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Michigan Jackson
Chester Yale came to Jackson in 1836 and commenced business by ¦opening a tin-shop, the first in the place. Mr. Yale continued the business for several years, and was a man highly respected for his upright character and habits of industry.
Mr. Alonzo Bennett came to Jackson in 1836. In 1837 he formed a copartnership with his brother, Allen Bennett, who came here that year, and they commenced business as merchants, having bought out Geo. B. Cooper & Co. They continued in business for two years.
In 1840 Mr. Bennett and Mr. Geo. B. Cooper entered into copartnership and built an iron foundry. On the completion of the Central railroad in 1842 Mr. Bennett, in company with Mr. Sacket, commenced the
storage and warehouse business in a building which Mr. Bennett had erected on the side-track near the depot.
Jackson
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