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

REPORTS OF PIONEER HISTORICAL MEETINGS

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Born in the State of New York, where he worked as a lumberman
when a boy. Married Lucy Chapman in 1832, came in wagons
to Michigan and settled in Alaiedon, later moving to Bunkerhill.
Set out an orchard, getting the trees at Ypsilanti. Ielped build
the M. E. church at Bunkerhill, and was a member of that denomination for over 60 years.
Lcmuel Woodhouse was a partner of S. 0. Russell in building a
saw mill at Leslie, was a cabinet maker amd pattern maker.
Was postmaster at Leslie, and had been treasurer of Ingham
county.
Four people present had been in the county 50 years, and 45 had
been here 45 years. Hon. D. L. Case and Capt. J. R. Price, of
Lansing, gave short talks.
Rev. Augusta Chapin, who was born and grew up at Eden, gave
the address of the day, and a part of her address follows:
I have for several years anticipated the pleasure of addressing
you upon the occasion of this annual reunion, but each time some
unforseen and uncontrollable circumstance has prevented my
presence.
The )lcasure I have anticipated has been in the thought of
meeting you, taking you by the hand (many of whose names
and faces have been familiar to me from childhood) and hearing
what you had to say, rather than in anything I thought I could
say to interest you. We have met here today to think and speak
of the early times, and to do honor to those who made the Ingham
County of today possible.
I think scarcely any subject has a greater charm for us than that
of the beginning of things. The story of how things came to be
as they are is certainly next in interest to the question of what
the outcome shall be. The future is an untrodden road. All is
misty, visionary, uncertain in that direction; we can only know of
it by forecasting from our knowledge of existing laws and our
experiences.
But we may with comparative ease retrace the course of the
past, and whatever pertains to it has the fascination of a fairy
tale. Every bit of information about the origin and history of the
world and man upon it is siezed with avidity; nay, we are all
ready to stop and listen with breathless attention even to conjecture on the subject if it comes from an intelligent source.