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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been to Leslie and married, came, bringing his wife to his home in
Lansing, and stopped at Mr. Luther's.
The Indians were frequent callers and always hungry, but when
fed would leave very good-natured.
Mr. Lamoreaux, when 96 years old, told that he split all the
wood his family burned the preceding winter, except one-half
cord. On his one hundredth birthday a family reunion was held
at his home to which some of his oldest neighbors were invited,
and he greatly enjoyed the day, and particularly having his picture
taken.
Mrs. Lamoreaux died Feb. 23, 1905, and of their eight children
six survived both the father and mother. Thirty-seven grand and
greatgrandchildren are left to hear the story of the pioneer life of
Mr. and Mrs. Lamoreaux.
THE NORTH FAMILY IN DELHI.
By HOWARD C. NORTH, Holt, Mich., 1920.
Our family is of English origin. The first one to come to the
United States was Roger North, who came before the Revolution
and settled near Philadelphia. Joseph North, Sr., his grandson,
left there when a young man and settled at Lansing, N. Y., in
Tompkins county, which was the "frontier" at that time. His son,
Joseph North, Jr., came to Michigan and settled in Lansing
Township in 1836. With him came Levi Buck, an older brother
of Daniel W. Buck, an old pioneer of Lansing, and they settled
in section 32. Joseph North gave the name Lansing to the township after his old home in New York. A few years later, when the
Capital was located at the junction of the Grand and Cedar rivers, at what was then the town of Michigan, his younger brother,
Henry Harrison North, my grandfather, went before the Legislature and proposed the name of Lansing for the new city, which
was accepted April 1, 1848.
Joshua, another son of Joseph North, Sr., came to Ingham
county in 1837, and the father, Joseph E., came the following year.
Their goods were shipped by canal to Buffalo, thence by the
steamer Michigan to Detroit. From there they were shipped to