Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1904 — Another Old Tippecanoe Voter Living. [ARTICLE]

Another Old Tippecanoe Voter Living.

We can now add at least one other to the very few survivors of the large Jasper County Tippecanoe Club, of 1888, composed of men who voted for Hanison in 1840, and intended to vote for the other Harrison in 1888. This other survivors, is Martin B. Scott, who formerly lived next to the Kankakee river, in Keener Tp., In the old days when cutting saw logs on the lauds of non-resi-dents and rafting them down the river to saw mills was one of the customs of the country, and not looking upon as stealing, Mr. Scott was the boss timber taker of the whole region. He was a witness onoe when some of these timber cutters were being prosecuted, and being askedjwhere he cut all his saw logs, said it was off his own land. Being asked how much :€ had h« mid (OiM'if ind Halit i xejai.il Oj, tp and down the river here three or four miles,” Thus it was not only only the longest 40 acre piece of land on record, but it was also the crookedest. In fact it was so crooked it couldn’t lie still, and would weave back and forth and in and out in such a manner as to bring in its limits any good tree Mr, Scott could get his eyes on. He was of a very charitable and philanthropic disposition and during his long and active life adopted and raised from childhood to manhood and womanhood, many orphaned and homeless children. Some years ago he moved into Newton county and there received an injury which left him helpless and now, at a very advanced age he is an inmate of the Newton county asylum; those whom he raised in his years of prosperty having ftftted to remember their obligation in his years of adversity.