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Fairmount Bank Organized 325
The Fairmount Mining Company 325
"Penetrated Trenton Rock" 327
James G. Blaine Sees "Jumbo" 329
Agitation for Water Works 330
Building the Cincinnati, Wabash & Michigan Railroad. 331
The Chicago, Indiana & Eastern 332
Advertising the Town 333
Locating Snider Preserve Plant 335
Establishing Bell Bottle Company 337
The Commercial Club 337
Organizing Fair Association 337
XXIX. FAIRMOUNT ACADEMY-HIGH SCHOOL-WESLEYAN THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY
Move to Establish Academy 339
Jesse Hiatt Makes Suggestion 339
Location Selected 339
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Contents.
Chapter
Page
Board of Trustees Chosen
339
Academy Opens
341
Class of 1888
341
Academy Basketball Team
345
High School Receives Commission
345
High School Basketball Team 346
First High School Graduates 347
Origin of Fairmount Bible School
347
Early Promoters
347
Small Beginnings
348
Present School Building
348
A Modest Benefactor 3-18
Reformer and Community Builder
349
XXX. BUILDING FOWLERTON
The First House 350
Locating Industries 350
Chicago, Indiana & Eastern 35 I
Cincinnati, Richmond & Muncie
351
Letter from Joel O. Duling
35 I
A School Meeting in 1840
352
Confusion over Name of Town
353
Fowlerton Incorporated
353
Election of Officers 353
Organization of Churches 353
The Fowlerton Bank Established 354
Fowlerton Park
354
XXXI. COMMUNICATIONS AND COMMENT
Letter from Alvin Seale to Dr. A. Henley 355
The Big Snow 358
The Wayne Trail 359
Fever and Ague
360
A Pioneer Doctor
361
Back Creek at Flood Tide
362
The Drowning
362
Lynx Over the Door
363
Old Brick Church
364
Fairmount Mining Company 365
Voice from Idaho 366
366
The Man on the Rail
368
Isaac Roberts
369
Our First Tailor 369
Cyrus Puckett 370
Early Days 370
Refreshens Memory 371
Boyhood Days 371
The Big Tree
490
Contents.
Chapter
Page
The Plank Road
372
A Characteristic Letter
John J. Bull 373
373
Mary Ann Taylor Morrow
374
Brings Back Old Times
374
Back in the Fifties 375
First Copy of The News 376
Did Their Part 376
Re-roofing Back Creek Meeting-house 377
The Old School House 377
Isaac Meek
378
Facts for Club Women
378
Deserved Tribute
379
XXXII. PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS
Letter from Hon. Edgar L. Goldthwait 38 1
Letter from Hon. James M. Hundley 385
Jesse Wilson's Rifle 387
Pioneers and Early School Days 390
From a Note Book
393
Memories of the Past
397
Cholera in 1849 398
Disappearance of Tom Winslow 399
The McCormick Place 399
Saloon Did Not Come 400
Wants His Pants Back 402
Lost in the Wilderness 404
Animals and Birds of the Forest 405
XXXIII. FRAGMENTS
The First Death 400
Burial of Young Wife 400
The First Saloon 400
The Big Frame School House 409
The Troublesome Squirrel 400
Fairmount in 1853 410
410
On Safe Side of the Guessing
411
David Smithson's Bride
Road Building
412
To Richmond on Horseback
412
Beeson's Copper Distillery
412
The Prairie Seminary
413
Jonathan Baldwin 413
The Wide-a-Wakes 413
The First Tollgate 413
Remarks About Big Tree 413
Many County Officials from Fairmount 414
May, 1853 414
From Iowa in Wagon
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Contents.
Chapter
Exempt from Execution
415
When Jack Brunt Bought Hogs
415
Many Who Were Not Pioneers 416
Gave Life for Young Friend
416
Example of Grit and Perseverance
41.7
First Picture Gallery
418
Solomon Thomas, Commissioner 419
James Montgomery 419
Bear Hunting in 1840 419
Locate Union Graveyard
420
Blowing Chaff 421
Some Corrections 422
Elijah Ward 423
David Lewis 423
423
Frederick Ice
William G. Lewis 424
Making the Teacher Treat
424
XXXIV. RAMBLES OVER THE TOWNSHIP
At Back Creek Graveyard 425
The Old Plank Walk 428
The Friendly Road 429
Moonlight Walk to Jonesboro 432
Old Bethel Graveyard 433
Hiking in an Automobile 437
Feeding Chicks Scientifically 439
Dinner in a Real Log House
441
"Go Way Back and Sit Down" 443
445
A Farmer Who Knows How to Farm.
