INDIANA GENEALOGY EXPRESS - Vigo County, Indiana

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Welcome to
VIGO COUNTY,
INDIANA
HISTORY & GENEALOGY

HISTORY OF
VIGO & PARKE COUNTIES
Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
Gleaned from Early Authors, Old Maps and Manuscripts,
Private and Official Correspondence, and other
Out-of-the-Way Sources
By H. W. Beckwith
of the Danville Bar; Corresponding Member of the Historical Societies of Wisconsin and Chicago
- MAP WITH ILLUSTRATIONS -
Chicago:
H. H. Hill and N. Iddings, Publishers
1880.

(Transcribed by Sharon Wick)

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

PART I.
CHAPTER I.	11
- Topography - The drainage of the Lakes and the Mississippi, and the Indian and French names by which they were severally called
CHAPTER II.	17
- Drainage of the Illinois and Wabash - Their Tributary streams - The portages connecting the drainage to the Atlantic with that of the Gulf.
CHAPTER III. -	21
- The ancient Maumee Valley - Geological features - The portage of the Wabash and the Kankakee
CHAPTER IV. -	26
- The Rainfall - Cultivation of the soil tends to equalize rainfall, and prevent the recurrence of drouths and floods
CHAPTER V. -	29
- Origin of the prairies - Their former extent - Gradual encroachment of the forest - Prairie fires - Aboriginal names of the prairies and the Indians who lived exclusively upon them
CHAPTER VI. -	37
- Early French discoveries - Jacques Cartier ascends the St. Lawrence in 1535 - Samuel Champlain founds Quebec in 1608 - In 1642 Montreal is established - Influence of Quebec and Montreal upon the Northwest continues until subsequent to the war of 1812 - Spanish discoveries of the lower Mississippi in 1525
CHAPTER VII. -	43
- Joliet and Marquette's Voyage - Father Marquette's Journal, descriptive of the journey and the country through which they traveled - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES of Marquette and Joliet
CHAPTER VIII. -	54
- La Salle's Voyage - BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCH of La Salle - Sketch of Father Hennepin and the merit of his writings
CHAPTER IX. -	63
- La Salle's Voyage continued - He erects Fort Miamis
CHAPTER X. -	72
- The several rivers called the Miamis - La Salle's route down the Illinois - The Kankakee Marshes - The French and Indian names of the Kankakee and Des Plains - The Illinois - "Fort Crecoeur" - The whole valley of the great river taken possession of in the name of the King of France
CHAPTER XI. -	87
- Death of La Salle, in attempting to establish a colony near the mouth of the Mississippi - Chicago Creek - The origin of the name - La Salle assassinated and his colony destroyed - Second attempt of France, under Mons. Iberville, in 1699, to establish settlements on the Gulf - The Western Company - Law's scheme of inflation and its consequences
CHAPTER XII -	96
- Surrender of Louisiana to the French Crown in 1731 - Early routes by way of the Kankakee, Chicago Creek, to Ohio, the Maumee and Wabash described - The Maumee and Wabash, and the number and origin of the several names - Indian villages
CHAPTER XIII. -	105
- Aboriginal inhabitants - The several Illinois tribes - Of the name Illinois, and its origin - The Kaskaskias, Cahokias, Tamarooas, Peorias and Metchigamis, subdivisions of the Illinois Confederacy - The tradition concerning the Iroquois River - Their decline and removal westward of the Missouri
CHAPTER XIV. -	119
- The Miamis - The Miami, Piankeshaw and Wea bands - Their superiority and their military disposition - Their trade and difficulties with the French and the English - They are upon the Maumee and Wabash - Their Villages - They defeat the Iroquois - They trade with the English, and incur the anger of the French - Their bravery - Their decline - Destructive effects of intemperance - Cession of their lands in Illinois, Indiana and Ohio - Their removal westward and present condition
CHAPTER XV. -	137
