Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 11

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Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
Number of Pages: 472

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"flir uosi inut utug, Mr Heller entered into u business copartnership unth n Mr Juseph Nickersuti, nearjieufer aud joiner hy trade, uod a Mr. Michael Gillret, u lughh) vilacard Spiwird. Gilbert tras born and lived to the nge af Ineher jeuts on the Island of Monuro, u depeudeuce of the Spanish king. ilutn T'ime thruce he uus labru by u Methodist wassinpary aud placed in The Arealy P'ollege, tu Missouri, where he was educated for n Stelluoliel muster ut fler expense af the Methioli.t Missionary Society. Aner he graduated, he pre chul only three de courses, when the California guildl'ferer Imk hull of lume and finally persuadeil him that fartune luid in that direc- Itott Ar noruplugly uended Ins uuy neross the jdaios, aoil became a part- tag in the not exmentioned firm.

The iny after the partnershipe nas cutfries, the company proceeded lo St Audren's, ou the Fillle s'aha erts River, fficen miles south of Jackson, u here they canwemed uprrutten

Nuckerun trul into the meunfacturing bioneb and cumineneed buibliog "[ums" and "rrodles" for guld washing. The preacher, Gilbert, suprriu- Ttoled De taining operations, oud Heller muuuget the mercantile depinrt. mrnl, slawling virly und Inte behind his counter, selling groceries, liquors For sotur time the hen romujuny did u very extensive ond flourishing litrities», hlvuilly cujuing money, until mi riil hour brought ruin and de. «fructiat nymti them in n manger peculiar to tuountainens countries.

Vier uari senkuu melted The smir on the higher range, and The rush. carrying ruin wu their train A rost inies of the hurrying debris areinn- uteru belong lide lo thr hnight of sttruly fel. Erers inhatifaut of the valley Wed tu the logh grounds, where they witnessed the total destruction

Aner this AuMen and Itrilile bruik nije, leller hired ant buone Jnewh Ingleant, it larher, from Lancaster County, l'eausylvania, a >200 per month, to wasget him in selling bref. They writ onu frutta Los Angeles, n distance of I'i miles, riding the Mexican mustang pouies, and making n humplred miles per ilny

Si las Angeles they purchased a lot of four yearold calle at $4 pour hen, wach some calle weir worth $200 per head when butchered in the

Itu the return tuje they travelal finy miles per dny, driving the cattle alurad Thay employed a Mexican " Vachept, ' irho led a Immuned we at the liveøl of the herd The Mexican uns mounted, and, uitb n "larinl 'around The horns af Iny " fraim d animinh,' led the enrasan.

Die the 5th of July, Mr Heller farmed a copartnership with his lote claphy rr, rulrulnting In gu mlu the butchering business, but in the 28th of July he received n Ieller from his son, S. D. leller, slating thint his wife was very len und condl und jurvaldy lite lang, oud requesting hit to return

Midteduning Ius bisine -y fuujret., he started immediately far San Frau. tisen, where, on the 1st duy of August, he took pasenge on The strumer · Ittegnu " for l'auatun.

Anter u pleasant voyage of tuu thoussmul tuiles, down The coast, the ship put in of the port of Aipules, lo tuke in coal.

lle fanmil This n fine city, romantically situnted on a splendid and hund. lockedl bay, with an rulrance so unrrowy os barely to admil the passage of one large stemmer nl & lime,

Where Ilus by now sprenils its blue waters, once stood a busy and flour- ishing city, but o great earthquake overnhehned it in 1832, leaving nol a restigr.

Leuring Aemaileu, the steamer stood on her nny down the coast again for n furthry chislunce of Ino thousand miles, and made the port of Pansiun on the evening of the lith ilny from San Francisco

The next inuruing, he left l'annmin and ero-sel the mountains, on sules, lu Cruers, un thr I'yuers Birer, at the head of keel-boal navigation, where hir Ingriedl over night at a hotel, built by one ltugh Miller, formerly of 11. Wuynr Miller mil the antirey could not agree, and he was obliged to Her in disgust, barely recajing u ith his life

lere Mr. Heller look at hoal diary the river, farty miles, to the town of Mogula, uhrre he changed la the railnay, nud rricheil Asporrall, on the Carrililush Sen, the same Piening.

Aspinu all is larated ut the mouth uf the Chingrey River, opposite the low's uf Ohl l'hagre4.

