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recorder's office a strong spirit of opposition to the movement was manifested in this and the adjoining counties. There were grave objections to the bill itself, to the provisions of the law, and serious doubts as to any real good resulting from such outlays of money as that company might make. I quote from a publication in 1871 the following :
" This company cannot drain the Kankakee without destroying a great natural dam of stone, some sixteen miles in extent, at Momence, Illinois, eight miles from the Indiana line, and as it is a valuable water-power, whose proprietors have a perpetual charter from the State of Illinois, and a paid-up capital of $1,250,000, it is not likely that the waters of the Kankakee will be reduced one inch by this company. The whole thing is a stupendous fraud upon the public .
Meetings of the citizens were held at different places ; a strong, wide current of popular sentiment set full against the operations of the Kankakee Valley Draining Company ; and the probability seems to be that the ben- efit assessment will never be collected.
Some more large ditches, judiciously cut, might be a benefit to the dry marsh, but this is gradually becoming sufficiently dry not only for pasturage and grass but for cultivation.
The Kankakee region in our bounds may well be called wild, strange, and magnificent. A river is its southern limit, a singular, lonely river, yet a river abounding with wild life. Between the river and the prairie are about seventy-five square miles of wet and dry marsh and of wooded islands. Beginning on the east these islands are
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named thus : Little Beech Ridge, Walnut Knob, Honey Locust, Big Beech Ridge, Warner's Island, Fuller's Island, Red Oak Island, Brownell's Island, and White Oak Island. These are in Township 32, Range 7, and Township 32, Range 8. The last named grove or island is one of the largest in the region, extending for some three miles, from Section 30 in Range 8, eastward. In Township 32, Range 9, beginning on the west side, these islands of timber are thus named : Sugar Grove on Sec- tions 29 and 30 ; Ash Swamp north of Sugar, in 20 ; River Ridge from 33 to 36; Stave Shanty, north of River Ridge on 34 and 35. In this are two dwellings and several In- dian mounds. Also, Wheeler's Island on the east side of 26, extending into Section 25, in which is one dwelling house; South Island, on 24, containing two dwelling houses; Bolivar Island, Long Willow or Crab Apple Grove, and School Grove Island.
These ridges and islands are all sandy. The timber is white and black oak, ash, cotton-wood, soft maple, sycamore, and swamp burr oak. The last is said to be the best timber in the region for fencing purposes. Some of these varieties, especially the ash, will grow in the water, and thus they make a regular swamp. Getting this timber out in the winter is called "swamping."
On the western side of the county G. W. Cass and W. F. Singleton hold a large tract of this marsh land. A turnpike road has been constructed near the river, ex- tending eastward for several miles, and thus opening the way for additional settlements on the islands and the sandy ridges. A saw mill still further east, nearly south of Orchard Grove has been put in successful operation.
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CUMBERLAND LODGE.
To this year, of 1872, may be accredited the beginning of Cumberland Lodge Farm, on School Grove Island, in the Kankakee Region.
The first settler on this island was John Hunter, by occupation a hunter and trapper. He spent a number · of years along the" Kankakee, following his favorite occu- pation, and camping on different islands. After moving from island to island for ten years he bought six acres on School Grove Island, and made that his headquarters.
Heath and Milligan, of Chicago, afterward bought land on the island. They, with eight other Chicago gen- tlemen, built in the grove in the fall of 1869, and estab- lished a hunter's home, which was called Camp Milligan. The house is evidently constructed for hunters' head- quarters. It is kept by G. M. Shaver and family. Hunt- ing parties come from Chicago and other cities, spend a few days, register their success, and enjoy the exercise. No game is allowed to be sold. From September to No- vember are the months for hunting, or more properly for fowling. The game is mostly ducks, geese, and brants. Some of the entries in the Hunters' Record Book kept at Camp Milligan, may be of interest. Eight gentlemen, in a few days, shot sixty-six snipes and five hundred and thirteen ducks. Another says, four gentlemen shot fifty snipes and five hundred and fifteen ducks. "September IIth, Sunday, no shooting." Another entry mentions shooting from September Ist to 17th, " except Sundays." G. M. Shaver alone killed four years ago eleven hundred ducks, besides other water fowls.
