Mishawaka Government and Population History

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Mishawaka Government and Population History

Who governed, who served, how many lived here, and the fights.

Government & Population

§ 06Mishawaka Government: The Mayors, the Council, and the City's Own HouseMishawaka has had a government since before it had its name: five elected trustees in 1835, a town board through the rest of the century, and a city charter from 1899. What this section owns is the working record of…18 entry pages § 07Mishawaka Public Servants: The Clerks, the Chiefs, the Councils, and the Lines Out of the CityThe Government section of this history keeps the mayors and the frame they sat in. But Mishawaka was not run by its mayors alone, and for long stretches it was barely run by them at all. It was run by a clerk who kept…18 entry pages § 08Mishawaka Population and Demographics: The Count of the CityEvery other section of this history describes a place; this one counts it. Mishawaka enters the federal census in 1850 with 1,412 people — a river town almost exactly the size of its neighbor, South Bend, at 1,652 — and…11 entry pages § 53Mishawaka City Controversies: The fights Mishawaka had with itselfMishawaka argued in court more readily than most cities its size, and its paper trail shows it: a Supreme Court fight over its western border in the first decade of the century, a remonstrance that handed an annexed…22 entry pages

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Source: Mishawaka Government and Population History, Moosed History by Project Moosed, https://history.projectmoosed.com/usa/midwest/indiana/mishawaka/topics/government-population/

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