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The company arrived at Anderson about 1 o'clock p. m., April 27, 1899, and was escorted to the court-house by a procession. Captain A. I. Makepeace, a veteran of the Civil war, was grand marshal and his aides were B. B. Campbell, Dr. M. V. Hunt, Captain J. J. Musser and Robert Schenck. At the circuit court-room Mayor Dunlap delivered an address of welcome; Charles L. Henry spoke on the Spanish-Ameri- can war; J. J. Netterville, on the American Soldier; John L. Forkner, on Company L; V. T. Morgan, on the Soldiers of '61 and '98 ; and Captain
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Burr, Lieutenants Sausser and Collins, and Corporal Pattie gave short talks.
At the banquet at the Doxey IIotel, Mayor Dunlap acted as toast- master. The responses were as follows: Company L, Captain Ken- neth M. Burr; Officers' Call, Lieutenant Collins; Reveille, Lieutenant Sausser; The Oracle, William Williams; Men's Call, Enoch J. Dobson ; Church Call, Sergeant Towell; Fatigue Call, Corporal Pattie; Drill Call, John Ross; Sick Call, E. M. Inelenrock; Taps, Elmo Kellar and Louis Radway; Soldiers of 1861 and 1898, F. M. Van Pelt; Anderson in Porto Rico, Delbert Musser. Lientenant Sansser brought home with him a young Cuban-San Donelo-who made a few remarks. He was afterward employed as coachman by James M. Donnelly and attracted much attention for a time. Sergeant Lee Newsom, who had charge of the hospital arrangement for the company, brought a young colored man, named James Colchen, whom he picked up in Georgia, and who accompanied the company to the close of its service. The banquet was enlivened by patriotic airs played by a band at intervals, and the recep- tion of Company L will linger as a pleasant memory with those who participated in the ceremonies.
CHRONOLOGY OF THE COUNTY
Following is a list of the principal events that have occurred in the history of Madison county from the time the first white men came to the region now included in its boundaries :
May, 1801-Moravian mission established near Anderson.
October 3, 1818-Treaty of St. Mary's, by which the Delaware Indians ceded the land now included in Madison county to the United States.
December 29, 1818-John Rogers, the first actual white settler, locates near Pendleton.
November 7, 1820-E. P. Hollingsworth, the first white child born in the county, born near Pendleton.
September, 1821-Last of the Indians depart from Madison county for a new home beyond the Mississippi.
January 4, 1823-Governor Hendricks approves the act organizing Madison county and fixing its boundaries.
November 10, 1823-The county formally organized at Pendleton. March, 1824-Murder of the Indians in what is now Adams town- ship. The murderers were afterward executed.
1825-Indianapolis and Fort Wayne state road surveyed through Madison county.
March 27, 1827-Commission appointed by the general assembly selects the site where Anderson now stands as a location for the perma- nent county seat.
January 13, 1830-The town of Pendleton laid out.
January, 1832-First court-house at Anderson completed and accepted by the county commissioners.
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April 7, 1834-Contract for the erection of the first county poor- house awarded to John Shaul, whose bid was twenty dollars.
1834-First newspaper in the county, the Federal Union, started at Anderson by T. J. Langdon.
June 3, 1836-The town of Alexandria laid out.
1837-First Catholic priests visit Anderson.
1838-Work on the Indiana Central canal commenced in Madison county, but was discontinued a year later.
January 21, 1839-Anderson incorporated.
November 25, 1839-Second court-house accepted by the commis- sioners.
August 15, 1840-Thomas Carlton, the first foreign-born citizen, received his naturalization papers. The first papers were taken out on July 7, 1839.
February 10, 1841-First Masonic ladge in the county instituted at Pendleton.
September 11, 1850-First Odd Fellows' lodge instituted at Pendleton.
July 4, 1851-First train on the Indianapolis & Bellefontaine Rail- road reaches Anderson.
March 1, 1853-Elwood (then called Quincy) laid out.
June 9, 1853-Anderson incorporated a second time.
