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OHN B. SCHUREMAN was born in Westchester, West- chester county, N. Y., April 26, 1795. He lived in West- chester county until 1832, when he came to Michigan. His ancestors came from Holland and settled in Westchester county early in the eighteenth century. They purchased a large tract of land near New Rochelle, where the family always lived until John B. came to Michigan. John B. Schureman was one of the first actual settlers of Rome, coming into the township in the spring of 1832, taking up 320 acres of land on sections 22 and 23, where he made it his home. He also took up, the same year, 80 acres. on sec. 27 in Rome, and 80 acres on sec. 12 in Dover. He built his house on a beautiful eminence on the east side of the west branch . of the Raisin river, eight miles west of Adrian. Sturgis L. Brad- ley settled on sec. 23, about the same time, and built his house a few rods north of Mr. Schureman's, and Sylvester Knapp also settled on sec. 22, and built his house about half a mile west. Theodorick Luther lived about one mile. south, and these four families comprised pretty much all the inhabitants of the town- ship. During the three or four following years a large number of settlers came in, Mr. Schureman's house being headquarters for nearly all the immigrants who were looking for a home. He ac- commodated all that came, lending them all the aid and giving them all the information possible. Mr. Schureman was a man of abili- ty, with a good education for those days, possessing a good knowl- edge of all kinds of business, hence he was at once looked upon by the settlers as their superior in matters of public welfare. The township of Rome was organized at his house and the first town meeting was held there. He built one of the first saw mills that was erected west of Adrian, on his farm one-half mile south of his house. He was the first supervisor of the township, also the first postmaster, and held all the offices in the town within the gift of the people. He was always a very prominent man in the town, being highly honored and respected by all, for his uniform kindness and good judgment. He lived to see every foot of land in Rome owned by actual settlers, and become one of the wealth- iest and most productive townships in the county. He died March 25, 1879. He married Miss Eliza Jane Sands, daughter of John and Hester Sands, of Westchester, N. Y., by whom he had two children, as follows: Edward S., born in Rome, November 17, 1833, died December 9, 1853; Samuel T., born in Rome, March 26, 1838. Mrs. Eliza J. Schureman was born in Westchester county, N. Y., December 4, 1806, and died in Rome, November 19, 1841. July 14, 1842, he married Miss Juliette Berry, daugh- ter of Judge Jonathan Berry, of Rome. Mrs. Schureman still
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resides at the old homestead. Samuel T., the only surviving child of John B. Schureman, always lived with his father. He, of course, was brought up a farmer, and inherited his father's farm. Samuel T. Schureman was a soldier in the rebellion, was a member of the 11th Michigan Cavalry, and was honorably discharged in 1865. June 18, 1862, Samuel T. Schureman was married to Miss Martha A. Todd, daughter of Ransom and Sally Ann. Todd, of Adrian, by whom he has had eight children, as follows: Eliza S., born March 28, 1864; John B., born April 7, 1866, died 'August 28, 1868; Frances Ida, born January 17, 1871; Cynthia Gertrude, born December 25, 1873; Sarah Emma, born March 7, 1876 ; Jeptha W. and Susie W., (twins) born January 6, 1878; one child died in infancy. Mrs. Martha Schureman was born in Adrian township, February 9, 1843. Her parents, Ransom and Sally Ann Todd, came to Michigan in the year 1829. Mr. and Mrs. Ransom Todd are now living in Gorham, Fulton county, Ohio.
