Goheen
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Louis Nettlehorst ..
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William A. Kelsey John M. Shire ..
1871
1875
Charles M. Joly
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D. E. O' Herrin ....
Henry C. Zollinger William Glenn
1876
1877
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Jolin Dalman
Jolin Liggett
Iliram Roberts.
1878
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1879 *J. G. Clapseattle ..
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IC. L. Greenwell ... H. C. Hursl ..
NAMES OF COUNTY OFFICERS FROM THE ORGANIZATION OF ALLEN COUNTY, IN 1824, UP TO THE PRESENT TIME, 1880. COMPILED BY COL. J. B. DODGE.
JUDGES.
PROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.
Date.
CLERK.
CIRCUIT.
ASSOCIATE.
ASSOCIATE.
PROBATE AND COMMON PLKAS.
CRIMINAL.
SUPERIOR.
CIRCUIT COURT.
COMMON PLEAS COUNT.
CRIMINAL COURT.
1824 Bethuel F. Morris Samul Hanna ... Benj. Cushman
Calvin Fletcher.
Anthony Davis.
1825
1826 Miles G. Eggleson
1827
William N. Hood ..
Oliver II. Smith
1828
Benj. Cushınan .. =
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W. G. Ewing.
James Perry ..
1831
.. L. G. Thompson ...
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William J. Brown
1833 Gustavus A. Evarts
1834
Wm. G. Ewing .. =
David Rankin.
Thomas Johnson.
Foseph L.Jernegan
1837 Charles W. Ewing
Michael Shiras ..... Lucian P. Ferry
Thomas Johnson.
1838
Nat'l Coleman ... Marshall S. Winns =
1839 Henry Chase .....
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1840 John W. Wright. 1841
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J. H. McMahon ... Samuel Stophlet ... =
Wm. H. Coombs
1842 James W. Borden ..
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Robert L. Douglas
1845
.. R. Starkweather
George Johnson. =
Elza A. McMahon. los. Breckenridge
1848
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1850
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1851 Elza A. McMahon Nat'l Coleman ...
1852
1853
James W. Borden
Edward R. Wilson
I. D. G. Nelson.
1855 James L. Worden 1856
1857
1858
j Reuber Dawson Ed. R. Wilson.
Jos. Breckenridge =
1859
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1860
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1861
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1862
1863
1864 Robert Lowry
James W. Borden
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1865 1866
Robert S. Taylor ...
Edward O'Rourke
f Robert S. Taylor } { Edw'd O' Rourke
1868
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1809
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William S. Edsall.
1872
Samuel E. Sinclair
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1873
1874
James W. Borden
1876 W. W. Carson
1876 Edwar 1 O'Rourke
1877
Allen %.ollers
Jas. F. Morrison.
1878
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Robert Lowry.
1879
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M. V. B. Spencer.
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James McCrory ..
Herman Schnelker
1871
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...
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George W. Schell., Jobn Aiken.
William T. Cress.
1867
lacob Emerick John Dalman.
Adam Burier.
Wm. Branstetter ... Jacob Lawrence ... J. M. Young ...
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1868 Joseph Rockhill
Franis Gladio ...
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L. Blackburn
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Michael Crow.
Joshua Dickerson.
1864 A. G. Tyler
Thos. S. Heller.
John Ring ..
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1865
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J. W. Cartwright .. .Wmn. Hamilton ....
Henry C. Shull ..
William Seott
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William N. Keller.
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Hugh McCulloch .. =
John B. Chapman
Samuel C. Sample
1835
{ J. W. Wright { ¿ W. Wright. Lucian P. Ferry.
1843
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1844
Rob't E. Fleming.
1846
1847
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lames L. Worden
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Joseplı Sinclair.
1854
S J. Stoughton ... Wm. B. Spencer.
William S. Smith. John Colerick ..
Joseph A. France
Aug. A. Chapin ... D. T. Smith
James H. Schell ... D. Colerick.
Willian Fleming.
1867
James A. Fay } \J. W. Borden j
Joseph Daily
1870
1871
J. R. Bittenger ..... Joseph S. France ..
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J. R. Bittenger.
Samuel M. Hench
Frank II. Wolke.
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Amos Lane ..
1829
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Marlin M. Ray.
1830 Charles H. Test ...
Robert N. Hood. Allen Hamilton.
1832 =
1836 Samuel C. Sample Peter Huling ..
Phillip G. Jones.
