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LAND ENTRIES.
Among those who purchased from the general government lands situated in this township were the following :
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Section 1-J. B. Barr, Jacob A. Davis, Thadeus A. Laurence, Henry M. Caukins. Section 2 -- Richard M. Patrick, Jacob A. Davis, David R. Hart, William Burt, George Rossman, T. A. Laurence, Henry M. Caukins. Section 3-George Rossman, Richard Patrick, Benjamin Joy, Marshall Stark. Section 4-David Carpenter, James Davis, Joseph Fellshaw, Sam- uel B. l'eck, C. Crane, D. F. Clark, Samuel Peck, C. A. Worden, C. P. Morse. Section 5-George Loucks, Jacob Davis, C. Crane, Samuel B. Peck, Benjamin Joy. Section 6-Jacob A. Davis, John Clark, C. Crane, Claudius B. Nichols. Section 7-George Loucks, Eliphalet Gregory, Greenville O. Holmes, Levi B. Gregory. Section 8-Warren S. Felt, Charles Seymour. Section 9-Joseph Fellshaw, Allen Thompson, Robert H. Smith, William Degulice, Solomon Elyah, A. Godfrey, James Davis, Charles Seymour, Henry M. Moore. Section 10-Fite Rossman, George Rossman, Hiram Rossman, Enos T. Peck, Samuel B. Peck, Jacob Chapman, Charles E. Van- derburg, William Atwill, Thomas N. Stevens. Section 11-Benjamin Osborn, James Brown, George Rossman, Thadeus Laurence, Samuel B. Peck, John G. Morgan, Henry Osman. Section 12-Thadeus A. Laurence, John W. Kent, Harmonius Brower, Edward H. Jones, D. Towsley, Philip Leech, Peter Brown, George Bower. Section 13-Hiram Rossman, Leonard Ross- man, Michael McCabe, Joseph B. Murphy, Christian Sodtman, E. II. Jones, D. Towsley, Martin Sebalt, C. Sedtman. Section 14-Abel Hawley, Ebe- nezer Balcom, James F. Brown, James Felton, Hiram Rossman, John G. Morgan, James R. Brown, John Devier. Section 15-Enos T. Peck, Rebecca Pierson, James Felton, H. Rossman, Samuel B. Peck, J. A. Peck, S. Kent. Section 16-Chapin and Booth, O. Loomis, Anson Bellamy, John Temp, H. M. Fuller, George W. Bellamy, Joseph Burgess, John Breitzmer, George Fiek, C. Vogle. Section 17-Abel French, Henry Moore, Charles Seymour, Whitney Jones, Robert Smith, William Degalia. Ezra Jones, Wilson Morier, F. W. Worden, II. M. Fuller, H. A. Smith. Section 18-Horton Wilcox, George Loucks, F. Gregory, Samuel Gregory, Whitney Jones, William Kitts, Allen Thompson, John Shaw, Frederick W. Worden. Section 19-Legrand Cannon, Daniel Jones, John Alma, Ira Porter, J. B. Dickinson, Martin Shearer. Section 20-Samuel H. Combs, John Miller, Ira Porter, Alfred B. Miller, John Ball, E. Ransom, Leander Cole, Charles Seymour. Section 21-W. and W. C. Ransom, Leander Cole, Charles Seymour. Section 22- Elias Small, James Grant, Enos T. Peck, Robert Burdick, William Cook. Robert Burdick, Jr. Section 23 --- Caleb Cooper, Joseph Whitbeck, James Grant, William Toby. Section 24-Josiah Todd, Edward Straley, Hiram Rossman, Sidney Todd, William McCrudy, Michael McCabe, Eliza Will-
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ianis, Martha Rossman, Garrett J. Van Allen, Edward H. Jones, William H. Johnson. William Sanderson. Section 25-Enos Wetherell, Nathan High, George Rossman, Henry Osmon, Charles Cross, Stephen Cupp, Potter Kel- ley, A. E. Fuller, Obadiah E. Fuller. Section 26-Michael Gordon, Enos Wetherell, John Kent, Harvey Allen, William H. Ellsworth. Section 27- Joseph D. Stearnes, Isaac Miller, Richard W. Wells, Dennis Arnold, John Churchill. Section 28-Charles Seymour, Whitney Jones, William Degalia, George M. Pierson. Section 20-Alfred L. Driggs. Section 30-Luther Lincoln, Ira Porter, John Almy, J. L. Morse, V. Belding, Legrand Cannon, Edmund Bostwick, Philo Beers, Ira Porter, J. L. B. Kerr, A. L. Briggs. Section 31-William W. Baker, J. F. Smith, Andrew P. Crowell, Hilton and White, Winslow Dodge, Henry Hilton, Richard Hilton, Ira Porter, Edwin A. Hayden, Louis Merrifield, John D. Wilson. Section 32-John D. Wilson, Jacob W. Petty, Chauncey Cole, John Ball, John Green, Jerome Pease, Abel Avery, William Degalia, Francis Potter, Samuel Demorest. Section 33 -- Samuel Hamilton, Whitney Jones, Ransom E. Wood, N. E. Horton, Martin Shearer, Samuel B. Peck, Jacob W. Petty, Henry M. Moore. Section 34-Jacob W. Petty, Sarah Vanderhoof, John Churchill, Lewis E. Smith, Chauncey B. Miner, Abram Mann, William Harris. Section 35- Levi J. Allen, Lewis Buck, David K. Goodman, George Rossman, Fite Ross- man, Barney Bigler, Thomas H. Hartwell. Section 36- Charles Hubbs, Jacob Rebman, John G. Reker, Henry B. Tipp. Squire M. Newberry.
