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Has Paid Taxes For 56 Years

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Parent Issue
Day
24
Month
July
Year
1903
Copyright
Public Domain
OCR Text

HAS PAID TAXES FOR 56 YEARS

S. PROCTOR, ONE OF THREE WHO CAME HERE IN 1845

Has Been Paying Taxes Since 1847 Earned First Tax Money by Chopping Wood

S. Proctor, of 1350 Geddes avenue, called at the city treasurer's office Wednesday and secured his 57th consecutive tax receipt, having commenced paying taxes in city in 1847.

Mr. Proctor left Liverpool in May, 1845, in company with Wm. Allaby and John Rose, their destination being Ann Arbor, and arrived here in the summer of that year. Upon their arrival here they found a village of 1,400 inhabitants. The post office was situated on Ann street in the middle of the block, where it now is and the mail was kept in a circular arrangement or case, which the postmaster turned, as he sat on his stool, until he came to the proper initial. Mr. Proctor earned the money to pay his taxes by chopping wood.