{"1": {"fulltext": "Author\\nTitle\\nImprint.\\nJ 47373-2 OPO", "height": "3628", "width": "2577", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3241", "width": "2509", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "HISTORY\\nOF THE\\nC ^/v^.J^.y^_\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\\nCITY OF ADRIAN,\\nAND THE SETTLEMENT OF\\nLENAWEE COUNTY,\\nFROM THE YEAR 1824 TO THE PRESENT TIME. DETAILS OF ALL THE IMPORTANT\\nEVENTS, GIVING DATES AND GRAPHIC STATEMENTS.\\n^^LSO\\nA COMPLETE COMPILATION\\nOF THE\\nPRESENT MOST IMPORTANT INTERESTS OF THE CITY.\\nADRIAN\\nLENAWEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN,\\n1874.", "height": "3283", "width": "2551", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "CRANE LIVESAY,\\nII\\nlES,\\nCor. Main and Maumee Sis., Adrian, Mich.\\nSr 131 0^s jM j^\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J\\n^ittc ioUct ^mp, fmn) ^uiiv aiul itootli gvtiohco,\\nPERFUMERY AND FANCY TOILET ARTICLES.\\nThe Cheapest and Best Perfumery is our\\nBLACK BOTTLE COLOGNE.\\nPAINTS, OILS, VARNISH, DYE STUFFS,\\nGLASS, PUTTY, CARBON OIL, c., c.\\nOUR HEAVE CURE,\\nAcknowledged to be the BEST REMEDY EVER USED IJ{ THE COUJ^TRT. It never fails\\nto permrtneivtly cure the ivorst case of heaves. We can refer to a number of\\npersons who have tided it. We warrant a cure every time.\\nADRL\\\\N. Sept. 25, 1874. CT^/^A-ICTE C IL.Z^ES^^ 2", "height": "3236", "width": "2327", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "HISTORY\\nOF THE\\nCITY OF ADRIAN,\\nAND THE SETTLEMENT OF\\nLENAWEE COUNTY,\\nFUOM THE YEAR 1824 TO THE PRESENT TIMK DETAILS OF ALL THE IMPORTANT\\nEVENTS, GIVING DATES AND GRAPHIC STATEMENTS,\\nJLLSO\\nif\\nA COMPLETE COMPILATION\\nOF THE\\nPRESENT MOST IMPORTANT INTERESTS OF THE CITY.\\nADRIAN: ^-^t^.r\\nLENAWEE COUNTY, MICHIGAN.\\n1874.", "height": "3283", "width": "2551", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "Entered according to Act of C ngress, in the year 1874, by Wilh enn A. Whitney, in the office \u00c2\u00abf the Lihrarinn\\nof Congress, at Wa\u00c2\u00bbhxnglon.\\nADRIAN, MICH.\\nCompiled and Arranged by, AfiHIAN, MICH\\nRICHARD 1. BONNER,\\nPKfSTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE DAILY PRF.SS.\\n1874.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "the: siim[pil.\u00c2\u00a3:st.\\nIVIOST DXJFIABLE,\\n5IJ\\ne=5fe:58=^e=sez^e;;:; g=Sfe^e=^tr:3\\nISf IW f 11\\nJ^G-EIDTTS ^AT J^ IsT T E ID\\nWE KH]:i A FULL ASS( )HI .MKM OF\\nFOR LADIES AND CHILDEEN S GARMENTS.\\nOSB.ce, 25 Maumee Street,\\nB. VANDEMARK,\\nGENERAL AGENT.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "M\\nJytSP\\ncs\\nim^\\nZ*. i ALSO A FULL STOCK OF\\nShirting, Flannels, Blankets, Tickings,\\nDenims, Table Linen, Gloves and Hosiery,\\nAlwars on hand\\n^,yi* Kept M^rjseb J?oj}w irrrs rss Tixms,\\ne being eoiuu ctcd witli tlic (jreat Dry Goods House of\\nToledo, (Frc l. Eaton tt Co.,) \\\\vi arc enabled to give bargains and\\njob lots to our customers tliat no other house in Southern Mieliig; u\\nare able to do. A r( sideut buyer in Xew York, and t\u00c2\u00abo in\\nToledo, are always on the look-out f()r bargains to fill their FOUR\\nlarge store.s. JJe sure and see us before purchasing your winter\\ngoods.\\nJAMES A. EATON CO.\\nNext to Post Office. ADRIAN, MICH.\\nhZt\\na^lV^:^^ S^JF .^^t3-t:i\\nJames A. Eaton 8u Co.,\\nTHE POPULAR\\nmi\\nARE CONSTANTLY RECEIVING\\nNEW AND CHOICE STYLES OF\\nDRESS GOODS,\\ne XI ii. T^ Xa e\\nPANT GOODS, TIES, RUSHING,\\n2\\nZJ", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "PREFACE.\\n)N presenting this Work to the Public, it is our intention to give as correct a history as possible of\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0)Adrian, and Lenawee County from its earliest settlement up to the present time. At the same time\\nwe propose to further add to its v^alue by giving a complete list of the important business interests of the city\\nin the form of Business Cards and Advertisements, which will be found of great importance and convenience to\\nevery citizen of Lenawee County.\\nLTsefulness rather than any other object, has been our aim in the prc})aration of this Book, and as it is\\nintended for gratuitous circulation, we believe it will i rove a work of great benefit and importance to the\\ncommunity.\\nBesides the very interesting and valuable statistics and sketches of the early settlement and progress of the\\ncity and county, which will be highly prized and treasured by a majority of our citizens, the business notices\\nwill also be found of great importance, as an index to the best and most reliable dealers in all the commodities\\nin which the community may be in want. It will be found a comjilete reflex of our important business\\ninterests, as we have been careful in our compilation to solicit only the best ai;d most reliable firms and\\nbusiness men.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "OUR SCHOOL PRIVILIGES.\\n^^HE above cut is an accurate picture of our Central School Building. This is, without doubt, the finest Union\\nSchool building in ilichigan, and was built at a cost of about ?1()0,000. The building contains more than\\n1,000,000 brick, beside the large amount of stone used in its construction, and is supplied with all the most modern\\nand approved apparatus for heating, ventilation, etc.; while the seats, desks and furniture are the most comfortable and\\nbest in use. We have no hesitancy in saying that our Union School stands at the head of all similar schools in the\\nWest, the graduates being admitted into the University without question or examination. Besides the Central\\nbuilding, we have four large brick school buildings located in the different wards of the city, for the accommodation of\\npupils. The number of school children in the city between the ages of five and twenty years, is something over 2,900\\nThe School Library contains 1,400 volumes.\\nThe Adrian College is also a thriving institution, with a Faculty equal to any in the West. The buildings, four\\nin number, are all of brick, very large and commodious, and perfectly adapted to the purpose. They are located on\\na most commanding eminence in the west city limits, overlooking the entire city. No better or healthier locality can\\nbe found in Michigan.\\nPei-sons having children to educate can do no better than come to Adrian for that purpose, as we possess all the\\nadvantages that any person could wish for. The very best of schools of all kinds, the healthiest city in the West,\\nfine churches of all denomination.?, and as intelligent, thrifty and law abiding citizens as can be found.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "ADRIAN;\\nITS VERY EARLIEST HISTORY,\\nThe folloiving Facts, Dates, Reminiscences and Events, we have gathered from, the very oldest\\nSettlei s in the County, some of whom have ivritten their recollections for puhli-\\ncation. We believe these statements are as reliable as can\\nnow be had of the very earliest days of\\nthe settlement of Lena-\\nwee County:\\n.J^I^EPTEMBTCR 7th, 1825, Adaison J. Comstock piircliased of the United States, 480 acres of land\\nK^jtggJow which the greater part of Adrian now stands. Mr. Comstock afterwards returned to tlie State of\\nNew York, and was married to Miss Sarah S. Dean, February 14th, 1826, when the same spring\\nhe returned to Miciiigan with his wife, and stopped at the Valley with his father, until he could build a log\\nhouse, ou the same ground where Mrs. Chloe Jones now lives, on the bank of the river. He also built another\\nlog house for his hired man, John Gilford, which was located, unfortunately, in the street, directly in front of\\nwhere tne Gibson House now stands.\\nJune 28th, 1826, Mr. John Gilford purchased from the United States eighty acres of land, lying in the\\npresent Second Ward. Mr. Gilford, with his family, moved into the house built for him, by Mr. Comstojk, on\\nthe 10 ;h day of August, 1826. A few days latter Mr. Comstock and wife occupied their new house; hence it\\nis that Mrs. Gilford claims to be the first female resident of Adrian, which is true by a few days. Mrs. Gilford\\nis now living in St. Joseph County, this State. Her husband die 1 in Adrian about as early as 1829 or 30.\\nDecember 26th, 1826, Elias Dennis purchased of the United States the eighty acres of land known for a\\nlong time as the Dennis property, and at a later date sold by the heirs to L. G. and A. S. Berry, who platted\\nthe same, and it is now known as L. G. and A. S. Berry s Southern Addition to Adrian. This same year I\\\\Ir.\\nA. J. Comstock built a saw mill near the one now owned by Mrs. Mandeville.\\nNoah Norton came to Michigan in the employ of Darius Comstock, in the year 1826, and stojiped at the\\nValley. In the year 1827 he came to what is now Adrian, and built a house on land now owned by the Wells\\nestate, just east of the Gibson Hou^e. The only one of the family now left in this vicinity is Mrs.\\nGeorge Ward, the old gentlerjan having emigrated to California whe-e he died.\\n*b", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "FIRST ELECTION OF TOWN OFFICERS.\\nAt a township meeting, held at Darius Corastock s, in the township of Logan, County of Lenawee, and\\nTerritory of Micliigan, on the twenty-eighth day of May, A. D 1827, pursuant to the act, the following persons\\nwere elected for township officers:\\nElias Dennis, for Moderator of said meeting; Adilison J. Comstoek, for Towiisliip Clerk; Darius\\nComst(X-k, for Sujjcrvisor; Xoali Norton, Warner Aylsw)rth, and Cornelius A. btout, Commissioners of\\nHighways; Patrick Hamilton, Milo Comstock, and Abram West, Assessors; Patrick Hamilton and Abram\\nWest, Overseers of tlie Poor.\\nThe first child born in Adrian was Leander Comstock, son of Addison J. and Sarah S. Comstock, born\\nAugust 9th, 1827.\\nThe first death in the place was Leander Comstock, October 8th, 1S27, a son of Addison J. and Sarah S.\\nComstock, and was the first bur al in what is now known as tlic old burying ground. The second death was\\nMrs. Elias Dennis, in the spring of 1828, and the third M-as John Gitford, buried in the same grounds.\\nOctober 23d, 1827, James Whitney purchased four hundred acres of land of the United States, on the\\nwest side of the river, and returned to Orleans county, Xew York, to close uj) his busiiicss, with the intention\\nof moving to Michigan the next year.\\nSECOND ELECTION.\\nThe fjlloTring is a copy of the procee lings of aa election, held at the house of Darius Comstock, on\\nthe first Monday of November, 1827:\\nAt an election licld in the town of Logan, for tlie purpose of choosing members for the Legislative Council, held November 5th,\\n1827, llie following votes wpre given:\\nFor Darius Comstock 22\\nWolcott Lawrence -4\\nLaurent Durocher lo\\nPeter P. FeiTV 10\\nPATRICK HAMILTON,\\nABRAM WEST,\\nA. J. COMSTOCK,\\nInspectors of El;ction.\\nOn the thirty-first da/ of March, 1828, Addison J. Comstock laid out, platted, and recorded the original\\nplat of the village of Adrian, as follows:\\nI, Addison J. Comstock, do hereby give, grant, and convey the land represented in the within town plat, for streets and other public\\nuses, to the pcojde of the county of Lenawee, to be by them held for the uses and purposes therein named and t-xpres^ed, agrteable to\\nthe statute of the Territory of Michigan, approved April 12th, 1S27, entitled An act to provide for the recording of town jdats, and\\nfor no other purposes.\\nSigned and sealed this thiitv-first dav of March, in the vear eighteen hundred and twentv-eight.\\n[L. S.] ADDISON J. COMSTOCK.\\nI, Caleb N. Ormsby, do certify that on this thirly-first day of March, 1828, personally came before me the above named Addison J.\\nComstock, and acknowledged that he executed the above for the uses and purposes therein mentioned.\\nC N. ORMSBY, J. Peace.\\nA true registrv and record, entered Tuesdav, the first dav of April, A. D., 1828, at eleven o clock A. M.\\nGEO. SPAFFORD, Register of Probate:\\nThis jilat contained forty-nine village lots, commencing near the river, and running east as far as villao-e\\nlot 34, on which William A. Whitney now resides. The street from Main street to the river Tas called St.\\nJoseph street, and has never been legally changed, and the street east from Main street was called Maumee street.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "The village of Adrian was named by Mrs. A. J. Comstock, after a Roman Emperor.\\nThe Rev. John Janes delivered the first sermon in Adrian, at the house of Noah Norton, in 1827.\\nTHIRD ELECTION.\\nAt the annual town meeting of the inhahltants of the town of Logan held at the home of Addison J. Comstock on tlie 7th day of\\nApril, A. D. 1828, pursuai^t to the act, the following persona were elected for town offio rs\\nDavid BixbVj Moderator of said meeting; D.iriiis Comstock for Supervisor Addison J. Comstock Town Clerk; P. Hamilton, A.\\nWest, E Dennis, for Assessors C. A. Stout, W. Aylsworth, N. Norton, Commissioners of Highways; Allen B. Cliaftee for Collector;\\nA. R, Chaffee for Constable; Joseph Pratt and Lyman Peas for Overseers of the Poor; J. Uiffijrd, Nathan Pelton and Natlian Comstock\\nfor Fence Viewers; David Bixby for Overseer of Highways for District No. 1 Ly.iian Peas for Overseer of District No. 2.\\n[Signed,] DAVID BIXBY, Moderator,\\nA. J. COMSTOCK, Town Clerk.\\nAlso the following votes were given for County Officers i^Addison J. Comstock received twenty-one votes for the office of County\\nTreasurer, Noah Norton received eighteen votes for Coroner.\\nLooAN, April 7th, 1828.\\nNoah Norton, Wairen Aylsworth, Road Commissioners, and Anthony McKey, Surveyor, laid out and\\nestablished about fourteen roals, from November 26th, 1827, to December 11th, 1828.\\nThe first Doctor who settled in Adrian was Caleb N. Ormsby, who came in the spring of 1828.\\nThe first brick made in Adrian was made this year by Noah Norton.\\nJune, 1828, James Whitney returned to Adrian with his family and immediately built a log hou.se on his\\nfarm which he had purchased the year before, and directly where H. V. Hart, Esq., now resides. His firm\\nwas bounded on the north by what is now known as the Tabor farm, on the south by section line running east\\nand west through the centre of Adrian College, on the east by B -irton Kent s east line, where he now Kv S\\nand on the west by land of Nathaniel Raymond. The original farm was owned by Mr. Whitney until 1833,\\nwhen he being desirous of ?-emoving to a new country, and having cleared uj) about two hundred acres of the\\nheaviest timbered land in the countrj sold his farm which has since been known as the Rowley, Scott, or\\nWinans and Underwood farms, and all east of Scoi;t street extending to Burton Kent s east line, where he\\nnow lives, which now is pretty well covered with buildings and seems to be the most growing part of the City\\nof Adrian. The north half of the college building stands on the old farm.\\nThe -ttli of July, 1828, was the first celebration of the kind ever held in this village. It was truly a\\ngreat day for Adrian. Large preparations were made, and at an early hour the peojjle began to assemble\\naround the stand, erected for the occasion, under a white oak tree nearly where W. S. Wilcox s store now\\nstands, amid the roar of an anvil, until it -was estimated that from thirty to forty persons had arrived, when\\nAddison J. Comstock read the Declaration of Independence and Dr. C. N. Ormsby delivered the oration, after\\nwhich the Marshal of the Day, Noah Norton, formed the procession and procecdetl through the principal\\nstreets (through hazel brush) to the house of A. J. Comsto.;k, where dinner had been prepared by Mrs.