Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 9

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Publication date: 1876
Publisher: Baskin, Forster & Co.
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When The J'ennyylinnin & Dhio Unilrond reached Crestline, nud it was Jornproyed lo peleud it to l'urt Wuyne, uniler the one of the Ohio & Iudinnn Iluilroad, Judge Innos ins readly with his panerfol coupertion. He was Inrgely instrumental in indneing the people of Allen County In vole n sub- scription of $1001,000 in ils capital stuck. This is the Intuing point of the greul enterprise nl Ihnl lime. Without this timely ofd. The work would hare been undefinitely potpuneil, if nul entirely defeated The project was strung in weril, bui u cak in fuils. It erns difficult to find respinusilde pir- lies u bo wrere willing to underlukr tho cuusirneliou of The work ; hul ludge lunun, as in all else, tros equu! lo the emergenes lo 1922, he, in connec- lion with uur respeeled feltir-citizen, l'liny Honglund, Esq., aud The lale Inu, Williuni Mitchell, look The whole courriel from Crestline to Fort Wayne, 14 miles, wwl immerhulely entered upon the prosecutivo of the work. After tuoking soine progress, the acuiluhle muvans uf the company becume entirely exhausted, nud the work iras suddenly brought le u stand-still. . \ meeting of the dirrelors iens called al Bucyrus, hut The prospeel presented ung ull ilark uml dulions No one enuldl derise The inys und wenns lo adinacon step in The wark. The case luuk ul hopeless aud ,lesperale. Dr. Merriman, the P'residleut uf Tho company, n most umiable and estimuble gentleman, re- siguel in ilesquir of reulering nus further serrice, Juilge lanun iras im- mediulely elected lo fill the inequiey ocensioneil hy his resiguntion. In three days le uns in the Eastern cities, pledging his individual credit, und thul of his oundjulors, llanglaud and Miichell, lur funds, This effecled, without delay he listened To Muutreal nud Quebec. lo redleent irou Ihnl Inul been forfeited for non-payment of Irnusportulion. lu this he was successful The rrisis wny pussed-light uns aheid. Work uns resumed. The Ibio & In- ilinun Bnilrand irna ngain ninking progress, and in November, 1854, orer- running the muesl formidable obstacles, the rors frout Pillshurgh and Philudel- phin enme rulling into Fart Warne, unking The echoes ut the wilderness ny iley emine, minl bringing hilarious jor nud ghulness In This hilberto isolated chinwunite. "Then "wus the lown ull n johilee of fensis," festirily oud oxuliniuu, slich ns il Und nerer exhibited befire, unil possilily inny nerer exhibit again. Il urus tho initial line of a system of mihrwols Ihal nre des- lined, il uo listuul dny, la radiule frain Fol Wayne " hike the spokes from the lith of n wheel."

In the nulumn of 18574, chilo encumbered with the huibling nod honorinl embarrassments of the Ithia & Indionu Ruilrwvl, The Fort Wayne & Chicago Italiruy Compmuy uns organized, utul Judge luuun ros elected President. "The means of This company In prosecute The work were lo he derived mininly frutti the sule of tho stock and bonds. The stock subscriptions, uhich wete paid in cash iuln the treasury, were very small, amquuling per- hajer in ull lo less than Three per cent. po tho finnl cost of building nud equipping the roul heteren Furl Wayne nud Chicpro. The stock sulserip- linus nere paid mostly in uncultiroled heds, farms, loun bilsonil labor tepion Ilir road. "A large portion af The real estate Thus conveyed Di The company in anyment al subscriptions to slock (over SI, INK),IX)) in value; wens morl . gagel by the company to obtain the necessary cash means to pay for grading The rosebieny . Other ensh means had to he ilerired from the anle of bomuly ; und, ns the campany hoil been bnl recently organizeil, with bul little or nu wark done on he live of navl, of course its securities met with nu remily Acle. In the faco of These discouraging cireninstances, which woubl hace oucru heliuel almond any wher man, hvlge lhuma nent resolutely to work on The near line. He wus Ibns President noul chief manager of liro rom- mies-both trilhoul money, except trhil his own everlions provided- ichise whited lines extemlel from Crestline lo Chiengo, n disingeo of 280) miles, mul a levting contractor for the einstruction af one of theni. Insteul uf heing overcome ur depressel by this incense responsibility : instead of fuinling or fahering uniler the load that would Ince ernshed most other men, hie tras fully up to tho neensinn. The difficulties Ihn surrounded tho only nerred kim lo The exerlion of his great perrers. Thir brightness af his Irue chiracler werer hluzed out in fuller ellulgence. The premier the pressore, The greater iros nbeny. his resmirees, mol the greater the elasticity of his

