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

I)DELHI 'TOWNSHIP AND ITS HISTORY

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Geo. Phillips, Mrs. L. R. Chaddock, Mrs. Alonzo Douglas, Mrs.
Thomas J. Brown, and Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Langley. Wm.
Mayer, a native of England, who came to Delhi in 1854, and Albert
McEwen were early members also.
About 1854 Mr. McEwen organized a class. At first meetings
were held in the school house at the Center, and in the homes,
but at a later date at the German Methodist church at the Five
Corners, the Germans and others using the church alternately.
This continued for about five years, and in 1876 the Methodist
Episcopal church was erected at a cost of $1,500.
Among the early ministers were Revs. Clump, Kellogg, Dodge
and Crittenden. The first to preach in the new edifice was Rev.
Jason Cadwell, followed by Rev. B. W. Smith.
The German Methodist church was organized in 1868 and in
the same year a building for public worship was built at the Five
Corners, one-half mile northwest of the Center. This did service
until 1894 when the present fine brick church was built. Among
the pastors who have preached there we find the names of
Rev. G. A. Reuter, G. H. Fiedler, A. Mayer, Daniel Volz, Revs.
Gerlock, Gommel, Aust, Scheuman, Dobrie, Wahl and Iey.
The early members were A. Helmker, H.Wiegman, J. Switzgable,
G. Diehl, Lewis Dail, Geo. Roth, Geo. Ahrend, Phillip Biebesheimer, H. Exner, Adam Knieriem, Mr. Zickgraf, and Mr.
Moldenhauer.
The oldest man in the township at the present time is Harvey
Lamoreaux, who was ninety-seven years of age May 20, 1916.
(Was 100 years old on May 20, 1919, and died in January, 1920,
having fallen and broken his hip a month before. Ed.) He purchased eighty acres of land on section 10, in 1844, and moved his
family there the following year, where he lived until his death.
The oldest woman in the township is Mrs. Eliza Collins, who
says she will be 100 years old in August, 1916, but her relatives
think her to be one year older than that. There are no records to
prove her age, but from events she has mentioned they think her
older than she claims to be. She was born in Scottsville, N. Y.,
and came to Michigan when twenty years of age, coming to Detroit by boat.
From there to Dexter part of the way she rode in a wagon and
part of the way she walked, bringing with her her two children,