front cover art by William Sawicki The following account is from the Clinton County Sesquicentennial book released in 1980. It was written by Kenneth S. Power (1909-1997), who was born in Clinton County, practiced law in Frankfort, and was Mayor of Frankfort from 1955-1959. His father, Dan Power, had also been Mayor, and before that … Continue reading “My Clinton County” by Kenneth S. Power: Farm Life and Crime Fighting in early 1900s Clinton County
1838 Account of A Run-In With A Bandit
This gripping account of a tense encounter in the wilderness of Clinton County is given in Chapter 13 of Recollections of the early settlement of the Wabash Valley by Sanford C. Cox, published in Lafayette, Indiana, in 1860. It takes up four of the five-and-a-half pages devoted to Clinton County. The only editing I have … Continue reading 1838 Account of A Run-In With A Bandit
Polio Epidemic In Mulberry 1954
From Mulberry Memories, Vol. 1, No. 7, September 2011, from Jerry Fickle by way of Sue Bryan Conley, Mulberry High School graduates. This special issue of Mulberry Memories is dedicated to Robert Dieter, Don, John, Tom and Norma Fleischhauer, Steve Garriott, Jim Felix, Marge Kay Gaylor, Lois Click and others that had mild cases of … Continue reading Polio Epidemic In Mulberry 1954