\\nComstock, assisted by the ladies of the village.\\nAfter dinner, regular and volunteer toasts were given. The writer of this remembers but one, which was\\ngiven ])y the Marshal of the Day, Noah Norton, as follows\\nO Tecumseh Tecnmseh how often would we have gathered thy children together even as a hen gathereth her chickens under\\nher wings, and ye would not.\\nIt is unnecessary to say that this brought down the house. Bonfires, and no dance in the evening ended\\nthe festivities of the day. The jNIarshal was extremely fortunate in borrowing a pair of shoes of Mr. Eleazer", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "Baker, a boarder of his, otherwise he could not have jicrforined tiie duties assigned him that day. As it Mas\\nMr. Baker could not celebrate.\\nIn the .Slimmer of 1828, Isaac Dean, father-in-law of Addison J. Conistoek, commenced building the\\nExchange, where the Lawrence House now stands, and in the fall of the same year his family came to Adrian.\\nFOURTH ELECTION,\\nAt an annual town meeting of the inhabitants ef the town of Logan, convened at the house of Isaac Dean, in the village of Adrian,\\non the sixth day of April, 1829, the following person were chosen for town officers for the ensuing year:\\nNathan Comstock, for Supervisor; Addison J. Conistoek, Town Clerk Patrick Hamilton, Abram West, Curren Bradlsh, Assessors\\nCornelius A. Stout, Collector; Cornelius A. Stout, Nathan Pelton, Constables Warner Aylsworth, Noah Norton, Nelson Bradish,\\nCommissioners of Highways; Joseph Pnitt, Darius Comstock, Overseers of the Poor; Overseers of Highways, District No. 1, Cornelius\\nA. St ut; District No. 2, Isaac Dean; District No. 3, Daniel Walworth District No. 4, Milo Comstock.\\nVoted at the same time that the Overseers of Highways be fence viewers for said town.\\nVoted that all boars be restrained from running at large in said town, under a penalty of two dollars, (ought to be enforced row.)\\nThe following votes were given for county officers: Thomas Sackrider received thirty vote.s for Coroner; Addison J. Comstock\\nreceived forty votes for Treasurer.\\nAttest A. J. COMSTOCK, Town Clerk.\\nThis same year, 1829, Addison J. Comstock and his father-in-law, Mr. I.saac Dean, buih the red grist\\nmill. Before this the settlers were obliged to go to Tecumseh, Saline or Monroe to mill. The writer saw\\nthe first work the old red mill ever did.\\nJune 2d, 1829, Abijah Russell purchased 35 and 60-100 acres of land of the United States, and in May,\\n1831, sold the same to Richard M. Lewis, consideration eighty dollars. This land was known as the Lewis\\nfraction tor many years, until James Berry purchased it and cut it up into city property, a few years since.\\nThe land purchased by Messrs. Comstock, Gifford, Dennis and AV hitney comprises nearly all on which Adrian\\nnow stands.\\nThis year, 1829, a post-office was established in Adrian, A. J. Comstock, post-master, Tlie first quarters\\nreceipts were nineteen cents.\\nThe first school in Adrian was kept in the house of N xih Norton, by Miss Dorcas Dean, in the year\\n1828-9. It was select, for I was one of the scholars. The same year (1829) a good frame school hou.se was\\nbuilt on the lands now owned by Daniel Welch, on the west side of Mala street, on the bank opposite the\\ntannery.\\nThis same year Dr. E. Conant A\\\\^inter, opened a dry goods store in the front room of Dr. Ormsby s house,\\nwhich until recently stood on the south-west corner of Maumee and AVinter streets, wliere Ira Metcalf s store\\nnow stands. He afterwards built a large wooden block opposite where the Lawrence House now stands. For\\nmany years he was a successful trader ivith the whites and Indians. The latter trade he monopolized until\\nPhelps, the Indian trader, came, after which it was livided. idorsing paper and the credit business Wius the\\ncause of reverses and not any lack of business capacityf Kever have we had a man among us possessed of\\nmore energy and perseverance than Dr. Winfer. Had he possessed the faculty of saying no _ he would\\nhave been the richest man in Lenawee County. Certainly no man had a bettei- opportunity.\\nThe same year Riifus MeiTick opened a cabinet shop in Mr. Winters block, and in 1832 built a shop of\\nhis own, known its tiie Citv Mill and Woolen Factory,", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "This year, 1830, the United States census was taken and in this district, Lenawee and Hillsdale County,\\nby Musgrove Evans, assistant to the Marshal of Michigan, which will appear by the following schedule of\\nthe whole number of persons within the county of lienawee, Territory of Michigan, the 1st day of June,\\n1830. (It will be reniembei-ed that Hillsdale county was then included with Lenawee.) ]Mr. Evans returns\\nshows the whole number of inhabitants in this district to be as follows\\nHillsdale 75\\nTecumseh 771\\nLogan 500\\nBlissfield 145\\nTotal 1,491\\nThe following is a complete list of names of the F. F. s, or heads of families of Logan district, which\\nincluded several townships as returned by Musgrove Evans, Assistant Marshal, September 27th, 1830\\nDarius Comstock, Catharine Fay, Alpheus Hill, Cornelius A. Stout, George Scott, Allen Chaffee,\\nJonathan Harnard, Elijah Brownell, Anson Howell, Samuel Todd, Cary Rogers, James Whitney, John Wood,\\nPliney Field, Addison J. Comstock, Charles Morris, Hannah Gilford, Robert Smith, Josiah Shumway,\\nPatrick Hamilton, John Walswortli, Daniel Smith, Milo Comstock, D. Torrey, Davis D. Bennett, John\\nPowers, Anson Jackson, Lyman Pease, Silas Simmons, Lewis Nickerson, Nelson Bradish, William Edmonds,\\nCurrcn Bradish, Levi Shumway, Daniel Gleason, Samuel Davis, Stephen Fitch, Aaron S. Baker, William\\nFoster, Elias Dennis, Nathan Pelton, Turner Stetson, William Jackson, John Arnold, Nathan Comstock, Betsy\\nMajjcs, Josejjh Pratt, Abram West, Thomas Sackrider, Daniel Odell, William H. Rowe, Moses Bugby, Samuel\\nWeldon, Jeremiah Stone, David Wiley, Noah Norton, Asher Stevens, Samuel Burton, John Comstock, Joseph\\nBeals, John Murphy, Samuel S. L. Maples, David Bixby, Charles Haviland, Benjamin Mather, John Chapman,\\nJacob Brown, Jacob Jackson, Job S. Comsf.ock, Elijah Johnson, Samuel Carpenter, Cassander Peters, William\\nBrooks, Josiah Baker, Seth Lammon, N. W. Cole, Reuben Davis, John Fitch, Daniel Walsworth, Nehcmiah\\nBassett, Ephriam Dunbar, Isaac Dean, C. N. Ormsby.\\nEighty-three noble and kind-hearted men and women, bold adventurers in a new territory, generous-\\nhearted to a fault. Not one we believe, out of the number is now living within the city limits. Over\\nsixty are dead, leaving less than twenty living. Some are in this county, while others have emigrated from\\nit. To undertake to say M hich of those eighty-three men performed their part best, would be a ditiicult task.\\nIt is enough to say that all worked to make it pleasant for each new settler, and although many of them are\\ndead they still live in the hearts of those who knew them.\\nIn the tiill of 1830 Isaac French came to Adrian; his first purchase was lots thirteen, fifteen, and thirty-\\nfour, on the original plat. He built a hotel on lots thirteen and fifteen, which he kept successfully until 1830,\\nM hen he sold to Pomeroy Stone. This is the corner now occupied by Crane Livesay and others.\\nIn the year 1831 Mr. Turner Stetson built the house now known as the Gibson House. In those\\ndays it was the custom to give each building, after the frame was up, a name. The name given to this building\\nby Elias Dennis, father of David B. Dennis, now of Coldwater, was The Key to Adrian.\\nNew settlers were occasionally arriving, some with families and others without. When a new house was\\nraised anywhere in the neighborhood, all turned out to assist. At one time, when nearly every man was absent", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "from the jjlacc, a large ininil)er of Indians made their a])pearance in our streets, which caused much alarm\\namon i- the ladies and children, for the reason that the Indians got gloriously drunk, and made the place hideous\\nby their veils. No serious damag( was done, howe\\\\-er.\\nDr. Bebee came to ^Vdrian this year, had a successful practice in his profession for about a year, caught\\nthe small pox while attending the family of Jacot} Brown, and died wth it in the summer of 1832. He was\\na voiiMi, man of fine abilitv, and his death cast a gloom over all who knew him. He was the second physician\\nwho settled in Adrian.\\nThe same year Mr. Joseph H. Cleveland opened a store in a building standing between the Gibson House\\nand the river.\\nThe year 1832 was an exciting year for Adrian. This was the year of the Black Hawk AVar, which gave\\nus great alarm, especially when an Indian made his appearance in the village. Rumors were rife that large\\nnumbers of Indian=, were collecting in the woods, and that a general war was at hand. Nothing was talked of\\nexcept battles and defeat, and scalping of white men, women and children. Ask an Indian any questions\\nabout it and he knew nothing. This only had the effect to alarm the people still more, who supposed they did\\nkno\\\\\\\\- l)ut came in occasionally as spies. They were questioned so much when tliey did make their appearance\\nthat thcv actuallv became alarmc-d themselves. The Indians were as innocent as babes, but the trouble was the\\nwhite settlers had lost confidence. It was but a short time before the able bodied men were called upon to\\nshoulder their riiles to defend their families from the bloody tomahawk of the Indian. Th^n came the time\\nthat tried men s knees. Then it was that such men as Captain Charles M. McKenzie was appreciated in\\nAdrian, while cowards and lovers wept like babies, ho was one of the tirst to shoulder his rifle. But it is not our\\npurpose to give a history of the Black Hawk War. AYc would leave that to Capt. McKenzie, were he alive, or\\nsome of his brave comrades that filled the big tree with bullets, at the battle of Coldwatcr. This war and the\\ncholera of that year, were about as much as Adrian could stand. The nearest case of cholora was in Detroit,\\nand the nearest hostile Indian to Adrian was the Mississippi river.\\nCaptain Charles M. McKenzie settled in Adrian in the spring of 1832. He commenced making brick on\\nthe farm of Captain James Whitney, boarded with Isaac French, and lodged with his men in Mr. M hitney s\\nbarn. Mr. McKenzie died November 21st. 1871, aged 71 years.\\nNovember 22d, 1832, Dr. Parley J. Spaulding came to Adrian. This was justly considered an acquisition\\nto tlie place, as time has proven. The Doctor still lives, to enjoy the fruits of his hard earnings on the lot\\nhe i)in-chased the 2.5th of February, 1833. He is the only person who lives on the original plat who purchased\\nhis lot direct from Addison J. Conistock. He was the third doctw who settletl in Adrian, and has always\\nenjoyed the respect of the citizens, and will while he lives. He has held prominent positions, such as Register\\nof Deeds, Mayor of our City, and was at one time a i rominent candidate for Congress, and was only defeated\\nby a division in his own party. He is a true Democrat, long may he live.\\nDuring the year 1832 the Presbyterian Church Society built the first church in the village. It was located\\non Church street, where it still can be seen.\\nIn 1833 Allen Hutchins and Joseph Chittenden, Jr., came to Adrian. They v.-ore young men, la^^Ters\\nby profession. Hutchins purchased the five acres of land of James Whitney, now owned by Redfield\\n10.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "Kimball, where stand those beautiful oaks in front. (The writer of this helped cut off the tops of those trees\\nforty-three years ago.) INIr. Hutehins held this property until he became a defaulter to the United States,\\nwhen it was confiscated, sold, and purchased by the present owners. Mr. Hutehins has been dead many years.\\nJoseph Chittenden, Jr., was a young man of splendid talents, finely educated, and on of the most\\npromising young men in the Territory. He married the daughter of the late Dv. A\\\\ ebb, and died October 6th,\\n1834, ten months after his marriage. He was the brother of the Misses Chittendens, Olive and Mary Ann,\\nalso IMrs. Henry Hart.\\nThe year 1834 was a sad one for Adrian, hardly a family escaped sickness. Our doctors were riding night\\nand day. Many citizens died that year. Among them Mrs. Amelia Ann Oi-msby, the wife of Dr. Ornisby.\\nShe died October 7th, 1834, the next day after Joseph Chittenden, Jr., died. The date on her tomb-stone in\\nthe old cemetery, where she is buried, is October 7th, 1835. This is a mistake; it should be October 7th, 1834.\\nShe was a noble woman. On her tomb stone is the following: The record of her virtues is engraven upon\\nthe hearts of those who knew her. Her age was twenty-seven years.\\nDaniel Jones died September 4th, this same year. Elias Dennis, one of the oldest citizens, died this year\\nalso.\\nOctober 22d, 1834, R. W. Ingals commenced the ijublication of the Lenawee RepubUean and Adrian\\nGazette, afterwards Watch Toioer. This was the first paper published in Lenawee County.\\nIn 1835, Ashel Finch, .Jr., and Abel Whitney, both of whom had been engtiged in the dry goods business,\\nopened the first drug store in Adrian. It Mas located on lot number thirty, north side of Maumee street, and\\nis now owned by John Kinzel, extending back about eighty feet.\\nMay, 1835, Daniel D. Sinclair came to Adrian. He, also, has held important positions from time to time.\\nThis year Elihu L. Clark located in Adrian. He opened a small dry goods store near the hotel of Isaac\\nFrench, in a building built by Mr. French for a blacksmith shop. He has accumulated a large fortune, and\\nlives to-day, supposed to be worth half a million.\\nThe Baptist Church Society held their meetings, in 1835, in the upper room of the house now owned by\\nWilliam A. Whitney. William R. Powers taught a select school in the same room, in the same year.\\nIn the fall of 1836, Dr. D. K. Underwood came to Adrian, and opened a drug store where John Kinzcl s\\nstore now stands on Maumee street. He has done his share towards building up our city, amassed a large\\nproperty, and lives to enjoy it.\\nIt has occa.sionally been said that Mr. Comstock, the founder and proprietor of Adrian in an early day,\\ncharged extravagant prices for his village property which he held for sale. In answer to this I would refer the\\nreader to the following sales of city property by Mr. Comstock, and their dates, and ask if this charge was true.\\nTo me it looks unfounded:\\nDecember 19th, 1828, Mr. Comstock sold to Charles Sleeper lot No. 40, fronting four and a half rods on\\nMain street, and nine rods on Maumee street, containining forty and a half square rods. Consideration\\nThis is the corner where the First National Bank now stands.\\n11.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "!M:ircli 2d, 1830, he sold Mrs. Marian Stevens the property M-here Redfield Kimball now reside,\\nrumiin^t from tlic tannery south as far as Walter Whipple s lot, lyia^ bstween M lin and South Winter streets,\\nand cniitainiiiti 4 lt. -li\u00c2\u00bb(l acres of kind, for the consideration of tiiirly (30) dollars.