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Michigan Jackson
BIOGRAPHY OF CORNELIUS SAMMONS.
By Joseph Sammons.
Cornelius Sammons was born December 13th, 1801, in the town of Shawangank, Ulster county, New York. His mother dying when he was but nine days old, he was cared for by his oldest sister, then fourteen years old (and who is still living), who, after marrying, kindly gave him a home in her family until he was seventeen years old, after which he worked at blacksmithing for three years with his brother Jacob. About that time his youngest sister having married a carpenter, he learned and worked with him at the carpenter's trade for several years. At the age of twenty-four years he married Mary L. Moe, which proved to be the happiest and most judicious selection he possibly could have made for a wife. The last year of his stay in New York state he worked on the locks and bridges on the Erie canal, which was then being built through the state, often working in the water to his waist in which ice was floating. After having worked at his trade for several years, he became convinced that he could not support his family, and save up enough to buy himself a farm in that old settled country; he naturally turned his
thoughts to the then far west, and resolved to be among the number then seeking homes in the territorial wilderness—now our beautiful and beloved "Michigan."
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