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at Columbus passed from Joseph Mckinney into the hands of Isaac Boardman, who, on February 25, 1849, relinquished his rights to the ferry and gave the right of way to the land to a stock com- pany that had been formed for the purpose of erecting a toll bridge.
January 27, 1847, the General Assembly of the State had ap- proved a law authorizing the incorporation of the Columbus Bridge Company with a capital stock of $10,000. The chief promoters of the enterprise were Thomas Hays, Francis J. Crump, John B. Abbett and B. B. Jones. The charter was to continue thirty years and authorized the erection of " a bridge across the east fork of White River at the end of Vernon Street in the town of Columbus." The toll rates fixed were about equal to ferry rates. The bridge was sold to the County Commissioners in 1859, for the sum of $6,044.64, and thereafter it was free to the general public until condemned and removed in 1884. Large sums of money have been expended in a vigorous prosecution of a wise policy early adopted respecting bridges. It is estimated that the first seven bridges of importance built by the county cost $107,500. In 1886 alone the amount expended in the construction of bridges was $46,707.83, and in 1887, it was $12,415.28. The large amount of county bonds issued to raise funds for this purpose has been elsewhere men- tioned. Among the principal bridges deserving special mention may be named that near the town of Azalia on the east fork of White River built in 1878, by McCormack & Sweeney at a cost of about $22,000. It is of two spans, each 155 feet in length, with wrought iron trusses twenty-two feet high; width of roadway eighteen feet; the structure resting upon a central pier and two stone abutments rising twenty-two feet above low water mark. A very handsome and durable bridge was built over Flat Rock Creek in 1880, by McCormack & Sweeney. Bids for the building of this bridge were advertised for and several were submitted, among them that of McCormack & Sweeney for $13,400. The contract was let November 20, 1879, but Commissioner Jacob Wagner pro- tested against the letting on the ground that the bid accepted was not the lowest responsible bid. The bridge was completed and ac- cepted December 21, ISSO. The contractors claimed on contract and for extra work done and materials furnished $16,342.93, and
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were allowed $15,450.52. On Clifty Creek about two and one- half miles from Columbus on the Burnsville pike there is a place once called Fatal Ford. There the current of the stream is swift and its bed deceptive and treacherous. On the morning of Novem- ber 15, 1879, a woman and her two daughters when attempting to cross the stream lost their lives. In May, ISSo, the Commissioners awarded a contract for building a bridge at this point to the King Bridge Company of Cleveland, Ohio, for $8,642, $6,000 of the sum named being for the foundation and the remainder for the super- structure. In June, ISSo, the Commissioners examined the work and finding that it was not being built according to contract, con- demned it. A necessary change was made in the location of the abutments for which $450 extra was allowed. The bridge is a wrought iron high truss with two spans. At the same time and to the same company a contract was let for the construction of a bridge at Hendrickson's ford on Driftwood. It is a wrought iron high truss bridge with two spans, each 158 feet in length. The amount paid was, for superstructure, $9,430, and for substructure, $5,870.60.
Iron bridges of moderate size and cost have been built recently by the Wrought Iron Bridge Company, of Canton, Ohio, over Little Sand Creek, near Elizabethtown, over Duck Creek, in Haw Creek Township, over the bayou in Wayne Township, and over Haw Creek near Columbus.
The finest and largest bridge in the county is that which re- placed the old toll bridge across Driftwood, at the foot of Vernon Street, in Columbus. It stands but a short distance up the stream from the site of the old bridge. The contracts for building it were let by Henry Dipper, George W. Ely and Bluford Sutherland, Commissioners, to the Morse Bridge Company, of Youngstown, Ohio, for superstructure, at $27,000, and to Frank Snyder for sub- structure, for $12,586.60. The substructure consists of two mas- sive stone abutments and two stone piers; the superstructure, of three wrought iron high truss spans, each 171 feet long, 20 feet wide, and 26 feet high. The bridge was received in August, 1884. Though this costly bridge was built by the county, and is free to the public, it can be approached from the west cnd only through
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the toll gate of a turnpike company, which is located about one hundred yards from the end of the bridge. It is practically the gateway to the city of Columbus for the people who reside in the western part of the county.
