{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3413", "width": "2122", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": ";:\u00c2\u00bb2):3K\\n5:^\\nyj\u00c2\u00a3m\\na\u00c2\u00bb5 J\\nCj\\nJ -53K)\\nS)\\n3j53igD\\nxs s\\n:2\\nx\\n-3\\n^Tjecv\\ni\\nx;S\\n^3\\ni:*y)\\nI LIBRARY OF COEGMcS,.\\n_\\n3r\\n_^]!?\\nJ3E*\\n3^\\n~TI\\n3^\\nTS\\ny\\nTTS\\nf |l,npRi;72. |opmigM f.\\nJ7Ae// ,J(5;M H7\\n|t UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "__^j^\\nZ3\\nTB\\n!S^\\n6\\n^31*\\n2X^\\nS\\nT!S\u00c2\u00bb\\n-J3i\\n^IS*\\nzs\\nr3\u00c2\u00bb\\n1S\u00c2\u00bb\\n5 2^\\n:m\\n5- ^T^liv\\n2\\nJ *5X\\n~y^^SX\\nm\u00c2\u00bb:\\n^^j 35\\n1^Qi\\n3g3fc)\\n^l!SX\\n3^3^\\ni l53l\\n^W\\nl .~!5l3D", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3236", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3236", "width": "2033", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "TH E\\nBEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nOF ITS EAtlLY SETTLEMEBT.\\nCOLLECTED FROM THE JIEMORIES OF ITS EARLIEST SETTLERS, NOW LIVING. ANB\\nVERIFIED BY REFEREXCE TO OFFICIAL DOCUMENTS.\\nBY JAMES J. HOGABOAM.\\nlOQ sl^^\\nHUDSON, MICH.\\nJAS. M. SCARKITT, PUBLISHER,\\n1876.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1870, by\\nJAS. J. IIOGABOAM,\\nIn tlie office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington.\\nPHnted at the Hudson Post Steam Printing Office.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "TO THE PIONEERS\\nOF THE\\nBEAN CREEK COUNTRY,\\nAND\\nTO THEIR CHILDREN,\\nTHIS BOOK IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nBy the teriE;, Bean Creek Country, would ordinarily be understood tiie country\\nIrained by the Bean and its tributaries. Bean creek, or Tiffin river, as it is called on\\nthe early maps, rises in Devil s lake, situate on sections two, three, foin-, nine and ten\\nin the township of RoUin, and sections thirty-foiu and twenty-seven in the township\\nof Woodstock, said townships being the two most northerly townships in the west\\ntier of Lenawee county. The creek flows from the western extremity of the lake, ou\\nM ction four in Eollin, a little north of west, to the east and west quarter line of see-\\nion thirty-two in Woodstock, bends southward, flows through the western part of\\nU ollin and along the west line of Hudson, leaves the county on section thirty, makes\\na bend on sections twenty-five and twenty-six in the township of Pittsford, Hillsdale\\nounty, returns to Lenawee county at the northwest corner of section thirty-six, flows\\nsoutheasterly across the southwest part of Hudson, northeast corner of JMedina, and\\nsouthwest corner of Seneca township, crosses into tlie State of Ohio near the south-\\nast corner of section six, township nine south of range one east, and then taking a\\nsouthwesterly course, empties into the ISIaiunee river at Defiance.\\nOnly that part of the Bean Valley situate north of the south line of Jlichigan is to\\n)e treated of in these sketches. That part of the valley is (piite narrow, but embraces\\njiortions of two counties, Hillsdale and Lenawee. The. tow^nship of Woodstock\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ontributes the most of her waters to swell the Raisin; Somerset divides hers\\nbetween the Kalamazoo, the Raisin and the Bean; the western borders of Wheatland\\ndrain into the St. Joseph, of Lake Michigan, and the eastern borders of Rollin into\\nthe Raisin Pittsford and Wright divide their waters between the Bean and the St.\\nJoseph of theMaumee; Seneca divides between the Bean and the Raisin, and even.\\nHudson sends her compliments to the Raisin on the ripples of her Bear creek. Medi-\\nna township, only, lies entirely within the valley of the Bean, but for the purposes of\\nthis book we shall consider the valley of the Bean as including the townships of\\nWoodstock, Rollin, Hudson, Medina and Seneca in Lenawee county, and Somerset,\\nWheatland, Pittsford and Wright in Hillsdale county.\\nt n the banks of the Bean, within the territory mentioned, are the villages of Addi-\\nson, Rollin, Hudson, Tiflin, Medina, Canandaigua and Morenci. But as a history of\\nthe Bean Creek Country would be incom]iIete if it did not make mention of all the\\nterritory, the trade of which has contributed to the prosperity of the Valley, we shall\\ninclude in these brief outlines of history the territory lying at the headwaters of tlie\\nKalamazoo and the two St. Josephs, comprising the townships of Moscow, Adams,\\nJefferson, Ransom and Amboy, in the county of Hillsdale.\\nI am aware that in writing the early history of the country the difficulties to be\\novercome are very great that in some of the townships the early records are lost,\\n.and in all they are very meager; tliat many of the early actors have passed away, and\\nthe memories of all are failing\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but I have; endeavored to collect my material from\\nthe most trustworthy sources, have verified them, when possible, by reference to con-\\ntemporaneous records, and have endeavored to digest, write and arrange with an\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2unbiased mind, only solicitous to discover and record the true history of the country\\nand the times. How well I have succeeded I submit to the candid judgment of the\\nold pioneers, than whom more noble and generous men and women never existed in\\niny country.\\n.The question may be asked. Why did you not wait until more facts and incidents", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "INTRODUCTION.\\nhad been accumulated? The answer is, Procrastination is the tliief of tinie, sxsifl\\nwhile we have been talking and waiting many persons whose supervision would have-\\nbeen desirable have died, and in the course of human life nearly all the old pioneers-\\nwill pass away in tlie course of the next five years. It is, therefore, every way desir-\\nable that the material accessible should make its ajipearance, and be submitted to\\ncriticism before all the competent critics shall have passed away.\\nThe facts and incidents here related were mostly gathered by myself, from iiiter-\\nviews with old people and a careful comparison of official records but I desire to\\nacknowledge valuable aid from newspaper articles prepared by several of the old seti--\\ntiers, among which I would specially name the Hon. Robert Worden, Hon. Orson\\nGreen, Hon. George W. Moore, and Beriahll. Lane, esq., of the Bean Creek Countiy,\\nand A. L. Millard and Samuel Gregg, esqs., of Adrian.\\nIt was the original design of the Pioneer Society of Bean Creek Country that\\nsketches prepared by members should be deposited with the Secretary, and that a\\nbtx)k should be iniblished by subscription, but no such material has been contributed.\\nAll the matter prepared by its members has been given to the public through the\\nnewspapers, no manuscripts have been deposited, and the interest appears to be\\ndying out. At this juncture the publisher of the Hudson Post proposed to pay for a\\npart of the labor of collecting material and writing it up. Believing it to be the only\\nway in which such a book could at present be published, I accepted the proposition\\nand commenced the work. It has been a hard task, but if it shall in any way serve\\nto preserve the history of pioneer times, I shall be satisfied.\\nTridy yours,\\nHudson, Mich., Oct. 1, 187(5. THE AUTHOR.-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "I MICHIGAN.\\nSCRAPS OF ITS EARLY HISTORY\u00e2\u0080\u0094 INDIAN TREATIES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 SURVEYS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S PrTTLEMEXT\u00e2\u0080\u0094 DIS-\\nPUTED BOUNDARIES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 GERM OF THE TOLEDO WAR\u00e2\u0080\u0094 MISCHIEVOUS\\nOFFICIAL REPORT, ETC.\\nThe word Michigan is probably derived from two Chippewa woi-ds\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mitcliaw, gi-eat,\\nand Sagiegan, lali^e\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Great Lake.\\nThe territory ot Michigan was visited by the French .Tesnits, Fatliers Chas. Rym-\\nbault and Isaac Jogues, at the Sault St. Mary, in July, 1641.\\nFather Mesnard spent the winter of IfiGO-Gl on one of the bays of Lake Superior.\\nIn 1(5(55 Father Claude AUonez founded a Mission at La Point, Lake Superior.\\nIn 1668 Fatlier Marquette founded a Mission at Sault St. Mary, and in 1671 founded\\na mission near Mackinaw. In tlie latter year an agent of the King of France took\\nformal possession of all the country between Montreal and the South Sea. At that\\ntime Michigan for tlie most part was occupied by Ottawas and Cliippewas. There\\nwere some Pottawatomies and Miamies in tlie south part, and some Sacs and Foxes\\nalong tlie southern shore of Lake Superior.\\nIn 1686 Fort St. Joseph and Fort Detroit were built, the former where Fort Gratiot\\nnow stands, at the outlet of Lake Huron the site of the latter is not known. Botli\\nwere soon after abandoned.\\nDetroit, now the city of Detroit, was founded in ITOl by De La Motte Cadillac. He\\nlanded on the 24th day of July, and on the same day commenced the erection of Fort\\nPontchartrain. In 1761 the number of inhabitants in the Detroit settlement was e.s-\\ntimated at 2,5(X). In 1763 France ceded her dominion over Michigan to England. In\\n1774, by act of Parliament, Michigan became a part of the province of Quebec, and\\nCol. Henry Hamilton was appointed Lieutenant Governor and Superintendent of\\nDetroit. It was here that during the Revolutionary war Indian incursions\\nagainst the infant settlements of Western Pennsylvania, Virginia and Kentucky,\\nwere organized.\\nMichigan was surrendered to the United States in 1796, and became a part of the\\nNorthwestern Territory, Gen. St. Clair, Governor. On the eleventh of August of that\\nyear Wayne county was organized, and included all of Michigan, the nortliern part of\\nOhio and Indiana and a part of Illinois and Wisconsin. The county elected delegates\\nto the first Territorial legislature, which met at Cincinnati September 16th, 1799.\\nThe State of Ohio was organized by act of Congress Ai)ril 30th, 1802, and by the same\\nact the Territory of Indiana was formed, and of it Michigan formed a part. Gen.\\nWilliam Henry Harrison was Governor of the Territory. The ordinance of 1787, by\\nwhich the Northwest Territory was organized, provided that Congi-ess shall have\\nauthority to form one or two States out of the territory which lies north of an east and\\nwest line drawn through the southerly bend or extreme of Lake Michigan. The act\\nof April 30th, 1802, organizing the State of Ohio, fixed for its northern boundary an\\neast and west line drawn through the southerly extreme of Lake Michigan, but the\\nConstitution adopted by the people of Ohio described as the northern boundary of the\\nState a line running from the southern bend of Lake Michigan to the northerly cape\\nof Maiunee Bay. Congress admitted Ohio without taking any notice of the discrep-\\nancy, in matter of northern boundary line, between the State Constitution and the", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CKEEK VALLEY.\\nenabling act and the ordinance of 1787. By the line described in the ordinance and\\n-enabling act Toledo would be in Michigan by the line described in the Ohio State\\n-Constitution it would be in Ohio. The unwarranted departure of the Constitu-\\ntional Ciuivciition of Ohio from the express terms of the ordinance and enabling act\\nlaid the foundation for that affair known in history as the Toledo war.\\nOn the 11th day of January, 1805, Congress passed an act organizing the Territory of\\n.Michigan and by it the legislative power was vested in the Governor and Judges. On\\nthe 2(;th day of February Gen. ^Vm. Hull was appointed Governor of the Territory,\\nand reached Detroit on the fir,st day of July, but between the date of his appointment\\nand arrival, that is to say. on the eleventh day of June, Detroit was entirely consumed\\nby fire; not a house was left standing; nothing but ashes marked the site of the re-\\ncent town.\\nOn the second day of July, 1805, tlie government of tlie Territory of Michigan was\\norganized, and the legislature commenced its session. The Icri itory at that time com-\\nprised the Lowrr rcninsula only, and the Indians clainicil title to and were In\\npossession nf nearly all of that. By the treaty concluded liy Gen. Clarke at Fort :Mc-\\nIntosh in 1785, the Indian title was extinguished to a belt of territory six miles in\\nwidth, extending along the Detroit river from the river Ilaisiu to Lalce St. Clair.\\nAside from this stri] of country, the Indians claimed title to the whole of ^lieliigan.\\nSouth of the river I laisin the Indian country extended to and bordered the waters of\\nLake Erie, so that the settlements of the young territory were completely cut otf from\\nthe settled portions of Ohio.\\nOn the seventeenth day of Xovemlier, 1^07, the Ignited States govennueut conclud-\\ned a treaty with the Chippewas, Ottawiis, Wyandottes and Pottawatomies, by which\\nthe Indian title to the follfywing deserilied tract of land was extinguislied, vi/, Be-\\ngimiing at the mouth of the river ?\\\\Iiami of the Lakes (Maiunet^), running thence iip\\ntlie middle of said river to the moutli of the great Auglaize river; thenee running dut^\\niiorth one hundred and thirty-two miles, until it intersects a parallel of latitude to be\\ndrawn from the outlet of Lake Huron, which forms the river St. Clair: then north-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0eastthe com-se will lead in a direct line to White Eock, Lake Huron: tlienee due east\\nuntil it intersects the boundary line between the United States and Ujijier Canada;\\nthence southerly, following said boundary line down said lake, tlirongh the river St*\\nClair, Lake St. Clair, and the Detroit river, into Lake Erie, to a point due east of the\\nMiami river; thence to tlie jdaee of beginning. This tract included that part\\nof the State of Michigan lying east of the principal meridian of the Monroe sm-vey,\\nand south of a line drawn from near tlie village of Ovid northeasterly, diagonally in-\\ntersecting the counties of Shiawasse, Saginaw, Tuscola, Sanilac and Huron, to White\\nRock, on the eastern shore of Lake Huron.\\nThe Territory of Michigan was surrendered to the British by General Hull on the\\nseventeenth day of August, 1812, and was put under martial law. On the twenty-\\nninth day of September, 181:3, the Territory was evacuated by the British, and on the\\nthirteenth day of October following. Colonel Lewis Cass was appointed Governor.\\nBy proclamation of the Governor, Wayne county was re-organized November first,\\n1815 and on the fourteenth day of July, 1817, the county of :Monroe was organized,\\n4il80 by Executive proclamation.\\nOn the fourth day of September, tsir, William Woodbridge, Secretary and acting\\nGovernor of the Territory, issued a jiroi himation organizing the township of Monroe.\\nThe preamble recites, Whciois, It appears by the report of John Anderson and\\nWolcott Lawrence, Esepiires, appointed to examine and report in tlie premises, that a\\npart of the fai-m of Joseph Loranger, and some adjacent ground on tlie borders of\\nLa Riviere aux Raisins, constitute the most eligible ixirtion tliereof.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Nov\\\\ therefore, I, the above named William Woodbridge, do by the power and\\nauthority in me for the time being vested, constitute the whole of that certain tract\\nand parts of tracts described in the aforesaid reports, into a township", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "MICIIIGAX.\\nfor the permanent seat of justice in and for said county of Moni-oe, to be l^no^^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2n and\\ncalled by the name of the town of Monroe.\\nIn 1810 Governor Cass concluded a treaty with the Chippewas, of Saginaw, by Avhich\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0the Indian title to a tract of country, beginning at a point near the site of the village\\nvf Kalamazoo, and extending to the head of Thunder Bay river; thence by the course\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0li the river to its mouth was extinguished.\\nDuring the vears 1818 and 1810 the 3Ionroe survey was made. It included the State\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0cf Michigan, and that portion embraced in Lenawee county was surveyed by Joseph\\nFletcher during 1810. President ]Monroe issued a proclamation, dated March 15th,\\n18^30, declaring the public domain then recently surveyed subject to entry from and\\nafter the first Monday in Jvdy of that year.\\nIn the year 1821, Governor Cass and Judge Sibley, of Detroit, negotiated a treaty\\nwith the Indians, by which the Indian title was extinguished to all that portion of the\\nterritory lying west of the cession of 1807, and also to that portion lying west of the\\ncession of 1819, south of Grand river. This cession included the present counties of\\nJlillsdale, Branch, St. Joseph, Cass, Berrien and Van Buren, the south part of Jack-\\nson and Calhoun, the south and west portion of Kalamazoo, the south part of Ottawa\\nand Kent, and the southwest portion of Ionia. The treaty was held at Chicago. To\\nreach that point, the commissioners descended the Detroit river, crossed the head of\\nLake Erie to Mauniee bay, ascended the ^laumee river to its source, crossed the in-\\ntervening country to the Wabash, descended that river to the Ohio, the Ohio to the\\nMississippi, ascended the Mississippi to the mouth of the Illinois, and the Illinois to\\nChicago.\\nOn the tenth day of September, 18;;::i, Governor Cass issued a proclamation altering\\nand defining the boundaries of the counties of Wayne, Monroe, Macomb, Oakland and\\nSt. Clair, and laying out the counties of Lapeer, Sanilac, Saginaw, Shiawasse, Wash-\\ntenaw^ and Lenawee. The boundaries of Lenawee coimty are therein thus defined\\nBeginning on the principal meridian, ^vhere the line between the townships numbered\\nfour and five south of the base line intersects the same thence south to the boun-\\ndary line between the Territory of Michigan and the State of Ohio thence with the\\nsame, east,- to the line between the fifth and sixth ranges east of the principal meridian\\nthence north to the line between townships numbered four and five south of the base\\nline; thence west to the place of beginning. By the same proclamation the county\\nof Lenawee was attached to the county of Monroe. At the date of its formation the\\ncounty did not contain a single white inhabitant but, although the Indian title had\\nbeen extinguished for fifteen years, the county contained quite a numerous Indian\\npopulation. The Indian title to that portion of Michigan lying west of the principal\\nmeridian had been extinguished by the treaty of Chicago, concluded on the twenty-\\nninth day of August, 1831, but the Indians remained in partial possession of the\\nsouthern portion of the State until about the year 18:39.\\nSometimes wonder has been expressed that Michigan should have settled so\\nslowly and remained so long under a Territorial government. For some reason the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0climate and soil of the Temtory were strongly misrepresented and so late as 18ot\\nMichigan was spoken of in the East as the land of savages, venomous snakes and\\nbeasts, where all mamier of fell diseases lay in wait to make skeletons of foolhardy\\nadventurers.\\nIn 1813 Congress directed that 2,000,000 acres of Michigan land should ]w surveyed\\nand set apart for soldiers in the war with Great Britain, to the end that each soldier\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0should have one hundred and sixty acres of land fit for cultivation. A like amount\\nwas also set apart in the Territories of Louisiana and Illinois. The lands were sur-\\nveyed in the latter Territories, but concerning the lands of Michigan, the Siu-veyor\\nGeneral reported\\nThe country on the Indian boundary line from the mouth of the great Auglaize\\nriver, and running thence for about fifty miles, is (with some few exceptions) low, wet\\nland, with a very thick growth of underbrush, intermixed with very bad marshes, but\\ngenerally very heavily timbered with beech, cottonwood, oak, etc. thence continu-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "]0 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\niii;:^ north and extending from the Indian boundary eastward, the number and extent\\nof the s\\\\vam]is iiid ciiscs witli the additinn of mnnbers of lakes, from twenty chains\\nto two and tliret- miles across. Many of the hilves have extensive marslies adjoininj;\\nllieir i]iarj.;iiis. sometimes tliiel^ly covered with a si)ecies of iiine called tamarack,\\nand other nlaces covered witli a coarse, hi.nh j^rass, and uniforndy covered from six\\ninclies to three feet (and more at times) witli water. Tlie margins of these lakes are\\nnot the only i)laces wliere swamps are found, for they are interspersed throughout the\\nwhole coun trv. and filled witli water as above statech and varyin^^ in extent. The inter-\\nmediate hind l)etween these swamps and lakes, whicli is in oh ably nearly one-half of the\\ncountry, is (with a very few exceptions) a poor, liarren, sandy land, on wliicli scarcely\\nanv ve netation gi ows, except small, scruhhv oaks. In nianV i)laces thatiiart which\\nmay he called dry land is coi-nioscd of little short sand hills lormin.n- a kind of deep\\nbasins, the bottoms of many ot which are composed of a marsh similar to that above\\ndescribed. The streams are ueiiera 11 y narrow and very dee]) compared with their\\nwidth, the shores and boTtoms of which are (with a very few exceptions) .swampy be-\\nyond description and i( is with the utmost ditticulty that a place can be found over\\nwhich iKirses can be conveyed in safety.\\nA eircinustance peculiar to that country is exhibited in many of the marshes, bj\\ntheir lieinu thinly covered with a sward of .lii ass, ))y walking- on which evinced the\\n(\u00e2\u0096\u00a0xistence (if water or a verv thin mud inniiediately iinder their eoveriiiL;, which sinks\\nfrom six to eighteen indu s from the pressure of the foot at every steji. and at the\\nsame time rising hebire and behind the ]ierson passing over. The margins of many\\nof the lakes and streams are in a sinnlar condition, and in many jilaces are literally\\nafloat. On approacliing the eastern jiart of the military lands, toward the private\\n(daims on the strniijhts and lakes, the country does not contain so many swamiis and\\nlakes, but the extreme sterility and Viarrenness of the soil continues the same. Taking\\nthe country altogether, so far as has been explored, and to all appearances, together\\nwith the information received concerning the balance, is so bad there would not be\\nmore than one acre out of a hundred, if there would be one out of a thousand, that\\nwould ill any case admit of cultivation.\\nThe consequence of such a rejiort being made was that the act locating the 3,000,000\\nacres of military land was rejiealed. and ^fichigan escaped the misfortune of having\\nher be.st lands long kept out of the market for the benefit of land speculators.\\nUpon tlie appearance of this report, (loxcrnor f ass at once set on foot numerous ex-\\nplorations throughout the interior, and when he had become thoroughly convinced of\\nthe falsity of the report, and had collected sufficient evidence of such falsity, he at\\nonce used all the means in his jiower to correct the mis(diiey(ms impression made by\\nthe report. It is a trite saying that a lie will travel faster than the truth. but it was\\nverified in this instance, for it was more than twenty years liefore ^lichigan recovered,\\nfrom the effects of the false impression caused by that unjust official report.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "LENAWEE COUNTY. 11\\nn, LENAWEE COUNTY.\\n182-3 TO 1833.\\nIn the siimiuer of 183:3 :jrusgrove Evans, of Brownsville, Jefferson county, in the State\\nof New York, came int\u00c2\u00ab the Territory of ilichigan to find for himself and family a home.\\nHe formed the acquaintance of Austin E. Wing, of Monroe, a man of considerable\\nprominence in the territory, who afterwards represented it in Congress. Wing in-\\nformed Evans of a desirable location on the Raisin, within the county of Lenawee,\\nand represented the advantages the county possessed as a farming country, and the\\nwonderful hydraulic advantages offered by the Raisin and a tributary, which united\\ntheir waters at this place, in such glowing terms that Evans was induced to visit the.\\nplace, and an agreement was entered into between Wing and Evans to organize a\\ncompany for the improvement of the almost unrivaled water power. Evans returned\\nto the State of New York to enlist others in the enterprise, and during his absence\\nWing purchased of the United States the west part of section twenty-seven and the\\neast part of section twenty-eight, in township five south of range four east, which in-\\ncluded the water power, and that part of Tecmnseh now known as Brownsville, and\\nthe tributary stream received the cognomen of Evans creek.\\nMusgrove Evans was a native of Peinisylvauia, but had then recently been an in-\\nhabitant of the State of New York. He belonged to the Society of Friends, and was\\neducated. He possessed a well-balanced mind and untiring perseverance, and the\\nsurvivors of those days agree that he was a noble man. Mr. Evans returned to his\\nhome in New York, to enlist others in the enterprise, and secure a few good colonists\\nwith which to start the settlement of the new counbry. He succeeded in inducing his\\nbrother-in-law, .Joseph W. Brown, also of Brownsville, .Jefferson county, New York,\\nto become a partner in the enterprise, and several others to accompany them to their\\nnew home in the then far west.\\nEvans and Bro\\\\\\\\ni secured the old schooner Erie to bring their colony across Lake\\nErie. The company consisted of Musgrove Evans, wife and five children, Joseph\\nW. BroNMi, Ezra F. Blood, Turner Stetson, Nathan Rathbone, Peter Lowery, and per-\\nhaps one or two others. They arrived at Detroit in the month of April, 1824. Here\\nEvans left his family, and the men procured a Frenchman, with pony and cart, to car-\\nry their packs, nntil they struck the Raisin a little above where the village of Clinton\\nnow stands, and tliere shouldering their packs, they traveled to the proposed site of\\nthe new colony at the mouth of Evans creek. Of course the first thing to do was to\\nprepare temporary shelter for the men, and then immediately the work of organiza-\\ntion commenced. A co-partnership was formed between Wing, Evans and Brown^\\nthe north half of section thirty-four entered, and a saw mill commenced. They\\nbrought forty men from the village of ^Monroe, thirty-three miles distant, to assist in\\nraising the frame of the mill. Having prepared a rude log house, with bark roof and\\nfloors, Evans brought his family fi-oin Detroit, and took possession of the mansion,\\nhouse of the county on the second day of June, 1824. Peter Benson and wife, in the\\nemploy of Wing, Evans Brown, occupied the house with them. The Evans family\\nwas the first white family in Lenawee county, and Mrs. Evans and Sirs. Benson were\\nthe first white women to set foot within the boundaries of Lenawee county.\\nEarly in the summer of 1824 a village was platted and named Tecumseh, in honor of\\nthe renowned Shawaneese warrior, who had often, tratUtion says, visited that locality\\nand sat in council around the fires of the resident tribes. As soon as the settlement\\nwas fairly connnenced,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a village platted and named,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 then a movement was put on\\nfoot to establish the seat of justice for the county at this, its only settlement, and ia", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "About the 1\\nait-rp;\\nlit of J line a\\nappoiiitfd\\nferson rum it;\\nr. N. V\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2r. About til\\nfor liis fain\\n12 TIIE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nits only village of one loj:f house. A petition unanimously signed, no doubt, ^Yas sent\\nto Governor Cass, who, in accordance witli the territorial statute in sucli case pro-\\nvided, appointed commissioners to examine, select and report a location for the seat of\\njustice of Lenawee county. They decided to locate it at Tecumseh, and it is related\\nthat when the commissioners stuck the stake to mark the site for the court house, the\\ncompany present, among whom were the proprietors of the village, swung their hats\\nand gave three hearty cheers. 3Ir. AVing, in the ardor of his enthusiasm, swung his\\nhat with such emphasis that at the last whirl it flew away, leaving in his hand a piece\\nof the liriiii altout as large as a silver dollar. This, perhaps, was pro])hetic of the early\\n(light of the scat of justice to a more southern site.\\nUpon i-ccei].t of the connnissioners report, the Legislative Council passed An Act\\nto establish the si-at of justice in Lenawee county, althougli at that time the county\\nwas unorganized, being attached to the county of Monroe. The act was approved\\nJune SOth, 1S24, and is as follows:\\nBe it enacted Inj tlir Huvcnmr (ind Lcqislntive CoimicM of the rcrritnru of Mirhi-\\nmn. That the si at of justice ill the countv of Lenawee lie! and the same is herebv\\nestabhshi d on ihe northwest (piartcr of section nuiubci- tliirt\\\\-i(inr. in tuwnslii)) live\\n.soutli. range fnur east, in the aid cduni of Lenawee du hui(Un\\\\\\\\ued nv Messrs.\\nWing. KvanscVc lb-own. agiveadile to the jilan of a towii nr village, ^iumte d on said\\nnorthwest (inarter section, and nMM.i-ded in tlie Eegi.ster s oflice. in the countv of .Mon-\\nroe the tweiits -sixth Oay of .jiiii, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-lour.\\n)st-(if!ice also was established, and }\u00c2\u00bbIusgrove E\\\\ ans\\ntirst day of .July, 18 3i, Mr. Browai returned to Jef-\\nV. An extract fn^m a letter, written him by Mr.\\nEvans, will slied some light on the contlition of things in this young settlement. The\\nletter bears date Tecumseh, 8 M., Sth, IS iM. After acknowledging the receipt that\\nmorning of Brown s letter of the (ith ult., the latter says\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2The articles thi;e mentions will lie good here, articularly the stove, as it takes\\nsome time always in a new place to uet ovens and chimnevs convenient for cooking.\\n\\\\N e ha\\\\-e neither yet, and no other wav of baking for twenty people but in a bake\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0kettle and the lire out at the do(,r.\\nThe saw mill was compleb d and commenced operations in the fall of 1824, and\\nbuilding thenceforth became po.ssible. In the month of June, Is-M. .Tesse Osburn vis-\\nited the infant settlement, and selected and purchased a tract of land near where\\nJudge Stacy now resides. In the month of August, that year, he ri iuoved his family\\nto the wilds of Michigan. He came by schooner to Detroit; from thence Mr. Osburn\\ndrove his own team to Monroe, over the old Eiver road, and his was the first team\\ndriven over the route subseciuent to the war of 1812. They found bridge frames and\\nstringers, but none were planked. The covering had been removed by the contending\\narmies, and since the return of peace the traffic of Detroit had been carried on by the\\nlake craft. There was but little need of a highway between Detroit and Mom-oe, as\\ntheir intercourse could be carried on by way of the lake much cheaper and nioi-e eas-\\nily, and for years the road was traveled only by the French pony trains, the animals\\ncarrying about four hundred pounds each.\\nMr. Osburn brought to the territory two plows of diverse pattern, and one of them\\ndeserves, perhaps, a few words of (lescri]ition. Cast iron plows liad been made in the\\nthe latter part of the 18th century, Init \\\\vere not used by farmers imtil after Mr. Wood\\npatented his improvement in 1819. The jilow in general use before that time was a wood-\\nen plow, with a wrought iron share or i)oint, and had received the cognomen of bull\\nplow. The introduction of cast ircm plows met with great opposition from the farm-\\ners of the east. They argued they would siwil the land that land plowed with them\\nwoidd not produce as good crops as that plowed with the old bull plow, for, said\\nthey, it turns a furrow too flat, and does not leave the ground as loose and light as\\nthe bull plow does. To express their contempt for it, they dubbed the Wood plow\\nthe pot-metal plow. When Mr. Osburn was preparing to come to the Territory of\\nMichigan lie purchased a Wood s plow. His neighbors looked at him with astonish-\\njuent. What, said they, you going to u.se a pot-metal plow why, you can t do", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "LENAWEE COUNTY. 13\\nanything with it among stones. That s just it, said Mr. Osbnrn, I am going to-\\nSlichigan, Ys here tliey don t liave any stones. But altliough Mr. Osburn brought an\\niron plow to Michigan, he never entirely lost his prej udice against the pot-metal aif air.\\nHe brouglit tlje share of his old bull ]ilow with him, re-wooded it here, and as long as\\nhe could find a blacksmith that understood sharpening it, he would plow with no.\\nother, and the probabilities are that the first crop of wheat raised in Lenawee covmtj-\\nwas sowed on land plowed with a bull plow. Mr. A. C. Osburn, of Woodstock, pre-\\nserves the remains of his father s bull plow, and as the younger readers have, probabhv\\nnever .seen such a plow, a description will be attempted.\\nThe component parts of this plow are the chip, the share, mouldboard, beam, and\\nhandle. The chip was made out of a round piece, two sides dressed at right\\nangles, so as to present a smooth side on the bottom and to the land; the forward end\\nwas fonned to fit into the share, and the other was mortised to receive the handle.\\nThe share resembles the forward part of an iron plow, including the point, and\\nforward portions of mouldboard and landside. To this share and chip was fitted a\\nwooden mouldboard, usually rived out of a piece of timber having the proper wind.\\nThe beam was of wood, but little larger than a corn cultivator beam, and was ten-\\nanted to receive the handle. A single bolt, which had its flattened head let into the\\nbottom of the chip, and had a nut at its upper end, on top of the beam, fastened the\\nchip and share to the beam forward, while the handle only one\u00e2\u0080\u0094 fitting on to the ten-\\nant of the beam and into the mortise of the chip, fastened tlie beam to the chip behind.\\nThe rectangular sides of the chip, measuring not more than two inches, formed the\\nbottom and landside; The sliare was of wrought iron, and was sharpened by being-\\ndrawn out at a smith s forge.\\nA school house was built by Evans and Brown, of tamarack logs, and was twelve\\nfeet square. In that house Mrs. George Spafford taught school in the winter of 1S2J-.5..\\nThe Evans house this winter sheltered Mr. and Mrs. Evans and five children, Mr,.\\nand :Mrs. Brown and five children, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Spafford, and from ten to twelve\\nAvork hands employed at the mill and about the business of the mill firm.\\nOn the third day of May, ISiJi, William Kedzie, of Delhi, N. Y., purchased of the-\\nUnited States government a tract of land in the township of Blissfield, but lie didt\\nnot settle on it until October, 1S36. In the month of June, 18-,Ji, Mr. Ilervey Bliss pur-\\nchased a tract of land in that township, and moved on it in the month of December\\nfollowing. Mr. Bliss came to this county from Raisinville, Monroe comity. He set-\\ntled in the village of Monroe in 181(5, a year later he moved thirteen miles up the\\nRaisin, and settled on government land, but it proved to be on the Macon reservation.\\nHe was driven off by the Indians in 1819, and settled in the township of Raisinville,\\nMonroe county, where he resided until he removed to Lenawee ccJunty, as heretofore\\nstated. He built a log house, which he and his family occupied for about twelve\\nyears. Mr. Gideon West settled on section twenty-nine in January, 183.5.\\nIn the spring of 182.5 Mr. Bliss lost one of his oxen, and had no means to buy an-\\nother, but his new neighbor, a Mr. Harrison, being about to return to Massachusetts\\nfor his wife, loaned him a pair of yomig steers. With these he managed to log and,\\ndrag a small field for spring crops. He had to go to Monroe to mill, and had no team\\nhe could drive on the road. He drove his ox to the township of Raisinville,\\nyoked him with a borrowed ox, hitched the pair to a borrowed cart, returned to hi^i-\\nresidence, took in sixteen bushels of corn, and drove to Monroe. The grist ground;,\\nthe whole distance had to be again traveled over in reverse order. To get that grist\\nground it cost him eight days time and one hundred and forty miles travel. He\\nfound this milling so expensive that he burned a hollow in the top of a stump, of\\nsufficient size to contain a half bushel of grain, and with a pestle attached to a spring\\npole, he pounded his corn for bread until he was enabled to procure another team.\\nWith the opening of the spring of 182;5 busy scenes reciu-red, and before autumn\\nlarge accessions had been made to the population of Lenawee count^v. Tji that year-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "].t THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nthe people of the Tecimiseh settlement were principally engaged in making sure the\\njirogress of the preceding eventful year, in preparing dwellings for those on the\\nground and those arriving, and in clearing off ground for cultivation. Mr. Brown\\nIniilt a frame building and opened it as a public house, the first and then the only\\npublic house west of the village of Monroe. Mr. Jesse Osburn, in the fall of that\\nyear, sowed the first wheat in Lenawee county, on the gi ound a little north of the\\npresent residence of Judge Stacy, and James Knoggs built and opened a store. The\\n\u00c2\u00ablder Osburn spelled his name with a u; his son uses an o instead.\\nIn the summer of lS2o Mr. Darius Comstock, of Niagara county, N. Y., purchased a\\ntract of Iftnd in the present township of Kaisin, in what is known as The Valley,\\n4ibout midway between Tecumseh and Adrian. His son, Addison J. Comstock, pur-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0cliased of the g()\\\\ ernment, on the seventh day of September, 1825, four hundred and\\neighty acres (if land, in wlilch lie afterwards laid out the village of Adrian. Of the\\nelder Comstock we quote the eulogistic words of Francis A. Dewey, esq. Of the\\nearly pioneers no one is more worthy of special notice than our late friend, Darius\\nComstock, with his ample means and generous ways. He located his lands in the\\nvalley four miles south of Tecumseh there he made himself and family a beautiful\\nhome, where his declining years were spent with good will to all. For many years\\n3.)ast these lands and stately buildings have been in the hands of ti ustees, and have\\nbeciiiue one of the l)est literary lnstltiili(ms in the country. It was largely through\\ntheeffortsof Darius Comstock that the first meeting house in the county was erected,\\nand it now stands a monument to his memory. Thousands of the Friends persuasion\\nyearly assemble in it to worsliip the true and only God. The younger Comstock, after\\nentering his lands, retin-ned to the State of New York, where he remained during the\\nwinter of 182. 6.\\nIn the spring of 1825 Wing, Evans Brown built a grist mill at Tecumseh, the set-\\ntlers having agreed to ])ay two Inindrcd dollars towards the cost of its erection.\\nTurner Stetson was the builder. The dam was ready built, the liuildiiig and water-\\nwheel easily built, but it was extremely difficult to provide the mill-stones. A pair of\\nFrench burr stones would cost a large sum at the east, .vnd then it would have been\\ndiflicult, not to say impossible, to transport them over Michigan mud, through Michi-\\ngan forests, to the metropolis of Lenawee county. It has been said necessity is\\nthe mother of invention, and these pioneer mill builders were not to be discouraged\\nby difficulties. A granite rock was found lying on the ground about two miles from\\n.the mill building. It had been broken into two pieces by the falling of a tree across\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2it. The services of Sylvester Blackmar, a practical miller, were called into requisi-\\ntion, and the jneces ]\u00c2\u00bbre]iared, the smaller for the upper and the larger for the nether\\nmill-stone, and with them for several years the grain of Lenawee county was ground.\\nThe people had determined to celebrate Independence Day this year, and great\\npreparation was made for the first Fourth of July celebration in Lenawee county.\\nThe mill was ready for business, the wheat sowed by Jesse Osburn the fall before had\\nripened, been harvested and threshed, and on this auspicious Fourth of July morning\\nJesse Osburn carried some wheat to the mill, Sylvester Blackmar ground it into flour,\\nand J Irs. Brown made the cake and biscuit for the celebration of that day. The per-\\nformance of this feat is vouched for by living witnesses.\\nOn the fourteenth day of February. 182(), Addison J. Comstock was married to Miss\\nSarah S. Dean, of Phelps, Ontario county, N. Y., and in the early spring retm-ned,\\nwith his bride, to Lenawee eoimty, accompanied also by Mr. John Gifford and wife.\\nMr. Gifford had been employed by Mr. Comstock to assist him in the clearing of his\\nland and the erection of suitable buildings. The women were left at the Valley until\\nsuitable houses could be erected on the Comstock tract.\\nWhile the houses were being built, that is to say on the twenty-eighth day of June,\\nim\\\\ John Gifford purchased of the United States eighty acres of land, now consti-\\ntuting a portion of the second ward of the city of Adrian. Mr. Gifford occupied the\\nli-ouse built for liimeu the tenth day of August, and Mr. Comstock moved into his a", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "LENAWEE COUNTY. 15-\\nfew clays later, and thus Mrs. Gifford became the first white woman inhabitant of the\\nfuture Adrian. Mr. Comstock s house was situated in an oak grove on the bank of the\\nriver, south side of Maumee street, nearly opposite the Gibson House. Mr. Corn-\\nstock built a saw mill this year, and had it completed in the month of November.\\nIt was the second saw mill in the county.\\nDecember 26th, 1S3G, Elias Deiniis purchased of the United States eighty acre^ of\\nland, now known as L. G. A. S. Berry s Southern Addition to the city of Adrian.\\nIn October of this year Mr. William Kedzie, who as before stated, purchased land\\nin Blissfield in May, 1834, settled on his land. The winter was spent in cutting down,\\nwith the help of two brothers, Nathan and Benjamin Tibbits, the timber on about\\nthirty acres of land, and in the following spring ten acres were logged and planted to\\ncorn.\\nNovember 30th of this year (1836) the Legislative Council passed an act organizing\\nthe county of Lenawee, to take elfect from and after the 31st day of December of that\\nyear. The terms of the County Court were fixed on the first Mondays of June and\\nJanuary in each year, and by this act, All the country within this territory to which\\nthe Indian title was extinguished by the treaty of Chicago shall be attaclied to and\\ncompose a part of the county of Lenawee. The territory thus attached to Lenawee\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2county comprised a belt of country extending from the meridian line, the west line\\nof the county, to Lake Michigan, including the present counties of Hillsdale, Branch,\\nSt. Joseph, Cass, and Berrien.\\nNovember 2Sd the first wedding, or rather pair of weddings, occurred in the town-\\nship of Blissfield\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr. Samuel Buck and :Miss Margaret Frary and Mr. George Stout\\nand Miss Delight Bliss. Loren 3Iarsh, a Monroe county justice, was imported to\\nperform the ceremony.\\nIn the fall of 1836 Musgrove Evans was employed by the United States government\\nto superintend the construction of the Chicago Road from Detroit to Clinton. It had\\nbeen surveyed by the United States in 183.5, and established a.s a military road between\\nDetroit and Chicago. It is two hundred and fifty-four miles long, extends from De-\\ntroit through Tpsilanti and Saline, enters Lenawee county a little to the northeast of\\nClinton village, passes through the village of Clinton and along the northern bounda-\\nry of Lenawee county, tlirough Hillsdale, Branch and St. Joseph counties, and crosses\\nthe corner of Berrien into the State of Indiana. It was the thoroughfare to other\\nStates along which emigrants flocked in almost countless numbers. Blois Gazetteer\\nof the State of Michigan, published in 18.38, speaking of the Chicago lload, said\\nThe travel on this road is immense, equal to, if not more, than on any other in the\\nUnited States of the same length.\\nBy an act of the Legislative Council, approved April 13th, 1S3T, it was provided that\\nall that part of the county of Lenawee containing the surveyed townships nmnbered\\nlive south of the base line, in ranges one, two, three, four and five cast of tlie princi-\\npal meridian, be a township by the name of Tecumseh all that part of said county\\ncontaining the surveyed township numbered six, in ranges one, two, three, four and\\nfive, be a township by the name of Logan and that all that part of the country con-\\nfaining the surveyed townships seven, eight and nine, in ranges one, two, three, four\\nand five, be a township by the name of Blissfield. But by another act of the Legisla-\\ntive Council, approved the same day, all the foregoing was repealed, and the county\\nwas divided into townships as follows Township numbered five and the north hall\\nof township numbered six south, in ranges one, two, three, four and five east, to be a\\ntownship named Tecmuseh, first township meeting to be held at the house of Joseph\\nW. Brown; the south half of townships numbered six and townships numbered seven\\nsouth, in ranges numbered one, two and three east, to be a township by the name of\\nLogan, the first township meeting to be held at the house of Darius Comstock; and\\ntownships numbered seven, in ranges four and five, and townships numbered eight\\nand nine south, in ranges numbered one, two, three, four and five east, to be a township\\naianied Blissfield, the first township meeting to lie held at the house of Hervey Bliss.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "16 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nAeconling to tlie division Avliich became and remained tlie law, Tecumscli township\\neompiiscd tlie present townshiiis of :\\\\racon, Tecumseh, Clinton, Franklin, Cam-\\nbridge, Woodstock, and the north half of the townships of Rollin, Rome, Adrian,.\\n]!aisin and Ridgeway. The township of Lojjan comprised the south half of the pres-\\nent townships of Ridj^cway. ruiisiii, Adrian, Rome and Rollin, and all of the town-\\nshijis of iludso]!, Dover and Madison\u00e2\u0080\u0094 an odd shaped townslnp, truly; the township\\nof Rlisstield comprised the present townships of Palmyra, Blissfield, Deerfield, Riga\u00c2\u00bb.\\nOgden, Fairfield, Seneca and :\\\\[edina.\\nBy the same Legislative Act, All that district of country situated west of the saiA\\ncounty of Lenawee, and whicli is attached to said county, and to which the Indian\\ntitle was extinginshed by the treaty of Chicago, was formed into a township named\\nSt. Joseph, the first township meeting to be held at the house of Timothy S. Smith.\\nThe first township meeting in the township of Logan was held on the 28th day of\\nMay. Ellas Dennis was Moderator of the meeting; Darius Comstock was elected Su\\npervisor; Addison J. Comstock, Town Clerk; Noah Norton. Warner Ellsworth and\\nCornelius A. Stout, Commissioners of Highways; Patrick Hamilton and Abram\\nWest, Overseers of the Poor.\\nThe first township meeting in the township of Blissfield was held on the 2Sth day\\nof :May. William Kedzie was elected Supervisor, and Ezra (!off Town Clerk. That\\nthe county had settled rapiilly since the advent of its first family. inis:24. may be seen\\nby the following extract from a letter, written by Mr. Brown, under date of .January\\n14th, 1S;2T: I iic Legislative Council have organized three new counties this winter,,\\nand in none of them ^vas there a white inhabitant in the year 1823, and in oni-s not till\\n.Tune, 18;i4. This is the youngest and smallest of the three, and we have more than six\\nhundred inhabitants.\\nThis year, 1827. Dr. Caleb N. Ormsby erected the first frame dwelling within what\\nis now the city of Adrian. The first birth and death in the A. J. Comstock settle-\\nment occurred this year\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Leander, infant son of A. J. and Sarah L. Comstock. lie\\nwas born August 0th. and died October 8th.\\nOctober ;\u00c2\u00bbl, Ur. .Tames Wliitiie inuchased of the United States four hundred acres,\\nof land, on the west side of the river, Adrian.\\nThe original ])lat of the village of Adrian was laid out by Addison .1. omstock, and\\nrecorded April 1st, 18;J8. It consisted of two streets only, Main and :\\\\Iauiiiee, of ecpial\\nlength, crossing each other at right angles. There were forty-nine lots in all.\\nIn June, 1828, James Whitney returned to Adrian witli his family, and built a log\\nhou.se on his farm. He resided here until 1833. when the place becoming too thickly\\nsettled for him, he sold ids hnul and removed to a newer country.\\nJuly 4th, 1828, Indeiiendence Day was celebrated in the village of Adrian. The\\nstand was erected under a white oak tree, near where W. S. Wilcox s store now\\nstands. A national salute was fired, a l lacksmith s anvil having been prepared for\\nthat purpose. Amidst the boondng of tiie extemporized cannon the peojile assembled.\\nAddison J. Comstock read the Declaration of Indeiiendence, and Dr. C. N. Ormsby\\ndelivered the oration, whicli ended, the Marshal of the Day, Noali Norton, formed the\\nprocession and marched through streets fringed with hazel brush, to the residence of\\nA. J. Comstock, where the ladies of the village had preitared dinner. Mr. Norton and\\nEleazer Baker had one pair of shoes between them, and tliey belonged to Baker. A\\nbare-footed marshal would never do, so Norton wore the shoes and Baker remained\\nat home.\\nIn the summer of 1828 Isaac Dean commenced building the Exchange, a public\\nhouse which for many years occupied the site of the Lawrence house, and was the\\nprincipal hotel of the village.\\nIn the winter of 1828-9 Miss Dorcas Dean taught the first scho .)l in Adrian, in the\\nhouse of Noah Norton. During the year 1829 a frame school house was built on the\\nwest side of South Main street.\\nThe subject of religion was not forgotten by the 6usy pioneers of Lenawee county..", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "LENAWEE COUNTY. 17\\nThe Rev. Nmh M. Well s preached at Tecumseh in 1835. In 1827 the Rev. John Janes\\npreached a\u00c2\u00b1 the honse of Noah Norton, in Adrian. In April, 1838, tlie Rev. Alanson\\nDarwin organized the Preshyterian cliurcli m Teemnseli. Daniel Smith and Elijah\\nB^o^vl^ell often preached the word to the Friends of the Valley. In August, 1838, the\\nRev. John A. Banghinan, of Monroe, preached the lirst sermon in the township of\\nBlissfield.\\nAugust .5th, this year, William Kedzie, of Blissfield township, died. :Mr. Kedzie\\npurchased the first land sold by the Government in the township of Blissfield, settled\\non it in October, 1836, and was elected first Supervisor of the township in 1837. He\\npossessed a robust constitution, was seldom sick, and was always a hard-working\\nman. He had sowed a crop of wheat in the fall of 1837, and in July, 1838, he harvested\\nit; but while it still stood in shock, lie was prostrated on a bed of sickness, and died\\nin a few days. He left a widow, five boys and two girls, to grapple unaided with\\nthe hardships of pioneer life. On the marble slab at the head of his grave is chiseled\\nthe story of his life Wii.t.iam Kedzie. A native of Roxboroshire, Scotland, whO\\ndeparted this life Aug. 5, 18;28, aged 47 years, 6 mo. and 5 days. A useful citizen a\\ntrue fi-iend; a loving and faithful husband; an affectionate parent; and a sincere\\nchristian.\\nIn June of this year, the Legislative Council laid out a Territorial road from Port\\nLawrence, (Toledo) in the county of Monroe, through Blissfield and Logan, and\\nalso through the village of Adrian, in the county of Lenawee, to intersect the Chicago\\nroad on the most direct and eligible route; and Antliony M Kee, of said county of\\nLenawee, and Eli Hubbard and Seneca Allen, of the county of Monroe, are hereby\\nappointed commissioners to Iny out said road. The act was approved June 3;3d, 1838,.\\nand the reader will lu rccive that at tin s time the Territory of Michigan was exercising\\njm-isdiction over tlui region bordering on the Maumee, and that the site of the city of\\nToledo was then considered a part of the county of Monroe.\\nIn 1839 Governor Cass organized the militia of Lenawee county, and appointed the\\nfollowing officers: Col., John W. Brown; Lieut. Col., William McNair; Maj., Davis\\nSmith.\\nIn December, 183S, or early in January, 1839, a post-office was established at the\\nvillage, and Addison J. Comstock was commissioned post-master. Of this post-office\\njNIr. Comstock, in a document prepared by him several years since, says\\n-The conditions of establishing the office were that the contractor should take tlie\\nnet revenue of the office for transporting the mail from Adrian to Monroe. The\\nwhole receipts of the first iuarter, ending Marcli 31, 1839, was $8.60%^. The net revenue\\nto the contractor, after paying ex]iensf of office, 90% cents. It diould be remarked\\nthat the carrying of tht^ mail was not exjiensive, as the post-master took advantage of\\nthe ox teams that made rt gular trips to ^lonroe, and so obtained the mail about every\\nweek, as a trip to ]Monroe and back could be performed in about five days when thev\\nhad good luck.\\nIt was during this year Dr. E. Conant Winter settled in Adrian. He opened a dry\\ngoods store on the southwest corner of Maumee and Winter sti-eets, and Addison J..\\nComstock and Isaac Dean built the red flouring mill.\\nJune 3d, 1839, Abijah Russell purchased of the general government about thirty-five-\\nacres of land within the present limits of the city of Adrian.\\nDuring the year 1839 Cornelius Millspaw settled in Woodstock, and Silas Benson\\nentered land in the township of Moscow.\\nIn October, 1839, the Legislative Council laid out the township of St. Joseph into\\nthe counties of Hillsdale, Branch, St. Joseph, Cass, and Berrien; and by act of the\\nCouncil, approved November 4th, 1839, the counties of St. Joseph and Cass w^ere or-\\nganized; Hillsdale was attached to Lenawee; the counties of Branch, Kalamazoo,\\nCalhoun, BaiTy and Eaton were attached to the comity of St. Joseph and the counties\\nof Berrien and Van Buren were attached to the coimty of Cass. By an act approved\\nNovember 5th, tlie townships of White Pigeon, Shennan and Flowerfield, in the\\nB", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "18 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\n^county of St. Joseph, and the townships of Pokagon, LaGrange and Ontwa, in the\\ncounty of Cass, were organized. These townships, as then organized, comprised sev-\\neral surveyed townships; and from them, fronr time to time, otlier townships have\\nbeen organized, until each only comprised one surveyed township.\\nIn 1830 the United States census was taken, and for the purpose of taking that cen-\\nsus within Lenawee county, M.usgrove Evans, of Tecumseh, was made assistant\\nUnited States marshal. Hillsdale county was at that time attached to Lenawee\\n!Ounty, and Mr. Evans returns show tlie population to be as follows: Hillsdale, 75;\\nTecumseh, 771; Logan, 500; Blissfield, 145. Total, 1,491.\\nIt will be reniend)ered that Logan, as then constituted, embraced the south half of\\nRidgeway, Raisin, Adrian, Rome and Rollin, and the townsliiiis of :Ma lis(ai. Dover\\nand Hudson. The following is said to be a complete list of heads of familir.-, in Logan\\ntownship: Darius Comstock, Catharine Fay, Alpheus Hill, Coniclius A. Stout.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2George Scott, Allen Chaffee, Jonathan Ilarnard, Elijah Brownell. Anson Howell,\\n.Samuel Todd, Cary Rogers. James Whitney, John Wood, Pliney Field. Addison J.\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acomstock, Charles ]SIorris, Hannah Gifford, Robert Sniitli. Josiali Shuiuway, Patrick\\nHamilton, John Walsworth, Daniel Smith, Milo Comstock, D. Torn v. Davis I). Ben-\\nnett, John Powers, Anson Jackson, Lyman Pease, Silas Simmons, Lewis Xiekerson,\\nNelson Bratlish, William Edmonds, Curren Bradish, Levi Shumway, Daniel Gleason,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Samuel Davis, Stephen Fitch, Aaron S. Baker, William Foster, Elias Dennis, Nathan\\nPelton, Turner Stetson, William Jackson, John Arnold, Nathan Comstock, Betsy\\nMapes, Joseph Pratt, Abram West, Thomas Sachrider, Daniel Odell, William H.\\nRowe, Moses Bugby, Samuel Weldon, Jeremiah Stone, David Wiley, Noah Norton,.\\nAsher Stevens, Samuel Bm-ton, John Ccnnstock, Joseph Beals, John Murphy, Samuel\\n,S. L. Maples, David Bixby, Charles Haviland, Benjamin Mather, John Chapman,\\n-Jacob Brown, Jacob Jackson, Job S. Comstock, Elijah Johnson. Samuel Carpenter,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Cassander Peters, William Brooks. Josiah Baker, Seth Lammon, N. W. Cole, Reuben\\nDavis, John Fitch, Daniel Walsworth. Xeliemiah Bassett, Ephriam Dunbar, Isaac\\nDean and C. N. Ormsby.\\nIn the fall of 1830 Isaac French came to Adrian and built a hotel on the corner now\\noccupied by Crane Mason. In 1836 he sold it to Pomeroy Stone.\\nIn the year 1831 Turner Stetson built the Hotel now known as the Gibson House,\\nbut for many years kept by Sampson Sammons as the Mansion House. Hiram Kid-\\nder, of Ontario county. New York, settled in what is now known as the Valley,\\nmidway between Tecumseh and Adrian, where he entered land for his brother, Na-\\nthan B. Kidder. Dr. Bebee settled in Adrian, and the next year died of small-pox.\\nJoseph II. Cleveland opened a store on the north side of Maumee street, near the\\nriver.\\nDuring lasi James D. Van Hoevenburgh and Charles Blackmar entered, and soon\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2afterwards Van Hoevenburgh settled on lands within the limits of the township of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Somerset as at present organized; and Samuel Aiken, Peter Benson and Pontius\\nHooper entered lands within the limits of Moscow.\\nCharles Blackmar settled in the township of Cambridge in 1829 and died of cholera\\nin August, 1834.\\nThe year 1832 was a stirring year in the annals of our young comity. In the spring.\\nBlack Hawk, with a band of warriors, crossed the Mississippi river and advanced\\nthrough the settlements. He was attacked by a body of Illinois militia, and then the\\nIndians broke up into small parties and began an indiscriminate massacre of the in-\\nhabitants, still constantly advancing toward Chicago, which seemed their common\\nobjective point. Chicago was then an insignificant trading post, protected by a fort\\nbut the probabilities were, if that post shoidd fall, the Indians, encouraged by its fall,\\nwould advance through the infant settlements of Northern Indiana and Southern\\nMichigan to the Canada line. Word came to the infant settlements of the southern\\ntier of counties that the Indians were advancing, and along with it the call of the In-\\n4iian Agent at Chicago for military assistance. There were enough Indians within", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "LENAWEE COUNTY. 19\\nfthese counties to cut the throats of tlie white inhabitants, if aroused, and perhapi?\\nthe best way to defend tlieir own homes was to meet the enemy beyond the borders\\nof the Territory. Col. Jolm W. Brown had been promoted to the command of the\\n-third brigade of Michigan militia, and without waiting for orders from the Governor,\\n-he ordered liis brigade to rendezvous at the village of Niles. The eiglith (Lenawee)\\nxegiment, then commanded by Col. William McNair, responded nobly to the call, and\\nwas in the shortest possible time ready for the order to march.\\nThe regianent was composed of two companies from Teciuiiseh, one from Adrian,\\nand one from the village of Clinton, which had sprung into existence since the com-\\nj)letion of the Chicago road. Gen. Brown s order required Col. McNair to take only\\nvolunteers. Said the order Take no man with you who is not a volunteer. Let\\nifche timid return to their homes. When the regiment was ilrawn up into line, the\\n.order was read, and all who desired to return home were ordered to step four paces\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0io the front but not a man advanced. The reguneut took up its line of march by the\\nivay of the Chicago road for Niles, the place appointed for the brigade rendezvous.\\nThe reader can hardly appreciate the feelings of mothers and children as they saw\\ntcvery able bodied man move off to battle with the Indian foe, hundreds of miles away.\\nIt is true the danger was then distant, but their minds were keenly alive to the terrors\\nof Indian warfare. It was then not twenty years since the horrible massacre at the\\nj-iver Eaisin, only a few miles off, the details of which were all too well remembered\\nto beget a feeling of secm-ity. The Indians living in their midst were friendly, it is\\ntrue, but such was the known treachery of the Indian character that they lived in\\nli ead lest even these friendly Indians should suddenly go upon the war path,\\n.and fall upon them in their improtected condition. But the Indians remained friend-\\nly, and before the brigade left Niles, the regidar army, under Gen. Atkinson, defeated\\n.the hostile Indians and captured Black Hawk. The troops were sent home with the\\n.thanks of the commanding general for the spirit displayed in their prompt response\\nto the call of their country.\\nIn the winter of 1831-3 Congi-ess made an appropriation to build a turnpike road\\nfrom LaPlaisance bay to the Chicago road, through Teciunseh, and in the fall of 183 .i\\nJVIusgrove Evans, of Tecumseh, was employed to survey the route. The jobs were\\nJet in the spring of 183.3, and the road was completed during the sunnner of 183.5.\\nMr. A. C. Osborn says Cornelius Millspaw was the first settler in township five\\n.south, of range one east, now called Woodstock, and he thinks Millspaw settled there\\nin 1829 but a reference to the ti-act book shows that Millspaw entered his land Octo-\\nber 27tli, 1832. He may, however, have squatted on his land, and been unable to\\nenter it sooner than 1832; but however that may be, Mr. Jesse Osburn was either the\\nfirst or second settler, and his family award the post of honor to Millspaw. Jesse Os-\\nburn sold his land in Tecumseh, and August 27th, 1832, entered land in Woodstock,\\nand probably moved on it that fall. John Gilbert located land in that township in\\n1835, but tradition says he was only a speculator and held his land for that purpose\\nonly.\\nIn June, 1832, the Legislative Council organized two townships in Branch comitj\\nColdwater and Prairie River,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and in March, 1833, organized township five south, in\\nranges one, two and three east, Lenawee county, into a new township, and named it\\nFranklin. The first township meeting was held at the house of Hiram Reynolds.\\nBy act approved March 7th, 183i, tov^^lships eight and nine and fractional township\\nten south, in ranges one, two and three east, were erected into the township of Fair-\\nfield. It will be observed that in this act also the Territorial Legislature asserted its\\nauthority over the strip of territory which afterwards was casus belli of the Toledo\\nwar. Townships seven south, in ranges on^, two and three east, were erected into a\\nnew township and named Lenawee. The first township meeting was held at the\\nschool house one mile east of William Edmonds, in said township. Township six\\n.south, in range four east, was organized into a township and named Raisin. The first\\ni+ownship meeting was held at the house of Amos Hoeg. Townships seven, eight.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "20 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nnine, and fractional t owiisliip ten, in range foiu-, east, were organized into a to-miship\\nand named Tahnyra, first township meeting to be held at the house of Cains C. Rob-\\ninson and townships live and six sontli, in range five east, were made into a township\\nnamed Macon, first township meeting to be held at the house of Henry Graves. All\\nthat part of Tecumseh comprised in the north half of township six south, in ranges\\none, two and three east, being the north half of the present townships of Rollin, Rome-\\nand Adraiii, was detached from Tecumseh and attached to the township of Logan.\\nThis statenientof the organization of townships in 1834 is here made out of its chrono-\\nlogical order because with this chapter this historical sketch of the settlement of eastern\\nLenawee will close. For the same reason another enterprise Avhich had its inception\\nin 1833, but was carried out later, which exerted a large influence in the settlement\\nof the western part of the county, deserves to be noticed here.\\nBy an act of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan, approved Apri i\\n3 2nd, 1833, the Erie and Kalamazoo Railroad Company was incorporated, with a nom-\\ninal capital stock of one million dollars, in shares of fifty dollars each, and when one\\nthousand shares were subscribed for, the corporators thereby and thenceforth became a\\nbody corporate and politic. Stephen B. Comstock, Benjamin F. Stickney, Davitf\\nWhite, Cains C. Robinson, Darius Comstock, Asahel Finch, E. Conant Winter, Setli\\nDunham, Silas Holbrook, Stephen Vickery and Edwin II. Lotliniji wmc Die corpora-\\ntors, and were authorized to build a railroad, with single or doulilc track, from Fort\\nLawrence through or as near as practicable to the village of Adrian, and thence on\\nthe most eligible route to such point on the Kalamazoo river as they may deem most\\nproper and useful. The corporators were to begin the road within three years, finish\\nit to Adrian in six years, one-half of it in fifteen years, and the whole road within\\nthirty years. That part of the road beyond Adrian was afterwards abandoned. At\\nthe time of the inception of this project there not only was no railway west of Lake\\nErie, but none in New^England. There was a railroad between Albany and Schenec-\\ntady operated with horse power and stationary engines, and a few short routes in\\nPennsylvania, but American railroad building had just begun. Tlie sul)scriptioii\\nbooks for the Erie and Kalamazoo Kaihoad Ccmipany were opened ^larch, 1834, and\\nthe first -IJSOjOOO of stock was subscribed and the Company fully organized before tlie\\nend of May. The work was immediately commenced. It was designed to use horse\\npower only on the road, and therefore the road was built with wooden rails. It was sO\\nfar finished that cars connnenced to run in 1836. It was run by horse power until\\nJune, 1837, when the road was ironed with strap rail and a locomotive was purchased.\\nThe successful completion of this enterprize shortened routes and cheapened fare?\\nand freight so materially as to mark a new epoch in the history of tlie county.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nm. BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\n1833 TO 1S;30.\\nThe beginn mg of the year 1833 found the Bean Creek comitry an unbroken wilder-\\nuess. Nine years had elapsed since the first settlement was made witliin the county\\nJimits, and although considerable encroachments had been made on the dense forests,\\nyet comparatively but little had been done. From Tecumseh, as a center, settlers had\\nmade their way through the township of Franklin and some settlements had been\\nmade in Cambridge. The principal part of the settlers were in the region of country\\nbetween the two principal points, Tecumseh and Adrian. From Adrian settlers had\\nveutured as far west in Dover as Robert and Bart White s, who lived on either side of\\nthe road where the Raisin crosses the line between sections two and eleven. Settlers\\nhad occupied the most eligible lots in Madison, and commenced on the two northerly\\ntier of sections in Fairfield, but the southern part of Dover, the townships of Seneca.\\nMedina, Hudson and Rollin were yet untouched by the pioneer hand, and but one or\\ntwo families had settled in Woodstock. The Government had made a military road,\\nthe Chicago, leading from Detroit to Chicago, which passed through the extreme\\njiorth part of the county. It was surveyed in 1835 and built in the succeeding years,\\nprobably before 1830, but for years it was but little better than a quagmire. The road\\nfollowed the old Indian trail along the highest lands, but a single belt six rods in\\nwidth, through interminable forests, afforded the sun but little opportunity to dry the\\nsoil, and it required but little travel to nuike the newly plowed road almost impassible.\\nEat there are some men possessed of such adventm ous spirits that their covn-age seems\\nto rise with increased and increasing difflcidties. A few such men as these had scat-\\ntered themselves along the Chicago road, built themselves log cabins, and commenced\\nkeeping hotel, ministering to the wants of adventurous emigrants and thirsty savages.\\nThere were perhaps two such within the limits of Woodstock, one such in Somerset,\\n.and one in Moscow but none of these were properly within the valley of Bean Creek_\\nIn 1832 the General Government surveyed another military road, from La Pleasance\\nBay to the Chicago road in the township of Cambridge. This road was not finished\\nluitil 1835, but its completion afforded a valuable route to the westward bound emi-\\ntrrant. In 18;2S the Legislative Council appointed commissioners to lay out a territorial\\nroad from Port Lawrence (Toledo) in the county of Monroe, running in the most\\ntlireet and eligible route through Blissfield and Logan, and also through the village of\\nAdrian, to intersect the Chicago road on the most direct and eligible route. This\\nroad was surveyed soon after to pass through the towaiships of Rome and Woodstock,\\njust touching the corner of Rollin, but the westerly portion of it was not completed\\nuntil 1835. This road passed to the north-eastward of Devil s Lake, and thus it will\\nbe seen all the northerly lines of travel led the emigrant by and around the Bean\\nCreek country.\\nJai the year 1833 the Legislative Council of the territory established a road com-\\nmencing at Vistida, (Toledo,) in the town of Port Lawrence, running on the most\\neligible route to the forks of the Ottawa river, thence westerly in towns nine, south\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0oil the most eligible route to the eastern boundary line of the State of Indiana. There\\nwas but little done on this road until 1834 and 1835, and there was not then enough\\ndone on it to make it in any sense a thoroughfare.\\nThus matters stood in 183:3. The valley of the Raisin had been sparsely settled,\\nwhile beyond to the westward, half of Lenawee and all of Hillsdale counties was an\\nJjjberminable forest. On the 4th of June, 1831, Ira Alma, of Seneca county, New York,\\n..had entered the west half of the northwest quarter of section twenty in the township", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "22 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nof Rolliii, and on the tenth clay of May, 1832, Addison J. Comstook entered the east\\nhalf of the northeast (luaiter of section thirty-two, in the same township, bat nothing,\\nwas done towards effecting a settlement in either of those years. Hiram Kidder set-\\ntled in the valley in 1831, and early in the year 18:3:3 visited the Bean creek country^\\nand on the sixth day of February entered the southwest quarter and west half of the\\nsoutheast quarter of section six and the northwestfractional quarter of section seven,\\ntown seven south, range one east, now the township of Hudson. This land he en-\\ntered in the names of Daniel Hudson, Nathan B. Kidder and William Young, all of\\nOntario county. New York.\\nAbout the first day of April, 18^3, Joseph Beal and his son William, equipped for a\\nland hunt, departed from the village of Adrian, and taking a southwesterly coui-se,.\\nreached Bean creek in the vicinity of where Morenci now stands. They then pro-\\nceeded up the creek until they reached the bend in the southerly part of to\\\\vn severi*\\nsouth (Hudson), and then taking their bearings by the aid of a pocket compass, they\\nproceeded through the wilderness on a straight line as near as possible for Devil s\\nLake, the headwaters of the Bean. They came out on the banks of Round Lake. After\\nconsiderable explorations thereabouts they returned to Adrian through town six\\nsouth, range two west (Rome). At that time, April, 1833, the north half of towns\\nseven south in ranges one and two east (Rollin and Rome) formed a part of the town-\\nship of Tecumseh, and the south half of those towns formed a part of the town--\\nship of Logan. Several other exploring parties visited the region of the lakes during\\nthat month, and the result of such explorations was, that May 1st David Steer en-\\ntered seven or eight lots, and on May 3d William Beal and Erastus Aldrich entered!\\ntheir land, all in the township of Rollin, as now constituted. During the early part of\\nMay, say about the sixth, seventh or eighth days, the Hon. Orson Green visited Dev-\\nil s Lake, and slept under the blue vault of heaven on the land he afterwards entered\\nand now owns. At that time, says Mr. Green, there were no inhabitants save Indians,\\nin all this country, from the Chicago road to and into the States of Ohio and Indiana.\\nAt this time Charles Ames and his brothers and brothers-in-law were contempla-\\nting emigrating to Michigan. They had arranged to come to the house of a frienc?\\nliving in the vicinity of Detroit, and to explore the country from there. Nathan B.\\nKidder, Esq., learning of their intentions, described to them in glowing terms the\\nadvantages of the Bean creek country, as he had learned them from his brother\\nHiram, then already an inhabitant of Lenawee county, and advised Mr. Charles\\nAmes and Thomas Pennock, whom it had been arranged should look land for the\\nparty, to proceed at once to the house of his brother Hiram who would, he said, show\\nthem the loveliest county under the sun. They acted on his advice, and in the\\nmonth of May, 1833, visited Lenawee county and under the lead of ]Srr. Hiram Kid-\\nder explored the Bean creek country. Mr. Kidder was a practical surveyor, and was\\nwell acquainted with the country. He had deliberately selected land in what he\\ndeemed the most eligible part of the country. He intended to locate there and desired\\nneighbors, and it is not strange, therefore, that he should convince tire land lookere-\\nsent by his brother that their best interests would be subserved by locating in his\\nneighborhood.