# The life of John Worth Kern

Author: Bowers, Claude G. (Claude Gernade), 1879?-1958

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/72468

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+life+of+John+Worth+Kern+Bowers&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

In the forties the constant stream of sturdy pioneers pouring into Indiana from the eastern and southern states began the work of redeeming the state from the wilderness. These early settlers were a hardy folk, adventurous, inured to toil, and strong of character. In 1840 the first white man settled in Harrison township in Howard county, albeit the locality had been a paradise for trappers for several years before a permanent settlement was made. It was a country of rich soil, but heavily wooded with primeval forests, and many years of assiduous labor were to intervene before the stumps could be cleared from the fields or the highways be made at all passable in bad weather. Almost immedia...

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER XX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/20/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/9/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/15/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/13/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/17/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/1/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XXI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/21/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/12/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/16/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER X](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/10/index.md)
- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/11/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIX](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/19/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XIV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/14/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER XVIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/18/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-life-of-john-worth-kern-72468/chapters/6/index.md)