ARRIVAL OF THE LINCOLN FAMILY.
Luther Lincoln, who entered the land at the junction of Black creek and Flat river, was the first settler in Montcalm township, and one of the first in the county. His entry at that time comprised the northwest quarter of section 30, upon which, near the junction referred to, he built the first cabin in the township, and with a son he continued to reside there and in that vicinity many years. He is said to have been peculiar and eccentric in many particulars, but, upon the whole, a man of many estimable qualities. During the first years of his stay he cleared a small piece of land and raised several crops before any other settler entered the township. Some years later he dammed the river and built a small mill with an upright saw; this was in section 30. It employed two men, who, beside Mr. Lincoln and his son, were probably the only ones in the township. This property passed into other hands before his death. His mind for several years before this event
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is regarded as having been clouded, and it is to this fact that his business reverses and disasters are attributed. His son, who subsequently removed to Kent county, was killed by lightning.
In 1844 L. H. Pratt and his brother-in-law, S. D. Barr, bought an interest in the mill property of J. L. Morse and one Belden, who had pre- viously been taken into partnership by Luther Lincoln. The wife of S. D. Barr, a sister of L. H. Pratt, was the first resident white woman in Mont- calm township. Her daughter, Sarah Dett Barr, was the first white child born in the township.
It was about the year 1845 that an incident occurred which shows the strong reverence of the Indian for his ancient customs and superstitions. In the spring of that year the band known as the Blacksmith family, being a branch of the Ottawa tribe, went, as had been their custom, to the North for the purpose of making maple sugar. While engaged in this avocation one of their number, a woman, was taken suddenly ill and died. The band set out at once to return to deposit the corpse in the cemetery of their fore- fathers, located near Greenville. In the northern part of Montcalm county -probably in the region of Six lakes-they obtained a canoe, and by means of it descended the river as far as Lincoln's mill, known then as Barr's mill. Here they desired 1 .. IT. Pratt to take his team and wagon and convey the corpse to its destination. manifesting a great anxiety that the ceremony of burial should take place just as the sun reached the meridian. The horses were soon attached. and the corpse. wrapped in a cloak, placed in the center of the wagon box. while the mourners arranged themselves on either side.
The rough corduroy roads seemed to forbid rapid travel, and through respect for the dead. Mr. Pratt curbed his team to a moderate pace. But the Indians, watching the sun. as the hour of noon gradually drew on, mani- fested every symptom of impatience, and finally urged the driver to drive more rapidly. To their infinite relief the horses took a swifter pace, the corpse bounded from side to side, and they retained their places with diffi- culty. It is probable they had never been in a wagon before, and their glee was unbounded. Upon reaching the burial place they dug a shallow grave, and, with a spoon, knife and bowl. as an introduction of a faithful squaw to the happy land. they interred the corpse. This tribe subsequently moved to the North.
