History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan, Part 104

Author: Durant, Samuel W. cn
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia : D.W. Ensign & Co.
Number of Pages: 772

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" On the 17th day of December, 1815, Mr. Reynolds appointed as trustees of the "First Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Bellevue," John T. Ellis, Anson Ackley, James Andrews, Sylvanus Hunsiker, Robert J. Grant, Congdon Brown, and Samuel Reynolds. Rev. J. F. Collins also appointed trustees in 1849.

of regular changes, in September of this year (1880) by auother.

The present frame church edifice was built and dedicated in the spring of 1853, Rev. R. Sapp preaching the dedi- catory sermon. The parsonage was built in the summer of 1861, when Rev. T. B. Granger was pastor. March 16, 1837, the class at Bellevue numbered twenty-eight persons, of whom but few are now living. The only survivor of the original class of five members is Mrs. Permelia Hunsiker, widow of Sylvanus HIunsiker, Sr.

The present membership of the church is 180. The Sunday-school has also a large attendance, and is presided over by Frank A. Ford, superintendent.

Baptist Church, Bellevue .- Mr. Hayt speaks of the organization of this church and the building of its house of worship, and further than this we have been unable to obtain data concerning its past history. The present mem- bership is 166, and the pastor Rev. L. E. Spafford. A Sunday-school is maintained, having a large attendance ; its superintendent is A. J. Sawyer.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

CAPT. REUBEN FITZGERALD.

While history records the names and deeds of the great men of the past and present, it is right and proper that the real representatives of the people-the men who were the advance-guards of civilization and progress, who cleared away the forests, made the roads, bridged the streams, and built the first school-houses, churches, and villages-should have a prominent place in this work. Such a man was Capt. Reuben Fitzgerald, the first white settler of Eaton County. Ile was born in Montgomery Co., Md., Fcb. 23, 1800. When Reuben was seven years old, his father moved to the town of Palmyra, Ontario Co., N. Y., where he (Redmond

SYLVESTER DAY.

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Fitzgerald) bought a tract of wild land, on which Reuben grew to manhood. The father being a cripple, the sons were obliged to clear up and work the farm. Reuben's op- portunities for acquiring an education were limited, result- ing in a loss he has sorely felt, and which has ofttimes stood in the way of his political advancement. Arrived at ma- jority, he began life for himself. He had no means, but was endowed with health, strength, and a determination to make for himself a home and competency. He worked by the month for a time, then for a year or two worked a farm on shares. He then went into a foundry and learned the moulder's trade, which he followed for seven years. In this way he accumulated a few hundred dollars, with which he bought a small farm in Camillus, Onondaga Co., N. Y. On this farm he resided until 1833, when he sold, and on the fourth day of July, with his family, started for Michi- gan, where he had the previous year bought of the govern- ment two hundred acres of land on sections 28 and 33 in the town of Bellevue, Eaton Co. On the west half of the south- east quarter of section 28 he built a bark shanty, or wig- wam, living in his wagon while it was being built. The bark used was claimed by the Indians, who were then en- camped where the village of Bellevue now stands, and who strenuously objected to having their old wigwams turned into a white man's residence. In the fall of that year (1833), with lumber and material bought at Marshall, Mr. Fitzgerald built on the site of the present residence of Hiram M. Allen the first frame house built in Eaton County. At the same time he built one for Mr. Hunsiker, who had taken up land at the same time with him, but who did not move in until the following year. Mr. Fitzgerald had reached the new home with but little means, and thus we find him building a house and breaking up land for his more fortunate neighbor, Mr. Ilunsiker, to obtain money to buy material for his own, and for the use of a team with which to break up his land.

They moved into their house before it was completed. Mrs. Fitzgerald was siek at the time, but they could not choose the time of moving, going when they must. A severe storm came on before the roof was on, and Mr. Fitz- gerald and another man held a buffalo robe over the siek- bed of Mrs. Fitzgerald during the storm. In the little house thus built he lived many years, adding to it from time to time, as the increasing wants of his family de- manded. It was finally torn down in 1878. With energy and perseverance he went to work, and soon fields of waving grain took the place of the openings and forests. Other settlers came, and a settlement of whites took the place of the Indian village. He became ultimately the owner of many acres, two hundred of which were under improvement and very valuable, the result, not of speculation, but of in- dustry and good management. Mr. Fitzgerald did much to encourage the building up and advancement of the village of Bellevue, part of which was on his farm. He was, it is said by his old neighbors, always generous, and ever a leader in public enterprises and good works; a man honored and esteemed by all for his sterling worth and integrity, and one whose loss was a public calamity. He was captain of a militia company in New York, which title followed him to the new home, where he was known as " the captain."

