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Hartford City's current (2009) News-Times is a descendant of the entity created by the merger of the Hartford City News and the Times-Gazette. [1] Hartford City Times (1852) First newspaper in Blackford County. [2] Blackford County News (1852–1859) [3] Register (1856) [4] Blackford County Democrat (1857–1861) [5] Hartford City Union (1861 ...
The funeral service will be on Friday, Dec. 15, beginning with a processional at 9 a.m., followed by the service at 10 a.m. All will take place at the church, 18700 James Couzens Highway, Detroit.
Hartford City, Indiana, began in the late 1830s as a few log cabins clustered near a creek.The community became the county seat of Blackford County.Located in the north east-central portion of the state, the small farming community experienced a 15-year "boom" beginning in the late 1880s caused by the discovery of natural gas.
T.C. Steele Boyhood Home, also known as the T.C. Steele House, is a historic home located at Waveland, Montgomery County, Indiana. It was built about 1852, and is a 1 + 1 ⁄ 2-story, three-bay, Greek Revival style frame dwelling with a front-gable roof. The house was renovated and enlarged between 1895 and 1902. It was partially restored in 2002.
Waveland was the boyhood home of American Impressionist painter T. C. Steele. His parents, Samuel and Harriett, moved to Waveland when Steele was five years old, around 1852. Steele's father rented a saddle shop from John Milligan. Young Steele was enrolled in the Waveland Academy.
Pope John Paul II was the subject of three premature obituaries.. A prematurely reported obituary is an obituary of someone who was still alive at the time of publication. . Examples include that of inventor and philanthropist Alfred Nobel, whose premature obituary condemning him as a "merchant of death" for creating military explosives may have prompted him to create the Nobel Prize; [1 ...
1816 December 11 – Indiana is admitted to United States as the 19th U.S. state. [2]1818 October 6 – Treaty of St. Mary's gives land along Salamonie River (in future Jay and Blackford Counties) to Miami Indian Chief François Godfroy (Palaanswa), and tribal members on this reservation are considered first settlers in future Blackford County.
After a third and fourth act of the Indiana General Assembly, Hartford was finalized as the location of the county seat—and construction of a courthouse began. [39] [40] When it was noted that another Indiana community was also named Hartford, Blackford County's Hartford was renamed Hartford City. [41] During the next 25 years, the county ...