History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . ear be entered the University ofMichigan with the class of 70. Inconsequence of failing health andacting in accordance with tlie ad-vice of his family physician andfriends, be left college at the closeof the first semester. On recovering his health somewhat, heentered the employ of tbe First Xational of Ann Arbor. 246 Class of 70, University of Michigan. and the Ann Arbor Savings Bank, remaining with these twoinstitutions four years and gaining vahial)le experience. Thesedentary Hfe and too close apphcation to
History of the class of '70, Department of literature, science and the arts . ear be entered the University ofMichigan with the class of 70. Inconsequence of failing health andacting in accordance with tlie ad-vice of his family physician andfriends, be left college at the closeof the first semester. On recovering his health somewhat, heentered the employ of tbe First Xational of Ann Arbor. 246 Class of 70, University of Michigan. and the Ann Arbor Savings Bank, remaining with these twoinstitutions four years and gaining vahial)le experience. Thesedentary Hfe and too close apphcation to Inisiness compelled himto seek an out-of-door life. After traveling a few years in Ohio,Pennsylvania and Delaware and finding neither business norclimate satisfactory, he determined to seek health and fortune insouthern California. Leaving Ann Arbor C)ctober 9th, 1873. he arrived in LosAngeles October 2t,c\. Los Angeles was then a little city of sixor seven thousand people. At this time a nuiuber of Lidianapeople were tr}ing to organize a colony in order to purchase alarge tract of land near Los Angeles, on which the memberscould establish homes and engage in fruit farming. He becameinterested in the enterprise and was one of the first members ofthe San Gal^riel Orange Grove Association. They organized inNovember, 1873. and in the spring of 1874, a few of them brokeground, l)uilt small ho
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