South Bend, Indiana · 20th century
1910s
104 dated events in 1910s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
20th century 104 dated mentions
1910s
- 1910The Bronchos' pennant, 1910
The championship: Renamed the Bronchos, South Bend won the 1910 Central League championship with an 88–50 record — the first league title in the city's baseball record, and one of only two the early game produced here.
- 1910The foreign-born peak, counted: 1910 and 1920
"The 1910 and 1920 country-of-birth tables, in which the Hungarian-born would be counted," it names as the settling pull, estimating from the parish record that the Hungarian-born must number in the low thousands.
- 1910The Ridenour Garment Company — aprons from Logansport
W. W. Ridenour moved his plant from Logansport to South Bend in 1910 as the Ridenour Apron Company, and started with 36 machines.
- 1910The Diamond, and the R.A.C.: the Ricketts continued under a new name
Doyle's register carries the marque under that later name only — "R.A.C. — Diamond Automobile Co. — South Bend, Ind. 1911–1912" — while Georgano dates the Diamond itself 1910–1912; both datings stand here as the two references print them, and the difference is a year at the front of a three-year life, not a dispute about the car.
- 1910The Canadian door to the Empire trade
Plant 7 at Walkerville, Ontario — acquired with the E-M-F purchase of 1910 — assembled complete cars from components shipped from the South Bend and Detroit factories or made in Canada, and its output, in the marque record's words, "was designated for the Canadian (left-hand drive) and British Empire (right-hand drive) trade.
- 1910–1934The vaudeville bills: the Orpheum and the Palace
The Orpheum Theatre at 222 North Michigan Street opened on November 14, 1910, as a house of the Orpheum Circuit, running the circuit's standard bill — five acts a week to a 2,000-seat room — until it closed in 1934.
- 1910–1977The theater producers: the circuits
The Orpheum Circuit opened its South Bend Orpheum on 14 November 1910 with five acts of vaudeville and opened the Palace on 2 November 1922 as its second South Bend room, built to a palace's scale as the business changed…
- 1910–2010John Wooden, the Player: The Streak That Still Stands
Born October 14, 1910, in Hall, Indiana, and schooled at Martinsville, he was a Purdue guard from 1929 to 1932: the first player ever named a consensus All-American three times, the Helms Player of the Year in 1932, and the engine of the 1932 Purdue team later recognized as national champion by the Helms Foundation…
- 1910–todayDowntown — the Multiple Resource Area of 1985
John Mohler Studebaker, Clement's brother and his successor at the head of the corporation, built the J.M.S. Building at 108 North Main in 1910, to designs of Solon S. Beman of Chicago — the architect of the company town of Pullman, Illinois, and of Studebaker's own Administration Building.
- 1911The South Bend Farmer's Market
The county still sells to the city face to face, in the market's second century: South Bend's farmer's market opened in 1911 beside the Colfax Street bridge, in the market histories' account — a year-round market, three days a week, where the truck farms of this record sold directly to the city that was outgrowing them.
- 1911The first flight: René Simon, 10 September 1911
The county's flying age opened as a show: On 10 September 1911 the French aviator René Simon, touring America with the Moisant International Aviators exhibition company, flew a Blériot monoplane from a field near the southeast corner of Ironwood Drive and Dragoon Trail before a crowd The History Museum puts at 30,000.
- 1911Air shows: from Simon's exhibition to Skyfest Michiana
The exhibition tradition is as old as the flying: South Bend's first air show was its first flight — Simon's 1911 exhibition before 30,000 people, told at the head of this section.
- 1911The ledger of losses
The James Oliver House was demolished in 1911, by private choice in the family's own building campaign, to make way for a public school.
- 1911George Seaton: the comedy writing
The tie: George Seaton was born George Edward Stenius in South Bend on April 17, 1911, and the family moved to Detroit while he was a child.
