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grees below; 13, 8 degrees below ; 14, 10 degrees ; 18, 35 degrees, shower ; noon, 40 degrees ; 20, 21, show- ers ; 22, 23, snow, 38 degrees; 25, rain. March, more mild, some snow, some clouds some sunshine ; 7, 4 de- grees ; II, 50 degrees ; 25, 40 degrees ; 30, 31, snow, 28 degrees. April, 13, 48 degrees ; 12:30, 77 degrees ; 17, strong wind ; 23, 56 degrees ; I p. m., 79 degrees ; 30 flowers in the woods, fruit trees full of blossoms. May, 2, 3, 4, showers ; 7, rain ; 8, wet ; 22, in the night a heavy storm. Latter part of May wet. June pleas- ant ; a good amount of sunshine. July and August pleasant months. September 5 very hot, 98 degrees ; 7, at II o'clock, 98 degrees ; at noon, 100 degrees ; at night rain; 17, 70 degrees ; rain followed; 26, light frost. October qnite warm, several Indian summer days ; 29, 36; heavy frost. November, mild ;
some Indian summer days; 22, 54 degrees ;
30, 40 degrees. December mostly mild; 12, 32 degrees, light snow; 29, 30, zero early; 31, 4 degrees ; noon, 16 degrees ; some good ice harvesting. 1900. January and February were pleasant winter months. January 29, zero : 31, 4 degrees below zero; in some localities 6 degrees below. February 1, 6 de- grees and 8 degrees below, light snow falls and some rain ; 24, zero at 9 a. m., 4 degrees below at night ; 25, about zero; 27, snow commenced falling at night. Snowfall continued all day; quite mild; a pleasant snow, but a heavy snowfall; about six- teen inches in depth, but drifted. March I, 28 degrees ; 5, 18 degrees, sleet falling all day, but not very rapidly ; only a few inches ; 6, 34 degrees ; after- noon snowing again; the short thaw of March 4, 36 degrees, now over. The ice harvests for this past winter were three. The first commenced about the last
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of December, the second the middle of January, the third the middle of February. Each lasted from one to two weeks. The ice was clear and nice, from eight to twelve inches in thickness. April 6, noon, summer heat ; at 3 o'clock, 80 degrees ; 9, 10, II, cool ; 12, snow two or three inches ; 26, wild flowers ; 28, again 80 de- grees. May 2, children barefooted ; in general a warm and growing month ; 27, at noon, 90 degrees. June,
showers or rain quite frequent. Strawberries ripe June 2; raspberries June 27, 28, 29, hot ; 30, cool wind all day ; strawberries gone. July 2, rain at night ; 3, a very hot night ; 4, 5, 6, 80 degrees in the morning ; 7, 76 degrees, and a shower at night; II, very cool wind in afternoon ; 15, rain in the night ; 16, showers; 17, showers ; 19, 20, 70 degrees in the morning ; 21, 56 degrees ; a growing, pleasant summer. Monday, July 16, the hay barn of John Pearce struck by lightning and burned ; also H. Boyd's hay stack.
CONCLUSION.
When this year which we call 1900 closes, then will end the Nineteenth century of the Christian Era. That it has been over all the world the civilized and the savage world, a remarkable century for changes, for inventions, for discoveries, for rapid movement among the world's forces, all are well aware.
When it commenced Northwestern Indiana, hav- ing passed in name and form from the French to the British, and from the British to the Americans, had no proper owners but Indians, no inhabitants but In- dians and the wild denizens of forest and prairie, with possibly an Indian trader, and so for some thirty years continued ; and now, as the century is hastening rapidly to its close, about seventy years having passed since the smoke first began to mount upwards from the stick chimneys of a few log cabins, we have farms and orchards and immense numbers of domestic ani- mals ; workshops and factories ; villages and towns and cities ; gravel and macadam roads; railroads and tele- phones and electric lights and electric railways ; schools and churches and some majestic stone court houses ; intelligent, prosperous farmers, and many cul- tivated and wealthy citizens. We have increased from the first log cabins scattered here and there in the woodlands to about one hundred villages and towns and cities, with nearly eight hundred and forty school
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houses and about two hundred and twenty-five churches.
