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Historical Collections
Collections and Researches made by the
Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society
Reprint VOL. XXI
Wynkoop Ballenbeck Crawford Co., State Printers 1912-1913

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         JOHN W. SAMPSON - Another of the pioneers of Hillsdale county
       and early residents has passed away. After a long and lingering
       illness JOHN W. SAMPSON died at his residence in Hillsdale, May
       20, 1892, aged seventy-three years. MR. SAMPSON first settled two
       and one half miles north of Hillsdale, on the Jonesville road, in
       the year 1844, on land then a wilderness which by industry and
       energy he made into a profitable farm, where he resided until
       1865 when he removed into the city. He leaves a wife, one son,
       WARNER, of Lansing, and one daughter, Mrs. WILLIAM MORRIS of
       Fort Payne, Ala.
       
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