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SOURCE: History of Genesee County, Michigan
        pub. Everts and Abbott - 1879

        Page 277


                           EBENEZER FRENCH

  The rock-ribbed Green Mountain State sent many of her hardy sons to the 
western wilderness to help build there a mighty and prosperous commonwealth, 
and than those from the green-clad walls of the State, whose people "in the 
name of Vermont defied all the world," none nobler nor more staunch came to 
this region to erect their homes. 

  The gentleman above named was born in Woodstock, Windsor Co., Vt., May 12, 
1810, and lived with his father until sixteen years of age, after which time 
he worked out during summers, and attended the district schools winters until 
he was twenty-one. Still continuing his farm labors, he taught school winters 
until 1834. On the 31st of August, in that year, he was united in matrimony 
to Martha S. Dunham, daughter of Simeon and Sophia Dunham. Sept. 6, 1836, 
he started for Michigan with his family, going over the mountains to Whitehall 
in a lumber-wagon, thence down the canal to Troy, thence by the Erie Canal to 
Buffalo, and from the latter place to Detroit by steamer. From Detroit the 
remainder of the journey to what is now Flushing township was traversed in a 
lumber-wagon. 

  Mr. French purchased and settled on land in this town, and in common with 
the other settlers endured the various privations and sore hardships incident 
to the life of a pioneer. Nine children were born to Mr. and Mrs. French, viz.: 
Martha A., Harriet E., Mary S., Horace D., Morris F., Harriet E. (2d), 
Simeon E., Wilber F., and Willard 0. Of these all are living except Harriet E.
(1st) and Simeon E. Mr. French has been placed by the citizens of the 
township in nearly all its offices, of which he held that of supervisor 
seven years, and is at present inspector of schools. 

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