447
Disastrous End of a Frolic
LaFontaine to Fairmount 148
At the Grave of Me-shin-go-me-sia . 449
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INDEX
A.
A custom handed down, 424.
Adams, Benny, freighter, 301.
Adamson, Jesse. 60.
A "detector," uses of, 158.
African Methodist Episcopal Church, organized, 175; charter members of, 175.
Ambition realized, 441.
An English Miss, at Wesleyan Back Creek, 122.
"A flash in the pan," 117.
Animals and birds of the forest, 405. Anthony Wayne trail, 18.
A part of the old McCormick Tavern, 434.
A pioneer doctor, 361.
Apples, source of profit, 112.
A regular book worm, 93.
Army musket, used for hunting, 62. Arnold, Mrs. Lydia Morris, birth of, 82; letter from, 186.
"As near alike 'as two peas," 92.
At the Renbarger home, 452.
Audible studying, 120. Autumn day in 1853, 139.
B.
Back Creek, source of, 48; once called Winslow Creek, 49; impenetrable swamp, 137; at flood tide, 302; on a rampage, 364.
Back Creek Meeting-house, 51; monthly meeting opened, 51; plans for new structure, 51; ratio of ap- portionment fixed, 51; plans ap- proved, 52; house completed, 52. Bailey, Dempsey, 99.
Baker, Rev. W. D., 347.
Baldwin, Asa T., native of Township, 63; taught school, 63; death of, 64. Baldwin, Charles, enters land, 50; election inspector, 69; mentioned, 82, 91; family of, 106; location of land, 106; his two-wheeeld covered gig. 106; slaves in care of, 149; slave owners in close pursuit, 149. Baldwin, Daniel, enters land, 50; wife and family, 102; land now north half of Fairmount, 102; mentioned, 82, 91, 128, 133.
Baldwin, David, hauling freight from Anderson, 302.
Baldwin, Eunice, mentioned, 85, 91. Baldwin, J. H., letter from, 191. Baldwin, Jonathan, hotel, 91; sketch of. 135; extremely hospitable, 135;
pillar of Wesleyan Methodist Church, 135; religiously inclined. 135; twice married. 135; death of, 135: superintendent ditching Back Creek, 138; builds home on Main Street, 138; mentioned, 146.
Baldwin, Joseph W., starts store, 83; mentioned, 117, 130; birth of, 308; sold land to John Bull, 309; death of, 310.
Baldwin, Micah, mentioned, 90; buys tanyard, 139.
Baldwin, Lindsey, mentioned, 85.
Baldwin, Mark, mentioned, 47. 56; verse by, 57.
Baldwin, Myra Rush, letter from, 188; rambles over Township, 425.
Baldwin, Quincy, mentioned, 150.
Baldwin, Sarah, mentioned, 412.
Baldwin, Susannah, taught school in 1831; mentioned, 176. Baldwin, Thomas. enters land, 50; mentioned, 101. 102, 133.
Bankers, not necessary, 142.
Banks, organization of, 325.
Baptist Church of Fairmount, organ- ized, 174; charter members, 174.
Baptist Church, organization of in Township, 167: first members of, 167.
Barr, Daisy, 163.
Barr, T. D., letter from, 415.
Bartholomew, Ephraim, sketch of, 266, Bates, Martin, 99: buys land, 101 ; builds frame house, IO1: stock in railroad, IOI : bubble bursts, IO1; moves to Iowa, IO1 ; to Kansas, IOI.
Battle of Mississinewa, 24; in Pleasant Township, 24; bearing upon early settlement, 24.
Beck. John, buys land, 109.
Beck Mike, freighter, 301.
Beeson, Amaziah, a chemist, 109; built brick house, 109.
Beeson, Charles, 109.
Bell, Lancaster, mentioned, 108.
493
494
Inde.r.
Berean Bible Class, 169.
Best and noblest sons give lives. 147. Big Tree. 366. Blowing Chaff, 421.
Blaine, James G., visits Fairmount, 328; sees "Jumbo." 329.
Bogue, Mrs. Elizabeth, 138.
Bogue, Jesse, stayed with it, 162.
