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1846 – 1848
The county's share: Howard gives the war a short, honest paragraph: the county's majority-Whig and abolition-leaning citizens "therefore not looked upon [the war] with any great degree of enthusiasm," but "there were a few brave soldiers from the county, however, among them: Henry J. Blowney, John H. Fisher, George F. Frank, Hugh L. Hinds, Edwin T. Lucado, John Owen, John Pendl, Moses Peltier, John B. Raymond, Albert Steinbeck, William S. Saunders, Eugene N. B. Sweetland and Frank X. Vilare." Howard's Roll of Honor repeats the same thirteen names as the county's Mexican War dead buried in county cemeteries. No company raised in St. Joseph County is named by Howard or by Chapman — Chapman's Mexican War text is state-level front matter (Indiana's five regiments, numbered 1st through 5th) with no county or Penn name in it — and no one of the thirteen is seated in Penn Township or Osceola by any text read; text searches for "Mexican" through Chapman's Penn Township parts returned no Penn man of the war. The most distinguished of the thirteen, Blowney (major in the Civil War), served in South Bend companies. Printed as this ground's finding: the Mexican War record of Penn Township is an absence in both county histories, with the settling sources named in the closing register (Indiana in the Mexican War, 1908, and the 1887 veterans' roster), neither reachable in full text.
Sources:
- Howard, Ch. XIV §II, p. 716; Roll of Honor, p. 731.
- Chapman, History of Indiana front matter, pp. 187–193; Penn Township parts searched whole for the war.