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hundred acres of land, nearly all in one .body. He was never married, and left his property to his sisters and their heirs. He raised a company for the Black Hawk war, and was made its cap- tain. He also served through the Toledo war, and was active in raising troops and assisting the State in prosecuting the campaign. Richard M. Lewis was born in Washington, D. C., April 6, 1803, and died in Madison, this county, July 2, 1859.
R OBERT WOODEN was born in Chili, Monroe county, N. Y., June 22, 1812, where he resided until 1845. He was brought up a farmer, and lived with his father until he was twenty-one. At the age of twenty-one his father gave him a new piece of land, which he immediately commenced to improve, and upon which he made a living from the first, and within a few years erected a frame house and barn, and made a desirable farm, and in 1845 he sold it and came to Michigan and purchased a farm on sections 30, 31, and 32, in Cambridge, where he now resides. He has moved but once in his life, and that was when he came to Michigan. Mr. Wooden never had any school advantages beyond a common district school, but at the age of nineteen he became a convert to the Universalist faith, and from that time until the present he has been a zealous and earnest worker in the cause. At the age of about thirty he commenced preaching, his first effort being at the funeral of a neighbor. After he came to Michigan he preached regularly for nearly thirty years, and scarcely a Sunday came that he did not preach. During the first two years of his residence in Michigan he itinerated, preaching wherever he could get a hearing, but in 1847 he organized a society and erected a church at Lam- bertville, Monroe county, and preached there four years. He afterwards preached at Wolf Creek, Norvell, Jackson county, Somerset, Hillsdale county, and Hudson, this county. Mr. Wooden has been active and earnest, ever ready to answer all calls, either for preaching or funeral service, and has, perhaps, officiated at as many funerals as any man in the county. Although he has no charge now and does not preach every Sabbath, he still preaches occasionally and officiates at funerals. Robert Wooden's father William Wooden, was born in Newberg, Orange county, N. Y., (17)
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April 1, 1780, and was the son of James Wooden, also of New- berg, and a revolutionary soldier. September 20, 1800, William Wooden married Sarah Widner, of Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y., who was born in New Jersey, February 20, 1782. By this mar- riage there were fourteen children, five sons and nine daughters, Robert being the sixth child. Eight of the children are still living, and Mr. and Mrs. Wooden lived together sixty years. William Wooden died at his home in Chili, where he had lived fifty-two years, March 25, 1863, and his wife died at the same place, July 30, 1860. Robert Wooden married Lydia A. Sickner, daughter of Henry and Esther Sickner, of Chili, Monroe county, N. Y., November 14, 1830, by whom he has had eight children, as follows: Clarissa, born in Chili, October 31, 1831, died De- cember 15, 1841; Joseph Widner, born in Chili, December 2, 1832, now a resident of Tecumseh; William Henry, born in Gates, Monroe county, N. Y., September 13, 1834, now a resident and postmaster of Stony Point, Jackson county; Cordelia Alice, born in Gates, August 27, 1836, now the wife of Frank Hurd, of Lowell, Kent county, Mich .; Charles Graves, born in Gates, June 17, 1838, now a farmer of Cambridge; Harriet N., born in Gates, July 25, 1840, died in infancy; Josephine V. A., born in Cam- bridge, this county, August 10, 1849, now the wife of F. W. Darling, of Tecumseh; Frances Henriette, born in Cambridge, January 16, 1853, now the wife of Frank M. Skinner, of Cam- bridge. Mrs. Lydia A. Wooden, was born in Athens, Green county, N. Y., where she lived until she was fourteen years old, when her parents moved to Chili, Monroe county. During ten years her father run a ferry across the Hudson river from Athens to Hudson. Mr. Sickner was a native of Dutchess county, N. Y., and died November 29, 1843. Mrs. Esther Sickner was a native of Vermont, and died April 17, 1837, at Gates, N. Y.
