The flatbed railroad car that carried the thresher was high enough off the ground that a rough log ramp was set up to get the thrasher down.

Curtis Holden Sr. of Otsego (1897-1984) traveled with and worked in a threshing crew through several western states when he was fifteen years old.

According to a 1900 census summary Allegan County had 461,066 acres dedicated to farming.

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