Fort Wayne Books on Archive.org

Mostly arranged alphabetically, the first few are chronologically related to early Fort Wayne.

Fort Wayne in 1790 - Hay, Henry, reprinted by special permission from the Indiana Historical Society Publications, vol. 7, no. 7

A circuit rider in early Indiana (1954) - Robinson, Reuben D, reprinted from an Indianapolis newspaper, it appeared in the Fort Wayne Sentinel newspaper December 28, 1880

A mission to the Indians, from the Indian committee of Baltimore Yearly Meeting, to Fort Wayne, in 18O4 - Hopkins, Gerard T
Never offered for sale, but presented to Friends and others interested in Indian affairs. cf. Field, T. W. An essay towards an Indian bibliography. After receiving farming implements from the Friends, Miami Chief Little Turtle and Pottawottamie Chief Five Medals request assistance to teach the Indians farming. This is the account of that mission to Fort Wayne in 1804.

Early travelers to Fort Wayne - Riley, James, the letter written by Captain James Riley in 1819, and the journal kept by Thomas Scattergood Teas in 1821, are reprinted here

Fort Wayne In Canal Days (1900)

Fort Wayne in 1838 - Dawson, John W

15th census, population, 1930. [microform] (Volume Reel 574. Adams EDs 1-1 to 1-6, 1-17, 1-7, 1-20, 1-8 to 1-16, 1-18, 1-19, 1-21, Brown EDs 7-1 to 7-6, Allen, Fort Wayne City EDs 2-1 to 2-17) - United States. Bureau of the Census, Microfilm copy of original data as collected by the Census Bureau

15th census, population, 1930. [microform] (Volume Reel 575. Allen, Fort Wayne City EDs 2-18 to 2-23, 2-76, 2-24 to 2-27, 2-77, 2-28, 2-78, 2-29, 2-79, 2-30, 2-80, 2-41 to 2-46) - United States. Bureau of the Census, Microfilm copy of original data as collected by the Census Bureau

15th census, population, 1930. [microform] (Volume Reel 576. Allen, Fort Wayne City EDs 2-31, 2-34, 2-32 to 2-33, 2-35 to 240, 2-47, 2-81, 2-48, 2-82, 2-49 to 2-66) - United States. Bureau of the Census, Microfilm copy of original data as collected by the Census Bureau

Agreement between the Pennsylvania Company, Chicago and Alton Railroad Company, Chicago, Burlington and Quincy Railroad Company, Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Joliet & Chicago Railroad Co. and Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Ry. Co. : use of tracks in Chicago (1880) - Pennsylvania Company

Allen County gazetteer : containing a directory of Fort Wayne City, and historical and descriptive sketches of the several townships of the county, also, a directory of the names, occupation and post office address of the merchants, manufacturers & farmers throughout Allen County ... - Bailey, John C. W, Fort Wayne is on pages 64-77

Annual message of ... , mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. with annual reports of heads of departments of the city government for the fiscal year ending .. (Volume yr.1895) - Fort Wayne (Ind.)

Annual message of ... , mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. with annual reports of heads of departments of the city government for the fiscal year ending ...(1896) - Fort Wayne (Ind.)

Annual message of ... , mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. with annual reports of heads of departments of the city government for the fiscal year ending .. (Volume yr.1898) - Fort Wayne (Ind.)

Annual message of ... , mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. with annual reports of heads of departments of the city government for the fiscal year ending .. (Volume yr.1901) - Fort Wayne (Ind.)

Annual message of ... [the] Mayor of Fort Wayne, Indiana: with annual ...(1902) - Fort Wayne (Ind.)

Annual message of ... , mayor of Fort Wayne, Ind. with annual reports of heads of departments of the city government for the fiscal year ending (1905)

Art souvenir of representative men, public buildings, private residences, business houses - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
Cover title: Art souvenir of the Fort Wayne gazette, 1894, a photograph collection

The beautiful city of Fort Wayne (1906) / by J. Murray Jordan - Jordan, J. Murray

Beyond books : Allen County's public library history, 1895-1995 - Slater-Putt, Dawne, Includes bibliographical references and index

The Bowser booster (Volume yr. 1918) - S.F. Bowser & Co

Bowser : designers, engineers, manufacturers of equipment for receiving, storing, metering, distributing, filtering, dispensing and merchandising, gasoline, oils, and similar liquids for commercial and industrial purposes - S. F. Bowser & Company

Bulletins (Volume 1 - 1920) - Wayne Oil Tank & Pump Company, Individual bulletins designed to fit together in a cover supplied by the company

Bulletins] (Volume 2) - Wayne Oil Tank & Pump Company, Individual bulletins designed to fit together in a cover supplied by the company

The burgeoning interest in local history in Fort Wayne 1887-1894 - Potterf, Rex M, "Reprinted with the special permission of the Allen County - Fort Wayne Historical Society."