Public Officers .- Below is a statement of the public officers of the county, in the order in which they served, Representatives, State Senators and the Representatives in Congress for the district, including Bartholomew County, from the organization of the county to the present time :
County Commissioners: Jesse Ruddick, William Ruddick, Solomon Stout, Newton C. Jones, James Goodwin, William Ham- ner, Joshua McQueen, Lewis Singleton, Hiram Wilson, Nathan Kyle, David Newsom, Eliakin Hamblin, Henry B. Roland, Will- iam A. Washburn, Jacob Lain, John Essex, Francis J. Crump, Smith D. Jones, David McLain, Joseph E. Mitchell, Walter G. Pra- ther, Albert Carter, William A. Washburn, George G. Gabbart, Thomas Winkler, Thomas Essex, Joshua McQueen, James M. Perry, Israel Miller, A. F. Thompson, John Walker, Samuel Shields, John W. Welmer, James Harker, Thomas May, Lewis Essex, Josiah Watkins, John H. Adams, John W. Welmer, John P. Holtz, John T. Walker, James M. Perry, Jabez D. Hammond, William R. Gant, Richard Carter, Abner Kyle, Henry Kreinhagen, Jacob Wagner, William S. Struble, Thomas Leslie, Henry Dipper, George W. Ely, B. Sutherland.
County Auditors: David R. Wayland from 1841 to 1851; James Hobbs, Jr., from 1851 to 1853; Levi H. Morris from 1853 to 1855; John H. Long from 1855 to 1863; David F. Long from 1863 to IS71; James W. Wells from IS71 to 1875; Silas L. Thomp- son from 1875 to 1879; Lewis Donhost from 1879 to' ISS3; J. C. Laughlin from 1883 to 1887; John E. Sharp, present incumbent.
County Treasurers: Luke Bonesteel from IS21 to 1822; Will- iam Logan from 1822 to IS23; David Deitz from 1823 to 1824; A. A. Wiles from 1824 to 1825; Philip Sweetser from 1825 to 1827; A. A. Wiles from IS27 to 1829; Samuel M. Osbourne, 1829; William P. Kiser from IS30 to 1833; David Deitz from 1833 to I841; Jesse Ruddick, Jr., from IS41 to 1844; James Herod from 1844 to 1845; William F. Pidgeon from IS45 to 1847; James
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Ilerod from April to August, 1847; William F. Pidgeon from 1847 to 1853; Jesse Ruddick, Jr., from May to June, 1853; George W. Palmer from 1853 to 1857; Jacob Snyder from 1857 to 1861; Richard Carter from 1861 to 1863; Samuel Stuckey from 1863 to 1865; Samuel Shields from 1865 to 1867; Archibald F. Thompson from 1867 to 1869; James F. Hines from 1869 to 1871; J. D. McQueen from 1871 to IS74; John G. Schwartzkopf from 1874 to 1879; Lewis H. Vogler from 1879 to ISSI; Joseph Andrews from ISSI to ISS3; William Geilker from 1883 to 1885; August Keel from 1885 to 1887; Henry Neinaber, present incumbent.
County Recorders : W. H. H. Terrell from IS50 to 1855; Will- iam C. Abbett from IS55 to 1863; Thomas Essex from IS63 to 1871; Joseph Whitten from IS71 to 1874; David Stobo from 1874 to 1883; Samuel M. Dennison from 1883 to 1887; John Callahan, present incumbent.
County Surveyors: John Vawter was employed as surveyor in 1821; Moses Joiner was appointed in 1831; and the records show that various men were engaged in the work of surveying between those dates, but they do not indicate whether or not those so en- gaged were county officials. Among them were William N. Mor- ris, Thomas Essex and Job Gardner. Jasper H. Sprague served from 1843 to 1847; Nathaniel 'O. Hinman from 1847 to IS48; Benjamin F. Myers from IS48 to 1851; Burris Moore from 1851 to 1856; John Dean from 1856 to 1860; Thomas V. Haislup from 1860 to 1862; John Dean from 1862 to 1864; W. A. Hayes from 1864 to 1874; George Pence from 1874 to 1876; William H. Red- man from 1876 to 1880; John W. Dundon from ISSo to ISS2; William A. Hayes from IS82 to present.