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TEPHEN FRARY was born in Huron, Huron county, O., September 11, 1815. His father, David Frary, was a native of Massachusetts, where he lived until after he was married. In the spring of 1804 he started for the great west, and went to Ohio, where he made the acquaintance of a man named Ephraim
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Allen, with whom he formed a partnership, and went to Put-in- Bay Island, in Lake Erie, and took possession of it with the inten- tion of making it their future home. They went there with the idea of raising and breeding cattle and hogs, and being thrifty, en- terprising men, they soon got a start, and resided there in peace and plenty, with the most flattering prospects, until the war of 1812, when the British fleet came down upon them and confiscated everything they had, leaving them destitute and penniless. Dur- ing the summer of 1812 Mr. Frary went to Huron county, Ohio, where he lived until about the year 1817, when he came to Michi- gan and settled on a rented farm, about two miles west of Monroe city. He lived there only a short time, when he rented another farm in Raisinville, where he died October 1, 1820. December 1, 1803, David Frary married Esther Kingsley, who was born in Becket, Mass., by whom he had seven children, Stephen being the fifth child and fourth son. Mrs. Esther Frary afterwards married Gideon West, who came to Lenawee county and settled on section 29, in Blissfield, in January, 1825. She died on this farm July 11,; 1846. Gideon West died there also June 29, 1837. Stephen Frary came to Michigan with his parents when he was about two years old, and came to Lenawee county with his mother and her hus- band, Gideon West, in January, 1825, and now resides on the farm that was first taken up on section 29, in Blissfield, and a half mile northeast of Blissfield village. There was only one family residing in Blissfield-or in fact in Lenawee county, aside from the settlement made at Tecumseh the previous spring -- Harvey Bliss, when Gideon West came in. . It was nearly eighteen months before another family came in, but on the 17th day of April, 1826, George Giles, with his family, who had been a neighbor of Mr. Bliss and Mr. West, in Raisinville, Monroe county, settled in Blissfield. Mr. Giles located land on the east side of the river, and opened a hotel. He laid out a village there and called it Lyons. The next settler was Almon Harrison, who located land on the east side of the river, in the fall of 1826. Stephen Frary has lived in Michigan since 1817, and in Blissfield on the same farm for over fifty-five years. He is the oldest resident of the State written up in this book. He saw the country when it was in its primitive state-when it was occupied by its original inhab- itants-Indians, wolves, bear, deer, turkey, rattle-snakes, and all the other denizens of the forest. There were large numbers of otter in the river, and he has seen quite large trees come down the river during the spring floods that had been felled by beavers. During the first few years the settlers came in very slowly, most of the pioneers going further on to the openings-land around Tecum-
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seh and Adrian. It was a "little dismal," as the land was low and the timber almost impenetrable throughout Blissfield, and in fact all along the river region. It was not until after 1832 that Blissfield began to be settled up very rapidly, but from that time on the country has grown and been improved beyond the possible imagination of those who look upon it now for the first time. October 6, 1844, Stephen Frary married Louisa J. Betts, by whom he had one son, Henry S., born November 6, 1845, was a soldier in the war of the rebellion, and was a member of the old Michigan Fourth Infantry, and was drowned in the Mississippi river. Louisa J. Frary died March 28, 1853. December 7, 1854; Stephen Frary married Emily Gilman, of Tecumseh, by whom he had one son, Charles H., born December 8, 1855, and died July 5, 1862. Mrs. Emily Frary died February 7, 1863. October 15, 1860, Stephen Frary married Mrs. Eliza Chase, widow of George Chase, of Erie county, Ohio. Mrs. Frary is the daughter of John and Elizabeth Tappan, of Dundee, Monroe county, Mich. She was born in Milan, Erie county, Ohio, September 13, 1837. She is the mother of one son, Job Chase, born in Milan, March 19, 1854, now a farmer of Deerfield, this county. George Chase was a soldier in the war of the rebellion, and enlisted when Presi- dent Lincoln first called for 75,000 men. He served but a short time, when he was taken sick and died in 1862.
