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In Isto, the population of the county had petched 20,119 and the assessed value of its roll and persand property was so. 113970 Several new vill aggres had sproig mp. But with the umerial anl intell. tual progress of the county politiet freling rin high The show. power of the South, nlarmed at the growing strength at the I. publim party. was desert, and threats of nalis-ainte n of the I'nin in certain contingencies. were board. Henry county with its ent lagen constituener find tervent spira beheld with deep concern the force pomen struggle and in the presidential einetion of Set 2 votes for Abraham Lincoln. 12 for Steplien A Douglas, WOfer I . nt Brokearuky and 16 f & John B .IL. And when the batteries ot Se ith Ciroynangenes fire on. Furt Sumpter. in April. Ivil. the patriote spint of the moty conse Relever lettore. and when the Fremden called foto per mata & the authority of the zureramit. Henry county want two companies of soldiers to the ad of war. and on June 3. 1> >l. at Pho .. ppt. the first bitti- of the war. in which the sixth rez ment, of which co spany Freeritri at Knightstowi til vicinity fornie ! a part. w is actively engaged, the su ders of Henry county received their hiption of fire, ar Candnie 11. Med. the Eighth regiment. embracing within its rinks Company F from Henry county, took part in the battle of Rich Montinin, and Phil tuder WisIart. a gillant young man of Fal. Coerk township was the Arst . fiber of the bounty too give op bis life in the great struggle just henning. And when the struggle became a pr longo& more, and the fate of the nation seemed t times to tremble in the balance. Henry county repos led pute ticity t . every call for trops and sent the Power of her wouts and minhud to fill the ranks of many regiments. Hundreds of the young and middle aged men of the county. from the farm. the shop and the ofire. from the y walls and every fors- tion in life, and from every toarslan and town etrolled themselves as soldiers in the great strany." for the Inten and rendered batole service. There bad buen hnt for eniisimont, from the mimity in the war with Mostro, but in the wat for the ssppr using of the rebellion. the strongest feelings of patriotism were aton -- i
Under the first and serom! e'ils for troops, the enlistment, from Henry county Und been largely ir. exres- of Fer quota The rare"ment vy weil that the military forme . { the cac ty was :275 on September 19. 12 Of this number to wer exempt fromhet ser. and HIS ar condien- jest to militaryduty At thistime Die ne wor or olyanthearmy. And when the D'orient m" " hi- th te itortroop. in Vught. ish2. hon dt)
we call for Some culticant : age rei of wander Henryrenaty
THE mes Com Henty comes where spanked to read the sender
From Halaya untd the last gim wis me I njen the Rio brule, the
salsaet and annons service and the housein and achievement of the troops in this great stengel form one of the brightest pages of its history The losses in killed angol wounded of several reg ments containing large members of the soldiers of the county were among the greatest in the war P'rom Henry county William Guer Pub red theemmy Es colonel af the Thirty-sixth regiment, som comunidad as brigade, and frame brig- acher and major general: George W. Lennard, a gallant officer. rose to rapel promotion to the ca neley of the fifty-seventh regiment and gave up huis hfe at Resten; Milion Peden, after gallant servire in the Thirty- sixth regiment, became calcul of the One hundred and forty-seventh tog- iment there were many other commissioned others of less rank equally worthy of mention, but in an army where the majority of non-tomil -- Monell otherrs auil privates were the equals in intelligence and soril post- tion of their ofbeer . and recording to their opportunties rendered equally meritorious service. it wou! ! som invidiods to particularise With a pop- ulation of 20,119 in Ist, there were 3140 enlistment- in Henry county from April 1991. to the close of the war. The number includes the large number of renlistments, but there were not less than Itan men who en- tered the army from Henry county The soldiers of the Union and their families during the great struggle were geurnem ly treated by a loyal pro. ple and the Board of Commissioners, and the county and the different townships paul as bountus to the soldiers and os rehef to their families the sum of SAGS.>59.3%.