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UFUS MERRICK was born in Corinth, Orange county, Vt., April 15, 1800. He is the oldest son of Joseph and Sarah (Herriman) Merrick, who were natives of Rockingham county, New Hampshire. Joseph Merrick was the son of Nathan- iel Merrick, who was also a native of New Hampshire, and a farmer of Rockingham county. Joseph Merrick was brought up a farmer. When he was a young man he went to Corinth, Vt., and followed farming for a few years, and in 1802 he moved to New Hampshire, and finally settled at Newburyport, Mass., where he followed ship carpentering until 1812, when the war broke out and business was suspended. He returned to New Hampshire, and finally back to Corinth, Vt., where he lived until 1816. In the spring of that year he left Corinth, with an old horse team and sleigh, with his wife and eight children, for the State of New York, without any definite point of destination. He got as far as Brutus, (now Sennett) Cayuga county, in March, when the snow went off, and he was compelled to stop. It so happened that an abandoned log house stood near by, which he took possession of and remained in for several days, until he could find a more comfortable place. He settled there and finally purchased a farm and lived there until
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1834, when he sold out and came to Michigan, settling in Adrian, purchasing eighteen acres of land, all of which is now in the city, and comprises that portion lying west of South Main street, and south of Merrick street. He died in Adrian, January 9, 1854. Mrs. Sarah Merrick also died in Adrian, March 2, 1870. Rufus Merrick lived with his parents until the spring of 1817, when he went to Auburn, N. Y., and learned the cabinet maker's trade with Abijah Keeler, remaining there until he was twenty-one, when he went to Kingston, Canada, worked six months and returned to New York. He worked in Auburn one year, in Elbridge, Onondaga county, eight years, and in 1830 he came to Michigan, arriving in Adrian in October, where he has resided ever since, now fifty years. There were but three frame houses in Adrian at that time. He immediately opened a cabinet shop, and during the first nine months his cash receipts were only 7.5 cents. There was nobody to buy his work, need his services, nor money to do business with. He struggled along until the tide of immigration set in in 1834, and from that date for many years he flourished. During the summer of 1830 he purchased of A. J. Comstock a mill privilege, and in the fall of 1832 he built a cabinet and chair shop, which he carried on for about thirty years. In 1854 he changed his shop into a flouring mill, and in 1856 he sold it. In 1834 he built a house on the lot he now occupies on West Maumee street, and in 1846 he built the large brick house he now lives in. Since his residence in Adrian he has built seven dwelling houses, two brick stores, two wooden stores, and one manufacturing establishment and mill. In 1832 he purchased of A. J. Comstock the lot upon which his house now stands, consisting of about one acre, for which he gave a wooden clock and a bedstead. For several years, in connection with his furniture shop and mill he carried on wool carding and cloth dressing, and in 1850 he had a large lot of cloth in the mill, that had been dressed and ready for delivery. One night the whole lot, valued at about $400, was stolen. Old "Sile" Doty was af- terward indicted by the grand jury for the robbery, but the indict- ment and proofs were destroyed when the court house was burned, in 1852. In 1821 Rufus Merrick married Sarah Robbins, in Rochester, N. Y., by whom he had three children, only one of whom is now living, George, born in Auburn, N. Y., March 16, 1824, now a resident of Adrian. Mrs. Sarah Merrick died in Adrian in October, 1839. He afterward married Mrs. Artemitia Hunt, widow of Morris Hunt, and daughter of William and Hul- dah Stone, by whom he had three children, as follows: Philo, died at the age of 14 months; Rufus P., born in Adrian, Novem- ber 17, 1842, a resident of Adrian; Sarah E., born in Adrian, Oc-
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tober 7, 1844, wife of John S. Nash, now at home. Mrs. Arte- mitia Merrick was born in Burlington, Conn., April 12, 1810, and came to Michigan with her husband, Mr. Hunt, in 1838. Her parents were natives of Burlington, Conn., where her mother died. Her father afterwards went to Lima, Ohio, where he died.
