Osceola, Indiana · 19th century
1890s
11 dated events in 1890s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 11 dated mentions
1890s
- 1890–1920The absences, named: the unincorporated decades and the figures that are not counts
Between the village count of 1880 and the municipal count of 1930, the census returns nothing for Osceola, because there was no municipality to return: the place spent those decades unincorporated, was not returned as an incorporated place, and no separate village return has been found in the 1890–1920 place lists.
- 1890–2026Schools as the long fight: from a ceiling's collapse to a decree still in force
Boundary — the South Bend course, whole, because it is the county's school fight: Linden School, opened 1 September 1890, stood as the city's Black school in fact long after any law required it.
- 1891–1915The transformer who was not a founder: Frederick S. Fish, Studebaker's son-in-law chief
Frederick Samuel Fish — "Fred Fish" — married John M. Studebaker's daughter Grace in 1891, a lawyer son-in-law entering a wagon company his wife's father and uncles had founded in 1852.
- 1893The brewery as a company: incorporation, the dated brewhouse, and the dry close
The Muessel Brewing Company was incorporated in 1893 , patriarch Christopher Muessel as president, after forty years as a family operation.
- 1895–1990The women's clubs as a circle: the circle is South Bend's; this ground holds its mailing seat
The circle, named as a circle — in the county seat: South Bend's women's-club circle of the federation era stands in the library's own keeping: the Progress Club, whose twenty-fifth anniversary was celebrated 11 June 1920 at the South Bend Country Club — an organisation of 1895 by that arithmetic…
- 1896–1897Before the saucers: the 1896–97 airship wave, tested over this ground specifically
Tested negative over this ground, at newspaper strength: between mid-November 1896 and the end of April 1897 the American press carried the mystery-airship wave — more than 1,200 articles in over 400 newspapers in 41 states and six Canadian provinces, by the standard scholarly count…
- 1897–1899The color line and the parallel orders: exclusion documented, and no parallel order seated here
The parallel order exists because the original closed its door: the Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks, founded 1868 in New York, refused membership to Black men, and the Improved Benevolent and Protective Order of Elks of the World was founded in Cincinnati by B. F. Howard and Arthur J. Riggs as the Black order…
- 1897–2005Executions: the county's names, none of them Osceola's
Indiana's execution record, as the Department of Correction's list gives it and as this county's builds have read it, carries three names whose offenses were St. Joseph County's: Harry Jones, hanged on May 7, 1897; John Grzyb, electrocuted on April 10, 1928; and Alan Matheney, executed on September 28, 2005, for a Mishawaka offense.
- 1898–18991898: the war this ground does not appear in
The county's regiment was the 157th Indiana Volunteer Infantry — "Studebaker's Tigers," mustered in 10 May 1898 under Col. George M. Studebaker of South Bend, its companies raised at Knox, Elkhart, South Bend and other northern-Indiana towns; no company was raised at Mishawaka or Osceola.
- 1898–1934The interurban test: a regular station at mile 10.1
The chronology carried in the CERA record (Marlette, Electric Railroads of Indiana , 1959) dates the opening precisely: on 12 December 1898 the South Bend and Elkhart Railway opened from Mishawaka to Elkhart, through Osceola.
- 1899–1967The grand houses whole: the Oliver, the LaSalle with its annex, and the Hoffman
Boundary — the county's grand houses, each with opening, operators and end or conversion: the flagship is the Oliver Hotel : the Oliver family's six-story house at Main and Washington, built from 1899 by Rutan, Shepley and Coolidge at a cost of $600,000, opened 20 December 1899 as, in its own billing, the nicest hotel…