History of Johnson County, Indiana
All life and achievement is evolution; present wisdom comes from past experience, and present commercial prosperity has come only from past exertion and suffering. The deeds and motives of the men that have gone before have been instrumental in shaping the destinies of later communities and states. The development of a new country was at once a task and a privilege. It required great courage, sacrifice and privation. Compare the present conditions of the people of Johnson county, Indiana, with what they were one hundred years ago. From a trackless wilderness and virgin land, it has come to be a center of prosperity and civilization, with millions of wealth, systems of railways, grand educational institutions, splendid industries and immense agricultural productions. Can any thinking person be insensible to the fascination of the study which discloses the aspirations and efforts of the early pioneers who so strongly laid the foundation upon which has been reared the magnificent prosperity of later days? To perpetuate the story of these people and to trace and record the social, political and industrial progress of the community from its first inception is the function of the local historian. A sincere purpose to preserve facts and personal memoirs that are deserving of perpetuation, and which unite the present to the past, is the motive for the present publication. A specially valuable and interesting department is that one devoted to the sketches of representative citizens of this county whose records deserve preservation because of their worth, effort and accomplishment. The publishers desire to extend their thanks to the gentlemen who have so faithfully labored to this end. Thanks are also due to the citizens of Johnson county for the uniform kindness with which they have regarded this undertaking and for their many services rendered in the gaining of necessary information.
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When Indiana was admitted into the Union in 1816, the white settlers occupied only a small section of the southern part of the state. The boundary line separating their territory from the Indian lands ran from a point on the Wabash river nearly due west of Rockville in Parke county, in a southeasterly direction to a point on White river about half way between Seymour and Brownstown, then northeast to the southeast corner of Decatur county, then east of north to Fort Recovery, in Mercer county, Ohio. If another line be drawn from the place of beginning to Fort Recovery, the triangle thus formed would embrace the tract of land then claimed by the Delaware tribe.