In politics he was a Democrat, but never a seeker for politi- cal preferment. He died July 20, 1873, mourned and re- gretted by a large cirele of friends and acquaintances. On the 23d day of February, 1825, Mr. Fitzgerald was mar- ried to Miss Judith Sweeting, who was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., April 15, 1802. There were born to them Reuben E., Jan. 30, 1827 ; Leonard O., June 2, 1829, who was a captain in the Union army, and died from wounds received at Murfreesboro', December, 1863; Eliza J., born Oct. 13, 1830 ; Mary A., Sept. 11, 1832; Sarah A., Nov. 12,1834; and Edwin R., Feb. 13, 1837. Mrs. Fitzgerald died Feb. 29, 1837. On the 15th day of December, 1841, he was again married, his bride being Miss Florinda Eldred, daughter of Judge Eldred, of Climax, Mich. She was born Jan. 12, 1818, in Otsego Co., N. Y. Their children were Aristeen D., born Nov. 11, 1842; Dwight W., Oct. 14, 1844 ; Adelbert E., May 10, 1847 ; Louisa G., May 8, 1849; Jennie E., Sept. 9, 1853; Flora C., Oct. 1, 1857 ; and Charlie R., April 24, 1860.

Mr. Fitzgerald, in selecting his second wife, could have made no better choice. Coming to Michigan in 1833, and seeing much of pioneer life, bountifully endowed with natural and acquired talents, she could not but be a model pioneer wife and mother. Judge Eldred, her father, was one of the first and most honored pioneers of Kalamazoo County. He was a native of the Empire State, where he became a wealthy and prominent man. He was for two terms a member of the New York Legislature, and held other offices of trust and responsibility. By signing with others he suffered loss, and after giving up his farm, for a time worked a rented one. In 1832 he came to Michigan, and settled in Comstock, Kalamazoo Co., where he built one of the first mills of importance in the county. In 1833, Mr. Eldred and others made the first entry on Cli- max Prairie, to which his son Daniel gave the name. The land was bought and mills built with money borrowed from friends in New York. Mr. Eldred became wealthy and in- fluential in his new home. He was for many years presi- dent of the Kalamazoo Baptist College, and was one of its founders. He was twice sent to the Michigan Legislature, was associate judge, and held many town offices. He died in 1877.

SYLVESTER DAY.

In the northeast quarter of Bellevue township resides Sylvester Day, who was among the first to settle in that part of the town, and is now one of its oldest living pio- neers. His father, Asa Day, was a Vermonter, his family having settled there on their arrival in America prior to the Revolutionary war. When seventeen years old Asa's father emigrated to the then wilderness of Whites- town, Oneida Co., N. Y., where he remained until after his marriage to Miss Nancy Snyder, when he moved into On- tario County, and about a mile from Lake Ontario again bought a new farm, which he, with the assistance of his half-brother, Alpha Session, cleared and improved. In 1826 he sold out. and in Orleans Co., N. Y., again cleared up a new farm. In 1836 sold out, and in company with

