Tippecanoe Twp. District No. 3 Schoolhouse and Cemetery

The first settlers of Tippecanoe Township were A. H. Buckman and family, and a man by the name of James Welch, and wife, who settled there in 1835. Welch was of the opinion that the future had no good in store for him, and committed suicide by cutting his throat with a razor, and was buried in what is now the farm of Zachariah Senior, and was the first white person buried in the township. James Turner settled on the farm he now oceupies, the following summer, and is now the oldest settler in the township. The first school was taught in the summer of 1842, at what is now Schoolhouse No. 3, by Esther Birney, who taught there three successive terms. Among prominent early settlers were Thomas H. McKey, Samuel R. Koons, William Sprout. Thomas Ivens, Samuel Rockhill and Levi Holloway, none of whom remain except the latter. 'The Pottawatomie Chief, Benack, and many of his tribe, lived at this time on the banks of the Tippecanoe River, a short distance above Tippecanoe Town,

Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.

Tippecanoe River, which meanders throngh this township, entering it on the eastern boundary, about the middle, running toward the center aud veering off to the south, furnishes an excellent water-power at Tippecanoe Town for milling purposes. The dam across the river at this point was originally built, it is said, by the original proprietors of the town. The flouring mill now in operation was built by N. B. & P. S. Alleman, of Plymouth, who operated it until within a few years past. During the war, the Messrs, Alleman erected a woolen factory close by, which they operated in connection with others until IS7S, when they disposed of it to J. F. Van Valkenburg, of Plymouth. On the night of October 25, IN7S, the woolen mills were fired by an incendiary, and, before assistance could reach them, were entirely destroyed. An attempt was made to set fire to the grist-mill the same night, but « watchman being in the mill, the attempt was unsuccessful. Detectives were put on track of the " fire-fiond," and in course of time a young man in the neighborhood was arrested on suspicion of having committed the deed. He was inearcerated in the County Jail, and soon after gave intimation

Passage source: McDonald, Daniel - History Of Marshall County, Indiana 1836-1880 (Kingman Bros., 1881), published 1881.

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