Desc: Pioneer Family: On Van Hoosen Farm: Five generations of the Taylor and Van Hoosen family, some of the first pioneers to settle Rochester Hills Michigan, are documented. After Joshua Van Hoosen marries Sarah Taylor and buys up the Taylor family lands, he establishes Van Hoosen Farm and raises two daughters, Alice and Bertha. Joshua and Sarah instill in them the pioneer spirit and send them both to college at the University of Michigan. Under the most unlikely of circumstances, Bertha becomes a world famous surgeon and founder of the American Women's Medical Association. Alice becomes a school teacher, wife and mother to Sarah Van Hoosen Jones, who goes on to complete a PhD in animal genetics from the University of Wisconsin and becomes the world's first female Master Farmer. Throughout struggle and strife both home and abroad, the Van Hoosen legacy survives because of the accomplishments of four ordinary, yet incredible women.