\\nMarch 2(3th, 1831, Mr. Comstociv sold to I.-^aac Fi-ench lots thirteen and fifteen, fronting nine rods on\\n!Main street and nine rods on Maumee street which is the corner occupied by Crane Livesay, and also lot\\nnumber thirty-four, ])art of which is now owned and occupied by Wm. A. Whitney, Maumee street, all included\\nin one deed. Consideration, seventy (70) dollars.\\nFebruary 2o, 1833, Mr. C. sold to Dr. P. J. Spaulding lot number thirty-two, on which the latter now\\nlives, fronting five rods on Maumee street and fifteen rods deep; for the consideration ot fift\\\\ (50) dollars.\\nIn the year 1835, Mr. A. J. Corastock sold to Asahel Finch, Jr., and Abt l Whitney village lot number\\nthirty, on the north side of Maumse street, five rods front and nine deep, for the consideration of fiftv (50)\\ndollars.\\nBut few understand the trials and perjilexitics of settling a new country, and what the old residents of Adrian\\nhad to contend with in its early settlement. The county seat of Lenawee County, being first established in\\nTecumseh, was the cause of much strife and opposition between the two rival villages, and the war wa.s kept up\\nuntil this year, when Tecumsdi was compelled by an act of L gislature to yield to justice, and the county seat\\nwas removed to Adrian. Mr. Comstoek, being more interested, probably did more towards accomplishino- this\\nobject, than any other man.\\nThe year 1836 the Erie Kalamazoo railroad, which had been in progress for two years, was completed\\nto Adrian, amid great rejoicing of the people. Tiiis opened a market long needed, the value of which canhardlv\\nbe estimated. This road was one of the first built in the United States, and the first in Michigan. Thedav of\\nits completion was a gala day for the citizens of Adrian.\\nFor this enterprise Mr. A. J. Comstoek, his father, Darius Comstoek, George Crane, Joseph Gibbous aud\\nDr. C. N. Ormsby, in connection with gentlemen from Toledo, deserve the gratitude of Adrian.\\nAdrian Lodge Xo. 8, I. O. O. F., was instituted March Gth, 1835, by R. W. P. G., B. F. Hi\u00c2\u00bbll,andR. W.\\nP. G., J. H. Mullett, of ilichigan Lodge No. 1, when the following officers were installed: Daniel D.\\nSinclair, N. G.; Sebre Howard, A\\\\ G.; Charles Smith, S.; R. W. IngaLs, T.\\nThe first band in this place was organized in 1838, by an Englishman named William Tutten, from Utica,\\nNew York, and was called the Adrian Brass Band. This band went to Fort Meigs in 1840 with the\\nLenawee County delegation, to attend the great Harrison mass meeting. At this time it was led by Willi im\\nC. Hunt, who now lives in the I ity. General Joseph W. Brown was in command of the ^lichigan delegation\\nat this great meeting, and held an umbrella over General Harrison while he was speaking.\\nWilliam Barnes built the first reservoir in the village in the summer of 1839, at a cost of $111 33.\\nAlert Fire Co-npany No. 1 was officially organized June 19th, 1841. Following are the names of the\\noriginal members of the company D. K. Underwood, Joseph H. AVood, Milo Weins, S. V. R. Smart, R.\\nMerrick, W. S. Wilcox, S. W. Van Yosburg, J. J. Newell, Isaac Paulding, R. Smart, A. Barnard, Thomas S.\\nBaker, Samuel Smith, C. R. Watson, Phi. Tabor, T. D. Ramsdell, Charles lugersall, R. W. Ingals, James\\n12.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "Mills, J. H. Woodbury, E. H. Rice, W. M. Conistock, John Harkness, Charles W. Hunt. The machine was\\npurchased from Lewis Selye, of llochester, New York, at a cost of $813.\\nHook and Ladder Company was officially organized June 19th, 1841. Following are the names of the\\noriginal members: A. W. Budlong, A. S. Berry, L. G. Berry, J. H. Chittenden, Joel Carpenter, Washington\\nHarwood, Henry Hart, Horace Mason, N. L. P. Pierce, Charles Philbrook, Clement Smith, Randall W.\\nSmith. March 11th, 1842, the Village Council appropriated the sum of |90 for the purchase of a truck for the\\niLse of the company. We also notice on the records that Henry Hart, who was then a Trustee, offered a\\nresolution to purchase three axes for the use of the company. The truck was built by William C. Hunt.\\nBenjamin Anderson, D. K. Underwood, E. W. Fairfield, and Amos Biglow were the first Fire Wardens\\nof the village, and were appointed December 17th, 1841. Carlisle Norwood was the first Chief Emriueer.\\nThe Adrian Guards, the first military company regularly equipped by the State in Lenawee County, was\\norganized May 10th, 1842, by Daniel Hicks, who was elected Captain, which office he held until the year 1847\\nwhen he went to Mexico in command of a company. F. J. King was First Lieutenant, Edwin Comstock\\nSecond Lieutenant, William Aldrich Orderly Sergcnt. In 1843 George W. Hicks was elected Orderly he\\nbeing the best ilrill-master in the company. Charles M. Croswell was elected Captain after Captain Hicks\\nand held the office until the next annual election, when Frederick Hart was made Captain, which position he\\nheld up to April, 1861, M ith the exception of one year 1855 when Justice H. Bodwell was made Captain.\\nWe find in an old Detroit Advertiser an account of the first military encampment ever held in this place, which\\noccurred on the 4th of July, 1843. The encampment consisted of the Brady Guar Is, cf Detroit, the Monroe\\nCity Guards, the Toledo Guards, and the Adrian Guards. Pomeroy Stone was Quaitermaster of the\\nencampment. The narrator in the Advertiser says:\\nI do not hesitate to pronounce the Adrian Guards the best drilled company of its age which can be found anvwhere. Its members\\nwore a neat uniform, and appeared full of the genuine military spirit. Captain Hicks, their commander, is a perfect gentleman. I\\nwould say the same of Captain Hill aiid Mundy, the first of the Toledo, the second of the Washtenaw Guards. The Toledo Guards\\nhave a beautiful uniform; tiie Washtenaw s one very similar to our own, except they wore black shoulder-knots and plumes. I cannot\\nspeak too higlily of the soldierly and gentlemanly bearing of the men of each companies we were taken by the hand by them all and\\ntreated in a manner we never sliall forget. The Sabbath was spent very appropriately, by a prompt attendance at the several churches\\nto which the companies were assigned. The great day of days, the 4th of July, Wiis ushered in amid the roar of cannon the wild\\nbeating of drums, and vociferous cheering of thousands of iron-nerved men every heart was full all eyes beamed with a new lustre\\nand gladness and joy trembled on every tongue. Long before daylight the people from the country began to pour in, and by 10 o clock\\nthe time assigned for forming the prossession, not less than 6,000 people were in Adrian.\\nProtection Fire Company No. 2 was organized in October, 1845. Perry B. Truax was the first Foreman\\nW. Huntington Smith, Assistant Foreman, and F. C. Beaman, Secretary. The engine arrived in December\\nthe same year, and cost $990.\\nThe first Masonic lodge organized in the village was Adrian Lodge, No. 19, on July 28th, 1847, by E.\\nSmith Lee, Grand Master of Michigan at that time. The origiiuil officers were, John Barber, W. Master;\\nWilliam Moore, S. W. Warner Comstock, Jun. W.; Jonathan Berry, Treasurer; David Horton, Secretary;\\nDavid Bixby, Sen. Deacon; William Talford, Jun. Deacon; Samuel Anderson, Tyler.\\nOak Wood Cemetery was opened to the public for burial purposes in the summer of 1848.\\nOscar Stevens, nephew of A. and William A. Whitney, was the first person buried there, July 31st, 1848,\\naged five years and two months. Isaac C. Dean died December 11th, 1867, aged 87 years. Abigail C. Dean,\\nhis wife, died in the same year, May 11th, aged 77 years. David Bixby died January 4th, 1865, aged 82 years.\\n13.\\nd*", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "Abram Truax diwl December 3(1, 1862, aged 68 years. James Wbitney dietl August 11th, 1851, aged 68\\nyears and six months. Mrs. James Wliitney died the same year, August 24tli, aged 65 years and two months.\\nMrs. Ira IJuck (li( l Marcii 25tii, 1874, agp l 70 years and three days. Mrs. W. S. Wilcox died Fc oruary 11th,\\n1852, aged 27 vears and six montiis. William B. Whitney died January 7th, 1858, aged 44 years. Mrs.\\nNoah Norton died August 27th, 1857, agcnl Gti years. Judge Barber died April 15th, 18G7, aged 75 years.\\nDr. E. C. Winter died December llth, 1867, aged 65 years. Daniel A. Loomis died February 22d, 1868;\\nMr. Loomis was elected Mayor in April, 1862. Colonel L. L. Comstock was killed in battle near Knoxville,\\nTennessee, November 25th, 1863, in his 39th year. Addison J. Comstock died January 20th, 1867, aged 65\\nyears and three months he was the first Mayor elected under the cit/ charter. Sarah S. Comstock, his wife,\\ndied November 10th, 1872, aged 67 years and two months. J. H. Bodwell died September 1st, 1864, agetl 44\\nyears. John D. Campbell died in Boston August 1st, 186:?, aged 51 years. Mr. Campbell was elected Mayor\\nin April, 1863. He was General Superintendent of the Michigan Southern Northern Indiana Railroad.\\nColonel W. Huntington Smith was killed at the battle of Campbell s Station, Tennessee, November 16th, 1863,\\naged 40 years. Colonel D. A. Woodbury was killed at the battle of Malvern Hill, Virginia, July 1st, 1862,\\naged 38 years. Isaac French died May 2d, 1856, aged 60 years. S. P. Jermain, one of the founders of the\\nMichigan Expositor, died in Chillicothe, Ohio, May 9th, 1868; his remains lie in Oakwood Cemetery. Alonzo\\nF. Bixl)v died April 18th, 1870. The whole number of interments in Oak Wood Cemetery, from January\\n1st, 1850, to July 1st, 1874 is 2,314. There seems to be no record previous to January 1st, 1850. In 1864\\nthere was the largest number of interments of any year in the history of the cit} the number being 180.\\nThe Adrian and Bean Creek Plank Road Company was organized on the 4th of May, 1848, with a\\ncapital stock of $75,000, divided into 3,000 shares. The original charter was from this city to Bean Creek,\\nbut an extension was granted, and it was built as far as Gambleville, in Hillsdale County, where it intersected\\nwitli the Chicago Turnpike. During the year the survey was made, the right of way purchased, and the\\ncontracts let for lumber and construction. The first plank of the road w-as laid in this city, in the spring of\\n1849. Commencing on Front street, oppasite where the County Offices now stand, planks were laid up Main\\nstreet to Maumee, and on Mauraee street west to Addison, etc. A. J. Comstock was the first President, Henry\\nJones, Secretary, and E. L. Clark, Treasurer.\\nJames Sword was elected President of the Village of Adrian in 1852, and made Mayor, by act of the\\nLegislature, in January, 1853.\\nThe Court House, with many valuable records, was destroyed by fire on the morning of March 14th, 1852\\nThe Adrian Gas Light Company was chartered by City Ordinance, June 18, 1855. The company consisted\\nof Beiiijah Barker, H. P. Piatt, George H. Wynian, L. C. Thayer. The Common Council that year was as\\nfollows: F. J. Buck, Mayor; Aldermen, L. P. Bowen, R. J. Bradley, E. P. Linnell, J. H.Cleveland, A. J.\\nDean, W. E. Kimball, F. R. Stebbins, W. S. Wilcox.\\nBy a resolution of the Common Council, passed June 8th, 1858, it was resolved to lay down the present\\npavemen*;, with the exception of Maiden Lane, which was done at a later date. There was quite a fight in the\\nCouncil over the matter, and the resolution was finally pa.ssed by the c;isting vote of the Mayor. The Council\\n14.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "this year consisted of W. L. Greenly, Mayor Aldermen, Chester Farmer, C. M. Croswell, E. A. Washburn,\\nJ. H. Kennedy, A. L. Millard, Chester Buck, Frederick Hart, E. P. Andrews.\\nThe Steam Fire D3partrai3nt was organizsi on Friday, October 11th, 1807, consisting of two steamers\\nwith atteudent Hose Carts, and one Hook and Ladder Company. R. J. Bradley was appointed Chief\\nEngineer, and James Redmond Assistant.\\nThe Adrian Union School was organized in 1848-9, by the consolidation of the several school districts in\\nthe village. The first term or two was held in the old Hanse School House on Maumee street, where John\\nKinzel s two stores now stand. J. W. Southworth was the first Principal of the school. In the fall of 1849\\nthe old American Hotel building was leased for school purposes, and was used until the Union School building\\nwas completed, which was in 1852. The first Director of the Union School Board was Henry Hart. The\\nPublic Schools of the City of Adrian were incorporated by act of Legislature March .31st, 1861. The old\\nCentral School building was destroyed by fire on the morning of August 10th, 1866. The present Central\\nBuilding was erected in 1868.\\nThe Daily and Weekly Watcheoiver ceased publication, after an existence of thirty-four vears, on Saturday\\nSeptember 9th, 1865. The office was sold at that time to illiam Humphrey, who, on the followino- Mondav\\nSeptember 11th, issued the Daili/ Times.\\nThe State Fair v. as held in this city in 1865, commencing September 19th and continuing four days. It\\nwas also held here the following year.\\nThe corner stone of the Masonic Temple was laid June 21, 1865, and the building was occupied the\\nfollowing year.\\nThe first Lenawee County Fair was held in this city in Sejjtember, 1 849.\\nIn the beginning of the winter of 1838 Silas Crane and Abel Whitney furnished the material for tlie\\nsuperstructure for the first two miles of the M. S. R. R. west of the city of Monroe, and during the summer of\\n38 and the winter of 39 graded and built the road from the Leroy bridge to the crossing on South Main street\\nin this city.\\nThe blinds ou A. Whitney s house were the first on any house in this city, and the first in the south half\\nof licnawee County, and so far as wear is concerned, appear to be good for fifty years to come, having already\\nbeen in use thirty-nine years.\\nWeaker Whipple, Esq., of this city, furnishes us with an incident of early times, which we thirdv worthv\\nof a place in our work: In August, 1828, I was at Darius Comstock s house, when he showed me a field of\\nsixty acres in corn, which he assured me would harvest sixty bushels to the acre. Those who remember the\\nyear 1829, when credit was struck deail by the panic, when pi-operty could not be sold or debts collected at the\\nEast, can recall the sufferings endured by the imigrants who had paid their last dollar for lands, teams\\nimprovements, and the expense of living the* first year without crojw to harvest, or any visible means of\\nsubsistence. During the fall of this year Dr. Patterson went to Mr. Comstock to purchase corn. Mr.\\nComstock refused to sell him the corn, telling him that he had money and a team, and that he could o-o to\\nMonroe or Ohio and get all he wanted. Said he, I have many neighbors who have no cash, who will suffer\\nunle s they have corn. Another man told me he wanted lumber to finish his house. The lumber was\\nmeasured, but Darius partner would not let the lumber go without the money. He told Darius of his trouble\\nwho told him to take as much lumber as he wanted, and bring him the bill. It was such traits of character as\\nthis that caused the early settlers of Adrian to gather around him. When he lay upon his last bed of sickness\\nhe said to Dr. AVebb, I have thought of this a great deal I think I am not mistaken I think I am right.