. Michigan historical collections . spent in New York State. In some localities, educationalmethods were still primitive, and he learned to write with a pointedstick on a sand table. He attended the Lancastrian Academy atSchenectady for a brief period, and later the Chittenango school. Atthe age of thirteen he enrolled as a student at the Polytechnic Academyin the same town. He remained there two years and made a brilliantrecord for application and accuracy in his scholarship. Thus es j inlife, he manifested something of the reasoning power, the grasp of de-tails, the retentive memory, and sou
. Michigan historical collections . spent in New York State. In some localities, educationalmethods were still primitive, and he learned to write with a pointedstick on a sand table. He attended the Lancastrian Academy atSchenectady for a brief period, and later the Chittenango school. Atthe age of thirteen he enrolled as a student at the Polytechnic Academyin the same town. He remained there two years and made a brilliantrecord for application and accuracy in his scholarship. Thus es j inlife, he manifested something of the reasoning power, the grasp of de-tails, the retentive memory, and sound judgment, that later marked himas one of the most successful business men of his times. At the earlyage of seventeen he was thrown upon his own resources. He believedthat the West held greater opportunities for young men, and came toMichigan in 1837. Michigan had been admitted to the Union on theanniversary of his birth, January 26 of the same year, but there wasnot a railroad within the State. He started from Chittenango. From. EBENEZER OTJVER GROSVENOR. MEMOIR EBENEZER OLIVER GROSVENOR 703 Buffalo lie went across the lakes to Toledo, and thence by stagecoachto Jackson, Mich. He often related a little incident of the trip, toillustrate the good fellowship which existed in those days, and the slow-ness of travel, compared with the rapid transit of modem times. AtToledo he found all the seats taken. A good natured countryman onthe seat with the driver offered to walk if the driver would carrj^ hiskit of tools, and let him take his place. The offer was accepted, andwhen the stage, after a slow and tiresome journey, reached Jackson,they found the man, sitting on the tavern steps waiting for them. Thenext day young Grosvenor continued his journey to Albion, then calledThe Forks of the Kalamazoo. He hired out as clerk in the store of his brother, Ira R. old Territorial road runs a little north of the present site of of his duties was to carry the mail fr
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