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34 dated events in 1810s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 34 dated mentions
1810s
- 1810The vanished: bear, panther, bison, elk
James H. Madison's Hoosiers: A New History of Indiana concludes the bison "likely present in every part of Indiana" but concentrated across the southwest, along the Illinois prairie edge and the Buffalo Trace; Hornaday's Smithsonian extermination map, as the Cornell collection describes it, dates Indiana's bison to 1810.
Fort Wayne
- 1810–1872Norman Eddy: the physician who carried the town to Washington
The tie, exactly: Norman S. Eddy was not born in Mishawaka — he was born December 10, 1810, at Scipio, New York — and this section claims him at the strength the record gives: he was formed here as a professional.
Mishawaka
- 1810–1882John D. DeFrees: the printer who started the city's press — and Colfax
John Dougherty DeFrees (1810–1882): the man who brought printing to northern Indiana and, with it, the region's political class.
South Bend
- 1811–1876John A. Henricks: the founder whose biography never mentions the town
The man: Chapman's county biographical chapter (pp. 502–503) carries him whole, under the heading "JOHN A. HENRICKS": born in Pendleton County, Kentucky, 10 August 1811; farm to sixteen, then medicine at Urbana under Dr. Carter and a Cincinnati medical degree…
Osceola
- 1812Wells rides to Fort Dearborn
On 15 August 1812, a mile and a half from the fort, Potawatomi warriors ambushed the column.
Fort Wayne
- 1812The Siege of Fort Wayne
Some 500 Potawatomi and Miami besiege a garrison of about 100 until William Henry Harrison relieves it on 12 September.
Fort Wayne
- 1812The Siege of Fort Wayne · the post that held
General Hull surrendered Detroit on 16 August 1812; the Fort Dearborn garrison, evacuating under orders, was destroyed the day William Wells — the fort's own scout turned Indian agent's nephew by capture and adoption — was killed trying to shepherd it out.
Fort Wayne
- 1812The bridges, as crossings
Three rivers meant the town was always building bridges: The earliest picture of a Fort Wayne bridge is a woodcut: the state historic bridge survey, quoting Lossing's Pictorial Field-Book of the War of 1812 , describes "the wooden timber trestle and kingpost bridge across the Maumee directly below the confluence,"…
Fort Wayne
- 1812The knife at the parley
The scene: The strangest scene of the 1812 siege of Fort Wayne happened indoors, under a flag of truce, with wine on the table.
Fort Wayne
- 1812The rivers' fish: sturgeon water to carp water, and partway back
Crail and Grabarkiewicz's Guide to the Common Fishes of the Toledo Area (2008) records that soldiers stationed at Fort Meigs during the War of 1812 "reported numbers of walleye and sturgeon so thick that thousands could be harvested in a day with a spear or simple fishing pole," and that gristmill dam owners on the…
Fort Wayne
- 1812Jacob Shimp: "the last Jackson voter in St. Joseph county" — carried at county strength
His birth year is printed both ways because Howard's own sketch gives both — 1812 at its head, 1811 in the family record it quotes.
Granger
- 1812–1907The Laidlaws: the Scot who walked to Indiana — two books, two journeys
John Laidlaw (Chapman, p. 822): born at "Blainsley," Scotland, 5 January 1812, son of John and Susan Laidlaw; the family went to St. Lawrence County, New York, in 1818; he came to this county in 1836 , worked his first winter for the St. Joseph Iron Company, arrived with $175 , married Sally Shaw in 1837…
Osceola
- 1812–1912The grave that was lost for a hundred years — and found scattered
Little Turtle died on July 14, 1812, and was buried in a family burial ground near Spy Run Creek. The grave was unmarked, and within a few generations the city had forgotten where it lay.
Fort Wayne
- 1814–1874Richard Carlisle, the founder — and Professor Risley
Richard Risley Carlisle was born in New Jersey in 1814 — Burlington County in the standard biography, Salem in the circus historians' anthology.
New Carlisle
- 1816The frame: meridian, state line, and the survey of the township
The act of Congress of 19 April 1816 that enabled Indiana's statehood set the state's northern boundary as an east-and-west line through a point ten miles north of the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, and by an act of 2 March 1827 Congress authorized the President to have that line ascertained and marked.
Mishawaka
- 1816The grid on this ground: meridian, state line, and the fractional tier
The state's northern boundary — the line ten miles north of Lake Michigan's southern extreme set by the enabling act of 19 April 1816, and run on the ground by Eleazer P. Kendrick in October 1827 from William Harris's corner of June 1817, a wooden post at every mile to the 105th mile…
Granger
- 1816–1841Richardville's system · the reserve strategy
Pinšiwa — Jean Baptiste de Richardville, born about 1761 at Kekionga, son of the French trader Antoine-Joseph Drouet de Richerville and Tacumwah, Pacanne's sister…
Fort Wayne
- 1816–1850The reserved sections inside the plat: school, swamp, and the county purchase
The school section came first in law: Indiana's Enabling Act of 1816 granted section 16 of every township to the inhabitants of that township for the use of schools, so Section 16 of Township 36 North, Range 2 East — a mile-square two sections north of the townsite's southern row…
Lakeville
- 1816–1851The 1831 Bond Law — the Frame Samuel Huggart Bought Under
Indiana prohibited slavery in 1816; it did not confer civil equality.
