. Our county; its history and early settlement by townships. t Pleasant and westby a portion of Madison county. The soil of this townshipcan be said as a whole to consist of a clay with an admixtureof sand, which condition prevails generally throughout theentire township. Big Kill Buck creek is the principal streamin the township, entering near the northeast corner and pass-ing out near the southwest corner, it drains sections 1, 12, 16,21, 20, 29, 30, 31 and 32. Jakes creek enters the east end ofthe township in section 25 and running in an almost directwest course, empties its waters into Kil
. Our county; its history and early settlement by townships. t Pleasant and westby a portion of Madison county. The soil of this townshipcan be said as a whole to consist of a clay with an admixtureof sand, which condition prevails generally throughout theentire township. Big Kill Buck creek is the principal streamin the township, entering near the northeast corner and pass-ing out near the southwest corner, it drains sections 1, 12, 16,21, 20, 29, 30, 31 and 32. Jakes creek enters the east end ofthe township in section 25 and running in an almost directwest course, empties its waters into Kill Buck in section general lay of the land in Harrison is level, althoughsufficiently rolling for drainage. The township was origion-ally covered with a heavy growth of timber, of the varietiescommon to this latitude. As has heretofore been stated in these pages, the earlysettlers seemed to choose their homes in the neighborhood ofthe water stream, as we find all the earlier settlements madealong the White and Missisinewa rivers, and thus account for. HARRISON TOWNSHIP. 167 the seeming lateness in the settling up of Harrison township,and although Big Killbuck creek passes through the townshipand furnishes drainage outlet to much of the territory, yet itwas never considered sufficient for water mill power, althoughJoshua Howell erected a mill for grinding corn, on Big Kill-buck about one and a half miles below Bethel in 1842. Thiswas one of the primitive contrivances so often found in thepioneer settlement, and was soon dispensed with, as mills oflarge capacity were erected on neighboring streams, and asroads were constructed whereby the settlers could get to Stout, a Baptist minister, erected a distillery on thewest half of the southwest quarter of section 29, in 1842. had entered the land in 1836, and seeing the demand forwhisky concluded he could make a financial success of hisenterprise and at the same time accommodate his , as the
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