Granger, Indiana · 19th century
1860s
23 dated events in 1860s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 23 dated mentions
1860s
- 1861–1865The Civil War at home: township committees, the aid societies, and the draft
The first week: the news of Sumter reached South Bend on Sunday, 14 April 1861.
- 1861–1865The Irvin thirteen: one Harris Township farm sends a squad to the 29th Indiana
In 1861, Howard's biography says, Hain enlisted for service in the Civil war "with twelve other employes of Mr. Irvin" — thirteen men off one Harris Township farm, in one enlistment, becoming members of the Twenty-ninth Indiana Volunteer Infantry under Colonel John F. Miller of South Bend.
- 1861–1865The 29th Indiana: the county's roster, the township names inside it, and the thirty-eight
It was mustered into service at LaPorte on 27 August 1861, joined Rousseau's command in Kentucky that October, moved against Bowling Green in February 1862, and fought on the second day at Shiloh, 7 April 1862.
- 1861–1865Other uniforms: the Michigan regiments and the Colorado battalion
Three courses stand in the People leg of this build at full size and are pointed to here — John W. Griffith of Harris Township, who enlisted 1 September 1861 in Company L, 2nd Michigan Cavalry, Colonel Phil Sheridan's regiment, and served four years to a day through Booneville, Perryville, Corinth, Chickamauga…
- 1861–1865The women of the record: the sisters of Saint Mary's go to the war
In October 1861 Governor Oliver P. Morton, having seen the neglect in Indiana's camps and hospitals, wrote to Father Sorin asking for sisters.
- 1862John Lerner: born in Mishawaka, and printed so — a dairy farmer of Maple Front Farm
Lerner was born in Mishawaka on 16 April 1862 and was on the farm from the age of eight; the farm is his Granger tie, and it is enough.
- 1862–1865The 21st Battery: a seventeen-year-old from Clay Township under fire at Nashville
"In December, 1862, when but seventeen years of age, Samuel R. Jennings, Jr., enlisted for service in the Civil war, becoming a member of the Twenty-first Independent Indiana Battery, which he joined at Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1863–1931The founding bankers as a roll, and the banker who rescued the bank
1st Source Bank (two Granger offices, the row's deepest bench): chartered as the First National Bank of South Bend in September 1863 and opened November 30, 1863, organised by community leaders Judge Thomas Stanfield — its first president…
- 1863–1936The national banks, with their charter numbers printed
Charter No. 126 — First National Bank of South Bend, Indiana (1863–1932, liquidated).
- 1864Andrew Hubbell "Hub" Beardsley: born on a farm near Granger, chairman of Miles Laboratories
Nesbit's Who's Hoosier, read first-hand, carries him in one breath: "BEARDSLEY, ANDREW HUBBELL — His friends call him 'Hub.' Born September 25, 1864, on a farm near Granger, Ind. … Went to Elkhart twenty-five years ago to manufacture things, and has been unwilling to quit."
- 1864–1901The studio as a building: Shoaff, and Barrows' "finest gallery" claim tested
Fort Wayne, 30 October 1921) appears first in the 1864–65 directory with Shoaff's Art Gallery at the northwest corner of Calhoun and Main.
- 1864–1931Medicine, kept modest — the Beardsley–Miles course, and the negative beyond it
Andrew Hubbell "Hub" Beardsley was born 25 September 1864 on a farm near Granger — the People leg's only birth-on-this-ground entry in its fame band, and a birth on Harris Prairie farmland a decade before there was a village of Granger to be born in.
- 1864–todayNational-history objects improbably seated here, tested: the carriage is in South Bend
The county does hold such an object, and it is a genuine one: the Studebaker National Museum, adjoining The History Museum on South Bend's west side, holds the 1864 barouche, built by the Wood Brothers of New York, that carried President and Mrs. Lincoln to Ford's Theatre on the night of 14 April 1865.
- 1865–1880The first railroad: the Peninsular builds through, 1869–1873
The Peninsular Railway was incorporated in Michigan on 3 October 1865 to build from Battle Creek to Lansing; its forty-five miles between those cities opened at the turn of 1869–1870…
- 1865–2026The health office as an institution: from the city board of 1865 to the county department, in its own reports
Before there was a county office there was a city one, and Chapman dates it: at South Bend's first city council meeting, 12 June 1865, the council elected Dr. I. N. Green, Clement Studebaker and Norman Eddy as the city's first Board of Health…
- 1866–1881The photographer as inventor: Dille & Poston and the solar camera; the residence sweep
Amelia, Ohio, 1918) worked in Fort Wayne 1866–1869, first with Augustus C. Crane at 136 Columbia, then alone at 44 Calhoun, opposite the courthouse; he later painted from photographs.
- 1866–1995St. Joseph's Farm: thirteen hundred acres worked for a university
Brother Aidan's compiled extracts caption the purchase "Bought in 1866 (St. Joseph's Farm)" and describe the place as containing 1,500 acres, "all arable, only 450 acres under cultivation at present," the balance "used for pasture to large herds of cattle, flocks of sheep, etc."
- 1867The farm century: one great farm, and trade done elsewhere
For most of a century the largest business on this ground was a farm worked as an institution: St. Joseph's Farm, roughly 1,300 acres on Cleveland Road between Bittersweet Road and the railroad, acquired for the Congregation of Holy Cross under Father Sorin…
- 1868–1972Export industries, firm by firm — the county’s four, then this ground’s roll
Singer’s South Bend cabinet factory, established 1868 on the East Race and moved in 1901 to the Western Avenue site, was at that date the largest sewing-machine cabinet factory in the world…
- 1868–2026Memorial Day as an institution: from Logan's order to the 100th Westside parade
On May 5, 1868, the Grand Army of the Republic's commander-in-chief, John A. Logan, issued General Orders No. 11, designating May 30, 1868, "for the purpose of strewing with flowers, or otherwise decorating the graves of comrades who died in defense of their country during the late rebellion" (VA National Cemetery…
- 1869The owners: an era-banded roster of every owner the record names, paired to the firm
To 1869: Jacob Meyer — canal works, then the 460-acre farm holding; entered here as the era's landholder-farmer, no firm named.
- 1869–1907The savings-bank and trust-company stratum, as its own layer
Incorporated November 25, 1869, by Louis Humphreys, John C. Knoblock, Thelus M. Bissell, Joseph Worden, Adam S. Baker, T. Wilkes Defrees, David Greenawalt, Almond Bugbee, William F. Bulla, and John C. Birdsell…
- 1869–1993The wreck test: two railroads, 120 years of crossings, and no wreck on this ground
The test, stated: Transportation carries both of Granger's railroads whole — the Peninsular / Grand Trunk line of 1869–73 and the Big Four's Granger–Niles line of 1882–1993, with its passenger course, crossings and freight — and carries no wreck.