June 20, 1853-First telegraph line reaches Anderson.
July 4, 1855-First train on the Pan Handle Railroad reaches Ander- son.
March 3, 1856-The town of Frankton laid out.
March 11, 1858-Chesterfield incorporated.
1858-First turnpike road in the county began, from Ander- son to Alexandria.
December 25, 1858 -- First anti-saloon crusade in Anderson. Liquor poured out in the streets by the mob.
April 17, 1861-First company of volunteers from Madison county tendered the governor for service in the Civil war. This company after- ward became Company E, Eighth Indiana Infantry.
November 1, 1862-First county medical society organized.
August 28, 1865-The citizens of Anderson vote in favor of incor- porating as a city.
November 1, 1867-Milton White hanged for the murder of Daniel Hoppis. This was the last legal execution in the county.
April 17, 1873 -- Ground broken at Anderson for the Anderson, Lebanon & St. Louis Railroad (now the Central Indiana).
July 5, 1876-First meeting of the town board of Alexandria after the town was incorporated.
July, 1876-First city directory of Anderson, written with a pen by Eli P. Brown and called the "Centennial Census."
December 10, 1880-Madison county court-house destroyed by fire and many of the valuable records lost.
August 17, 1882-Corner-stone of the present court-house laid with appropriate ceremonies.
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August 13, 1886-Anderson's volunteer fire department organized. March 27, 1887-First gas well in Madison county "comes in" near Alexandria.
March 31, 1887-First gas well at Anderson.
September 6, 1888-First street car (drawn by mules) in the city of Anderson.
June 9, 1891-First city officers of Elwood elected.
March 12, 1892-First electric car in Madison county makes its appearance upon the streets of Anderson.
April 1, 1892-Elwood fire department organized.
January, 1893-The town of Lapel incorporated.
May 1, 1896-First election of town officers in Ingalls.
For a number of years John L. Forkner has kept a diary of events, which has been published in some of the Anderson newspapers at the close of the year. The following events have been taken from these pub- lished lists since 1897 :
1897
January 2-Gas pumping station at Frankton explodes and does considerable damage.
January 16-Part of the North Anderson glass works destroyed by a cyclone.
February 12-W. W. Barton's packing house at Alexandria destroyed by fire.
March 4-John Evans, of Elwood, has his arm blown off by a can- non while celebrating the inauguration of President Mckinley.
March 15-Mrs. Harmon Wilkie makes application to be admitted to the Madison county bar-the first application from a woman in the county. She was later admitted.
April 20-First oil well in the county opened on the Nimrod Carver farm at Alexandria.
April 21-Grand Commandery, Indiana Knights Templar, meets in Anderson.
April 23-James H. Snell, the sheriff who hanged Milton White, died in Anderson.
July 2-Cold storage plant at Elwood burned.
September 3-Union Traction Company organized at Anderson.
1898
January 8-Big Four freight train held up by robbers near Ander- son.
January 25-Mrs. Seneca Chambers burned to death by an explo- sion of petroleum in Richland township.
February 22-Richland Lake, ex-judge of the court of common pleas court, died at Anderson.
March 14-The three-story building occupied as a hotel and bar by Gus Quertermont destroyed by a gas explosion.
April 26-Company L, One hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Infantry,
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left Anderson for the Spanish-American war and was escorted to the train by a large concourse of citizens.
April 30-Major Charles T. Doxey, a veteran of the Civil war and prominent capitalist of Anderson, died at his home in that city.
May 11-H. C. Crowell, while watching workmen engaged in blow- ing stumps from the right of way of the interurban railway, near Sum- mitville, was accidentally killed.
August 1-N. W. Klepfer, postmaster at Lapel, found dead in his bed-supposed to have been due to heart trouble.
August 7-William R. West, ex-judge of the common pleas court, died at Anderson.
November 14-Death of Captain L. D. McCallister, captain of of Company K, Eighth Indiana Infantry, in the Civil war.
