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CHAPTER XII.
 

For eighty and odd years there has never beeE a
year or a day that the name of Schieffelin has not
been upon the list of our most honored merchants.

The first of the name in this city was Jacob Schief¬
felin. He was born in Philadelphia in 1737. When
quite a youth ho went to Detroit, being on the staff
of the British Governor, Henry Hamilton. Ho had
been offered a commission by Sir Henry Clinton in
the Queen's Rangers, a royal regiment in the time
of the British Colonies. Having considerable pro¬
perty in Detroit, he remained there to improve it.
Shortly after, he married Hannah, a daughter of John
Lawrence of New York. Mr. Schieffelin took his
wife to Detroit, where his two eldest sons, Edward
Lawrence and Henry Hamilton, were born, and visited
Europe about 1785. Jacob had another son, Effing¬
ham, who married a young lady of one of our old
Dutch families, which had the good fortune to own
many broad acres near the city, which became town
lots, and a gold mine to the descendants in after
years.

Effingham was a lawyer by profession, and after
retiring from practice was for many years President
of the Seventh Ward Bank, After retiring from a>j-
tive life, he left the city, living at his country-seat in
Westelioster, wdiere ho died not long ago at an ad-
viinccd age, le:ivino; a Bon who studied law, but I be-