Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 8

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Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

THE LIFE AND CHARACTER OF HON SAMUEL

HANNA .- 11 is the thetale of our unlure, In less than of enlightened Burial podiey, to hottur the illustrions dend ; to bedvir nith affectionaly leurs the silent urn of departed genins munt virtue; to imburden the Adluveg of The sutelirgend hunt in enlogium upon decessent benefactors, aml to reheur-e then noble ileeds for the benefit of those who inny come after ns. It has Iwen the columvendahlr custom of all ages and all nations. Hener the follow- ing ferble iritinte to one of nature's noblemen.

Samuel Hanno wny horn October 18th, 1797, in Scoff County, Krutneky. This father, James Hmmm, remuvedl To Dayton, Ohio, in 1804, oud slled on

Lnen teri, Iring voudigneus to the southeru bimmudary of ilud town, tte i in the wilderness, far removed from ull improvements, The country around u'as one of a numerous family, all of whom allainrd respectable mut, IL0-1 of them, di-tingnished positions in life. Sammel'y varly days nery poussed, hke the-enf most boys in n ney country, in assisting his father lo clenr up Iny fornt, und in the onjoyment of mich limited vonentionnl mivonlages is nere ultnimble in the West ut that early dny. His earliest employment, may from the protection of the purenint roof, iras that of post-ridee, us il uns calleit ; that is, taking newspapers from the publication office, und demnering them to subscribers al their residences, located far nud neur orer The commitry -- au employment now obsolete, but extensively practiveil fifty rents ngn, arhen post oflives nere ulmust entirely limited lo tho county .sents. In Ons humble enlling the youthhd Hamis passeil considerable time, Irarers- ing, week after week, the then wilderness of Western Ohio.

There is que ineilent vonnericil with his fret business enterprise nell ungtby of being Frenpded for the benefit of the young meu who are ninhitious lo Tier in the world

Il seyin4 flint in his nineteenth yeur, young Hannn ocenpied the position ul clerk in a store al l'igun, Ohin. He andl nnother yonng minn, also s minor, Imight ont Thy proprietor, giring their notes for $8,000, Soon after, Hotre nules irere Itausferred lo nu innovent purchaser. Abont the same time, the goods which they hul purchaseil were taken from theju by a writ of ut element, leaving the young men withont meins, anil enenmbered by n la nej imlehledness Houna's poriner soon relier ed himself of the lialihty ley thr pley of infancy. Not so young Innnu. Although hisfriends mulvisel hin lo the snuy eunrey, representing that he Inul heen swindled, he nobly declined, ber lueing that he would pay the last dallar ul the debt, should Trorulence " it for him with the menns It is but justier to the memmry af Mr Hanne to say that he subsequentty redeemed ilis promise, and paidl the debl the full, principal and interest

Integrity mul uprightnyss thus curly veineed, nmidst strong inducements lun contrary course, characterized his long anul useful rareer, and gore him ungr indueney urer his fellow men. If young men wronld emulate his rintjde in this respect, the word failure would schlum by irritten ourr their lowvine's lires,

Subsequently he engaged for some time in tenehing a country school ; wul he is represented, no ilonbi Truly, us housing buen n vigorons disciplin- TriOn-on exart, sydtomtiy and thorough instructor. Indeed, ho seems, nl that vorly slny, to have indiented Ins future eminence and nyefulness by mojding and acting upey that honest ont homely maxim thnl exerted un influenye so Imucked undl so beachicial on all his subsequent career, anil estenul np to the hour of his death . " Whatever yuu hul lo do, do it with afl your unght," or, " Wlinlecer is worth doing is wurth doing well."

llo attended the Indian trenty ist SI. Mary's, in 1818, in The character of u sniler, or purseyor, in connection with his brother Thomas, furnishing both fraul for nien und proveuder l'er horses, all of which was houled with th nx tenis from Tray, Ithio ; he, with his own hands, hewing out feel- troughs for Ibe stark By this operation he realized n sull' amount of iniVey This was his first substantial nequisition-the corner-stone upon " hatch his subsegment enlossal forlyne was reared Hlvve, too, his porquite has lummeil of emigmoting to Fort Wayne, where he was destined to net so eunspienous und importnul a port iu developing ilse resuneces of the country mal Imilding up n cily.

