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great regularity, and it is evident were not dependent, to 

 any extent, upon the characteristics of the special year or 

 period. 



Column V. Here are included all those who died while 

 resident owners of land within the township. 



Column VI. Those who, after a more or less successful 1 

 career in Harrison, moved to better farms, or farms that 

 suited them better. Most of these went to other parts of 

 the county or to other counties in Nebraska where they 

 could get larger tracts of land, or could be near relatives or 

 friends; often the wife's desire to be near her relatives was 

 the cause of moving. A few moved back to their old homes 

 further east, mainly Ohio or Iowa. 



Column VII. Those who moved to cheaper farms. Part 

 of them left because they recognized that their original cap- 

 ital was insufficient to initiate and carry on the farming of 

 the land which they had ; part of them because of failing for- 

 tunes which they hoped to retrieve by a fresh start somewhere 

 else. Some of these went further west and took homesteads 

 from the government. 



Column VIII. Those who have removed to towns or 

 villages. Under this head are included the few whose capital 

 was such that they could live comfortably on the income to be 

 derived from its judicious investment; also those who have 

 entered upon business as small merchants or saloon-keepers ; 

 or who have preferred the opportunities offered them by 

 residence in towns to pursue trades with which they were 

 conversant, where they could at the same time find pleas- 

 anter social life and better education for their children. In 

 all cases they are men who can be ranked as having been 

 fairly successful farmers. As would be expected, they are 

 almost all found toward the close of the period we are now 

 considering. 



1 This term must be understood as used in comparison with the 

 careers of the other farmers of the township. Just what the meas- 

 ure of success was will be discussed in the Concluding Remarks. 



