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which through their forethought and frugality now blossom as the rose. 

 The earlier immigrations of Friends located in Washington and Wayne 

 counties; later, thej* poiet rated to Henry, Madison, Hamilton, Hendricks, 

 Morgan, Parke, and finally to Clinton, Delaware and Howard counties. 

 In each of these counties their good impress may still be detected in the 

 thrift, morality and enterprise of their immediate descendants and suc- 

 cessors. 



But perhaps the first of all our pioneer fruit growers were foreigners— 

 a colony from Switzerland, who began grape growing and wine making 

 at Vevaj-, in Switzerland County, at the very beginning of the nineteenth 

 century. For a time their efforts Avere encouraging, but disease and un- 

 congeniality of foreign varieties and a lack of native varieties of good 

 quality soon caused them to abandon their enterprise. Their best native 

 grape was York Madeira. Had the Catawba been known at that time, as 

 it was later, at Cincinnati, they doubtless would have succeeded to a far 

 greater extent. 



Washington and AVayne counties were each, by reason of their loca- 

 tion, early settled sections of the Stale. Among the first to plant seeds 

 and to cultivate fruits in Washington County was Henderson Llewelling, 

 a Friend, originallj- from North Carolina, but who first settled at Salem, 

 Ohio. It was he Avho suggested the name of that Ohio village for the new 

 Indiana town. He appears to have possessed a restless spirit, for he did 

 not remain at Salem, Indiana, long enough to become much crowded by 

 the inconveniences (?) of civilization, but soon migrated to the Territory 

 of Iowa, where he again gave to the village of which he was an early 

 settler the name of ]us former Ohio home. From Iowa, in the forties, he 

 again joined the first colony of emigrants to cross the Rockies to Oregon, 

 where he left to posterity the name of "Salem," now the capital of that 

 great State. True to liis native inclinations, he took with him on this 

 long journey bj' wagon from Salem, Iowa, to Salem, Oregon, many varie- 

 ties of fruit tree.s. principally of the apple, and thus became the first to 

 plant that fruit in Oregon. P.ut, while the above may be interesting his- 

 tory, it is perhaps an unwarranted digression from the subject of this 

 paper. 



Another pioneer wlui made a temporary stop in Washington County, 

 before penetrating tlie wilderness as far as Putnam, was Reuben Ragan, 

 and some of those who remained in the county long enough to become 

 fully identified with her liortioultural development were the Albertsons, 

 the Wrights, the Truebloods, the Lipseys. and many others well known 

 through their wortliy descendants to this day. 



Andrew Hnmpton. Cornelius Ratliff, and Gardner and Griffith Menden- 

 hall. the latter Jirothers, were among the early and well-known fruit 

 growers in Wa.vne Countj', near Richmond. These families are still well 

 known as enteri)rising and worthy citizens of that section, through their 

 numerous descendants, and not a few of them are yet adhering to the tra- 



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