122 AUTOBIOGRAPHY 



borrow money from a brother for the return 

 journey. By the first of December I was back in 

 the Stillwell school house and again teaching. In 

 the spring of 1858 on taking stock of my resources 

 three years after my arrival in Indiana, I found 

 that I had about $700 loaned out at 10 per cent, 

 interest, $100 in bills receivable, and a most charm- 

 ing wife value as yet unknown. 



That same spring I purchased forty-eight acres 

 of land on the edge of the little village of Kings- 

 bury; moved into some upper rooms there and 

 began to build a modest one-and-a-half story house. 

 My brother-in-law, Daniel Marr, worked the farm 

 while I spent the summer building for myself and 

 others. The following winter I again taught the 

 Stillwell school, boarding at home and walking 

 most of the time a distance of eight miles daily 

 to and from my school. In the spring of 1859 we 

 took an orphan boy about fifteen years of age into 

 the family, who worked on the farm in summer 

 and attended school in winter. This permitted me 

 to spend four or five days of each week away from 

 home, carpentering. I frequently spent Saturday 

 helping the boy catch up with pressing farm work, 

 sometimes doing two days' work in one, as the say- 

 ing is, which made it pleasant to rest on Sunday. 



