Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana, Published by The Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago, Illinois, 1887 ~ Reproduction by The Bookmark, Knightstown, Indiana, 1975. Red hardcover with white title on front cover and spine, 7 1/16" x 9 1/2", 522 pages. Book is in good condition showing light wear to corners, edges, some discoloration of cover, several bump marks, bound very well, all pages intact. Illustrated with b/w portraits.

Contents & Illustrations:

• General History
• Introductory
• Scientific:
  • Geography
  • Surface and Soil
  • Timber
  • Wagon and Railroads
  • Climate
  • Geology
  • Rock Formation
  • Basement Rock
  • The Devonian Formation
  • illustration: Vertical Section of Rocks of the Globe vs Putnam County
  • Drift
  • Champlain
  • Zoology
  • Animals
  • Birds
  • Fishes
  • Reptiles
• Indians
• Early and Civil History:
  • Organic
  • Items
  • Early Religious History
• Township Sketches:
  • Clinton Township:
    Surnames:
    Vandever ** Irwin ** Sutherlin ** Linder ** Johnson ** Goodwin ** Holt ** Dougherty ** Vermillion ** Walker ** Peakle ** Hart ** Newgent ** Spaulding ** McCoy ** Spurgeon ** Burk ** Manker ** Etter ** Crawford ** Tally ** Brackney ** Butler ** Ratliff ** Butcher ** Bee ** McKee ** Chandler ** Herron ** Angel ** Shonkwiler ** Sigler ** Twigg ** Thornburg ** Hubbard ** Darnall ** Leatherman ** McBridge ** Smith ** Wood ** Deott ** Beck ** Preston ** Wright
  • Cloverdale Township:
    Surnames:
    Hamilton ** Robinson ** Van Sickle ** Kilgore ** James ** Hadden ** McNary ** Goodman ** Bandy ** Macy ** Meadows ** Tabor ** Sinclair ** Briscoe ** Conoly ** Martin ** Evans ** Patrick ** Nolin ** White ** Rouse ** Lyon ** Woods ** Donnoson ** Gilmore ** Owen ** Morgan ** Hood ** Rule ** Logan **Brannaman ** Waters ** Pearcy ** Woodville ** Nelson ** McKason ** Cord ** Grimes ** Anderson ** McCord ** Smith ** Strange ** Forbes ** Hebenridge ** Ames ** Horton ** Wells ** Wood ** Scammahorn ** Jackson ** Bruner ** Davis ** Williams ** John ** Carter ** Lee ** Rosson ** Poynter ** Allison ** Walls ** Webb ** Hewring ** Pewett ** Tansey ** Johnson ** McNaughton ** Denman ** Arthur ** Denny ** Callthrop ** Vermillion ** Beman ** Case ** Leatherman ** Parks ** Walden ** Mathes ** Maginnis ** Colwell ** Crose ** McCoy ** Nickson ** Headrick ** Blankenship ** Franklin ** Smith ** Hawn ** Lockhart ** Burgess ** Swinford ** Wright ** Wilson ** Black ** Harris ** Badger ** Pritchard ** Brooks
  • Floyd Township:
    Surnames:
    Warford ** Weatherford ** Akers ** Monnett ** Smith ** Purcell ** Daniels ** Aldridge ** Higgins ** Norrill ** Melton ** Rowlett ** Collings ** Wise ** Monachal ** Matthews ** Heavin ** Pickett ** Yeates ** Howard ** Ogle ** Evans ** Arnold ** Miller ** Kinder ** Lewis ** Tarburton ** Bird ** Wilson ** Gibson ** Westhart ** Kurtz ** Todd ** Gregory **Stadley ** McVey ** Hoffman ** Robinson ** Herod ** Hunter ** Ellis ** Iddings ** Craver ** Wright ** Job ** Waln ** Randall ** Shinn ** Millman ** Owen ** Shoemaker ** Hansell ** Wilkinson ** Brown ** Figg ** Chatham ** Busby ** Hughs ** Day ** Simpson ** Anderson ** Otwell ** Dow ** Grimes ** Cost ** Broadstreet ** Summers
