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History

of

St. Joseph County,

Indiana

TOGETHER WITH SKETCHES OF ITS CITIES, VILLAGES AND TOWNS, EDUCATIONAL, RELIGIOUS, CIVIL, MILITARY, AND POLITICAL HISTORY, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT PERSONS, AND BIOGRAPHIES OF REPRESENTATIVE CITIZENS.

ALSO A CONDENSED

HISTORY OF INDIANA,

EMBRACING ACCOUNTS OF PREHISTORIC RACES,  ABORIGINES, FRENCH, ENGLISH AND AMERICAN CONQUESTS, AND A GENERAL REVIEW OF ITS CIVIL, POLITICAL AND MILITARY HISTORY.

ILLUSTRATED

Chicago

Chas. C. Chapman & Co.,

1880

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

HISTORY OF INDIANA

FORMER OCCUPANTS.

EXPLORATION BY THE WHITES.

NATIONAL POLICIES

EXPEDITIONS OF COL. GEORGE RODGERS CLARK

GOVERNMENT OF THE NORTHWEST.

MILITARY HISTORY, 1790-1800.

TERRITORIAL HISTORY.

GOVERNOR HARRISON AND THE INDIANS.

WAR OF 1812

TECUMSEH.

CIVIL MATTERS OF 1812-1815.

ORGANIZATION OF THE STATE.

BLACK HAWK WAR.

LAST EXODUS OF INDIANS

INDIANA TITLES

LAND SALES

HARMONY COMMUNITY

PIONEER LIFE

MICHIGAN BOUNDARY

MEXICAN WAR.

SLAVERY

THE WAR FOR THE UNION

DIVORSE LAWS

FINANCIAL.

GEOLOGY.

COAL

AGRICULTURAL.

EDUCATION.

BENEVOLENT AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS.

STATE OFFICERS

U. S. SENATORS FROM INDIANA

REPRESENTATIVES IN CONGRESS

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES:

THE SUPREMACIES

STATES OF THE UNION

HISTORY OF ST. JOSEPH COUNTY

Chapter I.

 First white men in the county.--Original inhabitants.--Area of the county.--Topography if the county.--The water-seed.--Rivers of St. Joseph county.--First entries of land.--First road

Chapter II.

Natural history.--Quadrupeds--Birds--Reptiles—Fish--Botany

Chapter III.

Organization of St. Joseph County--Acts of the board of justices-- Acts of the Board of County Commissioners

Chapter IV.

 Pioneer life

Chapter V.

 Circuit court--Common pleas court--Probate court--The bar—The present bar--St. Joseph Bar Association--The bar in a new role

Chapter VI.

 Northern Indiana Medical Society.--St. Joseph County Medical Society.--St. Joseph Valley Medical Society.--Diseases of the St. Joseph Valley

Chapter VII.

St. Joseph County in the war...

Chapter VIII.

Railroads.--Terrible railroad accident.--The telegraph.—Ferries

Chapter IX.

Biographical

Chapter X.

 Reminiscences-Biographical Sketches

Chapter XI.

 Public buildings.--Navigation of the St. Joseph River.--Marriage licenses.--A counterfeiting reminiscence.--Stillborn villages.--Flood.--Gold Hunters

Chapter XII.

 Political history of St. Joseph County.--Official election returns

Chapter XIII.

Agriculture in St. Joseph County—Agriculturial Societies

Chapter XIV.

 The press

Chapter XV.

 St. Joseph County Bible Society-County Total Abstinence Society-What a Pint of  Whiskey Costs-The Temperance Crusade-Red Ribbon Movement

Chapter XVI.

 Dark Deeds—St. Jo River and its Victims

Chapter XVII.

St. Joseph County Historical Society.--First brick house in South Bend.--Pioneers meetings--Address of judge Stanfield.--Address of Dr. Humphreys

Chapter XVIII.

 The South Bend fugitive slave case

Chapter XIX.

 University of Notre Dame--St. Mary's Academy.--Northern Indiana College

Chapter XX.

Authors and selections

Chapter XXI.

Public Schools.--County Seminary.-Congressional Representation--State and national representation.--County Officers.--A retrospect-St. Joseph County Today

Township histories

:

Centre

Clay

German

Greene

Harris

Liberty

Lincoln

Madison

Olive

Penn

Portage

Union

Warren