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The Scotch poet lived too early, and penned this stanza about a town in Bavaria where the French general Moreau beat the Austrians in 1800. Our Lyndon is fifteen miles from Sterling, down the valley on the Burling- ton road as you go to Rock Island. Like most railroad towns, the best part is not scen from the cars. It is necessary to walk up and down the streets to get a correct impression of the place. Plenty of shade, and in summer one is reminded of William Penn's description of early Philadelphia, "a greene country towne." No wonder the first settlers were delighted with the virgin prairie, waving with flowers.
Fair as a garden of the Lord. The primitive settlers came as early as 1835, and among the original fourteen, were such men as Chauncy G. Wood- ruff, Adam R. Hamilton, William D. Dudley, Liberty Walker. Every year following brought a new installment to the promised land. In 1836 came William Farrington, Augustus Rice, Dr. Augustin Smith. In 1837, D. F. Millikan, A. I. Maxwell, David Hazard, P. Daggett, Brainard Orton, R. G. Clendenin. In 1838, John "M. Scott, T. Dudley, Marcus Sperry, Lyman Reynolds. In 1839, Charles R. Deming, John Roy, F. B. Hubbard, Solomon Hubbard.
Although these pioneers have long since passed away, their names are perpetuated by worthy descendants or their memories by familiar landmarks. The Dr. Smith house is still pointed out as doubtless the oldest in Lyndon. There is Hamilton's Grove, and the Dudley homestead, lately repaired. Lucius E. Rice has grown gray by the early fireside. Martha Millikan was
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still sprightly as Mrs. John Whallon until her recent death. Samuel A. Maxwell, teacher, editor, scientist, gardener, with his intellectual family, is certainly enlarging the usefulness of the Maxwells. Harvey Daggett has lately resumed business on the sacred soil of his fathers. For thirty years until his death in 1867, the name of Robert G. Clendenin stood for all that was pure in morals, or right in principle.
The sweet remembrance of the just, Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.
Joseph E. Roy, son of John, was for many years Home Missionary of the Congregational church.
TRYING TIMES. Must I be carried to the skies, On flowery beds of ease, While others fought to win the prize, And sailed thro' bloody seas ?- Watts.
All the pioneers had their tale of woeful struggle. Lueius E. Riee, who came with his father in 1836, remembers the swamps and corduroy roads of Indiana, the mire of Chicago, the seow across that river pulled by two men with a rope, and Dixon's ferry with its solitary house, which would have done for a story by G. P. R. James. Chauney Woodruff covered his eabin with hay, which was not waterproof, and permitted every shower to soak the bedding.
Mrs. Sarah M. White, now living in Norman, Nebraska, sends the writer some ineidents of her pioneer experience. She moved with her first husband, Ruel Hurlburt, to Lyndon in 1845. Their house had only one room. Much ague. She shook so that everything rattled in the building. A rainy season, and the prairies were covered with decaying vegetation. No roads, and no fenees but sod thrown up with ditches alongside. Sod was used also for roofs. Church services were held in the schoolhouse. "We went to church with eart and oxen, and enjoyed it as much as in a buggy and horses later. Nothing but wild fruit. Abundance of gooseberries in Lyndon woods. We crossed the river in a dugout. Once I got ten quarts, carrying all the way home.
"Wild plums were plentiful. I was told to pit then, but when I came to use, there was nothing but skins. Crabapples we secured in Hamilton's grove, blackberries in . Morrison woods. Some farmers took their wheat to Chicago with a team, and the trip occupied two weeks. Mr. Hurlburt hauled a load of dressed pork to Peoria, no other way of getting produce to market. When steamboats came up Rock river, some farmers put their wheat in saeks and slipped it. I once helped aman sew saeks, and although I sewed two to his one, the farmer allowed me only half as much pay." She adds that Mr. Hurlburt died in 1860, and Matthew White, her second husband, in 1884.
