History of Kalamazoo county, Michigan, Part 81

Author: Durant, Samuel W. comp
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia. Everts & Abbott
Number of Pages: 761

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1870 .- Henry A. Tallman, Supervisor; Jacob Bogardus, Township Clerk ; Samuel H. Simmons, Treasurer ; Barzilla Snow, Jus- tice of the Peace; H. B. Rose, Highway Commissioner ; Ed- win P. Hackley, School Inspector ; James Lillie, Frank Van Vranken, Oliver Brockaway, Chester Williams, Con- stables.

1871 .- Charles A. Ransom, Supervisor ; E. C. Johnson, Township Clerk ; S. H. Simmons, Treasurer ; David Spaulding, Jus- tice of the Peace; Edwin P. Hackley, David Spaulding, Highway Commissioners; Joseph Coshun, School Inspector ; Merritt Mussulman, Geo. G. Hubbard, Ammi Bennett, Ches- ter A. Williams, Constables.

1872 .- Henry A. Tallman, Supervisor; Henry C. Peck, Township Clerk ; Joseph S. Veeley, Treasurer ; Isaac P. Prosser, Gar- ret Van Arsdale, Justices of the Peace; Joseph Coshun, Marvin Higgins, Highway Commissioners; Edwin P. Hack- ley, School Inspector ; Ammi M. Bennett, George Dayharsh, Chas. W. Barber, Geo. G. Hubbard, Constables.

1873 .- Henry A. Tallman, Supervisor; Thomas J. Congdon, Town- ship Clerk ; Charles H. Barber, Treasurer ; Chas. A. Ran- som, Samuel H. Simmons, Justices of the Peace; Garret Van Arsdale, Highway Commissioner; Joseph Coshun, School Inspector; George S. Dayharsh, Aaron Tallman, Easton Tallman, Ammi M. Bennett, Constables.

1874 .- Henry A. Tallman, Supervisor; Thomas J. Congdon, Town- ship Clerk ; Charles H. Barber, Treasurer; Barzilla Snow, Henry C. Peck, Justices of the Peace; Marvin G. Higgins, Highway Commissioner ; Edwin P. Hackley, School In- spector; Samuel H. Simmons, George Piper, Ammi M. Ben- nett, George S. Dayharsh, Constables.

1875 .- Charles A. Ransom, Supervisor; Amos P. Foster, Township Clerk ; Erastus Davis, Treasurer; Hugh McCall, Jacob T. Bogardus, Justices of the Peace; William Piper, Highway Commissioner ; Chas. C. Adams, Superintendent of Schools; Jonathan A. Wheeler, School Inspector; Isaac P. Prosser, Chester A. Williams, George W. Carpenter, Marquis L. Chapman, Constables.

1876 .- Henry A. Tallman, Supervisor; Amos P. Foster, Township Clerk; Thomas J. Congdon, Treasurer ; Garret Van Ars- dale, Philander W. Hubbard, Justices of the Peace; Warren G. Higgins, Highway Commissioner ; Lowell L. Blair, Su- perintendent of Schools; Edwin P. Hackley, School Inspec- tor ; Samuel H. Simmons, Drain Commissioner; Geo. S. Dayharsh, Jay Caldwell, Joseph Cochran, Frank Van Vran- ken, Constables.

1877 .- Barzilla Snow, Supervisor ; Thomas J. Congdon, Township Clerk; George W. Carpenter, Treasurer ; John C. Lusk,

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Justice of the Peace; Marvin G. Higgins, Highway Com- missioner; Lowell L. Blair, Superintendent of Schools; William H. Piper, School Inspector; Oliver Brockway, Paul Palmer, George S. Dayharsh, Hiram Veeley, Con- stables.

1878 .- Barzilla Snow, Supervisor; Erwin E. Johnson, Township Clerk ; George W. Carpenter, Joseph T. Peck, Edward Bigelow, Justices of the Peace; Charles Searles, Highway Commissioner ; Lowell L. Blair, Superintendent of Schools;

Joseph Coshun, School Inspector; Garret Van Arsdale, Drain Commissioner ; James W. Crane, Oliver Brockway, Philip Ware, Frank Van Vranken, Constables.

