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Valualdo hnilding slune is oblmued ou the Mispinria, near Bronil. lette'4, ntid in the pohl of the Peariu mill-dam, tout ueither places bave been us valeurnily marked as they will he ni suthe future time. Near the mouth of the Musicsineun are fund body of rock also suitable for building, and haring au exposure of u tuile olong the river. Monr is also quarrieil ireal ol l'eru niel in iher places for building purposes, but is al mostly in fintolutions. The higher seatu of limestone is used for buruing into Time, hunl mukry i strong und nlwest byilrunlio rement. hi is usid both for home
Phy " jallureil ruek-,' game three miles cast of Peru, an Tho Mississin- the netion of the poters Heir the precipitans irull of stone ulung the river tony be seen carved iuln pallars, chambers, butfrisses und ulenies. Abore, the rocha ure rovereil with a growth of redurs, and the place is a favorite resort før picnic partie-,
Mount County is well supplied with railways, bring Traversed from cast Is west by the Dirtrolt, Rel Bir & things, the Toledo, Wabash & Western, nunl the Chirsgu division of the Pittsburgh, Piurinanti & St. Louis Raihray. The ludinunpohs, Fern & l'hicnga raus through the couuly from north lo south. Thus line uns begin from Poru to lundinunjudis, through surveys, in 1817, unil poujdeted to Feru Angust 17. 18h1, being the Irat rullwny in the ronidy The wu'st nay the T. W. A W., rupdried in lebe.
THE MIAMI INDIANS,
Miomui Pouuly drittes its umur from the nuce powerful tribe of Miumi
the Inst tu Ieair lidinun fur uns homes beyond the Mississijqu, muil for thol Tissu ucso brought into closer conlarl with The hiel settlers iban quy oth- ure of their race. Peru hus for tunny years heen heulquarters for the phy- unout of unquities, aud the interest qu'unmey hehl for those who hure with- .Innu from their tribal relations, and many of these will cloim a home in the county, A short history of the frile will not fail, therefore, to be or interekl ul ouly tu the muhalinuts of Miami, but to those of the surround- ing enunties, whogr territory nay erected wrbully, or in part, out of the " Mi- aint C'essious."
"The Miami Tribe belongs to the Algonquin fiumily. As enrly as 1638 They were fonwil as far north as Green Boy nul l'ox Birer. The Irihe then numterred 8,10 warriors, who are reputed to have been brave nud well dis- puged. They munintained long ants with the linguis, and also with the Sious on the netl ; mund it in wienlionet that, in the year Tivo, a whole village ni Parried off by Their last name finns Tu 1721, wiention is made of the We i hnud, ou the Walsh. During the Brtohition, the Minuty gore their iubineuve to the Luglish, but notde pouce ofer Clotke reduced Kuskoskio and other places itt The West. The Miamiy adayed Their most importsul port in the nofioul luistary during the quarter of n century intuedintely Idtering the Revolution. Under the leaderalup of little Turilo, thry de- chifrail erer suffered by the United States of the hnuds of the ludians, in the engagement with 81. I'mir.
The haughty Miutuis, however, more than thiet their equals under Gen. Wmine, und, Ihrungh hmm, sustained n Jisasinis delrul, in IFI], utter The guns of the koglish furt, at the rapids of the Mnumeo, In 1700, they con- eluded thu Irenly of Birrrurille, ont from that dale lovir decline iras ropid. Tina ceded He ir tuuds, rxlenthing fium the Waleish to the Ohio State line, lo vorione Irentire, extending from the Inte of the Greenville Treaty In 1809, elill, hairvier, reisiuing the bulk of their lunds in Itudlinna on the Ujjquer Wabash. War ugu broke out between the Minimis and The United States, during the lust raulhet with Buglud, und resulted in the defeat of the red men ler the larcey muder Lirent, Cul. Inupbell. A Irenty nus monde with them in 1814, sinir which time there low been uo warture In fireen this Iribe nuil tbe Americans, their nudiers becoming rapidly so insignidleaut thal uu danger could have followed their demonstrations, The tribe which, under Little Turtle, sent 1,40H1 nnerier's into the field, hnul, in 1424, dwindled Jaun la brl treon Ino atpl Three thousand people, all fald, At this Inur the Iuplists malo strong morty In snve und civilize the remnald, nhu nere living un thier misprintious, bnl with only jeirtial sarress. The desire for liquor arrived fuer.ulicalde, and the myment of auuuuities gore the Mintis every opportunity for peneuring it. Prunkennves led In inummeruhle fights miong il members of the Irlte, and it is estimated thul As muuy ns 500 were killed in these broils in eighteen years
On the 'Ad of Orinher, INgi, u heaty may ennehulrd urwh the Mintuis near the mouth of the Misistinvi-the first important ant held with The raul men in the present limits of The rounly The faceriment was rejae- senteil hy Lewis Pass, James B. Hay, und John Tipton. Ju tlny Irenty The Indians gnir upe large qui ralnelle Hints of their possessions in Ibis vicin- ity, hut referred n unmber of pieces of Inud, umung which was a reserto.
