prairie, by the preaching of Rev. Luther Humphrey. In the year 1837, she was married in Richland, to Dr. Uriah Upjohn; and died at her home in that place of typhoid-pneumonia, on the 17th of February, 1882, in the 60th year of her age. Thus, with the exception of a few years, her life in this state was spent at the family home on Gull Prairie. During the pioneer days-that ordeal period in which the noblest characters were developed, Mrs. Upjohn was the faithful wife and mother to her large family. Ever hopeful amid severe trials, and fruitful in expedients, she was of great aid and comfort to her husband who was for so many years the only physician in the new settlement. The spirit of perseverance and thrift pervaded her household. It was here, amid the hardships of those early days, that her best qualities were displayed; it was here that her industry brought her family through the hard times; that her fortitude stayed them; that her frugality lengthened out their small stores; that her cheerfulness brightened the dark hours; that her courage brought comfort and hope in sickness and distress.

We have, in Mrs. Upjohn's life, the finest type of the mother, as outlined in that scriptural passage, "She looketh well to the ways of her household," for with her, looking well to the ways of her household included the education and training of her children. If there is any parental duty neglected in our American households, it is the training of children. When their physical wants are supplied and they are on the way to school, they are supposed to be cared for, and here paternal duty generally ceases. No thought is given as to who instructs them, or in what or how much they are instructed, thus neglecting the most essential thing in their education-the importance of starting right.

"Children like tender osiers take the bow,
And as they first are fashioned always grow."

A child may be educated and not trained. To train is to direct, mould, fashion and keep in the right way. Mere education does not do this. The scripture does not say educate, but train a child in the way he should go, and when he is old he will not depart from it.

The plants in your garden demand training at your hands, and if they do not get it, their stunted growth flaunts you with your neglect. And does not the intellectual and moral deformity in your children, by neglect of proper training, point unmistakably to your dereliction of duty?

I know of nothing more beautiful in a household than to see, as the result of paternal duty, the children attaining their full educational, moral, and spiritual growth. This Mrs. Upjohn as a mother, strove to accomplish. One who knew her well wrote in the published notice of her death, this characteristic passage: "She devoted her life to her husband and children, instilling into the minds of the latter, ideas of thoughtfulnes and self-culture which have made them prominent members of the community in which they have been called to move." This is literally true. What is so potent in the household as the "true mother in whom the characterizing quality of genius is so like to dwell?" Here is that mystic power that transforms the plastic mind into a likeness of its own. We see this in the marked individuality of her character, which also characterizes her children. From her they learned to Thus each child was

think, act and do for themselves, to be self-reliant. trained into fully developed womanhood or manhood. This is the highest and most valuable attainment in home life-the art of knowing how to manage for one's self in the world.

And we would add that Dr. Upjohn was as devoted as his wife to the important task of securing a thorough education for their children.

There were twelve children, eight daughters and four sons, eleven of whom

grew to adult years.

Helen Maria, the oldest, graduated from the medical department of the University at Ann Arbor. She is now Mrs. Hugh Kirkland, and practicing in her profession at Kalamazoo.

Mary N. graduated in the Pharmacy class at the University; is now Mrs. William Sidnam, and lives at Hastings, Mich.

Alice, educated at the Seminary on Gull Prairie, and at the Normal School at Ypsilanti, married Rev. Wright Barrett, of the Methodist Episcopal church. Rev. Mr. Barrett is a member of the Michigan Methodist conference, and his work is in different parts of the State.

Henry U. got his diploma of M. D. from the medical department of our university; married Millie, the daughter of William G. Kirby, of Charleston, and is now practicing his profession in Kalamazoo. His wife also is a graduate from the medical department of the university.

Virginia, died in 1870, while the family were living at Galesburg.

Amelia graduated in the pharmacy class of the State university. She and her sister Mary, were the first female graduates from the department of pharmacy in our university. She married Dr. Archibald Campbell, of Fulton, Ohio, at which place she died.

Sarah, educated at Ann Arbor, married Rev. John Redpath, Presbyterian minister, now located near Petoskey.

Ida was educated at the union school in Ann Arbor. She married James Hayward, who graduated a civil engineer from the university, and was drowned while in the United States service. His wife died in Kalamazoo.