While. under the ham me laws of the times, overseers of the poor were Appuntited as early as the creation of the civil townships. the county made 10 provistomi for a permanent home for its poor notil is 20, when n farm uf our hundred and sixty a re-, Iwinga part of the present county firm, was purchased, and tive years later an ass lum was . reeted. The thinl jail of the county, completed in 1-36, continued to he used until 1951. when the second brick .jant was erected. Justice was dispen-el in the old red brick court house with its towering cupola and lofty blue judge's stand, until it was burned on February 13, 1864. Then its walls mind the jail near by were torn down to make room for the present shirtantial court house which was begun in 1-67 and completed two years later While the gloom of civil war bong over the North and there was scarcely a family in the county winch had not some men.her or relative in the army. it was a period of unusual material prospenis, and when in 195 the armies of the Union were iliskin led, the citizen solchers returning bonie. were absorbed without disturbance among the toders of the county, and with the lessons learned in war bergine its foremost citizens in peace And notwithstanding the losse in the civil war, the population of the county had continued to increase until it had reached 24.956 in 1570, and its wealth had grown to $11.046.390 for purp mes of taxation.
The earliest yousniper projects in the county have been notice John W Grubbs remained in charge of the Counter until 18th, when he disposed of the ast hlishment to C. V. Duggins, who died in 1550, when Mr. Grubbs agun beramie propripor atal editor alul continned in that relation natil dinnaary. 1553, when George W Lennard purchased the office and a few months later took Colours Rogers into parturlop In 1-54. the paper was sold to Ellisom and Nattog maul Inter in the same venr Wrigley need Lyle purchased the other, and an 1500, disposed of it to Charles E. Harwood mal Thomas B Redding It was at this time that the publication of the wildly road Mallanix l'aper. pressing no slight degree of literary morit. was brugun, and the letters of that mythieni ptsun. Ohnbah Dhbu k, số well ki wa à the tw htical history of the county began to be intercepted and published in the Courier. These last name proprietor- www afterwards sold the paper to Elijah B. Martindale, who was Needed in IF by De ( . Denke In 19 Walton P. Gaux parlons of the paper and in Isid, while the civil war was raging. sold it to Elwood Ph is, who candneten the paper for more than six years, addmy to the material of the other and extending the rare ulations of the proper In March. 1960. Harry 11. H warr nun Maurier F. Pleas Frame proprietor -. wml m Mov. 1-20. A. G. Wiloxx porchisel Mr Phay interest and m July. IT2. Adolph Rogers purchased the griper, and immediately canali. dated it with the Homes t sants Republican paddleche Aby Einemed flere
The Courier From the begu tong food rege read the Wing tour, but i
HISTORY OF HENRY COUNTY
man in Het, the House County And put it
the Sport of Repente, the Lowesthe Deman if not the New Cath
Knightstown is INGS, and the Western Retains a monthly pablo then de. them received anthesent support to justits their pathieston
The wew-piper property mand failure- m Henry county have buon numerous, and are no more important the ad her maurer-stal entergene- except as dlaistrating the pohned ind mitell . ta 11 b of the party fue power of the press his ste rely unserenasf med the press and paljett, supe plemented by the splendid systemof our tree & bowls, long bo to the grent intellectual and moral fores of the mitiog .. no the e ht irs of Heury comunity milddress each week, through the e fummel their respective dess- then, that the great power of pain dem be logged in good loans and that its influence muy ever be against the folke in tiste and the objectionality in morals
Within the county sx newspapers are published The New Castle Courier. now in its fits-third volume, has withstood every viensatade and within its pages have been recorded for more than half a century the vary- ing phases of life within the county. The ( maroc. now for seventy ryours nudler the mangement of W. H Elbott has ter hed a splendid material prosperity and is among the most influential of the weekly newspapers of the state.
