What a wonderful look at life in the mid-west in the 1800’s.  This Historical CD contains stories of the local townships of Wayne County and its people.

 

This is a scanned copy on CD of the original Book published in 1872.

 

History

of

Wayne County,

Indiana

 

FROM IT’S FIRST SETTLEMENT TO THE PRESENT TIME;

WITH NUMEROUS

BIOGRAPHICAL AND FAMILY SKETCHES.

 

By: Andrew W. Young

 

EMBELLISHED WITH UPWARDS TO FIFTY PORTRAITS OF CITIZENS AND VIEWS OF BUILDINGS.

 

CINCINNATI:

ROBERT CLARKE & CO., PRINT

 

1872

 

460 pages on 1 CD

An essential resource for Genealogists

Actual images of every page, in Adobe Acrobat Reader .PDF format. Works with any computer, and is easy to use and read. Some scans are imperfect.

This book on CD is SEARCHABLE * 

 

CONTENTS

 

  Preliminary history 
  Settlement of Wayne County 
  Civil history 
  Wayne County official register 
  Newspapers 
  Antislavery history 
  Temperance societies 
  Internal improvements 
  Agricultural societies 
  Old settlers' meetings 
  Criminal trials 
  War history 
  Population of Wayne County and property taxes 
  Post Offices and postmasters 
  Abington township 
  Boston township 
  Center township 
  Clay township 
  Dalton township 
  Franklin township 
  Green township 
  Harrison township 
  Jackson township 
  Jefferson township 
  New Garden township 
  Perry township 
  Washington township 
  Wayne township 
  Richmond 
  Supplement 
  Index 
  Index of names

 

BIOGRAPHICAL

 

Addleman, Atkinson, Baldridge, Barnes, Baxter, Beall, Beard, Beeson, Beitzell, Bell, Bennett, Blanchard, Bloomfield, Bond, Booker, Bowen, Bowman, Boyd, Bradbury, Bryan, Bulla, Burfijess, Burk, Burroughs, Chamness, Charles, Cheeseman, Coffin, Comer, Commons, Conley, Cox, Cull, Davis, Dean, Druley, Dye, Eliason, Finch, Finley, Foland, Foulke, Gaar, Grave, Green, Haines, Ham, Hannah, Harris, Hawkins, Hiatt, Hibberd, Hill, Holman, Holloway, Hoover, Hoshour, Hosier, Hough, Hubbard, Hunt, Johnson, Jones, Julian, Kepler, Kibbey, King, Kinley, Lewis, Locke,  Lyle, McClure, McCoy, McGrew, Mansur, Martin, Mason, Meek, Mendenhall, Meredith, Miner, Moffitt, Moore, Morris, Morrisson, Morton, Newman, Ogburn, Osborn, Parry, Peelle, Pennington, Perkins,  Perry, Personett, Pierce, Plummer, Poe, Pritchett,  Railsback, Raridon, Ratliff, Reeves, Reid, Robertson, Rupe, Russell, Sailor, Scott, Shearon, Shinn, Shugart, Shute, Smith, Starr, Stigleman, Stonebraker, Study, Test, Thistlethwaite, Thomas, Tillson, Ulrich, Warner, Wasson, White, Wiggins, Williams, Yaryan, Young,