Indianapolis Times, Indianapolis, Marion County, 25 September 1949 — Page 6
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The God-Seeker . -
Synopsis: Aaron Gadd and Seleme Lanark, having successfully evaded her furious father, the rich fur-trader Caesar Lanark, are now in St. Paul, They have been married by Joseph Brown, a justice of the peace, and are happily looking forward to pioneer matrimony, in the muddy village. Now go on with the
story CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
AARON FOUND work so readily that the young romantics 'l- and when Aaron, in one grand Wo =
"were somewhat disappointed. Seth Buckbee, Builder & Contractor
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|naturally, pork and johnny cake, did not even cross but also with miraculously early yard to the Buckbse’s cvabin for greens from the pasture. |a game of piquet voleur. But | Seth Buckbee, but gale slackened a moment, | Aunt Lou, let them have for home|Aaron heard the tiny, strained the low loft over the log stable; Whistle of a steamboat
‘ | “First there was a stubby ladder up to Quick!” he yelled.
spurt of 24-hour labor, had put mackinaw jacket,
who was almost 50, which is aged for the frontier, was. pleased 0 a rough dormer window, they ©." slopped wildly
to engage anyone so young yet skilled as Aaron.
had light “with occasionally too|,, "" 4 t+ rout out the Buck-
Seth was a Rhode Islander, small and shaggy. His wife, who Much air. Selene went shopping, ... 1: they were already run-
was known universally as Aunt Lou Buckbee and who was as New at Henry Jackson's and at Louls 2" y word the
England as a stone wall, had —
of the river
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made the log cabin habitable ly married man and he demanded choice apartment with a backless 4o6r open to the tempest.
with calico curtains.
Seth tried Aaron at making a and looked smitten, but
a dollar-seventy-five. Seth choked double bed, a table, two chairs, a
pes Yelping, they all trotted and
he,box, a rag rug, a cupboard and 414 and crept down the bluff to doorframe, clucked, and offered agreed, and sald cheerfully, “St. a beautiful little sheet-iron stove, him an excellent wage, a dollar Paul's going to quadruple in 10 two-foot cube, and a Bible and Dr,
[the landing, to await the 8. B.
Franklin 2, successor to
and a half a day. Aaron would years, and we'll build most of it.” an oleograph of Warwick Castle,| Aaron's argosy—their first touch, have taken it, but he had the ad- Aunt Lou had the new Mr. and because that was how Aaron, in through all the frozen months
venturous desperation of a new- Mrs. Gadd for noon dinner with, Adams, A ———————————————— w= Lanark would look.
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| Seth Buckbee, with Aaron Gadd With their own future,
and another carpenter under him,| . N88 | were already removing as rapidly ww ue pale Sd ld {as they could the first idyllic up muddy water and all the {look of the hamlet. Within 1, ssengers beaming and scream{months, every log cabin In Bt. ing at the rail, the Franklin 2 Paul was replaced by a frame wiggled in, the plank was dropped shanty or covered over with'gnd everybody volleyed aboard, | weather-boarding. The smell of to shout, “Did it pass? Did it pine and cedar lumber Ancreased, pass?” but you still came home from| Capt. Harris held up his hand, social doings over dewy wild a rain-shining figure in the lightgrass, carrying a candle-lantern| ning. through a goblin-show of stumps. and Harris called in a strong
The Congress might admit Min- gress nesota as a territory and law and real-estate titles be established [Titled as a territory! A great Then business men, churches,
are again under the flag!” , telegraph wires. would follow, and| \the citizenry presently be able to| Ine deckhands threw the East.