The next oldest nowemaper is the Knightstown Binner, established in 1467 by Jim A. Dom, watch after varpots chang > in ownership. is puht- lished by Wallace K De , son of its toun ler. Fler Bintier, enterprising in the presentation of the news and a unified in the simssam of athens. it securely established The New Castle Dos weer, with warum- changes in its mingement. has n wohl its sixteenth y donde and under the pontoed of P M Giffie- has att nela gomter fin ition than ever helge. anl the collection of the news has been si systematizal as to make wach issue a nurror of the principal happenings of the week within the county The Middletown News he reached its ninth volime sul under the minna _- ment of .5. 1) Lombert is box and alde and in as well-written litoral- and in the prosentation of bad news ranks wah the best of the country work. lies The Knightstown San piquant and ent rung in Podlahyof affairs, has entered it - righth volume not is paidshe's by Chitener Brand and Charles Bear.l Ine san is published in the own building. it with a being one of the hot ogmppel in the rainity The People's Press ante into existence three years ago na the expend of the principles of a new and aggressive padity d query W W Ping wie its first alter. Ding succeeded by Walter & Chambers The pap ris will edited and carefully presents the news of tin town aml county
Since Males Egglestonthe first president judge & the Hours Circuit Court, made his best and only visit to Noir (m. m 1-3, the courts of the county have been the conservators of our hiertres and our property. bringing justier to every man's door Bellmed F. Maers, Charles Il N'est. Samuel Bigger and James Perry weer warressurely prosiding judg - until 1-44. when Jeho I Haladt, who was the firsteither of the county why preside over the air out court, homme por selent judge ,and served with the associate judges, we of whom was his father. Alinham Elbott, until the office of associate podge was abolished in 1.2. When the will of associate judge was ah Ishet the prolite pourt was also legislated out of existence And the court of Common Pleas er ated Martin L. Bons was the first judge of the new comer and Romeet i. folk the best. the court he- minh Smith Jeho T Elatt, Sia- Colgar Landes Buckles Ich TH Mellett, Robert L Pass Mark E. Forkner, Will am II. Mario and Einem If Banaly, have some-sisaly leon ile gales of the effect court The clerks of the rip ut woist, where to sister of their other, wap the class of the probate Pourt mel court of Common Ph -, spier Rem. Juliens ,
David W Kings, I dert B Cher, Jadon & H . Neton Brown. Aretph
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filling the office then you when the the proble me
his palen nt of my to, and within the first teaser cles aller the southern
Among other early members at the legalsome from Henry County i form is senator, baconing on JeEr, and Eh Murphey who's ried a terme Davil Mar, Richard Hesten, Mais Marches. Robert A Comer.
John Pas. H. Samuel Codes, Jesse W. Baldwin, Martin &. Hints. Willnun A Rather. Butler doble rd. Aus+ I Jorden. Jan il Mores, Joseph Yount. Sammel W Stewart, Lather (' Mellett, s. lm Pedan, Nathan H Ballonger. Withhim fitas and cosmo H Mellett were members of the House, while Chsho Loong. Thomas Bell. Thomis R Mantont, John T Elliot, El Murphey, dieorgy Exaus. Eachof I Hakman, Witham W W. Hons. Eswar Rinley were sures-wvely srn itor. before the war. Without exception, so faras is now known, these early legislators faithfully and conservationaly served their const. ments
During the war for the suppression of the Rebellion. when party forling ran high, do hos I Mellett, as a member of the senate, rendered patriote service to the state and the Union cause and touch high mans in i baly rump sed of nausually able men, and during the same perbal Martin L Bandy and Charles D Morgan were able and mluential members of the House, Sture that time. Diepl W Chambers, John R Milhkin, Thomas S. James, John Heten k. Mark F. Forkner. A R A Thompson. Charles > Hubbard. Exum Sunt, Wilham M Bastlett, JJohn A Domu, William A Brown, Witham tipp, John M Morris and Thomas & White, have been members of the House Since the clave of the evil war Milion Felen. Thomas Reign, Luther W Hess, Benjamin Shork. Engene H B italy. Wil. Imam diese and Leonadis P Nawhy have foon members at the senate. Among the liter members of the bing -lature Divul W Chambers. Mark E Forkner, Exutu Sunt. William A Brown and John M Morris in the House and Eng. in I Bundy and Loomdas P. Nowby in the senate, being al. nur ibly equipped for detecte, actively participated in the political dans- Mons of the times molewereis Imor . than ordinary intimmice int, legislation. and some of these members ralulated tur qu days of leadership
