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- The Thunderbird of the St. Joseph River Valley: One Spirit, Many Peoples
- Alanson Skinner, The Mascoutens or Prairie Potawatomi Indians, Part III: Mythology and Folklore, Bulletin of the Public Museum of the City of Milwaukee 6, no. 3 (1927): the warclub that “comes from the Thunder”; the Thunder clan and the underwater bears; the man who visited the Thunderbirds’ nest, pp. 385–388. Internet Archive.
- Alanson Skinner, Material Culture of the Menomini, Indian Notes and Monographs (New York: Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, 1921): the Thunderers and the Powers Below, p. 31; Thunderbird and panther designs, pp. 258–265 and plates LXX–LXXI; Acorn’s garters, pp. 258–259 and plate XXXIII; pebbles as thunderbolts or eggs, pp. 317–318. Internet Archive.
- Lewis H. Morgan, Ancient Society (New York, 1877), p. 171: the fifteen gentes of the Potawatomi, with their native names. Internet Archive.
- Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 30, Part 1 (1907): “Chekwa,” p. 240 (from ching’wă, “thunder rolls”); “Miami,” pp. 852–853. Internet Archive.
- Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Part 2 (1910): “Potawatomi,” p. 290; “St Joseph,” p. 412; “Thunderbird,” by John R. Swanton, pp. 746–747. Internet Archive.
- Truman Michelson, Contributions to Fox Ethnology II, Bureau of American Ethnology Bulletin 95 (Washington, 1930): neneme’kiwa and tcigwawa, pp. 50–51; Thunderers and Underworld Panthers on woven bags, p. 55; plate 1. Internet Archive.
- Reuben Gold Thwaites, ed., The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, vol. 54 (Cleveland, 1899): Marquette on the Illinois, p. 187; Missibizi, p. 155. Internet Archive.
- The Jesuit Relations, vol. 59 (1900): Marquette’s painted monsters, pp. 139–141, and Thwaites’s note 33, p. 312. Internet Archive.
- The Jesuit Relations, vol. 58 (1899): the Menominee healer “invoking the thunder,” p. 279. Internet Archive.
- Andrew J. Blackbird, History of the Ottawa and Chippewa Indians of Michigan (Ypsilanti, 1887): the god of the deep, p. 75; the fourth teaching, p. 103; Au-ne-me-kee, p. 125. Internet Archive.
- William Jones, Ojibwa Texts, Part II, Publications of the American Ethnological Society 7 (New York, 1919): the Thunderers’ nest, pp. 191–193; “grandfathers,” p. 642. Internet Archive.
- William Jones, Fox Texts, Publications of the American Ethnological Society 1 (Leyden, 1907): thunder as manitou beings of the air, pp. 175–176; Wamigohag and the faster, pp. 203–207. Internet Archive.
- Garrick Mallery, Picture-Writing of the American Indians, Tenth Annual Report of the Bureau of Ethnology (Washington, 1893), fig. 685, p. 487. Internet Archive.
- William McAdams, Records of Ancient Races in the Mississippi Valley (St. Louis, 1887), pp. 7–8: the Dennis sketch of 1825, the 1838 account, “The Piasa.” Internet Archive.
- Henry Lewis, Das illustrirte Mississippithal (Düsseldorf, 1854–57), “The Piasau Rock.” Internet Archive.
- The Jesuit Relations, vol. 61 (1900): Dablon’s Relation of 1679, p. 149. Internet Archive.
- Pierre-François-Xavier de Charlevoix, Journal of a Voyage to North America, ed. Louise Phelps Kellogg, vol. 2 (Chicago: Caxton Club, 1923): the nations of Green Bay, pp. 66–67; letter written at Fort St. Joseph, 8 September 1721, the god of the waters and the great Tyger, p. 131, tobacco into rivers and lakes, p. 137; among the Illinois, thunder as flying men or unknown birds, p. 216. Internet Archive.
- Mary C. Dickerson, The Frog Book (New York: Doubleday, Page, 1906), color plate X, fig. 1, the spring peeper. Internet Archive.
- Who was John B. Howe?
- Report of the Debates and Proceedings of the Convention for the Revision of the Constitution of the State of Indiana, 1850 (Indianapolis, 1850), vol. 1, pp. 576–79 (Howe’s speech, 18 November 1850). Internet Archive.
- The same, vol. 2, pp. 1786–89 (the votes of 23 January 1851) and p. 1827 (24 January 1851). Internet Archive.
- Counties of LaGrange and Noble, Indiana: Historical and Biographical (Chicago: F. A. Battey, 1882), pp. 34, 47, 56–57, 62–63, 143–50, 317–18. Internet Archive.
- Illustrated Atlas and Columbian Souvenir of LaGrange County, Indiana (1893), p. 67 and the Howe plate. Internet Archive.
- History of Northeast Indiana: LaGrange, Steuben, Noble and DeKalb Counties (Chicago: Lewis, 1920), vol. 1, pp. 42–44, 149–52. Internet Archive.
- The same, vol. 2, pp. 448–49 (the Howe sketch with “majority”). Internet Archive.
- Rose Marjorie Waddell, History of LaGrange County, Indiana (compiled from the LaGrange Standard and LaGrange News, 1936). Internet Archive.
- Journal of the Proceedings of the Annual Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the Diocese of Indiana, 1881–87 (bound volume): 1883, pp. 37–41 (Howe’s death and the words of his will); 1884, p. 19 (the homestead); 1885, p. 18 (the opening); 1886, pp. 90–91 (Spalding’s report) and the trustees’ report (the deeds and St. Mark’s); 1887, pp. 21–23 and the school report. Internet Archive.
- Samuel Blake, Blake Family: A Genealogical History of William Blake, of Dorchester, and His Descendants (Boston: Ebenezer Clapp, 1857), pp. 52, 81. Internet Archive.
- Ruth M. Slevin, comp., La Grange County, Indiana, Will Records, Volumes 1 & 2, 1842–1896 (abstracts), Book 2, pp. 116–21 (John B. Howe). Internet Archive.
- “Burial of Mrs. Howe,” The Living Church, 4 June 1904. Internet Archive.
- Fort Wayne Sentinel, 22 January 1909 (“Agitation has been stirred in Lagrange county”). Internet Archive.
- Ronald L. Baker, From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), s.v. Howe (post office dates). Internet Archive.
- U.S. Statutes at Large, vol. 4: 23rd Congress, 1st session, ch. 140 (30 June 1834), and 2nd session, the roads act of 3 March 1835, p. 777. Internet Archive.
- John Martin Smith, Auburn: History of the Municipal City of Auburn, Indiana, 1900–2000 (2000) (Wesley Park, Howe and the plat of 1836). Internet Archive.
- John Martin Smith, ed., DeKalb County, 1837–1987: DeKalb County Topical History (1987) (Howe as co-founder of Auburn; his books). Internet Archive.
- J. B. Howe, Monetary and Industrial Fallacies: A Dialogue (Boston: Houghton, Osgood, 1878). Internet Archive.
- J. B. Howe, The Political Economy of Great Britain, the United States, and France, in the Use of Money (Boston, 1878). Internet Archive.
- J. B. Howe, The Common Sense, the Mathematics, and the Metaphysics of Money (Boston, 1881). Internet Archive.
- White Pigeon’s run
- “White Pigeon’s Grave,” from the White Pigeon Republican, 29 May 1839, reprinted in Historical Collections of the Pioneer and Historical Society of Michigan, vol. 10 (Lansing, 1888), pp. 172–74. Internet Archive.
- History of St. Joseph County, Michigan (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1877), pp. 19, 23, 31, 34, 61–67. Internet Archive.
- Portrait and Biographical Album of St. Joseph County, Michigan (Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1889), p. 350 (Thomas Redfearn). Internet Archive.
- H. G. Cutler, ed., History of St. Joseph County, Michigan (Chicago: Lewis, 1911), vol. 1, pp. 133–41, 153–54, 436, 447–48. Internet Archive.
- Indian Treaties, and Laws and Regulations Relating to Indian Affairs (Washington, 1826), pp. 56 and 70: the treaties of Greenville (1795) and Brownstown (1808). Internet Archive.
- U.S. Statutes at Large, vol. 4, 18th Congress, 2nd session, chs. 114 and 120 (3 March 1825). Internet Archive.
- Michigan Pioneer Collections, vol. 5 (Lansing, 1884), p. 373 (Thomas C. Sheldon and the land office). Internet Archive.
- Michigan Historical Collections, vol. 37 (1909–10), p. 17 (the Alba Columba Club’s book). Internet Archive.
- “Marking the grave of Wahbememe,” in Michigan History Magazine 4 (1920) (the Alba Columba Club, “the first marker … placed in the county,” dedicated 11 August 1909). Internet Archive.
- C. A. Weissert, An Account of Southwest Michigan and St. Joseph County (Historic Michigan, vol. 3, c. 1924), pp. 218–19. Internet Archive.
- Atlas of St. Joseph County, Michigan (Philadelphia: C. O. Titus, 1872). Internet Archive.
- How a farm sale became a flea market
- 7 Score and 10: La Grange County’s 150th Year (1982): “Curtis created the auction …”, George Curtis’s recollections, and the county chronology for 1961, 1968, 1974, 1979 and 1981. Internet Archive.
- John M. Zielinski, Amish Buggies Across America (Amish Heritage Publishing, 2003): the first fourteen exhibitors and “as many as 1400.” Internet Archive.
- Albert LaFarge, The U.S. Flea Market Directory (New York: St. Martin’s, 2000), p. 145: “nearly two million visitors annually.” Internet Archive.
- Melissa Troyer, 101 Things to Do in Shipshewana (2010): the first auction, and “a million visitors.” Internet Archive.
- Thomas J. Meyers and Steven M. Nolt, An Amish Patchwork: Indiana’s Old Orders in the Modern World (2005). Internet Archive.
- Dorothy O. Pratt, Shipshewana: An Indiana Amish Community (Bloomington: Quarry Books, 2004). Internet Archive.
- Gospel Herald (Scottdale, Pa.), 15 March 1966, obituary of Fred M. Lambright, and 3 May 1966, obituary of Mabel Elizabeth Lambright. Internet Archive.
- Descendants of Bishop Jacob Eash (1934): Mabel Miller and Fred Lambright, and their son Robert Lee, born 1926. Internet Archive.
- Herold der Wahrheit (1948): the marriage of Robert Lambright, “son of Fred Lambright.” Internet Archive.
- Goshen College Bulletin, June 1992, p. 12: Robert L. Lambright’s death; “an estimated 25,000 visitors weekly.” Internet Archive.
- The Suwanian (Shipshewana High School yearbook, 1950): “FRED LAMBRIGHT, Prop.” Internet Archive.
- The Millerette (1958): the Shipshewana Auction, Inc., advertisement. Internet Archive.
- Walter L. Schrock, obituary, The News Sun (Kendallville), 17 January 2010, in Obituaries, Noble County, Indiana, January–March 2010. Internet Archive.
- The Mennonite (2010): obituary of Walter L. Schrock. Internet Archive.
- Federal Register 24:145 (25 July 1959), “Posted Stockyards”: Shipshewana Auction, Inc. Internet Archive.
- Federal Register 26:231 (1 December 1961): the Angola yard renamed. Internet Archive.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agriculture Decisions 23 (December 1964): In re Walter L. Schrock and Levi J. Yoder, d/b/a Shipshewana Auction Company, P&S Docket No. 3401. Internet Archive.
- Federal Register 31:97 (19 May 1966): renamed Shipshewana Livestock Auction, Inc. Internet Archive.
- Maxine Calhoun, “Their World Is a Peaceful One,” Tecumseh Herald (Tecumseh, Mich.), 11 July 1968: horse-sale day at Shipshewana. Internet Archive.
- Diary (1986): “Shipshewana Barn Fire Loss Tops $100,000,” a farm fire, not the auction. Internet Archive.
- David Luthy, “Amish Tourism,” in Donald B. Kraybill and Marc A. Olshan, eds., The Amish Struggle with Modernity (1994), quoting the Shipshewana Flea Market & Area Visitors’ Guide (1984), p. 9. Internet Archive.
- The Official Directory to U.S. Flea Markets (1987), Indiana, p. 121. Internet Archive.
- The Official Directory to U.S. Flea Markets (2000): “six pigs, seven cows.” Internet Archive.
- A History of BYU Semester at Nauvoo and the Joseph Smith Academy (2006), pp. 176–77: the first livestock auction. Internet Archive.
- Harris Indiana Services Directory (2005): “EST: 1947”; the Harris and Indiana Services directories of 2001–2004 give “EST: 1949.” Internet Archive.
- Ruth Landis, The Books of Ruth (2005): “Elwood went to Shipshewana sale.” Internet Archive.
- Goshen College Record, 1992–93: the market’s Tuesdays and Wednesdays. Internet Archive.
- Robert C. Parker, “Various Scenes of Shipshewana, Indiana: 1971,” Sturgis Camera Club. Internet Archive.
- The railroad that made Shipshewana
- Poor’s Manual of the Railroads of the United States (New York, 1891): the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and the Sturgis, Goshen and St. Louis. Internet Archive.
- Illustrated Atlas and Columbian Souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana (La Grange Publishing Co., 1893): the chronology (December 1888), the town of Shipshewana (p. 106), the Davis bank and hotel (p. 69), the plat. Internet Archive.
- Ira Ford and others, History of Northeast Indiana (Chicago: Lewis, 1920), vol. I: railroads of La Grange County, the town of Shipshewana (pp. 143–44) and banking (pp. 56–57). Internet Archive.
- 7 Score and 10: La Grange County’s 150th Year (1982): the county chronology, including the 1897 robbery (“$4,000 taken”) and 1904–1981, and George Curtis’s recollections of the town. Internet Archive.
- Michigan Commissioner of Railroads, Annual Report for 1888: the consolidation of 17 November 1887. Internet Archive.
- Poor’s Manual of the Railroads of the United States (1889), supplement p. 1028: the Canada and St. Louis. Internet Archive.
- Documentary Journal of Indiana, 1889: the State Board of Equalization’s railroad assessments, La Grange County (the depot, water tank and stock pen). Internet Archive.
- Documentary Journal of Indiana, 1909 assessment: the Shipshewana “passenger and freight house” and the St. Joseph Valley tool house. Internet Archive.
- Chicago Tribune, 20 February 1890: Milton Mercer the “prime mover.” Internet Archive.
- Anthony Deahl, ed., A Twentieth Century History and Biographical Record of Elkhart County (1905), pp. 205–07. Internet Archive.
- Elmer G. Sulzer, Ghost Railroads of Indiana (1970). Internet Archive.
- Massillon Independent, 25 October 1906: “The men escaped on a handcar.” Internet Archive.
- Rushville Daily Republican, 27 August 1919 (United Press): the August 1919 burglary. Internet Archive.
- Railroad Gazette, 21 April 1905, p. 380: “Gasolene Electric Motor Car for the St. Joseph Valley Traction Company.” Internet Archive.
- Electric Railway Journal, 4 May 1918, p. 70: the liquidator’s advertisement. Internet Archive.
- Public Utilities Reports Annotated, 1916F, p. 1078: Qushwa v. St. Joseph Valley R. Co., Indiana Public Service Commission No. 2062, 7 April 1916. Internet Archive.
- Central Electric Railfans’ Association, Electric Railways of Indiana, Bulletin 104 (1960). Internet Archive.
- Craig J. Berndt, The St. Joseph Valley Railroad System in Indiana and Ohio, 1903 to 1918 (2022). Internet Archive.
- The Official Guide of the Railways, February 1952, index of stations: Shipshewana “for freight only.” Internet Archive.
- Federal Register, 4 March 1975, pp. 9771–72: the Shipshewana Branch, USRA Line No. 399, and its 1973 carloads. Internet Archive.
- Federal Register, 22 February 1977: the embargo of April 1975 and “Rail service had not been resumed as of December, 1976.” Internet Archive.
- Federal Register, 19 June 1979: Interstate Commerce Commission Service Order 1381 and the Indiana Interstate Railway; also 20 June and 1 October 1980. Internet Archive.
- Railroad Gazette, 2 September 1887: the Sturgis and State Line contract. Internet Archive.
- Railroad Gazette, 8 June 1888: the contracts let to J. J. Burns. Internet Archive.
- Railroad Gazette, 24 August 1888: David Sisk and Company. Internet Archive.
- Railroad Gazette, 19 October 1888: Milton Mercer. Internet Archive.
- Railroad Gazette, 23 November 1888: tracklaying begun at Battle Creek. Internet Archive.
- Railroad Gazette, 7 December 1888: the road nearly completed to Goshen. Internet Archive.
- Railroad Gazette, 4 January 1889: the line in operation. Internet Archive.
- Railroad Gazette, 1 June 1906, pp. 556–57: F. W. Hild on the St. Joseph Valley car. Internet Archive.
- Engineering News, 2 June 1888: the $25,000 Goshen subsidy. Internet Archive.
- Engineering News, 6 October 1888: the Middlebury vote and the track north of Goshen. Internet Archive.
- New York Times, 30 December 1888: “A New Northwestern Road.” Internet Archive.
- New York Times, 4 January 1889: the Canada and St. Louis “began operations Monday.” Internet Archive.
- Michigan Commissioner of Railroads, Annual Report, returns for 1889: the Battle Creek and Sturgis opened. Internet Archive.
- Poor’s Directory of Railway Officials (1890). Internet Archive.
- Michigan Railroad Commission, Aids, Gifts, Grants and Donations to Railroads (1919). Internet Archive.
- Documentary Journal of Indiana, 1890: the Sturgis, Goshen and St. Louis depot and water tank at Shipshewana. Internet Archive.
- Abraham E. Weaver, ed., A Standard History of Elkhart County (1916), p. 172. Internet Archive.
- Fort Wayne Sentinel, 26 September 1888: Middlebury Township’s $10,000 vote. Internet Archive.
- Fort Wayne Sentinel, 2 March 1889: a mail train on the Canada and St. Louis. Internet Archive.
- Fort Wayne Sentinel, 4 May 1889: train No. 6 derailed at Shipshewana. Internet Archive.
- Fort Wayne Sentinel, 4 November 1897: the handcar and the pinch bar. Internet Archive.
- Fort Wayne Sentinel, 23 September 1898: Thomas Sharlau, alias Kelly. Internet Archive.
- Fort Wayne Sentinel, 24 October 1906: six masked men. Internet Archive.
- Fort Wayne Sentinel, 10 January 1917: the death of H. E. Bucklen. Internet Archive.
- Janesville Daily Gazette, 6 November 1897: the getaway to White Pigeon. Internet Archive.
- Janesville Daily Gazette, 27 November 1897: Collins Louchins’s confession and the bench warrants; also 4 and 20 November. Internet Archive.
- Janesville Daily Gazette, 10 December 1897: warrants for Miller, Johnson and Morrissey. Internet Archive.
- Janesville Daily Gazette, 31 December 1897: the tin box found. Internet Archive.
- Seymour Daily Republican, 29 June 1916: the June 1916 safe-blowing. Internet Archive.
- Brainerd Daily Dispatch, 29 November 1921: the robbery, the acetylene torch and the automobile getaway. Internet Archive.
- Gettysburg Times, 30 November 1921: the robbery. Internet Archive.
- Glendale Daily Press, 12 December 1921: $15,000 in currency and Liberty bonds; “the ninth time the bank has been robbed in 20 years and the third time this year.” Internet Archive.
- Liberty magazine, 1924–29 run: the bank “robbed nine times.” Internet Archive.
- American Bankers Association, Proceedings of the Annual Convention, 1911: membership list. Internet Archive.
- American Bankers Association, Proceedings, 1916: membership list. Internet Archive.
- American Bankers Association, Proceedings, 1918: membership list and Protective Department report. Internet Archive.
- Dun’s Review, 26 October 1907: the Bank of Shipshewana incorporated. Internet Archive.
- Electrical World and Engineer, 13 May 1905: the St. Joseph Valley car. Internet Archive.
- Scientific American, 26 August 1905: “Railway Motor Cars.” Internet Archive.
- Electric Railway Journal, 14 January 1911: the St. Joseph Valley and the South Bend line. Internet Archive.
- New York Central Lines public timetable, 13 December 1931: no Shipshewana. Internet Archive.
- Federal Register, 1 October 1980: Service Order 1381 extended to “11:59 p.m., November 30, 1980.” Internet Archive.
- Central States Guide (Norwalk, Ohio, 1921), p. 14: New York Central timetable, Battle Creek and Goshen, effective 31 October 1920. Internet Archive.
- Railroad Gazette, 9 December 1887 (the Canada and St. Louis incorporated), 11 January 1889 (officers) and 19 July 1889 (the sale order and the $225,000 floor). Internet Archive, Railroad Gazette run.
- Engineering News, 23 March 1889 (Starr receiver) and 6 April 1889 (track laid). Internet Archive, Engineering News run.
- The Shipshewana Puzzle: One Name, at Least Five People
- Treaties between the United States and the Several Indian Tribes, from 1778 to 1837 (Washington, 1837): the treaties of 20 September 1828 (p. 434), 27 October 1832 and 26 September 1833 with supplementary articles. Internet Archive.
- The John Tipton Papers, vol. II, 1828–1833 (Indiana Historical Collections XXV, 1942), p. 236: the pay roll of 1829. Internet Archive.
- The John Tipton Papers, vol. III, 1834–1839 (1942), searched for every form of the name. Internet Archive.
- J. W. Edmonds, Report of J. W. Edmonds, United States’ Commissioner, upon the Disturbances at the Potawatamie Payment, September, 1836 (New York, 1837), pp. 12 and 43. Internet Archive.
- Letter from the Secretary of War … in relation to the payment of Indian annuities (Washington, 1838): the same testimony (“Ship-shewaw-a-noo”). Internet Archive.
- Original plat of Township 37 North, Range 8 East, 2nd Meridian, surveyed in 1830 by A. St. C. Vance, copy certified by Lucius Lyon, Detroit, 1 November 1849. Indiana PLSS state plats. Internet Archive.
- La Grange County Board of Commissioners, docket, November 1837 to August 1841: the road to “the Shipshewana Saw-mill in Sec. 3” (1839). Internet Archive.
- Counties of La Grange and Noble, Indiana: Historical and Biographical (Chicago: F. A. Battey, 1882): the chiefs (p. 18), Newbury Township (pp. 233–34), Elisha Thorp (p. 145), the Pashan post office (p. 241), the Thorps of Clay Township (p. 255). Internet Archive.
- Illustrated Historical Atlas of La Grange County, Indiana (Chicago: Andreas & Baskin, 1874): Newbury Township. Internet Archive.
- Illustrated Atlas and Columbian Souvenir of La Grange County, Indiana (La Grange Publishing Co., 1893): the plat of Shipshewana, the county chronology, and “Tharp, John S, Shipshewana” among the Clay Township freeholders. Internet Archive.
- Jacob Piatt Dunn, True Indian Stories, with Glossary of Indiana Indian Names (Indianapolis, 1908), pp. 98–100 and 304. Internet Archive.
- Ira Ford and others, History of Northeast Indiana (Chicago: Lewis, 1920), vol. I, p. 144 (the lake), and the biography of Hewlitt Davis (Hezekiah Davis). Internet Archive.
- Rose Marjorie Waddell, comp., History of La Grange County, Indiana (La Grange, 1936): the 1837 removal and the 1841 “legend.” Internet Archive.
- “Tribute to ‘Vision-of-a-Lion’ by the Shores of Shipshewana,” adapted from the Shipshewana Handbook and the Elkhart Truth, in The Brethren Evangelist, 2 July 1932, pp. 10–11, with the photograph of the monument. Internet Archive.
- Daniel McDonald, Removal of the Pottawattomie Indians from Northern Indiana (Plymouth, 1899): the portrait of Mrs. Angelina Shipshewana, facing p. 39, and the journal of the 1838 removal. Internet Archive.
- R. David Edmunds, comp., Kinsmen through Time: An Annotated Bibliography of Potawatomi History (1987), entry for McDonald (“Shipshewano, Angeline”). Internet Archive.
- Alan J. McPherson, Indian Names in Indiana (1993), pp. 66–67. Internet Archive.
- Alan J. McPherson, Notable American Indians: Indiana and Adjacent States (2007): the Kansas letters of 1841 and 1843. Internet Archive.
- William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States (Norman, 2004), s.v. Shipshewana. Internet Archive.
- HowNiKan (Citizen Potawatomi Nation), vol. 10 no. 10 (December 1988): the 1887 allotment roll. Internet Archive.
- HowNiKan, vol. 17 no. 4 (April 1995): Helen C. Depel on the roll of 17 August 1840. Internet Archive.
- HowNiKan, vol. 10 no. 2 (February 1988), p. 9: Howard L. La Hurreau’s signature as “Shupshewana.” Internet Archive.
- Sepass Poems: The Songs of Y-Ail-Mihth (1963), preface signed by Waupauka LaHurreau (“Shup-She”), March 1962. Internet Archive.
- Patty Loew, Indian Nations of Wisconsin: Histories of Endurance and Renewal (Madison, 2001): “the Potawatomi elder Shup-Shewana.” Internet Archive.
- R. David Edmunds, The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978), pp. 268–74 and notes: the muster roll of 6 October 1840. Internet Archive.
- HowNiKan, vol. 17 no. 3 (March 1995): the chaplain’s reply on the removal. Internet Archive.
- The Quarterly Journal of the Society of American Indians, vol. 1 no. 2 (April–June 1913), p. 249: “Shup-She-Wa-No, Mayetta, Kans.” Internet Archive.
- A. T. Wirick, “A Brief History of the Shipshewana Brethren Retreat,” The Brethren Evangelist, 8 December 1934 (“who is buried nearby”). Internet Archive.
- The United States Post Office Directory and Postal Guide (1854): “Pashawn … Amos Davis.” Internet Archive.
- HowNiKan, vol. 16 no. 12 (December 1994): the chaplain’s travel article on Shipshewana Lake. Internet Archive.
- HowNiKan, vol. 17 no. 2 (February 1995): Helen C. Depel on the 1838 removal. Internet Archive.
- Robert A. Trennert, Indian Traders on the Middle Border: The House of Ewing, 1827–54 (Lincoln, 1981): the removal of 1840. Internet Archive.
- Official Register of the United States (1889), vol. I: an Indian policeman “John Ship-she.” Internet Archive.
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, 1931, Part 1, Group 2, vol. 28, entry 9570: A. T. Marvel and R. L. Case, Shipshewana. Internet Archive.
- The Brethren Evangelist (1955), “Camp Shipshewana,” with the plaque’s text. Internet Archive.
- 7 Score and 10: La Grange County’s 150th Year (LaGrange Publishing Co., 1982): Davis Town and Sumney Town. Internet Archive.
- E. Chamberlain, The Indiana Gazetteer (3rd ed., Indianapolis, 1849), La Grange County and Newbury: searched; no name for the lake. Internet Archive.
- Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, 1841, 1842 and 1843: searched; no Shipshewana, and no mention of the delegation of 1841. Internet Archive.
- Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, vol. 21 (1892), pp. 305–311, cited by Barry for the removal of 1840: searched; no Shipshewana. Internet Archive.
