Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1901 — Liver in a Tree. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

Liver in a Tree.

Near Marquette, Mich., an old man named Stears has lived several years in a tree home. Stears was a first-class cabinetmaker, and during the greater part of his vigorous manhood lived in Detroit and worked at his trade, commanding the best wages of an artisan in his line. Several years ago Stears went to Marquette and took up his residence in the hollow trunk of a tree near that town, and he has lived there ever since. The tree was a great linden that has been sawed off about 15 feet from its base, and in it the occupant has brought to bear his accomplishments

as a workman to decorate his queer abode artistically. A door and window, seen from the outside, bear witness to this.