Historical Images of Porter County

J. Lorenzo Werich
Kankakee River, Porter County, Indiana

Date: 1920
Source Type: Photograph
Publisher, Printer, Photographer: J. Lorenzo Werich, Wilson Reed Berry (illustrator)
Postmark: Not Applicable
Collection: Steven R. Shook
Remark: JOHN WERICH -- Born in 1830. The oldest pioneer hunter living, now in his 90th year. Began hunting on the Kankakee in 1852. A few months before this book went to press he shot and killed a tiger cat [cougar] that measured forty inches long and stood seventeen inches high, the first one ever seen in the Kankakee swamps, supposed to have escaped from some menagerie.

John Werich was bon June 14, 1830, in Germany. He married Mary Dye. Werich died in Valparaiso, Porter County, Indiana, on November 5, 1924, at the age of 94 and was interred in Hebron Cemetery in Hebron, Porter County, Indiana.

Image Source:
Werich, J. Lorenzo. 1920. Pioneer Hunters of the Kankakee. Logansport, Indiana: Chronicle Printing Company. 197 p. [see frontispiece]

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