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MICHIGAN'S OLD STATE CAPITOL SUCCUMBS TO THE FLAMES AFTER THIRTYFIVE YEARS OF SERVICE
From the Lansing Republican, Dec. 19, 1882
We shared with him the labor of carrying the little girl. Arriving ing in town, we stopped at the Lansing House, a frame building standing across the avenue, east of the present Lansing House, and which was kept by J. M. Shearer. We registered next to the kind gentleman who had carried the child. He registered, "H. Seymour, Utica, N. Y. "
The next morning we sallied out and found our friend, John Horner, who was teaching for Miss Rogers, in the Michigan Female College, which occupied the Ohio House, in front of where C. T. Marks' livery stable is. He boarded at the Columbus House, a frame hotel standing where now is the Hudsoi House, and kept by Mr. C. C. Darling. We got a rig and drove to North Lansing, where we were to teach. Washington avenue was ungraded, and part of the way the roadway twisted about to avoid the stumps. In front of the present Methodist church was a deep gully. Down by Alton's cooper shop was another, from the bottom of which one could not see a block ahead oi behind. There was no sidewalk, and few houses between the towns. J. Turner & Case kept a store on the corner of Franklin and Turner streets, and the genial, kindly smile which overspread the serene, honest, manly face, radiant with those large, luminous eyes of James Turner, when we met, lingers in our memory to this day. Mr. Turner lived in a one-story wood house, just north of his store, which is still standing. He was the director of the school district, and had hired us to teach the school a year for the then, to us, princely sum of $600. Miss A. C. Rogers, who had been preceptress of the Normal school while we had been a student there, had performed the kindly office for us of securing the engagement. The brick school-house in the first ward, recently! removed to make way for the present one, was the scene of our labors. Miss Hattie Seymour was one of the assistant teachers.
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