- 1911The markets: the city's curb market of 1911–1924, and the farmer's market that claims its line
In the summer of 1911 the Common Council passed, three times over, the ordinances that created a public market: Ordinance No. 1600, introduced June 26, 1911; No. 1601, passed 8 to 1 on July 5; and No. 1618, the rulebook that governed the result…
- 1911–1915The Kessler System: Parks and Boulevards, 1911–1915
The Historic Preservation Commission's staff reports on Leeper Park state it as fact: "The 1911-1915 Parks and Boulevard system and the Leeper Park Plan, designed by celebrated planner and landscape architect George Kessler, embodied early twentieth century ideals grounded in the City Beautiful movement, connecting…
- 1911–1917Moves, mergers, and the Benders, 1911–1917
The 1911 upheaval: The 1911 club, renamed the Benders, transferred to Grand Rapids on July 13, 1911. South Bend was not left dark: on August 11 the Evansville club moved in and finished the season as the South Bend Bux.
- 1911–1919The Studebaker Corporation, and the First World War
The incorporation: The wagon company and the car company became one corporation on 14 February 1911, when the Studebaker Corporation was incorporated under New Jersey law, taking over the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company and E-M-F; the combined assets came to $15.4 million, in the company-derived accounts.
- 1911–1974Hinkle and Hammes: the Ford store on Lafayette
The Studebaker man who sold Fords: William Riley Hinkle acquired the Ford dealership in South Bend in 1911. He came to it from inside the hometown industry: among the jobs he had worked before the dealership was one in the sales office of the Studebaker Manufacturing Company.
- 1911–1979George Seaton: the two-Oscar screenwriter born at the Bend
George Seaton (1911–1979): the first of the three names the earlier passes flagged for the Famous People roster, entered here whole as his holding entry; the Authors section carries his shelf at writers' size, and assembly decides his final home.
- 1911–1979The screenwriters born here — George Seaton and Larry Karaszewski
George Seaton was born George Edward Stenius in South Bend on 17 April 1911; the family moved to Detroit while he was a child, and the formation — the raised-in-Detroit years, the Jesse Bonstelle stock company, the WXYZ radio work as the voice of the Lone Ranger — is Detroit's, printed at that strength.
- 1912–1921Potawatomi Zoo: the city's zoo, at cross-reference size
Secondary accounts date the move earlier, to 1912, when a deer herd came over from Leeper Park and animals were also sheltered at a house on Wall Street, a former Anti-Tuberculosis League property, until 1921.
- 1912–1927First Growth: Deer, a Buffalo Yard, and Ten Acres
A herd of deer was moved to Potawatomi Park in 1912, and the zoo was based out of a house on Wall Street formerly used by the Anti-Tuberculosis League to house tuberculosis patients: the zoo's first headquarters was a recycled contagion house at the park's edge.
- 1913Bendix in the world: licenses, brakes and wings
The invention record — carried in the Inventors section — shows the pattern from the start: Vincent Bendix licensed his starter drive to the Eclipse Machine Company of Elmira in 1913, and the drive, fitted first to Chevrolet's 1914 "Baby Grand," spread through the world's motor industry as a licensed device rather…
- 1913–1926The 1917 strike and the jitney wars
The strike: The Northern Indiana Railway's standard history gives the labor record of the streetcar era a chapter of its own, and its place in the company's chronology is fixed: between the chapters on the storms, jitney buses, track extensions and new cars of 1913–1917 and the Columbia Street fire of 1919 stands the 1917 strike.
- 1913–1928The Lincoln Highway ran through South Bend: 1913 to 1928
The route announced on 13 September 1913 — the South Bend Tribune carried it that day, the New York Times on the 14th — crossed Indiana through Fort Wayne, Elkhart, South Bend, LaPorte and Valparaiso, and the Indiana Historical Bureau's marker annotation states it without qualification: "The original route through…
- 1913–1928Before the branch: plates by mail, and the notary's desk
For the first motorists of the county seat, there was no branch to go to: Indiana began issuing state license plates in 1913, and the transaction ran by mail.
