An older variant name of the village was Sumanville.[5] It was originally laid out in 1873[6] by Isaac C. B. Suman (1831-1911), who had served during the Civil War as Colonel and commander of the 9th Indiana Infantry Regiment. A post office was established and operated until 1894.[7] A justice of the peace sat at Sumanville.[8] A nation-wide medical register and directory from 1886 reported the town's population as two-hundred.[9]
^"Sumanville". March 26, 1991. p. 79 – via newspapers.com.
^Counties of Porter and Lake Indiana(PDF), F.A. Battey and Co., 1882, p. 203, Sumanville is a very small ville in the southwestern part of the township on the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad. A post office was established here about nine years ago, with Col. I. C. B. Suman as Postmaster. He held the office until about two years since, when Robert S. Greer took it, and still keeps it. A Mr. Jones established a store here when the railroad was built, but kept open only four or five months. Another store was started here in 1881, but was closed in about four months.
