Mishawaka, Indiana · 19th century
1880s
45 dated events in 1880s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 45 dated mentions
1880s
- 1880The Baseline This Ground Shared: Chapman's County, 1880
The first survey of this ground's animals is a chapter of a book: the second chapter of Chapman's History of St. Joseph County (1880), a natural history of the county — quadrupeds, birds, reptiles, fishes — compiled within living memory of the first settlement, when men who had seen the old abundance were still alive to be asked.
- 1880The Departed Predators, at Township Size
Chapman's 1880 chapter places all three among the animals that went "with or before" the buffalo, and his rare-and-going list adds the catamount and the lynx — the panther and the catamount being one animal, the cougar, under its two period names, a compiler's artifact of 1880 taxonomy preserved here as printed.
- 1880The Deer and the Turkey: Gone, and Brought Back Past This Ground
The going is Chapman's: the Virginia deer stands in his 1880 chapter among the departed and the rare.
- 1880The saloon era: the gazetteers' rosters, 1880–1885, and the peak that does not survive
The roster of 1880-81: Polk's Indiana State Gazetteer for 1880-81 describes a manufacturing village of 2,640 inhabitants with "one bank, one hotel and one weekly newspaper," and its Mishawaka business list names the drinking trade whole.
- 1880–1906The Saloon-Era Killings — a Tested Class, One Riot, and a Named Gap
The test, stated: whether the saloon-era decades — 1880 to the Ludwig killing of 1906 — hold killings in Mishawaka saloons that can be carried case by case, as the floor's pattern carries them for the county seat.
- 1880–1909Boots of three cloths: the felt works, the knit boot, and the missing shirt factory
Dempster Beatty — born in Sandusky City, Ohio, in 1828, and carried in the 1893 county memoirs as "the first man to organize a company for the manufacture of felt boots in Indiana" — came back to Mishawaka in 1876, and in 1880 began business with his son Leonard E. Beatty in the manufacture of felt boots.
- 1880–1916The paper and pulp cluster — the incorporations, and the first paper made here
March 4, 1880, the Mishawaka Wood Pulp Company: capital fifteen thousand dollars; incorporators Lucius Clark, John F. Clark and Robert R. Clark.
- 1880–1921The telephone — wires hung in April 1880
The arrival, as the town's own paper saw it: The city's commissioned history, Peter J. De Kever's Mishawaka: A History , dates the adoption to a single month: "In April 1880, the first telephone wires were hung in Mishawaka, phones were received by subscribers, and a central exchange opened."
- 1881–1903The Grounds "Between South Bend and Mishawaka," and Penn Township's Share
Under the state act of 1873, which let a county spend up to five thousand dollars buying land for agricultural and horticultural fairs, the St. Joseph County commissioners ordered on 20 April 1881 the purchase of forty acres "on the north side of the St. Joseph river, between South Bend and Mishawaka"…
- 1882The temperance women and the windmill money: the orphans' home founded, 1882
In May 1882 three local members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union — Julia E. Work, Myra Clark, and Mrs. Henry Milburn — attended the state WCTU convention in Indianapolis and heard Frances Willard, the national WCTU's president, speak.
- 1882The Children's Campus: the city's own institution
Mishawaka's one indigenous institution of the mind began as an orphanage: The ground's founding stands in this history's Charities record and is carried here in a line: the St. Joseph County Orphans Home, opened in July 1882 on Vistula Street by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's founding charity, and rebuilt in 1907…
- 1882–1891Julia Work's home, and the feud that split it, 1882–1891
The superintendent and the society ladies: Julia A. (Edwards) Work took up the work on 20 June 1882 and was the home's superintendent from June 1882 to February 1891…
- 1882–1899The split pulley: Dodge and Philion, the patent of 4 July 1882, and the pulley wars
Letters Patent No. 260,462, granted 4 July 1882 to Wallace H. Dodge and George Philion — Philion being the third incorporator of the Dodge Manufacturing Company in 1880, beside the two Dodge brothers — covered the separable pulley the company sold as the Independence Wood Split Pulley.
- 1882–1932The temperance organization: the WCTU and Julia E. Work
In May 1882 three Mishawaka women — Julia E. Work, Myra Clark, and Mrs. Henry Milburn, members of the local union — attended the state WCTU convention at Indianapolis and heard Frances Willard, the national president, make the case for a children's home.
