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| 451 |  | A bumper crop of peaches 1871 "R. M. Hoskinson left a twig of a peach tree hanging in the book store, which held 67 well formed peaches. He has forty trees, with every branch as full as the above specimen." |
Owner of original: The Osage County Chronicle, Burlingame KS, p 3 Date: 18 may 1871 |
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| 452 |  | A five acre farm that markers $650 worth of produce, 1896 The following excerpts an article first published in the Seattle Times. I cannot find a copy of that article, but what appears to be a complete version can be found in the 6 Feb 1896 edition of The Aberdeen Herald. "R. M. Hoskinson writes to the Seattle Times that it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that any man with sufficient pluck and energy to tackle the logs and brush of these uplands can make a good living on five, or at most, ten acres. Sufficient capital is necessary to live on the frst year. From thence, each succeeding year becomes easier, and more remunerative. Mr. Hoskinson himself cultivates some five acres, and sells therefrom each year some $650 worth of varlous products, much as frult, vegetables, chickens, eggs, butter, etc. And what one man has And done another can do, with like brains and perseverance." |
Owner of original: Cottonwood Report, Cottonwood ID, p 3 Date: 7 Feb 1896 |
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| 453 | | A five acre farm that markers $650 worth of produce, 1896 The following excerpts an article first published in the Seattle Times. I cannot find a copy of that article, but what appears to be a complete version can be found in the 6 Feb 1896 edition of The Aberdeen Herald. "R. M. Hoskinson writes to the Seattle Times that it has been proven beyond a reasonable doubt that any man with sufficient pluck and energy to tackle the logs and brush of these uplands can make a good living on five, or at most, ten acres. Sufficient capital is necessary to live on the frst year. From thence, each succeeding year becomes easier, and more remunerative. Mr. Hoskinson himself cultivates some five acres, and sells therefrom each year some $650 worth of varlous products, much as frult, vegetables, chickens, eggs, butter, etc. And what one man has And done another can do, with like brains and perseverance." |
Owner of original: Big Timber Pioneer, Big Timber MT, p a6 Date: 6 Feb 1896 26.56887654795065, 28.105468750000004 |
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| 454 |  | A gloomy picture of California 1877 In this third letter from California to the editor to in The Osage County Chronicle, Riley laments moving to California: "I have been repeatedly asked "How do poor men make a living in California?"- Answer: "They don't live at all--they just breathe a little. Boarding costs $5 per week, a good pair of boots $16, womens' fine shoes $12 per pair, at the shoe shops. Most all labor on the roads, in the woods, in the fields, in the hotels, wash-houses, cooks and servants of all kinds, is performed by Chinese and Digger Indians, as these can be hired at about half the wages necessary to keep a white man or woman alive. The Chinese pervade all parts of the coast, and they virtually constitute a system of slavery about equal to that in the Southern States. I am now fully prepared to say to every well-to-do man or woman in Kansas, stay where you are, unless you want a whistle; if you do, it's here for you, and a very dear one at that. ....Thousands of the citizens of California would gladly return east if they could get the means to do so Men are dally passing through Cloverdale begging for work and food, having been brought here by false friends and lying periodicals." One can argue that Riley's initial glowing letters from California to his friends in Kansas are "lying periodicals." Riley and Martha left California for the Washington Territory roughly a months after this letter was written. |
Owner of original: The Osage County Chronicle, Burlingame KS, p 3 Date: 8 May 1877 |
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| 455 |  | A serious charge 1906 |
Owner of original: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL Date: 13 Sep 1906 |
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| 456 |  | A trip North 1914 "The W. B. Daniel and Chas. Fisher families returned from their northern trip on Friday and report having had a delightful visit with friends in a half dozen cities in Wisconsin and Northern Illinois...", |
Owner of original: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, p 5 Date: 23 Jul 1914 |
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| 457 |  | A trip through Southwest Knox Co., MO 1880 "From Novelty we went to Locust Hill, stopping for supper at Uncle Rufus Botts', is clever an old gentleman as there is in Salt River Township. There we listened to as fine a Greenback lecture as we ever heard, given by Prof. E. C. Kimman. A good audience was in attendance. and the strictest attention was given to the speaker." Greenback lecture refers to the Greenback Party that fielded presidential candidates in the 1876, 1880 and 1884 US presidential elections. The Greenback Party (known successively as the Independent Party, the National Independent Party and the Greenback Labor Party) grew from the organization and policies of the National Grange of the Order of Patrons of Husbandry, a social and political organization that encouraged farm families to band together to promote the economic and political well-being of the community