The Canal boat case : who done it? : not us, we were asleep (~1850) - Canal Society of Indiana

Canal celebrations in old Fort Wayne - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. cn, 1 9 16

Fort Wayne in the Canal Days

Captain James B. White, Fort Wayne soldier, merchant, banker (1957) - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County. cn
Includes bibliographical references

Charcoal sketches of old times in Fort Wayne - Dawson, John W., 1820-1877

Charter and revised ordinances of the city of Fort Wayne : to which is prefixed a chronological roster of officers from 1840 to 1887 - Fort Wayne (Ind.), Fort Wayne code. Fort Wayne ordinances

Ancestors & descendants of Levin James Chatham and Naomi Elizabeth Eshom family (2000) - Chatham, George (George Marion), 1948-
Includes bibliographical references and index, of Fort Wayne, Indiana

City charter, city of Fort Wayne February 22, 1840? - Indiana. General Assembly

Colonel Charles A. Zollinger : seven-time mayor of Fort Wayne (1956)

The Columbia Street story (1975) - Bates, Roy M

A compilation of the laws, deeds, mortgages, leases, and other instruments, and minutes of proceedings, affecting the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne and Chicago Railway Company[h[electronic resource] together with a prefatory statement by the chairman (1875) - Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne, and Chicago Railway Company

Colonel Robert S. Robertson, 1839-1906 : soldier, public officer, historian, social arbiter - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County
Bibliography: p. 68-69

Colorful journalism in Fort Wayne, Indiana 1966 - Bredemeier, Herbert G, Bibliographical references included in "Notes" (p. 28-30)

Essentials of the principles and practice of equine and bovine medicine and surgery ..(1889) - Langtry, Walter. [from old catalog]

Famous Italian pictures and their story, with sketch of the artists ...(1912) - Haberly-Robertson, Frances Maria Stimson, 1852-

Finding list of the Public Library ... 1897 .. (Volume yr.1897) - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

The fort at the three rivers (1968) - Snow, Dorothea J., 1909-, "A project of Pi Chapter, Psi Iota Xi Sorority and the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society in cooperation with the Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County."

Fort Wayne, the frontier post - Roberts, Bessie K, reprint of her Historical Fort Wayne, 1682-1933 (1933)

Fort Wayne, Indiana, 1905; picturesque and descriptive account of the present mercantile and industrial interests and advantages of Fort Wayne, Indiana (Volume yr.1905)

Fort Wayne, Indiana : a presentation of her resources, achievements and possibilities ...(1913) - Gardner, H. W., comp

Fort Wayne gamblers, 1865-1900 - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

Fort Wayne illustrated

Some Fort Wayne phizes - Griswold, Bert Joseph, 1873-1927

Some Fort Wayne phizes - Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927, Page [3] signed: B. J. Griswold

Fort Wayne up to date

Fort Wayne with might and main : Indiana's busiest, happiest city (1910) compiled and published by Ralph E. Avery

Fort Wayne with might and main : Indiana's busiest, happiest city / [compiled and published by Ralph E. Avery] (1911) - Avery, Ralph E. (Ralph Emmett), comp

Fort Wayne, the summit city - Williams J. L. (Jesse Lynch), 1807-1886, reprint of a letter written by Jesse L. Williams to the Fort Wayne Gazette, Dec. 5, 1873

German-American National Bank (1906) - in 1918 during World War I became Lincoln National Bank, in 1990's became part of Norwest Bank, then in 1998 merged to become Wells Fargo Bank.

Gilded age in Fort Wayne, 1870-1900 - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, half-title: Society in Fort Wayne, 1870-1900

The glorious gateway of the West : an historic pageant of the story of Fort Wayne, commemorating the one hundredth anniversary of Indiana's admission to the sisterhood of states (1916) - Rice, Wallace, 1859-1939, "Presented in June 1916 at Reservoir Park."

