South Bend, Indiana · 19th century
1890s
61 dated events in 1890s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 61 dated mentions
1890s
- 1890Miller-Knoblock and Knoblock-Heidman — wagons, then magnetos
On 23 July 1890 the Miller-Knoblock Wagon Company was organized — the fourth organizer was Frederick C. Bowman — with shops on South High Street at Wenger Avenue.
- 1890The Pumpkin Vine: the St. Joseph, South Bend & Southern
South Bend's fourth road ran northwest to the Lake Michigan shore, and the countryside named it: The Indiana & Lake Michigan Railway built the 36.9-mile line from South Bend to St. Joseph, Michigan, opening it on 4 August 1890…
- 1890Chapin Park and the northwest bluff plats
The city's garden suburb grew on a lawyer's estate: Horatio Chapin's family — his widow Rhoda's estate divided in the settlement of 1887 — platted the Chapin Park Addition in 1890, his children Mary Chapin Anderson and Edward Chapin converting the family ground on the west bluffs into building lots…
- 1890The west side plats: a working city's grid
What the record does carry at full strength is the course: the gridded streets named in part for the Poles' own heroes — Pulaski, Kosciuszko, Sobieski, in the communities file's account…
- 1890Chapin Park and the northwest plats
The near northwest was a president's family estate: the Chapin Park Addition was platted in 1890 by Horatio Chapin's children — Mary Chapin Anderson and Edward Chapin — on the family estate along the river bluff northwest of downtown, and subdivision continued until 1910, when the name Riverside Drive was officially chosen…
- 1890Corby's Irish Pub: the LaSalle Avenue room, the Cap'n Cork, and Rudy
The visitors bureau's September 2026 account, told by Joe Mittiga, whose family has run the room since 1988, gives the building's frame: built in 1890, it was home in its early decades to three separate bars at once — the main room, called the Palm Garden, for the moneyed trade; a middle section for the poor white community…
- 1890–1930The electric system whole: companies, consolidation and the line map
ChicagoRailFan's route record, compiled from the company's own succession, gives the order: the Washington line and the North Side line to Mishawaka were electrified in 1890, Portage in 1891, the North Michigan and Chapin lines in the course of the 1890s, and the South Side line to Mishawaka…
- 1890–1960The manufacture test: what tractors were built in South Bend?
The search, and what it found: The standard roster of the industry, C. H. Wendel's Standard Catalog of Farm Tractors 1890 to 1960 , works through more than 900 tractor makers; its Indiana seats are Indianapolis, La Porte, Anderson, Richmond, and Mount Vernon.
- 1890–1976Max Carey: Formed Here, Under a Borrowed Name
Maximilian George Carnarius was born January 11, 1890, in Terre Haute, Indiana, and was a pre-ministerial student — Concordia College in Fort Wayne, then Concordia Seminary in St. Louis — when baseball took him.
- 1890–1981Linden School and the long desegregation · from a ceiling's collapse to a federal decree
Linden School opened 1 September 1890 at Linden and Adams, built as a duplicate of Franklin School for the west side's growing white population, two stories, four classrooms, 186 students.
- 1891Frederick S. Fish — the son-in-law who motorized the house
The founder's second act: Frederick S. Fish married Grace Studebaker, John M. Studebaker's daughter, in 1891, and became the bridge between the wagon house and the automobile company.
- 1891–1910The Park Board: Created, Abolished, Restored
"On June 8, 1891, the South Bend Common Council Elected a Board of Park Commissioners. This Board served until [the] new city charter was enacted in 1901, when the Park Board was dissolved and the Board of Public Works took over the administration of city parks."
- 1891–1981Thurman C. Crook: settled down
Thurman C. Crook (1891–1981): the sweep's one down-settlement, and it is printed plainly because the roster it corrects is this history's own.
- 1892Orchards and small fruit
An industry the county histories name, the censuses watched disappear: The apple entered the county's commercial record as a named man's work: Howard's 1907 biographies describe George W. Brunson as "one of the first men to become identified with the apple tree industry in the county," and the fruit interest was…
- 1892River Park: the town that chose its city
River Park is the one South Bend neighborhood that voted itself into the city: it was platted first on 7 April 1892 by Albert J. Horne and Benjamin F. Dunn, on the river's north side between South Bend and Mishawaka, with the Fordham and Berner's Grove additions following.
