. Old settlers; a historical and chronological record, together with personal experiences and reminiscences of members of the Old settlers of the Grand Traverse region ... ^^. ELIZABETH WHITNEY WILLIAMS Iioneer of Traverse City in 1853, Light-keeper on Beaver Island and Little Traverse. Auther of A Child of the Sea. Mexico to the Lake Superior mines. About the year 1827 the Catholics cameto Little Traverse and built a church of cedar logs and covered with was built by Rev, Fr, Peter De Jean who was the first resident priest atthis point. Rev. Father Zorn had afterward been priest her
. Old settlers; a historical and chronological record, together with personal experiences and reminiscences of members of the Old settlers of the Grand Traverse region ... ^^. ELIZABETH WHITNEY WILLIAMS Iioneer of Traverse City in 1853, Light-keeper on Beaver Island and Little Traverse. Auther of A Child of the Sea. Mexico to the Lake Superior mines. About the year 1827 the Catholics cameto Little Traverse and built a church of cedar logs and covered with was built by Rev, Fr, Peter De Jean who was the first resident priest atthis point. Rev. Father Zorn had afterward been priest here for more than aquarter of a century. Among the acts of Father De Jean may be mentionedhis f(jiinding of a liquor law which prohibited the use and sale of liquor andwhat was rigidly enforced until about 1854. In the fall of 1853 Richard Cooperarrived here on the trading schooner Eliza Caroline—built on St, Helena Islandby Walter Whitney—and opened a store. At this time fisherman had alreadyestablished themselves at several points on the northern part of Lake Mich-igan, Charles R, Wright, accompanied by Albert Cable, arrived here at thistime, Mr, Wright erecting a
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