History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan, Part 116

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

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life. To resume: In 1844 another child was born to us, whom we called Elsie, for one of our earliest and most esteemed friends, whom many perhaps know, Mrs. Rogers. In 1849 we moved into our new framed house, which was quite large and afforded more room for our family. In 1850 our last child was born, whom we christened Mary.

" As we look back over our early life in the woods, we realize that we have been wonderfully kept all the way along by our kind ' Father,' and now, as we are 'growing old together,' we can claim perhaps as much of sunshine as shadow in the past."

Aaron Mest, a miller by occupation and a native of Le- high, Berks Co., Pa., settled at Eaton Rapids in 1844 or 1846. His death occurred Feb. 8, 1879.

Isaac M. Crane, who was born in Superior, Washtenaw Co., Mich., in 1838, came to Eaton Rapids in the spring of 1847, in company with his brother-in-law, Hill K. Kearney. His mother settled in the place the following spring. Mr. Crane was for several years employed in the store of Amos Hamlin. In 1858 he commeneed to study law with Ilenry A. Shaw, and was admitted to practice in 1861. Ile is now a prominent attorney of the city of Lansing.

Russell D. Mead, a native of Kinderhook, Columbia Co., N. Y., settled at Eaton Rapids, with his family, in June, 1845.

N. J. Seelye, who was born in the town of Black Rock, Erie Co., N. Y., settled at Eaton Rapids in September, 1842.

William Frink, who settled early in the north part of the village of Eaton Rapids, was a noted hunter and trapper, and the streams and forests could testify to his skill in those pursuits. Hle had two sons, Amos and Cal- vin. The former and his father are now living in the township of Windsor.

Nelson Wood, from Ontario Co., N. Y., settled in Eaton Rapids township, Oct. 18, 1838. He subsequently married Miss Julia Piper, who came with her parents also in 1838.

Ira Dasett, from Orleans Co., N. Y., settled in 1840, and William P. Geen, from the same county, in 1846. The latter's father, Pardon Geen, came in 1854, and died at the residence of his son.

B. F. Mills, a native of Hartland, Windsor Co., Vt., settled in Eaton Rapids township, Aug. 12, 1837, when the village contained but three shanties.

Morris Annis, from Ohio, settled about 1844.

John Bentley,* also from Ohio, settled with his family in 1839, on section 31. Ilis children were John M., Eliza- beth, Joseph, Benjamin L., and Cordelia D., all living here but Joseph, who is in Illinois.

Job R. Wood settled in 1838, and his son, Tillison Wood, in 1840.

Daniel J. Roe, from Wayne Co., N. Y., now of Eaton Rapids, settled in Macomb Co., Mich., in 1843.

Franklin Spear removed from Washtenaw County to Eaton Rapids about 1840.

Theron Smith, a native of Monroe Co., N. Y., settled in Lyons, Oakland Co., Mich., in 1833, and in 1865 removed to Eaton Rapids.

J. II. Arnold, also a native of Monroe County, came to Detroit in 1827, when a lad, and lived with his grandfather

* Mr. Bentley had located in Wayne County in 1836.

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until he became of age. He was married in 1838, and in 1840 removed to Eaton Rapids and located on the place he still owns.

Solomon E. Norton, from Onondaga Co., N. Y., settled in 1845.

Among later arrivals were David B. Fancher, from Oneida Co., N. Y., and James M. Depne, from Ohio, both of whom settled in 1854.

Philip Gilman settled in 1838.

George Gallery, from Livingston Co., N. Y., became a resident in 1839.

Benjamin Covey, a native of Oswego Co., N. Y., re- moved to Michigan in 1835, and in 1844 settled in Eaton Rapids.

Nelson H. Gould, a native of Monroe Co., N. Y., settled - first in Calhoun Co., Mich., in 1836.

Willis Bush, a native of Genesee Co., N. Y., settled in Eaton Rapids in 1836.

Harry Ford, a native of Byron, Genesce Co., N. Y., came to Eaton County in 1840.

H. B. Marvin, of Stafford, Genesec Co., N. Y., settled in Michigan in 1833, and in 1867 came to Eaton County.

David Osborn, a native of Somerset, Me., settled in Eaton County in 1838.