  • Franklin Township:
    Surnames:
    Gordon ** Gibson ** Fiddler ** Barnes ** House ** Burnett ** Giddons ** Miller ** Osborn ** Batman ** Makemson ** Lafollett ** Henkle ** Grider ** Dickerson ** Brown ** Stephens ** Wright ** Catherwood ** Hymer ** Edwards ** Carpenter ** Farrow ** Lemon ** Elliott ** Elrod ** Pickel ** Rogers ** Harris ** Culver ** Stanley ** Pearcy ** Shields ** Coombs ** Haney ** Keeney ** Bradford ** King ** Cross ** Obenchain ** Pierson ** Conner ** Turner ** Curry ** Manford ** LeClerc ** Foster ** Biddlecomb ** Guthrie ** Grantham ** Roach ** Sweeney ** Atkins ** McCoy ** Rich ** Seller ** Sutherlin ** Redding ** Hennon ** Justice ** Boner ** McCarty
  • Greencastle Township:
    Surnames:
    Sigler ** Johnson ** Miller ** Jones ** Weeks ** Deweese ** Robertson ** Seller ** Thomas ** Rogers ** Coffman ** Legg ** Sands ** Orr ** Talbott ** Glidewell ** Clark ** Gwathney ** Wilson ** Butcher ** Hunter ** Sims ** Oatman ** Lucas ** Mullinix ** Thornburg ** Mahorney ** Catterlin ** Trotter ** King ** Chipman ** McGaughey ** Hardesty ** Bussey ** Neese ** Canote ** Lynch ** Jackson ** Meyers ** McNary ** Allen ** Gibson ** Tucker ** Purcell ** Thomas ** Duffield ** Devoor ** Wright ** Thornberry ** Cunningham ** Secrest ** Burlingame ** Standeford ** Moore ** Day ** Lowe ** Gregory ** Farley ** Waterman ** Johnson ** Lockhart ** Peck ** Ash ** Jennings ** Blain ** Stevenson ** Knight ** Mahan ** Seybold ** Hammond ** Cowgill ** Rowlett ** Holland ** Carpenter ** Gillespie ** Barlow ** Dudley ** Grooms ** White ** Lynch ** Stegg ** Shields ** Hellens
  • Jackson Township:
    Surnames:
    Welch ** Smith ** Sutherlin ** Talbott ** Crabtree ** Brown ** Thompson ** Johnson ** Chitwood ** Woods ** Blythe ** Harmon ** Keith ** Boyd ** Warford ** Elrod ** Hillis ** Silvey ** Blake ** Goslin ** Duncan ** Leach ** Beecraft ** George ** Moreland ** McCloud ** Pinkerton ** Riley ** Barnes ** Biddle ** Case ** Dale ** Shackleford ** Jeffries ** Crosby ** Miller ** Evans ** Hardin ** Watkins ** Goodwin ** Stringer ** Perry ** Herod ** Owsley ** Moreland ** Kendall ** Long ** Roberts ** Epperson ** Dow ** Wood ** White ** Farmer ** Hogan ** Hunter ** Palmer ** Davis ** Kirkendall ** Rhinerson ** Waters ** Harney ** Lockhart ** Badger ** Coombs ** Blankenship ** O'Kane ** DeMoss ** Wilson
  • Jefferson Township:
    Surnames:
    Higgins ** Kirk ** Sherrill ** Clark ** Hendrick ** Albin ** Hurst ** Langwell ** Buntin ** Aldrich ** Nosler ** Scott ** McCarty ** McMains ** Hadden ** Allee ** Smith ** Conley ** Alspaugh ** Heavin ** Miller
  • Madison Township:
    Surnames:
