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In 1823, Augustine Passmore, tavern-keeper, and other tavern-keep- ers throughout the county, were required to conform to the following charges: Dinner, 25 cents; breakfast, 20 cents; supper, 20 cents; horse to corn and hay, 25 cents; whisky, one-half pint, 12} cents; cider, per quart, 12} cents; whisky, per gill, 62 cents; good rum, one-half pint, 37} cents; good French brandy, one-half pint, 50 cents; boarding by the week, with lodging, $2; horse keeping by the week, $1.25; same by the day, 37} cents. William Lemmons, Constable, in February, 1823, was paid $8 for arresting and keeping in custody for several days a fugitive slave. Augustine Passmore was hired to finish the court house -- to put a lock on the door, complete the windows, etc. The want of good water at Burlington was a great annoyance, and continued to be so as time passed and the costly public well failed to give satisfactory returns. This proved a serious objection to the continuation of the county seat at Burlington, and talk was indulged in for a re-location. Other matters arose also quite serious, until at length the Representatives in the State Legislature were petitioned to secure the passage of an act to re-locate the seat of justice. Accordingly, late in 1823, the following act was passed by the General Assembly:
RE. LOCATION OF THE COUNTY SEAT.
AN ACT FOR THE RE-LOCATION OF THE SEAT OF JUSTICE OF GREENE COUNTY:'
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of 3
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Indiana, That George W. Demies, of Vigo County: John Allen, Sr., of Daviess County; John Johnson, Sr., of Owen County; Henry Ruble, of Knox County; and Andrew Berry, of Knox County, be and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to re-locate the seat of justice of the County of Greene, agreeably to an act entitled " An act fixing the seat of justice in all new counties hereafter laid off." The Commissioners above named shall convene at the town of Burlington, in said county, on the second Monday of February next, and shall immediately proceed to discharge the duties assigned them by law. And it is hereby made the duty of the Sheriff of the said County of Greene to notify the said Commissioners by a written notification of their appointment, on or be- fore the first Monday of February next, and he shall receive for said serv- ices such compensation as the County Commissioners of said connty shall deem just and reasonable, to be allowed by them out of any moneys in their county treasury, in the same manner that other claims are allowed.
SEC. 2. That the Circuit and all other courts of said county of Greene shall meet and be holden at the town of Burlington as aforesaid, until suitable accommodations can be had at the seat of justice, to be ee- tablished by virtue of this act, at which time the courts being satisfied thereof, they shall adjourn to meet, and shall continue to hold their ses- sions at the seat of justice last aforesaid; provided, however, that the said court shall have authority to remove said court from the said town of Burlington to any other place in said county, previous to suitable ao- commodations being prepared at the county seat, to be established as directed by this act if the said court shall deem it proper. This act to take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Approved December 17, 1823.
In accordance with this act, the re-locating Commissioners convened at Burlington early in February, 1824, to consider the applications for the new county seat. Fairplay, a thriving little town on the west bank of the river, near Burlington, seemed at first the most eligible point that could be selected. The location was good and the water was good, but the proprietors of that town and the residents thereof, feeling sure of securing the prize, tendered but few donations, and they of not much value. On the contrary, Peter C. Vanslyke, who owned the land in and around the present Bloomfield, agreed to donate sixty-two acres in one body, besides, if the writer is correctly informed, one or more other small tracts in the county. This was the best offer, and was accepted by the locating Commissioners, much to the disappointment of Fairplay. On the 27th of February, the County Board gathered at Bloomfield, the new county seat, and directed the Town Agent to lay off the donation into lots, according to a plan prepared, and to insert the following advertise- ment of the sale of lots in the Indianapolis Gazette and the Indiana Farmer, of Salem.
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BLOOMFIELD.