The township and village of Eaton Rapids were in a few years filled with an enterprising class of settlers, and the locality was an important one in the newly-developed region. Immigrants on their way down Grand River stopped at the village for provisions and help, and the place became widely known. People at present living in various parts of the State recollect Eaton Rapids as one of the prominent points on their by-gone journeys into the wilderness.

RESIDENTS IN 1844.

From the assessment-roll of Eaton Rapids township for the year 1844 the following list of resident taxpayers has been copied : Benjamin Petty, Erastus Williston, John M. Bentley, David Barr, Joel Skinner, Samuel Ferris, John E. Clark, George Ashley, Henry Boody, Allen Gillet, William Roe, Isaac Ashley, William Jeffrey, Erastus Wright, Thomas Jeffrey, Thomas Gunnel, Lawrence Brink, Daniel Young, William Briggs, Oliver Collins, Franklin Mills, Patrick Gal- Jery, John Daley, Marcus Bald, H. C. Champlin, Daniel Champlin, Edward Oatley, Matthew Gillet, Jesse Miller, Franklin Spears, Spieer & Co. (grist- and saw-mills), Alex- ander Anderson (wool-factory and carding-machines), Ira Du- sett, Nathan Leader, Justin Skinner, S. Casler, William R. Wright, James H. Arnold, John M. Hatch, Patrick How- ard, Nicholas Casler, firam Lobdell, Tillotson Wood, James McQueen, William Stirling, James Lobdell, N. B. Darrow, J. M. Collier, Phillips & Collins, S. S. Noyes, P. Hart, Rufus Hyde, Horace Hamlin, Seeley & Atwood, C. W. Childs, Levi Frink, L. B. Read, Amos Hamlin, P. E. Spicer, William Snyder, Alanson Osborn, Spieer & Osborn (cabinet-shop), Julia Rand, G. Blackman, R. L. Spear, Benjamin Knight, C. Skinner, Joseph Phillips, G. T. Rand, William Frink, G. H. Gorham, J. J. Rogers, Orin Rogers, Simon Darling, R. W. Branch, Job Ferris, Philo Norton, Dexter Munger, Cyrus Munger, Giles Mandeville, Amos Phelps, John Bunker, Edwin Maxson, William Montgom-

ery, Johnson Montgomery, Willis Bush, Joshua Ilamilton, - Binks, Chauncey Butler.

TOWNSHIP ORGANIZATION .- LIST OF OFFICERS.

An act of the Legislature of Michigan, approved Feb. 16, 1842, provides that

" All that part of the county of Eaton designated by the United States survey as township No. 2 north, of range 3 west (now a part of the township of Eaton), be, and the same is, hereby set off and organ- ized into a separate township hy the name of Eaton Rapids; and the first township-meeting shall be held at the house of H. Hamlin, at the village of Eaton Rapids, and the next township-meeting in the town- ship of Eaton shall be holden at the house of William Stoddard."#

The township of Tyler, which had been formed in 1841, was made a part of Eaton Rapids in 1850, but in 1869 was again set off and organized as Hamlin.

The records of the township of Eaton Rapids for the years 1842 to 1849, inclusive, are not in the office of the town clerk, but beginning with 1850, the following is a list of the township officers to 1879 :

SUPERVISORS.

1850-52, James Gallery ; 1853, William W. Crane; 1854, R. H. King; 1855, Rufus Hyde; 1856-58, Nehemiah J. Seelye; 1859, David B. Hale; 1860-61, N. J. Seelye; 1862, David B. Hale ; 1863-67, N. J. Seelye; 1868, George W. Knight; 1869, James Gallery ; 1870-72, N. J. Seelye : 1873-75, Benjamin L. Bentley ; 1876-77, James Gallery ; 1878, J. W. Knapp ; 1879, James Gallery.

TOWNSIIIP CLERKS.