Hours comny, with its excellent selada, and with a pquinton ab se the average in intelligence, has ever been the patron of newspapers mal general literature, and while there have not been many produces of liter- ture in the county few conatus have passed more men and women of refined and rittivated tastes, ntl with greater love for the pure and sh yn- tod in hierature Of those whose writings have passesel more than or- dinary ment, John W Grubbs and Russell B. Abbott were am mg the earliest in the county. 'The former for many years engaged in peru teil journalism, was a writer of unusual torer tool origguilty and the winter of a quite and . haste style, white the lertuns aml phitessps of the latter thise loses literary talent of noslight order Isnac Kinley, toucher. juniti- rian and sollier, was a gentleman of varied literary att wientific nttam- _ ments, und prior to and short !; after the civil war was a frequent contrib- ufor to newspapers and magazines Mes. Monnier Moreau, poesie 3 refined and pure taste, harl for in iny ye is an netive romection with jour- n'them and wrote many articlesof 2 teir ment. Martin L. Bundy. al- ways withage in a pare and arethe ted style, has contributed to current htematur . miny int resting aibel empm historial und finimi l-ahjerts. winte his personal renumscences are always valuable and ratechuning John W Shockley, the well-known toucher, possessing the true poetic in- what and love for the beautiful. has written several short forms of unosonl menit Hanh E. Davis has fogml time from her aphimais dutiesus teacher to write many excellent articles, embracing sketches of travels and north - upon semaine and literary subjects Mrs Josie V Hickman Koons, a native of Henry county, has been log . emi wars an netive worker in the told of interature mal ber prostor- tiens is proce und seine disclose unional talent. Roland Of Pain . . A History of Ladimention in Indian 'The former book, stressig much research and written in a bombed solo, has been mlopted as a part of tin International Filtration Nero - Rest Went, a lady of refined and son- strive to ture, sought in ber saly pidished solomare to illustrate the rails of desires, and what the work was not without walls of wish, at shower power of insegnare, mal was written with a grave of language har alene
HISTORY OF HENRY COUNTY
of the iny mon artu h - of inns . din etit npmit & tithat, itterars sult.
gris, while ming of the - articles of a hafter got the tsel sal a set of
The population of the country in land was 21.00, in i made in ten Waste Henry, Greenbay Fall Oren, . ms Greek and Bh Rivertown- live in the towns; the other township i'd lost l'or en Viar it- grat: u to the new sfit . had affected f. population of the county In 14 the hands of the events, including improvements woord. we're not set appr, sedl separately, were valued at &LIGHTON; the ts and improvements in all ats villages at &130,007, and its permi porqueas at 1250 From a total valuation of 22. GoSE ditveno tearing, the asset value of the property of the cure ty had a ended in 199 to IreBell, of which 8- 224,50 ro presented the value of his hands and lots, 2.ledd,500 its im- provements and $6,525, Let it- personal property Within 1! - ronuty are twenty -five hundred farus and two thousand happy bonus. the result of three quarters of a century of to land privation justifies the judgment of the best pioneers, who, believing that it was a gully regum and full of promise, settled within the borders of the new wanty where productive soil. silubrious climate atul advantageous location have contributed to its development into one of the best agrientural districts in the Union. for here all the cereals, grasses, vegetables and front of this latende grow in perfection. The facts justify the statement, and the report of the sinte statistician gives the cureal productions of the county i loved as follows- wheat, 645, 72 bushels: oats. 242.624 hashe ., harley. 775 hustels; rye. 1.717 bushels, das seed, 1.vou laishels; . och, 1. 02. 120 bushels, but eleven coun- ties in the state surpassing it in the production of this cereal: while the production of Irish potatoes wns 50, 14> bushels: elover hay. 49,650 tons: timothy bay. 14.676 tons. these vartons products representing a value of 82.001,000.
