One of the first settles in the Galesburg IL area in 1835.
For more info see www.ferristree.com
Seventy-Five Significant Years The Story of Knox College, 1837-1912
The first wedding celebrated by the colonists was that of Henry Ferris and Elizabeth Hudson. Theirs must have been a case of "love at first sight," for only two short months after the arrival of Miss Hudson with the family of Nehemiah West, on August 31, 1836, they were married. The place in which they were married was the original log cabin which witnessed so many events during those two truly eventful years, in which the colonists inhabited "Log City." The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Noel, of Knoxville, as neither Dr. Gale nor Father Waters had yet arrived upon the scene.
Henry spent the winter of 1835-36 living alone in one of the cabins in the edge of Henderson Grove, and was on the ground to welcome the first company of colonists when they arried on the bright noon-day in June.
Uncle of George Washington Gale Ferris Jr, inventor of Ferris Wheel.
For more info see www.ferristree.com
Seventy-Five Significant Years The Story of Knox College, 1837-1912
The first wedding celebrated by the colonists was that of Henry Ferris and Elizabeth Hudson. Theirs must have been a case of "love at first sight," for only two short months after the arrival of Miss Hudson with the family of Nehemiah West, on August 31, 1836, they were married. The place in which they were married was the original log cabin which witnessed so many events during those two truly eventful years, in which the colonists inhabited "Log City." The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Noel, of Knoxville, as neither Dr. Gale nor Father Waters had yet arrived upon the scene.
Henry spent the winter of 1835-36 living alone in one of the cabins in the edge of Henderson Grove, and was on the ground to welcome the first company of colonists when they arried on the bright noon-day in June.
Uncle of George Washington Gale Ferris Jr, inventor of Ferris Wheel.
One of the first settles in the Galesburg IL area in 1835.
For more info see www.ferristree.com
Seventy-Five Significant Years The Story of Knox College, 1837-1912
The first wedding celebrated by the colonists was that of Henry Ferris and Elizabeth Hudson. Theirs must have been a case of "love at first sight," for only two short months after the arrival of Miss Hudson with the family of Nehemiah West, on August 31, 1836, they were married. The place in which they were married was the original log cabin which witnessed so many events during those two truly eventful years, in which the colonists inhabited "Log City." The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Noel, of Knoxville, as neither Dr. Gale nor Father Waters had yet arrived upon the scene.
Henry spent the winter of 1835-36 living alone in one of the cabins in the edge of Henderson Grove, and was on the ground to welcome the first company of colonists when they arried on the bright noon-day in June.
Uncle of George Washington Gale Ferris Jr, inventor of Ferris Wheel.
For more info see www.ferristree.com
Seventy-Five Significant Years The Story of Knox College, 1837-1912
The first wedding celebrated by the colonists was that of Henry Ferris and Elizabeth Hudson. Theirs must have been a case of "love at first sight," for only two short months after the arrival of Miss Hudson with the family of Nehemiah West, on August 31, 1836, they were married. The place in which they were married was the original log cabin which witnessed so many events during those two truly eventful years, in which the colonists inhabited "Log City." The marriage ceremony was performed by the Rev. Mr. Noel, of Knoxville, as neither Dr. Gale nor Father Waters had yet arrived upon the scene.
Henry spent the winter of 1835-36 living alone in one of the cabins in the edge of Henderson Grove, and was on the ground to welcome the first company of colonists when they arried on the bright noon-day in June.
Uncle of George Washington Gale Ferris Jr, inventor of Ferris Wheel.
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