Always a fly in the ointment. The Indian was then in the land, and a good many of him. In the winter of 1835-36 two thousand were eneamped
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between Lyndon and Prophetstown. Although generally peaceful, they were a source of annoyance, beeame ugly when refused a request, lazy, preferred to beg rather than work. They were the ancestors of our present tramps. Lueius E. Riee, who bubbles over with pioneer incident, speaks of Big John going to the house of Pardon A. Brooks for flour. Alex. Seely killed an. Indian on the way from town, and to save his life from the enraged red skins who yearly hunted for him, left the country.
Lo, the poor Indian whose untutored mind Sees God in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
EARLY NAVIGATION.
Before the days of dams and when water was plentier, Roek river was considered a fairly navigable stream. Lueius E. Riee told the writer that the steamer "Gipsy" from a St. Louis grocery made regular trips with goods, selling on eredit for pay in October, stopping at various points along the stream. Then eame the "Potosi," and the "St. Louis Oak." The Lighter was a stern wheeler, 1838, and ran all summer. Farmers shipped winter wheat, which then yielded forty-five busliels to aere. His father sent some to St. Louis, then the market, for 4 eents, and received 27 eents a bushel. The "Maid of Iowa" was sent by Mormons from Nauvoo to Dixon after Joe Smith.
DREAMS OF LOWELL OR PITTSBURGII.
With a water power in her rapid river equal to that of the Merrimac, there seemed no reason that Lyndon should not be a eenter of manufactures. So various enterprises were undertaken. The Lyndon Hydraulie Manufae- turing Company was organized in 1872 with a capital of $60,000. Justus Rew was president, John Whallon seeretary, with seven direetors, George P. Richmond, B. E. Orton, John W. Hazard, and others. A dam was built at the head of the rapids, at a cost of $30,000. A flouring mill was ereeted with five run of stones, at a cost of $35,000. It passed into the management of Church and Patterson, and then to L. P. Johnson. A paper mill was built in 1873, near the flour mill, by Orton Brothers, at a cost of $12,000. In 1875 Johnson and Hubbard took eharge, furnishing the machinery at an additional expense of $21,000. Also in 1873, Hoole and Putnam built the Vietoria Flouring Mill, stone and frame, at a cost of $18,000. It had a capacity of 75 barrels of flour and 600 bushels of fecd per day. Then eame the Farmers' Co-operative Manufacturing Company, who finished a briek building in 1876 for the production of all kinds of agricultural implements. The officers at the last eleetion were: S. J. Baird, president; John Whallon, secretary; and W. C. Snyder, treasurer. Alas! for these high hopes. It is sad to relate that not one of these sehemes was long sueeessful, and of all these buildings, only a tottering briek wall stands on the bank of the river.
O, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes deeay ; I never loved a tree or flower, But 'twas the first to fade away.
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Now a return to the former manufacturing activity is projected by the erection of a government dam across the river. Capitalists are interested in the movement, and engineers have been called to investigate the site and conditions. The object is to use the water power at Lyndon in the produc- tion of electricity to be transmitted from a common center to places as distant as Moline or Davenport. It is to be hoped the project may be carried to triumphant completion.
PLATO'S ACADEMY.
Rome had her Augustan age, and England her era of Elizabeth. None of our present generation know that Lyndon was once the educational center of the county. While Sterling and Morrison were in their academic bar- rcnness, Lyndon was enjoying the advantages of a higher education. Her boys were prepared at home in the languages for entrance at Knox College at Galesburg, and on returning after graduation were qualified to give their younger townsfolk the benefit of their accomplishments. Edward P. Scott, H. H. Smith, and others were examples. The reputation of the school spread, and boys from a distance came to Lyndon academy.
The following advertisement appeared in the Sterling Republican, June, 1857:
LYNDON HIGH SCHOOL.
The next term will begin on Monday. Students boarded in private families at $2 per week. Miss H. E. Davis, late from Vermont, is a perma- nent teacher in music, French, drawing, and painting. Terms for common branches $4, Greek and Latin $7, French $5, piano $8, water colors $3. A daily lesson in penmanship. The school is furnished with globes, maps, skeleton, chemical apparatus. The teachers are M. R. Kelly, Miss Louisa Drue, Miss H. E. Davis. Directors, R. G. Clendenin, W. Anderson, Moses Lathe.
