Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 65

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Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
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This line runs through the county of Union, nearly culling it in two rqunl parts, dingonully, northeast and southwest, and running close in Lib- erty, Ihr rouuty seol.

It is known as the oll lodiun boundary, nud runs through or henreen the counties of Ranilelph. Warne. Union, Franklin, Dearborn, Ohio and Switzerluud.

On The farm of Thomas Moffat, in the north part of the county, u fort was built in 1$12. us s protection against the Indians, of whom the people were afriil. One iras also built on the farin of William Lewis, ubout a mile from the foriner.

The plurk, imlustry and intelligence of the people make up for the lack of territory. The county, although one of the sunilest in number of square miles in the State, only oue being smaller, nevertheless stands among the highest in poiul of wealth mwl general intelligener, and no county exreeds it in henlilifulness. Tho forms are productive nud well improred, and all Have plenty of timber ntul wuter

Tho farmers take n grent interest in the muprorement of lirr stock, especially horses und hogs. Numerous grist und saw-mills are located upon the stremus, und the conuty is thickly ilofted over with good churches nud seliool lionses.

Tho Umon County Agricultura] Society was organized in 1853, March 5th. W. 11. Bennett nus President : | G. Inworth, Vire President ; Wm. Byratu, Trensurer , J. F Gartner, Serreinry.

April 2. 1866, the Union Comity loint Stuk Agrienhurul um] Mechmi- cal Association nas organized. Trelre weres of ground within the corpora- tion of Liberty was purchased nml tuteil up in good order for a fair gromnl.

W. If Bennett was for several yenrs n member of the State Bonrd uf Agriculture.

The county poor naylum is located near Liberty. It is a frame building, omul comuoilious. The proumils contain oue hundred aml sixty acres.

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In 1821, ut tho formation of the county, Brownsville irns the sent of government. It was laid out iu 1817.

11 bns a population of three hundred, and contains several stores, one Melhorlist aud une Christin Church , our Mnsonic and one Odd Fellows' loilge.

In 1828, the county sent ans remorrd, itfler nu exciting struggle, lu Liberty, a thriving town of 1,000 people, situated un an eloraled plain near the center of the county, un the thihcmhnali, Hamilton & ladinaspolis Railroad, sprouty-oue miles southeast of Iulianwpolis, mul fifty-Ino milo noriluivest of Cincinnati

It eputuins one newspaper (intepemient ), the Liberty Herald, edited arul published by Johu W. Short.

Four churches, good nud subslowfiul rdifices, with a senting capacity of nhout three hundred enrh ; one public school house, a fine brick building two stories high nml n busmment, costing $16,000; two National banks, one pinning-mill, tro touring- nulls, four ilry gomuls stores, tuo drug stores, two More stores, two furniture stores, four grocery stores, tno hotels, four boot

nnd shue manufactories noul stores, Iun tin shups, one Masonic Lodge with Chapter and Council, and one Oild Frllon a' Laalge.

Rude Brothers bme an exiensne manufactory of corn and wheat drills and double corn plows.

is a lown of two hundred iutjubitants. The White Water Presbyterian Acailemy, a Bne building, ivas located bere h is now nseil for a public school.

There is also one Presbylerinn Church.

POPULATLOY.

The population of the county in 1850, was 6,000; in 1800, 7,103; in 1870, 6,221.

The cause of this decrease lies largely in the fact that, as the formery become wealthy, they huy out their neighbors' small formis nud adil lo their own. Number of school children in 1871, 3,408. number of school houses, forty-thirer.

TAVUCHE.

There are four churches at Liberty, viz .. One Romnn Calliolie, one Presbyterisu, one Christian, one Methodist. Al Brownsville, une Mnbodist, one Christian. At College Corners, oue United I'rewhyierinn, one Methodist. At Dunlapsville, one Pristylerinn. At other points in the county nre. one Melhorlist, one Frlenda', two Duirersalist, two Christion, nad one Baptist. The county is divided into six townships, vix. : Brownsville, Harriso, Ilor- tony, Liberty, Center nud Uniun.

The counly was formerly n part of Franklin L'ounty, us wos also Fuyelte County. It has been hinled by some thint the making of this little county Was mere a political movement Ihon u public necessity.

The first conrt house isas linlt al Bruinsville, in 1821.

