Wayne County Indiana History - IN Genealogy

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History of
Wayne
County
, IN
From Its First Settlement to the Present
With Numerous
Biographical and Family Sketches
By Andrew W. Young, 1872
565 pages, indexed
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“Believing that nothing short of a regular and well-arranged history of every township would meet the general expectation, it was deemed necessary to alter
the plan of the work For this purpose, every township was visited in person, in order to avail myself of the most reliable sources of information. But in this work a
serious difficulty was soon met. The statements of different persons were widely at variance. The confident assertions of some were contradicted by others; and i
mportant
events were left in uncertainty. Hence it becnme necessary to visit many persons in different, and often distant parts of the township, to determine doubtful points.
Pioneer history, however, constitutes but the smaller portion of the work. The reader will find a great variety of other matter, civil, ecclesiastical, educational,
commercial, agricultural, statistical, and biographical, which will render it convenient and useful as a book of reference, now and hereafter. And the
consideration should not be overlooked, that works of this kind will prove a source of valuable information to future historians.”
Wayne
County
was formed in 1811. It was named for Gen. "Mad" Anthony Wayne, who was an officer during the Revolutionary War. Wayne is mainly remembered
for his service in the 1790s in the Northwest Indian War, which included many actions in
Indiana
and
Ohio
.
Founded by
North Carolina
Quakers who settled along the
Whitewater
River
in
1806
,
Richmond
capitalized on the location as a trading and transportation center
and became the county seat of
Wayne
county in
1873
.
The first permanent settlers on the present site of
Richmond
were John Smith and Jeremiah Cox, two
North Carolina
Quakers who arrived in
1806
.   They came
here by way of Quaker Settlements in
Western Ohio
.
John Smith, who opened the first general store, entered land on the eastern bluff of the Whitewater River, south of present
Main Street
.  He erected a pole log
cabin near South Third and B Streets.
Jeremiah Cox, who built the first grist mill, bought two quarter sections of land north of the present
Main Street
.  Four
acres had been cleared and planted in corn.
David Hoover and several other land seekers traced a section line from a point eight miles north of Dayton, Ohio to
the banks of the Whitewater River early in 1806. The
Hoovers
took up land north of town.
However, these settlers were not the first ones who had acquired land in the present
Wayne
County
.  Richard Rue and George Holman, along with Joseph
Cox and Thomas McCoy and their families, had settled in
Elkhorn
and Abington areas of the county in
1805
.
Contents
Preliminary History
Settlement of
Wayne
County
Early Labors, Condition, and Customs of the Settlers
Civil History
Newspapers
Antislavery History
Township Histories (Abington,
Boston
, Center, Clay,
Dalton
,
Franklin
, Green, Harrison,
Jackson
, Jefferson, New Garden,
Perry
,
Washington
,
Wayne
,
Richmond
)
Supplement
50 Portraits
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