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his half-brother came to Bellevue, where each located gov- ernment land,-Mr. Day the northeast quarter and Mr. Session the southeast quarter of section 1. Mr. Session also bought the southeast quarter of section 36 in Kalamo. In October, 1836, Mr. Day with his family, consisting of his daughter Jane, and two sons, Sylvester and Samuel S., located on the Bellevue land, coming the entire distance with an ox-team. Between their land and Bellevue there was only the log house of Mr. Butler. They at once erected a shanty, in which they slept the second night after their arrival, though it had no cover, and their bed being a couple of planks split out of a log. The roof was made of troughs dug out of basswood, their floor of plank split out of the same wood. In this shanty they lived eighteen months. All hands at once turned in and commenced to clear. The feed for their cattle during the first winter con- sisted of corn and browse. The following spring was a very wet one, so that they found it impossible to burn the logs, and the brush was cleared away and corn planted among the logs. The crop, which bid fair to be a good one, was cut off by an early frost while it was yet green, thus adding to the hard times already felt. The next fall they sowed seven acres of wheat, which was a good crop, and from that time life began to look brighter and pros- perous times commenced. But until the first wheat was harvested times were very hard. Their means were ex- hausted. Flour was twenty-five dollars per barrel, and they often saw hunger and want staring them in the face. After this they never knew want. The shanty was replaced with a comfortable log house and outbuildings, the forests disappeared as if by magic, while the houses of new-comers arose on every hand. On this farm Mr. Day passed the remainder of his days, deeding before his death the south- east 80 of the farm to his son Sylvester, who was the old- est of the family, and who was born in Ontario township, Ontario Co., N. Y., Dec. 17, 1817. Being a lad of nine- teen years when his father moved into Bellevue, as above set forth, he was one of the main spokes in the wheel and did his share towards clearing the new farm. The first flour obtained for the family was through his efforts. With a yoke of oxen he went to Marengo, in Calhoun County, a distance of thirty miles, and bought ten bushels of wheat, paying three dollars per bushel. He then took it to Mar- shall to be ground. He asked the miller if he could get his wheat ground. The answer was, " Yes; in abont six weeks." Ile said, " What am I to do? I am twenty-five miles from home, and my family are entirely out of bread." The miller replied that a good many said the same thing, but he could do no better. All he could do was to let him have a little flour which he had on hand. In just six weeks Mr. Day returned for his flour, which was ready for him the next morning, and he returned home rejoicing. To the eighty acres given him by his father he has added two hun- dred and twenty acres, making a large and well-improved farm, with good buildings, orchards, etc., the result of in- dustry and close attention to business. As a citizen and neighbor Mr. Day is spoken of by his friends and neighbors as a man whom to know is to honor and esteem ; a man of integrity and solid worth. On the 2d day of September, 1840, he was married to Lura Ann Woolcott, daughter of

Cornelius and Jemima (Bradley) Woolcott. She was born in Oneida Co., N. Y., July 17, 1818. There were born to them Climena A., Oct. 29, 1842; Cornelius A., Aug. 14, 1844 ; Curtis A., Feb. 14, 1846 ; and Clark, Feb. 18, 1849, died March 5, 1849. Mrs. Day died Feb. 22, 1849.

EDWIN OSMUN.

Among the successful farmers of Bellevue township we find the name of Edwin Osmun, who was born in the town of Jerusalem, Yates Co., N. Y., Jan. 25, 1823. His father, Jonathan Osmun, was born in Ohio in 1797. He married Miss Naney Andrus, who died in 1867. When Edwin was twelve years old, his father moved to the town of Ogden, Monroe Co., N. Y., where he still resides, a hale and a hearty old man, although he has reached the age of eighty-three. Edwin's opportunities for obtaining an ed- ucation were limited to the usual winter's attendance at the district school.

Arrived at majority he started in life for himself, leaving the old home with nothing but a willing heart and strong arms. For three years he worked by the month, then worked land on shares until 1850, when he turned his face towards the setting sun determined to find for himself a home in the Western States. He came to Michigan, and while visiting a friend in Assyria, bought, or traded for, eighty acres of land in Bellevue township. There were a few acres cleared and a log house, into which he moved his family. But they soon found that life's pathway in a new country was not always strewn with flowers. For three years they suffered much with malarial fevers then so com- mon in Michigan. Mr. Osmun would be sick one day, his wife the next. The water used in the family was brought eighty rods from a spring which seemed in their weak state to be a mile away. But times changed as the years passed ; returning health brought strength and hope. The woods disappeared, and in their place appeared fields of grain. The log house has long since been replaced by a finer one, surrounded by ornamental trees, orchards, and good outbuildings, making one of the finest places in the town. The farm is now composed of one hundred and twenty-eight acres, one hundred of which are nuder im- provement.