\\n15.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "TECUMSEH:\\n95St5 _\\nf^-^jp N the autumn of 18 2o, ]\\\\Iusgrove Evans, Esq., a native of Pennsylvania, and bclonn:ingto the Soeiety\\nJof Friends, left Jetierson County, in the State of New York, to exj)lore the West, and, should fortune\\n^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^viil^f? smile, to enjoy those smiles more near to the setting sun. On arriving at Detroit, he found some friends,\\nand made the acquaintance of Austin E. ^Ving. Mr. Wing had been a resident in the Territor) for several years\\nsome six or seven. Of the comparative merits of its various localities, he was well qualified to Judge. lie\\nat once suggested to Mr. Evans the Valley of the Raisin, as a region of s] eeial attraction, beautiful, rich and\\niiill of promise. After some ex|)lorations of other points, Mr. Evans was inclined to accept ^Ir. Wing s\\njudgment in the matter, and resi)lved in the coming spring to investigate the claims of this new iield. He\\nimmediately returned home to Jetierson County, Nev York, and, during the following winter, wtus actively\\nengaged in efforts to interest and enlist his friends in his western enterprise. He was quite successful.\\nEarly in the spring Mr. Evans, with his wife and five children, General J. W. Brown, his brother-in-law,\\nE. F. Blood, Turner Stetson, Nathan Rathbone, and Peter Lowry, started together for Detroit. They i)assed\\nup Lake Ontario, and Niagara River, to Black Rock. There they and some other gentlemen, from Buffalo,\\nchartered the schooner Erie, the famed craft which subsequently went over the Falls of Niagara; and, ascending\\nthe Lake, arrived in Detroit on the last of April, 1824. Here the men left their families, and having\\nchartered a Frenchman and pony, to carry their baggage, started into the woods on foot, and fijllowing an\\nLillian trail, took a western course to Ypsilanti, thence to Saline, and thence onward still, until they struck the\\nRiver Raisin, some little distance above the point where now stands the village of Clinton. Here, they\\ndischarged the Frenchman and his jiony, and allowed them to return. They now took their provisions, etc.,\\nupon their backs, and pursued a south-westerly direction, till they reached Evans Creek, which they descended\\nto the point of land on which the Globe Mill now stands.\\nAt this place they encamped, and, for a week or more, were busily occu])ied in viewing the country, but\\nmore especially, the streams the Raisin ai,d Evans Creek and the form of their banks, and the bordering\\nvalleys, the idea of obtaining a good water-power being a leading object of pursuit. It is proper to say here\\nthat Mr. Wing had been of gretit service to jMr. Evans and his co-adventurers, and, although.no agreement of\\na binding character had been entered into, yet so much had passed between them as to authorize a mutual\\nexj)ectation that he, in some way, and to some extent, would aid the fortunes of their enterprise. Having this idea\\nin view, from the time Mr. Evans took leave of him in Detroit, during the preceeding autumn, and learning that\\nimmigrants were exti nsively exploring in Washtenaw County, and j)arts adjacent, and fearing that the advantages\\nat the liinctions of E\\\\ an Creek and the Raisin might be found, appreciateil and snatched away, had the sagacity\\nand prudence to enter the lands adjacent in his own name. T hese lands were the west part of Section tvventy-\\nSL ven and east part of Section twenty-eight and included the water-iiower in Brownville. Mr. Evans and\\nhis associa ,ps, having i-atisfied themselves that they had found if not the best point in the interior of the Territory,\\nthey had at least found a location worthy of their acceptance, resolved to secure it.\\nWith this purpose, they gathered their effects and started for the Land Office. On reaching Monroe\\nthey found Mr. Wing. Immediately Messrs. Wing, Evans Bro vn entered into a formal co-partnership, and\\ntook up the north half of Section thirty-four. The adjacent lands were soon taken up by the companions of\\nMr. Evans, and adventurers from other places.\\nIMessrs. Wing, Evans Brown, liaving formed a co-partnership, and secured a location, deemed it\\nimportant to their inteie-ts, if possible, to have it made the county seat. With a view to this, they delegated\\nMr. Brown to visit Governor Cass, at Detroit, and request him to nominate Commissioners to visit Tecumseh,\\nand, if it should be deemed advisable, to designate it as the seat of justice for the county. The Governor\\ntreated the request with obliging consideration, and named Messrs. C. J. Lanmon, Oliver Johnson, and one\\nother gentleman that committee. The committee, in due time, entered upon their mission, examined the\\nsituation, and aj)|)n)ved of it. On the last of June, 1824, the Legislature was in session, and the committee\\nbeing |ircscnt, made their report, which was accepted and adopted. In consideration of this enactment it was\\nstipidated that, in laying out the grounds for a village, the Company, NV ing, Evans Brown, should set apart\\nIt).", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "for the public benefit, four squares; one for the court house and jail, one for a public promenado, one for a\\ncemetery, and one for a military parade ground, and build a bridge across the River Rasin east of tlie village.\\nThe Company accepted the condition, and iippropriated for the court house and jail a square on the north-east\\ncornc of Alaumee and Chiciigo streets for pleasure ground, a square on the south-east corner of Mauaiee and\\nChicago streets; for a cemetery, a square on the south-east sorner of Ottawa and Killbuck streets; for a\\nmilitary parade ground, a square having Shawnee street on the north, Ottawa on the ea^t, and, what is now\\nstyled Railroad street on the west. The bridge was also built.\\nOn the first Monday in June, 1824, Mr. Evans and Peter Benson, with their families, left Monroe, and\\nstarted for what had now become the bright particular gem of the Raisin Valley Teeumseh.\\nAfter a difficult journey through a nearly pathless wilderness, and over the low and marshy grounds that\\nintervened, they arrived at the place of their destiny on the following day, June 2d, 1824, about five o clock in\\nthe afteruoon. There being no means of crossing the Raisin, on the land now owned by Wing, Evans Co.,\\ni. e. on the east side of what afterwards became the village j)lot, they passed round upon the north side of the\\nriver and encamped upon the land which Mr. Wing had purchased the fall or winter previous, at the point\\nwliereou now (1869) stands the cooper .-hop, a few rods north of the Brownville mill. Here Mr. Ev;uis erected\\na log house, twenty feet square. It was without any floor, as there was no saw-miil nearer than Monroe, and\\ncovered with bark peeled from the trunks of elm trees. During the sur.imer it iiad iieitiier cliimney nor fire\\nplace. For cooking purposes a fire was made upon tlie ground, the smoke, when tiie atmosphere was in repose\\nascended through a hole in the roof; at other times it went up or down, or here or there, as played the fitful\\nwinds. A bake-kettle supplied the [dace of an oven for several months, during wliich time Mrs. Evans\\nprepared food for her husband and children, for the workmen in his employ, together with goers and corners,\\namounting usually to from fifteen to twenty persons.\\nIn the aulu an Mr. Brown, wife, and five children arrived; also Mr. Gorge -^ipaffird an 1 wife. A bed-\\nroom was added t) the house, and an oven and cliimney built, the oven standing out and some distance from\\nthe house. Here Mr. Evans, wife and five children, Mr. Brown, wife and five children, the youngest diild of\\neach family being a small infant, and Mr. Spatfbrd and his life, all domiciled during the winter of 1824-5.\\nDuring the summer of 1824 Mr. Evans, being a surveyor, laid out the village plot. It was laid out into\\nsquares of twenty-four rods each, and each square into eight lots, each lot being six by twelve r ds twelve rods\\nnorth and south, and six rods east and west. The squares, so-called, set apart for the court house and public\\npromenade being, in fact, but two one-half squares.\\nIn the summer jf 1825 Joseph W. Brown built a frame house on the corner lot, bounded on the north by\\nChicago street, and on the west by Maumee street. This was the first frame house erected in the county of\\nLenawee, and besides furnishing private apartments for the owner and his family, contained others also, wiiich\\nwere opened for the entertainment of travelers, and other transient persons. At that time it w;\\\\s the first and\\nonly public house in the Territory west of Monroe.\\nin the same year, during the summer of 1825, a Mr. Knaggs, a Frenchman, from Mor.voe, purchased the\\nlot on the south-west corner of Chicago and JNIaumee streets, and built a store which he open cd, in jiart to aid the\\nnew settlers, but mainly for the purpose of driving bargain^ with the Indians. This enterprise proved, both\\ndirectly and indirectly, of much benefit to the new settlers. They iiere found, at least io a limited exient, such\\ncommodities as, otherwise, they would have suffered seriously the want of, and, besids, it induced the Indians,\\nstill lingering in the neighboring woods, to come in and trade with the ccmimunity. In 182U Mr. Evans took the\\ninitial, and made some advances iu the work of building a more comfortable abode for his tiunily. It was completed,\\n^Te believe, the following season, and, as iu the case of Mr. Brown s before him, it became the comiintable\\nabode of his family, and also a house of public entertainment. JNIany who there found shelter from the storm,\\nreliet from hunger and thurst, rest from weariness, with generous sympathy and sootiiing cordials when burning\\nfever and death-like ague was upon them, took pleasure in after years in speaking of thjse things, so.nj lo.ig\\nago and forever silent, others still live, with tearful gratitude, to repeat the grateful story.\\nIn 1827 Mr. Brown, whom we style General now, sold his house, on Maumee street, to James T. Boiland,\\nwent over to Brownville and built, of hewed logs, the house so long known as the Peninsular House.\\nIn the fall of 1824 the Company of Wing, Evans Brown, resolved lo buiit a saw mill. For such a\\nmill the want was very great. The inhabitants were indeed few, but that few were in greit want of lumber.\\nWithout it they could not construct shelters either for themselves or their stock. The trame of the mill was\\nsoon raised, the machinery got iuto position, the waiting waters let on, and the saw was playing, as though\\ninstinct with life, and actually felt that it was a luxury to do good. Thus was completed the first saw mill\\nin the County of Lenawee, and, no successor has ever tound a warmer welcome.\\nEarly in the spring of 1826, Wing, Evans Brown resolved to build a grist mill. The frame was\\nsoon raised. And now for the stones an item indeed, in a grist mill. Fi-ench burrs were q ite too costly\\nfor their limited means. It so happened that, about a mile and a halt away, and a little north of ea-:t, in a\\ndistrict where a stone was one of the rarest things of natur. there was found an immense bowlder a large\\nrock of pure granite. Uhey were not geologists; hcuce they asked no questions about its origin, from whence\\n17.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "it came, or how it got there. Enough that it was there. They fell upon it in earnest. AVith drills and poM-der\\nthev soon split ott two large slabs, each ofwhieh they wrought into stone of suitable size to answer their purj)ose.\\nAnd, what was (juite remarkable, the stone contained an element resembling clay-slate, which in working,\\ncrumbled out, leaving a surface not wholly unlike the genuine burr millstone grit.\\nIt is proper to add that this mill Wius able to grind about ten bushels of grain per hour; and for five or six\\nyears was the only grist mill in the interior of the Territory.\\nTHE BLACK HAWK AND TOLEDO WARS.\\nThe following is an extract from a speech by Dr. M. A. Patterson, before the Rasin Valle) Historical\\nSociety, at Tecumseh, June 2d, 18138:\\nAccording to the law of the valley, every male settler was a voter, without being over particular respecting his\\nage, provided he could handle an axe and was stout and strong. Our people had been too busy to pay much attention\\nto politics. But there was one man who seemed to regard it as a solemn duty, on no account to be neglected, and lor\\nsix years he aunually voted himself in Justice of the Peace. We are not aware that he tried a single case during all\\nthis long period. Universal harmony and peace prevailed, and a rogue or a thief was unknown. But the new\\ncomers of 1831 were fresh from the political fields of the East, and believed in the principle of rotation in ofKce.\\nAt the next town election there came out of the woods of what are now known as the towns of Kasiu, Ridgeway,\\nMacon and Franklin, a body of strangers who had never been seen at our polls before, and to the no small indignation\\nand astonishment of Squire Thomas (iootlrich, our sole magi-strate and Justice of the Peace for six years, without a\\ncase on his docket, a host of new men rotated him out of office, in order, as they said, to establish in this Valley a\\ngreat political principle.\\nBut our new friends had scarcely exercised the important privilege of the elective franchise a second time,\\nindeed they were scarcely well established in their new homes until they were called upon, in common with the older\\nsettlers, to defieud them, and perhaps to shed their blood in defense of their homes.\\nIn May, 1832, Owen, the Indian Agent at Chicago, sent dispatch riders, with all possible haste, to Detroit, who,\\non the way, spread through our feeble settlement the startling intelligence that the 8ac and the Fox Indians, under\\nBlack Hawk, wore on the war-path, threatening to exterminate the whites from the Upper Mississippi to the lower\\nlakes. The treacherous character of the American Indian is proverbial, and the danger of a union of the hostile\\nwestern tribes, with the seemingly friendly Potawattomies, of Michigan, who were all around us, was by no means\\nimprobable. It was an alarming fact that within two or three days after the news of the hostile intention of the 8ac\\nand Fox Indians reached us, the Potawattomies suddenly disappeared. Not an lud an could be found in our vicinity\\nor neighborhoods. Were they lurking in the dense forest.s of the valley waiting for orders to spring upon us with deadly\\nintentions, or gone to new hunting or tishiig grounds far beyond us? were questions often asked, but which no one could\\nanswer. Untd the locality and designs ot the missing Indians were ascertained, the first intimation of their intentions\\nand presence might have been amid scenes that have been witnessed again and again on our Western frontier, by the\\nglare of our burning dwellings at midnight, amid the shrieks of women and children, the groans of the dying, and the\\niiellish war whoop of savages. At the bare possibility of such a fete, anxiety was depicted on the countenances of\\nbrave men, and there was not a mother in the settlement who did not fold her child still closer to her bosom.