Representatives: John Lindsey, 1821; Charles DePauw, IS22; Benjamin Irwin, 1823 to IS25; Philip Sweetser, IS25-26. Ben- jamin Irwin, 1827; Newton C. Jones, elected for IS28, but died before the Legislature convened; Philip Sweetser, IS28; William Herod, 1829-30; Jesse Ruddick, 1831-32: William P. Kiser, IS33; Jacob Cook, IS34; Thomas G. Lee, 1835; John McKinney and Thomas G. Lee, 1836; T. G. Lee and Z. Tannehill, 1837; T. G. Lee and W. Terrell, 1838; B. F. Arnold and Eliakin Hamblin,
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1839; . W. Terrell and Tunis Quick, IS40; Tunis Quick, 1841; Aquilla Jones, 1842; Herman HI. Barbour, 1843; William Herod, 1844; Ephraim Arnold, 1845 and 1846; Charles Jones, IS47; Charles Jones and HI. H. Barbour, IS48; Gideon B. Hart and Thomas Essex, 1849; Thomas Essex and Samuel A. Moore, 1850 (Colin McKinney was elected in IS50, but died, and S. A. Moore was elected in his stead); Joseph Struble, 1851 to 1853; Thomas Essex, 1855; Francis P. Smith, 1857; Albert G. Collier, 1858-9; Francis P. Smith, 1861; O. H. P. Abbett, 1863 and 1865; Stinson J. Barrett, 1867 and 1869; Robert D. Hawley, 1871; John M. Cline, 1872-3; Alfred Williams, 1874-5; J. M. Cook, 1876-7; Arthur D. Galbraith, 1878-9; Patrick H. McCormack, 1881-2, and 1883-4; Lewis Donhost, 1885; James Galbraith, ISS7.
State Senators: William Graham, of Jackson County, 1821 to 1830; William Herod, 1831-2; Zachariah Tannehill, 1834-5; John Vawter, of Jennings County, 1836 to 1839; Zachariah Tannehill, 1840 to 1844; H. H. Barbour, 1845 to 1847; William Herod, 1848 to 1850; John L. Spann, 1853 to 1855; James E. Wilson, 1857; Smith Jones, 1858 to 1861; F. T. Hord, 1863 to 1865; Thomas G. Lee, 1867 to 1870; Oliver J. Glessner, of Shelby County, 1870 to 1873; J. B. Grove, 1875; Richard L. Coffey, 1878; W. C. Duncan, 1882 to present.
Members of Congress: William Hendricks, 1821; Jonathan Jennings, 1823 to 1831; John Carr, 1831; George L. Kennard, 1833 to 1837; William Herod, 1837 to 1839; William W. Wick, 1839; David Wallace, 1841; William J. Brown, 1843; William W. Wick, 1845 to 1849; William J. Brown, 1849; Thomas A. Hend- ricks, 1851; Cyrus L. Dunham, 1852 to 1856; James Hughes, 1857; William McKee Dunn, 1858-1860; Henry W. Harrington, 1862; Ralph Hill, 1864; Morton C. Hunter, 1866; William S. Holman, 1868 to 1872; Michael C. Kerr, 1874 to 1876; Nathan T. Carr, 1876; George A. Bicknell, 1877 to 1879; C. C. Matson, from 1879 to present.
The Fifth Congressional District, now represented by Col. C. C. Matson, is composed of Bartholomew, Brown, Johnson, Morgan, Hendricks, Putnam, Owen, and Monroe counties.
