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Michigan Jackson
BLACK HAWK WAR.
The year 1832 was not one of marked success for the village; but few buildings were erected. Of those, however, who had faith in its future was Mr. Daniel T. Warner, who built a store and placed in it a stock of drugs and medicines, the first of its kind west of Ann Arbor, while the necessity for such an establisment was becoming every day more apparent as this was called a sickly season. There was much fever and ague, the prevalence of which was ascribed by some to the low stage of water in the mill-pond, and the consequent exposure to the summer heat of lands which had been covered with water during the fall, winter and spring The prevalence of cholera in the east, and the fact that there were some cases in Marshall, also had a depressing effect on the growth of the village but what perhaps most discouraged immigration to Michigan and the west was the Black Hawk war, which prevented many from moving at all, and caused many families that intended to make Michigan their home-to settle in Ohio.
Jackson
Section 2
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