In the same season, and at very nearly the same time, came Dillucena Stoughton and Eli Curtis. Stoughton purchased the east half of the northeast quarter of section 6, now comprehending the eastern part of the village of Franklin. Mr. Curtis purchased on sections 3 and 4; his house being erected in the northeast corner of 4. His pecuniary circumstances were better than those of most of the first pioneers, and from the capital which he brought he reaped the full measure of the advantage which capital is sure to command, particularly in a new country. About 1840 he became a convert to the doctrine of "Millerism," and removed to the city of New York, where he was engaged in the publication of a second-advent journal, entitled The Midnight Cry. His connection with the Miller sect brought him both financial and mental disaster, from which he never recovered. After some years he returned from New York to Southfield, and thence, after a time, he removed to the State of Ohio, where he died a few years since.
