HISTORY OF KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MICHIGAN


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HISTORY OF KALAMAZOO COUNTY, MICHIGAN; Everts & Abbott 1880)  
GC 977.401 K12 DA.
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	"Gull Prairie was at this time the most populous and important 
settlement in Kalamazoo County, for we find that of thirty-two grand and 
petit jurors summoned at the November term, twelve were residents of Richland
viz.: Philip Gray, John F. Gilkey, Daniel A. Plummer, Simeon Mills, David H.
Daniels, Samuel F. Brown, Willard Mills, Samuel Brown, Samuel Woodruff, Levi
S. White, Cornelius Northrop, and Loyal H. Jones.
	From 1833 to 1839 the increase of population and material wealth was 
marked.  During the latter year Ross was set off as an independent township, 
and the number of resident taxpayers remaining was 81.
	Among other pioneers who settled prior to 1839 were Merritt and 
Marvin Barrett (these were sons of Hildah Barrett, who came with his family 
about 1832. The old gentleman accumulated a handsome property.  His death 
occurred about 1861.)  D. D. Brockway, John D. Batchelder I who, with 
Mumford Eldred, Jr., as principal partner, opened the first store in the 
present village of Richland in 1835), Abner Goodrich, H. B. Hayes, Alvin 
Hood, D. W. Hooker, Edward Judson, Elnathan Judson, Hugh Kirkland, Rev. 
Mason Knappen (1833 from Chittenden Co., VT), Rev. Calvin Clark, John 
McAllister, T. B. Pierce, Morgan Curtis, Ira Peake, William Cummings (1832), 
William Wingert, Willard Butterfield, George Clark, Ira Hoyt, William Stone, 
Stephen Fairbanks, David Blanchard, Theoddore S. Hoyt, Ashbel Shepard, Asa 
Turner, Harvey Gould, Silas Gould, Alexander Philow, P. C. Rowley, Rev. 
William Danbury, H. P. Hoyt, Francis Holden, Daniel, Jackson, William Dana, 
John Van Vleck, Daniel Deal, Henry Hicks, Phineas Cook, Garret Daly, Nehemiah
Pope, Charles Parker, Samuel Whitlock, Daniel Macon, John Walker, Seymour 
Hoyt, Jr., S. P. Graves, and  Hezekiah Doolittle, from Jefferson Co., NY, 
who settled here in 1836.  During the war of 1812 he served as a volunteer 
with a Sacket's Harbor company.......

Page 460:  [I have not quite placed this Samuel Woodruff j/a]
Samuel Woodruff came from Washington, Conn., in 1831 with his family.  He 
had been here in 1829-30 to explore the country and fix upon a location.  
He continued to reside here till his eighty-fifth year he was removed.  He 
was very intellingent in Bible studies, decided as a Christian, unbending as 
the hills when once established in his opinions.  But he was kind and true, 
faithful to his friends, and to what he believed right, - a worthy 
representative of the olden time New England character."  




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