P.residential Elections .- The increase in the number of voters
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and the political complexion of a county from time to time are of such general interest that a table showing the vote at all Presiden- tial elections occurring since the organization of the county, is here appended :
1824-Ilenry Clay, Whig, 99 votes; Andrew Jackson, Demo- crat, 96; John Q. Adams, Free Soil, 20; W. H. Crawford, Demo- crat, -; total vote cast, 215. 1828-Andrew Jackson, Democrat, 445 votes; John Q. Adams, Free Soil, 235; total vote cast, 6So. 1832-Andrew Jackson, Democrat, 489 votes; Henry Clay, Whig, 372; total vote cast, 861. 1836- William H. Harrison, Whig, 608; Martin Van Buren, Democrat, 412; total vote cast, 1,020. 1840-William H. Harrison, Whig, 982; Martin Van Buren, Dem- ocrat, 703; total vote cast, 1,685. 1844-Henry Clay, Whig, 1,035; James K. Polk, Democrat, 1,068; James G. Birney, Aboli- tionist, 13; total vote cast, 2,116. 1848-Zachary Taylor, Whig, I,OII votes; Lewis Cass, Democrat, 1,167; Martin Van Buren, Free Soil, 28; total vote cast, 2,206. 1852-Winfield Scott, Whig, 1,245 votes; Franklin Pierce, Democrat, 1,512; John P. Hale, Free Soil, 26; total vote cast, 2,783. 1856-John C. Freemont, Repub- lican, 1,292 votes; James Buchanan, Democrat, 1,844; Millard Fill- more, Native American, 142; total vote cast, 3,478. 1860- Abraham Lincoln, Republican, 1,769 votes; Stephen A. Douglas, Democrat, 1,846; John Bell, Union, 34; John C. Breckenridge, State Rights, 66; total vote cast, 3,715. 1864-Abraham Lincoln, Republican, 1,645 votes; George B. McClellan, Democrat, 2,051; total vote cast, 3,696; 1868-U. S. Grant, Republican, 2,010 votes; Horatio Seymour, Democrat, 2,510; total vote cast, 4,520. I872-U. S. Grant, Republican, 2,015 votes; Horace Greeley, Liberal Republican, 2,442; total vote cast, 4,457. 1876-Ruther- ford B. Hayes, Republican, 2,326 votes; Samuel J. Tilden, Demo- crat, 2,810; Peter Cooper, Greenbacker, -; G. C. Smith, Prohi- bitionist, 141; total vote cast, 5,277. ISSo-James A. Garfield, Republican, 2,575 votes; Winfield Scott Hancock, Democrat, 2,930; Weaver, Independent, 59; total vote cast, 5,562. 1884-James G. Blaine, Republican, 2,613 votes; Grover Cleveland, Democrat, 2,918; Benjamin F. Butler, National, 25; John P. St. John, Prohi- bition, 4; total vote cast, 5,560.
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Organization of Townships .- The carly division of the county into three voting districts has been elsewhere mentioned. On May 14, IS21, upon the petition of William Hammer and others, a new township, to be known as Sand Creek, was laid off out of the Southern District, and bounds were fixed as follows: Beginning where the Jackson County line crosses Driftwood River, thence up said river to the mouth of Clifty, thence up Clifty to the line dividing Townships S and 9, thence with said line to the Jennings. County line, thence with said line to the Jackson County line, thence with said line to the place of beginning. James Hamner was appointed inspector of elections for the township, and his house was designated as the polling place. June 13, IS59, the last of several changes in the extent of this township was made, leaving it bounded as follows: Beginning where the Jackson County line crosses Driftwood River, and running in a northwesterly direction with said river to the northeast corner of Wayne Township, thence east on the section line, first south of the township line dividing Townships S and 9, to the southwest corner of Section No. 6, Township S north, of Range 7 east, thence due south to the northern line of Jackson County, thence along said county line in a south- westerly direction to the place of beginning.
