History of Howard County, Indiana
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liii »;:v*iii .1. M '1 MM(' a? '.%!',• Jill! hi: |||;;vVj'!;|!i;;:;: &eN iGc 977.201 HS3m v.l Morrow, Jsckson. History of Howard County, Indiana CHIEF KUKOMOKO. HISTORY or HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA BY JACK50N MORROW, B. A. ILLUSTRATED VOL. I \\ K. BOWIZN & COMIVXMN' INDIAMAPOLI5, INDIANA AHenCoonly Public Ubrory " R. Wayne/ — 1408938 AUTHOR'S PREFACE Soon after beg-inning the editing of tlie History of Howard County, at the request of B. F. Bowen & Company, two facts became Very prominent. The first was that the undertaking was greater than at first appeared and the other was that there are now very, \-ery few of tlie pioneers remaining to rehearse the beginnings of Howard County history. It is largel}' now the verifying and arranging such historical matter as has lieretofore been published, supplemented by matters alreadv known by the writer, and others, gathered from old newspapers and the few surx-ivors of a far away time. In preparing this work it has seemed very unfair and short sighted to assume that all this magnificent country should have re- mained idle and unused by man for thousands of )-ears until seventy years ago. for the coming of the white man, and so I have devoted a chapter to the Mound Builders and another to their successors the Indians. Since the coming of the white man I ha\'e tried to describe conditions as tliey were in the beginning and the many changes he has wrought along the various lines of life. This work has been largely along general lines. The limits of this work have precluded the going into the purely local and individ- ual. There ha\-e been certain individual schools of more than pass- ing inip(^rtance. as the Old Normal and some out township schools, of which it would have been a real pleasure to have written. Beau- tiful Crown Point Cemeterv is another instance and the Old Ceme- tery, where lie the unmarked graves of many of the early pioneers of Kokonio and vicinity whose memory should especially be cher- ished as the real founders of our goodly heritage ; and too, our de- lightful City Park. I have consulted and drawn freely from the Kingman County Atlas of 1876 and the History of Howard and Tipton County of 1S83. Mr. Otis C. Pollard has rendered much valuable assistance; the chapters prepared by him are accredited to him. Isir. INIilton Garrigus has prepared a very valuable history of early financial con- ditions, a compact statement of facts difficult to find, especially interesting in our pioneer history as the Blue Dog and White Dog and the Wild Cat currencies. Posterity is under a real debt to Mr. Garrigus for this chapter. J.-vcKSON Morrow. INDEX Able Jurist 380 Armstrong-Landon Company. Stock of 224 Automobiles 248 Abolitionists 355 Account of St. Clair's Defeat 40 Agricultural Implements 74 Apples in Kokomo, First 324 Bank. Citizen's National 278 Banks 266 Bank of Russiaville. First National 281 Bank, First National of Kokomo 2"/"/ Bank, Kokomo National 279 Bank, Indian Reserve 327 Buggies, Manufactured 226 Bennett, Dan 408 Brouse, Judge Henry A 397 Biddle, Judge Horace P ij-j Bell, Lewis Cass, Reminiscences 425 Blanche. Willis 164 Brewer. James. Assassination of 285 Bee Hunter 218 Bench and Bar 362 Bee Hive \2j Business House. First 206 Bounties 176 Bounties in 1865 178 Block & Thalman ijy Banks 276 Bit Works 242 Brick, Making 229 1 Buildings, Public 1 1 Calamities. Some Earl}- 330 Commissioners, Board of 60 Clothing 22 Convention of Delegates 262 Commercial Development 331 Combination ]ylill 212 Courtship 51 Contempt of Court tj2 Crimes and Casualties 282 Cabin Furnishings "ji Clearing the Land j}, Com 75 Conditions, Present Day 98 Court, Probate and Common Pleas 421 Chills and Fever 84 County Boards 97 Court House and Surroundings 115 Counterfeiters, Arrest of 333 Civil War, Close of 183 Conditions are Changing 201 Civil War, Howard in the 130 Cooper and Robinson ". 406 Churches 429 City and Township Life 320 Circuit Judge, First 373 Carnegie's Gift • 467 Drafts 182 Domestic Life ^2 Doxey's Factory 257 Doxey Factory, Committee's Report on 259 Davis, Judge John 399 Drains, Public 78 Debating Society, First 325 Democrat, Radical 309 Donations 152 Enlistment, Final 174 Extensive Improvements 114 Eighty-nintli Regiment 167 Exciting Times 346 Ervin, Judge 368 Elections, First 58 Eleventh Cavalry, Company K 170 Early Roads 80 Education 81 Fairfield Steam Flouring- Mill 211 Factories, Canning 246 Free Soil Supporters 352 Floriculture 252 Foster. David 319 First to Fall 150 Fort Sumpter, Xews of 147 Friday, D 22"] Farms, Development of 198 Financial History 260 Ford & Donnelly 251 Fifty-seventh Regiment '. 