It is true that there is another side, and some dark, very dark spots in the full picture. There are jails and a penitentiary, and many haunts of evil, and some homes of poverty and want. But while we have some beer-factories and hundreds, possibly thousands of saloons, and, it may be, some dens of infamy, yet it is sadly, fearfully. true that these are the blots as yet remaining over all Christendom, thickest and blackest in the largest cities, attesting well the claim that hu- manity is "tainted with leprosy within," and showing full well that earth's millennium age has not yet come. But the fiercer the conflict grows, "irrepressible" in- deed, between good and evil, the further, it is evident, we have advanced in achieving a Christian civilization. Thousands of prosperous, peaceful, Christian homes, in towns and on fertile farms, show that the seventy years of effort here have not been in vain. If there are some things much worse than anything known in the wild life of Indian savages, there is an immense amount of good which goes far to prove our right to occupy their ancient home. And this immense amount of good, in its varied forms, is to be left as a rich heri- tage to many promising boys and many fair and lovely girls, who are now preparing in country and city homes for the conflict of the coming century.
The work of the Pioneers is done. Most of those who here, in their young manhood and in the hopeful- ness and brightness of their earlier womanhood, laid the foundations for the successes and enjoyments of the present, have already gone beyond the reach of human words of praise or blame or cheer. Here and there is a grayhaired woman, and now and then there
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can be found an aged man, who knew the life and shared the toils of seventy, sixty, and up to fifty years ago. But they stand as do the few old oaks that can be found in our once open woodlands, few and lone, amid the thick "second growth" that covers so many broad acres now, reminding us of what once was in the home of the Indians and haunts of the deer. So these few aged ones, over whose heads the changes of four- score years have passed, remind the thoughtful and true ones among us of a sturdy generation of noble men and women who have passed on. As the voices are heard here no more of the Indians who once held over this region an undisputed sway, so are the voices silent now of the scores and the hundreds of the Saxon race who succeeded those red children of the wilds and whose footsteps often followed the red man's well beaten trail. Those joyous children in the pioneer households, who on prairies and in woodland enjoyed a freedom equal almost to that of the beautiful wild animals around them, have been succeeded in their turn by a generation that know nothing of their rich free life. Men and women and children too, of a quite different class, have entered upon the heritage won by the true-hearted pioneers, some of them worthy to enjoy the results of others' toil; some of them sadly wanting in the traits that characterize a noble man- hood, ready and eager to grasp results and striving only to bend these to their own selfish ends.
But doubtless many of the thousands that are now and that are yet to be, as they enjoy comforts and ease and luxuries and life and love, made sure to them by self-denials and hardships and toil, will in their hearts honor the hardy and enterprising generation of build- ers that went before them, and will read with interest
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and gratitude the names of some of Indiana's pioneers. These from their labors rest. If they did not plan all that those of this generation here possess, if they did not foresee the wonderful inventions and improve- ments of this stirring age, their lives here made possi- ble for others all these conveniences that we now enjoy.
Note. July 30, 1900. I have enjoyed the work of collecting the material which the readers have here found, of putting it into what I have hoped might be an acceptable form, and also the late constant effort to see that the proofreading was fairly well done- attaining perfection I do not expect-and now, as this care and effort are coming so near to an end, I take the opportunity to express the hope and the prayer, that we who are now enjoying the rich inheritance of pioneer toils, privations, and bright hopes, may finally meet with our pioneer forefathers and those who with them gathered into the pioneer households, who en- couraged every effort and so patiently and lovingly helped in all that was good-even as we hope to meet the noble men and women of sacred history, with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the Sarahs and Nao- mis and Ruths, and the Marys and Marthas and Sa- lomes-in the glad future of the Endless Kingdom.
To the compositors and proofreaders, who have managed with so much skill and patience the manu- script copy put into their hands, a patience and a skill which I have highly appreciated, I here return hearty thanks. And to all who have had part in the printing of this book, for courtesy and kindness, I express appreciation and thanks. T. H. B.
INDEX.
PAGE.
An Indian School. 363
A Risky Shot 465 A Bee Sting 464
An Aged Journalist 534
A Drive Hunt
95
Alexander Robinson 31
Activity, Enjoyment 131
Agricultural Societies
426
Agricultural Products
403
Bald Eagle. 512
Battle of S. M.
173
Brookston
529
Carey Mission 25
Col. Hathaway 171
County Organizations
98
Crusade, Woman's 144
Crown Point
297
City West 309
Chandonia. 32
Congressmen
156
Creamerics
408
Calumet Region
511
Deer 96
Door Village Fort. 80
Districts.
