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Michigan Jackson
The Rev. Mr. Pilcher has lived many years in Jackson, officiating both as local preacher and as presiding elder. He is still living, with his use-fullness unimpaired. Henry J. Pilcher is a native of Jackson. He has for many years been the superintendent of the Sabbath school of the first Methodist church of Jackson, and to him more than to any other is due its efficiency and great success. Mr. Pilcher is known as one of the most pains-taking and estimable of the business men of Jackson.
William M. Bennett came to Jackson in 1847, and entered the store of S. W. Whitwell as a clerk, and from that time to the present Mr. Bennett has been with little intermission connected with the dry-goods trade in Jackson. In 1855 he bought out Mr. Whitwell. The amount of goods sold by Mr. Bennett since the business came into his hands has been as large as that of any house in the interior of Michigan. Mr. Bennett was elected mayor of the city in 1869 and re-elected in 1870. He was for four years a member of the board of public works at Jackson.
Jackson
Section 3
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