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Book Title: History Of Howard County Indiana

HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. I
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA



AUTHOR'S PREFACE

   Soon after beginning the editing of the History of Howard County, at the
request of B. F. Bowen & Company, two facts became Very prominent. The first was
that the undertaking was greater than at first appeared and the other was that
there are now very, very few of the pioneers remaining to rehearse the
beginnings of Howard County history. It is largely now the verifying: and
arranging such historical matter as has heretofore been published, supplemented
by matters already known by the writer, and others, gathered from old newspapers
and the few survivors of a far away time.

   In preparing this work it has seemed very unfair and short sighted to assume
that all this magnificent country should have remained idle and unused by man
for thousands of years until seventy years ago, for the coming of the white man,
and so I have devoted a chapter to the Mound Builders and another to their
successors— the Indians. Since the coming of the white man I have tried to
describe conditions as they were in the beginning and the many changes he has
wrought along the various lines of life.

   This work has been largely along general lines. The limits of this work have
precluded the going into the purely local and individual. There have been
certain individual schools of more than passing importance, as the Old Normal
and some out township schools. of which it would have been a real pleasure to
have written. Beautiful Crown Point Cemetery is another instance and the Old
Cemetery, where lie the unmarked graves of many of the early pioneers of Kokomo
and vicinity whose memory should especially be cherished as the real founders of
our goodly heritage; and too, our delightful City Park.

   I have consulted and drawn freely from the Kingman County Atlas of 1876 and
the History of Howard and Tipton County of 1883. Mr. Otis C. Pollard has
rendered much valuable assistance; the chapters prepared by him are accredited
to him. Mr. Milton Garrigus has prepared a very valuable history of early
financial conditions, a compact statement of facts difficult to find, especially
interesting in our pioneer history as the Blue Dog and White Dog and the Wild
Cat currencies. Posterity is under a real debt to Mr. Garrigus for this chapter.

                                                JACKSON MORROW.


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HISTORY OF HOWARD COUNTY INDIANA
BY
JACKSON MORROW, B. A.
ILLUSTRATED
VOL. I
B. F. BOWEN & COMPANY
INDIANAPOLIS, INDIANA

(circa 1909)

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