lion beginning Ino mil a half miles beton the mumith of the Mississiuens, exluiplug fre miles up the Wabash abaig its course, nail north lo fel River, including the cistern furt of the present site of fern. In payment for this The Peerired $31,000 in gands, $30,0000 immediately, $26,000 in poils nud thereafri, 1n 1854, The Minnis mmmhried Imt 1, 100, amit in this year they suhl le The Goverment 177,000 avres of Intil in Indienn for $836,680, still retaining The lurgr frart which they fully relimpushed in the treaty of Na- vetuker 28, 1>10, at The furks of the Wuhash. Simuel Mileny undl Alten Humillan were the unutbrinl frammuj souris of The United States; nml in consideration of the 4nm of $150,1044, and wereral smaller items, such ns reservations, houses I'ni thr chiefs, etc., the Indians gave up all their re- maining Imus in ludinna,
J'rerions lo This, The Wea and linnkeshir bands, 381 in number, lind, int 1834-1), remoreil tu the south side of the Kansas Mirer. By the Treaty of J&J0, The reminder ngiced tu lenre, at the expense of the United States, in 6ve yrurs ; lait Their deprime was delayed until 1817, in which year they were imoved tu the Marnis des Cygnes, in The Fort Leavenworth Agency The Kansis Mimmis, at the Imdeaf Their removal, bad JInindieil ilona to 250 sauls, esch indiriduol treiving on mummily of uhoul $126. They were removeil to the Quargent Reservation in 1973, and, when last heard from, did not number more than 150. Some of them are making a gratilying progress in Knusns, but The old savnge nalore still traps out at lunes.
A large number of Miamis have rononneed their Irilet relations, and draw the interest on the mmimy held for them by the United States, throughs G. A. Cronell, uf Peru, special Imlinn Agent, The greater ummber of these ure known as the " Mimmis of Imlians," numbering 389 people, The remainder are the remnout of the Lel Thver band, 19 in number, The for- marrierciret, in 187, eich $32.73 ny their individual shares of the interest on Their min'y, while the payment to the Fel River hand wos $57.80 per capita in the shape of an numunity. The total smu dishmirsed yearly to The Justinus nl I'ren is $12,000, and rories per capita as the number of Indians mny hire increased or diminished during the year, Some years there is n elight incir Ase, ns n'as the rise of the annual duur payment in IST5 ; Bul grucially the ileiths are in rxeess of the births in the trihe These fuilinhas nie sentiored over the country, trum Grant Conuly on The south lo Grand Rapids on the north, undl front Napoleon, Ohio, lo the hulinu Terrilory on The 15041.
The large" outuher whe lire in any uno localily may be faunil on the Me-shin-go-me-sju frservation, embracing the veelious of land in Grout and Mittui Coublies, Besides these, There are a mimuber of other Indinus in the county, selilul un itihuidund reservations, somue visuing as much as four or fire hundred neres of lund, well improrrd, trilh hno resulences und build. ings. The Me-chin-gu-que-sin Reserration iras, until 1873, held in entumont , bui in Muy af that your, i partition wos munde of the loud, in which ull of the Mr-shin-go-mor -- in bauil participated. The mounds are free of inx, ait not suhjert lu sale by the autiers until 18st.
