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Portland
On arriving at Portland, Mr. Brooks sought and found a home on section 3, in what is now known as the township of Danby, in Ionia county, where he continued to reside until his death, December 5, 1883, in the seventy-sixth year of his age. When he made his settlement there were but three other white residents in his township. There were, however, many Indians living on the banks of Grand river in his immediate vicinity, and with them he was always on terms of friendship. But, while civil and neighborly, their red friends would sometimes take liberties when Mr. and Mrs. Brooks were away from home.
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