Son of Thomas Nolin and Jane Kirkpatrick
Married Rachel Dawson, 1853
Married Clarissa Coffelt
Children - Mary C. Nolin, infant Nolin, William Thomas Nolin, Matilda J. Nolin
The subject of this biographical review is one of the solid, stable business men of Benton county. His experience has been varied, and he has achieved his present position in the financial world principally through his own unaided efforts.
Samuel accompanied his parents to Benton county, Indiana, in childhood, and here he received his elementary education and passed his youthful years. Then, in 1849, he went to Iroquois county, Illinois, where forty three years of his life were spent in agricultural pursuits. He located in Stockland township, of that county, securing four hundred acres of government land, which he improved largely by his own labor. Endowed with a robust constitution and indomitable energy, he soon transformed the trackless prairie into fertile farming land, the pioneer log cabin giving place to a handsome modern residence, and each year found him more prosperous than the preceding one.
As success crowned his efforts he continued to add other broad fields and to increase his stock interests, this latter being one of his principal elements of success. He raised for the market all kinds of domestic animals, and the sale of these was largely the source of his success, since it was his purpose to feed to his own stock most of the products of his farm. As success crowned his efforts his farm boundaries were also extended until his possessions aggregated eight hundred and forty acres in Stockland township, and also a valuable farm of one hundred and sixty six acres in Prairie Green township, same county.
But notwithstanding his phenomenal success and long residence in Illinois, the people of Benton county claim Mr. Nolin as their own. His early residence here, and the fact that advancing years stimulated his return to the scenes of his boyhood, seems a reasonable justification of this claim. Yet, if other evidence were required, it may be added that the old parental home of two hundred acres, entered in 1834, four miles east of Oxford, has never passed from the family, but has been augmented by the purchase of one hundred and sixty additional acres. This old homestead Mr. Nolin now owns. He retired from the active management of his estate in Illinois, leaving it in charge of his son, and returned to Oxford in 1893. Here his life is less active, though he maintains a general superintendence of his affairs, both at "home and abroad."
In 1893 he became interested as a stockholder in the Bank of Oxford, the only monetary institution in the town. This was organized as a private bank in 1893, and is one of the solid, financial concerns of Benton county. A general banking business is transacted, the individual responsibility of the bank being four hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Nowlin owns a one third interest, the other stockholders being Joseph Heath and his son, David S. Heath.
The subject of this sketch was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, October 21, 1821. His father, Thomas Nolin, was a native of Ross county, same state, born in 1776; was a soldier in the war of 1812, and served under General William Henry Harrison. He was a descendant from Irish ancestors. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Richard Nolin, a Virginian, who removed to Kentucky in the days of Daniel Boone, and there married a Miss Kirkpatrick, and together the families fled from that state, owing to Indian depredations, and settled in Ross county, Ohio.
The father of our subject married Miss Jane Kirkpatrick, who was a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, born in 1797. In 1831 the parents removed to Fountain county, Indiana, where they remained about four years, coming from there to Benton county, where they reared a family of six sons and two daughters. Ruth A., the eldest of these, married Jonathan Baugh and died in Tippecanoe county in 1886; Samuel K., of this sketch, was the second in order of birth and the eldest son; John was born in Pickaway county in 1823, and died in Milford, Illinois; Minerva was born in 1825 and died in Benton county, Indiana, at the age of twenty four; George W. was born in 1827 and died in Warren county, this state; Richard T., born in 1830, is living on a farm in Oklahoma territory; James W. was born in Franklin county, Indiana, in 1832: he was a soldier during the civil war and is now located on a farm at Lohrville, Iowa; Austin W. was born in Benton county, this state, in 1834, and died at the age of sixteen years.
The maternal grandparents of Mr. Nolin were the founders of the family in America; they were Scotch Irish and settled near the James river in Virginia more than three hundred years ago. His paternal grandparents died in Ross county, Ohio, and his father and mother in Indiana, the former on his farm in this county, in 1840, and the latter in Tippecanoe county, at the age of seventy two years, surviving her husband for many years.
Mr. Nolin has been twice married, his first union being solemnized in in 1853, the lady being Miss Rachel Dawson, the daughter of Elisha and Polly Dawson. A year later he followed her remains to the grave, her death occurring at their home in Iroquois county, Illinois, when she was but twenty two years of age. Rachel Dawson was a native of Warren county, Indiana, where her parents were early pioneers.