\\nCharles Ames, on the 20th day of :May, 1833; entered the east half of the southwest\\n(luarter of section seven. His brother-in-law, Thomas Pennock, entered the west\\nhalf of the southwest quarter of section seven. On the 7th day of June Charles Ames-\\nentered the southeast quarter of section one and the northeast quarter of sectior?.\\ntwelve, in town seven south of range one west, now the township of Pittsford, and\\nThomas Pennock the southeast quarter of tlie southeast quarter of the same section.\\nand township. Having made these purchases,. Ames and Pennock returned to the\\nEast to prepare their families for removal.\\nOn the KJth day of June, Iliram Kidder entered the east half of the southeast quar-\\nter, and the west half of tlie north part of the northwest fractional quarter of section\\neight, town seven south, range one ea.st (Hudson), in the name of his brother, Nathan", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 2^\\nB. Kidder, and on the 37th day of July entered the west half of the northeast quarter\\nof section seven, same town, in the names of Hudson, Kidder and Young.\\nIn the month of May, 1833, Ebenezer Gay, of the State of New Hampshire, an old*\\nman and a widower, came to Michigan and stopped at the house of Cornelius Mills-\\nj)aw, on the Chicago road near the nortliwest corner of town five south, of range one\\neast (now Woodstock). According to Father Gay there was only one other house\\nnear, and that was the house of .James D. Van Houvenlnn-gh, also on the Chicago\\nroad, and within the limits of the present township of Somerset. He busied himseir\\nin the month of May looking land. While thus engaged, a man named Richard L.\\nLewis came there and joined him in his journeying through the wilderness. They\\npassed quite through town five south, one west,- into town six south now called\\nWheatlancL They came to a piece of land having a large spring on it. Gay said\\n**I will enter that, and took its description. They both reachad the land office in\\nMonroe the same day, but Lewis just enough in advance to enter Gay s spring lot.\\nThat day was the seventh day of June, and it is quite remarkable that the first land\\npurchased in Wheatland and the first in Pittsford were entered at the land office\\nthe same day. Gay entered land in both towns five and six south (Somerset and\\nWheatland), but Lewis in only the latter. Mr. Gay having secured his land, imme-\\nmediately wrote his son Timothy, who was then living in Albany, to come on and.\\nmake himself a home in the wildernsss.\\nOn the first day of June, 18.33, Stephen Lapham bought land on section four, iu\\ntown six south, one east (Rollin), and inunediately built a shanty and moved a maa\\ninto it. The man s name was Levi Thompson, and to him must be accorded the\\nfame of being the first settler in the Valley of the Bean, Erastus Aldrich settled, ire\\nAugust, on section nine, and in the month of October Joseph Beal and his son Porter\\nsettled on section ten.\\nSamuel Gregg, then of Adrian, piloted a party of mill men into the Beau creek-\\ncountry in search of water power. They left Adrian July 4th, 18.33, going by the way\\nof Mudge s Corners and Samuel Jordan s, this last near the south bend of the Raisin,\\nwhich was, Gregg says, the very verge of civilization in that direction. They fol-\\nlowed an old Indian trail, until they reached the creek on what is now the site of the\\nvillage of Canandaigua. It was dark when they arrived. They passed the night in\\nan old Indian wigwam. lu the morning they took their bearings and found they\\nwere at the southeast corner of section one, town eight south, range one east. They\\nresumed their journey, and followed Bean creek to a little stream just below where-\\nthe village of Morenci now stands, since called Silver creek. They did not find water-\\npower to suit, and returned to Adrian. Gregg was so pleased with the country he-\\nwrote his brother-in-law, William Cavender a glowing description. Cavender visitec\\nMichigan in August of that year, and selected lands on section six in town eight\\nsouth, range two east, and on section one town eight south, range one east, compris-\\ning the site of the village of Canandaigua and lands adjoining. The land was entered\\nat the land office the second day of September, the Seneca lands in his own name,,\\nthe Medina land in the name of Samuel Jordan. But this latter was afterwards-\\ndeeded to Cavender, according, no doubt, to an agr-eement entered into at the time the\\nland was taken up.\\nOn the 14th day of August, 18:53, Mr. Iliranr Kidder took with him from the Valley,\\nGeorge Lester and Henry C. Western, proceeded to his Bean creek pm-chase, and\\nrolled up the body of a log house and put a roof on it. This, the first log house within\\nthe limits of Hudson, was twenty-five feet square, and in the fall was finished off in\\nthe heighth of style, with chinked and mudded cracks, stick chimney, and puncheon,\\nfloor.\\nYielding to the solicitations of his father, on the last day of August, 1833, Timothy\\nGay, wife and three children, left Albany, in the State of New York, and arrived at\\nthe house of James Van Houvenburgh, in Somerset, on the night of the 18th day of\\nSeptember, 183:3. Tlic old gentleman wrote them to stop at Cornelius Millspaw s,", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "24 T HE BEAN CKEEK VALLEY.\\nwhere lie boarded, but tlie house was passed in the night without being observed.\\nThe same vessel that brought the family across Lake Erie, brought also several stage\\ncoaches to be put on a line in the JState of Illinois. At Detroit, the agent pro-\\nposed to Timothy Gay and the other men westward bound that if tlu V wou d lend a\\nhand in putting the coaches together he would give them a free passage to their des-\\ntination. The proposition was acceded to, and very soon the company were wallow-\\ning in the mud of the Chicago road. The ji)urney v/as a tedious one. Every house\\non the road was a tavern, and it was well it was so, for the progress was so slow that\\nmany houses of entertainment were necessary. Mrs. Gay and her children liad lived\\nin the city, and to them the euiigrant s fare seemed poor enough, and on tlie journey\\nout they nearly starved. At Osbonfs they inquired how far it was to Millspaw s.\\nTwo miles, was the answer. It was nearly dark, but the company pushed on, the\\nGays ])roposing to end their journey that iiiglit. ^Nlrs. Gay called out to the man in\\ncharge of the extra horses to go aliead and have the chickens cooked, and away he\\nwent. At the foot of a steep hill they were told they could save the ascent by taking\\na woods road around. The horses were reined into the by-road, but when the woods\\nwere fairly entered, the darkness was so great that the men liad to lead tlie liorses to\\nkeep them in the road. When they emen^ ed from the wood inglit had set in, in ear-\\nnest, and they floundeivd on in the nnid and darkness, the two miles seeming inter-\\nminable. At last they weiv eneouiaged hy the sight of a light, and soon weic at tlie\\ndoor of a log house. A man ran out, looked into the coach, and asked, Is this Mr.\\nGay and family? Yes. Come right in. It was the good Mr. Van llouven-\\nburgh making his future neighbors welcome. In the darkness they had passed Mills-\\npaw s unv. ittingly, and traveled three instead of two ndles. IJut here, too, they found\\ntlieir niessen-er. lie stopped at Millspaw s, but finding the house full, without re-\\nvealing ho tin: passengers were, had pushed on and ordered supper at Van Ilouven-\\nburg s. And a royal good supper it was, too. In the morning old Mr. Gay came over\\nto see who the strangers were, and to his surprise and delight found his son and\\nfamily. Well, Nancy. said the old man, you have got along at last. I don t\\n:know l)ut we will all starve to death. The ld iu:in had ague-))le;e he(l until he\\nseemed to have no blood in his veins, and it was no wondei- he felt gloomy. The old\\nman had jn oenred a little ]iieee ehojijied, and very soon a log house \\\\\\\\;h reatly for\\noccupancy, although for years it had hnt one window, with a single six-lighted seven-\\nby-nine sash. Until Avinter there was no chimney in the house. 3Irs. (iay did the\\ncooking for her family of eight to ten persons over an out-door fire. She had neither\\noven or bake-kettle, but in lieu thereof baked her bread in a deep spider, that had a\\ncan-to))ped cover fitted to it. Late in the fall, a stone hearth and a stick chimney\\nwere biult. The house was not large, and had two outside doors on opposite sides.\\nWhen building the stone hearth they had to use large rocks, as flat stones could not\\nbe procured in sufficient quantities. They loaded the* stones on a stone-boat, drew it\\nnear the door, and then taking the oxen around, passed the chains through the house\\nand drew the rocks in. This occasioned Mrs. Gay to write her Albany friends:\\nWe hav(i our house nearly done. They are now drawing the stones into the house\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2with two yoke of oxen. It was twenty years before her friends solved the mystery.\\nThe Gays cleared a small piece of land and sowed it to A\\\\heat. Several families had\\nmoved into the township between the arrival of Ebenezer Gay and the arrival of\\nTimothy and family. Heman Pratt, Horace White and Da\\\\id Harrington came in\\nJune 8th, Elias Branch, June 1st, and Elias Alley came in December 8th.\\nIn October Hiram Kidder moved his family from the Valley to Bean creek. They\\narrived on the evening of Tuesday, the 29th. The family consisted of Mr. and Mrs\\nKidder, their children, Harriet, Calista, Addison, Maria and Nathan, and two men\\nwho assisted them in moving. The house was yet unfinished, and indeed it had no\\nfloors, doors nor windows. To the eastward it was twelve miles to the nearest abode\\nof civilized man. Near the shores of Devil s Lake there was a solitary cabin, and\\nihere were a few houses along the Chicago road from fifteen to twenty miles distant.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CKEEK VALLEY. 25\\n1but all to the westwartl and southward was one vast wilderness. At about sunset on\\nthe first day of November, 1833, the Ames family arrived at the Kidder habitation.\\nThe party consisted of Charles Ames and wife, Miss Ball, a sister of Mrs. Ames,\\nElizabeth Ames, since Mrs. James Sprague, Henry, William, and Ezra Ames, and\\nAlpheus Pi-att. Mr. Pratt had left his wife and child at the house of Mr. Lj-man\\nPease, about one mile west of Adrian, where they remained about one week, resting\\nfrom the fatigues of the journey. The night before the most of the party had lodged\\nat the house of Stephen Perkins, about four miles west of Adrian, and all that day\\nhad wended their way through the wilderness intervening between there and Bean\\ncreek. There was about four inches of snow on the ground. A wagon way had been\\nimderbrushed among the trees, but covered with snow, it could only be follo^ved by the\\nblazed trees which marked its course. Mrs. Charles Ames had a seven-weeks old\\nbabe and was compelled to ride, but the girls. Miss Ball and Elizabeth Ames, walked\\nnearly all the way, sitting down occasionally on a log by the roadside, they wi img\\nthe water from their stockings, and then proceeded on their journey until it became\\nnecessary to repeat the operation. They found Mr. Kidder s house yet unfinished it\\nlacked doors, windows and chinniey. The newcomers were welcomed and treated to\\nthe best the house afforded, a supper and a bed upon the floor. The next morning,\\none of the party relates, it w as necessary to unload a barrel of pork before breakfast\\ncould be prepare l. The barrel slipped from their hands and rolled away, about six\\nrods down the hill. Charles, worn out by the jom-ney, and worried because of the\\nIllness of his wife and babe, sat dov\u00c2\u00bb n on the barrel at the foot of the hill, and wished\\nliiraself and family back to Buffalo. Vain wish Buffalo was more than a thousand\\nmiles to the eastward, over the frozen lake. No railways, Of even wagon roads, for\\nmany a mile between the actual and longed-for place of location. Sitting on and around\\nthat pork barrel, the prospects of the new colony were discussed, and an agreement\\nreached to remain together five years, and {lien if the prospects were no better, they\\nshould be at liberty to divide and separately try their fortunes elsewhere. Indeed it\\nwas a time to try men s souls\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in a wilderness, at the beginning of winter, twelve\\nmiles from the nearest house, dependant on their present store for subsistence\\nthrough a long winter, without any means of securing help from friends without. It\\nneeded stout hearts and firm resolves to master the situation. After breakfast it was\\ndetermined to first finish the house they had. Henry was a carpenter, and he pro-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ceeded to make the windows and doors; the others prepared the chinks and the\\nsticks for the chinniey, Hiram Kidder taking the general supervision of the whole\\nmatter. In a few days the house was made quite comfortable, but the party was so\\nlarge a part of the cooking had to be done out of doors, which, on account of the cold\\nweather, proved disagreeable business for the ladies of the colony.\\nWhile the Ames party were at Clinton, on their way in, they were accosted by a\\ntrapper and hunter with the query where they were going. They told him of tlie\\n.Bean Creek Country, whither they were traveling, and enlarged upon the quality of\\nland and quantity of game. Jesse Smith, for that was the hunter s name, said that\\nhe was land-looking, and if there was any good country out there he would see it. He\\nthrew his traps into one of the wagons, shouldered his gun, and marched on. He skir-\\nmished around the party, frequently making them calls, until they reached the house\\nof Stephen Perkins, on the last day of October. From there he went on a hunting ex-\\ncursion, and a few days after the arrival of the party at the Creek he came in, and\\nbelieving he had found the country for which he had been looking, he started for Mon-\\nroe. As was usual with him, lie took a free course through the woods and the first\\nnight encamped alone in the woods in the vicinity of Devil s Lake. The next morn-\\ning he visited a temporary Indian camp near by, and after that visited the house of\\nMr. Thompson, who had settled near the lake, where he breakfasted. The next night\\nhe lodged at the house of a Mr. Taylor, on the east side of Kound Lake. The morn-\\ning after, Smith sent his baggage on to Adrian by a teamster and proceeded on foot\\ntoward the same place. In the vicinity of the Raisin he met a party of land-lookers,", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "26 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nwho were on their way to the lakes. He described to them the advantages of the\\nBean Creek Country. They were inclined to turn that way, and asked Mr. Smith tO\\npilot them in. Two of the party were Oliver Purchase (a bachelor brother of the late\\nWilliam Purchase) and Samuel Vangauder. In two or three days Mr. Purchase had\\nmade his selection, and leaving Vangauder to take and keep possession, Messrs.\\nSmith and Purchase started for the land office at Monroe. There they arrived on the\\nsixth of November. Mr. Purchase entered his land on the same day, but for some as yet\\nunexplained reason Mr. Smith s was not entered until the 15th of that month\u00e2\u0080\u0094 about\\nthe time he thinks he arrived home at Albion, New York. Mr. Purchase returned tO\\nhis land and immediately built a cabin, in which he and Vangauder wintered.\\nBut to return. As soon as Mr. Kidder s house had been made comfortable, the\\nAmes family looked out a site for a house of their own. A spot on the bank of Hills-\\ndale creek was selected, and the clearing of the ground and the cutting of logs\\ncommenced. The work had progressed but little when the provisions gave out, and\\nAlpheus Pratt and Ezra Ames were sent to Adrian for a supply, distance eighteen\\nmiles. They accomplished the round trip in five days, having slept one night under\\ntheir wagon in the twelve mile woods. The wolves all night long howled for their\\nentertaimnent a soul-stirring chorus, that, to use the words of one of the party, made\\ntheir hair stand on end. They reached home in safety, however, bringing with them\\neight hundred pounds of provisions. By the time the party retiu-ned from Adrian\\nthe logs were prepared for the liouse, and tlie work of drawing them in and laying\\nthem up commenced but it was a new kind of work and moved slowly. In about\\nfive weeks, however, the house was so far completed that the Ames people moved\\ninto it.\\nAs soon as the Ames mansion was completed, Alpheus Pratt and Henry Ames\\nlooked about for places to build houses for themselves. Pratt selected land on seo-\\ntion thirteen, town seven south, one west (Pittsford), since known as the Bush farm,\\nand Ames selected the west sub-division of the northwt!st fractional quarter of sec-\\ntion eighteen, town seven south, range one east (Hudson), the farm on which the\\nvenerable Clark Ames now lives. They entered their land at the :Monroe land office\\nDecember 5th, 1833, and before the first day of January following, Pratt had a house\\nfar enough advanced to be inhabited.\\nOn the ninth day of November, 1833, Francis H. Hagaman and Gershom Bennett\\npurchased of the United States lands on section 31, in Dover, and section 6, in Seneca,\\nand the same month erected a log house near the northwest corner of the township of\\nSeneca. Samuel Gregg, desirous of opening a road to his brother-in-law s new pur-\\nchase, induced the lliyhwny Connnissioners of the township of Blissfield to layout\\nthe angling road leading northeasterly from Canandaigua. The surveying party went\\nto Cavender s purchase, in tlie month of November, to connnence the siu-vey of the\\nroad. Mr. Gregg says they found Hagaman and Bennett there, having arrived the\\nday previous and conmienced building a house. The sm-veying party encamped on.\\nthe ground that niglit. The next morning there was several inches of snow on the\\nground, and the survey was postponed for a while, but was executed and the road es-\\ntablished during the winter of 1833 and 34.\\nLate in the fall or in the early part of the winter, Silas Moore came to the house of\\nTimothy Gay, on the Chicago road, and desired to be piloted to some land of his in\\ntown seven soutli, range one west (Wheatland). He had purchased the land of Lewis\\nand was moving on it. Timothy Gay underbrushed a road for him to his land and\\nhelped him cut logs and roll up the body of a log house. They succeeded in getting\\nthe upper floor beams in position, but had not help enough to roll up the logs abov.b\\nthe beams. Tliey heard, a little way off, the sound of Indians cliopping. Mr. Gay\\nsaid he would go and get the Indians to help roll the logs. The others laughed at the\\nidea of an Indian rolling logs; but a way Vent Gay to find the Indians, They were\\nchopping a be( tree after the usual Indian style of hacking around and around. Mr.\\nGay made known his wants as well as he could, and they sliowed him the ti-ee was", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nabout to tall, and proiuised to help him as soon as it should fall. lie waited patiently\\nuntil the tree fell, and then, after a brief examination to see that the honey was not,\\nwasting, they accompanied Mr. Gay and afforded valuable assistance in rolling the\\nlogs on to the building. This done, Mr. Moore brought out his jug and treated the In-\\ndians to a drink of whisky. The Indians went away, but soon returned with a large\\nquantity of very nice honey and in turn treated the white men. The jug again went\\naround, and the white men and Indians parted very good friends. The precise date\\nof the coming of Mr. !Moore into the Valley cannot now be ascertained, lie entered\\nsome land in liis own name November 2.3d, but whether that occurred before, at the\\ntime, or subsequent to his settlement does not appear.\\nBeside those already named, the following persons purchased land in the Valley\\nduring 1 S3\\nIn town five south, one east (Wooilstock)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .lohn T. Comstock, William Western,\\nGeorge F. Comstock, George Barnum, Philip Kennedy and George W. Clark.\\nIn town six south, one east (Rollin)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Skane, George F. Comstock, Richarat\\nRobinson, Jonathan Birdsall, Sands Brownell, James Hathaway, Iliram Beal, Ga-\\nmaliel Beal, Joseph C. Beal, Patience Comstock and Isaiah C. Sliller.\\nIn town seven south, one east (Hudson)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles Van Court, Henry Hayward,\\nOliver Purchase, Simeon Van Akin, Caleb N. Ormsby and Addison J. Comstock.\\nIn town five south, one west (Somerset)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ileman Pratt, June 8th Horace White,.\\nJune 8th; Ellas Branch, June 1st; Elias Alley, December 3d; and David Herrington,\\nJune 8th.\\nIn town six south, one west (Wheatland)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ebenezer Gay, June 7th Mahlon Brown,.\\nJacob Brown and Edmund B. Brown, Jime 6th.\\nIn town seven south, one west (Pittsford)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Hurdsman, Oct. 30th Jesse\\nSmith, Nov. 15tli William and Elizabeth Ames, Dec. 5th Curren White, Sept. atth\\nStephen Wilcox, Nov. 20th; John Gustin, Dec. .5th and 6th; William Flowers, Oct..\\n30th; Isaac French, Dec. 10th.\\nIn town five south, two west (Moscow), a settlement had already been connnenced.\\nPeter Benson had settled on the Chicago road, within the limits of that township,\\nsome time during the year 1831, but he remained only a short time. Land was also\\nentered that year by, or for, tlie following named persons Samuel Aiken, July 23d\\nOsmond B. Blackmar, July 23d and Pontius Hooper, July 2d.\\nIn 18.32 Samuel Aiken settled on his land, and Lyman Blackmar, father of Osmond\\nB. Blackmar, settled on the land entered in his son s name the year previous. At first\\nhe had only eighty acres of land, but by frequent purchases he became the owner of\\nmore than one thousand acres of choice land. He had one of the handsomest, farms\\nin the county. Judge Blackmar lived on his farm until his decease, which occurred\\nin the spring of 1874, forty-two years after his advent to the peninsula of Michigan..\\nBenjamin Fowle entered land in the township July 3d.\\nIn 1833 Charles Fowle settled on his land, and the following named persons entered\\nlands David Ililler, Jan. 2.5th Thomas Watts, July 15th John Simmons, June 1st\\nTompkins C. Dellivan, Charles T. Dellivan, Lucius Lyon, Alonzo Kies and Charles\\nStock, June 1st.\\nWinter had now fairly settled down upon the settlements in the Valley; but the\\nsettlers were not idle. Aiding land-lookers, hunting the deer and wolf, and felling\\nthe forests, they were a busy set of men. Mrs. C. R. Beach, a daughter of Mr. Hiram\\nKidder, thus writes of the scenes or that winter:\\nThe excitement of this first winter was an ever changing drama; the land-look-\\ners, the wolf trappers and deer hunters. I remember a manner of sleeping in those\\ndays that would hardly do in these modern times. It was a sort of general bed that\\ncovered the entire floor of the house. I have seen Mrs. Kidder picking her way over\\nthe heads and toes of this pavement of sleeping men, women and children, early in\\nthe morning, to get things started for breakfast that she might be able to supply the\\ndemands of all for breakfast. And every night brought a new set of lodgers.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "28 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nAikI now. reader, let ns iiuaginc ourselves ensconsed beside one of those old fire-\\nplaees, filled with burning logs, and listen to some of the tales of those days.\\nAn adventurer (one of the kid gloved kind), dressed in broadcloth, with beaver\\nhat and calf boots, anxious to become a land speculator, started on foot from Adrian\\nto the Bean Creek Countrj-. In the evening one of the children reported to Mrs. Kid-\\nder that something white out in the bushes kept flopping its wings. Observing it for\\na moment, the object left the brush and came to the door. Mrs. Kidder was much\\nsurprised to find it a man. Our would-be speculator had been thrown down so\\nmany times by his long-toed boots that, fearing his fine clothes would be spoiled, he\\nhad changed his habit by putting his white cotton-flannel under-clothes on over his\\nbroadcloth, and thus became the white fowl that flopped its wings to the terror of\\nthe children.\\n]Mr. Kidder was awakened one night by the squealing of some hogs in an enclosure\\nnear by. A bear had entered the enclosure, killed one hog, and, seating himself on\\nthe carcass, proceeded to hold the other hog in fond embrace xnitil it, too, was dead.\\nOne night JMr. Kidder was absent, having gone out that morning with some land-\\nlookers. :Mrs. Kidder put the children in bed, and laid dowm too, hopiii-; ;it Irast to\\nget a little rest. She thought of wolves, bears and Indians until she fell asleep. ,Soon\\nafter she was awakened by a noise like the gnawing and crunching of bones. She\\narose in terror to see which of her darlings had become a prey to the beasts. She went\\nquickly to the fire-place, and taking a fire brand, turned toward the door. She found\\na horse in the doorway the blanket which had served as a door now served as a\\nheadKlress for the horse. The horse was neither in the house nor out of doors.\\nThere was no floor on that side of the house, and as he rested across the log that\\n.served as a door-sill his feet could not reach the ground. lie could neither advance\\nor retreat. In this dilemma he had seized a tin pan and was biting it, which made\\nthe peculiar noise that had alarmed Mrs. Kidder.\\nOne morning a stranger appeared at Mr. Kidder s door and introduced himself as\\nFrancis II. Ilagaman, Mr. Kidder s nearest neighbor, living only twelve miles away.\\nBut few remain of those who called the Kidder. settlement home in 1833-34:. Mrs.\\nKidder, the first white woman settler in the Valley of the Bean south of Devil s Lake,\\nstill lingers among us. Then she was in the vigor of early womanhood. The follow-\\ning description of that young wife and mother as she appeared amidst the scenes of\\nthe October evening when she first gazed on a sunset from her pioneer cabin door, is\\n(pioted from a paper prepared by Mrs C. R. Beach, once before quoted in tliese pages.\\nIt is a daughter s fond recollection of her mother s early loveliness, but it will be none\\nthe less interesting on that account: A log cabin on the brow of a hill at its base a\\nlittle stream whose ripple could be heard at its summit. It was sunset. From the\\naperture left for a doorway the view is obsti ucted by dense forests. Before us, cfti\\nthe right hand, on the left hand, all around us on every side, were deep, dark forests.\\nThe departing sun gilded for awhile the beautiful canopy of brown, crimson and\\nyellow leaves, and then the shades of night drew on and all were wrapped in im-\\npenetrable gloom. At this moment another home, with its vacant places beside the\\ncheerful fireside, the school and college days, with well remembered class-mates, all\\n?ame back on memory s wings to add intensely to home-sick feelings, which, despite\\nstrong endeavor, came over the sjnrit of that young wife and mother as, standinc;\\nthere with head uncovered but wreathed in golden curls, she views her future home.\\nThose golden locks are silvered now those strong arms are palsied by the lapse of\\nyears but her heart seems as young and blithe as ever. Yes, the kind-hearted\\npioneer woman is in the sere and yellow leaf of life, but some of her associates of\\n1833 remain to call her blessed. Alpheus Pratt, Henry, William and Ezra Ames and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Jesse .Smith remain, all, too, save Ezra, in the autumn of life, waiting to be sum-\\nmoned over the river. Old Uncle Simeon Van Akin, himself more feeble than Mrs.\\nKidder, exclaimed, not long since: Whj-, there s ]Mrs. Kidder; she kept us from\\nstarving I", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 29\\nThe following story is told as illustrative of Mrs. Kidder s kindness of heart She\\nliad one child\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a daughter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in delicate health, one day a party of twenty-six persons\\narrived at her house. They. had been lost in the woods and were very hungi-y. The\\nlast provisions had been cooked, ]Mr. Kidder had gone for a supply, and it was hoped\\nthese would last the family until his return. It took several days to go to market\\nth(Mi, and the day of return was by no means certain but Mrs. Kidder could not re-\\nsist the appeals of hungry fellow-beings. Iler entire store was placed before the\\nlunigry crowd. Still they were not satisfied, and one woman bemoaned her fate in\\nbitter terms. Soon one of the boys came in and said Mamma, is there not some-\\nthing Maria can eat? No, said Mi-s. Kidder. Soon he came again. Ain t there\\nsome potatatoes that Maria can have? Was not some dropped around the hr)le whence\\nthey were taken? No, my son there are none. Soon after. Maria fainted. Why how\\nlong is it since that child has had anything to eat? asked the lady who was making\\nsuch a fuss. None since morning, said Mrs. Kidder. God bless the child went up\\nin chorus from twentv-six voices. Why said the lady, I have just had something to\\neat, and I am repining while the child is starving. Just then the signal gun an-\\nnounced the arrival of Mr. Kidder on the hill, east of the creek, and summoning aid to\\ndescend the dangerous declivity. It was ten o clock when the wagon reached tlie\\ndoor that night, but supper had to be prepared for the family and the guests before\\nsleep was thought of.\\nBesides the exciting scenes incident to land explorations, it became necessary for\\nour settlers to become acquainted with their Indian neighbors. The Indians here\\nwere the Potawatomies, who had been crowded by the settlement of the eastern por-\\ntion of the State into this then unbroken forest. They had a village or camping\\nground in the southwest part of the township known as Somerset, and another in the\\nsouthwestern part of Pittsford. Of these villages Meteau and Bawbeese were the\\nchiefs. The principal Indian trail extendetl from Detroit to Chicago, nearly where\\nthe Chicago road now is. A ti ail left this in the northeastern part of the county, and\\nlead off, through the townships of Dover and Medina, to Defiance. Another left the\\nmain trail near Silver Lake, skirted Devil s Lake, passed near the Kidder settlement,\\nto Squawfield, in southwestern Pittsford. Another connected the Indian villages;\\nand still another, leaving the main trail at .Jonesville, passed through Squawfield,\\nMedina and Morenci, and terminated at the rapids of the Maimiee. These were the In-\\ndian thoroughfares, and into them came, and from them went many lesser trails, all as\\nwell known to an Indian as our roads are to the present denizens of the land. It was\\ndesirable they should be friends it was quite possible they might on acquaintance\\ndevelop into enemies. Mrs. Gay relates that at first a single native visited her house.\\nHe stayed all day, but not a word would he speak, and the family concluded he could\\nneither speak nor understand English. Mr. Timothy Gay was from home. Old Mr.\\nGay, a hired man and the children composed the family that day. Mrs. Gay resolved\\nthat no hindrance should be placed in the way of amicable relation, so when dinner\\nwas ready she, by signs, asked the Indian to sit at tlie table and eat dinner with the\\nfamily. lie accepted the invitation and behaved in a very orderly manner. During\\nthe meal conversation, among the circle, turned upon the Indians.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 their character and\\ndoings,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and tlie Indians were fully discussed. Mrs. Gay had recently come from the\\nState of New York, and had heretofore lived at a great distance fi-om the Indians..\\nHer ideas of Indian character had been formed by reading the opinions of philanthrop-\\nic minds, and she Avas in full sympathy with poor Lo. The other members of the\\nfamily did not agi-ee with her notions and instanced the many acts of cruelty connnit-\\nted by them as arguments against the Indian character, but Mrs. Gay defended them\\non the ground that they had first been ill treated by the whites. Notwithstanding the\\ndiscussion was very free, the harshest expression against the Indians was made by Mr.\\nGay in summing up his case: Well, they are cruel cusses anyway. The Indian\\ncarried himself as stoically as if he really did not understand a Avord of what was said.\\nAt evening the Indian went away. But Mrs. Gay was very much sui-prised the next", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "30 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\ntlay when anotlier Indian made his appearance at her honse unannounced. He was a\\ntall man of noble ])earing, and was dressed, as for a State occasion, in blue frock coat,\\npants and vest, and had three gold medals on his breast. He was evidently a man of\\nsome distinction among his people. He seated himself without speaking a word, and\\nsoon after the Indian visitor of tlie pre\\\\-ious day made his appearance. There the two\\nsat, close observers of all that passed, but speechless. Once during the forenoon\\nMrs. Gay went to the hearth to look at her yeast, which was being prepared for her\\nbaking. As she uncovered the yeast vessel she was surprised to hear the ejaculation,\\nTurnpike She looked up and found both the Indians peering over her head at the\\nyeast. Smiling, to reassure the natives and to draw them out, she asked, What you\\ncall him? but not a word could she get out of either of them. Their presence at the\\ndinner table again this day brought up the subject of yesterday s conversation, and\\nagain Mrs. Gay assumed the task of defending tlie Indians, and, as some excuse for\\ntheir conduct, instanced the fact that Michigan land had been purchased of them at\\ntwo and a-half cents an acre, and now, said Mrs. Gay, the Government is selling\\nto settlers for one dollar and a (luarter an acre. The Indians ate as though they\\nheard not, and resumed tlieir waiting and watching attitude of the forenoon and day\\nprevious. Along towards niglit the babe became restless and cried a considerable.\\nMrs. Gay tiled in vain to quiet him, and at last she said, If you don t be still I will\\nhave this Indian carry you off. The child continuing to cry, she said, Here, Indi-\\nan, carry this baby oif. Where to, mam? said the Indian, in pretty good English.\\nMrs. Gay was startled, but she determined not to appear alarmed, so she said, O,\\nanywhere. I don t know, said the Indian. At night the two Indians withdrew,\\nbut on their next visit, and ever after, were talkative enough, and seemed to have no\\ndifficulty in speaking or understanding English and the tribe ever after were the fast\\nfriends of Mr. Gay s family. One of Mrs. Gay s two visitors was named She-gau-ken\\nand the other Kesus.\\nWe shall have occasion to refer to two other Indians freciuently Mag-in-a-swot\\nand Me-mag-in-a-swot. ;Mag-in-a-swot was the brother-in-law of Meteau. He was a\\nnoble man and so peaceful in his disposition that he had received the sobnquet of the\\nPeace Chief. Me-mag-in-a-swot was a good-for-nothing, drunken Indian, possess-\\ning a wonderful faculty for getting into difficulty and making himself disagi-eeable\\ngenerally.\\nThe reader has already, perhaps, guessed what the Indians meant by the ejacula-\\ntion, Turnpike. They had seen the builders of the Chicago road heap up the dirt\\nin oval form, and had been told it was a turnpike, and wlien they saw the light yeast\\nin the same form they named it turnpike.\\nShe-gau-ken was young, good-looking, and very playful. One day, being at the\\nhouse and in one of his playful moods, he turned the yeast over, and Mrs. Gay took\\nup a stick and chased him out of doors. He stuck his head in at the door and said\\nSquaw Nancy plenty mad? He went to the shop and told William (the Indians\\nalways called Timothy, William) Squaw Nancy plenty mad. Mr. Gay asked\\nWhat did you do? Me spill turnpike.\\nIndians like fair dealing, and will not trade with those who prove to be dishonest,\\neither with them or with other white people. A story in point is t jld by Mrs. Gay.\\nOne day a trade was pending between one of the Indians and herself, but she had not\\nthe right change. The neighbors were unable to change her money, and she had\\napplied to the shopkeeper, but was told he had no change. The Indian visited the\\nstore and came back in a great rage. He said, Him plenty cheat; he have heap of\\ns/iunia/i. The shopman had offered to purchase his stuff, and to induce him to\\ntrade had shown him a handful of coin.\\nOne day She-gau-ken brought a lot of their wares to trade with Mrs. Gay. She told\\nhim she would give him so much napinah (flour) and so much shunlah (money).\\nGood squaw Nancy, give whisky? No; Indian must not drink whisky. Ah,\\ngood squaw Nancy, give little whisky. No, She-gau-ken, no whisky. A woman", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 31\\nhappening to be there said, Talte them to my house; I ll give whisky. No, said\\nShe-gau-ken plenty cheat. Mr. Branch, who lived some three miles west on the\\nChicago road, was in the other part of the house, used as a store. He called to the In-\\ndian, Take them to my house; I give whisky. No; me no take to Branch house;\\nplenty water whisky. Good Squaw Nancy, give whisky. After teasing Mrs. Gay\\nawhile, She-gau-ken said, Good Squaw Nancy, take em.\\n18.34.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Kiddek Settlement.\\nCharles and William Ames were absent from the settlement during the w inter,\\nworking at their ti-ade (shoemaking) in Detroit.\\nOn the 23d day of January, Charles, the six-year-old son of Alpheus Pratt, was lost\\nin the woods. Mr. Pratt was chopi ing not very far from his house. The little boy\\nhad gone to his father to call him to supper. Mr. Pratt coming in soon after, was\\nasked where Charley was. He had not seen Charley, and fears were at once enter-\\ntained that he was lost. Mr. Pratt at once retm-ned to the woods and searched until\\ndark, but could not find the child. He returned to the house for his lantern, to con-\\ntinue the search. Mrs. Pratt went alone, on foot, nearly a mile through the woods, to\\nthe house of Charles Ames, and informed Henry and Ezra Ames of the affair, and\\nthey, immediately procuring the assistance of Kidder and Tabor, joined in the search.\\nThe father had found the boy s track. This they attempted to follow, but as there\\nwas a crust on the snow, they found it a difficult task. They continued the search for\\na long time, until they became tired, cold and discoui aged, and concluding the boy\\ncould not be found, the assistants gave u] the search and built a fire to warm them-\\nselves, also to serve as a protection against wild beasts. The father, intent on finding\\nhis child, paid no attention to their proceedings, but went forward, calling, Charley!\\nCharley and soon heard the answering voice of little Charley. Clasped in the anns\\nof a grateful father, the boy was taken to the fire. He was benumbed and his feet\\nwere frozen. The child told of having seen dogs in the woods, and no doubt was en-\\ntertained but that the boy had been visited in his wilderness wanderings by wolves,\\nwhich, for some unexplained reason, did not harm him. Who will say he was not\\nprovidentially preserved? To reach iiome was the object next to be attained, but their\\nwhereabouts Avas only a matter of conjecture. They supposed themselves to be west\\nand south of the settlement, and accordingly they directed their course towards the\\nnortheast as well as they could, having only the north star for a guide. After some\\nhours traveling, they struck the well-known Indian trail about three miles west of\\nCharles Ames house. They arrived home about sunrise, and restored the boy to the\\narms of an almost despairing mother. The party were unable to tell where tliey found\\nthe boy, but suppose it to have been a little south of the village of Pittsford.\\nIn the month of February Thomas Pennock, being at Jackson, undertook to make\\nthe Kidder settlement. He reached the settlement on the Chicago road since called\\nGamble ville all right, and hired a man to pilot him through the woods to the the Kid-\\nder settlement. But shortly after starting it commenced snowing, and the driving\\niiuow so blinded and confused the guide that he became lost, and our tvavelers, after\\nwandering about all day, were obliged to stay in the woods all night, and that, too,\\nwithout any fire, for they were without the means of kindling one. They were wet\\nand thoroughly chilled, and soon after night set in, the guide, saying^ie could stand it\\nno longer, laid down in the snow to die. Pennock cut a switch and by frequently\\nswitching him briskly kept him up on his feet and saved his life. Dm-ing the night\\nthe storm abated, and the next morning Avas bright. The cheerful rays of the sun\\nrevived courage in their hearts, and taking the track, they followed it as best they\\ncould, and reached Gambleville about three o clock in the afternoon, tired, faint and\\n-hungi-y,", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "32 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nPennock staid there that night, and tlie next morning fonnd an Indian who said he\\nknew where the white Chemhenuin, or white black-haired man\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kidder\u00e2\u0080\u0094 lived on the\\nNebish, where there were two wigwams all alone. Committing himself to the\\nguidance of the red man, they followed an Indian trail to Devil s Lake, and thence on\\na ti-ail leading to Squaw-field, in Pittsford, the camping ground of the tribe of which\\nMeteau was chief. They crossed the Kidder -road a little east of Kidder s house.\\nHere the Indian stopped and said to Pennock, Go on this road and you will find two\\nwigwams on the Nebish. This tribe called water nebish, but here used the term to\\nsignify the creek. Pennock gave his guide a silver dollar, and he turned back\\ntowards the lake, while Pennock iiroceeded to the settlement, Vfhere he arrived about\\nthe middle of the afternoon, sick and weary from the effects of travel and exposure.\\nPemiock afterwards became satisfied that the night he spent in the woods snoAV-\\nbound, he staid someAvhere in the vicinity of the present village of Rollin.\\nBy an act of the Legislative Council, approved March 7th, 1834, several changes-\\nwer e made in the townships of Lenawee county. Towns seven south, in ranges\\none, two and three east (Madison, Dover and Hudson), were organized into a sepa-\\nrate township and named Lenawee; towns eight, nine, and fractional ten south,\\nin ranges one, two and three east (Fairfield, Seneca and Medina in Michigan, and\\nRoyalton, Chesterfi^d and Gorhani, now in Ohio), were organized into a township\\nnamed Fairfield; and all that part of the township of Tecumseh comprised iu\\ntownships six south, in ranges one, two and three east, (the north half of Rollin,.\\nRome and Adrian,) was attachetl to the township of Logan.\\nIn the month of March, 1834, Sylvenus Estes came to the Bean Creek Country, and\\nthe 15tli day of that month entered land on section ten, town seven south, one w^est\\n(Pittsford), in the name of his wife, Ruth Estes. Dm-ing the same month his brother,\\nRufus Estes, came in and assisted his brother in chopping a piece for spring crops.\\nIn the same month also, March, 1834, Reuben Davis located the middle sub-division\\nof the southwest fractional (piarter of section eighteen, town seven south, one east\\n(Hudson) and conuuenci d building a log house. That lot of land now forms a part of\\nthe village of Hudson, it being that portion lying north of Main street and bet^veen\\nChurch and High streets. The house he commenced stood in the vicinity of Market\\nstreet, between Main street and the railroad.\\nOn the 7th day of April, 18.34, the first township meeting of the township of Lena-\\nwee Avas held. Calvin Bradish was moderator, and N. D. fSlceels was clerk of the\\nelection. Officers were elected as follows: Supervisor, Garret Teiibrooke; Town-\\nship Clerk, Isaac A. Colvin; Assessors, John Hitchins, Patrick Hamilton and Levi\\nShumway; Collector, Ezra Washburn; Overseers of the Poor, Nehemiah Bassett and\\nElijah Johnson; Commissioners of HighAvays, Jacob Jackson, Samuel Bayless and\\nMoses C. Baker; Constable, Ezra V/ashburn; Commissioners of Schools, Lyman\\nPease, Isaiah Sabens and JohnPoAver; School Inspectors, Curran Bradish, Thomas\\nF. Dodge, William Edmunds and Isaac A. Colvin.\\nThe toAvnship meeting voted to pay three dollars for every Avolf slain Avithin the\\ntoAvnship, and one dollar and fifty cents for each Avolf whelp. During the year Bart\\nWhite was paid bounty on six Avolves, and William Winslow a bounty on one Avolf.\\nIn the latter part of April, Jesse Smith, accompanied by his family,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a wife and\\nfive childreiT,^started for their possessions in the Bean Creek Country. At Buifalo\\nthey shipped on the steamboat William Penn for Monroe. The steamboats of that\\nperiod Avere clumsy affairs. It Avas early in the season, and their progress Avas neces-\\nsarily slow. At Monroe he hired tAvo teams to bring his family and goods to Adrian.\\nHere it became necessary to dispose of some boots and shoes, and a neAV Avagon\\nwhich he Avas bringing into the country. From his sales he realized tAventy-seven\\nbushels of wheat and ten dollars in money. The Avheat, except enough to feed the\\nteams on the road, A\\\\as left at the Adrian mill to be ground. With the money, Mrs.\\nSmith having sold feathers to pay their tavern bill, Jlr. Smith hired tAVO more teams,\\nand AVith his Avife and three children started for Kidder s. His tAVO older boys and", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 33\\nWilliam Purchase, who was coming to his brother Oliver, had gone on foot in ad-\\nvance. The first day tliey traveled four miles. The next day one of the teams gave\\nout about noon the goods were imloaded and piled up by the roadside, and the team\\nsent back. With the remaining team and load they toiled on through the afternoon,\\nbut at dark were compelled to camp in the woods, a little south of Posey Lake. Two\\nof the children were put in bed in the wagon. Mrs. Smith sat up all niglit and held\\nthe babe in her arms. The next morning they resumed their journey, and soon after\\nthey were met by their sons, Lorenzo and William, who had been through to the set-\\ntlement and reported the approach of the family. The boys were accompanied by\\nMr. Vangauder witli a yoke of oxen, which enabled them to double teams. Van-\\ngauder and the l)oys managed the teams, while Mr. Smith, with the babe in his arms,\\ntrudged along on foot. Tliey reached Kidder s about noon, where dinner was wait-\\ning for tliem.\\nHere tlie Smith family were at last\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in the Michigan woods, with but fifty cents in\\npocket. ^lessrs. Purchase and Vangauder were bachelors. The house they had\\nbuilt and wintered in was tendered to Mr. Smith, and here he sheltered his family\\nuntil the 20th day of August, when they moved into a house of tlieir own. Mr. Pur-\\nchase had chopped the timber down on quite a large piece of gi oimd around his\\nhouse; this he offered to Smith for a corn-field. Mr. Smith and sons logged and\\nburned it off, and planted it to corn and potatoes. On this ground they raised fifty\\nbushels of corn and forty bushels of potatoes. These two articles were important\\nfactors in their next winter s subsistance. The lakes and streams were filled with\\nfishes, there was an abundance of game in the woods, and stores of honey deposited\\nin convenient hollows by the ever busy bee; these Mr. Smith knew how to capture\\nand bring in, and, with his corn and potatoes, sufficed for the sustenance of his family\\nand nimierous adventurers, none of whom were ever turned from his door hungry.\\nMr. Smith was accounted\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and no doubt justly\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a great hunter, as it is said he spent\\nthe greater part of his time at that business but there are boys of that period who\\nwill not admit that he was a better shot than Kuf us Estes indeed, they called Mr. Estes\\nthe crack shot of the Bean Creek Valley. Both these worthy men are still living.\\nFor some years Mr. Smith has been blind, but Mr. Estes yet does six days work in a\\nweek.\\nEarly in the spring Henry Ames retm-ned to the Eastern States for his wife, who\\nhad been left behind on accoimt of feeble health. He returned to Michigan with his\\nwife in September, reaching the Creek on the 30th.\\nOn the first day of May Hiram Kidder commenced work on mill-race, and preparing\\ntimber for a saw mill. On the first day of June Samuel 0. Coddington, mill-wright,\\nof Geneva, New York, conmienced work on the mill.\\nIn the month of May Beriah H. Lane and his brother Erastus came to the Beau\\nCreek Comitry. Beriah selected the first sub-division of the northwest fractional\\n(luarterof section nineteen. Upon going to the land office he found it had already\\nbeen entered by Harvey Cobb. He returned to the Bean Creek and selected the west\\nand middle sub-divisions of the southwest fractional quarter of section nineteen,\\nwhich he afterwards entered. Almost immediately after, he traded the south part of\\nthe tract to Reuben Davis for his land, and sold the north half to Sylvester Kenyon.\\nThe land he bought of Davis had a log house partly finished and about one and a half\\nacres chopped. Mr. Lane also purchased of Jesse Kimball the south half of the west\\nsub-division of the south-west fractional quarter of section eighteen, or that part of\\nthe village of Hudson north of Main street and west of Church street.\\nThe Messrs. Lane detennined to build up a village, and immediately set about build\\ning a saw-mill in order that they might be able to compete with the Kidder settlement,\\nwhich was already putting on village airs. They hired a mill-wright and helpers and\\nset them at work. Reuben Davis remained in their house and boarded the men. Mr.\\nDavis also drew the timber on to the ground and did such other work as the Lanes\\nrequired.\\nC", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "34 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nDuring the latter part of May, laM, Robert Worden, Dudley Worden and Samue!\\nDay ai-rived at the Creek. The two Wordens started from F airport, Monroe county,\\nNew York, in a covered wagon, about the first of April, 183i. Tlie party consisted of\\nDudley Worden, wife and one child, and Robert Worden, Avife and one child. On.\\nthe way they fell in company with the family of Mr. Samuel Day, traveling in the\\nsame way and intending to settle in Ohio. The two parties ti-avoled along togetlier^\\nand after a while Mr. Day concluded to come to Michigan with the Wordens. They\\narrived at the Creek, as before stated, in the latter part of May. Their lands were\\nentered at the land office on the 29tli day of the month. Their last day s journey was-\\nfrom Adrian to the Creek, eighteen miles, twelve of whicli\u00e2\u0080\u0094 from Bart White s, west\\nwere in a dense wilderness. When night set in the party were about five miles-\\nfrom Kidder s, in the thick woods. To proceed farther with the a\\\\ a.uons thoA night\\nwas impossible, and they could not encamp as they were unprovided with tlie means\\nto start a fire. The horses were unhitched from the wagons and the party attempted\\nto make their way on foot, but the horses were in constant trouble, running against\\ntrees and into the brush. So the party formed themselves in single file. Mrs. Wor-\\nden wore a white skirt and was placed in the rear to pilot the driver of the hoi ses. lu\\nthis manner they marched until they reached Kidder s house, liifi in the evening,.\\nThe next day they found their land and connnenced building a house. Mr. Robert\\nWorden thus describes the liouse lie built: T built me a house without a single\\nboard, except what was nuule witli an ax. I split logs for a floor. The chamb\u00c2\u00abi\\nfloor was bark peeled from elm logs. Our roof was Inuk. as was also the gables \u00c2\u00ab:r\\nends. Our door was plank made with an ax, two inelies thick, pinned to wooderi\\nhinges and fastened to the logs so it would swing inside. With an auger a hole was\\nmade in tlie logs so it could be pinned on the inside to protect us from the bears and\\nwolves, of which there were a plenty. We had a window hole cut out for a six-lighted\\nwindow, but had no window to put in it. The principal light came down the chim-\\nney hole. One night the wolves commenced to howl. There were so many of them\\nand so near I became frightened. We w^ere sleeping on the floor, not having even a\\nMichigan bedstead. We got up, went up the ladder with our beil. pulled the ladder\\nafter us, made our bed on the bark, and should have considered ourselves secure from\\nthe wolves only that we were fearful that the bark would give way and let us fall.\\nAnd all this feai- of the wolves within two miles of two villas;es. One village had\\ndouble the number of houses the other had, and that had two.\\nOf Mr. and Mrs Day, a AA riter in the Hudson Post, of March 2Gth, 1ST4, wrote;\\nMr. Samuel Day died in ISoG. He was a man who made his mark in this nasv\\ncountry, will be remembered as a stock man, and wlm could show the flliest stock :iu\\nthe Valley of the Bean. Coming here when Hudson was a vast forest, with five boys\\nat his command, much of the improvement in this ichiity was made through his ki-\\nfluence. But he has laid by his armor and passed over the River with others who-\\nwere his associates here, to be employed in higher and nobler splieres than earth cvni\\noffer.\\nMrs. Day is one of those noble women who fii-st settled this Bean Creek Valley^\\nwhen in its native state. I!*Iay, 1834, found her coming down Bean Creek hill at ten\\no clock at night, she having w^alked from Adrian the same day. She crossed the\\nBean upon a log, and came up to Mr. Kidder s log house, where the family stoppeti\\nfor the night, and until they could find some house to stop at or until they could buiUl\\nthemselves. This they did in the month of May, having to cut a wagon road froui\\nBush s Corners up to where their house now stands. The house was built without a\\nsingle board the roof was covered with bark, and the floor made of split logs. Tla we-\\nAvas not a tree cut west of Bush s Corners; the wolf and deer Avere all that inhabitea\\nthat region. Mrs. Day was a Avoman of strong constitution, alwn s Avorking Avith a\\nwill, having a large family of her OAvn to provide for, in a new country, Avith all tbt-\\nsettlers in like circumstances. But she Avorked ou Avitli her neiglibors, every one\\nfeeling dependent upon each other for things to keep soul and body togetlier. Mr", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nami Mrs. Day having lived in a dairy country East, and been brought up iii that\\nl)ranch of fanning, as soon as tlie country would v?arrant, conunenced making butter\\nand cheese in the Valley of the Beaii, which, in addition to her other work, eni-\\nployed all the powers of body she possessed. She is now quite feeble, not able to go\\nout, but with her cane can walk about the house, ller sight is good she can sew-\\nwithout spectacles. She is very glad to have old friends come in and talk over\\nthe hardships gone through by the early settlers in opening up this tier of counties,\\nwhich has far exceeded what she expected to see. She brought apple seeds from\\nthe East, and when they planted them she said, I shall never live to eat fruit of this\\norchard.\\nIn the early part of Jmie Hiram Kidder platted the village of Lenawee, and June\\n13th the plat was acknowledged bv the proprietors, Daniel Hudson and Nathan B.\\nKidder, and recorded in the Kegister s office of Lenawee county. On the next day\\nfoiu- village lots were sold.\\nSometime diunng the summer Dudley Worden, having built a house in the village\\nof Lenawee, opened a little store, and, as was the custom of those days, a part of his.\\nstock consisteil of whisky,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 an article as necessary for Indian ti atlic as for home con-\\nsumption.\\nUu the first day of July, 1834, the mill irons for the Kidder mill were brought froro\\nAdrian by ox teams, and on the 14th day of the same month the frame was raised.\\nThe mill commenced sawing October 1st, and was completed the same month. The\\ncost of the mill to its starting was isySo.n its total cost was !fl,441.31. One of\\nthe boys of that period tells tliat the first board made at the mill was taken upon tlie\\nshoulders of the men, carried to the grocery and the whisky set up on that notable\\noccasion.\\nxVbout the first of July Mr. Beriah 11. Lane returned to Massacliusetts for his family.\\nOn the ISth day of August he left Enfield to return to Bean Creek. lie brought with\\nhim his wife and two children, his father and mother, and his widowed sister (Mrs.\\n?.I. K. Douglass) and her two children. They traveled by team to Troy, by canal\\nline boat to Buffalo, steamboat to Cleveland, and team to Bean Creek. They were\\n\\\\et five miles out when darkness settled down, and would have had to camp in the\\nwoods, but his brother Erastus, having heard of their approach, met them with a\\nlantern. He found the mill frame up and the work was progressing finely. They\\nimmediately commenced work on the dam, and completed the mill in December fol-\\nlowing; but a freshet carried the dam away, and it was not repaired until the\\nfollowing spring.\\nIn the fall of this year ilr. Simeon Van Akin and family came to the settlement.,\\nlie had visited the country in the month of November, 1833, and located his land. He\\nsays that when coming in, November 9th, 1833, he met Mr. Pratt, with his ox team,,\\ngoing after another load of goods. According to Mr. Pratt s recollection, he was go-\\ning for Mrs. Pratt and their boy, whom he had left at the house of Lyman Pease, one\\nmile west of Adrian. Besides his own family Mr. Van Akin was accompanied by\\nWilliam H. H. Van Akin, then quite a young man. They at once commenced build-\\ning themselves a house. Alpheus Pratt drew the logs together with his ox team, and\\nMr. Lane and his mill hands helped roll the logs up. That house was built on the\\neast side of the creek, near the southwest corner of Main and High sti-eets, about\\nwhere the new engine house noAV stands. While excavating for the foundation wall*\\nof that building one of the logs of the old house was exhumed.\\nIn December of that year John Davenport and family settled in Lanesville. The\\niiouse lie built and occupied was built on or near the east bank of the Bean, and just\\nnorth of Main street, on a half acre of land reserved by Beuben Davis when he sold\\nto the Lanes. In excavating for the railroad, the north part of the house was under-\\nmined, and soon afterwards was removed.\\nMrs. Davenport, in a letter wi-itten February 15th, 1ST5, describes the fii t Vidge-\\nacross Bean Creek at Lanesville. She says", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "36 THE BEAl^ CREEK VALLEY.\\nForty years and two months have passed since I came with my husband and five\\ntittle ones to the wilderness, now the thriving village of Hudson. On our arrival\\n^here we found the following named settlers: Mr. Simeon Van Akin (a widower)\\n^nd his mother (Grandma Van Akin, as she was called by all mitil her death), two\\nchildren (Margaret and Lydia Ann), and a younger brother (Harrison Van Akin).\\nAlso, Beriah IL Lane, his wife and his father (Nathaniel), two children (Anna and\\nNathaniel, Jr.), also a widowed sister (.Airs. Douglass) and her two children. These,\\nwith my own family, composed the population of Hudson proper. Mr. Davenport\\niiad the little log house built upon the east bank of IJean Creek, but on the arrival\\nof the family we were met by Mr. Van Akin and taken to his mansion, which was of\\nthe same style and finish as our own. We received such a welcome as pioneers Iniow\\nhow to give. Tlie following morning the wagons were unioailed and we commenced\\nin earnest a pioneer life. The few that may he present well k)iow v/l .at it means,\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nthe toil, the privations and the hardships.\\nThe first bridge built was by Grandma A^an Akin and myself. Tlie society of\\nthe three families was much sought aft^r by each other, and linding tliat Bean\\nvCreek was a barrier to fidl social enjoyment,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mrs. Lane, living on tlie west side,\\nwas unable to cross on the sapling that had fallen across tlie creek some distance\\naway,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 we determined to have a better way of crossing; so, hniling two benches\\nthat had been used to chink and daub the walls of Mr. Van Akin s house, (handma\\nand I carried them down and waded into the stream ami placed thein in osition,\\nthen went to Mr. Davis saw mill, carried planks and laid tliem from the bank to the\\ntiench, and so over to the opposite bank. This was in the spring of is:;. and it\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2remained until the freshet of the following spring, when no trace of it longer re-\\nmained.\\nDuring the year 1834, besides those already named, John Kice, John Davenport.\\n.Sylvester Kenyon and Silas Eaton settled in town seven soutli, one east and William\\nOhamplin, Lewis Gillett, Ozen Keith and Jesse Maxson, R. H. Whitehorn, Eutli\\nfistes, Urias Treadwell and Lawrence Rheubottom settled in town seven south, range\\none west.\\nThe following named persons, not elsewhere mentioned, purchased land this year,\\nwn this township (Hudson): Moses Bennett, Joseph Hagaman, William Chapman,\\nFrederick Corey, Dexter Smith, Ruth Haines, John C. Emery, Peries Lincoln, Mary\\nP. Todd, Gabriel H. Todd, Robert Huston, James Maloney. Michael Dillon, B.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2itTewton, Erastus W. Starkweather, A. Sagar, Harman Whitbeck. Samuel F. Davis.\\nBuckley Newton, Erastus Lane, Ira Jewett, Chauncey Whitney, Seba Murphy, Laban\\nfving, David E. W^iscott, Isaac Freeman, Daniel Featherly, John Rice, Harvey Cobb,\\nJJiram Van Akin, M. Sherman, J. Kimball, Philo Tracey, Seth Fletcher, Robert\\nKinney, Randall Mills, Samuel Bayless, Eliza Bayless, Polly Potter, Abel Gibbs,\\nJohn Beard, Samuel Skinner, William N. Stockwell, Trinnan Bown.\\nIn Pittsford, Lewis Gilbert, Curran White, James DeGraph, Hannah DeGraph,\\n-Lorenzo Church, David Fish, Peter Potter, William Purchase, Benjamin Bassett,\\n.Dolly Bassett, William Cular, Lewis Dillon, W^alter Culver, Guiles Sage, Matthew\\nDillon, Aaron Aldrich, Asahel Dolbear, Marcus Ilawley, Jesse Treadwell, Ira L.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Mills, Joseph Barnhart, John Davenport, Dudley Worden, Merrit Sherman, James\\nMcLain, Levi Thompson, Buckley Newton, Nathan Birdsall, Nathaniel J. Redfield,\\nIsrael Loomis, Daniel Loomis, Richard Britton, Eldad B. Trumbull, Jesse Kimball,\\nWilliam Burnham, Richai-d Butler, Nicholas Fratts, Samuel Cole, Horace P. Hitch-\\ncock, Warren Burnham, Jesse Maxson, Ezra A. Washburn, James B. Marry, Cyrus\\nRobinson, N. W ood, John Munger, Truman Bishop.\\nSome of these parties settled on their land that season and others in subsequent\\n-seasons, but some of them entered their land for speculative purposes oidy and never\\n^settled on it.\\nChristmas day, 18:34, occm-red the first wedding in this part of the Valley. Mr.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2James Sprague and Miss Elizabeth Ames were united in marriage at the house of", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY,\\nMr. Alpheus Pratt, by the Rev. Mr. Willey, a Methodist clergjonan of Adrian. The\\nfollowing named persons composed the wedding party: Alpheus Pratt, wife an.l\\nson, Charles Ames, wife and two sons, Henry Ames, wife and son, Jesse Kimbnl]^\\nwife and daughter, and Miss Martha Redfield.\\nMr. Robert Worden, writing of this year s experience in a new country, said:\\nWe were a community of many wants from the outside world. The article cl\\ncurrant-roots, or sprouts, were in great demand. The undersigned went out to the\\nsettlement to obtain some sprouts, and all I could get were ten pieces of sprouts-\\nabout eight inches long each, and felt myself fortunate and thankful. I got them oi\\nRichard Kent, a little north of the city of Adrian, and from the sprouts I obtained at\\nthat time I have bushes on my farm now, and have supplied very many new beginners\\nfrom them with roots.\\nThe first settlers had an enemy in what is called the deer-mouse. They were\\nnumerous, would crawl through an incredible small hole, and were very destructive.\\nBefore we were aware of it they had got into our trunks and seriously injured our\\nclothing. We had no place of security for, anything they wanted. My wife had\\nbrought with her some starch done up in a paper. One day, wanting to use some,\\nshe found the paper that contained the starch, but no starch. It had been carried off\\nby the mice, and it could not be replenished short of a tiip of twenty miles but some,\\ntime after we had occasion to use an empty bottle stowed away, and in the bottle we\\nfound our starch, put there by the mice it was not possible for them to get into the\\nbottle. We were in great want of a house-cat to destroy the mice, and they were\\nvery scarce in this section of the Territory. I took a bag and started for Adrian on.\\nfoot to x rocure a cat, if possible. I could find none in Adrian, but heard of some kit\\ntens three miles south of Adrian, at Col. Bradish s. I went to Col. Bradish s, but\\nwas a little too late\u00e2\u0080\u0094 they had let the last one go the day before. I then started for\\nhome, came about two miles this side of Adrian and stopped over night with a family\\nof English people. I told the la ly of the house of my unsuccessful efforts to find a.\\ncat. She sympathized with me, and said they had been similarly situated. When\\nmorning came and I was about to start for home the lady said: I have been think-\\ning of your troubles through the night I have but one cat, a great nice one, and I have\\nconcluded to lend it to you until I shall want it. I took the cat in the bag and started\\nfor home\u00e2\u0080\u0094 on foot, of coiu-se\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and before I got home with it I thought it a very heavy\\ncat. We kept the cat but a few weeks it was killed by the wild-cats, which were\\niuite plenty at the time.\\nBut, hark While the last paragraph was being WTitten (August 21st, 1870), a churchr\\nbell has begun to toll the departure of a pioneer of 1834, Silas Eaton has passed away\\nlife s toils and pains, its joys and blessings are over. Mr, Eaton was born at Duanes-\\nburg, Montgomery county, New York, on the 23d day of February, 1798. When he\\nwas twelve years old his father removed to the Genesee country and settled at Per-\\nrington, :Monroe county. On the 18th day of November, 1819, he inter-married with\\n]Miss Eliza Simmons, of Victor, Ontario county, Mr, and Mrs, Eaton lived in various\\nlocalities in the State of New York, until the year 1834, While residing in that State-\\nthe happy couple had five children born unto them, one of whom had died. Those\\nremaining were Harriet Newell (since the wife of Josei^h :M. .Johnson), Stephen A,,.\\nConstantine S. and Hervey U, In 1834 Mr. Eaton began seriously to think of making\\nhis home in the West. He came to IMichigan in the month of June, that year, and\\nentered the west half of the northwest quarter of section eight, town seven south, one\\nwest^the farm now occupied by Silas L, Allen, Esq, He returned home, and in\\nOctober of that year removed his family to ilichigan and settled on his farm, where\\nhe remained nearly three years. In the year 1837 he removed to the village of Keenc,\\nwhere he had built himself a frame house there he remained until the spring of 1840,\\nlaboring at his trade\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that of a carpenter and joiner. While there lie was appointed\\npostmaster under Van Buren s a^hninistratioii. He held the office iu\\\\til his removal,\\nwhen he was succeeded by Henry Ame.-^, In the spring of 1840, tlio Southe?-iii", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "r38 THE BEAN CEEEK VALLEY.\\nKailroad having been located through Lanesville, Mr. Eaton removed to the latter\\nplace, moving not only his family and personal effects, but his house as weW. lu this\\nvillage he resided all the rest of his life. He was Supervisor of the township in 184.S\\n4iild 1849, and was postinaster eight years\u00e2\u0080\u0094 during the administration of Pierce and\\nBuchanan. Politically, Mr. Eaton was a Democrat of the straightest sect, and dm-ing\\nLis active life was held in high esteem iu the councils of that party. lu all his acts,\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2.ocial, business, political, and religious, Mr. Eaton was ever governed by strong\\nconscientious con^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ictions. and if he erred it was an error of judgment rather than\\naffections. In cmiy life, the winter of 1S21-2, Mr. Eaton was made a Free and Accepted\\nMason iu a lodge at Pittsford. Ontario county, N Y. He was a charter member of\\nMorning Star lodge, Hudson, Mich., at its organization on Monday, the 19th day of\\nJune, 1848; was the first senior warden, and for several years held official positions.\\nlie was also a charter member of Warren Lodge, organized September ^th, 1863, and\\nwas made an honorary member in 1871. He was made a Eoyal Arch Mason in Hud-\\nson chapter No. 38. His f mieral on the 22d was largely attended by members of tlie\\ncraft, and his remains were consigned to the tomb with mystic rites. As a mark of\\nrespect and honor to the worthy dead\u00e2\u0080\u0094 for one so early and so long identified with the\\nmoral and material progress of this connnunit places of business were generally\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2closed dm-ing the moving (.f the ]irocession and the funeral exercises, which were\\nlield in the M. E. churcli. Tlir si i\\\\ ices consisted of the reading of portions of scrip-\\niiire by Pev. Mv. Ilobcits. of ilii Wcslryau Methodist church, prayer by the Kev. Mr.\\nFrazer, of the ^h tlindist Ei.is( .]ial church, sermon by the Kev. Mr. Gibbs, of the\\nUniversalist clmrch ol .Manclicstcr. ujid appropriate singing by the Congi-egational\\nand Methodist chairs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the hu-v auditorium being filled with sorrowing relatives and\\nfriends, brothers. nciglilHus ;i!m1 riti/.ens, who a last tribute would pay to a good man\\npassed away. Tlie lliulxin Post, a Itepublican newspaper, closed an appreciative\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2obituary with these words -.Mr. Eaton leaves a widow (the companion of his youth),\\ntwo sons and one daughter, many grandchildren, and a host of friends to moimi his\\ndeparture\\nBut why weep ye for him, who having won\\nThe bound of man s appointed years, at last.\\nLife s l)lessiims all enjoved. Life s labors done.\\nSiTenely to his linal rest has jkissciI\\nWhile the soft nieniovy of his virtues yet\\nLingers like twilight hues wlien the bright snn i.s set?\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Varren Lodge, No. 147, Free and Accepted Masons, adopted the following resolu-\\ntions\\nWiikt:kas, Our esteemed brother. Sihis Eaton, lias, at the ripe age ot seventy-eight\\nyears. l)ee:i ealleil to exehauge an earllily for a siiJritual state ot existence;\\nRcKiiira!. That while we are tliaiddul to our ,Sii])renie Grand :^,Iaster tor the many\\nyears of soeial intercourse we have been permitted to enjoy with our brother Eaton,\\nv/e mourn his de]iarture as a loss to ourselves and our noble craft, no less than to his\\nt juuily and relatives.\\niic.so/rc(7. That vvc r( cognize in our departed brother a trae type of the noble pio-\\n);eers who eou\\\\-erted the wilds of Michigan into fertile fields, and that we recognize it\\nas our (lut t.i herish the nieiuory of those departed, and by kindly oflices light the\\npatliway of those reuuiiiniig.\\nRcsiilnd, I liat we conniieud our sister, the widow of our departed brother, to the\\nactive s\\\\ ui|n:th of the craft, and that we extend to our brothers (tlie sons of the de-\\n;easeii). and to his daughter, the liand of condolence in their sad bereavement but as\\na source of comfort in such tr\\\\ ing scenes, remind them that his work was fully done,\\nand that he dejiarted full ot davs, with earth s liouors untarnished.\\nBcsolved, That these resolutions l)e published iu the village papers, and that copies\\nbe furnished the widow and cliildren of our departed brotiier.\\nThk Baker Setti ksiext.\\nThe settlement of Francis H. Ilagaman and Gershom Bennett in the nortliwest corner\\nof town eight south, two east (Seneca), in November. 183.S, has already been noticed\\niiSso tlie pmx hase by Cavender of several parcels of land in the fall of the same year.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 39\\nBesides these, Ebenezer S. Carpenter, John F. Packard, Archibald Brown and Levi\\nSherman entered land in 1833; but aside from these purchases, the township was\\niroverument property in the beginning of 1834. On the first day of February, 1834,\\nlloswell J. Heyward purchased of the United States, land on section thirteen, and\\n.^ttled on it immediately after. Jacob Baker entered land on section thirty, on the\\ntentli day of March, and soon after came with his family and commenced a settlement.\\nHorace Garlick and Arnold H. Coomer accompanied Mr. Baker to the wilderness.\\niarlick was married, but Coomer was a single man. They proceeded at once to build\\nI. log house. Coomer had the bark to peel for the roof, and he pressed the Indians\\ninto the service to assist him. The house was the visual log cabin of the early settler\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094puncheon floor, bark roof and gables, small window holes, and panelless doors.\\ni tie doors were of the kind called batten doors, but the batten was a piece of timber\\nlittle longer than the width of the door and larger at one end than at the other; the\\nnge end projected beyond the door, and was bored to serve as a part of the hinge.\\nriie boards were fastened to the battens by wooden pins or by nails, a.s the necessity\\nv convenience of the builder required.