l'uder such adverse cirrmustaners os nbore alluded In, il icny nol lo he espreleil that The work waubl prugress with great mpblity. The Pennsyl- i'min Central Unilca pl P'ompauy extended it little nesisInner In the neu en- lerprise, but not sufficient lo elfeel nny cery decided result. In the begin- ning of 18di, hquerer, The ents tere running lo Columdon t'ily, and vousid- eralle gruling had heen dono between thul inun mil Hymonth, a disinnee of 44 miles further wesl.

During Ibnl yenr il became aprirenl lo muiny of The blockholders As well us nowtigers of the separale corporations extending from Fillsburgh lo Chi. cigo, and which, in fael, fr ull praellent and business purposes, firmed hut une line, thal The interests and convenience of euch, as well as of the public, wouldl bo pronoiled by merging Their separate existence into one greal con- solilulrd erupnuy. Judge Inoun early und earnestly espensed the cause of eliseliniiun, and n meeling nas callol af Fort Wayne lo consider nul sel njenu The subjrel, Contrary to espectaling, considerable uppositiun to the projeeleil consolididion manifested itself ul This meeting, heuled and mao-

aged by the shrewd nud talented Clinrles L. BenH, encouraged anil assisted by others hardly less nstule. The dehile irus animaled and exciting. The hest talent on both sides was irarmily enlisted. The contest exteniled lut ron- siderable length, ouil its issue napeared doubtful. Before the ilebale elused, Jniige IInnun rose for a Gual uppeal. Na une whin hearel Ilunit briet effort will forget il. It irus n conilenseil array of Thels and arguments-a splendid The opposition wns literally crushed out. The role resulted in a large majority for consolidation-wany irbo lind opposed il in the beginning roling in ils furor. Thus, on The first dny of August, 1831, The three minor corporations were phlilerled on fernis salisCiclory In Themselves, nud The great Fillshurgh, Fort Wayne A Chirago Kailiny Compony succeeded To Their franchises nul linbilities.

The llon. G. W. C'oss was elected President, nnil Juulge Ilanin Vice I'residcot nf The consoliunled congeiny, the Inller helling the position notil his drecase,

The netr nrrougeincol infuseil noir life and energy inte the mirk. Jesse 1. Williams, Esq., iens appointed Chief Engineer, and under his rigorous management, in November, a tillle over three months after The consolida- lion, The road was open lo Plymouth, sixty-six miles irest of Fort Wayne. Tbnl section of the Cincinnati, J'ern & Chicago Hnilromil extending from Plymouth lo la Porte, amil There conueeling trith The Michigan Southern & Northern Indinnn Railroad, iros openeil for business uboul the same lime, Ilins giring, by the nid of Ino other lines, n thrangh route from l'inls- Inirghi to Chicago. The illet wos conceived, and glined some strength, of permilling the nestern terminus of' The Pittsburgh, Fart Wayne & Chicago Road In rest al Plymouth for n trhile, perhaps indefinitely ; nnil of renrbing Chicagu orer tho Tivo other roules, by iny of La l'orle. This pinu Judge Ianua opposed writh even more than his usual rigor and ability, and was largely tostrumeninl in Jefenling il. Notbiog less Thou n direel, independ- ent line-the company's own hun -reulil satisfy hint, is the roundabout arrangement, upon Iriol, proreil iliendrantageous lo The company, il u'as abamloneil, andl the ilireet line pushel foruntil in nu early completion.

While .luige Ilnona would never yield nn ioin of the julerests of the company to any outside considerlion, hir uns bol unmindful of the interests of Furl Wayne, nor, perhaps, of his own individual inlereals. When those uf The company could be as mell or hietter Bnbserved nl Fort Wayne Ilinn elsewhere, he preferred Forl Warue. Hence his uoliring efforts for The esinblishnicol nod builling up here of the innuonse repair shops nud minut- factories ilinl constituie so important n feature of Fari Warne.

