The Syracuse Journal, Volume 28, Number 46, Syracuse, Kosciusko County, 12 March 1936 — Page 5

THURSDAY, MARCH U, 19M

| HISTORY OF SYRACUSE ‘| SETTLED IN IWS Th* following is taken from th* history of Syracuse and Lake Wawesee, compiled by George W. Miles, end printed in the Syracuse Journal weekly, in 1910: The Continued Story of Old Historic Points Around Lake Wawasee ■ —Johnson’s It must have been during or just before the war that Charles Ogden moved on the island that has since borne his name. Unlike hie neigh* t bors, Kale and Dillon and Conrad, 1 he acquired title to the land from which he cleared the trees and on which he lived. Ogden Island is now, too, » peninsular. But when Mr. Ogden settled on it, and for a long time there after, what is now known as the Sand Bar that connects it with the main land to the north was covered wiith water three or four feet deep at most of the seasons of the year, and the only way to reach his abide was by boat. After living for several years on Ogden Island and clearing from several acres of it the trees that would be worth a small fortune to it now if he had let them stand, he traded the tract to William Moore for another just south of the present grounds of The Inn-a tract the lake frontage of which now belongs to Major Elliott Durand, of Chicago, whose beautiful summer home stands

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near the spot on which stood Mr. Ogden’s cabin. There he lived probably ten yean, and then he disposed of this latter tract to Mr. Moore and left these parts, never to return. I believe he went to Oregon when he left here. I have but one distinct recollection of Mr. Ogden, and that is that he was a strong Seventh Day Adventist, and the first one of that sect | known to this community. And he I had a thousand reasons why that his faith was the only true one, and was ever willing to recite them all I to any one who had patience to listen i ;to them, which nobody ever had. j He did not trust, as did the others I have described, to fishing and trapping to furnish him a living, but i rather depended on the soil of his modest land holdings, which he cul- j tivated in berries and small fruits, i What became of him or his family after they left here, or whether tjiey are still living. 1 cannot tell you. East and around the point of Ogden Island lies an arm of the lake, that in itself would make a lake of, very respectable size, familiarly, known ts Johnson Bay, and around: it is c large marsh, in which grow ' lillies. and cattails, and w.ld rice, known as the Johnson mars-h. This I marsh, next to that of Conkling r d-1 joining the west end of the lake was | of old the most famous place for duck hunting around the lake. It wtu named for one of the very earliest pioneer families of these parts the family of Johnson. I cannot at this lime give you a;

complete story of this family. I do not know the name of the father nor all his children. They settled on land near the marsh and bay they gave their name to nearly eighty years ago. Two of the sons, Isaac and Martin, I knew very well. Whether there were more I do not knowc- There were daughters, but howmany, or what their names, I cannnot tell you. Isaac lived out his days on the little tract that had been the family homestead, and died at an advanced I age there some twelve or fifteen | years ago. His widow, the wife of his second marriage, who is the mother of Mis. Benjamin Vorhis, still lives in Syracuse. Martin became the owner of a j small tract, now the property of i the Sandusky P< rtland Cement Co., ! that ran down to the head of the marsh and bay, and on that built a log cabin in which he resided until some twenty years ago, when he sold it and left to seek a newer country, I where fish and muskia'.s weie more ! plentiful. Not cinbiti us o' acquiring much ’ wealth were the Johnsons. Here at ■ a time when ihe finest of lands could j be sec-red by little effort, they were j content with a few acres on which to i make heir home. Nor were they so much concerned about the richness of the soil as that they should be located where game and fish and fur bearing animals were plentiful. But they were peaceful 1 w-abiding citizens, and si ways, held the respect ! of the community. Martin was the stna'lest one of the ' family, physically and intellectually. ! and the enactment of laws prescribing the man; er in which he might ! fish and hunt were galling and offensive to him, particularly as they ! limited his means of obtaining a living. But he w. s not one to court ! trouble with the officers by setting ' them at defiance, as did meat of his I neighbors. * < 1 There is a small Hand in Johnson’s Bay. just north of Ogden Is- • land, and surrounded by the waters ; and the cattails and lilly pads of the marsh, that on account of the thick growth of oak trees upon it is known as Oak Island. Across the open water of ihe lake a little east and a mile south of Ogden IsLnd, lies Eagle Island, containing nearly twenty acres. 1 used to hear that this name was given it by the settlers because some eagles annually nested there. It lay jout in the lake s hundred yards or Iso from the lands of Mr. Nathaniel Crow, who probably might have made good a claim of title to it had he set it up, but who never did. And < it seemed to be no man’s land. Just after the close of the Civil war William T. Morrison, some where new. Warsaw, for his second wife wedded Ann, oldest daughter > of Nathan Sloan, of this place, and