\\nAgainst a hostile union of the powerful western savages, each armed w ith a deadly rifle, and skilled in its use,,\\nthe scattered settlements on the line from Detroit to Chicago were almost defenseless. And there was cause of alarm\\nwhen it was known that the United States Agent had urged uj)ou our Governor an immediate draft of the men of\\nMichigan to check the advance of the Indians, until the regular government troops could be mustered on the frontier\\nand hurled against them.\\nAs soon as it was ascertained that the Potowattomies had left us for a gathering of their tribe in the St. Joseph\\nValley, and at a council of their chiefs and our Territorial authorities, seemed peacefully inclined, all apprehension of\\nimmediate danger from this quarter was removed. The alacrity then with which the Eighth Regiment, composed of\\ncitizens of this valley, marched to the relief of the settlements beyond us, when they had reason to exiject a bloody\\ncontest, proved that our pioneers were of the right stock, and as ready to fight as to work, when occasion demanded an\\nexhibition of their prowess.\\nThe details of the Black Hawk war,, and of the duties performed by our citizens in that contest, are too\\nvoluminous for our present purpose, and may well form an interesting chapter hereafter in the proceedings of this\\nsociety.\\nDuring three succeeding years after the close of this war, emigration to this valley was large and on the increase,\\nand our citizens were earnestly engaged in literally fulfilling the primeval command to multiply and subdue tlie\\nearth, or at least, this part of it\\nThey were also preparing for the great work of changing their political condition of territorial dependence to the\\nindependent position of a State in the Union. But while engaged in these pursuits, we were again called to arras to\\ndefend our soils from the unlawful claims and threatening aggressions of Ohio.\\nIt is customary in these days, when the whole thing is settled and the danger gone by, to smile when the Toledo\\nwar is named, and to regard it as a tempest in a tea-pot. This only proves entire ignorance of the merits of that\\n18.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "contest. There was an unquestionable attempt made by the authorities of Ohio, and in this remark we do not by any\\nmeans include the whole people of that State, backed by a formidable array of force, to plunder from our Territory\\nthe only secure harbor on our southern border, and a large tract of valuable land. Plundering is a strong term, but\\nwe have no milder word that will properly apply to this act of the Legislature and Governor of Ohio.\\nThe boundary of the Territory of Michigan was clearly defined by an act of Congress, so far back as 1805,\\nwhich had never been amended, and which left the disputed tract in Michigan. But Ohio, not with the sanction of\\nCongress, but by the action of her own convention, extended her boundaries so as to include the long narrow strip in\\nquestion, provided, as expressly stated by her own convention, at the time, Congress agreed thereto.\\nSeven or eight times during a period of thirty years, and down to the very time of our contest, Ohio had solicited\\nCongress to sanction her claim, or, in plainer language, to gratify her ambition for territorial aggrandisement, and\\nCongress had, as repeatedly, refused to do so. In the mean time the land, including the harbor at Toledo, was in\\npossession of Michigan. Our towns, counties, and public roads were all arranged within the territory unlawfully\\nclaimed by Ohio, to suit the boundary established by Congress. Such was the strength of our title that the Attorney\\nGeneral of the United States, in an opinion written and published at the request of President Jackson, declared it\\nunquestionable, and the venerable John Quincy Adams, on the floor of the House of Representatives, in a strong\\nprotest, also declared that it would be a gross violation of the plighted faith of the nation to take this land from a\\nfeeble Territory and give it to a powerful State.\\nBut when was unscrupulous ambition ever arrested by simple appeals to the eternal principles of justice and\\nright? Governor Lucas, by virtue of an act of the Ohio Legislature, passed in 183-5, called out a body of his militia\\nto protect the Commissioners appointed to survey the boundary line, and to take possession of the disputed territory\\non behalf of Ohio, by force, if resisted.\\nInformation soon reached Tecumseh, by express, that the Commissioners of Ohio were actually running the\\nboundary line on our .southern border, at the west end of the disputed territory, and had, by a rapid movement,\\nproceeded as far east as about fourteen miles due south of Adrian. Affidavit of the facts having been made by the\\nexpress before a magistrate, agreeable to the provisions of an act of our Legislative Council, passed February 12th,\\n1835, entitled An act to prevent the exerci.se of foreign jurisdiction within the limits of the Territory of Michigan.\\nThe Sherifl of our county, James Patchin, being sick. Deputy Sheriff Colonel William McNair, assisted by General\\nBrown, who was the Agent of our Territory to watch the proceedings of Ohio, soon gathered a posse. Among them,\\nbesides Brown and McNair, were Stillman Blanchard, John Robinson, Moses Wright, Sumner Spofford, O. Hough,\\nBenjamin Baxter, and about twenty more whose names are forgotten. Thepos.se was strengthened in Adrian by a\\nfew recruits, mustering in all about forty armed men, who, by a rapid march, surprised a division of the surveying\\nparty of Ohio, with their military escort, while comfortably refreshing themselves in a house in the wilderness, owned\\nby a man named Phillips. They had not the least suspicion that the Wolverines were on their trail.\\nWhile our posse quietly surrounded the house Colonel McNair and Judge Blanchard entered. The Judge, with\\nhis customery politeness, took of his cap, and after making his best bow, civilly requested them to surrender to his\\nfriend, Colonel McNair, Sheriff of Lenawee County. A.ssuming a belligerent attitude. Colonel Hawkins fiercely\\ndemanded by what authority they presumed to arrest the legal officers of the powerful State of Ohio. Judge\\nBlanchard immediately replied, By the authority of the liCgislative and Executive power of Michigan and in\\norder to make it more emphatic, in a loud voice, so that the outsiders might hear him. Colonel McNair exclaimed,\\nBy virtue of the posse of Wolverines here present we will arrest you. In an instant the Ohioans leveled their\\npieces and threatened to shoot our two friends. At this critical moment the posse gave a sliout that took the pluck\\nout of the invaders, they made a dash for the door and took to their heels, having learned, perhaps, from Hudibras,\\nthat\\nHe who fights and runs aw ay,\\nMay live to fight another day,\\nBut he who is in battle slain\\nWill never live to fight again.\\nAs they were fleeing for the woods a few guns fired over their heads, by order of Gen Brown, brought some of\\nthem to a stand. The surveyor and eight of the party were captured and brought to Tecumseh, to be dealt with\\naccording to law.\\nThe Ohio commissioners were at the time in another house, not far from that of Phillips. They with the\\nremainder of the armed force, frightened at the report of fire-arms, left their f.iends to take care of themselves and\\nfled into the woods where they could not be found, Thus ended the first scene of this border drama.\\nThe second was played at Maumee, and is well described by Colonel Hascall, who witnessed the performance, in\\nthe following extract of a letter we will take the liberty of reading\\nMonroe, April 28, 1835.\\nDbar Sib I have just returned to this place from Ohio, having left here on Saturday last, with dispatches from the Executive of\\nMichigan to His Excellency, Robert Lucas, Governor of Ohio. I found hiiu at Maumee, accompanied by a military force, consisting of\\nabout five hundred men, commanded by a Colonel Brush. I immediately learned from the Governor that the object of this great\\nnulitary array was for the protection of the Ohio Commissioners, who were then engaged in running the line in dispute between Ohio and\\nMichigan, which he was determined should be run whatever might be the consequen ^es to use his own language peacefully if he\\ncould forcibly if he must.\\nAbout this time one of the Commissioners arrived, bringing intelligence that he had made his escape from at armed fon-e, supposed\\nto be the Sheriff and his posse from the county of Lenawee, that soon after he started he heard the report of guns, and supposed the\\nmost of his party were taken or killed. Soon after another of the Commissioners arrived with a more favorable\\nreport, that the Commissioners had succeeded in making their escape, and but nine of the party were arrested, among whom were three\\n19.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "Colonels, viz.: Fletcher, Soo t, and Hawkins. Colonel Hawkins is also a member of the Senate of that State. This was unexpccteil to\\nHis I xcellency, for he had jnst stated to the United States Commissioner and myself that not one of the men would be taktn alivc,and\\nthat he had sent a surgeon and assistants to take charge of the woun led and dead.\\nAs much s it is to be regretted that Ohio will even attempt to enforce the act of her Legislature, extending her jurisdiction over a\\npart of our Territory, and that after being advised by the law officer of the General Government that the same is miconstitutional, etill I\\nconfess I was somewhat amused at witnessing the safe arrival of (ieneral Taylor, (one of the Commissioners.) Paint for your own\\namusement a General making his escape from a powerful enemy^that is, the Tecumseh posse through a most dismal swamj), the water\\nmost of the way, up to his middle, for the distance of twenty-tive miles, in the dead of night- and you will he able to form a distant idea\\nof the martial appearanrr presented by tiencral Taylor on his arrival at Maumee. Before I lelt Maumee it was generally understood that\\nan order was issued for ten thousand men.\\nTims the curtaiu closed over the second scene. This eventful dranui was now trau.sferred to Toledo, where the\\nthird scene was pltiycd out.\\nGovernor Lucas declared that a court should be organized at Toledo, on a certain day, to extend the civil\\njurisdiction of Ohio over the disputed territory, and that he would have on the ground 10,000 armed men from\\nSoullui ii Oliiii. if rei|iiire(l to protect the sittings of the court.\\n^Michigan, on the other hand, by order of her Governor, a day or two before the expeetctl arrival of the troops\\nfrom Oliio, sent to Toledo a detachtnent of 1,-500 tis determined men as ever shouldered a musket or fired a ritle, under\\ntiic conunand of the now venerable President of this As.sociation, General Joseph W. Brown.\\nAs cdiumaiider of the l()rccs of Jlichigan in the Ulack Hawk expedition. General Brown had acquitted himself\\nto the entire satisfaction of tiic Territorial and National autliorities. As commander of tlie Toledo expedition he\\njjcrformed liis duties equally well, anil secured all that was designed by the expedition, which was to preve-u. jic\\nExecutive of Ohio fruin tranipling upon the rights of the people of Michigan.\\nHaving learned that sometlung more than braggadocia was required to scare the Wolverines of Micliigan into\\nsubmission to his l)oasted million of freemen, Ciovernor Lucas halted his troops outside of the coveted territory,\\nand without the range of our fire, which movement was speedily followed by the return of the militia of Ohio to their\\nhomes, and also terminated the brilliant military career of that renowned warrior and commander of the army and\\nnavy of a great State, Governor Robert Lucas, of Ohio. And thus ended the third scene of the drama.\\nThe fourth and last scene was played in the halls of our National Congress. What Ohio could not obtain by\\nthreats of violence, she .secured by her political strength and by legislative intrigue. Ohio, with her twelve votes in\\nCnnunss, was politically strong; Michigan, without a vote, was politically weak. The di-sgraeeful scenes were then\\nwitne! sed in our National Capitol of yielding to the arrogant demands of Ohio, and breaking, in the language of\\nthat noble old man, John Quincy Adams, the nation s plighted faith to the toil-worn pioneers of Michigan. When\\nthe act was consumated, despoiling us of our lawful territory, universal indignation prevailed in Michigan, especially\\namong the citizens of this valley, who were more immediately interested in the result. The feeling was ojienly\\nex]ircss((l ill no measured terms. We had a right to regard it as a sacrifice of political weakness to political strength,\\nof piiiici|)le to power, and of common honesty to degraded partisan expediency.\\nThere was no merit in the act of Congress giving us in exchange the Lake Superior district, for this was before\\nthe discovery of its wealth of mines and minerals, ai;d it was regarded on all hands as almost worthless. But it was\\nan admission on the part of Congress that the attitude of Michigan was right, and as such a public tribute of respect\\nfor a jieople who had so manfully defended their soil from the attempted aggression of a powerful neighbor.\\nBLISSFIELD;\\nJS, v^ I HE following sketdi of Blis.sfield Was written by James T. Kcdzie, of that place The town of Blissfield,\\ni|;;v 4|JL Lenawee County, originally comprised town.ship seven south, of range five east. At its organization, in 1827,\\n^/(^ij^ Jic towns of Palmyra, Ogdcn, Riga, and the territory south to the Maumee river were in its boundaries.\\nThe ojganization of the above towns, at a later period, left us with only a territory six miles .square, which was\\ncovered with a heavy growth of timber black walnut, hickory, whitewood, etc. William Kcdzie, of Delhi, Delaware\\nCounty, New York, entered at the United States Land Office, at Monroe, May d, 1824, the first lands sold by the\\nGovernment in this town, on Sections twelve, thirteen and fourteen. Henry Bliss, from Jlonroe County, made his\\n20,", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "purchase June 19th, on Sections twenty-nine and thirty, moved his family into the town in December of the same\\nyear, and was the first inhabitant. It was this circumstance that gave its name to the town. Gideon West, from\\nthe same place, made his purchase June 28th, 1823, on Section twenty-nine, and moved on with his family in January,\\n1825, and for a time was the only neighbor to JMr. I31iss, nearer than ten miles. George Giles purchased his farm on\\nFebruary 23d, 1825, but did not move his family on until the spring of 1826, when he located on Seetiun thirty-one.