Background
In 1842, Halsted married Martha C. Foster, daughter of Elijah D. and Ruth C. Foster of Troy, Pennsylvania.
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Melvin Halsted
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Career
Melvin Halsted was the child of William Halsted and Patty Haskin. In 1845, Melvin and Martha settled in Lake County, Indiana. Halsted and his family moved from the West Creek farm to a cabin near the present railroad depot in Lowell the following year.
The town was officially incorporated in 1852.
Halsted traveled throughout the country after founding Lowell. He helped create a village in southern Illinois and another town near San Francisco.
In 1850, Halsted went to California in search of gold, and developed a small fortune there. He came back to Lowell, and funded a trail that would lead from Lowell to the neighboring town of Crown Point, Indiana.
Melvin"s wife, Martha, died in 1899.
In 1913, at the age of 92, Melvin Halsted made his seventh trip to the west, going alone.