- 1892The Elks: South Bend Lodge No. 235, B.P.O.E.
The institution date, settled: The year Lodge No. 235 was instituted is settled by the city’s own record: Common Council Resolution 17-27, approved 12 June 2017 — adopted on the lodge’s 125th anniversary, the arithmetic exact — recites that the lodge was chartered on 12 June 1892.
- 1892–1934The Citizens' National Bank — Charter No. 4764, and the city's one insured-era failure
The third charter: The Citizens' National Bank of South Bend was organized on 12 May 1892 and chartered on 25 June 1892, OCC Charter No. 4764.
- 1893The Muessel Brewing Company: incorporation, the 1911 brewhouse, and the dry close
Incorporation and succession: In 1893 the family firm took corporate form as the Muessel Brewing Company, with Christopher Muessel as its president in the last year of his life; he died in 1894.
- 1893–1900The Chief's Son Who Printed the Legends: Simon Pokagon's Books
The books, at their record size: Pokagon's printed tellings came out as pamphlets, articles and birch-bark booklets over seven years: The Red Man's Greeting (1893), the booklet — also issued as The Red Man's Rebuke…
- 1893–1907The Folding Paper Box Company
The Folding Paper Box Company was incorporated on 2 December 1893 with a capital of $25,000; the incorporators were William H. Barger, Marvin Campbell, and Myron Campbell.
- 1893–2017The Riverfront Plans
The first riverfront work was the park board's — the sea wall along Howard Park recommended in July 1893 and funded by Ordinance No. 949 in June 1894, a wall to hold the filled dump against the St. Joseph.
- 1894Epworth Hospital: the Methodist founding, 1893–1894
The Woman's Home Missionary Societies of the Methodist Episcopal churches of South Bend, with the Dorcas Society of Milburn Church — the church later called St. Paul's — secured a house in June 1893 and had applicants for care immediately…
- 1894The nursing schools: three schools and a college program
Memorial's school is the city's longest: it opened in 1894 as the Epworth Hospital and Training School, its first class of five graduating in 1897; it took the Memorial name with the hospital in 1945, as the Memorial Hospital School of Nursing; and it closed in 1988, ninety-four years after the founding.
- 1894The refounding of 1895 — a museum written into the charter
The pilgrimage: On 7 August 1894 a party of the city's history-minded citizens went down the river to visit the site of old Fort St. Joseph, and there, Howard records, "it was that they resolved to form a Northern Indiana and Southern Michigan Historical Society"…
- 1894Frederic Ingersoll and the road to an orchestra
The man who began it was Frederic Ingersoll, a violinist from Cleveland who had spent four years studying in Berlin and Switzerland and came to South Bend in 1894.
- 1894The M.R. Falcons: Nest 4
The county genealogical society's immigrant-societies page (Jim Piechorowski's submissions) gives it plainly: "M.R." stands for Mieczysław Romanowski, and the society dates the South Bend Falcons to 1894.
- 1894The Polish Falcons: gymnastics, insurance, and the first Sokolnia in America
The Sokoly of the west side: The Polish Falcons — the Sokoly, a gymnastic-fraternal order on the Czech Sokol model, carrying the fraternal-insurance book that paid for the gymnastics…
- 1894–2019Health: a hospital raised by subscription, a medical center's land given to a school, and a golf tournament's steady money
In January 1894 the women's missionary societies of the city's Methodist Episcopal churches opened a three-bed hospital in a converted house — the Epworth Hospital and Training School, organized 28 May 1894 and incorporated 7 June 1894…
- 1894–todayThe Kankakee Belt: the Indiana, Illinois & Iowa
The fifth road was built to miss Chicago, and South Bend was its eastern anchor: The Indiana, Illinois & Iowa Railroad built west from Streator, Illinois, to North Judson in 1881, and in 1894 it completed its line northeast to South Bend.
- 1895A note on the other South Bend — the failure of 1895 that was not this city's
Rankin , 197 U.S. 154 (1905), over a bank that failed on 10 August 1895. It is not this bank, and it is not this South Bend.
- 1895The Commercial-Athletic Club
Howard records that the Commercial-Athletic Club "was organized in 1895, when the South Bend Athletic association was formed for the encouragement of athletic games.