- 1882–2026Mental-Health Practice at Anchor Size
The ground: Mishawaka's mental-health practice record begins on ground the charities file owns: the St. Joseph County Orphans Home, opened in July 1882 on Vistula Street by the Woman's Christian Temperance Union's founding charity, and rebuilt in 1907 at the southwest corner of Logan and West Second Streets for the…
- 1882–todayThe women founders — tested whole
In May 1882 three local members of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union — Julia E. Work, Myra Clark, and Mrs. Henry Milburn — attended the state WCTU convention in Indianapolis and heard Frances Willard speak.
- 1883The families on the bank and store side — Eberhart, Kamm, Perkins, Wiekamp
The Kamms, in the corporate record: The brewery's 1883 incorporation, carried in full above, puts the second generation in the company's offices at the founding of the corporation itself: Adolph Kamm president, his brother-in-law Nicholas Schellinger treasurer, and Adolph's daughter Laura Kamm secretary.
- 1883Houghton Post No. 128 as an order: the Grand Army in Mishawaka
The division, stated: Houghton Post of the Grand Army of the Republic stands whole in this history's Veterans section — its Department of Indiana dates, 1883–1936, from the department's own records as indexed by the state archives; its formation out of South Bend's Auten Post…
- 1883–1925Perkins windmills: water for the Plains, by the thousand
The company's sales line, in Gas Engine Magazine's company history, runs from 1,500 windmills in 1883 to 5,000 a year in 1899 — and the St. Joseph County Public Library's account, carried on the city's 2014 marker, states where those mills went: the solid-wheel Perkins mills "pumped water across the Great Plains farm…
- 1883–1936Houghton Post No. 128: the Grand Army in Mishawaka
The Department of Indiana's own post records, as indexed by the Indiana Archives and Records Administration from the department's files, carry it at Mishawaka, St. Joseph County, with the dates 1883–1936…
- 1883–2017How the city has honored them: the commemorations, tested
The Grand Army of the Republic's Houghton Post No. 128, chartered in 1883 and standing to 1936, bore the name of Captain James Houghton of Company I, 9th Indiana, killed at Shiloh on 7 April 1862 — a naming for a fallen captain, who holds no decoration of record…
- 1884The first public objects: a soldiers' monument and a princess's boulder
The ledger opens in Battell Park: The city's first public artwork is the Soldiers' Monument of 1884 — white bronze, thirty-two feet, $1,460 — raised by the subscription generation that built the park itself.
- 1884–2026The memorials' own course: 1884 to the present
The soldiers' monument, 1884: Mishawaka's first war memorial stands in Battell Park, the city's oldest park, given to the city in 1881 by the Battell family.
- 1884–2026Monuments and markers as built objects
The Soldiers' Monument of 1884 in Battell Park — white bronze, thirty-two feet, $1,460 — stands in the park's article above.
- 1885The company press: the Dodge Idea, a factory monthly with twice the town's circulation
Ayer's 1920 directory lists, under Mishawaka, the Dodge Idea: monthly, industrial and mechanical, established 1885, subscription fifty cents, circulation 30,000 — against the same page's town line giving Mishawaka 14,579 people, and the Enterprise's 1,150.
- 1885–1890Horse cars on two banks: the first line, 1885-1886
Construction of a streetcar line connecting Mishawaka to South Bend began in early September 1885 and was ready for the public a month later; on 10 October 1885 the three available streetcars carried 1,600 passengers, with sometimes 80 passengers crowded into cars built to carry half that number.
- 1886The Humane Society: Mishawaka's Own
Its own history page states the founding: "Incorporated in 1886, the Humane Society of St. Joseph County is one of Indiana's oldest service agencies and still functions as one of the largest animal care, control and adoption facilities in Indiana."
- 1886The county's animal shelter was Mishawaka's all along
The Humane Society of St. Joseph County — the county's humane society, incorporated in 1886 — is seated at 2506 Grape Road, in Mishawaka, and for roughly sixty years it was the county's animal-control agency besides: the county's stray dogs, cruelty cases and impoundments ran through a Mishawaka address while the…
- 1886–1887The seamless knitted boot: Beiger and Eberhart, and the patent of 26 July 1887
A knitted wool boot with no seam to chafe and no woven cloth to bag, knit to hold the shape of the leg and foot — the marker on the ground states the earned claim in the form this section adopts: the 1886 all-knit boot was "the first wool boot to hold its shape without shrinking or stretching."
- 1886–1893The all-knit boot and the reorganization of 1886
The invention: In 1886 Martin V. Beiger and Adolphus Eberhart invented the all-knit wool boot — in the words of the Ball-Band Factory marker that stands on the site today, the first wool boot to hold its shape without shrinking or stretching.