Mr. Osmun is a Democrat, but not a politician. In church matters he is liberal. In 1848 he was married to Miss Mary Jewett. Their union was blessed with the following children : Melinda, born Jan. 22, 1849 ; Henry, Sept. 2, 1851 ; Charles, Sept. 2, 1858 ; Clarence, Nov. - , 1862 ; and Mary E., Nov. 4, 1869. Mrs. Osmun died Feb. 20, 1872. On the 4th day of June, 1873, he was married to Mrs. Mariette B. Luscomb, who was born in Croydon, Sul- livan Co., N. H., March 24, 1832, daughter of Caleb and Clarissa (Smith) Smart. Mrs. Osmun's first husband was Leonard Luscomb. Their children were Francis E. Luscomb, born March 3, 1856; Charles E., Sept. 26, 1857 ; IIelen S., April 16, 1859; Mary, April 14, 1861 ; and Willis D., Aug. 26, 1862. To Mr. and Mrs. Osmun there has been born one child, Jessie B., Nov. 10, 1874.

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BENTON.

NATURAL FEATURES. GEOGRAPHY, TOPOGRAPHY, ETC.

BENTON township lies immediately northeast of the centre of the county of Eaton, and is bounded north by Oneida, east by Windsor, south by Eaton, and west by Chester. It includes surveyed township No. 3 north, in range No. 4 west .* In point of agricultural resources it ranks high among its sister townships, as much of it has been but a few years denuded of the heavy timber which once covered it. A very large proportion of timber yet exists, of excellent quality. The surface of the township is generally rolling, and the soil is mostly a sandy loam. A considerable area was originally covered with swamp, and a part of the well-known " Old Maid Swamp" lies in the northeast corner. The drainage of the township is into the Thornapple River, which, even as near its source as this, is a stream of no inconsiderable size. The Battle Creek and Lansing State road and the Chicago and Grand Trunk Railway cross the township from southwest to north- east, their courses being nearly parallel. Potterville is a new and thriving village in the eastern part of town, and the inhabitants of the township are generally in good cir- cumstances.

LAND ENTRIES.

The following are the entries of land in town 3 north, range 4 west (now the township of Benton), as shown on the tract-book for the county of Eaton, in the office of the county register. Those marked thus (*) were actual settlers :

Section 1 .- 1836, C. W. Jacobs," Lucius Abbott; 1849, D. Merrill ; 1866-67, Henry H. Crapo.

Section 2 .- 1836, M. Jacobs," F. Young,# Lucius Abbott; 1837, W.

Dallas, W. Packard, D. Hall; 1849, G. E. Kibby ; 1852, M. Kibby.

Section 3 .- 1836, M. Seymour, Lorenzo Sprague, F. Young ; 1837, L. Sprague ; 1839, W. H. Palmer; 1848, S. B. Dayton.

Scetion 4 .- 1836, A. Mygatt, Lorenzo Sprague.

Section 5 .- 1836-37, E. G. Mygatt; 1837, Alston Mygatt.

Section 6 .- 1836, II. V. Prentice; 1837, A. Preston, H. Fuller, C. Griswold; 1840, J. Ludowick .*

Section 7 .- 1836, H. V. Prentice, Charles H. Carroll.

Section 8 .- 1836, C. H. Carroll, McVickar & Constable; 1837, A. Stinson.

Section 9 .- 1836, McVickar & Constable (entire).

Section 10 .- 1836, McVickar & Constable; no date, J. R. Williams ;* 1854, H. Williams ;# 1855, J. Blair;# 1868, George W. Swift.#

Section 11 .- 1836, Lucius Abbott ; 1847, R. Walker ;# 1848, C. Spears,# E. Jacobs;# 1851, Obadiah C. Champlin.

Section 12 .- 1837, Benjamin F. Bailey ;# 1842, Samuel Barstow & Thomas Lockwood ; 1847, E. Merrill, R. Walker, P. 11. & J. M. Jewell ; 1848, E. Jacobs;# 1849, D. Merrill ;# 1850, E. B. Cobb .** Section 13 .- 1839, George P. Carman,# S. H. Westfall, L. G. Rich- mond, S. Carman ;* 1847, Thos. H. Brown ;# 1849, Thos. A. Ames.

* The south boundary of this township was surveyed in 1825 by John Mullett ; the east, north, and west boundaries by Lucius Lyon in the same year, and the subdivisions by Orange Risdon in 1826.

