History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . 20,073 bushels ; potatoes, 3634 bushels ; tons of hay,1651; pounds of wool, 7793; pounds of butter, 53,373 ;pounds of cheese, 6500 ; pounds of maple-sugar, 19,247 ;horses, 375; oxen, 152; cows, 636; swine, 604; sheep,2149. The census of cereals for 1877 shows 2452 acresof wheat cut, which produced 61,747 bushels. The wheaton the ground in 1878 was 3306 acres, which would give(as estimated) an average yield of 83,245 bushels. In 1847, Riley had a population of 134, which had in-creased io 1854 to 400. In 1860 the enumeration gave607 souls i
History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . 20,073 bushels ; potatoes, 3634 bushels ; tons of hay,1651; pounds of wool, 7793; pounds of butter, 53,373 ;pounds of cheese, 6500 ; pounds of maple-sugar, 19,247 ;horses, 375; oxen, 152; cows, 636; swine, 604; sheep,2149. The census of cereals for 1877 shows 2452 acresof wheat cut, which produced 61,747 bushels. The wheaton the ground in 1878 was 3306 acres, which would give(as estimated) an average yield of 83,245 bushels. In 1847, Riley had a population of 134, which had in-creased io 1854 to 400. In 1860 the enumeration gave607 souls in 122 families. There were 142 dwelling-housesand 106 farms occupied. The State census in 1864 showed641, showing a gain of only 34 in four years. The censusof 1870 gave 1139, an in six years of 498. Thenext four years only 24 were added to the population, mak-ing for 1874, 1103. The United States census for 1880,just completed, gives the number of inhabitants at 1469,a gain in six years of 306. I lilLEY TOWNSHIP. 507 BIOGRAPHICAL LYxMAN HUNGERFORD. Lyman HungerforJ was born in the town of Iaiis,Oneida Co., N. Y., Aug. 1, 1812. His father, OrinHuiifjcrford, was a native of the Green Mountain State,and was born in the town of Pownal, Bennington Co.,in 1790. He was a blacksmith by trade, and removed toOneida County about 1808, where lie until 181G,when he removed to Jefferson County and ] a farmin the town of Henderson, wliere he resided until liisdeath, which occurred in 1868. He married Jlifs AbigailMorgan in 1811. She was born in the town of Iownal,in 1789. They reared a family of nine children,—si.\ boysand three girls,—Lyman being the eldest of the elder Hungerford was an energetic and successlulfarmer of liberal and progressive ideas, and in all respectsa valuable citizen. His wife was one of those thriftyhousewives of the olden time. She spun and wove thecloth from which the family clothing was made, and rearedlier chi
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