Chaquecled with the ludim inhabitants of Minmui County there is an oc- curreuer which look plure in the early rrors of the white humigration, which is full of strunge and romantic incidents. Gruigr W. Kiring The levling Indian Iroder of this section, had his alleulion arresleil hy seeing a irhitu noinnu nương the Indians on the Mississinewa, enst of Peru. Sho was past The meridian of life, and muunied lon brave of suite noto umgong The red ineu. Though their was no doubt as lo her being a full-blooded Cuurigen, sel her hulude unil manter of life indicated that she hat frum carly iubiucy lived unong the red pien. Rising took ocension lo courerve with the "while iroman, " as she ions kunaru, amt from The vogue reenllec- Lions of her rhibtimal, imparird to him, be iris impressed that she had been capiti eil ishile o child, und thal tho capture must buve been at the mongstere of Wynmning
le urronliugly write n letter to the postmaster nearest to where he judgeil tho seeue of the require's childlnwat umust have been. The muller redeit thus far several years. The postinnsIm, it seems, was either 100 enre- less, or could gain nu elne le The relatives of the captive, In 1818, by acci- dent, the feller was recueil, nud published in somr enstoru papers. The millieation attracted the attention of n unu living uear Wyoming, Domucil Slocum, who had best a zider ul The mass irre, le came lo J'era, aud nith in iuterqueler repaired 10 the wigwam of the nlule squan. She told him, umtong other things, Thut before her capture, shr irny one ilny playing with us Bitte bpd her in her father's blacksmith shap, und by occident the latter cut nf que of her fingers. Further tuquities established clearly that the " winte Houwin " wuy youe other than Frainte Sloenm, the long- last sister, uud the brather who started out of the search sens Ibe some who had uunil- liugly maimed his little sister's hand d the smithy, wntuy yours before, when hoth were children. Every inducement irny held out lo Frauces Iu order to influence her return to bor relatives, hul she hnut, in the course of many years, become accustomed to Imilian life, aud Jerlinet ta adud other bobits. A nephew of hers, onmed George Slocum, offerirueil sellled with his wife umong the Judiuus, about ten miles suuthenst of l'eru, und deroled himself assiduously lo their enlightenment, nith gooit resulls.
TILS RARLI SETTLEMINT
By reference to the list af Indian trephes, it will be seen Ihm the Pollu- Halloiunie: coted ibrir lands in Minu County, oll of which, os nell as some of the Minmi Inuals, my nurth of the Wahrish, before the getirrul cession hy the Mintis. This leff a loige oren af lau in the jingsession of the Migli:, partivulurly in the southern part of tho contuty, where the Indians ilid hol purt with their filles until 1840. In consequence, that part of the county entisisting of irhol is now' nboul Ino-thirds of the township of Peru, Jeffer- sou, Erie, Richtand nud Union, received most of the first utumigranta.
"l'he fertile Bel River valley seemed to hold off unusual imilneoments for settlers, and we liud in That part i considerabile nurleus in n very early duy. but the first settlement in the county is said to hurt been made irest of l'ern, on the Wabash, by 'Squire Johu MeGregar, who Inculed benr Mininig. port in 1827. About the same line, John W. Miller settled soute four miles West of Peru, also Wuller D Nesbit and Jours Oldani, his relolire, a soblier in the Revolution, After these the influx iras more rapid.
Among the firel settlers ou Eel River were Rateliff auf Judge Wilkinson, who localed un Bel flirer below Mexiro.
The frel war'-inall in the county nas lofilt bear Wexiro, und nus in run- ning oriler au early us 1831 The Erst corn-mill uns afturlied In this mill in ASJi, hy B3 1. Daniele, Before this time ludge Inod and Muses Wng- her onnel the mill, which was used for suning much of the limher nord in The erertion of the first houses built in Peru, The first san-mill in Pern was unt completed until the feeder dam, useil for the enunl, was hill, somLy years oflernard The second] grist- will in the eutinly nus erecheil by .lessv Higgins, and The same dom was used to furnish poiver.