The first court nas held berr in July, Ist1

Hon. Miles C. Eggleston ivus the first Julge of the firenit Court, and Robert Swann abil Srlrnnus Ererts, Associate Judges

It seems by the records that the number of criminal cases in the early days wus considerably greater than nt the present lime

Among the first ileeis recurled ivus one from Joseph ItoJenour und Ann, his wife, In John Hamilton, for eighty urres of luud for $241, executed March 3, 1820.

Thomas Bradtium settled in the ceuuty al an early day.

John Templeton esmue fruta Ohio and setiled on The White Water, in the north part of the county, in 1805.

Entries of Inud were munile us early ny 1811

The prestol rourt house hus built in 1853-4, ul o rost of $14,000; is fre- proof, nad ivelt odopled for its purposes. It was mostly buitt by private subyrriptim

The first Reroriler was Thoums I nsoy, eleelert in 1821, m which time the first deed wos pul on reconl-thut of lumes Sulery lo Jumues Horvey for thirty-there and one-third Heres fur $500-neknon-ledgrd by John Biggs, Jus- fice of the l'ence.

Elghill Burnside, in 1821, uus Justice of itir Prare : in 1843, he wes Associale Judge. Grn. Ambrose Boruside, bis son, was turu uboul one mile southeast of Liberty.

James Leriston ins the hrst Clerk of the Circuit Punti He ulsu per- formed the duties of Auditor. Williutu Youse ims the first Sheriff Thomas Cully, Anron Suntun noil Jonathan Hunt were the best County Commissioners,

Present Recorder, James We Minus ; Clerk, William M. Casterline : Audi- for, James M Duvall ; Treasurer, John B. Mucy ; Sheriff, Emmel B Gould; Juilge of il Circuit Court, R O Huuna ; County Commissioners, Alexander Worl, Levi L Bond and David . Gartner ; Superintendent of Schools, Lee M Crist.

Williamu L. Roze, living three miles soul last of Liberty, is one of the oldest residents of the county. He is & years old, has been married fifty- six years, his wife still living lle is hale and hearty, and takes his regular rations "He very frequently wolk . from his home lo lown, especially on conrt days, nud an all publir occasions, sus he bus nerrr made much money, hat has had lots of fun, abil also borsts of the furt that be bas raised eight boys, wud errry one of them huid n sister-nino children allogelher. Ens been # Free Mason sisly Feirs. He camr lo Fairfield. Franklin County, in Iel7, built the first frame bonse in Fairfield, onI moved to Uniun County in 1523.

Apron Gardner is one of the uhtout men liriog in Ihr rummy. His uge is Sú years.

Samuel Elwell. another okl resident of the county, died in March. 1875. If he had liveil forty iluys longer, he wsonlil hni e bieen HHI years old He maile, during his life, fourteen trips trick to his uld home in New Jersey un fuut.

Jonathon M. Ridenout, the oldest of sixtern children, whose mother is still liring nl College Corners, was born in I'reble County, Ohio, iu 1819, and the same yrar mine with his parents lo Franklin County, Indiana, and set- tled af College Corners, Union County. Ilis life has brrn a busy and ryenl- ful one, ahnt is farmer, jurrehut, builder and] proprietor of railroads. a real estate man und banker, bay been in The main successful. He wus ibe main spring in the building of the Cincinnati, Ilunillon & Indianapolis Railroad, amil for fifteen years its President, and in 1873-4, principal stock- holder and mannger of the Indinnupolis Journal. He is always absorbed in business, byl not ul tho espeuse of his sui inl or publir spirited mlnre, a keen obserrer of political moremurnfs nud men, but not n politieinn. A rmich- munn, but not a bigut.

The oldest brick house in the county stands adjoining tho linlen our farm, nenr College Corners. It nas tmilt mn 1812, by John Miller, urbn came from the State of Virginin to that place in 1803.

All of this region was theu n ilensr native forest.

Among the enterprising men who were instrumental in opening up and brantifying this rich portion of our Stule, irrer Judge Burnsile, fuir twenty- one years the Clerk of the Circuit Conri : John. Tobias. Ahrum and Daniel Miller ; Gen. John B. Ross nhuCol. Thomas Brown. Als the Hlaworths, the Gardners and the Sunius, who organizeil n Society of Friends, and built Ibe Friends' meeting house m Salem, bulf way between Liberty aud College Cio- ners. The descendants of thesr nicu nro many of thew still living in the county, mul uro an enterprising, noble spirilel aud intelligent rlass of citizens.