Reuben J. Dawson
L. C. Jacoby
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Andrew Mezgar ... Melson MeLain
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1849
Charles Noyer.
Ilenry Brown ..
Elisha W. Green ...
Thomas Meades.
1861 Wm. Ross
John llarper
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S. W. Bolyard.
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14
David Wallace ....
NAMES OF THE PRINCIPAL OFFICERS OF THE CITY OF FORT WAYNE, FROM ITS ORGANIZATION IN 1840, UP TO THE PRESENT TIME. COMPILED BY COL. J. B. DODGE
Date
MAYOR.
CLERK.
TREASURER.
ATTORNEY.
CITY CIVIL ENGINEER.
CHIEF ENGINEER FIRE DEPARTMENT
MARSIIAL ..
STRAXT COMMISSIONER.
CAPTAIN POLICE.
ASSESSOR.
1840 George W. Wood .. F. P. Randall
George F. Wright .. F. P. Randall.
Samuel Edsall.
Jos. H. McMaken
Robt. E. Fleming. S. M. Black.
1842 Joseph Morgan.
William Lytle
Henry Cooper .....
.Oelimig Bird.
William L. Moon .. Brailf' d B. Stevens Henry Lotz ...
1843 Henry Lotz ..
Oliver W. Jefferds Lucien P. Ferry ...
John Coebrane ....
Inmes Crumsley ... William Stewart
1844
1846 Jolin MI. Wallace .. O. P. Morgan.
John W. Dawson.
W. B. Wilkinson
1846 M. W. IInxforit William Lytle ...
S. M. Blaek
C. S. Silver ..
S. M. Black
Joseph Morgan.
1847
John B. Dubois ... Oliver P. Morgan .. .Oliver P. Morgan .. N. P. Stockbridge
1848
1849 William Stewart ...
Win. W. Carson.
Benj. 11. Tower ... Morris Cody ..
Morris Cody.
1852 P. G. Jones
1843 Charles Whitmore 1834
W. E. Ellis.
Charles Muhler Charles Case
Lewis Wolke.
B. Hutker.
S. S. Morss.
1855 William Stewart ... R. N. Godfrey.
C. A. Reckers.
Wm. W. Carson.
E. McElfatriek
.1. B. Teller.
P. MeGee
John Greer
Henry Christ.
1856
A. C. Prohasco ...
W. 11. Link
John J. Glenn ..
S. MeElfatrick.
L. T. Bourie ...
Charles Baker llenry Towns
H. H Bossler.
1800
1861
L. T. Bourie ..
F1. M. Putnam ..
W. S. Smith
Ochmig Bird. Orrin D. Ifurd ..
P. MeGee ...
Willimin Lindeman W. HI. Briant
George Fisher.
1868
. S. P. Freeman ....
Allen Zollars.
Thomas Mannix .. P. MeGee. B. L. P. Williard .. F. R. Limecooly.
E. C. Pens.
1870
1871
J. A. Droegemeyer ..
L. Newberger.
Frank B. Vogel ... Christopher Kelly Henry Trier ..
1874
1875
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Allen Zollers. John Ryall
Thomas Mannix .. Frank B. Vogel ...
Conrad Baker
II. MI. Diehl
1877
lobn H. Trentman
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lIcnry Colariek
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Dennis O'Brien.
E. B. Smith
1879
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C S. Brackenridge
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H. M. Dielıl.
BOARD OF ALDERMEN OF THE CITY OF FORT WAYNE.
1840 William Rockhill.
Thomas Hamilton.
Madison Sweetser
Samuel Edsall
W. S. Edisall.
William M. Moon.
1841|1I. T. Dewey
Ilenry Sharp
C. G. French
Philo Rumsey.
A. S. Johns ..
1842
Ilenry Cooper.
Josephi Scott.
Philo Rumsey.
1843 F. P. Randall
Hugh McCulloch
L. Williams ..
J. B. Coennour
P. H. Taylor.
M. W. 1lubhell. J. B. Dubois.
1845 8. M. Black
Philo Rumsey ..
H. W. Jones
James Humphrey. 14
Samuel S. Morss
Charles Fink.
1847 Jacob Lewis
John Cochrane.
James P. Munson
John Coeanour
A. McJunkin.
1849
P. P. Bailey
James Humphrey
M Hedekin.
B. W. Oakley.
1851 O. W. Jefferds.
James Howe.
D. P. Hartman.
Oelmig Bird.
