His was a career filled with stirring and interesting events and continued activities. mental and physical. to its close. Hie belonged to the beginnings of the settlement in the State of Illinois. one of those States which were settled without the medium of the railroad. when the only means of transportation were the highways that the rivers furnished and the scattered trails traversed by the adventurous settler in the prairie schooner. Born amidst this pioneer life in 1835. he witnessed the incoming of the immigrants from the South and from the Southwest. and from the East. from the New England States. each group contributing its peculiar political and religious ideas. and forming factors of the great discussed upon slavery. of which Illinois was so interesting and important a center. He saw the settlers leave the richer prairie lands to the undisputed possession of the wild flowers and build their first homes in the less fertile woodlands along some stream for better protection from the winds and weather. and from material for their rude cabins and furniture. The citizens of that early day were necessarily isolated.
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