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"The progress of the society during 1853, was reported to the State Board, showing great advancement by the "offering of 188 premiums. of which 120 were awarded, their cost being about $400, of which $230 is silverware, and the remainder in books and bound volumes of periodicals on agriculture and hundred topics." The score and a half of years, since this remarkable manifestation of agricultural interests, have brought us much of which to be proud. We have a ground, upon which there are permanent improvements of more than $10,000 in value, and the fair of the past season paid in cash premiums fully $5,000, and received in entry fees, privileges at the gates, amphitheater, and from stalls, $6,280.66, having paid more money for building forty new stalls than all the awards of our brethren of 1853. amounted to. Their efforts were laudable, and probably more productive of good results than ours of this day, considering and comparing the circumstances affecting both. Cer- tain it is, that we are reaping the harvest of prosperity, that have grown from the seeds of industry and hardships sown by them."
The present society is a joint stock association, and was organ- ized in 1874, with about 300 shareholders. The grounds which are just outside the city limits is the property of the county, but all improvements were made by and belong to the association. The value of both grounds and improvements is probably $12,000. This fair under its present management is one of the best in the
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State, which is due to the energy and business-like management of its officers.
Prominent among those who have contributed much to the success of the society since its organization the following names deserve special mention: John Blessing, Jacob Mutz, Christopher Girton, S. L. Van Pelt, Albert Gorgas, David Conger and L. J. Hackney.
Beside the above association the people of Shelby County con- tribute much to the success of the following district fairs: Shelby, Johnson, Bartholomew and Brown, Shelby and Rush.
The Shelby County Live Stock Association was organized in IS86, with H. B. Cole, President; D. H. Thompson, Vice Presi- dent: Walter Elliot, Secretary, and William Kinsley, Treasurer. The principal public sales that have taken place within the county were that of T. A. Colton & Son, Wednesday, June 15, 1887: and that of Madison Talbert, W. R. Zike and R. H. Phillips, June 16, 1887.
Poultry Farming .- This branch of industry has since its in- ception, but a few years ago, grown to vast proportions. To Hon. Sid Conger is due the credit of first conducting the business of " fancy poultry raising," on a large scale. He began the business in 1875 with two Partridge Cochin pullets, given him by a friend, to which by purchase he added a cockerel, and with this begin- ning he laid the foundation of a business which is at present one of the most extensive in the west. In 1877, Mr. Conger added to his stock the Plymouth Rocks, Buff Cochins, and later the Wyan- dottes, and in the same year began exhibiting at the fairs of Cen- tral Indiana. He has since exhibited at the principal fairs of the United States, and in 1885, won many prizes at the World's Fair at New Orleans.
So great has become the reputation of Mr. Conger that he has sold a single chicken as high as $150, and a pen consisting of six females and one male for $500. Starting on a rented farm and with no means save what was borrowed, he has by his energy, integrity and correct business methods increased his business to such an ex- tent that his patrons may be found in every State and Territory in the Union, besides Canada and England, and his sales of poultry and eggs for the year 1886, aggregated but little less than $9,000.
Other growers of fancy poultry who deserve mention in this connection, although not so extensively engaged, are, T. E. Good- rich, Plymouth Rocks: Justus Clapp, Light Brahmas: James K. Bowers, Light Brahmas; Robert Hale and Charles Cage, of Shel- byville, and Frank Cory, of Morristown.
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CHAPTER IV.
EARLY SETTLEMENTS - THE INDIAN TRADER - FIRST SET- TLERS, AND WHERE THEY SETTLED - EARLY LAND SALES -THE LOG CABIN -EARLY MILLING -FIRST CROPS-WILD ANIMALS -A REMINISCENCE -SNAKES -- TRADE AND COM- MERCE - AMUSEMENTS - INCIDENTS, ETC.