1879 .- Barzilla Snow, Supervisor; Garret Van Arsdale, Township Clerk ; William Oliver, Treasurer; Samuel H. Simmons, Justice of the Peace; Charles Searles, Highway Commis- sioner ; A. Volney Brundage, Superintendent of Schools; Joseph Coshun, School Inspector ; George Dayharsh, Charles Parks, Preston F. Hackley, Edwin J. Crane, Constables.

BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES.

LITTLE

THOMAS G. CARPENTER.

This gentleman was born in Stephentown, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., Jan. 24, 1794. His grandfather, Samuel Carpenter, was a native of England, and settled in Stephentown very early with his family. His son, Greenman Carpenter (father of Thomas G.), entered land on the Connecticut tract in the town of Sweden, now in Monroe Co., N. Y., in 1811, and in 1812 his son occupied it, the remainder of the family not removing to it as was originally intended. Thomas G. Carpenter enlisted as a drummer in the war of 1812-15, and served one year. After his term of service had expired, he returned home, and was married to Miss Liddie James, March 10, 1816. They moved to Sweden township, and redeemed one hundred acres of the land which had been entered by Mr. Carpenter's father, and lived upon it for nineteen years, during which period eight children were born to them. In the spring of 1837, owing to severe losses, Mr. Carpenter removed with his family to Michigan, and settled in the township of Alamo, Kalamazoo Co. The entire distance, from the old home in New York, was traversed with a team, the journey occupying thirteen days' time. Mr. Carpenter built the first frame building in the township, and still resides in it. When he came West he had a large family to care for, and the sum of five dol- lars and ten cents constituted his financial balance; and he

MRS. THOMAS G. CARPENTER.

possessed no stock of any kind, except his team. But he was of that rugged pioneer type which brings men safely through difficulties, and, though adversity frowned upon him for a time, he at length prospered. He is an old-line Democrat in politics, and has held the position of township treasurer in Alamo, and various other offices. He and his venerable wife have been married nearly sixty-four years, and both are still living; his wife is eighty years of age,- six years younger than the "old pioneer," whose name is at the head of this article. Both are members of the Metho- dist Church. The oldest son, James J. Carpenter, married a daughter of Luther Chamberlain, of Cooper township, and resides with his father-in-law. George W. married Miss Maria Wilson, and lives at home with his parents. The remaining children are married, and scattered over the country, one living in Kansas, another living in Califor- nia, one in Wisconsin, and one in Prairie Ronde township, Kalamazoo Co.

HUGH McCALL.

Hugh, son of Dougald McCall, is the oldest of eight children, and was born in St. Lawrence Co., N. Y., Jan. 17, 1829. His father, whose means were somewhat limited, sold his farm and removed with the family to Michigan in the fall of 1839, proceeding to Detroit by boat, and driving

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from thence to Grand Prairie with his team, which he had brought along. On the prairie he rented eighty acres of land, and a year later purchased an unimproved eighty in Oshtemo township, where he remained until his death.

Hugh McCall remained at home until he was twenty-six years of age, working summers on the farm and attending school a part of the time during the winters. At the age of twenty-five he was married to Miss Elizabeth Pierson, daughter of one of the oldest settlers on Grand Prairie, Kalamazoo Co. Remaining on the old place about a year, -his father having been laid to rest,-he finally purchased one hundred and sixty acres of unimproved land of his wife's father, David J. Pierson, built upon it a small frame house, and began to improve a home of his own. During the twelve years Mr. McCall and his wife occupied this house their children, Herbert, Byron (now deceased),

Frank, Hattie, and Miron, were born. Mr. McCall now occupies one of the finest houses in the township, and is the owner of two hundred and eighty acres of land. Since moving into his present residence two more children have been born,-Burt and Fred. The daughter attends school at Kalamazoo. Herbert, the oldest, has a farm, which was purchased for him by his father, but lives most of the time at the home of the latter.

Mr. McCall was engaged for about eighteen years in the business of threshing, doing work for farmers in nearly half the territory of the county. His principal farm product is wheat, he having raised, for several years, about two thou- sand bushels annually.

Politically he is a Democrat. His brothers are all living in the West. His mother, who is yet alive, passes much of her time at the residence of her son Hugh.

BRADY.

NATURAL FEATURES.

