Book/Printed Material Recollections of a long life, 1829-1915, General Collections copy 2
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Image 1 of General Collections copy 2 RECOLLECTIONS OF A LONG LIFE · 1829–1915- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 2 of General Collections copy 2- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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- Date: 1915
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Image 5 of General Collections copy 2 RECOLLECTIONS OF A LONG LIFE · 1829–1915 BY ISAAC STEPHENSON LC CHICAGO PRIVATELY PRINTED 1915- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 6 of General Collections copy 2 E664 .S83S8 Copy 2 COPYRIGHT, 1915, BY ISAAC STEPHENSON LC DEC-6 1915 ©Cl.A 416731 no. 2.- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 7 of General Collections copy 2 5 PREFACE F. B. M. 1915-12-7 IN undertaking to set down, so that others may read, the recollections of my own personal experiences during three-quarters of a century or more, it is...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 8 of General Collections copy 2 6 to the adjustment of social and economic relations in the complex civilization of to-day. If this viewpoint from a lengthy perspective will enable anyone who may read to measure with greater...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 9 of General Collections copy 2 7 Favored by circumstance, I covered wider fields than most of them. From the time I fell under the eye of my mother's cousin, Christopher Murray, at Murray Castle, Spring Hill, New...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 10 of General Collections copy 2 8 bred sturdy, if not facile, character—a lesson which no age is too advanced in wisdom to learn. In this time of social and economic readjustment it might be well to remember...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 11 of General Collections copy 2 9 Whether, when viewed from the perspective of a hundred years hence, it will be observed that greater progress was made in the earlier years of the nineteenth century than in the...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 12 of General Collections copy 2 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ISAAC STEPHENSON Frontispiece JEFFERSON SINCLAIR Facing Page48 DANIEL WELLS 90 WATER MILL ON THE ESCANABA RIVER, BUILT IN 1844 106 WILLIAM B. OGDEN 164 AWAITING THE ARRIVAL OF THE...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
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Image 13 of General Collections copy 2 11 CONTENTS CHAPTER I My great-grandfather, Andrew Stephenson, emigrates from Scotland to Ireland and becomes owner of farm and flax-mill in Raphoe, Donegal County—Robert Stephenson, my grandfather, in charge of property—The Ulster...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
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Image 14 of General Collections copy 2 12 CHAPTER IV Departure with Sinclairs for Milwaukee in 1845—Journey from Bangor to Boston and Albany—Discomforts of railway travel—Inland voyage over Erie Canal—We encounter storms on Lakes Erie, Huron, and Michigan—Milwaukee seventy...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 15 of General Collections copy 2 13 CHAPTER VIII Lack of efficient lumbermen and migration from East—I take charge of logging camps—Logging by contract—Offer of half interest in Ford River property—Trip to Maine in 1852—Camps on the Marquette...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 16 of General Collections copy 2 14 CHAPTER XII Scarcity of politicians in early lumbering settlements— The Congressional Globe—Early recollections of politics—Distributing ballots in Chicago in 1856—Experiences as supervisor and justice of the peace—An Indian wedding—Campaign of 1860—Beginning...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 17 of General Collections copy 2 15 CHAPTER XVI Experiences in Congress—Friendship with Democratic leaders—A conference with President Arthur—Congressional economy—The Navy—Interest in river and harbor improvement—Possibilities of waterway development—Disappearance of business men from public life 202 CHAPTER XVII...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
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Image 18 of General Collections copy 2 16 CHAPTER XX Difficulties of primary campaign—Hostility of the La Follette organization—Setting up an organization and obstacles encountered—Tactics of opposition—Election and repudiation of primary by La Follette forces—Investigation by state legislature—Standards of...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 19 of General Collections copy 2 17 RECOLLECTIONS OF A LONG LIFE · 1829–1915 CHAPTER I My great-grandfather, Andrew Stephenson, emigrates from Scotland to Ireland and becomes owner of farm and flax-mill in Raphoe, Donegal County—Robert Stephenson my...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 20 of General Collections copy 2 18 came from the lowlands of Scotland, where the name Stephenson flourished. Here also, it is probable, originated the family to which George Stephenson, the distinguished engineer and inventor, and his son...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 21 of General Collections copy 2 19 which, as a later traveler has observed, may be perceived at some distance in the late summer when the fields are in blossom “from the abominable odor of that fibrous plant.”...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 22 of General Collections copy 2 20 eighty years of age, in the stone house where he had lived, a few miles from the city of Fredericton, on the St. John River, when I was a small boy....- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
