Mr. John E. Brewer lived in New Lebanon, an unincorporated community in Sullivan County of southwest Indiana. Named for a Biblical “Mount Lebanon” the community
Mr. B. F. Evans lived in Salineville, a village in east-central Ohio. The village was named for the salt deposits found near Yellow Creek and
Mr. W. H. Brumbaugh had a problem. He had purchased a coat for his wife; the seller was Mr. J. A. Gault of Kittanning, PA.
It may be hard for us to imagine the financial insecurity that underlay most lives of the 19th century. Disease and accidental death could be