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Under this head we propose to give extended biographies or personal sketches of a large number of the leading citizens of Terre Haute and vicinity, not only of early settlers, but also of the more modern. The items have been obtained, as far as possible, from the parties themselves, or their intimate friends, and are believed to be perfectly reliable. Many of the subjects have already been mentioned in the preceding pages, but we believe it will add vastly to our work as a book of reference and as a basis for the future historian, to give to this department a most minute detail. As far as practicable, the sketches have been arranged in chronological order or rather than in the order of coming to the township or county.--[Ed.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - p. 159


W.E. McGREW, druggist, Terre Haute, of the firm of W.E. McGrew & Co., is a native of Sullivan county, Indiana. The name of McGREW is of Scotch origin. His ancestors were among the early settlers of Sullivan county, their location there dating back to 1803. The following quotation relating to the grandfather of W.E. McGREW is from the secretary�s report of the meeting of the Old Settlers Association of Sullivan county: "Col. LEDGERWOOD came to Sullivan county with his family from Franklin county, Kentucky, in 1803, and camped near CORRY�s farm south of Carlisle, and it can be said that he is the �oldest settler� living in Sullivan county, and a member of the first family that settled within the limits of this county. The colonel states that at the breaking out of hostilities between the Indians and whites about one half of the families then living near Carlisle left and did not return until after peace was declared. He was in Gen. HARRISON�s army, and was at the battle of Tippecanoe. When he came to Sullivan county, then Knox, there were no roads, and the only means of travel at that day was by pack horses." W.E. has had about fourteen years� experience in the drug trade, though he has spent but about four years of the time in Terre Haute. His establishment is on the corner of Walnut and Third streets. The premises occupied are 30x40 feet, where, in the few years that they have been doing business, the firm of W.E. McGrew & Co. has become widely known and well patronized.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 352-353


SAMUEL McKEEN, miller, Terre Haute, is the son of Benjamin and Letha (PADDOCK) McKEEN, and a native of Vigo county. His father was born January 1, 1803, in that part of Mason county, Kentucky, that is now known as Lewis county. When five years old he went with his parents to Adams county, Ohio, and in 1811 to Knox county, Indiana. In 1828 he came to Terre Hatue. For many years he engaged in buying produce and shipping it to New Orleans. In 1849 he engaged in pork packing in company with J. JOHNSON, and in 1852 was in company with Mr. W.B. WARREN and Alexander MCGREGOR in the business. In all he was engaged in the business about fourteen years. Sam engaged in the packing business with his father in 1854, and was associated with him in the business until 1864. He then engaged in the lumber trade, in which he continued to be interested until 1877. Nearly the same time that he began in the lumber trade he began in the mill business, in which he is still engaged, in company with his brother. They own two of the largest mills in Vigo county, one at Terre Haute of ten run of stone, and one at Ellsworth of nine run of stone. In all they give employment to about twenty-five men. Mr. MCKEEN is also a member of the Terre Haute Elevator Co., and in February, 1878, became interested in the banking establishment known as McKeen Bros. bank, the firm being W.R. MCKEEN, Frank and Samuel MCKEEN. Mr. MCKEEN is well known in Vigo county as one of the most enterprising, wealthy and liberal citizens of the county.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 208-209


Col. WILLIAM E. McLEAN, attorney, Terre Haute, who is a prominent member of the Vigo county bar, is also one the the residents of Vigo county. He was born October 12, 1831, in Frederick city, Maryland. In 1848 he first became a resident of Vigo county. He obtained a fair education and in 1849-50 taught school in Lost Creek township and in the city of Terre Haute. He afterward graduated at the Indiana University, of Bloomington, Indiana, and in the fall of 1851 accepted the position of editor of the "Terre Haute Journal," and for four and one half years thereafter was its sole editor. His political career has been a succession of triumphs. In 1854 he was elected a member of the legislature, and in 1856 to the senate, which office he held until 1860, when he was again elected to the lower house. In 1861 he resigned and entered the army. In 1866 he was again elected a member of the legislature, and in 1872 he was principal secretary of the senate. September 11, 1861 he entered the federal army. He raised the 48d reg. Ind. Vol. Inf., while he held the commission of lieutenant-colonel, and was afterward commissioned its colonel. June 17, 1865, he was mustered out of service, he having served as colonel longer than any officer of that rank who commanded any of the Indiana regiments. He commanded his regiment in thirteen pitched battles. Col. McLEAN is an active member of the Vigo county bar and a gentleman who is well and favorably known in Vigo and adjoining counties. He is a brilliant public speaker, and a man of both talent and ability in his profession.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 200-201


