The town of LaPorte is dealt with by a discussion of its political history. Michigan City is covered by a brief history of its founding and early growth. This is a very good source for names and dates of the county's earliest settlers. Often histories like these were also used as a kind of advertisement for settlement for the county which they covered. Thus this history is very complimentary of the people and natural advantages of LaPorte County and should be read with some caution.
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Published by Chas. Chapman and Co., Chicago 1880. This book contains a very general history of the county from 1829 to 1840, year by year. Basically this volume is a compilation of statistics on LaPorte Co., such as marriages and divorces, election returns from 1833 to 1878, etc. It also contains a history of the Old Settler's Association with a list of members, their place and date of birth and their year of settlement.