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In my wanderings through the city my eye rested upon a place more changed to me than any I had yet seen. It was my mother's " Old Brick House," I entered the family room where but a few years before my friends had met to bid me good bye. It was there I had passed many years with kindred and friends. Oh ! what a change was there; already were its walls tottering and crumbling to the earth. Time had laid its heavy hand upon it. It had stood the blasts of thirty winters, and now like its former inmates it must give way for others. This house was the second brick building on Washington street, and the third in the city.
What a multitude of thrilling memories of early years and happy dreams, mingling with the forms of the loved and the
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dead, and the tones and voices heard no more. A soft but not unpleasant melancholy is sure to steal over us when we enter a house in which we have enjoyed ourselves in a numer- ous circle of friends and acquaintances. I was forcibly reminded of the language and could almost realize the feel- ings of the poet when he wrote :
" I feel like one who walks alone, Some banquet hall deserted ; The lights are fled, the garlands dead, And all but me departed."
There was naught but strange voices saluted my ear. No kind mother came forth to embrace me with love beaming in her eye ; no loved sister to meet me with a joyous smile ; no brother to take me by the hand and bid me thrice welcome under its once hospitable roof.
All were gone ! I felt that I was almost the last of my race, and that there were but few whose kindred blood coursed through my veins.
Just beyond the western limits of this city, of which I have been writing for some months, there is another city whose population has grown almost in proportion with this. It is the "City of the dead," whose many marble spires each indicating the last resting place of some loved friend or departed relative.
It was there at twilight and alone, I sought my kindred. In that portion of the city set apart for our family, and cor- responding in number with that of my lost friends, I found those little hillocks which so forcibly remind us of the truth : " Dust thou art and unto dust shalt thou return."
Although separated now, I live in the hope of meeting my friends in that other and better land. "Shall we know each other there ? " Perhaps if the memory dies we will not, but if thought, lives and love is any reality, then shall " we know as we are known."
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Conclusion.
CONCLUSION.
In the publication of these sketches I have necessarily, for want of space, to leave out the names of many persons of whom I have written. Should I meet with the success I anticipate in publishing this volume, I shall finish up another in which I shall speak of other prominent business men, as well as the descendants of the old and first settlers of Indian- apolis.
In what I here present to the reading public I have endeav- ored to be truthful and just to all. There may be some to find fault, to such I would say, that what I have written are my own opinions, founded in nearly every instance upon personal knowledge and observation.
I have neither turned to the right nor to the left to make those sketches of character conform to the views of any person.
I have written chiefly of men and things around me. If I have erred there is no one to blame but myself. If on the other hand I am correct, I shall have the proud satisfac- tion of knowing that I have done no one wrong.
While writing these sketches I have felt some misgivings as to my competency for the task I had undertaken, and have been almost ready to drop my pen and abandon the work. I have never aspired to rank even with the satelites of literary luminaries, but
" What is writ is writ,"
Would it were worthier.
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INDEX.
Page.
Allegory
236
Alvord, Elijah S 359
Achey, Henry 374
Brussell, Conrad
46
Culbertson, Robert
156
Campbell, Charles C 189
Coburn, Henry P.
203
Coburn, Hon. John. 204
Cain, Captain John.
208
Council, Thomas W 262
Cox, Jacob
301
Cady, Charles W 323
Cully, David V 326
Canby, Samuel.
342
Carlisle, John
351
Cottrell, Thomas
370
Conclusion 449
Dunlap, Dr. Livingston. 44
Duvall, Joseph P
72
Duke, Samuel
126
Donglass, John
185
Davis, Nathan. 187
Davis, Joseph W 378
Davis, Isaac.
388
Drew, Samuel W 391
Downey, Robert. 442
Emerson, Benjamin
286
English, William H.
384
Early Colored Society
397
Elliott, Dr. Thomas B
415
English, Elisha G.
422
Ellerby, Dr. James.
433
First Winter in Indianapolis 15
Fish, Game and Skunks
40
Fletcher, Calvin, sen
121
Foote, Obed
136
Foudray, John W 175
Fletcher. T. R
Cox, Nathaniel
99
Cool, Dr. Jonathan
102
Coe, Dr. Isaac. 104
Collins, Jerry 109
Blake, James
60
Basye, Lismond.
74
Bradley, Henry 79
Bay, Billy.
87
Bolton, Nathaniel. 93
138
Brown, Hiram
Brady, Henry.
171
Burkhart, David
177
Beeler, Joseph. 180
Beeler, Fielding
182
Brown, John G
Brown, Bazil ..
236
Ballad, A Pathetic
238
Boatright, Cary H 268
Beck, Samuel. 308
Brown, Mackerel
309
Britton, Rev. James B. 313
Brown, William J
317
Burk, John.
360
Bals, Charles 380
Benham Brothers 390
Barnitz, J. W., sen
400
Barnard, Jehiel.
401
Birkenmayer, J. P
404
Baker, Gov. Conrad
419
Burglary, First.
273
Browning Edmund
432
Bright, Michael G
439
Bright, Richard J
440
Burges, Cornelius N
444
Capital, Selection
9
Carter, Major Thomas
63
Frasee, James
241
Page.
Bates, Harvey.
160
451
Index.
Page.
Fletcher, Stoughton A. sen .249 Fire, First in Indianapolis 273
French, Charles G. .354
Good, Richard 88
Givan, John. 118
Gates, Uriah.
1:27
Gregg, Harvey ..
143
Griffith, Humphrey 172
Goldsberry, Samuel
205
Garner, Charles
312
Grover, Aaron
340
Gaston, Dr. John M 353
Gold, Adam .. 372
Gall, Dr. Alois D.
