1971 Feb-Mar - The Horatio Alger Society

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Monthly Newsletter of
the HORATIO ALGER
SOCIETY. The World's
Only Publication Devot
ed to That Wonderful
GUEST EDITOR World of Horatio Alger.
Carl T. Hartmann
Vol. 9 No. 6&7
4907 Allison Dr.
Feb.-March 1971
Lansing, Mi. 48910
Founded 1961 by Forrest Campbell & Kenneth Butler
wrote for the next thrity years
have become known; the stories
of poor boys, most of the or
HORATIO ALGER, JR.: phaned, trying to make a living,
His Influence, and Those and to become successful. They
Who Influenced Him were bootblacks, newsboys, bag
gage-smashers, and match-boys.
By Gilbert K. Westgard II All had in common their poverty
and their dreams of success.
Horatio Alger's name is today By writing about them, Horatio
a synonym for a concept of Alger made himself a wealthy and
industry, thrift, honesty, successful author whose name is
morality, virtue, and the self even today remembered while he
made individual. But, what do himself is almost forgotten.l
most people know of the man
himself? Almost forgotten -- but not
quite. After all, who could for-
Horatio Alger was a real per get an author whose works have sold
son. The son of a Unitarian more than those of Dickens, Thackeray,
clergyman, he was born on Friday, Hemingway, Faulkner and Lloyd C.
the 13th of January, 1832 at Douglas, combined?2
Chelsea, (now Revere) Massach
The influence of Alger on the
usetts. Like his father, he
lives of generations of Americans
too, became a graduate of Harvard
from the mid 1860's until after the
College, graduating in the dis
end of the First World War would be
tinguished class of 1852.
almost impossible to calculate.
Even while he was still in school
A few years ago in an effort to
his name was becoming known to
assess his influence on prominent
the American public. Various
men in the government I wrote to a
articles and short stories
number of individuals asking them if
from his pen had begun to appear
they had read Alger's books in their
in some of the popular magazines
youth, what they remembered about
of the day.
them, and if they felt that these
books had a message for the youth of
Eventually moving to New York
today. Three of the answers received
City, just after the Civil War,
are as follows:
he fo~nd the material for which
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over one hundred books that he
FEBRUARY-f'1ARCH 1971
NEWSBOY
A sheet to list your boy relatives
HORATIO ALGER SOCIETY
of Junior age 4-18 in case you, as a
member, wish to sponsor any or all of
them as Junior Alger Club member.
To further the philosophy of Horatio
Alger Jr. and to encourage the spirit One additional thought. Let's
of Strive and Succeed that for half correspond with eachother. Select
a century guided Alger's undaunted a name from the new roster. Let's
heroes - lads whose struggles epit enjoy our hobby to the utmost
omized the Great American Dream and
flamed hero ideals in countless PF-264, George C. Clarke
millions of young Americans. *************************************
PRESIDENT'S COLUMN
OFFICERS
I hope to see many of you May 14,
JUDSON S. BERRY PRESIDENT 15 & 16, 1971 at 3801 W. 4lst St.,
LEO (BOB) BENNETT VICE-PRESIDENT Sioux Falls, S.D. Any of you that
DAN FULLER TREASURER have a camper can headquarter in my
CARL T. HARTMANN SECRETARY yard. Lots of room but I will need
KENNETH B. BUTLER DIRECTOR your space reservation ahead of time.
RALPH CARDNER DIRECTOR
FORREST CAMPBELL DIRECTOR So far the schedule fer the con
vention is as follows:
The NEWSBOY, the official organ
of the Horatio Alger Society is May 14th. Registration during the
published monthly except January afternoon at my house (1/4 mile
and July, and is distributed free east of Interstate 29 exit). We
to Society member. Membership will have a smorgasboard in the
fee for any twelve month period evening with book displays and
is $5.00. visiting.
NEWSBOY recognizes Ralph D. May 15th. During the morning we
Gardner's HORATIO ALGER, or the will visit the Pettigrew Museum and
American Hero Era, published by various antique shops in the area.
