Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . ,this State. He found a neighborhood of friendlyand intelligent people, among whom was the farmerwhose daughter became the wife of E. B. Winans,now Governor of Michigan. Mr. Babcock bought some land in the unbrokenforest in 1837, and then returned to New York andcontinued peddling. In 1840 he start
Portrait and biographical album of Clinton and Shiawassee counties, Mich., containing full page portraits and biographical sketches of prominent and representative citizens of the county, together with portraits and biographies of all the presidents of the United States, and governors of the state . ,this State. He found a neighborhood of friendlyand intelligent people, among whom was the farmerwhose daughter became the wife of E. B. Winans,now Governor of Michigan. Mr. Babcock bought some land in the unbrokenforest in 1837, and then returned to New York andcontinued peddling. In 1840 he started again forthe West, and purchasing a drove of sheep in Ohio,drove them into Washtenaw County. This wasprobably the first drove that came within thebounds of the county. In 1860 he started forTexas with a drove of one thousand fine woolsheep, intending to go into the wool-growing busi-. O?toacyy. ^hocM^c^c.^^^^J^o-c^. r. s«>
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