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Historical Collections Made By The Michigan Pioneer and Historical Society
Volume 2, 1896

Page 167

  MRS. JULIA A. WITHERELL - Among the early settlers identified with
  Muskegon and it's development, few, if any were better known than was
  Mrs. Julia A. Witherell, who died on August 7, 1895.  She had been sick
  and blind since March 25, 1870.  Mrs. Witherell was born in Aurora,
  Stueuben County, N.Y on the 24th of October 1807.  She came to
  Soulesville, Mich., fifty-six years ago, from thence with her husband to
  Grand Haven and thence to Mona Lake, where her husband built the first
  sawmill, making use of the small stream for water power.  Mr. Witherell
  was a carpenter and assisted in building some of the first mills in
  Muskegon, particularly that of Wm. Lasely, the father of S. H. Lasley,
  now register of deeds.  Mr. Witherell died in 1851.

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