Wayside Press, 1964, as the lead At 3 P.M. we will hold the annual
ing authority on the subject. meeting at the Park Ridge Valley
National Bank. Our Banquet and
~lease use membership roster for .. awards will be at 6:30 with speak
mailing address of our officers. er at the Normandy Restaurant.
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May 16th. We will have a scrambled
NOTES FROM GEORGE
egg parting breakfast at my home
and I will provide a church sche
To add to your enjoyment as a
dule for all those who wish to
"Par tic' lar Friend", each member of
attend.
HAS is invited to send a self
addressed, stamped envelope (.12¢)
The hope is to keep the expense
for the following.
of the convention down so attending
will be a minimum hardship on every
A complete list of all Algers with
one's pocketbook.
alternate titles.
A list of available Alg~rs and
Let us try in 1971 to give Carl
range of prices at which offered.
Hartmann his New Years wish and
A list of rare Algers, valued at
find a new editor for the Newsboy.
$5.00 up, but not listed as "Avail
Will close with this thought attri
able."
buted to my late beloved mother.
An extra sheet for you to list all "Afflictions are but the shadow of
your Algers. God's wings."
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ficant impression on me. Alger '.s
books, I feel, have a message
I believe I read every Horatio Al
for today's youth as well. It is
ger book which was ever written
only through initiative, hard
and probably the one that made the
work, honesty and dedication .to
deepest impression and sticks with
duty that our young people wiil
me even now is the one that either
find success in what~ver venture
bore the title or belabored the
they pursue.
theme of sticking to your bush.
Sincerely yours,
It began with the story of a group
J. Edgar Hoover
going forth to gather wild black
Director
berries and while most of the
Federal Bureau of
group scampered from bush to bush
Investigation
and finally came up with a very
small quantity of berries, our
References to Alger often turn up
hero stuck to his business until
in some surprising and unusual places.
every berry was in his pail and
While reading an article on Mormon
then went on to another. At the
ism in a book on "cult religions,"
end of the day he had a real
I found that "Mormonism today appeals
harvest.
to hundreds of thousands of con
verts for many reasons, but chief
It is really too bad that the
among them is its enshrinement of
Horatio Alger books are not the
the frontier values and Horatio
vogue for the youngsters of today
Alger dreams which form a basic
because they could have a real
part of our national heritage."3
influence on the youth of America
in our time and generation.
Having examined briefly the in
fluence of Horatio Alger on the lives
Sincerely,
of several prominent individuals, and
Everett McKinley Dirksen
having seen that even today his name
Minority Leader
is still used as a synonym for suc
United States Senate
cess, the question of who were those
who influenced him will naturally
As a boy and a young man, I was
arise. In some cases the influence
an ardent reader of the Horatio
will be obvious, while in other cases
Alger books. I have repeatedly
it will be pure speculation.
and publicly stated that it should
be a "must" with parents to have
One of the most powerful influences
their children, particularly boys
upon the life of Horatio Alger, Jr.
growing up, read the Horatio Al
was the personality of his father,
ger books. I have found my read
Rev. Horatio Alger, Sr. He was the
ing of these books to be most
fifth in a direct line of Algers in
constructive and influential in
America, having descended from one
my lifetime. I cannot too strong
Thomas Alger, who appears in Taunton,
ly urge the youth of our country
Massachusetts, about 1665. 4 .. Horatio,
to read the Horatio Alger Books.
Sr. was born at Bridgewater, Mass
achusetts on November 6, 1806. In
Sincerely yours,
1825 he graduated from Harvard college
John W. McCormack
and four years later from the Divinity
Speaker
School at Cambridge, since become a
United States House of
part of Harvard University. He was
Representatives
the minister of the Unitarian Church
at Chelsea when his son and namesake
As a boy, I read with enthusiasm
was born. Since the child was deli
Horatio Alger's books for boys.
cate he did not attend school with
While I cannot point out any
other children, but was tutored by
specific one of them as my favor
his father.
ite, these stories made a signi-
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NEWSBOY
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PF-312 Gary N. Handler
Under his father's direction, 1958 Cambridge Drive
young Alger learned quite rapidly. Kent, Ohio 44240
His subjects were French, Latin,
Greek and the Bible. When not engaged Gary's field of interest in Alger
in his studies he would read from is Bibliophilic and Cultural. He
texts that his father had saved from also collects 1st Editions of late
his student-days. By the age of eight 19th and early 20th century authors.
he could converse with his father in *************************************
three foreign'languages, as well as
PF-313 Gary V. Lemon
write and sight-translate long pass 6014 119th St. S.W.
ages. Like his father he could also
Tacoma, Wash. 98499
quote many parts of the Bible, giving
(Judith)
chapter and verse references.