- 1886–2000The Ball Band Ground — the Red Ball, and the park that stands where it stood
The Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Company — Ball Band — put its red ball on the all-knit wool boot that Martin V. Beiger and Adolphus Eberhart brought out in 1886, and the mark's course is fixed in the company's own published history: actual use of the Red Ball began in 1891, and in 1901 the RED BALL device and the…
- 1887The Pilsner years: brands, barrels at three dates, and a tied house in Michigan
St. Joseph County Village Fire Insurance Company , decided by the Michigan Supreme Court in 1912 on a directed verdict for the insurer below, is this section's one litigated window into the brewery as a going concern — the case that also carries the March 1887 incorporation in its recitals.
- 1887Black Mishawaka: Medora Powell, and the record of a small community
On June 3, 1887, Medora Powell — eldest child of Elijah and Mary Ann Powell — graduated from Mishawaka High School, one of a class of ten, the school's first Black graduate and, the Mishawaka Enterprise reported, possibly the first Black student to graduate from any high school in northern Indiana.
- 1887–1908Medora Powell and the class of 1887: the anchor
The whole telling stands in the culture file; this entry carries the anchor and what this section adds: Medora Powell, eldest child of Elijah and Mary Ann, graduated from Mishawaka High School on 3 June 1887, one of a class of ten, delivering a commencement address titled "Self Made Men" at Burt's Opera House…
- 1887–todayBlack Mishawaka: the anchors and the counts
The record opens with two graduates and then, for decades, counts without streets: the named-family anchors are the schools and culture files'…
- 1887–todayBlack Mishawaka: a family's church across the river, then a growth without an enclave
The Powells are the founding Black family of the record: Medora Powell, Mishawaka High School class of 1887, the first African-American graduate of any high school in northern Indiana on the Mishawaka Enterprise's account of 10 June 1887, and her brother Farrow Raymond Powell, class of 1908…
- 1887–todayThe schools' and the library's women: Medora Powell, and the librarians from Olive Long to Donna Meeks
Medora Powell: in the Mishawaka High School class of 1887 — ten graduates — stood Medora Powell, and the Mishawaka Enterprise's commencement account of 10 June 1887 carries the distinction the record has kept for her: she was the first African-American graduate of any high school in northern Indiana.
- 1888–todayThe Elkhart & Western: the freight door of the Ball Band works
The road was incorporated in 1888 and built west from Elkhart along the St. Joseph River about ten miles to Mishawaka — it never reached South Bend, whatever its projector's announced direction; its western end was the Ball Band works.
- 1888–todayThe minor-league test — negative for Mishawaka, printed at true size
The register of the region's organized baseball runs from 1888 to the present and enumerates South Bend clubs only — Green Stockings, Greens, Bronchos, Benders, Factors, Twins, and the modern Midwest League franchise.
- 18891870 to 1889
Adolph Kamm — Dick and Kamm — Brewers (banked 1870) Clemens Dick — Dick and Kamm — Brewers (banked 1870) Jacob K Bechler — Jacob K Bechler — Saw Mill (banked 1889; directories: 1889) John L Dayhuff — John L Dayhuff — Wells and Pumps (banked 1889; directories: 1889) L K Robinson — L K Robinson — Cooper (banked 1889…
- 1889The paper and pulp cluster
Four houses on the race: The Directory of Indiana Manufacturers and Buyers' Guide for 1889 lists four paper and pulp houses among Mishawaka's manufacturers: the A. Gaylor Pulp Manufacturing Company, the Indiana Paper Company, the Mishawaka Pulp Company, and M. W. Stokes's wood pulp mill.
- 1889The rest of the 1889 roster — felting, furniture, organs, wagons
The full page: Beyond the houses that hold their own entries, the 1889 Directory of Indiana Manufacturers gives Mishawaka, population 3,200, on the Chicago & Grand Trunk and the Lake Shore & Michigan Southern railroads, this manufacturing roster: the Beatty Felting Company; the Keasey Pulley Company…
- 1889The date inside the stair
The proof: The red-brick Queen Anne at 415 Lincolnway East is believed built in 1889, and the belief is proven from inside the fabric of the house itself.
- 1889–1899Electrification and the rebuilding: the companies in succession, 1889-1899
The 1889 consolidation: The horse-car company did not electrify Mishawaka under its own name. On 10 September 1889 the South Bend Railway Company and the South Bend and Mishawaka Street Railway Company were consolidated as the South Bend and Mishawaka Railway Company, capitalized at $250,000.
- 1889–1978The Dodge House: the house a church voted not to demolish
The date inside the stair: The red-brick Queen Anne at 415 Lincolnway East is believed built in 1889, and the belief is proven from inside the fabric.