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Immediately on landing, he went to Centerville, Indiana, where a sister had for some time resided. There he rented a farm for a time, but later opened a grocery on the Pike. The children attended school and assisted in the store and on the farm.
Nearby resided a wealthy farmer, who owned a farm on what was known as Saylor Bottoms, north of Des Moines. He made a proposition to Garton to go there and operate the farm, which was accepted, and in October, 1856, Garton, with his brother-in-law, Anthony Tilley, well known in Des Moines in the early days, and their families, started for Saylor Bottoms with two two-horse wag- ons, two one-horse wagons loaded with the usnal outfit of elothing, bedding, housekeeping articles and a coop of chickens "on behind." The route was through Indianapolis, Bloomington, and Burlington. Illinois was a trackless prairie, not a house was seen. At Bloom- ington, they had to buy water for their horses, a severe dronth
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having dried up all the sources of water supply, and water was at a premium.
They arrived at the farm late in the month, and found a renter in possession, with the right thereto until March. Their only resort was an unoccupied log cabin with two rooms. Each family took one room. Poles were ent, and a lean-to, with thatched roof. for sheltering the horses was attached to the cabin, and preparation inade to pass the Winter. Flour was sixteen dollars a barrel, and Garton ofteu said that had it not been for wild turkeys and prairie chickens which they shot, they would have starved. Tilley being a butcher, bought eattle, killed them, sold the eareasses in Des Moines, and with the proceeds purchased provisions for the families in a very limited way.
The next year came a big flood, in July, wheat and oats in the shock floated off down the river, and the corn was ruined. They therefore abandoned the bottoms, and rented land where the Dan- ish College, Children's Home, and D. H. Kooker's residence now are, north of U'nion Park, and began farming again. They lived in a log cabin which stood where is now the pavilion at Union Park. During the Winter, the boys and girls attended the Alfred Harris School, three and a half miles distant, walking it every day. Sub- sequently, Sammel, and an older brother, William T., supplemented their education with a course in the business college of C. B. Worth- ington and J. W. Muffly, the first school of the kind in Des Moines.
In the early Sixties, Father Garton, as he was usually ealled, purchased an interest in the Carlisle flour mill, and, with his fan- ily, went into the milling business, where he remained several years, when his taste for farming induced him to purchase forty acres near Avon, and, with Samuel, turned over the wild prairie, fenced it, and put it under cultivation.
William T. also left the milling business and learned that of making bread and cakes, and early in the Spring of 1865 rented a small, one-story frame building of "Billy" Moore, and opened a bakery. It was on Walnut Street, at the southeast corner of Fourth, "Billy" having the year before moved his Hoosier Store np from Second Street. The bakery was on the third lot from the corner, next east of "Billy's" store, a two-story frame; next east, on the
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alley, where Kurtz's store now is, was "Billy's" residence, a small, two-story frame. On the opposite corner north, the Lairds had a grocery. On the northwest corner, where the Valley National Bank now is, Anthony Tilley opened a butcher shop in a log cabin, and Harry Stephenson, who owned the corner, had his residence in the rear and west from the cabin. On the southwest corner was the old Savery House, now Kirkwood. In 1867, William T. leased ground of Judge Casady and built a two-story frame on the second lot west from the hotel (the lot next to the alley being occupied by Mrs. O'Toole, a milliner, in a one-story frame), moved his bakery into it, and, with his wife, lived on the upper floor. Next westward was W. A. Galbraith's grain and feed store, next Martin Tuttle's grocery, and on the corner Weaver & Maish's drug store, all in two- story frame buildings, trade then having only just begun its move- ment west of Fourth Street.
In 1869, Samuel quit farming aud joined his brother, Willian T. In 1873, they opened a branch on the northwest corner of East Fifth and Locust streets, in a two-story frame building, and Sam. became the manager.
When the big fire occurred in Chicago, in 1871, and a ery went out for help, John J. Williams offered to furnish the Gartons all the flour they could make into bread, and four men worked two days and nights making bread, which was carried free to Chicago by the Rock Island Road.