William E., graduated from the medical department of the university. He married Rachel, daughter of Dr. I. J. Babcock, of Kalamazoo, and is prac ticing his profession in Hastings.

Frederick L. and James, both educated at the union school in Kalamazoo, have taken the management of the home farm in Richland, and with them their father resides.

TO THE STATE PIONEER SOCIETY

BY HENRY BISHOP

Has the great change that has taken place within the past fifty years been of as great advantage as the opportunity offered? Have we made the best use of the knowledge we have gained? Are we using justly the many inventions and improvements of that time, and are they justly enjoyed by all? The producer and the laborer, if they ride or furnish freight for our railroads, not only pay their own full share of the expense, but they must pay for the mil lionaire and other dead-heads that ride in palace cars at their expense.

The same injustice is meted out in other matters. Men too often use the great advantages of the education which the public has furnished them to get a living by their wits instead of their hands. The number we are educating for the professions is vastly out of proportion to that of other useful employments. It's a fast age; the most useless stands at the head if only fast or excels at gaming. The horse that can trot a mile the quickest is valued by thousands,

while the valuable work horse is valued by hundreds. The fast horse is of no use only to eat up what the work horse has produced, and as a general principle, it is of little advantage to the world at large whether the horse's speed is two minutes or ten to the mile. If it could be tested without jockeying or gambling it would be much less objectionable. Every species of amusement is turned to gambling. The game of base-ball that used to be resorted to by students and men of sedentary habits, is now turned into the worst kind of a gambling game, and is destroying for any useful employment a large number of our young men whose great strength and physical endurance enable them to excel at this game, and who, in a few years, are turned out of this employment mere wrecks of their former selves, and are then much more likely to engage in keeping saloons and gambling houses than to engage in any useful employment.

If the pioneer society could only induce those who are to take their places to start right, by referring them to what they had to accomplish to enable them to give their children the advantages of an education, which if properly used, will make useful men and women of them, it will have done its duty towards them. Nothing should satisfy them better with their present lot than to be told how their parents had to live in the first settlement of the State.

If the sons who are now wanting to leave the old home to live by a profession could realize how hard father had to work to get the farm in a condition to support the family, they would not consider it so much of a hardship if they are called upon to remain at home and take the laboring oar, and let father enjoy that rest from labor which old age requires. And the daughters should feel the same towards mother; and if she cannot have as nice a silk dress, with as many furbelows on it, or as stylish a hat with a stuffed bird on it as the city girls have, she should console herself with her present lot, when compared with her mother's, who felt contented and happy when she had realized enough from the sale of poultry and butter and eggs to purchase herself a good gingham dress and a pair of calfskin shoes. The dress was then all made by hand, but I doubt if as much work was then laid out on it with the needle by hand as is now, over and above what can be done with the sewing machine. Teach the boys and girls while young how to earn their own living, and then when they arrive at the age that requires it of them, it will not be looked upon as a hardship.

Let us then as pioneers, by precept and example, try to benefit the rising generation by setting them good examples; let us be honest in our dealings with one another; keep out of bucket shops and all other gambling dens, and out of that other shop where nothing larger than tumblers are used, but if used too often, is more destructive to human happiness than all other causes combined. Let fathers and mothers try and make home the pleasantest place in the world for their children, by furnishing them all reasonable recreations and amusements, with reading matter to teach them what is going on in the outside world, and they will group up a happy, contented, and prosperous family.

MEMORIAL REPORT

BY HENRY BISHOP

Obituary notice of pioneers of Kalamazoo county since June, 1882:

OLIVER C. HILL-died Feb. 11, 1883, aged 79 years and 8 months. Mr. Hill was a farmer, and a very intelligent man.

DANIEL FISHER-died March 27, 1883, in the 70th year of his life. He was a nobleman by nature; many of the early settlers remember the kind offices performed by him as a careful nurse in sickness.

JOHN CROSE-died in April, 1883, aged 70 years.

JESSE M. CROSE-died June 3, 1883, aged 73 years.

These two brothers were farmers, and had lived for the last forty-five years within one mile of each other. Their father, together with themselves and two brothers-in-law, purchased about 200 acres of land, mostly on credit, when they came to Michigan, and by the united efforts of the family soon paid for it; and the two brothers now deceased, by industry and economy, increased their broad acres so as to enable them to leave to each of their children a good farm, owning together over eight hundred acres thus divided. They were among the pioneers who, by the labor of their own hands, have helped to make our beautiful State a home of which we feel justly proud.