Thomas W_ Benneit was the son of a farmer. IIr has a gradualr if Ihr lan Grbool of the Asbury University, and Professor of Mathematics and Natural Sciences in White Wuler College at Centerville, and from INJJ fo Isil, practicrd lun at laberty. At the breaking out of the war be raised a company of volunteers, nud serred as Cautnin in the Fifteenth Rrginient of Inilinun Volunterry, theu ns Miyor of the Thirty- sixth, then as Colonel of lhe Sixty-winth, and ww rogaged in all the morements anil battles which resulted in the capture of Virksburg, oml in the Red Hirer campaign.

He was a member of The State Sruate for sereral Terms. Ilr removed In Richmondl, ludiana in INGS, of which eity he nas electel Mayor, and in 1871, nas appointed, hy President Graut, Governor of filabo Territory.

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1. toented iu AAdams Tionship. There are four business houses In this place, " hotel, three churches, n gradul school, Livo blucksmith and wngon shops, a marriage farlory, n grist noil tiro sun-milly, a livory stable, cto. Brooklyn, t'uragen, llull, Waverly, Point Wryt, Snleju, Herbemont, Capo Post Olhee, Gusburg Fost Olhes, Landersilulo Post Ollire, Ited Hanse Post Office, Louis- ville l'ost Othce, ure small villuges nad post offices sinftered throughout the cenaty.

tons of hay in Ixi0 2,6419

situated one-balf in this county ond one- half in Ohio, conlaine u population uf foor hundreil. Ii has one Methodist and one United Presbyterian Church. Sulem, the seat of the Hild Friends' Mreting House, ond Billingsville. with a population of' nur hundred, ore little banlets of the rural districts.

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COUNTY HISTORIES .- CONTINUED,

.Inmes Perry came In Liberty in 1823, from Kenturky He was, in 18Iu, elecled Judge of the furlicial District, composed of the cunnlies of Union, Fnyclic, Rush, Decalur, Henry nnil Wayne. llis son, Ornn l'oiry, iras harn nl Lihierly, and remored al up early age to Richmond. llo was nelirely engaged in the fiehl during the iene of the llehellion, und Alure the war has hecame extensively rugaged in tunna- furlures.

CASS COUNTY.

This is nne of The central group of counties in The northern section of Tho Siale, and lies in The heart of tho ferlile Wabash region. Il ling un nren of 120 square miles, und, in 1870, had a population of 21,193.

The general surfico of the county is lovel, with the exception of oe- envionn high liluffy along the cirers. The lond, partienturly in the south, wut originally covered with n valuable growth of forest ireca. In the northern parl Ihrrenre a number of prairies, the surface porlaking seme- trhnl of The churaeleriglica of the colinliey lying lowaril the northwest. A lurge nren of rich ullu vinl soil is formed ulung the Wabash mul Eel Rivers and theit Iribuluries. The first-namel llews from cash In wrest, iliriding the minuly into neirls rquul paets. The l'el River, fairing from The northern, enters the Wnhish ul Ingan-porl.

The rocks of Cius County ure rich in geologirnl inleecal, tieing exposed. In many instunrry, where the hamptons quarries hare bren opened, Thus fucililnling The rremarches of the scientist. They belong to The Upper Silnrion nge, with onlliney of the Lower Devonion.

Limestone of greil ccaomnie aume is found along The Waleish, in prodigions quantities, und the supply is practically inechensible. El is lorne 1 inla lime and shipped rery extensively. thus forming on important industry. Much of ibis limestone is nlyo ned for building purposes.

The lime rork is underluidl hy a magnesinn liroestone. This is found al Cedar Island, un Pihe Creek, Ligansport, Geargrloin and in other lucali. livs. It is Incully known us "frrestone," niul contains lillle or no limo. In Thicknegy, il inricy from one lo forly feel ; the quarry strala nre from fine lo twelve frel Thick. This, on other builling slone found in The quantr, has been leded by use in bridge piers, datus and public buildings, and irithslands lho wir of time and uer ndmieihly. Some of the freestone MIrala hire heen expreset lo Ihr arling af waler for uges A remarkable in. winner of this is shown in the " Rogirin Rock, on the Indinna Reseren- linn, arhich slowly mone in n fred on the south bank of the Wabash, n mimoent showing The slow bul onghly changes mile in nges posl.