Bogue, Mary Winslow, 122.
Bogue, Robert, 138.
"Books! books! books !" 83.
Boone, Daniel, cousin to. 66.
"Borrowing fire," 90.
Boyhood days, 371.
Brunt, Jack, mentioned, 411, 415.
Beasley. William A., mentioned, 102.
Bell. AAlson M., sketch of, 271.
Belling, horses, cattle and sheep, 119.
Benbow, Benjamin, enters land. 50: mentioned. 101, 102. 176.
Benbow. John, enters land, 50: erects first log house, 128.
Bethel Graveyard, 44.
Black molasses, home-made. 125.
Blacksmiths, early, 141.
Bookout. Calvin, mentioned. 101.
Boots, Martin, mentioned, 60.
Bowers, George, minister, 141: 153: ejects drunken hoodlum, 154; men- tioned, 164.
Bradford, Moses. 146: slaves conveyed to, 149.
Brady, Dr. T. R., 26: letter from, 37.
Branson, Thomas, on night expedition, 62.
Brazelton, Nelson, mentioned, 1.47.
Brazelton, Robert, mentioned, 87.
Bread, substitutes for, 99.
Broyles, Hanley and wife, 99.
Brush drag, devised. 154.
Buchanan, James, mentioned, 146. Bull, John J., mentioned, 373.
Butler, George W., miller, 137 : home of, 137.
C.
Cammack, James, builds saw-mill. 83; mentioned, 201, 206; home of. 137. Campbell, Lient .- Col. John B., expedi- tion commanded by. 27: attacked by Indians, 28; expedition successful, 28: his return march, 31: death of. 33. Candles, making of, 118.
Capper, Dave, defiant, 161; moved out, 162: back to Harrisburg as bells tolled, 162. Carey, H. L., letter from, 421. Carey, John, 85. Carey, Lydia, 85. Carey, Ruth T., letter from, 188.
Carpenters, carly, 141.
Carter, Dr. Thomas J., sketch of. 318. Cartwright, Fred, 159.
Cattle and sheep markets, 85. Census of 1860, 280: census of 1870, 284; census of 1875. 284.
Chamness, E. B., teacher, 153; at Alex- andria, 154.
Chamness, William, starts town at Lake Galatia, 152: 153 : estate of, 221 ; issues periodical, 319.
Charles, Dr. Etta, sketch of, 316: letter from. 378.
Che-cum-wah, 36.
Chicago, Indiana & Eastern Railroad, built. 332.
Chicken raising. 439.
Cholera in 1849, 398.
Christian Church of Fairmount, organ- ized, 174: first members, 174.
Cincinnati Wabash & Michigan Rail- road, came in 1875, 140.
Cincinnati Wabash & Michigan Rail- road, constructed. 331.
Citizens Telephone Company, organized, 338.
Clark, James H., buys land. 45.
Clothing, how pioneers provided them- selves with, 58: clothing the family. II ..
Coleman, Daniel and Mary, donate land for Bethel Graveyard. 44: Justice of the Peace, 44.
Coleman, Thomas. 44.
Commercial Club, organization of. 337. Congregational Church of Fairmount. organized, 174: charter members, 174. Conner, Dave. 21 : courage of. 23.
Cooking, manner of, 114.
Cook stove and clock, the first. 83.
Corn planting, 88.
Corrections, some, 422.
Cornwallis, General, surrender of, 17.
Cotton and flannel, 84.
Courts and jails, unnecessary, 142. Crockett. Davy, cousin to. 67. Cross, Micajah, erects cabin, 152. Cox. Garfield, wins honors, 342.
Cox, Eli J., sketch of, 103.
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Dailey, Solomon T .. mentioned, 73.
Davis, Foster, teacher, 122: never kept a whip, 122.
Davis, Harvey, mentioned, 122: services at home of, 166: school house built on farm of, 166.
Davis, Henry, mentioned, 101.
Dean. Cal, mentioned, 101. Decorons in meeting, 84. Dentistry, profession of, 322. 323.
495
Index.
Device to prepare food, 99. Dicks, Nathan, mentioned, 176, 220. Did their part, 376.
Dille. Ichabod, mentioned, 45; Justice of the Peace, 69.
Dille, Josiah, mentioned. 45, 47.
Dillon, Allen, mentioned, 91.
Dillon, Jesse, mentioned, 82, 102, 108. Dillon, Richard, mentioned. 38.