Geography .- The present township of Brady includes that portion of the county of Kalamazoo designated on the United States survey thereof as township 4 south, in range 10 west. It occupies a position in the southern tier of townships, and is bounded north by the township of Pa- vilion, east by Wakeshma, west by Schoolcraft, and south by St. Joseph County.

Topography, Soils, Lakes, Water-Courses, etc .- The surface of Brady township is gently undulating along the streams, and approaching nearer to a level in other por- tions. The eastern part was originally heavily timbered, while in the west were the familiar " oak openings." The soil is excellent and productive. The township was sur- veyed into sections and their subdivisions, in 1826, by Robert Clark, Jr. On the plat made from his field-notes is shown considerable marsh in portions of the township, but this has been drained so thoroughly that much of the territory marked marsh is now of great value as farming land. The township is well watered,-two branches of the Portage flow through it, also Bear Creek (or, as it was originally known, Beaver Creek), and a few smaller water- courses. The power furnished by the larger streams has been utilized to some extent. A few small lakes exist in the township, as Thrall,* Mud, and one or two of less consequence. A larger one, known as Indian Lake, lies mostly in this town, with a portion extending north into Pavilion. This is one of the principal feeders of the Por- tage. A portion of the village of Vicksburgt is located

in Brady township, on sections 18 and 19, and the depot at the junction of the Grand Rapids and Indiana and North- western Grand Trunk Railways is also on the Brady side of the line.

PREHISTORIC.

Several mounds of ancient origin have been discovered in this town, and some of them have been opened by seekers after relics of a past race. A mound on the farm of Bradley S. Williams, in the northwest part of the township, upon being opened was found to contain a human skeleton and the mass of debris which is characteristic of similar mounds wherever found. The conclusion arrived at was, there- fore, that they were burial-places, used by a race which occupied the region before the tribes known as Indians had come into possession thereof. These smaller mounds, and in such localities, may have been used by the Indians them- selves, but it is scarcely probable. The one upon Mr. Wil- liams' farm was surmounted by an oak-tree two feet in di- ameter, thus affording evidence of great age ; and it seems proper to presume that these mounds were originated by the same people who prepared the famous " garden-beds" of Southwestern Michigan.

THE NOTTAWA-SEEPE RESERVATION.

Among the tracts of land reserved for the use of the Indians at the treaty of Chicago, in 1821, was that bear- ing the foregoing title. It embraced 115 sections of government surveys, and the portion lying in Kalamazoo County included the whole of what is now Brady township, and a strip two miles off from each,-Schoolcraft and Wakeshma. It extended south into St. Joseph County, in which its dimensions were nearly the same, and in the latter

* So named from a man who settled early on its south shore. The highway extending westward to Vicksburg then passed close by the lake.

+ Until 1872 known as Brady.

MRS. JACOB LEMON.

JACOB LEMON.

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RESIDENCE OF JACOB LEMON, BRADY, KALAMAZOO CO., MICH.

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were the villages of the Nottawa Indians, who occupied it, -one in Leonidas and another in Mendon.

"In September, 1833, Governor Porter met Sau-au- quett and others of the tribe,-inferior men,-and by blan- dishments which won their hearts, in the way of gay trap- pings and military accoutrements, induced them to sign a treaty ceding to the United States the Nottawa-Seepe res- ervation."* Considerable dissatisfaction among the Indians was the result, but the matter was finally settled, and two years were allowed them in which to remove from the res- ervation. As soon as it was ascertained that the United States had acquired a title to the land, the better portions of the reservation were taken up by settlers, regardless of the fact that the Indians had two years longer to remain upon it, and still further trouble ensued. "It was not until the spring of 1840 that the Indians were finally in- duced to leave their homes, and then only by the appear- ance on the scene of Gen. Brady and a detachment of United States dragoons."

LAND-ENTRIES.

The following is a list of those who originally entered land in township 4 south, range 10 west, now constituting Brady, together with the sections and years in which the entries were made :

Section 1 .- 1841, Sylvius Wallers; 1842, Conrad Eberstein, State of Michigan ; 1847, George Eberstein ; 1853, Conrad Eberstein.

Section 2 .- 1841, Charles Tando; 1842, Jonathan Mallery ; 1843,

Conrad Eberstein, Reuben A. Fuller, State of Michigan; 1848, Theodore Lameceule.

Section 3 .- State of Michigan.

