James Noble Tyner was a lawyer, U.S. Representative and U.S. Postmaster General from Indiana. Tyner was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives in 1869, serving three terms until 1875. While in the House, Tyner opposed granting railroad subsidies, promoted gradual western industrial expansion, and spoke out against Congressional franking privilege. In 1873, Tyner voted for the controversial Salary Grab Act that raised congressional pay, which prevented him from getting the fourth-term Republican Congressional nomination. President Ulysses S. Grant appointed Tyner Second Assistant Postmaster General in 1875 then U.S. Postmaster General in 1876 serving until 1877. Tyner served as Assistant Postmaster General under President Rutherford B. Hayes until 1881. In October 1881 Tyner was forced to resign his Assistant Postmaster General position by President Chester A. Arthur, for his assumed knowledge of Star Route postal frauds and for giving his son, whom Tyner had appointed Superintendent of the Chicago Post Office, a $1,000 salary increase. Afterwards, Tyner served as Assistant Attorney to the U.S. Post Office Department from 1889 to 1893 and from 1897 to 1903. Tyner was forced to resign his office of Assistant Attorney by Postmaster General Henry C. Payne in April 1903, whereupon under investigation Tyner was indicted and put on trial for fraud and bribery charges. Tyner was acquitted of all charges for lack of evidence after his family controversially removed pertinent papers from his office safe. In poor health, Tyner died the following year. After a brief biographical article of Tyner in 1906, modern historical research on his life and career has been limited. Initially coming into Washington as a mid west Representative and reformer, Tyner's political career would be associated by controversy and scandal. He was the last surviving Grant cabinet who served in federal office into the 20th Century. Tyner, an expert in the Postal Service, was appointed and served as a delegate to the International Postal Congresses in 1878 and 1897, having the confidence of Republican Presidents Rutherford B. Hayes and William McKinley.
The Eel River is a 94-mile-long (151 km) tributary of the Wabash River in northern Indiana in the United States. Via the Wabash and Ohio rivers, its waters flow to the Mississippi River and ultimately the Gulf of Mexico. The Eel River rises southeast of Huntertown in Allen County and flows southwest through Allen, Whitley, Kosciusko, Wabash, Miami, and Cass counties to join the Wabash at Logansport. The river was called Kineepikwameekwa Siipiiwi - "river of the snake fish" by the Miami people, who inhabited the area at the time of European contact, the English rendered it as Ke-na-po-co-mo-co. It is the northern of the two rivers named Eel River within Indiana.
Sevastopol is an unincorporated community in Franklin Township, Kosciusko County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Alfred Bult Mullett was a British-American architect who served from 1866 to 1874 as Supervising Architect, head of the agency of the United States Treasury Department that designed federal government buildings. His work followed trends in Victorian style, evolving from the Greek Revival to Second Empire to Richardsonian Romanesque.
Riverside is a small unincorporated community on the border of Davis Township and Logan Township in Fountain County, Indiana, United States.
Fountain is an unincorporated community in Shawnee Township, Fountain County, Indiana, United States. The Wabash and Erie Canal formerly passed through the community.
Palestine is an unincorporated community in Harrison Township, Kosciusko County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Rob Roy is an unincorporated community in Shawnee Township, Fountain County, Indiana.
Atwood is an unincorporated community in Prairie Township, Kosciusko County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Wooster, formerly known as Kosciusko, is an unincorporated community in Washington Township, Kosciusko County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Browns Valley is an unincorporated community in Brown Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Mace is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Walnut Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Parkersburg is an unincorporated community in Scott Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Shannondale is an unincorporated community in Montgomery and Boone counties, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Wesley is an unincorporated community in Wayne Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Walsh is an unincorporated community located in the town of Porterfield, in Marinette County, Wisconsin, United States.
Bayless W. Hanna was an American lawyer, politician, and diplomat who served as the Indiana Attorney General, the U.S. Minister to Iran, and the U.S. Minister to Argentina.
Packerton is an unincorporated community in Clay Township, Kosciusko County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Beckville is an unincorporated community in Walnut Township, Montgomery County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
Kinsey is an unincorporated community in Jackson Township, Kosciusko County, in the U.S. state of Indiana.
