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The Daily Telegram   (Adrian Daily Telegram)   has kindly allowed us to print some of their '100 Years Ago Today' columns on the web for your viewing pleasure. Please keep in mine that this is the property of the Adrian Telegram and thus falls under U. S. copyright laws.

100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: Oct 30, 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

David Smith of Wolf Creek is 90 years of age today, and a number of relatives spent the day with he and his estimable wife. Assemblage in nature was a surprise party and a sumptuous supper, with Miss Edith Knowles, a granddaughter, acting as primary hostess. Born Oct 30, 1812, near Constable, N.Y., David came to Rome Township in 1822, and married Miss Emeline Hawley on Aug. 6, 1837.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: Oct 7, 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

A settlement has been made in the case of Michael Fetter, of Ogden, now deceased. When Fetter died he left about $4,000 and two wives. One, so it appears,is living in Germany with a son. Mr. Fetter apparently had married the second time with no formality of a divorce. The case was settled by Judge Larwill, who ordered the division of the assets.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: July 25 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

Matilda Palmer quietly celebrated her 91st birthday at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Anderson on French Street. The daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Skinner, she was born July 25, 1811, in Providence, N.Y., She married William Palmer, April 16, 1929 [note; that should read 1829], and they moved to Adrian in 1846. Later they took up farming in Palmyra.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: July 19 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

Mrs. Polly Sheldon of Spring Street is quietly celebrating her 94th birthday today. Born July 19, 1808, Mrs. Sheldon resides today with her daughter, Mrs. Howard Fisher. She has full use of her faculties and is able to care for herself. Mrs. Sheldon is certainly one of our oldest inhabitants and is to be congratulated upon her longevity and preservation.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: July 12 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County We are pleased to report a celebration on July 8th of the 64th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Hopkins of Ogden. Samuel Hopkins, married Miss Susannah Loar on July 8. 1838. They moved to Michigan in 1855. Mr. Hopkins descends from such American pioneers as those who arrived on the Mayflower and another of his direct ancestors was a signer of the Declaration of Independence.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: July 5, 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

The people of Adrian are well aware by this time that the Declaration of Independence was signed on July 4 and remembered the occasion yesterday. A special celebration at the home of Mrs. James M. Oughetree, No. 12 Chestnut Street, honored her 85th birthday. Born Nancy Elmore, July 4, 1817, in Yates County, N.Y., she married in 1846 and came to Adrian in 1864.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: June 26, 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

A most unusual event occurred today at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Alva Waring of Tecumseh, with the celebration of the 102nd birthday of Maria Hixon of Clinton. Aunt Maria is remarkable well, as bright as any woman many years younger. Born in New York, June 26, 1800, she came to Tecumseh with her husband in 1826. At the party was two-year-old Nerissa Fitzsimmons, representing the fifth generation.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: May 28, 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

Mr. and Mrs. Nathan C. Dayton yesterday celebrated their 64th wedding anniversary at their home on Treat Road. One would never guess that Nathan Dayton will be 90 years of age on July 10. His wife,the former Mary Ann Wiard, is 93. They were married in New York state, May 27, 1838, and moved to Adrian 47 years ago. Their two children are deceased but the couple has two grandsons in Pennsylvania.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: May 2, 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Baker of Bristol Street were honored with a surprise party in celebration of their 50th wedding anniversary. Arrangements were made by their daughter, Mrs. Thomas Rathbun, and daughter-in-law, Mrs. Ed Baker. The Bakers, both of whom were born in Germany, were married in Syracuse, N.Y., on May 29, 1852.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: April 26, 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

Louis LeFeber, 92, of Palmyra, is one of Lenawee's oldest veterans. He was born in Paris in 1810 and served with the French Navy during the Crimean War, 1853-56, the Austro-Sardinian War, and had many encounters with pirates in the Mediterranean. He joined the Massachusetts Infantry at the start of the Civil War, despite being past 50, then came to Lenawee in 1868.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: February 7, 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

P.S. Marshall of Devils Lake has one of the finest fiddles ever created. Its date is 1790 and it bears the carvedname of Autoinus Stradviarius Cermonefis. As far as is known no more than four of the violins exist in America and Marshall's is one of them. A brother of the Devils Lake fiddle was sold some years ago in Buffalo, N.Y., for $5,000 - - the amount of a congressman's salary.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: January 25, 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

C. G. Drake of Broad Street objects to having telephone wires fastened to his barn roof, and climbed up on the roof last night to cut two Citizen's company wires. Later he found a workman fastening them together and Mr. Drake summoned Marshal Ulrich to witness his second cutting of the wires. He claims the wires were put there without his consent.

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100 YEARS AGO Today
Originally Published: January 12, 1902
Daily Telegram, Adrian, Lenawee County

Joe V. Moross was arrested early this morning in Kalamazoo by Turnkey Ambrose Bettis and brought back to Adrian to answer charges of embezzling his employer, Thomas Adamson of Tecumseh. Mr. Adamson found his man at the Kalamazoo depot waiting for another train. The charge involves a diamond stud and ring given by Mr. Adamson to Mr. Moross in November to sell.

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