Section 4 .- 1843, Almon W. Paine; 1844, Daniel J. Chipman; 1846, George A. Ward ; 1847, Silas Morse ; 1848, Hiram Ward ; 1853, Edward P. Riley.

Section 5 .- 1838, Loren Stowell; 1842, Bradley S. Williams ; 1845, Jacob Lemon ; 1847, William Birch.

Section 6 .- 1838, George W. Allen; 1842, William H. Shumway, Russell Bishop; 1844, Charles Dumphey ; 1850, George Lemon ; 1853, B. S. Williams.

Section 7 .- 1838, Roswell B. Clark ; 1839, Loren Clark, Benjamin Tuttle, State.

Section 8 .- 1843, Charles P. Johnson, State of Michigan.

Section 9 .- 1840, John Downs, State; 1847, Truman Tiffany, Oliver Davenport ; 1848, Herschel Wolcott.

Section 10 .- State of Michigan.

Section 11 .- 1843, Almon W. Paine, State; 1847, Jacob Hampton, Walter J. Barrett; 1853, Jacob Hampton.

Section 12 .- 1843, Martin Van Buren, State; 1852, William M. Mur- ray, Mariah Corson ; 1853, Levi R. Corson.

Section 13 .- University of Michigan.

Section 14 .- 1843-46, Nancy Brown, State; 1853, Eleary F. Briggs. Section 15 .- State of Michigan.

Section 16 .- School land.

Section 17 .- Horace Allen, Richard Reed, State; 1848, Charlotte M. McElvaine, Samuel Lammon ; 1853, John Sharp ; 1855, Abner Cross.

Section 18 .- 1838, Jonathan Carley, State ; 1846, Matthew Reid ; 1847, Peleg Stevens ; 1852, Matthew Reid.

Section 19 .- University of Michigan.

Section 20 .- 1842, Leonard Beebe, State.

Section 21 .- University of Michigan.

Section 22 .- 1842, Manley P. Axtell, State; 1844, Octavius A. Axtell; 1845, Benjamin Franklin Axtell.

Section 23,-1842, Abram Allen, Sylvester Axtell, Sr .; 1844, Benja- /

min Burlingham, Octavius A. Axtell, State ; 1847, Nathan Os- born and Hosea Barnabee; 1854, Charles Brown.

Section 24 .- State of Michigan.

Section 25 .- State (swamp lands) ; 1853, John G. Peek.

Section 26 .- State of Michigan.

Section 27 .- 1842, Elisha Doan; 1844, same, State.

Section 28 .- State of Michigan.

Section 29 .- University of Michigan.

Section 30 .- 1838, Charles Kimble, State.

Section 31 .- 1840, Samuel Shearer ; 1842, George Bishop, Margaret Kimble ; 1843, Asa and Randolph Nutting.

Section 32 .- 1842, Daniel Jenkinson, Jonas Allen; 1844, Harmans T. Clement, State; 1852, George Wilson.

Section 33 .- 1843-44, William Worthington, State of Michigan ; 1845, Josiah Folson ; 1847, Nancy Anderson.

Section 34 .- 1838, De Witt C. Brooks; 1843, William Birch; 1845, Abel Thompson, State of Michigan.

Section 35 .- 1839, Abram Allen; 1843-47, Roswell Darling, State; 1847, Daniel P. Anderson.

Section 36 .- State of Michigan.

From the foregoing it will be seen that the earliest entries in the township were made in 1838, and were but few in number. Settlers were slow to purchase and locate in the territory. Considerable marsh existed, but this has since been generally drained, and some of the most produc- tive farms in the township are now owned where the land at one time was considered almost worthless, or at least not worth the trouble of draining. The principal marshes, as shown on the plat from the field-notes of the government surveyor, were in the southern part.

EARLY SETTLEMENT.

The name of the first settler in what now constitutes the township of Brady seems to have around it a veil of uncer- tainty, but that he located in the southwestern part of the town is generally admitted. A man named Heffron was among the earliest ones. Samuel Shearer lived on section 31, and was one of the first to locate. William Kimble, Sr., had his home on this section, but died a short time after his arrival; his widow subsequently married a man named Clement, who also came early. The locality in which the pioneers of the township began their improve- ments was known as the " Smalley Settlement."

