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COUNTIES

OF

WHITE AND PULASKI

INDIANA

HISTORICAL AND BIOGRAPHICAL

ILLUSTRATED

CHICAGO:

F. A. BATTEY & CO., PUBLISHERS.

1883

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I- HISTORY OF WHITE COUNTY.

CHAPTER I.

Act of Formation - Agricultural Society - Alarms, Indian – Assessors - Associate Judges  - Auditors  - Cession Treaties, Indian - Changes of Boundaries  - Circuit Court, Sessions of  - Circuit Judges  - Clerks  - Common Pleas Judges - County Agents  -County Commissioners  - County Library - County Seat. Question - County Seminary - County Statistics, 1880  - Court Houses and Jails  - Drainage - Educational Statistics  - Election Tables  - Introductory  - Location of County Seat - Medical Society – Mound Builders - Old Settlers' Association - Paupers, County - Politics  - Population - Probate Judges - Proceedings of Commissioners - Recapitulation of Taxes, 1882 - Recorders - miners - Seminary Trustees - Sheriffs. – The Soil - Statistics of Interest - Surveyors - Three Per Cent Commissioners – Treasurers

CHAPTER II.

Additional Volunteers  - Aid to Soldiers, The First  - Another Company - Bounty and Relief  - Bowman's Company - Call to Arms - Company, The First - Continued Efforts at Enlistment - County Conventions  - Drafts, The - First Sacrifice, The  - Flag and Sword Presentation  - Fourth of July, 1862 - Fourth of July, 1863 - Husband Wanted - Infantry, Twelfth - Infantry, Sixty-third - Infantry, Ninety-ninth  - Infantry, One Hundred and Sixteenth - Infantry, One Hundred and  Twenty-eighth - Joy and Sorrow - Loyalty - Mexican War - County Militia - Military Committees  - Number of Men  Furnished - Opening Scenes - Patriotism in Monticello - Presidential Campaign of 1860  - Recruits - Sketches of Regiments - Renewed Efforts  - Roll of Honor  - Sanitary Efforts - Subsequent Enlistments  - Union Meeting at Norway - War of 1812 - War Meetings  - White County Companies – Township Histories.

CHAPTER III.

Union Township - Banking - Elections, Early - Election of November, 1836 - High School Building - Hydraulic Companies - Industries - Mills - Monticello - Monticello's - Incorporation and Town Officers - Monticello's Early Schools - Monticello's First Building  - Monticello's First Plat - Monticello Items - Monticello's Later Merchants, etc - Monticello's Present Business Interests- Mt. Walleston Village - Early Newspapers - Norway Village - The Norwegians - Proceedings of Town Board - Prof. G. Bowman's & Prof. R Ritaken – School - Early Religious Organizations - School Bonds - School Trustees - Secret Societies - First Settler -  Wool Carding

CHAPTER IV.

Prairie Township – First Birth - Bridges - Town of Brookston - Churches - Creation of Township - First Death - First Landholders - First Marriage - Masonic Lodge - Early Mills - Early Poll Lists - Pioneer Schools  - The Press - Settlement - Springboro Village -  Storm of Sleet - Surface Features

CHAPTER V.

Honey Creek Township - First Birth - Churches - First Death - First Elections - Mills  - Miscellaneous - Newspapers  - First Officers – Railways - Town of Reynolds - Incorporation of Reynolds - Schools - Secret Societies  - First Settlement

CHAPTER VI.

Jackson Township - Agricultural Association - Anti-Slavery Petition  - A Storm - First Birth - Burnettsville  - Churches - Creation of Township - First Death  - First Elections - Farmington Seminary - Jurors - First Marriage - Morality - Mormonism - Oldest Resident - Post Offices - Schools - First Settlement - Sharon - Town of Hannah - Violent Deaths - Vital Statistics

CHAPTER VII.

Princeton Township - Ague in 1844 - First Birth - Boundaries of Township - Churches - Creation of Township - First Death - Early Elections - Flood of 1844 - Justices of the Peace - First Marriage - Origin of Name - Railroad - Schools - Seafield station - Secret Societies - First Settlement - First Tavern - Town of Wolcott - Wolcott's Present Business

CHAPTER VIII.

Monon Township - First Birth - A Dead Town - First Death - Early Comers Kit - Early Elections - Indian Mounds - Indian Scare - Early Mills - Miscellaneous Items  - Town of New Bradford - Pioneer Life - Post Offices - Religious Organizations - Schools and Teachers - Secret Society - Settlement - Suicides, etc - First Wedding

CHAPTER IX.

Big Creek Township - Ague - First Birth - Black Hawk War - Chalmers Village - Deer and Wolf hunt - First Death - Early Difficulties - Early Elections - First Hotel - Indians - Internal Improvements - First Marriage – Early Preachers - Schools - First Settlers - Spencer House - Wheeler Station

CHAPTER X.

Liberty Township - Churches - Creation of Township - First Death - First Elections - First Land Entries - First Marriage - Miscellaneous - Pioneer Homes - Post Offices – Early Schools - Tax Payers

CHAPTER XI.

West Point Township - First Birth - First Death - First Election - Formation of Township - Forney Post Office - First Land Entries - First Marriage - Meadow Lake Farm - Ministers and Churches - School Interests

CHAPTER XII.