Bewiliful while sandslono nod lithographie alone have been founil, und Aprehoens of These, fremo The land of Willing Danu, Inve hoen placeil in the Sinly Crhinel. What is known us Gredano is found n inile south of Logans- porl and in somr olhier localities. Thus has an exterior linury porver of re. Aisling the nelion of beal, and has been used foen long lime in coostrieling fire- places nol in furunces. Geologiently, it would arem lo helong neir the diciching line of the Silurinn tund Deroning formations.

Bilmuen is Guil in amall quanlities in the limestone guerrirs, und pelridemin with great frequenet. The supply of either is insufficient la remiler Thrin of any i rimorsie valne.

TILL 11RST Ionie of THE SO1.

were the l'allasrullinie and Miami Indians, The former owned The Int'l nurth of the Wuhash, the laller Ionl upon the south. The first cession of lambs uns mule by the Miatnis, in the Treaty of 1816, In which they gave up thy Innil wugl of the mouth of liel ftiver. The Followvallomies surren. dored Ibe Inud north of The Wulisch, in 1826, al The Mississnews Irealy, And il Ankyequent limes und by porinus Irenties.

The forriley neir included in Cons County uns ullsched lo Tippeethoe I'minly mijl April 1, 1828. Until the 13th of April, 1829, il wns incluiled m Cirroll Conuly, Unl upon lbnl ilny it enterel npon an indepeorlent rurrre is n conult, niidl trus goveened by ils owa officers.

The history of The Case Connly region prerions lo this lime, when it first eenchod n eiril gurernment of ily own, is full of interest. Giron in all ils Aillness, il wand lake us back to the time when The French explorers ven- Inrod into The Imnelleag writes lin reninries ago. Il wouldl hring up pielnres of sorage billles omong Ibe fierce l'ellawallomies and neighboring Iriley- Inliles Thal bire pun long been huried in The oblivion of The past. 11 irould show The erat and unIntored >Ialesmanship of Little Turile as he marshaled herde after hante of his dngky followers and led them foeth lo defeal The dis- ciplice l Iraaps ef Harmer nad SI. Plur. I would giro us un insight ilno the machinetiety of "Teenmsch und The prophel as They monugleil with The nnlive Tribos then holding this region, muny of which were al the Tlppe- ranor ballle ground, und still ervlier thon Ihnl suffered ilefeal al the hands uf Med Anthony Wurne ou't his legions. We must. however, content onr. volkes with n muro circumseribel rerien.

The Walush Three formed x unluret boundney battreen Ite l'ollairal. Intuios und Ihr Mininis. Nurth of this stream, the liral immed Iribe held Indisanled envar, und in This region, nl leisl, they were, in The Inter years of their oceujinury, angirrior In The Miamis in numbers, und resperleil necoril- Ingly hy their suruge neighbors. The Grat military expedition ishich pielie- Irnie 1 The conulma of tho foltmurellomies in lodiann irne in 1791. Iu thul ye ir, Col. Jours Wilkinson lud o body of Ironps nginst the Indians on The Webash, and bururl their village of OFlown un the Fel River, ser en miles

As laly nº 1826, The Poliairalbumies bell nnitisputed swas over the entire region north uf the Wabash, from The Ohio lo the Winnis lige, nud n4 Gir north ny Mirhigen The only exception being n anrill Irael, perhaps. in Ihr viviaity of Fort Wayne, The Indian Irader, it is Irne, ochumled by love of uli enlure und The hope uf gain, was reinhlished in n fris places among the ennrlly sons of The forest, hint he remained woerely ul The will of The red meu. Thew Inpling posts, honeier, were feir nad Inr beliren. They irre fuir in umber, nad like those al Fort Wayne and South Bend, were irideir soiltered, heing located only nl such points where there was ualer com| minuicalion, for The renyon Ibar This was the only way of tmarel, excepl- Ing hy The rile nnl wimling Indian Irnils. Theugh There was no lurge rilluge ur extensive Iradling establishment ul The mouth of l'el River, yet The place Inila un important one in the navigation of tho Wabiyh, und ia offen men- lehed in centrelion with The early settlements insde al Vincennes muuil other places on ils lauks. The principal Trails in The rougly, at The line the Inhinus bud full control, wns the one leading from where now slams Lifselle le Fort Wayne, and amilher leading from Logansport lo the Imding posl of Alexis Cequillel al Sunth Beml There were other Irails while4 wyho eniny.

