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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mentioning his remarkable instinct for collecting quaint, curious
and valuable things. Indian relics at one time formed a large
and valuable part of his collection. Bows and arrows, articles
of apparel, stone implements, pipes, and other Indian curiosities
to the number of 700 were collected by him, mostly around Lansing. These, with 3,000 coins and medals, were sold by him in
New York city a number of years ago. Local history and the
collection of documents and books relative to it were almost a
passion with him. He has every State Manual ever published.
He had the autograph of every governor of Michigan. Documents innumerable were pasted by him in scrap books and preserved. Nothing relative to the history of the city was too
trivial, and two large scrap books were devoted to the preservation
of posters and handbills announcing elections, caucuses, political
speeches. Public announcements of all kinds were kept by him.
The Capitol books, as lie called them, were a series of scrap books
containing clippings relative to the building of the State Capitol.
A history of the building from day to day could be made from the
books. The Capitol books, the Manuals, and numerous other
books and documents belonging to Mr. Jenison which refer to the
history of Michigan, were bought recently by the State Librarian
and will occupy a separate case in the Library and be known as
the Jenison collection. IIe also studied the Jenison family, tracing his ancestry back to the time of the landing of the first Jenison
in America off the ship Arabella in 1632. A pocketbook which
this founder of the family brought to America is in the possession
of the family. Mr. Jenison died Aug. 6th, 1895.
ORANGE BUTLER.
June 11, 1870. Orange Butler, of this city, who died very
suddenly on Saturday evening, was a man of talent and distinction-one of those to whom our State was early indebted for her
good start in intellectual as well as material growth. Ile was
born in Pompey, Onondaga county, N. Y., March 5, 1794; graduated at Union College, Schenectady; studied law with the celebrated Victory Birdseye, of Pompey, and taught classical languages at about the same time. He commenced the practice of