\\nIn the early part of May, 1834, Simon D. Wilson, James Wilson, Ephraim Whitman,\\nEphraim Baldwin and Samuel D. Baldwin came to the township, looking land. They\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ere all young men, and, with the exception of Simon D. Wilson, unmarried. The\\nlicst two were brothers, and the Baldwins were brothers-in-law of Simon D. Wilson.\\nI Charles Baldwin, another brother-in-law, was living in township eight south, three\\ni-ast,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 or as then organized, the east end of the township of Fairfield,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and thither\\nthis party gathered, preparatory to their contemplated invasion of the wilderness.\\nWhen the party were ready, Charles Baldwin piloted them to the creek. Simon D.\\nWilson selected land on section thirty, in to\\\\vn eight south, and on sections six, seven\\n.lud eight, tov.-n nine south. Ephraim Baldwin selected laud on section eight, town\\nline south. The land ofiice at Monroe was their next objective point, which they\\nuiatle, and entered their land on the fifteenth and sixteenth days of May, 1834. Arnold\\nII. Coomer had entered his land on section thirty-one, town eight soutli, on the eighth\\nday of that month. Simon D. Wilson immediately commenced operations on his\\nJ and by building the inevitable log cabin, but had not yet got settled when Dennis\\nWakefield came into the township, prospecting for land he made his selection\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a tract\\n.)f fom- hundred and twenty acres\u00e2\u0080\u0094 on Bean Creek, which he entered June 14th, and\\nreturned to Connecticut. Mr. Wakefield returned to the Valley with his family in\\n;he month of August. During his absence several families had purchased liomes\\ni If the township. On the twenty-ninth day of September Alvah Holt entered his land\\nnul commenced to build on it immediately.\\nDuring the year 1834, besides those already named, the following persons purchased\\n5and in towns eight and nine south, two east: Section 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G. W. Allen, Jan. S4th;\\nJoseph Griffin, June 2d David Price, Sept. S4th. Section 4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eansom J. Cra\\\\vford,\\nOct 6. Section 7\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abner Griffith, Aug. 18th. Sections 8 and 9\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Yerks, June\\n.id. Section 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ilenry Hayward, Aug. 9th Ephraim Ilollister, Aug. 25th Isaac N.\\ni owell, Oct. 7th. Section 11\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Zeriel Waterman, April 19th; Cornelius S. Randolph,\\n3Iay 27th Ira Hollo way, Sept. 20th Ilenry Hayward, Oct. 6t)i. Section 12\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John\\nCambm-u, Feb. 1st; William D. Page, ]\\\\[arch 19th; John Starkweather. Section 1.3\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nWilliam Baker, April 4th. Section 14\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Meech, June 2d; John Adams, June\\n10th; George Packard, June 21st; Manly Smith, July 8th. Section 15\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cornelius\\nWillett, Jidy loth; James W. Camburn, July loth; Abel Randolph, Aug. 23tt. Sec-\\ntion 17\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Amos A. Kinney, Sept. 24th. Section IS\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Hawley, Oct. 2Sth.\\nSection 19\u00e2\u0080\u0094 T. Carter, June 10th; Alvah Holt, Sept. 29th; Lucas Atwood, Sept. 29th;\\nGeorge Lee, 2d, Oct. 4th Samuel Lanuuon, Oct. 21st. Section 28\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Paul Raymond,\\n.Franklin W. Walker, Nov. 11th. Section 29\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Amos Franklin, July 4th\\nBarns, Oct. Ist. Section 30\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lydia Noyes, Moses Cole, July 10th. Section 31\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJonathan Saulsbury, June 2d; William Westfield, June 14th; Caleb C. Cooley,\\n1 Jet 8th* James H. Sweenej:, Nov. 5th. Section 33\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nathan Saulsbury, June 9th; A.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "40 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nBrown, June 14th John Franklin, July 4th; Heman Ilerrington, Oct. 28th Daniel\\nSanborn, Nov. 20th. Section 33\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Daniel Reed, June 37th. Town nine south: Sec-\\ntion 5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Simon Westfield, June 14th. Section 6\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benjamin Hornbeck, Jime 14th.\\nSection 7\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ephraim Baldwin, Jr., Joseph L. Royce, J. Calvin. Sections 9 and 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThomas Hawly, Oct. 38th.\\nThe old Indian trail from Jonesville to Maumee lay through tliis township, and just\\nbelow where Morenci now is there was an old Indian burying ground.\\nThk Uptox Settlemknt.\\nOn the 31st day of May, 1834, Dexter Smith, George W. Moore, Nathaniel Upton\\nand Pierce started from Dean s tavern, Adrian, to locate land in the Bean\\nCreek Country. Their outfit consisted of an ax, a rifle, ten pounds of crackers and\\nan Ohio ham. Of this latter article Mr. Moore remarked: It was as salt as Lot s\\nwife and as hard as a regulation ball. They traveled on foot, and that day reached\\ntlie house of Gershom Bennett, in the northwest corner of town eight south, two east,\\nnow known as Seneca. The next day they viewed land on sections three and four in\\ntown eight south, and on sections thirty-four and thirty-five in town seven south, one\\neast. The land suited them, and the following day they started on their return to\\nAdrian by the Indian trail running from Defiance to Detroit. Tlie trail crossed the\\nKidder road about three miles west of Adrian. Here they fell in with a man named\\nCorey, who was also traveling Adrianwards. They learned from his talk that he\\nintended to locate one hundred and sixty acres of the land their party had selected.\\nA consultation was held in Dean s barn that night, and Moore and Smith were de-\\ntailed to go on to Monroe in haste and locate the land before Corey could reach there.\\nIt was raining, but they at once set out and reached Blissfield, 11 miles distant, at one\\no clock A. M. Here they laid themselves down on the bar-room floor and rested until\\ndaylight, then pursued their journey, reached Monroe that afternoon, and entered\\ntheir land. Corey arrived the next morning. Smith and Upton returned at once to\\ncommence the new settlement. They arrived at the Creek May 28th. They built a\\nlog cabin,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 or three sides of it were logs, the other was open,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and l efore it they built\\ntheir fire. The roof was of elm bark. The bedstead was a fixture of the house. When\\nthe house was laid up, notches were cut in the logs at the proper height and poles laid\\nin the outer corners were supported by stakes or posts made of a section of young\\ntrees. Beech withes were woven across in place of cords, and on these elm bark was\\nlaid. It was called a Michigan bedstead, and was ja-obably the first spring bed on\\nrecord. In this cabin Smith and Upton lived diuing the suunner, but in the fall they\\nbuilt themselves a comfortable log house, in which tliey kept bachelors hall until the\\nwinter of 1830. The cabin and house oceu])ied by these men was in the township\\nnow called Medina, but as Smith s land was situated in the township now called\\nHudson, Mr. Nathaniel W. Upton has been considered the first settler in Medina.\\nOn the 8th day of April, 1834, CookHotchkiss and John Knapp purchased the north-\\neast quarter and the east half of the southeast quartei* of section two. They brought\\ntheir families to Adrian on the second day of June. On the third day of June, William\\nWalworth purchased the northeast quarter of the southwest quarter of section one,\\nand on the sixth day of June, John R. Foster purchased the northeast quarter of sec-\\ntion six. Knapp, Walworth and Foster each built houses and settled their families\\ndm-ing the month of June, but Foster s family preceded the others a few days, and\\nMrs. Foster was therefore the first white woman resident of that township. Mr.\\nFoster s house was built near the northeast corner of his farm, and was built after tiie\\nmodel of the early log houses, only this had no chamber. The floor was of split and\\nhewed basswood, the roof of bark, two small windows, and a stick and mud chimney.\\nJohn Knapp built a somewhat better house\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in fact, it smacked a little of aristocracy.\\nIt was twenty by twenty-six feet, one and a half stories high the floors were of split\\nand hewn basswood, and the roof was covered with shakes. Shakes were rived out", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 41\\nof oak timber; thej^ were about thirty inches long, all the way of a thickness, and as\\nwide as could be made out of the quarter of an oak log. The shakes, therefore, varied\\nin width according as they were split out of a large or small tree, or was the first or\\nlast riven out of the bolt. The shakes were laid on poles flattened to the rafters and\\nheld in place by other poles, the poles, underneath and top, being fastened together\\nwith hickory or blue beech withes. But, notAvithstanding these aristocratic notions,\\nMr. Knapp was compelled to have a stick and mud chimney, because there were\\nneither brick or stone to be had. The house stood near where Allen s tavern, in Me-\\ndina village, now stands. The land bought by William W. Walworth was that on\\nwhich the Canandaigua mills now are. He built a house a little northwest of where\\nthe old saw mill was afterwards built.\\nCharles A. Prisbey, October 4th, purchased the northeast fractional quarter of the\\nnorthwest quarter of section two. Samuel Fincher bought the northwest quarter of\\nthe northwest quarter of section two, October 5th. Both tJiese men built houses on\\ntheir lands in the summer and fall of 1834. Dm-ing that sununer the following named\\npersons purchased lands in the township: Section 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William M. Wadsworth, June\\n:{d Samuel Sweeney, Jr. Nov. .5th. Section ,J\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Amos S. Knapp, Nov. 4th. Section 3\\nNathaniel :Moore, Aug. 35th. Section .5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Andrew McFarland, March 10th. Section\\n0\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James Barns, Nov. 10th. Section 11\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William P. Hobbs. Section i;i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hiram Lucas,\\nOct. 3d. Section 23\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benjamin Rodgers, Sept. tJ4th. Section 24\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Chester Savage,\\nAug. 4th; Thomas Hawley, Oct. 28th. Section 25\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Horace Garlick, March 10th;\\nGeorge Bennett, June 9tli; Dennis Wakefield, Aug. 29th Charles M. Hewitt, Sept.\\n8th; James Wilson, Nov. 14th. Section 36\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph Hagaman, May 27th; James\\nJackson Hannah, Nov. 8th William Yerks, Nov. 17th. Section 37\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel Chambers,\\nDec. 30th. Section 34\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Justus Coy, Oct. 11th. Section 3-5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dennis Wakefield, Oct..\\n6th Ira Clark, Oct. 9th Archibald Purdy, Oct. 9th Thomas Tadman, Nov. 17th.\\nSection 36\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles M. Henry, July 5th; Dennis Wakefield, Aug. 24th; Samuel\\nSweeney, Nov. 5th.\\nIn town nine south, on section 1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Calvin King, June 17th; Dennis Wakefield, Aug.\\n39th Albert Davis, Aug. 23d Horatio Wilson, Aug. 29th Amos Franklin. Sept. 16th\\nSection 2\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dennis Wakefield, Aug. 29th Levi Goss, Sept. 4th Amos Franklin, Sept.\\n16th, Dennis Wakefield, Dec. 18th. Section 3\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Orville Woodwortli, Sept. 3d; Levi\\nGoss, Sept. 3d. Section 4\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Orville Woodworth, Sept. 3d James Farley, Dec. 8th. Sec-\\ntions 6 and 7\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Clark, Nov. 14th. Section 8\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Meech, Dec. 24th. Sec-\\ntion 9\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Miles Baker, Nov. 1st; Justus Cooley, Nov. 1st; John Farley, Dec. 8th David\\nMeech, Dec. 24th. Sections 10 and 11\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hiram Farwell, Oct. 25. Section 12\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Uriah E.\\nWright, Oct. 39th. By consulting the map, the reader will see that sections 8, 9, 10,\\n11 and 12 are now in the State of Ohio, but at that time Ohio had not attempted to\\nexercise jm-isdiction over the disputed territory.\\nLand looking and land locating was the principal business of that year, and guides\\nthrough the forests and to the most desirable unlocated lands were in great demand-\\nThere were also land centers from which land explorations usually started. From\\nCanandaigua the northern part of ISIedina, soutliern part of Hudson, and the tovraship\\nof Wright were reached, while Jacob Baker s house in Seneca was the point from\\nwhich southwestern Seneca, southern Medina, Royalton, Cliesterfield and Gorham,\\nnow in Ohio, were explored.\\nA good story is told of Levi Goss and Orville Woodwortli. They Avere strangers to\\neach other, but came to Baker s land-looking at the same time. Arnold II. Coomer\\nwas detailed to guide Goss, and Garlick performed that service for Woodworth.\\nThey carried on their explorations separately, and pretty thoroughly scoured the\\ncountry. Coomer and Goss, having finished, came in late one afternoon, and found\\nthat Woodworth had preceded them. Mr. Goss was already somewhat advanced in age,\\nand was considerably fatigued. He had written the description of land selected on a\\nslip of paper thus S. E. half sec. 3, T. 9 S., 1 E., c., and placed the slip in his hat,,\\nwhich on coming in he sat on the floor. Woodwoi-th sat where he could see into the hat,..", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "42 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nand was observed to be earnestly looking in that direction. All at once Woodwortli\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0started up and inquired, How far is it to Ilagaman s Five miles, was the re-\\nply. Then, said Woodwortli, addressing two fellow travelers, we have time to\\nreach there before dark; let s go. And immediately they started. Their sudden de-\\nparture was a cause of wonderment to Baker, his household and guests. Goss sat\\ndemurely contemplating the movement, when his eyes resting on the slip of paper\\nin his hat, he exclaimed: He has gone to enter my land. After a moment s further\\nthought, he asked: Is there no Avay of reaching Adrian to-night He will go no\\nfurther than Hagaman s to-niL;lit. and if I can reach Adrian I may save my land\\nyet. Baker told him there was im way, unless he could make some arrangement\\nwith Coomer. Said he, I have two horses in the barn; may-be you can make some\\narrangement with Coomer to bring them back. The hint was acted on, and with-\\nout waiting for supper, the liorses were mounted, and away went the adventurers\\ntowards llagamau s, tlinmgh thick woods, with nothing but a Itridle path to follow.\\nIt was dark early in the forest, but Coomer had provided himself with a tin lantern\\nand candle, which lighted, enabled them to pursue their jom-ney with tolerable\\nspeed. When they reached Hagaman s it was dark in the clearing, but beyond\\nthe house were some log heaps burning. To prevent discovery the candle in the lan-\\ntern was put out and the house passed as noiselessly as possible. At the most remote\\nlog heap tlie candle was relighted and the journey pursued. They now had a wagon\\ntrack to follow and they traveled mure expeditiously, and reached Jordan s some-\\nwhat past midnight. ]\\\\Ir. .jdnlau was aroused to get the travelers something to eat.\\nIt was here arraugvd that CiHtini r slnmld go no farther, but that Jordon should take\\nGoss on as soon as liuht aiipcaivd. .birdan was to remain up to insure an early start,\\nbut so great was Cuss anxiety lie .-ould not sleep, so the two were up the entire\\nnight. With tiie ap])caran(i of li ^lit they were off for Adrian, and from there to\\nBlissfield. It will no (!oul)t occur to ilie reader that via Adrian was not the shortest\\nroute from Jordan s to BJisslield, but on the more direct route tli\u00c2\u00a3re was no road\\nthrough the wilderness. At Blissfield, Goss hired a man to take him to Monroe in a\\nwagon (the journey had so far been made on horseback), but it was stipulated that\\nthe driver was to let no man pass him, and away they went tow^ards Monroe.\\nCoomer, sharing none of Goss anxiety, slept soundly at the house of Jordan until\\nlong after the departure of the others, but at last awakened, and breakfast procured,\\nhe set out on his return to Baker s. A little way out he met Woodwortli on foot,\\nwho recognized him, and at once asked Where s the old man? Boy like, Coomer\\ndesiring to worry him, sang out, He s in Monroe by this time. Woodworth proba-\\nbly suspected that that could not be true, but Goss was ahead, and suuiethhig must\\nbe done. He traveled on at as (juick a pace as possible until, suuiewhere eastward of\\nJordan s, he found a man plowing in his field. Woodworth walked up to the team\\nand commenced unharnessing one of the horses. While unfastening the harness he\\ntold his story, and as he sprang upon the horse s back, he said, I have no intention\\nof stealing this horse. If you want him, follow me. The other horse was stripped\\nand mounted, and away the pair went over the road traveled by the other party in\\nthe gray of the morning. At Blissfield the horses were changed, and Woodworth\\nand his new companion proceeded towards Monroe. Expecting to pass Goss on the\\nroad, Woodwortli attempted a sort of disguise by changing hats and coats with his\\ncompanion. Towards evening, as Goss and his driver were jogging along near the\\nend of their journey, two men api)eared riding along in the distance. One of the\\nmen appeared to be better mounted than the other, as he neared the wagon much\\nmore rapidly. Are you afraid of that man said the driver. No, said Goss,\\nhe lives hereabouts I think, and the man rode by. Woodworth, for it was he, rode\\nrapidly tVirward, wiiile his companion jogged leism-ely along, some way behind tlu^\\nwagon, seeuiingl\\\\ in no hurry. Riding up to the door of the land office, and thrusting\\nIlls hand into his jiocket, he called out, I want to enter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 but alas! his memoran-\\ndum was in the]iocket of his own coat, on the other man s back. Giving rein and", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 43\\nwhip to his liorse he dasliecl away, met and passed tlie wagon, rushed up to liis com-\\npanion, secured his paper, and turned again towards the land office. The driver of\\nthe team seeing the same man coming again, apparently very anxious to pass, said,\\nThere is some deviltry there, and put whip to his horses. Woodworth passed,\\nhowever, and as he passed, Goss recognized him. Away they went towards the land\\noffice, where they arrived almost at the same instant. I want to enter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 said\\nWoodworth. I want to enter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 cried Goss, at the same time jumping, but his foot\\ncaught on the wheel and he fell heavily to the ground, knocking the breath from his\\nbody. Wlien Goss recovered consciousness, Woodworth had entered his land and\\nwas quietly chewing his quid, chuckling over the success of his scheme. Goss cared\\nlittle for his bodily injuries, but mourned pitifully over the loss of his land. The re-\\nCeiver ti ied to comfort him by suggesting that perhaps some other lai^l in the imme-\\ndiate neighborhood would answer as well. Let me see your description, said\\njMiller. The paper was produced, when lo it appeared that Goss land was not the\\nWoodworth land at all. Woodworth had selected and entered the southwest quarter\\nof section three, and Goss had selected and now was but too glad to enter the south-\\neast quarter of the same section. And thus it came about that after an exciting race,\\neach man had secured his own land, and neither man had any intention of getting the\\nother s land. Looking with suspicious eye at the slip in Goss hat, Woodworth had\\n-confused the southeast with the southwest, and hence the race. The two men settled\\non their land, where they lived and died, respecting each other, and each enjoying the\\nrespect and esteem of their neighbors.\\nTiiK Lake .Settlemkxt.\\nEai-ly in January, 183-1, the little settlement near tlie south shore of D.eWl s Lake\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2was reinforced by its fom-th family, tliat of Mr. William Beal. These four families\\nand Ephraim Sloan are believed to have constituted the entire population of the terri-\\ntory now embraceil in the township of KoUin in the winter of 18.33-34. The spring of\\n1834 brouglit many settlers to the Bean Creek Valley, and a large proportion of them\\nconcluded to make their home in this township. David Steer settled on land he loca-\\nted in 1833, on section .5. John T. Comstock and James Sloan located land and settled\\non section 7, Orson Green on section 10, Levi Jennings and Salem Vosbm-g on section\\n22, John R. Hawkins on section 20, Matthew Bennett on section W, James Macon and\\nJoseph Allen on section 27, Jonathan Ball, Warner Ayelsworth and John Upton on\\nsection 28, and Roswell Lamb on section 39. Besides those above named, the follow-\\ning persons pm-chased land in the township during 1834: Cynthia C. Aldricli, Elmer\\nCole, Elvira Cole, Darius Cole, John Tingley, William Hathaway, Elijah Bennett,\\nElkenah Bates, Silas Orcutt, Mayhew Steward, Cyrus B. Packard, Joshua Packard,\\nWilliam Godfrey, David Crout, John Crout, Jacob Foster, Asa R. Bacon, James\\nBacon, Phoebe Foster, John Belcher, Daniel Russ, Sylvester Boody, Justus G. New-\\ncomb, Ira Sly, John Hunt, John Haskins, Barnabas Bonuey, Alden Gregory, Lu-\\n,ther Evans, Jonathan C. Freelaud and James Wescott.\\nThe first marriage in town six south, one east, occm-red this year (1834), and it may\\nbe that it was the first in the Valley. There was a marriage on the Chicago road this\\nyear at the house of Cornelius Millspaw, within the territorial limits of the township\\nnow called Woodstock, and another at or near what is now called Gambleville, in the\\ntownship of Somerset, but the time of year is at present unknown. The only other\\nmarriage in the Valley, this year, was that of Mr. and IMi s. Sprague, of Pittsford, on\\nChristmas day. I his Rollin marriage took place at the house of Mr. William Beal.\\nHiram Aldrich and Eliza Titus were the parties, and John Comstock, a justice of the\\npeace of the township of Logan, tied the knot.\\nThe wife of John Upton died in June. 1834, and was buried on the frfrm of her hus-\\nband. Mary Vosbmg, daughter of Salem and Lydia Vosbm-g, was born on the 37th\\n.day of August, 1834. She was the first white child born in that township, and still", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "44 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nlives on the old homestead. Thus there was a birth, marriage and death, withinr\\nthe limits of the township during the first year after the settlement of its first family.\\nMiLLSPAw s.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the year 183,3, there were two families residents of town five south,,\\none east\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cornelius Millspaw and Jesse Osborn. Quite a number of persons bought\\nland during that year, but the larger part weVe persons who lived or afterwards\\nlived in the neighboring to\\\\vnships, and it was held for speculative purposes only. In\\n1834 a large number of other persons purchased lands, and some of them settled\\non their lands. Among the latter was Nahum Lamb, who arrived in the township\\non the first day of September, 1834. Mr. Lamb remained an inhabitant of the town-\\nship until his death. When Woodstock was organized as a separate township in 18.36,\\nMr. Lamb was elected its first Supervisor. During this year, 18S4, Mr. Jacob Lair\\nsettled in the township. Besides those already mentioned, the following named per-\\nsons purchased lands in the township Section 4, Moses N. Davenport, June 33d.\\nSection 8, Bartholomew Johnston, June 19; Matthew Bushberry, Dec. 24th. Section\\n9, King D. Betts, July 21st. Section 10, Willard Joslin, July 3d. Section 11, Abner\\nGraves, Jr., Elisha Benedict and Charles Benedict, May 37th. Section 13, Theodore\\nJ. Van DenBrook, May 32d Thomas McCourtie and William Powers, June 13th. Sec-\\ntion 18, Edward S. Bascom, Oct. 2Tth Charles S. Cleveland, Nov. 5th. Section 32,\\nMartin Case, May 2Uth Stephen Perkins and Jedediah Raymond, July 14th. Section\\n2.5. Charles AVhite, June 7th; Nelson Crittenden, Feb. 4th. Section 3.3, Isaac Titus\\nand David Biniis. :Nrarch 3d. Section 34, David Steer, Aug, 37; Alexander Ellsworth,\\nJuly 14th Saiuucl Skinner, July 10th. Section 3G, Neheraiah Hands, June 24th.\\nThe first wedding (iccurrcd this year at the house of Cornelius Millspaw, and the\\nbride was Mary Ann. the daughter of that worthy pioneer. The bridegroom was\\nThomas Jolls, and the officiating clergjnnau was the Rev. Mr. George, a Universalist\\nminister of Philadelphia.\\nGamble s.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 On the ninth day of March, 1834, Thomas Gamble, the senior, bought\\nout James Van IIouven))urg and settled in town five south, one west, where he con-\\ntinued to live until his death. Jonathan Ilaynes settled in the township. He was\\nafterwards for many years a preacher of the Methodist Episcopal Church, and he was\\na good neighbor and a zealous Christian until his death. The other settlers of 1834,\\nwere Amos Hixson, Lewis Carrier, Samuel Mills, Elias II. Kelley, Hezekiah Gris-\\nwold, Jeremiah Loucks. Danifl Strong, Sanniel O. Clark. Eli Bugbee, George Oncans,\\nArza Finney, David Biniis, William Welch, Rulus (illtVtrd, David Catelle, Benjamin\\nD. Bond, Stephen Darliiiuton, Gideon llarkness, David Ilarkness, Zachariah Van\\nDuzer, Jabez II. Jackson, William Gallop, Stephen Vail, Welcome Graham and Wil-\\nliam T. Webster. It is proV)able tliat sonie of these did not become actual settlers of\\nthe township.\\nDuring the winter of 1833-4, David Herrington died, the first death in the township..\\nOn the 8th day of April, 1834, Mrs. Griswold departed this life, a few days after giving\\nbirth to a daughter. The child died about two weeks later.\\nSophia Pratt was the first school teacher of the township. She was maiTied the-\\nfollowing winter to Samuel Clark. It is related, concerning this manlage, that an\\nitinerant r a!)tist Elder, named Bodley, was expected around about that time, but on\\naccount (if tlie lack of roads, the coming of itinerant ministers was so uncertain, they\\ncould not be depended on in an important matter like this, so a justice of the peace-\\nwas brought from Jonesville to perform the ceremony. The Elder was on hand,\\nhowever, but the majesty of the law triumphed and the Squire married the coiiple.\\nThe first chiu-ch in the township was organized in the spring of 1834. It w-as a\\nBaptist church at or near Gambleville. Mrs. Gay tells an amusing story con-\\ncerning her first attendance at religious meeting in the territory. She had latterly\\nlived in Alban^-, where people dressed up to go to church, and to her it seemed a\\nnecessary concomitant to church going. She had brought her apparel with her, of\\ncourse, and nothing was more natural than for her to wear it to chm^ch. Arrayed int", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALI^Y,\\n45\\nher silk dress, leghorn bonnet and lace shawl, silk stockings and morocco slippers,\\nshe entered the extemporized sanctuary. The contrast was so great as to at once carry\\na pang to her heart. Her sisters of the settlement were there in calico dresses and\\nsun-bonnets, coarse shoes and woolen stockings, and at least two liad no stockings at\\nall. The services were not interesting to Mrs. Gay. How earnestly she wished for\\nher calico dress and sun-bonnet, that she might be at ease and unob.served. So true\\nit is that propriety is essential to happiness, that good and harmless, and even the\\nuseful and valuable tilings of earth in unseemly surroundings will give pain to a\\nsensitive and cultivated mind. Silks and furbelows, leghorn and morocco, were out\\nof place among the homelier but more appropriate attire of backwoods life. Mi-s.\\nGay realized all this in an instant, hence the acute misery she endured during the\\nservices of that day.\\nMookb s Skttlemext.\\nWhen the winter of 183?) closed in, there was but one family within the territorial\\nlimits of tovniship six south, one west, and that was Silas Moore s. Three other men\\nhad purchased land, viz Mahlon, Jacob and Edmund B. Brown. The next informa-\\ntion of the to^NTi we have been able to obtain is of the date of Jime, 18; t. In that\\nmonth Mr. Stephen Knapp, of Clarkston. Monroe county, N. Y., visited the township\\nand lodged at the house of Edmund B., commonly called Burrows Brown. Brown told\\nKnapp he had some excellent land, which he would show him. The next morning he\\ntook Knapp out and showed him two lots on section fourteen. One was what is\\nknown as wind-fall, the other was handsome timber. Knapp had intended to pur-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2chase two lots, and had brought three hundred dollars with him for that purpose, but\\nBrown asked four hundred dollars for these two lots. It was finally agreed that\\nKnapp should buy the laud, pay three hundred dollars down, and the other one\\nhundred when he returned to settle on the land. The contract was put in writinw by\\nTimothy Gay, of the next township north, now called Somerset. Mr. Knapp after-\\nwards learned that, at the time he made the conhact. Brown had no title to one of the\\nlots, but purchased it of the government afterwards. This Brown was a land-shark,\\nand perpetrated his little joke on quite a number of settlers. One of his intended\\nvictims was warned by Brown s wife, and escaped his clutches. Some time in tlie\\nmonth of September following, Stephen Knapp and family left Clarkston, Monroe\\ncounty, N.Y., for their new home in Michigan. Their departiu-e had been delayed\\nmore than a montli by an expected domestic event. Their goods were shipped by\\ncanal to Buffalo, from there by steam to Detroit. James Knapii, the eldest son, ac-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0companied the goods with his wife and three other children, one of them a month old\\ninfant, Stephen Knapp came by wagon through Canada. The trij) through Canada\\n-consumed eleven days time, and on their arriving at Detroit they found James there\\nwith the goods. The family came on by the Chicago road, which they found very\\nsoft, and the traveling was very slow. From Clinton they turned southward,\\nthrough Tecumseh and Adrian, to the house of Zebulon Williams, then residing in\\nthe township of Madison, three miles, or thereabouts, south of Adi ian. Here the\\nwife and smaller children were left for a time, until a house could be built, and the\\nhousehold goods could be brought from Detroit. The drawing of the goods, owing to\\nthe almost impassable condition of the roads, was a tedious operation ten miles a day\\nwith a load was all the distance the team could make. Perry Knapp says he remem-\\nbers to have heard this yarn spun in a Chicago road hotel while hauling those goods\\nA traveler saw a hat lying on the surface of the thin mud he attempted to pick it up.\\nwhen he heard in sepulchral tones, Let go my hat. The finder inquired, What are\\nyou doing there Traveling on the Chicago pike. Do you want any help No,\\nI have a good horse under me.\\nAt length, however, despite the bad roads, the last load of goods was in, and on the\\n30th day of November, 1834, the family of Stephen Knapp took posseesion of thr", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "46 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nhouse, which had meanwhile been built. This family made the fourth in that\\ntownship. The others were Silas Moore, Anson Jackson, and Burrows Brown. Diir-\\ning the winter Mr. Knapp fenced twenty acres of his wind-fall laud.\\nEli Eastman entered his land Jime l(3th, ISSi, but did not move onto it until the next\\nyear. Other persons entered lands during the year, viz Hiram Hatfield, ^May 16th\\n.John H. Converse, April 2 2(1 Seaton Hoxie, May 6th Manly Holmes, May 30th\\nWilliam Holmes, Dec. 13th; Thos. Farmer, May 5th; Stephen Vail, June 19th; Job\\nA. Moore, Aug. 2:M Hiram Graham, Oct. 8th Stephen K. Geddings, Oct. 20th John\\nJackson, March 37th Jabez H. Jackson, April 10th; Burton Lamphere, Nov. 30th;\\nMyron ISIcGee, Dec. 9th; Jesse Hill, June 3d; Achsah Eastman, June 16th; Frances\\nHill; George W. Brearly, May 30th; Israel Pennington, June 7th Orange Latourette,\\nJune 9th; John Bryant, June 11th Clarinda Cook, June 16th; John Howell, April\\n18th; Jacob Brown, June 13th; Closinda Cook, Nov. 15th; Jesse Hill, Jan. 2d; Mar-\\nshal Alvord and Joseph Alvord, June 10th John O Brien, June 12th Robert August,\\nNov. 31st Zebulon Williams, Dec. 17th Amos Hare, May 30th Robert Cox, June\\n5th and 13th; John Pennington, June 7th; Lorenzo Church, July 14th; Joseph W.\\nAshley, Oct. 6th L. Cliurch, July 14th; Walter CiUver and William Culver, Nov..\\n26th; BuiT S. Nortliup, June 2d. None of these except Farmer settled on their land\\nthat year.\\nSilas Farmer must have settled on his land in the month of December, 1834. Perry\\nKnapp says he was not there when their family came, November 30th and Eli Eastman\\nsays he was there when he came in January, 1835.\\nIn town five south, two west (Moscow), there was quite a large increase of popula-\\ntion during 1834. Among those who settled that year were Aaron Spencer, Peter\\nAtwell, and William Benson. Mrs. Brown, mother of Mr^. Daniel Aiken, died this\\nyear.\\nIn the sunnuer of 1834 Delilah Blackmar taught a school in a private house. In the\\nwhiter of 1834-35 Seth Ke*ipton taught the school, the first part of the term in the\\nsame private house, and the remainder of the term in the first school house, which\\nwas finished during that winter.\\nJ835, AND TO Makcii 1st, 18;56.\\nIn the winter of 1834-5 the Legislative Council broke up the Valley into smaller\\norganizatious. Town six south, one east, was organized and named Rollin. Town*\\nfive, six, seven, eight, ninn and fractional ten south, range one west, were organized\\ninto a single township and named Wheatland; and towns five, six, seven, eight, nine\\nand fractional ten south, range two west, were organized into a single township and\\nnamed Moscow. At the close of the session of 1834-35, town seven south, one east\\n(Hudson), remained a part of the township of Lenawee; towns eight, nine and frac-\\ntional ten south, ranges one and two east (Medina and Seneca in Michigan, and Gnrham\\nand Chesterfield in Ohio), remained a part of the township of Fairfield. Townships\\nnow named Somerset, Wheatland, Pittsford and Wright constituted the township of\\nWlicat .aiHl, and townships now called Moscow, Adams, Jefi erson, Ransom and the\\ncast jiait of Amboy constituted the tOA^Tiship of ^loscow.\\nROLLIN.\\nThe first township meeting was held on the sixth day of April, 18:35, at the house of\\nJoseph Real, so says the statute but for Real we should evidently read Beal, for\\nthere the meeting was in fact held. Matthew Bennett was elected moderator, and\\nWilliam Beal, clerk. Matthew Bennett was elected supervisor; William Beal, town-\\nship clerk; David Steer, James Bacon and Josepli Beal, assessors; Elijah C.\\nBennett, collector; David .Steer and John T. Comstock, directors of the poor; War-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CHEEK VALLEY. 47^\\nner Aylesworth, Asa R. Bacon and Joseph C. Beal, commissioners of higliways;\\nElijah A. Bennett, constable; Joseph Gibbon, Orson Green and Joseph Steer,\\ncoramissionei-s of common schools; Joseph Gibbons, Orson Green, Joseph Steer,\\nElijah C. Bennett and James Boodery, school inspectors of common schools.\\nIt was voted that our cattle, hogs and sheep, run at large the ensuing year; and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2our pathmasters be fence-viewers. The record does not state the number of votes\\npolled at the township meeting, but at the general election, held on the fifth and sixth\\ndays of October, 1835, there were fifteen votes polled for Governor, three votes for\\nLieutenant Governor, nine votes for Senator, fifteen votes for Representative in Con-\\ngress three votes were given for Representative of Michigan. Of the votes given\\nfor Governor, Stevens T. Mason received three, and .John Biddle received twelve\\nEdward Mundy received the three votes for Lieutenant Governor; Olmsted Hoiigh,\\nEdward D. Ellis, and Laurent Durocher,each received three votes for Senator; Wil-\\nliam Woodbridge received thirteen votes for Representative in Congress, and Isaac\\nE. Crary received three votes Allen Hutchins, Hiram Dodge, James Wheeler, and\\nDarius Meed, each received three votes for Representative of Michigan. There\\nAvere also twelve votes cast against the ratification of the Constitution of Michigan,\\nand one for its ratification. The reader will notice, perhaps, a discrepancy between\\nthe statement of the whole number of votes given for the office of Representative in\\nCongress and the aggregate of votes stated to be given to the two candidates. Fifteen\\nis said to be the whole number given for the ofnce, while Woodbridge is said to have\\nreceived thirteen, and Crary three. From a careful review of the vote it seems plain\\nthat Woodbridge only received twelve votes.\\nThe reader will also have noticed, perhaps, that at the township meeting no justices\\nof the peace were elected. That meeting was held under the territorial laws, and\\nby these laws justices were appointed by the Legislative Council. That position\\nAvasheld, no doubt, by Joseph Beal, whose name appears as one of the inspectors of\\nthe election.\\nIn May, this year, Dr. Leonard G. Hall settled in this township, and has ever since\\nbeen a resident of the Bean Creek Valley. For several years his ride extended over\\na vast extent of territory. He Avas kind, skillful and attentive, and nearly all the\\nearliest settlers have had occasion to call down blessings on liis head. In the same\\nmonth Daniel Rhodes and his son William came into the toAvnship, and in June John\\nFoster located land on section tAventy-seven, and immediately commenced operations\\nthere. Barnabas Bonney settled on section thirteen, and Samuel Comstock, having\\npurchased an intei-est in the lands of the RoUin Mill Company, built a house and\\nmoved into it in the month of July.\\nIn April of this year, work Avas commenced on the saAV mill in Rollin. Mr. William\\nBeal was made superintendent of the Avork, and for that purpose left his farm and\\ndwelt on the mill property. The mill frame Avas raised in the fall of that year, and in\\nNovember of that year the saAving of lumber commenced and enabled the settlers to\\nmake their cabins more comfortable for the approaching Avinter. The saAV mill\\nfinished, preparations Avere at once commenced for the building of a gi^ist mill.\\nIn the fall Bishop Va .i Wert, Jacob Foster and the three Ilaskins settled in the\\ntownship.\\nSometime during the summer of this year a postoffice Avas established at or near\\nthe mill property, and William Beal Avas made postmaster and Porter Beal mail car-\\nrier. Before that,- the settlers of all the northern ])art of the Valley had to go to\\nAdrian for their mail matter, Avhich Avas no small task. From the western part of\\nthe Valley a day and a half Avas required to go to the postoffice, and each letter cost\\nthe recipient tAventy-five cents,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 compulsory prepayment Avas not then in vogue.\\nThompson, Avho liad opened a small trading establishment south of the lake, at-\\ntempted to sell Avhisky to settlers and Indians. He Avas cited to appear at Adrian,.\\nAA hich effectually squelclicd the business in that toAvnsbip for some time.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "48 TUE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nAmong the piuchasers of real estate in 1835 were these: Erastus Faniham, July\\n-3d; Elijah BioAvnell, July 11th; John Talbot, May 11th; Amos Steer, June 25th;\\nOliver Griswold, Nov. 6th Darius Cole, Feb. 20th Leonard G. Hall, June 22 Stephen\\nVail, Barnabas Bonney, June 1st; William Godfrey, June 3d; James Kenly, June\\n18th; Harvey Houghton, May 27th; Joseph Webster, Nov. 2l9t; Abraham P. Vos-\\nburgh, William Campbell, Nov. 21st; J. Warner Aylesworth, Ezra Lord, July 10th;\\nJohn Haskins, Matthew Bennett, Abijah S. Clark, Phebe H.Clark, May 11th; Luther\\nEvans, July 3d; Lydia Howland, June 4th; Calvin Jenks, June loUi; Samuel Com-\\nstock, July 7th; Hiram Hitchcock, Jared Comstock, June 19th; Rachael S. Beal, July\\n18th; Sylvester White, Oct. 20th; John Foster, June 1st; Lorenzo Sheldon, Thomas\\nKealey, June 0th Edward Knapp, May 26th Daniel Peck. May 36th Eufus Peck.\\nIra Jones, June Moses T. Bennett, July 16th.\\nLENAWEE TOWNSHIP.\\nAt the township meeting, held on Monday, tlie sixth day of April, 183.5, William 11.\\nPorter was elected Suitervisor, Jfrt-iuiah D. Thompson, Township Clerk, and Calvin\\nBradish, Lyman Pease and Stephen Perkins, Assessors. The wolf bounty\u00e2\u0080\u0094 tliree\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2dollars per head\u00e2\u0080\u0094 was continued. During the year William Mills received bounties\\nfor eleven wolves slain, Bart White for six, Edward Bassett for four, Jacob Jackson\\nfor three, David Bixby for four, Joseph Cerow for one, and Robert Johnston for four,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094making a total of thirty-three wolves killed.\\nWe are more especially interested in that part of the township of Lenawee lying\\nwithin the valley of the Bean, and we therefore will turn our attention to town seven\\n-south, of range one west.\\nDuring the winter, axes liad been wielded by busy hands in and around the Lanes-\\nville settlement, and in the early spring time preparations for clearing began. The\\nmill dam was repaired and the mill started the maple was tapped and the year s\\nsupply of sugar and vinegar provided. But before sugar could be made kettles suita-\\nble for boiling must be provided, and Simeon Van Akin relates that he took Mr.\\nLane s oxen and drove to Adrian in search of kettles. He found none there, and went\\nthence to Tecumseh and Monroe. In the latter place he procured two one for him-\\nself and one for Mr. Lane.\\nIn the spring of 1835 Michael Dillon came in and commenced chopping on his land\\nentered the year previous. He was accompanied by his brother Dennis. Sometime\\nin the summer Michael returned East for his family.\\nIn the month of April, 183.5. Mr. John Rice and Mrs. il. K. Douglass Avere united in\\nthe bands of wedlock by Oliver Piu-chase, a justice of the peace. JIi-s. Douglass\\nwas a widow, a sister of Mr. Lane. This was tlie first marriage in the territor.\\\\\\nwhich now constitutes the township of Hudson.\\nIn the month of May, probably the third day, Mr. Lane organized a Sunday school\\nat his house. In a published statement, JNlr. Lane said it occurred May seventh but\\nas the almanac for that year makes the seventh fall on Thursday, there is a strong\\nprobability that Mr. Lane is mistaken.\\nOn the 10th day of June, 1835, Noali Cressey and wife settled on section thirty-two.\\nadjoining land of Michael Dillon. Mr. Cressey, as well as the Dillons, came to the\\nValley by the southern or Canandaigua route, and because the lands of northern\\nMedina were well culled, drifted over into Hudson and commenced a settlement.\\nBetween them and tiie Lanesville settlement there was an unbroken belt of timber,\\nwhich effectually cut off intercourse, while the Medina settlements were compara-\\ntively easy of access. Therefore for many years that neighborhood ti-aded and visited\\nwith the Medina people, and were, for all business and social purposes, identifictl\\nwith them.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 49\\nJuly 27th, Mrs. Davis, the mother of Reuben and Samuel Davis, died. It vras the\\nfirst death in the township.\\nOn the 38th, same month, George Salisbury opened the first I anesville store. The\\nstock comprised j^roceries and notions.\\nDuting the spring and summer the Kidder mill was kept in constant motion, sawing\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0outnumber, with which to finish the log bouses of settlers in the township and also in\\nthe toM nships of RoUin and Wheatland. These two saw mills possessed great powers\\nof civilization, and through their agency puncheon floors and bark roofs and gables\\nbegan to disappear, and new liouses were now finished with shake roofs and sided\\ngable s. It marked a new era in the settlement of the Valley.\\nOn Saturday, the 8th day of August, the citizens of town seven south, one east, met\\nto consider the propriety of petitioning the new State Legislature, which, if the new\\n-constitution was adopted at the October election, would convene for its first session on\\nthe ninth day of November, to organize town seven south, one east, into a separate\\ntownship. The question was decided in the affirmative, and on the suggestion of\\n^Hiram Kidder it was named Hudson, after Dr. Daniel Hudson, of Geneva, N. Y., who\\n-was the senior partner of the company that purchased the first land in the township.\\nThe Legislature only continued in session six days, and took no action in reference to\\norganizing townships. The State was not yet admitted into the Union, and the\\nLegislature only took action in reference to a transfer of jurisdiction when the State\\nshould be admitted.\\nAmong the items of expenditure mentioned in the ajipropriation bill of that session\\nwere the following: To Mrs. Warren and daughter, for making carpet, tlie sum of\\neight dollars to Levi Skinner, three dollars for polishing stoves for Senate chamber.\\nRepresentatives hall and Governor s room to Wright Solomon, for two mahogany\\ntables and desks furnished Senate chamber, the sum of eighty dollars to McArthur\\nHurlburt, for candles, two dollars and nineteen cents. No petroleum No gas\\nThe primitive capitol of our State was lighted with tallow candles.\\nOn Sunday, the ninth day of August, the first religious meeting was held in the\\ntownship, at the house of Mr. Lane.\\nAbout this time William Frazee came and bought out Reuben Davis. The premises\\nnow occupied by William Ocobock, on the southwest corner of section nineteen, was\\na part of his farm. Salmon Trask, wife and daughter, and also a Miss Abigail Dick-\\ninson came from Massachusetts and settled on section eighteen.\\nIn November Mr. Lane built a frame house where the Comstock House now stands.\\nIt was the first frame house built in the township, and was occupied by Father\\nNathaniel Lane and wife and their son Erastus.\\nThe same month Mr. Alexander Findley came and cleared a part of the Cobb land,\\n-and built a log house in anticipation of the arrival of Harvey Cobb and family.\\nDuring this month (November) the settlement in the south part of tlie township\\nreceived some recruits. On Monday the second day of November, Father Elisha\\nBrown and family arrived at the house of his son-in-law, Noah Cressey. The Brown\\nparty consisted of Father Brown and wife, his son Lorenzo L. and wife, and his other\\nsons, Clement, David, Lewis, George, William and Noah, and Dolly Elwell, a niece\\nof Mr. Noah Cressey. Miss Elwell afterwards married Dr. Stephen Caner, and is now\\nthe wife of Mr. Oliver Kelly, of Pittsford. Father Brown had purchased his lands\\nOf Robert Huston, and there was the body of a small house, roofed, but otherwise\\n-unfinished, on the land.\\nAbout two days after, Michael Dillon arrived with his family, and on Sunday\\nevening, November eighth, the Rev. William E. Warner and family arrived at the\\n;abin of Father Brown. He had bought his land of second hands without having\\nseen it, and he was now in search of it. His land proved to be on the north side of\\nsection four, in town eight soutli, about two miles from the Brown domicil. Mr.\\nWarner was invited to make his home among the Browns until he could build a\\nliouse, and he accepted the invitation. During his stay there were no less than", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "50 THE BEAN CKEEK VALLEY.\\ntwenty persons fed and lodged at the Ciessey and Brown small, one-roomed cabins.-\\nIt was rather crowded, but then, they were not lonesome.\\nThe Rev. William E. Warner had, in the State of New York, been a local preacher\\nof the Methodist Episcopal church for many years, at times taking temporary work\\nunder Presiding Elders. Here he found himself providentially thrown in the midst\\nof a large family of Methodists, and he improved the occasion by preaching at the\\nhouse of Xoah Cressey the next Sunday, November the 15th, and organizing a class,\\nof which he appointed Lorenzo L. Brown leatler. The congregation that day was\\nmade up from the members of three families, viz.. Brown, Cressey and Dillon.\\nAs Mr. Lane remembers the incident, on teh 11th day of December, 1835, Friday,\\nthe Rev. W^illiam Wolcott preached the first sermon in the Lanesville settlement. He\\nalso organized a temperance society. Both the religious and temperance meetings-\\nwere held at Mr. Lane s house. In the fall of 1835, Miss Abigail Dickinson taught a\\n.school in the village of Lanesville. July Sth, Beriah IL Lane sold a one-fourth inter-\\nest in the saw-mill to William H. H. Van Akin, and December 1st sold a one-foui tli\\ninterest to Simeon and William H. H. Van Akin.\\nDuring the year the following persons purchased land in the west third of Lenawee\\ntownship, viz. Edward Knapp, John Johnson, Lester C. Bennett, Ezekiel Yerring-\\nton, Ezra Lord, Reuben Snell, Calvin Jenks, Jesse R. Treadwcll, Samuel Sager,\\nDudley Worden, Thomas Keeley, Edward Keeley, James tireen, Ami Crosby, (Jris-\\nwold Latham, Edward Edmunds, Silas Palmer, Benjamin Palmer, John Ilutchins,\\nReuben Hutchins, John W. Stockwell, Uriah Daniels, Jeremiah D. Thompson, L.\\nHotchkiss, John 11. Willis, Elias Gage, John Hooper, Prudence Page, Constans\\nRowley, John Townsend, William Clark, Porter L. Howland, Noah Palmer, Moses\\nMoore, Pardon Davenport, James Van Akin, 3d, Elizabeth Van Akin, Thonias\\nWill, Benjamin Mills, Joseph Mills, Reed Sutton, Joseph R. Reynolds, John Rice,\\nSolomon Sej-mour, Caleb D. Ferris, John Colwell, Daniel C. Cooper, Augustus ^y.\\nChilds, Oren C. Nichols, Gideon L. Bebee, James Grannin, Jason Gratton, Peter\\nBovee, Abram Bovee, Thomas Farroll, Joseph Rickey, Richard Hawkins, William\\nHaley, Matthias 11. Bovee, John II. Bovee, Oliver W. Alverson, John Drew, Dennis\\nDwyer, William Carson, Noah Cressey, Hiram Van Akni, Alexander D. Anderson,\\nJohn Beal, Henry Barton, Thomas J. Huntington, Artemas Allen, Edward H.\\nMiller, Gordon II. Leeds, Jacob LeRoy, Timothy Sabin and Nathan Elli()tt.\\nOn the twenty-fourth day of February, 1836, several persons assembled at tlie house\\nof Alpheus Pratt in Wheatland (now Pittsford), to consider the propriety of organiz-\\ning a church. The Rev. William Wolcott presided as moderator. Twenty-four per-\\nsons presented letters of church uienibership, viz.: Salmon Trask, John L. Taylor,\\nElijah B. Seeley, Nelson R. Rowley, Daniel Loomis, Ozen Keith, John Perrin,\\nSimeon Van Akin, Jesse Suiitli, Stephen W. Perrin, Beriah H, Lane, Cecil Keith,\\nOrinda Seeley, Phoebe Lane, Sarah Nye, Emily Perrin, Bcthesda Perrin, Iluldah\\nCaldwell, Sarah Frazee, Clarinda Taylor, Mhierva Riuc, Margaret Van Akin, Zer-\\nuiah Trask and Martha Keith. These persons adopted a rescilutidn agreeing to unite\\nthemselves together in a church of Christ, to be called the First Presbyterian\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00achm-ch of Bean Creek, and on their re(iuest thus expressed, the Rev. Mr. Wolcott\\nconstituted them a church by such designation. William Frazee and Caroline Loo-\\nmis, upon profession of their faith, were baptized and received into the new church.\\nSalmon Trask, Elijah B. Seeley, iNelson R. Rowley, and John L. Taylor were elected\\nElders, and the three first were innnediately ordained. Beriah II. Lane was elected\\nchurch clerk. The reader will have noticed that the meeting for organization con-\\nvened in the township of AVheatland, now Pittsford, and it is equally true that seveu-\\nteeen out of the twenty-four persons participating in its organization, lived in the\\ntownship of Wheatland as then organized but as the church afterwards became the\\nCongregational church of Hudson, it is grouped ^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ith the historical incidents of\\nwestern Lenawee.\\nThe same day there was a wedding at the house of Beriah H. La ie, in Lanesville.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nThe bride was Miss Abijjail Dickinson, and tlie groom Mr. George ^alisbiiry. The\\nRev. WiMiam Wolcott perfornieii the ceremony.\\nWESTERN FAIRFIELD.\\nWilliam Cavender settled on his land in the month of March, 1835, and his brother-\\nin-law, Samuel Gregg, bnilt a house on the land Cavender purchased in town eight\\nsouth, one east, and commenced keeping tavern. That original tavern stood on thC\\n.site of the present hotel in Canantlaigua. Of this enterprise Mr. Gregg says: Mr..\\nCavender moved on his premises, and in March, 1835, I went there and bnilt me\\na log house twenty by thirty feet, took my lumber from Adrian, and moved my\\nfamily April 16th. Soon after I made an addition of twelve feet to one side, for a\\ncook-room and dining-room, and came to Adrian to purchase some groceries whisky\\nand brandy\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and told tliem I was going to keep tavern. They thought that was a\\nnovel idea, and laughed at me, and had their own fun about it. I told them all I\\nwanted of them was to send on the land-lookers; and in June and July I had more\\ncustomers than I could attend to, frequently from twelve to twenty at a time, and one^\\nnight thirty-tive land-lookers.\\nFrancis II. Ilagaman, Burns Cavender and Orrin Pixley stood ready at all times,,\\nwith compass and chart, to pilot the land-lookers to where they could find govern-\\nment land, at a charge of two dollars ])er day. In less than six months most of the\\nland in the township was purchased, and a large portion by actual settlers.\\nAmong the persons who purchased land in town eight south, range one east, in the\\nyear 1835, were these, viz: William M. Woodworth, Feb. id Joseph Pixley, March,\\n12th; Henry Barton, ,Ian. 29th; Thomas Williams, May 11th; W. V. J. Mercer and H.-\\nHandy, June 15th; Dan B. Miller, July 30th; Moses S. Beach, Jmie 2d; William T..\\nPratt, June 18th; William II. ^Manning, Jinie 20tli; Joseph Fellows, June 16th; Ca-\\nlista Budlong and Alfred W. Budlong, Jan. 18th; Thomas Dewey, Aug. 14th; Benja-\\nniiu C. Duiiey, May 25th Lorenzo (t. Budlong, Jan. 18th; Salem T. King, Jan. 22tl;\\nAlexander Duncan, July 6th and 22d;Paid Raymond, July 10th; Luther Bradish,,\\nJune 23d; Bartlett R. Bradish, Seth W. Bradish and Charles W. Bradish, June 23d;\\nJacob Le Roy, Dec. 5th; Samuel Warren, July :30th; John D. Sutton and Levi Salis-\\nbury, May 29th II. Edmunds, June 10th; S.Johnson, June 4th Joseph B. Marry,\\nJmiel3th; John Martin, Dec. 12th John L. Bean, May 29th; Samuel Ranger, Jan.\\n29th; Joseph llagaman, Feb. 10th; Morris Boughton, April 18th; Henry McCimiisky,\\nApril 22d; Jonathan N. Pickard, May 7th; Peter Countryman, May 7th; John L..\\nHall, May 20th Robert Craven, June 8th; Russell Forsyth, June 29th; Suffrenas\\nDewey, Jan. 21st; Alexander D. Anderson, Aug. 17th; John Starkweather, March.\\nUith; Simon D. Wilson, June 2d; Richard P. Hunt, July 27th; Alanson Munger,.\\nSept. 18th; John Powers, May 21st, Cornelius DeMott, Oct. 13th; Mary P. Todd,\\nMay 27th; Gabriel H. Todd, June 12th; Orphelia B. Hopkins, Jan. 13th; Ruel\\nThayer, July 11th; John O Brien, Sept. 8th; George Bennett, July 21st; Joseph Bai-\\nley, Oct. 30th; William B. Waldron, June 3d; William Walworth, May 22d; James A\\nRogers, June 1st; John B. Skinner, July 2:M; Willard Stevens, Sept. 18th; Seba Mur-\\nphy, Oct. 3d John Countryman, May 7th Amasa P. Converse, May 16th Christo-\\npher H. Stillwell, June 1st; Russell Forsyth, Jan. 39th; James S. Dawes, Sept. 26th;\\nJames Murray, Jan. 13th; Martin Millett, Jan. 13th; Chester Savage, Feb. 25th;.\\nRoUin R. Hill, May 7th George Lee, iSIay 22d Theodore Coburn, June 29th Lewis.\\nShepardson, May 15th Noah K. Green, June 1st; Thomas Denny, Aug. 14th Calvin\\nL. Rogers, June 6th Ephraim Baldwin, June 6th Cornelius Bayless, Oct. 5th Han-\\nnah Camburn, April 18th; Paul Raymond, June 1st; John McVicar, Juuelst; Al-\\nexander Seeley, Oct. 6th James W. Morris, Dec. 22d Almon Palmer, Sept. 9th\\nGeorge W. Brower, Dec. 3d David Countryman, Dec. 9th James Hornbeck, July\\n20th; Elkanah Pai-ker, May 19th; Cornelius G. Palmer, May 22d; Lorenzo D. Per-\\nkins, June 10th; Justus Cooley, Oct. 20th; E. J. Baldwin, June 2d.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "52 THE BEAX CREEK VALLEY.\\nIn town nine south, one east, Calvin King, March 30th Juba S. Palmer, Alarcli\\n^Ist; Tibbals Baldwin, June 2d; Dennis Wakefield, Aug. 39th; Levi B. AVilder,\\n3Iarchloth; Cornelius G. Palmer, May 22d Levi Goss, Julylltli; F,. Barnes, July\\n7th; Lewis M Gates, July 14th; Isaiah Townsend and Jabin Townsend, June 39th;\\nWilliam Jones and John Jones, July 14th; D^vid Cross, Jan. 26th; Cornelius G.\\nPalmer, May 23d; Azaph K.Porter, May 22d; Marciuis Baldwin, June 2d; Christopher\\nBush, Jan. 15th; John Gould, Feb. 19th; Jacob TenEyck and Moses C. Baker. Jan.\\n19th; Uriah E. Wright, May 8th Peter Burns and Patrick Burns, May 19th W. Lee,\\nHay 33d Joseph W. Turner, June 8th Adam S. Sebring, Jan. 9th.\\nIn the month of September, 18:3.5, the first sermon was preached by the Rev. Will-\\niam Wolcott, then of Adrian, now a resident of the village of Hudson. Tlie sermon\\nwas preached in Gregg s bar-room, on the invitation of Mr. Gregg.\\nIn October, 18:35, Dr. Increase S. llamilton settled in Canandaigua. The same fall\\nthe first school house was built, on the farm of William Cavender. Dr. llamilton\\ntaught the first school in the winter of 1835-6.\\nIn the fall of 18:35, William Cavender bought the land owned by William Walworth\\nthe site of the Canandaigua mills and commenced building a saw-mill. It sawed\\nits first lumber April 13th, 18:36.\\nIn the month of November, 1835, the Eev. William E. Warner settled on section\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0four in town eight south, one east. He had formerly resided iu the State of New\\nYork; was there a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church and a local preacher.\\nHis large and still increasing family rendered it impossible for him to enter the itin-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2erancy permanently, but for several years he had traveled circuits under the direc-\\ntion of the Presiding Elders thereof. In 1835, feeling the ini})ortaiu e of finding a\\nJiome for his large family, he traded what property he had f(u- :\\\\nchigan land, never\\nhaving seen the land or even been in the territory. He came l)y wagon to Adrian,\\n:and there inquiring for the Bean Creek country, was directed to go out on the Terri-\\ntorial road. After several days travel, he found himself on the Chicago road, north\\n-of Devil s Lake. He then turned southward through the forests, and madehis way\\n,-as well as he could toAvards where he supposed his land to be. After a tedious jour-\\nney he arrived at the abode of Noah Cressy, on section thirty-two, in town seven\\n;south, two miles from his land, on the evening of Sunday, the eighth day of Novem-\\nber, 1835. There he found brethren of his own church, for the Brown familes had\\narrived only the Monday previous. A few weeks later he moved into a cabin on his\\nown land. Mr. Warner was one of the most eloquent men this country was ever\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2blessed with. Always ready, he obeyed every call for ministerial services, whether\\nto break the bread of life on a Sunday, or to speak words of consolation to mourning\\nfriends on a week day. He had no regular v^ ork he went everywhere, among all\\n-classes of people\u00e2\u0080\u0094 fearless always, reposing with confidence on the promise, Lo, I\\n^m with you always. His name was a household word among the settlers, from the\\nChicago road to the Maumee river, from the Kaisin eastward to the utmost bounds of\\nithe west, as applied to the Bean Creek Valley. As without regular work, so he was\\n^without salary. However hard the labor endm-ed in answering the demands for min-\\niisterial labor, he always accepted the proffered remuneration, whether it was a silver\\n-dollar or a peck of potatoes, with a pleasant smile and ahearty God bless you. He\\nlived in Medina township for several years, and then removed, about 18.52, to the\\ntownship of Ransom, Hillsdale county, where he lived until his death, which occurred\\n.about the year 1871.\\nAfter his removal to Hillsdale county, Mr. Warner imited with the Wesleyan Method-\\nist Church. He was a strong Abolitionist, and believed the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch would go to i)ieces on that question, and that he only preceded by a few years\\nthe transfer of the entire body of anti-slavery Methodists to the Wesleyan fold. But,\\nAvhether Episcopal or Wesleyan Methodist, he always had a word for the Master s\\ncause, which he never failed to deliver with impassioned eloquence. And yet Mr.\\nWarner was not a backwoods prea- her; he was* possessed of considerable culture,", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "THE BBAN CREEK VALLEY. 53:\\nand would have made his mark in polished society. The old man always wrestlect\\nwith poverty. His responsibilities increased year by year, and with so mn\u00c2\u00bbh time-\\ngiven to others, it was imix ssible for him to meet them and accimiulate property-\\nSome years after he had removed to Kansom, and whileihis fame as an oraitor still\\nlingered in the memories of his brother pioneers, he was invited to Hudson to deliver\\na Fourth of July oration. The messenger found him boiling potash, but he promised\\nto come. He never could say no, wlien the interests of others required sacrifices on\\nhis part. When he appeared on the streets on the morning of the Fourth, his ward-\\nrobe was in a sad plight. The Hon. William Baker, a man of large heart and gener-\\nous impulses, took the matter in hand, and when the order to march was given, the\\nElder appeared in procession dressed from top to toe in a new suit of clothes. Well\\nwere the donors repaid by the fervent eloquence that fell from the old man s lips that\\nday. He always spoke extemporaneously, and as he warmed with his subject, his\\nspirit was lifted to the regions of prophecy, and he portrayed the certain retribution\\nawaiting the nation s sins in words enchanting, yet appalling. The old man lived to\\nsee the beginning of the end.\\nAfter the Rev. Mr. Wolcott s sermon in Gregg s bar-room in September, 1835, Mr.\\nWolcott continued to preach there once in four weeks during the fall, and a Coiagre-\\ngational society was organized, but it soon became extinct. The religious element of\\nthe Upton and Gregg settlements was largely of the Baptist order, and on the 39th\\nday of January, 1836, a church was organized under the name and style of The\\nBaptist Church of Canandaigua. Mr. Cook Hochkiss was Deacon, and Superintend-\\nent of the Sunday School, lleligious services were held in the school house at Canan-\\ndaigua.\\nSOUTHERN FAIRFIELD.\\nComparatively but little land was sold in towns eight and nine south, two east\\n(Seneca), in 1S?A, but in 1835 many ])urchases were made, among which were the\\nfollowing Joseph Griffeth, July 2-2;l; Jacob LeRoy, Sept. 3(5th and Dec. 5th; Wash-\\nington Perry, July 35th; JonathauMavsh, jr., Sept. r2th; Leeds Miller, Dec. 5th;\\nAlmon Palmer, June 9th Lucy R. Haywood, Aug. 10th Edgar Webb, Dec. 12th\\nSamuel Bean, May 39th Alexander Duncan, July 6th; Orrln Pixley, Jan. 19th; Ira\\nWhite, July 6th; James D Manchester, MaySOlh; Joseph Hagaman, Edgar Webb\\nand Samuel Skinner, July 10th; Theron White, Sept. 25th; James S. Kinney, May\\n36th; David Dunlap, June 1.3th; Elias Kinney, July 3tl; John B. Allen, July 8th;\\nHiram B. Reed, July 23d; Philemon Newanan, June 17th; Cornelius S. Randolph,\\nNov. 13th Horatio L. Forbes, June 6th Thomas Gerrish, Nov. 3d Robert P.\\nThompson, Sept. 33d; Joseph Ferguson, May 33d; Thomas C.Aldrich, May 35th;\\nJames Rogers, June 1st: Hiram Flager, Oct. 15th; Asa Farley, Peter Flughler and\\nZachariah Flager, Feb. 35th; Benjamin F. Archer, June 39th, Alexander B. Cal-\\nlison, July 16th; Wilmarth Graham, July 18th; Samuel Lammon, Oct. 31st; John\\nCoddington, Nov. 11th; Joel Shapley, Jan. 15th; Oliver Welch, June 34th; James R.\\nWestcott, June 2-lth Lucius Atwood, Aug. 14th Lyman Wilcox, Nov. 36th Reu-\\nben G. Field and Jesse W. Thayer, Sept. 33d John W. Eaton, Oct. 30th Richard\\nH. Whitney, Oct. 31th; Cyrus Whiting. Oct. 34th; Erastus C. Woodworth, James\\nDalton and John Osborn, May 19th George W. Sparks and George Brown, Sept.\\n33d John Halstead, Sept. 30th Norman H. Thurber, Nov. 3d Oliver Phelps, Nov.\\n3d; David Price, Russel Forsyth and Mary Lammon, July 3d; Paul Raymond,\\nNov. 3d; Jeptha Whitman, Oct 6th; Benjamin Hornbeck, May 27th; David Bur-\\ngess, Dec. 7th Ezra Cole, Dec. 8th. Town nine south, two east, Joseph R. Williams,\\nNov. 10th Howland Hagaman, Nov. 14th Nehemiah Crane and T. Coburn.\\nMrs. Brower is said to have been the first white woman settler within the present\\nlimits of Seneca township. The first child born, which must have been early in\\n18a5, was named Alma Brower. In January, 1835, Judith P. Hayward died. In\\n3Iay, the second day, the first school house in to mi eight south, two east, was,", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00ab54 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nfinished. Miss Parson, now Mrs. Miller, still residing in the township of Medina,\\nitaught the school that snmmer, and Simon D. Wilson taught it the next winter.\\nThe school house was a log strnctiue, and was situated in the grove just north of\\nCharles B. Wilson s residence. The lirst saw-mill was built in 183.5.\\nWHEATLAND.\\nIn the montli of .January, 1835, Eli Eastman moved into town six south, one west,\\nand built a log house on the land he had entered the year previous. He left the State\\nof New Yoi k in is;3.3, coming to Fairfield, Lenawee county, in November, 18:3.3. Here\\nhe spent the winter of 18,33-4, and in January, 183.5, moved to Wheatland. Before he\\nhad the body of his house up, Harvey McGee came in and commenced a settlement\\non his land. Mr. Eastman names, as living in that township, the following families\\nMoore, Brown, Knapii, .Jackson and Farmer.\\nOn the 17th day of March, 1835, the Legislative Council organized towns five, six,\\n;seven, eight, nine and fractional ten south, one west, into a township and named it\\nWheatland. The first township meeting was held at tlie house of Thomas Gamble,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2on the Chicago road. The records of that township meeting are lost, and it is\\nimcertain who were elected to office, but it is believed that Heman Pratt was the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0supervisor.\\nA large nimibor of rsons settled within the territorial limits of tlic townshiji\\nduring the year ISO. In town five south, one west (Somerset), the following were\\namong the settlers Itohert T. Brown, C. M. McLouth. Ptobert Bilby. A))raham West.\\nAlonzo Olds. Elijali Slayton. Allicit AVckkJs, I^eonavd Bailey. Elisha Smith, Aaron\\nVan Vleet, Simon H. Baker, Isaac Derby, Alpheus Hill. Albert Parmelee, William\\nWeaver, S. Mercer. IMr. ^Nlercer came in tlie month of October. He bought a yoke of\\noxen near Detroit, and his two sons William, a yoinig man, and Andrew, a lad-\\ndrove them in. Mr. William fiercer says there were plenty of taverns on the road\\n(then there vi ere fourteen or fifteen between Clinton and Gambleville.\\nAll the old settlers agree that during this year there was an immense travel on the\\nChicago road. There was no time during daylight that there were not some teams in\\nsight, and usually there was a continiial and close ]n-ocession throughout the whole\\nday. The Chicago roa I had become pretty well settled, the LaPlaisance Bay road\\nhad been completed, and the Adrian Territorial road had been so far completed as to\\nbe used to some extent. Mr. (Jeddes, speaking of the scenes on the LaPlaisance Bay\\nturnpike in 1835, says: One living on the turnpike to-ttay can scarcely realize the\\nwonderful changes that have taken place upon that thoroughfare since its construc-\\ntion. From 1835 to 1840 there was one continuous procession of movers wagons.\\niSix foiu -horse coaches each day ran over the road, loaded with passengers, and all\\nwas life and activity. This immense ti-avel of the La Plaisance Bay road united\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2with the travel from Detroit at Walker s Junction, in the township of Cambridge, and\\n.thence westward it was a mighty procession.\\nAmong those who purchased lands in town six south, one west (Wheatland), were\\nthe following: John L. Johnson, Amos White, Sylvester White, Bartlett Bump,\\nBenjamin Johnson, Stephen L. Gage, Henry S. McQuig, Elijah Gillett, Jr., Albert\\nVreedenburg, John L. Edmonds, Jonathan Eobbins, Lyman Crothers, Samuel\\nClement, Edwin L. Way, Calvin Carr, Van Rensalaer Conover, Stephen Iloeg, John\\nBrailish, Edson Witherell, Isaiah Straw, Gamaliel Burbank, Darius Douglas, Almon\\nGoS, Zachariah Paddleford, Samuel D. Douglas, Joscpli W. Ashley, George Miller,\\nGeoige Whitney, Abel S. Bailey, Nathan P. Cohvcll, Nathan Whitney, Adam Lull,\\nJohn McKnight, Joseph Paddleford, Charles Carmicluiel, Bradford Carmichael, Silas\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Carmichael, Zebulen Williams, John Bailey, Isaac Lamb, A. N. Martin, James McGee,\\nSimeon P. Gillett, David Currier, Charles II. Tucker, George Nokes, John Penoyer,\\nLyman P. Gillett, Edward Lmnley, James A. Bissell, Samuel Brown, Hiram Ferguson,\\nWilliam Bigelow, Charles Mitchell, Ebenezer Trumbull, Jeremiah Ferguson, Lyman", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 55\\nPease, Ambrose Allen, Levi W. Harrington, Griffin Sweet, Joseph R. Briscoe, Simon\\nJacobus, Henry Walker, Anthony Ten Eycke, Abram Viel, Fred Van Patten. Charles\\nOsgood, George D. Bradford, Isaiah Talmadge, James Wescott, Fifield H. Piichardson,\\nBarnard Gregory, Willis Kelley, David Sti ong, Sejnnour Van Alstine, Abram Van\\nAlstine, Leonard Bilby, Jesse Elsworth, Cromwell McLouth, Alonzo Olds.\\nCharles Carmichael moved into the township in the month of October, 1835. He\\nleft his old home in 18.34, and came to Michigan. He tarried about one year a little\\nsouth of Adrian, and then in October, 183.5, came to this township. He came alone\\nand commenced building a house. He boarded with Eli Eastman, who lived in a\\nsmall, one-roomed log house. There was a large emigration that year, and many\\n.land-lookers, and the house was full of people day and night. Mr. Carmichael says\\nMrs. Eastman kept the table spread all the time, and all were welcome at night they\\nlodged on the floor, and the floor was covered nightly.\\nHenry Carmichael came December 34th, 1835. He was an unmarried man, and\\nhad stopped in Ohio the year jirevious, when the family were coming through that\\nState on their way to Jliehigan, and taught school for several months. He entered\\nhis land in 1836.\\nDuring the winter of l 4-35 Stephen Knapp and his boys fenced a part of their\\nwind-fall lands, and in the spring planted eight acres to corn. There were only two\\nlog heaps on the eight acres, and it plowed as easily as sward land.\\nGoing to mill was no easy task in those days, although they went no farther than\\nAclrian or Tecumseh. From four to five days was the usual time, but Mr. Knapp\\nwent to mill once when it took eleven days to make the round trip. While outward\\nbound and waiting for the gi inding it rained so hard that bridges were carried off and\\nthe causeways submerged; tlie bridges had to be rebuilt and the causeways repaired\\nbefore the return trip could be accomplished.\\nSometime in the sunnner of 1835 Edmund B. Brown\u00e2\u0080\u0094 or Burrows Brown, as he was\\ncalled\u00e2\u0080\u0094 sold out his property in this township and traveled westward. In 1853 he\\nowned a pleasant and valuable farm on the shore of Sand Lake, in St. Joseph county.\\nIn the fall of that year, while grinding cider apples, he was bitten by a horse; his\\narm was so badly mangled that amputation was necessary, but this he refused to have\\ndone, and he died.\\nSeaton Hoxie was a justice of the peace, whether appointed by Territorial authority\\nor elected by the people at their first township meeting does not appear. He was not\\nvery highly educated, and it was difficult for him to follow the forms of the law, or to\\nunderstand the necessity or utility of so doing. Being called upon to swear a party\\nto an affidavit in attachment, he put it in these terms You swear by G\u00e2\u0080\u0094 d that you\\nare afraid of your pay. But this is no more amusing than the performance of that\\n-other man, who, seventeeii years later, desiring to be sworn to an affidavit, the officer\\nhaving administered the usual oath,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 You do solemnly swear that the statements\\nset forth in the affidavit by you subscribed are true, pulled oif his hat and assuming\\na gi-ave aspect answered, Yes, by G\u00e2\u0080\u0094 d, I do.\\nAmong those who purchased land in town seven south, range one Avest, during the\\nyear 18a=5, were the following Samuel Van Fleet, Joseph Webster, John L. Edmonds,\\nGeorge W. Merrick, George Williams. Henry Rose, Stephen Clapp, Peter W. Dean,\\n-Joel Alexander, Bowen Whitney, William Edmonds, William Donaldson, Olive\\nHoward, Asa Worden, Warren Day, Charles Howard, Lewis Nickerson, David\\nStrunk, John Williams, Samuel Starkweather. Harvey A. Anderson, Henry Linden-\\nbower, John Osborn, Lewis Woodruff, James Grant, John Perrin, John Berger.\\nReuben Davis, Samuel Lawrence, Stephen B. Johnson, Elijah K. Blythe, Ira Rose,\\nJohn B. Broklebank, Elijah B. Seeley, James B. Marry, Joseph Maxsou, Reuben\\nMallory, William II. Davis, Sidney S. Ford, Charles Boyle, Julia Seeley, Michael\\nStuck, Jr., Theron B. Seeley, Archibald Dunn, Stephen W. Perrin, Israel Smith,\\nTheron Skeel, James Wheeler, Charles Helm, Nathan G.Elliott, Charles Converse,\\nHenry W. SejTuour, Charles Spear, Henry Barton, Archibald Mercer.