This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... sailing for three months, often driven from the course by storms. In New York she went to live with Letitia Blackwell until her marriage in 1827 and her departure for Split Rock. Catharine lived in close touch with the life of the Rock and told many thrilling incidents of early days. The last panther in this County ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 Excerpt: ... sailing for three months, often driven from the course by storms. In New York she went to live with Letitia Blackwell until her marriage in 1827 and her departure for Split Rock. Catharine lived in close touch with the life of the Rock and told many thrilling incidents of early days. The last panther in this County met the pioneer's axe at the Rock, and bears prowled occasionally, the last one folding a man and a sapling in his embrace, which latter kept the man's ribs intact until help came. She told of an infected house every one occupant of which contracted a fever until one sensible woman, anticipating disinfection, scrubbed and whitewashed the house from top to bottom and destroyed the contagion. Catharine found many friends in her hour of loss and sorrow. Three of her children had died, but the other two were destined to enter the business life of the future city, doing their share of the world's work. Both entered the grocery trade and general store, John J. Lynch and Mary Lynch, the wife of Thomas Webb Egan. Their children keep alive their memory. The children of Thomas Webb and Mary Lynch Egan are: James, Martha, Rose Frances, Thomas Webb, Jr., Alice, Seymour, Gertrude, John, Agnes Geraldine, and two infants. John J. Lynch There were schools at Split Rock and schoolmasters, and John J. Lynch showed early appreciation of both. He was a diligent pupil and a passionate lover of books during his whole life. He advanced from grade to grade, working his way through school and then teaching where he had studied. At Split Rock and Howlett Hill and in the vicinity of Homer he taught school until he was able to enter the academy at Homer, graduating at the head of his class in 1861. He was a man of gentle nature and manners, essentially refined both in his ...
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