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with her and his two children by a former marriage, moved to Syracuse, and made application to be employed to teach the village school the following winter. In those days the patrons of a school elected a teacher for it each winter by ballot at a school meeting held for that I purpose. And the term was of four; months duration, instead of eight or. nine months, as it is now. What qualifications were required of the i teacher I do not know. They must, | indeed, have been very meager. I believe that he was required to pass ; some sort of an examination at the • j county seat. The application of Mr. Morrison j met with favor, and he was duly I elected to teach the school. I will not attempt to describe to you the school that he taught, my object being in this paper to tell you the story of Eagle Island. It was neither better or worse thsn many others of its time, however. . In the summer following Mr. Morrison moved out to Wawasee lake and elected a cabin on the no man’s land of Eagle Island, and squatted down there with his family, and he there continued to rbide undisturbed for some thirty years. In the meantime, and and after I twenty years of unchallenged posses- ' sion, he had brought an action in ■ court to perfect his title to the i place, and by grace of the statute of limitations, had succeeded. If the full and true story of the family of Mr. Morrison for the thirty years in which „he lived on ! this island could be told I doubt no: j it would prove as interesting as the slo y of Robinson Crusco. There was a large number of children and about their only means of subsistence was fishing. After twenty years Mr. Morrison, who had been a s »ldier in an Ohio regiment during the war, was granted a small pension, and that improved the family I fortunes somewhat. ; z Then came the building of sum- ! mer homes at the lake, and the platting of most of. its available front- ■ age into lots that grew in value up I to sevei&l hundred dollars each. And Mr. Morrison’s Eagle Isand, the title of which w s now safely vested in him had a long stretch of beautiful frontage. And finally, some five i or six years ago, some gentlemen of : Cromwell and Ft. Wayne purchased t the island from him for more money iy a lump sum, than he had probably ever earned in all his life, all put ■ together. There are now located on it a half dozen or more of the best summer homes at the lake. Mr. Morrison, after disposing of his island, moved, with his wife, to the stale cf Oregon, but shortly beI coming dissatisfied there he returnI ed to Indiana* and took up his abode near Ligonier, where he now residI es in the enjoyment of his fortune, i and his pension, which latter has grown by several increases to be a rather respectable monthly allowance. Across the far south end of the lake to the west of Eagle Island is another old time duck shooting ground known as McClintic’s marsh. I have told you the story of Eston McClintic, who entered a large tract of land to the west of the south end of the lake, and who, died there more than fifty years ago while he was still a young man. Much of this land still belongs to his descendants. His widow lived to an old age mid died but a few years ago. It was on her authority that I told you the story of the Indians riding across the lake on their ponies from near her home to Cedar Point in the days before the building of the dam. The bold promontory known as Cedar Point retains its ancient name, given it in the earliest days on account of the red cedars that grew upon it. Now, I believe I have given you about all I know of the ancient history of Wawasee Lake. The story of its growth as a summer resort I have yet to tell you. NEWSALEM Mr. and Mrs. Roland Ferverd* of Beaverdam visi'ed hs mother, Mrs. Ferverda, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Morehouse and granddaughter, Nola Gene, visited with Mr. and Mrs. Guy Morehouse, Sunday. Donald DeFries, a student at Indiana University, visited with his parents, last week-end. Mr. and Mrs. William Weybright visited Mrs. Susan Weybright, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George ' Auer and family visited Mr. and Mrs. John Auer, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Glen Deeter and Mers. Arthur Stockhouse were in Goshen, Saturday. NEWSALEM Betty and Maranna, cs Pinkerton visited with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith Saturday. Ted Auer visited Roy Pinkerton, Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Emory Guy visited with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Smith, Sunday. June Pinkerton worked in the Klinger home, Friday. The Liberty League canvasses 150 college professors and finds the majority of them opposed to the New Deal. Os course, it is to be remember ed that quite a few college professors were smart enough to stoy at

