Mishawaka, Indiana · 19th century
1890s
45 dated events in 1890s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 45 dated mentions
1890s
- 1891The home that stayed: the Northern Indiana Aid Society and the 1907 building
Permanent quarters at last: The grievance at the center of the 1891 feud was rented, inconvenient buildings. Sixteen years later the society that stayed in Mishawaka answered it in brick.
- 1891The armory Mishawaka never had
It is named here as a gap, not filled: the settling sources are the Mishawaka Enterprise of 1891–1892, whose columns carried the company's notices week by week, and the city directories of those years, which listed the halls.
- 1891–1892Company D, Third Regiment: the city's one Guard company, 1891–1892
Pratt's entry, whole: The one company of the standing forces that Mishawaka ever kept is carried in Pratt's town-by-town roster of the Third Regiment, and his entry is short enough to print entire: "Mishawaka's only company was organized in the spring of 1891, and was assigned to the Third Regiment as Company D February 3 of that year.
- 1891–1901The mark without an author
It may be the most-seen image Mishawaka ever produced, and no record says who drew it: The Red Ball — a plain red disc — was the trade device of the Mishawaka Rubber & Woolen Manufacturing Company, in use from 1891, carried on the boots and shoes of Ball Band until the mark was known in every town in America: "Look for the Red Ball."
- 1891–1911The Mishawaka Democrat, 1891–1911, and its founder the lieutenant governor
On July 4, 1891, Mishawaka became a two-paper town again: "there seemed to a young man an opportunity for another paper in Mishawaka, and the Mishawaka Democrat was launched… by William P. O'Neill."
- 1891–todayCommercial art: the Red Ball, the sign brush, the painted shoe
The court record states the chronology at legal strength: the red ball in actual use from 1891; the word mark "Ball Band" registered January 19, 1897; the red circular disc registered May 28, 1901, and re-registered across the decades (1915, 1927, 1938).
- 1891–todayThe Red Ball as worn
The knit boot carried a black band at its top — the band of the Ball-Band name — and the red ball device was in actual use from 1891 and registered with the name in 1901.
- 1892–1910The River Park boundary: the town Mishawaka tried to annex and lost
This ground is South Bend's build; Mishawaka's fact in it is a failed annexation, and it is boundary-printed at that size: River Park, between South Bend and Mishawaka on the north side of the river, was platted by Albert J. Horne and Benjamin F. Dunn, its original plat acknowledged 7 April 1892, with Fordham and…
- 1892–2026The Tests: The 1892 List, the Richest-Man Question, and Forbes
The 1892 list: The New-York Tribune 's American Millionaires (1892), its survey of Americans "reputed to be worth a million or more," counted thirty-seven millionaires in Indiana, of whom three were in South Bend, on the Crawfordsville Daily Journal 's summary of 18 May 1892 carried in the South Bend wealth file.
- 1892–todayThe lines out of the city: Indianapolis and Washington
The statehouse line: Mishawaka's people in Indianapolis begin, in the record reached, with E. Volney Bingham's senate service of 1892–1906 and after, in the entry above — a Mishawaka lawyer holding the two-county senate seat through five legislatures.
- 1893Addiction on Mishawaka ground: the cure era tested, the modern row verified
Indiana's documented Keeley house stood at Plainfield, in Hendricks County, from 1893 to the state's Prohibition of 1918 — the state's instance of the system, printed here as the contrast that keeps the negative honest.
- 1893The City at the World's Fair: Chicago, 1893
The World's Columbian Exposition of 1893, held in Jackson Park, caught Mishawaka up, in the city history's phrase, "because of its prominent industries and proximity to Chicago," and the city's presence there ran through every register of a fair: its machinery drove the fair, its products were exhibited and decorated…
- 1893–1949The Dodge line after the founder: the rope drive, the Taper-Lock, and the Torque-Arm
The sentence is a booster biography's and is printed as such; the documented core inside it is that Dodge built the largest rope engine yet made for the World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago in 1893 and that it powered the fair, on Discover Indiana's account — a Mishawaka firm driving the machinery of the White City.
- 1896Before the saucers: the airship wave of 1896–97 — the Mishawaka test
The wave: Half a century before "flying saucer" entered the language, the United States went through a wave of reports of a mysterious airship — a powered, steerable craft of a kind no one could exhibit on the ground — moving eastward from California across the country between November 1896 and May 1897.
