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1836–1847 · innkeepers and a future Vice President
New Carlisle's first decade ran on the stage line, and its most famous life passed through a store on it. Richard Cranmer built the town's hotel in 1836 and sold it to Joseph Ivens, whose house won, Chapman says, a "great reputation" on the stage line; when Mrs. R. J. Pidge arrived in 1847, the hotel was still Ivens', and the post office — established 1837 — sat in a blacksmith shop. In 1836 the widow Hannah Colfax removed to New Carlisle with her son Schuyler, thirteen years old, and the boy clerked in Mr. Mathews' store while Mrs. Mathews organized a Sunday school in her house — the town's first, carried in the Religion section's file. The clerkship is the whole of New Carlisle's Colfax chapter, and it is stated exactly: Schuyler Colfax was formed, in part, behind a counter in this town in 1836; his career — editor, congressman, Speaker of the House, seventeenth Vice President of the United States — belongs to South Bend's history and is told there. this section claims the boy, not the statesman.
Sources
- Howard (1907), vol.
- Chapman (1880), Olive Township chapter (Cranmer and Ivens; the Pidge arrival account, 1847).