Onondaga's centennialGleanings of a century . preserving the game and fish on their Reservation. Among the leadingIndian farmers are Dan-iel La Forte, Jacob Simon Scanandoah,Jaris Pierce, OrrisFarmer, Charles Green,Wilson Johnson, IsaacPowless, Wilson Reu-ben, Joshua Pierce, Hill, Mrs. Eliza-beth Thomas, JosiahJacobs, Elizabeth Scan-andoah, John Loft, Hill and son Hol-ly, jr., Thomas John,Baptiste and EddyThomas, John Green,Abram Printup, Hiramand Joshua Jones. DavidJacobs, Sidney Isaacs,Lewis Thomas, MosesvSmith, Frank Logan,Augustus Brown, , Melissa Peck-
Onondaga's centennialGleanings of a century . preserving the game and fish on their Reservation. Among the leadingIndian farmers are Dan-iel La Forte, Jacob Simon Scanandoah,Jaris Pierce, OrrisFarmer, Charles Green,Wilson Johnson, IsaacPowless, Wilson Reu-ben, Joshua Pierce, Hill, Mrs. Eliza-beth Thomas, JosiahJacobs, Elizabeth Scan-andoah, John Loft, Hill and son Hol-ly, jr., Thomas John,Baptiste and EddyThomas, John Green,Abram Printup, Hiramand Joshua Jones. DavidJacobs, Sidney Isaacs,Lewis Thomas, MosesvSmith, Frank Logan,Augustus Brown, , Melissa Peck-man, Mrs. Emily Hill,Peter Elm, Lewis Cook,Albert Cusick. Of theseWilson Reuben, Daniel La Forte, and Orris Farmer are among thewealthiest and most prosperous men on the Reservation. The formerinherited the farm of his Aunt Cynthia, who was a shrewd politicalmanager and financier, and who died at the age of ninety years. About2,525 acres of land on the Reservation are cultivated. Ownership of land, though not recorded after the manner of the. Daniel La Forte. THE ONONDAGA INDIANS. 1059 whites, is acquired by verbal bargains accompanied by payment, andsuch agreements are respected. No papers ever pass between the con-tracting parties. Many of the farms and other lands are leased towhite people for a cash rental or upon shares. This is particularlytrue of the valuable limestone quarries lying on the east side of theReservation, a little west of the road to La Fayette, where asmany as six derricks have been worked, paying to the nation annually$100 each. Successful agricultural fairs have been held on the Reserva-tion for several years, particularly about 1871. The Onondagas, in proportion to their population, played a con-spicuous part in both the war of 1812 and the war of the the former 300 of their warriors participated under EphraimWebster, the pioneer, their interpreter, and Indian agent. The enumer-ation of 1890 shows that at least sixteen Onondaga Indians serv
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