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MONROE COUNTY.
TON R()E County, from 1696 u*itil the treaty of 1763 bIetween ltrance an-d LEnglan(1, constig    t tuted( a part of New v Irancc, then, wxith all the vast territory fronm the (Gulf of St
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were i2i distinct farms of settlements. There are some settlements on Sandy Creek, Stony Creek
and Otter Creek. Their only titles was a possessory title from the Indians, and their only legal
rights were maintained by the laws of Canada, under which, by act of Parliament, they were "to
hold and enjoy their property and possessions, with all customs and usages related thereto. "
These "customs" were founded upon the customs of Paris and ordinances of the French King.
By the treaty of 1783 between England and the United States, the Northwest Territory was transferred to the latter, but England refused to withdraw her troops therefrom. In 1794 England
agreed to deliver up all posts in said territory on or before June 1795, which was done. July 4th,
1817, Monroe County was established, bounded north by the River Huron, west by the then Indiana boundary line, and south by the State of Ohio, thereby including all of Lenawee and a portion of the present Counties of Wayne and Washtenaw; and the County Court was to be
held at such place not exceeding two miles from the home of Francis La Salle as the Court might
designate. September 4th, I1817, the Town of Monroe was established and made the County Seat of
Monroe County. April 6th, 1817, Gabriel Godfrey was authorized to build and maintain a toll
bridge across the River Huron for twenty-five years. December ist, I817, means were provided
to build a County jail. September ioth, 1822, Monroe County was established as it now is (and
including the disputed territory out of which grew the Toledo War), but attached to it was the
present County of Lenawee and all territory west to Lake Michigan, the Indian title to which was
extinguished by the treaty of Chicago in 1821. June 3oth, 1824, the Seat of Justice for Lenawee
County was established on a plat filed in the Register's office, June 25th, 1824, but the County itself
was not organized until November 23th, 1826. April i3th, 1825, the first Legislative Council established Monroe County as the Second District, with six members. March I9, r827, the Bank of
Monroe, was organized by John Anderson, 0. Johnson, H. Conant and others. April 12, 1827, the
common schools were established in each Township. April 12th, 1827, Monroe County was divided
into the Townships of Frenchtown, Monroe, Raisinville, Erie, and Port Lawrence; before this there
were only three Townships. The first Township nleeting of Port Lawrence was held at the house
of Eli Hubbard, who was also first Supervisor. June 23rd, 1828, a territorial road was established
from Port Lawrence to Adrian, others from Monroe to Ypsilanti, Monroe to Dexter, and July
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The Township of Erie has a population of 1,005; was organized in 1827 and includes all of the
present Townships of La Salle, Erie, Bedford, and Whiteford. Raisinville Township has a population: of 1,89I, including Raisinville, Ida, Dundee, Milan, London and Exeter. Frenchtown has
a popuation of 2,124, was organized in 1827, including Ash and Berlin. Monroe Township has a
population of 927, (organized in i827), the boundaries were not changed and included so much
of the present City of Monroe as lies south of the River Raisin until 1848, when the City was set
off by itself.
LaSalle Township, (1,378), was settled about 1790, there being at Otter Creek, in 1794, 22 families; the Township was organized in I830 out of the Township of Erie. Bedford, population I,588,
was organized in i836, out of the Township of Erie, and was settled by the French some sixty
years ago. Summerfield, population 1,648, was organized in 1830, out of Raisinville, and included
Dundee and Milan. London Township, population 1,222, was organized out of Raisinville and
Summerfield, in 1833; its boundaries compose what is now Exeter, London and Milan; the part now
constituting Milan before that belonged to Summerfield. Whiteford, population 1,6io, was organized in i834, out of the western part of the Townships of Port Lawrence and Erie. 1Milan Township,
population 1,488, was set off from London in 1836. It had previously formed a part of Raisinville, until Summerfield was organized, and belonged to the latter until 1833, when it was attached
to London. Exeter, population 1,372, was organized in 1836 out of London. Ida, population 1,I05,
was organized in 1837, out of Raisinville. Township of Ash, population 1,746, organized out of
Frenchtown, in 1837, includes that part of Frenchtown comprising Ash and Berlin. Dundee,
population 2,799, was organized out of Summerfield, in i838; City of Monroe, population 5,258, in
I890. Berlin Township has a population of 2,026.