- 1895–1896Copshaholm — the plow king's house, at Register size
The fame, at its documented size: A block from Tippecanoe stands the other great industrialist's house of the West Washington district: Copshaholm, Joseph D. Oliver's 38-room house of Indiana fieldstone and granite boulders, built 1895–96 to designs of Lamb & Rich of New York on two and a half landscaped acres.
- 1895–1896Copshaholm — the Joseph D. Oliver House (1895–96)
Joseph Doty Oliver, president of the Oliver Chilled Plow Works, had it built in 1895–96 to designs of Lamb & Rich of New York — the architect Charles Alonzo Rich — with Christopher Fassnacht of South Bend as builder.
- 1895–1896The courthouse that turned around
The 1853–55 courthouse stood in the new building's way; the county hired Harvey Sheeler of Chicago, and beginning 19 November 1895 his workmen cut into the foundation, inserted logs, iron and steel beams, lifted the building onto rollers, and through the cold and snowy winter turned it 180 degrees and moved it to face Lafayette Street.
- 1895–1902A duck pond in Leeper Park: where the zoo begins
Leeper Park is South Bend's first planned public park: the first of its ground was condemned in June 1895 for the city water works, the planned landscape is dated 1897 under city superintendent Herman Beyer, and George Kessler's parks and boulevard plan of 1911 to 1915 assigned its west end to active recreation and…
- 1895–1911Bodies for other men's electrics, then an electric of its own
In 1895 John M. Studebaker's son-in-law, Fred Fish — who had married Grace Studebaker in 1891 and would become company president — urged the development of "a practical horseless carriage."
- 1895–1915Leeper Park: The Water Works Ground, the First Planned Park
With the coming of the new century, Howard writes, attention turned to "the large tract on the St. Joseph river, at the foot of Michigan street, which had been purchased in 1895 by the city for the use of the water works department.
- 1895–1958The Castle
The building: In 1895, the 1920 account records, ground was purchased at the corner of Main and Wayne streets, "and the present library was built."
- 1896St. Casimir Parish — Warszawa
A committee formed in 1896, Frank Gonsiorowski president and Joseph Kalamaja secretary; on 2 March 1896 Bishop Joseph Rademacher viewed the proposed site and gave his permission.
- 1896The Bicycle's Own Civic History
The Indiana Historical Bureau's survey of the state's 1890s bicycle era, compiled from The Cycle Club Bulletin of 13 June 1896 and the records of the Indiana State Library, lists for St. Joseph County a South Bend Cycle Club…
- 1896Before the saucers: the airship wave of 1896–97 reaches South Bend
The wave: Half a century before "flying saucer" entered the language, the United States went through a wave of reports of a mysterious airship — a powered, steerable craft of a kind no one could exhibit on the ground — moving eastward from California across the country between November 1896 and May 1897.
- 1896Charles Butterworth: the city's comic actor
The tie: Charles Edward Butterworth was born in South Bend on July 26, 1896, the son of a South Bend physician.
- 1896–1946Charles Butterworth: the deadpan the city sent to Hollywood
Charles Butterworth (1896–1946): the third flagged name, entered here at Famous People size as his holding entry; the Comedy section carries his record whole, and its citations govern this condensation.
- 1896–2013Firsts in public office, tested one by one
The school board, 1896: the first woman to hold public office in South Bend reached it by appointment, not election, and by siege, not invitation.
- 1897The County's Two Executions: Harry Jones
The Indiana Department of Correction's list of executions since 1897 opens with this county: its first entry records the hanging on May 7, 1897, of Harry Jones, age 23, offense dated July 5, 1896, sentenced January 7, 1897, county St. Joseph, crime murder.
- 1897The executions list read first-hand — the Jones and Grzyb conflicts stand whole
Jones, 1897: The list's first row reads: "JONES, HARRY" — hanged May 7, 1897, aged 23, the offense dated July 5, 1896, sentenced January 7, 1897, the county St. Joseph, the crime murder.
- 1897Patrolman Oscar Christensen · three trials for a killing in the rail yards
Patrolman Oscar Waldemar Christensen was shot and killed on 11 May 1897 while investigating vandalism in the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway yards on the city's west side.
