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jf eA v Series—Vol. Ill—No .50
WAS AGIANTIN ITS DAY
Pioneer Iron Man Visits Site of
Great Cooper Works.
‘ Mv eapected swim in the Eto
wah was a disappointment, but I
paddled in the shallow <v ater
among the rocks and thought of
old times.” observed Mr. Jacob D.
Stroup, a few weeks ago when he
went to explore the ruins and lands
around the old Cooper furnace.
The soap and towel he carried
along were all right, but the great
Jam and the fine eddy water above
it were 1 mere, traditions.
■Mr. Stroup ought to and he did
’ Kno w that locality well, for with
his father and brothers he had
' v ii connected w'th the busy pio
neer iife that lent importance to
the place sixty years ago. And
theirs is an interesting story.
During the flight of years-the
old ruins of the Cooper works have
been embalmed in song and story,
and every adjective almost has
gone into retirement from over
work in describing the scenery and
weird belongings, but so rarely
have historical details been gone
into that stories on this line ought
to have a special interest.
Jacob D. Stroup is a son of the
man who built the first iron furnace
in Georgia. He is 76 years of age
and lives at Warsaw. 111. He left
Georgia in 1849. and his present
visit of a month or more, the
guest of his relative, H. J. Galt,
and his family, is the first one to
the state since 1856. He first went
to Alabama. He greeted Round
Mountain furnace, with which he
remained as owner and manager
up to the year ’sb. He theu went
to Illinois and settled. Mr. Stroup
wears a G. A. R. button, the
fortunes of the times having car
ried him into the Union army.
He visited Judge R. R. Harris, at
Rome, while here, the judge being
a relative of his wife and his very
warm friend.
Mr. Stroup was much pleased
with the progress of this section,
remarking the superior advan**
tages of this particular region.
He met only two of his old in
dustrial acquaintances of the long
ago, one ot them being old Bill
Rash, a negro brought to Georgia
by his father, and Joshua Knight,
at present living at Stamp Creek
In his meanders he visited his
father’s old home, two miles
from the Cooper >monument. Here
he picked some apples from a tree
growing up out of the old
cellar, and these he carried back
to show to his family in Illinois.
His father kept a tavern, and Gen
eral Scott, i a trip out here dur
ing the removal of the Indians,
was his guest,
He went out to the site of the
old Laughing Gal tavern, kept by
an Indian woman called Laughing
Gal. She amassed a great deal of
money and owned numerous slaves.
The elder Stroup, whose name
was Jacob also, was of the Penn
sylvania Dutch. He went from
that state to South Carolina, and
from there moved to Habersham
county, where he erected the first
iron furnace ever erected in the
state, making him the veritable
pioneer in iron manufacturing.
In 1835 he came to this locality
and put up a small furnace at
Stamp creek.
A saw and grist mill was also a
part of the original plant. When
the Indians were removed in 1838,
this iron furnace was in full blast,
making iron direct from the ore.
In 1844 Mark A. Cooper came
on the scene, and Jacob Stroup,
the elder, sold his interests to him
and his son. Moses Stroup.
Cooper was considered a very
shtewd business man, with fine
foresight, and beheld, as he be-
T’eved, a great future for iron in
this section.
The Cartersville News
Stroup and Cooper, in addition
to putting up a furnace, went ahead
and erected a flouring mill with a
capacity of 150 to 250 barrels of
flour a day. The mill itself was a
model in its construction. Timber
of the choicer kind now being no
object, the inside work was all
walnut. The work was by the
finest workmen.
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In 1349 a man named Wylie,
from Charleston, came in and
bought a third interest for his tjjgo
nephews, with a view to purchas
ing the whole plant if they were
pleased. The Wylies not being
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pleased, sold back to Cooper and
Stroup. Then Stroup aold out
entire to Cooper.
Meantime, the Older Stroup hav
ing sold out to his son, went to
Allatoona and erected a furnace.
He died while operating that plant
November 9, 1846. He buried
at the old home place ar Stamp
Creek.