The new seat of justice of the county of Greene will be sold on the . 22d day of April next, on the premises. The terms of sale will be one- tenth of the purchase money in hand, and the residue in five equal semi- annual installments, town orders to be taken in payment, except the one- tenth part thereof. This town is beautifully situated on the east side of the West Fork of White River, on a rich, dry soil, plentifully watered by good springs, possessing as many natural advantages as any other new town perhaps on this river, surrounded with a very flourishing settlement 'contiguous to mills and mill seats. The attention of merchants, mechan- ics and manufacturers will be particularly excited by the extent of sur. rounding country, the convenience of water works, and healthfulness of situation. From the superior natural advantages possessed by the town, and its electricity to the center of the county, it is elevated above the fear of future re-locations. EPHRAIM OWEN, SR.,
February 28, 1824. Agent for Bloomfield.
Is not that a brilliant description. The extent of surrounding coun- try to excite the attention of mechanics, etc. ! and the electricity of the town to the center of the county to elevate it above the fear of future re- locations! Mrs. Partington probably took her vocabulary from the writer of this advertisement, yet in her happiest moods and palmiest days has never surpassed the above description.
The locating Commissioners transferred their claims for duties under the legislative enactment to Peter C. Vanslyke, as assignee, who was paid $75, in full for such claims. The details of the sales of lots in Bloomfield will be found in the history of that town. The Town Agent. was ordered to proceed immediately to the erection of a hewed-log court house on the public square in the new county seat. At the September term, the County Board met for the first time at the court house in Bloom- field.
In November, 1824. the County Treasurer reported the receipts and expenditures of the county in full from the organization to that time, 88 follows:
RECEIPTS UNDER JOHN OWEN, TREASURER.
March 27, 1822, O. T. Barker, J. P. $0 75
May 7, 1822, Thomas Bradford, Collector. 38 30
May 14, 1822, P. Ingersoll, J. P. 1 00
May 15, 1822. Thomas Bradford, Collector 37 00
May 28, 1822, Abel Burlingame, J. P.
1 00
August 22, 1822, John Breece, J. P.
25
August 14, 1822, James Warnick, Circuit Court Clerk. 1 50
November 26, 1822, John Seaman, Collector. 188 124
April 7, 1823, John Seaman, Collector. 41 87}
May 10, 1823, Thomas Bradford, Collector 83 09
May 12, 1823, John Seaman, Collector. 16 50
May 12, 1828, P. Ingersoll, J. P. 2 00
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May 12, 1823, Thomas Warnick. 8 00
May 12, 1823, Thomas Bradford, Collector. 24 51
May 13, 1823, Augustine Passmore, tavern license. 10 00
January 5, 1824, John Seaman, Collector
276 774
RECEIPTS UNDER H. B. DEAN, TREASURER.
March 23, 1824, John Seaman, Collector. $80 50
May 3. 1824, John Gardner, J. P. 1 00
May 11, 1824, Ephraim Owen, Town Agent. 126 934
September 18, 1824, Ephraim Owen, Town Agent. 127 67}
November 21, 1824, Ephraim Owen, Town Agent. 58 25
Total receipts
$1,120.98₺
EXPENSES UNDER JOHN OWEN, TREASURER.
May 14, 1822, County Commissioners. $38 50
May 12, 1828, County Commissioners. 890 85
EXPENSES UNDER H. B. DEAN, TREASURER.
August 9, 1824, County Commissioners $10 00
August 10, 1824, County Commissioners. 276 772
County Collector's commission. 81 48
August 9, 1824, County Collector's commission 80 50
August 9, 1824, County Collector's commission
126 934
Total expenses. $944 99}
The above is only the cash account. In reality, the county was con- siderably in debt, owing to its " orders," which were outstanding. The Collector of 1821, Thomas Bradford, was charged on the duplicate with $288.12}. John Seaman, Collector of 1823, was charged with $387.12}. John W. Wines, Collector of 1824, was charged with $355.984. The ex- penses of the town of Burlington were:
Builders of court house. $250 00
Clearing the square.
47 00
Clearing of a lot 12 75
Tables, benches, etc. 85 00
James Galletly, Surveyor 66 124
Assistants laying out lots. 40 87}
State Commissioners.