Ile arrived heve in 1819, when he was in his twenty-second year. Ile Got the place a mere Indians Iniding post, with very few white inhaltmis, wird Those merely remnants of the old tuilitary establishment. Outside of the " Post" and its sumedinty vicinity there were no white settlers, uml the Lonitry in every direction, for humlreds of miles, was on mibroken wilder. Its, Bunuing with the reil men of the forest. Ile immediately entered upon mercantile pursuits in o smoull wny, al what is now the northwest voryer of Columhin and Borr streets. The lonn was nol then huis oul Ilis first store house was a rile log cabin, greeted, principally, with his own hands. This primitive structure was soon superseded by a story-and-a-half franse Imelding, and that, in after yeurs, hy a substantial brick block of business baugrs. These are still retained hy the finusly, aml belong to thy shurer of his joys mul his sorrows, his foils und his Trials, the Irnsled and honored coopminh of his youth, his cnnhood, wul his old age, nnl who yel survives. May her remaining ilnys he many among the living.

Ol worse, at Ihn1 curly ifny, his chier customers were luilinus. Indian Irade Is always beenprofiinhle, even when comlnetod honestly and justly, as is mijversally voneeded it always was hy this young fruder, "If my hero be I'markel thint Iasian Iroders, ny n vinss, have mostly bevu regardeil ny nbont the worst speennens of the ryey ; being chiefly intent, by the Insest nris, upon definding the ignorant und simple-winded children of the forest out ul their ausmilies, in whatever little pireperly thvy vught possess. But no such impulafrou ulinches to thy chiameler of Mr Haut. By u course of bar and honorably ivaling, first with his Tuchun euslotuers, and then wills the whilys, as they came into the enmulvy mul Thy Indians recydel, he mang whom he lived au many yrors. This regard und consideration weul ou inerensing in volume and intensity while he lived, and only eulminted when the purials of the lomb ahnt him from morinl sight forever.

Smunel Hunun's splendid fortishe was not required by defrunding his fillon-men, either whole or reil; font dig great Ionesy sagneity, the most inilomutable industry, mul vigil evonomy. These three qualifies ho puissessed in un ominenl ilegree, Hlo especially elnimell eredit for his economy during thy curly singes uf his business eureer ; und wften declared That he never repealed one dollar for any personal pdeisure ur luxury until he wns worth mer finy thonsaml How many young men of the present day will be ntde luz sny this when they aro olsl.

From his Best selilement af Fort Wayne, Mr. Hanns, al all times, and ou all occasions, evineed n strong desire to build up the fonn, lo mulvance ils

Interinl intervals in every way, muil lo improve and develop the resources of the country ; and though nol inattentive to his ofen individual interests, the earlinal [mirpinso was kept steadily in view during his whole life. In all Incelings of The peuple for the prondion of pmlhe improvements or public Before, he nas ulunyan con spicuons und lemling nelor. He early perceived the indispensable necessity of opening and improving ronds and other facili. hey for Imcel and interconnnomention ; but in fully appreciate his designs in this respect, it umy be necessary to revert to thy comlition of things at Ilml fine.

