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Book Title: Encyclopedia Of Genealogy And Biography Of Lake County, Indiana

English Settlers.

    JONAS RHODES was one of those early settlers, the Woods brothers, the
Haywards, the Muzzall family, and a few others, who from among the "cottage
homes" and the "stately homes" of fair old England, of which Mrs. Hemans has so
beautifully written, came to found for themselves new homes as beautiful as they
might make them, in this, if not a fairer, yet certainly a broader, a much more
roomy land, this land we call America.

    Jonas Rhodes made his settlement in 1837, not on the border of one of those
prairies which were to the New Englanders generally so beautiful and so
attractive, but on the sand ridge and amid the wooded growth of what is now
Calumet township; and a little place that has lately sprung up, called Glen
Park, is near what was his early home. Without knowing what would take place in
a few years he selected a location near which more than one railroad line now
passes. The years passed with him as with others busily and pleasantly engaged.
Children grew up in his home. He did his part in developing the resources of the
county, aiding enterprises that were good, prospering in his activities of life,
and reaching a good age. He was a pleasant man with whom to meet. He was much
interested in the first published history of Lake county, and once remarked that
he thought the weather record it contained was worth the whole price of the
book, He has in this county a number of descendants.


    HAYWARD.—Five brothers by the name of Hayward, and not the traditional
three, came over from England and settled, in 1837, in Lake county, Indiana.
These were called in their father's home Charles, Thomas, Henry, Alfred, and Edwin.

    CHARLES HAYWARD settled a little distance from what is now the stone church
of Ross township. His brother, THOMAS HAYWARD, settled not far eastward towards
Hobart. The other three brothers, settling in the same part of the county, not
far from the claim of Bartlett Woods, are still living in the West.

    A son of Charles Hayward is Edwin Hayward, the second in this county to bear
that name, and two sons, George Hayward living near Hobart, and Oliver Hayward,
are the two sons of Thomas Hayward, who died in March 1904, after a residence in
the county of sixty-six full years.


    THOMAS MUZZALL, also from England, with a mother and two sisters, residing a
short time in Canada, became also a settler in the same neighborhood in 1837.
All these English families became good Americans and valuable citizens. They all
selected the same part of the county a little north of the prairie belt. Their
descendants are now among the prosperous and enterprising citizens of Crown
Point and Hobart and the far West.


    CHARLES MARVIN, a pioneer of 1836, was born August 4, 1811, in Norwich,
Connecticut. In his young manhood he spent about two years in South Carolina,
visited New Orleans, went up to Alton and then to Lockport in Illinois, in 1833.
In 1835 ne was married to Miss Charlotte Perry, and with her mother came into
the western edge of Indiana in 1836. He and Mrs. Perry located claims, and those
claims were included in Lake county when that was organized. He sold his first
farm, now in Hanover, near Brunswick, to Henry Sasse, Sr., about 1839. In 1851,
then a widower, he was married to Miss Eliza Fuller, a daughter of Mr. H. S.
Fuller, of West Creek. About 1881 he sold his second large and valuable farm and
bought the old Judge Wilkinson place, where he built a stately residence. He
there died in 1892, nearly eighty-one years of age. He was a noble example of
true manhood and was noted among Lake county pioneers for the urbanity of his
manners. He was a true gentleman. He had no children. He had some kindred at
Lockport, and there his body was taken for burial, although for fifty-six years
he had been a citizen of Lake.


    JACKSON, FARLEY.—Two New York or New England families, that became closely
connected by marriage, came in the true pioneer days to the southwestern part of
the county, and helped to form what became known as the West Creek neighborhood.


    JOSEPH JACKSON, coming here from Michigan in 1837, was born in 1793,
probably in New England, but lived for some time in New York State, and then in
Michigan. In the spring of 1837 ne came and located his claim, in the summer he
came again with his son, Clinton Jackson, and his son's family; and removed with
his own family in October, 1837, from Monroe county, Michigan, to Lake county,
Indiana. They came with teams, and were nearly three weeks on the way. There was
an early snow that fall, and on the first morning of their journey they found
the ground covered with snow. They had started on a warm, bright, October
afternoon. Mr. Jackson took with him some dry goods and groceries and opened the
first store in that part of the county.

    In 1838 a schoolhouse was built, and one of the family. Miss Ursula Ann
Jackson, became teacher of the first school in what is now West Creek township.
After several years of farm life the family removed to Crown Point, put up
buildings, kept hotels, and the father, J. Jackson was for one term the first
county Auditor. After a residence in this county of nearly twenty years, an
active, useful, very substantial citizen, in the spring of 1857 he removed to
Iowa. He was for two terms of office Mayor of the city of Wapello, and lived to
be nearly ninety-five years of age.


