Chapter and Contents

Pages

CHAPTER 1. PRE-HISTORIC

General-Spanish Exploration-Relics-Antiquities

11-15

CHAPTER 2. INDIAN HISTORY

General - Indian Tribes - Races - Chiefs- Miscellaneous - Reminiscences - Troubles - Wars - Treaties - Reserves - Towns -Burying Grounds - Retrospect - Destiny - White and Chief - Peace Coming - Tecumseh's War - The End

16-28

CHAPTER 3. PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY

Location - Boundaries - Indian Boundaries - Counties - Second Boundary Kekionga - Miscellaneous - Public Lands - Meridians and Base Lines - Surface - Vegetation - Animals - Drainage - Minerals - Inland Waters Mississinewa - White River - Miami - Divides - Use of streams.

28-35

CHAPTER 4. EARLY HISTORY

General - Settlement - First Things - Manner of Life - Building - Clearing Lands - Furniture - Food - Cooking - Work - Clothing - Money - Amusements - Religion - etc.

35-51

CHAPTER 5. ORGANIZATION

Counties - Preliminary - County Seat - Official History - Public Buildings-Townships - Roads - etc.

51-69

CHAPTER 6. RECORDS

Deeds - Apprenticeship - Free Papers - Abstract of Titles - Marriages - Circuit Court - Commissioners Board - Probate Court

69-79

CHAPTER 7. REMINISCENCES

Cholera - Bear Story - Bell Making - Clothing - Clearing Land - Birds and Varmints - Pigeon Roost - Fallen Timber - etc.

79-97
98-116

CHAPTER 8. OLD SETTLERS

Meetings - Pioneers - Aged People

116-121

CHAPTER 9. CEMETERIES

121-133

CHAPTER 10. COLORED PEOPLE

Settlements - Temperances - Churches - Biography

133-141

CHAPTER 11. RELIGION

Baptists - Catholics - Christians - Congregationalists - Disciples - Friend - German Churches-Methodist - Presbyterians -Protestant - Methodist - Universalists - United Brethren - Wesleyans - Clergyman - Spiritualists - Holiness Band - Y.M.C.A.- Biography.

141-157
158-175

CHAPTER 12. EDUCATION

General Association - Seminary - Union Literary Institute - Normal Schools - Institutes - Teachers Association - Funds - Schools - Statistics - Private Schools - Trustees - Music - Lectures - Sunday Schools - Libraries

175-189

CHAPTER 13. TEMPERANCE

General - Union City - Sons - Templars - Porter Lodge - S.S.V. & E.L.

189-194

CHAPTER 14. ANTI-SLAVERY

General - Underground Railroad - Runaways - Reminiscences - Negro Slavery

194-199

CHAPTER 15. AGRICULTURE

General - Fruits - Horticulture - Sorghum - Fences - Ditches - Drains - Weather - Crops etc - Patrons of Husbandry - Fairs - Implements

199-209

CHAPTER 16. SECRET SOCIETIES

General - I.O.O.F. - F. & A.M. - K. of P.

209-213

CHAPTER 17. POLITICAL

Harrison Campaign - Mass Meetings - Republicanism - Sons of Liberty

214-215

CHAPTER 18. PERSONAL

Officials - Attorneys - Physicians - Press

215-228

CHAPTER 19. MISCELLANY

Banks, Insurance, Loan Associations - Statistics - Anecdotes - Biography

228-238

CHAPTER 20. MILITARY

Revolution - Indian Wars - Widows - Pensions - Militia 1832 - Mexican War of 1861 - General Relief - Bounties - Account of Regiments - Prisons - Officers - Soldiers - Deaths - Burials - Reminiscences - Biography - Sanitary Operations - etc.

238-296