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REMINISCENCE OF L. B. PRICE, OF OAKLAND COUNTY.8
When about twenty-two years of age he made the acquaintance of Miss Ann Eliza Merrifield, daughter of John Merrifield (also an old pioneer) and sister of E. R. Merrifield of Lansing; and at twenty-four years of age was united to her in matrimony, and located on a farm three miles north of Utica village, where he resided about fourteen years. Having always been an ardent Democrat he held many offices of trust given him by that party. In the year 1847 (I think) he was nominated and elected as representative to the State Legislature, which was the year, I believe, of the removal of the Capitol from Detroit to what was almost a wilderness,
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