For  two  years  thereafter  he  was  compelled  to  walk  on  crutches,  and  the  full  use  of
his  leg  has  never  returned  and  he  still  after  so  many  years  is  a  frequent  sufferer
from  the  old  trouble.  When  able  he  entered  a  drug  store  as  clerk  for  James  P.  Don-
aldson until  1867,  when  he  was  appointed  postmaster,  a  position  that  he  filled  most
efficiently  until  1894,  with  the  exception  of  part  of  the  time  during  the  Democratic
administration,  making  about  thirty-three  years  of  actual  service  in  that  capacity.
Part  of  this  time  he  carried  a  stock  of  goods  and  also  served  three  terms  as  town
treasurer.  In  1896  he  was  elected  supervisor  and  again  in  1897.  He  has  adhered
closely  to  the  party  ranks,  though  he  never  has  taken  a  partisan  part  in  active  poli-
tics. He  has  handled  real  estate  more  or  less  and  has  built  several  desirable  resi-
dences in  the  village,  some  of  which,  besides  a  fine  farm,  he  now  owns.  He  was
one  of  the  first  men  upon  whom  Northville  Masonic  Lodge  conferred  the  degree  of
Masonry,  upwards  of  thirty  years  ago,  and  is  now  familiar  with  the  rites  in  all  the
York  rite  bodies  of  Masonry  culminating  in  Moslem  Temple,  Mystic  Shrine,  Detroit.