1850, Alanson Harwood; 1851, Leonard W. MeKinney ; 1852, James Stirling; 1853, C. C. Chatfield ; 1854, P. W. Rogers; 1855, Isaac S. Smith; 1856-57, Francis W. Higby; 1858, Dan W. Gould ; 1859, M. D. Vaughan (Isaac M. Crane appointed to fill vacancy, Dec. 15, 1859); 1860-61, Isaac M. Crane; 1862, Alanson Har- wood; 1863-64, Martin V. Montgomery ; 1865, Wm. D. Brainerd ; 1866, Wm. F. Stirling; 1867, Richard A. Montgomery; 1868, William D. Brainerd; 1869, John M. Corbin; 1870, William H. Dodge; 1871, H. H. Hamilton ; 1872-77, William F. Stirling; 1878, C. F. Phillips; 1879, William F. Stirling.

TREASURERS.

1850, Gardner T. Rand; 1851, N. J. Seelye ; 1852-53, R. H. King; 1854, William Gallery ; 1855, Gardner T. Rand; 1856, Rufus H. King; 1857-58, David B. Ilale; 1859, D. W. Gould; 1860-61, David B. Hamlin ; 1862-64, Benjamin L. Bentley ; 1865, G. W. Knight; 1866-67, Abner 11. Brainerd; 1868, William Gallery ; 1869, Frank Rogers; 1870, William Gallery ; 1871, B. L. Bentley ; 1872, Lorin Harwood; 1873, N. Doak ; 1874, N. J. Seelye; 1875- 76, Lorin Ilarwood; 1877-78, K. C. Wright; 1879, F. B. Gannon.

JUSTICES OF THE PEACE.

1850, Samuel Ferris, Joshua Slayton, James J. Rogers; 1851, Hiram Hammond ; 1852, Joseph Phillips, John H. Kimball ; 1853, John- son Montgomery, Bird Norton ; 1854, Horace Hamlin, Daniel Palmer ; 1855, Albert O. Stone; 1856, Joseph Phillips, Garrett Rogers; 1857, Daniel Paliner; 1858, Garrett Rogers; 1859, Daniel Hosler ; 1860, William M. Tompkins; 1861, Alvin Leigh- ton ; 1862, C. Goodnoe : 1863, Oscar M. Frost; 1864, William M. Tampkins; 1865, D. B. Bradford ; 1866, Garrett Rogers, Morgan Vaughan, Lorin Harwood; 1867, Isaiah H. Corhin ; 1868, Mor- gan Vaughan ; 1869, B. L. Bentley, Charles B. Dean ; 1870, Gar- rett Rogers ; 1871, A. N. Hamilton ; 1872, D. B. Ilosler, Asber B. Clark; 1873, Charles B. Dean; 1874, George Gallery, J. H.

# This was the old " Eagle Hotel" at Charlotte.

t In 1849, James Gallery was supervisor and Bird Norton justice of the peace.

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Kimball; 1875, A. D. Saxton; 1876, J. H. Hamlin, Daniel Hammond; 1877, B. L. Bentley, Thomas G. Cole; IS78, Garrett Rogers, J. S. Cowden ; 1879, D. B. Ilosler.

The following officers were elected for Eaton Rapids township in 1880 : Supervisor, Albert D. Saxton ; Town Clerk, William F. Sterling; Treasurer, Fred. Z. Hamilton ; Justice of the Peace, Loren Harwood ; Superintendent of Schools, George Gallery ; School Inspector, Seth Rogers; Commissioner of Highways, William Spieer ; Drain Com- missioner, Charles I. Barrett ; Constables, George B. Ham- lin, John Pilmore, Carlos M. Smith, Daniel Young.

Many of the names in the foregoing list, in the years from 1850 to 1868, are of men who lived in what is now the township of Hamilton, then a part of Eaton Rapids.

VILLAGE OF EATON RAPIDS.

The following bit of pioneer history is from the pen of James Gallery, of Eaton Rapids, and was published in the Eaton Rapids Journal (Frank C. Culley then editor) in 1875 :

"FRIEND CULLEY,-As you wish to know something of my early history, and experiences in Eaton County, I would say that I was born in Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y., on the Ist day of June, 1817. My father and mother had a family of seven children,-five sens and two daughters,-of which I was the oldest. Father was considered skilled in two trades,-one as a weaver and the other a miller,-and by industriously working at those trades he managed to support and rear his family until the fall of 1836, when he anticipated the advice of Ilurace Greeley and ' moved West.'

