Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 February 1915 — Says Counties Are Eighty Years Old—Partly Wrong. [ARTICLE]

Says Counties Are Eighty Years Old—Partly Wrong.

The Pulaski County * Democrat says: “Eighty years ago Sunday the counties of Adams, Wells, DeKalb, Steuben, Whitley, Kosciusko, Fulton, Marshall, Starke, Pulaski, Jasper, Newton and Porter were all laid out by an act passed by the legislature entitled .‘An act laying out the unorganized territory to which the Indian title had been extinguished in the state into a suitable number of counties.’

“The chief labor of laying out the territory into these counties devolved upon Col. Vawter, who was better acquainted with the country than any other man. Although h£" labored so hard and long on the project he was net allowed to name even one of the counties. This was a great disappointment to him, as he had planned on naming one of the counties Armstrong, in honor of an old soldier by that name who spent all his best days in northern Indiana and who-wats finally killed in the northern part of the state by Indians.” Newton was not made a separate; county at that time but was a part of Jasper county for a number of years. • -