St. Joseph County, Indiana · 19th century
1840s
101 dated events in 1840s, in order. Part of the full timeline.
19th century 101 dated mentions
1840s
- 1840John W. Griffith: four years to a day under Sheridan, then Sunny Banks Farm
The tie, exactly: a state-line life — born a mile into Michigan, on 18 November 1840, and reared on a farm the state line ran through with the house on the Michigan side…
Granger
- 1840First Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
The founding: The Christian Church in Mishawaka met first in a schoolhouse in Pleasant Valley, northeast of town, in 1840, on De Kever's account, and moved to another school building on East Second Street before building on West Second Street in 1850.
Mishawaka
- 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.
South Bend
- 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.
South Bend
- 1840–1842Clay Township: the western government of the place
Clay Township is the younger of the place's two townships, and the larger: it was assembled in part from Harris Township's west side — a detachment a section and a half in width on May 5, 1840, and another half section on December 7, 1842, on Howard's first-hand record…
Granger
- 1840–1860Counted before the Powells: the antebellum community in the censuses, 1840–1860
The 1840 census gives St. Joseph County nine Black residents.
Mishawaka
- 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.
South Bend
- 1840–1880The Town Schools: A School-House in 1840 and a High-School Building in 1868
The town built its first school-house in 1840 — two years after the township's log house south of it — and a high-school building in 1868, where a graded school then ran under a named principal.
North Liberty
- 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…
South Bend
- 1840–1921The chain of one corner: Sheridan House to LaSalle, and the technology test
Boundary — one corner, house to house: the southwest corner of LaSalle and Michigan streets in South Bend carried the Sheridan House from 1840 — the hotel the National Register nomination and the Building South Bend record both name as the site's first house…
Osceola
- 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.
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.
South Bend
- 1841The clerk's desk and the auditor's desk: the anchors of two successions
This desk holds the ground's most surprising early name: in 1841 Schuyler Colfax, later Speaker of the U.S. House and Vice President, was appointed St. Joseph County deputy auditor, a clerkship on the desk a decade and a half before his congressional career (see the federal article below).
Granger
- 1841How old the fair is: two tellings, printed whole
The fair's own banner claims it has entertained St. Joseph County "since 1841," and its grounds history begins with a first fair in the county's early years — the agricultural-society line that Howard's county history carries through fairs at South Bend and Mishawaka in the 1850s and the Portage Avenue grounds to 1872.
North Liberty
- 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…
South Bend
- 1841–1842The St. Peter's Year and the Bishop's Offer
Sorin's party — the Scholastic's 1893 sketch names seven brothers who sailed with him in August 1841: Francis Xavier, Gatien, Patrick, William, Pierre, Basil, and Vincent…
Notre Dame
- 1841–1844The Coming of the Sisters, 1843–1844
The congregation traces to the Reverend Basil Anthony Moreau of Le Mans, who in 1841 gathered the first sisters of Holy Cross in France as the women's branch of the family he had founded — priests, brothers, and sisters of one congregation.
Notre Dame
- 1841–1845The first paper: the Mishawaka Tocsin, 1841, and the paper that walked away
The first newspaper published in Mishawaka was the Mishawaka Tocsin, established in 1841 by Wilbur F. Storey. So Timothy Edward Howard's 1907 county history states it, with a historian's hedge the record keeps: the Tocsin "seems to have been" the first.
Mishawaka
- 1841–1960Black women's organizing the record allows, and the sisters' workforce at county boundary
The Sisters of the Holy Cross received it first on 29 September 1841 at Le Mans, from Father Basil Moreau; four sisters reached Notre Dame in 1843; the congregation's first American establishment opened at Bertrand, Michigan, on 16 July 1844…
Osceola
- 1841–todayThe farmers' institutions in a row: mutual, market, bureau, extension
The sequence begins with the agricultural society of 1841, whose fair share is the next entry's.
