Michigan historical collections . at the closing up of affairs at the mission old Jack was performinghis part as faithfully for his master as in his younger days. The mission chapel was built in 1840 and in the winter of 1855 and1856 was removed to Kalamazoo and set down on Water street whereTyler & Turners planing mill stood, and was rebuilt with an additionalstory and served as a dwelling house for a number of years. It wasremoved in its second flight to Den Blykers addition, on Portage street,where it now stands, being used as a tenement house. Emily Slater, the faithful daughter and teache
Michigan historical collections . at the closing up of affairs at the mission old Jack was performinghis part as faithfully for his master as in his younger days. The mission chapel was built in 1840 and in the winter of 1855 and1856 was removed to Kalamazoo and set down on Water street whereTyler & Turners planing mill stood, and was rebuilt with an additionalstory and served as a dwelling house for a number of years. It wasremoved in its second flight to Den Blykers addition, on Portage street,where it now stands, being used as a tenement house. Emily Slater, the faithful daughter and teacher, removed to Kala-mazoo with her father and was married to Sylvester St, John, June22, 1856, in the Baptist church, by Rev. J, A. B. Stone. She died Feb-ruary 23, 1893, and her body lies beside her parents in Riverside ceme-tery, Kalamazoo. The news of the war in our own land stirred up the blood of theold revolutionary ancestors running in the veins of Leonard Slater and, For description of this Mission see Vol. 32, p. MRS. WINIFRED LEE LYSTER, DETROIT. MICHIGAN, MY MICHIGAN. 155 as has been said before, he offered himself for his countrys service,and joining the Christian commission without pay was sent to carefor our sick and dying soldiers in a hospital at Nashville, Tenn. Helabored there until his health gave out and then came home to die,and, not yet an old man, departed this life April 27, 1866. The few remaining Indians living at Prairieville attended the funeraland saw him laid away from their sight. This devoted and single hearted missionary died without the satis-faction of feeling that his lifes work had been a success. The char-acter of the Indian had not been improved by his intercourse with whitemen, which was of itself a discouraging fact. With the history beforeus of those who have struggled and toiled and then lain down to diecomes ever and again the question, What is life? Who can answer? MICHIGAN, MY MICHIGAN. Origin and History op this Noble State So
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