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... mill in the chair to preside over the meeting . Some of the pioneers will know what I mean . A few years since I ran a saw mill on the Saginaw river . The objects of a State organization are too numerous to be mentioned by me at the ...
... mill in the chair to preside over the meeting . Some of the pioneers will know what I mean . A few years since I ran a saw mill on the Saginaw river . The objects of a State organization are too numerous to be mentioned by me at the ...
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... mills , and from towns where supplies could be purchased , some present might think me personal , and endeavor- ing to make public the condition of poverty which once attended them . But no pioneer of Michigan , with good health and a ...
... mills , and from towns where supplies could be purchased , some present might think me personal , and endeavor- ing to make public the condition of poverty which once attended them . But no pioneer of Michigan , with good health and a ...
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... mill in Michigan , and his last work in his shop in Detroit was the building of the two steam engines for the old steamboat Michi- gan . Mr. Williams changed his location twice while in Detroit . He re- moved from the Russell house lot ...
... mill in Michigan , and his last work in his shop in Detroit was the building of the two steam engines for the old steamboat Michi- gan . Mr. Williams changed his location twice while in Detroit . He re- moved from the Russell house lot ...
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... mill which for a number of years was called the Emerson mill , and stood on the grounds now occupied by the East Saginaw gas company . This was the mill of its day . This mill was run by H. Williams till the disastrous crash of 1837 ...
... mill which for a number of years was called the Emerson mill , and stood on the grounds now occupied by the East Saginaw gas company . This was the mill of its day . This mill was run by H. Williams till the disastrous crash of 1837 ...
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... mill " at the foot of Mackinaw street did all that was required of it in its day . The big mill at East Saginaw , the model mill of 1837 , when finished was supposed to be equal to , aye , and beyond , any future requirements . Could ...
... mill " at the foot of Mackinaw street did all that was required of it in its day . The big mill at East Saginaw , the model mill of 1837 , when finished was supposed to be equal to , aye , and beyond , any future requirements . Could ...
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Popular passages
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Page 451 - The village master taught his little school. A man severe he was, and stern to view; I knew him well, and every truant knew...
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Page 236 - ... the boundaries of these three States shall be subject so far to be altered that if Congress shall hereafter find it expedient, they shall have authority to form one or two States in that part of the said territory which lies north of an east and west line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan.
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Page 197 - SEC. 7. All acts and parts of acts in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. SEC. 8. This act shall take effect and be in force from and after its passage.
Page 140 - Gods may dwell, Beautiful, entire, and clean. Else our lives are incomplete, Standing in these walls of Time, Broken stairways, where the feet Stumble as they seek to climb. Build to-day, then, strong and sure, With a firm and ample base ; And ascending and secure Shall to-morrow find its place. Thus alone can we attain To those turrets, where the eye Sees the world as one vast plain, And one boundless reach of sky.
Page 314 - In testimony whereof I have caused these letters to be made patent, and the seal of The United States to be hereunto affixed.