Editing Marshall County, Indiana (section)

==History==
The Indiana State Legislature passed an omnibus county bill<ref>[https://archive.org/details/standardhistoryo01tynd/page/286/mode/2up John W Tyndall & OE Lesh, ''Standard history of Adams and Wells Counties, Indiana''. pp. 284-6 (accessed 9 August 2020)]</ref> on February 7, 1835, that authorized the creation of thirteen counties in northeast Indiana, including Marshall.<ref>The counties are Dekalb, Fulton, Jasper, Jay, Kosciusko, Marshall, Newton, Porter, Pulaski, Stark, Steuben, Wells, and Whitley. Newton County was merged with Jasper County in 1839, and was re-authorized as a separate county in 1859.</ref> It was named for [[Chief Justice of the United States|U.S. Chief Justice]] [[John Marshall]], who died in 1835.<ref>{{Cite book |last=De Witt Clinton Goodrich & Charles Richard Tuttle |url=https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog |title=An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana |publisher=R. S. Peale & co. |year=1875 |location=Indiana |pages=[https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog/page/n569 567]}}</ref> The government of the county was organized in 1836, during the early years of settlement and before the forced [[Indian removal|removal]] of the [[Potawatomi people]] in 1838. The first settlers had arrived in the county in 1835; they arrived as a result of the end of the [[Black Hawk War]] as well as the completion of the [[Erie Canal]]. They consisted primarily of settlers from [[New England]], "[[Yankee]]s" descended from the [[English people|English]] [[Puritans]] who settled [[New England]] in the colonial era. They were mainly members of the [[Congregational church|Congregational Church]], although due to the [[Second Great Awakening]] many of them had converted to [[Methodism]] and some had become [[Baptists]] before migrating to the new area. As a result of this heritage, some place names in Marshall County are named after places in [[New England]], such as [[Plymouth, Indiana|Plymouth]], which is named after [[Plymouth, Massachusetts]], the site where the ''[[Mayflower]]'' landed in 1620.<ref>McDonald, Daniel. ''A Twentieth Century History of Marshall County, Indiana'' (Vol. 1)</ref>