One nl the first school hungrs, if uot the very first, stood on 'Third steel, in l'ein, bein ren Cass and Miami strerty, If iras ererted nhent the same time that the Inun was Inid oui, in Indf. Sninuo] Newhury was the first iencher. Tho ley. labu Stocker afterward laught schauf in The Preshy- fering Church, in 1837, and was for a while n Professor in Ibo l'eru Collegide lustitule. Considerable sums were subscribed for this by Those Ailerested in the Inwn of Pern, but i was never ploerit on o permuuenl basis
The first church organized in Miami County was a congregation of Presbyterinns, in Narewber, 1836. The Rev, John Stocker was the pastur. The first houses of worship were the Cutholie Church, on the novihnest corner of Minmi nui] Fifth streets, and the First Proshylerinh, on Third street, bear Broadway. Bulb were used in 1837.
"The liral minister in the county iny the Rev. William M. Royhuru, who sefiled west of l'oru, in 1831. Be belonged to Ibe Methodist Church, but
bis ilenomination erented ao hauge of worship mutil 1897 The priests of the Catholic Church hell regular monthly servires in the county, al Peru, ns enrly n$ 1836.
In 188G, The now selflement iros thrown into intense partemendl hy tho lisappearnuco of an intund son of Thomas Blurk, living suthe four miles nest of l'era. The little fellun urns yherred lo ga n shutt distime from lus father's house, hint nothing further was seen of him. The woods iero genrebeil in all directions, ponds woro drained and The streums dragged, but all to no purpose. A fews shrels of the hoy's clothing were found, nm] some morenyin Trucks neur, Imt nothing more. Young Blark hail, no slouhl, been captured hy a strolling hnud, prolinhly of Pollawullomies, mil Inken with them lo Kansas, upon ilnur remoral shortly after his rajdure. After the lapso of nearly forty years, an ludion dortor mened up, who was, al first, supposed In buvo heeu the missing child, hut he irny afteriruril pro- nonred un impostor by the eller Blurk.
The first homicide hefireon white men in tho conhly ins in ]811, arul oak plnco soron six miles sontheaul of Peru, on the Mississinews. The vie- Inn wann rough chnmeter anmel Ullery, who nas shot by a seller nmined Wilhelm, for misulls ullered his funly. There seems In haro been some jushfienlion for the killing, mul tho perpetrator nuy let off with five years imprisonment.
The lime set for the sole of the Ininds in The Minun cessiun nas in 1847. There had heen considerable sickness among The sellers on these funds, und n werling of those who had maile olnims on the Minmi lumils iras held in Peru, June P'1, 1847, At which fine n petition was sent to President Polk, usking for a postponement. This was granted, and the sule did nol lake Alnce unti 1848,
POLITICAL, MISTUITY.
The nel for the organization of Mimi County was puesed hy the Legis- Intuire January 2, J&J4 Until This act was pod into effect, in the month of June falloning, the county remmined nltarhed, as it had heen for some years before, to Cuss County, for ciril und judivinh purposes,
The 6rsl conuly business i'is Iransacled nl the house of Benjamin II. Spott, in Mimnisport, now port of the city af Porn. At this place the Com- tuissioners had breu direcled to ineet, in tho il ynsyed hy the Legislature for the organization of the county, ond W irus also in Miamisport that The first leity of Cheuit Court was held. The first Commissioners were John W. Miller, Alexander Jameson atut John Cruiilson. Unfurtunnlely, a mimher of the enrly conlity recorils were destroyed in the fire which in 1813 con- suined the court house, so that there is luss known of the first business Irnusneleil iban nouli otheririse hare been the ense.
The first eleetinu fur county officers unter the organization was held in The ensuing August, nt The house of Cuidain Dronillurd, in Miminisport. But sixty voles weir enst ut the atrefion, nud Benjamin 11. Brott nus elected Clerk. The first Sheriff of The counly m'as Jucob Liuzee ; the first Associnte Judges nere Jacole Wilkinson und Di Shuuk, the first County Treasurer nas Abuer Overmun ; the find Probule Julgo noter Ilnt office irus crented was Joseph Holninu; thunucey Carter uns the first Representative, this county being at The time allached lo Cuss, oud formning with it u representa- lire district.