Both Gary and Judith have been
Horatio never had any doubts about
collecting Alger for a number of
his future. How could he? Like his
years but did not know about our
father, he would be a minister.5
Society. Glad to have you both
aboard. More on page 13
In December, 1844, the Alger fam ***********************************
ily moved to Marlborough. Concerning
his further education undertaken in
We are happy to welcome PF-252,
this new location, Horatio states: Kenneth Kral back. Ken had to
drop out for awhile but is once
There was in this place a small again an active member.
academy in successful operation, ***********************************
under the superintendence of Mr.O.
W. Albee, a graduate of Brown, We have just been notified that
and quite a respectable scholar, Colonel Richard Gimbel has passed
though his tastes inclined him away. The Yale University Library
and our Society has lost a real
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friend.
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WELCOME TO NEW MEMBERS
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other hobbies include old boys and
girls books, old western novels
Above offered by:
and breeding fancy mice. Betty Lee Johnson
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705 Palm Blvd.
Isle of Palms, S.C. 29451
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Con't from page 4 ton in 1776, and was located within
walking distance of the'college.
rather to mathematics and the
physical sciences than to the Writing to Alger on December 14,
classics. To these my own tastes 1875, Longfellow asked about using
were directly opposed: possibly some of Horatio's pieces in a col
this was of advantage to me as lection. He was informed, " I shall
it tended to equalize the time be only too happy to have them used.117
which I devoted to these various In the same .letter Alger reminded
branches. Though the idea had his former instructor of an incident
long entertained, now for the that probably Longfellow had long
first time I commenced a course since forgotten.
of study preparatory to entering
college. Beneath the elm trees " Years since, when at college, I
in front of Gates' Academy (for remember calling upon you with
so it was called) I have conned a classmate, and I shall not soon
many a lesson in Latin, Greek, forget the kindness with which
and mathematics. Unfortunately you received the two inexperienced
for the interest of my narrative, boys whose visit might have been
nothing remarkable happened to regarded by many as an intrusion."
me in the three years following.
"No moving incidents by fire and Louis Agassiz taught Horatio's
flood" have I to relate, by re course in geology. The distinguished
citing which I might like another geologist had come to the United
Othello win a second Desdemona. States in 1846, only ten years after
I suppose my time was occupied in starting his research into the sub
about the same way that others ject of great glacial movements in
have passed it when placed in the1past.8 His theory as to the
similar circumstances. In sp~ak vastness of time involved in the
ing, therefore, of the impressions earth's past was new and not readily
made upon me at this time I should accepted in a society accustomed to
only be quoting from the exper the belief that the world was created
ience of many. Horace speaks in 4004 B.C.
not unadvisedly where he says,
"It is difficult to speak pro In 1857 Horatio wrote a slim
perly of the things we have in poetical volume entitled, Nothing
common." My preparatory studies To Do, in which the main character,
being completed a year before I Augustus Fitz-Herbert is described,
actually entered college, I pass along with a reference to Alger's
ed the intervening time in read former teacher.
ing "ad libitum" several of the
modern languages, which approach He inclines, as I think, in re
ed as nearly to the famous sweet gard to the masses,
idleness as could be desired.6 In a modified form to the views
of Agassiz:
Horatio was accepted as a student As that Adam the first had another
by Harvard College in 1848. Some for w e e d i n
v ,
of the professors with whom ~e came And other such jobs, in the gar
in contact are worthy of note. den of Eden;
While Eve has a gousemaid--the
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow taught wife of the latter,
classes in modern languages. He Of color uncertain--perhaps a
had been appointed to this position mulatto,
in 1835. After his second marriage, Who lives in the kitchen, cooks,
(his first wife having died in 1835), washes, and starches,
he purchased the Craigie House in
Cambridge. This mansion had been
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the headquarters of General Washing-
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was such that he earned a prize
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Felton judged Alger's work and wrote
While Eve in the parlor plays his comments at the end of the paper.
