Michigan, as a Territory and as a State, has continuously sought, and all the while acquired, advantages for educating the young.

Its Pioneer people were ever alive to the benefits resulting from efforts to give the masses all the instruc- tion which their resources would allow.

This grand, ennobling desire, having its inception in the early day, has culminated in the permanent establishment of the University, the Agricultural College, the Normal School and our Primary School System; all of which, at the Centennial International Exhibition was com- mended by people of every nation as Well done.

With such a record, the Pioneers may claim that their acts, leading to such results, shall be held in remembrance for the benefit of after ages.

We therefore, in presenting the third Volume of Pioneer Collections, desire especially to urge upon our fellow citi- zens the necessity of continued effort in furnishing to the Committee of Histo- rians, facts and incidents connected with the early history of the Territory and State and the several counties and localities therein; thus strengthening the hope that material so gathered and preserved, will give to the future historian of our Peninsula, all that may be necessary in making up a record that, here in the past, has dwelt a people to be praised for their intelligence and industry, and com- mended for their virtues.