Peter Kiser.
Robert Armstrong.
1852 Robert MeJIullen.
H. R. Colerick
James Humphrey
Jonas W. Townley.
1853 John J. Trentman.
Milton Ilenry ..
Jolın Drake.
James Vandegriff
F. Nirdlinger
Henry Drover.
Date
FIRST WARD.
SECOND WARD.
THIRD WARD.
FOURTH WARD,
FIFTH WARD.
1854
W. Borger.
F. Aveline.
J. M. Miller ..
M. Drake .....
L. Lauferty
John Arnold .. . .
W. H. Link.
A. M. Webb .. J. P. Wise.
1855 E. Boslic ..
F. P. Randall.
.. H. Baker.
P. Iloagland.
C. Fink
C. W. Allen ...
A. Gamble.
1856 Thomas Stevens ... J. Ormiston.
V. Hedekin ...
H. Nierman ...
J. D. Worden.
W. T. Pratt.
W. Mckinley.
C. Beeker.
1857 H. N. Putnam.
W. Borger.
C. D. Bond.
1. Orff
C. Orff.
E .. Vordermark.
1858
1859 J. Burt
J. Trentman.
MI. Cody
B. H. Tower
H. Nierman ...
B. D. Miller ..
J. Humphrey.
D. Nestel
A. C. Beaver.
1860
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E. Slocum.
J. B. White.
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14
J. Breen
C. Miller.
S. Bush
J. M. Reedmiller.
1879
W. T. MeKean ... .M. Hamilton.
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J. Ryan
1880
Date.
SIXTH WARD.
SEVENTHT WARD.
EIGHTII WARD.
NIATII WARD,
1867 J. Mefz
MI. Hogan.
G. Jneoby
G. De Wald
George Link
J. Taylor
1868
1869 T. Hogan
V. C. Miller.
C. Tremmel
1870
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J. Schepf.
J. 8. Goshorn
O. E. Bradway.
W. B. Fisher.
fleury Stoll
S. Shryoek. James Lillie.
1874
N. De Wald
C. Tremmel
C. Tam
J. Holmes
A. T. Dryer ....
C. Pfeffer.
C. Il. Leinker.
1878
L. Fox.
J. W. Vordermark
C. II. Leinker
J. Wilkinson.
1879J. Welch
J. Mohr.
J. Wilkinson.
J. Lillie, Jr.
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E. L. Chittenden .. John Conger.
Jos. S. France .:.
John S. Mower. L. T. Bourie
C. W. Lindlag
6. C. Freeman.
1866 James L. Worden ..
1866
1867 Henry Sharp ..
C. Piepenbrink
R. S. Robertson. C. S. Brackenridge Joseph B. Fry. =
Charles Uplegger ..
.. D. Meyer
1872
...
1873 Chas. A. Zollinger
John M. Godown .. Charles M. Barton
1876
1844 Morgan Lewis
Sam'l H. Shoaff.
H. Willians
C. S. Silver.
John Cochrnue
Charles Page
1846 J. B. Hanna.
Henry Sharp
Rich McMullen
1848 Charles Mihler
John Congor.
J. M. Miller ..
J. Foellinger.
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H. Nierman
D. Downey.
.. A. E. Sebele.
1864
1865
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W. Waddington
1866
1867 W. T. McKean
1868
1869 A. H. Carrier
MI. Iledekin
J. R. Prentiss
G. W. Breckenridge. 11. Trier.
W. McPhail.
B. H. Kimball.
P. S. Underbill.
1870
1871
1872
1873 W. T. MeKean
H. N. Putnam M. Hamilton.
O. P. Morgan. C. Ileitler.
E. L. Chittenden ..
MI. Baltes
Charles Munson ..
... E. Zarbaugh,
W. H. Withers.
1877 C. Riese
31. Cody.
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1878
1872
1873
G. Jacoby.
J. Item
1. Schone ..
11. Schuelker,
C. Sehacfer.
J. Wilkinson.
1876
J. Wilkinson
Chr. Pfeffer.
1877
J. E. Grabam.
L. Dessauer ..
W. Tagtmeyer. J. Morgan.
W. Meyer
Charles MeCulloch W. McPhail.
C. Beeker ..
P. Nobnhaus.
1874
H. Graffe
G. Il. Wilson.
1875
1876
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D. Harding.
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1862
1863
1864
F. P. Randall.
W. S. Gilkison ... M. Van Geison
S. C. Freeman.
J. Rardendorf. C. Cook
James Howe.
