Notizen zu dieser Person
sailed Havre de Grace - New Orleans, 1 Apr 1860 [wrong date?]
naturalization 22 Sep 1860
John C Dinkenlake, 25, Wirtenberg
(www.harrisoncountygenealogy.com)
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1860 in Bradford, Harrison, Indiana
John C Dinkelake, 24, cooper, b Baden
Joan, 28, b Indiana
Louisa J Sears, 8, b Indiana
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U.S. Civil War Soldiers, 1861-1865
about John C. Dinkelager
Name: John C. Dinkelager
Side: Union
Regiment State/Origin: Indiana
Regiment Name: 13 Indiana Cavalry.
Regiment Name Expanded: 13th Regiment, Indiana Cavalry
Company: E
Rank In: Private
Rank In Expanded: Private
Rank Out: Private
Rank Out Expanded: Private
Film Number: M540 roll 19
U.S. Civil War Soldier Records and Profiles
about John C Dinkelager
Name: John C Dinkelager
Residence: Bradford, Indiana
Enlistment Date: 4 Feb 1864
Rank at enlistment: Private
State Served: Indiana
Survived the War?: Yes
Service Record: Enlisted in Company E, Indiana 13th Cavalry Regiment on 02 Apr 1864.
Mustered out on 18 Nov 1865 at Vicksburg, MS.
Sources: Report of the Adjutant General of the State of Indiana
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1870 in Blue River, Harrison, Indiana
John Denklaker, 37, farmer, b Wuerttemberg
Jona, 40, b Indiana
Anna C, 8, b Indiana
Nancy C, 7, b Indiana
John E, 3, b Indiana
Ida May, 1, b Indiana
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Birth: 1833
Death: unknown
Husband of Joanna (Ware) Dinkelaker (1831-1912). Served in the Civil War with Company E of the 13th Indiana Cavalry.
The following is a story involving John Christopher [sic] (Chris) Dinkelaker.
Beginning in 1880, the epoch of white capping took a fateful turn in the county. Until this period, chastisements had taken the form of warnings and whippings but with the arrest of Henry Long in April 1880, a sensational incident in Harrison County history began.
The case against Long began when Long, a distrusted, self made lawyer, was jailed for the murder of Chris Dinklocker who had disappeared. It was a known fact that Long and Dinklocker were rivals. The trial began on April 27, 1880 and was a county wide spectacle involving many witnesses to the alleged murder and many spectators. Long decided to represent himself, feeling that the entire episode was staged to arrest and disarm him. He arranged for his wife to smuggle a pistol to him in jail. During the trial one hundred hooded men rode up and rushed the courtroom in an attempt to seize Long. He grabbed the smuggled pistol and killed one of the white caps and escaped in a hail of gunfire. He was later found dead of a head wound. Several men were indicted for Long's murder but only one was jailed for non-payment of a sixty dollar fine. After the murder of Long the supposedly murdered Chris Dinklocker surfaced. He reported that he had "been out of the county." The first death in the county attributed to the white caps had occurred.
Burial:
Mount Tabor Church of Christ Cemetery
Depauw
Harrison County
Indiana, USA
Created by: Todd McKinney
Record added: Jan 23, 2008
Find A Grave Memorial# 24134035
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THE "WHITE CAPS"
In 1873 there came into existence a secret organization known as the "Harrison County Regulators", a society which had signs, grips, passwords and binding obligations. The name "White Caps" was suggested by the white hoods worn by them as a disguise. Each council had two officers a captain and a lieutenant, and their place of meeting was in some sequested spot at midnight. At these meetings they heard reports from committees of investigation and decided on the punishment for alleged misdemeanors. The members were then provided with strong hickory switches, and upon command of the captain the company galloped away on its mission of vindicating the offended law.
Within the next few years over twenty cases of White Capping occured. The number of lashed given was usually fifty but sometimes as many as seventy-five were given. It was useless to appeal to the courts for nothing could ever be proved against the accused Regulators.
The first sacrifice of life in these hazardous White Cap operations was in Blue River township on the night of April twenty-sixth, 1880. Henry Long was termed a "jack leg lawyer" and accused of stirring up strife in the neighborhood. He was a man of well known courage and they resorted to a ruse to avert danger to themselves. They had him arrested on a trumped up charge and the trial set at night with a long array of witnesses to prolong it until a late hour.
