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Excerpt from Historical Collections, Vol. 29: Collections and Researches Made by the Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society The labor bestowed on this volume, except the cost of proof-reading, printing and binding, has been wholly a labor of love. More care than usual has been taken in editing the memorial sketches, for the purpose of eliminating inconsequential matter, thereby making the essential facts in the lives of the departed pioneers more prominent, and giving greater space to papers of. General interest. As the years go by the ranks of the pioneers become thinner, and hence this feature of future volumes Iwill occupy fewer pages. While other states of the old northwest are more generous than is Michigan in making provision for obtaining and preserving historical data relating to their early settlement and progress, and while aware that with more money better work could be done, especially in the line of research among ancient records and archives, of the appropriations made by our legislature we do not complain, but will continue to do the best we can with the means placed at our disposal. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.