Upon arriving in Holland, Heber Walsh opened a general store at 25-27 E. Eighth St. that became the Walsh Drug Store and then City Drug Store, where The Outpost is located today.
After losing his father and uncle to a cholera epidemic, Cappon relocated to Holland and got a job working for Peter Pfanstiehl, who had opened Holland’s first tannery. Cappon then worked for a tanner in Grand Haven and another in Grand Rapids.
Cornelius De Roo was born in 1855 in Holland, Michigan, to Cornelius De Roo, Sr. and Elizabeth Vander Meulen De Roo, daughter of Cornelius Vander Meulen, the pastor who co-founded the colony of Zeeland with Jannes Van de Luyster.
Jan Rabbers was ambitious. He was born in 1811. He and his wife, Cornelia Kolvoord Rabbers, and family led one of at least four early groups that emigrated from the Netherlands in 1847.