48 00
Total. $499 75
When the records were transferred from Burlington to Bloomfield. Benjamin Turley hauled them over, receiving $2 for the trip. A stray pen was ordered built on the square. A part of the donation to the county, in consideration of having the county seat located at Bloomfield, was an agreement to furnish on the ground, free of charge, the logs for a county jail. In May, 1825, these logs were called for. It seems from several items in the records that Hansford Stalcup, Nancy Gillam, and perhaps others, besides P. C. Vanslyke, made donations to the county at the time the county seat was located at Bloomfield. John Hill finished
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the court house by chinking, daubing and whitewashing, and was paid $10. He also built the stray pen, and Augustine Pasamore was the first pound keeper. In September, 1824, the County Justices took the place of the County Commissioners. By this time, the county was in full run- ning order, though deep in debt.
NOTEWORTHY ACTS OF THE COUNTY BOARD.
The old public spring south of the square in Bloomfield was a cost- Jy institution. It was first walled up in good shape by Richard Mont- gomery for $180, and afterward was constantly breaking and requiring additional outlays of money. The jail was completed in November, 1826. In 1829, the citizens of Bloomfield petitioned the board to have a public well dng on the square, and donated $40 toward defraying the expense. In 1832, John A. Pegg was paid $4. 75 for making ten ballot boxes for the townships of the county. Early in the thirties, the county. began to see better times. Money became plentier and easier, and out- standing orders were redeemed. In 1832, John Miller & Co. were. licensed to exhibit a caravan of animals in the county. In 1834, it was "Ordered, that the County Agent, W. D. Lester, cause the underpinning of the 'court house to be repaired so as to prevent the hogs from disturb- ing the court or any other public business that may be transacted in the court house." Lark B. Jones was elected a student to attend the State University at Bloomington as the representative of the county in Septem. ber, 1834. A heavy bounty was offered for wolf scalps, and a heavy li- cense was exacted from merchants, ferrymen, saloonmen. Sales, public and private, of town lots took place at stated periods. In November, 1835, it was decided to build a new court house. Estimates and plans were made and closely scrutinized, and the cost was finally fixed at $5,157. All the resources of the county were counted up to meet the, ex- pense. Certain donated land on the river southwest of Bloomfield was ordered laid out into lots and sold at the best price possible. This was done, and the town of Vanbayou sprang into life-on paper. The court. house was completed within the next few years, though bonds had to be- issued for about $2,000 at 12 per cent.interest to secure the necessary funds. The bonds were bought by the branch of the State bank at Bed- ford. The house cost over $6,000.
In May, 1837, there were 740 polls in the county; 43,745 acres of land, and total taxables valued at $425,014. The total levy of county tax was $2,535.312, and State tax $1,007.53. During the decade of the thir- ties, the following men were appointed Superintendents to expend, of the three per cent fund on certain bridges and roads in the county, the amounts following their names: Levi Fellows, $550; Jesse Stafford, $150; Elias Crance, $100; James Dixon, $200; Caleb Jessup, $100; Jesse Rainbolt, $200; John Inman, $50; James H. Hicks, $500; total,
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$1,950. Roads were projected and built in all directions during this pe- riod, and large sums of the county funds were expended to pay the mul- titude of laborers. In 1839, the county polls numbered 1,021; the poll tax was $510.50; number of acres, 50,364.15; value $280,453; value of town lots $21,382; corporation stock, $1,912; value of all taxables, $542, - 160; total county tax, $2, 739.14; State tax, $2, 136.90. In March, 1840, there was yet owing Mr. Downing, court house contractor, $1,727 at 10 per cent interest.
OTHER IMPORTANT PROCEEDINGS.