The Bird Indian Ira lors whu loinled in Cass County, after the treaty of ISIH with The Indians, were tuhn Durel and George Cicoti. The former petnhlished himself, in 1820, un the south band of The Wabash, n short lidlnuce abore the matth af Burk Prerk, and iras for many years Clerk nf The county after ile organization. Cicoll was u white man whe hul been nopird by the lodburallamies, among which Iribe he had considerable influence. Ile hell, ns n rrserre, a part of The presql site of Logonsport, and tradeil ne a Pollaralomie rillage opposite Durel's place on the Wnhish. Dnrel moved to Fort Wayne in 1823, und Cicoll, who wray his colew porary, nhoill The same Time innrpil In u reverse u short distance nbove Georgelown. The Pollawallywies arre, in Those days, quile numerous in this vicinity, mind lowing been hronghl july canlad with The whites hul Tillle as yel they retained murt of Their ancien mrillness nad independence.

The next Indler was lhlward McCartney, who came in The employ of Walker & Davis, of Fort Wayne, in 1815. MoCirlucy established himself on The north bank of the Wabash, half a mile hetor the " Point," and ereelel his house in front of whal is now the divelling occupied by F. Seybolil. llere he remained unlit 1827, when he moroil neross Ibo rirer mid selected n spel near ils bank anil s feir rods holmy The brick building ocon- pied for many years by 1. Brugguman. This change of base irns mudo lo sove his house from confisention for selling whisky lo The Indians contrary to law. As McCartney hnd hiro Indian wires, and did not slay permanently, ho must be elassed with the Inding Iraders, and can scarcely be regurled as n selller in Iho sense in which Ihal lerm is generally used. He went away will The Indinns, and moreil lo Koyginsko County in 1832.

PSTRY OF LINHA-PERMANENT SETTLEMENT.

In the Irenly of 1818 with The Minmis, They ngreed lo surermler the landy ceiled in 1821, in which yenr the first londs in The Cias Conuly region passed into the hands of The whiles after ages of possession by The aborigines. Thus gave opportunity for the survey of the lauds, which were first offered for sale nl the Crawfurilsrille land office, in the fall of 1844.

The Gral entry of lands within The present limils of The county iras onile hy Alexander Chamberlin, December 21h, 1824. The following ndditionnl entries ne sboin hy the Irnet book of the county, ivere made from lime lo lime: Lemuel March, November 14th, 1825; Willinm Newman, December 14th, 1825; George 1 Walker and Christian Simmons, seine dale As Newman; John Rolabaugh, February 9th, 1826; and Andreis Young, March With, 1826. Chumhierlain, who caine ociginnlly from Kinderhook, New York, was the first permanent settler in the counly. He brought his family in the latter part of the sumuer or enrty fill of 1820, from Forl Harrison, Vigo County, and sellied on The south bank of The Wabash, opposite The mouth of fot River So Thinly populated wray The county with while men il thul lime, That Chinroberlain was forced lo call upon his friend4 nl the Deer Creek yelllement, over Iwenly miles west on the river, for nid in erecling hiy first log house. This was made of hewn logs. nud was Iwo stocies in hoighil, and doulite, having a sort of open hall way in The middle. 11 was, with The exception of Walker & Duris' and McCartney's Trading honse, the firal builling erceled in Cass County, onif the first of all ereeled us a permançul house. Il ins used as a lorern for a nnorber of years, being The Bird house of entertainment in The place. William Newman, with his family, came into tho county shnelly after Chamberlain, and built his enbin Three miles from Logansport down The river.

Daniel Bell anıl Hugh R Mekeen brought Their families to Logansport in 1997, the former in March, and The latter in June. These were The only permanent seltlers on the " Reserve " during the yene. Bell was 1 hrather- in.Inie of Gen. Tiplon, Inihan Agent for this part of the Siale, anil ceceled his enhin just south of the enunl and west of Herkley streel. Mr Keen creeled Liru log honses, one for his family, muil the uther for a Trailing room. In this mom irn+ oprneil the first store in Casy County, in which a rule assortment of nrlicles tere kupl for supplying the necessilies of the belllers. M. Keen's irhide customers were not anmerons, bul they were wulely seal- lered, tieing from Fort Wayne, the SI. Joseph, and other distanl stalions

Anloint Gamelin, a levler, came in The fall of 1827, and built a Irwing honse on the north side of The Wabash, near irhnl is now the western limil of Logansporl. flere, in connerlinn with Richuril Choberl, he continued ns n Irader will The Indians for a year.

