Formed out of Henry and Putnam Counties in 1827 -- named for Major Joseph Hamilton Daveiss who commanded The Dragoons of The Indiana Militia at The Battle of Tippecanoe in 1811 -- General Ullysses S. Grant lived in Galena as did British-born Edward Dickinson Baker, the only sitting US Senator to die in battle in the US Civil War
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