Wabash County Chronicles

by Woodward, Ron

• ISBN13: 9781596299344
• ISBN10: 1596299347
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-03-22
• Publisher: History Pr

Summary

Just about fifty years before lights atop the courthouse put Wabash in the record books, a gang of squirrels came marauding through the area, denuding the trees and crops. Of course, the farmers fought back with guns; the kids with clubs. This happened just about the time of the Irish canal worker infighting; those boys attacked one another with everything they had. Oh, and there are the unexplained monster sightings and things of that nature. But really, it's not all bizarre. After all, Wabash was the first electrically lighted city, and there are scores of heroes and important businesses. There's just so much to hear about. Come along with authors Ron Woodward and Gladys Harvey as they share the strange and important history of this old Indiana county. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 11
Historical Tales
Hanging Rock	p. 15
Nature Gone Wild	p. 17
Kerr Lock	p. 19
Horse Racing in the Canal	p. 22
The Irish War in Wabash County	p. 23
Early Education	p. 24
Schools of Long Ago	p. 26
Wabash County Home	p. 29
After the Canals Came the Trains	p. 32
Riding the Rails	p. 34
Need for an Orphans Home	p. 37
Follow the Drinkin' Gourd	p. 40
Fiddle Contests	p. 42
Life at Camp Wabash	p. 45
From One-Horse Plows to Diesel Farming	p. 49
Roller Skating Becomes All the Rage	p. 53
An Early Halloween	p. 54
A Wild Ride	p. 56
Wabash County's Love Affair	p. 58
A Night at the Movies	p. 60
Wabash's First Hospital	p. 63
The Ku Klux Klan in Wabash	p. 66
Snowballs but No Snow: Bloomers and Basketball	p. 68
Civilian Conservation Corps	p. 69
Wabash Women Served in War Times	p. 71
Wabash County Cheer Club, Inc.	p. 73
Events and Happenings
From Out of Nowhere	p. 79
Local Indian Sites	p. 80
The Little Cuss from Wabash	p. 82
Rowdy Wabash	p. 84
The Day Local Doctors Became Body Snatchers	p. 86
Violent Deaths in Wabash County	p. 88
Snakes in Early Wabash	p. 90
The Monster at Laketon	p. 92
A Haunted House and Mysterious Sites at Puckerbrush	p. 93
The Tombstone that Moves	p. 95
People
The Hannah Thorpe Story	p. 101
Frances Slocum	p. 102
Indian Trader Samuel McClure and Life with the Indians	p. 105
Captain Gess, Mighty Indian Fighter	p. 107
First Wabash Resident to Enlist in the Civil War	p. 109
Adelaide Steele Baylor	p. 111
Medical Heroes: The Wagner Brothers	p. 112
A Martyr to Science	p. 114
Loren M. Berry	p. 115
Homer G. Davisson, Painter of the Mississinewa	p. 118
Wabash Cartoonist Draws Sweeney Character	p. 121
Places
Lost Towns of Wabash	p. 125
Prosperous Liberty Mills	p. 128
History of Servia (New Madison)	p. 133
How Silver Creek Got Its Name	p. 136
Business and Industry
First Industry in Wabash County	p. 141
South Wabash Rural Home Cure	p. 143
Industries Put Wabash on the Map	p. 145
Wabash Screen Door Company	p. 150
The Button Factory in Wabash	p. 151
About the Authors	p. 155
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