Excerpt from Report of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michigan, 1886, Vol. 7: Together With Reports of County, Town, and District Pioneer Societies No fact is better attested by all experience than that the future of the village, city, county, or State, is largely determined by its early settlers and founders, and the direction and impetus these may give is traceable in after times through many generations. Hence the great value of p10 neer collections, in which future historians will trace to their causes the outgrowths of the times. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.