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Names.
Aga.
Date of Place of
Names.
Age.
Date of Place of Immigr't'n. Nativ'y.
Strong, S. F
.62
1834
0.
Thomas, W. A. .63
1828
Va.
Stroup, R.
74
1836
Ger.
" Mrs.
46
1835
Ind.
Unrue, Isaac. 80
1836
Va.
Swab, Wm
1833
0.
Vinson, Irwin. .63
1831
Ky.
Van Frank, J.
76
1835 N. Y.
Stonder, Sam.
.50
1832
0.
Mrs. J. .. 71
1835 R. I.
Starks, N. .47
1832
Pa.
C. P. 46
1835 N. Y.
Stutsman, Sam. .. 57
48
1836
0.
Violett, Isaiah.
44
1835
Ind.
Smith, Mrs. N.
43
1836
0.
Vail, J. D.
65
1837
Pa.
Stancliff, Mary.
.62
1830
Ind.
Mrs ..
.51
1828
0.
Stauffer, Mrs. J. .57
1838
0.
Weybright, D.
55
1830
0.
Stotts, Mrs 74
1831
0.
"
M.
57
1830
0.
Shrock, Mrs.
.64
1834
Va.
Mrs
.56
1830
0.
Sherwin, Leander .... 78
1837 N. Y.
Walburn, John. 16
67
1838
0.
Stutsman, Aaron. . .54
1839
Pa.
Mrs.
.65
1838
0.
Stetler, J. W.
.40
1839
Ind.
Walker, E. W. 48
1835 O.
Scranage, Samuel .... 68
1836
Va.
Witmer, L. W 48
1838
0.
Snavely, Mrs. E ..... . 44
1835
Ind.
Mrs. .. 43
1837 N. Y.
Shoup, Noah .. ..
.. 54
1830
0.
Weyburn, Mrs. S. H .. 53
1834 N. Y.
Smith, Mrs. Conrad ... 86
1838 N. Y.
Walters, Geo.
.74
1836
Pa.
Stevens, Mrs. Ed ..... 47
1831
Ind.
Wilkinson, N. .52
1835
0.
Sparklin, John ... ... .45
1834
Ind.
Mrs.
41
1838
Ind.
Waugh, Wm 80
1831
Del.
Thomas, C. M .. .45
1838
Pa.
Zinn, Geo.
.60
1837
0.
Thompson, J. E. ... 51
1828
Ind.
Zollinger, Jos. .56
1836
Pa.
Tibbetts, Mrs.
.50
1832
0.
Mrs. .. 54
1835
0.
Terwilliger, R.
.. 46
1837 N. Y.
The following list of septuagenarians is based upon inquiries addressed to a number of old settlers; it is as complete as it is now possible to render, it and contains the great majority of names of old settlers who have arrived at the age of 70:
Isaac Unruc
80 | Mrs. Hannah Cripe
74 | Michael Yoder
73
Johnson Quinn
73 Mrs. J. W. Violett
71 |B. G. Williams
70
Samucl McDowell
74 Mrs. Azel Sparlin
72 |Rev. Jacob Studebaker
Samuel Rutherford 72 Mrs. Henderer
73 Wm. Wilkinson
Anna Quinn
72 Mrs. Eliz. Carpenter
73 P. W. Roler
77
Elias Purl
70
Mrs. Mary Mercer
73
Geo. Walters
74
I. Sneider
75
Mrs. J. H. Barns
70
M. Rippey
76
J. L. Powell
78 Mrs. Wolfgang
73
W. C. Hendricks
77
Jas. McNutt
71 Mrs. B. G. Williams 70
J. McKihbin
75
Amasa Hascall
85
Mrs. Ann Griffin
71
R. Stroup
74
Thomas Thomas
83
Peter Tetters
73
D. L. Hixon
73
C. P. Jacobs
72 Harvey Venamon
74
J. McCloud
70
Robert Mccrary
73 Samuel Stuttsman
70
J. Vanfrank
71
I. D. Knox
72 Mrs. Rox. Stillman
75
Mrs. Eliza Stutsman
82
Sol. Yeoman
71 Robert Brown
73
Mrs. Conrad Smith
86
Wm. Waugh
72 Dr. Mallet
71 |Mrs. Kelson
71
Leander Sherwin
78 James Beck
73 Mrs. Stotts
74
D. Peppinger
72 Mrs. Kellogg
73 Geo. Culp
71
Wm. Strombeck
70 James Burke
73
Davenport
70
Mrs. Dr. Beardsley
73 Sam. Wolfgang
77 Mrs. Shuey
76
Wm. Vesey
70
1832
0.
