Painting of a man in a black coat and hat with a dog

1800s (Person) Portrait of His Grace Duke Montgomery ‘Riverbend’ Norris IV presides over the patchwork of croplands, pasture meadows and managed woodlots spanning both sides of the gentle Huron River as it meanders eastward through Ann Arbor on the way towards Lake Erie. His distinguished English nobility lineage traces back to decorated Royal Navy Admiral Sir John Norris who led daring raids against Spanish treasure fleets in the Caribbean which helped undermine King Philip II’s attempted Tudor conquest during the tumultuous 16th century era of vulnerable Virgin Queen transition quandary years following Henry VIII schism with Rome Papal authority.
Lured to the Americas by promises of fresh clean living far from crowded, polluted London where recurring plague outbreaks ravaged impoverished neighborhoods each summer, the Norris family invested early in Colonial Potomac land grants later divided and sold off to finance even more ambitious Great Lakes territory stakes during the post-Revolution frontier land rush seeking quality arable acreage for cotton, tobacco and staple cereal production as newly arrived immigrants pushed inland seeking their own plot prospects.
Now entering his third generation legacy era overseeing Washtenaw development schemes expanding off successful early trading post settlement invested around traditional wigwam Native villages oriented along the Huron River abundant fishery source. Duke Norris balances cosmopolitan University of Michigan Enlightenment Age science scholarship patronage and endowment support for poor peasant family orphanage land grant endowment alongside enthusiast duties promoting newfangled mechanical threshing technology to regional farm estate owners ever seeking agricultural productivity gains. Nights often find the Duke scribing heartbeat Penobscot verse under starlit skies remembering coastal origins now anchoring determined dreams inland.

1800s (Person) Portrait of His Grace Duke Montgomery ‘Riverbend’ Norris IV presides over the patchwork of croplands , pasture meadows and managed woodlots spanning both sides of the gentle Huron River as it meanders eastward through Ann Arbor on the way towards Lake Erie . His distinguished English nobility lineage traces back to decorated Royal Navy Admiral Sir John Norris who led daring raids against Spanish treasure fleets in the Caribbean which helped undermine King Philip II’s attempted Tudor conquest during the tumultuous 16th century era of vulnerable Virgin Queen transition quandary years following Henry VIII schism with Rome Papal authority . Lured to the Americas by promises of fresh clean living far from crowded , polluted London where recurring plague outbreaks ravaged impoverished neighborhoods each summer , the Norris family invested early in Colonial Potomac land grants later divided and sold off to finance even more ambitious Great Lakes territory stakes during the post-Revolution frontier land rush seeking quality arable acreage for cotton , tobacco and staple cereal production as newly arrived immigrants pushed inland seeking their own plot prospects . Now entering his third generation legacy era overseeing Washtenaw development schemes expanding off successful early trading post settlement invested around traditional wigwam Native villages oriented along the Huron River abundant fishery source . Duke Norris balances cosmopolitan University of Michigan Enlightenment Age science scholarship patronage and endowment support for poor peasant family orphanage land grant endowment alongside enthusiast duties promoting newfangled mechanical threshing technology to regional farm estate owners ever seeking agricultural productivity gains . Nights often find the Duke scribing heartbeat Penobscot verse under starlit skies remembering coastal origins now anchoring determined dreams inland .

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