Granger, Indiana · 19th century
1830s
35 dated events in 1830s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 35 dated mentions
1830s
- 1830The settlers of 1830
The township's first name is a settler's: "The prairie and the township both received their name from Jacob Harris, who settled in the township in 1830."
- 1830Jacob Harris: the namesake of the prairie and the township
The tie, exactly: settler, 1830 — the man Harris Prairie and Harris Township are named for. Howard's sentence is the record's core: "The prairie and the township both received their name from Jacob Harris, who settled in the township in 1830."
- 1830Samuel Bell: a first land entry and a marriage into the Harris household
The tie, exactly: settler, 1830 — one of the two men whose entries of 19 April 1830 are the first in St. Joseph County's land record, and Jacob Harris's son-in-law, who "came with his father-in-law" on Howard's telling.
- 1830The Ringles: Adam, and David with his sons Samuel and Levi — three sections of one surname
Adam Ringle came in 1830 with the first party, on both histories, and settled Section 15; he died before Chapman wrote in 1880.
- 1830Harris Prairie: the named opening in the barrens
Howard's county history states the naming directly: "The prairie and the township both received their name from Jacob Harris," who settled on it in 1830; Samuel Bell, his son-in-law, came with him, and David and Josephus Baldwin the same year or the year before.
- 1830Into market: the first entries in the county were made on this ground
Surveyed and ceded, the ground could be bought — and the county's market opened here: Chapman's county history states the opening plainly: "The lands in St. Joseph county, although ceded to the United States Government some years previous by the Pottawatomie Indians, did not come into market until the spring of 1830.
- 1830Where the paper lives, and the map made private
This ground's land paper has always lived in South Bend, and the county built its archive deliberately: The county seat is six miles southwest of the frame, and the deeds, mortgages and school-land instruments of these townships were recorded there from the beginning, in the office of the county recorder…
- 1830–1834Before the cemeteries: burial on a settlement ground
The settlers of 1830 buried their first dead four years before this ground had a burying ground: Harris Prairie Cemetery's sign and record date its opening to 1834 — after the first land entries of April 1830, and two years before Harris Township itself was organized in January 1836.
- 1830–1850Breaking the prairie: the first crops, 1830–1850
Chapman's Harris Township chapter, read first-hand for this build, records that Jacob Harris, who came in 1830 and settled on Harris Prairie, "raised the first wheat that was cut in the township, it being harvested in 1831," and that his neighbor Jacob Meyer, come the spring of 1831 and still living on section 15 in…
- 1830–1907The prairie trade: a farm economy with no mill seat and no plat
The settlers Howard names from 1830 — Jacob Harris, for whom the prairie and then the township were named; David and Josephus Baldwin; Samuel Bell; Adam Miller; Adam Ringle; and the families who followed, Buell, Augustine, Meyer, Hartzell, Kennedy, the Ringles, Zaehnle, the Irvins, Lowry…
- 1830–1987Before the clinics: the townships without a doctor
On the evidence of the county's own histories, it is the record, and it held, on every source reached, from the first cabins of 1830 until the clinic era of the 1980s.
- 1830–2026The era structure, in five parts: every fortune on this ground assigned to its era
First era — trading and land: The ground's first wealth was land taken up at the April 1830 entries and after, and it stayed land: the settler fortunes of the People leg are farm accumulations…
- 1830–todayThe prairie nodes: Harris Prairie and the names the plats absorbed
Before the hamlet, the settlement was a prairie: the first community node of the ground is the Harris Prairie settlement itself — the joint Bell–Harris land entries of 19 April 1830 in Section 11, Township 38 North, Range 3 East, the county's first two land entries, taken by the party that gave the prairie and the…
- 1831Joseph Buell: Section 15, 1831
The tie, exactly: settler, 1831, on Section 15 — one of the four households (with Meyer, Augustine and Hartzel) that Chapman's chapter plants on that section in the settlement's second year.
- 1831Henry Augustine: Section 15, 1831
The tie, exactly: settler, 1831, on Section 15, in the same second-year party as Buell, Meyer and Hartzel on Chapman's chapter.
- 1831Hartzel: the settler the record kept only as a surname
The tie, exactly: settler, 1831, on Section 15. Howard's roll gives him as "Mr. Hartzell"; Chapman gives "Hartzel," settled 1831 on Section 15.
- 1831The enforcement succession: the sheriff's line, in the anchors the record keeps
The founding names stand in the first-law article: Samuel L. Cottrell, paid for sheriff's services in September 1831 and described by Chapman as holding the office "for several terms," and Benjamin McCarty, sheriff by the November term of 1831.
- 1831–1880Flour first: the first wheat of 1831, and the mill that stood outside the line
Chapman's county history (1880), in its Harris Township chapter, records that Jacob Harris, who came in 1830 and settled on Harris Prairie, "raised the first wheat that was cut in the township, it being harvested in 1831," and that his neighbor Jacob Meyer, come the spring of 1831, helped cut the crop.
