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Huntington County was created on December 2, 1834 and was formed from Adams New Purchase and Unorganized Land. The Adams New Purchase: Begun in 1827, Adams was the new name for the Delaware New Purchase. The Adams Purchase existed until 1844, when it became the counties of Adams, Clinton, Grant, Huntington, Jay, and Wells, and portions of the counties of Boone, Carroll, Tipton, and Wabash. The County was named for Samuel Huntington, who signed the Declaration of Independence, and became President of the Continental Congress under the Articles of Confederation. The County Seat is Huntington and General Tipton was the original proprietor of the land in which Captain Murray was one of the first settlers; by 1849 it contained 150 houses and had a population of 700. See also County History for more historical details. Counties adjacent to Huntington County are Whitley County (north), Allen County (northeast), Wells County (east), Grant County (south), Wabash County (west). Huntington County is divided into 12 Civil Townships as follows: Clear Creek, Dallas, Huntington, Jackson, Jefferson, Lancaster, Polk, Rock Creek, Salamonie, Union, Warren and Wayne. Cities, Towns and Communities include Andrews, Banquo, Bippus, Bowerstown, Braken, Buckeye, Goblesville, Harlansburg, Huntington, Lancaster, Mahon, Majenica, Makin, Mardenis, Markle, Milo, Mount Etna, Pleasant Plain, Plum Tree, Roanoke, Roanoke Station, Rock Creek, Simpson, Toledo, and Warren.
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NOTE: The date listed for each category of record is the earliest record known to exist in that county. It does not indicate that there are numerous records for that year and certainly does not indicate that all such events that year were actually registered. See also the Huntington County Courthouse History Huntington County Clerk has Marriage Records from 1837 , Probate Records from 1841 and Court Records from 1835 and is located at 201 N. Jefferson Street,
P.O. Box 228,
Huntington, IN 46750; 260-358-4818 Huntington County Recorder has Land Records from 1834 and is located at Courthouse, Room 101,
201 North Jefferson St,
Huntington, IN 46750; 260-358-4848.
Huntington County Health Department has Birth / Death Records from 1882 and is located at 354 N. Jefferson St., Suite 201, Huntington, IN 46750; 260-358-4831 Below is a list of online resources for Huntington County Court Records. Email us with websites containing Huntington County Court Records by clicking the link below:
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Below is a list of online resources for Huntington County Vital Records. Email us with websites containing Huntington County Vital Records by clicking the link below:
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Countywide Records: Federal Population Schedules that exist for Huntington County, Indiana are 1840, 1850, 1860, 1870, 1880, 1900, 1910, 1920 and 1930. Other Federal Schedules to look at when researching your Family Tree in Huntington County, Indiana are Industry and Agriculture Schedules availible for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. The Mortality Schedules for the years 1850, 1860, 1870 and 1880. There are free downloadable and printable Census forms to help with your research. These include U.S. Census Extraction Forms and U.K. Census Extraction Forms. See Also Statewide Records that exist for Indiana Below is a list of online resources for Huntington County Census Records. Email us with websites containing Huntington County Census Records by clicking the link below:
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Genealogy Atlas has images of old American atlases during the years 1795, 1814, 1822, 1823, 1836, 1838, 1845, 1856, 1866, 1879 and 1897 for Ohio and other states. You can view rotating animated maps for Indiana showing all the county boundaries for each census year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries. You can view a list of maps for other states at Census Maps Below is a list of online resources for Huntington County Maps. Email us with websites containing Huntington County Maps by clicking the link below: |
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The uses and value of military records in genealogical research for ancestors who were veterans are obvious, but military records can also be important to re-searchers whose direct ancestors were not soldiers in any war. The fathers, grandfathers, brothers, and other close relatives of an ancestor may have served in a war, and their service or pension records could contain information that will assist in further identifying the family of primary interest. Due to the amount of genealogical information contained in some military pension files, they should never be overlooked during the research process. Those records not containing specific genealogical information are of historic value and should be included in any overall research design. Below is a list of online resources for Huntington County Military Records. Email us with websites containing Huntington County Military Records by clicking the link below:
