Daniel Boone.

    Col. Daniel Boone, the great western hunter and pioneer was born February 11, 1735, in Exetur
township Bucks County, Pa. While a youth his father settled, with his family on the Yadkin, eight miles
from Wilkesboro, N. C., when Daniel was about eighteen years of age. In 'May, 1769, he set out in com-
pany with others in search of the "Country of Kentucky" and arrived on the banks of Kentucky River in
June where they camped. He spent the winter of 1769-70 in a cave in Mlercer County. known as Boone's
Cave. In March, 1771 he returned to his family on the Yadkin, sold his farm and on September 25, 1774,
with his family started for Kentucky, accompanied by his brother Squire Boonme  In October six of
their number being killed by Indians, they returned to Clinch River. In June (if 1774, in connection
with Michael Stoner, he was sent by (Gov. Dunmore to conduct a party of surveyozrs to the falls of the
Ohio River and on the sixteenth day of June of that year, he was at llarrod's ('amp and assisted in lay-
ing out Harrodstown, afterwards known as Harrodsburg. In the springk of 1775, he started with his family
and others from his home on the Yadkin and reached the banks of Kentucky River at the site which was after-
wards known as Boonesborough on April 1, and began the construction of the fort at that place. In the
summer of 1775, after the completion of the fort at Boonesborough, he returned to Clinch River for his
family. He brought them to the new fort as soon as the journey eould be performed and 'Mrs. Boone and
her daughters were the first white women who ever stood upon the lianks of the Kentucky River. He was
one of the most remarkable men of his time, and one of the most useful. His name will stand prominent
throughout ages on the pages of American history as the most conspicious pioneer of this Western country.