Venamon, Harvey. . .. 75
1834
Ky.
Stiver, John.
John H. .50
1829
Ind.
Smith, Con
.49
1838 N. Y.
Mrs
1832
Ind.
Stroup, J. . .50
1836 Mich.
Weddell, J. E. .49
1831
Pa.
Stauffer, Margaret.
. .-
Yeoman, Mrs. S. P ... 59
1837
0.
85
76
Immigr't'n. Naliv'y
IN Allen
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HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY.
In the pages of this work will doubtless be mentioned the names of old settlers not given hitlerto, and thus a full roster of the pio- neers will be retained.
A RETROSPECT.
What a change has come over the land since they first saw it! A modern thinker has said that the metamorphosis from the sickle and the cradle to the modern harvester is not more wonderful than the changes which have been wrought in other branches of industry by the application of science; and he who brings up sad reminiscences of a hard day's work and a lumbago, caused by the swinging of his cradle or scythe, smiles at that semi-barbarous period that could neith- er produce a harvester nor a mower. To-day he mounts into the seat of the harvester as he would into his phaeton, and with the assur- ance that no matter what the condition of the grain, whether tang- led, lodged or leaning, he masters a quarter section of wheat field more thoroughly, more economically, more perfectly, than he could have managed a five-acre field a quarter century since. The change is material certainly. They realize it, but they look back to the never- to-be-forgotten past, when contentment waited on the work of the old cradle, plow and spade, and when the primitiveness of the implements of industry made all primitively happy. Then content- ment reigned supreme, and continued so to do, until knowledge created ambitions, and these ambitions brought with them in their train their proverbial and numerous little troubles.
The change has been revolutionizing indeed. Then political meet- ings were called by messages passed from mouth to mouth, from neighbor to neighbor; now the columns of the newspapers, large posters, and a big drum with numerous shrill fifes call the electors to assemble. These bands are creatures of campaign excitement; they are called out during State and National elections, and discourse a peculiarly discordant music from early morning until the close of the first part of night. "The Girl I Left Behind Me" with " Yankee Doodle," and " Auld Lang Syne " with Pandeen O'Rafferty sum- mon up their musical repertoire, so that suchi tunes have become unmistakable evidences of the progress of election matters; and the more boisterous their rude musicians, the higher is the interest taken in the proceedings. On very special occasions the services of the silver cornet band are requisitioned; sometimes a concert party accompanies the orator in his round of the townships of the county, and in such cases a political meeting is a thing of beauty;
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HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY.
but let us hope that the time is approaching when political life will cease to require the aid of such terribly hideous noise as that which the precocious youth of our towns and villages render. Why, it does not come near the " tum-tum " of the red men in harmony, and it certainly exceeds that musical accompaniment of the "dog feast " in the variety and earnestness of its deafening noise.
A HISTORY IN BRIEF.
