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Michigan Jackson Mi.
This was the pioneer school for Jackson city and county. Lemuel Woolsey, a chair-maker and turner, settled here in 1831, estab lished himself in that business, and about the same time Samuel Kline made a welcome addition to the business of the settlement by opening cabinet shop. This business was afterward conducted by John Penson who had become a resident, but was more permanently established by Myron Collamer in 1834, who extended the business quite largely, and continued in it for over thirty-five years.
A wagon and general repairing shop was opened by Mr. Hiram Godfrey in 1831.
A boot and shoe store was established here in 1831 by William D. Thompson.
In the spring of 1831 Wm. D. Thomson, a lad of twelve years of age, son of Wm. R. Thompson, was killed by being struck with a limb of a tree which was chopped down on the grounds near the Blackman house. This was the first death, and that fact, coupled with the manner of it, and the narrow escape of several others who were standing near him' caused it to cast a more than ordinary gloom over the little settlement.
Jackson
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