{"1": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2769", "width": "2089", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "Class J .c\\nBook^^ LA Z^c^", "height": "2698", "width": "1939", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2727", "width": "2032", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2698", "width": "1939", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2713", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2698", "width": "1939", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2713", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2698", "width": "1939", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2713", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "(\u00c2\u00a70\\niil", "height": "2698", "width": "1939", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "A\\n-y ::p 6\\n^=i\\nHISTORY\\nMacomb County,\\nMICHIGAN,\\nCONTAINING\\nAN ACCOUNT OF ITS SETTLEMENT, GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND RESOURCES; AN EXTENSIVE\\nAND MINUTE SKETCH OF ITS CITIES, TOWNS AND VILLAGES\u00e2\u0080\u0094 THEIR IMPROVEMENTS,\\nINDUSTRIES, MANUFACTORIES, CHUKCHES, SCHOOLS AND SOCIETIES; ITS WAR\\nRE ORD, BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES, PORTRAITS OF PROMINENT MEN\\nAND EARLY SETTLEHS; THE WHOLE PRECEDED BY A HISTORY\\nOF MICHIGAN, STATISTICS OF THE STATE, AND AN\\nABSTRACT OF ITS LAWS AND CONSTITUTION\\nAND OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE\\nUNITED STATES.\\nIllustrated.\\nCHICAGO\\nM. A LEE SON k CO.\\n1882.", "height": "2713", "width": "1997", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2684", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "WRITER S PREFACE.\\nThe period has passed away forever when the once philosophic phrase a thousand\\nyears scarce serve to form a State, could be used with propriety. The same may now be\\nsaid of histor} The busy activities of oui- days, the march of progress, the wonderful\\nadvances of science and art. contribute to the realization of ideas, and crowd into a period\\nof fifty years n gi-eater number of remarkable and important events, than fifty decades of\\nolden times in the Eastern World could offer to the chronicler. Therefore, the compila-\\ntion of history is not only justifiable, but also essential. It is the enduring record of\\nyears that can only through it be recalled, of men who will be honored by the American\\nmanhood of this and coming generations.\\nThis work is dedicated to the people of Macomb County. With the exception of the\\nfirst part, the history of Michigan, it is distinctively local, and as such must be considered\\na magnificent record of a worth}- people. The work of the French and American pioneers\\nof Macomb extends over a century. Within that period, they have raised it from its prim-\\nitive condition to the rank of one of the first divisions of the State cultivated its wild\\nlands, built its villages and towns and brought into existence two importaot centers of\\npopulation Mt. Clemens and Romeo. They transmuted the marsh into fii m earth, re-\\nmoved the forests, and decorated the river banks with happy homes and fertile fields. It\\nis difficult to point out precisely the men who were foremost in contributing to this result:\\nall share in the prosperity of the county, and take a special pride in its advancement; each\\ncitizen has experienced the luxury of doing good, and feels that life is not now a mere\\nshadow of a dream. The alarms and anxieties attendant on the pioneer life have been\\nchanged to certainties and happy greetings. Those who saw the primeval forest waving\\nover the land, lived on through the days of its destruction to see the clearings covered\\nwith the houses of merchants and manufacturers, or the fields and homes of a prosperous\\npeople. They wear the honors which justly belong to them; while those who died, ob-\\ntained a glimpse of what they laljored for before passing away, and live in the memory of\\nthe present. The pioneers who are gone beheld the budding desires of younger days ex-\\npand into the flower, and. seeing, went to the undiscovered land beyond the grave, leaving\\ntheir memories and their deeds to be carried down the stream of time.\\nIn these pages, an effort has been made to treat the history of the county in a full\\nand impartial manner. Doubtless a few inacciu^acies may have crept in; but such must\\nbe attributed to other causes, rather than carelessness. In regard to the jiages devoted to\\npersonal history, a large sum of money, much labor and time have been expended on them.\\nEven after the personal notes taken by the township historian were rewritten, and in\\nmany instances submitted, this very copy was placed on type-vsriter and mailed to the\\nperson concerned for revision. The biographies given here, together with their collection,\\nwould necessitate the steady work of one experienced man for five years. The collection\\nof such facts as appear in the State and County histories, would entail on an inexperienced\\nwriter ten years steady work, while the compilation of townshiji histories, as they appear\\nf^\\nIf", "height": "2741", "width": "1955", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "WRITER S PREFACE.\\n-li^\\nhere, would doubtless occupy the attention of such a writer for a year. Within a few\\nmonths, this work has been begun and completed. Notwithstanding this remarkable\\ncelerity, it will be evident that little or nothing, which should have a place in its pages,\\nhas been omitted. It will also be evident throughout that the writer of the general history.\\nas well as the gentlemen who collected tlie biograpliical notices, have realized the simple\\nfact of undeserved praise being undisguised satire. In some instances, this realization\\nma-\\\\- have led to too brief references to many meii. an account of whose lives might occupy\\nman} pages.\\nThe plan of this work is specially adapted to a great record book. All things per-\\ntaining in general to the State are dealt with in the State history, and form, as it were, an\\nintroduction to the county history. The latter is carried down from the first Otchipwe\\ninvasion to the present time, treating fully and impartially every subject of general in-\\nterest to the people. So with the cities and the villages they have been very liberally\\nsketched: while each township has just sutficient notice given it to render its history a\\nmost valuable record for the future.\\nWe have been ably assisted in the work by the members of the county press. The\\nwritten sketches of Judge James B. Eldredge. Edgar Weeks. John E. Day. Rev. H. N.\\nBissell, Dr. HoUistei-, were all requisitioned and yielded up a mine of historical informa-\\ntion.\\nThe reminiscences of early settlement were selected from the writings of members of\\nthe- pioneer society, while the numerous anecdotes were written from facts obtained from\\nthe old settlers.\\nTo the coiinty officers our most sincere thanks are offered -first, for placing their\\nwell-kept records at our disposal; second, for the material aid rendered in searching old\\nrecord Isooks, and lastly, for the genial courtesy which marked their intercourse with us\\non all occasions.\\nTo Chauncey (1. Gady. George H. Cannon and John E. Day. members of the His-\\ntorical Committee of the Pioneer Society, we desire to extend oiu- thanks for the deep in-\\nterest which they have taken in the work, as well as recognition of their faithful labors on\\nthe Committee of Revision and Correction.\\nThe gentlemen engaged in the biographical department of the work wereH. O. Brown,\\nin Bruce and Washington; W. M. Bucklin. at Romeo E. B. Belden, in Ray; F. A.\\nStitt. in Sterling; Thomas Mitchell, in Harrison and Erin: WiJliam Dicer, in Shelby;\\nJesse Cloud, in IJtica; George T. Ma.son. at Mt. Clemens Ciiy: S. A. Stinson. in Chester-\\nfield; John E. Day, Secretary of the Pioneer Society, compiled the general and biograph-\\nical history of Armada and Richmond Townships; Horatio N. Richards, of Lenox, aud\\nCalv n Davis, of Macomb.\\nThe support extended to the history was not so general as it should be: yet we feel\\nsatisfied that the quality of our subscribers compensates in a great measure for the loss iu\\nnumber, by rendering our book so excellent in its biographical features. While the work\\ndeals with the county generally, it has, from a historical standpoint, been written expressly\\nfor those who supported it. The very few among the intelligent classes who did not order\\na book cannot now obtain a copy from us. To all we have given a history, which we be-\\nlieve is perfect in detail, and from the patrons of the work we ask only a careful perusal\\nof th(j various chapters before their criticism.\\nChicago, July, 1882. M. A. LEESON.", "height": "2684", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CONTENTS\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nCHAPTER I. The Aborigines 17\\nThe Fii-ot Immigration 18\\nThe Second Immigration 19\\nThe Tartars 21\\nCHAPTER II French Exploration and Settlement 22\\nIhe Recent Discoveries of St. Ignace 29\\nLa Salle s Travels 34\\nDetroit 35\\nCHAPTER III.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The French and Indian War 38\\nCHAPTER IV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 National Policies\u00e2\u0080\u0094 British Policy 44\\n.\\\\merican Policy 44\\nOrdinance of 1787 45\\nCHAPTER v.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Military Histoby.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pontiac s Siege of\\nUe\\n48\\nExpedirions of Harraar, Scott and Wilkinson 50\\nExpeditions of St. Clair and Wayne 53\\nGen. Wayne s Great Victory 54\\nRevolutionary War 56\\nHull s Surrender 58\\nPerry s Victory 59\\nCloseof the War 61\\nTheTecumseh War 82\\nThe Black Hawk War 66\\nThe Toledo War 66\\nThe Patriot War 74\\nThe Mexican War 78\\nThe War of 1861-(i5 78\\nCHAPTER VI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 PoLmcAU History 79\\nAdministration of Gen. Cass 82\\nGen. George B. Porter s Administration 89\\nAdministration of Gov. Horner 91\\nState Officers 97\\nPolitical Statistics 101\\nCHAPTER VII \u00e2\u0080\u0094Miscellaneous.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fur Traders and Slave\\nOwners 103\\nSlavery in Michigan 103\\nSale of Kegro Man Pompey 106\\nPublic School System 106\\nState University 107\\nState Normal School 108\\nAgricultural College 108\\nOther Colleges 109\\nCharitable Institutions Ill\\nThe State Public School Ill\\nInstitution for Deaf. Vnmb and Blind 112\\nAsylums for the Insane 113\\nPenal Instituticms 113\\nThe State Prison in 1880 114\\nStale Reform School.: U5\\nThe Land Office State Library 116\\nState Fisheries 118\\nCHAPTER VIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 State Societies.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pioneer Society of\\nMichigan 118\\nRoll of Pioneers 119\\nFirst State Historical Society 126\\nState Agricultural Society 126\\nState Pomological Society 126\\nState Firemen s Association 126\\nState Board of Public Health 1-27\\nPage.\\nCHAPTER IX.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 MicuioAN A.NU Its Resocrces.- Iron and\\nSteel Industries I:;7\\nThe Copper Product 128\\nThe Productsof a Year 128\\nMichigan Crops for 1881 129\\nThe Vessel Interest 131\\nGrowth of Forty Tears 131\\nLeading the Van 13 J\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCHAPTER X.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Introduction 133\\nGeological Conformations 135\\nSupeificial Materials 136\\nGas Wells l. SS\\nSubterranean Channels 139\\nWater Reservoirs 1:19\\n.Ancient Lake Sites 141\\nMineral Waters 141\\nThe Salt Springs of 1797 142\\nMt. Clemens Magnetic Waters 142\\nAnalysis 144\\nFossils 146\\nReview of Physical Characteristics 145\\nArchaeological 146\\nForts and Mounds of Macomb 148\\nThe Second Mound Stone Mounds 149\\nForts Numbels Two and Thiee l.iO\\nSurvey by S. L. .Andrews 151\\nHuge Skeletons 152\\nSundry Discoveries 152\\nZoological\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Birds 164\\nMammalia IGU\\nThe Flora of the County 103\\nMeteorological The Big Snows 163\\nThe Black Days 164\\nTornado of 1836\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Meteor and Comet 161\\nEclipse of the Moon, 1881 166\\nCHAPTER XI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Lmmans 166\\nThe Otchipwe Invasion 1G8\\nThe Miamisand Pottawatomiea 170\\nReign of the Cholera 71\\nIndian Treaties Treaty of Greenville 171\\nTreaty of Detroit 172\\nTreaty of Brownstown Treaty of Saginaw 173\\nWell-known Savages 174\\nThe Eagle Chief 176\\nOkemos 179\\nA Legend of Cusick Lake 180\\nEarly Traders and Interpreters 181\\nDistinguished Early Settlers 186\\nCaptivity If the Boyer Family 187\\nThe Lost Child 188\\nThe Indians Raid 190\\nIndians on the Trail of an American 190\\nVisit to the Indian Villoge 191\\nManners and Customs 193\\nCHAPTER XII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The French Pioneers 194\\nDetroit in 1763 197\\nThe Pioneer Land Buyers of Macomb 199\\nSquatters Claims 200\\nIndian Reservations 213\\nLa Riviere an Vases and Maconee Reserves 213", "height": "2741", "width": "1898", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "Ml\\nCONTENTS.\\nPage.\\nCHAPTER XlII\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Muuavijns\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Settlement of tho Mo-\\nravian StlepectB 214\\nMoriiviuD Indians, 1781\\nMo\\n216\\nMorATian Marriages 216\\nMannera, Habits and Customs 217\\n1 Village 217\\nThe German ImmiKraUon of 1845 219\\nCHAPTER XIV\u00e2\u0080\u0094 PioNltER History 219\\nSociety ofl87I 221\\nOrganization of the County Pioneers 221\\nCharter Members 224\\nMembers Enrolled Since Organization 225\\nPioneer Keminiscences\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The O Connor Family 229\\nThe Tuckar Family 232\\nChristian Clemens 236\\nC Clemens in a British Dungeon 237\\nUislinguishcd Visitant 238\\nChafilisiug a Savage 238\\nCol. John Stockton\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Ashley;. 239\\nChauncey G. Oady.. 240\\nWilliam A.Burt 241\\nThe Settlemen. of the Darlings 243\\nCorbyn Reminiscences 244\\nCarter Reminiscences 246\\nDaniel W. Day s Reminiscences 246\\nReminiscences of John D. Holland 248\\nEarly Settlement In Shelby, by L. D. Owen 250\\nThe Past and Present\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Poem 254\\nCHAPTER XV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pioneer Reminiscences.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pioneer Mothers -239\\nThe First Homes of the People 260\\nThe Keg of Gold 261\\nRecluse of the Marsh Mother-in-law s Journey 262\\nDetroit to Mt. Clemens 26 4\\nFortunate Hunters 263\\nDeer Hunting Harrington s Coon Hunting 264\\nUunce and O Keefe Bear Experiences 265\\nDr. Gleeson and the Reptile 265\\nDeer Hunting Made Easy 266\\nReminiscences of the Bailey Settlement 266\\nThe Deer of Providence 268\\nPolitical Turncoat Inwood s Bear Hunting 269\\nA Bear in Bruce 270\\nNoah Webster and the Bear 271\\nFinch s Wolf Hunting 271\\nTragic End of a Wolf\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Orderly Retreat 272\\nMaking Sugar Among the Wolves 272\\nThe Yellow Cat of Richmond 273\\nTlie Building of the Ship Harriet 273\\nJacob A. Crawford and the Speculator 273\\nLei. Ure Hours in Pioneer Times 275\\nISuptial Feasts in Early Times 276\\nEvening Visits 277\\nLumberii g in Early Days 278\\nSeasons of Sickness 279\\nDeath of Aianson Church 280\\nA Pioneer Lawyer 281\\nChesterfield in Early Days 282\\nMarriage Record in Early Days 283\\nMarks for Cattle in Olden Times 289\\nPontiacand St. Clair Mail Routes 290\\nTemperance and House liaising 291\\nA Retrospect 294\\nCHAPTER XVI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Organization 295\\nSI. Clair Township 296\\nM.Hcoinb County Erfcted 296\\nLocating the County Seat 296\\nOiiginal Townships 297\\nNauje Huron Changed to Clinton 297\\nClianj;*- of Boundary 297\\nOrganic .Nummary 298\\nEstablishment of Townships 299\\nMiscelhiricous Acts 300\\nCounty Ollicera Past and Present 303\\nSupervisors Board 304\\nCHAPTER XVII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Political History 306\\nCounty Elections 310\\nCHAPTER XVIIl\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ti\\nnals of Romeo....\\nJournals of Utica...\\nPress or Macomb Countv. Jour-\\n330\\nPAGE.\\nMt. Clemens 330\\nNew BAltimore Richmond 335\\nArmada^Personal Notices 336\\nCHAPTER XIX\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Poetry or Macomb\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The World s Pioneer 344\\nA Child s Prayer 346\\nA Legend of Shelby Township 347\\nWho Donglesthe Bell? 347\\nMy Mother 348\\nThe Garden of the Heart 348\\nApril Storms- Happy To-Night 349\\nTho Lonely Grave 349\\nOn the Death of Lincoln 350\\nCHAPTER XX.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Progress of Education 353\\nSabbath Schools of the County 355\\nCHAPTER XXr.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Churches of Macomb 358\\nCHAPTER XXII\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The War for the U.mon.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Appoint-\\nments and statistics 374\\nRecord of Commissioned Officers 376\\nFirst Michigan Infantry 384\\nSecond Michigan Infantry. 385\\nThird Michigan Inf* try 385\\nFourth Michigan In antry 386\\nFifth Michigan Infantry 387\\nSixth Michigan Infantry 392\\nSeventh Michigan Infantry 392\\nEighth Michigan Infantry 393\\nNinth Michigan Infantry 393\\nTenth Michigan Infantry 394\\nEleventh Michigan Infantry 395\\nTwelfth, Thirteenth and Fourteenth Michigan Infantry.. 396\\nFifteenth and Sixteenth Michigan Infantry 397\\nSeventeenth, Eighteenth and Nineteenth Michigan In-\\nfantry 398\\nTwentieth, Twenty-first and Twenty-second Michigan\\nInfantry 399\\nTwenty-third, Twenty-fourth, Twent.v-flfth, Twenty-\\nsixth and Twenty-seventh Michigan Infantry 410\\nTwenty-eighth, Twenty-ninth and Thirtieth Michigan\\nInfantry 411\\nFirst Michigan Colored Infantry 412\\nFirst Michigan Engineers and Mechanics 412\\nFirst Michigan Cav.,lry 413\\nSecond Michigan Cavalry 416\\nThird Michigan Cavalry 416\\nFourth and Fifth Michigan Cavalry 416\\nSixth, Seventh and Eighth Michigan Cavalry 420\\nNinth and Tenth Michigan Cavalry 423\\nEleventh Michigan Cavalry Light Artillery 424\\nSoldiers and Sailors of Macomb and St. Clair 424\\nConclusion 430\\nCHAPTER XXIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Olden Katebpbhes.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The City of Bel-\\nvidere 432\\nBelvidere Land Titles 433\\nFrederick or Casino\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Other Villages 436\\nTremble Creek 435\\nRailroads and Navigation 436\\nThe Weeks Contract 43s\\nAction of the U. S. Troops 438\\nRailroads 439\\nClinton River 440\\nHarbor of Refuge, Belle River 441\\nCHAPTER XXIV.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Courts and Bar or Macomb.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Circuit\\nCourt 442\\nRetirement of Judge Morell 442\\nThe Grand Jury and the Judge 445\\nAdmissions to the Bar of Macomb County 445\\nThe Present Bar 447\\nImporfant Trials 448\\nElectioneering in 1873 448\\nThe Hatheway Estate, Air Line Suit 449\\nThe C.ounty Court House 450\\nMeeting of Romeo Citizens 461\\nLogic of the Conservatives 451\\nLaying the Corner Stone 464\\nMayor Crocker s Address 465\\nThe County Jail 460\\nCH.\\\\PTER XXV. County Finances and Statistics.\\nTowns and Villages, Population in 1850-60 465.\\nMacomb County Statistics in 18.50 4( i", "height": "2684", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "TAOe,\\nPopulatiouin 1870 466\\nStatistical, 1870 466\\nPopulation iu 1880 467\\nEqualized Valuation, 1842-81 4\u00c2\u00abS\\nCHAPTER XXVI\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ar.Ricni.TVRALiNi) Faumehb Associa-\\ntions. Agricultunii Development 469\\nMacomb County Agricultural Society 473\\nUnion Farmers Club 474\\nThe Grange 475\\nMacomb County Grange 475\\nFine Stock Sheep Kaisers 476\\nFarmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company 481\\nSheei^Shearers Association 482\\nCHAPTER XXVII\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Necrology 484\\nCHAPTER XXVIII\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Chronology 496\\nHISTORY OF TOWNS.\\n519\\nCHAPTER XXIX.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mount Clemens Citt. Early Settle-\\nment 1\\nDentists and Dentistry 5iZ\\nPlatting the Village 523\\nOrganization 524\\nTrustees 526\\nElection in 1882 627\\nAmerican Settlers in 1821-22 629\\nFirst Fleming Mill, Orchards, Cemetery 5;i9\\nGlass Factory, Saw-Mills 530\\nInaugurating the Canal, Mount Clemens in 1868 530\\nProgress in 1880 531\\nEra of Advancement 632\\nTelephone Exchange, Taxation 535\\nThe Clinton River 535\\nThe Death of Four Citizens 536\\nIndustries 537\\nHotels 539\\nReligious History 541\\nSchools of Mount Clemens 544\\nPrivate Schools, 1840 to 1857 548\\nHistory of the Academy 550\\nPrivate Schools, 1867 to 1881 558\\nDenominational Schools 559\\nUnion School 559\\nTeachers, 1S57 to 1882 660\\nOfficers and Trustees 661\\nStatistics 562\\nMasonic. I. O. O. F 564\\nManufacturing Industries 565\\nClinton Township, Organization 567\\nTown Itoit-r 568\\nSchools and School Statistics 569\\nBiographical Sketches. 570\\nCHAPTER XXX.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 RoHEo.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Naming the Village 613\\nOrganic 613\\nFirst Settlers 616\\nThe Old Inhabitants 620\\nThe First Post Office 623\\nPioneer Physicians 624\\nReminiscences of Early Times 624\\nLeisure Hours 625\\nA Few Well Remembered Settlers 625\\nRomeo in 1836-37 626\\nRomeo in 1881 628\\nSchools and School Teachers 628\\nThe Romeo Academy 530\\nRpligious 632\\nLibraries and Museums 636\\nSocieties 636\\nRomeo Carriage Company 639\\nRomeo Mineral Well 639\\nSash and Blind Factory 641\\nBiographical Sketches 642\\nCHAPTER XXXl.\u00e2\u0080\u0094ABMAnA.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Organization, First Town\\nMeeting 679\\nPioneers of Armada 681\\nArmada Village 683\\nPost Office 685\\nPAOE.\\nArmada Agricultural Society 685\\nArmada C. L. S. C 6S6\\nArmada Literary Society 686\\nSchools 687\\nBiographical Sketches 687\\nCHAPTER XXXII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shelby Towssair.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Orgaldc 717\\nTown Roster 7IS\\nSchools, Utica Village 719\\nOrganization, Disco Village 721\\nUtica Lyceum, Congregational Church 722\\nBiographical Sketches 722\\nCHAPTER XXXIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Bri(F, Township.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Grand Trunk\\nRailroad, Air Line 743\\nSchools, Scotch Settlement 743\\nBounty for Wolf Scalps\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Statistical 1H\\nLimsof the Reside Child 744\\nBiographical Sketches 745\\nCHAPTER XXXIV\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Macomb Township \u00e2\u0080\u0094First Schools 767\\nFirst Settlers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Organization 767\\nTown Officers 768\\nPhysical and Statistical 768\\nSchools\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Macomb Village 769\\nBiographical Sketches 770\\nCHAPTER XXXV -Richmond Township 778\\nTown Roster 779\\nRichmond Village 781\\nTownship Schools in 1881 781\\nBaptist Church of Richmond Village 782\\nMemphis Village 782\\nBiographical Sketches 786\\nCHAPTER XXXM.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Washington Township. Organiza-\\ntion 806\\nTown Roster 8\u00c2\u00bb7\\nGrand Trunk Railroad of Michigan ^07\\nMichigan Air Line Railroad 808\\nReminiscences of Early Days in Washington 808\\nTheOrissman Scho. .l 808\\nSchools A Temperance Building 809\\nMention of a Few Old Settlers 809\\nReminders of the Past- Methodist Church 810\\nWashington Union Church Society 810\\nSouth Burial Ground 811\\nVillages of the Township 811\\nReminiscences of C. Harlow Green 812\\nBiographical Sketches 813\\nCHAPTER XXXVII \u00e2\u0080\u0094Sterling Township.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The Fint Set-\\ntlers 846\\nOrganization\u00e2\u0080\u0094 The First Election 846\\nRoster of Office\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 847\\nSchool 84S\\nBiographical Sketches 848\\niOHAPTER XXXVIII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Warkkn Township 852\\nTown Officers S.IR\\nVillage of Warren 853\\nTownship Schools 8.54\\nSt. Clement s Catholic Church 8. 4\\nBiographical Sketches 855\\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rav Township 8,i7\\nOrganization 858\\nTown Roster 859\\nEccentriciti-^s of Town Board 860\\nTeachers Association 860\\nPatriot War\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Crawford School 860\\nSchools in 1881-1882 860\\nRay Center Davis 861\\nBiogriphicai Sketches 863\\nCHAPTER XL.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lenox Township. 0rgani7.ation 877\\nFirst Meeting 877\\nTown Roster 87\u00c2\u00ab\\nSchools 879\\nBiographical Sketches 808\\nCHAPTER XLI.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harrison Township \u00e2\u0080\u0094Town Roster 888\\nOrganization 889\\nPhysical Characteristics 889\\nFirst Evfhts 810\\nLiterary and Educational 890\\n1 Present Schools 891\\nBiographical Sketches 891", "height": "2741", "width": "1898", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "Aj, S fc-\\nn\\nPAGE.\\nCHAPTER XLII.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Erin Township.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Organization 893\\nTovvnship Officers S94\\nT.i\u00c2\u00ab Mship Schojis 894\\nVMUi-.-s 894\\nl)i..g,;,|.liical Sketches 895\\nCHAPTER XLIII. Chesterfield Township. Organizatiou 901\\nTown Roster 901\\nCiiurclies Sch lols 90i\\nMasonic\u00e2\u0080\u0094 New Batimore 902\\nManufacturing Industries 903\\nBiugrapliical Sketches 904\\nRECENT HAPPENINGS.\\nTianeactions of the Pioneer Society, 18S2 915\\nEarlv Banka and Bankers of Macomb County 917\\nWildVat Banks 920\\nThe Bank of Dtica 920\\nThe Farmers Bank of Komeo 922\\nThe Clinton Riser Bank 922\\nThe Bank of Lake St. Clair 922\\nConclusion 924\\nPORTRAITS.\\nBailey, Asahel 633\\nBailey, Cynthia 633\\nBrownell, William 729\\nCady, C. G 240\\nCannon, George W 256\\nCannon, Lucy M 256\\nCooley, Dennis, M. D. (deceased) 497\\nCro -ker, T. M 569\\nDay, Erastua 793\\nDickinson, Joshua B 633\\nDouglass, Isaac 617\\nHazelton, H. R 371\\nHendrick, F. G 585\\nKeeler, Mary J 809\\nKeeler, Nathan 809\\nPhillipa, G. W est\\nPhillips, Mrs. G. W 681\\nSherman, Hiram 666\\nSherman, M. W 666\\nSmith, Elisha (deceased) 825\\nSmith, Mrs. Elisha 825\\nSteffens, i^harles 479\\nSterling, A. W. (deceased) 519\\nWeekly, Edgar 443\\nILLUSTRATION S.\\nFiret Schoolhouae in Romeo 629 K\\nHigh School Building, Mt Clemens 551\\nMacomb County Court House 305 f\\nMacomb County Jail 461\\niA\\nERRATA 924", "height": "2684", "width": "1897", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "History of Michigan.\\nCHAPTER I.\\nTHE ABORIGIMES.\\nScientists have ascribed to the Mound Builders varied origins, and though\\ntheir divergence of opinion may, for a time, seem incompatible with a thorougli\\ninvestigation of the subject, and tend to a confusion of ideas, no doubt whatever\\nmay exist as to tlie comparative accuracy of conclusions arrived at by a few of the\\ninvestigators. Like the vexed questions of tlie Pillar Towers and Garden Beds,\\nit has caused much speculation, and elicited opinions from so manj antiquarians,\\nethnologists, and travelers, that little remains to be known of the prehistoric peo-\\nples of America. That this continent is co-existent with the world of the ancients\\ncan not be questioned. Every investigation, made under the auspices of modern\\ncivilization confirms the fact and leaves no channel open through which the skeptic\\ncan escape the thorougli refutation of his opinions. China, with its numerous living\\ntestimonials of antiquity, with its ancient, though limited, literature and its Babelish\\nsuperstitions, claims a continuous history from antediluvian times but although its\\ncontinuity may be denied with every just reason, there is nothing to prevent the\\ntransmission of a hieroglj-phic record of its history prior to ltJ56 Anno Mundi, since\\nmany traces of its early settlement survived the Deluge, and became sacred objects\\nof the first historical epoch. This very survival of a record, such as that of which\\nthe Chinese boast, is not at variance with the designs of a God who made and ruled\\nthe universe but that an antediluvian people inhabited this continent, will not be\\nclaimed because it is not probable, though it may be possible, that a settlement in\\na land which may be considered a portion of the Asiatic continent, was effected by\\nthe immediate followers of tlie first progenitors of the human race. Therefore, on\\nentering the study of the ancient people who raised these tumulus monuments over\\nlarge tracts of the country, it will be just sufficient to wander back to that time\\nwhen the flood-gates of heaven were swung open to hurl destruction on a wicked\\nworld and in doing so the inquirj^ must be based on legendary, or rather upon many\\ncircumstantial evidences for, so far as written narrative extends, there is nothing\\nto show that a movement of people too far east resulted in a western settlement.", "height": "2741", "width": "1898", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nTHE FIRST IMMIGRATION.\\nThe first and most probable sources in which the origin of the Builders must\\nbe sought, are those countries lying along the eastern coast of Asia, which doubtless\\nat that time stretched far beyond its present limits, and presented a continuous shore\\nfrom Lapatka to Point Cambodia, holding a population comparatively civilized, and\\nall professing some elementary form of Boodhisra of later days. Those peoples,\\nlike the Chinese of the present, were bound to live at home, and probably observed\\nthat law until after the confusion of languages and the dispersion of the builders of\\nBabel, in 1757, A. M.; but subsequently, within the following century, the old Mon-\\ngolians, like the new, crossed the great ocean in the very paths taken by the present\\nrepresentatives of the race, arrived on the same shores, which now extend a very\\nquestionable hospitality to them, and entered at once upon the colonization of the\\ncountr} south and east, while the Caucasian race engaged in a similar movement\\nof exploration and colonization over what may be justly termed the western ex-\\ntension of Asia, and both peoples growing stalwart under the change, attained a\\nmoral and physical eminence to which they never could lay claim under the tropical\\nsun which shed its beams upon the cradle of the human race.\\nThat mysterious people who, like the Brahmins of to-day, worshipped some\\ntransitory deity, and in after years, evidently embraced the idealization of Bood-\\nhism, as preached in Mongolia early in the thirty-fifth century of the world, together\\nwith acquiring the learning of the Confucian and Pythagorean schools of the same\\nperiod, spread all over the land, and in their numerous settlements erected these\\nraths, or mounds, and sacrificial altars whereon they received their peroidical visiting\\ngods, surrendered their bodies to natural absorption or annihilation, and watched\\nfor the return of some transmigrated soul, the while adoring the universe, which\\nwith beings they believed would be eternally existent. They possessed religious\\norders corresponding, in external show at least, with the Essenes or Theraputse of\\nthe pre-Christian and Christian epochs, and to the reformed Theraputte or monks\\nof the present. Everj memento of their coming and their stay which has descended\\nto us is an evidence of their civilized condition. The free copfier found within the\\ntumuli the open veins of the Superior and Iron Mountain copper mines, with all\\nthe modus operandi of ancient mining, such as ladders, levers, chisels and hammer-\\nheads, discovered by the Frencii explorers of the Northwest and Mississippi, are\\nconclusive proofs that those prehistoric people were highly civilized, and that many\\nflourishing colonies were spread throughout the Mississippi Valley, while yet the\\nmammoth, the mastodon, and a hundred other animals, now only known by their\\ngigantic fossil remains, guarded the eastern shore of the continent, as it were, against\\nsupposed invasions of the Tower Builders who went west from Babel while yet the\\nbeautiful isles of the Antilles formed an integral portion of this continent, long years\\nrpr", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN. 19\\nbefore the European Northmen dreamed of setting forth to the discovery of Green-\\nland and the northern isles, and certainl3 at a time when all that portion of America\\nnortli of 45 deg. was an ice-incumbered waste.\\nWithin the last few years great advances have been made toward the dis-\\ncovery of antiquities whether pertaining to remains of organic or inorganic nature.\\nTogether with many small but telling relics of the early inhabitants of the country,\\nthe fossils of prehistoric animals have been unearthed from end to end of the land,\\nand in districts, too, long pronounced b) geologists of some repute to be without\\neven a vestige of vertebrate fossils. Among the collected souvenirs of an age\\nabout which so very little is known, are twenty-five vertebrte averaging thir-\\nteen inclies in diameter, and three vertabrse, ossified together measuring nine\\ncubical feet a thigh-bone five feet long by twent3 -eight in diameter, and\\nthe shaft fourteen by eight inches thick, the entire lot weighing 600 pounds.\\nThese fossils are presumed to belong to the cretaceous period when the Dino-\\nsaur roamed over the country from east to west, desolating the villages of the\\npeople. This animal is said to be sixty feet long, and when feeding in cypress\\nand palm forests, to extend himself eighty-five feet, so that lie may devour the bud-\\nding tops of those great trees. Other efforts in this direction may lead to great\\nresults, and culminate probably in the discovery of a tablet engraven by some\\nlearned Mound Builder, describing, in the ancient hieroglyphics of China, all those\\nmen and beasts whose history excites so much speculation. The identity of the\\nMound Builders with the Mongolians might lead us to hope for such a consum-\\nmation nor is it beyond the range of probability, particularly in this practical age,\\nto find the future of some industrious antiquarian requited by the upheaval of a\\ntablet written in the Tartar characters of 1700 years ago, bearing on a subject which\\ncan now be treated only on a purely circumstantial basis.\\nTHE SECOND IMMIGRATION\\nmay have begun a few centuries prior to the Christian era, and unlike the former\\nexpedition or expedtions, to have traversed northeastern Asia, to its Arctic confines,\\nand then east to the narrow channel now known as Behring s Straits, which they\\ncrossed, and sailing up the unchanging Yukon, settled under the shadow of Mount\\nSt. Elias for many years, and pushing south commingled with their countrymen,\\nsoon acquiring the characteristics of the descendants of the first colonists. Chinese\\nchronicles tell of such a people, who went north, and were never heard of more.\\nCircumstances conspire to render that particular colony the carrier of a new religious\\nfaith and of an alphabetic system of representative character to the old colonists,\\nand they, doubtless, exercised a most beneficial influence in other respects because\\ntlie influx of immigrants of such culture as were the Chinese, even of that remote\\nperiod, must necessarily bear very favorable results, not only in bringing in reports\\nrfv-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "-f-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 4\\nA\\n20 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nof their travels, but also accounts from the fatherland bearing on the latest\\nevents.\\nWith the idea of a second and important exodus there are many theorists united,\\none of whom says It is now tlie generally received opinion that the first inhabi-\\ntants of America passed over from Asia through these straits.\\nThe Esquimaux of North America, tlie Samoieds of Asia, and the Laplanders\\nof Europe, are supposed to be of the same family and this supposition is strength-\\nened by the affinity which exists in their languages. The researches of Humboldt\\nhave traced the Mexicans to the vicinity of Behring s Straits whence it is con-\\njectured, that they, as well as the Peruvians and other tribes, came originally from\\nAsia, and were the Hurignoos, who are, in the Chinese annals, said to have\\nemigrated under Puno, and to have been lost in the north of Siberia.\\nSince this theory is accepted by most antiquarians, there is every reason to be-\\nlieve that from the discovery of what may be called an overland route to what was\\nthen considered an eastern extension of that country which is now known as tlie\\nCelestial Empire, many caravans of emigrants passed to their new homes in the\\nland of illimitable possibilities until the way became a well-marked trail over which\\ntlie Asiatic might travel forward, and having once entered the Elysian fields never\\nentertained an idea of returning. Thus from generation to generation tlie tide of\\nimmigration poured in until the slopes of the Pacific and the banks of the great in-\\nland rivers became hives of busy industry. Magnificent cities and monuments were\\nraised at the bidding of the tribal leaders, and populous settlements centered with\\nliappy villages, sprung up everywhere in manifestation of the power and wealth\\nand knowledge of the people. The colonizing Caucasian of the historic period\\nwalked over tliis great country on the very ruins of a civilization which a thousand\\n3 ears before eclipsed all that of whicli he could boast. He walked through the\\nwilderness of the West over buried treasures hidden under the accumulated growth\\nof nature, nor rested until he saw, with great surprise, the remains of ancient pyra-\\nmids and temples and cities, larger and evidently more beautiful than ancient Egypt\\ncould bring forth after its long years of uninterrupted history. The pyramids re-\\nsemble those of Egypt in exterior form, and in some instances are of larger dimen-\\nsions. The pyramid of Cholula is square, having each side of its base 1,335 feet in\\nlength, and its height about 172 feet. Another pyramid, situated in the north of\\nVera Cruz, is formed of large blocks of highly polished porphyry, and bears upon its\\nfront hieroglyphic inscriptions and curious sculpture. Each side of its square base\\nis eighty-two feet in length, and a flight of fifty-seven ste23s conducts to its summit,\\nwhich is sixty-five feet in height. The ruins of Palenque are said to extend twenty\\nmiles along the ridge of a mountain, and the remains of an Aztec city near the\\nbanks of the river Gila, are spread over more than a square league. Their literature\\nIS", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nconsisted of hieroglyph ics but their arithmetical knowledge did not extend further\\nthan their calculations by the aid of grains of corn. Yet, notwithstanding all their\\nvaried accomplishments, and they were evidently many, their notions of religious\\nduty led to a most demoniac zeal, at once barbarously savage and ferociously cruel.\\nEach visiting god, instead of bringing new life to the people, brought death to tliou-\\nsands and their grotesque idols, exposed to drown the senses of the beholders in\\nfear, wrought wretchedness rather than spiritual happiness, until, as some learned\\nand humane Mouteziimian said, the people never approached these idols without\\nfear, and this fear was the great animating principle, the great religious motive power\\nwhich sustained the terrible religion. Their altars were sprinkled with blood drawn\\nfrom their own bodies in large quantities, and on them thousands of human victims\\nwere sacrificed in honor of the demons whom they worshipped. The head and heart\\nof every captive taken in war were offered up as a bloody sacrifice to the god of\\nbattles, while the victorious legions feasted on the remaining portions of the dead\\nbodies. It has been ascertained that, during the ceremonies attendant on the con-\\nsecration of two of their temples, tlie number of prisoners offered up in sacrifice was\\n12,210 while their own legions contributed voluntary victims to the terrible belief\\nin large numbers. Nor did this honible custom cease immediately after 1521, when\\nCortez entered the imperial city of the Montezumas; for, on being driven from it,\\nall his troops wlio fell into tiie hands of the native soldiers were subjected to the\\nmost terrible and prolonged suffering that could be experienced in this world, and\\nwhen about to yield up that spirit wliich is indestructible, were offered in sacrifice,\\ntheir hearts and heads consecrated, and the victors allowed to feast on the yet warm\\nflesh.\\nA reference is made here to the period when the Montezumas ruled over Mex-\\nico, simply to gain a better idea of the hideous idolatry which took the place of the\\nold Boodhism of the Mound Builders, and doubtless helped in a great measure to\\ngive victory to the new-comers, even as the tenets of Mahommetanism urged the\\nignorant follo^wers of the prophet to the conquest of great nations. It was not the\\nfaith of the people who built the mounds and the pyramids and the temples, and\\nwho, two hundred years before the Christian era, built tlie great wall of jealous\\nChina. No; rather was it that terrible faith born of the Tartar victory, which\\ncarried the great defences of China at the point of the javelin and hatchet, who\\nafterwards marched to the very walls of Rome, under Alaric, and spread over the\\nislands of Polynesia to the Pacific slopes of South America.\\nTHE TARTARS\\ncame there, and, like the pure Mongols of Mexico and the Mississippi valley, rose\\nto a state of civilization bordering on that attained by them. Here for centuries\\nthe sons of the fierce Tartar race continued to dwell in comparative peace, until the", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nall-ruling empire took in the whole country from the Pacific to the Atlantic, and\\npeopled the v.ist territory watered by the Amazon, with a race that was destined\\nto conquer all the peoples of the Orient, and only to fall before the march of the\\narch-civilizing Caucasian. In course of time these fierce Tartars pushed their set-\\ntlements northward, and ultimately entered the territories of the Mound Builders,\\nputting to death all who fell within their reach, and causing the survivors of the\\ndeath-dealing invasion to seek a refuge from the hordes of this semi-barbarous\\npeople in the wilds and fastnesses of the North and Northwest. The\\nbeautiful country of the Mound Builders was now in the hands of savage invaders,\\nthe quiet, industrious people, who raised the temples and pyramids were gone\\nand the wealth of intelligence and industry accumulating for ages, passed into the\\npossession of a rapacious horde, who could admire it only so far as it offered objects\\nfor plunder.\\nEven in this the invaders were satisfied, and then, having arrived at the height\\nof their ambition, rested on their swords and entered upon the luxury and ease, in\\nthe enjoyment of which they were found when the vanguard of European civiliza-\\ntion appeared upon the scene. Meantime the southern countries which these\\nadventurers abandoned after having completed their conquests in the North, were\\nsoon peopled by hundreds of people, always moving from island to island and ulti-\\nmately halting amid the ruins of villages deserted by those who, as legends tell,\\nhad passed eastward but never returned; and it would scarcely be a matter for sur-\\nprise if those emigrants were found to be the progenitors of that race found by the\\nSpaniards in 1532, and identical with the Araucanians, Cuenches and Huiltiches\\nof to-day.\\nCHAPTER II.\\nFRENCH EXPLORATION AND SETTLEMENT.\\nThe fame of Marquette continues to gain strength as days advance. Notwith-\\nstanding all his countrymen had written of him, the new Americans continue to\\niiKjuire into his magnificent career, and to add to the store of information regarding\\nliim, already garnered. Rev. Geo. Duffield, of Detroit, is one of his latest biogra-\\nphers, and from his writings on the life of the missionary, we make the following\\nextracts\\nJacques Marquette came late to his fame. Open Davenport s Dictionary of\\nBiography, 1831, comprising the most eminent characters of all ages, nations and\\nprofessions, and you will not find even so much as his name. Turn for that name\\nrtf-", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nto the Cyclopedia of Biography by Parke Godwin, with a supplement by George\\nSheppard, A. D. 1872, and you will not find it there, and so with many similar\\nworks. Hence we see the need of such an historical society as the present, that\\none of the greatest and best of the original founders of Michigan may receive his\\ndue credit, and be honored with an appropriate memorial.\\nMarquette was born of an honorable family at Laon, in the north of France, in\\nthe year 1637, but the month and day of his birth are not easily found, and I have\\nnowhere seen his portrait. In 1654 he joined the Society of the Jesuits, and in\\n1666 was sent to the missions in Canada. After the river St. Lawrence and the\\ngreat lakes had been mapped out, the all-absorbing object of interest with Governor\\nFrontenac Talch, the inteudant, and Marquette himself, was to discover and trace\\nfrom the north the wonderful Mississippi, that DeSoto, the Spaniard, had first seen\\nat the south in 1541. In 1668 (according to Bancroft, III, 152), he repaired to the Chip-\\npewas at the Sault to establish the mission of St. Mary, the oldest settlement begun\\nby Europeans within the present limits of the commonwealth of Michigan. On\\nthe day of the immaculate conception of the Holy Virgin, in 1673, he received his\\norders from Frontenac, to accompany Joliet on his long-desired journey. Taking\\nprobably the short trail through the woods he found his companion at Point St.\\nIgnace, where, after many remarkable vicissitudes, both in life and death, he was\\nat length to find his grave, where his numerous friends and admirers, both French\\nand Indian, were for so long a time to lose sight of it again, and where a second\\ntime he gains his place as one of the founders of Michigan.\\nApart from his peculiar mission, which was looked upon by the Protestant\\ncolonies of New England with anything but favorable eyes apart from his pecu-\\nliar dogma of the conception, which has only been officially sanctioned in our day\\nand by the late Pope, there were many things in the life and times of Mar-\\nquette that, to the lover of biography, make his character as attractive as that of\\nFrancis Xavier, the great apostle of the Indies, or of his still greater master,\\nIgnatius Loyola. The man in these days who can not admire, and even to a certain\\nextent venerate man as man, apart from his more immediate antecedents or local\\nsurroundings, has but a very limited and mistaken idea of the enlightened spirit of\\nthe age, or the true dignity of human natui e. Honor to whom honor is due, is not\\nonly a sound maxim, founded on that equity which is the highest form of justice,\\nbut is also in just so many words one of the very first principles of Cliristianity\\nitself. When I can not give a man credit for -what he really is, because he belongs\\nto another party than my own, or give him credit for what he has done, because he\\nbelongs to another denomination than my own, I deserve to be consigned for the\\nremainder of my days to a hole in the woods.\\nThe pioneers of our country, no doubt, have had a very hard time of it, and", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "liL\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nnone more so than ray Scotch-Irish ancestors in central Pennsylvania. From the\\nchildhood of Daniel Webster down to the present hour, it would argue a very igno-\\nrant mind and most unfeeling and ungrateful heart to read the toils and trials and\\nprivations endured by men and women in the early settlement of this or any other\\nState but after all what are the hardships of the early settlers compared with those\\nof Allouez, in 1665, afloat in a frail canoe on the broad expanse of Lake Superior,\\nof Dablon, Marquette, LaSalle, and others of the original explorers\\nDefying tlie severity of climate, as Bancroft lias it, wading through water\\nor through snows, without the comfort of fire having no bread but pounded\\ncorn, and often no food but the unwholesome moss from the rocks; laboring inces-\\nsantly, exposed to live, as it were, without nourishment, to sleep without a resting\\nplace to travel far, and always incurring perils to carry their lives in their hands\\nor rather daily and oftener than every day, to hold them up as targets, expecting\\ncaptivity, death from the tomahawk, tortures, fires (Bancroft, III., 152.) It\\nseems to me that if there are any two classes of men who should be most cordially\\nlinked in closest bonds of sympathy with one another, it is the pioneers and\\nexplorers.\\nMarquette was much more than a religious enthusiast. He was a scholar and\\na man of science. Having learned within a few years to speak with ease in six\\ndifferent languages, his talents as a linguist were quite remarkable. A subtle\\nelement of romance pervaded his character, which not only makes it exceedingly\\nattractive to us in the retrospect, but was no doubt one of tlie great sources and\\nelements of his power and success among his beloved Ottawas and Hurons, and\\nothers of the great Algonquin tribes, who were found in the immediate vicinity of\\nthe straits of Michilimaekinac. With a fine eye for natural beauty, he was as much\\ndelighted with a rapid river, or extended lake, vpith an old forest or rolling prairie,\\nor a lofty mountain as a Birch, or a Cole, or a Bierstadt. Every one who touches\\nhis character seems emulous of adorning it with a new epithet. Parkman speaks\\nof him as the humble Marquette, who with clasped iiandsand up-turned eyes, seems\\na figure evoked from some dim legend of mediaeval saintship. Bancroft calls\\nhim the meek, gentle, single-hearted, unpretending, illustrious Marquette.\\nVol. III., p. 157. Many call him the venerated; all unite in calling him the\\ng(i(i(l Marquette, and by this last, most simple, but appropriate title he will be the\\nbest remembered by the generations yet to come. A man who was delighted at\\nthe happy necessity of exposing his life to bring the word of God witliin reach\\nof half a continent deserves that title if any one does. His Catholic eulogist,\\nJohn Gilnian Shea, (Catliolic World, November, 1877, p. 267,) writes with pardon-\\nable pride No missionary of that glorious band of Jesuits who in the seventeenth\\ncentury announced the faith from the Hudson Bay to the lower Mississippi, who\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f^", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "AH\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nhallowed by their labors and life-blood so many a wild spot now occupied by the\\nbusy hives of men, none of them impresses us more in his whole life and career\\nwith his piety, sanctity and absolute devotion to God, than Father Marquette. In\\nlife he seems to have been looked up to with reverence by the wildest savage, by\\nthe rude frontiersman, and by the polished officers of government. When he had\\npassed away, his name and his fame, so marked in the great West, was treasured\\nabove that of his fellow-laborers, Menard, Allouez, Nouvel or Druillettes. May I\\nnot add that, most of all other States, his name and his fame should be dear to\\nMichigan\\nSuch, then, was the man who on the 17th of May, 1673, with the simple outfit\\nof two bircli canoes, a supply of smoked meat and Indian corn, and a crew of five\\nmen, embarked on what was then known as Lac Des Illinois, now Lake Michigan.\\nJune 10th they came to the portage, in Wisconsin, (III., 158,) and after carrying\\ntheir canoes some two miles over marsii and prairie, he committed himself to the\\ncurrent that was to bear them he knew not whitlier perhaps to the Gulf of Mex-\\nico, perhaps to the South Sea, or the Gulf of California. June 17, 1673, where\\nnow stands Prairie Du Ghien, he had found what he sought, and with a joy that\\nI can not express we steered forth our canoes on the Mississippi, or great river.\\nWe know that the honor of this discovery is very stoutly contested in favor of\\nLaSalle, but for the present we confidently hold with Parkman (Discovery of the\\nGreat West, p. 25): LaSalle discovered the Ohio, and in all probabilit} the Illinois\\nalso but that he discovered the Mississippi has not been proved, nor in the light\\nof the evidence we have, is it likely. In 1816 W. J. A. Bradford, in his notes on\\nthe Nortli west, says very dogmatically: Father Hennepin must undoubtedly be\\nconsidered the discoverer of the Mississippi; but if the proof of it is only to be\\nestablislied by Hennepin s own narrative, which Parkman describes as a rare mon-\\nument of brazen mendacity, the proof is still wanting. His famous voyage from\\nthe Illinois to the Gulf of Mexico must be considered not only as a falsehood, but\\na plagiarism.\\nFortunately for the fame of Marquette, the true record of his labors was not left\\nto doubtful tradition and the hearsay testimony of Charlevoix. Among the papera\\nsome twenty-five years since in the archives of the College of Quebec are accounts\\nof the last labors and death of Father Marquette, and of the removal of his\\nremains, prepared for publication by Father Dablon Marquette s journal of his\\ngreat expedition, tlie very map he drew, and a letter left unfinished at the time of\\nhis death. So at least says Mr. Shea, and that these documents are tn be found in\\nhis work on the discovery and exploration of the Mississippi Valley.\\nLeaving, then, the doubtful narrative of Charlevoix and the romantic page of\\nBancroft founded upon it, we learn the real story of his death. October 25,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "Ll^\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\n1674, he again left St. Ignace to fulfill a promise to the Kaskaskias in Illinois.\\nDecember 4th he reached Cliicago, hoping to ascend the river, and by a portage\\nreach the Illinois: but the ice had closed the stream and it was too late. A winter\\nmarch, facing the cutting wind of the prairie was beyond his strength. His two\\nfaithful companions erected a log hut home and chapel the first dwelling and the\\nfirst church of the first white settlement of the city known for its great misfortune\\nthe world over, the city of Chicago.\\nWith the opening of Spring the good father again set out, and his last letter\\nnotes his progress till the 6th of April, 1675. Just after Easter he was again\\nstricken by disease (dysentery), and he saw that if he would die in the arms of\\nhis brethren at St. Ignace, he must depart at once. Escorted by the Kaskaskias,\\nwho were deeply impressed by his zeal, he reached Lake Michigan, gave orders to\\nhis faithful men to launch his canoe, and commenced his adventurous voyage along\\nthat still unknown and dangerous shore. His strength, however, failed so much\\nthat his men despaired of being able to convey him alive to their journey s end;\\nfor in fact he became so weak and so exhausted that he could no longer help him-\\nself, nor even stir, and had to be handled and carried like a child. He nevertheless\\nin this state maintained an admirable resignation, joy and gentleness, consoling his\\nbeloved companions, and encouraging them to suffer courageously all the hardships\\nof this voyage. On the eve of his death, which was on Friday, he told them,\\nall radiant with joy, that it would take place on the morrow, and spoke so calmly\\nand collectedly of his death and burial that you would have thought it was another s\\nand not his own.\\nThus did he speak to them as they sailed along the lake, till perceiving the\\nmouth of a river, with an eminence on the bank which he thought suited to his\\nburial, he told them that it was the place of his last repose. They wished, how-\\never, to pass on, as the weather permitted it and the day was not far advanced\\nbut God raised a contrary wind, which obliged them to return and enter the river\\nwhich the father had designated.\\nThey then carried him ashore, kindled a little fire and raised a bark cabin\\nfor his use, laying him in it with as little discomfort as they could but they were so\\ndepressed by sadness that, as they afterward said, they did not know what they were\\ndoing.\\nMany a time and oft, in my favorite summer home at Mackinac, have I had this\\nwhole scene pass before me as in a day-dream from Point Lookout, until last Sum-\\nmer it took the form of accordant I hyme\\nWhere the gently flowing river merges with the stormy lake.\\nWhere upon the beach so barren ceaseless billows roll and break.", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nThere the barque so frail and gallant, known throughout the western world,\\nGlides into the long-sought haven and its weary wings are furled.\\nHere, says one, I end my voyage and my sun goes down at noon\\nHere I make the final traverse, and the part comes not too soon;\\nLet God have the greater glory, care have I for naught beside,\\nBut to bear the blest evangel, Jesus Christ, the crucified.\\nII.\\nSlow and faint into the forest, straight he takes his quiet way.\\nKneels upon the virgin mosses, prays as he is wont to pray\\nNunc dimiitis then they hear him sweetly sing as ne er before;\\nThen the angels join in chorus, and Marquette is now no more.\\nThis the prayer he leaves behind him, as is said his latest mass^\\nOne day bear me to my mission, at the Pointe of St. Ignace.\\nEntered into rest from labor, where all toils and tempests cease,\\nEvery sail outspread and swelling, so he finds the port of peace.\\nIII.\\nOnce again that spot so sacred hears the sound of human feet,\\nAnd the gently flowing river sees a strange funereal fleet\\nTis the plumed and painted warriors, of their different tribes the best.\\nWho have met in solemn council to fulfill his last request.\\nDown their cheeks the tears are flowing, for the sainted man of God;\\nNot the bones of dearest kindred dear as those beneath that sod,\\nReverently the grave they open, call the dear remains their own\\nSink them in the running water, cleanse and whiten every bone.\\nPlace them gently in the mocock, wrought with woman s choicest skill.\\nFrom the birch the very whitest, and the deepest colored quill\\nIn the war canoe the largest, to his consecrated tomb.\\nLike a chief who falls in battle, silently they bear him home.\\nIV.\\nGathers still the sad procession, as the fleet comes slowly nigh.\\nWhere the cross above the chapel stands against the northern sky\\nEvery tribe and every hamlet, from the nooks along the shore,\\nSwell the company of mourners, who shall see his face no more.\\nForth then thro the deepening twilight sounds the service high and clear.\\nAnd the dark-stoled priests with tapers guide and guard the rustic bier\\nIn the center of the chapel, close by little Huron s wave.\\nNear the tall and stately cedars, Pere Marquette has found his grave.\\nVI.\\nStill I hear the Miserere sounding loud within my soul.\\nStill I hear the De Profundis, with its solemn cadence roll\\nFor the blood of thy red brother, who shall answer in that day.\\nWhen before the throne of judgment earth and heaven shall pass away.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "L\\n28 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nWhen these lines were written I had not seen the narrative of Fatliev Dablon,\\nbut a further extract from it will show that there was very little poetic license in\\nthem as to the leading facts.\\nGod did not permit so precious a deposit to remain unhonored and forgotten\\namid the forests. The Indians called Kiskakons, who have for nearly ten years\\npublicly professed Christianity, in which they were first instructed by Father Mar-\\nquette, when stationed at La Pointe du St. Esprit, at the extremity of Lake Supe-\\nrior, were hunting last year, not far from Lake Illinois {i. e. Michigan), and as\\nthey were returning early in the Spring they resolved to pass the tomb of their good\\nfather, whom they tenderly loved, and God even gave them the thought of taking\\nhis bones and conveying them to our church at the mission of St. Ignatius.\\nThey accordingly repaired to the spot and deliberated together, resolving to\\nact with their father, as they usually do with those whom they respect. They\\nopened the grave, unrolled the body, and though the flesh and intestines were all\\ndried up, they found it entire, without the skin being injured. This did not pre-\\nvent their dissecting it according to custom. They washed the bones and dried\\nthem in the sun then ^Jutting them neatly in a box of birch bark, they set out to\\nbear them to our house at St. Ignatius.\\nThe convoy consisted of nearly thirty canoes in excellent order, including\\neven a good number of the Iroquois (a very I erocious tribe, who were a great\\nterror to other tribes and especially hostile to the Jesuits), who had joined our\\nAlgonquins to honor the ceremony. As they approached our house Father Nouvel,\\nwho is superior, went to meet them with Father Pierson, accompanied by all the\\nFrench and Indians of the place and having caused the convoy to stop, he made\\nthe ordinary interrogations to verify the fact that the body which they bore was\\nreall}^ Father Marquette. Then before they landed he intoned the De Profundis\\nin sight of the thirty canoes still on the water, and of all the people still on the\\nshore. After this the body was carried to the church, observing all that the ritual\\nprescribes for such ceremonies. It remained exposed under his catafalque all that\\nday, which was Whitsun Monday, the 8th of June, and the next day, when all the\\nfuneral honors had been paid to it, it was deposited in a little vault in the middle of\\nthe i-Jmrah, where he reposes as the guardian angel of our Ottawa missions.\\nSo far the invaluable record of Dablon. We come now to 1706, when for well-\\nknown reasons, for which we can not pause, the Jesuits at St. Ignace broke up their\\nmission, set fire to their house and chapel and returned to Quebec. What became\\nof the bones of Marquette Did thej carry them with them to Quebec? No they\\nleft in haste, and fled almost as for their lives. There is nothing in Canadian\\nregisters, which are extensive, full and well preserved. Charlevoix, who\\nwas at Quebec on the return of the missionaries, is silent. There is little\\n\\\\^(S r- -Tf bIV", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "Ll^^\\nHISTORY OF JIICHIGAN.\\ndoubt, therefore, th.it the precious remains of the great explorer still lay in the\\nchapel.\\nBut the very site of the chapel was soon lost. The new chapel, still standing,\\nwas confessedly not on the site of the old one. Could the old site ever be identi-\\nfied? It seemed very doubtful indeed. True, there were a few local and legen-\\ndary traditions to whicli reference was made some years since in his correspondence\\nby the Hon. E. G. D. Holden, our present Secretary of State.\\nAn Indian now living in St. Ignace told me early last Summer that his father\\ntold him, and that his fatlier told him, and pointed out to him the place on the\\nshore of the bay where a black cross used to stand, which was understood to point\\nout the direction of the good father s grave, and where the voyagers would invoke\\nhis blessing. I also have it in writing from a very intelligent Indian, that last Sum-\\nmer he called on an aged Indian woman in Petoskey, claiming to be in her lOOtli\\nyear. I asked her if she had heard, when a girl, anything concerning the Kitchi-\\nma-ka-da-na-co-na-yay, or great priest. She said, Yes. He died at the mouth\\nof the river, and his body was carried to Min-is-sing, i. e. to St. Ignace.\\nThese are but specimens of many similar traditions but would there ever be\\nanything more than tradition\\nEarly in July I heard in Detroit for the first time, from Col. Stockbridge, who\\nhas a large lumber interest in St. Ignace that when he left tliere was a report that\\nthe site of tlie old chapel had been discovered. If so, thought I, then we have\\nfound Pere Marquette s grave at last for the one statement in which all seem to\\nagree is that he was buried in the middle of the chapel.\\nOn my arrival in Mackinac I lost but little time before starting for St. Ignace.\\nThough only four miles off we tacked a dozen times and took four hours, and\\nworked hard at that.\\nOn reaching Mr. Murray s house, where the supposed discovery had been\\nmade, I found precisely what had been described a few days before by a correspon-\\ndent of the Evening News.\\nTHE RECENT DTSCGVERIES AT ST. IGNACE.\\nSHALL WE, OR SHALL WE NOT, KECOVEB THE BONES OF MARQUETTE?\\nCorrespondence of the Evening News.\\nMackinac, July 12, 1877.\\nThe readers of the Evening News will recollect the recently reported discovery\\nat St. Ignace of the site of the mission chapel founded by Father Marquette in\\n1670, and under the pavement of which his bones were subsequently deposited.\\nThe account created considerable sensation among antiquaries. Being in Mackinac,\\nwithin four miles of St. Ignatius, I improved the opportunity to cross over and see\\nfor myself what the discoveries amounted to. The little steamer Truscott crosses", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "30 HISTORY OP MICHIGAN.\\neach afternoon fare fiftj cents. A few steps from tlie landing we turn into a\\npotato patch, just beyond which the boy who pilots us suddenly announces, Here s\\nthe place. At first glance nothing can be observed more than might be noticed\\non any vacant lot in Detroit. A closer examination, however, reveals a very slight\\ntrench about a foot and a half wide, forming a rectangle 35 by 45 feet and located\\nvery nearly, if not exactly, with the points of the compass, the longer measurement\\nbeing in the direction of east and west. At places in this trench rough stones lay\\nembedded in the earth. At the soutiiern side of the space, about nine feet from\\nthe western side, is a hole say three feet deep and eight or ten square, and in the\\nsoutheast corner another smaller hole. Until the present Spring the site has been\\ncovered with a growth of young spruce, the clearing off of which led to the sup-\\nposed discovery. The larger hole is assumed to have been a cellar under the\\nchurch in which the valuables are kept the smaller hole is thought to mark the\\nposition of the baptismal font, though why an excavation should be made for it is\\nmore than I can conjecture. A few feet west of the rectangle described above are\\ntwo heaps of stone and earth, evidently the debris of two ruined chimneys. The\\noutlines of the houses to which the chimneys belonged can also be faintly traced.\\nMr. Murray, the owner of the ground, is a well-to-do Catholic Irishman, own-\\ning as he does 600 acres of land on the Point. He has lived on the place for twenty\\nyears past, and before that lived on Mackinac Island. He is inclined to be super-\\nstitious and to magnify the mystery to which he believes he holds the key. As\\nillustrative of this he remarked in my presence that when he was about to build a\\ncow-house some time ago, his sons wished it located on what he now believes to be\\nthe site of the ancient church, but the protecting influences of that sacred spot\\nstrangely impelled him to adopt a different location. He is confident that by dig-\\nging below the surface at the center of the church, the mocock of bones would\\nbe discovered, but thus far owing to a difference between himself and the parish\\npriest, not a spadeful of earth has been turned. The priest believes the location to\\nbe the correct one, and is anxious to excavate, but Mr. Murray refuses to permit it\\nwithout a pledge that whatever is found shall not be carried away from the Point.\\nHe offers to give ground for the erection of a church or a monument on the spot,\\nbut insists that the sacred relics, if found, must be left where they have for two\\ncenturies rested. The bishop is expected at St. Ignace shortly, when the question\\nwill be laid before him for adjustment.\\nNow as to the probability of the discovery being confirmed by others yet to be\\nmade, I must confess to being less sanguine than Mr. Murray and his neighbors. It\\nis certain that the two ruined chimneys alluded to indicate the location of dwellings\\nat some period in the past. Bits of iron, copper and looking-glass found in the debris\\nattest this but whether the buildings stood fifty years ago or 200 no one can posi-", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "ll^\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ntively assert. Mr. Mui-ray has known the spot for a quarter of a century, and can\\nvouch for no change having occurred in that time. I think it likely that they are\\nof a much older date. In regard to the assumed church site I think the proba-\\nbilities favor the existence there at one time of a building of some sort. Whether it\\noccupied the limits assumed 45 by 35 feet is less certain, while the existence of the\\ncellar would seem to indicate that it was a dwelling rather than a church. On the\\nother hand, it is certain that the mission was founded in tliis immediate vicinity, and\\nthe Murray farm, as fronting on the most protected part of the bay, and affording\\nthe best landing for boats, is certainly as likely a spot for Marquette to have adopted\\nas any. But nothing can be told with any certainty till thorough investigation is\\nmade.\\nThe tradition is that the mission was founded in 1670, that Marquette subse-\\nquently visited Wisconsin and Illinois, establishing mission stations as far up the\\nlake as Chicago that upon his return via the eastern shore of Lake Michigan he\\ndied at the mouth of the Pere Marquette river, wiiere Ludington now stands, and\\nwas buried there. A few years later his bones were taken up, cleaned and packed\\nin a mocock, or box made of birch bark, and were conveyed with due solemnity\\nback to St. Ignace, where they were permanently deposited beneath the middle of\\nthe church. At a still later period Indian wars broke up the mission, and to protect\\nthe church from sacrilege the missionaries burned it to the ground.\\nI also found in tiie possession of the present priest of St. Ignace, Father Jaoka\\n(pronounced Yocca), a pen and ink sketch, on which I looked with most intense\\ninterest. This invaluable drawing gives the original site of the French village, the\\nhome of the Jesuits, the Indian village, the Indian fort on the bluff, and, most\\nimportant of all, very accurately defines the contour of a little bay known as Na-\\ndowa\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wikweiamashong i. e., as Mr. Jacker gave it, Nadowa Huron. Wik-weia\\nHere is a bay. Anglice Little bay of tlie Hurons or according to the Ot-\\nchepwa dictionary of Bp. Barraga, Bad bay of the Iroquois squaw. Of the\\nIndian village thei-e is no trace. Their wigwams, built only of poles and bark,\\nhave not left a single vestige. Not so with the French village. You may still see\\nthe remains of their logs and plaster, and the ruins of their chimneys. On the sup-\\nposed site of the house of the Jesuits, some 40 by 30 feet, are found distinct out-\\nlines of walls, a little well, and a small cellar. Immediately in the rear of the larger\\nbuilding are the remains of a forge, where the brothers used to make spades or\\nswords, as the occasion might require.\\nOn further inquiry of the priest, who was equally remarkable for his candor\\nand intelligence, and the length of his beai d, I found that the sketch of the house\\nof the Jesuits was taken by him from the travels of LaHenton, originally published\\nin France, but translated and republished in England A. D. 1772. Only a few days\\nT^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "32 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nafter I saw a copy of this very same book in the hands of Judge C. I. Walker, of\\nDetroit, and was thus enabled, to my very great satisfaction, to verify the sketch as\\nshown to me by Father Jaoka or Jacker (Yocca).\\nLaHenton says The place which I am now in is not above half a league dis-\\ntant from the Illinois lake. Here the Hiirons and Ontawas have each of em (sic)\\na village, the one being severed from the other by a single palisade. But the On-\\ntawas are beginning to build a fort upon a hill that stands but 1,000 or 1,200 paces\\noff. In this place the Jesuits have a little house or college, adjoining to a\\nsort of chapel and enclosed with pale, which separates it from the .village of the\\nHurons.\\nThe Cuereur du Paris also a very small settlement. La Henton, vol. I., p. 88.\\nFrom that moment I entertained the most sanguine hope tliat the long lost\\ngrave of the good Marquette would .again be found. Greatly did I regret that I\\ncould not remain a few days -longer, when the exploration would be made in the\\npresence of the excellent Bishop Mrak, and learn what would be the result. I saw\\nnothing whatever in the well-known cliaracter of tlie bishop, or of the worthy pas-\\ntor of St. Ignace to justify even for a moment the least suspicion of anything like\\npious fraud.\\nMonday, Septembers, 1877, Bishop Mrak dug out the first spadeful of ground.\\nFor a time, however, the search was discouraging. Nothing was found tluit would\\nindicate the former existence of a tomb, vaulted or otherwise, and tiie bishop went\\naway. After a while a small piece of birch bark came to light, followed by numerous\\nother fragments scorched by fire. Finally a larger and well preserved piece appeared\\nwhich once evidently formed part of tlie bottom of an Indian-wig-wap-makak-\\nbirch-bark-box or mocock. Evidently the box had been double, such as the Indians\\nsometimes use for greater durability in interments, and had been placed on three or\\nfour wooden sills. It was also evident that the box had not been placed on the\\nfloor but sunk in the ground, and perhaps covered with a layer of mortar. But it\\nwas equally evident that this humble tomb had been disturbed, and the box broken\\ninto, and parts of it torn out, after the material had been made brittle by the action\\nof fire. Tills would explain the absence of its former contents, which, says Mr.\\nJacker, what else could we think were nothing less than Father Marquette s\\nbones! But what had become of them? Further search brought to light two frag-\\nments of bone then thirty-six more finally a small fragment, apparently of the\\nskull then similar fragments of the ribs, the hand and the thigh bone. From these\\ncircumstances then we deduce the following conclusions:\\n1. That of M. Pommier, the French surgeon, that these fragments of bones\\nare undoubtedly human, and bear the marks of fire.\\n2. That everything goes to show the haste of profane robbery.", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF JIICHIGAN.\\n3. That this robbery was by Indian medicine men, who coveted his bones,\\naccording to their belief, as a powerful medicine.\\n4. That it must have taken place within a few years after the departure of\\nthe Jesuits, otherwise when the mission was renewed (about 1708), the remains\\nwould most certainly have been transferred to the new church in old Mackinac.\\n5. That Charlevoix, at his sojourn there in 1721, could hardly have failed to\\nbe taken to see the new tomb, and to mention the fact of its transfer in his journal,\\nor history.\\n6. That if we have failed to find all the remains of the great explorer, we\\nhave at least found some, and ascertained the fact of his having been interred on\\nthat particular spot.\\n7. That the records answer all the circumstances -of the discovery, and that\\nthe finding of these few fragments, if not as satisfactory to our wishes, is at least\\nas good evidence for the fact in question as if we had found every bone that is in\\nthe human body.\\nSuch are the leading points in Father Jacker s elaborate narrative, as published\\nin the CathoUe World, November, 1877, in connection with the article entitled\\nRomance and Reality of the Death of Father James Marquette, and the recent\\ndiscovery of his remains, by John G. Shea, for which papers I am indebted to the\\nkind courtesy of Mr. Daniel E. Hudson, C. S. C, Notre Dame, Indiana, to whom I\\nreturn most cordial thanks.\\nWhile in some respects the results are not quite so satisfactory as might have\\nbeen desired, yet the determination of the site of the old house of the Jesuits, the\\ndiscovery of the tomb, the recovery in part of the mocock coffin, and above all, the\\nfinding of some of the bones of Marquette, are all of intense interest to every\\nlover of earlj- Michigan history.\\nMarquette, the great explorer the oldest founder of Michigan, whose grave\\nwas found within her borders, and to whom belongs immortal honor, being the dis-\\ncoverer of the upper Mississippi and first navigator of the great river. The scat-\\ntering of Jiis bones, I am tvell persuaded, is only a symbol of the wider extension of his\\nfame. Already his name is attached to a railroad, a river, a citj^, a diocese in\\nMichigan but that is not enough. Some forty years ago it was foretold by Ban\\ncroft that the people of the West will build his monument, and now the time\\nhas fully come when that prophecy will be fulfilled. Lest you might think that I\\nsay this merely out of state pride, or as a lover of antiquarian history, I will only\\nadd in conclusion that I say it out of a much higher motive, and with reference to\\na much higher object. In reading the life of Francis Xavier when a boy, I learned\\nthat there were some lessons for Christian laborers from the lives of the early\\nJesuits, that neither I nor any other man could afford to overlook. Granting that\\n3", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "t^\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ntoo often they sought to help what they deemed a righteous cause by what they\\nknew to be unrighteous means, and so teach us what we should avoid, there are other\\nlessons that we would do well to imitate. The spirit of union, which was to them\\nso great a source of power, the cheerfulness with which they suffered for the cause\\nthat they had espoused the unlooked-for combinations of chai-acter in the same\\nindividuals, and above all the magnetism of personal importance and power by hav-\\ning a definite aim such for example as we find in the good Marquette belonging\\nto any one church or order of that church, but to man as man, and to the world at\\nlarge There is only one regret that I should liave in the erecting of such a mon-\\nument, and that is lest it should be built by our Catholic friends alone. Will they\\nnot permit us all to join Michigan, Wisconsin, Illinois, and the whole Northwest\\nand do honor to the greaj explorer in a monument of natural rock, (like Monu-\\nmental Rock, Isle Royale), the materials for which in that immediate vicinity have\\nbeen so long waiting, apparently, for just such a noble purpose\\nlasalle s travels.\\nThe next settlement in point of time was made in 1679, by Robert Cavalier de\\nLaSalle, at the mouth of the St. Joseph river. He had constructed a vessel, the\\nGriffin, just above Niagara Falls, and sailed around by the lakes to Green Bay,\\nWis., whence he traversed Lac des Illinois, now Lake Michigan, by canoe to the\\nmouth of the St. Joseph river. The Giiffin was the first sailing vessel that ever\\ncame west of Niagara Falls. La Salle erected a fort at the month of the St. Joseph\\nriver, which afterward was moved about 60 miles up the river, where it was still\\nseen in Charlevoix s time, 1721. La Salle also built a fort on the Illinois river,\\njust below Peoria, and explored the region of the Illinois and Mississippi rivers.\\nThe next, and third, Michigan post erected by authority was a second fort on\\nthe St. Joseph river, established by Du Suth, near the present Fort Gratiot, in\\n1686. The object of this was to intercept emissaries of the English, who were\\nanxious to open traffic with the Mackinaw and Lake Superior nations.\\nThe French posts in Michigan on westward, left very little to be gathered by\\nthe New York traders, and they determined, as there was peace between France and\\nEngland, to push forward their agencies and endeavor to deal with the western and\\nnorthern Indians in their own country. The French governors not only plainly\\nasserted the title of France, but as plainly threatened to use all requisite force to\\nexpel intruders. Anticipating cori-ectly that the English would attempt to reach\\nLake Huron from the East without passing up Detroit river, Du Luth built a fort\\nat tlie outlet of the lake into the St. Clair. About the same time an expedition\\nwas planned against the Senecas, and the Chevalier Tonti, commanding La Salle s\\nforts, of St. Louis and St. Joseph of Lake Michigan, and La Durantaye, the veteran\\ncommander of Mackinaw, were employed to bring down the French and Indian\\n:f^", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF :\\\\[ICHIGAN.\\nauxiliaries to take part in the war. These men intercepted English expeditions\\ninto the interior to establish trade with the Northern Indians, and succeeded in\\ncutting them off for many years. Religious zeal for the Catholic Church and the\\nnational aggrandizement were almost or quite equally the primary and all-ruling\\nmotive of western explorations. For these two purposes expeditions were sent out\\nand missionaries and military posts were established. In these enterprises Mar-\\nquette, Joliet, La Salle, St. Lusson and others did all that we find credited to them\\nin history.\\nIn 1669 or 1670, Talon, then Intendant of New France, sent out two parties\\nto discover a passage to the South Sea, St. Lusson to Hudson s Bay and La Salle\\nsouthwestward. On his return in 1671, St. Lusson held a council of all the north-\\nern tribes at the Sault Ste. Marie, where they formed an alliance with the French.\\nIt is a curious fact, says Campbell, that the public documents are usually\\nmade to exhibit the local authorities as originating everything, when the facts\\nbrought to light from other sources show that they were compelled to permit what\\nthey ostensibly directed. The expeditions sent out by Talon were at least sug-\\ngested from France. The local authorities were sometimes made to do things\\nwhich were not, in their judgment, the wisest.\\nDETROIT.\\nJuly 19, 1701, the Iroquois conveyed to King William III, all their claims to\\nland, describing their territory as that vast tract of land or colony called Cana-\\ngariarchio, beginning on the northwest side of Cadarachqui (Ontario) Lake, and\\nincludes all that vast tract of land lying between the great lake of Ottawawa\\n(Huron), and the lake called by the natives Sahiquage, and by the Christians the\\nLake of Sweege (Oswego, for Lake Erie), and runs till it butts upon the Twich-\\ntwichs, and is bounded on the westward by the Twichtwichs, on the eastward by\\na place called Qiiadoge, containing in length about 800 miles, and breadth 400\\nmiles, including the country where beavers and all sorts of wild game keep, and\\nthe place called Tjeughsaghrondie alias Fort De Tret or Wawyachtenock (Detroit)\\nand so runs round the lake of Sweege till you come to a place called Oniadarun-\\ndaquat, etc.\\nIt was chiefly to prevent any further mischief, and to secure more effectually\\nthe French supremacy that La Motte Cadillac, who had great influence over the\\nsavages, succeeded, in 1701, after various plans urged by him had been shelved by\\nhostile colonial intrigues, in getting permission from Count Fontchartraine to begin\\na settlement in Detroit. His purpose was from the beginning to make not only a\\nmilitary post, but also a civil establishment for trade and agriculture. He was more\\nor less threatened and opposed by the monopolists and by the Mackinaw missionaries,\\nand was subjected to severe persecutions. He finally triumphed and obtained valuable", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "36 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nprivileges and the right of seigneury. Craftsmen of all kinds were induced to settle\\nin the town, and trade flourished. He succeeded in getting the Hurons and many\\nof the Ottawas to leave Mackinaw and settle about Fort Pontchartraine. This\\nfort stood on what was formerly called the first terrace, being on the ground lying\\nbetween Larned street and the river, and between Griswold and Wayne streets.\\nCadillac s success was so great, in spite of all opposition, that he was appointed\\ngovernor of the new province of Louisiana, which had been granted to Crozat and\\nhis associates. This appointment removed him from Detroit, and immediately\\nafterward the place was exposed to an Indian siege, instigated by English emissaries,\\nand conducted by the Mascoutins and Ontagamies, the same people who made the\\nlast war on the whites in the territory of Michigan under Black Hawk a century\\nand a quarter later. The tribes allied to the French came in with alacrity and de-\\nfeated and almost annihilated the assailants, of whom a thousand were put to\\ndeath.\\nUnfortunately for the country, the commanders who succeeded Cadillac for\\nmany years were narrow-minded and selfish and not disposed to advance uny in-\\nterests beyond the lucrative traffic with the Indians in peltries. It was not until\\n1734 that any new grants were made to farmers. This was done by Governor-\\nGeneral Beauharnois, who made the grants on the very easiest terms. Skilled ar-\\ntisans became numerous in Detroit, and prosperity set in all around. The build-\\nings were not of the rudest kind, but built of oak or cedar, and of smooth finish.\\nThe cedar was brought from a great distance. Before 1742 the pineries were\\nknown, and at a very early day a saw-mill was erected on the St. Clair River, near\\nLake Huron. Before 1749 quarries were worked, especially at Stony Island. In\\n1763 there were several lime kilns within the present limits of Deti oit, and not\\nonly stone foundations but also stone buildings, existed in the settlement.\\nSeveral grist-mills existed along the river near Detroit. Agriculture was car-\\nried on profitably, and supplies were exported quite early, consisting chiefly of corn\\nand wheat, and possibly beans and peas. Cattle, horses and swine were raised in\\nconsiderable numbers but as salt was very expensive, but little meat, if any, was\\npacked for exportation. The salt springs near Lake St. Clair, it is true, were\\nknown, and utilized to some extent, but not to an appreciable extent. Gardening\\nand fruit-raising were carried on more thoroughly than general farming. Apples\\nand pears were good and abundant.\\nDuring the French and English war Detroit was the principal source of sup-\\nplies to the French troops west of Lake Ontario, and it also furnished a large number\\nof fighting men. Tlie upper posts were not much involved in this war.\\nTeuchsa Grondie. one of the many ways of spelling an old Indian name of\\nDetroit, is rendered famous by a large and splendid poem of Levi Bishop, Esq., of\\n1^", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "ik^\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nthat city. During the whole of the eighteenth century the history of Michigan was\\nlittle else than the history of Detroit, as the genius of French Government was to\\ncentralize power instead of building ujj localities for self-government.\\nAbout 1704, or three years after the founding of Detroit, this place was at-\\ntacked by the Ottawa Indians, but unsuccessfully and again, in 1712, the Otta-\\ngaraies, or Fox Indians, who were in secret alliance with the old enemies of the\\nFrench, the Iroquois, attacked the village and laid siege to it. They were sevei ely\\nrepulsed, and their chief offered a capitulation which was refused. Considering\\nthis an insult they became enraged and endeavored to burn up the town. Their\\nmethod of firing the place was to shoot large arrows, mounted with combustible\\nmaterial in flame, in a track through the sky rainbow-form. The bows and ari-ows\\nbeing very large and stout, the Indians lay with their backs on the ground, put\\nbotli feet against the central portion of the inner side of the bow and pulled the\\nstrings with all the might of their hands. A ball of blazing material would thus\\nbe sent arching over nearly a quarter of a mile, which would come down perpen-\\ndicularly upon the dry shingle roofs of the houses and set them on fire. But this\\nsclieme was soon check-mated by the French, who covered the remaining houses\\nwith wet skins. The Foxes were considerably disappointed at this and discour-\\naged, but they made one more desperate attempt, failed, and retreated toward\\nLake St. Clair, where they again entrenched themselves. From this place how-\\never, they were soon dislodged. After this period these Indians occupied Wis-\\nconsin for a time and made it dangerous for travelers passing through from the\\nlakes to the Mississippi. They were the Ishniaeliles of the wilderness.\\nIn 1749, there was a fresh accession of immigrants to all the points upon the\\nlakes, but the history of this part of the world during the most of this century, is\\nrather monotonous, business and government remaining about the same, without\\nmuch improvement. The records nearly all concern Canada east of the lake region.\\nIt is true, there was almost a constant change of commandants at the posts, and\\nthere were many slight changes of administrative policy, but as no great enter-\\nprises were successfully put in operation the events of the period have but little\\nprominence.\\nThe Northwestern Territory during French rule, was simply a vast ranging\\nground for the numerous Indian tribes, who had no ambition higher than obtaining\\nimmediate subsistence of the crudest kind, buying arms, whisky, tobacco, blankets\\nand jeweli y by bartering for them the peltries of the chase. Like a drop in the\\nocean was the missionary work of the few Jesuits at the half dozen posts on the\\ngreat waters. The forests were full of otter, beaver, bear, deer, grouse, quails, etc.,\\nand on the few prairies the grouse, or prairie chickens. were abundant Not\\nmuch work was required to obtain a bare subsistence, and human nature generally,\\nr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MICHIGAN.\\nis not disposed to lay up much for the future. The present material prosperity of\\nAmerica is really an exception to the general law of the world.\\nIn the latter part of 1796, Wintlirop Sargent went to Detroit and organized\\nthe county of Wayne, forming a part of the Indiana Territory until its division,\\n1805, when the Territory of Michigan was organized.\\nCHAPTEE III.\\nTHE FRENCH AND INDIAN WAR.\\nSoon after the discovery of the mouth of the Mississippi in 1682, the Govern-\\nment of France began to encourage the policy of establishing a line of trading\\nposts and missionary stations, extending through the west, from Canada and the\\ngreat lakes, to Louisiana and tliis policy was maintained, with partial success, for\\nabout seventy-five years. British power was the rival upon which the French\\ncontinually kept their eye. Of course a collision of arms would result in a short\\ntime, and this commenced about 1755. In 1760, Canada, including the lake re-\\ngion, fell into the hands of the British. During the war, occurred Braddock s de-\\nfeat, the battles of Niagara, Crown Point and Lake George, aud the death of brave\\nWolfe and Montcalm. September 12 of this year. Major Robert Rogers, a native\\nof New Hampshire, a provincial officer, and then at the height of his reputation,\\nreceived orders from Sir Jeffrey Amherst to ascend the lakes with a detachment of\\nrangers, and take possession, in the name of his Britannic majesty, of Detroit,\\nMicliilimackinac and other western posts, included in the capitulation of Montreal.\\nHe left the latter place on the following day with 200 rangers in fifteen whale boats.\\nNovember 7, they reached the mouth of a river (Cliogage), on the southern coast\\nof Lake Erie, wliere they were met by Poatiac, tlie Indian chief, who now appears\\nfor the first time upon the pages of Michigan history. He haughtily demanded of\\nRogers why he should appear in his realm with his forces without his permission.\\nThe major informed him that the English had obtained permission of Canada, and\\nthat he was on his way to Detroit to publish the fact, and to restore a general peace\\nto white men and Indians alike. The next day Pontiac signified his willingness to\\nlive at peace with the English, allowing them to remain in his country, provided\\nthey paid him due respect. He knew that French power was on the wane, and\\nthat it was to the interest of his tribes to establish an early peace with the new\\npower. The Indians, who had collected at the mouth of the Detroit, reported 400\\nstrong, to resist the coming of the British forces, were easily influenced by Pontiac", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nto yield the situation to Rogers. Even tlie French commandant at Detroit, Capt.\\nBeletre, was in a situation similar to that of the Indians, and received the news of\\nthe defeat of the French from Major Rogers. He was indignant and incredulous,\\nand tried to rouse the fury of his old-time friends, the Indians, but found them\\nfaithless in this hour of his need. He surrendered with an ill grace, amid the\\nyells of several hundred Indian warriors. It was a source of great amazement\\nto the Indians to see so many men surrender to so few. Nothing is more effective\\nin gaining the respect of Indians than a display of power, and the above proceed-\\nings led them to be overawed by English powers. They were astonished also at\\nthe forbearance of the conquerors in not killing their vanquished enemies on the\\nspot. This surrender of Detroit was on tlie 29th of November, 1760. The posts\\nelsewhere in the lake region, north and west; were not reached until some time\\nafterward.\\nThe English now thought they had the country perfectly in their own hands,\\nand that tliere was but little trouble ahead but in this respect they were mistaken.\\nThe French renewed their efforts to circulate reports among the Indians that the\\nEnglish intended to take all their land from them, etc. Tlie slaughter of the Mo-\\nnongahela, the massacre at Fort William Henry, and the horrible devastation of the\\nwestern frontier, all bore witness to the fact that the French were successful in pre-\\njudicing the Indians against the British, and the latter began to have trouble at\\nvarious points. The French had always been in the habit of making presents to\\nthe Indians, keeping them supplied with arms, ammunition, etc., and it was not\\ntheir policy to settle upon their lands. The British, on the other hand, now sup-\\nplied them with nothing, frequently insulting them when they appeared around\\nthe forts. Everything conspired to fix the Indian population in their prejudices\\nagainst the British Government. Even the seeds of the American Revolution were\\nscattered into the west, and began to grow.