S. D. Barr was later a resident of. Belvidere township, while L. H. Pratt, who was one of the first postmasters in Montcalm county, moved to Fairplain township.
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On June 19, 1844, Frederick W. Worden entered the south half of the southeast quarter of section 18. upon which the village of Gowen is situated. It has been asserted that Lieutenant Worden, of the United States navy, and celebrated as the commander of the "Monitor" during its action with the rebel ram "Merrimac," was born here. This, however, is not authentic, although he lived here when a child with his parents for several years. The house built by Mr. Worden as a dwelling for his family stood across the road from where the brick hotel built by James Gowen stood. On August 26. 1844, Mr. Worden sold an interest in the water privilege to Volney and Thomas Belding, and the company immediately erected a saw-mill.
FIRST TOWNSHIP MEETING.
About the year 1844 Anson Ensign came in and purchased the water privilege on the northwest quarter of section 30, at which place he built a dam and saw-mill and gave employment to a considerable force of men. In a small house built near this mill and owned by him the first township meet- ing in the county was held, in the spring of 1845. This mill subsequently passed into the possession of D. Underhill, and later was owned by Henry Watson, who moved into the township in 1857. and worked in it for one dollar per day.
In 1843 John D. Wilson, a native of Huddersfield, England, came to Michigan, and in 1844 to Montcalm, and entered land in the south part of sections 31 and 32. He cleared the brush from thirty acres, which he plowed during the summer. He was unmarried and boarded in Eureka while doing this work. This was the first improvement made in the township, aside from that made by Luther Lincoln. Mr. Wilson subsequently disposed of his land and started for Australia, since which time nothing definite has been heard of him.
In 1845 his brother. Joe Wilson, with his wife and three children, moved to Ionia county and settled in Otisco, where he lived until the winter of 1846-47, when he entered eighty acres of land on section 6, in Eureka township, and built a cabin, into which he moved soon afterward. In 1846 he sowed to wheat a part of the tract in Montcalm broken up by his brother two years previously. It was the first piece of any considerable extent sown in the township. Having secured eighty acres of his brother's land, he took down the cabin which he had built and removed it to this land, where he again set it up. It was the first house, aside from those at the mills, and its occupant was the first in the township to engage exclusively in agricultural
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pursuits. Hle traded his land in Eureka for eighty acres on section 34, owned by John W. Petty, built a house upon it, and resided there two years.
In 1848 his son, William Fountain Wilson, died and was buried beside his sister in Otisco township. This was probably the first death in the town- ship, as Sarah, the youngest child of John Wolverton, whose death is usually considered the first, did not die until some weeks afterward. She was, however, the first interred in the township, the cemetery being situated on the east line of her father's farm, and directly south of the quarter post. It became a public burial place, and was the first in the township.
About the year 1848 John Wolverton settled on the southwest quarter of section 31, having at the same time entered land adjoining Eureka town- ship, upon which he built his barn. This section of Montcalm previous to that time was known as Lincoln's Plains, but from that time to the present has been called Wolverton Plains. His family consisted of a wife and six children. Mr. Wolverton died many years since, and his widow, who became the wife of John Smith, died at an advanced age.
John Hocroft and Joseph Brown were the next to reach the township. They settled ou section 32, built cabins and made some other improvements, but. selling out soon afterward, they moved away.
PLANTING WHEAT FOR DEER BAIT.
In 1849 Jacob Carr, who had entered land on section 33, came to reside permanently in the township. At this time, being single, he boarded with Joe Wilson while making some improvements on his land. Among other things he cleared an acre of ground and sowed it to wheat for a deer bait, and upon which he succeeded in killing many deer. Mr. Carr subsequently married a Miss Lamderton, of Oakland county. AAt his death he was one of the oldest settlers in the township. During the first years of his stay he was in the lumber business.