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AMUEL NASH Jr., was born at Stony Creek, near Ham- ilton, Canada, December 21, 1828. His father, Samuel Nash, Sr., was born near the village of Norwich, Conn., April 10, 1805, where he resided until he was sixteen or eighteen years old, when he left home and went to St. Catharines, Canada. He there learned the trade of making cloth. He worked there a number of years, when he purchased a small farm near Hamilton, where he resided about three years. He then sold out and went to Niagara county, N. Y., and purchased a farm four miles east of Niagara Falls. He resided there until 1837, when he came to Michigan, and purchased a farm near Rome Center, and remained there until the next fall, when he purchased of John Warner, the farm just east of the city, now known as the Tobey farm. He lived there until 1869, when he sold to Thomas Tobey. He died in Palmyra, this county, October 16, 1875. He married Sarah M. Becker, daughter of Garardus Becker, by whom he had ten children, Samuel Jr., being the oldest. Mrs. Sarah M. Nash was born near Schenectady, N. Y., in 1809, and died in Madison, this county, June 22, 1863. Her father came from Hol- land. Samuel Nash, Jr., lived with his parents on the farm until he was twenty-one years old, when he made up his mind that he would at least see something of this country, and started on a pilgrimage to the east, visited Boston, some of his relatives in Connecticut, and then went to New York, and Norfolk, Va. He then went to St. Paul, Minn., and visited the Red River country, calculating to go to Pembina, but the weather became so cold, and having frozen his feet, he returned to St. Paul, and found em- ployment in a lumber camp on Rum river. He next went to Scott county, Iowa, and worked for one year for David Hardie, a large farmer. While he was in Davenport, one day, in the fall of 1856, with a load of wheat for Mr. Hardie, he heard Jim Lane (29)
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make a speech on the Kansas troubles, and in a day or two he was on his way to Kansas. He went to St. Louis and took a steamer for Kansas City, which was loaded with about 175 armed Missouri desperadoes, under "Col." Titus, who were going to Kansas to " clean out" the Yankees. Mr. Nash got away from them during the first night at Kansas city, and made his way into Kansas. The night was very dark, and the country was strange to him, but he must either get away or be discovered as a " Yan- kee." When he came to the river he took his bundle of clothes in his teeth and waded into the stream, not being sure whether he was going across, up or down stream. When the water was beyond his depth he swam, with the bundle still in his teeth, until he finally reached the shore, when he clambered up and saw the Yankee camp fires, which he made for at once. Upon his arrival at the picket line he was captured as a spy and marched into camp, put under a close guard and carefully questioned, and had it not happened that Lane himself was in camp, and remembered the circumstance of shaking hands, and other incidents in Daven- port, he would have been shot as a spy from Titus' camp. He passed through all the Kansas troubles, was with Lane for two years, and made it his home at Lawrence, until July, 1860, when he enlisted in Battery F, 2d U. S. Artillery, Capt. (afterward General) Totten, and served five years. In the fall of 1860 the company was ordered to Ft. Smith, Ark .; the following spring they were stationed at Little Rock, and in the spring of 1862, the company became a part of General Lyon's command, in Missouri. During the war of the rebellion, Mr. Nash participated in the fol- lowing battles: May 10, 1861, Camp Jackson, Mo .; June 17, 1861, Booneville, Mo .; August 2, 1861, Dug Springs, Mo .; Au- gust 10, 1861, Wilson's Creek, Mo .; March, 1862, the siege of New Madrid and Island No. 10, Mo .; May 28, 1862, battle of Farmington, Miss .; May, 1862, siege of Corinth, Miss .; February 19, 1862, Iuka, Miss .; October 3d and 4th, 1862, Curtis' Mills, Miss .; May, 1864, engagements near Resaca and Dallas, Ga .; June 1864, Kenesaw Mountain, Ga .; July 4, 1864, Rufus' Mills, Ga .; July 23, 1864, battles near Atlanta, Ga .; August 3, 1864, battle of Jonesville, Ga. He was honorably discharged at Chattanooga, Tenn., July 12, 1865. Since his discharge from the army, Mr. Nash has followed farming. He first purchased a farm in Pal- myra, but in the spring of 1876 he purchased a farm on section 10, in Adrian township, where he now resides. January 19, 1869, Samuel Nash, Jr., married Miss Evangeline O. Morgan, daughter of William and Almena Morgan, of Adrian, by whom he has had five children, as follows: Cora E. and Ida A., (twins) born No-
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vember 24, 1870; Ida died March 24, 1871; Myra I., born De- cember 10, 1871; Samuel L., born May 28, 1875, died August 24, 1876; Albert P., born May 11, 1877. Mrs. Evangeline O. Nash was born in Jordan, New York, November 2, 1854, and came to Michigan with her parents in 1857, and settled in Blissfield, this county. Her father was a native of London, England, came to America when he was sixteen, and always after followed the sea. He died in 1858. Her mother was born in Jordan, New York, in 1834, and is now living in Adrian. Her ancestors were Span- ish and German.