The Cooper works,at the zenith of
their existence, consisted of a flour
ing mill, blast furnace, foundry
and rolling mill, giving out vast
products that were hauled away in
wagons to different points through
out the country, these products
being flour, pig iron, rolled bars,
□ails, hollow ware and railroad
iron, The iron with which the
.Georgia Aad W. &. A. and Macon.
& Western, now a division of the
Central, was built came chiefly
from these works. The force em
ployed directly and indirectly
about these works amounted to
about a thousand people. Jacob
Stroup the younger in one capacity
or another was identified with all
these interests.
The lottery drawing, in which
men in different parts drew lots in
this country, known as the
Cherokee purchase, attracted a
great many here, among the num
ber being the elder Stroup, he hav
ing drawn a good number of lots.
Iu addition to the purchase of
the Stroup possessions, Cooper
bought yet many more properties,
JACOB I>. STROUP.
THE RUINS.
CAKTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 20. 1904.
TEE CABBAGE SNAKE
Little Pest Appears in Bar
tow County.
A VICIOUS CREATURE.
Growers Afraid to Eat Cabbage
from Gardens or Feed
Them to Stock.
The cabbage snake has made its
appearance in the settlement east
of Cass Station.
Numerous of the reptiles, if such
they be, have been found and the
people have quit eating their cab
bage and are afraid to feed them to
stock.
The snakes are described as of a
white color with a red head and
are in size from that of .a lead
pencil down to that of a knitting
needle and about two inches long.
They conceal themselves in t,he
heart of the cabbage and when
released show themselves very
vicious.
John MunAird Dead.
Mr. John Muntord died at his
home near this city, last Friday
night. He was a brother of Mr. L.
S. Munford and moved from Polk
county to Bartow several years
ago. He was a quiet natured good
citizen aucf had many friends.
He went into the confederate
army at fifteen years of age and
deported himself gallantly and
faithfully in the cause of the south.
Prospective Marriage.
On the 26th instant, Miss Bessie
Smith will be married at the home
of her brother, Dr. Howard Smith,
at Cordele. Ga., to Dr. Frederick
Monroe Sutton. Miss Smith is the
daughter of the late Rev. Theodore
Smith and has many friends in
this city.
finally gaining in his possessions
the vast area now known as the
Etewah property.
“I have been to Atlanta,” said
Mr. Jacob Stroup, “when there
wasn’t a house there. The first
was that of old Martha, the unique
personage who sold cakes, and for
whom the first settlement or village
was called, ‘Marthasville.’ She
lived in the forks of the road and I
could go now and locate the place.”
“You see,” said he “we would haul
iron for the Georgia railroad to
points along between Marthasville
or Atlanta, and Augusta, anti for
the Macon & Western to points
between Atlanta and Macon, and
our caravan consisted of from two
to four big wagons with six mules
to them, and one of these journeys
was a sort of frolic.”
“In my Alabama experience,”
said Mr. Stroup, ‘‘l have seen the
time I could have bought Birming
ham dirt at a bit an acre. Plenty
of iron men knew there was iron
iu plenty there but transportation
facilities reached no nearer than
the Tennessee river."
Mr. Stroup is a man of fine
general knowledge, is of pleasing
address, and bis Georgia visit was
the source of pleasure to old and
new acquaintances.
TEE CONTRACT LET
L. & N. Extension Soon
to Be Built.
WILL BE 80 MILES LONG
... ,a. ...
The Sub Contracts Have Not Been
’ Let Out Yet—But Soon
Will Be-
The contract for building the A.,
K. and N. extension from Wet
more to this city was let in the L.
& N,’s main offices in Louisiana on
the 15th.
The extension is 80 miles long.
The line is to be finished in ten
months and it is said \york will
begin at once. Ihe sub 'sections
have not been le f out vet.
COL AN DE It SON TO WED
Will be Hi.l rrietl to Mis Butler, pf Tennes
see, on the 25th.