\\nThe first Indian chief to raise the wai -whoop was probably Kiashutd, of the\\nSenecas, but Pontiac, of the Ottawas, was the great George Washington of all the\\ntribes to systemize and render effectual the initial movements of the approaching\\nstorm. His home was about eight miles above Detroit, on Pechee Island, which\\nlooks out upon the waters of Lake St. Clair. He was a well-formed man, with a\\ncountenance indicating a high degree of intelligence. In 1746 he had successfully\\ndefended Detroit against the northern tribes, and it is probable he was present and\\nassisted in the defeat of Braddock. About the close of 1762 he called a general\\ncouncil of the tribes, sending out ambassadors in all directions, who, with the war\\nbelt of wampum and the tomahawk, went from village to village, and camp to camp,\\ninforming the sachems everywhere, that war was impending, and delivering to them\\nthe message of Pontiac. They all approved the message, and April 27, 1 763, a", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "40 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ngrand council was held near Detroit, when Pontiao stood forth in war paint and\\ndelivered the great speech of the campaign. The English were slow to perceive\\nany dangerous conspiracy in progress, and when the blow was struck, nine out of\\ntwelve of the British posts were surprised and destroyed. Three of these were\\nwitliin the bounds of this State. The first prominent event of the war was the\\nmassacre at Fort Michilimackinac, on the northernmost point of the southern\\npeninsula, the site of the present city of Mackinaw. This Indian outrage was one\\nof the most ingeniously devised and resolutely executed schemes in American his-\\ntory. The Chippewas (or Ojibways) appointed one of their big ball plays in the\\nvicinity of the post and invited and inveigled as many of the occupants as they\\ncould to the scene of play, then fell upon the unsuspecting and unguarded English\\nin the most brutal manner. For the details of this horrible scene we are indebted\\nto Alexander Henry, a trader at that point, who experienced several most blood-\\ncurdling escapes from death and scalping at the hands of the savages. The result\\nof the massacre was the death of about seventy out of ninety persons. The Ottawa\\nIndians, who occupied mainly the eastern portion of the lower peninsula, were not\\nconsulted by the Chippewas, with reference to attacking Michilimackinac, and were\\nconsequently so enraged that they espoused the cause of the English, through\\nspite and it was through their instrumentality that Mr. Henry and some of his\\ncomrades were saved from death and conveyed east to the regions of civilization.\\nOf Mr. Henry s narrow escapes we give the following succinct account: Instead\\nof attending the ball play of the Indians lie spent the day writing letters to his\\nfriends, as a canoe was to leave for the East the following day. While thus\\nengaged, he heard an Indian war cry and a noise of general confusion. Looking\\nout of the window, he saw a crowd of Indians within the fort, that is, within the\\nvillage palisade, who were cutting down and scalping every Englishman they\\nfound. He seized a fowling piece which he had at hand, and waited a moment for\\nthe signal, tlie drum beat to arms. In that dreadful interval he saw several of his\\ncountrymen fall under the tomahawk and struggle between the knees of an Indian,\\nwho held him in this manner to scalp him, while still alive. Mr. Henry heard no\\nsignal to arms; and seeing it was useless to undertake to resist 400 Indians, he\\nthought only of shelter for himself. He saw many of the Canadian inhabitants of\\nthe fort calmly looking on, neither opposing the Indians nor suffering injury, and he\\ntherefore concluded he might find safety in some of their houses. He stealthily\\nran to one occupied by Mr. Langlade and family, who were at their windows\\nbeholding the bloody scene. Mr. Langlade scarcely dared to harbor him, but a\\nPawnee slave of the former concealed him in the garret, locked the stairway door\\nand took away the key. In this situation Mr. Henry obtained, through an aperture,\\na view of what was going on without. He saw the dead scalped and mangled, the", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ndying in writhing agony, under the insatiate knife and tomahawk, and the savages\\ndrinking human blood from the hollow of their joined hands I Mr. Henry almost\\nfelt as if he were a victim himself so intense were his sufferings. Soon the Indian\\nfiends began to halloo, All is finished. At this instant Henry heard some of the\\nIndians enter the house he had taken shelter. The garret was separated from the\\nroom below by only a layer of single boards, and Mr. Henry heard all that was\\nsaid. As soon as the Indians entered they inquired whether there were any En-\\nglishmen in the house. Mr. Langlade replied that he could not say they might\\nexamine for themselves. He then conducted them to the garret door. As the door\\nwas locked, a moment of time was snatched by Mr. Henry to crawl into a heap of\\nbirch-bark vessels in a dark corner and although several Indians searched around\\nthe garret, one of them coming within arm s length of the sweating prisoner, they\\nwent out satisfied that no Englishman was there.\\nAs Mr. Henry was passing the succeeding night in this room, he could think\\nof no possible chance of escape from the country. He was out of provisions, the\\nnearest post was Detroit, 400 miles away, and the route thither lay through the\\nenemy s country. The next morning he heard Indian voices below informing Mr.\\nLanglade that they had not found an Englishman named Henry among the dead,\\nand they believed him to be somewhere concealed. Mrs. L., believing that the\\nsafety of the household depended on giving tap the refugee to his pursuers, prevailed\\non her husband to lead the Indians upstairs to the room of Mr. H. The latter was\\nsaved from instant death by one of the savages adopting him as a brother in the\\nplace of one lost. The Indians were all mad with liquor, however, and Mr. H.\\nagain very narrowly escaped death. An hour afterwards he was taken out of the\\nfort by an Indian indebted to him for goods, and was under the uplifted knife of\\nthe savage when he suddenly broke away from him and made back to Mr. Lang-\\nlade s house, barely escaping the knife of the Indian the whole distance. The next\\nday he, with tiiree other prisoners, were taken in a canoe toward Lake Michigan,\\nand at Fox Point, eighteen miles distant, the Ottawas rescued the whites through\\nspite at the Chippewas, sayir.g that the latter contemplated killing and eating them\\nbut the next day they were returned to the Chippewas, as the result of some kind\\nof agreement about the conduct of the war. He was rescued again by an old\\nfriendly Indian claiming him as a brother. The next morning he saw the dead\\nbodies of seven whites dragged forth from the prison lodge he had just occupied.\\nTiie fattest of these dead bodies was actually served up and feasted on directly\\nbefore the eyes of Mr. Henry. Through the partiality of the Ottawas and the com-\\nplications of militarj- affairs among the Indians, Mr. Henry, after severe exposures\\nand many more thrilling escapes, was finally lauded within territory occupied by\\nwhites.\\nV^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nFor more than a year after the massacre, Michilimackinac was occupied only\\nby wood rangers and Indians then, after the treaty, Capt. Howard was sent with\\ntroops to take possession.\\nCHAPTER IV,\\nNATIONAL POLICIES.\\nThe Great French Scheme. Soon after the discovery of the mouth of the\\nMississippi by La Salle, in 1682, the government of France began to encourage the\\npolicy of establishing a line of trading posts and missionary stations extending\\nthrough the West from Canada to Louisiana, and this policy was maintained, with\\npartial success, for about seventy-five j^ears.\\nThe river St. Joseph, of Lake Michigan, was called the river Miamis in\\n1679, in which year La Salle built a small fort on its bank, near the lake shore.\\nThe principal station of the mission for the instruction of the Miamis was estab-\\nlished on the borders of this river. The first French post within the territory of\\nthe Miamis was at the mouth of the river Miamis, on an eminence naturally forti-\\nfied on two sides by the river, and on one side by a deep ditch made by a fall of\\nwater. It was of triangular form. The missionary, Hennepin, gives a good\\ndescription of it, as he was one of the company who built it in 1679. Says he:\\nWe felled the trees that were on the top of the bill, and having cleared the same\\nfrom bushes for about two musket shot, we began to build a redoubt of eighty feet\\nlong and forty feet broad, with great square pieces of timber laid one upon\\nanother, and prepared a great number of stakes of about twenty-five feet\\nlong to drive into the ground, to make our fort more inaccessible on the\\nriver side. We employed the whole month of November about that work,\\nwhich was very hard, though we had no other food but the bears flesh our\\nsavage killed. These beasts are very common in that place, because of tlie great\\nquantity of grapes they find there but their flesh being too fat and luscious, our\\nmen began to be weary of it, and desired leave to go a-hunting to kill some\\nwild goats. M. La Salle denied them that liberty, which caused some murmurs\\namong them, and it was but unwillingly that they continued their work. This,\\ntogether with the approach of Winter and the apprehension that M. La Salle had\\nthat his vessel (the GrifSn) was lost, made him very melancholy, though he con-\\ncealed it as much as he could. We made a cabin wherein we performed divine\\nservice every Sunday, and Father Gabriel and I, who preached alternately, took\\ncare to take such texts as wei-e suitable to our present circumstances and fit to", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "HISTOIIY OF MICHIGAN.\\ninspire us with courage, concord and brotherly love. The fort was at last\\nperfected and called Fort Miamis.\\nIn 1765, the Miamis nation, or confederacy, was composed of four tribes,\\nwhose total number of warriors was estimated at only 1,050 men. Of these, about\\n250 were Twight-wess or Miamis proper, 300 Weas or Ouiate-nons, 300 Pianke-\\nshaws and 200 Schockeys, and at this time the principal villages of the Twight-\\nwess were situated about the head of the Maumee River, at and near the place where\\nFort Wayne now is. The larger Wea villages were near the banks of the Wabash\\nRiver, in the vicinity of the Ouiatenon and the Shockeys and Piaukeshaws dwelt\\non the banks of the Vermillion and on the borders of the Wabash, between Vin-\\ncennes and Ouiatenon. Branches of the Pottawatomie, Shawnee, Delaware and\\nKickapoo tribes were permitted at different times to enter within tiie boundaries of\\nthe Miamis and reside for a while.\\nThe wars in wliich France and England were engaged from 1688 to 1697,\\nretarded the growth of the colonies of those nations in North America, and the\\nefforts made by France to connect Canada and the Gulf of Mexico by a chain of\\ntrading-posts and colonies naturally excited the jealousy of England and gradually\\nlaid the foundation for a struggle at arms. After several stations were established\\nelsewhere in the West, trading-posts were started at the Miami villages, which stood\\nat the head of the Maumee, at the Wea villages about Ouiatenon, on the Wabash,\\nand at the Piankeshaw villages about the present site of Vincennes. It is probable\\nthat before the close of the year 1719, temporary trading-posts were erected at the\\nsites of Fort Wayne, Ouiatenon and Vincennes. The points were probablj often\\nvisited by French fur traders prior to 1700. In the meanwhile, the English people\\nin this country commenced also to establish military posts west of the Alleghanies,\\nand thus matters went on until they naturally culminated in a general war, which,\\nbeing waged l)y the French and Indians combined on one side, was called the\\nFrench and Indian war. This war was terminated in 1763 by a treaty at Paris,\\nby which France ceded to Great Britain all of North America east of the Mississippi\\nexcept New Orleans and the island on which it is situated and, indeed, France\\nhad the preceding Autumn, by a secret convention, ceded to Spain all the country\\nwest of that river.\\nIn 1762, after Canada and its dependencies had been surrendered to the English,\\nPontiac and his partisans secretly organized a powerful confederacy in order to\\ncrush at one blow all English power in the West. This great scheme was skillfully\\nprojected and cautiously matured. The principal act in tlie programme was to gain\\nadmittance into the fort at Detroit, on pretense of a friendly visit, with shortened\\nmuskets concealed under their blankets, and, on a given signal, suddenly break\\nforth upon the garrison but an inadvertent remark of an Indian woman led to a", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ndiscovery of the plot, which was consequently averted. Pontiac and his warriors\\nafterward made many attacks upon the English, some of which were successful,\\nbut the Indians were finally defeated in the general war.\\nBRITISH POLICY.\\nIn 1765 the total number of French families within the limits of the North-\\nwestern Territory did not probably exceed 600. These were in settlements about\\nDetroit, along the river Wabash and the neighborhood of Fort Chartres on the Mis-\\nsissippi. Of these families, about eighty or ninety resided at Post Vincennes, fourteen\\nat Fort Ouiatenon, on the Wabash, and nine or ten at the confluence of the St. Mary\\nand St. Joseph rivers, together with a few on St. Clair lake and river.\\nThe colonial policy of the British Government opposed an} measures which\\nmight strengthen settlements in the interior of this country, lest they become self-\\nsupporting and independent of the mother country; hence the early and rapid settle-\\nment of the Northwestern Territory was still furtlier retarded by short-sighted self-\\nishness of England. That fatal policy consisted mainly in holding the lands in the\\nhands of the government and not allowing it to be subdivided and sold to settlers.\\nBut in spite of all her efforts in this direction, she constantly made just such efforts\\nas provoked the American people to rebel, and to rebel successfully, which was\\nwithin fifteen years after the perfect close of the French and Indian war.\\nAMERICAN POLICY.\\nThomas Jefferson, the shrewd statesman and wise Governor of Virginia, saw\\nfrom the first that actual occupation of Western lands was the only way to keep\\nthem out of the hands of foreigners and Indians. Therefore, directly after the con-\\nquest of Vincennes by Clark he engaged a scientific corps to proceed under an\\nescort to the Mississippi, and ascertain by celestial observations the point on that\\nriver intersected by latitude 36 deg. 31 min., the southern limit of the State, and to\\nmeasure its distance to the Ohio. To Gen. Clark was entrusted the conduct of\\nthe military operations in that quarter. He was instructed to select a strong\\nposition near that point and establish there a fort and garrison thence to extend\\nhis conquest northward to the lakes, erecting forts at different points, which might\\nserve as monuments of actual possession, besides affording protection to that por-\\ntion of the countr}-. Fort Jefferson was erected and garrisoned on the Missis-\\nsippi a few miles above the southern limit.\\nThe result of these operations was the addition to the chartered limits of Vir-\\nginia, of that immense region known as the Northwestern Territory. The sim-\\nple fact that such and such forts were established by the Americans in this vast\\nregion convinced the Britisli Commissioners that we had entitled ourselves to the\\nland. But where are those monuments of our power now", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "jil\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nORDINANCE OF 1787.\\nThis ordinance has a marvelous and interesting history. Considerable contro-\\nversy has been indulged in as to who is entitled to the credit for framing it. This belongs\\nundoubtedly, to Nathan Dane and to Rufus King and Timothy Pickering belong\\nthe credit for suggesting the proviso contained in it against slavery, and also for\\naids to religion and knowledge, and for assuring forever the common use, without\\ncharge, of the great national highways of the Mississippi, the St. Lawrence and\\ntheir tributaries to all the citizens of the United States. To Thomas Jefferson is\\nalso due much credit, as some features of this ordinance were embraced in his ordin-\\nance of 1784. But the part taken by eacli in the long, laborious and eventful\\nstruggle which had so glorious a consummation in the ordinance, consecrating for-\\never, by one imprescriptible and unchangeable monument, the very heart of our\\ncountry to freedom, knowledge and union, will forever honor the names of those\\nillustrious statesmen.\\nJefferson had vainly tiied to secure a system of government for the North-\\nwestern Territorj He was an emancipationist and favored the exclusion of slavery\\nfrom the Territory, but the South voted him down every time he proposed a meas-\\nure of this nature. In 1787, as late as July 10, an organizing act without the anti-\\nslavery clause was pending. This concession to the South was expected to carry\\nit. Congress was in session in New York. On July 5, Rev. Manasseh Cutler of\\nMassachusetts, came into New York to lobby on the Northwestern Territory,\\nEverything seemed to fall into his hands. Events were ripe. The state of the\\npublic credit, the growing of Southern prejudice, the basis of his mission, his per-\\nsonal character, all combined to comjilete one of those sudden and marvelous revo-\\nlutions of public sentiment that once in five or ten centuries are seen to sweep over\\na country like the breath of the Almighty.\\nCutler was a graduate of Yale. He had studied and taken degrees in the\\nthree learned professions, medicine, law, and divinity. He had published a scien-\\ntific examination of the plants of New England. As a scientist in America, his\\nname stood second only to Franklin. He was a courtly gentleman of the old style,\\na man of commanding presence and inviting face. The Southern members said\\nthey had never seen such a gentleman in the North. He came, representing a\\nMassachusetts company that desired to purchase a tract of land, now included in\\nOhio for the purpose of planting a colony. It was a speculation. Government\\nmoney was worth eighteen cents on the dollar. This company had collected enough\\nto purchase 1,500,000 acres of land. Other speculators in New York made Ur.\\nCutler their agent, which enabled him to represent a demand for 5,500,000 acres.\\nAs this would reduce the national debt, it presented a good opportunity to do\\nsomething:.\\ny", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nMassachusetts then owned the territory of Maine, which she was crowding on\\nthe market. She was opposed to opening the Northwestern region. This fired\\nthe zeal of Virginia. The South caught tlie inspiration, and all exalted Dr. Cutler.\\nThe entire South rallied around him. Massachusetts could not vote against him,\\nbecause many of the constituents of her members were interested personally in the\\nWestern speculation. Thus Cutler making friends in the South, and doubtless\\nusing all the arts of the lobby, was enabled to command the situation. True to\\ndeeper convictions, he dictated one of the most compact and finished documents\\nof wise statesmenship that has ever adorned any human law book.\\nHe borrowed from Jefferson the term Articles of Compact, which preceding\\nthe federal constitution, rose into the most sacred character. He then followed\\nvery closely the constitution of Massachusetts, adopted three years before. Its\\nmost prominent points were\\n1. The exclusion of slavery from the territory forever.\\n2. Provision fur public schools, giving one township for a seminary and every\\nsection numbered 16 in each township that is, one thirty-sixth of all the land for\\npublic schools.\\n3. A provision prohibiting the adoption of any constitution or the enactment\\nof any law that should nullify pre-existing contracts. Be it forever remembered\\nthat this compact declared that religion, morality and knowledge being necessary\\nto good government and the happiness of mankind, schools and the means of edu-\\ncation shall always be encouraged. Dr. Cutler planted himself on this platform\\nand would not yield. Giving his unqualified declaration that it was that or noth-\\ning, he took his horse and buggy and started for the constitutional convention at\\nPhiladelphia. On July 13, 1787, the bill was put upon its passage, and was unani-\\nmously adopted.\\nThus the great States of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin, a vast\\nempire, were consecrated to freedom, intelligence and morality. Thus the great heart\\nof the nation was prepared to save the union of States, for it was this act that was\\nthe salvation of the Republic and the destruction of slavery. Soon the South saw\\ntheir great blunder and tried to have the compact repealed. In 1803 Congress re-\\nferred it to a committee, of which John Randolph was chairman. He reported that\\nthis oi dinance was a compact, and opposed repeal. Thus it stood, a rock in the\\nway of the on-rushing sea of slavery.\\nThe Northwestern Territory included, of course, what is now the State of\\nIndiana, and October 5, 1787, Major General Arthur St. Clair was elected by Con-\\ngress, Governor of this territory. Upon commencing the duties of his office he\\nwas instructed to ascertain the real temper of the Indians, and do all in his power\\nto remove the causes for controversy between them and the United States, and to\\nriV", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\neffect the extinguishment of Indian titles to all the land possible. The Governor\\ntook up quarters in the new settlement of Marietta, Ohio, where he immediately\\nbegan the organization of the government of the territory. The first session of\\nthe General Court of the new territory was held at that place in 1788, the judges\\nbeing Samuel H. Parsons, James M. Varnum and John C. Syrames, but under the\\nordinance, Gov. St. Clair was president of the court. After the first session, and\\nafter tiie necessary laws for government were adopted. Gov. St. Clair, accompanied\\nby the judges, visited Kaskaskia for the purpose of organizing a civil government\\nthere. Full instructions had been sent to Maj. Hamtramck, commandant at Vin-\\ncennes, to ascertain the exact feeling and temper of the Indian tribes of the\\nWabash. The instructions were accompanied by speeches to each of the tribes. A\\nFrenchman, named Antoine Gamelin, was dispatched with these messages April 5,\\n1790, who visited nearly all the tribes on the Wabash, St. Joseph, and St. Mary s\\nRivers, but was coldly received, most of the chiefs being dissatisfied with the policy\\nof the Americans toward them, and prejudiced through English misr(!presentation.\\nFull accounts of his adventures among the tribes, reached Gov. St. Clair at Kaskas-\\nkia, in June, 1790. Being satisfied that there was no pi-ospectof effecting a general\\npeace with the Indians of Indiana, he resolved to visit Gen. Harmar, at his head-\\nquarters at Fort Washington, and consult with him on the means of carrying on an\\nexpedition against the hostile Indians but before leaving he intrusted Winthrop\\nSargent, the secretary of the Territory, with the execution of the resolutions of\\nCongress regarding the lands and settlers on the Wabash. He directed that officer\\nto proceed to Vincennes, lay out a county there, establish the militia and appoint\\nthe necessary civil and military officers. Accordingly Mr. Sargent went to Vin-\\ncennes and organized Camp Knox, appointed the officers, and notified the inhabi-\\ntants to present their claims to lands. In establishing these claims the settlers\\nfound great difficulty, and concerning this matter the secretary in his report to the\\npresident wrote as follows\\nAlthough the lands and lots which were awarded to the inhabitants appeared\\nfrom very good oral testimony to belong to those persons to whom they were\\nawarded, either by original grants, purchase or inheritance, yet there was scarcely\\none case in twenty where the title was complete, owing to the desultory manner in\\nwhich public business had been transacted, and some other unfortunate causes.\\nThe original concessions by the French and British commandants were generall}\\nmade upon a small scrap of paper, which it has been customary to lodge in the\\nnotary s office, who has seldom kept any book of record, but committed the most\\nimportant land concerns to loose sheets, which in process of time have come into\\npossession of persons that have fraudulently destroyed them or unacquainted with\\ntheir consequence, innocently lost or trifled them away. By French usage they are\\n;t^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nconsidered family inlieritanees, and often descend to women and cliildren. In one\\ninstance, during tlie government of St. Ange, a royal notary ran off with all the\\npublic papers in his possession, as by a certificate produced to me. And I am very\\nsorry further to observe that in the ofBce of Mr. Le Grande, which continued from\\n1777 to 1787, and where should have been the voucliers for imjiortant land transac-\\ntions, the records have been so falsified, and there is such gross fraud and forgery\\nas to invalidate all evidence and information which might be otherwise acquired\\nfrom his papers.\\nMr. Sargent says there were about 150 French families at Vincennes in 1790.\\nThe heads of all the families had been at one time vested with certain titles to a\\nportion of the soil and while the secretary was busy in straightening out those\\nclaims, he received a petition signed by eighty Americans, asking for the confirma-\\ntion of grants of land ceded by the Court, organized by Col. John Todd, under the\\nauthority of Virginia. With reference to this cause, Congress, March 3, 1691, em-\\npowered the territorial governor, in cases where land had been actually improved\\nand cultivated under a supposed grant for the same, to confirm to the persons who\\nmade such improvements the lands supposed to have been granted, not, however,\\nexceeding the quantity of 1,100 acres to any one person.\\nCHAPTER V.\\nMILITARY HISTORY.\\nPONTIAC S SIEGE OF DETROIT.\\nIn the Spring of 1763 Pontiac determined to take Detroit bj an ingenious\\nattack. He had his men file off their guns so that they would be short enough to\\nconceal under their blanket clothing as they entered the fortification. A Canadian\\nwoman who went over to their village on the east side of the river to obtain some\\nvenison, saw them thus at woik on their guns, and suspected they were preparing\\nfor an attack on the whites. She told her neighbors what she had seen, and one of\\nthem informed the commandant, Major Gladwyn, who at first slighted the advice,\\nbut before another day had passed he had full knowledge of the plot. There is a\\nlegend that a beautiful Chippewa girl, well-known to Gladwyn, divulged to him the\\nscheme which the Indians had in view, namely, that the next day Pontiac would\\ncome to the fort with sixty of his chiefs, each armed with a gun cut short and\\nhidden under his blanket that Pontiac would demand a council, deliver a speech,\\noffer a peace-belt of wampum, holding it in a reversed position as the signal for\\n-\u00c2\u00ael", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nattack that the chiefs, sitting upon the ground, would then spring up and fire\\nupon tlie officers, and the Indians out in the streets would next fall upon the\\ngarrison, and kill everj Englishman but spare all the French.\\nGladwyn accordingly put the place in a state of defence as well as he could,\\nand arranged for a quiet reception of the Indians and a sudden attack upon them\\nwhen he should give a signal. At 10 o clock, May 7, according to the girl s pre-\\ndiction, the Indians came, entered the fort, and proceeded with the programme,\\nbut witl) some hesitation, as they saw their plot was discovered. Pontiac made\\nhis speech, professing friendship for the English, etc., and without giving his signal\\nfor attack, sat down and heard Major Gladwyn s reply, who suffered him and his\\nmen to retire unmolested. He probably feared to take them as prisoners, as war\\nwas not actually commenced.\\nThe next day Pontiac determined to try again, but was refused entrance at the\\ngate unless he should come in alone. He turned away in a rage, and in a few\\nminutes some of his men commenced the peculiarly Indian work of attacking an\\ninnocent household and murdering them, just be3 ond the range of British guns.\\nAnother squad murdered an Englishman on an island at a little distance. Pontiac\\ndid not authorize the proceedings, but retired across the river and ordered pre-\\nparations to be made for taking the fort by direct assault, the headquarters of the\\ncamp to be on Bloody Run, west of the river. Meanwhile the garrison was\\nkept in readiness for any out-break. The very next day Pontiac, having received\\nreinforcements from the Chippewas of Saginaw Bay, commenced the attack, but\\nwas repulsed; no deaths upon either side. Gladwyn sent ambassadors to arrange\\nfor peace, but Pontiac, although professing to be willing, in a general way, to con-\\nclude peace, would not agree to any particular proposition. A number of Canadians\\nvisited the fort and warned the commandant to evacuate, as 1,500 or more Indians\\nwould storm the place in an hour and soon afterward a Canadian came with a\\nsummons from Pontiac, demanding Gladwyn to surrender the post at once, and\\npromising that, in case of comjiliance, he and his men would be allowed to go on\\nboard their vessels unmolested, leaving their arms and effects behind. To both\\nthese advices Major Gladwyn gave a flat refusal.\\nOnly three weeks provisions were within the fort, and the garrison was in a\\ndeplorable condition. A few Canadians, however, from across the river, sent some\\nprovisions occasionally, by night. Had it not been for this timely assistance, the\\ngarrison would doubtless have had to abandon the fort. The Indians themselves\\nsoon began to suffer from hunger, as they had not prepared for a long siege but\\nPontiac, after some maraudings upon the French settlei-s had been made, issued\\npromise to pay on birch bark, with which he pacified the residents. He sub-\\nsequently redeemed all these notes. About the end of July, Capt. Dalzell arrived\\n4\\nt^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MICHIGAN.\\nfrom Niagara with reinforcements and provisions, and persuaded Gladwyn to under-\\ntake an aggressive movement against Pontiac. Dalzell was detailed for the purpose\\nof attacking the camp at Parents Creek, a mile and a half away, but, being delayed\\na day, Pontiac learned of his movements, and prepared his men to contest his march.\\nOn the next morning, July 31, before day-break, Dalzell went out with 250 men,\\nbut was repulsed with a loss of fifty-nine killed and wounded, while the Indians\\nlost less than half that number. Parents Creek was afterward known as Bloody\\nRun.\\nShortly afterward, the schooner Gladwyn, on its return from Niagara, with\\nammunition and provisions, anchored about nine miles below Detroit for the night,\\nwhen in the darkness about 300 Indians in canoes came quietly upon the vessel\\nand very nearly succeeded in taking it. Slaughter proceeded vigorously until the\\nmate gave orders to his men to blow \\\\ip the schooner, when the Indians under-\\nstanding the design, fled precipitately, plunging into the water and swimming\\nashore. This desperate command saved the crew, and the schooner succeeded in\\nreaching the post with the much-needed supply of provisions.\\nBy this time, September, most of the tribes around Detroit were disposed to\\nsue for peace. A truce being obtained, Gladwyn laid in provisions for the Winter,\\nwhile Pontiac retired with his chiefs to the Maumee country, only to prepare for a\\nresumption of war the next Spring. He or his allies the next season carried on a\\npetty warfare until in August when the garrison, now worn out and reduced, were\\nrelieved by fresh troops. Major Bradstreet commanding. Pontiac retired to the\\nMaumee again, still to stir up hate against the British. Meanwhile the Indians\\nnear Detroit, scarcely comprehending what they were doing, were induced by\\nBradstreet to declare themselves subjects of Great Britain. An embassy sent to\\nPontiac induced him also to cease belligerent operations against the British.\\nIn 1769 the great chief and warrior, Pontiac, was killed in Illinois by a Kaskas-\\nkia Indian, for a barrel of whisky offered by an Englishman named Williamson.\\nEXPEDITIONS OF HARMAR, SCOTT AND WILKINSON.\\nGov. St. Clair, on his arrival at Fort Washington from Kaskaskia, had a long\\nconversation with Gen. Harmar, and concluded to send a powertul force to chastise\\nthe savages about the head-waters of the Wabash. He had been empowered by\\nthe President to call on Virginia for 1,000 troops and on Pennsylvania for 500, and\\nhe immediately availed himself of this resource, ordering 300 of the Virginia mili-\\ntia to muster at Fort Steuben, and march with the garrison of that fort to Vin-\\ncennes, and join Maj. Hamtramgk, who had orders to call for aid from the militia of\\nVincennes, march u^j the Wabash and attack any of the Indian villages which he\\nmight think he could overcome.", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF UnCHIGAN.\\nThe remaining 1,200 of the militia were ordered to rendezvous at Fort Wash-\\nington, and to join the regular troops at that post under Gen. Harmar. At this\\ntime the United States troops in the West were estimated by Gen. Harmar at 400\\neffective men. These, with the militia, gave him a force of 1,450 men. With this\\narmy Gen. Harmar marched from Fort Wasliington, September 30, and arrived\\nat the Maumee, October 17. They commenced the work of punishing the Indians,\\nbut were not very successful. The savages, it is true, received a severe scourging,\\nbut the militia behaved so badly as to be of little or no service. A detachment of\\no40 militia and sixty regulars, under the command of Col. Hardin, were sorely\\ndefeated on the Maumee October 22. The next day the army took up the line of\\nmarch for Fort Washington, wliich place they reached November 4, having lost in\\nthe expedition 183 killed and thirty-one wounded the Indians lost about as many.\\nDuring the progress of this expedition Maj. Hamtramck marched up the Wabash\\nfrom Vincennes, as far as the Vermillion river, and destroyed several deserted vil-\\nlages, but without finding an enemy to oppose him. Although the savages seem to\\nhave been severely punished by these expeditions, yet they refused to sue for peace,\\nand continued their hostilities. Thereupon, the inhabitants of the frontier settle-\\nments of Virginia took alarm, and the delegates of Ohio, Monongahela, Harrison,\\nRandolph, Greenbrier, Kanawah and Montgomery counties sent a joint memorial\\nto the Governor of Virginia, saying that the defenseless condition of the counties,\\nforming aline of nearly 400 miles along the Ohio river, exposed to the hostile inva-\\nsion of their Indian enemies, destitute of every kind of support, was truly alarm-\\ning, for, notwithstanding all the regulations of the General Government in that\\ncountry, they have reason to lament tliat they have been up to that time ineffectual\\nfor their protection nor indeed could it be otherwise, for the garrisons kept by the\\nContinental troops on the Ohio River, if of any use at all, must protect only the\\nKentucky settlement, as they immediately covered that country. They further\\nstated in their memorial, We beg leave to observe that we have reason to fear\\nthat the consequences of tlie defeat of our army by the Indians in the late expe-\\ndition will be severely felt on our frontiers, as there is no doubt that the Indians\\nwill, in their turn, being flushed with victory, invade our settlements and exercise\\nall their horrid murder upon the inhabitants thereof whenever the weather will\\npermit them to travel. Then, is it not better to support us where we are, be the\\nexpense what it may, than to oblige such a number of your brave citizens, who\\nhave so long supported, and still continue to support, a dangerous frontier (although\\nthousands of their relatives in the flesh have in the prosecution thereof fallen a\\nsacrifice to the savage inventions) to quit the country, after all they have done and\\nsuffered, when you know that a frontier must be supported somewhere?\\nThis memorial caused the Legislature of Virginia to authorize the Governor of\\nr^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MICHIGAN.\\nthat State to make any defensive operations necessary for the temporary defense of\\nthe frontiers, until the General Government could adopt and carry out measures to\\nsuppress the hostile Indians. The Governor at once called upon the military com-\\nmanding oflScers in the western counties of Virginia to raise by the first of March,\\n1791, several small companies for this purpose. At the same time Charles Scott\\nwas appointed Brigadier-General of the Kentucky Militia, with authority to raise\\n226 volunteers, to protect the most exposed portions of that district. A full report\\nof the proceedings of the Virginia Legislature being transmitted to Congress, that\\nbody constituted a local Board of War for the district of Kentucky, consisting of\\nfive men. March, 1791, Gen. Henry Knox, Secretary of War, sent a letter of\\ninstructions to Gen. Scott, recommending an expedition of mounted men not\\nexceding 750 men, against the Wea towns on the Wabash. With this force Gen.\\nScott, accordingly, crossed the Ohio, May 23, 1791, and reached the Wabash in\\nabout ten days. Many of the Indians, having discovered his approach, fled, tut he\\nsucceeded in destroying all the villages around Ouiatenon, together with several\\nKickapoo towns, killing thirty-two warriors and taking fifty-eight prisoners. He\\nreleased a few of the most infirm prisoners, giving them a talk, which they car-\\nried to the towns further up the Wabash, and which the wi etched condition of his\\nhorses prevented him from reaching.\\nMarch 3, 1791, Congress provided for raising and equipping a regiment for the\\nprotection of the frontiers, and Gov. St. Clair was invested with the chief command\\nof about 3,000 troops, to be raised and employed against the hostile Indians in the\\nterritory over which his jurisdiction extended. He was instructed by the Secretary\\nof War to march to the Miami village and establish a strong and permanent mili-\\ntary post there, also such posts elsewhere along the Oliio as would be in communi-\\ncation with Fort Washington. The post at Miami Village was intended to keep\\nthe savages in that vicinity in check, and was ordered to be strong enough in its\\ngarrison to afford a detachment of 500 or 600 men in case of emergency, either to\\nchastise any of the Wabash or other hostile Indians or capture convoys of the\\nenemy s provisions. The Secretary of War also urged Gov. St. Clair to establish\\nthat post as the first and most important part of the campaign. In case of a pre-\\nvious treaty, the Indians were to be conciliated upon this point, if possible and he\\npresumed good arguments might be offered to induce their acquiescence. Said he\\nHaving commenced your march upon the main expedition, and the Indians con-\\ntinuing hostile, you will use every possible exertion to make them feel the effects\\nof your superiority and, after having arrived at the Miami village and put your\\nworks in a defensible state, you will seek the enemy with the whole of your remain-\\ning force, and endeavor by all possible means to strike them with great severity.\\nIn order to avoid future wars, it might be proper to make the Wabash and thence", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "iht.\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nover to the Maumee, and down the same to its mouth, at Lake Erie, the boundary be-\\ntween the people of the United States and the Indians (excepting so far as the same\\nshould relate to the Wyandots and Delawares), on the supposition of their continu-\\ning faithful to the treaties but if they should join in the war against the United\\nStates, and your army be victorious, the said tribes ought to be removed without the\\nboundaries mentioned.\\nPrevious to marching a strong force to the Miami town. Gov. St. Clair, June\\n25, 1791, authorized Gen. Wilkinson to conduct a second expedition, not exceeding\\n500 mounted men, against the Indian villages on the Wabash. Accordingly, Gen.\\nWilkinson mustered his forces and was ready July 20, to march with 625 mounted\\nvolunteers, well armed, and provided with 30 days provisions, and with this force\\nhe reached the Ke-na-pa-com-a-qua village on the north bank of Eel River, about\\nsix miles above its mouth, Aug. 7, where he killed six warriors and took 34\\nprisoners.\\nThis town, which was scattered along the river for three miles, was totally\\ndestroyed. Wilkinson encamped on the ruins of the town that night, and the\\nnext day he commenced his march for the Kickapoo town, on the prairie which he\\nwas unable to reach owing to the impassable condition of the route which he adopted\\nand the failing condition of his horses. He reported the estimated result of the\\nexpedition as follows I have destroyed the chief town of the Ouiatenon nation,\\nand have made prisoners of the sons and sisters of the king. I have burned a\\nrespectable Kickapoo village, and cut down at least 400 acres of corn, chiefly in\\nthe milk.\\nEXPEDITIONS OF ST. CLAIR AND WAYNE.\\nThe Indians were greatly damaged by the expeditions of Harmar, Scott and\\nWilkinson, but were far from being subdued. They regarded the policy\\nof the United States as calculated to exterminate them from the land; and,\\ngoaded on by the English of Detroit, enemies of the Americans, they were excited\\nto desperation. At this time the Britisli Government still supported garrisons\\nat Niagara, Detroit and Michilimackinac, although it was declared by the second\\narticle of the definite treaty of peace of 1783, tliat the King of Great Britain would,\\nwith all convenient speed, and without causing any destruction or carrying away\\nany negroes or property of the American inhabitants, withdraw all his forces, gar-\\nrisons ar.d fleets from the United States, and from every post harbor and place\\nwithin the same. That treaty also provided that the creditors on either side\\nshould meet with no lawful impediments to tlie recovery to the full value, in sterl-\\ning money, of all bona fide debts previously contracted. The Britisli Government\\nclaimed that the United Slates had broken faith in this particular understanding\\nof the treaty, and in consequence refused to withdraw its forces from the territory.\\nrrv^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "V^i:\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nThe British garrisons in the Lake Region were a source of much annoyance to the\\nAmericans, as they afforded succor to the hostile Indians, encouraging them to\\nmake raids among the Americans. This state of affairs in the territory north-\\nwest of the Ohio, continued from the commencement of tlie Revolutionary war to\\n1796, when under a second treaty all British soldiers were withdrawn from the\\ncountry.\\nIn September, 1791, St. Clair moved from Fort Washington with about 2,000\\nmen, and November 3, the main army, consisting of about 1,400 effective troops,\\nmoved forward to the head-waters of the Wabash, where Fort Recovery was after-\\nward erected, and here the army encamped. About 1,200 Indians were secreted\\na few miles distant, awaiting a favorable opportunity to begin an attack, which\\nthey improved on the morning of Nov. 4, about half an hour before sunrise. The\\nattack was first made upon the militia, which immediately gave way. St. Clair\\nwas defeated and he returned to Fort Washington with a broken and dispirited\\narmy, having lost 39 officers killed, and 539 men killed and missing 22 ofiBcers\\nand 232 men were wounded. Several pieces of artillery and all the baggage,\\nammunition baggage and provisions were left on the field of l)attle and fell into the\\nhands of the victorious Indians. The stores and other public property lost in the\\naction were valued at $32,800. There were also 100 or more American women\\nwith the army of the whites, very few of whom escaped the cruel carnage of the\\nsavage Indians. The latter, characteristic of their brutal nature, proceeded in the\\nrush of victory to perpetrate the most horrible acts of cruelty and barbarity upon\\ntlie bodies of the living and the dead Americans who fell into their hands. Believ-\\ning that the whites had made war for many years merely to acquire land, the\\nIndians crammed clay and sand into the eyes and down the throats of the dying\\nand the dead\\nGEN. Wayne s great victory.\\nAlthough no particular blame was attached to Gov. St. Clair for the loss in\\ntliis expedition, yet he resigned the office of major-general, and was succeeded by\\nAnthou} Wayne, a distinguished officer of the Revolutionary war. Early in 1792,\\npreparations were made by the General Government for re-organizing the army, so\\ntliat it should consist of an eflScient degree of strength. Wayne arrived at Pitts-\\nburgh in June, where the army was to rendezvous. Here he continued actively\\nengaged in organizing and training his forces until October, 1793, when with an\\narmy of about 3,600 men, he moved westward to Fort Wasliington.\\nWhile Wayne was preparing for an offensive campaign, every possible means\\nwas employed to induce the hostile tribes of the Northwest to enter into a general\\ntreaty of peace with the American Government speeches were sent among them,\\nand agents to make treaties were also sent, but little was accomplished. Major", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "fe^\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nHamtramck, who still remained at Viucennes, succeeded in concluding a general\\npeace with the Wabash and Illinois Indians but the tribes more immediately under\\nthe influence of the British, refused to hear the sentiments of friendship that were\\nsent among them, and tomahawked several of the messengers. Their courage had\\nbeen aroused by St. Clair s defeat, as well as by the unsuccessful expedition which\\nhad preceded it, and they now felt quite prepared to meet a superior force under\\nGen. Wayne. The Indians insisted on the Ohio River as the boundary line between\\ntheir lands and the lands of the United States, and felt certain that they could\\nmaintain that boundary. Maj. Gen. Scott, with about 1,600 mounted volunteers\\nfrom Kentucky, joined the regular troops under Gen. Wayne, July 26, 1794, and on\\nthe 28th, the united forces began their march on the Indian towns of the Maumee\\nRiver. Arriving at the mouth of the Auglaize, the}- erected Fort Defiance, and on\\nAugust 15, the army advanced toward the British fort at the foot of the rapids of\\nthe Maumee, wliere on the 20th, almost within reach of the British, the American\\narmy obtained a decisive victory over the combined forces of the hostile Indians\\nand a considerable number of the Detroit Br. militia. The number of the enemy was\\nestimated at 2,000, against about 900 American troops actually engaged. This\\nhorde of savages, as soon as the action began, abandoned themselves to flight and\\ndispersed with terror and dismay, leaving Wayne s victorious army in full and quiet\\npossession of the field. The Americans lost thirty-three killed and one hundred\\nwounded while the loss of the enemy was more than double this number.\\nThe army remained three days and nights on the banks of the Maumee,\\nin front of the field of battle, during which time all the houses and corn-\\nfields were consumed and destroyed for a considerable distance both above and be-\\nlow Fort Miami, as well as within pistol shot of the British garrison, who were\\ncompelled to remain idle spectators to this general devastation and conflagration,\\namong which were the houses, stores and property of Col. McKee, the British\\nIndian agent and principal instigator of the war then existing between the\\nUnited States and savages. On the return march to Fort Defiance the villages\\nand cornfields for about fifty miles on each side of the Maumee were destroyed, as\\nwell as those for a considerable distance around that post.\\nSeptember 14, 1794, the army under Gen. Wayne commenced its march toward\\nthe deserted Miami villages at tlie confluence of St. Joseph and St. Mary s rivers,\\narriving October 17, and on the following day the site of Fort Wayne was selected.\\nThe fort was completed November 22, and garrisoned by a strong detachment of\\ninfantry and artillery, under the command of Col. John F. Hamtramck, who gave\\nto the new fort the name of Fort Wa3 ne. In 1814, a new fort was built on the\\nsite of this structure. The Kentucky volunteers returned to Fort Washington and\\nwere mustered out of service. Gen. Wayne, with the Federal troops, marched to\\n^s r-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MICHIGAN.\\nGreenville and took up his headquarters during the Winter. Here in August, 1795,\\nafter several months of active negotiation, this gallant officer succeeded in conclud-\\ning a getieral treaty of peace with all the hostile tribes of the Northwestern Ter-\\nritory. This treaty opened the way for the flood of immigration for man} years, and\\nultimately made the States and Territories now constituting the mighty Northwest.\\nUp to the organization of the Indiana Territory there is but little history to\\nrecord apart from those events connected with military affairs. In July 1796, as\\nbefore stated, after a treaty was concluded between the United States and Spain,\\nthe British garrisons, with their arms, artillery and stores were withdrawn from\\nthe posts within the boundaries of the United States northwest of the Ohio River,\\nand a detachment of American troops, consisting of sixty-five men, under the com-\\nmand of Capt. Moses Porter, took possession of the evacuated post of Detroit in\\nthe same month.\\nIn the latter part of 1796 Winthrop Sargent went to Detroit and organized\\nthe county of Wayne, forming a part of the Indiana Territory until its division in\\n1805, when the Territory of Michigan was organized.\\nREVOLUTIONARY WAR.\\nBy this important struggle the territory of the present State of Michigan was\\nbut little affected, the posts of Detroit and Mackinaw being the principal points\\nwhence the British operated among the Indians to prejudice them against the\\nAmericans, going so far as to pay a reward for scalps, which the savages, of\\ncourse, hesitated not to take from defenseless inhabitants. The expeditions made\\nby the Indians for this purpose were even supported sometimes by the regular\\ntroops and local militia. One of these joint expeditions, commanded by Capt.\\nByrd, set out from Detroit to attack Louisville, Ky. It proceeded in boats as far\\nas it could ascend the Maumee, and thence crossed to the Ohio River, on which\\nstream Ruddle s Station was situated, which surrendered at once, without fighting,\\nunder the promise of being protected from the Indians but this promise was\\nbroken and all the prisoners massacred.\\nAnother expedition under Gov. Hamilton, the commandant at Detroit, started\\nout iu 1778, and appeared at Vincennes, Ind., with a force of thirty regulars, fifty\\nFrench volunteers and about 400 Indians. At this fort the gan-ison consisted of\\nonly Capt. Helm and one soldier named Henry. Seeing the troops at a distance,\\nthey loaded a cannon, which they placed in the open gateway, and Capt. Helm\\nstood by the cannon with a lighted match. When Hamilton with his army\\napproached within hailing distance, Helm called out with a loud voice, Halt\\nThis show of resistance made Hamilton stop and demand a surrender of the garri-\\nson. No man, exclaimed Helm, with an oath, enters here until I know the", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nterms. Hamilton replied, You shall have the honor of war. Helm thereupon\\nsurrendered the fort, and the whole garrison, consisting of the two already named,\\nmarched out and received the customary marks of respect for their brave defense.\\nHamilton was soon after made to surrender this place to Gen. George Rogers Clark,\\nthe ablest American defender in the West. The British soldiers were allowed to\\nreturn to Detroit but their commander, who was known to have been active in\\ninstigating Indian barbarities, was put in irons and sent to Virginia as a prisoner\\nof war.\\nThe events just related are specimens of what occurred at and in connection\\nwith Detroit from the close of Pontiac s war until a number of years after the\\nestablishment of American Independence. When the treaty of peace was signed\\nin Versailles in 1783, the British on the frontier reduced their aggressive policy\\nsomewhat, but they continued to occupy the lake posts until 1796, on the claim that\\nthe lake region was not designed to be included in the treaty by the commissioners,\\nprobably on account of their ignorance of the geography of the region. Mean-\\nwhile tlie Indians extensively organized for depredation upon the Americans, and\\ncontinued to harass them at every point. During this period Alexander McKenzie,\\nan agent of the British Government, visited Detroit, painted like an Indian, and\\nsaid that he was just from the upper lakes, and that the tribes in that region were\\nall in arms against any further immigi ation of Americans, and were ready to attack\\nthe infant settlements in Ohio. His statement had the desired effect, and encour-\\naged also by an agent from the Spanish settlements on the Mississippi, the Indians\\norganized a great confederacy against the United States. To put this down Gen.\\nHarmar was first sent out by the Government with 1,400 men but he imprudently\\ndivided his army, and he was taken by surprise and defeated by a body of Indians\\nunder Little Turtle. Gen. Arthur St. Clair was next sent out, with 2,000 men,\\nand he suffered a like fate. Then Gen. Anthony Wayne was sent West with a still\\nlarger army, and on the Maumee he gained an easy victory over tlie Indians, within a\\nfew miles of a British post. He finally concluded a treaty with the Indians at Green-\\nville, which broke up the whole confederacy. The British soon afterwards gave up\\nDetroit and Mackinaw.\\nIt was a considerable time before the Territory of Michigan now in possession\\nof the United States, was improved or altered by the increase of settlements. The\\nCanadian French continued to form the principal part of its population. The\\ninterior of the country was but little known, except by the Indians and the fur\\ntraders. The Indian title not being fully extinguished, no lands were brought into\\nmarket, and consequently the settlements increased but slowly. Tiie State of\\nMichigan at this time constituted simply the county of Wayne in Northwest Ter-\\nritory. It sent one representative to the legislature of that Territory, which was\\nrrv*", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nheld at Chillicothe. A court of Common Pleas was organized for the county, and\\nthe General Court of the whole Territory sometimes met at Detroit. No roads had\\nas yet been constructed through the interior, nor were there an} settlements except\\non the frontiers. The habits of the people were essentially military, and but little\\nattention was paid to agriculture except by the French peasantry. A representative\\nwas sent to the General Assembly of the Northwest Territory at Chillicothe until\\n1800, when Indiana was erected into a separate Territory. Two years later Mich-\\nigan was annexed to Indiana Territory, but in 1805 Michigan separated and William\\nHull was appointed its first Governor.\\nThe British revived the old prejudices that the Americans intended to drive\\nthe Indians out of the country, and the latter, under the lead of Tecumseh and his\\nIjrother Elkswatawa, the prophet, organized again on an extensive scale to make\\nwar upon the Americans. The great idea of Tecumseh s life was a univei-sal con-\\nfederacy of all the Indian tribes North and South to resist the invasion of the\\nwhites and his plan was to surprise them at all their posts throughout the country\\nand capture them by the first assault. At this time the entire white population of\\nMichigan was about 4,800, foui--fifths of whom were French and the remainder\\nAmericans. The settlements were situated on the rivers Miami and Raisin, on\\nthe Huron of Lake Erie, on the Ecorse Range, and Detroit Rivers, on the Huron\\nof St. Clair, on the St. Clair River and Mackinaw Island. Besides, there were here\\nand there a group of huts belonging to the French fur traders. The villages on the\\nMaumee, the Raisin and the Huron of Lake Erie contained a population of about\\nl,oOO the settlements at Detroit and northward had about 2,200 Mackinaw about\\n1,000. Detroit was garrisoned by ninety-four men, and Mackinaw by seventy-nine.\\nhull s surrender.\\nNow we have to record an unexplained mystery, which no historian of Mich-\\nigan can omit, namely, the surrender of Detroit to the British by Gen. Hull, when\\nhis forces were not in action and were far more powerful than the enemy. He was\\neither a coward or a traitor, or both. The commander of the British forces. Gen.\\nBrock, triumphantly took possession of the fort, left a small garrison under Col.\\nProctor, and returned to the seat of his government. In twelve days he had moved\\nwith a small army 250 miles against the enemy, effected the surrender of a strong\\nfort and well-equipped army of 2,300 effective men, and one of the Territories of\\nthe United States. Hull and the regular troops were taken to Montreal, and the\\nmilitia were sent to their homes.\\nIn the capitulation, Gen. Hull also surrendered Fort Dearborn, at Chicago,\\ncommanding C^aptain Heald of that place to evacuate and retreat to Fort Wayne.\\nIn obedience to this order, the Captain started from the fort with his forces but", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "4*\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nfe.\\nno sooner were they outside the walls than they were attacked by a large force of\\nIndians, who took them prisoners and then proceeded to massacre them, killing\\nthirty-eight out of the sixty-six soldiers, even some of the women and children, two\\nof the former and twelve of the latter. Captain Wells, a white man who had been\\nbrought up among the Indians, but espoused the white man s cause, was killed in\\nthe massacre.\\nJanuary 3, 1814, Gen. Hull appeared before a court-martial at Albany, N. Y.,\\nwhere Gen. Dearborn was president. The accused made no objection to the con-\\nstitution and jurisdiction of this court its sessions were protracted and every\\nfacility was given the accused to make his defense. The tliree charges ao-ainst\\nhim were treason, cowardice and neglect of duty. Hull was finally acquitted of\\nthe high crime of treason, but he was found guilty of the other charges, and sen-\\ntenced to be shot but by reason of his services in the Revolution and his advanced\\nage the court recommended him to the mercy of the President, who approved the\\nsentence and dismissed Hull from the service. The accused wrote a long defense,\\nin which he enumerates many tilings too tedious to relate here.\\nEven before lie was sent to Detroit he was rather opposed to the policy of the\\nGovernment toward the British of Canada; and, besides, he had been kindly treated\\nby British ofiScers, who helped liim across the frontier. Again, the General Gov-\\nernment was unreasonably slow to inform the General of the declai-ation of war\\nwhich had been made against Great Britain, and very slow to forward troops and\\nsupplies. Many things can be said on both sides but historians generally approve\\nthe judgment of the court in his case, as well as of the executive clemency of the\\nPresident.\\nperry s victory.\\nThe lake communication of Michigan with the East, having been in the hands\\nof the British since Hull s surrender, was cut off by Com. Perry, who obtained\\na signal naval victory over the British on Lake Erie, September 10, 1813. The\\nCommodore put his fleet at Erie, Pa., under great disadvantages. The bar at the\\nmouth of the harbor would not pei-mit the vessels to pass out with their aruiament\\non board. For some time after the fleet was ready to sail, the British commodore\\ncontinued to hover off the harbor, well knowing it must either remain there inac-\\ntive or venture out with almost a certainty of defeat. During this blockade, Com.\\nPerry had no alternative, but to ride at anchor at Erie but early in September\\nthe enemy relaxed his vigilance and withdrew to the upper end of the lake. Perry\\nthen slipped out beyond the bar and fitted his vessels for action. The British fleet\\nopposed to Com. Perry consisted of the ships Detroit, carrying nineteen guns\\nthe Queen Charlotte, seventeen guns; the schooner Lady Prevost, thirteen\\nguns the brig Hunter, ten guns; the sloop Little Belt, three guns, and the", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nschooner Chippewa, one gun and two swivels; and this fleet was commanded by\\na veteran ofEoer of tried skill and valor.\\nAt sunrise, September 10, while at anchor in Put-in-Bay, the Commodore\\nespied the enemy toward the head of the lake, and he immediately sailed up and\\ncommencetl action. His flag vessel, the Lawrence, was engaged with the full force of\\nthe enemy for nearly two hours before the wind permitted the other vessels to come\\nin proper position to help. The crew of this vessel continued the fight until every\\none of them was either killed or wounded, all the rigging torn to pieces and every\\ngun dismantled. Now comes the daring feat of the engagement which makes Perry\\na hero. He caused his boat to be lowered, in which he rowed to the Niagara amid\\nthe storm of shot and shell raging around him. This vessel he sailed tlirough the\\nenemy s fleet with swelling breeze, pouring in her broadsides upon their ships and\\nforcing them to surrender in rapid succession, until all were taken. The smaller\\nvessels of his fleet helped in this action, among which was one commanded by the\\nbrave and faithful Capt. Elliott. This victory was one of the most decisive in all\\nthe annals of American history. It opened the lake to Gen. Wni. H. Harrison,\\nwho had been operating in Indiana and Ohio, and who now crossed with his army\\nto Canada, where he had a short campaign, terminated by the battle of the Morav-\\nian towns, by which the enemy were driven from the northwestern frontier. A\\ndetachment of his army occupied Detroit, September 20, 1813, and October 18, an\\narmistice was concluded with the Indians, then restoring tranquility to the Terri-\\ntory of Michigan. Soon afterward Gen. Harrison left Gen. Cass in command at\\nDetroit and moved with the main body of his army down to the Niagara frontier.\\nPerry s brilliant success gave to the Americans the uncontrolled command of\\nthe lake, and September 23, their fleet landed 1,200 men near Maiden. Col. Proc-\\ntor, however, had previously evacuated that post, after setting fire to the fort and\\npublic storehouses. Commodore Perry in the meantime, passed up to Detroit with\\nthe Ariel, to assist in the occupation of that town, while Capt. Elliott, with the\\nLady Prevost, the Scorpion, and the Tigress, advanced into Lake St. Clair\\nto intercept the enemy s stores. Thus Gen. Harrison, on his arrival at Detroit and\\nMaiden, found both places abandoned by the enemy, and was met by the Canadians\\nasking for his protection. Tecumseh proposed to the British commander that they\\nshould hazard an engagement at Maiden but the latter foresaw that he should be\\nexposed to the fire of the American fleet in that position, and therefore resolved to\\nmarch to the Moravian towns upon the Thames, near St. Clair Lake, above Detroit,\\nand there try the chance of a battle. His force at this time consisted of about 900\\nregular troops and 1,500 Indians, commanded by Tecumseh. The American army\\namounted to about 2,700 men, of whom 120 were regulars, a considerable number\\nof militia, about thirty Indians, and the remainder Kentucky riflemen, well mount-\\n.fv", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ned, and mainly young men, full of ardor, and burning with a desire to revenge the\\nmassacre of their friends and relatives at the River Raisin. During the following\\nWinter, there were no military movements, except an incursion into the interior of\\nthe upper province, by Major Holmes, who was attacked near Stony Creek, and\\nmaintained his ground with bravery.\\nCLOSE OF THE WAE.\\nThe war with Great Britain was now (November, 1813), practically closed, so\\nfar as the Northwest was concerned, the post at Mackinaw yet remained in the\\nhands of the enemy, but active steps were taken to dispossess the English of this\\npoint and drive them wholly from the domain of the United States. The first\\neffort to start an expedition failed but in the Summer of 1814, a well-equipped\\nforce of two sloops oi war, several schooners, and 750 land militia, under the com-\\nmand of Commodore St. Clair and Lieut. Colonel Croghan, started for the north.\\nContrary, however, to the advice of experienced men, the commanders concluded\\nto visit St. Joseph first, and the British, of Mackinaw, heard of t heir coming, and\\nprepared themselves. The consequence was a failure to take the place. Major\\nHolmes was killed, and the Winnebago Indians, from Green Bay, allies of the\\nBritish, actually cut out the hearts and liver from the American slain, and cooked\\nand ate them Com. Sl. Clair afterward made some arrangements to starve out\\nthe post, but his vessels were captmed, and the British then remained secure in the\\npossession of the place until the treaty of peace the following Winter.\\nThe war with England formally closed on December 24, 1814, when a treaty\\nof peace was signed at Ghent. The ninth article of the treaty required the\\nUnited States to put an end to hostilities with all tribes or nations of Indians with\\nwhom they had been at war to restore to such tribes or nations respectively all the\\nrights and possessions to which they were entitled in 1811, before the war, on con-\\ndition that such Indians should agree to desist from all hostilities against the United\\nStates. But in February, just before the treaty was sanctioned by our Government\\nthere were signs of Indians accumulating arms and ammunition, and a cautionary\\norder was therefore issued to have all the white forces in readiness for an attack\\nby the Indians, but the attack was not made. During the ensuing Summer and Fall,\\nthe United States Government acquainted the Indians with the provisions of the\\ntreaty and entered into subordinate treaties of peace with the principal tribes.\\nJust before the treaty of Spring Wells (near Detroit) was signed, the Sha-\\nwanee Prophet retired to Canada, declaring his resolution to abide by any\\ntreaty which the chiefs might sign. Some time afterward he returned to the Sha-\\nwanee settlement in Ohio, and lastly to the west of the Mississippi, where he died\\nin 1834. The British Government allowed him a pension from 1813 until his\\ndeath.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "M^\\n63 HISTORY OP MICHIGAN.\\nTHE TECUMSEH WAR.\\nIf one should inquire who has been the greatest Indian, tlie most noted, the\\nprincipal Indian. in North America since its discovery by Columbus, we would\\nbe obliged to answer, Tecumseh. For all those qualities that elevate a man far\\nabove his race for talent, tact, skill and bravery as a warrior for high-minded,\\nhonorable and chivalrous bearing as a man in a word, for all those elements of\\ngreatness which place him along way above his fellows in savage life, the name and\\nfame of Tecumseh will go down to posterity in the West as one of the most cele-\\nbrated of the aborigines of this continent, as one who had no equal among the\\ntribes that dwelt in the country drained by the Mississippi. Born to command him-\\nself, he used all the appliances that would stimulate the courage and nerve the\\nvalor of his followers. Always in the front rank of battle, his followers blindly\\nfollowed his lead, and as his war-cry rang clear above the din and noise of the\\nbattle-field, the Shawnee warriors, as they rushed on to victory or the grave, rallied\\naround him, forever worthy of the steel of the most gallant commander that ever\\nentered tiie list in the defense of his altar or his home.\\nThe tribe to which Tecumseh, or Tecumtha, as some write it, belonged, was the\\nShawnee, or Shawanee. The tradition of the nation held that they originally came\\nfrom the Gulf of Mexico that they wended their way up the Mississippi and the\\nOhio, and settled at or near the present site of the Shawneetown, 111., whence they\\nremoved to the upper Wabash. In the latter place, at any rate, they were found\\nearly in the 18th century, and were known as the bravest of the brave. This\\ntribe has uniformly been the bitter enemy of the white man, and in every contest\\nwith our people exhibited a degree of skill and strategy that should character-\\nize the most dangerous foe. Tecumseh s notoriety and that of his brother, the\\nProphet, mutually served to establish and strengthen each other. While the\\nProphet had unlimited power, spiritual and temporal, he distributed his greatness\\nin all the departments of Indian life with a kind of fanaticism that magnetically\\naroused the religious and superstitious passions, not only of his own followers, but\\nalso of all the tribes in this part of the country but Tecumseh concentrated his\\ngreatness upon the more practical and business affairs of military conquest. It is\\ndoubted whether he was really a sincere believer in the pretensions of his fanatic\\nbrother; if he did not believe in the pretentious feature of them he had the shrewd-\\nness to keep his unbelief to himself, knowing that religious fanaticism was one of\\nthe strongest impulses to reckless bravery.\\nDuring his sojourn in the Northwestern Territory, it was Tecumseh s upper-\\nmost desire of life to confederate all the Indian tribes of the country, against the\\nwhites, to maintain their choice hunting-grounds. All his public policy converged\\ntoward this single end. In his vast scheme he comprised even all the Indians in", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": ",k\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nthe Gulf country, all in America west of the Alleghany mountains. He held, as\\na subordinate principle, that the Great Spirit had given the Indian race all these\\nhunting-grounds to keep in common, and that no Indian or tribe could cede any\\nportion of the land to the whites without consent of all the trices. Hence, in all\\nhis councils with the whites he ever maintained that the treaties were null and\\nvoid.\\nWhen he met Harrison at Vincennes in council the last time, and, as he was\\ninvited by the General to take a seat with him on the platform, he hesitated Har-\\nrison insisted, saying that it was the wish of their Great Father, the President of\\nthe United States that he should do so. The chief paused a moment, raised his\\ntall and commanding form to its greatest height, surveyed the troops and crowd\\naround him, lixed his keen eyes upon Gov. Harrison, and then turning them to the\\nsky above, and pointing toward heaven with his sinewy arm in a manner indicative\\nof supreme contempt for the paternity assigned him, said in clarion tones My\\nFather The sun is my father, the earth is my mother, and on her bosom I will\\nrecline. He then stretched himself, with his warriors on the green sward. The\\neffect was electrical, and for some moments there was perfect silence.\\nThe Governor, then, through an interpreter, told him that he understood that\\nhe had some complaints to make and redress to ask, etc., and that he wished to\\ninvestigate the matter and make restitution whenever it might be decided it should\\nbe done. As soon as the Governor was through with this introductory speech, the\\nstately warrior arose, tall, athletic, manly, dignified and graceful, and with a voice\\nat first low, but distinct and musical, commenced a reply. As he warmed up with\\nhis subject his clear tones might be heard, as if trumpet-tongued, to the utmost\\nlimits of the assembly tlie most perfect silence prevailed, except when his warriors\\ngave their guttural assent to some eloquent recital of the red-men s wrong and the\\nwhite man s injustice. Tecumseh recited the wrongs whicli his race had suffered\\nfrom the time of the massacre of the Moravian Indians to the present said he did\\nnot know how he ever again could be the friend of the white man that the Great\\nSpirit had given to the Indian all the land from the Miami to the Mississippi, and\\nfrom the lakes to the Ohio, as a common property to all the tribes in these borders,\\nand that the land could not and should not be sold without the consent of all\\nthat all the tribes on the continent formed but one nation that if the United\\nStates would not give up the lands they had bought of the Miamis and the other\\ntribes, those united with him were determined to annihilate those tribes; that they\\nwere determined to have no more chiefs, but in future to be governed by their war-\\nriors that unless the whites ceased their encroachments upon Indian lands, the\\nfate of the Indians was sealed they had been driven from the banks of the Dela-\\nware across the Alleghanies, and their possessions on the Wabash and the Illinois", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nwere now to be taken from tliem that in a few years the} would not have ground\\nenough to buiy their warriors on tliis side of Father of Waters that all would\\nperish, all their possessions taken from tliem by fraud or force, unless tliey stopped\\nthe progress of the white man westward that it must be a war of races in wliich\\none or the other must perish that their tribes had been driven toward the setting\\nsun like a galloping horse (ne-kat-a-kush-e-ka-top-o-lin-to).\\nThe Sliawnee language, in which this most eminent Indian statesman spoke,\\nexcelled all other aboriginal tongues in its musical articulation and the effect of\\nTecumseh s oratory on this occasion can be more easily imagined than described.\\nGov. Harrison, altliougli as brave a soldier and general as any American, was over-\\ncome by his speech. He well knew Tecumseh s power and influence among all the\\ntribes, knew his bravery, courage and determination, and knew that he meant what\\nhe said. Wiien Tecuraseh was done speaking there was a stillness throughout the\\nassembly which was really painful not a whisper was heard, and all eyes were\\nturned from the speaker toward Gov. Harrison, who after a few moments came to\\nhimself, and recollecting many of the absurd statements of the great Indian orator,\\nbegan a reply which was more logical, if not so eloquent. The Shawnees were\\nattentive until Harrison s interpreter began to translate his speech to the Miamis\\nand Pottawatomies, when Tecumseh and his warriors sprang to their feet, brand-\\nishing their war-clubs and tomahawks. Tell him, said Tecumseh, addressing\\nthe interpreter in Shawnee, he lies. The interpreter undertook to convey this\\nmessage to the Governor in smootlier language, but Tecumseh noticed the effort\\nand remonstrated, No, no; tell him he lies. The warriors began to grow more\\nexcited, when Secretary Gibson ordered the American troops in arms to advance.\\nThis allaj-ed the rising storm, and as soon as Tecumseli s He lies was literally\\ninterpreted to the Governor, the latter told the interpreter to tell Tecumseh he\\nwould hold no further council with liim.\\nThus the assembly was broken up, and one can hardly imagine a more exciting\\nscene. It would constitute the finest subject for a historical painting to adorn the\\nrotunda of the capitol. The next day Tecumseh requested another interview with\\nthe Governor, which was granted on condition that he should make an apology to\\nthe Governor for his language the day before. This he made through the inter-\\npreter. Measures for defense and protection were taken, however, lest there should\\nbe another outbreak. Two companies of militia were ordered from the country,\\nand the one in town added to them, while the Governor and his friends went into\\ncouncil fully armed and prepared for any contingency. On this occasion the con-\\nduct of Tecumseh was entirely different from that of the day before. Firm and\\nintrepid, showing not the slightest fear or alarm, surrounded with a military force\\nfour times his own, he preserved the utmost composure and equanimity. None\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0096\u00a0C i", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nwould have supposed that he could have been the principal actor in the thrilling\\nscene of the previous day. He claimed that half the Americans were in sympathy\\nwith him. He also said that whites had informed him that Gov. Harrison had\\npurchased land from tlie Indians without any authority from the Government that\\nhe, Harrison, had but two years more to remain in office, and that if he, Tecumseh,\\ncould prevail upon the Indians who sold the lands not to receive their annuities for\\nthat time, and the present Governor displaced by a good man as his successor, the\\nlatter would restore to the Indians all tlie lands purchased from them. The Wyan-\\ndots, Kickapoos, Pottawattomies, Ottawas and the Winnebagoes, through their\\nrespective spokesmen, declared their adherence to the great Shawnee warrior and\\nstatesman. Gov. Harrison then told them that he would send Tecumseh s speech\\nto the President of the United States and return the answer to the Indians as soon\\nas it was received. Tecumseh then declared that he and his allies were determined\\nthat the old boundary line should continue and that if the whites crossed it, it\\nwould be at their peril. Gov. Harrison replied that he would be equally plain with\\nhim and state that the President would never allow that the lands on the Wabash\\nwere the property of any other tribes than those who had occupied them since the\\nwhite people first came to America and as the title to the lands lately purchased\\nwas derived from those tribes by a late purchase, he might rest assured that the\\nright of the United States would be supported by the sword. So be it was the\\nstern and haughty reply of the Shawnee chieftain, as he and his braves took leave\\nof the Governor and wended their way in Indian file to their camping ground.\\nThus ended the last conference on earth by the chivalrous Tecumseli and the\\nhero of the battle of Tippecanoe. The bones of the first lie bleaching on the\\nbattlefield of the Thames, and those of the last in a mausoleum on the banks of\\nthe Ohio each struggled for the mastery of his race, and each no doubt was\\nequally honest and patriotic in his purposes. The weak yielded to the strong, the\\ndefenseless to the powerful, and the hunting-ground of the Shawnee is all occupied\\nby his enemy.\\nTecumseh, with four of his braves, immediately embarked in a birch canoe,\\ndescended the Wabash, and went on to the South to unite the tribes of that country\\nin a general system of self-defense against the encroachment of the whites. His\\nemblem was a disjointed snake, with the motto Join or die In union alone\\nwas strength.\\nBefore Tecumseh left the Prophet s town at the mouth of the Tippecanoe River,\\non his excursion to the South, he had a definite understanding with his brother and\\nthe chieftains of the other tribes in the Wabash country, that they should preserve\\nperfect peace with the whites until his arrangements were completed for a con-\\nfederacy of the tribes on both sides of the Ohio and on the Mississippi River but\\n5\\nfv*", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MIcrilGAN.\\nit seems that while he was in the Soutli engaged in his work of uniting the tribes\\nof that country some of the Northern tribes showed signs of fight and precipitated\\nHarrison into that campaign which ended in the battle of Tippecanoe, and the\\ntotal rout of the Indians. Tecumseh, on his return from tlie South, learning what\\nhad happened, was overcome with chagrin, disappointment, and anger, and accused\\nhis brother of duplicity and cowardice indeed, it is said, he never forgave him to\\nthe day of his death. A short time afterward, on the breaking out of the war with\\nGreat Britain, he joined Proctor, at Maiden, with a party of his warriors, and was\\nkilled at the battle of the Thames, October 5, 1813, by a Mr. Wheatl} as we are\\npositively informed by Mr. A. J. James, now a resident of La Harpe township,\\nHancock County, Illinois, whose father-in-law, John Pigman, of Coshocton County,\\nOhio, was an eye-witness. Gen. Johnson has generally had the credit of killing\\nTecumseh.\\nTHE BLACK HAWK WAR.\\nThe excitement which this war caused throughout the settlements of Michigan\\nwas such as would appear incomprehensible at the present time. Macomb County\\nwas no exception to the general rule, although her French citizens maintained a\\ndignified equanimity.\\nOn the mor-ing of May 10, 1832, the news of Black Hawk s advance reached\\nCol. J. D. Davis camp at Plymouth, and was carried thence into the homes of\\nMacomb by a dozen of busy gossijjers. At each village the number of Indians was\\nincreased by these faithful couriers until, at length, when the news reached Mt.\\nClemens, it was to the effect that Black Hawk and 80,000 warriors were encamped\\nat that moment on Pigeon Prairie.\\nThe men liable to military service in the county were called out, but on learn-\\ning that the seat of war was several hundred miles west, that the rejjorts were\\nentirely exaggerated that the Sacs and Foxes were scattered or slain, then, and\\nonly then did the white warriors of Macomb return to their homes.\\nTHE TOLEDO WAR.\\nThe convention to form a State Constitution met on the second Monday in\\nMay, 1835, in the city of Detroit, performing their duties and adjourning the 24th\\nof the same month. In giving their boundaries they made the southern the same\\nas recognized by the ordinance of 1787, and as understood when the Territory\\nwas formed. The constitution framed by the convention was submitted to\\nthe people and by them approved, after which it was sent to Congress for its\\naction, not doubting but Michigan would be admitted as a State as soon as Con-\\ngress assembled.\\nTo this boundary Ohio entered her protest by her delegation in Congress, and\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^s i-", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nby her State Legislature and Executive, and at once organized her civil powers\\nthrough and over the disputed territory, which was about six miles wide on the\\nIndiana line, and eight or nine miles at the INIauraee River. Congress rejected the\\napplication on the 15th of June, 1836, and submitted a proposition to the people\\nof the Territory July 25 of the same j^ear, fixing the southern boundary where\\nit now is, and in consideration therefor the following grants were to be made:\\n1st. Section 16 of every township for the use of schools.\\n2d. Seventy-two sections for a State University.\\n3d. Five sections to build a State Capitol.\\n4th. Twelve salt springs, with six sections of land to each, for the general\\nuses of the Territory.\\n5th. Five per cent, of net proceeds of public lands, when sold, for public roads\\nand canals.\\n6th. Alteration of northern boundaries so as to include the upper peninsula.\\nWhile this question of boundary was pending in Congress, great excitement\\nsprang up among the people on both sides, so great, indeed, as to lead to what was\\nknown as the Toledo War.\\nTo get a clear insight into the ways and methods by which the first pioneers\\nof the country managed questions affecting their local interests, we can do no bet-\\nter than to adopt, in these pages, the story of each participant, and from these\\ndraw our own conclusions as to the right. Michigan says: The approachino-\\norganization of the State Government invested the disputed question with pressing\\nimportance, and hostilities on the disputed territory soon became active. In Feb-\\nruary, 1835, the Legislature of Ohio passed an act extending the jurisdiction of\\nthat State over the territory in question, organized townships and directed them\\nto elect officers in April following. It also directed Gov. Lucas to appoint three\\ncommissioners to survey and re-mark the Harris line, and named April 1 as the\\ntime when the work should commence. Gov. Mason anticipated this action of the\\nOhio Legislature by an act of the Legislative Council making it a criminal offense,\\npunishable by a heavy fine, or by imprisonment, for any one to attempt to exercise\\nany official functions, or to accept any office witliin the jurisdiction of the Territory\\nof Michigan by virtue of any authority not derived from said Territory or from the\\nUnited States. Gov. Mason directed Gen. Brown, then in command of the militia\\nof the Territory, to hold himself in readiness to take the field should Ohio attempt\\nto carry out the instructions of her Legislature. On the 31st of March, Governor\\nLucas, with liis commissioners, and Gen. Bell of tlie Ohio militia, arrived at Perrys-\\nburg,on their way to commence the survey and re-marking of the Harris line. Here\\nthey proceeded to muster a force of 600 volunteers, who were organized and went\\ninto camp at Fort Miami to await the Governor s orders.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "C8 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nIn the meantime Gov. Mason with Gen. Brown had raised a force from eight\\nto twelve hundred strong, and were in possession of Toledo. When Gov. Lucas\\nobserved the determined bearing of the Michigan braves, and took note of tlieir\\nnumbers, he found it convenient to content himself for a time with watching over\\nthe border. Several days were passed in this exhilarating employment, and just\\nwhen he had made up his mind to do something rash, two Commissioners arrived\\nfrom Washington, on a mission of peace. Tiiey remonstrated with Gov. Lucas\\nand reminded him of the consequences to himself and State if he attempted to gain\\npossession by force. After several conferences with both Governors the Commis-\\nsioners submitted the following propositions for their consideration 1st. That the\\nHarris line should be run and re-marked pursuant to the act of the Legislature of\\nOhio, without interruption. 2d. The civil elections under the laws of Ohio hav-\\ning taken place throughout the disputed territory, the people therein should be left\\nto their own government, obeying the one jurisdiction or the other as they might\\nprefer, without molestation from either side until tlie close of the next session of\\nCongress.\\nGov. Lucas accepted the proposition at once, and disbanded his forces, regard-\\ning the proposition as coming from the President, through tlie Commissioners, and\\nunder his control. Gov. Mason, on the other hand, refused to accede to the\\narrangements, declined to compromise rights or surrender jurisdistion, but partially\\ndisbanded his forces, holding a sufficient number in readiness to meet any emei\\ngency that might arise. Gov. Lucas now supposed his way clear, and that he\\ncould re-mark the Harris line without molestation, and he accordingly ordered the\\nCommissioners to proceed with the work.\\nIn the meanwhile President Jackson had referred the matter to Attorney\\nGeneral Butler, as to his authority over tlie contending parties, and tlie validity of\\nthe act of the Ohio Legislature and the act of the Legislative Council under which\\nthe respective parties were claiming authority.\\nThe report of the Attorney General was decidedly in favor of Micliigan. The\\nweak point in Ohio s claim was a violation of the act of 1805 creating that Terri-\\ntory, and in subsequent acts passed for her government.\\nNotwithstanding this. Gov. Lucas proceeded to run the line, commencing at\\nthe northwest corner of the disputed tract. Gov. Mason and Gen. Brown had kept\\na watchful eye, and when the surveying party got within the county of Lucas, tlie\\nunder-sheriff of that county, armed with a warrant, and supported by a posse, sud-\\ndenly made his appearance and succeeded in arresting a portion of the party. The\\nrest, including the Commissioners, took to their heels and were soon beyond the\\ndisputed territory. Arriving at Perrysburg, they reported their valor and escape\\nfrom the overwhelming attack of Gen. Brown, and their missing comrades all", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nkilled or taken prisoners, to Gov. Lucas, he in turn reporting to the President.\\nThe President thereupon sent a copy to Gov. Mason, and asked for a state-\\nment of facts from the ofScers engaged in the transaction. Accordingly, the under-\\nsheriff made a very amusing report, setting forth the fact that it was a civil process,\\nissued by a Justice of the Peace, that under it he had arrested nine persons, without\\nbloodshed or trouble, and closing with the statement that the Commissioners had\\nmade very good time, that they had reached Perrysburg with nothing more serious\\nthan the loss of hats and their clothing, like Gov. Marcy s breeches, without the\\npatch.\\nThis summary breaking up of the surveying party created intense excitement\\nthroughout Ohio. An extra session of the Legislature was called, a law was passed\\nagainst the abduction of any of her citizens, making it a penal offense punishable\\nby not less than three nor more than seven years in the penitentiary. They also\\npassed an act organizing the county of Lucas, fixing the county -seat at Toledo, and\\ndirecting the court for the county to be held at any convenient house therein.\\nThey accepted the propositions of the President s Commissio!iers, and made an\\nappropriation of #600,000 to carry these laws into effect over the disputed ter-\\nritory.\\nIt was evident that Ohio was aroused that her State pride had been wounded.\\nThe idea that the young Territory of Michigan, with her stripling Governor, should\\nsuccessfully defy the great State of Ohio, with a million of inhabitants and her aged\\nGovernor, was one that the people could not endure with patience or equanimitv.\\nIn the meantime the authorities of Michigan were active in sustaining their\\nauthority on the disputed ground. Prosecutions for holding office under Ohio\\nwere conducted with great vigor for a long time the people of Monroe\\ncounty were kept busy assisting the sheriff in executing his jjrocesses and making\\narrests in Toledo. Suit after suit was commenced, and each was the breeder of a\\nscore of others. The officers of Ohio made feeble attempts to retaliate, but were\\ngenerally unsuccessful. Sometimes these arrests were attended with danger, al-\\nways with great difiSculty. An instance is related of Major Stickney s arrest, which\\ncreated great amusement at the time. He and his family fought valiantly, but\\nwere overpowered by numbers. He was requested to mount a horse, but flatly\\nrefused. He was put on by force, but he would not sit there. Finally, two men\\nwere detailed to walk beside him and hold his legs, while a third led the horse.\\nAfter making half the distance in this way, they tied his legs under the horse and\\nthus got him in jail. An attempt was made to arrest his son. Two Stickney. A\\nscuffle ensued, in which the officer was stabbed with a knife, but the wound did\\nnot prove dangerous, and it is believed that this was the only blood shed during\\nthe war. The officer let go his hold, and Stickney fled to Ohio. He was indicted\\nV^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "A\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nby the grand jury of Monroe County, and a requisition was made on the Governer\\nof Ohio for his rendition, but the Governor refused to give him up.\\nOn one occasion an officer attempted to arrest a man in the night. Tlie man\\nhad but a moment s warning, and sought safety in flight. He reached the\\nMaumee River, threw himself on a saw log, and with hands and feet paddled him-\\nself in safety to the other shore.\\nA very pious man was elected a justice of the peace, and fled to the woods,\\nwhere he lived many days in a sugar shanty. It was currently reported, and\\ngenerally believed by the Ohio partisans, that a miracle had been wrought in his\\nbehalf, that robin red-breasts brought him his daily food and drink. The\\nbelief in this miracle strengthened the cause of Ohio in many quarters very mate-\\nrially.\\nThe report of the stabbing by Two Stickney and the statement that Gov.\\nLucas was protecting him made great impression on the mind of the President.\\nBoth sides were becoming more importunate, and after investigating the difficulties\\nfully he recommended to Gov. Mason that no obstruction should be made to the\\nre-marking of the Harris line, that all prosecutions under the Territorial act of\\nFebruary should be discontinued, and no others commenced until the next session\\nof Congress. This recommendation had no effect on Gov. Mason. He was deter-\\nmined to protect his Territory and her jurisdiction at all hazards. Prosecutions\\nwent on as before. When the President became aware of this he superseded Gov.\\nMason as Secretary of Michigan, and appointed Charles Shaler, of Pennsylvania,\\nas liis successor. He also advised Gov. Lucas to refrain from any jurisdiction over\\nthe Territory pending the action of Congress. This check by the President was a\\ngreat blow to Gov. Lucas. The eyes of the country were upon him, and he felt it\\nincumbent on him to perform some act of jurisdiction in order to save himself from\\nthe imputation of having backed down. A happy thought struck him at an oppor-\\ntune moment. The Legislature of Ohio had organized a county and ordered court\\nto be held at Toledo on the 7th of September. To hold this court in the face and\\neyes of the military force of Gov. Mason and the recommendation of the President\\nto abstain therefrom would be a grand achievement, an act of jurisdiction greater\\nthan the re-marking of the Harris line. With him this was the thing to be done,\\nand calling to his aid the Adjutant General of the State, they devised a plan, and\\nit was put into his hands to manage. He called out a regiment to protect the\\njudges in the discharge of their duty. The judges met on Sunday, tlie 6tli of Sep-\\ntember, at Maumee, a few miles from Toledo. They were to proceed to Toledo the\\nnext morning, under the escort that had been provided for them, and hold court.\\nSome time during the evening a scout who had been sent out by the colonel of the\\nregiment returned from Toledo and reported that 1,200 men under command of\\ns r- T \u00c2\u00aepV~\\nV T", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "i^\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nGen. Brown, were in Toledo ready to demolish court, soldiers and all, in case of an\\nattempt to open it. This report turned out to be false, but it immediately subdued all\\nthe valor of the judges, as well as that of the regiment that was to escort them. But\\nit would not do to back out, the honor and the dignity of the State must be main-\\ntained besides, they would be laughed if they did not hold court. But the judges\\nhesitated at undertaking so daring an exploit. The colonel of the regiment finally\\ncame to the Governor s assistance. He upbraided the judges for their cowardice\\nand hesitation, and proposed to take the honor of the State into his own keeping.\\nStepping in front of his regiment, he called for volunteers for a hazardous under-\\ntaking. A few brave men answered the call. The trembling judges placed them-\\nselves under the charge of this forlorn hope, and at three o clock on Monday\\nmorning, Sept. 7. 1835, they sneaked into Toledo, hunted up a school-house, held\\ncourt about two minutes, and then ran for dear life back to Maumee.\\nThus did the State of Ohio triumph over her enemies. Thus did her patriotic\\nsons sustain her dignity. Thus did her brave soldiers throw themselves in tlie\\nimminent and deadlj breach.\\nIt is needless to say that Gov. Mason and Geu. Brown were surprised and\\nchagrined. They had an ample force within i-each to prevent the holding of a\\ncourt, as courts are generallj^ held, but they were unacquainted with Ohio legal\\npractice, and did not look for midnight tribunals held in dark school-rooms or out-\\nhouses.