C.F. McNUTT, attorney, Terre Haute, stands prominent among the members of the Vigo county bar as a member of the legal profession possessed of both talent and ability. He is a native of Johnson county, Indiana, where he was born July 29, 1837. His name is of Scotch origin, the ancestor of whom he is a direct descendant having emigrated from Scotland to the New England States about the first of the present century. Judge McNUTT received a liberal education, studied law, and was admitted to practice in 1861. He practiced law for about twelve years in Martinsville, Indiana, and in 1874 went to Bloomington, Indiana, to accept the position of professor of law in the State University, his department being criminal law, equity, evidence and practice. In 1877 he resigned his position and removed to Terre Haute, where he has since been engaged in the practice of his profession. In the spring of 1880 he was appointed by the county commissioners to the office of county attorney of Vigo county, an appointment approved by the press and people of Vigo county. Impressed with the magnitude of the difficulties to be overcome, the judge at the outset recognized the fact that hard and comprehensive study alone would enable him to surmount them. How well he applied himself to the task his successful career has since proven.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - p. 359


ARNOLD MEYER, grocer, Terre Haute, who is now engaged in the grocery business on the southeast corner of Seventh and Oak streets, is a native of Switzerland, where he was born June 6, 1847. He grew to manhood and received a good business education in his native country, spent some time in France and England, and in December, 1869, emigrated to the United States. He disembarked at New York city, and remained a resident of that place for about five years. From New York he came to Terre Haute, and for a few years was in the employ of Mr. HOFFMANN, who is engaged in the saloon business. In July, 1879, he left Mr. HOFFMANN and engaged in business on his own account. He bought out Mr. G. BREZING, and is doing a pretty good business, and is increasing his facilities to meet the demands of his growing trade. December 18, 1876, he was married to Miss Bertha MEYER, she also being a native of Switzerland. Her name previous to their marriage was the same as his own, though they were in no way related. Mr. MEYER is free to admit that much of his success in his present trade is due to the energy and good business ability of his wife, who has proven herself the best of clerks.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 348-349


JOHN B. MEYER, abstract of title, Terre Haute, who is an ex-county officer of Vigo county, and who is now the partner of W.S. HENDRICK, is a native of what was at the date of his birth the Kingdom of Hanover, now Prussia. In the fall of 1850 he emigrated to the United States and located at Cincinnati, Ohio, where he remained until 1853, when he removed to Terre Haute, where he has since resided. He is by trade a cigar-maker. AT this trade he worked in Terre Haute until 1862, when he entered the office of J.H. BLAKE in the capacity of clerk, Mr. BLAKE being at that time clerk of Vigo county. He remained in the clerk's office until 1866, when he was elected county recorder of Vigo county. From 1867 until 1875 he held the office of recorder. At the expiration of his last term, in 1875, he went to his native country, returning to Terre Haute in 1876 and forming the present partnership between himself and Mr. HENDRICK. Their office is located corner Third and Ohio streets, where they are doing by far the largest business in the county in their line. Mr. MEYER has been wholly dependent upon his own resources in the building up of a good reputation and in the accumulation of property.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - p. 241


P.P. MISCHLER, butcher, Terre Haute, is a native of France, though when one and one-half years old he was brought from that country to the United States by his people, who located in New Albany, Indiana. There the early life of P.P. was spent and an education received. At the breaking out of the rebellion, in 1861, he was about sixteen years of age. He entered the army, enlisting in the 23d Ind. Vol. Inf. for a three years' service under Capt. POSITORIS, in Co. A. The regiment was commanded by Col SANDERSON. He not being of the age required by law, his mother and brother took the proper steps to have him discharged from the service. He however, determined to enter the service, which he succeeded in doing by going as a substitute for his half-brother, J.A. LAMBART. His second service was in the 7th Ind. Legion, under Capt. HARRIS and Col. TULEY. Returning from the service he again became a resident of New Albany for a time. From there he went to Lafayette, Indiana, where he remained about three years, and from there to Springfield, Illinois, thence to St. Louis, and then to Leavenworth, Kansas, from which place he went to Kansas City, Missouri, and from there to Terre Haute, in 1870, where he has since resided. During his travels he followed the business of butchering, a trade that he has been familar with since his boyhood. His place is No. 27 North Fourth street, though in addition to this he has a steam sausage factory located in Patrick's addition. He is a wide-awake business man, and during his residence in Terre Haute has by his own energy and enterprise, accumulated a good property. He is one of the charter members of Goethe Lodge, No. 382, I.O.O.F.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 329-330


