Pioneer History of Indiana: The Captivating Stories, Incidents, and Customs of the Early Settlers an

Cockrum, W. M. (1907) Pioneer history of Indiana: including stories, incidents, and customs of the early settlers. Oakland City, Ind.: Press of Oakland City journal. [Pdf] Retrieved from the Library of Congress,

Pioneer History of Indiana: Including Stories, Incidents, and Customs of the Early Settlers

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Cockrum, William Monroe. Pioneer history of Indiana: including stories, incidents, and customs of the early settlers. Oakland City, Ind.: Press of Oakland City journal, 1907. Pdf. Retrieved from the Library of Congress, .

Like McCullough's other books, The Pioneers succeeds because of the author's strength as a storyteller. The book reads like a novel, with a cast of fascinating characters that the average reader isn't likely to know about; while history textbooks use broad strokes to paint the picture of the early settlers to the Northwest Territory, McCullough takes a deep dive, and does so with assured, unshowy prose.

From the time the mountains rose between the pioneer and the seaboard, a new order of Americanism arose. The West and the East began to get out of touch of each other. The settlements from the sea to the mountains kept connection with the rear and had a certain solidarity. But the overmountain men grew more and more independent. The East took a narrow view of American advance, and nearly lost these men. Kentucky and Tennessee history bears abundant witness to the truth of this statement. The East began to try to hedge and limit westward expansion. Though Webster could declare that there were no Alleghanies in his politics, yet in politics in general they were a very solid factor.

Elkhart County was founded by immigrants from New England. These immigrants descended from the English Puritans who settled New England in the 1600s. The completion of the Erie Canal in 1821 caused a surge in immigration from New England to what was then the Northwest Territory. The end of the Black Hawk War in 1832 increased the surge of immigration, again coming from New England as a result of overpopulation combined with land shortages in that region. Some of these later settlers were from upstate New York, whose relatives had moved to that region from New England shortly after the American Revolutionary War. New Englanders and New England transplants from upstate New York were the vast majority of Elkhart County's inhabitants during the first several decades of its history. These settlers were primarily members of the Congregational Church though due to the Second Great Awakening many of them had converted to Methodism and some had become Baptists before moving west. The Congregational Church subsequently has gone through many divisions and some factions, including those in Elkhart County, now known as the Church of Christ and the United Church of Christ. As a result of this heritage, most of Elkhart County supported the abolitionist movement before the American Civil War. Elkhart County provided substantial numbers of recruits for the Union Army. During the end of the nineteenth century, Irish and German migrants came to Elkhart County, although most did not come directly from Europe, but had stopped in other areas in the Midwest, such as Ohio.

This great road was the main entry into Kentucky from 1775 to 1800 when the population grew from a few hardy pioneers to 220,955. By their presence, those early settlers saved the west for the United States. They were sturdy people, willing to endure hardship, hunger, and death to establish themselves in Kentucky.

The Euroamerican settlement of Oklahoma was comparable to earlier westward movement patterns in several ways but was also a unique variation of that movement. As with earlier American frontier history, non-Indian settlers moved onto former Indian lands obtained by the U.S. government from American Indian tribal leaders through the "twin Cs," coercion and cajoling. Living in rude shelters, pioneer farmers and their families braved the vicissitudes of nature and the marketplace to create farms from prairie sod. Towns sprang up along railroad lines, giving rise to small businesses and small-town society. Grassroots local governments and school boards emerged from primitive election processes. As usual, the needs and wishes of Native peoples were ignored. In fact, the settlement of Oklahoma amounted to an invasion of Indian lands. In other words, the movement was a microcosm of the American frontier experience encapsulated into only a few years, little more than a decade.

Solid facts and details about pioneer life in St. John seem to be somewhat difficult to come by. The hard-working early settlers, attempting to make a life for themselves in a new and different land, had the scant time or inclination to set down their thoughts, feelings and experiences for the benefit of posterity. Thus the historian must gain what glimpses of that life that he can from surviving materials. The paucity of materials, however, has created a situation where most local history books relating the growth and development of Lake County and its community's shed little light on St. John's past. 2ff7e9595c