The Griswold-Phelps handbook and guide to Fort Wayne, Indiana, for 1913-1914 - Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927
Includes advertising matter

Heads of households index to the 1850 census, Wayne County, Indiana - United States. Census Office (7th Census : 1850)
Typewritten copy by the Fort Wayne and Allen County Public Library, 1965

History of the 160th Ind. vol. infantry in the Spanish-American war, with biographies of officers and enlisted men and rosters of the companies.. - Bowers, George B

History of the Dudlo Manufacturing Company (1965) - Bates, Roy M

History of Fort Wayne, from the Earliest Known Accounts of this Point, to the Present Period ...(1868) - Wallace A. Brice

History of Fort Wayne, from the earliest known accounts of this point, to the present period : embracing an extended view of the aboriginal tribes of the Northwest, including, more especially, the Miamies ... with a sketch of the life of General Anthony Wayne ; including also a lengthy biography of the late Hon. Samuel Hanna together with short sketches of several of the early pioneer settlers of Fort Wayne ; also an account of the manufacturing, mercantile, and railroad interests of Fort Wayne and vicinity - Brice, Wallace A
Supplemented by: "Index to Wallace A. Brice history of Fort Wayne and to the life of Anthony Wayne and other biographies contained in this 1868 publication. Compiled by Cleo Goff Wilkens" (26 p. ; 21 cm.) published: [Fort Wayne? : AllenCounty-Fort Wayne Historical Society] 1957. Call number: F534.F7B8 Index. The authenticity of some of the accounts contained in this book have been questioned, but a good read if you are interested in Fort Wayne history..

History of the Fort Wayne Fire Department : extracts from Fort Wayne, Indiana, newspapers (Volume 3 1878-1886) - Weber, Donald Allen
Includes index

Home treatment for the disease of domesticated animals ..(1895) - Langtry, Walter. [from old catalog]

Home treatment of the diseases of domesticated animals. A practical work .. - Langtry, Walter - duplicate?

Home life in early Indiana (1954) - Vogel, William Frederick, 1884-

From the cradle to the grave : life of Eld. Solon A. Howenstine (1894) - Howenstine, Lydia Kimmel, printed in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Improvement of Fort Wayne Indiana; report for Fort Wayne Civic Improvement Association (1909) - Robinson, Charles Mulford, 1859-1917.

Indiana in 1816; an address - Potterf, Rex M, An address by Rex M. Potterf delivered before the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society (December 12, 1928), at the Swinney Homestead, Fort Wayne, Indiana, on the anniversary of Indiana's admission to the Union one hundred and twelve years ago.

Industrial survey of Fort Wayne, Indiana (Volume 1930 supplement) - Greater Fort Wayne Chamber of Commerce (Ind.)

Investigation of Communist activities in the Fort Wayne, Ind., area. Hearings (1955) - United States. Congress. House. Committee on Un-American Activities, Francis E. Walter, chairman

Jesse A. Grice; sheriff and mayor, 1852-1915 - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County, sheriff 1904-1908, mayor 1910-1914

Johnny Appleseed Almanac (1975) - Old Fort Settlers (Fort Wayne, Ind.), "Old Fort Settlers Project, Swinney Homestead ...", brief history, then many apple and old time style recipes

Johnny Appleseed: the man behind the myth (1978) - Fortriede, Steven. Includes bibliographical references

Johnny Appleseed, orchardist (1963) - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

Johnny Appleseed : a pioneer hero (1955) - Haley, W. D, "The following biographical sketch by W.D. Haley was originally published in Harper's New Monthly Magazine, volume XLIII, November 1871."--foreword

Old Johnny Appleseed (1955) - Miller, Olive Beaupré. cn, Originally appeared in Heroes, Outlaws & Funny Fellows of American Popular Tales, by Olive Beaupre Miller

Journal of Thomas Dean : a voyage to Indiana in 1817 (1955) - Dean, Thomas, 1783-1843?, Reprinted from Journal of Thomas Dean, published by John Candee Dean, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1918

Abe Lincoln in Indiana - Beveridge, Albert Jeremiah, 1862-1927, Includes bibliographies

Abraham Lincoln : a collection of anecdotes and stories (1900)

Abraham Lincoln : a collection of anecdotes and stories told by and of President Lincoln, many of them heretofore unpublished (1900)
Also issued under titles: Abraham Lincoln: a collection of anecdotes and stories, and Humorous and pathetic stories of Abraham Lincoln, and Of Abraham Lincoln: a collection of anecdotes and stories

The life and speeches of Abraham Lincoln, and Hannibal Hamlin (1938) - Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Humorous and pathetic stories of Abraham Lincoln (1894)

The Lincoln Financial Collection, Books contributed from the Lincoln Financial Collection held in the Lincoln Library, Allen County Public Library, Fort Wayne, Indiana. Over 2,000 titles digitized from the collection.

