Bay County past and present . JUDGE ALBERT Albert Miller was a native of Vermont,and was born in Hartland, May 10, twenty years be continued to reside inbis native town, and tben, in September,183 0, started for Micbigan, arriving in De-troit on the 22nd of that month, when thecity contained a population of 2,220. Hetaught the second term of school that wasever taught north of Oakland county andalso taught the first school in the SaginawValley in the winter of 1834. He bought the land where Portsmouthafterward stood, laid out the town andcommenced to improve it. That was inJu
Bay County past and present . JUDGE ALBERT Albert Miller was a native of Vermont,and was born in Hartland, May 10, twenty years be continued to reside inbis native town, and tben, in September,183 0, started for Micbigan, arriving in De-troit on the 22nd of that month, when thecity contained a population of 2,220. Hetaught the second term of school that wasever taught north of Oakland county andalso taught the first school in the SaginawValley in the winter of 1834. He bought the land where Portsmouthafterward stood, laid out the town andcommenced to improve it. That was inJuly, 183 6. During the following winterhe built the second steam saw-mill evererected in the Saginaw Valley. When Sag-inaw county was organized, he received acommission as Probate Judge and Justiceof the Peace from Governor Mason, andheld the position for many years. In the meantime Judge Miller continued in the mercantile business untilthe panic of 1837 caused temporary embarrassment and forced him to commenced anew in 1845 and continued
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