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Lewis Cass Bell, who is visiting inthe city, was not the first white child• . •bora iu this county, according to W. S Wright, who wrote a history of the county., Wright says:. * 4‘‘Permit me to correct a historical, ♦ lt;»• '** rstatement just published in some or the Logahsport papers. Lewis Cass Bell was not the first white child bom in Cass county, but the second. Gillis McBane, ndw living in Oregon, born in 1828, has that honor. Bell’s log« w »-•*•••. , • , 'j , u. Scabin did not.stand on the present site of the St. Vincent de Paul CatholicIfc*- * • # . ** • * ' * r i •. . - v**’.* •/church. It was on the river bank a' •••. ... i • - t. .little south of the present Wabash rail road station.“Major Daniel Bell died November 7. 1874, in this county, aged 86. He-was buried in the Sprinkle cemetery, Jackson township. His monument be^rs, this inscription: -November seventh/was the anniversary of the battleof Tippecanoe in which he bore tfis part/ Major Bell was also in/ the Mexican war and was prominently• ' .****’ .• . , , .. . . . j-■ . ... .connected with the early history of' V ' * i «* f -1- . i -S'- ; .•the; county.”
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Logansport Weekly Reporter
Logansport, Indiana, US
Tue, Jun 30, 1908
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