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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the veritable frontier, Mrs. McPhce relates that the workmen on
the Capitol used to take their guns and within a walk of a few rods
used to hunt wild game. Wild turkey was plentiful. Joseph
Glaister, she says, had so tamed two of the turkeys that he kept
them roosting in a tree near where is now the intersection of
Chestnut and Washtenaw streets.
Mrs. McPhee was born in Liverpool. She was married when
only a girl. Her memory of the old home still abides. "I have
always loved the sea because it enters into my earliest recollections. I was born on the banks of the Mersey river and the great
sea into which it flowed was always becoming in my sight as a
child. When I came to America how I loved the trip across the
ocean. Yes, I can still see in memory the spirit of the great cathedral where three of my children were christened and sealed
with the sign of the cross. As I look back over the years, it is a
great wonder to me how Lansing could have grown from the poor
little village I first beheld to the city it is today."
Mrs. McPhee is still an active woman, cheery and full of enthusiasm for life. She has experienced some dangerous illnesses
of late, but in spite of all appears possessed of bodily vigor. Her
memory of the events of her life are particularly vivid and she
tells of the circumstances of her youth as if they were but yesterday.-State Journal, 1916.
"PHOTO OF '72" IS CUE FOR NEW REMINISCENCES OF
OLD-TIME DAYS.
The style in feminine dress of 1873, which raises a smile today
when brought to memory by a photograph, was indeed an eyeful in
their time, declares Charles Emery, who writes to the State
Journal further concerning the old photograph which has so much
interested the "old settlers" in recent days. In his communication he says:
"State Journal Editor:
"You cannot imagine how glad I am that I broke the glass in the
storm house. I did not feel that way while handling over that
punk glass, but it would seem that 'curses, not loud but deep,'