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Michigan Towns Select Towns
(and the number was. very large) were agreed in saying, that the big Indian, Te-quon, or Kon-qua-sha, once lived here, ruling a great tribe, and that his bones are here-interred. Hence, the name of Tekonsha The village is growing under the stimulus of improved water-power, and a shipping station of their own on the Air Line Railroad, and now contains, including the town,, one grist and flouring mill, two saw mills, four organized churches, three church edifices, two resident clergymen, five doctors, one town house, eight school districts and school houses, one graded school.
Value of school houses, $14,400.00.
Number of children from five to twenty years of age,
It is considered a healthy town. Its chief products are wheat, wool, pork and fruit, all of which are marketed at home. The principal pioneers were Harris C. Goodrich, Levi and Lewis Merrifield, Renodine Steed, Timothy Kimball, Jonathan Enos, Rufus Osborn, Oliver Mattison, Martin Hadsell, Wm. Kerr, Chauncy Trumbull, John James, and others.
Harris C. Goodrich is brought to public notice in this town in 1834 or 1835. He was, by trade, a shoemaker, but embarked in business of varied character at a very early period. He was the first sheriff of the county, and took the census as per act approved March 18th, 1835, which then contained 1,714 inhabitants, for which service he was paid the munificent sum of " twenty-one dollars and thirty-eight cents."
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