From the manuscript of 'Life and History of
Warren Eugene McCord' written in 1908/9 (pages 16 - 27)
When the family moved West, Mr. Hayward, then a boy of 19 years, took a job of putting in logs for a company, and borrowed his uncle's oxen (he being a farmer and having nothing for his teams to do through the winter season) but as it was a poor winter he managed only to save money enough from his winter's work (lacking ten schillings which he had borrowed from a friends) to buy his ticket for the West, and in the Fall of 1855 he went West to Wisconsin to where his father's family had moved. This first winter he worked out by the month in the logging woods, and in the spring, when the rivers broke up, he hired out to go upon the drives and worked all summer long, helping to run logs up and down the river and raft them out, and when he was discharged in the fall, his employer did not have any money to pay him for his summer's work, so he started for home on foot, and without a penny in his pocket. He had a fairly good looking suit of clothes, but a very poor looking hat, and while going along the road he found a dollar gold piece in the road and soon after met a man wearing a pretty good looking hat and traded off his old hat to the man and gave him the dollar gold piece to boot. Later on that fall he and his father McCord went down to where the man lived for whom Mr. Hayward had worked all summer, and all they could get out of him was a pair of oxen, which they drove home with them, and with this yoke of oxen they did some work about town and worked them in the woods that winter hauling in logs from father McCord's homestead claim, and these logs they had sold for $5.00 per thousand feet, but when they had delivered them, this being 1857, the good old Democratic free-trade times had brought on another spell of hard times, the man was only able to take one-half of them, this giving them enough to pay off their hired help, and the balance of the logs they sold for $2.50 per thousand feet and had to take the pay for them out of his store.
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