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "66 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nIn the spring of 18:35 Theodore, son of Charles Ames, died, lie obtained access to.\\nthe medicine chest and drank from a vial of wintergreen oil. Rufus Estes was imme-\\ndiately dispatched to Adrian for a doctor, but before the doctor arrived he was dead^\\nhaving died within twenty-six hoius alter drinking the oil.\\nOn the fourth day of September, 1885, tlie wife of Henry Ames died at the house of\\nCharles Ames. During her illness she had been removed for convenience of nursing\\nfrom the house on the Clark Ames farm to the residence of Chai-les Ames.\\nIn the spring of 1835 Mr. Alpheus Pratt set out an orchard of thirty-two trees- These\\nhe piu:chased of Jesse Maxson, who had brought them from the State of New York,,\\nand he carried all of them on his back at one tiiue from Jesse Maxson s farm to his\\nown house, a distance of two and one-half miles. He paid eight dollars for the trees,,\\nand he says it was all the money he could raise.\\nIn the fall of 1835 the citizens of town seven south, one west, met at the house of\\nAlpheus Pratt to consider the propriety of asking the Legislature, at its next sessioa\\nsoon to be held, to organize the township. They determined that it would be proper\\nto do so, and decided to call the township Dover. The petition was signed by\\nCharles Ames, Jonathan French, John L. Taylor, William B. Ames, Ozen Keith,\\nDaniel Loomis, Elijah B. Seeley, Jesse Kimball, James Sprague, Samuel Day, Robert\\nWordeu, Robinson H. Whitehorn, Lewis Gillett and Jesse Smith.\\nIn the fall of 1835 Isaac A. Colvin bought a stock of merchandise, a large part of.\\nwhidh was whisky and tobacco, and opened a store on the Charles Ames farm. He\\noccupied a small building nearly opposite the large building used as a cheese\\nfactory by the late Charles Ames. In 1834 William Ames and Pennock engaged in\\nthe shoe business in Adrian, but now William, having closed his business there-,.,\\nwas installed chief salesman in Colvin s grocery. The grocery was the center of\\nattraction of the settlement. The settlers were working very hard. felling timber.\\nIn all directions the sound of falling timber could be heard\u00e2\u0080\u0094 in some directions almost\\ncontinually and the grocery was the only place at which to procure the little deli-\\ncacies of life, such as pipes and tobacco, and the more substantial comforts in the\\ngrocery line, and it became tlie center of traffic. Here the Indians brought their furs\\nand game and exchanged for tobacco and the much used fire water. Their encamp-\\nment was at what was then known as the Squawfield, on the little St. Joseph, in the\\ntownship of Pittsford. This St. Joseph river rises in Hillsdale county, tlows south-\\nerly, and unites with the Maumee river, and is called on the maps the St. Joseph of\\nthe Maimiee, and must not be mistaken by the reader for that other St. Joseph which\\ntakes its rise in the \\\\4cinity of the head waters of the first and flows westward into-\\nLake Michigan.\\nTheir chief, Meteau, his son John (Indian John the settlers called him) acting as\\ninterpreter, was their principal trafficker. He carried the purse of the tribe. They\\nwoidd have nothing to do with paper currency\u00e2\u0080\u0094 their medium of exchange was silver\\no -ily, which thsy called sliuniah. Having disposed of their articles they would pur-\\nchase tlieir bags full of corn and turnips, and such other articles as they needed, not\\nfor once forgetting the indispensable whisky, and then return to camp.\\nWilliam kept a bottle standing on the shelf, from which he dealt out the whisky by\\nthe drink to those who only wanted that quantity at a time. One day Meteau came\\nalone to make the purchases of the tribe, and having learned William s ways, walked\\nup to where the bottle stood and waited for his drink. The bottle and tumbler were\\nset down he turned out a tumbler full, paid his six cents, and drank his whisky-\\nHe sat down and smoked for a long time, and then walking up, repeated the operation,\\nagain taking a tumbler full, and retiring to enjoy his pipe. William was alone and\\nli3 began to fear that the Indian meant mischief, for becoming intoxicated he might\\nalso become quarrelsome. In such an event the Indian would have much the advan-\\ntage, for he was armed with two large knives and a large cavalry pistol. Meteau.\\ncame up for a third drink. William tried to make him imderstand that it would take\\nliim down. The Indian, evidently understanding William s fears, ajid determined oxb.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\ngetting his drink, said, Give wliislcy, luarche quick, thereby meaning if William\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0would give him another drink he would go away. William gave him the drink, bat\\nthe Indian did not seem disposed to go home. William stepped up to him and told\\nhim to go away home. Meteau, saying I shoot you, drew his pistol and pointed it\\nat William, who quickly sti-uck it with his hand, and throwing the muzzle upward\\nthe ball passed over liis head then fearing that he would draw his knife, Willianx\\nclosed in, and after a severe struggle succeeded in throwing him on the floor,\\nwhere he held him until he became so drunk he could not help but lie still. William\\nthen disarmed him and drew him forth to rest upon the snow without. Henry Ames\\nin the meantime coming in, as soon as Meteau could stand they filled his bag with\\ncom and turnips and started him home but he only went a little way, built a fire on\\nPennock s place, tlie Finney farm, and sat down in the snow all night. In the morn-\\ning he returned to the grocery and asked for his pistol. Ames told him he must\\nmarche quick he tried to shoot William, and he could not have it In about a\\nweek he returned and laid upon the counter a nicely dressed twenty-fom- pomid wild\\nturkey. William walked up and laid down a twenty-five cent piece and said, Swap?\\n3Ieteau, smiling, said, Very good. William sat the bottle down, they drank and\\nsmoked together, the feud w^as healed and they were friends and William was duly\\ninstalled the Indian trader for Squawfield, which arrangement continued until the\\nIndians were removed west.\\nSoon after this settlement with Meteau, Bawbeese and some other Indians came to\\nColvin s gi-oceryfor more whisky. William told them if he sold tl\u00c2\u00bbem wliisky and\\nthey did any damage he was liable to be fined twenty-five dollars. They plead so\\nhard, and so faithfully promised to do no harm, William gave them some to drink.\\nThen they wanted some to carry to a sick squaw. A half pint was given them foi\\nthat purpose, but it has always been supposed that the squaw got well without it.\\nThe next morning a man came in and reported that the Indians, passing ilr. Barrett s\\nhouse just as his supjier was ready, gathered round the table and ate every bit of it.\\nand as they evidently had been drinking they were supposed to have obtained their\\nliquor at Colvin s grocery. But William, with that innocence of expression and\\napparently honest appearance which have not yet forsaken him, professed entire\\nignorance of any such transaction, and the matter passed off without investigation.\\nAn Indian died near the present residence of Bishop Ames, and the Indians buried\\nIiim near by in a sitting posture. They prepared a grave of such a depth that in a\\nsitting position his head would be one foot below the surface of the ground. After\\nplacing him in the grave they repaired to Colvin s gi-ocery to obtain a bottle of whisky\\nfor the dead Indian to carry with him to the hunting gi-ounds of the Great Spirit.\\nWilliam s theological training being at that day rather deficient, he told them the\\nIndian did not need it; but they insisting, William filled a half pint bottle and re-\\npaired with them to the grave. They placed the bottle in the dead Indian s hand and\\ncovered him to the chin with earth, and covered the gi-ave over with bark. They\\nthen conmienced a mournful howl, which continued for some time, and tlien saymg\\nHauJxbe,^ gone to sleep, they left him to pursue his journey alone.\\nWhisky was sold for thirty-eight cents a gallon at the Colvin grocery, but if we\\nmay judge from the following story told of Father Alpheus Pratt, it contained quite\\nas much spring water as corn juice. The story, for the truth of which we will not\\nvouch, runs as follows In mid-winter Alpheus Pratt and Samuel Day prepared to\\ngo to mill. Alpheus having some knowledge of the effect of frost upon human bodies,\\nprovided himself with a pint of Colvin s whisky, which he hid in one of his bags.\\nWhen two-thirds, perhaps, of the journey had been accomplished and they had\\nwearied themselves whipping arms and stamping feet, Pratt slapped Day upon the\\nshoulder, saying, Well, neighbor Day, let s take something to warm us up. Have\\nyou anything? asked Mr. Day. Certainly, said Mr. Pratt I have some of Colvin s-\\nbest whisky, and it will send the blood tingling through our benumbed limbs and", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "58 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\ngive lis courage for the journey. While talking, he had undone the bag and pro-\\nduced the bottle. His changed looks told the story\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the whisky had frozen solid.\\nA Dlitchnian named Johnson occupied the liouse on William Ames farm. He had\\nbeen having the ague so long he had been shaken nearly to death, without being able\\nto seriously disturb it by all the means known to the early settlers. One night a bear\\nthat woul?l weigh between two and three hundred pounds thrust his paw through the\\nglass of the window, with a savage growl that scared tlio Dutchman gray and eifectu-\\nally cured him of the ague. To use his expression, scared it out of him.\\nA laughable, yet serious, incident occurred among a party of hunters during the fall\\nor early part of the winter. Jesse Smith and his son William Smith were hunting in\\ncompany, and Thomas Lewin was out by himself. While Jesse was sitting beside a\\nlog he was espied by Thomas, peering through the brush, and mistaken for a turkey.\\nThomas blazed away, putting a bullet through Mr. Smith s arm just below the shoulder.\\nThe old man s cries discovered to Thomas his mistake he assisted him home and\\nthen went for Dr. Hall, who lived near Devil s Lake, to dress the wound. When\\neverything had been done to make the patient comfortable, Thomas returned home.\\nHis father had heard of the adventure, told Thomas he should hunt no more, and\\ndemanded a surrender of the gun. Thomas did not surrender unconditionally. A\\nsti-uggle for the possession of the rifle ensued, diu-ing which it was discharged, tlie\\nball inflicting a flesh wound in the old man s arm, passed through the chamber floor.\\nThomas succeeded in keeping possession of the gun and made good his escape to the\\nwoods.\\nOn the second day of January, 1836, Mr. John Griswold and family, then late of\\nOntario county, New York, arrived at the house of William Frazee, on the southwest\\ncorner of section nineteen, Hudson, where Williani Ocobock now lives. They had\\nmade the journey by team and wagon, at first coming to Adrian, thence to Canan-\\ndaigua, west on the town line (as near as roads then ran on lines) to the county line,\\nand thence northerly to :Mr. Frazee s residence. Mr. Griswold found only the follow-\\ning houses on his route from Canandaigua, viz: That of Mr. J. R. Foster, near the\\npresent Tiffin mills. Elder Warner, near the northwest corner of section four, Medina,\\nand Whitbeck, on town line, half mile east of the west line of the towns. The family\\nstayed with Mr. Frazee until Monday morning,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the day of their arrival Ixr-ing Satur-\\nday, when they removed to the house of Ira Rose, where they remained until a log\\nhouse could be built. Before coming, Mr. Griswold had purchased the northeast\\nquarter of the southeast (piarter of section twenty-four, town seven south, one west,\\nof John B. Brocklebank, who had entered it the year previous. Here, now, Mr.\\nGriswold built a log house, into which he moved his family a few weeks later. On\\nthis place, just beyond the southwest corner of the village of Hudson, he lived more\\nthan thirty-five years. He died April 17th, 18T4, aged eighty-seven years. Mrs.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Griswold preceded him about two years, having died April 8th, 1872.\\nJanuary eighth the village of Keene was platted by Charles Ames. The village was\\nall on the farm lately owned by him in the townshii* of Pittsford.\\nAs has before been remarked in these pages, persons desiring to find homes, and\\nland speculators as well, were very active during the year 1835. In this one year\\nnearly all the land in the present townships of Seneca, Medina and Wright was pur-\\nchased of the (lovornment. Among the persons who purchased land in town eight\\nsoutli, niic west, Well tlicse, viz On section 4 Gates, Lothrop Olney, Lewis M.\\nGates and Cluulcs Converse, Feb. 1.5th; N. Bryant, Nov. 4th; David Short, Nov. 16th.\\nSection .5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lewis Gates, July 1.5th Mary Marshal and Royal Raymond, Nov. 3d John\\nM. Lickley, Nov. 7th David Short, Nov. 16th. Section 6\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Christopher Clement, Oct.\\n17th Royal Raymond, Nov. 3d Wilber Ames, Nov. 7th. Section 7\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jonathan How-\\nland, Oct. 24th; Samuel Miller, Nov. 2d; Stephen Thorn and S. D. Daken, Nov. 9th.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Section 8\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Michael Lickley, Nov. 7th Moses Moore, Nov. 9th Stephen Thorn, James\\nSager and James Thorn, Nov. 10th. Section 9\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lewis M. Gates, Jidy 1.5th; John B.\\nSkinner, July 31st; David Short. Nov. 16th. Section 10\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lewis M. Gates, July 15th;", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "THE BEAX CREEK VALLEY. 50\\nJohn B. Skinner, July 33d A. S. Berry, Nov. 12tli. Section 11\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alexander Dvmcan.\\nJuly 6tli. Section 13\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Job S. Littlefield, June. 26tli Alexander Duncan, July 6tli\\nAsa D. Reed, July 18th; Thomas C. Sawyer, Sept. 30th; William Cavender and\\nArthur Lucas, Oct. 7th. Section 13\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alexander Duncan, July 6th Thomas C. Saw-\\nyer, Sept. 29th. Section I t\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alexander Duncan, July 4th Hiram Lucas, Oct. 7th\\nA. J. Comstock, Dec. mth. Section 1.5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nathaniel Silsbee, July 30th Samuel Coman,\\nOct. 7th. Section 17\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaac M. Sturgis, Nov. 9th Stephen Thorn, J. Sawyer, Nov.\\n10th Nathan Birdsall, Dec. 13th. Section 18\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Short, Nov. 16th. Section 30\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJoseph R. Williams, Nov. 10th; Jane Shute, Nov. 36th. Section 31\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph R.\\nWilliams. Section 33\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alexander Duncan, July 6th Joshua Tompkins, July 18th\\nSamuel Coman, Oct. 7th. Section 33\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alexander Duncan, July 6th William Tappen-\\nden, July 9th; William Raleigh, Oct. 37th. Section 3i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W^illiam Tappenden, July\\n7th Alexander Duncan, July 31st. Section 3.5\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Smith, July 9th Benjamin\\nF. Bown, Dec. 10th. Section 36\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Smith, July 9th Henry P. Gardener, Oct.\\n27th. Section 37\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Langford G. Berry, Nov. 13th. Section 39\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles IL Conall.\\nOct. 30th; Jane Shute, Nov. 36th. Section 31\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles II. Conall entered entire sec-\\ntion Oct. 30th.\\nIn the spring and summer of 1835 Mrs. Hiram Lucas, then a resident of the villag\\nof Adrian, wTOte her father, Samuel Coman, then residing at or near Rome, in tlie\\nState of New York, such glowing descriptions of the emigrants Eldorado\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Bean\\nCreek Country\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that he resolved to move Westward. He wrote his son Russell, then\\nresiding in Dearl orn county, Indiana, to meet him at Adrian on such a day in the\\nmonth of September, U r tlie purpose of assisting in the hieation of homes for his large\\nfamily of boys. Tliey met in Adrian acedidinii t j appointment, and accompanied by\\nHiram Lucas, they proceeded to Canandaigua. There they obtained the services of\\nArthur Lucas and Calvin Pixley as guides through the wilderness. They at once\\nproceeded to town eight south, one west, and selected lands on sections fifteen and\\ntwenty-two and on his way home Samuel Coman stopped at Monroe and entered the\\nland on the 7th day of October, 1835. The entire party, guides and all, must have been\\ncaptivated by the beauty of the country, for on the same day Iliiam Lucas, Calvin\\nPixley and Artlmr Lucas all entered land in the township. Indeed, it was just the\\ntime of year when men would be captivated by a primeval American forest. The\\ngigantic ti ees newly dressed in their autumn costumes of red, yellow, and purple\\nleaves large bunches of fox grapes pendant from clinging vine, the-continual falling\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of mast loosened by the early frosts; the woods filled with the more valuable species\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of game, bounding, running, or flying away at the ap])roach of the strange visitor,\\nman, formed a scene likely to enamor more obdurate hearts.\\nThe two Comans, father and son, returned to their respective lioines to prepare for\\nemigration. Russell, immediately on reaching home, packed liis goods, which he loaded\\nin a Hoosier wagon with his wife and three children, the wagon drawm by two yoke\\nof oxen, and started for Michigan. Mr. Russell Coman had left the parental home, in\\n-the State of New York, in the year 1835. He purchased a small boat, which he loaded\\nonto a wagon, the boat serving as a box, and, accompanied by a young man, he con-\\nveyed to, and launched it upon, the head waters of the Ohio river. In this boat they\\ndropped down the Ohio to the mouth of the Miami river. There he disend)arked\\nand found a home in Dearborn coimty, Indiana, where he lived until 1835. March\\n13th, 1S39, he inter-married with Miss Ann Mc^Math, and their union was blessed with\\nthree Indiana-born children, one of which was an infant at the breast when the jour-\\nney to Michigan began. After their arrival at Adrian the youngest child died. Mr.\\nComan employed Hiram and Arthur Lucas to help him build a house, and meanwhile\\nthe family was left at Hiram s house, in Adrian. The house was so far completed\\nthat the family moved into it sometime between Christmas, 1835, and New Year s\\nday, 18.36. Russell Coman s family was the first, and until February the only family\\nIn town eight south, one west. The house thus built and occupied was built on sec-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "60 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\ntion fifteen, where Samuel Coman, the (!kler, afterwards resided for many years, oni\\nthe farm now owned by Jacob Shanour.\\nTHE TOLEDO WAR.\\nThe story of tlie settlement of the Valley of the Bean would be incomplete\\nwithout some mention of an event which divided it between two States and robbed,\\nour Valley of the townships of Gorham and Cliesterfield, and Lenawee of those, and\\nalso the townships of Royalton. Amboy and Richfield. On the sixth day of July,\\n18.34, Governor Porter, who had succeeded ifr. Cass as Governor of the Territory,\\ndied, by which event Stevens T. Mason, of Virginia, Secretary of tlie Territory, be-\\ncame the acting Governor. January 2C th, 18:3.5, the Legislative Council passed an act\\nfor the election of delegates to a constitutional convention, and the convention con-\\nvened on the 11th day of May following. This movement toward the organization of\\na State government for Michigan invested the territorial dispute with new interest.\\nThe territory in dispute was a strip along the line between the States, from the Indi-\\nana line to Lake Erie, five miles wide at the west end and eight miles wide at the east\\nend. The southern line, claimed by Michigan to be the boundary, was known as the\\nFulton line, and the northern line, claimed by Ohio to be the boundary, was called\\nthe Harris line. This belt of territory contained some very valuable farming land,,\\nbut its chief ^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a!ue in the eyes of the contestants was the port at the mouth of the\\nZSIaumee river, known successively as Swan Creek, Port Lawrence, Vistula, and\\nToledo. Outside of Toledo tlie disputed country was a wilderness. The early set-\\ntlers of the terrildi-y ackiKiwled- ed their allegii .nee to the government of Michigan,\\nasked for and received appropiiatidns for the Ijuildingof roads leading to their village,\\nand some of them became corporators of the Erie and Kalamazoo railroad, under a\\ncharter fi-oni the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan. But when the\\nWabash and Erie canal became a possibility, and its eastern terminus at Toledo\\nprobable, if that place should be found to be witliin tlie limits of Ohio, many of her\\ncitizens at oiiee discovered that they were citizens of Oliio, whereas they had hereto-\\nfore acted as citi/.ons of ^ilicliigan. Some, however, still acknowledged the sovereignty\\nof Mieliiuan. (IdveiiKir :Mas(in. liavlng been apprised of the proposed action of the\\nauthorities of Ohio, sent a s])ecial message to the Legislative Council, recommending\\nimmediate action to forestall that of the Oliio Legislature.\\nOn the 12th day of February the Legislative Council enacted Tliat if any person\\nresiding within the limits of this territory shall aece])t of any otlice (\u00c2\u00bbf trust from any\\nState or authority other than the Government of the United States or Territory of\\nMichigan, every person so offending shall be fined not exceeding one thousand dollars,\\nor be imprisoned five years, at the discretion of the court before which any conviction-,\\nmay be had.\\nIn the same month the Legislature of Ohio passed an act extending the jurisdiction\\nof that State over the disputed territory, established townships and directed that\\ntownship elections should be held in the April following, and also directed the re-\\nmarking of the Harris line.\\nMarch ninth, Gov. Mason wrote Gen. Brown, then in connnand of the Michigan\\nmilitia, to hold himself in readiness to repel by force any attempt to carry out the\\nprovisions of the Ohio law and later in the month Gov. Mason, and Gen. Brown and\\nstaff, with from eight hundred to twelve hundred men, encamped in and around\\nToledo.\\nOn the thirty-first day of March, Gov. Lucas and his commissioners arrived at\\nPerrysburgh to find the enemy in possession of the bone of contention. Under his\\ndirection Gen. Bell, of the Ohio militia, mustered a force of about six hundred men\\nand went in camp at Fort Miami. The delay was for the purpose of allowing the\\npartisans of Ohio to hold their township elections.\\nWhile the two armies were watching each other s movements, two conmussioners", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 61\\nappointed by the President arrived from Washington. President .Jackson liad taken\\nthe opinion of his Attornej^ General, who had advised him that the act of tlie Legis-\\nlature of Ohio extending jurisdiction over a part of the territory of Michigan was\\nrepugnant to the act of Congress of the 11th of January, 1805, and that the act of\\nthe Michigan Legislative Council was a valid law and could properly he enforced.\\nThe commissioners proposed\\nFirst\u00e2\u0080\u0094 That the Harris line should be re-marked without hindrance.\\nSecond\u00e2\u0080\u0094 As elections had then been held under the laws of Ohio, the people should\\nbe left to obey the laws of the one jurisdiction or the other without molestation until\\nthe close of the next session of Congress.\\nGov. Lucas affected to consider Gov. Mason as a minion of the President, and that the\\narrangement was to be made between himself and the President, and would be com-\\nplete as soon as his acceptance should be signified he therefore at once accepted the\\npropositions and commenced disbanding his forces. On the other hand, Gov. Mason,\\nconsidering himself at the head of a restricted sovereignty, refused to compromise the\\nrights of his people by a surrender .of possession and jurisdiction, and, therefore,\\nwhile he allowed his forces to return home, held himself in readiness to repel by force\\nany invasion of the territorial rights of Michigan.\\nNotwithstanding the determined attitude of Gov. Mason, Gov. Lucas directed the\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0commissioners to proceed to run the Harris line, commencing at the western end.\\n}en. Brown kept a line of scouts in the woods along the line to report the progress of\\nthe surveying party. As soon as the party came within the limits of Lenawee county\\nthe under-sheriff, armed with a warrant from a justice of the peace, and accompanied\\nby a jyosse comitatus, went to arrest them. The force started on Sunday morning.\\nThe infantry, about one-half the force, were carried in wagons about ten miles out\\nfrom that point they had to march, about ten miles. They arrived a little after noon,\\nthe mounted men considerably in advance. The surveying party were occupying\\ntwo cabins. As soon as the mounted men arrived. Gen. Brown, who accompanied\\nthe expedition, assinned command and ordered the surveyors to surrender, which\\nthey promptly refused to do. But when the infantry arrived, the occupants of one of\\nthe cabins, including the commissioners, became alarmed and broke for the woods,\\nhastened by a volley of nuisketry. They dashed into Maumee nearly disrobed by the\\nbriars and thorns that beset their path through the wilderness. The occupants of\\nthe other cabin, including the engineer corps, were arrested by the officer and taken\\nin triumph to the Lenawee county jail at Tecumseh. The civil autiiorities concluded\\nto hold Col. Fletcher, the chief of the engineer corps, in nominal im])risonment to test\\nby law the validity of the arrest. The others were i)ermitted to return to their homes\\nin Ohio. Col. Fletcher was allowed to be his own jailor. When he desired exercise\\nhe would cai efully lock the door, and putting the key in his pocket, stroll through\\nthe village or drive out with the village belles. This first clash of arms in this singu-\\nlar affair occurred within the Valley of the Bean.\\nThe Ohio commissioners reported to Gov. Lucas that they had been attacked by\\nan overwhelming force under command of Gen. Brown, and forced to retreat. The\\nPresident, to whom the matter was referred, asked Gov. Mason for a statement of\\nfacts by the officers engaged in the transactions complained of. The under sheriff\\nreported that a civil force made the arrest of nine persons ui)on a warrant issued by\\na justice of the peace, and that there was no blood shed. Gov. Lucas immediately\\nconvened the Legislature in extra session. It met on the 8th day of June, and at\\nonce proceeded to enact a law to prevent the forcible abduction of citizens of Ohio.\\nAnother act was passed to create the county of Lucas, making Toledo the county seat.\\nA session of court was directed to be held on Monday, the seventh day of September,\\nthen next ensuing, at any convenient house in Toledo. Still another act was passed\\nappropriating 55600,000 to carry these laws into effect over the disputed territory.\\nThe authorities of Michigan were not idle. Prosecutions for holding office under\\niie laws of Ohio were pressed with the greatest vigor. The people of Monroe county", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "62 TUE BEAl^ CREEK VALLEY.\\nwere kept busy assisting the sheriff in executing processes of tlie Monroe county\\ncourts in tlie disputed territory. Every inliabitant of the district was a spy for one\\nor the other of the contestants, as inclination dictated, and was busily employed in\\nreporting the movements of Monroe county or Wood county officials, as the case\\nmight be. The Ohio parties, when arrested, were incarcerated in the Monroe county\\njail. Major Stickney was arrested after a violent resistance by himself and family,\\nlie refused to mount a horse. He was put on by force, but would not sit there. For a\\nlong distance two men, one each side, held him on. At last, wearied by his resist-\\nance, they tied his feet under the horse, in which way they at last reached Monroe.\\nGov. Lucas sent commissioners to Washington to confer Avith the President. After\\na lengthy corresyiondence between these commissioners and the Secretary of State,\\nthe President consented to cause an earnest recommendation to be made to Gov.\\nMason that no obstruction be made to the re-marking of the Harris line; that all\\nprosecutions luider the territorial act of February, 18.3,5, be discontinued, and no fur-\\nther prosecutions be commenced until the next session of Congress. This\\nrecommendation was conveyed to Gov. Mason on the third day of July, but it had\\nno effect on his action. Prosecutions went on as before. On the 15th of that month\\nan attempt was made to arrest Two Stickney, a son of Major Stickney. In the scufBe\\nthe officer was stabbed with a knife Stickney escaped and fled to Ohio. The wound\\nwas slight, although the bldod flowed freely. Two was indicted by the gi-and jury of\\nMonroe county, and a requisitii n nuule on Gov. Lucas for liis surrender. The Governor\\nrefused to surrender the fugitive, and a report of the affair was sent to the President,\\nwith a sworn statement that !ov. Lucas was protecting him. This aroused the Pres-\\nident to action he at once removed Gov. Mason, and appointed Charles Shaler, of\\nPennsylvania, his successor. He also advised Gov. Lucas to refrain from any act of\\njiu-isdictionover the disputed territory pending the action of Congress. Mr. Shaler\\nnever entered upon the duties of the office, and soon after, John S. Horner, of Vir-\\nginia, was appointed Secretary and acting Governor but he did not enter upon the\\nduties of his office until the twenty-first day of September. In the meanwhile ^SEason\\ncontinued acting Governor.\\nGov. Lucas now felt sure that Old Hickory was aroused, and that he would\\ntolerate no more show of force on his part; but he also felt it necessary to perform\\nsome act of jiuisdiction, so itwould not besaid he had backed down. The Legisla-\\ntin-e had ordered a session of court to be held on the seventh day of September, in the\\nvillage of Toledo. Gov. Mason was aware of the fact, and was on hand with .Gen.\\nBrown and the militia to prevent the consummation of the order. To actually hold\\nthis court in defiance of Gov. Mason and his military force, and also in defiance of\\nthe President s recommendation, looked to Gov. Lucas like a grand achievement;\\none that would burnish his tarnished honor, and maintain the dignity of the guberna-\\ntorial office of the gi-eat State of Ohio. He, through his Adjutant General, ordered\\nout a regiment of troops to escort the judges to Toledo, and protect them in the per-\\nformance of their duty. They were to march from 3Iamnee on the morning of the\\nseventh, but the evening previous a report was circulated that Gen. Brown was in To-\\nledo with twelve hundred men, ready for any emergency. The report was untrue,\\nbut it served to test the valor of the judges; they hesitated and trembled at the pros-\\npect. The Colonel in command provided a forlorn liope, and taking the judges in\\ncharge, marched them into Toledo at three o clock ]Monday morning, September 7tli.\\n183.5, proceeded to a school house, held court less than five minutes, and then hastily\\nreturned to ]Mauinee. How easily was Ohio honor vindicated. Not a soul over whom\\nthey came to assert jurisdiction knew of their coming, doings, or retreat.\\nSeptember 21st, acting Governor Horner assumed the duties of that office, and Gov.\\nMason retired to private life.\\nWhile these events were transpiring the convention had been elected, met, formed\\na constitution, and adjourned. Tlie constitution was submitted to the people on the\\nfifth and sixth days of October, and was duly ratifii^d. At the same election a full set", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY. 03\\nof State offictiis; were elected, Stevens T. Mason being elected Governor, (iov. Mason\\nwas at once inaugurated, the Legislature met on the ninth day of November, and the\\nmachinery of a State government set in motion. Michigan was not yet admitted as a\\nState the machinery of a Territorial government remained, which was recognized by\\nthe general government and the several State governments as the lawfid government\\nof Michigan but it was totally ignored by the people, who yielded obedience to the\\nnew State government. This state of things made it very unpleasant for Mr. Horner,,\\nand in ]\\\\Iay, 1836, he left the Territory to assume tlie duties of Secretary of the Terri-\\ntory of Wisconsin, created at that session of Congi-ess.\\nOn the fifteenth day of June, 1836, Congi-ess passed an act accepting the constitution\\nand State government of Michigan, and admitting her into the Union, provided she\\nshould, by a convention of delegates chosen for that purpose, consent to tlie boundary\\nline claimed by Ohio, and take in lieu thereof the territory now known as the Upper\\nPeninsula. Gov. Mason called a special session of the Legislature, to meet on the\\neleventh day of July, 1836. On the twentieth day of that month, an act was passed\\n])roviding for the election of delegates and the assembling of the convention on tlie\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a220th day of September, at Ann Arbor.\\nThe convention met, and after a four days session, rejected the proposition of\\nCongress relating to the boundary. The people were unanimous in reference to the\\nmerits of the conti-oversy, but a large party thought deferred admission would work\\ngreater injm-y than loss of territory. They were therefore dissatisfied with the rejec-\\ntion of the proposition, and they determined that another convention should be called\\nwithout waiting for the assembling of the Legislatm-e. Two large meetings of the\\ndissatisfied citizens were held, one in Detroit, the other in Ann Arbor. These assem-\\nItlies united in a request to the Governor to call a convention by proclamation. The\\n(xovernor approved of a second convention, but as it was wholly unauthorized by law,\\nhe declined to issue the proclanuxtion. On the fourteenth day of November, a circu-\\nlar was issued by the leaders of the assenting party, which reconnnended tlie qualified\\nvoters in the several townships to meet on the fifth and sixth days of December and\\nelect delegates to attend a State convention to be held at Ann Arbor on the fourteenth\\nday of that month. It further recommended that the number of delegates be twice the-\\nnumber elected to the popular branch of the Legislature, and that the election should be\\nIield at the proper places for holding elections, and shoidd be conducted by the same\\nofficers and according to the forms of law governing other elections. The opposition\\nto the second convention refrained from voting, deeming the whole proceeding void.\\nAs but one party voted, all the delegates were in favor of accepting the proposition of\\nCongress. Therefore, on the fifteenth day of the month\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the second day of its ses-\\nsion the convention unanimously resolved to accept the condition imposed by Con-\\ngress, protesting, however, against the constitutional right of Congress to require\\nthis preliminary assent as a condition of admission into the Union. The action of\\nthis convention was submitted to Congress. A lengthy and spirited debate ensued,,\\nbut on the 2()tli day of January, 1837, Congress passed an act which, reciting by way\\nof preamble that the jieojile of Michigan had consented to the proposed boundaries,\\nadmitted the State into the Union of American States.\\nSince the ninth day of November, 1S: 5, the people of Michigan had lived under a\\ndual government. For all internal purposes tlie State government was supreme,..\\nliut for the purpose of coniinunion with the General and State go\\\\ernments, they liad\\nthe machinery of a Territorial government.\\nORGANIZATION OF TOWNSHIPS.\\nThe State Legislature, by an act approved March 33d, 18:36, organized several town-\\nships in the Bean Creek Valley. Town five south, one east, was named Woodstock,\\nand the first township meeting was ordered to be held at the house of Jesse Osborn.\\nThe reader will notii c tliat the spelling of tlie siuname here differs from its spelling.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "64 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nin the first sections of tiiis book, which is explained by the statement that when the\\nfamily first came to Michigan they spelled their name Osburn, but in after years they\\nchanged it to Osboru.\\nTown seven south, one east, was napied Hudson, the first township meeting to be\\nheld at the dwelling house of Beriah II. Lane.\\nTowns eight and nine and fractional ten south, ranges one and t^^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0o east, were or-\\nganized into a township, the first township meeting to be held at the house of Jacol\\nBaker, in town eight south, two east, and was named Seneca. Seneca then included\\nthe present townships of Medina and Seneca in Michigan, and Gorham and Chester-\\nfield in Ohio.\\nThe township of Wheatland was divided. Towns seven, eight and nine, and frac-\\ntional ten south were organized into a townsliip named Pittsford, and the first town-\\nship meeting was directed to be held at tlie dwelling house of Alpheus Pratt. The\\npeople had petitioned to have it called Dover, but the committee on townships having\\nalready named town seven south two east, Dover, they named this Pittsford upon\\nthe suggestion of a man who had known :Mr. Pratt in Pittsford, Monroe couty, N. Y.\\nThe township as then organized comprised the present townships of Pittsford and\\nWright in Michigan, and Mill Creek in Ohio.\\nTowns five and six south, one east, retained the name of Wheatland.\\nTowns six, seven, eight, nine and fractional ten south, two west, were organized\\ninto a township named Adams, and the first township meeting was directed to be held\\nat the southeast corner of section sixteen in said town six south. The township of\\nAdams then included the present townships of Adams. Jefferson and Ransom, the\\neast half of AmbDy in Michigan, and ISIadison. in Ohio.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 65\\n4 HUDSON.\\nOn the fornrth day of April. 183(), the first township meetiiif; of the township of\\nSludson was held at the house of Beriah II. Lane. Oflicers were elected as follows\\n;SimeonyanAkin, supervisor; George Saulsbury, township clerk; Beriah II. Lane\\n4ind Henry Ames, justices of the peace; Thomas Kealey, John Davenport and John\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Col well, commissioners of highways John Carleton, assessor and Noah Cressey,\\n.treasurer. It was voted to raise fifty dollars for contingent expenses.\\nOn the 28th day of April, Beriah H. Lane, esq., was called upon to perform a part\\nof the duties of his office. Word Avas brought to the newly elected justice that Dexter\\n.Smith and Mrs. Elvira Stearns desired to unite their destinies; therefore, following\\nail Indian trail, he wended his way to tlie farm of Smith, near where the village of\\nTJffln now is, and performed the marriage ceremony.\\nIn May a postoffice was established and named Lanesville. Mr. Lane was post-\\nmaster. Ills commission bore date 3Iay 19th, and was signed by Amos Kendall, post-\\nmaster general.\\nIn June the Rev. David Pratt came, and for two years was pastor of the Presbyter-\\naan church. He bought the piece of land known as Pratt s block, and built a house,\\nwhere his widow, the sole survivor of that family, still resides.\\nDuring the summer, II. P. Oakley came and bought out George Salisbury s grocery\\n:and notion trade, and David Stuck connnenced blacksmithing. In the fall Harvey\\nCobb came and occupied the house prepared for him by Alexander Findley. Augus-\\ntus Fi)niey came some time during the season, but did not purchase projierty until\\nthe next year.\\nMiss Adelia Champlin taught the Lanesville school in the summer of 1836. A log\\nrschool house Avas built during the autunni. It stood on a piece of gi ound a little way\\nsouth of the highway, on the section line, near the brew of a hill. Its position is now\\njnarked by the low, long building on east side of Church street, owned by J. K. Boies\\nt Co., it being the second south of their store building. There then were no other\\nbuildings south of Main street between Church and Market streets. The long, low\\nbuilding spoken of, or rather the west end of it, was the school house of 1841, of\\nwhich much has been said. It was formerly adorned with a cupola or steeple, and\\n?yas used for the double purpose of a school house and churcli.\\nIn the fall of 1836, the Messrs. VanAkin harvested about one hundred and fifty\\n5 ushels of wheat. It grew on the square of ground bounded west by High sti-eet,\\n2iorth by Main street, east by Wood street, and south by the hill on which Dr. J. C.\\nDickinson, Mr. Webster and Thomas Bate live. It was nice wheat land, except the\\nlots afterwards owned by Dr. R. A. Beach, which were mostly frog pond.\\nIt was in this summer that several men associated themselves together in what was\\nflailed the Great Bend Company. The project was to create a vast water power by\\nligging a race across the neck of the bend. Immediately after crossing the section\\nline, between sections nineteen and thirty, the creek bends to the westward, crosses\\ndnto Hillsdale county about forty rods south of the north line of section thirty, bends\\nagain to the eastward on section twenty-five in Pittsford, leaves that township at the\\n:orner of section thirty-six, crosses the east line of section thirty-one, Hudson, about\\nforty rods north of its south line; turning northward, it crosses the north line of\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0station thirty-two, not more than forty rods east of the northwest corner of that sec-\\nDon; it then runs northeasterly across the southeast corner of section twentj -nine,\\nand soirtheasterly across the southwest corner of section twenty-eight, and thence in\\nsiearly a direct southeasterly course to the village of Medina. By constructing a race\\nfrom the point near where the creek crosses the south line of section nineteen, to the", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "66 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\npoint on the east line of section twenty-nine, where the creelt takes its southeasterly\\ncourse, a distance of less than two miles, a large fall would be obtained; sufficient, in-\\ndeed, to propel all the machinery it were possible to build on the route. In order tf\\naccomplish the project, it was necessary to procure the right to turn the water of the\\nBean from its natural channel, and the right to do so must be purchased, the company\\nbuying water rights where they could, and where they could not buying the land right\\nout. The first purchases made in the furtherance of the project were made by Isaacr\\nFrench on the 18th day of July, 18100. On that day he bought the Samuel Davi-s farm,,\\nand about the same time purchased the farm of Horace Hitchcock. The two farms\\nhere spoken of are now owned, the first by Joseph Fletcher, and the second by Ilenvy\\nCarmichael.\\nIn September following, David Tucker came on, as the purchasing agent of the com-\\npany. The first purchase he made was the undivided one-half of the Lanesville mill\\nand mill property. It was deeded to him September second by Beriah H. Lane_\\nThere must have been some private arrangement between Simeon and William H.II.\\nVanAkin and Mr. Lane, for at that time Mr. Lane had no title to the property, as-\\nshown by the record. In July of 18.35 he had deeded a one-fourth interest to William\\nII. II. VanAkin, and in December of the same year had sold the remainder of his-\\ninterest\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one-fom-th part\u00e2\u0080\u0094 to Simeon VanAkin. The other one-half interest was\\nowned by Erastus Lane until February l(5th, 1837, when he deeded it to Augustus\\nFinney. On the 20th day of July, 18.37, William H. 11. VanAkin re-tk^eded a one-half\\ninterest in the mill to Beriah II. Lane, but he does not appear to have taken any pos-\\nsessory right, as that lialf of the property continued to be owned by various members-\\nof the Great Bend Company until it was abandoned in 1842.\\nTucker bought the following lands Of John Davenport, the south half of the-\\nmiddle subdivision of the southwest fractional quarter of section nineteen of Joseph\\nEeynolds, the west half of the southwest quarter of section twenty; of Williani:\\nWoods, the south half of the northeast quarter of section twenty-nine; of Elishf*\\nBrown, the southeast quarter of the southwest quarter and the northeast quarter of\\nthe southwest quarter of section twenty-nine; of Harmon Whitbeck, jr., the eas*..\\nhalf of the southwest fractional quarter of section thirty of William Chapman, tbfr\\nnorthwest quarter of the southwest quarter of section thirty-four; of Frederick\\nCorey, the east half of the southwest quarter and the southwest (piarter of the south-\\nwest quarter of section thirty-four: of Nicholas Fratts, the east half of the southeast\\nquarter of section eighteen and of Harvey Cobb, the southwest (piarter of the south-\\neast quarter of section eighteen.\\nHe also bargained for the land of Simeon A^anAkin. tor wliich he was to pay 34,7.50\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nHe paid $l,.50O down, and took a conti-act for a deed on the payment of the remainder\\nof the purchase money, which was to be paid within ninety days from the date of the-\\ncontract. The remainder never was paid, but Tucker assigned his interest in the\\ncontract to Joel McCoUum, of Rochester, N. Y., and subsequent to the expiration of\\nthe contract McCollum came to Lanesville and offered to jiay \u00c2\u00a7400 on the conti-act\\nMcCollum says VanAkin accepted it, and it was indorsed on tlie contract, and that^.,\\nMcCollum says, renewed it for all time. Such was the loiiiidation of the McColhna\\nclaim, which oiu older readers will remember to have heard so much about.\\nTucker also purchased of Sylvester Kenyon and William Frazee the right to divert\\nthe water from its channel. The description in Kenyon s deed reads as follows:\\nThe full and free privilege, riglitand authority to alter or change the course of the-\\nAvaters of Bean creek, so as entirely forever to direct and control its waters, or anjr\\npart or portion thereof, from its present channel or bed, where it now runs (except\\nso much as is necessary for farming purposes). The description in Frazee s deed i?-\\nthe same, except that the exception in regard to water for farm purposes is omitted^\\nTucker bought other lands in this township, and also some in the township oi\\nPittsford. These lands, rights and privileges Tucker deeded over to the members of\\nthe Great Bend Company, the larger part of them to Benjamin F. Southworth, i n", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 67\\nMonroe county. Thus the lands purchased during the months of September and Oc-\\ntober lie deeded to Benjamin F. South wijrth on the 29th day of October, except tlie\\nland purchased of Elisha Brown. This land he deeded, part to Elisha Brown, and\\nthe remainder to Lorenzo L. Brown.\\nThis Great Bend project was much talked of during this and the following year, but\\nthe financial panic of 1837 bankrupted its projectors, and put an end to the venture..\\nBefore this, however, Tucker had to leave the country. lie had left a wife and family\\nat the east when he came to Michigan, but at Adrian, which was his headquarters, -he-\\npassed as an unmarried man. At length, however, yielding to the fascinations o^ an-\\nAdrian lady, he put his head into the mati imonial noose. Mrs. Tucker Xo. 1, having,\\nbeen api)rised of his doings, threatened to make it warm for him, and he left the-\\ncountry. A son of the first Mrs. Tucker has twice visited the covuitry and threatened\\nto press his mother s claim for dower, but beyond scaring a few men into settlement,\\nhe has done nothing.\\nAs a great deal has been said about the ancient saw mill of Lanesviile, it may be\\nwell to stop here and give the history of that pioneer institution. The land\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the\\nmiddle si bli vision of the southwest fractional quarter of section eighteen\u00e2\u0080\u0094 was pur-\\nchased of the government l)y Reuben Davis in March, 18:34. On the twenty-third day\\nof July, 18;S4, Reuben Davis deeded the land to Erastus and Beriah H. Lane, except\\none-half acre on the brow of the hill east of the creek. Davis afterwards sold this-\\nhalf acre to John Davenport, but it was, later still, absorbed by the railroad. Erastu.s-\\nand Beriah II. Lane built the mill in the summer and fall of 18;34. On the eighth day\\nof July, 18:j5, Beriah II. Lane deeded an undivided one-fourth interest to William H.\\nH. VanAkin, and on the first day of December he sold an undivided one-fourth inter-\\nest to Simeon VanAkin. September 2d, 1836, Beriah 11. Lane deeded a one-half\\ninterest in the mill land and fixtures to David Tucker, and October 29th Tuckei^\\ndeeded the same interest to Benj. F. South worth. February Kith Erastus Lane\\ndeeded the other undivided one-half interest in the mill, land and flowage tO\\nAugustus Finney. On the 2nth day of July William 11. II. VanAkin deeded an\\nundivided one-half of the mill property to Beriah H. Lane. This transfer perfected\\nthe title of Tucker and his assigns in a one-half interest in the mill property.\\nFebruary 28th, 1838, Benjamin F. Southworth conveyed an undivided one-half of\\nthe mill pro] erty to William L. Riggs. April ISth William L. Riggs convej-ed it tO\\nPhilo C. Fuller, and by another deed, made the same day, deeded it to Isaac French-\\nJanuary 2rth, 1840, Isaac French deeded it to William V. Studdeford, and July 11th\\nWilliam V. Studdeford deeded it to Augustus Finney, who then became the owner ot\\nthe entire mill property. On the 12th day of September, 1842, Augustus Finney\\ndeeded the mill property to Ed II. Winans. Soon afterward Winans deeded the land\\nto Isaac French, but in that deed no mention was made of the mill or race. The old\\nmill race took the water from the creek a little way above the railway embankment,\\nwest side, and discharged it between the railroad and Main street bridges. The de-\\npression in which Bean s pump factory, Benjamin Wright s, Nathaniel Lane s and\\nGeorge W. Carter s shops are built; is the old tail race. The mill was situated on the-\\nhill beside the race, a little south of the railroad ground, perhaps just in rear of the\\nhouse occupied by Mr. Homer Rawson.\\nBut to return to the incidents of 1836. On the S4th day of December Harvey An-\\nderson purchased a half interest in the Kidder mill.\\nIn January, 1837, the Legislature of the State passed the Internal Improvement Act,,\\nproviding for three lines of railroad across the State, the southern U) span the State frouv\\nMonroe to New Buffalo and in pursuance of that act connnissioners were appointed\\nto locate the routes. Of com-se the people of this part of the Valley were excited-\\nUpon the location of the Southern road depended, in a great measure, their futiu-e-\\nAvelfare. The commissioners at once determined the principal points on the route,,\\nviz Adrian, Hillsdale Center, as it was then called, Coldwater, Constantine, etc.\\nAs we shall not have occasion to refer to this matter again, it may as well be remarked", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "m THE BEAN CREEK YALLEY.\\nIn passing that Constantine was not finally made a point on the road, in consequence\\nof the road being turned into Nortliern Indiana. The causes of its deflection do not\\ncome within the purview of this work. The direct route between Adrian and Hills-\\ndale Center lay through or near the village of Rollin. The inhabitants of the twin\\nvillages, Lenawee and Keene, desired to deflect the road two miles from a straight\\nline to accommodate them, and the Lanesvillans desired to deflect it three miles to\\nacconmiodate them. Of the three projiosed routes tlic Lancsville route was the most\\nunlikely to be adopted. The Lenawee and Keene folks had a better route to ofter in\\nplace of the shorter Kollin route, but the Lanesville route was the longest and most\\ndifficult of the three, and if a company had been locating the road it would have\\ntaken a mint of eagles to buy it from its proper course. The result proved the cor-\\nrectness of the old saw, Where there is a will there is a way. In the ])erson, of\\nAugustus Finney, Lanesville possessed a valuable agent for the accomplishment of her\\npurposes. Gentlemanly in appearance and pleasant in address, and having an eh iipient\\nand persuasive tongue, he was just the man to make the worse appear the better rea-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2son. Added to the above qualifications were these He had ajicrt ect knowledge of\\nhuman nature, could read character like an open book, and was not over scrii])ulous in\\nthe use of means. He Avas put together for a diplomat, but the tinu s being out of joint,\\nhe never graced the station for which he was intended.\\nMr. Finney also possessed a personal interest in the location of the road. He had\\npurchased a half interest in the saw mill, and five acres of land with a frontage ex-\\ntending from Market to Church street. In the spring of 1887, a few weeks after the\\nappointment of the commissioners\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Levi 8. Humphrey, of ]Monroe, being one\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr.\\nFinney appeared at JVIonroe to advocate the claims of the Lanesville route. A public\\nmeeting was convened in the Court House to listen to the statements and arguments\\nof the Lanesville orator. It did not take much to arouse the enthusiasm of Monroe\\ncity people then. The Toledo war was but just closed, and the State but three months\\nadmitted under the hated compromise that robbed them of a harbor. The State had\\njust borrowed five millions of dollars, and was going to build them a railroad across\\nthe State. Monroe was to become the metropolis of 2\u00c2\u00bbIichigan, while the ague-shaken\\ndenizens of Toledo would hover over the swamps that environ the place, until their\\nbloodless bodies should find a sepulcher in her miry soil. Under such a state of feel-\\ning the Court House was easily filled with the business men of Monrop. Mr. John C.\\nHogaboam, then a citizen of Monroe, was present and heard the address of ISIr. Fin-\\nney. He spoke of the beautiful country around Lanesville, and of the fertility of the\\nsoil; but principally of the nuunmoth water power about to be created near by, by\\nthe famous Great Bend race the power would be estimated by the thousand horse\\npower, and the machinery driven would not only equal, but would surpass the great-\\nest manufacturing cities of the world. Then he recounted the names of the members\\nof the Great Bend Company, emphasizing the names of their own townsmen\\ninterested in the venture, and dwelt on each branch of the subject, until the audience\\nfancied they saw a great manufacturing town on the Bean, only fifty miles away, fur-\\nnishing the food, the furniture, and the clothing for the hundred thousand inhabitants\\nof the city of Monroe.\\nSatisfying the people paved the way for labor with the connnissioners. However\\nwell satisfied they might be of the growing importance of Lanesville, still they must\\nbe governed in a great measure by the reports of the surveyors who should run the\\npreliminary lines, and these would not be run until the autumn. When the reports\\nwere in, the fullest consideration would be given eacli of the proposed routes, so said\\nthe commissioners. It was, therefore, necessary to attend to the surveyors from whom\\nthe report was expected. The preliminary surveys were made in the autnnni of 1837,\\nhut the road was not established until the fall of 1838. During all that time the ques-\\ntion was open, and argument, persuasion, and more substantial inducements were the\\norder of the day.\\nJuly 24th Levi N. Bowlsby, one of the surveyors, became the owner of six and", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "HUDSON.\\n?iglity-three one-lumdredths acres of land in Lanesville. Tlie ti act now known as\\nthe Bowlsby plat is a part of that purchase. The consideration mentioned in the deed\\nis four hundred and twenty dollars. A member of the engineer corps, within a few\\nyears, speaking of the location of the road at Lanesville, said there were visionS 0\u00c2\u00a3\\ncorner lots never realized. Whether he meant the citizens did not fulfill their prom-\\nises, or tliat Bowlsby did not divide, is unknown.\\nWhether the inhabitants of the other routes offered any substantial inducements\\nis imknowii, but the probability is they relied upon their superior route, and deemed.\\nit impossible that the road would be laid on the longest and hardest route, until its^\\nlocation was fixed, and then offers were useless. The inducements operating on the\\nminds of surveyors and commissioners will probably never be known, but that they\\ndid locate the Michigan Southern Railroad between Adrian and Hillsdale on the most\\nineligible route is a fact that can never be obliterated. The State commenced to take\\nconveyances of right of way between Adrian and Hudson in November, isas. The\\nrelease of Stephen Allen bears date November 28th.\\nIn the spring of 1838 Mr. Finney brought his wife to Lanesville, and lived in a house\\ntJiat then stood near where the Friend bakery now is. Here he kept tavern\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the\\noriginal Hudson tavern.\\nHAKD TIMES-CAUSES, Etc.\\nIt becomes necessary here to notice another series of events that had an important\\nbearing upon the development of the Valley, as well as Michigan in general. At the\\nbeginning of 1837 there were sixteen chartered banks in the State nine of them were\\nchartered by the Territorial Legislative Council, and seven by the State Legislature\\nof 18.36. The following is a list of the banks, in the order of their organization:\\nMichigan, Detroit; Monroe, Iklonroe; Pontiae, Pontiac; River Raisin, Monroe; Wash-\\ntenaw, Ann Arbor; Erie and Kalamazoo, Adrian; Farmers and Mechanics Detroit;\\nMichigan State, Detroit: Merchants and .Mechanics Detroit; St. Clair. St. Clair:\\nClinton, Clinton; Calhoun. Marshall: Oakhmd County, Pontiae; Constantine, Con-\\nstantine; Ypsilanti, Ypsilanti; and Manhattan at Manhattan, Monroe county.\\nIt would seem as though these sixteen Ijanks ought to do the business of this then\\nnew State, but on the loth day of March, 18:^7, the Legislatm-e enacted a law provid-\\ning for the incorporation of moneyed institutions. This law provided that any\\nnumber of men might associate together, subscribe fifty thousand dollars for a capital\\nstock, and by filing articles of association with the county clerk, become incorporate.\\nOne-third of the capital must be owned in the county, ten per cent, be paid in before\\nelection of directors, and tliirty per cent, before bank notes should be issued. The\\nlaw also contained this restrictive clause It shall not be lawful for any such bank-\\ning association to issue, or have outstanding or in circulation at any time, an amount\\nof notes or bills loaned or put in circulation as money exceeding twice and a Imlf the\\namount of its stock then paid in and actually possessed; nor shall its loans and dis-\\ncounts at any time exceed twice and a, hnJf the amount of its capital stock so paid in\\nand possessed.\\nThis was bad enough, but a subsequent statute allowed them to deposit, instead of\\nspecie, a bond seciu-ed on real estate. Under the operation of this law hundreds ot\\nbanks sprang into existence. Nearly every cross road had its bank, and it is indeed a\\nwonder that the inhabitants of the Bean Creek Country could forego the luxury of a\\nbanking association. Every kind of property was quoted at inflated prices and wild\\nland, valued at three or four times its actual value, became the security for the bank\\ncircidation of Michigan. These banks, on account of the character of their securities,\\nwere called wild cat banks, and the old banks were known as chartered banks. Banks\\nof the wild cat species existed in Adrian, in Tccnnisch, and in Palmyra, in Lenawee\\ncounty.\\nAbout the time these wild cats had got to work, t!ie country experienced one of", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "70 THE BEAN CKEEK VALLEY.\\ntliose financial panics wliicli so frequently shake commercial communities to their\\nvery center. In order that tlie reader may understand the subject, it will be neces-\\nsary briefly to trace the causes whicli produced this disaster. In December, 1816, a\\nnew Unite l States bank was chartered for a term of twenty years. Tliis institution,\\nlocated at Philadelphia, became in the course of years the center of Imsiness interest.\\nIt was the custodian of the moneys of the government, and the j; overnment was the.\\nowner of a considerable amount of its stock it could and did control the rates of dis-\\ncount; it could make or lireak private or State banks by a bestowal or withdrawal of\\nits confidence, and as it controlled tlie pockets of the nation, so it b(\\\\t;an to also control\\nits opinions and political action. Tresident .lackson attacked the bank in his first\\n-animal message, 1S29, and returned to tlie attack in the annual messages of 1830 and\\n1831. Notwithstanding the liostility of the President, Congress, in July, 1832, passed\\nan act granting the bank a new charter. This act tlie President promiitly vetoed, but\\nits failure produced no immediate effect, as the old charter did not expire until De-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2cember, 1830.\\nThe Presidential campaign of is:;2 was tlien in progress. .Tackson was nominated\\nfor re-election, and tlie re-chartei-iiig of tlie bank was one of th(^ issues l)et\\\\veen par-\\nties at that election. .Jackson was re-el( tcd. and with hiui a Ibiust of Pe])resenta-\\ntives sympathizing witli his financial views. In liis nicssagr of that year tlie President\\nrecommended the removal of tlie deposits and the sale of the hank stnek liel( ngingt(t\\nthe United States. So tlioroughly entrenched was the l anlc in the business\\ninterests of the country that Congress dare not make t!ie attack. P ut so soon as Con-\\ngress had adjourned, the President directed the Secretary of the Treasury to remove\\nthe deposits. The Sccrctai y, ^Ir. William J. Duane, hesitated. There were about\\n.$10,000,000 of goveniiii.nt fiimls in tlie bank; the bank loans amounted to ^(;(),(i(io,O0i),\\nland were so distribulci! a: to effect aluiost every hamlet in the nation, and the Secre-\\ntary had not sufiicieiit cnuiane tn jostle the monster that might easily crush whole\\n-parties, and whose destruction, if accomplished, would bring ruin on almost every\\nhnsiuess house, and whose dying throes would be felt in every household in the land.\\nThe President at length made a peremptory order to remove the money, and to deposit\\nit in certain State banlcs. The Secretary promptly refused, and the President as\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2promptly removed him and apiiointed Eoger B. Taney, of Maryland, to ^lie Secretary s\\noffice. The business community were startled, and prophecies of wide-spread disas-\\nter freely made, but an iron han l was at the helm of Shite, and nothing would stay\\nits work or change its purpose. The new Seeretary eoinmeiiced the removal in Octo-\\nher, is:;:!; th.e greater imrt was removed within four iiiiudhs, and the entire work was\\n;)iiilileted within nine iiiontlis. The ilesi^nated State l)aidvs received the deposits,\\nand to relieve the threatened financial disaster discounted freely. Indeed, the deposit\\nof the national funds among several rival banks stimulated reckless speculation.\\nEach bank was anxious to do more business than its neighbor, and therefore in every\\npossible way made money easily obtainable. They believed the money would remain\\nuntil needed by the government for ordinary governmental purposes, and therefore\\ntreated it as so much capital, and increased their circulation in proportion to the de-\\nposit. Money was plenty, and business was unduly stimulated. The importation of\\nforeign goods was largely increased, leaving large balances on the debtor side of the\\nleilger. These balances had to lie ]Kiid in gold, which was at a considerable premium.\\nTnteriKil imi.iro\\\\ cments and all the industrial ])ursuits w(. re inordinately stimulated,\\nand reekless s[ieculation, Hsiieeially in real estate, was largely indulged in, which in\\n183C amounted to a mania. Says Lossing, A hundred cities and a thousand villages\\nwere laid out on broad sheets of paper, and made the basis of vast moneyed transac-\\ntions. In December, 183.5, the great New York conflagration occurred, by which\\nfive hundred and twenty-nine buildings and twenty millions of dollars worth of\\nproperty were destroyed.\\nIf Jackson was an enemy of extravagance and its parent and promoter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a paper\\ncurrency\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he also was a firm believer in the doctrine of State rights, and during his", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 71\\natlmimstiation the doctrine was strictly and severely enforced. He was not prepared,\\nlike Calhoun, to carry it to the length of nullification and secession; but so far as he\\nbelie\\\\ ed in it, he unrelentingly applied it to the affairs of the general government.\\nBy that code all the receipts of the government, in excess of its expenditures on the\\njuuTowest basis, belonged to the States, and to them it sliould go. Accordingly, in\\nJanuai-y, 1836, Congress directed the Secretary of the Treasury to divide the money\\nIji excess of five millions among the several States, on the basis of their representa-\\niiou in the House of Representatives. Notwithstanding this portent of tJie gathering\\nstorm, it was imheeded, and reckless speculation continued and increased into, mad-\\ntie.ss. In the midst of this wide-spread financial dissipation, (July 11th, 1836,) the\\n-Fresident caused a treasm-y oi der to be issued, directing that all duties shoidd be paid\\njngold and silver coin. A deputation of New York merchants waited on him to se-\\n?.ure its rescission. But he was inexorable. He told them hard times were produced\\nby reckless expenditure and speculation, and any measiu-e that would stop the flood-\\n-tide of extravagance, although productive of present distress, would eventually be of\\nTier vice to the country.\\nAt length the time fixed by Congress for tlie distribution of tlie money arrived.\\nMore than a year had elapsed since the passage of the act gave notice to the banks\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2and the business community to prepare for the effects of shortened capital, but no\\npreparation had been made. On the contrary, recklessness had increased in pro-\\n5x Ftlon as the time for preparation shortened. In proportion as the currency was\\noiiverted into coin for payment to the Government, the amount available for busi-\\nness purposes was decreased. Discounts could not be obtained, and therefore\\nbusiness could not be continued. In the months of March and April, 1837, there were\\nfailures in the city of New York aggregating more than a hundred million of dollars.\\nA deputation of merchants waited on ^Ir. Van Buren, then just seated (May, 1837,) in\\nihe Presidential chair, and asked him to defer the collection of -duties on imports, to\\nre.scind the treasury order of July 11th, 1836, and to call an extra session of Congress.\\nHe refused, and May 10th all the banks of New York suspended payment, and the\\nbanks of the entire counti-y followed their example. On the 16th day of May the\\nLegislature of the State of New Yorlc authorized the suspension of specie payments\\nfor one year.\\nIt was in times such as these that ^Michigan launched her system of wildcat banks.\\nThey were but just organized when the crash came, and well would it have been for\\n.the State if they had been swept out of existenci But they were legal banking\\niiou-ses, and were entitled to any measure provided for the relief of honest bankers.\\n-On the 2 2d day of June the Legislature of Michigan passed an act to suspend specie\\njmyments until the 16th day of June, 1838. An act was also passed curtailing the\\nba,uk circidation. Before that, chartered banks were authorized to issue their notes\\nor bills for an amount not to exceed three times the amount of capital actually paid\\nill, and the wildcat banks were authorized to issue their notes to the amount of two\\n-and one-half times the amomit of paid in capital. By the act of June, 1837, the circu-\\nlation was limited to once and a half the amount of paid in capital. Banks that had\\nve-sted interests to protect, were careful in the extreme, discounted sparingly, and\\nthen only on undoubted paper. But the wildcats had no vested interests. Their\\n^apital. existed largely in imagination, and the requirement of the law that thirty-hun-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Iredths of the capital should be coin in the vaults was almost wholly disregarded.\\n,\\\\s their own securities were to a great extent a myth, they ran no risk in accepting\\nalmost any secmlty for their nearly worthless promises to pay. Therefore their\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0notes were in everybody s hands, while those of tlie chartered banks were almost as\\n.scarce as gold. With two illustrations of the financial state of the times, we will dis-\\nmiss this part of our subject.\\nThe bank commissioners were required to visit every bank once in three months to\\nijquire into its condition. After visiting several of these banks the commissioner,\\nludge Felch, had.his curiosity. aroused by the seeming similarity in their piles of coin", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\ndeposit. At each place the coin Avas counted, and althonfth the amount varied ju\\nlittle, the pieces had a familiar look, and he was almost sure he had handled those\\npieces daily for a week or more. At last he determined to s i)Jve the mystery. 0\u00c2\u00bb.\\ncoming out of a bank vault the cashier was surprised to see the commissioner lock It:\\nand ]nit the key in his pocket. He innnediately retraced his steps and re-examined\\nevery bank, and found their vaults destitute of coin. .So much illustrative of bank-\\ning; the other will illustrate business interests.\\nMr. John C. Ilogaboam at that time resided in Monroe. In the spring and summer\\nof 18.38 he built the Monroe City Mills for Frost Burch. The proprietors had an.\\nabundance of money, but it was of the wildcat variety, and they were in no way par-\\nticular about advancing any amount of it to their workmen. Each Saturday afternooB\\nthe contractor would ascertain just how much each man would take, and how mweh\\nhe needed for his own marketing, and then draw that amount and no more. Ont,\\nSaturday night, by some error of calculation, he had four dollars left over. Monday\\nmorning it was dead. When the mill was ready for raising, the contractor went Xo\\nDetroit to prociu-e the tackle. He was furnished chartered bank notes enough tor\\nthat pvupose, but Frost Bmch, who were merchants, had a lot of wildcat money\\nthey could not use. This they requested him to take along and buy exchamge if pos-\\nsible, but at all events to trade it off for something. He tried to work it off for tackle\\nor sell it for exchange at any rate of discount, all to no purpose. At last he wandered\\ninto a lumber yard. He told the proprietor he wanted to buy about eight hundred\\ndollars worth of lumber if his money would pay for it. From what bank is your\\nmoney? asked the proprietor. The bank of Brest, was the reply. Well, saitJ\\nhe, if I can use it to pay my debts we can trade. In half an hour he returned with\\nthe intelligence that he could use it. The lumber was measured and loaded on a ves-\\nsel that day. It would not do to leave it in the yard over night. If the bank should\\nfail to open its doors next morning the lumber would be reclaimed. Therefore no\\nrest was taken until the lumber was on the lake.\\nThe railroad having been established through Lanesville,.some of tlie inhabitantE-\\nof Keene and Lenawee villages commenced preparations for moving their effects to\\nthe fortunate ville. January 1st, 1839, Anderson Colvin purchased of William H.\\nH. Van Akin one acre of land south of the railroad track. On the twenty-second day\\nof July they purchased land of Beriali 11. Lane on the west side of High sti eet, and\\non the fifth day of August, 1839, they purchased the old Franklin lot, where Mrs..\\nHazlett s house now is.\\nDr. L. G. Hall came to Hudson in the spring, and Dr. S. M. Wirts in the fall. Frank-\\nlin Smith opened a store on the west side of the creek, and William Baker came ui.\\nbut was employed in railroad surveying. May the twenty-third, Mrs. Phebe P. Lane,,\\nwife of Beriali 11. Lane, Esq., died. The railroad was partly graded, aud the job of\\nbuilding the Hudson biidges was let to W^illiam Winans, of Adrian.\\nIn the winter t)f lHo9-40, Anderson Colvin removed a partly finished building froift\\nKeene, and incorporated it into the Franklin Hotel, then building.\\nOn tlie seventh day of February, 1840, Silas Eaton purchased his old residence lot,,\\non the west side of High street, of Simeon Van Akin. It is said he moved his house\\nfrom Keene, but Charles E. Ames is as sure he sold his house there to his father^,\\nCharles Ames. But be that as it may, he came to Hudson immediately after his pur-\\nchase, and before nud-summer was living in hie-tvwn house on his lot.