Stiggang mer wnight at the Munbadh Butel, he shipped next morning on Immars The old war ships, " Minnas."

Crossing the Carrilikeon Sen, tho olje stopped at Harana, Cuba, uml look in a anpjoy of runt, und sailed thence far New York.

Al Aspinuall The rathray company pout phoneil, in the steernge, 136 sick Irishuien, horing thr I'mimmun ferer. They died rapidly nud the stench became zo nubpurulde that thr passengers threatened mutiny unless they nere remored. The faptmu renmed them uf onee to the upper deck, andl irbien the ship arrived at the quarantine nl Nris York only serentern were left alive.

The ressel arrived in Nen Vark un the aftrrinun of the 17th day out

Inking pussige for Dunkirk, Mr. Heller crossed Like Erie In Detroit, n here liv delivered a check for hve thousand dullurs, on the Adams Express l'ourmuy, la a lody, whoso hysteindl hud seut her the money, by Mr. Heller, from Calibirinin. Returning to Toledo, he took the caual pickel lo Forl Wayup, nud areived safely uf home on the afterooon of the 3d day of August, nud found his family all shive and urll.

Mr. Ileller is, at Ilus inte, u hale und hearty wridmurer of sixty sercu sutimers, uhle lo write his nawe without spectacles, amit upon irhose brow The fruals of lite et lightly , Idest with a gradty compelence of this trorld's gade, omul linking forward to minuy years of continued prosperity.

HENRY COOPER, Fort Wayne, ludiana .- Bul few meu in the United States had less chut la recent European blood than Mr. Cooper. lh- reolernni ance- lors uere Irish I'ralesinule, and among the first follquers of lain Baltimore In Maryland, where they selleil, near Camibry. His Intrenal prugeniture, who were l'uglish Protestants, arrived in Marylutl il n baler period, lte loml n waternul nucle who served under the unful. tuunte Admiral Brug, al Mitores, and in the Luglish West ludia feel ilaring the French War His materna! gratulfarber way an Ensign in the Mar Inud Vidantcers during the Revolutionory War line of his paternal uneles was taken prisouer by the Irssiaus in New Jersey, oud a loug finir delained ou lourd of one of The prison ships in Nou Vork.

Hru Mager, sou of Jumies umil Lenh t'uoper, iras boru uf Havre de Tiure, Maryland, June s, 1794, nud uns left fatherless in tus leuth year, hul ul That early uge he lind learned fram his father the rules of marais atul unthemonlies, huh of which were of grent survive lo lum in his subsequent jantues through life lulluenenil by the slender stile af bis wrsources, he resumeneed n seafaring life in 1810, but, finding there was no chonce of prefermeut nithiout a knowledge af narigution, und kuviring thol navigation nud washetinties irere insejairaldy conuccioil, he entered binizelf ty u student of The latter yeirure, under The Ipition of Mr. Nekivorth, in Bali- thorn. While alleuthug this course, preparatory lo n seafaring life, tusthe- tutties, tu lich thiury nud porartiec, eugrossed Ins eutire ntiention, uml, irlute gugagel in taking the ultitude af church siveples ant other eletaled olgreis within the city, the hearings nus dlistauce af Fort Melleury, oud places af siwilne unturiety withont, he breame sueb an enthusiastic disciple of buelid that hr has been heard tu sty, . He thought that was the most in- Irreshug juiltout of his education." Delerininiug to follow the sen, he did 64 Trin IS10 until 1818, nud, ty perseverance and good conduel, rose lo the command of n vessel. Sont The year 1818, his untural sagreily led him In petrrive Ihint The Ireity tande in Thut year trith Ibe Eurepeau porrers would hare n teudeney lo umleriully lessen the American carrying Imde, nnil give n considerable porlinh of il lo foreign vessels. Under This convir- lion, he nbilidoned the sen and cature lo the West, When he visited Bulli- wore iu 182 , 1835 and J'G, the numher of fureign Augs foaling lu the loreze fiqui thr various sluijs in the harbor-where formerly the Stu Spangled Banner alque uns secu-convinced bius thul his previous opinion on the sutgert was correrl