164 Free Public School System 87 Garrigus, Milton 395 Greentown Gem 316 Glass Company, Pittsburg Plate 249 Green, Judge 423 Gazette, Kokomo 312 Garver, Judge William 424 Govemment Disappointed 41 Glass Factory, Opalescent 248 Government Among the Indians 49 Gravel Roads, First 103 Hardships and Privations 165 Hanged by a Mob 288 Hopkins, John B 367 Hawkins, Reuben 211 Hanged from a Bridge 296 Hardware Business, Head of the 222 Heading and Stave Business 226 Interurban Lines 421 Independent, Kokomo 307 Institutions, Strong' Financial 281 Indian Villages 426 Indiana Near Bankruptcy 273 Infirmary, County 1 18 Indiana Tiunbler and Goblet Company 243 Industrial Histor}- 196 Invaders 26 Indians Give Up Land 45 Indians 28 Jails 116 Jealousy Leads to Crime 292 Journal, Kokomo 309 Kern, John W 401 Kokomo Bale Tie Company 252 Kokomo, Early Days in . 318 Kokomo Steel and ^^'ire Works 250 Knerr Board and Paper Company 251 Kokomo Rul)ber Compau}' 244 Kokomo \^'o()(l Enameling Company 244 Kokomoko. Chief 48 Kokomo Canning Company 246 Kokomo Library 463 Leach, J. M. & Company 231 Lincoln to the Kentuckians 142 Little Turtle's Idea 27 Licensed to Teach 93 Local History 30 Log- Court House 370 Long, Judge 368 Lewis, Joe 394 Linsday, Judge N. R 324 Little Turtle 36 Lumbering 197 INDEX 9 Milroy, Judge R. H 383 Miller, John , 127 Maple Sugar Industry 220 Money Was Scarce 220 Molihan Gang 299 Malaria 321 Morgan's Raid 1,75 Memory of Soldiers Revered 187 Modem Methods 199 Mercantile Life 202 Mound Builders 17 Mound Remains 18 Militar)- History, Addenda 468 Medical Society, First 360 Modes of Worship 19 Mounds, Various Kinds of 20 Miamis 34 Miamis in Howard 48 Military Histor}' 125 Militia Companies 1 59 Mail in Pioneer Days 84 Morning Times. Kokonio 315 National Road 269 Nation, David 396 Name Changed to Howard 63 Ninetieth Regiment 193 Number of Men Sent from Howard in the Civil War 196 Newspapers 304 New London , 335 Newman Paper Company 241 National Mint 263 Nursery, the First 216 News, Kokomo 317 National Bank, Howard z'j'j Natural Gas, Search for 234 One House in Kokomo 57 Oil, Exploring for 329 O'Brien, Judge James 400 ( )verman, Judge X. R 412 Othei- Banks 280 One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment 171 One Hundred Day Men 173 One Hundred Thirt}--tifth and One Hundred Tliirty-Seventh Regiments 1/3 Organization and Early History 55 Orphans' Home 120 Oath 155 Old System 86 One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment. Company 1 174 One Cent Reward 348 Pre-emption Law 68 Pioneer Life in Howard County 70 Paths of Early Days 71 Public Road Sentiment 107 Preacher and the Corner Stone 113 President Lincoln's Message 135 Peace Party Fails 146 Public Sentiment in Howard 141 Picture Writing 54 Pottawattomies 32 Pay of Petit Jurors 364 Pollard, Judge Clark X 4" Pettit. Judge John U 386 Purdum, Xelson 394 Pioneer Lawyers. Leading 370 Pumping Stations 239 Planing Mill Business 225 Paper Mills 240 Pipe Lines -37 Pottery Company. Great Western 245 Report, County Treasurer's 64 Rich. Experience of Thomas 345 Representatives, House of 137 Richardville. Chief 55 Richardville, County of 56 Real Estate, Boom in 235 Railroad Bonds, Trouble Over 255 Richmond, Col. X. P 407 Richmond, Corydon, M. D 321, 364 Robinson, James W 390 Religion 53 Railroads : 416 Roller. Mills, Greentown 213 Rule or Ruin Policy 138 Race, Industrious 23 Roads in Howard County 101 Shiloh, Relief Sent to .... .' 166 Spanish-American War 414 St. Clair's Army 38 Stone, Judge E. S 422 Steward, John 290 Sutton-Yager Mystery 301 Seventy-fifth Regiment 166 Specie, Great Demand for 271 Soldiers Who Died in the Sen-ice 188 Streets, First Macadam 230 Schools, Howard County 85 State Road, Howard's First 102 School System, Changes in yi Social Gatherings 322 Saw Mills Becoming Scarce 209 Star Machine Works 251 Slave-holders, Views of 145 Secession and Disunion 131; Stove Works, Globe 245 State Road, First 95 Sympathizers, Southern 132 State Stipt. of Public Instruction 94 Stores, \'arious Kinds of 22"/ Sur\-evs 66 1 Town. Incorporating the 326 Traveling on Horseback 81 Trading Points 204 Thirteenth Regiment 1 57 Tribtme. Howard 304 Thirty-fourth Regiment 160 Total Mileage 108 Treaty of Greenville 44 Trust Company. Kokomo 280 Thirty-ninth Regiment 162 Trading Centers 342 Tanneries 215 Traveling Shoemakers 216 Trapping and Hunting 217 T^-jmato Growing 246 Traction Company 253 Turpin, William H 313 Union Tigers 160 Volunteers, First Call for 149 \*aile, J. Fred 401 \'aile, Rawson 394 \'olunteers, Families of the 163 Volapuck 317 Water Mill Flour Popular 213 \\'omen Helped 77 West Middleton Steam Flouring Mill 210 Wild Game 8^ War with Mexico 129 Walked in His Sleep 378 Wouldn't Pay Office Rent 112 ^^'ant Law Repealed 1 1 When the Europeans Came 24 Warriors 29 Western Indians 37 Wayne's \'icti )ry 43 INDEX 13 Welcome Home 185 Water Cure Era 316 Wallace, Judge John AI 384 \\'right.