Among things of interest in Monroe County was the massacre of the River Raisin in the War
of i812, between England and the United States. The western outposts so reluctantly yielded
by the former in 1796, were eagerly desired, and forming a coalition with the Indians under the
celebrated warrior, Tecumseh, the British made the then wilderness a scene of many barbarous
outrages. The River Raisin was on the highway from the Ohio to Detroit and became the scene
of considerable military activity. The post at Detroit was the objective point of attack on the
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United States. In August, 18I2, Detroit was threatened and on the I6th of that month it was
ingloriously surrendered by General Hull. Previous to that time Colonel Bush had been sent
from Ohio with a reinforcement and supplies, including one hundred head of cattle, and had
arrived at the settlement of the River -Raisin, where they stopped, finding a large force of the
enemy between them and Detroit. Colonel Bush sent word to General Hull (by James Knaggs,
late of Monroe City), that he was at the Raisin, the messenger going by trail by way of Ypsilanti.
By this means he arrived the evening General Hull sent out a detachment by the same trail to
meet Colonel Bush; but finding that Bush had not moved, nor had orders to move, returned to
Detroit in time to find that the Post had surrendered, including in the capitulation this detachment and the one also at the Raisin under Colonel Bush, but the latter refused to accede to this
surrender, and after getting such supplies as were necessary he left with his whole force for Ohio.
Silas Lewis, of Monroe, came to this County in 1808, enlisted with Hull at the age of 18, was
active as one of his scouts and, on the i6th day of August, 1812, brought the news of Hull's surrender to Colonel Bush.
After the capitulation of Detroit the British established a provincial government for Michigan, including, of course, the settlement on the Raisin. The savages ravaged the settlement
without restraint. The United States sought to cover to cover the ground so lost and organized an army
under General Harrison. When he had reached Sandusky he sent General Winchester in advance
to the ee wh the Maumee, whe latter dispatched a foraging party for the Raisin, where they arrived January i8th, I8i3. On the igth General Winchester arrived there with one thousand men.
He was repeatedly warned by the French settlers, who had come from Maiden on the ice, that
Proctor and a large force of Indians were approaching. Thinking that the force was magnified
and in any event the forces under General Harrison would reach him before they attacked, he
paid little heed to the warning. On the 22nd, he was attacked by the enemy under Proctor and
the Indian chiefs, Round Head and Split Bog. His headquarters were at the house of Colonel
Francis Navarre, the earliest settler on the Raisin (at the spot where the house formerly owned
by Dr. A. I. Sawyer now stands), where he was surpriseld, taken prisonerand nearly his whole force
captured. Many sought safety in flight, but were overtaken by the Indians and slaughtered between the Raisin and Plum creeks. The wounded and sick, together with some of the well, were
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morning for those left behind. About sunrise the next morning the Indians attacked the camp at
tthe Raisin, and massacred nearly all left. The house or fort still stands a monument of interest
for all time.
No County in the State has better schools than Monroe. Her school fame has become familiar to every resident of Southern Michigan. The corner-stone of the Monroe Union School,
was laid with Masonic ceremonies, June 24th, 1858. In 1888, the building burned, or rather the upper
story. It was immediately rebuilt and made two stories higher. In 1884, a building was put up
in the 3rd ward; this answered the purpose for a year or two. But in the year 1887, another building was erected near the old structure. This is a very fine building, being modern in every way.
There are nine churches in the city of Monroe: Baptist, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopalian, two Lutheran Churches and three Catholic, French, German and Irish. For many years, the
-Monroe seminary, under Rev. E. J. Boyd, was a very successful ladies' school. The resident students in the city, at his death purchased and erected a very beautiful monument in memory
of the work done for them and showing their love and respect felt for him. After his
death, the school changed hands several times and, in 1884 was purchased by the Catholics, as a
college for priests, but was only used as such for two years, when they converted it into an orphan's
home for boys.
