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Father Winter
From the Michigan Expositor, August 17, 1847:
'Died, in this village, on Thursday last, Asa Winter, in the seventieth year of his age. The death of Father Winter, as he was familiarly termed by all, has left a vacuum in society not easily tilled.
" He was a man of benevolence. The poor gathered around him in his last hours, and mourned with grief sincere, the approach of the robber, Death.
"He was a, peacemaker. Many could testify to the disputes he has settled and the quarrels he prevented. Such was the confidence of bad men in him, that he was often appealed to, and his decision was usually concurred in.
" He was a friend of temperance. He has drank no intoxicating liquors, unless prescribed by a physician, for upwards of thirty years.
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