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INCIDENTS IN THE EARLY HISTORY OF THE SAGINAW VALLEY BY JUDGE ALBERT MILLER
The late James Fraser was the party, and after we had surveyed and measured our lines we all went the residence of Leon Tromble, Sr., who then occupied the only residence John Riley's reserve, a small log house standing near the corner of the pres ent Fourth and Water streets in Bay City. While the party was in the house satisfying the "inner man, " Louis Tromble (now a grey headed man living in the vicinity, but then a boy ten or twelve years of age) came running in the house greatly excited, crying: "A steamboat! A steamboat!" We ran out to see what the boy had mistaken for a steamboat, when, to our great delight, we saw a steamboat proudly making headway against a south wind and the current of the Saginaw river. We hailed the boat, which proved be the. Governor Marcy, commanded by Capt. Gorham and piloted by Ca. Rhodes, and chartered by the late Norman Little in behalf, of himself a Mackie, Oakley and Jennison, who then owned Saginaw City and had just commenced active operations in building up the town. Mr. Jennison, was interested in the charter of the boat, was the father of Judge Willi: Jennison of Detroit and Charles E. Jennison, now a prominent citizen of Flint
City. We went out to the steamboat with our canoe and with some difficulty got on board. Judge Jewett losing his compass staff was the only real mishap that occurred. Among the emigrants we found on board who were visiting Saginaw for the first time, was the late George W. Bullock, who for many years occupied a prominent position as a business man in the Saginaw valley. We steamed up the river, when, for the first time, the white owls on the lone tree, the wild ducks on the river and the fishes in the stream were disturbed by the noise of machinery propelled by steam.
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