In 1876, the partnership having been dissolved, Samuel leased the ground at Three Hundred and Thirty-one East Locust, built a two-story frame thereon, moved his bakery there, and lived in the upper story. In 1882, a boom having struck the East Side, he bought the ground at Five Hundred and Twenty-three East Locust, and built the brick building in which he still has his bakery and lunch room. He then built a three-story brick at Three Hundred and Thirty-one East Locust, in which is now Graber's dry goods store.
There is not now a merchant in business on the East Side who was there when he commenced business, and in all those years his store has been open for business six days in the week, and has received his personal attention.
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Politically, he is a Republican, though his father was a Demo- crat until the Civil War came. He gives little attention to the game of politics, and in local affairs votes for the man deemed best fitted for the place.
Socially, he is affable, of sanguine-lymphatic temperament, somewhat stubborn in opinion, takes little interest in society fads, is a zealous supporter of schools, churches and industrial affairs, public-spirited and highly esteemed for uprightness and integrity. He is not a member of any clubs or societies except the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He contributed liberally to the fund which purchased and presented to the State Agricultural Society the grounds for the State Fair, and also to the fund for building the first iron bridge at Locust Street.
Religiously, he is a Baptist and an enthusiastic member of Cal- vary Church. He is the church Treasurer, and financed the build- ing of the edifice dedicated June Twenty-fifth, 1905, free of debt. For twenty years, he has been a church Deacon.
December Twenty-second, 1907.
CALVIN THORNTON
T HE early events of Polk County were very frequently pune- tured with the doings of Calvin Thornton. Born January Seventh, 1830, in Vermillion County, Illinois, of Scotch- Irish ancestry on his father's side, and English on that of his mother, he passed his boyhood days on the farm of his father, and helped his mother with her weaving by doing the spooling and quill- ing. His education was a tussle between his animal propensity for sport and book learning. I asked him about it, and he replied, rather facetiously: "The most schooling I got was learning to play what was called 'Townball,' 'Bullpen,' and other games. To be sure, we had a log schoolhouse, with puncheon floor, and slabs for seats. In the Summer, the teacher would lie down on one of the slabs, go to sleep, and either fall off aceidentally, or with the assistance of some passing pupil, but in the Winter, there were boys as large as the teacher, and you bet they kept him awake."
Calvin, however, secured an education sufficient to fit him for successful business, and when seventeen years old, he concluded he could do better than living on a farm- that he would learn a trade. ITis father attempted to dissuade him, telling him that it was his intention to give each of his children a farm or set them up in busi- ness; that if he left his home, he would get no farm, and no start in business from him.
Despite the wishes of his father, he apprenticed himself for thirty months to learn the trade of cabinet-maker. At the end of the first year of his apprenticeship, in 1848, he got a ticket-of-leave to visit his father, who had removed to Polk County. His visit completed, he returned and served the remainder of his apprentice- ship. In September, 1850, he returned to Fort Des Moines, in a prairie schooner, stopping at "Uncle Tommy" Mitchell's tavern to take a rest and be ready to wrestle with Skunk River bottoms. He forded Des Moines River between Grand Avenue and Walnut
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Street, and landed on the West Side with a good suit of clothes and but a few dollars in his pocket. He at once began work at his trade, but soon after rented the small frame shop and tools of John Reich- neeker, which was on the west side of Fourth Street, where the Munger Hotel now is, and, with resolute spirit, took up the bur- den of life, often being reminded of the "no farm" decree of his father, which was faithfully kept, and which he later in life often said was a real benefit, for it forced him to rely upon his own resources.
One of his earliest customers was Elder J. A. Nash, whose first wife died of Consumption, and he had Calvin make the coffin- there were no burial caskets in those days. The Elder visited the shop several times, desirons that the coffin should be good and strong, as her father might decide to send the body East, and he wanted it safe for the journey. The incident ripened into a firm and lasting friendship between the two.
