South Bend, Indiana · 19th century
1870s
44 dated events in 1870s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 44 dated mentions
1870s
- 1870–1880The Saloon-Era Killings
Indicted at the October term of 1870, Stage was tried on a change of venue to Marshall County, where the defense's plea of self-defense — aided by Tibbetts's reputation as a dangerous and quarrelsome man — acquitted him.
- 1870–1905The rail-served plant
The Michigan Central's branch reached the East Bank in 1870 and terminated at the Singer facility on East Madison, with its yards across Niles Street — a railroad ending, literally, at a cabinet works' door.
- 1870–1919The South Bend National Bank — Charter No. 1739
The second charter: The South Bend National Bank was organized on 9 November 1870 and chartered on 29 November 1870, OCC Charter No. 1739.
- 1870–2006The Michigan Central's branch from Niles
The third steam road came down from Michigan, and its track ran past the college: The Michigan Central reached South Bend not on its main line — that ran through Niles, eleven miles north…
- 1870–todayOlivet A.M.E. · the mother church
Organized five years after the city itself: In 1870 the Rev. John Bundy and nine charter members — among them Farrow and Rebecca Powell — organized Olivet African Methodist Episcopal Church , the first Black church in South Bend and for many years the only African American congregation in St. Joseph County.
- 1871The women's half of the lodge world
The Eastern Star came to South Bend in 1871, when the order itself was barely twenty years old. The Rebekahs — the Odd Fellows' women's degree, written by the city's own Schuyler Colfax — kept Schuyler Rebekah Lodge and Helena Rebekah Lodge No. 72, and by 1921 a third, Lincoln Rebekah Lodge No. 795.
- 1871–1885The great fires, from the firemen's side
October 1871 — the night Chicago burned: The city's first documented fire emergency was a fire a hundred miles away.
- 1871–1925The South Bend Chilled Plow Company — the other plow works
On 18 April 1871 the Knoblock Brothers' Manufacturing Company — John C., William, and Theodore E. Knoblock, with John H. Dolman — was founded, and it bought and renovated the former Northern Indiana Normal College buildings at the west end of Washington Street.
- 1872The South Bend Tribune: five generations, three sales short of a century and a half
The founding: The South Bend Weekly Tribune was first issued on 9 March 1872 by the Tribune Printing Company.
- 1872The South Bend Tribune
The run: the Tribune was founded as a weekly by Alfred B. Miller and Elmer Crockett, two Union veterans who had worked together on Schuyler Colfax's Register ; the first four-page weekly appeared on Saturday evening, 9 March 1872, from the Tribune Printing Company at 127 West Washington Street.
- 1872–1873The first library: a store room, a move, and a fire
The account printed in The Story of South Bend in 1920 dates it to 1872: "some of our public-spirited men realized the need for a public library.
- 1872–1874The wagon works burned, twice · and the city watched it rebuild bigger
Fire was the factory city's recurring catastrophe, and its defining fire story is a story of rebuilding: In June 1872, twenty years after the Studebaker brothers opened their blacksmith shop, fire gutted the works.
- 1872–1885The disasters · the Studebaker fires of 1872, 1874 and 1885
Fire was the nineteenth-century factory's standing enemy, and it came for the city's largest works three times: In June 1872 fire swept the Studebaker wagon works with a loss of nearly $100,000 — the Smithsonian's company chronology says the fire "almost destroys the company."
- 1872–1941George Ames Aldrich: the city's impressionist
George Ames Aldrich (1872–1941): the best-known landscape painter of South Bend's art scene in the 1920s, and the record's standing lesson in how an artist's own publicity outruns his life.
- 1872–1946Edward Hale Campbell: a Navy Cross in command
Edward Hale Campbell was born in South Bend on 4 October 1872 and served in the United States Navy from 1893 to 1936, through the Spanish–American War and the First World War, retiring as a vice admiral.