    Moore ** McGaughey ** Bell ** Wolverton ** Matkins ** Leatherman ** Wright ** Dougherty ** Oatman ** Curtis ** Williams ** Thornburg ** Woolley ** Hansel ** Stoner ** Mann ** Anderson ** Frank ** Swinford ** Lathram ** King ** Albaugh ** Towley ** McPheeters ** Wells ** Torr ** Grubbs ** Burbaker ** Matkins ** Garr ** Townsend ** Parks ** Harlan ** Edwards ** Slavens ** Smith ** Wood ** DeMotte ** Beck ** Tanzy ** Preston ** Fairhurst ** Wright ** Buchanan ** Harris ** Dow
  • Marion Township:
    Surnames:
    Ragan ** Thomas ** Smith ** Wood ** Davis ** Hopkins ** Hazelett ** Bell ** Denny ** Miller ** Legg ** Nichols ** Hunter ** Moss ** Gregory ** Acres ** Stone ** Nicholson ** Jackson ** Wise ** O'Neal ** Chadd ** Benefiel ** Agee ** Brewer ** Knetzer ** Shaptaugh ** Fry ** Keller ** Lunsford ** Bridgwater ** Gorham ** Day ** Frazier ** Runyan ** Hope ** Ellis ** Mason ** Shields ** Reeves ** Burk ** Robinson ** Hopwood ** Broadstreet ** Monnett ** Jones ** Arnold ** Matthews ** Harney ** Waters ** Badger ** Chatterton ** Blankinship ** Cooms ** Brann ** Owen ** Hancock ** Forbes ** Simpson ** Nutt ** Sill ** Catterlin ** Wilcox ** Bridges ** Hammond ** Evans ** Duckworth
  • Mill Creek Townsnip:
    Surnames:
    Broadstreet ** Holmes ** Skelton ** Sallust ** Clark ** Hurst ** Nunn ** Heavin ** McAninch ** Elliott ** McHaffie ** Beadie ** Allee ** Lee ** Bricks ** Keller
  • Monroe Township:
    Surnames:
    James ** Gibson ** Powell ** Vermillion ** Heady ** Frakes ** Howlett ** Ford ** Stewart ** Abner ** Goodwin ** Pearcy ** Randall ** Hillis ** Logan ** McCorkle ** Thornburg ** Sigler ** Tumbrick ** Myers ** Glover ** Jackson ** Baileys ** Benge ** Moss ** Slavens ** Parish ** Byerly ** Heath ** Slater ** Brackney ** Allen ** Starks ** Busey ** Penny ** Leatherman ** Gardner ** Brown ** Lane ** Job ** Risk ** Gibson ** Clement ** Hansel ** Montgomery ** Chadd ** Fisk ** Priest ** O'Hair ** Brown ** Foster ** Tolin ** Graves ** Gilkey ** Farrow ** Tinsley ** Garrett ** Spencer ** Brothers ** Dale ** Starr ** Darnall ** Thornton ** Fyffe ** Tomlinson ** Howlett ** Harney ** Jones ** Anderson ** Stevenson
  • Russell Township:
    Surnames:
    Swank ** Elliott ** Puett ** Butcher ** Anderson ** Westfall ** Landis ** Robertson ** Rosencranze ** Sutherlin ** Gleason ** Steele ** Thompson ** Beck ** Doherty ** Boyd ** Fasher ** Guilliams ** Pickle ** Denton ** Homan ** Garrott ** Page ** Aldridge ** Stid ** Norman ** Wilson ** Evans ** Clodfelter ** McGaughey ** Spencer ** Burkett ** Forgey ** Blake ** Dearduff ** Quinlet ** Dow ** Smith ** Foaher ** Beck ** Guy ** Secrest ** Dougherty ** Clark ** Copeland ** Winslow ** Rogers ** Slavens ** Durham ** Striker
  • Warren Township:
    Surnames:
    Townsend ** Hadden ** Hawn ** Hawkins ** Pearcy ** Brown ** Henderson ** Waynick ** Conley ** Baird ** Arnold ** Akin ** Deweese ** Walden ** Mercer ** Peck ** Duckworth ** Clearwater ** Hancock ** Hepler ** Williams ** Garren ** Sellers ** Hawkins ** Perry ** Swift ** Cooper ** Woodall ** Moore ** Shinn ** Martin ** Gammon ** Skelton ** McEy ** Davis ** Swarts ** Robinson ** Vestal ** Steele ** Heath ** Oatman ** McKane ** Wakefield ** Morgan ** Layman ** Perry ** Jenkins ** Davis ** Reed ** Moore ** Shell ** Ashbaugh ** Merrill ** Hill ** Lowery ** Shields ** Woods ** Hawley