For his second wife Mr. Nolin wedded Miss Clarissa Coffelt, who was born near Xenia, Ohio. By this marriage there were four children, all born in Iroquois county, Illinois. The eldest, Mary, was born in i860 and is now Mrs. George Voliva, residing at our subject's old parental home in Bolivar township; the second child died in infancy; William T., born in 1874, is located upon one of the Illinois farms, where he is extensively engaged in farming and stock raising; Matilda, born in 1876, married William Nichol, a prosperous farmer in Iroquois county, Illinois.
In January, 1890, Mr. Nolin was bereft of the companionship of his wife, after a happy wedded life of over thirty years. Clarissa Coffelt was the daughter of Michael Coffelt, of Warren county, Indiana, and a native of Virginia. She was a devoted wife and mother whose death was mourned by a wide circle of friends and relatives.
Mr. Nolin recites some reminiscences of early pioneer life in Benton county which are very interesting. In speaking of Benton county, Ind. however, we mean the territory which is now embraced within the limits of that county, though it has been a part of no less than three counties at different times in its history. In the early pioneer days, during the boyhood of our subject, it was not unusual for the youth to walk five miles to school, young Nolin having obtained the rudiments of an education by walking from three to five miles to and from school. When there was work to do, of course that had to be done; and when there was leisure, if school was in session, the children could go, if strong enough to brave the dangers of prairie and forest. In this way he "attended school " until sixteen years of age. But this very rudimentary education has been supplemented by a lifetime of careful reading and private study. Then that other great educator, the "school of experience," has proved a valuable assistant in the educational process.
Samuel Nolin is therefore what the world is pleased to term a self-made man. His life has been one continual round of financial success. Obstacles sufficient to discourage a less resolute nature have been successfully met and turned to good advantage. Wholly self dependent, he started out on life's threshold with a determination to win. His success, however, has not been augmented by a close and niggardly policy, since he has enjoyed the comforts of life all along life's journey, and no unfortunate ever left his door unfed. He is generous toward the poor, and hospitality is a ruling characteristic of his nature. As a proof of his modest possessions in 1840, he being then twenty one years old, he authoritatively states that his tax for that year was thirty six cents.
Married Rachel Dawson, 1853
Married Clarissa Coffelt
Children - Mary C. Nolin, infant Nolin, William Thomas Nolin, Matilda J. Nolin
The subject of this biographical review is one of the solid, stable business men of Benton county. His experience has been varied, and he has achieved his present position in the financial world principally through his own unaided efforts.
Samuel accompanied his parents to Benton county, Indiana, in childhood, and here he received his elementary education and passed his youthful years. Then, in 1849, he went to Iroquois county, Illinois, where forty three years of his life were spent in agricultural pursuits. He located in Stockland township, of that county, securing four hundred acres of government land, which he improved largely by his own labor. Endowed with a robust constitution and indomitable energy, he soon transformed the trackless prairie into fertile farming land, the pioneer log cabin giving place to a handsome modern residence, and each year found him more prosperous than the preceding one.
As success crowned his efforts he continued to add other broad fields and to increase his stock interests, this latter being one of his principal elements of success. He raised for the market all kinds of domestic animals, and the sale of these was largely the source of his success, since it was his purpose to feed to his own stock most of the products of his farm. As success crowned his efforts his farm boundaries were also extended until his possessions aggregated eight hundred and forty acres in Stockland township, and also a valuable farm of one hundred and sixty six acres in Prairie Green township, same county.
But notwithstanding his phenomenal success and long residence in Illinois, the people of Benton county claim Mr. Nolin as their own. His early residence here, and the fact that advancing years stimulated his return to the scenes of his boyhood, seems a reasonable justification of this claim. Yet, if other evidence were required, it may be added that the old parental home of two hundred acres, entered in 1834, four miles east of Oxford, has never passed from the family, but has been augmented by the purchase of one hundred and sixty additional acres. This old homestead Mr. Nolin now owns. He retired from the active management of his estate in Illinois, leaving it in charge of his son, and returned to Oxford in 1893. Here his life is less active, though he maintains a general superintendence of his affairs, both at "home and abroad."
In 1893 he became interested as a stockholder in the Bank of Oxford, the only monetary institution in the town. This was organized as a private bank in 1893, and is one of the solid, financial concerns of Benton county. A general banking business is transacted, the individual responsibility of the bank being four hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Nowlin owns a one third interest, the other stockholders being Joseph Heath and his son, David S. Heath.
