Isaac Cavin; of Ligonier; Pennsylvania; traveled to Indiana in 1830. He returned home and married Elizabeth Marker in 1834; and they traveled together to northern Indiana. In May 1835; he planned a new town and named it Ligonier. He built his home a few miles north of town and lived there for 52 years. The next big players were two German Jewish peddlers; Solomon Mier and Frederick William Straus; who traveled to the United States and settled in Indiana. After training with their uncle; they moved to Ligonier around 1854 because they were told the railroad would be coming to Ligonier and that it might be a good place to start up a business. The suggestion led to some wonderful times for Ligonier. Straus developed one of his businesses into the largest farm brokerage firm in the United States; and Mier developed one of his businesses into one of the largest farmland dealers in the Midwest. Images of America: Ligonier explores one of the most unusual small towns in the United States.
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0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Memorials. Social and ReligiousBy S. SouthallA fascinating study into the powerful. important and intricate topic of memorialisation of the dead. whose survival depends upon acts of memory. The book examines elite monuments and inscriptions on sixteenth and seventeenth century England. Shifts in religious thought. from the pre-Reformation fear of hell and purgatory. expressed in appeals to the onlookers to pray for the dead. to the idea of fame as triumph over death in the seventeenth century. demonstrated a growing confidence and faith in ultimate resurrection. At the same time. through the uses and significance of images. sculptures. and texts. memorials were expressions of the social order in word and image. an economy of law. order. and honour in the elite culture. Contrary to myth. damage and destruction of images on religious pretexts was often over family rivalry and precedence. while respect to mortal remains was not only a sign of hope in the resurrection. but a reinforcement of the social and political body that remained. The book sheds light on the social perception of gender. the history of art. the meaning of memory as it speaks to the future. and the position of individuals with relation to lineage. culture. and sacred philosophy.
