The Township Of Northfield

Nometinie in the year 1831 or 1832 Elarry Seymour purchased from the governmenl 320 acres of land on tbc banks of Whitmoro Lake, and the following year look up bis residence thcre. He was formerly from Canandtigua N. Y., and a gentleman of more than ordinary iltility. In 1883 Anson Brown, Dwight Kellogg and E. L. Fuller engaged in the meroantilc business, and tho same year cominenccd building uflouringmill whcre the old Sinclair mili now stands. Mr. Beymoui was employed as book keeper .ind general manager of the storo, wbicb positions hc filled for u number of yenrs, when hc retired to his farm. "STUAWIIKURY rOINT" i siluated on the banks of the Huron rivxT in Livingston couuty, about eight miles from Wliitmore Lakc. From the earlicst settlement of the country it has been celebrated as a summer resort. It was ;hiring :i visit to this point in 1830 that Mr. S. was attacked witli cholera and died. No stone marks his last resting place. BKEDKH wiis bom iu the Islc of Man. Be carne to Michigan it an early day and wtlled in Plyraouth. SVaync county. After spending a few years he carne to Ann Arhor and opencd a carriage and wagon manufacturing establishment. During tliis timo the state prison was built at Jickson, and UrrangementS wen: made with cerlain partlea t manufacture wagons with convict labor. Major Beo den remonstratcd by petiüon against tlie act of allowing convict labor lo come in competition with free labor, as demoralizing and injurious to the honest medíanle. Sometime after he purchased Ihe Slicrmau farm in Northticld where hc lived until receiving a govornment appoiutment at IAnse. Major üccdeu livcd iu Norlhfleld for many years. He was a courteous gentleman, and wa well liked by everybody. In politics he was a democrat. He is now living willi his dauglitei, Mra. Livermoro, al IAnse L. H ItOllEUT SHAW witb bis wife mul four clnldreu carne f rom Liverpool, EngUnd, whero hu kept a kiln for drying grwo. ISy tho ravages of tire he lost lieavily, !"t mtinagcd to gave a fow ihousand dollars, lic afterwarda tralgMted to America, snd In time scttled in Nortbtield ou a farm wliich he purchKscd from lienj. Sulton in 1833. Re rctaincd inany trails of charactcr peculiar to bis foruier standing in Englaiul wbicli many of his neighborj wbo bad foimerly lived in Ircland could hardly tolérate. Witb ill Ibis bis auility was duly acknjwledgfd. He flllcd tbe oflice of justice of tbe peace, town clerk and other positions wilh credit. Baring liis residence in Nortbfield be did a largo business, but the expenses were too great for his income. He reuiaincd bere a wbile when be removed to Aun Arbor where bis oldeut dauehter, Sarah Staaw, now livcs.