Excerpt from History of Michigan, Vol. 4 He was born in W'ayne county, Michigan, in 1832, a son of Gannet Ramsdell, who was born in the state of New York in 1802, and came to Michigan during the twenties, a number of years prior to the admission of the state to the Union. As a pioneer he took up a tract of wild land in Wayne county, reclaimed a farm, and became an influential and promi nent citizen. In the early days he owned and operated machine shops, was engaged in the buying and shipping of grain, and gauged by the stand ards of the locality and period was a wealthy man. His home was in W'ayne county until his death. Gannet Ramsdell married and brought his wife to Wayne county, and they were the parents of four sons: Ashley, Dyer, Jonathan and Thomas _l., the last being the only survivor of this family. The Ramsdell family is of Scotch lineage and was founded in America during the seventeenth century. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.