\\nEarly in the spring of 1840, C. H. H. M. Boies came to Hudson and opened a\\ngeneral store in a long, one story frame building which then stood on the site of the\\nstore now occupied by C. R. Beach. Augustus Finney had moved into his new house,.\\nAvhieh stood just in the rear of the block known as the Exchange Block; indeed, it.\\nafterwards formed a art of the old Exchange Hotel. At the time now inider consid-\\neration, save the store occupied by Messrs. Boies, just alluded to, and the old hotel\\nbuilding, there was no other building north of ;Main street, between Market an T\\nChurch streets.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "HUDSON.\\nIn the spring of 1840, the old liotel was kept by D. V. Hannahs. It was a miserable\\nbuilding and was abandoned as a hotel in the svnnnier or fall of 1840.\\nIn July, ;Mr. John C. Hogaboani and family moved into Lanesville from Monroe.\\nMr. Ilogaboam came to the Bean Creek Country in March of that year, but he did not\\nremove his family imtil July. They arrived on the second day, and that summer oc-\\ncupied a little frame building which stood about where Mrs. Loomis house now is,\\nbut the house faced the north. It was a balloon frame upright, with a lean-to of the\\nsame sort along the south side. It was a pretty good house in dry weather, and a fair\\nstrainer in wet weather. The family remained here until the latter part of October,\\nwhen they moved onto their farm in Pittsford. The family consisted of the parents\\nand three children, John S. Brownell (an apprentice,) and a maiden lady named\\nMudge. During the latter part of July and the months of August and September\\nMiss Mudge was the only well person in the house. Mr. Ilogaboam had the ague\\nevery day, Mrs. Ilogaboam the chill fever. Brownell the billions fever, and the chil-\\ndren the agtie.\\nMr. Winans, the contractor for tlie Lanesville bridges, sub-let the contracts to\\nEaton, Lane and Childs. They built the bridge over Bean Creek in the summer of\\n1840, and that over the swamp west of the village in 1841. The bridge over Bean\\nCreek was trestle or bent work from Tiffin street to tlie bank in front of James Cos-\\ngiove s house. There was a long string of bents, and when, several years afterwards,\\nthe embankment was made, the dirt was filled in around the timber, leaving the bents\\nstanding. The bridge over the swamp was likewise a series of bents, and were filled\\naromid in tlie same manner.\\nIn the sununer, Drs. Baldwin and Roniyne settled in Hudson. Baldwin remained\\nseveral years, but Ilomyne the next season went west and settled in the village of\\nColon, St. Joseph county, Michigan.\\nWilliam II. Johnson came to Hudson in 1839 or 40 and engaged in trade. For the\\nnext twenty years he was one of Hudson s busiest men. During the war he was\\n(piartermaster in the L^nited States service, and made the march with Sherman to\\nthe sea.\\nJohii M. Osborn came to Hudson in the tall of 1840. He taught the east side school\\nthat winter in the back room of W. H. Johnson s store.\\nThis was a j^ear of great political excitement. The Whigs had been out of power\\nfor twelve years, and exti-aordiuary efiiorts were made to regain it. Contrary to ex-\\npectation, the times hatl not improved since 183T, but were constantly growing worse.\\nBy this time the wildcat banks had run their course and died, and there was indeed\\nno currency. In 1838, and even in 1839, men liad been kept at work, and although\\npaid in wildcat money, they were busy, and consequently had no time to grumble.\\nBut now nearly the whole working class were out of employment, discontented and\\ncomplaining.\\nThe Whigs believed the hard times were all chargeable to the destruction of the\\nUnited States bank, and seemed to believe that with such an institution in the coun-\\ntry, exti-avagance and patent violation of the laws of trade would go unpmiished.\\nThey had nominated Gen. Harrison for the Presidency, and adopting coon skins, hard\\ncider and log cabins as their insignia, crying Corru])tion at every breath, they made\\nthe campaign. On their banners was the inscription, SS.OO a day and roast beef\\nunder Harrison .$0.06?^ a day and sheep s pluck under Van Buren. The idle, the\\ndissolute, and the unthinking rushed after the banner that promised so much, and\\njoined in the hue and cry against the administration. The material for large proces-\\nsions was at hand, for mechanics and laborers had little else to do. Those who could\\nsing were employed in vociferating log cabin songs, and those who could not sing\\nhalloed themselves hoarse in the praise of hard cider, Tippecanoe and Tyler too. The\\nVan Biu-en atlministration was literally swept out of existence, and the Whig parti-\\n.sans retired to winter quarters to dream of the two dollars a day and the roast beef\\nthat awaited them under Han-ison s administration.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "74 THE I3EAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nThe year 1841 opened gloomily enough. The excitement of the previous year had\\ndied with the coming of the winter frosts, and now even the most unthinking began\\nto doubt the ability of the incoming administration to grant relief from the hard and\\nstill hardening times which oppressLMl them. The Whig State administration went\\ninto power on the first of January, and the Legislature convened. They literally did\\nnothing\u00e2\u0080\u0094 huleed, they could do nothing\u00e2\u0080\u0094 for the relief of the people. Having cried\\n:^orru])tion and promised reform, they found themselves in straightened circum-\\nstances. To abandon the public works would be to throw hundreds more ovit of\\nemployment; to continue them required money, for which they dared not resort to\\ntaxation, for that would seem to add to rather than lighten the burthens of the people.\\nIn this dilemma they resorted to the issue of State script, and with this they paid the\\nlaborers on the public works.\\nThe railroad appropriation bill was passed on the I ith day of March, 1841. It ap-\\npropriated .$200,000 for the construction of the Southern from Adrian to Hillsdale, but\\nit had this restriction That the commissioners of internal improvement be directed\\nin making contracts on the several works of internal improvement, to make them pay-\\nable in drafts upon the several installments of the five million loan yet due from the\\nUnited States bank, as they may become due, or from such funds as may come into the\\nti-easury to the credit of the internal improvement fund derivable from the five mil-\\nlion loan, the sinking fund, or the five per cent, fund; so that the State shall in no\\nway he responsible for their iiayment. and so that no claim for damages shaU he\\nmade against the State in eonseiiueure of the delay or failure of the payment of said\\ndrafts; and if eoutiaels at a reasonable j)rice cannot ]\u00c2\u00bbe made under the above restric-\\ntion, f/ir co;/uH(x.s;ojuy.s ni-c hcrilnj iltra-liil to nuiU, iii ciiiitnictsr These drafts\\nwere issued in small deuomhiatious and were called si-ripl, and this was the kind of\\nmoney lai)orers were paid with. Much of the time it was worth forty-seven cents on\\na dollar.\\nThe east side school district, No. 5, had been organized in the fall of 18-40, and this\\nspring (1841) both disti-icts commenced new school houses. That on the east side\\nwas built by Mr. J. C. Ilogaboam, and finished in time for the summer school. The\\nbuilding still exists, and is now used as a cooper shop, near the residence of Mr.\\nSamuel C. Perkins, on north High street. When first built it was situated near the\\npresent residence of Dr. Thomas B. Minchin it was afterwards removed to Hill street,\\njust west of High sti eet, and after its abandonment for school piu-poses it wa.s re-\\nmoved to its present location.\\nThe west side school house was built by Messrs. Wade and Lane. The west part\\nof the long building owned by J. K. Boies Co., on the east side of South Church\\nstreet, was that school house, except the porch and tower, which have been removed.\\nThese latter the porch and tower\u00e2\u0080\u0094 were added by a suliseription taken among Con-\\ngregationalists, to give the building something of a chnrchly appearance, for they\\ncontemidated holding their services there. The building was finished in time for the\\nwinter term.\\nThe Messrs. Boies were ardent Whigs, and seemed to 1)elieve all the campaign\\npronuses of better times. They projected the erection of a new store building, and\\ncommenced it early in the spring of 1841. The original Lanesville house was used as\\na shop for the preparation of the finish for the store. When well advanced, the shop\\nand contents were destroyed by fire. Mr. H. M. Boies ^vith(lrew from the firm in\\nJNIay, but the building was raised and covered, and there work on it stopped for want\\nof means. The building was finished in the winter of 1842-3. It occupied the site of\\nthe present Beardsell Plympton store, and was destroyed by fire about 18.53.\\nSome time during this year William Baker opened a store in Hudson, east side, and\\nfor thirty years he was one of Hudson s foremost business men. Although he did\\nnot always make money in his ventures and sometimes was hard up, yet the pro-\\nducers loved him for his open, frank Avays and evident desire to pay them all their", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "HUDSON.\\nproducts were worth. In the first paper printed in Hudson was one of Baker s mani-\\nfestoes. It has the Baker ring\\nIn the first paper published in this place I avail myself of the opportunity of tender-\\ning thanks to my friends for their liberal patronage for the last twelve years. If we\\nrefer back to our first settk-ment in tliis place, wc will discover that the change has\\nbeen wonderful,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 trulv astonisliing. Then we had only half a dd/.en lioyscs and a pop-\\nulation eiiuallv as sparse. One of tliose pioneers used to invite the few fo his house for\\npublic worship ou the .Subbatli. Tlie scenes of those tlays are familiar to those only\\nwho passed througli tliem and still sm-vive. Peace to the ashes anil honor to the\\nmemorv of Goo(bich. Lane, Tiatt, Cobb, and Wells. These men labored not only for\\nthemselves, but for others; tliev were the worthiest of the worthy. Now we have\\nthree churches which will compare in size and finish with eastern houses, and a pop-\\nulation sufficient to fill them on the Sabbath. (Juv business has increased, we are\\nstill acting as agents for the peo])le, and the following gentlemen will exhibit a part\\nof the articles which we have for sale Mr. S. A. Eaton, O. S. Ames, and K. Knapp.\\nWe will wait iipon vou with pleasin-e, and of our gratitude to you for your kindness,\\npatromme and torhcarance we will leave it with Hun whose prerogative it is to judge.\\nHudson, July 4, 1853. William BAxia:, Jr.\\nThe year 1843 v/as still more gloomy than the preceding, and yet the people had\\nlearned to acconnnodate themselves to the times, and were more contented. By the\\ninexorable law of necessity, the country was being cleared up. In order to support\\nany kind of existence something must be produced, and as crops could not be grown\\nm the woods those woods must be cut down. There was no market for wood, but\\nthere was a market for ashes, and therefore the timber must be converted into ashes.\\nThe products to be disposed of brought merely nothing, for want of market facilities.\\nFrom Adrian to Toledo and Monroe there was a sort of railway conmiunication, but\\neastward to Buffalo there w^as none save by lake, and that Avas frozen up half of tlu\\nyear. Mr. Eldad Trumbull, of Pittsford, tells of selling pork for one dollar twelve\\nand a half cents per hundred pounds, and paying one dollar and fifty cents a pound\\nfor tea,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 about one hundred and thirty pounds of pork for a pound of tea, and poor\\ntea at that. But amongst farmers and mechanics an exchange trade had grown up.\\nIf a farmer wanted a barn built he woidd seek some person who wanted land cleared,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0or a yoke of oxen, or a cow, or something to eat, and an exchange of labor or com-\\nmodities was effected. In this way the country was being cleared up, and substantial\\nbarns and some frame houses built. The gi-eatest drawback on the prosperity of the\\ncountry was the fact that it was bankrupt. Michigan merchants owed wholesale\\ndealers more thou the entire real and personal estate would sell for under the hammer,\\nand in turn the people owed the Michigan merchants sufficient sums to make that\\nruinous aggregate. Under then existing laws every cent s worth of the debtor s\\nproperty coidd be sold on execution. The Legislature of 18i2 passed an act exempt-\\ning personal property, to certain specified amomits, from sale on execution. They\\nalso passed an act forbidding the sale of real estate on execution. If personal prop-\\nerty could not be found sufficient to satisfy the execution, and real estate was levied\\non, it was to be appraised by three disinterested persons at its fair cash value, and if\\nmore than enough, at two-thirds of its appraised value, to satisfy the debt, then the\\nappraisers set off by metes and bounds enough of it to satisfy the debt, estimating it\\nat two-thirds its appraised value. If the creditor signified his acceptance within ten\\ndays and the land was not redeemed within six months, then the recording of the ex-\\necution, levy, appraisal and acceptance operated as a deed to the creditor. If the\\ncreditor did not accept within ten days, the officer discharged the levy.\\nBefore the enactment of these laws the knowledge that property accumulated might\\nbe sacrificed by forced sale operated to discom-age accumulation, but these enact-\\nments encouraged farmers and others to strive to better their condition, and within a\\nyear or two their beneficial influence became apparent.\\nThe Legislature also, on the 17th day of February, 1842, by joint resolution, author-\\nized the commissioners of internal improvement to pledge the net proceeds of the\\nSouthern road for a term not to exceed five years, to purchase iron to iron it, and for\\nits completion from Adrian to Hillsdale.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CltEEK VALLEY.\\nAt the election held in the fall the Democrats were successful. The Whig admin-\\nistration having failed to perform its two dollars a day and roast beef promise,\\nstepped down and out, quietly remarking that Gov. Barry would find only a bogus\\ndollar and a ten-penny nail in tlie State treasury. And yet the country was gradually\\nimproving its condition and clearing the way for the dawn of a prosperous era.\\nIn tlie month of May, 1843, the locomotive Comet ran into the village of Hudson,\\nand before tlie close of the season cars were running regularly to Hillsdale.\\nIt will be impossible from this point onward to give the history of Hudson in detail.\\nIt would require a volume to note every arrival and tlie business career of all her\\nbusiness men. We shall have to content ourselves, therefore, with a brief mention\\nof the more important events in her history. Soon after the opening of the railroad\\nto Hudson the two old warehouses were built, one by W. L. and E. D. Larned (now\\nthe Rodney House), the other by H. M. Boies, who returned to Hudson in the winter\\nof 1842-3. At first the railroad depot was on the west side of the creek, just west of\\nChurch street; but when the road was sold to the Michigan Southern Railroad Com-\\npany, in 1846, they were dissatisfied with its location and surroundings, and the\\npeople of the east side offering better accommodations, the water-tub\u00e2\u0080\u0094 there was little\\nelse to the station then\u00e2\u0080\u0094 was removed to the vicinity of the Wood street crossing.\\nThe company was not satisfied yet; they iiad better water, but no ground for yard or\\nbuildings. The west side people felt the disgrace and inconvenience of losing the\\nstation, and resolved to regain it if possible. With this in view they bargained for\\nthe ground which is now included in the depot grounds, and offered to donate it to\\nthe company for depot purposes. The offer was accepted, and the depot found a\\nresting place.\\nAmong the men who came to Hudson in 1843 were two who for years afterwards\\nwere identified with the business interests of the place,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lorenzo Palmer and Joseph\\n]SI. .Johnson. Lorenzo Palmer came from Chautauqua county. New York. He was a\\nmiddle-aged man. and brought with him a large family, two of whom were then young\\nmen. He at first engaged in teaching school, then in mercantile pursuits, and for\\nmany years held offices of trust in the township. He died in October, 1874.\\nJoseph :M. Johnson was a young man when he came to Hudson. He was born in\\nYorkshire, Eng., May 13th, 1819, and emigrated to the United States and settled in\\nWayne county. Sl wh.. in isni. He became a resident of Hudson in July, 1843, and\\nengaged in the iiiaimfacluiv of furniture. On tlie 22d day of February, 1844, he was\\nuiarried to nanl( t Xcwcll. only daughter of Silas Eaton. From 1848 to 1852 he\\nwas nma.uvd in iiicrcaiitile Itusiness. He was burned out in the spring of 1852. In\\nliitiT years Mr. .Idliv.sdii liuilt one-half of the Arcade Block, and established the nian-\\nutactuving establishuit^nt on the fiats between Fayette and Mechanic sti-eets. In\\n1876 he traded his Hudson property for property in Toledo, and removed thither about\\nthe first of June.\\nFIRES.\\nHudson has had her full share of fires, but we can only notice here her three great\\nconfiagrations. The first occurred in 1852, and although it burned only two buildings,\\nwas a considerable loss for the Hudson of that period. The second occurred in 1858,\\nand by it all the buildings on the north side of Main street, from about where Beardsell\\nPlympton s store now stands to IMarket street, A\\\\ere destroyed. The third occurred\\non the night of Sunday, the third day of January, 1804, and destroyed the buildings\\non the south side of Main street from Eaton Bros, store to Market street. The build-\\nings were all wood, but they were in good condition and afforded much needed\\nbusiness places. The loss was estimated at about |!8,000. Temporary loss has been\\neventual gain, however, for in each instance a better class of buildings replaced those\\ndestroyed.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "HUDSON.\\nTHE WAR.\\nHuriiifi the war of the great rebellion Hudson did her whole duty, both as to men\\nand money, to carry on the war. She gave her DeCxolyer, her Preston, her Carleton,\\nlier Piper, her Edwards, and a score or more of others, as sacrifices on the altar of a\\ncommon country. An attempt was made to procure a list of Hudson soldiers, but the\\ndifficulties to be overcome were so great it could not be accomplished in time for this\\nwork.\\nBUSINESS FIPvMS AND VENTURES.\\nThe Old Cokner Store.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The business conducted by J. K. Boies Co.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 general\\nstore was established in early times, and with the exception of a single year, per-\\nhaps, has been continuous. The Hon. Henry M. Boies came to Lanesville in 1840, or\\nthereabouts, and in the summer of 184 was in trade with Curtis H. Boies. He sold\\nout his interest in May, 18il, purchased a stock of goods, and opened tiade in Troy,\\nN. Y. He could do nothing there on account of tlie crushing times, and thinking he\\ncould do better in Jackson, Michigan, with the consent of his creditors he removed\\nhis stock thither. Hard times were there also, and in the winter of 1843-3 he again\\nremoved his stock, this time to Hudson, and again went in trade with Curtis H. Boies.\\nThe partners divided their business about 1845, and Henry M. started business for\\nliimself. He built the building on the northeast corner of Main and Market streets,\\nlately used as a bowling alley, in the winter of 1846, About 1846 John K. Boies came\\nto Hudson and commenced w^ork for his brother. In the course of time the business\\ntook the name of H. M. Boies Brother, under which style it was conducted many\\nyears. About 18.S4 they built the brick store at the corner of Main and Church streets,\\nand about 185.5 sold out their business to the stock-store people, but that institution\\ngoing under soon after, sold in turn to the Boieses, and inider their management it\\nhas continued ever since. Some years later, Henry M. withdrew to engage in the\\nwholesale trade in New York, and then John K. took the helm. Its style has varied\\nonce J. K. Boies, once James, Mosher Co., and again J. K. Boies Co. but it\\nlias ever been under the same management. No one knows except the founder how\\nmany discouragements were met in the early years of this business house. In 1847 it\\nwas really bankrupt, but, thanks to the pluck of the proprietor, the community never\\nknew it, and subsequent prosperous jears enabled the house to pay all its liabilities,\\nand to-day its founders coiuit their wealth by tens of thousands. About 1871 the\\nHon. Henry M. Boies closed up his business in New York and opened a business\\nhouse in Chicago. So much for pluck, industry and skill, in the management of a\\nbusiness house.\\nExchange Bank.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 This institution was founded in 1855, by Henry M. Boies and\\nNathan Rude, but the entire control and management of it has been in the hands of\\nour townsman, Mr, Nathan Rude. That the management has been successful, every\\nbusiness man knows. Several years later, John K. Boies became interested in the\\nbank, since which time the firm has been known as Boies, Rude Co. Several\\nmonths since Mr. Rude was compelled, by failing health, to give up the management\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2of the bank, since which time its management has devolved upon the Hon. John K.\\nBoies.\\nAnother Great Mill Pro.ject.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1847 or 48 Hudson had lier second mill ex-\\ncitement. About that time one RoUin, or Holland, came to Hudson and proposed to\\nput up a mammoth flouring mill. lumiediately after the abandonment of the original\\n.saw mill, the new race was dug and a new saw mill built on the site of the present\\ngrist mill of Tucker Wiggins. This mill property Rollin bought, or bargained for,\\nand gave out a bill of timber for the new mill. His pretence was that he had just\\ndrawn a large prize in a lotterj^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 $50,000 he said\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and would realize his money in a\\nshort time, but it was important to push the mill right along, and he proposed to", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nmake a temporary loan, to be repaid as soon as his money was received. He loaned\\nconsiderable money of Dr. S. M. Wirts, and W. II. Johnson, who was then in trade,\\nhonored his orders for the payment of his workmen. The timber was hauled on to the\\nSi Oimd and the work of framing went busily on. The proprietor was a great stickler\\nfor nice work. A pattern was made for each sized mortise, and the mortise must\\n1)6 beaten so tiiat the pattern would fit it perfectly, and the timber when finished\\nlooked as if planed. Thus matters progressed until the frame was nearly read\\nfor the raising, and then Rollin discovered he had no prize, but he took himself\\nout of the way before his friends found it out. Dr. Wirts and William II. Johnson\\nfound themselves short of a large sum of money, with only a lot of timber to show\\nfor it. To prevent an entire loss, it was resolved to build tlie mill on a reduced scale,\\nand run it by steam alone. It had been intended to use both water and steam power.\\nAccordingly the mill was raised on the railroad gi ound directly east of Wood street.\\nIt was finished and run several years, generally, it is tliought, at a loss to the\\noperators. At last the frame was sold to Edwin M. Ilulburd, who took it down and\\npiled the timber by his mill, with the intention of building a large addition there-\\nto, but the project Avas abandoned.\\nThe IluLBURD Mill.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the meantime old uncle Simeon Van Akin became the\\nowner of the water power, and converted the saw mill into a giist mill, but before it\\nhad been operated long, Brearley and Hulburd became the owners. Tliey made\\nseveral additions to it to increase its capacity, and were opening a good business,\\nwhen the war began. Brearley about that time sold his interest in the null to Mr.\\nIlulburd, who proposed, as above stated, to enlarge it, but before the work was\\nl)egun he accepted a Captain s commission in the 18th regiment of Michigan infantry,\\nand was absent from his business luitil the close of the war. When he returned he\\nfound himself unable to make the enlargement. The old building needed repairing,\\nand there was a new dam to be built. These nectessary repairs added to his embar-\\nrassment, and finally in the spring of 1875 he deeded the iiroperty to the mortgagees,\\nwho sold it to its present proprietors, Tucker and Wiggins.\\nThe Stock Store.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 About the year 1853 the farmers became dissatisfied with the\\ncourse of ti ade, and thought they could manage their own business without the aid of\\nmiddle-men. So a comiiany was organized for mercantile and foi warding pin-poses.\\nThe project was to start a store, in charge of an agent, at which store the stockholders\\nwere to purchase goods at ten iier cent, advance on New York cost, and others should\\npay a larger, but at the same time a reasonable profit. Their produce was to be for-\\nwarded to New York, sold by a commission house, and the farmer was to receive the\\nwhole price, less the cost of transportation and sale. The stock was subscribed, Mr\\nEdwin F. Wells emi)loyed as agent, and a store opened. Prices did come down, of\\ncovn-se, and the merchants found their best customers leaving them. They tried to\\nl)rave the storm by furnishing goods at I educed rates, but they found that a ruinous\\nbusiness, and II. M. Boies Brotlier offered to sell their stock totbe association. The\\noffer was accepted, and the stock store moved into the corner store building. Here\\nthey carried on business for a while, until it became evident that there was fault in\\nthe management, for applications for payment of bills began to be made directly to\\nstockholders. An investigation was had, and it was found that the institution was\\nl)ankru]it. The stockholders nuist now put their hands in their own pockels to\\nmake u]i the losses, but they resolved to stop that leak, and sold the institution out.\\nThe SpoivE Fa( touy.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1852 or 53, Mr. Alexander M. Ocobock built a two-\\nstory wood building, on tlie site of the present spoke factory, for the purpose of\\nmanufacturing wagons. Fnim manufacturing his own si)okes, hubs and felloes, he\\ngot to mami(a(turiiis Uiv shipuicnt, and afterwards a Mr. Munson became associated\\nwith him. Sooii afterwards the building burned down. Mr. Ocobock retired from\\nthe business, but Munson undertook to rebuild on a more extensive scale. Samuel", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 79\\nDeGolyer came liere and joined ^Munson in the enterprise, ilunson became in-\\nvolved, and tlirougli some management lie retired, and Samuel DeGolyer managed\\nthe business as agent, his New York brother ostensibly owning the business. De-\\nGolyer was a patriotic man the first tap of the recruiting drum fired hhn for action.\\nHe went into the army in command of company F, 4th Michigan infantry, and\\n.Tames DeGolyer took his place. Soon afterwards the business name was James De-\\nGolyer Co., Samuel s widow (for he had died of a wound received at Vicksburg),\\nbeing the company. In the spring of 1876, Mr. William A. Whitney (who had\\nmarried the widow DeGolyer and had been managing her interest), bought out James\\nDeGolyer, and now the business firm was Whitney -Co. Until the financial panic\\nof 1873 the factory was doing a good business. Since then it has sjiupathized with\\nthe general depression in manufacturing interests.\\nThe Taxxeky was for several years one of the business institutions of the town.\\nIt was owned and operated by Samuel Eddy, but it is believed never was a paying in-\\nstitution.\\nThe business ventures originating since 1860 do not properly belong to our theme,\\nand, with one or two exceptions, will not at this time be noticed.\\nNEWSPAPERS.\\nThe first attempt at journalism in the township and village of Hudson was made\\nby William II. Bolsby, on the 9th day of July, 1 53. The paper was called the Hud-\\nson Sentiuel, and i\\\\Ir. Montgomery was both editor and proprietor. About the\\nbeginning of the next year, Canniff ]Nrontgomery became the proprietors of the\\nSentinel, and Andrew C. Mercer editor. In November Mr. Canniff appeared as editor\\nand proprietor, Joseph G. Davenport publisher, and in December, Davenport became\\neditor and proprietor. The paper was soon after consolidated with tha Michigan\\nBepuhlicnn, and was published for a short time at Adrian by one Hobart, proprietor.\\nOn the 13th day of September 1855, a new paper appeared. It was called the Hudson\\nCourier, and was published by a company, as follows: H. M. Boies, W. H. Johnson^\\nEnos Canniff, Benjamin Turner, A. C. Mercer, L. G. Hall and Alonzo Palmer. A. C.\\n]yercer was editor.\\nAugust 15th, 1857, still another new paper appeared, the SaUinhajEvodnri News, E.\\nWolverton editor and proprietor. This paper was succeeded, :siarc!i 2C,th, l.s.58, by the\\nHudson Odzette, W. T. B. Schennerhorn editor and proprietor. The Gazette has con-\\ntinued for eighteen years under one management, and has been an able village paper.\\nIt was printed first as a neutral sheet, then as an independent. Although for several\\nyears it was thought its independency leaned, it adhered to that motto until the sum-\\nmer of 1876, when it came out squarely for the Democracy. It has always been an\\nable paper, and for many years it was the pet of all Hudson households, no matter\\nwhat the shade of their political opinion was.\\nLate in 1863 Titus Babcock started a Eepublican newspaper in the village of Hud-\\nson, which he named the Herald. He continued to run the paper until in 1865 he\\nwas succeeded by Russel D. Babcock and Daniel Russell; they were in turn succeeded\\nby A. 11. Pattee, who changed the name to Transcript, and he, in the spring of 1868,\\nby Laird Penfield, who again changed the name to Post. Chauncey W. Stevens suc-\\nceeded to the management of the paper sometime in the year 1869, A. H. Pattee in\\n1870, and James M. Scarritt in the spring of 1872. During tlie latter part of the owner-\\nship of Pattee, Dr. Andrews was editor and manager.\\nWhen Mr. Scarritt assumed the management, in the spring of 1872, he found less\\nthan two hundred paying subscribers, and that the office had no reputation for job\\nwork and but little material to do job work with. Tiie only press that could be used\\nwas a Washington. Scarcely any one would subscribe for the paper,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 its several\\nchanges had invariably been to the pecuniary loss of its subscribers, and they would", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "THE BEAK CREEK VALLEY,\\ntrust it no more. A few would trust it for three months, and a few reckless persons\\nfor six months, but none longer. It was harder business than starting a new\\nl^per that would have a reputation to make; this had one reputation to obliterate and\\nanother to make. The first year s business showed a loss of about eight hundred\\ndollars the second scarcely paid, but a reputation had been made, and thencefor-\\nward the progress has been steady and constant. Instead of less than two hundred\\nsubscribers it has (Sept. 15, 1876,) one thousand five hundred and sixty. In place of\\nthe one Washington press, the office has a power newspaper press and a power job-\\nber, driven by steam, and a better supply of material than is found in many inland\\ncity offices. As a business manager, Mr. Scarntt has but few equals.\\nAlthough Hudson now has but two papers, the time was that it had three as neat\\npapers as are published anywhere. Immediately after the Rev. Jesse T. Webster\\nassumed the duties of rector of Trinity church, Hudson, he commenced the publica-\\ntion of the Record, a monthly parish newspaper, as an aid in parish work. This\\npaper he enlarged and improved until, under a change of name, it became tlie organ,\\nfirst of one, then of two dioceses. It was a beautiful and able religious journal, and\\nwas printed at the office of the Hudson Post until some time after the editor s removal\\nto Detroit, when it was removed thither.\\nAlthough, perhaps, Hudson has had her full share of petty crime, she has had but\\none murder (an infant), and but one suicide, and of the otlier crimes that shock com-\\nmunities it has had only one,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the robbery of the People s Bank, in 1864.\\nWilliam W. Treadwell was the son of Urias Treadwell, and was born and brought\\nup on a farm in the township of Pittsford. He attended such schools as Hudson and\\nPittsford then enjoyed, and afterwards gi-aduated in a business course in an Ohio in-\\nstitution. xVfter his return to Hudson he clerked it for a while in a dry goods store,\\nand then for a sliort time was in the dry goods trade with William W. Palmer. After\\nleaving Palmer he asked and obtained permission to assist in the People s Bank, then\\nowned by the Hon John M. Osborn, without salary, just to learn the business. He\\nwas apt, punctual and faithful, and mastered the business rapidly. At length he be-\\ncame a partner in the bank, and finally, in 1859, Osborn sold his interest in the bank to\\nUrias and William W. Treadwell. In 18(i3, he married Mary E.. Hester, of Huron\\ncounty, Ohio, and a little while before the robbery, became sole proprietor of the\\nbank, his father allowing the use of his name to assist his son. In stature W^illiam\\nwas considerable below the average height, slender in form, and had a very dark\\ncomplexion. He had by his pleasant ways and obliging disposition made himself\\nvery popidar among the farmers and business men, and his safe contained large sums\\nof money deposited on account of such friendship. In December, 1803, the treasurers\\nof the townships of Pittsford, Rollin and Hudson commenced to deposit theii collec-\\ntions, which, increasing day by day, would be allowed to remain there imtil February\\n1st, when the larger part would be withdrawn to pay State and county taxes. It now\\nseems that he had niatm-ed a deep scheme of dark villainy, for on the 16th day of\\nJanuary, 1864, he sent letters to all the bankers of Detroit, Toledo, Cleveland and\\nChicago, enclosing drafts on the Continental Bank, New York, asking for discount,\\nor in plain words, a loan. The bodies of the letters were alike, except as to amount\\nthe address and postscript varied. Here is a sample\\nPEOPLE S BANK.\\nLTiUAs Ti5KADAVEi,L, Prcs.\\nW. W. Theadwell, Cash. Hud ion, Mich., J(m. 16f/i, 1864.\\nBear .Sir:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Herewith I enclose my draft on Continental Bank, New lork, for\\nR1,000. Please send me proceeds in treasury notes per United States Express.\\nYours respectfuUv.\\nW. W. Tr.EADWELL, Cashier.\\nP. S.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Do you keep 5-20 bonds for sale, I", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 81\\nThese letters and drafts were dispatched by the malls Saturday, Jan. 16th, and he\\nevidently expected to get returns by Tuesday night.\\nTuesday morning he went to Adrian and procured r\u00c2\u00bbf the banks there $4,500. On\\nhis return from Adrian he carried in his hand a small black sachel. He went imme-\\ndiately to Mr. Galusha, the express agent, and inquired for money packages, and\\nreceived seven packages from as many banks. Mr. Galusha remarked, You are re-\\nceiving considerable money. 0, said Treadwell, that is not all I have got,\\nthrowing aside the lapel of his overcoat and exhibiting the Adrian i)ackages in the\\ninside pockets thereof. These packages he put into the sachel, and going to the\\nbank threw it under the counter, giving it a careless kick, as though of but little con-\\nsequence. On Wednesday he received several more packages, but yet the banks had\\nnot all responded. He evidently feared to wait longer, and the sequel shows that his\\nfears were well founded.\\nThat (Wednesday) night the clerk of the bank (Mr. Webb) and Chester C. Pease\\nspent the evening with some lady friends in the south part of the village, and instead\\nof returning to his boarding place that night, Mr. Webb went out to his father s house.\\na little south of Lowe s mill. He came into town next morning and proceeded to the\\nbank. The bank building had been burned in tire fire of the 3d of January, and tem-\\nporary quarters had been provided for it in the hardware store near by. Pease saw\\nWebb go towards the bank and started to go in that direction, but he met Webb, ashy\\npale. Chet, said he, there is something wrong; I can t open the safe. Per-\\nhaps, said Pease, Billy has changed the combination. No. replied Webb, he\\nnever does that without telling me. So saying, they reached the store. Again and\\nagain was trial made without success. At this juncture a New York runner came\\nin and said, Let me try it. He took hold of the knob, and in a few minutes the\\ndoor swung out on Its hinges. But what a discovery The well-filled safe of the\\nnight before was empty\u00e2\u0080\u0094 every dollar in currency had flown. Where is Treadwell?\\nwas the next inquiry; but he could nowhere be found, and then the fact became\\npatent that he had robbed the bank and run away. Then Galusha told of the little\\nblack sachel, but it, too, was gone. An examination of the books showed he had\\ntaken forty-two thousand dollars in round numbers from the safe, but the money he\\nobtained of the banks did not go into the safe nor onto the books. He said nothing to\\nhis clerk of those transactions. To say there was intense excitement conveys but a\\nfaint idea of the situation. Money deposited to await investment, the soldiers earn-\\nings, and the widow s mite all were gone. So intense was the excitement that it was\\nalmost unsafe for the grief-stricken father to appear upon the streets. A partner of\\nhis guilty son,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 only in name, yet so far as the people knew, a real partner,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 he was\\nsupposed to be, as he really was in law, answerable for the sums enti-usted to the.\\nbank. The powers of the law were invoked, and before night a score of suits had\\nbeen commenced, and the bailiff s voice became familiar as household words to his\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ears.\\nFrom all the information afterwards obtained, it appears that after the clerk left\\nthe bank Tuesday night, Treadwell returned and transferred the money packages\\nfrom the safe to his black sachel. About two weeks previous he had sent his wife to\\nher father s house on a visit, and he was for the time being boarding at the Exchange\\nHotel. About ten o clock he sauntered into the office, sachel in hand, and, request-\\ning the clerk to call him for the morning train, went to his room.\\nAt three o clock Thursday morning, January 21st, 1861, William W. Treadwell.\\nsachel in hand, wended his way to the depot. He carried with him his father s\\nwealth, the savings of the widow and the fatherless, as well as the tliousands of the\\nrich men, but he left behind a crushed and heart-broken father, home and home asso-\\nciations, but above all, and more than all, his honor and his integi-ity. He carried\\nthousands of dollars, but the hand that grasped it was a felon s hand.\\nThe reader shall not be wearied with a recital of the means resorted to for his cap-\\nture. Suffice it to say that the telegi aph was put in requisition, aud the various points", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "82 THE BEAN CREEK VAXLEY.\\ninfoniied of the robbery and flisht. The discounted drafts commenced arriving at\\nthe Continental Bank on the 20th, and, so great was the confidence in the People s\\nBank, althougli its account was aheady overdrawn, tlie bank officers paid the drafts\\npresented to the amount of .57,000 before a dispatch sent the 21st apprised them of\\nthe condition of affairs. Five tliousand dollars arrived after liis departure, but the\\nexpress agent at once returned it to the banks from which it came.\\nFebruary 11th, ISQi, the following dispatch was received at Hudson\\nMaxsfielw, O., Feb. 11, 1864.\\nflios. Bate, Hudson:\\n1 liave arrested William Tread well. What shall I do? Answer innnediately.\\nC. C. Kkpxii.\\nMr. Keech was on the police force at Mansfield, had formerly known Trea .lwelL\\nand seeing him in a carriage at Mansfield depot, he at once arrested him. The officers\\nat Adrian were at once notified, and in a little time Sheriff Hough, W. II. Walby, J.\\nM. Osborn, .T. J. Ilogaboam and some others were on their way to Mansfield. Before\\nleaving Adrian, however, they learned that Tread well had procured a writ of luiheois\\ncorpus returnable before the Probate Judge immediately. Keech was instructed to\\nprocure counsel and prolong the matter until the arrival of the party. They have a\\npeculiar law in Ohio wliich provides that if whih; a person is l)cf( ie a court on a writ\\nof 7mbcas corpus, n shi-riff of another Stat\u00c2\u00ab, with a propci- warrant, demands the\\nprisoner, the court shall make an order for his removal without waiting for a requisi-\\ntion. Keech, as directed, employed counsel, and tliey (there were two of them) raised\\nand argued objections until ten o\\\\ lf ck at night. One of them was on the floor speak-\\nino when the party arrived, and, looking ovc^r his shoulder at tiie party, he continued,.\\nBut I see, your Honor, the sheriff of liCuawec county has ;irrivfd witii a proper\\nwarrant for the prisoner s arn-st, and he now demands an order for his reinoval.\\nThe Michigan papers were immediately examined and an order made for Treadwell s\\nremoval.\\nAs soon as Keech could Ite got aside the question was a ke(l Where s the sachel?\\nAs soon as Keech could collert his thoughts he answered Wlieii j arrested Tread-\\nwell there was a man and a woman in the carriage witli him. Tliere was a little black\\nsachel on the seat, but as Treadwell did not claim it 1 left if. siiiipo-^ing it to belong\\nto the woman. A little more inquiry revealed the fact tliat flie man and womaii\\nwere Treadwcirs father-in-law and wife, and that the num took tlie saejiel into th(i\\ncars with him. Hester was seen, but he denied any kuowledg( of sachel or money..\\nTrea lwell was brought to Adrian and lodged in jail.\\nAfter lie had l eeu in jail a few days, Treadwell offered to make an assignment for\\nthe benefit of his creditors, but claimed to have only So2.(Mto. In eonsidcration of his\\nassignment he wanted all prosecutions drojiped. his creditors fu sign a pajier to that\\neffect. This they unanimously declined to do.\\nOn the 30th day of Mareli. Treadwell made an a.^signnient to Charles :SI. Croswell,\\nthe assignment t.o become oneralive when the creditors should sign the desired agree-\\nment. He made a detailed statement of his affairs, from which it apjieared his total\\nassets were (^31 .1.17: his tallier-in-law was to put in Alo.ooo more, making in all\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^()l,4s;).iT. He also stated liis liabilities to be .\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^tiO.T.io.ci. F.elieving it to be the best\\nthat could Im- done. man\\\\ ol rlie creditors signed tlie agreement but so uiany refused\\nthe offer went for nothing.\\nOn the seventh day of May Hester came to liudson to talk up Treadwell s matters.\\nIt was generally believed he had the money. The lioys held an impromptu meetin.g\\nin front of the lio; l and discussed the matter. Warunng up. ^omt of the boys ex-\\npressed their belie j in theelticacy of mob-law in such cases. Jt hapj)ened his room\\nwas so located he could hear every word that passetl. He becanu^ so frightened that\\nhe dressed himself, went do^^ n the back stairs, and walketf to Clayton, where he\\ntook the morning train honu\\nTreadwell was trietl and convicted Friday. .Tuly 1st. and remanded foF seideix-e", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 83\\nAbout five o clock the same aft\u00c2\u00ab3rnoon he escaped Iroin jail in company with John\\nCowell, a convicted horse thief.\\nOn the 14th day of July the body of a man was found in the woods in Wood county,\\nOhio, one mile from any road, and about thirty-six miles from Adrian. The body\\nwas badly decomposed, but the unfortunate victim had i-eceived a series of severe\\nblows on the head, for there was a large fracture of the skull on the right side. A\\nclub lay near the body, also a part of a lunch tied up in a calico rag. A Mrs. Eastman,\\nliving about two miles from the place where tlie body was found, testified that on the\\nfourth day of July two men called at her house for dinner. The smaller of the two\\nmen paid for the dinner and also for a lunch which she gave them tied up in a piece\\nof calico. The larger of the men carried a sort of club. She identified the calico and\\nstring found by the body as being those she gave the two men, and the club as that\\ncarried by one of the men. A lady living in Hester s neighborhood, being at Napole-\\non at the time the body was found, related the matter on her return home. Hester at\\nonce suspected the truth, went to Sandusky and caused CowelTs arrest ou suspicion.\\nWhen arrested he had X 0 in his possession. It was also said he had had larger\\namounts and a gold watch. This he denied, but he said Tread well gave him $1 10 and\\nhis gold watch when they parted, at two o clock on the morning of the fifth of .luly,.\\nTreadwell saying he was going to Omaha.\\nHester and Mrs. Treadwell went to Napoleon. The remains were so decomposed\\nas to rendt^r identification impossible, but they identified sonu.; fifteen articles found\\non the body as Tread well s property.\\nAt th(^ trial of t oweli, which took place in May, 186.5, Mrs. Treadwell testified that\\nbefore Treadwell left the Adrian jail she managed to give him $900 in $100 bills. A\\nportion of them were on the Union Bank, of Rochester, N. Y., and one such bill was-\\nfound with Cowell at the time of his arrest. Dr. Horace Welch, of Hudson, identified\\nthe body by peculiar workmanship on the teeth. Cowell was convicted, and was ex-\\necuted July itli, 1865.\\nAs soon as it was foimd that Trcnidwell was dead, the creditors petitioned foii\\nprobate of his estate, and letters of administration were granted to Chauncey Lu.\\nTreadwell, of Wheatland. Suits were brought against Hester to recover the money,,\\nand after considerable delay a large sum was recovered. The creditors had paid tW O\\nassessments to carry on the prosecution, and hoped to realize at least a portion of their-\\nclaims out of the proceeds of the judgment; but so great were the expenses of the\\ntrial, and the amount claimed by attorneys so large, that, aside from the return of the\\namounts jiaid on assessments, they realized nothing.\\nORGANIZATIONS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 CHURCHES.\\nongi!i:gatioxai,ist.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In a former section it was stated that early in 1886 a Pres-\\nbyterian church was organizeil at the house of Alpheus Pratt, in I ittsford. The Rev.\\nDavid Pratt became pastor of that church in June following, which relation existed two\\nyears. The Rev. D. R. Dixon succeeded to the pastorate soon after. During Mr. Pratt s\\nl)astorate the name of the church had been changed from the Presbyterian Churclv\\nof Bean Creek to the Presbyterian Church of Hudson and Pittsford, and now, on\\nthe seventh day of May, 18;-]9, it was resolved that the First Presbyterian Church of\\nHudson and Pittsford be organized into a Congregational church, to be called the\\nCongregational Church of Hudson and Pittsford. Salmon Trask, Elijah B. Seeley\\nand Nelson R. Rowley were elected deacons. At a church meeting held on the first\\nday of May, 1841, it was ordered that the church of Hudson and Pittsford should\\nthereafter be known as the First Congregational Church of Hudson.\\nSome time in 1841 the Rev. J. W. Pierce became pastor of the church, and that rela-\\ntion existed until the summer of 1844. During that year large accessions were made\\nto the church membership from the arrival of Presbyterians and Congregation-\\nalists in the community. Samuel Van Fleet, Abram, Mary L., William R. and Ruloff", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "t84 THE BEAN CREEK VAI.LEY.\\n*Leon;ird, Edmund and Euniee Childs, Barbara, Jacob and Mary Robbins, Noble,\\nisusannali, Harriot N. and Sarali B. Sqnier, Benjamin and Sarah Bevier, and Ezekiel\\nand Sarah Lowe were received by letter.\\nThe sjn-ing of 1842 was a season ot revival influence, and on the lOtli day of April\\nAndrew Wade and wife, Oreu Whitniore, Warren M. Colgrove, Mrs. A. W. Childs,\\nMiss Mary O. Loomis and Miss Jane Keith were admitted to church membership on\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2profession of faith, and Lemuel Squier and Julia Bovee were received by letter. On\\nthe ^th day of April Messrs. Trask, Seeley and Rowley were re-elcetfd deacons.\\nAt a church meeting held at the school house in Kecnc. (InisloiilitT, K!;z;ii eth and\\nJane Clement, Barbara and Mary Robbins, Taniar F. D(ui;,-his, Loui ;i (oiwell, Mar-\\ngaret Wilcox and Nelson R. Rowley were dismissed and recoinnieiidcd to the church\\n4n Wheatland.\\nOn the 20th day of June, 1843, the church dissoh ed its conjiection v/ith Uie Presby-\\ntery, and soon after muted with tlie Jackson Association of (inyifMliiiDal churches.\\nEarly in the spring of 1844 the Rev. Isaac Crabb, a Presbyterian lUr^:, .ikui, Ijecame\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the pastor of the church. At a chirrch meeting held June 32d, a (lisiingiiislu d n.em-\\nber was presented for gathering sap on Sunday. The church took no action in tliat\\n;particular case, but adopted the following resolutions: 1. In tlie opinimi of this\\nchurch it is a violation of the fourth commandment to travel on tlic Sabbath, and we\\ncaution our brethren and sisters against starting on a journey, or arriving; at their\\nplace of destination, or returning home on tl\\\\e Sabbath. 2. It is a violati(;u of the\\nfourth commandment to work in harvest or haying on the Sabbatli, anrl wc cautioa\\nour members to beware of any temptation tliat may arise to gather graiii or bay on\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2that day. 3. That it is not a work of necessity to gather sap on the Sabbath in any\\ncase whatever.\\nThe pastorate of the Rev. Mr. Crabb terminated on the first day of April, 1845, and\\nlie was succeeded by the Rev. Robert Laird. During the winter several members of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2the Congregational church, without taking letters of dismissal from it, had proceeded\\nAo organize a Presbyterian church. On the sixth day of April the Congregational\\n\u00c2\u00ab)rethren, in chtirch meeting assembled, appointed a committee to labor Avith the of-\\nfending members, and if they did not return to report them to the Presbytery.\\nAt some point of time the church had dissolved its connection with the Jackson\\nAssociation and united with the Monroe Presbytery, and June 1st, 184o, Jesse Smith\\nwas elected a delegate to the Presbytery to be lield at Clinton on the third day of that\\n-imonth.\\nIn February, 1846, Messrs. Seeley, Trask and Avery were elected deacons.\\nThe winter of 1845-G was a great revival season in Hudson. The Rev. Mr. Laird\\nconducted the meetings on the part of this church. As a result of the winter s cam-\\npaign against sin, Samuel and Lucy Day, Myndert Bovee, Bradley Loomis, William\\nand Julia Ann Smith, Julia Ann Kelley, Lorenzo Smith, Henry Ooodrich, Susan A.\\nTrask, Mary Sample, James Bevier, and Anna Maria Lane were admitted to member-\\nship on probation.\\nIn the spring of 1847 a church building was commenced, and it was completed and\\n-Nfledicated early in the spring of 1848. In September, 1848, the labors of the Rev. Mr.\\nXaird terminated, and the pastorate remained vacant until the following May, except\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0occasional services by visiting clergymen, yet the church maintained its services by\\nprayer and conference. The church sent a delegate this year to the Jackson Associa-\\ntion and also one to the Presbytery. ^Ir. Jesse Smith represented the church at the\\nfirst, and Abiel Coburn at the other.\\nMay 21st, 1849, the Rev. John W. Bayues, a Presbyterian clergyman, became pastor\\nof the church. The call was in these words: That this chm-ch and society will\\ngive the Rev. J. W. Baynes a call to become our pastor, for the sum of four hundred\\ndollars a year so long as said connection shall exist between him and us, in hopes ere\\nlong to afford him a more ample support. Modern clergymen would consider them-\\nselves on short allowance with such a salary, but Mr. Baynes preached as often, and", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 85\\nia labors was as abundant as any who receive ample salaries. He remained in the\\npastorate of the church until 1854, and was in all respects a model pastor. At\\nchurch meeting held this summer, (1849), the following resolution was adopted:\\nResolved, That for the purpose of meeting the views of those fellow-christians of\\nthe Presbyterian order who may hereafter unite with this church, should any case\\nof discipline arise in which they may be personally concerned, the book of discipline\\nin use by the Presbyterian church in the United States may be taken as the rule\\nand guide, if a majority of the persons interested shall prefer it, the standn\\ncommittee of this church being in lieu of the session of a Presbyterian church, it\\nbeing clearly understood, however, that this resolution shall never be construed a\u00c2\u00bb\\naffecting, in the least degree, the general order and discipline of this church in its\\norganization as a Congregational church.\\nOn the 16th day of October, 1 50, the Rev. J. W. Baynes was installed pastor of the\\nFirst Congregational church, by the Monroe Presbytery. The Rev. J. B. Taylor,\\nModerator, presided. Rev. W. Cockran read the Scriptures. Rev. \\\\V. Watson offered\\nprayer. Rev. H. H. Northup preached from Acts xx 31. The Moderator proposed!\\ntlie constitutional questions. Rev. G. C. Curtis offered the installation prayer. Rev.\\nJ. Monteith addressed the pastor, and Rev. J. B. Taylor the congregation. Benedic-\\ntion by the pastor.\\nAt the meeting for the election of officers, in 18.53, pending the election of deacons,\\ntlie question of the eligibility of females to vote was raised, aud the pastor, says the\\nrecord, took occasion to state his views on the subject, showing that such a course\\nwould be contrary, not only to tlie usual manner of doing such business in this church\\nheretofore, but also at variance with the usage of Congregational churches in both\\nOld England and New England, that it would be subversive of order, and might lead\\nto other disorders and especially that it w as directly contrary to the teachings of the\\nWord of God as contained in 1 Cor. xiv 34, 35. and 1 Tim. ii 11, 13. Notwithstanding\\nthe expressed views of the pastor, the church decided, by a vot* of eight to five, to\\nallows females to vote,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 against which decision the pastor and Mr. Jesse Smith pro-\\ntested.\\nAt a meeting of the church held on the 16th day of March, 1853, they voted that\\nthis cliurch withdraw from the Monroe Presbytery, and that our pastor be instructed\\nto ask for a letter of dismission at the next regular meeting of the Presbytery.\\nAt a churcli meeting held March loth, 1854,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the last at which Rev. Mr. Baynes pre-\\nsided,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 delegates were elected to the Southern Michigan Association, with instructions\\nto ask the admission of this church into said association. Since the commencement\\nof Mr. Baynes pastorate, thirty-seven persons had united with the church on profes-\\nsion of faitli, and nineteen by letter; seven had been dismissed by letter, and two\\nexcommunicated. One of the oldest members had died\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Deacon Salmon Trask.\\nAmong those who united with the church during that period, w^e discover the name*\\nof many of the most prominent and active members of the church at the present time^\\nviz: Aug-ustus Kent, Hon. J. K. Boies, L. P.Whitney, and Deacon S. B. Pease\\nThe church was temporarily supplied until November, 1854, when the Rev. Atwater\\nbecame its pastor.\\nAt a church meeting held February 30th, 1856, a committee was appointed to ascer-\\ntain what articles of faith have been adopted by this church for their use also to\\nprepare and recommend for adoption by the church a set of articles and covenant;\\nalso a set of rules and declaration for the regulation of the church, and to prepare a\\nhistory of the church, all of which, together with a catalogue of the members, to be\\nprinted in a manual for the use of the church. Moses Hume, Samuel B. Pease aud\\nA. L. Hill were such committee. The committee reported March 19th articles of\\nfaith, a covenant, and rules of discipline. The covenant was adopted, it being the\\none adopted by the Monroe Presbytery. The articles of faith reported were those\\nwhich were adopted by the Monroe Presbytery in 1856, but action on them, as welJ\\nas on the rules of discipline, was defeiTcd. At an adjourned meeting, held March-\\n26th, the rules of discipline were adopted. Pending the consideration of the articles\\nof faith, it was moved to amend article eightli so as it shall read after the Lord s.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "m THE BE^VN CREEK VALLEY.\\nSlipper, and that it is the privilege of believers to dedicate their children to God in\\nbaptism, which was passed. But on the adoption of the articles as amended, the\\nvote being taken by ballot, the vote was averse. A vote was then taken by ballot on\\nthe motion to rescind the vote by which the eighth article was amended, and it was\\nrescinded. The articles as reported (those of the Monroe Presbytery) were adopted\\niby a vote of twelve to two. The committee were continued, after Messrs. E. B.\\nSeeley, Jesse Smith and B, II. Lane had been added, with instructions to prepare a\\nlist of members and some historical facts for the new manual, and have it printed.\\nAt the meeting of May 31st, A. L. Hill was appointed a delegate to the General\\nAssociation of JMichigan; also to a council to convene at Jackson to install the Rev.\\nMr. Mahan pastor of that church. Mrs. Hannah Van Akin was granted a letter of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2dismission, for the purpose of uniting with the First Presbyterian Church of Hudson.\\nJune 18th, E. B. .Seeloy was elected a delegate to a council at Adrian for installation\\nservices. September ITtli, D. H. Sjieucer and Augustus Kent were elected delegates\\nto the Southern JMieliigan Association.\\nThe annual church meeting for 1S57 was not held but at a monthly meeting,\\nconvened April od. after preparatory lecture, the manual counnittee reported that\\ndocument prepared, and Messrs. Hume, Pease and Hill were appointed to see it proi\\nerly printed. April 1.5th, Deacon Seeley and D. H. Spencer were chosen delegates to\\nthe Southern Michigan As,sociation, and May 20th J. L. Taylor was elected delegate\\nto the General Association of Michigan. July 5th Mrs. Deline, and Ed; M. Hulburd\\nand his wife Helen were admitted to membership by letter. September 10th the Rev.\\nW. W. Atwater and wife wpre dismissed by letter, and January 3d, 18.58, Mrs. Maggie\\nAdams was received Ijy letter.\\nAt the annual meeting of tlie church, held January 2011i, 18.58, D. H. Spencer was\\n.hosen clerk.\\nThis brings the history of the church down to comparatively modern times. The\\nliistory of the church during the succeeding eighteen years ought not yet be w^-itten\\nin detail, nor can its doings yet be criticised impartially. Suffice it to say that during\\ntliat periotl the chunli hiis experienced some of her greatest triumphs and deepest\\nsorrows. During tluit ]ieriod the old church property has been sold and a splendid\\nnew editice erected and dedicated to the service of Almighty God, and scores of souls\\niJiave professed saving faith and been admitted through her doors into the church\\nanilitant. During the same period many of its most useful members have been dis-\\nmissed to the church triumphant, some of whom participated in the organization of\\ntthe first church in Hudson. We recall the names of A. L. Hill, Mrs. Simeon Van\\nAkin, Mrs. John K. Boies, Deacon John L. Taylor, Phillip Beasom, Elijah B. Seeley,\\nFrancis B. Beasom and wife.\\nMethodist Ei IScotai-.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 On Sunday, the 8th day of November, 1835, the Rev.\\nWi .liam E. Warner, from Lewiston, New York, arrived and settled with his family\\nen the farm on the Medina side of the township line, directly opposite the residence\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of James Gahagan. On the next Sunday, Novend)er 15th, he preached in Noah\\nCressey s log house, and organized a class of sixteen members, with Lorenzo L.\\nBrown for leader, to whom he preached regularly, and also traveled largely through\\nfthe surrounding country. But as Mr. Warner was only a local preacher, and as yet\\nin no way connected with the work in this State, his action w^as only temporary and\\npreliminary to a regular organization of the work. Tecumseh circuit was the nearest\\norganized work, and the Adrian appointment was the nearest approach to the Bean\\nCreek Country. Mr. William Rhodes (afterwards the Rev. William Rhodes) then\\nlived on the Stubly farm in Rollin. He and his wife, both Methodists, attended a\\nquarterly nieetiiig sdiviewhere on the Teciunsch circuit, and invited the preachers of\\nthat circuit to visit the Bean Creek Country. The Rev. Washington Jack.son, then\\nthe junior preacher on that circuit, and the Rev. Allen Staples, a local preacher of the\\nAdrian appointuieiit. made siuh visitation in August, 183G, on their way to the con-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 87\\nfereiico at IMauinee. They held a two days meeting hi Ames barn in Keeue. Mr.\\nEldad Tinmbull, of Pittsford, has on his diary a memorandum of attending quarterly\\nmeeting in Ames barn, August 14th and 15th, 1836. lie neglected to mention the\\npreachers names, but no doubt it was the occasion of the visit of Jackson and\\nstaples. They proceeded down the valley of the Bean, in-eaching at Brown s, at\\nFoster s (Tifliu), at Alvah Holt s, Seneca, and so on down the valley to Maumee.\\nAt that conference the Bean Creek mission was formed, and Lorenzo Davis ap-\\npointed missionary. Its boundaries are not defined, but something of an idea of the\\nfield may be formed by looking at its surroundings. Tecumseh was the nearest ap-\\npointment on the east. Coldwater on the west. Spring Arbor on the north, and on the\\nsoutli it had no boundary\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the missionary traveled through Medina to Morenci, and\\nacross tlie border into Ohio. It was a pretty extensive territory for one man to travel\\nover, and that almost an unbroken wilderness.\\nIt does not appear where the mission heatlquai-ters was, but no doubt it was in the\\nsaddle. Tliere was no appointment in the village of Lanesville. It had scarcely be-\\ngan to be. He had one appointment at Keene and another in the Brown settlement.\\nAt the latter place the preaching was alternately at the houses of Father Elisha\\nBrown. IS^oah Cressey and Michael Dillon. Mr. Dillon was then a communicant of\\nthe chm ch of Rome, but his wife was a ^Methodist, and he opened Ids house for Meth-\\nodist preaching.\\nThe first quarterly meeting of the mission was appointed to be held in the Brown\\nneighborhood, on New Year s day, 1837. TJie presiding elder of the district, the Rev.\\nHenry Colclazer, was unable to be present, and as the missionary was in his second\\nyear, and consequently unordained, the Rev. Father Foote, a local elder, preached on\\nSunday and administered the sacrament of the church. The next quarterly meeting\\nwas held in the Keene neighborhood July 15th and ICth, and the Sunday services\\nsvere held in Mr. Ames barn. Capt. Brown tells of going with his class to attend the\\nmeeting, in a lumber wagon drawn by an ox team, and behig (luartered at the farm of\\nFather Alpheus Pratt.\\nMr. Davis served his large mission as well as it^ extent permitted, and at the con-\\nference of 18.37 was succeeded by John Scotford and Allen Staples. Mr. Staples liad\\nbeen received the year previous from the Adrian appointment of the Tecumseh cir-\\ncuit, and appointed to Salem. Mr. Scotford was received on trial at this conference\\n(1837), and although a year the junior of Mr. Staples, was placed in charge of the\\nmission. Mr. Scotford moved into a house situated, as near as can be remembered,\\non the farm now owned by Clark Ames. At the time of Mr. Scotford s arrival, ilr.\\nand Mrs. Carleton, John and Sabra Griswold, Mrs. Champlin and Mrs. Ann Cobb, all\\nMethodists, were living in and around Lanesville.\\nIn the winter following, Mr. Augustus Finney brought his wife from Vermont,\\nand soon after her arrival it was determined to organize a class in Lanesville. Mr.\\nFinney, then keeping the pioneer hotel of the future Hudson, near where the Friend,\\nbakery now stands, threw open his house for the sRirvices, and on the night appointed,\\nthe boys, with flaming torches of hickory bark, proceeded to the house of Mr. Scot-\\nford and escorted him to the village, where he preached and organized the above\\nmentioned persons\u00e2\u0080\u0094 viz: Mr. and 3Irs. Carleton, Mr. and Mrs. Griswold, Mrs. Champ-\\nlin, Mrs. Cobb and Mrs. Finney,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and Sabra Ann, daughter of Mr. Griswold, (now\\nMrs. N. O. Cady,) who had been baptized and admitted to the church at Keene, and\\nperhaps a few others, into a class, with John H. Carleton for leader. The only sur-\\nviving members of this nucleus of Hudson vilhige Methodism are Mrs. Carleton and\\n]\\\\Irs. Cady.\\nAt the conference of 1838, held at Tiffni, O., Bean Creek mission was erected into\\nJonesville circuit, and attached to the Marshall district, E. II. Pilcher, presiding\\nelder; Peter Sabin and Zebulon C. Brown, circuit preachers. So far as any informa-\\ntion can be obtained from the published minutes of that year, the boundaries of the\\nJonesville circuit were co-extensive witli the boundaries of the old Bean Creek", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nmission. We have been unable to learn of any incidents occurring that year in the\\nliistory of the Lanesville class, illustrative of the times.\\nAt the conference of 1838 Bean Creek mission was reported to have five hundred\\nand twenty-seven members, and at tiie Conference of 1839, held at Ann Arbor, Jones-\\nvllle circuit was reported to have four hundred and fifty-six members. This year\\nJohn Scotford and Peter Sabin were appointed to Jonesville circuit. These preachers,\\nlike their predecessors on circuit and mission, saw pretty hard times, both for bodily\\ncomfort and the facilities for inaugurating denominational work. The settlement\\nwas new; the people lived in small, incommodious log tenements. Where school\\nhouses existed at all they were of the same material, but in the village of Lanesville\\nthere was not even a school house in 1839 and 1840, the old log school house having\\nbeen burned. But these Methodist preachers, on their monthly rounds, preached in\\na log house standing in the vicinity of the gothic house occupied by Mr. Rawson, on\\nNorth Market street. The house had been used as a dwelling. It was the pioneer\\nhouse of the town, the foundations of which were laid by Reuben Davis in 1834. It\\nwas about twenty feet square, and had a hole about ten feet square underneath for a\\ncellar. The floor was made of plank split out of basswood logs, sized on the under side\\nwhere they rested on the sleepers. This split flooring was about ten feet long, and\\nmet in a continuous joint on the middle sleeper. One Sunday in mid-summer, in 1840,.\\nthe people had gathered here for divine service, and were calmly listening to the word\\nfrom the lips of the Rev. Mr. Sabin, when all at once the floor gave way in the middle,\\nletting the central portion of the audience into the cellar. The preacher, leaning on\\nthe back of the chair which served him for a pulpit, waited patiently until the people\\nhad scrambled out, and then proceeded as though nothing had happened.\\nAt the conference of 1840, held at Marshall, Mr. Scotford was returned to Jonesville\\ncircuit, now attached to Monroe district, with the Rev. Jonathan Jones for a colleague-\\nThis year there was a dividing up of religious influence and support, and denomina-\\ntionalisra established. The religious condition of the people was somewhat peculiar,.\\nThe country had recently been settled by people from the East, every one of whom\\nhad brought with them early religious impressions, and in this sparsely settled\\ncountry, among the part that are religious at all, were to be found adherents of all the\\nprominent religious bodies of the East.\\nReligious privileges were so rare that all who cared about them at all had hitherto-\\nunited in sustaining them. In the village of Lanesville and vicinity the Congrega-\\ntionalists and Presbyterians were, the more numei ous; in the social meetings, in the\\nSunday school and in society they carried the sway, and were the ruling power. In-\\ndeed, so late as 1840 the Methodists of the Lanesville class w^ere completely subject\\nto their neighbors, and denominationally without influence.\\nAbout that time some Methodists moved into the community who had not been used\\nto wearing the yoke of ecclesiastical inferiority, and l)y earnest effort induced tJie.\\nMethodists to move independently, and very soon, with the help of the Brown class^\\nthey had a Sunday school of their own started, and general independence followed.\\nNo remarkable event marked the last year of the pt sto:ate of the Rev. Scotford,.\\nand at the Conference of 1841 Hillsdale circuit was organized, to which Hudson was\\nattached, and Revs. Charles Babcock and Gideon J. Shurtliff were assigned to it as.\\npreachers.\\nIn the spring of 1843 Babcock and Shurtliff held a protracted meeting, which\\nresulted in the conversion of a large number of quite prominent personages. The\\nRev. Babcock was a fine appearing man, and an impressive preacher. He was ener-\\ngetic, and fearless in the performance of duty. At one of the inquiry meetings,\\nduring his protracted meeting, a prominent man, but a backsliding Methodist^ was\\npresent, and when spoken to in reference to his soul s interest, replied that the church\\nwas so full of hypocrites he couldn t live a christian life and at some length berated\\nthe members of the church for their ungodly ways. Brother, said Mr. Babcock m\\nreply, you remind me of the scjuaw who, reeling through the streets of Boston, filled?", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "HUDSON,\\nwith people, exclaimed, See, all these people are drunk I The fact was, she was the\\nonly drunken person there. His usefulness Avas somewhat impaired, however, by\\nhis performances as a phrenologist. Phrenologici^ teachings were then quite novel,\\nand it was the subject most talked about in mixed gatherings. Mr. Baboock believed\\nIn the theories of phrenology, and believing it, gave it a prominent place in his\\nthoughts, and discoursed it everywhere. Standing of an evening in a village store\\nand talking phrenology and examining heads, is not the most effective way to preach\\nthe gospel. But he was an enthusiast in all his convictions, and for him to conceal\\nthem, or refrain from discussing thoni with unbelievers, was impossible, and so his\\ninfluence became impaired. The fc^Uowing incident shows the fearlessness of the\\nman, and his honesty of expression when it became necessary for liim to say any-\\nthing. Discussing phrenology in the village store one day, a man named DeForest\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nsuspected of dishonesty, but a stranger to Babcock\u00e2\u0080\u0094 said Feci of my head.\\nBaboock passed his hand carelessly over his head, and kept on talking to the others\\nwith whom he had been conversing. Pretty soon DeForest said, What do you think\\nof my head I Babcock said nothing in reply, appearing not to have heard the ques-\\ntion. Waiting a little while, DeForest again said, What do you think of my head?\\nI think, said Babcock, you can hide as well as you can steal. DeForest never\\nbecame an enthusiastic believer in phrenology.\\nMr. Shurtliff, on the other hand, was a man of abundant sympathy\u00e2\u0080\u0094 kind in manner,\\neloquent in expression, and apparently absorbed in the ministry, making it the\\none business of his life, and, to all appearance, possessing great piety he was beloved\\n])y all, and almost idolized by the young people of the community.\\nThe annual distribution of work made by the Conference of 1842, returned Mr.\\nShurtliff to Hillsdale Circuit, with tl;e Rev. Washington Jackson in charge. The\\narrangement of the work brought Mr. Shurtliff to Hudson first. After the sermon,\\nhe, of course, remarked on the fact of his having been returned to this circuit, and\\nproceeded to introduce his colleague. Said lie, You must not forui a hasty opinion\\nof him at first sight, for you will find him as the old Dutchman found his horse\u00e2\u0080\u0094 like\\na singed eat, better than he looks The magnates of the class were disposed to find\\nfault with what they thought an undignified and un-miuister-like style of introduc-\\ntion; but when the senior came here, they revised their opinion of the improbabihty\\nof his portraiture being correct, if it was undignified. The Kev. Washington Jack-\\nson was, probably, the homeliest man that ever graced the pulpit of the Michigan\\nConference. Externally, he presented an uncouth appearance in, as well as out of,\\nthe pulpit: and. to add to his misfortunes, he had no roof to his mouth, which ren-\\ndered articulation difficult. He was a christian, however, and a faithful christian\\nminister. His piety was of the substantial rather than the showy kind, and he com-\\nmanded the respect of all with whom he became well acquainted. He located in 1845,\\nand long since fell asleep, no doubt with a rational and blessed expectation of awaking\\nin the likeness of his Divine Master.\\nIt has been st{.ted in a former part of this work that the west side school house had\\nbeen embellished with a porch and tower, at the expense of the Congregational people.