Joseph Barron, of Forl Warne, iras the nesl comer, and built himself n Iwo-slory log house where The ilu elling of lolin Sefferl now sinnils. He also liad'u Irvling cabin on the river rond, in which he Iransseled business for some ten years.

Ducing 1827, Chauncey Carler, of Forl Wayne, arrived, for the purpose of surreying The lands bonghi of The Indians ul The treaty of 182G, and in Oelober he mule The survey of George Cicoll's reserrulion, iwhere The orig- iunl lown Hour stands.

The firal arrival in The year 1828 was Juhn Smith, nfterivari n citizen of Fullon Chunly. Smith buill bis cabin neir the upper dum, on Fel River, und here, on the 15th of February, 1829, was born his daughter Sarah, Ibe first while chuld born in the present limils of Case County

LOCATION OF THIS ISPLAN AGENIF-NEW OROLITIC.

In The spring of 1828, The sile of Logansport irna anereyeil hy Chauncey Cirler, who, with MeKeen and Gro. Tipton, irns one of the original proprie- lors of The low'n site. Ir hud been there The year before, but now returned for the purpose of laying off The first plal inlo lots.

The laid upon which Logansport was silualed, as has atrendy been stated, win reserve, owgril by George Cicoll. In The treaty be isns slyled 0 Pullaivallomie chief, bul in reality he wns n dissipaled Freochmon, who bnd bern possessed of sufficient nhilily lo ingralinle himself with the Iribe. Ho first mindle a sale of his reserve lo Hugh B MeKeen, who is represented na haring heen n high loged and honorable Scolch Iroder. All these deeds for Indian graul were im alul until approved by the President of the United Staley. Mekeen sent his deed lo Washington, bul it disappeneed before receiving The proper sanction. Cicolt Then made another deed of The innd 10 Chauncey Cirter, with whom Gen. Tiplon wus hesrily inlereded, and MeKeen tray odmilled as part proprietoe.

The original plan conlnived Thal porl of the city which exlemils ivesl of lbe canal or l'ifth steeel lo lhe " Point," and helireen Caunl streel, nlong The Wabash, on The soulh, and Eel River and High streets, on the north. The surrey was empleled . April 10, 1828, and lola were offered ol prirole anle, at The rale uf 850 for in-lots and $75 fur corner lots. The deeds were exe- culed hy Cirler, under on nrrangement entered inlo will Tipton and Me- Keen. Lot Nu. 1, near the " l'oml," was Herised lo John B. Duret, in con- siderntion of him hnring inde n finished copy of the rough draft of The plnt. Lol 5], il The corner of Brandwny and Markel streets, iras taken hy G. W. Ewing, and Lols 47 am 49, nl The corner of Markel and Walund, hy Cyeus Taher. Both These lind come from Fort Wayne, iarly in the spring, lo engage in The lulinn Irade.

Geo. Tiplon, Indian Agent for The Poltmuivallomies and Mimmis, al Forl Wayne, cylahlished his pest here, and brought his family with him in Muy of The same year. The neqnisilinn wus 1 valunble one, as il maile this place Tbe center for all ofieinl business Iransneleil by the Agency, nul this nalur- ally drew arilh il The Indinn Irade. A blacksmith shop woy established far The Indinus, nhote Biddle's Island and on the south side of The river. James Smith was the blacksmith who had charge of This, the first nrlism's shop creeled in the county or in this parl of Ibe Sinir Benjamin Tolherl worked will him ay a striker. Smith was l'or many years idealified with the history of Casy and the counties north of il, and was the father of Anthony Smith, ex-fily Judge, and of Senalor Milo Smith, of Rocheler. He is also The frel Bapliel miniyler in Cons County, having hen ardnined in thal mitb, aml une of The very first ministers of nny t'ruleslant denomination Thal rrer zet fool in llus parl of The Wohneb country.

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Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 65

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

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