BlockMarion Township
The complete chapter on this township from History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910. 174 words, covering 1 settlement. Source changes inside the text are labelled at the exact paragraph where the next book begins.
Contents
1 sectionThe section headings the book prints inside this chapter. Each one jumps to where it begins.
The modern record here
1 settlementWhat the federal record holds for each settlement inside this township: wildfires and storm reports since the 1950s, mineral workings, and museum specimens collected nearby. These are counted within a few miles of each settlement, so neighbours share them and the columns are deliberately not added up. Every row links to the settlement's own page, where each figure is broken out.
| Settlement | Fires | Storm reports | Mines and quarries | Specimens |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dubois | - | 20 | 2 | - |
Settlements in this township
1 placeEvery populated place the Geographic Names Information System records inside this township's Census boundary. It is named in the chapter.
The chapter
174 wordsReproduced complete and unedited from History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910. The text is machine-read from scans, so expect recognition errors: misspelled names, dropped words, and stray characters. Nothing has been corrected, because correcting a proper name invents one. The headings below are the books' own; source changes are labelled in place.
Marion Township
Marion township is the smallest township in Dubois county, containing but thirty-two and one-fourth square miles. However, in 1907 it was estimated to be worth $400,000. Originally, it was part of Bainbridge, Hall, Columbia, Harbison, and Patoka townships - in fact, it was created from parts of the five original townships.
John Hall bought the first land in Marion township, December 2, 1818. It was the southeast quarter of section eleven, township two south, range four west.
One of the early German settlers in Marion township was Andrew Sprauer, who was born in Baden, Germany, October I, 1810. He settled in Marion township about 1840, and being a brick maker by trade, erected the first brick Trustee John b. Buchiein (i9io.)
190S-9 rock road improvements were considered in the town of Dubois. Part of the town of Dubois is located in Marion township. It is fully noticed under Harbison township.
The citizens of Marion township, almost as a unit, are Catholic in religion, democratic in politics, and of German descent. They are good, law-abiding citizens.
Provenance
Text from History of Dubois County from Its Primitive Days to 1910, published 1910, in the public domain in the United States and digitised by the Internet Archive. The settlements listed against this township are matched by point-in-polygon test of each Geographic Names Information System coordinate against the Census Bureau's county subdivision boundary, not by name.