Dillon. Sammy, mentioned, 82, 91.
Directory of 1877. 307. Disappearance of Tom Winslow, 399. Diversion for boys, 62.
Dodging the tollgate, 124.
Dolman, Alex, mentioned. 152.
Doyle. George, grocer, 117.
Drainage, perfecting of, 124.
Dred Scott decision. 148.
Drowning. the, 362.
"Dry as the Sahara Desert." 117. Dulings. Reeders and Simonses, 220.
Duling. Edmund and Eliza. 176; sketch of, 221.
Duling. Solomon. letter from, 189. Duling, Thomas D., Sr., mentioned, 176; birth of, 220; marriage of. 220; grandfather soldier of Revolution- ary War. 220; came to Township. 220: abolitionist. 221; promoter of M. P. Church, 221; teacher, 221: Township Trustee, 221; no denomi- nation barred, 221.
Duling. Thomas D., Jr., sketch of, 223.
Duling. Wm. M., 222; political affilia- tions, 222; sketch of. 222.
E.
Early days, 370. East Branch meeting, 173. East Branch school house, 18. East end of Township, 438. Eastern speculators, 100.
Edwards, Nathan W .. 173: birth of. 311; education, 312; teacher, 312; lo- cates in Fairmount. 312: marriage of. 312; elected Clerk and Treasur- er, 312; member School Board. 312: death of. 311.
Edwards, Xen H .. 272: sketch of. 336. Eighteen fifty-two to eighteen sixty- three, 134.
Election first held. 69; at McCormick Tavern. 69.
Elliott. Dr. David S., sketch of, 316. Elliott, Nathan D. W., sketch of, 248. Elliott, William S., pioneer tile manu- facturer, 77; overcomes foolish ob- jections. 77: faith fully rewarded. 78: birth of. 79: of Quaker ancestry, 79: becomes a soldier 7 on portant details. 80; mustered out.
80; Trustee White's Institute. 81; article by, 239. Emancipation of slaves in England, I44.
Exempt from execution, 415.
Explosion, the. 201, 296; scared for once. 297.
F.
Fair Association, organized, 337. Fairmount business and professional men of 1917. 310.
Fairmount in May, 1853, 414.
Fairmount, naming of. 131; letter con- cerning it from Mrs. Alvin Wilson, [3]; letter from Dr. A. Henley. 131; letter from J. N. Elliott. 132.
Fairmount Academy, move to estab- lish, 339; location reported, 339: Trustees elected. 339: opened for instruction, 341; class of 1888, 341; basketball team, 345.
Fairmount Bible School, origin of, 347; promoters named. 347: small beginning. 348; successful outcome, 38.
Fairmount Cornet Band, first organ- ized. 321: second, 321: - third and last. 321.
Fairmount corporation, petition for election, 281: election authorized and incorporation voted for, 281; officers chosen and installed. 282; By-Laws adopted. 282: names of of- ficials, 1871 to 1917. 285; School Trustees, 288: Assessors and Mar- shals, 289; Health Officers. 290.
Fairmount High School receives com- mission, 345: R. W. Himelick first Superintendent, 347: basketball team, 346.
Fairmount Mining Company, organ- ization of. 325: contract let for drill- ing. 327: penetrating Trenton Rock, 327; letter from C. R. Small. 365. Fairmount Township, how organized. 275; territory set aside for purpose. 275: topography of. 275: re-organ- ization of. 276: boundary lines same as 1863. 277.
Fairmount Township soldiers, 251.
Fairmount Wesleyan Methodist Church, organized. 174.
Fankboner Graveyard, location of, 41. Farmer who knows how to farm. 445. Fever and ague, 360.
Fifties, back in the. 375. Fireplaces, 90.
"First big money." 86. Flanagan. John, sketch of. 328. Flanagan. John H., mentioned. 18, 19. Flax, preparing for the loom, 114.
496
Index.
Flitcraft, Mrs. John, 38.
Fire hunting, 61.
Food, how obtained by pioneers, 60.
Ft. Wayne act establishing land of- fice at. 20.
Fowlerton, building of, 350: first house built, 350: Leach, 350; the tile mill. 350; C. I. & E. and C. R. & M. Railroads, 350; first merchants, 350; school building, 350; confusion over name of town, 351; incorporation and election of officers, 353: churches organized, 353; bank es- tablished, 354.
