. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . me Union church has been erected on the southeast cor-ner of section 4, by the Methodists and Baptists, at a cost HISTORY OF INGHAM COUNTY, MICHIGAN. of about SISOO, and the two denoniinatious alternate inholding meetings, the pastors coming from Mason. MetUing-houses have also been erected on the west sideof town, one on section 10 and another on section 31, andmeetings are now held in them principally by the Meth-odists. The church on section 31 is maintained by peopleof various religious beliefs, and meetings have been heldin the neighborho
. History of Ingham and Eaton counties, Michigan . me Union church has been erected on the southeast cor-ner of section 4, by the Methodists and Baptists, at a cost HISTORY OF INGHAM COUNTY, MICHIGAN. of about SISOO, and the two denoniinatious alternate inholding meetings, the pastors coming from Mason. MetUing-houses have also been erected on the west sideof town, one on section 10 and another on section 31, andmeetings are now held in them principally by the Meth-odists. The church on section 31 is maintained by peopleof various religious beliefs, and meetings have been heldin the neighborhood for a considerable number of yearsby pastors of different denominations. Both buildings areframe, and the societies or classes are small. BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES. REUBEN R. BULLEN. This venerable pioneer was born in the town of Charl-ton, Worcester Co., Mass., Sept. 14, 1806. His father,also named Reuben, was a native of Pomfret, Conn. Hemarried Tamison Leavens and reared a family of four chil-dren, Reuben being the eldest son. In 1824 the elder. R. K. BULLEN. Bullen removed with his family to Wayne Co., N. Y.,where he resided until his death, which occurred in 1845,in the sixty-eighth year of his age. He was a and a valuable citizen, and identified himself promi-nently with Wayne County. Reuben remained at homeuntil he attained his twentieth year. He received such aneducation as was aflforded by the district schools of thatday, and in 1828 went to Wilkcsbarre, Pa. At this timethe Pennsylvania Canal was being built, and he obtained asituation a-s foreman. In 1835 he married I^iizabethVandenburg, of Pittston, Pa., and the following year(1836; started for Michigan. He arrived in Detroit inOctober. From Detroit he went to Ann Arbor, where heleft his family, and from thence to Aurelius, where he lo-cated eighty-three acres of government land on section 4. He returned to Ann Arbor, and in the following year (1837)made a permanent settlement upon his land. T
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