At a meeting of the old settlers of Elkhart county, held at Goshen on Wednesday, Feb. 24, 1858, the Hon. Joseph H. Defrees addressed his assembled friends. Every line of this great remem- brancer of the past is so replete with interest and historical truths that its . introduction in these pages cannot be otherwise than acceptable since it is at once the summary of Elkhart's history related by one of Elkhart's patriotie and oldest living children. He said:
"The occasion which had called them together was a peculiar one, one caleulated to excite the emotions and call np the remi- niscenees of the past, which have lain dormant in the mind for many years. It was one also that did not require a great effort ot oratory or any display of forensic power; but rather a sketch of the occurrences of the past, seenes with which most of his audience were familiar. He saw assembled that day, a few of those hardy pioneers, who, in the morning of their manhood, gathered up their all, and with their axes on their shoulders, pushed out npon the uninhabited wilderness of the West, and took up their abode in this beantiful country of ours. The first settlement of the St. Joseph country, of which this is a part, was commenced about 1828, a less period than 30 years ago, in the vicinity of Niles and South Bend. Emigrants were attracted to these points from the fact that some years before this the Baptist denomination, I believe, had established a mission post on the Portage Prairie near these places for the purpose of eivilizing and Christianizing the Indians, who at that day inhabited all this region of country.
" EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION.
"Yet, the great flood of emigration did not commence its out- pourings into the country until the years 1830-'31. Perhaps no country filled np more rapidly with inhabitants than did this, considering the means of migration, there being at that time no railroad, with its lightning speed, penetrating the far West from
369
HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY.
the Eastern or Middle States, the most common means used by the pioneer being that of the slow but faithful ox, to bear him and his family to the land of promise.
"ORGANIZATION.
" In the winter of 1829 and 1830 an act passed the Legislature organizing the counties of St. Joseph and Elkhart, to which was attached for county purposes all the territory that now comprises the counties of Lake, Porter, La Porte, Lagrange, Steuben and Kosciusko. In July, 1830, an election was held for the purpose of choosing a county clerk, sheriff, two associate judges, recorder and three justices of the peace. Thomas Thomas was elected Clerk; Eli Penwell, Sheriff; William Latta and Peter Diddy, Asso- ciate Judges; J. W. Violett, Recorder; James Mather, Jolın Jack- son and Armenius Penwell, Justices of the Peace; as will appear by the following returns of the election:
ASSOCIATE JUDGES.
RECORDER.
William Latta
63 votes
John W. Violett
35 votes
Peter Diddy
51
James Morgan. 16
Benjamin Gilbreath. 27
Scattering .
2 46
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.
James Mather. 59 votes
CLERK.
A. C. Penwell 58
Thomas Thomas
57 votes
John Jackson 60
Thomas Morgan
18
James Fria
9
Scattering 3
Thomas Thomas.
21
" It will be observed that the whole vote polled at this election in the entire county, including the territory attached, out of which several counties have since been formed, was the number of 75. And it is to be presumed that the entire legal vote was cast, there being a number of aspirants to places of honor and profit, whose respective friends, no doubt, were active in their behalf. At that time the county business was transacted by the Board of Justices, instead of commissioners as is the law now. The place fixed by the Legislature at which courts were to be held, as well as the county business transacted, was at the house of Chester Sage, on the south side of the St. Joseph river, near where the late Dr. Beardsley's residence now stands. On the 28th day of June, 1830, the above named justices met at the place appointed by law, and were sworn in office by the clerk, and proceeded to the transaction of business. The first official act was to divide the county into two municipal townships as follows: 'All that part of the county north- west of a line beginning at the western part of the county, between
370
HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY.
townships 36 and 37, and running thence east to the line between seetions 6 and 7, thence north to the State line, to be called Con- cord township; and all that part of the county south and east of said lines above, to be called Elkhart township.' At the same session of the Board, James Friar was appointed County Treasurer, and James Beck, Constable for Elkhart township, and Azel Spark- lin, Inspector of Elections. The Sheriff was appointed County Collector.
" Thus, the county having been fully organized, and all the necessary officers chosen to put the wheels of government in full operation, another question of importance, and one that occasioned considerable excitement, was still to be settled,-that of the
" LOCATION OF THE COUNTY SEAT.