- Crumstown: The Point, the Partners and the Mastodon
- Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 1 (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907): Crum’s Point and the ice gorge, pp. 13–14; John L. Campbell’s Kankakee survey of 1882, pp. 245–252; the agricultural society, pp. 269–271; Warren Township, pp. 283–284; Crum’s Point platted, p. 310. Internet Archive.
- Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 2 (1907): soldiers buried in the Crumstown Cemetery, pp. 735–736; Elmer E. Yoder (his father’s Mennonite church at Crumstown), p. 1035; Nathaniel H. Crum, p. 1050; Newton W. Walters, pp. 1052–1053; James W. Ryder, p. 1053; Alexander Riddle, pp. 1057–1058; Joshua F. Brown, p. 1064. Internet Archive.
- Charles C. Chapman & Co., History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chicago, 1880): Col. Alfred B. Wade, pp. 493–495; Isaac R. Cole’s saw-mill at Crum’s Point, pp. 724–725; first settlers of German Township, pp. 683–684. Internet Archive.
- Higgins, Belden & Co., An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (Chicago, 1875): Warren Township and the plat of Crum’s Point, pp. 40–41; patrons’ directory, Warren Township (Stephen Crum). Allen County Public Library, Internet Archive.
- Map of St. Joseph County, in Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana (Chicago: Baskin, Forster & Co., 1876), p. 29, showing “Crums Point.” David Rumsey Map Collection, via the Internet Archive.
- State news (Christian Holler’s 4,300 acres), Fort Wayne Sentinel, 26 December 1902. Internet Archive.
- R. L. Polk & Co., Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1880–81, vol. 1, “Crum’s Point.” Internet Archive.
- Polk’s Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1882–83, “Crum’s Point.” Internet Archive.
- Polk’s Indiana State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1884–85, “Crum’s Point” (George Sensenbaugh, postmaster; Custer Samuel & Bro). Internet Archive.
- United States Official Postal Guide (1894), “Crumstown.” Internet Archive.
- Oliver P. Hay, The Pleistocene of North America and Its Vertebrated Animals from the States East of the Mississippi River (Washington: Carnegie Institution, 1923), p. 100, Indiana localities 46–47. Internet Archive.
- William L. Engels, “Notes on the Mammals of St. Joseph County, Indiana,” American Midland Naturalist 14, no. 1 (January 1933). Internet Archive.
- Marcus Ward Lyon Jr., “Mammals of Indiana,” American Midland Naturalist 17, no. 1 (January 1936), pp. 339–341. Internet Archive.
- Charles H. Bartlett and Richard H. Lyon, La Salle in the Valley of the St. Joseph: An Historical Fragment (South Bend: Tribune Printing Co., 1899), p. 55 (the Grapevine at Crum’s Point) and the plate “Crumstown Trail, near the St. Joseph,” photograph by W. B. Stover. Internet Archive.
- United States Census, 1840, Bertrand Township, Berrien County, Michigan, p. 20 (Steven, John and William Crum). National Archives microfilm M704, roll 203. Internet Archive.
- United States Census, 1850, Warren Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, pp. 76–77 (William Crum, with Ann, 32, and Mary E., 11; Stephen Crum, dwelling 546). National Archives microfilm M432, roll 171. Internet Archive.
- United States Census, 1860, Warren Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, pp. 94–95, enumerated 26 June 1860 (William Crum, with Christian and Mary E. Holler; Stephen Crum, with Mary, 23, born Michigan, and Olive, 3). National Archives microfilm M653, roll 295. Internet Archive.
- History of Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Michigan (Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1880), p. 229, Bertrand Township (“John Krum located on section 17 in 1836”). Internet Archive.
- Official Register of the United States, 1 July 1887, vol. 2, p. 471; 1 July 1889, vol. 2, p. 528; 1 July 1893, vol. 2, p. 578; 1 July 1895, vol. 2, p. 97 (postmasters at Crum’s Point, Crumtown and Crumstown). Internet Archive.
- United States Official Postal Guide, January 1889, pp. 55, 283 and 485 (Crumstown and Crumtown). Allen County Public Library copy, Internet Archive.
- Bullinger’s Postal and Shippers Guide, January 1892, p. 257 (Crum’s Point, “Crumstown P O”). Internet Archive.
- Journal of the Telegraph, 20 October 1903, p. 138 (“Crum’s Point, changed to Crumstown”). Internet Archive.
- First Report of the United States Board on Geographic Names, 1890–1891 (Washington, 1892), pp. 5–6. Internet Archive.
- Ronald L. Baker and Marvin Carmony, From Needmore to Prosperity: Hoosier Place Names in Folklore and History (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995), “Crumstown.” Internet Archive (lending copy).
- “Bones of Mastodon Found on Farm near South Bend, Ind.,” The Washington Bee, 10 November 1906, p. 2 (syndicated; also 17 and 24 November, 1 and 8 December). Internet Archive.
- H. J. Alerding, The Diocese of Fort Wayne, 1857–September 1907 (Fort Wayne, 1907), p. 86 (the Rev. Alexander Buechler) and pp. 369–370 (Terre Coupee). Internet Archive.
- Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 2 (1907), pp. 900–901, the Rev. Father Alexander A. Buechler, with portrait. Internet Archive.
- The Official Catholic Directory (Milwaukee: M. H. Wiltzius, 1906), Diocese of Fort Wayne: Terre Coupee, Rev. A. Buechler; Notre Dame faculty, A. B. Reynolds (instructor in English and Latin). Internet Archive.
- Hugh T. Montgomery, The Geological History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (South Bend: Northern Indiana Historical Society, rev. ed., 1929), pp. 13–15 (Crum’s Point and the ice dam). Internet Archive.
- U.S. Department of Agriculture, Office of Experiment Stations, Report upon Drainage of the Kankakee River Valley, Circular 80 (Washington, 1909), fig. 1 and pp. 5–7. Internet Archive.
- Albert R. Erskine, History of the Studebaker Corporation (Chicago: Poole Bros., 1918), p. 14 (portrait of Henry Studebaker). Internet Archive.
- D. L. Yarnell, Excavating Machinery Used in Land Drainage, U.S. Department of Agriculture Bulletin 300 (Washington, 1915), plate I. Internet Archive.
- John C. Warren, The Mastodon Giganteus of North America (Boston, 1852), plate (the Warren mastodon). Internet Archive.
- A Brief History of the University of Notre Dame du Lac, Indiana, 1842–1892 (Chicago: Werner Co., 1895), plate facing p. 182 (Science Hall). Internet Archive.
- Five brothers and a blacksmith shop
- Charles C. Chapman & Co., History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chicago, 1880): John Studebaker, pp. 487–488; the Studebaker works, pp. 872–875; Henry and Peter Studebaker, pp. 943–945. Internet Archive.
- Anderson & Cooley, South Bend and the Men Who Have Made It (South Bend: Tribune Printing Co., 1901): Clem, J. M., Peter and Henry Studebaker, pp. 92, 101–103, 241–242. Internet Archive.
- Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907): C. A. Carlisle on the Studebaker works, pp. 395–399; Howard Park and its fountain, pp. 389–393; the Studebaker family, pp. 477–481. Internet Archive.
- Albert Russel Erskine, History of the Studebaker Corporation (1918), with portraits and views of the works. Library of Congress copy, Internet Archive.
- A. R. Erskine, History of the Studebaker Corporation, 1852–1923 (South Bend, 1924). Internet Archive.
- Studebaker National Reunion, South Bend, Indiana, September 15, 1927 (booklet, essays by C. A. Carlisle). Allen County Public Library, Internet Archive.
- Bertha E. Hughey, Stover Genealogy, Biography and History (Portland, Or., 1936), pp. 52–54. Internet Archive.
- Cornelius Smyser obituary, quoted in the sketch of Cornelius Morris, Ehret Family: Jacob F. Ehret and Sons (1963). Internet Archive.
- Howard (1907), p. 728: the 138th Indiana Infantry, Company I (Lt. Henry Smyser). Internet Archive.
- Stephen Longstreet, A Century on Wheels: The Story of Studebaker, 1852–1952 (New York: Henry Holt, 1952). Internet Archive (lending copy).
- John Dekever, Walking Mishawaka: Self-Guided Tours of Historic Sites in the Princess City (2016). Internet Archive (lending copy).
- “Mrs. Rebecca Studebaker,” Chicago Tribune, 2 April 1887. Internet Archive.
- De Witt C. Goodrich and Charles R. Tuttle, An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana (Indianapolis: R. S. Peale & Co., 1875): the Studebaker works, pp. 613–618; Clem, J. M., Peter and Jacob Studebaker, pp. 681–683; portraits. Allen County Public Library copy, Internet Archive.
- Higgins, Belden & Co., An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (Chicago, 1875), p. 28, “Studebaker Manufacturing Company.” Internet Archive.
- Otho Winger, History of the Church of the Brethren in Indiana (Elgin, Ill.: Brethren Publishing House, 1917), “Emma Bowman,” pp. 317–318. Internet Archive.
- Anderson & Cooley, South Bend and the Men Who Have Made It (1901), p. 414 (Adolphus Eberhart and George Milburn’s Utah War wagons). Internet Archive.
- C. A. Carlisle, Studebaker family history, in the Studebaker National Reunion booklet (1927), and Walter Carlock et al., The Studebaker Family in America, 1736–1976 (Studebaker Family National Association, 1976) (John the son of Clement). Internet Archive.
- Thomas E. Bonsall, More Than They Promised: The Studebaker Story (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000). Internet Archive (lending copy).
- Placerville, California: El Dorado County Fair and John M. Studebaker Wheelbarrow Race (Universal-International newsreel, 1950). Internet Archive.
- Higgins, Belden & Co., An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (1875), Warren Township, pp. 40–41 (the “H. Studebaker” tract). Internet Archive.
- The biggest wagon works in the world
- Charles C. Chapman & Co., History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chicago, 1880): John Studebaker, pp. 487–488; the Studebaker works, pp. 872–875; Henry and Peter Studebaker, pp. 943–945. Internet Archive.
- Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907): C. A. Carlisle on the Studebaker works, pp. 395–399; Howard Park and its fountain, pp. 389–393; the Studebaker family, pp. 477–481. Internet Archive.
- Albert Russel Erskine, History of the Studebaker Corporation (1918), with portraits and views of the works. Library of Congress copy, Internet Archive.
- A. R. Erskine, History of the Studebaker Corporation, 1852–1923 (South Bend, 1924). Internet Archive.
- De Witt C. Goodrich and Charles R. Tuttle, An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana (Indianapolis: R. S. Peale & Co., 1875), the Studebaker works (engraving). Allen County Public Library copy, Internet Archive.
- Chicago Daily Tribune, advertising lists of 4, 13 and 20 October 1876 (265 Wabash Avenue) and 27 June 1880 (151 and 153 Wabash Avenue). Internet Archive.
- The Independent, 11 December 1884, advertisement (“Palace Repository, 233 State Street”). Internet Archive.
- De Witt C. Goodrich and Charles R. Tuttle, An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana (Indianapolis: R. S. Peale & Co., 1875): the Studebaker works, pp. 613–618; Clem, J. M., Peter and Jacob Studebaker, pp. 681–683; portraits. Allen County Public Library copy, Internet Archive.
- Higgins, Belden & Co., An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (Chicago, 1875), p. 28, “Studebaker Manufacturing Company.” Internet Archive.
- Anderson & Cooley, South Bend and the Men Who Have Made It (1901), “The Fire of 1872” (Mishawaka), p. 406. Internet Archive.
- Higgins, Belden & Co., An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (1875), history of the Studebaker Brothers Manufacturing Company (the 1874 loss). Internet Archive.
- The day the line stopped
- A. R. Erskine, History of the Studebaker Corporation, 1852–1923 (South Bend, 1924). Internet Archive.
- American Enterprise Institute, The Debate on Private Pensions (Washington, 1968). Internet Archive (lending copy).
- Charles R. Frank Jr., Foreign Trade and Domestic Aid (Washington: Brookings Institution, 1977), pp. 79–82. Internet Archive (lending copy).
- Before the lake: the farms of Potato Creek
- Charles B. Wilson and H. Walton Clark, The Mussel Fauna of the Kankakee Basin, Bureau of Fisheries Document 758 (Washington, 1912; fieldwork of 1909), pp. 18–19 and plate I. Library of Congress copy, Internet Archive.
- Chapman, History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (1880): Greene Township, p. 700 (John Green Jr.’s saw-mill), p. 702 (William Hoke); Lincoln Township, pp. 745–746 (John Rudduck). Internet Archive.
- E. Chamberlain, The Indiana Gazetteer (Indianapolis, 1849), p. 366. Internet Archive.
- John Scott, The Indiana Gazetteer (1833). Internet Archive.
- Charles C. Chapman & Co., History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chicago, 1880): Liberty Township, pp. 718–725; Union Township, pp. 950–953; Alexis Coquillard, p. 465. Internet Archive.
- Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 1 (Chicago, 1907): the county surveyors, p. 186; Liberty Township, p. 281; the plat of North Liberty, 12 January 1836, pp. 313–314; the Coquillard removal, pp. 55–56. Internet Archive.
- Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 2 (Chicago, 1907): Henry B. Worster, pp. 1095–1097. Internet Archive.
- Higgins, Belden & Co., An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (Chicago, 1875): Liberty Township, pp. 54–55; Union Township, pp. 62–63; North Liberty, p. 40; county chronology. Allen County Public Library, Internet Archive.
- USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service, Soil Survey of St. Joseph County, Indiana (2004), parent material and geology. Internet Archive.
- USDA and others, Kankakee River Basin, Indiana: Report on the Water and Related Land Resources (1976). Internet Archive.
- Annual Report of the Commissioner of Indian Affairs for 1840: the Potawatomi emigration, pp. 230–231; Gen. Hugh Brady’s letters from South Bend, 10 June and 10 August 1840, pp. 256, 258–259. Internet Archive.
- R. David Edmunds, The Potawatomis: Keepers of the Fire (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1978). Internet Archive.
- James A. Clifton, The Prairie People (Lawrence: Regents Press of Kansas, 1977). Internet Archive.
- William Bright, Native American Placenames of the United States (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004), “Potato,” citing Michael McCafferty. Internet Archive.
- History of Montgomery County, Indiana (Chicago: H. H. Hill & N. Iddings, 1881), p. 562, the other Potato Creek. Internet Archive.
- Amy Pilarczyk, “Getaway to Potato Creek,” The Chronicle (Purdue University Calumet), 31 January 2005. Internet Archive.
- Franklin N. Shenneman II, Southern St. Joseph County (Images of Modern America; Charleston: Arcadia, 2015), ch. 1, “Potato Creek State Park.” Internet Archive (lending copy).
- N. L. Britton and A. Brown, An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British Possessions, 2nd ed., vol. 2 (1913), p. 418, Ground-nut. Internet Archive.
- Darcey Worster’s dream
- Margie McCaig, Indiana Parks Guide (Wauwatosa, Wis.: Affordable Adventures, 1988). Internet Archive (lending copy).
- Franklin N. Shenneman II, Southern St. Joseph County (Images of Modern America; Charleston: Arcadia, 2015), ch. 1, “Potato Creek State Park.” Internet Archive (lending copy).
- Alton A. Lindsey, Damian V. Schmelz and Stanley A. Nichols, Natural Areas in Indiana and Their Preservation (Lafayette: Indiana Natural Areas Survey, 1969). Internet Archive.
- Water Publications of State Agencies (1972): “Report of Preliminary Examination; Potato Creek Reservoir … December 1964.” Internet Archive.
- Matthew E. Welsh, View from the State House (Indianapolis, 1981). Internet Archive.
- Bowen: The Years as Governor (1981), p. 110. Internet Archive.
- Rushville Republican, 23 January and 4 February 1974 (UPI), the Potato Creek appropriation. Internet Archive.
- Indiana University at South Bend, Cable TV: Guide to Public Access (1979; ERIC ED194051), p. 93, a junior-high newscast script of early 1978. Internet Archive.
- Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 2 (Chicago, 1907): Henry B. Worster, pp. 1095–1097. Internet Archive.
- Higgins, Belden & Co., An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (Chicago, 1875): Liberty Township, pp. 54–55; Union Township, pp. 62–63; North Liberty, p. 40; county chronology. Allen County Public Library, Internet Archive.
- The park goes back to the wild
- Richard B. Whittaker, The Deer of Potato Creek (North Liberty, Ind.: Whitt’s 3’ Enterprises, 1986). Internet Archive (lending copy).
- Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 84 (1975), report of the Scientific Areas Committee (Swamp Rose Nature Preserve dedicated). Internet Archive.
- Victor L. Riemenschneider, “Preliminary Report on the Flora, Fauna and Habitats of the Swamp Rose Nature Preserve,” Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 86 (1977): 172. Internet Archive.
- Riemenschneider, Cordell and Allison, “Impact of White-tailed Deer …” Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 104 (1995): 35–41. Internet Archive.
- Alton A. Lindsey, Damian V. Schmelz and Stanley A. Nichols, Natural Areas in Indiana and Their Preservation (Lafayette: Indiana Natural Areas Survey, 1969). Internet Archive.
- John James Audubon, The Birds of America, vol. 1 (1840), plate 14 (the bald eagle) and plate 15 (the Common Osprey). Internet Archive.
- John A. Bacone and Michelle L. Martin, “Current Status of Natural Areas Listed by Lindsey, Schmelz and Nichols,” Proceedings of the Indiana Academy of Science 97 (1987): 247–252, Tables 1 and 5. Internet Archive.
- Indiana DNR, Division of Nature Preserves, Directory of Indiana’s Dedicated Nature Preserves (January 1981), Swamp Rose Nature Preserve. Indiana State Library, Internet Archive.
- US Department of the Interior, Preserving Our Natural Heritage, vol. 2, State Activities (1977), Indiana, p. 192. Internet Archive.
- Indiana DNR, Division of State Parks, Wander Indiana: 1982 Recreation Guide, pp. 11, 17, 22 (Vigo County Public Library clipping file). Internet Archive.
- Indiana Wildlife Viewing Guide (1992), site 18. Internet Archive.
- Princess Mishawaka: the princess who never was
- F. J. Littlejohn, Legends of Michigan and the Old North West (Allegan, Mich.: Northwestern Bible and Publishing Co., 1875), preface p. 7; “The Shawnee and Pottowatomie War,” pp. 9–128. Internet Archive.
- Charles C. Chapman & Co., History of St. Joseph County, Indiana (Chicago, 1880): Mishawaka, pp. 790–791; E. W. H. Ellis, pp. 517–518. Internet Archive.
- Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 1 (Chicago, 1907): the city of Mishawaka, pp. 321–322; pp. 333–334 (quoting the South Bend Tribune, 26 January 1907). Internet Archive.
- Higgins, Belden & Co., An Illustrated Historical Atlas of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (1875): South Part of Mishawaka, pp. 72–73. Internet Archive.
- George Witwer and A. C. Witwer, Witwer Genealogy of America (South Bend, 1909), “Legend of Mishawaka,” pp. 142–143. Internet Archive.
- Rushville Daily Republican (Rushville, Ind.), 10 August 1909 (the 1909 pageant pamphlet). Internet Archive.
- Federal Writers’ Project, Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State (1941). Internet Archive.
- Jacob Piatt Dunn, True Indian Stories (Indianapolis, 1909), glossary, “Elkhart” and “Mishawaka,” pp. 263–264, 281–282. Internet Archive.
- Alan McPherson, Indian Names in Indiana (1993), pp. 18, 42–43. Internet Archive.
- Henry Yerrington to John Tipton, Mishawaka, 4 September 1833, with the editors’ note on the post office (established 11 December 1833), in The John Tipton Papers, vol. 2, 1828–1833, ed. Nellie Armstrong Robertson and Dorothy Riker (Indianapolis: Indiana Historical Bureau, 1942), p. 823. Internet Archive.
- Register of All Officers and Agents, Civil, Military, and Naval, in the Service of the United States, 30 September 1835 (Washington, 1835), Post Office Department, Indiana (“Mishawaka — Hy. Yerrington”). Internet Archive.
- Pictorial and Biographical Memoirs of Elkhart and St. Joseph Counties, Indiana (Chicago: Goodspeed Brothers, 1893), pp. 343–344, Edward Allen Jernegan. Internet Archive.
- Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 1 (1907): the Mishawaka Enterprise, p. 347; Edward A. Jernegan, pp. 505–506; Ralph H. Jernegan, pp. 525–526. Internet Archive.
- Janice Bridges, Indiana’s Princess City: The History of Mishawaka, 1832–1932 (1976), notes citing E. A. Jernegan, “Early Pioneer Stores,” Vincent Brunner papers no. 37, Mishawaka Public Library (seen in a full-text search only). Internet Archive (lending copy).
- “Notes and Comment” on F. J. Littlejohn’s Legends, Michigan History Magazine 3 (October 1919), pp. 508–509; Littlejohn, “Red Cloud and Dew Drop (An unpublished romance of the Saginaws),” pp. 663–717. Internet Archive.
- History of Notre Dame (“swift-running water”), The Notre Dame Scholastic 22, no. 3 (8 September 1888). Internet Archive.
- St. Joseph in Homespun (1931; St. Joseph County, Michigan), pp. 2–4, on Littlejohn, “the ‘Old Trailer.’” Internet Archive.
- History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan (Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign, 1880), early history (Littlejohn’s Legends cited). Internet Archive.
- A museum before there was a museum
- Michigan History 9 (1925), contributors’ notes: Charles O. Harmon, attorney and circuit court commissioner. Internet Archive.
- Michigan History 26:3 (1942), p. 410: George H. Tolbert, president of the Cass County Historical Society. Internet Archive.
- St. Joseph Herald-Press, 14 June 1972 (the Cass County Pioneer and Historical association and the lease). Internet Archive.
- Alfred Mathews, History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1882): the founding, by-laws, picnics, the jail lock and millstone. Internet Archive.
- Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County from 1825 to 1875 (Cassopolis, 1875), preface. Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, ed., A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906): the Pioneer Society chapter and list of officers; the jail lock (p. 212), the Pioneer Room (p. 244) and “the museum at Cassopolis” (p. 698); biographies of Charles O. Harmon and George H. Tolbert. Internet Archive.
- Pioneer Collections (Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections), vol. 1 (1877): the Cass County report. Internet Archive.
- Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, vol. 4: the Cass County report of 1880 (the museum at I. V. Sherman’s store). Internet Archive.
- Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, vol. 29: the 1882 report (the Court House room). Internet Archive.
- Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, vol. 35 (1907). Internet Archive.
- John J. Bagley, Old Times (1876), the address at the 1876 picnic. Internet Archive.
- F. B. Streeter, Michigan Bibliography (1921), nos. 170 and 613 (the 1904 program). Internet Archive.
- Ypsilantian, 2 June 1887 (the bass drum). Internet Archive.
- Benton Harbor Evening News, 15 June 1897 (the 24th reunion). Internet Archive.
- Benton Harbor Evening News, 13 June 1900 (the 27th reunion). Internet Archive.
- W. A. Norton’s directory of Dowagiac, Cassopolis and nearby townships (1899), p. 233 (“the pioneer museum”). Internet Archive.
- Michigan History magazine 1:1 (1917): the Cass County society’s report. Internet Archive.
- Michigan History magazine 7 (1923), pp. 107–08 (the Carleton school reunion). Internet Archive.
- Charlevoix County Herald, 29 June 1923. Internet Archive.
- 1923 Pioneer Log Cabin Museum Searchable Donor List, compiled by Marcia Gaskin (2012), with the 1924 letterhead and the souvenir-lot papers. Internet Archive.
- Catalog of Copyright Entries, musical compositions, 1921 and 1923 (Charles O. Harmon’s songs; “On the Winding Christianna,” 1923, no. 11291). Internet Archive.
- The cabin a county built
- 1923 Pioneer Log Cabin Museum Searchable Donor List, compiled by Marcia Gaskin (Cassopolis, 2012): the cabin’s history, the numbered donor list, Harmon’s 1923 letter, the 1924 souvenir-lot papers and letterhead. Internet Archive.
- Percy H. Andrus, “Historical Markers and Memorials in Michigan,” Michigan History Magazine 15 (Spring 1931). Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, ed., A Twentieth Century History of Cass County (1906): the Eby family; Elias Pardee’s gift to the Dowagiac library (p. 288). Internet Archive.
- L. V. Coleman, Historic House Museums (1933): the cabin “owned by” the society. Internet Archive.
- Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State (Federal Writers’ Project, 1941). Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 29 May 1976 (Lee Dodd, president of the Cass County Historical Society). Internet Archive.
- St. Joseph Herald-Press, 14 June 1972 (the county’s 99-year lease). Internet Archive.
- Alfred Mathews, History of Cass County, Michigan (1882). Internet Archive.
- Wisconsin Archeologist 44 (1963): obituary of George R. Fox. Internet Archive.
- W. A. Norton’s directory of Dowagiac, Cassopolis and nearby townships (1899), p. 233: the Tietsort cabin. Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 25 October 1975 (the Lewis Cass plaque) and 29 October 1976 (Lee Dodd, county commissioner 1972–74). Internet Archive.
- Everett Claspy, The Dowagiac–Sister Lakes Resort Area (1970): the Dowagiac library collection moved to the cabin. Internet Archive.
- George N. Fuller, ed., Historic Michigan, vol. III: An Account of Southwest Michigan and St. Joseph County (National Historical Association, mid-1920s), plate “Cass County Pioneer Memorial Cabin.” Internet Archive.
- D. J. Lake, Atlas of Cass County, Michigan (Philadelphia: C. O. Titus, 1872), p. 17 and p. 25 (Jefferson Township): “Maj. Jos. Smith 131½,” “Maj. J. Smith 38” and “Jos. Smith” with a house. Internet Archive.
- Standard Atlas of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle, 1896), p. 19: “Jemima Smith 150.” Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 25 August 1975 (Mrs. Tillie J. Nixon). Internet Archive.
- Early Burials and Residents of Cass County, Michigan, 1850–1950, vol. 2 (1850 census of Penn Township: John Nixon’s household). Internet Archive.
- Museums Directory of the United States and Canada (1961, 1965): “Pioneer Log Cabin … Director: Mrs. Arthur Nixon.” Internet Archive.
- Keepers of the county
- Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State (Federal Writers’ Project, 1941). Internet Archive.
- 1923 Pioneer Log Cabin Museum Searchable Donor List, compiled by Marcia Gaskin (Cassopolis, 2012): the donor list and the cabin’s history. Internet Archive.
- Michigan History magazine 26:3 (1942), p. 410; 40:1 and 40:4 (1956), p. 499; 42:1 (March 1958), p. 128. Internet Archive.
- Handbook of American Museums (1932); L. V. Coleman, Historic House Museums (1933) and The Museum in America (1939). Internet Archive.
- Historical Societies in the United States and Canada (1944), no. 612. Internet Archive.
- AASLH, Directory of Historical Societies (1956). Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, ed., A Twentieth Century History of Cass County (1906): the Pioneer Society chapter; George H. Tolbert. Internet Archive.
- Alfred Mathews, History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1882): the founding of the Society of the Pioneers, 1873. Internet Archive.
- Everett Claspy, The Dowagiac–Sister Lakes Resort Area (1970), on George R. Fox. Internet Archive.
- The Beaver, winter 1955–56. Internet Archive.