LEASANT it is, vet sad, to recall the scenes of the past. Pleasant, because we see the faces of dear ones; sad, because the picture is unreal and will vanish like the mists of morning. Could the scenes of sixty years ago be reproduced the reader would behold a series of tableaux in which would be seen the unknown log hut, its crevices filled with clay, the stick chimney, the broad fire place, the rough, unseemly furniture and the small clearing. Such pictures were most familiar to the pioneers, and yet under all those uncom- fortable circumstances they were happy and contented and enjoyed life to the utmost. Some have lived to note the changes and im- provements made since the first white settler pitched his tent on the bank of Blue River, now sixty-nine years ago. They have seen the " wilderness rejoice and blossom as the rose." savages and wild beasts disappear, the log cabins changed into the comfortable and luxurious homes, and thus, in the great transformation presented they have witnessed the culmination of civilization and refinement.
While a few of the heroes of pioneer times still remain, many have passed away. and with them the landmarks they erected. A few of the pioneer incidents have been preserved and cherished, but man is mortal and the memory weak and uncertain, hence much of the early history is buried in eternal oblivion. At the time of the admission of Indiana into the Union, that portion which is now Shelby County, as well as a very large tract in the Eastern and Central part of the State was in possession of the Delaware Indians. Their title to the lands was not finally extinguished until October, ISIS, as may be seen in a foregoing chapter.
Prior to this time but few white men had ever set foot on the soil of Shelby County. It is quite probable that the first white men to cross this territory were the French traders, who dealt largely with the Delawares, and whites traveling from Detroit to Vincennes. by way of Old Fort Valonia, in Jackson County: it is reasonable to con- clude that they followed the White River and its tributaries and thus
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passed through the section now contained within the bounds of Shelby County. The first who is positively known to have entered the territory was William Conner, an Indian trader, who at that time had a trading post at the present site of Connersville. Early in 1816, he floated down Flat Rock River in a small boat filled with such goods as he might exchange with the red men for their peltries. Later he traveled along the course of Blue River and to the bands that camped along its banks he became a welcome guest. Mr. Conner, who is often called the father of Central Indiana, was a typical frontiersman and being familiar with the customs and habits of the Indians, he was able to render valuable service to General Harrison during his struggle with the natives in the early part of the century.
No sooner had the news of the consummation of the treaty with Delawares, at St. Mary's, reached the settlement in Franklin County, than did Jacob Whetzel start out for the new El Dorado, blazing a road from Brookfield to the bluffs on White River. This blazed way, long known as Whetzel's trace, passed through Shelby County in a northwesterly direction, crossing Big Blue River about four miles and a half north of the present site of Shelby- ville. The Whetzels. Jacob and Cyrus, with their families, returned to the bluffs of White River in 1819. and permanently settled there.
Richard Thornberry settled at the point where Whetzel's trace crossed the Flat Rock, now in Rush County. James Wilson, ac- companied by a man by the name of Logan, and another by the name of Hanna, followed the trace to where it crossed the Big Blue River, and after selecting the site of his future home, returned to Fairfield. Franklin County, where he then resided. After a brief stay with his family, he returned to the wilderness, accompanied by his three sons, William, Jonathan and Wesley. They at once began to fell trees with which to construct a cabin home, and for the first time the wood-man's ax sent its peaceful echoes through the forest. Log was placed upon log until a cabin, 16x16 feet in dimensions, with slab floor, stick and clay chimney, and big fire place, was completed. The location of this cabin was in Section 16. Marion Township, about 300 yards south of where Squire Wells now lives. After the cabin was under roof, leaving the boys to complete the work, Mr. Wilson returned and brought the first load. Remaining but a few days, he returned to the old home at Fairfield, reaching there late in December. Prep- arations were at once begun to move the family, and on the New Year's day, 1819, father, mother, Isaac H. (then a boy of twelve summers), four little sisters, and the baby boy. bade farewell to the old home and the friends who had gathered, and began the journey
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to the forest home. A deep snow had fallen and the day was se- verely cold. the creeks were frozen over, which enabled them to cross without difficulty, until they reached Flat Rock, where the wheels broke through the ice, but after much delay it was extri- cated. After a tiresome and tedious journey, they reached the cabin about 10 o'clock in the night of the third day. The boys, in anticipation of their coming, had roasting, before the great fire place, some of the choicest venison, and when the supper was prepared, and the interesting group gathered around the table, who will say that with all their lack of comforts, with all their pinching poverty and all their isolation, they were not happy?
