Osceola, Indiana · 19th century
1850s
17 dated events in 1850s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 17 dated mentions
1850s
- 1850–1951The boundary brewery: Kamm & Schellinger of Mishawaka
Kamm & Schellinger Brewing Company, Mishawaka: established by John Wagner on West 2nd Street — 1850 in the company's historical sketch, 1853 in the Tavern Trove chronology, both printed; purchased 1870 by Adolph Kamm (with Clemens Dick, as Dick & Kamm)…
- 1850–2020The census series, 1850–2020
The township series runs complete, 1850–2020, with the 1880 Mishawaka-inclusion caveat printed whole. A superseded transcription of the 2020 file, caught and corrected inside this build, is told as method in Part Five.
- 1850–2024Composition as the record gives it: the foreign-born run and the race and Hispanic-origin run, census by census, with the question-changes flagged
The census first asked place of birth in 1850, and the run on this ground begins where the banked fragment's first-hand township work begins, in 1870: Penn Township — the township in its Penn-including-Mishawaka form, the only form the nineteenth-century volumes print…
- 1851–1907The township in the society's leadership
When the St. Joseph County Agricultural Society was reorganized at the courthouse on Saturday, April 19, 1851, the chairman of the meeting was George C. Merrifield of Penn Township…
- 1851–1920Suffrage: the 69-year campaign, the 1917 municipal fight in this county, and the Penn Township test
Indiana's campaign began with a convention and ended with a courtroom reversal on this county's doorstep: Amanda Way called the 1851 Winchester women's-rights convention that opened Indiana's sixty-nine-year suffrage campaign.
- 1851–2026The main line and its station
The railroad came before the town had a government, and it still cuts the town in two: the Northern Indiana & Chicago Railroad was chartered 30 November 1850 and opened through Osceola on 4 October 1851, reaching Chicago on 20 February 1852…
- 1852The one fair on Penn ground: 1852
In the fall of 1852 the county fair was held at Mishawaka — then the township's river town, its west end — "the people of the town paying all the expenses," with an address by the Hon. John B. Niles of La Porte.
- 1852–1936The flagship family brewery — none on this ground; the county's flagship
The Muessel Brewery, South Bend: Christopher Muessel (1812–1894) founded it in 1852; about 1865–1868 the family removed to the Portage Avenue / Elwood Avenue ground (1408 Elwood), on 136 acres north of the city with its water power, where the brewhouse complex rose.
- 1852–1972The saloon era as a trade: the county's system, and this ground's named gap
South Bend's senior house was Muessel's: begun in 1852 by Christopher Muessel (1812–1894), incorporated as the Muessel Brewing Company in 1893, selling Standard and Bavarian in barrels to the taverns and Arzburg Export bottled for the home trade; reorganised into Drewry's, Limited in 1936, it brewed until the fall of 1972.
- 1852–1972The longest-lived local house, with its full run
The longest-lived house in the county record, which is the row's substance, is the Muessel ground itself, and its full run is printed in one unbroken line: family brewery founded 1852 ; removed to the Elwood Avenue ground about 1865–1868 ; incorporated as the Muessel Brewing Company 1893…
- 1852–2011The distillers as a searched negative, with its date span printed
Date span searched: 1852–2011 — from the county's first brewery year to the modern era's first-documented distillery year in the floor pattern — printed on the negative, as the row requires; a negative without its span fails the leg, and this one carries its span.
- 1855–1929Founder-to-heir successions as fractions and descents: the Oliver quarter-shares, and Joseph D. Oliver the heir who ran it
On 5 May 1855 James Oliver (born Newcastleton, Scotland, 28 August 1823; to Mishawaka with his family, then to South Bend in 1855) and his fellow molder Harvey Little each purchased a one-fourth interest in the little South Bend foundry of Ira Fox and Emsley Lamb — a quarter-share apiece, the foundry's other half in the sellers' hands.
- 1856–1859The additions the town grew in: Thrall's, and Stokes's silence
William C. Thrall's addition, platted 24 April 1856 on the east half of the northwest quarter of section 16, surveyed by Milton W. Stokes, is the first of them, and it is alive in the parcel record: 14 of the town's parcels carry Thrall's Addition in their descriptions, with lot numbers 19 to 22 among the samples…
- 1856–2026Roads, mail and highways maps: the county drawn for travellers, as its own class
Its early sheets are state maps drawn for the road user before the highway era: an 1856 New Map of Indiana with its Roads and Distances — the stage-and-wagon traveller's sheet, on which this ground's roads are the Vistula and Goshen lines of the Corridors leg — and an 1866 Diagram of the State of Indiana .
- 1857–1916Benjamin Franklin Shively: the town's one national figure
The tie, stated exactly: the Biographical Directory of the United States Congress (member S000371): "born near Osceola, St. Joseph County, Ind., March 20, 1857" — the House's own history entry repeats the wording.
- 1858–1918The early case record: a tested blank
Swept for this build, that record seats the county's first murder indictment in 1858 — the Eager and Kelley case — on Mishawaka ground, and its other preserved killings in Greene Township, in South Bend, and at New Carlisle.
- 1858–2026The papers that carried Osceola
The Mishawaka Enterprise — the paper of the city four miles west, kept on the public library's film across a run of 1858–2019 — is the file in which Osceola's nineteenth and twentieth centuries were written down week by week, and the South Bend Tribune is the daily that has carried the town's major record into print…