Osceola, Indiana · 19th century
1870s
10 dated events in 1870s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 10 dated mentions
1870s
- 1870–1900The first store the record names: Henry S. Plumb, 1870 — and George F. Eberhart's two years in the 1890s
The earliest Osceola merchant the county histories name by name and date is a miller's son-in-law: Henry S. Plumb "came to this county in 1864 and married Miss Alma A. Bancroft the next day after arriving" — Zelotes Bancroft's daughter…
- 1870–1928The mother church and the parish founded because the others were closed
Boundary — the mother church: Olivet African Methodist Episcopal Church was organised in 1870 by the Reverend J. Bundy with nine charter members — among them Mr. and Mrs. Farrow Powell, of the family whose settlement stands in art-68-1…
- 1872The photographer as inventor: the solar-camera patent is Fort Wayne's transaction — cross-referenced, not retold as this county's
The Fort Wayne directory record states it in one sentence: in 1872 Elisha W. Poston and his partner (the Dille of the floor, a Fort Wayne photographer then listing himself as a "solar photographer" at 44 Calhoun) sold a patent in "improvement in solar-cameras" to John A. Shoaff.
- 1873–1918The foreign-language press: the Polish and German lines dug, circulation into Penn Township tested
The German line: Bockstahler's "The German Press in Indiana" ( Indiana Magazine of History ) lists South Bend's German paper by name: Der Indiana Courier , founded in September 1873 by a company of Germans.
- 1874–1969The signature product in all its materials: Ball-Band
The makers, in succession: the Mishawaka Woolen Manufacturing Company, incorporated 1874 on a woollen-mill lineage running back through Martin V. Beiger (1867) to a mill of about 1838; then the Mishawaka Rubber & Woolen Manufacturing Company…
- 1875The 1875 roll: what the atlas's directory says the village was
The instrument: the 1875 atlas prints no Penn-only patrons' list; its directory is one combined roll — "St. Joseph County References — Mishawaka and Penn Township" (pp. 60, 66, 76, 82–84) — with columns for name, post office, section, business, nativity, and year settled in the county.
- 1875Booster cartography: the 1875 atlas's Osceola and Penn plates, read as advertisement
The 1875 illustrated historical atlas of St. Joseph County is this ground's specimen whole: its Osceola plate (p. 41) draws the village at its railroad-depot best, and its Penn Township plates (pp. 86–87) carry the township's farms as a grid of prosperous ownership, with five lithographed farm views printed in the…
- 1875–1907The named farms: the atlas's five views and the great holdings of the sketches
The record names this township's farms the way the nineteenth century named them — by their owners, in biographical sketches, with acreages that sometimes disagree: the 1875 atlas sold five of these men lithographed farm views…
- 1875–2026Suburban conversion measured — and the nursery and greenhouse line inside it
The banked conversion article measures the loss at its ends — a wholly private farm map in 1875 against a 68,698-person township in 2020 — with the acreage series gap-named at its closing-roll (11).
- 1879The wheat era and its passing, counted
The banked fragment tells first crops whole — wheat the first cash-and-bread crop on the cleared and prairie ground — and carries exactly one wheat count at pointer size: the county's 811,037 bushels threshed in 1879 (the 1880 census's crop year, Chapman's agricultural chapter's ground).