Hon. Edwin Willetts has been for many years a prominent man of Monroe County. In i1856
he came to Monroe, beginning the study of law in the office of Hon. Isaac P. Christiancy, and was admitted to the bar in 1857. In I869 he was elected Prosecuting Attorney of Monroe County, holding
the office until 1873. He was appointed Postmaster of Monroe by President Lincoln, in 186j; was
removed byJohnson, in 1866. He was elected to the Forty-Fifth Congress on the Republican ticket,
by more than two thousand majority over the Democratic, Greenback and Granger candidates. And
again to the Fourty-Sixth and Forty-Seventh Congresses. Monroe was the home of General
Custer. He was born in Ohio, but came to Monroe at the age of fourteen, living with a sister,
Mrs. David Reed. He became a student at West Point, July ist, 1857, graduated June 24, I86i,
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nephew, George Armstrong Reed, met a tragic death in the battle of the Little Big Horn, with a
small party of two hundred soldiers. He fell before six thousand Indians under Sitting Bull.:;Western Union Pole Dock at Monroe, owned by Dickerson, of Chicago, and W. C. Sterling
and: Son, of Monroe, do a thriving business in shipping poles all over the United States. They are
rafted down to Monroe by boat and also by rail. Paving blocks are also shipped from this dock.
Cedar ties are likewise manufactured here. Through fear of fire they keep a sprinkling wagon
busy wetting down their piles of lumber. A picture of their yard shows a freight train with its
able corps of workers loaded ready to start for the West.
The fishing grounds and duck hunting cannot be surpassed. The club house is owned by New
for the round trip. The beach at this point on Lake Erie furnishes one of the best resorts for
bathing, and the white sand, with a grove running back from the shore, makes for picnicing a picturesque retreat.
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ENAWEE, a beautiful and prosperous County, cherished by its progressive population of
fifty thousand, has a central city of ten thousand, and contains twenty-six townships.
In all of these townships its highly cultivated and productive farms, its numerous populous and
thriving villages, its schools and colleges, its churches, railroads, telegraphs and newspapers, its
abundant revenues of wealth and comfort and refinement on every hand, stamp her as one of the
first Counties in the great State of Michigan. The County is well matured by a multitude of
small streams  and beautiful and clear lakes.
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to the United States a large tract of country in northern Ohio and Southwestern Michigan,
including the present County of Lenawee. The land was acquired by the United States by fair
purchase. In the summer of I853 Musgrove Evans, of Brownsville, Jefferson County, New York,
came into the Territory to explore with a view to settlement, and did settle at the present site of
the village of Tecumseh. The tract had before this been surveyed and put on the market by the
United States Government. Mr. Evans was impressed with the beauty of the country and forseeing the advantages of the water-powers, determined to settle and lav out a village there and secure and improve this water-power. Therefore in the spring of 1824, Mr. Evans, with a Mr.
Joseph Brown and some ten or twelve others, came from Buffalo in a schooner and landed at
Detroit, where for the time being he left his family. From thence, with packs on their backs
containing provisions and such necessaries for the journey, he and his little company made the
journey on foot through the forest to the previously selected sight. On the 2nd of June of that
year, having in the meantime built a rude log house on the premises, the roof and floor of which
were made of bark stripped from the neighboring trees, MN\r. Evans brought thither his family,
consiting of a wife and five children. They were accompanied by a man named Benson and wife,
who were in his employ at Detroit, and who upon arrival occupied quarters with his own family
in his log hut. These two women were the first white women, while these two families were the
first white inhabitants within the bounds of Lenawee County; and thus the settlement of this
large and now prosperous commonwealth was begun. Indians were numerous in those days,
often visiting and supplying them with beads and products of the chase; but there was not a
white neighbor nearer than Monroe, thirty-three miles distant, save a family or two on the Raisin,
a few miles above Monroe. The Indians, mostly of the Pottawatomic tribes, though at that time
objects of apprehension and fear, especially to the women and children, proved friendly and
gave little trouble.
Here the first settlers spent the winter in Lenawee, not unhappily or cheerlessly. There was
much in the wild and romantic beauty of the native forest, in the novelty and excitement of the
strange life they were living, and in the bright hopes of the future, which buoyed them tip amidst
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"The articles thee mentioned wvill all be good here; particularly the stove, as it takes some,
time always in a new place to get ovens and chimneys convenient for cooking. We have neither
yet, and have no other way of baking for twenty people than in a bake kettle, and the
fire out of doors.
