. History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . employs five people, and manufactures plows, cultiva-tors, drags, etc., besides doing a large business in the wayof general repairs. The annual product of his foundryaggregates one hundred and twenty plows, one hundredand thirty-five cultivators, twenty drags, and upwards ofsix thousand plow-points. Greenbush Pump- Works.—H. L. Post settled in Green-bush in 1857, upon section 4, where a Mr. Tubbs hadcleared about five acres. He used to make pumps for hisneighbors, but devoted to the production of each no moreskill tlian was necessar
. History of Shiawassee and Clinton counties, Michigan . employs five people, and manufactures plows, cultiva-tors, drags, etc., besides doing a large business in the wayof general repairs. The annual product of his foundryaggregates one hundred and twenty plows, one hundredand thirty-five cultivators, twenty drags, and upwards ofsix thousand plow-points. Greenbush Pump- Works.—H. L. Post settled in Green-bush in 1857, upon section 4, where a Mr. Tubbs hadcleared about five acres. He used to make pumps for hisneighbors, but devoted to the production of each no moreskill tlian was necessary to simply bore out a common logand trim it down. In 1864, however, his son Leonardconceived the idea of starting a pump-factory of some pre-tensions, and in that year, accordingly, he put up on section4 a small afiair, which he carried on until 1866. An in-crease in his business then warranted an extension of facili-ties, and in the year last named he built the works on sec-tion 8 which he still controls. He manufactures yearly about Im^ «(*>::. GREENBUSH TOWNSHIP. 467 three hundred pumps, two hundred milk-safes, and a mis-cellaneous list of agricultural implements, etc. SECKET LODGE, No. 209, I. 0. 0. lodge was organized at Eureka June 3, 1873, andchartered Feb. 20, 1874. The charter members were Wil-liam Spade, John J. Bowers, S. M. Post, William Cobble-stone, L. Randolph, L. N. Barber, and W. H. first list of oflBcers included William Spade, N. G.; Post, V. G. ; J. J. Bowers, U. S.; W. H. Morrison,Treas. From the date of organiEation to the present thosewho have filled the chair of Noble Grand have been WilliamSpade, S. IM. Post, J. J. Bowers, Benjamin Austin, JacksonPage, James Lindley, C. L. Putt, I. D. Richmond, andDavid Henry. The present is forty. The of-ficers are David Henry, N. G.; Chauncey Sevy, V. G.;J. R. Jeffreys, R. S.; William Funk, P. S.; J. J. Bowers,Treas. OREENBUSII LODGE, No. 318, F. AND A.
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