Northwestern Indiana from 1800 to 1900; or, A view of our region through the nineteenth century, Part 36

Author: Ball, T. H. (Timothy Horton), 1826-1913
Publication date: 1900
Publisher: Crown Point : Valparaiso [etc. ; Chicago : Donohue & Henneberry, printers]
Number of Pages: 596


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grees below; 13, 8 degrees below ; 14, 10 degrees ; 18, 35 degrees, shower ; noon, 40 degrees ; 20, 21, show- ers ; 22, 23, snow, 38 degrees; 25, rain. March, more mild, some snow, some clouds some sunshine ; 7, 4 de- grees ; II, 50 degrees ; 25, 40 degrees ; 30, 31, snow, 28 degrees. April, 13, 48 degrees ; 12:30, 77 degrees ; 17, strong wind ; 23, 56 degrees ; I p. m., 79 degrees ; 30 flowers in the woods, fruit trees full of blossoms. May, 2, 3, 4, showers ; 7, rain ; 8, wet ; 22, in the night a heavy storm. Latter part of May wet. June pleas- ant ; a good amount of sunshine. July and August pleasant months. September 5 very hot, 98 degrees ; 7, at II o'clock, 98 degrees ; at noon, 100 degrees ; at night rain; 17, 70 degrees ; rain followed; 26, light frost. October qnite warm, several Indian summer days ; 29, 36; heavy frost. November, mild ;


some Indian summer days; 22, 54 degrees ;


30, 40 degrees. December mostly mild; 12, 32 degrees, light snow; 29, 30, zero early; 31, 4 degrees ; noon, 16 degrees ; some good ice harvesting. 1900. January and February were pleasant winter months. January 29, zero : 31, 4 degrees below zero; in some localities 6 degrees below. February 1, 6 de- grees and 8 degrees below, light snow falls and some rain ; 24, zero at 9 a. m., 4 degrees below at night ; 25, about zero; 27, snow commenced falling at night. Snowfall continued all day; quite mild; a pleasant snow, but a heavy snowfall; about six- teen inches in depth, but drifted. March I, 28 degrees ; 5, 18 degrees, sleet falling all day, but not very rapidly ; only a few inches ; 6, 34 degrees ; after- noon snowing again; the short thaw of March 4, 36 degrees, now over. The ice harvests for this past winter were three. The first commenced about the last


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of December, the second the middle of January, the third the middle of February. Each lasted from one to two weeks. The ice was clear and nice, from eight to twelve inches in thickness. April 6, noon, summer heat ; at 3 o'clock, 80 degrees ; 9, 10, II, cool ; 12, snow two or three inches ; 26, wild flowers ; 28, again 80 de- grees. May 2, children barefooted ; in general a warm and growing month ; 27, at noon, 90 degrees. June,


showers or rain quite frequent. Strawberries ripe June 2; raspberries June 27, 28, 29, hot ; 30, cool wind all day ; strawberries gone. July 2, rain at night ; 3, a very hot night ; 4, 5, 6, 80 degrees in the morning ; 7, 76 degrees, and a shower at night; II, very cool wind in afternoon ; 15, rain in the night ; 16, showers; 17, showers ; 19, 20, 70 degrees in the morning ; 21, 56 degrees ; a growing, pleasant summer. Monday, July 16, the hay barn of John Pearce struck by lightning and burned ; also H. Boyd's hay stack.


CONCLUSION.


When this year which we call 1900 closes, then will end the Nineteenth century of the Christian Era. That it has been over all the world the civilized and the savage world, a remarkable century for changes, for inventions, for discoveries, for rapid movement among the world's forces, all are well aware.


When it commenced Northwestern Indiana, hav- ing passed in name and form from the French to the British, and from the British to the Americans, had no proper owners but Indians, no inhabitants but In- dians and the wild denizens of forest and prairie, with possibly an Indian trader, and so for some thirty years continued ; and now, as the century is hastening rapidly to its close, about seventy years having passed since the smoke first began to mount upwards from the stick chimneys of a few log cabins, we have farms and orchards and immense numbers of domestic ani- mals ; workshops and factories ; villages and towns and cities ; gravel and macadam roads; railroads and tele- phones and electric lights and electric railways ; schools and churches and some majestic stone court houses ; intelligent, prosperous farmers, and many cul- tivated and wealthy citizens. We have increased from the first log cabins scattered here and there in the woodlands to about one hundred villages and towns and cities, with nearly eight hundred and forty school


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houses and about two hundred and twenty-five churches.