\\nBut little remains to be said in reference to the war. A volume might be\\nwritten relating to the incidents of that bloodless struggle and the story of the pri-\\nvations endured by the citizen soldiers, privations which were relieved by raids\\non hen-coops, melon patches, and potato fields. The ludicrous incidents, the hair-\\nbreadth escapes, by field and flood, would be interesting to many, but space forbids\\nmore.\\nOhio says This fired the heart of the young Governor, Stevens T. Mason his\\nloyalty and zeal would not brook such an insult. The militia at his disposal was\\ncalled early into requisition early in the Spring of 1835. They were first put upon\\nthe trail of the commissioners, and actually routed them and took several of the\\nparty prisoners, on the line some ten miles east of Morenci. These they held for\\na few days, then discharged some on parole and others on bail, to answer in the dis-\\ntrict court.\\nBut the end was not yet. A majority of those living on the disputed terri-\\ntory, in Monroe County, were late emigrants from Ohio and Pennsylvania, and they\\nwere thoroughly impressed with the importance to them of being a part of Ohio.\\nThe port of Toledo was just opening to tlie traffic of the lakes the States of Ohio\\nand Indiana were ready to bring in the Wabash Canal, provided it could tap the\\n7t^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "^1\\ni\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nlake on Ohio s soil and, besides, Ohio was already quite an old State, and would\\nbe able to develop the territory mucli quicker, that in fact the territorial interest\\nwas all centred at Detroit, and Toledo, if it remained to Michigan, would only be\\na dependency paying tribute.\\nWith these sentiments prevailing, the Governor of Ohio was induced to put in\\nforce the laws of the State. Proclamation was issued giving boundaries to towns\\nand counties, and for the election of civil officers. Tlie elections were held,\\nofficers were chosen, and they assumed their duties. The militia was organized and\\ncommenced drilling. In short, we had two active and efficient governments, each\\nstriving to excel, and, as may be naturally inferred, the relations between them\\nwere not of a very friendly character, the one acting as informers to Gov. Mason,\\nthe other mostly engaged in procuring bail to be relieved from arrests, preferring\\nto have their transgressions settled by the courts of the country to an open and\\nviolent conflict of arms.\\nTlie Governor s quick, impulsive nature would brook this double- entendre no\\nlonger. The General Government did not respond to his call. Ohio would not\\nstop at his bidding. The subjects were disloyal and refractory in their every act.\\nTherefore, it become him as Governor to put a quietus on the whole difficulty. Ac-\\ncordingly, he called out the militia of the Territory, to the number of about 1,500\\nstrong, early in the month of September, 1835, to prevent any further inroads upon\\nthe territory in dispute, and particularly to prevent the holding of circuit court in\\nLucas County, which had just been organized, with Toledo as the county seat,\\nwhere the first session of the court was appointed to be held.\\nThis call was responded to readily in many parts of the Territory, a very few\\nperhaps from this county. They rendezvoused in Monroe County, and thence\\nmarched to Tremainsville, on the afternoon before the court was to convene,\\nwhere they bivouacked for the night. They were here three miles out from the\\nobjective point, and much hard work was to be done in a very short time to meet\\nthe emergencies of the morrow, for an army was to be organized out of the mate-\\nrial presented. Upon inspection it was found that some had muskets, others\\nhad clubs, but most had trusty rifles. These were assigned to companies and\\nbattalions, and in the morning marshaled for inspection by the commander-in-chief.\\nThey were by him pronounced \u00e2\u0080\u00a2aufait and ordered to march to the scene of the\\nconflict.\\nIn entering the city they actually marched by the door where the court of\\nwhich they were in search was in full operation, without knowing it. They had\\nexpected to find it guarded by an army that would be worthy of their steel. But\\nwhere oh, where could they be They certainly could not be in Toledo, for the\\ngreat army of our noble commander-in-chief covered the whole city and some of its\\nIP", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nsuburbs. There could be but one conclusion. They had of course hied them-\\nselves to the spot whence they came, and must be now on their way through\\nthe defiles of the black swamp. A council of war was held the surroundings\\nlooked dark they had come for blood and without it there could be no remission,\\nthe enemy having ignobly fled the field. The usages of war would therefore make\\ntheir way clear, and reprisals would be in order. If they would not let the issue\\nbe decided by force of arms, they could expect nothing less, and must abide by\\nthese rules which had been recognized by all nations from time immemorial. In\\ntliis strait, it did not take our brave commander long to decide. His forces were\\nsoon marshaled, formed in two battalions, the one ordered to make reprisals on the\\ncellars and larders of the inhabitants, the others to move upon the magazines and\\ncommissary of the enemy, that a wag had informed them were stored in a barn\\nowned b} Piatt Card, known as one of the moving spirits in the rebellion, and\\nwho was then under bonds to answer for what he had heretofore done in in-\\nciting it.\\nThis last work was not to be trusted to raw recruits, or committed to an in-\\nferior ofiBcer it was virtually the conquering of an army, and then who knew how\\nstrongly it was guarded within, or what migiit be the dangers of an approach. Ti)at\\nthe work might be quick and effectual it was decided that our brave commander\\nshould lead the fray.\\nIn reconnoitering the premises, all was still yet there were certain holes in\\nthe walls, reminding them of the port-holes in ancient forts, and in which they\\nfancied they saw grim messengers of death staring them boldly in the face. This\\ncould be endured no longer; the order was quickly given and a broad-side was\\npoured into the pine siding of the barn, a thud, a groan, followed by a few thumps,\\nand all was still as death. Approaches were made stealthily and cautiously until\\nthey reached the door, which obe3 ed the mandate of the hand and readily swunn-\\non its hinges. To the surprise of our noble commander and his comrades in arms,\\nthey found they had captured a very fine hoi-se, as the warm blood flowin from\\nmany bullet-holes attested. They had come for blood as a sacrifice to sprinkle the\\naltar of their loyalty and devotion to their country, and who at this late day will\\ndeny that they found it?\\nReturning to headquarters it was found that the other battalion had made a\\nvery successful raid, especially in the line of Major Stickney s wine-cellar, and from\\nsome others, that gave a more exhilarating beverage, sufficient was obtained with\\nwhich to soften and wash down the hard army biscuit, of which it may be inferred\\ntheir knapsacks contained an ample supply. Night approaching, each drew his\\ncloak around him and gave himself to pleasant dreams over the experiences and es-\\ncapes of the last twelve hours.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "A\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nOn the following morning an order was issued from tlie Governor disbanding\\nthe forces, allowing each to find his way home as best he could. Thus ended the\\ngreat Toledo war, and all strife on the disputed tract.\\nLooking at this question at a later day, when all had become calm and serene,\\nwe can discover little occasion for either partj to get up and shake themselves like\\nyoung lions. It was a matter that belonged entirely to Congress. If they had\\nbeen so imprudent as to let Ohio in her boundaries embrace territory to which she\\nhad no claim, it was her duty, and justice required her to correct the error. That\\nit was an error on the part of the National Legislature to allow Ohio to assume the\\nfunctions and duties of a State, merely from her enabling act, without submitting\\nher constitution for inspection and approval, none will doubt. That the Territorial\\nofficers were hasty and inconsiderate in their action, assuming responsibilities that\\ndid not belong to them, few question. That the final adjustment of the whole ques-\\ntion between the parties has resulted to the benefit of each, and especially to Mich-\\nigan, all cheerfull} admit.\\nIn this war many of the old settlers of Macomb participated. Fortunately, the\\nold soldiers of the young State lost little or no blood, and all were permitted to re-\\nturn to their homes in peace.\\nTHE PATRIOT WAR.\\nIt will be remembered by the pioneers of Michigan, and not only by them, but\\nby all others, of that time along the frontier line between the United States and\\nCanada, that during the Winter of 1837-38, occurred what was known as the\\nPatriotic War. The object of this war was understood to be a revolution that\\nshould separate the British possessions of Canada from the mother country that\\nthey might erect themselves into sovereign and independent States.\\nIn consequence of the financial crash and hard times then prevailing there were\\nmany adventurous, reckless and idle persons in the States who took part with the\\nPatriots. The anxiety that grew out of our Revolutionary war and the war of\\n1812, toward the British, may have slumbered, but was not forgotten, and it took\\nbut little to awaken that old feeling. It was revived along the whole length of the\\nfrontier, and was not confined to our side only it was fully reciprocated by our\\nloyal neighbors. At that time, as it may be now, there were many half-pay English\\nmilitary officers who would have hailed a war between the United States and Eng-\\nland as a God-send to them for in that event they would be restored to active\\nservice on full pay and stand their chances for promotion. The hostile feeling had\\nreached such a degree of intensity that General Scott was ordered to the frontier\\nwith troops. The steamer Carolina, that was supposed to be in the service of the\\nPatriots, was captured in the Niagara River by the British forces, and sent over the\\nfalls and it was supposed with part of tlie crew on board. The Patriots had at that", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ntime a considerable force on Navy Island. A rocket brigade was stationed at\\nWindsor. Occasional musket shots were fired from Windsor into Detroit, and a\\ncorrespondence was opened between the authorities on each side with a view to\\nstop this recklessness. The late Adjutant-General John E. Schwartz conducted\\ntlie correspondence on the part of Micliigan. He read it to the writer of this paper.\\nAbout this time, I visited Detroit, stopping at the National Hotel, as the Russell\\nHouse was then called, and before I had time to warm myself I met Col. Smith,\\nthen a member of the Legislature, from Monroe County, who invited me into the\\nback parlor, where I met Gov. Mason, who ordered me back to Ann Arbor to\\nraise a company of militia and report to Col. Smith who was then under orders\\nfrom the Governor to march down the Detroit river and break up the encampment\\nof Patriots in the neighborhood of Gibraltar, a small village near the mouth of the\\nriver, and drive them away. I had also an order, addressed to the late Col. Slin-\\ngerland, to muster his (the 5th) regiment from which to recruit my company by\\nvolunteers, if possible, or by draft. The Colonel issued his orders and did his duty,\\nbut so strong Vk as the sympathy in favor of the Patriots and against the English,\\nthat not over thirty men out of about 600 composing the regiment obeyed the\\nColonel s order. Of course I was obliged to report my inability to report the com-\\npany ordered. My recollection is that Colonel Smith made a similar report and the\\nencampment remained undisturbed. Gen. Ed. Clark states, that the\\nleaders of the Patriots had organized a secret society known as Hunters, with\\nlodges in every village along the frontier. They had their secret signs, grips\\nand pass-words, and were sworn to secrecy. A large proportion of the able-bodied\\nmen were Hunters, that is, members of hunters lodges. I mention these facts to\\nshow the state of public feeling with regard to the Patriot war and the reason that\\nGov. Mason could not furnish the necessary force to march on the Patriot encamp-\\nment and disperse the force there encamped. Before the close of navigation an\\nexpedition was organized by Brigadier General Theller, of the Patriot service, for\\nthe purpose of capturing Fort Maiden. He embarked in the sloop Ann, and when\\nshe arrived off the fort was fired into and her rigging so cut up that she became\\nunmanageable and drifted ashore. The General and Colonel Dodge and the crew\\nwere taken prisoners. That Winter a landing of a Patriot force was made on the\\nCanada shore above Windsor, and a battle fought which proved disastrous to the\\ninvaders. Another battle was fought at Point au Pelee, where tlie Patriots were\\nvictors. From these facts it can be seen that the magaziue was ready and needed\\nbut a spark to explode it that is, to involve the country in war.\\nWhen these events were taking place, but before the fight at Point au Pelee,\\nGeneral Sutherland, of the Patriot army, made his appearance at Ann Arbor in full\\nuniform and posted hand-bills notifying the public that he would address them at\\nV^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MICHIGAN.\\nthe court-house on the subject of the Patriot war. Tlie court-room was filled and\\nthe General was listened to with respect and attention. Before the meeting dis-\\npersed a committee was appointed to wait on ilie General at his quarters, to confer\\nwith him. Tlie writer was one of that committee. The committee called on the\\nGeneral that evening at his room, and spent an hour or two with him. From Ann\\nArbor he went to Manchester to address the good people of that village. His ob-\\nject was to get men and means to carry on the war. A short time afterward I\\nreceived a package of papers from the General. Among them were enlistment\\nrolls and along letter. He wished me to join the Patriot army and raise a battalion\\nof men for the Patriot service, but ostensibly as volunteer militia, hold elections\\nfor commissioned officers as directed by tlie militia laws of Michigan, and apply to\\nGov. Mason for commissions. He said that as I was a personal and political friend\\nof the Governor there would be no difficulty in getting the commissions. This\\naccomplished, I was to put myself and battalion under the orders of the General,\\nand as soon as the Detroit River was frozen over so as to make a passage safe, he would\\ngive me an order for arms, ammunitions, blankets, etc., and he would direct when\\nand where the invasion should take place. I confess to a complete surprise more,\\nI was astonished. We were almost entire strangers to each other we had never\\nmet except at Ann Arbor, and then only for an hour or two, and knew nothing of\\neach other s antecedents. During the visit of the committee at the General s room\\nI endeavored to draw him into a conversation upon military subjects, tactics, his-\\ntory, etc., but he evaded it, and I formed a small opinion of his military capacity\\nor knowledge. And when he divulged to me, an almost entire stranger, his plan of\\noperations, I lost confidence in him as a military leader. I remembered of reading\\nan anecdote of Washington who was asked by an intimate friend and true Whig\\nwhat his plan of campaign was. Washington asked, Can you keep a secret?\\nYes, General. So can I, was the response. Wiien the legislative committee\\nvisited General Jackson and demanded of him his plan for the defense of New\\nOrleans, he raised a lock of hair from his head and said, Gentleman, if I supposed\\nthis lock of hair knew what was passing in my brain on that subject, I would cut\\nit off and burn it.\\nI have described the feeling along the dividing line between the States and\\nCanada. I remember that Sutherland said tliat one of his principal objects was to\\ninvolve the two countries in war with each other. Doing this he would attain\\nthe height of his ambition. I believe there would have been but little difficulty in\\nraising the number of men to fill the four companies required, and it seemed plain to\\nme, that after receiving our commissions, and before the ink of the Governor s signa-\\nture was fairly dry on them, Sutherland would have ordered a forward movement at\\na place where we would have been met by an overwhelming force and been compelled", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nto surrender. I could come to no other conclusion than that Sutherland was false\\nto tlie cause he pretended to espouse. If we had been taken prisoners, of course\\nwe would have claimed the treatment of prisoners of war. This may have been ac-\\ncorded to us in consideration of our commissions and we not have been hanged as\\nCunningham, Linn, Lount and others were. If the invasion had taken ^ilace, that\\nmight have been regarded by our Canadian neighbors as a commencement of hos-\\ntilities on the part of the United States, and as a sufficient justification for the\\nRocket Brigade to open on Detroit and burn it. At that time there were no troops\\ntliere except the Brady Guards, an excellent company of volunteer militia of less\\nthan 100 men. What the consequences would have been if Sutherland s order had\\nbeen obeyed others may infer. I remembered that Sutherland told me that he had\\ncalled meetings and made speeches through Oakland County as he had in Washte-\\nnaw. My duty seemed plain and simple, and I lost no time in going to Detroit\\nwith this package of papers. I found the Governor in his office in the old capitol,\\nand as soon as we were left alone I told him my errand and laid the papers before\\nhim. He read them attentively and arose from his chair and walked the office for\\nsome minutes without uttering a word. It was plain to be seen that a storm was\\nbrewing. At length it burst out in language more forcible than polite, too forcible\\nfor me to repeat in this paper. My impression was that if Sutherland had been present\\nhe would have felt the weight of the Governor s arm. A more angry man I have sel-\\ndom seen. After the engagement at Point au Pelee occurred, Sutherland, under the\\npretense of joining the victorious patriots at the Point, attempted to pass Fort Maiden\\nwith a horse and cutter on the ice and was captured by some of the garrison of the fort\\nwhich he probably intended to be, and with Theller and Col. Dodge was held as a\\nprisoner until the Spring opened, when the three were taken to Quebec and con-\\nfined in a cell in one of the fortresses there. Theller and Dodge made their escape\\nfrom the prison, and, after returning, Theller told me that on their journey down,\\nwhich was by private conveyance (there were no railroads then), he and Dodge\\nwere confined in jails nights, but Sutherland was entertained at hotels. On reaching\\ntheir prison, the three were shut up in the same cell for awhile, but so strong were\\ntheir impressions that Sutherland was in British pay and a traitor to the Patriot\\ncause that they laid plans to get rid of him. They believed him a spy on them\\nthey found him a coward and so worked upon his fears until he was removed. Af-\\nter Tlieller and Dodge had the cell to themselves, they applied themselves to work\\nand effected their escape and returned to Michigan. The Canadian struggle for\\nnational independence was unsuccessful.\\nAnother expedition was planned at Detroit for the capture of Fort Maiden,\\nand was to sail from that city under the command of a general from Cleveland. It\\nhad been ascertained that the garrison was lodged in the Queen s warehouse at the", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "78 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nfoot of the wharf, and the officers quartered at hotels in tlie village of Amherst-\\nburg, and that at niglit there was but a small force on guard at the fort. Three\\nsteamboats were to be employed, and when they arrived off the fort one boat was\\nto lay across the head of the wharf, and the other two, one on each side one party\\nshould march directly to the fort and take it the second should capture the gar-\\nrison in the warehouse and the third should capture the officers. This was to be\\ndone in the niglit. And however feasible the plan was, it was hinted that the\\nGeneral lacked tlie nerve to undertake it. It was like the cause, a failure. After\\nthe escape of Tiieller and Dodge, Sutherland was set at liberty, without trial and\\nwithout punishment.\\nTHE MEXICAN WAR.\\nThere are few records extant of tlie action of Michigan troops in the Mexican\\nwar. That many went there and fought well, are points conceded but their\\nnames and country of nativity are hidden away in United States archives where it\\nis almost impossible to find them.\\nThe soldiers of this State deserve much of the credit of the memorable achieve-\\nments of Co. K, Third Dragoons, and Co. s A, E and G of the U. S. Infantry. The\\nformer two of these companies, recruited in this State, were reduced to one-third\\ntheir original number.\\nIn May, 1846, our Governor was notified by the War Department of the\\nUnited States to enroll a regiment of volunteers, to be held in readiness for service\\nwhenever demanded. At this summons, thirteen independent volunteer comjianies,\\neleven of infantry and two of cavalry, at once fell into line. Of the infantry, four\\ncompanies were from Detroit, bearing the honored names of Montgomery, Lafay-\\nette, Scott, and Brady upon their banners. Of the remainder Monroe tendered\\ntwo, Lenawee County three, St. Clair, Berrien and Hillsdale each one, and Wayne\\nCounty an additional company. Of these alone the veteran Bradys were accepted\\nand ordered into service.\\nIn addition to these, ten companies, making the First Regiment of Michigan\\nVolunteers, springing from various parts of the State, but embodying to a great\\ndegree the material of which the first volunteers was formed, were not called for\\nuntil October following. This regiment was soon in readiness and proceeded to the\\nseat of war.\\nTHE WAR OF 1861-65.\\nAs soon as the President called for troops to suppress the Rebellion in April,\\n1861, the loyal people of the Peninsular State promptly responded and furnished\\nthe quota assigned. Austin Blair, a man peculiarl} fitted for the place during the\\nemergency, was Governor, and Jolin Robertson, Adjutant-General. The people of\\nMichigan have ever since been proud of the record of these two men during the", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICIITGAN.\\nwar, but this does not exclude the honor due all the humble soklierywho obediently\\nexposed their lives in defense of the common country. Michigan has her full share\\nof the buried dead in obscure and forgotten places all over the South as well as in\\ndecent cemeteries throughout the North. It was Michigan men that captured Jeff\\nDavis, namely the 4th Cavalry, under Col. B. F. Pritchard and it was Michigan\\nmen that materially aided in the successful capture of Wilkes Booth, the assassin\\nof the martyred Lincoln.\\nThe census of this State for 1860 showed a population of 751,110. The num-\\nber of able-bodied men capable of military service was estimated in official documents\\nof that date at 110,000. At the same time the financial embarrassment of the State\\nwas somewhat serious, and the annual tax of 1226, 250 was deemed a grievous burden.\\nBut such was the patriotism of the people that by December 2:5, 1862, an aggregate\\nof 45,569 had gone to battle, besides 1,400 who had gone into other States and re-\\ncruited. By the end of the war Michigan had sent to the front 90,747, or more\\nthan four-fifths the estimated number of able-bodied men at the beginning The\\nmilitary history of the county deals very fully with this subject.\\nCHAPTER VI.\\nPOLITICAL HISTORY.\\nPrevious to the formation of the Northwestern Territory, the country within\\nits bounds was claimed by several of the Eastern States, on the ground that it was\\nwithin the limits indicated by their charters from the English Crown. In answer\\nto the wishes of the Government and people, these States in a patriotic spirit sur-\\nrendered their claims to this extensive territory, that it might constitute a common\\nfund to aid in the payment of the national debt. To prepare the way for this ces-\\nsion, a law had been passed in October, 1780, that the territory so to be ceded\\nshould be disposed of for the common benefit of the whole Union that the States\\nerected therein should be of suitable extent, not less than 100 nor more than 150\\nmiles square and that any expenses that might be incurred in recovering the posts\\nthen in the hands of the British should be reimbursed. New York released her\\nclaims to Congress, March 1, 1781 Virginia, March 1, 1784 Massachusetts, April\\n19, 1785, and Connecticut, September 4, 1786.\\nUnder the French and British dominion, the points occupied on the eastern\\nboundary of what is now the State of Michigan were considered a part of New\\nFrance, or Canada. Detroit was known to the French as Fort Pontchartrain.\\nr^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nThe military commandant, under both governments, exercised a civil jurisdiction\\nover tlie settlements surrounding their posts. In 1796, wiien the British garrisons\\nat Detroit and Mackinaw were replaced b} detachments by General Wayne, Mich-\\nigan became a part of the Northwestern Territory and was organized as the county\\nof Wayne, entitled to one Representative in the General Assembly, held at Chilli-\\ncothe. In 1800, Indiana was made a separate Territor}% embracing all tlie country\\nwest of the present State of Ohio, and of an extension of the western line of that\\nState due north to the territorial limits of the United States. In 1802, the penin-\\nsula was annexed to the Territory of Indiana, and in 1805 Michigan began a sepa-\\nrate existence. That part of the Territory that lies east of a north and south line\\nthrough the middle of Lake Michigan was formed into a distinct government, and\\nthe provisions of the ordinance of 1787 continued to regulate it. Under this Con-\\nstitution the executive power was vested in a governor, the judicial in three judges,\\nand the legislative in both united the officers were appointed by the General Gov-\\nernment, and their legislative authority was restricted to the adoption of laws\\nfrom the codes of the several States. This form of government was to continue\\nuntil the Territory should contain 5,000 free white males of full age. It then became\\noptional with the people to choose a legislative body, to be supported by them\\nbut subsequent legislation by Congress more liberall} provided a legislature at\\nthe expense of the general Government and also added to privileges in the\\nelective franchise and eligibility to office as, for example, under the ordinance a\\nfreehold qualification was required, both on the part of the elector and of the\\nelected.\\nThe first officers of the territory of Michigan were Wm. Hull, governor\\nAugustus B. Woodward, chief judge Frederick Bates, Sr., assistant judge and\\ntreasurer; .lohn Griffin, assistant judge Col. James May, marshal Abijah Hull,\\nsurveyor; Peter Audrain, clerk of the legislative board. May .5, 1807, Joseph\\nWatson was appointed Legislative Secretary in November, 1806, Elijah Brush was\\nappointed Treasurer, to succeed Mr. Bates, and the books of the office were deliv-\\nered over on the 26th of that month and William McDowell Scott was appointed\\nMarshal in November, 1806, to succeed Col. May. The latter never held the office\\nof Judge of the Territory, but about 1800- 3 he was Chief Justice of the Court of\\nCommon Pleas. Augustus Breevort Woodward was a native of Virginia; was .ap-\\npointed a Judge of the Territory in 1805, his term of office expired February 1,\\n1824. He was soon afterward appointed Judge of the Territory of Florida, and\\nthree years after that he died. The grand scheme of Catholepistemiad, or State\\nUniversity of Michigan, with its numerous names described under sesquipedalian\\nnames from the Greek, owed its origin to Judge Woodward.\\nJohn Griffin was appointed Assistant Judge in 1807, his term of office expir-", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "tiL\\nHISTORY OP MICHIGAN.\\ning February 1, 1824, when he was re-appointed for four years, and February 1,\\n1828, he was appointed Territorial Secretary.\\nWhen, in 1818, Illinois was admitted into the Union, all the territory lying\\nnorth of that State and of Indiana was annexed to Michigan. In 1819 the terri-\\ntory was authorized to elect a delegate to Congress, according to the present usage\\nwith reference to territories; previous to this time according to the ordinance of 1787,\\na territory was not entitled to a delegate until it entered upon the second grade\\nof Government, and the delegate was then to be chosen by the General Assembly.\\nIn 1823 Congress abolished the legislative power of the Governor and Judges,\\nand granted more enlarged ones to a council, to be composed of nine persons\\nselected by the President of the United States from eighteen chosen by the electors\\nof the territory; and by this law, also, eligibility to ofiSce was made co-existent\\nwith the right of suffrage as established by the act of 1819 also the judicial term\\nof office was limited to four years. In 1825 all county officers, except those of a\\njudicial nature, were made elective, and the appointments which remained in the\\nliands of the executive were made subject to the approval of the legislative council.\\nIn 1827 the electors were authorized to choose a number of persons for the legisla-\\ntive council, which was empowered to enact all laws not inconsistent with the\\nordinance of 1787. Their acts, however, were subject to abolishment by Congress,\\nand to veto by the territorial executives. When Gen. Wm. Hull arrived at Detroit\\nto assume his official duties as Governor, he found the town in ruins, it having\\nbeen destroyed by fire. Whether it had been burned by design or accident was\\nnot known. The inhabitants were without food and shelter, camping in the open\\nfields; still they were not discouraged, and soon commenced rebuilding their\\nhouses on the same site. Congress also kindly granted the sufiferers the site of the\\nold town of Detroit and 10,000 acres of land adjoining. A territorial militia was\\norganized, and a code of laws was adopted similar to those of the original State.\\nThis code was signed by Gov. Hull, Augustus B. Woodward and Frederick Bates,\\nJudges of the Territory, and was called the Woodward code.\\nAt this time the bounds of the Territory embraced all the country on the\\nAmerican side of the Detroit River, east of the north and south line through the\\ncenter of Lake Michigan. The Indian land claims had been partially extinguished\\nprevious to this period. By the treaty of Fort Mcintosh, in 1785, and that of Fort\\nHarmar, in 1787, extensive cessions had been either made or confirmed, and, in\\n1807, the Indian titles to several tracts became entirely extinct. Settlements\\nhaving been made under the French and English Governments, with irregularity\\nor absence of definite surveys and records, some confusion sprang up in regard to\\nthe titles of valuable tracts. Accordingly, Congress established a Board of Com-\\nmissioners to examine and settle these conflicting claims, and, in 1807, another act\\n6\\nV*", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MICHIGAN.\\nwas passed, confirming, to a certain extent, tlie titles of all such as had been in\\npossession of the lands then occupied by them from the year 1796. the year of the\\nfinal evacuations by the British garrisons. Other acts were subsequently passed,\\nextending the same conditions to settlements on the upper lakes.\\nAs chief among the fathers of this State we may mention Gov. Lewis\\nCass, Gabriel Richard, Stevens T. Mason, Augustus B. Woodward, John\\nHornell, William Woodbridge, John Biddle, William A. Fletcher, Elon Farns-\\nworth, Solomon Sibley, Benjamin B. Kircheval, John R. Williams, George\\nMorrell, Daniel Goodwin, Augustus S. Porter, Benjamin F. H. Witherell,\\nJonathan Sheaver and Charles C. Trowbridge, all of Wayne County Edmund\\nMunday, James Kingsley and Alpheus Felch, of Washentaw Ross Wilkins\\nand John J. Adam, of Lenawee Warner Wing, Charles Noble and Austin E.\\nWing, of Monroe County Randolph Manning, O. D. Richardson and James B.\\nHunt, of Oakland Henry R. Schoolcraft, of Chippewa Albert Miller, of the\\nSaginaw Valley John Stockton, Robert P. Eldridge and Christian Clemens, of\\nMacomb Lucius Lyon, Charles E. Stuart, Edwin H. Lathrop, Epaphroditus\\nRansom and Hezekiah G. Wells, of Kalamazoo Isaac E. Crary, John D. Pierce\\nand Oliver C. Comstock, of Calhoun Kinsley S. Bingham, of Livingston John\\nS. Barry, of St. Joseph Charles W. Wliipple, Calvain Britain and Thomas Fitz-\\ngerald, of Berrien, Bunce, of St. Clair, and George Redfield, of Cass. These men\\nand tlieir compeers shaped the policy of the State, and decided wliat should be\\nits future. They originated all and established most of the great institutions which\\nare the evidences of our advanced civilization, and of which we are so justly proud.\\nADMINISTRATION OF GEN. CASS.\\nAt the close of the war with Great Britain in 1814, an era of prosperity\\ndawned upon the infant territory. Gen. Lewis Cass, who had served the Govern-\\nment with great distinction during the war, was appointed Governor. The condi-\\ntion of the people was very much reduced, the country was wild, and the British\\nflag still waved over the fort at Mackinaw. There was nothing inviting to immi-\\ngrants except the mere facts of the close of the war and the existence of a fertile\\nsoil and a good climate. The Indians were still dangerous, and the country was still\\ncomparatively remote from the centers of civilization and government. Such a set of\\ncircumstances was just the proper environment for the development of all those\\nelements of the sturdy pioneer, wliich we so often admire when writing up\\nWestern history. Here was the field for stout and brave men here was the place\\nfor the birth and education of real Spartan men, men of strength, moral courage\\nand indomitable perseverance.\\nAt first, Gen. Cass had also the care of a small portion of Canada opposite", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nDetroit, and he had only twenty-seven soldiers for defending Detroit against the\\nhostile Indians and carrying on the whole government. Believing that a civil\\ngovernor should not be encumbered also with military duty, he resigned his\\nbrigadier-generalship in the army. But as Governor he soon had occasion to exer-\\ncise liis military power, even to act on the field as commander, in chasing away\\nmarauding bands of Indians. The latter seemed to be particularly threatening at\\nthis time, endeavoring to make up in yelling and petty depredations what tliey\\nlacked in sweeping victory over all the pale-faces.\\nIn times of peace Gov. Cass had high notions of civilizing the Indians, encour-\\naging the purchase of their lands, limiting their hunting grounds to a narrow com-\\npass, teacliing them agriculture and meclianics, and providing the means for tlieir\\ninstruction and religious training. The policy of the French and English liad been\\nto pacify them with presents and gewgaws, merely to obtain a temporary foothold\\nfor the purpose of carrying on the fur trade. Those benefited by the trade lived\\nthousands of miles away, and had no intei-est in the permanent development of the\\ncountry. The United States Government, on the other hand, indorsed Gov. Cass\\npolicy, which was to result in the development of the counti-y and the establish-\\nment of all the arts of peace. Govs. Cass and Harrison were accordingly empowered\\nto treat with the Indians on the Miami and Wabash and, July 20, a treaty was\\nsigned with the Wyandottes, Senecas, Shawnees, Miamis and Delawares, which\\nrestored comparative tranquility. During the Summer, however, there was Indian\\nwar enough to call out all Gov. Cass men, in aid of Gen. Brown on the\\nNiagara.\\nIndians can never remain long at peace, whatever may be the obligations they\\nassume in treaty making. Gen. Cass often headed his forces in person, and drove\\nthe hostile tribes from place to place until they finally retreated to Saginaw.\\nAn attempt was made to recover Mackinaw from the English in July of this\\nyear (1814), but the British works were too strong however, the establishments\\nat Saint Joseph and Sault Ste. Marie were destroA ed. In the following Winter the\\nfinal treaty of peace was ratified between England and the United States. The\\npopulation of the Territory at this time was not over 5,000 or 6,000, scattered over\\na vast extent, and in a state of great destitution on account of the calamities\\nof war. Scarcely a family, on resuming the duties of home, found more than the\\nremnants of former wealth and comfort. Families had been broken up and dis-\\npersed parents had been torn from their children, and children from each other;\\nsome had been slain on the battle-field, and others had been massacred by the ruth-\\nless savages. Laws had become a dead letter, and morals had suffered in the\\ngeneral wreck. Agriculture had been almost abandoned and commerce paralyzed\\nfood and all necessaries of life were scarce, and luxuries unknown. Money was\\n^f^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "A\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ndifficult to get, and the bank paper of Oliio, which was almost the sole circulating\\nmedium, was twenty-five per cent, below par.\\nSuch was the gloomy state of domestic affairs when Gen. Cass assumed the\\noffice of Governor. Besides, he had the delicate task of aiding in legislation and of\\nbeing at the same time the sole executive of the law. In 1817, he made an im-\\nportant treaty with the Indians, by which their title was extinguished to nearlj- all\\nthe land in Ohio, and a great portion in Indiana and Michigan. This treaty at-\\ntached the isolated population of Michigan to the State of Ohio, made the Terri-\\ntorial Government in a fuller sense an integral member of the Federal Union, and\\nremoved all apprehension of a hostile confederacy among the Indian tribes along\\nthe lake and river frontier.\\nHitherto there had not been a road in Michigan, except the military road along\\nthe Detroit River; but as the Indian settlements and lands could not now be inter-\\nposed as a barrier. Gen. Cass called the attention of Congress to the necessity of a\\nmilitary road from Detroit to Sandusky, through a trackless morass called the Black\\nSwamp.\\nCongress passed an act requiring that 2,000,000 acres of land should be sur-\\nveyed in the Territory of Louisiana, the same amount in the Territory of Illinois,\\nand the same amount in the Territory of Michigan, in all 6,000,000 acres, to be set\\napart for the soldiers in the war with Great Britain. Each soldier was to have 160\\nacres of land fit for cultivation. The surveyors under tiiis law reported that there\\nwere no lands in Michigan fit for cultivation This unconscionable report deterred\\nimmigration for many years, and the Government took the wliole 6,000,000 acres\\nfrom Illinois and Missouri. Tiie language of that report is so remarkable that we\\nmust quote it The country on the Indian boundary line, from the mouth of tlie\\nGreat Auglaize river and running thence for about fifty miles, is (with some few\\nexceptions) low, wet land, with a very thick growth of underbrush, intermixed\\nwith very bad marshes, but generally very heavily timbered with beech, cotton-\\nwood, oak, etc., thence continuing north and extending from the Indian boundary\\neastward, the number and extent of the swamps increase, with the addition of\\nnumbers of lakes, from twenty chains to two and three miles across. Many of the\\nlakes have extensive marshes adjoining their margins, sometimes thickly covered\\nwith a species of pine called tamarack, and other places covered with a coarse,\\nhigh grass, and uniformly covered from six inches to three feet (and more at times)\\nwith water. The margins of these lakes are not the only places where swamps\\nare found, for they are interspersed throughout the whole country and filled with\\nwater, as above stated, and varying in extent. The intermediate space between\\nthese swamps and lakes, which is probably near one-half of the country, is, with a\\nvery few exceptions, a poor, barren, sandy land on which scarcely any vegetation", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF JIIcniGAN.\\ngrows except very small, scrubby oaks. In many places that part which may be\\ncalled dry land is composed of little, short sand-hills, forming a kind of deep basins,\\nthe bottoms of many of which are composed of a marsh similar to the above-de-\\nscribed. The streams are generally narrow, and very deep compared with their\\nwidth, the shores and bottoms of which are, witli a very few exceptions, swampy\\nbeyond description; and it is with the utmost difficulty that a place can be found\\nover which horses can be conveyed with safety.\\nA circumstance peculiar to that country is exhibited in many of the marshes\\nby their being thinly covered with a sward of grass, by walking on which evinced\\nthe existence of water or a very thin mud immediately under their covering, which\\nsinks from six to eigiiteeii inches from tlie pressure of the foot at every step, and at\\nthe same time rising before and behind the person passing over. Tiie margins of\\nmany of the lakes and streams are in a similar situation, and in many places are\\nliterally afloat. On approaching the eastern part of tlie militaiy lands, toward the\\nprivate claims on the straits and lake, the country does not contain so many swamps\\nand lakes, but the extreme sterility and barrenness of the soil continues the same.\\nTaking the country altogether, so far as has been explored, and to all appearances,\\ntogether with tiie information received regarding the balance, it is so bad there\\nwould not be more than one acre out of a hundred, if there would be one out of a\\nthousand, that would in any place admit of cultivation.\\nIt is probable that those Government surveyors made a lazy job of their duty,\\nand depended almost entirely on the fur-traders, who were interested in keeping\\nsettlers out of the country. But we must make allowance, too, for the universal\\nignorance existing at that time of the methods of developing the Western country\\nwiiich modern invention has brought to bear since the days of our grandfathers.\\nWe must remember that our Western prairies were counted worth nothing, even\\nby all the early settlers.\\nBy the year 1818, some immigrants crowded in and further explored and tested\\nthe land and in March, this year. Gov. Cass called for the views of the inhabitants\\nupon the question of changing the civil authority by entering upon the second grade\\nof Territorial government. A vote was taken and a majority was found to be\\nagainst it but for the purpose of facilitating immigration and settlement. Gov.\\nCass recommended to tlie Secretary of the Treasury that the lands in the district of\\nDetroit be at once brought into market. The Department immediately complied,\\nand the lands were offered for sale the following Autumn. Immigration was now\\nincreased more than ever before, and the permanent growth of the country became\\nfully established.\\nIn 1819, the people were allowed to elect a delegate to Congress. The popu-\\nlation was now 8,806 in the whole Territory, distributed as follows: Detroit, 1,450,\\nspV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MICHIGAN\\nnot inolud mg the garrison the Island of Mackinaw, still the entrepot of the fur\\ntrade, a stationary population of aliout 450, sometimes increased to 2,000 or over\\nSault Ste. Marie, fifteen or twenty houses, occupied by French and English families.\\nThe year 1819 was also rendered memorable by the appearance of the first\\nsteamboat on the lakes, the Walk-in-the- water, which came up Lake Erie and\\nwent on to Mackinaw.\\nUp to this time no executive measure had been taken by the people to avail\\nthemselves of the school lands appropriated by the ordinance of 1787, except the\\ncurious act passed by the Governor and judges establishing the Catholepistemiad,\\nor University of Michigan, with thirteen didaxia, or professorships. The scheme\\nfor the institution was a grand one, described Ijy quaint, sesquipedalian technical-\\nities carried from the Greek language, and the whole devised by that unique man,\\nJudge Woodward. The act is given in full in the Territorial laws of Michigan,\\ncompiled and printed a few years ago. It was Judge Woodward, also, who laid\\nout the plan of Detroit, in the form of a cobweb, with a Campus Martins and a\\ngrand circus, and avenues radiating in every direction, grand public parks and\\nsquares, etc. Centuries would be required to fulfill his vast design. Like authors\\nand artists of ancient Greece and Rome, he laid the foundations of grand work for\\nposterity, more than the passing generation.\\nSettlements now began to form at the points where now are the cities of Ann\\nArbor, Ypsilanti, Jackson, Tecumseh and Pontiac. There were still some annoy-\\nances by the Indians. The Sacs and Foxes annually made their appearance to ob-\\ntain presents from the English at Maiden, and as they passed along they would\\ncommit many depredations. This practice of the British Government had a ten-\\ndency to prejudice the Indians against the Americans, and it thus became necessary\\nto take some measures for removing tiie Indians beyond British influence, or other-\\nwise putting a stop to this dangerous custom. Accordingly, in tlie Fall of 1819,\\nGov. Cass desired the government at Washington to cause a more thorough explor-\\nation to be made of the lake region, estimating the number and influence of the\\nIndians, their relations, prejudices, etc., with a view to the further extinguishment\\nof Indian title to land, etc.; but the Government deemed it advisable at this time\\nonly to take ten miles square at Sault Ste. Marie for military purposes, and some\\nislands near Mackinaw, where beds of plaster had been found to exist. However,\\nthe General Government soon ordered an expedition to be fitted out for such an\\nexploration as Gov. Cass desired, to travel with birch canoes. The men comjjosing\\nthe expedition were Gen. Cass and Robert A. Forsyth, his private secretary Capt.\\nD. B. Douglass, topographer and astronomer; Dr. Alex Walcot, physician James\\nD. Doty, official secretary and Charles C. Trowbridge, assistant topographer. Lieut.\\nEvans Mackey was commander of the escort, which consisted of ten U. S. soldiers.", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nBesides these there were tea Canadian voyageurs to manage the canoes, and ten\\nIndians to act as hunter. The latter were under the direction of James Riley and\\nJoseph Parks, who were also to act as interpreters. The party left Detroit, March\\n2-t, 1820, and reached Michili.iiackinac, June 6. On leaving this place, June 14,\\ntwenty-two soldiers, under the command of Lieut. John S. Pierce, were added to\\nthe party, and the expedition now numbered sixty-four persons. They reached the\\nSault Ste. Marie the 16th, where Gen. Cass called the Indians (Chippewas) to-\\ngether, in order to have a definite understanding with them considering the boun-\\ndary lines of the land grants, and thereby renew also their sanction of former trea-\\nties. At first the Indians protested against the Americans having any garrison at the\\nplace, and some of them grew violent and almost pi-ecipitated a general fight, which\\nwould have been disastrous to Gen. Cass party, as the Indians were far more numer-\\nous; but Cass exhibited a great degree of coolness and courage, and caused more\\ndeliberate counsels to prevail amongst the savages. Tnus the tlireatened storm\\nblew over. The next day the expedition resumed its journey, on Lake Superior,\\npassing the pictured rocks, and landing at one place where there was a band of\\nfriendly Chippewas. June 25, they left Lake Superior, ascended Portage River and\\nreturned home by way of Lake Michigan, after having traveled over 4,000 miles.\\nThe results of the expedition were: a more thorough knowledge of a vast re-\\ngion, and of the numbers and disposition of the various tribes of Indians several\\nimportant Indian treaties, by which valuable lands were ceded to the United States;\\na knowledge of the operations of the Northwest Fur Company, and the selection\\nof sites for a line of military posts.\\nAs the greater want of the people seemed to be roads. Congress was appealed\\nto for assistance, and not in vain, for that body immediately provided for the open-\\ning of roads between Detroit and the Miami River, from Detroit to Chicago, and\\nfrom Detroit to Fort Gratiot, and for the improvement of La Plaisance Bay. Gov-\\nernment surveys were carried into the Territory. Two straight lines were drawn\\nthrough the center of the Territory, east and west, and north and south, the lat-\\nter being denominated the principal meridian, and the former the base line. The\\nTerritory was also divided into townships of six miles square.\\nIn 1821, there was still a tract of land lying south of Grand River which had\\nnot yet been added to the United States, and Gov. Cass deemed it necessary to\\nnegotiate with the Indians for it. To accomplieh this work he had to visit Chicago,\\nand as a matter of curiosity we will inform the reader of his most feasible route to\\nthat place, which he can contrast with that of the present day. Leaving Detroit,\\nhe descended to the mouth of the Maumee River he ascended that river and crossed\\nthe intervening country to the Wabash descended that stream to the Ohio down\\nthe latter to the Mississippi, and up this and the Illinois rivers to Chicago. At this\\n~e)", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ncouncil the American Commissioners were Gen. Cass and Judge Sibley, of Detroit.\\nTliey were successful in their undertaking, and obtained a cession of the land in\\nquestion. On this occasion the Indians exhibited in a remarkable manner their\\nappetite for whisky. As a preliminary step to the negotiations, the commissioners\\nordered that no spirits should be given to the Indians. The chief of the latter was\\na man of about a hundred years old, but still of a good constitution. The com-\\nmissioners urged every consideration to convince him and the other Indians of the\\npropriety of the course they had adopted, but in vain. Father, said the old\\nchieftain, we do not care for the laud, nor the money, nor the goods: what we\\nwant is whisky give us whisky. But the commissioners were inexorable, and\\nthe Indians were forced to content themselves.\\nThis year (1821) also two Indians were hanged for murder. There was some\\nfear that the event would be made by the British an occasion of arousing Indian\\natrocities in the vicinity, and the petition for the pardon of the wretches was con-\\nsidered by Gov. Cass with a great deal of embarrassment. He finally concluded\\nto let the law take its course, and, accordingly, Dec. 25, the murderers were\\nhanged.\\nIn 1822 six new counties wei-e created, namelj^ Lapeer, Sanilac, Saginaw,\\nShiawassee, Washtenaw and Lenawee and they contained much more territory\\nthan they do at the present day. This year the first stage line was established in\\nthe Territory, connecting the county seat of IVIacomb County with the steamer\\nWalk-in-the-Water at Detroit.\\nIn 1823, Congress changed the form of Territorial government, abrogating the\\nabrogating power of the governor and judges and establishing a system of Legis-\\nlative Council, to consist of nine members, appointed by the President of the\\nUnited States out of eighteen candidates elected by the people. By tiie same act\\nthe term of judicial office was limited to four years, and eligibility to office was made\\nto require the same qualifications as right to suffrage. Tiie people now took new\\ninterest in their government, and felt encouraged to lay deep the foundations of\\nfuture prosperity. The first legishitive council under the new regime met at Detroit,\\nJune 7, 1824, when Gov. Cass delivered his message reviewing the progress of the\\nTerritory, calling attention to the needs of popular education, and recommending\\na policy of governmental administration. During this year he also called the atten-\\ntion of the General Government to the mineral resources of the Superior region,\\nand asked for governmental explorations therein. At its second session after this.\\nCongress authorized a commission to treat with the Indians of the upper peninsula\\nfor permission to explore that country.\\nIn 1825, the Erie Canal was completed from the Hudson River to Buffalo, N.\\nY., and the effect was to increase materially the flow of people and wealth into the", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nyoutig Territory of Micliigan. The citizens of the East began to learn the truth\\nconcerning tlie agricultural value of this peninsula, and those in search of good and\\npermanent homes came to see for themselves, and afterwards came with their\\nfriends or families to remain as industrious residents, to develop a powerful State.\\nThe number in the Territorial Council was increased to thirteen, to be chosen by\\nthe President from twenty-six persons elected by the people. In 1827 an act was\\npassed autliorizing the electors to choose their electors directly, without the further\\nsanction of either the President or Congress. The power of enacting laws was\\ngiven to the council, subject, however, to the approval of Congress and the veto of\\nthe Governor. This form of Territorial government remained in force until\\nMichigan was organized as a State in 1837. William Woodbridge was Secretary\\nof the Territory during the administration of Gov. Cass, and deserves great credit\\nfor the ability with which he perform^! the duties of his office. In the absence of\\nthe chief executive lie was Acting Governor, and a portion of the time he repre-\\nsented the Territory as a delegate to Congress. In 1828 he was succeeded by\\nJames Witherell, and in two years by Gen. John T. Mason. In 1831 Gen. Cass\\nwas appointed Secretary of War in the Cabinet of President Jackson, after having-\\nserved Michigan as its cliief executive for eighteen years. He had been appointed\\nsix times, running through the presidency of Madison, Monroe and -lohn Q.\\nAdams, without any opposing candidate or a single vote against liim in the Senate.\\nHe faithfully discharged liis duties as Indian Commissioner, and concluded nine-\\nteen treaties with the Indians, acquiring large cessions of territory in Ohio, Indiana,\\nIllinois, Wisconsin and Micliigan. He was a practical patriot, of whom the people\\nof the peninsular State feel justly proud. Probably more than any other man Gen.\\nCass was the father of Michigan.\\nGEN. GEORGE B. PORTER S ADMINISTRATION.\\nOn the promotion of Gov. Cass to a seat in the Cabinet of President Jackson,\\nand his consequent resignation as Governor of Michigan, Gen. George B. Porter\\nwas appointed Governor in July, 1831, and Sept. 22 following he entered upon the\\nduties of the office. The population of the Territory at this time was about\\n85,000, prosperity was reigning all around, and peace everywliere jirevailed, except\\nthat in 1832 the Black Hawk War took place in Illinois, but did not affect this\\npeninsula. In this war, however. Gov. Porter co-operated with the other States in\\nfurnishing militia. While Gov. Porter was the chief executive, Wisconsin was de-\\ntached from Michigan and erected into a separate Territory many new townsliips\\nwere organized, and wagon roads opened and improved land began to rise rapidly in\\nvalue, and speculators multiplied. The council provided for the establishment and\\nregulation of common schools, incorporated The Lake Michigan Steamboat Com-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "90 HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\npaiiy, with a capital of $40,000, and incorporated the first railroad company in\\n^Michigan, the Detroit Saint Joseph Railroad Company, since called the\\nMichigan Central. The original corporators were John Biddle, John R. Wil-\\nliams, Charles Larned, John Gilbert, Abel Millington, Job Gorton, John Allen,\\nAnson Brown, Samuel W. Dexter, W. E. Perrine, William A. Thompson, Isaac\\nCrary, O. W. Golden, Caleb Eldred, Cyrus Lovell, Calvin Brittain and Talman\\nWheeler. The Act of Incorporation required that the road should be completed\\nwithin thirty years tliis condition was complied with in less than one-third of that\\ntime. The same council also incorporated the Bank of the River Uaisin, with a\\nbranch at Pontiac. Previous to this two otlier banks had been chartered, namely\\ntlie Bank of Michigan, in 1817, with a branch at Bronson, and the Farmers and\\nMechanics Bank of Michigan, with a branch at Saint Joseph.\\nThe Legislative Council of 1834: also auuiorized a vote of the residents to be\\ntaken on the question of organizing as a State and becoming a member of the\\nUnion but the vote was so light and the majority so small that Congress neglected\\nto consider the matter seriously until two years afterward.\\nDuring Porter s administration a changj was made in the method of disposing\\ntlie public lands, greatly to the benefit of the actual settlers. Prior to 1820 the\\nGovernment price of land was $2 an acre, one-fourth to be paid down, and the\\nremainder in three annual installments and the land was subject to forfeiture if\\nthese payments were not promptly made. This system having been found produc-\\ntive of many serious evils, the price of land was put $1.25 an acre, all to be paid\\nat the time of purchase. This change saved a deal of trouble. During the admin-\\nistration of Gov. Porter occurred the Black Hawk war, mainly in Illiuois, in\\n1832, whicli did not affect Michigan to any appreciable extent, except to raise\\nsundry fears by the usual alarms accompanying war gossip. A few volunteers\\nprobably went to the scene of action from this Territory, but if any systematic\\naccount was ever kept of this service, we fail to find it.\\nIn October, 1831, Edwin Jerome left Detroit with a surveying party composed\\nof John Mullet, surveyor, and Utter, Brink and Peck, for that portion of Michigan\\nTerritory lying west of Lake Michigan, now Wisconsin. Their outfit consisted of a\\nFrench pony team and a buffalo wagon to carry tent, camp equipage, blankets, etc.\\nMost of the way to the southeast corner of Lake Michigan they followed a wagon\\ntrack or Indian trail, and a cabin or an Indian hut to lodge in at night but west\\nof the point mentioned they found neither road nor inhabitant. Tliey arrived at\\nChicago in a terrible rain, and put up at the fort. Tliis far-famed city at that\\ntime had but five or six houses, and they were built of logs. Within a distance of\\nthree or four miles of the fort the land was valued by its owners at 50 cents an acre.\\nAfter twenty-three days weary travel through an uninhabited country, fording", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "Ll^\\nHISTORY OP JIICHIGAN.\\nand swimming streams and exposed to much rainy weather, they arrived at Galena,\\nwhere they commenced their survey, but in two days the ground froze so deep that\\nfurther work was abandoned until the next Spring. The day after the memorable\\nStillman battle with Black Hawk, while the Mullet party were crossing the Blue\\nINIounds, they met an Indian half-chief, who had just arrived from the Menominee\\ncamps with the details of the battle. He stated the slain to be three Indians and\\neleven whites. The long shaking of hands and the extreme cordiality of this\\nIndian alarmed Mullet for the safety of his party, but he locked the secret in his\\nown heart until the next day. They had just completed a town corner when Mullet,\\nraising himself to his full height, said, Boys, I m going in I ll not risk my scalp\\nfor a few paltry shillings. Tliis laconic speech was an electric shock to the wliole\\ncompany. Mr. Jerome, in describing his own sensations, said that the hair of his\\nhead became then as poicupine quills, raising his hat in the air and himself from tlie\\nground, and the top of his head became as sore as a boil.\\nJuly 6, 1834, Gov. Porter died, and the administration devolved upon the\\nSecretary of the Territory, Stevens T. Mason, during whose time occurred the\\nToledo war.\\nADMINISTRATION OF GOV. HORNER.\\nIt appears that Mr. Shaler did not accept the governorship of Michigan, and\\nJohn S. Horner, of Virginia, was soon afterward appointed Secretary and Acting\\nGovernor. He proved to be rather unpopular with the people of Micliigan, and the\\nfollowing May he was appointed Secretary of Wisconsin Territory. He carried on\\na lengthy correspondence with Gov. Lucas, which resulted in a discontinuance of\\nall the suits that had grown out of the Toledo war, except the demand for Stickney.\\nGov. Lucas persisted in refusing to deliver him up but it seems that, finally, no\\ntrouble came of the affair.\\nThe first Monday in October, 1835, the people of Michigan ratified the Con-\\nstitution, and by the same vote elected a full set of State ofBcers. Stevens T.\\nMason was elected Governor, Edward Mundy Lieutenant Governor, and\\nIsaac E. Crary Representative in Congress. The first legislature under the\\nConstitution was held at Detroit, the capital, on the first Monday in\\nNovember, and John Norvell and Lucius Lyon were elected United States\\nSenators. A regular election was also held under the Territorial law for dele-\\ngate to Congress, and George VV. Jones, of Wisconsin, received the certificate\\nof election, although it is said that William Woodbridge received the highest num-\\nber of votes. John S. Horner, the Territorial Governor, was still in office here\\nand this singular mixture of Territorial and State government continued until the\\nfollowing June, when Congress formally received Michigan into the Union as a\\nState, and Horner was sent to Wisconsin, as before noted. This Act of Congress", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "liL\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nconditioned that the celebrated strip of territory over which the quarrel had been\\nso violent and protracted, should be given to Ohio, and that Michigan might have\\nas compensation the upper peninsula. That section of country was then known\\nonly as a barren waste, containing some copper, no one knew how much. Of course\\nthis decision of Congress was unsatisfactory to the people of this State. This was\\nthe third excision of territory from Michigan, other clippings having been made in\\n1802 and 1816. In the former year more than a thousand square miles were given to\\nOhio, and in the latter year nearly 1,200 square miles were given to Indiana.\\nAccordingly, Gov. Mason convened the Legislature July 11, 1836, to act on the\\njiroposition of Congress. The vote stood twenty-one for acceptance and twenty-\\neight for rejection. Three delegates were appointed to repair to Washington, to\\nco-operate with the representatives there for the general interest of the State but\\nbefore Congress was brought to action on the matter, other conventions were held\\nin the State to hasten a decision.\\nStevens T. Mason was the first Governor of this State, having been elected\\n(Governor of the State prospectively) in 1835, as before noted, and he lield the\\noffice until January, 1840. This State, at the time of its admission into the Union,\\nhad a population of about 200,000 its area was about 40,000 square miles, which\\nwas divided into thirty-six counties.\\nNearly the first act passed by the Legislature was one for the organization and\\nsupport of common schools. Congress had already set apart one section of land in\\nevery townsliip for tiiis purpose, and the new State properly appreciated the boon.\\nIn March of the same year (1837) another act was passed establishing the Uni-\\nversity of Michigan, of which institution we speak more fully on subsequent pages.\\nThis Legislature also appropriated $20,000 for a geological survey, and appointed\\nDr. Douglass Houghton State Geologist. For the encouragement of internal im-\\nprovements, a board of seven commissioners was appointed, of which the Governor\\nwas made president. This board authorized several surveys for railroads. Three\\nroutes were surveyed through the State, which eventually became, respectively, the\\nMichigan Central, the Michigan Southern, and the Detroit tS: Milwaukee. The\\nlatter road, however, was originally intended to have Port Huron for its eastern\\nterminus. The next year appropriations were made for the survey of the Saint\\nJoseph, Kalamazoo and Grand Rivers, for the purpose of improving the navi-\\ngation.\\nIn 1839 the militia of the State was organized, and eight divisions, with two\\nbrigades of two regiments each, were provided for. This year, also, the State\\nprison at Jackson was completed. Nearly 30,000 pupils attended the common\\nschools this year, and for school purposes over $18,000 was appropriated. Agricul-\\nturally, the State yielded that year 21,944 bushels of rye, 1,116,910 of oats, 6,422", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "la.\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nof buckwheat, 43,826 pounds of flax, 524 of hemp, 89,010 head of cattle, 14,059\\nhead of horses, 22,684 head of sheep, and 109,096 of swine.\\nGov. William Woodbridge was the chief executive from January, 1840, to\\nFebruary, 1841, when he resigned to accept a seat in the United States Senate. J.\\nAV^right Gordon was Lieutenant Governor, and became Acting Governor on the\\nresignation of Gov. Woodbridge.\\nDuring the administration of these men, the railroad from Detroit to Ann\\nArbor, a distance of forty miles, was completed branches of the university were\\nestablished at Detroit, Pontiac, Monroe, Niles, Kalamazoo, Grand Rapids, Jackson,\\nWhite Pigeon and Tecumseh. The material growth of the State continued to\\nincrease, proportionally more rapidly than even the population, which now\\namounted to about 212,000.\\nJohn S. Barry succeeded Gov. Gordon in the executive chair, serving from\\n1841 to 1845.\\nIn 1842 the university was opened for the reception of students, and the num-\\nber of pupils attending the common schools was officially reported to be nearly\\n58,000.\\nIn 1843 a land oiBce was established at Marshall for the whole State.\\nIn 1844, the taxable property of the State was found to be in value $28,554,282,\\nthe tax being at the rate of two mills on the dollar. The expenses of the State\\nwere only $70,000, while the income from the two railroads was nearly $300,000.\\nIn 1845, the number of inhabitants in the State had increased to more than\\n300,000.\\nAlpheus Felch served as Governor from 1845 to 1847. Daring his time the\\ntwo railroads belonging to the State were sold to private corporations, the Central\\nfor $2,000,000, and the Southern for $500,000. The exports of the State amounted\\nin 1846 to $4,647,608. The total capacity of vessels enrolled in the collection\\ndistrict at Detroit was 26,928 tons, the whole giving employment to 18,000 seamen.\\nIn 1847 there were thirty-nine counties in the State, containing 435 townships;\\nand 275 of these townships were supplied with good libraries, containing, in the\\naggregate, 37,000 volumes. In the Spring of 1846, on the account of Northern and\\nEastern immigration into Texas, with, tastes and habits different from the native\\nMexicans, a war was precipitated between the United States and Mexico and for\\nthe prosecution of this war Michigan furnished a regiment of volunteers, com-\\nmanded by Thomas W. Stockton, and one independent company, incurring a total\\nexpense of about $10,500. March 3, 1847, Gov. Felch resigned to accept a seat in\\nthe United States Senate, when the duties of his office devolved upon William S.\\nGreenly, under whose administration the Mexican war was closed.\\nEpaphroditus Ransom was Governor from 1847 to November, 1849. During", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "LliL\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nhis administration the Asylum for tlie Insane was established at Kalamazoo, and\\nalso the Institute for the Blind, and the Deaf and Dumb at Flint. Both these\\ninstitutions were liberally endowed with lands, and each entrusted to a board of\\nfive trustees. March 31, 1848, the first telegraph line was completed from New\\nYork to Detroit.\\nJohn S. Barry, elected Governor of Michigan for the third time, succeeded\\nGov. Ransom, and his term expired in November, 1851. Wiiile he was serving this\\nterm a normal school was established at Ypsilanti, which was endowed with lands,\\nplaced in charge of a board of education, consisting of six persons a new State\\nconstitution was adopted, and the great railroad-conspiracy case was tried.\\nThis originated in a number of lawless depredations upon the property of the\\nMichigan Central Railroad ComjDany, terminating with the burning of the depot at\\nDetroit in 1850. The next year thirty-seven men were brought to trial, and twelve\\nof tiiem were convicted. The prosecution was conducted by Alexander D. Eraser,\\nof Detroit, and the conspirators were defended by William H. Seward, of New\\nYork. Judge Warner Wing presided.\\nRobert McClelland followed Barry as Governor, serving until March, 1853,\\nwhen he resigned to accept the position of Secretary of the Interior, in the Cabinet\\nof Pres. Pierce. Lieut. -Gov. Andrew Parsons, consequently, became Acting Gov-\\nernor, his term expiring in November, 1854.\\nIn the Spring of 1854, during the administration of Acting Gov. Parsons, the\\nRepublican party, at least as a State organization, was first formed in the United\\nStates under the oaks at Jackson, by an ti -slavery men of both the old parties.\\nGreat excitement prevailed at this time, occasioned by the settling of Kansas and\\nthe issue thereby brought up whether slavery should exist there. For the purpose\\nof permitting slavery there, the Missouri compromise (which limited slavery\\nto the south of 36 degrees 30 minutes) was repealed, under the lead of Stephen A.\\nDouglas. This was repealed by a bill admitting Kansas and Nebraska into the\\nUnion as Territories, and those who were o^jposed to this repeal measure were, in\\nshort, called anti-Nebraska, were temporarily employed to designate tiie slavery\\nand anti-slavery jjarties, pending the dissolution of the old Democratic and Whig\\nparties and tiie organization of the new Democratic and Republican parties. At\\nthe next State election Kinsley S. Bingham was elected by the Republicans Gov-\\nernor of Michigan, and this State has ever since then been under Republican con-\\ntrol, the State ofScers of that party being elected by majorities ranging from 5,000\\nto 55,000. And the people of this State generally, and the Republicans in par-\\nticular, claim that this commonwealth has been as v/ell taken care of since 1855 as\\nany State in the Union, if not better, while preceding 1855 the Democrats adminis-\\ntered the government as well as any other State, if not better. As a single though\\nbJV", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0096.jp2"}, "97": {"fulltext": "-t e\\nHISTORY OP MICHIGAN.\\nsignal proof of the high standard of Michigan among her sister States, we may\\nmention that while the taxes in the New England States, New York, New Jersey\\nand Pennsylvania average $10.09 per capita, while in Massachusetts tlie average is\\n117.10 per inhabitant, and while in the West the average is $6.50, in Michigan it\\nis only $1.57. At the same time it is generally believed, even by the citizens of\\nsister States, that Michigan is the best-governed commonwealth in the Union.\\nKinsley S. Bingham was Governor from 1854 to 1858. The most notable event\\nduring his administration was the completion of the ship canal at the falls of Saint\\nMary, May 26, 1855. An Act of Congress was approved, granting to the State of\\nMichigan 750,000 acres of land for the purpose of constructing this canal. The\\nsault, or rapids, of the Saint Mary have a fall of seventeen feet in one mile.\\nThe canal is one mile long, 100 feet wide and about twelve feet deep. It has two\\nlocks of solid masonry. The work was commenced in 1853, and finished in May,\\n1855, at a cost of $999,802. This is one of the most important internal improve-\\nments ever made in the State.\\nMoses Wisner was tlie next Governor of Michigan, serving from 1858 to\\nNovember, 1860, at wiiich time Abraham Lincoln was elected President of the\\nUnited States. National themes began to grow exciting, and Michigan affairs were\\nalmost lost in the warring elements of strife that convulsed the nation from center\\nto circumference with a life-and-deatii struggle.\\nAustin Blair was the thirteenth Governor of Michigan, serving during the\\nperilous times of the rebellion from 1861 to 1S65, and by his patriotic and faithful\\nexecution of law and prompt aid of the General Government, earning the well-\\ndeserved title of the War Governor. The particulars of the history of this\\nState in connection witli that war we will reserve for the next section.\\nHenry H. Crapo succeeded Gov. Blair, serving one term. He was elected\\nduring the dark hours just before the close of the war, when he found the political\\nsky overcast with the most ominous clouds of death and debt. The bonded debt\\nof the State was $3,541,149.80, with a balance in the treasury of $440,047.29. In\\nthe single year just closed the State had expended $823,216.75, and by the close of\\nthe first year of his term this indebtedness had increased more than $400,000 more.\\nBut the wise administration of this Governor began materially to reduce the debt,\\nand at the same time fill the treasury. The great war closed during the April after his\\nelection, and he faithfully carried out the line of policy inaugurated by his prede-\\ncessor. The other prominent events during his term of office are systematically\\ninterwoven with the histoiy of the various institutions of the State, and they will\\nbe found under heads in their respective places.\\nHenry P. Baldwin was Governor two terms, namely, from January, 1868, to\\nthe close of 1872. The period of his administration was a prosperous one for the", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0097.jp2"}, "98": {"fulltext": "i.\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nState. In 1869 the taxable valuation of real and personal property in the State\\namounted to #400,000,000, and in 1871 it exceeded |G30,000,000.\\nDuring Gov. Baldwin s time a step was taken to alter the State constitution so\\nas to enable counties, townships, cities and incorporated villages, in their corporate\\ncapacity, to aid in tlie construction of railroads. Bonds had been issued all over\\nthe State by these municipalities in aid of railroads, under laws which had been\\nenacted by the Legislature at five different sessions but a case coming before the\\nSupreme Court involving the constitutionality of these laws, the Bench decided\\nthat the laws were unconstitutional, and thus the railroads were left to the mercy\\nof the soulless corporations. Gov. Baldwin, in this emergency, called an extra\\nsession of the Legislature, which submitted the desired constitutional amendment\\nto the people but it was by them defeated in November, 1870.\\nThe ninth census having been officially published, it became the duties of the\\nState, in 1872, to make a re-apportionment of districts for the purpose of repre-\\nsentation in Congress. Since 1863 Michigan has had six representatives, but the\\ncensus of 1870 entitled it to nine.\\nDuring the last two years of Gov. Baldwin s administration the preliminary\\nmeasures for building a new State capitol engrossed much of his attention. His\\nwise counsels concerning this much-needed new building were generally adopted\\nby the Legislature, which was convened in extra session in March, 1872.\\nAmple provisions having been made for the payment of the funded debt of the\\nState by setting apart some of the trust-fund receipts, and such portion of the\\nspecific taxes as were not required for the payment of interest on the public debt,\\nthe one-eighth mill tax for the sinking fund was abolished in 1870.\\nTlie Fall of 1871 is noted for the many destructive conflagrations in tlie North-\\nwest, including the great Chicago fire. Several villages in this State were either\\nwholly or partially consumed, and much property was burned up nearly all over the\\ncountry. This was due to the excessive dryness of the season. In this State alone\\nnearly -3,000 families, or about 18,000 persons, were rendered houseless and\\ndeprived of the necessaries of life. Relief committees were organized at Detroit,\\nGrand Rapids and elsewhere, and in a short time $462,106 in money and about\\n#250,000 worth of clothing were forwarded to the sufferers. Indeed, so generous\\nwere the people, that they would have given more than was necessary had they not\\nbeen informed by the Governor in a proclamation that a sufficiency had been raised.\\nThe dedication of the soldiers and sailors monument at Detroit, April 9, 1872,\\nwas a notable event in Gov. Baldwin s time. This grand structure was designed\\nby Randolph Rogers, formerly of Michigan, and one of tlie most eminent of Amer-\\nican sculptors now living. The money to defray the expenses of this undertaking\\nwas raised by subscription, and persons in all parts of the State were most liberal", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0098.jp2"}, "99": {"fulltext": "b^\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nin their contributions. Tlie business was managed by an incorporation established\\nin 1868. The monument is forty-six feet high, and is surmounted by a colossal\\nstatue of Micliigan in bronze, ten feet in height. She is represented as a semi-\\ncivilized Indian queen, with a sword in her right hand and a shield in her left. The\\ndedicatory lines in front are Erected by the people of Micliigan, in honor of the\\nmart3 rs who fell and the heroes who fought in defense of liberty and union.\\nOn the monument are many beautiful designs. At the unveiling there was a large\\nconcourse of people from all parts of tlie State, and the address was delivered by\\nex-Gov. Blair.\\nJohn J. Bagley succeeded to the Governorship Jan. 1, 1873, and served two\\nterms. During his administration the new capitol was principally built, which is a\\nlarger and better structure for the money than, perhaps, any other public building\\nin the United States. Under Gov. Bagley s counsel and administration the State\\nprospered in all its departments. The Legislature of 1873 made it the duty of the\\nGovernor to appoint a commission to revise the State Constitution, which duty he\\nperformed to the satisfaction of all parties.\\nCharles M. Crosswell was next the chief executive officer of this State, exer-\\ncising the functions of the office for two successive terms, 1877-1881. During his\\nadministration the public debt was greatly reduced, a policy adopted requiring\\nState institutions to keep within the limit of appropriations, laws enacted to pro-\\nvide more effectually for the punishment of corruption and bribery in elections, the\\nState House of Correction at Ionia and the Eastern Asylum for the Insane at Pon-\\ntiac were opened, and the new capitol at Lansing was completed and occupied.\\nThe first act of his second term was to preside at the dedication of this building.\\nThe great riot of 1877 centered at Jackson. During those two or three fearful\\ndays Gov. Crosswell was in his office at Lansing, in correspondence with members\\nof the military department in different parts of the State, and within forty-eight\\nhours of the moment when the danger became imminent, the rioters found them-\\nselves surrounded by a military force ready with ball and cartridge for their anni-\\nhilation. Were it not for this promptness of the Governor, there would probably\\nhave been a great destruction of property, if not also of life.\\nThe administration of Hon. David H. Jerome has been one marked alike by\\njoys and sorrows. The great business revival marked the period of his election\\nthe disastrous forest fires clouded the light of peace and prosperity.\\nSTATE OFFICERS\\nGovernors During French Rule.\\nAppointed.\\nSieur de Mesey 1663\\nSieur de Courcelles 1665\\nSieur de Fiontenac 1672\\n7\\nAppointed.\\nSieur de La Barre 1672\\nMarquis de Denonville 1685\\nSieur de Frontenac 1689\\nChevalier de Callieres l6qq\\nV*-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0099.jp2"}, "100": {"fulltext": "STATE OFFICERS. CONTINUED.\\nMarquis de Vaudreiiil 1703\\nMarquis de Beauharnois 1726\\nCompt de la Galissoniere 1747\\nSieur de la Jonquiere 1749\\nMarquis du Quesne de Menneville 1752\\nSieur de Vaudreuilde Cavagnal 1755\\nGovernors During British Rule.\\nJames Murray. 1765\\nPaulus E. Irving 1766\\nGuy Carleton 1766\\nHector I. Cramahe 1770\\nGuy Carleton 1774\\nFrederick Haldemand 1778\\nHenry Hamilton 1784\\nHenry Hope 1785\\nLord Dorchester 17S6\\nAlured Clark 1791\\nLord Dorchester- 179S\\nGovernors of Michigan Territory.\\nWilliam Hull 1805\\nLewis Cass 1813\\nGeorge B.Porter 1831\\nStevens T. Mason, if jr-t ^c/o 1834\\nJohn T. Horner, ex-officio 1835\\nState Governors.\\nElected.\\nStevens T.Mason 1835\\nWilliam Woodbridge 1840\\nJ. Wright Gordon, acting 1841\\nJohn S.Barry 1842\\nAlpheus Felch 1846\\nWm. S. Greenly, acting 1847\\nEpaphroditus Ransom 1848\\nJohn S. Barry_ 1850\\nRobert McClelland 1852\\nAndrew Parsons, acting 1S53\\nKingsley S. Bingham 1855\\nMoses Wisner 1859\\nAustin Blair 1861\\nHenry H. Crapo 1865\\nHenry D. Baldwin 1869\\nJohn J. Bagley 1873\\nCharles M. Croswell 1877\\nDavid H. Jerome 1881\\nLieutenant-Governors of Michigan.\\nElected.\\nEdward Mundy 1835\\nJ. Wright Gordon 1840\\nOrigin D. Richardson 1842\\nWm. S. Greenly 1846\\nWm. M. Fenton 1848\\nWm. S. Greenly 1849\\nCalvin Britain 1852\\nAndrew Parsons 1853\\nGeorge A. Coe 1855\\nEdmund B. Fairfield 1859\\nJames Birney 1861\\nJoseph R. Williams, acting 1861\\nHeniy T. Backus, acting 1S62\\nCharles S. May 1863\\nE. O. Grosvenor 1865\\nDwight May 1S67\\nMorgan Bates 1869\\nHenry H.Holt 1873\\nAlonzo Sessions 1877\\nMoreau S. Crosby 1881\\nSecretaries of State.\\nKintzing Pritchette 1835\\nRandolph Manning 1838\\nThomas Rowland 1840\\nRobert P. Eldridge 1842\\nG. O. Whittemore 1846\\nGeorge W. Peck 1848\\nGeorge Redfield 1850\\nCharles H.Taylor 1850\\nWilliam Graves 1S53\\nJohn McKinney 1855\\nNelson G. Isbell 1S59\\nJames B.Porter 1861\\nO. S. Spaulding 1867\\nDaniel Striker 1S71\\nE. G. D. Holden 1875\\nWilliam Jenney 1879\\nState Treasurers.\\nHenry Howard 1836\\nPeter Desnoyers 1839\\nRobert Stuart 1840\\nGeorge W. Germain 1841\\nJohn J. Adam 1S42\\nGeorge Redfield 1845", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0100.jp2"}, "101": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nSTATE OPFICEKS. CONTINUED.\\nGeorge B. Cooper\\nBarnard C. Whittemore.\\nSilas M. Holmes\\nJohn McKinney\\nJohn Owen\\nE. O. Grosvenor\\nVictory P. Collier\\nWra. B. McCreery\\nBenj. F. Pritchard\\nAttorneys-General.\\nDaniel LeRoy\\nPeter Morey\\nZephaniah Piatt\\nElon Farnsvvorth\\nHenry N. Walker..\\nEdward Mundy\\nGeo. V. N. Lothrop.\\nWilliam Hale\\nJacob M. Howard..\\nCharles Upson\\nAlbert Williams.\\nWni. L. Stoughton.,\\nDwight May\\nByron D. Ball\\nIsaac Mars ton\\nAndrew J. Smith\\nOtto Kirchner.\\nAuditors-General.\\n1846\\n1850\\n1855\\n1859\\n1861\\n:S67\\n1871\\n1875\\n1879\\n1836\\n1837\\n1S41\\n1S43\\n1845\\n1847\\n1848\\n1857\\n1S55\\n1861\\n1863\\n1867\\n1869\\n1S73\\n1874\\n1S75\\n1877\\nRobert Abbott 1836\\nHenry Howard 1839\\nEurotus P. Hastings 1840\\nAlpheusFelch 1842\\nHenry S. Whipple. 1842\\nCharles G. Hammond 1845\\nJohn J. Adam 1845\\nDigby V. Bell. 1846\\nJohn J. Adam 1848\\nJohn Swegles, jr 1851\\nWhitney Jones 1855\\nDaniel L. Case 1859\\nLangford G. Berry 1 861\\nEmil Aneke 1S63\\nWilliam Humphrey 1867\\nRalph Ely 1875\\nW. Irving Latimer 1879\\nSupt. Public Instruction.\\nElected.\\nJohn D.Pierce 1838\\nFranklin Sawyer, jr 1841\\nOliver C. Comstock l843\\nIra Mayhew 1845\\nFrancis W. Sherman.. 1849\\nIra Mayhew.. 1855\\nJohn M.Gregory 1859\\nOramel Hosford 1865\\nDaniel B. Briggs 1873\\nHorace S. Tarbell 1877\\nCornelius A. Gower 1878\\nJudges of the Supreme Court.\\nAugustus B. Woodward\\nFrederick Bates\\nJ ohn Griffin\\nJames Witherell\\nSolomon Sibley\\nHenry Chipman\\nWm. Woodbridge\\nRoss Wilkins\\nWm. A. Fletcher\\nEpaphroditus Ransom\\nGeorge Morell\\nCharles W. Whipple\\nAlpheus Felch\\nDavid Goodwin.\\nWarner Wing\\nGeorge Miles\\nEdward Mundy..\\nSanford M. Green\\nGeorge Martin\\nJoseph T. Copeland\\nSamuel T. Douglas\\nDavid Johnson\\nAbner Pratt\\nCharles W. Whipple\\nNathaniel Bacon\\nSanford M. Green\\nE. H. C.Wilson\\nBenj. F. H. Witherell, Benj. F.Graves,\\nJosiah Turner, and Edwin Lawrence to\\nfill vacancies in the latter part of\\nGeorge Martin\\nRandolph Manning\\nIsaac P. Christiancy\\n1805-24\\n1805-8\\n1806-24\\n1S08-2S\\n1824-36\\n1827-32\\n1828-32\\n1832-6\\n1836-42\\n1836-47\\n1836-42\\n1843-52\\n1842-5\\n1843-6\\n1845-56\\n1846-50\\n1848-51\\n1848-57\\n1851-2\\n1852-7\\n1852-7\\n1852-7\\n1851-7\\n1852-5\\n1S55-8\\n1856-8\\n1856-8\\n1857\\n1858-68\\n1858-64\\n1858-77", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0101.jp2"}, "102": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nSTATE OFFICERS. CONTINUED.\\nElected.\\nJames V. Campbell 1858\\nThomas M. Cooley 1864\\nBenj. F. Graves 1868\\nIsaac Marston 1875\\nU. S. Senators.\\nJohn Norvell 1835-41\\nLucius Lyon 1836-40\\nAugustus S. Porter 1840-5\\nWm. Woodbridge 1841-7\\nLewis Cass 1845-57\\nThos. H. Fitzgerald 1848-9\\nAipheus Felch 1847-53\\nCharles E. Stuart 1853-9\\nZachariah Chandler 1857-77\\nKinsley S. Bingham 1859-61\\nJacob M. Howard 1862-71\\nThomas W. Ferry 1871\\nHenry Baldwin 1880\\nZachariah Chandler 1878-9\\nThomas W.Ferry 1881-3\\nOmar D. Conger 1881-7\\nRepresentatives in Congress.\\nIsaac E. Crary 1835-41\\nJacob M. Howard 1841-43\\nLucius Lyon 1843-5\\nRobert McClelland 1843-9\\nJames B. Hunt 1843-7\\nJohn S. Chipman 1845-7\\nCharles E. Stuart 1847.9\\nKinsley S. Bingham 1849-51\\nAlexander W. Buel 1849-51\\nWilliam Sprague 1849-50\\nCharles E.Stuart 1851-3\\nJames L. Conger 1851-3\\nEbenezer J. Penneman 1851.3\\nSamuel Clark 1853-5\\nDavid A. Noble 1853-5\\nHester L.Stevens 1S53-5\\nDavid Stuart 1853-5\\nGeorge W. Peck 1855-7\\nWilliam A. Howard 1855-61\\nHenry Waldron 1855-61\\nElected.\\nDavid S. Walbridge 1855-9\\nD. C. Leach 1857-61\\nFrancis W. Kellogg 1859-65\\nB. F. Granger 186 1-3\\nF. C. Beaman 1861-71\\nR. E. Trowbridge 1861-3\\nCharles Upson 1863-9\\nJohn W. Longyear 1863-7\\nJohn F. Driggs 1863-9\\nR. E. Trowbridge 1865-9\\nThomas W. Ferry 1869-71\\nAustin Blair 1867-73\\nWilliam L. Stoughton 1869-73\\nOmar D. Conger 1869-81\\nRandolph Strickland 1869-71\\nHenry Waldon.. 187 1-5\\nWilder D. Foster 1871-3\\nJabez G. Sutherland 1 87 1-3\\nMoses W. Field 1873-5\\nGeorge Millard 1875-7\\nJulius C. Burrows 1873-5,1879\\nJosiah W. Begale 1873-5\\nNathan B. Bradley 1873-7\\nJay A. Hubbell 1873\\nW. B. Williams 1875-7\\nAipheus S.Williams 1875-9\\nMark .S. Boemer 1877\\nCharles C. Ellsworth 1877-9\\nEdwin W. Keightley 1877-9\\nJonas H. McGowan 1877\\nJohn W. Stone 1877\\nEdwin Willets 1877\\nRoswell G. Horr 1879\\nJohn S.Newberry 1879\\nH. W. Lord... 1881\\nEdwin Willets 1881\\nE. S. Lacey 1881\\nJulius C. Burrows :88i\\nGeorge W. Webber 1881\\nOliver L. Spaulding. 1881\\nJohn T.Rich 1S81\\nRoswell G. Horr 1881\\nJay A. Hubbell 1881\\n111 the political chapter of the county history, the names of State Senators and\\nRepresentatives from Macomb are given, with a record of votes received.", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0102.jp2"}, "103": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nfe^\\nPOLITICAL STATISTICS.\\nThe following tables show the political complexion of the several districts as\\nnow arranged, taking the vote for Congressmen in 1880 as the basis\\n3.2S7\\n2,196\\n2,915\\n1,067\\n1,081\\n1,748\\n779\\n2.340\\n1,677\\n1,608\\nFIRST DISTRICT.\\nCounty. Rep. Dem. Green-\\nback.\\nWayne 15,962 15,388 628\\nRepublican plurality 574\\nDemocratic and Greenback over Republican 54\\nSECOND DISTRICT.\\nMonroe 3,175\\nLenawee 6,308\\nHillsdale 4.857\\nWashtenaw 4,605\\nTotal 18,945 16,596 1,674\\nRepublican plurality 2,34q\\nRepublican majority 675\\nTHIRD DISTRICT.\\nJackson 4,564\\nCalhoun 5,184\\nBranch 4.106\\nBarry 3 072\\nEaton 4.341\\nTotal 21,267 9.739 8,959\\nRepublican plurality -.11,528\\nRepublican majority 2,571\\nFOURTH DISTRICT.\\nBerrien 4,553\\nCass 2,856\\nSt. Joseph 3,134\\nKalamazoo 4,459\\nVan Buren 4,094\\nTotal 19,096 12,424 4,193\\nRepublican plurality 6,672\\nRepublican majority 2,479\\nFIFTH DISTRICT.\\nAllegan 4,657\\nKent 7.879\\nOttawa 3,289\\nIonia 4,262\\nTotal 20,087 9.939 8,901\\nRepublican plurality 10,108\\nRepublican majority 1,207\\n1,806\\n1.789\\n5,395\\n3,227\\n2,072\\n837\\n666\\n3,048\\nSI.\\\\TH DISTRICT.\\nCounty. Rep.\\nClinton _ 3,305\\nIngham 3.983\\nLivingstone 2,820\\nGenesee 4,747\\nOakland 5.371\\nDem.\\n2,771\\n3.387\\n2.914\\n2,126\\n5,000\\n16,288\\nGreen-\\nback.\\n766\\n1,031\\n92\\n2,173\\n363\\nTotal 20,:\\nRepublican plurality\\nDemocrat and Greenback over Republican..\\nSEVENTH DISTRICT.\\nMacomb 3,000 3,283\\nSt. Clair 4,182 3,512\\nLapeer 3,390 2,676\\nSanilac 2,183 1,329\\nHuron ,773 1,194\\nTotal 14,618 11,994\\nRepublican plurality\\nRepublican majority\\nEIGHTH DISTRICT.\\nShiuwassee. 3,325 1.947\\nSaginaw 4,829 5,801\\nGratiot 2,526 1,780\\nMontcalm 4,140 3,067\\nIsabella 1,375 1.089\\nMidland 758 514\\nTotal 16,953 14,198\\nRepublican plurality\\nDemocrat and Greenback over Republican.\\nNINTH DISTRICT.\\nMuskegon. 2,737 1,496\\nOceana i,479 959\\nNewaygo 1,549 1,796\\nMecosta 1,592 1,020\\nOsceola 1.234 577\\nLake 5S3 264\\nMason 1,259 832\\nManistee 1. 176 1,098\\nWexford 1,112 476\\nMissaukee 268 121\\nCharlevoix. 793 276\\nAntrim 598 19S\\n605\\n95\\n171\\n1", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0103.jp2"}, "104": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nCounty. Rep. Dem. Green-\\nback.\\nKalkaska 495 i8t\\nTotal 14,875 9.294 1,063\\nRepublican plurality 5,581\\nRepublican majority 4, 518\\nTENTH DISTRICT.\\nTuscola 2,872 1,812 180\\nBay 2,483\\nCaldwin 147\\nClare 451\\nRoscommon 564\\nOgemaw 280\\nIosco 766\\nCrawford l8l\\nOscoda\\nAlcona 388\\nAlpena 948\\nMontmorency\\nOtsego 329\\nPresque Isle 2C9\\nCheboygan 581\\nEmmet-. 809\\nTotal -10,978 8,776 2,180\\n398\\n1,568\\n260\\n5\\n412\\n41\\n413\\n72\\n173\\n57\\n540\\n8\\n141\\n24\\n250\\n8\\n835\\n48\\n217\\n83\\n151\\n571\\n83\\n603\\n4\\nRepublican plurality 2,202\\nRepublican majority 22\\nELEVENTH DISTRICT.\\nGrand Traverse 1,327\\nLeelenau 643\\nBenzie 430\\nManitou 36\\nChippewa 35S\\nMackinac 143\\nSchoolcraft 172\\nMarquette 2,449\\nBaraga 180\\nHoughton 2,107\\nKeewenaw 610\\nOntonagon. 306\\nIsle Royal\\nMenominee 1,304\\nDelta 724\\nTotal 10,789 6,486 235\\nRepublican plurality 4.303\\nRepublican majority 4,168\\nThere were also prohibition and scattering votes returned for Congress in 1880\\nas follows: Second district, 191; third, 234; fourth, 2i fifth, 18; sixth, 78;\\nseventh, 18; eighth, 16; ninth, 21; tenth, 7; and eleventh, 95. In Isle Royal\\nCounty, in 1880, no election was held, and Oscoda and Montmorency Counties\\nwere not organized.\\nThe population of the several districts in 1870 and 1880 and the total increase\\nfor the ten years are shown by the following table\\nDistrict. Pop. 1870. Pop. 188U. Increase.\\nFirst 119.038 166,444 47.406\\nSecond 146 196..\\nThird 146,212--\\nFourth 143.356\\nFifth 136,840..\\nSixth 142 276--\\nSeventh 109.233..\\nEighth 92 792..\\nNinth 51,943.-\\nTenth 40,439 111,151 70,712\\nEleventh 55.794 104,527 49,733\\n156,538 10,342\\n164966 18,754\\n150,569 7,213\\n178,066 41,226\\n164,784 22,508\\n154,392 45.152\\n160,269 67,498\\n125,210 73,267\\nIf a similar rate of increase is kept up in the northern counties, the eighth,\\nninth and tenth districts will before the end of the decade largely exceed in jjopu-\\nlation certain of the older districts.", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0104.jp2"}, "105": {"fulltext": "4^\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nCHAPTER VII.\\nMISCELLANEOUS.\\nTHE FUB- TRADERS AND SLAVE OWNERS.\\nThe Bi-itish at Detroit changed their policy somewliat, and endeavored to\\nconciliate the Indians, paying them for land and encouraging French settlements in\\nthe vicinity. This encouragement was exhibited, in part, in showing some par-\\ntiality to French customs.\\nAt this time the fur trade was considerably revived, the principal point of\\nshipment being the Grand Portage of Lake Superior. The charter boundaries of\\nthe two companies, the Hudson s Bay and the Northwest, not having been very\\nwell-defined, the employees of the respective companies often came into conflict.\\nLord Selkirk, the head of the former company, ended the difiSculty by uniting the\\nstock of both companies. An attempt was also made to mine and ship copper, but\\nthe project was found too expensive.\\nSLAVERY IN MICHIGAN.\\nThe following references to the slave in Michigan have been extracted from\\nthe able paper prepared on that subject by J. A. Girardin. In olden\\ntimes the city of Detroit and vicinity had slaves among its inhabitants.\\nThe old citizens generally purchased them from marauding bauds of Indians,\\nwho had captured the negro slaves in their war depredations on plantations.\\nMany were thus brought from Virginia, New York, and Indiana, and sold to the\\ninhabitants of Detroit, sometimes for nominal prices. Among our old citizens who\\nwere slaveholders in the olden times were the late Major Joseph Campau, George\\nMcDougall, James Duperon Baby, Abbott Finchly, and several others. The\\nnegro slaves were well treated by their owners. Many of those poor captives when\\nsold and released were at once well taken care of by our ancient inhabitants. Some-\\ntimes the price of a negro slave was regulated according to his intrinsic value, but\\nthe price was quite high for those days. For instance A negro boy named Frank,\\naged 12 years, the property of the late Phillip Jonciere, of Belle Fontaine, now\\nSpringwells, was sold on the 22d day of October, 1793, by William Roe, acting\\nauctioneer, to the late Hon. James Duperon Baby, for the sum of ^213, Ne\\\\V York\\ncurrency, equal to \u00e2\u0080\u00a2$532.50 of our money. Mr. Baby being the highest bidder, he,\\nFrank, was adjudged to him for the benefit of Mr. Joncier s estate.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0105.jp2"}, "106": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nIn the records of baptism of St. Anne s Church, .several persons of color we\\nfind recorded as having received the sacrament of baptism, and, in the absence of\\nfamily names we find that the names of Margaret, for instance, a negress,\\nunknown would be entered in the absence of her regular family name several\\ninstances of this kind are entered in the old records. During the administration of\\nthe Governor and Judges of the Territory of Michigan, several negroes received\\ndonation lots. Among them wa^ a well known negro named Pompey, the\\nproperty of the late James Abbott. As a class the negroes were esteemed by our\\nancient population many of them could speak the French language fluently, espe-\\ncially those living with their French masters. But little cruelty was jsracticed by\\ntheir owners. Thei e was no Wendell Phillips nor any Lloyd Garrison, nor any\\nhigher law doctrine, expounded in those days to disturb the mind of the slave\\nor the slaveholder. Everyone lived in Arcadian simplicity and contentment. The\\nnegro was satisfied with his position, and rendered valuable services to his master,\\nand was ever ready to help him against the treacherous Indians. During the war\\nof 1812 several of them accompanied their masters to the battle-field, and mate-\\nrially helped their masters and the troops.