The next to pitch his tent in the wilderness was Bennett Michael, a shoe-maker. He had for years followed his trade, but with in- different success at the old home in Fairfield. He came at the solicitation of Mr. Wilson, who had provided for him a small cabin a few yards south of his own residence. In the spring of 1820, Benjamin Kaster, John Foeman, John Smith and Henry Fishel, with their families. came and settled on the school section in Marion Township. Later, in the same year, David Fisher, Balser Fox, James Grier, Benjamin Hodges. Adam Rhodes. John Sleeth, Caleb Sleeth. W. H. Sleeth and Abel Summers, came and squatted in and around the town of Marion. The land was surveyed by the government immediately after its acquisition by treaty, and the dif- ferent parties who did the work in Shelby County, with date of its completion. were: W. B. Laughlin, July 23, 1819: A. Wallace, July 23. 1819: B. Bentley, May 31. 1819: Abraham Lee, July 22. 1819; John Hendricks. April 20, 1820. The government land office at Brookville was opened for the sale of the land on the first Mon- day in October, 1820: and immediately afterward settlements were made in various parts of the county almost contemporaneously. It is claimed that two squatters, Joseph Hewitt and Firman Smith, had come into the territory, now occupied by Hanover Township, as early as the latter part of 1819, and began to carve out homes in the dense forest. They were soon followed by Joshua Wilson, Richard Tyner. James Griffin. Josiah Glover, William Johnson, Rezin Davis, Seth M. Cole, David Calken. James Van Arsdell. Eli Lucas, William Smith, John Carmony, Nathan Young. Lewis John- son, William and Augustus C. Handy. William Wolf, Dr. David Seth McGaughey, James T. Reid, James Tyner, G. Spurrier, Jonathan and Thomas Swain, Paris C. Talbert, William Montgom- ery. Joseph and John Davis, Maj. Ashbel Stone, Joshua Holding, Lathrop Francis, Rev. Samuel Morrison, Alexander Rittenhouse, Joseph Adams, Chauncy Butler, Jr., Jacob Fouts, Henry Buck, Thomas Tyner, Andrew Woodyard, George G. Righter, Dr. David
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Tracy, Moses Kitchell, Isaac Adams, William Dyer, James and Thomas Philips, Ira Bailey, Benjamin Norris, Cyrus Stone, Jesse Miller, Benjamin Cole. The Yankee settlement, in the vicinity of Freeport, was one of the most prosperous.
The first settlement made in Addison Township, was in the north- west corner long known as the " Wray Settlement." The pioneers of that neighborhood were: Rev. James Wray, Isaac and James Templeton, Samuel and John Nail. Zeboniah Stubbs, James Mont- gomery. Zebedee and Barnabas Wray. These were all native North Carolinains. In and about Shelbyville the Hendrickses, Goodriches, Walkers, Davissons, Mayhews, Wingates and Will- iams with many others whose names are mentioned in the history of the city, constitute the first settlers of that section.
A settlement made in Jackson Township and for many years known as the " Haw Patch Settlement " three miles northeast of Edinburg, was one of the earliest made in the county. Many of the settlers of Jackson became active in the public affairs of the county. One of the first to take up his residence in that section was Colonel Hiram Alldredge, who was appointed by the board of commissioners, at their first term in 1822, to the office of County Clerk. This office he filled most faithfully until his death which occurred early in the thirties. Other prominent early settlers were -Judge Joseph Dawson, the Rev. James Clark, Moses Pruitt, Judge Joshua B. Lucas, Zechariah Collins, the Rev. Alfred Phelps, Ivory H. Leggett, Dr. Benjamin Sanders, John Cutsinger, Jacob Wirtz, David and Jesse Scott, Abner Connor, John and George Warner, Dr. A. J. Treon.