One day, when standing in the door of his shop, he saw some rabbits frisking about in the grubs where Brinsmaid's store is, and, taking his gun from the rack, shot one of them.
At another time, he, Hoyt Sherman and some other fellows went. up on the bluff in the timber and dense underbrush where the Victoria Hotel is now, to hunt for wild phuns. They got lost, and wandered about some time before they got their bearings and found their way out.
In January, 1851, having reached his majority, he decided to invest in farm land. Judge Casady entered forty acres for him with a military land warrant, which was paid for mostly in furni- ture. Every dollar he could spare from his business he invested in additions to his forty aeres, until he had acquired two hundred and forty aeres.
In April, 1851, he was elected Clerk of Delaware Township, and soon after Township Assessor, Director of the School Distriet, and President of the School Board, and held one or more of those offices so long as he lived in the township. In 1834, he married, built a house, and went to farming.
In 1857, Douglas Township was carved out of Delaware Town- ship, and Calvin was appointed by the County Court to organize
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the township for election, revenue and judicial purposes. He was elected the first Justice of the Peace iu the township, and held the place so long as he resided there. He was also a School Director. A few years later, his father-in-law died, leaving a farm which he entered in the Government Land Office in 1848, and which is now the State Fair Grounds. Calvin sold his farm, settled with the heirs of his father-in-law, took possession of the farm, and lived thereon until he sold it to the State Agricultural Society, in 1886.
In October, 1862, he was elected a member of the Board of County Supervisors, to represent Douglas Township, and reelected in 1864. During the war period, the Board was an active and busy body, for the demands of families of the men who were in the army were numerous and imperative, requiring almost daily sessions. It was an intelligent, patriotic body, and the soldier boys from Polk County and their families were cared for with fidelity and liberality.
When the second Court House was built, bonds of the county were issued in 1859 to raise funds therefor. A large number of the bonds were sold to Clarke, Dodge & Company, New York. At the January meeting of the County Supervisors, they put them- selves on record, to-wit :
"WHEREAS, It is believed that a large share of the bonds known as Court House Bonds are owned by parties in rebellion against the Government; therefore,
"Resolved. That the Treasurer is hereby instructed not to pay interest on said bonds unless he is well satisfied that the owners are truly loyal."
April Third, 1865, the Board was in session when the report. came of the surrender of Lee's army, whereupon it was imme- diately
"Resolved. That the Clerk of the Board is hereby authorized to illuminate the Court House at the county's expense this night, in honor of the capture of Richmond by the armies of the Republic of the United States.
"Resolved, That the Clerk be and is hereby authorized to have thirty-six guns fired this evening in honor of the recent victories of the Union army near Richmond."
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Captain Harry Griffith, Clerk of the Board, who had served two years as Commander of the First Iowa Battery in the field, on hearing the resolution read, leaped to his feet, called Pete. Myers to take his place, and, before the Board had adjourned, he had a twelve-pounder belehing fire, smoke and noise down at 'Coon Point. His thirty-six guns were supplemented with one hundred more ordered by the state. The whole town was wild with exuberant cheering.
In 1869, the county was infested with horse thieves and perpe- trators of other robberies among the settlers. The Vigilance Con- mittee of Allen and Four Mile townships determined to put an end to it, within their jurisdiction at least. Suspicion fastened upon "Jaek" Hiner as one of the gang, and he was brought before Esquire Prentice, an old settler, a few miles cast of the Capitol. Hiram Y. Smith, a young lawyer, who subsequently became Prose- outing Attorney for the county, and Congressman, appeared as Hiner's attorney. There was a large gathering of farmers present, and considerable excitement. After a long hearing, which lasted until night, the court decided there was not sufficient evidence to hold the defendant, and he was discharged. He was immediately taken in charge by a number of men. Smith's horse was brought up; he was told that his services were no longer required there; that further attempt to save his elient would be futile, and the best thing he could do would be to get back to Des Moines and stay there. The advice was given with emphasis, which received prompt attention. That was the last known of "Jaek" ILiner. What became of him has since been a mystery. Knowing that Calvin was familiar with all that was going on in those days, I asked him not long ago if he knew what became of him, to which he replied :
"The last I heard of 'Jack' Hiner, he got into a deep hole in Des Moines River, between Mrs. Henderson's and Rees Wilkins' place. Of course, I was not there, but some of 'the boys' told me a committee was appointed to take him to jail, but when they got along in that timber on the river bank, he got away from them, and made the highest jump they ever saw a man make-fully as high as their heads-and into the river. Yon certainly know that is a dangerous place to get into on a very dark night. A person is
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likely to find a watery grave, and no one would feel in duty bound to risk their life at such a time in trying to save him. 'Tis sad, 'tis pity, 'tis true. But it was a weak committee, composed of such men as 'Tom' Mattocks, Jarvis Hougham, J. C. Taylor, and some others I might mention not yet dead."
