What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the 1800’s. This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Sullivan County and its people.
This is a scanned copy on CD of the original book published in 1909.
A HISTORY
OF
SULLIVAN COUNTY,
INDIANA
CLOSING OF THE FIRST CENTURY'S HISTORY
OF THE COUNTY, AND SHOWING THE
GROWTH OF ITS PEOPLE. INSTITUTIONS,
INDUSTRIES AND WEALTH
THOMAS J. WOLFE
EDITOR
VOLUME 1 and VOLUME 2
ILLUSTRATED
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
NEW YORK CHICAGO
1909
(900 pages on 1 CD)
An essential resource for Genealogists
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER I - The Historic Background
CHAPTER II - The Old Forts and these First Settlements
CHAPTER III - Organization of Sullivan County
CHAPTER IV - The Pioneer Men and Women—Genesis of the, Early Settlers
CHAPTER V - Military Annals
CHAPTER VI - Sullivan County Education
CHAPTER VII - Transportation and Communication- The River Trade by Flatboat and Steamboat—Days of Stage Coach and Road Wagon
CHAPTER VIII - The Era of Railroads and Electricity
CHAPTER IX - The Town of Sullivan
CHAPTER X - Merom
CHAPTER XI - Carlisle
CHAPTER XII - Shelburn, Farmersburg, Hymera, Paxton, New Lebanon, Graysville, Pleasantville, Cass, Dugger, Fairbanks
CHAPTER XIII - County Institutions
CHAPTER XIV - Bench and Bar
CTTAFTER XV - The Profession of Medicine
CHAPTER XVI - The Press
CHAPTER XVII - Development of the Mineral Wealth
CHAPTER XVIII - Money and Banking
CHAPTER XIX - The Principal Church Organizations
CHAPTER XX - Temperance
CHAPTER XXI - Fraternal
CHAPTER XXII - Libraries
CHAPTER XXIII - Drainage
CHAPTER XXIV - Fairs—The Grange and Other Agricultural Organizations.
CHAPTER XXV - Telephones
CHAPTER XXVI - Rural Free Deliveries
CHAPTER XXVII - Civil Lists
CHAPTER XXVIII - A Sketch of Indiana Through the Territorial Period and up to Organization as a State
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