To hiint nre we mainly, if nol colirely, indeldeil for the ioenleulable benefit derived from their location here. His sagueily fueesowy their lin- portoore from The beginning, quil he never, far a moment, lost sight of it. Ile lind Ibo aid nuil emiperation of other nlite nml influenliul men, hut he hail to encounter The delerininoil opposition of others equally alle and iu- fuenlinl. Those who are familiar with the proceedings of the Bonril of Di- reclors from The time of consolidation onward know nith irhul persistent industry nud faithfulness he pursued his cherished ohjeet. Sometimes he nilvanced lowrard it by direel approaches-somelimes ly strategy, ar it "Ilauk moremenl "-bul he alunj'endraneed, never recedeil. Sucersa uns The work of years, but success ins nehiered at last, und the people uf This cily nre now' enjnying, and atwors will enjoy, the fruits of Those enduring, perserering, effective exertions for their benefit that were silently, stend- figily proseculed all those years, and of which few of Them irere mirare until the work uns consuinmaled. Judge llannu, by his wisdom, his mod- emmiun, his prudence, his concilialury manuers, possessed a standing mul exerled an influence in the Board of Directors equated by few nud surprisseil hy none ; anil now that he has conseil from his Inhors nud gone lo his re- wopl, il is no disparagemeol lo The ollier distinguished geullemen irlo com- posed Ilnl board, uor evidence of undue porliulity an the part of his friendls, irbien they regaril him as haring heen "The noblest Rowman of them all."

On The lib dar of June, 1866, The day after The death of Juilge Hinnim. n meeting of condolence was held at the Court House by the citizens of Forl Wni'ne, and muldressed by llon Joseph R. FAlgerlon. At The risk of sonie repelilion, Ibe following Irulbful oud eloquent passages nre extraeleil from his adilress on ibal occasion :

" When I first kneir +Judge Hunny, he was a large loin proprielor in Fort Wayne, and a lorge real eslale wirner in Allen Couoly-repuled rich in properly, but poor in money-anul all the powers of his iniud und body seclurd identified with nud concentrated on the derelopment of his couulf, and The building up of Fort Wayne. Ile bnd hefure been nn active coadju- lor in the construction of the Wabash & Krie Caunl, nod, as one of the Fund Commissioners of Judiuna, had in parl borne uell the heary barilen of mounging the finances of The Slale iluring The darkest period of ils hunneinl history.

"The Wabash & Erie Connl, upon which greul hopes lind been busel, und uol realized those hopes. It had doue wuch, but not all Ihil nas re- quired, for tho munlerinl derelofqueul of the Wabash Valley, I had helped Fort Wayne lo grow from an ladion frontier Trading past lo a Ihricing county town of some 2,000 or 8,000 people: bul with the projection and construelinn of' railroads on the north and south of us, drawing lo them The moremeul of toen lo The Noriluirest, Fort Wayne ond Northern linliaua were pussel by, nud il plainly irus hol in the power of The Wabash & Erie Canul lo Micr Furl Wayne from impendling singnulion. No man more clearly san this Ibnn ilidl Judge Ilunna, nor tras more selire nnd nble in effort that lee In nroid the impending ecil.

" A section of country so Thinly peopled aud so poor in money na uurs was then uns nut nble lo build railroads, und al first hunt little hope ins fell nr elfort made in Ihal direction. Plank runds, Ilien a new and popular mode of public improvement-Ibe inlerinls und means for which were in onr juneer-trere first louked lo lo supply the growing unnl of engy Imns- porinlion, and lo themu Julge Ilunna, chief among our citizens, ilireeled his energies. lie uns n projeclos and aclire and Jeuding worker in the lorl Warue & Linn Plank Roul, aml Ihr Piqua Plauk Rond, Iwro prajerls ky which Fort Wayne sought lo droir lo itself n lorge northern und suntbern Imde muurally belonging lo il. Cilizrus of sixteen or eighteen years' revi- dence here all kumuy how Milhfolly Juilge Hanou workeil lo build plauk roads. With The efficient endpernlian of William Mitchell, Druuns Nichuls, und eller public-spirited rilizens in aud unt of Fort Wayne, The Limon Einuk Hvad, finy miles lung, was built, anil this show led lo tho consirnelion of the Binilean, and, in part, The Columnbin, the loshen and the Fiquo Plunk Raads, all of which did their parl, and wiel, lo aileunee the growth and prosperity of Fort Wayne.