    BENJAMIN FARLEY came with his family to the West Creek neighborhood also in
1837. He was born in 1781, in New York, and came to this county from the State
of New York, and was when he settled here well on in middle age. He had five
sons and two daughters. He lived here only a few years. His tombstone is in the
West Creek cemetery! One of his sons, Zebulon Pierce Farley, was married to Miss
Amarilla Valeria Jackson, daughter of Joseph Jackson. Z. P. Farley, born April
14, 1821, is still living, but not now in this county. In our civil history and
in our Masonic history the name of Farley will remain.


    HATHAWAY, HAYDEN.—Into this same West Creek neighborhood there came two
other families having now many living descendants and representatives. PETER
HATHAWAY was the head of one of these families and NEHEMIAH HAYDEN of the other.
Peter Hathaway, a native of New Jersey, was born, according to one record, in
March, 1782, was married in New Jersey, came into New York and about 1839 became
a citizen of this county. Three sons are named in the early Sunday-school
history of the county, Silas, Abram, and Bethuel; and there were probably
several other children. Indeed, one record says there were twelve in all, of
sons and daughters. The members of this large, pioneer family were active church
and Sunday-school workers; and worthy successors of such a valuable family
reside in the same neighborhood now, members of the third and fourth generation.

    NEHEMIAH HAYDEN was a pioneer settler of 1837.

    Some other early settlers of this same neighborhood were HENRY TORREY, in
1837,—a bridge across West Creek in 1838 was called the Torrey bridge; JOHN
KITCHEL, settling probably in 1836, of whom not much is now known; ADIN SANGER,
a settler of 1838; and N. SPALDING.

    This West Creek or Hathaway and Hayden neighborhood soon became a very
prosperous portion of the county, and a flourishing religious center. Here was
erected one of the earliest church buildings of the county.

    SPALDING.—HEMAN M. SPALDING, one of nine children of Heman Spalding of New
England, settled in Lake county in August. 1837, in the Hathaway and Hayden
neighborhood. He had five sons and four daughters. One of the sons is Joshua P.
Spalding, of Orchard Grove, and one is Dr. Heman Spalding, of Chicago. The
father was born in 1809. He was a good citizen.

     SANFORD D. CLARK.—For many years one of the noble, useful, exemplary
citizens of Crown Point, Sanford D. Clark, was not a pioneer settler. In our
earlier years of settlement he was a prosperous merchant in Ohio, and in the
spring of 1839, before the land sale, he came to this county on horseback, and
furnished some relatives and acquaintances with money for entering several
claims. For himself, so far as land was concerned, he seems to have made no
provision. Near the beginning of the railroad period he became a resident of
Crown Point; from 1864 to 1872, he was county Recorder; he took a deep interest
in the war for the Union, and especially in the discourses of the three resident
pastors, J. L. Lower, T. C. Stringer, and T. H. Ball, being himself what was
called an "abolitionist" in those days of conflict of opinion, and approving of
"the underground railroad," thoroughly religious, a member with his wife of the
Presbyterian church, very unselfish, true-hearted.

    He at length removed to a western state and lived to be ninety or more years
of age. Valuable in the society of Crown Point was his life for the many years
while he remained here, and in these memorials of useful citizens it well
deserves a place.


    PATTEN or PATTON.—JOHN H. PATTEN, as he wrote the name, born January 10,
1801, came to Lake county from the East in July, 1852, after the real pioneer
days had ended and much of the foundation work in building up society had been
done, yet his family found sufficient work for them in the railroad period then
coining on. He had nine sons and seven daughters, but only seven of the sons
became residents here for much length of time and five of the daughters.

    Of the third and fourth generations there are now many members of this large
family and they write the name Patton. The father, J. H. Patten, died in
November, 1865, and Mrs. Patten, his wife, born in 1799, died in May, 1867. She
was probably the mother of more children than any other woman who has lived and
died in this county.

    Three of the sons, Seymour Patton, James Patton, and Joseph Patton, are
still living in the county, and one of the seven daughters, Mrs. Colby, lives in
Crown Point with her daughter, the wife of the lawyer, J. Frank Meeker. The
Christmas and New Year's family dinners have been in years past large and
interesting gatherings.


    BRYANT.—The Bryants, Bryant Settlement and Pleasant Grove, have been
mentioned in the Outline History. DAVID BRYANT made a settlement in 1835 at
Pleasant Grove, but was not a permanent resident. His wife died in March, 1836,
and, although he was married again, in the spring of 1838 he removed to Bureau
county, Illinois, and staid some years. He then went to Missouri and lived there
a few years, returned to Illinois, then went to Ohio, probably to his earlier
home and staid five years, and then again, in 1853, became a resident of this
county. In 1854 he brought into the county one thousand and sixty-three sheep.
He went again to Illinois for a short time, and returned, and again made visits
there. He made his last Lake county home with his daughter, Mrs. William Fisher,
then living at Eagle Creek, now in Hebron. A younger daughter, a Lake county
girl for a number of years, is still living in this state, Mrs. Ora Doddrige.

    Mr. Bryant was a very sociable, friendly man, of religious principle, and a
church member. Born about 1797. It was said of him when seventy-five years of
age, "He is growing feeble, but retains the use of his mental faculties." His
memorial belongs to this county of Lake.

