Irvington, Indiana

German parentage, and was born near the Monongahela River, in Pennsylvania, Dec. 10, 1786. After staying a year in Pennsylvania, they emigrated to Butler County, Ohio, within a few miles of Hamilton, where he followed farming, and in the winter months worked at coopering. In the summer of 1812 he volunteered, and served in the war. His company went out in the early part of the summer, and, after a few months of active service, returned home in September, and remained long enough to put in their wheat. They returned to headquarters in October, where Mr. Brown served till the close of the war. His children still have the sword which he carried. In the fall of 1822 he and his family, in company with two of his brothers and a brother-inlaw, moved to Indianapolis, then but a small settlement of a few log huts. The evening before he reached Indianapolis he camped with a party of Indians on Lick Creek, just south of Irvington, the place where he lived so many years. Mr. Brown returned the next fall to Hamilton, Ohio, to enter his farm, south of Irvington, and on returning, in company with others, they were obliged to swim Blue iliver, which was very high at the time and the weather very cold. There were Indians camped near the river, and they wrung the water from their clothes and dried them by the Indian camp-fire. The only man they met between Blue River and Indianapolis was Henry Brady, who was hewing the logs for his cabin.

Passage source: History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884.

Reason Hawkins came from Hamilton County, Ohio, about 1826, and located on Pleasant Run, northeast of the present town of Irvington. In 1829 he was not assessed on any> lands in the township. He sold out his first location and afterwards bought land of Calvin Fletcher, situated a little west of

Passage source: History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884.

Villages. - There are three villages within the territory of the township of Warren, viz. : Irvington (the largest but youngest of the three), lying on the west line of the township, adjoining Centre, and about four miles east of the city of Indianapolis ; Julietta, in the southeast corner of the township ; and Cumberland, near the east line of Warren, and occupying a central position on that line, between the northeastern and southeastern corners of the township, eleven miles east of Indianapolis, on the old National or Cumberland road.

Passage source: History of Indianapolis and Marion County, Indiana, published 1884.

Machine-read from a century-old scan, so expect the errors a machine makes: misspelled names, dropped words, stray characters.

Read the whole chapter on Warren Township - it names this place 2 more 2 times.