\\nBy an ordinance enacted by Congress, dated July 13, 1787, entitled An act\\nfor the government of the territory of the United States northwest of the Ohio\\nRiver, there was a clause in Article VI saying that there shall be neither slavery\\nnor involuntary servitude in the said territory, otherwise than in the punishment\\nof crimes. This was a safeguard by Congress to prevent the extension of\\nslavery northwest of the Ohio River. Notwithstanding this wise provision our an-\\ncestors paid but little attention to it, for whenever a spruce negro was brought\\nby the Indians he was sure to find a purchaser at a reasonable price. Most every\\nprominent man in those days had a slave or two, especially merchants trading with\\nthe Indians.\\nDetroit and vicinity was a heaven to the slave compared to the Southern States,\\nalthough slavery was carried on on a moderate scale here, there being no cotton or\\nrice fields to employ them in, their labor being on the plantations near Detroit, or\\nat their masters houses. The master, once attached to his Sambo, a great price\\nwould have to be paid to buy him.\\nThe late Judge May had a slave-woman who had come to his hands for a debt\\nowed him by one Granchin. This faithful slave served the Judge some twenty-\\nfive years. Mr. Joseph Campau, an extensive trader in those days, had as many as\\nten slaves at different times. Among them was a young negro named Crow,\\nwho w.as quite a favorite of Mr. C, who had him dressed in scarlet, a contrast with\\nhis color. This negro, to the amusement of the inhabitants of the old town, used\\nto ascend old St. Anne s Church steeple and there perform some of his gymnastic\\nsTv", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0106.jp2"}, "107": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ntricks. He was supple and elastic as a circus-ridei He had been purchased at\\nMontreal by Mr. Campau. He was afterward drowned from one of Mr. C. s bat-\\nteaux. Hannah, another intelligent colored woman, was purchased at Montreal\\nby Mr. C. This faithful slave, after serving him several years, married Patterson,\\nalso a slave. Mulct, one of the most honest and faithful of all slaves, also be-\\nlonged to Mr. Campau, who very often employed him as confidential clerk. This\\nslave died but a few years ago at a very advanced age, respected and esteemed for\\nhis great integrity and fidelity. The slave Tetro was among the favorites of\\nMaj. Campau. He, too, was as faithful and as honest as the day was long.\\nThe late Gen. John R. Williams also possessed a slave, named Hector. He,\\ntoo, was faithful and trustworthy. In the year 1831 Daniel Lero} Olmstead\\nCliamberlain, and Gideon O. Whittemore sold to Col. Mack, Gen. Williams, and\\nMaj. Campau the newspaper called the Oaldand Chronicle, the office being trans-\\nferred here, and the well known slave Hector was placed in charge of it. When\\nthe late Col. Sheldon McKnight entered to take possession, he was fiercely resisted\\nby Hector who showed fight, and the Colonel had to retreat. This paper was\\nafterward merged into the Free Press of this city.\\nAnn Wyley, a former slave, suffered the extreme penalty of the law for having\\nstolen six guineas from the firm of Abbott Finchley. She was sentenced to\\ndeath by a justice of the peace, and buried on the spot where St. Anne s Church\\nnow stands, which ground was used as a place of burial in early days and when,\\nin 1817, the foundations of the church were being excavated for, the body of this\\nunfortunate woman was found, face downward. It was supposed that she was in\\na trance at the time of her burial. This incident was related to me by an old lady,\\nsome years ago, who knew all about the facts, and who has since died.\\nThe late Joseph Dronillard, of Petite Cote, Canada, had two daughters. Upon\\nthe marriage of one of them to the grandfather of your humble servant she received\\na farm the other received two slaves as her marriage portion. This goes to show\\nthat the negro in those days was considered a chattel. Several of our French\\nfarmers on both sides of the river had one or more of them.\\nMany anecdotes can be related of Africa s sons among our ancestors, and they\\nas a class were well cared for and educated by their kind masters. I could digress\\nand go into more details, but the present sketch will sufiSce to show our modern\\nphilanthropists that the slaves here in Detroit were as well treated as the families\\nin which their lot had been cast. The question may be asked How did slavery\\ndie out here? The owners of slaves, after having received their services for a\\nnumber of years generally would liberate them, or sometimes sell them to parties\\noutside of the Territory. When the celebrated ordinance of 1787 was extended\\nover the Northwest, Michigan assumed for the first time the first grade of govern-\\nIV^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0107.jp2"}, "108": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nment, and the laws of Congress were put in force, no moi e slaves were afterward\\nallowed to be brought into the Territory, and slavery was known no more here\\nSALE OF NEGRO MAN POMPEY.\\nThe following is a copy of a deed furnished by W. W. Backus of Detroit\\nKnow all men by these presents That I, James May of Detroit, for and in\\nconsideration of the sum of forty-five pounds. New York currency, to me in hand\\npaid by John Askin, Esqr.,of Detroit, the receipt whereof I do hereby acknowledge\\nto be fully satisfied and paid, have sold and delivered, and by these presents, in\\nl)lain and open market, do bargain, sell, and deliver unto the said John Askin,\\nEsqr., a certain negro man, Pompey by name, to have and to hold the said negro\\nunto the said John Askin, Esqr., his heirs, executors, administrators, and assigns\\nforever and I, the said James May, for my heirs, executors, and assigns, against\\nall manner of person or persons, shall and will warrant and forever defend by these\\npresents.\\nIn witness whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and seal this nineteenth day\\nof October, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and ninety-four.\\nSigned,\\nJAMES MAY.\\nIn presence of\\nRobert Stevens.\\nI do hereby make over my whole right, title and interest in the above men-\\ntioned negro man Pompey to Mi. James Donnolson of this place for the sum of\\nfifty pounds, New York currency, the receipt of which I do hereby acknowledge,\\nas witness my hand and seal at Detroit, this third day of January, 1795.\\nSigned, JOHN ASKIN.\\nWitness, William McClintock.\\nThroughout the counties of Wayne, Monroe, Macomb, and Oakland, the slave\\nexisted. True, he bore the same relation almost to his master, as the white laborer\\nof the South did to his master previous to 1861. Yet he was a slave, liable to be\\nbought and sold.\\nPUBLIC school system.\\nMichigan has as good a public-school system as can be found anywhere in the\\nUnion. Ever since 1785, the acts of Congress, as well as the acts of this State\\nsince its organization, have encouraged popular education by land grants and lib-\\neral appropriations of money. The 16th section of each township was early placed\\nin the custody of the State for common-school purposes, and all the proceeds of the\\nsale of school lands go into the perpetual fund. In 1812 the Superintendent of\\nPublic Instruction reported a discrepancy of over f 22, 000 in the funds, owing to im-\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^(i", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0108.jp2"}, "109": {"fulltext": "5\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nperfect records, probably, rather than of dishonesty of ofBcials. September 30, 1858,\\nthe primary school fund amounted to $2,890,090.73, and the swamp-land school fund\\nto $361,237.20. The qualification of teachers and the supervision of schools were for\\nmany years in the hands of a board of three inspectors, then the county superin-\\ntendency system was adopted for many 3 ears, and since 1875 the township system\\nhas been in vogue. The township Board of School inspectors now consists of the\\nTownship Clerk, one elected Inspector, and a Township Superintendent of\\nSchools.\\nThe latter officer licenses the teachers and visits the schools. In 1877, the\\nschool children (five to twenty years of age) numbered 469,504 the average\\nnumber of months of school, 7.4 number of graded schools, 295 number of school-\\nhouses, 6,078, valued at $9,190,175 amount of two-mill tax, $492,646.94 district\\ntaxes, $2,217,961 total resources for the year, $3,792,129.59; total expenditures,\\n$3,179,976.06.\\nSTATE UNIVERSITY.\\nBy an act of Congress in 1804, a township of land was to be reserved in the\\nterritory now constituting the lower peninsula for the use of seminaries of\\nlearning but the most of this reservation in 1841 went to a Catholic institution\\nat Detroit. In 1824, through the exertions of Austin E. Wing, delegate to Con-\\ngress, Gov. Woodbridge and others, a second township was granted, with permis-\\nsion to select the sections in detached localities, and about this time Judge Wood-\\nward devised that novel and extensive scheme for the catholepisteraaid, else-\\nwhere referred to in this volume. In 1837 the Legislature established the University at\\nAnn Arbor, and appropriated the seventy-two sections to its benefit 916 acres of this\\nland were located in what is now the richest part of Toledo, Ohio, from which the\\nUniversity finally realized less than $18,000.\\nBut the State in subsequent years made many liberal appropriations to this\\nfavorite institution, until it has become the greatest seat of learning west of New\\nEngland, if not in all America. It is a part of the public-school system of the\\nState, as tuition is free, and pupils graduating at the high schools are permitted to\\nenter the freshman class of tiie collegiate department. It now has an average\\nattendance of 1,200 to 1,400 students, 450 of whom are in the college proper. In\\n1879 there were 406 in the law department, 329 in the medical, 71 in pharmacy, 62\\nin dental surgery, and 63 in the homeopathic department. There are over fifty\\nprofessors and teachers. The University is under the control of eight regents,\\nelected by the people, two every second year. Rev. Henry B. Tappan, D. D., was\\nPresident from 1852 to 1863, then Erastus O. Haven, D. D., LL. D., to 1860, then\\nProf. H. S. Freeze (acting) until 1871, since which time the reins have been held\\nby Hon. James B. Angell, LL. D.\\ni", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0109.jp2"}, "110": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nThe value of the buildings and grounds was estimated in 1879 at 1319,000, and\\nthe personal property at $250,000.\\nSTATE NORMAL SCHOOL.\\nJohn D. Pierce, the first Superintendent of Public Instruction, in his first re-\\nport to the Legislature, urged the importance of a normal school. In this enter-\\nprise he was followed by his successors in office until 1849, when Ira Mayhew was\\nState Superintendent, and the Legislature appropriated seventy-two sections of\\nland for the purpose and among the points competing for the location of the\\nschool, Ypsilanti won, and in that place the institution was permanently located.\\nThe building was completed and dedicated with appropriate ceremonies, October\\n5,1852; next year the Legislature appropriated f7,000 in money, for expenses.\\nProf. A. S. Welch, now President of Iowa Agricultural College, was elected the\\nfirst Principal. In October, 1859, the building with contents was burned, and a\\nnew building was immediately erected. In 1878 the main building was enlarged\\nat an expense of $13,347. This enlargement was 88x90 feet, and has a hall capa-\\nble of seating 1,200 persons. The value of buildings and other property at the\\nj^resent time is estimated at $111,100. Number of students, 616, including 144 in\\nthe primary department.\\nEach member of the Legislature is authorized by the Board of Education to\\nappoint two students from his district who may attend one year free of tuition; other\\nstudents pay $10 per annum. Graduates of this school are entitled to teach in this\\nState without re-examination by any school officer.\\nAGRICULTUKAL COLLEGE.\\nThe Michigan Agricultural College owes its establishment to a provision of\\nthe State Constitution of 1850. Article 13 says, The Legislature shall, as soon\\nas practicable, provide for the establishment of an agricultural school. For the\\npurpose of carrying into practice this provision, legislation was commenced in 1855,\\nand the act required that the school should be within ten miles of Lansing, and\\nthat not more than $15 an acre should be paid for the farm and college grounds.\\nThe college was opened to students in May, 1857, the first of existing agricultural\\ncolleges in the United States. Until the Spring of 1861 it was under the control\\nof the State Board of Education since that time it has been under the manage-\\nment of the State Board of Agriculture, created for the purpose.\\nIn its essential features of combining study and labor, and of uniting general\\nand professional studies in its course, the college has remained virtually unchanged\\nfrem the first. It has had a steady growth in number of students, in means of\\nillustration and efficiency of instruction.\\nAn Act of Congress, approved July 2, 1862, donated to each State public lands", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0110.jp2"}, "111": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nto the amount of 30,000 acres for each of its Senators and Representatives in Con-\\ngress, according to the census of 1860, for the endowment, support and mainten-\\nance of at least one college where the leading object should be, without excluding\\nother scientific and classical studies, and including military tactics, to teach such\\nbranches of learning as are related to agriculture and the mechanic arts. The\\nLegislature accepted this grant and bestowed it upon the Agricultural College.\\nBy its provisions the college has received 235,673.37 acres of land. These lands\\nhave been placed in market, and about 74,000 acres are sold, yielding a fund of\\n$237,174, the interest of which, at seven per cent., is applied to the support of the\\ncollege. The sale is under the direction of the Agricultui-al Land Grant Board,\\nconsisting of the Governor, Auditor General, Secretary of State, State Treasurer,\\nAttorney General and Commissioner of the State Land Office.\\nThe Agricultural College is three miles east of Lansing, comprising several\\nfine buildings and there are, also, very beautiful, substantial residences for the\\nprofessors. There are also an extensive, well-filled green-house, a very large and\\nwell-equipped and chemical laboratory, one of the most scientific apiaries in the\\nUnited States, a general museum, a museum of mechanical inventions, another of\\nvegetable products, extensive barns, piggeries, etc., etc., in fine trim for the pur-\\nposes designed. The farm consists of 676 acres, of which about 300 are under\\ncultivation is in a systematic rotation of crops.\\nOTHER COLLEGES.\\nAt Albion is a flourishing college under the control of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch. The grounds comprise about fifteen acres. There are three college\\nbuildings, each three stories high, having severally the dimensions of 46 by 80, 40\\nby 100, and 47 by 80 feet. The attendance in 1878 was 205. Tuition in the jjrepara-\\ntory and collegiate studies is free. The faculty comjjrises nine members. The\\nvalue of property about $85,000.\\nAdrian College was established by the Wesleyan Methodists in 1859, now\\nunder the control of the Methodist Church. The grounds contain about twenty\\nacres. There are four buildings, capable of accommodating about 225 students.\\nAttendance in 1875 was 179 total number of graduates for previous years, 121\\nten professors and teachers employed. Exclusive of the endowment fund ($80,-\\n000), the assets of the institution, including grounds, buildings, furniture, appar-\\natus, musical instruments, outlying lands, etc., amount to more than $137,000.\\nHope College, at Holland, is under the patronage of the Dutch Reformed Church.\\nIt was begun in 1851, and in connection with the ordinary branches of learning, it\\nhas a theological department. In 1877 it had ten professors and teachers and 110\\npupils. Up to 1875 there had graduated, in the preparatory def)artment, begun in", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0111.jp2"}, "112": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\n1863, ninety-five in the academic, beginning in 1866, fifty-three and in the theo-\\nlogical, beginning in 1869, twenty-four. Value of real estate, 125,000 of other\\nproperty, above incumbrance, about $10,000 the amount of endowment paid in is\\nabout 156,000.\\nKalamazoo College, headed by Baptists, is situated on a five-acre lot of ground,\\nand the property is valued at $35,000 investments, f S8,000. There are six mem-\\nbers of the faculty, and in 1878 there were 169 pupils.\\nHillsdale College was established in 1855 by the Free Baptists. The Michi-\\ngan Central College, at Spring Arbor, was incorporated in 1845. It was kept in\\noperation until it was merged into the present Hillsdale College. The site com-\\nprises twenty-five acres, beautifully situated on an eminence in the western part of\\nthe city of Hillsdale. The large and imposing building first erected was nearly\\ndestroyed by fire in 1871, and in its place five buildings of a more modern style\\nhave been erected. They are of brick, three stories with basement, arranged on\\nthree sides of a quadrangle. Their size is, respectively, 80 by 80, 48 by 72, 48 by\\n72, 80 by 60, 52 by 72, and they contain one-half more room than the original\\nbuilding. Ex-Lieutenant Gov. E. B. Fairfield was the first president. The present\\npresident is Rev. D. W. C. Durgin, D. D. Whole number of graduates up to 1878,\\n375; number of students in all departments, 506; number of professors and\\ninstructors, 15; productive endowment, about $100,000; buildings and ground,\\n$80,000 library, 6,200.\\nOlivet College, in Eaton County, is a lively and thorough literary and fine-art\\ninstitution, under the joint auspices of the Presbyterian and Congregational denom-\\ninations. Value of buildings and ground, about $85,000. Fourteen professors and\\nteacher.s are employed, and the attendance in 1878 was 190, the sexes in about\\nequal proportion. There are five departments, namely, the collegiate, preparatory,\\nnormal, music and art.\\nBattle Creek College, conducted by the .Seventh-Day Adventists, was estab-\\nlished in 1874, with four departments, eleven professors and teachers, and an\\nattendance of 289. It is practically connected with a large health institution,\\nwhere meat and medicines are eschewed. In 1878 there were fifteen instruct-\\nors and 478 students. Special attention is paid to hygiene and hygienic medi-\\ncation.\\nGrand Traverse College was opened at Benzonia, in 1863, as the result of the\\nefforts of Rev. Dr. J. B. Walter, a prominent divine of the Congregational Church.\\nThe friends of this institution have met with serious discouragements their lands\\nhave not risen in value as anticipated, and they have suffered a heavy loss from fire\\nbut the college has been kept open to the present time, with an average of seventy\\npupils. The curriculum, however, has so far been only preparatory. The land", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0112.jp2"}, "113": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nis valued at .$25,000, and the buildings, etc., 16,000. The school has done a good\\nwork in qualifying teachers for the public schools.\\nBesides the foregoing colleges, there are the German- American Seminary\\nin Detroit, a Catholic seminary at Monroe, the Michigan Female Seminary at\\nKalamazoo, the Military Academy at Orchard Lake, near Pontiac, and others.\\nLarge numbers of Michigan students study at the college of Notre Dame in St.\\nJoseph County, Indiana.\\nCHARITABLE INSTITUTIONS.\\nNo State in the Union takes better care of her poor than does Michigan. For\\na number of years past, especially under the administrations of Govs. Bagley and\\nGroswell, extraordinary efforts have been made to improve and bring to perfection\\nthe appointments for the poor and dependent.\\nAccording to the report of the Board of State Commissioners for the general\\nsupervision of charitable, penal, pauper and reformatory institutions for 1878, the\\ntotal number in poor-houses of the State was 5,282. For the five years preceding,\\nthe annual rate of increase was four times greater than the increase of population\\nduring that period but that was an exceptionally hard time. The capacity of\\nthe public heart, however, was equal to the occasion, and took such measures as\\nwere effectual and almost beyond criticism for the care of the indigent. At the\\nhead of the charity department of the State stands\\nTHE STATE PUBLIC SCHOOL.\\nIn the year 1870 a commission appointed by the Governor for that purpose,\\nvisited many of the poor-houses in the State, and found a large number of children\\nin them under sixteen years of age, indiscriminately associated with idiots, maniacs,\\nprostitutes and vagrants. Their report recommended the classification of paupers,\\nand especially, that children in the county houses, under sixteen years, should be\\nplaced in a State school. The act establishing the rule was passed in 1871, in con-\\nformity with the recommendation. As amended in 1873, it provides, in substance,\\nthat there shall be received as pupils in such school all neglected and dependent\\nchildren that are over four and under sixteen years of age, and that are in suitable\\ncondition of body or mind to receive instruction, especially those maintained in the\\ncounty poor-houses, those who have been deserted by their parents, or are orphans,\\nor whose parents have been convicted of crime. It is declared to be the object of\\nthe act to provide for such children temporary homes only, until homes can be\\nprocured for them in families. The plans comprehend the ultimate care of all\\nchildren of the class described, and it is made unlawful to retain such children in\\npoor-houses when there is room for them in the State Public School. Dependent\\norphans and half orphans of deceased soldiers and sailors have the preference of\\nnv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0113.jp2"}, "114": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nadmission should there be more applications than room. Provision is made for\\npreserving a record of the parentage and history of each child.\\nThe general Tsupervision of the school is delegated to a Board of Control,\\nconsisting of three members, who are appointed by the Governor, with the advice\\nand consent of the Senate. The Board appoints the superintendent, officers and\\nteachers of the school. One officer is appointed to look up homes for the children\\nto apprentice them, and to keep a general oversight of them by visitation or corre-\\nspondence. To complete the work of this institution, an agent is appointed in each\\ncounty.\\nThe internal government of this school is that known as the family and\\ncongregate combined, the families consisting of about thirty members each, and\\nbeing under the care of cottage managers, ladies whom the children call aunt-\\nies, and who are supposed to care for the children as mothers. Each child of\\nsufficient j ears expected to work three hours every day some work on the farm,\\nsome in the dining-room and kitchen, while others make shoes, braid straw hats,\\nmake their own clothing, work in the bakery, engine room, laundry, etc. They are\\nrequired to attend school three to five hours a day, according to their ages, and\\nthe school hours are divided into sessions to accommodate the work.\\nThe buildings, ten in number, comprise a main building, eight cottages and a\\nhospital, all of brick. Tiie buildings are steam heated, lighted with gas and have\\ngood bathing facilities. There are forty-one acres of land in connection with the\\nschool, and the total value of all the property is about $150,000, furnishing accom-\\nmodation for 240 children.\\nINSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB, AND THE BLIND.\\nThis is located at Flint, sixty miles nearly northwest of Detroit. The act\\nestablishing it was passed in 1848, and the school was first opened in 1854, in a\\nleased building. It is a school in common for deaf mutes, and the blind, rather\\nfrom motives of economy than from any relation which the two classes bear to\\none another. The buildings were commenced in 1853. The principal ones now\\nare: front building, forty-three by seventy-two feet, with east and west wings,\\neach twenty-eight by sixty feet, center building, forty by sixty, and east and west\\nwings, each fifty by seventy feet main school building, fifty-two by fifty-four, with\\ntwo wings, and twenty-five by sixty feet. All of these buildings are four stories\\nhigh center of the front building is five stoi-ies, including basement. There are\\nalso a boiler and engine house, barns, etc. The total value of the buildings is\\nestimated at fo58,045, and of the eighty-eight acres of land occupied, $17,570.\\nThe number of inmates has increased from 94, in 1865, to 225, in 1875. Includ-\\ning the Principal, there are ten teachers employed in the deaf and dumb depart-", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0114.jp2"}, "115": {"fulltext": "JiL\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nment, and four in the blind, besides the Matron and her assistants. Tuition and\\nboard are free to all resident subjects of the State, and the Trustees are authorized\\nto assist indigent subjects in the way of clothing, etc., to the amount of $40 a year.\\nAn annual census of all deaf mutes and blind persons in the State, is officially taken\\nand reported to the overseers of the poor, who are to see that these unfortunate\\nmembers of the human family are properly cared.\\nASYLUM FOR THE INSANE, AT KALAMAZOO.\\nThis institution was established in 1848, and now consists of two departments,\\none for males and the other for females. The capacity of the former is 280, and of\\nthe latter, 300 patients. In their general construction, both buildings are arranged\\nin accordance with the principles laid down by the Association of Medical Superin-\\ntendents of American Institutions for the Insane. The buildings are ot brick, with\\nstone trimmings, and are very substantial, as well as beautiful. The entire cost of\\nl)oth buildings, with all the auxiliary structures, and 195 acres of land, is about\\n$727,173.90. The buildings were constructed during the war and immediately\\nafterward. The asylum was opened in 1859 for the care of patients, and up to\\nOctober 1, 1875, there had been expended for the care and maintenance of patients,\\nexclusive of the cost of construction, 1994,711.32. Indigent patients are received\\nand treated at the asylum at the expense of the counties to which they belong, on\\nthe certification of the county authorities, the average cost of maintenance being\\nabout $4.12+ per week. Pay patients are received when there is room for them,\\nthe minimum price of board being $5 per week.\\nEASTERN ASYLUJI FOR THE INSANE, AT PONTIAC.\\nThese large, beautiful and very modern structures are located upon a farm of\\nupward of 300 acres, and were erected in 1873- 6, at a cost of about $400,000.\\nThe general plans are similar to those at Kalamazoo. They are built of brick, with\\nstone window caps, belt-courses, etc. There are accommodations for not less than\\n300 patients.\\nMichigan pursues a very enlightened policy toward the chronic insane. Pro-\\nvisions have been made for the treatment even of the incurable, so that as much\\ngood as possible may be done even to the most unfortunate. The design is to cure\\nwhenever the nature of the mental malady will permit but failing this, to cease\\nno effort which could minister to the comfort and welfare of the patient.\\nPENAL INSTITUTIONS.\\nThe Detroit House of Correction, although a local institution, is used to a con-\\nsiderable extent as an intermediate prison, to which persons are sentenced by the\\ncourts throughout the State for minor offenses. Women convicted of felonies are", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0115.jp2"}, "116": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nalso sent to this place. The whole number in confinement at this prison for the\\npast decade has averaged a little over 400 at any one time, more males than females.\\nThe average term of confinement is but a little more than two months, and the\\ninstitution is very faithfully conducted.\\nThe State Prison, at Jackson, is one of the best conducted in the Union. The\\ntotal value of the property is $552,113. The earnings of the prison in 1878 were\\n$92,378 number of prisoners, 800. Their work is let to contractors, who employ\\n450 men at different trades. A coal mine has been recently discovered on the\\nprison property, which proves a saving of several thousand dollars per annum to\\ntlie State. The earnings of this prison since Gen. Wm. Humphrey has been War-\\nden (1875), has exceeded its current expenses.\\nThe State Prison at Ionia was established a few years ago, for the reception of\\nconvicts whose crimes are not of the worst type, and those who are young, but too\\nold for the reform school. The ground comprises 53 acres of land, 13A^ of which is\\nenclosed by a brick wall 18 feet high. Estimated value of property, $277,490\\ncurrent expenses for 1878, $45,744 earnings for 1878, $5,892 number of prison-\\ners December 31, 1878, 250 number received during the year, 346.\\nTHE STATE PRISON IN 1880.\\nThe inspectors say that in a pecuniary sense the year has been a prosperous\\none to all the industries connected witii the prison. Contractors have had a demand\\nfor all their products at fair prices and sure pay, and as a consequence contracts due\\nto the State have been promptly paid, and the prison authorities have had none of\\ntlie troubles and anxieties they have sometimes experienced from the failure of\\nprompt payment for prison labor. The general prosperity of the country is shown\\nby the increased and increasing demands for the products of labor. Whether\\nthese products are from the labor or convicts of free men, the consumer does not\\ninquire therefore it is not surprising, but to have been expected, that the prison\\nindustries would share in the general prosperity.\\nThe inspectors report valuation of property as follows\\nReal estate $545,219-55\\nPersonal $48,618.27\\nCash on hand 9.799-82 58,418.09\\nAggregate $603,637.64\\nThe increase over inventory of 1880 is stated at $29,806.95. Of this amount\\n$18,155.45 is credited to real estate, $14,299.88 of which is credited to the expend-\\niture of legislative appropriations, and $3,855.67 to prison earnings. The increase\\nin the valuation of personal property is $11,651.50, which amount came entirely\\nfrom prison labor, showing an aggregate increase from prison labor of $15,507.07.", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0116.jp2"}, "117": {"fulltext": "4.\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nThe net prison earnings for the year are given as $95,129.67, and the expenses\\nfor the same time $84,517.66, showing a balance of earnings over expenses of\\n110,612.01.\\nThe following are the statistics of prisoners for the year\\nNumber October I, 1879 _ 777\\nAdmitted during year 281\\nTotal 1,058\\nDischarged by expiration of sentence. -253\\nDiscliarged by death 5\\nDischarged by order for new trials 2\\nDischarged by order of supreme court 4\\nDischarged by pardon of governor 13\\nEscaped 3\\n280\\nRemaining in prison September 30, 1880.\\nTotal 778\\nThe detailed inventory covers thirty-six pages, and is minute enough to meet\\nthe demands of the most inquisitive investigator into the nature of prison property.\\nDuring the term of its operation this prison has received 7,071 persons, com-\\nmitted for offenses which are covered by 757 titles. Of these 5,097 were convicted\\nfor offenses against property, 988 of offenses against lives and persons of individ-\\nuals, 549 of forgery and counterfeiting, 284 of offenses against chastity, morality\\nand decency, 145 of offenses against public justice, and 8 of unclassified offenses.\\nDuring the last prison year twenty persons were received under conviction of\\noffenses against life, as follows\\nFor murder in the first degree 2\\nFor murder in the second degree 4\\nFor manslaughter 3\\nFor assault with intent to kill Ii\\nTotal 20\\nSTATE REFORM SCHOOL.\\nThis was established at Lansing in 1855, in the northeastern portion of the\\ncity, as the House of Correction for Juvenile Offenders, having about it many\\nfeatures of a prison. In 1859, the name was changed to the State Reform\\nSchool. The government and discipline have undergone many and radical\\nchanges, until all the prison features have been removed, except those that remain in\\ntlie walls of the original structure, and which remain only as monuments of instruc-\\ntive history. No bolts, bars or guards ai-e employed. Tlie inmates are necessa-\\nril} kept under the surveillance of officers, but the attempts at escape are much\\nfewer than under the more rigid regime of former days. This school is for the", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0117.jp2"}, "118": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ndetention, education and reformation of boys between the ages of eight and sixteen\\nyears, who are convicted of light offenses.\\nThe principal building is four stories high, including basement, and has an\\nextreme length of 246 feet, the center a depth of 48 feet, and the wings a depth of\\n33 feet each. Besides, there are two family houses, where the more tractable\\nand less vicious boys form a kind of family, as distinguished from the congregate\\nlife of the institution proper. The boys are required to work half a day and\\nattend school half a day. A farm of 328 acres, belonging to the school, furnishes\\nwork for many of the working boys during the working season. Some are em-\\nployed in making clothing and shoes for the inmates. The only shop-work now\\ncarried on is the cane-seating of chairs formerly, cigars were manufactured here\\nsomewhat extensively. There is no contract labor, but all the work is done by the\\ninstitution itself.\\nThe number of inmates now averages about 200, and are taken care of by a\\nsuperintendent and assistant, matron and assistant, two overseers and six teachers.\\nTHE LAND OFFICE\\nOf this State has a great deal of business to transact, as it has within its jurisdic-\\ntion an immense amount of new land in market, and much more to come in. Dur-\\ning the fiscal year ending September 30, 1877, the total number of acres sold was\\n50,835.72, for $87,968.05, of which $69,800.54 was paid in hand. At that time, the\\namount of land still owned by the State was 3,049,905.46, of wliich 2,430,050.47\\nwere swamp land 447,270.89, primary school 164,402.55, Agricultural College\\n310.26, University 160, Normal School 2,115.63, salt spring 1,840, Asylum\\n32.40, State building 3,342.75, asset, and 380.31, internal improvement. But of\\nthe foregoing, 1,817,084.25 acres, or more than iialf, are not in market.\\nSTATE LIBRARY.\\nTerritorial Library, 1828-1835. The first knowledge that we have of this\\nlibrary, is derived from the records found in the printed copies of the journals and\\ndocuments of the Legislative Councils of the Territory, and in the manuscript\\ncopies of the Executive journals.\\nThe library was established by an act of the Legislative Councils, approved\\nJune 16, 1828, authorizing the appointment of a librarian by the Governor, with\\nadvice and consent of the Council.\\nThe Librarian so appointed was required to take an oath of office and give\\nbond to the Treasurer of the Territory in the sum of 11,000 for the faithful per-\\nformance of his duties his time of service was for two years, or until another be\\nappointed. The librarian was also required to take charge of the halls and com-\\nmittee room, and other property appertaining to the Legislative Council. He was", "height": "2684", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0118.jp2"}, "119": {"fulltext": "^A\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nalso required to make an annual report to the Council, upon the state of the\\nlibrary, and upon all such branches of duty as might from time to time be com-\\nmitted to his charge. For his services he was to receive annually the sum of $100.\\nThe library seemed to have been kept open only during the actual sittings of\\nthe Legislative Council.\\nThe Executive journal, by its records, shows that under tlie provisions of this\\nact, William B. Hunt was appointed Librarian, July 3, 1828, by Gov. Lewis Cass,\\nfor the term of two years. Mr. Hunt continued to act as Librarian until March 7,\\n1834, when Gersham Molt Williams was appointed by Gov. Porter. Mr. Williams\\nseems to have acted as Librarian until the organization of the institution as a State\\nlibrary. The honored names of Henry B. Schoolcraft, Charles Moran, Daniel S.\\nBacon, Calvin Brittain, Elou Farnsvvorth, Charles C. Hascall,and others, are found\\niu the list of the members of the Library Committee.\\nMarch, 1836, the State Library was placed in charge of the Secretary of State\\nin February, 1837, it was given to the care of the private Secretary of the Gov-\\nernor December 28 following, its custody was given to the Governor and Secre-\\ntary of State, with power to appoint a Librarian, and make rules and regulations\\nfor its government. C. C. Jackson acted as the first Librarian for the State. Lewis\\nBond also had the care of the books for a time. Oren Marsh was appointed Libra-\\nrian in 1837, and had the office several years. In March, 1840, the law was again\\nchanged, and the library was placed in the care of the Secretary of State, and the\\nmembers of the Legislature and Executive officers of the State were to have free\\naccess to it at all times.\\nThe library was, of course, increased from time to time by legislative ap-\\npropriations. In 1844, as the result of the efforts of Alexandre Vattemare,\\nfrom Paris, a system of international exchange was adopted.\\nApril 2, 1850, an act was passed requiring the Governor to appoint a State\\nlibrarian with the consent of the Senate, and it was made the duty of the librarian\\nto have the sole charge of the library. This act, with some amendments, still\\nremains in force. It requires the librarian to make biennial reports and catalogues.\\nThe librarians under this act have been: Henry Tisdale, April 2, 1850, to January\\n27, 1851 Charles J. Fox, to July 1, 1853 Charles P. Bush, to December 5, 1854\\nJohn James Bush, to Januar}^ 6, 1855; DeWitt C. Leach, to February 2, 1857;\\nGeorge W. Swift, to January 27, 1859 J. Eugene Tenney, to April 5, 1869, and\\nMrs. Harriet A. Tenney, to the present time. This lady has proved to be one of\\nthe best librarians in the United States. She has now in her charge about 60,000\\nvolumes, besides thousands of articles in the new and rapidly growing museum\\ndepartment. She is also secretary of the Pioneer Society of the State of Michi-\\ngan, and has charge of the books, papers and relics collected by that society.\\nsfV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0119.jp2"}, "120": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nThe library and these museums are now kept in the new State Capitol at Lansing,\\nin a series of rooms constructed for the purpose, and are all arranged in the most\\nconvenient order and with the neatest taste.\\nSTATE FISHERIES.\\nVery naturally, the denser population of the white race, as it took possession\\nof this wild country, consumed what they found already abundant long before\\nthey commenced to renew the stock. It was so with the forests it was so with\\nthe fish. An abundance of good variety of fish was found in all our rivers and\\nlittle lakes by the early settlers, but the abundance was gradually reduced until\\nthese waters were entirely robbed of their useful inhabitants. Scarcely a thouglit\\nof restocking the inland waters of this State was entertained until the Spring of\\n1873, when a board of fish commissioners was authorized by law; and while the people\\ngenerally still shook their heads in skepticism, the board went on with its duty until\\nthese same people are made glad with the results. Under the efficient superintend-\\nency of Geo. H. Jerome, of Niles, nearly all the lakes and streams within the\\nlower peninsula have been more or less stocked with shad, white-fish, salmon or\\nlake trout, land-locked or native salmon, eel, etc., and special efforts are also made\\nto propagate that beautiful and useful fish, the grayling, whose home is in the\\nManistee and Muskegon rivers. Much more is hoped for, however, than is yet real-\\nized. Like every other great innovation, many failures must be suffered before the\\nbrilliant crown of final success is won.\\nThe value of all the property employed in fish propagation in the State is but\\na little over f 4,000, and the total expenses of conducting the business from Decem-\\nber 1, 1876, to July 1, 1877, were 114,000. The principal hatcheries are at Detroit\\nand Pokagon.\\nCHAPTER VIII.\\nSTATE SOCIETIES.\\nOrganization is the first great means necessary to the accomplishment of any\\nproject. In this respect Michigan is peculiarly fortunate. Every class seems to\\nhave its organization, and to observe the rules adopted. Among the first bodies of\\nthe State the Pioneer Society of Micliigan holds, perhaps, the highest place. The\\nofScers of the society retain all that-energy of character which marked their earlier\\nyears; members, generally, take a deep interest in the government of the body, and\\nthus a promise is given of the continued existence of a noble organization.\\nTHE PIONEER SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN\\nWas organized in 1875. Its roll of members contains 408 names, each of which is\\nreferred to m the following table", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0120.jp2"}, "121": {"fulltext": "P\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\ni\\na\\n.a\\n1\\nQ\\ni\\n1\\nJuly 1,1831.\\n1886.\\n1838.\\nMay 8. 1838.\\nNovember 5. 1844.\\nMay 4, 1837.\\nJune. 1843.\\nApril 24. 1825.\\nApril. 1836.\\nNov. 5. 1831.\\nSeptember 10. 1825.\\nJune?, 1838.\\n1834.\\nJunel, 1836.\\nMarch 27. 1836.\\nOctober 15, 1835.\\nJuly, 1839.\\nJune, 1833.\\n1840.\\nFehnntry. 1835.\\nNovember 11. 1831.\\nMay 10. 1834\\nNovember 20. 1852\\nMay 21. 1836.\\nNovember 10, 1840.\\nJ,^\\\\ emberl2,1837.\\nApril, 1840.\\nMay. 1836.\\nOctober. 1841.\\nJuly. 1837.\\nAugust. 1836.\\nMay, 1888.\\nSeptember, 1843.\\n1843.\\nJuly. 1837.\\nSeptembers. 1835.\\nJmie. 1830.\\nOctober. 1824.\\nSeptember, 1843.\\nJune, 1836.\\nSeptember. 1835.\\nJune, 1837.\\nApril, 1835.\\nMay, 1837.\\nSeptember 6, 18 89.\\nNovembers. 1631.\\n5, 1831.\\nMay 14, 1834.\\n14, 1834.\\n11, 1836.\\nJune. 1828.\\nJanuary 9, 1846.\\nApril 30. 1819.\\nMay. 1825.\\n3. 1831.\\nAugust 1, 1832\\n.laiiuaryk 1840.\\nAugust 3, 1837.\\nMay, 1885.\\n1836.\\nc\\n3\\nO\\ni I i 1 i os ;s 1\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00c2\u00a7i\u00c2\u00a7 M^ Z r-. Z -A\\nI a\\nliVaiiiii.\\nWayne\\nKent..\\nMonroe\\nSt. Joseph\\nOakland!\\nLivingston\\nWayne\\nIonia\\nHillsdale\\nLenawee\\nOakland\\nClinton\\nKalamazoo\\nWayne\\nLenawee\\nWashtenaw\\nHillsdale\\nIngham\\nMmiroe\\nCalhoun\\nOakland\\nKalamazoo\\nCalhoun\\nOakland!!!!!!!!!\\nWashtenaw\\nLenawee\\nOakland\\nWayne\\nOakland\\nGenesee\\n.lackson\\nKalamazoo\\nWayne\\ns\\nFlint\\nTecuniseh\\nMarshall\\nJackson\\nGrass Lake\\nAlaieilon\\nDetroit\\nAlaiedon\\nFarmlngton\\nScio\\nScbooleraft\\nAnn Arbor\\nJohnstown\\nSaline\\nPlymouth\\nPortland\\nAlbion\\nBrushy Prairie..\\nDetroit\\nlasaiii\\nIonia\\nAuburn\\nEssex\\niii\u00c2\u00abil N-ill\\na\\nMay 10, 1810\\nJune 18, 1816\\nNov. 19, 180b\\nOct. 20, 1809\\nJan, 7, 1814\\nFeb. 4, 1883\\nMay 4, 1817\\nFeb. 7. 1827\\nMay 11, 1808\\nFeb. 20, 1831\\nApril 16, 1809\\nOct. 5, 1817\\nMay 21, 1823\\nOct. 14, 1819\\nOct. 15, 1815\\nApril 3. 1613\\nSept, 80, 1815\\nFeb, 80. 1889\\nept, 16. 1807\\nApril 1, 1834\\nSfpl. 85. 1809\\nFell, 11, 1804\\nAll] il 1-8. 1830\\niMar. 87. 1831\\nMar. 13. 1818\\nFeb. 1, 1809\\nJuly 24. 1832\\nDec. 84,1817\\nSept. 1, 1811\\nAug, 10, 1810\\nSept. 8, 1822\\nNov. 15, 1816\\nMay 12, 1825\\nJan. 6. 1818\\nJan. 13, 1818\\nMar, 11, 1810\\nMay 20, 1813\\nOct. 31, 1885\\nAug. 9, isiiu\\nJan. 8, I -ii\\nDec. 5. 1-1. 1\\nJan. 6. 1 1\\nMar. 6, 1 1\\nJuly 18, 1-\\nAug. 1, 1-1\\nNov. 21, 1-.\\nDec. 9, 1-\\nJan. 18. iMii\\nJune 15. K .i\\nApril 29. 1797\\nNov. 4. 1800\\nMay 22, 1810\\nSept. 22, 1810\\nFeb. 11, 1814\\nMay 4, 1886\\nJune 80, 183-..\\nMar. 5, 1794\\nJan. 11, 179h\\nMay 17.1809\\nAug. 16, 1888\\nMar. 8, 1809\\nJan. 23, 1809\\nFeb. 10. 1820\\nVug. 33. 179(1\\na\\na.\\n2\\nNew York\\nVermont\\nNew York\\nMassachusetts\\nMassachusetts\\nNew York\\nVermont\\nMassachusetts\\nConnecticut\\nNew York\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0Vermont\\nNew York\\nVermont\\nNew Jersey\\nit;;!\\ng Z\\nMassachusetts\\nOhio\\nNew York\\nVermont\\nNew York\\nConnecticut!!!!!!!!!\\nNew York\\nMassachusetts\\nNew York\\nPennsylvania\\nConnecticut\\nVermont\\nNew York\\nVermont\\nMassachusetts\\nrt-\\nSidney Plains, Delaware Co....\\n:Iadley, Saratoga Co\\nSangerlield\\nCamlllus\\nDansville\\nNorth Castle\\nShankakln\\nSullivan\\nCovington\\nLodi\\nRussell\\nGalen\\nEast Bloomneld\\nCanuteu\\nJohnstown, Montgomery Co....\\nSallna\\nNew Haven\\nSaudisfield\\nHatavia\\nAuburn\\nNewburgh\\n.Mount Pleasan t\\nAttica\\nMoravia\\nSi inierset\\nRutland\\nIra. Cayuga Co\\nNew Baltimore\\n1 unbridge\\nMiinson\\n\\\\N iiidsor\\nKii-hiand\\n1 ..vington\\nStillwater\\nMansfield\\nWindsor\\nBethlehem\\nAthens\\nZ\\nWitter J. Baxter\\nOliver C. Comstock\\nD.Johnson\\nH.H.Bingham\\nRandolph Strickland\\nEphraim Longyear\\nFIrastusS. Ingersoll\\nW. W. Mitchell\\nEbenezer Lakin Brown\\nDavid Scott\\nHenry P. Cherry\\nSm 1 th looker\\nLeviBlshop\\n^Iplllllii lll^\\nI I |A g. i\\ni i il i i i i: i M i i i i i\\n:-5 |W 1 i I\\n55i6SSs55zSH^3Sc==i-. =^-=^sj=.?-S3 jz+i4\\n1\\n-Nra.ii.o;o 1-000=0^2222\\ngS32r,r,\\nI z^iTiufi ift?\\n^imfin^t^\\nCO CO TT .g. Ti- TT m- -r Tp -r o L-^ ..o o o o u", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0121.jp2"}, "122": {"fulltext": ".k\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nV\\noSSg j.-SooS^ggSgSa\\n^M-jQhJOfa^OccQQ\\ny,lLt 5-f^-? I\\ngz |gz; -zgg-ggz ^z\\n^-3-5-:a ;gg-:0 -5a^a-50 ^..3:Z3:^\\nSzS oz Sz; SSozSz z sz oioZoZiSzzilzMZ\\nzo gago^jQo\u00c2\u00b0G\u00c2\u00a3!BH\u00c2\u00a3oawa^^gi3^g\u00c2\u00a3ai\u00c2\u00a3Sagphi5o^MiSg\u00c2\u00a3g:f.:4\\nIPl=^-lI-\\n4)rtja\\ns-sasgoo-\\nS ;g\\n1^", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0122.jp2"}, "123": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKY OP MICHIGAN.\\nr\\nIt\\n:o i I io I i iS\\nSrt o s.r:^ o 5- rtoi.= :e a =-ca s:- o= o 0^:=-:^\\ni=1/ir-li2i|ll.i\u00c2\u00a7\u00c2\u00abl= isl i^ll^ ll-s \u00c2\u00ab^i\u00c2\u00bbisi|2i|3ii||i|= III; a:::|p:-2|:|\\nsis n|. \u00c2\u00a7|\u00c2\u00a5-2|g. |J*i| \u00c2\u00a71-\\nz z az 3ga5 z zzzgz ;jz\\ni:z zSz g zazg z o !g z z o^\\notBo\\na-S xMtgS^^5gaxS\u00c2\u00a3;^5o-Z \u00c2\u00a33o ;\u00c2\u00a3Hp^ ^\u00c2\u00a3zM5a3a5az-Jz^-^aaMa5zSo5grlxJi^3ai5ai\\nS\u00c2\u00ab\\n-a-\\n-g a! 2\\n-i-.^dia-;.?ai:.?S- S Sg2ro5M5555:5o^DS5Maa\\n7i", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0123.jp2"}, "124": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nZ S-;n Ki ^s\\nI sl S.giic.iS c.slsg\\nS .OT-r.z y;*? \u00c2\u00b0d ^lg- g\\nq^5pSoSo- IS^aKoSSo fe \u00c2\u00a3ji Sfe\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0a\\nS\u00c2\u00ab\\ni :J\\n:i\\\\\\\\\\\\\\n;i|i!fi!l\\nc\\ni.\\nc\\nOrchard I\\nSault Ste.\\nEureka...\\nHomer...\\nAllegan..\\nHomer...\\nBrooklyn\\nEckford\\nQulncy...\\nJ\\nIII\\n5tt\\n11\\n1\\nrtH\\n1\\nr*oi.-io^rH^t-TrO\\nzs z gzSSzS Z\\n:iiS^QgS5s;.S\\nlSSeJfe oo3-i.Oa.o-J\\ni2 M\\nV", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0124.jp2"}, "125": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nr\\n13. .-IS: =_=:|l=,5g\u00c2\u00a3|: :S-\u00e2\u0080\u009e-\\n\u00c2\u00bbo05a;=:\\nzSo45^\u00c2\u00b1l5t5\\nSs z cz\\nl \u00c2\u00a7zzgz o\u00c2\u00a7z zz 8z z\u00c2\u00b0i -zi^^iz az a-Sz\\n-r! H.Z r r^ l^i^-.rtal^S^v^fe^tS^^,^-^? -t: r i-r. l^.\\nrv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0125.jp2"}, "126": {"fulltext": "ik\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\n^5SSo6 35\u00c2\u00ab= i;2\\n00 00\\nS aa ;ga aaa^^ ^jm ^gai^a Hwalaa^^^^^ s^oj^-^ moS^ k ^^j\\n_ |*:\u00c2\u00a3sai^\\na5 ^rj .^j.g/CM-;z- gi^S^ ^5:igfe,qaxoa..? ;a.^h.:; -a^ga.-^a.ii. ^ai36a 4o^^ -50S^z- ^sa-\\n-o^t^ iSJ*\u00c2\u00a7 I\\niJ ia\\niiM-UiMi^fiiU", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0126.jp2"}, "127": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKY OF MICHIGAN.\\n^teV\\ng\\n1=1\\na i\\n1\\nc\\nH^S-:3aa -ja-c go-ij aacy\\noggogg .g- gaiSh^- ;oo^o\\nZ6SZi-?:Z Z Z S ZZ\\n:a :c if^ :J i i ^3\\n.ji :I :g :i :g\u00c2\u00bb\\ng 5 -Sgolsi sic sills\\nQm zwaajgaofa-i^azouo\\n==:-s-ja", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0127.jp2"}, "128": {"fulltext": "Iht^\\nailSTOUY OF MICHIGAN.\\nTHE FIRST HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF MICHIGAN\\nWas incorporated under authority given in the Act of June 23, 1828, with Lewis\\nCass, Henry Whiting, John Biddle, Gabriel Richard, Noah M. Wells, Richard F.\\nCadle, Isaac M Ilvain, Zara H. Coston, Austin E. Wing, Thomas Rowland, John L.\\nWhiting, Henry S. Cole, Jonathan Kearsley, Samuel W. Dexter, Zina Pitcher,\\nEdwin P. James, Henry R. Schoolcraft, and Charles C. Trowbridge, charter\\nmembers.\\nTHE STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY\\nIs distinct from the State Agricultural Board, the latter being simply an executive\\nover the Agricultural College under the laws of tlie State. The former was organ-\\nized at Lansing, March 23, 1849, and was especially incorporated by Act of April\\n2 following, since which time it has numbered among its officers and executive\\nmembers some of tlie foremost men of the State. It has held annual fairs in various\\nplaces, and the number of entries for premiums has risen from 623 to several\\nthousands, and its receipts from $808.50 to $58,780. The premiums offered and\\nawarded have increased proportionally.\\nSTATE POMOLOGICAL SOCIETY.\\nAt an informal meeting of several gentlemen in Grand Rapids, Feb. 11, 1870,\\nit was resolved to organize a State pomological society, and at an adjourned meet-\\ning on the 26th of the same month, the organization was perfected, and the first\\nofficers elected were H. G. Saunders, president S. S. Fuller, treasurer, and A.\\nT. Linderman, secretary. The society was incorporated April 15, 1871, for the\\npurpose of promoting pomology, horticulture, agriculture, and kindred sciences\\nand arts. During the first two j^ears monthly meetings were required, but in\\n1872 quarterly meetings were substituted. It now has a room in the basement of\\nthe new capitol. T. T. Lyon, of South Haven, is president, and Charles W. Gar-\\nfield, of Grand Rapids, secretary. Under the supervision of this society, Michigan\\nled the world in the centennial exposition at Philadeljjhia in the exhibition of Winter\\napples. The contributions of this society to pomological literature are also richer\\nthan can be found elsewhere in the United States.\\nTHE MICHIGAN STATE FIREMEN S ASSOCIATION\\nWas organized April 13, 1875, at Battle Creek, for the protection and promotion\\nof the best interests of the firemen of Michigan, the compilation of fire statistics,\\nthe collection of information concerning the practical working of different systems\\nof organization, the examination of the merits of the different kind of fire appar-\\natus in use and the improvement in the same, and the cultivation of a fraternal\\nfellowship between the different companies in the State. The association holds\\nV", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0128.jp2"}, "129": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nits meetings annually at various places in the State, and as often publish their pro-\\nceedings in pamphlet form.\\nSTATE BOARD OP PUBLIC HEALTH.\\nThis board was established in 1873, and consists of seven members, appointed\\nby the Governor, the Secretary ex officio, a member and principal executive officer.\\nIt is tjie duty of this board to make sanitary investigations and inquiries respecting\\nthe causes of disease, especially of epidemics; the causes of mortality, and the\\neffects of localities, employments, conditions, ingesta, habits and circumstances on\\nthe health of the people to advise other officers in regard to the location, drain-\\nage, water supply, disposal of excreta, heating and ventilation of any public build-\\ning and also to advise all local health officers concerning their duties, and to\\nrecommend standard works from time to time on hygiene for the use of public\\nschools. The secretary is required to collect information concerning vital statistics,\\nknowledge respecting diseases, and all useful information on the subject of hygiene,\\nand through an annual report, and otherwise, as the board may direct, to dissem-\\ninate such information among the people. These interesting duties have been\\nperformed by Dr. Henry B. Baker from the organization of the board to the present\\ntime. The board meets quarterly at Lansing.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nMICHIGAN AND ITS RESOURCES.\\nThe pig metal produced by the upper peninsula furnaces during the year 1880\\nhad an approximate market value of $1,941,000 and the whole of the total output of\\nthe Lake Superior iron mines for that year was about $19,500,000. The aggregate\\nproduct of these furnaces and mines between the date of the Jackson discovery\\nand the close of the last calendar year was more than $118,000,000. The product\\nof 1881 promises to exceed $20,000,000 in value.\\nTHE IRON AND STEEL INDUSTRIES.\\nIn what are called the iron and steel industries including in these terms\\nfurnaces, rolling mills, steel-works, forges and bloomaries, and excluding mines\\nMichigan ranked as the eighth State in 1880 according to the figures collected for\\nthe United States census of that 3^ear. It was surpassed by Pennsylvania, Ohio,\\nNew York, Illinois, New Jersey, Wisconsin and West Virginia. Its increase in this\\nproduction from 1870 to 1880 was sixty-five per cent., and the totals of the returns\\nfor 1880 were as follows", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0129.jp2"}, "130": {"fulltext": "At-\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nHISTORY OF MICHIGAN.\\nNumber of establishments. _ 22\\nAmount of capital invested 4,175,386\\nNumberof employ 6s 3,089\\nTotal of wages paid to employes in iSSo $922,597\\nValue of materials used in 1880 $3,279420\\nValue of the total product of 18S0 $4,591,613\\nWeight of the product of 1880 (in net tons) 142.716\\nWeight of the product of 1879 (in net tons) 86,679\\nTHE COPPER PRODUCT.\\nAt the close of 1880 the Lake Superior copper districts had produced $301,654\\ntons of refined copper valued at 8142,616,137. The total output of that year was\\n24,869 tons valued at $9,947,673, which was taken from thirty mines. The pro-\\nduction of 1881 will surpass that of any previous year. A paragraph which\\nappeared in an upper peninsula newspaper stating that the net earnings of the\\nLake Superior copper mines for the first half of the year 1881 exceed those of any\\nprecious metal mining state or territory in the Union, was submitted for verifica-\\ncation to Eastern mining authorities, and elicited in reply the following statement,\\nfully substantiating tlie assertion of the newspaper relerred to. The figures given\\nshow the net earnings of the gold, silver and copper mines of the States and terri-\\ntories embraced in them for the first six months of 1881\\nCalifornia 998,000\\nNevada 791,250\\nUtah 375,000\\nArizona 900,000\\nDakota 560,000\\nColorado 962,000\\nMontana 240,000\\nGeorgia 8,000\\nMichigan... 1,410,000\\nTotal $6,244,250\\nTHE PRODUCTS OF A YEAR.\\nThe natural products of the State in 1879 the latest year concerning which\\nstatistics are complete were estimated by Gov. Jerome in his message to the leg-\\nislature at the beginning of 1881, to amount to a valuation of nearly $170,000,000,\\nmade up of the following items\\nAgricultural products $88, 500,000\\nTimber 60,000,000\\nCopper 8,000,000\\nIron 10,000,000\\nSalt 2,000,000\\nFish 1,000,000\\nf", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0130.jp2"}, "131": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMICHIGAN CKOPS FOE 1881.\\nReturns received from 913 correspondents, located in 664 townships in Decem-\\nber. 1881, show the estimated acreage and condition of wheat sowed in 1881 as\\ncompared with 1880, the estimated yield in 1881 of corn, clover seed, and potatoes,\\nand tlie condition (as regards flesh) of cattle and sheep on Dec. 1, as compared\\nwith Dec. 1, 1880. The estimates show that the present acreage sown in 1880 by\\ntwo per cent and in tlie counties north of the southern tiers by six per cent., indi-\\ncating a probable acreage in the State of about 1,834,529 acres. The condition\\nDec. 1 in the southern four tiers of counties was about 132 per cent., and in the\\nnorthern counties about 117 per cent., of the condition Dec. 1, 1880. This excel-\\nlent showing is supplemented in numerous instances by statements that the wheat\\npresents an unusually fine appearance, having started well and obtained large\\ngrowth. The white grub and Hessian fly are reported present in various localities,\\nbut while they undoubtedly did injure individual fields, the repo^-ts do\\nnot indicate that their ravages noticeably affected the aggregate product of the\\nState. Wheat seldom, if ever, has gone into the Winter in better condition than this\\nyear.\\nThe yield of corn in 1881 is estimated at 40,460,901 bushels of ears, or about\\n20,230,450 bushels of shelled corn. Tliese figures are based on the acreage as esti-\\nmated in September, and the yield per acre as estimated in December. At tlie date\\nof making the reports but a small portion of the clover seed had been hulled, and\\ncorrespondents in the counties in the southern part of the State, and in Grand\\nTraverse and Newaygo counties in the northern section, report the clover seed\\ngreatly damaged by the wet weather, many fields being entirely ruined. Some of\\nthem estimate one-fourth of the crop destroyed. One correspondent in Cass\\nreported fifteen per cent, rotting in the fields, and another thinks not a bushel will\\nbe saved in liis township.\\nTiie yield of potatoes is estimated at fifty-five bushels per acre in the southern\\nand 109 bushels in the northern counties.\\nThe average condition (as regards flesh) of cattle in the southern four tiers of\\ncounties is about the same, and of sheep two per cent, better, wiiile in tlie northern\\ncounties tlie average of each is about seven per cent, better than on Dec. 1,\\n1880.\\nThe following statement shows the Population for 1880, Number of Acres of\\nLand Assessed in 1881, Aggregate of Real and Personal Estate as Assessed in 1881,\\nAggregate of Real and Personal Estate as Equalized by Boards of Supervisors for\\n1881, Amount Added or Deducted by State Board of Equalization, Aggregate of\\nReal and Personal Estate as Equalized by State Board of Equalization for\\n1881:\\n9\\nK*", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0131.jp2"}, "132": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCOUNTIES.\\ni Aggregate of Real\\nand Personal\\nEstate, as As-\\nsessed iu 1881.\\nAggregate of Real\\nand Personal\\nEstate, as\\nEqualized by\\nLHiount Added or\\nUedcicted by State\\nBoard of Equali-\\nAgeregateofReal\\nand Personal\\nEstate as Equal-\\nized by .State\\nBoard of Equal-\\nlization for 1881.\\nCliarlevoi\\nCbeboyga\\nChippewa\\nOn\\nlago\\nOseeola.\\n(isoo.la\\n(itsego\\nPivsqi ii-isie\\nsiiiiilac-\\nTus\\nepb.\\nWaslili^na\\nWaviir....\\nWixford.,\\nTotal\\n3.107\\n37,806\\n8.789\\n5.a37\\n1,804\\n25,319\\n38,081\\n3.433\\n3B.780\\na7,941\\n38.4. j!J\\naa.OOB\\n5,114\\nt),5S4\\n5,a43\\n4.187\\n27,534\\n1.159\\nB,812\\n31, 223\\nB,t)40\\n39,219\\n1.127\\n8,422\\n21.937\\n.32,726\\n22,473\\n20,089\\n33,B7-\\n33,872\\n42,031\\n34,342\\n2,9;:\\n73.252\\n4.270\\n3.233\\n30,138\\nB.2d3\\n48.348\\n22,251\\n2,902\\n31,B27\\n12,533\\n1,334\\n25,393\\n10,063\\n13,973\\n11.988\\n6.894\\n1.553\\n33,623\\n33,148\\n26,586\\n14,688\\n41,537\\n11,699\\n1,914\\n2.565\\n10,777\\n467\\n1,974\\n33.125\\n3.113\\n1,469\\n59,095\\n26,341\\n1,575\\n27,059\\n4B,197\\n26.626\\n25,739\\n30.B07\\n41.848\\n1,636,336 29,306,820,20\\n2.492,537,00\\n9.652,330.00\\n3.016.5U8.50\\n2,162,872.11\\n639,656.00\\n11.332.459.00\\n12.901. 1S3. 00\\n1.205.586.00\\n12.91K.4:i4.00\\n10,261.965.09\\n19,527.765.00\\n13.667.602.00\\n1,631,271.00\\n2.761. 83V1.00\\n1,558.071.00\\n2,377,681.00\\n16.631.293.00\\n935,244.05\\nl2. 562, 796.o6\\n825,893.01)\\n19,166.661.00\\n1.022.900.00\\n2,439 964.00\\n7.126,921.00\\n17.912.619.00\\n1.619,589.00\\n4,661.982.00\\n8.872.448.00\\n18.901.030.00\\n2.475.991.62\\n18,016 252.00\\n619.263.13\\n1.921.i.r4l\\n12,136,604.00\\n12.355.417.00\\n1,403.953.\\n16.010.686.\\n1,686,782.00\\n3. i2i 480.b 6\\n3.166.244.80\\n2,868.075.80\\n1,757.862.25\\n2.113.221.00\\n1.519.658.44\\n14,952.990.00\\n9,366,171.00\\n1.211,247.00\\n3,586,559.00\\n2.508,083.00\\n24.432.277.00\\n1.736,393.00\\n905,693.01\\n1,414.972.00\\n1,897.220.00\\n749,468.00\\n1.102.548.00\\n6,833.087.00\\n1.029.825.99\\n1,176.732.14\\n20,914.101.00\\n3.899,273.00\\n2,481.034.41\\n11.937,044.00\\n13,653.363.00\\n15,994,663.00\\n7,712,647.00\\n12.697.438.00\\n29,024,665.00\\n110,693,130.00\\n1,935,864.00\\nS669,344.2 8 3.55\\n1,021.494.00\\n13.0141,937.00\\n10.155,1)110,011\\nAdd\\nAdd\\nAdd\\nAdd\\n12,000.000.001 Add\\n836.393.00 Add\\n19,115,427.71 Add\\n1.059,095.00 Aild\\n9,25.5,301.00\\n19,084,537,00\\n2,480,307.00\\n18,013.210.00\\n1,537,558.44 Add\\n15,213,276.60 Add\\n8.490,000.00 Add\\n3,9l)l..2,)4.UU\\n1.934,705.00\\n11.010.000.00\\n11.141.078.00\\n16.103,848.00\\n,Vdd\\nAdd\\nAdd\\nA(U1\\nS 7.473.00\\n4,196.600.00\\n600,000.011\\n262,317.76\\n660,344,00\\n1,694.709.00\\n7,000,000.00\\n478.606.00\\n1.958.063.00\\n.345\\n4,000,000.00\\n1,163.607.00\\n1,884,572.29\\n140,90;\\n474, 1-;.-\\nssii, II 1,1\\n5, 057^800. liO\\n1,069,249.00\\n838,000.00\\n900.000.00\\n100,000.00\\n17,744,699.00\\n3,915,463.00\\n978,442.00\\n692,780.00\\n250.632.00\\n565,295.00\\n2.490,000.00\\n3.858.922.00\\n1,896,152.00\\nt 2.,500,000.00\\n13.600,000.00\\n3,100.000.00\\n2,600.000.00\\n1.300,000.00\\n18.000.000.00\\n18,000.000.00\\n1.500.000. 00\\n16.000,000,00\\n1.00\\n24,:\\n.00\\n$654,005,885,421\\n2.0110.01)0.00\\n2.500.000.00\\n16.000.000.00\\n1.200.000.00\\n2.500,000.00\\n16.0IIO.()0(l.OO\\n2.0IHI,UOO.IIO\\n7,000.000.00\\n21.000.000.00\\n2.500.000.00\\n5.000,000.00\\n4,000.000,00\\n1011.000.00\\n27,OOI),01IO.OO\\n23.0110,000.00\\n2,500.000.00\\n33.000.000.00\\n800.000.00\\n2.000.000.00\\n13.000,000.00\\n1.000.000.00\\n27.500.000.00\\n15.000.000.00\\n2.600,000.00\\n15,000,000.00\\n3.500,000.00\\n250,000.00\\n6,000,000.00\\n2.500.000.00\\nl..Mrii.iHlll.0O\\n2,0011.1100,00\\n2.500.000.00\\n1.0110.000.00\\n1.500,000,00\\n8.500.000.00\\n1.250,000.00\\n1.600.000.00\\n25.000.000.00\\n5.000.000.00\\n2,500,000.00\\n18,500,000.00\\n15.000,000.00\\n18,000,000.00\\nH.llllO.IIOO.OO\\n$810,000,000.00\\nr", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0132.jp2"}, "133": {"fulltext": "ih^\\nHISTORY OF ^lACOMB COUNTY.\\nTHE VESSEL INTEREST.\\nAccording to the tonnage statistics of the United States for the date of June\\n30, 1880 (as given in tlie American almanac for 1881), not one of the States located\\naway from the ocean coast equals Michigan in the number of vessels owned by its\\ncitizens or in their aggregate tonnage. The exact figures are given in this table\\nState. No. of Total\\nvessels. tonnage.\\nMichigan _ 979 162, ig6\\nIllinois 459 86,634\\nWisconsin _-_ 383 74.083\\nOhio 485 139.509\\nMissouri- _ 319 141.975\\nMichigan also surpasses, in this respect, the seaboard States of Connecticut,\\nNew Hampshire, Rhode Island and Oregon, and all the cotton and gulf States,\\nwhile it far outstrips in tonnage both Virginia and Maryland, although surpassed\\nby them in the number of vessels. It exceeds California in the number of its\\nvessels, but not in the tonnage total. The coast line of Michigan is only surpassed\\nby that of Florida, and it has ports upon four of the great lakes. Its coasting\\ntraides exceedingly valuable, and its vessel interest represents much capital and\\nnterprise, and deserves an important place in a catalogue of its sources of employ-\\nment for labor. In this connection the fact should be mentioned that ship yards\\nare located at Detroit, Wyandotte, Port Huron, Bay City, Marine City, St. Clair,\\nGrand Haven and other shore towns and ports.\\nTHE GROWTH OF FORTY YEARS.\\nA subject of such vital interest demands the first attention of every agricul-\\ntural society and every agriculturist in the State, and to present at a glance the\\ngrowth and magnitude of the industry, we have prepared from authentic sources, a\\nlittle table showing the acreage, the yield per acre, when possible, and the aggre-\\ngate bushels grown at intervals for the last forty j^ears\\nYears. Acres. Yield per Acre. Bushels.\\n1839 2,157,100\\n1849 492,580 10 4,925,800\\n1S53 473.451 15 71I28.104\\n1859 8,313,200\\n1S63 843,881 II 9,688,672,\\n1869 16,295,772\\n1873 1,134,484 13 3-5 15,456,202\\n1876 1,223,212 --I3ji ..16,885,179\\n1877 1,312,352 18 23.793.039\\n187S 1,523,841.. 18 28,000,000\\ni", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0133.jp2"}, "134": {"fulltext": "132 HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nLEADING THE VAN.\\nOut of tlie nine wheat States which outranked Micliigan in 1840, she has out-\\nstripped all but Ohio, Indiana and Illinois, while Iowa, Minnesota, Wisconsin and\\nCalifornia have, within the last few years, shot forward into the front rank. Cora-\\npared with these great States, the Lower Peninsula surpasses them all save Indi-\\nana, area for area, in wheat production, and were it possible to compare the pro-\\nportion of land under cultivation in the two States, there can be no doubt but it\\nwould surpass Indiana, also. The State motto might well read If vou seek the\\nAmerican wheat peninsula, look around you.\\nThe table also reveals the surprising fact that while the aggregate product of\\nwheat in Michigan has doubled about every ten years, the average yield per acre\\nhas increased from ten bushels, in 1849, to eighteen bushels, in 1877. The causes\\nfor this most gratifying result are not far to seek. It is due to the greater care of\\nfarmers in selecting seed to the introduction of new varieties, such as the Claw-\\nson, which yields better than its predecessors to irajDroved machinery and methods\\nof drilling and harvesting and to an increase of live stock, and consequent increase\\nof fertilization. Tlie increase in the aggregate is due mainly, to the rapid settle-\\nment and clearing up of the country, and tliere is no reason to sujipose that the\\nincrease will be seriously checked until the millions of acres of wild lands are\\nfinally brought under cultivation. What the limit will be, must be left to conjec-\\nture.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Fls", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0134.jp2"}, "135": {"fulltext": "J^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCHAPTER X.\\nINTRODUCTION.\\nHe who would deserve a place in the memory of posterity, must collate and\\npreserve the history of the acts and times of his ancestors. It is the duty of Jus-\\ntice to hand down the Past and Present to the people of the Future. It is the\\nduty of the Present to commemorate the Past, to perpetuate the names of the\\npioneers, to furnish a record of their early settlement, to relate the story of their\\nprogress. The civilization of our day, the enlightenment of the age, and the\\nsolemn bond which binds us to our ancestry, demand that a record of tlieir lives\\nand deeds should be made. In local history is found a power to instruct man by\\nprecedent, to enliven the mental faculties, and to waft down the river of time, a\\nsafe vessel, in which the names and actions of the people, who contributed to\\nraise this country from its primitive state, may be preserved. Surely and rapidly,\\nthe great old men, who in their prime entered the wildernesses of this Peninsula,\\nand claimed the virgin soil as their heritage, are passing to their graves. The\\nnumber remaining, who can relate the history of the first days of settlement, is\\nbecoming small indeed, so that an actual necessity exists for the collection and pre-\\nservation of historical matter without delay. Not only is it of the greatest\\nimportance to render the history of the pioneer times full and accurate but it\\nis almost equally essential that the history of the county from the earliest times,\\ndown to our own day, should be treated through its various phases, so that a record,\\ncomplete and impartial, may be handed down to the future. If this information\\nis not now collated and compiled in historical form, the generations of the future will\\nbe called upon to expend large sums of money in research and exploration. The\\npresent the iron age of progress is reviewed, standing out in bold relief over\\nthe quiet, unostentatious olden times it is a brilliant record which shall live as\\nlong as language lives.\\nThe good works of men, their magnificent enterprises, their lives, whether com-\\nmercial or military, do not sink into oblivion but, on the contrary, grow brighter\\nwith age, and contribute to build up a record, destined to carry with it precedents\\nand principles, that will be advanced and observed, when the acts of soulless men\\nsliall be forgotten, and their names like themselves end in their graves. History\\nte^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0135.jp2"}, "136": {"fulltext": "jjs\\n134 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nentwines itself with the names of the notorious as well as with those of the illus-\\ntrious, whenever the former are held up for the scorn, and the latter for the admira-\\ntion of men, there, the pen of impartiality may be traced for never yet was the\\nwriter true to his conscience or to his country who clothed the wolf in the fleece\\nof the lamb, or who, by sophistry, painted a coward as a hero.\\nIn the pages devoted to the history of Macomb County, the useful man and\\nhis work will have that prominence, to which his physical and moral courage\\nentitle him. It is a necessity that the names of such men sliould be transmitted\\nbecause many of them, whose lives made material for this work, have passed\\ninto eternity others stand on the brink of tlie grave. Tiiose who have joined\\nthe majority, as well as these who are soon to visit the Better Land, have done\\ngood service, claiming as their reward here, the only boon, that their children and\\nchildren s children sliould be reminded of their fidelity, and jarofit by their\\nexamples.\\nTo give effect to this laudable desire is the aim of the writer. Turning over\\nthe records of the count) nothing of moment has been left unnoticed. Beyond\\nthe period, over which the records extend, all that is legendary has been examined\\nand utilized. Although the Old Settlers and their children extended a full co-\\noperation, the work necessitated the most earnest labor on the part of the writer\\nand his assistants. Success waited on such labor, with the result of bringing\\nforth from their hiding-places many valuable papers, upon which to base a just\\naccount of early times. Many of the surviving old settlers were interviewed, and\\nfrom their reminiscences of olden times, a good deal of all that is historically valu-\\nable, in these pages, was selected.\\nThe reader must remember that the general histori/ of the county does not em-\\nbrace every historical event. Nothing has found a place in this very important\\nsection of the work, which did not possess a character of generalization. Begin-\\nning with the history of geological formations, archaeological discoveries, meteoro-\\nlogical phenomena, zoological representatives, and physical characteristics, this\\nchapter is succeeded by a full account of Indian and pioneer days, American settle-\\nment, together with a number of chapters, each one complete and most important\\nin itself.\\nThe general history is followed by the chapters devoted to township and village\\nhistory, each chapter forming a complete historical and historia-biographical sketch\\nof a township, city or village. No effort has been spared to render this portion\\nof the work reliable as well as interesting.\\nUnlike the history of the State, County, Townships and Villages, biography is\\nthe work of many men, whose notes were ti-anscribed, retranscribed, and very gen-\\nerally submitted to the persons concerned, for revision or correction so that if\\nVAs r-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0136.jp2"}, "137": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nliterary errors occur, it must be credited to the person, who gave the biographical\\nsketch in the first instance. The irrepressihle ti/pos often make grave errors which\\nno foresight can set aside therefore if typographical errors do appear, let justice\\nguide the critic to sympathize with the children at the typo s case, whose art\\ndoth move the world. Deal lightly with their excesses.\\nGEOLOGICAL CONFORMATIONS.\\nIn tracing the geological history of the county, it will be only necessary to\\nrevert to the era when the accumulated sediments of the ocean were beino formed\\ninto masses of rock. Geology teaches that the continents of tlie world were once\\nbeneath the ocean, even as Scripture implies that a sea of mud, resembling in sub-\\nstance a South African river, was arranged by an Almighty hand, and the liquid\\nsepa]-ated from the solids contained therein. The inequalities in the ocean bed,\\ncorresponding with the hills and valleys of our land, point out the truths of geo-\\nlogical science. The recent deep-sea soundings reveal mountains and hills, valleys,\\nand table-lands. The greatest depth reached was over 29,000 feet, which exceeds\\nthe height of the loftiest peak of the Himalayas. Some of the mountains, spring-\\ning from the bed of the ocean, are steeper and more abrupt than any on the face of\\nthe earth. In the Irish Sea and British Channel the depth changes, within a radius\\nof ten miles, from 600 to 12,000 feet and it is very common, within a few miles of\\nour coasts and islands, for the depth of the waters to change suddenly from a few\\nhundred to many thousand feet. In otlier cases, as in the bed of the Atlantic\\nbetween Spain and the United States, there are plateaux extending hundreds of\\nmiles, with very slight undulations. The mysterious race that once occupied this\\ncontinent may have sailed in galleons over this peninsula of Michigan, and sounded\\nthe depth of the waters which rose above it, in precisely the same manner as the\\nmariners of our day cast the sounding line into our great lakes and the oceans.\\nIt may be concluded that the State which we inhabit was totally submerged\\nat the beginning of the carboniferous period. At the close of that epoch, a great up-\\nheaval of sea bottom formed a line of solid earth across the southern counties of\\nMichigan, which extended to an older and wider formation in Southern Ohio. The\\nland comprised in the original county of Macomb continued submerged for ages\\nbut by degrees the southern belt rose higher, spread out toward the northern con-\\ntinent, and actually approached the condition of dry land at the beginning of the\\ncoal-deposit era. At this time lakes Micliigan, Huron, Ontario and Erie were not\\nin existence, their centers forming the channel of a great river, with expansions at\\nintervals. This torrent swept over this now prosperous district of Michigan. The\\ngreat geological age the Mesozoic dates from this time. It was marked by ac-\\ntivity in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, by mild climates, and myriads of rep-\\ntiles, which swarmed in rivers and over lands.\\nVl\u00c2\u00ae", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0137.jp2"}, "138": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF :\\\\IACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe Tertiary period succeeded the Mesozoic. It was the age of beautifid\\nclimates, and high development of mammals. Animals, greater than the mastodon,\\nroamed over the land, through magnificent forests, meeting their enemy man, and\\nultimately falling beneath his repeated attacks.\\nThe glaciers came to desti oy all this gigantic beauty the snow and ice came\\non, burying all nature in their whitness, and robbing the land itself of life. It was\\nthe beginning of the Glacial period, the duration of -which is lost in mystery.\\nWere it possible to ignore the existence of a Divine Architect, and his action in\\nforming the earth we inhabit, the continuance of the Ice Age might be set down\\nat 2,000 years. There is no intention, however, to ignore the Omnipotent, and,\\ntherefore, what bears the impress of being the work of 2,000 years, might have\\nbeen compassed in a moment.\\nSpiing time came, and under the influence of its season the sea of ice which\\ncovered land and water to a depth of .5,000 feet began to break up, to dissolve,\\nwhen the solids held within its grasp fell down and formed a bed of rocky frag-\\nments or boulder drift. This rocky conformation must not be confounded with the\\npartial drift of after years, evidences of which are given in many sections of our\\ncounty.\\nSUPERFICIAL MATERIALS.\\nAbundant evidences are furnished along the shores of St. Clair Lake and river\\nas well as those of Lake Huron, of the unbroken continuity of the action of those\\nphysical forces, which have assorted and transported the materials of the Drift.\\nFrom the shingle beach formed by the violence of the last gale, we trace a series, of\\nbeaches and terraces, gradually rising as we recede from the shore, and becoming\\nmore and more covered with the lichens and mould and forest growths which de-\\nnote antiquity, until in some cases the phenomena of shore action blend with the\\nfeatures which characterize the Glacial Diift. These observations tally with the\\nviews of Pictet on the continuity of the Diluvian and Modern Epochs, as established\\nb}^ paliBontological evidences. So also may we behold evidences of the disintegra-\\ntion of strata, which formerly existed in this very county we may see every day\\nthe comminuted materials lying around us in all directions. The uses of these\\ncobbles are known wherever a pavement is necessary while on the land they keep\\nit warm as it were, and aid in the growth of grain crops. These remnants of com-\\nminution are principally rounded fragments of syenite, greenstone, vitreous and\\njasperous sandstones, horn-rock, talcase and of the serpentinous rocks of the azoic\\nseries. Here are the rocks overspread with blue clay, plutonic boulders and\\npebbles. There is a curious rock on the farm of Edwin Lamb in Washington Town-\\nship. It consisted of ordinary cobble stones bound together by a kind of water\\nlime cement. Some years ago it was examined l)y Wm. A. Burt, who gave it as", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0138.jp2"}, "139": {"fulltext": "L\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUXIY.\\nliis opinion that it had been brought here from northern Michigan on a cake of ice\\nat a time when all the county was covered by the waters of Lake St. Clair. In\\nother places those rude materials are often arranged in rude courses, which have a\\ncurved dip, and appear outcropping on the hill-sides and sometimes upon the plains.\\nTlie outcrop is very irregular in this county. In the deep borings for brine, as well\\nas in the shallow surface water-reservoirs, these boulders and pebbles have been\\nfound. Again entire fields bear them upon the surface, or so near the surface that\\neach successive plowing brings them more prominently into view. In some places\\na field is found bearing nine and twelve cobble stones on every square foot of its\\nsurface such fields are generally very productive, the onlj^ fault being in the\\ndifficult}^ of plowing them.\\nThere is a thin series of argillaceous magnesian limestones and marls, embracing\\nbeds and masses of gypsum, and, in some regions, strata of liock Salt is known as\\nthe Salina. It is the lowest stratified rock known in the Lower Peninsula. Its\\nbelt of outcrop stretches across the point of land north of Mackinac, from Little\\nPoint au Ciiene to the vicinity of the mouth of Carp River, and close to the shore\\nfrom that point to West Moran Bay. Tlie formation, with the characteristic\\ngypsum, is seen beneath the water surface at the little St. Martin Island, and at\\nGoose Island near Mackinac. Dipping beneath the Lower Peninsula, it re-appears\\nin Monroe Count} wliere it has been exposed in some of the deepest quarries. In the\\nwell-borings at Mt. Clemens, as well as at Alpena and Caseville, this formation has\\nl)een reached, and near Sandusky, Ohio, it affords valuable gypsum deposits. At\\nMt. Clemens the Salt Rock was not reached, though at Alpena and Caseville a\\nthick bed of such rock was penetrated, doubtless similar, or rather equivalent to\\ntlie beds at Goderich in Canada.\\nThe total thickness of this formation is a matter of speculation, but is supposed\\nto be fifty or sixty feet in depth above the Salt Rock. The stratification based on\\ninformation obtained from the measurement of remote outcrops of the group, may\\nbe placed as follows\\nCalcareous clay as seen at Bois Blanc. Fine ash-colored limestone, with\\nacicular crystals, as at Ida, Otter Creek and Plum Creek quarries, and at Mackinac,\\nRound and Bois Blanc Island. Variegated gypseous marls, with imbedded masses\\nof gypsum, as at Little Point au Chene and the St. Martin Islands.\\nA group of argillaceous and magnesian limestones outcrop along the western\\nshore of Lake Erie, and exists beneath the surface in the counties bordering on the\\nlake and river St. Clair. It consists of an aigillaceous, chocolate-colored, magne-\\nsian limestone in regular layers, each layer from four to eight inches thick. This\\nconformation seems to correspond with the tvaterlime formation of New York.\\nThe formation known as corniferous litnestone, is very general in masses of", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0139.jp2"}, "140": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nhorn-stone. The dark color of the rock is imparted by the presence of bituminous\\nmatter, which often shows itself in the thin partings between the strata. Petroleum\\nsaturates the formation, and as the bitumen colors the rock, so does the petroleum\\nbestow on it its peculiar odor, often oozing from the crevices, and showing itself on\\nthe streams in the vicinity.\\nThe black shale at the bottom of the argillaceous strata known as the Huron\\ngroup, is about 20 feet thick, sometimes laminated and fissile. This shale has\\ndoubtless been pierced in the borings at Mt. Clemens, as it is known to exist in St.\\nClair, and counties adjoining Macomb. The shale resembles coal, and when placed\\nin a stove or grate gives a blaze resembling that of coal.\\nWe also find here a species of shales more arenaceous than the black shale,\\nwhich, to use the language of geology, terminate in a sei-ies of laminated, argilla-\\nceous, micaceous, friable sandstone, which pass into the Waverly group.\\nThe Black Shale hitherto regarded holds an important place in the stratifica-\\ntion of this county, particularly on its southern borders. It appears that about the\\nyear 1858, F. P. Boutellier undertook the boring of a well in Greenfield township\\nin the county of Wayne. The earth was penetrated beneath a saw-mill, then in\\noperation. The drill having passed through the clay and subjacent rock, entered\\nthe blue-black shale, which it passed through at a depth of seventy or eighty feet.\\nAt this moment the iron was wrested from the hands of the laborers as if by some\\nsupernatural power. This phenomena was followed by a violent escape of gas,\\nand an upheaval of water and sand.\\nThe stream of fetid gas became ignited in some manner, and formed a fiery\\ncolumn, reaching to the roof of the mill. All efforts to extinguish the blaze\\nproved utterly futile, the burning roof of the building had to be removed, and a\\nfurnace pipe placed over the boring to guide the terrific flame. This last act in the\\ndrama of that well boring had the effect of extinguishing the fire. Boutellier, it\\nneed scarcely be said, was happy for this denouement yet he took precautions\\nagainst the recurrence of such an eruption, by filling up the boring with pebbles,\\nand clay, and i-efusing permission to have such an experiment repeated. In Ster-\\nling township one of such wells created a sensation some time ago.\\nThroughout Wayne, Macomb and St. Clair counties there are evidences of the\\nexistence of gas fountains, if not actual oil reservoirs. This fetid gas was undoubt-\\nedly the product of distilled petroleum lying below the gas fountain in a similar\\nposition to the oil reservoirs of Petrolia and Oil Springs in Canada.\\nGAS WELLS.\\nOn the grounds of Geo. C. Walker at New Baltimore is a gas well, which gives\\nup sufiicient gas to light his residence. It is his intention to utilize this light-mak-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0140.jp2"}, "141": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ning stream, by guiding it into the cookery and throughout the house. The well is\\nonly 56 feet in depth.\\nAbout the same time that Mr. Walker bored this well three other persons in\\nthe village engaged in a like enterprise, and struck the same gaseous vein. It is\\nstated that about the year 1850 the existence of natural gas, at this point, was no-\\nticed by many of the villagers. Below the Hathaway warehouse bul)bles were ob-\\nserved on the surface of the water, while a closer inspection pointed out the fact\\nthat some submarine power agitated the sand below the water, raising it up in cones\\nand then scattering it around.\\nSUBTERRANEAN CHANNELS.\\nIn consequence of the changes to which the various strata of the county has\\nbeen subjected, the waters have carved for themselves, even within our own time,\\na passage through it, and find their way to the lower lakes throngli subterraneous\\nrivulets, causing the diminution of, and sometimes the total disappearance of ponds\\nand creeks. This, doubtless, is to-day operating against our rivers, and accounts\\nfor the visible reduction of the volume of water, compared with that which marked\\nthem in Territorial days. This diminution is partly attributed to increased evapo-\\nration, consequent upon the removal of the forests.\\nIn the same way we must account for the reports of public officers in the olden\\ntimes one reports the Huron River navigable for thirty miles the other reports\\nthe hrine obtained from the springs of the civil district of Huron capable of yield-\\ning 25 per cent, of solid saline matter.\\nWATER RESERVOIRS.\\nThe small bodies of water or lakelets with which certain portions of Macomb\\nCounty are diversified, rest in depressions shaped in the layer of modified drift.\\nThe remarkable group of water fountains in the northwestern township of the\\ncounty, together with those in the northeastern part of Oakland, continues through\\nLivingston, Washtenaw, and onwards to the lakes of Grattan in Kent County.\\nThey are particularly scattered along the scarcely descending banks of the Huron\\nof Lake St. Clair, or the Clinton and its tributaries, and are strung like beads along\\nthese streams, many of them, probably, the ancient work of beavers.\\nThe lakelets of Macomb County, as of the Lower Peninsula in general, are\\nsurrounded by gravelly, elevated shores on two or three sides, with frequently a low,\\nmarshy border fringing the remainder of the contour. As the streams which feed\\nthem are clear, the water of the lakes is limpid and healthful, tliough of the char-\\nacter known as hard. They furnish, therefore, charming places of Summer resort.\\nThe same species of fish and molluscs inhabit the different lakelets of the county,\\nhowever disconnected. This fact presents an interesting and difficult problem to\\n-fT", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0141.jp2"}, "142": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe investigator of the origin of species. The most natural inference is. that at a\\nformer period a general S3 stem of water communication existed among the various\\nbodies of water in this part of the Peninsula, and at tliis time one fauna extended\\nthrough all its limits. A similar problem, but of a larger magnitude, is presented\\nby the similar faunas inhabiting different rivers and lake systems, and especial)}\\nwlien the different systems discharge into the sea at different points, and their\\njiigher sources, as well as their valleys of discharge, are separated bj elevations too\\ngreat to admit the hypothesis of a general fresh-water inundation in former times.\\nIt requires but casual observation to become convinced that nearly all these\\nlakelets have formerly been of larger size. The shore upon one or more sides is\\nfrequently low and sedgy, and stretclies back over an expanse of marsh and allu-\\nvial land to a sloping, gravelly bank, which appears to have been the ancient con-\\ntour of the lake or river expansion. The lowland between the ancient shore and\\nthe modern is composed of a bed of peat, genei ally underlaid by a bed of marl.\\nBeneath the marl may be found, in many cases, a deposit of blue, plastic clay, which\\nforms a transition to the layer of modified drift before described. Each of these\\ndeposits may have a thickness of a few inches or more, up to ten or twenty feet.\\nThat all these formations have been laid down from the flooded or Ciiamplain\\nPeriod is evident first, from their superposition on the modified drift second,\\nfrom tlie fact that the lake is performing in our own times the same work as we see\\ncompleted in the low-border marsh third, from the gradual extension of many\\nlake-border marshes, and the corresponding diminution of the areas of the lakes.\\nThe calcareous character of the water of tliese lakelets makes them a fitting\\nabode for numerous species of lime-secreting molluscs. These animals eliminate\\nti]e lime from the water and build it into the structure of their shells. Finally the\\nmollusc dies and its shell falls to the bottom, where it undergoes disintegration into\\na white powder, or becomes buried in the progressing accumulation of such mate-\\nrial. Another portion of the marly deposit forming in the bed of the lakes is\\nprobably derived from calcareous i^recipitation directly from the lake water. Thus\\na bed of marl is forming over the whole bottom of the lake, in situations sufficiently\\nprotected and shallow to serve as the abode of shell-making animals. But on the\\nleeward side the immediate shore is the seat of a layer of peat. Bulrushes lift\\ntheir heads through water one or two feet deep. A little nearer the shore flags\\nmay be seen, and still nearer scouring rushes. On the immediate border of the\\nland willows and water-loving sedges hold a place, while further back other sedges\\nand grasses take possession in varying j)roportions. This is the lee side of the\\nlakes. Floating leaves, twigs, stems, therefore find their way among the lake-side\\ngrowths, and becoming entangled, sink and fall into gradual decay. More than this,\\neach autumn s crop of dead vegetation, produced round the borders of these lakes.\\nV", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0142.jp2"}, "143": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n^u\\ncontributes to the accumulation of vegetable material, which gra dually changes\\ninto the condition of humus and j eat. This is a work begun at the surface of the\\nwater. When this substance sinks, it overlies what the lake had hitherto accumu-\\nlated. When the peat layer is first begun, the previous accumulation is marl, and\\nhence the well-known order of superposition of these two deposits. The peat bed\\ngrows lakeward as the continued formation of marl shallows the water. In the\\ncourse of time, the actual seat of operations becomes removed far from the ancient\\nshore, and a broad marsh comes into existence, with peat everywhere at the surface\\nand marl beneath. On the Benjamin Farm, just south of Romeo, this formation\\nmay be seen. The enterprise of the owner has not only rendered the lake site\\ncapable of high cultivation, but has also brought to light the surfaces as they were\\nformed during the last thousand years.\\nANCIENT LAKE SITES.\\nAlmost the entire country may be considered an ancient lake site yet in a re-\\nference here, the writer wishes to deal with the ponds of the county, which, long\\nyears after the Champlain epoch, were large sheets of water. As many existing\\nponds have obviously been contracted from their ancient limits, so a little reflection\\nmakes it obvious that many lakes, once existing here, have become quite extinct\\nthrough the completion of the process of filling up. It is probable that every\\nmarsh in the county marks the site of an ancient lake. Level as the surface of the\\nwater, which determined their limits and depth, not a few of them retain, at some\\npoint, vestiges of the lakes which they have displaced and others exhibit all trans-\\nitions from a reeking and quaking bog to an alluvial meadow while in nearly all\\ncases ditching discloses the peaty, marly and clayey materials, in the order in\\nwhich, under lake action, they are accumulating before our eyes along actual lake\\nborders. The absence of any marked, general inclination of the surface in our\\nPeninsula, has made it the seat of an extraordinary number of small lakes, ancient\\nand modern, and hence, also, a region of small local marshes.\\nSome of these may be found on almost every section of land but the majority\\nof them form meadow lands, or even tillable fields, and constitute the choicest\\npatches in tlie farmers possession. Many of these ancient lake sites, nevertheless,\\nremain for the present notiiing but swamps, and demand resolute ditching for their\\nthorough reclamation, as is evidenced by the old oranherry marsh so well remem-\\nbered by the old settlers of Wayne, Macomb, and Oakland.\\nMINERAL WATEllS.\\nThe salt springs of Macomb county result from an overflow of the great sali-\\nferous basin of the Peninsula.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0143.jp2"}, "144": {"fulltext": "bL,\\nHISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTiie wells at Mt. Clemens were bored upon the thinning-out edge of this\\nbasin, almost one degree of longitude south-east of the highest saturation point and\\nat a place where the brine would necessarily be diluted with surface water or with\\nthat of subteri anean rivers. Consequently, the hritie of Mt. Clemens must be con-\\nsidered separately from that so prized by salt manufacturers, for the reason that it\\nis a medicinal mineral water, rather than a common salt brine. The difiSculties pre-\\nsented by this water in the manufacture of common salt therefrom, are due to the\\nlarge quantity of deliquescent salts of calcium and magnesium existing in connec-\\ntion with the chloride of sodium but what it loses in this respect is more than\\ncompensated for by the large quantity of salts present, possessing, in connection\\nwith the sulphuretted hydrogen, a decided medicinal effect. Chief among the\\nactive ingredients, in addition to those mentioned is iodine, an agent whose value\\nhas long been recognized by the medical profession.\\nTHE SALT SPRING OF 1797.