" The Legislature in 1829 and 1830 appointed the following per- sons as commissioners to locate and establish the seat of justice for Elkhart county, viz :- Hugh Hannah, John Bishop, Samuel Fleming, Joseph Bennett and W. G. Ewing. The commissioner proceeded to discharge the duties assigned to them, and on the 15th July, 1830, at a special session of the Board of Justices, they reported that they had selected the southwest quarter of section 24, town 34 north, of range 8 east, upon which to locate the county seat. This location is five or six miles northwest of Goshen, on the north side of the Elkhart river, a short distance above where Mr. DeCamp's mill-dam was afterward constructed. At this time the most populous part of the county was in Concord township, the first settlement having been made on Pleasant and Two-Mile Plains, which fact, no doubt, influenced the commissioners in their selection. But in this instance, as in almost all cases of a similar character, the location did not give general satisfaction, as will be seen before we close this sketch.
" That some idea may be had of the population and wealth of the connty in 1830, I will state that the whole amount of revenne collected was $198, and the whole disbursement was $183.43, leav- ing a balance in the treasury of $14.57. The Board of Justices paid for taking the census of the whole county the full sum of $4.50. The county clerk's bill for postage and stationery, the first half year after the organization of the county, was $1.87.
" It will be observed that even if the treasury was not plethoric, our county fathers so managed the finances that a surplus was left on hand at the end of the year. It may be a lesson might be
371
HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY.
learned from this exhibit by those who have now or may hereafter have control of the fiscal concerns of the county. In the fall of this year the first county court was held at the house of Mr. Sage, by the Associate Judges, Peter Diddy and William Latta. The action of the court was wholly confined to a few appeal cases from justice's dockets and recognizances to keep the peace. It was in this year also, that
" THE FIRST GRIST-MILL
was commenced in this vicinity, if not in the county, by John Carpenter, Sr., on the south bank of Rock run, near where the present lower bridge crosses that stream; and notwithstanding that the burrs that were used in this mill were of native growth, they cracked corn pretty lively, and ground wheat as fast as a boy could bolt the flour, by doing 'circular work' at the end of a large wheel on the shaft of the bolt. This mill was of great convenience to the whole neighborhood and county, for prior to this time what few grists there were to be ground had to be carried to Mr. Lacy's mill, on the Dowagiac, a short distance below Niles. Most of the provisions, however, of that early day, both of flour and meat, were brought from Detroit by way of Lake Michigan and the St. Joseplı river.
" RE-LOCATION OF COUNTY SEAT.
" In the winter of 1830-'31 the Legislature passed an act author- izing a review for the location of the county scat of Elkhart county. According to said act, David Miller, Anthony E. Davis and L. G. Thompson proceeded, March 21, 1831, to examine the different sites proposed on which to locate the seat of justice, together with the point which the former commissioners appointed for that purpose had selected for its location. After due examination and reflection they vacated the former location and selected the ground upon which Goshen now stands as the most suitable point, taking into consideration its central position and the fact that the land yet belonged to the general Government. By an act of Congress in 1824, new connties had the privilege of pre-empting 160 acres of land upon which to locate county towns, could such suitable land be found unoccupied. Accordingly on the 23d of March, 1831, these commissioners reported the action they had taken in the premises to the Board of Justices, who had called an extra session of court for this purpose.
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372
HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY.
" PLATTING GOSHIEN.
"At a special meeting of the Board of Justices held in June, 1831, the land having been secured, they ordered Oliver Crane, whom they had previously appointed county agent, to proceed, as soon as convenient, to lay off said land into lots, and to advertise them for sale on the 20th of July, ensuing. Accordingly Mr. Geo. Crawford was employed as surveyor to do this work, and the sale was made on the day appointed.
" THE BOARD OF JUSTICES ABOLISHED,
"The Legislature at the session of 1830-'31, changed the mode and law of doing county business from a Board of Justices to that of county commissioners. The county was divided into three districts, and Edward Downing, Geo. McCullom and John Jackson were elected the first County Commissioners and held their first session at the house of Thomas Thomas on Two-Mile Plain, in September. At this session the county agent made his report of the number of lots sold at the sale, together with such as had been subsequently disposed of. The whole number sold was 44, which brought the aggregate sum of $2,607.75, being an average of a fraction over $48 a piece. In this sale were included many of the best lots in the village.
