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EARLY RECOLLECTIONS BY WM. C. HOYT
June 7th, 1873
June 17—This morning leaving the rest of our companions, we started for Gull Prairie, five miles distant. Here I found my brother and Col. Barnes, who had preceded me a month or more. They were plowing up the prairie and planting corn. This was the first crop of corn ever planted by white men on Gull Prairie.
EX-GOVERNOR ENOS T. THROOP.
BY HENRY LITTLE
From the Kalamazoo Telegraph, October 22, 1873
To the Editor of the Telegraph:
Dear Sib, —I suppose that you take pleasure in receiving and preserving all the items of interest relating to the history of Enos T. Throop, ex-Governor of the State of New York, and for ten years a citizen of this county, where he made such varied, gratifying, and indelible impressions, that we love to cherish and honor his memory. To his genius, his intelligence, high attainments, his honorable public and private position, his sterling qualities and moral worth, this testimonial tribute is cheerfully and most respectfully inscribed.
The Spring Brook farm that: Gov. Throop owned and occupied, was first begun by a Mr. Elsie, in 1836. The Elsie tract of land contained 240 acres, on which Elsie built a log house on the east side of the road, and a few rods north of the brook, and a frame barn upon the opposite side of the road. The house was divided into two rooms by a partition through the center, where was a chimney, giving a fire-place in each room.
Michigan
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