History of Howard County, Indiana Volumes 1 & 2 By Jackson Morrow, 1869 489 +611 pages, illustrated, searchable ************************************************************************* Digital Book CD Requires Adobe Reader 7 or higher to View ************************************************************************* $13.99 + $1.99 shipping and handling http://cgi.ebay.com/Howard-County-Indiana-History-Kokomo-Genealogy-/200345925455?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2ea58c374f Howard County was formally organized May 1, 1844 as Richardville County. As this county nearly all within the old Miami Reserve, it was named after the Miami Chief and successor of Little Turtle, however, the sentiment did not prevail for any length of time and on December 28, 1846, the Legislature passed its first and only act changing the name of a county. Howard County is divided into 11 Civil Townships as follows: Center, Clay, Ervin, Harrison, Honey Creek, Howard, Jackson, Liberty, Monroe, Taylor and Union. Kokomo is the County Seat. It is located on the site of the Indian village of the same name and was first settled in the autumn of 1844 by N. R. Lindsey, J. Bohan, C. Richmond, J. L. Barritt, J. T. McClintock, B. Newhouse, and others. By 1849 it contained five stores, one grocery, fifty dwelling houses, and 250 inhabitants. These volumes are indexed, but do not include a Table of Contents. They are searchable. The first volume relates the history of the state, county and townships. The second is dedicated to biographies of its citizens. “To perpetuate the story of …people and to trace and record the social, political and industrial progress of the community from its first inception is the function of the local historian. A sincere purpose to preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of preservation, and which unite the present to the past, is the motive for the present publication. Able writers have, after much patient study and research, produced here the most complete biographical memoirs of Howard County, Indiana, ever offered to the public. A specially valuable and interesting department is that one devoted to the sketches of representative citizens of this county whose records deserve perpetuation because of their worth, effort and accomplishment.”