and agriculture. Granges grew popular in the Midwest in the late 1880s and some still exist today. The Greenback party's name referred to the non-gold backed paper money, commonly known as "greenbacks", that had been issued by the North during the American Civil War and shortly afterward. The party opposed the deflationary lowering of prices paid to producers that was entailed by a return to a bullion-based monetary system, the policy favored by the Republican and Democratic parties. Continued use of unbacked currency, it was believed, would better foster business and assist farmers by raising prices and making debts easier to pay. In additional to supporting the use of "greenbacks," the party attempted to forge a farmer–labor alliance by adding industrial reforms to its agenda, such as support of the 8-hour day and opposition to the use of state or private force to suppress union strikes. with an anti-monopoly ideology which was active between 1874 and 1889. The part faded away in the mid-1880s, but its ideals would continue to argued by "populist" and "progressive" parties into the 1900s. |
Owner of original: The Edina National, Edina MO, p 4 Date: 10 Mar 1880 |
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| 458 |  | A. J. Cowser and Mary A. Stephens married 1921 "Last Wednesday, February 2nd, Probate Judge T. G. Allen issued a marriage license to A. J. Cower and Mary A. Stephenson (should be Stephens), both of Americus, Lyon County. The groom was 50 and the bride 41. They left the courthouse, however, without having the marriage ceremony performed but last Saturday returned again and had the Judge complete the job he had started Wednesday by having the knot tied." |
Owner of original: Chase County Leader, Cottonwood Falls KS, p 1 Date: 7 Feb 1921 |
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| 459 |  | Abe Fisher and mystery animal 1907 Abel Fisher "veteran trapper" called to identify mystery animal |
Owner of original: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, p 1 Date: Jan 31 1907 |
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| 460 |  | Abel and Ellen Fisher travels 1910 |
Owner of original: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, p 5 Date: 6 Oct 1910 |
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| 461 |  | Abel attends Civil War memorial exercises 1915 N. Fundenberger, Henry Sly, Joseph Lott and Abel Fisher attended the memorial exercises in Bushnell Monday." The clipping goes on to list the only Civil War veterans believed still surviving in the Blandinsville area, 16 men in total including Abel Fisher. |
Owner of original: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, p 7 Date: 3 Jun 1915 |
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| 462 |  | Abel catches house on fire 1904 "As Abel Fisher was lighting a lamp at his home a few evenings since the head of a match flew off and struck a lace curtain about twelve feet away, In an Instant the curtain was in flames and before they could be smothered had considerably damaged the carpet and other articles In the room..." |
Owner of original: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, p 7 Date: 21 Apr 1904 |
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| 463 |  | Abel Fisher Star on Abels's chest is Civil War Grand Army of the Republic (GAR) medal. I have similar star given to Abel's brother Thomas H. Fisher for his service in the Civil War |
Owner of original: findagrave photo by Bushnell Date: 15 May 2012 |
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| 464 |  | Abel Fisher - trapping 1899 Abel was known throughout the Blandinsville area as an outdoorsman and excellent trapper. This article gives the results of his trapping the winter of 1888-1889: "51 minks, 1 coon, 1 opossum, 5 skunks, 7 house cats and 2 weasels." |
Owner of original: The Bardolph News, Bardolph IL, p 5 Date: 19 Apr 1889 |
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| 465 |  | Abel Fisher altercation over GAR badge 1888 Abel gets in dust up over his GAR badge. A "..young man from the Southwest country, who threatened to ptfi from Fisher's breast his Grand Army badge, and also asserted that he "could lick any G-d D-m man who would wear oue of those badges. Of course this "riled" Abe to a considerable extent and the two had quite a wordy combat, but no blows were struck." |
Owner of original: Colchester Independent, Colchester IL, p 3 Date: 4 Oct 1888 |
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| 466 |  | Abel Fisher and Mr. and Mrs John Atebery attend funeral for Matthias Fisher 1915 "Uncle Abe Fisher of Blandinsville, Ill., accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Johnnie Atterberry (Ateberry)over here last week and attended the funeral of their brother and uncle, Mathias Fisher." |
Owner of original: La Plata Republican, La Plata, MO, p 8 Date: 5 Mar 1915 |