If Calvin's explanation is correct, that committee must have changed their plans, for on the night Hiner disappeared, "Jim" Miller says the sixty feet of rope in the well on his farm, not far from where the committee took charge of Hiner, was taken by a group of men who would not let him get near enough to identify them.
Politically, Calvin is a radical Republican. He was a charter member of the party, in 1853. So popular was he in the party, he was selected as a delegate to nearly every Republican county con- vention during his residence in the county, and so much faith had the people in his business capacity, honesty and integrity, he was elected Justice of the Peace, Director, President and Secretary of a school district, Township Supervisor or Assessor continuously in the several townships of Delaware, Douglas, Lee and Grant, which, by the changes of geographical lines, his farm fell into, from the time he was twenty-one years old until he left the county, in 1886. Some of the time he was Director, President and Secretary of the same school district, until the Legislature prohibited the office of President and Secretary being held by the same person. He was a charter member of the Tippecanoe Club. Ile was a man of affairs in the early days. Socially, he was affable and companionable. He was a firm and active helper of the church and school. Reared as a Quaker, he abjured all fraternal organizations, except the Grangers.
When the Des Moines Plow Company was organized, he became a stockholder, and later President, until it was changed to a barbed wire company. In 1875, the company made a contract to manu- facture and supply the State Grange (Patrons of Husbandry) at redneed price, barbed wire, in opposition to the Washburn, Moen trust. Immediately, a big fight was on in the courts. Calvin was an active participant in the scrimmage from start to finish. There were thirty-one subordinate granges in the county, and Calvin was
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a charter member and Master of Grant Township Grange. He showed the courage of his conviction by affixing his signature to the fifty-thousand-dollar bond which carried the contest to the Uni- ted States Supreme Court and victory. Then he was satisfied.
When the Iowa National Bank was organized, he invested four thousand dollars in its capital stock."
January Fourteenth, 1907.
*He died in Pasadena, California, September Third, 1908.
MRS. L. F. ANDREWS
LORENZO FRANK ANDREWS
A COLLECTION of sketches of the carly settlers and city builders of Des Moines would seem to be incomplete without that of the anthor of them, especially when he was so impor- tant a factor in the upbuilding and in preserving and recording the history of the making of the city, and of the men who made it.
As the person most responsible for his coming to Des Moines, the one who has known him longest and been most intimately con- nected with his earlier years therein, I have been asked by his friends and parties interested in this publication to prepare a sketch concerning him, to be printed in this volume.
IIaving no personal knowledge of his life before coming to the city, I have managed to worry from him, by a close eross examina- tion, the following particulars of his previous career :
He was born in Athol, Worcester County, Massachusetts, March Eighth, 1829, at one o'clock A. M., of Scotch ancestry, running back to Thomas Andrews, of Carlisle, England, A. D. 1286.
His father was an inventor and machinist. It was his custom, when working out his inventions, to devise and make the machinery necessary thereto. He was at one time engaged in an establish- ment which used a vast amount of bolts and nuts, the threading of which was done by hand. He invented a machine which antomat- ically not only did the threading, but made the bolt heads. It was the first machine known of the kind, but, like many inventors, he neglected to get a patent for it, and others made millions from it.