The favorite land for the home-seeker was whlat was known as the Oak Openings, a space
-where the trees were open and apart like an orchardl, with a soil easily wvorkedl; in fact one could
plow after burning over the ground to remove the underbush, and by girdling the trees one could
look for a crop without stopping to clear away the forest. The land that had the most timber
was the best. The first settlers wvere maen of action, pluck and determination who had come to
the Territory to earn a home for themselves and families. They took land that would give them
the best returns for their labor, and with the axe cut and clearedl space for their cabins which they
built of logs one laid on the other and plastered with clay, which plaster did not always stick but
fell off here and there, and could only be replastered in the fall by repairing all the places on the
outside that could be found; then entering the cabin andl darkening the window or windows, and
thus discovering the places where the light came thlrough, whereupon soft clay was usually thrown
at the spot until it wvas filled.
W~ith a fireplace for heating and cooking, bunks for b~eds', home-mnace tables to eat upon,
stools and benches to sit upon, and a very few dishles; these were the usual stock of household
utensils which the pioneers of this section were compelled- to content themlselves with. Then
there was timber to cut dowvn to make wvay for the plow; timber that, though in the way, was
worth more than the land,-walnut, oak, hickory and ashl. The plowing was done with ox teams;
horses were not used at that time, as they were too hard to keep, there being no good pasture
for them; while the oxen could be turned into the wvoods for subsistence. Thus with a cow for
milk and butter, a gun to supply the table with fowl or flesh, seedls for the first planting, one wsas
on the road to prosperity. The money inl those (lays wvas of the "will-'cat " ordler. Inl conversation
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at their command, the next bank could make a good showing. The money they used was nothing
more than their notes based on their personal honor, and the showing of the specie was good so
long as the people would take it; but a few designing men could and did break a "bank." The
same gentleman related how he heard of the shaky condition of the old E. & K. Bank one evening, and the next morning bright and early found him sitting on the door-step after a journey
of six miles, waiting for the Bank to open so that he could draw out his account of one thousand
dollars, which he did, receiving two packages of five hundred each, consisting of notes of other
banks. How much of it was good he did not know, but was willing to take his chances. Before
eleven o'clock of the same day this bank could not pay.
The City of Adrian is known as the "City of Maples;" her streets are lined on either side
with well-kept trees and are graded and drained, affording some of the finest drives and walks
past stately residences, well-cared-for lawns and cozy homes. She is one of the finest of home
cities, with all of the advantages of a larger place and none of the disadvantages; her merchants
are enterprising, her laborers skilled and industrious and are all loyal to Adrian and vicinity.
The churches of the City are all well attended, of which there are thirteen. Some of the divines
take high rank as leaders in their denominations; they all have Sunday-schools that are well
organized. The Methodist, Baptist, Protestant Methodist, and Presbyterian, have their young
people's societies. The Christian Endeavor Societies are strong in both Presbyterian and
Protestant Methodist, while the Episcopal Methodists have the Epworth League, and the B. Y.
P. U., being a society of the Baptist Church. We have our banks; all have good management
and are on a solid basis. All are savings banks, which speaks well for the prosperity of the
people.
The public schools of Adrian are second to none in the State; the courses in the High School
are arranged to meet the needs of all. A graduate from the High School is entered at the University of Michigan without examination. Drawing and music are successfully taught from the
primary department to the High School. There are five buildings that were erected at a cost
of $104,500. The Central is located at the corner of Church and Division Streets, and was built
in i868 at a cost of $70,000; the North Branch, located at the corner of Hunt and Broad Streets,
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in 1858 and cost a large sum of money, and in 1893 was enlarged to accommodate the increasing
attendance; the West Branch! located at the corner of West Maumee and McKenzie Streets, was
built in I86o and enlarged in I867, at a cost of $13,000; the South Branch, at the corner of South
Main and Bucher Streets, was built in I859, at a cost of $3,500. Our schools are, and always
have been, the pride of our City.
