Editing Howard County, Indiana (section)

==History==
This county was organized in 1844. It was first known as Richardville County. Its first name honored [[Jean Baptiste Richardville]], a chief of the [[Miami tribe|Miami]].<ref>{{cite news|title=A Look Back as We Move Forward |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/867261/history_of_howard_county_indiana/|newspaper=The Kokomo Tribune|date=March 28, 1999|page=58|via = [[Newspapers.com]]|access-date = August 16, 2014 }} {{Open access}}</ref> Richardville's name was ''[[Pe-che-wa]]'', which translates to “Wildcat”, hence [[Wildcat Creek (Indiana)|Wildcat Creek]].

In 1846, the name was changed to Howard County, in honor of Gen. [[Tilghman Howard]], [[U.S. Representative]] from Indiana, who died in 1844.<ref>{{cite book|author=De Witt Clinton Goodrich & Charles Richard Tuttle|publisher=R. S. Peale & Co.|year=1875|location=Indiana|title=An Illustrated History of the State of Indiana|url=https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog| pages=[https://archive.org/details/anillustratedhi02tuttgoog/page/n589 577]}}</ref><ref>{{cite book | url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ | title=The Origin of Certain Place Names in the United States | publisher=Govt. Print. Off. | author=Gannett, Henry | year=1905 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_9V1IAAAAMAAJ/page/n161 162]}}</ref>