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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Adrian, began to be settled in 1827—Nelson and Curran Bradish being the first settlers. Nelson built the first log house, and his wife was the first white woman to settle in the township. Their son Myron, born in April, 1830, was the first white child born in the town. Calvin Bradish built the first saw mill. The township when first organized was called Lenawee, but in 1838 was changed to Madison.
One of the first settlers in the township of Macon, and who is said to have entered the first land in the town, was John Pennington, who moved there in 1831 from the township of Raisin—but Peter Sones is said to have made the first actual settlement and improvement. Among the most prominent of the early settlers of Macon were Israel Penningtou, the first postmaster, and Dr. Joseph Howell, who built the first frame house in the township.
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