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BOOK PUBLISHED HERE IN ‘74IRECALLS LOCAL HISTORY“Peoples Guide/5 Tells AuthenticallyAs To Many Local Events and Personages; Indiana CentenniaFs Approach Makes “Brushing Up55 on Lo-cal History Desirable; Articles WillBe Published in The ClintonianWhat do you know of the history { relics of the pioneer age. JamesGroenendyke died in ISoG.“The cabin and fore.'t hRtory ofof your own city, township and county?This question is especially in order new, since the coining of the Indiana centennial, next year, has caused queries to be sent out to Vermillion county newspapers, along with others over the state, as to local facts of historical interest.The Clintonian will, as often perhaps as once a week, publish sonm of i the most interesting facts of local history. These articles will deal notthe earliest settlers of the West involves the most interesting records of the state, and yet much .of it has gone down into the grave with the pioneer himself. There was 110 Homer to Hug the song of hi-; battles, and no chronicler even to make a noteonly with local places, butt»T• 1 !io : 1.11of iiis toils and sacrifices. His chil-S events remembered by many older I eii.i7.ens and wit-h individuals some ofi ! whom are still in the county, andYL*j with others whose children and | grandchildren are still at hand.! Through the courtesy of Miss Jessie Robison, one of the eldest histories of the county, which was the property of her father, the late W. H. Robison, is available for consultation ckiolly remember him, and eventhey speak of him only in the terms ofmodesty, iect they excite the envy orcriticism of some pigmy cynic wholives only for him self. It has beenjiOid that ‘he who makes two bladesof grass grow where only one grew *beicre, is a benefactor.' . There iscertainly solid philosophy in the declination, and the deduction chould be made that the honorable mention of any of these good old pioneers is history deservedly and well told.“James Amour, who was one of£££3I tion. Som-e of the articles will be | Hie early pioneers of \ ermillion, and extracts from this very interesting j who assisted James Grocuendyke in work. The book referred tu is call-* the erection ol ius first mill, yet lives. Hied “Tlie People's Guide.” !.• the simple complacency of a greenAzi idea of how dependable the historical data to be found in this oldr. 1uagehe lives to «ee tiie livingpiogitss- of the third generation,county history probably are may bei v/ith no regrets of the past, and with gjudged by the following “general re- nn fault to find with the prescn0V -fj marks” found in t'ne book:future.“William Thompson, the father cf“In gathering the historical factsij | j| ; of a county, it is remarkable how ii:-1 James, John and Andrew Thompson, tie many know of their own home and of Mrs. Col. Jane Shelby, came tohistory; and it is no less strange tome vhaor.Ci mom Renusyivani.x inH i observe that many seem ;s care no?h-i is fibo C*. Iiulsettledat Thompson'.*,aI even of the sacrificesRdIt2? ; ?.:• g about the facts of ihe part. or the j Sty ring, one mile south of Eugene. Ifj life struggles of the old pioneer-?, or! vw had the full data of these men Viioi ; : f; fa milieu we : • i: q u I d be pleased to give1• \i *» * « ■ 1 »* H i v o ' * ‘{V m ✓' V o -i /1lt; I\s *.# - t , l.'hL \\ C I: it vU, , * 11 t ;Liuns'iu cum. i.j.?ft !1t. 1; lt;;•: r o v 11 an c 0t o rs.VStolid andmem inrolace’s Farmer. In rich land containing an abundance of limestone and; UA|T|AM c/wnPAVklA ..wnf f AT* H'lmro f'l'lOT’Ci 1 Q fl | I ■ I I I *■ I ■ Wwas but an ignorant negation, and it owned hv these families, tell, noti %\ is as hard to get a historical fact out; only of their prosperity, bat give! of such folks as it is to drain - he nnr.