After coming to the West, the sinnli amount he lind saved of his hord maruungs nu The ocean was suuk iu The Mississippi River during u storai. Finding lus designs nguen thunited, he made n fresh effort in a new pro- fession, uw1, in 1×12, commenced The study of law under the direction of IL luu yer, a scholar und a gentleman-tbe lute 3tr. Wing, uf Cinciunali, thno. The lautiful and embarale tuttuentries of Choncellur kent, aud many ofher cunteul u rifrre on Atgeriran Inir, hil not been published when Mr Couper hegau the study of lon, but knowing he would bure to compete will learning und Inlent, backed nish health and influence, he determined he wookl rrad diligently uud methodlienlly several of The most useful elenieulary books ou Irgal edirnee After n ililigeut study of Blackstone's Comuneninries, he julged it would he mnuch tu Ins wsaulage lo uequire a knon ledge of Fendnl low by every means with his reach. For this purpose lir seid those great works, Sullirou's lectures on Feudal Lui, Ilutue's llistory of Huglnud, Robertson's i'mmules thr l'iph, and Muulesquiru's Spirit of the Low, judging That the bed nay lu uudristand modern counuenlulus in Ine was an infinite degunulance with those aufburs who had preceded theul.

Hlnekslune's Commentaries was his chief furorite, indeed, he Inul so «Run nin so Thoroughly analyzed them thut it might he wid he had their eintenta indelibly mjerased on his memary, t'oke on Lytitelop came in fur we will share of his admiration, and which hr wus from to pronounce one m' Ihr hrighted ornaments of the enminon law. For livenly years prered- ing his death juhirh ocenrred in 1863), he streunonsly opposed ull tinkering with thr l'oustitution nud fowlnuentd bus of the land, ond often publicly dlerlarel "that a provision in the t'onenintiun uf Moryland," his nutive State, Harhich guarantees tu thr inhabitants of thul Stufe the comuon lun of Huglaml, nund trinl ky jury mondiug 10 the course of thint low, nas the hurst juheritative he quer received.'

Im ing comdetell Ins course of elementary reading, Mr. Conper applied himself to the study of pleading and practice. This previous knowledge of mathrinnties and thr elements idf low munch facilitated his nequisition of the seience ed' special pleading. He fully raurnerrd in the opinion of ludge Stury, "Ilnt no one enu hecame u goud special pleader withant therchy he- coming n porufmil lawyer " Alment the year 1425, hr removed la Fort Wayne, mund, after three yenre of unremilling study, iras admilled la the bar of thr Cirrtil Conrle in this Siatr, und in Muy, 1813, to practice in the Supreme Court of Thr Stole. Wont this time the mooted question, whether the jury, in erinninl etses, is jurlgr of both law and facts, come before the Supreme Coms fur adjudication-on which questiou the brarh was ilivided. The niAl. Ter was zealonsly contested for some lime by each while. Mr. Cooper, influ- eveel l' the arlatrary ubuse of power he lind so often witnessed in foreign Cunintrirs, na well us his own feelings, Arenuously contendeil for the inde.

peutlence uf juries. His opinion uns strengthened by reading Julge Chase's vien of the aulject, the openion of Mr. Leigh, published in the American Juriet, und Lord Keskine's speech on the rights of juries

Mr. Cooper had A very extensive pourlice in The Cirenit aud Supreme Courts in Indiana onit in the United States Courts of the Slute. A few of The many enses in which he was engaged have been reported, either by Judges Mr bean, Blackford or Smith,"Al tho Jannary lerm, 1833, he was hrenged in the Supreme Court of the United States. In one of his enses hefner that tribunal, The lesarrs of Gunilny et nl, vs, Kwing, certifieit fruer the Circuit Court of the United Sinles for This ilistrict, A ense in which the Juilgey of the United States Court were diriileil in opinion on a motun for n neu Trinl, serrrul points trere made in argumenty, both in the Circuit and Supreme Courts, on one of which Ihn Supreme Court of the United States lecided in favor of Mr. Cooper, hnl guve no opinion on the other. The case is reported in Homurl'a S. C. lleports, vol. 3, page Tur. In the case of Ilarris 1 8. Due, Hh lllnekford, paign fille, Mr C. piroscenteil and obtained a verdiel und judgment in the Affen Cirenit Court. In an appeal, the Supreme C'ouri concurreil with him, " that an Indian truly is a contract, lo be en. Hirurd like other contracts, And Ihit the milmission of possession in the con- sent rals'est apped The detimdont frion denying possession in hitt ui the fine of the commencement of the mit "

In the ense ut' Rabattom va Mettre, This question for the first time come before the Supreme Court. " Does the hier as then constituted authorize the taking of prirnle property for puithe launcht, noil leave the assessment of damage to l'ommi-signers arithont a jury hinving first ruled the same?" Unustruction of the law.

