|
|
Michigan Towns Select Towns
When I returned alone to the room in which I had left the colonel, I was so severely censured and threatened by him, that I began to fear that my leniency might lead to my own incarceration. As a public officer, he considered himself a minister of the law, and he did not allow his sympathies to master his judgment or divert him from the path of duty His honor and his honesty was proverbial among all his acquaintances. He is supposed to have fallen from his wagon in a fit, and died in the highway, not far from his own residence.
Milo Soule has long been a most useful man in this town, held most
of its town offices, and has been honored with county offices, in which he displayed all the qualities of a mind able to, and intent upon, the faithful discharge of every public duty. His advanced years have made but little inroad upon his physical energies, and still less upon his mental constitution. He was also a member of the constitutional convention.
Robert Church, who was a native of Rhode Island, came into Michigan in 1836, and settled upon the farm two miles east of the city of Marshall, now owned by his son, Byron Church. This farm was purchased by Robert Church in a wilderness state, but under his tasteful manipulations it soon became one of the most attractive and home-like places in. the township of Marengo.
Michigan
Page 32
|
|
|
|
|
|