Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 202, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1914 — Stopped Off to See Town Where He Lived in 1864. [ARTICLE]

Stopped Off to See Town Where He Lived in 1864.

A. C. Carver, an attorney from Alexandria, stopped off a train here Tuesday evening and remained until today, just looking over the old toiwn and meeting a few persons whom he hacf known in 1864. Mr. Carver was then a young man, still in his teens. His father was a wealthy stockman and farmer at Alexandria and he sent hiA son to Rensselaer, near which cifc£__ there was an abundance of good pasture. The son had 56 head of cattle on pasture and they all froze to death on the cold New Years of 1864, Soon after that A. C. returned to Alexandria. He studied jaw and has practiced at Alexandrla and Anderson for man* years. He went to Gary a few years ago and secured A judgment for a client for a million dollars in connection with the lake front ownership. He intimated that his fee was somewhat ip excess of $100,060 and that he has retired from practice. He met C. P. Wright and Henry Purcupile and two or three others who remembered him.