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CHAPTER III.
The Arrival of mv Father and Brother—Journey to Illinois — Work on a
Railroad — The Ague — Doctor Ober — Religious Impressions — The
Arrival of my Mother, Sister and her Husband — A Burning Railroad
Train — We go to Minnesota — Our Experience as Wood Choppers and
Pioneers.
Finally my father and brother arrived, and again I turned
my course westwards in company with them and their
friends. We traveled by rail to Buffalo and across the lake
to Toledo, thence by rail again to Chicago. In the summer
of 1852 there were no railroads west of Chicago, and our
company had to take passage on a canal-boat drawn by
horses to La Salle, and from this place we rode in farmers
wagons to Andover and Galesburg. The country around
there was as yet only in the first stages of development;
there was very little money in circulation, and no demand for
farm products. The immigrants suffered a great deal from
fever and other climatic diseases.
My brother who was nearly sixteen years old soon
obtained steady work from an American farmer, while my
father and I had to do different kinds of work, such as
building fences, stacking grciin, etc. The only pay we could get
was checks on some store. I remember what an abundance
of provisions there was in that locality, and nobody seemed
to be in need.
A farmer near Galesburg, for whom I worked a week, had
so many hens and chickens and eggs, that when people came
out from town to buy eggs, they were told to pay ten cents,
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