James Price.
1858
.. J. C. Davis
1859/E. P. Ramifall.
Moses Drake, Jr .. William Stewart ..
George Humphrey Joseph Priee.
T. J. Priee.
Chas. G. Freneb.
1850
1851
Thos. D. DeKay
Sam'I C. Freeman William Fleming .. Edward Smith
F. P. Randall.
Sam'I C. Frceman. William Lannin F. J. Frank.
William Roekhill. S. M. Black. William II. Prine.
Samuel Bigger .....
Thomas Prichard .. William Stewart ...
Samuel Stoplilet.
Jolin B. Coennour Sam'l C. Freeman. Sam'1 C. Freeman.
Henry R. Coleriek.
1837 Samuel S. Morss .. Christian Tressett. Conrad Nifl.
George Humphrey
P. Falahee ..
John B. Reekers.
1878
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O. D. Ifurd.
J. S. Harrington .. |
B. H. Kimball.
1862
1853 H. Monning.
P. Ilongland.
F. Nirdlinger.
A. P. Edgerton ... P. S. Underhill.
J. C. Bowser
B. W. Oakley
Jolin Arnold
J. Cochrane
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1871
1875
I. Wittenburg.
1880
Robert Lowry was elected City Recorder in 1844, to fill vacancy.
* December 2, 1879, J. G. Noll elected to succeed A. T. Dryer, deeensed.
J. S. Irwin.
1861
C. D. Piepenbrink.
Henry Sharp ..
C. Anderson.
1850 Henry Sharp ..
W. H. Bryant ..
.. M. Singleton. ..
1869 F. P. Randall ...
.. P. MeGee.
1841
Samnel S. Morss .. Rich McMullen ..
Robt. E. Fleming.
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D. B. Strope
B. 11 Tower. J. Bull
Samuel Ilanna .... G. H. Wilson ..
Charles Forbes.
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ALLEN COUNTY JAIL FORT WAYNE IND.
TOWNSHIP. HISTORIES.
PREFATORY.
It has beenque the eustom in these latter days, in the arrangement of histor- ieal matter, to treat the facts preseuted topieally, and certainly with great show of propriety. The more rational process, considered with reference to the method of a half-century since, would seem to accord essentially with the plan of treating each topic as an entirety, instead of arranging a series in chronological order, giv- ing disconnected faets in the order of their occurrence. It has been the purpose, in the preparation of this department, to appropriate to each township a complete review of its separate or individual history, embracing in its boundaries primi- tive and successive settlements ; the eareer of the pioneer men traced from actual standpoints, from the lonely eahin in the wilderness, in the progress of years, to the stately mansion ; from the unbroken forest to the broad and generously culti- vated fields. Incidentally thereto, the reader will be able to discern the changes which time has wrought in the methods prescribed hy necessity, whence liave proceeded the grand seale of improvement on exhibition to-day. Indeed, it has been contemplated to make the history of each towuship complete in itself, with its individual relation to the county as a whole. To accomplish this work satis- factorily, the aid of numerous persons resident in these several civil jurisdictions has been brought into requisition and their information utilized in analyzing and digesting the material essential to a correct and reliable local bistory. It is believed that by such means only ean we expect to produce a work which will in the future be recognized as authentic and complete.
Below are recorded the names of those in the several townships who have rendered essential service in the collation of the material embodied in what has been written under appropriate heads. To these especially, and to many others generally, the editor herewith tenders his grateful acknowledgments. They are those who have rendered the most efficient assistance in the preparation of the township histories of Allen County, and are as follows :
Perry Township-Horace F. Dunten, William T. Hunter, Jacob Hillegass, T. M. Andrews, Dr. E. G. Wheelock.
Cedar Creek-Peter Notestine, John Pring, John Dever.
Springfield-Isaac Hall, Estes Howe, John D. Reichelderfer, Dr. F. K. Cosgrove, Sr.
Seipio-Robert Dorsey.
Maumee-Jacob Saylor.
Milan-Alvin Hall, Charles Shriner.
St. Josepb-Hon. Christian Parker, William McClure, Adam Pettit. Monroe-Noah Clem, John Friedline, J. B. Niezer, Dr, W. A. Connolly. Jefferson-Alanson Whitney.
Adams-L. M. Rogers, O. D. Rogers, Henry Burgess, Dr. M. F. Will- iamson.
