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 Soldiers' Memorial Lot, on the west side of the cemetery,
was donated that year, the presentation being made on May 30,
and was accepted by L. J. Ford in the name of the soldiers of
Mason. That year thirty government head stones were ordered,
there being that many soldiers buried in the Mason cemeteries
at that date.
MICHIGAN STATE GAZETTEER OF 1863.
Published When Mason was Less than 30 Years Old. Property
of John Squiers of This City. Gives Interesting Description of
Ingham County and Its History.
From a Michigan State Gazetteer of 1863, the property of John
C. Squiers, of this city, have been gleaned the following items
which cannot fail to be of interest to readers of the Ingham County
News.
The book abounds in advertisements, a large share of them
exploiting the merits of the various newspapers in the state, and
among that number appears the Detroit Free Press, Jackson
Patriot and the Jackson Citizen, names which have been familiar
to Mason people for considerably more than a half century.
Mason was in 1863 less than thirty years old, but she had her
newspaper even then, and the Ingham County News was the
medium through which the people of this vicinity kept in touch
with the outside world.
Some of the advertising matter has a strange sound in these
days, and the present generation would be at a loss to know what
they meant. There were bonnet bleachers and presses, things
little known now, many ship chandler advertisements, crinoline
and hoop skirts (both names used), two sewing machines (though
not the first ones invented), tallow factories, and a variety of
other things, showing that merchants even at that early day
realized the value of advertising.
In the description of Ingham county we find that the county
contains 564 square miles. That the surface is undulating in the
southern part, level in the northern part, and has extensive
marshes. That no county in the state has a greater variety of soil,
and for that reason, and because of its central position, it was