When L. F. was two years old, his parents removed to Brandon, Rutland County, Vermont, where his father assisted Thomas Dav- enport in producing the first electric motor and railway known in the world.
When twelve years old, his parents moved back to Petersham, Massachusetts, near his birthplace.
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Ile attended the common school, and one term in Troy Confer- enee Academy, at Poultney, Vermont, and when sixteen years old, indentured as an apprentice in the office of the Barre ( Massachu- setts) Patriot, and served three years.
In 1850, he came to Kalamazoo, Michigan, and in the office of the Telegraph put in type the call issned for the convention at Jack- son, which organized the National Republican Party. Later, he established the Western Union. a weekly Republiean paper, at Niles, Michigan, which was destroyed by fire. He then established a weekly paper at Girard, Pennsylvania, which he sold, and went to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, and served one year as city editor of the Daily Northwestern. Thenee he went to La Fayette, Indiana, where he was two years assistant editor of the Daily Courier.
December Thirty-first, 1863, he came to Des Moines, and entered the employ of Mills & Company. While employed thus, ten hours a day, he read law, entered the first class of the Iowa Law School, now the Law Department of the State University, gradu- ated in 1866, was admitted to practice in the state and federal eonrts, and December Seventh, 1866, was appointed United States Commissioner for the District of Iowa, by Judge John F. Dillon, of the Federal Court.
On coming to Des Moines, he was the special state correspondent of the Chicago Erening Journal, and to it sent the first press mes- sage over the first wire from Des Moines. He served the Journal nearly thirty years. Ile was also, at times, a special correspondent of the Chicago Tribune. Saint Louis Globe-Democrat, Saint Paul Pioneer Press and New York Tribune.
He was night editor of the Daily Register. under Mills & Com- pany, and when the paper passed to the Clarksons, he became eity editor of the Daily Republican and Daily State Journal. during their brief existence.
May Fifth, 1880, he was elected the first Secretary of the State Board of Health. The following year, the law was changed, requir- ing the Secretary to be a physician, which he was not. He was elected Assistant Secretary, and served eighteen years.
While with the State Board, he prepared and secured the pas- sage of the law regulating the sale and use of kerosene, gasoline,
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and naphtha for illuminating purposes, and also the rules and reg- ulations for illuminating oils used in coal mines, and the making and sale of linseed oil. He also prepared and secured the passage of the law providing for the punishment of those "holding up" railway trains for the purpose of robbery, the first of the kind in the state, as it fixed the offense, if human life was lost thereby, at manslaughter in the first degree.
He also reported for the press proceedings of the Legislature more than twenty years, and was well known throughout the state. It was often said by Legislators and men from different parts of the state who came to Des Moines, that at home, when important news was current of doings at the Capital, and reports were con- flicting, they always waited for the statement of "A." in the Chi- cago Journal, to get the facts and truth.
The Index of Miller's Code of Iowa, prepared by him, has been pronounced the best example of legal indexing ever done in any Iowa publication.
His coming to Des Moines resulted in a disturbance at both ends of the line. The foreman of our printing establishment leav- ing us to embark in business for himself, made it necessary to secure another one. I set about finding the best man for the place that could be had, and after diligent search, and much correspond- ence, he was selected. He was desirous to come West, and the new Capital of Iowa attracted him.
The next morning after his arrival, I was waited on at my resi- dence before breakfast by a committee representing all the printers in the establishment, with a "round robin," signed by the entire force, declaring that they would not go to work under the new fore- man. I informed them that Mr. Andrews had been highly recom- mended to me ; that I proposed to give him a trial ; that anyone who did not want to work under him did not have to, and for them all to appear at the counting-room and get their money, if any was due them ; that I proposed to run my own business a while longer. Every one drew his money, stepped down and out. One apprentice boy came back the same day and went to work, but no one of the others ever had an opportunity to work for the company again. To help me out of the lurch, Lamp. Sherman, Barlow Granger, Will.
