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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
Stephen Lapham had previously, in May of that year, built a shanty in the town of Rollin, and
moved Levi Thompson into it, who thus became, as it were, the first actual settler in the Bean creek country. Mr. Kidder and Beriah H. Lane built the first two saw-mills in the valley, and Mr. Lane also built the first frame house in Hudson, in November, 1835. About this time they got up a petition for the organization of the township of Hudson, but as the state legislature only sat six days in November of that year, the petition and all other such business had to lay over until the legislature met again in February, 1836.
I was not aware, until looking over the proceedings of the special meeting of the County Pioneer Society, held in Hudson in September last, that a book on the early settlement of the " Bean Creek Valley" had been published.
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