Granger
- 1841–todayTwo Townships at the County Fair
The institution, at pointer size: the county's first agricultural society was organized at South Bend on 12 June 1841 under the state act of 19 February 1838, held one exhibition that October, and slept…
Granger
- 1841–todayThe County Fair's Lakeville Years, and the Market Line
The fair's course and grounds belong to South Bend's file; the dated pointer line runs: organised fairs from 1841 (the fair's own history page); the Agricultural Society reorganised 15 March 1858; the county bought 40 acres on 20 April 1881 between South Bend and Mishawaka…
Lakeville
- 1841–todayOlive Chapel — the Christians of section 11, organized January 1, 1841
The society was organized January 1, 1841, at the house of James S. Parnell; the organizing membership was James S. Parnell, J. S. Hooton, Esther Hooton, Polly Parnell, William Hooton, and Jackson Hale and wife.
New Carlisle
- 1841–todayOlive Chapel Cemetery: the Christians' ground, the township's charge
Olive Chapel Cemetery began as the burying ground of the Christian congregation organized on 1 January 1841 — the Olive Chapel Christians of the Religion section — whose chapel of 1869 stood on the section 11 side of the township's south-central country.
New Carlisle
- 1842Two lines before the union: Kamm from Toledo, Schellinger from the mill
The Kamm line: Adolph Kamm was born 13 June 1842 at Zöbingen, in Württemberg, and was brought to America at the age of eight by his parents.
Mishawaka
- 1842The town cemetery complex: Eastlawn, West Lawn, "Old"
The banked spine dates "the town cemetery" to 1842, among the town's first things — and no carrier reached names who laid it out, a first burial of that year, or a founding act.
North Liberty
- 1842The Ground Before the College — Ste. Marie des Lacs
Sorin, saying his first Mass at Notre Dame on the feast of St. Andrew, 30 November 1842, recorded that Father Benjamin Petit "so often before me had offered the Holy Sacrifice over the tomb of the saintly Father De Seille"…
Notre Dame
- 1842The November Journey — Sorin's Own Account
The party departed St. Peter's on 16 November 1842 — "seven of the Brothers set out with their Superior," the history's narrative says.
Notre Dame
- 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.
South Bend
- 1842–1844The First Winter and the First Buildings
The winter of 1842–43 was, in the jubilee history's phrase, one of the coldest in a record the book dates to 1607, with snow fifteen inches deep as far south as Georgia.
Notre Dame
- 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.
South Bend
- 1842–1907The Fulmers: one man, two books, four disagreements
2, pp. 931–932): born in Ohio 12 December 1842 (the father's farm in Portage County), son of Martin Fulmer (b.
Osceola
- 1842–2015The university's people: Sorin, Corby, Hesburgh, and the line of presidents
Offered land at the far end of the diocese on condition he found a college on it within two years, he set out north with seven brothers in mid-November 1842 and reached South Bend on 26 November, going first to Alexis Coquillard's house…
Notre Dame
- 1842–2026The University and the City — Town and Gown, and the Present State
The land Sorin described to Moreau in November 1842 as "about 640 acres" in his first impression — 524 acres in the documented grant — now carries a university of thirteen thousand students, and the lakes he found under snow are still at the center of it.
Notre Dame
- 1842–2026The Presidencies Whole — From Sorin's Superior Years to Dowd
Sorin, 1842–1865; Patrick Dillon, 1865–1866; William Corby, 1866–1872 and again 1877–1881; Auguste Lemonnier, 1872–1874; Patrick Colovin, 1874–1877; Thomas E. Walsh, 1881–1893; Andrew Morrissey, 1893–1905; John W. Cavanaugh, 1905–1919; James A. Burns, 1919–1922; Matthew J. Walsh, 1922–1928; Charles L. O'Donnell, 1928–1934…
Notre Dame
- 1842–todayThe lodge-by-lodge run: the county's great orders, each as an institution — none of them seated here
The Masons are the county's oldest order on paper: Farr's South Bend City Directory for 1883 lists St. Joseph Lodge No. 45 (instituted 1842), South Bend Lodge No. 294 (instituted 1863) and Germania Lodge No. 301 (instituted 1862), with South Bend Chapter No. 29, Royal Arch Masons (instituted 1855), all meeting at…
Granger
- 1842–todayThe trades whole: undertakers, and the trades with no heading
The house now named McGann Hay was founded in November 1842 as the Notre Dame Undertaking Parlor, by Father Edward Sorin and Brother Francis Xavier — the brother became the university's mortician and coffin maker, steward of the Community and Cedar Grove cemeteries, and in time a licensed Indiana mortician…
Granger
- 1843Joseph Meyer: the second generation, superintending the 460 acres
The tie, exactly: native son — born in St. Joseph County on 26 July 1843, a son of Jacob and Catharine Meyer, and by 1880 the working head of his father's farm: Chapman prints him as superintending the 460-acre Meyer farm on Section 15, the acreage his father's entry above accumulated.
