Mishawaka, Indiana · 20th century
1910s
70 dated events in 1910s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 70 dated mentions
1910s
- 1910The founding: St. Joseph Hospital, 1909–1910
Construction began in June 1909 on the old convent site, near Fourth and Spring, and the hospital opened on 19 April 1910: three stories, forty beds.
- 1910River Park: the annexation that was refused
The reach and the refusal: In August 1910 the council annexed River Park, northwest of the river and Logan Street — the same northwestward reach the Great Annexation had made along the city's west side.
- 1910–2026The employers' ladder — dated rungs
The rungs: 1910 — Dodge Manufacturing, more than 1,200 persons, Mishawaka's largest employer (the Mix biography, from the period record).
- 1911Two cars at the first Indianapolis 500, and the Speedway's first death
The entries: The first Indianapolis 500, run on 30 May 1911, carried forty starters, and two of them were Mishawaka cars, entered under the American Simplex name with Amplex chassis and engines.
- 1911The first flight: René Simon, 10 September 1911 — and whose ground it was
On 10 September 1911 the French aviator René Simon, touring America with the Moisant International Aviators exhibition company, flew a Blériot monoplane from a field near the southeast corner of Ironwood Drive and Dragoon Trail before a crowd The History Museum puts at 30,000.
- 1911The first death at the Indianapolis 500 was in a Mishawaka car
Two cars of the American Simplex — built here by the Simplex Motor Car Company, whose cars later took the name Amplex — started the inaugural race on 30 May 1911.
- 1911Humor in print: Ruth McKenney
The comedy side of a birth: the largest body of humor ever to come out of a Mishawaka birth belongs to Ruth McKenney, born in this city on 18 November 1911 and taken to East Cleveland at seven — the tie at its exact size, birth and seven years, as the authors record states it.
- 1911The Mishawaka Woman's Club, organized 1911
The club: The city's women's club stands in the 1921 directory at full roster strength: "Mishawaka Women's Club — organized March 11, 1911.
- 1911Markets and grocers: the negative, the chain's stores, and the Sunday market
The municipal market that is not there: South Bend's food record holds a municipal curb market documented to its ordinance numbers, 1911 to 1924.
- 1911–1972Ruth McKenney: the sister who wrote Eileen
The tie, exactly: Ruth Marguerite McKenney was born November 18, 1911, in Mishawaka, the daughter of John Sidney McKenney, a mechanical engineer, and Marguerite Flynn, a grade-school teacher.
- 1911–1972Ruth McKenney — ten books from a Mishawaka birth
Ruth Marguerite McKenney was born in Mishawaka on 18 November 1911, to John Sidney McKenney, a mechanical engineer, and Marguerite Flynn, a grade-school teacher.
- 1913–1922The News-Times Window, and Hoosier State Chronicles
The town's digitized window is therefore the sister city's paper: the South Bend News-Times of 1913–1922, filed under South Bend, in which Mishawaka's news ran as a department.
- 1913–1927The jitney test, run whole
The frame: the jitney — the automobile run as an unfranchised streetcar, taking nickels for rides along the rails' own routes — was the street railway's first motor competition across the country in 1913–1917, and the Northern Indiana Railway met it here.
- 1913–1928Lincolnway: the Lincoln Highway through Mishawaka, 1913 to 1928
For fifteen years the most famous road in America was this city's main east–west street: The Lincoln Highway was announced on 13 September 1913, and its original route across Indiana ran through Fort Wayne, Elkhart, South Bend, LaPorte and Valparaiso…
- 1913–1957Tuberculosis and the sanatorium regime: Healthwin, boundary-printed
Dr. St. Clair Darden, whose name the road already carried into the institution's, was hired in 1919 at twenty-eight and became its superintendent; survival under the regime rose from 50 percent in 1913 to 74 percent ten years after his arrival.
