Mapping and Research for Hendricks County, Indiana
Organized April 21, 1824, Hendricks County was named for William
Hendricks, governor of Indiana at the time. From Pennsylvania, by 1813
Hendricks was a publisher in Madison, Indiana. In that year he was
elected to the Territorial legislature. He also was named the
territorial printer. In 1816 he was named the Secretary of the
Constitutional Convention and was elected to congress under the new
constitution. He was elected to the U.S. Senate in 1825 and again in
1830. He helped lay the foundations for the state and authored the
first revisions of the state law which he had printed on his own press.
Danville is the County Seat and was named after Daniel Bales, one of the proprietors. Danville was first settled in 1825 by Nathan Kirk, Levi Jessup, James L. Given, James Wood and P.L. Dickens. By 1849 Danville contained a brick Courthouse, a County Seminary with about sixty students, 125 dwelling houses and a population of 500.
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