Chapter and Contents
| Pages
|
CHAPTER 1. PRE-HISTORIC
General-Spanish
Exploration-Relics-Antiquities
| 11-15
|
CHAPTER 2. INDIAN HISTORY
General -
Indian Tribes - Races - Chiefs- Miscellaneous - Reminiscences - Troubles -
Wars - Treaties - Reserves - Towns -Burying Grounds - Retrospect - Destiny -
White and Chief - Peace Coming - Tecumseh's War - The End
|
16-28
|
CHAPTER 3. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY
Location -
Boundaries - Indian Boundaries - Counties - Second Boundary Kekionga -
Miscellaneous - Public Lands - Meridians and Base Lines - Surface -
Vegetation - Animals - Drainage - Minerals - Inland Waters Mississinewa - White
River - Miami - Divides - Use of streams.
|
28-35
|
CHAPTER 4. EARLY HISTORY
General -
Settlement - First Things - Manner of Life - Building - Clearing Lands -
Furniture - Food - Cooking - Work - Clothing - Money - Amusements - Religion
- etc.
|
35-51
|
CHAPTER
5. ORGANIZATION
Counties
- Preliminary - County Seat - Official History - Public
Buildings-Townships - Roads - etc.
|
51-69
|
CHAPTER
6. RECORDS
Deeds
- Apprenticeship - Free Papers - Abstract of Titles - Marriages -
Circuit Court - Commissioners Board - Probate Court
|
69-79
|
CHAPTER
7. REMINISCENCES
Cholera
- Bear Story - Bell Making - Clothing - Clearing Land - Birds and
Varmints - Pigeon Roost - Fallen Timber - etc.
|
79-97
98-116
|
CHAPTER
8. OLD SETTLERS
Meetings
- Pioneers - Aged People
|
116-121
|
CHAPTER
9. CEMETERIES
|
121-133
|
CHAPTER
10. COLORED PEOPLE
Settlements
- Temperances - Churches - Biography
|
133-141
|
CHAPTER
11. RELIGION
Baptists
- Catholics - Christians - Congregationalists - Disciples - Friend -
German Churches-Methodist - Presbyterians -Protestant - Methodist -
Universalists - United Brethren - Wesleyans - Clergyman -
Spiritualists - Holiness Band - Y.M.C.A.- Biography.
|
141-157
158-175
|
CHAPTER
12. EDUCATION
General
Association - Seminary - Union Literary Institute - Normal Schools -
Institutes - Teachers Association - Funds - Schools - Statistics -
Private Schools - Trustees - Music - Lectures - Sunday Schools -
Libraries
|
175-189
|
CHAPTER
13. TEMPERANCE
General
- Union City - Sons - Templars - Porter Lodge - S.S.V. & E.L.
|
189-194
|
CHAPTER
14. ANTI-SLAVERY
General
- Underground Railroad - Runaways - Reminiscences - Negro Slavery
|
194-199
|
CHAPTER
15. AGRICULTURE
General
- Fruits - Horticulture - Sorghum - Fences - Ditches - Drains -
Weather - Crops etc - Patrons of Husbandry - Fairs - Implements
|
199-209
|
CHAPTER
16. SECRET SOCIETIES
General
- I.O.O.F. - F. & A.M. - K. of P.
|
209-213
|
CHAPTER
17. POLITICAL
Harrison
Campaign - Mass Meetings - Republicanism - Sons of Liberty
|
214-215
|
CHAPTER
18. PERSONAL
Officials
- Attorneys - Physicians - Press
|
215-228
|
CHAPTER
19. MISCELLANY
Banks,
Insurance, Loan Associations - Statistics - Anecdotes - Biography
|
228-238
|
CHAPTER
20. MILITARY
Revolution
- Indian Wars - Widows - Pensions - Militia 1832 - Mexican War of 1861
- General Relief - Bounties - Account of Regiments - Prisons -
Officers - Soldiers - Deaths - Burials - Reminiscences - Biography -
Sanitary Operations - etc.
|
238-296
|
416 S. Meridian St.
The cost is $65 plus $5 postage. Make checks payable to the Society.