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Peninsula, who mingles farming with his priestly 

 functions, moving from station to station, fourteen 

 in number, early and late and tirelessly, and who is 

 credited with remarkable success with his rural par- 

 ishioners. He is not an isolated instance of agri- 

 cultural clergymen of this diocese. There, too, is 

 the Eev. Fr. William Gagneur of the Society of 

 Jesus, whose ministrations, like those of his black- 

 robed predecessors, are chiefly to the red men of his 

 large missionary parish north of the Straits, to which 

 he has given unstinted service for a generation. 



From the outset, divers religious communities es- 

 tablished themselves within the borders of the ter- 

 ritory. Some of these had characteristics especially 

 'distinctive. The Moravians, of German origin, 

 settled on the Clinton River late in the eighteenth 

 century, having obtained their lands from the Chip- 

 pewa Indians. They interpreted the Scriptures most 

 literally, as illustrated by their selection of wife or 

 husband by lot. Mormon missionaries appeared early 

 among the farmer folk of the southern counties, and 

 in the fifth decade of the last century, under the 

 leadership of "King'' James Strang, established 

 themselves on Beaver Island of Lake Michigan, where 

 they mingled agriculture with fights with the hos- 

 tile fishermen of the lake and from whence they 

 were at length forcibly dispersed, some of their 

 descendants still being found on Drunnnond Island 

 of Lake Huron. More acceptable were the Quakers 

 who early appeared in Calhoun, Jackson, Lenawee, 

 Oakland and Cass counties, sober and industrious 