- 1897Emmett A. Saunders — the borrowed superintendent who became the chief
In 1897 the company decided to manufacture rubber footwear itself; Saunders resigned from Goodyear Metallic and, in the company history's words, personally superintended the erection and equipment of the rubber mill.
- 1897A Menagerie by Rail: Monday, 28 June 1897
The J. H. LaPearl Shows, a small railroad show out of Danville, Illinois, on the road from about 1893 to 1898, played Mishawaka on Monday, 28 June 1897 — Butler, Indiana, the Saturday before; a Sunday off, as the route card marks it; LaPorte and Plymouth in the days after.
- 1897The coldest number, reached twice
The National Weather Service's annual climate summary for the station gives the all-time low as −22 degrees — reached twice, on 25 January 1897 and again on 20 January 1943, and never since beaten.
- 1897Closing: what this record can and cannot support
The bottom line of the record: Mishawaka's documented UFO record, at its whole size, is this: no report in the airship wave of 1897, whose surveys name the county's larger city and not this one; no report in the wave of July 1947, whose catalogue does the same…
- 1897–1917The rubber turn: Saunders and the second mill
In 1897 the company decided to manufacture rubber footwear itself. Saunders resigned from Goodyear Metallic and, in the company history's words, personally superintended the erection and equipment of the rubber mill.
- 1897–1960Fair-Type Ground: The Circus Field
The field enters the record on Monday, 28 June 1897, when the J. H. LaPearl Shows, a railroad menagerie carrying two elephants, a hippopotamus, a camel and ten cross cages, played the town and set the pattern: a show arrived, pitched on open ground at the town's edge, and left nothing standing.
- 1897–2005The Executions Test: Three County Names, One Mishawaka Offense
Harry Jones stands first on the DOC's list, hanged May 7, 1897 — a county hanging of the pre-electric-chair era; the record reached for this build does not fix his offense's place or victim, and the gap is carried open in the South Bend file, where the county's capital record is assembled.
- 1898The Spanish-American War: four names, no company, no dead
The county's company in that regiment was South Bend's: Company F, organized at South Bend on February 3, 1887, whose course and whose two dead — Private Harry W. Herring, died October 17, 1898, and Private Harry O. Perkins, died August 20, 1898 — are carried in South Bend's record.
- 1898Willis Uline: the commendation of 1898
In the war with Spain he was a first lieutenant of the 12th Infantry, commanding Company H in the attack on El Caney, Cuba, on 1 July 1898.
- 1898–19001898: the war that found Mishawaka without a company
The institutional fact: When the war with Spain came in the spring of 1898, Mishawaka had been without a company for five and a half years, and the war's organization shows it.
- 1898–1919The first generation: Warner's rubber patents and Price's chemistry, 1898–1919
The 1898 patentee list carries Edward Roos assigning a "Wool boot" patent to the Beatty Felting Company of Mishawaka — the felt-boot house the banked Businesses record places in the city…
- 1898–1934The interurban through Mishawaka: to Elkhart and Goshen, 1898-1934
In September 1898 the owners of the South Bend & Mishawaka street lines, Arthur Kennedy and Frances J. Torrence of Pittsburgh, bought the stock of the Indiana Electric Railway Company of Elkhart and took possession early in October; the connecting construction was pushed rapidly forward.
- 1898–1963The Patent Roster, Counted by Class and by Name
The annex holds Roos's Beatty assignment of 1898 and the Clark Metal Last Company's five grants. Design patents run through all three classes — about a fifth of the Class 1 count — and are labeled wherever they are named.
- 1898–1997How the search was made, and what its classes mean
The sources: The sweep was worked from the Patent Office's own annual lists of patentees — the patentee lists in the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Patents for 1898–1919 and the Index of Patents Issued from the United States Patent Office for 1920–1973…
- 1898–2012The long tail, III: the mid-century desks, the schools' servants, the federal desk — entries 59–78
William E. Butterworth — a native son born 17 October 1860, a druggist from 1880 to 1892, who became deputy postmaster in 1898, "first under Mr. Gaylor and later under Mr. Shaw, the present postmaster"…
- 1899The mayoral line
The line is anchored at both ends, with the middle honestly open: The first mayors stand in the entry above: Manuel Fisher (1899–1902) and Melville Mix, elected 1902.
