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

DELHI TOWNSHIP AND ITS HISTORY

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HARVEY LAMOREAUX.
Was born in Ransellaerville, Albany county, N. Y., May 20,
1819, and died at his home near North Holt, Ingham county, in
the spring of 1920. He remained active and in possession of all
his faculties, except his eyesight, until after his one hundredth
birthday. Soon after the year 1920 opened he had the misfortune
to fall and break one hip, and his death followed after a few
weeks.
When he was five years old his parents moved to Green county,
N. Y., among the Catskill Mountains. Five years later they
moved to Wayne county on the old Erie canal. When he was
fifteen years old his parents migrated to Michigan and settled in
Lenawee county. Michigan was then a Territory. He lived in
Lenawee county ten years before he finally settled in Ingham
county, purchasing the farm on which he died, three-fourths of a
mile north of the German church in North Holt. Mr. Lamoreaux
bought the farm from Alexander Morton, who had taken it from
the government. He gave $175.00 for eighty acres.
In 1843, the year he bought the farm, Mr. Lamoreaux was married to Lucretia Glassbrook, and the next year they came to their
home in Ingham county. There were no roads at this time and
as there was no house on this land he and his family stayed at the
home of his brother-in-law, Fred Luther, who lived on what is
now the Miller farm at Miller's Crossing, until he could build a
shanty. This he did and moved in a little before Christmas with
the snow a foot deep. The shanty was 12 x 14 feet square and
covered with shakes.
The family lived in this shanty six years, then built a log house
16 x 25 feet with a chamber. The logs were whitewood, hewed
very smooth and about two feet wide. These used to be whitewashed. Mr. Lamoreaux moved his goods from the shanty to the
log house on a hand sled. In 1868 he built the substantial frame
house where he lived with his daughter at the time of his death.
He says that his sister, Mrs. Luther, was the first white woman
ever in Delhi Township, and that she was here six months before
she ever saw another white woman, and then Eck North, who had