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ADDRESS OF THE PRESIDENT.8
the ground previous to the year 1824. Then a few remote
settlements began north and west from Detroit and Monroe. In the year 1825 the Erie Canal was opened to Buffalo, and then the enterprising families from New York and other Eastern States led the way, for ten or twenty successive years, to Michigan. Men in search of lands and new homes came into most every town ship and county.
Among the sweetest of the cherished memories of the past are some associated with the year 1829. At that time, now fifty-six years ago, the primitive settlement at Tecumseh had
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