156
Death by Freezing
525
Death by Accident
527
Dinwiddie Clan
434
Draining Marshes.
439
Early Celebrations
..
462
Extraets, Solon Robinson ...
458
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Early Settlers.
Of White Co. 39
Of Pulaski.
40
Of Jasper.
41
Of Newton
42
Of La Porte. 43
Of Porter 46
Of Lake
50
Of Starke
42
Early Social Gatherings.
Spelling Schools
88
Literary Societies 88
Religions Meetings
89
Singing Schools
90
Dancing Parties
89
East Chicago.
305
Early Travels.
Of Jersey Church
352
Of J. H. Luther
352
Fort Dearborn
23
First School Visitations.
375
Fur Animals
20
Granges.
426
Game Birds
19
General Outlines
11
General Packard
177
Guarding Railroad
134
Herds of Cattle
409
Human Remains
488
Hammond.
302
Hobart
295
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INDEX.
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Institutes.
Teachers'. 139
Farmers' 140
Sunday School 141
Temperance. 142
Indiana Boundary 35
Indian and White Life. 66
Improved Roads 522
Indiana Territory 13
Indiana City 275
Judicial Circuits and Judges
160
Kentland
251
Knox
270
Land States 59
Lakes and Streams. 112
Liverpool 275
Lowell
292
La Porte 341
Longbridge 358
Lecturers at La Porte. 399
La Porte Library 398
Library at Michigan City 400
Libraries
392
Milk Shipping 108
McClure. 393
Mexican War 162
Massacre, F. D
24
Missionaries
212
Monticello 263
Native Plants 450
Native Animals 148
N. W. Territory 14
Native Fruits
16
Ordinance of 1787 14
Oxeu Disappearing
127
Object Lesson 170
Pottawatomie Indians
Papers and Editors 532
Public School Statistics 377 Private Schools.
In La Porte 386
In Lake 387
In Porter 389
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Parochial Schools
390
Political History.
Campaign of 1840. 119
Campaign of 1848
152
Pioneer Schools
362
Pioneer Schools
368
Pioneer Schools
370
Pioneer Schools
87
Quick Trip, by James Adams 359
Religions History
178
Methodist Episcopal 180
German Methodists, 187 Swedish M. E. 188
Congregationalists 188
Presbyterians 190
United Presbyterian 199
Baptists 201
Lutherans 214
"Reformed"
216
"Christians"
217
Protestant Episcopal. 221
Roman Catholics. 222
Unitarians
225
Second Adventists. 226
Quakers. 227
"New Church" 227
Free Methodists 227
United Brethren 230
Believers.
231
German Evangelists 233
Dyer Union Church
233
Rensselaer
255
Reuben Tazier 175
Sunday Schools
234
Sportsmen.
517
School Children after
Deer
375
Senator Miller on Public
Schools.
385
School Taught by U. McCoy. 373
S. S. Statistics 242
Solon Robinson 472
Saggonee 17
Saggonee
23
Shaubenee. 30
Social Life 138
Statistics of 1850
122
Some Statistics
536
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Towns and Villages.
Trustees and Surveys.
58
Of Jasper 253
Teachers' Associations 429
Of Pulaski 265
Valparaiso. 327
Of Starke
270
Voters in 1895. 156
Of Lake.
275
Of Porter
308
Of La Porte
330
Wild Pigeons 19
Winamac 265
Waverly
319
In Lake Co., 1869 375
War Record 164
In Newton Co., 1899 380
Whiting
296
Tassinong . 322
Wild Fruit. 510
Telephone Companies
521
White Owl. 512
Of Newton. 247
Townships. 121
Of White 260
Wild Honey 18
The Swan
513
Teachers.
570
INDEX.
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Towns and Villages.
Trustees and Surveys.
58
Townships. 121
Teachers' Associations 429
Of White 260
Of Pulaski 265
Valparaiso ... 327
Of Starke
270
Voters in 1895.
156
Of Lake.
275
Of Porter
308
Of La Porte
330
The Swan
513
Winamac 265
Waverly 319
War Record 164
Whiting 296
Wild Fruit 510
Telephone Companies
521
White Owl. 512
Of Newton 247
Of Jasper 253
Wild Honey 18
Wild Pigeons. . . 19
Teachers.
In Lake Co., 1869 375
In Newton Co., 1899 380
Tassinong 322
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