\\nSoon after it was done, the Rov. Mr. Babcock, then in charge of the Jtlethodist work,\\nasserted his right to use it half the time, and during his stay had held it by a display\\nof cheek; but in the fall of 1842 the right of the Methodists to its use was disputed by\\nthe Congregationalists, and a series of adjourned school meetings were held to deter-\\nmine the matter, but the district voted that the two denominations should divide the\\ntime.\\nIn a few weeks they were occupying it on alternate Sundays, and since then but\\nlittle has occurred to disturb the good feeling between those large and influential\\nvhurches. During the nextsummer, however, a little incident occurred which created\\na little ill-feeling for a short time. The incident was trivial in itself, and only shows\\nhow much strife a very little fire kindletli, especially when persons are on the watch\\nfor offenses. Mr. Shurtliff was as kind-hearted a man as ever lived\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a true christian", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "00 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nijentleman, who generally was careful of the feelings of others, and scarce ever in-\\njured tlieni by any words of his. He was preaching one day to a mixed congregation,\\nand while elucidating a point of his subject, he said he was reminded of the prayer of\\nan old Presbyterian elder: Oh, LoM, bless me and my wife, my son John and his\\nwife\u00e2\u0080\u0094 us four and no more amen.* No sooner were the words out of his mouth,\\ntlian some of the Presbyterian portion of the congregation, deeply offended, started\\nfor the door, and left the preacher to get along without their presence. One old lady\\nsaid she had often heard the story told of an old man, but no one had ever before\\nintimated that he was a Presbyterian elder.\\nWhen, a year and a half later, Mr. JShurtliff became insane, tiiese inopportinie\\nspeeches were attributed to an insane predisposition, rather than to a desire to wound\\nthe feelings of others.\\nAt the Conference of 1843 Mr. Jackson was retiniieil. \\\\\\\\\\\\t\\\\\\\\ Adam Minnis for junior.\\nThe Ptev. Mr. JNIinnis became a resident of Hudson. Althuugh junior preacher, he had\\nhad considerable experience in the ministry. He was first admitted on trial at the\\nConference held at Tiffin, ()l)io, in the fall of 1838, and stationed at Detiance. in the\\nMaumee District. In subscijueiit years he had preached at Plymouth. Dexter. Dear-\\nbornville, and Drooklyn. At the Conference of 1842 he was ordained Elder, and\\nstationed (m the newly-made Medina Circuit, in charge. As a jireacher, Mr. Minnis was\\nexegetical rather than declamatory. His sermons were a series of premises traced to\\ntheir logical conclusions; or known etTects traced to their logical and inevitable\\ncauses, rather than a declamation brilliantly studded with sparkling ideas, startling\\nphrases, and impassioned appeals. Mr. Minnis was a very quiet man, never in any\\nmanner lowering the dignity which hfcaiiu his ministerial position; yet he immense-\\nly loved, and could quite easily lend hiui ;f lf to aid the perpretration of an innocent\\njoke.\\nTo illustrate this point, also to show how bigoti-y will sometimes over-reach itself,\\nthe following story is given as it was related to the author several years since: The\\nminister appointed to the Morenci Circuit in 18.5.5, early in 1^56 vacated his pastorate,\\nand the Presiding Elder of the District directed the Rev. John Crabbs, a local deacon\\nliving at Morenci, and anotlier local ])reacher, to till the appointments for the remain-\\nder of the year. The Rev. Crabbs is a Free Mason, and quite a large faction of the\\nchurch at Morenci refused to hear him jtreach. During that summer ^Ir. Mimns, who\\nhad become a photograjih artist, stopjied at ISIorenci, and there in-osecuted his busi-\\nness. The malcontents had known him as the preacher in chargi of Medina Circuit,\\nand immediately they solicited him to preach for them at the Wilson Crfive school\\nhouse, just out of Morenci, the day and hour Crabbs was to jireacli at the church iji\\nMorenci, which, after conference with Mr. Crabbs, he consented to do. Regularly on\\nCrabbs preaching day these devoted Methodists wended their way to the Wilson\\nschool house and listened to the ministration of the word, prepared especially for them\\nby the Rev. ISIiunis. In preaching ability there was not much difference between the\\ntwo men, but there was a ditference, of which his hearers were ignorant, but which\\nthe ministers could fully appreciate; Crabbs was a 3f aster, but Minnis was a J?oj/a?\\nArch Mason. The Rev. Minnis remained on the Hillsdale Circuit two jears\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the last\\nyear in charge, with Robert Dubois as junior.\\nIn the fall of 1845, William P. Judd and Thomas Seeley were appointed to Hillsdale\\nCircuit. They only remained one year, but it was a year of revival influence in\\nHudson.\\nAt the Annual Conference of 184ti, the town.sliips of Adams, Wheatland, Rollin.\\nHudson and Pittsford were set off from the Hillsdale Circuit and called Hudson Cir-\\ncuit, and Revs. Henry Worthington and Robert Bird were appointed to the new work.\\nThe first Quarterly Meeting was held in the North Wheatland church on the 5th day\\nof December. 184( ]iresent, Josiah Brakeman, presiding elder; Henry Worthington\\nand Robert Bird, circuit preachers; Barber M. Sheldon, local preacher; L. D. Welton\\nand Hiram Haynes, exhorters; Lorenzo Dobson, Harley Bump. Nathan Whitney and", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 91\\nA. S. Wells, leaders. W. II. II. Van Akin, William B. Foote, Charles Cannichael.\\nDavid B. Tuttle, Gaylord G. Tabor, Wm. Brooks and David Strunk were appointed\\nstewards; W. B. Foote was elected recording steward, and W. H. H. YanAkin dis-\\ntrict steward; Augustns Thomas and the two circuit preachers were appointed\\na camp meeting committee.\\nThere was little of interest transpired under the pastorate of Worthington and\\nBird, or their successors, Joseph Jennings and Hiram Koberts. The year these last\\nwere in charge of the circuit, 1847, the church in Hudson was almost rent asunder by\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a controversy which arose in consequence of Mr. Roberts joining the Odd Fellows.\\nJohn H. Carleton led the anti-secret society raid, and the preacher in charge sympa-\\nthized with it, and altogether poor Koberts had a hard time. Jennings was a fair\\npreacher, but his wife sickened and died that year, the affliction taking him from his\\nwork much of the time. The persecution of Roberts rendered him powerless for good,\\nand altogether the church not only made no advancement, but rather retrograded.\\nThe next year, 1848, Worthington was returned to Hudson, but he was unable to\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0arouse the church to action.\\nIn the fall of 1849 Ebenezer Steele and Isaac Taylor were appointed to the Hudson\\ncircuit. They were men of earnest piety, and although neither of them were great\\npreachers, they succeeded in arousing the church, and there was considerable revival\\nspirit manifested. They agitated the question of church building, and got the frame\\nup and covered.\\nAt the Conference of 1850 Mr. Steele was returned alone. He pressed the churcli\\nbuilding along, and succeeded in having it dedicated during his pastorate.\\nDuring 1851-2 William Mothersill was in charge of the work, and made it but little\\nprogress.\\nThe Rev. Henry Penfield came in 18.5. He was by odds the most intellectual\\npreacher that up to that time had been sent to the church, and if he had no revival,\\n-those already attendants had the pleasure of listening to sound sermons, intellectually\\nand theologically.\\nThe Rev. Harrison Morgan succeeded Penfield in 18o4. During the first part of his\\npastorate the Rev. Mr. Adams, an evangelist, came here and held a series of meet-\\nings, and large accessions were made to the church. In the latter part of\u00c2\u00bbthe year\\n-another attempt was made at anti-secret society persecution, again led by Mr. Carle-\\nton. Mr, Morgan deemed it his privilege to join the Masonic lodge, and Carleton at\\nmce declared war. But Morgan was not as easily persecuted as Roberts liad been.\\nHe assumed the offensive, and pressed the anti-secret society men to the wall, (^uitc\\na large party secretly sjTnpathized with Mr. Carleton, but seeing the determined atti-\\ntude of their preacher, they quietly left the more valiant Carleton to fight it out alone.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Carleton left the church, and the Conference sent Morgan to Coldwater the next year,\\nbut this was the last attempt at anti-Masonic persecution in the IMethodist church of\\nHudson. For nearly half the time since 18.54 their pulpit has been filled by Masons;\\nsome of them have been popular, and all have been useful.\\nIn the fall of 1855 the Rev. Fred W. Warren came to the Hudson church, and\\nremained two years. They were prosperous years spiritually, but in the month of\\nJanuary, 18.57, the church building was burned. It was on Sunday the morning ser-\\nvice was ended and the Sunday school commenced when the cry of fire was raised.\\nIn one short hour the sanctuary was destroyed\u00e2\u0080\u0094 burned with fire. The remainder\\nof that year was consumed in getting material for a new house.\\nThe next year, 18.57, the Rev. C. M. Anderson came, and the house was commenced\\nbut like the Samaritan of old, he hindered the work, so at the Conference of 1858 he\\nwas sent elsewhere, and the Rev. A. R. Bartlett came to the church at Hudson. He\\nremained two years. Under his pastorate the new house was finished and dedicated.\\nIn the fall of 1860 he was succeeded by the Rev. John A. Baughman.\\nWe shall leave the history of the Methodist Episcopal church for the succeeding\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0sixteen years luiwritte-n, save to give a list of pastors, and to state that during the first", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "92 THE BEAN CREEK TALLEY.\\nyear of the pastorate of the Rev. Thomas .Stalker the church was enlarged and im-\\nproved.\\nPastms.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John H, Burnliam, William G. Stonex, E. K. Haskill, Thomas Stalker,\\nWilliam E. Bigelow, Richard R. Richards, Daniel C. Jacokes, and Joseph Frazer.\\nTuE Baptists.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 On the eighth day of July, 1843, the following named persons met\\nand organized themselves into a church, viz: Samuel R. Close, Charles Coats, Ansel\\nCoats, M. S. Lathvop, Daniel Saulsbury, John C. Lewis, Abiathar Powers, Melinda\\nClose, Harriet Lewis and Emily Lathrop. Their action was recorded in the following\\nform; We, the undersigned, liaving letters of dismission and recommendation\\nfrom sister churches of our faith and order, do hereby resolve to hand in our letters,\\nand unite ourselves together for the purpose of forming a Baptist church of Christ in\\nHudson, to be known as the Baptist Church of Christ in Hudson, to receive members,,\\neither by baptism or by letter, and to do and transact any business, in obedience to\\nthe Gospel and according to law, in such case made and provided.\\n^Resolved, That we adopt tlie declnnitinii of faith and church covenant, recom-\\nmended by the Baptist State CoHVciitiou of Michiga)!. Octoljt-r Bth, A, D. 1842..\\nOn Wednesd:i,y, the ;271h day of Septemlter. 1x4:!, a council, composed of delegates\\nfi-om the churohes of Wheatland, Pittsford, over, ]\\\\[edina and Adrian, convened in\\nthe village of Hudson to constitute the new church. Abiathar Powers represented\\nthe new cliurcli in the co\\\\nicil.\\nOn (he 14th day of iM-liruary, 184-1, th\u00c2\u00ab church called the Rev. Jacob Ambler to the\\npastorate for one year. ]\\\\Iay 19th the church appointed the Rev. Mr. Ambler, M. S.\\nLatlirop and Abiathar Powers delegates to set in couiicii witJi the Jonesville church,\\ntor the purpose of f)i-rliuning their pastor.\\nOn the 10th day of Jnne, is.i5. the chmvh i! tlic K. v. Lauren Hotchkiss to the\\nl)astorate for tlie ensuing yi^ar. oiic-li:ilt ot the time. On the 14th day of March,\\nSamuel Eddy. Sauniel R. Cjos. A. Coat.s. A. W^ulNWortii, Wm. Ames and Abiathar\\nPowcr. were ajipointed to mci t tlie Dover church in council, for the purpose of or-\\nhiiiiiug Mr. Pa( k to the ministry. The same day they extended a call to Mr. Pack to\\nbecome tlicir pastor. August 7th. 1S47, the church invited Peter Houghwout to preach\\nto tiu^ui one year from the lirst of October. Mr. Hougliwout was at that time a stu-\\ndent, and resided in ^lediua.\\nIn the summer ami fall of LSIT, the churcli sni ce(;detl in iiutting uit and covering\\nthe frame of a cluurli Imilding, and in the winter of 1817 s they tinislied it. It stood,\\nabout where AV illiaiii 15. Ames store now i-*.\\nFebruary d. is4s, tbe church met and passeil the following resolutions:\\nRcsolrcfl. I liat 1 B. Houghwout is well (juaiified to preach the gospel, and we\\ndcsirt to him fully set apart to tht- work ol tlie ministry; therefore\\nn,siiJi\\\\i}. Tliat we will call a council to determine the qualilications of P. B.\\nHon ;h\\\\vout. and for the i)uriH)sc of ordination.\\n\\\\]y a voti- of the meeting the following churches were invited: 1st and 2d RoUin,\\nWhcailaiid. -id HiMiic. Mclina. Dover, Medina and Wright, Adrian, Fairfield and Sen-\\nt ca. It \\\\\\\\a^ a!-.!) determined to dedieat(^the church on the 2:;d day of that month, and\\nthat the ordination council convene on the 24th.\\nThe house was dedicated on Wednesday, the 2. d day of February, 1848, Elder\\nTucker, of Adrian, preaching the dedicatory sermon. The Baptists had the first ded-\\nicated house of worship in Hudson. For some reason, Mr. Iloughwort was not\\nordained on the day designated. On the 10th day of June the church called Peter B.\\nHoughwout to the ])astorate, and fixed his salary at three hundred and twenty-five\\nlollars. At a church meeting held Sunday, April 22d, 1S49, it was resolved to call a\\ncouncil for the ordinatian of Peter B. Houghwout on Tuesday, the 15th day of May\\nnext, and churches were invited as follows Medina, Wright, Wright and Medina,.\\nWheatland, 1st and 2d Rollin, 2d Rome, Adrian, Clinton, and Dover. Samuel R. Close^\\nSamuel Eddy and Abiathar Powers were appointed delegates to the council. The\\nhuicli wa^ now vacant from May or June, 1849, to May 19th, 1850, and on the 16th day", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 93\\nof September, 1849, it was voted to invite the Methodists to pi^acli in the Baptist\\nhouse until such time as we get a pastor. Upon this invitation the Methodists occu-\\npied the liouse until they occupied their own house in the spring of 1850.\\nMay 19th, 1850, Elder Samuel Jones, jr., was called to the pastorate for one year.\\nOu the 36tJi day of October following, twenty-six persons united with the church\\ntwenty-five by profession of faith and baptism. On the 2d day of November twelve\\npersons were received, and on tlie 9th thirteen persons were received, all by baptism.\\nApril 27th, 1851, Elder A. P. Howell was called to the pastorate for one year, at a\\nsalary of three hundred dollars, to conniience on the 18th day of May then next. In\\nthe month of December, 1851, the church building was consumed by lire. But the\\nchurch were not easily discouraged; they at once set about re-building, and on the 8th\\nday of October, 1852, the new house was dedicated, Rev. U. B. Miller preaching the\\ndedicatory sermon. Elder Howell was continued in the pastorate a second year.\\nIn the spring of 1853, the church enjoyed more than usual revival influence, and\\nmany persons were received into membership. On the 30th day of November, Elder\\nHowell tendered his resignation, which was accepted.\\n.January 6th, ISM, Elder Volney Chm-ch was called to the pastorate of the church.\\nIt seems that Elder Church preached on Sundays, but attended to his own business\\non week days. At the close of his first year he was re-engaged on a salary of two hun-\\ndred and fifty dollars, he to give one-half of his time to the service of the church.\\nIncreased labor worked good to the church, for on the 19th day of May following\\nseven persons were baptised and received into the fellowship of the chui-ch.\\nSome time in the summer of 18.!)6, Elder William Pack became pastor of the church.\\nMay 18th, 1857, Elder William Pack resigned the pastorate of the church. His resig-\\nnation was accepted.\\nLate in the summer, or in the fall of 1S57, the llev. Jas. G. Portman became the\\npastor of the church, on a salary of four hundred dollars, and the use of a house for\\nresidence. The winter of 1857-8 was another revival season for the church, upwards\\nof thirty persons miitin,^ with the church on profession of faith. In May, 1858, this\\nchurch had an attack of Masonry, as witness the following resolution\\nWhereas, We believe that all secret societies are inconsistent with the principles\\nof the gospel therefore\\nRe~^olve l, That we disclaim all church fellowship with such societies, and we affec-\\ntionately entreat our brethren to withdraw from and disclaim all such connection, for\\nin so uniting and continuing with such societies will bring a grievious burden upon\\nthe brethren, and cause llie Zion of (iod to mourn, and the hand of fellowship to be\\nwithdrawn from tlu-m.\\nAfter adopting the above resolution, the church appointed Bros. Wright, Wood and\\nVan Epps a conmiittee to labor with a brother accused of being a Free Mason. At jv\\nsubsequent meeting Brother Wright reported tliat the offending Broliier expressed\\naffection for the church, but said l)is liein.u a Mason was none of tiieir business, or\\nwords to that effect. The church was sousil)le enough to refrain from excommunica-\\ntion, but in lieu thereof gave him a letter of dismissal, stating his relation to Masonry.\\nBut the proceeding seems to have had a bad effect upon Wright anil Van Epps, for\\nsince then they have become both Odd Fellows and Masons.\\nThe ministry of the Rev. .J. G. Portman extended through 1858 and until December.\\n1859, and was very successful so far as accessions to the church was concerned, until\\nabout June 1st, 1859, his further usefulness was destroyed by charges preferred against\\nhim. He was accused of adultery with a young girl\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a member of his chiu-ch\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and with\\nunchristian conduct in his intercourse with the ministers of the other village churches.\\nHe was tried on the charge of seduction in the Circuit Court, but the jury failed to\\nagree. The remainder of the year was occupied with church meetings and councils.\\nAs is usual in such cases, there were two parties, and the church was well nigh rent\\nasunder. The action of the majority toward the minority was severe, and produced\\nfeelings of resentment that were never effectually healed until the first year of the\\nministry of the Rev. C. T. Chaffee, when the church once more resumed her proper", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": ";)4 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY\\nwork, and was rewarded with more than old time prosperity. The house was found\\ntoo small for them; it was enlarged and improved, and under his successors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cresseyv\\nOsborn and Shanafelt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 it has been marching on to victory. The history of the church\\nis dropped with the year 1859, for the same reasons that tlx; modern history of the\\nother churches was left unwritten.\\nTuE Roman Catholics\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Culkcii of the Sacred IIeaht.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Very early in the set-\\ntlement of this tov^-nship and Medina, Roman Catholic families formed a part of the\\npopulation, and at quite an early date\u00e2\u0080\u0094 just when we have been unable to ascertain\\na church was built on the line between the two towns, where occasionally the priest\\nfrom Monroe would officiate.\\nAbout the year 1858 or 59 the Rev. Father Van Krp was sent here, and he at once\\nset about transferrins- the ohurcli to Hudson. A building was purchased and fitted,\\nup for a church, services were held each iSunday except the last in the month, on\\nwhich day services were held in the ]Medina church. During the ministry of Father\\nVan Erp a priest s residence was built, and then a church commenced, and so far fin-\\nished as to be used before his departure. Recently a spire has been added, which\\ngreatly adds to the beauty of the structure. The parish has increased in numbers,\\ninitil it has become the largest religious body in the town.\\nOthku CiruKCUE8.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 At a very early day there was a Baptist church in Dover,\\nwhich has now become one of the Clayton churches, ami is located in this township,\\nbut we have not the materials at hand for a sketch.\\nThere were from the beginning a number of persons very restive under Congrega-\\ntional rule, and these, being reinforced by several new arrivals, several years ago\\norganized a Presbyterian church. They purchased the house built by the Free Will\\nBaptists several years since, and refittt d it. They are not numerous enough, how-\\never, to maintain worship all the tiuif; indeed, for the most part their pulpit has been\\nvacant.\\nIn 1860 a I rotolaiit I -piseopal parish was organized and named J^rinity. There wa.s\\nbut little doni lio\\\\s k m-v. until the Rev. Mr. Smjlhe became rector in 18G9, since whicli\\ntime the parish has been reasonably prosperous. Under the ministry of the Rev~\\nMr. Welistera church was built and finished, except the tower. But this church\\nbeing one of the modern institutions of the township, does not come within the pur-\\nview of this work.\\nTILE SCHOOLS OF HUDSON VILLAGE.\\nFor want ot records ^\\\\c shall not be able to give a full and complete history of the\\nschools oi the village of Hudson. The founders of the village took a deep interest m\\nthe education of the young; schools were established on each side of Tiffin river at\\nan early day. The main building on the West Side was erected in 1860, at a cost of\\n\u00c2\u00a76,000. In 1874 the West Side put up a fine branch building with two rooms, north of\\nthe railroad, at a cost of \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00c2\u00a73,000. The East Side school building was erected in 1862, at\\na cost of about $3,000. By an act of the Legislature in 1866, the East and West Sidt;\\nwere united and became a chartered school under the appellation of The Fublii\\nSchools of the Village of Hudson. After being united for several years, the East\\nSide, by a legislative act. was set off from the )ni])lic scliools of the village of Hudson,\\nand organized as a graded school under the primary school law. This separation was\\neffected May 1st, 1869. In 1873 an effort was made to reunite the schools, but at an\\nelection held in Jime to decide the matter, it failed by a small majority. Since that\\nliine no effort at \\\\inion has been made. The lunuber of children of school ages in the\\nWest Side district at the time of the last enumeration, was 475.\\nAmong the early Princiiials of the West Side school, may be mentioned Prof.\\nJames, now Assistant Suiierintendent of the Clexeland schools. and Prof. Carson, of", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 95\\nHudson, formerly Principal of the Medina Academy. In Octcbar, 1860, Prof. F. B.\\nMcClelland, now at the head of the Albion Union (school, btca ne Princiral. He re-\\nmained in charge until April, is\u00c2\u00ab2, when he took charge of the East Side scliool,\\nwhich position he held until .July 1st, 1867. Rev. C. Van Dorn had charge of the\\nschool a large part of the time while they were united. }Ie was succeeded by Prof.\\nK. G. Reynolds, Jan. 5th, 1867, who held the position until June 33d, 1869.\\nProf. C. D. West, of Blissfield, was the next Principal. He held the position two\\nyears. Mr. West was succeeded by Capt. C. T. Bateman, former County Superin-\\ntendent of Schools for liCwanee county, who took charge of the school Sept. 1, 1873.\\nThe first class of graduates left this school in June, 1875. The class consisted of Miss\\nIlattie Beach, Miss Clara Boies, Miss Lillie Galusha, Miss Ida Harris, Miss Allie Per-\\nkins, and Mr. Edmund Childs. The organization of the School Board, at present, is\\nW. F. Day, president; J. M. Scarritt, secretary; R. J. Eaton, treasm-er: J. K. Boies,\\nW. J. Mosher, A. Loyster.\\nThe following extract from the Superintendent s report for the school year of\\n1875 and 1876, is given\\nI submit the following brief rejwrt of the condition of the Public Schools of the Vil-\\nlage of Hudson, and of tlu; work done in them duilng the past year.\\nNumber of weeks of school during the year 40\\nchildren between the ages of live and twenty in the district 475\\npupils enrolled 4; 5\\nforeign jmpils 4;;\\nF.nrollment in (Jraminar and High School 127\\nSecond Inteniiediate ttO\\nFirst Intermediate 4,s\\nSecond Primary 4n\\nFirst Primary 7C,\\nNorth Brancli 74\\nNumber of teachers employed\\nThe corps of teachers at present consists of Prof. C. T. Bateman, superinten-\\ndent and principal; Miss Ezoa Phelps and Mrs. C. E.Richards, assistants in grammar\\nand high school. The other assistants are Miss Delia Carpenter, Miss Delia Ilutchins.\\nMrs. Maria L. Graves, Mrs. C. Plympton. Mrs. Anna Chapman and i\\\\f iss A lice Perkins.\\nAmong the principals of the East Side school since Prof. McClelland left may be\\nmentioned Prof. Carson; Prof J. C. Dutton, now in Europe, from September, 1873. to\\nJune, 1873; Prof. Overholt, September, 1873, to April, 1874; Prof. Luther W. Covell\\nfrom September, 1874, to June, 1876. Prof. Coleman Williams, aided by three associ-\\nate teachers, has charge of the school at present. The scliool officers consist of the\\nfollowing named persons: Ira Swaney. director; M. R. Hazlett, moderator; D. Car-\\npenter, assessor; B. Wright, J. Van Akin, T. J. Hiller.\\nThe schools of Hudson have generally been in good hands, and have, been prosper-\\nous to a marked degree. In the management and support of their schools the people\\nof Hudson and vicinity have shown prudence, economy and wise generosity, and they\\nmay well be proud of their schools, which have done and are still doing good work for\\nthe youth of our community. May the good work of education in our beautiful village\\never prosper.\\nBknkvom.xt OuiiEits.\\nOdd Fki.lows.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1847 Hudson Lodgt; No. 26, I. O. O. F., was chartered. It\\nworked for a number of years, and then suspended. Subsequently it was resuscitated,\\nand has worked prosperously since. A list of its officers has been Inrnished, but as\\nrotation in office has been the general rule, a list of Noble Grands, as tlie presiding\\nofficeris called, only is given, it being premised that the subordinate offices were filled,\\nwith but few exceptions, by the same men preparatory to the more exalted station.\\nNoble Grands.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 FaIwri-O. D. Earned, Henry IS[. Boies (two terms), J. B. Tucker.\\nAugustus Thomas. Jndson II. ITydi Beri;di 11. Lane, .Iose]^h M. Johnson. Dr. David", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "06 THE BEAN CKEEK VALLEY.\\nP. Chamberlin, John C. Hogaboam, Reuben A. Beach, William W. Morrous, Jesse\\nMaxson, Jackson M. Wood, Alexander IL Hall, Jabez J. Daniels, David 11. Stroud,\\nDr. Leonard G. Hall, Edwin M. Hulburd, Henry G. Stevens, I evi Saulsbury, Dexter\\nGray, Robert B. Piper. William T. B. Schermerhorn, Benjamin Wright, Allen J.\\nSkutt, Perry Shumvvay (two terms), Henry G. Frank, John K. Boies, John Weed.\\nHiram Mann, John V. Munger, Gamaliel I. Thompson, William C. Merrell (two\\nterms), William R. Weaver, Chester C. I ease, Lawrence Van Epps, Stephen T.\\nDawes, Charles H. I utnam, Lawrence E. Halran, John Spaulding, William G. Don-\\naldson (two terms), Marion F. Isbell, C. H. Hubbard, John T. ]\\\\[ann and John R.\\nWirts. The only persons who have held the second ot fice (Vice Grand) and failed of\\nelection to the presiding officer s chair because of removal or other causes are the fol-\\nlowing: Charles E. Niles, James Lowe, John V. Goodrich, Dr. Thomas B. Minchin.\\nSamuel H. Perkins, William Smith and John Butts.\\nAbout ten years ago an Encampment was organized, called Wood Encampment, to\\nconfer the higher degrees of the order. It has been successful. The Hudson Lodge\\nhas furnished one Grand Master of Odd Fellows of the State of Michigan\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mr. Dexter\\nGray.\\nFree Masonkv.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Li 1848 Morning Star Lodge F. A. M., commenced work under\\na dispensation, Jesse Maxson, Worshipful Master. The Lodge was chartered at the\\nnext session of the Grand Lodge and numbered 26, and continued to work imtil 1859.\\nIt had Worshipful ilasters as follows IHiS, 49 and .50, Jesse Maxson 1851, Robert\\nB. Piper; 1852 and .5.3, Jesse Maxson 1854 to 185fi, Dr. David P. Chamberlin; 1857\\nuntil it suspended, November 7, 18.59, Hamilton W. Grennell.\\nOn the 21st day t)f November, 1859, Maxson Lodge F. A. M. commenced work\\nunder dispensation, Jesse Maxson, Worshipful Master. The lodge was chartered in\\nJanuary, 18G0, and given the old number of Morning Star Lodge (26), and it has con-\\ntinued in working order since. It has had Worshi]iful Masters as follows: 1859,\\nJesse Maxson; 1860 and 61, Dr. D. P. Chamberlhi; 1862 to 64, David R. Stroud:\\n1865, Francis D. Beach; 186(5, David R. Sti-oud; 1867, (58 and 69, Allen J. Skutt; 1870,\\nJas. J. Hogaboam; 1871, Allen J. Skutt; 1872, 73 and 74, Francis D. Beach; 1875 and\\n76, David R. Stroud.\\nOn the 24th day of September, 18(5. Warren Lodge F. A. M-i commenced work\\nunder dispensation. Dr. Benjamin J. Tayer, Worshipful Master. Worshipful Mas-\\nters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1863 and 6-1, Benj. J. Tayer: 1805, Hamilton W. Grennell; 1866 and 67, Edward\\nA. Gay; 1868 and 69. Charles Lowe 1870. Robert Worden 1871, Charles Lowe; 1873\\nto 76, I^awrence E. Halran.\\nIn January, 1863, Hudson Chapter Royal Arch Masons was chartered and numbered\\n28, and continued to work until the fall of 1873. High Priests\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1863, 64 and 65, Enos\\nCanniff; 1866, Jas. J. Hogaboam 1867, Allen J. Skutt; 1868 and 69, Hamilton W.\\nGrennell; 1870, Jas. J. Hogaboam; 1871, Allen J. Skutt; 1872 to suspension, David R.\\nStroud.\\nIn the summer of 1876 Phcenix Chapter R. A. r commenced work under dispensa-\\ntion; John M. Osborn, High Priest.\\nA council of Royal and Select Masters commenced work in lSt55, and continued un-\\ntil the suspension of the Chapter in 1873 deprived it of material. Presiding officers\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\n1865, U.D., Jas. B. Pratt; 1865 (after charter), Enos Canniff; 1806, Allen J. Skutt;\\n1867 and 68, Chas. H. Putnam 1869, Joseph D. Darling; 1870, Allen J. Skutt; 1871.\\nMyron M. Maxson 1872, Jas. J. Hogaboam.\\nOFFCIIAI. RKGISTER- LECilSLATOKS.\\nSenators\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Henry M. Boies, William Baker and John K, Boies. Representatives.\\nJohn W. Turner, Augustus W. Childs and John K. Boies. County officers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benj.\\nTurner, register of deeds; Andrew C. Mercer, Clement C. Weaver and Seth Bean.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "HUDSON. 97\\nprosecnting attorneys J as. .J. Ilogaboam and Perry Shumway, circuit court commis-\\nsioners.\\nSupervisors: iaS6, Simeon Van Alcin 1837 and .38, Augustus Finney; 1839 and 40,\\nHenry Tibbetts; 1841, Hiram Kidder; 1842, L. Hutchins; 1843, Simeon Van Akin\\n1844, Lemuel T. Whitney; 1845, Daniel II. Daniels; 1846, Simeon Vao Akin; 1847,\\nOliver S. Colwell 1848 and 49, Silas Eaton 1850, Oliver S. Colwell 1851, Ben-\\njamin Turner; 1853, Augustus W. Childs; 1853, Lorenzo Palmer; 1854, Enos Canniff\\n18.55, John Bean; 1856, Lorenzo Palmer; 18.57, John H. Carleton; 1858 and 59, Loren-\\nzo L.Brown; 1860 to 186.3, inclusive, Lorenzo Palmer 1864, Titus Babcock: 1865 to\\n1872, inclusive, Lorenzo Palmer; 1873 to 1876, inclusive, Ira Swaney.\\nAGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.\\nAbout the year 1859, the Hillsdale and Lenaw^ee Union Agricultural Society was\\norganized. It held fairs until 1864. That year it had a rainy season for tlie fair, and\\ncould not pay its premiums. It died.\\nTHE VILLAGE OF HUDSON.\\nPi.ATs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 BoirZsbiy s.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Levi N. Bowlsby, proprietor; acknowledged June 7th, 1813.\\nGibbon s Survey. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Platted by Isaac A. Colvin, Dudley Worden, W. H. Johnson,\\nHiram Osborn, Harrison Lindenbower, E. Conant, Stephen M. Wirts, Erastus Lane,\\nJ. C. Benedict, E. D. Lamed, Chas. Parrish, Roswell Rose, M. S. Lathrop, W. H. H.\\nVan Akin, W. L. Lamed and B. H. Lane, January 33d, 1843.\\nAdditions\u00e2\u0080\u0094 T7/71 Akin s, .South.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted March 25th, 1850, by W. H. II. Van\\nAkin, W. H. Johnson, Aaron Loomis and Thomas Daniels.\\nLa jrcr.\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted June 3d, 1 55, by Robert Laird.\\nirj)t.s Old survey, platted September 3d, 1855, by Dr. Stephen M. Wirts.\\nChurch\\\\s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted November 14th, 1855, by Rev. Volney Church.\\n(?oo(7?-ic/i s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted November 38th, 1855, by Heman R. [Goodrich.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2fo/nison s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted April 5th, 1856, by W. H. Johnson, Wih. B. Ames, Aim B.\\n!obb, Edward Co] b and Harvey J. Cobb.\\n.Tohnso)i and ro7if/f/- .s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted May 5th, 18.58, by W. H. Johnson and John Conger.\\nPoM)e7 s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted June 8th, 1858, by Dr. Jas. S. Power.\\nVan Akuvs, JEasf\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted by W. H. H. Van Akin, November 5th, 1858.\\nIFirts New survey, platted November 31st, 1859, by Dr. Stephen M. Wirts.\\nCobb s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted July 8d, 1860, by Ann B. Cobb, Edward Cobb, Jas. H. Cobb and\\nSusan B. Whitney.\\nH. N. /o/wison s-Piatted August 9th, 1860, by Silas Eaton.\\nTFilcox s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted April 5th, 1864, by Welcome Aldrich.\\nThe village was incorporated in 1853. The following named persons have filled the\\noffice of President: Caleb C. Cooley, Henry M. Boies, David P. Chamberlin.\\nStephen A. Eaton, Wm. Baker, Hamilton W. Grennell, Samuel DeGolyer, John J..\\nBeck, Beriah H. Lane, Warren A. Jones, Levi R. Pierson, John K. Boies, Luther C.\\nFrench, Russell M. Gillett, W^illiam A. Whitney, Ira Swaney, Augustus Kent and\\nJohn Bean.\\nCLAYTON.\\nPlatted by Chauncey and Reuben E. Bird, October loth, 1843.\\nAdditions.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 TFoferjnan s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted May 5th, 1864.\\nGraves and JReed s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted May 1st, I8(i5, by Burrit W^. Graves and Jacob Reed.\\nWatemiaii s Extension\u00e2\u0080\u0094Platted by D. R. Waterman, February 19th, 1867.\\nGratJes Platted June 10th, 1871, by Burrit W. and Albert II. Graves.\\nBird s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Platted by Reuben E. Bird, Ainil 14th, 1873.\\nThe village was incorporated about 1869.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "98 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nNECROLOGY.\\nCoft^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harvey, May loth, 1843, aged 46 years; Ann B., wife of Harvey, July 24tli,\\n4864, aged 53 years; Carroll C, son, Oct. 27th 1854, aged 24 years; Susan B. Whitney,\\ndaughter, July 15th, 1863, aged 26 years James H., son, Sept. 17th, 1869, aged 3b\\nyears.\\nFirmei/\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Augustus, July 19th, 1857, aged 61 years; Huklah Foot, wife, August,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a21843, aged 55 years; Alfred A., son, Sept. 8th, 1871, agetl .o3 years; Harriet C. Kidder,\\nwife of Alfred A., Sept. 5th, 1857, aged 33 years.\\nWirts\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dr. Stephen M., Nov. 1st, 1871, aged G4 years; :Miiry, wife, April 10th 1860.\\naged 46 years.\\nPratfr\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rev. David, March 2Uth, 1845, aged 56 years Sarah Smith, daughter, March,\\n1856, aged 36 years; Elizabeth A., daughter, Jan, 16th, 1853, aged 19 years; Mary D.,\\ndaughter, June 11th, 1869, aged 34 years James B., son, Dec. 13th. 1875, a^ed 51 years\\nDolly R., wife of James B., Jan. 8th, 1865.\\nT a/i ^/cm\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lydia, wife of Simeon, July 5th, 1868, aged 63 years; Sarah Amelia\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Boies, daughter of Ijydia Van Akin, formerly Spear, and wife of Hon. John K. Boies,\\nJan. 2d, 1871, aged 39 years.\\nCar^eton\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John H., February, 1872, aged 70 years; JNIary Ann Kidder, daughter,\\nApril 16th, 1861. aged 27 years; Henry, soia, died April, 1865.\\nOs? or ?i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John, April 28th, 1867, aged 78 years; Mercy, wife, July 15th, 1865, aged 72\\nyears.\\nEaton\u00e2\u0080\u0094 SUas, Aug. 20th, 1876, aged 81 years; Constantino C. S., son, Nov. Uth.\\n1848, aged 21 years; Hervey U., son, April 21st, 1852, aged 22 years.\\nJohnson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Capt AY H., Sept. 16th, 1865, aged 48 years; Celinda S. Hathaway, wife,\\nJune 2d, 1846, aged 25 years.\\nCaf7y\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lydia, wife of Nelson O., June 7th, 1851, aged 37 years; Levina, daughter,\\nAug. 12th, 1851, aged 16 years Kleber W. died ii^ the army.\\nOrisivold\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John, April 17th, 1874, aged 86 years; Sabra, wife, April 8th, 1872.\\nK^uWer\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hiram, May 11th, 1849, aged 49 years; Julia G., daughter, Nov. Sth, 185\\naged 18 years; Maria J., daughter, Jan. 5th, 1857, aged 2(i years.\\nZ,a?ie\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nathaniel, father of B. IL Lane, esq., March 16th, 1844, aged 73 years; Mary.\\n6rst wife, Sept 17th, 1839, aged 68 years; Martha, second wife, Maxch 2d, 1871, aged 85\\nyears Phebe, wife of Beriah H., May 22d, 1839, aged 35 years Anna Maria, daughter\\nof B. H. Lane, March 9th, 18.51, aged 23 years.\\n.Po?rncr\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lorenzo, Oct. 17th, 1874, aged 71 years; Ruth Wells, wife, Feb. 25th, 1853,\\naged 50 years.\\nTreadwell\u00e2\u0080\u0094W iWiain C, Dec. 27th, 1856, aged 42 years; Eliza, wife, March !22d, 1849.\\naged 29 years.\\nTT ciZs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas, Aug. 17th, 1847, aged 42 years; Helen, daxighter, Sept. 10th, 1847.\\nTras/c\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Deacon Salmon, April 22d, 1851, aged 50 years; Zeruiah, wife, Nov. loth,\\n\u00c2\u00bb1842, aged 35 years; Susan A., daughter, Sept. 28th, 1850, aged 20 years.\\nirorrfc7i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dudley, March 28th, ia59, aged 54 years; Phebe, wife, Jan. .30th, 1851,\\naged 34 years.\\nStraic\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas, Dec. 2.5th, 18.55, aged .59 years; Rhoda, wife, Oct. 29th, 1851, aged\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a255 years.\\nOrcjttf\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Silas, Feb. 19th, 1856, aged 45 years; Clarinda, wife, March 6th, 1855, aged\\n41 years.\\nTreadweU\u00e2\u0080\u0094Wnna P., wife of Urias Treadwell, Jan. 30tli, 1863, aged 42 years.\\nColu clZ\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John, April .30th, 1860, aged 57 years.\\nTaylor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 3ohn L., Nov. 9th, 1862. aged 60 years.\\nITalt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nancy K. AVells, wife of Dr. Leonard G. Hail, Oct. 12th, 1853, a^ed 33 years.\\nUaldi ;i?i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel D., Feb. 10th, 1873, aged 62 years.\\nBroivnell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John S., Dec. 26th, 1856, aged 37 years.\\nRose\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ira, May 7th, 1875, aged 75 years.\\nCeasom\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Philip, Sept. 9th, 1871, aged 68 years; Mary B., wife, Feb. 28th, 1876, aged", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "HUDSON.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 ROLLIN. 99\\n143-ears; Milton, son, died July 13th, 1862, aged 32 jears Francis B., son, Jan. fJM.\\n1:876, aged 43 years Marcia, wife of Francis B., Jan. 31, 1876, aged 40 years,\\nUti8;i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eli, Oct. 5tli, 1872, aged 66 yeais.\\nJones\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dr. Bela B., March 5th, 18\\nWheeler\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rev. Judson, July 9th, 1855, aged 51 years.\\nPa?7ncr\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hannah, wife of Wray T., April 9th, 1875; Laura M. Tuniei daughter,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0And wife of Benjamin Turner, July. 1860, aged 32 years.\\nLcisenring\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David, April 18th, 1872, aged 76 years Sally, wife, Aug. 31st, 1854,\\nH 1 years; Mary, daughter, July, 1852, aged 34 years; Eliza Gibson, daugiiter, Novem-\\nber., 1853, aged 36 years; Jesse B., son, July 10th, 18. aged 32 years; Wm. H, H.,\\nson, Nov. 19th, 1869, aged 39 years.\\njVitZs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kandall, May 6tli, 1870, aged 52 years.\\nBaker William, June 5tli, 1870, aged 53 years.\\nFe7ito?i\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Horace, April 9th, 1876, aged 71 years.\\nPerfcms\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Stephen, June 39th, 1874, aged 76 yeais.\\nClose\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Samuel E., Feb. 8th, 1865, aged 65 years.\\niJu?ne\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Moses. June 16th, 1864, aged 77 years; Sarali, wife, Nov. 3Gth. 1868, aged 84\\nyears Ge\u00c2\u00ab. P., son, April 8tli, 1865, aged 38 years,\\nHtdtmrd Col. Edwin M., burned to death in JMilburn Wagon Works, Toledo, O.,\\n-Sept. 29th, 1876.\\nJ^en f\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Augustus, Oct. 4th, 1876, aged 56 years.\\nV. ROLLIN.\\nThe second township meeting of the township of Bollin, tlie first understate au-\\niliority, was held at the house of Jacob Foster, on the 4th day of April, 18.3t\u00c2\u00bb. The\\nseveral offices were filled by the election of the following named persons, viz:\\nMatthew Bennett, supervisor; William Beal, township clerk; Daniel Rhodes, Joseph\\nSteer and Lester C. Bennett, assessors; Elijah C. Bennett, collector; John T. Com-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0siKMk and David Steere, overseers of the poor; John T. Comstock, Joseph C. Beal and\\nAsa R. Bacon, highway commissioners; Mattliew Bennett, Brayton Brown, Orson\\nGreen and Leonard G. Hall, justices of the peace; William Hathaway, Ephraim\\niSloan, Elijah 0. Bennett and Joseph S. Allen, constables. There were no school\\ni\u00c2\u00bbspectors elected, as appears from the records of that meeting. The electors voted\\n^o pay tliree dollars for bear, and two dollars for wolf scalps.\\nAt th\u00c2\u00ab election held September 13th, 183(), to elect delegates to the convention to\\nnaeet at Ann Arbor on the 36th day of that month, to consider the boundary question\\nproposed by Congress, there were only eleven votes cast. The township took no part\\nin. the second or party convention which did assent to the boundary proposition.\\nDuring the winter of 1835 and 36, material had been prepared for the proposed\\n.^ist-mill, and in the spring tlie work was pushed forward.\\nWilliam Beal returned to his farm, Azel Hooker opened a store in Mr. Beal s vaca-\\nted, house, and placed it mider the management of a man named Allen. Samuel Com-\\nufeock was appointed postmaster, and to Epliraim Sloan was awarded the contract to\\ncsjrry the mail.\\nin tlie spring of 1836 the first religious .society was organized at tlie house of\\n3la,ttiiew Bennett. It was a Baptist churcli, and in its organization Mr. Bennett was\\niim prime mover, and he held the. office of deacon. Of this good man, one of his\\n3i\u00c2\u00abj,ghbors, Mr. Page, writes as follows: Deacon Bennett was peculiarly well fitted\\ntil- settle in a new country. Possessing a strong religious temperament and a keen\\n#OTis6 of moral right, he used his influence for the best interests of the community in\\nwhich he lived; never meeting his friends or neighbors without giving the friendly\\n*jaiad-shake and kind, cheering words. Like the good Samaritan, he never passed by\\n./Jj-e poor and the needy witliout relieving 1 heir distress as far as was witliin his means.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "100 THE BEAIN CREEK VALLEY\\nThough some time gone to his final rest, (a rest of which he so much delighted tc\\ntalk,) he still holds a warm place in the hearts of those he left behind.\\nIn the winter of 18:36 and 37, the grist-mill was put in motion. It was the second ii*\\nthe Valley, the Talbot mill at Peru liaving commenced to grind in August of ISSS:\\nbut as its capacity was insufficient for the needs of even the nortlieast part of th\u00c2\u00ab\\nValley, this new mill was hailed as a harbinger of approaching civilization.\\nIt would indeed be pleasant to follow, in description, the rapid development of the\\ntownship, in population and in wealth, until it has come to be one of the finest and\\nmost wealthy townships in the county, inhabited as it is by an intelligent and enter-\\nprising class of people, but the limits prescribed for this little volume will not per-\\nmit; that must be deferred to some other time, and perhaps the task will fall to other\\nhands. With brief mention of some of her representative men, we must ctose this-\\n.sketch.\\nThe Hon. Orson Green has lived in the township since 18?54, and during his sojouns\\nthere, has been frequently called upon to fill offices of tnist and honor. lie has twice\\nrepresented his district in tlu Legislature of the State, lie was elected to that offic-e\\nin 18.58, and again in 1870. lie was a Whig, and now is a Ilepublican in politics. IlaT-\\ning an innate sense of justice, he is a Republican because lie believes equal rights io\\nbe one of the cardinal princi] les of th i arty. and that the cuunti y will be safer uncler\\nits contro]. Mr. irccn is a Iciuling nicuilicr of the ^letliodist Episcopal church of Iiis-\\ntownshiii, having enjoyed tiio inivilcgt s of its connnunion for forty years. Ilishocse-\\nAvas the home of tlif early civiiiit iiilcrs, who were always satisfied when lodged\\nunder his roof.\\nThe Ilev. William lUiodes settled in the townshiji in is; ,4. lie married Ids wife iw\\nMassachusetts, at the age of nineteen, before coming to Michigan, lie was a Meth-\\nodist from early childhood, and tells of going with his wife forty miles to attend n.\\n(|uarterly meeting, ^hs. IJhodes rode a horse, but Mr. Rhodes traveled the whole\\nilistance on foot. I pon his invitation, the Rev. Mr. Jackson, the junior preacher on\\nthe Tecumseh circuit, visited the Uean Creek country and preached in its several set-\\ntlements. He was accom])anied by Allen .Staples, then a local preacher, residing at\\nAdrian. The services in the township of Rollin were held at the liouse of Daniei\\nllhodcs and Dobson Page. William Rhodes is said to liave taught the first public\\nschool in the township of Rollin, in the winter of is i(i and at his own house.\\nThere are some, however, who think Lucretia Beat tau-lit a scliudl at the house oi\\nWilliam Ik-al in the summer of ]s:J\u00c2\u00ab. Mr. Rhodes was liffiised to jireacli in early life,\\nand afterwards was received.into the itinerancy and ordained to the ministry. After\\nliaveliiiga few years, he located and returned to his farm in Rollin. In subsequent\\n\\\\ears he was engaged in business in New York city, and then in Hudson. He is now\\nliving in the city of Detroit, engaged in the insurance business.\\nDaniel Rhodes, the father of William, was also one of the earliest settlers of Rollin..\\nHo lived on his farm in Rollin until about tlie year 18ti0, when becoming too old to la-\\nbor, the farm was sold, and Daniel and his wife, Abigail, moved to Hudson, where-\\ntliey lived until their decease.\\n.John T. Comstock, also, was one of the earliest settlers of Rollin, and has resided\\non his farm ever since his settlement in 1834. Mr. Comstock belongs to the Society of\\nFriends, and lias won considerable reputation as a poet. Several years ago his wife\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094the companion of his youth, and the joy of his heart in pioneer days\u00e2\u0080\u0094 de])arted this\\nlife, and he subsequently married Mrs. Elizabeth Wright, a preacher among the\\nFriends. Mrs. Comstock is a woman of great excellence, distinguished for simplicity\\nof manners, a fervid eloquence, and an untiring zeal in the prosecution of her mis-\\nsion. She has traveled largely, is extensively known, and everywhere welcomed\\nalike among the Friends or other religious bodies, as a true disciple of their com-\\nmon Master.\\nThere are many other worthy pioneers of tlie townsliij), some of whom a.e ser\\\\T i?;", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "KOLLIN.-WOODSTOCK. 101\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0rJieir touTiship faithfully in minor capacities, and others of them have adorned tho\\nj aths of private life.\\nThe following named gentlemen have represented the townsliip on the Board of\\nHttpervisors: Matthew Bennett, 18; 5 and 37; Elijah Brownell, 18:^; David Steere,\\nS.S39; Daniel Rhodes, 1.S40; William Beal, 1841; Thomas Kealey, 1842 and 43; Will-\\niam Beal, 1S41; Orson Green, 1845 and 46; .las. Patrick, 184T; Orson jGreen, 1848 to\\n*53, bwth inclusive; William Beal, 185:5; A. II. Raymond, 18. t and 55; Felix A.\\nWiieox, 18.56 and 5T; James Patriclc, 1858; Orson Green, 18.59; II. Rawson, 1860;\\nPorter Beal, 1861 and 63; Orson Green, im); Felix A.Wilcox, 1864 to 67, both\\n;iaclusive; Avery A. Dolbear, 1868 to 75, both inclusive; Orson Green, 1876.\\nThe township of Rollin is a handsome faced country, has ricli soil, and is well\\nwatered. It produces bountiful crops of all the important farm products. Its dairy\\nlaterest is large, and its fruit among tlie finest in the country.\\nThe people liave not been inattentive to the claims of education or religion. It has\\na. sufficient number of neat and commodious school houses, and its district schools are\\naf a high order. It has four churches within its borders one each in the villages of\\nllollin and Addisow, one at the centi-e of the town, and a Friends meeting-house on\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2section sixteen.\\nVI. WOODSTOCK.\\nThe first township meeting of the township of Woodstock was held at the house of\\nJesse Osborn on the fourth day of April, 1836. The officers elected were: Xahum\\nLamb, supervisor; Thomas McCourtie, township clerk; David Ten-ell. Samuel Dunn\\nand Joseph Younglove, justices of the peace Israel Titus, Ezekiel W. Sanford, and\\nWilliam Joslin, assessors; Jesse Osborn and John Binns, directors of the poor;\\nCharles McKenzie and Jedediah P. Osborn, constables; Nelson Terrell, Michael\\nI hool and Isaac Titus, commissioners of highways William Western. Joseph Young-\\nJove and Mitchel Gue, commissioners of schools; Alonzo Smith, William Babcock\\nand Warden W. Sanford, school inspectors Ezekiel AV. Sanford. pound master Ben-\\nson Hulin, sealer of weights and measures.\\nIn December, 1835, John Talbot commenced preparations for building a mill on\\nBean Creek, near the outlet of Devil s Lake. The mill was finished in August, 1836.\\nThe nfill is said to have been situated near the southwest corner of section thirty-three.\\nThis was the pioneer gi-ist mill of the Valley, and proved a great accommodation to\\nthe settlers. It was a small affair, however, and when run to its full capacity it was\\nunable to do the grinding for even the northern portion of the Valley. In a short\\n^time there was quite a collection of houses, shops, etc., around the mill, which re-\\nceived the name of Pern.\\nIn the fall of 1837, 3Ir. Talbot concluding he could obtain a better power farther\\ndown the stream, commenced a new race and mill. Although the mill jiroperty is\\naearly all within the limits of Woodstock, yet the mill was located just south of the\\ntownship line, in the edge of Rollin, at the middle or unused flume between the pres-\\nent gi ist and saw mill. The new mill commenced operation in the month of July.\\n1838, and very soon after, all the denizens of Peru moved to and settled around the\\n.new mill.\\nDiuring the political campaign of 1840, because nearly every voter of the burgh was\\na Whig, and coon skins (one of the Whig campaign emblems) were displayed at near-\\nly every door, Thomas McCourtie nicknamed it Coon Town, an appellation it lias\\nnot entirely outgrown. In 1847, April the eighth, it was platted by the name of Har-\\nrison, but soon after became generally known as Addison. The village is situated in\\niwo townships perhaps the greater i art in Rollin.\\nIn 1840 Jesse Osborn and David Terrell built a saw mill on Goose creek, in the\\n-siiorthern part of. the town.ship. The mill at the village now called Addison wa^j sold", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "102 THE BEAN CREEK VAIJ^Y.\\nto Darius C. Jackson in 1843, and about that time the saw mill was built. The pres-\\nent Jurist mill was built in the fall of 1848.\\nWoodstock, like Rollin, is wholly an agricultural township. The face of thr\\ncountry is considerably broken and profusely sprinkled with small lakes there -^isv\\nfifteen, fourteen of them wholly within its limits. Besides these lakes,, there are ma-\\nmerous small streams. Indeed, it may be said of it, It is well watered everywher*.\\nIn 1870 there were 11,8.51 acres of land under cultivation, and the valuation of its fama*\\nand live stock exceeds one million of dollars. It has some splendid farms and elegaait\\nfarm houses, and taking it altogether, it is one of the best of our agricultural town-\\nships. Of churches, it has not a great number. There is a Methodist EpiseopaX\\nchurch in the village of Addison, but it stands within the borders of Rollin. A lUllr\\nnortli of the village, on tiie north Ijj^lf of section thirty-one, there is a Friends meet-\\ning house, and on section twenty-one there is a Congregational church.\\nThe earliest settlers have all passed away, and those of the second and tJiird y\u00c2\u00abis,T*\\nare counted among the oldest men and women of the township. Cornelius Millspaw^,\\nthe first settler, moved into the township of Somerset before 1837, and after a wbiXiis-\\nmoved on still farther west. Mrs. Rachael Osborn died in 1851. In 18.57 Mr. Jesa-r\\nOsborn moved to Coffee county, Kansas, where he died in 18\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb.\\nThe township of Woodstock has been the scene of two foul murders,, or meff**\\nproperly, of five, for one was a quadruple murder. Mr. and Mrs. Bivins had loBg:\\nbeen residents of the township, and had won the respect and esteem of all tii\u00c2\u00abii-\\nneighbors. They had but one child, a boy named David. He was not different tsmtt\\nother boys, except that he was noticed t\u00c2\u00bb have a very revengeful disposition. At au\\nearly age he married a daughter of Ezra Sanford. She died July 5th, 1862, and it Yfs i\\nafterwards thought that David was instrumental in her taking off. At the time \u00c2\u00bbi\\nher death she was but nineteen years of age. In February following he married Ms-\\nsecond wife, a daughter of Mr. Thomas Brownell, a citizen of Rollin township-\\nMiss Laura Brownell was a young lady of great personal attractions, and appeared ki-\\nbe much attached to her husband, and they lived hajjpily for a time. David took a\\nnotion that he ought to have a deed of his father s farm, and to induce him to deed it^\\nDavid enlisted in the army. His idea was that his parents would rather deed hmt\\ntheir home than have tlieir only son go into tlie army. In this he was mLstakes-,\\nLearning his mistake, he hoped he would not receive his commission and appeai^t?\\ndisappointed when it came. He subsequently deserted the army, and at the house sd\\nhis father-in-law had an interview Avith his father, who besought him with tears to en-\\ndeavor in some way to earn an honorable living. As it was not safe for David to stay\\nthere, his father gave him one hundred dollars, expi essing the hope that it was the lai t\\nmoney he would ever ask of him. David went to Grafton, in the State of Ohio, an**,\\nengaged in the sale of Blackman s medicines, and earned some money. While th^.?,\\nemployed, he made the acquaintance of Miss Myra Hart, the daughter of a dry go\u00c2\u00ab d\\nmerchant of Grafton. He was smitten with her charms, and it is believed made sora\u00c2\u00ab-\\nprogress in gaining her affections. But there was a Woodstock lady in the way\\nof a consunmiation of his wishes. He resolved to be rid of this encumbrance, and B,i\\nthe same time secure the property he would need to support Miss Hart.\\nWith this thought up])ermost in his mind, he left Grafton fur Michigan, in January^\\n1865. He went to his fatlier s house and had an interview with his parents and wife,,\\nand then to Hudson the same day. At the livery stable of Green Johnson he ap-\\nplied for a saddle horse. Mr. Johnson informed him that they had none, but coukl\\nfurnish him a light buggy. It was winter, but the ground was bare. He gave orders\\nto have the horse and vehicle ready on the arrival of the night train from the ea.s4.-\\nHaving made these arrangements he went east on the afternoon ti-ain. He returned;\\non tlie night train, took the horse and buggy, and driving to the vicinity of his father s,\\nhouse, hitched the horse among some bushes by the roadside. Going into the house\\nhe found that his father and mother were absent, taking care of a sick neighbor. His\\nAvife was alone. He sent her for his father, saying he must sec him immediately.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "WOODSTOCK.-WHEATLAND. 103S\\nMrs. Bivins accompanied her husband home. David seated himself beside his father\\nunder pi-etense of private conversation, and thus held his attention while he present-\\ned a pistol to his head and fired. The old man dropped dead. His mother was next\\nslain, and then he faced his wife. She plead with him for the sake of their unboni--\\n(!hild to spare her life, but the image of Myra Hart was before his eyes, and the brute,\\nat once murdered his wife and their child. He then set fire to the house and retraced-\\nhis steps to Hudson. He arrived there in time to take the morning train eastward-\\nA robe dropped from the buggy, told who tlie murderer and incendiary was, and he\\nwas immediately arrested. He died in the Michigan State prison.\\nThe other murder was that of Rhoda Pennock, who was killed by her husband,.\\nJames P. Pennock, on the 22d day of April, 186.5. Mr. Pennock had formerly lived in\\nthe city of Adrian, and there owned the McKenzie farm. He removed to Woodstock\\nabout the year 1854, He was upwards of six feet in height, and in 186.5 he was sixty-\\nseven years old, and his hair was jierfectly white. He owm-il one hundred and sixty\\nacres of land on the shore of Devil s Lake, on section thirty-four. He was a profane\\nman, excitable and passionate, but had never been intemperate, and although penuri-\\nous, had never been deemed dishonest. On the question of domestic economy\\nPennock and his wife had had frequent quarrels. Their son-in-law had l een living;\\nwith them, and most of the household furniture belonged to him and to hiJs wife-\\nThey had determined to live apart from the old folks, but the old man objected\\nto a removal of the furniture. Mrs. Pennock took sides with the yoimg folks,,\\nand the result was a series of family quarrels. On the afternoon of the 32d, just\\nbefore dark, the neighbors discovered Pennock s barn to be on fire. They\\nrushed over there and succeeded in extinguishing the flames. When this was done,,\\nthe house was discovered to be on fire. This fire also was extinguished, but while\\nthey were engaged there Pennock succeded in firing the barn so effectually that it\\nwas destroyed. When this third fire was discovered it first occurred to the neighbors-\\nthat Pennock was tlie incendiary. Mrs. Pennock was nowhere ai ound, and as dark-\\nness had now come on. they procured lights and went in search of her. They found\\nher lifeless body under a bridge which spanned a small stream naming into the lake.\\nHe hail killed her by blows on her licad with some blunt instrument.\\nThe following named citi/.i iis luivi served as supervisoi s of the township: 1836,.\\nNahum Lamb 18;S7, Jesse Selleck ls: s, Samuel Driggs 18.39 to 4T, both inclusive, Joel\\nF. Knapp; 1848, Orsamus Lamb; 1849, Samuel Dean; 1850 to 07, both inclusive,\\nOrsamus Lamb 18(58 to 72, both inclusive, Lewis Sanford 1873 and 74, Manson Car-\\nl)enter; 1874 to 7(i, both inclusive, A. M, Sickly,\\nVn. WHEATLAND.\\nHarvey McGee and family settled in the township of Wheatland late in 18:35, ami\\nLyman Pease in February, 1836. Pease had lived for some years west of Adrian, iu\\nLenawee county.\\nAt the township meeting held that year, Heman Pratt was elected supervisor, Jno-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2SfcKnight clerk, and Heman Pratt, Nelson R. Rowley, Elias Branch and Aaron\\nVanVleet, justices of the peace.\\nMr. b dson Witherell had, in 1835, located 160 acres of land in Wheatland, and in\\n183(5, in the month of July, he moved his family on to the land. They came from\\nAdrian through Rellin, and were three days making the journey. Tiieir place was at\\nthe end of the road all beyond was wilderness.\\nIn 1836 occurred the first birth and death in town six south or, as it was then or-\\nganized, the south part of Wheatland. Mrs. Cook gave birth to a son, and a few\\nweeks afterwards died. Elder Parker preached the funeral sermon.\\nIt is not perhaps kuown where or when the first couple were married, or who they\\nwere, but there was a marriage in 1836. It was necessary, then, to obtain a license-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "104 THE BEA2^ CREEK VALLEY.\\nof the township clerk before consummating the marriage contract. The township was\\npossessed of a cleric that year who thought a record of the license of no value, but he\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0demanded and obtained the written consent of the bride s father before granting the\\nlicense, and this he recorded. In this instance it is as follows\\nThis may certify that I. Silas Carniichael, of the coimty of Hillsdale, Michigan\\nTerritory, do give my consent for Nancy Carmichat^, my daughter, to marry Hemy\\nB. Smith, of Logan, Lenawee comity, Michigan Territory.\\nSilas Carmichaei..\\nIn presence of\\nHenry Carmtchacl, Dec. 26th, 183C.\\nSquire Carmichael.\\nMark, too. this clerk was a strict constructionist; he called Michigan a territory,\\nalthough it had been a de facto State for more than a year. Legally, however, it was\\na territory.\\nThe Nokes school house was probably built in 1836. By this is not meant the pres-\\nent house, but its log predecessor. All agree that it was the first built in town, and\\nthe next was built in 1837. This last, the house in No. 2, was built by Charles Car-\\nniichael. lie took the jol) for ^70, began it in June, and finished it July 4th. When\\nthe house was complete l, he prepared to go to Adrian to buy some flour, as the bread\\ntimber was about to give out. Two of his neighbors also sent for a barrel each.\\nWhen he arrived in Adrian there was only one barrel for sale in the village, and they\\nwanted ^18 for it. A man told him if he would wait until next day he would sell him\\nthree barrels of flour for 5p14 a barrel; he expected a car load of flour next morning;\\n(horse cars were then used on the Erie and Kalamazoo railroad.) Carniichael agreed\\nto wait. Soon after, Zebulon Williams, who then lived south of Adrian, came along,\\nand pressed Carniichael to go home with him for the night. Carniichael consented,\\nbut before going, dejiosited the money for the flour with the landlord, and apprised\\nihe merchant of the fact. Coming back to the village next morning, he saw the man\\niinloading a car load of flour, but the man did not recognize him. Stepping up to him,\\nhe asked. Have you any flour to sell? No, said the merchant, I liave none to\\n.spare; it is all i)r()mised. Carmichael looked blue enough, for well be knew the\\nflour barrel at home must before then be empty. The man, noticing his disconsolatt;\\nlooks, continued, by way of apology, They are nearly starving out in the Bean\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acreek country; there is a man from there, here, and 1 have promised him three bar-\\nrels the money is deposited with the landlord, and it is all I can si)are. My custom-\\ners must have the rest. All right, said Carniichael, I aiii the man. To yoke his\\noxen, bring the wagon up, load the lioiu- and start for home, was but the work of an\\nhour, and busily he jogged along luitil the flour was in the houses of the hungTy\\nsettlers.\\nMrs. Charles Carmichael went East on a visit that summer. She started June 8th,\\nand traveled from Adrian to Toledo by horse power, but when she returned, the\\nhorses had been exchanged for steam power, and she made the ti-ip to Adrian behind\\na locomotive.\\nIn 18.39 Stephen Knapp raised the first frame barn in the township. It stood for\\n.several years without doors, and it began to be thought among his neighbors that he\\nhurried it up before he was able to finish so he could say it was the first. Chas.\\nCarmichael built his in 1842. The blacksmith who made the hinges advised him\\nto build his doors first, as barns in Wheatland were liable to stand without doors.\\nBut Stephen Knapp was a stirring man, and kept well in advance in all farming work.\\nHe sowed the first wheat in 1835. He bought his seed wheat of Charles Ames, trav-\\neling a woods road as far as Jesse Smith s when going for his seed. The family also\\nelaim he marketed the first corn.\\nThe farmers of Wheatland complain of the hard times of 1837, 38 and 39. Times\\nwere very hard in that new township, and much of it was due to the want of a mar-\\nket. They drew wheat and oats to Adrian and sold them, the first for 47 cents, and\\nthe last for 14 cents, ]ier busliel. Perry Knapp took a load of oats to Adrian, and", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "WHEATLAND. lO.n\\ndriving into tho hotel j-ard broke a man s wagon tongue. He sold his oats for 14 cents\\nper bushel, and paid a dollar for the tongue. He thinks there was but little profit on\\nthat load of oats.\\nWhen the Wheatland people use to go to Adrian to mill, it took four days to go and\\ncome but if the Adrian mill was full, or had bi oken down, which was sometimes the\\ncase, and they had to go to Tecumseli, it took longer.\\nA story has been told of old-time milliug, which was in this wise In 1834, 35 or 3(\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094no matter which, but before money went out of fashion\u00e2\u0080\u0094 a boy of the Valley went\\nto Adrian to mill. He must needs be in a hurry because bread timber Avas scarce at\\nhome, but when he came to Adrian the mill was full. There was not even room to\\nge t his grist into the mill until soom was made by departing teams. He went to the\\nmiller and laid his case before him. The miller shook his head; first come first\\nserved was the rule, and it coidd not be varied. Can t it be groimd at some odd\\nspell? No, it must wait its turn. Well, said the boy, I woidd like to go home\\nin the morning, and at the same time dropped a silver dollar into the busy man s\\nhand. When he went to the mill in the morning he saw at a glance that his grist was\\nground. After breakfast he drove his team around, and without asking any questions\\nloaded his grist. The others gathered around, and the question How is this? was\\non every tongue. The miller was too busy to heed tlieir queries, and the boy merely\\nsaid, Guess there is some mistake about it, but I am darned glad of it. The boy\\nthinks he saved about four days time.\\nThe farmers of Wheatland were almost overjoyed when the Talbot mill started,\\nbut when the Rollin mill was put in operation a few months later, they thought them-\\nselves out of the woods. The township of Wheatland is entirely an agricultural\\ntown with trivial exceptions, no other business is carried on within her borders. Of\\nchm-ches, she has a sufficient number to accommodate her church-going people. It\\nseems to be conceded that the first church organization was the Free Will Baptist. It\\n\\\\vas organized by Father Whitcomb and the Rev. Jonathan Thomas, in 1837. Both\\nbranches of Methodists had church organizations and buildings in an early day. The\\nclass organizations of the Methodist Epis3opal church were effected very soon after\\nthe first settlement was made, probably in 1836, or not later than 1837. In a very early\\nday, the Rev. Mr. Parker settled in the township, and, soon after, the Rev. Mr. Doo-\\nlittle, both of them local elders, and they did much to promote the growth of the\\nchurch. With such laborers as these to supplement the regular work, it is no wonder\\nthat Methodism flourished, and as early as 1.814 had church buildings in use. The\\nmembership of other churches were not idle. The early Laness ille Presbyterian and\\nCongregationalist preachers were self-constituted itinerants, and at first gave half of\\ntheir time to the Wheatland appointment; but very soon such labors were too infre-\\nquent for the Wheatland work, and they set up for themselves. At first, a very large\\nportion of the Hudson church was made up of citizens of Wheatland, but these, with\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0only a few exceptions, in 18-i 2, transferred their membership to the Wheatland church,\\nwhich has become a very influential body of christians. The Baptists (the regulars),\\nalso, several years ago, effected an organization in the township, and in the early\\nliterature of the denomination the Wheatland church was often mentioned as being\\ncalled upon to give counsel to sister churches.\\nIn the matter of schools, Wheatland is not one whit behind her neighbors. Her\\nschools, from very early times, have been considered in the van for learning, manage-\\nment and ability. The people have showed their appreciation of good schools by\\nbuilding excellent buildings and sustaining them liberally, and lately an institution\\nhas been opened to teach the higher branches of learning, and it is to be hoped that\\nit will prove a success.\\nThe farmers of Wheatland have never been over-anxious for political preferment,\\nbut they have furnished the State two excellent legislators in the persons of Itlr.\\nRobert Cox and Albert B. Slocum. They have also, for years, furnished the Board of\\nSupervisors with a presiding ofQcer. Her supervisors have been the following 1835,", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "106 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nTIeman Pratt, probably; 1836, Heman Pratt; 1837, 38 and 39, John Bailey; 1840 and\\n41, Lyman Pease; 1842, 43 and 44, John Humphrey; 1845, 46 and 47, Zebulon Will-\\niams; 1848, John Humphrey 1849 and 50, Zebulon Williams; 1851 and 53, John L.\\nTaylor; 1^5:? and 54, John Humphrey; 1855, Ebenezer Trumbull m56, John F. Tay-\\nlor 1857 and 58, John McLouth 18.59, Albert B. Slocvun IStW and 61, Jno. McLouth\\n1862, Thos. Robbins; 1863, (M and 65, Jno. McLouth 1866, Benjamin F. Tabor; 1867,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2fohu McLouth; 1868, 69 and 70, Benjamin F. Tabor; 1871, John McLouth; 1872 and\\n73, Myron McCJee; 1874, 75 and 76, Benjamin F. Tabpr.\\nVIE. PITTSFOED,\\nThe first t )wnship meeting of the township of Pittsford was held at the house of\\nAlpheus Pratt, on Monday, the second day of May, 18:^6. Why it was not held in\\nApril does not appear. Robinson H. Whitehorn was moderator, and Urias Tread-\\nwell clerk of the meeting. These, with John L. Taylor, a justice of the peace of the\\ntownship of Wheatland, but residing within the limits of the new township, were\\nthe inspectors of the election.\\nOfficers elected:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elijah B. Seeley, supervisor; Urias Treadwell, township clerk;\\n.Tohn L. Taylor, Robinson H. Whitehorn, Elijah B. Seeley, and Sidney S. Ford, jus-\\ntices of the peace; Cyrus King, Austin Nye and Jesse Smith, assessors; Ozen Keith,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Tohn Williams and Ira Rose, conmiissioners of highways; David Strunk, collector;\\nDavid Strunk, Jesse Kimball and Reuben Mallory, constables; Alpheus Pratt and\\nDaniel Looinis, poormasteis Cyrus King, Daniel Loomis and Gaylord Tabor, scliool\\ncommissioners; Urias Treadwell, Sidney S. Ford and Robert Worden, school inspec-\\ntors.\\nThe town was divided into four road districts, Charles Ames, Robert Worden,\\nOzen Keith and Abraham Britton were the overseers, and each district was six miles\\nlong. In consttquence of some of the officers failing to qualify, a special township\\nmeeting was held September 12th, and Daniel Loomis elected school commissioner,\\nand Elijah B. Seeley and Robert Worden justices of the peace.\\nOfficial Register for 1837.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Supervisor, E. B. Seeley; township clerk, Eldad\\n13. Trumbull justice of the peace, Russell Coman assessors, R. 11. Whitehorn, Henry\\nAmes, Ira Rose, Benjamin Estes, Royal Raymond; commissioner of highways, John\\nWilliams, Gaylord B. Tabor and Daniel liOomis collectors, Jesse Kimball and Calvin\\nPixley; constables, James S. Sprague, Calvin Pixley, Jesse Kimball and Geordious\\nHoughton overseers of the poor, Charles Ames and Alpheus Pratt school inspectors,\\nUrias Treadwell, Robinson H. Whitehorn and Laban J. Aylesworth.\\nThe business of 1837 having all been disposed of, the record of that year closes with\\nthis announcement The meeting for the year 18.38 is now adjoiu-ned to the quarter\\nstake on the section line between sections fourteen and twenty-three, or at the school\\nhouse to be built thereat, to be held on the first Monday in April next.\\nAt that time persons desiring to be married had to procure a license of the town-\\nship clerk. Mr. Trumbull licensed four couples for that business during the year.