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The inhabitants were for a long time dependent upon his team for supplies and provisions. At one time when the teams were greatly delayed on account]|of swollen streams, departed bridges, etc., the " settlement" came to actual want. Mr. Pattison, in this emergency, killed his only cow to supply their wants, which was dressed and prepared for food, and served to keep hunger from their doors till the teams arrived with provisions. Messrs. Pattison and Dryer brought in the first stock of dry-goods and groceries in the year 1834, but soon gave way to Harris & Austin, who entered a more largely into the mercantile business. Pattison & Dryer then brought in a drove of cattle from Illinois, (the first brought into town), for the accommodation of the emigrants, who, at this time, were pouring into the state in multitudes. In the following spring, 1836, they also brought in a drove of some 300 head from Indiana, which were readily disposed of to emigrants. The same year Messrs. Dryer & Pattison broke up new ground and put into wheat 206 acres.
MEMORIAL SKETCH OF THOMAS CHISHOLM.
By O. C. Comstock.
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Thomas Chisholm, of Marengo, Calhoun county, died on the first day of January, 1877. He was born in Scotland, emigrated into Canada while in his youth, lived a short time in Clinton county, New York, thence came to Marshall in 1831. On the first day of September of this year he bought the farm (in part) upon which he lived for about forty-five years.
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