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Welcome to the Noble County,
INGenWeb!
I am Denise Wells, the Noble
County coordinator. If you have information that you believe
should be included on this site, please let me know.
- If any of the links on this
site are not yet working,
- please be patient in the redesign
of this site.
- Thanks so much.
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Pioneer Days
The first settler to appear within the
present limits of Noble County was Joel Bristol, who arrived
in April, 1827, with his wife, and the six orphan children of
Mrs. Bristol's sister, whose name was Tibbott. Mr. Bristol settled
in what is now Noble Township, this county at the time being
a part of Allen County, with the county seat at Fort Wayne, and
it was not until nine years later that the present county of
Noble was organized. For several years after the arrival of the
Bristols there were but few immigrants. John Knight, who came
in 1829, was probably the second, and in the following year Isaiah
Dungan, Levi Perry and Richard Stone appeared. more... |
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