- 1913–2010The crossing at Michigan and Washington
The Lincoln Highway crossed it east–west from 1913, the Dixie Highway north–south on Michigan Street, and the Indiana Historical Bureau's marker, installed at the corner in 2010 by the Bureau with the GFWC/IFC Progress Club of South Bend and the Indiana Lincoln Highway Association, is titled for the fact: "Highways intersected here."
- 1914The Federation, the Chest, and the United Way of St. Joseph County
Founding: The United Way of St. Joseph County's own published history dates the body to 1914 and gives the founding figure: "Founded in 1914 with an amount of 18,058 dollars in funds."
- 1914"Three-quarters of the world's sewing-machine cabinets" — Singer's South Bend works
That in 1914 three-quarters of all the sewing-machine cases and cabinets in the world were made in South Bend.
- 1914The Rotary Club of South Bend
The Rotary Club of South Bend's own history page gives its place in the order's Indiana sequence: chartered in 1914, the fourth Rotary club chartered in Indiana, with fourteen charter members.
- 1914–1918The Gold Star roll of the First World War: 109 names
The roll: the county's roll of its First World War dead is the St. Joseph County section of the Gold Star Honor Roll of Indiana, 1914–1918, published by the Indiana Historical Commission in 1921…
- 1914–1921The Gold Star roll · a hundred and nine names
The state's official record of this county's First World War dead carries ninety-four names: The Indiana Historical Commission's Gold Star Honor Roll (1921) — "a record of Indiana men and women who died in the service of the United States and the Allied nations in the World War, 1914–1918"…
- 1914–1926The Dixie Highway: the feeder that became a main line
The Dixie Highway reached South Bend as somebody else's feeder, and stayed: Before the Dixie Highway Association existed, Indiana newspapers were already calling the proposed Indianapolis–South Bend road a "feeder route" to the Lincoln Highway, and the counties between the two cities were at work on it: in October…
- 1914–1964The engineer, the Depression, the war, and the deaths in office
Fred W. Keller (1914–1918): Keller was a German Township farm boy who became a civil engineer — assistant county engineer, then city engineer — and in 1913 he ran for mayor as an independent, outside both parties, and won.
- 1915The Farmers banks — the Farmers Security Bank and the Farmers' Trust Company
The Farmers Security Bank built its banking house at 133 South Main in 1915, to the designs of the Chicago firm of Perkins, Fellows and Hamilton — a building that still stands.
- 1915The Factors and the league that folded, 1915
The championship: The 1915 South Bend Factors won the championship of the Southern Michigan League — by then styled the Southern Michigan Association — finishing first at 44–24 under manager Ed Smith, well clear of second-place Battle Creek.
- 1915The Blue Sox and Factors: Open Items
The Factors' name and line: The reason for the 1915 champions' name — Factors — is stated in no source, as it was not in the Sports pass; settling source, named: the South Bend press of the spring of 1915.
- 1915–1933Albert Russel Erskine — the chief executive the Depression killed
He succeeded Fred Fish as president of Studebaker in July 1915 and ran the company as a growth enterprise for eighteen years: he consolidated the Detroit operations into South Bend, built the great South Bend plant of the 1920s, launched the small car that bore his own name — the Erskine Six, introduced in Paris in 1926…
- 1916Harter Heights: the automobile suburb by the campus
The first subdivision laid between the city and the Notre Dame campus was filed in 1916: the Harter Heights Addition, marketed for suburban living in the ground between downtown and the university, stands in the federal historic-preservation record under the "Historic Residential Suburbs" theme for 1908 to 1945…
- 1916Rum Village: a chief's name on a neighborhood
The city acquired the park property in 1916, and the neighborhood that grew around it — southwest, north of West Ewing Avenue and west of South Main Street — is Rum Village still.
- 1916Indiana University South Bend — the Public University in the Web
Indiana University’s first South Bend extension class met in the spring of 1916, in the IU Archives’ account by Furlong; the university’s Bicentennial history dates the first classes at Central High School to 1922…
- 1916The Historic Pageant of St. Joseph County, 1916
The occasion: Indiana's centennial of statehood in 1916 was kept county by county, and St. Joseph County kept it as a pageant — the era's civic theater, in which a community acted its own history outdoors before itself.