Lindenwood cemetery, 1864, Includes articles of association, rules & regulations, history and names of lot owners

Lindenwood cemetery: articles of association, rules and regulations adopted, 1885 .. - Lindenwood Cemetery (Fort Wayne, Ind.)

Lindenwood Cemetery Records (Volume yr.1896-1917) - Lindenwood Cemetery, Cemetery records from April 1896-December 1917.

The life of Mason Long, the converted gambler : being a record of his experience as a white slave, a soldier in the Union Army, a professional gambler, a patron of the turf, a variety theater and minstrel manager, and, finally, a convert to the Murphy cause, and to the gospel of Christ (1887) - Long, Mason, 1842-1903, of Fort Wayne, Indiana

Manual of practical housekeeping (1873) - [Kimball, Laura A.], [from old catalog] comp, The Household Treasure

Manual of practical housekeeping (1880) - [Kimball, Laura A.], [from old catalog] comp

Minute book - Bass Foundry and Machine Company, Minutes of the board of directors, 1919-1955, including dissolution proceedings in full

Minutes (1896) - Associated Charities of Fort Wayne, Photocopy of holograph originals

Miscellaneous files (1981) - Barr Street Irregulars

Mother George : Fort Wayne's angel of mercy - Sadler, Hilary A

Nature lovers' poems (1917) - Mehl, Amos K

Numerical list of papers in settlement of the estate of John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed); original papers are on file in the county clerk's office, Allen county court house, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Obituary records found in Fort Wayne, Ind., newspapers, 1841-1900 ([20--]) - Monroe, Barbara J, this data is included in the Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center online Obituary Index

Our national and financial future (1865) - McCulloch, Hugh, 1808-1895, U.S. Secretary of the Treasury, Address at Fort Wayne, Indiana October 11, 1865

Pamphlets (Volume 5 - 1913) - Illustrated Guide to the Allen County Court House, Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

Pamphlets (Volume 6 - 1953) - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

Pamphlets (Volume 7 - 1954) - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

In the path of the alphabet; an historical account of the ancient beginnings and evolution of the modern alphabet (1906) - Jermain, Frances Delavan Page, 1829-1905, printed in Fort Wayne, Indiana

The peace party and its policy. Speech of Isaac Jenkinson, at Fort Wayne, Indiana, March 16, 1863 - Jenkinson, Isaac. [from old catalog]

The philosophy of judging : a manual upon the scoring of exhibition fowls, intended to meet the wants of the general breeder and the exhibitor, as well as the professional judge (1889) - Felch, I. K. (Isaac Kimbal), 1834-, printed in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Photo-gravures of Fort Wayne! : its artistic residences, business streets, parks and beautiful suburbs ; together with its largely diversified business and manufacturing industries (1889)

Photo-gravures of Fort Wayne! : its artistic residences, business streets, parks and beautiful suburbs, together with its largely diversified business and manufacturing industries reprint

The pictorial history of Fort Wayne, Indiana : a review of two centuries of occupation of the region about the head of the Maumee River (Volume 1) - Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927

The pictorial history of Fort Wayne, Indiana : a review of two centuries of occupation of the region about the head of the Maumee River (Volume 2) - Griswold, B. J. (Bert Joseph), 1873-1927

The planetary system : a study of its structure and growth (1903) - Taylor, Frank Bursley, published in Fort Wayne, Indiana

Poems (1916) - Philley, Anna M. [from old catalog]

Questions of the hour; a political speech delivered before the Tippecanoe club at Fort Wayne, Indiana, August 9, 1902 - Taylor, Robert S. [from old catalog]

The relations of the federal government to slavery. Speech of Joseph K. Edgerton. Delivered at Fort Wayne, Ind., October 30th 1860 .. - Edgerton, Joseph Ketchum, 1818-1893, Birney Anti-Slavery Collection

Reminiscences of old Fort Wayne - Fairbank, Carolyn Randall, title page has date (1906) of original edition