Adrian College was organized under the auspices of the Western Methodist Conference,
March 22nd, 1859, with the understanding that the donors in Adrian should have an equal voice
in its management until a valid endowment of sixty thousand dollars should be secured. Twenty
acres of ground in the western part of the City were donated by IHon. L. G. Berry and Dr. D. K.
Underwood. The buildings consist of five. "North Hall" contains the rooms occupied by the
preparatory and normal departments, also rooms fitted for the residence of male students, of
which there is ample accommodation for about one hundred antd twenty-five. "South Hall" contains the rooms of the lady principal and other lady teachers; also painting, reception and assembly rooms, and dormitorys. Two buildings contain the chapel, library, lecture and literary society
rooms; the laboratories and the cabinet of natural history. The fifth contains dining hall and
culinary departments. The entire second story will be devoted to music, while the third is not
occupied at present. This last building is called "Metcalf Hall," in honor of Hon. David Metcalf,
a prominent resident of this City and a trustee of the institution. The grounds are extensive and
well laid out, there being among other things, a fine and well-kept grove in the rear of the buildling, which is dedicated to the sports and recreations of the students. The athletic field is extensive: three hundred by five hundred feet-of which they have gTreat reason to be proud. The
grounds in front are well arranged with walks, trees and class memorials, making in all a eery
attractive place for one seeking an education; it is open to both sexes, expenses are moderate.
instructions thorough, accommodations ample, there being seven courses of study.
Among the many interesting places in Adrian, is the Industrial Home for Girls, founded Max
3Ist, I879. The first girl was received August 3rd, I88O. They have a city of their own, composed
of the Administration Building, six cottages, a chapel and school house. Each cottage is a home,
with a cottage manager, teacher and house-keeper, in care of between thirty and forty girls.
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work, besides being given a common school education. Their average age upon entering the
home is fourteen years, length of time in the home two years and four months, and the average
length of time under the control of the home is four years. The Administration Building is occupied by a superintendent, assistant superintendent and clerk, office assistant and house-keeper.
The girls are surrounded with flowers, music, and everything that tends to make home pleasant,
happy and comfortable; thus making the institution a home rather than a prison and giving the
girls an insight into housekeeping and home management, which many have never known. Mrs.
Sickles, the superintendent, with her able corps of workers, is doing a wonderful work for this State,
and this County particularly.
THE CITY OF HUDSON.
Mr. Hiram Kidder settled in the Raisin Valley in the year 1831. The i6th of February, 1833,
he entered part of sections 6 and 7, in the present Township of Hudson, in the name of Daniel
Hudson, Nathan B. Kidder and William Young. In the winter of I834-'35 the Legislative Council
broke the valley into smaller organizations; Township Six onil the south and One on the east were
organized as the Township of Rollin, Hudson remaining a part of Lenawee County.
TECUIlSEH.
The first Monday in June, 1824, Mr. Evans and Peter Benson, with their families, left Monroe
and started for what was then the "bright particular" jem of the Raisin Valley, Tecumseh. During the summer of I824, Mr. Evans. laid out the village plat which was laid out in squares of
twenty-four rods each, each square being divicledl into eilght lots, each lot being six by twelve rods:
twelve rods north and south by six rods east and west.
In the summer of 1825, Joseph W. Brown built a frame house on the corner lot bounded on
the north by Chicago street and on the west by Maumee street. This was the first frame house
erected in Lenawee and furnished entertainment for all seeking its hospitality. In the same year
a Mr. Naggs, a Frenchman, from Mlonroe, purchased a lot on the south-west corner of Chicago
and Maumee streets, where he opened a store, principally to drive bargains with the Indians. In
the fall of I824, Wing, Evans and Brown, built a saw-mill. Early in the spring of 1806, the three
men mentioned, resolved to build a grist-mill, and it may be of interest to add that this mill was
able to grind ten bushels of grain per hour, and for five or six years was the only grist-mill in the
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X The Adrian Public School Library.
In i889 the Ladies' Library was joined with the School Library to form what is known as the
Adrian Public School Library. This library, which is one of the best equipped libraries in Southern
Michigan, is situated on the ground-floor of the City Hall and consists of eleven thousand and two
hundred well chosen volumes. The library has twventy-five hundred registered patrons aside
from members who frequent the pleasant reading rooms, where all leading periodicals are kept
on file. The circulation averages one hundred and fiftyJ volumes a day. This library is an ornament to the City and one in which the citizens take great pride; it is under the control of the
School Board.