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Records of county taxes were kept as early at 1842, although most were discarded. Remaining ones would be at the county courthouse. National Archives-Great Lakes Region has records of the Internal Revenue Service for Indiana for 1867 to 1873. These are tax assessment records, arranged by district and then chronologically. Below is a list of online resources for Huntington County Tax Records. Email us with websites containing Huntington County Tax Records by clicking the link below: |
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The Repositories in this section are Archives, Libraries, Museums, Genealogical and Historical Societies. Many County Historical and Genealogical Societies publish magazines and/or news letters on a monthly, quarterly, bi-annual or annual basis. Contacting the local societies should not be over looked. State Archives and Societies are usually much larger and better organized with much larger archived materials than their smaller county cousins but they can be more generalized and over look the smaller details that local societies tend to have. Libraries can also be a good place to look for local information. Some libraries have a genealogy section and may have some resources that are not located at archives or societies. Also, take a special look at any museums in the area. They sometimes have photos and items from years gone by as well as information of a genealogical interest. All these places are vitally important to the family genealogist and must not be passed over. Below is a list of online resources for Huntington County Genealogical Addresses. Email us with websites containing Huntington County Genealogical Addresses by clicking the link below:
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There are many churches and cemeteries in Huntington County. Some transcriptions are online. A great site is the Huntington County Tombstone Transcription Project. Baptist records are found at Franklin College (in Franklin); Methodist at DePauw University (in Greencastle); Mennonite at Goshen College (in Goshen); Presbyterian at Hanover College (in Hanover); Disciples of Christ at their historical society in Nashville, Tennessee; and French Catholic at Vincennes University in the Byron R. Lewis Collection. There are also Catholic church histories and records at the Catholic Archives, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, Indiana. Quaker records are at Earlham College (at Richmond). The commissioner's office of each Indiana county may have burial records for soldiers, sailors, and marines. If available, the records should include name, age, date of enlistment, discharge date, and death date. Records begin about 1862. The Indiana State Library holds records of inscriptions from some Indiana cemeteries. The "Indiana Cemetery Locator File," compiled by the Genealogy Division, is an alphabetical listing of cemeteries, indicating the location in the state and the designation in the Genealogy Division of the Indiana State Library where inscriptions may be found. Below is a list of online resources for Huntington County Cemetery & Church Records. Email us with websites containing Huntington County Cemetery & Church Records by clicking the link below:
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When view family trees online or not, be sure to only take the info at face value and always follow up with your own sources or verify the ones they provide. Below is a list of online resources for Huntington County Family Trees, web forums and other family type information. Email us with websites containing Huntington County Family Trees, web forums and other family type information by clicking the link below:
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1849 Adams County Retrospect - Based on "Indiana Gazetteer," published by E. Chamberlain Huntington County was organized in 1834, and was named in honor of Samuel Huntington, a delegate in the Continental Congress from Connecticut, and one of the singers of the Declaration of Independence. Captain Elias Murray, then a member of the Legislature, proposed the name. The county is twenty-four miles in length from north to south, and sixteen in breadth, and contains 384 square miles. It is bounded north by Whitley, east by Allen and Wells, south by Wells and Grant, and west by Wabash counties. For civil purposes, Huntington County is divided into twelve townships, viz: Jackson, Clear Creek, Warren, Dallas, Huntington, Union, Rock Creek, Lancaster, Polk, Wayne, Jefferson and Salamonie. The population in 1840 was 1,579, and at this time [1849] it is about 6,000. A small portion of the county is hilly, but for the most part it is only so far removed from a level or gently undulating, as to drain the water off readily and leave the ground dry. The soil is clay and sand mixed, deep and very fertile, and well adapted to all such agricultural products as are common to the climate. With the exception of a few small prairies, the whole county was originally a dense forest of all the usual varieties of timber. The staple products exported are wheat, corn, beef and pork to the annual value, it is estimated, of $50,000. There are in the county one merchant mill, seven gristmills, ten sawmills, with much unimproved water power, ten stores, seven groceries, five warehouses, three lawyers, fourteen physicians, seven clergymen, 105 mechanics of the various trades most in demand, one printing office, three churches, for the Catholics, Baptists, and German