- 1913–1998The Lincoln Highway through Mishawaka: Lincolnway, 1913, and the route's departure
The 1913 course: The Lincoln Highway was announced on 13 September 1913, and its original route across Indiana ran through Fort Wayne, Elkhart, South Bend, LaPorte and Valparaiso — the Indiana Historical Bureau's annotation names the principal towns…
- 1913–2008The absorption: how Mishawaka's news became the Tribune's bureau
The News-Times' digitized run, 1913–1922, is today the chief searchable window into Mishawaka's daily life in those years.
- 1914Federated giving: the county chest, and the Mishawaka chest that the record does not show
One campaign for the county, none of the town's own: Federated giving came to St. Joseph County in 1914, and South Bend's charities record owns its whole course: the Federation for Social Service organized that year, the Community Chest of South Bend, Inc. documented by 1950, the St. Joseph County United Fund of the 1950s…
- 1914A mile of parade for a cornerstone, 1914
When the cornerstone was laid in May 1914 for the Neo-Classical building, the festivities included a mile-long parade viewed by four to five thousand spectators — in a city of some fifteen thousand, a third of the population on the sidewalks for a federal cornerstone.
- 1914Diphtheria and scarlet fever: the state's table, the town's silence
The two childhood diseases stand counted at state size: the State Board of Health's December 1914 bulletin, read first-hand, reports diphtheria at 486 cases in 57 counties with 53 deaths, and scarlet fever at 520 cases in 62 counties with 20 deaths — scarlet fever the state's most prevalent disease that month.
- 1914The works game — indoor baseball in 1914 and the Wagner Steel fastpitch champions
1914: Mishawaka's industrial-era sport is visible in a single week's paper: the South Bend News-Times of 10 March 1914 carries a Mishawaka Moose indoor baseball club winning games at its hall — indoor baseball, the winter game of the lodge and works teams, documented in the city in the year the Great War began.
- 1914–1915The paper course: $35,000 asked, $30,000 granted, and Eberhart's two lots
The asking: "The administration of the City of Mishawaka began courting the Carnegie Corporation in 1914 to provide $35,000 towards building a new library facility."
- 1914–1922Ralph W. Gaylor and the recount of 1921
The directory ends Herzog's tenure in 1914, and a letter printed in the South Bend News-Times of 7 October 1921, from a Fifth Ward voter who had supported him, says the writer voted for Gaylor "the last two times he has run for mayor" and complains of what the Fifth Ward had asked of him across "the past eight years"…
- 1914–1931Frederick George Eberhart: The Rubber-Era Eberhart — a Golf Course, a Mansion, a Library's Ground
The first is credit: by a memorandum of agreement of 24 February 1914, F. G. Eberhart of Mishawaka, with three South Bend men, guaranteed the notes of the Modern Specialties Manufacturing Company — notes of $2,500, $1,000, and $11,500 across 1915…
- 1914–1937Bowling and boxing — a league in 1914, and a Golden Gloves champion who became a Bear
Bowling: A Mishawaka bowling league was rolling league matches at a local alley in March 1914, documented in the South Bend News-Times of 10 March 1914; the alley's name is garbled in the surviving scan and is not guessed here.
- 1914–2021The downtown building grown: the 1998 expansion and the Heritage Center
The United States Post Office for Mishawaka built its freestanding building at 120 South Church Street in 1914 — the building from whose steps the town's recruits of May 1917 marched to the depot, in the photograph the Heritage Room still displays — served there until its move about 1970 (the library's timeline says 1970…
- 1914–todayCavemen basketball — two state finals trips a century apart from the drought's bookends
The finals trips: The IHSAA Boys Basketball Records Book's appearances table gives Mishawaka exactly two State Finals appearances: 1914 and 1927.
- 1915Circus Day Was in South Bend: June 1915
When the circus came to the valley in June 1915, it pitched across the line — and the South Bend News-Times recorded what Mishawaka did about it.