Fragments. 409.
Frazier. Daniel, and family, 107: lost in the forest, 107; found in syca- more log. 108.
Friends meeting for worship, set up. 167: frame church built, 167; where located, 167.
Friends ministers, recorded, 172.
Frolic ends in disaster. 447.
From a note book. 393.
Fugitive Slave Law. 145.
Furnish, Benj. F., Associate Judge, 167.
G.
Games at school, 84. Garretson, Anna Freeman, letter from, 416.
Gerard fails, 153.
Giant Hackberry, 140.
Glimpses of pioneer life, 82.
Goldthwait. Hon. Edgar L., letter from, 38: sketch of. 382.
Gossett, Z. M., mentioned, 75.
Grant postoffice, established. 69.
Gravel road, first built. 140.
Grave of Me-shin-go-me-sia, 449.
Greenberry Postoffice, 68; discontinu- ance of. 68; moved to Jonesboro, 69.
H.
Hale, Jacob and Dorinda, and family. 104; remove to Kansas, 104.
Hall. William, first Fairmount post- master. 69; minister. 141; called to church work. 165: sketch of, 166; in Legislature, 166; Township Treas- urer, 278.
Hamtramck, Col. John F., named Ft- Wayne, 23.
"Hardscrabble Ranch," 451.
Ilarmar, General, victory over, 17.
Harrison, Gen. William Henry, inter- view with Tecumseh. 24: trouble with Indians, 26; decides on vigor- ous action, 27.
Harvey, Anna, mentioned, 85.
Harvey, Henry, 92; keeps store, 117; elected Trustee, 279.
Harvey, Jesse, enters land, 50, 85. Harvey, Jesse, Sr., and Lydia, 108; death of, 108.
Harvey, John S., dangerous mission, 149: successfully performed, 150.
Harvey, Thomas, enters land, 50; mentioned, 85; family of. 105.
Hasting's Carter, reaper at. 56; men- tioned, 123.
Hasting, Carter, 165.
Havens, Mrs. Gabrille, 44; parents in- timate friends of the McCormicks, 44: accounts for apparent discrep- ancy in dates. 44.
Havens, Peter, 152.
Haynes, Francis Marion, 44: Civil
War veteran, 44; supports dry
movement, 44.
Haynes, Mrs. Rachel Coleman. 44. Headquarters for veterans. 137.
Heavenridge, Samdel, mentioned, 123. Heavilin, John, postmaster at Green- berry. 60.
Henley, Dr. Alpheus, on mission to Huntington, 20; contribution, 43; assignment of stock to, 75; letter from. 76; mother of. 85: letter from. 98; letter from, 308; last of pioneer physicians, 313: friend of Capt. D. L. Payne, 313; names soldiers, 265. Henley, Aunt Polly, 85.
Henley, Phineas, mentioned. 38; death of. 103: 170.
Hiatt. M. A., letter from, 207. Hill. Aaron, mentioned. 82. 150.
Hill, Daniel, 150: seven slaves to Bradford's, 150; heroism personi- fied, 151; the last "consignment." 151.
Hill. Joseph W., mentioned, 74.
Hill, Thomas, mentioned, 107.
Himelick, Robert W., sketch of. 183. Ilinshaw. Charles, buys land. 110; drowning of young man. 110; moved to Kansas, ITO. Hog hunting, 61.
Hog killing time, 87.
Hollingsworth, Eleanor, medium, 152. Hollingsworth, Enos, mentioned, 152. Hollingsworth, John B., sketch of, 254. Hollingsworth, Joseph, mentioned. 152.
Hollingsworth. Moses, builds cabin, 152.
Hollingsworth, William, cabinet mak- er. 141: made caskets, 141: old church bought. 173. Home Guards, 201, 292.
497
Index.
Hopkins, General, failure of, 27. Horse stolen, 401. House raisings, 62. Houses few and far between, 446.
Houses first built, 83.
Hundley, James M., letter from, 134; native of Ohio, 134; son of William Hundley, 134; memory first dawns, 134: sketch of, 136; able speaker and writer, 136; in Civil War, 136; let- ter from, 144, 156; names soldiers; letter from, 295; member of Home Guards, 296; letter from, 300.
Hundley, William, arrival of, 134, 146. Hunt, Carl D., account of battle pre- pared by, 25.
Hunter, outfit of, 117.
I.
