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Gratiot County Michigan Gratiot County
About the beginning of 1850 a few settlers commenced improvements in the southwestern portion of the county. Among these early settlers were Henry Lane, Geo. E. Walker, L. B. Loomis, B. Locke and others. About the same time two or three families moved into what is now the township of Fulton, on the south line of the county, among which were two brothers, in honor of whom the township was named, and Mr. Arnold Payne, whose ample cabin and generous heart made it a pleasant stopping place for the pioneer for several years during the early settlement of the county.
During the immediately following years some small additions were made to the settlements of these two townships; however, the commencement of 1854 found not a white settler in the county outside of these townships, except at the Lutheran mission, established some years before among the Indians, near the north line of the county on the bank of
Pine river.
In the spring of 1854 Mr. R. Ely moved his family, consisting of his wife, one son and three daughters, to the bank of Pine river, and erected himself a cabin, where is now situated the pleasant and thrifty village
of Alma.
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