Granger
- 1843John A. Zaehnle: Notre Dame commercial course, Civil War paymaster's clerk, and the Section 22 farm
The tie, exactly: native son — born in St. Joseph County on 7 January 1843 to Arbogast and Rosa (Binder) Zaehnle, educated three years at Notre Dame with a commercial course, and this township's most fully documented second-generation course in Chapman.
Granger
- 1843–1853The Charter and the College's First Decade
The architect arrived unexpectedly on 24 August 1843; Father Marivault offered $1,200 due him from his family in France, and the South Bend merchant Samuel Byerley — whose family Sorin had met in New York in 1841 and who remained lifelong friends of the house — offered $2,000 of credit on his store and a $500 loan.
Notre Dame
- 1843–1855Bertrand at Depth: A Mission School on Potawatomi Ground
The depth point the survey leaves thin is how contingent the whole enterprise was in 1843–44. Whose ground Bertrand was: Bertrand was not empty frontier awaiting a school.
Notre Dame
- 1843–1866First cameras and the daguerreian decade: itinerants, then the floor's first generation
Mr. Keith (possibly David Keith of Poughkeepsie, New York), advertising in 1843, is per Griswold the first daguerreian in Fort Wayne; J. L. Hubbell followed in November–December 1843 at the American House.
Granger
- 1843–1893The Congregation's Course — Brothers, Sisters, and the Press
The second colony from France, which sailed on 6 June 1843 under Father Francis Cointet, brought Fathers Marivault and Gouesse, one brother, and four sisters of the Holy Cross; Sorin and Cointet, the record notes, for a long time had but one hat and one pair of boots between them.
Notre Dame
- 1843–1958Sisters as workforce: the county frame, and the township's silence
Four Sisters of the Holy Cross joined Father Edward Sorin at Notre Dame in 1843, the year after the founding; their motherhouse stood at St. Mary's, on the St. Joseph River in this county, from 1855.
Lakeville
- 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…
South Bend
- 1844Isaac Shetterly: mason's trade and an 84-acre farm on the state line
The tie, exactly: settler of Harris Township from about 1872 — born in Union County, Pennsylvania, on 28 November 1844 to George and Elizabeth (Keely) Shetterly; carried as a boy to Portage Prairie in Berrien County, Michigan, about 1854, then to Ontwa Township…
Granger
- 1844The French thread: a mission's language, tested as a community
From 1844 the village was served from Notre Dame by the French-born Edward Sorin and his Congregation of Holy Cross priests — the names the parish record keeps are Sorin's, Francis Cointet's, J. Gouesse's…
Mishawaka
- 1844St. Joseph Catholic Church: The Mother Parish
Father Edward Sorin's Holy Cross missionaries served the village from 1844, saying Mass in homes; a converted house at 815 Elm Street and a room at the southeast corner of Lawrence and Margaret streets, arranged for divine service from 1848 to 1855, carried the mission, under the name Church of the Holy Angels.
Mishawaka
- 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…
South Bend
- 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.
South Bend
- 1844–1855Bertrand: The First Motherhouse, 1844–1855
On 16 July 1844 Sister Mary of the Sacred Heart and four postulants took up their abode there, and the academy opened.