waltzes and marches;
And that those who perforce There are several errors in this
bear the burdens of life version, partly in the use of
Date their origin back to this words, and some in inflections:
man and his wife, but it is, on the whole, deserv
While from Adam the first are ing of the prize, being generally
descended the few correct, and showing a good deal
Who are blest with long purses of attention and labor.
and nothing to do.9
Political science was taught by
Edward Tyrrel Channing was Charles Sumner. It was Sumner who
Alger's instructor in the field in later years, as Senator from
of rhetoric and oratory. His full Massachusetts, led the anti-Johnson
title was Boylston Professor of forces in impeachment proceedings.
Rhetoric and Oratory. He was ap-
pointed in 1819. When Alger entered college he
was selected to fill the office of
This post he held for 32 years, President's Freshman. His function
resigning it in 1851. was to perform the official errands
of the President. For this service
During all this time, the de he received about forty dollars and
partment of rhetoric and ora rent of his room. The man he served
tory, including the charge of was Edward Everett, Governor of Mass
all the English compositions of achusetts from 1836 to 1840, U.S.
the students, and carrying Minister to England from 1841 to
great influence over their 1845, and remembered by many as the
reading and tastes, was filled "other speaker" on the occasion of
by him with more than satisfac the consecration of the national
tion to the public of reading cemetery at Gettysburg, when
and thinking men. Abraham Lincoln delivered his immor
tal address. He declared that
He established and maintained Lincoln's speech would live for
for the college a high reputa generations after his own (Everett's)
tion for purity and elegance of two-hour effort was forgotten.11
style in composition and elocu He was correct.
tion, and gave direction to the
reading of an entire generation In his second year at Harvard
of leading men in all depart Alger met Addison Brown who had
ments of intellectual labor ... taken his first year of college at
He was highly esteemed for the Amherst. They were to be roommates
charm of his conversation, which for the remainder of their under
was choice and pure in style, graduate days.
with an occasional use of a
restrained but effective humor.10 Brown's story is echoed in some
of Alger's later stories of poor
The influence of his former. boys who aspire to get an education.
teacher is strongly in evidence in His father had gone broke only four
all of Alger's writing. Alger years previously. However, the
used humor, but in a restrained, younger Brown went to work in a
effective manner. shoe factory to pay his expenses and
to save up money for his education.
Horatio studied Greek under the
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eminent classical scholar Cornelius
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self at Cambridge as a private tutor.
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In 1862 he declined a ca~tl from the
He studied in his leisure time, Unitarian Society at Alton, Illinois,
and recited to the head of an aca though two years later he would ac
demy who had urged him to prepare cept the call from a Unitarian
for college. After graduation from Church at Brewster, Massachusetts,
Harvard, he took up the study of where h~ would remain for two years.
law, and eventually became a United
States Judge of the District Court During the time that he was at
for the Southern District of New Brewster, Alger made a couple of
York. Remembering his college days trips to New York City. Seeing the
he made provision for the establish thriving metropolis, Alger knew
ment of the Addison Brown Scholar that here was the place for him.
ships both at Harvard and Amherst However, one must still earn a living,
colleges.12 and the world was not yet familiar
enough with his name so that he
For several years after his could be certain of a living wherever
graduation from Harvard, Alger did he might go.
some teaching·and some writing for
a few of the popular literary Through his sister, Olive Augusta
magazines of the day. Always, Alger Cheney, a popular authoress
though, his father urged him to of literature for children, Horatio
continue his studies to fit him came into contact with William
self for the ministry. Taylor Adams, better known under the
name "Oliver Optic."
Entering the Harvard Divinity
school in 1857, he graduated in Adams was the editor of a popular
1860. The father was pleased. juvenile publication, Student and
Schoolmate. He was ten years older
Soon he was off to Europe with than Horatio, and had already pub
his cousin, George Fenno, and a lished some of Olive's pieces. He
classmate from his undergraduate could not use the book-length story
days, who had also graduated from that Horatio presented to him, but
the Harvard Divinity School. His sent the clergyman-author to see
name was Charles Carroll Vinal. Aaron K. Loring.