1899
January 9-George Welker, chief of the Anderson police force, died. January 20-Hayes & Crider's planing mill at Alexandria destroyed by fire.
January 28-Norton's brewery at Anderson burned.
April 11-The boilers in Lewis & Fatic's elevators at Markleville exploded, doing considerable damage.
April 18-E. H. Peters, former county commissioner, had his arms blown off while blasting out stumps on his farm in Boone township.
May 5-Citizens of Elwood gave a reception to the members of Company L, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Infantry.
May 27-First interurban car runs into Elwood.
September 9-Colonel Winfield T. Durbin presented with a sword by members of the One Hundred and Sixty-first Regiment, which he commanded in the Spanish-American war.
October 6-Death of B. F. Alford, the first foundryman who made the first castings in Anderson, which were also the first made in Madi- son county.
December 14-William Morris, engineer at the Weatherall rolling mill, Frankton, killed.
December 25-Hunter block at Elwood burned, resulting in the death of Benjamin Jordan.
1900
January 1-Corner-stone of the Methodist Episcopal church, corner of Eleventh and Jackson streets, Anderson, laid.
February 7-O. M. Cook, marshal of the town of Pendleton, shot and killed Joel Richardson, while the latter was resisting arrest.
April 10-Warren Copper, last city marshal of Anderson, died.
May 8-First private newspaper telegraph service in the county established by the Anderson Daily Bulletin.
May 23-Oscar Wynn Camp, Spanish War Veterans, organized at Anderson.
May 28-William Fulton, ex-city treasurer, died at Anderson.
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June 30-Shoemaker's warehouse at Frankton burned.
July 14-Mrs. Caroline Hilligoss, a prominent lecturer of Anderson, died.
July 18-First interurban car runs into Chesterfield.
July 26-John Zeublin, formerly of Pendleton, died on the train. He was an expert telegraph operator and was one of the first to read by sound.
August 19-Kelly Ax Works, at Alexandria, destroyed by fire.
August 29-Death of J. H. Lewis, formerly editor of the Anderson Herald.
September 4-First fair on the new fair grounds on East Eighth street, Anderson, opens.
September 17-Fred Littlefield and Clarissa Thompson killed in a railroad collision at Alexandria.
September 29-Elijah Radebaugh, a well known railroad engineer, killed near Anderson.
October 30-Dr. Pryor Rigdon, for whom the village of Rigdon was named, died at his home there.
December 2-Central Christian church at the corner of Tenth and Jackson streets, Anderson, dedicated.
December 4 John Ellis, member of Company L, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Infantry, died at Anderson.
December 6-Anderson lodge of Elks dedicated their new home at the corner of Main and Eleventh streets.
December 26-Death of S. E. Young, a prominent banker, miller and grain dealer, of Alexandria.
1901
January 3-First interurban car on the Union Traction Company's lines run from Anderson to Indianapolis-Hon. Charles L. Henry in charge.
January 5-John Critz, an engineer on the Michigan division of the Big Four, killed in a wreck at North Anderson.
January 6-Death of Grover Allen, eight years old and weighing 250 pounds. He was known as the Madison county fat boy.
January 18-W. J. Hilligoss, former editor of the Anderson Demo- crot, died at Muncie, but the body was brought to Anderson for burial. January 18-Collision between interurban cars on the White river bridge near Chesterfield. Seven people hurt.
January 18-Joseph Burk died in Anderson. He was the man who built the first street in Anderson on an established grade. That was Water street-now Central avenue.
February 3-Explosion of 700 quarts of nitroglycerine near Alex- andria, killed one man and doing great damage.
February 26-George Mckeown, former publisher of the Anderson Herald, died.
April 13-Benjamin F. Aiman, ex-county commissioner, died at Pendleton.
April 30-Death of Captain Frank M. Hunter, of Elwood.
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May 16-Fire in the Elks home at Anderson, slight damage.
May 24-Diamond robbery at George Greyer's jewelry store in Anderson.
June 13-Bertha Stewart, of Moss Island, killed in a runaway.