\\nThe S alt Spring near the bank of Salt River in the vicinity of which the\\nsquatters of 1797 located, was considered by them a most valuable property. This\\nspring appeared in the glen, close by the Plank Road Bridge of later days four\\nmiles from the mouth of the river. In a report tendered to Tliomas Jefferson by\\nCharles S. Jonett in 1804, this agent of the government makes the following state-\\nment: From experiments which have been made, I am justified in saying that\\nthis spring deserves the public attention, it was wrought sometime by a couple of\\nmen, who, owing to their want of capital, were incapal:)le of conducting the business\\non an advantageous plan. By these men I am assured that a quart of water did\\nwith them turn out a gill of salt, and in all their trials with greater quantities it\\nnever failed to produce a like proportion. Tiiere is a suflScient quantit}^ of water\\nto supply works to any extent.\\nFrom a report made by Douglass Houghton in 1838 to the Legislature, the\\nanalysis of the brine, said to be so rich in the saline properties, in the report of\\nJonett to Secretary Jefferson in 1804, was as follows\\nAnalysis of hrine, sections two and eleven, Chesterfield.\\nSpecific gravity.- 1.0057\\nCliloride Sodium .0.549\\nCalcium 0.013\\nMagnesium 0.037\\nSulphate of Lime 0.015\\nSulphate of Magnesia _\\nCarbonate of Lime 0.014\\nCompounds of Iron o.ooi\\nOther Constituents\\nTotal solid matter .0.629\\nMT. CLEMENS MAGNETIC WATERS.\\nA committee appointed by the Northeastern Medical and Scientific Society\\nreported very favorably of the waters produced by the Mt. Clemens mineral springs.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0144.jp2"}, "145": {"fulltext": "t\\\\\u00c2\u00b1,\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 143\\nFrom an analysis made by Prof. Duffield in 1872, it is learned that the specific\\ngravity at 60 Fahrenheit, is 1.129. The total amount of mineral matter per pint\\nwas 1417.6200, and the total amount of Chloride of Sodium per pint 1350.8498.\\nThe components were reported as follows\\nName. Per Pint. Per Gallon.\\nSulphate Snda j 12.0700 96.5600\\nSulphate Lime 5.4992 43.9936\\nChloride Sodium 1350.S498 10806.7984\\nChloride Calciutn. _ 26.9399 215.5120\\nChloride Magnesium 20.2400 161.9200\\nCarbonate Lime.. .6216 4.96S0\\nCarbonate Magnesia a trace\\nSilica and Alumina .1.4010\\nOrganic Matter .a trace\\nTotal Solids 141 7.6200 1 1 340.9600\\nSulphureted Hydrogen 3.41 cu. in.\\nCarbonic Acid a trace\\nRecent investigations show that Iodine, Potassium and Ammonia Salts are\\npresent, the former in quite considerable quantity, as compared with other mineral\\nwaters. A new analysis is contemplated by Prof. H. F. Myers, which, doubtless,\\nwill bring to light all the medicinal properties of these celebrated springs. Such\\nan analysis is deemed expedient to show the present actual condition of the waters.\\nThe mineral water spring near Romeo, belonging to Mr. Dexter Mussey, which\\ncreated some excitement early in 1874, claims the following analysis by Prof.\\nDuffield:\\nSulphate of Calcium 4.8536 grs. to gal.\\nSulphate of Potass 01 1 3\\nSulphate of Magnesia 2.1345\\nCarbonate of Magnesia 1. 6321\\nCarbonate of Calcium 3-9804\\nChloride of Sodium.. 0.0501\\nCarbonate of Iron 0.0632\\nAluminium Oxide 0S30\\nSilicium 1753\\nTotal amount of carbonic acid per gallon one and a half inches.\\nThe mineral well bored at Romeo, in 1881, gives promise of meeting the highest\\nhopes of the citizens in regard thereto. The record of the boring is as follows\\nTHICKNESS. DESCRIPTIONS.\\n40 Sand and gravel.\\n70 Blue adhesive clay, with seams of quicksand,\\n13 Light sand.\\n123 Casing belled.\\nV-^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0145.jp2"}, "146": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTHICKNESS. 11ESCRIPTI0NS.\\n27 Shale-like material loose with seams of gravel.\\n30 Light bluish rock floating, effervescing with acid.\\niSo\\nDrill entered hard rock at 170 feet, which it pierced to 180 feet, when it entered a bufilish shale with\\nminute disseminated mica scales, peculiar to the conftrmationof the Michigan salt group, differ-\\ning only in tlie fact that the shale seemed to be very soft, if not clayed.\\n60 Frearstone rock.\\n240 At this point the bituminous shale should be reached and the presence of inflammable gas felt.\\n510 Soap stone, black shale.\\n750 A bed of rock salt was reached.\\n300 Blue shale or slate.\\n250 Grindstone rock.\\n70 Limestone.\\n1370 Soft rock, rotten limestone conliiiued to 1420 feet.\\n50\\n1420 Gas veins penetrated.\\n125 Soft porous rock of a plastic character, impregnated with gas.\\n1515\\n1545 Total depth reached in feet.\\nThe original record of the boring shows simply 150 feet of sand and gravel\\nforming the upper crust, resting on 80 feet of liglit floating rock, supported in turn\\nby 60 feet of frearstone on which the reservoir rests. The 810 feet below the frear\\nstone is simply credited with being a conformation of soap stone, black shale, and\\nslate. At a depth of 750 a bed of rock-salt was reached, but the depth of this\\nvery important formation is not recorded. Below the slate a rock, named grind-\\nstone in the record, was pierced to a deptli of 250 feet, resting on a bed of lime-\\nstone 70 feet deep, and tliis, in turn, resting on 175 feet of soft, plastic rock.\\nANALYSIS.\\nThe analysis of water obtained from the mineral well at Romeo, made by\\nchemist Lyon, of Detroit, for the committee in charge of the well, is as follows\\nSpecial gravity at 60\u00c2\u00b0 F _ 1.0037\\nCalcium Sulphate 6.066 grains per wine gallon 7.2S1 Lnp. Gal.\\nCarbonate. 12.774 14899\\nMagnesium. .554 .66g\\nIron .S92 1.070\\nMagnesium Chloride.. 4.019 4.824\\nPotassium .455 5.466\\nSodium 2S3.957 340S34\\nSediment (debris of rock).. 170.73\\nCarbonic acid (combined) 13.27 cu. in. 15.92\\n(free) 4.9 cu. in. 5.87", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0146.jp2"}, "147": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAs the work of pumping progresses the water shows signs of losing much of\\nthe sediment materials.\\nThe carbonated waters contain a quantity of soluble salts; the sulphur waters\\nare of the most pronounced character, each impregnated with mineral substances,\\nwhich must always render them of inestimable value to the people. It is said that\\ntlie magnetic waters of the State are not themselves magnetic; but that marked\\nmagnetic phenomena are manifested in the vicinity ot the wells, arising through\\ninduction from the earth, without regard to the waters; yet experiments indicate a\\npower of excitation of magnetism possessed by these waters.\\nThe fossil remains found in connection with the rocks of this county, and par-\\nticularly evident in the limestone strata, comprise the Lithostrotion mammillare,\\nthe L. longiconicum, the C^ athophyllum fungitis, and the Syringopore, all belong-\\ning to the polypi class. The only evidence of the Echinodermata is furnished by\\nthe remains of common species. The Bryoza class is represented in this lime-stone\\nby no less than seven species the Brachiopoda by eighteen species the Lamelli-\\nbranchiata by six species the Trilobites by two very distinct species, each showing\\nthe tails. The remains of fish and reptiles are found to be very common. Human\\nremains are unknown at present to exist in the conformations examined in Macomb.\\nREVIEW OF PHYSICAL CHARACTERISTICS.\\nThe water courses of Macomb county are numerous and valuable. The leading\\nstream, reported in early years to be navigable for thirty miles, is the most im-\\nportant. Its waters are known throughout the entire district organized in 1818\\nunder the name of Macomb, now forming many prosperous counties of the State.\\nThis river was called ia Reviere Aux Murons by the early French missionary priests,\\non account of the peculiar character of the hair which marked the red men of the\\nneighborhood. This liair stood out like the bristles of the wild boar, and suggested\\nto the thoughtful travelers a new name for the inhabitants and their territory,\\nwhich name it held until the Territorial Legislature deemed it proper, for con-\\nvenience, to confer on the river the name Clinton.\\nThe Clinton River enters the county at the southwest corner of Section 18,\\nShelby Township, flows through a very tortuous channel in a southeasterly course,\\npast the village of Utica, to the line between Section 2-1 of Sterling and Section 19\\nof Clinton, where it is joined by the waters of the South Branch, whence it pursues\\na seine-like course northeast to the confluence of the North Branch. At this point\\nthe channel is wide and deep, growing wider as it approaches the lake. The river\\nmay be said to form the natural boundary of the city of the future on the west, to\\nj,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0147.jp2"}, "148": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ndivide the north city of the present from the south city of the prospective, and\\nthence flow through a deep and winding channel to the lake.\\nThe North Branch of the Clinton appears to rise everywhere in the county\\nand far beyond its boundaries. Flowing southeast from Bruce, south from Ar-\\nmada and Richmond, it is fed by numerous streams, it receives the waters of a\\ndozen creeks, and joins the Middle Branch in Section 8 of Clinton.\\nThe Middle Branch is a domestic river. It has its head waters in Washington\\nand Shelby Townships, with many feeders in that and the adjoining towns of\\nShelby and Ray. These feeders unite in Section 6, Macomb Township, and form\\nthe stream known as the Middle Branch, which forms a confluence witli tlie North\\nBranch in Section 8 of Clinton, one-half mile west of the boundary of Mt. Clemens\\nCity.\\nThe South Branch, commonly called Red Run, is fed by Bear, Beaver, and\\nPlum Creeks and other small streams. This river and its tributaries drain the\\ntowns of Sterling and Warren, and lead the surplus waters to the main stream,\\nwith which a confluence is formed in Section 19, Clinton.\\nBelle River may be said to take its rise in the headwaters of Day Creek, Rich-\\nmond Township. Although the main stream flows from the northwest of its con-\\nfluence witli Day Creek, draining the country in the neighborhood of Memphis and\\nAttica in Lapeer County, yet the river is unimportant until it receives the waters\\nof the creek in Section 12, Richmond, whence it flows into the river St. Clair at\\nMarine City.\\nLa Reviere du Lait, or Milk River, falls into the lake a half-mile nortli of the\\nsouthern line of Erin township.\\nSalt River rises near Richmond, flows south through Lenox, receives its main\\ntributary in Section 2, Chesterfield, and enters the lake a few miles south of the\\nancient salt springs.\\nThe Reviere Aux Vasen and the Crapau fall into tlie lake in the neighborhood.\\nThe former rises in Cliesterfield, watering Sections 21, 20 and 28 in its course the\\nlatter has its headwaters in St. Clair County, enters Chesterfield in Section 12, flows\\nthrough New Baltimore, and empties into the lake a little south of that village.\\nThe creeks commonly called Tuckar s and Ventre de Bceuf rise in Harrison\\nTownship and flow into the lake- Ambroise or Tremble Cr. and La Crique de\\nSocier rise in the northern sections of Erin and flow into the lake.\\nTogether with the rivers, streams, and streamlets named, there are numerous\\nrivulets coursing throughout every section of the county, each acting its silent part\\nin contributing to the prosperity of the people.\\nARCU^OLOGICAL.\\nMacomb County was the Paglgendamoivinaki or great cemetery of the abor-\\ns r-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0148.jp2"}, "149": {"fulltext": ".k\\nHISTORY OP MAC0:MB COUNTY.\\nigines. Along the Clinton and its tributaries many mounds were found by the\\nearly settlers, some few still exist, all offer interesting subjects to the antiquarian of\\nthe present time. From time to time the search among the bones of the dead is\\nrewarded by the discovery of one or otiier of the many articles placed in the earth\\nwith the dead. The number of mounds, and character of human remains found in\\nthem, point out the district as the necropolis of an extinct race. Stone hatchets\\nand flint arrow lieads, unnumbered skeletons, all remain to tell of their coming,\\ntheir stay, of their rise and fall.\\nThe free copper found within the tumuli, the open veins of the Superior and\\nIron Mountain copper mines, with all the modus operandi of ancient mining, such\\nas ladders, levers, chisels and hammer-heads, discovered by the French explorers\\nof the Northwest and the Mississippi, are conclusive proofs that a prehistoric people\\nwere civilized, and that many flourishing colonies were spread throughout the new-\\nly-formed land. While yet the mammoth, the mastodon, and a hundred other\\nanimals, now only known by their gigantic fossil remains, guarded the eastern shore\\nof the continent, as it were, against supposed invasions of the Tower Builders, who\\nwent west from Babel; while yet the beautiful isles of the Antilles formed an inte-\\ngral portion of this continent, long years before the European Northman dreamed\\nof setting forth on his voyage of discovery to Greenland, and certainly at a time\\nwhen only a small portion of the American continent, north of latitude 45\u00c2\u00b0, was\\nreclaimed, in the midst of the great ice-encumbered waste, a prehistoric people\\nlived and died upon the land which the American and French pioneers of Macomb\\nrescued from its wilderness state.\\nWithin the last twentj years, great advances have been made toward the dis-\\ncovery of antiquities, whether pertaining to remains of organic or inorganic nature.\\nTogether with many telling relics of the aboriginal inhabitants, the fossils of pre-\\nhistoric animals have been unearthed from end to end of the county, and in districts\\ntoo, long pronounced by geologists of some repute to be without even a vestige of\\nvertebrate fossils. Among the collected souvenirs of an age, about which so very\\nlittle is known, are single and ossified vertebrae, supposed to belong to the creta-\\nceous period, when the Dinosaur roamed over the country from east to west, deso-\\nlating the villages of the people. This animal is said to have been sixty feet long,\\nand when feeding in the pine forests was capable of extending himself eighty-five\\nfeet, so that he might devour the budding tops of those great trees.\\nOther efforts of our antiquarians \\\\x\\\\a.y lead to great results, and culminate prob-\\nably in the discovery of a tablet, engraved by some learned Tower or Mound\\nBuilder, describing, in characters hieroglyphical, all those men and beasts whose\\nhistory excites so much interest, and transform the speculative into certainty. The\\nidentity of the Mound Builders with the Mongolians, and the closer tie which\\nr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0149.jp2"}, "150": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF 5IAC0MB COUNTY.\\nbound the latter to tlie Egyptians might lead us to hope for such a consummation,\\nmiglit possibly result in proving that the Egyptian originally migrated from Cen-\\ntral America, branched out toward China, and became the Mongolian, and in turn\\ncontinued to travel eastward until the descendants of the first Americans returned\\nto the cradle of their race, as set forth in an extract given in this work, from the\\nwriter s special paper on the Mound Builders.\\nFORTS AND MOUNDS OF MACOMB.\\nThe so-called Indian forts and mounds situated upon the North Branch of\\nClinton River in Macomb County, have long been the subject of much speculation\\nand interest. Two of the three forts are entirely leveled by the plow, and it is\\nonly from memory, aided by that mysterious personage known as the oldest in-\\nhabitant, that the geography and description can be obtained.\\nEighteen or twenty years ago the embankments were quite distinct. The first\\nand, apparently, the most prominent of those forts, was situated upon the east\\nbank of the North Branch of the Clinton, on the east line of the town of Bruce,\\nthree miles northeast of Rome. The branch is at this place about twenty feet wide,\\nwith a rapid current affording a constant supply of pure, cool water. The bank of\\nthe stream rises abruptly in a sort of bluff, some ten or twelve feet in height, and\\nthen is level to the fort some fifteen rods distant.\\nA little stream comes down from the northwest and passes about twenty rods\\nto the south of the fort. Between this stream and the fort was the burial-ground\\nof the inhabitants. The fort itself was nearly regular, about 350 feet in diameter.\\nThe wall upon the north was curved less than a true circle. The walls before being\\nleveled by the plow, were four or five feet high, and some eight feet thick at the\\nbase.\\nIf we take into consideration the length of time intervening between the build-\\ning of these walls and our earliest knowledge of them, and also the character of\\nthe soil of which they are composed a loose gravel we must conclude that they\\nwere at least double the height here given. The earth to form these walls was\\ntaken from the outside, and thus a deep and wide ditch was formed on all sides\\nsave a portion of the west, which was bounded by a marsh, covered by a tangle of\\nwater-vines and brush.* The openings, three in number, were about twenty feet\\nwide, and just inside the open space of wall a mound was built entirely shutting off\\nany view from the exterior. Tlie mounds were probably as higli as the walls tliem-\\nselves and afforded a jjerfect shelter from objects projected from without. A supply\\nof water for the use of a garrison in time of seige, could be obtained from a small\\nlake within the enclosure.\\nBetween the fort and the small stream were situated a number of mounds or", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0150.jp2"}, "151": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\ngraves, each circular, and each containing tlie skeleton of one person. Many of\\nthe mounds were opened, and the contents exhumed but an entire skeleton has\\nnever been found, the smaller bones having become decomposed. The skulls and\\nlarger bones of the extremities were often found to be of extreme size. The under\\njaw, in one instance, easily slipped over the face of the finder over flesh and\\nwhiskers. The thigh bone when jilaced beside that of a living person would pro-\\ntrude considerably beyond it. Perhaps there were giants in those days\\nThere is a faint tradition, that the faithful dog of the Indian together with his\\ngun and pipe, were buried with him for his pleasure and benefit in the Happy\\nHunting Grounds but if those were Indian graves the facts dispose the theory, as\\nno such contents have been brought to light. Broken pieces of pottery were often\\nand are still sometimes found in tlie cultivated fields adjoining the mounds and in\\none instance an entire dish was turned up by the plow. This was of the shape of\\nthe smaller half of an egg-shell, and would hold from twelve to fifteen gallons. It\\nwas surmounted by a rim or border which was ornamented by checks, cut in the\\nclay. It had the appearance of having been dried in the sun, and soon fell to decay\\nby the action of the atmosphere. Flint ai-row-heads and stone weapons are often\\nfound also amulets and other curious objects, the use of which it is difficult to con-\\njecture .Of the mode of their manufacture it is vain to speculate. There are many\\nof these specimens now in my possession, hard as adamant, and yet which have\\nreceived and retained through all these years the most perfect polish, and are fault-\\nless in shape.\\nTHE SECOND MOUND.\\nAcross the stream, some twenty rods to the south, was situated a large mound,\\nsurrounded by a number of smaller ones. Upon the summit of the larger one is\\nstill standing a large oak tree, which may have been planted there or gained its\\nposition by accident. It has been thought by some that a chief was buried there,\\nstanding with his back against the tree, and so the mound raised about him,\\nand as members of his family died they were interred about him. Others\\nhave it that he was buried lying horizontal, and the tree planted at his head.\\nThe mound was opened years ago, and the position of the bones in the grave\\nseemed to confirm the latter conclusion. It was expected that something real and\\nstrange would be found in this grave, but the expectations were not realized.\\nSTONE MOUNDS.\\nIn various parts of the county were found mounds of stone. Those were\\nstone-piles built up, in a symmetrical form, to the height of four feet or more, hav-\\ning the shape of an old-fashioned straw bee-hive. One of these standing on the farm\\nof Ido Warner, was surmounted by a tree, the roots of which running over the sides.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0151.jp2"}, "152": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nserved to keep the stones in place until it was cut away, and the grave opened.\\nThe contents did not differ from those of the other mounds save that the bones had\\ntlie appearance of having been charred by fire. It was thought by many that these\\nstone mounds had been formed in clearing the fields near by for cultivation but it\\nis abundantly proved that such was not the caee. And now a word in regard to\\nthese fields. In many places in the brush or light timbered land, where the soil is\\nsand or light loam, distinct rows of hills may be traced. They are in many places\\nso prominent as to interfere with the first plowing of the land. Undoubtedly the\\nsame hills were employed year after year, by simply opening the top of tlie hill for\\nthe reception of the seed, and then in the way of cultivation, pulling up the earth\\naround the growing jjlant.\\nFORT NUMBER TWO\\nWas situated about a mile up the branch from the one formerly described, upon\\nthe farm of B. H. Thurston. His house and farm buildings now occupy tlie ground.\\nTlie soil here is a rich, sandy loam, about ten feet above the bed of the stream, on\\ntbe west side, and facing the south with an easy slojje.\\nThe fort was oblong in shape its length extending to the southwest at right\\nangles to the stream, about 500 feet its greatest breadth about 250 feet. Tiie em-\\nbankments presented the same general characteristics as regards form, height, as\\nthe one formerly mentioned. There was but one opening on the river front, and\\ntlie two ends of the circle of wall were made to overlap each other, thus shutting\\noff all view from the exterior. There were a few mounds upon the south side of\\nthe fort, also across the stream about half a mile north. Numerous stone hatchets,\\nflint aiTow-heads, amulets, and bits of crockery were found in the vicinity of these\\nmounds, but never in or upon them.\\nPO^T NUMBER THREE\\nIs the extreme northwest corner of the county, and is about one mile west of the\\nNorth Branch. This fort is still in its natural condition, covered with a low growth\\nof oak timber. The embankments are in many instances four feet high from the\\nbottom of the ditch. They describe a circle slightly flattened upon the north, and\\nmeeting in something like a corner at the northwest, where there is an opening about\\neight feet wide. The fort is 225 feet in diameter in each direction. Along the\\nsouth ran a little stream with a margin of marsh along the edge of this marsli the\\nwalls are nearly defaced. The ground upon the interior of this fort descends to\\nthe south more rapidly than either of the others. Unlike the others, there seems\\nto have been no arrangement for the protection of the entrance. Mounds have\\nbeen found in various places in the vicinity.\\nBy whom were these forts erected We liave become so accustomed to tbe", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0152.jp2"}, "153": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nphrase, Indian Mounds and Forts, that at first thought we can answer the Indians,\\nof course. But wlien we call to mind the American Indians aversion to all kinds\\nof labor, also their well-known mode of warfare, seeking onlj^ the shelter of a tree,\\nfrom behind which they could fling a stone or shoot an arrow, we may pause before\\nreaching a definite conclusion. So far as we know of the natives of this locality,\\nthey have never shown either energy or skill, sufficient to plan and execute the\\nwork of building a fort, or making a stone hatchet or arrow-head. We are told\\nthat the graves of the Indians contain more than their bodies, we are certain that\\nthese mounds contain nothing but human bones. The Indians living in the vicinity\\nof the forts, at the time of the first settlement by Whites, were as ignorant of their\\nways as the whites themselves. It is possible, perhaps probable, that they were the\\nwork of a race or ti ibe of people possessing a higher degree of intelligence and\\nskill than the American Indian. Be this as it may, it is doubtful if any decisive\\nconclusion will ever be reached, and these forts and mounds of Macomb will ever\\nremain a prolific source of speculation and interest. The foregoing statements are\\nbased on reports made by County Surveyor Hollister in 1841, and by George H.\\nCanuon in 1874.\\nFrom a letter addressed to Dr. Cooley, by John B. Hollister, under date April\\n10, 18-30, it is learned that the North Fort was located on the east half of the north-\\neast quarter of Fr. Section 3, Township 5 north of Range 12 east. The East\\nFort was on the west half of the southwest quarter Fr. Section 18, Township 5,\\nnorth of Range 13 east. The South Fort stood on the west half of the northeast\\nquarter of Section 25, Township 5 north of Range 12 east. Those were important\\npositions, and doubtless formed the principal strongholds in Northeastern Michigan\\nof a race of savages unremembered even by the ancient Wyaudots.\\nSURVEY BY S. L. ANDREWS.\\nThe mounds, three miles north of Romeo, and two miles east on the northeast\\nquarter of Section 25, Bruce, were again examined, about the year 1859, by Dr. S.\\nL. Andrews. At the same time the old fort in the same neighborhood on Section\\n19, Armada, known as the Donaldson Fai-m, was opened, and an exploration made.\\nThe embankment surrounding the first-named fort was about four feet high at that\\ntime, with a lap opening. Then there were a number of stone heaps, the most\\nremarkable of which were near Armada Center, and near the fort just referred to.\\nFour miles north, and three miles west of Romeo, on the farm of Benjamin\\nCooley, were a number of excavations, one of which contained an earthen pot,\\ndiffering entirely from anything known to Indian civilization.\\nThere were the remains of an old fort on the bank of a streamlet flowing into\\nSalt River, in 1837. The walls were circular with a gateway leading to the stream.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0153.jp2"}, "154": {"fulltext": "i.\\n53 HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAt the time of its exploration by Robert P. Eldredge, a white oak tree, at least\\nthree feet in diameter, sprung from the very center of the fortress, but whether this\\nwas planted by the builders, or grew up since the fort was constructed, the\\nexplorers were unable to state.\\nTlie Indian corn field on the north bank of Salt River was easily found so late\\nas 1827. Here the savages had a thousand little hills, the pinnacle of each was\\nannually cultivated, leaving the base and sides untouched by the rude instruments\\nof agriculture wliich the cultivators used.\\nHUGE SKELETONS.\\nE. p. Sandford, of Romeo, visited the mounds on the Mahaffy farm, near the\\nfarm of J. C. Thompson, in the Fall of 1S80. The mounds are thrown up from two\\nto four feet high and are made round. Having reached tlie mounds he dug into\\nthe first one, for the purpose of finding implements of some kind, when he reached\\nthe deptii of about three feet the spade struck what he supposed to be a stone, but\\nby careful digging was found to be the skull of a large i)erson. A little farther in\\nlie took out six skeletons, three being grown persons and three cliildren. All\\nseemed to have been placed in a kneeling position with their heads on tlieir knees\\nforming a semicircle facing the southwest. The large bones of the grown persons\\nwere in good state of preservation, the bones of tlie cliildren were all decayed, with\\nthe exception of the frontal bone of each and very few of the smaller bones. The\\nskull of the large one measured twenty-one inches round the teeth were very even\\nand in excellent condition the thigh bones measured twenty-one inches and were\\nvery solid. These are the only discoveries that have been made in this place for\\nabout eighteen years.\\nThere is a large mound at the southwest corner of the field overlooking all the\\nrest, whicli measures twenty feet across the base and is about four and a half feet\\nhigh. This mound is called the chief mound. There was an oak tree in the center\\nof it which was cut down eight years ago by J. C. Thompson. At the time he cut\\nit down he counted two hundred and forty rings, which are supposed to represent\\n240 years growth. It is supposed that the tree was put there at the time of the\\nburial. There have been many attempts made to uncover this mound, but so far\\neach has been a failure, the roots of the tree being so large and strong, they prevent\\none from going deep enough to accomplish anything. At the north of this field\\nabout eighty rods we find what is called the fort, it was built on the top of a hill,\\nthe outlines can be seen very distinctly to this day.\\nSUNDltY DISCOVERIES.\\nJ. W. Preston found some relics of the Indians, on his farm in February, 1877\\nRev. P. R. Hurd, now of Detroit, found a silver cross in the neighborhood of Romeo,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^s r-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0154.jp2"}, "155": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsupposed to belong to one of the early French priests who visited this neighborhood\\nO. C. Dudley found an Indian tomahawk on his farm a number of years ago, the\\nupper part of the weapon had the shape of a pipe, and was used for smoking\\npurposes.\\nWilliam Stone, a farmer residing a few miles south of Romeo, discovered a\\n[)iece of pure native copper, weighing eleven pounds, just as it was unearthed\\nby the ploughshare, in January, 1879.\\nElijah Thorington had a large piece of native copper that was plowed up on\\nhis farm in the town of Addison, in October, 1878. How it came there is a ques-\\ntion for scientists to solve. It is hardly possible that the piece is a portion of a\\ncopper mine on the premises, and the most reasonable theory is that it either came\\ndown from Lake Superior during the drift period or was packed by some lordly\\naborigine, on the back of his patient and long suffering squaw to be carried over-\\nland for the purposes of a pipe or tomahawk.\\nCharles Hunt, found in October, 1878, a curious stick. It was cut from the\\ncenter of a large tree and shows unmistakably the blaze marks of some fellow that\\nmust certainly have been around at least an hundred years ago.\\nH. J. Miller, who lives near Mount Vernon, discovered one of the greatest\\ncuriosities met with in tlie county. It is nothing less than a petrified dish-cloth or\\ntowel, which at some time has been wrung out and twisted up and in this condition\\nit has petrified. The fiber of the cloth is plainly perceptible.\\nThat big bone discovered in June, 1875, upon the premises of J. L. Benjamin,\\njust south of the village of Romeo, attracted a good deal of attention. It measures\\ntwelve inches in circumference at the narrowest point, while at the largest it reaches\\nthe extraordinary size of twenty-three inches. It was found imbedded in the soft\\nearth, at least, four feet beneath the surface. There is a difference in opinion as to\\njust what portion of the anatomy of the animal it belonged, but is generally con-\\nceded to have been a portion of what must have been one of the most formidable\\nkickers on record and of truly mastodonic proportions. Speaking on this subject\\nthe editor of the Observer remarks The contemplation of this relic of the class\\nof mammoths, long since extinct, opens up a wide field of speculation, and almost\\ninduces one to believe that if it could be thoroughly impressed upon the minds of\\nthe people that a few live specimens of this animal might still be ranging through\\nour beautiful groves, it would have a wholesome effect upon society in general.\\nDuring the progress of improvement on Mr. Benjamin s farm, many evidences\\nof submersion appear. The prairie, cedar, oak and tamarack epochs may be read as\\nin a book, and later the peat forming epoch is made manifest. The collections of\\nG. A. Waterbury, J. E. Day, Drs. Andrus, Douglass, G. H. Cannon, and others afford\\nmuch subject to the geologist and antiquarian on this subject.\\nfe", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0155.jp2"}, "156": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTV.\\nZOOLOGICAL.\\nThe changes wrought by Time have, as it were, lightened the task of dealing\\nwith the zoology of this county. All the great animals of the wilderness, known\\nto the pioneers, have ceased long years ago to make their home in Macomb. The\\nremains of the prehistoric animals are hidden beneath the conformation of ages\\nthe millions of reptiles, which preceded and lived through the long summer, lie\\nburied hundreds of fathoms down.\\nBIRDS.\\nAll that is left to remind us of uncultivated nature are the beautiful birds,\\nwhich visit the county periodically, or make it their home. Of these feathered\\ncitizens, there are about 250 species known to the people of this county a large\\nnumber has been seen only at long intervals, others have been seen once and disap-\\npeared, such as the summer red bird. The Connecticut wariler is one of the most\\nrecent settlers and evidently, one which shows a disposition to make the county\\nher home. Others have settled here since the county was organized, while others\\nstill date their advent away in the long past. In the following pages an effort is\\nmade to deal with the feathered tribe.\\nThe robin, or Turdus migratorius, is a resident during spring and autumn\\nand even throughout such winters as that of 1881-2.\\nThe wood-thrush or Turdis Mustelinus, is a common summer bird. The hermit-\\nthrush has been found breeding here during the spring and fall, and is accom-\\npanied by the olive-backed-thrush. Wilson s thrush visits the county in the spring\\nand sometimes builds its nest here. The Thrasher or brown-thrush resides with us\\nduring the summer months.\\nThe cat-birds come in large numbers during the summer, and build their nests\\nhere. All these birds hover round orchards, barnyards, willow-thickets, berry-\\nbushes and brush-heaps both in the villages and in the country.\\nThe hlue-gmy gnatcatcher is a. common summer resident. The ruby-crowned\\nkinglet is a spring and fall visitor, going South in winter. The golden-crowned\\nkinglet is found everywhere during the spring and autumn months. All these\\nbirds seek a home here for a great portion of the year, and create the envy of the\\nother families by the beautiful nests which they build in the groves and forest\\npatches of the county. The eggs of these birds are three-eighths of an inch long,\\nwhite in color, speckled and dashed with umber and lilac.\\nThe blue-bird is found everywhere during spring, summer and autumn. It\\nnests in decaying trees, fence-posts, and feeds upon worms, grasshoppers, spiders,\\nand berries.\\nThe white-bellied muthatch is another common resident, though originally a\\nCarolinian. The red-bellied hatch comes here from Canada to spend the spring.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0156.jp2"}, "157": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsummer and fall, returning to that cold land in winter. These birds nest\\nin the holes of trees, and feed upon spiders, ants, insects eggs, and seeds.\\nThe titmouse, or black-capped chickadee nests in the woods during fine\\nweather, and comes into the village to spend the winter. It thankfully receives all\\nthe crumbs which may fall in its path.\\nThe brown-creeper is the only representative of the Family Certhiades in this\\ncounty. It dwells here the year round, finding a storehouse in the forest to lay up\\nanimal and vegetable food in the shape of insects and seeds.\\nThe wren family, or Troglodytidae, has six representatives in the county. The\\nCarolina wren, though a straggler, is well known.\\nBewick s wren, or Thryothorus bewicJcii, appeared here for the first time very\\nrecently. His advance from the South was gradual.\\nThe house wren, or Troglodytes cedon, is found in large numbers in the central\\ntownships of the county.\\nTiie winter wren is a well-known visitor, sometimes spending the winter in the\\nvalley. He is known by the telling ti*:le Anorthura troglodytes.\\nThe long-billed marsh wren, or Telmatodytes palustris, builds a suspended nest\\namong the marsli-reeds or in sand grass. There he remains during the summer and\\nthen migrates.\\nThe short-billed wren prefers meadow land and builds a large nest in a secure\\nplace. This family of miniature birds feeds upon insects, grasshoppers, snails,\\nmoths and other delicacies.\\nThe Family Sylvicolidae comprises no less than thirty-three representatives in\\nthis county. The black and white creeper nests beside a fallen tree the blue yel-\\nlow winged warbler in the tree-tops of swamps and heavily timbered land. The\\nblue-winged yellow warbler is a rare visitor. The blue golden-winged warbler\\nremains here during summer and breeds in low, damp woodland.\\nThe Nashville warbler, orange-crowned warbler, Tennessee warbler, yellow\\nwarbler, black-throated green warbler, blue warbler, Blackburnian,yellow-rumped,\\nblack-poll, ba3 -breasted, chestnut-sided, black and yellow. Cape May, prairie, yel-\\nlow-throated, Kirtland s, yellow red-poll, pine creeper and perhaps two or three\\nother species of the warbler family, are well known visitors.\\nThe water thrush, short and long billed, and the redstart belong to the family,\\nand are common here.\\nThe Connecticut warbler, a stranger here until 1881, the Maryland yellow-\\nthi oat, the mourning, the hooded fly-catcher, black-capped fly-catcher, Canada fly-\\ncatcher, all favorite warblers, are beginning to make the county their home.\\nThis is the second family in importance among the birds of North America.\\nTheir food consists chiefly of insects, varied with fruit and berries. They peep into", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0157.jp2"}, "158": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncrevices, scrutinize the abodes of the insect world, and never suffer from want.\\nThis family is the scourge of the orchard and oftentimes destroys fruit fields of great\\nvalue.\\nThe horned lark, or Eremopldla alpestris, is a winter dweller here, and nests\\nduring the close of the cold season. There is anotlier species of the horned lark,\\nwhich leaves on the approach of winter. Both build their nests on the ground,\\nbreed in April, and play around the farm yard or over gravelly soil.\\nThe titlark belongs to the family MotacilUdae. They flock hither in tens of\\nthousands during spring and often remain until fall.\\nThe scarlet tanager, or Pyrangaruhra, is a common visitor. The Summer red-\\nbii d, lutherto referred to as a recent explorer of the North, is very rarely seen here.\\nThe Bohemian wax-wing, or Ampelis garrulus, is a recent and rare visitor.\\nThe cherry bird, or Carolina wax-wing, breeds here in August and September.\\nThey feed upon apples, cherries and berries, but are not numerous enough to cause\\nany great anxiety to the pomologist.\\nThe Familij Hirundinidae comprise the barn swallow, tlie wliite-bellied swal-\\nlow, the eave swallow, the sand swallow and the purple martin. These birds de-\\nstroy myriads of winged insects, and make them their principal food. The swallow,\\nthough not so showy as her gaudy neighbors, confers more real benefit upon the\\npeople than any other member of the bird tribe.\\nTlie Family Vireonidae comprises the red-eyed vireo, brotherly-love vireo, or\\nVireo philadelphicus, warbling vireo, yellow-throated vireo, solitary vireo and white-\\neyed vireo. They feed chiefly on insects, dwell in the forests, and seldom as they\\ncome to town, are in a hurr}^ to return to their rustic homes.\\nThe great northern shrike, or Collurio borealis, sometimes remains here to\\nbreed, but is not such a permanent settler as the loggerhead shrike, which makes\\nits home liere the year round. The wliite-rumped shrike is seen here during the\\nsummer months. They are very quarrelsome among themselves, and savage toward\\nother birds. They impale their victims on thorns and leave them there until driven\\nby hunger to eat them.\\nTiie Family Corvidae is becoming extinct, or at least very uncommon here.\\nDaring the present year the few which visited left suddenly, contrary to all prece-\\ndent. These birds are omniverous, and comprise among others the raven, crow\\nand blue jay. Their evil ways are almost compensated for by their good qualities,\\nand some are inclined to believe that the benefits they confer are far in excess of\\nthe damage they do.\\nThe Family Fringillidae is the most extensive known in the States of the\\nUnion. It is graminivorous, except during the breeding season, when it feeds\\nitself and young on insects. The rose-breasted grosbeak is the only member of the", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0158.jp2"}, "159": {"fulltext": "Lk\\nHISTORY OF :macomb county.\\nfamily which feeds upon the potato bug. The white-crowned sparrow s food is the\\ngrape-vine flea-beetle the fox-sparrow and chewink search out hybernating insects\\nand snails the English sparrow, a recent immigrant, feeds on seeds the purple\\nfinch and crossbills feed on oily seeds and the seeds of pine cones.\\nThe names of the varied representatives of this tribe, are The pine grosbeak,\\npurple finch, white-winged crossbill, red crossbill, red-poll linnet, mealy red-poll,\\npine linnet, goldfinch, snow bunting, Lapland longspur. Savanna sparrow, bay-\\nwinged bunting, yellow-winged sparrow, Henslow s, Lincoln s, swamp, song, chip-\\nping, field, clay-colored, white-throated, white-crowned, fox, and English sparrows.\\nThe latter bird was introduced here in 187o- -4. The blue-bird, martin, swallow,\\nand other sparrows have to fly before the approach of their legions. The lark,\\nfinch, black-throated bunting, rose-breasted gi-osbeak, the indigo bird and the\\nTowhee bunting, or chewink, are not so destructive as the English sparrow\\nthey have their uses but it is likely that when the peopjle realize the importance\\nof the destruction of the imported sparrow, the whole family will fall with that\\nbranch.\\nThe Family Icteridae. The bobolink, cow-bird, red-winged black-bird, meadow\\nlark, rusty grackle, crow black-bird, Baltimore and orchard orioles belong to this\\nfamily. The cow-bird destroys the eggs and young of stranger birds. The oriole\\nfeeds on hairy caterpillars during the season of breeding this bird is of service in\\nthe orchard, and for this service she accepts the first small fruits and other luxuries\\nof the garden. The other members of the family may be termed gregarious they\\nfeed on the seeds of weeds, oats, wheat, corn, and on flies and insects.\\nThe Tyrannidae Family subsist almost altogether on flies, which they pursue and\\ncapture in the most open places. The pewee and king-bird pursue their victims in\\nthe light of day, and even should it escape for a time, it eventually falls before the\\nlance of its pursuer. The family comprises the king-bird, wood pewee, phcebe\\nbird, together with a half-dozen fl3 -catchers, variously named.\\nThe Caprimidgidae Family comprises the whippoorwill, or Antrostomus vociferous,\\nwhich is a common summer resident here, and the night-hawk, another well-known\\nsummer bird. They are given to jay-hawking, and select the night for seeking\\ntheir prey. Then thousands of grasshoppers, moths, beetles, winged insects and\\nflies become their prey. The chimney swallow captures its prey upon the wing in\\na similar manner but it belongs to the Cypselidae family.\\nThe Alcedinidae. The only representative of this family in the county is said to\\nbe the belted king-fisher, which comes here in summer to spend the fishing season.\\nIf it does not at once succeed in catching one of the finny tribe, it is capable of ab-\\nstaining until success crowns its efforts.\\nThe Troehilidae. This family is well represented here by the humming-bird.\\ni) fy", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0159.jp2"}, "160": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThis is an animated cluster of emeralds and rubies, which comes to delight the\\npeople in May, and continues with them until September.\\nThe only member of the CucuUdce residing here during the Summer months is\\nthe black-billed cuckoo, which comes to visit the woods and orchards of the State\\nin the middle of June, and remains until harvest time.\\nThe Picadae Family, as represented here, is composed of seven species of wood-\\npecker, known as the downy, the hairy, the Arctic black-back, the yellow-bellied,\\nred-headed, and golden-winged. The family subsist on timber insects, fruit,\\nberries .and green corn. T)ie yellow-bellied woodpecker is very destructive to\\napple trees he sucks the sap of trees in some parts of the Union, but owing to the\\nlengtli of winter in nortlieastern Michigan, he has had no time to do much mischief\\nliere.\\nThe Strigidae Family comprises the barn owl, great horned owl, long-eared owl,\\nshort-eared owl, snow owl, hawk owl, sparrow owl, and Acadian owl. A few of\\nthese are very common residents here, the last named is an immigrant which settled\\nhere in 1879. All form tlie nocturnal branch of the raptorial species, and select\\nfor their prey rats, mice, fish, frogs, chickens, Ijirds of all kinds, and sometimes\\nyoung pigs. Tliey have their uses.\\nThe Falconidae Family is comparatively extensive, and is fully represented here.\\nIt includes the marsh hawk, white-tailed kite, sharp-shinned hawk, goshawk.\\nCooper s hawk, pigeon hawk, sparrow hawk, red-tailed hawk, red-shouldered hawk,\\nbroad-winged hawk, Swainson s hawk, rough-legged hawk, the fish-hawk, and the\\nbald eagle. They are birds of prey which select day-time for carrying on their\\noperations. The fish-hawk will eat only fish. The bald eagle s favorite food is\\ncarrion and fish. When his taste leans toward fish, he generally makes a descent\\nupon the fish-hawk.\\nThe turkey buzzard, or CatJiartes awra, is common in the county during July\\nand August. They are entirely carnivorous, and come here after the period of in-\\ncubation has been passed in the Southern States.\\nThe Family Meliagradae is represented here by the wild turkey. This bird\\nwas well known here in olden times, but has now almost ceased to be a resident.\\nThe Family Tetraonidae is peculiarly one of game birds. It includes tlie par-\\ntridge or ruffed grouse, the quail and the prairie chicken. The quail is a common\\nresident of the county, and appears to attain its greatest size here. These birds\\nsubsist on the various grains, seeds, berries, buds, grapes and chestnuts. They\\nform a family of large and beautiful birds, but incapable of being thoroughly\\ndomesticated.\\nTlie Family Oolumhidae includes the wild pigeon and Carolina dove. The\\nlatter resides here during the greater portion of the year. The pigeon is thorough-\\ns r-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0160.jp2"}, "161": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF ilACOMB COUNTY.\\nly graminivorous in its tastes, and in this respect diffei s from tlie family Tetraon-\\nidae.\\nTlie Family Fhalarojyodidae comprises the northern phalarope and Wilson s\\nphalarope, two migrants which build their nests here at long intervals.\\nThe Family Charadridae, or the plover tribe, is represented here by the kill-\\ndeer, semipalmated, piping, golden and black-bellied plovers. They feed upon\\nmollusks, water insects, grasshoppers, beetles, etc. This family is inferior in size\\nto its European kindred.\\nThe Family Ardeidae includes the great bittern or Indian hen, the little bit-\\ntern, the great blue, great white, green and night herons. These birds are summer\\nresidents, with the exception of the night heron, which dwells here the year round.\\nThe Family Gruidae, represented here by the sandhill crane and the whoop-\\ning crane. Neither of these birds breed here, and they may be set down as common\\nstragglers or tramps.\\nThe Family Calymhidae is very small. Only two representatives are found\\nhere, viz.: the common loon, well known for many years, and the black-throated\\nloon, a recent visitor. To form an idea of the quickness of this unwieldy bird one\\nmust make an attempt to capture him alive, or even shoot him. During travels in\\nthe Northwest (1879 80), the writer found three specimens of the family living\\nquietly in a lake-side nest, and left them undisturbed. Shakespeare s cream-faced\\nloon was found there.\\nThe Rail tribe is comparatively well known here. It includes the Carolina\\nand Virginia rails the Florida gallinule and the coot, all common summer birds.\\nThe rare summer visitors of the tribe comprise the black, yellow, king and clapper\\nrails.\\nThe Grebe tribe, or family podicipidaj, comprises the horned grebe, the pied-\\nbilled grebe as common residents and the red-necked and red eared grebe which\\ncome here at intervals.\\nThe Family Anatidae is perhaps the best known and most useful of the feath-\\nered race. It comprises the goose, duck, widgeon, teal and merganser. The birds\\nof the tribe common to the county are the brant and Canada goose, the mallard,\\nblack, pin-tail, gad wall, wood, big black-head, little black-head, ring-necked, poach-\\nard, canvas-back, golden-eye, butter-ball, long-tailed, Labrador, ruddy and fish\\nducks, the red-breasted merganser, the hooded merganser, American widgeon,\\ngreen-winged teal, blue-winged teal, and the shoveller teal.\\nThe Family Scolopacidae includes the woodcock, American snipe, red-breasted\\nsnipe, upland plover, long-billed curlew, stilt sandpiper, semipalmated, least,\\npectoral and red-backed sandpipers, Wilst, greater yellow legs, lesser yellow legs\\nand solitary, spotted and buff-breasted sandpipers. All these birds are common\\nnv^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0161.jp2"}, "162": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nhere. They are all waders, and subsist on aquatic insects, grass-hoppers,\\nmollusks, crustaceans, etc.\\nThe Family Laridae comprises all the terns and gulls known in the temperate\\nzone of our continent. The birds of the tribe, common to Macomb County, are the\\nherring gull, the ringed-billed, the laughing, and the Bonaparte gulls. The fork-\\ntail gull is an uncommon visitor. The terns best known here, include the Arctic,\\nMarsh, Firster s, Wilson s, the little, and the black tern.\\nThe German Stork made his appearance here in 1879, and again in 1880.\\nMAMMALIA.\\nAmong the many papers on this subject presented to the writer, there is one\\nspecially applicable prepared by J. S. Tibbits. It does not mention the New York\\nand brown bats, the shrew, and moles which were once known here, yet it deals\\nfully with the larger mammalia, known to the first settlers of the districts border-\\ning on Lake St. Clair. The contributor states Most of the wild animals com-\\nmon to the State were found in great numbers by the early settlers of this county,\\nand the descendants of Nimrod and Esau found abundant material upon which to\\nexercise their favorite pursuit. The animals mostly to be found here were tlie deer,\\nbear, wolf, lynx, wild cat, fox, coon, badger, fishei porcupine, woodchuck, rabbit,\\nmink, and weasel. The skunk and rat did not make their appearance in the rural\\ndistricts for nearly ten years after the first settlements were made. They were\\nboth as great curiosities to me then as tlie mermaid would be now. My first experi-\\nence with a skunk was a sad, though I think a profitable one. A neighbor, having\\nan open cellar wall, ascertained that a skunk had taken refuge in the wall, and lie\\noffered me ten cents to kill and skin him. Being anxious to gratify ray curiosity\\nto see a skunk, and my ambition to earn an honest penny, I readily undertook the\\njob. Ascertaining the locality of the animal, I proceeded with a sharpened stick\\nto dislodge him. Getting down on my knees, I peered into tlie hole and gave\\nhim a sharp punch with my stick. He immediately resorted to iiis usual mode of\\ndefense, and discharged a full battery square in my face. I retreated in good\\norder, though in very bad odor, and have wisley concluded ever since to let every\\nman skin his own skunks.\\nThe birds common in these early days were the eagle, hawk, turkey-buzzard,\\nraven, owl, crane, turkey, partridge, duck, wild goose, and a variety of the smaller\\nbirds. Tlie crow, like the skunk and rat, did not make its appearance till a number\\nof years after the first settlements were made. The turkej^-buzzard, so common in\\nthose early days, is seldom or never seen now. This bird resembles the wild turkey\\nmore nearly than any other bird, though by no means so large. It is not a bird of\\nprey, but, like the raven, lives on carrion. It is a powerful bird on the wing, and\\nV^", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0162.jp2"}, "163": {"fulltext": "i.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsoars to great heights, sailing seemingly for hours without a movement of the wings.\\nThe quills are very valuable for writing purposes, and the possession of one was\\nconsidered a treasure, inasmuch as with careful usage one would last through a\\nschool term of three or four months.\\nTlie wild turkey was very common, and vast flocks of several hundred were\\nfrequently to be met with. The usual mode of hunting them was for two or three\\npersons to proceed cautiously througli the woods till they came upon a flock, then\\nsuddenly fire at random amongst them, the object being to scatter them in all direc-\\ntions. When thus scattered they will invariably return to the same spot to get to-\\ngether again, the old ones coming first to call their young together. The hunters,\\nhid in some secluded place, with their turkey calls ready for use, would wait\\npatiently for the return of the old birds. These turkey-calls consist of the hollow\\nbone of the turkey s wing, and, in the mouth of an experienced hunter, can be\\nmade to exactly imitate the piping sound of the mother bird when calling her brood\\ntogether. Soon the maternal notes of the old birds are heard, and the hunters\\nrespond with their calls, luring them on to certain destruction. After the old\\nbirds are killed, the young ones fall an easy prey to the unerring aim of the skillful\\nmarksman. The flesh of the wild turkey is esteemed a great luxury, and one of\\nthe most delicious meals I think 1 ever ate was made from steak cut from the breast\\nof a j oung turkey, fried in butter, and partaken after a hard day s hunt, in which\\na companion and myself killed seven large fine birds.\\nThe wild turkey is sometimes caught in pens made of poles, some five or six\\nfeet in height, and covered over the to^) to prevent their escape. A covered pas-\\nsage-way is made under the pen large enough for the turkeys to crawl through.\\nCorn or other grain is scattered in the passage-way and inside the pen. The un-\\nsuspecting birds, seeing the grain, commence picking it up, and thus one after\\nanother crawl through the hole into the pen. Once in, forever in, for they never\\nthink of putting their heads down to crawl out again.\\nDeer were also very abundant, and scarcely a day passed but more or less of\\nthem were seen in and about the clearings. But little skill was required in killing\\nthem, the principal qualification being a steady nerve. During the hot days in the\\nsummer, when the mosquitos and the gnats were troublesome, the deer would\\nresort to the streams and ponds of water during the night to get rid of their tor-\\nmentors. Here they would fall an easy prey to the hunter, who, in his canoe, with\\na torch at the bow, would row noiselessly about. The deer, seeing the light, would\\nremain as it were entranced, presenting to the unerring aim of the hunter Iwo\\nsmall bright globes of light, between which the fatal bullet was sure to be lodged.\\nAnother mode of hunting the deer, which frequently occasioned rare sport, was by\\nwatching for them on their run-ways, and shooting them down as they passed.\\ni", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0163.jp2"}, "164": {"fulltext": "163 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nOne or two persons were stationed on tlie run-way, wliile others with the hounds\\nwould scour the woods to scare up tlie deer. Whenever one was started it would\\ninvariably make for the run-way, the hounds and the men or boys following in\\nhot pursuit. Rarely, indeed, was it the case that he was successful in running the\\ngauntlet, but usually fell a victim to his rutldess pursuers. A laughable incident\\noccurred at one of these hunts which is too good to be passed by unnoticed. A\\nyoung man came from an Eastern city to visit his country cousins at the West.\\nHaving never seen a deer, and being very anxious to engage in a hunt before his\\nreturn, it was soon arranged to have one. Proceeding to the forest, the young\\nman was stationed on the run-way, with strict instructions to shoot the deer\\nwhen he passed. The boys, with their hounds and guns, commenced scouring the\\nwoods. Soon the deep baying of the hounds was heard, denoting that the game\\nhad been started. Nearer and nearer came the pursuer and the pursued. Suddenly\\na fine buck made his appearance, with his noble antlers laid back upon his shoulders\\nand his white tail aloft in the air. On he sped past the affrighted youth, who stooH.\\nwith his rifle cocked, his eyes and mouth wide open, the embodiment of wonder and\\nastonishment. Hard upon the heels of the deer came the dogs, and soon the boys,\\nwho, seeing their cousin in this ludicrous situation, asked in amazement, Why he\\ndid not shoot the buck Buck said he, I haven t seen any buck. I only\\nsaw the devil coming down the hill with a rocking-chair on his head and his white\\nhandkerchief sticking out behind. Wolvcs and bears were more numerous than\\nagreeable. They were very destructive to the few flocks of sheep and herds of\\nswine then in the county. They were caught in traps and in dead-falls, and some-\\ntimes wolves were inveigled into the folds with the sheep, and captured in that\\nway. A large pen was made of poles, and so constructed that it was narrowed up\\nat the top, leaving an opening only a few feet square. Tliis afforded an easy ingress\\nto the hungry wolf, but an effectual barrier to his escape. He would thus be found\\nin the morning, having done no harm, and looking very sheepish, indeed.\\nA novel mode of trapping the bear was sometimes adopted which proved suc-\\ncessful. A hallow tree was selected into which a hole was cut of a triangular\\nshape, with the acute angle at the lower side. The hole was made some seven or\\neight feet from the ground, and just large enough for bruiu to squeeze his head\\nthrough. Inside of the tree, some two or three feet below the hole, was suspended\\na piece of meat. The bear, scenting the food, would climb up the tree, and, in his\\nefforts to get at the meat, would get hung in the acute angle of the hole, from\\nwhich it was impossible to extricate himself.\\nOccasionally a lynx was seen in the swamps in the western part of the county,\\nbut they were extremely shy, and it was rare indeed that one was killed. Tlie\\nporcupine was more common and they proved very troublesome to the hunters", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0164.jp2"}, "165": {"fulltext": "l\\\\^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ndogs, which would frequently return from the chase at night with their mouths full\\nof tlieir sharp quills. It is supposed by many that the hedgehog and porcupine are\\nidentical, but this is a mistake. The only point of resemblance is in their coat of\\narmor, which consists of long sharp-pointed quills. Whenever these animals are\\nattacked they double themselves up into a ball, and thus present a formidable\\ndefense. Their quills are easily detached, but I think it is a mistaken idea that\\nthey have the power of throwing off their quills, as some suppose. The hedgehog\\nis a native of the old world, is small in size, and carnivorous whereas the porcu-\\npine is a native of the new world, is about the size of the woodchuck, and lives on\\nroots, vegetables, and wild fruits. The badger and tlie fisher were occasionally\\nseen, but they were by no means common. Most of these wild animals, like the\\naborigines of the country, have receded before the march of civilization and\\nimprovement, and but few of them can now be found within tlie limits of the\\ncounty.\\nA soft-shell turtle was caught in Washington in the Summer of 1881. It has\\nbeen said that a few of these creatures were seen in tlie county previously, but this\\nof 1881 is the first of which there is any record.\\nEarly on the morning of Jan. 14, 1882, an ermine was caught in the cellar of\\nEdwin Starkweather s house. This is supposed to be the first of that species found\\nin this portion of Michigan.\\nTHE FLORA OF THE COUNTY\\nComprise almost all the orders known in the Northern States. Of tlie 130 orders\\nrepresented in Michigan, fully 107 are common in tlie country bordering on the\\nmouth of the Clinton River. The represented genera within Macomb are estimated\\nat 370, comprising no less than 850 species. New and beautiful flowers are added\\nannually to the pioneer garden beds of the valley wild flowers appear and fade\\nmany beautiful colors, well remembered by the old settlers, have disappeared within\\nthe last decade, and thus one of the most beautful features of Nature is undergoing\\nmarked changes.\\nMETEOROLOGICAL.\\nTHE BIG SNOWS.\\nThe traditions of the Ciiippeways and Wj andots point out the years 1755\\nand 1775 as the Winters of the great snows. Those severe storms, which swept\\nover the Peninsula within two decades, destroyed great numbers of forest animals,\\nthe bones of which in after years literally encumbered the wilderness.\\nWithin the pioneer period the snow oT 1822-3 was the heaviest. It fell to a\\ndepth of four feet on the level, and was accompanied with such an icy current, that", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0165.jp2"}, "166": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nlarge numbers of deer, wolf, and bear perished before its withering advance. In\\n1830-1 the snow storms set in early in November, and continued throughout the\\nmouth, destroying the wild animals in large numbers, and inflicting many hard-\\nships on the Indians and pioneers. In the month of August, 1831, a severe irost\\nset in, which occasioned many serious troubles and disappointments.\\nTHE BLACK DAYS.\\nOn the morning of Sunday, November 8, 1819, the sun rose upon a cloudy\\nsky, which assumed, as the light grew upon it, a strange greenish tint, varying in\\nplaces to an inky blackness. After a sliort time the whole sky became terribly\\ndark, dense black clouds filled the atmospliere, and those changes were followed by\\na down-pour of rain, which appeared to be sometliing of the nature of soap-suds,\\nand which was found to have deposited after settling a substance resembling soot.\\nThe atmosphere assumed its usual form that afternoon, and the following day was\\ndry and frosty. On the morning of Tuesday 10th, heavy clouds again appeared,\\nchanged rapidly from a deep green to a pitchy black, and the sun. when seen occa-\\nsionally through them, was sometimes of a dark brown, or an unearthly yellow\\ncolor, and again bright orange or blood red. The clouds constantly deepened in\\ncolor and density, and later on a heavy vapor seemed to descend to tlie earth, the\\nday became as dark as night, and the gloom increased or diminished most fitfully.\\nThe French traders looked on the phenomenon with a peculiar curiosity while the\\nIndians were actually alarmed. The more sensible concluded that the Western\\npine woods were alilaze, others that the recently explored prairies were burning,\\nwliile others stated that a volcanic eruption must be in progress. The Indians\\nquoted the prophecy that one day the Peninsula would be destroyed by an earth-\\nquake, while others looked upon the signs, as signaling the close of this world.\\nAbout the middle of the afternoon a great body of clouds seemed to rush sud-\\ndenly across the country, and immediately everytliing was hidden in appalling\\ndarkness. A pause and hush succeeded for a moment, and then a most glaring\\nflash of electricity flamed over tlie land next the thunder seemed to shake the\\nvery earth to its center. Another pause followed, and then fell a slight shower of\\nrain similar to that which introduced the phenomenon two days previously. After\\nthis siiower the day grew brighter, but an hour later it was as dark as ever. An-\\nother rush of clouds, and another flash of lightning introduced the climax of the\\nscene. The sky above and around was as black as ink but right in one spot, in\\nmid air above the Indian village, the lightning danced for some minutes in a fairy\\ncircle, then rushed eastward, and was not seen again. The darkest hour had come\\nand gone. The gloom gradually subsided and gave place to dawn, the people grew\\nless fearful, the real night came on, and when next morning dawned the elements\\nwere at peace, and the world seemed as natural as before.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0166.jp2"}, "167": {"fulltext": "J\\nHISTORY OF MAC OjMR COUNTY.\\nTORNADO 1835.\\nPerhajjis the best remembered and most extraordinary phenomenon was that\\nwhich the people of the northeastern counties witnessed in 1835. On Christmas\\nday of that year an excejationally heavy fall of snow covered the ground, which\\nwas followed on the 26th by a mist, and this was succeeded in turn by a drizzlino-\\nrain. The rain ceased suddenly, the clouds lowered, grew dark, and assumed such\\nappearances as would lead the spectator to conclude that this globe was aljout to\\ncollapse. The storm king at length broke loose, swooped down from the North-\\nwest in black night, uprooting trees, sweeping everything in his track, and bringing\\nwith him such a current of icy air that man and beast, not then in shelter, were\\nfrozen to death. This storm was as sudden asit was phenomenal. It is well remem-\\nbered by the old settlers, and forms for them a mark on the page of time.\\nTHE METEOE.\\nThe meteor seen November 1, 1857, passing southward, proved to be a most\\nremarkable one. Its journey was accompanied by a sharp, rumbling sound like\\nthunder.\\nTHE COMET.\\nThis strange visitor, belonging to that numerous but erratic family whose\\nmovements are so carefully noted by astronomers, and the time of whose entrances\\nand exits is a matter of mathematical certaint) appeared to the people of this\\ncounty, June 30, 1861. Whatever may have been its attributes and peculiarities\\none thing is certain, that it has had no rivals in the comet line. Its sudden debut\\nat that time was the cause of much speculation among men of letters as well as\\nthe people in general. It was first visible in a northwesterly direction, when it\\nappeared like a bright star. It attracted but little attention at first, it being sup-\\nposed to be a lamp attached to a kite but directly a train of light shot up, which\\ngradually increased in length until it passed the zenith. The nucleus of the comet\\nwhen viewed through a glass, presented a very clear and sharply-defined outline,\\nshining with the brilliancy of a star of the first magnitude. Its motion was in an\\neasterly direction, and exceedingly rapid. The train of light extended beyond the\\nconstellation, Lyra, and the center of its extremity was directly over the star Vega.\\nIts length extended over the immense distance of 100\u00c2\u00b0, being 30 longer than the\\ncomet of 1843, which extended over a space of only 70\u00c2\u00b0.\\nThe comet of 1881 remained with us for weeks, and disappeared from the view\\nof citizens of this county, a short time after a portion of its tail separated from the\\nnucleus and main train. It will be remembered as affording much subject for gossip\\nduring the latter part of the summer of 1881.\\nV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0167.jp2"}, "168": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nECLIPSE OF THE MOON, 1881.\\nOne of tlio most sublime astronomical events of 1881 a total eclipse of the\\nmoon occurred Sunday morning June 12. Tiie moon appeared above the horizon\\nat about 8:20 p. m., on tlie 11th, in its usual brilliancy. When about two and one-\\nhalf hours high, it received the first contact with the penumbra of light shadow of\\nthe earth upon its eastern limb, which became slightly dim, and a loss of lunar\\nlight followed as the moon entered the penumbra. Fifty-six minutes then elapsed\\nwithout further change in its appearance, while traversing the partial shadow of\\nthe earth but wlien the umbra or dark shadow of our planet was reached, the east-\\nern limb of the moon again darkened, suddenly, almost to invisibility. The circu-\\nlar shape of the earth s shadow was distinctly seen when passing over the face of\\nthe moon. At 12:38 A. M., June 12, the moon was wholly within the umbra, and\\nthe total eclipse commenced. It continued in darkness for an hour or so, when all\\nwas licrht a jain.\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nTHE INDIANS.\\nBefore entering upon the history of men and events connected with the county\\nduring the last century, we will inquire into its aboriginal or prehistoric period.\\nFrom years coeval with the Columbian era, the Indian, as we know him, made his\\npresence known to the decaying remnants of the Mound Building Race, who sought\\na refuge on this peninsula from the periodical assaults of their barbaric brethren.\\nThe origin of the American Indians, which must always interest and instruct, is\\na favorite with the ethnologist, even as it is one of deep concern to the ordinary\\nreader. The era of their establishment as a distinct and insulated people must be\\nset down and credited to a period immediately after the separation of the Asiatic,\\nafter the confusion of language, and the formation of languages. No doubt can\\nexist, when the American Indian is regarded as of Asiatic origin. Tiie fact is that\\nthe full-blood Indian of pioneer days is descended directly from the original inhabi-\\ntants of tliis continent, oi in other words from the survivors of that people, wiio, on\\nbeing driven from tlieir fair possessions, retired to the wilderness in sorrow, and\\nreared up their children under the saddening influences of their unquenchable\\ngriefs, bequeathing them only the habits, manners, and customs of the wild, cloud-\\nroofed homes of their exile a sullen silence and a rude moral code leaving them\\nignorant of the arts and sciences wliicli, undoubtedly, marked the period of their\\nprosperity.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0168.jp2"}, "169": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MAC:OJ[B COUNTY.\\nIn after years those wild sons of the forest and the prairie grew in numbers\\nand in strength, yet minus even a tradition to point out the rise and fall of their\\nfathers. However, some legend told them of their present sufferings, of the high\\nstation whicli their progenitors once had held, and of the riotous race that now\\nreveled in a wealth, which should be theirs. The fierce passions of the savages\\nwere aroused, and uniting their scattered bauds, all marched in silence upon the\\nvillages of the Tartars, driving them onwards to the capital of their Incas, and\\nconsigning their homes to flames. Once in view of the great city, the hurrying\\nbands halted in surprise. Tartar cunning took the advantage of the situation, and\\noffered to the sons of their former victims pledges of amity and justice pledges\\nwhich were sacredly observed. Henceforth Mexico was open to the children of the\\nMound Builders, bearing precisely the same social and commercial relation to them,\\nthat the Hudsons Bay company s posts do the northwestern Indians of the preseiit\\nday obtaining all offering little in return.\\nThe subjection of the Mongolian race, represented in North America by that\\nbranch, to which those Tartars belonged, seems to have taken place about five\\ncenturies prior to the arrival of the Spaniards while it may be concluded that the\\nwar of the races, which resulted in tlie reduction of those villages erected by the\\nTartar hordes, took place between one and two hundred years later. Tliese state-\\nments, though actually referring to events which in point of time, are compara-\\ntively modern, can be substantiated only by the fact that, about the periods\\nmentioned, the dead bodies of an unknown race of men were washed upon the\\nEuropean coasts; while previous to that time there is no account in European\\nannals of even a vestige of trans-Atlantic humanity being transferred by ocean cur-\\nrents to the shores of the eastern world. Toward the latter part of the first half\\nof the Fifteenth Century, two dead bodies, entirely free from decomposition, and\\ncorresponding with the physical characteristics of the red man as afterwards seen\\nby Columbus, were cast ashore on the Azores a circumstance which confirmed\\nthe great, the illustrious discoverer of this continent in his belief that a Western\\nworld and a Western people existed and waited recognition.\\nStorm, flood, disease, whisky, have created sad havoc in tlie ranks of the\\naborigines since the occupation of the country by the while man. Inlierent causes\\nhave led in a greater degree to the dissemination of the race even more than the\\nadvance of civilization, which seems not to affect it materially. In the mainte-\\nnance of the same number of representatives during tliree centuries, and its exist-\\nence in the very face of a most unceremonious, and whenever necessary, cruel\\nconquest, the grand dispensations of the Unseen Ruler are demonstrated for, with-\\nout the aborigines, savage and treacherous as they were, it is possible that the\\nSpanish and French explorers, would have so many natural difficulties to contend\\ni", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0169.jp2"}, "170": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF :MAC0MB COUNTY.\\nagainst, that they would surrender their worlc in despair, and fly from a continent,\\nwhich their knowledge, zeal, and perseverance gave to the world. It can not be\\nquestioned that the ultimate resolve of Columbus was strengthened by the appear-\\nance of Indian corpses on the Eastern shores of the Atlantic, even as it is conceded\\nthat the existence of savages in the interior led the Spanish and French missionary\\npriests from savage village to village, until the entire continent from the Arctic\\nregions to Patagonia was known to the civilized world. From such a stand-point\\nthe position of the Indian in the economy of the Divinity must be acknowledged,\\nand tlie services which he has rendered to civilization held in high esteem. It\\nwould not be a matter for surprise to learn, that the same spirit which crushed the\\npower of tyranny at Yorktown 100 years ago, and sent a thrill of liberty through-\\nout the world, would offer to the remnant of a great and ancient race a lasting\\npeace.\\nTHE OTCHIPWE INVASION.\\nDuring the second decade of the Sixteenth Century, about the year 1519-20,\\nthe Otchipwes or Chippewas gained possession of the district from the mouth of\\nthe Kawkawlin to the river, now known as the Clinton, called by the French\\nBeviere am- Hurons. At this time tlie great struggle for tribal supremacy took\\nplace, and the last Sauk warrior fell before the advancing Chippewas in the valley\\nof tlie Saginaw. Throughout all this district, particularly along its rivers and\\nstreams, may be found mounds filled with human bones, scattered round in all\\ndirections, showing, unmistakably, that they were cast together without regularity,\\nand telling of fierce and sanguinary battles. So early as 1834, a few aged Indians\\nresided on the shores of Lake Huron each of them was questioned regarding the\\nancient history of his nation, and each of them was not slow to relate the tradition\\nof his tribe, so far as it related to the Chippewa conquest of Northern and Western\\nMichigan. At length the old chief Puttasamine was interviewed in the presence\\nof Peter Gruette, a half-breed, well known from Detroit to Mount Clemens, and\\nwestward still to Mackinac. Gruette acted as interpreter, and as a result the\\nfollowing valuable legendary sketch comes down to us. Puttasamine said the\\nSauks occupied the whole country from Thunder Bay on the north, to the head\\nwaters of tlie Shiawassee, and from the mouth of Grand River to that of the Huron\\nnorth of Detroit. The rest of the country was occupied by the Pottawatomies,\\nthe Lake Superior country by the Otchipwes and Ottawas, the Monomonies round\\nGreen Bay, and the Sioux west of the Mississippi. The main village of the Sauk\\nnation stood on the west side of the Saginaw River, near its mouth and from that\\nplace were accustomed to rush forth to war with the Chippewas on the north and\\nthe Pottawatomies on the south, and also with other nations in Canada. At length\\na council was called consisting of Otchipwes, Pottawatomies, Monomonies, Otta-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0170.jp2"}, "171": {"fulltext": "-H^\\nHISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwas, and six Tiations of New York, which council assembled on the island of Mack-\\ninaw, and where it decided on a war of extermination. The chiefs summoned the\\nwarriors, a large army was organized, and embarking in bark canoes, started down\\nthe west shore of Lake Huron, arriving at Saginaw Bay. tlie warriors started over\\nthe waters by night, lay concealed during the day, and so continued their advance\\nuntil they arrived at a place called Petobegong, about ten miles above the mouth\\nof the Saginaw River. There they disembarked a portion of the army, while the\\nmain division crossed the bay and made a landing on the east bank of the estuary\\nof the Saginaw, in the night. Next morning both divisions started up the river so\\nas to attack the eastern and western towns at the same time. The warriors on\\nthe west bank attacked the main village, surprised the inhabitants, and massacred\\nalmost every man, woman and child to be found there the few survivors escaping\\nacross the river to another village, which occupied the site of the Portsmouth.\\nThe eastern division of the allies came up to the village, which then occupied\\nthe site of Bay Cit\\\\% where a desperate battle was fought. Notwithstanding the\\nfavorable position held by the Sauks, they were defeated and great numbers slain\\nthe survivors retreating, some into the eastern wilderness, others seeking refuge on\\nSkull Island. Here the refugees considered themselves safe, as the enemy did not\\nappear to possess any canoes but the season offered the invader, that which art\\ndenied; for on the next night, the ice was found sufficiently thick to warrant a\\ncrossing, which circumstance enabled the allies to advance on the island. Here\\nnothing was left of the Sauks, save twelve women, and those who fled eastward to\\nthe river country. The victory was as decisive as it was bloody. The victors\\nreviewed their forces, and then divided, some proceeding up the Cass (formerly the\\nHuron) and the Flint others up the Shiawassee, Tittabawasink, and spread over\\nthe land.\\nThe most important battles were fought against other tribes in the neighbor-\\nhood of the Flint bluffs, and eastward to Detroit but of such Puttasamine could\\nrecount very little.\\nAfter the extermination of the Sauk warriors, the twelve women referred to,\\nremained for disposal, and so important did they appear, that a council of the allies\\nwas held to decide their fate. Some were for torturing them to death others\\nrecommended mercy while others still argued that they should be sent west of the\\nMississippi. Tlie last proposition was carried, and an arrangement made with the\\nSioux, that no tribe should molest them, that they should be responsible for their\\nprotection. The Sioux warriors and women kept their promises faithfully.\\nThe conquered country was divided among the allies as a common hunting\\nground but great numbers of them who engaged in the chase, never returned,\\nnor could any tidings of them be found, for which reason it became the settled", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0171.jp2"}, "172": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nopinion of the Indians, that the spirits of their victims haunted the hunting\\ngrounds and were killing off their warriors. In reality the disappearance of many\\na warrior was due to the fact, that a few Sauks, who had escaped the massacre, still\\nlingered round the old and well-known hunting grounds, watching for the strag-\\ngling conquerors, and slaying them whenever opportunity offered.\\nTondogong, an Indian chief, who died in 1840, at a very advanced age, has left\\nthe record behind, that in his boyhood, about eighty years ago, he killed a Sauk.\\nEven up to the year 1850, the old Indians of the north-eastern counties of Michi-\\ngan believed there was a solitary Sauk still to be seen in the forests of their lands\\nthey had seen the place where he had made his fires and slept. For days after such\\na discovery they would not leave their camp grounds there is a Sauk in the\\nwoods, and they had seen tvhere he built his fires and slept.\\nThe close of the drama is within the history of our own times. We have seen\\nthe Otchipwes in all their villages. Tiie Sixteenth Century had not closed, when\\nthis tribe boasted of power in number and intelligence finally the Otchipwe lan-\\nguage predominated, until at the present time it is spoken among Indians from the\\nArctic Circle south to latitude 40\\\\ Puttasamine, or Puttaquasamine, born about\\nthe 3 ear 1729, stated that the tradition was related to him when a boy, by his\\ngrandfather, ninety years previous to 1834, and further that it had been handed\\ndown to his grandfather from his ancestors, and was a custom with him to repeat it\\noften to his people, so that their tradition or history should not be lost.\\nTHE MIAMIES AND POTTAWATOMIBS.\\nWestern Ohio, Southern Michigan and the country now comprised in the State\\nof Indiana were once in possession of the Miamies, one of the branches of the\\npowerful Algonquin tribe, that interposed between the tribes of the Six Nations,\\nof the northern lake shores, and the Mobilian tribes of the Atlantic slopes. Their\\nclaim to this territory was proven in the great conclave at Greenville, Ohio, in 1795,\\nimmediately prior to entering into the treaty. On this occasion, Machikinaqua, a\\nchief and orator of the Miamies, addressing Gen. Wayne, said My forefather\\nkindled the first fires at Detroit thence he extended his lines from the head waters\\nof the Scioto River thence to its mouth thence down the Ohio to the mouth of\\nthe Wabash thence to Chicago and Lake Michigan these are the boundaries\\nwherein the prints of my ancestors houses are everywhere to beseen. Historians\\nhave acknowledged the truth and claim of the Miami chief, confirming many of his\\nstatements regarding other people s inhabiting his territory. The Delaware Indians\\ndriven before the incoming European colonists tiie Shawonoes from the South\\nforced to move northward by the Aztecs of the Southwest, or the Mobiliaus of the\\nSoutheast, and the Otchipwes and Pottawatomies of the northern regions. Lagio,\\ns r~", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0172.jp2"}, "173": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF JIACOMB COUNTY.\\nan Indian chief, refei ring to the immigration of tlie latter, maintained that a very\\nlong time since, the Great Spirit sent upon the Pottawatomies a severe Winter,\\nand they came over the hard water of Lake Michigan and asked the privilege of\\nhunting until Spring that the Miamies granted it that they returned home in the\\nSpring, and the next Winter came back, and would never return to Lake Superior\\nagain.\\nREIGN OF THE CHOLERA.\\nThe cholera entered the Indian settlements in 1823-4, and tended to increase\\nthe prevailing dread of some impending disaster. Providence, however, ruled tliat\\nthe pioneers should suffer alone from financial reverses, while the Indians should be\\ncarried away by disease. A large number of tlie doomed race, then dwelling in\\nthe county, perished many fled to the wilderness to seek a hiding place, wliere the\\nGreat Spirit could not find them to pursue them with iiis vengeance. Even the\\nwild woods did not shelter the poor savages from the terrible scourge. Throughout\\nthe forest, along the banks of each river and stream, the echoes of their dismal\\nshrieks resounded, for a short while, and then died away in death. Happy Indians\\nThey survived not to witness the sacred circles of their fathers, the burial grounds\\nof their race, upturned by the. plow, or covered with the homes and factories of\\ncivilized man they were spared at least, this last and most terrible affliction. The\\nsoldiers were attacked by the disease at Fort Gratiot at the same time. The poor\\nfellows flying from the pestilence, found a resting place near John Tucker s house,\\nand a friend in the owner.\\nINDIAN TREATIES.\\nThe treaty of Fort Mcintosh, negotiated Jan. 21, 1785, granted to the United\\nStates the military post of Detroit, with a district, beginning at the mouth of the\\nRiver Rosine, on the west end of Lake Erie, and running west six miles up tlie\\nsouthern bank of the Rosine, thence northerly, and .always six miles west of the\\nstrait, until it strikes the lake, St. Clair. Among the signers of this treaty, were\\nGeo. Clarke, Richard Butler, Arthur Lee, Daunghquat, Abraham Kuhn, Ottawa-\\nverri, Hobocan, Walindightun, Taxapoxi, Wingenum, Packalant, Gingewanno,\\nWaanoos, Konalawassee, Shawnqum, and Quecookkia. This treaty was the first\\nwhich regarded any portion of Macomb County. The Indians of the Chippewa\\ntribe on the Huron of Lake St. Clair were not represented by any of their chiefs\\nbut it is supposed that Waanoos was commissioned by them to acquiesce in the\\ngeneral opinion of the Council, holden at Fort McInto.sh.\\nTREATY OF GREENVILLE.\\nThis treaty was negotiated by Gen. Anthony Wayne August 3, 1795. It was\\nstipulated that the post at Detroit, and all the land to the north, the west, and the\\n3", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0173.jp2"}, "174": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsouth of it, of which the Indian title was extinguished by grants to the French or\\nEnglish Governments and so much more land to be annexed to the district of\\nDetroit as is comprehended between the River Rosine on the south, Lake St. Clair\\non the north, and a line, the general course whereof shall be six miles distant from\\nthe west end of Lake Erie, and Detroit River should be ceded to the United States.\\nAmong the Pottawatomies of the Huron who signed the treaty were Okia, Chamung,\\nSegagewau, Nanaume, Agin, Marchand and Wenemeac. The Otchipwe signers\\nwere Mashipinashiwish, Nalishogashe, Kathanasung, Masass, Nemekass, Peshawkay,\\nNanguey, Meenedoligeesogh, Peewanshemenogh, Weymegwas, and Gobmoatick.\\nAmong the Wyandots who signed were Tarhe, or Crane, J. Williams, Jr., Shatey-\\nyaronyah, or Leather-lips, and Haroenpou.\\nTREATY OF DETROIT.\\nThe treaty was made by William Hull, U. S. Commissioner, and the Lidians\\nof the district November 17, 1807. Under its provisions all the territory beginning\\nat the mouth of the Miami River of the Lakes, running thence to the mouth of the\\ngreat Au Glaize River, thence due north until it intersects a latitudinal line to be\\ndrawn from the outlet of Lake Huron, which forms the River Sinclair, thence\\nrunning northeast in the course, that may be found, will lead in a direct line, to\\nWJiite Rock in Lake Huron, thence due east until it intersects the boundar} line\\nbetween the United States and Upper Canada, in said lake, thence southwardly,\\nfollowing the said boundary line, down said lake, tlirough River Sinclair, Lake St.\\nClair, and the River Detroit, into Lake Erie, to a point due east of the Miami\\nRiver, and thence west to tlie mouth of the Miami River, was ceded to the United\\nStates.\\nFrom this cession the following lands were reserved for the sole use of the\\nIndians: Six square miles on the Miami above Roche de Boeuf, two in the village\\nwhere Tondagonie, or The Dog, now lives three square miles including Presque\\nIsle, four square miles on the Miami Bay, including the villages of Meskeman and\\nWangare three square miles at Macon, on the River Raisin, fourteen miles from\\nthe mouth of the Raisin two sections on the Range, at Seginsiwin s village two\\nsections at Tonquish s village near the Rouge River, three miles square on Lake\\nSt. Clair, above the River Hurou to include Makornse s or Macompte s village,\\ntogether with six square miles to be selected by the Indians. Together with those\\nreservations, a sum of $10,000 was granted by the United States to be distributed\\nequitably among the Pottawatomies, Otchipwes, Wyandotte, and Ottawa Indians\\nthen living in the district ceded under the treaty.\\nThe Indians who signed this treaty were the Chippewas, Peewanshemenogh,\\nMamaushegauta, or had legs, Poquaquet, Kiosk, Puckenese, or the spark of fire", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0174.jp2"}, "175": {"fulltext": "k.\\nHISTORY OF iIAC05[B COUNTY.\\nNemekas, Qiiicoaquish, Negig the Pottawattoiiiies were Tonquish, Skush, Nin-\\niiewa and the Wyaudots Skahomat, Miere, or ivalk-in-tJie-water, and lyonayotaha.\\nWhittemore Knaggs and William Walker were interpreters.\\nTHE TREATY OF BROWNSTOWN.\\nThe Treaty of Brownstown, made November 25, 1808, was an amendatory\\ntreaty. Hull was the acting commissioner, assisted by Reuben Atwater, Secretar}\\nof Michigan Territory Judge James Wetherell, Jacob Visger, District Judge Jos.\\nWatson, Secretary, L. M. T.; William Brown, Barney Campeau, Lewis Bond,\\nA. Lyons, Whittemore Knaggs, William Walker, F. Duchouquet, and Samuel\\nSanders.\\nThe treaties of later years negotiated by Mr. Schoolcraft or Gen Cass contained\\nnumerous provisions regarding the Indians of Macomb. From 1830 to 1837, the\\nOtchipwes and mongrel savages inhabiting Macomb County saw plainly that their\\nold hunting grounds were soon to pass out of their possession. In the former year\\nthose children of Nature entered upon that westward movement, and in the latter\\ntheir last reserve in this county was parceled out for sale to the men of enterprise\\nand industry who came hither about that time to enter on that earnest labor which\\nhas raised the county to its present status. Henry Tucker accompanied the In-\\ndians to their Western reserve.\\nTREATY OF SAGINAW.\\nThe treaty of Saginaw, 1819, was the most important of all the treaties affect-\\ning Indian titles in Michigan. Okemawkekehto, referred to in another page, was\\nthe chief orator of the tribe. Addressing General Cass, he said You do not know\\nour wishes. My people wonder what lias brouglit you so far from your homes.\\nYour young men have invited us to come and light the Council Fire. We are here\\nto smoke the pipe of peace, but not to sell our lands. Our American Father wants\\nthem. Our English Father treats us better he has never asked for tiiem. Your\\npeople trespass upon our hunting grounds they flock to our shores. Our waters\\ngrow warm our lands melt like a cake of ice; our possessions grow smaller and\\nsmaller, the warm wave of the white man rolls in upon us and melts us away our\\nwomen reproach us our children want homes. Shall we sell from under them the\\nspot where they spread their blankets? We have not called you here. We smoke\\nwith you tiie pipe of peace. General Cass responded, Louis Beaufort, Whitte-\\nmore Knaggs, Gabriel Godfrey, Louis Campeau, Henry Connor, John Hasson and\\nothers followed General Cass, and to their temperate, logical language is due the\\nnegotiation of a treaty which opened up the whole Northern Peninsula to the\\npeople who now occupy it.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0175.jp2"}, "176": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nWELL-KNOWN SAVAGES.\\nMacompte or Cum-e-kum-e-non. About the center of tlie eastern boundary of\\nthe township of Chesterfiekl, on the shore of Lake SaLnt Chair, stood the Indian\\nreservation, where resided for many years the chief of tlie tribes, Macompte. This\\nchief was well beloved by his nation in fact, his voice was the oracle of his\\njjeople, his nod the law of his empire. There was, however, in this region a king\\ngreater and mightier to destroy than he. This king still reigns, while the warrior\\nof the Indians sleeps the sleep that knows no waking. He was slain by this\\nking, whose name is Alcohol. His death was a tragic one. It seems that Macompte\\nhad been paying a familiar visit to his bosom friend the king, and had partaken too\\nfreely of the hospitality of his host. Towards evening the chief went down to the\\nriver, and, with a precipitous rush, glided down its banks into the water, and was\\ndrowned. In his suicidal intent he passed the residence of Stockton and Clemens.\\nThe wife of the former gentleman heard the hurried tread of the unfortunate chief\\nas he passed on to the river, and heard the splash when he struck the water. Mrs.\\nStockton s testimony was the only direct evidence that tended to convince the\\nIndians that his melancholy death was voluntary, that he had not been murdered\\nby the white man, as the ever-suspicious nature of the Indian led them to suppose.\\nThe event caused considerable excitement through the entire settlement. This\\nreservation was located in the southeast part of the township of Chesterfield. The\\nbody was found the day after the suicide by John Tucker, and the Indians. It was\\nburied in the orchard of John Tucker, on P. C. 129 Harrison. It was wrapjied in\\na blue broadcloth blanket, bound by silver brooches, while the hat was ornamented\\nwith silver bands, a string of sixteen silver crescents, and silver arm bands com-\\npleted the ornamentation of the dead chief s body. All that has been disturbed in\\nconnection with this grave was a small piece of the enwrapping blanket, taken as\\na curiosity by David Tucker about the year 1840-1. All stories of other inter-\\nference are without foundation.\\nOld Macompte, the father of Cum-e-kum-e-non and Francis, died about 1816,\\nand was buried in the sand banks beyond New Baltimore. Two men, Vaji Epps and\\nBeebe, visited the grave, exhumed a brass rifle, and eloped with the prize. Shortly\\nafter this Francis Macompte and other Indians, who had gone West under Henry\\nTucker to select a reservation, returned to this point. The former found his father s\\ngrave tampered with, he discovered who were the actors in the affair, brought them\\nbefore the court at Mount Clemens, where the matter was settled on payment of\\n$60.\\nFrancis Macompte then became chief, with Truckatoe as sub-chief. The latter\\nbecame dissatisfied about the Indian Reserve, and moved with several members of\\nthe band to Lakeville about 1830. Next under him was Canope, said to be impli-\\nB", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0176.jp2"}, "177": {"fulltext": "ihL\\nHISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncated in the abduction of the Finch child, a saying without any foundation what-\\never beyond the fact that the Indian loved the boy, and seemed determined to\\nadopt him.\\nThose Indians were generally peaceful, and were present at almost all the bees\\nof the olden time, not to labor by any means, but to run pony races, and trade with\\nthe Americans.