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any knowledge settled in the county. I need scarcely say to you that man was William Larwill. His brothers, Joseph H. and John, came the following year in the employ of John Bever, whom many of you know so well and whom at that time held an appointment of U.S. Surveyor. As you look about and see the broad acres turned to the sunlight, fields waving with golden grain that you have just gathered into your barns— when you witness the springing up of villages with the ease and rapidity enchanted castles of eastern romance— When yon consider the rearing of school houses, colleges, universities and churches— in listening to the hum of machinery, the clatter of the mill and the whistle of the locomotive, you can scarcely realize the progress and advancement that has been made. When the Larwills, Bever, Henry Morgan, Doty, Butler, Goudy and few others came into this howling wilderness, among savages, wild beasts and venomous serpents, it cost something to become a citizen of Wayne County.

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