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SA RUSSELL was born in Wilmington, Windham county, Conn., February 22, 1800. His father, Captain Asa Rus- sell, was a native of Canterbury, Conn., and was a captain in the Revolutionary war. He married Lucy Varnum, daughter of Benjamin and Lucy Varnum, of Canterbury, Conn., by whom he had seven children, four sons and three daughters, Asa being the fourth son and sixth child. Captain Asa Russell died in 1806, in Canterbury, and his wife lived to be over fifty. Asa Russell, at a very early age, went into a cotton factory in Canterbury, and remained there until he was about sixteen years old, when he was bound out by his mother to learn the carpenter's trade; but after serving two years his employer died, and he went to Rochester, N. Y., where he followed his trade about one year, but was taken sick and returned to Connecticut, and remained about two years in Plain- field. In February, 1824, he went to Plainfield (now Meridian), N. H., where he resided eight years, and was a prominent builder there. In the spring of 1832 he went to Perry, Geauga county, Ohio, where he remained until September, 1834, when he came to Michigan and settled on section 32, in Macon (now Ridgeway), this county, where he owned several pieces of land. He resided in Ridgeway until the spring of 1854, when he sold out and purchased a farm on section 29, in Macon, where he has resided until the summer of 1880, when, owing to age and failing health, he left Macon and now lives with his son, Edward L. Russell, in Raisin. He has always followed his trade, and was for some time the only expert and competent carpenter and joiner in Macon. He built nearly all of the first
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buildings in Ridgeway village, erecting the first hotel and store, besides the first saw mill, and at one time owned and carried on a large steam saw mill in the village. January 1, 1823, Asa Rus- sell married Lydia H. Lovegrove, daughter of Edward and Lydia Lovegrove, of Plainfield, Conn., by whom he has had five children, as follows: Elizabeth L., born in Plainfield (now Meridian), N. H., October 15, 1823, was the wife of Richard Cadmus, of Macon, and died March 26, 1875; Caroline, born in Plainfield, N. H., January 16, 1828, now the wife of Jacob Thompson, of Cooper, Kalamazoo county, Mich .; Edward L., born in Plainfield, N. H., June 9, 1831, now a farmer of Raisin, this county; Asel, born in Perry, Geauga county, Ohio, June 8, 1833, a farmer of Macon ; Helen E., born in Macon, this county, January 29, 1839, now the wife of John Emmans, of Macon. Mrs. Lydia H. Russell was born in Plainfield, Conn., September 21, 1801. Her father was born in Norwich, Conn., and married Lydia Huntington, daughter of Nathaniel Huntington, of Norwich, by whom he had four chil- dren, Lydia H. being the third child. Edward Lovegrove died in Plainfield, Conn. His wife Lydia died at Norwich, at her daughter's. Edward L. Russell married Miss Hulda M. Bangs, daughter of Alanson and Mary Bangs, of Raisin, by whom he has had five children, as follows: Ellsworth E., born near Centralia, Clinton county, Ill., May 22, 1861; Mary L., born March 8, 1863, in Macon, this county; Ida A., born January 21, 1865, in Raisin; Francis E., born January 22, 1867, in Raisin; Almeida M., born October 30, 1875, in Raisin. Mrs. Hulda M. Russell was born in Raisin, this county, August 31, 1834, and now lives in the house in which she was born. [For her family relation see Alanson Bangs' record, on another page of this volume.]