Joseph D. Stearns. the next to reach the township, also a single man, boarded with Mr. Wilson, as did Jacob Carr, while improving his farm, which comprised the southwest quarter of section 27. Mr. Stearns was also very extensively engaged in lumbering, having owned several mills in various localities.
Levi J. Allen, Harris Goodman, Louis Ruch and John Churchill are among the pioneers in the south part of the township. Churchill settled on the west half of the northeast quarter of section 34. Allen on the west half of the northwest quarter of section 35. Ruch on the south half of the north-
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east quarter of the same section. They were all very prominent in the affairs of the county and township for a number of years.
.Among the earliest settlers in the central part of the township was Robert Burdick, who had been a soldier of 1812, and who, with a govern- ment land warrant, entered the northwest quarter of section 22, where he built a good log house and where he lived until his death. His family, sev- eral children of whom were married and lived in New York, came a few years after his arrival.
In 1855 James Brown, with his sons, J. R. and Silas, and four daugh- ters, two of whom were married, as were also his two sons, reached the township. The two remaining daughters were married to William and Rob- ert Burdick. Jr. The latter later resided on land entered by his father, while William occupied land entered by his father-in-law. James Brown. Another son-in-law. James Toby, entered the northwest quarter of section 23.
Michael MeCabe was the next to penetrate the wilderness in the north- east part of the township. His family at that time consisted of a wife and three children. Michael McCabe died in 1875.
At the time these settlements were made there was no clearing to the north in this township. James Brown cleared a road from the state road to his place in 1855. there being at that no settlement between him and the mill at Langston. A road was soon afterward completed to the saw-mill started by James Powers in the school section north of the lake. This mill was subsequently burned and was never rebuilt.
These families lived here a number of years before any other settle- ments were made in the northeast part of the township. This locality,' being covered with pine, offered many obstacles to rapid development, and there were some tracts held for lumbering purposes at a very late period, but they are all gone at present. Section 23, however, received two families about this time. Sylvester Jackson and Austin Barrett, neither of whom remained long. Barrett went into the army and was reported killed. T. Underwood purchased the south half of the northeast quarter of section 22 from Joe Wilson, who was acting as agent for Joseph Mott. of Schuyler county, New York.
William . Brown was among the first to settle in the north part of Montcalm. He entered the north half of the northwest quarter of section 14. and made the first improvements in this part of the township. He removed, but afterwards returned with his brothers, George F., James S. and Alexander, all of whom became permanent settlers and made the princi- pal improvements on their respective farms.
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In 1850 John Wolverton and Joe Wilson, assisted by other settlers in the vicinity, built a little board school house on Mr. Wolverton's farm, and hired Harriet White, of Kent county, to teach. She died in her youth. This was the first school taught in the township. The next school house was built on section 34, and resembled the former in its construction.
RESIDENTS OF 1851.
The resident taxpayers of the township in 1851. the sections upon which their lands were situated, and the number of acres owned by each were ( according to the assessment roll of that year ) indicated in the follow- ing list :
Sections. Acres.
Sections. Acres.
Samuel Barr 20. 77
Joseph Stearns 27
160
Barrington & Rockwood.
John Wolverton 31 80
Jacob Wise 31 160
Joseph Wilson 34
80
40 John Wilson 34 160
Beers & Ensign 19. 30
213 Chauncey B. Miner 34 to
French & Moore -30 205 Lewis Ruch 35 80
Jacob W. Petty 30. 31.32 153
David K. Goodman 35 160
GOWEN VILLAGE.
Among the early residents in the western part of Montcalm was Will- iam Potter, who, in the year 1817, opened a small stock of dry-goods and groceries at Worden's Mills. This was probably the first store in the town- ship, and from that time to the present this locality has been a business center for the immediate vicinity.
For nearly twenty years Mr. Potter resided in this place and continued in the mercantile business. He subsequently removed to Greenville, where he engaged in the lumber trade. He later became a resident of Lowell. Soon after locating at Worden's Mill. Mr. Potter engaged Jane Wilcox to teach school in a shanty pertaining to the mills. Miss Wilcox later became the wife of Ezra Bement, and lived in Orleans.