So we find ambitious Sterling boys who sought a better education than possible at home, enrolled at Lyndon. Among them Col. W. M. Kilgour.
WEBSTER AND HAYNE.
Politics also found a congenial spirit in the Lyndon people. Some of the big guns of the times stood on the platform of the town hall. Jonathan Blanchard, then at Galesburg, afterwards at Wheaton, conducted revivals and denounced secret societies. Owen Lovejoy, inspired by his brother's blood, thundered against slavery. Ex-Gov. Bebb and John Wentworth met in joint debate on the tariff. Stephen A. Douglas came in 1855 to justify his action in the passage of the Kansas-Nebraska bill, speaking to an audi- ence that packed the house inside, and to an audience that stood on wagons backed to the windows on the outside.
THE LYNDON ADVOCATE.
This was the village paper, and was published for several years, but like a thousand other good journals, is in the tomb of the Capulets. A copy dated Saturday, Nov. 17, 1883, W. M. Patrick, editor, is before us.
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Among the advertisers are John Whallon, attorney at law; S. Zimmer proprietor Lyndon hotel; E. D. Adams, house and sign painter; Ira Sher- wood, boot and shoemaker; L. D. Baldwin, dealer in coal, flour, etc .; G. R. Cady, village liveryman ; S. S. Epla, tonsorial artist; G. E. Swarthout, village drayman; Robinson's restaurant; F. W. Carman, M. D .; Strickler Brothers, drugs (branch store) ; B. F. Myers, druggist; Parmenter Brothers, general store; Howc & Co., fancy groceries; Parkhurst's big column; A. S. Hazard, blacksmith. Only Parmenter Brothers in business now out of the above list, most of whom are dead. Mention was made of the grand double concert under the management of A. S. Morris; John M. Hamilton's sale and a big surprise party given for John Dudley by sixty guests on his departure for California.
Still earlier, 1873, was the Lyndon Free Press, an eight-column sheet, printed entirely from the Fulton Journal forms, without alteration, except the first page, which gives Lyndon locals and advertisements. John Gray is editor, and the Lyndon Free Press Company, publishers.
THE QUEEN OF FRUITS.
A creature not too bright or good, For human nature's daily food .- Wordsworth.
Lyndon's sun and soil secm to suit the luscious strawberry, and it reaches a flavor and fragrance that pleases the popular palate. Remember what Dr. Boteler said: "God doubtless might have made a better berry than the strawberry, but doubtless God never did." Miss Edna Sturtevant interviewed several of the growers, and we give the result of her observa- tions. The Osborn Brothers, Lester and Oliver, are the most extensive with seven acres, and in the business seven years. An average yield is 7,000 quarts to the acre. They ship to Rock Island, De Kalb, and other places. Their favorite kinds are Haverland, Warfield, Lovett, Brandywine. J. G. Laxton started 15 years ago with one acrc, increasing to seven. He has the usual varieties. The yield depends upon the soil. Berries suited to clay will not do well on sand. He ships to Watertown. He is also in the bee business, beginning 22 years ago, and at present has a hundred stand. The average yield per stand is 100 pounds. In 1907 he sold 12,000 pounds, sending chiefly to Clinton. He keeps the Italian bee. Another man, Clyde Bowen, has kept bees, Italians, for two years, has fifty stand, selling so far in home market. William Shepherd has three acres of strawberries, Porter Holt one acre, "Mr. Hubbard one acre. They nearly all raise the same varieties.
CHURCHES.
