Jenison is named for a pioneer family of English descent. Lemuel Jenison, son of a Revolutionary War soldier, came from New York to the Grand River Valley in 1835 with his family. Among the seven children born to Lemuel and his wife Sara were four daughters and three sons, Hiram and twins Luman and Lucius. After Lemuel died in 1837 and Sara died in 1841, care and support of the family fell to the eldest son, then twenty-four, and the twins, who were fourteen. The Jenison brothers began as lumbermen and later entered other ventures, donating land for roads, schools, and churches. Hiram served as the first Georgetown Township supervisor and died in 1889. Lucius and Luman, business partners, both died in 1899, and much of their estate went to Margaret Husband, their bookkeeper and legatee, who built this landmark house at the turn of the century as a memorial to the twins. The two-story mansion, with a massive fieldstone foundation, has ten rooms, curved plate glass windows in the turret, and leaded and beveled glass doors. Margaret Husband left the house to her daughter Bessie Husband Hanchett, who died in 1960. The house was later purchased by the C. W. Tiffany family, who began its restoration, which was later continued by the Jenison Historical Association. In 1971 the Georgetown Township Board voted to try to save the house after the Department of State Highways and Transportation had bought it for demolition, and in 1975 the State Highway Commission voted to leave the Jenison Museum on this site.