June 16-E. B. Goodykoontz, ex-judge of the Madison circuit court, died at Anderson.
June 26-David W. Wood, ex-prosecuting attorney, killed by a Big Four train at Anderson.
July 6-Jacob Jacobson, the last toll-gate keeper in Madison county, died near Anderson, aged ninety-seven years.
August 29-Martin L. Bundy, who carried the mails through Ander- son from Noblesville to Centerville, on horseback, in 1833, addressed an old settlers' meeting at Chesterfield.
October 24-Golden jubilee of the Anderson Presbyterian church.
November 2-Bert Case, a popular railroad conductor on the Pan Handle, killed in a wreck near Anderson.
November 12-George Petty, master mechanic of the Big Four rail- road, killed by a switch engine at Anderson.
December 6-James W. Sansberry, the oldest member of the Madi- son county bar, died at Anderson.
December 18-Lincoln public school building at Anderson destroyed by fire.
December 20-Deputy Marshal William Ray, of Summitville, shot and killed an unknown burglar.
December 26-Fire at the Penn American Glass Works at Alex- andria, loss $10,000.
1902
January 20-Harry MeCandless, street commissioner of Anderson, killed by a street car.
March 8-John Julions' saw-mill at Dundee burned.
April 9-First stone of the Union building, the finest office building in Anderson, placed in position hy Tim Striker.
April 22-Plant of the Indiana Box Company at Anderson destroyed by fire.
June 5-Louis J. Weichmann died at Anderson. He was one of the chief witnesses in the trial of the conspirators for the assassination of President Lincoln.
June 17-Indiana Druggists' Association begin their state convention in Anderson.
June 25-A great storm sweeps over the southern part of the county.
July 24-Formal opening of the Anderson Country Club, north of White river, on the grounds occupied by Camp Stilwell at the time of the Civil war.
September 29-Charles Merryweather, one of the contractors engaged in erecting the Union building, killed by falling from the top of that structure. This was the only casualty that occurred while the building was under construction.
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November 12-Hiram J. Daniels, banker and former postmaster of Anderson, died.
1903
January 7-John R. Boston, a pioneer post-rider, died near Pendle- ton, aged eighty-two years.
January 12-Site selected for the Anderson postoffice at the corner of Jackson and Eleventh streets.
January 18-Charles Harrison and Myrtle East killed by a Pan Handle train near Frankton.
January 28-Destructive fire at the Anderson Tin Plate Works.
May 12-14-State encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic held in Anderson.
May 24-Maplewood cemetery at Anderson dedicated-address by Rev. J. C. Bickford, of the Methodist Episcopal church.
June 12-Thomas Costello, Philippine soldier, buried at Anderson with military honors.
July 24-Levi Conner, ex-county commissioner, killed by cars at Daleville, Delaware county.
July 29-William Elliott killed by lightning near Moss Island.
August 8-First Chinese restaurant in the county opened at Ander- son by Chong Long.
September 11-Berryman Shafer, former prominent Madison county politician, died at Manhattan, Kansas.
1904
January 17-William Stanley, a farmer of Green township, found dead in his room at the Sherman House, Indianapolis. Mr. Stanley acquired considerable notoriety some years before his death by bring- ing suit against Congressman W. D. Bynum, because Mr. Bynum prom- ised the farmers one dollar a bushel for their wheat in case his party was successful. Wheat went down below that price and Mr. Stanley sued to recover the difference.
February 2-Indiana Brick Company's plant at Anderson destroyed by fire, loss $50,000.
February 9-First Lieutentant John Collins of Company L, One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Infantry, died and was buried with mili- tary honors.
March 24-Highest flood in thirty years.
March 29-Calumet Mills, an old landmark at Pendleton, destroyed by fire.
May 24-Michael Ryan, an old citizen and former roadmaster of the Pan Handle Railroad, died at Anderson.
May 25-John W. Pence, former city councilman and cashier of the Citizens' Bank, died.
June 16-Death of Dr. Walter Hunt, city health officer of Ander- son.