\\nAs a reminder of olden times and ways, one of the entries is here given\\nWhereas. Robert O MeaJy apidying for a license, according to law, to be united to\\nSarah Peters in the Ixnuls of matrimony, this is to ecilify that 1 see no reasons why\\nthe said Robert O ^Mealy and Sarah Peters should luii lie united in the holy bonds of\\nmatrimonv, and aceordinglv grant the same. E. B. Tkl mbull. Town Clerk.\\nPittsfonl, Sept. the 18th, 1837.\\nIn like manner Christopher Clement and Alice Fish were licensed Sept. 31, 18S7,\\nEdward Edgerly and Lucinda Britton, December 8tli, and James Fuller and Esther\\nStuck, December 30th.\\nOfficial Register, 1838.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Supervisor, Elijah B. Seeley; clerk, Eldad B.Trum-\\nbull assessors. Isaac A. Colvin, Timothy Johnson, Calvin Pixley and Ira Rose", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "PITTSFORD. 107\\ncommissioners of hisliways, Ozen Keith, George Goodricli and Lester Monroe; col-\\nlector, Willard F.Day; school inspectors, Laban J. Aylesworth, Cyrus P.Lee and\\nUrias Treadwell; constables, Willard F.Day and Cyrus P. Lee; overseers of the\\npoor, Charles Ames and Samuel Day.\\nThe reader will perhaps have noticed that some of the officers elected in 18.37, and\\nalso in 1838, were residents of town eight south, one west (Wright). Such was the\\ncase with Russell Coman, elected justice of the peace, and Calvin Pixley, elected as-\\nsessor in 1837, and Timothy Johnson and Calvin Pixley, elected assessors in 1838; but\\nthen it will also be remembered that Pittsford then extended to the State line.\\nOfficial Register, 1839.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Supervisor, Isaac A. Colvin; clerk, Willard F.Day;\\nti easurer, Ozen Keith assessors, David Strunk, Peter Clement, Lester Monroe col-^\\nlector, Willard F. Day inspector, Robinson H. Whitehorn directors of the poor,\\nSamuel Day and Alpheus Pratt; commissioners of highways. Jams Earl, Gay lord\\nTabor and Liims Monroe; justices of the peace, Abiathar Power and George Good-\\nrich,\\nHere is an item, the last clause of wliich is respectfully commended to modern\\nundertakers Voted that the town should pay for the coffin which was procured for\\nHenry Prentiss, five dollars.\\nSome time during the sununer of 1839, the government removed the Indians\\nfrom Squawfield. They had encamped on the little St. Joseph for years, and this\\nvillage was the home of the Chief, Bawbeese. Mr. E. E. Maxson had now become\\nthe owner of the land, and of course he wanted possession. By the treaty of Chicago,\\n1821, the Indian title had been extinguished to the land in Hillsdale county, but the\\nIndians had not yet been removed to their trans-Mississippi reservation. Mr. Maxson\\nwas very anxious to have the government move the Indians, but as long as they were\\npeaceably disposed and injured no one the government was not swift to act. About\\nthis time occurred a trivial circumstance which was made the lever to effect their re-\\nmoval. Warren Champlin was then quite a lad, in his teens, perhaps, and was a\\ngreat favorite with the Indians. He shared their sports and felt quite at home witlv\\nthem. One evening he went down to bathe in Mallory Lake his younger brother,\\nthen a child, accompanied him. Leaving his brother on the shore of the lake, with a\\nwhite companion and two young Indians he took a canoe and pushed out into deeper\\nwater. While bathing he heard a scream, and looking up he saw a young Indian\\nbrandishing a knife and in mimicry passing it around the scalp lock of the little boy.\\nWarren at once came to the shore. He found the boy almost dead with fright; but\\nBawbeese, who had come out on hearing tlie cry, explained that the Indian was only\\nshowing his companions how to scalp an enemy.\\nMaxson took advantage of this incident, it is said, to represent to the government\\nthat the Indians were troublesome, and an order was made for their removal. The\\ndetachment of soldiers arrived in the neighborhood in the evening, secured guides,\\nand late in the night, when it was supposed all the straggling parties would be in,\\nproceeded to the village. The approach was stealthy, and a line of troops had been\\nformed around it before the alarm was given. When the Indians were awakened by\\nthe officers they were very much alarmed. The squaws and pappooses rushed as if\\nthey would gain the woods, only to meet a line of bayonets. Then they turned back\\nand made night resound with their lamentations. But lamentations were useless\\nthe troops were there for a purpose, and that purpose must be accomplished. The\\nsquaws and pappooses were loaded in wagons, and the Indians, unarmed, were com-\\npelled to mai ch with the soldiers. All were fallen except Bawbeese and his\\nsquaw. She had recently been confined, and they were left until she shoidd be able\\nto go. After she had recovered and they had bade adieu to their friends among the\\nwhites, they, too, turned their faces toward the setting sun.\\nAlthough the township had had white inhabitants for six years, it still might (in\\n1839) be called a wild country. Many quite extensive fields had been brought imder\\ncultivation, yet the largest ])art of the township was forest,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 gigantic forest,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "108 TIIE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nwild game was still abundant. Eldad B. Trumbull, who worked on the Lanesville\\nmill at its building in 1834, and settled in Pittsford the following year, has, ever since\\nhis first settlement, kept a daily journal of his business affairs and those things which\\nmore nearly appertained to himself and family. In looking over the entries from\\n1835 to 40, one is astonished at the amount of game he killed, and still did a day s\\nwork every week day and attended worship nearly every Lord s day. Mr. Trumbull\\ntells that his wife was provoked at him because once when they were out of meat and\\na deer came into their door-yard on Sunday, he refused to shoot it. Mrs. Trumbull\\nsays she yet thinks it would have been excusable.\\nBut the scene has changed fields are the rule, and woods the exception but many\\nof the brawny arms that felled the forests are dust, and others have ceased the active\\nduties of life and await the sunnnons. Their labors have made the township of Pitts-\\nford one of the finest in Southern Michigan. It is mostly agricultural, as its\\nmany fine farms attest. Indeed, it might be said to be entirely so, as its manufac-\\ntures are only those necessary to change the form of farm products to fit them for the\\ntable and market. Lowe s mill, in the southeastern, and Wood s mill, in the western\\npart of the tt)wiiship, are almost entirely employed with farmers grinding. Pittsford\\nhas had many saw mills within her borders, but as her fine forests have disappeared,\\nso also her saw mills have decayed or been removed nearer growing timber.\\nPittsford has furnished the State with legislators and the county with executive\\nofficers. In the legislative office, Elijah B. Seeley, Bobert Worden and John M. Os-\\nborn, as Eepresentatives, and John M. Osborn as Senator, have served the State; in\\nthe county, Robert Worden has guarded the treasury, and Wray T. Palmer and Wil-\\nlard F. Day have recorded indentures.\\nPolitically, the township is at present Republican. From 1836 to 1842 it was\\nstrongly Whig afterwards the parties were more evenly divided, so it was not diffi-\\ncult to elect a good man on either ticket, as the frequent election of such men as\\nSeeley, Keith and Day shows but in 1851 a large part of the Democrats became Re-\\npublicans, aud since then it has been strongly Republican.\\nThe following have been its supervisors: 1836, 37 and 38, Elijah B. Seeley; 1839,\\nIsaac A. Colvin; 18-10, Elijah B. Seeley; 1841, Ozen Keith; 1842, Elijah B. Seeley;\\n1843, Jesse Kimball; 1844, Henry Ames 1845 and 46, Ozen Keith; 1847, Jesse Kim-\\nball; 1848, Ozen Keith; 1849, Elijah B. Seeley; 1850 and 51. Ebenezer Stewart; 1852.\\nNelson P. Nye 1853 and 54, Ozen Keith 1855, Martin U. Webb 1856, 57 and 58,\\nWillard F. Day; 18.59, 60 and 61, Eli Bush; 1862 to 65, both inclusive, Sidney Green;\\n1866 to 69, both inclusive, Truman N. Wadsworth; 1870, 71 aud 72, Henry Lane\\n1873, Truman N. Wadsworth; 1874 and 75, Henry Lane; 1876, Truman N. Wads-\\nworth.\\nAs a reminder of the days when men used to be licensed to sell liquors, the follow-\\ning item is given:\\nWe, the undersigned, the township board of the township of Pittsford. county of\\nHillsdale, and State of Michigan, do hereby grant unto George Miller, of the township\\nof Pittsford aforesaid, license to sell wines and spirituous liquors by retail, in a cer-\\ntain liuildiiig owned by him, near the school house on the northeast corner of section\\nNo. 4, in said township, from this date until the 13th day of April next, provided that\\nthe wines and liquors so sold be not drank on or about the premises aforesaid of said\\nMiller. Given under our hands this 30th day of Aug., 1H45.\\nOzen Keith. Supervisor.\\nWm. Edmonds, Justice.\\nj. c. hogaboam,\\nDavid Kemp,\\nR. D. WiNEGATi, Dept. Clerk.\\nTownship Board.\\nSome of the early settlers of Pittsford have died, among whom are:\\nC/iawpiui\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William. March loth, 1873, aged 73 years; Rhoda, wife, Oct. 18th, 1866,\\naged 68 years.\\n^7ne.s\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles, Sept. 4th, 1873, aged 74 years; Sarah, his wife, Dec. 24th, 1869, aged\\n2 years. [For deaths of other pioneers of this town see Necrology of Hudson.]", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "SOMERSET. 109.\\nDL SOMERSET.\\nThe surface of the township of Somerset is broken into numberless conical shaped\\nhills, and interspersed with numerous small lakes and large springs of the purest\\nAvater. The highest land in Southern Michigan is within its borders, yet in some\\nparts it needs the services of a drain commissioner to adapt the soil to more perfect\\ncultivation. In quality of soil and beauty of scenery it ranks with the best townships\\nof Southern Michigan.\\nIn the winter of 183( -7 John ]\\\\IcLouth built a saw mill on the north branch of Posey\\n!reek, a tributary of the Bean, and in 18.37 William Webster built another saw mill on\\nthe same stream both were long since abandoned.\\nThe township of Somerset was organized in the spring of 1837. It had formerly be-\\nlonged to the township of Wh( atland. At first the settlement along the Chicago road\\nin town five south was the strongest, but the emigration of 1835 and .36 centered\\nmostly in town six south, giving it the advantage in point of numbers, and in con-\\nsequence each part desired a separation. The northern people sent a petition, asking\\nthat the towais might be divided and that the northern town might be allowed to re-\\ntain the old name and organization. They were met in committee on townships by a\\npetition of the southern people, asking for a separation and that tlie southern town\\nmight be allowed to retain the old name and organization. The Legislature decided\\nin favor of the southern town, and five south became the new town and was named\\nSomerset.\\nThe first township meeting was held at the house of Cornelius IMillspaw, on Mon-\\nday, tlie third day of April. 1837. The Legislature directed it to be held at the house\\nof Thomas Gamble. Why it was changed is not known. Officers elected:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 lleman-\\nPratt, supervisor; John McKnight, township clerk; Amos Fairchild and William\\nWeaver, justices of the peace; William Mercer, Alvah Foster and Orson Herrington,\\nassessors; Daniel Strong, Chauncey Kennedy and Jonathan Ilaynes, commissioners\\nof highways; Samuel A. Clark, collector; Cornelius Millspaw and David Weather-\\nwax, directors of the poor; Warner Bunday, Alvah Foster and Arza Fiimey, school\\ninspectors; and Samuel A. Clark, Daniel Millspaw and William Howard, constables.\\nAt a subsequent election, tlnat is to say, in 1839. Timothy Gay was elected a justice\\nof the peace.\\nAs late as 1842 the township paid bounties for the destruction of wolves. Indeed,\\nthe township seems to have been noted for its abundant supply of game. Elias\\nAlley, esq., relates that he killed seventy-six deer within six weeks time.\\nCornelius Millspaw built a saw mill on Goose creek, a tributary of the Raisin, in\\nthe winter of 1838. The saw mill has gone to decay, and now a flouring mill occupies\\nits place. This last was built by Harrison Fitts, in 1851 or .5 3. It is now owned l y\\nJesse Tucker Son.\\nThere was a Presbj-terian church organized in 1836, at what is called Somerset\\nO.nter, and worship was maintained there for many years; but the society, which\\nwas considerably scattered, was partly absorbed by the church at Gambleville and\\npartly by a church in the west part of the township, and the house was sold to the\\nMethodists.\\nIn 1841 Newton C. Wolcott commenced manufacturing rakes on the head waters of\\n(Joose creek, and the business developed extensively, and for a time it was the lead-\\ning rake factory in Michigan; but of late the prison makes rakes .so much cheai)er\\nthan he can, that he has ceased manufacturing.\\nThe township has furnished Hillsdale county two judges, (neman Pratt and\\nWilliam Mercer,) and the State one legislator, in the pers(m of Dr. Root, of Gamble-\\nville.\\nSupervisors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1837, Ileman Pratt; 18:38, William Weaver; 1839, Elias Branch; 1840,\\nWilliaui Weaver; 1811, Azariah Smitii; 1842, 43 and W, William Mercer; 1845, Jabez", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "IIQ THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nS. Moslier; l.S4rt aiid -i-, Cliester Hunt; 18-18 and 49, William Mercer; 1850 and 51,\\nChester Hunt; 1852, Daniel C. Crane; 18.53, 5-1 and 55, AVilliam Mercer; 18.56 and\\n.57, AYilliam P. Kichards; 18.58, William Mercer; 1859, William P. Richards; 18G0,\\nGeorge A. Smith; 1861 and 63, Sanford Hopkins; 1863 and (M, Newton C. Wolcott;\\n1865 to 73, both inclusive, Sanford D. Hopkins 1874, 75 and 76, Andrew N. Westcott.\\nTownship Clerks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1837, John McKnight; 1838 and 39, W. S. Branch 1840, James\\nGowans 1841 and 43, Charles Farnsworth 1843, George L. Moore 1844, Jabez S.\\nMosher 1845, George L. Moore 1846, John M. Muuson 1847, George L. Moore 1848,\\n49 and 50, Oliver Lathrop 1851, Charles Farnsworth 18.53 and 53, Orson Herring-\\nton; ia54, IL H. Davis; 1855, Charles B. Moore; 1856 and 57, Roswell R. Farnsworth;\\n1858 to 63, both inclusive, Aaron Bickford; 1863, Dennis Clancy; 1864, Aaron Bick-\\nford 1865 and 66, Dennis Clancy 1867 and 68, Warner Bunday 1869, David A.\\nTerrell; 1870 to 76, both inclusive, Oscar D. Brown.\\nX. MEDINA.\\nThe mill, commenced building in 1835, was finished in the spring of 1836, by Labau\\nMerrick, and the first lumber was sawed on the 13tli day of April. William Walworth\\nbuilt a small mill on Lime creek, section 31. It was a patent arrangement, and ground\\ncoarse grain only. Tyler Mitchell Yas the carpenter and millwright, and the mill\\ncommenced grinding in June, 18:36. Walworth died in August\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the second death in\\nthe township, the first having been Loren. a son of John Knapp, April seventh. In\\nthe spring of this year Mr. George W. Moore became an inhabitant of the township\\nhe had purchased his land in the spring of 1834. The Rev. David Smith preached in\\nthe township. He was a Presbyterian clergyman sent out as a missionary, and sup-\\nported by the Presbytery of Western New York. He lived in a small house on the\\nfarm of Simon D. Wilson, iu Seneca, and preached in private houses. He removed to\\nIllinois in the spring of 1837. In June the Rev. Edward Hodge became the pastor of\\nthe Baptist church, organized at Canandaigua in January of that year. He had a\\nsalary of two hundred dollars. He lived in the township of Dover.\\nThe spring of 183() was a very severe one for the inhabitants of this part of the Val-\\nley. The most of them had moved in, in 1835, and as yet had not raised a crop, and\\nprovisions were very scarce and dear. Even had there been provisions that could\\nhave been bought, many of the settlers could not have purchased, as they had used\\nup their means in purchasing land and moving in. One man who had planted .some\\npotatoes in the spring of 1836 was obliged to dig them up and eat them. It was all\\nthey could get to eat. Floiu-, when obtainable, was sixteen dollars a barrel pork,\\nthirty to thirty-two oats, one dollar and seventy-five cents a bushel and salt, ten\\ndollars a barrel. Some families were obliged to live for weeks together without\\nbread, and depended upon the rifle for their daily subsistence. Said the Rev. William\\nE. Warner to Mr. Moore, one day in the fall of 1836, AVe are having snug times at\\nour house; for our breakfast this morning we had nothing but pumpkin sauce to eat,\\nand Mrs. Warner thinks these arc rather hard times.\\nThe hard times, however, did not have the eifect to suspend the execution of the\\nDivine command. Gen. i 38. On the 14th day of July, 1835, a son was born to Charles\\nA. Prisbey. The boy afterwards died at Murfreesboro, Tenn., June 37th, 1863,\\nwhile a member of the ;J4th Wisconsin infantry. On the 14th day of November,\\nOrrin Green was horn. On the 18th day of February, 1836, a child was born in the\\nfamily of Lewis Shepardson, and on the same day a child was born in the family of\\na Mr. Bayless, iu the south part of the township. On the 34th day of August, 18.36,\\nHenry C. Foster was born. He, also, died in the service of his country, at Athens,\\nAlabama, Sept. 34th, 1864, a member of tlie 18th Michigan infantry. In the summer\\nof 1836, Ansel Coats and Phoebe York were married, Daniel II. Deming officiating,\\niind September 1 ith, J. D. Sutton and Abigail Knapp were married.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "IVIEDINA. Ill\\nThis young town must have begun to feel tlie curse of intemperance, for on tlie\\nfourth day of July, 1836, Dr. Hamilton delivered a temperance lecture at Canandaiguu.\\nThe Rev. Lorenzo Davis having been sent to the newly organized Bean Creek mis-\\nsion of the Metliodist Episcopal church, preached in Mr. John II. Foster s house.\\nMr. Foster had already built his second house, and the pioneer building was used as\\na church and school house. Mr. Davis continued to preach in that house once a\\nmonth during that conference year.\\nMrs. Dr. Hamilton taught the school in the Canahdaigua school house in the sum-\\nmer of 1836, and that fall a frame school house was built in that village. Then\\nCanandaigua aspired to be the metropolis of Medina township. The same fall a log\\nschool house was built on the farm of Benjamin Rogers, southeast quarter of section\\ntwenty-three. Medina had three schools in the winter of 1836-7 the third was taught\\nby Miss Colgrove, in John R. Foster s house, near the northeast corner of section\\nthree.\\nIn December, 18.36, the Baptist church of Canandaigua voted to hold their meetings\\nin the village of Medina. The meetings were held at the dwelling house of Deacon\\nCook Ilotchkiss during the winter of 1836-7 and the summer of 1837.\\nMedina village, as it then began to be called, had no physician, and, ignoring the\\nDivine command, they coveted their neighbor s doctor. Dr. Hamilton had built a\\nnew frame house in the village of Canandaigua, and to induce him to move to their\\nvillage, the people of Medina purchased the house, and the doctor moved in Decem-\\nl)pr, 1836. As the villages are only about one mile apart, it practically could make but\\nlittle difference whether he lived at one or the other of the places; but for the oldest\\nvillage to lose her only doctor to enrich her rival, was rather humiliating. But their\\n!up of liurailiation was not yet full. The only frame dwelling house in the township\\nwas within her borders, and this the Medina people determined should not be,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 they\\nwould remove it. Twenty of her most stalwart men went down there, with fifteen\\nyoke of oxen collected from among the farmers of Medina and Hudson, to accomplish\\nthe removal. .Shoes were placed under the building, the oxen hitched to it, and\\nWlioa. Haw, Get up. Bright, and away the house went towards Medina. To\\navoid the bridge, they cut a road through the woods, north of the creek. The route\\nthey were compelled to take to avoid the bends of the creek made the road nearly two\\nmiles long, and the house was two days in transit; but at last Medina had one fi-ame\\nhouse. Canandaigua none.\\nIn the winter of 1836-7 the Medina Mill Company built a saw mil) in tln^ village of\\nMedina. They commenced sawing lumber April 1st, 1837.\\nOn the eleventh day of March, 1837, the Legislature set town eight soutli, one east,\\noff from Seneca, and gave it the name of Medina. The act directed the township\\nmeeting to be held at such place in the township as the sheriff of Lenawee county\\nshould by proclamation designate. Accordingly, the sheriff issued a proclamation as\\nfollows\\nniOCLAMATION.\\nNotice is hereby given to the electors residing in township eight south, of ranse one\\neastj to meet at the house of John Dawes, in said township, on the first JNIonday in\\nApril next, at ten o clock A. m., and there })roceed to elect townshi]) officers for the\\nyear coming, agreeable to law. Given under my hand at Adrian, this Mh dav of\\nMarch, 1837. J. H. Cleveland, Sherilf of Lenawee County.\\nOn the 20th day of March, 1837, the Legislature passed a supplemental act detach-\\ning fractional town nine south, one east, from Seneca and attaching it to Medina.\\nBut the action of the Legislature was probably unknown to the sherilf, hence the\\nnotice is CHily to the voters residing in town eight.\\nAt that time the following named persons were voters in the township of\\nMedina as it was then actually organized, although only those living in town eight\\nsouth participated in the township meeting Nathaniel W. Upton, John R. Foster,\\nJohn Knapp, Cook Ilotchkiss, Charles Prisbey, Samuel Fincher, Ebenezer Daniels,\\nJohn C. Hotchkiss, Artemas Allen, Dr. I. S. Hamilton, Rev. William E. Warner,", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": "112 THE BEAJJ CREEK VALLEY.\\nAbel Platts, Patrick McKenny, Tyler Mitchell, Patrick Dillon, William Cavender,\\nSamuel Gregg, S. Dewey, Orrin Pixley, Charles Baldwin, Lawrence Reubottom,.\\nHiram Lucas, Asa Farley, Lewis Shepardson, Amasa Converse, N. K. Green, John\\nDawes, Levi B. Wilder, Benjamin Holmes, James McQuillis, Ben Pvogers, Abner\\nRogers, Chester Savage, Justus Coy, Orvill Woodworth, Cassius P. Warner, John\\nPowers, Ethan Barns, Seneca Barns, Rollin R. Hill, Orlando Whitney, John S.\\nSweeney, John D. Sutton, Henry S. Smith, Samuel Kies, Horace Garlick, E. H. John-\\nson, Levi Goss, Benjamin Hornbeck and Hiram Wakefield, heads of families, and\\nEli Upton, George W. Moore, Andrew McFarlane, James Burns, Patrick Trumer,\\nLevi Daniels, James Rogers, Charles Stone, Newton Dawes, Alonzo S. Hume, Ben-\\njamin Converse, Nathan Stone, John Seeley, J. M. Baggerly, and Zebedee Baggerly,.\\nunmarried men.\\nIn accordance with the sheriff s proclamation, the township meeting was held on\\nMonday, the 3d day of April, and officers were elected as follows Rollin R. Hill, su-\\npervisor; John Dawes, township clerk George W. Moore, Noah K. Green and James\\nA.Rogers, assessors; Orlando Whitney, John S. Sweeney and John Powers, com--\\nmissioners of highways Asa Farley and John D. Sutton, school commissioners Ben-\\njamin Rogers and John Knapp, overseers of the poor; Asa Farley, James A. Rogers,\\nHenry S. Smith and Samuel Kies, justices of the peace; Charles Stone, Cassius P.\\nWarner, Horace Garlick and E. H. Johnson, constables; Charles Stone, collector.\\nThe justices elect drew for term, with the following result: Henry S. Smith, four\\nyears; Samuel Kies, three years; James A. Rogers, two years; AsaFarley, one year.\\nThe voters thought it necessary to offer a five-dollar wolf bounty.\\nThe new township government did not start off very smoothly. Hitherto, there had\\nbeen both school commissioners and school inspectors, but the Legislature abolished\\nthe office of school commissioner at tlieir session in 18:57. The people evidently\\nthought it was the inspectors that were abolished, for tliey elected school commission-\\ners but no inspectors. Then, also, they were in a muddle with their justices.\\nIn 18:36, Cook Hotchkiss was elected a justice of the peace for the township of\\nSeneca, which then included Medina. The Medina people thought it not best to have\\na Seneca officer hold over amongst them, and persuaded Hotchkiss he had better re-\\nsign his Seneca office and be elected anew, and they evidently supposed he consent-\\ned to do so, and had done so, for at their election they elected the full complement of\\njustices, but omitted Hotchkiss from the list. When the election was over, the\\nnew justices learned, to their dismay, that Cook Hotchkiss had not resigned, and did\\nnot propose to resign. Here was a muddle. The law provided for four justices, and\\nno more. F our had l)een elected on a general ticket, and now that there was room\\nfor only three, how could they tell whicli one was not elected. Thus reasoning, they\\ncalled a si ecial township meeting to rectify the errors. The special township meeting\\nwas held on the 9Mth day of June, at the house of John Dawes. Dr. I. S. Hamilton,\\nRollin R. Hill and Noah K. Green were elected school inspectors, and yVsa Farley,\\nNoah K. Green and John Dawes, justices of the peace. Henry S. Smith and John\\nKies were left out of the deal this time, and now it became a question who was elect-\\ned to the office. As to Farley, there could be no question but Smith and Kies, or\\nGreen and Dawes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 which? Recourse was now liad to the prosecuting attorney, antl.\\nhe advised them tliat there was nothing in the law to prevent their having five jus-\\ntices in such ca,ses, and that the first was the valid election. Later in tlie season,\\nSamuel Kies removed from the township. Another special meeting was held, and\\nSamuel Gregg elected justice to fill the vacancy.\\nEarly in 18:37, the wounded honor of the people of Canandaigna was somewhat\\nhealed by the coming of Dr. Angell, a botanic physician but soon after, a new wound\\nwa^ inflicted. A Mr. Stephenson prepared the timber for a new hotel building which\\n)u proposed to put up in Canandaigna, but being somewhat impecunious, he mort-\\ngaged the timber. Afterwards, being unable to pay off the mortgage, he sold the\\ntimber to Charles A. Prlsbey and C. P. Warner, of ^Medina village, without disclosing", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "aiEDINA. 113\\nthe fact that it was mortgaged. Prisbey and Warner drew the timber to Medina and\\nconstructed the tavern now owned by Mr. Alien. The mortgagee made them pay his\\ndebt, but Medina had a frame hotel.\\nAnother little incident occurred about that time, which tended to even matters up a\\nlittle. In the fall of 18.S6, an itinerant fruit tree vender brought some apple ttees to\\nOanandaigua to sell to the farmers of Medina and Seneca. He had fifty more than he\\ncould dispose of, and these he buried in Cavender s field. In the winter, a Medina\\nman coming by the field, discovered the tree tops covered with snow, and asked\\nBurns Cavender what it meant. He said Gregg had thrown a drunken Indian out of\\nhis bar-room, he had died from exposure, and his body was buried lightly and covered\\nwith brush. The Medina man went home, revolving in his mind the tragic death of\\nthe Indian. He called a secret council, and it was determined that the matter must\\nbe investigated and Gregg punished. In the dead of the night, six of Medina s most\\nvaliant sons sallied forth, armed with axes and spades, for a march on Canandaigua.\\nThey came to the spot and attempted to remove the brush, but their butt ends had\\nsank in the mud and frozen down. The axes were called in requisition, and the\\nbrush cut away even with the ground. Then the digging commenced, and in the\\ncourse of an hour s hard work the bodies and roots of the trees were exhumed.\\nThey went home sadder and wiser men, desiring above all things to keep their agen-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2cy in the matter a secret. But murder will out, and they had to pay for the trees;\\nand what was of more consequence to them, be jeered at by the Canandaigua folks.\\nOn the 7th day of March, 1837, a church was organized in the south part of the\\ntownship, and called the First Congregational church of Medina. It had eleven mem-\\nbers, and the Rev. Paul Shephard was its first pastor. i\\nOn the 20th day of May, the name of the Baptist church was changed to The Bap-\\nlist church of Medina. and in the fall a small church building was built. A post-\\noffice was established at the village of ^Medina this year, and Artemus Allen was\\nmade postmaster. Mr. Lauren Hotchkiss came into the township from Adrian, whith-\\ner he had come in 1831.\\nIn the summer of this year, 1837, the Medina Mill Company built a grist-mill. The\\nbuilding was one and a half stories high, and 34 by 36 feet. In it were placed two run\\nof stones. I. H. Luddon, was the millwright, and J. C. Lewis built the wheel. The\\nold building now forms the north and lower portion of the Kerr mill. The first flour\\nwas ground in this mill on Thanksgiving day, 1837. In the fall, George W. Brower\\nbuilt a saw-mill on Lime Creek, on section twenty-three, and commenced sawing in\\nDecember, 1837.\\nCanandaigua was platted October 26th, 1835, by Ira White, but Medina village was\\nnot platted until a year and a half later. The plat was made and acknowledged by\\nAsahel Finch, Cook Hotchkiss, Artemus Allen and L. Hotchkiss, March 30th, 1837.\\nIn 1838 B. F. Hutchinson purchased the Canandaigua saw-mill, and built an addi-\\ntion to it in which he put the Walworth giinding mill. Dr. Eufus Kibble settled in\\nCanandaigua this year, and resided there and practiced medicine until he removed to\\nColdwater.\\nThe Legislature, at its session in 1838, chartered the Medina Canandaigua Rail-\\nroad Company. Cook Hotchkiss, John Knapp, B. F. Hutchinson, Samuel Gregg,\\nWilliam Billings, Artemus Allen and Ebenezer Daniels, were the corporators named\\nin the act. The subscription books of the company were to be open two days each in\\nthe villages of Medina and Canandaigua. Thirty days notice of the time when, and\\nplace where, such books would be open, should be published in the Constitutional-\\nist or Watchtowcr. Tiie route was to be from Morenci, through Canandaigua and\\nMedina, to some point on the SouUiern Railroad in Lenawee county.\\nIn the fall of 1837 the new township furnished the State a legisl ator in the per-\\nson of Lauren Hotchkiss. The subsequent year, 1839, he was ordained to the min-\\nistry of the Baptist church, and was the pastor of the Medina church several years on\\na salary of l!ir) a year; and if times were hard, and his people could not woll pay, he", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "114 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\ndid not exact all of that. In 1840 he built a saw-mill, at what is now Tiffin, and about\\n18i4 or 4.5 a mill was built by Nathan Bassett for carding wool, and, later still, for\\nfulling, shearing, coloring and pressing clotli. Weaving and spinning were also car-\\nried on to some extent in the establishnient. About 1854, Mr. Ilotchkiss bought the\\nproperty, exchanged the machinery for flouring apparatus, and began grinding grain.\\nThe mill was afterwards the property of Morse and Christophers, and now is owned\\nby C. C. Morse Sons.\\nThis year, 1839, Medina had its first celebration of American Independence, at Can-\\nandaigua. The committee of arrangements were A. L. Downer, B. F. Hutchinson,\\nF. H. Hagaman, John McGowan, John D. Wolf, Philo Wilson, Orlando Whitney,\\nHiram Lucas, Lawrence Kheubottom, William Billings, Samuel Kies and Robert\\nSloan; president of the day, Samuel Gregg; chaplain, Rev. Mr. Bacon; orator,\\nWheeler M. Dewey readers, Philo Wilson and John M. Bird. Tliey had militia com-\\npanies in those days, and Capt. Drown and his Bean Creisk Rangers did the escort\\nduty of the day. The dinner was free, and of course ended with regular and volun-\\nteer toasts. Here is a specimen of the volunteer kind, and is given as tending to\\nshow the humble bearing of the men of those times: We, the citizens of Bean\\nCreek, unrivalled in industry, unsurpassed in virtue and morality, and unremitting in\\nour efforts to fulfill the Divine command to multiply and replenish the earth.\\nAugust 28th, 1839, one of the settlers of 1834 died. It was Cook Hotchkiss, the\\nfounder of the Baptist church of Medina, the first blacksmith and the first justice of\\nthe peace in the township. One of his neighbors said of him, lie was a consistent\\nchristian, a kind neighbor and a true friend.\\nIn 1839, Mr. Hutchinson built another addition to the Canandaigua mill, and put\\nin one run of stones. Penniman and Asliley bought this property about 1844, and in\\nthat and the following year built a new mill three stories high, 40 by 60 feet, costing\\n310,000. It was burned Nov. 19, 1856, and a few years since a small mill was built.\\nIn 1840, to 44, the villages of Medina and Canandaigua were at the height of their\\npower, gi-andeur and glory. The two villages did the most extensive milling business\\nin the Valley, if not in the county. The Medina mill alone, in 1840, floured 40,000\\nbushels of wheat, besides custom worlc, and the store of Allen Daniels Co. was the\\nmost complete in Lenawee county, outside of the village of Adrian. The original\\nmerchant of the township of Medina was a Mr. Saulsbury, at Canandaigua, in 1835.\\nlie was succeeded by Green in 1836, also at Canandaigua, and Allen Daniels Co.,.\\nat Medina, were the third in the mercantile succession.\\nIn 1841 or 42, the people of Medina township had another evidence of tlie advance\\nof the country from infancy to niaturer growth in the establishment of a distillery at\\nCanandaigua by Franklin Smith, then lately of the village of Hudson. The distillery\\ncontinued in operation for several years, and, it is said, made a very poor article of\\ncorn whisky. Mr. Smith, while there, was made Colonel in the Michigan militia, aud\\nhence derived his military title. He returned to Hudson about 1853, and for a while\\nrun the Wirts steam mill, and suddenly developed into a temperance man and as he\\nformerly aided in the manufacture of drunkards, so now his temperance views were\\nof the strictest and most uncompromising kind. After the death of liis wife, a\\ndaughter of the Rev. David Pratt, he went West and engaged in building railroads,\\nand became very wealtliy. He has since lost his only daughter, helped to bury every\\nmember of his father-in-law s family, except the old hxdy, and he now makes fi-e-\\nquent visits to Hudson to care for her. His only hate seems to be against dealers in,\\nand drinkers of intoxicating drinks, and those who aid or encourage them. In tlie\\nmanifestation of this hate, lie sometimes seems unreasonable.\\nAbout 1845 or 46, ]SIr. and Mrs. Barrows opened a select school in tlie central part of\\nthe township. They boarded tlieir pupils who came from a distance, and exercised\\nparental care over them. The school was rather under the auspices of the Congrega-\\ntional chm-ch, was largely patronized by members of that church abroad, and yvas a\\ngood school. The Congregational society at that point built a cliurch building on sec-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "MEDINA. 115\\ntion twenty-six. It was dedicated in 1849. The Rev. George Barnum was its pastor\\nfor nine years, and under his ministrations the cliurcli prospered. In 1858 and 59,\\nmany of its most substantial supporters removed from the townsliip, others trans-\\nferred their membership to tlie new eluirches at Canandaigua and Morenci, and the^\\nchurch became extinct. The building was afterwards talcen down, rebuilt at Pratt-\\nville, Hillsdale county, and re-dedicated as a Congregational church.\\nAbout the year 1844 a Methodist class was organized near the southwest corner of\\nthe township, and built a church on the west side of section thirty, but afterwards it-\\nbecame the property of the United Brethren,\\nIn the year 1844, Dr. Hamilton remo\\\\ed from Medina to Adrian. He afterwards re-\\nmoved to Tecuuiseh, where he still resides. Dr. David Brown succeeded him. Dr.\\nBrown was a son of father Elisha Brown, of Hudson. He read medicine with Dr. Ham-\\nilton in Medina, and giaduated at a Massachusetts college in the spring of 1843. Hft\\nreturned to Medina and commenced practice with his preceptor, whose removal in\\n1844 left him a large practice. He died in Medina in 1858.\\nAbout this time, also, (1844), Judson R. Hyde came to Medina, where he lived until\\nabout 1850. He married the daughter of Mr. Cornelius DeMott. Miss DeMott shouk).\\nhave been mentioned as bringing, in 1839, the first jjiano into tie township of Medina,.\\nOn leaving Medina, Mr. Hyde and family went to Hudson. He afterwards resided in\\nNew York, then in Omaha, again in Medina and Hudson, and finally again in Omaha\u00c2\u00bb\\nwhere he became the laud agent of the Union Pacific Railway Co., and there Mrs\u00c2\u00bb\\nHyde died.\\nIn 184C, a new Baptist church was built in the village of Medina. It was remodeled\\nand re-finished in 1875.\\nIn 1848, a Dutch Reformed church was organized at Canandaigua. The Rev. Mr\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nHermans preached there two years as a missionary. The church is extinct.\\nIn 1848 or 49, Chester Savage built a saw-mill on Bean Creek, in the southeasterD;\\npart of the town. Medina has liad several steam saw-mills, mention of which will bet\\nmade in this connection. Benjamin Durffe built a mill in the western part of the\\ntown, about the time under consideration, 1848 John Johnson built a mill near tlio\\nresidence of his father-in-law, Orville Woodworth, esq. Orris R. Baker, a mill on sec-\\ntion seven, in town eight south; C. II. Baldwin, a mill in Canandaigua, and George-\\nBeach a mill in Medina village.\\nAs before stated, a postoffice was established in Medina village in the spring of\\n1837. A weekly mail was received until 1840, and subsequent to that date a semi-\\nweekly mail. In 1850 the postoffice was removed to Canandaigua, and Samuel Gregg\\nappointed postmaster. A petition was sent to Washington to have the office returned\\nto Medina. No action was taken, however, until 1851, when a new postoffice was es-\\ntablislied at Medina, and Ebenezer Daniels appointed postmaster, and the two offices\\nhave existed within a mile and a half of each other until the present time. Since\\n1854 there has been a daily mail run between Clayton and Morenci, by the way of\\nMedina and Canandaigua.\\nIn 1853, the inhabitants of Medina, feeling the need of better school facilities than\\ncould be obtained in the district schools, organized a joint stock company and built-\\nan academy building, 30 by 50 feet, two stories high. Alonzo M. Carson and wife, of\\nHudson, taught the first year, and were succeeded by Mr. O. L. Spaulding, since Gei\\nO. L. Spaulding, of St. Johns, in this State. Among the instructors employed at thft-\\nOak Grove Academy, as it was named, were Prof. Edwin Cook, of Chicago; Gen. By-\\nron Cutcheon, of Manistee Prof. Swan, of Exeter, N. II. Prof. John Drake, Nevr\\nYork B. F. Boughton, Wis. Edwin B. Sayers and Henry W. Norton, of this county,\\nThe Academy was incorporated in 1872. Its students adorn every path of life, from\\nthe honorable Congressman to the independent farmer. The Hon. John Baker, mem-\\nber of Congress from Indiana, was one of its earliest students. Eleven of its student*\\nhave graduated at the various State colleges, and more than seventy-five were officers-\\nor soldiei-s in the war of the rebellion.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2116 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nIn 1853 or 54, Dr. Rufus Kibbie left Canandaigua and went to Coklwater, in this\\nestate. Dr. Todd, now of the city of Adrian, settled in Canandaigua in 1853, and re-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2mained four years, when he removal to Adrian. Dr. Chappell came in 1844,\\nand is still in practice there. Dr. Brown died in Medina, in 1858, and was succeeded\\n*y Dr. Weeds, who remained until, in 1801, he was commissioned a snrgeon in the\\nUnited States army. Dr. Jas. 8. Power succeeded Dr. Weeds, and remained until\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a21866. Dr. Ely, an eclectic, and Dr. Dodge, an allopath, are the present practitioners\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2inthe village of Medina. In addition to the physicians already named, Drs. Titus,\\nHampton and Kendall, have practiced medicine in Medina. Dr. Titus came to Me-\\nlina about 1845, and for a time was a partner of Dr. Brown. He removed to the State\\nof New York, thence to Missouri, returned to Medina in 1863, and staid one year. He\\nwas a skillful practitioner, but his intemperate habits unmanned him for business.\\nDr. Carlos G. Hampton practiced in company with Dr. Brown two or three years, and\\nafterwards, for some time, lived on a farm near the village. He removed to Texas\\na.bont 1859 or 60, but on account of Union sentiments, was driven out of the South\\nin 1861 or 63. After his return, he practiced medicine in Hudson for a time, and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2then removed to Muir, in this State. He married a daughter of Capt. Drown, of\\nMedina. His oldest son enlisted in the 18th Michigan Infantry, was taken piisoner\\n\u00c2\u00abt Athens, Ala., confined in a rebel prison, and, after exchange, was killed by the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2explosion on the steamer Sultana, in April, 1865. Dr. Kendall lived on a farm in the\\n.south part of the township, and practiced medicine for many years. He is now sell-\\ning drugs in Fayette, Ohio.\\nAbout 1858 or 59, the Methodist societies at Medina and Canandaigua built\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2churches. In 1858, a Congregationalist society was organized in Canandaigua, and\\nthe Rev. Geo. A. Nichols, a Presbyterian clergyman, preached to them one year. In\\n4859 the church was organized, and a church building erected, which was dedicated in\\n\u00c2\u00ab^uiy, 1860. The Rev. Mr. Hyde was the first pastor; he remained two years, and was\\n.succeeded by the Rev. Herman Bross. In the simmier of 1870 the society built a\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0l)rick parsonage.\\nNo township in the Valley has furnished the State so many legislators as Medina.\\nShe has furnished one Senator, Dr. Rufus Kibbie five Representatives, who served\\nan aggregate of eight terms, as follows: Lauren Hotchkiss, Ebenezer Daniels and\\nCharles A. Jewell, one term each Philo Wilson two, and Noah K. Green three terms.\\nEbenezer Daniels was a member of the constitutional convention of 1850, and Jacob\\nC. Sawyer of that of 1867. Philo Wilson served one term as county judge. Super-\\nVisors 1837 and 38, Rollin R. Hill 1839, Rufus Kibbie; 1840 and 41, Geo. W. Brower;\\nil843 to 1849, both inclusive, Noah K. Green; 1^50 and 51, Edward C. Perkins 1853,\\nNoah K. Green 1853, Edward C. Perkins 1854, Jacob C. Sawyer 18.55, John Dawes\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2185C, Carlos D. Hampton; 1857, Joseph Hagaman; 18.58, 59 and 60, Noah K. Green;\\n-1861 to 1869, both inclusive, Charles A. Jewell; 1870, 71 and 73, Chas. C. Morse; 1873,\\nEdwin Haff 1874, Chas. C. Morse; 1875, Chester R. Lyon; 1876, Chas. C. Morse.\\nBy the kindness of Mr. George W. Moore, the following list of officers and soldiers\\nfurnished by Medina to the armies of the Republic during the war of the rebellion, is\\ngiven\\n01(1 First Infantry.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, James Donaldson, Louis Heath, Wm. C. Moore.\\nNew First I?i/ajitri/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, Thomas Hannan killed, Edward P. Brown, at\\nsecond battle of Bull Run, Va., Aug. 30th, 1863.\\n.Second I?i/a7i tj y.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, Benj. F. Heydenberk, Lester Culver.\\nThird Infantry.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 T ied, J. S Weeds, at St. Louis, Mo., Jan. 15th, 1863.\\nFourth l7i/nntri/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, Harrison Hamlin, Royal Hamlin, Albert Wilbur,\\n^Tames Brogan, Geo. Donivan, Irwin P. Perry, Cyrus Millins, Chauncey Heath,\\nEdgar Heath, Thos. C. Williams, Jonathan Fink, John Townsend, Alfred Town-\\nsend, Sterling Chatfield, John C. Hotchkiss. Killed, J. S. Bailey, Malvern Hill, Va.,\\nJune 29th, 1863; L. L. Kenyon, Mai v\u00c2\u00abrn Hill, Va., July 1, 1863; W. H. Palmer, Pe-\\n;^ersburg,Va., June 14th, 1864; Henry S. Lawrence, Chancellorsville, Va., May 5th,", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "MEDINA. iiT\\n1863, Died, L. Cox, Huntsville, Ala., Feb. 22 i, 1865; E. H. Wheeler, Georgetown^\\nD. C, Aug. 29tli, 1861; Geo. W. Millins, of starvation, Andersonville, Ga., May 16th,,\\n1864; Peter Gahagan, of wounds received at Gettysburg, Pa.; Chas. Heath, New\\nYork city, March, 18a3; Moses Rose, at Fredricksbnrg, Va., May 9th, 1864; Iliranv\\nRose, at Washington, D. C, July 9th, 1864; Harvey Warn, at Libby prison, 18 V4.\\nSeue?UM\u00c2\u00bb/a7ifri/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, Lieut. James Donaldson, Horace Rice; died, Geo.\\nKnapp, Washington, D. C, 1863.\\nEleventh Infajii?*;/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, *Capt. Lewis Heath, Andrew McFarland, Peter\\nMalarny, Levi Manning, Sumner Manning, Henry Lawrence, John Osborn, Alonza-\\nKinney, Henry Spring, Ira Baker, Leroy Coats, Oliver Converse, James Culver. Geo..\\n.Savage, Marvin Wood, Henry Lewis. Killed, David Edwards, Stone River, Tenn. r\\nL. P. Wilkins, near Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 16th, 1864. Died, Horace Osborn and William*\\nSutton, in Kentucky, 1862; Geo. Peters, Nashville, Tenn., 1863.\\nfi/teentMn/rtnt?-y.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, Thomas Rooney, Timothy Creeden, John O Con-\\nnor.\\nSeventeenth Infantry. \u00e2\u0080\u0094Reimma, John Moriarty; died, Thos. McKcnney, Knox-\\nville, Tenn., Nov. 16th, 1864.\\nEighteenUi Infantry.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 RetmneA, *Capt. W. C. Moore, Lieut. C. A. Jewell, Joha\\nCreen, Andrew J. H. Gove, jr,, Ira L. Forbes, Nelson Rice, Hope Welch, Jas. Holmes\u00c2\u00bb.\\nWilliam Gunderman, Henry Clark, Freeman Gould, Benson Gray, Harlow S, Hilli-\\nker, Wm. H. Hawkins, Wm. Hughes, Frank Drown, Emmons Hyde, Samuel Both-\\nwell, Jas. Both well, Wm. Bennett, Lewis Converse, Geo. J. Johnson, Andrew J. Jew-\\nell, Warren Bennett, Wm. McCarty, Cyrus Baldwin, Allen Paulding, Chas. Barber,.\\nChas. Wheeler, Alvin Wilbur, DeWitt Garlick, Henry Emmons, Ephraim Sloan, Geo.\\nBebee (deserted) Mark Goss (now in U. S. Insane Asylum, Washington, D. C.),.\\nKilled, HenryC. Foster and Fernando Wheeler, Athens, Ala., Sept. 24th, 1864; Hen-\\nry Chatfield, near Huntsville, Ala., Nov. SSth, 1804. Died, N. Bailey, Lexington, Ky.^\\nApril 22d, 1863; Orrin S. Upton, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 1st, 1864; George W. Proper^\\nCamp Chase, Ohio, June 20th, 1865; A. W. Gould, Danville, Ky., March 7tJi, 186;V, H,.\\nOgden, Nashville, Tenn., May 13th, 1S64; Peter Hoyt and Henry Baker, Nashvilte,.\\nTenn., Nov. 20th, 1864; John Bennett and Joseph Bennett, Nashville, Tenn., 1864;\\nHerman Iligley, Stevenson, Ala., November, 1864; Joshua Kinne, Stevenson,\\nAla., Dec. 2rth, 1861; Milford Graham, Nashville, Tenn., Jan. 19th, 1864; Charles E.\\n(ireer, 1867; James II. Main, 1865, at Medina, of disease contracted in the army; Jer-\\nemiah Spring, H. II. Vancourt, James W. Bradish, Warren Upton, Frank Hampton-\\nand Seymour II. Main, April 27th, 1865, on the steamer Sultana.\\nTwenty-Tltinl Infantry.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Died, Edward M. Spaulding, Bowling Green. Ky., Feb-\\n10th, 1863.\\nSlxiy-Elghth O/iio.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, ]\\\\[artin Y. Palmer, David Palmer and Lewis Smith..\\nFifty-Second Ohio Infantry.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Killed, Horace B. Jewell, near Atlanta, Ala., July\\n19th, 1864.\\nNinth Cavalry.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Died, Robert W. Campl)ell, at Medina, of injuries received in tlLe-\\narmy.\\nEleventh Cca \u00c2\u00ab??-j/.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned *Benj. F. Ileydenberk, David Stuck, Henry Law-\\nrence, Marvin Rogers. Killed, Samuel F. Smith, supposed at Saltville, Ya., Oct. 2d^\\n1864. Died, Charles Wood, in Kentucky, 1864.\\nFouHh Battery.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles Lewis (deserted).\\nSixth Battery.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Died, Geo. A. Graham, Grand Rapids, June 9th, 1864.\\nEi{}hth Battery (DeGolyer s)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, Lieut. Edward Luce, Laban Shaw, Isaac\\nRose, Orrin Smith, Decatur Belden. Died, David Farewell, Vicksbnrg; J. Joughin,\\nMemphis, Tenn., Feb. 14th, 1865; A. Dutcher, Marietta, Tenn., Aug. 28th, 1863.\\nNinth Battery.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Killed, G. L. Baker, Atlanta, Ga., Aug. 7th, 1864. Died, Eli Ben-\\nnet, Detroit, 1864.\\nBerdan s Sharpshooters.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, E. C. Farnsworth, Edwin Cra;ner, Albert Jew-\\nell, Edwin Walton, Andrew Walton, Estel Hoag. Killed, Elbridge Jewell, at Kelley s\\n*Ke-en listed.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "118 THE BEAN CEEEK VALLEY.\\nFord, Va., Nov. 8th, 1863; Otis Higley, Gettysburg, Pa., July 3cl, 1863. Died, Simon\\nRose, Pliiladelphia, Aug. 25tli, 186;i; Eugene Smitli, Virginia, February, 1863.\\nFirst Mechanics and Engineers.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Returned, Martin Jolmson. Killed, William\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Johnson, on steamer Sultana, April 27th, 1865.\\nXI. SENECA.\\nNotwithstanding the many purchases of land in 1834 and 1835, in Seneca, cousider-\\n-\u00c2\u00abrable of her domain was Government property in the spring of 1836. During that\\nyear, purchases of Government land were made, as follows Ira L. Mills, March\\niiSth; William Camp, May 20th; James Mather, Nov. 7th; Jacob L. Roy, Sept. 26th;\\nNelson Camp and John Camp, May 20th; Augustus Ford and Robert Furman, June 1st;\\nJohn R. Willis, July 4th; Henry V. Mann, June 16th; George Packard, May 14th;\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Oliver Furman, June 20th; Samuel Jordan, February 19th John B. Norvis, July\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Mth; Josiah Randolph, May 28th; Lois Morey, January ISth; Japheth Cross,\\nMarch ITlh; John McVicker, June 1st; Gedatha Cross, June 18th; Moses Legon,\\nApril 25th; Stephen W. Powell, March 16th; William Service and Warner Wing,\\nMarch 17th; Asa Arnold, February 18th; George Dunlap, March 21st; George L.\\nChurch, March iMth; Edward Rice, April 19th; William Bancroft, Jan. 19th; Jed-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2cdiah Jessep, Jan. 25th; ElkanahBriggs, Jan. 25th; Daniel Tuttle, Feb. 6th; Edward\\nWillis, Feb. iMth.\\nWork had been commenced on the territorial road in the winter of 1834-5, and in\\n1836 was passable, but never was a good road.\\nIn the spring of 1836, Japheth Whitman settled in, or where Morenci now is, built\\n:a log building and opened a frontier store, the stock consisting of articles in the dry\\nvgoods, hardware, grocery, drug and saloon line. Some time afterwards, Wm. Sutton\\nkept a tavern in a log building, the first hotel in Seneca township.\\nFranklin Cawley came to Morenci in 1836. lie bought his land in 1850, of James\\nArmitage, of Monroe, and a large part of the village of Morenci is on the laud thus\\nfcought.\\nIn 18:^8 a postoftice was established, and ]Mr. Whitman made postmaster. Its name,\\nMorenci, was given by Mr. Simon D. Wilson.\\nIn 1841, David M. Ilaight came here and opened the second store within the terri-\\ntory denominated Seneca. Morenci, however, was but little more than a country post-\\noffice until about the year 1850, when it took a new gi-owth.\\nAlmost immediately after his coming here, in 1836, Mr. Franklin Cawley purchased\\nthe pioneer saw-mill on the Bean, about one and a half miles above the site of. Mo-\\nrenci. It had been built in 1835, by Jacob Baker and Horace Garlick. About the\\nyear 18.50, Franklin Cawley purchased the land on which Morenci is principally built,\\nand himself, Dennis Wakefield and George W. Wilson built the saw-mill, and after-\\nterward the gi-ist-mill, and also opened a store.\\nIn 18.52, there were four stores in Morenci. The original store had ceased to exist.\\nMr. Ilaight was still selling a few goods. Asa A. Kennedy and Moses S. Worth had\\n.each little stores, and the store of the mill company made the fourth. In the fall of\\ntliat year, Silas A. Scofield came to Morenci, built a building, with steam power, and\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2commenced the manufacture of furniture. He afterwards, the connnuuity seeming\\nio demand it, added planeing machinery, and extended his business in any direction\\nthe need of the place seemed to demand, sometimes to his own detriment financially.\\nMr. Scofield has been one of those useful men which every new village needs, who\\nwork hard and disinterestedly to build up the place, but who fail to amass fortunes.\\nThey are of more use in building up a place than money-lenders while they fail,\\ntlieir work remains to enrich others. But Mr. Scofield is yet a young man he has\\n.acquired a respectable fortune which, it is to be hoped, will develop into wealth.\\nIn 1854, the Hon. James P. Cawley bought the store of the mill company and com-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "SENECA.-WRIGJIT. 119\\nmenced business on his own account. He continued in business until 1860, by him-\\nself; at that time he formed a copartnership with Messrs. Rothrock Green. In 1873,\\nhaving become involved by reason of his connection with the Morenci Woolen Mill\\nCo., he was declared a bankrupt, and his estate wound up. He afterwards removed\\nto Detroit, and is now interested in the house of L. H. Dean Co., commission mer-\\nchants. Mr. Cawley is a very competent business man, a prominent member of the\\nMethodist church, and a useful member of society. For one term he represented\\nLenawee county in the State Senate.\\nAbout the same tiriie, Pegg Swindle built the tannery. It afterwards became the\\nproperty of Wilson Swindle. It was burned in 1874, but has been rebuilt.\\nAbout 1855, the Rev. John Crabbs came to Morenci and established himself here as\\na tailor. He remained in that business, preaching on Sunday a part of the time, un-\\ntil the war of the rebellion. He was commissioned chaplain in an Ohio regiment, and\\nwas stationed the most of the time with Gilmore, on the Island before Charleston,\\nSouth Carolina. Since the war, he engaged for a time in the life insurance business,\\nbut latterly has resumed his old business.\\nDavid M. Blair came to Morenci about the same time, and engaged in blacksmith-\\ning. This business he has developed, until he now has one of the finest carriage man-\\nufactories in Southern Michigan.\\nThe village of Morenci now has four chiirches, in which the Methodists, the Bap-\\ntists, the Congregationalists and the United Brethren, worship.\\nSince 1860, the village has made rapid progress, more especially since the comple-\\ntion of the Chicago Canada Southern Railway gave them railroad communication\\nwith the rest of the world. The village sensibly feels the pressure of hard times, es-\\npecially in the loss of her woolen mills, and the consequent embarrassment of some\\nof her best business men. The village, a few j ears since, became incorporated, but\\nthe hard times have prevented any great municipal improvements. The township has\\nsufficient milling privileges. Besides its original water-mill, and the Morenci mills\\nalready spoken of, it has a steam mill in the northeastern part, and the Canandaigua\\nmill, near its northwestern boundary, are easily accessible to its inhabitants.\\nIts official list is not large. It has furnished one sheriff to the coimty, Col. S. B.\\nSmith, and one Senator to the State, the Hon. James P. Cawley.\\nBesides its religious organizations, the township has a lodge of the Independent\\nOrder of Odd Fellows, a Masonic Lodge and Chapter, and a Farmers Grange.\\nThe old men and women are fast passing away. Baker, Cawley, Dr. Swaney, Mrs.\\nWilson and others, are gone. Simon D. Wilson and Elias J. Baldwin linger in feeble\\nhealth. Coomer, Wakefield and a few others, perhaps, of the settlers of 1834, are yet\\nstrong, but a few more years will have removed them all. How important, then,\\nthat some willing and competent hand, living in the township, collect more of the\\nfacts of the history of the early settlements of the township, that they may be pre-\\nserved to posterity.\\nXn. WRIGHT.\\nThe family of Mr. Russell Coman spent the winter of 1S35-G in the midst of an\\nAmerican forest, miles from any neighbors. The nearest neighbor to the north\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0ward was Mr. Whitbeck, on the town line between Medina and Hudson, aad the\\nnext, east of him ^111, the Rev. Mr. Warner. On the Hudson, or county line road,\\nthere was none nearer than Lowe s mill, and it is believed none nearer than Samuel\\nDavis, northwest corner of section thirty, Hudson. It was a lonely winter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 not even\\nIndians for neighbors.\\nMr. Michael Lickley and family settled in the northwest corner of the town in May,\\n1836. As soon as spring opened, Mr. Samuel Coman put his family in motion towards\\nthe wilds of Michigan. The party consisted of himself and wife, his son, Curtis", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "120 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nCoraaii, and wife, his daugliters, Lydia and Orpha, and sons, Samuel P., Stephen W.,\\nFrancis II. and William E. The journey from Toledo was made by team, the women\\nof the party walking nearly the entire distance. From Canandaigua they were direct-\\ned to Hudson arrived there, they took the south road and encamped at its end, on\\nthe top of the hill south of Lowe s mill. A family had lately arrived there and built\\na shanty. The boys from here went to look for Russell, and having found him tlus\\nfamily was piloted in. They arrived on the twenty-third day of June, and for a time\\nthat little cabin buzzed with life, for until anotlier cabin could be built fifteen persons\\nlived in and around that one. The covered wagon was backed up close by the cabin\\nand the boys lodged there. But so many hands made light work, and soon a second\\ncabin was ready. Curtis Coman and wife took possession, and divided the large\\nfamily.\\nBetween the arrival of Russell s family, in December, 183.5, and the arrival of the\\notlier Comans, it is believed that the following named families settled in town eight\\nsouth, one west, forming a part of the township of Wheatland before April the fifth,\\nand of the township of Pittsford subsequent to that date Royal Raymond, Joseph\\nPixley and Truman Bown. Raymond settled on the farm William Bradley now\\nowns, Joseph Pixley where the widow Root lives, and Bown where the late Timothy\\nJohnson so long lived.\\nAbout tliat time, or soon after, James Wilson commenced a settlement in town\\nnine south, and the country filled up rapidly. That is to say, the purchasers of 1835\\nfor the most part came in and built cabins on their lands. The town was densely\\ntimbered, and each cabin wa.s in the woods, no otlier house in view, and before neigh-\\nbors could be in sight acres of timber must be felled. At it they went, and before\\nwinter set in, the most of them had their door-yards clear of logs. The Comans\\nsowed one acre of wheat that fall, and from it in ISii? reaped fourteen bushels of\\nwheat. Before leaving the East, Curtis had purchased a small patent mill, for which\\nhe paid twenty-five dollars. lie now built a frame for it. In this mill he ground the\\nwheat he had raised, and the old man assured the writer he never felt so independent\\nin his life. The frame of the mill is still in existence, and is kept as a souvenir of the\\ndays of 1836.\\nThe settlers of towns eight and nine south, one west, experienced great hardships\\nduring 1836, 37 and 38. AVhen they came there in 18:36 their towns were one vast\\nwilderness, broken only by the door-yard of Russell Coman. These trees had to be\\nchopped and the timber burned before a crop could be raised. The Comans raised a\\nlittle corn among the logs, and perhaps a few others did also, but the winter of 18.36\\n.set in with gloomy prospects. The settlements to the north of them hatl not raised\\nsufficient for their own subsistence, and imported food was both dear and of poor\\nquality. The most of tlie farmers exliausted their means in the purchase of that\\nwinter s provisions, and in the spring of 1837 were entirely destitute*. The most of\\nthem had cows, and the pasturage was excellent, the only drawback being that some-\\ntimes the cows would stray and be gone several days. As illustrating the peculiar\\nhardships of pioneer life, the following incident is given. Its truthfulness is vouched\\nfor by a prominent member of tlie first family. The exact date of the occurrence is\\nnot known, and it matters not, for such a thing could have occurred in any summer\\nfrom 18.36 to 1840. Do doubt, however. It occurred soon after the advent of the family\\nto the settlement.\\nMr. Farnham s family, at the time of its arrival in tlie Valley, consisted of himself\\nand wife, two daugliters and his mother. They brought two cows, and those cows\\nwere the main dependence for nourishing the family. These cows, like other cows of\\ntlie settlement, strayed off occasionally, and to use the peculiar language of the fron-\\ntier, laid out. At one time Mr. Farnham s cows were gone several days, until,\\nindeed, the family were reduced to tlie verge of starvation. Farnham had traveled\\nmiles through the wilderness, looking in vain for his cows. At last Farnham and his\\nwife started out for another look. After several hours search, they had lost them-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "WRiGllT. 121\\nselves and were unable to find their way out. They sat down and talked the matter\\nover. They were lost in the woods, but they might as well die there as at home.\\nThey would die of starvation in either place, for they had not a mouthful of food, and\\ngaunt starvation stared them in the face and talking the matter over, they cried.\\nReader, pardon the tears none can sympathize witli tliem l)ut those who know some-\\nthing of pioneer life. But the tliought of tliat aged mother and tiiose loved daughters\\ninduced them to make another effort to find, not the cows, but themselves. While\\nthey were in the woods, hunger impelled the grandmother of the family to look about\\nfor a crust, that she might eat it and die. Rmnmaging the contents of an old trunk,\\nshe found the string ends of several pieces of dried beef. While the beef was drying\\nit had been suspended by strings down tlirougli the flesh at the small end or corner of\\nthe strips. When sufficiently dried it had been packed in this old trunk for trans-\\nportation. In using tJie beef it had been sliced off, until but little was left but the\\nstring, or as the historic Irishman would say, nothing but the string and hole, and\\ntliese strings and fag ends were allowed to remain in the trunk. The old lady gath-\\nered the pieces, chopped them very fine, soaked them soft, and then with a little salt\\nand wild herbs she succeeded in making a very savory dish of pottage, and had it just\\nready for the table when the lost cow hunters appeared at the door.\\nApril the twelfth, 18.37, the first child was born in the township,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Marion, daughter\\nof Russell and Ann Coman. Marion grew to womanhood in the township, was\\neducated in its public schools, and after teaching several years went to California,\\nwhither an elder sister had preceded her, married Mr. Harrison Dayton, and died\\nFebruary 38th, 1870, leaving three children.\\nThe Rev. William E. Warner preached the first sermon in the township on the\\noccasion of a funeral in the family of Mr. Pixley. For the early ministrations of\\nthe Word the pioneers were chiefly indebted to tlie Rev. Peter Foote, a preacher\\nof the Protestant Methodist churcli.\\nAt the township meeting of the township of Pittsford, held in the spring of 1837,\\nRussell Coman was elected a justice of the peace, and Royal Raymond was elected\\nassessor, and Calvin Pixley constable.\\nIn the winter of 1 37-8 the inhabitants met to take the preliminary action looking\\nto the organization of a township. They were unanimously of the opinion that it\\nwould be for the interest of the people to have towns eight and nine soutli organized\\ninto a separate township, and then the question naturally came up what it should be\\ncalled. The Comans and their relatives formed a large part of the voting population,\\nand these and some others were in favor of calling the township after the first family\\nsettled in the town. .Some were in favor of calling it Comansfield, and others\\nsimply Coman, but a vote decided in favor of Coman. The petition was drawn up\\nand signed, ready for transmittal to the Honorable Legislature, then in session in\\nDetroit. William K. Johnson, a man living near Lime Lake, and commonly called\\nBill Johnson, was enti-usted to carry the packet as far as Ypsilanti, and there\\nmail it.\\nAt the township meeting held in the township of Pittsford in April, 1838, Timothy\\nJohnson and Calvin Pixley, of town eight south, were elected assessors but a few\\ndays after, tliey learned that the Legislature hatl, on the sixtli day of March, organized\\ntheir township and called it Canaan. The Comans were surprised and chaginned.\\n.Some of the others laughed over the change of name. Poor Bill Johnson was charged\\nwith forgery, but he stoutly denied the impeachment. In after years it was found\\nout that his asseveration was only partly true. A niece of his did the mischief by con-\\nverting the o of Coman into an a, and forming another a on tlie last stroke of the m,\\nwith his guilty knowledge, if not by liis direction.\\nBut Coman or Canaan, it was best to accept the situation; so the inhabitants were\\nnotified, and a township meeting held on the 24th day of April, 1838, at the house of\\nSamuel Coman. Joseph Pixley was moderator, and Samuel Coman clerk. Officers\\nelected: Timothy Johnson, supervisor; Arthur Lucas, town clerk; John M-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "122 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nLiekley, Calvin Pixley and Eansom T. Crofford, justices of the peace; Royal Ray-\\nmond and William K. Johnson, assessors Ebenezer Pixley, collector; Evat Barber\\nand Ebenezer Pixley, constables; Calvin Pixley, William Bennett and Michael\\nLiekley, commissioners of highways; W. W. Johnson, Curtis Coman and Russell\\nComan, school inspectors; Joseph Pixley and Samuel Coman, directors of the poor.\\nThe justices were allotted terms as follows: Calvin Pixley, one year; Ransom T.\\nCrofford, two years, and John M. Liekley, four years. Russell Coman was elected\\njustice of the peace at the Pittsford town meeting in 1837, and as he had served one\\nyear and had three more to serve, but three justices were elected, none of them allot-\\nted the three year term.\\nThe first school in the township was in the Coman neighborhood, afterwards desig-\\nnated the Black school house, now Prattville. The township now has excellent\\nschools and school buildings. The forests have disappeared, and the township is fast\\ndeveloping into one of the finest in Hillsdale county. A large part of the township\\nhas a heavy clay soil, which only needs a generous system of underdrains to make\\nit the most desirable wheat land in Southern Michigan.\\nIt has before been remarked that tlie people of this township were largely indebted\\nto the Rev. Peter Foote for ministerial services. His earnest representations made\\nto the Protestant Methodist conference induced the sending of Father Milligan, in\\n1843, to organize a permanent work. Under his ministration many persons were con-\\nverted, and a church organized. He was succeeded by the Rev. D. C. Oaks, and then\\nother ministers followed until, for some cause, the Protestant Methodists withdrew\\nfrom the field.\\nBy act of the Legislature approved February S4th, 1844, Canaan became Wright.\\nOn the 11th day of March, 1855, a Wesleyan Methodist church was organized at the\\nschool house in district number four. The persons participating in the organization\\nwere Hiram N. Barstow, Philo H. Stroud, J. N. Wilcox, J. L. Farnham, Rev. J. B.\\nHart, Rev. C. Preston, Stephen W. Coman, Matilda Barstow, Amelia Coman, Re-\\nbecca Hart, Ann Eliza Preston. Hiram N. Barstow was appointed leader, and J. N.\\nWilcox and S. W. Coman stewards. From this beginning the Weslej^an Methodist\\ndenomination has grown into a wumerous body. They have a church at South\\nWright, and still keep up their aijpointments in district number four.\\nBut earlier than this Wesleyan organization, the Baptists organized a church in the\\nnorthwestern part of the township, at what is known as Lickley s Corners, and about\\n1855 they erected a church building.\\nThe other churches of the township are the Disciples, or Campbellites, the United\\nBrethren, at South Wright, and the Congregationalists, at Prattville.\\nSouth Wright is the elder village of the township, and has besides the three\\nchurches mentioned, a mill, two stores and a hotel. The farmers of the township\\nhave a grange organization which holds its meetings at South AVright.\\nPrattville is quite a modern village and has one mill, a store and a church.\\nThe township has furnished the county a county clerk, W. W. Brewster, and has\\ngiven the State two legislators, Hon. Russell Coman and Hon. Leonidas Hubbard.\\nIts list of supervisors has the following names: 1838, Timothy Johnson; 1839, Rus-\\nsell Coman; 1840 and 41. John M. Liekley; 1843, Tiiomas C.Sawyer; 1843, Russell\\nComan; 1844, Timothy Johnson; 1845, 46 and 47, Russell Coman; 1848, Thomas C.\\nSawyer; 1849, Timothy Johnson; 1850, .51 and 53, Sawyer B. Downer; 1853, Russell\\nComan; 1854, William W. Brewster; 18.55, IraC. Smith; 18.56, Lawrence Rheubottom;\\n1857 and 58, William W. Brewster 1859, Lawrence Rheubottom 1860 and 61, Edward\\nC.Brewster; 1863 and 63, Leonidas Hubbard; 1864 and 65, Amos W. Clark; 1866,\\nEdwin Johnson; 1S67 and 68, Leonidas Hubbard; 1869 and 70, Edward C. Brewster;\\n1871, Ambrose M. Burroughs; 1873, Jacob Shaneour; 1873, Ambrose M. Bm-roughs\\n1874, Jacob Shaneour 1875, Hial Johnson 1876, Edward C. Brewster.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "RANGE TWO WEST. 123\\nXm. RANGE TWO WEST.\\nAs announced in the introduction, slcetches of the townships of Moscow, Adams,\\nJefferson, Ransom and Amboy will now be given. They are only sketches, however,\\nand do not pretend to exhaust the subject\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the history of the early settlements\\nMOSCOW.\\nThe first settler in the township was Peter Benson, in 18:U. The second was Judge\\nLyman Blackmar, 1833; he lived in the township until his death. Next followed\\nBenjamin Fowle, Charles Fowle, Aaron Spencer, Daniel Aiken, etc. Mrs. Brown,\\nmother of Mrs. Daniel Aiken, died in 1834. That summer Delilah Blackmar taught a\\nschool in a private house. That fall a school house was built, and Seth Kempton\\ntaught the winter school. Thus much by way of resume of what has preceded.\\nReligious Societies.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Rev. Mr. Colclazer is said to have been the first\\npreacher of the gospel in the township of Moscow. But previous to this, however,\\nJudge Lyman Blackmar, then a licensed Methodist exhorter, had gathered a class on\\nMoscow Plains and held services in a small frame barn. This class was organized in\\n183.5 or 36. Only one member, Mrs. Sarah Camburn, is now living. A church build-\\ning four miles west of the village of Moscow was begun in 1853 and finished in 1854.\\nAnother class was formed, at the village of Moscow, in 1853; in 1854 they built a\\nchurch, which in 1874 was refinished, making it as good as new and adding greatly to\\nits beauty.\\nA church of the Associate Reformed Presbyterians was formed in 1838 or 39\\nand a church building was erected some two years later. They were firm be-\\nlievers in Divine decrees of election and reprobation, believed in infant baptism, and\\nwere close communion. The church became extinct by deaths and removals. Their\\ntfUilding yet stands, but is used for other purposes.\\nA Baptist organization was formed about the same time, (18.39,) but they built no\\nchurch.\\nThe JSIoscow Mills are situated on the east branch of the Kalamazoo river, one mile\\nsouth of Moscow village, on the site of the first saw mill in this part of the country,\\nbuilt by Benjamin Fowle in 1836. The saw mill was rebuilt in 1859, and a run of\\nlight stones added, which did some gi-inding. The present flouring mill was built in\\n1865, by Orrin Fowle, son of the original mill man. The water power was afterward\\nsupplemented by steam power. The engine being a W^oodbury No. 8, has of itself\\nsufficient power to drive all the machinery, therefore the mill is never idle when\\nwater is plenty it is used as a matter of economy, but usually the saw mill furnishes\\nsufficient fuel for the steam power. The mill is only a little more than a mile from\\nJerome, a station on the Detroit, Hillsdale Southwestern railroad, and with an addi-\\ntional run of stone might greatly increase its business.\\nSuPEKVisoRS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The township was organized in the spring of 1835, but the records\\nof the township meetings for the years 18a5, 36 and 37 appear to have been lost. Sub-\\nsequent years the township was represented on the board of supervisors as follows:\\n18.38, Zachariah Van Duzer; 1839. Orthnill Allen; 1840, Daniel A. Wisner; 1841, Zach-\\nariahVan Duzer; 1843, 43 and 44, Brooks Gale; 184.5, Zachariah Van Duzer; 184C,\\nOsmon B. Blackmar; 1847 and 48, Joel Moore; 1849, Zachariah Van Duzer; 1850 and\\n51, Wallace H. Godfrey; 1853, Benjamin Fowle, 18.53, Orlando C. Gale; 18.54, Benj. J.\\nKenyon; 1855, Horatio N. Rowley; 1856, Abram Ramsdell; 1857, Horatio N. Rowley;\\n1858, Henry C. Mallory; 1859, Horatio N. Rowley; 1860, Wallace H. Godfrey; 1861 and\\n63, Joel Moore; 1863, 64 and 65, Horatio N. Rowley; 1866 and 67, Albert Kenyon;\\n1868 to 73, both inclusive, Elisha C. L. Mumford 1873, 74 and 75, Parker B. Shepard\\n1876, William Armstrong.\\nThe township has furnished one judge for the bench of Hillsdale county.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "124 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nADAMS.