Cass Township - First Birth - Church Interests - Drainage - Educational Growth – Early Election - First Marriage - Pioneer Life - Post Office - First Preacher - Tax Payers of 1851

CHAPTER XIII.

Round Grove Township - First Births - Church - Creation of Township - First Death - First Elections - Land Entries - First Marriage - Origin of Name - Schools - First Settlement - Then and Now

PART II. - HISTORY OF PULASKI COUNTY

CHAPTER I.

Abstract of Property and Taxes, 1881- Agents, County - Agricultural Society – Assessors - Associate Judges  - Auditors - Board of Commissioners - County Buildings - Circuit Court - Circuit Judges - Clerks - Commissioners - Common Pleas Judges - Coroners - County Before Organization - Creation of County - Drainage - The Drift - First Election - Election Tables - The Indians - Jail - Land Offices - Library - Medical Society - Miscellaneous Items Old Settlers' Association - County Orders - Organization of County - Petroleum Company - Politics - County Poor - Probate Judges - Railroads - Recorders - Representatives - Roads, County and State - School Examiners – Seminary County - Sheriffs - The Soil - The Squatters - State Senators - Statistics - Surveyors - Table of Land Entries - Three Per Cent Commissioners - Townships - Treasurers - Treasury Statement

CHAPTER II.

An Incident - Bounty - Calls for Troops – Disloyalty - The Draft - Enlistment, Continued  - Excitement at Winamac - Fall of Sumter - First Company - Infantry, Ninth - Infantry, Twentieth - Infantry, Forty-sixth - Infantry, Eighty-seventh - Mexican War - Old Militia System - The Rebellion - Roll of Honor - Regiments - Suppression of the Democrat - Table of Regiments - Three Months' Men

TOWNSHIP HISTORIES.

CHAPTER III.

Monroe Township - Additions to Winamac - Banking - Bridges - Business Blocks - Present Business - Churches - Early Events –Elections - Ferries - Incorporation - Industrial Growth - Later Progress - Manufactures - Merchandising - Newspapers - Postmasters - Professions - Schools - Secret Societies - First Settler - Settlement - Subsequent Improvement

CHAPTER IV.

Salem Township - Agricultural Society - Present Business - The College - Creamery - Drainage - Early Elections - Fatalities – Francesville - Game - Geological Characteristics - Hay - Land Entries - First Marriage - Militia – Newspapers - Organization - Schools - Secret Societies - Settlement - Township - Accidental Death  - Bridge - Church - Creation of Township - Deceased Pioneers - Early Elections - Incidents - Mooresburg - Mooresburg Mill - Notes and Incidents - Origin of Name - Politics – Roads - Saw Mill - Schools - First Settlement - Spring Election, 1882 – Wey's Mill

CHAPTER VI.

Indian Creek Township - Birth and Death - Bridges – Churches - Education - Incidents - First Marriage - First Mill - Miscellaneous - Mound Builders - Pearl Divers - Physical Features - Pulaski Grist Mill - Pulaski Village - Settlement - First Settler - Early Voters

CHAPTER VII.

White Post Township – Affrays - First Birth - Churches - First Death - Directory of Medarysville - Drainage - Early Elections - Incidents - First Marriage - Medarysville - Miscellaneous - A Mystery - Newspapers - Origin of Name - Physical Description - Post Office  - Schools - Settlement

CHAPTER VIII.

Van Buren Township – Churches - Detectives - First Election, - First Elections, Subsequent – Hardships - Hunters - Land Entries - Rosedale Village – Schools - First Settler - Star City - Statistical

CHAPTER IX.

Tippecanoe Township - First Boundaries - Bridges - Cholera - First Death - Early Elections - Early Incidents - First Inn - Early Landholders - First Marriage - Mills - Miscellaneous - Monterey Village - Origin of Name - Pioneers Living - Roads - Settlement

CHAPTER X.

Cass Township - Belfast - Churches - Drainage  - Early Occurrences - Elections - Fatal Accident - Post Office – Products - Schools - First Settlers - First Trustees - Wild Game

CHAPTER XI.

Rich Grove Township – Churches - "Cranberry" Township - Creation of Township - First Death - Early Elections - Justices' of the Peace - Land Entries - First Marriage - Mills, etc - Origin of Name - Property Protection - Road – Schools – Settlements - Trustees

CHAPTER XII.

Jefferson Township - -An Accident - First Birth – Churches - Creation of Township - First Death - Early Experiences - Land Entries - Liquor License - First Marriage - Remains of a Mastodon - Mills - Origin of Name - Schools - Settlement - Violent Death

CHAPTER XIII.

Beaver Township - First Birth - Churches - First Death

Early Customs - Early Events - Elections - Land Entries

First Marriage - Origin of Name - Schools - Settlers

CHAPTER XIV.

Franklin Township – Civility - Drainage  - Educational - Interests - Elections - Jacobs House - Lund Entries- Origin of Name - Kail road - Settlement - Sunday School - Bearer Township - Cass Township – Franklin Township - Harrison Township - Indian Creek Township - Jefferson Township - Monroe Township - Rich Grove Township - Salem Township - Tippecanoe Township - Van Buren Township - White Post Township - City of Winamac