The trial was proceeding before Squire Archibald Boston when the Regulators appeared. Long had been disarmed but a friend had managed to slip him a revolver. He sprang to the door and shot the first masked man who entered. He lived but a short time and proved to be Louis Henriott, a leading citizen in the township. After the first shot the revolver failed to work or he would no doubt have succeeded in selling his life more dearly. Almost miraculously he escaped the mob, not however, before receiving a shot in the head that resulted in his death a few days later.
http://www.harrisoncountygenealogy.com/
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New Albany Daily Ledger Standard 28 Apr 1880 p4 c2:
The Terrible Tragedy! The Fearful Work of a Masked Vigilance Committee and Their Leader, Louis Henriotte, Shot. Harrrison County Horror. Henry Long, a Native of This City, Shot, but He Still Lives and is Game to the Last. Remarkable Resistance. Of Long and His Desperate Daring Under Dangerous Circumstances. Long’s Family Warned to Leave. And Some of the Neighbors Notifed Likewise Under Penalty of Hanging and Houseburning.. . . . [long article]
(contributed by Sue Carpenter)
http://genealogytrails.com/ind/harrison/newsarticles.html
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New Albany Daily Ledger Standard 1 May 1880 p4 c4:
Harrison County’s Horror! Henry Long Died this Forenoon, and He Made a Dying Statement; Trouble Threatened. And another Mob will More than Likely Enact Other Devilish Deeds. . . [long article]
(contributed by Sue Carpenter)
http://genealogytrails.com/ind/harrison/newsarticles.html
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ST. PAUL, Daily Globe,
WEDNESDAY MORNING, APRIL 28, 1880.
KU-KLUX IN INDIANA.
Rival Parties Raiding the Country-
Farmers Driven Away From Their
Homes— Several Murders Reported,
Louisville, Ky., April 27.— This evening,
a farmer, living near Hancock's Chapel, Har-
rison county, Indiana, arrived at New Albany,
and gave indefinite particulars of a tragedy
which occurred in that vicinity, Monday. It
seems Blue River township, in which Hancock's
Chapel is situated, has been excited of late
by frequent acts of outlawry practiced by
bummers, and a vigilance committee was
formed. He gives the particulars of the killing
of a young man named Otland, and the putting
away of one Henry Lang, formerly of New Al
bany. A correspondent from the same place,
writing to the Courier- Journal, under
date of April 25th, says there
is a Long gang and Berry gang in the vicinity,
each trying to outdo the other, taking posses
sion of farms, removing tenants and switching
those who oppose them. As an instance of this
the correspondent says: A gang of outlaws
went to the residence of William Lockhart a
few days ago, forced an entrance into
the house by battering down the
door with a fence rail in broad daylight.
Lockhart having barred the door with an iron
bar. The vigilants, after getting posession,
sent for teams and removed the personal effects
of Lockhart to another place and took
possession of his farm, notwithstand
ing he had planted several acres of
wheat and corn. A number of similar
outrages have been perpetrated in the vicinity.
This may give an idea of the way things are
going on in Blue River township, Harrison
county, and as might be expected, something
serious must result therefrom. A gentleman
who came in this evening says the vigilance
committee got after Henry Long, a desperado,
while he was on trial at a justice's office
on the charge of barn burning.
Long shot and killed one Henry
Ott,[actually Louis Theodore Henriott, b. 1852]
a vigilant, and, together with a compan
ion, escaped, but it is presumed he was over
taken by vigilants and either shot or hung, as
nothing had been heard from him up to the
time of the narrator's departure.
http://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov/search/pages/
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MURDERED BY A MOB
Cincinnati, May 2. - A special dispatch from New-Albany, Ind., to the Gazette says:
" Henry Long, who was fatally shot by a mob at Esquire Boston's office, Blue River
Township, Harrison County, last Tuesday, was buried this afternoon.
He made a dying statement naming his murderer and 11 others in the mob, all of
whom will be arrested."
The New York Times
Published: May 3, 1880
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photo of gravestone : findagrave.com (John Christopher Dinkelaker)
photo of Henry Long, various other gravestones :
ancestry.com, Public Family Trees (Johann Christian Dinkelacker)
Karl
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