Lakeville
- 1816–1881The law over their heads · the Black Laws, Article XIII, and the register that does not survive
The framework the community lived under: Indiana's first constitution, in 1816, banned slavery outright, and the ban was never the whole of the law.
South Bend
- 1816–1881The law over their heads: Black Laws, Article XIII, and the 1851 exclusion vote — frame whole, county count a named gap
The Black Laws, in the order they closed in: Indiana's first constitution (1816) barred Black men from voting and from the militia, and the statute book of the free state then built the rest of the cage: no testimony by a Black witness against a white party, no public schools.
Granger
- 1816–1881Andrew Huggart: the brother who farmed it
Andrew Huggart was born in Virginia in 1816, learned the shoemaker's trade, moved at twenty to Dayton and afterwards to Miami County, Ohio, and in 1839 married Jane Clark, a native of Amherst County, Virginia.
Lakeville
- 1816–1907The Moons: four households, one surname, no mergers
(b) Nelson Moon (Chapman, p. 831): born in Yates County, New York, 1 January 1816, son of Reynolds Moon, the War of 1812 soldier of the Wars file, and Nancy (Briggs) Moon; he came to the county in 1839, settled in Penn Township section 6, owned 175 acres, worked railroad wood contracts, and was a Mason for over thirty years.
Osceola
- 1817Joseph L. Krupp: blacksmith first, then 440 acres — and Susan Krupp, a patron in her own name
The tie, exactly: settler and tradesman — born in Germany on 1 January 1817, a son of Charles and Catharine Krupp, whose family came to Seneca County, Ohio, in 1833…
Granger
- 1818Francis Comparet's trading house
Founded: Francis Comparet came up the Maumee to Fort Wayne in 1818 as a fur trader and built one of the town's first permanent trading establishments: a brick residence with an adjoining store and trading house on Columbia Street, standing by 1830, and later a warehouse on the canal basin.
Fort Wayne
- 1818Francis Comparet — the first store on Columbia Street
Fort Wayne's business record opens with a fur trader: Francis Comparet came up the Maumee to Fort Wayne in 1818 and built one of the town's first permanent trading establishments…
Fort Wayne
- 1818Commitment: the law's local course
An act of 1818 empowered the circuit courts to conduct inquests into cases of suspected insanity and to appoint guardians for persons adjudged insane; later acts gave the courts the power to commit such persons to the state hospitals.
South Bend
- 1818Commitment: the law's local course
An act of 1818 empowered the circuit courts to conduct inquests into cases of suspected insanity and to appoint guardians for persons adjudged insane; later acts gave the courts power to commit such persons to the state hospitals.
Mishawaka
- 1818The grave that is not there
Mishawaka's most famous grave belongs to a woman who never lived: The monument the citizens of Mishawaka erected in 1932 — a statue on a native boulder provided by the Daughters of the American Revolution, its tablet given by the Lions Club, standing today on the riverwalk at Lincoln Park…
Mishawaka
- 1818–1840The Richardville grants: 28,320 acres, treaty by treaty
The 1818 grants: Article 3 of St. Mary's granted Jean Baptiste Richardville, by patent in fee simple, a schedule of tracts that the Park Service's nomination totals at eleven sections — 7,040 acres.
Fort Wayne
- 1818–1850The other reserves on and around this ground
The 1834 treaty, commuting older grants, recites four sections on the Salamonie granted him at St. Mary's in 1818; the 1826 schedule gave him a section on the north side of the Wabash above Richardville's spring tract, with his brother Louison's section above that and Francis Lafontaine's above Louison's…
Fort Wayne
- 1818–todayCommitment as law: who could commit, to where, and how it changed
An Act of 1818 empowered Indiana circuit courts to conduct inquests into suspected insanity and to appoint guardians for persons adjudged insane; later acts gave the courts the power to commit such persons to state hospitals.
Osceola
- 1819–1840Garrison out, town in
The Army withdraws in 1819; a federal land office follows. The town is platted in 1823 , Allen County is organized in 1824 , Fort Wayne incorporates as a town in 1829 (population ~300) and as a city on 22 February 1840 (population over 2,000).
Fort Wayne
- 1819–1896Luigi Gregori: the Vatican painter who founded the department
Luigi Gregori (1819–1896): the first artist of the record, and the founder of art teaching on this ground.
Notre Dame