Mishawaka, Indiana · 19th century
1810s
4 dated events in 1810s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 4 dated mentions
1810s
- 1810–1872Norman Eddy: the physician who carried the town to Washington
The tie, exactly: Norman S. Eddy was not born in Mishawaka — he was born December 10, 1810, at Scipio, New York — and this section claims him at the strength the record gives: he was formed here as a professional.
- 1816The frame: meridian, state line, and the survey of the township
The act of Congress of 19 April 1816 that enabled Indiana's statehood set the state's northern boundary as an east-and-west line through a point ten miles north of the southern extreme of Lake Michigan, and by an act of 2 March 1827 Congress authorized the President to have that line ascertained and marked.
- 1818Commitment: the law's local course
An act of 1818 empowered the circuit courts to conduct inquests into cases of suspected insanity and to appoint guardians for persons adjudged insane; later acts gave the courts power to commit such persons to the state hospitals.
- 1818The grave that is not there
Mishawaka's most famous grave belongs to a woman who never lived: The monument the citizens of Mishawaka erected in 1932 — a statue on a native boulder provided by the Daughters of the American Revolution, its tablet given by the Lions Club, standing today on the riverwalk at Lincoln Park…