395
Glessing, Thomas B
402
Harding Brothers
24
Harrison, Christopher
4-4
Hanway, Amos, sen
96
Henderson, Samuel
101
Helvey, Old Bob.
115
Harrison, Alfred .. 156
Hanna, Gen. Robert
193
Hogshire, Riley B
195
Hogshire, William R
197
Hill, John F
234
Hoosier's Nest. 243
Holland, John W 248
Holland, Theodore F 248
Hubbard, William S.
331
Haugh, Adam ..
Harmening, Fred. Christ 343
Hereth, John C.
344
Hibben, Rev. William W 387
Hannaman, William. 430
Indian attempts to cut a door down 17
Incidents, 1821-22. 127
Incidents, 1823-24-25. 164
Johnson, Jerry
31
Johnson, James, Esq
98
Johnson, Thomas
146
Jackson, William N
207
Jones, Aquilla. 381
Josselyn Brothers & Co 407
Kettleman, Jimmy ..
Kinder, Isaac ...
95
Ketcham, John L
$03
Page.
Kellogg, Newton. 872
Kemper, John M
Landis, Jacob ..
114
Lingenfelter, Archibald 186
Lockerbie, George.
231
Lofton, Joseph ..
Lofton, Dr. Sample.
Lofton, Dr. Almon
Langsdale, J. M. W 315
Lauer, Charles.
McCormick, John.
Morris, Morris.
105
Mitchell, Dr. Samuel G.
108
Maguire, Douglass
111
McCarty. Nicholas, sen
158
Mallory, David.
MeGeorge, Samuel.
173
Merrill, Samuel.
1×3
Morrison, James. 212
Morrison, William HI
216
Morrison, Major Alexander F.
.218
MeOuat, Thomas ..
Mears, Dr. George W
McCord, Abram
290
Moore, Joseph M
Mansur, Frank.
Mann, James B.
5:41
McChesney. Jacob B
MeKernan. James II
Moses, L. W.
Mayer, Charles
Macy, Hon. David.
Macauley, Mayor, Daniel
123
Nowland, Matthias T.
Nowland, Matthias R
Norwood, George 152
Noel, Sam'l V. B
191
Noble, Gov. Noah.
Nelson, Henry HI
Nooe, Daniel M
:11
.New, John C.
3,1
Nowland, Elizabeth
O'Neal, Hugh.
111
Owens, Nathaniel B
Ohr, Henry ..
Oliver, Dr. Dandridge H
I'reparation for removal
11
Knodle, Adam
308, Pogue, George.
452
Index.
Page.
Paxton, James. 84
Patterson, Robert. 120
Pence, Joseph. 153
Phipps, Isaac N.
154
Pitts, Stephen
228
Pottawattamie Prophet 240
Peck, Edwin J.
252
Pratt, Hon. Daniel D 255
Pinney, William H. H 266
Palmer, Hon. Nathan B 275
Patterson, Samuel H 294
Paul, George .. 298
Pope, Dr. Abner 325
Parry, Dr. Charles. 338
Patterson, John P. 342
Russell, Alexander W
28
Reynolds, Caleb
68
Rooker, Samuel S
82
Ray, James M. 89
Ralston, Alexander
94
Reagan, Wilks, Esq
133
Redding, John W.
134
Reid, Archibald C. 153
Ray, Gov. James B 199
Ray, Rev. Edwin. 223
Rasener, Christ. Fred. 343
Ryan, James B.
378
Robinson, William H. H 406
Ransdell, Daniel M. 429
Ream, Miss Laura. 434
Ricketts, Hon. Dillard. 441
Spring of 1821 26 Shaffer, Daniel. 34
Shunk, John 49
Scudder, Caleb. 81
Stephens, Daniel 88 Smith, George 91 Smith, Andrew 124
Sulgrove, James.
157
Sulgrove, Berry R 158
Smock, John ..
199
Stevens, Joshua. 207
Smith, James M
211
Sharpe, Ebenezer
219
Sharpe, Thomas H 221
Sheets, William.
269
Sweetser, Philip.
279
Page.
Sullivan, William, Esq 287
Sanders, Dr. John H. 290
Smith, Justin. 328
Smith, Paul B. L. 345
Sharpe, Joseph K. 347
Sullivan, John B. 366
Smith, N. R. 392
Stilz, J. George. 405
Socwell, Captain H. M 418
Solomon, J. & M.
425
Schwabacher & Selig 432
Smock, William C 436
Townsend, Billy. 70
Taffe, George, sen. 161
Tom, Fancy 169
Taylor, Robert.
173
Taylor, N. B. 173
Tutewiler, Henry 265
Tutewiler Brothers 266
Talbott, John M 282
Talbott, Wm. H 283
Thompson, Dr. W. Clinton 382
Turner, William H 411
Talbot, Bishop 414
Upfold, Bishop 412
Van Blaricum, John. 114
Van Houten, Cornelius W 190
Vance, Lawrence M. 292
Vickers, Corson 431
Wilson, Isaac .. 25
Whitzell family 54
Whitzell, Cyrus
51
Wilkins, John.
78
Wilson. Andrew.
80
Wick, William W. 137
Walpole, Luke, and family 147
Williams, David.
160
Wingate, Joseph. 206
Wallace, Gov. David. 293
Wilkinson, William. 309
Wright, John H 337
Wallace, Andrew. 355
Wallace, William John
368
Warner, Charles G.
.444
Yandes, Daniel
76
Yandes, Simon
77
Yohn, James C.
284
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