While in Europe, Horatio wrote His story was Frank's Campaign;
various articles and stories which or, What Boys Can Do On the Farm for
appeared later in American news the Camp. It was a tale of a boy
papers and magazines. In one left to care for the home-front
article he described the funeral while his father went off to the.war.
of Eugene Scribe, and then did It was accepted by Loring, and pub
quite a scholarly biography of the lished in 1864. The next year
late French dramatist which appear Loring published his story entitled,
ed in the North American Review. Paul Prescott's Charge. Three more
books followed in 1866 and 1867. By
'
Upon their return to the United this time Horatio had given up the
States in 1861, both Alger and ministry for good, moved to New
Vinal accepted calls from Unitar York City, and had at last become
ian congregations in the state of an author.
Massachusetts. Vinal went to
North Andover, where he remained He was now his own man -- not
for fourteen years, while Alger just an extension of his father.
went to Dover for eight months.
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He still was not certain that
the ministry was for him, and in
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FOOTNOTES
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l Gilbert K. Westgard II, "A
In 1867, his story, Ragged Dick, Synonym For Success," Newsboy,
appeared in the pages of Student volume 8, number 3, October,
and Schoolmate. It is the story 1969, p.8
that launched him as an all-time
best-selling author of books for 2 Frank Gruber, Horatio Alger, Jr.
boys.13 For the next thirty years A Biography and Bibliography,
he would rewrite the basic theme of p .11
Ragged Dick more than one hundred
times, become the most popular 3 Tracy Cabot {ed •)I Inside the
author in the country, and would Cult~, pp. 21-22
make and spend a fortune.
4 New-England Historical and
Ragged Dick brought him to the Genealogical Register, volume
attention of Charles O'Connor, 36
superintendent of the Newsboys'
Lodging House in New York City 5 Ralph D. Gardner, Horatio Alger,
since its founding in 1853. Here or The American Hero Era, p.59
was a book that was suitable for
his young charges to read, and here 6 Horatio Alger, Jr., "Nothing So
was a lodging-house full of boys Difficult As The Beginning,"
for the young author to use as unpublished manuscript
source material for further books
about the "street Arabs" of New 7 --·----- "Letter to Henry
York. From that time on the Wadsworth Longfellow," December
Newsboys' Lodging House became 16, 1875
Alger's New York Home.14 It was
years later that O'Connor, while 8 Anne Terry White, Prehistoric
listening to Alger read the open America, pp. 9-16
ing paragraphs of Adrift In New
York, passed peacefully away. 9 Gilbert K. Westgard II, Alger
Street The Poetry of Horatio
Alger wrote the eulogy of Alger, Jr., pp. 21-22
his close friend.
10 The Americana, volume 5, article
When the time came for him to on Edward Tyrrel Channing
speak he forgot the lengthy
encomiums he had carefully 11 The World Book Encyclopedia, p.2335
prepared. Instead he said:
"Charles O'Connor was the best 12 Grace Williamson Edes, Annals of
friend that man or boy could the Harvard Class of 1852,
have. God was good in giving pp. 29-33
him to us. No one can say how
much he meant to us. Every 13 Gardner, op. cit., p. 450
where boys know the man Charles
O'Connor was. He was the best 14 Herbert R. Mayes, Alger A Bio
friend I have ever known. He graphy Without A Hero, p.101
was the kindest and the least
selfish. I loved him--all of 15 John Tebbel, From Rags to Riches
us loved him. God will find a Horatio Alger, Jr., and the
place for him close to His American Dream, p. 130
throne.1115
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When Horatio Alger, Jr. died in
1899 there were many who could have
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Con't from page 8 ------ "A Synonym For Success,"
Newsboy, volume 8, number 3,
BIBLIOGRAPHY October, 1969
Alger, Horatio, Jr., "Letter to The World Book Encycolfedia, Chicago,
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow," W.F. Quarrie & Company, 1936
December 16, 1875, Harvard
* * * * * * * * *
College, Archives, Cambridge,
Negative microfilm of:
Massachusetts
"The Disagreeable Woman" 5.00
------ "Nothing So Difficult As
The Beginning," unpublished Offered by:.
manuscript, Class Book of 1852, Gilbert K. Westgard II
Harvard College, Archives, 92 North 900 East
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Provo, Utafu 84601
••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••••
The Americana, New York, Scientific
"Horatio Alger or the American Hero
American Compiling Dept., 1910
Era" by Ralph Gardner - 2 copies.
