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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
His last residence there now constitutes part of the buildings of the Raisin Valley Seminary. In addition to what I have had occasion to say of Joseph W. Brown, at whose dwelling-house in Tecumseh the first town meeting for the organization of the township was held, as one of the firm of Wing, Evans & Brown, it ought perhaps to be mentioned that he was appointed by Gov. Cass, November 23, 1826, as "chief justice of the county court in and for the county of Lenawee," at the first organization of the county, but which position he soon after resigned, and was succeeded by Stillman Blanchard, late deceased. He was also appointed colonel of the eighth regiment of the Michigan militia, November 10, 1829, and by President Jackson (Gen. Cass being then secretary of war) May 10, 1832, as briga-dier general of the third brigade of militia of the territory of Michigan, In virtue of these commissions and by appointment from the governor, or acting governor, of the territory, he acted as commander-in-chief of the Michigan troops, called out at the time of the Black Hawk war in 1832, and the Toledo war in 1835.
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