Sugar Creek Saga

1. THE FIRST SETTLERS
   

   The Indiana country--The land office--The first settlers--The organization of government--The log cabin appears--Problems of trade and transportation

2. THE LOG-CABIN FRONTIER
   

   Roads and road building--The first crops--The frontier merchant--Goods and prices--A pioneer cabin, construction and furnishings

3. PIONEER CHURCHES AND SCHOOLS
   

   The first churches--Rival denominations--Social influence of the church--The log-cabin school--The first newspaper--The press supports higher education

4. PLEASURES AND PASTIMES
   

   Frontier recreations--Words and music--The interest in public speaking--Self-expression in prose and verse--School and college programs--The military companies--Traveling shows and circuses

5. TOWNSHIP HISTORIES
   

   The number and location of townships--Clark, Scott and Brown--Ripley, Wayne and Coal Creek--Madison, Walnut and Sugar Creek--First pioneers in the townships--Early conditions--Union Township and Crawfordsville

6. EARLY LEADERS
   

   Pioneers in education, Beard and Mills--The Hovey family--Mills and free public schools--Political leaders, Lane and Wallace--Merchants, Isaac C. Elston I and Milligan--Elston banking interest--Whitlock and Henry Ristinei

7. THE PIONEER LITERARY SCENE
   

   Isaac F. Wade and the first newspaper--The Journal and the Review--Political controversies--Social and religious news--Early authors and their work--Wabash publications--Prose and poetry

8. AGRICULTURE AND INDUSTRY BEFORE THE CIVIL WAR
   

   The handicraft period--Gristmills and sawmills--The local manufactures--The coming of the railroad--The general store--The tavern in city and county--Agricultural development

9. PIONEER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS
   

   Wabash College under Baldwin and White--Student life and customs--The literary societies--Difficult days for Wabash--The female seminary--Early courses of study for women--Academies in Ladoga, Waveland and Wesley--Beginning of free schools--Conditions in 1860

10. PIONEER PLACES, NAMES AND PERSONALITIES
    

    Place names in the county--Forgotten villages--Some unusual names--Representative families--William Bratton, pioneer--The travels of Winter and Johnson--A Kansas migration; William Stilwell

11. PIONEER LAW AND ORDER
    

    The first court--The pioneer attorney--Early trials--Problem of intemperance--Horse thieves--Corruption in land sales--The Indian question--Fugitive slaves and the Underground Railroad

12. MEDICINE IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY
    

    The epidemic diseases--Pioneer remedies--Country doctors in Montgomery County--Progress after the Civil War--Medical societies--Conditions in 1900

13. THE CIVIL WAR
    

    Troops raised in Montgomery County--Wallace and Manson--The Shiloh episode--The 18th Indian Battery; Henry Campbell--Soldiers' diaries; Remley and McCain--Service in the Western armies--Life in field and camp--Five generals from Crawfordsville

14. THE WAR AT HOME
    

    The local respnose to the challenge--Attitude of the press--News from the front--Services of the women--Attitude toward Lincoln--The return from service

15. LEADERS AND POLITICS 1850-1900
    

    Rise of Republican party--Political leaders of each party--The War Democrats--The Copperheads--Retirement of Lane--Other leaders of each party--Political partisans in the townships--Governor Mount--Democratic leaders from Clark Township--Newspapers and politics

16. WABASH COLLEGE 1861-1908
    

    The administration of Tuttle--Professors Campbell and Carrington--The work of John M. Coulter--The presidency of Burroughs--Movement for coeducation--The presidency of Kane--A strong faculty--Athletic teams

17. THE LITERARY SCENE AFTER 1865
    

    Report on writers in 1877--The Thompsons and the Krouts--Wabash College writers--Wallace writes a best seller--Susan Elston Wallace as a writer--Mary Hannah Krout, journalist--Maurice Thompson's best seller--The work of Meredith Nicholson--Some minor poets

18. SOCIAL LIFE AFTER 1865
    

    Visitor's report on Crawfordsville--Reading clubs and other diversions--Fashions in clothing--The family album--County and city activities--Local pastimes

19. PROBLEMS OF LAW AND ORDER
    

    Problems of behaviour--Serious offenses--The activities of the horse thieves--The Horse Thief Detective Assiociation--The liquor problem--Crawfordsville voted dry--County liquor issue--Some minor offenses--Murder trials