In 1843, the citizens of Point Commerce and vicinity, at the head of whom were the Allisons, petitioned the County Board to construct a bridge across Eel River at that town, the estimated cost being $736.55. This the board agreed to do, provided the citizens would subscribe and donate all except $200 of the estimated cost. The bridge, with some im- portant alterations of the original plan, was built. In 1845, a majority of the citizens of Richland Township, remonstrated with the board against the granting of grocery (liquor) licenses within the township limits, and an order to that effect was entered upon record, though no attention seems to have been paid to the order, as licenses continued to be issued. It was then found, as it has since been often found, that King Alcohol had an unfailing hold on the appetites of men. Among the students from Greene County, sent to the State University about this time, were: Aden G. Cavins, Alexander M. Cole, Samuel B. Sexson, John B. Sexson. The county tax of the company of men who left the county under Capt. Rousseau in 1846, was remitted, the amount being $68.98. The lower rooms in the court house, except the one occupied by the combined Clerk, Recorder and Anditor were leased, to lawyers, doc- tors, etc., from time to time, and the northwest room was used for the. coun ty library. Early in the decade of fifties, the old jail was sold for $10.75, and a new one was to be built. John D. Alexander, Henry Sar- gent, Napoleon J. Rainbolt, T. P. East and Jacob Wesner were students during the fifties to the State University. The jail was built by Andrew Downing in 1859-60, and cost over $9,000. In 1857, the county bought, at auction for $51, the iron safe of the Northwestern Bank for the County Tre asurer's office.
LOGAN, WHITE RIVER AND GUILFORD COUNTIES.
In 1860, the project to create a new county out of the counties of Knox, Greene and Daviess was put on foot. The new county was to be called " Logan." The petition presented to the county board, praying th at three Commissioners might be appointed to confer with Commis- sioners of the other counties to be cut down, was signed by 191 citizens living in the tract of country proposed to be comprised in the new coun- ty of Logan. After carefully considering the question, the County
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Board refused to comply with the prayer of the petitioners, whereupon the final settlement was appealed to the Circuit Court. The question hung in the courts for a year or two and was finally abandoned on ac- count of the excitement of the war. Before the question was finally dis- posed of, the limits of the new county as well as the name were changed. A portion of Sullivan County as well as of Knoz, Daviess and Greene, was to be included, and the name was to be White River County. About the same time, another project comprised the creation of a new county to be called Guilford, out of the northeastern portion of Greene County and portions of Monroe and Lawrence Counties; 550 names were signed to the petition asking for the appointment of the necessary Com- missioners as provided in the statute. This petition was dismissed by the County Board, owing to the pendency in the courts at the time of the. applications for the appointment of Commissioners to establish the new counties of Logan and White River. The interest in the questions growing out of the war settled these questions. Had it not been for the war, it is possible that the limits and extent of Greene County might be different from what they are now.
CHAPTER IV.
EARLY LAND ENTRIES-THE COUNTY LIBRARY-TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES- CATALOGUE OF BOOKS-THE MCCLURE LIBRARY-THE COUNTY SEMI- NARY-ITS FIELD OF USEFULNESS-POPULATION BY DECADES-VARIOUS ITEMS OF INTEREST-THE COUNTY PAUPERS-THE ASYLUM-TOWNSHIP BOUNDARY ALTERATIONS THE COUNTY MEDICAL SOCIETY-ITS RE- ORGANIZATION-RAILROADS-STATISTICS.