Mis lines of ruled travere the raunte four of which enter the - des kongresses In the production of horses, rattle, hogy and sheep, turants inthe front rank its horses long a superar Joy of a. the natural gas region and rollout well selling a beautiful supply of Cinq uskoro, Sport Land and Wayne townships With the county seplendil material development. there has been a corresponding mond nud mut live. tual dess logement. Choreia - and schools exercise a beneficent andbene. Its antigens nte broad nad eathole in spint terei and na burden of debt hangs wer the county. It- manuels dispense justbe with impartial hand, and no moral or physical blight medles its
But with the speemlad material prosperity and high degree of civiliza- tion of the state and nation, of which our county forms an integral part. there remain seved questions uns filed and evil tende new- confronting ne. The relations of capital and labor motte the dispassionate consideration of the statesman and political eu monnet : the growing disregard for purity in dlertims, the dounishing respet for courts and the lux administration of the law appeal to the warmest consideration of every lover of las con- try The patriotism of the juryde and their deep and abubug kove of jus- Tire linve thus far successfully resisted the evils of our national hfe and there is scarcely a doubt that these will ever be powerful enough to over- come whatever future evils may betide us
If this shots h. tracing but briefly some of the more important events and incidents of the earlier history of uur county, may serve to resene from forgetfulness any fact, or name of worthy pioneer, or patriot wikher of the early wars of the Republic, the labor bestowed will not be without some compensation, and more fully will at the sunand if it encourage some worthy hand to take up the important work of preserving our county's history and collecting more fully the ineulents in the lives of the brave men and uoble women who helped to found our institutions and establish the secure foundations of our happiness and prosperity.
ADOLPH ROGERS.
CENSUS BY TOWNSHIPS. 1850-1890.
Towast.ps, including towns
1850
1400
1-70
1880
1×90)
Wayne.
Franklin
1295
14:0
1579
1516
1330
Dudley.
1279
1326
1339
1544
1335
1766
1549
1444
1-39
1538
Henry.
11ªM)
131-
11 **
1412
1445
Harr: - 11
Fall Creek.
1810
1557
1.223
170%
1663
Mans freek
1311
1043
120-
1032
Blue River.
T.,taÎn
Kmightstowu
٢٠٠٨\-vill
115
11
Des Linken
..
143
..
Mah . town
Janneth.
5.7
451
1:9.2;
2121
2414
3656
Gra-c-boro.
1125
1-14
1:+14
1474
1:212
17:21
331-
3251
3333
2075
25.55
Liberty.
Prai --..
1014
2039
1423
20119
1670
mul writer.
-
Residence of Jumie. M. Wyatt. Blue River Township
29.
ELECTIONS.
1876
Frente ut
Wayne.
1.
Frankbu.
101
=
lalu rty
1.5-
1.1.1
Ilvary.
Girenshop
Harrison
261
Fall Crock
112
InÌ
-
Moms Creek
1.7
Stureland
1332
113
123
36
21
Blue River.
121
Totals.
Fremont's plurality
1512
majority
14633
1850
Garfield
Wayne.
417
100
4
Franklin
243
141
1
Fraukliu
233
34
1
Liberty
104
170
Heury
347
139
1
Harri-ou .. .
302
199
23
Fall Creek
252
231
Fall Creek
201
1-7
15
1
Stany Creek
395
76
19
Spiceland.
311
1
2
1
Blue River.
125
50
2026
1206
16
Totals
Lincoln's plurality .... 1920
majority. . .. 1614
1864
Lincoln
Met leHan
Wayne.
553
Franklin ..
Dudley ..
207
Liberty
301
117
(Greensboro
251
Harrison.
273
1221
15
13
5
Harrison.
223
128
Prairie .. .
127
33
Spireland
350
74
20
Stony Creek
344
5
Jefferson.
127
170
3
3
Blue River.
123
61
24
Jefferson.
74
117
117
45
Totals
3676
2048
173
71
Totals.
Lincoln's majority
1972
1868
tirant.
Wayne.
544
170
Franklin.
2:21
141
Dudley
263
140
13
Dudley.
239
Liberty
434
(freensboro.
271
117
26
4
Henry.
260
31
Harrison .
Fall ('reek.
312
244
11
Harrison.
267
113
Prairie ..
193
275
10
Prairie.