" FIRST SETTLERS AT GOSHEN.
" Soon after the sale of lots several log houses were erected in town, the first of which was built, I believe, by Mr. William Bis- sel upon the southeast corner of Sixth and Washington streets immediately south of the present residence of Peter Tetters. Wil- liam Waugh and his family were the first persons that settled on the town plat. John H. Violett was, I understand, the first child born in Elkhart township that is now living,-his age being 28 years and three months.
"THE FIRST CIRCUIT COURT
held in Goshen was held in the fall of 1831, in a log house owned by Mr. Duzenbury, which stood on the lot now occupied by Mr. A. B. Grubb as a saddler shop. This building was about 12x15 feet, and when the court was in full session, the judges at one end of the building and the jury at the other, it is said that the members
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HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY.
of the Bar while addressing the jury, if they desired to make a law point to the court, had to go out of the house in order to turn round and re-enter facing the judges, and vice versa.
" The sixth judicial cirenit, in which this county was placed, extended as far south as Wayne county. The Hon. Charles Test was the first president judge that held a court in this county. Charley, as he is familiarly called by his friends, has filled since that day many honorable positions, having served in the Congress of the United States and frequently represented his district in both branches of the Legislature. A few years ago he was Secretary of State, and in every position that he has been placed, has discharged his duty with marked ability. He is now president judge of the Lafayette Circuit Court.
" In looking over the names of those who composed the first grand and petit juries, I find but one man that is still among us, and that is our old friend Matthew Boyd, whose absence I regret very much to-day. The first indictment found and tried in court was against a person for selling one pound of coffee without license, against the law in such cases made and provided. Members of the Bar at that time, as near as I can ascertain, were Henry Cooper, D. Colerick, Gustavus A. Everts, G. W. Ewing and John B. New- man. In the fall of 1831 J. D. Defrees and your humble speaker established a printing-press in the village of South Bend, a town that had been laid off but a few months previous by Messrs. Hahn and Taylor and A. Coquillard, in St. Joseph county. From this press we issued a sheet called the
"NORTHWESTERN PIONEER,
a name indicative of the fact that it was the first and only paper issned northwest of Piqua, Ohio, north of Indianapolis or west of Detroit. At this day an enterprise of this character would seem foolish; for the 'red man of the woods' outnumbered the ‘ pale- faces' almost two to one. But being full of ardor, and having selected St. Joseph county for our future home, we labored assid- uously to bring it into notoriety,-and you must pardon me for saying that I believe this one circumstance did more to cause immi- gration to flow in upon us than anything else save the beauty of the country.
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HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY.
" THE BASHFUL MAN CRAVING FAME.
"In this connection I must relate an anecdote. A short time after we got the press in operation, about midwinter, a young man, apparently about the age of 19 or 20 years, came into the office and remarked that after a while he wanted to get a piece in the news, and would pay for it in maple sugar. Inquiry was made of him about the character of the article which he wished published. After considerable hesitancy and confusion, he said that he intended soon to get married, and wanted when it took place, to have it printed in the paper. Quizzing the young man awhile, and finding out that he and his intended blue-eyed companion lived on Elkhart 'Prairie, we told him we made no charge for publishing news of that character,-and in due time the notice was sent us. That young man, notwithstanding that he seemed to be a little ' verdant' in reference to the rules of printers, made one of the best citizens that lived on that beautiful prairie. He has gone to his long home; his widow is still among us.
" THE SAC WAR.
