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SAGINAW COUNTY.17
here he commenced his career as a lumberman, which vocation he followed up to the time of his fatal illness. After leaving Bron-ison's lumber yard, he went to Port Burwell, Ont., there taking charge of a saw mill. In tke spring of 1852 he came to East Saginaw, soon after becoming associated in the lumber business with the late Jesse Hoyt. He erected the first planing mill in this city, and had branch yards in Chicago, ILL, and : St. Joseph, Mo. For several years a large and prosperous business was conducted, but in the panic of '57
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