Excerpt from Biographical and Historical Record of Putnam County, Indiana
JiUDCCTOUY. MlmlBMMMSIm Swmip jINTRODUCTORY. f1- IIIX two brief generations tt wild waste of unbroken wilderness lias been transformed into a cultivated rep, gion of thrift and prosSfife. perity, by the untiring zeal and energy of an enterprising people. The trails of hunters and trappers have given plaee to rai roads and thoroughfares for vehicles of every description; the cabins ami garden patches of the pioneers have been succeeded by comfortable houses and broad fields of waving grain, with school-houses, churches, mills. os?oftices and other institutions of convenience for each community. Add to these the prosperous city of Greencastle, and numerous thriving villages, with extensive business and manufacturing interests, and the result is a work of which all concerned may well be proud. The record of this marvelous change is history, and the most important that can be written. For sixty five years the people of Putnam County have been making a history that for thrilling interest, grand practical results, and lessons that may be perused with profit by citizens of other regions, will compare favorably with the narrative of the history of any county in the Xorthwest; and.; considering the extent of territory involved, i it. is as worthy of the pen of a Bancroft, as! even the story of our glorious Republic.; While our venerable mice-tors may have said i and believed No pent up 1 iir.a contracts our powers, For thp whole boundless continent is ours, 1 jthey were nevertheless for a long time con Itent. toccupy and possess a very small cor Iner of it; and the great West was not opened! to industry and civilization until a variety of causes had combined to form, as it were, a jgreat heart, whose animating principle was i improvement, whose impulses annually sent jwestward armies of noble men and women. jand whose pulse is now felt throughout the i length and breadth of the best country the sun ever shone upon from the pineries of Maine to the vineyards of California, mi! jfrom the sugar-canes of Louisiana to the i jwheat, fields of Minnesota. Long may this i heart beat and push forward its arteries and veins of commerce.
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