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ARED A. HOWELL was born in Victor, Ontario county, N. Y., November 5, 1820. His father, Anson Howell, was born in Suffolk county, N. Y., April 13, 1786, where he resided until he was about 20 years old, when he went to Western New York and settled in Victor, Ontario county. He was a mill- wright and carpenter and joiner, and followed his trade until about 1830. In the fall of 1827 he came to Michigan and located 160 acres of land on section 28, in Adrian, and after letting the job of clearing 20 acres and building a log house, to Burrows Brown and Ashur Stevens, he went back to New York. The following spring he returned, and erected a frame house for Darius Comstock on his farm in the " Valley." About the 1st of September he brought his family, consisting of his wife and eight children, and set-
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tled on his farm in Adrian. During the summer of 1829 he as- sisted in building the Red Mill, and also built the first frame school house in Adrian, that year, and worked a short time on the old Michigan Exchange, which was the first hotel built in Adrian. After the spring of 1830 he turned his attention to farming ex- clusively, and cleared up his farm, and in 1838 erected a large frame house, having built a large barn in 1831. Mr. Howell was a practical, careful, judicious man, but was ever ready to assist, his neighbors, or help the settlers in any way. In 1830 there were not men enough in and about Adrian to lay up more than one log house at a time, and it was necessary to go as far as the "Valley " and notify every man when a house was to be raised. Mr. Howell was always ready to help at these raisings, and his practical knowledge of building was always of great value. He occa- sionally went as far as Wolf Creek, in 1832-3. He often went out with newcomers to "look land," while he sometimes kept their families until they could locate. He was a kind hearted, gener- ous man, and noble pioneer, and many a family has thanked him for his goodness to them while they were struggling for a home in the wilds of Lenawee county. He died October 8, 1873, in Adrian. His ancestors were English. About the year 1820 he married Charlotte Rockwood, who then lived in Perinton, Monroe county, N. Y., with her brother-in-law, Chad Aldrich, by whom he had ten children, Jared A. being the sixth child. There is no record of Mrs. Howell's parents, except that they were born in Vermont and descended from the Puritans. She died in Adrian, August 28, 1845. Jared A. Howell lived with his father until he was 27. years old, and was brought up a farmer. In the spring of 1848 he purchased a farm on section 35, in Rome, and lived there until the spring of 1860, when he traded for a part of the old homestead, where he resided until the spring of 1880, when he sold out, and subsequently purchased the old Tabor farm, on sec- tion 27, in Adrian. This was the first farm located in the vicinity where the city now stands. Walter Whipple located it in 1825, before Darius and Addison J. Comstock came to Michigan. Mr. Howell came to Michigan with his parents when he was eight years old, and has lived in Lenawee county ever since. When he first came the county was occupied by the Pottawattomie and Tawas Indians, and he became quite proficient in their language, and was quite an Indian trader, in jack-knives, bows, arrows, pow- der-horns, etc. He has witnessed the march of civilization here for 52 years, and can hardly realize the change, it has been so great. November 21, 1847, Jared A. Howell was married to Amelia S. Brazee, daughter of John Brazee, Sr., of Adrian, by whom he has
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had four children, as follows: Altha A., born August 28, 1848, now the wife of Oscar J. Wilbur, of Adrian; William F., born September 15, 1850, at home; Ettie May, born November 18, 1861, at. home; Eva A., born July 29, 1863, at home. Mrs. Amelia S. Howell was born in Victor, Ontario county, N. Y., March 27, 1829, and came to Michigan with her parents and set- tled in Adrian township, in 1835. Her father was a native of New York, and was born March 12, 1800, and died in Adrian, February 20, 1879. His ancestors came from France and Hol- land. Her mother was also born in New York, June 24, 1800, and died in Adrian, March 27, 1878. Her ancestors came from Holland.