Wayne Township was organized November 12, 1821, with the following boundary: Beginning on the west bank of Driftwood River where crossed by the Jackson County line, and running with said river northwesterly to where the line dividing Townships 8 and 9 crosses the river, thence west with said line to the line divid- ing Ranges 4 and 5, thence south to the county line, thence east to the place of beginning. July 4, IS31, the line on the north end of the township was changed and fixed as follows: Commencing where the line dividing Townships 8 and 9 strikes Denois Creek, and running east with the meanders of said creek to the bridge on the Mark's Ferry State road, thence on a due east line to Drift- wood River. September 4, 1832, the township boundary was again changed as follows: Commencing where the Jackson County line crosses Driftwood River; thence north with its meanders to the line dividing Sections 6 and 12; thence west to the Jackson Town- ship line; thence south to the Jackson County line, thence east to
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the place of beginning. January 3, 1837, to accord with changes made in the county line the following change in the township bound- ary was made: Commencing at the southwest corner of Section IS, Township 7 north, of Range 5 east, and running west to the south- west corner of Section 15, Township 7, of Range + cast; thence north to the northwest corner of Section 10, Township 8, of Range 4 east; thence east to the northeast corner of Section 12, Town- ship S, of Range 4 cast. This added territory, together with sixteen sections contiguous thereto on the east side, was taken from Wayne Township in the formation of Ohio Township.
Driftwood Township, organized May 10, 1824, was bounded as follows: Beginning where the north county line crosses Drift- wood River at the point commonly known as Berry's ford and run- ning down with the meanders of said river, to the line dividing Townships 9 and 10, thence east on said line to where it strikes Flat Rock, thence up said stream with its meanders to the county line, thence west on said line to the place of beginning. David Mc- Coy's house was designated as the first place for holding elections. No changes have been made in the boundary of this township, but on the 9th day of August, 1824, its name was changed to German Township.
Nineveh Township, organized May 10, 1824, was bounded as follows: Beginning where the north county line crosses Driftwood River and running down with the meanders of said river to the line dividing Townships 9 and 10, thence due west to the line dividing Ranges 3 and 4, thence north to the county line, thence east with said line to the place of beginning. Thomas Roberts was appointed inspector of elections, and the house of John Macomb was desig- nated as the polling place. On January 3, 1837, the west line was changed to commence at the southwest corner of Section 34, Town- ship 10, of Range 4 east, and run north to the northeast corner of Section 4, in the same township and range. In the formation of Union Township, twelve sections were taken from the south end of this township; otherwise it remains as here described.
Flat Rock Township, organized May 11, IS24, was bounded as follows: Beginning where the line between Townships 9 and 10 crosses Flat Rock Creek, and running up with the meanders of said
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creek to the county line; thence east on said line to the northeast corner of Bartholomew County; thence south to the line dividing Townships 9 and 10; thence west on said line to the place of be- ginning. . The first polling place was the house of Daniel Akin; the first inspector of elections, Jesse Ruddick. The creation of Ilaw Creek Township diminished the territory of Flat Rock; other- wise it remains unchanged.
Clifty Township, organized May 11, 1824, was bounded as follows: Beginning on the line dividing Townships S and 9, at the corner of Sections 33 and 34, in Range 6 east, and running north to the line dividing Townships 9 and 10; thence east on said line to the county line; thence south to the line dividing Townships S and 9; thence west to the place of beginning. The house of Rachel Robertson was designated as the first polling place; William P. Nelson was appointed inspector of elections. Subsequent changes made by the formation of Clay and Rock Creek townships are hereinafter set forth.
