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Michigan Jackson
To describe the long drawn out manner in which the shops for the contractors, and for working the convicts, would only be to repeat the history of the prison building itself; suffice it to say, that so far from being finished one was built in the year 1877.
The notice of pioneer citizens who made Jackson their home after 1850 will necessarily be brief, as the object of this sketch is rather to gather such information of the times previous as will preserve the record of those early days, rather than to write a history to the present time.
Hon. Austin Blair came to Jackson in 1840, and was a member of the house of representatives of the legislature of Michigan in 1846, and ,of the senate in 1855. He was elected prosecuting attorney for the county in 1853; was the war governor of the state, serving 1861-2-3-4, and was elected to congress from the third district of Michigan in 1867, being re-elected in 1869 and 71. Governor Blair, in the full maturity of his powers, is now in the practice of law in Jackson. He was whig, with abolitionist tendencies until the formation of the republican party, with whom he acted until 1872, when he supported Horace Greeley, and has since been liberal in politics.
Jackson
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