Portrait and biographical album of Hillsdale county, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . , and when twentyyears of age left the parental roof to begin life onhis own account. In the summer of he setout for Michigan, embarking at Buffalo on the sail-ing-vessel Townsend,.ind spent the three followingyears in Rollin Township, Lenawee County, beinghere during the time when Michigan was trans
Portrait and biographical album of Hillsdale county, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the governors of the state, and of the presidents of the United States . , and when twentyyears of age left the parental roof to begin life onhis own account. In the summer of he setout for Michigan, embarking at Buffalo on the sail-ing-vessel Townsend,.ind spent the three followingyears in Rollin Township, Lenawee County, beinghere during the time when Michigan was trans-formed from a Territory into a State. At the ex-piration of this time, desiring a sight of the facesat the old homestead, he took passage at Detroit onthe schooner George AVashington, which, whenwithin thirty miles of Buffalo and off Silver Creek,on the night of .June 16, 1838. took fire, and wasburned to the waters edge. There were on boardabout 180 passengers, and it estimated that halfof these perished. Mr. Rice narrowl^^ escaped thesame fate, being obliged to swim a distance of fivemiles before reaching shore, and was picked up bytwo men, who fortunately happed to be along atthat time, nearly dead from exposure and exhaus-tion. Although it was summer the water was ex- i^^ T. Cj^rno-4^cyiH -U UlLLbDALE COUNTY. -•? 375 treniely cold, and probably a half-liour later wouldhave sealed his fate, lie had in tliis perilous jour-ney nothing on but his pantaloons and shirt. Mr. Rice, after spemliiii^ a few weeks with theold folks at home, returned to Michigan, and onthe 9th of February, 1842, was married to MissCaroline C. Crittenden, a native of his own State,and who was born in Phelps, Ontario County, , 1812. Mrs. Rice was the fourth child of Orrisand Lydia(Eaton) Crittenden, who came with theirfamily to Michigan in 1834, and located in thewoods of Wheatland Township. The father pur-chased a tract of Government land, and there withhis family endured the and
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