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Maturity Journal
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The Maturity Journal is a monthly publication designed to
inform and entertain mature citizens in Vanderburgh and
Warrick Counties. The magazine was founded in 1986
by George Earle Eaton with the intention of serving (in
his words) “those old enough to know they don’t have
all the answers, and young enough to still be searching
for them.”
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Editor-in-Chief (in memoriam) George Earle Eaton
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the presidential election of 1840,
when William Henry Harrison, a
territorial governor in Vincennes,
ran for president. He was popular
in the area because he, too, was a
pioneer, a trait that was played up
during the campaign. Although he
didn’t campaign in Evansville, the
townspeople came out for him in a
big way. They threw a huge parade,
the first that ten-year-old Jane ever
saw.
A few days before the election,
Harrison supporters came from
miles around to march in the parade
down Riverside. General Evans
and his granddaughter watched
the parade floats as they passed by
their front yard, with the marching
people showing their support for
Harrison. One of the floats was a log
cabin, representing
Harrison’s
first home. The
men on the float,
wearing the
buckskin clothing
and coon
skin hats of the
early pioneers,
stopped in front
of Gen. Evans’
house and yelled
out, “Stand
by your party,
General Evans!”
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The old
general stood
up, bowed and
smiled. The men
on the float and
other parade
spectators
cheered.
In its earliest
years, frontier
Evansville
David Dale Owen, son of Robert
Owen, was one of the few early
"entertainers" to travel overland to
Evansville, but he didn't have too far to
travel; he came from New Harmony.
(Photo courtesy USI David L. Rice
Library, Digital Archives)
overlooked what was then a high
bank. Consequently, early steamboats
passed by Evansville as they
traveled downriver from Pittsburgh,
Cincinnati, or Louisville, to the
Mississippi River and eventually
New Orleans. There were exceptions:
when a passenger disembarked or
a passenger needed to travel downstream.
For the latter, watchmen signaled
whenever a boat approached
to signify that someone wanted to
come aboard. Henderson, Kentucky,
a few miles downstream, had a
much friendlier shoreline and welcomed
steamboats and other river
traffic that bypassed Evansville. This
could explain why young Abraham
Lincoln didn’t stop at Evansville on
his first trip to New Orleans by flatboat.
After Evansville became a city,
its high bank was cut away, flattened
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