- The Pottawatomies - Originally from the north and east of Lake Huron - Their migrations by way of Mackinaw to the country west of Lake Michigan, and thence south and eastward - Their games - Origin of the name Pottawatomie - Occupy a portion of the country of the Miamis along the Wabash - Their villages - At peace with the United States after the war of 1812 - Cece their lands - Their exodus from the Wabash, the Kankakee and Wabash
CHAPTER XVI. -	153
- The Kickapoos and Mascoutins reside about Saginaw Bay in 1612; on Fox River Wisconsin, in 1670 - Their reception of the Catholic fathers - On the Maumee in 1712 - In southern Wisconsin or northern Illinois - Migrate to the Wabash - Dwellers of the prairie - Their destruction at the siege of Detroit - Nearly destroy the Illinois and Piankeshaws, and occupy their country - Join Tecumseh in a body - They, with the Winnebagoes, attack Fort Harrison - Their country between the Illinois and Wabash - Their resemblance to the Sac and Fox Indians
CHAPTER XVII. -	170
- The Shawnees and Delawares - Originally east of the Alleghany Mountains - Are subdued and driven out by the Iroquois - They war on the American settlements - Their villages on the Big and Little Miamis, the St. Mary's the Au Glaize, Maumee and Wabash - The Delawares - Made women of by the Iroquois - Their country on White River, Indiana, and eastward defined - They, with the Shawnees, sent west of the Mississippi
CHAPTER XVIII. -	180
- The Indians - Their implements, utensils, fortifications, mounds, manners and customs.
CHAPTER XIX. -	195
- Stone implements used by the Indians before they came in contract with the Europeans - Illustrations of various kinds of stone implements, and suggestions as to their probable uses.
CHAPTER XX. -	208
- The war for the fur trade - Former abundance of wild animals and water fowl in the Northwest - The buffalo; their range, their numbers, and final disappearance - Value of the fur trade; its importance to Canada
CHAPTER XXI. -	224
- The war for the empire - English claims to the Northwest - Deeds from the Iroquois to a large part of the country
CHAPTER XXII. -	234
- Pontiac's war to recover the country from the English - Pontiac's confederacy falls to pieces - The country turned over to the English - Pontiac's death
CHAPTER XXIII. -	245
- Gen. Clark's conquest of the "Illinois" - The Revolutionary war - Sketch of Gen. Clark - His manuscript memoir of his march to the Illinois - He captures Kaskaskia - The surrender of Vincennes - Capt. Helm surprises a convoy of English boats at the mouth of the Vermilion River - Organization of the northwest territory into Illinois county of Virginia
CHAPTER XXIV. -	260
- Conclusion
HISTORY OF VIGO COUNTY
Topography	1
Watercourses	5
Organization	7
Law and its administration	9
Col. Francis Vigo	14
Early settlements	22
In the vicinity of the county seat	27
History of Terre Haute	30
Early settlements	33
Town and surroundings	53
Recollections of deceased residents	54
Fires, etc.	61
Old Indian orchard	65
S. B. Gookins	75
" Western Register" and Terre Haute "Advertiser"	78
Old-time merchants, banks, etc.	87
Recollections	97
City government	110
Newspapers	114
Churches	118
Educational	143
Societies	151
HARRISON TOWNSHIP - Biographical - Updated 7/13/2021	159
The Pioneer period	163
Period of growth	203
1860 to 1870	285
Present decade	333
SUGAR CREEK TOWNSHIP	369
- Educational	373
- Biographical	377
LOST CREEK TOWNSHIP	386
- Biographical	391
RILEY TOWNSHIP	403
- Lockport	408
- Biographical	410
PIERSON TOWNSHIP	425
- Biographical	430
LINTON TOWNSHIP	435
- Biographical	438
FAYETTE TOWNSHIP	442
- Biographical	447
PRAIRIETON TOWNSHIP	463
- Biographical	463
HONEY CREEK TOWNSHIP	479
- Youngstown, churches, etc.	480
- Biographical	483
PRAIRIE CREEK TOWNSHIP	496
- Biographical	496
OTTER CREEK TOWNSHIP	499
- Biographical	501
NEVINS TOWNSHIP	509
- Railroads	512
WAR RECORD of VIGO COUNTY	519
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