It is true that there is another side, and some dark, very dark spots in the full picture. There are jails and a penitentiary, and many haunts of evil, and some homes of poverty and want. But while we have some beer-factories and hundreds, possibly thousands of saloons, and, it may be, some dens of infamy, yet it is sadly, fearfully. true that these are the blots as yet remaining over all Christendom, thickest and blackest in the largest cities, attesting well the claim that hu- manity is "tainted with leprosy within," and showing full well that earth's millennium age has not yet come. But the fiercer the conflict grows, "irrepressible" in- deed, between good and evil, the further, it is evident, we have advanced in achieving a Christian civilization. Thousands of prosperous, peaceful, Christian homes, in towns and on fertile farms, show that the seventy years of effort here have not been in vain. If there are some things much worse than anything known in the wild life of Indian savages, there is an immense amount of good which goes far to prove our right to occupy their ancient home. And this immense amount of good, in its varied forms, is to be left as a rich heri- tage to many promising boys and many fair and lovely girls, who are now preparing in country and city homes for the conflict of the coming century.


The work of the Pioneers is done. Most of those who here, in their young manhood and in the hopeful- ness and brightness of their earlier womanhood, laid the foundations for the successes and enjoyments of the present, have already gone beyond the reach of human words of praise or blame or cheer. Here and there is a grayhaired woman, and now and then there


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can be found an aged man, who knew the life and shared the toils of seventy, sixty, and up to fifty years ago. But they stand as do the few old oaks that can be found in our once open woodlands, few and lone, amid the thick "second growth" that covers so many broad acres now, reminding us of what once was in the home of the Indians and haunts of the deer. So these few aged ones, over whose heads the changes of four- score years have passed, remind the thoughtful and true ones among us of a sturdy generation of noble men and women who have passed on. As the voices are heard here no more of the Indians who once held over this region an undisputed sway, so are the voices silent now of the scores and the hundreds of the Saxon race who succeeded those red children of the wilds and whose footsteps often followed the red man's well beaten trail. Those joyous children in the pioneer households, who on prairies and in woodland enjoyed a freedom equal almost to that of the beautiful wild animals around them, have been succeeded in their turn by a generation that know nothing of their rich free life. Men and women and children too, of a quite different class, have entered upon the heritage won by the true-hearted pioneers, some of them worthy to enjoy the results of others' toil; some of them sadly wanting in the traits that characterize a noble man- hood, ready and eager to grasp results and striving only to bend these to their own selfish ends.


But doubtless many of the thousands that are now and that are yet to be, as they enjoy comforts and ease and luxuries and life and love, made sure to them by self-denials and hardships and toil, will in their hearts honor the hardy and enterprising generation of build- ers that went before them, and will read with interest


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and gratitude the names of some of Indiana's pioneers. These from their labors rest. If they did not plan all that those of this generation here possess, if they did not foresee the wonderful inventions and improve- ments of this stirring age, their lives here made possi- ble for others all these conveniences that we now enjoy.


Note. July 30, 1900. I have enjoyed the work of collecting the material which the readers have here found, of putting it into what I have hoped might be an acceptable form, and also the late constant effort to see that the proofreading was fairly well done- attaining perfection I do not expect-and now, as this care and effort are coming so near to an end, I take the opportunity to express the hope and the prayer, that we who are now enjoying the rich inheritance of pioneer toils, privations, and bright hopes, may finally meet with our pioneer forefathers and those who with them gathered into the pioneer households, who en- couraged every effort and so patiently and lovingly helped in all that was good-even as we hope to meet the noble men and women of sacred history, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the Sarahs and Nao- mis and Ruths, and the Marys and Marthas and Sa- lomes-in the glad future of the Endless Kingdom.


To the compositors and proofreaders, who have managed with so much skill and patience the manu- script copy put into their hands, a patience and a skill which I have highly appreciated, I here return hearty thanks. And to all who have had part in the printing of this book, for courtesy and kindness, I express appreciation and thanks. T. H. B.


INDEX.


PAGE.


An Indian School. 363


A Risky Shot 465 A Bee Sting 464


An Aged Journalist 534


A Drive Hunt


95


Alexander Robinson 31


Activity, Enjoyment 131


Agricultural Societies


426


Agricultural Products


403


Bald Eagle. 512


Battle of S. M.


173


Brookston


529


Carey Mission 25


Col. Hathaway 171


County Organizations


98


Crusade, Woman's 144


Crown Point


297


City West 309


Chandonia. 32


Congressmen


156


Creamerics


408


Calumet Region


511


Deer 96


Door Village Fort. 80


Districts.


