Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 November 1910 — INTERESTING RECORD. [ARTICLE]

INTERESTING RECORD.

Founder of Town, War Veteran. Gold Seeker and Twice Homesteader. ! • amw ‘ll'l. Ind.. Nov. 28. -edi. in Hal* lead, age ninety, f under f-f the t« \vn pi Lowell. j '■< d up .320 acres ‘of land • ar :'arri*- >ii. Neb. He did the i rk himself.' Halstead's career : - I ,-e;i remarkable, lie entered! a homestead in Lake county w'wn Chicago was I't, Dearborn, *an one of the first grist mills in lii liara ami built b e first church aU'd schoolhouse in this part of the slate. Halstead went to the California gold fields, by Way of Dam n a. in 1849 and crossed the cnoinent in search of adventure ten times before 1860. lie is a *. eteran < i the civil war. and his ealth is perfect.