! r\MAIL CONCORD j Mr. and Mrs. William Wyland ! visited Sunday, with Mr. and Mrs. } O. Hite in Pierceton. Mr. and Mrs. Dewey Coy and family and Mr. and Mrs. Silas GilI bert were visitors Saturday evening j of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Lentz, j Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Dewart and i sons, Randal and Mir am of Milford i visited Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews Mr. and Mrs. Chancey Coy vistied with Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stiffler. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Dewart visited Mr. and Mrs. Jatnes Dewart, Sunday. Mrs. Anna Mathews visited Wednesday with Mrs. Violet Tom. Miss Ethel Bowser visited Mr. and Mrs. James Dewart, Friday. 'V--Corlyss LeCount, Wayne Coy and Cecil Sutherland visited with Burl Jones, Sunday. Jacob Bucher is ill. Mr. and Mrs. E’don Wyland were in South Bend, Monday, Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Strieby, Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Deaton, Mrs. Belle Strieby and Mrs. Iva Coy helped George Strieby butcher. Mrs. Hattie Fisher visited with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Tom, Thursday. Miss Yvonne Bucher visited with days with Miss Betty Calbnder. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Mathews visited Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Bucher, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. James Dewart visited Mr. and Mrs. John Roop, Thursday. FOUR CORNERS. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bittsan of Milford visited Mr. and Mrs. LaTone Jenson, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Darr and two children, of Zion, visited Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Geyer v Sunday. Mrs. Crist Darr visited Mr. and Mrs. LaTone Jenson, Thursday, Mr. and Mrs. James Callander of Gravelton visited their son, Clinton Callander, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Godschalk of South Bend visited his parents, Sunday. George Simpson of Benton, visited Crist Darr, Friday. Mr. and Mrs. V. B. Darr of Mentone visited Thursday with Mr. and Mrs. Crist Darr. Mrs. Ida Myers of Milford is in the Warsaw hospital for treatment. Dr. and Mrs. Lee Morrison of Nappanee visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Disher. Mr. and Mrs. Howard McSweeney and daughter, visited in Chicago, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Disher visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Disher. SOUTHSIDE James Dewart visited Mr. and Mrs. Warbel, Saturday. Frances Laughlin visited Josephine Gordon, Saturday. Louis Garrison visited Mrs. Ringler, Monday. Mrs. Warbel visited Mrs. Jones and Mrs. Elizabeth Dewart, Thursday. Robert Wiles is visiting Mr. and Mrs. George Eppert and family. Mr. and Mrs. Merl Laughlin visited Mr. and Mrs. Bert Laughlin, Sunday. Donald Ringler, Ola Ketring, Helen Garrison, and Mary Ringler visited Mr. and Mrs. Noble Ringler. Mrs. Opal Pepper and daughter visited Mr. and Mrs. Noble Ringler last week-end. Dorothy Egolf had a party to celebrate her 16th birthday. The guests were: Irene Ringler, Majorie Laughlin and Kathaleen Gibson. DISMAL Mrs. Sarah Sloan is again at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Manford Morris, since returning from New Paris where she was visiting relatives Mrs. Fannie Larson of Ligonier and litr. and Mrs. Claus Bobeck visited Miss Tilda Bobeck, Friday. Mrs. Ctell Buchtel injured her back last week when she fell. Mrs. Hilbert Bitner and son, Howard, Mrs. Raymond Bitner and Mrs. Roy Wilkinson visited Mr. and Mrs. Roy Brownbridge in South Bend Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Chus Bobeck visited Mr. and Mrs. Dora Clingerman Thursday evening. WEST END Mr. and Mrs. John McGarrity visited Mrs. Joseph Jarvis in Bristol, Sunday. O’Leary Doll, Mr. and Mrs. William Sheffield visited Mr. and Mrs. Claud Niles in Milford Junction, Sunday. The Bethany Ladies Aid met March 11, with Mrs. Ela Morehouse. Mrs. Dachie Whitehead of Goshen and Jesse Metz of Bethany visited Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Weybright, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Rowdabaugh and family, and Mr. and Mrs. J. W Rowdabaugh visited Mr and Mrs. O. L. Isley near Silver Lake, Saturday. Rev. and Mrs. Raleigh Neff visited Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Neff, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Seth Rowdabaugh

Mid family of Warsaw, visited Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Rowdabaugh, Sunday. Mrs Eldon Lutes and children visited Mr. and Mrs. Edward Stinmetz* in Goshen, last week-end. Rev. and Mrs. Manley Deeter of New Salem, Mr. and Mrs. Emory Vorhies and family, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Neff and daughter visited Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Neff, Wednes-J day. | Rice Low had one of his fingers crushed in a corn shucker, Saturday. * Houston Winters of Goshen is at his lake home for the season. i Mr. and Mrs. Chancey Coy and family visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Chester Stiffler and family, i Mr. and Mrs. Roy Niles visited with Mr and Mrs. Bert Seorfoss, Sunday. Mrs. Forest Snepp, Mrs. Martha Jordon and Mrs. Bert Searfoss. were in Goshen, Thursday. Mrs. Chancey Coy, Mrs. Russell Cooper, Mrs. Harry Trelty, Mrs. Russell Warner, and Barbara Bowser attended the Womens Missionary Association meeting at Zion, Thursday. Mrs. Martha Jordon visited Mrs. Lester Mock, Friday. Miss Willodean Mock of South Bend visited her parents. Mr. and Mrs. Dwight Mock, last week-end. SOLOMON'S CREEK Mr. and Mrs. Harold Lockwood, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Lockwood andchildren, Donald and Evelyn, and Mell Prickett visited relatives in Wa-

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