The following from the Madison
Advertiser will be interesting
news to the friends of the bride
groom-to-be,' A former Cartel sville
# i
citizen:
‘‘Cards are out announcing the
approachiug marriageof Col. Kirby
S. Anderson, of this city and Miss
Susie Henderson Butler, at the
home of the bride’s parents, Cap
tain and Mrs. William Edward
Butler, of Jackson, Tenn., October
25th. Miss Butler was a teacher
in the public school here last term,
and is a most charming and lova
THE OLD FORI).
ble young lady. Col. Anderson, the
groom, recently from Cartersviiie
but now of the law firm of George
& Anderson, this city, is one of
the cleverest and most agreeable
young men you will find anywhere
and he numbers his friends by the
wide circle of his extensive ac
quaintance. Happy is the bride
who marries Kirbv Anderson, and
we congratulate Miss Butler sin
cerely.”
RECOGNIZED IN ENGLAND.
Graad Ameritaa Work of Fraternal Hiatory
Wanted at British Museum,
The great work "Pythian His
tory,” giving a history of this great
fraternal order from its infancy to
its present high status, writes the
author Wm. D, Kennedy, of Chic
ago, to Past Grand Chancellor C.
M. MilaM. has received a merited
recognition in England, inasmuch
as an order has been received for a
copy for the library of th- British
Museum, the world’s greatest store
house of standard authorities.
The work gives due space to
Georgia Pythianism.
The author, Mr. Kennedy, is the
best equipped man who could have
undertaken such a work, possessing
data that no other man possessed
and being a close and long con
tinued student of Pythian affairs
and a loyal, zealous, active untir
ing worker in the order.
, ..
Mr. E. A. Shaner, who has been
superintending the construction of
the E. L. McLain Cotton Mill for the
past nine months, left yesterday for
his home in Greenfield, O- Mr. Sha
ner is a most affable gentleman and
made many friends during his stay in
Cartersviiie. " s
WAS A GRUESOME FIND
Dogs Bring a Woman’s Head
, Into a Man’s Yard.
DIED IN KANSAS.
Passing Away of One of the Earlier Settlers
of Bartow Caanty.
Gen. John H. Rice, formerly a
well known citizen of Cassville,
died at his home at Fort Scott,
Kansas, on October 5. His death
wasdue to apoplexy and he expired
in a few moments after entering
the home of his daughter, Mrs. W.
C. Gunn,
Gen. Rice moved to Cassville in
iS4s v and took up the practice of
law. He- was elected a major
general of the 12th division of
r' ~ w :1: &.„ .. r* 1 ta
CjCUI siciiC* Uiiiiuct Ovci Cui, JLy.
M. Galt in 1846. He was for some
time the editor Of the Cassville
Standard, lie moved to
in 1857 and founded the Franklin
Printing House.
At the clos# of the war he moved
with his family to Missouri. He
lived at various places in that state
and was connected with various
newspapers. He finally located at
Fort Scott, Kansas, and became
the editor and publisher of the
Fort Scott Monitor. He was well
known as one of the most aggres
sive editors in Kansas. He was a
pronounced republican and always
took an active part in the politics
of his state. At one time he en
gaged in railway promotion and
built a line from Natchez, Mis?.,
to LaPorte, La.
He was a brother of Rev. A. H.
Rice, the well known Baptist min
ister..
* THE OLDEST TWINS.
'Unique Pcrsnlily of Gfbbeu Brother a,
•f Missouri.
Under the head of "Oldest
Twins in Missouri, last Sunday’s
St Louis Republic prints the fol
lowing accompanied with good
half tone likenesses of the two
brothers:
“The oldest twins living in Mis
souri. and probably in the United
States, are John and Hank Gib
bons, who have just celebrated their
seventy-third birthday at their
home near Lee’s Summit.
“There are some unique events
in the personal history of these
venerable men. They both weigh
in the same notch, and in looks are
almost identical —often their clos
est neighbors fail to distinguish
them. Their wives are own sisters.
"There are nine brothers of the
family living, the oldest being
94. He resides in Georgia and
conducts a 2.100-acre frnit farm.