NANCY BROWN-died Oct. 22, 1882, aged 87 years; a resident of Michigan for over 50 years. She was the mother of Hon. Stephen F. Brown. NATHANIEL KILGORE-farmer; aged 63 years.

H. O. BURNHAM-aged 84 years.

ORREN PATTERSON.

ALEXANDER GLYNN-farmer.

DR. WILLIAM H. Fox-Schoolcraft.

ISAAC SIMMONS-farmer.

ELI HARRISON-farmer.

DR. MOSES PORTER.

SAMUEL E. WALBRIDGE-miller; son of Hon. D. S. Walbridge.
CHARLES HOPE.

ALPHONSO BOUGHTON.

WILLIAM SCUDDER-farmer.

Many in the above list are worthy of special notice, but from my limited acquaintance with them, I am unable to furnish it and do them justice.

KENT COUNTY

OUR BANKS

THE OLD NATIONAL, FOURTH NATIONAL, CITY NATIONAL, GRAND RAPIDS
NATIONAL, AND THE SAVINGS,-
-WHAT THEY ARE AND THE MEN WHO

HAVE MADE THEM.

From the Grand Rapids Saturday Globe, December 8, 1883

As every man and woman in Grand Rapids and the immediate vicinitywhether rich or poor-is directly or remotely interested in our banks, the great money centers here, reporters for the Saturday Globe have invested much conscientious labor in the preparation of the following article.

The history of the banking system in Grand Rapids, dates back so far as 1839, and forms an important link in the chain woven about the "Valley City," and its rapid growth as a commercial center. In the primitive ages of Grand Rapids the settlers were wont to look upon a "coonskin" in the same light as we now gaze upon bank bill, inasmuch as it was a commodity and answered every purpose in bargain or sale. It is an enjoyable feast to gain the attention of one of the old settlers and listen to him, as for hours he dilates upon the primitive condition of the banks in an early day. Old, tumble-down frame rookeries appeared to be first choice with the bankers, and where to-day the institutions are all provided with ample room, in those days, cramped, musty, dingy quarters seemed to best suit the money lenders. The capacious apartments now used by the several banks, stand as monuments to a steady, progressive, enterprising city.

PRIMITIVE BANKS

During the years 1839-40, the Grand River bank, located in the county offices, on Bridge street, flourished, with John Almy as president and Wm. A. Richmond as cashier. Jealous of the success of the institution, Louis Campau, "Sim" Johnson, and George Coggeshall attempted to start a rival house, located in the second story, or attic, over Smith & Evans' store, about where the west part of the Luce block now stands. "The People's" bank, as it was called, had plates engraved and put bills in circulation, the reputed capital stock of the concern being $100,000. Being unable to produce to the bank examiner the necessary amount of deposits, it was finally decided by him to give the bank one month to make up the deficiency, John Ball in the meantime to act as receiver. The bank never succeeded in its endeavors and prior to 1842 both banks had gone out of existence. Johnson flourished for a time as editor of the Grand River Times, and afterwards became a leading Washington politician. The officers of the institution have long since been garnered by the reaper and peacefully sleep with their fathers.

WILLIAM J. WELLES

The first bank or exchange office was opened in 1852 by William J. Welles, he being located at the corner of Monroe and Justice (now Ottawa) streets, in the room occupied at present by the union ticket office. In 1856 he removed to a frame building on Pearl street, located where the entrance to the Arcade is now. He continued in business until May, 1861, when he made an assignment to James Miller. In contrast with the failures of the present day, it is well to place the fact upon record that Welles ultimately succeeded in liquidating in full every debt with interest. He died suddenly in 1874.

DANIEL BALL

In 1853 Daniel Ball began the transaction of a general banking business, in the attic of a wooden warehouse, located about where the office of the Old National bank now stands. The panic of 1857 proved a death-blow to his prospects, and though he weathered the storm until October, 1861, he could not successfully continue the enterprise. Solomon L. Withey (now U. S. District Judge) and Byron D. Ball were the assignees, and wound up the business of the bank. Like William J. Welles, Daniel Ball paid every creditor in full.