Past And Present Of Dekalb County

Author : Lewis M. Gross
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9781333477738
Total Pages : 716 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (777 download)

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Download or read book PAST & PRESENT OF DEKALB COUNT written by Lewis M. Gross and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2016-09-05 with total page 716 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Past and Present of Dekalb County, Illinois, Vol. 2 In the spring of 1847 he returned to Du Page county and there married Miss Sophia A. Brown, the daughter of his former employer, Thomas C. Brown. Theirs has been an ideal married rela tion. As the years have passed they have shared with each other the joys and sorrows, the adversity and prosperity of life, each making the other's hap piness their chief care, their mutual love and con fidence increasing as the vears have gone by and growing all the stronger because of the difficulties which thy encountered together. Today they own and occupy the most beautiful residence in De Kalb, surrounded bv every comfort and convenience that wealth can secure and refined taste suggest. They began their domestic life, however, upon her father's farm, where Mr. Haish carried on gen eral agricultural pursuits for two years. He then, in 1849, purchased a farm in Pierce township, De Kalb county, to which he removed. He had resided upon that place but two years, however, when his health became impaired and he went to Kane ville, Illinois, where he followed carpentering. Al though he had never served a regular apprentice ship he was skilled in handling tools and for two years he did good work in building operations at that place. In 1853 he came to Buena Vista, now De Kalb, being among its first settlers. It was just about this time that the railroad was extended to this place, the town had been scarcely more than started and contained but few buildings. Unable to find a home in which to live, Mr. Haish built a little car shanty and there he and his wife estab lished their home in the new town. Uurmg the early period of his residence here he followed car pentering and did other work that would yield him an honest living. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.