-C _;oed evidonee of their industry and| tar of life from the body of a turnip, ! or the light of nature from the oyt-i lids of the night owl. In till; county.frugality, as well as of their early settler good fortunes. The blessings the fathers have descended uponi*V Lhowever, we have the pleasure of! the sons and daughters to the thirdsaying that we have had every feed:-'; rv aeration; and endowed, as theyty offered and all information given’ now me, it is to be hoped society will politely and satisfactorily, and the be made better on account of th*frresult is, as will be seen, the histoid- wo..if a, a ml that the nobility ob acal, agricultural, statistical and per-; generous k os pit nitty and true eliris-scnal items of the “Guide Cock of nun charity will never we nf a nanseVermillion Coumy excel all the other, a menu them.i counties which have had a Guide« i! Dock published.John Collett came to Indiana,Vwith his sons Josephus and Stephen,1 fcs• i, io our good menus Hon. John- from Huntington county, Pennysl-I Collett, Isaac Porter, Esq., Hon. John, van la, in the year ISIS, and to the G rcenmdyke, and others, we are j county of Vermillion in 1325. He largely indebted lor many of t ie, v.;a3 3ll 0»g] man when he came here, iacts of tn.s brief, and yet doubtless, p.-r pe had served under Washington very imperiect :ustory of \ ernulliou | ,-n the battles of the Revolution of©Countv.3 3: 1776, when he was but eighteen yearsThe following from ‘ The People s ci(jj an^ bore in his mien the soldier’s Guide of 1874 ueals with the “earTy. 0\,j spirit, and though advanced in• 3 3# Jpioneers : ; years, he led his sons to this beauti-Among the first settlers who came ful Eldorado of the West, where lie to this part of the V. abash before tliej could point them to a promised land@©©ocounty of Vermillion was organized, were the Groenendykes, Coleman and Colletts.John Groenendyke, ti?e father of!‘ icf wealth and prosperity, which they*could not hope to find in the old Keystone state. !4 iHe began merchandising krst atJames and Samuel, and tne grand-lt; Clinton, then at the Little Vermillion ’ ®father of Hon. John Groenendyke, j Mills, where he rendered himself and his cousin Samuel, ::ov; living atj useful as a citizen and popular as a Eugene, and also the grandfather cf j m-in. He served as Agent of the the present Colletts, came from near county in selling lots in tlie town of Ch id, Cayuga county, New York, Newport, the county seat, and enter-first to Terre Hlt;ute in 1818, and to this region in 1319. He settled oned for himself several choice pieces of land, which have remained in the- the Big Vermillion river, where Eu- hands of the family for three genera-,©i gene now stands, and where his son James built a mill subsequently, of!tions. He died at Eugene in 18 34, _ ! aged seventy-two. \\ery fine water capacity for that “Josephus Coiiett, Sr., was the son early daj, which was esteemed by Gf John, and the father of William,’the new immigrants as one of the - -Vho now live back of the village of most substantial hopes of the settle-1 Eugene, the possesors of some two mefit. This Groenendyke family is j thousand acres of tli« rich lands of among the oldest in America, having this county. Josepi ius, Sr., was one. emigrated from Holland to New Am- 0f the marked men in this communi-sterdam, and rattled among the i ty. Born in Huntington county, ' Knickerbockers in 16o0. Pennsylvania, in the year 1787, he11John was the first generation of moved to Columbus, Ohio, in 1810,this family to strike for Indiana,©eranilyheimisepi-and was appointed Deputy Sheriff oi bringing with him his sons, James | Ross county the same year, and twoand Samuel, who were long known j years afterward was elected to the ©here as enterprising farmers and; game office. After having servedbusiness men, and wli® did much toout the term of his Sheriffalty, hebuild up the country, and to establish v/as appointed, in 1820, Deputy Uni-a good order of civil society. These ted States Surveyor by Gov. Tiffin,1men appeared not to know or think they were making history, and therefore they have, like many others, passed away without having leftthen Surveyor General of the North-! V western Territory, and in his capaci-j bad ty as Deputy Surveyor he surveyed aj S°o district of the country which em-those more definite records, which braces a large part of the counties of the present generation would beproud to have, as the memorable|(Continued on Page Six.)T con
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Clinton Daily Clintonian
Clinton, Indiana, US
Mon, Aug 09, 1915
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