- Wisconsin Archeologist 44 (1963): obituary of George R. Fox. Internet Archive.
- Museums Directory of the United States and Canada (1961, 1965); W. Romig, Michigan Place Names (1973). Internet Archive.
- St. Joseph Herald-Press, 14 June 1972. Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 15 February and 26 June 1975, 29 May and 6 November 1976, 16 March 1977. Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 25 November 1977 (orders for the reprinted 1872 atlas). Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 29 August 1975 (the tractor show) and 29 October 1976 (Lee Dodd, county commissioner 1972–74). Internet Archive.
- “Offered as Cass Museum,” South Bend Tribune (undated, about 1973–74), reprinted in Catherine Howland, comp., A Scrapbook History of Early Decatur, Michigan, 1829–1976. Internet Archive.
- Michigan History 39:3 (September 1955), “Michigan News” (the Upper Peninsula historical conference). Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 6 November 1976 (“History Award Today”: Berenice Vanderburg). Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 15 September 1977 (Lee Dodd, “chairman of county historical society,” at the Court House marker). Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 15 February 1975 (Newton House tours by the county Historical Commission). Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 26 June 1975 (James Holtz, vice-president; Lee Dodd, display chairman). Internet Archive.
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 16 March 1977 (the Newton House restored by the Commission). Internet Archive.
- The miniature log cabin of 1878
- Portrait and Biographical Record of Berrien and Cass Counties, Michigan (Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co., 1893), pp. 309–11, “Henry Michael.” Internet Archive.
- Alfred Mathews, History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1882), pp. 143 (executive committee, 1879), 183 (fever of 1852), 197–98 (fire of 2 January 1864). Internet Archive.
- Pioneer Collections, vol. 4 (Lansing, 1883), Cass County Pioneer Society report for 1880, pp. 225–26 (the museum at Sherman’s store; officers). Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906), pp. 350 (presidents) and 351–58 (members’ roll: Henry Michael, Silver Creek, born Ohio, came 1830). Internet Archive.
- Standard Atlas of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Geo. A. Ogle & Co., 1896), patrons’ directory. Internet Archive.
- W. A. Norton’s directory of Dowagiac, Cassopolis and nearby townships (1899): Dowagiac residents. Internet Archive.
- Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, vol. 29: the Cass County Pioneer Society’s ninth annual picnic, 1882, p. 207 (executive committee). Internet Archive.
- Balloons over the pioneer picnic
- The cabin that opened twice
- Charlevoix County Herald, 29 June 1923 (state news: the Cassopolis dedication). Internet Archive.
- 1923 Pioneer Log Cabin Museum Searchable Donor List, compiled by Marcia Gaskin (2012), including Harmon’s open letter on the lots, the certificate of purchase, and his letter “To the Subscribers,” 18 August 1924. Internet Archive.
- The caretaker was Harmon’s uncle
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906), pp. 537–38 (“Peter Eby”) and 620–22 (“Gabriel Eby”). Internet Archive.
- “Michigan Home of Poet’s Boyhood,” North Adams Advocate (North Adams, Mich.), 8 October 1926 (the Chapel Hill pupils). Internet Archive.
- “Historical Notes” (Byron A. Finney on the Chapel Hill School reunion of 1922), Michigan History Magazine 7 (1923), pp. 107–08. Internet Archive.
- 1923 Pioneer Log Cabin Museum Searchable Donor List, compiled by Marcia Gaskin (2012), Harmon’s open letter on the lots (the village bought the ground). Internet Archive.
- “Old Log Cabin”: the song we can’t find
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906), p. 230 (“Cassopolis Graduates,” 1891). Internet Archive.
- National Duroc-Jersey Record, vols. 45 (1914) and 48 (1915), herd entries bred by Jay C. Northrop. Internet Archive.
- 1923 Pioneer Log Cabin Museum Searchable Donor List, compiled by Marcia Gaskin (2012), donor No. 6. Internet Archive.
- Christopher Crittenden and Doris Godard, eds., Historical Societies in the United States and Canada: A Handbook (Washington: American Association for State and Local History, 1944), no. 612. Internet Archive.
- The stagecoach at the Junction
- Centennial Book Committee, Plainwell, 1869 to 1969: The First Hundred Years (Plainwell, 1969): history and plank road (p. 4), 1869 taxpayers (p. 7), the stagecoach caption (p. 11), 1873 business directory (p. 14), lodging (p. 18), railroads. Allen County Public Library copy, Internet Archive (page numbers are the archive’s search index).
- Crisfield Johnson, History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan (Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign, 1880): railroads, p. 87; village of Plainwell, pp. 292–293, 298–299. Cornell University Library copy, Internet Archive.
- Samuel W. Durant, History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan (Philadelphia, 1880): “The Old Stage-Coach,” pp. 180–181; plank roads, p. 183. University of Michigan copy, Internet Archive.
- David Fisher and Frank Little, eds., Compendium of History and Biography of Kalamazoo County, Mich. (Chicago, 1906): John W. James, pp. 474–475. Internet Archive.
- Two Tries at the Valley: How the Grand Trunk Came Through
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882), pp. 100 (the Air Line and Grand Trunk), 117 (Daniel Blackman), 187 (Agricultural Society), 222–223 (S. T. Read), 368 (subscriptions), 392 (Edwardsburg), 576 (Dailey), 604 (Thomas Burney), 616 (Marcellus station agent). Internet Archive.
- Lowell H. Glover, ed., A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906), pp. 29, 154, 162, 168–169, 209–211, 223, 239, 318. Internet Archive.
- Timothy Edward Howard, A History of St. Joseph County, Indiana, vol. 1 (Chicago, 1907), pp. 289–291 (the Air Line, the Grand Trunk, the Division Street incident), 332 and 362–363 (Granger), 362 (Crum’s Point). Internet Archive.
- Samuel W. Durant, History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan (Philadelphia, 1880), pp. 185, 399 (Climax Township bonds), 413, 541, 564, 716 (Schoolcraft), 724 (Vicksburg). Internet Archive.
- The Indian Lake Sea Serpent: Twelve Feet Long, and Shy
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1882), p. 356: the Treats, Indian Lake and the red-chalk sign. Internet Archive.
- J. J. Audubon and J. Bachman, The Quadrupeds of North America, vol. 2 (New York, 1851), plate 51, “Canada Otter.” Duke University Libraries copy, Internet Archive.
- David Starr Jordan and Barton Warren Evermann, American Food and Game Fishes (New York, 1902), p. 361. Internet Archive.
- The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882): Silver Creek Township, Henry Dewey, Timothy Treat and the red-chalk sign, p. 356; Volinia Township, the panther and the colt, p. 285; Porter Township, the panther near Birch Lake, p. 303. Internet Archive.
- John Harvey Treat, The Treat Family: A Genealogy of Trott, Tratt, and Treat (1893), pp. 68 and 93 (Timothy Treat, no. 191; Sullivan Treat, no. 386). Internet Archive.
- The Observer’s World: People, Places, and Events from the Pages of The National Observer (1965): Mrs. John Utrup, Gordon Brown and his “two companions,” and “farmer Utrup” and the bush; Foshen and Len Clinton by Magician Lake, and Harold Brown (“The Lakes ‘Monster’,” p. 97). The report’s date, 22 June 1964, is as J. W. Green gives it (1967). Read in Internet Archive full-text search.
- John A. Keel, Strange Creatures from Time and Space (1970): John Utrup and Gordon Brown. Read in Internet Archive full-text search.
- Janet and Colin Bord, The Bigfoot Casebook (1982): “Evelyn Utrup and her husband John”; Gordon Brown, “a fruit picker from Georgia.” Read in Internet Archive full-text search.
- “The Monster at Sister Lakes,” FATE, October 1964: Gordon Brown on the Harold Utrup farm. Read in Internet Archive full-text search.
- Eric Norman (Brad Steiger), The Abominable Snowmen (1969): Gordon Brown “from nearby Dowagiac” and the car. Read in Internet Archive full-text search.
- Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.), 14 June 1964, p. 59: “Monster Kits Selling Briskly But Berry-Pickers in Panic”; Jack Hadley and the reward. University of Victoria, via Internet Archive.
- History of Cass County, Michigan (1882): Silver Creek Township, the Treats, John Barney, Henry Dewey and Daniel Blish, the first town meeting and the supervisors, the poll list of the first election (1838) and of November 1839, the 1838 roll of resident taxpayers, and the table of first land entries (Sullivan Treat, 17 May 1836); Pokagon Township, Henry Dewey in 1830. Internet Archive, search inside.
- John Harvey Treat, The Treat Family (1893): Timothy Treat near Niles in 1834 and in Silver Creek in 1837; Sullivan Treat, who settled in Silver Creek “at the age of twenty-one,” and his daughter Lucy Ann; Timothy’s children (Horace Jay, March 1835) and Fidelia’s marriage to Philander Dunning, July 1835. Internet Archive, search inside.
- Escanaba Daily Press, 11 June 1964, p. 1: “‘Hairy Monster’ Of Cass County Eludes Hunters” (Associated Press): the description “pieced together by police,” Gordon Brown’s headlights and flashlight and “It’s no bear,” Deputy Jack Greene, and the track found by Deputies Howard Sheline and Daniel Behrman. Internet Archive.
- Escanaba Daily Press, 12 June 1964: “Armed Officers Hunt ‘Monster’” (Associated Press): the three girls, and Dave Lyons of the sheriff’s staff. Internet Archive.
- Escanaba Daily Press, 13 June 1964: “Sister Lakes ‘Monster’ May Be Big Bear” (Associated Press, Dowagiac): Conservation Officer Bill Roe, and Sheriff Robert Dool on the migrant families. Internet Archive.
- Escanaba Daily Press, 17 June 1964: “Clare Brothers See ‘Monster’” (Associated Press, Grand Rapids). Internet Archive.
- Bill Hamilton, “Sister Lakes Ocelot Killed After Big Hunt,” St. Joseph Herald-Press, 5 August 1968: Sgt. Donald Hogmire. Internet Archive.
- Time, 30 December 1966: a Dow Jones advertisement for the National Observer (“the Hairy Monster of Sister Lakes”). Internet Archive, in its one item for the 1966 issues.
- Benton Harbor Herald-Palladium, 2 September 1977: Jack Hadley, president of Dixon Beverage. Internet Archive.
- David Fideler, ed., Michigan Anomaly Research, Report on Current Research, vol. 1, no. 2 (Winter 1980): the 1962 and 13 July 1964 entries, the “18-inch footprints,” the Philadelphia Saturday Courier of 28 December 1839, and Mary Brown’s drawing (“witness drawing, Sister Lakes, Michigan: 1964”), p. 4. Marcello Truzzi papers, Eastern Michigan University, on the Internet Archive.
- J. W. Green, “Reports indicating the existence of giants, human-like creatures, in North America,” Genus 23, nos. 3–4 (1967): 221–245, which dates the National Observer’s report to 22 June 1964. Internet Archive.
- History of Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Michigan (Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1880), Keeler Township: Ira Foster, his cabin of 7 April 1837, and “Samuel Treat, at Silver Creek, in Cass County.” Internet Archive.
- D. J. Lake, Atlas of Cass County, Michigan (Philadelphia: C. O. Titus, 1872), Silver Creek Township, p. 7: the base of our map of the fork. University of Michigan Library, on the Internet Archive.
- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County, from 1825 to 1875 (Cassopolis, 1875), pp. 129–141. Internet Archive.
- Alfred Mathews, History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882), pp. 109–115; p. 181 (James Oren’s marriage in 1851 to “Angeline Osborn, daughter of Josiah and Mary Osborn”) and p. 384 (Josiah Osborn’s children, “Angeline, deceased”). Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1906), pp. 289–290. Internet Archive.
- Levi Coffin, Reminiscences (Cincinnati, 1876), pp. 366–373. Internet Archive.
- Wilbur H. Siebert, The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (New York: Macmillan, 1898), p. 88: Dr. Nathan M. Thomas’s “between 1,000 and 1,500 fugitives,” on a letter of Pamela S. Thomas, 25 March 1896. Internet Archive.
- History of St. Joseph County, Michigan (Philadelphia: L. H. Everts, 1877), p. 44: the Centreville papers, the Whig St. Joseph County Advertiser (1845–1851) and the Democratic St. Joseph County Republican (from 1845); the Western Chronicle only from October 1850. Internet Archive.
- Congressional Globe, 31st Congress, 1st Session, issue of 20 April 1850: petitions presented in the House, 18 April 1850 (Cass County, Michigan). Internet Archive.
- Congressional Globe, Appendix, 31st Congress, 1st Session (4 December 1849 – 10 June 1850): speeches of Henry Clay, 5–6 February and 13 May 1850; William L. Dayton, 22 March 1850; Joseph R. Underwood, 3 April 1850. Internet Archive.
- Congressional Globe, 30th Congress, 1st Session, to 32nd Congress, 1st Session (1848–1852), all issues and appendixes, searched for Clay and the Michigan cases. Internet Archive.
- Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County, from 1825 to 1875 (Cassopolis, 1875), p. 129: the “Michigan riots” and Henry Clay. Internet Archive.
- The Bonine House at Vandalia
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882): Isaac Bonine and his family, p. 250; James E. Bonine’s farm, the storehouse and the elk park, p. 251; the Air Line, p. 258; the First National Bank, p. 170; Stephen Bogue’s family. Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906): the Pioneer Society roll, p. 352; the Anti-Slavery Friends and the Vandalia church, pp. 385–386. Internet Archive.
- Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County, from 1825 to 1875 (Cassopolis, 1875): the stations of Stephen Bogue and Zachariah Shugart, p. 132. Internet Archive.
- Wilbur H. Siebert, The Underground Railroad from Slavery to Freedom (New York, 1898), Appendix E, p. 412, Michigan, Cass County: “Bogue, Steven. Bonine, Isaac. Shugart, Zachariah.” Internet Archive.
- “An Agricultural Reconnoissance,” Michigan Farmer, 18 August 1885: the elk park, the King of Italy, the fountain. Internet Archive.
- Gilbert Cope, Genealogy of the Sharpless Family (Philadelphia, 1887), entry 2348: James E. Bonine and his family. Internet Archive.
- Virgil T. Bogue, Bogue and Allied Families (1944): Sarah Ann Bogue Bonine. Internet Archive.
- D. E. Lantz, Raising Deer and Other Large Game Animals in the United States, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Biological Survey Bulletin 36 (Washington, 1910), p. 31, quoting E. L. Stratton’s letter to Forest and Stream: his brother’s remaining elk “bought by some foreigners and shipped … thence some to Italy and the rest to Germany”; and p. 32, Isaac A. Bonine’s letter. Internet Archive.
- Michigan Farmer, 10 July 1883, the Bonine flock; Michigan State Agricultural Society Transactions (1850s); Report of the Commissioner of Agriculture (1862, 1865). Internet Archive.
- East Jordan News-Herald, 8 October 1953, “Preserving Michigan’s Elk” (photograph caption).
- “Died: Bonine,” The American Friend (Richmond, Ind.), vol. 4 (1897), p. 308: James E. Bonine’s obituary. Internet Archive.
- Orville W. Coolidge, A Twentieth Century History of Berrien County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906), pp. 700–701: Isaac A. Bonine and his father. Internet Archive.
- B. Comba, “Note sur deux nouvelles acclimatations faites dans le parc royal de la Mandria, près Turin,” Bulletin de la Société d’acclimatation, 2e série, vol. 9 (Paris, 1872), pp. 486–507, at p. 500 (announced p. 186); received at the meeting of 8 March 1872 and printed in the August number. New York Botanical Garden, LuEsther T. Mertz Library, via the Internet Archive.
- H. de la Blanchère, in La Chasse illustrée (1876), on the losses at La Mandria, as quoted in H. de Puyjalon, Histoire naturelle à l’usage des chasseurs canadiens (Québec, 1900). Internet Archive.
- Federal Writers’ Project, Michigan: A Guide to the Wolverine State (New York: Oxford University Press, 1941): Bonine Elk Park. Internet Archive.
- Ann Burton, Michigan Quakers: Abstracts of Fifteen Meetings of the Society of Friends, 1831–1960 (Decatur, Mich., 1989): the Vandalia church trustees and the Bonine marriage. Internet Archive.
- Willard Heiss, Abstracts of the Records of the Society of Friends in Indiana, Whitewater Monthly Meeting: James E. Bonine’s birth. Internet Archive.
- Curtis H. Hannum, Genealogy of the Hannum Family (West Chester, Pa., 1911): Elsie E. Bonine. Internet Archive.
- 1963 United States and Canadian Commemorative Medals and Tokens (1963): the Elk Park in the past tense. Internet Archive.
- Robert and Sarah Lindsey, Travels of Robert and Sarah Lindsey (London, 1886), pp. 42–43: at Isaac Bonine’s, Prairie Grove, 2 January 1850. Internet Archive.
- Bernard Abbott, “Bonine Elk Farm,” a school paper, and “Bonine Elk Farm One of the Show Places of State,” a newspaper clipping, in A Scrapbook History of Early Decatur, Michigan, 1829–1976, part 2, pp. 330 and 537. Internet Archive.
- J. Walter Jones, Fur-farming in Canada (Ottawa: Commission of Conservation, 1913), p. 123: Isaac Bonine of Niles. Internet Archive.
- Floyd B. Streeter, Political Parties in Michigan, 1837–1860 (Lansing, 1918): the “agents of the Quaker faith” in Cass County. Internet Archive.
- “A Michigan Elk Farm,” syndicated, as printed in the Ada Evening News (Ada, Okla.), 20 February 1908. Internet Archive.
- L’Opinione (Turin), no. 84, Thursday 24 March 1864, p. 2, under “Leggesi nel Morning Post del 21” (an Italian translation of a report in the London Morning Post of 21 March): the Castiglione–Devecchi expedition and its “trenta daini di Wapiti,” taken “nelle Montagne Rocciose e su le coste del Pacifico.” Internet Archive.
- The Rod and the Gun, vol. 6, no. 3 (17 April 1875), p. 43, “Deer Wounds—A Deer Park,” letter signed “J. E Bonine,” dated Vandalia, Mich., 1 April 1875. Ernst Mayr Library, Harvard University, via the Internet Archive.
- Benvenuto Comba, “Sur la mortalité des cerfs, daims, chevreuils et antilopes du parc royal de la Mandria,” Bulletin mensuel de la Société d’acclimatation, 2e série, vol. 10 (Paris, 1873), pp. 612–623, table at p. 623. Smithsonian Libraries, via the Internet Archive.
- J. D. Caton, “Wounds from Deers’ Antlers,” The Rod and the Gun, vol. 6, no. 2 (10 April 1875), p. 22, the article Bonine replied to. Internet Archive.
- Forest and Stream 48 (5 June 1897), p. 445: E. L. Stratton’s letter, as cited by Lantz (1910), p. 31; not seen.
- Portrait and Biographical Record of Berrien and Cass Counties, Michigan (Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co., 1893), pp. 537–538: Lot Bonine of Penn Township, with the lives of his parents, Isaac and Sarah (Talbert) Bonine. Internet Archive.
- Stone Lake, the lake that keeps secrets
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882): Stone Lake and the table of lakes, p. 11; the road to Niles; the bowl factory. Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906): the original plat, p. 149; the water works, p. 152; the distillery. Internet Archive.
- Atlas of Cass County, Michigan (Philadelphia, 1872): Ontwa Township, and Plan of Cassopolis, pp. 36–37. Internet Archive.
- Wayne F. Echelberger, Jr., M. W. Tenney, P. C. Singer, F. H. Verhoff and W. A. Garvey (University of Notre Dame), “Biogeochemical Modeling of Eutrophic Lakes: A Position Paper,” in Modeling the Eutrophication Process (workshop proceedings, St. Petersburg, Fla., 19–21 November 1969): Stone Lake, Cassopolis, as a “test lake system.” Internet Archive.
- How Kalamazoo got its name
- Robert Toupin, ed., Les Écrits de Pierre Potier (Ottawa: Presses de l’Université d’Ottawa, 1996), pp. 144–151: the itinerary naming the petit and grand kikanamaso, dated to autumn 1760. Internet Archive (borrow).
- Treaty of Chicago, 29 August 1821, Article 2 and the note on the reserve, in Indian Treaties, and Laws and Regulations Relating to Indian Affairs (Washington, 1826). Internet Archive.
- Charles J. Kappler, ed., Indian Affairs: Laws and Treaties, vol. 2 (Washington, 1904): the Treaty of Chicago, 1821, from p. 198, and the Treaty of St. Joseph, 1827. Internet Archive.
- Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, session of 1835–36, p. 81: An act to alter the names of the township of Arcadia and the village of Bronson, approved 2 March 1836. Internet Archive.
- Samuel W. Durant, History of Kalamazoo County, Michigan (Philadelphia: Everts & Abbott, 1880), pp. 56–57 (the name; Torrey’s 1867 account of the race), 214 (the plats; Cyren Burdick’s hotel, the Kalamazoo House, begun probably in the spring of 1832), 220 (Changing Names). Internet Archive.
- Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, Pioneer Collections, vol. 1 (first published 1877; 2nd ed., Lansing: Robert Smith Printing Co., 1900), Reports of Counties, Towns, and Districts, p. 200: Kalamazoo, the river’s name (“the boiling pot”) and the county seat, “first Bronson, then changed to Kalamazoo.” Internet Archive (the edition of 1900).
- David Fisher and Frank Little, eds., Compendium of History and Biography of Kalamazoo County, Mich. (Chicago, 1906): frontispiece portrait of Titus Bronson. Internet Archive.
- Henry R. Schoolcraft, Summary Narrative of an Exploratory Expedition to the Sources of the Mississippi River in 1820 (Philadelphia, 1855), p. 203, footnote. Internet Archive.
- Chrysostom Verwyst, Geographical Names in Wisconsin, Minnesota, and Michigan, having a Chippewa Origin, Collections of the State Historical Society of Wisconsin 12 (1892), pp. 390–398, at 391. Internet Archive.
- Henry Gannett, The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States, 2nd ed., U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 258 (1905), p. 171. Internet Archive.
- W. R. Gerard, Kalamazoo, in Anthropologic Miscellanea, American Anthropologist n.s. 13 (1911), pp. 337–338. Internet Archive.
- Frederick Webb Hodge, ed., Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, part 1 (Washington, 1907), Marameg, pp. 804–805. Internet Archive.
- “Mémoire sur la partie occidentale du Canada, depuis Michillimakinac jusqu’au fleuve du Mississipi,” Le Bulletin des recherches historiques 26 (1920), pp. 25–32 (dated by the editor “1763 ou peu après”): “celle de Kikanamaso.” Internet Archive.
- “The Road from Detroit to Fort St Josephs by land,” Haldimand papers, Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections 10 (1886), p. 248, between papers of 1771 and 1772: “Reccanamazo River, or Pusawpaco Sippy.” Internet Archive.
- Log of H.M.S. Felicity, autumn 1779, printed in Claude T. Hamilton, “Western Michigan History (Colonial Period),” Michigan History Magazine 13, no. 2 (Spring 1929), pp. 225–227: “for the Kikanamaso” (p. 226). Internet Archive.
- Henry R. Schoolcraft, Narrative Journal of Travels through the Northwestern Regions of the United States (Albany: E. & E. Hosford, 1821), p. 396, entry of 4 September 1820: “the river Kikalemazo.” Internet Archive.
- Robert Toupin, “Les routes de canot et de terre au pays des Illinois et dans la vallée de la Ouabache au XVIIIe siècle: les recueils de Pierre Potier,” in Georges Gauthier Larouche, ed., 450 ans de noms de lieux français en Amérique du Nord (Québec: Commission de toponymie, 1986), pp. 446–454: Potier’s copies of other travelers’ itineraries, p. 448; the petit and grand kikanamaso, p. 452. Internet Archive.
- Charles A. Weissert, ed., An Account of Southwest Michigan and St. Joseph County, in George N. Fuller, ed., Historic Michigan: Land of the Great Lakes, vol. III ([Dayton, Ohio]: National Historical Association, undated, about 1925), p. 17 (Franquelin’s “Maramee,” Charlevoix’s “Meremek”), p. 18 (“bright, bubbling kettle”), p. 128 (“Ki-ka-ma-sung”). The book reports events as late as 1925; the date 1900 in the library record is not its date. Internet Archive.
- William L. Jenks, “History and Meaning of the County Names of Michigan,” Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections 38 (Lansing, 1912), pp. 439–477, at 455–456: the Haldimand road’s “Reccanamazoo,” “probably a misprint of the ‘R’ for ‘K’” (p. 455); the meanings of the name, and “W. S. George says the name signifies the mirage or reflecting river.” Internet Archive.
- John T. Blois, Gazetteer of the State of Michigan (Detroit: Sydney L. Rood, 1838), p. 305: “Kekalamazoo, [Indian,] signifying a boiling pot”; p. 331: Newark, “(called Kalamazoo on the maps,) is a village and post office … in the county of Allegan.” Internet Archive.
- Quarter Centennial Celebration of the Settlement of Kalamazoo, Michigan (Ladies’ Library Association, 1855), p. 10: the toast of 21 June 1854, “Ke Kalamazoo — the boiling pot.” Internet Archive.
- George Torrey, history of the county, in Kalamazoo County Directory, with a History of the County (Kalamazoo: J. M. Thomas, 1869), p. 60 (the reason for the renaming; Bronson’s death in Connecticut) and pp. 108–109 (the race on Hopkins’s farm). Internet Archive.
- Charles R. Brown, The Government of Michigan (Kalamazoo: Moore & Quale, 1874), p. 28: “the mirage or reflecting river.” Internet Archive.
- James Fenimore Cooper, The Bee-Hunter; or, The Oak Openings, vol. III (London: Richard Bentley, 1848), p. 195, footnote: “This is the true Indian word.” Internet Archive.
- Journal of the Senate of the State of Michigan, of the First, Adjourned, and Extra Sessions of the Legislature, in the Years 1835 and 1836 (Detroit: John S. Bagg, 1836), p. 4 (the roll: Horace H. Comstock, third district), pp. 123–124 (the resolution of 17 February 1836), 139 and 148 (the bill), 152–153 (Mr. Comstock’s amendment adding the village of Bronson; the bill passed). Internet Archive.
- Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Michigan; First Session (Detroit: Morse & Bagg, 1836), p. 49 (the members for Kalamazoo County: Edwin H. Lothrop and Cyren Burdick, of Bronson), and pp. 157, 161, 165, 168, 175 (the bill to alter the names of the township of Arcadia and the village of Bronson). Internet Archive.
- Nick Kekic, A Fine Place for a City: Titus Bronson and the Founding of Kalamazoo (Kalamazoo: Oak Opening Press, 1984): Joseph Eddington’s cherry tree, April 1833. Internet Archive (borrow).
- Walter Romig, Michigan Place Names (Grosse Pointe: Walter Romig, 1973): “said to mean the mirage or reflecting river.” Internet Archive (borrow).
- The Minute Man (National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution) 19, no. 4 (March 1925), pp. 65–66: Kent Chapter’s report of Claude T. Hamilton’s talk of December 1924 on the Felicity log, “for the Kikanamaso (Kalamazoo)” (p. 66). Internet Archive.
- Albert F. Butler, “Rediscovering Michigan’s Prairies,” Michigan History 33:3 (September 1949), p. 225: “Reccanamazo, or Ke-Kalamazoo.” Internet Archive.
