. History of the University of Michigan . mmon, with his wife Susan Torrey andtheir seven children, the youngest of whom wasLeonard, removed from the town of Chesterfield,Massachusetts, to Wyoming County, New York, in1816. The Demmons (some members used Dem-ing) and the Torreys had been very early settlers inthe Connecticut valley. Boughey was an English-man from Shropshire, and his wife was of Pennsyl-vania German parentage. Leonard Demmon settled on the Western Reserve about 1838, and there pur-sued his trade of carpenter and builder for someyears. But seeking an outdoor life, and havingacqu
. History of the University of Michigan . mmon, with his wife Susan Torrey andtheir seven children, the youngest of whom wasLeonard, removed from the town of Chesterfield,Massachusetts, to Wyoming County, New York, in1816. The Demmons (some members used Dem-ing) and the Torreys had been very early settlers inthe Connecticut valley. Boughey was an English-man from Shropshire, and his wife was of Pennsyl-vania German parentage. Leonard Demmon settled on the Western Reserve about 1838, and there pur-sued his trade of carpenter and builder for someyears. But seeking an outdoor life, and havingacquired lands near Kendallville, Noble County,Indiana, he removed thither with his wife and twochildren, in the fall of 1844, and there hewed out afarm from the wilderness. The son thus grew upwith his full share of the experiences of pioneer received such training as the country districtschool could offer and at the age of eleven was sentto a private school in a little village three milesaway. He made the trip to and from school on. NEWTON DEMMON foot each day, progressing so rapidly in his workthat by his fifteenth year he was prepared to enterthe University of Michigan. But the farm was notyet entirely won from the wilderness, the family hadincreased to six children, and the eldest son couldnot be spared from the home. So, some yearsmore were passed in work by his fathers side in thesummer, and in reviewing his own studies and teach-ing district schools in the winter; and it was notuntil he reached the age of legal manhood, in 1863,that he was able to undertake definitely a collegiatecourse. In that year he entered the NorthwesternChristian LIniversity (now Butler College), Indianap-olis, where he remained two years. Even thus hiswork as a student suffered interruption, through an THE UNIVERSITT SENATE 261 absence of several months in the service of hiscountry in 1864 as a private in the One Hundredand Thirty-second Indiana Infantry. In 1865 hefulfilled his early
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