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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
This son, though crippled for life in one arm from severe wound, is still alive and well otherwise, living on a plantation on the Mississippi river, sixty or seventy miles above St. Louis. The old; General himself, after all the hardships and privations and labors of a pioneer life in the wilderness—taking an active part in building and oper ating the first saw-mill and grist-mill in the county, besides farming, keeping hotel, and running lines of stages on the Chicago road and else where—is still alive and with us, as a hale and hearty old gentleman of eighty-four years of age, taking quite an interest in all relating to the early history of the territory and state, and attending all the meetings of the County Pioneer Society.
Before proceeding to note some incidents concerning the early settlement of other parts of the county, besides the three first settled points above mentioned, it might be well to finish, as it were, the account of the first settlement of the present township of Raisin, of which the west, or main part, was included in the settlement of Darius Comstock and his associate friends.
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