History of Daviess County, Indiana : Its people, industries and institutions ..with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . i seminary huild-int,. .\ two-stor\ hrit-k huildinj; was proliahlv in iS_:;i;, hut was notfinished until 1841. .\t thai time the trustees. .Sanuiel J. KcKo :ind William(1, ( ole. madi the followinL; repovi : l(iial fund received to .seiilemher,1S41, ^j.^>>^.i)j ; paid to Colli ractors, .S-,5.^;7, leaviui.; _ycI due the contrac-tors, ,^; total cost of seminary, grounds, etc., ^,^^.
History of Daviess County, Indiana : Its people, industries and institutions ..with biographical sketches of representative citizens and genealogical records of many of the old families . i seminary huild-int,. .\ two-stor\ hrit-k huildinj; was proliahlv in iS_:;i;, hut was notfinished until 1841. .\t thai time the trustees. .Sanuiel J. KcKo :ind William(1, ( ole. madi the followinL; repovi : l(iial fund received to .seiilemher,1S41, ^j.^>>^.i)j ; paid to Colli ractors, .S-,5.^;7, leaviui.; _ycI due the contrac-tors, ,^; total cost of seminary, grounds, etc., ^,^^. Troiihle arose over the ol the hinds. Jephtha UoutI, in1S44, ohlained a iudgment in the circuit court for two liundred dollars andsixtv-two cents, lie proceeded to levy upon the seminary huilding to satisfythe judgment, lie was part id ihe judgment ,md given assurance thatthe remainder would he forlhcoming. dhe property was yet heavily en-cumhered. .\ sheriris sale in some mannei- vv;is ordered and ( houghtcrrlain rights. In Septemlier, 1X4(1, he paid lour hundred and twentydollars and eiglilv cents for all his claims. .\l Ihe .\pril lenn ol court in. fv i! l!T;k .| iri rpn-jl \i DAVIKSS COUNTY, INDIANA. -45 1844, TIk Slate on the relation ul Allied l)a\is Tlionias (jraliani, lohnB. Coleman and Charles 1. Wells was liled. A judgment of li\e hundreddollars was rendered against the defendants, but the Legislature in somemanner annulled it. Under the constitution of 185-, county seminaries were sold and theproceeds were placed in the common school fund. The I )a\ less ( ountySeminary was sold at auction on Deccmher 12, 183^;, to |ames S. Mcjrganfor one thousand (juc hundred and eighty dollars, lie failed to pa\- ami , 1833, the pr c>l:ililir^liLil in iSij. On Ajiril21, ut tliat year. Cdurt i_<ui\ ciiLil for llic time, in (lie Alcxan( nn the ^t cnrner nt Mam and
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