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AVID S. AYERS was born in Perinton, Monroe county, N. Y., September 9, 1821. His father, Job Ayers, son of Stephen and Elizabeth (Willets) Ayers, was born in New Jersey, October 4, 1784, where he lived until about the year 1800, when he moved with his parents to Monroe county, N. Y., and purchased a new farm, and subsequently cleared it up and erected good buildings and resided there until 1836. When he purchased this land he sold the feathers out of a feather bed to raise money sufficient to make a payment, and filled the bed with beech leaves. In the fall of 1836 he came to Michigan and settled in Raisin. He had previously purchased some land in the present town of Rollin, but he never lived there. He was a brother-in-law of Darius Comstock, and lived in the "Valley" several years, but during the latter years of his life lived in Manchester, Washtenaw county, where he died November 9, 1850. He was a Quaker, of English ancestry. January 12, 1809, Job Ayers was married by Cyrus Packard, justice of the peace, to Amy Willets, daughter of John and Mary Willets, of Farmington, Wayne county, N. Y., by whom he had ten children, David S. being the sixth child. Mrs. Amy Ayers was born December 18, 1787, in Sussex, Monmouth county, N. J. Her parents were natives of New Jersey, and were . Quakers, of English ancestors. She was a birthright Quaker, and was a consistent member of that society all her life. She died in Adrian, September 5, 1866, Those who knew her best admired
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her' most, and those who could best judge pronounced her life a victory. She was never known to yield to anger, and was always of a gentle, calm bearing. Her health had always been good until about two years before her death, when she met with an ac- cident, breaking her right hip, from which she never recovered. She suffered severely for two years without a murmur, and looked calmly forward to a welcome release. David S. Ayers came to Michigan when he was fifteen years old, and has lived in Washte- naw and Lenawee counties ever since. He has always followed farming, and believes that he fully realizes all phases of pioneer life. He has experienced all kinds of trials and hardships, but has nothing to regret. He has done his share of hard work, assisting in all things that tended to develop the country. February 9, 1856, David S. Ayers was married to Miss Elizabeth Iveson, daughter of John and Ann Iveson, of Woodstock, this county, by whom he has had one son, Augustus H., born November 27, 1856. Mrs. Elizabeth Ayers was born in North Hemstead, Queens county, N. Y., May 28, 1832, and came to Michigan with her parents in the fall of 1838, and settled on section 19, in Wood- stock, where her father lived until 1854, when he sold out and pur- chased a farm on section 30, where he died June 17, 1864. He was born in Haslington, Lancaster, England, in December, 1790, and came to America in the ship Betsey, sailing from Liverpool May 28, 1817, and settled in North Hemstead, Queens county, N. Y. He married Ann Beardwood, daughter of Thomas and Mar- garet (Houghton) Beardwood, of Blackburn, Lancaster, England, by whom he had thirteen children, Mrs. Ayers being the youngest daughter. Mrs. Iveson is still alive, in her ninety-second year, in good health and mind, and upon a clear day can thread a cambric needle with her naked eye. She has over one hundred and twenty- five descendants living.
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ILLIAM HOOD was born in Romulus, Seneca county, N. Y., December 27, 1805. He resided in Romulus until the fall of 1837, when he came to Michigan and set- tled on section 26, in Rome, where he has resided ever since. His father, John Hood, was born in Sunbury, Northumberland county, Pa. He, with three brothers, moved into Seneca county, about the
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year 1798, and purchased a large tract of land "between the lakes." They lived there about eighteen years, improved the land, erected good buildings, with orchards, built roads, bridges, etc., and of course supposed their claim to the lands was valid, but it turned out that their titles were all fraudulent, as the man whom they purchased of proved to be a swindler. The entire tract was set off by the government into soldiers' claims, and the Hood brothers not only lost their purchase money, but eighteen years of hard labor. John Hood tested his claim, but the United States court, at Albany, decided against him. He continued to live in Romulus until 1832, when he died. His wife, Lucinda Moody, was born in Sunbury, Pa., where she was married. She came to Michigan in 1837, and died in Rome in 1862. William Hood never owned a farm until he came to Michigan. His father, losing all of his property in Seneca