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1880 Records of the Olden Time

Published in 1880 and authored by Spencer Ellsworth, Records of the Olden Time is full of many biographies, portraits, and illustrations.

CHAPTER XIV - PUTNAM COUNTY

Pages 79-97

  • Earliest Settlers
  • First Houses
  • Boundaries of the County
  • Location of the County Seat
  • First Election
  • County Offices and Incumbents
  • Court House and Jail
  • Ferry and Ferry Rates
  • Revenues, Surveys, etc.
  • Division of the County
  • Early Records
CHAPTERS XV-XXI - THE BLACK HAWK WAR

Pages 98-154

CHAPTER XXII - HENNEPIN TOWNSHIP

Pages 155-176

  • Topography
  • The City of Hennephi
  • Old Time Records
  • Pioneers
  • The Ferry
  • Stage Lines
  • Religous Organizitions
  • Schools
  • Benevolent Societies
  • Buel Institute
  • Mills
CHAPTER XXIII - INCIDENTS and ANECDOTES
  • Great Snows - Odd Characters
  • A Negro Sold Under the Vagrant Act
  • Hard for Bachelors - A Preacher Answered
  • Out of Meat
  • A Wolf Story
  • A Still Hunt
  • A Starved Recruit
  • Jail Burned
  • A Pioneer Express
  • Indians Outwitted
  • Fastidious Travelers
  • The Indian's Ride
CHAPTER XXIV - BURGLARY
  • A Noted Burglary
  • Discovery, Pursuit and Capture of the Burglars
  • Brazen Conduct of Molly Holbrook
  • Escape and Re-capture of the Prisoners
CHAPTER XXV - UNION GROVE
  • First Settlers
  • Schools
  • An Early Bible Society
  • A Pioneer's Story
  • The First Church
  • The Village of Florid
  • Fort Cribs
  • Newspapers of Putnam County
CHAPTER XXVI - MAGNOLIA TOWNSHIP
  • General Description
  • Railroads -The Earliest Settlers
  • The Village of Magnolia
  • The Society of Friends
  • The Old School House
  • Jeremiah Strawn's Fort
CHAPTER XXVII - The Good Old Times, etc.
  • The Good Old Times
  • Joys and Sorrows of Pioneer Life
  • Social Customs and Domestic Economy
  • Wages and Cost of Living
  • Strawn's Prairie
  • Robbery of Jerimiah Strawn
  • Birch's Confession
  • Aaron Payne
  • Pioneer Plows
  • Recollections of Mrs. Geo. Hiltabrand
CHAPTER XXVIII - Benjamin Lundy, etc.
  • Benjamin Lundy, Philanthropist and Abolitionist
  • Efforts in Behalf of Universal Emancipation
  • Old Time "Shivarees"
  • Stealing a Squaw
  • Indian Neighbors
  • An Indian Sign of Peace
  • A Girl who wanted to Marry
CHAPTER XXIX - Ox Bow Prairie, etc.
  • Ox Bow Prairie
  • Early Settlers
  • David Boyle's Primitive Cabin
  • Hard Times
  • Indian Alarms
  • Game
  • Wolf Hunts
  • The Devil Turned Informer
  • Misplaced Confidence
CHAPTER XXX - Old Mills of Magnolia, etc.
  • Old Mills of Magnolia and Vicinity
  • The First Orchard
  • The Great Snow
  • Incidents of the Sudden Freeze
  • An Underground Railway Station Hunting
  • Stories
  • Home-made Cloth
  • The Village of Mt. Palatine
  • Churches
  • Accidents and Incidents
  • An Immense Pigeon Roost
CHAPTER XXXI - SENACHWINE TOWNSHIP
  • Topography and General Description
  • Early Settlers
  • First Religious Services
  • Senachwine's Indian Village
  • Indians at Senachwine's Grave
  • How a Woman Shot a Deer
  • Senachwine Branch U. G. Railway
  • The Murder of McKee
  • Sickness
  • Old Time Surgery
CHAPTER XXXII - GRANVILLE TOWNSHIP
  • Topography
  • First Settlers
  • The Village of Granville Churches Labors in behalf of Education
  • Granville Academy
  • Old School Houses
  • An Obliging Tramp
  • The Hopkin's Tragedy
  • The Kamsay Tragedy
  • Lynching of "Joe Smith"
  • Murder of Dowhower
  • Lost on the Prairie
  • Anecdotes. Incidents, Etc.
BIOGRAPHICAL SECTION

 

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