Pioneer history of Ingham County, compiled and arranged by Mrs. Franc L. Adams, secretary of the Ingham County pioneer and historical society.

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PIONEER HISTORY OF INGIAM COUNTY

section 57 years ago, and had lived for 62 years on the same place.
Ile remembered John, Jim and Mary, children of Chief Okemos.
The secretary explained the plan for increasing the interest in
the society and for publishing a history of the county. An invitation to join the society led to 25 new names being added to the
membership list.
Howard North gave a sketch of the North family, after which
four young men from Grovenburg sang a quartet.
Meeting closed with the Benediction pronounced by Rev.
Andrews.
There was a goodly display of historical relics, among them the
naturalization papers of Matthew King, which led to some of his
personal history being given.
The meeting was unanimously pronounced a success, and was a
glorious precedent for other townships to follow.
Matthew King, a subject of Great Britain, made petition to
become an American citizen on Oct. 16, 1844. Clerk Peter
Lowe. Admitted on Dec. 14, 1844, showing that it was not such
a long drawn-out performance then as now.
THE ALDRICH FAMILY, PIONEERS OF DELHI.
My parents, Almond Denslow Aldrich and Delilah Ann Phillips Aldrich, his wife, with their two small children, one a babe in
arms, came from the township of Plymouth, Chenango county,
N. Y., to the township of Delhi, Ingham county, in the latter
part of September, 1844. After a few months my father purchased a piece of land which had been taken up and a shanty built
on it, though no clearing had been done.
When the family came from New York they only brought their
clothing, bedding and dishes, no furniture whatever. They
soon had a homemade bedstead, a trundle bed, table and four
benches, one for each side of the table.
My mother said they were never pinched for food, everything
planted grew so profusely, and my father was a good marksman,
so there was generally a quarter of venison hanging up to be cut
from. They soon had a cow or two, and it was not long before