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CHIEF KOKOMOKO.
HISTORY
OF HOWARD
COUNTY
INDIANA
ILLUSTRATED
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
VOL. I
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA
AUTHOR'S PREFACE
Soon after beginning the editing of the 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, very few of the pioneers remaining to rehearse the beginnings of Howard County history. It is largely now the verifying and arranging such historical matter as has heretofore been published, supplemented by matters already known by the writer, and others, gathered from old newspapers and the few survivors 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 remained idle and unused by man for thousands of years 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 have tried to describe conditions as they 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 individual. There have been certain individual schools of more than passing importance, as the Old Normal and some out township schools, of which it would have been a real pleasure to have written. Beautiful Crown Point Cemetery is another instance and the Old Cemetery, page: [6][View Page [6]] where lie the unmarked graves of many of the early pioneers of Kokomo and vicinity whose memory should especially be cherished as the real founders of our goodly heritage; and too, our delightful City Park.
I have consulted and drawn freely from the Kingman County Atlas of 1876 and the History of Howard and Tipton County of 1883. Mr. Otis C. Pollard has rendered much valuable assistance; the chapters prepared by him are accredited to him. Mr. Milton Garrigus has prepared a very valuable history of early financial conditions, 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.
JACKSON M0RROW.
page: [7][View Page [7]]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
277 - Bank, Kokomo National
279 - Bank, Indian Reserve
327 - Buggies, Manufactured
226 - Bennett, Dan
408 - Brouse, Judge Henry A
397 - Piddle, Judge Horace I.
377 - Bell, Lewis Cass, Reminiscences
425 - Blanche, Willis
164 - Brewer, James, Assassination of
285 - Bee Hunter
218 - Bench and Bar
362 - Bee Hive
206 - Business House, First
176 - Bounties
178 - Bounties in 1865
276 - Block & Thalman
227 - Banks
276 - Bit Works
242 - Brick, Making
229 - page: [8][View Page [8]]
- Buildings, Public
111 - Calamities, Some Early
330 - Commissioners, Board of
60 - Clothing
22 - Convention of Delegates
262 - Commercial Development
331 - Combination Mill
212 - Courtship
51 - Contempt of Court
372 - Crimes and Casualties
282 - Cabin Furnishings
72 - Clearing the Land
73 - Corn
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
20 - 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
52 - Doxey's Factory
257 - Doxey's 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 - page: [9][View Page [9]]
- Extensive Improvements
114 - Eighty-ninth Regiment
167 - Exciting Times
346 - Ervin, Judge
368 - Elections, First
58 - Eleventh Cavalry, Company E.
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, News of
147 - Friday, D.
227 - Farms, Development of
198 - Financial History
260 - F1ord & 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 - Government 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
367 - Hawkins, Reuben
211 - Hanged from a Bridge
296 - Hardware Business, Head of the
222 - page: [10][View Page [10]]
- Heading and Stave Business
226 - Interurban Lines
42 - Independent, Kokomo
307 - Institutions, Strong Financial
281 - Indian Villages
426 - Indiana Near Bankruptcy
273 - Infirmary, County
118 - Indiana Tumbler and Goblet Company
243 - Industrial History
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 Wire Works
250 - Knerr Board and Paper Company
251 - Kokomo Rubber Company
244 - Kokomo Wood 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.
324 - Little Turtle
36 - Lumbering
197 - page: [11][View Page [11]]
- Milroy, Judge R. H.
383 - Miller, John
127 - Maple Sugar Industry
220 - Money Was Scarce
220 - Molihan Gang
299 - Malaria
321 - Morgan's Raid
175 - Memory of Soldiers Revered
187 - Modern Methods
199 - Mercantile Life
202 - Mound Builders
17 - Mound Remains
18 - Military History, Addenda
468 - Medical Society, First
360 - Modes of Worship
19 - Mounds, Various Kinds of
20 - Miamis
34 - Miamis in Howard
48 - Military History
125 - Militia Companies
159 - Mail in Pioneer Days
84 - Morning Times, Kokomo
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
277 - Natural Gas, Search for
234 - One House in Kokomo
57 - Oil Exploring for
329 - page: [12][View Page [12]]
- O'Brien, Judge James
400 - Overman, Judge N. R.
412 - Other Banks
280 - One Hundred and Thirtieth Regiment
171 - One Hundred Day Men
173 - One Hundred Thirty-fifth and One Hundred Thirty-Seventh Regiments
173 - Organization and Early History
55 - Orphans' Home
120 - Oath
155 - Old System
86 - One Hundred and Forty-second Regiment, Company I.
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 N.
411 - Pettit, Judge John U.
386 - Purdum, Nelson
394 - Pioneer Lawyers, Leading
370 - Pumping Stations
239 - Planing Mill Business
225 - Paper Mills
240 - Pipe Lines
237 - Pottery Company, Great Western
245 - Report, County Treasurer's
64 - Rich, Experience of Thomas
345 - Representatives, House of
137 - page: [13][View Page [13]]
- Richardville, Chief
55 - Richardville, County of
56 - Real Estate, Boom in
235 - Railroad Bonds, Trouble Over
255 - Richmond, Col. N. 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 Service
188 - Streets, First Macadam
230 - Schools, Howard County
85 - State Road, Howard's First
102 - School System, Changes in
91 - Social Gatherings
322 - Saw Mills Becoming Scarce
209 - Star Machine Works
251 - Slave-holders, Views of
145 - Secession and Disunion
139 - Stove Works, Globe
245 - State Road, First
95 - Sympathizers, Southern
132 - State Supt. of Public Instruction
94 - Stores, Various Kinds of
227 - Surveys
66 - page: [14][View Page [14]]
- Town, Incorporating the
326 - Traveling on Horseback
81 - Trading Points
204 - Thirteenth Regiment
157 - Tribune, 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 - Tomato Growing
246 - Traction Company
253 - Turpin, William H.
313 - Union Tigers
160 - Volunteers, First Call for
149 - Vaile, J. Fred
40 - Vaile, Rawson
394 - Volunteers, Families of the
163 - Volapuck
317 - Water Mill Flour Popular
213 - Women Helped
77 - West Middleton Steam Flouring Mill
210 - Wild Game
83 - War with Mexico
129 - Walked in His Sleep
378 - Wouldn't Pay Office Rent
112 - Want Law Repealed
111 - When the Europeans Came
24 - Warriors
29 - Western Indians
37 - Wane's Victory
43 - page: [15][View Page [15]]
- Welcome Home 185
- Water Cure Era 316
- Wallace, Judge John M. 384
- Wright, Judge John W. 373
- Workmen, Skilled 21
- Woven Wire, Making 250
- Warehouse, First 208
- Wickersham, Moses R. 349