- 1916Playland Park: the oval inside the amusement park
A race track was added in 1916. Pete Redden became the park's manager in 1924 — the Clio entry says he bought it in 1925 — and renamed it Playland Park by a public contest.
- 1916The archive-keeping: pageants, voices and survey cards
The keeping begins as performance and print: South Bend's first great heritage projects were the anniversaries' books: the Historic Pageant of St. Joseph County of October 1916, whose printed pageant book fixed the county's story in scenes, and the Chamber of Commerce's souvenir volume South Bend, World Famed of 1923…
- 1916The anniversaries as heritage acts
The Historic Pageant of 1916 left its printed book. The centennial of 1923 left its souvenir volume and, five years later, the Rotary marker of the self-marking entry.
- 1916Work dress: H. D. Lee's South Bend factory
In 1916 the company opened two more factories, in Kansas City, Missouri, and in South Bend, Indiana.
- 1916South Bend Country Club
The club's own account and the state golf record agree on the essentials: established in 1916 on rolling ground beside the Chain O'Lakes, at 25800 Country Club Drive, its eighteen holes designed by the Chicago architect George O'Neil.
- 1916–1941St. Augustine's · a parish founded because the others were closed
Black Catholics from Pascagoula build their own parish: In 1916 several African American Catholic families moved to South Bend from Pascagoula, Mississippi , and found what Black Protestants had found two generations earlier: the city's existing churches, organized around European immigrant groups, offered them segregation or exclusion.
- 1916–2022The Christmas tree, in three separate eras
On December 22, 1916, the South Bend News-Times covered the city's "Third Annual Christmas Tree Celebration" on the Court House lawn: the tree donated by Mrs. J. C. Ranch from a farm north of the city, its lights fed by current from the Indiana & Michigan Electric Company, tableaux of the Nativity presented beside it.
- 1916–2024The peoples' own houses: Hungary, and the House of Friendship
Hungarian immigrants who worked in the Studebaker factory worshipped at Our Lady of Hungary, which began in 1916 as a mission of St. Stephen's Hungarian parish, moved in 1923 to make room for the expanding Studebaker foundry, and dedicated its present church at Christmas 1949.
- 1916–todayIndiana University South Bend
The extension years: Indiana University began teaching in South Bend in the spring of 1916, when it offered its first extension class in the city — a six-dollar class, in the university's bicentennial telling.
- 1916–todayGolf — the city courses
The country clubs: The South Bend Country Club dates to 1916.
- 1916–todayRum Village Park: The Woodland Purchase and Its New Plan
Lead: Rum Village is the system's great woodland, and it came by purchase, not gift: the department's chronology records, in the middle of the First World War, "1916 — Rum Village Park acquired for $45,000."
- 1917The city answers · the first spring
The United States declared war on Germany on 6 April 1917. South Bend's war began, as the state's did, with the building of machinery — councils, boards, and committees whose rosters fill the entries below — and the News-Times of 14 July 1917 preserves the note its leading citizen struck at the start.
- 1917The councils · the county's war machinery
The Woman's Section of the Indiana State Council of Defense was first headed by Mrs. Caroline Fairbanks; on her illness and resignation, Mrs. Anne Studebaker Carlisle of South Bend — Clement Studebaker's daughter, styled in the section's report as Mrs. Anne (Charles A.) Studebaker Carlisle…
- 1917The Second Loan · the million that was never credited
The campaign's climactic rally was remembered in a South Bend report Greenough preserves as "the biggest indoor meeting ever held in South Bend" — the loan drives were mass theater as well as finance, and this city's theater, in October 1917, had never been bigger.
- 1917The wartime clock · back to Central time
The smallest change the war made in South Bend's daily life is dated by the News-Times of 14 July 1917. The city had been keeping "fast time" that spring — the local version of the daylight-saving experiments the war set off across the country — and gave it up in the war's first summer.
- 1917Communal Institutions: The Hebrew Institute, the Federation, Family Services, and the Cemeteries
The Hebrew Institute: The Hebrew Institute Society was founded in 1917, and in 1920 it built a large building at 420 South Franklin Street at a cost of $25,000.