Ice, Frederick, mentioned, 423. Inducements to locate factories, 333: 335.
Industries, locating, 331, 332, 333. In miniature, 143.
Interurban, promoting the, 305; plan organized by Clodfelter, 305; the power house, 306.
J.
Jalapa to Marion, 452.
Joliet, in the region of the Kankakee swamps, 17.
Jonesboro and Fairmount Turnpike Company, building of, 73: first of- ficers of elected, 73; names of shareholders, 73; position of offi- cer not regarded lightly, 74; sold to county, 76; first gravel road built in county, 76.
Jonesboro to Wabash, 72. Jones, David and family, 417. Jones, Jane, minister. 82, 134. Jones, Jennie W., letter from, 305. Jones, Capt. John F., in Civil War. 79: commands company, 79; inter- view with Pleasanton, 80; guarding water tank, 80; office of, 137; brave soldier, 137; popular with comrades, 137; obtained pensions for veterans, 137.
Jones, Joseph, postmaster at Green- berry, 69.
Jones, Dr. Robert Benjamin, sketch of. 317.
Jones, Rufus M., 47. Jones, Samuel, 82; blacksmith, 134. "June Quarterly," 164. Jupiter. 431.
K.
Karwin, Billy, mentioned, 21, 14I.
Kelley, Timothy, 20, 21; family of, 109; settled near Lake Galatia, 109; cranberry marsh, 109. . Kelsay, John, mentioned, 103.
Kelsay, Robert, mentioned, 142.
Kelsay, Smith, mentioned, 142.
Killed a bear, 419.
Knight, Gonner, an Englishman, 109.
Knight, Dr. John C., mentioned, 109. Knight, Sallie, mentioned, 85.
Knight, Solomon, mentioned, 82, 84, 85. Knight, Joseph, mentioned, 93.
Know Nothings, 147; secret meetings of, 147; in Bill Wright's barn, 147.
L.
LaFontaine to Fairmount, 448. Lake Galatia, 18, 19; fine fishing at, 154. Lancaster, James, opens store, 152.
Land entries, 1835 to 1840, 53. Lantern, made of tin. IIS.
LaRue, Gilbert, sketch of. 332.
LaSalle, in the region of the Kanka- kee Swamps, 17.
Latch string out. 64.
Lawrence, D. W., letter from, 189.
Lawyers, none, 142.
Leach, Edmund, mentioned, 176; homestead of, 196.
Leach, Claud, mentioned, 196, 200.
Leach, Esom, mentioned, 112.
Leach, Lewis and Payne boys, 112. Leach, William, church organized at home of, 167; descendants of, 195; enters land, 195; marriage of, 197; God-fearing man, 199, death of, 200. Leach, William J., sketch of, 199; mentioned, 200, 201.
Lee. John, mentioned, 21, 92; emi- grates to lowa, 109.
Letter, a characteristic. 373. Level. Bob, mentioned, 92.
Lewellen, John, Methodist minister, 172.
Lewelling's Mill, 60.
Lewis, David, mentioned, 18, 66: ac- cident to family, 66; moved into Baldwin cabin, 66; to LaFayette for meal, 66; class leader. 67; charter member M. E. Church, 67; ever ready to assist, 68.
Lewis, David G., 195; sketch of, 281. Lewis, Emeline, mentioned, 68. Lewis, Morgan O., mentioned, 154.
Lewis, William G., sketch of, 67;
498
Index.
mentioned, 69. 112. 141; first ef- fort of in public, 159; mentioned. 410.
Lewis, William R., mentioned, 69.
Lines, Seaberry, storekeeper, 117; hotel keeper. 142; what he would say, 158.
Little, John R., sketch of, 180.
Little. Nathan, starts tanyard. 139.
Little Turtle, defeats St. Clair, 18: died at Ft. Wayne, 23; sword and medal presented to, 23.
Log Cabins, how built, 63.
Log Rollings, 62, 119.
Lomax. Dr. William, operates with- out anaesthetics, 107.
Lost in the wilderness, 404.
Lucas, Dr. Carl D., birth of, 322; edu- cation. 322; marriage of. 323; nota- bly successful. 322.
Lucas, Elijah, Justice of the Peace. 69.
Lucas, Thomas J., 278.
Luther, Ivy, sketch of, 348.
Lynx over the door. 363.
Lytle. Frank, Jr., emigrates to Iowa. 101.
