Author: Frank D. Haimbaugh
Publisher:
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Category : Delaware County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 624

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Author: Government of Indiana
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 39

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This book has the latest procedures for getting the small claims in the state of Indiana

Author: General William Harrison Kemper
Publisher:
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Category : Delaware County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 574

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Author: G.W. Kemper
Publisher: Рипол Классик
ISBN: 1149217863
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 559

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Category : Delaware County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 994

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Author: Thomas B. Helm
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Category : Delaware County (Ind.)
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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Author: Indiana Historical Records Survey
Publisher:
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Category : Counties
Languages : en
Pages : 420

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Author: Chris Flook
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
ISBN: 1467140074
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1

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Nearly one hundred distinct settlements existed in what we now call Delaware County. Since the end of the American Revolution, Native Americans, pioneer farmers, industrialists and factory workers settled across the county in hamlets, villages and towns of all sizes. Some of these communities survived the ebb and flow of history to prosper, while others disappeared, becoming lost in the collective memory. Today, many residents would only recognize the city of Muncie and the towns of Albany, Daleville, Eaton, Gaston, Selma and Yorktown. A few might know of villages such as Desoto, New Burlington, Smithfield and Wheeling. Most have probably never heard of Dogtown, Gate's Corner, Granville and Soccum. Drawing on years of research, local historian Chris Flook uncovers the stories of these lost towns.

Author: Indiana Historical Records Survey
Publisher:
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Category : Archives
Languages : en
Pages : 416

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Author: Eilene Lyon
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 149307007X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 325

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The road to hell is paved with good intentions…and gold dust. When Henry Jenkins’s sawmill business goes bust and his family loses their Indiana farm to foreclosure, he sees gold as the answer to his financial woes. Joining a company of younger men, Jenkins and the other prospective miners sign fraudulent promissory notes to borrow from a ruthless businessman, Allen Makepeace, to reach the gold mines. They sail the risky route via Panama to the mines in 1851. But gold is not so easy to find by then. Making enough to survive and get home will be difficult; repaying Makepeace could be impossible. As Henry Jenkins becomes mired in mining, his wife, Abby, struggles to meet the needs of her large family amidst crop failures, waves of deadly disease, and harassment by Henry’s creditors. When Henry’s sons-in-law follow in his wake, they find themselves on a notorious death ship, stranded in the vast Pacific. Will any of these frantic men make it home to their distressed families? Fortune’s Frenzy reveals the plight of miners who borrowed at extortionate rates to get to California, and explores the dangerous and deadly sea routes to the west coast that killed roughly 10 percent of those who risked the journey. Alternating between the miners’ trials and terrors, and the challenges for the wives, children, and mothers left behind, Fortune’s Frenzy delves into the country’s pressing social, economic, and nationalist issues in the pre-Civil War decades. The theme is age-old, and still relevant: desperate people falling for get-rich-quick schemes. They fail to consider the sacrifices they will have to make and the dismal odds of their success.