Cass County, Indiana - Chapter 53: Washington Township, 1913

Index

Culver Military Academy, 6 Cumberland Presbyterian chapel, 531 Cuppy burial ground, 690 Curious insects, 316 Current miscellaneous societies and clubs,

Enyart, Charles A., 1136 Enyart, William B., 802 Epitome of Indiana History, 1 Etnire, John M., 755 Evans, Thomas J., 113 ''Evening News,'' 267 Ewing, Charles W., 106 Examiners, 94 Expenses for all the High Schools in

Fifth Cavalry, Ninetieth Indiana, 166 Fifty-first Indiana Regiment, 163 Fifty-fifth Indiana Regiment, 163 Fifty-eighth Indiana Regiment, 163 Fifty-ninth Indiana Regiment, 163 Fighting Parson, A, 186 Fike, Otto, 920 Finances of the county, 75 Financial and official, 75 Finley, John, 46 First aerial mail carrier, 321 First Arbor Day in Indiana, 93 First bank in Logansport, 364 First case tried, 100 First Cass County Fair, 85 First church organ, 257 First coinage, 361 First county jail, 105 First county physician, 69 First court house, 68 First courtroom, 105 First daily paper in Cass county, 265 First doctor in Indiana, 404 First doctor in Logansport, 407 First election held in Cass county, 58

First election under the state constitution, 2 First enlisted man, 140 First foundry, 334 First glee club, 257 First grand jury, 99 First hat factory, 334 First hewed log tavern in Cass county,

First hospital in America, 403 First hospital in Indiana, 404 First hospital in Logansport, 404 First hospital in the United States, 403 First hospitid in the world, 403 First hotel, 218 First house in the present limits of

Indianapolis, 3 First Indiana poem, 227 First jury trial, 100 First license to run a store, 59 First medical college in Indiana, 404 First medical college in the United

States, 404 First mill in Cass county, 212 First newspaper in Indiana, 262 First newspaper in Logansport, 263 First official seal of the Cass circuit court, 99 First of many things local, 316 First piano, 256 First postoffice, 384 First railroad in Indiana, 8 First Republican Ticket in Indiana, 276 First road petition, 61 First roads, 191 First rural mail route, 385 First school, 377 First settlement in Virginia, 1 First tax levy, 61 First temperance movement in Cass county, 223 First term of commissioners' Court, 58 First territorial legislature, 2 First treaty with the Indians, 36 First white men on Indiana soil, 1 First Baptist Church of Galveston, 598 First Presbyterian church, 425 First Market House, Blown Down 1845 cemetery, 604. Independent Order of Foresters, 396 Indian anecdote, 311 Indian burial customs, 493 Indian burial ground, 445, 614, 648 Indian Creek Christian Church cemetery,

Indiana admitted to the Union, 2 Indiana Boundaries, 1 Indiana Business College, 96 Indiana Legion, 159 Indiana Limiber Company of Galveston,

Logansport - Mention, 10, first settlement, 322; orignal plat of, 324; naming the town, 324; settlers of 1828, 325; town incorporation, 326; city incorporation, 326 ; first mayor, 327 ; early merchants and buildings, 329; merchants of 1838, 329; description in 1838, 330; Fourth and Broadway in the '60s, 332; later merchants, 332;. early industries and factories of the past, 334; first mill, 334; first foundry, 334; first hat factory, 334; tannery, 335; cooperage, 335; spoke factory, 336; Howe handle factory, 336; Nash Lincoln foundry and Aldrich Woolen mill, 336; King Drill Company, 337; Old lock foundry, 337; Spiker and Harrison Mfg. Co., 337; wagon and carriage factories, 337; pump factories, 338; granite works, 338; brewery industry, 338; old markets, 339; present business firms, 341 ; furniture dealers, 342 ; undertaking establishments, 342 ; druggists, 342; automobile dealers, 343; bicycle dealers, 343; livery and feed stables, 343; boot and shoe dealers, 343; jewelers, 343; wholesale . grocers, 344; grain dealers, 344; prominent buildings and their location, 345; present industries, 347; fishing tackle and industry, 351; basket factory, 352; gas works, 352; natural gas industry, 353; overall factory, 354; creamery, 354; ice cream factory, 355; monument and stone works, 355; laundry industry, 355; lumber and mill industries, 355; hat factory, 359; cigar factories, 359; broom factories, 360; banks and finance, 361; first bank, 364; city of bridges, 369; municipal affairs, 369; water works, 369; fire department, 371; fire alarm telegraph, 372; paid fire department, 372; some notable fires, 373; electric light, 373; police department, 374; streets, 374; city finances, 375; population, 375; city buildings, 375; parks, 376; schools, 377; postoffice, 3^4; postmasters, 384; offices of city from 1838 to 1912, 387; city officials, 1913, 391; societies, 393; clubs, 393; medicine and doctors, 403; first hospital, 404; first doctor, 407; list of deceased and transient doctors, 413; living physicians, 418; churches, 420; cemeteries, 443; reference biographies, 454 Logansport and Wabash Turnpike, 194 Logansport and Western Gravel Road,

America, 560 Missouri Harmony, 255 Modem Woodmen of America, 397, 506 Money hid at Old Town, 312 Monster at Manitou, 311 Morgan's raid, 167 ** Morning Leader," 269 Moroney, Matthew, 1018 Morrison, Frank R., 1097 Morrow, Marcus M., 1158 Most valuable book in the world today,

