their own township. It was the two Indians against the Squaw, with the Skunk siding with the latter and bearing off the palm.
The names that are now remembered as among those who were then active members of the Indian Creek settlements, and who still live in the county, are Adolphus Prouty, (who was a prominent candidate for County Judge), W. K. Wood, John Brouhard, Thos. C. Davis, J. R. Wood, Judiah Ray, Nathan Webb, Milburn Ellison, Thomas Fitzgerald, Thomas Monahan, W. W. Utterback, Samuel McDaniel, George Dye, John P. Pool, Ephriam Bowen, the Hands, the Aldermans, the Vincents, and the sons of J. P. Robinson.
In the west part of the county we recall Joseph Brouhard, Jonah Griffith, John H. Kiegley, the Arrasmiths, the Zenors Henry C. Cameron, the Jones, the Evens, P. R. Craig, James Ross, George W. Sowers, the Smiths, Jeremiah Pressnall, the Elliotts, the Breezeleys, Cyrus Simmons and others.
But the first great influx of population was from 1851 to 1857, during which time there came into the Clear Creek and Indian Creek country the Shenkles, Daniel Swarm, the Lambs, the Dunlaps, M. Gifford, R. Gamble, E. Gun, Wm. Fetish, Zach. Elliott, John Jones, G. W. Livingston, I. C. Alderman, the Casebolts, C. P. McCord, the Woods, J. C. Lovell I. Walker, the Brubakers, A. Road, W. C. Carr, the Richardsons, the Sellers, Dr. Sheldon, E. B. Potter, W. R. Robinson, Thos. Jackson, H, Funk, the Fenns, Joshua Cooper, the Murpheys, the Pools, the Apples. C. P. Page, B. J. Dunning, D. R. Brown, H. C. Wickham, Geo. Hyden, Wm. Handsaker, John Conehan, J. C. Hempstead, Wm. Lockridge, J. C. Lovely the Mullens, the Applegates, J. P. Robinson, Jr., F. A. McLain, John Thomas, W. M. Kelly, Alex. Dinsmore, Mike Daugherty, the Harrisons, the Bales, Isaac Romaine, Micah French and his sons. John J. Bell, Chris. Wood, Alex. Robinson, the Maxwells, F. M, Baldwin, the Halls, the Olingers, and a host without number.
In the northern and western parts of the county during the same time there settled many hundreds, such as the Ballards, the Wiers, the Larsons, the Nelsons, Jones Duea, J. F. Brown, D. L. Stults, the Grovers, Paul Thompson., Sam Bates, John James, W. R. Doolittle, J. E. Hoover, Thomas Hughes, Solomon Young, the McLains, S. W. Adams, the Diffenbackers, the Briloys, A. Hipsher, the Hunters, the Millers, the Fosters, Asa F. Eastwood, the Primes, the McCarthys, Milo McCartney, Jacob Erb, the Beedles, Morgan Keltner, John Bracken, Wm. Templeton, Noah Berry, O. Sheldall, E. Sheldall, Joseph Harkness, the Eaglebargers, Andrew Scott, the McMichaels, James Campbell, Geo. H. Alfred. John Rich, the Wakefields, O. Chamberlain. W. W. Spring, the Taylors, the Gossards, the Grosecloses, W. H. Grafton, M. D. Livingston, H. H. Boyes, George Gilmore, John Warren, Wm. Allen, Ole Apland, J. J. Foote, W. C. Shockley, W. H. Fitzpatrick, M. Evens, John Severson, Kenley Dobyns, H. McKee, and scores more than can now be recited.
About this time the village of Nevada began to settle, and the influx was lively. The town was located for a county seat on the