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Michigan Jackson
The lumber yard has been conducted by Mr. Dewitt Woods, a partner of Mr. Bennett, and the business is still continued. Mr. Bennett is one of the firm of Bennett, Knickerbocker & Co., the proprietors of the " city steam flouring mills," one of the best arranged and most extensive mills in the state, built in 1866. He, with the same company, own and operate the stone mills at Albion. He is also engaged in manufacturing extensively the " Bobbins' cultivator," in which business he has associated with him his son George. Mr. Bennett has been one of the most active and successful business men in Jackson. He has been for several years engaged in banking, and is now vice president of the First National Bank, and owns some of the most valuable real estate in the city.
Albert Foster came to Jackson in 1837, and went to work as a blacksmith and machinist, at which he has continued to labor industriously to the present time, except that the last few years he has given most of his attention to the sale of agricultural implements, particularly mowing machines and buggy rakes.
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