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He is descended from an eminent family in New York, of whom he is justly proud. He is by profession a lawyer, but led by his taste for the arts and sciences before named, he never appears in court, He has no family encumbrances, a fact, he is fond of mentioning. Justus Goodwin at a very early day sold goods in this town. Subsequently he improved a fine farm. He was ambitious to appear before the public constantly in the role of an office-holder. His aspiration was gratified to a great extent; but he finally fell into disgrace and went to Texas, where he died poor.
Burlington village is well supplied with stores and shops, has a good grist and flouring mill, one saw-mill, one Adams fruit-drying establishment, two hotels, four churches, one graded school, an ample supply of well-educated professional men, and an industrious and increasing population, The village is growing in all its substantial interests. Unhappily for her, the freight and passenger depot of the Air Line Railroad is not within two miles of the village. Upon the completion, however, of the Mansfield and Lake Michigan Railroad this inconvenience will be overcome-a boone still in the future. Indian mounds and forts are found in several places along the river. Also Indian relics, such as arrows, bones, gun-barrels, kettles, etc. St. Joseph river abounds in fish, and the timbered land adjacent supplied both the Indian and his white neighbor with fish and venison in abundance. No wonder that the " poor Indian " went in sadness from this beautiful and productive country, and from the graves of his ancestors to an unknown home toward the setting sun. Such, however, is his inexorable doom, whenever the white man covets his domain.
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