From the exciting boat ride to the island fun, a trip to Boblo Island was what childhood was all about in Michigan. Here's your chance to head back to the island.
He graduated from here in 1859, at the age of fifteen. He then clerked in a store for a short time, and was only seventeen when he enlisted in Company K, Second Michigan Infantry, on April 12,1861, and was mustered into the United States service on May 25.