In February, 1833, Mr. C quarried Miss Mury C. Silier's, of Hamilton Conbly, Ohio, who bore hou si on children, live af wrhum Inre long been uumlrred with ile deud. The other Ino, Jumurs Heury atul Iluard B., are at present engageil in meromdie business in Memphis, Tenu. lu April, 1815 it was his afrique to help lun amiddle wife

In July, 1840, hr ungriedl Mrs. Henner Munun, of' Fort Wayne, wridoir of Jante4 F Musun, I'sy She, at prisent, resides in the city with her son, Chas. A Munsan, who is a member of the u holesale grocery firm of Iluedis Hainilion, mind is also an nelire nud Intelligent member of the Catumion Council By his last warminge, Mr Cooper had une sau, Williams l'inkury Cooper, ishe is al quepeut a prouusing young luiser in New York City

Mr C. wos nerer a randidtale for nay politieul office. tu 1824 aug Isus. he supported Mr Admins for the Presidency , in 1832 und 1>$1, Heury flay, ut in 160G and 1840, very zealously, Ins old per-onul friend, Geu Harri- sou During this fuller cimprigu he was pluarumy uf ihr committee nhich organized such a sucreseful campaign in Allen county. SIr. C ndepleit the opinions of Mesers Hamilton, Madison, Jny uwd Dr Paley ou the theory of free gorerituell, nol uns never bekuned in freely expressing is uut his firm opinion, " That the constitution of Our Ciated Stules gires full pourr In the General Huyrruur ul In charirt n uuliaual Ietuk nudl establish n tariff for The protection of American industry, u heu vither ar Iwith shall be required fer The public good '

Mr. (' hud on extrusie poruellee iu thw conris of ludinua, atul occasion. ally af Chung, und during the period het neen Ist und The fiwir of his death (1S'oli, few lawyers loof presented the result of mure lubor mud research lo fler Supreme Court mu hir is n public speaker, Mr. C mode un effort nl i've lufore the court, nud iu luis address to the jury analyzed the testimony audl emnerntrated it on the point nl pasne, He paid u coustout affeuftog lu The mlage, " that wellod and preparation are the fear cause of a lawyer'. snecess," und he uerer enque iuto court without having his authorities care- fully selreleil heforehand.

His memory iras wonderful; n decision wuer rend hecutne inlelilly im- pressed upon his tuirul, nuil he rold nat auly repent the substance, but gite The page nud commune nith astonishing arrumary Mony lowryers non pohar- liciug in our courts will reuther the kind assistunen he always lendered. und the great poons he ever lunk lo fonughly explain or upply a point of Inw. Mr. Couper died very suddenly, tin Friday, March 26, 1853, he nus seized with a congestive chill, und on the lalluning morning, with his family gaulleved around hun, hr pasyed quietly nway.

Ho Sunday, March 27, 1873, his funeral services nere held at the First H'resbylerinn Church, irhere an eloquent and im pressire serwien has delirered by the Rev. Reihelilaffer His remigius were fallowed to the grave hy n Inrge number of carrioges preceded by the members of the hne. Thus passed unay a good citizen, a profound huvyer nud un hottest AusL.

JAMES B. WHITE wny born in Slerlingshire, Scotland, ou the 26th day of June, 1844. After having arrived nt a proper age, he learned The Tende af calico printing, which meuption he pursued several yours, when he nbaodoued the amne for that of Intloring, which business was more congenial to his tastes, Being of n restless disposition, he determined to leare The bouuy bulls of his native Inud, and ut Inst cutried into execution the desire of his heart awl ended for the great tuetropolis of finerica, il trhich plnee he arrived before uttuining his majority, being hul uineleru years of age. Notwithstanding he was far meny froue lus relativex and the friends of his childhood, und their u any of encouragement und goud cheer, he nerveil himself for The battle of life that uns before him, u here neu fields and fresh Bienes were presvuled

As The Irsde which he was most inclined to follow afferel but little inJuceineul in The city of New York, shortly after his arrival he removed lo Westchester County, New York, where he reummined but n short time, and when, under the impulse of the mirice guen by the immortal Hurnce Greeley. nent West, In grow up with the country.

