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Title: The history of Upshur county, West Virginia, from its earliest exploration and settlement to the present time ..
Year: 1907 (1900s)
Authors: Cutright, William Bernard. [from old catalog] Maxwell, Hu, 1860- [from old catalog] Brooks, Earle Amos. [from old catalog]
Subjects: Birds
Publisher: [Buckhannon? W. Va., pref
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation
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of their foe and especiallyput forth every efifort to intercept him in coming out on the opposite side. TheIndian was too cunning for the white man for he came out where he enteredand made his escape. In their anxiety to catch and kill the fugitive Indian theyneglected the wounded one. It is said that one of the men stopped when nearby the fallen Indian and was for finishing him; but Hughes imperatively calledto him. He is safe, let us have the other. And they all obeyed Hughes. Thewounded Indian recovered his feet and was making tracks for his escape.His bleeding wounds enabled the pursuers to follow him some distance, butpresently a heavy rain fell, rapidly obliterating the trail and trace of blood andthey were obliged to give up the chase. These were some of the invasions made by the savage in 1778. Many othersof greater consequence, of more murder and of wider devastation were made,but they were in other sections of Northwest Virginia than the locality with whichthis annal deals.
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BUSHS FORTBuilt in reply to the warning letter of Major Connolly, proxy of Earl of Dunmore, sentout in 1774 to build and retire into forts as the Indians were mad. These frequent inroads of small parties of Indians resulted in much harmto the many settlements which they attacked. They required if fhe settlementswere to be maintained, greater preparations for security by the settlers or theywere implored by the suffering from these renewed hostilities, fo make a totalabandonment of their pioneer homes. This last occurred with the settlementon Hackers Creek in 1779. when some of its inhabitants forsook the country andreturned to the waters of the Potomac: while others went to the Bushes Forton the Buckhannon and to Nutters Fort near Clarksburg, to aid in resisting thefoe, and in retaining possession of the country. The other settlements werestrengthened by the accession of emigrants from Hackers Creek and the east,which enabled them to enter the campaign of the next year better prepared
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Title: History of Nemaha County, Kansas
Year: 1916 (1910s)
Authors: Tennal, Ralph, 1872-1938
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Publisher: Lawrence, Kan. : Standard Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Cornell University Library
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the real Sabetha boosters who have donemuch to make the city enterprising and attractive during past years.He is affiliated with the Royal Highlanders, the Knights and Ladiesof Security, Knights of the Maccabees, and the Ancient Free and Ac-cepted Masons. John U. Lehmann.—In point of years of residence in Nemahacounty, John U. Lehmann is probably the oldest living pioneer settlerof Washington township; he bears the added distinction of having livednearly sixty years on the farm which his courageous mother home-steaded in 1857. John U. Lehmann has seen the prairies in all of theirvast, unsettled loneliness; he broke up the prairie sod of the homesteadwhen his nearest neighbor was miles away; he lived in this county whenit required the most sturdy and brave homeseekers to withstand theloneliness and the privations necessary in the redemption of an unpeo-pled wilderness. His time of residence in Kansas dates from the eraof the wild Indian to the gradual settling of the country and the
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HISTORY OF NEMAHA COUNTY 445 peopling of the fertile plains and the building of thriving towns whereinthe rugged methods of living, which sufficed for the pioneers, havebeen supplanted by the luxuries of later day civilization. Althoughborn under a foreign flag, John U. Lehmann shouldered a musket andmarched away to Southern battlefields in defense of his adopted coun-try. Few men can point to a better or more honorable record than thispatriarch and pioneer. John U. Lehmann, farmer and stockman of Washington township,was born at Berne, Switzerland, May i, 1841, and is a son of John andCathrine (Arm) Lehmann, who were the parents of twelve children, ofwhom John U. is the seventh in order of birth. John Lehmann, thefather, was born in Switzerland in 1802. He worked in a powder millfor several years, and become owner of a tourist resort at Launge, Swit-zerland, which he traded for a farm, where he spent his last years, pre-vious to his immigration to America in 1846. He first settled in
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