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July 12-Death of Silas Williams, whose father planted the first orchard in Madison county, near Pendleton.
December 22-First filtered water turned into the mains of the Anderson water-works.
1905
January 1-James T. Knowland, former secretary of the water- works, prominent Mason and member of the Grand Army of the Republic, died at Anderson.
January 8-Explosion at the Penn American Glass Works, at Alex- andria.
January 16-Mrs. Ollie Huntzinger killed by the closing of a fold- ing bed at Anderson.
February 24-Captain Joseph T. Smith, of the Seventy-fifth Indiana Infantry in the Civil war, died at Manhattan, Kansas.
March 30-A gypsy child born in a camp near Elwood-the first gypsy born in the county.
April 20-Anderson public library dedicated and opened to the public.
May 11-Severe tornado in the western part of the county.
May 15-Opening of the Crystal theater, the first moving picture show, at Anderson, by John Ammon.
May 15-First public market at Anderson opened on Tenth street, from Main to Jackson.
June 14-First general observance of "Flag Day" in Madison county.
July 2-State German Saengerfest opened at Anderson.
July 4-John Keicher, lineman for the Bell Telephone Company and former member of Company L, One Hundred and Sixtieth Regi- ment, was killed by a live wire.
July 20-Death of William Cronin, strect commissioner of Anderson.
July 27-First interurban car runs from Anderson to Middletown.
August 11-Great cloud-burst at Anderson-cellars flooded and much damage done.
November 14-Frank Lee, the first man to run a milk wagon in An- derson, died.
November 24-Collision between an Anderson street car and a Big Four train at Meridian street crossing. William Brittenham, Big Four yardmaster, killed and Conductor Hilligoss, of the street car, died some time later as a result of the shock.
December 2-Charles Rumler, Spanish-American war veteran, died at Huntsville.
1906
January 12-Augustus M. Williams, son of Robert N. Williams and the first white male child born in Anderson, died.
January 24-State Dairy Association began its state convention in Anderson.
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March 14-The old Cook homestead near Huntsville, one of the okl- est residences in the county, destroyed by fire.
April 1-Presbyterian church, at the corner of Ninth and Lin- coln streets, Anderson, dedicated.
April 22-Meeting at the Grand Opera House in Anderson, for the relief of the San Francisco earthquake sufferers, about $800 raised.
June 22-Weems Heagy, ex-county treasurer, died.
August 15-Anderson postoffice, at the corner of Eleventh and Jackson streets, opened to the public.
August 21-Disastrous wreek at the crossing of the Big Four and the Anderson Belt railroads. Engineer Rugby and Fireman Guy killed.
Angust 26-Senator Benjamin Tillman, of South Carolina, delivers an address on the "race problem" at Chesterfield.
December 26-William C. Fleming, ex-county clerk and member of the legislature, died at Anderson.
1907
January 7-Chauncey Towell, Spanish-American war veteran, died.
January 20-Death of William Hedrick, once the largest land owner in the county, and author of "Hedrick's Bible."
January 21-Tilghman A. Howard, a native of Madison county and oldest newsboy, died at Los Angeles, California-body brought to Ander- son for burial.
February 11-Bridge of the Union Traction Company over the White river on the Isanogle farm, between Anderson and Chesterfield, broke down while a car was passing over it and several people were injured.
April 18-Captain W. R. Myers, ex-congressman and three times secretary of state of Indiana, died at Anderson.
June 12-Masonic hall at Elwood dedicated.
July 25-James Mohan, ex-county recorder, died.
September 12-Destructive fire at Pendleton.
1908
January 1-Street car strike on electric lines at Anderson, but no disorder or unlawful acts.
January 4-Governor Hanley sends militia to Muncie to quell dis- turbances growing out of the street car strike. Troops pass through Anderson.
January 15-Death of Mrs. Elizabeth Harden, widow of Samuel llarden, the Madison county historian.
February 1-Great snow storm and blizzard.
March 27-Severe storm in the northern part of the county.