20. AGRICULTURE AND LOCAL TRADE 1865-1914
    

    Effect of inflation on the farmer--Problems following the Civil War--Early agricultural associations--The County Fair--Local trade in the townships--Representative businesses in the towns--The typical trading centers

21. TRANSPORTATION AND INDUSTRY 1865-1914
    

    Railroads after the Civil War--Need for improved highways--Industries in Crawfordsville--Changing conditions--New industries in 1900--Conditions in township centers--Stores in Crawfordsville in 1900--Changes between 1900 and 1914

22. PASTIMES AND CEREMONIES
    

    Wabash athletics before 1900--Independent teams--Basketball, college and high school--Street fairs and other celebrations--Plays, amateur and professional--Patriotic celebrations--Commencement programs in high school and college

23. CITY AND COUNTY GOVERNMENT 1865-1914
    

    Crawfordsville under city charter--Problems of city administration--ordinances and their enforcement--List of city officials--County governing bodies--List of county officials--courts and the law--Lawyers in city and county

24. SCHOOLS AND LIBRARIES
    

    Schools after the Civil War--Record of a young teacher--Academies in Ladoga, Wesley, Waveland and Darlington--The Ladoga Normal School--Crawfordsville High School and school officers--Other schools--CFounding of Crawfordsville Library--Libraries founded in Darlington, Ladoga, Linden and Waveland

25. NEWSPAPERS AND OTHER PUBLICATIONS
    

    The first newspapers--Party organs--the changes brought by the Civil War--Dailies and weeklies after 1880--Editorial quarrels--Survival of the Journal and the Review. Consolidation of the two papers--College magazines and other publications--The High School publication

26. THE CHURCH IN CRAWFORDSVILLE 1865-1921
    

    Background history of the church--Important developments in Crawfordsville church history--Growth of religious groups--The new churches after 1890--Conditions after World War I

27. CLUBS, SOCIAL AND CIVIC TO 1919
    

    Lodges; their organization--Secret societies in city and county--Insurance and fraternal societies--Patriotic societies--Literary clubs, men and women--The country club--Art, musical and vocational clubs--Dramatic club--The Woman's Rights group

28. WORLD WAR I
    

    The United States and world affairs--Drift into war--Enlistments and the draft--The college and the war, SATC--Officers from Montgomery County--The influenza epidemic--Women's part in war--War casualties in county--Social and economic effects of the war--Formation of American Legion

29. CULTURAL DEVELOPMENT AFTER WORLD WAR I
    

    The Jazz age--Interest in local history--Centennial celebrations--Sugar Creek School of Art--Crawfordsville authors--Establishment of service clubs--Newly formed women's clubs--Dramatic club presentations and other programs--General cultural conditions

30. EDUCATION 1907-1941
    

    Wabash College under Mackintosh--changes in the faculty--Athletic teams 1907-41--The college under Hopkins--Public schools after the War--Crawfordsville schools--Schools in various townships--Representative educators--Athletics in city and county

31. BANKING, FINANCE AND PUBLIC UTILITIES 1865-1941
    

    Evolution of banking--Expansion and consolidation--Condition of banks in 1941--County banks--Insurance companies--Semi-public and public utilities--Problems of 1941

32. POLITICAL AND CIVIC LEADERS 1914-1941
    

    Political leaders in the late Nineties--Secret organizations--County and state officials--The legal profession--Montgomery County families--Crawfordsville officials after 1914--General activities--Public buildings--Parks and memorial buildings

33. MEDICINE IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY
    

    Conditions in 1900--Medical progress and the Medical Society--Physicians in city and county--Effect of World War I--Improvements in Culver Hospital--Leaders in hospital campaign--Medical personnel after World Wark I--Conditions in 1941

34. INDUSTRY AND TRADE 1918-1941
    

    New firms in the Twenties--Leading firms of period--Decline of the interurban railroad--Growth of automobile business--Changes in retail businesses--Developments in the county--Prices in the Twenties and Thirties--New businesses and changing personnel

35. SOCIETY IN TRANSITION

    Churches of postwar period--Church leaders--Historical celebrations--Crawfordsvile's memorial homes--Activities of clubs--Changes in transportation--The agricultural front--Interest in recreational activities--Activities of leaders in town and college--Facing the advent of World War II