- 1915–1916The building: Wickes's Jacobethan library, opened 5 May 1916
The design: "By May of 1915 architect A. F. Wickes of Gary was chosen to design the library. The history on the architect and previous commissions is unknown as is the reason for choosing an out-of-town architect from Gary."
- 1915–1971Charles H. Kuhl: the private Patton slapped
The tie, exactly: Charles Herman Kuhl was born November 6, 1915, the son of Herman F. Kuhl, a Mishawaka casket maker, and he died in Mishawaka; the standard accounts, including the Indiana historian Ray E. Boomhower's, call him a Mishawaka native.
- 1915–todayThe Carnegie Library as a building: the Jacobethan exception
Its architect was A. F. Wickes of Gary, chosen by May 1915 — the nomination states plainly that his history and previous commissions are unknown, as is the reason an out-of-town architect was chosen, and this chapter prints the unknown with the building.
- 1916The Gillette: the 1916 car on the Amplex ground
Doyle's register seats the succession in the Amplex entry itself — "Simplex Motor Car Co.; Gillette Motors Co. — Mishawaka, Ind." — and his commentary note settles what the second company made there: "1916 car called Gillette."
- 1916The Miami Country Club, 1916–1920 — and the directory that keeps it alive in 1921
The club: In May 1916 a second country club opened on the same bluff property: the Miami Country Club. It played the ground four years.
- 1916The first show: the South Bend and Mishawaka Auto Trade Association, 1916
The show: The first automobile show of any consequence in the two cities opened on Wednesday, 3 May 1916, and it was a Mishawaka event as much as a South Bend one.
- 1916–1921The agents of record, at directory size
The agency on Main Street: the state's own business directory, R. L. Polk & Co.'s Indiana Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1916–1917, enters the trade in its Mishawaka list in one line — "Schindler A J & J W, ins, 215 S Main"…
- 1916–2026Taxis and the for-hire trade
R. L. Polk & Co.'s Indiana Gazetteer for 1916–1917 enters, in its Mishawaka list, the City Transfer Co (A. M. Bailey and A. Weiss), 103 E. Lincoln Highway, and the Mishawaka Transfer Co (W. H. and J. R. Jordan), 118 S. Main, with Geo.
- 1916–todayThe Carpathian community: the parish that left, and came back
Mishawaka's smallest complete community kept its own name for itself: St. Michael the Archangel parish, at 712 East Lawrence Street, was founded in 1916…
- 1917The mutual-aid societies: the enclaves insure themselves
The south-side Italian community's center was the DeAmicis Mutual Aid Society, founded in 1917, which built its social hall at the northwest corner of Spring and Eleventh Streets in 1928 — a building the commissioned history records, in the present tense, that "the club continues to use today."
- 1917The city answers: council of defense, registration days, and the draft boards
The frame: Indiana's State Council of Defense was organized May 19, 1917, by Governor J. P. Goodrich at the request of the Council of National Defense, and the system ran downward — state council, county councils, and beneath them township councils.
- 1917The election of 1917: a missing sum, a draft board, and two Belgians shot
The charges, as the campaign made them: The government record of this history prints the election of 1917 as a succession fact — Mayor Ralph W. Gaylor, a Republican, survived it and held his office.
- 1917The DeAmicis club: the Italian south side's hall
The DeAmicis Mutual Aid Society, founded in 1917, was the south side's center, and in 1928 the society built its social hall at the northwest corner of Spring and Eleventh Streets…
- 1917–1918The home front of the First World War: a million dollars in a minute
The Red Cross chapter: The same October page carries the town's Red Cross account: final payments on pledges to the second Red Cross war fund fell due on October 1, 1918, payments were coming in well, and "the Mishawaka chapter will again be a 100 percent chapter"…
- 1917–1919The loans, drive by drive: First, Second, Third and Victory
First Liberty Loan (campaign May 14–June 15, 1917): county chairman Rome C. Stephenson. The final state-headquarters bank report, as Greenough prints it, gives St. Joseph County a quota of $1,959,000 and subscriptions of $4,669,300.