Noble township - ^mention, 10, 63, 65, 658* creeks, 658; location, 658; early settlement, 660; organization, 661; mills and industries, 662* roads and transportation, 663; scnools, 665; churches, 667; cemeteries, 670; miscellaneous items, 672; reference biographies, 675

Pioneer agriculturist, 81 Pioneer art, 251 Pioneer Cabin, (view), 47, 480 Pioneer cabins, 45 Pioneer hospitality, 53 Pioneer incidents, 50 Pipe Creek Chapel or Zion United church, 686 Pipe Creek Falls (view), 677 Pipe Creek or DeLawter cemetery, 690 Pisgah Church cemetery, 624 Pisgah Presbyterian church, 621 Plank road, 193 Pleasant Grove pike, 195 Pleasant Hill cemetery, 551 Pleasant Hill (Union) church, 546 Pleasant Valley Universalist church, 559 *^ Pluck," 269 Plummer, Etta, 954

Pratt, Daniel D., (portrait) 113; 114 Pre-historic man in America, 24 Presbyterian Academy, 97 Presbyterian church, 512 Presentation of flag, 137 Presentation of flag to the Forty-sixth

Regiment, 147 Present court house, 68 Present indebtedness of county, 76 Present (1912) list of attorneys, 124 Presidential electors, 293 Price, Allen, 1118 Price, Carlton A., 905 Price of land, 47 Principal canal, 8 Private schools, 379 Probate court, 104 Probate judges, 76 Progressive Dunkards, 469 Progressive Party, 274 Progress of medical education and medical laws, 411 Prominent early and deceased attorneys,

675, 700 Reighter, William H., 754 Removal of Indians to the West, 38 Reporter Publishing Company, 1179 Representatives, 80 Reptiles, 21 Republican Party, 274 Resume of Logansport banks, 368 Revolutionary soldiers, 128 Revolutionary War, 128 Rhoades, Henry, 834 Rice, Elihu S., 772 Rice, Frank M., 774 Rice, Jared B., 1145 Richards, Benjamin B., 1115 Richardson, Charles E., 762 Richardson, George W., 761 Richardson, William S., 906 Right of Indians to land, 38 Riley, William, 810 Riots of the Irish laborers, 127 Rivers and lakes, 9 Riverside Park, 376 *

Royal Center - mention, 502; industries, 502; incorporation, 503; additions to the town, 503; electric light plant, 504; fire department and waterworks, 504; postoffice, 504; newspapers, 505; lodges and societies, 508; schools, 509; churches, 512

Shiloh Church cemetery, 670 Shirey, George H., 1079 Shultz, John B., 789 Sixteenth Battery, Light Artillery, 176 Sketches of old pioneers of Bethlehem

Soldiers' and Sailors' Orphans Home, 7 Soldiers ' and Sailors ' monument, Logansport (view), 448 Soldiers' monument, 449 Soldiers of the War of 1812, 128 Some notable fires, 373 Sons of Temperance, The, 224 South Side Christian church, 432 South Side United Brethren church, 438 South Side Flouring Mill, 214 Spaniards, 1

Steamboats on the Wabash, 198 Steamboats to Logansport, 314 Stewart, James W., 1042 Stewart, Milton B., 1178 Stone and lime industry, 663 Storms and cyclones, 296 Stouflfer, John W., 614 Stoughton WOliam H., 809 Strecker, George, 1161 Strecker, George, Jr., 1162 Strecker, Bosina, 1161 Street commissioners, 392 Stuart, Benjamin F., 951 Stuart, Charles H., 912 Stuart, Robert A., 1034 Stuart, William Z., Ill, 114 Studebaker private cemetery, 492 Sullivan, Noah, 1085 ** Sunday Critic,'' 271 Sumption, David W., 918 Superior court of Cass county, 105 Surveys, 36 Surveyors, 78

Flood, 1913, (view), 302 Third treaty with the Indians, 36 Thirteenth Cavalry, 173 Thirty-first Indiana Regiment, 162 Thirty-fourth Indiana Regiment, 162 Thirty-fifth Indiana Regiment or First

Views - On the Banks of the Wabash, Logansport, 10; Indians and Pioneers, 44; Pioneer Cabin, 47; Typical Scene in Pioneer Cabin, 49; Court House, Logansport, 68; Third Street Covered Bridge, over Eel River, 208; Forest Mill, 213; Georgetown Concrete Bridge, 209; Uhrs Dam, Eel River and Market Street bridge, 216; Old Barnett Hotel, southwest comer of Third and Market Streets, 219; t*ublic Library, Logansport, 228; Judge Biddle 's Island Home, Logansport, 245; Ice Gorge, 299; Third Street Bridge, Logansport, Great Flood, 1913, 302; Chicago Life Saving Boat, on Broadway and Third streets, March, 1913, 303; Wrecked Home on Biddle Island, 305; Alex Chamberlain Tavern, 1828, 323 ; Fourth and Broadway in the '608, 332; First Market House, Blown Down, 1845, 339; Broadway Looking West from Sixth street, 1911, 342; Market Street looking West, 343; Fourth Street, Looking South, 345 ; Eel River Bend, Logansport, 354; View of Third Street Bridge and Biddle Island, 370; Old Seminary erected on Tliirteenth Street in 1848-9, replaced in 1874, 378; Lincoln School erected 1874, 380; High School, Logansport, 381; postoffice, Logansport, 385; Old Baptist Church, 422; Old Presbyterian Church, 424; Soldiers' and Sailors' Monument, Logansport, 448; Jack Conner's Tomb, 457; Pioneer Cabin, 480; Bethlehem Presbyterian Church, 488; Royal Center School, 510; Tick Creek, 521; Galveston High School,