The Bossier banner. [volume] (Bellevue, Bossier Parish, La.) 1859-1952, 1888-06-14
DANIEL BOONE.
Biographical Sketch Of This Re-
markable Pioneer.

4 Quaker. Ills 8randIatner, GEORGE
Boone, with his nine sons and two
daughters, emigrated from England in
| I'LL, and settled upon farm in Bucks
| County, Pennsylvania, upon the banks
1 Of the Delaware, near where the city
Of Bristol now stands. The family
Joined the ruling religious denomina-
ton of the region, and thus became
Quakers.
One of the sons, named Squire Boone.
married fair Quakeress of the wilder
| ness, and in the records of the vicinity
may still be read the names of their
| children, and the dates OF their birth.
/ From one of these entries we learn that
Daniel Boone was born on the 22d
Of ''eighth MONTH (August. 1884.
That was about the time when Ben
jamiD Franklin was beginning to thrive
IN business at Philadelphia, as printer
and editor, Philadelphia being then lit.
lie more than pleasant, shady village
Of five or six thousand inhabitants.
Indians were continually seen in its
street, and bears, wolves, wild turkeys
and deer were shot within ten miles of
the State House. Where Daniel Boone
grew up, twenty miles above Philadel-
i phia, the country was still almost a
wilderness, in which were to be found
4 panthers, wolves and bears, as well as
sbundance of smaller game. He was
wholly child of the woods. He lived
and died pioneer.
BY fortunate chance an Irish
schoolmaster came into the neighbor-
hood during his boyhood, and his father
ngaged him to teach his own and his
mighbor's children to read and write.
Daniel must have improved this oppor-
unity. for the letters which we have
rom his pen are very well written and
composed. But it was in the lore of
the woods that he became most deeply
'ersed. He was an excellent shot. He
learned to track the panther to his hid
mgplace. He became an adept in all
lhe arts by which life is maintained in
'he wilderness against savage men,
savage beasts and wild nature.
1t is strange thing, and fortunate
: or the Development of the country,
mat pioneer becomes discontented
when the first difficulties of the situa-
aon are overcome, and neighbors
begin to gather about him. He then
nas an unappeasable desire to break
/ up bis home, move westward, and 90
again through the hardships of creating
q farm.
! When Daniel was fourteen years of
ase the mania to remove seized his
'a.aer' and they went seven hundred
miles to the southwest, and settled
upon the Yadkin river, in the north
western part of North Carolina. The
party consisted of father, mother and
aiae children. most of whom must have
yen transported on horseback, and all
! y 'aem maintained on the way by the
s,aes OF the father and his elder son.
iaefe was considerable movement of
migrants in that direction at the time.
~ lands in that region being ex-
= ssmely fertile and attractive. as they
enlaln to this day.
was here. in the wild woods of
"es'ern Carolina that Daniel Boone
sew to manhood. and, at the age of
"ea.y-one. built his own log hut.
.s'aoilshed his own farm, and married
'm daughter of his fathers nearest
ssgnoor. This happy event occurred
{ Tear ~
Out now again neighbors began to
anpleasantly numerous. and they
.;.' .s,e Of kind by no means congenial
a., a 'his family of Pennsylvania
Saakers. Most of them were Scotch
e. .su and among them were the rela-
..s ana ancestors of Andrew jackson
,;s ~ sohn c. Calhoun. They brought
~; - 'nem strong Scotch accent, and
soas habits and notions offensive to
noones. besides introducing a more
J si:s isaslse style of living than that to
sA p tne pioneers were accustomed.
Nm the door of his log hut Daniel
e could see the peaks of the