. History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . had just been completed. Mr. Mon-roe had recently entered one hundred and sixty acres onsection 7. About the same time a saw-mill was built by PeterKent, for Philo Beers, on section 14. It was the first inEagle, and did valuable service for several years. The re-mains of the dam built across the little stream are yetplainly visible. Mr. Beers also opened the first blacksmith-shop. Itstood by the quarter post on the south line of section settlers came with work from all quarters, and oftenfrom four oclock in the morning until late
. History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . had just been completed. Mr. Mon-roe had recently entered one hundred and sixty acres onsection 7. About the same time a saw-mill was built by PeterKent, for Philo Beers, on section 14. It was the first inEagle, and did valuable service for several years. The re-mains of the dam built across the little stream are yetplainly visible. Mr. Beers also opened the first blacksmith-shop. Itstood by the quarter post on the south line of section settlers came with work from all quarters, and oftenfrom four oclock in the morning until late at night was hekept steadily at the anvil. Before coming to Michigan, Mr. Beers had been a manof considerable competence, but through an unfortunatebusiness connection with the great showman, Barnum, hewas financially ruined. He sought the woods of Michigan,and, like so many others, retrieved his broken fortune. Lazarus Doty came to Eagle, and entered a large tract ofland for his three sons,—Oliver, Philo, and Charles. The §hic> 1 Ct3. EAGLE TOWNSHIP. 439 three are residents of the township, and still occupy theland entered for them by their father. Oliver is on section26, Philo is on 14, and Charles on 34. The family hasbeen one of the most substantial and enterprising in thetownship. The second saw-mill wm built by Henry Gibbs, Jr., forPhilo Doty, on section 14. Henry Gibbs settled the farm upon which Isaac Brownnow lives. Morris Allen settled on the west half of thenorthwest quarter of section 23. He has since moved toIowa. His father, Neheniiah Allen, died in January, was the first death in Eagle. He was buried near thenorth bank of the river, on section 15, on land which wasentered by Joseph Eddy in the spring of 183G. and his wife were both subsequently interred was the first burial-place in the township. The landis now occupied by Christopher C. Tallman. Jacob DeWitt settled on the east half of the southeast quarter ofsection 15 in 1836,
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