South Bend, Indiana · 19th century
1840s
25 dated events in 1840s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 25 dated mentions
1840s
- 1840St. Joseph Lodge No. 45: the first secret society in South Bend
Masons were therefore meeting in South Bend under authority from 1840, a decade after the town was laid out and nineteen years before it was a city.
- 1840From the Exchange to the Sheridan: The Hotel at Michigan and LaSalle
In 1840 William L. Earl, the Michigan Hotel's licensee of 1834, erected a hotel on the corner. Its names in course map the century's lodging fashions: the Exchange first — it was Benj.
- 1840–1860The antebellum Black community · counted in the census, named in the record
The census counted nine Black residents of St. Joseph County in 1840 and twenty-nine in 1850 — eighteen of them in South Bend itself, on the city count the Landmark Tour carries.
- 1840–1899The station claims, tested one by one · what the tradition says, and what carries it
"The residents of the vicinity of South Bend known to have been abolitionists and contributors to the Underground Railroad during the years 1840–1850, inclusive," Windle's compilation lists as Leander B. Newton, Edward B. Crocker, Almond Bugbee, Thomas B. Bulla, William F. Bulla, Eliakim Briggs, Solomon W. Palmer…
- 1840–2019The Tribune family: five generations of Millers and Schurzes
Alfred Bryant Miller (1840–1892) and Elmer Crockett (1844–1907): the founders. Miller was born in South Bend in 1840, the son of Benjamin Franklin Miller, an abolitionist newspaperman whose Cincinnati presses Kentucky slave owners had once thrown into the river and who ended in the printing trade in South Bend.
- 1840–todayThe statehouse line: South Bend in Indianapolis
The first of the line: The city's state service begins with John D. DeFrees — the printer-legislator whose profile stands in the People section — who sat in the Indiana House in 1840 and the Indiana Senate in 1842, the young town's voice in a young state's capital.
- 1841The county fair: societies, grounds, and the 4-H fair
Three fairs on four grounds, and the fourth still running: The fair begins with the county's first agricultural society, organized under the act of February 19, 1838: notice in the South Bend Free Press , an organizing meeting on June 12, 1841, with Samuel C. Sample president and F. R. Tutt secretary, John J. Deming…
- 1842The college at the lakes, in brief
The second engine arrived in the snow: On the afternoon of November 26, 1842, the Reverend Edward Sorin — a 28-year-old French priest of the Congregation of Holy Cross — reached South Bend with a party of Holy Cross brothers, lodged first at Coquillard's house, and rode out to the mission land at the lakes.
- 1842–1868The dam of 1844 and the two races
The system that powered the century was built by two companies, and the sources divide the credit differently: In December 1842 the South Bend Manufacturing Company was incorporated to develop the power on one side of the river, and the South Bend Hydraulic Company came to hold the other.
- 1843–1964The sisters: Holy Cross women and the work of the orders
The arrival: the Sisters of the Holy Cross came to this ground in 1843, four sisters from France — Sister Mary of the Heart of Jesus, aged nineteen; Sister Mary of Bethlehem, forty-five; Sister Mary of Calvary, twenty-five; Sister Mary of Nazareth, twenty-one, in Notre Dame Magazine's account…
- 1844The dam of 1844, as a work in the river
One dam crosses the river inside this city, and it has been there since 1844: The power system the dam headed — the east and west races, the mills that lined them, the Oliver hydro plant, the gathering of the rights into a single utility, the filling of the East Race about 1954…
- 1844The Disciples of Christ: The Christian Church, 1844 and 1851
The country organization: The Christian Church of South Bend was first organized in the summer of 1844, four miles north of the city, with a membership of twelve.
- 1844–1859The abolitionist presence · nine men, three election tickets, and a hostile town
In 1844 James G. Birney, the Liberty candidate for president — Chapman's narrative calls his party, loosely, Free-Soil — polled 33 votes in this county , and Chapman pauses on the figure: it showed, even at that early day, a few who were not afraid of social ostracism on account of their opinions on slavery.
- 1845–1970Central High School
The land downtown was donated by Alexis Coquillard, the trader who co-founded the town, and the county seminary was completed on it in 1845.
- 1846The Odd Fellows: Lodge No. 29 and the Rebekah degree's author
Four years behind the Masons, and the city's own man wrote the women's degree: South Bend Lodge No. 29 of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows was chartered in 1846, the first lodge of its order here, meeting every Wednesday evening; Chapman prints its 1880 officers, George Ford as Noble Grand.
- 1846–1848The Mexican War · no company, thirteen named men
The Mexican War's thinness here is itself the documented fact — the same county that could not raise a company in 1846 sent its first company out within four days of Sumter in 1861.
- 1846–1913Father Czyzewski: the builder of Polish South Bend
The Rev. Valentine Czyzewski, C.S.C. (1846–1913): the priest who built the Polish west side's mother parish and, with it, much of Polish South Bend.
- 1847–1849The Powell case in the full record · two writs, a courtroom seizure, and a second discharge
On the night of Saturday, 9 October 1847 , the whole family disappeared. About forty persons started in pursuit the next morning, and Norris and a party in his employ hunted through southern Indiana for some two months, finding articles of the fugitives' clothing at several places, but not the family.
- 1847–1849The Courts as Arena: The Powell Habeas Case
In 1847 a Kentucky claimant's party under Norris, carrying the Powell family south as claimed property, was overtaken at South Bend by Wright Maudlin, a neighbor of the Powells, who found South Bend attorney Edwin B. Crocker to draft a writ of habeas corpus.
- 1847–1850The Powell case · a family seized, freed, and sued for
The city's brightest antebellum hour, and its price: David Powell and Lucy Powell fled John Norris, who claimed to own them, in northern Kentucky on the night of 9 October 1847 , with their four children — Lewis, Samuel, George and James — and settled at Cassopolis, Michigan.
- 1848Sent away: Indianapolis, then Logansport, and the Westville traffic
The county's committed went to other cities' hospitals: The state hospital era opened at Indianapolis: Indiana's first state hospital for the insane was enacted as early as 1827 but not built until 1848, and for forty years it was the destination of every county's commitments, this one among them.
- 1848–1907The Sunday News, the Post, and the rest of the 1907 survey
First by date is the Free Democrat of 1848, established by Dr. E. W. H. Ellis to champion the Free Soil movement, published for a few months and gone.
- 1849The Remaining Arrivals: Reformed, Evangelical, Brethren, and the Later Churches
The Reformed Church: The Reformed Church of South Bend was organized in 1849 by the Rev. David McNiesh. The brick church erected in that year at the corner of Lafayette Street and Colfax Avenue was occupied until about 1905, when a new building was erected in its place.
- 1849–1855The price of the rescue · Norris v. Newton, the penalty suits, and Norris v. Crocker in the Supreme Court
The damages action: On 21 December 1849 Norris commenced suit in the United States Circuit Court for the District of Indiana against nine men — Leander B. Newton, George W. Horton, Edwin B. Crocker, Solomon W. Palmer, David Jodon, William Willmington, Lot Day, Jr., Amable M. Lapiere and Wright Maudlin…
- 1849–1926The Catholic Schools: the Founding Generation
The brothers' extracts preserved in the Notre Dame archives show the intention early: in 1849 Sorin directed that Brother Gatian be sent into South Bend "as soon as possible to begin there a regular school, at least a French class."