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EARLY RECOLLECTIONS BY WM. C. HOYT
June 7th, 1873
I have endeavored to collect some few of the many reminiscences of his successful career during those ten years. But brief and imperfect as my sketch is, it gives some faint glimpses of him as a farmer. As a business man, he had few equals; as a friend and neighbor, he held a high and enviable place in the esteem and confidence of all who knew him. He had a wonderful, quick, and vigorous intellect, a fertile imagination, acute sensibilities, a refined taste, a correct judgment, a strong mind; of rigid integrity, of great energy and perseverance of character, of a confiding nature, and having strong and abiding attachments. All of which, and many more sterling qualities, coupled with his great literary attainments and vast experience, made him what most would consider a model man.
Sheboygan Falls, Wis., Nov. 25, 1874. To Geo. H. Cannon, V. S. Surveyor Michigan
Dear Sir, —While in California, a postal card from you came to the Falls, addressed to me, requesting me to give an account of my first journey in Michigan, when a boy. The card was forwarded to Watsonville, California, but I did not receive it, having left that place, and was in Los Angeles about the time it was forwarded. Just returned from the dusty State, I hasten to comply with your request.
—Hawley Gerkells.
Michigan
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