Notre Dame
- 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.
South Bend
- 1844–1863The abolitionist presence, at counted size
In 1844 the Liberty Party's James G. Birney drew 33 votes in St. Joseph County. In 1845 the abolitionists fielded a full state ticket; in 1846 Whigs, Democrats and Abolitionists all ran full state and county tickets here.
Mishawaka
- 1844–1865The Early College Whole — Charter to Civil War
The act of 15 January 1844, whose text and passage stand in the base fragment, incorporated a university in law a full generation before the institution resembled one in fact.
Notre Dame
- 1844–1904The iron company's engine and the volunteer companies
The Tiger, 1844: Mishawaka's first fire engine was bought to protect a factory, not a town. In 1844 the St. Joseph Iron Company purchased a hand pump engine, "The Tiger," for its works on the river — the works around which the town itself was then still assembling.
Mishawaka
- 1844–1907E. Volney Bingham: justice of the peace, postmaster, state senator
E. Volney Bingham was born 1 August 1844 in Penn township, his father an early settler associated with the St. Joseph Iron Works; he worked in a furniture factory, read toward the law, and at the Civil War's opening put the law aside and enlisted, becoming sergeant major of the Forty-eighth Indiana…
Mishawaka
- 1844–1917The other candidates, tested: a railroad, a priest, and the order itself
There was a Granger on this ground's story, and he was not a settler, a landowner, or a railroad man: the Reverend Alexis Granger, C.S.C. (born at Daon, France, 19 June 1817…
Granger
- 1844–1933The people: Beigers, Eberharts, and Saunders
Jacob and Martin Beiger: Jacob Beiger, a native German who came to America in 1844 bringing his family, bought the mill with his son in 1867; his dates were not settled in the record reached, and the gap is named rather than filled.
Mishawaka
- 1844–2026The Broader Family
The archives' timeline counts the school expansion of 1844–84 across the map — Indiana thirteen cities, Illinois five, Ohio seven, Michigan two, and schools besides in Iowa, Kentucky, New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Texas, Wisconsin, Louisiana, Maryland, and California.
Notre Dame
- 1844–2026The Works Web: Schools, Hospitals and Missions Beyond the Bluff
The school web: The base maps the first forty years (1844–84) by state — Indiana thirteen cities, Illinois five, Ohio seven, Michigan two, and schools in a dozen further states — and carries the South Bend parish classrooms whole.
Notre Dame
- 1844–todayThe Irish: the mother parish's first people
The parish that building housed — erected 10 December 1848 as the Church of the Holy Angels, later St. Joseph's — was from its first decade a shared Irish-German congregation, and the Irish are named in its founding geography: from 1844, before any church stood, Mass was said in the homes of Edward Mulligan, George…
Mishawaka
- 1844–todaySaint Mary's College — at Its Civic Position
Four sisters of the congregation arrived at Notre Dame in July 1843 and lived their first two years in the attic of the Log Chapel; told by Indiana's bishop that the state had women religious enough, they opened their school in Michigan: Saint Mary's Academy, opened 16 July 1844 at Bertrand, six miles north, on land…
Notre Dame
- 1845The Band of the Fighting Irish, at the boundary
The claim: the band was "born in 1845," is "the oldest university band in continual existence," celebrated its 150th season in 1995, and has been on hand for every home football game since football began at Notre Dame in 1887.
Notre Dame
- 1845–1854Porter-Rea Cemetery: the burying ground
Its own record prints its two dates whole, for they answer different questions: the DNR dates the ground to 1845 , when nine-year-old Emma Porter was the first person buried there…
Lakeville
- 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.
South Bend
- 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.
South Bend
- 1846–1848Two short lives: the Bee of 1846 and the Free Democrat of 1848
The Mishawaka Bee was started in 1846 by S. P. Hart and discontinued after two years. Chapman and Howard agree on the founder, the year and the lifespan, and neither records more: no editor after Hart, no politics assigned, no file surviving.
Mishawaka
- 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.
South Bend
- 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.