WAYNE TOWNSHIP.
This township was organized on the 31st of May, 1824, and its boundaries, at that time, embraced the whole of Allen County proper, and was only reduced to its present limits after the settlement and organization of the other townships. The settlements in this township were, technically, the primary settletuents of Allen County, of which Fort Wayne was the connnon center and the attractive point of history. Properly, then, it may be said that the settlements in Wayne Township, as such, should only be considered from the date of its organization, since, prior to that time, the area was known and designated by the generic title of Fort Wayne, or primitively, Ke-ki-ong-a. It might, also, with propriety he said, on the other hand, that the history of those points, anterior to the date of their organic existence, should be alike applicable to all together. Henee, we refer, first, to
THE FIRST EARLY DISTINGUISHED VISITOR.
In 1798, C. F. Volney, the French philosopher, in his route to Detroit fromu Vincennes, Louisville, Cincinnati, and Frankfort and Lexington, Ky., evidently, eame by way of Fort Wayne. In his " Indian Character," he describes a route which leaves hut little doubt of his presence here. In conversation, however, with Little Turtle, at Philadelphia, through Wells, an interpreter, be elicited many facts showing his wonderful sagacity and astouishing penetrative powers, as well as the remarkable wbiteness of his skin, i. e., " While talking to Mr. Wells, I was not inattentive to the chief. Not understanding English, be took no part
in the conversation, but walked about, plucking out his hairs from his ehin, and even from his eye brows. He dressed in the American style-in a blue suit, with round hat and pantaloons. I desired Mr. Wells to ask him how he liked his clothes. 'At first,' said he, ' they confined my limbs unpleasantly ; but I have got used to them, and, as they defend me against THE HEAT and the eold, I now like them well enough.' Tucking up his sleeves, he showed me a skin, between the wrist and elbow, whose whiteness surprised me. It differed not at all from my own; my hands were as tuuch tanned as huis. His skin was as soft and fair as a Parisian's." " As to your numbers," said the chief, " your increase is quite inconceivable. More than two lives, supposing eighty years to each, have not gone hy since the whites first set foot among us, yet already they swarm like flics, while we, who have been here nobody knows how long, are still as thin as deer." Fiuding his thoughts going in this track, I asked him why they did not multiply as fast. 'Ah,' said he, 'our ease is very different. You whites contrive to colleet upon a small space a sure and plentiful supply of food. A wbite man gathers from a field, a few times larger than this room, bread enough for a whole year. If he adds to this a small field of grass, he maintains beasts, which give him all the queat and elothes be wants, and all the rest of the time he may do what he pleases ; while we must have a great deal of ground to live upon; a deer will serve us but a couple of days, and a single deer must have a great deal of ground to put him in good condition. If we kill two or three hundred a year, 'tis the same as to eat all the wood and grass off the land they live on, and this is a great deal. No wonder the whites drive us every year further and further before them, from the sea to the Mississippi. They spread like oil -upon a blanket; we melt like snow before the sun. If things do not greatly change, the red man will disappear shortly.' "
On November 24, 1819, Capt. James Riley, having left his surveying- grounds in Ohio, visited Fort Wayne, which he describes with much minuteness. In speaking of the location of the fort by Gen. Wayne, he says :
" At every step in this country, every unprejudiced mind will, more and more, admire the movements and achievements of . he army conducted by tbis veteran and truly wisc and great commander, by occupying Fort Wayne, the communication between Lake Erie and the Ohio, through the channel of the Maumee and the Wabash, which is the shortest and most direet water route from Buffalo to the Mississippi River, was cut off or completely commanded."
Portage Canal .- He also spoke of a canal across the portage from St. Mary's to Little River :
" Through a part of the above-mentioned swamp, which is very extensive, a canal miglit very easily he cut, six miles long, uniting the Wabash to tbe St. Mary's a little above its junetion, and, from what I saw and learned from others, it is my opinion that the swamp might afford water sufficient for purposes of eanal navigation."
Prospects and Surroundings .- He says further :
"The country around Fort Wayne is very fertile, the situation is command- ing and healthy and here will urise a town of great importance, which must become a depot of immense trade. The fort is now only a small stockade. No troops are stationed here, and less than thirty (30) dwelling-houses, occupied by French and American families, form the settlement. But as soon as the land shall he surveyed and offered for sale, inhabitants will pour in from all quarters to this future thoroughfare between the East and the Mississippi River."
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