Mishawaka, Indiana · 19th century
1870s
29 dated events in 1870s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 29 dated mentions
1870s
- 1870Adolph Kamm and Nicholas Schellinger — the brother-in-law brewery
In 1870 the brewery was purchased by Adolph Kamm and Clemens Dick, who came to it from Toledo, Ohio — the firm of Dick and Kamm.
- 1870The union and the company: Dick & Kamm, the partnership of 1879/1880, and an incorporation carried two ways
The purchase: In 1870 John Wagner sold his interest in the brewery to Clemens Dick and Adolph Kamm — De Kever's phrasing, "Wagner sold his interest," keeps the founder in the transaction the company account tells as a purchase…
- 1870–1951The Kamm Money: Beer, a Brother-in-Law's Milling Wealth, and an Island's Name
The brewery on the river — John Wagner's of 1850 — was bought in 1870 by Adolph Kamm (born 13 June 1842 at Zöbingen, Württemberg, brought to America at eight) and Clemens Dick, from Toledo…
- 1870–todayNo Black congregation of its own: the searched record
The one founding that touches this ground is a Powell founding, across the river: in 1870 the Rev. John Bundy and nine charter members, among them Farrow and Rebecca Powell — Elijah's father and mother…
- 1871Town to city: the charter of 1899
The question of a city charter was put and voted down in 1871, and put again and voted down in 1896. In February 1899 it was put a third time, and this time it carried, 702 to 336 — "the third time proved the charm," the Mishawaka Enterprise said.
- 1871–todayThe Grand Trunk on the north side
The sentence's dating does not survive the railroad's own chronology, and the conflict is printed whole: De Kever places the link "in the 1850s," but the Grand Trunk's predecessor in the valley was chartered by Indiana in 1866, its single track was built in 1871, it first operated as the Chicago & Lake Huron, and it…
- 1872The night the town burned: the great fire of 1872
On the night of September 5, 1872 — the fire broke out at 7:45 p.m., in Peter J. De Kever's account in the city's commissioned history — a downtown of wood-frame buildings, hay, and open flames, in hot, dry conditions and a strong wind, burned beyond the means at hand to stop it.
- 1872The fire whose cause no record assigns
The worst night in the town's history begins with a sentence that declines to explain it: On the evening of 5 September 1872, fire broke out in Mishawaka and destroyed nearly ninety percent of the business district, the town hall with it — the town's hand engine stored inside the hall, so that the fire consumed the means of fighting it.
- 1872–1886The fires that built the department: 1872, 1881, 1886
The night of 5 September 1872: The fire that remade Mishawaka broke out at 7:45 p.m. on 5 September 1872, in Peter De Kever's account in the city's own history — a night of hot, dry conditions and a strong wind, in a downtown of wood-frame buildings, hay, and open flames, served by inadequate firefighting equipment.
- 1872–1920Edward A. Jernegan: the editor of forty-eight years, 1872–1920
In 1872 Edward A. Jernegan purchased the Enterprise, and the paper's wandering proprietorship ended for half a century.
- 1872–1921The club movement: the Ladies' Library, the lodge auxiliaries of 1907, and the Woman's Club of 1911
After the fire of 1872, a ladies' subscription library — a dollar a year — circulated its books from borrowed rooms; in its later years the collection rested in a church annex, and at the end, in the telling the library's own history preserves, in the restrooms of the Mishawaka Woolen & Rubber Company.
- 1872–1969The library that moved by book cart
The wanderings: Mishawaka's library began, on the surviving record, with a fire: the earliest-known collection, the Maclure library, was destroyed by fire in 1872, the year of the town's Great Fire.
