Granger, Indiana · 19th century
1820s
7 dated events in 1820s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 7 dated mentions
1820s
- 1820–1975The township's own law: the justice of the peace and the constable
Indiana's justices date to 1820 — constitutional officers, elected by each township, laymen as often as lawyers — and their courts were built for exactly the ground this section covers: countywide jurisdiction over petty crimes, small civil claims, and marriages, close enough to reach on foot and cheap enough to use without counsel.
- 1821–2026Commitment as law: who could commit, to where, and how it changed
The law's first answer was the poorhouse itself: the 1821 act that created county poor asylums opened them to the insane, and the county superintendent was charged in 1848 to be a person of medical knowledge who would "care for the sick, infirm and insane."
- 1824Michael Smith: the German child of 1826 who ended with 380 acres and a Granger post office
The tie, exactly: settler — born in Germany on 24 August 1824, a son of Frederick and Elizabeth Smith, whose family crossed in 1826 and wandered the era's immigrant road — New York, Buffalo, Canada, Stark County, Ohio — before Michael came to this county in 1842 and built a 380-acre stock farm on Section 17.
- 1825Christian Schneck: out of Germany in 1853, six years in Berrien County, then Section 9
The tie, exactly: settler of the late wave — born in Germany on 10 July 1825, a son of Adam and Margaret Schneck; left Germany in 1853; spent six years from 1854 in Berrien County, Michigan, and then came to this township, where his farm was ninety-three acres on Section 9.
- 1826The state as landowner: the road grant, the school section, the swamp lands
By the second article of the 1826 treaty the Potawatomi granted a strip one hundred feet wide for a road from Lake Michigan to the Wabash, "and also a quantity of good land, contiguous to the said road, equal to one section for each mile of the said road," with the like quantity for the road's continuation toward the…
- 1827The survey: a fence run before the cession
An act of 2 March 1827 authorized the marking of the line, and Surveyor General Edward Tiffin contracted deputy Eleazer P. Kendrick, whose field notes open on 8 October 1827 at the lake's southern extremity: from the 1817 corner he ran east, setting a wooden post at every mile, to the 105th mile.
- 1828The taking, instrument by instrument: the cession of 1828
This ground's Indian title was extinguished by one instrument, and the instrument's own terms are the record: The treaty concluded 20 September 1828 "at the Missionary Establishments upon the St. Joseph, of Lake Michigan" — Carey Mission, by present Niles…