TN the year 1816, entries were made by David Lindley, Jonathan Lindley, John Johnson, John Hawkins, Ephraim Owen, Samuel Owen, Benjamin Owen, William Hawkins, Joseph Hollingsworth, Solomon Dixson, Joshua Hadley, Joseph Richardson, John Neldon, John Storms, Isaac Storms, Scott Riggs, John Haddon, Peter C. Vanslyke, Thomas Bradford and a few others. In 1817, the following entries were made: John Sanders, George Griffith, Jonathan Osborn, Benjamin Shoemaker, John G. Gray, James Smith, Thomas Plummer, Abel Burlingame, Joseph Dixson, Charles Scanland, William Carter, Seth Fields, Samuel Fields, Samuel Perry and Thomas Bradford, Jr. In 1818, entries were made by Alexander Watson, Joseph Shelton, Eli Dixson, George Shryer, Julius Dugger, Mark Dugger, Joseph Ingersoll, William Barker, Elijah and George Chinn, David Richey, Abe Westfall, John Slinkard, Jesse Staf- ford, Mathias Killian, Mordecai Mckinney, John Hinkle, Abraham Gar-
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ret, Isaac Hubbell, E. W. Welton, John Van Voorst, William Lemon, William Harrell, Edmund Gillam, Thomas Buskirk, John Bradford, William Robinson, R. S. Underwood, James Warnick, William Scott, Samuel C. Hall, George Lashley, Gordon Phelps, Jacob Scudder and Williams Adams. In 1819, entries were made by John Arthur, Thomas Barker, Peter R. Lester, Christian Bruner, John O'Neall, O. T. Barker, Benjamin Stafford, Garrison Evans, David Wesner, William Dillinger, Zachariah Dunn, Simeon Hagamon, Peter Hays, Andrew Vanslyke and Martin Wines. In 1820, by William Bynum, Robert Anderson, William Haneson, Joseph Dillinger, Daniel Rawlins and John Gardner. In 1821, by Henry Arney, John Craig, Jesse Elgan, John Elgan, Samuel Hughen, Simon Caress, John Breece, Joseph Kirkpatrick, Oliver Cush- man, John McDonald, Zebulon Jenkins, George Milam and John Mason.
THE COUNTY LIBRARY.
The act creating the county provided that ten per centum of the pro- ceeds of the sale of town lots at the county seat should be reserved for the purpose of founding and maintaining a county library. The first Trust. ees who entered upon the discharge of their duties quite early in the twenties, and remained in' office until 1830, were Thomas Bradford, James Warnick, Thomas Plummer, Ruel Learned, Jonathan Lindley, Norman W. Pierce and William Freeland, the latter serving as President. In 1830, they were succeeded by Levi Fellows, Peter Hill, Moses Ritter, Peter C. Vanslyke, John Van Voorst, John Inman, James Boyd and James Patterson, the latter being Treasurer. Late in the thirties, Elisha P. Cushman, William M. Norris, John Jones, John C. Brown and John Townsend also served as Trustees. In November, 1824, the total pro- ceeds of the sale of town lots, money, notes, etc., were $1, 262. 12}. After the expenses were deducted, there was left about $1,200, of which ten per centum, or $120, belonged to the county library. Only about ten per cent of this was cash. Two or three sales of lots took place each year, and the notes that had been given were slowly paid. It is probable that the first purchase of books for the library was made late in the twenties. After that, as fast as $50 or $60 was received, it was invested in books, until, in 1840, as nearly as can be learned, about $250 had been thus used.
Soon after the new court house was finished, the library was removed from the house of the librarian to what is now the Treasurer's office, where it remained many years. Rules for the government of the books were adopted. Any citizen of the county, by complying with the rules, could take a volume to his home for perusal. The old county library was an excellent institution in its day. It must be remembered that In- diana was new then, and the country people were generally too poor to buy other books than the Bible. But the great difference between then
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and now was the almost total absence of newspapers. The press of to- day is better than any library. All read newspapers. Then not one home in ten took regularly a newspaper. Then the newspapers of that day were nothing as they are at present, either in circulation, scope or usefulness. They contained dry dissertations on morals and on govern- mental affairs that possessed scarcely no interest to the uncultured peo- ple of the backwoods, who had all they could do, and often more, to make a comfortable living. The county library in a measure, supplied these wants, as all the standard authors of history, biography, travel, fiction, poetry and general miscellany were found represented upon the shelves. But the county library, which never exceeded a few hundred volumes, was not sufficient to meet the wants of the people during the decade of the fifties, as the population had become too great and too intelligent. The causes which brought into existence the common school s stem also de- manded greater and quicker facilities for the diffusion of general knowl- edge. This demand terminated in the foundation of the township library
TOWNSHIP LIBRARIES.