Reformed, and fifteen schools that will average about thirty scholars each. The taxable land amounts to 212,886 acres, not exceeding a section still belongs to the United States, and about 10,000 acres are contained in the Indian reserves. The fine soil, situation and water power of this county will rapidly advance it in wealth and population as soon as the large amount of non-resident lands is sold out. 1938 Adams County Retrospect - Based on "Indiana Review," published by the State Legislature The first white man to set foot in Huntington County was LaSalle, who arrived there during an explorative expedition in 1679. From this time on, many military and exploring parties passed through Huntington County, for the pioneer lines of travel and communication were along the Wabash. The first settlers were Quakers, but they left no landmarks. Joel and Champion Helvey, coming from Tennessee, built the first structure within the limits of what is now Huntington. Most of the county's soil is glacial deposit, except that in the valleys of the rivers. Those streams include the Wabash River which flows west across the county, dividing it into two almost equal portions; what is known as Little River joins it west of the center of the county; another Small river, the Salamonie, cuts off a small portion of the southwest corner of the county and joins the Wabash River soon after leaving Huntington County. Because of the fertility of the soil farming, fruit growing and stock raising are chief occupations of the people.. Due to its very fertile soil, Huntington County is another of the essentially agricultural districts. Located in the northeastern section of the state, it comprises 386 square miles and is divided into twelve townships. The incorporated towns: Warren, 1,177; Andrews, 883; Roanoke, 849; Markle, 621, and Mount Etna, 135. Markle is also considered part of Wells County. Population of the county in 1890 was 27,644; 1900, 28,901; 1910, 28,982; 1920, 31,671; 1930, 29,073. Huntington, the only incorporated city and having a population of 13,420, is twenty-five miles southwest of Fort Wayne. Captain Elias Murray, nephew of the man for whom the county and city were named, laid out Huntington. The city is served by two railroads. Among its manufactures are cedar chests, radio cabinets, furniture, break linings, furnaces, disinfectants, soap, shoes, rubber products, casters, radiating and refrigerating equipment, cranes, hoists, and shovels. There are thirty-two manufacturing establishments employing 1,622 wage earners on pay rolls of $1,280,464. According to 1935 federal census figures. Value of the products was $6,905,830. This city is the home of Huntington College, founded in 1897. Two Catholic institutions, the Victory-Noll Training School and the St. Felix Monastery, are also here. At the entrance of the Courthouse is a bronze tablet to the Gold Star Soldiers from the county. Inside the building is a museum of historical relics. The exterior of the Public Library contains a bronze tablet marking the site of the Old Rock House Tavern, built in 1835 by General John Tipton. In the chief LaFontaine Home are numerous paintings and a gold clock given to the Indians by Germany. Ten miles south of Huntington, in Polk Township, is a monument erected in 1869 to the soldiers and sailors of the Civil War. A Memorial Fountain in memory of Robert McNeil Mayne and Grace Buell, who gave their lives in the World War, is founded in Roanoke. A stone marker on what is now a golf course in Huntington shows the historic Old Treaty Grounds. The first organization of a library for Huntington occurred in the year 1874. It was called the Public School Library Association. The yearly membership fee was $2. The Central School building gave space for the books constituting the library, which in a short time possessed over 1,200 volumes, many of which had belonged to the famous Mechanics' and Working Men's Library, established by William McClure, who founded the New Harmony Library. A number of these books, bound in sheepskin, and bearing on the cover the words, "Mechanics' and Working Men's Library," may still be seen in the present library. In 1889, the library was reorganized under state laws, making it a free library, thus reaching more people. In January 1902, the school board formally accepted Mr. Andrew Carnegie's offering of $25,000 for the erection of a library building and donated the site. This building as it now stands, represents the sum of about $29,000. This includes recent additions and improvements. The building was first open to the public February 21, 1903 and in 1915 contained about 24,000 volumes. Outstanding among the personages of importance to the county have been John Tipton, who owned much of the land; Tipton's agent, the Elias Murray; and later, Major General James Richard Slack, Great Civil War soldier and Circuit Judge. According to 1935 federal census figures this county had forty-five manufacturing establishments. A total of 1,747 wage earners were employed on pay rolls of $1,369,746. The total value of manufactured products was $7,389,747. Huntington County has 2,461 farms averaging 93.3 acres each. The value of these was $12,165,257. A total of 85,672 head of livestock was reported. Total county tax valuation for 1936 was $365,191,750. ? |
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