April 8-Hene-Lederer building at Elwood destroyed by fire. loss $50,000.
July 4-Grand celebration at Mounds Park for the benefit of the associated charities and industrial school.
October 23-William II. Taft, Republican candidate for president, in Anderson for about twenty minutes.
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1909
March 28-John H. Terhune, mayor of Anderson and prominent capitalist, died.
May 15-David C. East, prominent hardware merchant and former city councilman, killed by a street car at the corner of Lincoln and Eleventh streets, Anderson.
May 26-First local option election in Madison county.
June 3-Eighth Congressional District Bankers' Association began meeting' in Anderson, closed with banquet at the Anderson Country Club.
July 18-Old fiddlers of Madison county meet in contest at Mounds Park, large number of people in attendance.
July 25-"Jerry" Mahoney, Big Four yardmaster, killed by falling between two cars.
August 3-Part of the Tenth United States Infantry, while on a 200-mile "hike," camped on the Myers farm, near Anderson.
August 15-Twenty thousand people attend the old settlers' meet- ing at Mounds Park to witness a sham battle between the Indians and whites. The "Indians" were commanded by Gabriel Godfroy, the last of the Miami chiefs, and the whites by Captain E. J. Finnell.
November 2-Frank P. Foster elected mayor of Anderson.
1910
February 17-Death of Martin L. Bundy, at Newcastle. Mr. Bundy carried the mail on horseback between Noblesville and Centerville, pass- ing through Anderson, in 1833.
March 14-Sudden death of Wesley Dunham, former mayor of Anderson.
June 23-Fire in the office of the Anderson Daily Bulletin.
July 24-Sham battle at Mounds Park under the auspices of the Improved Order of Red Men.
August 5-Death of Solomon Smelser, ex-sheriff.
August 17-Reunion of the One Hundred and Sixtieth Indiana Infantry at Anderson.
September 28-Reunion of the One Hundred and Thirtieth Indiana Infantry at Anderson. This was one of the last regiments recruited for the Civil war.
October 13-Theodore Roosevelt spoke in Anderson.
December 28-Ernest Phillips, a druggist of Frankton, accidentally shot and killed himself while hunting.
1911
January 6-Mrs. Sarah J. Richards, an inmate of the county in- firmary, near Chesterfield, set fire to her clothes while lighting her pipe and was burned to death.
January 11-Morey M. Dunlap, former mayor of Anderson, died at Denver, Colorado.
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January 22-Mrs. Iticia Wolf celebrated her one hundredth birth- day anniversary. She died about a month later.
February 12-Death of William E. Smith, ex-chief of police of Anderson.
March 4-John Ellis, chief of police, and Virgil Kirkham, patrol- man, of Alexandria, were both killed by James Walker, whom they tried to arrest while caught in the act of robbing a store. Walker received a life sentence on April 4th following.
March 9-Champ Clark, speaker of the United States house of repre- sentatives, lectured at the Anderson high school building.
April 30-Randall Brothers store and the Big Four depot at Ingalls destroyed by fire.
May 24-Order of Orioles hold a state convention in Anderson.
September 20-Reunion of the Thirty-fourth Indiana Infantry at Anderson.
November 16-Masonic banquet at Anderson, 400 persons in attend- ance.
November 23-Fraternal Order of Eagles give a big banquet in Anderson, about 500 present.
December 9-Harry P. Hardie appointed postmaster of Anderson- appointment confirmed January 12, 1912.
December 25-Elks gave a Christmas dinner to the children of Anderson at the Elks' hall.
1912
January 26-Two fires in Anderson-the works of the Anderson Tool Company destroyed and the Masonic Temple damaged.
February 9-Gas explosion and fire in the Lapel Bottle Works cause a loss of $4,000.
February 12-First Polish dance in Madison county given at the armory in Anderson.
March 19-New Odd Fellows' hall at the corner of Ninth and Jack- son streets, Anderson, dedicated.
April 2-Joseph Franklin, minister of the Christian church and former county superintendent of schools, died aged seventy-eight years.
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