Section 14 .- 1838, W. R. Richmond; 1849, R. Nixon ;# 1850, 11. C.

French;# 1851, O. Walker,# Obadiah C. Champlin; 1852, L. Sloane; 1853, T. W. Warren;# 1858, George N. Potter.#

Section 15 .- 1836, J. R. Williams, J. Berdan, C. H. Carroll; 1852, E. Munger;# 1854, George N. Potter.

Section 16 .- 1854, F. Weaver,# R. Meyers," L. W. Hitchings, William Hitchings,# Hf. I. Lawrence," 0. Merritt, W. Gladding,# J. & H. Lachr,* J. Lachr .*

Section 17 .- 1837, J. Parmelce (entire).

Section 18 .- 1836, C. R. Strong, McVickar & Constable.

Section 19 .- 1836, McVickar & Constable; 1839, E. Boutco.

Section 20 .- 1836, McVickar & Constable (entire).

Section 21 .- 1836, McVickar & Constable (entire).

Section 22 .- 1836, Charles II. Carroll ; 1846, D. Slayton," L. Slayton ;* 1849, William Cole; 1852, Z. D. Flagler;# 1854, G. N. Potter.

Section 23 .- 1839, B. Shirley, Jr .; # 1844, Diana Potter;# 1846, D.

Slayton ; 1847, G. N. Potter, Thomas H. Brown, E. Merrill, L. S. Melntyre;# 1849, William Cole,# H. Abel.#

Section 24 .- 1839, G. P. Carmian ; 1845, P. Reed, Linus Potter; 1847, James Chambers,# George P. Carman, Thomas H. Brown, James Mckibben, Thomas Spears ;# 1852, H. Haun.#

Section 25 .- 1837, Wm. Frink, A. F. Fitch; 1847, James McKibben ; 1849, Thomas Burkhead.#

Section 26 .- 1836, Charles II. Carroll; 1837, William Frink ; 1845, II. Verplank ;# 1847, Z. B. Scarles," W. H. Cornell ;# 1849, Nathan Newell.#

Section 27 .- 1836, Charles H. Carroll, A. A. Williams, H. T. Miles. Section 28 .- 1836, McVickar & Constable, 11. M. Smith.

Section 29 .- 1836, Mc Vickar & Constable (entire).

Section 30 .-- 1836, McVickar & Constable; 1837, W. Barnes, J. Fisher,*

A. Hawkshurst: 1838, S. Cushing; 1841, J. G. Bellows;# 1850, George Walker.#

Section 31 .- 1835, T. R. Smith; 1836, E. Waterman, J. C. Bailey ;# 1837, T. Moshier ;# 1842, A. Ames ;# 1845, J. Martin;# 1850, H. H. Hatch .*

Section 32 .- 1836, James Gibbs, II. Smith, A. R. Fitch; 1837, A. R. Fitch.

Section 33 .- 1836, Hiram M. Smith & B. F. Smith.

Section 34 .- 1836, H. T. Miles; 1845, E. A. Card; 1846, J. McCon- nell ;* 1847, H. P. Richardson ;# 1848, C. Elvert, C. Chants ;* 1849, S. E. Milfett ;# 1850, 11. Cook," HI. Mann.

Section 35 .- 1836, Charles H. Carroll; 1847, George J. Reed ;# 1849, S. E. Millett, Ambrose Rice, H. R. Warren."

Section 36 .- 1836, C. H. Carroll ; 1848, Alex. Cole, B. T. Hall;# 1850, Polly Linderman, A. Porter.#

From this list it will be seen that much of the land in the township was purchased for the purpose of speculation, and this in a great measure delayed settlement. Specula- tors, as a rule, did not settle upon land they had purchased, and it was often the case that persons made choice of cer- tain parcels of land only to find, upon arrival at the land- office, that they had been already taken by men residing in some one of the Eastern cities,-oftener New York than any other,-and the same land would perhaps remain un- improved for more than twenty years, or has even until the present.

EARLY SETTLEMENT.

