WOOLMAN -- Samuel N. Woolman died at the residence of Jefferson Hamaker, in Washington township, April 20, 1880. He was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1800. He was married in 1824 to Elizabeth Bond. At the time of his death was 79 years, 6 months and 8 days of age.
In 1836 he moved to Grant county. He purchased land north of Marion, then a small village, and at once began the arduous task of clearing away the thick undergrowth and heavy timber, preparatory to farming. From early dawn until dusky eve his strong arm wielded the heavy ax and one by one the might forest trees, with their spreading branches that almost shut out the light of the sun, fell crashing to the ground. Look back, dear reader, if you please, to that early day in the history of our county when Samuel Woolman stood alone with his ax in his hand amid the deep solitude of an unbroken forest, realizing the fact that those great trees, from 3 to 5 feet in diameter and over 100 feet high, must be leveled to the ground and then huge trunks chandged into ashes before a single hill of corn could be grown, and dependent mainly upon what could be raised from the soil for subsistence for himself and family, and then imagine if you can the moral courage and physical endurance necessary for such an undertaking. Through many privations and hardships, known only to the pioneer, he persevered and lived many years to enjoy the luxuries of a well improved farm. He was highly esteemed by his neighbors and honored with the office of justice of the peace, served as school commissioner four years, received the appointment of county commiwsioner and in 1843 was chosen by the citizens of Grant county to represent them in the state legislature.
The life of Samuel Woolman was in many respects worthy of imitiation. He was free from hypocrisy, a friend to the oppressed, uncompromising in his convictions of right, and if not always in the right he was always honest. In his early manhood dram drinking was very popular. He kept himself free from its contaminating influence, and lived a strictly temperate life. He was a firm believer in the principles of the Christian religion, and lived and died in that faith.
Marion Chronicle (Weekly edition), Thursday, 6 May 1880, page 8, col 2
In 1836 he moved to Grant county. He purchased land north of Marion, then a small village, and at once began the arduous task of clearing away the thick undergrowth and heavy timber, preparatory to farming. From early dawn until dusky eve his strong arm wielded the heavy ax and one by one the might forest trees, with their spreading branches that almost shut out the light of the sun, fell crashing to the ground. Look back, dear reader, if you please, to that early day in the history of our county when Samuel Woolman stood alone with his ax in his hand amid the deep solitude of an unbroken forest, realizing the fact that those great trees, from 3 to 5 feet in diameter and over 100 feet high, must be leveled to the ground and then huge trunks chandged into ashes before a single hill of corn could be grown, and dependent mainly upon what could be raised from the soil for subsistence for himself and family, and then imagine if you can the moral courage and physical endurance necessary for such an undertaking. Through many privations and hardships, known only to the pioneer, he persevered and lived many years to enjoy the luxuries of a well improved farm. He was highly esteemed by his neighbors and honored with the office of justice of the peace, served as school commissioner four years, received the appointment of county commiwsioner and in 1843 was chosen by the citizens of Grant county to represent them in the state legislature.
The life of Samuel Woolman was in many respects worthy of imitiation. He was free from hypocrisy, a friend to the oppressed, uncompromising in his convictions of right, and if not always in the right he was always honest. In his early manhood dram drinking was very popular. He kept himself free from its contaminating influence, and lived a strictly temperate life. He was a firm believer in the principles of the Christian religion, and lived and died in that faith.
Marion Chronicle (Weekly edition), Thursday, 6 May 1880, page 8, col 2
WOOLMAN -- Samuel N. Woolman died at the residence of Jefferson Hamaker, in Washington township, April 20, 1880. He was born in Burlington county, New Jersey, in 1800. He was married in 1824 to Elizabeth Bond. At the time of his death was 79 years, 6 months and 8 days of age.
In 1836 he moved to Grant county. He purchased land north of Marion, then a small village, and at once began the arduous task of clearing away the thick undergrowth and heavy timber, preparatory to farming. From early dawn until dusky eve his strong arm wielded the heavy ax and one by one the might forest trees, with their spreading branches that almost shut out the light of the sun, fell crashing to the ground. Look back, dear reader, if you please, to that early day in the history of our county when Samuel Woolman stood alone with his ax in his hand amid the deep solitude of an unbroken forest, realizing the fact that those great trees, from 3 to 5 feet in diameter and over 100 feet high, must be leveled to the ground and then huge trunks chandged into ashes before a single hill of corn could be grown, and dependent mainly upon what could be raised from the soil for subsistence for himself and family, and then imagine if you can the moral courage and physical endurance necessary for such an undertaking. Through many privations and hardships, known only to the pioneer, he persevered and lived many years to enjoy the luxuries of a well improved farm. He was highly esteemed by his neighbors and honored with the office of justice of the peace, served as school commissioner four years, received the appointment of county commiwsioner and in 1843 was chosen by the citizens of Grant county to represent them in the state legislature.
The life of Samuel Woolman was in many respects worthy of imitiation. He was free from hypocrisy, a friend to the oppressed, uncompromising in his convictions of right, and if not always in the right he was always honest. In his early manhood dram drinking was very popular. He kept himself free from its contaminating influence, and lived a strictly temperate life. He was a firm believer in the principles of the Christian religion, and lived and died in that faith.
Marion Chronicle (Weekly edition), Thursday, 6 May 1880, page 8, col 2
In 1836 he moved to Grant county. He purchased land north of Marion, then a small village, and at once began the arduous task of clearing away the thick undergrowth and heavy timber, preparatory to farming. From early dawn until dusky eve his strong arm wielded the heavy ax and one by one the might forest trees, with their spreading branches that almost shut out the light of the sun, fell crashing to the ground. Look back, dear reader, if you please, to that early day in the history of our county when Samuel Woolman stood alone with his ax in his hand amid the deep solitude of an unbroken forest, realizing the fact that those great trees, from 3 to 5 feet in diameter and over 100 feet high, must be leveled to the ground and then huge trunks chandged into ashes before a single hill of corn could be grown, and dependent mainly upon what could be raised from the soil for subsistence for himself and family, and then imagine if you can the moral courage and physical endurance necessary for such an undertaking. Through many privations and hardships, known only to the pioneer, he persevered and lived many years to enjoy the luxuries of a well improved farm. He was highly esteemed by his neighbors and honored with the office of justice of the peace, served as school commissioner four years, received the appointment of county commiwsioner and in 1843 was chosen by the citizens of Grant county to represent them in the state legislature.
The life of Samuel Woolman was in many respects worthy of imitiation. He was free from hypocrisy, a friend to the oppressed, uncompromising in his convictions of right, and if not always in the right he was always honest. In his early manhood dram drinking was very popular. He kept himself free from its contaminating influence, and lived a strictly temperate life. He was a firm believer in the principles of the Christian religion, and lived and died in that faith.
Marion Chronicle (Weekly edition), Thursday, 6 May 1880, page 8, col 2
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