- The Rag Picker (Paper Money Collectors of Michigan) 19, no. 4 (October 1984): the 1822 Finlayson map “spells the Kalamazoo River as Kikalemazo.” Internet Archive.
- Parker Cleaveland, An Elementary Treatise on Mineralogy and Geology, 2nd ed., 2 vols. (Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1822), vol. 2, p. 775: “between the rivers Black Water and Kikalemazo. (Schoolcraft.)” Internet Archive.
- Joseph E. Worcester, A Geographical Dictionary, or Universal Gazetteer, Ancient and Modern, vol. 1 (Boston: Cummings and Hilliard, 1823), p. 852: “Kikalemazo, r. Michigan, which flows into lake Michigan, 20 N. Black water river.” Internet Archive.
- William H. Keating, Narrative of an Expedition to the Source of St. Peter’s River, Lake Winnepeek, Lake of the Woods, &c., vol. 1 (Philadelphia: H. C. Carey & I. Lea, 1824), p. 425: “between St. Joseph and Kikalemazo rivers.” Internet Archive.
- Henry Gannett, The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States, U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin 197 (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1902), p. 149. Internet Archive.
- Henry F. Thomas, ed., A Twentieth Century History of Allegan County, Michigan (Chicago: Lewis Publishing Co., 1907), p. 35: Kalamazoo Harbor, “near the river’s mouth,” platted but never settled; pp. 124–125: Butler’s village “popularly called” Kalamazoo, whose post office “was never known as Kalamazoo by the postal department.” Internet Archive.
- Carl Sandburg, “The Sins of Kalamazoo,” in Smoke and Steel (New York: Harcourt, Brace and Howe, 1920), pp. 49–53. Internet Archive.
- Crisfield Johnson, History of Allegan and Barry Counties, Michigan (Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1880), p. 325: William G. Butler’s village, platted in 1833 and called Kalamazoo, the plat recorded 17 July 1834; the post office named Saugatuck in 1835; and p. 331: “the paper town of Kalamazoo Harbor, laid out at the mouth of the river.” Internet Archive.
- Kit Lane, The Wreck of the Hippocampus and Other Tales of Saugatuck (Douglas, Mich.: Pavilion Press, 1992): the Kalamazoo post office in Calhoun County, established 2 May 1834 with Reuben Abbott as postmaster, changed to Waterburgh on 23 December 1835. Internet Archive (borrow; seen in the full-text search).
- John Melish, The Traveller’s Directory through the United States (New York: A. T. Goodrich, 1825), the account of Michigan Territory, second pagination, p. 36: “Rivers. … Black Water, Kikalemazo, Grand Maskagon….” Internet Archive.
- How Cassopolis got its name
- Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County, from 1825 to 1875 (Cassopolis, 1875): Geneva, pp. 182 and 236; the race for the county seat, pp. 236–238; the plat, p. 239. Internet Archive.
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882): the act of 29 October 1829; the proclamation of 19 December 1831, p. 68; the plat, p. 155; the post office, p. 170; Stone Lake. Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906): the commissioners, pp. 99–100; the proprietors, the streets and the spelling, in the chapter on Cassopolis. Internet Archive.
- John T. Blois, Gazetteer of the State of Michigan (Detroit, 1838), p. 261. Internet Archive.
- Henry Gannett, The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1905). Internet Archive.
- Episcopal Recorder (Philadelphia), vol. 10, no. 47, 23 February 1833, p. 187, “Bishop Chase,” from the St. Joseph’s Beacon: “at Cassopolis on the 2nd and 3rd.” Internet Archive.
- Official Register of the United States, 30 September 1833: the post office “Cassapolis,” Alexander H. Redfield. Internet Archive.
- Atlas of Cass County, Michigan (Philadelphia: C. O. Titus, 1872), plan of Cassopolis. University of Michigan copy, Internet Archive.
- How Dowagiac got its name
- John T. Blois, Gazetteer of the State of Michigan (Detroit, 1838; the Internet Archive copy is dated 1839), pp. 215, 348. Internet Archive.
- Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County, from 1825 to 1875 (Cassopolis, 1875): the meaning, p. 113; the swamp road, p. 163; Venice, p. 164; the founding of Dowagiac, pp. 262–266, 268. Internet Archive.
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882), chapter I. Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906), pp. 154–156. Internet Archive.
- Adam Fergusson, Practical Notes Made During a Tour in Canada, and a Portion of the United States, in MDCCCXXXI (Edinburgh: Blackwood, 1833), Appendix No. I, “Territory of Michigan,” pp. 320, 330. Internet Archive (Canadiana).
- Atlas of Cass County, Michigan (Philadelphia: C. O. Titus, 1872), “South Half of Dowagiac.” University of Michigan copy, Internet Archive.
- How Niles got its name
- History of Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Michigan (Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1880): Pog-wa-tigue and the account books, pp. 141, 154, 160; the plat, pp. 155, 160; incorporation and charter, p. 161; the township, p. 267. Internet Archive.
- Orville W. Coolidge, A Twentieth Century History of Berrien County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906): the Spanish flag, p. 12; the post office and the name, pp. 141–142. Internet Archive.
- Genius of Universal Emancipation (Baltimore), 20 November 1829, p. 87, “A New Town.” Internet Archive.
- Niles’ Weekly Register (Baltimore), vol. 37, no. 947, 7 November 1829, p. 1: the letter postmarked “Niles.” Internet Archive.
- Daniel McCoy, Old Fort St. Joseph; or, Michigan under Four Flags (Lansing, 1907). Library of Congress copy, Internet Archive.
- How Edwardsburg got its name
- Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County, from 1825 to 1875 (Cassopolis, 1875): Beardsley’s settlement, p. 114; the first board of supervisors, p. 117; Ontwa, p. 226; the plat and Thomas H. Edwards, p. 228. Internet Archive.
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882): the first court and board, pp. 69–71; the road act of 1830, p. 76; Bishop Chase’s stations, p. 82; Beardsley’s Prairie, p. 349; Thomas H. Edwards, in the chapter on Ontwa. Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906), p. 45. Internet Archive.
- “The late Mrs. Joy and early reminiscences of Maj. Edwards and family,” Michigan Historical Collections, vol. 11 (Lansing: Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, 1888), pp. 77–78. Internet Archive.
- John T. Blois, Gazetteer of the State of Michigan (Detroit, 1838), pp. 79 and 283. Internet Archive.
- How Paw Paw got its name
- History of Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Michigan (Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1880): the Berrien township of Paw Paw, p. 131; Lafayette and the county seat, pp. 360–362; the chapter on Paw Paw township and village, pp. 505–508. Internet Archive.
- Henry Gannett, The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States (U.S. Geological Survey Bulletin, 1905), “Pawpaw.” Internet Archive.
- Laws of Michigan, session of 1859, Act No. 112, “An act to incorporate the village of Paw Paw,” p. 292. Internet Archive.
- Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, 1863, Act No. 55, repealing Act No. 112 of 1859. Internet Archive.
- Local Acts of the Legislature of the State of Michigan, 1867, Act No. 519, “An act to incorporate the village of Paw Paw,” approved 28 March 1867, pp. 1115–1129. Internet Archive.
- Mark Catesby, The Natural History of Carolina, Florida, and the Bahama Islands, vol. 2 (London, 1771), plate 85 (the pawpaw). Internet Archive.
- C. S. Sargent, The Silva of North America, vol. 1 (Boston, 1891), plates XV–XVI (Asimina triloba). Internet Archive.
- How Vandalia got its name
- Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County, from 1825 to 1875 (Cassopolis, 1875): McCoy and Christiana creek, pp. 67, 72; Carpenter’s mill, pp. 116, 181; Vandalia, p. 185. Internet Archive.
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882), chapter I: Christianna Creek. Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906): the creek, pp. 7–8; the mill, the plat and the village, pp. 130–131. Internet Archive.
- John T. Blois, Gazetteer of the State of Michigan (Detroit, 1838), p. 215. Internet Archive.
- Cassopolis in 3D: A Village Through Time, 1846 to Today
- Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County, from 1825 to 1875 (Cassopolis, 1875), pp. 99–109, 118, 129, 133, 158, 240, 245–246, 249, 251–254, 259, 261. Internet Archive.
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882; edited by Alfred Mathews), pp. 11, 68, 71–72, 78–79, 90, 95–97, 106, 151–153, 156–174, 210, 320, 386. Internet Archive; pp. 152 and 166–167 read in the University of Michigan copy.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906), pp. 145–150, 169, 178, 201, 228, 249–250, 259, 353. Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, “Historical Sketch of Cassopolis,” in Norton’s Directory (1899), pp. 232–238, with the engraving “Old Court House, Cass County,” p. 234. University of Michigan, Internet Archive.
- John T. Blois, Gazetteer of the State of Michigan (Detroit, 1838): Cassopolis, p. 261; the Cass County lakes, pp. 214–215; “Deadwood Lake,” pp. 289 and 383; post routes, pp. 98–99. Internet Archive.
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Alfred Mathews, History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882), pp. iii (the preface, thanking “Hon. James M. Shepard” and “Dr. Leander Osborn” among others), 170 (Root’s hotel and his second hotel, burned in 1859; the planing mill and the name “Union Hotel”), 174 (the lodge, credited to James M. Shepard; the Masons in the Union Hotel, 12 June 1852), 178 (Eber Root’s children, “Isabella (Mrs. J. P. Osborn)”) and 180–181 (James M. Shepard, born at North Brookfield, Mass., 24 November 1840); the Osborn family, the Cassopolis harness trade and the village officers, 1869–1876.; p. 97, Bonine’s three and a half years in “the office of Dr. J. Prichet, of Centerville, Ind.” Internet Archive; p. 156, A. H. Redfield’s letter of 24 October 1868 on the hickory pole of 1831; pp. 167–169, the merchants and the drug store of about 1846.
- Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana, 31st session, 1846–47 (Indianapolis, 1846–47): the Wayne County members; House bill No. 242, Jackson Lodge of the order at Centreville (pp. 259, 272); the committee on corporations’ report (p. 345, Wednesday, 6 January 1847); the Senate’s bill No. 65, to incorporate the grand and subordinate divisions of the Sons of Temperance (pp. 216, 302, 451); the bill for the improvement of the breed of horses and mules in Blackford County (pp. 102, 130), by 19 January 1847 the bill on “horses, jack-asses, and mules” (p. 546). Indiana State Library, via Internet Archive.
- Gilbert Cope, A Genealogy of the Sharpless Family (Philadelphia, 1887): Susanna Sharples and Jacob Talbot, married at Middletown Meeting, 1770, p. 275; the children of Samuel Talbot (Sarah, Mrs. Beall; Emily, Mrs. Pricket; Martin Sharpless Talbot, d. California 1853) and John Talbot (d. about 1846 at Isaac Bonine’s, Cass Co.), p. 413; Sarah (Talbot) Bonine, b. 1791, and the Bonine and Talbot families’ removal from Tennessee “on account of slavery,” pp. 415–416; the Talbot and Beall families of Centreville, Indiana, p. 734 (Sarah Talbot, b. 1804, m. Nathaniel Beall, “a farmer, owning 160 acres near Centreville, from his marriage until death,” died at Centreville, 12 January 1845; the marriages of Harter, 1847, and Leander Osborn, 1854) and pp. 735–736 (Dr. John Pricket); Bonine’s marriage, 1844, p. 749; Harter’s birth and parents, p. 1227. Internet Archive.
- Michigan Biographies, vol. 2 (Lansing: Michigan Historical Commission, 1924), p. 283: James M. Shepard, Senator from the Twelfth District, 1879–80, born at North Brookfield, Mass., 24 November 1842. Internet Archive.
- “Colonel James M. Shepard,” death notice, The American Foreign Service Journal, vol. 4, no. 10 (October 1927), p. 340: American consul at Hamilton, Ontario, 1897–1916; died at Cassopolis, 13 August 1927, “84 years old.” Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906): James M. Shepard, pp. 556–558; the Union Hotel on the west side of Broadway and the old Cassopolis House on the east side of the square, p. 146; Bonine at Cassopolis “from 1844 to the outbreak of the Civil war,” p. 259 (Glover’s wording; Bonine was in California, 1849–51); Dr. Leander Osborn, 1825–1901, p. 264; “the late J. P. Osborn,” p. 386. Internet Archive.
- Portrait and Biographical Record of Berrien and Cass Counties, Michigan (Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co., 1893), pp. 288–289: James M. Shepard, born at North Brookfield, Mass., 24 November 1840. Internet Archive.
- Franklin Ellis and Crisfield Johnson, History of Berrien and Van Buren Counties, Michigan (Philadelphia: D. W. Ensign & Co., 1880), p. 153: the Niles Horse-Thief Association, organized in May 1853, “L. Harter, Treasurer.” Internet Archive.
- Howard A. Kelly and Walter L. Burrage, American Medical Biographies (Baltimore, 1920), p. 147: Evan J. Bonine. Internet Archive.
- William M. Hall, Reminiscences and Sketches, Historical and Biographical (Harrisburg: Meyers Printing House, 1890), ch. 19, “The Ancient and Venerable Order of Ecclampsis Vitis,” pp. 121–127. Internet Archive.
- G. Ezra Dane with Beatrice J. Dane, Ghost Town (New York: Knopf, 1941), bibliography, p. 309: the “Division No. 110” record book of 1849. Internet Archive (borrow).
- Samuel Ellis, The History of the Order of the Sons of Temperance, from its Organization on the 29th September, 1842, to the Commencement of the Year 1848 (Boston: Stacy, Richardson & Co., 1848), ch. 30, “Michigan,” pp. 192–194: Michigan Division No. 1 at Jackson, 5 September 1846; Niles Division No. 9; the Grand Division instituted at Jackson, 6 April 1847. Internet Archive.
- Seth Slopes, E Clampus Vitus: Now & Then: The Replete History of ECV (Murphys, Calif.: Old Timers Museum, 2000): the eastern lodges; Judge William M. Hall on Bedford, 1847. Internet Archive (borrow).
- Bardstown Herald (Bardstown, Ky.), 14 October 1852: Wapsipinico Lodge. Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program, University of Kentucky Libraries, via Internet Archive.
- Harry L. Wells, History of Siskiyou County, California (Oakland, 1881), pp. 108 and 111: the Fourth of July procession and Steamboat Jake, Yreka, 1856. Internet Archive.
- Portrait and Biographical Record of Montgomery, Parke and Fountain Counties, Indiana (Chicago: Chapman Bros., 1893), pp. 414–415: James T. Buck, “one of the organizers of the Royal Eclampsus Levitas.” Internet Archive.
- Spirit of the Times, 14 January 1854: “an ‘E Clampus vitus’ grip.” Internet Archive (seen in the full-text search).
- Stephen C. Massett, “Drifting About”; or, What “Jeems Pipes, of Pipesville,” Saw-and-Did (New York: Carleton, 1863), p. 234, reprinting his letter in the San Francisco Herald of 26 January 1856: “the noble order of E Clampus Vitus gentlemen.” Internet Archive.
- W. A. Norton’s Directory of Dowagiac, Cassopolis and nearby townships (1899), “Historical Sketch of Cassopolis” by Lowell H. Glover, pp. 234 (Root’s frame building, later the planing mill), 237–238 (the Odd Fellows in the ball room of the Cassopolis hotel, burnt in 1859; the Masons in the Union Hotel, 12 June 1852); business directory (J. P. Osborn, harness shop, 114 N. Broadway). Internet Archive.
- James Pierce Root, Root Genealogical Records, 1600–1870 (New York, 1870), no. 1432: Eber Root of Cassopolis; his daughter “Isabel, m. Jordan Osborn of Cassopolis.” Internet Archive.
- Alumni Record of Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1911), p. 680, non-graduates of the class of 1864: “James Melville Shepard … Born November 24, 1842, North Brookfield, Mass.” Internet Archive.
- John M. Townley, The Trail West: A Bibliography-Index to Western American Trails, 1841–1869 (Reno: Jamison Station Press, 1988): “BONINE, Dr. Diary. Fort St. Joseph Museum, Niles, MI. … 1849.” Internet Archive (lending copy).
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Bardstown Herald (Bardstown, Ky.), 14 October 1852: Wapsipinico Lodge. Kentucky Digital Newspaper Program, University of Kentucky Libraries, via Internet Archive.
- Bardstown Herald, 18 November 1852: the same notice. Internet Archive.
- The Weekly British Colonist (Victoria), 11 February 1862, p. 4: the lodge at Port Douglas. University of Victoria Libraries, via Internet Archive.
- The Friend (Honolulu), 1 January 1859 (running head misprinted “January, 1858”), the list of societies: “E Clampsus V.” Internet Archive.
- Spirit of the Times, 14 January 1854: “an ‘E Clampus vitus’ grip.” Internet Archive.
- Stephen C. Massett, “Drifting About”; or, What “Jeems Pipes, of Pipesville,” Saw-and-Did (New York: Carleton, 1863), p. 234, reprinting his letter in the San Francisco Herald, 26 January 1856. Internet Archive.
- Earl G. Swem, “A Register of the General Assembly of Virginia, 1776–1918,” Report of the Virginia State Library, 1917 (Richmond, 1918), p. 179: session of 7 December 1857 to 8 April 1858, “Doddridge and Tyler. John McKay.” Internet Archive.
- Seth Slopes, E Clampus Vitus (2000), with its dated chronology of places, and Boyd B. Stutler’s “Ephraim Bee, Grand Gyascutis, and his Virginia E C V of 1853,” reprinted there, pp. 13 ff., quoting the Weston Herald of 28 November 1853 (“the Grand Lama, Ephraim Bee”; “first commissioned Grand Gyascutis for the United States of America by the Grand Hotetote of China”); read in the Internet Archive’s full-text search, not on the page.
- Bruce Ramsey, Ghost Towns of British Columbia (Vancouver: Mitchell Press, 1963): the lodge at Port Douglas, undated. Internet Archive.
- Alvaro F. Gibbens, Wood County Formation: A Century of Progress (Morgantown: Acme Press, 1899), p. 48: a later memory of Bee initiating in the jury hall of the old Wood County court house at Parkersburg. Internet Archive.
- Biographical and Historical Record of Vermillion County, Indiana (Chicago, 1888): “an imaginary secret society” at Newport. Internet Archive.
- Journal of the Fourth Session of the Legislature of the State of California, Senate (San Francisco, 1853), pp. 5, 8 and 37 (the senators and their districts) and 224–231 (17 and 18 March). Internet Archive.
- James M. Shepard, in Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County, from 1825 to 1875 (Cassopolis, 1875), pp. 253–254. Internet Archive.
- Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana, 1846–47, pp. 259, 272, 345 (House bill No. 242). Internet Archive.
- William M. Hall, Reminiscences and Sketches, Historical and Biographical (Harrisburg, 1890), pp. 121–127. Internet Archive.
- G. Ezra Dane, Ghost Town (New York, 1941), p. 309. Internet Archive.
- Fariss & Smith, Illustrated History of Plumas, Lassen & Sierra Counties (San Francisco, 1882), p. 471. Internet Archive.
- William M. Hall, Reminiscences and Sketches (Harrisburg, 1890), pp. 121–127: Bedford, 1847. Internet Archive.
- Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 11 February 1860, on the Sons of Malta. Internet Archive.
- Harry L. Wells, History of Siskiyou County, California (Oakland, 1881), pp. 108 (the Fourth of July procession, Yreka, 1856) and 111 (Steamboat Jake). Internet Archive.
- Alfred Mathews, History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882), pp. iii (the preface, thanking “Hon. James M. Shepard” and “Dr. Leander Osborn” among others), 170 (Root’s hotel and his second hotel, burned in 1859; the planing mill and the name “Union Hotel”), 174 (the lodge, credited to James M. Shepard; the Masons in the Union Hotel, 12 June 1852), 178 (Eber Root’s children, “Isabella (Mrs. J. P. Osborn)”) and 180–181 (James M. Shepard, born at North Brookfield, Mass., 24 November 1840); the Osborn family, the Cassopolis harness trade and the village officers, 1869–1876. Internet Archive.
- Nevada City Nugget, 8 April 1932: “Revive Fraternal Order of Old West,” the notice of E. Clampus Vitus Redivivus calling the members to the Clift Hotel at noon. Nevada County Library, via California Revealed; Internet Archive.
- Nevada City Nugget, 20 May 1932: “Clampus Vitus to Meet in Camptonville May 28,” naming “Fred Clift, proprietor of the Clift hotel,” among the members chartering the revival. Nevada County Library, via California Revealed; Internet Archive.
- “The Tragedy of Coloma” (In-Time Press), reprinted in the Book Club of California’s Quarterly News-Letter 64 (1999): Francis Farquhar’s E Clampus Vitus first-day covers for the Coloma stamp, January 1948. Internet Archive.
- The Architect and Engineer of California, May 1913, p. 48: “Clift Estate Hotel, Geary and Taylor Streets, San Francisco. G. A. Applegarth, Architect.” Internet Archive.
- The day 3,000 people came to watch one log
- Where Kellogg made its telephone cabinets
- The story of the Kellogg Switchboard & Supply Company, Telephony, 4 December 1909 (the wood-working plant at Cassopolis, seven buildings, 46,000 square feet). Internet Archive.
- Telephony, 19 November 1910 (Michigan incorporation; the $75,000 plant at Cassopolis). Internet Archive.
- “Manufacturing Plant’s Growth,” Telephony, 30 October 1915 (eight buildings, two warehouses, a dry kiln). Internet Archive.
- “Wood for Telephone Cabinets,” Telephony, 25 August 1917. Internet Archive.
- Kellogg Switchboard and Supply Company advertising budget, Printers’ Ink, 28 November 1929. Internet Archive.
- “What the New Kellogg Factory Represents,” Telephony, 6 April 1918, p. 68 (Highland Park beginnings; the cabinet department at Cassopolis). Internet Archive.
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906): sketch of G. M. Kingsbury, president of the Cassopolis Manufacturing Company, organized in the fall of 1899. Internet Archive.
- The Iron Age, 26 January 1905 (general manager of the Cassopolis Mfg. Company, maker of grain drills). Internet Archive.
- The Mechanical Index, 1904 (Cassopolis Mfg. Co., Cassopolis, Mich.: drills). Internet Archive.
- Thomas Register of American Manufacturers, 1905 (Cassopolis Mfg. Co.: grain drills). Internet Archive.
- Official Catalogue of the Lewis and Clark Centennial and American Pacific Exposition, Portland, Oregon, 1905 (Cassopolis Mfg. Co.: grain drills and seeders). Internet Archive.
- The courthouse that became the Colonial
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906): the old court house “now” on the south side of State Street, “used as a storage house.” Internet Archive.
- The Film Daily Film Year Book 1927 (Cassopolis: Colonial, 476 seats). Internet Archive.
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882): the first court house of 1835; the contract of 7 August 1839 and its specifications; uses of the court house; the agricultural society’s first fair. Internet Archive.
- The Billboard, 2 September 1911 (route of the Carlton Opera Company: Cassopolis, Mich., 7th). Internet Archive.
- Report of the secretary, ninth annual reunion of the Cass County Pioneer Society (1882): the court-house room, 17 May. Michigan Pioneer and Historical Collections, vol. 29. Internet Archive.
- Race day at the Cassopolis fair grounds
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906), pp. 205–206: Cass County Agricultural Society. Internet Archive.
- The Billboard, 29 August 1908 (list of fairs: Cassopolis, 22–25 September). Internet Archive.
- Western Horseman (Indianapolis), 23 February 1916 (a horse started at Cassopolis in 1911). Indiana State Library, via Internet Archive.
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882), chapter on the Cass County Agricultural Society (organization in 1851, the first fair, the court house exhibits, the second annual meeting, the grounds) and the sketch of Justus Gage. Internet Archive.
- The Billboard, 24 June 1911 (Cassopolis: Cass Co. Fair, E. H. Black, secretary). Internet Archive.
- The Billboard, 26 August 1911 (Cassopolis: Cass Co. Fair, 19–22 September). Internet Archive.
- The Billboard, 4 May 1912 (Cassopolis: Cass Co. Fair, September; H. D. Badgley, secretary). Internet Archive.
- The Billboard, 24 May 1913 (Cassopolis: Cass Co. Expo. & Race Meet, 2–5 September). Internet Archive.
- The Billboard, 12 July 1913 (Cassopolis: Cass Co. Expo. & Race Meet, 2–5 September). Internet Archive.
- The History of the American Speedway, Past & Present (1984): Cassopolis Fair (Cass County Fair), half-mile dirt oval. Internet Archive.
- History of America’s Speedways, Past & Present (1994): Cassopolis Fairgrounds; New Cassopolis Speedway. Internet Archive.
- Transactions of the State Agricultural Society of Michigan … for 1851, vol. III (Lansing, 1852), pp. 314 and 324: the Cass County society’s report (the first fair set for Thursday, 18 September 1851; “not less than two thousand” attending). Internet Archive.
- Dr. Goodwin’s hotel on Broadway
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago, 1906): the physicians of Cassopolis (Dr. Goodwin, p. 265) and the old public square (the Goodwin House, p. 145). Internet Archive.
- History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882): biographical sketch of Fairfield Goodwin (Goodwin’s Hall; partnership with J. D. Mater). Internet Archive.
- Portrait and Biographical Record of Berrien and Cass Counties, Michigan (Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co., 1893), p. 322: Dr. Fairfield Goodwin. Internet Archive.
- W. A. Norton’s Directory of Dowagiac, Cassopolis … 1899: the Goodwin Hotel (T. S. Morrison, prop.), the Goodwin House Bar, the first post office, and the sketch of Fairfield Goodwin, M.D. University of Michigan, via Internet Archive.
- Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1875 (Cassopolis: Goodwin, Fairfield, physician and surgeon, Cassopolis House). Internet Archive.
- The Western Underwriter, 20 July 1899 (North America: Fairfield Goodwin, Cassopolis). Internet Archive.
- Journal of the American Institute of Homoeopathy, 1909 (Sarah J. Allen, care Goodwin Hotel, Cassopolis). Internet Archive.
- Michigan History, vol. 74 (1990), index: Ann Gebhard, “Doubly Paid for Any Sacrifice,” pp. 10–16 (March/April 1990). Internet Archive.
- Cassopolis High School, Annual (Cassopolis, 1915): advertisements for Hotel Goodwin and O. L. Yerty’s Cash Bargain Store. Internet Archive.
- Atlas of Cass County, Michigan (Philadelphia: C. O. Titus, 1872), plan of Cassopolis. University of Michigan copy, Internet Archive.
- Summer on Diamond Lake: Forest Hall and the island
- L. H. Glover, A Twentieth Century History of Cass County, Michigan (1906), pp. 466, 755–756
- Alfred Mathews, History of Cass County, Michigan (1882), pp. 17, 75, 195
- Alfred Mathews, History of Cass County, Michigan (1882), lakes table and text (Diamond Lake 1,083 acres, island 40.79 acres; hardness of the water), Internet Archive full text
- Cassopolis High School, Annual (Cassopolis, 1915): advertisement for O. L. Yerty’s Cash Bargain Store. Internet Archive.