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HARLES R. LUCE was born in Pompey, Onondaga coun- ty, N. Y., May 10, 1823. His father, Joseph Luce, was a farmer, and in 1826 he sold out in Onondaga county, moved to Barre, Orleans county and purchased a new farm. In 1836 Joseph Luce sold his farm in Barre and went to Cattarau- gus county where he again purchased a new farm. Charles stayed with his father and assisted him in clearing up both his new farms,
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until the winter of 1843-4, when he was twenty years old, he went to Union county, Ohio, and in the spring of 1844 came to Michi- gan, arriving in Adrian in April, coming through on horseback, and experiencing the terrors of the Black swamp. Soon after his arrival in Adrian, and after he had visited his brother, who then as now, lived in Rome, he commenced work at the cooper's trade, which he had followed while in Ohio the previous winter. In the fall of 1845, he went to Addison in the employ of Darius C. Jackson, in and about the Addison mills. In the fall of 1846 he went to Hudson, where he followed coopering until the spring of 1847. He was a member of the Hudson lodge I. O. O. F., No. 26. That year he commenced working for the Michigan Southern railroad, and in the fall of 1849 he was installed as fireman on the old locomotive " Hudson," and continued until the fall of 1852. He then went to Sandusky, Ohio, where he was "given an engine" on the Sandusky, Mansfield and Newark railroad. He remained there as engineer for nearly a year, when he was offered the posi- tion of engineer on the Michigan Southern railroad, which he ac- cepted, and ran from Adrian to White Pigeon. During the first year on the Michigan Southern, while he was on the running board of his locomotive, when his train was in motion, he canght his right foot in the cross-head, nearly crushing it, but it was so skill- fully amputated that the entire back part, or heel, was saved, which has ever since answered very well for a foot. He remained in the employ of the Michigan Southern railroad until 1859, and in the spring of 1862 he went to Missouri where, for some time, he was in the Quartermaster's department under Gen. Sigel. In the spring of 1863 he returned to Adrian, and in January, 1866, he again commenced running as engineer on the Detroit division of the Michigan Southern railroad from Toledo to Detroit, where he remained for twelve years. In 1878 he again returned to Adrian, and since that time he has run between Adrian and Monroe. During his entire railroad experience he has never been in any serious smash-up or accident, where any person was killed. Joseph Luce was born in Massachusetts in 1780, and died in Cattaraugus county, N. Y., in November, 1863. He married Miss Betsey Hart- well, also a native of Massachusetts, by whom he had eleven children, Charles R. being the youngest. Mrs. Betsey Luce died in Cattarau- gus about the year 1857. Charles R. Luce was married to Miss Electa S. Hartwell, daughter of Calvin and Minerva (Higbee) Hartwell, January 21, 1843, by whom he had three children, as follows: Deme- trius M., born in Addison, this county, May 8, 1847; Chartrus D., born in Hudson, this county, July 1, 1849; Beatrice A. V., born in Adrian, January 7, 1855, now the wife of Devillo W. Keeler, of
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Otto, Cattaraugus county, N. Y. Mrs. Electa S. Luce was born in New Albion, Cattaraugus county, N. Y., January 12, 1826, and died in Adrian, August 8, 1855. December 24, 1863, Charles R. Luce married Esther M. Baker, daughter of Aaron and Prudence Baker, of Fairfield, this county, by whom he has had six children. as follows: Charles Hatch, born in Toledo, Ohio, April 21, 1866, and died November 15, 1869; Jay D., born in Toledo, Ohio, Feb- ruary 29, 1868, died July 12, 1868; Bessie S., born in Detroit, May 8, 1870; Carl B., born in Detroit, January 12, 1873; two children died in infancy. Mrs. Esther M. Luce was born in Adrian township, November 4, 1831. March 21, 1847, she was married to Frederick Tuttle, by whom she had three children, as follows: Aaron A., born December 10, 1849, now a farmer of Ithaca, Gratiot county, Mich. Elizabeth R., born March 23, 1852, now the wife of Henry Linament, also of Ithaca, Gratiot county, Mich .; Frank P., born March 13, 1855. Mrs. Luce was divorced from Mr. Tuttle in 1859. [For her family relation see the record of Aaron S. Baker, on page 108 of this volume].