  • Washington Township:
    Surnames:
    Athey ** Reel ** Horton ** Roberts ** Coleman ** Clark ** Knight ** Lewis ** Brown ** McIntosh ** Hutchinson ** Purcell ** Boone ** Seiner ** Webster ** Walden ** Neff ** Davis ** Frazier ** Jones ** Rightsell ** McCullough ** Shrake ** Goodrich ** Fellows ** Wright ** Barnett ** Mullinix ** Simpson ** Deweese ** Huffman ** Harris ** Hooton ** Busick ** Denman ** Devore ** Matkins ** Boone ** Stoner
• Pioneer Life:
  • The Log Cabin
  • Sleeping Accommodations
  • Cooking
  • Women's Work
  • Dress and Manners
  • Family Worship
  • Hospitality
  • Trade
  • Money
  • Milling
  • Agricultural Implements
  • Hog Killing
  • Prairie Fires
  • Wild Hogs
  • Native Animals
  • Wolf Hunts
  • Bee Hunting
  • Snakes
  • Shakes [chills & fever]
  • Education
  • "Past the Pictures"
  • Spelling-Schools
  • Singing-School
  • Guarding against Indians
  • The Bright Side
  • What the Pioneers Have Done
  • Military Drill
  • Jack, "The Philosopher of the Nineteenth Century"
  • "Too Full for Utterance"
• Political
• Civil War [with rosters]:
  • First Company from Putnam
  • History of Three Months' Service
  • Twenty-First Regiment
  • Twenty-Seventh Regiment
  • Forty-Third Regiment
  • Seventy-First (Sixth Cavalry) Regiment
  • Seventy-Eighth Regiment
  • Ninety-Seventh Regiment
  • One Hundred and Fifth Regiment
  • One Hundred and Fifthteenth Regiment
  • One Hundred and Twenty-Third Regiment
  • One Hundred and Twenty-Third Regiment
  • One Hundred and Thirty-Third Regiment
  • One Hundred and Forty-Ninth Regiment
  • Light Artillery
  • Indiana Legion
  • Summary
  • Soldiers' Monument
• The Press:
  • The Hoosier
  • The Plow Boy
  • Weekly Visitor
  • Indiana Patriot
  • Weekly Herald
  • The Argus
  • Putnam Republican Banner
  • Greencastle Banner
  • The Indiana Press
  • The Star
  • Times
  • The Putnam Democrat
  • Daily Journalism
  • At Cloverdale
  • At Roachdale
• Courts and Bar
• Educational
• Miscellaneous:
  • Agricultural
  • Railroads
  • Summary
  • Public Buildings
  • Population
• Towns:
  • Greencastle:
    • Incorporation
    • Churchs
    • Educational
  • Cloverdale
  • Bainbridge
• Biographical Sketches:
  • Samuel Darnall
  • Howard Briggs
  • Thomas Long
  • Elisha Cowgill
  • Walter K. Prichard
  • William A. McFadden
  • James W. Haddan
  • William C. Harris
  • Daniel Boone
  • John Butler
  • Daniel E. Shoemaker
  • Henry Dickerson
  • Ephraim Tucker
  • J. B. Cross
  • William A. Farmer
  • Jehu Cassius Jones
  • Worthington B. Williams
  • David Houck
  • Cornelius G. Raines
  • William R. Beadle
  • Samuel L. Keller
  • Russell Lorenzo Hathaway
  • William M. Cox
  • Joseph A. McMurtry
  • Thomas Job
  • Hon. Delano E. Williamson - with portrait
  • Dudley Hutchison
  • Isaac Browning
  • Joseph B. Bowen