- Band night at French’s Hotel, Eagle Lake
- The Newton House, a farmhouse museum near Decatur
- Howard S. Rogers, History of Cass County, from 1825 to 1875 (1875), pp. 152, 169, 320–322
- Alfred Mathews, History of Cass County, Michigan (Chicago: Waterman, Watkins & Co., 1882): Volinia Township, pp. 283–293 and the biography of George Newton facing p. 284; delegates and legislators in the chapter on county officers; Pioneer Society, p. 140; the 1840 campaign, pp. 158–159; Christian G. Haefner, p. 135; Higgins schoolhouse and the Newton–Green marriage, pp. 326, 328; wolf bounties in the chapter on pioneer life. Internet Archive copy of the University of Michigan scan
- “The Newton Woods Sold,” Decatur Republican, June 1935; “Death of Jane Newton Crego,” December 1930; “Newton Woods Deeded to MSC,” 1942; and other clippings in A Scrapbook History of Early Decatur, Michigan, 1829–1976. Internet Archive.
- “Sunday Tours Available,” Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 15 February 1975. Internet Archive.
- Newton House tours and restoration, Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 16 March 1977. Internet Archive.
- City Hall, Mishawaka, and the mayor on the card
- Company D: the 85 men Dowagiac sent in 1861
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- “Christian Holler, Former Senator from St. Joseph County,” Indianapolis Journal, 20 December 1902, p. 6. Chronicling America.
- Crum’s Point and Crumtown in Indiana pension lists, Indianapolis Journal, 24 January 1888, p. 1, and 18 May 1890, p. 7. Chronicling America.
- M. W. Stokes, Map of St. Joseph Co., Indiana ([Philadelphia], 1863), engraved and printed by Chas. Shober: “Crum & Hollar” and “Crums & Hollar” tracts in Warren Township. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- Indianapolis Journal, 14 November 1903, p. 5 (the bullet-proof cloth company; the Rev. Alexander Buechler a director). Chronicling America.
- Lake County Times (Hammond, Ind.), 6 March 1909, p. 1 (Buechler appointed pastor at Otis). Chronicling America.
- Alfred B. Wade, Major, 73rd Indiana Infantry (carte de visite, 1862–65). Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress.
- “Duck Shooting in Indiana” (chromolithograph, Cincinnati: Gibson & Co., c. 1878). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- Five brothers and a blacksmith shop
- “Henry Studebaker Dead,” Indianapolis Journal, 3 March 1895, p. 4. Chronicling America.
- Obituary of J. M. Studebaker, South Bend, 17 March 1917, Evening Star (Washington), 17 March 1917, p. 16. Chronicling America.
- Carol M. Highsmith, “Tippecanoe Place, a Richardsonian Romanesque-style mansion in South Bend, Indiana,” 2016. Library of Congress.
- The biggest wagon works in the world
- Carol M. Highsmith, photographs at the Studebaker National Museum, 2016. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (no known restrictions).
- Associated Press, Fort Wayne, 29 January 1935 (reorganization approved), Evening Star (Washington), 29 January 1935. Chronicling America.
- United Press, Fort Wayne, Indianapolis Times, 29 January 1935, p. 13. Chronicling America.
- “Fine Arts Building, Chicago, Ill.,” Detroit Publishing Co., about 1900. Library of Congress.
- Carol M. Highsmith, “‘Peg,’ a ‘backward-forward vehicle’ built in 1909 by the Studebaker company,” 2016. Library of Congress.
- “The Fire,” South Bend Union, 19 June 1872, reprinted in the Marshall County Republican (Plymouth, Ind.), 27 June 1872, p. 1. Chronicling America.
- Wire report of the fire of 17 June 1872, Jasper Weekly Courier (Jasper, Ind.), 28 June 1872, p. 2. Chronicling America.
- Associated Press, South Bend, 24 August 1874, Memphis Daily Appeal, 25 August 1874, p. 1. Chronicling America.
- South Bend Tribune report of the fire of 24 August 1874, reprinted in the Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis), 1 September 1874, p. 6. Chronicling America.
- Receivership report, South Bend, 18 March 1933, Douglas Daily Dispatch (Douglas, Ariz.), 19 March 1933, p. 8. Chronicling America.
- United Press report of Albert R. Erskine’s death, Indianapolis Times, 1 July 1933, p. 1. Chronicling America.
- The day the line stopped
- Carol M. Highsmith, photographs at the Studebaker National Museum, 2016. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division (no known restrictions).
- “Mortuary Chapel to Cost $75,000,” South Bend News-Times, 30 November 1922, p. 4. Chronicling America.
- Funeral of Mrs. Carlisle, South Bend News-Times, 8 January 1931, p. 13. Chronicling America.
- “Business Briefs” (Studebaker-Packard Corporation from 1 October), Evening Star (Washington), 27 September 1954. Chronicling America.
- “J. M. Studebaker Buried,” South Bend News-Times, 20 March 1917, p. 4. Chronicling America.
- Associated Press, “Studebaker to quit U.S. auto output,” Evening Star (Washington), 9 December 1963, p. A-1. Chronicling America.
- Associated Press, South Bend, Evening Star, 10 December 1963, p. A-13. Chronicling America.
- Editorial on the Studebaker shutdown, Evening Star, 28 December 1963, p. 4. Chronicling America.
- Before the lake: the farms of Potato Creek
- M. W. Stokes, Map of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (Philadelphia, 1863), with the sawmills and mill ponds on Potato Creek. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- Daily National Intelligencer (Washington), 8 September 1840, p. 3, quoting the South Bend Free Press on the departure of the emigrating party. Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 25 November 1917, p. 9 (cleaning the ditches into the Kankakee). Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 11 June 1927, p. 17 (rainbow trout put into Potato Creek). Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 16 May 1927, p. 5 (“After crossing Potato creek, you enter North Liberty”). Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 3 April 1927, p. 5, “Waldsmith Farm Involved in Sale.” Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 27 March 1928, p. 11 (a new bridge over Potato Creek on the Osborn road). Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 26 May 1924 (Olive Branch column: “Clinton Shupert is building an addition to his store building”), 20 June 1924, p. 12, and 4 October 1930, p. 32 (Clinton Shupert). Chronicling America.
- Darcey Worster’s dream
- Princess Mishawaka: the princess who never was
- Richmond Palladium (Richmond, Ind.), 17 May 1834, p. 1. Chronicling America.
- “Independence Day Celebration Recalls History of Mishawaka,” South Bend News-Times, 4 July 1923, p. 11. Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 16 February 1914, p. 10 (Ad-Sell League “Mishawaka Night”). Chronicling America.
- Elisabeth Steele, “Mishawauka Tale One of Romance,” South Bend News-Times, 8 August 1920, p. 17. Chronicling America.
- Elisabeth Steele, “Princess Mishawauka,” verse and illustration, South Bend News-Times, 17 October 1920, p. 17. Chronicling America.
- Booster Week and the Princess Mishawaka contest, South Bend News-Times, 31 May, 5 June (essay), 7 June 1925, p. 13. Chronicling America.
- Radio address by Rev. J. A. Burnett, South Bend News-Times, 19 June 1925, p. 16. Chronicling America.
- The Chamber of Commerce seal, South Bend News-Times, 19 May 1926, p. 17. Chronicling America.
- The Lions Club memorial drive, South Bend News-Times, 18 July, 26 August (letter), 26 and 30 September 1931. Chronicling America.
- “Red Men Will Unveil Statue,” Indianapolis Times, 16 May 1932, p. 8. Chronicling America.
- David H. Burr, Map of Ohio and Indiana Exhibiting the Post Offices, Post Roads, Canals, Rail Roads, &c., in The American Atlas (1839). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- M. W. Stokes, Map of St. Joseph Co., Indiana (Philadelphia, 1863), inset plan of Mishawaka. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- Mrs. E. A. Jernegan obituary, South Bend News-Times, 30 November 1914, p. 8. Chronicling America.
- The Jernegan–McDonough Printing Company dissolved (“Mr. Jernegan died March 2, 1922”), South Bend News-Times, 6 January 1924, p. 12. Chronicling America.
- Helene Rose Lamport, comp., The Historic Pageant of St. Joseph County, Oct. 3-4-5, 1916 (South Bend: L. P. Hardy Co., for the Indiana Centennial Association, 1916). Library of Congress.
- A museum before there was a museum
- Cass County Republican (Dowagiac), 26 June 1878 (the 1878 picnic). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Crawford Avalanche (Grayling), 25 June 1879 (“Ten thousand people”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Cass County Republican, 30 June 1880 (the 1880 picnic). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- The Plaindealer (Detroit), 27 June 1890, p. 2 (the seventeenth reunion). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- L’Anse Sentinel, 1 July 1916 (the picnic “will probably not take place”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 18 January, 2 February and 9 March 1923 (the reorganization). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 19 and 20 June 1924 (the picnic at the cabin, 1924). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 29 March and 15 June 1928 (Harmon’s obituary; B. F. Thompson as president). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 29 April 1925 (the Uzziel Putnam centennial at the cabin). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 23 March 1923. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- True Northerner (Paw Paw), 14 June 1907, p. 1. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Detroit Times, 9 June 1908, p. 1. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Detroit Times, 17 June 1910, p. 8. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 21 September 1923, p. 25. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 2 February 1923 (“Uncle Joe” Cannon announced; logs from every community). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 1 September 1916 (a marriage before Justice J. Boyd Thomas in the court house). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 15 June 1928, p. 24, “Cass Pioneer Picnic to Be Postponed This Year.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 7 June 1930, p. 23 (the picnic “discontinued after having long been a reunion of old settlers”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “A Venerable Relic,” from the Cassopolis National Democrat, 3 June [1875], with a note from its publisher, C. C. Allison, copied from the Nashville Union and American into the Memphis Daily Appeal, 12 June 1875, p. 2 (the drum’s history in A. S. Russey’s letter). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- The cabin a county built
- South Bend News-Times, 18 January, 2 February, 23 March, 23 May and 1 June 1923 (the reorganization and the building). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 21 September and 24 October 1923 (the grand opening and the commemoration). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 18 April, 19 and 20 June 1924 (the picnic at the cabin, 1924). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 27 July 1926, 29 March, 2 April and 15 June 1928, 26 April, 7 June and 29 July 1930 (the Eby family; Harmon’s death; no picnic in 1928; the Woman’s Club). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 18 and 19 August 1931 (the village centennial and its cachet). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 23 March 1923 (“to shelter the historical curios of the county”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 9 March 1923, p. 3 (“Logs are now being hauled to Cassopolis”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 17 July 1917, p. 10 (James G. Hayden buried). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 1 June 1930, p. 10 (Joseph K. Ritter, son of Charles Ritter). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 7 April 1923, p. 3, “80 Farmers Assist Cass Log Rolling.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 1 June 1923, p. 3 (the walls to the second story; roofing given). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 26 June 1928, p. 9 (Mrs. May S. Armstrong, class of 1879). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 21 May 1929, p. 14 (obituary of Ezra Planck: Adam Greenawalt and Catherine Harmon). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Keepers of the county
- South Bend News-Times, 17 May, 19 and 20 June 1924; 14 June 1925; 11 June 1927; 29 March, 2 April and 15 June 1928; 7 June 1930; 8 July 1931. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 18 January 1923 (the new name) and 24 October 1923 (the commemoration program). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 19 August 1931, p. 10 (the centennial program at the cabin). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 18 August 1931, p. 7 (the centennial cachet). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 30 June 1929, p. 12 (“Cass County Historical society”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 26 April 1930 (the Woman’s Club and the Chamberlain Museum). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 7 April 1923, p. 3, “80 Farmers Assist Cass Log Rolling” (the “Cass County Historical society”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- The miniature log cabin of 1878
- Balloons over the pioneer picnic
- “Took the Prize,” Cassopolis letter dated 23 June, The Plaindealer (Detroit), 27 June 1890, p. 2. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “Early Michigan Day,” Weekly Expositor (Brockway Centre, Mich.), 27 June 1890, p. 6. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- The True Northerner (Paw Paw, Mich.), 11 June 1890, p. 1 (the picnic announced), and 25 June 1890, p. 1 (Lake Park). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- The Indianapolis Journal, 11 June 1890, p. 5 (Professor Jenkins). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Alpena Weekly Argus, 18 June 1890, p. 3 (Stowe Bros.’ show). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “Announce Program of Pioneer Picnic,” South Bend News-Times, 12 June 1924, p. 24. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- The cabin that opened twice
- “Cassopolis Observes Its Log Cabin Day,” South Bend News-Times, 23 May 1923, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “Pioneer Cabin at Cassopolis Will be Completed June 20,” South Bend News-Times, 1 June 1923, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 21 September 1923, p. 25 (country column: “grand opening day”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “Commemoration Services for Cass Co. Log Cabin,” South Bend News-Times, 24 October 1923, p. 32. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “Niles News,” South Bend News-Times, 18 November 1923, p. 7 (“Niles Day”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “Cass Historical Body Plans Annual Celebration,” South Bend News-Times, 18 April 1924, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “Announce Program of Pioneer Picnic,” South Bend News-Times, 12 June 1924, p. 24. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “5,000 Throng Cassopolis for Cass County Picnic,” South Bend News-Times, 19 June 1924, p. 2. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Elkhart news, South Bend News-Times, 20 June 1924, p. 3 (“between 6,000 and 8,000”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- The photographs “Prominent Residents and Interesting Views in Town of Cassopolis,” South Bend News-Times, 7 June 1930, Part Two, p. 1 (Chronicling America image 23). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Obituary of Charles O. Harmon, South Bend News-Times, 29 March 1928, p. 5. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- The caretaker was Harmon’s uncle
- George Scheuer, “Pioneer Log Cabin at Cassopolis Preserves Romance of Early Life in St. Joseph Valley,” and the photographs “Prominent Residents and Interesting Views in Town of Cassopolis,” South Bend News-Times, 7 June 1930, Part Two, pp. 1 and 18 (Chronicling America images 23 and 40). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Union news (the 32nd Eby reunion), South Bend News-Times, 29 July 1930, p. 9. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Cassopolis news (the Eby reunion at the log cabin), South Bend News-Times, 27 July 1926, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Obituary of Charles O. Harmon, South Bend News-Times, 29 March 1928, p. 5. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “Old Log Cabin”: the song we can’t find
- “Commemoration Services for Cass Co. Log Cabin,” South Bend News-Times, 24 October 1923, p. 32. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “Wells Is Named G.O.P. Chairman,” South Bend News-Times, 14 September 1928, p. 18. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 8 April 1929, p. 12 (grafting demonstration). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Union news, South Bend News-Times, 15 October 1930, p. 16 (Union Grange officers). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- Jacob M. Howard, photograph, Brady-Handy Collection, Library of Congress.
- J. I. Alexander’s letter of 21 August 1847, reprinted from the Chicago American in the New-York Daily Tribune, 6 October 1847, p. 1. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “Runaway Slaves,” from the South Bend (Ind.) Register of 27 August 1847, in the New-York Daily Tribune, 11 September 1847, p. 1. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Library of Congress catalog, St. Joseph County Advertiser (Centreville, Mich.), sn85038662: weekly, begun February 1845, “Published on Wednesday,” Whig.
- The Bonine House at Vandalia
- “Curious Farming,” Daily Davenport Democrat (Davenport, Iowa), 22 May 1866, p. 2, from a New York paper: Stratton’s elk, “some thirty” of them sent to the parks of the King of Italy. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- “A Michigan Elk Farm,” syndicated, as printed in the Elbert County Tribune (Elbert, Colo.), 13 February 1908, p. 3: “the elk procured of the Bonines were the beginning of a herd which has become world famous.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Portland Daily Press, 5 November 1869, p. 2 (the directors of the Michigan Air Line Railroad Company, among them J. E. Bonine, Vandalia). Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- How Kalamazoo got its name
- Albert Ruger, Kalamazoo, Michigan, 1874 (bird’s-eye view). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- Jean-Baptiste-Louis Franquelin, Carte de la Louisiane ou des voyages du Sr. De La Salle (1684), facsimile. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- John Farmer, Map of the Surveyed Part of the Territory of Michigan (Detroit, 1826; engraved by V. Balch and S. Stiles, Utica): “Kekalamazoo R.” and “Kekalamazoo Res.” Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, G4110 1826 .F3.
- H. Wellge, Bird’s Eye View of Kalamazoo, Mich. (Madison, Wis.: J. J. Stoner, 1883). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- How Cassopolis got its name
- Geil, Harley & Siverd, Map of the Counties of Cass, Van Buren and Berrien, Michigan (Philadelphia, 1860), with the plan of Cassapolis. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- Lewis Cass, engraving by T. B. Welch after J. B. Longacre, about 1833. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- Philander Chase, daguerreotype, between 1844 and 1852. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- How Niles got its name
- How Edwardsburg got its name
- Geil, Harley & Siverd, Map of the Counties of Cass, Van Buren and Berrien, Michigan (Philadelphia, 1860), with the plan of Edwardsburgh. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- Map of Cass County, Michigan (Battle Creek: Home Publishing Co., 1897). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- How Paw Paw got its name
- Geil, Harley & Siverd, Map of the Counties of Cass, Van Buren and Berrien, Michigan (Philadelphia, 1860), with the plan of Paw Paw. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Paw Paw, Van Buren County, Michigan, 1892, sheet 1. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- How Vandalia got its name
- Cassopolis in 3D: A Village Through Time, 1846 to Today
- Sanborn Map Company, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cassopolis, Cass County, Michigan, November 1884, sheets 1–2. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- Sanborn Map Company, Sanborn Fire Insurance Map from Cassopolis, Cass County, Michigan, August 1892. Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Indiana State Sentinel, 7 January 1847, p. 1: Mr. Julian’s bill “to incorporate the ancient order of E-clam-peis Vitus.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America (the issue).
- Map of the Counties of Cass, Van Buren and Berrien, Michigan (Philadelphia: Geil, Harley & Siverd, 1860). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- E Clampus Vitus, Credo quia absurdum (Placerville, 1949): G. Ezra Dane, “The Origin of E Clampus Vitus,” p. 23; Hall reprinted, p. 25; the Calaveras Prospect of 30 May 1896 on the Bowling Green ritual, p. 53. HathiTrust (full view).
- Sons of Temperance, Grand Division of Illinois, Reports of the Grand Worthy Patriarch and Grand Scribe, 1849–51: “Perry Division, No. 110.” HathiTrust.
- Cooper’s Clarksburg Register, 15 August 1856, p. 2, a letter from Glenville, 9 August 1856. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Alexandria Gazette, 8 March 1860, p. 2: Ephraim Bee, “Grand Lama,” and Caleb Cushing. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Winchester Republican (Winchester, Va.), 26 February 1858, p. 2, “Great Excitement,” from the Parkersburg Gazette: Ephraim Bee at Richmond. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Mariposa Democrat (Mariposa, Calif.), 17 December 1857, p. 2, “E. C. V. Ball”: “the ancient and honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus” at Visalia. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Jackson Standard (Jackson C.H., Ohio), 29 April 1858, p. 2: “the E. Clampus Vitus,” “that ancient and honorable institution.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Hydraulic Press (North San Juan, Calif.), 24 March 1860, p. 1: the Sons of Malta, “an intense humbug of the E Clampus Vitus kind.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Alexandria Gazette, 13 March 1852, p. 2: “the new order introduced recently into Virginia.” Library of Congress.
- Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, 1 February 1867, p. 2: Ephraim Bee initiating candidates at the McLure House. Library of Congress.
- Michigan State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1860 (Detroit, 1860): Sons of Malta lodges at Detroit and Grand Rapids. HathiTrust.
- Plymouth Weekly Democrat (Plymouth, Ind.), 2 February 1860, p. 2: “Last Thursday night the Sons of Malta organized a working lodge in this place.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- North Branch Democrat (Tunkhannock, Pa.), 7 September 1864, p. 2, “Monstrous Conspiracy,” a satirical list including “E Clampus Vitus !!”; first printed in the Cadiz Sentinel (Ohio), 24 August 1864. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Cass County Republican (Dowagiac), 1 December 1859, p. 4, and 15 November 1860, p. 3: “UNION HOTEL. M. J. BALDWIN, PROPRIETOR, CASSAPOLIS, MICHIGAN.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Cooper’s Clarksburg Register (Clarksburg, Va.), 25 April 1855, p. 3, “Know-Nothingism in Gilmer”: Ephraim Bee “the Gwand Iwiseutis of the Eclampus Vitus.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Albert Shumate, ECV News from the Miners, 1856–1860, extracted from several sources (San Francisco: Lawton Kennedy, 1960), a keepsake for the Roxburghe and Zamorano Clubs: the Red Bluff Beacon, Shasta Courier and Mountain Messenger on the order, 1856–1860. HathiTrust.
- A. Ruger, Niles, Berrien County, Michigan, bird’s-eye view (Chicago Lithographing Co., 1868). Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division.
- Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu), 22 April 1858, p. 3, and in the weeks after: “E Clampsus V.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, 17 January 1866, p. 4: Ephraim Bee, who “when he was here two years ago … founded a branch order in this city.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- North Branch Democrat (Tunkhannock, Pa.), 7 September 1864, p. 2, “Monstrous Conspiracy.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Cadiz Sentinel (Cadiz, Ohio), 24 August 1864, p. 3, “Monstrous Conspiracy.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Winchester Republican (Winchester, Va.), 26 February 1858, p. 2, “Great Excitement,” from the Parkersburg Gazette: Ephraim Bee at Richmond. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Richmond Enquirer, 19 February 1858, p. 2, House of Delegates, 18 February: the Senate bill on lands to be conveyed to “Ephraim Bee of the county of Doddridge.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Holmes County Farmer (Millersburg, Ohio), 1 September 1864, p. 1: the same list. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu), 22 April 1858, p. 3, and in the weeks after: “E Clampsus V.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Cooper’s Clarksburg Register (Clarksburg, Va.), 25 April 1855, p. 3, “Know-Nothingism in Gilmer.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Cooper’s Clarksburg Register, 15 August 1856, p. 2, a letter from Glenville, 9 August 1856. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Alexandria Gazette, 8 March 1860, p. 2: Ephraim Bee, “Grand Lama,” and Caleb Cushing. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Daily Intelligencer (Wheeling), 18 July 1863, p. 1, “The First West Va. Legislature”: the profile of Ephraim Bee (“spent the winter of ’57–8 at Richmond”). Library of Congress, Chronicling America; transcribed by West Virginia Archives and History, https://archive.wvculture.org/History/sesquicentennial/biobeeephraim.html.
- Shasta Courier (Shasta, Calif.), 22 December 1855, p. 2, “In Luck”: Brigham Young’s “anathema” against “the ancient and venerable order of E Clampsus Vitus.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Southern Standard (Columbus, Miss.), 10 September 1853, p. 2, and 17 September 1853, p. 2: the charter of “Balaam, Lodge No. 1” of the “Ancient and Independent Order of Old Eclampsus Vitus,” dated 8 August 1853 on the page. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Alexandria Gazette, 19 February 1855, p. 4, “E. Clampsis Vitis,” from the Fredericksburg Herald: the order in Baltimore. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Weekly Minnesotian (St. Paul, Minn.), 24 April 1858, p. 2, a letter from Minneapolis, 19 April: Senator E. N. Bates as “Grand Gyastacutus of the E-Clampsus Vitusum.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Mariposa Democrat (Mariposa, Calif.), 17 December 1857, p. 2, “E. C. V. Ball”: “the ancient and honorable Order of E Clampus Vitus.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Jackson Standard (Jackson, Ohio), 29 April 1858, p. 2: “the ‘E. Clampus Vitus.’” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Shasta Courier, 8 October 1859, p. 3, “E Clampus Vitus,” from the Marysville Express: a lodge for Petaluma. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Mokelumne Hill, Calaveras County: view from Stockton Hill, Lawrence & Houseworth stereograph, “Gems of California Scenery,” no. 868 (1866). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs (LC-USZ62-27359).
- “An ‘E Clampus Vitus’ initiation,” stereograph, 1890. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs (LC-DIG-stereo-1s44579).
- Kanawha Valley Star (Charleston, Va.), 9 February 1858, p. 2, Senate proceedings, about 1 February: the joint resolution for a bill “to release Ephraim Bee from the payment of a part of the purchase money” of forfeited lands in Jackson County. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Georgetown News (Georgetown, Calif.), 22 May 1856, p. 2, “E. C. V.”: Knights from Placerville and Georgetown at the Spanish Flat Sanhedrim. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Weekly Butte Record (Oroville, Calif.), 19 July 1856, p. 2, “E. C. V.”: a regular meeting at the Hall of the Temple of Honor. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Shasta Courier, 15 December 1860, p. 2, “E Clampsus Vitus,” from the Horsetown Argus. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, 17 January 1866, p. 4: Ephraim Bee, who “when he was here two years ago … founded a branch order in this city.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, 15 July 1870, p. 3, “E. Clampus Vitus … Great Revival at Parkersburg,” from the Parkersburg Times. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, 31 January 1874, p. 2, “Ephriam [sic] Bee’s Order Revived,” from the Grafton Sentinel. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Morristown Gazette (Morristown, Tenn.), 10 June 1874, p. 1, “The Ancient and Antique Order of Eclampus Vitus”: the order at Knoxville before the war. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Chicago Daily Tribune, 13 May 1875, p. 11: “The Society of Old Eclampsus put a ticket in the field at Newport,” in Vermillion County. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Idaho Semi-Weekly World (Idaho City), 14 September 1880, p. 3: “a revival of the ancient order of Eclampsus Vitus, known here as the T. T.’s.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Robert W. Kerrigan, “View from Southeast,” Benicia State Capitol, Historic American Buildings Survey CA-1188, about 1936. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- E Clampus Vitus, Credo quia absurdum (Placerville, 1949), reprinting Boyd B. Stutler, “Ephraim Bee, Grand Gyascutis” (West Virginia Review, August 1931, quoting the Weston Herald of 28 November 1853), G. Ezra Dane’s essay of 1938, and J. A. Smith in the Calaveras Prospect, 30 May 1896. HathiTrust.
- Alexandria Gazette, 13 March 1852, p. 2. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Weekly Calaveras Chronicle, 4 May 1867, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- San Francisco Call, 23 January 1896, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Nevada Journal, 9 January 1857, p. 2. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Albert Shumate, A Note on ECV in the Gold Fields (San Francisco: Lawton Kennedy, 1961). HathiTrust.
- Placer Herald, 26 March 1859, p. 1. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Pacific Commercial Advertiser (Honolulu), 27 May 1882, p. 3. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Dayton Daily Empire, 24 September 1859, credited to a Bedford, Ind., paper. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Wheeling Daily Intelligencer, 1 February 1867, p. 2: “E. Clampus Vitis.” Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Cheyenne Leader, 23 December 1868. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- Caleb Cushing, photograph, between 1855 and 1865. Brady-Handy Collection, Library of Congress.
- Carl I. Wheat, The Enigmatical Book of Vitus (Yerba Buena, 1934). HathiTrust.
- Albert Shumate, ECV News from the Miners, 1856–1860 (San Francisco: Lawton Kennedy, 1960). HathiTrust.
- Shasta Courier, 9 February 1856, and Mountain Messenger (Downieville), 23 February 1859, as printed in Albert Shumate, ECV News from the Miners, 1856–1860 (1960). HathiTrust.