\\nWittaniss was one of the sub-chiefs of the Huron Indians so early as 1776.\\nHe was a devoted attache of the British commandants of Detroit, and shared with\\nhis brother Indians and British soldiery in all the dastardly acts which marked the\\ngreat effort to sustain the reign of tyranny and persecution on this continent. This\\ncowardly red-skin and his band made many attempts on the life of Richard Connor\\nsome yeai s later. The American pioneer was compelled to be always c-n his guard\\nagainst the treachery of those savages. After the i^urchase of the Moravian village by\\nAskins and Ancram, the latter appointed \\\\Yittaniss caretaker. In his new office, the\\nIndian chief essayed to act the Irish land agent, and accordingly tried to evict Connor\\nbut the new settler frustrated all his designs, treated him to a severe beating, and\\notherwise made life so hideous for the malicious savage, that he was glad to seek\\nrefuge in the grave a day or so after the British power was for ever broken in the\\nUnited States.\\nKeneobe, of Romeo, was present on the treaty ground at Saginaw in Septem-\\nber, 1819. The harsh statements made regarding his connection with the abduc-\\ntion of the Finch boy have long since been proven without foundation. In 1827\\nKeneobe moved into Canada, stayed some time there, and returned to give assu-\\nrances that the reports concerning him were without foundation. He was a savage\\nof good parts, and an earnest friend of the American settlers of Northern Macomb.\\nAn equally bad Indian, bearing a similar name, succeeded Wittaniss, senior.\\nThe circumstances which surrounded this fellow urged him to adopt a policy of\\nconciliation towards tlie American settlers, which policy was carried out. The last\\nWittaniss was an old man when he left the county in 1830.\\nTipsikaw was the athlete of the band near Romeo. He was a powerful\\nsavage, well built, and, it is said, capable of running down wolves, bears, and, in\\nsome instances, deer. While liunting in the neighborhood of Almont he dislocated\\nhis shoulder. Dr. Gleason was called to his aid. All the doctor s physical power\\nwas not suflScient to replace the dislocated bone, so he tied the arm of the warrior\\nto a tree, and then directed him to draw his body forward. This plan was success-\\nful, and Tipsikaw was again ready to resume the chase. This Indian left the\\ncounty in 1837 or 1838. In 1874 he revisited his old hunt grounds, and was found\\nweeping by one of the early settlers opposite the site of his former village.\\nTonadoganow was the head chief of the Otchipwe nation. This honor be-\\n5.-^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0177.jp2"}, "178": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nlonged to him on account of his debating powers, acute understanding, and great\\nprowess in the hunt. He was ugly in every sense. He wore only a hunting shirt\\nfrom April until September, and this hung loosely from his hunch-back. This In-\\ndian was accustomed to make periodical visits to the bands in Macomb County, was\\na great factor in the negotiation of two of the treaties referred to in tliis chapter,\\nand well known to the first French and American settlers of Mt. Clemens and\\nRomeo.\\nOkemawkeketo was chief of the tribe for years previous to the reign of Tona-\\ndoganow. He received from the hereditary chief, Miscobenasa, power to administer\\nthe office of chief. Old Misco and Okemawkeketo were noble savages, and well-\\nknown to the pioneers of tliis county.\\nNotaquoto, a short, ugly, powerful savage was well known to all the early set-\\ntlers. To give an idea of this Indian, Wm. J. Tucker relates that a few Indian\\nponies happened to stray into Sterling township, where they were stabled by Jim\\nBruce. This settler was unaware of the danger of such a proceeding, and his mur-\\nder for the act was only averted by tiie timely interference of C. G. Cady, then resid-\\ning at his present house in Sterling. Mr. Cady was returning from church, when\\nhe met the Indian. Asking him where he was going, the savage pla3 ed with the\\ntomahawk and replied that he was going to see Jim Bruce. He has my horses, said\\nNotaquoto, and I will murder him. Cady prevailed upon the Indian to wait,\\nwhile he himself went to Bruce s. He advised Bruce to set the animals at large,\\nwhich advice was taken, and Notaquoto returned to his reserve with his property.\\nTHE EAGLE CHIEF.\\nThe following verses, written by J. E. Day in 1860, refer to the visit of an\\nIndian to this district, who in his childhood called it home:\\nThe Autumn sun fades slowly from the sky,\\nAnd dimly shines his parting light,\\nAcross the clearing shadows swiftly fly.\\nThe harbingers of coming night.\\nThe forest warblers seek their nightly rest,\\nThe cricket pipes his evening lay.\\nWhile here and there a few dim stars appear,\\nAs if to haste the setting sun away.\\nThe place in beauty and in silence sleeps\\nNo dissonance disturbs the scene\\nBut dimly neath the moon there comes a form\\nOf stately step, of haughty mien,\\nHis stately tread, his light, elastic step.\\nHis form which age has slightly [bent.\\nHis swarthy cheek and ornamented breast\\nBespeak the Indian lineament.\\n71", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0178.jp2"}, "179": {"fulltext": "Jfe*\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nWhy stands he there so stern, cold and still,\\nWhose deeds have challenged men s belief\\nThe setting sun of Sonago s daring race,\\nPowontonamo Eagle Chief\\nHe lifts his eyes in silence and despair,\\nThat much their ancient fire impart.\\nAs mem ry sweeping o er him but displays,\\nIn broken, but unconquered heart.\\nThirty long years have passed away since last.\\nHe visited the land he stands on now\\nIt is a spot of earth well known to him.\\nThough furrowed by the white man s plow,\\nAnd changed, alas to him, how sadly changed\\nFor buried neath its surface lie\\nThe only offspring of the Eagle Chief.\\nAnd his young bride the Sunny Eye.\\nHe gazed upon the mountain s shaded brow\\nThe clouds that floated o er his head,\\nThe river and the trees his youth had known,\\nThough leafless now and dark and dead.\\nThese, still, had left the old familiar look\\nO er all the rest a change had crept.\\nHe thought of this, and as the night came on\\nHe bowed his warrior head and wept.\\nThe white man s ax he said, has been here too.\\nThe oak I planted in my youthful pride,\\nAnd watched long years with manhood s care,\\nAnd the sweet vine that climbed its side,\\nHave felt the blow, and withered much too soon.\\nMy bride I claimed beneath its shade,\\nAnd neath it our young babes have gamboled oft,\\nAnd neath it their short lives were laid.\\nDown yonder stream the Indian s light canoe\\nWould shoot, like wild bird on the wing,\\nAnd yonder mountain side would echo back.\\nThe war cry of our Council ring.\\nBut all is changed. The white man s power has drove\\nUs from our home to slowly die\\nAnd now this oak and vine are emblems fit\\nOf Eagle Chief and Sunny Eye.\\nWhat wonder that the Eagle s bosom swelled,\\nAnd manhood s tears ran o er his eheek,\\nAs memory brought before him all the Past,\\nHis plans, his wishes, all a wreck.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0179.jp2"}, "180": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nBut mid his grief his pride and anger rose,\\nTo his dark eye the light had come,\\nHe strewed the broken arrows o er the grave,\\nAnd then the Eagle Chief was gone.\\nFisher, a half-breed, who married a sister of Francis Macorapte, committed\\nsuicide about 1852. It appears he made a cruel husband, so that Macompte took\\nhis wife from liim, and presented him with an English rifle, as better suited to liim\\nthan a wife. Fisher and the rifle lived quietly together for some years, when he\\nreturned to the Salt River Reserve, and there shot himself through the heart.\\nAbout the same time a dog feast was held by the Indians on the Tucker\\nfarm.\\nNeome, the chief of tlie largest division of the Chippewas, occupied and a.ssumed\\nto control the southern portion of the tribal domain. Tiie Flint River, with its\\nnorthern afflueiats, was left a little north of the border in full Indian possession by\\nthe Treaty of 1807. It was called by the savages Pewonunhening, or tlie River of\\nthe Flint, and by the early French traders La Pierre Ihe latter also called the ford\\na few rods below the present Flint City bridge Grand Traverse, vr\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\e to the village\\nin the neighborhood of the ford the Indians gave the name Mus-eu-ta-wa-ingh, which\\ntranslated means the open lilain burned over.\\nIn point of geographical location, the chief Neome and his powerful band stood\\non the very threshold of the trail leading to the Northwest. To any one standing\\nat Detroit and looking northerly to the land lying west of the Lake and River St.\\nClair, it was plain that Neome stood indeed a lion in the path unless well disposed\\ntoward the American settlers. The old chief was honest and simple-minded\\nevincing but little of the craft and cunning of his race sincere in his nature by\\nno means astute firm in his friendships easy to be persuaded by any benefactor\\nwho should appeal to his Indian sense of gratitude harmless and kind-hearted.\\nIn stature he was short and heavily molded. With his own people he was a chief\\nof patriarchal goodness, and his name was never mentioned by his people except\\nwith a certain veneration, and in more recent years with a traditionary sorrow,\\nmore impressive in its mournful simplicity than a labored epitaph.\\nKeshkaivko. In April, 1825, the Saginaw savage Kesh-kaw-ko killed a\\nHuron warrior at Detroit, on the spot now forming the center of the D. M. R. R.\\ndepot. The dead Indian was taken to a blacksmith s shop, then occupying the site\\nof the Russell House, where the coroner, Benjamin VVoodwortli, held an inquest.\\nKesh-kaw-ko and his son were interned in the old fort, after the jury declared the\\nolder savage guilty, and the coroner sent him to await trial a squaw brought the\\nchief some hemlock, which he drank eagerly, and died. His sou, who was no\\nparty to the deed, escaped. He sought a trail homewards by the Clinton River,", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0180.jp2"}, "181": {"fulltext": "ihL^\\nHISTORY OF MAC0:MB COUXTY.\\nwas recognized by some of the Hurons, and pursued almost to the camping ground\\nof his tribe.\\nThis Chippewa desperado, and his son Chemick, were among the principal British\\nallies of the War of 1812. Both were known to the pioneers of Macomb, for in\\ntliat quarter of the Peninsula those ruffians, with their followers from the Saginaw,\\nattacked men, women and children indiscriminately. They did not enter into any\\nbattles their warfare being only against the defenceless or unwary.\\nThis well-known Indian, a nephew of Pontiac, and once the head chief of the\\nOtchipwe nation, was born near Knagg s Station on the Shiawassee, about the year\\n1763. The earliest account of him states that lie went forth on the war-path in\\n1793. In the Legends of the Northwest by Judge Littlejohn, the old chief is intro-\\nduced in 1803. Okemos took a prominent part in the battle of Sandusky, which\\nwon for him the name of the greatest warrior and the chief of his tribe. It appears\\nthat himself, his cousin Man-i-to-oorh-way, with sixteen other warriors enlisted\\nunder the British flag, formed a scouting party in search of American scalps, and\\nultimately reached the British rendezvous at Sandusky. Speaking of this period,\\nthe old scalp-taker said One morning while lying in ambush near a road lately\\ncut for the passage of the American army and supply wagons, we saw twenty cav-\\nalry men approaching Us. Our ambush was located on a slight ridge, with brush\\ndirectly in our front. We immediately decided to attack the Americans although\\nthey out-numbered us. Our plan was first to fire and cripple them, and then make\\na dash with tlie tomahawk. We waited until they came so near that we could\\ncount the buttons on their coats, when firing commenced. The cavalrymen with\\ndrawn sabres immediately charged upon the Indians. The plumes of the cavalry\\nmen looked like a flock of a thousand pigeons just hovering for a lighting. Myself\\nand my cousin fought side by side, loading and firing, while dodging from one cover\\nto another. In less than ten minutes after the firing begun the sound of a bugle\\nwas heard, and casting our eyes in the direction of the sound we saw the roads and\\nwoods filled with cavalry. The Indians were immediately surrounded, and every\\nman cut down. All were left for dead upon the field. Myself and my cousin had\\nour skulls cloven, and our bodies gashed in a fearful manner. The cavalrymen\\nbefore leaving the field, in order to be sure life was extinct, would lean forward\\nfrom their horses, and pierce the breasts of the Indians even into their lungs. The\\nlast I remember is, that after emptying one saddle, and springing toward another\\nsoldier, with clubbed rifle raised to strike, my head felt as if pierced with a red-hot\\niron, and I went down from a heavy sabre cut. All knowledge ceased from this\\ntime until many moons afterward, when I found myself nursed by the squaws of", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0181.jp2"}, "182": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF iMACOMB COUNTY.\\nfriends who had found me where I fell two or three days after the engagement.\\nThe squaws thought all were dead but upon moving the bodies of myself and\\nManitocorhoay, signs of life appeared, and we were taken to a place of safety where\\nwe were nursed until restored to partial health.\\nOkemos and his cousin never took part in a battle since tliat time having satis-\\nfied themselves that they were wrong then.\\nShortly after his recovery he asked Colonel Gabriel Godfro^s father of Richard\\nGodfroy of Grand Rapids, to intercede for him with General Cass, which resulted\\nin a treaty between tlie United States and himself and other chiefs a treaty faith-\\nfully observed. In 1837, the small-pox and other causes tended to scatter the band\\nnear Knagg s Station, where they were located. Previous to this time he was ac-\\ncustomed to wear a blanket-coat with belt, steel pipe, hatchet, tomahawk, and a\\nlong, English liunting knife. He painted his cheeks and forehead with vermillion,\\nwore a shawl around his head a la Turc and leggings. The old scalp-taker for the\\nEnglish died in his wig-wam a few miles from Lansing, and was buried at Shim-\\nnicon, in Ionia County, December 5, 1858.\\nA LEGEND OP CUSICK LAKE.\\nThat as beautiful a spot as Cusick Lake has remained as long as it has, with-\\nout its appropriate legend, is somewliat curious. That it was a place greatly ad-\\nmired and frequented by the red man iseertain. The beautiful banks densely covered\\nas they once were, with forest trees, before vandalism had done it work on them,\\ncould not have failed to attract and please the children of nature. Over on the\\nisland under the murmuring pine and hemlock in the moon of leaves, the scalp-\\nlocked warrior wliispered sweet nothings in the ear of his dusky maid and boasted\\nof liis prowess in the chase and the field. To Miss Hayner belongs the honor of\\nbringing tlie poem to liglit, and of preserving this incident in the history of the\\ncounty.\\nDay into night had ahnost grown,\\nAnd all was still and silent and lone,\\nAnd the long night shadows began to break.\\nAcross the surface of Cusick Lake\\nWhen out of the dark and shady wood,\\nA maid moved out, and silent stood.\\nAnd gazed across to the other bank,\\nWhere the willows grew so thick and rank.\\nThat morn her father, a hunter bold,\\nHad left his daughter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Edith Gold,\\nWhile he should go to a distant fort.\\nTo tell the men of a faint report,\\nOf how the Indians late that night.\\nAfter the moon had sank from sight,\\nWould creep out in the deepest shade.\\nAnd on the fort make a wild, wild raid.\\nThe hunter, as he left that morn,\\nTold his daughter not to mourn.\\nWhile he was gone to the fort to warn.\\nHe said that ere the sun sank low.\\nHe should have warned them of the foe;\\nAnd when upon her ears should fall.\\nHer father s well-known signal call.\\nShe must launch the birch canoe.\\nAnd meet him where the willow grew.\\nBut the sunset hour had come and pissed.\\nAnd the twilight rays were fading fast;\\nAt length it grew so dark and late,\\nyu", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0182.jp2"}, "183": {"fulltext": "1\\nI\\nI\\nA\\nC k.\\n-J 1?\\noT*^\\nl\\nHISTORY OP MACOJIB COUNTY. 181\\nr\\nShe went to the bank, to watch and wait\\nAll harshly on the still night air.\\nShe looked away to the other side.\\nA moment she let her oars droop.\\nAnd still she looked, and looking, sighed.\\nFor she knows tis the Indians wild war whoop\\nThe darkness hovered closer round.\\nThat sets the echoes all in chase\\nThe shadows thickened on the ground.\\nAround that lone and silent place.\\nThe moon came up with silvery light.\\nBut now she seizes oar again.\\nAnd gazed upon that lonely sight\\nWith doubled strength and giddy brain\\nThere in the edge of the forest shade.\\nShe sends the little birch canoe\\nWith anxious look, stood the woodland miid\\nFairly flying onward, through\\nHer hair all streaming to the night\\nThe waters of the placid lake.\\nHer face all pale and gleaming while\\nHark a cry from the willow s shade,\\nIs lifted to the arching sky,\\nEdith, be quick it said to the maid\\nWhile she besought her God on high\\nOn, on, brave girl! one effort more.\\nTo shield her father on his way,\\nAnd you will touch on the island shore.\\nAnd lead him from where dangers lay.\\nAll round tis still as silent death.\\nNaught is stirred by a single breath,\\nBut hark was it, was that a sound,\\nThat stirred the still night air around?\\nShe gathers all her strength,\\nShe throws it on the oar.\\nBut see it breaks, it breaks,\\nAnd she s not yet at shore.\\nShe gasps for breath, she peers across\\nThe hunter tried, but all in vain.\\nTo where the breeze makes the willows toss\\nHis daughter and the boat to gain.\\nIs it all a fancy, or does she see\\nTheir savage foes soon seized and bound.\\nA form in the shade of the waving tree?\\nNo mercy at their hands they found\\nQuickly she turned and made way to\\nAnd when the sun rose o er the hill,\\nThe place where lay the birch canoe.\\nThere hunters found them lying still\\nThen came the well-known signal cry,\\nNo motion, groan, or faintest breath.\\nNow to the rescue she must fly\\nBut stiff and cold in silent death.\\nShe takes her place, she seizes oar.\\nTheir white friends made a double grave\\nAnd swiftly pushes from the shore.\\nIn which to lay the fair and brave.\\nThe water eddies round the boat,\\nUpon the island a lonely mound.\\nThe lilies swiftly past her float,\\nThat marks the spot, may still be found.\\nThe little pine wood point is passed,\\nMany a time have mirth and song\\nThe trees and banks receding fast,\\nMingled and floated the trees among.\\nHer boat is far out in the lake.\\nNeath which the hunter, brave and bold,\\nWhen a wild, blood.curdling yell doth break\\nSleeps with his daughter, Edith Gold.\\nEARLY TRADERS A\\nND INTERPETERS.\\nHenry Connor, or Wah-be-sken-dip,\\nwas superior to all the traders of that\\nperiod in disposition and manner. He was\\n1 man possessing great muscular strength,\\nyet gentle as a child, and only physically p\\nowerful where justice should be enforced\\nor some important point carried. He was\\na faithful interpreter between the Indian\\ncounselors and United States commissionc\\nrs during the treaty negotiations. After\\nthe treaty of 1819, he entered on a trader\\n3 life, and continued to the close to merit\\nthe confidence and esteem of the savag\\n2S, Frenchmen, and Americans. Connor\\nwas present at the deatli of Tecumseh,\\nOctober 5, 1813, when James Whitty\\nencountered the great Indian and killed hi\\nm. Whitty and Gen. Johnson, he stated,\\nk\\n1-^\\na r-\\ne)", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0183.jp2"}, "184": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nattacked the warrior simultaneously but tlie former began and ended that act in\\nthe battle of the Thames.\\nHenry Nelson, another Indian trader known to the old settlers of Macomb,\\nremoved from the Huron to the Saginaw district in 1821, and thence with the In-\\ndians to Isabella County, where he died a few years ago.\\nThe St Martins were an old and respectable family. Tlie first of the name\\nwho came to America was Adhemar Sienr de St. Martin. He settled in Quebec\\nand held the office of Royal Notary as early as 1660. One of his grand -children\\ncame to Detroit in 1740. In April, 1750, is recorded a grant of land (a portion of\\nthe now Cass farm) to Jean Baptiste Labutte dit St. Martin. It was his son who\\nbecame interpreter of the Huron language, and who figured conspicuously\\nduring the Pontiac conspiracy in 1763. His services were highly appreciated by\\nGladwyn, who in his sweeping denunciation of the inhabitants during the siege,\\nalways excepts his interpreter, St. Martin. In 1770 he married Marianne, the\\nsecond daughter of Robert Navarre (Tonton, the Writer, as he was called, to dis-\\ntinguish him from his son Robert, whose sobriquet was Robishe, the Speaker).\\nAt the marriage of St. Martin and Marianne Navarre, de Bellestre, the last Frencli\\ncommander of Fort Pontchartrain, was present. His family history was closely\\nwoven in the destiny of this fort of La Mothe Cadillac. De Tonty and another De\\nBellistre, uncles of his, had been among its first commanders. It was a melancholy\\nirony of fate, that he should be obliged to resign to the English the post which his\\nancestors had struggled so nobly to retain. De Bellestre organized the first militia\\nin this part of the country, and gave the command to his brother-in-law, Alexis de\\nRuisseaux, who had married a Godfrey. St. Martin died a few years after his\\nmarriage, leaving a young widow and three children one boy and two girls.\\nThe Tucker family is referred to in the pioneer history of the county. In the\\nsame chapter the Connors aie dealt with.\\nJean Provencal, or Arvishtoia, appointed Indian blacksmith by Gen. Cass,\\npossessed many good qualities which endeared him to the whites as well as to the\\nIndians. William Tucker, and other old residents of Macomb, remember him well,\\naand substantiate what has been said of him.\\nEdivard Campau, or Now-o-ke-shick, lost an arm from the accidental discharge\\nof his rifle, while hunting in this county. Notwithstanding the rude, surgical\\noperation, which onl} the medicine man of that time could perform, he survived,\\nand continued among the most active and popular trappers of this district, until\\nhis journey to the Northwest.\\nGabriel Godfrey, known as Menissid, was a trader from the lower Huron\\ncountry. He was one of the family to whom was deeded the lands where Ypsilanti\\nnow stands. His visits to the upper Huron or Clinton were few, j et his acquaint-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0184.jp2"}, "185": {"fulltext": "ik^\\nHISTORY OF 5IACOMB COUNTY.\\nance among the French and American pioneers of Macomb was extensive. Rich-\\nard Godfrey, his son, now dwells at Grand Rapids in this State.\\nArchibald Lyons, was, like many of the white inhabitants of the country\\nbordering on Lake St. Clair, engaged in trapping. In 1818 he left the district,\\nnow known as Macomb and St. Glair counties, for the Saginaw valley, where he\\nmarried the beauty of the tribe Ka-ze-zhe-ah-be-no-qua. This woman was a\\nFrench half-breed, peculiarly superior to all around her, highly intelligent, and in\\npossession of principles which could not sanction a wrong. Lyons, while skatino-\\ndown the Saginaw River, in 1821, to play for a dancing party, fell through the ice,\\nand was never seen again. After the death of her husband, the widowed Ka-ze-\\nzhe-ah-be-no-qua married Antoine Peltier, who moved from Harrison Township to\\nLower Saginaw.\\nFrancois Tremble, grandfather of the Trembles referred to in this section of the\\nwork, was well known from Montreal to Detroit and the Riviere Aux Hurons so\\nearly as 1782. Ten j-ears later, 1792, he visited the Saginaw Indians, which proved\\nto be his first and last exploratory trip. It appears this adventurous Frenchman\\nwas drowned while ilying far away from an Indian camp. The story of his death\\nstates, that he made a spear for an Indian to be used in killing muskrats; another\\nIndian came forward to beg a similar favor, and for him Tremble made still a better\\nspear-head. Indian No. 1 grew jealous, abused the good hunter, and ultimately\\nstabbed him in the back. Retiring to his boat he set sail for his home on Lake St.\\nClair, but never reached the place. It is supposed he was knocked overboard by\\nthe boom of his boat, and was drowned in the waters of Lake Huron.\\nCaptain Joseph F. Marsac was born near Detroit on Christmas day, 1793, and\\nwas known from his native place to Fort St. Joseph or Gratiot and thence to Mich-\\nilimackinac. Marsac was the happiest model of the Franco -American genial\\nas man could be, he endeared himself to all around him to all, with whom he\\ncame in contact. During the Black Hawk War excitement he was one of the first\\nto organize a military company and take the field with the rank of captain.\\nCaptain Leon Snay, a hunter and trajjper of great repute, belonged to the\\nbetter class of French traders, and held the military commission of captain. Like\\nMarsac, he was well known to all the old American settlers of Macomb as well as\\nto tlie Indians and his own people.\\nPeter G-ruette, Francois Corbin, John Harson, with other traders, hunters,\\ntrappers, and interpreters, who established temporary posts on the Clinton, Flint,\\nShiawassee, Black River, etc., made this county a rendezvous, and won the respect\\nof the American pioneers.\\nHarvey Williams of Detroit, now of Saginaw, one of the few survivors of the\\nDetroit settlers of 1818, in his journey to Saginaw in 1822, with supplies for the", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0185.jp2"}, "186": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntroops stationed there, had to ford the Clinton River at five different jioints. The\\nIndians and first American settlers of Macomb knew Uncle Harvey well. Though\\nnot a trader in the full sense of the term his dealings with the savages as well as\\nwith the civilized inhabitants was extensive and honorable.\\nDunois, or Du Nor, was one of the first and best known interpreters under\\nAmerican rule. His order to ihe Indians was a law. It is related that upon one\\noccasion he visited the house of John Tucker, and asked him to tell the chief of\\nthe Salt River band to meet him at the Tucker House on Friday night. Anowi-\\nsickau, brother of Francis Macompte, met him as appointed, and both went into\\nthe forest in the darkness of that winter s night. This visit resulted in finding a\\nU. S. cavalry horse stolen from Detroit.\\nLeon St. Greorge, born at Montreal, Canada, in 1774, came to Michigan in his\\nyouth and made a settlement between Detroit and the Clinton or Riviere Aux\\nHurons. This French-Canadian afterward removed to Detroit, and cleared the\\nland where the city hall stands as well as many acres in the vicinity. When the\\nwar of 1812 broke out, St. George joined the American troops, and fought through\\nit to its close. After the close of the campaign he became a trader among the\\nHurons and Chippewas, and was well known to the pioneers of Macomb County.\\nHis death took place in 1880.\\nOliver Williams settled at Detroit in 1807, where he engaged in mercantile\\nlife, and become one of the largest dealers then in the Peninsula, bringing at one\\ntime from Boston a stock of goods valued at $6-1,000. In 1811, the sloop Friends\\nGrood Will was built for him, which was cajotured by the British and called The\\nLittle Belt. Referring to this $64,000 matter, Mr. C. G. Cady states positively\\nthat when he arrived at Detroit, he could carry all the merchandise it contained to\\nMt. Clemens.\\nCaptain John Farley of the United States Artillery was among the early visi-\\ntors to Mt. Clemens.\\nMichel Medor, Joseph Benoit, Leon and Louis Tremble, whose grandfather is\\nreferred to in this chapter, were among the traders known to the Indians, French,\\nand Americans of Macomb County previous to\u00c2\u00bband for years after its organi-\\nzation.\\nBenjamin Uushway was born at Detroit in 1809, and died at Saginaw May 25,\\n1881. In 1832, he was appointed Indian blacksmith at Saginaw. He was known\\namong the early settlers of Macomb, particularly among the French.\\nEdivard McCarthy an Irish revolutionist of 1798, came to Detroit in 1829,\\npassed some time near Mt. Clemens, and ultimately continued hi.s travels to the\\nNorthwest, where he died.\\nBuret Le Paries, Dominique Snay, Louis Duprat, William Thebo, Joseph", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0186.jp2"}, "187": {"fulltext": "K^\\nHISTORY OF :\\\\rACOMB COUA TY.\\nAlloir, Antoine Tremble, John Tremble, Francois G. Tremble, William J. Tucker,\\nwere among the children of the county when it was organized.\\nWhittimore and James Knaggs, brothers, of French-Canadian or French-\\nEnglish descent, were among the early white inhabitants of the Huron Country,\\nand if friendships, dealings and periodical stays in the neighborhood of the Reviere\\naux Hurons could bring the title, they were among the first white settlers of\\nMacomb County. Judge Witherell, in referring to those Frenchmen, says Capt.\\nKnaggs was a firm and unflinching patriot in times when patriotism was in demand,\\nduring the War of 1812. He was one of the Indian interpreters, spoke freely six or\\nseven of their languages, together with French and English, and exercised great influ-\\nence over many warrior tribes. On the surrender of Detroit to the enemy, he was\\nordered by the British Commandant to leave the Territory, and did so, of course,\\nbut joined the first corps of United States troops that advanced toward the frontier.\\nHe acted as guide to the division under Gen. Winchester, and was present at the\\nbloody defeat in the valley of the Raisin. The British Indians discovered him\\nafter the surrender and determined to kill him. There liappened to be present an\\nIndian whom Knaggs had defended in former years, who resolved to save the pale-\\nface at every hazard; but the savages would not listen to him. Nothing daunted,\\nliowever, the brave red-warrior placed himself between Knaggs and his foes, and\\nsucceeded in keeping them off for some time. The savages pressed closer, and as\\na dernier resort the friendly Indian seized Knaggs round the waist, kept his own\\nbody between the white man and his enemies, and so prevented the repeated blows\\nof tomahawk and war-club from taking effect upon the head of Winchester s\\nFrench guide. This mode of defence continued until both Knaggs and the Indian\\nsought refuge among a number of horses which stood harnessed close by. Heie\\nKnaggs was enabled to avoid the blows aimed at his head, until a British officer,\\nnot so savage as his Indian allies, interposed, and saved the guide from a cruel\\ndeath. Knaggs survived this terrible trial for many years, and rendered good\\nservice to the United in the negotiation of Indian treaties. James Knaggs was\\npresent at the death of Tecumseh, and was considered one of the most unflinciiing\\nand honorable supporters of the American troops. A member of the Avei-y family\\nof Monroe County, Mich., bears tiie highest testimony to the Knaggs Brothers.\\nJaeoh Smith, or Wah-be-sins, settled with his parents in Northern Ohio, whence\\nhe pushed forward to the Detroit and Huron district, where he remained some years.\\nDuring the rambles of the Young Swan, he won the friendship of the Hurons and\\nOtchipwes, and as his intercourse with them became more extensive, he entered\\ninto all their manners and customs, sympathized with them, and claimed in return\\ntheir earnest friendship. After some years passed among the Indians of the Clinton\\nor Huron River, he moved to Flint, where he died of disease in 1825. Baptiste\\nV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0187.jp2"}, "188": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCochois, or Nickaniss, was the only white friend present at his death Annemekins,\\nthe Indian boy whom he adopted, was the only red-man who witnessed the dying\\nstruggles of this popular trader. To Smith is due the rescue of the Boyers of\\nMount Clemens.\\nPatrice Reaume, or Wemetigoji, was a native of Quebec. For a period of\\neight years he traded among the Indians of the Clinton or Huron and the Raisin\\ndistricts, where he was well and favorably known. Ultimately he was appointed\\nfactor for the American Fur Company at the post near Pontiac, and subsequently\\nat the Tittabawassee and Saginaw.\\nLouis De Quindre, named Missabos, was a friend of Reaume, and, like him, a\\ntrader. He, too, was known to the pioneers of Macomb County, where he made\\nhis home for some years.\\nJacob G-radroot, or Graveraet, husband of the daughter of the fierce Keskawko,\\nwas a German, who settled for a while at Albany, N. Y. Moving West, he settled\\nat Detroit; moved to Harrison township in Macomb, and thence to what is now\\ncalled Bay County.\\nLouis Bemifait, or Wagash, was one of the most favorably known and genial\\nmen in the Michigan of 1800-1820. He was much younger than Smith or Reaume,\\nwas a friend of each and all of his fellow-traders, and being so, was the great\\npeacemaker in the traders circle his calm, gentle and sound reasoning always\\nprevailed.\\nBarney Canvpau, a nephew of Louis and Joseph Campau, better known as\\nOshkinawe, was well fitted for the life of a trader or hunter. He was honest in all\\nhis dealings with the savages, and on this account they stj led him Young Man, and\\nac(][uiesced in all his propositions.\\nDISTINGUISHED EARLY SETTLERS.\\nAmong the pioneers of Michigan best known to the earl} settlers of Macomb,\\nthe first was, undoubtedly, Lewis Cass. The first Chief Justice, A. B. Woodward,\\nand Judge Witherell, were equally well known while to the first French settlers\\nof this county, all the members of the Campeau familj were linked by innumerable\\ninterchanges of service.\\nGen. Lewis Cass, successor of the inglorious Hull, in the governorship of the\\nTerritory of Michigan, 1813, held his high oiSce until appointed a member of the\\nUnited States Cabinet, as Secretary of War in 1831. In 1836 he received the port-\\nfolio of minister to France, which office lie filled until 1842. In January, 1845 he\\nwas elected member of the United States Senate. Throughout his public life,\\nfrom his efforts to combat Hull s treachery in 1812 to the close of his career, he\\nwas one of the first citizens of the Union. His death brought mourning not only\\nrf*", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0188.jp2"}, "189": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF jMACOMB COUNTY.\\ninto the homes of the Michigan people, but also into the villages of the Otchipwes,\\nPottawatomies, and Ottawas, whose admiration he won during the earlier years of\\nhis service in Micliigan.\\nLewis Cass, born at Exeter, N. H., October 9, 1782, died at Detroit, Mich.,\\nJune 17, 18G6. General Cass was known to the Indians, French and Americans\\nfrom the establishment of the territory forward. The services which he rendered\\nthis State particularly can never be over-estimated.\\nRev. Gabriel Richards, of the Order of St. Sulpice, was born at Saint is, Clarente\\nInferieur, France, October 15, 1764. His mother was a relative of the illustrious\\nBossiiet. He arrived at Baltimore, June 24, 1792, and at Detroit in June, 1798.\\nHe was the first delegate of Michigan to tlie Congress of the United States, being\\nelected in 1823. His death took place at Detroit, during the cholei-a plague, Sep-\\ntenrber 13, 1832.\\nMarqim Jacques Campeau was born at Detroit, in 1730. He was the son of\\nLa Motte Cadillac s secretary, a soldier who accompanied the French troops to that\\npost in 1701. Marquis J. Campeau may be considered the first white settler of\\nMichigan. He sought a home beyond the Fort in 1757, just one year before Nich-\\nolas Patenande began a squatter s life in the district now known as Macomb. He\\nerected the Catholic Church near his home in 1778.\\nJoseph Campeau was born at Detroit, February 20, 1769. In 1786 he com-\\nmenced trading in real estate. This fact, together with his various commercial\\nenterprises, made his name a household word in the homes of the early French\\nsettlers.\\nChristian Clemens, John Stockton, Gen. Brown, and a number of other pioneers\\nof the State, noticed in other sections of this work, are well and favorably remem-\\nbered by the pioneers of this county.\\nRobert Abbott, son of James Abbott, of Dublin, Ireland, was bom at Detroit,\\nin 1771. He is said to be the first man, speaking our language, who opened busi-\\nness at the old post of Detroit. His father and himself were identified with the\\nearly fur traders, and were known from Detroit to Mackinaw and thence to Chicago.\\nThe dealings of Robert Abbott with the early settlers of Macomb came next in\\nimportance to the business connection of the Campeaus.\\nCAPTIVITY OF THE BOYER FAMILY.\\nPrevious to the peace of 1815, the Chippewas beyond the Huron County were\\nas savage as they were in the Sixteenth Century. Shortly after the close of the\\nwar, Mr. Boyer, wife and children were abducted from their homes near Mount\\nClemens to that country, which no white being ever entered save as a pinioned\\ncaptive. At that time the traders had not penetrated the valley of the Saginaw,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0189.jp2"}, "190": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nand possibly would not for many years afterwards, had not this abduction of the\\nwhite settlers of Macomb incited one, at least of the traders to venture into the\\nden of savages. The enterprise was undertaken by Jacob Smith, the trader of tlie\\nFlint, and resulted successfully. The Boyer family was rescued not only from the\\nmost foul bondage, but also from death itself, which was to be meted out to them\\nin a few days, had they not been rescued by the intrepid trader. The par-\\nticulars of this abduction are set forth in the following statement: Some\\ntime before the actual commencement of any settlement at Mount Cle-\\nmens, occurred an incident worthy of mention here. A vast camp of Indians\\nhad collected for some purpose at the present site of East Saginaw in going bj\\nthis settlement on their way to this camp an Indian liad captured a little boy and\\ngirl named Boyer from along the river near the old Edward Tucker farm, and had\\ncarried them away. All search in the vicinity proving vain, and suspicion falling\\nupon some Indians which had passed on their way to Saginaw, a brave and stalwart\\ntrapper named Smith, set out alone through the dark woods and over the vast\\ncountry that intervenes, to rescue the boy and girl. Arriving at the Indian camp\\nhe was recognized as a friendly interpreter; after days of dallying and shrewd\\nnegotiations, started joyfully for home, with the little waifs, where he arrived in\\ndue time to gladden a mother s aching heart and a father s sadness with the sight of\\nthe loved ones. The boy Boyer, since grown to be an aged man, lived until quite\\nrecently, to our personal knowledge, near Swan Creek but to the day of his death\\nthe sight of an Indian would appal him and arouse fears which no effort could over-\\ncome.\\nThe little story just related serves to give an idea of the means of travel,\\nand manner of life of our first settlers. There was a period of thirty years of this\\nfollowing of trails and paddling of canoes before the project of the turn-pike was\\nthought of. Those were years of ceaseless watchfulness, of constant alarm, of\\noccasional bloodshed, and daily battle witli those privations incident upon frontier\\nlife. But they were years of enterprise, of determined effort, and finally of suc-\\ncess in the planting of a flourishing settlement.\\nTHE LOST CHILD.\\nOne of the true characteristics of the Indian in the earlier settlement of the\\nWest was the abduction and adoption of white children. We have had to record\\nas a part of the history of the early settlement of each of the counties at least one\\ncase of child stealing; nor does Macomb County lack an incident of the kind. We\\ngive the case as detailed by Mrs. Bailey, of Romeo, a short time previous to her\\ndeath.\\nOn the last day of March, 1828, Alanson Finch, a four-year-old son of Albert", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0190.jp2"}, "191": {"fulltext": "^t^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFinch, one of the pioneers of Washington Township, was stolen by the Indians.\\nTlie child, together with an elder brother, was returning home from the sugar bush,\\nwhen one suggested to the other the idea of trying who could reach home first by\\ntwo separate routes. The elder one said he would go across Mr. Bailey s field, and\\nthe younger across that of their father. Tliey started, the distance to the house by\\neither way being but about a quarter of a mile. The elder child reached home safely\\nand was anxiously interrogated by his mother as to the whereabouts of his little bro-\\nther. He told the circumstances of their separate journeys home, and closed by\\nsaying that he had given his brother the shortest way, and anticipated finding him at\\nhome. Search was immediately instituted, and after many futile efforts to discover\\nthe lost one by his friends and the immediate neighbors, the alarm spread through\\nall the settlements in the County, and the entire male portion of them turned out\\nto a man, and scoured the woods in every direction but their charitable intentions\\nand endeavors proved unavailing, and after many days they desisted. The child\\nwas never found.\\nSuspicion rested upon an Indian called Kanobe, who had taken a remarkable\\ninterest in the child for many months previous to its disappearance. He would go\\nto Mr. Finch s house, and, taking the child upon his knee, would teach him the In-\\ndian language ere the little one could scarcely prattle the mother tongue. This\\nsuspicion was strengthened by the fact that Kanobe left the settlement simulta-\\nneously with the abduction or loss of the child. Returning, however, he solemnly\\nassured Mr. Bailey that neither he nor any of the Indians abducted the child. In\\nlater years the skull of a boj was found in the neighborhood, which skull is now in\\npossession of Dr. S. L. Andrews. It corresponds with such an one as would be-\\nlong to the lost boy.\\nSome sixteen years after the child was stolen, a person of about twenty years of\\nage came to Romeo and claimed to be Alanson Finch. He told a very plausible story\\nabout having been brought up by an Indian, by whom he was told that he had been\\nstolen in his childhood, etc. But when he came to be identified by the Baileys and\\nothers, who had known the missing child, he utterly failed in the most prominent\\npoints of his claim. He finally left the place, not without leaving some credulous\\nenough to suppose tliat he was the genuine Alanson Finch, and not the impostor\\nthat he really was. Further than this, the affair is involved in the usual myste-\\nrious surroundings of similar cases. The same maternal sufferings were endured\\nby the fond mother at the loss of her darling the same heroic endeavors were\\nmade to recover the lost one and the same surmises were indulged in tliat have\\ncharacterized all such instances since the white man first became the antagonist of\\nthe treacherous Indian. And thus the matter rests until the final moment, when\\nall secrets shall be made known, all mysteries solved. Many are apt to attribute", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0191.jp2"}, "192": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe abduction to the fact that the Finch boys were supposed to have taken some\\nIndian ponies. In retaliation the Indians are said to have stolen the boy.\\nTHE INDIANS KAID.\\nIn the year 1812, while Elisha Harrington was occupying what is known as the\\nHarrington farm, the Chippewas made a raid on the settlement. Driving into the\\nvillage, whooping and flourishing their weapons, the savages dismounted, tying\\ntlieir horses to the trees of the old orchard at Frederick. Of course the Harring-\\ntons fled. The Indians in undisturbed possession gave themselves up to plunder\\nand rapine, feasting and debauchery. They burned down the barns, the fences,\\nand other improvements. The surrender of the traitorous Hull at Detroit to the\\nBritish and their savage allies suggested this sudden foray. Elated with that vic-\\ntory, in which they claimed an equal share of ylory with the British, they moved\\nsimultaneously upon all the settlements in the district of Detroit, in precisely the\\nsame manner as they did on the old settlement at Frederick. It was a sad time for\\nthe American settlers. Added to the humiliation of that disgraceful and infamous\\nand treacherous action of Hull, were the dangers of savage forays. Many families\\nfled to Detroit for safety, and among the number was that of Elisha Harrington,\\nfleeing for protection to the very center of the arch-enemy who prompted the In-\\ndians to take those inhuman measures.\\nThe old orchard, where tlie savages secured their horses, may still be seen at\\nFrederick, and the gnarled and ancient trees yet stand, bearing the marks of the\\ngnawing teeth of those wild ponies, which browsed there, while their wilder mas-\\nters were indulging in rapine and murder.\\nIn 1817, Elislia Harrington returned to the home from which he was forced to\\nflee, only to find it in possession of a dozen of Canadians. On stating his case\\nthose men moved to the present site of Utica village, where they settled.\\nINDIANS ON THE TRAIL OF AN AMERICAN.\\nThe spirit Ijreathed into the Indians of the Wj andot district by tiieir British\\nmasters, from 1774 totlie period when the British troops were driven from this land,\\nwas pregnant with danger to the American frontiersman, and even more so to him\\nwho Iiappened to dwell within tlie lines of those who essayed to enslave us. This\\nspirit is portrayed in one of the stories of the past, related by Edgar Weeks, and\\nfounded on facts elicited by him from the best authorities. It appears that one of\\nthe settlers, located east of the present city of Mt. Clemens, supposed to be a\\nmember of the Tuckar family, had offended the Indians in tiiat neighborhood,\\nwhich offense created much disaffection among the Indians, and drew down upon\\nhim their hatred. For days and weeks lie followed his daily avocations with the\\nfull knowledge that the malignant eye of some forest demon watched all his move-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0192.jp2"}, "193": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nments and waited an opportunity to carry out their designs toward him. For this\\nreason he was accustomed to carry his well-kept rifle on his shoulder, always ready\\nfor any emergency alwa3 s prepared to meet his foe. Notwithstanding the com-\\nmission which the Indians received from the British, to take the scalp of every\\nAmerican who fell into their hands, it is believed a special order was given the\\nchiefs to respect the lives and properties of the Tuckar and Connor families the\\nformer on account of services rendered by one of them in the Pontiac affair, the\\nother on account of his usefulness as interpreter, politician, and trader. Therefore\\nthe Indians not only feared tlie man himself, but lived in greater dread of the law\\nas propounded at Fort La Pontchairn in this connection. They dared not take the\\nlife of Tuckar but rather conspired to abduct him to the Sagenong, or great camp\\nof the tiibe, retain him in captivity, and expose him to those savage tests those\\nexcesses of inhumanity, which the conquerors of the .Sauks inflicted on enemies or\\nimaginary enemies who fell into their hands. With the expulsion of the Britisli,\\nand the rise of the white man to his natural position, the demoniac enemies of\\nTuckar sunk their passions in their interest, and evinced a most friendly disposition\\ntoward this pioneer.\\nVISIT TO THE INDIAN VILLAGE.\\nPrevious to the departure of the Hurons from Macomb Count} it was certainly\\nworth one s while to visit one of their villages. A Frenchman who visited them\\nin 1808 or 1810 described their villages on the Clinton at that time. He says I\\nremember one fine afternoon about ten years ago, accompanying an old Indian\\ntrader thither. Seated in a light canoe, and each armed with a paddle we started\\nfrom the mouth of the river for the ostensible purpose of bartering with the Indians\\nfor furs, etc. For my part I was perfectly delighted with the idea, as I never had\\nan opportunity hitherto of seeing the Indians at home, at least during the Summer\\nseason. The river was sufficiently agitated to cause our tiny boat to rock dreamily,\\nand as we sped onwards the rich wavelets leaped and sported against our canoe s\\nprow and sides, like sportive kittens, ever and anon greeting our faces with a damp\\npaw, that was by no means unpleasant. On, on we sped, now under the shadow of\\nthe green woods, now by the fringed, rich border of the clearings, or by the grass-\\ncovered marsh. We could see from a bend in the river the Indian village, and\\nhear the wild, joyous shouts of the dusky juveniles as they pursued their uncouth\\nsports and games. As we approached their camp what a busy and exhilarating\\nscene was presented to our view I clapped my hands in the exuberance of my\\nspirits, for never before had I witnessed a scene so full of real, unaffected natural\\nhappiness as there greeted my senses. My companion did not appear to share in\\nmy enthusiasm, owing, doubtless, to the fact that he was accustomed to such\\nscenes. Little Indian boys and girls could be seen prowling around like little", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0193.jp2"}, "194": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCupids some wrestling, some shooting with tiny bows and arrows, some paddling\\ntheir toy canoes, wliile others sported in the waters of the river like so many am-\\nphibia, each striving to excel the other in the manner and demonstration of its\\nenjoyment.\\nSuperannuated Indians and squaws sat by the tent-doors, looking on with a\\nquiet, demure pleasure, or arranging some toy or trinket for a favorite little toddler,\\nwhile the more efficient were engaged in various occupations. Oh how I longed\\nfor an artist s skill, that I might sketch the wild and picturesque scene. Here,\\nthought I, is human nature in its free, untrammeled state. Care seemed to be a\\nstranger to those children of Nature no thought of sorrow seemed to engross their\\nminds and the world, with all its vicissitudes and vexations, was allowed to pass\\nalong unnoticed by them. Buoyancy of spirit was a striking feature in their char-\\nacter. As we drew our canoe out upon the beach, the Indians came forward to\\ngreet us, and with a hearty shake of the hand, wished us a cordial bon jour. Tlie\\ndusky urchins left their sports to take a full survey of the visitors wliich having\\ndone, they returned co their games with a yelp and a bound.\\nSituated upon tlie greenest and most beautiful portion of the camp ground\\nwore a number of white and neat looking tents, whicli were closed, and isolated\\nfrom the dingv, smoky tepees of the village. The trader, who seemed a sort of\\nprivileged character, was entirely at home while I, considering myself among\\nstrangers, clung to him, and followed him wherever he went, not venturing to throw\\nmyself upon my own responsibility. I was therefore pleased when I saw him\\nstart toward the white tents, for I was curious to know what they contained.\\nDrawing aside the canvas, he entered without ceremony, I, of course, following-\\nafter. Seated upon beautiful mats of colored rushes, whicli served as carpets and\\ndivans, were some three or four good-looking squaws, very neatly and even richly\\nattired in the fanciful style of the native, busily engaged in embroidering and orna-\\nmenting moccasins, broad-cloth leggings, and blankets with variegated beads and\\npoi cupine quills. Everything around evinced the utmost order, neatness and taste.\\nNo bustling nichee or dirty urchin was allowed the freedom of those apparently\\nconsecrated tents; but all was quiet and calm within and if converse were carried\\non it was in that calm, soft, musical tone so peculiar to them. So, so, thought I,\\nliere we have a sort of aristocracy a set of exclusives, and a specimen of high life\\namong the natives yet it was just that kind of high life in many respects, after\\nwhich their white sisters might take pattern. No idle gossipping or scandal was\\nindulged in they quietly plied their needles, and kept their counsels to them-\\nselves. If they had occasion to visit their neighbors tents it was done quietly and\\npleasantly, after which business was resumed.\\nThis description of the Indian villages on the Reviere Aux Hurons, or Clinton\\n^1", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0194.jp2"}, "195": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nis based upon fact. Thougli the Wyandot or Huron is now far away from his\\nolden land, his wife, or sister, or mother may look back with pride to their settle-\\nments by Lake St. Clair, and in charity wish that the new Americans there will be\\nas happy their fathers were.\\nMANNERS AND CUSTOMS.\\nThe art of hunting not only supplied the Indian with food, but, like that of\\nwar, was a means of gratifying his love for distinction. The male children, as soon\\nas they acquired sufficient age and strength, were furnished with a bow and arrow\\nand taught to shoot birds and other small game. Success in killing a large quad-\\nruped required years of careful study and practice, and the art was as sedulously\\ninculcated in the minds of the rising generation as are the elements of reading,\\nwriting and arithmetic in the common schools of civilized communities. The\\nmazes of the forest and the dense, tall grass of the prairies were the best fields for\\nthe exercise of the hunter s skill. No feet could be impressed in the yielding soil\\nbut that the tracks were the object of the most searching scrutiny, and revealed at\\na glance the animal that made them, the direction it was pursuing, and the time\\nthat had elapsed since it had passed. In a forest country he selected the valleys,\\nbecause they were most frequently the resort of game. The most easily taken,\\nperhaps, of all the animals of the chase was the deer. It is endowed with a curi-\\nosity which prompts it to stop in its flight and look back at the approaching hunter,\\nwho always avails himself of this opportunity to let fly the fatal arrow.\\nTheir general councils were composed of the chiefs and old men. When in\\ncouncil, they usually sat in concenti ic circles around the speaker, and each indi-\\nvidual, notwithstanding what rankled within, preserved an exterior as immovable as\\nif cast in bronze. Before commencing business a person appeared with the sacred\\npipe, and another with fire to kindle it. After being lighted it was first presented\\nto heaven, secondly to the earth, thirdly to the presiding spirit, and lastly the\\nseveral counselors, each of whom took a whiff. These formalities were observed\\nwith as close exactness as state etiquette in civilized courts.\\nThe dwellings of the Indians Avere of the simplest and rudest character. On\\nsome pleasant spot by the bank of a river, or near an ever-running sjiring, they\\nraised their groups of wigwams, constructed of the baric of trees, and easily taken\\ndown and removed to another spot. The dwelling places of the chiefs were some-\\ntimes more spacious, and constructed with greater care, but of the same materials.\\nSkins taken in the chase served them for repose. Though principally dependent\\nupon hunting and fishing, the uncertain supply from those sources led them to cul-\\ntivate small patches of corn. Every family did everything necessary within itself,\\ncommerce, or an interchange of articles, being almost unknown to them. In cases\\nof dispute and dissension, each Indian relied upon himself for retaliation. Blood\\n13\\nriV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0195.jp2"}, "196": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nfor blood was the rule, and the relatives of tlie slain man were bound to obtain\\nbloody revenge for his death. This principle gave rise, as a matter of course, to\\ninnumerable bitter feuds, and wars of extermination where such were possible.\\nWar, indeed, rather than peace, was the Indian s glory and delight, war, not con-\\nducted as civilization, but war where individual skill, endurance, gallantry and\\ncruelty were prime requisites. For such a purpose as revenge the Indian would\\nmake great sacrifices, and display a patience and perseverance truly heroic but\\nwhen the excitement was over, he sank back into a listless, unoccupied, well-nigh\\nuseless savage. During the intervals of his more exciting pursuits, the Indian\\noccupied his time in decorating his person with all the refinement of paint and\\nfeathers, and in the manufacture of his arms and of canoes. These were con-\\nstructed of bark, and so light that they could easily be carried on the shoulder from\\nstream to stream. His amusements were the war-dance, athletic games, the narra-\\ntion of his exploits, and listening to the oratory of the chiefs but during long\\nperiods of such a pei iod he remained in a state of torpor, gazing listlessly upon the\\ntrees of the forests and the clouds that sailed above them and this vacancy im-\\nprinted an habitual gravity, and even melancholy, upon his general deportment.\\nThe main labor and drudgery of Indian communities fell upon the women.\\nThe planting, tending and gathering of the crops, making mats and baskets, carry-\\ning burdens in fact, all things of the kind were performed by them, thus making\\ntheir condition but little better tiian that of slaves. Marriage was merely a matter\\nof bargain and sale, the husband giving presents to the father of the bride. In\\ngeneral they had but few children. They were subjected to many and severe\\nattacks of sickness, and at times famine and pestilence swept away whole tribes.\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nTHE FRENCH PIONEERS.\\nThe Griffin was finished Aug. 4, 1679, and her sails set, a trial trip made,\\nand the name she bore bestowed upon her by Father Hennepin. On the\\nfifth, five small cannon were placed in position. The seventh was the day\\nappointed for entering upon that voyage over tlie G-itchi Gomee or great inland seas.\\nThe morning arrived the sun shone forth, as it were, over a sea of gold a favor-\\ning breeze played upon the waters the cataract of Niagara, six miles below,\\nreduced its roar to music while from La Salle s new fortress the song of the Te\\nDemu swelled upon the morning air. The sails were set, Robert De La Salle,\\ncommander of the Griffin, Father Louis Hennepin, historian and chaplain, with the\\n^1", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0196.jp2"}, "197": {"fulltext": "il^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\npilot, and .a number of hunters and trappers, were embarked tlie cables, which kept\\nthe little vessel fast, were unloosed, and that voyage toward the setting sun entered\\nupon.\\nThree days after setting out the vessel was anchored out opposite Teuchsagron-\\ndie, a Huron village then occupying the site of the present city of Detroit. From\\nthis point to the head of the Saint Claire River, many Indian villages were found to\\nexist, all of them unacquainted with the white man, save that small knowledge of him\\nwhich they might have gained from the Jesuit fathers.\\nSeven 3rears after the Crriffin succeeded in battling with the fierce current which\\nthen swept past tlie present site of Fort Gratiot, M. du Lhut caused the position to\\nbe garrisoned and a strongly fortified trading post to be erected. This was com-\\npleted in the Fall of 1686, and the name of Fort Saint Joseph conferred upon it;\\nbut its possession was so opposed to the ideas of French economy, that in July,\\n1688, the garrison received orders to evacuate the post, and to report at Michili-\\nmackinac.\\nOn July 21, 1701, M. de la Motte Cadillac, Capts. Tonti, Chacornacle and\\nDuque, in command of fift}^ regular troops, arrived at Detroit. The expedition was\\naccompanied by a Recollet chaplain and a Jesuit father, who had come as a mis-\\nsionary priest, together with fifty trappers, traders and hunters. Before the close\\nof August, 1701, the first fort erected in Michigan, if we except Du Lhut s fortified\\ntrading post at the head of the Saint Claire, and that at the mouth of the Saint\\nJoseph, was a reality. This occupied the ground extending from the Joseph\\nCampau homestead to Shelby, and thence to Woodbridge Street, a point now\\nremoved from the river bank, but which at that time would represent the head of\\nthe bank itself. The position was called Fort Pontchartrain.\\nWithin a few years, 1703, thirty Hurons from Michilimackinac became settlers\\nat Detroit. Between 1701 and September, 1703, the settlement was further\\nstrengthened by bands of Ontawa-Sinagoes, Miamis,Kiskakons and Loups,all flocking\\nto Fort Pontchartrain, to witness the magnificence of La Motte Cadillac and his\\ncommand. Previous to 1706 the number of enemies made for himself by Cadillac\\namong his own countrymen brought many and serious troubles into the very heart of\\nthe French posts at Detroit and at Michilimackinac. During the troubles at\\nDetroit, Rev. Father Constantino and Jean La Riviere were stabbed by the Onta-\\nwas, during their circumvallation of the fort, which continued forty days, until they\\nraised the siege.\\nIn 1707, Jean La Blanc, second chief of the Ontawas, with Le Brochet,\\nMeyaouka, Sakima, Kiuonge, Meaninan, Menekoumak, and another chief visited\\nthe Governor at Montreal, and offered to make restitution but this officer ordered\\nthem to report to Cadillac. The deputation returned to Detroit Aug. 6, 1707,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0197.jp2"}, "198": {"fulltext": "K.\\nHISTORY OF ilACOJIB COUNTY.\\nwhen the Commandant Cadillac addressed the Ontawas, Hurons, Miamis, and\\nKiskakons in turn the Council was in session four days, but at the close the Indians\\nagreed to deliver Le Pesant, the great disturber, into the hands of the French. He\\nwas handed over to the garrison, but unfortunately received a full pardon from\\nCadillac. This created a want of confidence in the French among the Miamis,\\nHurons, and Iroquois, resulted in the killing of three Frenchmen, and created\\nmuch disaffection in every Indian village.\\nIn September, 1708, there were only twenty-nine inhabitants of Detroit who\\nwere the actual owners of lots and houses within the Stockade. Of the entire\\nnumber of acres surveyed at that time 353 roods in toto those twenty-nine free-\\nholders owned only forty-six roods, the Hurons 150 roods, and the Chevalier de\\nCadillac 157 roods. The entire number of Frenchmen at the post then was sixty-\\nthree, of whom thirty-four were traders, who sold brandy, ammunition and trinkets\\nin that and the neighboring Indian towns.\\nDuring the war between France and England, which terminated in 1713,\\ntrouble after trouble surrounded Detroit. In 1712 Outagamies and Mascoutins laid\\nsiege to Fort Pontchartrain, then in charge of M. Du Buisson, with thirty soldiers.\\nThe church and other buildings outside the stockade were pulled down, lest the\\nbesiegers would set fire to the pile with a view of burning the fort itself.\\nThe circumvallation of the post and hourly assaults on it, were kept up for a period\\nof thirty days, when the Indian allies of the French arrived from their hunting\\nexpeditions, both Hurons and Miamis, drove the Outagamies and Mascoutins to their\\nentrenchments, and confined them there for nineteen days, until in the dai kness of\\nnight they withdrew to Presque Isle, twelve miles above Detroit. Thither the\\nHurons and Miamis pursued them, and forced a capitulation which resulted in the\\nmassacre of all the men of both tribes, and the captivity of their wives and chil-\\ndren. The Outagamies and Mascoutins who were not actually killed on the island,\\nwere brought to Detroit, where the Hurons continued to destroy four, five and six\\nper day until the last of these warriors who laid siege to the post was no more.\\nThe massacre resulted in the death of 800 men, women and children belonging to\\nthe besieging tribes at the hands of the Hurons and Miamis.\\nThe decade closing in 1721 was one which tried the souls of the French in-\\nhabitants of Detroit. The sale of brandy and other abuses were prohibited and a\\ngreat moral change effected in the manners, customs, and habits of the white garri-\\nson and settlers. A council of the Hurons, Ottawas, and Pottawatomies was held\\nnear the fort June 7, 1721, under Captain Tonti, then commandant. The great\\nIndian Sastarexy of the Huron tribe was the principal speaker, and the results\\nobtained were of a comparatively conciliating character, so much so that by the\\nyear 1725, the Outagamie savages acknowledged the French King in precisely the\\nJ", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0198.jp2"}, "199": {"fulltext": "Lb\\nIIISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsame measure as did the other allies of the French. About this period also the log-\\nhouse, known as St. Anne s Cliurch was built, new barracks erected, about forty-\\nfive dwelling-houses brought into existence, and the new stockade with bastions\\nand block-houses raised. The circular road or Chemin du ronde was laid out, and\\nnumerous improvements made in the vicinity of the Government House.\\nIn 1746, the old French War may be said to renew itself but not until 1749\\ndid the contest with the English soldiers take any regular form A decade later\\nthe French power in Canada was destroyed, and in 1760, all the French possessions,\\nfrom Lake Michigan to the Gulf of St. Lawrence, were in the hands of the conquer-\\ning Normans and Anglo-Saxons. Captain Bellestre, then commandant at Detroit,\\nsurrendered to Major Robert Rogers, in October, 1760.\\nIn 1762, the famous Indian Pontiac called a council of the tribes at La Reviere\\na V Ecorse, near Detroit, at which Council the Ottawas, Chippewas, and Potta-\\nwatomies of Grand, Saginaw, Clinton, Black, and St. Joseph Rivers, were present,\\ntogether with the Indians of Detroit, and bands of Delawares, Iroquois, Illinois,\\nand Senecas. Minavavana, head chief of the Ojibwas, adopted a plan similar to\\nthat of Pontiac, and succeeded in destroying the soldiers of the English garrison at\\nMiclillimackinac Pontiac s strategy failed at Detroit.\\nDETROIT IN 176-3.\\nThe historian Bancroft, referring to Detroit as it appeared to the settlers of\\n1763, just previous to Pontiac s military enterprise, says: Of all the inland\\nsettlements, Detroit was the largest and most esteemed. The deep majestic river,\\nmore than a half mile broad, carrying its vast flood calmly between its straight and\\nwell-defined banks, imparted a grandeur to a country wliose rising grounds and\\nmeadows, plains festooned with prolific wild-vines, woodlands, brooks, and foun-\\ntains were so mingled together that nothing was left to desire. The climate was\\nmild and the air salubrious. Good land abounded, yielding maize, wheat, and\\nevery vegetable. The forests were natural parks stocked with buffalo, deer, quail,\\npartridge, and wild turkev. Water fowl of delicious flavor hovered along its\\nstreams, which streams also yielded to the angler a large quantity of fish, particu-\\nlarly white fish. There every luxury of the table might be enjoyed at the sole ex-\\npense of labor.\\nThis cheerful region attracted both the barbarian and the child of civilization\\nthe French had so occupied both banks of the river, that their numbers were rated\\nso high as 2,500, of whom 500 were liable to aad able for military service\u00e2\u0080\u0094 repre-\\nsenting 300 or 400 French families. However an enumeration made in 1764 points\\nout just sufficient white men there to form three military companies while four\\nyears later, the census of the place, places the entire population at 572. The", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0199.jp2"}, "200": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFrench dwelt on farms which were about three or four acres wide on the river\\nfront, and eighty acres deep.\\nThe fort, then under Major Gladwyn, did not vary much from that known in\\nthe days of French dominion. Close by, Catherine, the Pocahontas of Detroit,\\nlived. She who informed Gladwyn of the intentions of the Indians, she, it was,\\nwho related to William Tuckar, one of the soldiers at the fort, the story of Pontiac,\\nand made him acquainted with the designs of that Indian Chieftain, and to her is\\ndue, in full measure, the averting of that terrible doom which hung so heavily over\\nthe English garrison of Detroit May 6, 1763. The death of Major Campbell at the\\nhands of an Indian, whose uncle had been killed by the English at Michilimackinac,\\nthe sixty days siege, the capture of the English supply convoy within sight of the\\nfort, and the round of duty imposed upon the soldiers are all cliaractei istic of that\\ntime. William Tuckar, one of whose descendants has taken a deep interest in the\\nhistorv of Macomb, states: I was a sentinel on the ramparts, catching a few hours\\nsleep, with my clothes on and a gun by my side, for sixty days and nights. Dur-\\ning the last day of July and the first of August, 1763, Captain Dalzell s force was\\nsurprised near Maloche s house, and lost seventy men killed and forty wounded.\\nFor some years after this affair, Detroit was free from Indian assaults, treaties of\\npeace were negotiated, aud everything resumed that happy standard reached under\\nthe French.\\nNow, however, the echoes of The Revolution were heard at Detroit; Major\\nLe Noult, a Frenchman in the English service, built Fort le Noult, in 1778, in\\nanticipation of an American siege, and this name the new fortress bore until 1812,\\nwhen the name Fort Shelly was conferred on it. Soon the American Generals, St.\\nClair, Anthony Wayne, Harmar, and the soldiers of the revolution came to claim\\nthe Northwest territory as organized by Congress in 1787. The treaty of Green-\\nville negotiated August, 1795, with the Indians, conveyed Detroit and the entire\\nNorthwest to the United States, and one year later. Captain Porter, in command\\nof a company of United States troops, entered Detroit, and placed the Stars and\\nStripes and Fleur de Lis, where the English flag so recently floated. Previously\\nthe British garrison evacuated the post, after committing many acts of the lowest\\ndescription, and placed it in possession of an old African, with whom the keys were\\nsubsequently found.\\nFrom this period until 1805, the settlement of Detroit and the lake shore\\ngradually advanced, which the fire of 1805 did not retard. In 1806 Tecumseh and\\nEUshwatawa at the head of the Indian confederacy threatened Detroit and the\\nsettlements along the lake and Reviere aux Hurons or Clinton but the treaty of\\n1807 between that enigmatical governor, Hull, and the Ottawas, Chippewas, Potta-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0200.jp2"}, "201": {"fulltext": "^t\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwatomies and Wyandots, was effectual in allaying excitement and in conferring a\\nspirit of confidence on the settlers.\\nThe war against the British, declared by Congress, June 18, 1812, was unfor-\\ntunate for the Northwest in many respects, as there nothing was in readiness to meet\\nthe well-organized British ti-oops. All this resulted in the scandalous, if not\\ntreacherous, surrender of Hull. General Harrison s command eventually took pos-\\nsession of Detroit Col. Lewis Cass was commissioned Governor, and under his\\nable administration, Michigan entered upon that political, social and commercial\\ncourse which led her to her present greatness.\\nTHE PIONEER LAND BUYERS OF MACOMB.\\nThis is a most important portion of the history of Macomb County, and indeed\\none well worthy the attention of every citizen of this State, since most of the\\nnames mentioned were household words in the homes of the American pioneers\\nfrom Michiliraackinac to Saginaw, to Detroit, to Grand Rapids, to Chicago, to Mil-\\nwaukee, back to the St. Joe river, up the Elkhart and the Kankankee, down to the\\nold post of Vincennes. It is impossible to calculate the results of settlement here\\nby those early French, American and Franco-American pioneers; but it is within\\nour power to learn who they were, and the very location of their humble cabins.\\nBefore entering on the history of their times and settlement, let us first inquire\\ninto the origin of the names given to their locations. The first and most prominent\\nname is la Riviere aux Hurons.\\nThe village of the Hurons was near Detroit. The name Huron, derived from\\nthe French, Hure, a wild boar, was applied to this tribe of Indians by the first\\nFrench missionaries, for the reason that their hair sprung from the head in bristles\\na la porcupine. The French called them Hurons, but among the Indian tribes\\nthey were known as Wyandots, or Onendats.\\nSt. Clair and Sinclair. In tiie year 1765 Patrick Sinclair, an Irish ofiBcer in\\nthe service of Great Britain, and commandant of Fort Sinclair, purchased 3,789\\nacres of land on tiie river above Lake St. Clair, and after him the river was named\\nThe Sinclair. In a report made January 17, 1806, by Augustus Woodward, to the\\nSecretary of the Treasury, it is said that this ofQcer was a distinct character dif-\\nfering physically and morally from St. Clair of the French service. The latter was\\na grand-son of O Brien, Lord Clare, who, after the treaty of Limerick, entered the\\nFrench army. In his honor the lake at the mouth of the Clinton was named. The\\nclaim of Sinclair remained in his possession seventeen years, utilizing the large\\npine-timber, and deriving heavy profits.\\nThe rivers, creeks, and points of land were named in accord with some phys-\\nical characteristic, or otherwise in honor of one of the first settlers in the neigh-\\nborhood.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0201.jp2"}, "202": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsquatters claims.\\nIll 1782 there were nineteen settlers living adjacent to tliis tract, a year later,\\ntwenty settlers located on Lake St. Clair, near the mouth of the Huron. In 1788\\ntwenty settlements were made on the river Au.v Hurons, or Clinton in 1790 a few\\nmore settlers located at Pointe au Tremble. In 1793 ten families located lands on\\nthe Huron of Lake St. Glair, or Clinton. Seven years later four families joined the\\nsettlement. Six families joined the settlers at the head of the lake while the\\nSalt Springs began to attract the attention of the people from the mouth of the\\nHuron to the river St. Clair. In 1801, one settler located at these springs, and he\\nwas soon joined by others. In 1797, no less than thirty families located lands\\nalong the banks of La Riviere au Laif, or Milk River, and northwards to the\\nRiviere aux Hurons. Those settlers founded their claims on actual settlement\\nand improvement without any further title. Of this class there were about 400\\non the borders of Lake St. Clair, rivers Huron, Ecorces, Rouge, and Raisin.\\nIn the succeeding review of claims, presented by the land-holders of Macomb,\\nor the Oivil District of Huron, as the territory constituting the county of Macomb\\nin 1818, was called, it will be observed that the result of the examination before\\nthe Board is not given in the greater number of cases. Now such a course was\\nmade unnecessary by the fact that almost in every instance the claimant s title\\nwas proved to the satisfaction of the Land Commissioners, who ordered a record\\nto be made of such titles in the Land Office at Detroit, and subsequently recom-\\nmended the issue of United States patents. The report of this board was made\\nin 1810-11, and patents were granted in the year 1812, and years immediately suc-\\nceeding. Although Claim twenty-six seems to be connected in some manner with\\nthis county, there is no records presented to enable the writer to notice it in this con-\\nnection. Therefore, ignoring that number, he begins the review with Claim 129.\\n129.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James Connor claimed the tract of land on the north bank of the\\nClinton, containing 510 acres, of which thirteen and three-quarter acres fronted on\\nthe river, extending back forty acres, and bounded on the west by William\\nTuckar s land. Henry Connor s testimony before the Land Board was to the effect\\nthat the claimant had possession, and began to improve the property before July\\n1, 179(3, since which time he has been in possession of the land. This formed Claim\\n129, which was granted, June, 1808.\\n130. Joseph Campeau, Claim 130, was granted on the same date. The tract\\nis on the south bank of the Aux Hurons, contains 640 acres, bounded in front by\\nthe river, in rear by Lake St. Clair, on one side by the land of Laurente Maure,\\nand on the other by a second tract entered by him. Bapciste Coniparet and Henry\\nConnor testified tb.at Joseph Campeau was in possession of this tract previous to\\nJuly 1, 1796.\\n^0", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0202.jp2"}, "203": {"fulltext": "-l^\\nHISTORY OF JIACOMB COUNTY.\\nCampeau s fourth and fifth, Claim No. 133, containing 640 acres, was purchased\\nfrom Louis Maure. This was bounded in front bj the river Huron, on the east\\nby Jacques Loson s land, on the west by the land of Hyacinthe Deaitre, and in the\\nrear by the lake. Claims 131 and 132 were his also.\\n134. Joseph Campeau claim, 134, of 640 acres, is bounded in front by the river,\\nin rear by the lake, on the west north-west by Louis Petit s lands, and on the east\\nby a tract claimed by Joseph Campeau. Henry Connor testified in this case, that\\nthe land so described was purchased from Jean Baptiste Connellier previous to\\nJuly 1, 1796.\\n135. The Joseph Campeau claim, 135, is located south of th3 Riviere aux\\nSurons, or Clinton, bounded in front by the river, extending to the lake between\\nPierre Phenix s land on one side, and Antoine Peltier s land on the other. Henry\\nConnor testified that this tract was in possession of the claimant, and that a house\\nwas erected thereon previous to July 1, 1796, which house was then standing\\n(1808).\\n136. James Connor, in his letter to the Land Boaid, June 13, 1808, claimed\\n640 acres on the north side of the Huron, it being sixteen acres river front, forty\\nacres in depth, bounded on the east by the Chatron farm, and in the rear and on\\nthe west by unlocated lands. Baptiste Comparet proved that previous to July,\\n1796, James Connor was in possession, that there was a cabin erected, and two or\\nthree acres of land cultivated and fenced before he, Comparet, left La Riviere aux\\nHurons in 1804.\\n137. Richard Connor. The widow and heirs of Richard Connor applied to\\nthe Board to have their title to 600 acres on the south side of the Huron confirmed.\\nBaptiste Comparet gave proof that the deceased Richard Connor was in possession\\nof the land and premises previous to July 1796, up to 1804, when he left the dis-\\ntrict. Augustin Langdon deposed that the family of the deceased occupied the\\nholding since 1801. Another tract, fifteen acres in front and forty acres in depth,\\nof 600 acres, commencing at a place called Deer Lick, and bounded in rear, on the\\neast and west by unlocated lands, was shown to be in possession of Richard Connor\\nprevious to July, 1796.\\n139. Henry Connor claimed 480 acres on the north side of the Huron, bound-\\ned in front by the river, east by Christian Clemens farm, and west and rear by\\nwild lands. Comparet stated that William Dawson was the owner of this tract\\nprevious to July 1796, and remained so until its sale to Richard Connor, deceased.\\n140. Joseph Robertjean s claim regarded eighty-one arpens of land on the\\nnorth side of the Huron, bounded in front by the river, in the rear by Lake St. Clair,\\non one side by the lands of the late Alexis Peltier, and on the other side by the\\nlands of Robert Robertjean. Comparet witnessed that Robertjean was in posses-\\n^fv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0203.jp2"}, "204": {"fulltext": "203 HISTORY OF IVIACOMB COUNTY.\\nsion of such tract previous to 1796, aud Christian Clemens proved the claimant s\\npossession in the year 1799.\\n141. Christian Clemens claim for 500 acres, beginniiig at the high bank of\\nthe Huron, and running down this bank about fourteen acres, to a small run or\\nmarsh then emptying into the river, running north forty acres; bounded in front\\nby the Huron, on one side by Henry Connor s lands, on the other by the tract of\\nJames Abbott, and in rear by unlocated lands. Comparet s evidence was that John\\nConner was the owner of this tract previous to July 1796, who permitted Natlian\\nWilliams and Jared Brooks to build a still house on the premises about 1797 or\\n1798. In 1801 John and Richard Connor sold the tract to Christian Clemens.\\n144. John Tuckar s claim. No. 144, was bounded in front by the Huron, in\\nrear by Lake St. Clair, above by James Connor s lands, and below by Edward\\nTuckar s, bequeathed to the claimant by his father, the pioneer, William Tuckar.\\nComparet and Wm. McScott, proved possession previous to July, 1796.\\n156.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Edward Tuckar s land was bounded in front by the river, in rear by the\\nlake, above by John Tuckar s farm, and below by Michael Tremble s land, which\\nwas also a bequest of the late Wm. Tuckar.\\n146. William Tuckar claimed a tract bounded south by the river Huron, east\\nby Francois St. Obin sland, north by the lake, and west by Wm. Tuckar s (senior),\\noriginal farm, afterwards in possession of the widow Tuckar.\\n147. Catherine Tuckar claimed, in trust for her sons, Jacob and Charles, 640\\nacres, bounded in front by the river, in rear by the lake, below by claim 146, of\\nWilliam Tuckar, proved to be in possession of Wm. Tuckar, deceased, previous to\\nJuly, 1796.\\n148. Phillis Peltier s claim, 480 acres, bounded in front by the lake, in rear\\nby hunting grounds, below by Nicholas Chapaton s farm, and above by a creek or\\ncoulee, called ventre de hoeuf. Jean Baptiste Pare proved occupation by Peltier\\nfifteen years pi evious to 1808.\\n149. Jean Baptiste Pare claimed a tract bounded in front by the lake, in rear\\nby Indian lands, above by Joseph Dube s farm and below by Louis Laforge s claim.\\nPhillis Peltier proved that fifteen years previous to June, 1808, one Cayet was\\nowner of this tract. He sold to Francois Dupre who in turn sold to Pare. Dupre\\nconfirmed this statement.\\n150. Francois St. Obins tract northeast side of the Huron, containing about\\n640 acres, bounded in front by the river, in rear by the lake, above by William\\nTuckar s farm, and below by Michael Tremble s lands, was known to be in pos-\\nsession of Louis St. Obin, father of Francois, many years previous to July, 1796.\\nChristian Clemens and B. Comparet were tlie witnesses.\\n154. Claim No. 151, by the same party, of 640 acres bounded in front by the", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0204.jp2"}, "205": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nriver, ia rear by the lake, east by Chapaton s lands, and west by those of Jacques\\nLoson, was originally settled by Michel Comparet, who sold to Louis Bandin, aud\\nhe in turn to St. Obin. Christian Clemens also proved continuous possession since\\n1800.\\n157. Francois Ambroise s 140 acres, on the northwest side of Lake St. Clair,\\nbounded in front by the lake, in rear by Indian grounds, on the north by Bazile\\nCrequi s claim, and on the lower side by that of Jean Baptiste Vernier, dit Ladou-\\nceur, was settled by Etienne Duchesne in 1795, who built a small house thereon\\nhe sold his interest to Michel Duchesne, who in turn sold out to Ambroise.\\n156. Jean Baptiste Vernier, dit Ladouceur, claimed 240 acres, bounded in\\nfront by the lake, in rear by non-ceded lands, on the northeast by Pierre Bon-\\nliomme s farm, and on the southwest by the lands of Laurent Griffard. Possession\\nwas proven and title granted.\\n199. Francois Ambrois Tremble claimed 140 acres fronting on Lake St. Clair,\\nbetween the lands of Bazile Crequi and J. Bte. Vernier, originally settled by\\nEtienne Duchesne, who presented them to Michel Ducliesne, who sold to Tremble.\\n16.3. J. Bte. Nantay claimed 200 arpens fronting on the lake, between the\\nlands of Phillis Peltier and Pierre Lanoue, possessed by him fourteen years pi-evious\\nto June 18, 1808.\\n207. Laurent Maure claimed 200 arpens fronting on the Huron, extending\\nback to the lake between the farms of Jos. Robertson and Jos. Campeau, in his\\npossession some years previous to 1796. A certificate of title was granted to him\\nin 1809, and a patent issued in 1811.\\n162. Jean Marsac s claim, bounded in front by the lake, in rear by Indian\\nlands, northeast by Charles Chovin s farm, and southwest by Louis Leduc s dit\\nPerez, claim, containing 160 acres, French measurement, was confirmed June\\n20, 1808.\\n16.3. Jean Baptiste Nantay claimed 200 acres bounded in front by the lake,\\nin rear by non-ceded lands, above by Phillis Peltier s farm, and below by that of\\nPierre Lanoue.\\n164. Joseph Mitresse, dit Sansfacon, claimed 360 arpens, French measurement,\\nbounded in front by the lake, in rear by Indian lands, above by Baptiste Ble s\\nfarm, and below by Charles Chovin s claim, was in possession of Nicholas Patenande\\nprevious to 1796. He sold to Autoine Cecille six arpens in front, who, in turn,\\nsold to Sansfacon. Pierre Laparle owned three arpens in front, which he gave to\\nLouis Champagne, and which he in turn sold to the claimant.\\n165. Joseph Dube claimed 120 arpens, bounded in front by the lake, in rear\\nby the hunting grounds, on one side by Baptiste Pierre s farm, and on the other by\\nby that of Pierre Lanoue. This property was in possession of Nicholas Value pre-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0205.jp2"}, "206": {"fulltext": "M\\nHISTORY OP MACO^MB COUNTY.\\nvious to July, 1796, aud continued so until sold to Charles Cliovin, who transferred\\nit to Dube.\\n1G7. Joseph Rowe claimed 240 arpens, bounded in front by the river Huron,\\nin rear by Indian grounds, on the west by Bazile Laforge s farm, and on the east\\nby tliat of Pierre Phenix. This property was proven by Louis Campeau to be in\\nthe possession of A. N. Petit, before and after 1796, until he sold to the present\\nclaimant.\\n168. Louis Campeau, the pioneer of Saginaw and Kent Counties, was among\\nthe first land owners in Macomb. In 1808, he claimed 280 arpens bounded in front\\nby the Huron, in rear by non-ceded lands, west by the Joseph Campeau claim, and\\neast by B. Laforge s farm.\\n170. Jean B. Vernier, dit Ladouceur, claimed 200 arpens bounded in front by\\nLake St. Clair, in rear by non-ceded lands, northeast by Francois Ambroise s farm,\\nand southwest by that of Nicholas Patenande. Alexis Coquillard heard Robert\\nThomas acknowledge himself as tenant to Jean B. Nantay.\\n172. John Askin, Jr., claimed 625 acres, bounded in front by the river Huron\\nin rear and on one side by the United States lands, and on the other by the Christian\\nClemens property. Harry Tuckar, witness for the claimant, proved that one\\nDescoteaux improved and cultivated the lands, by order of, and for the claimant,\\nprevious to July, 1796,; that the claimant had a house built some time after\\nDescoteaux went there, and that afterwards Christian Clemens tenanted the\\npremises, cultivated the lands, erected fences, and continued to improve the\\nproperty until 1808. Mr. Clemens substantiated this statement, and a title was\\ngranted.\\n173. James Abbott claimed 630 acres, bounded in front by the river, in rear\\nby United States lands, above by a buttonwood tree one acre above a small creek\\nand below by unlocated lands. Edward Hezell built a house on this claim, and\\nraised two crops previous to 1796. Hezell sold his interest to James Abbott,\\n(father of the claimant) deceased, since which time up to 1808 Christian Clemens\\nimproved and cultivated the lands, paying to the claimant an annual rent from\\n1799 to 1808.\\n174. Jacob Thomas widow and heirs claimed a tract at L ance Creuse of 160\\narpens, bounded in front by the lake, in rear by non-ceded lands, on one side by\\nBaptiste Nantay s farm, and on the other by that of Jean Baptiste Dube, all prop-\\nerty in possession of Jacob Thomas previous to 1796.\\n175. Louis Petit s tract of 120 arpens was bounded in front by the river\\nHuron, in rear by non-ceded lands, on one side by P. Phenix s farm, and on the\\nother by tliat of Joseph Campeau. One Connellier was in possession previous to\\n1796, and continued owner until he sold out to L. Petit, May 8, 1797.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0206.jp2"}, "207": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF .^lACOMB COUXTY. 20-\\n176. Pierre Phenix claimed 240 arpens, bounded in front by the Huron, in\\nrear by n. c. lands, on one side by Joseph Rowe s farm, and on the other by that of\\nJoseph Campeau. This territory was partly in possession of one Lapaline and one\\nProvost. The former sold to Natliau Williams, who sold to Joseph Bonvouloir,\\nwho sold to Joseph Cherbonneau, from whom Phenix purchased.\\n183. Laurent Griffard claimed 120 arpens fronting on Lake St. Clair, extend-\\ning backwards to the n. c. lands, to the J. B. Vernier farm on the northeast, and to\\nthe Henry St. Bernard farm on the southwest. Louis Monet testified that Griffard\\nwas in possession of this land in 1788.\\n184. Jacques AUard s 120 arpens fronting on the lake, bounded by the Indian\\ngrounds in the rear, Bte. Celeron s farm on one side and Louis Griffard s on the\\nother was settled by the claimant several years previous to 1796, as shown in the\\nevidence of Charles Poupard.\\n192. Meldrum and Park claimed 630 acres, bounded northeast by the river\\nLassaliue, southwest by other lands of the claimants, in front by the lake, and in\\nrear by other claims. This land was tenanted by Antoiue N. Petit previous to\\n1796, who rented it from M. and P. One Durrocher rented it for one year, and\\nDupre for two one-half years subsequently.\\n193. Another tract of 630 acres, bouud southwest by Riviere aux Vases,\\nnortheast and rear by other lauds of Meldrum and Park, and in front by the lake,\\nwas first rented, in 1795, by Baptiste Letoiirneau. Louis Barret and Denocher\\nthen rented the place. Francis Berian lived there for thi ee years and one Dupre\\nfor two years.\\n194. Michel Tremble claimed a tract on the Huron, bounded iu front by the\\nriver, in rear by the lake, above by F. Saint Obin s farm, and below b\\\\ R. Robert-\\njean. Nicholas Chapaton was in possession of this property previous to 1796.\\n195. The second claim of Tremble related to lands bounded in front by the\\nHuron, in rear by n. c. land, above by Edward Tuckar s farm, and below by the\\nproperty of the widow and heirs of William Tuckar, deceased. Henry Tuckar\\nwas the owner of those lands before and after 1796, until he sold to Christian\\nClemens, from whom Tremble jDurchased them.\\n196. Jacob Hill s heirs claimed 240 acres fronting on the river Saint Clair,\\nbetween the farms of George Meldrum and Joseph Bassinet, of which land Jacob\\nHill was in possession previous to 1796, as proven by Ignace Champagne.\\n197. Another tract between the farms of George Meldrum and Alexander\\nHarrow, fronting on the river Saint Clair, was also claimed.\\n207. Laurent Maure claimed 200 arpens fronting on the river Huron, extend-\\ning back to the lake, between the farms of Joseph Robert and Joseph Campeau, of\\nwhich he was owner previous to 1796.\\nW\\\\^=i^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0207.jp2"}, "208": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n213. Nicholas Chapaton s claim, founded on a deed given by the Indians\\nVouista nance and Nanguy dated Detroit, May, 1795, contained about 160 acres.\\nThe area was disputed, and the evidence before the Board was so contradictory that\\nthe commissioners rejected the claim. The description points out that this claim\\nfronted on Lake Saint Clair, and extended back to the n. c. grounds, between the\\nlands of Phillis Peltier and Jean Bte. Nantay.\\n219. Pierre Griffard claimed 160 arpens fronting on Lake Saint Clair, between\\nthe farms of Joseph Griffard and J. B. N. Petit. His possession previous to 1796\\nbeing proved by J. B. Nantay, the claim was allowed.\\nIsadora Morain settled on claim 221, in 1795 but during his absence Pierre\\nChampagne took and held forcible possession for one year from 1796, afterward one\\nGorslet lived on it, whose widow sold the claim to Bte. Allsin, who was in posses-\\nsion July, 1808. This land fronted on the lake, between the lands of Michel\\nDuchesne and Bte. A. Tremble, and measured 120 arpens.\\n222. Antoine Reneau purchased from William Forsyth 120 arpens fronting on\\nthe lake between the claims of Joseph Campeau and Pierre Tremble, May 3, 1806.\\nThe location was known as Pointe Guinolet, originally settled by Francois Ble, who\\nsold to William Forsytli.\\n228 by Louis Reneau, comprising 120 arpens, fronted on Lake Saint Clair,\\nbetween the lands of Louis Grift ard and Francois Bonhomme, was ceded.\\n224 by -Jacques Allard, Jr., containing 120 arpens, fronted on the lake between\\nthe lands of Colas Rivard and Jacques Allard, Senr. This land was originally\\nsettled by J. Bte. Dumas who transferred it to Bte. Celeron, who sold to Jacques\\nAllard in 1807.\\n225 by Michel Duchesne, containing 120 arpens. fronted on the lake, between\\nthe lands of Bte. Lapierre and Bte. Petit. Louis Thibault was the original grantee,\\nwho sold to F. Bernard, who sold to J. B. Comparet, Jr., who in turn sold his in-\\nterest to Duchesne.\\n220 by Joseph Robertjean, containing 630 arpens, fronted on the Huron be-\\ntween the lands of Joseph Rowe and James Abbott, was settled in 1795 by John\\nLoveless, who sold to the claimant in 1798. Christian Clemens testified that\\nRobertjean cultivated a portion of the claim since 1801.\\n231 by Alexander Grant, containing 639 acres, fronting on Lake Saint Clair,\\nbetween the claims of William Forsyth and Gregor McGi-egor, was, as stated by J.\\nBte. Campeau or Penish, to possession of grant previous to July, 1796.\\nLouis Chapaton s (claim 338) land, 120 arpens in area, fronted on the Huron,\\nextended to the lake between the farms of F. Saint Obin and Louis Maure.\\nSeraphin Leson testified that such land was in possession of Joseph Campeau pre-\\nvious to July, 1796, who disposed of his interest therein to Chapaton.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0208.jp2"}, "209": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n239. Jean Bte. Marsac claimed 120 arpens fronting on the lake at Grosse\\nPoint, between the farms of Pierre Yax and Charles Goniin, in possession of Joseph\\nSerre, and previous to July, 1796.\\n240. Marsac also claimed 120 arpens fronting on tlie lake between Capt.\\nFleming s and Francis Tremble s holdings, originally settled by Louis Billon dit\\nresperance, and conveyed by him to Marsac, Aug. 17, 1801.\\n242. Robert Robertjean claimed forty-five arpens, fronting on the Huron, ex-\\ntending to the lake, and lying between the lands of Joseph Robertjean and Michel\\nTremble, in his possession previous to 1796.\\n243. Jean Marie Beaubien s claim of 640 acres fronting on the river Saint\\nClair, between the lands of Meldrum and Park and those of the negro, Harry\\nSanders, was allowed.\\n249. Francois Bonhomme or Bonome claimed 200 arpens fronting on the lake\\nat Pointe a Guinolet, between the lands of J. Bte. Vernier and Louis Reneau, Sr.,\\nwhich was in his possession previous to July, 1796.