It is probable that there were no squatters in the southeastern portion of the county, but soon after the land was surveyed Alexan- der Van Pelt came with his family and settled at the mouth of Conn's Creek, in what is now Noble Township. Others who came about the same time were Arthur Major, Isaac Avery, Josiah and Daniel Williams, William Major, Mathias Floyd, John and Ander- son Winterrowd, Peter Bailey and Jonathan Paul. The last named was a conspicuous figure in the settlement of both Shelby and Decatur counties.
During the year 1821, settlements were made in almost every part of the county. Indeed, they were made so rapidly that it is difficult to tell which is entitled to the priorty. Those who were prominent among the early settlers of the various part of the county, not elsewhere mentioned, were: Hugh and Jeremiah Campbell, James Woods, Peter Andrews, Nathan Simpson, John Andrews, Elijah Kirkpatrick, Willis and William Law, Peter Heck, Noble Grimes, Robert Kennedy, Thomas Vaughan, Hudson Ray,
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Edward Toner, John Salla. John Snyder, James Young, Lewis Hendricks, Rev. Henry Logan, Sevier Lewis, John I. Lewis, Philip Robins, Benjamin Reece. Jesse Beard, Ephraim Webb, James Hill. Archibald Gordon. Benjamin and John Wallace, Rich- ard Doughty, William Fleming, Fleming Kennedy, Edward Miller, Reuben Davison, William and Martin Updegraff, Joseph and Enoch Tucker, John Goodwin, Zachariah Collins, Joshua Ensminger, David French, Jacob Creek, Dr. John Hamond. Jedidiah Tingle, Henry Moore. Lewis Henry, Marcus Mesener, Joseph Chapman, Kemble E. Midkiff, Rev. Henry Fisher, Rev. Thomas Jones, Jacob, Michael. Thomas and Jesse Youngman, Ira L. Bartley, Elijah Byland, Samuel Love, William McNeilly, Samuel Monroe, John Ballard, Wesley Rucker, William Trackwell, David Robertson, Abraham Leonard, Meager and Bennett Powell, John Wykoff, Aaron Moneack, John Steers, Phillip Ensmenger and St. Claire Ensmenger. John McConnell. S. G. Huntingdon, Adam Smith, Sr., James Johnson. Mathew Campbell. William McConnell, John Hindsman. Joseph Trusler, Reuben Strickler, Daniel Padrick, James White, Henry Willard, William Dannell, David Hoover, Linsey Boggess, Joseph Hough, Robert Mvers, James Holmes, William Hoskins, William Croddy, William F. Morgan, Amos Collins, John H. Stewart, William Edwards, Lee Parish, Robert Hankins, Bissell Burr, Hugh Campbell, Lewis Morgan, Daniel Williams, James Norville. David Bradley, John Nail. Daniel Camp- bell. Jeremiah. Joseph and Isaac Odell, John Oldham, Byron Har- rell, George W. Holmes, Rev. Mathew Sedgwick, John Griffith, Edward and Joseph Hunt, John Brierly, Benjamin Bass, James H. Gregory. George Updegraff; Samuel, Derrick, Harman Updegraff, Hally Helper, Philip Fix, Jonathan Winans, Joseph, Jacob and David Winterowd, James Van Bentusen, John and Thomas Clay- ton, Thomas Cochran, Joseph, Isaac, Samuel and Ithamar Drake, John Eberhart, Samuel Walker, Zachariah Vansickle, William Deiwert. John J. Lewis, Harvey Pope, George Conger, Adam Mow, William Hays, Thomas Wooley, David and Thomas Maze, William and James Bone, Mathew Floyd, Enoch Krimble. Moses Billingsly, Joseph Jones, Aaron and James Fix. Joshua and Jesse Spurlin, Claibourne and Joel Williams. Martin Warner, John M. Coleman, Thomas Watson. David Kepley, Jacob Youngman, Hugh and Samuel Hamilton. William Arnold, James Kitchen. Rev. Sam- uel Loudan. George Bass, Joshua Campbell, Francis Amos, William A. Doble, James Smith, Michael Murnan, John and Alexander Means, Archibald and Peter Mann, Fountain Means, John and Mas- ton House. James Murnan, Benjamin Breedlove. Jordan Wright, John Dake, Heman Keeler, George W. Holmes, Hiram Johnson, James
