Fort Wayne Government and Population History

Fort Wayne, Indiana · topic

Fort Wayne Government and Population History

Who governed, who served, and how many lived here.

Allen County Court House, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Tichnor Brothers postcard. Public domain · source file

Fort Wayne Government: From Kekionga's Council to City HallBefore the county: how Kekionga governed itselfFrom officers chosen in a tavern in 1824 to a nine-member council in Citizens Square.14 entry pages

Fort Wayne's Public Servants: Clerks, Postmasters, Police Chiefs and MorePublic Servants · the people who held the officesGovernment in Fort Wayne has always been a small number of people wearing a large number of hats. The same names recur across two centuries of the record — a clerk who becomes a judge, a postmaster who becomes a mayor…14 entry pages

Fort Wayne Population History: Census by Census Since 1830Population & Demographics · The count of Fort WayneEvery other section of this history describes a place; this one counts it. Fort Wayne has been counted by the United States census since 1830, when the enumerators found 996 people in the six-year-old Allen County, and…8 entry pages

Fort Wayne City Controversies: Scandals, Fights and Courtroom BattlesCity Controversies · The fights Fort Wayne had with itselfEvery city argues with itself; Fort Wayne's arguments are unusually well documented, because so many of them ended in a courtroom, a grand-jury room, a veto override or a ballot box. This section keeps the controversies…14 entry pages

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Source: Fort Wayne Government and Population History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/fort-wayne/topics/government-population/

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