In the year i884, the hospital known as St. Joseph's Hospital and Home was founded on the
old Belnap place, whiche the Sisters purchased at a price of four thousand dollars. After remodeling the old farm-house and spending twco thousand dollars they erected the present magnificent
building at the expense of twelve thousand dollars. There are sixty acres of land under cultivati-on and used for the comfort of the inmates. They have thirty or muore inmzates under their care,
and can accomodate sixty. The home is free to those who are unable to meet the expense, andy
all denominations are welcome. Those already under its care are profuse in their praise of the
Hospital and the Sisters. Patients are allowed to employ any physjcian that they choose, thus
making them perfectly at home and conten ted. About three years ago it was created the Mother
House of the diocese, which brings many here to receive training for the duties of their calling.
During the vacation months there are some sixty Sisters at this home; and a right happy and
hospitable family they are. This institution believes in patronizing the home markets in everything except in the buying of its teas and coff ee.
There are fourteen papers published in Lenawee County: two dailies, two weeklies andl one
semi-weekly, at the County Seat. The others are distributed about. over the County: three in
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In writing of the early history of the Township we give much of the history of one of
Lenawee's substantial men, Hon. Norman Geddes, coming to Michigan when a boy, in I835. He
says in referring to that period:
"My father settled in Cambridge, near Springville, where he lived until his death upon the
farm purchased from the Government in 1833. I remember very well the long journey from
western New York in a lumber wagon covered with canvas. We were twelve days on the road,
although I now frequently travel the same route in as many hours as it required days then. From
Lewiston to Detroit was one grand procession of canvas-covered wagons and in them was the
enterprise that has made what was then called the West. Arriving at a brother's place, we found
the La Plaisance Bay turnpike running from Monroe to its interseption with the Chicago turnpike, some sixteen miles west of Tecumseh, in process of construction. This road was built by
the United States while Michigan was yet under Territorial Government. One living upon the
turnpike to-day would scarcely believe the wonderful changes which have taken place since those
early times. From 1835 to i840 there was one continuous procession of movers in wagons. Six
four-horse coaches ran each day over the road, loaded with passengers. From 1833 to 1836 that
part of the County was settled by a class of people of whom any of its present citizens may well
be proud. Many of these were from New York and the New England States, with some from the
Old Worlthern part of the Township of Cambridge and Franklin is one of the
most charming of lakes called "Sand" Lake. He who visits Sand Lake to-day for the first time
can have but a faint conception of its beauty forty years ago. It is true that the lake is there but
the surroundings are greatly changed; one could see the wild deer as far as the eye could reach,
and could drive over the hills in any direction, while now the lake is partly surrounded with
cottages and hotels, showing it to be a section of numerous summer resorts which are eagerly
sought by the rushing people of the present age. In 1834 Woodstock was almost an unbroken
wilderness, with nothing to break the monotony except the Chicago Turnpike which stretched
itself by devious and irregular windings, east and west across the Township. Cornelius Millspaw
was the first settler on the Chicago road in Woodstock. His daughter Mary was married to
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Thomas Jolls, this being the first marriage in the Township. Although Woodstock has not been
the theater of many remarkable events in its history, yet they are full of interest in connection
with the town.
In the early part of September, 1825, Mr. Johnl Tyrrell came as an explorer to Clinton, but
returned East and did not come back to remain here permanently until 1830, when Thaddeus
Clark came with him. They arrived January 24th with a pair of mules and a farm wvagon, which
did good service in conveying their families and effects to the promised land. George Lazell
came March 17th,, 1829, from New York. Clinton was then all woods and utterly roadless and
houseless. Mr. Lazell purchased the very lot on which he now resides, which was the second
purchase ever made in Bridgewater. In the fall of 83 i every adult in the village of Clinton was
invited to dine at B. B. Fisk's. They all sat down at the table at one time, eating roasted wvildl
turkey. July 4th, I3,was the first celebration of Independence Day in Clinton, there being one
hundred persons present. By an explosion on that clay David Reed lost both arms.' Dr. Patterson, of Tecumseh, was the officiating surgeon, being assisted by George Lazell and Calvin Droun.
