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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1908. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... To my dear Children, Kate Louisa Lester, Edward Miller Ridenour, Alice Beatty Raymond, Ethel Baker Ridenour: IDO NOT KNOW that there is anything in my life which will be interesting. I have written this sketch because you so earnestly asked me to do it. As I never achieved greatness or honor more than can be said of the average private citizen who strives to do his duty, I could only tell, in my poor way, of my experiences through a long life. I have mentioned many unimportant incidents of my boyhood, which will show conditions and how the people lived in Indiana and Ohio then, when there were no railroads, no telegraph, no stoves or steam-heaters, no gas or coal oil, no friction matches, no metallic pens or lead-pencils; no iirge cities west of the Alleghanies, and only a few white people west of the Mississippi. To read of conditions and habits of living then, compared with now, may be interesting to you. My father was ten years old when Jefferson bought for $15,000,000 a wilderness inhabited by savages, which now composes thirteen States with their vast population of highly civilized people and tens of thousands of miles of railroad. He was thirty years old when Florida was bought from Spain, and he had lived thirteen years when Fulton built the first practical steamboat. Prior to that, navigation of the world was by sail and oar. The surplus products of the farms in the Ohio Valley were floated down the rivers to New Orleans on flatboats and the boatmen walked back home. When I was fourteen years old, Texas, Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, and California were foreign countries. You can realize the changes in this country during the lifetime of a father and son. Your father has lived more than three-fourths of the time in which these changes have taken place. ...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 1150207868
- ISBN 13 9781150207860
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages94
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