Excerpt from Log City Days, Two Narratives on the Settlement of Galesburg, Illinois: The Diary of Jerusha Loomis Farnham, And, Sketch of Log City
Mrs. F arnham, the only matron Without family cares, kept a sort of journal of the trek, jotting down each day the happenings that seemed significant, interspersed with pious meditation so characteristic of the time. This little book, presented to the Henry M. Seymour Library by the grand-daughter, Miss Bessie Loomis Hinckley, is paper bound, about 3 x 5 inches in size, and written in lead pencil. It has become almost illegible with the passage of years. In transcribing the diary I have added in paren thesis my guess as to the names indicated by initials, and words that were either undecipherable or omitted.
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