The combined ages of the. family
amount to 715 years, and the com
bined weight 1,710 pounds. They
average years in age.
"The twins are are as spry and
active as boys of 20, and they can
catch more fish than any two boys
in Jackson county. This remarka
ble family came from Virginia and
originally consisted of twelve chil
dren nine of whom are living.”
Mr. G. R. Gibbons, of this coun
ty, is a brother of the two men
mentioned above and one of the
"twins" paid him a visit here a
year ago this summer.
Published in
the Best Coun
ty In Georgia.
Old Series—2sth Year
Yesterday morning the dogs be.
longing to Robert Jones, an old
man living on the W. & A., near
the river, brought into his yard a
woman’s head.
The find gave rise to startling
speculations, •as a tragedy behind
the discovery seemed a possibil
ity. but it being remembered that
the head of the woman, Mrs.
Leonard, killed by the cars near
the place, September 4th, had
never been found, it was supposed
that it was hers. Investigation
proved that this was undoubtedly
true, and the head will be buried
wit'll the body.
It is supposed that the moving
train carried the head, which was
severed from the body, some little
distance and it became dislodged
and was lost in the weeds.
WEEK OF PRAYER.
Programme to Be Observed by Woman's
Missionary Society.
The following is the program
for week of prayer of the Home
Mission Society which will be held
at the Methodist church, beginning
Monday Oct. 24 at 3 o’clock, p. m:
MONDAY.
Mrs. Freeman leader, Topic. The
United States as a Mission Field/’
Hymn—Prayer,
Scripture—True worshippers, John
12, 23,24.
Papers—“lmmigration” City.
Problems— Our mountain and min
ing population.
Prayer.
TUESDAY.
Mrs. T. J. Christian leader.
Hyinn—Prayer.
Bible reading—“ Christian (Jiving.”
Paper - Money-“ What Shall I
Render unto the Lord for All Bene
fits.”
“An Enthusiastic Membership In
spired by Home Mission Literature.”
Prayer.
Offering—“ Solicitation of newmem
beraand subscribers to “Our Homes.”
Wednesday evening at 7 o’clock,
Mrs. Mcßhee leader.
Hymn—Prayer.
Scripture—The power of United
prayer. Matt. 18, 19, 20.
Papers: Christian education, the
u-ed of the mountains, “What have
we done to secure it?”
Song— prayer—Asking Ood’s espec
ial blessing upon this important work.
Our moutain schools.
Paper—What have we done for the
rescue of fallen women?
The coimectional work of the socie
ty and “How shall we secure the
necessary funds for our Connectional
work. Benediction
Thursday afternoon, Mrs. Sam P.
Jones, leader.
Topic: “The Need and Opportunity
for Mission Work in our Own Local
ity.”
Prayer—Hymn.
Scripture: “The Boldness of (Jod’s
Friends.” (Luke ii. 5,8.)
Papers? “The Character of Work
Which Lies Within the Province of
the Auxiliary.” “How Far Shall the
Parsonage be Furnished and Cdred
for?” “How Can the Pastor Be Aided
in Building Up the Membership and
Spiritual Interests of the Church?”
Prayer. (Pray that auxiliaries may
be helpful to pastors in every phase
of local work.)
I Take collection, enroll new mem
bers, and secure subscribers for Our
Homes.
We most earnestly invite all Chris
tians of the different denominations
who are interested in missions to at
tend these meetings.
Mrs. D. B. Freeman, Pres.
Mrs. C. A. Allday, Cor. Sec.
“Dixie Flyer.”
The N., C. & St. L. put on
a through car service that went
into effect Sunday, 9th, from At*
lanta to St. Louis, the train being
called the “Dixie Flyer.”
There is a through sleeping-car
service, and also free reclining
chair service. The chair car goes
right next to the sleeper.
The train leaves here at 10:17.
Miss Hattie Jones left for Mur
freesboro, Tenn., Wednesday morn
ing being summoned there by a tel
egram stating that Mrs. Bert Sims
had*been seriously burned.