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Dubois County ( ) is a county located in the U.S. state of Indiana. As of 2010, the population was 41,889.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Dubois County QuickFacts )〕 The county seat is Jasper.〔(【引用サイトリンク】accessdate=2011-06-07 )〕 Dubois County is part of the Jasper Micropolitan Statistical Area. ==History== Dubois County was formed on December 20, 1818, from Orange, Pike and Perry counties. It is named for Toussaint Dubois, a Frenchman who fought in the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Tippecanoe and the War of 1812. DuBois was a merchant who lived mainly in Vincennes. He drowned in 1816 while crossing the Little Wabash River near Lawrenceville, Illinois. In 1818, as many as half of the residents of the county died of milk sickness.〔()〕 There is one view that the mother of Abraham Lincoln, Nancy Hanks Lincoln died of this disease at that time.〔("Abraham Lincoln Research Site" ), Roger J. Norton Website, accessed 1 July 2011〕 It was caused by settlers drinking the milk or eating the meat of cows that had eaten the white snakeroot. The plant contains the potent toxin temetrol, which is passed through the milk. The migrants from the East were unfamiliar with the Midwestern plant and its effects.〔(Walter J. Daly, "'The Slows', The Torment of Milk Sickness on the Midwest Frontier" ), ''Indiana Magazine of History'', Vol. 102, No. 1, March 2006〕 Dubois County switched to the Central Time Zone on April 2, 2006, and returned to the Eastern Time Zone on November 4, 2007; both changes were controversial.〔http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070921/LOCAL/709210491/-1/LOCAL17〕〔(DOT Moves Five Indiana Counties from Central to Eastern Time )〕 The original county seat was Portersville. In 1830 the county seat was moved south to Jasper. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Dubois County, Indiana」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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