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SHIAWASSEE COUNTY .26
The people needed boots. They brought their home-tanned leather to him, and he made it up into what they needed, receiving for making a pair of boots $1. 00 or its equivalent in labor at 50 cents per day. From the earliest commencement of his work on this farm God blessed his labor, and before five years had elapsed he was in a position to pay his men from the products of his farm. In the year 1843 the brothers sent to Ireland for their parents, who arrived here sometime in July of that year.
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