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Jacob Hamblin, a narrative of his personal experience, as a frontiersman, missionary to the Indians and explorer, [microform] disclosing interpositions of Providence, severe privations, perilous situations and remarkable escapes. Fifth book of the faith-p - Page 11 |
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Show JACOB HAMBLIN. A NARRATIVE OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE. CHAPTER I. EARLY INCIDENTS OF MY LIFE PROVIDENTIAL CARE OVER ME MARRIAGE HEAR THE GOSPEL, AND EMBRACE IT SIGNS FOLLOW OPPOSED BY RELATIVES PREDICT MY FATHER'S BAPTISM MY FATHER HEALED IN ANSWER TO PRAYER. I WAS born in Salem, Ashtabula, Co., Ohio, on the 6th of April, 1819. When I was three months old, my father removed to Geauga Co., in the same State. That country was then a wilderness, covered with a heavy growth of tim-ber. In my early life I assisted my father in chopping timber and clearing land. It required twenty faithful days' work to clear one acre, and render it fit for the harrow and a crop of wheat. In about three years the roots of the trees would decay, so that the soil could be worked with a plow. In 1836, I removed, with nay father, to Wisconsin Terri-tory. I remember passing through Chicago, then a mere hamlet, but now a large and wealthy city. Seventy miles north- west of Chicago, my father, in com-pany with two friends, Messrs. Pratt and Harvey, located at a place called Spring Prairie. It was the most delightful country I had ever seen. It was beautiful with rolling prairies, groves of timber, numerous springs of pure water, and an occasional lake abounding with fish. |