The first religious society organized in the county was the present Con- gregational, June, 1836. The first meeting was held at the house of William D. Dudley, and directed by Rev. Elisha Hazard, agent of the Home Mis- sionary Society. Among the names enrolled werc such early settlers as the Hamiltons, Dudleys, Woodruffs, Atkinsons, Millikans, Hubbards, Ortons. Services were held in the bluff schoolhouse and in the homes, until the
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present church building was erected in 1850 at a cost of $2,500. Rev. Elisha Hazard was first pastor, followed by Nathaniel Smith, Wm. Blanchard, Chapman, Judd, Webb, Gilbert, Gray, Machin, and others. The present pastor, George Thomas Hanna, was born in Maryland, spent four years at Oberlin College, studied physical culture at Lake Geneva summer school, enjoyed nine months at Northfield in Bible study under Meyer, Campbell Morgan, Mott, and Specr. He has been connected with the Y. M. C. A. at Belvidere and Sterling. This is his first charge. Mrs. Hanna is from Wales. The present membership of the church is ninety. There are sixty in the Sunday school. Several societies, Ladies' Aid, Missionary, Bible Class of adults, juvenile choral society.
The Methodist Episcopal church was organized by Revs. W. Buck and G. L. S. Stuff in 1841, with Chauncy Woodruff, Leonora Hazard, Dr. Smith, Lucy Ware, J. D. Odell, Samantha Reynolds and Harry R. Smith among the niembers. At first it was on the Savanna circuit, then on the Union Grove. Preaching in various buildings until the town hall was erected. The church was built in 1874 at a cost of $2,500. Rev. A. D. Burkett, the present pastor, spent three years in Simpson college, Iowa, two at Taylor university, Indiana, has been over three years in the ministry, and is in his second year here. There are 148 members. Both the Congregational and Methodist congregations have neat frame parsonages, convenient to the church. In the M. E. ehurchi are the usual societies, the Ladies' Aid, Ep- worth League, W. C. T. U., and the Sunday school. In 1907 there was a Young People's Bible Study class. In 1908 it has taken the form of a Mis- sion Study class.
A Baptist church was organized in 1837, but no building was erected, and services have been irregular on account of small membership.
The German Evangelical Lutheran church of Lyndon township, four miles south of Morrison, was organized several years ago by Rev. Fr. Lussky. Some of the first members were: C. Strelow, John H. Johnson, Siebelt 'Arians, Louis Roscnow, Fred Roscnow, John Roscnow, Albert Strelow, Her- man Strelow. The church today has a voting membership of 20. Number of families, 34. The church has no Sunday school, but eatechetieal instrue- tion by the pastor. Number of children present, 25. In October, 1906, the congregation dedicated its new church, 36x50 feet.
OLD CURIOSITY SHOP. Rich and rare were. the gems she wore.
So many of the early settlers came from New England, and brought their heirlooms with them, that it is safe to say that no other town in the county can show so large an assortment of relics. No tables brought over in the Mayflower, but no end of ancient china and furniture. At a festival held in the summer of 1907 a unique exhibition of these family curios was an attractive feature. Among these. were shawls, samplers, dolls, swords, books, pitchers, candlesticks, cups, portraits, spinning wheels, arrows, bask- ets, Bibles, lamps.
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Mrs. Helen Greenlee loaned a large spinning wheel, brass candlestick and snuffers. Mrs. Mary Patterson's dishes, candlestick, tray and snuffers were over a hundred years old, and were carefully preserved. Mrs. W. F. Millikan's pewter platter three hundrd years old, sampler, embroidery and foot stove attracted much attention. Mrs. MeNett exhibited a rocking chair which has been in use over one hundred years. Mrs. Bouck has a platter and a plate that she can truly trace back over one hundred and fifty years; how much older it is she does not know. Her old pewter platters are prob- ably over two hundred years old. Mrs. Bouck loaned counterpanes, plates, platters, cups, bowls, tureens and saucers, large and small, that are just magnificent, one set of dishes being imported and almost priecless. The dishes are the delft, mulberry and oriental warc.