At Thut Timir Inilinna was n long ilistnure from the sea const, anil the journey was uflended with considerable iliffieulty nud nuxiety ; The facilities were quite limited nhieu compared with the winuy advantages that we now 14055>& T'hr journey4 were loug und nenristue, hat Invuly-two years hare wrought wondrous changes.

Me. White'uriird in Fort Wayne, from Telede, Dhin, hy the packet line, Then the most expeditious inode uf Irniel.

During the first ninter after his arrirnl in the Summit City, he was Fi- pluged mu the slune yard of Mr. John Brown, ul n very small remuneralini, in fuel, for his boord mint ihrer duflure per neck. In the spring following. hecoming Tired of the ilridgery of the hard work that way nrressurily im pased upon hitu, he relinquished fils jub mul secured a situation with Mr. Widle G. Shouff, irho, at That time, enrried on a very extensive milning establishurent. Subsequently ho followed his orruption with Mebars, Nin- huger & Oppenheimer, who raulurteil n Insiness gillar lu that ut' Mir. Shoaff. After having remained with Mrasrs. N & D). n short time, he celalt- lished himself' in lesmrss on his qui areannt, mint euntinged the samr for & periuil af tivo yuury.

llis restless disposition wus evinerd ngain, ums resulted in his removing Io St. Louis, Mo,, in which city he soun fond employment as clerk in u columission and itry goods house.

In 1858, he returned to Fort Wnyno, for which joner hne Innl fammird alluchtenla flint wore deeply impressed npon his mind, nmil resulted in bis innrringe lo Mies Morin Broirn. Shurtly ufer his return, ha established s Iniloring shop, which he continued but n brief period, when lwe finally remourd to Warumy, Iuliann, nhero he located and filled the position of fremun iu an exirusive tailoring and furmshing house of Mesyrs Hecker & I'mnik In INGO, he ngoin shurled business fur himself, nud when the locsin of isnr was sounded he rallied to the alandund of his ndopted country, alul assistedl in urgunizing a rumunny for n reghucht Ilit was to uel nh important part in sutduing n rebellion that was so ominous of impendling evli

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"The enmipany to which ho bolonged elecleil him ns Captain, ail ivero enlereil tu reuilezvillis at Cuinp Allen, in the city of Forl Wayno, and inade u jum1 of Col. Jim J. Boss' regiment, the Thirtieth Iniliann Volunteer Infantry, one mong many of Thut glorious bas] wyho left theirhomes and firesitles und went forth upon the gury fielil to fight for our country's fog, and maintain the integrity of the Union, Andl upon its banners the ileserving tribute of n nation's gratitude shoulil te inserihed in letters of gold,

IlIs regiment left enmp und proceedel te hurlinunpolis, aml offer a short lime they were orilerel to the front, where they ilidl good service in muuy an important engagement. Among the most ileejuire was that of Shiloh, on the 7th ilny of April, 1862, irhen the furtuunte arrival of Bnoll nod hisariny remlered ethoient service in turning the, tide of baltle iulo n victory. l'apt. White ins founded in the engagement servaril ereuing, amling will Buell's conunni] during his Tennesseo campaign, nud was with his forces upon That memor. nule retreat from the South, one of the most renmrknble in the nonale of modern warfare. After his commanding General resigned, he, in comphuy with his heroic bauil, followed The furunes of Gen. Rosecrans, who hnil superseded Gen. Buell, and after the return of his regiment to Nashville, he resigueil his cominission, and in the spring of 1868, in company with Mr. Insephi A. Stellmygin, fllet the position of Sutler ta the Eighty- eighth Regiment Indiana Volunteer Infantry, which pluce ho filled to the satisfaction of all whin houd business relations with him. During This timo ho was tivico enp. tureil by tho rebels. At one time ho lost everything he had, his nagons nud merchandise Wwiug totally destroyeil in the Wheeler raid in the Sequntchia Valley, near Chattanonga. Thal limuo he irns paroled by the rebels nich little loss. Somio liine after the close of the war, Cupt. White returned home mad established n grocery business, which wny quite prosperous uutil the month of January, 1812, when the builling and contents were ilestroyel by fire, all not orer forty per conl. insured. Notivithistanding the discouraging outlook, he ilid not yichit to tho embarrassing elreninstances that had orer- token him, but with n will and delermination equal lo that of a Spartan, be rallied all his energy and ilissipsled all discouragement, and in less than tun years after his ilieaster he had rallied frmin his losses and, like Richard, "In" himself again." lle bns maintainel his financial equilibrium through the financial panie, and has necumulateil considerable real estate that is al present valuable, mul is now' conducting a large hub and spoke fuelory shot is an important interest in our willst, and affords employment ton nun- ber of hands. But his greatest reputation is based upon his grocery house, knoun throughout Northern Indiana aml Western Ohio as the " Fruit House." Ilis establishment hans no equint in this country, und is the subject of remark In all who haro risiteil the same. Ile employs orer forty elerks, anul keeps four ilelivery ungnos ; so you may form an ules of the immensity of his trade. lle is alire to The inots of his numerous enslomers. We cannot call to mind nny person who has developedl such inet and ability in the moniluet of a business thinl is so multifurious In all of its departments. llis business and the manner in which it is condueteil have elicitel praise from thonsands who hare ocension each week to visit the celebrated Fruit House. The Captain is a constant attendant us the First Presbyterian Church, yet dnes not ndliere to muy particular religious doctrine, but is quite liberul in his church riews, nad is willing to concede to others the same privilege. In politics he is n Republienu, yet supports men when he believes they are an the right side anil worthy of his suffrage. At present ho is a member of the Common Council, nhuil is active in tho performance of the duties inciam. bent upon him ny such, atul horer hesitates to nilvoente a measure that he Lilieres lo he right, neither is he reluctant to oppose those that he considers u rong.

