Hector High School - Hectorian Yearbook (Hector, MN)

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Without realizing it, England instilled in the colonists the individual purpose and ingenuity that necessity breeds. With trade goods cut to a minimum, determined young leaders of the time set out to find ways of surviv- ing without support from the Mother Country. Agricultural methods and machines and labor saving devices were designed by our forefathers. As frontiers opened, Yankee genius had to conquer natural barriers in the wild new country, so suspension bridges were invented and methods of transportation were perfected for the purpose of opening the untamed areas. Later, they sought to section off the land with the revolution- ary and controversial invention - barbed wire. Cooper's 1-horsepower Tom Thumb train in 1830 and later, automobiles like the first Model T, and the 4-horsepower airplane g became American modes of travel from city to city and coast to coast. Americans knew that the fertile lands of this nation would produce unequalled harvests if machines were designed to take over for man. They knew also that trade routes were difficult to travel and manufacturing would have to be done close to home. The cotton gin, textile looms, drill presses and a reaper which could cut six times as much grain as a hand scythe were some of the tools invented. Protection for themselves and for their young country prodded inventors like Eli Whitney to perfect firearms and others to work on plans for the first submarine. Young inventors like Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison tcalled the nation's most valuable citi- zenj visualized machines that would light the country and open up communication with those inthe far cor- ners of the nation. The telephone, telegraph, phono- graph and the first light bulb were discovered in the late 1800's and early twentieth century. This American way of doing for oneself inspired many to become inventors in their own right. Some sought to save labor and mass- produce for profit while others envisioned not only riches, but excitement and adventure as they discovered ways to defy nature. Throughout the past ZOO years the American mind has been unleashed to take whatever paths necessary to ful- fill the needs. In the last half-century, the pace of dis- covery has been overwhelming and inventions for the taming of the universe lie in the grasp of America while the habit of finding a way is ingrained in its people. The seeds of industrial America were sown by these inventors resulting in today's mechanized society.

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THEY M DE THEIR MARK Men and women who helped shape America's history THOMAS PAINE, a bankrupt Quaker corsetmaker. some tlme teacher. preacher and grocer wrote the most brrl- llant pamphlet ol the Amerrcan Revolutron. Hrs words rn Common Sense relllected-Iongrngs and asprratronslthat have remamed part ol Amerrcan cullureto thrs day Chret luslree IOHN MARSHALL estaolrshed Iundamental prrncrples ot Amerrcan constrtutronal law Hers noted Ior hrs precedenlal declaratron ol a Congresslonal att as unconslltutronal He served through Irve admrnlstra trons,lrom1E01'1B35. ABRAHAM LINCOLN eprtomlzed the Amerloan dream ol a humble young man ascendrng to the hrghesl olhce ol the land He was superoty slrllled at analyzrng complex rs' sues and translatrng them rnto mearrlngtul words tor the pu Dllc He was devoted to the preservatron ol the Unron DANIEL WESSTER chose law as a career and went on to become well known rn the courts and rn polrtlcs He was twrce Secretary ol State wlth an eye always to the Presr- dency whrch eluded hrrn Born a slave rn Maryland, FREDERICK DOUGLASS taught hrmselt lo read and wrrle secretly and at 21, escaped to Ireedom He was an ardent abolrtronlst eampargnrng suncesslully lor Negro sultrage and crvrl rrghts HARRIEI' BEECIIER STOWE wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin rn an ellort to make the whole natron reallze the mhumanrf ty ol slavery Her book resulted rn one ol the most popu- lar and controversral plays on the Amerlcan stage The Crvrl War was klndled by thrs work I l DOROTHEA DIA worked her entlre adult lrle lor reform ot the exlstrng penal and mental rnstrtullons rn the mrd- 1800's The Irrst stale hosprtal rn the natron at Trenton. New lersey was a drrecl result ol her ellorts The New Colossus. a sonnel composed hy EMMA LAZ- ARUS rn 1883 rs rnscnhed on a bronze tablet at the base ol the Statue ol Lrberty. She organrzed relref for lews and helped lugrtrves Irom the Czar's ghettos to establrsh homes rn Amerrca, I I The creator ol the Cherokee alphabet, SEQUOVAII, was an artlst, wrrter and sllversmrlh. He used a srmple 1821 Englrsh prrmer to compose the characters. The Iamous redwood trees ot the Paerlrc coast bear hrs name AMELIA IENKS BLOOMER, best known Ior a mode ot dress she adopted durrng her campargn Ior equal rrghts lor women Though rrdrculed unlrl she gave up the cos- tume. the term bloomer came to symlaollze womans brd Ior rndrvrdual freedom - - HORACE GITEELEWS admonltron lo Go West young man was a rallyrngery ofthe proneers of Amerrca He was Iounder and edltor ol the New York Trroune. He was best known lor hrs phrlosophy ol socral reform and hrs unsuccessful brd Iortlre Presrdency rn 1872 IOSEPII PULITZER was the lrrst yournalrst to reach a tru' ly massrve audlence Hrs New York World newspaper was the symbol of yellow yournalrsm' wrlh rts sensatronalf rsm armed at the common man