Reminiscences of old Fort Wayne - Woodworth, Lura Case

Report of Charles Mulford Robinson for Fort Wayne civic improvement association (1910) - Robinson, Charles Mulford, 1869-1917

Report of the commission on taxation to the governor, 1916 - Indiana. Commission on Taxation

Robert M. & Martha A. (Archer) Stewart family bible : containing surnames Archer, Gibford, Holverstott, McCulloch, Rodgers, Stewart, Wilson, in possession of the First Christian Church, 4800 S. Calhoun St., Fort Wayne, IN

Robison Park, 1896-1919 - Bates, Roy Monroe, Reprinted from Old Fort news, v. 29, no. 2-3, June-Sept. 1956 by permission of the Allen County-Fort Wayne Historical Society

Bessie Pearl (Miller) Shaner : b 12 Oct 1890, d 26 Sep 1954 - Fleetwood, Clarence Leroy, 1919-

The silver question, an address ... - Taylor, Robert S, DELIVERED AT FORT WAYNE, IND., AUGUST 6, 1896, BEFORE THE SOLDIERS' SONS AND CITIZENS' REPUBLICAN CLUB.

A sketch of early Fort Wayne - Robertson, Robert Stoddart, 1839-1936, originally published in the Fort Wayne Daily Gazette in August, 1879

Society of Art (1898-1899) - Fort Wayne Society of Art

Souvenir of Fort Wayne

Souvenir book of Indiana State Firemen's Association convention held at Fort Wayne, August 10, 11, 12, 1920 - Indiana State Firemen's Association

Specifications of work and materials required in the erection and completion of a new county court house, heating, lighting and power plant and tunnel in the City of Fort Wayne, Allen County, Indiana - Allen County (Ind.). Board of Commissioners, Author on cover: Clarence W. Edsall

Spitzer descendants of Hans Bartholomeaus Spitzer (Summer 2008) - Chatham, George (George Marion), 1948-, Includes index, printed Fort Wayne, Indiana

Stevens family bible : now belonging to Linda Handlin, Fort Wayne, Indiana

Stories about the history of Poe : Allen County, Indiana, on the letterhead of Fort Wayne chapter, Order of DeMolay

Streets of Fort Wayne McCoy, Angus Cameron, from "a speech before the Quest Club, November 30, 1945," prepared by the staff of the Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

Thurston's route book from Philadelphia to Chicago. Via Pennsylvania central railroad and Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago railway (1863)

Transitalk (Volume 5 no.1-6, 6 no. 1-6) - Fort Wayne Transit, Inc

A traveler's impression of Indiana in 1851 (1954) - Beste, John Richard Digby, 1806-1885

Treasures : the Tri-State Loan & Trust co - Tri-State Loan & Trust co. (Fort Wayne, Ind.)

The Twining family (1905) - Twining, Thomas J. (Thomas Jefferson), b. 1851, comp, printed at Fort Wayne, Indiana

Valley of the upper Maumee River, with historical account of Allen County and the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana (Volume 1)

Valley of the upper Maumee River, with historical account of Allen County and the city of Fort Wayne, Indiana (Volume 2)

The veterinary compendium; a compendium of practical and useful information. A treatise on the diseases, symptoms and remedies of live stock (1902) - Van Ame, Wales E, printed in Fort Wayne, Indiana

The veterinary obstetrical compendium : for the farmer and breeder of livestock (1903) - Van Ame, Wales E, "Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1903, by Wales E. Van Ame ..."

The Wabash-Erie Canal : Fort Wayne on the old canal - Public Library of Fort Wayne and Allen County

War work of the Fort Wayne chapter of the American Red Cross (1919) - Taylor, Isabella Houghton, Mrs

Major-General Anthony Wayne and the Pennsylvania line in the Continental Army (1893)The Woman's Reading Club 1891-1896

Wildwood homes : being a collection of houses and details with suggestions for the home builder (1912) - Wildwood Builders Co, Cover title: A book of Wildwood plans

Wing & Mahurin, architects, Fort Wayne, Ind 1896 - Wing & Mahurin

William Henry Harrison, protector of Fort Wayne - Potterf, Rex M

The Zollner Piston story (1995) - Nelson, Rodger R, Includes bibliographical references, Fort Wayne's Professional Basketball team became the Detroit Piston's of the NBA - National Basketball Association

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