$9.50 each post paid.
Cabot, Tracy (ed.), Inside The
Cults, Los Angeles, Holloway
Offered by:
House, 1970
Judson s. Berry
3801 West 4lst St.
Edes, Grace Williamson, Annals of
Souix Falls, S.D. 57106
the Harvard Class of 1852,
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Cambridge, Privately Printed,
1922
Earnest Sanford,PF-032, reports
that PG-157, Wardney White has
Gardner, Ralph D., Horatio Alger,
passed away. Mr. White was over
or The American Hero Era,
90 and was a ardent Alger Fan. Al
Mendota, Illinois, Wayside
though Wardney hasn't been active
Press, 1964
in our Society for a few years his
interest in Alger was very great.
Gruber, Frank, Horatio Alger, Jr.
We know that all that came in con
A Biography and Bibliography,
tact with him will miss him greatly.
West Los Angeles, Grover Jones
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Press, 1961
The following have stated that they
Mayes, Herbert R., Alger A Bio
5 will be in Sioux Falls - Will you???
graphy Without A Hero, New
York, Macy-Masius, 1928
Dan Fuller, Jack Row, Carl Hartmann,
Bob Bennett, Judson Berry, Ralph
New-England Historical and Genea
Gardner, Carl Thieme.
logical Register, Boston,
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David Clapp & Son,1882
Tebbel, John, From Rags to Riches On Jan. 13th. Max Goldberg gave
Horatio Alger, Jr., and The a talk to the Revere Kiwanis Club
American Dream, New York, on Alger. The talk was given on
Macmillan, 1963 Alger's 139th. birthday and we hope
to run it in a future issue of the
Westgard, Gilbert K. II, Ai~er NEWSBOY.
Street The Poetry of Horatio If Max's health holds out he is
Alger, Jr., Boston, J.S. Canner, planning another Memorial service
1964 for Alger in July.
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ular works, school books, bibles in verioue forms=-some
advertised letters. very elegant, ulank.books, writing.paper, &:·c· &c. ') NOTICE.
of Whooe kesx, pinecclt uidni nag ftehwe ldnareyaa t tpou 1r eI'ceeaivuec nas, ftlol!gthcethr esrulwp).'.t>h!Y T all per;o:1s whom t:us may concPrn.
Here is an actual listing I oomMee reclehgaanntot sAuNppNliUedA wLiSth fBoro o1k6s3 7a.n d Stntu. meryat li. b. k, E•g'iKteu~onw H!hnant dorn' ·dt hTe htwirtcy~ l'Fctihv ed', av"r . oWf J:u:i..
era! mtea, : ~142w3
which was printed in the NJeo, 0<~ 12, 1836. Woodn1ff, of F!ourli<'ld, St. Joserh co .. '>11;•J
::)'ate of lHich1:;an, dirl cx.~cute a note of tw()
Kalamazoo Gazette in the year
LIST OF LETTERS, hundred and sixty dol!:-trs or.d twenty-3<·vcn
of 1837. R E'l'IAINING in the Po3t Offi:e. in Kalamazoo, cents,-unto Samuel llfoKyee, of the· rlace
~ January 1, 1837. Persons ealli11g for the fellow, a'.ovc named. That said 1wte, has endorse.
ing letters will please say ndvertired. ment on it, and is payah!e onl.l day af!er. date,
Kalamazoo was still in its WTrmum. aAnn Adrveewrisl l ADibcv!cu.shiaamn HHeu5g3h es nnd that I have good lawfol ass01• sufficient
to pay sa[d note, and do forb:d all persons
infancy as far as our fron LTehwoims aAs dJa. mAsn gol JHoesnhruya WHi.s kHa oague Buying said note,
tiers and national progress T. D. Austin Reaain Holmes The saicl note is in.the hands of Jercmiala
Jomes Anderson J\lr. Heyd~~burg Humphrey of Kafo.n'lnzoo,
is concerned. There were Joseph Allen :2 Onnnn Hunt *144w3 Wm. WOODRUFF.
