In 1847, acting under Michigan's 1835 constitution, which required selection of a permanent capital within the first decade of statehood, the legislature voted to move the capital from Detroit to unsettled Lansing Township in Ingham County because many lawmakers believed the seat of government should be in the state's interior. The capital commission platted the Town of Michigan in 1847 and selected a site bounded by Washington and Capitol avenues and Allegan and Washtenaw streets for a temporary capitol building. When the legislature met there that year, some members lodged in private homes and others slept on the capitol floor, and during that session the legislature renamed the capital city Lansing. In April 1847, lawmakers had considered the names Pewanogowink, Swedenborg, and El Dorado, but chose Lansing, after John Lansing, an American Revolution hero. At the time, the capital stood in a wilderness troubled by wolves and an epidemic of "brain fever" or spinal meningitis. Lansing was incorporated as a city in 1859. During the 1870s, its lyceums and literary societies hosted Mark Twain and Edwin Booth. The 1847 capitol, regarded as "an old rattle trap," was replaced by the present building in 1879. Though primarily an agricultural community, Lansing developed into a manufacturing center in the 1890s, and in 1897 Ransom Eli Olds organized the Olds Motor Vehicle Company, Michigan's first operating automobile company.