The first term of the Circuit Court erer held in the county was convened in Miamisyuri, in August, 1894. The Presidiug Judge ins Gusinous A. I.veris; the l'roseeufor for the State, Sammuel C. Saufde, noruined Judge. The court tel au Tarkington's lureru ni the second session, which conrence this line in Peru. This tuvern stood on the corner of Muin nud Winmi alreels The uusi term of court uns in n suoil leg house, in which one Peeples kept trern, just ensi af the present resulenno of Juhu A. Grahnin. The gramul juries in thiso ilnys seem to bure inquired much more closely iuto minor offeuers than is now the cage, und of the imlirlineils returned, a considera. hle number were based on charges of assault andl hnfiery, horso-racing, belling and similar infrarfiansid Ini Among the first utlarueys to practice nl The Miami Youuly bar were Phurles W Ewing mul Hrury Cooper, of Port Wayne, Jobu W and Williamwenn Wright, of Logansport, aud Juba M. Wilson nunl John Bush, tho Inst bro being among the first resident allorneys, also.
The town af Misunsport wus bid oul in 1828, in the hope Chint il would he selected uy the soul of justice hy the Cummisjoners unmed for that purpose hi ins upon the sume sertion of lnul with the urraput site uf l'eru, which was originally set aside as a reservulinu for .luhn D. Hichund. tille, the noted Mimmi chief, The rusiren portion of the scoliou une sold by RichardIrille to Willinin N. Hund ; the nesteru porling In herph Holmmu, und the two Inud out the boru of Mrunisport Human and Hned failed 1o agree, aml in consequence the Intter outhid the former nnil secured The loen- lion of the euunity self enel of Minmoisport, where uur is Peru. Tho growth of the lowu hus heen such that Mintisjoint is now o part of the smime corpora. when the eoutest for supreinney heliveeu thy riral lowus uns waged, forly years ngo The sile af Peru in 1841, when tuid out into lols, was covered with the thrifty geenrth of Trees found then uently ereryivhere on the Wabash. The proprietors of the original town plut were lease h. Williams, Richard 1 .. Brillon nud Uvol, the latter hnring sald in each of the former a one-third interest They caused Fisher Stearns to lay off the land into luis iu the spring of 1874, und ou tuly 1, the first suje af their was held, the more valuable ones bringing SUN and more, The ald burn extended uhr streel enul und Three wireel's nest of Broadway, ond six streets worth of Caut. The first court hause erected nl the enunity seul was an old fashionul brick, lorly feel square. This was tutill by the prigiriclors of the town, as une ef The conditions of The location upon their Inud. 11 wus begun in 183h, and after our terms of court lind been held in it, orus ilestroyed by fire, in 1843, Before that timp, the l'reshyterin Church ltd hecu used us'u cuart linuse. A double log juil uns also ererird ni un early dny, uh the northengl eurner of The court bonse square, but This iras utso destroyed by Are in 1842. The present court house wny finishedl in 1858, af n cod of $to, IHR), nudl The base- Quell un' The suino nosners fur n jnil.
The comity officers for 187h-Gare us follons : 1. S. Zoru, Clerk ; Willnrd Grisu uld, Sheriff; b. B. Pnliyiler, Andilor ; Ima B. Myers, Treasurer; W'mu. F. Ege, Recoriler; W. W Sullivan, Surreyor; W. Steele Ewing, School Super- intendent . . ] B. Mills, Alisu lom Wilson nud Benj. Graff, Commissioners.
The Miami County Agricultural descrittiun ung organized al an early ilny, Andl nfter holling exhibitions east of the rity forn numher af yours, the fora were discontinued In lah the first fine was hold on the Kuing place. n est of the elly. The l'era Fair and Driving Purk Associntim behl ils hrot meofingy in 1874. The nyugcintion hus a fine fair ground, and one of the best mule speed fracht in the Sinle The officer, in 1875 were : Samuel K Nowminn, President, nmil John F Sterens, Seeretary.