- 1873–1875Paul Beckwith, and the man visible only in his successor's advertisement
In 1873 Paul Beckwith's own directory notice at that address styles him "successor to A. VanSickle." In 1875 Albert McDonald advertised at the same address as successor to Paul Beckwith.
- 1873–1878Bulla Bros.: the brothers on Michigan Street
The firm: Bulla Bros. — William D. Bulla and Thomas H. Bulla — worked at 88 Michigan Street from 1873 to 1877, one of the three photographic houses Turner's 1875 directory carries for the city, and a carte de visite bearing the firm's name and dated 3 March 1873 survives in the harvested record.
- 1873–1907Water and the alarm: cisterns, the standpipe, and the Gamewell boxes
The Rivers section of this history carries the water works whole — the 1844 dam and the race, the municipal supply, and the city's present nine well fields of groundwater; what belongs here is the fire side of that record, and it turns on a single winter's work in 1873.
- 1873–1928Rooms of their own: the library's children's services
South Bend's public library began as a reading room on Michigan Street in 1873, under the South Bend Library and Reading Room Association, and its children's history is fixed here at the size the library's own history page supports: when the Tutt Branch opened in 1928, named for former Head Librarian Victoria M. Tutt…
- 1873–1953The west-side press: Polish, German, and Hungarian papers
The German line ran from the Indiana Courier , established in 1873 in German and bought soon after by Gustav Fickentscher, who renamed it the South Bend Courier ; Andrew Troeger was afterward associated with him in the management, and the paper was, in Howard's phrase, "always a liberal, democratic journal."
- 1874Frederick Badet and John Teel — two men and a croquet set
The founding act: In 1874 a grocery clerk, Frederick H. Badet, and a woodworker, John W. Teel, began making croquet balls, mallets, and stakes by hand in their spare time, on the old Mill Race.
- 1874–1985South Bend Toy Manufacturing Company — croquet sets and doll carriages
Two men and a croquet set: In 1874 a grocery clerk, Frederick H. Badet, and a woodworker, John W. Teel, began making croquet balls, mallets, and stakes by hand in their spare time, on the old Mill Race.
- 1874–todaySibley Machine — the drill-press works that outlived its product
Founded: The Sibley Drill Press Company was founded in 1874 by three tradesmen: Albert P. Sibley, a machinist; George Ware, a pattern maker; and John R. Mills, a machinist.
- 1874–todayThe teaching line: who taught art here
Notre Dame hired the painter Luigi Gregori in 1874 and built its art instruction around him; the man and his murals stand in Artists, and what stands here is the institutional fact: the region's first art schoolroom was a university department, and the university art departments…
- 1875The Grand Central and the First Elevator
Lead: The Grand Central Hotel at 114–116 South Michigan Street was built and owned by Daniel M. Shively and opened in 1875 under its first proprietor, Henry C. Knill.
- 1875–1885The People's Savings Bank — ten years, paid in full
A short, clean record: Joseph B. Arnold Jr. organized the People's Savings Bank in 1875. The county history's whole account of it fits the institution: it did business for ten years, then closed voluntarily, and its depositors were paid in full.
- 1875–1889Emery E. Pool: fourteen years of directory addresses
Turner's 1875 directory lists him at the corner of Main and Market — one of the three photographic listings on its page 174 — and the harvested record follows him address by address: Main and Market, 1875 to 1877; 84 Main Street, 1879 to 1881; 82 Main Street, 1882; and 127 West Washington Street from 1883 to 1889.
- 1875–2023The gravity at the edge of town: Notre Dame
The university's art collection began in 1875, with Luigi Gregori's gallery in the Main Building, before the city had a museum, a symphony or a paved cultural institution of any kind.
- 1875–todayThe university's museum: from the Bishops Gallery to the Raclin Murphy
The arc: The university's art collection dates its origin to 1875, when Luigi Gregori's gallery of sixty episcopal portraits opened in the Main Building alongside the Museum of Indian Antiquities.