- 1897The Z.B. Falcons: Nest 80
The founding, from the centennial account: The Tribune's centennial history of the nest (Ken Bradford, August 18, 1997) fixes the founding: the Z.B. Falcons, Nest 80, were founded on October 3, 1897, by John P. Rozplochowski, Louis Liwosz, and Louis Mucha, the initials standing for Zygmunt Bairiki, as the account…
- 1898M. B. Skinner Company — the founding settled in part
1898, and Chicago first: The gaps pass carried Skinner on its South Bend evidence alone — the Sample Street factory, the Merrill presidency, the 1950s advertising claim of "over half a century" — and left the founding unverified.
- 1898Lincoln Park: the Lincolnway West neighborhood
The west corridor's neighborhood prints at survey size, because that is the size of its record: Lincoln Park, on Lincolnway West, is documented in the local-history video record as a working-class, owner-occupied neighborhood that grew around Colfax School, built in 1898; dense in the aerial photograph of 1957…
- 1898St. Stanislaus, Bishop and Martyr Parish — Golden Hills
Alerding’s St. Hedwig history states that in 1898 Czyzewski bought the lots for and organized St. Stanislaus, as he had St. Casimir’s two years before, and Czyzewski administered the new congregation from St. Hedwig until it had its own pastor.
- 1898The Spanish-American War · Studebaker’s Tigers and South Bend’s one company
South Bend's war with Spain was fought by a regiment its own city named: The 157th Indiana Volunteer Infantry — formed from the 3rd Regiment of the Indiana National Guard and mustered into United States service at Indianapolis on 10 May 1898…
- 1898Company F first · the 157th Indiana and the Spanish-American War
In the spring of 1898 South Bend's company was the first in Indiana through the door: When the call came for the Spanish-American War, the state's 3rd Regiment of the National Guard entered federal service as the 157th Indiana Volunteer Infantry, and its colonel was a South Bend man, George M. Studebaker of the wagon company.
- 1898The Colfax Cultural Center: the system's shared house
The Colfax School was constructed in 1898 on Lincoln Way West, in the public library's history of the city's school buildings, and its last school bell rang in 1976; the Michiana College of Commerce occupied it from 1977.
- 1898–1899The Spanish-American rosters read whole: one South Bend company, and two dead
This pass read both companies' rosters whole in the source the banked entry cites: the adjutant general's Record of Indiana Volunteers in the Spanish-American War, 1898–1899 (Gen. James K. Gore, 1899), in two independent copies of the printed volume, down to the placement of every remark.
- 1898–1902The vice president's son, mayor at twenty-eight
Schuyler Colfax III — son of Schuyler Colfax, Speaker of the House and Grant's vice president — was twenty-eight when he took the office in 1898, the youngest mayor in the city's history, a mark the Government section's roster still carries.
- 1899The garment trade the census would not print
Counted, but folded away: The Thirteenth Census measured South Bend's manufactures three times — 1899, 1904, and 1909 — and in its comparative table for the city (Vol. IX, Table I) it printed the leading industries by name: carriages and wagons, foundry products, printing, tobacco, and the rest.
- 1899–1905The Soldiers' Monument on the courthouse square
On 16 December 1899 the St. Joseph County Soldiers' Monument Association was formed, in its articles' words, to aid "in erecting at the county seat a monument or memorial hall to the soldiers and sailors of the civil war from St. Joseph county who fought and died in defense of the Union and the rights of man."
- 1899–1921Joseph K. Sosnowski: the west side's photographer
The directory course the project harvested runs: Mason & Sosnowski in 1899, at 307 South Michigan Street, in partnership with L. D. Mason (the firm is carried in Hibberd's directory of 1899–1900); the Star Photo Co. in 1901, at 232 South Michigan; Sosnowski under his own name in 1905, at 129 South St. Joseph Street…
- 1899–1930Maxine E. Ryer: the county’s first practicing woman lawyer
Maxine Evelyn Ryer (later Miller): born in South Bend on 1 December 1899, graduated from South Bend High School in 1916, and studied violin at Nazareth Academy in Kalamazoo, offering violin lessons to South Bend pupils by 1920.
- 1899–2018The Polish Schools — Nazareth and the Felicians
St. Casimir’s school: St. Casimir’s, the second Polish parish, opened its school in 1899 in its combination church-school building, dedicated March 4, 1899, at Dunham and Webster streets.