\\nAlmond Harrison, from Berkshier, Massachusetts, niatie his purchase September 17th, 1825, on Section thirty, and\\nbegan immediately to chop and clear, preparatory to building a log house, in which to put a young wife from his\\nnative State, Samuel Buck, a young man, late of Ohio, purcliased a farm on Section twenty-nine, October 29th, 1825,\\nand believing the injunction that it is not good that man should be alone, chose a helpmeet in the person of Miss\\nMargaret Frary, (step-daughter of Gideon West,) and when he had prepared his cage, was married November 2od,\\n182(3. This was the first wedding, but not the only one; on the same day Mr. George Stout was married to Miss\\nDelight Bliss. There was no one authorized to perform the marriage ceremony nearer than Monroe, and therefore\\nthey had to send a messenger to that place (thirty miles) on foot, (no horses in the town) expiessly to call Loren\\nMarsh, a Justice of the Peace in and for that county, it being taken for granted that he could officiate in the\\nunorganized counties of the Territory.\\nOn May 14th, 1826, William Kedzie, with his family, was landed on the pier in La Plaisance Bay, from the\\nsteamer Niagara, no communication with the shore, not even a canoe, and no shelter to protect them. The floor\\nwas so covered with boxes of merchandize that only a small spot near the edge could be found where his wife and\\nchildren could lie down, and there he had to watch all night for fear they would fall into the deep water. The next\\nday in the afternoon a small sail vessel came down the river, on which they were conveyed to the landing near the\\nvillage of Monroe. The next October, after building a log house, and before the doors and windows were in, they\\nmoved into the woods five miles from any inhabitant, and were greeted on the first night by a jubilee of wolves.\\nEarly in the spring of 1827 quite an immigration came into the town, namely: Benjamin and DaLiel H. C lark,\\nJonas Ray, Anthony McKey, and Benjemin Tibbitts in the north part, and Isaac and Samuel Randall, Morris\\nBurch, Ebenezer Gilbert, Edward Calkins, Jacob and John Lane, John Preston, Ezra W. Gofl and his sons, Whiting,\\nTimothy B., and Wiiliard, who were all voters, in the south part.\\nMay 28th, 1827, the first town meeting was held at the house of Hervey Bliss, for the election of township\\nofficers, at which time William Kedzie was chosen Supervisor Ezra W. Gotf, Town Clerk A. McKey, Jacob Lane,\\nMoses Valentine, Assessors Almond Harrison, John Lane, A. McKey, Commissioners of Highways; Sanmel Randall,\\nConstable and Collector Gideon West and George Giles, Overseers of the Poor William Kedzie, Isaac Randall, and\\nSam. Randall, Fence Viewers Hervey Bliss and George Giles, Pound Masters and William Kedzie, Hervey Bliss,\\nGeorge Giles, and Benjamin (Jlark, Pathmasters. There were twenty offices to fill, and only thirteen candidates.\\nThe result was, all were elected, some to two, and in one instance a man filled three offices. That Tttle band of\\npioneers, who then laid the foundation of this town, have all passed away, except Almond Harrison, who still remains\\nthe connecting link between the first and second generations.\\nThe first minister that visited our town was Rev. J. A. Baughman, of the M. E. Church, in the fall of 1827.\\nThe first birth occurred on October 3d, 1827, and was that of Lucinda, daughter of the first married couple. The\\nfirst boy born was George Giles, Jr., on October 23d, 1827.\\nThe first school house, built of logs, in the summer of 1827, stood on what is now the north-east corner of Adrian\\nand Monroe streets, in our village. The first school master was Chester Stuart, of Monroe, at a salary of $13 per\\nmouth and board found. The names of Thomas F. Dodge and George W. Ketchum are also among those of the\\nearly teachers of our young Wolverines. The first school house at Kedzie s Grove, in the north part of the town, was\\nbuilt in the fall of 1829, and the first and only teacher was Miss Caroline Amelia Bixby, of the town of Logan (now\\nAdrian.)\\nAs early as February 22d, 1829, the First Presbyterian Church was organized by Rev. Alanson Darwin, of\\nTecumseh.\\nThe first State or Territorial election was held on July 11th, 1831, when twenty-nine votes were given for\\nDelegate to Congress. Austin E. Wing received fourteen votes, Samuel W. Dexter nine, and John R. Williams six.\\nWOODSTOCK;\\n3S^(^^f ^HE following sketcli of Woodstock was written by Alvin C. Osborn, of that place: In June, 1824, my\\nI father, .Jesse Osborn, in company with my uncle, Alvin Chase, and others of our old neighbors, left Enfield,\\nThonipkius County, New York, to go viewing the southern part of t!i3 State ol Ohio. Ou their way, in\\ncrossing Lake Erie in a schooner, they fell in with many others on a like errand, to find a place to make a future\\n21. f*", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "horue, and as the Territory of Michigan was just bcinsr surveywl and coniins into market, and as it seemed to offer\\ngreater indiuviiionis. they ohangiHl ilieir anirst aiui came to Miehig-au. After stopping a few daj-s at MounH\\\\ they\\niiireil a Kreiiohmjin to aet as a giiiile. Then they traveleil wi st uutil they i-ame to KiJgway. where mi st of them\\nafter coing b;\u00c2\u00bbck to MonrvK\\\\ }niri h:ise\u00c2\u00abl huid however, not one l^f them ever settled on it. A short time after another\\ncvimpauv, amoni: whom was General Bn wu and Miisgrove Evans, eanie on as far as Teounu-eh and purohaseil hind.\\nAnd mv father hearing its Ix-ing a Unter KH aiion for a town, and having Ixnter water privilegvs. also came to\\nTeoumseh and lH ught land on Evan s Creek, in the wt^t p:\u00c2\u00bbrt of the now village of Tixnmisoh, north of where Judge\\nStaev s house now stands. My father then went Knek to the State of New York, K ld his pn^jHTiy then?, and in August\\nof tlie vear li 24. starte\u00c2\u00abl Ivaek to Michigan, taking his wife and tiunily of six children in a t\\\\vi. -hor^e iwereti wagvin.\\nSome of the children are still living. We came to Butlalo with our team, where we shipiW on IxKinl ot a schix ner\\nfor Detrviit. On our trip up the lake we met a ste:imlv it going down on her first trip. As we came up the Detrvnt\\nKiver we were shown the resideniv of Governor Oisss. on the Ix irden? of the city, it IxMug a double log house, and\\nafter we laudeil I Si\u00c2\u00bbw Governor Cass himself, and well do I r^memlvr how he Knikeil then. Frv ni Deirv it we startetl\\nfor MouriH\\\\ making the trip in one wei k the French inhabitants told us that our team was the first that had jvvssed\\nover the ro;\u00c2\u00bbil since the war of 1812. The ei vering ras all gx. ue from the l ridges. the stringer* only remaining some\\nstreams we fordeil, and s*ime of the bridges we covenHJ by cutting round poles. At Monrvx\u00c2\u00bb the only vai-jint house we\\ncould tind was up the river abi^ut tive miles, on the north side of the city it was a log hotise. and it had not been\\ninhabited since the war. on aiixnmt. as the Frvni-h told us. of a woman and live childnni having Ixxni munle:eil then?\\nbv the Iidians: the blo xl stains wen? yet upon the tliK r. At the town of R;isinville we stopjxHl for a short time, and\\nwith a part of our gvxnls, leaving the rest with my oldest sister, then about twelve years of age, we went on to Teinunseh\\np-Lssing up the river on the nonh side, we found it settKxi for ten miles alxne M mi-ix by the French, from this on to\\nTet unisoh it was one vast wilderne:^;: we were six days in going fnnu R:u iuville to Tei-amseh. twenty-five miles. We\\nrxMnaiuetl alxnit six weeks at Tivum. eh. during which time \\\\Te n lleil up the Kxly of a log house. I well n member\\nseeing my mother and s me Indians helping at the work help Ix-ing very searce at that time. We then went Iwck\\nto Monnx% where we staid thn ugh tlie winter of 1824 and 2o, my fother working with his team to supjwrt hkf.imily.\\nIn the spring of 1825 we movevi l\u00c2\u00abck to Teeum*eh, and lived in a shanty near where the depot now stands. We so^m\\nfinis .ied off our house by putting on eaves mad\u00c2\u00ab of shakes, and h:uigingup a blanket for a door. We moved iu iu the\\nsummer.\\nWe raises! s^ime corn, and there being no mill to grind it, we nwdea mortar by hollowing the end of a white log.\\nwhich SvTveil the purjxise of a mill. Iu the fiill of 1825 we sowe^l the first wheat that was sown iu Leuaweo County\\nwe cut the wheat alnxit the first day of July. 182t My lather tix k it to the mill, and fn^ni it w:is made the first tlour\\never ground iu L.^nawee Couoty, out of which Mrs. General Bmwn made ctxke for the first Fourth of July i-elebration,\\nheld in Teoumseh in the year 182l In the winter of 182l\u00c2\u00bb and 27 my father went to Coldwater with two teanvs, to\\ncarrv some pmvisions to the surveyors, who wen^ running out the land into township*? and sectii\u00c2\u00bbi\u00c2\u00bbs, it Ixuug tlie first\\nteam that was ever then or west of Tecun\u00c2\u00bbs. h. He went with a sptin of horses and a yoke of oxen a hinnl man\\nby the name of David Hawk dn^veone of the teanvs and my father the i^her. It to^ik them eleven days to make the\\ntrip, and when they got to Hog Creek, alxnit ten miles fn :u C ld\\\\vater. thoy unyokeil their oxen and turneii them out\\nto bn use; there IxMiig mi hay, the oxen went bi\u00c2\u00bbck hom-.\\\\ which grieve\\\\i them much at the time, but it pn^bably was\\nthe means of sjwriug their lives. ITiey went on to Coldwater with their horse team, auil then came back and tix k the\\nother load, which detaineil them several days. Tlie weather was very cold: it snowed and blowt\\\\l all the time atler\\nthey had left Coldwater to return home; sti much snow had fiillen that it cvnenxl up their tracks, and jis they did not\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0nark any trees when they went out. it was almost imjx ssible to find their w.iy Ivu-k. Km they finally reaeheil home\\nall safe and sound, following the tracks of the oxen, which had gone Ix for^ them.\\nThe first white woman in the ciMinty was the young wife of Peter Benson, who. with her husband. w:is in tbo\\nemploy of Messtis. Evans it Crane. The next was Abbie Evans, wife of Musgiwe Evans, and sister to General\\nJosi ph Br.iwn. She was a very estiiiuible lady, of the Quaker onler. Messrs. Bnnvn and Evans Ixuight the laud\\nwherj Te\u00c2\u00ab.-um. eh now stands. They built the first mill, and did much for theplaix^: they were very kind heartetl men,\\nand excellent neighbors. Mr. Brown kept the fii^t hotel at the lower end of the town, near the court house. The\\nfirst schixd kept in the county w.as taught by G^vrge Taylor. The first Sheritf in the c^niuty was James Pachiu the\\nfirst blacksmith was Turner Stets\u00c2\u00ab^ u the fin?t doctor w:is Caleb Xoble Ornisby. and a Ixtter man never livitl. Stetson\\nand Ormsby l\u00c2\u00bbth moved to Adrian. The first gvxxls were sold by a Mr. WoKvtt. The first miller was Silvenus\\nBlackmore, the first settler of Cambridge township. The first minister of the gi^sjx l was Elder Darwin, of the\\nPresbyterian chun*h. Soon after the settlement of Tecuinseh was i. ommeucetl the settlement of Adrian w.is begun.\\nI renumlx^r am urg the people who stoppeil at my fathers house, on their way to Adrian, wsis Mr. A. J. Cooistock iuid\\nMr. Bixby, with their families.\\nIn the fall of 1824, while at Tecumseh. mv mother lxx?:nue une.asy .ibout my sister that was left at Kaisinville,\\namonj strangers that i.\\\\ uld hanlly speak or understand a won! of English. She startt l to ride to Kaisinville with a\\n!Mr. Wolcott, taking with her the two yon-gest children. When alxnit two miles west of Big Frarie, twelve miles trom\\nany inhabitant, he bn ke his w.igon tongue. He left mv mother then? with her two childn u, and went K-jck to\\nTecumseh to get another wagvm: when he arriveil there it w:is t H late to return. He then informed my father when^\\nmy mother wa*. ami he startetl on horsob;\u00c2\u00bbck to fiud her. But it became so dark en? long that he was obligi?d to halt\\nand wait for the morm to rise; hefinallv came up with my mother, and found that she, he.-iring the sound of horses,\\nfeet, had loadeti the gun which was iu the wagon, and wjis prep;mxl for ;uiy emergency.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "In the winter of 1825, while my father was gone to Mom-oe, there came to our house one day, about sundown, a\\ndozen Indians, who asked for something to eat. My niotlici- showed them a tin pan about two-thirds full of corn, and\\nnuide them understand that was all she had. This seenie l to satisfy them. She set the corn down, and one of the\\nIndians commenced putting it in his blanket. My mother seized a pair of old-fashioned tire tongs, drew them over\\nher head, and told him to lay it down. He laid it down, looked up at her, and said, Me she .shin, chemis coman,\\nwhich means, good white woman.\\nCAMBRIDGE:\\n_ OR the following we are indebted to Mr. F. A. Dewey: This town lies in the north-western part of\\n-\u00e2\u0080\u00a2iiis County and is very well known at the present day, as an excellent tract of land for the production of\\n|/A5grain and stock, excelled by none, in beef cattle, sheep and swine, which are of the choicest grades ard very\\nnumerous.\\nI would here mention that the north half of the town is somewhat of a rolling nature, interspersed with many\\nbeautiful, clear lakes bountifully supplied with fish, the soil is generally of a sand and gravel loam, interspersed with\\nlime, and is well adapted for wheat the timber is mostly what is termed oak openings.\\nThe south half is middling level, what was called heavy timbered land, abounding with large and stately oaks,\\nmajestic black-walnut, and an exhaustless supply of white wood, sugar maple and ash. There are two streams of\\nwater, the Wolf Creek and S(iuaw Creek the latter derived its name from the many Indian corn fields on its banks.\\nThe above were in the primitive state of nature before the woodman s axe had leveled the forest when the Indian,\\nthe wolf, elk, bear and the deer were entitled to the territory.\\nIn the year 1825 the great military road from Djtroit to Chicago was surveyed through the uorth [part of the\\ntown, a number of years before a white inhabitant had erected his cabin there.\\nThe records at the United States land office, show that John Gilbert, of Monroe County, New York, entered the\\nfirst land bought in town, 160 acres on Section four, in the month of June, 1825. The second lot was purchased four\\nyears later, in 1829, by Isaac Powers, of Washtenaw County, Michigan Territory, consisting of eighty acres on Section\\nthree purchase made December 1st. The third, by Charles Blackmar, of Lenawee County, Michigan Territory, July\\n11th, 1831. Mr. Blackmar was the first actual settler having, erected the only house in the township, two\\nyears before buying the land, where the traveler ever found a hearty welcome, and was refreshed with the choisest\\nselections from the forest. I will not omit to do justice to the memory of one I knew .so well. He was a true\\nspecimen of the undaunted men who led the way to this great, growing, and now populoas county, erecting his house,\\nwith the aid of the Indians, fifteen miles from the nearest settlement, where, with his wife and children, he was\\nmonarch of all. His horses and catile roamed at will for miles around. His home was a stranger to everything l)iit\\ngenerous friendship and true hospitality. But when the scourge of the world, called cholera, was wafti d from the\\nEastern to the Western Hemisphere, in its desolate tract the high and low were made to mourn. This black cloud of\\nan epidemic went over our fertije county. In the remote and primitive home of Colonel Charles Blackmar a strantrer\\ndied with the disease; the landlord was also taken, and died in le.ss thirty hours. Thus passed away, in August, 1834\\na noble and good man, who had lived to see his isolated home in the midst of a thriving settlement.