Builders In New Fields

Text extracted from opening pages of book: BUILDERS IN NEW FIELDS By CHARLOTTE REEVE CONOVER PART ONE ROBERT PATTERSON, 1753-1827 PART TWO JOHN HENRY PATTERSON, With Portraits G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS NEW YORK: *\: lQdraKnwr, 1939, BY G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS J '* * A1> rights reserved. This book, or parts thereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission of the author. PRINTED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA To ROBERT PATTERSON, THIRD Whose love of family and country and whose zeal for the unearthing and preservation of source material has made this book possible. C. R. C. Dayton, October 1938. AUTHOR'S PREFACE Builders in New Fields ( A Study in Heredity) In the opinion of the writer, the lives of the two men herein described are worth recording. They were neither in any sense large national figures; neither eminent nor distinguished in the accepted meaning of the terms; neither will be the subject of striking description among the leading political, national, administrative or literary figures in the future histories of the United States. They belonged to the general run of American citizenship but they both possessed one qualification in common, that of conscientious, intelligent, responsible public duty. That they both belonged in the same family strain will not be overlooked by the biologists. The keen minds of both grandfather and grandson showed what was wrong in their community; their keen consciences showed them what they could do about it. One worked in the field of primitive pioneer days, the other in the world of mod ern industrialism; both were reformers, both were pio neers; both were builders. The investigation of their several activities and the recording of themhas been a sincere pleasure. c. R. a, Dayton, O. vii] CONTENTS PART ONE CHAPTER PAGK I. THE CALL OF THE WEST 13 II. Up THE RIVER AND AFTERWARDS ... 31 III. BUILDING IN THE WILDERNESS .... 50 IV. BUILDING IN BLOOD 68 V. BUILDING IN LEXINGTON 86 VI. BUILDING IN CINCINNATI 104 VII, HAIL AND FAREWELL 121 PART Two I. HIGH LIGHTS 135 II. THE ACQUISITION OF A FAILURE . . . 150 III. AN EMPLOYER'S DEBT OF HONOR . . . 162 IV. BUILDING IN PERSONALITY 178 V. BUILDING IN HEALTH 196 VI. BUILDING THROUGH EDUCATION . . . VII. THE SEAMY SIDE VIII. BUILDING A NEW Cmr GOVERNMENT . . 246 IX. THE CHALLENGE OF THE FLOOD AND THE CONSERVANCY PLAN 256 X. THE RIGHT HAND AND THE LEFT OF GIVING 275 XI. THE HOST AT FAR HILLS 287 XII. THINGS TO DO IN THE NEXT FIVE YEARS'' . 301 ix] ROBERT PATTERSON The Pioneer