Bradley S. Williams, a native of Genesee Co., N. Y., and later a resident of Huron Co., Ohio, came to Michigan in the month of August, 1835, and made his home in Schoolcraft township, on Prairie Ronde. During the fol- lowing winter he taught school on the south side of the prairie. At that time Mr. Williams was not yet of age. In the fall of 1835, in company with Lorenzo Stowell, he visited this township, and, after examining the territory in the neighborhood of the Smalley settlement, and other parts, he finally pre-empted the farm he now owns, on sec- tions 5 and 6, and began improving it, plowing the first furrow in that part of town. The reason he and Mr. Stowell chose this locality was because it abounded in better timber than any other. Mr. Williams did not settle upon his place until the fall of 1839. He remained about twenty years, and removed to Kalamazoo, which has since been his home, and at which place he is now quite extensively engaged in manufacturing.

Lorenzo Stowell settled in 1838, which was a very sickly year, Dr. David E. Brown, of Virginia Corners, in School- craft township, attending principally to the sick of this town, and nearly all were ailing, and his doses are remem- bered with pleasure (?) by those who were under his care.

* History of St. Joseph County, p. 13.

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Mr. Stowell moved finally to Lake Co., Ind., and, at the age of about ninety, died at Lowell, in that county. In 1838, also, Dr. H. A. Baker began the practice of medicine in this township.

According to Thomas' " Historical Directory of Kala- mazoo County for 1869-70" other early settlers in Brady, visiting it as early as 1835, were “ a Mr. Anderson, Ben- jamin Tuttle, Elisha Doane." The last-named gentleman, who was a native of Massachusetts, lived also in the States of Vermont, New York, and Ohio. He came to Michigan from the town of Lyme, Huron Co., Ohio, in 1829, reaching Prairie Ronde on the first day of August, accompanied by his wife, two sons, and two daughters. He located first three miles southwest of Schoolcraft, and after two years moved upon the farm in Schoolcraft afterwards owned and occupied by Edwin H. Lothrop. In the fall of 1837 he moved into what is now the township of Brady, and set- tled on section 27, where he built a saw-mill on Bear Creek. In 1850, Mr. Doane went to California, and re- turned and went back again in 1851. His family followed in 1853, and his widow now resides in that State. One of his daughters is now the wife of John W. Darling, of Brady. The old farm is now the property of C. M. Beebe.

John W. Darling, from'the city of Albany, N. Y., emi- grated to Michigan in 1835, reaching Park township, St. Joseph County, on the 3d of December in that year. His father, Ried Darling, in company with another son, Ros- well Darling, had located on Portage Lake, in the township of Mendon, and J. W. D. stayed with them for some time. In the fall of 1837 he came to Vicksburg, Kala- mazoo Co, and during that season and the ensuing win- ter worked in the saw-mill of Smith, Vickers & Co. In the spring of 1838 he moved into Brady township, which has since been his home, although much of his time has been spent away from it. During 1851-52 he was in California. His first claim in Brady included the south- west quarter of section 27. He now lives on section 34, where he settled in 1853.

Among those living in the vicinity when Mr. Darling came was John W. Barclay, Sr. Charles Brown, William Jenkinson, and William B. Wandell* were also early arri- vals. The only one of the four persons named who is now living is Mr. Jenkinson, who was originally from Ireland, and for some time a resident of Canada. The widows of Messrs. Brown and Wandell still reside in the township, and the former's son, Charles Brown, Jr., occupies the old farm. Mr. Brown had at one time a saw-mill on his place, but it is not now in use.

J. M. Beebe, from Medina Co., Ohio, moved to Kal- amazoo Co., Mich., in September, 1843, and settled in the township of Cooper. In 1853 he came to Brady, and since that date the latter township has been his home. His brother, O. Beebe, preceded him to Cooper by four or five years, and also moved afterwards into Brady, where he lived twenty years or more. His home at present is at South Haven, Mich. A portion of the old Elisha Doane farm is now the property of C. M. Beebe, whose father (J.

M. B.) owned it at the time the saw-mill was abandoned, which was during the war of the Rebellion.

Among other settlers in the township were the Axtells, Bests, Kimbles, and Nelson Wilcox, the last named being the first supervisor of the present town of Brady. Manley Axtell's son, P. M. Axtell, resides in town, and his uncle, Dr. R. A. Axtell, lives south of Kalamazoo village in the township of the same name. Charles Eberstein, on section 1, is also an early settler.