- James Fuller Queen, “The great secret of Odd-Fellowship exposed,” lithograph (Philadelphia, between 1840 and 1860). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs, Popular Graphic Arts (LC-DIG-pga-06884); no known restrictions on publication.
- “Pioneers in Session,” Seattle Post-Intelligencer, 5 June 1895, pp. 2–3: Maj. W. V. Rinehart’s address on pioneer mining, with George H. Williams on Canyon Creek, Josephine County, Oregon, June 1858 (“the secret order of the ‘E. Clampsus Vitus’”). Read on the page; first found as a clipping in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3.
- The day 3,000 people came to watch one log
- Where Kellogg made its telephone cabinets
- The courthouse that became the Colonial
- Cassopolis column, South Bend News-Times: 28 November 1913, 12 November 1914, 5 November 1915, June 1918, 28 January 1925, 12 July 1929. Library of Congress, Chronicling America.
- South Bend News-Times, 28 January 1925, p. 11: “Home Town Turns Out in Force to Honor Leigh Wade.” Chronicling America, Library of Congress.
- South Bend News-Times, 12 July 1929, p. 20 (Cassopolis column: the first talking picture at the Colonial). Chronicling America, Library of Congress.
- Dr. Goodwin’s hotel on Broadway
- Sanborn Map Company, Cassopolis, Cass County, Michigan, January 1909, sheet 3 (Hotel Goodwin) and sheet 2 (the west side of South Broadway). Library of Congress, Sanborn Fire Insurance Maps; copy on Wikimedia Commons.
- Union artillery, Taylor’s battery, Ft. Donelson (stereograph, between 1861 and 1864). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- Watson B. Smith, Co. C, 8th Michigan Cavalry Regiment (carte de visite, between 1862 and 1865). Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress.
- Band night at French’s Hotel, Eagle Lake
- French’s Hotel, Eagle Lake, Mich. (real-photo postcard, 1910, “Copyright by Inbody,” copyright no. J 143801), Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
- French’s Hotel, Eagle Lake, Mich. (real-photo postcard, 1910, “Copyright by Inbody,” copyright no. J 144708), Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
- Elkhart St., Post office and Public school, Edwardsburg, Mich. (copyright nos. J 142861, J 142862, J 142864), Library of Congress
- Edwardsburg in 1910, through J. Inbody’s camera
- Elkhart St., Edwardsburg, Mich. (real-photo postcard, 1910, J. Inbody), Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
- Post office, Edwardsburg, Mich. (real-photo postcard, 1910, J. Inbody), Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
- Public school, Edwardsburg, Mich. (real-photo postcard, 1910, J. Inbody), Library of Congress, Prints & Photographs Division
- Hump pusher, L.S. & M.S. R. R., Elkhart, Ind. (postcard, J. Inbody, Elkhart, Ind.), Library of Congress
- French’s Hotel, Eagle Lake, Mich. (real-photo postcard, 1910, copyright no. J 143801), Library of Congress
- French’s Hotel, Eagle Lake, Mich. (real-photo postcard, 1910, copyright no. J 144708), Library of Congress
- The Newton House, a farmhouse museum near Decatur
- City Hall, Mishawaka, and the mayor on the card
- Five minutes with Roosevelt at Dowagiac
- Osborn, Chase S., Honorable. Harris & Ewing photograph. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- The Detroit Times, 30 March 1912 (last edition), p. 1: “Roosevelt Here Tonight.” Chronicling America, Library of Congress.
- S. D. Ehrhart, “The crowd as it looks to Theodore,” Puck, 2 October 1912. Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- Company D: the 85 men Dowagiac sent in 1861
- The Battle of Baton Rouge, La. (Currier & Ives, New York, 1862). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- McPherson & Oliver, “The tunnel under the ‘Citadel’ dug by the Union forces,” Port Hudson, La., 1863. Robin G. Stanford Collection, Library of Congress.
- Surrender of Port Hudson, La. July 8th. 1863 (Currier & Ives, New York, 1863). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division.
- Harrison Soule, 6th Michigan Infantry and Heavy Artillery (carte de visite, E. A. Piffet, New Orleans, between 1861 and 1865). Liljenquist Family Collection, Library of Congress.
University of Michigan Library24 sources · 14 stories
Home of the Michigan County Histories collection, where most of the county books are read. Visit University of Michigan Library
- A museum before there was a museum
- Keepers of the county
- George R. Fox papers, Bentley Historical Library, University of Michigan (Box 1, “Cass County Historical Society,” 1954–1973).
- Real-photo postcard, “Court House, Cassopolis, Mich.,” O. L. Yerty, about 1908–1916. David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
- Two Tries at the Valley: How the Grand Trunk Came Through
- How Vandalia got its name
- M. C. Depot, Vandalia, Mich. (1913), real-photo postcard. David V. Tinder Collection, Clements Library, University of Michigan.
- The Old Mill, Vandalia, Mich., real-photo postcard, about 1908–1918. David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
- Cassopolis in 3D: A Village Through Time, 1846 to Today
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Where Kellogg made its telephone cabinets
- The courthouse that became the Colonial
- Race day at the Cassopolis fair grounds
- Dr. Goodwin’s hotel on Broadway
- Fairfield Goodwin papers, 1861–1862: biographical note. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
- Hotel Goodwin, Cassopolis, Mich (real-photo postcard, 1916, C. R. Childs). David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
- Hotel Goodwin, Cassopolis, Mich. (real-photo postcard, O. L. Yerty). David V. Tinder Collection of Michigan Photography, William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
- Fairfield Goodwin, drawing of a bird with the banner “Can I forget thee? No never!”, 1 September 1862. William L. Clements Library, University of Michigan.
- Summer on Diamond Lake: Forest Hall and the island
- Band night at French’s Hotel, Eagle Lake
- Five minutes with Roosevelt at Dowagiac
- Roosevelt Special, March 30th 1912 (real-photo postcard, Oscar C. Haight), Tinder Collection, Clements Library, University of Michigan
- “Roosevelt Will Arrive in City at 6:14 This Evening,” The Michigan Daily, 30 March 1912, Michigan Daily Digital Archives, Bentley Historical Library
- “Roosevelt Talks But Five Minutes,” The Michigan Daily, 31 March 1912, Michigan Daily Digital Archives, Bentley Historical Library
- Governor Osborn on the special session and the Daily’s straw vote, The Michigan Daily, 28 February 1912, Michigan Daily Digital Archives, Bentley Historical Library
- Company D: the 85 men Dowagiac sent in 1861
Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection14 sources · 5 stories
Visit Detroit Public Library, Burton Historical Collection
- A museum before there was a museum
- Laying first log of Cass County Pioneer Cabin, Cassopolis, Michigan (postcard, 1923), with a note on the back: “witnessed by 3000 people.” Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library.
- Cass County Pioneer Cabin and Relic Museum (postcard, Auburn Post Card Mfg. Co.), Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library.
- The cabin a county built
- Laying first log of Cass County Pioneer Cabin (postcard, 1923), Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library.
- Men building the Cass County Pioneer Cabin (postcard, 1923), Detroit Public Library.
- Cass County Pioneer Cabin (Auburn Post Card Mfg. Co.), with Harmon’s note on the roof, Detroit Public Library.
- Cass County Pioneer Cabin and Relic Museum (Auburn Post Card Mfg. Co.), Detroit Public Library.
- “Old Log Cabin”: the song we can’t find
- The day 3,000 people came to watch one log
- Summer on Diamond Lake: Forest Hall and the island
- Broadway Street, Cassopolis, Michigan (postcard pub. by O. L. Yerty, from C. R. Childs Co. photographs, postmarked 21 November 1908), Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, bh012203
- Main Street, Cassopolis, Michigan (postcard pub. by O. L. Yerty, K. 1011, postmarked 29 August 1913), Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, bh012200
- Diamond Lake from Spring Beach, Cassopolis (postcard, C. R. Childs Co.), Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library, bh012194
- Sandy beach, Diamond Lake, Cassopolis (postcard, C. R. Childs Co.), Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
- Park shore, Diamond Lake (postcard, Auburn Greeting Card Co., postmarked 18 August 1936), Burton Historical Collection, Detroit Public Library
Indiana State Library: Indiana Memory8 sources · 3 stories
Visit Indiana State Library: Indiana Memory
- Edwardsburg in 1910, through J. Inbody’s camera
- The night 3,000 were invited to the Oliver Hotel
- Oliver Hotel sign, 18 November 1957, and Pick-Oliver Hotel demolition, 25 August and 15 September 1967 (photographs), St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana Memory
- Pick-Oliver Hotel murals (photograph), 1967; Pick-Oliver Hotel demolition (photograph), St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana Memory
- Pick-Oliver Hotel demolition, final wall (photograph), St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana Memory
- Oliver Hotel sign, 18 November 1957 (photograph), St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana Memory
- Oliver Hotel Cover (postcard, postmarked 1922), St. Joseph County Public Library, Indiana Memory
- Springbrook Park, halfway between two cities
Archives of Michigan (Michiganology)6 sources · 5 stories
Kalamazoo Public Library, Local History6 sources · 3 stories
Michigan State University Libraries6 sources · 3 stories
The map library’s scans of early Michigan maps. Visit Michigan State University Libraries
- Keepers of the county
- Michigan State University, Real Estate Office property report, 2019 (tenant: Cass County Historical Commission).
- Michigan State University Board of Trustees, minutes of 15 October 1976 (the lease of land at the Russ Forest; the 1974 lease of the house). MSU Libraries Digital Repository.
- Michigan State University, Infrastructure Planning and Facilities, “Leased and Licensed Properties” (tenant: Cass County Historical Commission, Russ Forest).
- How Kalamazoo got its name
- Jacques-Nicolas Bellin, Carte des Lacs du Canada (Paris, 1744). Michigan State University Libraries.
- H. C. Carey and I. Lea, Geographical, Statistical, and Historical Map of Michigan Territory, in A Complete Historical, Chronological, and Geographical American Atlas (Philadelphia, 1822; reissued 1823). Michigan State University Libraries.
- The Newton House, a farmhouse museum near Decatur
University of Notre Dame: Building South Bend5 sources · 4 stories
Cass District Library, Local History Branch4 sources · 3 stories
New York Public Library3 sources · 3 stories
University of Michigan Press (Fulcrum, open access)3 sources · 3 stories
HathiTrust Digital Library1 source · 1 story
The research libraries’ shared shelf of scanned books. Visit HathiTrust Digital Library
Lehigh University: The Vault at Pfaff’s1 source · 1 story
Mark Twain Project (University of California, Berkeley)1 source · 1 story
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University of Wisconsin–Madison Libraries1 source · 1 story
Newspapers and broadcasters
Digitized newspapers, and the news people who covered a story first.
California Digital Newspaper Collection (UC Riverside)90 sources · 2 stories
Visit California Digital Newspaper Collection (UC Riverside)
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- San Joaquin Republican (Stockton), 14 April 1852, p. 2: the earliest California notice of the E. C. V. yet found. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Hydraulic Press (North San Juan, Calif.), 30 July 1859, p. 2: Brandy City, with “a Lodge of the E Clampsus Vitus.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Marysville Daily Appeal, 23 October 1915: “Clampers Hold First Rousing Meeting.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Colusa Daily Sun, 27 January 1920: “E. Clampus Vitus Very Deadibus Aroundaboutibus.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Placer Herald (Auburn), 25 July 1863 (Stewart Flat among the county’s polling places) and Sacramento Daily Union, 13 February 1867 (“Newcastle … Sherman, of Stewart Flat”). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 26 February 1856, “Mining in Sierra,” quoting the Smith’s Flat correspondent of the Sierra Citizen. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 19 March 1853, “Our Benicia Correspondence” (Benicia, Thursday, 17 March). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- San Joaquin Republican (Stockton), 19 March 1853, “Matters at the Capital.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Daily Alta California, 19 March 1853, “Legislative Report.” Found by Jim Cirner. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- San Joaquin Republican, 14 April 1852. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- A travelling card of the San Antonio Sanhedrim, 30 May 1852, transcribed in the Oroville Mercury and the Marysville Daily Appeal, 24 September 1892. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Daily Alta California, 31 August 1852. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Columbus Inquirer, as extracted in the San Joaquin Republican, 2 March 1853. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- San Joaquin Republican, 16 February 1853. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- San Joaquin Republican, 2 February 1853. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Daily Alta California, 31 October 1857. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Calaveras Chronicle, reprinted in the San Joaquin Republican, 16 March 1853. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Columbia Gazette, 5 August 1854. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- San Joaquin Republican, 25 April 1855. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Trinity Journal, 9 June 1855. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- San Joaquin Republican, 2 June 1855 (from the Marysville Herald). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Nevada Journal, 27 July 1855. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Placer Herald, 12 January 1856. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 26 February 1856: “The Day in Placerville,” Washington’s Birthday kept by the order (machine-read text). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Nevada Journal, 18 January 1856. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- San Joaquin Republican, 19 March 1856. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Trinity Journal, 5 and 19 April 1856. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 3 June 1856. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 9 May 1856. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sierra Citizen (Downieville), 28 June 1856. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Chico Record, 17 December 1856. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Placer Herald, 31 January 1857. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Plumas Argus, 17 September 1857. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Placer Herald, 21 May 1859. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Hydraulic Press (North San Juan), 30 July 1859. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Placer Herald, 23 July 1859. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Daily Alta California, 7 October 1864. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Red Bluff Beacon, 27 June 1860. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Napa County Reporter, 16 August 1862. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Marysville Daily Appeal, 8 July 1866. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Trinity Journal, 23 March 1867. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Mariposa Gazette, 15 June 1867. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Feather River Bulletin, 13 February 1875. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Weekly Butte Record, 28 September 1878. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sentinel, 25 January 1879: Cedarville. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Feather River Bulletin, 7 February 1880. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Feather River Bulletin, 19 January 1884. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Humboldt Times, 11 April 1884. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Marysville Daily Appeal, 6 March 1888. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Marysville Democrat, 7 February 1891. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- San Joaquin Republican, 22 May 1852: “Joseph Miles, N. G. H.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Placer Herald, 6 August 1853: the “grand hailing distress sign.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Trinity Journal, 1 March 1856: the Royal Platrix. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Nevada Journal, 23 January 1857: Locus Lucis. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- San Joaquin Republican, 13 September 1857: a notice of the order. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Calaveras Chronicle (Mokelumne Hill), 23 June 1866. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- San Joaquin Republican (Stockton), 19 March 1853, a letter dated Benicia, 17 March 1853. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 1 May 1855, “E Clampsus Vitus”: the Assembly resolution of 30 April 1855. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Red Bluff Beacon, 28 April 1858, p. 2: the order’s $20 toward the May-Day Festival. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Red Bluff Beacon, 12 January 1859, p. 2: a meeting notice of the order (machine-read text). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Red Bluff Beacon, 2 February 1859, p. 2: the order “resuscitated.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Red Bluff Beacon, 16 November 1859, p. 2: proposals for the order’s brick hall on Clay Square (as printed by Shumate, 1960; machine-read text). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Feather River Bulletin (Quincy), 21 February 1924, p. 2: “Clampers Held the Stage at Loyalton in Early Seventies.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Marysville Daily Appeal, 23 October 1915: “Clampers Hold First Rousing Meeting.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 13 November 1915: “Marysville Clampers Seeking Larger Hall.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 11 December 1915: “Dedicate Yuba River Bridge.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 12 December 1915: the hammers resurrected. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 9 January 1916: “Clampers Society Growing Rapidly.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 21 January 1916: “Roseville Requests Charter for Clampers.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 29 January 1916: “Clampers Form Oroville Lodge” (machine-read text). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 25 March 1916: “Clampers Take Chico by Storm.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Marysville Daily Appeal, 22 April 1916: “Sacramento Lodge No. 5” (machine-read text). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Marysville Daily Appeal, 25 April 1916: “Sacramento Lodge No. 4” (machine-read text). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Chico Record, 16 May 1916: “Clampers Are Going to Willows Installation.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 22 May 1916: “Four Hundred Taken in by Willows Clampers.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 1 July 1916: “Colusa Clampers Lodge Instituted.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 9 August 1916: the Willows Clampers and the Hamilton City refinery. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 17 September 1916: “Lea Becomes Member of Willows Clampers.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 8 November 1916: “Red Bluff Granted Charter for Clampers.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Colusa Herald, 23 November 1916: “Two Meetings a Month,” Colusa County Lodge No. 6 (machine-read text). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Feather River Bulletin (Quincy), 25 January 1917, p. 1: “Clampers’ Lodge to Be Organized” (machine-read text). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Daily Union, 12 July 1918: “Oroville Clampers Plan Electric Arches.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Colusa Daily Sun, 27 January 1920: “E. Clampus Vitus Very Deadibus Aroundaboutibus.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Colusa Daily Sun, 28 January 1920: “Clampers Will Give Surplus to the Legioners.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Colusa Herald, 29 January 1920: “Post to Get Clampers’ Funds.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Plumas Independent (Quincy), 29 January 1920, p. 1: “Clampers Lodge Revived Sunday.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Colusa Daily Sun, 2 February 1920: “Clampers Revived,” from Quincy. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Feather River Bulletin (Quincy), 15 February 1917, p. 1: “Quincy Lodge No. 8 of E. Clampus Vitus Was Organized Last Sunday.” California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Red Bluff Daily News, 10 November 1916, p. 1: “Clampers Give Charter” (Red Bluff lodge). California Digital Newspaper Collection.
- Sacramento Union, 11 December 1915; 9 and 29 January, 22 May and 9 August 1916: the boosters’ revival at Marysville, Oroville and Willows. California Digital Newspaper Collection.
Leader Publications (Dowagiac Daily News)42 sources · 10 stories
Visit Leader Publications (Dowagiac Daily News)
- The cabin a county built
- Keepers of the county
- “Historical Society offering tours of Newton House,” Leader Publications, 23 May 2017 (the 1974 lease).
- Leader (Dowagiac), 28 May 2021; and on the Red Brick School, 2018.
- “Harvest Fest a hit,” Leader (Dowagiac), 19 November 2008 (President Marilyn Fry).
- Leader (Dowagiac), 3 October 2017 (Marilyn Seitz, president).
- Leader (Dowagiac), 3 October 2019 (Sue Wilder, treasurer).
- The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- John Eby, “Dear John,” Dowagiac Daily News, 31 May 2012: the Daily News hunt story of 11 June 1964 by Dave Schultz, and Sheriff Robert “Bud” Dool on “3,000 strangers prowling about at night with guns,” quoting Eby’s own “Horizons” feature in the Dowagiac Daily News of 23 February 2007.
- Leader Publications, “It came from Dewey Lake,” 23 February 2017 (Deputy Andy Chavous; the reward withdrawn).
- Leader Publications, 30 March 2006, on the Cass County sheriffs since 1969 (Paul Parrish served after 1988, not in 1964).
- Leader Publications, “Sister Lakes Brewing Company to host Dewey Lake Monster conference,” 3 October 2020, and “Sister Lakes Brewing Company hosts Dewey Lake Monster conference,” 19 October 2020.
- Leader Publications, “Boat parades, bragging rights up for grabs this weekend,” 3 July 2019.
- Leader Publications, “SMC to produce radio show featuring Dewey Lake monster” (2020).
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources, on black bears expanding south since 2000, as reported by WDIV ClickOnDetroit, 10 April 2025; Leader Publications, “Cass County residents report black bear sighting, DNR confirms,” 9 May 2022.
- “It came from Dewey Lake,” Leader Publications (Dowagiac), 23 February 2017.
- The Bonine House at Vandalia
- “Cass County adds new attractions to Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Program,” Leader Publications, 2021.
- “Underground Railroad Society of Cass County wins Michigan Humanities Council 2021 Outstanding Humanities Organization Award,” Leader Publications, 23 September 2021.
- “Underground Railroad Society wins Michigan Historical Society Award,” Leader Publications, 14 October 2024.
- “Visitors from across the state attend Vandalia’s Underground Railroad Days,” Leader Publications, 10 July 2023.
- “Bonine house purchased by newly-formed history group,” Leader Publications, 16 October 2009.
- John Eby, “It’s now or never to save historic Bonine home,” Dowagiac Daily News (Leader Publications), 20 October 2009.
- “Bonine House purchased,” Leader Publications, 28 January 2011.
- “19 trees brighten Bonine House,” Leader Publications, 17 December 2012.
- “Rotary welcomes URSCC founder,” Leader Publications, 20 February 2015.
- “‘It’s Time’ capital campaign reaches the halfway point,” Leader Publications, 5 May 2016.
- “Bonine Carriage House restoration continues,” Leader Publications, 1 June 2017.
- “Bonine House to honor COVID-19 victims with light ceremony,” Leader Publications, 19 January 2021.
- How Dowagiac got its name
- Summer on Diamond Lake: Forest Hall and the island
- Band night at French’s Hotel, Eagle Lake
- Jo-Ann Boepple, “Revisiting the history of French’s Hotel and Resort,” Edwardsburg Argus / Leader Publications, 18 August 2011 (from Reflections of Eagle Lake by Lenore Cassady, Melba Freeman and Norma Lu Mehan)
- “Eagle Lake and French’s resort memories recalled,” Edwardsburg Argus / Leader Publications, 29 July 2009
- Jo-Ann Boepple, “Snapshots of the Edwardsburg area’s past,” Edwardsburg Argus / Leader Publications, 7 October 2011
- Jo-Ann Boepple, “Postcards were picture-perfect for 20th century scrapbooks,” Edwardsburg Argus / Leader Publications, 21 September 2011
- Edwardsburg in 1910, through J. Inbody’s camera
- Jo-Ann Boepple, “Former resident prints lost historical photos,” Edwardsburg Argus / Leader Publications, 29 January 2010
- Jessica Sieff, “Pictures tell many stories about historical Edwardsburg,” Edwardsburg Argus / Leader Publications, 17 May 2010
- Jo-Ann Boepple, “Postcards were picture-perfect for 20th century scrapbooks,” Edwardsburg Argus / Leader Publications, 21 September 2011
- Jo-Ann Boepple, “Snapshots of the Edwardsburg area’s past,” Edwardsburg Argus / Leader Publications, 7 October 2011
- The Newton House, a farmhouse museum near Decatur
- Five minutes with Roosevelt at Dowagiac
Indiana State Library: Hoosier State Chronicles26 sources · 10 stories
Indiana’s free digitized newspapers. Visit Indiana State Library: Hoosier State Chronicles
- Crumstown: The Point, the Partners and the Mastodon
- St. Joseph County Independent (Walkerton), 12 March 1887, p. 2 (Holler buying cattle for his farm at Crum’s Point). Hoosier State Chronicles.
- St. Joseph County Independent, 14 November 1891, p. 1 (Holler’s barn struck by lightning). Hoosier State Chronicles.
- St. Joseph County Independent, 26 November 1892, p. 1 (silver ore on Holler’s farm). Hoosier State Chronicles.
- “Several Miles of the Kankakee Bed to be Straightened,” St. Joseph County Independent, 4 April 1896, p. 1, from the South Bend Tribune. Hoosier State Chronicles.
- St. Joseph County Independent, 16 January 1897, p. 5 (W. B. Crum, assistant doorkeeper of the state senate). Hoosier State Chronicles.
- St. Joseph County Independent (Walkerton), 25 August 1888, p. 2 (“near Crumstown”). Hoosier State Chronicles.
- St. Joseph County Independent (Walkerton), 22 June 1889, p. 2 (“the Crumstown boys” and the Walkerton “Swipers”). Hoosier State Chronicles.
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Indiana American (Brookville, Ind.), 27 February 1846, p. 2: letter from Connersville (“the ‘Eclampsus Vitus’ society, an order of which, we have in our town”). Hoosier State Chronicles.
- Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis), semi-weekly, 15 July 1846, p. 3: the same notice. Hoosier State Chronicles.
- Indiana State Sentinel (Indianapolis), weekly, 16 July 1846, p. 3: notice to “Tent No. 43 of the order of Eclampees Vitus.” Hoosier State Chronicles.
- Richmond Palladium, 5 January 1847, p. 2: a bill to incorporate a lodge of the order “at Centreville.” Hoosier State Chronicles.
- Indiana State Sentinel, 14 January 1847, p. 1: the bill tabled. Hoosier State Chronicles.
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Indiana American (Brookville), 27 February 1846, p. 2. Hoosier State Chronicles, Indiana State Library.
- Indiana State Sentinel, 15 and 16 July 1846, p. 3. Hoosier State Chronicles, Indiana State Library.
- Evansville Daily Journal, 20 September 1854, p. 2 (a Vincennes letter). Hoosier State Chronicles, Indiana State Library.
- Indiana State Sentinel, 16 July 1846, p. 3: Tent No. 43. Hoosier State Chronicles, Indiana State Library.
- Where Kellogg made its telephone cabinets
- The courthouse that became the Colonial
- Race day at the Cassopolis fair grounds
- Dr. Goodwin’s hotel on Broadway
- The night 3,000 were invited to the Oliver Hotel
- City Hall, Mishawaka, and the mayor on the card
- Springbrook Park, halfway between two cities
Digital Michigan Newspapers (Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University)20 sources · 4 stories
Michigan’s free digitized newspapers. Visit Digital Michigan Newspapers (Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University)
- The Indian Lake Sea Serpent: Twelve Feet Long, and Shy
- Grand Traverse Herald, 13 October 1898, p. 4; 20 July 1899, p. 3. Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Isabella County Enterprise, 14 October 1898, p. 4; 28 October 1898, p. 7; 21 July 1899, p. 7. Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Evart Review, 28 October 1898, p. 8; 21 July 1899, p. 6. Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Gladwin County Record, 21 July 1899, p. 6 (“Cass County’s Sea Serpent”). Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Clare Sentinel, 14 and 28 October 1898, 21 July 1899; Milford Times, 29 October 1898, 22 July 1899; Saline Observer, 20 October and 3 November 1898, 27 July 1899; Mount Clemens Monitor, 21 July 1899. Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- United Press International, 11, 12 and 15 June 1964 (Mrs. John Utrup, the chase, nine feet and 500 pounds; the “black leathery human-like face”; Undersheriff Ernest Kraus and the deer rifles; the sounds “like a tamed goose” and “a baby crying”; the circus gorillas; the bear; Sheriff Dool and the disarming), as printed in the Isabella County Daily Times-News of those days. Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Grand Traverse Herald, 13 October 1898, p. 4 (“Indian lake cottagers, near Dowagiac”). Digital Michigan Newspapers, Clarke Historical Library, Central Michigan University.
