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I have known a gang of little boys, who had the habit of coming to the reading room to make a disturbance, completely won over and converted into agreeable patrons by being captured red handed and told an amusing story. Children who come to the library are like everybody else very apt to treat you as you treat them. Mrs. C. P. Barnes, Kenosha, Wis.
H. Sampson, the Presiding Elder of the District, had been a member of the Michigan Conference. On invitation, he was transferred to the Rock River in August, 1842. His first appointment was Milwaukee, of which mention will be made in another place. The next year he was sent to Kenosha, then called Southport, to save the church property which had fallen under financial embarrassment.
Fortunately, citizens of smaller towns, like Ypsilanti, Kalamazoo, South Bend, Kenosha, and Racine, took a more sensible view of the proposed enterprise, and the line was built despite the contempt of Chicago capitalists. Now, however, the men of Chicago pay more than five thousand dollars a day for telegraphing at rates far lower than would have been thought possible in that early day.
Look how much it costs to run this house alone. And a million and a half of dollars why, I wouldn't let you think of losing that. I'll go myself first." "Where would you think of going if it came to that?" he asked curiously. "Oh, I'd find some place. Do you remember that little town of Sandwood, this side of Kenosha? I have often thought it would be a pleasant place to live."
The following morning we were sought out by the good people and kindly cared for, being assigned to quarters with my late host and his obliging family. Racine. Its Early History. Subsequent Growth. Racine District. Rev. Dr. Hobart. Kenosha. Rev. Salmon Stebbins. Sylvania. The Kelloggs. Walworth Circuit. Burlington and Rochester. Lyons. Troy Circuit. First Class at Troy. Eagle. Round Prairie.
He was a graduate of Cornell College in 1860, and of the Garrett Biblical Institute in 1863. He entered the Conference the same year, and had been stationed at Kenosha, Berlin, and Appleton. After his two years of service in Fond du Lac, he was stationed three years each at Racine and Oshkosh. Brother Cowles is a man of superior talent and excellent spirit.
I jot these lines literally at Kenosha summit, where we return, afternoon, and take a long rest, 10,000 feet above sea-level. At this immense height the South Park stretches fifty miles before me. Mountainous chains and peaks in every variety of perspective, every hue of vista, fringe the view, in nearer, or middle, or far-dim distance, or fade on the horizon.
Wade to speak here, in the very inner sanctuary of Pellerinism, exactly as he would speak to the uninitiated to repeat, simply, his Kenosha lecture, 'What Pellerinism means'; and we ought all, I think, to listen to him with the hearts of little children just as you will, Mr. Winterman as if he were telling us new things, and we " "Alice, dear " Mrs.
The little town of Sandwood, "this side of Kenosha," as Jennie had expressed it, was only a short distance from Chicago, an hour and fifteen minutes by the local train. It had a population of some three hundred families, dwelling in small cottages, which were scattered over a pleasant area of lake-shore property. They were not rich people.
At the close of his term on the District he was appointed to Oconomowoc, next to Waukesha, and the year following to Hart Prairie. Here his health utterly broke down, and at the following session of the Conference in 1868, he was compelled to take a superannuated relation. He now removed to Salem, in Kenosha County, where he died March 13, 1869, aged forty-seven.
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