Their surgical instruments were a butcher knife and a carpenter's saw. The knife was made by
Mr. B. Fisk from a file over fifty years old.
The winter of 1836-37 was memorable for a sleigh-ride to Ann Arbor. The sleigh was fortys
feet in length, with seats arranged omnibus-fashion, the driver's seat being nine feet high and carrying two drivers and one man with the wvhip. The team consisted of twenty horses, the tongues
were so rigged that three span could hold back dlown hill. The four leading span wvere controlled
by postilions who wore red uniforms trimmed in black. The sides of the sleigh were covered with
carpet, the seats with gareen flannel; red bombazine bordered the frame, while the top was covered
with drilling. The passengers consisted of fifty-six persons, all married, save one couple, who
were delicate and slender, the man: weighing two hundred and sixty pounds and the lady twohundred and ten. In May, 83the Township of Rollin wvas an unbroken wvilderness, inhabitedl
only by the red men and their dusky families. On'the north and east sides of Round lake, near'
where John Landon lives, Meteau and his tribe built their wigowams, while on the east s ide of
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land bought of the Government was the west half of the north-west quarter of section twenty,
purchased by Ira Alma, of New York, June 4th, 183I. The next tract was taken by A. J. Comstock, of Lenawee County, Territory of Michigan, May ioth, 1833, on which Rollin village is
located.
Palmyra, in 1837, like all other place, in the West, was a place of great expectations. Brick
blocks filled the imaginations of the proprietors and Adrian was a rival which must be outstripped
and put down. The first Governor of Michigan, Stephen T. Mason, honored us with a day's residence in i837, being obliged to stop over Sunday because of having missed connection with the
Palmyra and Jackson Railroad on Saturday night. This gentleman says: " I have no doubt many
will remember the fall of i838. There were three sick persons to every well one. One day the
news came that the entire stock of quinine in the County had been exhausted, and quinine meant
more to us than bread at that time. To add to the horror of our situation the cathartic medicines
of Palmyra were exhausted and the doctor was not expected for two days. Had our bread failed,
our wells and river dried up, we could have endured it; but to be without pills or quinine in the
fall of 1838 in Palmyra was worse than a bread and water famine."
The town of Blissfield, Lenawee County, originally comprised Township Seven, south of range
five, east. At the time of its organization, in I837, the towns of Palmyra, Ogden and the territory
south to the Maumee River, were included in its boundaries. The organization of the above
towns at a later period left it only a territory six miles square, which was covered with a heavy
growth of timber: black walnut, hickory and white wood. Harvey Bliss, from Monroe County,
made his purchase June I9th, on sections twenty-nine and thirty. He moved his family into the
town in December of the same year and was the first inhabitant. It was this circumstance that
gave the town its name. The first school-house, built of logs in the summer of I827, stood on
what is now the north-east corner of Adrain and Monroe Streets, in the Village
The first State or Territorial election was held on July IIth, i83I, when twenty-nine votes
were given for delegates to Congress: Austin E. Wing received fourteen, Samuel W. Dexter,
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The above school is the only educational institution of the Society of Friends in the State of
Michigan. The seminary is a preparatory school; it does not advertise as being a college, and
yet as a preparatory school it has the hearty indorsement and recommendation of some of the
leading Universities and Colleges of America. This Seminary is four miles north-east of Adrian,
on the road leading to Tecumseh. The'pleasant, healthful, rural situation is such that while students enjoy all the advantages of the city they are removed from its temptations. Four full
courses of study of four years each are provided, viz.: First, the scientific course; second, Latin
and science course; third, Latin course; and fourth, the English course. By the munificence of
the late Moses Sutton, an Astronomical Observatory has been erected and furnished with a telescope of six-inch aperture. Much time is spent by students in the observatory, and individual
work is required by each. A commodious gymnasium, 40 x 24 feet, has been recently built;
another means of self-improvement being their literary society, sustained by teachers and students. In addition to the two libraries to which students have access, an excellent assortment of
current literature may be found in the reading-room. Students are visited in their rooms by
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