Identifier: HistoricalCollectionsOfOhio1891V2 (find matches)
Title: Historical Collections of Ohio: An Encyclopedia of the State ; History Both General and Local, Geography with Descriptions of Its Counties, Cities and Villages, Its Agricultural, Manufacturing, Mining and Business Development, Sketches of Eminent and Interesting Characters, Etc., with Notes of a Tour over It in 1886 V 2
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: Howe, Henry, 1816-1893
Subjects: Ohio -- Biography Ohio -- History Ohio -- Local History Ohio -- Description and travel
Publisher: Columbus : Henry Howe & Son

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
urrence, for fear they wouldnot let me come with them again ; and so theaffair was kept secret. When Alder had learned to speak the In-dian language he became more contented.He says : I would have lived very happy,if I could have had health ; but for three orfour years I was subject to very severe at -tacks of fever and ague. Their diet wentvery hard with me for a long time. Theirchief living was meat and hominy; but werarely had bread, and very little salt, whichwas extremely scarce and dear, as well asmilk and butter. Honey and sugar wereplentiful, and used a great deal in their cook-ing, as well as on their food. When he was old enough he was given anold English musket, and told that he mustgo out and learn to hunt. So he used tofollow along the water-courses, where mudturtles were plenty, and commenced his firstessay upon them. He generally aimed underthem, as they lay basking on the rocks ; andwhen he struck the stones, they flew some-times several feet in the air, which afforded
Text Appearing After Image:
427 MADISON COUNTY, 429 great sport for the youthful marksman. Oc- with his game generally received high praiseeasionally he killed a wild turkey, or a rac- for his skill—the Indians telling him he wouldcoon ; and when he returned to the village make a great hunter one of these days. We cannot, within our assigned limits, give all of the incidents and anecdotesrelated by Alder, or anything like a connected history of his life among the In-dians. In the June after he was taken occurred Crawfords defeat. He describesthe anxiety of the squaws while the men were gone to the battle, and their joy ontheir returning with scalps and other trophies of the victory. He defends SimonGirty from the charge of being the instigator of the burning of Crawford, andstates that he could not have saved his life because he had no influence in theDelaware tribe, whose prisoner Crawford was. Alder was dwelling at the Mack-achack towns (see Logan County) when they were destroyed by Logan in 1786 ;was in the

Note About Images