J.D. MITCHELL, physician and surgeon, Terre Haute, one of the more prominent members of the medical profession of Terre Haute, is a native of Washington county, Tennessee, where he was born August 11, 1824. In 1833 his parents moved to Charleston, Illinois, where the early manhood of the doctor was spent. In 1844 he began the study of medicine under Dr. Ten BROOK, now of Paris, Illinois. In 1847 he began practice, and in 1853 became a graduate of the Medical University of Louisville, Kentucky. After graduating he resumed practice in Clark county, Illinois, where in all he practiced for twenty-seven years, including time spent in the army, as in September, 1861, he entered the army as assistant surgeon of the 10th Ill., three years' service. He was, however, subsequently resigned to accept a position in the medical department. After leaving Clark county, Illinois, in 1874, the doctor became a resident of Terre Haute, where he has since resided, engaged in the practice of his profession. He is a member of the Esculapian Society of the Wabash valley, of which he was president in 1873-4. He is a member of the State Medical Society of Indiana, and a permanent member of the American Medical Association.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - p. 348


ORLANDO MITCHELL, physician and surgeon, Terre Haute, is one of the younger class of physicians of Vigo county, who by hard study and a close attention to his business has entered upon a practice that is gradually increasing. He is a native of Darwin, Illinois, where most of his early life was spent. In 1873-4 he took a full course at the Terre Haute Commercial College, and in 1875 began the study of medicine under his father, Dr. J.D. MITCHELL, who is now also practicing in Terre Haute. He attended the class of 1877-8 of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Indianapolis, graduating at the close of the term in 1878, when he was twenty-two years of age. After graduating he came to Terre Haute and began the practice of his profession, and notwithstanding the profession being well represented his practice has been gradually increasing. His office is No. 928 Chestnut street.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - p. 360


P.H. MONINGER, Terre Haute, was born in Albersweiler City, Rhine, Province, Palladia, Germany, September 14, 1831, and at sixteen years of age attended military academy, and at eighteen was promoted to captain in the regular army. He was in the war of 1849 against the Hessians and Prussians, their army consisting of 180,000 and the enemy having a superior force of 600,000. In July, 1849, with 40,000 men they made an attack on the left wing of the enemy and fought the way through to the bridge that leads to Strasburg, and on account of the enemy's superior forces, and seeing no chance of success, he and a number of other officers came to America. Mr. MONINGER came to Cincinnati, Ohio, where he attended school for some time. He then went to Madison, Indiana, and kept books in a hotel for some time, and in 1851 came to Indianapolis, where he was in the mercantile business, and in 1852 came to Terre Haute and bought the White Hall of J.H. WATSON. In 1861 he went in the army as captain of Co. E, 32d Ind. Vol. Inf., and after serving one year resigned on account of disabilities received, and returned to Terre Haute, and in 1868 purchased his present place consisting of thirty acres, twenty-four acres of which he has in vineyard.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 232-233


JASPER A. MORGAN, coal dealer, Terre Haute, is one of the principal dealers in coal in the city, and the largest dealer in hard coal, of which he makes a specialty. He is also one of the few citizens of the city who are able to trace the genealogy of their family back to any great extent. He is a descendant of Mr. James MORGAN, who emigrated from England and settled in New London, Connecicut, in the year 1607. According to their genealogy, Mr. MORGAN was born May 19, 1820, in Hampshire county, Massachusetts. His number is 1930. He is the son of William (No. 957) and Orra (PELLET) MORGAN. The following extract from his book of genealogy explains itself, and gives a brief history of his life. "Jasper A., No. 1930, born May 19, 1820, married Julia A. WODSWORTH, October 26, 1847; daughter of Zenophon WODSWORTH, of Windham, Ohio. Settled as a merchant in successful business at Windham, Ohio, where all his children were born; thence removed to Youngstown, Mahoning county, Ohio, and now settled in Terre Haute, Indiana, being one of the original founders and chief financier of the Terre Haute Iron and Nail Works." Mr. MORGAN became a resident of Terre Haute in 1867, and for a time was interested in the manufacturing establishment mentioned. He has now been engaged in the coal trade about ten years. He is well known in Terre Haute and bears an honorable name and reputation.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 314-315