As his nlreily bern remarked, Fort Wayne, os he found it, was situated uhrlet no supplies, except the inconsideratde nmonut yichled by the ebase, nud a very sinall quantity of corn graun on the bolloins in the innnedinly vicinity by the oeynpants of the " Past," or Fort, themselves. The chief supply of prurisivos or prorender, and almost erery nyevssury of life, bed In le bronghi from a disinuve, mostly from Miami County, Ohio, by nay uf St. Mary's, being Inusporied hy iengons lo the latter place, thence to Furt Wayny by flot.bouts, doun the St. Mary's ricer The dangers and diffi- rnlies that intemed the shipment of supplies through this yhouuel can scurerly he ronceiro at the present day. Tomgme men with lo.uled lemus, Airnggling through siromps and infyrminably innd, day nfler dny, lodging in the wilderness by night ; then conceive the perils of binling in i crooked, narroir stream, through dense forests, beset with fullen fimher nad other olet ructions in ils uholo course. Then think of the hardy bontmen, ilny ufer dry, standing for hour- waist deep in water, entting wwny fallen Irevy and remoring them, exposed to nel and told with no protection but the scanly garments they nore, mul they enturaiyi with noler far ings in sne- cession. Such ins the sererity of the servive, That may personer engaged in it were beought To a premainre grace,

The facilities for ubfaining gooity nere little or no beller They trery, mostly, purchased in New York or Boston, und brought up the Maumee in pirognes, n most Itorious Ink; or packed thrungh the wilderness from Detroit, on horses

When it is considered that these nere the best, and nlmied the only sonrees of supply, at that enrly ilay, the gigante difficulties in the way of fonnding and building a vily, may be Tainlly imagined but never ileserihed, nor even fully appreciated at the present finne. Mr. Hanna, though he clearly saw and deepdy feh them all in their fullest force, uns by no means iliscourge or dishemtened. They ouly excited the ardor and enfimsingmi of his imlomilable inture, und nepred him to redoubled effort nud delerin. nation. "Tle and a few other poblir spirited men, whu generally followed Ins lend, muldressed themselves to the work of their removal nith resulnte and mitiring energy.

"The fruits of Their noble efforts ne this duy lurgely enjor, l'ause for a monicul tud contrust the present Fort Wayne and its surroundings with the Fort Wayne of IN19, Then, but few people except Indians, in schools, 10 elmrches, wo improved country, no town-not even n Jaidont town pulnl. Now, u popnluliun rydilly oppernuching 30,000; n well-cultivated, densely peoples, wealthy, pruilnetive and prosperous commiry iu every direction ; catils, menpikes, milroads amil other facilities for tovel and transportulion ubuund, bringing to the city alaident supplies of produce, goods, building materials, ud whatever inay conduco to the comfort and convenience of the peujde Igiving profilnlde employment in many of them), or adil material prosperity to ihr pace. Nvie afrueinres nre springing up its all directions as if hy magie. Temples of jullie worship, colleges and free selunds ney heing erected nud hesntified. Keerything indicates thrift, enterprise, prog. ress and prosperity Society is out of its infamey, and is rapidly assuming the praportions of n gind.

What has enused this wonderful Transformation - this Islenk, desolate and synge wilderness "To blassam ns the rose," und become, in this short period of time, the lesbitation of n great, a free, a powerful, prosperous amul wagunnimous people? Such wowlers are not visible everywhere. In unany plnces, even in this fisvored lant, instead of The rapid noinnees of iuiprove- ment, we see evident signs of singuntion, of decay und dilapduntion. Why Ils ilifferenco? lu many instances the country meked those enterprising men so indispensable to leail the masses, and inspire them will energetic ell'art, to direel those efforts, when uroused, to proper wenns nud judiciony enls -- in short, to leml n powerful helping hand, nud theow in the scalo u heury purse, when other resources fail. Sociely needs generals in eivil life, 1 As well as iu war Smiguel Hannn wus empilnieally & generul in civil life. llis anme is intimately associnted and bleuled with every period in the his- tory of Fort Wuyny. No public enterprise of importance was ever under- Inken hy her eilszens without his roncurrence mnul nidl. In truth, it would bu hupossible to write the history of Fort Wayne, withoul, nl the same time, writing a large portion af the biography of Samnel Hannn, His vist nud cont rolling influence is visible everyuliere, awl uns pentinl for good wher- ever il exlemled.

