MEMORIAL OF HEZEKIAH G. WELLS
MEMORIAL OF HEZEKIAH G. WELLS.
BY H. FRALICK AND 0. 0. COMSTOCK, COMMITTEE.
Hezekiah G. Wells died at Kalamazoo, April 4, 1885, in the seventy-fourth year of his age,
he having been born at Steubenville, Jefferson county, Ohio, June 16, 1812. His father
and mother were natives of Maryland. Judge Wells received his education at Kenyon
College, Knox county, Ohio; he read law in the office of James and Daniel Collier at
Steubenville and was admitted to the bar in 1832; he came to Michigan in 1833 and paid
some attention to farming in Texas and Schoolcraft for three years, subsequently
removing to Kalamazoo.