Columbus Township, organized May II, IS24, was bounded as follows: Beginning at the northeast corner of Wayne Township and running west to the county line; thence north on said line to the line dividing Townships 9 and 10; thence east on said line to the corner of Clifty Township; thence south with the west line of said township to Clifty Creek; thence with its meanders to the mouth of said creek; thence up Driftwood River to the place of beginning. The territory of the township was diminished by the formation of the old Jackson or Salt Creek Township, and after- wards when the county was diminished in size the township was enlarged. This change was made January 3, 1837, adding the fol- lowing territory: Commencing at the southeast corner of Section I, Township S, of Range 4 east, and running west three miles to the southwest corner of Section 3, same township and range; thence north to the northwest corner of Section 3, Township 9, Range 4 east; thence east to the northeast corner of Section I, township and range last named; thence south to the place of beginning. Subsequent changes in the west part of the township were made by the formation of Union and Harrison townships; and the line between Rock Creek, Sand Creek and Columbus townships was
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also changed as stated below. At present the township is bounded as follows: Beginning at the southwest corner of Section 4, Town- ship S, of Range 5 east, and running east to the southeast corner of Section 2, Township S, of Range 6 east; thence north two miles; thence west two miles to the northeast corner of Section 33, Town- ship 9, of Range 6 east; thence to. the northeast corner of Section 4, same township and range; thence west to Driftwood River; thence south with the meanders of said stream to where it is crossed by the section line between Sections 9 and 16, Township 9, of Range 5 east; thence west on said line to the northwest cor- ner of said Section 16; thence south to the place of beginning.
Salt Creek Township, organized on the first Monday in July, 1828, included all that part of Bartholomew County west of Range 5 east, and south of the center of Township 10 north. The house of John Adams was the first polling place; Benjamin Welmans was first inspector of elections. On January 5, 1829, the name of this . township was changed to Jackson, and on May 4, following, a part of its territory was attached to Nineveh. This Jackson Township is in no way identical with that now bearing the same name. It is true that the old Jackson Township included in its territory that now called Jackson, but Ohio Township, formed later, at first in- cluded the present Jackson Township; and the first Jackson or Salt Creek Township had gone entirely out of existence before the organization of the present Jackson Township.
Haw Creek Township, organized March 2, 1829, included all that part of Bartholomew County lying within Township 10 north, of Range 7 east, and remains unchanged.
Rock Creek Township, organized March 1, 1830, was bounded as follows: Beginning at the county line one mile north of the southeast corner of Clifty Township, and running west with the section line to the Columbus Township line; thence south to the State road; thence east with said road to the Jennings County line; thence to the place of beginning. This, it will be noticed, took one row of sections from Clifty Township on the south, fixing the southern boundary of that township as it now is.
The following changes affecting Sand Creek and Columbus as well as this township, and above referred to, were made June I,
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1846: the line between Columbus and Rock Creek townships was made to commence at the northwest corner of Section 36, Town- ship 9, of Range 6 east, and run south to include A. Gibb's farm; thence on the line dividing Sections 1, 12 and 13, Township S, of Range 6 east, from Sections 6, 7 and IS, Township S, of Range 7 east, to the boundary line of Rock Creek and Sand Creek townships at the State road leading from Madison to Indianapolis near northeast corner of Section 13, Township S, of Range 6 east; thence in a northwest direction with said road to the line dividing Columbus and Rock Creek Townships near the southwest corner of Section 34, Township 9, of Range 6 east; thence north on the line dividing Sections 33 and 34, Township 9, of Range 6 east, to the southwest corner of Section 27, same township and range; thence east on the section line to the place of beginning. In March, 1851, the Board of Commissioners fixed the line between Columbus and Sand Creek townships to be the line between Sections 3 and 4, and the center line running east and west through Sections 8 and 9, all in Township S north, of Range 6 east. June 13, 1859, the line between the three townships named was fixed as follows: Com- mencing at the northeast corner of Section 24, Township S, of Range 6 east, and running north to the northeast corner of Section 12, same township and range; thence west on the section line di- viding Sections 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 6 from 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and 12, to where said line strikes Driftwood River in the township and range aforesaid. The territory thus cut out of Rock Creek and Sand Creek townships was attached to Columbus.
VanBuren Township, organized May 5, 1834, was located in the southwest corner of the county, with the line dividing Town- ships 8 and 9 on the north, the Monroe County line on the west, the Jackson County line on the south, and the Wayne Township line on the east. This township, like the original Jackson Town- ship, was destroyed by later organizations and the contraction of the county limits.
Harrison Township, organized December 7, 1841, was formed out of the west end of Columbus Township, with bounds as fol- lows: Beginning at the northwest corner of Section 3, Township 9, Range 4 east, and running south with the line between Brown
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