"Julge Hanna not ouly planned and worked with his hendl, kut with his hands nlso, m building the Lima Plank Honil. He tens ne of The can- Trelors ne That work, and 1 grell remember secing him un one occasion, with axe in hundl, superintending the work aud showing the turkmen huty lo lay the plank, Plank roads hod Their ilay ; they were fuor antislilnles far the iron way and the loenmolire power of slesui.

" When Ibnl grand unlionnl line of rajlu'ny which is now the prile and strength of Fort Wayne, nud with irhich his nome is fhrerer identified, the l'illsborgh, l'orl Wayne & Chicago Hailuny, was first projertel-brginning with The seelion froin Tillsburgh lo Mossillon, Thence I'ram Massillon Iu T'roul line, thence from Crestline ta Fart Wayne, nud finally deceloping in The grand iden af n consolinled, enntinnous line of railway fram Pillshurgh Inke held of the golden enterprise fhnl hus, in len yens' lime, lo hring na Fort Wayne from The condition uf an insignificant coumy loin lo muk nod dignity among the firal emmuruereindl and manufacturing lowns of Inlinnn, wul uul only to de thnl, but to make himulrels of miles of before wildernesy canniry lo benr Their gollen grain, and to ilul Theme urer with Thriving. hust louns aud eillages.

".hulge Ilanon early beemne identifiedl with the Ohio & Inilinun Ruil. road-the middle section, belireen Crestline and Fort Wayne, of what is noir the l'illsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chiengo Railnny-on which work irns romanneed in the spring of 1852. He was greally instrumental in prorus- ing the hodinun charler for This vondt, muul the Allen County, Imilionu, snb- seription of $100,01x1, nint other county subscriptions in Chio Iu nid in its raushnelian. In 1852, he sureceded Di. Merriman us President of The monil, aml heenme emphatically ils leniling spielt. In September, 1852, be Tras nunle first President of The Fort Wayne & Chiengo Ruilronil Company, oh its organization ut Warsaw. Proin Thil timne until The reorganization of The Fillaburgh, Fort Wayne & Chiengo Hnihray Y'ompuup, in 18h1-2, no mun hohl # tmore important position, or look & mere nelire or influential part in the completion mul mangement of' Ibnl line uf maihrny Than dul Imige Hannn. Ilis labor and devotion in the trork were nueen ing.

".It is muy fortune In he infinitely associated with Julge lanna in gel- ire raitrout mangement from 1851 In the elose af 1800. 1 had abundant opportunity of knowing his zel, his ability, his deration, his nutiring libor in The great work on which he lin'l built his hapes of' forlour and n publir nume. The powerful corporation, wpur se strong nnil prosperous, meusuring ils munol income by well-oigh hult n seure of millions ut ilollors, kuer in ils early histørr, both befine and after The consolidation, many ilurk andl gloomy hours. From This fall of 1851 lo the close of 1860, il passel through n fearful struggle, not only for the completion of its work, hut fur ils mrn corporale and hunneiul life. The finuneinl ilisaster of 1837 found the con- solutalel company with an incomplete road, irill meager rerennes, ond & bruken eredit. Many of its best friends, eren mnong ts ou n mimiagers, irere inclined In gron treury anu lo minl hy the muy. Through all this Irying pertol ny man trorked more faithfully nul hopefully, or irns consulird mure freely, or lenneil npou writh more confidrure, than iras .hulge Inunu. Ile mas a Tower of strength lo au almost ruined enterprise. IIr ius nl brief liurs gloomy and ilespouding, luft he irs n mim of birge hope, omil n rubusl successful end. I think I muy Truly say Ilint no minu irlo has ever been enuneeled with the management of the Tillshurgh, Furt Wayue nul Chienge Railway lins had n Jorger shnro of eunfiilener of ull interested in it that Indge Ilanun possessed. I have seen him in all phases of the Company's nflnirs, and in tho mulsl of uegolinlians involring the wuust rilnl interests, in Chicago, Clorelmul. Fillshnrgh, Phitoilelphin mul New York. Surrounded by the most sngncious financiers, auul raihrny meu of the country, such men As .1. F. D. Luier, Richard 11, Winslou', John Ferguson, Charles Merin, J. Hilger Thomson, Willinmu B. Ogileu, Genrge W. Cass, Aminsa AInne, There una in Minilge Iloona n weight of elinrueler, a ualive sagacity nul far-seeing juilg- went, und n fidelity of purpose lo the juillic Trust he represeuled, that com- munmiled The respeel of olt, and mnude hiin the prer of the ublesl of' them.