163
Spierland
343
60
Stany Creek
3-3
111
133
Blue River.
1182
73
Jefferson.
111
Totale ..
3:41
22×4
927
51
Totaly
Grant's majority
2024
1-72.
i.n.nt.
Wayne,
Franklin.
Dudley.
[ -;
Henry.
Harrism.
Fall U'rrek
31%
213
13
Full Crerb
16-
112
24
Sporelund.
.1. IT. r-on .
117
154
1 1
Blu. River
Blue Rarr.
3330
Total+
Grant's nagorily
111
:
1
Prairie ..
187
240
fi
Prairie.
153
Spiceland
134
170
1
Jefferson
Blue River
Totals.
3744
2031
252
Garfield's plurality majority
Alaine.
1844 Cleveland. 238
Butler 12
St. Julin
Wayne.
535
Franklin.
Dudley
251
224
5
Liberty.
Henry.
716
19
46
5
Fall Creek
272
182
Fall Creek.
122
166
Stony Creek
165
57
8
Blaine's plurality. . majority
1334
1958
Harri-no.
Wayne.
Franklin.
Liberty
203
744
334
19
Greensboro ..
285
Fall Creek
164
172
Stony Creek
162
137
179
1
13
Blue River
:4.8℃
1112
Harrison's plurality. . . 1560 majority. . . 1242
1-92
WHYhe
5551
I'minklin.
179
Dudley.
Sito rfs
118
31
:30)
Henry.
Prairie
115
110
52
01
14
P'mirI.
Stany ('re k
1.31
:
Bine River
3631
1921
123
1229
49
Totals, Hayes' plurality majority
Wayne
537
Dudley
264
120
Duilley .
208
Liberty. .
Henry ..
249
281
49
Greensboro
30
Harrison
251
172
Henry.
Greensboro
249
163
16
.Jefferson.
132
37
1753
1501
1
Franklin
575
1
Harrison
Fall C'nak.
112
=
Jefferson ..
1707
1584
Wenter
Krockrøratge.
3024
1057
.. 1578
30
Stringtet 21
118
16
1-0
Henry. .
199
5
77
17
11
107
79
10
Spiceland
Bine River.
Spaireland
Praine.
15.5
Stony Creek
14%
18
145
2
.30
SYSTEM OF AMERICAN SURVEY.
BY G. A. EAGLETON, CIVIL. ENGINEER.
THE struggle for independence of the thirteen American colonies with Great Britain. although a successful son, left the colonies with it heavy burden of debt nguy In fact. however, that several of the colomes crow states i had an interest in what was then knowu as the Northwest Territory, prosed one of the most powerful matton ner which kept the new born nation from dropping to pieces, and a fruitful . Meaus to dasist in clearing off the burden of debt.
The four sintes, Massachusetts. Comoretient. New York and Virginia, which claimed all the Inml north of the Chin river, west to the Mississippi, agreed ( from 15-0.17 it to give it to the United States, to be disposed of For the common good, and in 175 Congress passed an ordinance for the government of this territory, and als for establishing a definite method for the survey and sale of these lands, which were now designated as "Pablie Lamls." to be placed on the market for sale. the proceeds of which were to le principally applied to the payment of the war debt of the Res- olution.
To draw up a definite plan for the survey of these "Publie Lands" in the Northwest Territory was a dithenlt problem, as the me thuwis of survey in the different states iliffered somewhat. Virginia und her irregular plats known As "Tomahawk Surveys " Connecticut hud a more uniform plan which she had adopted in her survey of the "Western Reserve" in Ohio. part of the territory to which she had claim. And now as these different states had ceded all this territory to the general government for the benefit of all. it became highly necessary that some general and definite method of survey be adopted.
The plan arranged by Jauir Mansfiell. surveyor general of the North- west Territory, was adopted by Congress in land "It is so simple and practical that it has received very few modifications by any OF the fund commissioners since. After the adoption of a de fimte method of survey the government proceeded to have trarts of this territory surveyed off as the demands of the public regnired. the first tract surveyed being nearly all in the state of Ohio, the second in Indiana.
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