Maps by Noble

 Indiana American Apr 04, 1856

The UNDERSIGNED proposes to furnish to all subscribers, a complete map of the County, on the plan of that of Marion County, Ind., got up by Condit, Wright & Hayden, and now in the Auditor's office in the Court House at Brookville.

It will show at one view the names of every person in the county owning land, the public roads, Canal, churches, schoolhouses, mills, etc. 

This map will be valuable to every resident and a guide to any wishing to find any point within the County. Subscriptions are earnestly solicited and as soon as a sufficient number shall subscribe, the work will be commenced and prosecuted with vigor. 

I can be found at the Valley House, Brookville, and will be pleased to furnish all information. I hope all my old friends, of days long past, will solicit and send me subscribers. The price will be Five Dollars, on delivery.

Subscription lists will be left at all the towns and public places.

March 14 -- JAMES NOBLE

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Notes: No idea if this James Noble is related to the senator, the brother or some other Noble who might have come from Brookville. Valley House = elegant hotel in Brookville built around this time by a German immigrant named Peter Schaf. (NOT MANY PEOPLE KNOW THIS.)

<----------- James Noble, the senator in the first years of statehood, lived 1785-1831. His brother Noah was governor and was in charge when the state went broke as part of the Panic of 1837. Noah married his cousin and his offspring were the product of that. I doubt this James is one of them.

James Noble in this piece was a merchant in Brookville in the 1850s, Sen. Noble's son, also James, was a longtime officer in the U.S. Navy and it's possible this is the same man.