He is also onuer of u half interest in the Daily und Weekly Gazette, the best nnil most influential paper in Northern Indians. Is Howv President of the Sentch Cutedoulan Society, and takes au 'activo interest in its iluties. Was elected, at the Inst Republican State Convention, a member of the Stute Central Comutuitleo to represent the Twelfth Congressional District.

lle lins por n large und respeeinhle family groun up areund bini, to irhich he is devotedly attuched, consisting of four sons and three ilaughters. liv is lockeil upon ns one of sho mest energetic and successful business men in our midst, niul tukes an interest in anything pertaining to the urants of the country, Alul wro only wish ne had more like him.

THOMAS TIGAR .- The subject of this sketch uns born in Ea- glam, in Beverly, Yorkshire, on the 10th ilay of September, 1807. At an curly age he nny apprenticed to the printer's trade, and up lo his retirement from business, tollinveil tunt arocalien with zeul ninh ability. When Ins time 14 an apprentier expireit, having attained his majority, aud being n superior workman in his rrunt, he determined to emiginte 10 America, which he did in 1828, and found ready ciuploymuens in The metropolis. l'o sessed of n strong and rigorous mind, with an nih enturous disposition, and a romantic «lesire to explore uud cast lus fortune with the shen unkyoun West, he soon relinquished his connections with New York city and began a u estunrd Journey. It irns befuro the days of railronils ur canals, and his progress ions wlow ; but iu ilne lime he arrived ut Ashtabula, Ohio, where he obtained car- ployment ujudi a paper theu priuted there weekly, and where his atmin- ineuily ns u workmun nuil tulent as an editor first oblnineil recognition. In the absence of the cilitor, who bnul gone on n journey to Pittsburgh for unterial for his publiention, Mr. Tigar edliled The sheet, and displayeil such atality thas upen the return of the proprietor, the Intter, jealous of Mr. Tigur's nequirell popularity, dispensed with his services, nud lont him nich Innlernutire but to pursue bis irestern journey. From There he proceeded 10 ludiannpolis, uut frout that city lo Fort Wayne, where, in 1833, he, in conjunction with Mr. S. V. B. Noel, nu Indianapolis typo and coufrere, røablisheil the Fort Wayne Sentinel, of which publication he nasumed entire (natrol apon the retirement of Jr. Noel, about i yenr nfter. From that timo, excepting n brief interval, until 1845, he was the sole inuanger und onuer of the paper, which proved lo be a powerful ageal in the ndrauce- ment of tho then frontier rillage, unil contributed ably nud persistently to the growth of that village up to its present dimensions nud commercial im- purtonce. For his sorrices us the pioneer uf jourantisu in this section, ns well as for his striet integrity nud uobility of character, Mr. Tigar was held in the highest esteem ky the people of this community, and his death uns universally regretteil by all classes.

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Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 11

Author: Publication date: 1876 Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co. Number of Pages: 472

Author:
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
Number of Pages: 472