- 1917Ernest M. Morris — the banker who rescued the bank
The Morris Plan Company of South Bend, an industrial-loan company on the Morris Plan system, was incorporated in 1915, and in 1917 he founded the company that became the Associates Investment Corporation, a pioneer of automobile consumer finance…
- 1917Magyar Hall · the fire of 19 August 1917 and the man not found
The immigrant city's social center burned in a night, and the morning paper could not close the story: In the night of 18–19 August 1917, Magyar Hall on Chapin Street — the Hungarian societies' hall, built in 1910, with its theater, dance floor, club rooms, store and saloon — was destroyed by fire.
- 1917The Guard is drafted, and the 3rd Regiment becomes artillery
The First World War reorganized South Bend's Guard line out of the infantry altogether: The Indiana National Guard was drafted into federal service on 5 August 1917 and reassigned at Camp Shelby, Mississippi, into the 38th Division.
- 1917The Man in the Hall: Mike Muszar, 1917
The documented facts: In the night of Saturday, 18 August 1917, Magyar Hall on Chapin Street — the Hungarian societies' hall, built in 1910, holding a theater, a dance floor, club rooms, a store and a saloon — burned.
- 1917–1918Registration and the boards · the draft at home
The News-Times of 14 July 1917 announced the city boards' headquarters at the Farmers' Trust building, open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
- 1917–1918The Red Cross at war · the chapter's war work
The St. Joseph County chapter's institutional line — its organization in the spring of 1917, its first members, and the June 1917 war fund drive, in which the county's quota was $70,000, $22,900 was in hand after two days, and the Studebaker Corporation's $3,000 led the contributor list of 20 June 1917 — is told in Charities.
- 1917–1918The other purses · at the size the record gives
The YMCA's war work fund campaigns of November 1917 and the autumn of 1918, the YWCA's and the Salvation Army's war drives, and the Knights of Columbus fund all ran in this city as they ran in every city in the state, through the institutions whose local histories are carried in Charities.
- 1917–1918Food · 15,615 gardens
In the October 1917 Hoover pledge canvass the city's women had organized the work street by street, dividing South Bend into districts for the signing.
- 1917–1919Loyalty's local edge · what the record shows, and what it does not
What the records searched for this section do not show is stated as plainly: no prosecution of a South Bend or St. Joseph County resident under the Espionage Act of 1917 or the Sedition Act of 1918 appears in them, and no South Bend division of the American Protective League is documented in the record reached.
- 1917–1919The First World War · the Guard goes back, and the county goes with it
The county's standing company went to war a third time under a new name: South Bend's National Guard company — the Company F of 1898's lineage — entered federal service in 1917 and was reorganized as the Supply Company of the 137th Field Artillery…
- 1917–1928The trade: Harvester's branch house, and the Fordson in the directory
An interior view dated 12 September 1917 shows the Maxwell Implement Company, an International Harvester dealership "under the jurisdiction of the company's South Bend branch house," its desks, literature racks, and cash register in place.
- 1917–1951Marion O'Brien Donovan: formed at the Lathe Works, patented from Connecticut
Marion O'Brien was born in this city on 15 October 1917, daughter of Miles W. O'Brien of the South Bend Lathe Works, and the biographies are unanimous on the formation: she spent a large part of her childhood inside the manufacturing plant her father and her uncle John ran, among men who, in the Smithsonian's summary…
- 1917–1978Ted Strong: Born Here, Gone in Infancy, Great in Two Sports
Theodore Relighn Strong Jr. was born January 2 in South Bend — 1917, on the SABR biography's and the Baseball-Reference Bullpen's dating; one widely used reference prints 1914, and the conflict stands here rather than under the rug — and in June of his birth year the family moved to Chicago.
