Lake Maxinkuckee Its Intrigue History & Genealogy Culver, Marshall, Indiana

Schools and civic Societies  



Culver is abreast with any town of its size in the matter of schools and civic societies. At this particular time the school building is not a very creditable structure, but the present building has done the work of an educational center for the town and township for many years. in a very short time there will be one of the finest buildings in the state. the Masonic order and the order of Kinghts of Pythias are spledidly represented by lodges.C


The Grand Army of the Republic

Henry Speyer Post, No 489, the muster of which occured several years since, is in good working order, and well sustains the prestige of the union army of 1861 and 1865. the post bears the name of Henry Speyer, captain in the Twenty-third Voulnteer infrantry. The roll of honor for the territory of the Speyer post is a long one.


There are 23 names on the roll, of which the following, without disparagement to the remainder, may be written are:
    Jacob Koontz, Fifteenth Indiana battery, lights artillery; Andrew H. Korp, company K, twenty-ninth Indiana Volunterr infantry, second lieutenant;
    John Buswell, company D, One hundred and Sevenand Seventy-eight Ohio Volunteer infantry;
    William Zechiel
    and Edward Grubb.

This publication has been favoired with the records of the following comrades, viz.: