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CAPT. CHARLES GRANT.
Then going on to Lyons, Ionia county, he assisted in building the first bridge across Grand river at that place. In 1837 he went back to New York, where he married (for his third wife) Emeline Gillette, of Gainesville. Returning in the winter of 1838 he worked at his trade until the spring of 1840, when he removed to Bengal, Clinton county, his family being the third in that township. He built on section 4 the first frame house of which the town could boast, in which he lived until 1848, when he moved to the south half of the northwest quarter of section 2, living there the remainder of his life, enduring many hardships and privations pertaining to pioneer life, doing nobly his part during the transition of Clinton county from what seemed to be an endless waste of forest to one of the finest counties in the State.
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