John Dudley has a bear trap and all who are interested in the carly history of the county will be much interested from the fact that its history, so far as is known, began with the days when the first settlers eame to the county. Here is the story: Soon after the Dudleys and Hamiltons settled at the bluff, John Dudley's grandfather found the trap in the woods. Tightly clenched in its iron jaws were the bleached bones of an animal, thought at the time to be the bones of a deer. When we think of the years that have elapsed and that these traps are scarcely in existence in Illinois, it really is a valuable relie of other days. It was never known who placed the trap in its place, whether Indian trapper or white man.
A very interesting document, yellowed by age, is possessed by Mrs. Mahala Hicks Cady. The paper in question is a commission granted to the first justice of the peace of Whiteside county. It was granted by Gov. Joseph Duncan and Secretary of State A. P. Sweet on September 13, 1836, to Chauney G. Woodruff, Mrs. Cady's grandfather. This territory was then undivided and was known as Jo Daviess county. The document is one of many valuable papers much prized by Mrs. Cady relating to the early days of our village and county.
THE LANGDON SCHOOL.
Five miles south of Morrison in Lyndon township was dedicated with im- pressive ceremonies in October, 1907, a new schoolhouse which is a fine specimen of modern educational progress. The walls of concrete, the inside of yellow pine. A concrete porch, a belfry, cloak rooms, furnace and warm play room in basement. The building is 24x28, and twelve feet high. A lively program of music, recitations, letters from former pupils, toasts, an address by the veteran John Phinney on "Schools Fifty Years Ago." Miss Augusta Fuller is teacher, with thirty pupils.
THE BOYS IN BLUE.
In the God of battles trust! Die we may-and die we must ; But, oh, where can dust to dust Be consigned so well, As where heaven its dews shall shed,
On the martyred patriot's bed .- John Pierpont.
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A group of active veterans. W'm. Ward, Co. G, 156th Illinois, fought at Nashville and Chattanooga. Henry B. Shaw, Co. B, 75th Illinois, Capt. Whallon, was at Stone river, Lookout Mountain, Chickamauga, wounded in ear and coat shot to pieces, good at 81. Wm. Allen, enlisted at 17 at Lyndon, Co. C, 8th Illinois eavalry, wounded in arm and neek in service near Wash- ington. H. Hazard, 78 years old, enlisted at Morrison in Co. C, 8th Illinois eavalry, first colonel, Farnsworth, serviee in Virginia and Maryland. A. W. Greenlee, postmaster, is of Scotch deseent, enlisted first at Spring Hill in Co. I, 8th Kansas Infantry, 1861, the second time in 9th Iowa cavalry, 1863. A remarkable record, as father and six sons all enlisted. His son, H. R., is ensign on the Rhode Island, battleship in the great fleet that lately sailed for the Paeifie.
In the cemetery west of Lyndon are the graves of several soldiers. Capt. G. M. Cole, Co. G, 13th Illinois. Capt. Harry Smith, 71, 1854. A. A. Higley, died of wounds, Perryville, 1862. On the tombs may be read the names of old settlers, Lathe, Sands, Bell, Pratt, Emery, Hazard, and others. Martin Potter, 1812-1884. Mary A. Smith, daughter of Dr. Smith, 1837. George R. Hamilton, 1820-1904. On the family lot, the principals of a dreadful tragedy. Albert S. Swarthout, Nov. 10, 1892. John S. died in jail, 1893. Ernest in the penitentiary, 1896. In front along the road is a soldiers' plot, with a eannon for a centerpiece. It reealls the lion on the mound at Waterloo, 1815.
THE SCHOOL.
There are two buildings, the main one two stories, three departments, four teachers, seventy-five pupils. Well equipped with piano, globes, maps, various apparatus, portraits of Webster, Lineoln, and other eminent Ameri- cans, dietionaries and eneyclopedias. J. W. Machamer, the principal, after high school study, attended the De Kalb Normal. He is assisted by Miss Drusilla Parmenter in primary, Miss Bessie Smith in intermediate, and Mrs. Cora Millikan in the high school room.