- 1917–1919The wartime clock and the homecoming
The South Bend News-Times of July 14, 1917 reports the South Bend Ministerial Association, meeting at the YMCA on Friday evening, July 13, resolving that on the following Sunday all the churches of South Bend and Mishawaka would return to Central standard time…
- 1917–1920The boundary cases, and the number the record does not carry
Harry R. Pomeranz settled in South Bend and worked in a South Bend shoe store when he enlisted; he died at El Paso, Texas, on April 30, 1917, from accidental causes, and was buried in the Jewish Cemetery at Mishawaka — South Bend's man, buried here, and counted in South Bend's roll.
- 1917–1921The suffrage record: a county frame, a league organized from South Bend, and a named absence
The General Assembly of 1917 passed the Maston-McKinley Partial Suffrage Act, giving women the vote for presidential electors, for some state offices, and in municipal elections…
- 1917–1942Charles E. Bradley: the works' engineer, 1917–1942
It opens with process: No. 1,240,931, "Form for rubber articles," of 25 September 1917, assigned to the Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Company; then No. 1,271,843, "Manufacturing rubber footwear," filed 3 August 1917 and granted 9 July 1918…
- 1917–1945The Red Cross chapter and the wartime drives
The same October 1918 newspaper page that carries the town's Fourth Liberty Loan triumph carries its Red Cross account: final payments on pledges to the second Red Cross war fund fell due on 1 October 1918, payments were coming in well, and "the Mishawaka chapter will again be a 100 percent chapter"…
- 1917–2009The long narrowing: a half-century of removals, one line at a time
It began before the word existed: the Perkins Wind Mill & Engine Company went into receivership in 1917 and its remnant left for South Bend by 1925, killed, on the trade history's plain statement, by the decline of windmill and engine sales "as rural electrification reached the farms the windmills had served"…
- 1917–2026The twentieth century: the stations went elsewhere
The wartime state force, 1917–1920: When the National Guard went into federal service for the First World War, Indiana raised a state force in its place — the Indiana Militia of the war years, an emergency body of the too-young, the deferred and the exempt, which guarded the home ground until the Guard came home.
- 1917–todayThe numbered succession on Lincolnway: State Road 2, US 33, State Road 933
The Lincoln Highway's pavement took numbers the way it had taken names: In 1917 the young state highway system numbered the east–west road through Mishawaka Main Market Route 2 — a route the route record notes was also known as the Lincoln Highway.
- 1917–todayThe unchartered form: DeAmicis, DiLoreto, and the brotherhood circle
The DeAmicis Mutual Aid Society of 1917 carries the function in its corporate name — mutual aid: dues in, benefits out, the sick benefit and the burial money administered by the members themselves, in the hall the society built in 1928.
- 1918The 1918 wing, and the donor who would not be named
An addition constructed in 1918 more than doubled the facility's size, and the new wing was ready for occupancy in January 1919.
- 1918The influenza autumn: the hospital under epidemic load, 1918
In the fall of 1918, Spanish influenza spread through Mishawaka as it spread through the country. From mid-October until 15 November, public gatherings in Mishawaka were prohibited, and churches and schools were closed.
- 1918Pentecostal Beginnings: The Rowe Mission and the Tabernacle That Became Apostolic Temple
The congregation's own published history states: "Founded in 1918 by the late Bishop G.B. Rowe, Apostolic Temple Church (formerly known as Midway Gospel Tabernacle) has a rich history spanning more than a century," and the church kept its hundredth year of ministry in 2018.
