Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . e in med-icine. All his own plans and those of his par-ents wei-e changed by a great nationalevent in 1882, the assassination of Czar Al-exander II. Mr. Weinshank was then sev-enteen years of age. There soon followedthe persecution of everyone connected withany school or university, and on the adviceof his parents Theodore left for arrived in New York in April, his first experience was beingfleeced of all his money by bvinko put him on his own resources, andthe
Indiana and Indianans : a history of aboriginal and territorial Indiana and the century of statehood . e in med-icine. All his own plans and those of his par-ents wei-e changed by a great nationalevent in 1882, the assassination of Czar Al-exander II. Mr. Weinshank was then sev-enteen years of age. There soon followedthe persecution of everyone connected withany school or university, and on the adviceof his parents Theodore left for arrived in New York in April, his first experience was beingfleeced of all his money by bvinko put him on his own resources, andthere were many hard experiences duringthe years following before he became es-tablished in his profession. With a number of Russian immigrantshe left for South Dakota, then part of theTerritory of Dakota. After attaining hismajority he took up a homestead and triedfarming there for five years. The hard-ships of life on the frontier and the Da-kotas have been frequently described. hardly missed any of thesehardships. One time he had a piece of landwhere water could not be obtained. There. ?^St-tt? yy-e^ *^-<lx< ^ ^sA^ INDIANA AND INDIANANS 1365 occurred three successive failures of cropson account of hailstorms. While he lostnone of the real courage and determina-tion of life by these circumstances, he didbecome convinced that his fortune was notto be made in the West, and thereforesought means of returning east to finishhis education. While in Dakota Mr. Weinshank marriedhis step-niece, Sophia Shapiro, or as shewas then called Sophia Weinshank, beingthe step-daughter of his older brother. was not able to realize enoughfrom his experiences in the Dakotas to re-turn east and therefore worked in thenorthern pineries of Wisconsin as a lumberjack, for a time in a coal mine at FortDodge, Iowa, and eventually reached Chi-cago. There he went to work as a con-ductor on a street car. During the follow-ing eighteen months he saved enough fromhis earnings to s
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