W.F. MORGAN, engineer, Terre Haute, has now been in the employ of the Vandalia Railroad Company since 1849, and is consequently one of the oldest employes (sic) of that company. He first began at carrying the flag for Col. WOOD, the civil engineer, but as the road progressed in building, he for a time worked on a section and then began as brakeman on a freight in 1852. He then changed to a passenger train on which he was brakeman for a time and then put in about a year and a half at firing and running an extra passenger train. He changed again and for about three years ran the construction train. He then took a regular freight and ran it until 1864, since which time he has had a passenger train. He ran engine No. 18 for four years and then took the engine Pacific, which he also ran about four years. His next change was to take No. 31 for four years, since which he has run the well known engine No. 24. He is a member of the Brotherhood of Engineers, and has held the office of chief engineer of division No. 25 of that organization. In 1867 he was a delegate to the convention held by the brotherhood in Cincinnati, and again in 1878 he was a delegate to the Philadelphia convention. He ranks as one of the most capable railroad engineers in the county, and is well known among railroad officials, as he with No. 24, is usually selected to run the extra train carrying the railroad officials over the road whenever that body chooses to ride. Mr. MORGAN is a native of Henry county, Kentucky, where he was born in 1833.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 221-222


JOHN C. MYER, farmer, Terre Haute, was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1828, where he received a good education, and at twenty-one years of age was drafted into the army, where he served until he was twenty-five years of age, and in 1852 came to America, and first located in Cincinnati, and engaged to work for a railroad company, which he continued until 1856. He then removed to Terre Haute, Indiana, where he began working by the month on a farm, and this he followed until 1859, when he began farming for himself, first renting for some time and in 1868 buying the farm that he now owns, paying $10,000 for it. For this and $2,000 which he got behind on rent he went in debt, but by never-tiring industry and good financiering he has not only paid the $12,000, but he has built a fine residence and other buildings. He took the farm in a poor state of cultivation, but at this writing his farm is one among the finest improved farms in Vigo county, and the credit is due Mr. MYER. He is a member of the A.F. and A.M. and has passed all the chairs in Odd-Fellowship. In 1852 he was united in marriage to Miss C.P. BLUM, who was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, in 1831, and came to America in 1852. By their happy marriage they have been blessed with nine children, six sons and three daughters; Charles, William, Louisa, George, Albert, Otto, Caroline, Wilhimnie and Herman, and one dead, Christian.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - p. 233


JOHN W. NASH, car-oiler, Terre Haute, who has now been in the employ of the Vandalia Railroad Company for the past sixteen years, is a native of Prussia, from whence he emigrated to the United States in 1853. In 1854, the year following his arrival, he began work on the Evansville & Terre Haute railroad. He remained with that company for about five years, and then he began with the Vandalia company. He first began as helper, in the blacksmith shop, which he continued, including some other work, for about two years, and then took the position of car-oiler, in which capacity he has since been employed. He has been very faithful in his work, and also very fortunate, as altogether he has lost but about two months' time. He too, is known as one of the company's old employes and is one who stands well in the estimation of employes and company.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - p. 245


PHIL NEWHART, of the firm of Newhart & Greimer, is a native of Bavaria, Germany. He was born in 1829, and at the age of twenty-one years emigrated to the United States. He spent the first three years of his time after arrival in the city of Cincinnati, Ohio, where he was engaged at stocking plows. In the spring of 1853 he went to California, where he remained until 1857, engaged in mining. On his return to the states in 1857 he became a resident of Terre Haute, where he has since resided. His first business enterprise in Terre Haute was to engage in the grocery business the first year of his arrival in company with a Mr. WEISS. They continued to do business together for ten years, though the last year and a half before they dissolved partnership they had begun the manufacture of plows. This business he continued after the dissolution of partnership until 1877, when he began the manufacture of cornmeal in a small way. Since then he has gradually increased the business, and taken up the making of hominy and grits. In 1879 his business had become so extensive that he took a partner, the firm now being Newhart & Greimer. They are giving employment to about fifteen men. The mill is now fitted up with a twenty-five horse-power engine and two run of buhrs, with a capacity of grinding 1,000 bushels of corn every twenty-four hours. They are making seven different brands of hominy and grits, which find a market in almost every direction from the city. They keep no traveling men on the road, their business being done principally by corresponding. Theirs is already quite an important item in the list of factories of the city of Terre Haute. Should they continue to increase their business in the future as rapidly as they have in the past they will soon become one of the large manufacturing firms for which Terre Haute is already becoming quite famous.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - p. 262