- 1918A million dollars in a minute: the Fourth Liberty Loan, 1918
When the Fourth Liberty Loan campaign closed in the town, the South Bend News-Times of October 6, 1918, recorded it on its Mishawaka page: the quota laid on Mishawaka and Penn Township together was eight hundred thousand dollars…
- 1918Armistice Day, 1918: whistles in a closed city
The second is the frame the celebration happened inside: in the fall of 1918 the Spanish influenza had closed the culture entire — from mid-October to November 15 public gatherings were prohibited and churches and schools shut, in a city that counted more than three hundred cases and some twenty-five dead.
- 1918The dry years: the moral fight Mishawaka fought as commerce
The law: Indiana enacted its own prohibition in 1917 and went dry in April 1918 under state law, ahead of the federal amendment — the crime record of this history carries the statute's course.
- 1918Prohibition's places: the "Soft Drinks" page of 1921
The geography, not the war: Indiana went dry in April 1918 under its own statute, ahead of the national amendment, and stayed dry until national repeal on 5 December 1933.
- 1918The dry years at the plant: The Arrow, soda, distilled water, and ice
From 1918 to 1933 the trade timeline lists cereal beverages — Arrow, K&S Special, the K&S Arrow Cereal Beverage, a K&S Bock Brew — root beer and root-beer syrup, K&S Grape, and a soft-drink and syrup line: Emral Julepy mint drink, Emral Mint Syrup, Julade orange drink and Julade Syrup.
- 1918–1920Influenza: the autumn of 1918, and the counted return of January 1920
Mishawaka's 1918 stands in the hospitals file, at anchor size here: in the fall of 1918 Spanish influenza put more than 300 Mishawakans sick at one time and killed approximately 25; public gatherings were prohibited from mid-October until 15 November, and churches and schools were closed.
- 1918–1933Prohibition's Enforcement Record: The Still Raids of 1921
Indiana went dry in April 1918 under its own law, ahead of the national amendment, and stayed dry until national repeal on December 5, 1933.
- 1918–1933The brewery that outlived Prohibition on soda pop
The survival: Indiana went dry in 1918, ahead of the nation, and Mishawaka's brewery simply changed what came out of the kettles.
- 1918–1945Elizabeth "Liz" Richardson: the Clubmobile captain
The tie, exactly: Elizabeth Ann Richardson was born June 8, 1918, at Akron, Ohio, and raised in Mishawaka — a raised-here tie, and this city's own: she was a Mishawaka High School girl who went to Milwaukee-Downer College from 1936 to 1940 to study art and English, and who drew the "Beulah" cartoons her college remembered her by.
- 1918–2026The Public-Health Machinery as It Arrived
The closures of October 1918 — public gatherings prohibited, effectively mid-October to 15 November, in the influenza autumn the hospitals file carries — imply an authority acting on the city, and the record does not name it.
- 1919The Training School for Nurses, 1919
Sister Columba's school: Later in 1919, in the commissioned history's words, Sister Columba began the St. Joseph Training School for Nurses at the hospital, and the first class of nurses graduated from the program in 1922.
- 1919The Training School for Nurses, 1919
The school: In 1919, nine years after St. Joseph Hospital opened on West Fourth Street, Sister Columba began the St. Joseph Training School for Nurses at the hospital — the institutional entry stands in the hospitals file; the training record is this section's.
- 1919The night the sky broke — and the meteorite that isn't
The event: Shortly before eight o'clock on the evening of 26 November 1919, a brilliant meteor crossed far northern Indiana and southern Michigan, seen by dozens of witnesses across both states, its shock wave felt as earthquake-like tremors that damaged telephone, telegraph and electrical lines.
- 1919–todayTwin Branch: the community a power plant named
Penn Township bought land in 1919 and built a two-room school at 3810 Lincolnway East; the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company's great generating station rose on the river beside it, with its own railroad — the Twin Branch Railroad, organized in 1927 to haul coal to the plant, under two miles long…
- 1919–todayAmerican Legion Post 161: the post of 1919
The founding: Mishawaka's American Legion post was founded in 1919 — the Legion's own founding year, the year of the Paris caucus and the congressional charter.