- 1917–1981Joe Kuharich: Riley's Guard, Notre Dame's Coach
Joseph Lawrence Kuharich was born April 14, 1917, in South Bend, and played at James Whitcomb Riley High School before going to Notre Dame, where he was a guard from 1935 to 1937 under Elmer Layden — who rated him one of the best and smartest players he ever coached…
- 1917–2026Mike Muszar and the Magyar Hall fire — the coroner's index read whole; the question still open
The Mysteries file carries the fire whole from the South Bend News-Times of August 19, 1917: Magyar Hall, built in 1910 on Chapin Street, burned the night of August 18–19, 1917, at a loss of $15,000, the fire seated at the stage and switchboard on a defective-wiring theory…
- 1917–todayThe Keepers of the Open File
The South Bend News-Times of 19 August 1917 sits digitized in Hoosier State Chronicles, Indiana's digital historic newspaper program, with Mike Muszar still missing in its last paragraph…
- 1918The Third Loan · red fire on the rooftops
A week before the close the county stood at 48 percent of its allotment, "causing the state officials not a little worry," and it went "white" on the state map — the color of a quota made — only following a big Liberty Loan meeting of the South Bend Rotary Club on 1 May 1918.
- 1918The Fourth Loan · the Volunteer Plan
Corporate money routed through the county included the International Harvester branch houses' subscriptions of $15,000 each, the South Bend branch among them, and a part of Armour & Co.'s roughly $35,000 Indiana allotment, directed to South Bend by the company's letter of 28 September 1918.
- 1918The Mennonite conference · conscience, accommodated
Because a large share of Indiana's Mennonites lived in the northern tier, a conference was called at South Bend on 13 September 1918, bringing together representatives of the Mennonite church, the Liberty Loan chairmen of St. Joseph and Elkhart counties, and bankers.
- 1918The fuel winter · Hardy, Carson, and the heatless Mondays
On Saturday, 12 January 1918, South Bend took what the News-Times called the worst storm in years: the whole Chicago Division of the New York Central in the grip of the blizzard, rail traffic tied up east and west, temperatures below zero.
- 1918Alien enemies · the cards that were never claimed
Under the President's alien-enemy proclamation, German men not naturalized registered in February 1918 — the national registration ran 4–9 February — and in South Bend the registration was conducted at police headquarters, where each registrant was to call for his registration card.
- 1918The Armistice · a seething mass of humanity
The news came by wire on the morning of 11 November 1918, and the News-Times — which with the Herald brought the first word of peace to South Bend — covered the city's answer the same day.
- 1918The other war · the influenza autumn at the home front's edge
On 11 October 1918 Dr. Emil G. Freyermuth, the city's health officer, forbade all public gatherings until further notice: schools, theaters, clubs and churches closed, public funerals, meetings and dances canceled, the streetcars ordered to run with their windows open.
- 1918The name made national: Rockne's Notre Dame
The factory city's other product was a football team, and in the 1920s it outsold the wagons: Knute Rockne coached Notre Dame from 1918 to 1930 and compiled the record by which college coaches are still measured: 105 wins, 12 losses, 5 ties — a winning percentage of .881…
- 1918The influenza autumn of 1918: the toll, from the state board's own tables
The gap this closes: The epidemics record of this history prints the autumn of 1918 at state size — the closure order, the January 1920 return in the city's own press…
- 1918Armistice Day, 1918: "great hilarity"
The day: The news that the armistice had been signed reached South Bend on Monday, November 11, 1918, and the city celebrated in the streets the same day.
- 1918–1919Thrift · the war savings state run from South Bend
For the whole of 1918, Indiana's thrift campaign was administered from this city.
- 1918–1926Twelve thousand dealers: the network at its height
The measure of it: In 1918 Albert Russel Erskine, the corporation's president, wrote the company's history and addressed it, in his own preface, to the 3,000 stockholders of the Studebaker Corporation, "the 12,000 dealers in its products living throughout the world, its 15,000 employees and numberless friends."
- 1918–1933The Dry Years: The Bootlegging Economy
Indiana went dry on its own law in April 1918, nearly two years before national Prohibition, and South Bend's saloons — the geography of the 1870s killings — closed their legal trade.
