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He was a good thinker, a good talker, and in every sense of the word a good man.
John Houston, another useful pioneer, was a younger man than Mr. Hyde, and consequently more active. He was a good farmer, and made that his sole business. A year or two after locating in this town, I think, a brother came to see him. He enquired at Marshall if such a man as John Houston lived near there. Some thought not, but some knew that a man of that name lived some three miles south. The only road worthy of the name leading south was the road to Homer. The brother went out about three miles and inquired for John Houston, and found that he was too far east, and he was again started on another road leading in a westerly direction. He followed that until he was utterly exhausted, and found no one who knew his brother for some time, but finally met a man with an ox-team, who knew him and his place of residence. He hired the man to take him aboard his craft and deposit him at his brother's. I have two objects in view in repeating this anecdote, one is, in illustration of the fact, that in the formation period of our history, people have only time to attend to their own business, and second, to give an idea of the complete isolation of men or families in a wilderness without roads. Mr. Houston had a commanding presence, was energetic and decided, and reared a large and interesting family, who now take rank as men and women of high standing. The writer had the unhappiness to see Mr. Houston expire, in a congestive chill.
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