The subject of this sketch was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, October 21, 1821. His father, Thomas Nolin, was a native of Ross county, same state, born in 1776; was a soldier in the war of 1812, and served under General William Henry Harrison. He was a descendant from Irish ancestors. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Richard Nolin, a Virginian, who removed to Kentucky in the days of Daniel Boone, and there married a Miss Kirkpatrick, and together the families fled from that state, owing to Indian depredations, and settled in Ross county, Ohio.
The father of our subject married Miss Jane Kirkpatrick, who was a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, born in 1797. In 1831 the parents removed to Fountain county, Indiana, where they remained about four years, coming from there to Benton county, where they reared a family of six sons and two daughters. Ruth A., the eldest of these, married Jonathan Baugh and died in Tippecanoe county in 1886; Samuel K., of this sketch, was the second in order of birth and the eldest son; John was born in Pickaway county in 1823, and died in Milford, Illinois; Minerva was born in 1825 and died in Benton county, Indiana, at the age of twenty four; George W. was born in 1827 and died in Warren county, this state; Richard T., born in 1830, is living on a farm in Oklahoma territory; James W. was born in Franklin county, Indiana, in 1832: he was a soldier during the civil war and is now located on a farm at Lohrville, Iowa; Austin W. was born in Benton county, this state, in 1834, and died at the age of sixteen years.
The maternal grandparents of Mr. Nolin were the founders of the family in America; they were Scotch Irish and settled near the James river in Virginia more than three hundred years ago. His paternal grandparents died in Ross county, Ohio, and his father and mother in Indiana, the former on his farm in this county, in 1840, and the latter in Tippecanoe county, at the age of seventy two years, surviving her husband for many years.
Mr. Nolin has been twice married, his first union being solemnized in in 1853, the lady being Miss Rachel Dawson, the daughter of Elisha and Polly Dawson. A year later he followed her remains to the grave, her death occurring at their home in Iroquois county, Illinois, when she was but twenty two years of age. Rachel Dawson was a native of Warren county, Indiana, where her parents were early pioneers.
For his second wife Mr. Nolin wedded Miss Clarissa Coffelt, who was born near Xenia, Ohio. By this marriage there were four children, all born in Iroquois county, Illinois. The eldest, Mary, was born in i860 and is now Mrs. George Voliva, residing at our subject's old parental home in Bolivar township; the second child died in infancy; William T., born in 1874, is located upon one of the Illinois farms, where he is extensively engaged in farming and stock raising; Matilda, born in 1876, married William Nichol, a prosperous farmer in Iroquois county, Illinois.
In January, 1890, Mr. Nolin was bereft of the companionship of his wife, after a happy wedded life of over thirty years. Clarissa Coffelt was the daughter of Michael Coffelt, of Warren county, Indiana, and a native of Virginia. She was a devoted wife and mother whose death was mourned by a wide circle of friends and relatives.
Mr. Nolin recites some reminiscences of early pioneer life in Benton county which are very interesting. In speaking of Benton county, Ind. however, we mean the territory which is now embraced within the limits of that county, though it has been a part of no less than three counties at different times in its history. In the early pioneer days, during the boyhood of our subject, it was not unusual for the youth to walk five miles to school, young Nolin having obtained the rudiments of an education by walking from three to five miles to and from school. When there was work to do, of course that had to be done; and when there was leisure, if school was in session, the children could go, if strong enough to brave the dangers of prairie and forest. In this way he "attended school " until sixteen years of age. But this very rudimentary education has been supplemented by a lifetime of careful reading and private study. Then that other great educator, the "school of experience," has proved a valuable assistant in the educational process.
Samuel Nolin is therefore what the world is pleased to term a self-made man. His life has been one continual round of financial success. Obstacles sufficient to discourage a less resolute nature have been successfully met and turned to good advantage. Wholly self dependent, he started out on life's threshold with a determination to win. His success, however, has not been augmented by a close and niggardly policy, since he has enjoyed the comforts of life all along life's journey, and no unfortunate ever left his door unfed. He is generous toward the poor, and hospitality is a ruling characteristic of his nature. As a proof of his modest possessions in 1840, he being then twenty one years old, he authoritatively states that his tax for that year was thirty six cents.
