An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana

The School Law of 1852..The Township System..Opposition to the
Law..Deficiency in the Number and Qualification of Teachers..
The School Fund..Township Libraries..School Statistics of 1860.. £59

CHAPTER XXXIII.

EDUCATIONAL.

Present Condition....Origin of Free Schools..Present Common School

Fund. School Fund compared with that of other States..School

Houses--County Superintendents. Educational Statistics..Statistics

of Libraries..Religious..Statistics of Churches

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CHAPTER XXXIV.

BENEVOLENT INSTITUTIONS.

Insane Hospital..Deaf and Dumb Asylum..Blind Asylum..Other

Charities. Statistics of the Objects of Charity..Statistics of Popu-

lation, Pauperism and Crime

CHAPTER XXXV.

WEALTH AND PROGRESS.

Population..Population by Towns..Wealth, Taxation and Public

Indebtedness of Indiana..Statistics.

Agriculture..General Remarks, Statistics of Productions, Soil, Farms,

CHAPTER XXXVIII.

THE MINERAL WEALTH OF INDIANA.

Mineral Wealth..Coal, Iron, Stone, etc...Statistics.. Analysis of

Coals.....

CHAPTER XXXIX.

LAWS AND COURTS OF INDIANA.

Actions..Arrests..Attachments..Claims..Deeds, Mortgages, etc ..

Women's Rights..Depositions..Executions..

CHAPTER XL.

OFFICIAL REGISTER OF INDIANA.

807

814

Governors..Lieutenant Governors. Secretaries of State..Auditors of .

State. Treasurers of State..Attorneys General..Supreme Court

Judges..U. S. Senators .

ALLEN COUNTY-EARLY HISTORY.

Kekionga..The Ancient Miami Capital..Post Miami..Nicholas' Con-
spiracy..Dubuisson's Fort..Fate of Post Miami..Fate of Holmes
..Erection of the Fort in 1794.-Tecumseh's Siege of Fort Wayne..
Bravery of Oliver..Intemperance of Captain Rhea..General Harri-
son Marches to the Relief of the Besieged Garrison..Incidents of
the Siege..The Relief..Destruction of Indian Villages..Improve-
ment of the Grounds around the Fort......

CHAPTER XLIII.

FORT WAYNE-EARLY SETTLEMENT.

Indians and Whites..The "Old Fort House"..The Company's

Garden. The Garrison Burial Ground..Modes of Travel..The First

Mills..The Fur Trade..Major Whistler's Fort..Richardville..

Rebuilding the Fort..The "Big Elm" Post Office..Pay Season at

Fort Wayne..The Land Office..The Old Town Plat..The Land

Sale......

CHAPTER XLIV.

ALLEN COUNTY-EARLY SETTLEMENT.

888

885

849

Organization of the County..Location of the County Seat.. County
Officers.. Pioneer Days of Fort Wayne..Taxation. First Circuit
Court. Scenes in the Court..Trial of Big Leg..Courting.......... 858

CHAPTER XLV.

ALLEN COUNTY-FORT WAYNE-MODERN HISTORY.

Area..Population..Wealth..Population of the Towns.. Rural Dis-
tricts. Public Schools of Allen County and of Fort Wayne..Cath-
olic Schools.. Religious..Railroads..Public Improvements..... 864

CHAPTER XLVI.

HUNTINGTON COUNTY-HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.

Surface of the County..First Settlement..The Helveys..Flint Springs
Hotel..Organization of the County.. First School Teacher..Hunt-
ington..The Lime Interest..Agricultural Wealth..Public Improve-

ments

CHAPTER XLVII.

CASS COUNTY-HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.

Organization of the County.."The Mouth of Eel"..Early Settlers..
Increase of the Settlement..Organization of the County..First
County Officers..The Board of Commissioners..The Circuit Court
..Growth of the Town and County.. Logansport..

CHAPTER XLVIII.

870

874

TIPPECANOE COUNTY-HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.

Ouantenon..The Fate of the Post on the Wea Prairie..Jenkins' Letter
to Major Gladwyn..First Settlers..Crawfordsville the Centre of
Civilization on the Wabash..William Digby..Rival Towns on the
Wabash..Educational..Sketch of the Early Schools..Purdue Uni-

versity...

CHAPTER XLIX.

MONTGOMERY COUNTY-EARLY HISTORY.

Organization of the County. Scenes and Incidents at Crawfordsville
..John Beard..Surface and Soil.. Crawfordsville..The Streets and
Public Improvements..Wabash College....

CHAPTER L.

VIGO COUNTY-HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.

Fort Harrison..Canadian Land Grants..Early Settlers..The Town of
Terre Haute Laid Out.. Sale of Lots..Organization of the County
..First County Officers..The First Circuit Court..Early Court
Houses..The Present City of Terre Haute.. Educational..

CHAPTER LI.

881

898

..... 898

KNOX COUNTY-HISTORICAL AND DESCRIPTIVE.

Vincennes..Its Establishment..Early Fur Traders..Knox the Mother

of Indiana Counties..New Vincennes..Its Buildings and Public

Improvements.. Churches..The New Court House..Country Tribu-

tary to Vincennes.

CHAPTER LII.

VANDERBURGH COUNTY - EVANSVILLE.

Early Settlement of Evansville..The Town Plat. Early Sale of Lots