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KALAMAZOO COUNTY
Jonas Allen was born in Chester, Winsor county, Vermont, October 21, 1805. He settled in School craft, Kalamazoo county, Michigan, June 24, 1837. He was for a number of years the principal worker in iron; in his shop was made the first scalloped edged straight sickle for cutting grain for Moore's large harvester, supposed to be the first successful cutter used in , the United States. He died respected by all who knew him.
Died, in the township of Oshtemo, Kalamazoo county, September 12, 1884, Royal T. Balch, in the sixty-seventh year of his age. He was an earnest Christian, a good citizen and a pattern farmer.
David S. Bronson died in the township of Comstock, Kalamazoo county, October 11, 1884, aged eighty years. He was one of Michigan's worthy
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