\\nHia labors are o er he i i gone to his rest,\\nTo the throne of his Maker, the home of the ble.st.\\nThe second great enterprise or public improvement made in our town, was the LaPleasance Bay Turnpike, via\\nTecumseh, intersecting the Chicago road at Cambridge, which was laid out in 1832. Immediately after that roads\\nwere opened, the woodman s axe was heard in the place of the howl of the wolf and the bear; the cheerful loo-\\nhouse was erected in all directions the ground was fitted for the seed corn and wheat, and thus prosperity, with the\\ntrue and generous hospitality which prevails in all new settlements, united the good citizens in bonds of friendship and\\ngood will to all.\\nThe first school house was erected in 1834, in the east part of the town, and a school was also taught in the west\\npart, at the house of Mr. Pratt, in the summer of 1837, scholars coming the distance of four miles to learn to read", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "and spell. In 1836 the first post-office was established, and Abram Butterfiekl was post-master. Tlie same year a saw\\nmill was built on the far-t aiiied Wolf Creek, which in speculative times was reported in Eastern cities as navigable\\nfor the largest class of steamboats from Lake Erie to the lakes in Cambridge. City lots bordering on the stream sold\\nfor fabulous prices, wild-rat money was then circulated in uncut reams.\\nThe first ministers of the gospel were Elder Davidson, of the ]\\\\Iethodist society, and Rev. William N. Lyster, of\\nthe Episco])al Church. The latter moved from Tccumseh, built his house on the banks of Sand Lake, amid the\\ntowering oaks, where the secluded eagle had made her nest.\\nThe first store was opened by Hart T. II. ^losher, in the j ear 1836. Mr. Mosher continues the business now,\\nand I think we can .\u00c2\u00abafely say he has sold merchandise for a longer period of time than any one in the county.\\nThe first town meeting was held in 1836, at the house of Abram Butterfield. Isaac Powers was chosen Supervisor\\nPaul Geddcs Town Clerk and Justice of the Peace James Geddes Treasurer. There were twenty-si.K voters, and\\nthey were very much nuited. At this election Elder Tripp voted an Abolition ticket, and made the remark:\\nGentlemen, this is the first egg laid for this town it will annually increase. We have seen the progress, until the\\nUnited States have been shaken to the center. For the four first years Isaac Powei-s was elected Suj)ervisor, and in\\n1840, the pioneers being fully up to the spirit of political strife, the south woods men came out and Svlve.ster Walker\\nwas elected by a large majority, since which, with the exception of three terms, the whole Democratic ticket has\\nprevailed.\\nAmong the early incidents of the fgrest life we will mention two. Late in the foil of 1836 Mrs. Ousted, in\\npassing through the woods, nearly a mile from any house, met a large panther who disputed the right of way, but her\\ncourage was equal to the emergency, and she drove the varmint up a tree. A short time after that a large and\\npowerful bear put him.self in the way of a fiw boys; his jaws were already fastened to a boys neck; the squealinw\\nwas tremendous. No men were within a mile. Mrs. Owens, equal to any emergency, ran with the first ready weapon,\\na pitch-fork, and plunged it deep into the side of the huge monster; the boy was left staggering; the bloody trail of\\nthe bear was followed by hunters, who shot him. His weight was nearly four hundred pounds.\\nIn the year 1838 three of the Loveland family were killed by lightning.\\nOf the first settleis, we can say they were families of enterprise and perseverance. With Colonel Charles\\nBlackmar, Mr. Creg, and the Smith s on the north side. Elder Tripp, Mr. Wheeler, and Rev. William N. Ly.ster on\\nthe east side; Mr. Morton, Mr. Rogers, and Mr. Sparks on the south side; Mr. Pratt and Mr. Redfield on the west\\nside The latter lived on the highest lands of the township.\\nThe town has had the honor of sending three men to the State Legislature, viz Albert Wilcox, Thomas H.\\nJlosher, and Sylvester Walker. A State Senator was also nominated, but, in the political party conflicts, lost the\\nelection. In the quiet calling of the County Agricultural Society, C. H. Dewey has been twice elected President.\\nFor lawyers, Cambridge has never seemed to present a very inviting field, whether because of its remoteness from\\nthe county seat or because of the high moral and consequent peaceable character of its inhabitants, I do not know.\\nUntil proof to the contrary is furnished we may assume the latter.\\nCANANDAIGUA:\\n?N the summer of 1833 there was a company of gentlemen, four in nnmber, having heard of Tiffin s River,\\nas laid down on the map (now called Bean Creek,) came to Adrian for the purpose of vistiting the river and\\npascertainiug the situation of water poAvers, if any on the stream, and employed Noah Norton (who had a\\ncompass, and was well acquainted with section lines, etc.,) to officiate as pilot, and prepared themselves with suitable\\nprovisions, frying-pan, tiu kettle, etc., for a few days tramp. I had seen but little of Michigan then, and propo-sed to\\ngo with them, and made the arrangements by paying my proportion of the outfit, and started, on the 4th of July, by\\nway of Mudge s Corners (so called) about three miles south, Mr. Bradish and some others had located there, f rom\\nthence we started on an under-brushed path to Samuel Jordon s, who had located near the south bend of the River\\nRaisin, and the end cf civilization. We then started for Bean Creek, by compass, and after traveling about two\\nmiles wo struck an old deep-trodden Indian trail, which led us through to the creek where Canandaigua village is now\\n24.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "situated. It was an oak opening of about 150 acres; trees scattering, and little underbrush very level and covered\\nwith flowers of every hue, the most beautiful spot I ever saw in the wilderness, situated between Bean Creek and\\nBear Creek, one eraptyniug into the Mauniee River and the other into the River Raisin. We put up at an old Indian\\nshanty. It rained, and the mosquitoes seemed as though they thought we were intruders, and meant to have every\\ndrop of our hearts blood. Our shanty leaked, and we had a poor night s rest. I looked around iu the morning, while\\nthe others were preparing our breakfast, and found a section corner. We were on tiie south-east corner of section one,\\ntownship south, range one east. We then started, taking the windings of the creek down to Silver Creek, a little\\nbelow where Morenci is now situated, but found nothing to suit the water power men, so we returned to our old bark\\nshanty, and the next day to Adrian. Two of the men were not sati-sfied thought there must be some fall on Bean\\nCreek before entering the ^laumee River, so they hired horses and Mr. Norton, and went down the creek into the\\nedge of Ohio, and on some of the wet prairies lost their lines, and it being near night they put up at the World s\\nHotel, having the canopy of heaven for a roof One of the horses got out of the stable and could not be found, so\\nthey came back to Adrian, cursed the country, paid Isaac French $tiO for the horse and left. In November the horse\\nfound its way back to Adrian as fat as a seal.\\nIn 1834 Fairfield was set oft from Blissfield, embracing the townships west, and in 1835 Seneca was set off from\\nFairfield, and we held our town meeting at Jacob Baker s, polling twenty-six votes. There were more voters, but\\nthey had business of more importance than town meetings. In 183(3 Medina was set off from Seneca, being township\\neight south, range one east, and a portion of nine south, extending to the State line, and so remains. Gershum,\\nBennett, and Hagaman moved in with their families in Decembar, 1833, and being above want, hired some men, and\\nmade quite an opening, and in the spring of 1834 put in a number of a;res to spring crops. It was the first opening,\\nthe first log cabin, and the first families iu that section of the country. In the spring of 1834 Cook, Hotchkiss, John\\nKnapp, Charles Pri.sby, and some others moved in with their families, and in the summer Simon D. Wilson, Jacob\\nBaker, Daniel Salisbury, E. Walworth, and several others came in with their families, and emigration increased\\nrapidly.\\nIn 1833, by the memorial of our Governor and others, Congress appropriated $10,000 for cutting out and making\\npassable a road from Vistula to the Indiana line. Commissioners were appointed, and commenced the work in 1834,\\nand finished in 1835, called the Territorial Road, which encouraged many to locate and settle near the road, among\\nwhom were Paul Raymond, K. J. Baldwin, Jeptha Whitman, Hiram Wakefield, Djnnis Wakefield, Orville\\nWoodworth, James McCriller, and many others. The road ran through a large section of excellent land. Mr.\\nCavander moved on his premises, and in March, 1835, I went there and built me a log house, twenty by thirty feet,\\ntook my lumber from this place, and moved my family .Ipril 16th. Soon after I made an addition of twelve feet to\\none side for a cook-room and dining-room, and came to Adrian to purchase some groceries, whisky and brandy,\\nand told them I was going to keep tavern. They thought that was a novel idea, and laughed at me, and had their\\nown fun about it. I told them all I wanted of them was to send on the land lookers and in June and July I had\\nmore customers than I could attend to, frequently from twelve to twenty at a time, and one night thirty-five laud\\nlookers.\\nIn less than six months every eighty acre lot fit for farming purposes, within ten miles, was taken up by actual\\nsettlers, with the exception of a few small tracts taken by speculators, and the most of them from the Eastern States,\\nmen of talent and enterprise. Ijchallenge this State, or any other, to produce as many public men with so few inhabitants,\\nwithin five miles north and south, and two miles east and west, which includes the two small villages of Medina and\\nCanandaigua. Medina had the honor of sending Laurin Hotchkiss to the Legislature one terra, Ebenezer Daniels\\none term, and one of the committee to frame our State Constitution, and Artemus Allen one term. In Canandaigua,\\nFhilo Wilson two terms, and Judge of the Court of Common Pleas, and Dr. Rufus Kibbe a Senatorial term, and\\nwithin the limits above described, F. J. Hagaman one term, Noah K. Green one term, and Dr. James Sweeney one\\nterm. The records will show, all in fifteen years, and betwei^n 1835 and 1850, and the whole population on the\\nlimits described did not exceed 1,000 at any one time. The most of the public men named have lived in log cabins.\\nWe are indebted to Samuel Gregg for the above facts.\\nHUDSON;\\nI^PIE following short sketch of early times in Hudson we take from quite an extended history of the place, written by Jaraea\\nLaird What is now called Hudson, was first called Bean Creek, then Lanesville, until finally, by common consent, it\\n^^took on the name given to the Township by Mr. Hiram Kidder, from the fact ihat Dr. Hudson, of Geneva, ;N. Y., was one\\nvof the first land owners in the town. The first settler in tlie township, then with Madison, Dover and Palmyra, forming one\\nlong township called Lenawee, was Hiram Kidder, from Yates County, N. Y and his wife and family. Mr. Kidder reached Bean\\nCreek (so called from the quantity of bean timber that grew on its banks,) October 29th, 1833. He took up about 500 acres of land.\\nIn 1836, the settlement was formally recognized as Lanesville, and a commission issued by Amos Kendall, Post-master (jeneral of\\nthe U. S., to B. H. Lane as post-master. In 1840 the Indians were sent away. In 1841 a schoolhouse wa.s built on the west side, 24x40.\\nIt was also used by the Congregational, Methodist and other religious societies as a church. In the fall of 41 the ribbons (or 2x4 pieces\\nof hard maple timber) were laid and cars draWn by hor.ses came to Lanesville. In 1842-3 the first locomotive crossed Bean Creek. It\\nWas called the Comet. Hudson wa-s organized as a vilhtge in 1853 The first newspaper published in Hudson was the Sentinel by T. D.\\nMontgomery.\\n25.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "COMSTOCK BROS,\\nMANUFACTURERS OF\\nDOORS, SASH, BLINDS,\\nf %\u00c2\u00a7iimg, f iiimg If \u00c2\u00a9miiimg, piiitms, ^0.,\\nAt their Flaning Mill, Dmsios Street, AdfiaSj Mich,\\nALSO MANUFACTURERS AND PROPRIETORS OP THE\\nttiM\\n^1\\nGuaranteed to be the Easiest and Best Spring Bed in Use.\\nWE WILL liEFUXD THE PURCHASE MONEY OF ANY BED SOLD BY US IF IT DOES\\nNOT PROVE TO BE ABSOLUTELY NOISELESS AND BETTER THAN\\nANY BED IN MARKET REGARDLESS OF COST.\\nCall on ov Aclclress\\nPlaning Mill, near the Freight Depot.\\ncoivcstooik: sTtas.,\\nADRIAN, MICH.\\n26.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "H. BREWER CO.,\\n3VtuA.KrXJF.A.CTTJREnS OF\\nSTEAM ENGINES\\nm\\n51, T-^ Tlilr im. tfHii\\nALSO MANUFACTURERS OF THE\\nOPPOSITE RAILROAD DEPOT.\\nirain file Machlns, Tifanj Patent Oiw\u00c2\u00a9f Fip\u00c2\u00a9 MaeMae,\\nEw0fi fateat Siick Machiaej Fapex iagiaeg, e,,\\nTEGUMSEH^ MICH.\\n27.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "GRAND OPENING OF NEW GOODS\\nT APT BAILEY,\\nHave returned from the Eastern market, and are opening out a Mammoth Stock of\\nS lODIH S AHD BOYS CLOTHING,\\nTHE LARGEST AND BEST ASSORTED STOCK OF\\nIn the City. Also, a Fine Line of\\nCLOTHS,\\nBEAVERS,\\nVESTINGS,\\nC^SSIMIEIIES,\\nEtc, for Merchant TaiUiring, and Capt. Andrews will give you\\nTHE LATEST STYLES.\\nA FIT GUARANTEED. EVERY DEPARTMENT COMPLETE.\\nCOME AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES.\\nTAFT BAILEY^ The One-Price Clothiers.\\n33 JMaumee Street, -A^cli-ian, Iicli.\\n28,", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "TERMS AND CLUB RATES FOR WEEKLY PRESS\\nOne Copy, Fifty-two niimberR fl 50\\nTwenty-six K umbers, Six Months 1 00\\nThirteen Kumbers, Three Months 50\\nMBEEAL mBW EME^T^ TO) QliM B^,\\nlO Copies, One Year, $1 30 Each $13 75\\n15 1 25 is 75\\n20 1 20 24 00\\n25 1 10 27 50\\nThe getter up of a Club t the above KEDUCED prices will be entitled to an extra copy, for one year.\\nThe Club muft be sent at one time and (o one post-ojjicc address. Additions may be made at club rates.\\nB@:\u00e2\u0080\u009eThe above are our lowest cash rates. Post-office orders and registered letters may be sent at our\\nOffice Corner Maurnee and Winter Sts., Masonic Temple.\\nW. A. \\\\VHITNEY, Proprietor.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "KING RICE,\\n^m\\n-i?i^\\n*-^m\\nM-\\nWHOLESALE AJS D EETAIL DEALERS IN\\niMi fe f 1^\\nti\\nNext door to Lawrence House, ADRIAN, MICH.\\n.A-GEISTTS FOK\\neHlGKERlllG, WEBER, KREGER HftlNES BROS. PtftHOS.\\nA Full Sized, Rosewood. First Class Piano, with all Modern Improvements,\\nsold for $275 Everything Else in Proportion.\\n]^^^oniih c?ffp\u00c2\u00bb/. i /t?r ^itiiMf, ^^itcij uiicJ ^imiiian. s plough ^rnum.\\nThis Combination cannot bo Excelled by any ^Makers on earth.\\nPIANOS and ORGANS SOLD on MONTHLY PAYMENTS.\\nKING S -VIT^ IT, IC XM^ G,\\neo^^^3\u00c2\u00bbSC^^^$S!