Pulaski & White Counties, Indiana History Duo Biographical History of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Benton, Warren and Pulaski Counties, IN Vol 1 & 2 By Lewis Publishing Co., 1899 950 pages, illustrated, indexed - Bonus Book - Counties of White and Pulaski, IN Historical and Biographical By Weston Arthur Godspeed, 1883 772 pages, illustrated, indexed ******************************************************************* Digital Book CD Requires Adobe Reader 5 or higher to View ********************************************************************** $13.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Pulaski-White-5-more-Counties-Indiana-Bios-Bonus-/200384446073?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ea7d7fe79 "In the Biographical History of Tippecanoe, White, Jasper, Newton, Warren and Pulaski Counties the editorial staff, as well as the publishers, have fully realized the magnitude of the task set them. The work is purely biographical in its province, and in the collation of material for the same there has been a constant aim to use a wise discrimination in regard to the selection of subjects, and yet to exclude none worthy of representation within its pages. Those who have been prominent factors in the public, social and industrial makeup of the counties in the past have been given due recognition as far as it has been possible to secure the requisite data. Names worthy of perpetuation here have in several instances been omitted, either on account of the apathetic interest of those concerned or the inability to secure the information demanded. Yet, in both the contemporary narrative and the memoirs of those who have passed on to "that undiscovered country from whose bourne no traveler returns," it is believed that there has been such utilization of material as to more than fulfill all stipulations and promises made at the inception of the undertaking. In the compilation recourse has been had to divers authorities, including various histories and historical collections, and implying an almost endless array of papers and documents, public, private, social and ecclesiastical. That so much matter could be gathered from so many original sources and then sifted and assimilated for the production of a single work without incurring a modicum of errors and inaccuracies, would be too much to expect of any corps of writers, no matter how able they might be as statisticians or skilled as compilers of such works. It is, nevertheless, believed that no inaccuracies of a serious nature can be found to impair the historical value of the volumes, and it is further believed that the results will supply the demand which called forth the efforts of the publishers and the editorial corps." This book includes approximately 650 biographies. Book #2 - covers all townships, various portraits, community views, history and biographical sketches. Black and white illustrations of citizens, homes, buildings, and charts. PART I- HISTORY OF WHITE COUNTY. CHAPTER I. Act of Formation - Agricultural Society - Alarms, Indian – Assessors - Associate Judges - Auditors - Cession Treaties, Indian - Changes of Boundaries - Circuit Court, Sessions of - Circuit Judges - Clerks - Common Pleas Judges - County Agents -County Commissioners - County Library - County Seat. Question - County Seminary - County Statistics, 1880 - Court Houses and Jails - Drainage - Educational Statistics - Election Tables - Introductory - Location of County Seat - Medical Society – Mound Builders - Old Settlers' Association - Paupers, County - Politics - Population - Probate Judges - Proceedings of Commissioners - Recapitulation of Taxes, 1882 - Recorders - miners - Seminary Trustees - Sheriffs. – The Soil - Statistics of Interest - Surveyors - Three Per Cent Commissioners – Treasurers CHAPTER II. Additional Volunteers - Aid to Soldiers, The First - Another Company - Bounty and Relief - Bowman's Company - Call to Arms - Company, The First - Continued Efforts at Enlistment - County Conventions - Drafts, The - First Sacrifice, The - Flag and Sword Presentation - Fourth of July, 1862 - Fourth of July, 1863 - Husband Wanted - Infantry, Twelfth - Infantry, Sixty-third - Infantry, Ninety-ninth - Infantry, One Hundred and Sixteenth - Infantry, One Hundred and Twenty-eighth - Joy and Sorrow - Loyalty - Mexican War - County Militia - Military Committees - Number of Men Furnished - Opening Scenes - Patriotism in Monticello - Presidential Campaign of 1860 - Recruits - Sketches of Regiments - Renewed Efforts - Roll of Honor - Sanitary Efforts - Subsequent Enlistments - Union Meeting at Norway - War of 1812 - War Meetings - White County Companies – Township Histories. CHAPTER III. Union Township - Banking - Elections, Early - Election of November, 1836 - High School Building - Hydraulic Companies - Industries - Mills - Monticello - Monticello's - Incorporation and Town Officers - Monticello's Early Schools - Monticello's First Building - Monticello's First Plat - Monticello Items - Monticello's Later Merchants, etc - Monticello's Present Business Interests- Mt. Walleston Village - Early Newspapers - Norway Village - The Norwegians - Proceedings of Town Board - Prof. G. Bowman's – School - Early Religious Organizations - School Bonds - School Trustees - Secret Societies - First Settler - Wool Carding CHAPTER IV. Prairie Township – First Birth - Bridges - Town of Brookston - Churches - Creation of Township - First Death - First Landholders - First Marriage - Masonic Lodge - Early Mills - Early Poll Lists - Pioneer Schools - The Press - Settlement - Springboro Village - Storm of Sleet - Surface Features CHAPTER V. Honey Creek Township - First Birth - Churches - First Death - First Elections - Mills - Miscellaneous - Newspapers - First Officers – Railways - Town of Reynolds - Incorporation of Reynolds - Schools - Secret Societies - First Settlement CHAPTER VI. Jackson Township - Agricultural Association - Anti-Slavery Petition - A Storm - First Birth - Burnettsville - Churches - Creation of Township - First Death - First Elections - Farmington Seminary - Jurors - First Marriage - Morality - Mormonism - Oldest Resident - Post Offices - Schools - First Settlement - Sharon - Town of Hannah - Violent Deaths - Vital Statistics CHAPTER VII. Princeton Township - Ague in 1844 - First Birth - Boundaries of Township - Churches - Creation of Township - First Death - Early Elections - Flood of 1844 - Justices of the Peace - First Marriage - Origin of Name - Railroad - Schools - Seafield station - Secret Societies - First Settlement - First Tavern - Town of Wolcott - Wolcott's Present Business CHAPTER VIII. Monon Township - First Birth - A Dead Town - First Death - Early Comers Kit - Early Elections - Indian Mounds - Indian Scare - Early Mills - Miscellaneous Items - Town of New Bradford - Pioneer Life - Post Offices - Religious Organizations - Schools and Teachers - Secret Society - Settlement - Suicides, etc - First Wedding CHAPTER IX. Big Creek Township - Ague - First Birth - Black Hawk War - Chalmers Village - Deer and Wolf hunt - First Death - Early Difficulties - Early Elections - First Hotel - Indians - Internal Improvements - First Marriage – Early Preachers - Schools - First Settlers - Spencer House - Wheeler Station CHAPTER X. Liberty Township - Churches - Creation of Township - First Death - First Elections - First Land Entries - First Marriage - Miscellaneous - Pioneer Homes - Post Offices – Early Schools - Tax Payers CHAPTER XI. West Point Township - First Birth - First Death - First Election - Formation of Township - Forney Post Office - First Land Entries - First Marriage - Meadow Lake Farm - Ministers and Churches - School Interests CHAPTER XII. Cass Township - First Birth - Church Interests - Drainage - Educational Growth – Early Election - First Marriage - Pioneer Life - Post Office - First Preacher - Tax Payers of 1851 CHAPTER XIII. Round Grove Township - First Births - Church - Creation of Township - First Death - First Elections - Land Entries - First Marriage - Origin of Name - Schools - First Settlement - Then and Now PART II. - HISTORY OF PULASKI COUNTY CHAPTER I. Abstract of Property and Taxes, 1881- Agents, County - Agricultural Society – Assessors - Associate Judges - Auditors - Board of Commissioners - County Buildings - Circuit Court - Circuit Judges - Clerks - Commissioners - Common Pleas Judges - Coroners - County Before Organization - Creation of County - Drainage - The Drift - First Election - Election Tables - The Indians - Jail - Land Offices - Library - Medical Society - Miscellaneous Items Old Settlers' Association - County Orders - Organization of County - Petroleum Company - Politics - County Poor - Probate Judges - Railroads - Recorders - Representatives - Roads, County and State - School Examiners – Seminary County - Sheriffs - The Soil - The Squatters - State Senators - Statistics - Surveyors - Table of Land Entries - Three Per Cent Commissioners - Townships - Treasurers - Treasury Statement CHAPTER II. An Incident - Bounty - Calls for Troops – Disloyalty - The Draft - Enlistment, Continued - Excitement at Winamac - Fall of Sumter - First Company - Infantry, Ninth - Infantry, Twentieth - Infantry, Forty-sixth - Infantry, Eighty-seventh - Mexican War - Old Militia System - The Rebellion - Roll of Honor - Regiments - Suppression of the Democrat - Table of Regiments - Three Months' Men TOWNSHIP HISTORIES. CHAPTER III. Monroe Township - Additions to Winamac - Banking - Bridges - Business Blocks - Present Business - Churches - Early Events –Elections - Ferries - Incorporation - Industrial Growth - Later Progress - Manufactures - Merchandising - Newspapers - Postmasters - Professions - Schools - Secret Societies - First Settler - Settlement - Subsequent Improvement CHAPTER IV. Salem Township - Agricultural Society - Present Business - The College - Creamery - Drainage - Early Elections - Fatalities – Francesville - Game - Geological Characteristics - Hay - Land Entries - First Marriage - Militia – Newspapers - Organization - Schools - Secret Societies - Settlement - Township - Accidental Death - Bridge - Church - Creation of Township - Deceased Pioneers - Early Elections - Incidents - Mooresburg - Mooresburg Mill - Notes and Incidents - Origin of Name - Politics – Roads - Saw Mill - Schools - First Settlement - Spring Election, 1882 – Wey's Mill CHAPTER VI. Indian Creek Township - Birth and Death - Bridges – Churches - Education - Incidents - First Marriage - First Mill - Miscellaneous - Mound Builders - Pearl Divers - Physical Features - Pulaski Grist Mill - Pulaski Village - Settlement - First Settler - Early Voters CHAPTER VII. White Post Township – Affrays - First Birth - Churches - First Death - Directory of Medarysville - Drainage - Early Elections - Incidents - First Marriage - Medarysville - Miscellaneous - A Mystery - Newspapers - Origin of Name - Physical Description - Post Office - Schools - Settlement CHAPTER VIII. Van Buren Township – Churches - Detectives - First Election, - First Elections, Subsequent – Hardships - Hunters - Land Entries - Rosedale Village – Schools - First Settler - Star City - Statistical CHAPTER IX. Tippecanoe Township - First Boundaries - Bridges - Cholera - First Death - Early Elections - Early Incidents - First Inn - Early Landholders - First Marriage - Mills - Miscellaneous - Monterey Village - Origin of Name - Pioneers Living - Roads - Settlement CHAPTER X. Cass Township - Belfast - Churches - Drainage - Early Occurrences - Elections - Fatal Accident - Post Office – Products - Schools - First Settlers - First Trustees - Wild Game CHAPTER XI. Rich Grove Township – Churches - "Cranberry" Township - Creation of Township - First Death - Early Elections - Justices' of the Peace - Land Entries - First Marriage - Mills, etc - Origin of Name - Property Protection - Road – Schools – Settlements - Trustees CHAPTER XII. Jefferson Township - -An Accident - First Birth – Churches - Creation of Township - First Death - Early Experiences - Land Entries - Liquor License - First Marriage - Remains of a Mastodon - Mills - Origin of Name - Schools - Settlement - Violent Death CHAPTER XIII. Beaver Township - First Birth - Churches - First Death Early Customs - Early Events - Elections - Land Entries First Marriage - Origin of Name - Schools - Settlers CHAPTER XIV. Franklin Township – Civility - Drainage - Educational - Interests - Elections - Jacobs House - Lund Entries- Origin of Name - Kail road - Settlement - Sunday School - Bearer Township - Cass Township – Franklin Township - Harrison Township - Indian Creek Township - Jefferson Township - Monroe Township - Rich Grove Township - Salem Township - Tippecanoe Township - Van Buren Township - White Post Township - City of Winamac