  • David H. Rambo
  • Samuel Catherwood
  • Joseph Lee
  • Thomas A. Moore
  • Aaron H. Sandy
  • David Ader
  • George B. Hillis
  • Franklin Elliot
  • George Hathaway
  • John L. Hillis
  • William B. Sandy
  • Francis Ames Arnold
  • Ezekiel Wright
  • Thomas Fyffe
  • Christian Landes
  • John Fosher
  • Hezekiah H. Perry
  • Robert Hood
  • John W. Eggers
  • Oscar W. Ellis
  • John Wilson
  • Oscar F. Lane
  • Daniel T. Darnall
  • William McCray
  • James E. Quinn
  • George J. Langsdale
  • William H. Gardner
  • Nicholas Schultz
  • Archibald Collings
  • James A. Hope
  • William Onslow Goulding
  • Jacob Shields
  • Henry Shields
  • Jacob Crosby
  • Austin Bond
  • Abel Wilson
  • Alexander Gorham
  • Hon. Edwin T. Lane
  • Milford B. Rudisill
  • George T. Allen
  • Thomas Bayne
  • Isaac Burnett
  • David W. Haines
  • Daniel Epperson
  • Robert Rollings
  • Wilson W. Yeates
  • Thomas Jackson
  • Jacob Wesley Bicknell
  • John W. Gorham
  • Daniel W. Macy
  • Sylvester Evans
  • Archibald Allen
  • C. T. Hargrave
  • Joel Dobbs
  • James H. C. Nelson
  • Casper Renick
  • James H. Hurst
  • Amos W. Evens
  • John A. Girton
  • William Allen
  • Joseph S. McVay
  • Jacob Weesner
  • Reuben Ragan
  • Daniel Peck
  • Winfield S. Cox
  • Joel Heavin
  • Ignatius F. Shannon
  • James McClary
  • William McCarty
  • Thomas Walsh
  • Thomas S. Vermillion
  • Hugh H. Parker
  • William Wright Boardman
  • Arthur A. Smith
  • William H. McVay
  • Rev. Joel Vermillion
  • Ephraim C. Adams
  • James M. Sharp
  • Fleming McCray
  • John Q. Cromwell
  • George Bicknell
  • Perry W. Wright
  • Squire J. Hurst
  • Benjamin G. Wysong
  • J. C. Bridges
  • William Bridges - with portrait
  • Dr. Wallace M. Purcell
  • William Newnam
  • Absalom F. Wright
  • Dudley Rogers, M.D.
  • William A. Burnside
  • Samuel T. Jones
  • William Hurst
  • George W. Sutherlin
  • James Anthony Curtis
  • Felix G. Albin
  • Elijah Wallace
  • L. B. Smith
  • J. F. Cully
  • Nathaniel S. Straughan
  • Gonzalva Cordova Smith
  • Thomas James
  • William C. McCormick
  • Benjamin Jones
  • Milton McCorkle
  • Joel Robert Mitchel Allen
  • Stanfield P. James
  • John W. McNary
  • John A. Huffman
  • Howard E. Hennon
  • James Leachman
  • Richard S. Davis
  • John Grigg Tennant
  • Samuel O. Pearcy
  • James E. M. O'Hair
  • William E. Naugle
  • James W. Risk
  • Franklin Perry Nelson
  • John M. Bowman
  • Wickliffe Mason
  • Peter Alexander Jones
  • Francis M. Leachman
  • John Donald
  • George D. Hartman
  • John Allee
  • Colonel John Riley Mahan
  • Calvin Hurst
  • Jesse W. Stanley
  • Squire A. Cox
  • Stephen Bennett Van Cleave
  • A. M. Wright
  • Jane B. Frakes
  • Stephen Latham
  • Edward W. Shields
  • Alexander Daniel
  • Henry Bowen
  • Francis M. Allee
  • A. H. Pickel
  • James C. Reat
  • John S. Millman
  • William A. Wells
  • Susan M. Johnson
  • Willian Pursell
  • Daniel M. Reel
  • Charles Sumner Bridges
  • Josias H. Robinson, M.D.