Soon After commencing operations at Fort Wayne, Samuel Huton was mypwinted agent of the American Fur l'ompany, u responsible puoilinn, which he filled for n umuber of years to the entire satisfaschon of the einpaus. Ile ana, also, Asqueinte Jndgy of The Cirenit Conrt, and wns repeatedly elected, al flint early period, und in antisequent yenre, u member of the Spune Legislature. Ta the importance of some of his services in the latter cupis- city allusion will, hereinafter, be middle. As his mucans uecumulyledl, be ex- lended his mercuutile operations to other pinces, jourticularly in Lafayelle, where he was, foe Innby years, concerned in a large house with his brother Joseph ; tu Wabash, where he uns connected in Imsiness with his loruther Ilnghi, nad 40 South Bend, with Cul. 1 .. M. und k. P'. Taylor, framu all of which he realized large returns. He became an extensive land owner in Ihr Wabash Valley sud elsewhere. The writer uell remembers having hean him vemark, spon selling out for Indianapolis, is Ir45, that he could go by way of Lafayello and return by nny of Auderwontoun, and fewl his horse al his own cornerib every night iluring his journey.

l'ho Amerienn people live heen informed that n dim foreshadowing of n ymusl to conuret Laky Erie with the Ohio liter iras entertaineil hy Geu. Washington bail uthyr carly patriots nod sitesmen, as one of Thy larwyibili- liey of The for future. But they are indebiel lo Judge llenas for the first practical concepdien uf that tongnificeal project. It was in a familiar con- versntion with the Iute Dacid Burr, in a little smnmer bouse allneheil to his then residenen, nt the northwest corner of Burr and Berry streets, that he first bronched the subject of a canal to connect Lake Erie with the Wubash

Birer, to that gentleman. If struyk Mr. Borr furutably. Hlv wasn scholarly gentleman, of ability und inllneure, well und respectfully remembered by the oller citizens of the pluce, The luo frequently consulted together in regel la this important midter, and partitly matured a plan of operalings, The) opened correspondence with the Indiann Represyulidices und Senaturs in Congress, mid seenred their ficor umil influeney for the great undertaking These efter14 ceglieil, in 1827, in a grant by l'ongress to the State of Indlintin of each alternate section of Inin for six miles im coch side of the proposed line, Through its whole length, to aid in the construction of the count Strange is it may seem al thy present dny, n jaoverful opposition to the ne- cuplunice of the grint by the Sinty, was organized in some parts therent, und luidge Imina was elected to the Legislature us The especial champion of the ennal policy. The pohled IFny Arilent mint protracted, unt resulted in the purchase the necessary rugineering instruments and procure the survey muil lucatien id' the amamit lerel. Judge Hannn, Ducid Burr and a Mr. Junos irere appointed Cannl Commissioners. Julge Hanna irent It New York. Imrehused the idruments, and returning by ung of Detrait, prekei theme on horseback fram think city In Fort Wuyny Cnil engineers were somey in The West nt that day, but the l'ammissionera procured one, mid immediately enlered upon the survey, commenving on the St. Joseph River, six miley ibare Furt Wayne, where the feeder-dam nus ulterivard huilt, Mr. Iturr operating us ruil- man, and Jmlge Ilunna ns nx. mun, both ut len dollars per month. The secondl duy the enginver we Inken sick and we compelled' tu ubndon the work, Judge Hamm iunl Mr. Horr nlone eumtrung and cutit- pleting the survey of the summit ferder. They made their report to the cereding session of the Legislature, uml Julge Hunan, hring ugain a mem- her, evenrel ils adaptiun, mil the pinagage nf on net authorizing the candtrue- lion of Ihr Walsh & Brie fund. Thus originited and muy jungurated, ul most, if it entirely, through thy untiring voorgy, the cubanitable perse. Lerinde uf these Ino wodde jooneers, Honnn and Borr, this stupemluns wurk of interind improvetient - the longest cantimmuns line of' mitifeint nater communication on the American continent, if not in the world - and which uns of sneh menlenlubde inlme to Part Wayne and all Northern Indiann. They are fhr, rery for, in udronce af' what they wonbl lime løen, hod there been no Walesh & Kcie Paul. Indeed, it is un exaggeration tu sny thul they wonld harilty yel hure heen unt of the primerat wilderness withont Thal greal nurk.

