Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, August 23, 1919, p. 8. FILES SUIT FOR DIVORCE Cursing, beating and failure to provide are the grounds for a divorce suit filed in circuit court last week by Myrtle Donham against Archie Donham.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, August 16, 1919, p. 8. NEGLECTS HOME; DIVORCE SOUGHT Alleging cruel treatment and neglect of domestic duties, William Allen, painter, has sued for a divorce from Maggie Allen. W. G. Marshall brings the suit.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Weekly Star, August 9, 1919, p. 8. Fred C. Bunger asks a divorce from Nellie Bunger alleging that she neglected her household duties for social affairs, etc. The suit is brought by Atty. R. H. East.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Progress, February 21, 1872, p. 3. DIED On the 5th inst., Henry Mayfield, in the 20th year of his age, of typhoid fever.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Progress, February 21, 1872, p. 3. DIED At the residence of her father, Robertson Graham, on the 10th of January, Miss Laura A. Graham in her 19th year, of typhoid fever

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Progress, February 21, 1872, p. 3. Grand juries in other counties are taking some notice of the negligence of preachers with reference to the return of marriage certificates to the county clerks. There is a harvest awaiting the prosecutor in Monroe County.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Progress, January 31, 1872, p. 3. Bob Campbell arrived home from southern Illinois Saturday morning and forthwith proceeded to sell his household furniture at auction. His family will accompany him to Egypt where he is at present engaged in leasing land for a Pennsylvania mineral company. Leroy S. Chase will occupy Campbell's residence in the northeastern portion of town.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Progress, January 3, 1872, p. 3. A petition to Congress against the proposed law granting the right of suffrage to women, is being circulated in Bloomington and vicinity. The petition has received the signatures, we are informed, of all ladies to whom it has been presented and will reflect the sentiments of the better half of creation in this locality. Mrs. Martha J. Wilison (consider Wilson a spelling variant) has the matter in charge, and ladies who may desire to append their signatures to the petition will find it at Mrs. W.'s store on South College Avenue.

Delinquent Taxes-1870 Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Progress, January 3, 1872, p. 2. NOTE: The item below is only a partial listing as the article was not copied in its entirety from microfilm. A property description and the amount of the delinquent tax were included with each name, but only the names are recorded herein. Bean Blossom Township Isiah Beaumont James E. Burton Elizabeth Baker Ann E. Cornelius Copper, Miers & Runnells Catharine Gable Felix G. Hight Thomas Langwell Lewis & Bro. George W. Shirley Peter K. Swaffer (consider Swafford a spelling variant), George A. Watson John Williams Washington Township Jack Alexander W. A. Alexander Hawkins Bales Alvin Ball Henry Baugh John Clark David Clark, estate of Andrew Clark J.W. Eubank John Goble Henry Graham Sarah A. Gillson Jno. Harvey George W. Hammond.

A brief business and family history of John Owens who once ran a store in Monroe County was compiled by Claude Rankin. It is the preface to the microfilmed records of two volumes of business records compiled by Owens during the course of time that he was doing business. The first volume covers the period 1827-1829 and consists of 563 pages; the second volume covers the time 1829-1830 and ends with page 527. Both volumes represent an accounting of business transacted by the store by various members of the community. This material located on Reel 13, Local History Microfilm Collection, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana. Information from the preface has been abstracted below by Randi Richardson. The business records of John Owens, who ran a country store in the early 1800s, were found in an old trunk in the attic of his "foster" son, Benjamin I(nman-) Owens, whose home stood a short distance from where the store was once located. John Owens was the "son of an Irish country gentleman and a successful merchant, farmer and money-lender of his portion of Monroe County somewhere near the date of 1816. He imported from England five head of the first blooded short horn cattle to be brought into Indiana having them driven from Baltimore to Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, brought from there by boat to Madison, Indiana, and thence by foot to his farm on Stout's Creek." John Owens married the widow of his good friend, John Inman, who settled in Greene County, Indiana. Both men knew each other as boys and came to America together. Owens adopted Inman's children who hyphenated their name to Inman-Owens. From these children came the Fee and Owens families.

Agnes McCullough Hanna, "The Howe-Maxwell House," the second of two parts, Indianapolis (IN) Star, 1931 (no specific date noted), Reel 12, Local History Microfilm Collection, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana. NOTE: The item below was abbreviated from the original as noted by the ellipsis. In 1843, Dr. James Darwin Maxwell, son of Dr. David Hervey Maxwell and Mary Dunn, married Louisa (Dovie) Howe in this house. The only bridesmaid was Jane Nowland, youngest daughter of Matthias P. Nowland of Indianapolis. Miss Nowland made her home with the Howe family while she attended the female seminary. Ten children were born to the James Maxwell, and in spite of the fact that the grounds about the house were large and that through them ran a brook, Mrs. Maxwell said that when each of her four boys brought a companion to play, and the six little girls wanted space for their games, she felt the need of a farm at the very least. So the family went to the country where there was room to spare. The house they occupied a few miles from town has been made over into two large houses. When the children were grown, they came back to this house. Here Dr. David Hervey Maxwell came to spend his last years. He had been much interested in the development of the railroads and, as a man of vision, had hoped to see one come to Bloomington. From whispers and hushed sentences about him, he was convinced that the first train was about to enter the town, and he was ill! When he was left alone on that day in 1854, he got up from his bed, dressed himself and ran across the field between his home and the tracks and was present at the momentous entrance of the Monon train. This Dr. David Hervey Maxwell had written the constitution of our state with his own hand, and it may be seen to this day in our archives. In 1838, his son, Dr. James D. Maxwell, was elected to the board of Trustees of Indiana University.He saw it develop to the new and enlarged institution on its new campus. Maxwell Hall is named in honor of David Hervey and James Darwin Maxwell. His services were rendered with no financial reward. In this spacious house he and Mrs. Maxwell entertained twice each year the trustees and members of the faculty and their wives at dinner parties. Dr. James Darwin Maxwell was born in 1815 near Hanover, Indiana. Of his ten children, three daughters are living-Mrs. Allan B. Philputt of Indianapolis, Miss Juliette Maxwell, who resigned recently from the department of physical training at the university, and Miss Fannie Bell Maxwell, formerly an instructor at Ferry Hall, Lake Forest, Ill. Mrs. Grace Phiputt Young, his granddaughter, is a member of the department of Romance languages, of which her husband is head, at Indiana. This is a family that is tied intimately to our state and its university. This house, which was for many years connected with the town and college, still holds its place as it is now the home of the Burton Woolery post of the American Legion, many of whose members were graduated from the university, some of whom are attached to the university, and all of whom see and take part in its activities. A long life and happy one this How-Maxwell house has had in Bloomington, few can belong more closely to the community.