" In the spring of 1832 what is commonly called the 'Sac War ' took place. The inhabitants of the whole country were alarmed; in imagination the tomahawk and scalping knife gleamed before us, red with gore; sconting parties were sent out in every direction; people left their farms and homes; some went back to the ‘ settle- ments' and others congregated at Niles, South Bend and Goshen, these being the principal villages in the country. Forts were erected. Fort Beane, as it was called, in honor of Captain Henry Beane, stood out prominent to view on Elkhart Prairie, on the land of Oliver Crane, for some time after the war. Colonel Jackson was dispatched to Indianapolis to solicit aid from the Government, and the citizens generally manifested a courage and bravery worthy of their sires. A few weeks, however, dissipated all of our fears; it was soon ascertained that no hostile Indians had been nearer than 100 miles west of the then village of Chicago. This whole circumstance that Black Hawk with a por- tion of his tribe and a few of the Fox Indians were in the habit annnally of passing around the southern bend of Lake Michigan on their way to Malden, in Canada, where presents were distributed to them by the British government; and upon their trip this
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HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY.
spring they had some difficulty with a few pioneers in the territory that now comprises the State of Iowa, the Indians having made their reprisals on the provisions of the settlers. Their march north, however, was soon checked by a few volunteers sent out by the government of Illinois. Notwithstanding, the North- Western Pio- neer was sending ont its weekly issue to the people in the country, and advising them not to be alarmed,-and to those who contem- plated removing here not to stay back or direct their steps else- where ; still the 'Sac War' retarded, to a great degree, the improvement of and immigration into the country that year. In this year (1832) the authorities determined upon building a
" COURT HOUSE.
" The making and laying of the brick were contracted to Henry Davis, the carpenter work to Jacob Studebaker. This was the first court-house built in Northern Indiana. The first court was held in the spring of 1833, Gustavus A. Everts, president judge. The house was not fully completed, however, until the fall of that year. In the fall of 1832 the first meeting-house (Methodist) was built in Goshen, on the lot now occupied by Peter Peter: ssize 40 feet square. You must not suppose from this that the word of God was not dispensed among us at an earlier day; for it is a common saying that the first thing you discover on immigrating to a new country is a ' Methodist preacher and dog fennel;' why it is that they should be coupled together I know not, unless they are re- garded as the first evidences of civilization. The Ohio Methodist Conference had this country attached to her for religious purposes, and as early as 1829 and 1830 they sent out two men to labor in this part of the vineyard. In the fall of 1834 the Indiana Confer- ence sent Mr. Griffith to preach here every four weeks, and the first sermon was delivered in the bar-room of Mr. Geo. McCullom's tavern, standing on the lot now occupied by Messrs. Marsh & Kin- dig. Dr. I. Latta's office, a small frame building, was frequently used as a place of worship. This meeting-honse was also used as a school-house for many years.
" NAVIGATION OF THE ELKHART RIVER.
" In 1831 the Legislature passed an act granting Jacob Stude- baker the privilege of damming the Elkhart river at or near Goshen, which was the first mill-dam thrown across the stream. The river
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HISTORY OF ELKHART COUNTY.
having been declared navigable by the United States anthorities, the Legislature required Mr. Studebaker to construct a suitable lock in his dam for the purpose of passing and repassing boats. It was supposed at an early day that the river would be extensively used as a means of carrying off the productions of the country, and importing into it such necessaries as the wants of the people de- manded. In the spring of this year, 1831, I think it was,
"A MAIL ROUTE WAS ESTABLISHED
between Fort Wayne and Niles, the mail to be carried over it once in four weeks. In the fall of the same year, the Postoffice Depart- ment increased the speed from once in four weeks to that of once in two weeks; many of you, no doubt, well remember how elated you felt, when you heard the sound of the old tin horn, blown by ' Old Hall' as he came wending his way through the grove east of the village, with his 'tantrum ' sorrels, himself astride of one, and the mail bags, containing news from the . settlements,' on the other, with a ' string' fastened to the bits of the leader in order to guide him in the right path. That old horn, with its music. discoursed sweeter strains to its hearers than did ever Hall and Arnold's in their palmiest days.
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