Judge Hummus I'mud Pnadissioner fur seremat years, and negotiated fur most of the mey with which the feark nas entried on. In allindling lo this subject, The . Luerican Rentruy Review of Supt. 1, ISEL, sayx:

" I'robably na one enyfrilufted inore In the onceess of the eunnl poliey Inring the first and trying years of its progress, than Suhel lin, ut Fort Wayne, Feom IS28 10 1936, he nas oresively Count Punumuissinger Ljul I'mud Commissioner, besides serving three years in the Sinte Seante und ove in the House, representing. as Senatur, perlinpes one-third the entire uren of the Stole, atul filling, in euch body, for'n point of the time, the post of Clmirmau of the Connl Committee. In thesy. ollieisl stalians hy evinced the sute judgment, Inet and furce of chometer which, nearly o yuncler uf u evntury afterward, enabled him to render important seelive In the northern section of Indiana, the enterprise of compleing, under hnauciul dithenlt ie- such as wonll have discouraged wien less cunrageous in my wuming pecuniary responsibilities, that portion of the Pittsburgh, Purt Wayne & Chiengn Ruil- wny lying west of Crestliny."

l'erhaps the wisdom und ability of Judge Imunit were never more strik. ingly displayed in any single nul uf his life thon in the establishment mul organizalton uf the State Bank of livlions. When the derangement uf the curryney nod financial embarrassment consequent upon the veta of the I'nited Sintes Bank and other kindred muvasnres occurred, he uns a member of thy Legislainre. The President lind recommended The creation uf more State Links lo supply the circulation relired by the elusing of thut institnim, eeordingly, a chiorter was intrisluceil inly the bliuun legislature uf sueli n character Ill Judge Hinna and other judiciary meighets thought it ought onl to pass, lle opposed ils passage with great power and allity, aud was principally instrumental in defeming it , Inn it was clearly seen that u char. fer of some kind would pus at the next seesjun A enunintro was uppajuted In prepare n proper charter during the vnention, In he presentul when the Legislature uguin convened. tuigo Hayna was mudy P'huirmen af thul com. millee, andl fo him was confided the duty of drafting the proposal new che- ler. ilow uell he performed the only rung bo iuferrel from the fuet that if unused both houses of thy Legislature almost precisely as it came fromt lins howls, within. a few ilnys after their coming together, miel it was appduved Inn iry 28, 1841. Thus was created the Sialy Honk of lulinha -15 com. mon consent one of the best bunking institutions that hus veer ysisted in this conutry - an institution that continued m operation Inenty years, iflording the peuplo n safy nud somut cureeney, und yielhog In the Staly i lurge secusunluled fisud af its close : nu institution thnt excelel i marked milurhee un thy subsequent bank legislation of many other Sites. No one ever lost u datfar by the State lunk uf Indiaun.

A hrauch was at once yyuhlished nl Fort Wayne, of which Indige Hawins wuy President such of the thgo, mut Hun. Hugh Mefulloch, Rx-Svere- lary of the United States Treasury, cashier, during the nhule tue af it+ continunnee The branches of this institution woer generally well nul dix. ercelly manngel, hint, occording In it unnahogny pubhe sentiment, the Fury Wuyne Branch wis maneged with preeminent skill and ability.

