Leo, Indiana

Stout Price was the first blacksmith. He came to the township in 1840, and erected his forge in a little log cabin, near the site of Hamilton. After that village was platted, he removed to the place now occupied by a shop of the same character, belonging to John Sehoerpf. Samuel Cassady was associated with Price as partner, and subsequently opened a shop in the building vacated by the latter.

Passage source: History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880.

The first post office in the township was established in 1847, two years pre¬ vious to the platting of the village of Hamilton. It was known as Leo Post Office, and John Manning was appointed Postmaster. The office was kept at the store of John B. Blue, who. acted as Depaty. The mail was carried from Fort Wayne to the northwestern towns in Ohio, and the southern towns in Michigan ; and Leo was a point on the route. Jeremiah Bowen was the contractor, and his sons, Mason and Marvin, rode the horses used for the mail service.

Passage source: History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880.

Indisputable traces of a former civilization have been discovered in the vicinity of Cedarville, at various times, according to the statement of Johu Pring, a resident of the township, and a reliable man. Mr. Pring settled in the township in 1848, and $oon after his arrival found, on the bank of the creek near Cedarville, some fragments of trace-chains, log-chains, etc., together with a heap of cinders, which confirmed his idea that a blacksmith's forge had been operated there or in the vicinity. As they were buried below the surface, he con¬ cluded they must have been there for years. On the morning of April 28, 1850, Mr. Pring, in company with a neighbor, George Hursch, started to Leo Mills to buy Hour. A storm had prevailed during the night of the 27th. and had uprooted a linn tree, which fell across the road. The friends separated as they neared the tree, and Mr. Pring's eyes tell upon what he regarded as a strange sight - a sword, buried nearly to the hilt in tile soft wood. He drew it out and took it home, where he kept it for several years. He afterward presented it to Mr. F. P. Randall, of Fort Wayne. Near the same date William Muller found on his farm a cannon ball. These facts would seem to indicate the presence of soldiers at some time; but it is not known that any battles were fought here.

Passage source: History of Allen County, Indiana., published 1880.

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 Cedar Creek Township - it names this place 4 more 4 times.