- 1872–2005The demolition ledger
The Great Fire, 5 September 1872: The ledger opens with the town's first erasure: the fire of 1872 took some ninety per cent of the business district, the town hall and the fire engine stored against just such a night, the First Presbyterian Church's 1846 building, and the Maclure library's collection…
- 1873The First Stocking: Shad in the River, 1873
The Michigan State Board of Fish Commissioners' work is summarized in the Michigan DNR's own research report on exotic fish introductions: Jerome (1875) listed the stocking of 210,000 American shad fry in June 1873 in the Grand, Detroit, Flint, Raisin, and St. Joseph rivers…
- 1873–2002The Phoenix Bar & Grill: the room in the building the fire raised
On the night of 5 September 1872 the city's great fire began in a barn on West Second Street and destroyed 49 buildings and 82 businesses at a loss put at $140,000 — the fire's full record is the Fire & Safety section's…
- 1874–2025The count of the transformation: a ladder, not a series
The Ball Band works: twenty-five persons at the incorporated company's start in 1874 (the company history); 140 to 150 about 1893 (Goodspeed's memoirs); nearly 2,000 in 1903 (the Beiger Mansion account)…
- 1875Mishawaha as Littlejohn Wrote Her: The Tale in Its First Telling
Flavius Josephus Littlejohn — Michigan lawyer, legislator and judge, a surveyor and geologist in the southwestern Michigan wilderness in his early years — published the collection at Allegan, Michigan, in 1875, under the full title Legends of Michigan and the Old North West…
- 1875–1932Lincoln Park — the famous grave that never held anyone
The Story of Mishawaka section record of this history tested the legend against the documents and printed the verdict: the princess's tale is a work of fiction, first told by Flavius J. Littlejohn in his Legends of Michigan and the Old North West of 1875…
- 1875–1932The Tale in Its Three Forms: The Book, the Bronze, and the City's Own Summary
The record beside the variants: the documentary spine beneath all three forms is one line long, and it is the Story of Mishawaka section's: a work of fiction, published in 1875, is the first and only early source for every element of every form.
- 1875–1983The Eller-Hosford House: the Italianate survivor
Elom Eller, a farmer, built it in 1875–1877 and mortgaged the property to do it. The nomination's builder line reads "Unknown"; the Register's database credits Eller himself as the house's architect-builder — both statements stand in the formal record, and both are printed here.
- 1875–2025Mishawaka in other people's fiction
The most consequential fiction ever set on this ground is the one the city is named for in its own imagination: Flavius J. Littlejohn's 1875 story collection, in which a Michigan judge and author invented "Mishawaha," the Shawnee princess whose legend the Story of Mishawaka section of this record tests and prints whole.
- 1878The Poor Handmaids' charity: nursing the poor before the hospital, and after it
It begins as pure charity: three sisters at St. Agnes Convent from 25 October 1878, ministering to the sick in their homes and taking the worst cases into the convent to recover — home nursing of a factory town's sick, much of it necessarily unremunerated, for thirty-two years before the hospital of 1910 gave the work a building.
- 1878The nursing sisters: St. Agnes Convent, 1878
Those are the province's courses, told in the Fort Wayne record; Mishawaka's begins on 25 October 1878, when three sisters came to St. Joseph's parish and took up residence at St. Agnes Convent, near the southeast corner of Fourth and Spring Streets.
- 1878Dodge Manufacturing — the power-transmission house
The jack inventor: Wallace Harlow Dodge (1849–1894) was a Mishawaka man — Discover Indiana, the Indiana Historical Society's place-history program, calls him Mishawaka-born — who patented his Magic Jack, a wagon jack of his own invention, and in 1878 founded the Dodge Manufacturing Company in Mishawaka to make it.
- 1878The Magic Jack: Williams and Dodge, and the patent of 15 October 1878
Letters Patent No. 208,940, "Improvement in Wagon-Jacks," was applied for on 3 April 1878 and granted on 15 October 1878 — and its face reads "Miles D. Williams and Wallace H. Dodge, of Mishawaka, Ind." The received telling, from the Indiana Historical Bureau's marker line of descent through Discover Indiana's…
- 1878–1894The Dodge Money: A Fortune Documented as a Company, Not an Estate
The fortune: Wallace Harlow Dodge, Mishawaka-born, founded the Dodge Manufacturing Company in 1878 on his 1878 Magic Jack patent — the wagon jack whose Split Pulley patent of 1882 made the firm, by 1910, the city's largest employer at more than 1,200 persons (the Businesses file owns the company's whole course…
- 1878–todayThe industrial buildings at survey size
The works' founder has his own marker in the city besides: the Wallace H. Dodge marker on Union Street north of East Seventh, where Dodge founded his company in 1878, moved to the site in 1880, and patented the wood split pulley in 1882.
- 1879–1926The daily tests: a Christmas bazaar paper, the Daily Journal, and the daily that never took
The first attempt is the strangest survival in the library's list: the Daily Bazar, of which the film holds December 28, 1879 to January 2, 1880, and December 20 to 24, 1880…
- 1879–todayBattell Park's built fabric: the monument, the bandshell, the rock garden
The district: The Battell Park Historic District, listed 11 January 1996, counts two contributing buildings, one contributing site, two contributing structures and one contributing object in its eleven documented acres…