Pioneer Collections: Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, 4. köideThe Society, 1883 |
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aged Allegan Allegan county appointed army arrived August Berrien county born Buell building built canoe Captain Cass county Cassopolis citizens Clair Colonel command commenced Confederate daughter death deceased DECHARD Detroit died early East Saginaw elected farm father feet Flint force friends Genesee county Governor Grand Hillsdale county honor Howard Huntsville Indians Jackson James John Jonesville Joseph Judge July June labor Lake land Lansing Lenawee county lived married Mary meeting Michigan miles missionary morning never night Ohio organization Pioneer Society Presbyterian church present railroad reached received regiment residence river road Saginaw county Saginaw river salt school-house settled settlers Shiawassee county Silver Islet Smith soon spring Stevenson Tittabawassee river to-day took town township village wagon Wayne Wayne county wife William Witherell York
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Page 535 - So the multitude goes, like the flower or the weed, That withers away to let others succeed; So the multitude comes, even those we behold, To repeat every tale that has often been told. For we are the same our fathers have been; We see the same sights our fathers have seen; We drink the same stream, we view the same sun, And run the same course our fathers have run.
Page 124 - Surely goodness and mercy have followed me all the days of my life, and I shall dwell in the house of the Lord for ever.
Page 535 - tis the draught of a breath — From the blossom of health to the paleness of death, From the gilded saloon to the bier and the shroud: — Oh ! why should the spirit of mortal be proud ? WILLIAM KNOX.
Page 207 - Horrid with frost, and turbulent with storm, Blows Autumn, and his golden fruits away: Then melts into the Spring : soft Spring, with breath Favonian, from warm chambers of the south, Recalls the first.
Page 359 - ... can give to your question is to tell you what is my own practice. Oatmeal in the morning, as an architect lays a bed of concrete to form a base for his superstructure. Pie when I can get it ; that is, of the genuine sort, for I am not patriotic enough to think very highly of the article named after the Father of his Country, who was first in war, first in peace, — not first in pies, according to my standard.
Page 535 - Oh! why should the spirit of mortal be proud?— . Like a swift-fleeting meteor, a fast-flying cloud, A flash of the lightning, a break of the wave, He passeth from life to his rest in the grave.
Page 539 - BRIGHTEST and best of the sons of the morning, Dawn on our darkness, and lend us Thine aid; Star of the East, the horizon adorning, Guide where our infant Redeemer is laid.
Page 399 - Be it enacted by the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan...
Page 16 - The attempt to obtain water possessing qualities suitable for making salt, has thus far proved unsuccessful. 13. La Plaisance bay railroad, from Monroe to La Plaisance bay, a distance of four miles. The amount appropriated and expended on this work is $34,113 00 ; a further sum has been expended, of which account has not been rendered.
Page 535 - We drink the same stream, we view the same sun, And run the same course our fathers have run. The thoughts we are thinking our fathers would think ; From the death we are shrinking our fathers would shrink ; To the life we are clinging they also would cling; But it speeds from us all like a bird on the wing.