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GIVES HISTORY ONEARLY DAYS ATMORGAN PARKBy Alice BarnardHeights.By 1860 most of the land in this vicinity was fenced and tilled asfarms. But considerable tracts,notably hundreds of acres owned by; the Morgans, were neither tilled nor fenced, and the cattle of the community pastured in it freely. It isowing to those untilled acres thatthose of you who came in the 70’s and 80’s found so great an abundanceand variety of wild flowers, especially the prairie flowers, as most of the farmers owning groves—the habitatof the wood flower, spared a part at least of the trees.The 60’sthe decade of the CivilWar! When I was a very little girl,I standing by my mother, her brother in a tense whisper said something in her ear. With a look of surprise shei ! said, “Another?” Jt was many years . after before I learned what this might,! mean. A few times my uncle going i in the morning to the barn, found a i ! fugitive slave lying in the hay of the , manger where he could feel the warmlt; breath of the cattle. I asked thelt;•\it1!My paper covers the ten years immediately preceding the beginning of 1 Morgan Park and Washington1 aunt who told me this, “Did the other• farmers have similar experiences?\! She replied, “I don’t know, we never 1 told—vou didn’t know which sidefolks were on.9 9When Lincoln wras candidate foxpresident there was held in the North Blue Island school house, what was probably the first political meeting of the neighborhood. The torch-lightprocession came down the road givinginvitation in song to, “Come and join 11 the Wide Awakes, the Wide Awakes of Illinois.” Feeling at the meetingran high, Mr. Welch, a school teach* iler and a Democrat, was asked to speak. But when he expressed views contrary to Republican sentiments he was attacked and had not personal friends and men of fairer minds protected him, he might have beenII 1roughly handled. The attackers andI (Continued on yaye 8) ^
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Morgan Park Suburban Star
Morgan Park, Illinois, US
Thu, Jul 03, 1924
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