Lytle, James, settles on Dean place, io1; sold to John Smith, 101; moved to lowa. IO1; death of. 101.
M.
Making coffins. 401. Making soap, 90.
Man on the rail, 368.
Map of Fairmount Township, 277. Marketing hogs. 73.
Marquette. James, visits northern in- diana. 17.
Marion & Mississinewa Valley Rail- road, 156; evidences on Carroll farm. 156; fac-simile of serip, 157. Married in meeting, 172.
Marriage License, the first, 420.
McClure. E. P., 26. 36.
MeClure. Robert, clerked for Conner. 23.
McClure. Samuel, mentioned, 36, 146. McCormick, Robert. arrival of. 44: enters land. 44; mentioned. 47. McCormick Tavern, frontispiece. 15: original site of, 42; postoffice at, 68. McCoy, Jacob, mentioned, 19, 21. 176. McCoy, Willis, mentioned, 18.
McDonald. Bernard, buys Bates land. 101; moved to Grant County, 112: McDonald, T. B .. letter from. 54; let- ter from. 72: letter from, 112:
sketch of, 113; names of soldiers. 260; letter from. 299.
Mc Hatton, Milt, teacher, 120.
Meek. Isaac, Wesleyan minister, 172; mentioned, 378.
Memories of the past. 397.
Merchants, early Fairmount, 141.
M. E. Church of Fairmount, organ- ized. 173: charter members, 173;
frame church built, 173; brick church erected, 173; present struc- ture completed. 173:
Methodist Episcopal Church, charter members of, 164.
Me-shin-go-me-sia, birth of, 35; death of. 35: eldest of ten children. 36; remarkable man, 36; buried near Jalapa, 39.
Me-to-cin-yah, father of Me-shin-go- me-sia, 36.
Modern Fairmount home, 272.
Montgomery, Dennis, mentioned. 159. Montgomery, James, mentioned, 419. Moonlight walk to Jonesboro. 432. Moore, Aquilla, mentioned, 20.
Moore, Georgia, mentioned. 20.
Moore, Jabez H., mentioned, 108: good citizen and community build- er. 108.
Moorman, Lewis and Sarah, 108: 10- cation of land, 108.
Morris, Aaron, mentioned, 92.
Morris, Andy, tests a matter, 159; accedes to terms, 161: starts south, 161.
Morris, Caleb, mentioned. 92: exhort- er, 164.
Morris, Jesse, injury to, 107; foot am- putated, 107.
Morris, John T., birth of. 58; came to Grant County, 58; taught school. 58: died, 58; mentioned. 59.
Morris, Luther, opens saloon, 162; building destroyed. 162; remon- strance ends saloon business, 162. Morris, Miriam, 85; death of, 92.
Morris, Nathan, birth of, 53: moved to Wayne County, Indiana, 53: en- ters land in Fairmount Township. 50: father of twenty-two children, 50; death of. 53; mentioned. 85: first minister, 163.
Morris, Robert A .. sketch of. 320.
Morris, Thomas, enters land. 50: men- tioned, 92, 102.
Morrow, Mrs. Mary A .. mentioned. 191 374. Mott. Granville, mentioned, 142. Music. Abe, mentioned, 20.
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Names of teachers, 181.
Neal, Cyrus W., letter from, 129.
Neal, Eli, mentioned, 122. Neal, Mahlon, mentioned, 382. Neal, William, teacher, 83, 141, 179. Need of stable currency, 158.
Newby. Caroline, death of, 425.
Newby, Exum, enters land, 50; loca- tion of land, 105: site donated by. 163.
Newby. Rachel, mentioned, 82, 85.
Newby. Aaron, article by, 94.
Newby, Thomas W., birth of, 94; buys 80 acres, 94; death of, 95.
News, first copy of the, 376.
Nichols, Bausel, mentioned, 450.
Nickerson, Rev. H. S., mentioned, 160.
Nixon, James, mentioned, 123.
Norton, Frank, elected leader, 161; courageous and determined, 161.
Norton, Major B. V., mentioned, 19. Nose, George, mentioned, 220.
Nose, Robert, relates incident, 153.
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"Oh, foolish Galatians," sermon On spiritualism, 153. Old brick church, 364. "Old Revolutioner," 433. Old swimmin' hole, 307.
Old times, brings back, 374.
One of the stopping points, 85.
Only school room, 141.
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