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Porter, General William Duane Wilson, and one or two other busi- ness men, formerly printers, came in, tendered their services, took off their coats, rolled up their sleeves, and went to the "case." Inside of a week, many more printers than I could find work for came in from other places and applied for situations. Thus ended the first and only "strike" ever organized among the printers of Des Moines during my more than forty years in the business in the city.
The reason given for the "strike" was the charge that Mr. Andrews, while associate editor and foreman of the Daily Courier, at La Fayette, had put two lady typesetters at work, and the print- ers thereupon struek and "ratted" the office. There was no Typo- graphical I'nion at Des Moines, and this was claimed to be a "sym- pathetic strike." The real animus was, the temporary foreman did not want to be displaced, and had worked up the "strike" on his own account. Mr. Andrews was thus an carly martyr in behalf of "Women's Rights." He remained in our employ for a number of years, in charge of our Book and Job Department, and later was night editor of the Daily Register, doing nmeh editorial work in the meantime, until he was called to a prominent official position at the Capitol.
No man better versed or more skilled in the typographic art ever held a place in an Iowa printery, and as a newspaper man, he was a peer of the best in his special lines. As a statistician, he was only equaled by Win. Il. Fleming. ITis succinct and impartial reports and statements of public proceedings and affairs; his terse and lucid conclusions, made his correspondence sought for by Chi- cago and Iowa journals.
Of late years, he has largely devoted his time and talent in dig- ging out and recording important facts in the early history of the state and eity, their prominent men, and early settlers. In this, he has done a work of great value, and added largely to the general knowledge respecting them. There is a wide-spread desire that he continue in the good work, unearth and record many more facts of historieal importance.
Mr. Andrews' wife is a lady of culture, and a writer of marked ability. She is the founder of the local society of the Daughters of
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the American Revolution (her father being a soldier of the Revo- lutionary War), and of the Sendery Literary Club.
Their son, Frank Mills Andrews, who was a product of the State College at Ames, and later of Cornell University at Ithaca, New York, is a very successful architect of national reputation. Notable specimens of his work may be seen in New York City, Indianapolis, Louisville, Cincinnati, Dayton, the City of Mexico, Mobile, New Orleans, and in the new Capitol of Kentucky.
FRANK M. MILLS.
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Allen, B. F. .
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Crocker, General M. M. II 145
Andrews, L. F. .
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Davis, John M. . II 103
Andrews, Mrs. S. M. . . II 199 Des Moines-What It Means I 275
Andrews, Nathan II 23
Dewey, Col. J. N. I 339
Ayers, W. F. I 269
Dyer, Samuel L.
I 445
Ayers, Guy K. II 73 Entwistle, Edward II
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Baker, General N. B ..
I 377
Fineh, Daniel O.
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43
Bales, Solomon II 585
Finkbine, Robert S. II
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Ball, Mrs. Frances M. II 265
First Things in Des Moines II
123
Barnes, Mrs. Nancy
I 353 Fisher, Mrs. Elizabeth Bales II 266
Bates, Judge Curtis I 421
Fourth of July in Early Days I
93
Beebe, George II 303
Galbraith, Bartrum II 319
Bird, Rev. Thompson I 17
Garton, Samuel B. II 455
Bondurant, A. C.
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Given, John H. . I 391
Brazil, Rev. J. F.
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Godfrey, Col. George II 327
Brooks, Dr. T. K.
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Good, Charles II
281
Brown, Leonard II
29
Graham, Seth II 57
Bryant, Benjamin I 195
Granger, Barlow I 49
Burke, Martin L. II 191 Gray, Samuel
II 425
Burke, L. M.
II 335 Green, Samuel
I 409
Burton, Wiley ('. II 109 Griffith, Col. J. M.
I 97
Bussey, General Cyrus II 153
Griffith, Capt. Isaac W. II 183
C'allanan, James I 253
Grimmel, Dr. F. C.
I 85
Christmas in Early Days . I 387
Harbach, Louis .
