PIONE&R HIJNTKRS OF '] HK KANKAKEE 

 is not very well acquainted with the location. 

 Years ago it was known as Deserters Island 

 from the fact that during the dark days of the 

 rebellion it wss a hiding place for deserters and 

 fugitives from justice. Along in the eighteen 

 nineties there was organized at Hebron, Indiana 

 a hunting club knov/n as the Columbian Club 

 from the fact that the Columbian World's Fair 

 was going on in Chicago that year, so they 

 called their organization the Columbian Hunting 

 Club. There were eight charter members of the 

 old club, all business men of Hebron. J. C. 

 Smith, president, George Qidlcy, secretary and 

 treasurer, Jerry Sherwood, George /^vargison, 

 Chas. Ailler, Bart Siglar; L. E. [Ripley and Ira 

 V. Fry. They built their clubhouse on the little 

 island that 1 have just described and called it 

 Camp 6 to 2, from the fact that there were six 

 democrats and two republicans. Two years 

 later the membership had increased to sixty-two 

 members, then the name was changed to Island 

 Sixty-two from the fact that there were sixty- 



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