Person:George Town (1)

  The first white settler who took a claim and made a home at Paw Paw Grove in Wyoming Twp.  with his wife and four children in 1834.  He built his house on the south side of the grove.  It was built of logs, 16X18 feet, with one door and on six- lighted window, and had a fireplace and chimney.  The floor was made of split logs, hewn and a broad axe.  O. P. Johnson of Brooklyn helped build this house, and he said that he and three other men built it in a day and a half, in November, 1834.