\\n250. Nicholas Patenaude, Jr., claimed 160 arpens at L ance Crease, on the lake\\nshore, between the farms of Vernier or Ladouceur and Bte. Socier, occupied by\\nFrancois Ambroise Tremble previous to 1796.\\n261. Jean Baptiste Creque s widow and heirs claimed forty arpens fronting\\non the lake, between the holdings of Meldrum and Park and Joseph Allair, which\\nland was in their possession previous to July, 1796.\\n262. Meldrum and Park claimed eighty arpens fronting on Lake Saint Clair,\\nbetween 261 and that of Nicholas Patenaude.\\n236. William Connor claimed 600 acres fronting on the Huron, between the\\nlands of John Askin, Jr., and James Connor, improved in 1794 by William Connor\\nand his sons, and now claimed by James Connor.\\n272. William Robertson s heirs claimed 300 acres fronting on the lake be-\\ntween H. St. Bernard s and Francois Tremble s farms\u00e2\u0080\u0094 land purchased originally\\nby Wm. Groesbeck from the Indians, and deeded by him to the deceased William\\nRobertson January 15, 1796. Groesbeck made the first improvements here so\\nearly as 1780 through his tenants who remained there until 1785, when George\\nBaker contracted to buy the land. Baker remained on it many years, but made no\\npayments. Baker being content to inform him that L Esperance would pay the\\n\u00c2\u00a3100 due on it. In 1805, Groesbeck found the land vacant, and with the per-\\nmission of J. Bte. Marsac and Wm. Robertson s agent, both claimants, he went to\\nlive on his old property, where he lived up to 1808 without paying rent to any\\nparty. L Esperance stated to the Board August 18, 1808, that he purchased from\\nJacob Baker the tract in question and sold it to J. Bte. Marsac, for a plantation,\\non the British side of the Detroit River.\\n5 V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0209.jp2"}, "210": {"fulltext": "A__^\\nHISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\n273. Nicholas Patenaude, Sr., bought twentj-fuur arpens fronting on Lake\\nSt. Chiir, between the Robinson and Martin and the JVIeldrum and Park properties,\\nin 1778, and claimed to have improved such lands so early as 1758.\\n276.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Julien Fortou claimed 160 arpens fronting on the lake, between the\\nfarms of Pierre Ambroise and Gabriel Reneau. Seraphin Leson testified that Forton\\nheld possession of this tract previous to 1796.\\n277. Charles Chovin claimed 220 arpens fronting on the lake between the\\nlands of Jos. Saiisfacou and J. Bte. Marsac, which he located previous to 1796\\nhe also claimed a tract (278) containing 110 arpens fronting on the lake, between\\nthe farms of J. Bte. Lapierre and Etienne Sieur, also possessed by him previous to\\n1796.\\n316. Louis Leduc claimed 120 arpens fronting on the lake between the claim\\nof Panaclia and that of Francois Duchesne at L ance Creuse, in possession of one\\nChampagne previous to 1796, transferred to Jean Sunare, and by him to Le Due.\\n389. Joseph Campeau claimed, as the grantee of Louis Maure, a tract of land\\nfronting on the Huron, extending to Lake St. Clair, and lying between the lands\\nof Louis Chapoton, Sr., and another claim of Joseph Campeau. Louis Maure pos-\\nsessed those lands previous to 1796, and continued in their possession until the\\nexecution of the deed, September 10, 1808, to Joseph Campau.\\n320. Jean Bte. St. Laurent claimed 120 arpens fiouting on the lake between\\nthe holdings of Baptiste A. Tremble and Francois A. Tremble. Gabriel Reneau\\nwas the possessor of these lands previous to 1796, and continued so until the\\ntransfer of the property to his brother Louis who sold to Bazile Crequi from whom\\nJ. B. St. Laurent purchased July 15, 1808.\\n343. Pierre Yax claimed 480 arpens at la Pointe Aux Crapaux, fronting on\\nLake St. Clair, in his possession previous to and since the year 1796.\\n502. Rene Marsac s title to 80 arpens, fronting on Lake St. Clair, and lying\\nbetween the lands of Francois Marsac and Nicholas Patenaude, was confirmed De-\\ncember 14, 1808.\\n505. Jean Bte. Petit claimed 160 arpens at L ance Creuse, fronting the lake,\\nand lying between the lands of Michel Duchesne and Mr. Bellinger. F. St. Ber-\\nnard was the possessor of this tract in 1796 he sold to Louis Petit Clair, who sold\\nin turn to Louis Maure, and he sold to J. Bte. Petit.\\n513. Louis Laforge, possessor of a tract of 150 arpens, fronting the lake at\\nL Ance Creuse, between the farms of J. Bte. Pare and Baptiste Dube, was con-\\nfirmed in his title. Mr. Cady states that this pioneer was a centenarian, and re-\\nmained on his old homestead until ten or twelve years ago.\\n541. James Connor and Christian Clemens, associate owners of a tract of land\\nsituate on the north side of the river Huron, containing 640 acres, fronting on the\\n9", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0210.jp2"}, "211": {"fulltext": "-4*\\nHISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nriver, and lying between the lands of Peter Douman on the east, and John Connor\\non the west, claimed a title thereto on account of possession, occupancy, and im-\\nprovement, previous to and since 1796. Henry Connor testified that John Chartion\\nwas possessor of those lands for five years previous to 1796, when he sold to tlie\\nclaimants. They cultivated six acres of ground, built a house, and planted an or-\\nchard previous to December, 1808. The claimants exhibited a deed made by Henry\\nTuckar March 4, 1808.\\n512. Christian Clemens claimed 640 acres south of and fronting on tlie Huron,\\nnext above the land of .James Abbott. James Connor testified that a long period\\nprior to 1796, Edward Hazel took possession of the tract, and held it until the sale\\nto James Abbott, and he in turn was the owner until the sale to his son James\\nAbbott, Jr., under whom Mr. Clemens went into possession.\\n544. Joseph Campeau claimed eighty arpens fronting on the lake, between\\nthe lands of Thomas Tremble and Etienne Duchesne; at Point a Guinolette,\\noriginally in possession of Pierre Duchesne. In 1808 twenty arpens were culti-\\nvated, and a house erected.\\n545. Joseph Campeau claimed a tract on the south side of the Huron, three\\narpens of which fronted on the river, extending in depth to Lac St. Clair, between\\nthe claims of Louis Campeau and Louis Maure. Michel Duchesne proved occu-\\npancy by the claimant previous, and since 1796. In 1808 thirty arpens were\\nunder cultivation.\\n546. Henry Connor claimed 640 acres on the north side of tlie Huron, front-\\ning on the river, and running up the main river sixteen acres. James Connor\\ntestified that, several years prior to 1796, he saw the claimant ploughing the land,\\nand when returning from the Indian Country in 1804, a house was erected, and the\\nclaimant was engaged in making other improvements. Francis Guy s testimony\\nwas substantiatory.\\n559 Israel Ruland claimed 640 acres lying on the south and north sides of\\nSalt River, of which thirty-two acres fronted on the south bank of the river, and\\nextended backwards twenty-two acres between the lands deeded to him September\\n29 (also claimed by Meldrum and Park) while five acres fronted on the north\\nbank, extending back twenty acres, between the lands of George Meldrum on the\\neast, and the wild lands on the west and north. Previous to 1796, N. Petit and A.\\nPrevot were living on those lands as tenants of Meldrum and Park. They evacu-\\nated the place in 1797 when John Bte. Nantay took possession for tlie claimant.\\nIn 1802 he saw John Lagord, Pierre Champagne and Joseph Socier on the premises.\\nDuring his first stay there were old houses. He aided in building new houses,\\ncleared three or four acres, and made and enclosed a garden. John Lagord also\\nrepaired an old house and built two new ones for the plaintiff.\\n14\\nrfv^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0211.jp2"}, "212": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUN IY.\\n564. Jean Baptiste Rivard claimed 240 arpens, bounded in front by the lake,\\nnortheast by Jean Crequi s former claim, southwest by the land of Joseph Socier,\\nand in the rear by the unlocated lands.\\n565. Etienne Socier claimed 160 arpens fronting on the lake, betvveenn the\\nlands of Jean Bte. Lapeer, and J. Bte. A. Tremble. Joseph Laforet was in posses-\\nsion of this tract previous to 1796, he sold to Bte. Cochois in July 1796, who\\nexchanged with Ignace Sene, who in a few months after sold to Henry Campeau,\\nwho in turn sold to J. A. Tremble. Tremble sold to Amable Latour, from whom\\nit passed into the hands of Socier in 1804.\\n566. Jean Bte. Ambroise Tremble claimed 160 arpens fronting on Lake St\\nClair, between claim 565 and the lands of Bte. Celleron. Ignace Send had posses-\\nsion previous to 1796, who sold to Cochois, who in turn sold to Tremble.\\n576. Jean Bte. Sen 3 claimed 252 arpens fronting Lac St. Clair, between the\\nlands of Jacques Alliard and Louis Reneau. This tract was owned by Louis Grif-\\nfard, Jr., previous to 1796, aud continued iu his possession until he sold to Sene\\nDecember 23, 1808.\\n577. Henry St. Bernard claimed 120 arpens fronting on the lake, between the\\nlands of Laurent Griffard and Julian Campeau. Capt. William Fleming was the\\nowner previous to 1796, and subsec^uently until he sold to Joseph Elliar, from whom\\nthe claimant purchased September 12, 1808.\\n584. Alex. EUair s widow claimed 120 arpens fronting on the lake between\\nthe lands of George McGregor and Madame Crequi by virtue of possession, etc.,\\nprevious to 1796. The widow s name was Josette Galinion.\\n585. Joseph Socier claimed 120 arpens fronting on the lake between the\\nlands of Bte. Rivard and John Litle, by virtue of occupation and improvement\\nsince 1788.\\n599. James Abbott s legal heirs claimed 640 acres fronting on Lac Saint Clair,\\nbetween Duchesne s land on the south and southwest, and the unlocated lands on\\nthe north and northwest, on account of improvements made previous to 1796.\\n601. Bte. Dubay claimed a tract of land fronting on the lake, between the\\nclaims of Louis Laforge and Simon Landri, originally settled by Joseph Garand,\\npurchased by Seraphin Leson, who sold to the claimant in 1802.\\n602. Alexis Dubay claimed 160 arpens at L ance Creuse, extending from the\\nlake between the lands of Simon Landri and Michel Comparet, settled previously\\nto 1796 by Dubay Pere, Vv-ho sold to Alexis in 1802.\\n603. Cecille Campeau s heirs claimed 640 acres fronting on the Huron, be-\\ntween the lands of Joseph Campeau and Michel Comparet, extending to the lake\\nfront. Cecille was the widow of Thomas Williams, and at the period immediately\\npreceding her demise was the wife of Jacques Leson.\\nt", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0212.jp2"}, "213": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOJIB COUNTY.\\n604. Joseph Campeau claimed the land fronting on the Huron, between his\\nown lands above and those of F. Saint Obin below, by virtue of possession, occu-\\npancy and improvement made by Thomas Edwards and Jacques Leson previous to\\n1796. Leson sold this tract to Josej)!! Campeau, but Mrs. Leson refused to sign tlie\\ndeed. In this state the claim was allowed to rest for some time until finally ad-\\njusted.\\n605. Pierre Mavet s heirs claimed 160 arpens fronting on Lake Saint Clair,\\nbetween the lands of Bte. Chovin and Jean Louis Tremble, settled previous to\\n1796 by the deceased Pierre.\\n610. John Connor claimed 640 acres on the North Branch of the Huron, ex-\\ntending from the north bank of the river along the James Connor claim on the east,\\nand bounded by unlocated lands on the north and rear. Henry Connor proved\\npossession previous to 1796. In 1797 John Connor went into the Indian country,\\nleaving the land and imprbvements in care of the witness.\\nJulian Campeau claimed (611) 120 arpens fronting on Lake Saint Clair, be-\\ntween the lands of Henry Saint Bernard and Jean Baptiste Marsac, of which Capt.\\nWilliam Fleming was the first owner. He sold to Joseph Elliar, and he, in turn,\\nto Julian Campeau, Sept. 10, 1808.\\n613. Francois Marsac claimed a tract on Tremble s Creek, bounded in front\\nby the creek, originally settled by Andrew Baker, who sold it to John Litle May\\n7, 1796, from whom it was purchased in 1801, by Marsac, was allowed,\\n614 granted to Capt. Marsac. This land was in possession of Pierre Yax, pre-\\nvious to 1796, and until he sold it to his sou Francois Yax, who disposed of it to\\nMarsac Feb. 18, 1808. This claim was bounded in front by Swan Creek, and on all\\nother sides by wild land.\\n616. Nicholas Campeau claimed three tracts in one farm fronting on the\\nHuron and extending to Lake Saint Clair, between the claims of Joseph Campeau.\\nJohn Tuckar proved that those lands were in possession of N. Value, Augustin\\nCharon and A. Leboeuf previous to and after the year 1796.\\n624. Gaget Tremble claimed a tract of land, possessed previous to 1796 by\\nMaison and Antoiue Larabelle, who sold to the claimant Feb. 4, 1801, their in-\\nterests therein. The tract comprises 600 arpens fronting Lake Saint Clair, and extend-\\ning northwards to Milk River, between the Joseph Campeau claim and the wild\\nlands. In 1808, 200 arpens were under cultivation.\\n625. Pierre Duchesne claimed a tract of land southwest of L ance Creuse,\\nbounded on the northeast by Jacques Alli^rd s former claim, on the southwest by\\nthe Long Meadow, in front by Lac Saint Clair, and in rear by unlocated lands, in\\nvirtue of his possession thereof, before July, 1796.\\n626. Christian Clemens claimed 280 arpens fronting on the Huron, between", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0213.jp2"}, "214": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MAC0JI15 COUNTY.\\nunlocated lands in rear, the claim of John Askin, Jr., ou one side, and claimant s\\nland on the other. John Askin, Jr., was the owner of the land in 1796.\\n627. Pierre Yax claimed 480 arpens fronting on Lake St. Clair, extending\\nback to the nnlocated lands along Francois JVIarsac s claim on the south, at the\\nwild lands on the north, wliich he continued to cultivate from 1796 down to 1808.\\n628. Margaret Conner, widow of Richard Connor, claimed for herself and\\ncliildren, a tract one mile south of the River Huron fronting on a small creek called\\nBig Run, which for several years prior to 1796 was improved annually by the de-\\nceased Richard Connor and herself.\\n630. Baptiste Socier claimed 210 arpens fronting on Lake St. Clair above the\\nlands of Nicholas Patenaude, belonging to Jos. Garand in 1796 and subsequently\\nsold to Socier.\\n631. Francois Ambroise Tremble claimed 120 arpens at Pointe Guinolet\\nfronting on the lake between tlie lands at Benj. Marsac and Francis Forton, in liis\\npossession previous to and since 1796.\\n638. Joseph Campeau (8th) claimed a tract fronting on the Huron, between\\nthe claims of Pierre Phenix by virtue of possession and improvement previous\\nto 1796.\\n650. Pierre Tremble claimed a tract of land at Pointe Guinolet, fronting on\\nthe lake, and running along the northeast side of Antoine Reneau s claim, bounded\\non the southwest by Julian Forton s farm.\\n656. Nicholas Rivard claimed a tract fronting the lake between Bte. Celleron\\nand Louis Tremble s land.\\n657. Gabriel Reneau claimed one arpen fronting on the lake at Point Guino-\\nlet, running back forty arpens, between the lands of Julian Forton and Nicholas\\nRivard, transferred from Colos Rivard, the owner in 1796.\\n692. Abraham Fournier claimed a tract bounded on the northeast by Widow\\nAmbroise Tremble s land, on the southwest by Rene Marsac s, in front by the lake,\\nrunning back forty arpens, to the non-ceded lauds, all in possession of the deceased\\nhusband previous to 1796.\\n693. William Connor claimed 600 acres on the north side of the Huron,\\nbounded on the upper side by John Askin, Jr. s, claim, on the other by that of\\nJohn Connor, in front by the river, and in rear by the unlocated lands, whicli tract\\nwas taken possession of two years before the Americans took possession of the\\ncountry.\\n695. Ambroise Tremble s widow and heirs claimed the homestead on which\\nthe husband and father lived since 1774, until he died in 1805.\\n668. John Askin, for Wm. Ancram, claimed a tract of land on the Huron,\\nwhich claim was .supported by Robert Dowler, who said that in the year 1786, he", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0214.jp2"}, "215": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nrented from Askin a part of this tract, and cultivated near sixteen acres thereof\\nduring the succeeding two years. John Cornwall lived there sometime before 1788\\nas agent for Askin. Forty acres were under cultivation by tenants of Askin, and\\nthere were a number of cabins erected on the lands by the Moravian ministers and\\nIndians.\\n736. Was granted to Joseph Laurent, 1810, by a certificate of the Board of\\nLand Commissioners.\\nAaron Greely surveyed all those claims, reported to the U. S. Land Depart-\\nment, and the General Government issued patents, in 1812, on the streno-th of\\ncertificates of title issued by the Land Board of Detroit 1808-1810.\\nINDIAN RESERVATIONS.\\nThe following review refers to the patentees of lands reserved to the Indians\\nin the treaties, and held by them until their purchase immediately after the treaty\\nof Detroit. A few hundred acres of those lands are outside the couuty line, yet\\nconsidered in the county records.\\nLA RIVIERE ATJ VASES AND MACONEE RESERVES.\\nFrancis Yax -59.79 acres, Sec. 13, T. 3 north, R. 14 east; May 13, 1839.\\nWilliam Darrell, .5.33 Sec. 14, T. 3 north, R. 14 east\\nLeon C. Rivard, 74.30 Sec. 23,\\nJames H. Cook, 79.40\\nJonathan Kearsley, 65.35\\nPaul cir. Cayen, 20.13\\n55.26\\nJonathan Kearsley, 17.90\\nJames H. Cook, 48.00\\nJoseph Socier, 78.32 Sec. 24,\\nFrancis Yax, 13.80\\nWilliam Darrell, 56.60\\nLauring B. Migner, 31.64 Sec. 26,\\nFrancois Yax, 30.61 Sec. 28,\\nLansing B. Migner, 88.70 Sec. 29,\\nJonathan Kearsley, 33.35 Oct. 18, 1841.\\nJohn B. Socier, 56.00 Jan. 2, 1844.\\nJonathan Kearsley, 7.06 Sec. 32, May 14, 1839.\\n38.07 Sec. 33, T. 3, west, R. 14, east\\nThe patentees of the United States lands of this county, who were settlers\\nhere or became settlers here after purchase, will be regarded in the pages devoted\\nto township history.\\na", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0215.jp2"}, "216": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COITNTY.\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nTHE MORAVIANS.\\nBy what power tyranny is allowed to exist is one of the mysteries. Europe\\nbefore the Reformation was a continent of tyrannies since the Reformation it has\\nchanged the petty tyrant for the powerful one and is to-day ground down beneath\\na more terrible a more exacting a more pernicious oppression than ever existed\\nto mark the pages of its olden history. Instead of a few hundred Moravians, a few\\nhundred Puritans, a few hundred Catholics flying from evil laws, as in olden times,\\nwe have tens of thousands, aye hundreds of thousands, looking westward across\\nthe Atlantic to these States with longing eyes, and sending messages of hope to\\nreach friends here before they die. Great numbers have come, are coming, and\\ndoubtless may continue to come but the power that drives them from their old\\nhomes is*a mysterious one. Tyranny forced the Moravians to seek the encourage-\\nment of tyrants in 1749. It was willingly extended, and thirty-two years later the\\nsame false friend murdered one hundred of those who sought and obtained his\\ndangerous patronage.\\nSETTLEMENT OF THE MORAVIAN SUSPECTS.\\nThe English at Detroit suspected that a certain settlement of pious Moravians\\non the Muskingum River were sympathizers with the Americans, called a conference\\nof the tribes at Niagara, and urged the fierce Iroquois to destroy the Moravian\\nIndians, the name given to the few redmen who had up to that period been con-\\nverted by the Moravian missionaries; but the Iroquois chiefs failed to see where\\nsuch a massacre would benefit themselves, and were content to send a message to\\nthe Ottawas and Otchipwes, requesting them to make a houilU of the Moravian\\nIndians on tiie Muskingum. The Moravian missionaries arrived at Detroit in 1781,\\nwhen the Indians held a war council in presence of those missionaries and De Peyster,\\nthe commandant. The Indian chief, known as Capt. Pike, told De Peyster, that\\nthe English might kill the Americans if they wished they had raised the quarrel\\namong themselves, and they who should fight it out. The English had set him on\\nthe Americans just as the hunter sets his dog on the game but the Indian would\\nplay the dog s part no longer.\\nKishkawko and another warrior stood by the side of the British commandant.\\nThe foimer carried a hickory cane about four feet long, ornamented or rather strung\\nwith the scalps of Americans, together with a tomahawk presented to him by De\\ns-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0216.jp2"}, "217": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nPeyster some time previously. He concluded his address to the commandant thus\\nNow, father, here is what has been done with the hatchet you gave me. I have\\nmade the use of it you ordered me to do, and found it sharp. A few days after\\nthis Council, the Moravians left Detroit for their new homes on the Riviere aux\\nRurons.\\nMORAVIAN INDIANS, 1781.\\nJacques Leson, in his evidence before the Land Commissioners at Detroit,\\nNovember 9, 1810, said, in his reference to William Ancram s claim for land in\\nMacomb County, To the best of my knowledge the Moravian ministers with\\nIndians of the Delaware nation were living on these lands twenty-seven or twenty-\\neight years ago. I lived in the village and cultivated lands near for many years\\nprevious to July 1796, and recollect Wittaness telling me that Askin owned a\\nlarge quantity of land from the Moravian village upwards. Fifteen years ago the\\nlate surveyor, McNiff, came up the Huron with Sanscrainte, the interpreter, who\\ninformed me that they had come to survey the land by order of Askins. At that\\ntime twenty or thirty arpens were under cultivation, and twenty or twenty-five\\ncabins and houses were erected.\\nJohn Askin, Sr., related, that on April 28, 1786, he purchased for himself and\\nWilliam Ancram, then commandant at Detroit, sundry improvements of the Mo-\\nravian ministers, and others, and made by them on the river Huron, which empties\\ninto Lake St. Clair, near a place called the Moravian Village, for which he paid $200.\\nHe likewise purchased the improvements made at the same place by the Moravian\\nor Christian Indians sixteen in number for $200, also $50 to one John Bull for\\nimprovements at the same place, together with furnishing the Moravians two vessels\\nto enable them to return to Muskingum their former mission. For all this he\\nreceived the thanks of John Huckenwelder, their chief-missionary. At this time\\nthere were more than twenty houses with many out-buildings, all of which were\\npurchased, save one occupied and claimed by the late Richard Connor, together\\nwith an Indian cornfield with a yard and garden in rear, which were pur-\\nchased subsequently by him and Major Ancram from eleven chiefs of the Chippewa\\nIndians. These early land bu3 ers cut a road from Detroit through the woods to\\nthese lands a distance of about twenty miles with a little assistance from the Mor-\\navian Indians. After the Moravians gave up possession John Cornwall was\\nappointed agent, and Robert Dowlar, Ames Weston and others went on as tenants.\\nThose men left after some time when Anci am placed the Indian chief Wittaness\\nand his band in charge. Those Indians had much trouble with Richard Connor of\\nwhom they often complained. Tliis Moravian village and adjacent territory became\\nan elephant on the hands of Askin, and so he was glad to accept 1,600 pounds New\\nYork currency for the property from Isaac Todd, and James McGill, then merchants\\nsIVw", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0217.jp2"}, "218": {"fulltext": "n\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof Montreal in Lower Canada. The deed of conveyance bears date June 28,\\n1796.\\nMORAVIANISM.\\nThe history of the Moravians begins in 1457, long years before Lutlier s\\nReformation. Toward the close of the iifteenth centiny there were over 200\\nMoravian churches in Moravia and Bohemia, when a Moravian Bible was published\\nand studied. Passing over three centuries of the history of this religious society,\\nduring which time it died out in its cradle, we learn of its revival in 1749 under\\nthe auspices of the British Parliament. That body acknowledged Moravianism a\\npart of the Protestant Episcopal Church, and further enacted that every encourage-\\nment should be given to its followers to settle in the British colonies of Nortli\\nAmerica. The Moravians came and established their missions along the frontier,\\nthe most important of which was that in Tuscarawas County, Ohio, at Muskingum.\\nHere 100 missionaries and disciples were killed in 1781, under the auspices of the\\nBritish Government, ostensibly on account of outrages and murders charged\\nagainst them, but in reality on account of the sympathy which they exhibited\\ntowards the New Republic, and under orders of British ofScers. The survivors of\\nthe massacre came to Detroit in 1781, thence moved to the village on the Huron,\\nwhich they named Neiv Qnadenlmtten.\\nMORAVIAN MARRIAGES.\\nWhile waiting for one of those most uncertain conveyances, known as a Grrand\\nTrunk Train, one morning John E. Day pointed out the site of the ancient village\\nof New Gnadenhutten to the writer and Judge Avery, of N. Y. The latter related the\\nstory of Moravian marriages, and, in fact, had time to review the history of the\\nUnited States before that Grrand Trunk Train arrived. The Moravians never\\nselected a wife never had a chance to do so, for the reason that one of the articles\\nof their faith pointed out distinctly that God was the great designer, and to Him\\nthe Moravian should trust the choice of a wife. The manner in which their God\\nmade the selection was crude indeed. One of the principal missionaries brought\\nforth a cylindrical tin case, something similar to that which is used in lottery affairs\\nat the present time. In this lie placed bark or paper slips, with the names of all male\\ncandidates for matrimonial honors. Another missionary brought forth a similar tin\\ncase, in whicli he placed tickets each bearing the name of one marriageable girl of\\nthe settlement. Missionary No. 1 gave his lottery tickets a thorough shaking, then\\nopened the little door and took out the ticket which he first touched, the name on\\nwhich he read aloud, and then presented the ticket to the members of his audience\\nwho were thenceforth witnesses. This first act played, missionary No. 2 gave the\\nlottery case containing the tickets bearing the female names, a shaking precisely as", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0218.jp2"}, "219": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthorough as that given in the former instance, and withdrawing a ticket, called out\\nthe name, presented it to the persons near him, and called them to witness the\\ngenuineness of tlie transaction. This closed the second act of the drama. The\\nthird act was the religious ceremony of matrimony and the proclamation of the\\nnuptials; the fourth was the wedding banquet, enlivened by hymns, gunshots, and\\ncongratulatory speeches, and the fifth and last act of the play was a quiet, evi-\\ndently happy life until death separated the strangers who were made man and wife\\nin the third act.\\nMORAVIAN MAISTNERS, HABITS AND CUSTOMS.\\nThe habits of those people and even of their Indian converts were as peculiar\\nas the manners were quiet and unassuming. Their customs were even stranger\\nthan their habits. Economy was practiced to such an extent, that even they were\\nsparing in the use of language. In the midst of plenty they were accustomed to\\ndeny themselves food, and proclaimed many fast days throughout the year. Their\\ntastes for agriculture were not so marked as their love for horticulture, but both\\ngave way to the prevailing passion for mechanical work. They clothed themselves\\nin the plainest fashion, yet seemed always at home under all circumstances. Cool\\nand calculating, and even usurious when chance offered, they were slow to betray\\ntheir feelings. They formed a community of such a peculiar character, that once\\nseen they could never be forgotten.\\nTHE MORAVIAN VILLAGE.\\nThis village was located where in later j ears was the farm of Elisha Harring-\\nton, round the site of the residence of tliat pioneer. As described by Mr. Harrington,\\nthis center of Moravianisiu on this continent, comprised thirty one-story log-houses\\nfifteen on each side of a laneway forming tlie nucleus of what the day-dreams of\\nHuckenwelder pointed out would be the main street of a large and prosperous\\ntown. In the center of one of those rows was the Moravian temple, differing very\\nlittle in external appearance from the dwellings of the worshipers, Ijuilt as much\\nfor defense against the bellicose Otchipwes, as for shelter from climatic extremes.\\nHere this tribe remained some years, but the Otchipwes, whose more warlike\\nnatures made them the terror of all the neighboring tribes, became jealous of the\\nMoravians, hating them because they had abandoned the war-path, and the nomadic\\nlife of their forefathers. They hated them because their religion was full of mys-\\ntery or appeared so to the savages of the Chippewa nation. The Moravians knew\\nfull well how deep was the hatred, which their scalp-taking neighbors entertained\\ntoward civilization, and her children, of their feelings toward any Indians who pro-\\nfessed friendship for the American, and this knowledge tended to render their stay\\nhere as disagreeable as it was dangerous. It is no wonder to learn of their emigra-\\nt^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0219.jp2"}, "220": {"fulltext": ":}i}i\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntion. They scattered some returning to Muskingum, otliers effecting a settle-\\nment near the scene of Proctor s defeat, on tlie Thames River in Canada; but before\\nthe persecuted people left their village on the banks of the Huron, fourteen mem-\\nbers of their colony died, and were buried at Frederick, where their graves were\\nmade between what are now known as the Harrington and Stephen s farms.\\nThe old Moravian village at Frederick has passed into the Past. It is as if it\\nhad never been. One relic alone remains. Years ago Elisha Harrington, realizing\\nthe fact that the time would come, when such a relic would possess no inconsider-\\nable interest to the antiquarian, dug up and j^reserved a piece of the timber, which\\nformed a part of one of those buildings.\\nThe following paper on this subject, read by the Rev. B. H. Bissell, now at\\nArmada, before the Mount Clemens Lyceum, March 23, 1858, and introduced by\\nJudge Eldridge subsequently in his sketches is a valuable addition to Moravian his-\\ntory.\\nIn 1781, all the missionaries laboring at their different stations on the Musk-\\ningum, in Ohio, were taken prisoners and brought before Col. De Pe3 ster, at\\nDetroit, charged with acting in concert with the United States troops at Pittsburgh.\\nEarly in July, 1782, several of the Indians who had been connected with the mis-\\nsion arrived at Detroit with some white brethren, among whom were Richard\\nConnor and his family. Having obtained permission from the Chippewas in their\\nbehalf, De Peyster advised the Moravians to settle on the Clinton (then known as\\nthe Huron) River, and to bring their Indians there. He furnished them a vessel\\nand provisions, and such utensils as they needed, together with two milch cows\\nand some horses, and his lady also made them several useful presents. On the 20th of\\nJuly, 1782, Zeisberger and Jungman, with their families, and Edwards and Jung,\\nsingle missionaries, set out with nineteen Indians from Detroit, and arrived at their\\nnew home on the Clinton River the next evening. They named it New Gnaden-\\nhutten, in remembrance of their old home on the Muskingum. Some more of\\ntheir dispersed converts now gathered to them, and a flourishing settlement was\\nin prospect. The commandant at Detroit had made arrangements with the\\nIndians that this settlement at Frederick should continue until peace was restored\\nbetween Great Britain and the United States. They remaining after this event,\\nthe Chippewas, on whose lands the mission was located, became jealous of them,\\nand on the 20th of April, 1786, the whole was abandoned with the intention of\\nreturning to Ohio. Mr. Connor being advanced in years preferred to remain, and\\nthis made it a center for other settlers.\\nRichard Connor located upon what is known as the Wells Farm, now owned by\\nMessrs. Campbell and Sackett. The Moravian mission was located on the opposite\\nside of the river, near the present residence of Mr. Henry Harrington.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0220.jp2"}, "221": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThis spot had evidently been the site of an ancient Indian village. A few-\\nyears afterwards, in sinking a cellar for a dwelling there, the excavators exhumed\\na large number of bones, the remains of the dead buried there.\\nAfter^ the establishment of this settlement at Frederick, and before the\\ndeparture of the missionaries in the spring of 1874, Mr. William moved with his\\nfamily into the county and located a home at about the spot where Mr. Charles\\nTucker now resides. Of these two first American settlers we naturally love to in-\\nquire. From whence they came, and why, would be subjects of interest had their\\nlives been even those of quiet, ordinary vanguards of civilization in peaceful times.\\nTHE GERMAN IMMIGRATION OP 1845.\\nThe extensive German immigration of 1845 brought to Michigan a number of\\nFranconians and Bavarians, who felt tliemselves oppressed at home. Those under\\nthe advice of Pastor Loche resolved to emigrate to the United States, there to\\nfollow the profession of the Lutheran creed, and to essay the conversion of the\\nIndians. Within a few years the first colony of fifteen, succeeding in attracting\\nfive times that number to our land, and of the second and third bodies of immi-\\ngrants a few settled in Macomb County, the greater number locating in Saginaw.\\nThe immigration of 1849, the result of an attempt made by the people to cast\\naway the tyrant, marked the history of that year. The Revolutionists sought\\nrefuge in tlie United States, not a few of them finding a home of liberty in this\\ncounty. The German immigration of later days brought us Pomeranians and\\nMecklenburghers, Belgians and Hollanders.\\nCHAPTER XIV.\\nPIONEER HISTORY.\\nA period of time bordering on a century has passed away since the American\\npioneer first appeared in this county. Those years have been pregnant with\\nchanges social, political, even physical change. The visitor of to-day, ignorant\\nof the past history of Macomb, could scarcely realize the fact, that within ninety-\\nseven years, a population, approximating 35,000 grew up, where, toward the close\\nof the Eighteenth Century, a few bands of aborigines, with a few French and\\nAmerican trappers, hunters and fishermen existed. The population has not onlj\\ngrown to its present number, but also in wealth, refinement and all these char-\\nacteristics, which mark the older counties, of tlie Eastern States. Schools, churches,\\npalatial dwellings, extensive marts, busy mills, cultivated fields now occupy the", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0221.jp2"}, "222": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nvillage sites and hunting grounds of the Otchipwes while p people endowed with\\ntlie highest faculties occupy the domain of the Otchipwes themselves. There are\\nbut few left of the old landmarks, still a smaller number of the old settlers.\\nCivilization and its demands have conspired to raze almost every monument of the\\nred man to obliterate almost every trace of his occupancy while on the other\\nliand Old Time placed his heavy hand upon many of the pioneers, driving them,\\nas it were, awa}^ from the old homestead to the promised land beyond the grave.\\nPrevious to 1781 the white inliabitants were all Frenchmen or French Canadians\\nand the numerous French trappers and hunters who made the banks of the North-\\nern Huron their headquarters. During the year 1781 the first American settler set\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2his foot upon the soil, and built for himself the rude hut, which was the model of\\npioneer dwellings in the State. The treaty which conveyed the land in tlie neigh-\\nborhood of Detroit to the National Government drew attention to this portion of the\\nceded Indian territory, and attracted a few more settlers. Tlie fur traders intro-\\nduced themselves, found a land teeming with milk and honey, and settled in it, so\\nfar as such men settle, while yet all Michigan, save that portion of the peninsula\\naround Detroit, was a wilderness. Succeeding tliem a stream of Americans\\nI^oured in, and in the course of a dozen years, it was found that many of the Amer-\\nicans who came as visitors, located here, and built their homes in the beautiful\\nwilderness.\\nIt is not strange that among the pioneers and old settlers of a county, a deep-\\nseated and sincere friendship should spring up, to grow and strengthen with their\\nadvancing years. The incidents peculiar to life in a new country, the trials and\\nhardsliips, privations and destitutions, are well calculated to test, not only the\\nphysical powers of endurance, but also the moral, kindly, generous attributes of\\ntrue manhood and womanhood. Then are the times which try men s souls, and\\nbring to the surface all that may be in them of good or evil. As a rule, there is an\\nequality of conditions that can not recognize distinction of class all occupy a com-\\nmon level, and as a consequence a fraternal feeling grows into existence that is as\\nlasting as the lives of the old settlers, and, in a great number of instances, as the\\nlives of their children.\\nIn such a community there is a hospitality, a kindness, a benevolence, and\\nhigh above all, a charity, unknown and unpracticed among the older, richer, and\\nmore densely populated settlements, just in the same manner, perhaps, as there was\\na higher faith animating the early Christians, than that which marks the Christian\\npeople of the present day. The very nature of the surroundings of those pioneers\\ntaught them to feel each other s woe to share in each other s joy, and live in com-\\nmunal integrity. An injury or a wrong may be ignored with profit to the evil-doer\\nand his victim but a kind, generous, charitable act is never to be forgotten the", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0222.jp2"}, "223": {"fulltext": "4\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nmemory of old associations and kind acts must for ever remain green. Raven locks\\nmay bleach in the summer sun, and whiten through the cold of winter; round\\ncheeks may become sunken and hollow the fire of intellect may fade from the\\neye the brow may become wrinkled with care and age, and the erect form may bow\\nunder tlie weight of accumulated years but the true friends of long ago must be\\nremembered so long as memory itself lives.\\nAs a general rule the men and women who first settled this land were bold,\\nfearless, self-reliant and industrious. In these respects no matter from what part of the\\nworld those old settlers came, there was a similarity of character. In birth, educa-\\ntion, language and religion there were differences; but such differences did not\\ninterfere with harmony; in fact, they soon vanished, became lost by association,\\nand a common interest united all.\\nIn pioneer life there are always incidents of peculiar interest, not only to the\\npioneers themselves, but also to posterity. It is a matter much to be regretted that\\nthe old settlers of Macomb did not begin at an earlier date to organize tliemselves\\ninto an association, for even tlie record of reminiscences related at tlie meetings\\nof such an association liave a direct bearing upon history, and serve to add to tlie\\nliterature of the Republic s first century the history of every community. Aside\\nfrom the liistoric importance of such re-unions, they serve to enliven and cement\\nold friendsliips, and renew old memories that might liave been interrupted by the\\ninnovations of progress. It is well that even now they have realized the import-\\nance of organization.\\nSOCIETY OF 1871.\\nAt a meeting of pioneers held at Romeo Hall, Sept. 5, 1871, to organize a\\npioneer society, William F. Abbott was elected chairman, and Aaron B. Rawles,\\nsecretary. On motion of A. E. Leete, a resolution was adopted to form the Romeo\\nHistorical Society. A committee of five was appointed to draft a Constitution\\nand By-Laws, as follows Albert E. Leete, Dexter Mussey, C. Bearing, H. O. Ladd\\nand J. E. Day. This committee reported a series of six articles for the govern-\\nment of the society, which report was adopted. The meeting then proceeded to\\nelect officers, with the following result: President, Albert E. Leete Vice-Presi-\\ndent, John E. Day; Secretary and Treasurer, William F. Abbott; Historian,\\nHoratio O. Ladd. This society continued in existence for some time, but ultimately\\nceased to exist.\\nORGANIZATION OF THE COUNTY PIONEERS.\\nAt tlie earnest request of many citizens of Macomb County, anxious to collect\\nincidents and biographical sketches of early settlements and settlers, and place on\\nrecord some of the early history of the county, a meeting was called at Washington\\nVillage, March 22, 1881. Owing to the severity of the weather and condition of", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0223.jp2"}, "224": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMR COUNTY.\\nthe roads, the pioneer element was not so largely represented as it would otherwise\\nhave l)een.\\nThe meeting was called to order b}^ W. A. Wales, when Mr. Wales was\\nelected chairman and Stephen B. Cannon, secretai-y. Pi-ayer was offered\\nby Rev. John Cannon. Loren Andrus, H. Rose, Rev. John C!annon,\\nCalvin G. White, Thomas Brabb, H. N. Miller, Niles Giddings. C. M.\\nBates, addressed the people on the subject of organization. This meeting was\\nentirely favorable to the enterprise, a committee of three was appointed to draft a\\nConstitution and set of By-Laws. A committee was named to recommend names\\nof persons for permanent officers of the society, another committee ou music, and\\nstill another to arrange for a future meeting of the jiioneers.\\nCommittee No. 1 was comnosed of Stephen B. Cannon, Loren Andrus and N.\\nH. Miller. No. 2 comin-ised N. H. Miller, Allen Pearsall and Timotliy Lockwood.\\nNo. 3 was represented by Byron Norton. No. 4, by Loi-en Andrus, Stephen B.\\nCannon, Mrs. Loren Andrus, Mrs. Thomas Brabb and Mrs. William A. Stone.\\nLoren Andrus moved that the Rev. Edward Davis be requested to deliver\\nthe inaugural address before the first regular meeting of the association.\\nTHE FIEST REGULAR MEETING\\nWas held May 26, 1881. The Committee on Constitution and By-Laws reported,\\nwhich report was accepted on motion made by John E. Day. The Committee on\\nPermanent Officers was directed to reconsider report, which order was followed\\nby the recommendation of Chauncey G. Cady for president Williard A. Wales,\\ntreasurer, and John E. Day, secretary. The following-named gentlemen were\\nappointed Vice-Presidents O. G. Burgess, Richmond Hiram Barrows, Armada\\nDexter Mussey, Bruce Jolni A. Tinsman, Washington Zelotis Stone, Ray John\\nDryer, Lenox; C. H ,oker, Chesterfield; Horace H. Cady, Macomb; John Keeler,\\nShelby Charles Hutchins, Stirling Edgar Weeks, Clinton William Tuckei\\nHarrison John Cumings, Erin John Beebe, Warren.\\nAt this meeting over 400 persons were present; the History of Washtenaiv\\nCounty^ introduced and edited by M. A. Leeson, was presented by Mr. Lorenzo\\nDavis, son of Rev. J. E. Davis, of Macoinb County, a representative citizen of\\nWashtenaw.\\nAn executive committee, composed of Stephen B. Cannon, Martin \u00e2\u0096\u00a0Buzzell,\\nand Perry M. Bentley, was elected.\\nC. Harlow Green read a paper on tiie early schools, of the churches and\\npastors of Macomb County.\\nThe Secretary, John E. Day, spoke in support of Rev. Mr. Davis paper,\\nand on the importance of securing not only a history of events connected with the", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0224.jp2"}, "225": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncounty, but also a biographical sketch of each of the old settlers. His remarks\\nwere fully concurred in.\\nThe address of welcome delivered by the centenarian, Rev. J. E. Davis, of\\nMacomb Township, was a remarkably able paper, very full and instructive, and one\\nwhich was received most enthusiastically by tlie people.\\nThe second meeting of the society was held at Gray s Opera House, Romeo,\\nSeptember 7, 1881. This reunion was one of the most important ever held by the\\npioneers of any county in the Union, made so by the historic excellence of the dis-\\ncourses delivered. Dexter Mussey spoke on the local history of Romeo, Judge\\n.James B. Eldridge on the organization in Macomb County. J. E. Day read\\nNathaniel Carter s paper on his settlement in the County. Mr. Day also read a\\npoem by James Lawson, the writer being then at Point St. Ignace, engaged in the\\nexamination of public lands. Tiie first temperance movement in the county was ably\\ntreated by the secretary while S. H. Ewell dealt with tlie first election, on the\\nTemperance Ticket, held at Romeo. The president, C. G. Cady, H. A. Cady, Elisha\\nCalkins, Oran Freeman, Thos. Stalker, and Josejah Chubb were among the speakers\\nand story-tellers.\\nThe third reunion of the society was held within the Congregational Ciiurch,\\nArmada Village, December 28, 1881. C. G. Cady presided with John E. Day,\\nsecretary. This, the writer is inclined to think, was one of the most agreeable\\nreunions ever participated in. It was organized at the instance of the secretary and\\nwas complete in every particular social and literary. Rev. H. N. Bissell delivered\\na discourse on the early History of Macomb. The young ladies, who added so\\nmxich to the success of the meeting, were partially rewarded by witnessing the\\nexcitement, which one of their practical jokes drew forth. They helped the old\\npeople to tea, cream and salt they enjoyed the luxury of doing good, and were\\nparticularly amused to witness the wry faces which their senior friends assumed\\nwhen the joke was discovered.\\nA paper was read by Perrin C. Goodell, on Earlij Times in Armada. Messrs.\\nEwell and Davis, accompanied on the organ by Miss Owen, rendered the song\\nTlie Old Musician and his Havp, very effectively. Mr. H. O. Brown, representing\\nthe writer of the County History, laid before the meeting a plan of the proposed\\nhistory. His address was well received. L. D. Owen read a paper on early times\\nin Shelby; the president recited a number of his experiences of early settlement.\\nEdgar Weeks dealt with the history of the Press of Macomb County; Oran Free-\\nman related a few unvarnished tales an historical committee was appointed to\\naid the general historian in the correction or revision of the general history, and\\na vote of thanks passed to the people of Armada, as well as to the genial pres-\\nident.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0225.jp2"}, "226": {"fulltext": "224\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCHAETEB MEMBERS.\\nChauncey G. Cady, born in Ofcsego County, N. Y., August 20, 1803, settled in\\nClinton Township, at Mount Clemens, October 20, 1820, elected president of the\\nMacomb County Pioneer Association in 1881.\\nM. I. Cady, born in Onondaga County, N. Y., December 19, 1820. Moved to\\nOakland, and located in Warren Township, Macomb Co., in 1832.\\nJohn E. Day, son of Erastus Day, Jr., was born in Armada Township, January\\n11, 1838, is now a resident of Richmond Township, and secretary of the Pioneer\\nSociety of Macomb County.\\nJohn Cannon, born at Salem, Mass., September 21, 1808, moved to Saratoga,\\nN. Y., thence to Washtenaw Co., Mich., and in 1831, located on Section 3, Shelby\\nTownship, where he has been minister of the Christian Church since 1831.\\nCalvin G. White, born at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., July 10, 1803, moved to West-\\nern New York in 1817, and to Armada Township, May 16, 1831.\\nS. H. Davis and his wife, S. M. Davis, born in Genesee County, N. Y., Septembei\\n13, 1813, settled in Washington Township at Romeo, June 15, 1813.\\nRobert Warner. See biographical sketch.\\nArad Freeman was. born at Pompey, N. Y., February 28, 1815, moved to On-\\ntario County, N. Y., and thence to Ray Township, Macomb County, June 3,\\n1824.\\nPeter J. Lerich, born in Warren County, N. J., May 20, 1810, settled in Shelby,\\nMay 29, 1835.\\nSarah F. Lerich was born in Warren County, N. J., December, 4, 1817, settled\\nin Shelby, May 29, 1835.\\nJohn Gass was born in Green County, N. Y., 1808, moved to Ray Township\\nin 1830, where he settled on Section 29.\\nSamuel H. Ewell, born at Romeo, now Middlebury, Genesee Co., N. Y., January\\n3, 1819, moved to Bruce Township, May 28, 1836.\\nMartin Buzzell, born in Canada East, May 16, moved to Western New York\\nin 1817, and to Bruce Township, July 1831.\\nJulia A. Buzzell, born in Canada, November 11, 1824, moved to Washington\\nTownshiiJ, October 6, 1844.\\nStephen B. Cannon, born in Washtenaw County, Mich., September 30, 1832,\\nsettled in Washington Township, Macomb County, January, 1834.\\nHiram W. Miller, was born at Hampton, Washington Co., N. J., November 26,\\n1814, moved to Genesee County, N. Y., and thence to Washington Township, this\\nCounty, June, 1822.\\nE. D. Hamblin, was born at Windsor, Vt., January 16, 1809 moved to Mon-\\nroe County, N. Y., and thence to Macomb County, Mich., June 1, 1826.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0226.jp2"}, "227": {"fulltext": "lliu\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMEMBERS ENROLLED SINCE ORGANIZATION.\\nO. D. Thompson, born at Wellport, N. Y., December 23, 1835; settled at\\nRomeo, November, 1858. Principal of Romeo Higli School.\\nWilliam L. Dicken, born in Ray Township, Macomb County, October 8, 1833,\\nCounty Clerk, January 1, 1879.\\nCharles Tackles, born in Macomb County, November 22, 1827. Elected\\nCounty Treasurer, and entered on duties of that office, January 1, 1879.\\nJoseph Chubb, born at Pittsford, Monroe Co., N. Y., April 5, 1822, moved into\\nRay Township, Macomb County, May, 1825, was admitted an Attorney-at-Law in\\n1862 by the Washtenaw Circuit Court.\\nHenry Connor, born in Macomb County, October 25, 1818, grandson of the\\npioneer, Richard O Connor. He has been proprietor of the hotel at Mount Clemens\\nfor the last thirtj -five years.\\nJames B. Eldridge, born in Macomb County, November 25, 1836 elected\\nJudge of Probate in 1876, and entered on duties of that office, January 1, 1877.\\nRobert J. Crawford, born in Macomb County, September 1, 1858.\\nCalvin Davis, born in Macomb County, July 27, 1832.\\nGeorge A. Waterbury, born at St. Clair, St. Clair County, August 11, 1847\\nmoved to Sanilac in 1848; to Romeo, Jidy, 1873, now proprietor and editor of the\\nRomeo Observer, and possessor of a fine collection of antiquities and minerals.\\nErastus Day, born iu Otsego County, N. Y., October 15, 1808 moved into\\nCanada, 1812, and to Lima, N. Y., in 1824; thence to Bruce Township, Macomb\\nCounty, December, 182G. He was for fifty years a captain of State Militia, and is a\\nsurvivor of the Toledo War.\\njV rs. Betsey Day was born at Burlington, Otsego Co., N. Y., October 17, 1813\\nmoved to Chautauqua County, N. Y., in 1816, to Erie County, Pa., in 1826, and\\nthence to Macomb County, Mich., iu 1835. This lady was the pioneer school\\nteacher of Armada Township.\\nJulia Seeley, born in Lindon Township, Vt., January 11, 1808; moved to\\nOneida County, N. Y., thence to Onondaga, thence to Niagara and lastly to\\nMichigan, in 1831. She is the daughter of Joseph Thurston.\\nWilliam Inwood, born at Dunkinfield, Southampton, England, February 28,\\n1791. Came to Washington Township, Macomb County, May 22, 1837.\\nDexter Mussey, born at Worcester, Mass., January 12, 1811 moved to Lowell,\\nMass., in 1832, and to Romeo, Mich., in 1837. He was speaker of the House of\\nRepresentatives.\\nGrace N. Owen, born in Genesee County, N. Y., November 12, 1824 moved\\nto Shelby Township, June 18, 1825.\\nCharles Andrews, born at Putney, Vt, August 28, 1820; moved to West\\n15\\nV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0227.jp2"}, "228": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF :\\\\1AC0M1! COUNTY.\\nBloomfield in 1829, to Mindon, N. Y., in 1830, to Pittsford, N. Y., in 1832, to\\nArmada in 1840. State Senator from 1828 to 1870.\\nHorace H. Cady, born at Hadley, Windham Co., Conn., February 20, 1801,\\nmoved to Batavia, Genesee Co., N. Y., and thence to Mount Clemens, May 24,\\n1821. Mr. Cady hiis been a member of the Legislature for many years;\\nDeliverance S. Priest, boi n at Bennington, Vt., August 7, 1814, moved to\\nWestern New York in 1819, thence to Ray Township, Macomb County, in 1838.\\nJohn N. Selliek, born at Middlebury, Wyoming Co., N. Y., February 17, 1808\\nmoved to Avon, Livingstone Co., in 1814, and thence to Romeo, Midi., i.i March,\\n1837.\\nJ. W. AUor, born in Jefferson County, N. Y., Aug. 19, 1837, came to Chester-\\nfield, Macomb Co., October 23, 1852.\\nOran Freeman was born in Onondago County, N. Y., June 14, 1818 moved\\nto Ontario, N. Y., and thence to Ray Township, June 1, 1824.\\nGeorge W. Garvin was born in Washington Township, Macomb County,\\nAugust 26, 1835, now a resident of Ray Townsliip.\\nGeorge W. Gass, born in Green County, N. Y., May 1, 1813, came to Ray\\nTownship, October 3, 1836.\\nLjdia Bailey, born at Romeo in 1834, daughter of Asahel Bailey, still resides\\nat Romeo.\\nLuthe Procter was born at Armada in 1830.\\nMrs. Luther Procter, daughter of A. W. Stirling, was born at Romeo in 1836.\\nNathaniel Carter, born at Leominster, Mass., February 20, 1806 settled in\\nArmada Township, September 10, 1831.\\nEdmund Gould, born in Onondaga County, N. Y., June 14, 1817; moved to\\nOntario County, N. Y., and thence to Bruce Township, June 1, 1823.\\nWilson Cronk, born in Rensselaer County, N. Y., March 22, 1822 moved to\\nOtsego County, thence to Monroe County, N. Y., and lastly to Ray Township,\\nDecember 20, 1854.\\nJulia A. Cronk was born in Erie County, N. Y., January 23, 1828 moved\\nthence to Cattaraugus County, N. Y., and again to Ray, February 21, 1855.\\nPhilip Cudworth was born at Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y., March 30, 1811\\nlocated on Section 33 of Armada, October, 1835.\\nStephen H. Fitch,, born in Columbia County. N. Y., July 17, 1807, moved to\\nOntario County, N. Y., in 1824 thence to Cattaraugus County, 1828, and to\\nRomeo, May 2, 1831.\\nMrs. Phcebe Waterman, daughter of Mr. Stroup, was born in Seneca County, N.\\nY., April 27, 1815 removed to Yates County, N. Y., and thence to Ray, Macomb\\nCo., Mich., in May, 1827.\\n[^s", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0228.jp2"}, "229": {"fulltext": "-14*\\nHISTORY OF MACOilB COUNTY.\\nMrs. Chloe Steward, wife of N. Carter, born in Vermont, April 13, 1815,\\nmoved to New York State, and thence to Ray, in 1B29.\\nMrs. Joseph Crissman, formerly Miss Elizabeth Snover, was born in Warren\\nCounty, N. J., July, 1806, came to Bokland June 1, 1832.\\nWallace Westbrook, born in Sussex County, N. Y., April 16, 1824, moved to\\nOntario County, N. Y., thence to Bruce Township, October 15, 1848.\\nDaniel Miller, born in Madison County, N. Y., February 18, 1798, moved to\\nGenesee County, thence to Washington Township, 1822. He was a soldier of the\\nWar of 1812-14.\\nJesse Bishop, born at Richmond, N. Y., May 24, 1303, moved to Monroe\\nCounty, N. Y., and came to Bruce Township, Macomb Co., August 14, 1831.\\nEbenezer Brooks, born at Putney, Vt., January 15, 1809 moved into Massa-\\nchusetts in 1818, thence to Lenox, Macomb County, April, 1834.\\nMrs. C. D. Brooks settled here with her husband.\\nJosiah T. Robinson, born in Otsego County, N. Y., January 2, 1807 moved into\\nOnondaga County, thence to Monroe, next to Orleans County, and lastly settled\\nin Clinton Township, May 18, 1831.\\nMajor Webster, born in Monroe County, N. Y., August 29, 1801, moved to Ray\\nTownship, June 1, 1826.\\nMichael Bowmann was born in New York State in 1786.\\nEdmund L. Goff was born in Monroe County, N. Y., January 6, 1817 came\\nto Washington, December 20, 1838.\\nLucy Goff was born in Oakland County, N. Y., May 8, 1823; came to Shelby,\\nMacomb Co., March, 1830.\\nG. W. Phillips, was born at Lima, Livingston Co., N. Y., July 17, 1829, came\\nto Armada, August, 1831. He has been president of the State Board of Agricul-\\nture from 1870 to 1872 member of the Board for twelve years, and president of\\nthe M. Co. Ag. Society for eight years.\\nH. T. Bancroft, born in Niagara County, N. Y., April 8, 1827, moved to\\nArmada, Mich., July 14, 1839.\\nL. D. Owen, born in Genesee County, N. Y., August 16, 1815 came to Shelby,\\nJuly 3, 1825.\\nMrs. G. W. Phillips, born at Romeo, December 6, 1828, daughter of A. W.\\nSterling.\\nDaniel Flagler, born at Albany, N. Y., May 14, 1814, moved into Richmond\\nTownship, Macomb County, October, 1836.\\nAlex. H. Shelp, born in Orange County, N. Y., January 8, 1820 settled at\\nMount Clemens, October 17, 1843, and at Romeo, August 17, 1846.\\nG. H. Cannon, was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., December 30, 1826, moved", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0229.jp2"}, "230": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF :\\\\IACOMl} COUNTY.\\nto Washtenaw in 1833, and to Bruce Township in 1835. Mr. Cannon has been\\nengaged in the Public Land Survey sevice since 1849. He has contributed not a\\nlittle to the geological and archteological history of this State.\\nAmos Finch, born in Macomb County, July 10, 1836. Native.\\nE. F. Siblej born at Brighton, N. Y., November 29, 1827; settled in Armada\\nTownship, October, 1835.\\nHiram Barrows, born at Wyoming, N. Y., in 1824 moved westward to Wis-\\nconsin in 1842 came to Michigan five years later, and settled in Ray Township in\\nMay, 1847. Mr. Barrows has served the Union in the War of 1861-5.\\nMrs. Anna A. Pettibone, born in Wyoming County, N. Y. came to Michigan\\nwitli her husband in 1845.\\nMrs. Pierce, formerly May Lvisk, was born iu Monroe Count3s N. Y., January\\n10, 1810 came to Washington Township, July 3, 1848.\\nMrs. Geo. (Simmons) Carter, Rev. Thomas Stalker, Elisha Calkins, and J. L.\\nStarkweather, are among the members of the Society.\\nAnna Finch (Smith) born in Richmond Township, September 24, 1846, removed\\nto Shiawassee County in 1861, returned to Armada in 1867. Native.\\nNathan Hurd was born in Canada, August 7, 1825 settled in Macomb County\\nin 1834.\\nMrs. H. N. Bissell (Elizabeth Hubbard), was born at Bolton, Conn., February\\n25, 1820, and moved to Mount Clemens in 1854.\\nRev. H. N. Bissell, born at East Wiusor, Conn., June 2, 1816, moved to Milan,\\nOhio in 1835, and to Macomb County in 1854.\\nPerrin C. Goodeli, born in Monroe County, N. Y., July 2, 1817, settled iu\\nArmada Township, May 17, 1831.\\nH. N. Richards, hovn at Wethersfield, N. Y., January 2, 1820, settled in Lenox\\nTownslup, November 15, 1842.\\nG. H. Stuart, born at West Bloomfield, N. Y., October 20, 1813, settled in\\nRichmond Township, in May, 1842.\\nSetli Davis, born in Richmond Township, July 13, 1840, moved into Armada\\nTownship in 1873.\\nJohn E. Barringer, born in Ontario County, N. Y., July 16, 1841, settled in\\nArmada Township, November 4, 1862.\\nS3 rena (Smith) Flagler, is one of the old settlers of the county, and a member\\nof tlie Society.\\nW. G. Anderson, born in Otsego County, N. Y., May 22, 1817, moved to\\nMazara County in 1821, and thence to Macomb County, May 22, 1831.\\nWilliam E. Preston, born at Eastford, Conn., June 20, 1822, moved to Chau-\\ntauqua County in 1854, and to Macomb County in 1865.\\nr", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0230.jp2"}, "231": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nLavinia E. P. Preston (Leonard), was born at Woodstock, Conn., June 19,\\n1824, moved eastward in 1846, and to Armada in 1865.\\nJames Flower, born in Delaware County, N. Y., October 18, 1810, moved to\\nGenesee County, N. Y., in 1828, to Washtenaw County, Mich., in 1832, and to\\nArmada Townshij) in 1835.\\nJosejih Weller, born in Chesterfield Townshij), July 4, 1831. Native.\\nNewman Freeman was born in Washington Township, April 27, 1832; settled\\nin Armada Township in 1844. Native.\\nMary Freeman (Frost) was born in Armada Township, July 28, 1839. Native.\\nSajlie A. Aldricli (Finch) was born at Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y., June 9,\\n1818, settled at Armada in 1828.\\nJames Banister, born at Gainesville, Wyoming Co., N. Y., March 27, 1827,\\nmoved to Ontario County, N. Y., thence to Armada, June, 1855.\\nCharlotte Day (Smith), born at Aurelius, Cayuga Co., N. Y., March 27, 1827,\\nmoved to Ontario County, N. Y., and thence to Armada, 1855.\\nJane (Butterfield) Pomeroy, Linott Butterfield, Mary E. (Corbin) Sibley,\\nCharles A. Lathrop, Rachel A. (Young) Lathrop, and Mrs. A. C. Bennett, are\\namong the members of the Society.\\nW. D. Pettibone, born in Wyoming County, N. Y., July 24, 1834, settled in\\nMichigan, at Armada, July 4, 1845.\\nJohn Hicks, born at Bristol, Ontario Co., N. Y., October 15, 1803, settled in\\nRichmond Township, October 16, 1836.\\nBert C. Preston was born in Armada Township, January 2, 1 859. Native.\\nElisha D. Lathrop was born in Armada Township, December 25, 1839. Native.\\nCaleb Miller was born in Orleans County, N. Y., October 21, 1814.\\nGeo. N. Carter born in Armada Township, Macomb County, March 1, 1834.\\nS. H. Corbyn, of Plainfield, Mich., an old settler of the county, was admitted\\na member of the Society.\\nPIONEER REMINISCENCES.\\nIn the following pages extracts from the records, belonging to the Pioneer\\nAssociation, are given, together with iriany stories, characteristic of pioneer life,\\ncollected from otlier sources. Tiie sketches of the O Connor, or Connor, and the\\nTucker families are taken from papers on the early history of the county by Judge\\nEldredge.\\nTHE O CONNOR FAMILY.\\nAbout the year 1744, during an out-break in Ireland, when the times were\\nturbulent there, and the beauties of the new world were somewhat known to the\\npeople of that country, two young Irishmen, some sixteen or eighteen 3 ears old,\\nbrothers, secretly boarded a vessel about leaving one of the ports for America, and\\nM\\\\", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0231.jp2"}, "232": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF JIAC05IB COUNTY.\\nhid themselves among the freight, until the vessel was well at sea. They were\\nnamed Richard and John O Connor.\\nUpon their arrival here, or soon after, they separated, and Richard working to\\nthe West, finally arrived at the place now called Painesville, Ohio, where by in-\\ndustry and perseverance, he acquired what in those days was considered quite a\\npropert} He remained at that point for a number of years, married there, and engaged\\nin the business of trading mainly with the Indians.\\nThe maiden name of the lady he married was Myers. O Connor had, while\\ndoing business with the Indians, learned of the fact that they had a white girl in\\ntheir tribe as prisoner. He immediately opened negotiations for her purchase, and\\nfinally succeeded in acquiring title. He paid in dicker what was then considered\\nas $200. Many in our day would undoubtedly consider this a good bargain, for\\nmost of our young men indirectly pay a larger sum than this in divers costly\\nmethods of testifying regard. Gifts, treats, balls, and rides, and for a wife that\\nproves to be a burden, instead of a help-meet.\\nMiss Myers, who was thus redeemed from captivity, was taken by the Indians\\nduring one of their raids upon the defenceless frontiers of the Colonies. When\\ntaken she was about four years old. Her father, when he discovered the approach\\nof the Indians, hid tlie children and attempted to flee for succor. He was living\\nupon the Monongahela River, in the State of Maryland. He swam the river and as\\nhe ascended the opposite bank was shot dead. The Indians, in searching for plun-\\nder, approached so near the secreted cliildren that one of them could not refrain\\nfrom an exclamation of fear. They were discovered and taken. Two of them\\nwere subsequently recaptured fi-om the Indians. The third was kept and brought\\nup by them as a slave, until she was bought from her captors by her future husband.\\nRichard O Connor with his wife remained at Painesville until some time dur-\\ning the Revolutionary War, when in one of the many expeditions organized and set\\non foot by the British against the defenceless out-posts of the Colonies, the whole\\nfamily were taken prisoners by the Chippewas. The family then consisted of Mr.\\nO Connor, his wife, and tliree or four children. As to the number of children born\\nbefore theii captui e, there are different accounts. From one of the grandchildren\\nwe learn that there were five, John, William, James, Henry, and Susanna.\\nThe family were ruthlessly stripped of all property, and were not allowed to\\nretain even a kettle for which Mrs. O Connor prayed that her captors miglit assign\\nto them. They were compelled to travel on foot, when the Chippewas retreated\\nto their home, which was situated on the Huron of Lake St. Clair (now the\\nClinton).\\nIn this weary march Mr. O Connor first bore one tlien another of his sons in\\nliis arms, and the mother bore continually upon her back after the manner in which", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0232.jp2"}, "233": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe tribe in which she had so long been kept prior to her mai-riage, carried their\\nburdens.\\nIt was late in the fall, and the feet of the little ones suffered severely. James,\\nparticularly, had his feet cut by the hard frozen ground and for miles marked his\\nfoot-steps with blood. He had a wiry, enduring frame, and the manliness he dis-\\nplayed in the weary tramp, attracted the admiration of one of the Chippewa chiefs,\\nand when the journey s end was reached this chief claimed and took James as his\\nspecial property. After their arrival here the boys were separated from the family\\nand scattered among the various tribes. Thus it was each one in after years spoke\\na different dialect of the Indian language. The father, mother, and youngest child\\nif there were but four, were kept together.\\nSoon afterward, within a few years, the Moravians were located by order or\\nadvice of the Commandant at Detroit, upon the Huron, at Frederick. Immediately\\nupon their arrival, the family were one by one redeemed. First, Mr. O Connor, his\\nwife, and youngest child; then the bo3 s John, Henry, and William; James was\\nnot so soon redeemed. The chief who had adopted him was otherwise childless,\\nand for a time refused to deliver him up, but gave to Mr. O Connor the privilege\\nof visiting his son at the home of his Indian father, at stated periods. The chief\\nlearned to love James very much, and he took particular pride in his manlj bearing\\nand the vigor he displayed at all times. He was accustomed to dress the then lad\\nin the war-paint and feathers of a young chieftain, and to teach him the various\\narts in which the Indiaii took pleasure. The boy thus acquired the habits and\\nmanners of the youth of his tribe, and learned to love them and the life he then\\nseemed destined to lead. He, to some extent, forgot his past life and its associa-\\ntions, and even learned to despise, and regarded with fear, his own parents.\\nSo strong was this feeling with him that upon the announcement that his white\\nfather was coming he would flee into the woods and conceal himself in the thickets\\nlike a frightened fawn, and would reappear only at the call of his Indian father.\\nWhen finally his white father did prevail upon the chief to surrender the child\\nlie had to be confined like a prisoner for a number of days to prevent his return to\\nthe wilds again.\\nThe songs and caresses of the mother aided by the sports of the brothers finally\\novercame his desire to return to the tent of the chieftain, and Mr. O Connor again\\n!iad about him his whole family. This was accomplished after the time that the\\nMoravians took their departure from the county. It is claimed that the desire of\\nthe mother to remain near her child was one of the main reasons why O Connor\\ndid not accompany the Mission, with which he had become connected.\\nMr. O Connor remained upon the spot he liad chosen for a home, on the farm\\nnow known as the Velt s farm about one and a half miles west of Mt. Clemens.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0233.jp2"}, "234": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHe was accustomed to till in his way tlie vai-ious spots along the river, that were\\nleft clear, by Nature, or had been cleared by the Indians. One of these spots was\\nknown as the Macoanee Meadows, and afterwards known as the Moe-place.\\nIn our former article we abstracted from the paper of the Rev. Mr. Bissel, a\\nportion thereof in which it was asserted that Mr. Richard O Conner came to tlie\\ncounty with tlie Moravians Zeisberger-Jungmau and others in 1783.\\nWe have gathered tlie facts we have above written from one of the Jescendants\\nof Mr. O Connor, and do not undertake to determine which version, the Rev. Mr.\\nBissel s or the one we have given, is the true one, though we incline to accept the\\nfamily tradition as above set forth, as the more reliable.\\nMr. Bissel, in speaking further of Mr. O Connor and his family, says\\nThough we have not the precise date of Mr. O Connor s arrival, yet he was\\nthere with his wife and four sons James, John, William, and Henry, in 1783. De-\\ncember 16 of that year, his youngest child, Susanna, afterwards wife of Elisha Har-\\nrington was born, and was baptized by the Moravian Missionary the 21st. She was,\\nprobably, the first child born in this county of parents speaking the English lan-\\nguage. She died in 1848, aged sixty-five years. This Mr. Richard\\nO Connor was the ancestor of those families who now are known as\\nConnors or Conners. They have Yankeefied their name by dropping\\nthe O He was undoubtedly the first white man speaking English who attempted\\nthe erection of a home within the limits of this county. He died here on the 17th\\nof April, 1808. His life was an eventful one. It may have been a boyish freak\\nthat led to his departure for this country from that land which never reared a for-\\ngetful son. Often, as he was borne over the ocean, must he naturally have regretted\\nthe stej) he had taken.\\nThe many trials of his manhood through which he must have passed ere he\\nreached and while he resided in Ohio, could they be faithfully recorded would make\\nan interesting histor) The manner in which he commenced his wooing, his sub-\\nsequent capture, the dispersion of his family, his persistent and untiring efforts to\\nrescue his children, his final location so far in the wilderness, away from society\\nand civilization, in fine his whole life is a fitter foundation for a romance than it is\\nfor a plain, unvarnished historical article, written solely as this is to rescue from\\noblivion sometliing of the history of those who first came to this county.\\nTHE TXTCKAR FAMILY.\\nDuring the French war, and about the year 1753, the Chippewas, who inhab-\\nited this section of the State, became engaged in one of the raids so frequent in\\nthose days, upon the settlements in Virginia. They surprised a family of Virginians\\nensxaaed in harvesting wheat near Stoverstown in that State. The head of the\\n^5", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0234.jp2"}, "235": {"fulltext": "hH.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nfamily was ruthlessly shot down, and two boys seized as prisoners, and brought to\\nthe homes of the tribe. The boys were named Joseph and William Tuckar. Wil-\\nliam was then about eleven years old, Joseph was some years older. These boys\\nwere retained as prisoners until near of age, when they, under the influence of the\\nBritish, were allowed to visit their childhood s home. They had, however, during\\ntheir captivity, been treated with considerable kindness, and had learned to love\\nthe life in the woods. They remained in Virginia but a short time, and returned\\nto the post at Detroit where they entered the employ of traders. They soon en-\\ngaged in the business themselves. They received supplies of goods from the\\ntraders at the post, and visited the different abiding places and camps of the Indians,\\nrelying mainly for transportation upon the canoe.\\nThe elder brother, Joseph Tuckar, it is believed, was lost on one of these\\ntrips. He, with a comrade, had gone on a trading expedition to an island in the\\nnorthern part of Lake Huron, where a tribe of friendly Indians with whom he was\\nacquainted was accustomed to dwell. The tribe was abseut on a hunting expedi-\\ntion to the mainland, and remained away a number of weeks. Upon returning\\nthey found in one of the cabins the goods which formed the supplies of the traders,\\nand the full equipage thereof. Sometime afterward they found upon another\\nisland a short distance off, the bleached remains of two whites, one of which they\\nrecognized as Joseph Tuckar by a peculiar, large brooch he was accustomed to\\nwear. It was presumed that having arrived in the camp of the tribe they sought\\nto visit, and finding the Indians absent, they haol with their boat alone, gone to the\\nneighboring island in search of the tribe, and that the boat had, while the traders\\nwere searching the island, floated off and left them no means of escape. They had\\nevidently starved, which is the report of the tribe, as given to William Tuckar,\\nand so friendly were these Indians to Joseph and bis brother there is little reason\\nto disbelieve it.\\nThe outbreak of Pontiac s conspiracy in 1763 found the younger brother,\\nWilliam Tuckar, in the employ of the English commandant. Major Gladwin, at\\nDetroit. To William Tuckar alone, was the garrison at that place indebted for the dis-\\ncovery of Pontiac s intentions, and the consequent saving of the post. The tribe\\nby which he had for years been held a captive, was engaged in the enterprise of\\nwhich the famous Indian chieftain was the leader. He had, according to Indian\\ncustom, been adopted into one of the leading families of the tribe, and to the\\nyounger members thereof was like a brother. He was intending to go upon a\\nhunting expedition from the fort for a few days, and on the day before the out-\\nbreak, was visiting the family in which he had been kept during his captivity, who\\nwere tented upon this side of the river, and but a short distance from the fort.\\nWhile there he made known his intentions as to the sporting trip he was about to", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0235.jp2"}, "236": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF JIACOMB COUNTY.\\ntake, and solicited the company of one of his young Indian brothers. This was re-\\nfused. He also, while there, made known to the family that early in the morn he was\\ngoing to the general camp of the Indians across the river to get some moccasins that\\nwere being made for him by a squaw famous for her skill in that line.\\nAs he left the camp to go to the fort, his Indian sister secretly followed him\\nbeyond hearing of her family, and with anxious countenance, besought him not to\\ngo across the river, but to start at once upon his hunting trip, and she tendered to\\nliim some moccasins she had made, in order to enable him to go prepai ed, witliout\\nvisiting the other side of the river. William s perfect knowledge of the Indian\\ncharacter at once suggested to him that there was some terrible reason for her\\nanxiety, and he besought her to make it known. Her sisterly affection for him\\nfinally prompted her to disclose to him fully what she had learned as to the intent\\nof Pontiac. The position of her family had enabled her to become conversant with\\nall the details of the plan so soon to be executed upon the devoted garrison.\\nMr. Tuckar immediately returned to the fort and informed the commandant\\nof the post of what he had learned. Measures were taken to defeat the nefarious\\ndesigns of the wily chief. The success of these measures, and the overthrow of\\nPontiac, are matters of general history, and pertain not particularly to that of this\\ncounty.\\nIt is more than probable that the facts here set forth as to William Tuckar s\\ndiscovery of the plot of Pontiac, are the only foundation for the romantic statement\\nas to the Indian girl, Catherine, betraying her tribe out of simple admiration for\\nMajor Gladwin, who had been but a short time at the post, and even could not speak\\nthe Indian language, that have generally been accepted as history. So prone\\nare imaginative historians to accredit tlie performance of any notable deed\\nsolely to persons in high life, that one does not wonder at the ease with which\\nthe facts connected with Tuckar s discovery of the plot, have been woven into\\nquite a romance, of which Gladwin is the pretended hero.\\nWilliam Tuckar was the first person about the garrison who learned of the\\ndeep-laid scheme of Pontiac. He alone conveyed the intelligence to Major\\nGladwin.\\nBoth Lanman and Sheldon, in their histories of the State mention Mr. Tuckar\\nas a soldier in the garrison, and accredit him with having been apprised as above\\nstated, of the conspiracy; but for the sake of ornamental romance, it is claimed\\nthat Gladwin was also on the same day apprised by his dusky, smoky sweetheart to\\nthe same effect.\\nDuring the struggle of the garrison to save themselves from destruction, Mr.\\nTuckar, although reall} a non-combatant, did the duty of a soldier, and for sixty\\ndays and nights, was almost steadily on guard. During that time his gun was out", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0236.jp2"}, "237": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof his hands but for a moment at a time. Fully aware of the nature of the enemas\\nhe, of all the garrison, best knew the necessitj of constant watchfulness.\\nAfter the overthrow of Pontiac and the restoration of comparative peace, Mr.\\nTuckar returned to Virgijiia, and married at Stover s Town, August 8, 1773,\\nCatherine Hezel. After his marriage he returned to Detroit, and lived there until\\nthe Revolutionary war commenced. During that struggle he was employed as an\\ninterpreter by the English officers in their intercourse with the Indians. He de-\\nclined to take the position of a combatant on their side in the struggle. His ability\\nto speak the Indian language of the various tribes made his services of impor-\\ntance.\\nPrior to the commencement of the struggle upon the part of the colonies for\\nIndependence, Tuckar had been chiefly engaged in trading expeditions among the\\nIndians, at times acting simplj as interpreter for other traders.\\nIn all his intercourse with the Indians he acted the part of an honest, upright\\nman. This, together with the fact that he was by reason of his importance as an\\ninterpretor of many Indian dialects, enabled him to exercise large influence. He\\nnever hesitated to use this in many cases of attempted frauds upon those with whom\\nhe had spent his earlier years. He came to be justly regarded as an especial friend\\nof the savage. As a reward for his kindness the chiefs of the Chippewas on the\\n22d of September, A. D. 1780, acting for their whole tribe, executed to him a deed\\nin the name of their people, of a large tract of land nearly all lying between the\\nRiver Huron, of Lake St. Clair, and the Riviere Aux Vase, extending back\\nfrom the lake some sixty miles. This deed is written upon parchment, in beauti-\\nful handwriting, and was drawn by one T. Williams at Detroit, who certifies there-\\non, as a Justice of the Peace, that the several chiefs whose names are attached to\\nsaid deed, did make the characters purporting to be made by them, and that the\\nsame was their free act and deed.\\nThe chiefs signed it by drawing in ink, their respective totems, one being\\na turtle, another a crow, and the others similar symbols, and is now in possession\\nof the Tuckar family. Not being signed by the British Governor of Canada, it was\\nnot regarded as any proof of title by the United States upon their assuming control\\nof the countrJ^ and Mr. Tuckar was thus left in the same position as the French\\nsettlers upon the lake and Mr. Richard Connor, entirely dependent upon the liber-\\nalitj of the new Republic.\\nMr. Tuckar had procured the execution of the deed by the Indians, for the\\npurpose of making him a permanent home, a sufficient distance from the growing\\nsettlements to allow him to pass his life in the enjoyment of those pursuits so con-\\ngenial to him, and to leave hunting, trapping and fur-trading undisturbed by the\\nbustle of life in populated communities, and yet sufficiently near a post of import-\\nr,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0237.jp2"}, "238": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\niiiice to give his home the position of comparative security from distant marautling\\ntribes.\\nDuring his cai:)tivity he had undoubtedly admired the great beauty of the\\ncountry lying upon the Huron. In a state of nature but few sections of the country\\njiresented greater attractions to such a man. The fertility of the soil, the great\\nal)undance of game, the loveliness of the situation, its great rural beauty were suffi-\\ncient attractions. But added to this the spot he had determined to locate npon was\\na favorite one with the Indians, almost steadily it was their camping ground. On\\nand near that spot their traditions told them, many sanguinary battles between\\nthe Chippewas and their enemies had been fought, years before the eye of the white\\nmen had seen the country of the great lakes.\\nMr. Tuckar partook somewhat of this veneration and love for the spot, and\\nwhen at the establishment of peace between the United States and the British Gov-\\nernment, the growth of his family demandetl the establishment of a fixed home, he\\nimmediately prepared to remove them. He arrived with his family in the spring of\\n1784, and selected as a site for his dwelling a spot but little distance from what was\\nevidently an old Indian fort used in the days of the struggle for possession of tliis\\ncountry between the Chippeways and the Sauks.\\nThe remains of this fort as they appeared at his arrival consisted of an embank-\\nment and corresponding ditch on the outside, sweeping from the bank of the stream\\naround about one and a half or two acres of ground, to the bank again, making\\nnearly a complete circle. The opening being directly at the river bank. Outside\\nof this were the evidences that the soil had been cultivated and that the Indian had\\nfor a time raised his maize there. Within it were found many bits of broken pot-\\ntery of a peculiar character. There were other similar remains of what must have\\nbeen rude forts on the bank of the Huron on the lands subsequently and even to\\nthis day owned by the descendants of William Tuckar.\\nCHRISTIAN CLEMENS.\\nChristian Clemens, the pioneer settler of Mt. Clemens, was born in Montgom-\\nery or Bucks County, Pa., Jan. 30, 1768. He resided on the Pennsylvanian\\nhomestead until twenty-seven years old, the while giving his entire attention to\\nagriculture. In 1795 he came to Detroit, where he engaged in the manufacture\\nof leather. Within a short time after his arrival he bought a tract of land on the\\nRouge River, and laid down those precedents which were so extensively followed\\nby those who came after him to settle in the wilderness. Mr. Clemens made his\\nhome at Detroit until 1798, when he removed to the Huron River or Clinton.\\nHere he purchased a tract of land the same referred to in the chapter on the\\nFrench pioneers. The first dwelling house was built by him on, or close by, the", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0238.jp2"}, "239": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsite of the present red brick store of Miller, the shoemaker, on Front street.\\nSubsequently he built a distillery on the bank of tlie river, below the present\\nflouring mill, on the soutli bank, just below the new iron bridge also a still-house\\njust east of the Fleumer Mill. He built a dwelling-house on the site of George\\nM. Crocker s present residence. He carried on a trading store here at an early\\nday, and founded the village of Mt. Clemens u\\\\ 1818. He has held the positions of\\nMilitia Colonel, Chief -Justice of County Court, Judge of Probate, etc.\\nThe relation which Judge Clemens bore to Macomb County, and more\\nparticularly to Mt. Clemens, was so intimate, that his name must necessarily be\\nclosel}^ associated with the general historj of the county. No matter what chapter\\nwe take up, his name is found therein, and for this reason we are inclined to refer\\nthe reader to the general history, so that the part taken by the judge in building\\nup the county may be truly estimated. His death occurred at Mt. Clemens, Aug.\\n25, 1844; his funeral was truly a representative one.\\nCHRISTIAN CLEMENS IN A BRITISH DUNGEON.\\nWherever the British flag floated, there was the prison for the people not for\\nthe criminals. Immediately after the suri-ender of Hull, Christian Clemens, then\\na leading man in the territory, was captured by the British, carried to Detroit, and\\nconfined within the old fort as a political prisoner, just as the British of to-day\\nare doing beyond the Atlantic, and would do here had not their power been\\ncrushed forever, at least on this continent. His captivity continued until the\\nvery day before the American soldiers re-captured the position. It must be con-\\nceded, however, that this pioneer of Macomb was not subjected to extreme harsh\\ntreatment. During the last few days of liis captivity, he was allowed to ramble\\nround within the stockade, under the surveillance of Lieuts. Clemens and Watson,\\ntwo officers of the garrison. A friendship sprung up between Lieut. Clemens and\\nhis prisoner, and the former often accompanied the judge on short visits to his\\nfamily, then living near the fort. It was a common thing for the judge to scale\\nthe stockade, and make a visit to his wife and children, with whom he would pass\\naway the evening, and return at a given hour to his quarters within the fort. For\\nsome time this procedure was followed by the pioneer of Mt. Clemens unknown to\\nhis jailors. At length the prisoner was reported missing, and a detachment\\nordered out to search for him. The officer in charge of the troops found the\\njudge at his house, quietly smoking his pipe, and enjoying the society of liis\\nfamily. The soldiers seized him, and hurried him back to the fort, without afford-\\ning him any time to snatch his cap, but instead of placing him in his old quarters,\\nthey cast him into the old jail, which then occupied a site across the present\\nJefferson Avenue from the Michigan Exchange. Here he was rigorously confined", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0239.jp2"}, "240": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nand subjected to many hardships, until released on parole, the day before Ameri-\\ncan courage and honor were avenged, and Hull s true character exposed. After\\ntlie pursuit and complete defeat of the British and Indians on the Thames River in\\nCanada, Oct. 5, 1813, Lieuts. Clemens and Watson were found among the\\nprisoners, and brought back to Detroit. Finding themselves near the home of\\ntheir former prisoner, they asked permission to visit him, which request the\\nAmerican General granted, and the two jailers were sooil within the hospitable\\nhome, among tiie welcome guests of Judge Clemens.\\nDuring Mr. Clemens imprisonment under the British, Maj. Muir, the com-\\nmandant, compelled him to supply himself with food, to be his own cook, and pay\\neven for other necessaries of life, which even the Indians were accustomed to give\\nto their captives gratis. How different was the treatment of prisoners by the\\nUnited States authorities, soldiers, and citizens, may be realized from the greeting\\nwWch awaited the former warders of Judge Clemens after they fell into the hands\\nof the Americans.\\nDISTINGUISHED VISITANT.\\nThe datices were given at the house of Judge Clemens or at the Cady House.\\nIn fact tlie dancers made a home in every house. Gen. Cass, Col. Larned, Gen.\\nBrown, Judge May, Col. Clarke, of Monroe Maj. Biddle, Ed. Brush, and other\\nStatesmen and soldiers of early Michigan made the village a resort, and were in\\ntlie habit of taking a striiig band of four performers witli them. Those well-known\\npioneers of the State, after spending some time at Mount Clemens, would pay a\\nvisit to Judge Connors, two miles west of the Clemens house, wliere the city ceme-\\ntery now is. There those merry makers would pass several days, and return to\\nDetroit fully satisfied that they had done justice to all the pleasure which the world\\noffered them.\\nCHASTISING A SAVAGE.\\nIn one of the pioneer sketches references are made to the Mount Clemens Dis-\\ntillery. Here we shall deal with one of the most ardent admirers of that institu-\\ntion among the savages of the district. It appears that Christian Clemens left the\\nhamlet for Detroit, where he passed some days as a claimant himself, or a witness\\nfor otlier claimants, before the Board of Land Commissioners. During his absence\\na few members of tlie Otchipwe band or Witanniss Indians found out exactly where\\nthe precious whisky was stored, and determined to have a drink of it. Before the\\nred men could carry out their plans in this direction the nabob of the Huron returned\\njust at a moment wlien the naked Pachuk was helping himself to a deep, deep\\ndraught. The judge realized the situation in a moment, and seizing the old-time\\ntongs, which lay on the hearth-stone close by, dealt the noble red man a blow,\\nbrought him to his knees, and was preparing a second edition of the iron lash, when", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0240.jp2"}, "241": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACO:\\\\[B COUNTY.\\nthe frightened savage turned a summerset, regained his feet, and fled, the while\\nwhooping and calling for vengeance. The pioneer settler made preparations for\\nwar, but his prudence was unnecessary, at least on that occasion for when next he\\nsaw that whisky-loving savage, he bore a haunch of venison as an offering of peace\\nto his white chief and brother. The chronicler proceeds to state that the judge\\noften related the story of that event, and always entertained the idea that the\\nsafety of himself and the members of his family depended on his decisive action at\\nthe moment. Such examples of Caucasian courage an.d prompt measures were\\ncommon among the early Fi-ench pioneers, and were not wanting on the part of\\nAmericans. Of the first we have Louis Campeau, at Saginaw, in 1816, and at\\nGrand Rapids in 1826-9 of the second we have Eleazer Jewett, at the Tittaba-\\nwassee post of the American Fur Company in 1826, and Rix Robinson at Ada in\\nKent County in 1823. Those old settlers played the five acts in the drama of life.\\nCOL. JOHN STOCKTON.\\nCol. John Stockton, one of the leading spirits of Michigan in early days, one\\nof her oldest soldiers and large-hearted citizens, died at Mount Clemens, November\\n26, 1878. The deceased served as an officer in the war of 1812 and Colonel in the\\nwar of the rebellion. At the time of his death he was in the 88th year of his age.\\nHe came to Mount Clemens in its very earliest settlement. He married Mary\\nAllen, a step-daughter of Judge Clemens, the founder and first settler of Mount\\nClemens. He is the last of those early settlers who has been identified with the\\ninterests of the village during its entire history, and was the oldest resident if not\\nthe oldest person here. He was the first Clerk and Register of Deeds in the\\ncounty, having served in that capacity just sixty-seven years ago, 1818. He was\\nalso the first Postmaster and Justice of the Peace of Mount Clemens. He was\\ngenerous and hospitable to a fault, and has given to the destitute sufficient to have\\namassed a colossal fortune In the political, organic and military chapters of the\\ngeneral history, references are made to this pioneer.\\nTHOMAS ASHLEY.\\nThomas Ashley arrived at Mt. Clemens in May, 1820. He was a native of Win-\\ndom. Conn., removing afterward to Batavia, Genesee Co., N. Y. About the year\\n1811 he became acquainted with the Cady family of Batavia Township. In 1820\\nhe set out on his western journey, and arriving at Detroit, proceeded to Pontiac,\\nand thence to Mt. Clemens, where he built the first entire frame structure erected\\nin the village, if we except the frame addition to the Clemens House, built by Col.\\nStockton, and the little office of lawyer Ezra Prescott. In October, 1820, his fam-\\nily arrived from Genesee County, and entered at once on a life in the old log house,\\nT^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0241.jp2"}, "242": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwhich then stood immediately in the rear of Henry Connor s stables, and the new\\nWeek s block.\\nThe family then comprised Mrs. Lucy Ashley, formerly Mrs. Lucy Cady, who\\nmarried Mr. Ashlej about 1810 her sons Henry and Chauncey G., and her daugh-\\nter Lucy Cad} Miss Lovinia Russell, afterwards Mrs. Ezekiel Allen, accompanied\\nthe family. In May, 1821, Horace H. Cady and his step-brother Alfred Ashley ar-\\nrived. In 1821 the sons of Mrs. Ashley erected the old saw-mill on the North Branch\\ntwo miles north of Mt. Clemens, better known as the Haskins mill. The family\\ndwelt in the old loghouse until the erection of the frame building referred to\\nabove, in 1823 ^(the frame was put up in 1821), which stood opposite the new bank-\\ning house of Crocker and Ulrich, removed to give place to the bi ick block. Ash-\\nley was a farmer and one of the early lawyers of the county. He was among the\\nboys of the village of Mt. Clemens, and took part with them in all the merry meet-\\nings of the villagers, as well as in the more serious meetings of the business com-\\nmunity.\\nCHAUNCEY G. CADY.\\nChauncey G. Cady, born in Otsego County, N. Y., Aug. 20, 1803, son of Joseph\\nand Lucy (Hutchiiis) Cady, the former a native of Windom, Conn., and the latter\\nof Killingsley, Conn., who removed to Otsego County N. Y. in 1801, settled with\\nhis parents in Buffalo, N. Y. in 1805 or 1806, tlience to Batavia Township, Gene-\\nsee Co., N. Y. in 1806 or 1807, and made that place his liome until 1820, when the\\nfamily moved into the Territory of Michigan.\\nJoseph Cady left Buffalo on a land exploratory expedition in 1807, and not re-\\nturning, he was traced to many prominent villages southwards, and ultimately found\\nto have died at Cincinnati on his liomeward journey.\\nMrs. Lucy Cady married Thomas Ashley in 1810, came to Michigan with her\\nhusband and family in 1820, and died on the Cady liomestead in Sterling Townsliip,\\nabout 18.38 or 1839.\\nCliauncey G. attended the district scliools in his native State for about three\\nyears. Previously, at the age of six years, he was apprenticed to a farmer name. I\\nShubal Dunham, of Genesee County, with whom he stayed three years. In 180 J\\nhe returned to his home in Batavia, and for tlie three successive years labored on\\ntiie farm during spring and harvest, and attended the scliools referred to during the\\nwinter. From 1814 to the date of his coming to Michigan, he assisted as clerk in a\\nhotel, then kept by his step-father, Thomas Ashley. In 1820, as stated in the pio-\\nneer record, he came to Mt. Clemens, and entered on that active life which has\\nmarked his residence here. In 1833 he moved to his original farm in Clinton and\\nSterling. He erected a house in each township that in Clinton lie sold about 1870\\nto J. F. Pries, and holds the present residence in Sterling. In 1841 he took an\\nnv", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0242.jp2"}, "243": {"fulltext": "C. G. CADY.