In one of these hunting parties, that visited the island
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in 1871, were two enterprising English gentlemen, Wil- liam Parker and Captain Blake, who were on a hunting tour in the West, and who were so much pleased with the location, that having made since then a trip to Europe, they have this year returned and have invested quite a sum of money in lands on the island and in the adjoining marsh, and in buildings, and in stock. They have erected a dwelling house, barns, and kennels; have im- ported from England some sixteen of the choicest blooded dogs known to sportsmen; also some choice Alderney cows, and horses ; and have imported or purchased other choice stock. They have a black bear and some foxes. Both of these gentlemen are excellent sportsmen, and, in the words of Captain Blake, they "expect to combine business with pleasure."
Camp Milligan still remains and is visited as usual.
The improvements near by, made by these English gentlemen, bear the name of Cumberland Lodge, and bid fair to be, in the importation and improvement of stock, very beneficial to the farming interests of Lake. The results may show that this new style of farming and this commencement of importation, from the island of Great Britain direct to a little island in the Kankakee Region, were among the important events in our county for the present year.
These gentlemen seem to be abundantly supplied with the means needful for accomplishing large enterprises.
The great excitement of 1872 has been
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" THE BURGLAR."
THE EXPLOSION, THE PURSUIT, THE ARREST, AND THE TRIAL.
THE EXPLOSION.
On Sunday morning of June 9th, a crowd assembled in front of the Treasurer's Office, in Crown Point, amid very unusual circumstances. Some $46,000 were known to have been in the safe within the vault the night before, together with a tin box of supposed valuables of unknown value deposited the day before by a stranger; and now, as the anxious citizens gathered round, they saw a broken wall, ruined vaults, an open safe, and abundant evidences of a fearful explosion. They learned that a stranger, of singular appearance and marked individualities, who en- tered the town the Friday before and had been observed by many of the citizens during Friday and Saturday, had deposited with the County Treasurer for safe keeping a box represented to contain valuables. This box, made of tin, some eight inches in length and five in width, was deposited on Friday and taken out on Saturday morning. It was again deposited on Saturday afternoon, to be called for on Monday morning. The treasurer had no suspic- ion, and retired at evening, in entire confidence, to his home. The stranger also retired, pretended to take the evening train, but was seen lurking around town at a late hour Saturday night. It was also ascertained that about one o'clock the tall, singular looking stranger, commenced work upon the outer door of the office and bored above and below the lock fourteen holes through the door. Soon an explosion was heard by the night watchman and three other citizens who were near the Rockwell House at that hour, and these hastened to the office from whence
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the sound proceeded. The stranger fled at their approach, the treasurer was aroused, the ruined vault was exam- ined, the money was found within the building, and the anxiety of those most deeply interested was relieved. The little box which came so near placing $46,000 in the hands of an artful, designing man, was found to have contained a strip of tin, a gun lock, a watch, a percussion cap, and, it is supposed, some gunpowder and nitro-gly- cerine. The whole was ingeniously arranged to produce an explosion at an hour indicated by the watch, and caused by the motion of the watch. But for the wake- fulness of a few citizens the money and the stranger would have departed to unknown regions in that eventful night of June 8th.
THE PURSUIT.
The baffled, inchoate burglar, amid the exchange of pistol shots, eluded the grasp of his discoverers, made good his retreat to the woods, and, doubtless in a sul- len, disappointed, vexed mood, having missed a prize almost within his reach, retired southward toward the Kankakee wilds.
The County Commissioners met on Tuesday, June 11th, ordered repairs, offered a reward of $1,000 for the appre- hension of the fugitive, and James H. Ball, J. W. Hughes, and J. Kain, started in pursuit. It was found that the tall and disguised stranger had been seen about sunrise north of Lowell, and soon after sunrise had passed through the Lowell Cemetery, and had been hailed near noon above Oak Grove, had passed southward through the Kankakee Marsh, and at four o'clock P. M. was at Beaver Ditch, where he sold a watch and continued southward. At dark he had stopped near Beaver Lake
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and spent the night at the house of Newton Nichols. The next day he was seen by herdsmen passing south- ward along the east side of Beaver Lake, and was last seen a mile and a half south of Morocco. These facts the pursuing party ascertained ; but after a diligent search through that region and from Rensselaer to Kentland, learning from the citizens of Morocco " that burglars, horse thieves, and desperadoes, are often tracked to that vicinity, where they seem to disappear," they returned without a prisoner to Crown Point.