- 1877The farmers' institutions: Grange, institutes, insurance, bureau, extension
The Farmers' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of St. Joseph County was organized on August 25, 1877, on the assessment principle — every loss paid by pro rata assessment on the members — and "the farmers of the county have secured insurance for their property at actual cost"…
- 1877St. Hedwig Parish — the Mother Polish Parish
From St. Patrick’s to a parish of their own: Polish people had been arriving in South Bend since 1869, and until 1877 they formed part of St. Patrick’s congregation, worshipping in the old St. Patrick’s church on West Division Street and attended by visiting Polish priests from Chicago and from Otis, then called Salem Crossing.
- 1877–1910The Names They Brought With Them: Złote Góry, Warszawa, Krakówo, Bogdarka
St. Hedwig's, the mother parish of 1877, anchors the series.
- 1878Wyman's — two generations on Michigan Street
The dry-goods house: George Wyman and Company — Wyman's, to the whole city — was the South Bend dry-goods institution: on The History Museum's count its run was 112 years, and its store at 107–109 North Michigan Street dated from 1878.
- 1878The Second Strand — Lutheran, Evangelical, and the Independent Schools
St. Paul’s Evangelical Lutheran Church, organized in 1878 with its first church dedicated August 21, 1878, at Jefferson and William streets, kept a parochial school coeval with the church itself: in the parish’s infancy the pastor, the Rev. Henry Siek, taught the school himself; afterwards a teacher was employed…
- 1878The dry-goods founders — George Wyman, George Robertson, and the Welber brothers
Wyman's: George Wyman and Company — Wyman's, to the whole city — was the South Bend dry-goods institution: on The History Museum's count its run was 112 years, and its store at 107–109 North Michigan Street dated from 1878.
- 1878–1888Ball before the minors — the Green Stockings, 1878–1888
The first club: South Bend's baseball begins with the Green Stockings, a semi-professional club organized in 1878.
- 1878–2017Howard Park: The Dump That Became the First Park
Timothy E. Howard, a councilman in 1878 and later the judge whose name the park carries, records in his county history that the subject of parks was first broached in 1878, and that the grounds considered "consisted of an overflowed swamp waste along the east side of the St. Joseph river, extending from Jefferson…
- 1878–todayThe venues line
The baseball grounds: Greenstocking Park (1878) was the first; Springbrook Park, later Playland Park, served from 1903 to 1932 and again for the Blue Sox, 1946–54; Bendix Field held the Blue Sox' first three seasons, 1943–45.
- 1879The Story of South Bend: Questions Settled
Notre Dame's fire day — settled: The Story of South Bend section prints Notre Dame's great fire at month size, April 1879.
- 1879The county in numbers: the census frame
The benchmarks, as each count states them: The county history of 1880 opens its agriculture chapter with the threshed product of 1879 — 811,037 bushels of wheat, 829,554 bushels of corn, 143,791 bushels of oats…
- 1879The wheat era and its passing
The first cash crop, outlasted by everything it paid for: In 1879 wheat stood where it had stood since the prairies were broken — level with corn at the head of the county's product, 811,037 bushels threshed against corn's 829,554, from a county whose mills, elevators, and river-and-rail shipments were built to move it.
- 1879The singing societies: the parish chorus first
The St. Cecilia Society at St. Hedwig Church was founded in 1879 — described in the community-compiled record of St. Joseph County's immigrant societies as the first Polish choral group…
- 1879The Oliver House
The house formally opened on the evening of 14 July 1879, with Jerry H. Knight and Godfrey E. Knight — the Knight brothers — as proprietors.
- 1879–1936The Grand Army: seven posts in one county
The department that lasted was built in 1879, and its first charters ran in a numbered sequence the Indiana State Library still prints: Morton Post No. 1 at Terre Haute, then Brazil, Lafayette, Covington, Greensburg, Wabash and Crawfordsville — and eighth, Auten Post No. 8, of South Bend .