The following is an abstract of the Dearborn County, Indiana, Commissioners’ Records for the December 1851 Session. For digital copies of the records, visit the Record Requests Page.

Dearborn County Commissioners’ Records – Book 5

December Session 1851

Page 210

Present:

• Zera Vinson
• Jonathan Hallowell

Report by John Smith and John Kyle, visitors to County Asylum.

Allowed to John Ross for making coffin for pauper

Allowed to Tharp & Baker for shelters for jail

Allowed to William Sheets for books for offices

Allowed to C. Armstrong for coffins for paupers and [?] for use of jail

Allowed to A. F. Gray & D. A. Rewlan for services arresting horse thief

 

Page 211

Allowed to Wymon & Ferris for coal for Court and offices

Allowed to Delzell & Taylor for books and stationery for offices

Allowed to William Nothun for graveling street

John Mason of Kelso Township exempted from road work.

Henry Wanke – license to keep a store in Jackson Township

Allowed to Alex Brown for taking John Durham, Jr., to Asylum

 

Page 212

Allowed to Michael Rudisell for digging grave for pauper

Allowed to Andrew Moss for digging graves for paupers

Stults H. Bolsa – license to retail liquors in Kelso Township

W. H. Conaway & Co. – license to keep as tore in Centre Township

Joseph Bartholomew – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

Benjamin Vail – license to keep a store in Laughery Township

 

Page 213

Abram Showalter – license to keep a store in Jackson Township

Warren Steel & Co. – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

George Tousey – license to keep a store in Lawrenceburg Township

 

Page 214

Anthony Opp – license to keep a store

James Mortaugh – license to keep as tore in Kelso Township

Owensby & Helmuth – license to keep store in Lawrenceburg Township

Thomas T. Edes & Co. – license to keep as tore in Lawrenceburg Township

Allowed to Cornelius O’Brien for articles for Clerk’s office

Allowed to Josiah Rewlan for setting grate and brick furnished jail

 

Page 215

Allowed to Noble Hamilton for office rent, coal and tax receipts

Allowed to Hugh F. Smith for use of buggy to Asylum

Allowed to Hermon Niemeyer for repairing stoves at Clerk’s office and Court House

Allowed to James Cummings for making two coffins for paupers

Allowed to James Sawdon for services as keeper of County Asylum

Allowed to Joseph Johnson for articles for use of paupers at Asylum

Allowed to James C. Cordry for articles for County Asylum

 

Page 216

Allowed to George Sheldon for balance on grate for jail

William L. S. Jones – license to keep a store in Sparta Township

Herman Benson – license to keep a store in York Township

Benjamin Morgan – license to keep a store in Harrison Township

 

Page 217

Allowed to Zera Vinson for hauling jail doors from Wilmington and taking same out of jail at Wilmington

Allowed to Sandford Moody for shaving criminals while in jail

Allowed to John F. Richards for boarding criminals in jail

Cornelius O’Brien authorized to erect an addition to Clerk’s office.

 

Page 218

Cornelius O’Brien and Theodore Gazlay authorized to repair Court House.

Theodore Gazlay authorized to procure a safe for Treasurer’s and Auditor’s office.

Allowed to Zera Percivall for cloak furnished prisoner

Allowed to R. Rogers for services as Auditor

Court adjourned.