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SOURCE: History of Wexford County, Michigan
        by John H. Wheeler, pub. B. F. Bowen - 1903
        
        Page 300
        
               WILLIAM MASTERS was another early settler in the
            county, arriving in the autumn of 1863.  He came from
            Steuben county, New York, and settled on section 12, 
            in what is now Wexford township.  He was noted for his
            hospitality, and many an early settler found food and
            shelter beneath his roof, "without money and without
            price."  His home was headquarters for mail to and
            from Traverse City, and when the post office depart-
            ment was prevailed upon to establish the first post-
            office in the county he was appointed the first post-
            master.  He served one term as county treasurer, and
            filled various township offices in his township.
            Largely with his own hands he felled and cleared the
            heavy timber from over a hundred acres of his home-
            stead.  For a number of years he kept a small grocery,
            which was of the greatest value to those of the settlers
            who were without teams, as most of them were, thus
            enabling them to get the necessaries of life near
            enough so that they could pack them to their homes.
            He died in 1887, at the ripe age of eighty-three years,
            and was sincerely mourned by all the early settlers in
            the northwest part of the county.
                         
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