Several native Germans have become residents of this township, the first being Fritz Bastian, who came about 1856-57. Charles Lowe, Frederick Kuhn, and Michael Specht soon followed, and others settled later ; all have good farms, generally well improved. Philip Bohner, who had come to the State of New York in 1847, located in Brady in 1859, a half-mile east of his present residence.

Pennsylvania has also furnished a number of the settlers of Brady. Peter Strome, Jacob H. Rishel, Daniel Hine- bach, John and D. E. Rishel (brothers and distantly related to J. H. Rishel), were all from Montour (formerly Columbia) Co., Pa. Strome was the first of these to arrive. John Rishel settled in 1855; D. E. Rishel in 1857, having pre- viously lived several years in the township of Park, St. Joseph Co. Jacob H. Rishel and Daniel Hinebach came a little later. John and D. E. Rishel and Peter Strome settled on section 29, which was included in the State Uni- versity lands. Abraham Mohney came into the township some time before any of the above, and was from Red Bank, Clarion Co., Pa. Daniel Hoch emigrated quite early from the same locality, and numerous others have moved in since, many of them settling in the northern part of St. Joseph County. In building their houses they have generally followed the simple style of architecture so com- mon with their brethren in Pennsylvania, and there is very little superfluous outward show to speak of the comforts within. Their farms are well kept and yield excellent returns. So numerous have the Pennsylvanians become in this region of Michigan that a church has been erected by them in St. Joseph County, which has a large membership.

Many of them purchased farms which had been already improved, while others secured woodland and carved homes for themselves with the axe as a companion to the plow. Those living in the township of Brady are principally in the southern and southwestern portions, which were origi- nally heavily timbered, and where is yet standing a consid- erable acreage of the original forest.

The following-named persons, as appears from the early records of the township, were residents of what was then Brady in the years from 1830 to 1835, inclusive. The names are taken from. the list of those recording stock- marks, with the year in which each first appears :

Armstrong, James, 1832. Bair, Christopher, Dec. 16, 1830. Bacon, Daniel, Dec. 22, 1830. Bair, Joseph, Dec. 23, 1830. Brown, George, Dec. 27, 1830. Bates, William, April 26, 1833. Bates, Dennis, Aug. 13, 1834. Brown, John, March 28, 1835. Bates, Daniel, Sept. 24, 1835. Clark, Joel, Dec. 19, 1832. Calhoun, Abner, Jan. 2, 1833.

. * Mr. Wandell was one of the earliest settlers in the southwest part of the township ; the old farm was the southwest quarter of section 29.

MRS. MARGARET CLEMENT.

H.T. C LEMENT.

RES. OF H. T. CLEMENT, BRADY, KALAMAZOO CO., MICH.

WM. B. CLEMENT.

MRS.WM. B. CLEMENT.

WILLIAM B. CLEMENT.

William B. Clement was born in Johnstown, Montgomery Co., N. Y., Nov. 4, 1805. His father, Lambert Clement, was born June 4, 1757, in Johns- town, where he grew to manhood, and became a farmer. He reared a family of seven sons and one daughter. At the breaking out of the Revolutionary war he was captain of the Johnstown militia com- pany, which was called into active service. Mr. Clement served through the war, and was in many battles and skirmishes. He was present at the sur- render of Burgoyne, and came home a colonel. At the close of the war he sold his farm in Johnstown, and moved into the west part of Montgomery County, where he bought a new farm. This he owned until 1837, when he moved into Ohio, where he resided with his son, Richard, until his death, in 1843. When William B. was twelve years old he went to learn the blacksmith trade of Judge Hulburt, with whom he remained five years. He then worked as a journeyman in the cities of Albany, Troy, and other towns; in this way perfecting himself in his trade, when nineteen he built a house and shop in Pleasant Valley, and worked on his own account. He re- mained there three years, then went to the Black River country, where he built a shop and house. Remained there three years, losing his health during the time by hard work. The next three years he

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History of Kalamazoo county, Michigan, Part 81

Author: Durant, Samuel W. comp Publication date: 1880 Publisher: Philadelphia. Everts & Abbott Number of Pages: 761

Author: Durant, Samuel W. comp
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia. Everts & Abbott
Number of Pages: 761