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Lenawee County By John J. Adam, February 7th, 1878.
In 1828 Mr. Tilton settled on a farm in the town of Raisin, a little south of Tecumseh, where he lived until he retired from active business, residing for a few years past in the village, and retaining a remarkably distinct recollection of incidents and events connected with the first settlement of this part of the county.
I feel as though I ought not to conclude this hastily prepared and rambling sketch of the early days of the white settlement of Lenawee county without some acknowledgment of the valuable services of F. A. Dewey as president of the county pioneer society, and of W. A. Whitney as secretary, in getting together many important contributions towards the history of that period, not only at the regular annual meetings of the society, but by awakening a greatly increased interest in the collection of materials for the future historians of the county or state, by holding during the last year a series of special meetings where well-prepared addresses were read and many important incidents of local interest were • brought out, and many of them afterwards published.
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