Granger, Indiana · 19th century
1840s
17 dated events in 1840s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 17 dated mentions
1840s
- 1840John W. Griffith: four years to a day under Sheridan, then Sunny Banks Farm
The tie, exactly: a state-line life — born a mile into Michigan, on 18 November 1840, and reared on a farm the state line ran through with the house on the Michigan side…
- 1840–1842Clay Township: the western government of the place
Clay Township is the younger of the place's two townships, and the larger: it was assembled in part from Harris Township's west side — a detachment a section and a half in width on May 5, 1840, and another half section on December 7, 1842, on Howard's first-hand record…
- 1841The clerk's desk and the auditor's desk: the anchors of two successions
This desk holds the ground's most surprising early name: in 1841 Schuyler Colfax, later Speaker of the U.S. House and Vice President, was appointed St. Joseph County deputy auditor, a clerkship on the desk a decade and a half before his congressional career (see the federal article below).
- 1841–todayThe farmers' institutions in a row: mutual, market, bureau, extension
The sequence begins with the agricultural society of 1841, whose fair share is the next entry's.
- 1841–todayTwo Townships at the County Fair
The institution, at pointer size: the county's first agricultural society was organized at South Bend on 12 June 1841 under the state act of 19 February 1838, held one exhibition that October, and slept…
- 1842–todayThe lodge-by-lodge run: the county's great orders, each as an institution — none of them seated here
The Masons are the county's oldest order on paper: Farr's South Bend City Directory for 1883 lists St. Joseph Lodge No. 45 (instituted 1842), South Bend Lodge No. 294 (instituted 1863) and Germania Lodge No. 301 (instituted 1862), with South Bend Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons (instituted 1855), all meeting at…
- 1842–todayThe trades whole: undertakers, and the trades with no heading
The house now named McGann Hay was founded in November 1842 as the Notre Dame Undertaking Parlor, by Father Edward Sorin and Brother Francis Xavier — the brother became the university's mortician and coffin maker, steward of the Community and Cedar Grove cemeteries, and in time a licensed Indiana mortician…
- 1843Joseph Meyer: the second generation, superintending the 460 acres
The tie, exactly: native son — born in St. Joseph County on 26 July 1843, a son of Jacob and Catharine Meyer, and by 1880 the working head of his father's farm: Chapman prints him as superintending the 460-acre Meyer farm on Section 15, the acreage his father's entry above accumulated.
- 1843John A. Zaehnle: Notre Dame commercial course, Civil War paymaster's clerk, and the Section 22 farm
The tie, exactly: native son — born in St. Joseph County on 7 January 1843 to Arbogast and Rosa (Binder) Zaehnle, educated three years at Notre Dame with a commercial course, and this township's most fully documented second-generation course in Chapman.
- 1843–1866First cameras and the daguerreian decade: itinerants, then the floor's first generation
Mr. Keith (possibly David Keith of Poughkeepsie, New York), advertising in 1843, is per Griswold the first daguerreian in Fort Wayne; J. L. Hubbell followed in November–December 1843 at the American House.
- 1844Isaac Shetterly: mason's trade and an 84-acre farm on the state line
The tie, exactly: settler of Harris Township from about 1872 — born in Union County, Pennsylvania, on 28 November 1844 to George and Elizabeth (Keely) Shetterly; carried as a boy to Portage Prairie in Berrien County, Michigan, about 1854, then to Ontwa Township…
- 1844–1917The other candidates, tested: a railroad, a priest, and the order itself
There was a Granger on this ground's story, and he was not a settler, a landowner, or a railroad man: the Reverend Alexis Granger, C.S.C. (born at Daon, France, 19 June 1817…
- 1846–2026The Guard lineage carried to the present unit: the 151st in South Bend, the 293rd tested
The regiment's lineage, in the Army's Lineage and Honors statement and the Guard's own history, runs in succession: organized 24 June 1846 from existing independent companies as the 2nd Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and mustered into federal service for the Mexican War…
- 1847–1851The price of the rescue: $2,856 in damages, and the $500 penalty the Supreme Court took away
The case the money hangs on, at the county seat's strength: David Powell, his wife Lucy, and their sons Lewis, Samuel, George and James fled John Norris of Boone County, Kentucky, on the night of 9 October 1847, and settled in Cass County, Michigan.
- 1847–1851The price of the rescue: Norris v. Newton and Norris v. Crocker, from the published reports
The case the Talley article points to has a price, and the price has a published record: the freedom-seekers were David Powell, his wife Lucy, and their sons Lewis, Samuel, George and James, who absconded from John Norris of Boone County, Kentucky, on a Sunday night in October 1847 and settled near Cassopolis, Michigan.
- 1847–1955Each epidemic whole, in order: cholera, typhoid, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, the 1920 return, polio, tuberculosis
Hope's centennial history prints the frame: "At various times during eight years, from 1847 to 1855, an exhausting epidemic of malarial fever and cholera so oppressed the faculty and students that the University almost closed its doors"…
- 1848–1979The sent-away traffic: Indianapolis, then Logansport, then Westville
First Indianapolis: the state hospital opened in November 1848 as the Indiana Hospital for the Insane (later Central State Hospital), and for forty years it took patients from the whole state — the county poorhouse kept only the chronic and the harmless, and sent its acute cases down to the capital.