History of Oakland County Michigan a narrative account of its historic progress, its people, its principal interests / compiled from the official records of the county, the newspapers and data of personal interviews, under the editorial supervision of Thaddeus D. Seeley.

HISTORY OF OAKLAND COUNTY

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well as pupils. Not having been especially familiar with its condition
immediately prior to that time I do not know if that was the beginning
of the end. At all events, Colonel Rogers died the following September
and Mrs. Rogers conducted the school for a year. I became president
the next year (General Wheeler is a brother-in-law of Colonel Rogers),
spent a small fortune in my endeavor to rehabilitate it, and retired in
June, I906, all but ruined. It was continued a year under the hopeful
control and scrutiny of its creditors and adjourned, sine die, in June,
I907. This is a good history, according to the best of my knowledge
and belief."

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