Win the hot eating contest at LMCU Ballpark this Saturday and move on to compete in Nathan's Famous 4th of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney 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.