- 1899–1909The federal count arrives: 1899 and 1909
The Twelfth Census counted manufactures for the year 1899 and printed Mishawaka in its Indiana table of cities and towns of less than 20,000 population — the city stood at 5,560 people — with the full apparatus of the old census: 56 establishments…
- 1899–1914The first mayors: Fisher, Mix, Frank, Herzog
Manuel M. Fisher, 1899–1902: The first mayoral election, on 2 May 1899, was close: Fisher beat E. Volney Bingham 656 votes to 612, and on 8 May 1899, as the town board held its last meeting, Fisher was sworn in as the first mayor of the city of Mishawaka.
- 1899–1940Inside the Northern Indiana system: Mishawaka's miles, 1899-1940
The succession: From the merger of 15 March 1899, Mishawaka's cars belonged to a regional system, and the city's trackage can be followed through the system's own statistics.
- 1899–1949The marshals and the first chiefs: the police before Bolerjack
The elected marshals: The charter city policed itself through an elected marshal, and Howard's rosters name the office's first holders as they name the clerks: Grant Needham , marshal in 1899 and 1900; Jerome Rossman in 1902; Frederick Stockberger in 1904; Benjamin F. Jarrett in November 1905.
- 1899–1963The appointed machinery: boards, works, and the desks that never faced the voters
The street commissioner's desk is Charles Doolittle's: Charles H. Doolittle is street commissioner in Howard's roster of 1899, and in 1900, 1902, 1904 and 1905, and the 1921 directory names Charles W. Doolittle in the office still…
- 1899–1963The long service, gathered: what the rosters prove
Gathered, at exactly the strength each entry carries: Charles Doolittle, street commissioner in six rosters across twenty-two years (1899–1921).
- 1899–1992What the series proves
The works-by-works ladder in the leg this addendum joins could date the great shops one by one; the federal count now frames them: a town of 56 small establishments and 1,761 wage earners in 1899 became, by 1919, a city whose 32 establishments averaged 158 wage earners each, and whose invested capital had multiplied…
- 1899–2026The police: from the elected marshal to the department at 100 Lincolnway West
The marshal era: The 1899 charter that made Mishawaka a city gave it an elected marshal among its elected officers — mayor, clerk, treasurer and marshal chosen at the ballot box, the town's law kept by an elected man and his deputies.
- 1899–todayThe council: ten seats, seven seats, nine
The charter council: The government the voters approved in 1899 sat ten councilmen — two from each of the five wards into which the town board divided the new city — as the Story of Mishawaka section carries the charter from De Kever.
- 1899–todayThe clerk, the treasurer, the controller, the judge
The charter officers: Under the 1899 frame the city elected its mayor, its clerk, its treasurer and its marshal, and the clerk and treasurer began as separate offices held by separate men.
- 1899–todayThe police department: a founding anchor
From marshal to department: The charter of 1899 gave the city an elected marshal — the whole of its law enforcement in the charter's text, as the Story of Mishawaka section carries it.
- 1899–todayThe council as people: the rolls of 1899 to 1963, and the ones who stayed
The founding ten: The first city council, seated in May 1899, is the first complete roll of Mishawaka servants the record keeps: First Ward, Lorenzo D. Partridge and John Z. Wilklow; Second, William B. Hosford and Millard F. Kerr; Third, Samuel G. Todd and Peter Tollens; Fourth, Jesse H. Gaines and Alfred S. Hess…
- 1899–todayThe clerk's desk: keeper of the record
The Egglestons and Ganser: The clerk is the city's memory with a signature, and Mishawaka's first city clerk was Henry C. Eggleston , named in Howard's rosters of May 1899 and May 1900.
- 1899–todayThe treasurer's desk and the controller's desk: keepers of the purse
William M. Clark is treasurer in Howard's roster of May 1899, and in 1900, and in 1902, and in 1904, and in November 1905 — five successive rosters, the whole span of Howard's lists, through three mayors (Fisher, Mix, Frank) and two changes of clerk.
- 1899–todayEvery station claim, tested one by one
The county-frame claims, tested at boundary size: the organized South Bend station — a standing operation with conductors and a route — fails on its own earliest carriers: the tradition enters print in J. B. Dakin's South Bend Daily Tribune reminiscence of 25 April 1899 and in Windle (1939), and the tradition itself…