Son of Thomas Nolin and Jane Kirkpatrick
Married Rachel Dawson, 1853
Married Clarissa Coffelt
Children - Mary C. Nolin, infant Nolin, William Thomas Nolin, Matilda J. Nolin
The subject of this biographical review is one of the solid, stable business men of Benton county. His experience has been varied, and he has achieved his present position in the financial world principally through his own unaided efforts.
Samuel accompanied his parents to Benton county, Indiana, in childhood, and here he received his elementary education and passed his youthful years. Then, in 1849, he went to Iroquois county, Illinois, where forty three years of his life were spent in agricultural pursuits. He located in Stockland township, of that county, securing four hundred acres of government land, which he improved largely by his own labor. Endowed with a robust constitution and indomitable energy, he soon transformed the trackless prairie into fertile farming land, the pioneer log cabin giving place to a handsome modern residence, and each year found him more prosperous than the preceding one.
As success crowned his efforts he continued to add other broad fields and to increase his stock interests, this latter being one of his principal elements of success. He raised for the market all kinds of domestic animals, and the sale of these was largely the source of his success, since it was his purpose to feed to his own stock most of the products of his farm. As success crowned his efforts his farm boundaries were also extended until his possessions aggregated eight hundred and forty acres in Stockland township, and also a valuable farm of one hundred and sixty six acres in Prairie Green township, same county.
But notwithstanding his phenomenal success and long residence in Illinois, the people of Benton county claim Mr. Nolin as their own. His early residence here, and the fact that advancing years stimulated his return to the scenes of his boyhood, seems a reasonable justification of this claim. Yet, if other evidence were required, it may be added that the old parental home of two hundred acres, entered in 1834, four miles east of Oxford, has never passed from the family, but has been augmented by the purchase of one hundred and sixty additional acres. This old homestead Mr. Nolin now owns. He retired from the active management of his estate in Illinois, leaving it in charge of his son, and returned to Oxford in 1893. Here his life is less active, though he maintains a general superintendence of his affairs, both at "home and abroad."
In 1893 he became interested as a stockholder in the Bank of Oxford, the only monetary institution in the town. This was organized as a private bank in 1893, and is one of the solid, financial concerns of Benton county. A general banking business is transacted, the individual responsibility of the bank being four hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Nowlin owns a one third interest, the other stockholders being Joseph Heath and his son, David S. Heath.
The subject of this sketch was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, October 21, 1821. His father, Thomas Nolin, was a native of Ross county, same state, born in 1776; was a soldier in the war of 1812, and served under General William Henry Harrison. He was a descendant from Irish ancestors. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Richard Nolin, a Virginian, who removed to Kentucky in the days of Daniel Boone, and there married a Miss Kirkpatrick, and together the families fled from that state, owing to Indian depredations, and settled in Ross county, Ohio.
The father of our subject married Miss Jane Kirkpatrick, who was a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, born in 1797. In 1831 the parents removed to Fountain county, Indiana, where they remained about four years, coming from there to Benton county, where they reared a family of six sons and two daughters. Ruth A., the eldest of these, married Jonathan Baugh and died in Tippecanoe county in 1886; Samuel K., of this sketch, was the second in order of birth and the eldest son; John was born in Pickaway county in 1823, and died in Milford, Illinois; Minerva was born in 1825 and died in Benton county, Indiana, at the age of twenty four; George W. was born in 1827 and died in Warren county, this state; Richard T., born in 1830, is living on a farm in Oklahoma territory; James W. was born in Franklin county, Indiana, in 1832: he was a soldier during the civil war and is now located on a farm at Lohrville, Iowa; Austin W. was born in Benton county, this state, in 1834, and died at the age of sixteen years.
The maternal grandparents of Mr. Nolin were the founders of the family in America; they were Scotch Irish and settled near the James river in Virginia more than three hundred years ago. His paternal grandparents died in Ross county, Ohio, and his father and mother in Indiana, the former on his farm in this county, in 1840, and the latter in Tippecanoe county, at the age of seventy two years, surviving her husband for many years.
Mr. Nolin has been twice married, his first union being solemnized in in 1853, the lady being Miss Rachel Dawson, the daughter of Elisha and Polly Dawson. A year later he followed her remains to the grave, her death occurring at their home in Iroquois county, Illinois, when she was but twenty two years of age. Rachel Dawson was a native of Warren county, Indiana, where her parents were early pioneers.
