Ionia County MI Archives Obituaries.....Burt, Joseph 1880
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The Lowell Journal, Wednesday, January 28, 1880


From the East Saginaw Herald.

Mr. Joseph Burt, who died at Matherton, Ionia county, on the 21st, was 90 
years old.  He passed his early years in New York, and during the war of 1812 
joined the volunteers, raising from the rank of lieutenant to captain and 
major.  He participated in the battles of Fort Niagara and Lunday’s Lane, and 
witnessed the burning of Buffalo.  In 1829 he removed to Michigan and settled 
near Ann Arbor.  He was a mason by trade, and was master builder of the first 
churches in Ann Arbor and Ypsilanti and built the first brick courthouse in 
Washtenaw county.  He was a contractor on the Michigan State prison in 1839 to 
1842.  In 1842 he removed to Lansing, and was identified with the building of 
nearly all of the principal buildings there until 1864, when he came to this 
city.  Soon after coming here age and disease compelled him to relinquish the 
active work of life, and for the past 10 years he has been a cripple, living 
with one or another of his children most of the time.  He was twice married 
and had 13 children.


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