Michigan historical collections . presence has so dignified and to which his devotion was so com-plete. In every relation of life it may be truthfully said, he built upa character marked by integrity, great industry, and otherwise repletein all that is admirable. He took an absorbing interest in politics. Hebelieved it the duty of every man to be a politician in the best senseof that word. He joined the republican party at its birth and remainedin loyal devotion to that party and its principles to the day of hisdeath. He very early in life espoused the cause of the slave, and be-lieved with Li
Michigan historical collections . presence has so dignified and to which his devotion was so com-plete. In every relation of life it may be truthfully said, he built upa character marked by integrity, great industry, and otherwise repletein all that is admirable. He took an absorbing interest in politics. Hebelieved it the duty of every man to be a politician in the best senseof that word. He joined the republican party at its birth and remainedin loyal devotion to that party and its principles to the day of hisdeath. He very early in life espoused the cause of the slave, and be-lieved with Lincoln, that no man was good enough to enslave another. Particularly fortunate in life, Mr. Blades was especially favored inthe approach of death. Although he bore the burden of fourscore yearsand five, his strength of mind and of body were with him almost to thelast. With all the lofty confidence of Seneca, coupled with the child-like faith of St. Paul, he approached that gate so near to some of usand not far distant from us THEODORE E. tlie age of 75. A BOYS STORY OF PIONEER LIFE. 393 A BOYS STORY OF PIONEER LIFE IN MICHIGAN. BY THEODORE E. POTTER. 1 was born in Saline, Washtenaw county, Michigan, March 10, early life was sjient like that of other boys born in the territoryabout that time. My father and mother, with two small children, cameto Michigan in the spring of 1830 from Cayuga county, New Y^ork, byway of the Erie canal to Buffalo, and from there by steamboat to De-troit within seven days time. They then walked to Plymouth, thirtymiles, in two days, carrying their two children in their arms, stoppinga. few days with relatives there, then walked to Saline, a distance oftwenty miles further, where they first settled, and my father built oneof the first frame houses in that part of the country, one story high,and located on the present village plat. In this house he not onlylived, but worked at tailoring, a trade he had learned when a boy atHuntingt
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