county, and the expense of testing it ยท in court, completely ruined the family financially, and William came to Michigan in the hope of getting a home and retrieving the great loss. After the death of his father, William did his share of taking care of his mother, and brought her to Michigan with him. She lived to see him own a farm clear from debt, with good build- ings, and the comforts of life about him, and her old age was passed in ease and plenty. Mr. Hood worked by the month in the State of New York until he saved money enough to take up 160 acres of land, and in June, 1835, he came to Michigan and located the land he now lives on. He then returned to New York and worked two years longer to earn money to bring his family here, and Sep- tember 20, 1837, he landed in Adrian, with all his effects. The same day he found his way through the woods to his land, and found shelter with Seth Atwood for a few days, until a shanty, without windows, doors, or chimney was improvised, in which he lived for about six weeks, until he got a good log house up. When the house was done and the goods moved in, Mrs. Hood was so homesick that she did not want her goods unpacked, especially her bureau, as she said she was going back to York State, for she " could not stand it here in the woods." But the house was good and comfortable, and Mrs. Hood soon became reconciled, and looked upon it as "home." She has never been back to York State from that time to this. December 1, 1831, William Hood was married to Louisa Bartlett, daughter of Thomas and Catha- rine Bartlett, of Romulus, N. Y., by whom he has had nine chil- dren, as follows: Hannah B., born in Romulus, N. Y., Novem- ber 8, 1832, now the wife of E. W. Beers, of Adrian township; Mary, born in the same place, July 14, 1834, now the wife of Stephen Beers, of Franklin; Andrew, born in the same place,
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April 20, 1836, a farmer of Rome; Caroline, born in Rome, March 27, 1838, and died January 6, 1851; Lewis, born in Rome, July 21, 1840, now of Ithaca, Gratiot county, Mich .; Nancy, born in Rome, April 29, 1842, now the wife of Franklin Jerrells, of Grand Traverse, Mich .; Harriet A., born in Rome, August 22, 1848, died in September, 1868; Emma K., born in Rome, August 15, 1852, now the wife of Oscar Smith, of Madison; William H., born in Rome, January 19, 1856, at home. Mrs. Louisa Hood was born in Romulus, Seneca county, N. Y., April 26, 1812. Her parents were natives of New York, but she knows very little of their history, as she never lived with them after she was about eighteen months old.
ORNELIUS WALWORTH was born in Ovid, Seneca county, N. Y., July 25, 1808. He was the son of William and Magdalene (Wheeler) Walworth, who were farmers of Ovid. Cornelius lived in Ovid until he was about twenty years old, and in the spring of 1828 he came to Michigan and lived in Plymouth, Wayne county, where he followed farming until 1831, when he located a farm in Saline, Washtenaw county, but in 1832 he sold out and came to Lenawee county and located government land on section 20, in Adrian township, but after a year's residence there he sold out to William Older, in the spring of 1833. He then purchased a farm on section 17, in the same town, and resided there until 1835, when he sold out to John Brazee, Sr., and went to Sharon, Washtenaw county, and purchased a farm on section 27, and resided there until 1840, when he purchased 240 acres of land on sections 34 and 35, in Rome, this county, where he resided until his death. This land was entirely new when he purchased it, no work ever having been done on it. He cleared one hundred acres, erected a good farm house, with good barns, etc. He was an enter- prising, hard-working man, with a happy faculty of surmounting all difficulties, and accomplishing his purposes. He was a good calculator, with a will and courage, such as all pioneers must have to be successful. Although he never held any offices, he was alive to the public interest, and was earnest in all his actions and work (18)
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for the public good. He was a good citizen, a much respected and esteemed neighbor and friend, and his sudden and terrible death, caused by a railroad accident, at South Bend, Ind., on the night of June 28, 1858, when the train was precipitated into a swollen stream, by the washing away of a culvert, cast a gloom over the entire neighborhood of his residence. December 28, 1830, Corne- lius Walworth married Paulina Slocum, daughter of Benjamin and Lydia Slocum, of Plymouth, Wayne county, Mich., by whom he had seven children, as follows: Alonzo P., born in Adrian, this county, February 7, 1834, died October 21, 1846 ; Philander P., born in Sharon, Washtenaw county, Mich., November 10, 1835, died in Rome, April 14, 1863; he was a soldier in