- Isabella County Enterprise, 14 October 1898, p. 4; Evart Review, 28 October 1898, p. 8; Gladwin County Record, 21 July 1899, p. 6 (“Cass County’s Sea Serpent”). Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Isabella County Daily Times-News (Mount Pleasant), 11, 12 and 13 June 1964, p. 1: “Sister Lakes ‘Monster’ Seen Again,” “‘Sister Lakes Monster’ Still At Large,” “Business Is Booming at ‘Monsterville’” (United Press). No copyright notice found in these issues. Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- United Press International, 17 June 1964 (Wayne and Lloyd Ritter of Clare on I-96), as printed in the Isabella County Daily Times-News, p. 1. Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Clare Sentinel, 18 June 1964, p. 1 (“Did They See The Monster?”: Wayne and Lloyd Ritter on I-96), and 31 December 1964, p. 1 (the year in review). Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Isabella County Daily Times-News, 10 August 1964, p. 2 (United Press, “Now Sheridan Has Its Own ‘Monster’”). Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Saline Reporter, 19 August 1964, p. 2 (Dowagiac and the Loch Ness envy). Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Isabella County Daily Times-News, 17 June 1964, p. 1 (United Press: the Ritter brothers, Sgt. Sid Frazer, Troopers Charles Bush and Bob Tubbs). Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Isabella County Daily Times-News, 18 June 1964, p. 2 (United Press, “‘Monsters’ Get Lecture From Police”: Cpl. Richard Abbott and Jocko; the eight youths on M-21). Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Courier-Northerner (Paw Paw), 15 July 1927, p. 10: the minutes of the Van Buren County Board of Supervisors, 13 October 1837 (the bounty on wolves and panthers). Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Isabella County Daily Times-News (Mount Pleasant), 13 June 1964, p. 1 (United Press: “Business Is Booming at ‘Monsterville’”; the kits, the burgers and the bounty). Digital Michigan Newspapers.
- Where Kellogg made its telephone cabinets
- Five minutes with Roosevelt at Dowagiac
WVPE, Elkhart public radio7 sources · 7 stories
WMUK, Kalamazoo public radio3 sources · 2 stories
Visit WMUK, Kalamazoo public radio
- The stagecoach at the Junction
- How Kalamazoo got its name
- Sehvilla Mann, “Why’s That” Asks the Eternal Question: What Does “Kalamazoo” Mean?, WMUK, 8 February 2018 (the historian Larry Massie, and a Potawatomi language specialist).
- WMUK community calendar, Since Time Immemorial talk at Ladies’ Library: Gzigmezék mine Giknamezo Zibé (Kalamazoo and the Kalamazoo River), presented by the Gun Lake Tribe, 23 July 2026.
South Bend Tribune (via AOL News)2 sources · 2 stories
Museums, historical societies and local groups
The people who keep a town’s pictures and papers in the town.
The History Museum, South Bend10 sources · 6 stories
Visit The History Museum, South Bend
- Five brothers and a blacksmith shop
- Before the lake: the farms of Potato Creek
- Princess Mishawaka: the princess who never was
- Two Tries at the Valley: How the Grand Trunk Came Through
- The night 3,000 were invited to the Oliver Hotel
- Copshaholm Curriculum Book (2015), pp. 36–37, The History Museum, South Bend
- “Oliver Building Projects,” The History Museum, South Bend
- “Oliver Hotel,” The History Museum, South Bend (opening date 21 December 1899)
- Copshaholm Curriculum Book (2015), p. 47 (timeline: gold loving cup, 1900; electric plant, 1905), The History Museum, South Bend
- “Oliver Chilled Plow Works,” The History Museum, South Bend (annex of 1909; 1929 merger; J.D. Oliver’s death)
- City Hall, Mishawaka, and the mayor on the card
Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery6 sources · 2 stories
Visit Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery
- The Bonine House at Vandalia
- J. Gordon Bonine obituary, Niles Daily Star, 3 March 1934, transcribed by Friends of Silverbrook.
- Gordon Elwood Bonine obituary, Lansing State Journal, 7 December 1976, transcribed by Friends of Silverbrook.
- Friends of Silverbrook, grave register of Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles: James E. Bonine (CITY-43,12,2), Sarah A. (Bogue) Bonine (CITY-43,12,3) and the family block.
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Obituary of Nathaniel Beall, Niles Daily Star, 12 September 1898, reprinted in the Niles Weekly Mirror, 14 September 1898, p. 1 (the three Beall sisters). Transcribed by the Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery.
- Obituary of Mrs. Martha E. (Harter) Riley, Niles Daily Sun, 26 October 1914, p. 4 (born near Niles, 10 November 1848). Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery.
- Friends of Silverbrook Cemetery, Niles: grave records, Laban Harter (1826–1888) and Emily P. Harter (1832–1910), lot City 21.
Indiana Album5 sources · 2 stories
- Edwardsburg in 1910, through J. Inbody’s camera
- Portrait of Indiana photographer John Inbody, Goshen, Indiana, circa 1890, Joan Hostetler Collection, Indiana Album
- The Island, Lake Wawasee, Syracuse, Indiana, circa 1907 (creator Inbody, John, 1866-1915; publisher J. Inbody, Elkhart), Indiana Album
- Businesses on North Main Street, Wakarusa, Indiana, circa 1910 (J. Inbody), Indiana Album
- Billy Sunday and his family on the steps of their home, Winona Lake, Indiana, 1920 (publisher J. Inbody, Elkhart), Indiana Album
- The night 3,000 were invited to the Oliver Hotel
Monterey County Historical Society5 sources · 2 stories
Visit Monterey County Historical Society
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Mayo Hayes O’Donnell, “Peninsula Diary,” 25 September 1953: the notice, placed in “June 1856,” and the San Juan Bautista invitation. Monterey History & Art Association.
- Mayo Hayes O’Donnell, “Peninsula Diary,” 14 September 1951: items from the Monterey Sentinel of February 1856, among them the notice, with “their San Juan brethren.” Monterey History & Art Association.
- Mayo Hayes O’Donnell, “Peninsula Diary,” 18 October 1951: the Monterey notice, placed in “the last July issue,” the San Juan Bautista invitation, and the Metropolis book “preserved in the Huntington Library in Pasadena.” Monterey History & Art Association.
- Mayo Hayes O’Donnell, “Peninsula Diary,” 24 February 1965: the Monterey notice, dated there “Feb. 6, 1856.” Monterey History & Art Association.
Edwardsburg Area Historical Museum4 sources · 2 stories
Cass County Historical Society2 sources · 2 stories
Doddridge County Heritage Guild2 sources · 2 stories
Reference sites
Useful for pointers and pictures; every fact taken from them is checked against an original where we can.
Wikipedia79 sources · 30 stories
- The Thunderbird of the St. Joseph River Valley: One Spirit, Many Peoples
- Who was John B. Howe?
- “John Badlam Howe Mansion” (National Register no. 95001106), Wikipedia, consulted for the claims tested here.
- “St. James Memorial Chapel (Howe, Indiana)” (National Register no. 01000989), Wikipedia.
- “Dred Scott v. Sandford,” Wikipedia (the majority and the dissents of Justices Curtis and McLean).
- “Howe Military Academy,” Wikipedia (citing the South Bend Tribune, 19 March 2019, and the Greater Fort Wayne Business Weekly, 23 June 2020).
- White Pigeon’s run
- The Shipshewana Puzzle: One Name, at Least Five People
- Crumstown: The Point, the Partners and the Mastodon
- The biggest wagon works in the world
- The day the line stopped
- “Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,” Wikipedia (the pension breakdown).
- “Raymond Loewy,” Wikipedia (Studebaker commissions; Bourke’s role).
- “Studebaker Avanti,” Wikipedia (citing Hendry, Automobile Quarterly, 1972, and Foster, Studebaker: The Complete History, 2015).
- “Studebaker-Packard Corporation,” Wikipedia.
- “Studebaker National Museum,” Wikipedia.
- “South Bend City Cemetery,” Wikipedia (citing the 2018 National Register nomination).
- Darcey Worster’s dream
- The park goes back to the wild
- Princess Mishawaka: the princess who never was
- A museum before there was a museum
- The cabin a county built
- “Pioneer Log Cabin Museum,” Wikipedia (exhibits; the 17 June 1924 date).
- Lincoln Pioneer Village (Rockport, Indiana), Wikipedia: built 1934–35, listed on the National Register 1998.
- Old Settlers’ Association of Johnson County Cabins (Iowa City), Wikipedia: built 1889 and 1913, listed on the National Register 2013.
- National Register of Historic Places listings in Riley County, Kansas, Wikipedia: Pioneer Log Cabin, Manhattan City Park, listed 3 February 2020.
- Keepers of the county
- The stagecoach at the Junction
- “Abbot-Downing Company,” Wikipedia (founding and partnership dates).
- “Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad,” Wikipedia (13 September 1870 completion into Grand Rapids from the south).
- “Plainwell, Michigan,” Wikipedia (history: the stagecoach route and the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad).
- “Whitney Tavern Stand,” Wikipedia (the six-hour travel-time claim).
- Two Tries at the Valley: How the Grand Trunk Came Through
- “People v. Salem” (People ex rel. Detroit & Howell Railroad v. Township Board of Salem, 20 Mich. 452, decided 26 May 1870). Wikipedia, used for the date and the Cooley quotation.
- “Peninsular Railway (Illinois–Indiana–Michigan).” Wikipedia, citing the ICC valuation report (1929), the Detroit Free Press (17 September 1869), the Lansing State Journal (16 June 1870) and the Cassopolis Vigilant (30 January 1873), for the charters and opening dates.
- “Chicago and Lake Huron Railroad.” Wikipedia, citing the Chicago Tribune (8 October 1873), Railroad Gazette (18 October 1873), Poor’s Manual (1877) and Dunbar (1969).
- “Michigan Air Line Railroad.” Wikipedia.
- “Michigan Air Line Railway.” Wikipedia, citing Graydon Meints, Michigan Railroads and Railroad Companies (1992) and later works.
- “Grand Trunk Western Railroad.” Wikipedia, citing Dorin (1977), Hofsommer (1995) and Mika & Mika (1972), for the 1900 and 1928 companies and the 1971 end of passenger service.
- “Dearborn Station.” Wikipedia.
- “Chicago and Western Indiana Railroad.” Wikipedia.
- “Durand Union Station.” Wikipedia (the museums in the station).
- “1960 in rail transport.” Wikipedia, citing the film “Grand Trunk – last steam powered passenger run” (27 March 1960).
- “Grand Trunk Western 6323.” Wikipedia (preservation at the Illinois Railway Museum).
- “Vicksburg Union Depot.” Wikipedia, citing the National Register nomination by Don Wiertella and Margaret Snyder (2023).
- “Union Station (South Bend).” Wikipedia.
- The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- South Bend Tribune, 12 June 1964, p. 21; 14 June 1964, p. 21 (Ray Gard); 18 August 1983, p. 2 (“Action Line”). As cited in Wikipedia, “Dewey Lake Monster,” which also names the conservation officer “William Rowe.”
- Wikipedia, “Indian Lake (Cass County, Michigan)” (spring-fed; about 506 acres).
- Wikipedia, “Dowagiac Woods” (384 acres; the Michigan Nature Association’s largest sanctuary in the Lower Peninsula).
- Wikipedia, “Bigfoot” (the name first used in print by the Humboldt Times, California, in 1958).
- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- The Bonine House at Vandalia
- How Kalamazoo got its name
- Wikipedia, “Potawatomi language”: the consonants, after Hockett (1948), include no L or R.
- Wikipedia, “Ojibwe phonology”: “Proto-Algonquian *r and *θ became Ojibwe /n/.”
- Wikipedia, “(I’ve Got a Gal in) Kalamazoo”: by Mack Gordon and Harry Warren for the film Orchestra Wives (1942); Glenn Miller’s record spent eight weeks at number one on the Billboard charts.
- How Vandalia got its name
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Dr. Goodwin’s hotel on Broadway
- Band night at French’s Hotel, Eagle Lake
- Edwardsburg in 1910, through J. Inbody’s camera
- The Newton House, a farmhouse museum near Decatur
- The night 3,000 were invited to the Oliver Hotel
- City Hall, Mishawaka, and the mayor on the card
- Springbrook Park, halfway between two cities
- Five minutes with Roosevelt at Dowagiac
- Company D: the 85 men Dowagiac sent in 1861
The Historical Marker Database44 sources · 17 stories
Visit The Historical Marker Database
- White Pigeon’s run
- The railroad that made Shipshewana
- The Shipshewana Puzzle: One Name, at Least Five People
- Five brothers and a blacksmith shop
- Before the lake: the farms of Potato Creek
- DNR interpretive marker “Farming Potato Creek” (2026), Historical Marker Database.
- DNR interpretive marker “Naragon Barn” (2026), Historical Marker Database.
- DNR interpretive marker on the Schrader springhouse, Trail 4, Historical Marker Database.
- DNR interpretive marker on the Shuppert/Shupert family, Trail 4, Historical Marker Database.
- Darcey Worster’s dream
- The park goes back to the wild
- Princess Mishawaka: the princess who never was
- The stagecoach at the Junction
- Two Tries at the Valley: How the Grand Trunk Came Through
- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- Michigan historical marker S137, “The Underground Railroad” (Michigan Historical Commission, 1957), Vandalia. Historical Marker Database.
- “The Kentucky Raid,” marker erected by the Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, Milo Barnes Park, Vandalia. Historical Marker Database.
- “Freedom Road,” Michigan Legal Milestone marker (State Bar of Michigan and Cass County Bar Association, 2005), Cass County Courthouse, Cassopolis. Historical Marker Database.
- “Sanctuary and Deliverance,” marker by the Friends of Freedom Seekers, 160 S. Broadway, Cassopolis. Historical Marker Database.
- “A Station of the Underground Railway,” the Stephen Bogue boulder (Woman’s Club of Cassopolis, 1931), M-60 at Crooked Creek Road, near Vandalia. Historical Marker Database.
- The Bonine House at Vandalia
- How Niles got its name
- How Paw Paw got its name
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- The Historical Marker Database, series “E Clampus Vitus Historical Markers,” accessed 22 Oct 2026.
- “Alleghany,” historical marker (Sierra County), as transcribed by the Historical Marker Database: Smith’s Flat, Kanaka Flat, Wet Ravine, Cumberland and Kanaka City, the camps of 1851 that became Alleghany.
- Historical marker “Ephraim Bee” (2003). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “Beehive Inn” (2005). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “Site of E.C.V. Saloon” (1965). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “E Clampus Vitus,” the Wall of Comparative Ovations. The Historical Marker Database. Accessed November 2026.
- Historical marker “Mokelumne Hill” (Matuca Chapter, 2010). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “E Clampus Vitus 1855 & 1962” (2012). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “Cameron Building Site” (1983). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “Lord Sholto Douglas” (1983). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “Downieville” (1987). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “Clampers Meeting Hall” (1982). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “Busch & Heringlake Building” (1990). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “Forest Stationers” (2009). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “Henness – Zumwalt Pass” (1982). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “William Bull Meek / ECV Redivivus” (1956, 1982). The Historical Marker Database.
- Historical marker “Capt. Brown House” (2010). The Historical Marker Database.
- The Newton House, a farmhouse museum near Decatur
Wikimedia Commons31 sources · 17 stories
- The Shipshewana Puzzle: One Name, at Least Five People
- Five brothers and a blacksmith shop
- Before the lake: the farms of Potato Creek
- Darcey Worster’s dream
- Dedication plaque, “Worster Lake … In memory of Darcey Worster 1893–1974 … Dedicated June 6, 1977,” photographed by Chris Light, 5 May 2021, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Dedication plaque, “Potato Creek State Recreation Area … Dedicated June 6, 1977,” photographed by Chris Light, 5 May 2021, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- Chris Light, photographs of Potato Creek State Park, 2019 and 2021, Wikimedia Commons (CC BY-SA 4.0).
- The park goes back to the wild
- Princess Mishawaka: the princess who never was
- The stagecoach at the Junction
- 1850 Concord coach (published 1904), Wikimedia Commons, public domain
- Concord Coach No. 206, Collings Foundation, photograph by Daderot (2017), Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Group of 9 Stereograph Views of Carriages, Stagecoaches, and Wagons (1860s), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, DP75420, via Wikimedia Commons, CC0
- Two Tries at the Valley: How the Grand Trunk Came Through
- Dearborn Station, Chicago, before 1922, Wikimedia Commons, public domain
- Union Station Depot, Durand, postcard about 1905, Wikimedia Commons, public domain
- Engine & G. T. Round House, Durand, postcard dated 31 July 1909 (G. W. Beck), Wikimedia Commons, public domain
- Grand Trunk Western K-4-a No. 5628, about 1955, photograph by Robert Graham, Wikimedia Commons, public domain
- The Indian Lake Sea Serpent: Twelve Feet Long, and Shy
- The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- The Bonine House at Vandalia
- John James Audubon and John Bachman, The Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America, plate 62, “American Elk–Wapiti Deer” (New York, 1845). Missouri Historical Society, via the Digital Public Library of America and Wikimedia Commons.
- Andrea Markò, portrait of Victor Emmanuel II at a halt in the hunt, 1875. Catalogo generale dei Beni Culturali, no. 0900741413; via Wikimedia Commons.
- How Kalamazoo got its name
- How Dowagiac got its name
- Cassopolis in 3D: A Village Through Time, 1846 to Today
- Nathaniel Currier, The Drunkard’s Progress, from the First Glass to the Grave (New York, 1846). Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division; Wikimedia Commons.
- “Hussey’s Reaping Machine,” advertising print, reproduced in Follett L. Greeno, ed., Obed Hussey, Who, of All Inventors, Made Bread Cheap (Rochester, 1912). Wikimedia Commons.
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Pictures: Wikimedia Commons (Sons of Malta engravings from Frank Leslie’s Illustrated Newspaper, 1860; daguerreotypes by George H. Johnson, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and J. Paul Getty Museum; California Historical Society; Library of Congress; Historic American Buildings Survey; National Archives; and photographs of Clamper plaques credited in each caption).
- Indiana’s third statehouse, Indianapolis, photograph between 1835 and 1877. Indiana State Library, via the Digital Public Library of America and Wikimedia Commons.
- Picture added 2 November 2026: A. Ruger, Bird’s Eye View of the City of Lafayette, Tippecanoe Co., Indiana (Chicago Lithographing Co., 1868). Library of Congress (public domain), via Wikimedia Commons.
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- “View of the Plaza, Marysville, Alt. Calif.,” lettersheet, lithograph by Pollard & Peregoy, San Francisco (published by Cooke & LeCount). California Historical Society, via Wikimedia Commons. Accessed November 2026.
- Pictures added 2 November 2026, from Wikimedia Commons: George H. Williams (Brady-Handy, Library of Congress, public domain); the Tuscarora mining district map from Edwin Bolitho’s Pocket Mining Atlas (public domain).
- Pictures added 2 November 2026: William Henry Brown, stereoview of Mesilla, N.M. (New York Public Library, Robert N. Dennis collection, public domain); Roger Sturtevant, Weaverville, general view, 10 March 1934 (HABS CAL,53-WEAVI,1-1); G. H. Goddard, Columbia in 1852, lithograph (HABS CAL,55-COLUM,10-1). Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons.
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facebook.com31 sources · 2 stories
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Jim Cirner, “ECV ® Back in the Day,” albums #1–3 (Facebook, public): newspaper clippings on the old order, the finding aid for the boosters’ revival of 1915–1920 and five places in the register.
- Lafayette Weekly Courier (Lafayette, Indiana), 4 February 1848: “The members of the Order of E Clampsus Vitus, will meet on Monday Evening, Feb. 7th, at the Tent Room, No. 15”; and a Lafayette paper of 15 February 1870 on Vincennes. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3, seen as clippings.
- “It’s History,” Oakland Tribune, 9 January 1938: the Metropolis City “Division No. 53” manuscript of 1849 in the Huntington Library, and Hall’s Bedford of 1847. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3.
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Jim Cirner, “ECV ® Back in the Day,” albums #1–3 (Facebook, public), newspaper clippings on the old order: the finding aid for most of the 1915–1920 newspapers and for the El Dorado, Carson City, Forest City, Reno and Loyalton notices. Album #1.
- Jim Cirner, “ECV ® Back in the Day” #2 (Facebook). Accessed November 2026.
- Jim Cirner, “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3 (Facebook). Accessed November 2026.
- Jim Cirner, photograph of the Daily Alta California’s report of the Senate at Benicia, 19 March 1853, from his ECV albums (Facebook), sent to us 30 October 2026.
- “A Monkey Substituted: How the ‘Clampers’ Goat Misbehaved Himself at an Initiation,” San Francisco Chronicle, 3 August 1891; and “Motley Group,” Sacramento Daily Union, 15 August 1854, from the Sonora Herald. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day #1” (Facebook).
- Lafayette Weekly Courier (Lafayette, Indiana), 4 February 1848: the members of the order called to “the Tent Room, No. 15.” As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3, seen as a clipping.
- “It’s History,” Oakland Tribune, 9 January 1938: the Metropolis City “Division No. 53” manuscript of 1849. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3.
- “All a Mistake,” a San Francisco paper (probably the Daily Alta California), about September 1852: the police at the lodge in the District Court room. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3, seen as a clipping.
- Weekly Humboldt Times (Eureka), 29 December 1855, from the Alta’s Shasta correspondent: the ball for Col. James Reuben Searcy; Shasta Courier, 16 February 1856; Weekly Trinity Journal (Weaverville), 23 February 1856. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3, seen as clippings.
- “Echo of Clampers Is Found in Old Files,” Marysville Appeal, 17 February 1916, reprinting the Appeal of 24 September 1892 and the Oroville Mercury: G. K. Hendle’s San Antonio card and the Forbestown lodge of 1859. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3.
- San Francisco Chronicle, 9 January 1869: “Satisfactory, No Blood!” As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3.
- The Borderer (Las Cruces, New Mexico), 4 October 1871: the order’s ball at Rio Mimbres. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3, seen as a clipping.
- A newspaper of 26 December 1882 (title not shown): the Young Ladies’ Independent Association of Alturas; Tuscarora Times-Review (Nevada), 3 February 1883. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3, seen as clippings.
- “The Clampers Oration,” delivered by Wm. J. Holmes at Downieville, 4 July 1883, reprinted in the Feather River Bulletin (Quincy), 26 April 1917. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3.
- “Clampers Will Boost Entire Valley Section,” Tehama County Daily News (Red Bluff), 14 November 1916; Oroville Daily Register, 20–21 April 1916 (the hammer in the Feather River). As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3.
- Alfred Chartz, letter in the San Francisco Chronicle, 25 May 1933: the Dayton lodge of 1866–70 and Mark Twain. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3.
- Adam Lee Moore, “Hail to the Clampers,” Mountain Messenger (Downieville), 31 May 1941: the last lodges, and A. C. Bush’s E. C. V. building at Sierra City, 1875. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #3.
- “Weaverville Amusements,” Sacramento Daily Union, 26 June 1856: the ball at the Hall of the E Clampsus Vitus for the new school house. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #1.
- San Joaquin Republican, 28 February 1856: the Placerville lodge’s donation to Rev. W. Hurlburt. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #2.
- Adam Lee Moore, reminiscences (“Adam Lee Moore Speaks”), signed as N. G. H. of Balaam Lodge No. 107,304: the order’s charity. As transcribed in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #1. Accessed November 2026.
- Downieville correspondence, 5 July 1885: the torchlight procession of the E Clampus Vitus; and The Jackson Standard (Jackson, Ohio), 2 April 1885. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #1 and #2.
- Sacramento Bee, 20 January 1875: “one dark-lantern (probably stolen from an E Clampsus Vitus Lodge room).” As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #2.
- Marysville Daily Democrat, 11 September 1893, and Marysville Evening Democrat, 18 September 1893: the hewgag at Camptonville on Admission Day, and the Clampers’ baseball team. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #2.
- Tuolumne Courier, 9 January 1858; Sierra Democrat (Downieville), 28 December 1861; Mountain Messenger (Downieville), 17 June 1865: the lodge rooms of Mokelumne Hill and Downieville. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #2.
- Weekly Register (Point Pleasant, West Virginia), 7 November 1888: the death of Ephraim Bee. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #2.
- Jim Cirner, “ECV ® Back in the Day,” albums #1–3 (Facebook), clippings used in the sections on the charity and the boosters: the Humboldt trail subscription (Sacramento Daily Union, 1866, from the Humboldt Times); Lewis F. Byington at Rich Bar, 8 August 1915 (Plumas Independent, 9 March 1922); Oroville Daily Register, 12 October 1916 and 15 December 1917; Albert Shumate, “Clamped by a Clamp Widow” (1963), citing Millie Robbins, San Francisco Chronicle, 31 October 1963, and the Chronicle of 29 May 1916 (Annie Bidwell); “Clamper Birthday,” Willows, 21 May 1918; Tampa Tribune, 29 October 1925 (Willis B. Powell); a Grange letter from Penryn, 9 August 1873; Weekly Shasta Courier, 23 January 1886; Daily Alta California, 11 February 1889; Louisville Times, 14 March 1903; Edmund G. Kinyon, “Whizzers Ahead of Order of Clampers” (1937), quoting Robert Welles Ritchie, The Hell-Roarin’ Forty-Niners (1928).
- Paolo Sioli, History of El Dorado County, California (Oakland, 1883), p. 215: the Placerville lodge of 28 November 1855, its first officers and its Grand Consistory. As transcribed in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #2.
- Mountain Democrat (Placerville), 19 April 1856: the Placerville brethren’s benefit for McKean Buchanan, and his reply of 16 April (“the Regalia presented to me by the Parent Lodge at Stockton”). As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #2, seen as a clipping.
in.gov17 sources · 6 stories
- Who was John B. Howe?
- Before the lake: the farms of Potato Creek
- Indiana Department of Natural Resources, Potato Creek State Park brochure and trail map (2026).
- Indiana Historical Bureau, marker “Porter Rea Cemetery” (71.2003.1, 2003).
- Indiana Historical Bureau, dedication of the Porter Rea Cemetery marker, 13 September 2003.
- Indiana DNR, “Porter Rea Cemetery” (African Americans in Indiana State Parks).
- Indiana Historical Bureau, marker “Huggart Settlement” (71.1998.1, 1998).
- Indiana Historical Bureau, Huggart Settlement marker review report (footnoted).
- Darcey Worster’s dream
- The park goes back to the wild
- City Hall, Mishawaka, and the mayor on the card
- Springbrook Park, halfway between two cities
michiganrailroads.com15 sources · 6 stories
- The railroad that made Shipshewana
- The stagecoach at the Junction
- Two Tries at the Valley: How the Grand Trunk Came Through
- Michigan Railroad History: “The Michigan Air Line Railroad Company.”
- Michigan Railroad History: “Peninsular Railway Company.”
- “The Grand Trunk Main Line and How It Got That Way,” Inside Track (September 1972), largely from the Durand Express, 18 May 1961. Michigan Railroad History.
- Michigan Railroad History: Time Line, 1871.
- Michigan Railroad History: Time Line, 1880.
- Michigan Railroad History: Station, Cassopolis, MI (the crossing, the 1888 collision, the 1904 interlocking, 1917 and 1918 working, depot photograph).
- Michigan Railroad History: Station, Edwardsburg, MI (the 1900 explosion, the 1953 station).
- Michigan Railroad History: Station, Granger, IN.
- Michigan Railroad History: “Grand Trunk Western Railroad.”
- Cassopolis in 3D: A Village Through Time, 1846 to Today
- Five minutes with Roosevelt at Dowagiac
- A depot, a water tower and three clues
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- Keepers of the county
- American Association for State and Local History, Directory of Historical Societies and Agencies in the United States and Canada, 1956, 1959, 1963 and 1973 editions (the Society at the Court House, 1956; at Dowagiac, 1959–73, with Berenice Vanderburg as secretary, 1959–63; “f. 1952,” 1963). Google Books.
