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LEMUEL WOODHOUSE.
Lemuel Woodhouse, who died at his home in White Oak township, February 22, 1885, was a good man in all that the term implies. He was born in New York State in 1819 and his boyhood was spent in St. Lawrence county of the Empire State, and also in Cuyahoga county, Ohio. He learned the cabinet maker's trade, also that of mill-wright, and worked at these professions during his early manhood near Columbus, Ohio. In 1840 he came to Michigan with his father's family and settled in Unadilla, Livingston county. He was married to Caroline Ward of Washtenaw county, who still survives him. The fruit of this union was two children, Mrs. E. Timmerman of this city, and Miss Olive Woodhouse, who lives with her mother at the old home. He was a member of the Lansing Blue Lodge of the Masonic order, but demited from this lodge to become a charter member of the Mason lodge. He lived for a time at Leslie, and while a resident of that village was elected county treasurer and served two terms. This was from 1858 to 1862. After this term of office expired he removed to Dansville and entered into partnership with D. L. Crossman in the dry goods trade. This firm had a contract for building the Leslie and Dansville school-houses; and kept a branch store at Leslie during the progress of the work.
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