the war of the rebellion, and a member of Company D, Second Michigan Infantry, and died from disease contracted in the army; Eugene D., born in Sharon, September 1, 1838, runs the home farm; William H., born in Adrian, September 28, 1840, was a soldier in the rebellion, a member of Company D, Second Michigan Infantry, and was killed while on picket duty before Petersburg, Va., June, 28, 1864; John M., born in Rome, April 23, 1847, died October 9, 1857; Au- gustus C., born in Rome, September 15, 1849, died October 1, 1857; Ella A., born in Rome, November 15, 1852, now the wife of A. A. Schuyler, of Rome. Mrs. Paulina Walworth was born in Perinton, Monroe county, N. Y., July 22, 1813, and came to Michigan with her parents in the spring of 1825, and settled in Plymouth, Wayne county. Her father was a native of Massachu- setts, and was born August 18, 1786, where he resided until about 1810, when he went to Perinton, Monroe county, N. Y. February 28, 1811, Benjamin Slocum married Lydia Bennett, daughter of Charles and Paulina Bennett, of Perinton, where they were pio- neers. Benjamin and Lydia Slocum had eleven children, Mrs. Walworth being the second child. Mr. Slocum died in Bridge- water, Washtenaw county, in 1865. His wife died there in 1868. December 26, 1876, Eugene D. Walworth married Anna S. Dex- ter, daughter of Dennison and Abby Dexter, of Burr Oak, St. Joseph county, Mich., by whom he has had two children, as fol- lows: Charles M., born in Rome, October 15, 1877; Frank C., born same place, November 30, 1879. Mrs. Anna Sophia Wal- worth was born in Lysander, Onondaga county, N. Y., November 7, 1857, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1862, and set- tled in Colon, St. Joseph county. March 19, 1876, Ella A. Wal- worth married Adolphus A. Schuyler, of Rome. They have had one child, Maud, born January 19, 1877. Adolphus A. Schuyler was born in Cicero, Onondaga county, N. Y., May 6, 1853, and now resides on the Walworth homestead.
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OHN BRAZEE, JR., was born in Perinton, Ontario county, N. Y., July 14, 1831. His father, John Brazee, Sr., was born in the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., March 20, 1800, and moved with his parents, John and Catharine Brazee, to Ontario, where they were among the first settlers. John Brazee, Sr., was brought up a farmer, and owned a farm in Perinton, where he resided until he came to Michigan, in the fall of 1835. He pur- chased 160 acres of land of Cornelius Walworth, on section 17, in Adrian, and located from the government forty acres adjoining, on section 18. Mr. Brazee was "born and bred" a pioneer, having been raised in the wilderness of Western New York, and had passed all his days in battling the primeval forest, and subduing the virgin soil. He came to Michigan with a full knowledge of what he should have to encounter, and the hardships he might pos- sibly be obliged to endure, but his early experience was of great value to him here, and he was prepared for any emergency, and to overcome all difficulties. He cleared over one hundred acres of heavy timbered land, built good buildings, and lived many years to enjoy the fruits of his labor. He lived upon the farm over forty-four years, and died, after a long life of usefulness, respected by all who knew him, February 18, 1879. In 1824, John Brazee, Sr., married Hannah Sayles, daughter of Francis and Malana Sayles, of Ontario county, N. Y .. , by whom he had nine children, John, Jr., being the fourth child and third son. Mrs. Hannah Brazee was born in the Mohawk Valley, N. Y., July 25, 1800, and died in Adrian, in March, 1878. Her ancestors came from Hol- land and Germany. Mr. Brazee could trace his ancestors back to a soldier named John Brazee, who came over from France during the Revolutionary war with General Layfayette. John Brazee, Jr., came to Michigan with his parents in 1835, and resided at home until he was about nineteen years old, when he "went for himself." After working through the summer on a farm in Jack- son county, in the fall of 1850, he went to Monroe county, Ill., where he remained until the spring of 1853. In April that year he purchased a horse at St. Louis, and returned to Michigan on horseback. In the fall of 1853 he went to Irving, Barry county, Mich., and located eighty acres of government land, but in 1856 he traded for a farm on section 6, in Adrian township, this county. In 1861 he sold out and went to Johnson county, Iowa, where he remained two years. In 1863 he sold out in Iowa, and again returned to Michigan. In July, 1864, he formed a partner- ship with C. G. Stowers, and was engaged in the grocery business in Adrian, and remained there until January 1, 1867. During the winter of 1865-6 he purchased a farm on section 16, in Adrian
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