" We first landed at Detroit, but not admiring the surroundings there we went back to Toledo; from there to Adrian, and finally about the Ist of November seeured winter quarters near Clinten, in Lenawee County. After getting the family properly settled, father and I started out to louk for government land, that we might seeure a permanent home, and thereby reap the full benefit of our change of country. We were advised and directed to what was then known as the Grand River country, and un arriving near Jacksonburg (as it was then called) we niet une A. F. Fitch, afterwards notorious as a rail- road eunspirator, who then made a business of selecting and locating lands. With him we made an arrangement, leaving the money to buy one quarter-section, which it was agreed should be good timbered land,-which promise, as far as the timber was concerned, was well fulfilled, as I had reason to think many a day while swinging the axe. llaving made this arrangement we returned home, and my brother John and I hired out to shovel and drive team on the mill-dam and race which was then being constructed for the Globe Mills at Tecum- sch, and tny brother William obtained employment at a clothing- mill near the same place. This was our first winter in Michigan, and it was a long, cold, aod dreary one, waiting anxiously to hear where uur land would be found, while living in a shanty with abuut twenty other coarse laborers and coarser fare. Finally, late in the spring we received a duplicate for one quarter-section of Uncle Sam's domain, and which read the ' southeast quarter of section 29, in town 2 north, - of range 3 west,' and was anid to be about two miles from a pluee called Spicer's Mill. So, as soon as we could get the conditions all right, futher and I started out again, and arrived at this place-now called Eaton Rapide-on the 17th day of August, 1837. The first blow bad been struck here that summer, by the firmn of Spicers, Ilam- lin & Darling, who had the year beture built the suw-mill at what is now called "pieerville:

"There were then three dwelling houses in the phee; the dam across Spring Brook wus built, but the water had not been raised. Tho grist-mill trame was up (a part of the present one) and partly inclosed. There was not a bridge across any stream here ; no farms or cultivated ground, or hardly anything except the four little buildings to tell that civilization was trying to gain a foothold und drive the poor Indian, who was continually paddling bis esnoe Up and down the river, into the darker foresta. .

" The families living here at that time, I think, were those of Atos Spicer, Benjamin Knight, and C. C. Darling, Samuel Ilamlin then

living at Spicerville. We met with a cordial welcome and a hospi- tality which is common to new places, and all were ready to show us eur laud, which we found about one and one-half' miles northwest ef here, and after following the lines around it as well as we could, and being fully satisfied with it, we returned home.

" About the Ist of November we started with our household goods and a part of our family with one team. The family consisting of father, Patrick Gallery, Jobn, the one next in age to me, and my sis- ters, Mary (now Mrs. D. B. Hamlin) and Jane, who died in 1859, coming here, and my mother. The two youngest boys, George and Edward, returned to the State of New York, where they remained ene year. My brother William remained at Tecumseh until about the middle of January, 1838, when he came here also. We arrived here in due time, and went into the house with Lawrence Howard and family, about a mile west of this place, on the town-line. We re- mained there about a week, while we cut logs and rolled up a shanty, twelve by twenty-four feet, and drew some white-wood boards from Spieerville for rouf and floor. I remember building the door. With me then the sash-and-door business was in its infaney. Then I also built a chimney of stones, stieks, and elay, and although the work- manship would not be considered very ornamental now, I think we took as much comfort in that shanty as the average man enjoys any- where.