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Holmes, Jackson Andrews, John K. Paulen, John Stanley, Henry D. Andrews, John Hoop. Ichabod Jackson, Peter Crum, John Wal- droff, Nimrod Jackson, Frederick House, Robert Means, William Harper, John Gregg, Samuel Cones, Enoch Ruggles, George Mar- tin, Dr. Culbertson, George Waldroff, Lewis J. Reeves, Caleb Reeves, Green and John Vernon, Peter and William Fousler, K. Parrish, Jackson Plummer, Duncan McDougal, Henry Yout- sey, William Oley and Webster Milkins, Nathaniel Vice, N. B. Snod- grass. George W. Wood, George Nulliner, James, Stephen and Daniel Nichols, Samuel Bawlins, Jackson Campbell, James H. Smith, Phillip Ensminger, William Cotton, Moses Coffin, Thomas Golding, Peter De Witt, Mathew C. and Samuel Brown, John Derrick- son, John Vance, Zacheus Bennett, William Nixon Bennett. James Robertson, Rezin Wheeler, Hiram A. Cotton, Thomas Moberly, David Gunning, John Glenn, Major Robert, F. Farris, Isaac Far- ris, George Forsythe, Robert Brown, James B. Gunning, Henley B. Branson, Lewis Crim, John and Moses Linville, Paris and Jo- seph A. Talbert, George Michael Becker, George Leiss, John G. Keppel, George M. Keppel, George M. Haehl and John Jacob Hachl.
For three months after the land office had been opened for the sale of the land contained within the new purchase the office was overrun with buyers. Those who entered land in Shelby County in 1820 were:
Township II, Range 5 -Jesse Scott, October 4: Joch Collins, October 4; Archibald Gordon, November II; Jesse Cole, Octo- ber 4; Mary McGuire, November 25; Joseph Dawson, November 28: C. C. Tires, October 24; George Graham, October 4; Jand A. Wilson, October 23: William Slayback, December 5; Moses Pruitt, October 5: Henry Warman, October 5: John Priest, Octo- ber 5: David Jamison, October 5: David Scott, October 5; Isaac Wilson, October 5: Thomas Gwynn, October 5.
Township II, Range 6-James McCoy, October 6; Arthur Major, October 6; Samuel Ward, October 20; Joseph Reece, July 20; Lewis Drake, October 7; Anson Betts, October 18; William Campbell, October 7: Jeremiah Long, October 7; Alexander Van Pelt, October 7: Abraham Lee, November II: Aaron Atherton, November 3: Agulla Cross, October 7: Samuel Walker, Octo- ber 7; Moses Wiley, October 7: Ithamer Drake, October 7; Job Moor, October 7: William Powers, October 24; Amos Higgins, October 13: Daniel Hock, October 20; James Records, Decem- ber 2; Martin Cheney, October 21; Leonard Cutter, October 7; Adam Seeney, October 21; Willis Tow, October 7: David Guard, October 7; Benjamin Ensley, October 7; Harvey Brown, Octo-
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ber 13; Charles Collett, October 7; Judah Tingle, November 13: John Venard, November 6: James Campbell. October 7: James Thompson, November 13; J. D. Conrey, November 13.
Township 12, Range 6 - Peter Andrews, October 24: Charles Hubbard, November 22: Hugh Campbell, October 21: Nathan Simpson, October 24: John Fancher, October 10: Edward Toner, October 9: Jerre Campbell, October 31: James Wood, Octo- ber 3I.
Township 13, Range 6-John Higbee, November II: William Creddy, November 24; S. G. Huntington, October 30: James Johnson, October 7; Joseph Roll, October 30: Matthias Campbell, October 23.