The first newspaper published in MImmi County was issued .Inly 22, 1837 The editor wns the relerun Sminuel Pike, the Inther of more junipers thun uny other man in the United States. He nonved his venture thu Fern Fortales, nud cardinved its poldienlion until Janunry 5, 1839, There was no paper until the following July, when Jumes B. Seull ond Augustus Banky began The issle of the Peru Queette, with n Whig leaning ns to pinlifica. In 1842, the paper was changed inton hybrid affair, one-half boing numed the Gayfle, und filled with along Whig editorials, and the other half the Democrat, equally strong in its mulvucucy of Demoeralle principles. The Quzette aud Phwert died, and was followed by The l'eri Observer, heguy Juive, 1841, by James B. Sroll. This angulo af comparatively brief duruliun, heinga Whig rajmign popov. Buvid Douglas, also, shout this fine, issuril Tho Curkseret, a humorous paper of some avril. The press was west used for printing the
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COUNTY HISTORIES .- CONTINUED.
Yon Merald, Democratie in politics, John H. Scoll, editor, ti contintvil fram 18J6 in Is 18.
The first permanent pimper iens established in June, 1818, and, under lho nome uf Pern Sentiuel, is still regularly jammed. The first editor way Jolin A Gradient, who continued ny such wohl ING. After u anspension, consu- quenl npan Graham's retirement, the Sratinel ivAs Again issneil, and, natil ista, hnul Wien edilvil, with bul fuir exceptions, by luilge Loughridge aml Thomas MeDurrell. The present proprietors are .l. A. Miller nad J. A. Maxey, The farmer boing the enilor niso.
In 1852, une hegun The puldienlion of a unper slarled in the Whiginler- cal, nunl in opposition to The Sentinel, There hint ing heen ut'nu lime hefore, Live papers published in the loun separately, until this lime. The new rrnlnro Ray lininvil the Free Press, J. 11. Smith, ulilor. The next iras the Wuhosh Ohte, in 1858-4, hy k. A K. R. Trask, falloired by The Porn Repushficun- Irgux, in 1844, 18. J. Shirk & Cu., proprielors. These, lagelher with the Pern Neies, started in 1859, hy 11. & E. Holderman, oll ditel oul in courso of Time The P'ern Republicon ius sinrted in Ixan, hy R. I Loveland. Il wws enliyeciently edited by W. " Benham and Il S. Chopin. The present editor is ti. È Reeil, the proprielors ure Reed & Kinks. The name of the paper fully explains its politics.
The Pern Vimes was established os u daily and weekly puper, carly in 1871, 19 T. J. Mennivell & Sons. With The exception of a cumpnign dnily, issunt i 1861, by the Sentinel, this was the first daily paper in the county. l' is Independent in politics
Among the local newspapers in the county Bro the Nenin Guzith, estuby- lished il few yrarango, und now edited by R. K. Robinson ; mud the Bunker Ihill News, by Metzger & Busvy.
the runny senl, is n little sunth of the geographical center of the county, of the north link of The Walsh. It grow sletulily from the time il irny selerteil us the rounly seat, und, in 1874, vontninedl o population of 3,617. The onimaled population in 1875 nas 6,000
A large Irade any carried on here with The Miami Inlions, which con. innel oulit their remoral, in 1841. The anunities paint the meinbers of Ilas tribe trere a considerable jiem in The commuity, og innich ef the money ilisluirsed fuund ils irny into The possession of The traiters.
'The first stocks ef gooils were brought into the lewn in September, 18UJ, by Albert Cole nail D. R. Bearss. During to mind of room, This stock was pdneed is part of Anitge Haoil's ilwelling in Minmisport, Soon after, other merihunts come. Among the first were J. B Fulwiler and Alex, Wileou. Arcopling to u tisine>< directory published in The Porn Puretter, December 13, 1437, There were al That Time six merchants in the pops, Three grocers, and a number of carpentere, blacksmiths and other urlisnny. The first al- lumnuys were John W Wilson nod John Bush, The fird physicians were A. hiser and A. T Jiston.
The loun wu- thcorporited umler o special charler, in 1847. William A. Mrtirrgor was the first Moyor Il was incorporated os o cily in 1867, with John l'arrar us the first cily Muyor.
l'ern hus a innuker of huy church buildings, the Catholics, stellindials, I'reabrterian«, Buplists, Lutherans ond Episcopalians haring each capacions houses of worship. Of these The Catholic Church is tho juost rostly. There are Ino large jaiblie school buildings, one of which isns ereeled in INGU at a co-l of $1G,m, nud The other in 1878 at a coyl of $10,000. The Lutherans nud f'nthelies bury nlso parish schools of their www.
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