" At this time (November, 1837) I found here Amos Ilamlin and family, who had erected a slab blacksmith-shop, and was building a plank house, as all the dwelling-houses were then built. There may have been some other family in the village, but I do not remember. My impression nuw is that there is but one man now living in the village that lived here then, being William Winn, and of women, Mrs. Waldron, Mrs. Ilamlin, and possibly Mrs. P. Conley. There are quite a number of the farmers around us now that were here then, but fearing that I would not enumerate them correctly I will not attempt to name them, and they will probably tell their own story. I will say, however, that John Montgomery had raised une crop of wheat, and of him we purchased twenty-five bushels, thinking it prudent to secure it when it could be found, and we had the money to buy. For this we paid one and one-quarter dollars per bushel. There were no grist-mills nearer than Jackson, but about the Ist of January, 1838, our mill was started, my father assisting. There was but une run of stone, commonly called rock, and they now lie between the mill und the river as relics of the past. That fall and winter I took my first lessons in felling the tall forest, and towards spring found the supplies getting low, and started south to look for work, which I found in drawing mudsills on the Palmyra and Jacksonburg Railroad. The month of February of that year seemed to me the coldest I ever knew, but March warmed up beautifully, and on the last day of that month I planted potatoes at Tecumseh. About the middle of April I returned home, and found our fulks winding up en ' sugar making.' They had about a half-barrel of syrup, which they said would not grain, but I thought I could conquer it, and the result was ' burnt,' enly fit for vinegar. April and May were cold, rainy, and back ward months, and it was tedious business to burn and clear off a patch fur corn, potatoes, and all the other trash that was con- sidered necessary to supply the wants of a family. But patience and perseverance is always rewarded, and our efforts were crowned with very satisfactury results. And now, as the crups were coming up with astonishing rapidity, my brother John and I started out to work in haying and burvest, and were gone thirteen wecks. We received goud wages, clothed ourselves well, and brought home a cow and sonle uf the ' wild-cat' of the times, which bad been cunsidered as gued as greenbacks now are, but was then getting shaky, and we suffered some lusecs by it that year and I think the year after.

" During the summer the first store was built by Benjamin Knight, on the corner where the Andorson Iluuse now stands, and thuogh small at first it was afterwards enlarged, and an independent ware- house built and became a business house of large capital and busi- ness influence, always sound and healthy while under his cuntrul. The winter of 1838-39 I ran the grist- mill in this place, buarding with the family of Benjamin Knight. This was the first residence in the village, and although our numbers were few, we felt the dignity, and put on the airs of much larger places, as wu had a namo und a post- uffice, and I think nt this time set off in single townships. At first the county was divided into four townships, our quarter being called the town of Euton. As barvest time approached my brother and I ugain went oot where they had more money ; again devoting abunt

S. M. Wilkins. M. D

THIS gentleman is descended from patriotic and distinguished ancestors. His parents each had a grandfather in the Continental Congress. His grandfather, John Wilkins, served three years in the army during the struggle for independence, familiarly known as the Revolutionary war. His father, Samuel Wilkins, fourth son of John and Catharine (Edgar) Wilkins, was born in Smith township, Washington Co., Pa., July 31, 1796, and grew to man- hood in that locality. At the age of eighteen years he volunteered as a soldier in the second and last war between the United States and England. Aug. 31, 1819, he was married to Anne Stevenson, and for a time subsequently lived on and conducted the affairs of the farm of his widowed mother. In 1821, Samuel Wilkins and wife left their old home and removed to Baughman township, Wayne Co, Ohio, which was then a wilderness. There they im- proved a farm and continued to reside, raising a family of six sons and two daughters. Samuel Wilkins was a man of sterling char- acter, and much more than ordinary ability, and his wife, who was born Dec. 2, 1799, combined with great personal beauty all the attributes of a true gentlewoman.

Samuel M. Wilkins was born at the old home in Baughman, Wayne Co., Ohio, Aug. 16, 1836. When thirteen years of age his parents died, and he was taken charge of by his relatives, going to district school in winter and working on the farm in summer. At fifteen years of age he removed to Dimmick, La Salle Co., Ill., to live with his brother, W. A. Wilkins. Here he worked on the farm in summer and attended the district school in winter until his seventeenth year, when he returned to his former home in Ohio. He attended a summer term of five months at the union schools, Canal Fulton, Ohio, teaching the following winter. Ilis education was supplemented by a two years' course at Ver- million Institute, at Haysville, Ohio, after which he returned to Illinois to teach school for eighteen months. Ifis health failing, and he being desirous of visiting California, Mr. Wilkins crossed the plains with an ox-team, accompanied by his brother, T. J. Wilkins, during the summer of 1859, arriving in California in September following, five months and ten days from date of de- parture, narrowly escaping starvation and the tomahawk and scalping-knife of the Indians. He followed mining from Septem- ber, 1853, to November, 1861, when he returned to Canal Fulton,