THE ARREST.
Weeks passed, and months passed, and no discoveries were made tending to secure the person of the fugitive. But in September a message came to Crown Point from Warsaw, Indiana; it was speedily answered; and on Tuesday, September 24th, the Sheriff of Lake, H. G. Bliss, accompanied by John Kain, E. C. Field, Esq., and the Treasurer, John Brown, arrested a supposed crimi- nal in Warsaw, and on the evening of the same day he was securely lodged in the county jail at Crown Point, amid considerable excitement among the citizens. The question now was whether this tall and singular looking prisoner was the tall stranger seen on our streets last June. The public were deeply interested in the solution of the question, and strong and conflicting opinions were at once expressed by various citizens.
THE TRIAL.
After the usual law preliminaries and some delays, the second day of October was set for the examination of the prisoner before Justice Fry. The morning came, and the Court House was thronged as it had never been be-
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fore at a justice's examination or trial. The ladies of Crown Point crowded the galleries as they had never done at any court during our existence as a county, while from day to day the trial progressed; manifesting a strange interest which had never been exhibited till now for or against any prisoner. And yet not so strange, for a remarkable prisoner appeared before them. He was tall, strongly built, swarthy and pale, just recovering from sickness, marked in his individualities, a man whom one would expect to recognize among ten thousand. He was called Col. Battles, was said to have been an officer in the Southern Rebel Army, and was a man of acknowl- edged immoral character. He was claimed to be the same stranger who so nearly succeeded in carrying away from our county $46,000, and several of the ladies were to appear among the witnesses in behalf of the State and for the defense. The question under examination was, the identity of this tall, dark looking prisoner, and that tall, disguised stranger who was held responsible to civil law for an attempted but unsuccessful burglary. The counsel for the State were E. C. Field and T. J. Wood ; for the prisoner were Barnard and Barnard, T. S. Fan- cher, and Griffin and Youche. The examination contin- ued with increasing interest during Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday ; excellent order prevailing in the court room ; many citizens giving strong testimony for and against the prisoner; and on Friday evening and Saturday long and able speeches were made by the attorneys. The progress
of the trial, as numerous witnesses were examined who had seen the stranger and now saw the prisoner, brought distinctly to notice the great difference which exists in
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the observing power of different individuals. Some were confident that the stranger and the prisoner were one, others as confident that they were two; and some were quite uncertain. After hearing patiently the evidence and the arguments the justice decided that the prisoner should be held for trial at the Circuit Court, placing his recognizance at $2,000.
The counsel for the prisoner made out, a few weeks afterwards, a writ of habeas corpus, and another examina- tion was held before Judge Gillett, of the Common Pleas Court. This resulted in the release of Col. Battles, and the great burglar excitement was ended. The thousand dollar reward remained in the treasury of the county.
Hoping to perform the part of an impartial historian, I add; that, while, it may be, no jury would have con- victed the prisoner under the strongly conflicting testi- mony, the conviction is strong on many minds that Jus- tice Fry rendered a perfectly correct decision ; and that there are those, who heard the first examination, and who noticed particularly the different manners in which the two classes of witnesses proposed to identify, in whose minds no reasonable doubt remains that Col. Bat- tles was in reality the inchoate burglar.
In closing this chapter a few reflections and remarks are added.
For the first fifteen years of our history the only com- munication with the Chicago market was by the regular team route, the three and four days' wagon trip. For the next fifteen years much business was done, by means of railroad transportation, at Lake and Hobart, at Dyer and Ross. Thus thirty years passed. What complete
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facilities the third fifteen years will furnish cannot now be told ; but the Great Eastern Road, the Danville Road the road along the Kankakee marsh, and the projected Continental, are almost bringing a market to every man's door. Fifty years will doubtless show the possession of the facilities of an old country. The children will almost forget the ways in which their fathers went to market. Hardships are soon forgotten by those who enjoy their benefits.
The following, as one illustration out of many, may seem, years hence, almost incredible :
George Parkinson, of South East Grove, in the winter of 1839 and 1840, sold pork at Michigan City for one dollar and fifty cents a hundred weight, hauling it some forty miles. He sent a load of grain. The proceeds were returned, the man who did the hauling received his pay, and about fifty cents were left. Those now enjoying and yet to enjoy the benefits purchased by persistent effort, may do well to remember some of their fathers' early struggles.