Joseph Atherton L~wis JoJinson 2
only a few hundred people in Philaader JI!. Bucklin Gideon or Joseph 1obnaon Dated, Kalamazoo, January 7, 1837.
Philander Bishop Cotton Kimball 2
the area and many of them, it Elisha Belcher 2 'I'hos Kennard NOTICE
Geo. C. Barclay Ann Kent
seems, had more important Goo. Barclay Robert Love Is hereby g;ven, that so mucli of the following deacri.
A. P. &, Horace Bush Martin Lathrop bed Iota of lnnd, llituated in the county of Kalama..
things to do besides making a John Dryeno Stephen Loveland zoo, Michignn, as may be· necessary to satisfy the taK
Rowland Buel or Zena Loyd ea assessed thereon, for. th~ year one thousand eight
daily trip to the post office. Henry Chapin Albert Lawrence hundred ond"thirty.three,togl'thorwith tho intoreot an4
John J. Barnard Clement March 5 charges will be sold at public auction, at the ~
Manassah Bixby J. R. Monroe house, ln tbe village of Ka•am3700, on the oecou,d dar
Henry P. Bridge Samuel Millard of October next. .i ten o'clock in the forenoon:
According to the posted Mary Baldwin Samuel Millard Jr. ~1~~·1~
Luciw Bolrwood C. Mason m TUE.· TIOTlT. I!'SlllJ' OF 11•~1'.
date, they were a bunch of Leonard Bronson John Meachum · \Sec. Vaine~
•-;temtnt Diddle jr. Benjamin l\la..itin · Dola. Cta. Dola. Cta.
Christmas cards, no doubt. I; <t Roll · L. Moore S E U 12:4 S 12, 800 3 38
v;~cent L. Bradford 2 t.....emge Morron 2 .. ~ ·- . •1 s 9 400 1 68
Henry Bowers Caleb S. Merrill N 1.2NEI-4 2 3 9 240 1 00
Heman Bradway Henry Moore NEl.4 13 9480 1 91
Also, please note the John C;Decbe W. H. Nelson SWl.4. 33 9400 1 68
B. Door Wnrren Norton S 1.2 N W 1..4 3 3 9 200 8'
existing book store at that Warren Beckwith Nicholas Oskenburgh W 1.2 N E 1.4 IO 3 9 200 Bf,
H. H. Beers Ira Palmer NEVI 7 3 1~200 8(
early date but it was n::>t Austin Church Asa J. Park S E 1..4 61 133 10 2100001 8'
Hiram Chapman Jonas G. Po!:er S 1.2 N W 1-4 11 1001 41
located in our area. • David Cadwell T. B. Palmer E 1.2 S E 1-4 I 3 JI lll 41
Eno• Church · · S. L. Porter W 1-2 S E 1-4 3 3 II 240 00
Alnx. Cameron Asa G. Park N E 1-4 31· 3 II 240 00
Plso please note the delin TL.. PD.. CCooll!koinm SJoehldne nP ePrcaet ridge EE I1.-22S-SE l.W4 1-4 556 31 33 J11I 1136200 11 :6a7
Nehemiah Cbaso E~"" Pat,erson NE 1.4 Ill 400 1 68
quent tax notice. After a Ephraim C3~c Hiram Rice E 1.2 SE l.4 6 7 JJ1I'J 240 I I 00
Gordon Cook J. R ysoun NI.2E1.2sEI.41 1, 3 1 1201 53
quick check I was relieved to Abr'm Cnhi~I 2 Roderic Rowe T. P. SHELDON, Tuaawet,
Henry W. Chapin On·en Ilansoi;a Kalamazoo County Treasures l
learn that there were no en Edmond P. Deacon Henry lleynoul• Office, January 21, 1837 S tl43mll
Lyman Diniels Jacob F. M. Roc.kafeller
cumbrances upon our property. Oliver Daveoport Jacob Ramsdell MORTGAGE SALE.
