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Farmermaid. A spinster, Miss Willson painted in a Greene County, N.Y. farm cabin sometime between 1800 and 1825. The Willson watercolors are among the earliest primitives in the history of U.S. art. Miss Willson shared her farm life with a hardy settler named Miss Brundage. A kind of 19th-Century Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas, the two women built their own log cabin. Then, while Miss Willson sat down to paint, Miss Brundage tilled the soil. The Willson pictures were sold to farmers and other buyers as far north as Canada, as far south as Mobile. The artist...
...grade: "Chicago's first settler, Negro Jean Baptiste Point de Saible...
Last week he was on his farm in Indiana, the international emergency forgotten for a local crisis: his hogs had diarrhea. He hurried home to his farm in north central Indiana's Carroll County. There his maternal great-grandfather was the first white settler, on a grant signed by Vice President Martin Van Buren in 1835. His paternal grandfather, Andrew Jackson Wickard, his worldly goods slung across his back, rode his one-eyed bay mare, "Chubby," into the county's Section...
...days the Daily Double payoffs (a separate pool calculated like any other pari-mutuel payoff) were puny. Then on the third day 31 punters, lucky enough to have tickets on War Melody and Early Settler, got $881.70 apiece for their $2 investment.* Said Belmont's Pari-Mutuel Manager Mort Mahony: "So far none of Belmont's bettors have been extravagant...
Chicago's first known white settler, a French trader named Pierre Moreau, was a bootlegger as far back as 1675. Before Indians and bears had been driven from the log village in the 1830s, gamblers, harlots, pimps had arrived. Thieves preyed even on the dead: private detectives guarded Chicago's early graveyards. Between Bull Run and the great fire of 1871 roared the first of Chicago's incredible booms, in which everything but the police force expanded. Result was Chicago's reputation in the Civil War decade as "the wickedest city...