Rensselaer Republican, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1887 — An Old Man’s Crankism. [ARTICLE]

An Old Man’s Crankism.

| Albany (X. Y,) special. Horace Allen, aged eighty-three years, a grandnephew of Ethan Allen of Rev<v lutionarv fame, arrived hi Albany ti 1 dav, having pushed a wheelbarrow from ; Iris home in Delaware, Ohio, a distance of 675 miles. He srarted on his great tramp on June 18th,. and rode only twenty-eight miles of the whole distance, j He averaged about nine miles a day,and [ reached as high as fifteen. The old man jis wonderfully vigorous for his years. I At one time he was worth several hunj dred thousand dollars, but lost all in | the panic of 1873. He took to wheelharrowing to cure his rheumatism, and declares that he ha- succeeded. Tomorrow he will push on to the Green Mountaiu State, where he was Dorn.' He expects to go as fai east as Boston