Benj. S. Dibble Nelson Sage
David Dicbon R. Sherwovd & Co. D.EFAULT having been mode in the payment of
At that time, mail was TBoenwjnamseinnd D Deapvuies AAllfarreud;o Snr Sraunmg ner 3 secureTd hbrye ~in dHe:.nmtudrree ~o fd mololratngia, gwei, thb ethaeri ningt'edraetset stixhteereenotnh,
brought into Kalamazoo by JD.Mi:tt. er DDaicnkieinls;; on WL. oSrtahvya gSet reeter Tdah~i rotyf. Sfievpe,t eemxebceur,t eOd nbe yT Whouillsaarndd MEiiUg.h, t oHf uthned rteadw tatn odf
st~ge in good weather, and by AAlafrroend EB.a mDco•r rance AChdaa.l inDe . DSm. iMth. Stems Kpleancte,, swtahtiec ho fs aMidi chMigaonrt, gtaog Ne worams agni vMena ckS.o. oefe tchuere s atmhee
Thhores ep-obsetcHkg e inr atbea d rawnegaetdh erf.r om CTJ~o;hlhhiao,nrem: e Ea!EIs d omEsEtluoxlninasd rsu 1 DSJEal.a misVvhei.dsa RTBS .e .l. rkTSerareao emwlelbyirn idgg e spiKncu arrLilcbaihebmdacs a~e• z nAomdo. . o Wconoef"u8 y nm toyrofe~ rtc thogoe'anr gd· ltaeehnsde,d i nnpai ann·tgthdhee p J1raeR8ym9e ,iog sife1s 9sOt,0e chr,t 'oes1rb 9eeo!arf:f 'ft i.c1e8erTd 3he5o.,.e..l
6¢ to 25¢ per letter. It may J:~teepphhe nF eFlluolYl.e.'"r8 S\Vammu. eTl aTyolowr ns tahme oduantte ooff p rt1h.nise 1npaolt icBen,d .o inn isearieds tm, colratigmagede, tob beein gd,u Te waot
well have been the fee which VHeemutaenn aFnte rrFine tterman SMoalrotmina nT iTckuepnpo r NHountidcere dis ahnedre Tbyw ·g•invteyn.&, Xth Dato hllta rvsi, ratuned oEfi ag photyw.tewr oocf e8naJtae .
caused some letters to remain VLeinwceisn tM .F Gri~abtye s 2 GTecomrgUe TTaoyrlroery sinta sluatied, imn osrulgchag ce. acsoe nntaiaidnee da, ndan pdr oin\· idpeudr. svu.i;lnnc bee 8o(f) ]dt'hate
undelivered, due to the na )Efzer:ra.i nG aG;erse en CJoahhn: n0 'V\Vlual!tc..lc jtr . op'ucblo1c'ck ,a uAct.i oMn, . • oant tthhee Ktahliartmy adzaoyo Hofo uAsep, riinl tnheex vt,i ~llta 1ge1
ture of the letter. Imagine Allen Goodridge Jeremiah .Wheclin of Kalama.zoo, in the county of Kalamaioo, state qf
John Haocall S. White M:c!'l!g:rn, all and aingubr, tho premises described io
having to pay 25¢ for an ad I Horace F. Hodg.o William. Wayco~ l!laid mortgr.ge, to wit: oU that certain p:ccc or parcel
Mary S. Hodga Alanson Weeks of land, being !he enat hnlf, of the north.eaot qoamr of
vertising circular! (PF-000) Joho Hcri;haU Ch rl es Wakins. section nwnl·er,di:rty.si.x, in town1hip ~ix µorth;o( ro.nge
Joobua H ll Willanm Wnterho118e tlLrtccn west, ('Onlaning ei~hty acres, more or le&;..
(copyright 1971, F. Campbell) John G. Ho~ Seth Whitlock NORMAN MACK. Mortpgcc,
\Y. 'Volcot 7.. PuTT, Attorney.
I. I\'. WILLARD. P.M. Knhmrtzm, .Tan. J·1 1El37 tl·l~1\·l:?
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