Township II, Range 7- Isaac Avery, October 23: George Palmer, October 9: Davit Jewett, December 31.
Township 13. Range 7 - Jacob Fox, December 9: Jane Sleeth, October 9: William Sleeth, October 9: William Fouts, October 9: David Fisher, October 9: Benjamin Williams, October 9: James Williams, October 9; James Greer, October 9; Thomas B. Brown, A. Wallace, S. Lewis, Thomas Harvey. John N. Cobert, February 20: John Walker, December 20: John Walker, October 10: Fran- cis Walker, October 30: Henry Bass, December 19; Calvin Ken- ley, November 13: James Davison, December 20: William Goodrich, October 9: John Love, October 9: Thomas Porter, Jan- uary I: J. H. and James Young, November 24: John Van Bus- kirk, November 28.
Township 14, Range 7 -Josiah Gover, November 21: Resin Davis, October 12: E. Lucas, November 7: Joseph Hewitt, No- vember 7: Joshua Wilson, October 9: Richard Tyner, October 9; James Griffin, October 19: William Johnson, October 9: P. Kitch- ell, November 17: Eleazer Burham, October 21: S. M. Cole, No- vember 7; Benjamin Cole. October 12; Nathan Davis, Octo- ber 21.
Township II, Range 8 - George Salrey, October 23.
It will be observed that the above shows that entries were made in a few instances prior to October, 1820. This is doubtless a clerical error made in copying from the original records.
The Log Cabin .- After arriving and selecting a suitable location, the next thing to do was to build a log cabin. a description of which may be interesting to many of our younger readers, as in some sections these old-time structures are no more to be seen. Trees of uniform size were chosen and cut into logs of the desirable length, generally twelve to fifteen feet, and hauled to the spot selected for the dwelling. On an appointed day the few neighbors who were available would assemble and have a " house-raising."
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Each end of every log was saddled and notched so that they would lie as close down as possible: the next day the proprietor would pro- ceed to " chink and daub" the cabin, to keep out the rain, wind and cold. The house had to be re-daubed every fall, as the rains of the intervening time would wash out a great part of the mortar. The usual height of the house was seven or eight feet. The gables were formed by shortening the logs gradually at each end of the building near the top. The roof was made by laying very straight small logs or stout poles suitable distances apart, generally about two and a half feet from gable to gable, and on these poles were laid the "clapboards" after the manner of shingling, showing about two and a half feet to the weather. These clapboards were fastened to their place by " weight-poles" corresponding in place with the joice just described, and these again were held in their place by "runs" or " knees." which were chunks of wood about eighteen or twenty inches long fitted between them near the ends. Clapboards were made from the nicest boards in the vicinity by chopping or sawing them into four-foot blocks and riving these with a frow.
The chimney of the western pioneer's cabin was made by leav- ing in the original building, a large open place in one wall. The fire-place thus made was often large enough to receive, fire-wood six to eight feet long. The more rapidly the pioneer could burn up the wood in his vicinity, the sooner he had his little farm cleared and ready for cultivation. In the interior, over the fire-place would be a shelf. called the " mantle," on which stood the candle-stick or lamp, some cooking and table ware, possibly an old clock, and other articles : in the fire-place would be the crane, sometimes of iron, sometimes of wood-on it pots were hung for cooking ; over the door, in forked cleats. hung the ever-trustful rifle and powder-horn: in one corner stood the larger bed for the " old-folks," and under it the trundle-bed for the children: in another stood the old-fashioned spinning wheel. with a smaller one by its side: in another the heavy table: in the remaining corner was a rude cupboard, holding the table ware. These simple cabins were inhabited by a kind and true-hearted people. They were strangers to mock modesty, and the traveler seeking lodgings for the night or desirous of spending a few days in the community, was always welcome. A single room was made to answer for kitchen, dining-room, sitting-room, bed-room and parlor.
Milling .- Not the least of the hardships of the pioneer was the procuring of bread. The first settlers must be supplied, at least, one year from other sources than their own lands: but the first crops however abundant, gave only partial relief, there being no mills
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