I 241
Clarkson, J. S. ("'Ret") I 325
Haines, Rev. Sanford II 443
I 363
Canfield, Elijah 1I
87
Hepburn, Addisou J. II 405
Casady, Mrs. P. M. I 352
Hobaugh, John II 229
Cavanagh, Thomas I 283
Hooker, Col. E. F.
I 429
Christy, William II
289
Hubbell, F. M. II 247
Clapp, Edwin R. I 291
Hull, Dr. A. Y. . I 175
Cole, Judge C. C. II
131
Ingersoll, E. J. . Jewett, George A. II 379
Cooper, Isaac I 141
Jones, A. D. . II 295
Cooper, Mrs. Isaac I 353 Jordan, James C. I 181
Cory, I. M. T.
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Cook, Ira I 415
Ilays, John
Casady, Judge P. M. I 27
Hippee, George M. I 165
Campbell, Dr. James 1 401
Geneser, Francis II 351
Bolton, E. M. II 431
Brandt, Isaac II 35
Given, Judge Josiah H. . II 203
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Keyes, C'alvin W. I 169
Robertson, S. A. I 227
King, Michael Il.
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Sancerman, Samuel I1 209
Kingman, A. S. .
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Savery, James C.
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Lamb, Curtis . . II
43 Saylor, Jehu P. . . II 367
Lehman, William H.
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Saylor, Benjamin
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Lott, Henry
173
Saylor, John B.
255
Lowry, William II
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Saylor, Mrs. Martha Bales . II
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Macartney, Frederick ('. 1
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Seott, William Alexander 1 233
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MeFarland, Judge Cave .I. .
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Sherman, Lampson P. II
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MeGlothlin, John D.
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Sims, L. D.
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MeHenry, Judge Wmn. H., Sr. I
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Skinner, Dr. David D.
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MeKay, Judge William . . I
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Smith, John 1 .. .
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Meacham, W. H. 1
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Spofford, Col. Sumner F. I 105
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Mitchell, Thomas
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Strauss, Moses II 435
Mitchell, Judge John
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Thornton, Calvin
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Morris, Judge T. T.
233
Thrift, JJ. M.
IT 409
Mosier, Cyrus A.
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Tichenor, Col. George
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Murrow, David B. II
439
Tidriek, Robert L. . I 79
Myers, Mrs. Eliza Saylor
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'Turner, Dr. M. P.
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Nash, Elder John .1. .
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Tuttle, Gen. James M.
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Newcomer. Peter
397 Tuttle, Martin
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Norris, David
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Van Ginkle, Gerrit (.
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Nourse, Judge Charles C. II
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Weitz, Charles
I 263
Parmalee's Mill
I
127
Wellslager, R. T. II
345
Pioneer Preachers II
443 Wells, Levi J.
I 357
Pioneer Women I
351
West, Capt. F. R.
I 159
Polk, J. S. I 133
Whitman, Dr. H. L.
137
Quick, William H. I 369
Williamson, Judge Wm. W. I
333
Rawson, Dr. Charles H.
169
Winterrowd, John F. . II
213
Redhead, Wesley I 111 Wright, Judge George G. . II
91
Reinking, Conrad D. II 269 Young, Madison 11 53
Rice, Judge Byron I 119 Youngerman, Conrad
201
267 Sneer, George
163
Mills, Frank M.
1
I89
Stewart, J. B. II
415 Sypher, R. W. .
I 147
Moore, William W.
266
Trullinger, Daniel
115
Napier, Judge Thomas H.
219
Sherman, Hoyt
261
Lyon, Harrison .
275 Saylors, The .
McDonnell, Nicholas S. II
MeQuiston, Mrs. Avis Saylor II
NOTE .- The date given at the close of each sketch is that on which it orig- inally appeared in The Register and Leader, and will explain discrepancies respecting incidents and changes occurring since those dates and that of this publication.
HECKMAN BINDERY INC.
JUN 90 N. MANCHESTER, INDIANA 46962
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