In 1836, Julgo llama purchased the large remaining land intecest of Bure und Mcl'orkle, adjoing und surrounding the then |dut uf Fart Wayne, "This purchase, although it nlfinitely provedl erey profitable, for many years involved him in surioux huanem embarmsswienty. He immediately com. uu need luying off and selling luts, Int sulys fre sique Time wvery nol rapid, tuoney was esverdingly seurce, nud most of those who did ly were nuble le puy when thvir liabilities hecume dne Meanwhile, the intewe 1 on las laeye purehusy had to be paul regulnely. Mureaver, such was hin lenieney lavuel his ileldory, that he would, und did, for years, oniler uvery kind ml inconvenience unil pecuniary encritice, rather than press or diales them Mullindes have comfortable homes to-day. in this city, whu uro indebted for lvm lo the kindness nul forbearance of Judge Hanum. I was a rule with him necer to urge payment of muy une who kept his julereal povil up, and wany were in premars for vien thul for years together, without being di+ Inrbed.

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BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES .- CONTINUED.

In 1813, un outtet for fonduee and an intel for peuple were nyened by the opening of the caunl to The lake; the country began rapidly lo sellle, And The loun lo improre. The sale of lots iras grenily augmented, money be- Time more obuoilani, and payments more really. Then Judge Inunu began lo reap the benefits of his hazardous purchase-lo phjoy the reward of his rers of luit nul embarrassments, und of his generous forbearance loward his ponr irhluyy. " Ilnnnn's Addition" is a very extensive ond imporinni part of the present rily of l'url Wayne.

For several years succeeding 1836, Judge Ilminn deroled himself mainly lo lhe affairs of the Fort Wayne Branch Bank, In the munagement and im- provement of his ostale, and In the enjoyment of his domestic atul socint re- Inlinis; necepiling, orcasiunall', u sent in the Legislature of the Sinle, During This period, his pel prajeet, the Wabash & Brie Count, wrog open lo Toledu, working minlers in The ilerelopment of bath loin and country, Bul Tho roads leading In P'art Wayne were in n wretched condition much of the thne, mul their improrement becanie a subject uf tilal noepasily. The ques- lion nx In bon The desired imprarement conht be effected ius extensively ngituled, Shant This Time the killing of plunk ronds imas coming into practice in some of the Eastern States and in Chonda, A gentleman of this cuunit, The Into Jesse Vermilyea, risited nul exammed some of them, lak- ing porlieulur note of the mummer of their construction, aml reported fuenr- nbly. The idva nas srized hy Judge Honne with aridity, aml neled upon trith his necustomerl pricupl ness and energy. lle and some other enterpuis- ing gentlemen, here nin] nlong The line northnorit, immediately began to organize tho Fail Wayne & Lima Plank Rond Company, and procure the Binch subscriplinus. The people were rery sulicilons fur the road, but they here grarrally pont in minuter, and thest zuhseriptions were nhuost entirely mule in lind, goods, Inbor, ele. About all the inaney used in builling fifty miles of this road iras borroned uf the Branch Bank, ou the credit of the company , und This arns expended in building the necesenry sten antr-mills. The first ultrmajd to Jel confrnels proved n lailnre. In urder lo gire the york # start, Judge lunua look the firat Ien miles north of Fort Wayne, und irenl personally into The work, soperiulending, dirceling, miyd with his ou'n hands Assisting in The most laterinay operations. Others lidluu ed his example, und within about Iro jenes the road was cumpleled In Ininrio, a ilislunce of fifty miha-tho first improvement of the kindl underlikeu uuil compdered m Northern lundina Thher similar works fallowed in quick succession, lend- ing In Fort Wopur, nuong which was Tho Piqus Plank Roml. In the ron- sIrnrlian of This, as in ibal nf The Lima Hood, Judge Ilnona iras nn nelire and leading porlicipant, While others nolly ilid Their whole duly, il cannol be denied Thal he ins the lleroules, irhose shouldler to the wheel propelled both of Those work« nmrard lunard completion.

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Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 8

Author: Publication date: 1876 Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co. Number of Pages: 472

Author:
Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
Number of Pages: 472