Lyndon is an incorporated village. A. W. Greenlee is president of the board, and the trustees are R. Allen, C. Gardner, Dr. Harriman, J. Shep- herd, W. Austin, N. Mayberry, and clerk, P. Holt. The supervisor is A. E. Parmenter.
DENROCK.
Five miles southwest of Lyndon is this station, on the edge of the town- ship. It is at the intersection of two branches of the Burlington, from Clinton and from Sterling. The most prominent objeets are the eoal shoot and two tanks, for the aeeommodation of the numerous freight trains. The lunch room attended by Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Hogeboom is made unusually inviting by the kindly service of these excellent people. Home cooking, minee pies of her own baking, every viand good and wholesome. A cozy sitting roomn in the rear for retirement, and bedrooms for ehanee travelers above. They have managed the place for fifteen years.
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TWO LYNDON TRAGEDIES.
Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand ?- Macbeth.
Christmas, December 25, 1883, was not a day of peace on earth and good will to men for two young fellows, the assassin and his victim. Chris- tian Riebling, a foreign German, 32 years old, entered the office of G. R. Cady's livery stable, and ordered Albert Lucia to leave, as he had previously ordered him from the store of C. L. Parkhurst. Lucia replied that he would not unless told to do so by Cady. Riebling repeated his order, at the same time pointing his revolver at the boy, who jumped to his feet, exclaiming, "My God, he is going to shoot!" As he passed towards the door, he struck Riebling's arm, and forced the revolver downward so that the bullet took effect in the upper part of Lucia's leg. Riebling was arrested, taken to Mor- rison jail, December 27, to await action of the grand jury for the March term of circuit court. Eleven days after receiving the wound, Lucia died, and when the grand jury met, Riebling was indicted for murder. The case was called March 25, Messrs. J. D. Andrews, of Sterling, and W. H. Allen, of Erie, appointed by court to defend the prisoner, state's attorney Walter Stager prosecuting. The trial occupied two days, the case given to the jury at nine o'clock on evening of March 26, and after seven hours' deliberation the verdict of guilty was brought in the following morning. The execution of the sentence was fixed by the court on May 16. The gallows was erected in an enclosure near the jail. The prisoner was attended to the last by his spiritual advisers, Sweet of Morrison and Breen of Lyndon, took his stand on the trap with composure, in a short speech spoke of his trust in the Lord and his sorrow for the crime, and with the black cap placed over his head, awaited the end. When Sheriff Beach pulled the lever at six minutes after two, the body fell five feet without a struggle, and in fifteen minutes life was pronounced extinct. The number of persons in the enclosure was estimated at 150, but there was a curious crowd outside. Riebling had dark hair, blue eyes, face pitted with small-pox, and weighed 165 pounds. Not a single relative with him in his last moments upon earth.
THE SWARTHOUT MURDER.
An orphan's curse would drag to hell A spirit from on high; But oh, more horrible than that ยท Is the curse in a dead man's eye .- Ancient Mariner.
Two miles west of Lyndon is the farm of Albert M. Swarthout. There is a large frame house, and the usual buildings to furnish a farm of 200 acres. He had two sons, John, the older, who was practicing medicine and rooming in Lyndon, and Ernest, the younger, married, who with his wife was keeping house for the father, whose wife died in 1891. For a while his daughter, Hattie, Mrs. Buell Langdon, had been in charge at the old home till the marriage of Ernest.
On Thursday, Nov. 10, 1892, Mr. Swarthout drove in his buggy to
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Morrison, returned at six in the evening, unhitched the horse, took him to the barn, and was scen no more. Shortly afterward, Mrs. Buell Langdon, the daughter, and Mrs. Ernest Swarthout, the younger son's wife, who were in the house, noticed a straw stack to the south on fire, rang the bell and called the sons, John and Ernest, who were at the barn. Charles Sturtevant, a farmer living sixty rods west, also saw the burning stack, and went over to give the alarm. He found the boys in the house, who said they had been to the stack, but could not put it out. Mr. Sturtevant asked where their father was, but they did not know.
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