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History of Mason County, Michigan
H. R. Page & Co., Chicago; 1882

    
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        ISAIAH H. McCOLLUM was born in Palmyra, N.Y., June 14, 1820.
     In 1843 he came to Michigan, and after spending some time at
     Hillsdale, went to Detroit and took a clerical position in an
     insurance office.  In 1872 he came to Ludington and started a
     bank called "The Lumbermen's Exchange Bank."  This was the first
     bank started in Ludington, and was located in a frame building
     on Ludington Avenue opposite the building which is now the FILER
     House.  At that time there were no brick and but few frame build-
     ings in the village.  He also purchased an insurance business and
     attended to that in connection with his banking business.  In 1878
     he went out of the banking business and devoted his entire time to
     insurance, in which business he still continues.  His thorough and
     practical knowledge of insurance matters acquired while at Detroit
     was of great value to him and during the four years that have
     elapsed since devoting himself exclusively to insurance he has
     succeeded in establishing a prosperous agency, the business of
     which increases with the growth of the city.  Mr. McCOLLUM is a
     careful business man, and is noted among all who know him for
     strict integrity and a fine sense of honor and honesty in all
     his dealings.
                          
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