  • Hugh H. Dobbs
  • William Dills
  • William F. Brown
  • Lewis H. Stewart
  • Hon. James Denny
  • James Thomas Denny
  • Perry L. Hubbard
  • John T. Fyffe
  • Richard Biddle
  • Stacy L. Reeves
  • William W. Allen
  • William R. Chastain
  • Andrew T. McCoy
  • Jesse McPheeters
  • Levi Hurst
  • James E. O'Hair
  • Lorenzo Dow Glazebrook
  • James P. Foster
  • Adam Ader
  • Thomas Gillespey
  • Charles A. Allen
  • William W. Ross
  • Joseph L. Vaughan
  • William N. Allee
  • Dr. John Slavens
  • Willis McCoy
  • James Andrew Jackson
  • Joseph Thomas McGinnis
  • Theodore Trucksess
  • William M. Cooper
  • Jacob C. Rogers
  • H. C. Darnall
  • John C. Broadstreet
  • William T. McCarty
  • Edward H. Crow
  • C. T. Garnell
  • James Nutgrass
  • Hon. Willis G. Neff
  • Smiley D. Irwin
  • Sylvester C. Bishop
  • John B. Bishop
  • William L. Buis
  • William Thomas
  • Ebben C. Foster
  • Frederick B. Gardner
  • George Worth Bence, M.D. - with portrait
  • Alexander J. Bryan
  • Abram W. George
  • Henry C. Wilson
  • Dr. W. F. Batman
  • J. W. Carver
  • Quinton Broadstreet
  • William Riley Dawson
  • Granville C. Gordon
  • Jefferson Hurst
  • Joseph W. Stoner
  • John Detrick
  • Joseph L. Preston, M.D.
  • John R. King
  • Captain Joseph Marsee Donnohue
  • A. J. Morlan
  • Harrison M. Randel
  • John H. Wilson
  • James A. Ingram
  • Aaron Ingram
  • William Wright
  • John Sallust
  • David P. Farrow
  • Rev. Alexander S. Mayhall
  • Strother P. Vaughan
  • Asa O. Fordice
  • Lewis M. Buis
  • Ellen Butcher
  • George W. Grubb - with portrait
  • Daniel J. Henry
  • Craven T. Foster
  • Michael M. Hurst
  • John S. Perry
  • William Bicks
  • James M. Gibson
  • Hon. Finis Ewing McLean
  • George W. Gardner
  • Jackson Hurst
  • Pleasant Allee
  • J. E. Talbott
  • Albert H. Coffman
  • Samuel Robinson
  • Joseph Ellis
  • Elijah Swindle
  • William Lee
  • William M. Young
  • Henry C. Blue
  • Rebecca Fordice
  • David A. Blue
  • George W. Hendrix
  • Isaac S. Perry
  • John H. Watkins
  • Elisha Wood
  • John H. Herod
  • Luther L. Campbell
  • Henry W. Lucas
  • Christopher Akers
  • Captain William P. Wimmer
  • Isaac M. Day
  • John Waln
  • Rev. Nelson Wright
  • L. B. Mills
  • Sampson Staley
  • Jacob N. Couchman
  • Prementer Mullinix, M.D.
  • George L. Summers
  • William Emmerson Tennant
  • Daniel W. Layman, M.D.
  • Francis M. Alexander
  • John H. Hendrix
  • James McVay
  • Dr. William O. Walker
  • Robert Taylor Jones
  • James W. Bridges
  • Hulbert L. Hamilton
  • Abram T. Hillis
  • John M. Elliott
  • Levi Hasty
  • Dr. Logan Stanley
  • Phillip M. Sandy
  • William R. Buis
  • A. A. Hoskins
  • William T. Merrick
  • Spencer Riggle
  • Morris H. Oliver
  • Jesse Thomas Horn
  • Peter Baumunk
  • William K. Glidewell
  • John Sandy
  • Oliver P. Badger
  • Francis M. Knetzer
  • Joseph B. Ross
  • Dr. George W. Farver
  • George Miller Black
  • Peter S. Stoner
  • James Hill
  • Noah Lee
  • Alexander B. Tolin
  • Samuel Gardner
  • Henry Hunter
  • Thomas J. Ruark
  • Rev. Thomas N. Job
  • Robert McCammack
  • George N. Larkin
  • Thomas Rule
  • Jacob Rule
  • Harrison C. Elliott
  • Jonathan Stoner
  • Martin Miller
  • James R. M. Hamrick
  • Jacob Cline
  • Josephus Anderson
  • John R. Baird
  • Alcany Farmer
  • Reuben McGinnis
  • Robert Scobee
  • Enoch Dicks
  • James Simpson Harlan
  • Amos H. Horn, M.D.
  • Benjamin Chamberlain
  • Stacy Reeves
  • Peter Bowers
  • William R. McElroy
  • George R. Wems
  • Joseph W. Chamberlain
  • George P. Shoptaugh
  • Alonzo E. Chamberlain

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