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Title: A twentieth century history and biographical record of Elkhart County, Indiana
Year: 1905 (1900s)
Authors: Deahl, Anthony, 1861-1927, ed
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Publisher: Chicago : Lewis Publ. Co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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interests which make him one of the leadingagriculturists and prosperous residents of Washington township. HON. ABRAH.\M LINCOLN BRICK. As the congressman irum the thirteenth Indiana district, whichincludes Elkhart county. Hon. A. L. Brick, though a resident of SouthBend, has a definite place in the history of Elkhart county. Born ona farm in St. Joseph county. May 27, i860, he is distinct!)- a man ofthe world insofar as familiarity with men and affairs in all the depart-ments of life is concerned. As a boy he entered with whole-souled en-thusiasm into the sports of his neighborhood and acquired that lovefor nature which has always remained with him as an abiding trait.He attended a country school, where, studious and not undulv mis-chievous, he gained the affection of his first teacher in a wa\- that
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ABRAHAM L. BRICK HISTORY OF ELKHART COUXTV 77^ called irom her. many years later, a \ery appreciative trihiite U> hismincl and character in its plastic state. His tatlier. William \\. Brick, wlm was a good old country s(;uireand is ^vell remembered in the count)-, moved to South Bend whenAbraham was still a boy. and there he became acquainted with life innew and practical phases. Willingness to work at any honest laborthat would give him an honest penny was a Yankee (;uality whichearl_\- manifested itself in the case of this future statesman. He soldnewspapers, chopped wood and carried it from the street to the upperstories of many business buildings of South Bend, did all sorts ofjobs; then became a deli\-ery boy for the George \\yman dry goodshouse, delivering carpets in a wheelbarrow along the principal thor-oughfares of the city: then became the jack-of-all-trades and useful-manfor a clothing house, in which he had to brush all the clothes once aweek, scrub floors, and anything

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