156


Death by Freezing


525


Death by Accident


527


Dinwiddie Clan


434


Draining Marshes.


439


Early Celebrations


..


462


Extraets, Solon Robinson ...


458


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Early Settlers.


Of White Co. 39


Of Pulaski.


40


Of Jasper.


41


Of Newton


42


Of La Porte. 43


Of Porter 46


Of Lake


50


Of Starke


42


Early Social Gatherings.


Spelling Schools


88


Literary Societies 88


Religions Meetings


89


Singing Schools


90


Dancing Parties


89


East Chicago.


305


Early Travels.


Of Jersey Church


352


Of J. H. Luther


352


Fort Dearborn


23


First School Visitations.


375


Fur Animals


20


Granges.


426


Game Birds


19


General Outlines


11


General Packard


177


Guarding Railroad


134


Herds of Cattle


409


Human Remains


488


Hammond.


302


Hobart


295


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INDEX.


PAGE.


Institutes.


Teachers'. 139


Farmers' 140


Sunday School 141


Temperance. 142


Indiana Boundary 35


Indian and White Life. 66


Improved Roads 522


Indiana Territory 13


Indiana City 275


Judicial Circuits and Judges


160


Kentland


251


Knox


270


Land States 59


Lakes and Streams. 112


Liverpool 275


Lowell


292


La Porte 341


Longbridge 358


Lecturers at La Porte. 399


La Porte Library 398


Library at Michigan City 400


Libraries


392


Milk Shipping 108


McClure. 393


Mexican War 162


Massacre, F. D


24


Missionaries


212


Monticello 263


Native Plants 450


Native Animals 148


N. W. Territory 14


Native Fruits


16


Ordinance of 1787 14


Oxeu Disappearing


127


Object Lesson 170


Pottawatomie Indians


Papers and Editors 532


Public School Statistics 377 Private Schools.


In La Porte 386


In Lake 387


In Porter 389


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Parochial Schools


390


Political History.


Campaign of 1840. 119


Campaign of 1848


152


Pioneer Schools


362


Pioneer Schools


368


Pioneer Schools


370


Pioneer Schools


87


Quick Trip, by James Adams 359


Religions History


178


Methodist Episcopal 180


German Methodists, 187 Swedish M. E. 188


Congregationalists 188


Presbyterians 190


United Presbyterian 199


Baptists 201


Lutherans 214


"Reformed"


216


"Christians"


217


Protestant Episcopal. 221


Roman Catholics. 222


Unitarians


225


Second Adventists. 226


Quakers. 227


"New Church" 227


Free Methodists 227


United Brethren 230


Believers.


231


German Evangelists 233


Dyer Union Church


233


Rensselaer


255


Reuben Tazier 175


Sunday Schools


234


Sportsmen.


517


School Children after


Deer


375


Senator Miller on Public


Schools.


385


School Taught by U. McCoy. 373


S. S. Statistics 242


Solon Robinson 472


Saggonee 17


Saggonee


23


Shaubenee. 30


Social Life 138


Statistics of 1850


122


Some Statistics


536


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INDEX.


PAGE.


PAGE.


Towns and Villages.


Trustees and Surveys.


58


Of Jasper 253


Teachers' Associations 429


Of Pulaski 265


Valparaiso. 327


Of Starke


270


Voters in 1895. 156


Of Lake.


275


Of Porter


308


Of La Porte


330


Wild Pigeons 19


Winamac 265


Waverly


319


In Lake Co., 1869 375


War Record 164


In Newton Co., 1899 380


Whiting


296


Tassinong . 322


Wild Fruit. 510


Telephone Companies


521


White Owl. 512


Of Newton. 247


Townships. 121


Of White 260


Wild Honey 18


The Swan


513


Teachers.


570


INDEX.


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PAGE.


Towns and Villages.


Trustees and Surveys.


58


Townships. 121


Teachers' Associations 429


Of White 260


Of Pulaski 265


Valparaiso ... 327


Of Starke


270


Voters in 1895.


156


Of Lake.


275


Of Porter


308


Of La Porte


330


The Swan


513


Winamac 265


Waverly 319


War Record 164


Whiting 296


Wild Fruit 510


Telephone Companies


521


White Owl. 512


Of Newton 247


Of Jasper 253


Wild Honey 18


Wild Pigeons. . . 19


Teachers.


In Lake Co., 1869 375


In Newton Co., 1899 380


Tassinong 322


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