For his second wife Mr. Nolin wedded Miss Clarissa Coffelt, who was born near Xenia, Ohio. By this marriage there were four children, all born in Iroquois county, Illinois. The eldest, Mary, was born in i860 and is now Mrs. George Voliva, residing at our subject's old parental home in Bolivar township; the second child died in infancy; William T., born in 1874, is located upon one of the Illinois farms, where he is extensively engaged in farming and stock raising; Matilda, born in 1876, married William Nichol, a prosperous farmer in Iroquois county, Illinois.
In January, 1890, Mr. Nolin was bereft of the companionship of his wife, after a happy wedded life of over thirty years. Clarissa Coffelt was the daughter of Michael Coffelt, of Warren county, Indiana, and a native of Virginia. She was a devoted wife and mother whose death was mourned by a wide circle of friends and relatives.
Mr. Nolin recites some reminiscences of early pioneer life in Benton county which are very interesting. In speaking of Benton county, Ind. however, we mean the territory which is now embraced within the limits of that county, though it has been a part of no less than three counties at different times in its history. In the early pioneer days, during the boyhood of our subject, it was not unusual for the youth to walk five miles to school, young Nolin having obtained the rudiments of an education by walking from three to five miles to and from school. When there was work to do, of course that had to be done; and when there was leisure, if school was in session, the children could go, if strong enough to brave the dangers of prairie and forest. In this way he "attended school " until sixteen years of age. But this very rudimentary education has been supplemented by a lifetime of careful reading and private study. Then that other great educator, the "school of experience," has proved a valuable assistant in the educational process.
Samuel Nolin is therefore what the world is pleased to term a self-made man. His life has been one continual round of financial success. Obstacles sufficient to discourage a less resolute nature have been successfully met and turned to good advantage. Wholly self dependent, he started out on life's threshold with a determination to win. His success, however, has not been augmented by a close and niggardly policy, since he has enjoyed the comforts of life all along life's journey, and no unfortunate ever left his door unfed. He is generous toward the poor, and hospitality is a ruling characteristic of his nature. As a proof of his modest possessions in 1840, he being then twenty one years old, he authoritatively states that his tax for that year was thirty six cents.
Married Rachel Dawson, 1853
Married Clarissa Coffelt
Children - Mary C. Nolin, infant Nolin, William Thomas Nolin, Matilda J. Nolin
The subject of this biographical review is one of the solid, stable business men of Benton county. His experience has been varied, and he has achieved his present position in the financial world principally through his own unaided efforts.
Samuel accompanied his parents to Benton county, Indiana, in childhood, and here he received his elementary education and passed his youthful years. Then, in 1849, he went to Iroquois county, Illinois, where forty three years of his life were spent in agricultural pursuits. He located in Stockland township, of that county, securing four hundred acres of government land, which he improved largely by his own labor. Endowed with a robust constitution and indomitable energy, he soon transformed the trackless prairie into fertile farming land, the pioneer log cabin giving place to a handsome modern residence, and each year found him more prosperous than the preceding one.
As success crowned his efforts he continued to add other broad fields and to increase his stock interests, this latter being one of his principal elements of success. He raised for the market all kinds of domestic animals, and the sale of these was largely the source of his success, since it was his purpose to feed to his own stock most of the products of his farm. As success crowned his efforts his farm boundaries were also extended until his possessions aggregated eight hundred and forty acres in Stockland township, and also a valuable farm of one hundred and sixty six acres in Prairie Green township, same county.
But notwithstanding his phenomenal success and long residence in Illinois, the people of Benton county claim Mr. Nolin as their own. His early residence here, and the fact that advancing years stimulated his return to the scenes of his boyhood, seems a reasonable justification of this claim. Yet, if other evidence were required, it may be added that the old parental home of two hundred acres, entered in 1834, four miles east of Oxford, has never passed from the family, but has been augmented by the purchase of one hundred and sixty additional acres. This old homestead Mr. Nolin now owns. He retired from the active management of his estate in Illinois, leaving it in charge of his son, and returned to Oxford in 1893. Here his life is less active, though he maintains a general superintendence of his affairs, both at "home and abroad."
In 1893 he became interested as a stockholder in the Bank of Oxford, the only monetary institution in the town. This was organized as a private bank in 1893, and is one of the solid, financial concerns of Benton county. A general banking business is transacted, the individual responsibility of the bank being four hundred thousand dollars. Mr. Nowlin owns a one third interest, the other stockholders being Joseph Heath and his son, David S. Heath.