Ohio. Here he pursued his medical studies, which had been begun five years previous, in the office of A. Hontz, M.D. Mr. Wilkins enlisted Aug. 8, 1862, in the One Hundred and Second Regiment Ohio Infantry, participating in all its campaigns up to the battle of Stone River, when he was detached from the regiment and as- signed to hospital duty as assistant surgeon, which position he occupied until mustered out, June 6, 1865, by order of the seerc- tary of war. Since the close of the war he has attended two full courses of lectures at Starling Medical College, one course at Charity Hospital, Cleveland, in 1866, receiving the degree of M.D., and again receiving an ad eundem degree from the Univer- sity of Wooster, in 1871. He removed to Eaton Rapids, Mich., in March, 1866, where he has since been engaged in the practice of medicine and surgery. Dr. Wilkins has served as president of the village of Eaton Rapids, and is now a member of the com- mon council and village school board of that place. He has also long been president of the Eaton County Medical Society, and is surgeon for the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern and Michigan Central Railways. In 1878 he was elected to the lower house of the Legislature by a gratifying plurality, and at the election of Nov. 2, 1880, was re-elected over Henry A. Shaw, also of Eaton Rapids, by a plurality of eight hundred and eighteen votes, and had a clear majority over all of five hundred and fifty-four. This is sufficient to show the esteem in which he is held, and his elec- tion by so pronounced a majority is a souvenir from an admiring constituency.

Oct. 28, 1869, Dr. Wilkins was married to Mrs. Frances G. Montgomery, widow of Lieut. E. A. Montgomery, who fell in defense of his country on the bloody field of Chickamauga. Mrs. Wilkins was born Aug. 1, 1844, in Smyrna, Chenango Co., N. Y., and in 1851 emigrated with her parents to Eaton Rapids, Eaton Co., Mich. Her father, Abner K. Marsh, was born in Shoreham, Addison Co., Vt., in 1808, and her mother, whose maiden name was Dolly A. Wales, was born in Stafford, Tolland Co., Conn., in 1813. Miss Marsh was married, at sixteen years of age, to Lieut. Montgomery, whose life was so nobly yielded up in a great cause. Dr. and Mrs. Wilkins are the parents of two children,-Lizzie G., a hright girl of eight years, and C. M. Vance, a promising boy of three years.

RESIDENCE OF THE HON. S.M. WILKINS M.D. EATON RAPIDS, MICH.

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three months to harvesting and railroading ; again clothing ourselves and bringing back some of the needful to pay taxes and such uther purposes ns only money could satisfy. From this time uotil August, 1840, I chopped, logged, split rails, nud all kinds of general labor. During the latter part of 1840 the saw-mill rnee was dug and the saw-mill built ; and about this time the first house was built north of Spring Brook, by William Friak, near where Mr. Jopp's house now stands.

" About this time I came to the conclusion that elearing land was not the vocation that ngreed with my tastes and inclination, although it did agree with my health much better than willing, at which I was considered n fair workman. So I concluded that I would start out to seek my fortune making willing the business of my life, and not stop until I found n place that suited me, with a prospect of a permanent place where I might build up a character as a first-class miller and qualify myself as a business mau.

" I left here on the last day of August, 1840, with five dollars in my pocket, not knowing where I would stop oor how far that would carry me. However, I brought up at Clinton, where there was a new flouring-mill, one of the finest in the State. I crowded myself io (although they did not want belp) on trial, without any agreement about wages, and there I lahored eight years and made it pay well.

" I might here note a few uf the events which transpired during the time I was absent, coming home onee or twice each year. On the 17th of September, 1842, my mother died of asthmatie eon- sumption. Her faceral was held on Monday, the 19th, at the school- house in this village. At the same time and place occurred the funeral of John Bentley (whose history you gave some months ago), who died about the same time and of the same disease, and also the funeral of the child of a blacksmith, whose name I do not know. This was n very unusual circumstance, three funerals and three families of mourners under one sermon. The sermon was preached by the Rev. W. W. Crave, the pioneer clergyman of this section, a very excellent man, whose ear was always opened to the call of the distressed, and his words of wisdom and kindness comforting to the mourning soul. Hle was a man of education, and a great historian. Ile delivered n course of six lectures here about ten years since, at the close of which the citizens, through the Rev. J. R. Stevenson, furnished him with a check for $100. The people always heard him gladly. He has gone to his reward, and the call found him with the harness on, although very aged and infirm.

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History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan, Part 116

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