From the Centennial address of Edward A. Foote, Esq., of Charlotte, read July 5, 1876, is taken the following ac- count of the early settlement of the township of Benton :

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" Benton was not detnched from Oneida until 1843. For about two years the town was compelled to bear the name of Tom Benton. When the inhabitants petitioned for n separate organization they asked the Legislature to name the new township Benton, probably in honor of 'Old Bullion.' But the name having been already given to some other township, some wag suggested the name of Tom Benton, and tho Legislature passed the act adopting it. Tho Tom Benton people, not liking the prefix, finally effeeted n change to that of Benton.

" The first loeation in that town by n settler was throngh mistake. Japhet Fisher attempted to locate bis land in Eaton, on seetion 30, but by mistake located in town 3 north instead of 2 north, which brought him six miles farther north than he intended. For a time he was not aware of this mistake, and when it was discovered he had serious thoughts at first of not going neur it, as it was so far from bis friends on Searls Street. But in February, 1837, ho pioneered his way to the land, in the southwest corner of Benton, put up the first shanty erected in that township, and was the first, and for a time tho only, settler. Japhet Fisher, after having built his trough-roof shanty, eight by ten, in 1837, was followed in March or April by Mr. Moody, who built a shunty in the northwest part of the town. lle moved in by the Clinton trail. In May of the same year Mr. Frederick Young came in by way of the Canada settlement, and built his shanty in the northeast part of the township. All built temporary shanties of poles or logs, with trough roofs. The shanty roofs pitehed all one way like a sheJ. When a settlor says he put up a shanty, be does not mean to be understood as putting up a log house. There was in those days n vast difference between the two. One man could put up a shanty, but a log house raising requirel the united strength nf a township,-sometimes of two or three adjoining townships.

"As the trough roof is n thing of the past, and many of my readers may never see a sample, I will endeavor to convey.an iden of its con- struction. First a row nf troughs are placed side by side, close to- gether, running from the ridge down to the eaves. All the rain that fell into these troughs would, of course, be readily run off. But some- thing must be done to intereept the ruin which might fall between the troughs, where the sides did not fit perfectly together. By turning another row of troughs bottom side up over their joints, the water would nll be shed into those which were right side up. This made something like a comfortable roof, although in a high wind snow or rain would beat in. The shake roof was better, and "was generally used upon the log houses. These shakes were log shingles, about thirty inches in length, split out of logs, and nailed tier upon tier to ribs placed horizontally neross the rafters, each tier overlapped hy the one next above it. This was an approach to the shingle roof, but not so tight. In winter snow would sift in and whiten the beds of those sleeping in the rnde chamber below.

" A fair sample of n settler's log cabin, with its hewn puncheon floors, its door- and window-casings split out and pinned on to the ends of the logs, the openings between the logs chinked with split bass- wood and mudded up, its huge fire-place built of bowlders and eluy, its hearth made of cobble-stones, its door loudly creaking upon wooden hinges, its wooden door-lateh, and its immortal leather lateh-string hanging out, presents a study for un artist. It shows us how neees- sity is the mother of invention, and tells of hardware-stores, planing- mills, and saw-mills far beyond reach.

" The sight of the log cabin and its associations in the public mind aroused an enthusiasm for llarrison in 1840 that carried the Whigs into power. It was an ontburst of admiration for the pioneer which politiciuns knew how to use for politienl ends. Upon the gable-end of the Ilarrison cabin was stretched a coon skin to cure in the sun. This soon became a live coon, which figured extensively us a pet at politi- cal gatherings and finally beenme n Whig banner,-a live, tame coon sitting aloft on a polo carried in procession. To this the campaign finally added hard eider, under the mistaken belief that those who lived in log cabins bad prehnrds old enough to yield that beverage. This part seemed out of keeping, but it answered a good part until after election. It was in these times that Whigs favored banks and paper money, and not a Democrat could be found who did not believo in hard money. This brings me back to Tom Benton, who elaimed that bord money was the only kind of money that deceived no one, and in whose bonor the sterling Democrats of Benton, such as Jligby, Taggart, Hovey, and others, numed their town.

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History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan, Part 104

Author: Durant, Samuel W. cn Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Philadelphia : D.W. Ensign & Co. Number of Pages: 772

Author: Durant, Samuel W. cn
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia : D.W. Ensign & Co.
Number of Pages: 772