The subject of this sketch was born in Pickaway county, Ohio, October 21, 1821. His father, Thomas Nolin, was a native of Ross county, same state, born in 1776; was a soldier in the war of 1812, and served under General William Henry Harrison. He was a descendant from Irish ancestors. The paternal grandfather of our subject was Richard Nolin, a Virginian, who removed to Kentucky in the days of Daniel Boone, and there married a Miss Kirkpatrick, and together the families fled from that state, owing to Indian depredations, and settled in Ross county, Ohio.
The father of our subject married Miss Jane Kirkpatrick, who was a native of Chillicothe, Ohio, born in 1797. In 1831 the parents removed to Fountain county, Indiana, where they remained about four years, coming from there to Benton county, where they reared a family of six sons and two daughters. Ruth A., the eldest of these, married Jonathan Baugh and died in Tippecanoe county in 1886; Samuel K., of this sketch, was the second in order of birth and the eldest son; John was born in Pickaway county in 1823, and died in Milford, Illinois; Minerva was born in 1825 and died in Benton county, Indiana, at the age of twenty four; George W. was born in 1827 and died in Warren county, this state; Richard T., born in 1830, is living on a farm in Oklahoma territory; James W. was born in Franklin county, Indiana, in 1832: he was a soldier during the civil war and is now located on a farm at Lohrville, Iowa; Austin W. was born in Benton county, this state, in 1834, and died at the age of sixteen years.
The maternal grandparents of Mr. Nolin were the founders of the family in America; they were Scotch Irish and settled near the James river in Virginia more than three hundred years ago. His paternal grandparents died in Ross county, Ohio, and his father and mother in Indiana, the former on his farm in this county, in 1840, and the latter in Tippecanoe county, at the age of seventy two years, surviving her husband for many years.
Mr. Nolin has been twice married, his first union being solemnized in in 1853, the lady being Miss Rachel Dawson, the daughter of Elisha and Polly Dawson. A year later he followed her remains to the grave, her death occurring at their home in Iroquois county, Illinois, when she was but twenty two years of age. Rachel Dawson was a native of Warren county, Indiana, where her parents were early pioneers.
For his second wife Mr. Nolin wedded Miss Clarissa Coffelt, who was born near Xenia, Ohio. By this marriage there were four children, all born in Iroquois county, Illinois. The eldest, Mary, was born in i860 and is now Mrs. George Voliva, residing at our subject's old parental home in Bolivar township; the second child died in infancy; William T., born in 1874, is located upon one of the Illinois farms, where he is extensively engaged in farming and stock raising; Matilda, born in 1876, married William Nichol, a prosperous farmer in Iroquois county, Illinois.
In January, 1890, Mr. Nolin was bereft of the companionship of his wife, after a happy wedded life of over thirty years. Clarissa Coffelt was the daughter of Michael Coffelt, of Warren county, Indiana, and a native of Virginia. She was a devoted wife and mother whose death was mourned by a wide circle of friends and relatives.
Mr. Nolin recites some reminiscences of early pioneer life in Benton county which are very interesting. In speaking of Benton county, Ind. however, we mean the territory which is now embraced within the limits of that county, though it has been a part of no less than three counties at different times in its history. In the early pioneer days, during the boyhood of our subject, it was not unusual for the youth to walk five miles to school, young Nolin having obtained the rudiments of an education by walking from three to five miles to and from school. When there was work to do, of course that had to be done; and when there was leisure, if school was in session, the children could go, if strong enough to brave the dangers of prairie and forest. In this way he "attended school " until sixteen years of age. But this very rudimentary education has been supplemented by a lifetime of careful reading and private study. Then that other great educator, the "school of experience," has proved a valuable assistant in the educational process.
Samuel Nolin is therefore what the world is pleased to term a self-made man. His life has been one continual round of financial success. Obstacles sufficient to discourage a less resolute nature have been successfully met and turned to good advantage. Wholly self dependent, he started out on life's threshold with a determination to win. His success, however, has not been augmented by a close and niggardly policy, since he has enjoyed the comforts of life all along life's journey, and no unfortunate ever left his door unfed. He is generous toward the poor, and hospitality is a ruling characteristic of his nature. As a proof of his modest possessions in 1840, he being then twenty one years old, he authoritatively states that his tax for that year was thirty six cents.
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