These libraries were furnished by the State from a fund derived from the sale of certain school lands. Counties containing a population of over 15,000 were given ten libraries of 325 volumes each. Counties with a population less than 15,000 and greater than 10,000, were given eight, and counties with less than 10,000, siz. Greene County was to receive eight libraries, and was divided into the following eight districts: No. 1, Richland Township; No. 2, Cass and Taylor; No. 3, Jackson and Cen- ter; No.4, Beech Creek and Highland; No. 5, Jefferson and Eel River; No. 6, Smith and Wright; No. 7, Stockton and Fairplay (including Grant); No. 8, Stafford and Washington. Each district was to receive one library of 325 volumes. The first books were received in 1854-55, and were distributed to the districts by the County Board. Within the next year or two, the eight libraries were all received, thus sending to all parts of the county 2,600 volumes of reading matter similar to the following: Spark's American Biography, Prescott's Conquest of Mexico, Irving's Columbus, Dillon's Historical Notes, Percy's Anecdotes, Howe's American Mechanics, Life of John Paul Jones, History of the Girondists, Plutarch's Lives, Ancient Egyptians, Pursuit of Knowledge, History of Greece, Smith's Holliday Abroad, Book for the Homeside, The Czar and his People, Layard's Ninevah, The Parents' Assistant, Physical Sciences, Orators of the Age, Curran and his Cotemporaries, History of the Swiss, Boyhood of Great Men, Floral Biography, Farmers' Instructor, Home Pictures, A Love Token, Live and Let Live, Benjamin Franklin, Christ- mas Books, etc., etc. These libraries served a most excellent purpose, and are still in use in some portions of the county, though their useful- ness is much impaired by the remarkably cheap books and newspapers of the present.
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THE M'CLURE LIBRARY.
This was founded in the counties of Indiana from the liberal bequest of Mr. McClure. A large property was left to be invested in useful books for the sole use and benefit of working men-those who " earned their bread by the sweat of their brows." A few hundred volumes were received in the county, and an association of the workingmen was formed to receive the benefits of the bequest. The library was finally merged in with the county library. All have been supplanted in effect by the cheap printing of to-day. These old books remain as relics of usefulness and progress of former generations, when universal and liberal education was secured at private expense.
THE COUNTY SEMINARY.
An early law of the State provided that certain fines, penalties, for- feitures, etc., before Justices of the Peace, the Circuit Court, etc., should be used to found and maintain a county seminary of learning. The fund began to accumulate in Greene County immediately, and a Trustee was appointed to care for it-loan it-the first Trustee, so far as known, being Eli Dixson. Otis Hinkley succeeded him in . 1825. Peter Hill was ap- pointed in 1826, and continued to serve as such until 183 -. In Janu- ary, 1832, the fund amounted to $253.64}, of which $38 was drawing six per cent interest. By an act approved January 24, 1832, the Legis- lature incorporated the following persons " President and Trustees of the Greene County Seminary:" Levi Fellows, Willis D. Lester, Elisha P. Cushman, Ruel Learned, Peter R. Lester, John Inman, James Staloup, Moses Ritter, Eli Dixson, Samuel R. Cavins, John Gardner, John San- ders, Benjamin Stafford, Hiram Hayward and Thomas Plummer. The act fully provided for the management of the fund and the conduct of the Trustees. For some reason, the next Legislature repealed that por- tion of this act appointing the above fifteen men Trustees, and appointed in their stead by an amendment to the act the following persons: John Inman, Cornelius Vanslyke, James Warnick, Samuel Simons and John A. Pegg. Mr. Inman was almost immediately succeeded by Elias Crance. The term of office was three years. In November, 1833, the County Board " Ordered, That Lots 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, in Bloomfield, be given unto James Warnick, P. C., Vanslyke, Samuel Simons, John A. Pegg and Elias Crance, the Board of Trustees of the County Seminary, and their successors in office, for the use of a seminary of learning for the said county of Greene; and it is further ordered that Willis D. Lester, agent for the said town of Bloomfield, shall make unto said Board of Trustees and their successors in office a good and sufficient deed for the above named lots."
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