JAMES NICHOLS, grocer, Terre Haute, is another of the natives of England who may be numbered among the successful business men of Terre Haute. He was born in Yorkshire, England, in 1843, was educated there, and before emigrating to the United States, in 1865, he had partially learned the trade of a weaver of woolen fabrics, which, upon his arrival at Terre Haute, to which place he came direct, he finished with his uncle, Geo. F. ELLIS, proprietor of the Wabash Woolen Mills. He remained a resident of Terre Haute about five years, and then went west, and for about three years he was located in Missouri, near the Indian Territory line, where he was engaged in the woolen business. Returning to Terre Haute, he accepted the position of receiving clerk in the wholesale grocery house of H. HULMAN, with whom he remained about five years, and only left his position to engage in business for himself. He has now been engaged in the grocery trade on his own account for about three years. He purchased the property Nos. 400 and 402 South First street, where he has recently been enlarging his business house to do justice to his increasing trade. His business house now is 37 feet front by 50 feet deep. Mr. NICHOLS is one of that class of business men who have been dependent upon their own resources, and who, in the building up of a good trade, have done so in spite of all opposition and competition. In 1867 Mr. NICHOLS was married to Miss Mary A. KIRTLY, and they have three children, two sons and one daughter. Mr. NICHOLS is free to admit that much of his success in his present business is due to the energy and good business ability of his wife, who spends much of her time in the store.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 300-303


WILLIAM NICHOLSON, blacksmith, Terre Haute, successor to the firm of Kidd & Nicholson, is a native of Caithnesshire, Scotland. He is a man now thirty-six years of age. In 1869 he left his native country and emigrated to Canada, where he remained about two years. He then went to Detroit, Michigan, and from there to Ionia, of the same state. He remained a resident of these places but a short time. From the latter he removed to Terre Haute, where he has now resided about eight years, during which time he has been engaged in his present business. His establishment is now No. 231 North Fourth street, where, since May, 1869, he has been engaged alone. He gives employment to about four men, and makes horse-shoeing a specialty. He is an energetic, hard-working man, and owes his success to his own energy and enterprise. He is a member of Prairie City Lodge, No. 3, A.O.U.W., and a charter member of Goodwill Lodge, No. 520, K. of H. November 5, 1874, Mr. NICHOLSON was married to miss Robina M. JOHNSON, who was a native of Edinburgh, Scotland. She died March 4, 1880. She was the mother of but two children, Mary R. and Willie, the later of whom died November 4, 1878, aged three years.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 340-341


J.H. O'BOYLE, dealer in leather and shoe findings, Terre Haute, has been a resident of the Wabash valley since 1836, and a resident of Terre Hatue since 1850. He is a native of Frederick county, Virginia, his home and birthplace being about nine miles from the city of Manchester. At the age of eleven years he was bound out to a gentleman in Hampshire county, Virginia, to learn the trade of a tanner. He remained with the party until he was twenty-one years old, serving an apprenticeship of nine years. In 1836 he located at Middletown, a small place in the southwest part of Vigo county. In 1838 he removed to Merom, Sullivan county, Indiana, and in 1850 he became a resident of Terre Haute, where in 1857 he began business in his present line of trade. He at first began a retail business, but has gradually increased his stock and facilities for doing business, until for some time he has been doing both a wholesale and retail business. He now owns the west business room of the Marble Block, and the first room or business house west of the Marble Block. This latter is No. 618 Main street. He is occupying the basement and first floor of No. 618, which is 25 feet front by 142 in depth. He has never taken an active part in political affairs, farther than to have been a member of the city council for one term. He has never had a chance to attend school since he was eleven years old, but has been entirely dependent upon his own resources, both in accumulating property and in obtaining an education.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - p. 188


FRED OHM, grocer, No. 1200 South Second street, Terre Haute, is another of the energetic and enterprising business men of that part of the city. His store is neat, well stocked, and pleasantly situated on the corner of Second and Vine streets, and is entirely the result of his own energies, as his whole capital, when arriving at Terre Haute in 1868, was twenty-five cents. He is a native of Germany, from whence he emigrated to the United States, and, as stated, came to Terre Haute in 1868, where he remained about two years, and then went to Marshall, Illinois. There he made his home for a few years, and again came to Terre Haute, where he spent about three years as clerk in his present line of business. He then embarked in business on his own account, feeling confident that he was capable of success. The result has proven the correctness of his decision, as now, though he is not doing the most extensive business in the city, he is still doing one that any man might feel pleased with whose capital in 1868 was twenty-five cents. He is a member of Goethe Lodge, No. 382, I.O.O.F. He is a citizen in good standing, and certain of success in the future, if the past may be taken as a criterion.

HISTORY OF VIGO AND PARKE COUNTIES Together With Historic Notes on the Wabash Valley
H.W. Beckwith - 1880
Terre Haute - pp. 293-294

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