Granger, Indiana · 19th century
1870s
18 dated events in 1870s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 18 dated mentions
1870s
- 1871–1920Across the bridge: the Knoblock works, wagons to magnetos
The county's type case of the bridge is the Knoblock works, and Howard's 1907 county history carries it in consecutive sections, which is how it escaped notice: §9 gives the Knoblock Brothers' Manufacturing Company (organized April 18, 1871) on its way to the South Bend Chilled Plow Company, and §8, printed just…
- 1871–1925The other plow works: the rivals the flagship's story swallowed
The plow works that was not Oliver was the South Bend Chilled Plow Company, and it was a Knoblock house before it was a plow house: the Knoblock Brothers' Manufacturing Company was organized April 18, 1871, by John C., William and Theodore E. Knoblock and John H. Dolman, for farm implements…
- 1871–1934The lines that did not come: the Michigan Central and the interurban, tested
The Michigan Central's South Bend branch came first: the Central's "Air Line" reached Niles from Jackson in 1870, and the branch from Niles to South Bend — twelve miles, with the single intermediate station at Bertrand, Michigan, on the 1901–02 state manual's list — opened in the same construction era, 1871.
- 1872–1954Horses to machines: the mechanization succession on this ground
The first machine in this ground's farm record is not a tractor but a mower, and it is at work in 1872.
- 1872–2026The Tribune's century: paper of record for a place it never seated
The paper's own course is South Bend's whole — founded as a weekly on March 9, 1872, by Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett, daily from May 28, 1873, Schurz-family owned for five generations and headquartered, in the company's later years, across the river in Mishawaka — and this section owns only its Granger course.
- 1873–2026One line, four names: the Grand Trunk succession whole
Peninsular Railway (to the consolidation of 15 August 1873); Chicago and Lake Huron Railroad (1873–1879); the Grand Trunk's purchase and the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway , which incorporated the entire Port Huron–Chicago line in 1880…
- 1875The 1875 roll: the patrons' directory
What this roll is: the patrons' directory of the 1875 county atlas is the nearest thing Harris Township has to a census of its substantial farmers in that decade — name, section, occupation, nativity and the year settled in the county.
- 1875The farm map of 1875: the ground as the atlas prints it
Forty-five years after the first entries, the county atlas prints this township as a finished farm map: The Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph County (Higgins, Belden & Co., 1875) lays the Harris Township plat at its page 68 — the sections ruled, the parcels named owner by owner — and the township's directory at pages 103 and 104.
- 1875–1885Bucket 2 — 1870–1889: the 1875 patrons, and the station village Polk names
The 1875 patrons' directory of the Illustrated Historical Atlas (Harris Township, p. 103) is this era's roster-within-the-roster: the farmers who paid to print their own lines — Jacob D. Byrer, farmer, Section 17, settled 1862; Dan N. Dressler (the atlas prints "Dressier"), stock farm, Section 16, settled 1861…
- 1875–1907The post office, the Grand Trunk, and the name
The place got its name from the mail before it got a station: the Granger post office has been in operation since 1875, on the postal historian's record — a named federal place on Harris Prairie while the township was still all farms.
- 1875–1907The produce-and-stock order: the farm economy describes itself, 1875
The patrons' directory of the 1875 county atlas — the Higgins, Belden atlas the Land leg reads whole for the farm map — lists Harris Township's subscribing farmers with the occupation each man chose for himself, and the choices, read together, are a census of the economy's self-image: Jacob D. Byrer, "Farmer"…
- 1875–1930The village that stayed small: post office 1875, a Grange name, a Grand Trunk stop
The first commercial institutions on this ground were federal and corporate, in that order: the Granger post office, in operation since 1875, and the Grand Trunk Railroad's station, around which a village formed that Howard's 1907 history could call "thriving, though as yet quite small."
- 1875–2023The University Museum Succession
It opens in 1875, when the Bishops Gallery — sixty portraits of American bishops painted by the Vatican artist Luigi Gregori, hired by Father Edward Sorin in 1874 — and a Museum of Indian Antiquities opened in Notre Dame's Main Building…
- 1875–2026The name: "founded in 1883, and named after the Grangers" — the claim, the chase, and the page
The Granger post office has been in operation since 1875."
- 1875–todayThe postal frame: 46530 is not the place
The oldest continuing government presence in Granger is the mail: the Granger post office has been in operation since 1875, on the postal historian's record the Story of Granger section carries…
- 1875–todayThe station hamlet: the node the plats grew around
The oldest node is a station, not a plat: Granger's first community geography is the one the Story of Granger section file establishes at first hand…
- 1879–1936The Grand Army: seven posts in the county, one in Clay Township, none on the farm ground
The county roster, whole: the Grand Army of the Republic's Department of Indiana, as indexed by the Indiana Archives and Records Administration from the department's own files, put seven posts into St. Joseph County: Auten Post No. 8, South Bend (1879–1936 and beyond), the county's senior post, named for the first…
- 1879–2026The singing-society test, printed at its result
South Bend's immigrant societies are catalogued by name in the St. Joseph County genealogical record: a German Turnverein, a German Progress Club, and — the county's first Polish choral group…