\\nI This to\\\\vnship was settled principally through Moscow. It was for a year a part\\nof the township of Moscow, and therefore the history of the two are somewhat\\nblended. Adams was organized as a separate township in the spring of 18:36. It is\\nbelieved the following named persons were then residents: Salmon Sharp, Abijah\\nSmith, Henry N. Wilcox, Alpheus Hill, W. W. Jackson, John M. Foote, Milton Foote,\\nStephen Birdsell, William Cutler, Peter Sprowls, Henry Huff, Joseph B. Dowley,\\nLuke Bross, David Bagley, Roswell Parker, Reuben Fuller, K. J. Fuller, Nicholas\\nWorthington, John O. Swift, William C. Swift, Easton Wilbur, James Kirby, Horace\\nHitchcock, Seth Kempton, lloderick Wells, Orrin Blackmar, Benjamin :Moore, Joseph\\nW. Atard.\\nThe first township meeting was held on Monday, the fourth day of April, 1836.\\nSalmon Sharp was moderator, and Nicholas Worthington clerk. Officers elected:\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSalmon Sharp, supervisor Seth Kempton, clerk Benjamin Moore, William Cutler\\nand William W. Jackson, assessors; Nicholas Worthington, William W. Jackson and\\nEaston Wilbur, commissioners of schools; Stephen Birdsell and Joseph W. Atard,.\\ncommissioners of highways; Joseph B. Dowley and Julius O. Swift, directors of the\\npoor; Easton Wilbur, collector.\\nAt a special election held on the l:2th day of Se])tember, to elect a delegate to the\\nState convention, sixteen votes were polled.\\nIt will be perceived by scanning the list of officers elected that the people of the\\ntownship of Adams were strict constructionsits and elected officers under the Terri-\\ntorial laws, and not under the State constitution. This may account for the absence\\nof justices of the peace and school inspectors.\\nThe first mill built in tlie township was built by Swift Co., in 1837 or 38. Soon\\nafter, another mill was built, on section five. Afterwards mills were built, one at\\nNorth Adams by John Lane, one in the east part of the town by L. H. Updyke, and\\none in the south part of the town by Keruey Howe.\\nSupervisors 18:36 to 40, both inclusive, Salmon Sharp; 1841, David Bagley; 1843,\\nEthel Judd; 1843 and 14, Peter Gates; 184.5 and 46, David Bagley; 1847, Norman S.\\nSharp; 18+S, Easton Wilbur; 1849, Andrew Wade 18.50, Asa S. Edwards 1851, Nor-\\nman S. Sharp; 1852, John M. Foote; 18.53, Easton AYilbur; 1854, Peter Gates; 18.55,\\nNelson Nethaway; 1856, William Cutler; 1857, Nelson Nethaway; 18,58, Andrew-\\nWade; 18-59, Nicholas G. Vreeland 1860 and 61, James S. Fowler; 1862 and 63, Nelson\\nNethaway; 1864 to S, both inclusive, Ethel Judd; 1869, John Phillips elected, re-\\nsigned and Ethel Judd appointed to vacancy 1870 to 74, both inclusive, James Foote\\n1875, Albert Kenyon 187(), Saxton Bagley.\\nTownship Clerks:\u00e2\u0080\u0094 18:56 to 39, both inclusive, Seth Kempton; 1840, Nicholas\\nWorthington; 1841, 42 and 43, William D. Moore; 1844 to 48, both inclusive, Nelson\\nNethaway; 1849, David Bagley 18.50, W^arner Spoon er; 1851, David C. Fuller; 1853,\\nJames H. Fowler; 18.53, Nicholas G. Vreeland; 1 54, Firman Huff; 1855 and 56, Allen\\nKinney 18.57 to 61, both inclusive, Saxton S. Bagley 1862, 63 and 64, Henry Wade\\n1865, Darius J. Thompson; 1866, Saxton S. Bagley; 1867 and 68, John B. Kemp; 1869,\\nDavid M. Foote; 1870, 71 and 72, Thomas J. Nethaway; 1873 to 76, both inclusive,\\nGeorge Kinney.\\nThe first school house was built in 1838, in the district now known as number six,\\nand Mary Driscoll taught the first school. Now the township has nine school houses,\\nand the people are proud of their schools.\\nThe Methodist Episcopal church is the oldest, having an organization older than\\nthe township. The other churches are the Baptist, Congregationalist, Christian, and\\nWesleyan Methodist.\\nThe township has one hotel and one saloon, both in the village of North Adams.\\nThe village, which was nothing more than a country four corners until the comple-\\ntion of the Detroit, Hillsdale and Indiana railroad, is growing rapidly, and bids fair\\nto become a business point of some importance.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "RANGE TWO WEST. 125\\nJEFFERSON.\\nThis to\\\\vn, first named Florida, was first a part of the townsliip of Moscow, and\\nafterwards of Adams, but the Legislature of 1837 organized towns seven, eight and\\nnine south into a new township, named it Florida, and directed the first township\\nmeeting to be held at the house of William Duryea. Mr. Chauncey Leonard gives\\nthe following list as containing the names of every voter in the township at the time\\nof its organization: John Perrin, John Perrin, Jr., S. W. Perrin, J. 11. Thorn, M. B.\\nHowell, William Duryea, Peter Failing, James Bullard, R. McNeil, Jr., Rev. Jacob\\nAmbler, Chauncey Leonard, W. S. Coon, Rowland Bird, J. H. Springer, James P.\\nHowell, H. P. Adams, 11. Iladley, William Heacox, O. B. Coffin, William Green, Fred-\\nerick Duryea, II. Bullard, R. McNeal, Sr., A. McNeal, Fourtelett O. Anderson, H.\\n.Black, Perez Demmick, A. Orcutt, John M. Duryea.\\nThe township meeting was held April third, 1837, on a log near William Duryea s\\nhouse. The proceedings of that meeting, as related by Mr. Leonard, are very amus-\\ning. There was but one party, no ballots or ballot-box, and they held the caucus\\nsimultaneous with the election. They caucused among themselves as to whom it\\nwas best to have for supervisor, and having determined that point, a motion was\\nmade that he be elected, which of course was carried, the vote being vive voce, and\\nthen the same process was gone through with for each of the other offices.\\nThe official records show the following officers elected Henry P. Adams, super-\\nvisor; Chauncey Leonard, township clerk; James Ballard William Ileacox, Alonzo\\nMcNeal, assessors; John M. Duryea, collector; Horatio Hadlcy and Michael B.\\nHowell, directors of the poor; Orrin Anderson, Frederick Duryea and Robert McNeal,\\nJr. commissioners of highways Wait Chapin, William S. Coon and John Perren, Jr.,\\nschool inspectors; William Duryea, William S. Coon, Henry P. Adams and Horatio\\nHadley, justices of the peace John M. Duryea and Orrin Anderson, constables.\\nThe justice? drew terms as follows Horatio Hadley, one year; Henry P. Adams,\\ntwo years; William S. Coon, three years; William Duryea, four years.\\nA special township meeting was held on the fourth day of May to elect a supervisor,\\nand the Rev. Jacob Ambler was elected.\\nThe first school house was built on section four, in 1837, and Emeline Sears taught\\nthe first school. The first frame scliool house Avas built in district number two, in\\n1840 or 41.\\nIn 1849 the name of the township was changed to Jefferson.\\nThe township is well supplied with mills for sawing and grinding. Chauncey\\nLeonard owned a saw mill on the present site of tlie Wood mill, in 1846. The grist\\nmill was built by Wood about seventeen years ago. There are several other mills in\\nthe township.\\nSupervisors 1837, Henry P. Adams to May 4th from May 4th, Jacob Ambler 1838,\\nJacob Ambler; 1839 and 40, William Heacox; 1841, William Duryea; 1843, Chauncey\\nLeonard; 1843, William Heacox; 1844, Chauncey Leonard; 1845 and 40, James H,\\nThorn; 1847 and 4\u00c2\u00ab, Warren Thompson; 1849 and 50, James H. Thorn; 1851 and 52,\\nCharles D. Luce 1853, William Heacox lasi, James H. Thorn 1 55 and 56, Henry F.\\nSutton 1857, Moses Rumsey 1858 and 59, Henry F. Sutton 1860, Charles D. Luce\\n1861, Joseph Slaight; 1863, Silas A. Wade 1863 and 64, James Leonardson 1865, Moses\\nRumsey; 1866, 67 and 68, James Leonardson; 1869 70 and 71, Charles D. Luce; 1873,\\nMoses Rumsey 1873, James Leonardson 1874, 75 and 76, Charles D. Luce. Mr. Luce\\nhas also represented his district in the State Legislature.\\nTOWN EIGHT SOUTH, TWO WEST.\\nThe town described in the title to this section was first a part of the township of\\nMoscow, 1835, of Adams, 1836, and of Florida, 1837-40,\\nRowland Bird waa the first settler in the town, his advent to its wilds bearing date", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "123 TILE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nMarch the eighth, 1836, while the town was yet a part of Moscow, but it is fair to\\npresume the authorities of Moscow Ivuew nothing of liis coming. Mr. Bird was a\\nnative of Massachusetts. In 1833, after a sojourn in the State of New Yorlc, he came\\nto the Territory of Michigan and settled in or near Sylvania. During the Toledo war\\nhe determined to be an inhabitant of Michigan at all hazards, removed from the dis-\\nputed territory, and settled in town eight south. Mr. Bird s family consisted of his\\nwife and seven children,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 three sons and four daughters,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and a young man named\\nLeander Candee. The next family settled in the town was Orrin Cobb, on the west\\nline. Thomas Burt, family and brother, settled in 18.37 or 38 probably, as he speaks\\nof stopping over night at the Medina tavern and witli Augustus Finney at Lanesville.\\nThe Burts were English people. Thomas, when he first came to America, settled on\\nthe Mauraee river, near Perrysburgh. A few years after, he returned to England,\\nand then his wife and brother came over with him. Having sold his Ohio pos-\\nsessions, he sought a home in the wilderness of Michigan. When they came to\\nMedina, on their way in, they were penniless. Mr. Burt explained his situation and\\nwas cared for as well as though he had money. At Lanesville the same course was\\n])ursued with like results. The family carried their own provisions, and only needed\\nshelter for themselves and shelter and provender for their beasts. Near the north-\\nwest corner of Pittsford tlie family were left while the men pushed on to build a\\ncabin, and very soon they were settled on their own land. A few years later they\\nwere able to repay the wortliy landlords for their kindness.\\nThe way having been opened, the town was settled quite rapidly, and some settlers\\nfound their way into town nine south.\\nTlie first school was taught in a shanty on the northwest quarter of section eight,\\nby Lucinda Bird, in the summer of 1838. Three families sent to this school,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Orren\\nCobb, Israel S. Hodges and Rowland Bird.\\nThe same year, Mr. Bird built the first frame barn. Some of the men who helped\\nat the raising came from Jonesville for that purpose.\\nIndeed, the settlers of that town know what hardships and privations mean. One\\nof them desiring sash for the windows of his new log house, walked to Jonesville,\\nbought five sash, paid all his money, laslied the sash to his back, and returned with-\\nout having a mouthful to eat. Another man desiring some seed oats, started out,\\naccompanied by his thirteen-year-old boy, in search of some he bought three bushels\\ntliree miles west of Hudson. Two bushels were put in one bag and one bushel in the\\nother. The bags were shouldered respectively by father and son, and carried the\\nwhole distance home.\\nIn the year 1839 a child was born to Mr. and Mrs. Babcock,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the first birth in the\\ntownship. March the eighth the first death occurred. It was Allen Bird, aged six-\\nteen years. He died just three years after the arrival of the family in the town. The\\nRev. Jacob Ambler, of Osseo, preached the funeral sermon, the first sermon in the\\ntown.\\nIn March, 1840, occurred the first marriage in the territory now embraced within\\nthe limits of Ransom. Leander Candee and Miss Lorinda, eldest daughter of Mr.\\nRowland Bird. It is said to be the first because, although Miss Drake, of town nine\\nsouth had been married the year previous, yet as both towns were then Florida, and\\nthe scene of the marriage is now in Amboy, it is difficult to see how it can be credited\\nto Rowland or its successor, Ransom.\\nThe inhabitants having become numerous,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 about one hundred,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the the Legisla-\\ntiu-e of Michigan, at its session in the winter of 1840, was petitioned to organize towns\\neight and nine south into a new township. By an act approved April 1st, the town-\\nship was organized and named\\nROWLAND.\\nThe first township meeting was held on the sixth day of April, 1840, at the liouse of\\nAlexander Palmer. James IT. Babcock was moderator, and Israel S. Hodges secre-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "RANGE TWO WEST.\\n127\\ntary, (so says the record), and Rowland Bird, On-in Cobb and Rufus 11. Rathbuni\\nwere inspectors of election. Officers elected Leander Candee, supervisor Israel\\nS. Hodges, township clerk; Rowland Bird, treasurer; Matthew Armstrong and Row-\\nland Bird, assessors; Alexander Palmer, collector Matthew Armstrong, Israel S.\\nJlodges and James H. Babcock, school inspectors Joseph ifowe and William Phillips,\\ndirectors of the poor; James H. Babcock, Alexander Palmer and iJenry Cornell,\\ncommissioners of highways Rowland Bird, James if. Babcock, Matthew Armstrong\\nand jEfeury Cornell, justices of the peace; Alexander Palmer, Joseph Phillips, Amos\\nS. Drake and Alexander Findley, constables. The justices elect drew terms as fol-\\nlows: iTenry Cornell, one year; Matthew Armstrong, two years; Rowland Bird,\\nthree years and James H. Babcock, four years. The township voted live dollars\\nbounty for wolves, and one hundred and twenty-five dollars for contingent expenses.\\nOn the ninth day of April, 1840, Mrs. Candee died,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the bride of a month filled\\nthe second grave in the township. The same day her sister, Eunice, the youngest\\ndaughter of Mr. Rowland Bird, died. In the September following, the 18th day, Mr.\\nBird s youngest son died, aged six years, and on the 23d day of the same mouth Row-\\nland Bird died, aged forty-seven years.\\nIn 1839 or 40 the first school house in the township was built. It was in district\\nnumber two, near the site of the present school house. There are now eight school\\ndistricts in the township, numbered from one to nine, except there is no number four..\\nThree of these districts have brick, and five have frame school houses. The first\\nframe school house was built in district number seven in 1844.\\nIn October, 1841, the first fire occurred in the township. C. B. Shepard, then of\\nAdams, was preparing to become an inhabitant of this township. He had put up the\\nbody of a house and covered it; he hauled a load of lumber for doors and floors from\\nthe Kidder mill in the township of Ifudson. This he unloaded near the shanty he\\nhad built for a temporary shelter, and went to Adams to spend the Sunday and bring\\na load of goods on his return ]\\\\Ionday. But when he returned, his shanty and lumber\\nwere ashes. He supposed it to have been occasioned by the accidental explosion of\\nsome gunpowder he had deposited in a boiler.\\nIn 1848 began a series of skirmishing for township name, and it was not until 1850\\nthat the township had a settled name. From April 1st, 1848, to April 2d, 1849, it was\\nkjiown as Ransom from April 2d, 1849, to March 28th, 1850, it was called Bird, but\\nsince 18.50 it has uniformly been known as\\nRANSOM.\\nIn 1848 a Congregationalist church was organized, and 1855 that church built a house\\nof worship, and since that, ehxu-ches have been built, until now the Methodist Episco-\\npal and _the Seventh-Day Adventists have each one, the United Brethren two, and\\nthey are preparing to build a third.\\nDr. Lee was the first resident physician. He settled in Rowland about 1842. He\\nalso opened the first store in the township, and Ichabod Steadman kept the second,\\nor the first in Ransom village.\\nThe following comparison of the Ransom of to-day with the same territory in 1830\\nis from the pen of Samuel B. Brown, her local historian\\nIn 1836, forty years ago. Ransom was an unbroken forest,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 not one acre of cleared\\nland, but all heavy timber. Of the 19,185 acres of land in Ransom, 12,074 acres are\\nimproved, 2,111 acres are included in the highways and partial improvements, and\\n5,000 acres are wood. The improvements, including highways, average nine acres to\\nevery inhabitant of the town. Forty years ago people traveling in Ransom with a\\nteam had to cut and clear a road; to-day there are in Ransom seventy miles of high-\\nway, occupying 560 acres of land. The inhabitants of Ransom have invested in their\\nhighways a capital of $TO,400, and are expending annually $2,000 in repairing them.\\n(It is no part of this history to state whether the roads are as good as the investment", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "J 28 THE BEAN CKEEK VALLEY.\\nought to funiisli.) Forty years ago there was not a rod of fence in Ransom; to-day\\nthere are 430 miles of fence, at 50 cents a rod is S160 a mile, malting $67,300, the cost\\nof fences, not including any repairs. Forty years ago there was one dwelling house\\nin Ransom to-day there are 341. Then there was one family to-day there are 346.\\nThen there were ten inhabitants in the town; latest statistics give us 1,539. The cen-\\nsus of 1874 furnish us with items of interest, some of which we will record. In 1873\\n1,963 acres of wheat were harvested in Ransom, yielding 34,871 bushels, 13 bushels\\nper acre 1,853 acres of corn were harvested, yielding 99,660 bushels of ears, 54 bush-\\nels per acre. In 1874 there were 533 acres of apple orchards in Ransom sheep, 1,848;\\nhogs, 1,138; horses, 577; mules, 5; oxen, 46; cows, 886; wool sheared in 1873,16,079\\nlbs. pork sold, 183,.504 lbs. cheese made, 49,883 lbs. butter made, 89,580 lbs. In\\ncomparing the productions of Ransom in 1873 with the productions of Hillsdale counti^\\nin 1840, we have the following results: In 1840 JFiillsdale county produced 80,350\\nbushels of wheat; Ransom in 1873 produced 34,871 bushels of wheat. In 1840 the\\ncounty produced 82,757 bushels of corn Ransom in 1873 produced 99,660 bushels of\\ncorn. The dairy product of Hillsdale county in 1840 was worth \u00c2\u00a75,62^5; the dairy pro-\\nduct of Ransom in 1873 was 5l;31,153.75.\\nRansom furnished for the armies of the Republic, during the great rebellion, one\\nhundred and forty-three men, forty of whom were killed, or have died of wounds re-\\nceived, or disease contracted in the service. The following were among the number\\nenlisted: James Tarseney. Riley Ainsworth, Hiram Hartson, Ira Williams, Emery\\nYost, Yost, John Williams, Horace Doty, Darius Howe, Marshal Tooth. Eph-\\nraim Baker, Charles Baker, C. Button, Samuel Wheaton, William Kelley, John Dur-\\ngan, William Palmer, William Britton, Sidney Palmer, Hall, Andrew Booth,\\nHollis Hammond, Higley, Charles Coppins, Samuel Halsted, Geo. Dewey, Orrin\\nOlds, E. II. Goodrich, J. M. Bailey, William Doyle, Oscar Barnes, William Clark,\\nAmos Smith, Charles Hartson, Edgar Ainsworth, Richard Hart, James Burt, William\\nPettit. S. Bliler, John Smatts, Hiram Ilurd, H. Perkins, Chas. Olds, Capt. Hill, Wm.\\nRose, Geo. W. Van Gander, Loren Hammond, Geo. H. Cornell, John Palmer, Isaac\\nBrown, James H. Thiel, Kincade Shepardson, D. W. Litchfield, J. Schermerhorn.\\nWilliam H. Shepard, Michael Howland, Lewis Deuel, JohnCroop, Alfred Deuel, Wm.\\nLiddall, Willis Woods, Loren Whitney, John Williams, Sidney Dodge, Daniel Clem-\\nens, Sheldon Carey, Daniel Brogan, Henry Common, John C. Cooper, William Man-\\nning, John Tarseney, Thomas Plumley, George Brewster, Thomas Tarseney, Andrew\\nTarseney, Quiucy Britton, Aaron Boyer, Michael Helmick, James D. Cornell, Horace\\nGay, Warren Perham, William Mapes, Geo. Mapes, Aaron Smith, Cornelius Boing-\\nton, James Hoover, Sanuiel Kingsley, Geo. R. Palmer, Benj. S. Ward, Collins Wilcox.\\nWilliam Y oungs, T. C. Baker, Chas. Hannibal, Isaac Smith, H. Bailey, Orsamus Doty.\\nHarry Mott, David Litchfield, John Ainsworth, William H. Allen, Samuel Cressey,\\nEdwin Camp, George Casterline, Jeptha Casterline, Henry Tary, John Hosman, Geo.\\nHart, Frank Hoover, Elias Hoover, Thomas Lozier, Israel Lozier, Benj. Olds, Asahel\\nParks, Charles Parks, Frank Runell, Lewis Smith, Orville Thompson, E. W. Warner,\\nFred Olds, Jacob Rorrick, William Agnew, George W. Booth, Williani Lile, Andrew\\nCrandall, Aaron Stocker, Jonas Smith, William Young, A. Howell, W. Young, E. P.\\nBarson, George N. Sacrider, I. C. Hinds, Frank Smith.\\nAccidents.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In 1851, Mr. Featherly was killed by a falling limb while in the woods\\neast of Danforth, Bugbee s Corners. In 1860, Mr. Joles was killed by lightning. Not\\nfar from that time, old Mr. Siddle was killed while falling a tree in the southwest\\npart of the town. A young man by the name of Ward was killed by falling on to a\\npitchfork, in the south part of the town. The explosion of a steam boiler in a saw-\\nmill, on the farm of Charles Burt, in the soutlieast part of the town, in 1873, killed\\nfour, and injured a number of others.\\nBut one case of homicide has occurred. February 6th, 1876, Jacob Stevick killed\\nHorace A. Burnett. He was tried in the Hillsdale circuit coiu-t, convicted of man-\\nslaughter, and sentenced to ten years imprisonment.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "RAKGE TWO WEST. 129\\nSupervisors of Rowland: 1840, Leander Candee; 1841, Nelson Doty; 1843, Thomas\\nBurt; 1843 and 44, Nelson Doty; 1845, Israel S. Hodges; 1846 and 47, Thomas Burt.\\nRansom\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1848, Leander Candee. Bird\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1849, William Burnham, jr. Ransom\u00e2\u0080\u0094 1850,\\nThomas Burt; 1851, John J. Andridge 1852, William E. Warner 1853, Thomas Burt;\\n1854, Israel B. Norris; 1855, Jared B. Norrls; 1856 and 57, Nelson Doty; 1858, Lemuel\\nJ. Squire; 1859, Ephraim C. Turner 1860, Warren McCutcheon; 1861, Henry W. Rus-\\nsell; 1863 to 68, Warren McCutcheon; 1869 and 70, Miles G. Teachout; 1871 and Ti,\\nWarren McCutcheon; 1873 and 74, Samuel B. Brown; 1875 and 76, William II. H.\\nPettit.\\nAMBOY.\\nOnly the eastern part of this township comes within the scope of our undertaking.\\nAmos S. Drake settled in town nine south, two west, in December, 18.38. but the\\ntown settled quite rapidly.\\nIn February, 1839, Sarah N. Drake died her funeral sermon was preached by El-\\nder Stout, who, at that time, lived in the vicinity of Bird Lake. It was the first ser-\\nmon preached in that town.\\nIn December, the same year, Samuel Carl and Jane Drake were married by Mr.\\nFowler, of Camden.\\nWhen Rowland was organized, town nine soutli was attached, and shared in all the\\nmutations that township endured.\\nIn 1850, all that part of towns nine south, ranges two and three west, lying within\\nthe State of Michigan, and one tier of sections off the south side of town eight south,\\nranges two and three west, were organized into a new to^^^lship, and called Amboy.\\nNearly all the improvements have been made since that time.\\nThe grist-mill, owned by Waldron Hall, was built about thirty years ago, but\\nthere was a saw-mill there several years earlier. Besides this, there is the Higby\\nOsborn mill, the Manly or Lewis mill, and the Bryan mill. There has been a Chilson\\nmill, but it has ceased to work.\\nThere are two churches, the Baptist and Methodist, and both have neat and com-\\nmodious houses.\\nThe first township meeting was held on the 23d day of April, ISTiO, at the house of\\nAmos Drake. John King was moderator, and Gideon G. King clerk. Amos S. Drake\\nand John P. Corey were inspectors of the election. Officers elected Nathan Dewey,\\nsupervisor; Gideon G. King, clerk; Charles Clark, treasurer; Nathan Edinger, John\\nKing and Charles S. Baker, justices of the peace; Henry Prestage, John Goforth and\\nGideon F. King, commissioners of highways Charles Farley and William Drake,\\nschool inspectors; Amos S. Drake and John King, directors of the poor, and Joseph\\nPhilbrick, Charles H. Barton and Paden Marshal, constables.\\nSupervisors: 1850, Nathan S. Dewey 1851 and 53, Gideon G. King; 1853, William\\nGay; 1854, Charles S. Baker; 1855, William Gay; 1856 and 57, Gideon G. King; 1858\\nand 59, Charles Farley; 1860, Gideon F. King; 1861 and 63, William Drake; 1863 to\\n67, both inclusive. Augustus G. McClellan; 1868 and 69, William Drake; 1870, Au-\\ngustus G. McClellan; 1871 and 73, William Drake; 1873, Augustus G. McClellan;\\n1874, Augustus G. McClellan, until he died, and then William Drake; 1875, James M.\\nBaker; 1876, James Battel.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEMENT. i3i\\nSUPPLEMENT.\\nHUDSON.\\nBoots and Shoks.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the early years of this township, the articles mentioned at-\\nthe head of this article were found in all general stores, and there were several shoe^\\nmakers who made to order such articles in this line as could not be supplied from the-\\nstores; but there was no distinctively boot and shoe store until Illland and Clark R..\\nBeach came to the village, in the spring of 1849, and opened a boot and shoe house-\\nThe house first took the name of II. Beach, and has been continued by one or th\\nother of the brothers under various styles, sometimes with partners, sometimes alon\u00c2\u00a9^\\nuntil the present time it bears the name \u00c2\u00a9f C. K. Beach.\\nAlfred A. FUiney, the only child of Augustus Finney, esq., settled on a fann on-,\\n.section seven, Hudson, about the time of his marriage with Miss Harriet Kidder, eld-\\nest daughter of Iliram Kidder. Soon after the discovery of gold in California, per-\\nhaps in 1849, he went to that State. He made the journey by sail vessel, around Cape\\nHorn. Soon after his return, he established the old Elephant boot and shoe house-\\nHe served one term as justice of the peace, but the most of his time was devoted t\u00c2\u00a9f\\nhis store. He died Sept. 8th, 1871, but his business has been continued by his only\\nchild, Mr. Byron A. Finney.\\nCakkiage Manuf-actokies.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 In the early years of Hudson township, seyeraJ-\\nmen worked at wagon-building, but the first establishment that deserved the name of\\na manufactory was that began by Alexander M. Ocobock, on the present site of the\\nspoke factory, in or about the year IS. SS. Mr. Perley Chase was associated with him*\\nuntil tlie spring of 18.57, when Chase was .succeeded by Munson. The same spring,,\\ncarriage-building was abandoned by Ocobock A Munson, and they turned their at-\\ntention to the manufacture of hubs and bent work.\\nOem-ge W. Carter, in September, 18.54, came to Hudson, and commenced black-\\nsmithing. He did the ironing of carriages for Ocobock Cha.se. until, in the spring\\nof 18.57, he bought out tlieir carriage business and commenced manufacturing on his\\nown account. He yet continues the business. His original one-story wood buildings\\nhave given plaoe to large two-story brick buildings. The change was necessitated by,\\nthe increase of his business, managed with skill and care, always under his own per-\\nsonal suiwrvision.\\nThe original foundry was erected by Samuel Eddy for Loren Chapin, and It now.\\nforms a part of the Elliott House. Tlie original drug store was kept by Hall\\nWells.\\nAmong the business houses of to-day are the following: Two banks; four dry\\ngoods, eleven grocery, four hardware, four drug, two furniture, four boot and shoe\\nhouses; one hat, one tobacco, one tea and one jewelry house; tliree clothiers, two\\nbakeries; six millinery, four barber, one gun, three cooper, five blacksmith, one tailor\\nand two paint shops; one pump, one fanning mill, one tub, two carriage, one wheel-\\nbarrow manufactory; one machine shop, three planing mills, three lumber yards,,\\ntwo liveries, one saw mill, eight physicians, two dentists, eight lawyers, two artists,\\ntwo hair-dressers, four insurance offices, five saloons, three meat market;;, one butter\\nand egg store, four hotels, two book stores and two printing olWces.\\nBy the census of 1874, Hudson township had 3,937 inhabitants, of which 1,946 were\\nmales and 1,981 were females; excess of females, 3.5. Of the males, 25 were between\\nseventy-five and ninety years of age; 4:iS between forty-five and seventy-five; 60:2 be-\\ntween twenty-one and forty-five; 453 between ten and twenty-one years of age, wliile", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "132 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\n434 were under ten. Of the females, 41 were upwards of seventy-five years of age 474\\nfcetween forty and seventy-five 722 between eighteen and forty sei between ten and\\neighteen years of age, while 383 were under ten.\\nEight hundred and fifty of the males over twentj -on\u00c2\u00ab years of age were married; 51\\nv^ere widowers or divorced persons 159 had never been married, and one person only,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2under twenty-one years of age, was living in the marriage relation. Of females over\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0eighteen years of age, 824 were married; 171 widows or divorced persons; 274 had\\n\u00c2\u00abever beeii married, and 9 persons under eighteen years of age were living in the\\ninarriage relation.\\nWe had enongh marriageable maidens to mate our bachelors and 83 more, while we\\nhad maidens and widows enough to mate our bachelors and widowers, and 203 more.\\nAgainst the 451 unmarried males under twenty-one years of age, being prepared by\\ntime for the marriage state, we had only 352 females under eighteen years of age.\\nIn 1873, there were 2(5 marriages, 37 deaths and 77 births. There were 4 deaf and\\ndumb persons, 1 blind and 4 insane. Twenty-six persons were of African descent.\\nIn 1873 there were 3,470 acres of wheat and l,9:i8 acres of corn harvested. There\\nwere 3,346 acres of wheat to be liarvested in 1874.\\nIt had 614 acres of peach, pear, apple, plum and cherry orchards; 10 acres of\\nraspberry bushes 11 of strawberry vines 5 of currant and gooseberry bushes, and 30\\nacres of melons and garden vegetables.\\nIn 1873, 10,432 lbs. of wool were sheared; 288,020 lbs. of pork, 44,945 lbs. of cheese\\nand 209,502 lbs. of butter were marketed.\\nIn the same year, 42,365 bushels of wheat, 96,945 bushels of corn and 21,000 bushels\\nof other kinds of grain 35,525 bushels of apples, 71 bushels of pears, 51 bushels of\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2cherries, 27 cwt. of grapes, 27 bushels of strawberries, 35 bushels of currants and\\ngooseberries, and 463 bushels of melons and garden vegetables were harvested.\\nThere were 20,650 pounds of fruit dried; 4,380 pounds of maple sugar made; 7,.555\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2fcushels of potatoes raised; 830 barrels of cider made, and 2,586 tons of hay raised and\\n5Ut.\\nIt had 214 persons employed in its manufacturing establishments, and the amount\\nof capital invested was $ia5,500.\\nIt had only two flouring mills, with two run of stone each, and four saw mills,\\nworth $7,300, which sawed in 1873, 530,000 feet of lumber.\\nCoBRECTiONS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 As was stated in the introduction to this book, it is impossible to\\nmake it free from errors, especially in dates and in Christian names. A few have al-\\nready been discovered. That many more exist, seems very probable. There are also\\n^some typographical errors, but they are few, and easily corrected by the reader.\\nHudson: On page 84, the last clause of the eighth paragraph reads that sundry per-\\n,sons were admitted to membership on probation. It should liave read, were ad-\\n\u00c2\u00abnitted to membership on profession of faith.\\nPage 81: In second line of fourth paragraph, for Tuesday read Wednesday.\\nPage 91: Fifth paragraph, last clause, for made it, read it made.\\n3Iedina: Page 51, first line of Western Fairfield, instead of March, 1835, it per-\\nIjaps should read October, 1834, but this is a disputed point.\\nPage 52 The fourth paragraph should read, In 1835, William Cavender bought the\\nland owned by William Walworth\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the site of the Canandaigua mills\u00e2\u0080\u0094 and in the fall\\nof the same year sold it to Laban Merrick, who commenced building a saw-mill.\\nPage 112: Close of first paragraph, for Levi Daniels read Lemuel Daniels; for\\nPatrick Trumer, read Patrick Trainer; for Nathan Stone, read Nahum\\nStone.\\nRollin: The Quaker Mill was built about 1850, by Mr. William Beal. It is now\\nowned by Nelson Perkins.\\nSeneca: Page 119, at end of sixth paragraph, read and two Representatives, Dr.\\nJas. H. Swe\u00c2\u00abney and Elias J. Baldwin.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEMENT. 133*\\nTECUMSEH.\\nSince the first sections of this book were printed, S. C. Stacy, esq., editor of the Te-\\neumseh Herald, delivered an address before the Lenawee County Pioneer Society otb\\nthe early history of Tecumseh. As in some of its statements it differs from the state-.-\\nments contained in the opening sections of this book, it has been determined to give it\\nto the reader in the form of a supplement. Mr. Stacy was born and reared in that\\nvillage, and has opportunities for investigation, and is, by all odds, the best authority/\\nextant on the early history of the pioneer town:\\nIn preparing a historical paper to be reatl before the Lenawee County Pioneer Soci-\\nety to-day, it occurred to me that a detailed account of some particular event in the*\\ncounty, or of some particular locality, would be more valuable as well as more inter-\\nesting, than a general sketch covering a Jarger extent of territory and a longer period\\nof time.\\nAccordingly, we have selected for our theme tlie First Settlement of Tecumseh,\\nand we shall endeavor to faithfully portray the principal events which transpirect\\nwithin the present corporate limits of this village, from the time when the first settler\\ntrod the virgin soil of the Territory in the summer of 1823, unftl the first formal cel-\\nebration of Independence Day, on tlie 4th of July, 1826. This period will embrace the\\nfirst two years of the settlement of Tecumseh. Dm-ing this time, the civilization ofi\\nthe white man was planted in the then Far West, a village was established, severaB\\nfamilies were domiciled in their new homes, a county seat was legislated into exist-^\\nence, and Tecumseh assumed her position as an important geogi-aphical point ta\\nMichigan.\\nThe founder of Tecumseh was a worthy Quaker, of whom we have all heard before^\\nnamed Musgrove Evans. He was a native of Pennsylvania, but for several years,\\nprior to 1833 had been residing in the town of Chaumont, Jefferson county, Ncaw\\nYork. Like many other enterprising men of that day, he caught the Western fever^\\nand in the early summer of 182:3 he left his New York home to seek his fortune,\\nand came to Detroit. At this point he formed the acquaintance of Austin E. Wing,\\nwho had already been a resident of the Territory for several years, which acquaint-\\nance afterwards ripened into a strong friendship and business partnership, that Con-\\ntinued unbroken until Mr. Evans death. After obtaining from Mr. Wing what infor-\\nmation he could in regard to the most desirable locations in the interior, he started\\nout to explore the Eaisin Valley, for in that early day the valley of the Raisin was\\njustly celebrated for its beauty. Shortly before this time, this portion of Michigan\\nhad been surveyed, and the Government lands had been thrown upon the market. Of\\nthis trip by Mr. Evans but little is known, as we have neither records nor tradition to\\nenlighten us but we know the fact that the Quaker pioneer fell in love with the\\nbeautiful oak openings around Tecumseh, and the splendid hydraulic power afforded\\nby Evans Creek and the river Raisin, and resolved to make this section his future-\\nhome. Accordingly, he returned to Jefferson county, enlisted his brother-in-law, J.\\nW. Brown, and a few others, in the enterprise, and made preparation! to remove his\\nfamily West in the coming spring.\\nMr. Evans spent that winter in gathering his party together, and early in 1824 a\\ncompany of over twenty, under his guidance, left the town of Chaumont, Jefferson,\\ncounty, New York, to take vip their abode among the oak openings of the Raisin Val-\\nley, in Michigan. The journey before them was no holiday trip. In fact, they con-\\n.sumed more time and endured more privations and hardships than a like company\\nwould to-day in traveling from New Y ork to San Francisco.\\nThe party consisted of Musgrove Evans, his wife and five children. General J. W.\\nBrown, Ezra F. Blood, Peter Benson and wtfe. Turner Stetson and wife, two Ful-\\nsoms, father and son, Nathan Rathbone, Peter Low, John Borland, Curtis Page,\\nGeorge Spafford, Levi Baxter and Henry Sloate. They came up Lake Ontario to\\nLewiston, and from there to Black Rock, near Buffalo, where they remained for one", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "134 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nweek on account of the ice. In those days, steam navigation was in its infancy.\\nThere was but one steamboat on Lake Erie, and passenger tickets thereon, between\\nBlack Rock and Detroit, were $20 each. Most people traveling West were unable to\\npay the fare. The Evans party, therefore, chartered a schooner called the Erie,\\n(the same craft which subsequently went over the Falls of Niagara,) and as soon as\\nthe harbor was sufficiently clear of ice, tliey weighed anchor and set sail for Detroit.\\nNo incident particularly noteworthy occurred during the voyage, and they disem-\\nbarked in safety at Detroit during the last week in April, 1834.\\nAfter a stop of three days in Detroit, the gentlemen of the party started for Tecum-\\nseh on foot, taking with them one pony and a French boy to transport their baggage\\n-and commissary stores. They followed the St. Joe trail to Ypsilanti. This trail was\\n:a narrow track, only wide enough for one man or horse, but well beaten, being worn\\ninto the earth from three to six inches below ihe surface of the ground. There was\\nno mistaking the trail when once seen, nor was there any danger of losing it. It fol-\\nlowed a general westward course, winding about among the trees and crossing streams\\n-at fordable points. The members of the party, of course, pony and all, were com-\\npelled to travel in single file, in orthodox Indian fashion, and when drawn out in that\\n-manner they made quite an imposing caravan. From Ypsilanti they followed the\\nsame trail to Saline, and thence to the river Raisin, a mile or so north of the present\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0village of Clinton. There they crossed the river and discharged their pony, and leav-\\n-ing the trail, bore oflP in a southwesterly direction until they reached the eccentric lit-\\ntle creek which now bears Musgrove Evans name, which they followed to its junc-\\niion with the Raisin, arriving at that point in the afternoon.\\nHei e, on the spot where the Globe Mill now stands, they found two or three Indian\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0wigwams. They were deserted, but were in good enough repair to afford comfortable\\nhshelter, and in the largest of these wigwams the company passed that night. The\\nsiext morning they explored the section of coimtry adjacent to Evans Creek and the\\nRaisin, and came to the conclusion that here was the place to settle down. Three\\nOr four days were passed in this manner, and the nights were spent in the big wig-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2nvani. Finally their commissary stores having become exhausted, they left for Mon-\\nu-oe where they expected to meet the remainder of the party. They were one whole\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2day making the trip, traveling on foot. They followed an Indian trail, and arrived\\njust at night in Monroe, as hungry a set of men, probably, as Michigan has ever seen\\nbefore or since. The whole village of Monroe turned out in surprise to meet them,\\nfor it was a strange sight to witness a company of white men coming into Monroe\\nvfrom the West. Here they met the women and children of the party, who had just\\n.arrived from Detroit in a sail boat called the Fire Fly, commanded by Captain\\nHarvey.\\nAustin E. Wing met them at Monroe, and here the partnership of AVing, Evans\\nBrown was entered into, and the determination formed to secure the location of the\\n-county seat at Tecumseh. (Jen. Brown, and most of the men in the party, then went\\nback to Detroit, and thence East for their families, and while at Detroit, Gen. Brown\\nliad an interview with Gov. Cass in regard to the county seat.\\nEvans then hired about thirty men, and they proceeded to Tecumseh, cutting a\\nroad as they went along. They followed the general course of the Indian ti-ail from\\nMonroe to Tecumseh, and in due time halted at the east bank of the Raisin, about\\nithirty rods east of the present site of the Globe Mill. The river, however, was so\\nSiigh as to render it unsafe to ford it at that point, and so they followed the east bank\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2About two miles north and west, and at five o clock in the afternoon halted their wag-\\nons on the flat where the small dwelling house, barn and cooper shop, belonging to\\nthe Brownville Mill, now stands. Here the party passed that night, with a few oalc\\n*rees and the blue dome of heaven as th|jr only shelter. The next morning they com-\\nmenced work on a log house, which was soon erected. Its dimensions were twenty\\nfeet square, horizontally, and about nine feet perpendicularly. There was a low gar-\\nLtet, two logs in height above the ceiling, which was used as a bed-room for the boys", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEilENT. 135\\n\\\\.ind hired men. There was no floor, as the nearest saw-mill was at Monroe, and the\\nroof was covered with bark peeled from elm trees, and until the next November it\\nwas provided with neither chimney nor fireplace. A bake-kettle served tlie purpose\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0of aii oven for several months. For cooking purposes a fire was made on the ground,\\nthe smoke ascending through a hole in the roof. Mrs. Benson accompanied this party\\nof wwkmen to prepare meals for them. She was the first white woman in Lenawee\\n\u00c2\u00bbunl.y. In this house Evans and his wife, with five children, Peter Benson and wife,\\nand several men, lived during the summer, Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Benson preparing\\nfood for from fifteen to twenty persons daily.\\nAs soon as the house was completed, Evans returned to Monroe for his family.\\nSlaving procured ox teams, and packed their household goods and provisions (what\\nlittle they had) in rough wagons, they turned their faces once more toward the setting\\ns\\\\Va. This was a beautiful summer morning, the first day of June, 182-t. The men\\ntraveled on foot, and the women and children found it convenient to rest themselves\\nby walking apart of the distance. It was easier to walk than to ride, and just as\\ncheap. On the afternoon of the second day, June 3d, 18S1, they arrived at the Evans\\nmansion, in Brownville, and took up their abode.\\nTheir household utensils were but few, and of the rudest kind. They brought n\u00c2\u00a9\\nbedstead with them, but a bed was made in each corner of the house by sticking two\\npoles into a hole in each wall, and supporting the outer ends of the poles, where they\\ncrossed each other, with a block of wood. Thus a good bedstead was made out of two\\n-saplings, and with but a single leg. Tradition tells us that the lord of the house, Mus-\\n:gTove himself, was unceremoniously tumbled out of bed one morning by having the\\nMock, which formed the corner post, knocked from under the two saplings. They\\nhad no chairs, but used rough benches instead. In the following November a floor\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was laid, t^ chimney and an out- loor oven, and two small shanties were added to the\\ntiouse, for two other families had arrived to occupy the mansion during the ensuing\\n-winter.\\nGen. Brown returned East in July, and had brought back his wife and children, and\\niieorge Spafiford and wife had arrived. Brown brought a dozen chairs with him, and\\nsome other articles of household furniture, including a trundle-bed. During the win-\\nter of 1834-.5, this house afforded a home for Mr. Evans, his wife and six children.\\nGen. Brown, his wife and six children, Peter Benson and wife, and George Spafford\\nand wife. This log house was the first in Lenawee county, and one of the first ones\\njn Michigan, west of Monroe and Detroit. A building was made near by of tamarack\\npoles, twelve feet square and seven feet high, which was used for a school house, Mrs.\\nGeorge Spafford t\u00c2\u00abaching school there during that winter.\\nAmong the farming implements brought to the settlement by Mr. Evans, was one\\nplow. No crops were put in the first summer, except a little corn and wheat and\\nsome garden truck, as the season w^as too far advanced when the new comers arrived.\\nBut there was a man in the company, named Fulsom, who was bound to have some\\nplowing done. lie wanted to see how Michigan soil looked, for he was confident he\\ncould tell by inspection whether it would produce good crops or not. He borrowed\\nEvans plow, hitched on an ox team, and with Ei.ra F. Blood to hold the plow, turned\\nihe first furrows in the virgin soil of Lenawee county.\\nThis plowing took place on the t)ank of the creek, in the western portion of the vil-\\niage, and near the spot where A. McNeil s house now stands.\\nDuring the summer, several other families reached Tccumseh from Jefferson coun-\\nty, all of whom had been induced io come West from the representations of Mr. Ev-\\nans. In June or July, James Patchin arrived with his family, coming by the way of\\nDetroit and Monroe, as the pioneer party had done. He located two lots of land east\\nf Brownville, and built a small log house thereon, where he continued to reside for\\nmany years. This farm is now owned and occupied by Jacob G. Iloberts.\\nE. P. Champlin arrived with his family about the same time, settled on the land now\\nMowned by Elizabeth Whitney, near the Patr hin fann, and a little west. These three", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "136 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nfamilies have lonpj since been scattered, and the members thereof who lived in that\\nearly day have gone to their final home. Mrs. James Patchin continued to reside\\nhere tmtil her death, which occurred within the last five years.\\nTurner Stetson and wife came with the original Evans party, but met them at De-\\ntroit, and were persuaded by Evans and the rest to accompany them to Tecumseh.\\nStetson built a house on the bluff of the creek, near the present site of the Episcopal\\nchurch. He sowed a small patch of wheat in the fall of 1823, as also did Evans, some\\nfour acres.\\nThe first land bought of the Government was in 182.3, when Austin Wing entered\\ntwo lots, covering the Brownville mill privilege. The next land entered was in June,.\\n1834\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one lot by Stetson, extending north and west from the present depot, and the\\nnext was two lots, entered by Ezra F. Blood, in June, 18-^, about a mile southeast of\\nthe village. Upon this same farm Mr. Blood and his family still reside. He is s*ill\\nin good health, and we trust he may remain with us many years longer.\\nThe next family which arrived was that of Abner Spafford. His family came on\\nthe Erie, to Detroit, where they arrived on the 4th of July, 18 :M. One of Mr. Spaf-\\nford s daughters, Cynthia, (now Mrs. Wm. W. Tilton, who still resides in Tecumseh,)\\nremembers that celebration vividly, as it was the first time in her life that she ever\\nlieard a cannon. Soon after, Mr. Spafford, with two of his boys, started for Jlonroe\\nby land, driving eleven head of cattle, and Mrs. Spafford, with the rest of the family,,\\nfive in number, took a sail boat called the Fire Fly and proceeded to Monroe by water-\\nAfter a week s stay at Monroe, Spafford got two yoke of oxen and a lumber wagon,,\\nand AAith this rig the family started for Tecumseh. They camped out two nights, and\\non the third day anived at Musgrove Evans They located their house on the flat\\nnear the creek, a few rods north of the present depot building. Elevating the wagon-\\nbox on crotches and poles, they camped nnder it until a log house could be raised..\\nThis house, like its predecessors, was destitute of floor or chimney. They had no-\\nfloor until the 27th of November, Avhen the new saw-mill had commenced operations,,\\nand enough lumber was obtained to make one.\\nMr. Spafford s family continued to live here for many years. Two of his daughters,.\\nMrs. W. W. Tilton and Mrs. Webster, still reside here, and one son, Sumner F. Spaf-\\nford, esq., is a resident of Des Moines, Iowa. Abner Spafford s family lived in this\\nhouse two years, and then moved upon E. F. Blood s farm.\\nDuring the fall of 1824, Mr. Blood built a log house upon his farm, the gable ends\\nbeing finished with the first lumber turned out of the new saw-mill. This building^\\nstill stands on the bluff of the river, a few rods north of Mr. Blood s present dwelling\\nhouse. It is greatly dilapidated and rapidly going to decay, but is allowed to stand as-\\none of the very few remaining mementoes of the first year s settlement of Tecumseh.\\nThe same fall, an Indian trader, by the name Knaggs, built a small house on the\\nnorth side of Chicago street, upon the block east of the East Branch school, and dur-\\ning the winter of 24 and 25, that was the only place of business in Tecumseh.\\nIn July or August, Daniel Pitman and his family, consisting of a wife and two chil-\\ndren, arrived. He put up a small house on the i^resent site of Dr. Patterson s resi-\\ndence, where he lived for several years. The next sununer he erected a store on the\\nsame lot and embarked in the mercantile business. A daughter of his, Mrs. E. A.\\nTribou, still lives in Tecumseh, and James E. and Samuel Pitman live in Detroit.\\nBorland, his wife and two children, arrived the same fail, although late in the sea-\\nson, and took up their abode with Mr. Blood, upon his farm, where they lived for two\\nyears, and until Abner Spafford s family moved in. Borland then became the land-\\nlord of the Brown tavern.\\nHorace Wolcott and family came about the same time. He entered two lots north,\\nof the Evans home, in Brownville, which are now divided into several small farms,\\nand built a small log house there. The family lived there for some years. Peter Low^\\njoined the party at Buffalo. He entered a lot on Evans Creek, between Shawnee\\nstreet and the present village cemetery. He sold this lot in the fall to Jesse Osborn,.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEMENT. 137\\nand took up a part of P. Bills present farm, east of the road leading to E. F. Blood s\\npresent residence, adjoining Mr. Blood i farm.\\nJesse Osborn and family, consisting of a wife and five or six children, came in\\nduring that fall and purchased the lot of Peter Low. lie set out a large orchard on\\nthis place, afterwards known as the Hoag orchard. His house was on the bank of the\\ncreek, a few rods north of John Whitnack s present residence. A few years after\\nMr. Osborn moved to the town of Woodstock, in this county. To him belongs the\\nhonor of raising and taking to mill the first wheat that was ground in Tecumseh.\\nThe house and the old barn remained on this place many years, and we remember\\nthe fact that in our boyhood days a favorite swinnning place in the creek was behind\\nthis same old barn.\\nIn the original party which came with Evans was a Lawyer Rathbone, but as the\\npioneers were a peaceable set he had no litigation to attend to. But as there was a\\nconsiderable sickness in the new settlement a physician became a necessity. Dr.\\nOrmsby arrived in the fall of 24 and continued in practice here two years. Mr. E. F.\\nBlood had the honor of going to Detroit after his medicine chest.\\nThomas Goodrich, 8r., came that fall and located the farm now occupied by Mrs.\\nII. R. Clark, at Newberg. On the 16th of November his family, consisting of himself,\\nwife and seven children, Ira and (Jeorge Goodrich, with their families, landed at\\nMonroe and came direct to Tecumseh. Ira located a farm one mile north of New-\\nburg.\\nWe have thus enumerated (as far as we have been able to gather the dates) all the\\npersons who came to Tecumseh during 1824 with a view of a permanent settlement.\\nWhen that winter set in, the total population of the village, including men, women\\nand children, numbered about fifty.\\nWe will now take a brief retrospect to relate a few incidents of a general character.\\nDuring the sunnner of 1824 the principal business of the men in the settlement was\\nbuilding houses and cutting out roads. No crops of any .amount were put in during\\nthe season. As often as a new family arrived all liands would turn in and help put\\nup a log house. Nearly all their provisions, flour, merchandise, etc., were carted from\\nMonroe in wagons. Peter Benson, who was in the employ of Mr. Evans as his team-\\nster, did most of this work. He spent the whole summer traveling back and forth\\nbetween Monroe and Tecumseh. New pieces of road had to be cut every few days,\\nas the soil was marshy in many places and the road would soon become impassable\\nby reason of the mud.\\nThe entire stock of sugar, however, was purchased of the Indians. It was maple\\nsugar, and was put up in a vessel called a mocock. This vessel was made of bark\\nand about the size and shape of a copper boiler. A mocock of maple sugar would\\nlast a family several months. The mails came up from Monroe at intervals of a week\\nor ten days, whenever Peter Benson came over the road with a load of provisions.\\nDuring the autumn of 1824 the first saw mill was erected. A dam was thrown across\\nthe river in Brownville, which dam remains there to this day, and serves as a high-\\nway across the rivar at the paper mill. The work upon the mill was done mostly by\\nvolunteers, the same as the log houses had been raised. Slen had but little to do at\\nhome, and they were all waiting for lumber with which to finish their houses for\\nwinter. The site of the saw mill was east of the bridge across the mill-dam and south\\nof the race leading to the Heck Bros. mill. It was completed in a few weeks, and by\\nNovember was in running order. Several logs were sawed up that fall, and thus the\\nsettlers were supplied with boards with which to build floors for their houses. This\\nmill did valiant service for several years, but it finally went to decay, and the last\\ntimber of its foundation floated down the Raisin many years ago.\\nBefore Mr. Evans settled in Tecumseh, and during his stay of a few days in Mon-\\nroe, in April, 1824, a co-partnership was formed between Austin E.*Wing, Musgrove\\nEvans and Gen. Brown, by the firm name of Wing, Evans Brown, and very soon\\nafter the arrival of the parties, steps were taken to have the new settlement made a", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "138 THE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\ncounty seat. Gen. Brown stopped at Detroit on this mission when he started East for\\nhis family, paid a personal visit to Gov. Cass, and the Governor appointed a commit-\\ntee of two, consisting of C. J. Lanmon and Oliver Johnson, who visited Tecumseh\\nand approved the location. On the last of June the Legislature was in session. The\\ncommittee made their report, which was accepted and adopted. It was stipulated in\\nthe enactment that in laying out the village, the company should set apart for the\\npublic benefit four squares, viz., one for acoiui house and jail, one for a public prom-\\nenade, one for a cemetery and one for a military parade ground, and that they should\\nbuild a bridge across the River Raisin east of the village. These conditions were\\naccepted. In the meantime Wing, Evans Brown had entered the land, comprising\\nthe present village east of Railroad street, and extending north to the Brovvnville\\nmill. Upon this tract of land the original plat of the village was made.\\nMusgrove Evans himself, who was a surveyor, laid out the village plat during the\\nsummer of 1821. The original plat embraced the territory bounded east by Wyan-\\ndotte street, south by Killbuck street, west by the present railroad and the section\\nline running directly north from the present depot, and north by a line about ten rods\\nnorth of the street leading east from Brownville across the river. All of the territory\\nwest of the railroatl has been attached to the village by subsequent additions. The\\ncemetery square was located on the corner of Ottawa and Killbuck streets, the mili-\\ntary square on Shawnee sti-eet, the court house and park squares on the west side of\\nMauinee street, and upon either side of Chicago street. The cemetery square has\\nlong since ceased to be used for that purpose, but the village still improves it as pub-\\nlic property. The park square has been turned over to the school district, and upon\\nthat the East Branch School now stands. The court house square, opposite, is still\\nvillage property, but the building itself has been moved one block further east, and is\\nnow used by S. P. Hosmer as a tool handle factory. Time upsets all things. The\\nfirst court house in the county is deserted by sheriffs, lawyers and judges, and given\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0over to the manufacture of hickory tool handles.\\nBut this talk is a digression. Returning to our task, let us trace the history of our\\nvillage through 1825. During that year but few new settlers presented themselves\\nbut many new buildings were erected and substantial improvements made. Among\\nthe arrivals were Curtis Page and William W. Tilton, two practical carpenters. Mr.\\nTilton came in June, 182.5, and he was the man who cut the two small fields of wheat\\nsown by Stetson and Evans the fall before. Soon after, he and Page hired out to\\nDaniel Pitman, and were employed several weeks in building his new store upon his\\nlot at the corner of Chicago and Ottawa streets\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dr. Patterson s present lot. In the\\niall Mr. Pitman opened his store, and continued in mercantile business there for sev-\\neral years.\\nThomas Griswold, wife and tour children arrived in July, 1825. He entered two\\nJots about a mile north of Wolcotts, on the present Clinton road. The family lived\\nwith Evans until November and then moved upon their farm.\\nIn the spring of this year Gen. Brown commenced the erection of a large frame\\ntavern on the southeast corner of Maumee and Chicago streets, the present site of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0George W. Frasier s house. The house was occupied during the summer, and was\\nkept as a public house for ten or twelve years, when it burned down. At the time it\\nburned, it was known as the Green Tavern.\\nOn the 30th day of July, a child of Musgrove Evans, little Charley, aged about three\\nyears, was drowned in the river, near his father s house in Brownville.\\nGeorge Griswold, who lives in this township, was with Charley when the accident\\nhappened. George was four years old. The two boys went down to the river bank\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2tlirectly east of the present mill cooper shop to play, and while there Charley walked\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0out on a plank which had been placed to stand on while dipping up water, aud tell\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0oft into the river. George shouted for his mother, but before any one arrived Charley\\nwas drowned.\\nCol. Hickson and family arrived the same fall, and took up their abode in the build-", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": "SUPPLEMENT.\\ning owned by the Indian trader, Knaggs. They lived in Tecumseh a few years, and\\nafterwards moved on a farm just north of Clinton, where Mrs. Hickson still resides,\\nin a hale and happy old age. Theodore Bissell arrived the same summer, remained\\nover one winter, and then returned East In 1827 he came back and settled here.\\nThe first religious service held here was in the summer of 1835, and was conducted\\nt)y Kev. Noah M. Wells, then pastor of the First Presbyterian Church of Detroit. He\\nformerly resided in New York, and Mrs. Gen. Brown was a member of his church\\nthere. He came over to Tecumseh to pay the General s family a visit, and as he re-\\nmained in town one Sabbath, a meeting was held in Brown s tavern, and Mr. Wells\\npreached the sermon.\\nIn the fall. Rev. Mr. Baclmian, a 3Iethodist, commenced preaching here and con-\\ntinued regularly every two weeks for three or four years, Tecumseh being the\\nprincipal point in his circuit. He received the magnificent salary of $100 per year.\\nThese services were held at first in the school house and afterwards in the court\\nhouse.\\nDuring the season of 1835, the settlers were hard at work breaking up the land,\\ntilling and harvesting their crops. A large amount of wheat was sown that fall. It\\nwas in the fall and winter of tliis year tiiat Wing, Evans Brovpn started the project\\nof a new grist mill. The first winter (1834-5) had been a very mild one, but the second\\none (1825-6) was colder, and there was some good sleighing. At this time a sleigh\\nride was got up to Benjamin s tavern, ten miles this side of Monroe. There were\\ntwo loads of seven persons. One load contained Theodore Bissell, Horace Wolcott,\\nand five young ladies, from fifteen to thirty years old. They were the only single\\nladies of a marriageable age then living in Tecumseh.\\nThe other load contained Dr. Ormsby, Cousin George Spafford, and five married\\nladies. As there were but two strings of bells in the county, each load appropriated\\none string. The husbands of the married ladies had previously gone to Monroe to\\npurchase provisions, and after the two sleigh loads arrived at Benjamin s, the five\\nhusbands stopped on their return home, and very iniexpectedly found their wives\\nthere. The occurrence produced much merriment, and was tlie theme of gossip in\\nthe village for some time afterwards.\\nIn the fall of 35 or spring of 36, Borland made a party at his house on the Blood\\nfarm. Gen. Brown hitched up Evans lumber wagon, put a long board across, and\\npicked up a load of ladies to take to the party. Going home the wagon reach came\\napart, the board dropped down, and the women were tumbled into the ditch. Mrs.\\nDaniel Hickson was one of the heroines of this accident.\\nIn the fall of 35 a small frame school house was built on the north side of Chicago\\nstreet where the old Michigan House was afterwards erected, the present site of S. B.\\nTerry s residence and in the ensuing winter, George Taylor, father of Mrs. James\\nPencil, of this village, taught the first regular term of school, in the new building.\\nThe first white male child born in the county was George W. Goodrich, who now\\nlives in the township of Clinton. The next child, or rather children, were twins, and\\nMrs. Peter Low was the happy mother. Peter Low was an uncle of Justus Low,\\nwho now lives in Ridgeway.\\nIn the spring of 36, Evans commenced the building of a large frame house on the\\ncorner of Oneida and Chicago streets, and by the ith of July, in that year, the frame\\nwas up and roof on, and it was used for the celebration. This house yet stands and\\nis used by Peter R. Adams, Esq., as his residence.\\nThis spring the grist mill, which had been started the previous fall, was completed.\\nThe mill was placed east of the Brownville dam, opposite the river from the saw mill,\\nabout where the paper mill is now located. But the project came near being a failure\\nfor lack of mill stones. Fortune, however, favors the brave. About a mile or so\\nnortheast was found a huge boulder of pure granite. With drill and wedges\u00e2\u0080\u0094 for\\nthey had no powder\u00e2\u0080\u0094 two large slabs were split off and worked into suitable size to\\nanswejr tlie purpose. Along In June, when the mill was nearly finished, Jesse Osbom", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "140 TILE BEAN CREEK VALLEY.\\nand Gen. Brown, in a bantering way, pledged each other, the one to furnish new\\nwheat and the other to grind it on the 4th of July. They kept their word. Jesse\\nOsborn harvested his wheat on ground north and east of Judge Stacy s present house,\\nthreshed it with a flail, took a grist to- the new mill on the morning of the 4th, and\\nfrom flour made that morning Mrs. Brown made some cake and biscuit, which were\\nused at the celebration dinner in the afternoon. Sylvanus Blackmar was the miller\\nwho ground this grist, and to him belongs tlie honor of having ground the first flour\\never manufactured in Lenawee county.\\nAnother version is that Thomas Griswold ground the first giist. Blackmar was the\\nregular miller, and Griswold worked in the mill. It is quite likely, therefore, that\\nboth of them had a hand in the hopper.\\nFor several days prior to July 4th, 18 26, arrangements were making for an exten-\\nsive celebration. About noon a procession formed at Brown s tavern. Daniel Pitman\\nwas marshal of the day, and rode on a small bald-faced pony. Brass bands were not\\nplenty in those days, but music of some kind was necessary, so they got a French\\nfiddler from Monroe, and that Frenchman with his fiddle constituted the band.\\nAfter forming the procession it was marched to Evans new house, three blocks up\\nChicago street, where the exercises were held. During the march, one string of the\\nFrenchman s fiddle broke, and the band cried out, Stop the procession. The mar-\\nshal, however, kept the procession moving, but the music after that was rather\\ndemoralized. Arriving at Evan s house, the speaking of the day was gone through\\nwith and then the company dispersed. Some of the men returned to Brown s tavern\\nfor their dinner, and others, with the ladies of the village, made some tables in Pit-\\nman s jard, on the corner opposite Evans new house, and enjoyed a picnic dinner..\\n:Mrs. Brown had some cake and biscuit there made from the new flour ground that\\nmorning.\\nCynthia Spafford, now Mrs. Tilton, was living in Pitman s family at that time, and\\nshe considers that meal was one of the best and most enjoyable picnic dinners she\\nhas ever partaken of from that day to this.\\nThe first two years of pioneer life in Tecumseh were filled with many privations\\nand trials. 3Iany illustrations of this we have given, and many more will never be\\nrecorded.\\nAn anecdote is told of Capt. Merritt, an early resident, which shows the feeling of\\nthe early settlers. Meeting a friend one day in Monroe, he was asked where he lived.\\nIn Tecumseh, said he. And where is that? It is thirty miles from Monroe,\\nhe replied, and forty miles beyond God s Blessing. Those of us who have come\\nup with the present generation have but a faint idea of the privations and struggles\\nthat the pioneers endured who laid on the banks of the Raisin the foundation of the\\nvillage of Teciunseh.\\nOur allotted task is done, and upon this glorious fourth of 182C, we drop the curtain\\nof our history for the present.\\nGen. Brown, Mr. and Mrs. Tilton, E. F. Blood, Mrs. Ilickson, Sumner Spafford,\\nSam and James Pitman, and perhaps a few others, are the only persons now living\\nwho can remember with any distinctiveness the events of those far off days, and\\nthose few persons are rapidly passing away. Peter Benson lives near Grand Trav-\\nerse, and Mrs. Knaggs, his sister, is living in Monroe. We trust some abler pen may\\nhereafter take up the thread of our narrative where we have left it, and rescue the\\nevents of tlie subsequent five or ten years from the oblivion which now threatens\\nthem.", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nPage.\\nADA3IS.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Settlers Tovto Meeting, 1836; Mills; Schools; Churches; Officers, 124\\nAMBOY.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Early Settlement; Death; Sermon; Marriage; Organization: Mills*\\nChurches; Supervisors, 139\\nHUDSON.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hudson Kidder and Toung enter land Charles Ames and Thomas\\nPennock enter land, -------22\\nHouse built by Hiram Kidder, 23\\nKidder s family arrive, 2i\\nAmes and party arrive at Kidder s house, 35\\nOliver Purchase and VanGauder arrive, 26\\nLands purchased in 1833,\\nAnecdotes of early times, -------.gg\\nReuben Davis settled on the Creek, 32\\nWork on Kidder s race begun The Lanes buy out Davis and commence amill, 33\\nThe village of Lenawee platted; Worden s grocery; Mill finished; Lane s\\nfamily; VanAkin and Davenport arrive, 3a\\nLand purchased in 1834, gg\\nSilas iCaton b obituary, --------37\\nLane s mill; Sugar making; Cressey s settlement; TheDillons arrive First\\nmarriage, -48\\nMrs. Davis Store opened Religious meeting, 49\\nRev. Wolcott preached Land purchasers, 1835 Presbyterian church Wedding, 50\\nTownship meeting; Marriage; Postofflce; Rev. David Pratt; Oakley Stuck\\nCobb School School house Wheat harvested Great Bend project, 65\\nDavid Tucker; Lands piu-chased, qq\\nOriginal saw mill Harvey Anderson, 57\\nInternal Improvement Act; The three routes; Finney s visit to Monroe;\\nRoad located, ---------68\\nHard times; Banks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Chartered and Wildcat, gg\\nAnecdotes Dr. Hall Anderson Col vin Silas Eaton C. H. H. M. Boies, 72\\nD. P. Hannah; J. C. Hogaboam; Railroad bridges; Drs. Baldwin Romyne;\\nW. H. Johnson; J. M. Osborn; Campaign, 1840, 73\\nGloomy times; Railroad appropriations; New school houses; New store\\nbuilding William Baker opens a store, 74\\nHarder times Proceeds of road pledged for iron, -^5\\nRailroad completed Station changes Lorenao Palmer J. M. Johnson Fires, 76\\nThe Old Corner Store Exchange Bank Another grist mill project, 77\\nHulburd mill; Stock store; Spoke factory, 7g\\nTannery Newspapers, r^g\\nCrime\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. W. Treadwell, gy\\nBank Robbery, ^l\\nTreadwell captiu-ed, tried, escaped with Cowell, \u00c2\u00a72\\nBody found; Cowell arrested, tried, convicted, hung; Organizations\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Congre-\\ngational church, ---------S3\\nMethodist Episcopal, gg\\nThe Baptists, 92\\nRoman Catholic Other churches Schools, 94\\nBenevolent orders Odd Fellows, 95\\nFree Masons Official register, eg", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nAgricultural Society; Village plats and government; Claj-ton, 97\\nNecrology, 98\\nSupplement\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Business houses Census of 1874, 131\\nCorrections, 132\\nJEFFERSON.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Florida First town meeting List of voters Officers, 125\\nIJiNAWEECOUNTY.-County laid out; Attached to Monroe, 9\\nTecumseh settled Platted, U\\nSeat of justice established; Saw mill built; rostoffice established Osborn s\\nplows, ..--.-.-..12\\nTecumseh school house; Blissfield settled, is\\nTecumseh grist mill Celebration Adrian settled Saw mill built, 14\\nCounty organized Divided into townships; Township of Blissfield organ-\\nized Weddings Township of Logan organized, 15\\nAdrian platted; Its first celebration, 16\\nKedzie. of Blissfield, died Adrian postoffice established. 17\\nBlack Hawk War, 18\\nNew townships organized LaPlaisance Bay road surveyed, 19\\nChange in townships Lenawee organized, 83\\nStacy s article on Tecumseh, 133\\nMEDINA.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Exploration of Gregg s party, 33\\nThe Upton settlement, 1834; A race for a farm; The original log house;\\nKnapp s better house, 40\\nLand purchasers of 1834; A more exciting race, 41\\nTavern opened Land purchasers, 51\\nFirst sermon Dr. Hamilton Kev. Warner, 53\\nFirst mill finished; Hard times; Marriages and births, no\\nTeniperance lecture; Schools; Churches; Town organized; Proclamation;\\nVoters resident, m\\nTown meeting; Hotel, 113\\nThe dead Indian; Churches; Mills; Plats; Railroad, 113\\nCarding; Celebration; Death; Mills; Distillery, 114\\nBarrow s School Churches ^lills Postofiice Academy, 115\\nPhysicians; Churches; Official list; Soldiers, lift\\nSoldiers, 117\\nCorrections, 132\\nMICHIGAN.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Derivation of the word; Visit of the Jesuits, 1641 Father Mar-\\nquette s mission Detroit founded, 1701 Ceded to England A part of the\\nProvince of Quebec Indian incursions organized Surrender to United\\nStates, 1796; Wayne county organized State of Ohio organized; Boun-\\ndary line, 7\\nTerritory of Michigan organized; Hull, Governor; Treaty with Chippewas,\\nOttawas, etc. Surrender to the British Evacuated by the British Wayne\\ncounty re-organized Monroe county organized; Township of Monroe or-\\nganized, S\\nTreaty with the Chippewas, of Saginaw; jSfanroe survey; Treaty of Chicago;\\nBoundaries of Lenaw^ee county defined, 9\\nThe Surveyor General s report on Michigan, 10\\nLenawee county organized; Townships organized, 15\\nTownships of Lenawee and Fairfield organized, .32\\nTownships of Rollin, Wheatland and Moscow organized, 46\\nTownships of Hudson, Seneca, Woodstock, Pittsford and .\\\\dams organized, 64\\nMOSCOW.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter Benson settled Lands purchased in 1833, 27\\nFirst school; School house; Townsliip organized, 43\\nChurches: Mills; Officers, 123", "height": "3179", "width": "1919", "jp2-path": "beancreekvalley00hoga_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "INDEX.\\nPITTSFORD.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles Ames entered land, 22^\\nAmeses and Pratt settle, --------26\\nLands purchased in 1833, 27\\nCharley Pratt lost; Pcnnock lost, 31\\nSylvanusandRufusEstes, and Jesse Smith and family arrive, 33\\nThe Wordens and Days arrive, ------.34,\\nLands purchased in 1834 Wedding, 36\\nPurchases of 1835, Vi\\nDeaths; Orchard set; Organization; Col vin s grocery; Chief clerk, 56\\nIndian burial Colvin s whisky, -------57\\nThe Dutchman and the ague Hunting adventure Griswold s arrival Keene\\nplatted, 58\\nTown meeting, 1836 Officers elected, 1836 and 37; Marriage license, 106\\nOfficial register, 1838 and 39; Indians removed, 107\\nOfficial list; Liquor license; Necrology, los\\nRANSOM.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First settlers Other settlers; Schools; Hard times; Births; Death;\\nSermon, -_......_. 126\\nRowland; Town meeting; Marriage; Death; Accidents; Change of names;\\nLee Comparative statement, 137\\nSoldiers; Accidents, isg\\nSupervisors, 129\\nROLLIN.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 First land entered, 23\\nSettlement, 23\\nLands purchased in 18:53, 27\\n18.34; Marriage and death, 43\\nTownship organized; First township meeting, 4q\\nDr. Hall, Daniel and William Rhodes aiTive Work on mill commenced\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nPostoffice established; First attempt at selling whisky, 47\\nLand purchases of 18.35, 4^\\nSecond town meeting Mill Baptist church, 99\\nGrist-mill; 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