- 1831–1900The wheat era and its passing
On the family farms the wheat years are visible only at the record's smaller size: the 1831 first cutting, the 1835 frost, and the pattern of the 1875 directory, in which Harris's patrons describe themselves not as wheat growers but as produce and stock men — the directory's own words are the next entry's subject.
- 1831–1907The county asylum first: the poorhouse, its insane charges, and their conditions
The county's first asylum course is the poorhouse course, and it begins in rented rooms: in 1831 the St. Joseph County commissioners began renting houses in South Bend for the destitute, qualifying them by "age, infirmity or other misfortune."
- 1831–1914Before the daily: the county press reaches the prairie
The county's press begins at the county seat: the Northwestern Pioneer and St. Joseph Intelligencer of 1831 stands at the head of the MPHPL holdings list's South Bend titles, and the line runs through the St. Joseph Valley Register — the weekly at which the Tribune's founders learned the trade — to the dailies of the industrial era.
- 1831–1984The first ledger is the home market: produce, stock, and through freight, 1831–1984
Chapman’s History of St. Joseph County (1880) records that Jacob Harris, come in 1830, “raised the first wheat that was cut in the township, it being harvested in 1831,” with his neighbour Jacob Meyer helping to cut it — wheat being, in the banked farms leg’s words, “the cash crop a new prairie could sell.”
- 1832The clerk's line: L. M. Taylor at the first court, Amy Rolfes, Stephanie Ball — and the long middle the record has not printed
The first clerk the record names: The county's first circuit court of which there is any record sat on 22 October 1832, in the bar-room of Calvin Lilly's tavern, Judge John R. Porter presiding…
- 1833Robert Kennedy: the first schoolmaster, in the first schoolhouse
The tie, exactly: settler, 1833 on Chapman's dating — his cabin stood on Section 14 — and, on Howard's first-hand record, the first schoolmaster of Harris Township, teaching in the township's first schoolhouse, a log building fourteen by sixteen feet with a stick-and-mud chimney.
- 1833–1834The Lowrys: James of Leeds by way of Delaware, his son's 350 acres, and the grandson who founded the village's trade
The tie, exactly: settlers, 1833 — with the variance printed whole. Howard's biographical sketch of the grandson carries the family in: James Lowry, born at Leeds, Yorkshire, came to America by way of Delaware and in 1833 entered the Harris Township farm, dying about 1840 at forty-nine.
- 1834Arbogast Zaehnle: the 1834 arrival whose farm his son was still working in 1907
The tie, exactly: settler, 1834 — and here the dating needs care, printed whole: Howard lists Zaehnle among the "very early settlers" without a year; Chapman dates the coming to 1834, on Section 22, with Zaehnle still residing there in 1880…
- 1834William C. Kownover: the pattern maker who took charge of a widow's farm in 1865 — or 1868
The course: Kownover was of the Dutch Kovenhoven line, born in Limestone Township, Columbia County, Pennsylvania, on 25 December 1834 to Richard and Katharine (Dye) Kownover.
- 1834The first bank: the State Bank of Indiana's South Bend branch — and its documented absence here
The first bank of the county record is the State Bank of Indiana, chartered January 28, 1834, with headquarters at Indianapolis and authority to establish ten district branches.
- 1834–todayThe burying grounds: Harris Prairie and Salem
The place's oldest religious institution is a cemetery: Harris Prairie Cemetery, at 14500 Adams Road, carries a sign and a record that agree — established 1834, four years after the first settlers, two years before the township itself was organized.
- 1835Two civil townships carved out of one: Harris, then Clay
A Washington Township was ordered on 4 May 1835 for this territory and the order was canceled.
- 1835–1842A township made, unmade, and trimmed
The civil frame came in three orders and one cancellation: on May 4, 1835, an order formed Washington Township in the county's southeast corner — and the order was canceled.
- 1836Harris Township: the trustee, the board, and the township's own services
Harris Township is the senior government of the designated place: formed by order of the county commissioners on January 5, 1836 — an earlier order forming a Washington Township on overlapping ground, dated May 4, 1835, was canceled…
- 1836–1930The station test: "no business of any kind is done"
Clay Township's first election, in 1840, was held in "Brooks' barn" (Chapman) — a barn, not a tavern; the county's older townships held their first elections in taverns, as Chapman's Union Township chapter shows with Earl's tavern in 1836, and that chapter belongs to Lakeville's township in the county's south and is…
- 1837–1903Every dam on the reach — and the printed negative for Juday Creek
Mishawaka's first dam, 1837. The Indiana Historical Bureau marker at Race and First Streets, Mishawaka (marker 71.1968.1; HMdb gives 41°39.752′N, 86°10.676′W), records: "The original dam, providing power for which Mishawaka was noted, was completed in 1837.
- 1838–1840The removal of the rest
The Trail of Death, 1838: The reserve the Tippecanoe treaties carved at Twin Lakes, in Marshall County one county south, was sold under the Yellow River treaty of 5 August 1836 — a signature Menominee himself protested, on 4 November 1837, had been forged for him.