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Comparatively few families preserve records, either of their ancestry or of the more important events in their own history. Many families have not preserved the date of their settlement in Lake. As examples of family dates preserved from one generation to another, I place on re- cord here the following :
I .- THE HOLTON FAMILY.
Wm. Holton came over from England in the ship Fran- cis in 1634 ; he died 1691 ; John Holton died 1712; Wil- liam Holton died 1757; John Holton died 1797; Joel
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Holton born 1738; Alexander Holton born 1779; J. W. Holton born 1807. And this makes one line from the ship Francis, fourteen years after the landing of the May Flower, to an old settler of Lake County, now a resident on a Deep River farm.
II .- THE DINWIDDIE FAMILY.
In this family line David has been a favorite name. Records have been burnt or lost containing the dates of David Dinwiddie, Ist ; David Dinwiddie, 2d ; David Din- widdie, 3d; David Dinwiddie, 4th. Then follow David Dinwiddie, 5th, born 1724; David Dinwiddie, 6th, 1755; Thomas Dinwiddie, 1787 ; a brother of Thomas, David Dinwiddie, 7th, 1792; J. W. Dinwiddie, 1813; a brother David Dinwiddie, 8th, 1816; Oscar Dinwiddie, 1845. This family name is known in United States history, one member of the family, in the time of Washington, having been Governor of Virginia.
III .- THE BALL FAMILY.
Francis Ball came from England in 1640; Jonathan Ball, born 1645 ; Benjamin Ball, born 1689 ; Charles Ball, Ist, born 1725 ; Charles Ball, 2d, born 1760; Hervey Ball, born 1794; T. H. Ball, born 1826 ; Herbert S. Ball, born 1856. Thus six generations in this line come between the English ancestor of 1640 and a Lake County youth born at Cedar Lake.
Another family in this county possess heirlooms which have been handed down from father to son, which are said to have been brought over in the May Flower. The records however are not in this county. This is the fam- ily of Ebenezer Saxton.
Still another resident of the county, Augustine Hum-
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phrey, settting here in 1840. whose family have nearly all passed away, has records in the possession of his brother which are said to give a connected line back to the Nor- man Conquest or the Battle of Hastings, 1066.
The value of such records as the above may seem slight to some, - and they are placed here simply as sam- ples of what family records mean -yet families possess- ing such would not willingly part with them, and where slight records are handed down from generation to gen- eration, and especially where diaries are kept of import- ant or interesting events, it is easy for an annalist to find material for his work. Of such choice material, carefully collected, the foundation for standard histories is made.
For want of well-kept records there are disagreeing dates even in United States history. Much more is this the case as we go back toward the dark shadows of a re- mote antiquity.
Thirty-eight years have now passed away since the first settlement in this region. Only twelve more years, or eight years after the centennial celebration of our na- tional existence, will bring us to the semi-centennial cele- bration of the settlement of our county. If good records are kept by those now acting, a fair fifty years' view may then be taken of the growth of Lake: and then I am sure there will be some appreciation of the work accom- plished by this unpretending volume, in treasuring up many facts that would otherwise have been buried in ob- livion. While not done as it would have been done had more time and more means been at my disposal, I cheer- fully and hopefully commend it to the consideration of
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my fellow citizens. And if in the land of the living when the rich autumn comes of the year 1884, although perchance a distant wanderer, I shall hope to find a place then in the great gathering of the sons and daughters of Lake. And with the loved ones among them I shall hope at last to dwell, in the great, the fadeless, the beautiful HOME.
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H. PETTIBONE,
PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
CROWN POINT, Ind.
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Office on the West side of the public square.
E. C. FIELD, ATTORNEY AT LAW, CROWN POINT, Ind.
OFFICE OVER SAUERMAN'S HARNESS SHOP.
f. A. WOOD, M. D., PHYSICIAN & SURGEON,
OFFICE AT HIS RESIDENCE, ONE MILE EAST OF LOWELL, LAKE COUNTY, Ind.
T. S. FANCHER, Attorney and Counsellor at Law, Collections a specialty. CROWN POINT, Ind.
SUMMERS & FOSTER,
DEALERS IN GRAIN,
CROWN POINT, IND.
LAKE COUNTY
NORMAL AT
SCHOOL
CROWN POINT, IND.
For terms, inquire of
T. H. BALL.
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