MR JOHN VAN NEST
From The Farming World
Two of the oldest, if not the Oldest residents of Darlington Township, Durham Co Ontario, Canada are at present residing in the town of Bowmanville, in the persons of Mr and Mrs John Van Nest.
Mr Van Nest is of U E Loyalist descent.
He was born near Kingston, Ontario, Canada in the year 1812.
He is now in his 94th year, and is still able to be about, enjoying fairly good health.
Mrs Van Nest is about 10 years his junior, but not so vigorous.
A representative of the Farming World spent a very pleasant hours in their beautiful home recently, when the old gentelman recalled many incidents of his early life, with its struggles and hardships.
His father died when he was but NINE [9] years of age, which deprived him of a great many advantages of education.
But he had a determination to succeed, and when but a youth, he came to the township of East Whitby and engaged with some of the early settlers there to chop and clear land, splitting rails for one shilling per hundred, and saving money at that.
After some years of work, having saved up a few hundred dollars, he bought LOT 29, con. 7, Darlington Township.
During the first winter he chopped about 5 acres, and during the next summer he worked out again, hiring a neighbor to burn his fallow.
In 1837 he went to live on his own farm and remained there for 65 years.
He prospered on nearly everything he undertook, and at the time of leaving the farm was the owner of 500 acres of the finest land in all Canada, all earned and paid for by honest toil.
He had not one dollar to start with, all had to be earned and saved.
Canada may well feel proud of her pioneer sons and daughters--
All honor to them-theirs-truly was a life of toil and hardships.
They all had an object in view, viz, to give their children a better start than they had themselves and usually succeeded.
They are passing rapidly away; their sons and daughters taking their places.
But are they as happy and contented as the old people were?
Even with all our modern conveniences the mad race for wealth is depriving the present generation of half of the enjoyments of life-such as we venture to say Mr and Mrs Van Nest enjoyed.
Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 30 Jan 1907, p.1
From The Farming World
Two of the oldest, if not the Oldest residents of Darlington Township, Durham Co Ontario, Canada are at present residing in the town of Bowmanville, in the persons of Mr and Mrs John Van Nest.
Mr Van Nest is of U E Loyalist descent.
He was born near Kingston, Ontario, Canada in the year 1812.
He is now in his 94th year, and is still able to be about, enjoying fairly good health.
Mrs Van Nest is about 10 years his junior, but not so vigorous.
A representative of the Farming World spent a very pleasant hours in their beautiful home recently, when the old gentelman recalled many incidents of his early life, with its struggles and hardships.
His father died when he was but NINE [9] years of age, which deprived him of a great many advantages of education.
But he had a determination to succeed, and when but a youth, he came to the township of East Whitby and engaged with some of the early settlers there to chop and clear land, splitting rails for one shilling per hundred, and saving money at that.
After some years of work, having saved up a few hundred dollars, he bought LOT 29, con. 7, Darlington Township.
During the first winter he chopped about 5 acres, and during the next summer he worked out again, hiring a neighbor to burn his fallow.
In 1837 he went to live on his own farm and remained there for 65 years.
He prospered on nearly everything he undertook, and at the time of leaving the farm was the owner of 500 acres of the finest land in all Canada, all earned and paid for by honest toil.
He had not one dollar to start with, all had to be earned and saved.
Canada may well feel proud of her pioneer sons and daughters--
All honor to them-theirs-truly was a life of toil and hardships.
They all had an object in view, viz, to give their children a better start than they had themselves and usually succeeded.
They are passing rapidly away; their sons and daughters taking their places.
But are they as happy and contented as the old people were?
Even with all our modern conveniences the mad race for wealth is depriving the present generation of half of the enjoyments of life-such as we venture to say Mr and Mrs Van Nest enjoyed.
Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 30 Jan 1907, p.1
MR JOHN VAN NEST
From The Farming World
Two of the oldest, if not the Oldest residents of Darlington Township, Durham Co Ontario, Canada are at present residing in the town of Bowmanville, in the persons of Mr and Mrs John Van Nest.
Mr Van Nest is of U E Loyalist descent.
He was born near Kingston, Ontario, Canada in the year 1812.
He is now in his 94th year, and is still able to be about, enjoying fairly good health.
Mrs Van Nest is about 10 years his junior, but not so vigorous.
A representative of the Farming World spent a very pleasant hours in their beautiful home recently, when the old gentelman recalled many incidents of his early life, with its struggles and hardships.
His father died when he was but NINE [9] years of age, which deprived him of a great many advantages of education.
But he had a determination to succeed, and when but a youth, he came to the township of East Whitby and engaged with some of the early settlers there to chop and clear land, splitting rails for one shilling per hundred, and saving money at that.
After some years of work, having saved up a few hundred dollars, he bought LOT 29, con. 7, Darlington Township.
During the first winter he chopped about 5 acres, and during the next summer he worked out again, hiring a neighbor to burn his fallow.
In 1837 he went to live on his own farm and remained there for 65 years.
He prospered on nearly everything he undertook, and at the time of leaving the farm was the owner of 500 acres of the finest land in all Canada, all earned and paid for by honest toil.
He had not one dollar to start with, all had to be earned and saved.
Canada may well feel proud of her pioneer sons and daughters--
All honor to them-theirs-truly was a life of toil and hardships.
They all had an object in view, viz, to give their children a better start than they had themselves and usually succeeded.
They are passing rapidly away; their sons and daughters taking their places.
But are they as happy and contented as the old people were?
Even with all our modern conveniences the mad race for wealth is depriving the present generation of half of the enjoyments of life-such as we venture to say Mr and Mrs Van Nest enjoyed.
Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 30 Jan 1907, p.1
From The Farming World
Two of the oldest, if not the Oldest residents of Darlington Township, Durham Co Ontario, Canada are at present residing in the town of Bowmanville, in the persons of Mr and Mrs John Van Nest.
Mr Van Nest is of U E Loyalist descent.
He was born near Kingston, Ontario, Canada in the year 1812.
He is now in his 94th year, and is still able to be about, enjoying fairly good health.
Mrs Van Nest is about 10 years his junior, but not so vigorous.
A representative of the Farming World spent a very pleasant hours in their beautiful home recently, when the old gentelman recalled many incidents of his early life, with its struggles and hardships.
His father died when he was but NINE [9] years of age, which deprived him of a great many advantages of education.
But he had a determination to succeed, and when but a youth, he came to the township of East Whitby and engaged with some of the early settlers there to chop and clear land, splitting rails for one shilling per hundred, and saving money at that.
After some years of work, having saved up a few hundred dollars, he bought LOT 29, con. 7, Darlington Township.
During the first winter he chopped about 5 acres, and during the next summer he worked out again, hiring a neighbor to burn his fallow.
In 1837 he went to live on his own farm and remained there for 65 years.
He prospered on nearly everything he undertook, and at the time of leaving the farm was the owner of 500 acres of the finest land in all Canada, all earned and paid for by honest toil.
He had not one dollar to start with, all had to be earned and saved.
Canada may well feel proud of her pioneer sons and daughters--
All honor to them-theirs-truly was a life of toil and hardships.
They all had an object in view, viz, to give their children a better start than they had themselves and usually succeeded.
They are passing rapidly away; their sons and daughters taking their places.
But are they as happy and contented as the old people were?
Even with all our modern conveniences the mad race for wealth is depriving the present generation of half of the enjoyments of life-such as we venture to say Mr and Mrs Van Nest enjoyed.
Canadian Statesman (Bowmanville, ON), 30 Jan 1907, p.1
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