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RS. CATHARINE BOWEN was born in Schenectady, N. Y., January 2, 1806. She is the third daughter and fifth child of Henry and Nancy Weatherwax, of Shelby, Orleans county, N. Y .. Her father was born in Pittstown, Rensselaer county, N. Y., September 14, 1773, and about the year 1800 he went to Schenectady, where he was a farmer. In 1819 he went to Shelby, Orleans county, and purchased a farm, where he resided until 1836, when he came to Michigan and settled on section 33, in Madison, where he lived until his death, which occurred July 4, 1861. About the year 1796 Henry Weatherwax married Miss Nancy Clark, daughter of Silas and Rebecca Clark, of Somerset, Mass., by whom he had ten children. Mrs. Nancy Weatherwax was born in Somerset, Mass., April 23, 1773, and died in Lagrange county, Ind., of apoplexy while visiting a daughter, January 28, 1848. Before Mrs. Catharine Bowen was married she taught school in Shelby for ten years. October 3, 1833, she was married to Elijah Bowen, who was the youngest son of Samuel and Pamelia Bowen, of Shelby, by whom she had five children, as fol-
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lows: Henry W., born in Shelby, Ontario county, N. Y., Decem- ber 3, 1834, a farmer of Madison; George W., born in Madison, this county, January 11, 1838, now a practicing physician of Toledo, Ohio; Silas C., born in the same place, March 27, 1840, died November 13, 1856; Adna H., born same place, July 21, 1842, a lawyer of Hastings, Neb .; Ann, born in same place, Sep- tember 23, 1846, died December 26, 1857. Elijah Bowen was born in Rutland, Vt., February 14, 1806, and went to Niagara county, N. Y., with his parents in 1818. He came to Michigan in 1836 and settled in Madison, and died there April 7, 1849. Mrs. Bowen saw pioneer life in the State of New York, as well as in Michigan. When her parents moved into Orleans county it was very new. They lived twenty-five miles from the village of Batavia, where supplies were procured. This was before the Erie canal was constructed, and all merchandise was transported across the State in wagons. She thinks pioneer life in Western New York, previous to 1820, was fully equal to any experienced in Michigan after 1830. 1
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BENEZER HARMON was born in Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y., September 9, 1809. His father, David Har- mon, was born in Bennington, Vt., in 1771. He was brought up a farmer, and lived in Vermont until he was a young man, when he went to New York, and finally settled in Phelps, Ontario county, where he cleared up a new farm. He resided in Phelps until his death, which occurred November 8, 1838. About the year 1803 he married Sylvia Woodard, daughter of Ebenezer and Lois Woodard, by whom he had seven children, Ebenezer be- ing the third child and oldest son. Mrs. Sylvia Harmon was born in the State of New York, in 1785, and died in Phelps, Sep- tember 28, 1837. Ebenezer Harmon lived with his parents until he was twenty-one years old, and worked on his father's farm. In the fall of 1830 he commenced working by the month in the village of Phelps, and remained there until the spring of 1834. In the spring of 1833 he came to Michigan with David Berdan, on a prospecting tour, and after looking around for some time finally located 80 acres on section 1, in Macon. In the spring of 1834
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he moved his family to Michigan and settled on his land. At that time an Indian trail ran along the ridge, which he followed from Mooreville, in Washtenaw county. During the fall of 1833 David Berdan and Ira Stewart cut a road through from Mooreville to Macon creek, a distance of seven miles, along the trail. It is the same road that is now known the county over, as the "ridge' road," said to be the best natural thoroughfare in Michigan. When Mr. Harmon got his family on his land, purchased a cow, paid for one-third of an ox team and wagon, which he purchased in partnership with Mr. Berdan, he had three dollars in silver left. During the first summer he and his wife and child lived with Mr. Berdan, and Ebenezer went to Tecumseh and worked four days for Mr. Hewitt, in harvest, but got no money, taking ten bushels of wheat. He worked one day and a half for Ezra Blood, in finishing his harvest, for which he got $1.50 in money. He helped Mr. Berdan in his harvest, when he was taken with the ague, which lasted him three months. This sickness was a misfortune, because he was obliged to work for food for his family, and wanted to build a house to live in that winter. He finally got up a house with the assistance of Ira Stewart, in November, and moved into it before it was plastered up, or had windows or doors. Immediately after getting into his house he cleared off about two acres and sowed it to wheat in December. It froze up a day or two afterward, but moderated in January, and the wheat came up nicely. In the spring it looked winter killed, and he planted the whole piece to corn. The wheat soon after started up, and would have choked out all of the corn if he had not hoed about half an acre of it and killed it. He left the other acre and a half, from which he got thirty-one bushels of wheat. He never has failed to have a crop of wheat since, except two years, when the weevil destroyed the crops. He never was much of a hunter, and never was obliged to "hunt" much to get all the fresh meat he wanted. Deer were very plenty, and would come along in droves, and he has killed two before breakfast. Bear were also plenty, and often visited the hog pens of the settlers. Wolves were also plenty and noisy, but Mr. Harmon never killed any, or saw more than one, but has heard them to his entire satisfaction. Mr. Har- mon was a soldier in the Toledo war, and has served as justice of .
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