South Bend
- 1846–2026The Guard lineage carried to the present unit: the 151st in South Bend, the 293rd tested
The regiment's lineage, in the Army's Lineage and Honors statement and the Guard's own history, runs in succession: organized 24 June 1846 from existing independent companies as the 2nd Regiment, Indiana Volunteers, and mustered into federal service for the Mexican War…
Granger
- 1847St. Peter's Lutheran Church: The German Mother Church
The course: St. Peter's is Mishawaka's German Lutheran mother church, established on 24 May 1847. A modest chapel on East Broadway served the early 1850s; a frame church at Church and Front streets was dedicated on 16 November 1862; and from 1872 the congregation carried its origin in its name, St. Peter German Lutheran.
Mishawaka
- 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.
South Bend
- 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.
South Bend
- 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.
South Bend
- 1847–1851The price of the rescue: $2,856 in damages, and the $500 penalty the Supreme Court took away
The case the money hangs on, at the county seat's strength: David Powell, his wife Lucy, and their sons Lewis, Samuel, George and James fled John Norris of Boone County, Kentucky, on the night of 9 October 1847, and settled in Cass County, Michigan.
Granger
- 1847–1851The price of the rescue: Norris v. Newton and Norris v. Crocker, from the published reports
The case the Talley article points to has a price, and the price has a published record: the freedom-seekers were David Powell, his wife Lucy, and their sons Lewis, Samuel, George and James, who absconded from John Norris of Boone County, Kentucky, on a Sunday night in October 1847 and settled near Cassopolis, Michigan.
Granger
- 1847–1855The price of the rescue: the penalty suits, boundary-printed
The case, in the founding file's own naming: the freedom case of David and Lucy Powell, South Bend, 1847–1850 — expressly no relation to the Mishawaka Powells of the founding file…
Mishawaka
- 1847–1855Cholera: the County's Record Is Notre Dame's
What the county record gives is Notre Dame's, and it is boundary-printed as Notre Dame's: in Charles Hope's centennial history of the university, "at various times during eight years, from 1847 to 1855, an exhausting epidemic of malarial fever and cholera so oppressed the faculty and students that the University…
Mishawaka
- 1847–1856The County's Documented Case — Powell
David and Lucy Powell and their four sons fled Kentucky in October 1847 and settled near Cassopolis, Michigan; at midnight on 27 September 1849 their claimant seized Lucy and three sons…
Lakeville
- 1847–1856The traffic, at evidence strength
The reservoir the traffic ran toward was real, and it is Michigan's: across the state line, the Black settlement of Cass County, Michigan, held — on the estimate of an 1851 pamphlet — some 1,200 to 1,500 Black people, many of them fugitives, with Wright Maudlin at its center…
Mishawaka
- 1847–1880The Evangelical society at Coal Bash, and the German Baptist presence
Three and a half miles south of Mishawaka, the Coal Bash Evangelical Association was organized in 1847 by the Rev. G. G. Platz; the society built its house in 1856, and by 1880 Chapman counts its membership "dwindled to nine" — the smallest living congregation in his township list, printed here at the size he gives it.
Osceola
- 1847–1883George Milburn: The Wagon Fortune Mishawaka Made and Toledo Kept
The fortune: George Milburn (born 3 June 1820 at Alston, England; died 1883) came to Mishawaka by way of a Goshen dry-goods counter and a Kosciusko County farm, settling in the town in 1847–49 and entering business as clerk, then junior partner, in A. B. Judson & Co.'s general store at Main and Vistula.
Mishawaka
- 1847–1903Martin V. Beiger: The First Millionaire
The fortune: Martin Valentine Beiger (born 3 February 1847 in St. Joseph County; a private of Company H, 138th Indiana Volunteers in 1864) entered business in the river mill his father Jacob had bought in 1867 — the woolen mill at the dam that became Ball Band, whose whole course stands in the Ball Band file.