    Of the five Bryants who commenced in 1835 the Bryant Settlement, and some of
whom gave to the grove the name Pleasant, Simeon Bryant, David Bryant, E. Wayne
Bryant, Samuel D. Bryant, and Elias Bryant, who joined the others in the fall of
1835, few of them seem to have made it a permanent home.


    SIMEON BRYANT staid about one year and removed to Indian Town, over the line
in Porter county, south of the present town of Hebron, and there made his
permanent home as a citizen of Porter.


     SAMUEL D. BRYANT returned to the original home in Ohio and staid a few
years, then came again to Lake county and bought at length, in 1854, a farm
south of Southeast Grove, near what is now the Center School House, and there
spent the remainder of his days, living to be more than eighty years of age.


    ELIAS BRYANT, according to a Porter county history, died on the Pleasant
Grove farm, but a sou, Robert Bryant, in 1854, settled in Porter county, south
of Hebron, where many Bryant families now reside. They have crossed over from
Lake into Porter.

    E. WAYNE BRYANT, who had a brother, Jacob Bryant, living in LaPorte county,
a pioneer of that county, arranged for a family home in the Grove. As early as
the fall of 1836 he provided a room for a school, where the children of the
Settlement were taught by Mr. Bell Jennings, "a very excellent man." He also
aided in starting a Sunday school for the children in 1838 or 1839. He was a
valuable pioneer. He bought some hand millstones of Lyman Wells, another early
settler, and in the winter of 1836 and 1837 had them arranged to be run by horse
power, and ground corn and buckwheat for all the neighbors. This little mill
continued to grind for two or three years, and at one time there were in the
mill, so says one of the family, over three hundred bushels of grain waiting to
be ground.


    MILLER.—There was beyond any room for doubt an early mill seat found and a
mill built on Deep River. The Claim Register, which is authority, says: "William
Crooks and Samuel Miller in Co. Timber and Mill Seat." Claim made in June, 1835,
but settled in November, 1834. Locality, Section 6, Township 35, Range 7. W.
Crooks from Montgomery county. This William B. Crooks was elected, in 1837,
Associate Judge, and a "Permit" was granted, July 31, "to Samuel Miller to
retail foreign merchandise at his store on Deep River." That he had a mill and a
store is certain; but of himself very little is known. It is said, and this is
tradition and not history, and for its accuracy no good authority can be named,
that his wife was part Indian, that he had sold property at Michigan City for
eighty thousand dollars in gold and silver, and that much whiskey, as well as
other articles of "foreign merchandise," was sold at his store. This last
particular is no doubt true. If the gold and silver tradition is true, he must
have been the most wealthy adventurer who came into the county in those early
years. He made no long stay at that store but sold it to A. Hopkins, who soon
sold it to H. Young, and he sold the mill irons to a mill builder, and for
himself opened a gun shop which he kept for several years.

    A gravel road crosses Deep River now at this locality and a few years ago
some of the old timbers of Miller's mill could still be seen in the waters.
Somewhere there may be descendants of this Samuel Miller.

    NOTE.—Since the above was written there has come into my hands a little book
of autobiography by Dr. James Crooks, a son of Judge William B. Crooks, who it
seems was also a physician, and Dr. James Crooks says that his father settled at
Michigan City in the spring of 1834. This James Crooks was then eight years of
age. He says that Samuel Miller was then the principal business man of that
place, that he "owned considerable real estate, houses, a store, warehouse, and
a schooner." He also says that his father, Dr. W. B. Crooks, removed into what
became Lake county in November, 1834, and that in the spring of 1835 his father
and Samuel Miller commenced building a mill on Deep river. After narrating many
interesting recollections of his childhood in Lake county he at length says that
his father sold out, in the spring of 1838, "his possessions in Lake county to
Samuel Miller of Michigan City," for one thousand dollars, and that five hundred
dollars was paid "in gold." So Miller must have had some gold. He further adds
that "Miller failed a short time afterwards." In June of 1838 the Crooks family
left Lake county.


    RUFUS HILL, an early resident in Pleasant Grove, perhaps as early as 1839,
is noted for having one of the very largest families in the county. Credible
authority gives the number of his children to be twenty-two. These were not all
the children of one woman. The names of six of his older sons were Welcome,
William, John, Charles, Martin, and Richard. There were six daughters of
corresponding age, and then younger sons and daughters that made up the number.
He lived to be over eighty years of age.


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ENCYCLOPEDIA
OF
Genealogy and Biography
OF
LAKE COUNTY, INDIANA,
WITH A COMPENDIUM OF HISTORY 
1834—1904

A Record of the Achievements of Its People in the Making of a Commonwealth and
the Founding of a Nation.

REV. T. H. BALL
OF CROWN POINT, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF
ILLUSTRATED
CHICAGO   NEW YORK
THE LEWIS PUBLISHING COMPANY
1904

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