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Michigan Jackson Mi.
There was also a saw-mill built by Mr. Ketchum in 1832, on the side of the river, nearly opposite Marvin's mill.
The first school taught in Jackson was a private one, kept in the hot of Lemuel Blackman, taught in the summer of 1831 by his daughter Miss Silence D. Blackman, principally for the instruction of her brother but open, as a matter of course, after the generous fashion of those days to all the children in the settlement.
Besides her brothers Levi, Francis and George Blackman, there we* Harvey and Emma Thompson, children of William R. Thompson, Sara' Thompson, daughter of Hiram Thompson, Mary Ann Samantha DeLand daughter of Win. R. DeLand, and a son of Josephus Case.
The teaching of Miss Blackman gave universal satisfaction, and it was a source of much congratulation that the infant settlement should so soon have a good school. Miss Blackman was persuaded to continue her school the next year, when she had an additional number of scholars, the school being kept in the house of Mr. E. B. Chapman, and afterwards in a build ing that had been occupied as a store. There were about thirty scholars in attendance at the close of the third term of her school.
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