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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
How the name of "Tecumseh" came to be applied to the village by its first proprietors is thus graphically told in an address prepared for the Raisin Valley Historical Society by the late Dr. M. A. Patterson, and for the use of the MSS. copy of which I am indebted to his family. He says:
" When Musgrove Evans, Austin E. Wing and others were partaking! of a rural dinner, in quite a primitive way, under the branches of a' spreading oak that grew near the center of our old village ground—then. without a name or a permanent white inhabitant—the question arose ' What shall we call this embryo village?' Evans remarked, after object-ing to several other names as too romantic, far-fetched, or meaningless 'Why not call it Tecumseh?' 'That will not answer', replied one of the party,' Tecumseh fought for the British and was a British Indian. Thee is mistaken,'quietly answered Friend Musgrove,'Tecumseh fought on his own account and for his own people. Tecumseh was nature's Indian. 'That's a fact,' exclaimed Wing, 'and one of nature's noblest specimen of a red man.' This emphatic remark decided the question, and before-rising from their rural repast our village had a name."
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