There were at that time no persons engaged in agriculture in this sec- tion of the township. The first minister who preached in this section was Reverend Allen, who for some time visited the mill regularly every two weeks and conducted religious services. The mill had in the meantime
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F. B. Burrington 26
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passed through many different hands, but had been little changed. In 1870 James Caward built an addition to it, which was the first improvement made on it for many years. The same year Henry Smith and J. M. Fuller opened a store in a building previously built by James Caward for a repair shop.
Alexander Hewitt succeeded them in about a year. In 1871 the Detroit, Lansing & Northern railway was completed through the township, and James Gowen. having purchased the mill property from the Flat River Boon Company, platted the village which bears his name. The first train that passed over the road after its completion brought brick for the large hotel at this village. It was the first brick hotel in the county, and with its furni- ture cost fifteen thousand dollars.
James Gowen, who may properly be considered the founder of the village, was born in Lancaster county, Pennsylvania. Previous to his set- tlement in Montcalm he had been engaged principally in taking contracts on large public improvements, among which were the tunnel under the lake at Chicago and several other similar works at Cincinnati and in the East.
Gowen first bore the name of Gregor's Mill, and later this was dropped for Kaywood. Just why this latter name was given or with what it orig- inated is not known to the writer. The name Gowen was given the village at the time of its platting on November 17. 1871. It was named in honor of its senior proprietor. Col. James Gowen. Henry M. Fuller was a partner in the platting and laying out of this town, which was done by E. H. Jones, surveyor.
This village, although the only one in Montcalm township. has never attained the size and proportion which was hoped for by the original pro- prietors. Gowen is a convenient business center for the farmers of this township. The business houses cater especially to this class of trade and the life of the town is maintained through these efforts.
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CHAPTER AVH.
PIERSON TOWNSUIE.
Pierson was the eleventh township formed in the county and is situated in the northwestern part, in that section which originally, when the county was first organized, consisted of townships it and 12 north, ranges 9 and 10 west. This territory later was divided and formed the townships of Reynolds, Winfield and Maple Valley, thus reducing Pierson to its present limits. Pierson was officially organized on February 17, 1857, but the orig- inal petition for the erection of this township has been misplaced and the names of the original signers cannot be given. It is also noteworthy that there is no record made on the minutes of the board of supervisors for the erection of this township. The last minutes for this board are dated on January 7, 1857, and the next meeting is dated October 11. 1858, thus skipping the meeting which organized this township. As reduced to its pres- ent limits it is bounded on the north by Reynolds, on the east by Maple Valley, on the south by Kent county and on the west by Newaygo county. It was named after the family name of Martin Pierson, as several members of that family were its first settlers. The best farming lands in this town- ship are situated in the southern and northeastern part. In the eastern part is a low and wet portion of land, covering the greater part of a number of sections and extending northwest towards Wood lake, which is situated in section 15. This lower land is usually known as Bear swamp, and takes its name, presumably, from a large bear which had its retreat there and is supposed to have escaped the hunters for a number of years- but this is more or less traditional. The western part of the township contains a system of lakes which are drained by a branch of the Tamarack river.
ORIGINAL. LAND ENTRIES.
Section 1 -- Peter Sanborn, Warren Wellman. Section 2 -- Amos Rice, Emanuel Fralick, Rufus Reed. John Field. Section 3 -- Amos Rice. Sec- tion 4-Peter R. Howe, Edward Harvey. Section 5-Elias Alley. Sec- tion 6-John Moore, William H. Erving. Ira Carpenter, William Hillman.
