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Michigan Macomb County
He spoke of the success of" the district school, of the growing needs of better advantages as the children were coming on to riper years. He said the academy that came to be demonstrated its reason de'etre by a strong and vigorous being and' showing success by succeeding.
When in the fullness of time, the academy was to be, he recited the. names of many of the old citizens whose families were already growing up and in present need of such an institution. Among those named were Mr. Jacob Beekman, Mr. N. T. Taylor, Asahel Bailey, the Gilbert family, Willard Guild; Samuel El well, William Abbott, Captain Cham- ' berlain, Elijah Look, Henry Wells, Asa Holman, Mr. Standish, Erastus Day, Jacob Skillman, Sr., the Buzzell family, Mr. Raymond, A. W. Sterling, and many others.
Early Macomb County
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