" If I were lo allemipi lo ilefino mnost olenrly .Judge Ilmun's position and influence in the ninnagement of the Pillshurgh, Fort Wayne & Chicago Rniliny, I would say lunt he irna especially the multornir and guardian of The local interests of The rond. Ile iras erer naichful for the hume stuck- holders, the local Inule, the rights und interests of the lowras and counties on The railway, nud the rights und interests of the men who worked on the rond. In those ilurk duys, when The company coull nul or did not ulunys par is wen, and suffering und strikes uere impendling, Judge Hauna spul- p.nhizeil with miud ilid all he couldl lor The men out the rond who eurhed Their duily brevl hy the work af their hittids noil Tho suent of their brans " Judge Hnuua lireil lo see the Pittsburgh, Fort Wayne & Chicagu Rnilu ny n completed noil eminently successful publie wurk. le fired lo ste Fort Wayne, the city of his love, In which he enme when il urus hul a Irul- ing-pasi, with no loin ur eren just office hetireen il anil Chicago, grown le n birge noul prosperons eily. Ile lived tu renp, as he deserred, large peeun- inry rewards for his years of loil and risk und selt-deuinl. Ur dlied peace- Tully in his own home, surrounded by the erillences of the ninlerinl prus- periny he liail uidleil la promole,

"In bur cenictrry of Liudeniround There is a beautiful monumenl which Judge lani's gien forceusl und gnod luste himl ulrealy erected lo his tem- ory. Il will erer be lookedl on with interest; but Samuel Inoun lins n grander and tuore lusting munuutent in Fort Wayne itself. Ol hun may well her soid here whnl ix inscribed upon n muurble fuhlet orer fler entmuce lu the choir in St. Paul's Cathedral in Lonilan, lo The weutory of Sir I'hristapher Wren, its architeel : . St Monumentum reguaru circumspice.'

"Que marked fetlure of Juulge llunnu's charneler iras his untiring energy. Il ivus nol in his unlure lo cesse lonurk, until he ceased lo lire. We hare erulence of this us well ny nther morkeil characteristics, his hopeful- tess and self-reliance, in Tho zeal and energy with which, just before his ileuth, he was entering upon a ver fielil of public lubor, the Imildling of the Grand Rapids & ludiaus Ruilivay, u prujeel second only in ils jullie im- purinnee, nud in ils bearing upon the interests af Fort Wayne, lu The l'ills burgh. Furt Wayuo & Chicago Ruilirny ilselr.

" Kuowing Judge lanun as I dil, and of the influences he irus able la hring lo bear upnu his new enterprise, I hinre butt little doudil Thul if he lied liceul onil relniued his menin) and physical strength, hul few years would linre elapseil before The iron mails of The Brand Hopids & liliana Huilway troubl luce stretched I'rom Fart Wayue lo Mackinawr. lint, like ather greatly useful juhlie wien, it was his fale, under The will of Hail, ta ilie ere he sectned lo luutre raundled The full sphere of his usefulness.

" It is perlinps nol Dieet that I shouthl say hupt n feir forits more itx lo llo personal ehntavler nnJ domestic hnbils of Julge Iluntin, Most of you knew hint trell, fier he trent in nud ont hel'ore you for many years. Neither in per- son hor miud was he what may be called n polished or elde iled man. lle wns u self-ninde man. He lind receired few adenulages of corly eduelion. Ilis tros nol a discipdinel michl in The scholastic sense of the term. His lexcher irns The experience of nn nelice nud ereulful lite, le nas emineally n. mnn of nffnirs-a practienl man-nol n woman of minulis or Jelnil-nol a particularly orderly or systeunlie man, hut one uf n large, elcar minil, and of indomitahlo purpose, grasping with grenl poner The salient points mil bearing onil end of n publir question, and moring lownrd il, if not alanys rupadly or gracefully, rel strongly nud surely. While Judge Hunna irs nol n schulnr, ho irag n great reader, and lind learnedl much I'row books, ns rrell as from men aud Things, phil if without The nplilnde or genins lo proilnee ulnl iras rlegunt in literature or in nrl, he iras un intelligent admirer und julge of holl.