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Elias Andrews, William Rogers, Ebenezer Simons. Willis Turner, Benja- min Carpenter. Section 7-Benjamin Ensley. Section 8-Andrew Har- pending. Avah Trowbridge. James Bradshaw. Daniel Shook, Peter J. Van Bensekom. Section 9-Orin T. Rice, Elias Alley. Section 10-Levi Stru- ble, Orin Rice, Elias Alley, Kendrick Rice, Otis Wilson, William Bader. Section 11-John Ross, Salisbury Negus, Ananias Worden, J. S. Ferguson. Section 12-Warren Wellman, Jeremiah M. Field, William Warren, Edwin S. Parish, Seth Beal, Alexander Watts, Johnson B. Reese, James Hart, S. Hellousfield. Section 13- - Robert C. Fletcher, Elias R. Ferguson, Thomas Plumb. Alvin Davis, Thomas N. Robinson, Henry Hankle, William Dowl- man, Mary Stewart. Fred C. Papke. Section 14-George Wood, George I. Clark. Ira Abbott, Donald McDonald. James L. Helmer, E. L. Gray, Alanson Stoddard. Section 15-Ira Abbott, Henry M. Carpenter. Joseph Cram. Section 16 -- Daniel Cram, George B. Morrikle. Charles W. Rogus, Isaiah Alley, Henry Wood, Theron J. Fox, Henry Rinyon, David Courser. Section 17-Andrew Harpending. Alvah Trowbridge. George Bank. Sec- tion 18-Charles Holmes. Peter S. Cain. Timothy M. Eddy, Samuel Cor- nell. Welcome W. Johnson. Aaron Carpenter. Frederick Hall. Section 19- Lorenzo Rider, Charles Holmes. Section 20-Andrew Harpending, Alvah Trowbridge. Volney Cawkins, Charles Edmunda, Nathaniel Smith. Section 21-Alvah Trowbridge. William H. Melock, Wiley R. Reynolds, Lewis Snyder. John Van Vleet. James Rice. John Rice. Isaiah Alley, George Pratt, Nathaniel Smith. Section 22- Lewis Melosh. Caleb B. Rice, Isaiah Munt- ley, Benjamin Nevs. David Preston, George P. Gates, Morton W. English, Ransom E. Wood. Section 23-Henry Van Steenburg, James H. Bray- man, Morton W. English. David Cram, Julius E. Field. Ransom E. Wood, James IT. Field, Simon Sanges. J. II. Cram, L. B. Potter. Section 24- Milton 11. Butler, David Donglass, William Fuller. William Veach, William Edwards, Henry Henkle. Martin Weller. Iliram Bicknell, Fred F. Taylor, Daniel Abrey, Wellington Copeman. John Bicknell. Section 25 -- Milton IT. Butler, William Edwards. Section 26-Jacob G. Crane. Gilbert E. Fish, Sanford Himes, John Edwards, George M. Pratt. Jefferson Brown, Degrass Fish. Section 27-Stephen R. Pierson, David S. Pierson, Thomas Peck, Luther M. Carpenter. James Neve, Edward Neve, Mary Neve, Frederick Hall. Dexter Clark, Harriet Clark, Ransom E. Wood, Jacob Huckelbury. Section 28-Alvah Trowbridge. Wiley R. Reynolds, John Van Vleet, Orison A. Pierson, David Pierson. F. H. Jones and Joseph Shearer. George M. Pierson. Section 29 -- Andrew Harpending. Alvah Trowbridge. Leonidas
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Scranton, Lorenzo J. Rider. Lewis Melosh, Stephen F. Page. W. G. Philips. Section 30-Lorenzo Rider. George W. Pangborn, Elisha Pangborn, John Van Saw, Haskell S. Pangborn, Welcome Johnson. Section 31-James Cavener, Lorenzo J. Rider. Stephen F. Page. Abisher Green, Stephen Page, Mary Darling. Section 32 .- Alvah Trowbridge. Nathan Burroughs, James A. Ingall, Benjamin D. Bradley, Chester Conant. Eli Bellus, Charles Bennett, James .A. Devins, William Stewart, Francis G. Pierce. Section 33-George Pierson. Goodwin Havey, Byron H. Weed, George M. Pierson. Section 34 --- Byron H. Weed, John Van Vleet. Lewis Rice, Jacob Huckelbury, Ira C. Carpenter, Endden 1. Romans, Bimri Menhaut, Thomas Huckelbury, James R. Bradley, Bradley Smith, Jacob Hucklebury. Section 35-Thomas F. Girls, Milton H. Butler, Florence A. Phillips, Aaron Edgar. Section 36- Thomas Girls, Milton Butler, David Preston.
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