Mary Alice Baxter, "Monroe County Poor House Reminder of a Bygone Age," Indiana Daily Student, September 25, 1969, Reel 12, Local History Microfilm Collection, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana. Abstracted by below by Randi Richardson. The Monroe County Poor Farm was constructed in 1893 but has long since been abandoned. "Strewn throughout the 60-odd rooms of the decaying house are constant reminders of another day, another people." Entire families previously occupied the cramped, dingy rooms now stripped of "gaily-printed wallpaper, the county's one concession to beauty in their home for the poor." Because the crumbling structure now presents a danger to trespassers, the house will be razed in October and, with it, any remembrances of an age also past.

George Smith, "New Life for the Old Home, Target, unspecified newspaper, November 10, 1968, Reel 12, Local History Microfilm Collection, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana. Abstracted by below by Randi Richardson. The old Monroe County poor asylum, a giant, crumbling brick house behind a locked, wooden gate, down a gravel lane, is located 300 yards off the Airport Road adjacent to the Monroe County fairgrounds. According to the stone plaque atop the 2-story structure, it was erected in 1893. When the asylum was discontinued 14 years ago, the furnishings of the home and several outlying buildings were sold at public auction, and the building sat abandoned since that time. In 1965, it was proposed that the site be made into a park. At the time the article was written, there was no funding for a park in that location.

Newspaper clipping, no date or source noted (appears to be from a date earlier than 1900), attached to a poor farm article written by James P. Root, title not legible, published in the Bloomington (IN) Herald Telephone, July 10, 1969, available on Reel 12, Local History Microfilm Collection, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana. Abstracted by below by Randi Richardson. In 1838, agitation was started for the establishment of a poor farm in Monroe County. Action was postponed until 1846. After considering several sites, John Acuff property on the Bloomington and Spencer Road was chosen and he became the first superintendent of the farm. At the time of purchase, these was already an existing home on the property and the erection of a log house was ordered by the commissioners. Acuff was paid $100 for his services as superintendent. In order to meet the growing needs of the county, a new farm was purchased in 1862. Samuel A. Smith was the owner, and the property consisted of 168 acres. It was quickly determined that the property was not well suited for the purpose, and in 1865 it was sold to John F. May who became the second superintendent of the poor farm. Plans were immediately put in place to purchase another property. In 1866, the county purchased six Seminary lots, known as the Cuff farm (consider Acuff a spelling variant) from Peter Bollenbacher. In 1867, Samuel A. Smith built a new poor farm on the property.

Undated, no source noted newspaper clipping, written by James P. Root and titled "Poor Farm Buildings Are to be Torn Down," Reel 12, Local History Microfilm Collection, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana. Article includes a 5x5 picture of the poor farm with the caption noted below: "Poor Farm Home to Come Down-Windows are gone, steps are broken, floors have holes in them and several other conditions make the old 30-room county poor farm home a danger, the Monroe County commissioners determined Monday afternoon. They voted to advertise for bids to remove it and surrounding buildings. The home was built before the turn of the century."

May 19, 1966, reprinted in Sands of Time, Bloomington (IN) Herald Telephone, May 19, 1971, available on Reel 12, Local History Microfilm Collection, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana. The old water fountain formerly on a sidewalk at the southwest corner of the Monroe County Courthouse property has a new home on the west side of the courthouse. The drinking fountain, dated 1913, was installed by the Bloomington Women's Christian Temperance Union in memory of Elizabeth Louden.

Daily Herald Telephone, May 19, 1921, reprinted in Sands of Time, Bloomington (IN) Herald Telephone, May 19, 1971, available on Reel 12, Local History Microfilm Collection, Monroe County Public Library, Bloomington, Indiana. Bloomington Elks at their meeting voted to buy the property of Dr. P. C. Holland, corner of Walnut and Seventh streets, and the office occupied by Drs. Holland and Holland as a site for their new home.

On December 9, 1865, according to a digital image of the marriage record available online at familysearch, Wesley Vaugnh married Miss Elizabeth Madris (consider Medaris a spelling variant) in Jackson County, Indiana. The marriage was performed by John W. Goble, a justice of the peace.

Alton (IL) Evening Telegraph, February 8, 1893, p. 4. Dr. McLaughlin, a physician of Harrodsburg, Indiana, committed suicide.

Bloomington (Monroe County, Indiana) Courier, March 14, 1899, p. 1. Miss Sylvia Burch, one of the popular teachers in the schools of Hazelwood, is at home for a week's visit.