He came to the county in 1839, when the settlement was 10 years old, that is 10 years after the first white settler located. At that time the county was not organized, but was a township of Washtenaw county.

     W. R. DeLand was the first justice of the peace, and his jurisdiction extended all over the county. One of the members of the first grand jury that sat in the county was present at the pioneer meeting of 1877, Chester Wall, of Sandstone.

     After Mr. Livermore came to Jacksonburgh, he was admitted to the Bar, and the next year was appointed to take the census in the northern part of the county. He rode from house to house on a pony lent him by old Mr. Shaw. His credit had improved; the year before he could not borrow a wheelbarrow. The animal was a stout Indian pony, and would carry a man over a bog where the man could not walk.

     He carried with him a large portfolio to hold blanks, and he used it as a desk; he would sometimes hear the remark made that he had to carry a guide board to tell him where he was; while others thought he was a picture seller. In that six weeks he earned $400. He brought it from Detroit in a sachel. The stage was full of men, and didn't he hold tight to that bag? He reached home and poured it out on the bed, and how proud he felt as he said to his wife, "We are all right now." There was enough to carry them through a year.

     The people then were united, full of good feeling, and stood by one another.

     He could remember when there were not well people enough to take care of the sick, but now this is the healthiest country in the nation. He related a number of incidents in his early life here, and told a story of Dr. Russ. One Sunday morning on getting up, he saw smoke rising in the willows on the riverbank and walked over there. He found two men named Fox and Savacool dressing a hog they had just killed. Stepping up and examining the animal, he accused them of stealing his hog, but they denied it. He began talking of arrest and started as if for an officer. The men admitted that they stole the hog; but pleaded in extenuation the fact that they were out of meat. After talking sharply to them, he told them to go on, and when they had finished to divide the pork in four parts, one they were to take to Elder Harrison, one to his house, and the rest they might keep. The point of the story was that he did not own the hog, but as he used to tell it, he was out of meat too.