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CALHOUN COUNTY MICHIGAN CALHOUN COUNTY
Joshua Green—died August 10, 1882. He was born in Massachusetts. In the year 1842 he removed from Oakland county, where he first settled, to DeWitt, Clinton county, where he remained till the year 1852, when he moved to the town of Olive, and afterwards, in 1870, he removed back again to DeWitt, where he lived till the time of his death, honored and respected by all who knew him. ,
Rev. William Mulder—pastor of the Congregational church at Victor, died August 25, 1882, aged 49 years. He was born in Holland, and emigrated with his parents in 1833, settling at Utica, N. Y. He was a graduate of Madison University, at Hamilton, N. Y. He came to Michigan in 1866, and located at Victor, Clinton county. He was in active ministry for sixteen years, and organized the Congregational church at Ovid. He was a clear and original thinker, a diligent student, and a devoted disciple of the Master. His life was an argument for Christianity, and an earnest of the better and future one.
Lucius Morton—died October 10, 1882, aged 81 years. He was one of the old pioneers of the township of Greenbush, having come there in the year 1839. He erected the first house in that township.
Col. Charles E. Grisson—died at St. Johns, Nov. 20, 1882, was born at Hamburg, Livingston county, and was the son of Ferdinand Grisson, Esq., a pioneer of that county. Spending the earlier years of his life on his father's farm, he was preparing himself for the ultimate study of-medicine by a course at the Ann Arbor High School, when the war broke out.
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