". Judge Innna belunged to the higher Irpe of the pionver elnsy of men. lle was n planter nud builder, more Imun n legislator. Ile lind the linpe, Thu Longe, the forethonghit, the fertility uf resonree, the untaltering purpose und will that characterize the planters of' colonies und founders of cilies. He was it line type of many uf The nnlearned, but necortheless trise nail nule men who were pioneers of the Northwest, With high elements of ylalesmanship in his unInre, he was not altogether nulnuledl for legisintire or rven mlministralive allesmonship, le hul rarely sought for or hell political ullive. Ne iras nol u julilicinn ; he inored in a higher sphere of life. Il lis heen snid of Muunsarb Culler, ono of the pioneers of Ohio, . lle wyn4 mare thun a statesman, he was the founder of n Siate. In the covered ungon in which he left his rilluge Woune in Massachusetts lo Taund Murielta, the in- periu] State of Ohio iras wrapped np.' The some sentiment mny he nppheil lo Julge Inmu. lle tras more than a shdeshmm, for he had in him the ele- ments and powers of the men who hnild cities and l'onml Sinled.

" With ull his mental strength and publie narfolness, il iras perlinges in his demesure life and social relations that Julgo Inuna uppenred io Tho liegt whunlage. I hueco necer heard n whisper nguinst the pucity of his prirule monils. He ins a tempernle, nell controlled minn. He was the ulal of his family. Ile was of n genial, sociai uninre, Inll nl Times of a gunint, hamels, simple Immor, Ilnl und uhon il the freshness of chihlhood. Ho lared his

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children and his gramichildren, and chillren mmil young folke generally. le tras pleased to have them with him ml uromul him. In the gallery of our arcomplished young irlist, Mr. J. A. Shonll, I have lately seen the Letrascopie ciens of Juilge Hummu's hmmmestend, himself and his household. "They will remain ns rrvid pictures, umut unty of the person, bill of the habits uml character of the man. Among the pleasing mementoes That will remainin of him, hone can for more pleasing than these miniature seenes, portraying lodge Hunnu, the string mind earned worker through n life of public care, non jileased spectator nud nelor in the scenes of his own home,

"'When such men ns Judge Bounn die, not only the public henel is filled with smitness miel un uhiding sense of lodg, hul there is within the Annelury if Ins own householdl n depth of surraw thul canhol he futhomed."

.Indge Hanno neerden The presidency of the Grand Rapids & Indinun Hoisiny l'ompony, la which Mr. Edgerton alludes in the freegoing pisanges, with extreme remetunee. He sremeil ta hinve a farchoding that his life's aurk ins drawing Is n olove, The position hul hoon drungly urged upon him, Int he Innl steadily dvelined it. When he ans ulmint leaving home In alleil a meeting of The Threeturs nl Grand Hopids, less than Ino months he- fonte his recense, the remark was made to him that he sronhl return President of the company. Itv replied "Na, that cannot be," and added, with n nominfol cadence, " the responsibility is too great. I ennnot nevepl il ' The a .all showed that although n man mny be a ruler nmong men, he connul days govern his wien actions. He returned President of the company. In desire for the suer css uf The ruail, amt the henthits its construction would confer upon n city irhuse interests ho bad cherished mul fostereil for n life- mur, orerenino any olgrefinns he had enterinjuri to nevepl the luborionsund lesponsilde pusifinn. nulgr luann's effort for the improvement of huth luan mul enuntry more hul confined lo those of n unblir nainre, foil his ne ins were nlivays fevely muhuneed for the promotion and encourageuient uf pricale nud indic imnl enterprise. The noofen fuetory of French, Hannn & in, the extensive foundry mol machine shops of Buss & Huan, mul the laup huh, spoke nnil heuding Guetocy of Olds, Bunun & Co., tuing be ciled as The Inter instances of the kind, and nitest his liberality in this regard. 'They wir ull essentially nideil in their carlice singes, ky the use of his capital.

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Illustrated Historical Atlas of the State of Indiana, Part 9

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

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