volt, and Willets. Other families came later in the year, among them the Harvey, Salisbury, and Whitehead families, also those of Daniel Murray, James Hiley, Jacob Miller, John Garrett, Emery Brown, C. W. Brown, James Drummond, Benjamin De Witt, Dr. B. C. Bowell, J. Austin, Ludlow Bell, and Myron Ives.* This soon became a noted settlement.

Other settlers in different neighborhoods: James Highley, James Webster, Judah Learning, Abram Cormack, Daniel Griffin; Horace Markham, Lane Markham, on Mill Creek; Thomas Stillwell, giving name to Stillwell Prairie; Alden Tucker; Charles W. Cathcart, giving name to a beautiful grove; also the Ball, Blake, Landon, Wheeler, Bond, Fravel, Staneon, and Garwood families, and Joseph Pagin and Wilson Malone. Most of these earliest families as was natural, made their settlements on that strip of land, ten miles in width, which had already been purchased from the Indians, although some settled south of that line. on unpurchased Indian lands.

Settlers of 1832Isham Campbell. Andrew Richardson.

Edmund Richardson.

John Dunn.
Josiah Bryant.

Jeremiah Sherwood.
Jonathan Sherwood.
George Campbell.
John Broadhead.

Peter White.

Elijah Brown.
A. M. Jessup.
Silas Hale.

Oliver Closson.

John Brown.
Charles Vail.
W. A. Place.
A. Blackburn.
Bird McLane.

John McLane.

*For these names and many others I am indebted to the "History of La Porte County." T. H. B.

S. Aldrich.
Charles Ives.

John Hazleton.

Settlers of 1833

John Talbott.

Brainard Goff.
S. James.

G. W. Barnes.
Shubel Smith.

W. Goit.

R. Miller.

H. Cathcart.
Elmore Pattee.
Joseph Orr.
Jacob R. Hall.
F. Reynolds.
Joseph Starrett.
Jesse Willett.

Jesse West.
Nimrod West.

J. Gallion.
J. Clark.
John Wilson.
Asa Owen.

A. Harvey.

B. Butterworth.

H. Griffith.

J. Griffith.

G. Rose.

John Luther.

Erastus Quivey.
Joseph Wheaton.

John Beaty.
N. Stul.

W. Niles.
John Osborn.
L. Maulsby.
L. Reynolds.
T. Robinson.
R. Prother.
R. Williams.
Peter Burch.

W. Burch.

Ira Burch.

W. O'Hara.

M. O'Hara.

Samuel O'Hara.
Edward O'Hara.
J. Perkins.
Isaac Johnson.
W. Lavin.
S. Lavin.
John Winchell.
John Vail.
Henry Vail.
J. Travis.

Curtis Travis.

Other names of early settlers in La Porte County will be found among the records of their Old Settlers' Association.

Something singular is connected with the name

Lykins. After detailing the supposed facts of the first settlement of Hudson Township, and naming as the first or one of the first settlers, Joseph W. Lykins, a Welshman, "connected with the Carey Mission,' who settled there in 1829, General Packard mentions. as one of the settlers in Wills Township in 1830 Joseph Lykins, and at length says: "During this year (1834) Joseph Lykins put up the first frame house that was erected in Wills." That this man was a Welshman he does not say.

If all the statements are correct there must have been near the northeast corner of La Porte County three men by the name of Lykins-Johnston Lykins, born in Ohio; Joseph W. Lykins, from Wales, and Joseph Lykins, presumably an American.

The statements in regard to the first rest on documentary evidence in missionary publications that cannot be questioned. The statements in regard to Joseph and Joseph W. rest upon the memories of the early settlers from whom General Packard obtained information.

It is not probable any one is living now who knows anything of that frame house built in 1834.

In what became Porter County, with the exception of the French trader, Joseph Bailly, who will be elsewhere mentioned, who, in the employ of John Jacob Astor, is said to have made a home on the Calumet River with his Indian wife in 1822, settlements seem not to have commenced until the stage line from Detroit to Fort Dearborn or Chicago was opened in 1833. In that year three brothers-Virginians, Jesse, William, and Isaac Morgan-made settlements and gave name to one of the small, rich prairies of the county. In April of the same year

came from Ohio Henry S. Adams with his mother, his wife, and three daughters; and in June George Cline, Adam S. Campbell from New York, and Reason Bell from Ohio. Also Jacob Fleming, Ruel Starr, and Seth Hull.

The following are found as the names of early settlers in the northwestern part of the county. Some of these names may be found repeated in the following lists:

For the year 1834, Jacob Wolf and three sons-John, Jacob E., and Josephus; Barrett Door; Reuben Hurlburt and sons-William, Henry, Jacob, David, and Griffith; R. and W. Parrott; and, a year or so later, S. P. Robbins, B. and Allen Jones, and the following whose given names have not been found: Blake, Peak, Sumner, Ritter, Harrison, Curtis, Smith, Arnold, McCool, and T. J. Field. The names TwentyMile Prairie and Twenty-Mile Grove, were given to the localities in that part of the county. Not that the prairie or the strip of woodland, in which grove for a time black squirrels abounded, extended for twenty miles, but they were twenty miles distant from somewhere. In that locality these family names remained for many years and some still remain.

The following lists of names are arranged according to the years of settlement, but perfect accuracy cannot be claimed for them all, as the authorities were evidently not perfectly accurate. But care has been taken in making corrections and perfecting as nearly as was practicable the entire list.

Settlers in 1834Thomas A. E. Campbell. Benjamin McCarty. Theodore Jones.

Levi Jones.

Selah Wallace.

C. A. Ballard.

In this year was born January 11th the first white child in the county, Reason Bell, and the second on February 11th, Hannah Morgan.