- 1918–1991The companies' cameras: Studebaker's archive and the unnamed staff photographer
The Indiana Historical Society in Indianapolis holds a separate, smaller piece: the Studebaker Visual Materials Collection (P 0704), dated 1918–1991.
- 1918–2000The Associates — the finance company South Bend founded
Founded here: The Associates Investment Company was incorporated under Indiana law on 29 May 1918. Its business was the new century's credit, in four classes: the purchase of retail installment obligations, wholesale dealer financing, direct and personal loans, and industrial and commercial loans.
- 1918–2003Bonnie Baker: The Face of the League
Mary Geraldine Baker — Bonnie — was born in Regina, Saskatchewan, on July 10, 1918, on the register's dating; the Canadian references give 1919, and the variant stands.
- 1918–2026The official books: Erskine (1918), Gordon (1922), and the Commission report (2026)
The company history: Albert Russel Erskine's History of the Studebaker Corporation (1918) is the official history of the city's defining firm, written by its president, and it underlies the encyclopedia spine of the Studebaker file.
- 1918–todayPinhook Park and the Small River Parks
Lead: Pinhook Park, the river park on Riverside Drive in the city's northwest, came to the parks from the county in the year of the armistice: the department's chronology records, for 1918, that "the Board acquired the Pinhook property from the County Commissioners"…
- 1919The homecoming · a state day, and a hero's September
South Bend's returning companies — the 137th's and the 139th's men, whose service and losses are Wars' record — came home through the spring of 1919 into a welcome the state had organized as a single day.
- 1919Kaniewski & Son — the west side's funeral house, verified
The firm's own published account claims service to families for over 100 years and across five generations, and its directory listings date the founding 1919…
- 1919The civic leagues: the NAACP's corporate line and the League of Women Voters
3067 in the national association's numbering — was founded in 1919 at Mount Zion Baptist Church on North Birdsell Street, in the movement that also built Hering House.
- 1919Claeys Candy: the garage house of 1919
Jerome C. Claeys founded the company in a South Bend garage in 1919 — on North Blaine Avenue, as the Indiana Senate's 2019 centennial resolution gives the address, the same resolution that records the company's Governor's Century Award and its third-generation ownership.
- 1919The claims, tested: what this city says it invented, and what the record holds
What the record holds instead is named products, and they are genuine: Claeys's Etabar of 1919, a caramel nut bar under icing, and its Chocolate Charlie; the South Bend Chocolate Company's Domer, Rockne, and Nuts for ND of 1991, named under a university license…
- 1919–1931The South Bend State Bank — the bank that liquidated itself while solvent
The bank: The South Bend State Bank was organized in 1919 and banked at 911 South Michigan Street with capital of $50,000 — a neighborhood state bank on the city's south side.
- 1919–2001Lib Mahon: Eight Seasons, Then a South Bend Life
Lib Mahon was born November 18, 1919, in Greenville, South Carolina, and came to South Bend in Marty McManus's 1945 trade with Kenosha — the trade that sent Dottie Schroeder the other way.
- 1919–2010The Natatorium · fourteen years locked out, fourteen years on Mondays
"Public" was carved on the building; it was not meant: The land at West Washington and Chapel streets was given by Harry and Maude Engman , the city council voted to build in June 1919, and the Engman Public Natatorium opened on 29 June 1922…
- 1919–todayThe NAACP chapter · founded in a church on Birdsell Street
The community's standing army, mustered in 1919: The South Bend branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People was founded in 1919 at Mount Zion Baptist Church , 116 North Birdsell Street — the congregation that became Pilgrim Baptist…
- 1919–todayThe American Legion: four posts in one city
The founding generation: The American Legion was chartered by Congress in 1919, built by the men then coming home from France, and South Bend's posts belong to that founding generation and the one after it.
- 1919–todayThe Blackstone-State Theater (1919–21) and Its Second Life
The Blackstone Theater Corporation filed its incorporation on 9 January 1919 and took 99-year leases on lots 56 and 57 of the Original Plat, mid-block at 212 South Michigan Street…