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Michigan Abel Bingham
Positive en make enemies, although it may be said that no man had fewer than The brothers Schoolcraft, Mr. Bingham and some other leading men. at one time found it necessary to interfere with the high-handed caireer of a notorious and desperate character named John Tanner, a white man, stolen by the Indians when a child and brought up among them in the Red River country. He had moved to the Sault and was for several years Mr. Bingham's interpreter. He was a man of strong passions and violent temper; had married a white woman, but on ac-count of his cruelty to her Mr. B., with officers from the fort and citizens S the place, assisted her in leaving him and returning to her home at Dearborn, near Detroit. For this act Tanner vowed vengeance to the death, and. threatened Mr. Bingham's life repeatedly. He once entered Mr. B's study, came up stealthily behind him and reaching over his boulder wrung his nose spitefully, with the intention of breaking it. He then rushed through the parlor, where sat a sister of Henry R. School-craft, against whom he had a grudge, and fiercely shook his fist at her, Saying, " Look out for the flowers in your garden!" referring to her children.
Early Michigan Preachers
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