Author Virginia Florey and editor Leona Seamster can trace their family trees back to the very beginning of Midland County. Mrs. Florey has taught school, worked at local radio stations, and written for the Midland Daily News for 28 years. Mrs. Seamster went back to work after raising her family and became an executive secretary at the Dow Chemical Company until her retirement. This book is their first written collaboration, although they have presented history slide shows together on Midland for the past decade.