Delaware Twp. -
ASA
M. LAKE, who first came to the county in 1822, resided
here to the time of his death. HE was a fair specimen of
the class of men who first emigrate to a new country, hardy,
industrious and honest. He succeeded in building up for
himself and children a home in one of the richest sections of
our county, and lived long enough to see a thriving village
built up on the very lands he had redeemed from the wilderness,
and peopled with an intelligent and energetic population,
supplied with schools and churches and other appliances of
civilization.
The red-man, who had been his early companion, had long
since been removed westward, and herds of domestic animals taken
the place of the wild. |
