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KALAMAZOO COUNTY
JUDGE HEZBKIAH G, WELLS
was born at Steubenville, Ohio, June 16, 1812, and died April 4, 1885, at his residence in Kalamazoo. As a personal friend and from an intimate acquaintance of his for forty-four years, I deem it not amiss, in my poor way, to say a few words regarding him. Judge Wells commenced the practice of law in Schoolcraft and in acting as the agent of foreign real estate
owners and money lenders. So much was he in sympathy with the pioneer settlers of his town and county, that instead of counseling litigation, he was their friend and adviser, in preventing them from foolishly squandering property they had endured so much to obtain; he was an excellent office lawver; no man, however poor, failed, on calling on him, to get friendly advice, and for whom he always drafted all papers necessary in settling difficulties between man and man that was seldom appealed from, and a very large amount of this kind of service was rendered gratuitously
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