^S Bookseller, Jeweler and Optician,\\n^^k?#[DMOiSTO| BUicf anil KING SPECTACLES,\\nSOi/e AG EN^Cy-^ A T,\\nIVo. S3 IMtiiinxee St.\\nWhhh I lial.lM uit! t.i 111, Ihf ey.; witli iii:illu-iii-.UiC!il nt-curaey.\\nFUJI SiocK 01 Brazilian PetiWes and Crystal Lenses, In RulJlier, Stel, Silver and (JoM .Frames.\\nThe .iliDvo :ir, iiitci-L-liangi alilc, and ouc iiair will last for years.\\nNext Door to the Lawrence House.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "ADRIAN\\nSTORE\\nTHE L^I^O-EST, BEST ^^HSTID\\nCHOICEST STOCK OF TEAS IN ADRIAN\\nCAN BE FOUND AT THE\\nfiA mmmi ef oil\\nWEH WILLI\\nFIRST BOOB WEST OF 31ASON1C TEMPLE.\\ntm\\nMiti\\nI also have a Large and Complete Stock of\\n1^\\ntoutim\\nh\\n.A.3STID THE\\nCHEAPEST SUGARS IN THE CITY.\\nI Sell THREE POUNDS of GREEN TEA for $1.00.\\n1 Sell TWO POUNDS of JAPAN TEA for $1.00.\\nI Sell ONE POUNV of the BEST JAPAN TEA in Lenawee Co., for $1.13.\\ns^ C.A.r.r. .A.ND GET S A.3VII\u00c2\u00bbI-E:S FFIEE\\nHIGHEST PRICE PAID FOR ALL KINDS OF COUNTRY PRODUCE.\\nALL GOODS SOLD FOR CASH.\\n29.\\nh*", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "w. -n: tri r.\\nESTABLISHED 1S63.\\nA I HTXTEE.\\nS.\\\\V. TEMPLE CO..\\nWH T.K iAI.F. AM\\nm.al::i.- in all ki Ii? of\\nLUMBEE, SHINGLES, LATH\\nSASH. DOOES AND BLINDS,\\nNftlLS, PUTTY, PAINTS UNO OILS, HOUSE TRIMMINGS, k.\\nAL50 PROPRIETORS OF-\\nTECUMSEH PLAITIITG MATCHIITG MILLS,\\nCOR. PEARL AXD SHAWNEE STREEIS.\\nOfite vB Sha\u00c2\u00abB\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00ab St-, bc T\u00c2\u00ab\u00c2\u00abQ Fncl uid Rulnad.\\nTECUMSEH, MICH.\\nThewondeifnl progress of this institution, from small begiauings to its present esrtetisive proportions, is deerving\\nof mors than a passing notice. Siuue ten years ago Mr. Temple, wiihoiu capital and without aid in anv shape, other\\nthan that contained in his own dttermintd will, prupelitd by that indomitable energy and Yan :ee pluck characteristic\\nof the race, he procuncd a few loads of iumWr and laid the tbuudation for a business which has now outgrown\\nanything of the kind in the county.\\nThe first rtar he doi-e a little local trade of about 2.(XH) but by a steady, constant and pemstant application to\\nbusiness, ever Waring in micd the importance of keeping taith with the public, by dealing on lair, honorable busines\\nprinciples, thereby giving general satisfaction, it has steadily continued on the increase until the present time, when\\nthe sales f r the current year, we are told, will rea h at least ^venty-five thousand dollars.\\nThis is truly a very creditable showing for Mr. Temple not only because of the grand success attained from\\nwhat setmed in the first place to be rather a dubious enterpr but also because that that success has so largely con-\\ntributed to the advancement of the industrial and commervial interests of the place.\\nWe were surprised to find the extent of territory, penetrated by the busine^ operstioBS of this etstaUishment,\\nso large. In alxHit every section of this county, and in several of the adjoining counties, the people have learned of\\nthe advantages acvrtiing to themselves by purchasing their lumbe thei. house trimmings, glass, nails, paints and oils\\nat this popular house, and hence the secret of so large and extended trade. Of the dior. sash and blind manufactory,\\nconnected with this establishment, we cannot speak in dotail. but we bslieve that it is admitted on all hands that the\\nwork turned out here is the mv ?t perfect in workmanship of anything of the kind which has yet appeared in the\\nmarket, and is eagerly siHight after all over the country. If then, without capital to commence with, and the\\nconsequent difficulties and embarr^vsfments arising therefrom, a final and complete success has been attained, the career\\nof the new combinaiiou, jusi fbrm..Hi. cannot be problematical. When such a man as Andrew J. Hunter, whose\\ncharacter for probity in the perfbnuauce of all the a irs of life, and which is so well known, not only here, but\\nthrviughout the whole country, concludes, after deliberate investigation, to embark in this enterprise, and invests a\\nportion of his large capital therein, it is a sure guarantee that the public will he fairly dealt with, and that Tecuniseh\\nwill have one of the l;\u00c2\u00bb. r.-st cstiblishaients of the kind in this section of the Scale. 7V\u00c2\u00ab-hj\u00c2\u00bbwA Hiraid, Junf. 1S73.\\n30.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "CARRIAGE\\nEST-AJBLISHZEID 1851.\\nTHOS. CUM:m:INS. Prop r.\\nRAILROAD STRBXST, TECUBISEH, nilGH.\\nALL OESCRIPTIONS OF CARRIRGES ON HAND OR MADE TO ORDER.\\nWHeBHIlllTEi IS ilPRESEMTEO\\nREPAIRING IN ALL ITS BRANCHES\\nNEATLY AND PROMPTLY DONE.\\nP,^ JL\\nIJ %J^\\nBMiQEB AB LOW A8 Q MM BWEMT WITM TME Q)WAMT T Q F W MK,\\n31.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "SHERWOOD. BARKER CO.,\\nI 109SUMMIT ST., TOLEDO. OHIO.\\nMILLINERY AND FANCY GOODS\\nm mA itt 1 1^ S3\\nIt Oi iir O 3P 15 If\\nA Full and Fresh Stock of\\nPATTERN BONNETS AND HATS, FLOWERS, VELVETS AND RIBBONS,\\nMmiMf is @11 t i- Sitilllis t i tfti Ittsii^\\nWHITE GOODS, HOSIERY GLOVES,\\nTo Which We Solicit Your Attention.\\nWHOLESALE RETAIL.\\nSHEEWOOD, BAEKER CO.,\\nlOd Summit Street.\\n32,", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "T%.\\nCorbin Chittenden s,\\n2d DOOR SOUTH OF CENTRAL HOTEL,\\nM@ M\u00c2\u00aemiM Maim M.,j Adlmmm^ Mmk^j\\nIs the place you have heard everybody talking about as being the best place to buy\\nOur line of STOVES will compare favorably with any in the market. We invite particular attention to the\\nCROWN JE\\\\VE L;\\nAs the handsomest aud best Coal Stove made, and to the MANSARD OCCIDENT and ONWARD as the\\nbest Cook Stoves.\\nWE KEEP THE BEST CLOTHES WRINGERS,\\nAnd furnish new roles and fix;ures for repairing old wringers. We employ the best of workmen in our Tin\\nand Job Shops, and are prepared at all times to do\\nJOBS IN THE CITY OR COUNTRY\\nAT BOTTOM PRICES. COME AND SEE US, WE DESIRE AN ACQUAINTANCE.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "Cornelius k Palmer,\\nDEALERS IN ALL KINDS OP-\\n52 MAUMEE St., 2d DOOE EAST OF MAIN,\\nWe do not Attempt to Humbug any Partictdar Class by Pretending to Make Dis-\\ncrimination in their Favor, but will Sell to\\nGrangers,\\nWorkiugmen,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094AND EVERYBODY ELSE AT THE\\nVERY LOTV^EST PHI CES.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "THE OLD FOUNDRY\\n.A.IVI\\nMACHINE SHOP,\\nO F\\nNORTH MAIiyr STRBBT^ ADRIAN^ IKEICH.\\nMANUFACTURER AND BUILDER OF\\nSTEAM mm, FARM IMPLEMENTS, DRAG SAWING MACHINES,\\nHORSE POWERS, CALDRON KETTLES, c.\\nI Invite Special Attention to nxy\\nPLOWS. GILfr\\n5J\\nAND LAND ROLLERS.\\nJOBBING AND REPAIRING\\nDONE PROMPTLY AND IN THE BEST MANNER,", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "NETT G-OODS,\\n:p^itio ip mxos\\n1874\\n1875\\n-THE BEST-\\nCHILDREN S WEAR AT PANIC PRICES.\\nMANUFACTURER AND DEALER IN\\nBOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS.\\nNew Brick Store, No. 4 North Main St., next door Nortli of J. B. Cook s Drug Store.\\n.A-clrian,\\n]\\\\Iicliigaii,\\nt 1^ tt* i^ m mm m w^ m m m m- %im 9\\nCustom Work Done to Order. Repairing a Specialty.\\nADRIAN, Sept. 25, 1874.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "53 MAUniESE STREET,\\nA-DRI^N, _ MUCH.\\nm\\nI KEEP ALWAYS ON HAND A\\nii^g^ -l^g ^ps^ ^fa\\nOF EVERYTHING IN THE LINE OF\\nMW^. All ^,f If irilllY\\nAnd sell all goods at the\\nI ElEST ESPECliL AITENII 10 i! Wl OF Fli OTIOIRI\\nare\\naid Isamke mj Stock, ^^^s", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "W. E. KIMBALL.\\nESTABLISHED 1851.\\nC. AV. KIMBALL.\\nW. E. KIMBALL SON,\\nStill keep the Largest and Most Extensive Stock of\\nHouse Furnisliing Goods!\\nKEPT IJV THE CITY OF ABRIAW.\\n?Siifc TT-\\ni|\\\\UR STOCK of Furniture consists in part of Parlor Sets, Chamber Sets, Drawing Room Sets, all\\nJ Styles of Kitchen Furniture. Beilstcads from $3.00 to $250.00. Bureaus from $8.00 to $200.00.\\nStyK\\nCommon Furniture of Every description. Our Extpnsion Tables are the wonder of the world for\\nPrices^and Quality. We can show you Extension Tables from $12.00 to $50.00, in Walnut and Ash, Fall\\nLeaf Tables, Centre Tables (Marble and Wood Tops,) liibrary Tables, and in fact every thing in the line of\\nFurniture, and\\niTisjzLL ovn CVuJ/ MAyiy:^j -OTirTiE\\nAND YOU CAN RELY UPON THE QUALITY.\\nWE also have a full line of CROCKERY, (both Fine and Coarse,) Plated Ware, Castors, Forks and\\nSpoons, Tea Sets, German Silver Spoons, Knives and Forks, (fine and common.) Lam;is, an immense stock of\\nGlass Ware. We offer particular inducements to young people just commencing house keeping; we can furnish\\ntheir house from cellar to garret, saving them largely in prices, and the trouble of going to three or four stores\\nto find what they want.\\nWe also keep constantly on hand a large stock of FEATHERS. If you want a good Feather Bed or\\nPillows you can find them at KIMBALL ct iSON S. We make all kinds of Furniture to order, also do all\\nkinds of Wootl Turning with neatness and despatch. Call aud look us over before making your purchase, as\\nit is no trouble for as to show goods.\\nSales Room 31 Stone Block, and 9 Maiden Lane, between Main and Winter Sts. Factory South ISIain S.t", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "C- A. CONKLIN,\\n107 SOUTH MAIN STREET,\\nADRIAN, MICHIGAN.\\nmim WROUGHT CASK k CASKETS\\nBEST ITV THK A ^OIiLr\\nKEPT ONLY BY C. A. CONKLIN.\\nI have now the largest stock of AVood CofRns, Metalic\\ns\\nIN THE CITY, NO ONE CAN COMPETE, EITHER IN\\nSTYLE OP WORK.\\n[1 Amount of Stock or Price. A visit to ray Ware rooms will convince\\nyou that I\\nST^TE FA.CTS.\\nI shall keep at all times a large stock of\\n^l^\\nm miQY0^,\\nParticular Attetition Given to the Preservation of\\nBodies. My Conveniences for this\\nare Unequaled.\\nC. A. CONKLIN.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "WM. F. AYERS. J. W. MEDICK.\\nNEW GOODS AND NEW PRICES.\\nWm. P. Ay ers Co-,\\nIXTholesale and Retail Dealers in\\nJ^ISTT)\\nFANCY GOODS,\\nJVO. 71 AlfD 73 MAUMEE STREET,\\n^DRi^nr.\\nWe would Call the attention of the public to\\nTHE LARGEST AND BEST SELECTED STOCK\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094OF\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTO BE FOUND IN THE CITY,\\nAND AT LOWER PRICES THAN ELSEVTHERE.\\nm\\nTHE LARGEST STOCK OF\\nlEPHEHS, ZEPHEe PilTTEHKS, BOTH OM PftPIR and \u00e2\u0082\u00acilPft^\\nEMBROIDERY CANVASS OP EVERY KIND,\\nI^^ILLINQ- \u00c2\u00a9ILKS, c., c.\\no\\nAt lower prices than ever sold before.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "JAMES FARRER CO,\\nENGINE BUILDERS, BOILER MAKERS,\\nI\\nF\\nMANUFACTURERS OP\\nUFRieiT FORTAEE IHRESIIHG ENGINES.\\nA i JL A A\\nThese Eogines are Superior to any made for the purpose,\\nA A A. I L J- A- -A. A_ i A_ A A_ i. A_ A-\\nTo See Them is only to be Convinced.\\nThey iveigh Four TJiousancl Poinids, only about one-half the iveight of other Machines of the same\\ncapacity requiring only about half the wood or ivater they are more easily handled\\nso that more ivork can be done in the same time no staJcing down is required.\\nAnd Plow -Repairs of all Kinds constantly on hand.\\ngA^BMQM KETTLE!^, MQAB mBAPEMBf BOB SZEIQB \u00c2\u00a7E E^,\\nWrought Cider Screws, with or without Ratchet.\\nAll kinds of Brass Steam Goods and Fittings, Mud Pipe, Smoke Stacks and Britchings.\\nIS-BOILER AND ALL KINDS OP MACHINE REPAIRING A SPECIALTY,-\u00c2\u00aea\\nSouth Winter Street, T -TT\\\\ TZ T? XHT? M-r- i^^r~\\\\\\nADRIAN, MICH.} U Jd ..^^xvxvxLrf xX csC ^kJ,", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0laaiHaHi^BaaBaMU^Hb\\nJAMES THOMPSON,\\n1 A II fcl 4 i^\\n11 ft- T r ft TT 1^-\\nAND\\nor s IT Xa\\n^irst \u00c2\u00a7oor ^outh of ihe girst ^tfionul \u00c2\u00a7anh.\\nCLOCKS, WATCHES, Ac.\\nGARKFULLY REPAIRED\\nBY EXPERIENCED WORKMEN.\\nADRIAN, MICH.\\nS", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "Herrman May,\\nCLOTHING! CLOTHING!\\nTHE\\nLARGEST AND BEST STOCK\\nOF\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nr:\\ni/I^TI^ If/^T^S PtT n^FPTfT Kf PS\\n^m\\\\mi\\nCassimeres and. Nestings\\nFOR THE FALL AND WINTER TRADE,\\n:ever brought to this city, ani will be\\nmiiB AT PMWE^ TO) ^WM TEE TIMEM.\\nCALL AND SEE FOR YOURSELVES.\\nWe afe loaad t@ Igep ip ilie Eepitailss of Beisg the Leaiisg Oktilag Hsise,\\nX,ET THE COKTSEClTTElSrCES EE WH-A-T THE^ST IS^.A. Y.\\nNo. 23 Maumee St., opposite the Lawrence House.\\nADRIAN, Sept. 25th, 1874.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "T. till- first of our custoiii.-r.s ulio will send u\u00c2\u00bb3 correct solution to the following Rebus we will give, aa a ItcwarU of Merit\\nONE PAIR LADIES FINE SHOES OR $5 CASH.\\nTo the 2il, One Pair blisses Shoes. To the 3d, One Pair Gent s Slippers. To the 4th, and everybody else,\\nThe solution to the above must be enclosed in sealed envelopes, which will be numbered a.s received, and on the 1st day of December, ISTo, the\\nenvelt)pes will be opened and the prize.-i awarded to the successful persons.\\nstooik: l.a.i? c3-est, best jl:n e oh:e!.a.i=est.\\n0.2.\\nJipg at\\n012 2201, as Uf 1 2\\n4 Ihom.^\\nSIGN OF\\nBAISI Emi\\nSotith Side of Mavmee Street,\\nNext door to Bennet s Drug Store,\\nAURIAX, HICH.\\nt^\u00c2\u00bbj\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bbv\\\\ tyfe^%^,\\nEntered according to Act of Coiifrress, in tlae year 1871, by Crane Co. (Lock Box aOU, Iiidiaiiapuiis, lud.),\\nin the office of the Librarian of Congress, Washington.\\nREPAIRS AND CUSTOM WORK DONE TO YOUR ORDER.\\nWe liuve now rieeived our immense Stock of\\nF -flLLL .A.NO -IVINTER BOOTS .A.ND SHOES\\nWhich we propose to sell at prices 10 per cent. BELOW THE LOWEST, and warrant our goods. AVe\\nare bound to sell. Come here before you buy and see for yourself. Bring your solutions\\nto the Kcbus and get the prizes at the Boot and Shoe Store of", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "S. M. CONSTANTINE,\\nO\\no\\no\\nM\\no\\nQ\\nl\\n!2!\\no\\nn\\nt?4\\nTS M: A^TJIVlEli] STREET.\\nNew 7 1-3 Octave Rosewood Pianos from ^^Z^ ^RS\\nOrgans from SO _ _ l.^^O\\nViolins fromt 1\\n.A.1.]:^ OTMEFt GrOODS IN FROPOFlTIONr.\\nT2 MAUMEE STREET.\\nNew Organs Rented With Privilege of Purchase on\\nAt ouc-fifth its value down, and at two and one-half jjer cent, interest ou honest cash value.\\n72 MAUMEE STREET.\\nMASON HAMLIN, PSLODBET, PELTON Co, ANE KIMBALL ORGANS,\\nAll warranted from the factory in writing for iive years. Pianos sold on monthly payments.\\n72 MAUMEE STREET.\\nPIANOS AND ORGANS TUNED AND REPAIRED.\\nRemember you save 25 per cent, by Purchasing of me direct.\\nS. M. COITSTAITTIITE, THE PIAUO MAIT,\\n72 MAUMEE STREET.\\nV\\nr^:-^i.", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "ESTABLISHED 1842.\\nDEALER IN\\nBATS, CAFS,\\nLADIES AND GENT S\\nlT-TT3)e\u00c2\u00ab piJf PlrT-TTSUeiJ 0^\\nI ^J\\nrLBM E n/ir nri.il iBi\\nROBES OF ALL KINDS.\\nLADIES AND GENT S\\nTraveling Bags, Trunks and Umbrellas.\\no\\nSilk Hats Fitted to the Head and Hepaired.\\nMOTTO- CHEAP FOR CASH.", "height": "3199", "width": "2420", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3252", "width": "2510", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\nII III\\n014 754 782 1", "height": "3590", "width": "2623", "jp2-path": "historyofcityofa00bonn_0056.jp2"}}