America, Indiana

A large number of arrivals is credited to that year. Jesse D. Scott, Baptist minister and subsequently elected associate judge, came in 1835. He was one of quite a colony from Fayette County. He was then in his thirty-second year and had worked for about a year on the - canal. ^Ir. Scott took up land in section 23, near what was afterward the Town of America, and during the following twenty years was prominent as a i)reacher in the Baptist and Christian churches, as well as in material and public affairs. About 1841 he took a claim on the Indian Reserve west of La Fontaine and cleared and improved a farm there. i\Ir. Scott and his good wife raised a family of fourteen children, two of whom died as soldiers in the Union army. He himself passed away in 1864.

Passage source: History of Wabash County Indiana, published 1914.

In October, 1835, about a year after he had made his entry, William R. Hahi settled in fractional section 22, about a inile north of what was to be Ashland. He came in company with David Russell, already an old man, who had entered the east half of the southeast quarter of section 24, about two miles to the ea.st and beyond America. They were of the Fayette County colony. ]\Ir. Hale became a large land owner and a prominent member of the Disciples Church, being one of eight who formed the I^oundarv Line Church.

Passage source: History of Wabash County Indiana, published 1914.

Being on the direct route along which much of the grain trade of North-Central Indiana passed for years to the Wabash and Erie Canal, the proprietors and citizens of America had great expectations for the future of their town. And for more than two decades their hopes seemed. to be founded on solid ground. General stores, sawmills, blacksmith shops, hotels, wagon shops, groceries, drug stores, churches and schools, with the usual frills of lawyers and doctors and other professionals, gave America (juite a standing even before 1850.

Passage source: History of Wabash County Indiana, published 1914.

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