Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 19, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1898 — Found After 25 Years. [ARTICLE]

Found After 25 Years.

Gideon Smith, who disappeared from Lake county twonty-fivo years ago, and was supposed to be dead, has boen found, end his five children, now grown up and residents of Lako and Porter county, are highly pleased to hear the news. > Thirty-four years ago he sold his farm and found homes for each of his children and then disappeared, and has for years been mourned as dead. A short time ago it was learned that he was living at Friendship, N. Y., with a brother and the report has since been verified.