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The Travels of Daniel Paul, 1908
Posted By Norman Gasbarro on June 22, 2018
During the Civil War, Daniel Paul served as a Private in the 130th Pennsylvania Infantry, Company H. After the Civil War, he moved to Michigan, but kept in touch with his Lykens Valley friends and relatives via correspondence to the editor of the Lykens newspaper.
Two results of that correspondence from the year 1908 are reported below:
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Daniel Paul of Constantine, Michigan, who was visiting relatives and friends in this section. Left Tuesday to call on friends in the South, after which he will return to his home on the 6th of April, so as to be in time to vote for Roosevelt or Taft.
Lykens Standard, 20 March 1908.
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Daniel Paul of Constantine, Michigan, who recently returned to his home after an extended visit to relatives and friends in this section and other parts of Pennsylvania, writes under the date of the 1st inst. As follows:
EDITOR STANDARD – Just returned from a six weeks’ trip through Indiana and Southwestern Michigan, and in fulfillment of my promise to you, and for the information of the many friends with whom I became acquainted on my trip, I submit the following: I went down to Laporte, Indiana, and visited the Gunnes Farm, one mile north of the city, where that woman is supposed to have killed a number of people. I arrived there a few days after the house was burned and saw the dead and mutilated bodies, nine in all, and they presented an awful sight, the scene reminding one of a battle field on a small scale. There were thousands of people there, coming and going continually from a hundred miles around. I went back to South Bend and visited two of my first cousins (formerly of Armstrong Valley), Samuel Bender who went to Buchanan 41 years ago, but moved to South Bend 17 years ago; and Isaac Keiter, who is married to Mr. Bender’s sister Susan. They are both doing fine and own valuable property. After a stay of two weeks with them I went down to Marion where my son, C. E. Paul, has been stationed for 11 years. He is still in the employ of the Government. Was there two weeks and then went 48 miles west to Logansport and visited Samuel Cogley, who lives six miles west of this city. He was also a former resident of Paul’s Valley, and is a brother-in-law to John Enders. He went west in 1869, and is a wealthy farmer now. I then went up to South Bend and from there to St. Joseph, Michigan, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. Bender and daughters. St. Joseph is located in the southwestern part of Michigan on the shore of Lake Michigan, and is a very beautiful place. From St. Joseph I went to Mishawak, thence to Elkhart, and from there to Constantine, to which place I moved in 1867. I have seen the best crops of hay and wheat in this section I ever saw in my life. There are not many apples, but lots of peaches, pears and smaller fruit, and farmers are happy. The weather is fine for hay making and harvesting, although we have heavy showers occasionally. Some farmers are cutting their wheat, some are making hay and some are ploughing corn, so that with the various farm duties you can see that they are kept quite busy. I take this method of answering a good many letters I promised to write to individuals, and hope they may see this and excuse me for not writing them personally.
Lykens Standard, 17 July 1908.
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Stories of the murders at LaPorte, Indiana, can be found by searching in Indiana newspapers of May 1908. See: Newspapers.com. One of the best is found in the Indianapolis News of 8 May 1908.
News articles on Daniel Paul from Newspapers.com. This series will continue up through the death of Daniel Paul, which occurred in Lykens in 1911.
Special thanks to Debby Rabold, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for discovering these articles about her relative.
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