Blackford County, Indiana

    Blackford County, Indiana (1887), is located in the northeast part of the State, and is bounded on the north by Wells County, on the east by Jay County, on the south by Delaware County, on the west by Grant County, and has a population of 13,000. The name Blackford was given in honor of Judge Blackford, one of the pioneer judges of Indiana. Hartford City, the county seat, is located at the crossing of the Pittsburg, Cincinnati & St. Louis, an the Fort Wayne, Muncie & Cincinnati railroads, and has direct communication with Columbus, Toledo, Cincinnati, Indianapolis and Chicago.

    The county in the past has labored under difficulties on account of insufficient drainage, but during the past twelve years a thorough system of drainage has been inaugurated, and thousands of acres of land, which has heretofore been uncultivated, is now reclaimed, and has become the richest and most productive land in the State. Some of this reclaimed land produced in one year 550 bushels of potatoes to the acre. the soil is good throughout the county, and is well adapted for the culture of wheat, rye, oats, flax, corn and vegetables. The upland is timbered with a heavy growth of oak, ash, beech, poplar, sugar tree, elm and hickory. There  is not a county in the State that can present better inducements for agriculturists in the future than Blackford. there is a large breadth of this reclaimed prairie land in the county, and it is emphatically as good a quality of land as can be found on the face of the earth.

    The principal water courses draining Blackford County are the Salamonia, flowing northwestward through the northeastern part of the county, the Big and Little Lick Creeks in the southern part, and Prairie Creek. The high, flat, swampy land between Hartford City and Montpelier along the railroad is the worst part of the county, giving to travelers on the trains a more unfavorable impression of Blackford than it deserves.

All data submitted by Gina Reasoner unless otherwise noted. © 2/2002 Gina Reasoner 

Births          Deaths

Yearbooks

1930 Retro Yearbook - Hartford City High School Seniors

1932 Retro Yearbook - Hartford City High School Seniors

History

County Officers	Montpelier
First Marriages - First Real Estate Sale	Secret Societies, Hartford City
Gold Star Honor Roll, Indiana World War Record	Settlement of Harrison Township
Hartford City	Settlement of Jackson Township
Legal Profession	Settlement of Licking Township
Medical Profession	Settlement of Washington Township
Millgrove, Jackson Township	Societies, Montpelier

Biographies

Alexander, C.C.	Alexander, John	Alexander, James T.	Armstrong, A.M.
Armstrong, Thomas	Atkinson, Hugh C.	Atkinson, Joseph	Atkinson, William A.
Baird, James G.	Beath, William A.	Blount, John H.	Bonham, George W.
Bonham, John A.	Bonham, William A.	Boyd, Amor	Brannum, William S.
Briscoe, T. S.	Briscoe, Samuel M.	Brotherton, John T.	Bugh, William J.
Butcher, Coleman L.	Butler, Edwin	Caldwell, D. C.	Carrell, Samuel S.
Carroll, William H.	Clapper, William	Cloud, William	Clouser, Nelson D.
Cooley, C. R.	Cooley, William B.	Cortright, Isaiah	Creek, Jacob
Creek, Joseph	Creek, Marion	Davison, H. C.	Dildine, Jesse
Dildine, Joseph	Dowell, Jesse H.	Drayer, P.	Ellsworth, William
Ervin, R. V.	Ervin, William L.	Fear, Henry N.	Feaster, Joseph
Fogle, Hiram	Ford, James H.	Ford, Edwin H.	Frazier, Wm. F. M.
Fulkerson, A. N.	Fuller, J. S. & H. J.	Fuqua, Theodore	Futrell, Joseph
Gadbury, A. K.	Gadbury, James A.	Gadbury, Samuel L.	Gartin, G.
Geisler, Frank	Gettys, John R.	Gettys, John	Groenendyke, Montgomery
Hadden, William	Hallam, John M.	Harrold, John R.	Hart, William
Havenfield, Thomas H.	Hellyer, John J.	Hess, David	Hess, Jacob C.
Hiatt, O. H.	Holmes, W. W.	Huffman, Elwood	Huggins, John
Huggins, Isaac	Huggins, Samuel	Hughes, Eli	Inman, Isaac
Kegerreis, J. C.	Kelley, Benjamin F.	Kelley, Joshua T.	Kitterman, Gabriel
Kline, Henry J.	Knight, A. T.	Knox, William	Lanning, Moses W.
Lanning, Robert	Lewis, John D.	Lillibridge, Thomas	Listenfeltz, Daniel
Maddox, J. C.	Maddox, James J.	Marker, Samuel	McCarthy, Thomas
McCombs, James	McConkey, Andrew J.	McConkey, David	McFarland, J. E.
McGeath, J. P.	McGrew, James I.	McKeehan, John Q.	McVicker, James A.
Miller, F. G.	Moon, J. W.	Moore, Orville K.	Morris, Theophilus
Morrison, John A.	Morrison, Leander	Neal, T. C.	Needler, John
Newbauer, John A.	Noonan, William	Payton, Samuel	Peck, A. J.
Peck, Samuel	Peck, Samuel J.	Pierce, Elisha	Pugh, William
Quakenbush, Andrew	Rayn, John W.	Reasoner, Jacob M.	Reasoner, W. F.
Rhoades, Joseph H.	Ricketts, Isaac M.	Robbins, Moses H.	Rollf, George B.
Ruckman, John M.	Sage, John W.	Saxon, John	Seelig, Henry
Shannon, Andrew J.	Shelton, Sylvester R.	Shields, Adam	Shinn, B. G.
Shinn, Darius	Shinn, Philip A.	Shull, Calvin Q.	Shull, W. T.
Simonton, Seth S.	Slater, James	Smith, H. B.	Smith, Jeremiah
Snyder, John O.	Stallsmith, D. E.	Stroble, Richard	Sutton, Arthur E.
Tarr, Leander	Taughinbaugh, William	Templin, John S.	Thompson, G. H.
Thompson, Mathew M.	Townsend, James S.	Twibell, Lewis	Twibell, William
Van Cleve, Milton	Walmer, D. A.	Waring, L. C.	Waugh, James
Wheatley, J. F.	Whetsel, Aaron S.	White, R. B.	Williams, Alonzo M.
Williams, William A.	Williams, Zadok T.	Willman, Lewis	Wilson, Abram
Wilson, James W.	Wilt, William W.	Wood, John G.	Woodard, Jerry D.
Woodard, Oliver	Wright, William G. (see Lanning, Moses W.	Younts, George W.	Younts, Joseph W.