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BATTLE CREEK BY A. D. P. VAN BUREN
His sons, Joseph, John, and Levi Stewart, well-known townsmen of Battle Creek, and Mrs. Eleanor Carr, and Mrs. J. J. Jenknis are the only children of this family now living in 'Calhoun county.
JOSIAH GODDARD
reared his log hut on the west side of Goguac, on the spot where David Young's stone house now stands, late in the fall of 1831. I never saw a man whose general appearance evinced so fine a military bearing as Josiah God-dard's. He served in the war of 1812, and must have come from good military stock. At any rate, it did not take the
"Soul-stirring drum and ear-piercing fife"
to arouse the military in him. He thought quick, talked quick, and moved quick. He was a man of commanding personal appearance, stood full six feet, of stature erect; had an intellectual cast of countenance, was highly social, and addicted to no bad habits. While living in their log house, his wife's friends from Detroit visited them. Their fare at this time reminds one of Gen. Marion's entertaining the British officers, which was simply on roasted potatoes. But it was given with a cheer that made their city friends enjoy so frugal a meal. That was all they had to offer them—at breakfast, dinner, and supper—it was roasted potatoes—"merely that and nothing more. "
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