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

LANSING TOWNSHIPII AND CITY, WITHI HISTORY

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Wiley, Delos, lawyer, middle town.
Williams, Silas, stoves and tinware, lower town.
Wilson, Timothy (colored), barber, middle town.
Wolf, Christ, brewer, middle town.
Woodhouse and Butler (William Woodhouse and Charles W.
Butler), land and tax agents, dealers in marble, middle town.
Zeigler, Christ, tanner, lower town.
LANSING INDUSTRY IN FABRICATION OF IRON IS
SEIOWN OF EARLY ORIGIN.
The story of iron rule in Lansing is told by a pioneer, who saw
from the beginning the development of the sway of the necessary
metal.
Dr. F. N. Turner's story, "A Pioneer Foundry," seems a fitting accompaniment to the historical questions for January, 1920,
sent out by the Ingham County Pioneer and Historical Society,
and cannot fail to be of interest to Lansing people. He says:
"Lansing is a manufacturing town or city. From 5:30 a. m.
until 7 a. m. the steam whistles six days in the week tell us that
it is. It is the morning call to nearly 20,000 workmen. The
numerous street cars loaded with men and boys, also women,
each with a dinner basket, tell us, and the observing stranger or
transient sojourner, that we have large shops where these people
earn their daily bread. The grocers and other merchants, with
their rapid auto-delivery vehicles, are busy during the forenoon
delivering food and fuel to the vast army of workers toiling in the
grime and dust to earn money to pay for the same.
"Stop a moment on one of the many bridges that span the
Grand river and count the tall chimneys and smokestacks, lumber
yards and coal piles. Do you wish for further proof that the
Capital City of the great State of Michigan is a factory city?
We want more factories, for signs on all roads leading into the city
announce that sites for factory plants are to be given away.
"Most of our factories make articles from iron. We are living
in an 'Iron Age.' Iron is king of all metals; it holds a Kaiserlike