Mishawaka
- 1847–1955Each epidemic whole, in order: cholera, typhoid, smallpox, diphtheria, scarlet fever, the 1920 return, polio, tuberculosis
Hope's centennial history prints the frame: "At various times during eight years, from 1847 to 1855, an exhausting epidemic of malarial fever and cholera so oppressed the faculty and students that the University almost closed its doors"…
Granger
- 1847–2006The business founders at full People size: Dodge, the Beigers, Eberhart, Mix, Kapson
Martin V. Beiger (1847–1903), the son who made the fortune: Martin Valentine Beiger was born 3 February 1847 in St. Joseph County, a private of Company H, 138th Indiana Volunteers in 1864, and at twenty-one a member of the family firm inside the mill's first Beiger years.
Mishawaka
- 1847–todayThe Germans: the founding culture that became the background
The Germans organized first and lasted longest: St. Peter's Lutheran Church, established 24 May 1847, is the German mother church of Mishawaka, and its course is the German community's institutional spine — a frame church at Church and Front streets dedicated 16 November 1862…
Mishawaka
- 1848Sent away: Indianapolis, then Logansport, and the Westville traffic
Indiana's first state hospital for the insane, enacted in 1827 and built at Indianapolis in 1848, was for forty years the destination of every county's commitments.
Mishawaka
- 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.
South Bend
- 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.
South Bend
- 1848–1979The sent-away traffic: Indianapolis, then Logansport, then Westville
First Indianapolis: the state hospital opened in November 1848 as the Indiana Hospital for the Insane (later Central State Hospital), and for forty years it took patients from the whole state — the county poorhouse kept only the chronic and the harmless, and sent its acute cases down to the capital.
Granger
- 1848–todayThe school servants: superintendents, the board's long members, and a secretary of thirty years
The first superintendent the record names is the first the system had: Mr. Butts , who had kept his own school and was employed by the city as superintendent when the five-room brick Institute No. 1 opened in 1848, with Jacob Merrifield, Jefferson Merrifield and Miss Skinner as his assistants…
Mishawaka
- 1848–todayThe School City of Mishawaka: superintendents, referenda, the hard years, the present
Mr. Butts, employed as superintendent in 1848, is first. E. L. Hallock held the office at the high school's opening in 1874.
Mishawaka
- 1848–todayThe sent-away traffic, named and dated
The first receiving hospital was Indianapolis: the legislature authorised a hospital for the insane as early as 1827, a tax for a State Lunatic Asylum followed in the Laws of 1844, the West Washington Street site was purchased 29 August 1845, and the Indiana Hospital for the Insane…
Osceola
- 1849Power changing state, dated: steam 1849, and the current that came by co-operative
Step two, steam: dated 1849, Earl and Gilmore's steam saw mill, and still the mills' stated power at the 1889 directory point; steam is this ground's first industrial power, not its second.
Lakeville
- 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.
South Bend
- 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…
South Bend
- 1849–1889The power source measured: no fall, no race, no dam — steam from the first mill
Every mill the record gives is steam: Earl and Gilmore's steam saw mill of 1849, the township's first; the Slough brothers' steam saw mill in Section 19; Coquillard's mill worked from 1854; Shidler's saw mills after it.
Lakeville
- 1849–1889The first industrial system whole: timber, steam and the clearing of a township
The prime mover, from 1849, was steam — boilers fired in a country where the fuel was the same forest being cleared, so the works consumed their own raw material twice over.
Lakeville
- 1849–1917The Mills' Full Course — Steam, Water, and the Six Mill Firms of 1889
The 1875 Atlas's Union Township directory prints "Earl & Gilmore" among the township's business entries with a steam saw mill dated 1849.
Lakeville
- 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."
South Bend
- 1849–todayNew Carlisle United Methodist Church — first preaching 1849, class formed 1853
Chapman, spelling the name Saulsberry, dates the first Methodist preaching at New Carlisle to 1849, "then on 'Byron Circuit.'" A schoolhouse built in 1852 was used for church purposes and Sunday school, and the first class was formed in 1853: Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Pidge, Josiah Pidge, Jacob Hopkins, James and Delilah…
New Carlisle