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unusual facts about Berrien


Berrien

Berrien, Finistère, a commune of the Finistère département in France


John Pendleton King

He married Mary Louise Woodward, daughter of John Woodward and wife Harriet Bixby, and had at least two daughters: Grace Sterling King, married to John McPherson Berrien Connelly and had issue, and Mary Livingstone King, married to Henry Paget, 4th Marquess of Anglesey (1835–1898).

Nathaniel Lawrence

He married Elizabeth Berrien (1762–1800; aunt of John M. Berrien), and they had two daughters: Margaret Elizabeth Lawrence who married Philip Lindsley, and Elizabeth Lawrence who died in infancy.

Paleontology in Michigan

In August of 1961, Larry Kickels collected the third right upper molar of a Jefferson mammoth from a gravel layer 100 feet below the surface of Berrien County, near the town of Watervliet.

Royalton Township, Michigan

Police protection in Royalton Township is provided by the Berrien County Sheriff's Department and Michigan State Police, although in the event of a priority dispatch, assistance is sometimes offered by nearby municipal police forces, including Lincoln Charter Township PD, Baroda/Lake Township PD, Saint Joseph Charter Township PD, and Berrien Springs/Oronoko Township PD, depending on circumstances of the call, location within the township, and availability of State or County police units.


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