Hendricks. a portly. dignified. unassuming gentleman. in faith a Presbyterian. who took a lively interest in matters of education and in the charitable institutions in his section of countrya plain. upright. honest man. a friend to every work of benevolence and charity. His circumstances were easy for that early period. when lands were cheap. The material condition and social life of these early pioneers was marked by general equality and republican simplicitynone were rich and none poor. It was a region gladened with streams of sparkling water. of fertile land covered with primeval forests from which the Indian but a few years before had sullenly turned his face to the west. These rich lands invited emigrants from Virginia. Pennsylvania. Kentucky.
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