Osceola, Indiana · 19th century
1860s
11 dated events in 1860s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 11 dated mentions
1860s
- 1861The first cameras: itinerants before any studio — none named on Osceola's main street
The county frame is dated so the negative has edges: photography reached the county seat as a seated trade in 1861, when Albert McDonald opened his South Bend studio (art-63-5) — before South Bend was even incorporated as a city…
- 1861–1865The machinery: how the county raised its men — and where Penn does not appear
Both histories were read for exactly that, and the township's absence is itself patterned: on 19 April 1861 a South Bend meeting appointed subscription committees by township to aid the forming companies and support volunteers' families, and Howard prints the township lists whole…
- 1861–2026The long studios in succession: McDonald Studio, South Bend, 1861 to the present — the county's one unbroken line
Albert J. McDonald (born Rochester, New York, 1841) came to South Bend at 19 and in 1861 purchased / opened a picture studio — the Goodspeed memoirs of 1893 say he "purchased a photograph studio and has followed the business ever since"…
- 1863The OCC charter roll: the county's real numbers, and no Osceola charter among them
The test is printed so it can be checked: the national banks chartered in this county, with their charter numbers, are — Charter No. 126, First National Bank of South Bend (1863–1932); No. 1739, South Bend National Bank (1870); No. 4764, Citizens National Bank of South Bend (1892–1934, receivership)…
- 1863The first county map: Stokes and Shober, 1863, read from its catalogue record whole
Maker: M. W. Stokes, published at Philadelphia in 1863; engraved, printed and mounted by Charles Shober. The map carries its own copyright line: “Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1863 by M. W. Stokes in the Clerk's Office of the District Court of the United States within & for the District of Indiana.”
- 1863–1916The depot trade: grain in William C. Smith's hands, livestock in A. Newsbaum's — and no elevator in the record
The railroad made a second commerce beside the mills, and the record names its two dealers: William C. Smith, the Lake Shore's agent at Osceola from 1863 — the man who lost his right arm coupling cars that year and held the agency, five years excepted, for the rest of Chapman's account (Chapman, pp. 837–838…
- 1865–1915The brick school of 1865 and the building that replaced it
The one-room era in Osceola ends in brick: in the spring of 1865, Kiracofe records, a new brick school was built on the site of the present Osceola School — two rooms, in service for over fifty years.
- 1865–2026The health office: from the first board of 1865 to the county department, in its own reports
Osceola has never had a health office of its own, and the office that governs it has a dated beginning: at South Bend's first city council meeting, 12 June 1865, the council elected Dr. I. N. Green, Clement Studebaker and Norman Eddy as the city's first Board of Health (Chapman)…
- 1866–2026The bird's-eye test: no panoramic view of Osceola was ever made in the record reached
The county library's map case holds the region's bird's-eye at South Bend size: an 1866 pictorial map of South Bend — three copies, plus a fourth reproduced from a newspaper — the 1866 view the checklist floor names as Ruger's South Bend.
- 1868–1876Site successions, and the two St. Joseph Hotels distinguished
The Second St. Joseph Hotel , 117–119 West Colfax Avenue, was built by a Pennsylvanian named David Greenawalt and opened on 10 September 1868; it worked as a hotel until 1876, changed hands frequently, stood empty for four years, and was then leased by Marvin Campbell — later of the Campbell Box & Tag Company…
- 1869–1879Dr. Stephen J. Batchelder — the village's physician, 1869–1879
Batchelder, M.D., born in Clinton County, New York, 21 November 1833, son of Stephen and Polly Batchelder; graduated at the Keokuk College of Physicians and Surgeons in 1856; began practice at Greencastle, Iowa; and in March 1869 came to Osceola, Indiana, "where he remained ten years, except one year, which he spent in California.