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| 467 |  | Abel Fisher Civil War Discharge Certificate Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 468 |  | Abel Fisher Civil War Pension File The following documents are from Abel Fisher's Civil War pension file. These include a Declaration for Pension in Abel which lists his birth date and place, and Civil War service. Two questionnaires detail his marriage to Ellen E. Peck and provide birth dates for their children. The poor state of Abel's health late in life is chronicled in a declaration by Abel and several affidavits and letters written by his friends, neighbors and doctor in support of his application for an Invalid Pension. The Drop Report lists Abel's date of death. The file closes with an interesting exchange between Illinois Senator William McKinley and the Bureau of Pensions. Senator McKinley's letter to Bureau of Pensions states that he is forwarding a letter of inquiry. This letter is not found in Abel's pension file but its contents can be determined from Deputy Commissioner of Pensions Hays Haymaker's reply The letter sought funding for a tombstone for Abel. Mr. Haymaker's reply states that he is returning a letter from C. E. B. Allen and advises that an "application for tombstone" be addressed to the Quartermaster General of the War Department. The file contains no further correspondence to indicate whether Mr. Allen followed up on his inquiry. |
Owner of original: National Archive |
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| 469 |  | Abel Fisher Cottage Renovations - The Iola Register, 22 May 1891 Abel Fisher has finally got tired of pumping the water out of his cottage cellar after every rain and is having it filled. |
Owner of original: The Iola Register, (Iola, KS), 22 May 1891, p. 5, col. 3 Date: 22 May 1891 |
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| 470 |  | Abel Fisher court continuance on Blandinsville burglary |
Owner of original: Macomb Journal, Macomb IL Date: 27 Sep 1906 |
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| 471 |  | Abel Fisher dangerously ill |
Owner of original: Blandinsville Star-Gazette, Blandinsville IL, p 5 Date: 29 May 1924 |
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| 472 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Letter from White/Henry 1922 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 473 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Application Cover 1894 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 474 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Articles of Agreement 1922 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 475 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Bureau of Pensions Cover 1915 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 476 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Cover Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 477 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Declaration for Pension 1890 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 478 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Declaration for Pension 1912 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 479 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Declaration for Pension 1921 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 480 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - General Affidavit 1890 (Fisher) Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 481 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - General Affidavit 1890 (Scott/Kilgar) Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 482 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - General Affidavit 1894 (Myers et. al.) Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 483 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Invalid Pension Record 1890, Page 1 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 484 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Invalid Pension Record 1890, Page 2 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 485 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Letter From Abel Fisher 1915 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 486 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Letter from Bureau of Pensions 1922 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 487 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Letter from C. E. Ballou 1922 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 488 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Letter from C. E. Ballou 1922 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 489 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Letter from Dr. Markee 1921 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 490 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Letter to Abel Fisher 1894 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 491 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Letter to Abel Fisher 1915 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 492 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Letter to Abel Fisher 1922 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 493 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Mail Receipt 1894 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 494 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Military Service Record 1891 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 495 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Notation 1912 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 496 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Pension Questionnaire 1898 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 497 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Pension Questionnaire 1915 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 498 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Pension Record 1912 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 499 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Pension Record 1918 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |
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| 500 |  | Abel Fisher Pension File - Pension Record 1920 Status: Located; |
Owner of original: National Archives |