- Historical Society of Michigan, Directory of Historical Collections and Societies in Michigan (Wystan Stevens, 1973), Directory of Historical Societies and Agencies in Michigan (1974 and 1976) and Michigan History Directory (1999): “founded in 1953,” 101 James St., Dowagiac; Iola Holtz, contact, 1976; 1666 Dodd, Niles, 1999. Google Books.
- HSM Bulletin (Historical Society of Michigan), 1974: “Lee Dodd heads the Cass County Historical commission and Society.” Google Books.
- The Official Museum Directory 1991 (American Association of Museums, 1990), p. 427: Historical Newton Home; “Chm. Cass County Historical Society, Lee Dodd.” Google Books.
- Benjamin C. Wilson, Michigan’s Ante-bellum Black Haven: Cass County, 1835–1870 (dissertation, Michigan State University, 1980), acknowledgments. Google Books.
- Barbara Wood Cook and Grafton Hopkins Cook, Pokagon Township Reflections: A History (1998), dedication to Lee Dodd. Google Books.
- Journal of the House of Representatives of the State of Michigan, 1965, House Concurrent Resolution No. 146, tribute to Dr. Sherman L. Loupee. Google Books.
- Scrapbook History of Decatur, Michigan and Vicinity (1976): the Bowmans, charter members of the Cass County Historical Society. Google Books.
- Internal Revenue Service, Cumulative List of Organizations Described in Section 170(c), 1982–1996 editions (the Society at Niles) and 2000–2003 (at Cassopolis). Google Books.
- A Theiss (Tice) family genealogy, Descendants of … Theiss, Deiss, Tice (2000): Lee William Dodd, born 26 November 1915. Google Books.
- An American Colossus: A Small Town, a River and a Railroad Yard (1995), contributors: “Mr. Lee Dodd (deceased).” Google Books.
- The Bonine House at Vandalia
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- A museum before there was a museum
- The cabin a county built
- The stagecoach at the Junction
- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- Band night at French’s Hotel, Eagle Lake
- Edwardsburg in 1910, through J. Inbody’s camera
- Edwardsburg Photos, circa 1900 to 1920, page 1 (the Andrus Collection, photographs 004, 005, 006, 010), Cass County MIGenWeb
- Edwardsburg Photos, page 5 (the Andrus Collection, photographs 139, 140, 143, 145, 146, 147, 149, 151), Cass County MIGenWeb
- Edwardsburg Photos, page 3 (Belle Pickard house, 69030 Elkhart St.; Argus office), Cass County MIGenWeb
- Edwardsburg Andrus Collection, introduction and index, Cass County MIGenWeb
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- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- Cindy Yawkey, The Kentucky Slave Raid of 1847, Cass County Michigan, written and illustrated (Vandalia: Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, c. 2019).
- Cindy Yawkey, They Have My Shoes, I Have My Freedom: A Story About the Underground Railroad, written and illustrated (Vandalia: Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, n.d.); Historical Society of Michigan State History Award, Books: Children & Youth, 2016.
- Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, “The Kentucky Raid.”
- The Bonine House at Vandalia
- Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, Quaker timeline: the Vandalia church.
- Cindy Yawkey, They Have My Shoes, I Have My Freedom: A Story About the Underground Railroad, written and illustrated (Vandalia: Underground Railroad Society of Cass County).
- Cindy Yawkey, The Kentucky Slave Raid of 1847, Cass County Michigan, written and illustrated (Vandalia: Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, c. 2019).
- Underground Railroad Society of Cass County: the house, the carriage house, tours.
- Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, Bonine Research Library; videos and podcasts (“The Kentucky Raid of 1847,” Adam Miedema and CMU Public Television, 2024).
- Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, “Evans Historic Preservation Award to URSCC” (press release of 4 April 2012, with restoration notes).
- Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, “Bonine House restoration” (timeline, 2010–2015).
- How Vandalia got its name
familysearch.org10 sources · 2 stories
- The Shipshewana Puzzle: One Name, at Least Five People
- Crumstown: The Point, the Partners and the Mastodon
- St. Joseph County, Indiana, Marriage Records, p. 194: Christian Holler and Mary E. Crum, licence 29 September 1857, married 1 October 1857 by Jacob Miller. “Indiana, Marriages, 1811–2019,” FamilySearch.
- United States Census, 1900, Knox, Center Township, Starke County, Indiana, ED 142, sheet 4A, household 80 (John and Ollive Custer; Charles M., born November 1889). “United States, Census, 1900,” FamilySearch.
- United States Census, 1910, South Bend Ward 2, St. Joseph County, Indiana (Charles Custer, 20, with his mother, Ollie). “United States, Census, 1910,” FamilySearch.
- Indiana World War I enrollment card, Charles M. Custer, South Bend, 25 July 1917 (born Crumstown). “Indiana, World War I, Enrollment Cards, 1917,” FamilySearch.
- Michigan death certificate, Charles Melvin Custer, Wayne Township, Cass County, 3 June 1938 (born 20 November 1889; mother Allie Crum, father John Custer). “Michigan, Death Certificates, 1921–1952,” FamilySearch.
- United States Census, 1870, Warren Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, p. 16, household 121 (Christian Holler, with Wm and Anna Crum). “United States, Census, 1870,” FamilySearch.
- United States Census, 1880, Warren Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, ED 164, sheet 494B (Christian Holler; next door, William Crumb, 71, retired farmer, and Ann). “United States, Census, 1880,” FamilySearch.
- United States Census, 1900, Olive Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, ED 109, sheet 6B (George Laskowski, born 1855). “United States, Census, 1900,” FamilySearch.
- United States Census, 1910, Olive Township, St. Joseph County, Indiana, sheet 6A (George Laskouski, 55). “United States, Census, 1910,” FamilySearch.
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- The Shipshewana Puzzle: One Name, at Least Five People
- National Archives, Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824–1880 (microfilm M234), roll 642, Osage River Agency, 1824–1843, images 515–521: petition of the St. Joseph and Prairie bands to President John Tyler, 16 November 1841, with the certificate of Anthony L. Davis, sub-agent; letter of the delegates to T. Hartley Crawford, Washington, 15 December 1841; office note, 28 December 1841. National Archives Catalog, NAID 164251872.
- National Archives, Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs (M234), roll 642, Osage River Agency, images 821–823: Anthony L. Davis to T. Hartley Crawford, Osage River Sub Agency, 8 February 1841, enclosing the letter of the Potawatomi chiefs and warriors to J. R. Poinsett, Secretary of War, Potawatamie Creek, 3 February 1841. National Archives Catalog, NAID 164251872.
- National Archives, M234, roll 642, images 680–699: “A Muster Roll of Putawatomie Indians within the Osage river Sub Agency,” taken by Anthony L. Davis, 12 October 1842; nos. 179 and 277, “Shep she wi no.” Also read, images 544–930: the agency’s letters of 1842–43 and the muster rolls of the other tribes of the sub-agency. National Archives Catalog, NAID 164251872.
- National Archives, Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs (M234), roll 642, Osage River Agency, images 522–524: T. Hartley Crawford, Commissioner of Indian Affairs, to John Bell, Secretary of War, 22 March 1841, on the return of the four Potawatomi brought to Washington by Isaac Ketchum, endorsed “Approved”; with the office notes of 22 and 28 March 1841. National Archives Catalog, NAID 164251872.
- Keepers of the county
- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- The Newton House, a farmhouse museum near Decatur
stampedes.dickinson.edu7 sources · 1 story
- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- Licking Valley Register (Covington, Ky.), 3 September 1847, “Infamous!” Transcription and scan: House Divided Project, Dickinson College, Slave Stampedes on the Southern Borderlands.
- Licking Valley Register, 17 September 1847, p. 2, the “fuller account.” Same site.
- “Out of Bondage,” Sunday Morning Call (Battle Creek), 3 August 1884, Perry Sanford’s account. Same site.
- Zachariah Shugart’s account book, May 1847 (Huntington Library). Same site.
- Settlement between Thornton Timberlake and the Michigan abolitionists, Cassopolis, 3 December 1851, in Timberlake v. Osborn et al. (NAID 12562895), National Archives at Chicago. Transcription: House Divided Project, Slave Stampedes on the Southern Borderlands.
- Cincinnati Commercial Tribune, 28 April 1847, the “Grand Stampede”; New York Evening Post, 3 May 1847. Same site.
- Deposition of Dr. Evan J. Bonine, Cassopolis, 25 April 1850, in Timberlake v. Osborn et al. (NAID 12562895), National Archives at Chicago: “I don’t know that I saw any of them use violence at all.” Transcription: House Divided Project, Slave Stampedes on the Southern Borderlands.
ecvinc.org6 sources · 2 stories
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- E Clampus Vitus Inc., Chapters (51 recognised chapters in 11 western states), accessed 22 Oct 2026.
- E Clampus Vitus Inc., Grand Council: held each year at the Mother Lode Fairgrounds, Sonora, the weekend before Memorial Day, accessed 25 Oct 2026.
- E Clampus Vitus, Inc., decree on the title of the Sublime Grand Noble Recorder (SGNR), 7 August 2019.
- E Clampus Vitus, Inc., “Frequently Asked Questions” (updated 11 November 2023): membership by invitation; protecting the “Widder’s and Orphans.”
michigan.access.preservica.com6 sources · 4 stories
Visit michigan.access.preservica.com
- A museum before there was a museum
- The cabin a county built
- Michigan certificate of death: Phineas Nixon, Penn Township, 1 June 1901 (parents John Nixon and Esther). Archives of Michigan, Michiganology.
- Michigan death index: Arthur K. Nixon, Cass County, 1951 (father Phineas). Archives of Michigan, Michiganology.
- Michigan certificate of death: Charles A. Ritter, Cassopolis, 12 October 1933. Archives of Michigan, Michiganology.
- Keepers of the county
- The day 3,000 people came to watch one log
michigan.gov6 sources · 4 stories
- The Thunderbird of the St. Joseph River Valley: One Spirit, Many Peoples
- A museum before there was a museum
- The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- Michigan Department of Natural Resources, on cougars in Michigan (native; wiped out around the early 1900s).
- Library of Michigan, newspapers on microfilm: Berrien County (the St. Joseph Herald-Press, 1928–1965).
- Library of Michigan, newspapers on microfilm: Cass County (the Dowagiac Daily News, 1964 on).
- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
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- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- E Clampus Vitus Archives, 1935–, Mss101, Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific (43.75 linear ft.): the revived order’s papers and photographs, from 1935. Online Archive of California.
- E Clampus Vitus records, 1933–1984, mssEClamp, Huntington Library: the Platrix Chapter records, with photographs. Online Archive of California.
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Lois Rather papers, Bancroft Library, finding aid (her Men Will Be Boys, Oakland, 1980, is at the Huntington Library). Online Archive of California.
- E Clampus Vitus Archives, Mss101, Holt-Atherton Special Collections, University of the Pacific. Online Archive of California. Accessed November 2026.
- E Clampus Vitus records, 1933–1984 (mssEClamp), Huntington Library. Online Archive of California.
- E Clampus Vitus Records, 1935–1970 (LSC.1796), UCLA Library Special Collections. Online Archive of California.
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- The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, report 2914: Cass County, Michigan, near Dowagiac, 27 July 2001 (a witness report, not verified by us).
- Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, reports 21916 (near Union, Cass County, late 1960s), 7386 (Stevensville, about 1974), 25768 (near Buchanan, 1993), 4414 (near Plainwell, 2002), 23734 (Osceola, Indiana, 2008) and 35753 (Paw Paw Lake country, 2012). Witness reports, not verified by us.
- Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, Michigan listings (227 when we read it; Cass County, 3).
- Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, the report database by state (Michigan 227, Indiana 82, Illinois 305, Ohio 335, when we read it on 23 October 2026), and the Indiana county listings.
- Bigfoot Field Researchers Organization, reports 37553 (near Kalamazoo, 1970s), 2076 (near Stillwell, La Porte County, Indiana, 1987), 2897 (near Fulton, Kalamazoo County, 1989), 1786 (South Bend, 2000), 19838 (near Pullman, Allegan County, 2007) and 26939 (Mill Creek, La Porte County, 2008). Witness reports, not verified by us.
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- The Shipshewana Puzzle: One Name, at Least Five People
- Two Tries at the Valley: How the Grand Trunk Came Through
- Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway, map side of the timetable “Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway in connection with the Grand Trunk R’y of Canada including Great Western Division forming the Niagara Falls Air Line,” issued 4 June 1887 (Chicago, 1887): “Map of the Chicago & Grand Trunk R’y, Detroit, Grand Haven & Milwaukee Railway, Grand Trunk Railway and Michigan Air Line R’y.” David Rumsey Map Collection, List No. 5262.001.
- The same timetable, covers (List No. 5262A). David Rumsey Map Collection.
- The same timetable, text page with timetables, rate table and the steamer City of Milwaukee (List No. 5262B). David Rumsey Map Collection.
- How Kalamazoo got its name
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- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Dr. Albert Shumate, The Mysterious History of E Clampus Vitus (talk to the San Francisco Corral of Westerners, 25 June 1991), as published by the Julia C. Bulette Chapter 1864, E Clampus Vitus: the dated eastern lodges, Hangtown 1850, and Carl Wheat’s spelling.
- Carl I. Wheat to Francis P. Farquhar, 11 December 1931, handwritten letter on his Balfour Building letterhead (Marsh Fey Collection), reproduced with Alan L. Wilson, “A Short History of E Clampus Vitus” (1995), Julia C. Bulette Chapter No. 1864. Shared by Jim Cirner.
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Albert Shumate, “The Mysterious History of E Clampus Vitus” (1991), and Alan L. Wilson, “A Short History of E Clampus Vitus” (1995). Julia C. Bulette Chapter No. 1864.
- Carl I. Wheat to Francis P. Farquhar, autograph letter signed, San Francisco (letterhead: Balfour Building), 11 December 1931: lunch at the Clift Hotel, Friday, 18 December 1931, “to ‘discuss’ ways & means for the revival” of the order. Marsh Fey Collection; reproduced with Alan L. Wilson, “A Short History of E Clampus Vitus” (1995). Image shared with us by Jim Cirner, 31 October 2026.
- “XNGH Marshall Fey – Silver Hills,” Julia C. Bulette Chapter No. 1864, 7 November 2024: born 2 February 1928, died 5 November 2024; a founding member and the chapter’s second Noble Grand Humbug.
kpcnews.com5 sources · 1 story
- How a farm sale became a flea market
- “Shipshewana Livestock Auction celebrates its 100 year history.” KPC News (The News Sun), 2022: “a jersey cow and a few hogs.”
- “Midwest’s largest flea market in Shipshewana.” KPC News (The Herald Republican).
- Patrick Redmond, KPC News (The News Sun), 8 November 2022: visitor spending in LaGrange County, 2020.
- Amy Oberlin, KPC News (The Herald Republican), 25 July 2024: tourism in LaGrange County, 2022.
- KPC News (The News Sun), Tourism Academy: “more than 2.5 million people visited LaGrange County” in 2024.
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- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- “Outrage upon Northern Rights! Great Excitement!”, a letter dated Niles, 21 August 1847, closing “Yours for Liberty,” Signal of Liberty (Ann Arbor), 28 August 1847, p. 2. Ann Arbor District Library.
- “Slaveholding Outrages,” Signal of Liberty (Ann Arbor), 4 September 1847, p. 2, quoting a Centreville paper: the messenger on “Sabbath evening last.” Ann Arbor District Library.
- “Charles E. Stuart,” Signal of Liberty (Ann Arbor), 6 November 1847, p. 2, quoting the Jackson Patriot: Stuart at Cassopolis. Ann Arbor District Library.
- How Kalamazoo got its name
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- The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- The Detroit News, 11 June 1964, front page (“Frankenstein Snarl of Traffic Loosed by ‘Monster’ Hunt”), as listed and pictured by RareNewspapers.com.
- The Detroit News, 12 June 1964, front page (“‘Monster’ Scare Idles Pickers”), as listed by RareNewspapers.com.
- Detroit Free Press, 13 June 1964 (“‘Beast Town’ Booms: Get Your Monster Kit (7.95)”), as listed by RareNewspapers.com.
- Detroit Free Press, 17 August 1965 (“‘The Thing’ Haunts Monroe: Monster Days Are Here Again,” with the photograph of the girl’s black eye), as listed by RareNewspapers.com.
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- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- Cooper Wingert, “The 1847 Kenton and Boone County Stampedes: Part 1: Escape,” Slave Stampedes on the Southern Borderlands (House Divided Project, Dickinson College), 25 February 2024.
- Cooper Wingert, “The 1847 Kenton and Boone County Stampedes: Part 2: Pursuit,” Slave Stampedes on the Southern Borderlands (House Divided Project, Dickinson College), 26 February 2024: the date of 20 August and its n. 5; Casey in Battle Creek, n. 8; the Birch Lake wagon, n. 10, citing the Unionville Crescent, 5 March 1937.
- Cassopolis Advocate, account of the raid, reprinted in the Licking Valley Register (Covington, Ky.), 15 October 1847; cited by Wingert, Part 2, n. 5. Not seen.
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- The Shipshewana Puzzle: One Name, at Least Five People
- Muster rolls of the 1838 removal (the Trail of Death), transcribed: searched; no Shipshewana. Kansas Heritage.
- Smokey McKinney, Prairie Band Potawatomi word list (1996): “shupshe, lion (cougar).” Kansas Heritage.
- The Potawatomi rolls of 1838 (the Twin Lakes roll of 14 September, printed in part, and the Osage River roll of December), transcribed: searched; no Shipshewana. Kansas Heritage.
kent.migenweb.org3 sources · 2 stories
- The stagecoach at the Junction
- Albert Baxter, History of the City of Grand Rapids, Michigan (New York and Grand Rapids, 1891), chapter on highways, stages and the plank road. Kent County MIGenWeb transcription.
- “Coming of the Railroads,” from William J. Etten, A Citizens’ History of Grand Rapids, Michigan (1926). Kent County MIGenWeb transcription.
- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
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- The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- Lindsey Beckley, “Mermaids, Giant Turtles, and Wild Men…Oh My!,” The Indiana History Blog, Indiana Historical Bureau, 2017 (the Michigan City “wild” creature, as reprinted in the Adams Sentinel, Gettysburg, 30 December 1839).
- Lindsey Beckley, “Mermaids, Giant Turtles, and Wild Men … Oh My!,” Indiana History Blog, Indiana Historical Bureau, 29 May 2017.
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- The stagecoach at the Junction
- “Grand Rapids to Kalamazoo Stagecoach” (title by cataloguer), photograph, Plainwell, Mich. Grand Rapids Public Library, History & Special Collections Dept., Archives, Coll. #33-10-24, Neg. #1896. Grand Rapids History (historygrandrapids.org), photo 1523.
- “Railroad Race,” Grand Rapids Historical Commission radio history, 3 April 2013, quoting the Grand Rapids Daily Eagle. Grand Rapids History (historygrandrapids.org).
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- A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Portrait and Biographical Record of Berrien and Cass Counties, Michigan (Chicago: Biographical Publishing Co., 1893), pp. 385–387: Dr. Fred N. Bonine, with the life of his father, Dr. Evan J. Bonine, quoted from the Niles Daily Star, 29 December 1892. Transcribed by My Genealogy Hound.
- Portrait and Biographical Record of Berrien and Cass Counties (1893): Jefferson Osborn (Leander Osborn and Mary Helen Beall). My Genealogy Hound.
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- The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- Robert Atkinson, “Monster Town USA: The 1964 Sister Lakes Monster Sightings” (July 2017), the fullest account of the week, from the Dowagiac Daily News (11, 13, 14 and 18 June 1964), Chicago’s American (12 and 15 June), the St. Joseph Herald-Press (10 June), the Chicago Tribune and Chicago Daily News (12–13 June) and the Kalamazoo Gazette (12 June). The names, ages and times in this story are as those papers gave them.
- Robert Atkinson, “Monster Town USA” (July 2017), the archive listing, a survey of the Dowagiac, St. Joseph, Kalamazoo, Detroit and Chicago papers of 10–18 June 1964: the first descriptions, the reward and the sheriff.
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- The Kentucky Raid of 1847
- Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, Out of Bondage: The Perry Sanford Story (narrated presentation, 17 min.); YouTube, “Out of Bondage narrated,” posted by Bill Beadenkopf, 23 July 2018.
- Adam Miedema and CMU Public Television, The Kentucky Raid of 1847 (2024, 7 min.), with Cindy Yawkey; YouTube, “Kentucky Raid,” posted by Bill Beadenkopf, 4 February 2024. Listed by the Underground Railroad Society of Cass County, “Videos and Podcasts.”
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In print, on microfilm and in private hands
Sources that are not online yet. Most can be read at the library named.
- South Bend News-Times, 11 June 1927 (the short name, Cass County Historical Society). Library of Congress, Chronicling America. · in A museum before there was a museum
- Museums Directory of the United States and Canada (1961 and 1965). · in The cabin a county built
- Handbuch der Museen (1973): the cabin’s contact. · in The cabin a county built
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 25 August 1975 (Tillie J. Nixon). Internet Archive. · in The cabin a county built
- “Log cabin in need of new roof,” Leader Publications, 26 August 2012. · in The cabin a county built
- “Pioneer Log Cabin gets $3,000 donation from chamber,” Leader Publications, 20 March 2013. · in The cabin a county built
- Leader Publications, 28 June 2013 (the “Pioneer Log Cabin Society” and the 90th Log Cabin Day). · in The cabin a county built
- Handbuch der Museen (1973): the cabin’s contact. · in Keepers of the county
- Science 66 (11 November 1927), p. 449 (the Michigan-Indiana Museums Association). · in Keepers of the county
- G. K. Hesslink, Black Neighbors (1968), citing the Society’s 1960 compilation of county historical information. · in Keepers of the county
- Cass District Library, list of local publications (Historical Reflections of Cass County, 1981). · in Keepers of the county
- Herald-Palladium (Benton Harbor), 25 November 2020 (Berenice Vanderburg’s A Dowagiac Collection). Internet Archive. · in Keepers of the county
- Historical Society of Michigan, “this day in history” item for 23 October (text supplied by the reader; tested in this article). · in Two Tries at the Valley: How the Grand Trunk Came Through
- Plat map of Silver Creek Township, Cass County, Michigan, about 1928, on the Project Scroll map room. · in The True Story of the Dewey Lake Monster: The Week the Valley Went Wild
- Project Scroll, “The Kentucky Raid of 1847.” · in Cassopolis in 3D: A Village Through Time, 1846 to Today
- Project Scroll, “A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846.” · in Cassopolis in 3D: A Village Through Time, 1846 to Today
- Project Scroll, “Broadway in 3D” (the 3D model of Cassopolis, 1846 and today, with how it was made). · in Cassopolis in 3D: A Village Through Time, 1846 to Today
- Project Scroll, “Fly over Cassopolis, laser point by laser point.” · in Cassopolis in 3D: A Village Through Time, 1846 to Today
- Niles Daily Star, 23 August 1941: obituary of Dr. Fred N. Bonine (“the old Loban [sic] Harter residence”). Microfilm, Niles District Library. · in A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- E Clampus Vitus: the complete record (Project Scroll, 2026): the register of 89 early lodges and every source behind it. · in A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Further reading: Lois Rather, Men Will Be Boys: The Story of E Clampus Vitus (Oakland: Rather Press, 1980), 150 copies; a copy is at the Huntington Library. The Metropolis “Division No. 110” record book of 1849 was “now in the Henry E. Huntington Library” in 1941 (Dane). · in A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Grand Council of E Clampus Vitus, granite plaque at the grave of Joel Henry Zumwalt (24 September 1831 – 22 January 1906), Mokelumne Hill, California, dedicated 20 May 2021: “Let the Brethren offer a rousing shout of ‘Satisfactory’ to Joel Henry Zumwalt … carrying to California in his wagon, the ritual of E Clampus Vitus.” Photograph by Jim Cirner, who also sent the correction of the name, 30 October 2026. · in A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Jim Cirner, messages to the author, 30–31 October 2026: the one-year term of a chapter’s Noble Grand Humbug, and the Sublime Grand Noble Recorder’s care of the order’s copyrights and registered trademarks. · in A lodge of E Clampus Vitus, in Cassopolis, in 1846
- Every entry in the register carries its own source and link; the register can be downloaded as a spreadsheet. Accessed November 2026. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- David L. Durham, California’s Geographic Names: A Gazetteer of Historic and Modern Names of the State (Clovis: Word Dancer Press, 1998), p. 537: Stewarts Flat, “on Secret Ravine, 1.5 miles east of Penryn,” Placer County. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Mountain Democrat (Placerville), 23 February 1856: a lodge instituted at El Dorado. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #2, seen as a clipping. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Territorial Enterprise (Carson City, Utah Territory), 18 February 1860: “E. C. V.” As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #1, seen as a clipping. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- A letter from Wet Ravine, 14 June 1860, in the Sierra Democrat (Downieville): the E.C.V.’s at Forest City. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #1, seen as a clipping. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Reno Crescent, 20 March 1869: a call to establish a “Grand Lodge” in Reno. As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #1, seen as a clipping. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- A Reno newspaper, 30 January 1883: “The ‘Clampers.’” As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #1. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Marysville Daily Appeal, 20 May 1916: Willows Lodge No. 4 (machine-read text). California Digital Newspaper Collection. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- A Quincy newspaper, 14 February 1917: “E. C. V. Lodge No. 8 Instituted Here.” As clipped in Jim Cirner’s album “ECV ® Back in the Day” #1, seen as a clipping. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Grand Council of E Clampus Vitus, granite plaque at the grave of Joel Henry Zumwalt (24 September 1831 – 22 January 1906), Mokelumne Hill, dedicated 20 May 2021. Photograph by Jim Cirner, used with permission. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Jim Cirner, messages to the author, 30–31 October 2026: the one-year term of a chapter’s Noble Grand Humbug, and the Sublime Grand Noble Recorder’s care of the order’s copyrights and registered trademarks. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- Jim Cirner, messages to the author, 31 October 2026: the Marsh Fey Collection went to the Julia C. Bulette chapter and is kept at its building. · in E Clampus Vitus: the complete record
- “Indiana Foresters Meet,” Evening Republican (Rensselaer), 19 July 1911, Hoosier State Chronicles · in City Hall, Mishawaka, and the mayor on the card
- “Heads Foresters: Mayor John A. Herzog elected State Chief Ranger of order,” Walkerton Independent, 20 June 1913, p. 3, Hoosier State Chronicles · in City Hall, Mishawaka, and the mayor on the card
- Nappanee Advance-News, 24 June 1896, p. 8; St. Joseph County Independent (Walkerton), 12 June 1897, p. 1; Walkerton Independent, 17 June 1899, p. 5, and 11 June 1904, p. 4; South Bend News-Times, 21 and 22 August 1914, Hoosier State Chronicles · in Springbrook Park, halfway between two cities
- Company D, Sixth Michigan Infantry: the roll, Project Scroll · in Company D: the 85 men Dowagiac sent in 1861
Built from the source lists of every news story, and updated each time a story is published. For the county histories and maps behind the hunt itself, with a word on how far to trust each, see the sources shelf. To visit the libraries and archives of the valley in person, see planning a research trip. A source missing, or a link that has moved? Tell us.