Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Standard History of Lake County, Indiana and the Calumet Region, Vol. 2 Since the Steel Corporation acquired its holdings and began the building of its great plant in 1906, Mr. Bryan has been rapidly disposing of his extensive land holdings in this vicinity. A large part of the resi dence and business district of Gary has grown up on land that was at one time owned by him. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.