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Image 23 of General Collections copy 2 21 Indians. More than sixty years ago we contemplated engaging Daniel Webster as counsel and having a search made of t he records which might disclose our interest in the property as...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 24 of General Collections copy 2 22 which even the resources of a large farm and flax mill could not obviate altogether. In Raphoe and Donegal increasing restrictions upon the linen trade had put a blight upon the...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
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Image 25 of General Collections copy 2 23 the shores of the land they knew recede, may be left to imagination. Conditions on board the timber ships, although they were more commodious than most sailing vessels, were none too...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 26 of General Collections copy 2 24 This condition, as it happened, had an important bearing upon my father's career in more ways than one. Being a man of great industry and obviously of more than ordinary capacity,...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 27 of General Collections copy 2 25 Adjoining the Allen estate and separated from it by a small stream was Spring Hill, the estate of the Murray family, one of the most important points in the lumbering industry...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
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Image 28 of General Collections copy 2 26 against Alexander Hamilton as counsel in the first newspaper libel suit tried in the United States. Murray Hill, his farm on the outskirts of the city and the lake upon it...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 29 of General Collections copy 2 27 Lemuel Wilmot, also a refugee from the states.1 In this undertaking he assumed a larger measure of responsibility and had entire direction of the lumbering and farming operations carried on there,...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
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Image 30 of General Collections copy 2 28 masts to enable Francklin, Hazen and White, the pioneer lumbering firm of the province, to fulfill their contract with the Royal Navy. He engaged my father to manage the varied and...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
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Image 31 of General Collections copy 2 29 CHAPTER II Life along the St. John—Farming, lumbering, and vessel-building—Home life and the schools—“Frolics”—The Aroostook War—Beginnings of the lumbering industry—Masts for the Royal Navy—Ton timber—Disappearance of the forests—Necessity for husbanding resources...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 32 of General Collections copy 2 30 flambeaux of the fishermen, the lure of the salmon of which its waters yielded rich harvest. The lands bordering upon the river from the mouth to Grand Falls, over which I...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 33 of General Collections copy 2 31 Charles McMullen's “castle,” a short distance below Hartland, Robert Carr's store and hotel on the main river near Greenfield, Tupper's store and the gristmill and blacksmith shop on Buttermilk Creek. However...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 34 of General Collections copy 2 32 Public schools had not yet been established. The education of us children was committed to the charge of two Irish schoolmasters who taught with the aid of a birch rod and,...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 35 of General Collections copy 2 33 be slaughtered to provide mutton for the men working in the fields. It was a warm day and the work of rounding up the animals strenuous, and we sat down on...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 36 of General Collections copy 2 34 boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, sometimes called the Aroostook War. In the diminishing perspective of three quarters of a century this incident appears to have been of little consequence, but...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 37 of General Collections copy 2 35 Fort Kent, named for the Governor of Maine, whose fame has survived in the slogan: “Maine went Hell bent For Governor Kent.” When hostilities threatened and the militia of New Brunswick...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 38 of General Collections copy 2 36 with the grenadier and in the struggle the two men rolled over and over, down the river bank to the ice below. Fortunately for McMonigle, he brought up on top and...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 39 of General Collections copy 2 37 Sir John performed the same service for General Scott at Quebec where, while a prisoner of war, he was set upon by several Indian chiefs who were bent on killing him....- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915
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Image 40 of General Collections copy 2 38 spars. Nowhere else, it was thought, could such timber be obtained, and the constantly increasing size of sailing vessels demanded loftier masts for their equipment. When the English dominion was extended...- Contributor: Stephenson, Isaac
- Date: 1915