ern newspapers into the raised, sit down luxuriously on brick, ching hands, but the Minne laundries, instead of on the grass ®otans who had gambled their of a virgin prairie among the un-|!!Ves on this outcome had eyes christianized wild roses. too wet for reading. But the Congress might not een so patient, but now the field pass the enabling act for years. ” | Selene was not so occupied and is ready for the harvest!” said so frivolous that she sank utter. Aunt Lou Buckbee, ; lly from her aspiration to be bap-| The captain announced that the {tized. She worried, “I thik I Sovernor of the new territory had) really’ did learn some humility siready been appointed: Alexanat the Mission. Aaron, my dar- der Ramsey of Pennsylvania, a ling, I don't want to fall back formér Whig member of Coninto being the daughter of Caesar gress, aged only 34. Lanark. I want to keep the vision On Apr. 18, 1849, and a raw and of God and not just a vision of cloudy day it was, there arrived getting ahead.” : {on “the 8B. -Senator (Orren “We'll both keep it , ., . you Smith, master), Mr. James Madbet we will!” said Aaron. . |1son Goodhue, Amherst graduate But it did seem sounder to build and lawyer turned editor, and houses which he could build than| under his arm he carried halt his {to teach children a gospel which type. he did not altogether understand) On the 234 arrived two men in" a Bijoux language which he who in a European culture would could not quite speak. | have come not two weeks but a Not that the daughter of Lan- thousand years after the first inark was uriwilling to share in the| vasion. They were pioneers, bat show of possessions which in 1849 they did not look like fictional was the American proof of virtue. frontiersmen and they came in Without even asking permission) amiably arguing the validity of of Aaron, she marched out tog | baptism: The Rev. Edward Duffield Neill, from Amherst and
Bass. She became an expert, and , & zealous but civilized
{in June, -when the Rodney Park-| presbyterian, and the Rev. Euriers opened Henry Rice's new|pigey Tattam, from Harvard, a American House, Selene moved civilized but sealous Unitarian.
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|over as assistant head-waitress, | at six whole dollafs a week. { | On the building of this Amer{ican House, Aaron had worked |as both carpenter and paperhangjer. There was no more respected {young couple in town than these Gadds, nor one more likely to : sls i At the beginning of April there! was still so much ice in the Mississippl that no steamer had! been able to arrive. | Then on the evening of the ninth of April, a Monday, so hateful a storm of lightning and wind, came up that Aaron and Selene
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Both of these venerables were: ‘De =¥jstregal procession, Ameri 26, the age of Mr. Aaron Gadd. an style. :
“Do you suppose we're really married at all?” considered Selene. “For a respectable girl, I do seem to have more illegitimacy {in my family!” In memory of Huldah, she had
pides Tattam, the Unitarian, to bind them and he accepted with zest. But Mr. Neill showed ‘up also, boyishly explaining that if there was any bliss around here (in such a cold spring, he wanted {to be in on it. | This was probably the first {formal Protestant wedding ever {held in St. Paul. By the end of summer, 1849, St. Paul had increased in popula|tion from 200 to 1200. | Selene was still a waitress at the American, and If she kept her fragile eagerness while she {tossed trays and pork and fried |eggs, she added assurance and ‘dignity. She received at least one offer of marriage a day from the {respectable though unfunded new{ly arrived young men, all of whom would become senators, {bank presidents or county treas|urers. Aaron’ was Insanely building {houses that were sold before they begun. Seth Buckbee
late July, he was making two-
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{to work over 12 hours a day. He
had already established himself |Ramsey arrived in Minnesota, . . ” HIS EXCELLENCY was a young lawyer with dignity and a
“We've been so hungry, we've comprehending eye. He looked a good deal like the Rev. Edward,
Neill, with the same round face, fluff and sidewhiskers, large nose, high forehead, solid jaw, and like him was not a holy Yankee but a Pennsylvanian. On June 28th, a little white cottage was ready-enough (Aaron
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Gadd had been chief carpenter), land His Excellency & Lady ‘paddled a birch canoe from Men|dota, to St. Paul and helped carry {their trunks from the landing to |the Executive Mansion. This was
| The governor said affably, “Mr. Gadd, let me greet you as a fellow\chips. * I started as a carpenter, {before I became an office-boy and |a student at Lafayette, My friend, this is the place and the time for
become a little timid about Pres- Us humble workers!” rianism, and they chose Euri-| On Sept. 3, 1849, Huldah Pur-
{dick had a resounding military {wedding (Episcopal) when she married Captain Amos Pipman. | | And on'Sept. 3d the just-elected Minnesota Legislature began. its first session at the Central House, |the latest hotel, | By Jan. 1, 1850, there were in St. Paul four physicians, three tailors, a silversmith, a gunsmith, and sixteen carpenters. It was a reason for pride or for alarm that ‘there were also fourteen! lawyers. ! Now came the land speculators, and the money lenders who charged 5 per cent per month, 10 per cent per month, sometimes 30, and got it. t Yet though the early 1850's there was still a majority of settlers who worked. Among.them was the firm of Buckbee & Gadd: General Bullders: Carpentry, Brickwork, Stonework, Glaziers, Interior Finishings: Seth Buckbee, prest.; Mrs. Lou Buckbee, sécy. & treas.; Aaron Gadd, vice
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