Township History

Township History

Clippings and records from Cedar Creek Township’s past, reproduced from the original sources, with transcriptions.

• December 19, 1911
  Good Roads Movement in Cedar Creek TownshipThe Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. A proposed seventeen-mile system of stone roads centered on Leo, with a map of the township’s highways.
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• October 18, 1913
  Leo Saloon Man Is Kept in Business by Petitions Signed by Residents of Cedar Creek TownshipThe Fort Wayne News and Sentinel. A profile of Peter Gerber, Leo’s only saloonkeeper, whom even the township’s dry faction asked to stay in business — with a photograph of his place.
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• August 30, 1916
  Cedar Creek Township Remains “Wet”The Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. A local-option election keeps the township’s two saloons, at Leo and Grabill, by a narrow margin; the Leo W.C.T.U. (Woman’s Christian Temperance Union) works the polls from six in the morning.
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• August 20, 1917
  Exchanging Yarns of Yesterday on Cedar Creek Township FarmThe Fort Wayne Journal-Gazette. Three of the township’s oldest settlers — Henry Disler and the brothers Dr. John L. and Harrison Kryder — photographed at a reunion on the Kryder farm.
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