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0243.jp2"}, "244": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0244.jp2"}, "245": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nactive part in local politics, was elected Supervisor, and re-elected in 1845. In the\\nlatter year he was elected Representative to the Legislature, was declared\\nelected by the R. B., and took his seat. A full reference is made to this election in\\nthe Political Chapter. In 1849 he was re-elected, and entered the Legislature of\\n1850- l, being the second session held at Lansing. While Supervisor, he held\\nthe office of Justice of Peace for Clinton from 1841 to 1849. He was also elected\\nJustice of Peace for Sterling in 1856 but on account of delay on the part of the\\ntown clerk in making returns, did not qualify. He was elected County Drain Com-\\nmissioner, and filled the duties of that peculiar office for six years without difficulty\\nand in a manner satisfactory to the Supervisor s Board.\\nMr. Cady married Miss Catharine Gerty of Harrison Township in 1829, as given\\nin the marriage record. This lady died Aug. 27, 1865, aged 52 years. He married\\nMiss Mary J. Royce Oct. 22, 1867.\\nPrevious to 1826 he became a member of the Macomb County militia, under\\nGen. Stockton. He was paymaster of the command, ranked as major, and dis-\\ncharged at muster out of regiment in 1829. His militar} outfit alone was present\\nduring the Toledo war, as he loaned it to Gen. Stockton. On the organization of\\nthe Pioneer Society in 1881, Mr. Cady was elected first President. He was mem-\\nber of the Convention which nominated Alpheus Felch for governor, vice John\\nBarry also of State Convention in 1880 from Macomb senatorial district, as well\\nas of several County Conventions. Mr. Cady was an old Jackson Democrat up to\\n1854, when he joined the Republican party, and has proved a faithful earnest mem-\\nber of that party up to the present time. As a pioneer of Mt. Clemens, and an old\\nresident of the county, full references are made to him in the histories of the\\ncounty and city. To-day he is the senior living settler of Macomb County, and\\ngives promise of being able to make the same proud statement at the beginning of\\nthe next century.\\nWM. A. BURT.\\nWilliam Austin Burt was born at Worcester, Mass., June 13, 1792. He was\\nthe son of Alvin and Wealthy Burt, natives of Massachusetts, whose parents ar-\\nrived in the American colonies in 1740. The grandparents, as well as parents,\\nfollowed a seafaring life, and so their days were passed beside the Atlantic, until the\\nwestern fever urged them away from the sea coast to seek a western home. Imme-\\ndiately after the birth of W. A. Burt, his family moved into Montgomery County,\\nN. Y., where they remained eleven years, or until 1803. Montgomery County was\\nthen on the borders of civilization, so it is not surprising to learn that the youth of\\neleven summers was minus books, schools, and almost everything known in the old\\nsettlements.\\nAfter the burning of Buffalo, December 30, 1813, a call was made for volun-\\ni6", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0245.jp2"}, "246": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nteers young Burt enrolled his name as a member of the New York militia (60 days\\nmen). With this command he moved into Canada. In 181-4 he served a second\\nterm with a three months regiment. In the fall of that year lie formed a partner-\\nship with his father-in-law, Mr. Cole, as merchants. The partners did not succeed\\nin business, so that W. A. Burt returned to the carpenter s bench, and in com-\\npany with John Allen, afterwards a settler of Bruce, engaged in mill-building.\\nHe entered upon his western journey at the outlet of ChautauquaLake, August 13,\\n1817. On the 24th he .reached Pittsburg; St. Louis, Mo., Sept. 19, and Detroit\\nOct. 26, 1817. He returned to his eastern home but came again to Michigan in\\n1822. On his return journey he made the hazardous venture of traveling 200 miles\\nthrough the wilderness. At Detroit he had a true friend in Gen. Cass. Soon after\\nbe visited Oakland County, where he built a saw mill for Webster at Auburn.\\nHere he was soon joined by John Allen, his brother-in-law. Before the mill was\\ncompleted Webster died (being the first death in Oakland), yet Burt and Allen\\nfulfilled their contract. After this those friends built a mill at Waterford. While\\nengaged here, Burt visited Fletcher s survey party, and subsequently explored the\\ncountry as far as the Moxie Settlement, now Romeo. In 1823 he purchased a tract\\nof land in Washington township, and returned in the fall to Erie County, New\\nYork, from which locality he brought his family hither in the spring of 1824. Dur-\\ning the succeeding summer he erected the Taylor and Millard mills on Lower Stony\\nCreek, and built a log house for himself on his land near that point. In 1825 he\\ncompleted the Upper Stony Creek mill, or the Hersey mill, by placing in it a run of\\nstone. That mill is now in operation, just over the line in Oakland County. Many\\nother mills were built by Burt and Allen previous to 1826, including the concern\\nfor Alpheus Wadhams within six miles of Port Huron.\\nW. A. Burt was elected a member of the Territorial Legislature in the fall of\\n1826. In 1828 he built the Dexter mills, referred to in the History of Washtenmv.\\nDuring this time he discussed with Samuel Dexter the question of the utility\\nof the masonic order. He was the originator of a masonic society at Stony Creek,\\nbeing the third lodge formed in the Territory of Michigan.\\nIn 1831 he was elected County Surveyor, was appointed Associate Judge,\\nApril 24, 1833, and United States District Surveyor, November 23, 1833. He\\nengaged in building the mills at the ancient village of Frederick, in 1833; but so\\nsoon as his appointment was made, he gave up the labor of a carpenter and mill-\\nbuilder. His duties as United States Surveyor took him westward to the Missis-\\nsippi. He ran the township lines where the city of Milwaukee now stands. He\\nwas appointed a Commissioner of Internal Improvement, April 3, 1838, and made\\nthe survey of the railroad to Saginaw. Pveviously he was the first surveyor of the\\nold strap railroad from Detroit to Ypsilanti.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0246.jp2"}, "247": {"fulltext": "fe*\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHe possessed some inventive genius, and produced an instrument by which he\\nconveyed his thoughts to paper in printed form. He constructed a surveying instru-\\nment different from anything hitherto known. He cast aside the Polar Star, and\\nmade the Sun his objective point. The result of his nursing and inquiries was the\\nSolar Compass, invented by him and made in the shop of W. J. Young, of Phil-\\nadelphia. In the survey of the Northern Peninsula this compass was found to be\\na sine qua non. On September 19, 1844, Mr. Burt discovered iron ore at the jjlace\\nnow known as the Jackson iron mine. On the drowning of Dr. Houghton, Decem-\\nber 13, 1845, Mr. Burt and others were called upon to complete as far as possible\\nthe reports. In the summer of 1851 he visited Europe. In 1855 he wrote a treatise\\non the Solar Cornpass.\\nHe was engaged in the construction of the Equatorial Sextant, at Detroit, in\\n1858, when death summoned him away from his work, August 18, 1858. Mrs.\\nBurt died a few years later, and both sleep in the cemetery of Mount Vernon.\\nRegarding this settler it may be truly said, that he was one of this world s true\\nnoblemen. Honest, sincere, intellectual, he recommended himself to every one,\\nwinning the esteem of all with whom he associated.\\nMr. Burt s children are John, Alvin, Austin, Wells, and William. Alvin\\nBurt died in Wisconsin some years ago John, Austin and Wells reside at Detroit,\\nWilliam makes his home at Marquette. All these men are pioneers of the iron dis-\\ntricts of the Peninsula, all are survej ors, and to their desire to make a thorough\\nexploi-ation of the Lake Superior country, the development of that portion of the\\nPeninsula is mainly due. The labors of the survey were entered upon by Wm. A.\\nBurt, in 1844.\\nTHE SETTLEMENT OF THE DARLINGS.\\nIn the year 1823, Sylvester Darling and George Wilson with their families\\narrived at Detroit. There they secured the services of three sailors owners of a\\ncanoe who started to guide them on a voyage via Lake St. Clair to Mt. Clemens.\\nOne small sail was all the propelling power the small craft had at command. All\\nwent well until near their destination. It was nearly night, and they were very\\nanxious to land before darkness set in but they were not to be so favored for\\nwhen within a little more than an hour s sail from their port, an angry squall over-\\ntook them and they were driven helplessly before it. Like a feather their sail was\\ntorn from the mast, the men caught it before it was carried overboard, and refas-\\ntened it to the mast with a clothes line and held the bottom with their hands no\\neasy task in the face of a November gale. All through the hours of that memorable\\nnight the men took turns in holding the sail, for there were no oars aboard the frail\\ncraft. The women and the little children cowered in one end of the boat under\\nthe slight protection of an old awning, but the driving rain soon penetrated their\\n^rr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0247.jp2"}, "248": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF JIACOMB COUNTY.\\nplace of refuge, and they were in a pitiful condition indeed. Who can picture the\\ndespair that overtook them impenetrable darkness surrounded them, and they\\nwere driving on to an unknown fate. One of the sailors overcome by fear, crouched\\nin the bottom of the boat, refusing to save himself or his fellow voyagers. The\\nangry waves boiled and hissed round them, lashed into fury by the fierce storm.\\nThey knew not in what direction they were going, only that they were being\\ndriven away from the point they wished to gain. Thus the long night passed, and\\nday began to dawn. The shore was close at hand, but tlie waves were breaking\\nupon it with such fury they could not dare to land. There they cast anchor, ex-\\npecting every moment the waves to engulf them but toward night the waters\\ncalmed sufficiently for them to land. No signs of habitation could be seen they\\nwere apparently on the border of the Canadian wilderness. There they built a\\nfire, dried their wet clothing, and cooked a little provisions for a much required\\nmeal. A brush-hut was next built to offer shelter to them from the cold winds\\nwhich still continued to blow. On the afternoon of the next day they dared ven-\\nture out on the waters but after two hours battle with the winds, they weie forced\\nbackward to the wild shore where tlie previous night was passed. Here the party\\nremained four days until the storm subsided, wlien they made an attempt to go\\nforward on their journey. This time the voyage was successful, and it is believed\\nno travelers were ever more joyful than were those who escaped all the dangers of\\nthat tempestuous voyage from Detroit to Mt. Clemens.\\nAfter two days passed at Mount Clemens, the party proceeded to Shelby. Not\\nhaving any houses built, they entered an old log hut on the Wilcox Place, there to\\nwait until some better building could be erected. It was a wretched place, small,\\nand open to the weather on all sides, and, to use Mrs. Darling s own expression.\\nYou might throw a dog through the roof anywhere. In this hut a little child\\nwas born a Darling, while Mrs. Wilson eared for her own babe not yet two months\\nold. Here the Wilson and Darling families remained for six weeks, and just as one\\nof Michigan s fiercest winters was upon them they moved into snug log houses on\\ntheir own lands, Mr. Wilson s land lying three-fourths of a mile south of Wash-\\nington, and Mr. Darling s one mile farther to the south. Of the heads of these\\nfamilies, Mrs. Darling alone is left, and the children who encountered the perils of\\nthat voyage with their parents are old gray-headed people.\\nCORBYN REMINISCENCES.\\nS. H. Corbyn, a pioneer of Armada and Richmond Townships, writing to the\\nSecretary of the Pioneer Society of Macomb, in December, 1881, from his home at\\nPlainwell, Mich., states: Alfred Goodell and I came from Detroit together. Leav-\\ning him in Detroit, his eldest son and myself pushed ahead, and reached our destina-\\n^1", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0248.jp2"}, "249": {"fulltext": "fc^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntion a day or two ahead of him. The first cabin we built was on his side of the\\nroad. After this I built one for m3 self, and also framed a small barn, which was\\nsubsequently sold to Elijah Burke. Mr. Corbyn recites many of the events men-\\ntioned in the Goodell reminiscences. He refers to the diiScnlty of tracing survey\\nlines at this time. When I was looking to locate my land, he says, I started\\nat the northwest corner of Section 36, and tried to trace the line to where the\\nvillage of Armada now is. I could find the line as far as the timber went; but\\nbefore I had gone a mile it opened into brush land and open plains. Having nothing\\nbut a po6ket compass to guide me, I could not find the section corners south of that\\nplace, nor the quarter stake, where the village now is, and gave it up, not dreaming\\nof the possibilities of the future never thinking of what that sea of brush might\\nbe converted into. At that time I was not such an adept at tracing lines as I after-\\nwards became; for, for years, I accompanied land-lookers, traced lines, pointed out\\nsection corners nearl}^ all over the town of Richmond and in Columbus Township,\\ngave them their numbers, which numbers they secreted in their pockets until they\\ncould reach the Detroit Land Office. Land hunters at that time were jealous, or\\nrather suspicious of each other and so each made an effort to reach the office first,\\nlest his competitor might outwit him in purchasing.\\nCARTER REMINISCENCES.\\nNathaniel Carter left Massachusetts for Michigan, August 24, 1831. At the\\nclose of the third week of the journey he found his friend Holman located in the\\nwilderness four miles northeast of Romeo. His reminiscences of settlement portray\\nmany of the scenes of the olden time, and are on that .account valuable. He says\\nAt this time the east half of Armada and what is now Richmond belonged to Saint\\nClair County. There were only two families in the east half of Armada, viz.,\\nLeonard Lee and Alfred Goodell. The highways were yet in the future, their\\npliice being- represented by sled paths among the trees. The first thing to be done\\nwas to select a farm, so we started northward through the brush and open land to\\nthe old fort, which was a circular bank or ridge eight or ten feet high from the\\nbottom of the exterior ditch. The walls enclosed about an acre of Ian* with an\\nopening toward the North Brauch. Near by were the bones of a very large race\\nof people. There was an old oak tree about eighteen inches in diameter growing\\non the top of this fort. From this point we started for the southeast to find Hol-\\nman s brother, Levi Holman s location. He showed us through the woods, which\\nwere then covered with trees so large as to make the Yankees feel a little discour-\\naged. We found a small stream called Coon Creek, running through Section 31,\\nRichmond, near Leonard Lee s and Levi Holman s farms. We selected two eighty-\\nacre lots on Section 34, paid $200, and received in due time President Jackson s\\nV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0249.jp2"}, "250": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ndeed. Romeo theu contained one frame and three log houses, and a small one-\\nstory frame store, built on the corner of Main and Saint Clair Streets, by N. T.\\nTaylor. The land between the Curtiss farm and the village was nearly all taken\\nup, and much of it was occupied. The ague attacked one member of the family\\nand created some surprise. Ebenezer Brooks and wife came next.\\nA short time after settlement a man was heard shouting in the wilderness, Mr.\\nCurtiss went forth with his rifle. The hooting continued until the lost man saw\\nhis rescuer advancing. So overpowered with joy was he that he could scarcely\\nexpress himself. He started the morning previous to come from the road north to\\nthe Hoxie trail but got lost. He had a good pocket compass, yet he strayed\\naway, became lost, and at the moment he was discovered was twenty-four hours\\nwithout food. This man s name was Truesdell Nickols.\\nA sudden turn of affairs urged Carter to enter the market. There he made\\napplication for a Stewart, and sealed the contract so strongly that it is good yet.\\nAfter furnishing his log-house, he began to think about building a saw-mill. There\\nwas but one neai-er than Stoney Creek, and that was Noah Webster s. His was the\\nnext built in order of time. Since that time he sawed timber for twelve saw-mills\\nand three grist mills, all erected within a radius of three-one-half miles of the\\nCarter farm, all run by water power, and the greater number of them gone out of\\nuse. In 1832-3, the season of alternate rain and frost, the grain crops were\\ndestroyed. The settlers endured many privations, some were reduced almost to\\nstarvation. Flour was f 16 per barrel, and pork, #30.\\nAsa Holman organized the first Sunday School in the Town of Armada,\\nwithin a log-house on the corner of his farm. John Proctor and Job Howell built\\nthe first frame houses in the township Norman Perry and N. Carter soon fol-\\nlowed the example, and the era of frame buildings was introduced.\\nDANIEL W. day s REMINISCENCES.\\nIn April, 1827, my father, Erastus Day, started from the town of Lima, Liv-\\ningston County, in the State of New York, with teams and went to Pittsford in\\nthe same county, where, in company with Capt. Gad Chamberlain and some\\nfour other families, they chartered a canal-boiit on the Erie Canal, which had been\\nfinished about two years, to Buffalo.\\nIt being early in the season, no boats had as yet left for Detroit, but two\\nsteamers were lying at the wharf anxious for lading, and as there were five or six\\nfamilies of us, with household goods, etc., the masters of the vessels were vei y\\nanxious and began to bid for the load, when the master of the Steamer Superior,\\nCapt. Sherman, proposed to take us to Detroit gratis if we would go with him so,\\nas a matter of course, we all piled on, and after a stormy passage (all that were on", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0250.jp2"}, "251": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nboard being sick except the crew, my father, and Capt. Chamberlain) we arrived\\nat Detroit. We stayed there until Sunday morning, Capt. Chamberlain in the\\nmeantime having purchased some two or three yoke of oxen and father two cows\\nwith tlieir calves, which he bought for twenty-five dollars. On Sunda} morning\\nquite a debate arose as to whether we should lay over until Monday, or start at\\nonce, Capt. Chamberlin being opposed to traveling on the Sabbath, (which was\\nright,) but other counsels prevailed, and about ten o clock, (he oxen having been\\nhitched up, we launched out upon that great sea of mud and water toward Royal\\nOak, being kept partially out of the mud by a railroad with the rails all laid cross-\\nwise, and oh what a road was there, my countrymen It was almost impossible\\nto keep right side up and out of the mud and water. Between Detroit and Royal\\nOak we stopped at a place called Mother Handsome s, whose real name was\\nChapin, where we had dinner. The next place, after passing Royal Oak, was then\\ncalled Hamilton s, afterward Piety Hill, and now Birmingham. It was then com-\\nposed of one log house, which was the tavern. At that time there was no road\\ndirect from Royal Oak to Rochester, consequently we were obliged to go by Ham-\\nilton s, where we stayed Sunday night, if memory serves me right, and the next\\nday brought up at Horatio Nye s, in the township of Bruce, Macomb County.\\nThat day, my father, myself, and Levi, the youngest brother, traveled on ahead of\\nthe teams, and missing our way, went to where Romeo now stands, then called\\nIndian village, Gideon Gates, post-master. I think there were at that time, four\\nlog houses within the bounds of Romeo as it now is. As is related above, we stopped\\nat Nye s, about two miles west of Romeo, where we stayed a few days and then\\nmoved into a log shanty about twelve by fourteen, and covered with oak shakes,\\nwhere we lived, or rather stayed, some six or eight weeks and planted a crop of\\ncorn and potatoes. In the meantime, father had purchased eighty acres of timber\\nland about two miles northeast of Romeo, and on the fifth day of July, 1827, we\\nwent to the new farm to prepare logs for a house, which was raised in a few days\\nwith becoming ceremonies, and after covering it with elm bark, la3dng a part of a\\nfloor of hewn bass-wood logs, and cutting out the logs, and leaving the holes for\\ndoors and windows, we quietly moved into it without any fire-place or chimney\\nexcept a hole in the roof for the smoke to escape through. I recollect of mother\\ntelling one morning that she saw some large animal jump out through the hole left\\nfor a window during the night. Hardly a night passed but we could hear wolves\\nhowling in different directions. I remember at one time of hearing them howl\\nabout eighty or one hundred rods from the house. Very soon the hogs put in an\\nappearance at the house minus two very fine pigs which were never seen afterward.\\nAt another time, as two of my brothers started from home, they encountered two\\nbears in close proximity to the hog-pen wherein were five or six fine porkers. On\\n3\\nTis:", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0251.jp2"}, "252": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nanother occasion, while all hands were engaged in chopping, we heard a hog set up\\na terrible squeak, when we all started for the scene of battle, where we found a\\nlong-legged brown bear leading a hog off by the nape of the neck, and as there was\\nnot a rifle in the company, bruin made good his escape after having bitten Mr.\\nPorker so badly that he afterward died. While living at home and going to school,\\na little incident occurred that might be worth relating. Whilst wandering about\\nin the woods one Saturday, I discovered a large basswood log partially rotted away,\\nin the hollow of which I thought wolves slept. I went and borrowed a trap and\\nset it, but it was not a success, as they went in all directions except in the trap.\\nOne very cold morning I went to my trap, and not finding anj-thing in it, I turned\\nabout and went directly home, and as I stepped into the door I heard them howl,\\nand going back found that they were not over ten rods behind me, as I saw the\\ntracks of two of them as they turned from the road into the woods and left on sus-\\npicion. As to religious matters, the first sermon I heard in Romeo was by the Rev.\\nAbel Warren, of sainted memory, who moved into that part of the country in 1824.\\nHe preached in warm weather in Albert Finch s barn on the farm now known as\\nthe Ewell farm. This was in the spring of 1827. Rev. Isaac Ruggles was the\\nfirst Congregational minister that ever preached in Romeo, which was in 1829.\\nIn the spring of 1828, all the people turned out, and that was not a great many,\\nand hewed the timber, gave lumber and shingles, and built a frame school-house\\non land owned by Asahel Bailey, which answered the purpose of school-house and\\nchurch. The first school was taught by Gideon Gates, and Alanson Fincli, who\\nwas supposed afterward to have been carried off by the Indians, went to scliool.\\nHe was missed at night, and many of the neighbors searched in the woods all night\\nand tiie next day. It was estimated that some four or five hundred men were\\nscouring the woods far and near, but no trace of him was found, and it was with-\\nout doubt the means of bringing the old people in sorrow to the grave.\\nREMINISCENCES OF JOHN D. HOLLAND.\\nReferring to the emigration of the Holland family from New York, May 20,\\n1829, John D. Holland writes We started from the town of Mendon,\\nin the county of Monroe, State of New York (had prayers in the\\nmorning offered by Brother Schuyler, a connection of Gen. Schuyler of\\nAlbany), we pursued our journey to or near Batavia, where we stayed\\nthe first night, and that night it was frosty and cold, the morning following,\\nI tliink the ground was a little frozen. Pursued our course to Buffalo got on board\\na small schooner called the Dread of Huron, John Haskins captain. Came to San-\\ndusky City in about three days from Buffalo, staid there some three or four days,\\nfound tliere an old man by the name of Rogers, who was taken prisoner of war in\\nr", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0252.jp2"}, "253": {"fulltext": "fe^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe Revolution with my father, out of the sloop Randolph, a sloop of sixteen guus,\\nabout the year 1780. The old men appeared glad to see each other. My father\\nand myself got on board a small boat and came to Detroit in about two days I should\\njudge.\\nDetroit was then small, the old Fort Hull surrendered was then garrisoned by\\nUnited States soldiers. Maj. Jonathan Kearsley and John Biddle then acted as land\\nagents, or they gave duplicates to the applicants at the United States Land OflBce.\\nStaid near Detroit a number of days. Came to Washington to look laud about the\\n20th of June, went to Detroit and received a duplicate for the east half of the\\nnorth-east quarter of section twenty-two in that town, about the 26th or 7th of\\nJune, 1823, and at tluit time there was in Washington Barna Miller, Joseph Miller,\\nElon Andrus,. Lazarus Green, Zebulum Hayden and Aaron Stone, and pei haps\\nSolomon Wales with families liivewise Freeborn Heley and Jol Hoxie with families.\\nMilton Nye s familj^ absent, Ezra B. Throop, Alvin Nye, Marcus Nye, Daniel Smith,\\nyoung men, and Alexander Tackles a widower, these were the only inhabitants\\nthen living in the township of Washington. Romeo was then called Indian Village.\\nAsahel Bailey and Chauncy Bailey with families then lived in Bruce, and Michael\\nTromley, they were the only inhabitants in Bruce, except Indians, unless Shartkey,\\n(Chartier), then lived near Tromley.\\nWhat a change do I see to-day, I can see from my window three good churches,\\nan academy, a village containing perhaps 2,000 inhabitants, but alas, reflection tells\\nme that almost all the former inhabitants have passed through the gates of death,\\nand are with us no more. Freeborn Hel ey was the first white man who died in\\nWashington that we have any knowledge of, he died in August, 1825. But who\\ncan count the number that has fallen in Washington since that day.\\nElias Pattee came and preached in Washington about the last of August 1823,\\na class was formed in Washington of six members, viz: John D. Holland leader,\\nElon Andrews, Nancy Andrews, Polly Greene, Aurilla Miller and Laura Miller.\\nJames Thornington was tlie first settler in Washington, he came into the town, as\\nnear as can be ascertained in the month of February 1819, ami settled on the farm\\nnow owned and occupied by George Wilson. The first physician that settled in\\nWashington was Lyman T. Jenny, then came Dr. Dennis Cooley, a constant pliysi-\\ncian many years. The first frame barn was built by Zebulum Hayden in the spring\\nof 1824, the first frame house was built by Edward Arnold in the fall of 1825. The\\nfirst school was kept by Dr. Lyman T. Jenny. The first township meeting was held\\nnear John D. Holland s in April 1827, the first Supervisor was John S. Axford, the\\nfirst Township Clerk was John D. Holland. The great rain Iiappened the 18th and\\n19th of June, 1825. The first saw mill was built by John Proctor, the first grist\\nmill built by Wilks L. Stuart and Edwin Wilcox. The first merchant, and perhaps", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0253.jp2"}, "254": {"fulltext": "200 HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe first founder of the merchants establishment or business in Romeo, was Nathan\\nTerry Taylor. The first religious meeting was held in a log shanty owned and oc-\\ncupied by Albert Finch, very near the house Hall Ewell now lives in, in June 1824.\\nThe first Postoffice established in tlie village of Romeo, I think about the autumn\\nof 1825, was called Indian Village Postoffice, Gideon Gates was Post-master. Who\\nacted as Post-master in the township of Washington, I am not sure but think it was\\nOtis Lamb, office established not far from the time it was established in Indian Vil-\\nlage.\\nThe townships of Washington and Bruce were joined as one township for\\nseveral years. The first saw mill built in Bruce was that liy Leander Tromley,\\nsome time before the mill erected by John Proctor. The first blacksmith in Wash-\\nington was John Bennett. The first white child born in Bruce was a daughter of\\nCliauncy Bailey. There was an Indian tribe living near Lakeville, Macomps was\\ntheir chief. Gen.- John Stockton came to Mt. Clemens at an early day, and I presume\\ncan give as much information relative to former times as any one in Macomb County.\\nSKETCHES OF EARLY SETTLEMENT IN SHELBY, BY L. D. OWEN.\\nWhen I was a lad, between nine and ten years of age, my father, Abijah\\nOwen, then living in the State of New York, Genessee Co., conceived the idea of\\nemigrating to the West. Some of his townsmen, among whom were Calvin Davis,\\nElon and Russel Andrus, Joseph and Daniel Miller, Elder Abel Warren, and some\\nothers, had gone a year or two previous. From the very flattering accounts\\nreceived from them as to the natural advantages to be enjoyed in this new country,\\nhe resolved to move thither, and sold what little property he had in that country.\\nIn the latter part of the month of June, 1825, he started with his family of five\\nchildren and their mother for the far-famed territory of Michigan. At this time\\nno such thing as a railroad had been projected, neither had there any canals been\\nbrought into use for be it known Clinton s big ditch, or the Erie Canal, was not\\ncompleted till September of that year. Then, of coui-se, our only mode of trans-\\nportation from starting point to Buffalo, was by lumber wagon. At Buffalo we\\nembarked on board the only steamboat then on Lake Erie, and the second one\\nthat had ever navigated its waters, the Superior. After a passage of five days,\\ncalling at all the intermediate ports, we landed on terra firma at Detroit. I well\\nremember how fine was the weather. Not a ripple disturbed the placid blue waters\\nof that noble lake.\\nImmediately on landing, we fell in with a teamster by the name of Jack Hamlin,\\nwhose business it was to transport immigrants into this country. A turnpike had\\nthen been constructed, commencing at the river bank, and running for a distance\\nof four miles in a northerly direction, which, subsequent^, was completed by the\\ns r", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0254.jp2"}, "255": {"fulltext": "iK.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nUnited States as a militaiy road to Saginaw Ray. When leaving this four-mile\\nturnpike, we entered upon a single wagon track, meandering through brush, seek-\\ning the most eligible ground, and guided Ijy blazed trees through forests. After\\ntwo days weary journey, we arrived at our destined haven at the house of uncle\\nCalvin Davis, in the township of Shelby. Then it was that pioneer life began to\\ndawn upon us. The first step was to locate an eighty acre lot of land, and no\\ndelay was necessary in making a selection, there being a vacant lot adjoining my\\nuncle s. No objection could be entertained to securing a neighbor no more than\\nhalf a mile distant, in a wilderness country. The lialf mile to my uncle s I\\nthought quite too far to go for fire, when often in the summer time ours had gone\\nout during the night. Lucifer matches in those days were not dreamed of some\\npeople had a tinder box with flint and steel from which they could start a fire. As\\nsoon as my father had secured his land, wheat harvest being then ready, he thought\\nit more important to secure some of the needful, than to commence the erection of\\na domicile, and his first labor was performed for one, Judge Thurston, in the\\nwestern part of Washington Township raking and binding at six shillings per\\nday but from the paucity of the wheat fields here then, harvest time was of short\\nduration, so he soon commenced the building of a log house. I remember hearing\\nhim say, after paying for his land, he had but seven dollars in money left, so by\\nthe time he had procured the necessary whisky to carry on his raising, doubtless,\\nthat was gone. Could buildings be raised in those days without whisky One\\nmight just as well undertake to bury a corpse without digging a grave. It was\\nquite apparent now that no time should be lost in preparing a family shelter, as an\\nemergency of a domestic character was known to exist, that, except with nomadic\\ntribes, called for more tlian ordinary care, so not many days elapsed before logs\\nwere got together and shakes rove out of oak for a roof, and from some source he\\nobtained some second-hand lumber, of various widtlis and thickness, for an upper\\nand under floor. Soon we were ushered into our new domocile, and in a few days\\nmy mother gave birth to another child, Martha B., now Mrs. Cox, of Franklin,\\nOakland Co. The first year we lived without a cow T can remember often diet-\\ning on roast potatoes and salt but the next summer my father vrent down to\\nhis uncle Raskin s, living a few miles from Mt. Clemens, and brought home a cow,\\nsaying his uncle gave her to him. Then we children felt gleeful and happy no\\nmore potatoes and salt we could luxuriate not only on potatoes and milk, but\\nliread and milk also. Prosperity often is of short duration, for when we had had\\nOld Bob a year or so, there suddenly appeared without previous notice, two young\\nmen with orders to drive away the cow. Some of the younger children cried to\\nsee Old Boh driven away. She merited that sobriquet from her semi-caudal\\nappendage, which I suppose some ferocious canine had made a little too free with.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0255.jp2"}, "256": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nNow a spell came over our dreams, potatoes and salt haunted our minds. Not only\\nthat, but we were strongly suspected of being fatherless, for he was among the\\nmissing also. While he was gone mother wanted to make some cucumber pickles,\\nand whisky was about the only ingredient then used for that purpose, so I was\\nsent to Mr. Burlingham s still for some of the critter, hnt when Burlingham learned\\ntliat father was gone, and we did not know where, I could not get the whisky,\\nalthough two shillings jjer gallon was all it was worth. I don t remember now of\\never seeing two shillings in money up to that time. But the darkest hour is said\\nto be just before day; so in the course of six weeks my father returned, driving\\nwith him two good cows, which he had paid for with his labor, on the farm owned\\nby Gen. Cass, whose tenant was father s cousin.\\nI tell you we boys threw up our hats then though I am not sure we had any.\\nYes, I do remember of making one for myself about that time out of straw but if\\nI remember right it was a rude specimen. The farm above alluded to is now about\\none-half the city of Detroit, unless the city extends far beyond it in a westerly\\ndirection. I, however, know that it was a large farm, for the next summer, after\\nfather got the cows, I was permitted to go there to play with the cousins and\\nremain three weeks, riding the ponies after the cows every night. Three weeks\\nhad passed, so one Sunday niorning I shouldered my pack, about twenty pounds\\nof dried peas, beside other traps, and started afoot and alone for home. The four-\\nmile turnpike alluded to, was traversed, after which was brush and timber almost\\nthe entire distance of thirty miles, but I made port and had considerable ambition\\nleft. I should hate to undertake that walk now in a day. I was twelve or thirteen\\nyears old at this time. If my memory serves me there was but one brick building\\nin tlie city at that time and that, it seems to me, was only one and a half stories\\nhigh. There stands a dwelling now on Jefferson avenue, not far from Woodward,\\nthat was there then. The first team we had in this country was grown from calves\\ndropped the same spring of our arrival, hence my father had no facilities for work-\\ning his land, though yearly he would endeavor to get two or three acres broke,\\neither by making a bee or changing work, with some of the neighbors those\\ncalves were bought of Elder Warren in the fall after they were a year old and my\\nbrother and I broke them that winter, and snailed up the most of our fire wood\\nat this time. I made the 3 oke and bows, putting in a wooden staple of bent hick-\\nory, with a crotched limb forming a hook for the staple, and a short piece of chain\\nat the rear end. I would hitch to a small draft and drag it to the house. I can\\nremember taking motlier two and a half miles to meeting with those steers attached\\nto an ox sled, over a trail covered only with about an inch of snow. My brother\\nand I done j^retty much the entire work done at home for the first four or fire", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0256.jp2"}, "257": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nyears while father worked out by the clay. We split mostly all the rails that was\\nused during that time, and also laid them into fences.\\nJudging from recollection as to the length of time we had been in this country\\nI should say it was in the spring of 1826 or 27, that our neighborhood became rife\\nwith rumors that a boy was lost in the northern part of the county. I well re-\\nmember that, when we were all at Town meeting about the first of April, there\\ncame a courier, heralding the sad news that Mr. Finch s boy, in the Hoxie settle-\\nment, was lost, and that the father desired help to look him up. My father started\\nthe next day, and I suppose all the neighbors did also start to search for the miss-\\ning one. If I remember aright he was gone about a week but they did not find\\nthe boy, and he never was found either dead or alive, and the grievance of the\\nheart-stricken parents bore so heavily upon them, that their natures soon gave way,\\nand both went down to an untimely grave, mourning the loss of their boy.\\nNow the time occurred that I first saw Romeo, tlien the Hoxie Settlement; so\\nwhen we had lived here long enough to have raised a little corn, a corn basket was\\nneeded, and none was known to be made nearer to us tiian the Hoxie settlement,\\nso my brother and I, respectively ten and twelve years old, started for Romeo on\\nfoot, and procured a basket of one old Mr. Washburn. A frame house, I remember,\\nwas then being erected just behind a little oak tree, by one John B. HoUister, then\\nour County Surveyor, and that same little oak tree is now standing in front of Mrs.\\nNelly Gray s residence.\\nI remember that when we got started for home the elements portended a\\nthunder shower. We had been taught that to be in the woods at such a time was\\nvery dangerous. Soon we were overtaken by Esq. Lester, of Utica, on horseback,\\nand to keep up with him was our aim therefore when his horse trotted, we trotted;\\nbut occasionally his horse would walk and then we could recuperate our wind.\\nWe heard him tell some one on the way that those were the smartest boys he ever\\nsaw, as they kept up with his}horse all the way. In due time we reached home in\\nsafety.\\nThe advantages for schooling in the neighborhood where we lived were poorer\\nthan in some other. The fourth town was then comparatively a thickly settled\\nneigliborhood, for within a mile from each other tliere were Geo. Hanscom, Geo.\\nWillson, Dan l and Jas. Miller, Elon Andrews, John Bennett, Burlingham, Otis\\nLamb, and perhaps some others. When I would visit their school, I found the pu-\\npils much farther advanced in the rudimental branches than with us. Immediately\\nafter our arrival here, I commenced going one and a half miles to school, but with-\\nin a month I was attacked with the ague and lay prostrate with it all that winter.\\nA portion of one winter I remember going two and a half miles to a male teacher,\\nEllas Scott. It was then I began to learn to write, and I think I wrote one or two", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0257.jp2"}, "258": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nlove letters to a girl who was some years older than I was, who is now Mrs. Alvah\\nArnold. The last winter I remained at home, we had a school only one and a fourth\\nmiles away, taught by Miss Laura Hopkins, sister of the late Cyrus Hopkins, the\\nveteran bell ringer of Romeo. This was in the winter of 1830-31, but my duties\\nat home never alloweti me to attend school very regular.\\nIn June, 1831, I left home and engaged as clerk to P. G. Leech, of Utica,\\nwho had recently come in and bought the mill property there, and also inaugurated\\na store. The following winter I attended a three months school, taught by one P.\\nB. Thurston, who subsequently became Judge of Probate for the County, and held\\nthe office a great number of years. He was counted a very worthy man and an\\nefficient County officer. One little incident I will make mention of as occurring\\nwith some of my earliest experience after leaving liome, to show the fortitude that\\nmay be cherished, and is far more often displayed in a new country than an older\\none, and is probably engendered by the rudeness of a pioneer life. Early the fol-\\nlowing spring I was sent by my employers to Mt. Clemens to collect a small\\naccount; when arriving at the North Branch I found that the bridge had been\\nswept away, but a man with a canoe was there to ferry me across. I was directed\\nto put the saddle in the canoe, and swim the horse ahead of us, and so save us the\\nlabor of paddling. The halter or bridle was too short to allow the horse to get be-\\nyond the reach of the canoe, hence he was much frightened at the frequent contact\\nwith it it. The stream having extended far beyond its natural banks covered a flat\\nof more shallow water. At this point the horse struck bottom, and made such\\npowerful strides as to drag me from the canoe through the shallows to dry land.\\nNow why did I not let go Because I feared the horse would give me the slip\\nand be a greater hardship to recover him than to be drawn through the water, so I\\nstuck to him and went on, made the collection in silver coin about twenty-five\\ndollars, and that weight of specie in my pantaloon pockets while on horseback, ap-\\npeared to be a far greater annoyance than tlie wet clothes.\\nMr. Owen paid a brilliant tribute to the deceased Abel Warren, and concluded\\nhis paper with a very apt reference to the pioneers of Macomb.\\nThe following poetical comparison of the Past and the Present was written by\\nJ. E. Day, in 1874. It is a very faithful review, and must be of special interest in\\nconnection with this chapter\\nIn days gone by our dames and sires,\\nFree from that pride which wealth inspires,\\nWith zeal which coming days will bless.\\nPerformed their toils in home-spun dress.\\nThe rustle of a sill en gown,\\nWas to their ears an unknown sound,\\nSave when some rare occasion fell\\nAs funeral or marriage bell.\\nThe rich brocade the soft cashmere\\nThe glistening-flush the velvet dear,\\nWere things of which they heard at times,\\nBy gossip brought from foreign climes.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0258.jp2"}, "259": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n^t\\nThe matron s costume, clean and bright,\\nWas home-spun linen, blue and white,\\nWhose scanty folds were held in place,\\nBy linen string about the waist,\\nWhose tidy pleats were kept in check\\nBy linen kerchief at the neck.\\nHer feet were shod with heavy shoes,\\nMade less for beauty than for use,\\nHer bonnet, too, it may be said\\nWas on and not behind her head.\\nHis pants were tow and woolen mix t,\\nIn colors which her skill had fix t\\nAnd made with all the house-wife s care,\\nNot for adornment but to wear.\\nHis frock was made of heavy tow\\nCame to the knees, or just below.\\nSupplying place of coat or vest.\\nLike charity, concealed the rest.\\nUncouth in gait, or form, or looks.\\nUntaught was he, in lore of books\\nUnskilled was he, in ways to please\\nUntaught in all the arts of ease\\nYet he was wise in all his toil,\\nHe knew the secrets of the soil\\nHe knew where best to plant his corn.\\nHe could presage the coming storm\\nHe knew where wild fruits grew the best\\nHe knew where wild birds built their nest\\nAnd large his heart the poor confes t.\\nThe kindly feeling of the breast.\\nYet we confess they had their pride,\\nThough leaving much to virtue s side\\nTwas his the glitt ring ax to wield.\\nOr daily plow the willing field.\\nAnd many a rood of fertile land\\nConfessed the power of his hand.\\nAnd while he daily swung the ax.\\nHer pride was in her field of flax\\nAnd in her bright, well scoured room,\\nAnd in her spinning-wheel and loom,\\nAnd in her knots of woolen yarn.\\nReady to make the new or darn.\\nFor hung in festoons round the room,\\nWhere trophies of her wheel and loom.\\nAnd still was heard, for days to come.\\nThe spinning-wheel s familiar hum.\\nAnd as her sturdy urchins grew,\\nTwas all the music that they knew.\\nTis well remembered sound to me,\\nTis music of utility.\\nThe houses which they lived in, too,\\nNo rules of architecture knew,\\nThe unhewn trunks of trees supplied.\\nMaterial to form its sides.\\nLaid up each other s ends across.\\nAnd chinked between, with mud and moss.\\nOn these were poles, set up to take,\\nA roof composed of shanty shake.\\nTwo doors it had, a front and rear,\\nA window on each side appears,\\nAnd in one end the other graced,\\nA huge, old-fashioned. fire-place,\\nWhose fervent heat had often told.\\nExpulsion to the winter s cold.\\nAnd whose reflected, cheerful light.\\nOft changed to day the winter s night.\\nWhat fun to sit on winter days,\\nBefore that open fire-place.\\nAnd see within the embers glow.\\nIntricate fancies come and go.\\nOr hear the crackling fagots sing\\nThe music of the Fire King,\\nWhat feasts we children used to share,\\nAcorns and chestnuts, wasted there.\\nOr when more sumptuous feasts invite.\\nThe dancing pop-corn brown and white.\\nHow oft I ve thought with childish joy.\\nWhen I should cease to be a boy.\\nWhen I should reach maturer life\\nAnd mingle in its joys and strife.\\nThat time has come, and taught the boy.\\nAnticipation has the greater joy.\\nThe hearth was stones, large, smooth and flat.\\nAnd in the corner lay a mat.\\nOn which, before the blazing log,\\nReposed the drowsy hunting dog.\\nAnd in the corner used to stand\\nThe bake-kettle, and frying-pan.\\nThe chimney-flue (for want of bricks)\\nWas made of plastered mud, and sticks,\\nThe floor was made of bass-wood slabs.\\nSplit out and laid with ax and adze.\\nThe only jack-plane that it knew\\nWas friction of the heel and toe.\\nThe only carpet at command\\nWas daily made of soap and sand.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0259.jp2"}, "260": {"fulltext": "b^\\n256 HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe door was large, and wide, and hung\\nWhich under our fond mother s care.\\nOn wooden hinges, creaked as it swung,\\nWeekly were enacted there.\\nWhich we small youngsters hail d as great\\nWe knew when came the grand array\\nAnd vainly tried to imitate.\\nFor Tuesday was the baking day.\\nNo plated knob, no shining latch,\\nLong years have come, and swiftly passed.\\nWas there the eye to catch,\\nSince Tuesday s fare was tasted last.\\nBut if you would admittance beg\\nAnd we may eat of viands rare.\\nThe handle was a hickory peg.\\nAnd sumptuous entertainments share.\\nHard by a string of wild deer s hide.\\nPartake of all that warms or cheers.\\nThe place of thumb-piece well supplied;\\nMay live to see an hundred years.\\nNot always there as you might see.\\nYet ne er will taste such pies, or cake.\\nIt filled the place of lock and key.\\nAs that old oven used to bake.\\nFor safety it was just the thing.\\nYou d only to pull in the string.\\nWithin that arch we d often look.\\nAnd think, how in the holy book,\\nOutside, a few steps from the door.\\nWith the bass-wood branches arched o er,\\nWhere pig-weeds grew so tall and grand.\\nThe old brick oven used to stand.\\nUpborn on rugged pillars three.\\nIn rude uncultured masonry.\\nAnd underneath we used to keep\\nOur treasures rare, in many a heap.\\nWe sometimes heard our father read.\\nHow three jasl men of holy deed.\\nWere cast into an oven hot.\\nAnd yet the flames had harmed them not.\\nWe wondered much, yet failed to see\\nI low such strange story true could be.\\n.\\\\nd comforting each other, said.\\nThat we were glad that king was dead.\\nIt oft has been my childish care.\\nOh, childhood fraught with joy and pain.\\nThe needed oven-wood to prepare.\\nThy years will never come again\\nFour honest armfuls, fine and dry.\\nThe joys of youth no more we see,\\nE er I could taste of cake or pie.\\nSave in the light of memory.\\nOur mother then would place these sticks\\nYet let us keep, as best we may.\\nWithin the solid arch of bricks.\\nThese visions of the by-gone day.\\nIn order so the flames might crawl.\\nAnd think how in the times far back\\nWith easy access through them all.\\nWe ve wandered from the narrow track.\\nAnd having fired gave no concern\\nThe path our infant feet have trod,\\nBut let the crackling contents burn.\\nForgetful of our father.s God.\\nJust twenty minutes by the clock.\\nLet s find once more the hopes, the fears.\\nThe fire was out, the oven hot.\\nAnd fervency of early years.\\nAnd, having scraped the ashes thin.\\nAnd mingle with life s sterner truth\\nThe pastry ready to go in.\\nThe everlasting flowers of youth.\\nEach loaf with skillful care was laid\\nUpon the fire-shovel s blade,\\nAnd with a firm and steady hand,\\nIn farthest corner made to stand.\\nThe loaves were placed in first of all\\nAnd ranged against the outer wall.\\nAnd then within this outside ring,\\nIn order ranged the smaller things,\\nThe walls threw out their ready heat\\nThe baking process was complete.\\nBetween the oven and the road.\\nBeside the path the well-curb stood.\\nOn tip-toe raised, we used to peep\\nInto the dark mysterious deep.\\nAnd think how one poor foolish elf.\\nNot long before, had drowned herself.\\nAbove the curb, the sweep was swung,\\nOn which a cedar pole was hung.\\nWith skill contrived, a strap and nail\\nArranged to take the oaken pail.\\nSweet mem ries hover round my heart,\\nOn further end a block of wood.\\nOf mysteries in the baking art.\\nTo keep the even balance good.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0260.jp2"}, "261": {"fulltext": "K", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0261.jp2"}, "262": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0262.jp2"}, "263": {"fulltext": "1\\njy\\n(B t^\\nj\\na,\\n8]\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 257\\nr-\\nWhat joy twould be to-night to share\\nCould suit our varied wants so well.\\nThe very best of liquor there.\\nOr form a play-house with such skill.\\nSuch places in its holes to creep,\\nBeside the well, on either hand,\\nSuch chance to play at hide and seek,\\nLarge branching elm trees used to stand\\nSuch room our many games to play.\\nAnd from the lowest, largest limb\\nOr jump upon the springing hay.\\nWith ropes and bark we made a swine;.\\nWe knew of every place where best\\nAnd there, on days when out of school,\\nThe cunning hen could hide her nest\\nAnd when the sultry sun grew cool,\\nWhat joyous shout and sparkling eyes.\\nSuch joyous pastimes oft we had\\nWhen her shrill voice proclaims the prize.\\nAs makes the heart of childhood glad.\\nWith hasty step and merry din\\nYet, sometimes, ere the play was done,\\nWe took the glistening treasures in.\\nWould sadly pause to think of one\\nWhose tired feet had left the way\\nDown on a corner of the street.\\nIn which we trod, one Summer day\\nWhere four right-angled highways meet.\\nHad gone to find the thither shore\\nA few steps distant from the road,\\nWhere childish griefs could come no more.\\nThe little, old, log school-house stood\\nAnd roam at will the happy fields\\nWhere, in the days long since gone by.\\nWhich unmolested pleasure yields.\\nWe youngsters used to meet and try\\nTo con our various lessons o er.\\nNot dead to us, we thought that when\\nThe foretaste of a world of lore.\\nSome days had passed, he d come again\\nThe walls were low and washed with white,\\nAnd sometimes in the heat of game\\nFour wide, low windows gave it light\\nWe would forget and speak his name\\nNo patent stove the building graced.\\nAnd then, in hushed and solemn way.\\nBut a large, wide, stone-built fire-place.\\nWould sit us down, forgetting play.\\nWhose fervent glow and steady heat\\nAnd every day his merry plays,\\nHis golden hair, his gentle ways.\\nToasted our lieads and froze our feet.\\nLong desks along the walls were fixed\\nHis ringing laugh, the clothes he wore.\\nNo passage-ways were seen betwixt.\\nCame back upon us o er and o er.\\nThe seats, pine slabs, with iron-wood pegs,\\nOh, Mem ry Never weary with the past,\\nWhich answered in the place of legs.\\nThy joys be mine while time shall last\\nWhile beating up the lesson s track\\nAnd when time s latest course has run.\\nWe to the teacher turned our back.\\nThy deathless life has only just begun.\\nAt recitation, or when school was out.\\nWe d only just to face about.\\nBack from the house, not many rods.\\nThe Dys could easy make the change.\\nWere barn and sheds, built up of logs.\\nBut for the gir/s twas passing strange.\\nWhose ample floor and well-filled bay\\nThe little urchins seated there\\nWe thought were just the place for play.\\nSeemed high upborne into the air.\\nOn one side were the stalls, where stood\\nFrom which their small feet dangled o er\\nThe meek eyed cattle, fat and good\\nIn vain desire to reach the floor.\\nThe other was the ample bay,\\nWell-filled with nicely-salted hay.\\nI mind me well how fared the school\\nA row of boxes placed above,\\nWhen under certain schoolma am s rule.\\nSheltered a flock of rattling doves\\nHow oft for switches we would go.\\nAnd outside, underneath the eaves.\\nHow oft the chalk-mark forced to toe,\\nWere swallows nests of mud and leaves.\\nHow oft the open palm extend\\nAnd feel the walnut rule descend.\\nNot all the arts which poets sing.\\nAnd yet, what varied fun we took\\nNot all the lore which ages bring,\\n17\\nWhen she was busy with her book\\nu\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a27\\nc r-\\ne)\\nV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0263.jp2"}, "264": {"fulltext": "s\\n358 HISTORY OF IIACOMB COUNTY.\\nWhat skillful pictures we would make,\\nAlas for some, their forms are laid\\nOr draw her profile on the slate.\\nBeneath the churchyard s willow shade,\\nWith awful look and peaked nose,\\nTheir footsteps now are heard no more\\nAnd hand upraised, as if for blows\\nAlong Time s rocky sounding shore\\nAnd sometimes, so engaged were we\\nThey ve gone before to pluck at will\\nIn this rare sport, we failed to see\\nThe flowers that bloom on Zion s hill.\\nThat the sharp schoolma am s restless eyes\\nSome hasted at the country s need.\\nHad seen, and marked it for her prize.\\nWith willing heart and loyal speed,\\nIt pleased her worst of all, we knew.\\nTo help maintain the nation s laws,\\nBecause they sometimes were so true.\\nOr perish in the righteous cause.\\nAll honor to the boys in blue,\\nWho faced the breach for me and you\\nWell, I am glad that in tho.se days\\nMy feet were turned to learning s ways;\\nThe dear remembrance of the brave,\\nThose early tasks, I plainly see,\\nLives like the pine above their grave.\\nWere worth a world of wealth to me,\\nGreen be the grass and sweet the flowers,\\nBecause they proved this precept true\\nThat wave above these friends of ours.\\nHow little of the world I knew.\\nAnd gave a quenchless thirst for more\\nThan shallow draught of learning s lore.\\nAnd soft the sighing winds that surge\\nAbove their graves at Fredricksburg.\\nSome plow in learning s classic soil.\\nAnd made my wakening soul aspire\\nSome feel the sweat of farmer s toil.\\nTo something better still, and higher.\\nSome drive a country doctor s cart.\\nThat old log schoolhouse, rough and tried,\\nSome drive a lawyer s plastic art.\\nThe place of meeting-house supplied.\\nAll hail whatever be your share\\nWhere weekly gathered, old and young.\\nIn life, of labor or of care.\\nWith sober face and silent tongue,\\nFresh courage take and ne er forget\\nTo hear the thrilling story told,\\nThat we are near each other yet.\\nWhich, oft repeated, grows not old.\\nAnd as we gladly journey on.\\nForever new because divine,\\nBe this our purpose bright and strong.\\nOf Christ, the Prince of David s line.\\nThat when life s days and nights are passed.\\nThese little temples here and there.\\nWe all may meet at home at last.\\nAlong our public thoroughfares,\\nAre hot-beds, where the feeble plant\\nNow all is changed, no more we hear\\nThe sturdy stroke of pioneer.\\nOf learning gets its earliest start.\\nNeath education s morning sun\\nNo more we see on morning breeze\\nHis blue smoke curling through the trees.\\nNo more in hazel brush is heard.\\nThe budding process is begun.\\nTill in its stretch of higher growth.\\nIt reaches to sublimer truth.\\nThe shrill notes of the forest bird.\\nThrows out the bud, the flower, the seed,\\nGone from the hut are dame and sire.\\nOf holy thought, of noble deed.\\nQuenched on the hearth their cheerful fire\\nThe mind of childhood can not be\\nGone is the cabin and the wood,\\nA long continued vacancy,\\nGone are the elms from where they stood.\\nThere is no waste or barren soil\\nGone is the nicely sanded room.\\nWithin the garden of the soul\\nGone is the spinning wheel and loom\\nSweet be their rest, since closed the strife.\\nFor if we fail to sow the seeds,\\nOf virtuous thought and manly deeds.\\nThey heroes were in humble life.\\nThe wildest flowers will bloom within\\nAnd wealth has brought in place of these\\nOf bitterness, and woe and sin.\\nThe ways of luxury and ease.\\nWhere are they now those girls and boys\\nThe thirst for fame, the love of self.\\nWho shared with me life s morning joys.\\nThe power of pride, the greed of pelf.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0264.jp2"}, "265": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nn\\nO ershadow worth, and gain control\\nO er nobler feelings of the soul.\\nAnd thus we mourn that coming days,\\nDrive out the old simplicity of ways.\\nWe wish not for the hut again,\\nNor share of backwood s toil and pain\\nYet much we wish that all might live,\\nThose simple rules which wisdom gives.\\nMight see true worth more surely great,\\nThan all the flimsy pride of State,\\nAnd then how surely should we be\\nA race of true nobility.\\nCHAPTER XV.\\nPIONEER REMINISCENCES.\\nThe character of the pioneers of Macomb, falls properly within the range of\\nhistory. They lived in a region of exuberant fertility, where nature had scattered\\nher blessings with a generous hand. The winding Riviere Aux Hurons, the beauti-\\nful forests, the fertile oak openings, the hard but happy labors of the husbandman\\nand his family, and the bright hopes which burned, combined to impress a distinct\\ncharacter, to bestow a spirit of enterprise, a joyousness of hope and an independence\\nof feeling. Tlie community formed an admixture of many nations, characters,\\nlanguages, conditions, and opinions. All the various Christian Gods had their\\nworshippers. Pride and jealousy gave way to the natural yearnings of the human\\nheart for society prejudices disappeai ed, they met half way and embraced and the\\nsociety thus gradually organized became liberal, enlarged, unprejudiced, and natur-\\nally more affectionate, than a commune of people all similar in birth and character.\\nIn the following pages these facts will appear more manifest. The tales of the\\nolden time point out that time as one, where solidarity of intei csts marked the\\ncharacter of the people, and leave little doubt that the ideal of good will to man\\nruled in their hearts.\\nPIONEER MOTHERS.\\nWhat shall we say of the true woman the pioneer woman of this country\\nAh the Past, with its lights and shadows, its failures and its successes, its joys and\\nits privations, is well remembered by the surviving pioneer, and happily in many\\ninstances by his children. Many a pioneer of the townships of this county has\\nalready gone to his rest on the hill, that gave to those, near and dear to him, a first\\noutlook upon the pioneer life that was to come, a life destined to develop these\\nforces of the head and heart, forces, which, in the luxury and ease of an older civi-\\nlization, rarely appear upon the surface of society.\\nIt was not always the dark side of the facies which was turned toward the\\npioneer, for though many of the immigrants were rough, and in many instances un-\\ngodly yet manhood and womanhood were here in all their strength and beauty,\\n^r^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0265.jp2"}, "266": {"fulltext": "J^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nand nowhere in the world of created intelligence did God s last, best gift to man,\\nmore clearly assume the character of a helpmate, than in the log cabin, and amid the\\nrough and trying scenes, incidental to a home in the wilderness. Ever foremost in\\nthe work of civilization and progress, the pioneer woman the true woman was\\nto-day physician, to-morrow nurse, and the following day teacher of the primitive\\nschool. Withal the woman was busily engaged in that wearisome round of house-\\nhold work which knows no cessation. Early and late, all the year round, the\\npioneer woman acted her part well. From year to year, as through many privations\\nand much new and strange experience of that necessity, which is the mother of in-\\nvention, wife and husband joined hand to hand to work out under the green arches\\nof tlie wilderness the true beginnings of Macomb County. To the pioneer mothers\\nof Macomb honor belongs. The many who are gone to their rest left a memory to\\nhonor treat the living mothers well and tenderly.\\nTHE FIRST HOMES OP THE PEOPLE.\\nHow natural to turn our eyes and thoughts back to the log cabin days, and con-\\ntrast them with the homes of the present time. Before us stands the old log cabin:\\nLet us enter. Instinctively the head is uncovered in token of reverence to this\\nrelic of ancestral beginnings and early struggles. To the left is the deep, wide fire-\\nplace, in whose commodious space a group of children may sit by the fire, and up\\nthrough the chimney you may count the stars while giiostly stories of witches and\\ngiants, and still more thrilling stories of Indians and wild beasts are whisperingly\\ntold, and shudderingly heard. On the great crane hang the old tea-kettle and the\\ngreat iron pot. The huge shovel and tongs stand sentinel in either corner while\\nthe great andirons patiently wait for the huge back log. Over the fire-place hangs\\nthe trusty rifle on the right side of the hearth stands the spinning wheel while\\nin the farther end of the room is the loom looming up with a dignity peculiarly its\\nown. Strings of drying apples and poles of drying pum])kins are overhead. Oppo-\\nsite the door by which you enter stands a huge deal table by its side the dresser,\\nwith pewter plates and shining delf catching and reflecting the fire-place flame, as\\nshields of armies do the sunshine. From the corner of its shelves coyly peep out\\nthe relics of former china. In a curtained corner, and hid from casual sight, we\\nfind the mother s bed and under it the trundle-bed, while near them a ladder indi-\\ncates a garret where the older children sleep. To the left of the fire-place, and in\\nthe corner opposite, the spinning wheel forms the mother s work-stand; upon it lies\\nthe Holy Bible, evidently much used its family record telling of parents and friends\\na long way off, and telling too of children\\nScattered like roses in bloom\\nSome at tlie bridal, and some in the tomb.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0266.jp2"}, "267": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHer spectacles as if just used are inserted between the leaves of her Bible, and tell\\nof her purpose to return to its comforts when cares permit and duty is done. A\\nstool, a bench, well notched, and whittled, and carved, and a few chairs complete\\nthe furniture of the room all these articles stand on a coarse, but well scoured floor.\\nLet us for a moment watch the city visitors to this humble cabin. The city bride,\\ninnocent, thoughtless, and ignorant of labor and care, asks her city-bred husband\\nPray what savage has set this up? Honestly confessing his ignorance, he replies,\\nI do not know. Then see the couple on whom age sets, fiostly but kindly.\\nFirst as they enter, they give a rapid glance about the cabin home, and then a mu-\\ntual glance of eye to eye. Why do tears start and fill their eyes Why do lips\\nquiver There are many who know why but who, that has not learned in the\\nschool of experience the full meaning of all these symbols of trials and privations, of\\nloneliness and danger, can comprehend the story they tell to tlie pioneer? Within\\nthis chinked and mud-daubed caljin, we read the first pages of our history, and as\\nwe retire through its low doorway, and note the heavy battened door with its wooden\\nhinges, and its welcoming latch-string, is it strange that the outside scenes would\\nseem to be but a dream. The cabin and the palace standing side by side in vivid\\ncontrast, tell the story of the people s progress they are history and prophecy\\nin one.\\nTHE KEG OF GOLD.\\nHe looked for gold in the streets, and found none! He searched the alleys of the\\ncity for silver and found not a groat! Thus it was with those who searched for\\na Ke(i of Grold, near wliere now is the railroad bridge, in olden as well as modern\\ntimes. It is related, that about the years 1810-1.3, the paymaster of the British\\ngarrisons along the lakes, left Detroit, en route to the Indian villages, then in the\\nvicinity of Mount Clemens, to distribute the price of American scalps among the\\ntribes. The old trail was by the river ford in the immediate vicinity of the pres-\\nent railroad bridge and the Morass House. The river was swollen at the time, so\\nthat it was necessary to requisition a canoe for the transfer of the officer and his\\ngolden charge to the left bank of the river. This resulted in the capsizing of the\\nbirchen craft, in the drowning of the officer, and the loss of the l:eg of gold. Of\\ncourse a search was at once instituted for this token of wealth but the searchers\\nare said to have failed to find it. In more recent years a quantity of metal, said\\nto be lead of a peculiarly hard quality, was found which would lead one to sup-\\npose that the real paymaster stayed at Detroit, clothed some unfortunate private in\\nan officer s uniform, and dispatched him on a trial trip, with this keg of little value,\\njust to learn what would be his own fate were he to venture into the wilderness with\\nthe golden treasure. He learned it, aud it is said that British blood-money was\\never afterwards paid at Maiden.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0267.jp2"}, "268": {"fulltext": "262 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTBHE RECLUSE OF THE MARSH.\\nIt is well known that north and west of the light-house, above the ruins of the\\nancient city of Belvidere, stretches a vast muskeg, bordering on the lake, and fringed\\nall round with a deep and lovely forest. This marsh is the home of the wild-duck,\\nthe musk-rat, and the wild-goose during the winter and spring seasons, and of the\\nrice-feeding black-bii d during the summer. It seems like the last of places, man\\nwould select for a dwelling place its flat and uninviting landscape wearying the eye\\nwith its monotony evei-y season; while, in winter the freezing breeze of the ice\\nencumbered lake comes sweeping across it with an Arctic breath that makes the\\nbones ache, and the human frame tremble. In such a place the relies of a shanty\\ncould be seen the timbers covered with earth and mould, and the broken or pul-\\nverized clay-mortar of the chimne} or fire-place scattered round. Here, it is related,\\ndwelt the recluse of the marsh, a solemn, solitary man, whose life seemed centred\\nin one single thought, even as it was passed in that solitary wilderness. What a\\ntale might be told of his reasons for this mode of life what sad or romantic disap-\\npointments that sickened him of life s pleasures Whatever his story may have\\nbeen, all that remains is a little mound of earth, raised by the action of time and\\nthe decay of vegetable mould over the hearth, where the sad man brooded away so\\nmany years of his life. The name of the solitary man the recluse of the marsh,\\nwas Tuckar.\\nA mother-in-law s JOURNEY TO THE HURON.\\nIn the fall of 1827 Judge Bunce s wife s mother advised his departure from her\\nhome in the Empire State for Detroit, en route to the Huron. The Judge met the\\nold lady at Detroit, and there hired a Frenchman to take them to the mouth of the\\nHuron in his cart. At the latter point he hired another Frenchman to take them\\nin his canoe via the Snibora channel to Mons. Chortier s dwelling. This canoe\\nnavigator said he knew the route well, yet he missed the Snibora and was com-\\npletely at sea. The sky became overcast, wind and wave arose, they began to ship\\nwater, the guide became bewildered, and the Judge told him to give up the paddle\\nand the stern of the canoe. He refused, saying, spaddlemy own canoe. The\\nJudge repeated his order to give up the paddle, take his hat, and pour out the\\nwater. The Frenchman ultimately complied, the Judge took the paddle, and after\\na desperate struggle with the storm, beached the frail bark. They were saved.\\nDETROIT TO MT. CLEMENS.\\nIn the spring of 1819, while in Detroit, Judge Bunce hired a man by the name\\nof Jackman, and started on horseback for his St. Clair home. The lake was nearly\\nfree of ice but some remained in the bogs. At the mouth of Clinton River he\\nmade inquiries as to the soundness of the ice across the bay to Salt River, and was", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0268.jp2"}, "269": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntold that an Indian had just come down on the ice, and he hired hira to go back\\nwith them as their pilot. They found the ice firm enough to within half a mile of\\nthe shore, when looking back they saw their Indian in full run for the Clinton\\nRiver. This admonished them that something was wrong or the Indian would not\\nhave deserted without his pay. They soon found that the field of ice which they\\nwere on had loosened itself from the shore and was floating out into the lake. The\\nJudge sounded the depth of the water with his rifle and found it three feet then\\njumping his horse into the water mounted him, taking Jackman on behind, and af-\\nter fording about a quarter of a mile, reached the shore in safety. Found a French-\\nman cutting wood for a man in Mt. Clemens, and stayed with him over night. He\\ngave them corn soup for supper and breakfast. When asked in the morning what\\nhis soup was made of, he said he had shot a wild goose a few days before, and with\\nthe entrails had made this soup. They were in the same predicament with the\\nman who, in swallowing a raw egg, heard the chicken peep, and exclaimed, one\\nminute too late.\\nIn the year 1818, Judge Bunce had occasion to visit Mt. Clemens from Detroit\\ntwice. Once he met a large, white-faced bear, but the bear did not molest the\\nJudge, nor the Judge the bear.\\nPORTUTSTATE HUNTERS.\\nIn the early days of our county, pests in the form of beasts of prey abounded,\\na source of annoyance and vexation to the settlers. For the destruction of such\\npests bounty was offered by the State, county, and still farther by some of the\\ntownships. These combined bounties, in the case of wolves, made the sum large\\nenough to call forth skill and energy in the hunting craft. Over fifty years ago\\nColatinus Day, an old settler of Bruce, set a trap with the intent of catching a fox.\\nOn looking for the trap next morning he saw that a wolf had been entrapped and\\ncarried it off. He pursued the animal s trail over the snow. He was joined by\\nJesse Bishop, Lyman Bishop, another neighbor, and the latter s dog. About three\\nmiles north of Bishop s house, while passing a tamarack swamp, a bear with two\\ncubs appeared. As she passed them, Mr. Day, who had a gun, fired without even\\ntaking aim, and hit the animal, and as the dogs sprang upon her at that moment,\\nshe was captured with the cubs. The hunters divested Mrs. Bruin of her furs,\\nand wrapping up the little ones in the skin, sought a neighbor s house for dinner.\\nThere they left the cubs. Returning to the trail, they followed it about two miles\\nfarther, when they discovered that the wolf with the trap had entered a hollow\\nbass-wood tree, and made her home far away up in the trunk. The men could not\\nreach up to her location, the dog could not pull her out at length one of the men\\ncut a sapling with a hook upon it. With this instrument he entered the tree, and\\nf", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0269.jp2"}, "270": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncreeping upwards hooked the trap. This done he called upon his comrades to pull;\\nthey in turn tugged at the first hunter s feet, and together they succeeded in draw-\\ning forth the trap. There was nothing to do until one of the party procured an axe.\\nThen a hole was cut in the log but they must not kill her there, as they were in\\nBerlin Township, St. Clair County, in neither of which was a bounty offered. By\\ngood management the hunters captured the wolf alive, when they bound her head\\nwith bark thongs, tied her to a pole and started for Macomb County, town of Bruce,\\nbut she would not lead. They tried to drag her, but that was too hard work. They\\ntied her feet together and took turns in carrying her to the house where they left\\nthe bear skin. Here they found a team going south near the line of Bruce. After\\nreaching this township the wolf died the men proceeded home with the two skins\\nand the cubs. One of the cubs crawled into the fire that night and was burned to\\ndeath the other lived to mature bearhood, and died of too much zeal in wrestling\\nan old man brained him with a poker, because he persisted in his favorite amuse-\\nment before the old man had dressed himself. The hunt resulted in bringing them\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2fl6, together with the fun.\\nDEEB HUNTING.\\nIn early times, a hunter of Macomb County set out one day on a deer-hunting\\nexpedition, accompanied by a large dog, which had not been trained for the chase.\\nIn order to check the animal s impetuosity after game, he tied a cord to the dog s\\nneck, fastening the other end round his own waist, so that in his tour of the woods the\\ndog would quietly follow. As they were passing through a clearing, a bear sprang\\nfrom behind a log and offered fight. The dog, frightened almost to death, started on\\nretreat, dragging the hunter after him. The bear followed them, and in a battle\\nbetween the bear and dog the old man was deprived of his hunting clothes.\\nDuring the struggle Mr. Warner contrived to unloose the rope, when the dog\\ndeparted, leaving his master to continue the battle with the bear. Bruin observing\\nthe dog in his flight, left the hunter and pursued the dog. The dog beheld his\\npursuer and redoubled his pace, with the result of reaching the homestead just in\\ntime to escape the anger of the bear. The hunter made a detour, and reached\\nhome satisfied that his battle with the bear would have proved his last, had not the\\ndog attracted the animal.\\nHarrington s coon hunting.\\nAbout the year 1840 Alfred Harrington went forth coon hunting. Having\\nreached the coon habitation he had no difficulty in finding an object for his aim.\\nHe fired at a coon, but the charge had scarcely gone on its message, when he dis-\\ncovered his dog making sundry cowardly demonstrations. Looking forward, he\\nbeheld a bear rushing on the dog, which useful animal took up a position between", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0270.jp2"}, "271": {"fulltext": "l^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe hunter s feet. The bear came on, however, when Harrington clubbed the gun,\\nand entered the arena with Bruin. The hunter was evidently succeeding in the\\ncontest, when the bear considered it better to retreat. This retreat he carried out\\nin a most precise manner, though the hunter pursued him for over sixty rods.\\nBUNCE AND O KEEFE.\\nCounsellor O Keefe and Judge Bunce were returning from Mount Clemens in\\nthe spring of 1826, when, near where New Baltimore now stands, they were over-\\ntaken by a blinding snow storm. It was near sundown, and they could neither see\\nland nor prairie. They steered for Swan Creek, hoping to reach the wigwam of\\nShommenegoblin before night, but unfortunately brought up at the open water, in\\nthe nortli c.iannel, far out in the lake. They followed up the channel, and when\\nyet a half-mile from the shore, broke through the ice in three feet of water. The\\nhorse and judge succeeded in climbing on to the ice, but O Keefe was so benumbed\\nwith cold that lie remained in the train. After one more little break thej came to\\nthe mud, and wallowed through that several rods before tliey found solid ice on the\\nprairie. They reached old Capt. Pierre s at two o clock in the morning, thoroughly\\nwet and weary. Capt. Pierre then lived two miles below Mons. Chortier, and\\nchose that location whenever he came from Canada for the purpose of fishing.\\nParker s bear experiences.\\nWliile dining at the old homestead with his family, a terrible complaint was\\nlieard to arise from the habitants of the l\\\\og-pen. Each member of the family ran\\nto the rescue, each armed with a club. On arriving at the pen, they found that\\na huge bear had seized on one of the liogs, and was in the act of carrying him off\\nwhen the Parkers attacked the bear in turn, and forced him to relinquish his pre}^\\nThey did not succeed in capturing him, however but for years after the event tlie\\nhog, whose rescue was so timeljs never ventured to lift her nose from the ground.\\nDR. GLEESON AND THE REPTILE.\\nAmong the early physicians of the county was Dr. Gleeson, a man of large\\npractice in the northern districts of Macomb, and one very favorably known to the\\npeople. In those early days the physician seldom or never appeared on a vehicle, his\\nusual means of travel being a horse, which just knew enough to proceed cautiously\\nalong the trails of the land. That horse was too thickskinned to understand what\\na Michigan rattlesnake or Massassauga really was, and so he was free to proceed at\\nhis leisure. The reptiles seemed to know this horse well, and after repeated assaults\\non him gave up the business, determining, as it were, to direct their attacks against\\nthe medical man. This programme was evidently adopted about the year 18o9, for\\nthe doctor experienced a few rare adventures during that year. Riding along the", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0271.jp2"}, "272": {"fulltext": ".t.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntrail to Armada one day he thought that a bush had caught in his stirrup. Stoop-\\ning to extricate himself, he saw a large snake enfanged, and on further examination\\nwas pleased to learn that the poisonous reptile had only reached the pants at tlie\\nheel of tlie boot, and had therefore been unable to inflict the wound which he medi-\\ntated. It is unnecessary to state that the doctor directed his efforts so as to insure\\nthe destruction of one Massassauga of the Michigan tribe.\\nDEER HUNTING MADE EASY.\\nAn incident of pioneer life witnessed by Mrs. Julia Manley when a small child,\\nis thus related. In the year following their removal from New York to tlie town-\\nship of Stielby, her father getting up one morning in warm weather opened the door\\nbefore putting on any clothing, and what should he behold but five deer, about\\nfifteen or twenty rods distant, one of them a splendid buck. He stepped back, took\\nhis rifle, and noiselessly passing out, leveled his trusty piece and brought down the\\ncoveted leader. In order to be sure of his game (the barrel of pork brought witli\\nthem being all gone) he dropped his gun, called on his helpmate to bring tlie butcher\\nknife, and then made all possible speed for his victim. He seized the deer in his\\nstruggles, and the knife being speedily at hand he at once made surety doubly\\nsure. When the blood was sufficiently passed out, they took the animal by the\\nhorns and hauled the carcass to the house. Not until the little drama was over did\\nthey stop to think that neither of the trio (the little girl being along and seeing\\nthe whole affair) had on any article of clothing except the single innermost garment.\\nREMINISCENCES OF THE BAILEY SETTLEMENT.\\nOwing to the notoriety which the Hoxies won wherever they effected a settle-\\nment, that portion of Macomb, which should be named after the first permanent\\nsettler was called the Eoxie Settlement. Ashael Bailey had merely made himself a\\nhome in tlie wilderness, when the Hoxies became his neighbors. A short time had\\nelapsed, and other spirits of a kindred character came among them, one of whom was\\na bold and desperate man. One Sunday morning as Ashael Bailey essayed to act the\\nnurse for his only little daughter, while Mrs. Bailey was engaged in preparing\\nbreakfast, the door was suddenly opened, and a stranger entered. This rough\\nvisitor seemed to be enraged he appeared to be a creature of whom violent gesture\\nand appalling blasphemy were the constituent parts. Mr. Bailey did not pay any\\nattention to the white savage, but on the contrary paid more attention to his little\\ngirl. This policy he pursued until his visitor became calm. This new terror of\\nthe settlement stopped as suddenly as he began, and resuming his coat, said, Mr.\\nBailey you are not the man you have been represented to be. I was told if I came\\nhere and abused you, you would fight me. This said, the stranger walked off. Sub-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0272.jp2"}, "273": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsequently, it transpired that tliis would-lte Hector, Hiram Jennings by name, was here\\nwith the intention of engaging in counterfeiting. Tlie Hoxies represented this as a\\nfine retired place for tiie business, and they said. There is Ijut one man tliere tliat\\nwill give us any trouble, and you can frighten him, no doubt. This was done\\nwith what success has been i-elated. Mr. Bailey, when told the purport of that\\nstrange visit, said he would expose them to Gov. Cass. Jennings was enraged at\\nthe Hoxies for misrepresenting Mr. Bailey, and exposed the whole plan he was a\\nbold, desperate man apparently well educated and physically well developed\\nhis penmansliip was like an impression from engraved jjlate. He remained at this\\nplace until he wrought, in a measure, his sweet revenge. Providence frustrated\\nhis most diabolical attempt on Mr. J^tailey s life, through the faithful kindness of\\nFreeborn Healey, a good man and an excellent neighbor, living a long mile south,\\nwho came late one Saturday night to reveal to Bailey the design of Jennings to\\nmurder him. The plan of the counterfeiter was to lie in wait in the cedar swamp,\\nwhere Bailey had a quantity of rails, which he intended to commence drawing out\\non Monday morning as he entered the swamp Jennings would shoot him. Healey\\nbesought his neighbor Bailey not to go, but he was loth to consent at last Mrs.\\nBailej^ said to Healey, Do not fear, if he goes I shall go, so he went home sat-\\nisfied with his mission. Mr. Healey is ever remembered with gratitude for this\\nkind act.\\nLater, in a very friendly mood, Jennings told Mr. Bailey this I watched for\\nyou to come all that Monday morning, as I laid in wait in yoar cedar swamp, and\\nhad you come, I should have sliot you dead, and I think, added he, I am glad\\nyou did not go. He afterward stole Mr. Bailey s only horse, left the country, and\\neveryone drew a breath of relief.\\nAn incident of an amusing character, certainly of a more social one, is thus\\nrelated Bailey s eldest daughter, then about three or four years old, was an object\\nof interest to an Indian mother. Her little boy, Neianquette, often came with her\\nto the Bailey homestead, and one day she, in a most solemn manner, betrothed liim\\nto Prudence, and made him give her beads and moccasins. After that he often\\ngave her presents. Mrs. Bailey did not like to refuse tliem, fearing the Indians\\nwould be angry yet they watched their child carefully lest the Indians might not\\nbe as friendly as they seemed, and would carry her off. In time the visits of tiie\\nIndian mother and her boy ceased, and they heard nothing more of them.\\nReference has been previously made to the trust the Indians reposed in Mn\\nand Mrs. Bailey. In the following incident, related by Mrs. Bailey, the fact is\\nportrayed more fully The chief of the tribe at this time was Macompte he came\\nto their house one winter s day with a quantity of jerked venison, in packs, asking\\npermission to leave it in their care, with especial injunctions not to permit the In-\\ny", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0273.jp2"}, "274": {"fulltext": "A J^\\n208 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ndians to have it if he died before the time to plant corn, his women, who were\\nwith him, would come for the packs. Bailey showed him where he could place\\nthe provisions in the upper room of the house. Then Macompte knelt and prayed\\nover his venison, making the sign of the cross. They said their farewells, and\\nwent away. The following spring the squaws came for the venison. Macompte\\nwas dead. The younger squaw cried bitterly her grief was most pathetic the\\nelder only laughed at her that laugh was nearly as affecting, but it told its own\\nstory.\\nTHE DEER OF PKOVIDENCE.\\nDuring the trying year of the Michigan Narrows, tiie people who settled in the\\nnorthwest part of Armada, suffered in common with the immigrants of that time\\nlocated throiigliout Michigan. Ira Phillips with his family, then resided near the\\nDay Homestead in Armada Township. The provisions of the settlers were almost\\nconsumed before any definite preparations were made to replenish their stores, so\\nthat many of them were driven to experience most terrible anxieties, if not actual\\nwant. At length the worst fears of the people were realized. There was notliing\\nto feed the many hungry mouths, except that which a small piece of ripening\\nwheat on the Taylor farm jjromised. The settlers watched this field become\\ngolden under the summer sun but the necessity of the time prompted them to\\noutdo nature herself; and so they cut down the semi-ripened wheat, let it hay in\\nswaths, and turning it day after day before the sun, succeeded in drying the grain.\\nThis much accomplislied the wheat was thrashed, and the grain distributed among\\nthe waiting neighbors. One of the farmers loaded his wagon with the grist sacks\\nof the people, and went forth to the mill at Stoney Creek, via the blazed trail,\\nexpecting to return on Friday night, or at furthest on Saturday morning. An\\naccident, however, set all his plans at nought. Mrs. Ira Phillips, who relates the\\nincident, states that the messenger was exjjected to return by Friday night, or\\nSaturday morning at the farthest. Friday niglit came, yet no tidings of him was\\nheard. All through the following Saturday anxious eyes looked forward along\\nthe trail anxious ears listened for the rumbling noise of the pioneer wagon. Tlie\\nlast morsel of food was eaten, his arrival alone could dissipate the darkening cloud\\nwhich hung over the people, could avert the horrors of starvation. But yet no\\ntidings of him who went to mill were heard. When the sun arose on the Sabbath\\nmorning, Mrs. Phillips arranged her house as usual, then lapsed into that silent\\nmood which precedes despair. She took a seat before the open door, where she\\nwas soon joined by her two little boys, each clamoring for something to eat. The\\nwoman wept she thought to bury her face in her hands, and thus hide her\\nsorrows from the youths, but the trickling tears told their young hearts that\\nmother s heart was bowed with anguish, that fears for her little ones were upper-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0274.jp2"}, "275": {"fulltext": ",L\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nmost in her mind. The occasion was full of instruction the boys ceased repining,\\nand played, as was their wont under brighter circumstances, but their merry gambols\\nappeared rather artful than natural. The parents saw and noted all this, and\\nfelt doubly sorrowful. At this moment, when the woman s heart beat slowest, she\\nsummoned courage to look forth into the forest, when to her joy she beheld a deer\\nstanding quietly opposite the open door. She turned to her husband, saying in a\\nsubdued tone, Ira look The man raised his weary V)ody from the chair, took\\ndown the fowling piece from its place, fired, and the most beautiful of forest\\nanimals lay dead in his track. This appearance of the deer at that moment, and\\nthe ease with which the hunter killed him, seemed to partake of some supernatural\\ncharacter. Providence directed the proceedings, and loaned a new spirit to the\\npioneer parents and their little ones. Later in the day the messenger returned\\nfrom the mill with the grist the darkest hour was with the past, and where\\ngaunt famine threatened on the morning of that Sabbath, peace and plenty shed\\ntheir rays in the evening. The story was related to the writer by E. F. Sibley, of\\nArmada.\\nTHE POLITICAL TURN-COAT.\\nDuring the campaign of 1844, James Parker was expected to vote the Free\\nSoil ticket in the local elections. He promised James Thurston to vote in accord-\\nance with iiis wishes, wliich were decidedly those of James G Birney, the Presi-\\ndential candidate. On the day of election, Parker voted for Henry Clay, contrary\\nto the expectations of his friends. On returning to his home that night, one of\\nhis sons got hold of his coat, turned it completely, and then placed it on the hook\\nwhere the old man was accustomed to liaug it. Next morning the owner put on\\nthis coat hurriedly, and went to work. After a little time he noticed the change,\\nand, asking his family what was the matter, was informed that he came home in\\nthat style from Romeo the night previous, and that he must have his coat turned\\nduring the election. The old man saw the point, very j^Iainly. Shortly after this\\na poem appeared on the subject from the pen of Joseph Thurston, each stanza of\\nwhich ended with the telling line, When he got home his coat was turned.\\ninwood s bear hunting.\\nIt is related of Uncle William Inwood, that on one occasion, while traveling\\nthrough the wilderness accompanied by a few neighbors, he roused a bear fi om her\\nlair. The animal had two cubs in charge, and was not at all disposed to seek a\\nquarrel with her enemies so to Inwood s great relief slie sought refuge in a large\\ntree and remained there surveying the new settlers of her old domain, determined\\nonly to guard her cubs. After a little while this old settler and his friends became\\nsufficiently cool to take in the situation. The party was unprovided with a gun", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0275.jp2"}, "276": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nbut to meet this want one of them ran toward his home with the object of procuring\\none. On his way he shouted vociferously, and succeeded in getting out all the lai ge\\nand small boys of the settlement. They left him to look after the gun, and were\\nsoon at the scene of action. Tiiere they found Mr. Inwood, the bear, and Mr. In-\\nwood s comrades. The big boy arrived with the gun. Uncle Inwood took the\\nresponsibility of charging the destructive weapon but in his hurry beat down the\\nbullet first, and then learned for the first time that there was no powder. He des-\\npatched the big boy for powder the messenger was faithful the powder was\\nbrought, a charge was placed in the gun, and everything made ready for an assault\\non the position lield by the bear. Mr. Inwood took deliberate aim, pulled the trig-\\nger; and wondered why the animal didn t go off. He forgot all about the first\\nbullet. However on being reminded of the fact that he had hitherto beaten a\\nbullet into the rifle, he cast the piece away as useless, and prepared to i-eturn to his\\nhome. Not yet. Uncle Inwood, said one of the boys, you were saying just\\nawhile ago if the powder was not brought quickly you would climb into the tree and\\nhave a tustle with the bear jjourself. Now Uncle Inwood, said another, you\\nmust carry out your promise. You said if the boy didn t come quickly with the\\npowder, you would climb into the tree and knock the bear down. Mr. Inwood\\ncould not tolerate the taunting of the Washington boys any longer, so he began to\\nascend the tree. In a little while he approached Bruin. The latter growled, just\\nallowed Uncle Inwood to see his teeth, and in another little while the gallant\\nforester began to descend that tree with lightning rapidity. On reaching firm earth\\nhe saw the boys make sundry grimaces. Why, said one of them, I thought\\nyou would knuckle down to Bruin. Ah responded Uncle Inwood, I ll go ome\\nfur my hold jacket first. The boys and neighbors saw the joke, and were so occu-\\npied in attentions to him who was retreating in such good order, that they per-\\nmitted Bruin to elope with her cubs unharmed.\\nA BEAR IN BRUCE.\\nA year after the settlement of the Killam family in Bruce, P. C. Killam was\\nengaged on his land near Tremble Mountain, when he saw a large brown bear ap-\\nproaching. The farmer called his dogs, and with the assistance of Harvey Reed\\nsucceeded in treeing the animal. Ira Killam was then sent for the rifle. During\\nhis absence Bruin seemed to understand the designs of his new neighbors, and made\\nan effort to escape, but owing to the steepness of the hill, he was unable to make\\nheadway against the dogs, and less against the continued stoning to which he was\\nsubjected by the men. Three times the king of the Michigan wilderness descended\\nonly to be met by blows and bites, and driven back to his refuge in the tree. The\\nrifle was brought forward at length, and the sufferings of Bruin were ended forever.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0276.jp2"}, "277": {"fulltext": "4 t\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nNOAH WEBSTER AJSfD THE BEAR.\\nIn the year 1826 or there about Noah Webster was living at The Branch as\\nthe place since known as Gray s mill was called and run a saw mill. Mrs. Web-\\nster one day drove a bear up a tree on the flats near the mill and watched him till\\nher husband and some of the neighbors came to her relief. They then built a fire\\nabout the foot of the tree to keep Bruin from coming down upon them too suddenly.\\nWebster had a gun of the flint lock kind and the flint was of no use as it would\\nnot strike fire. But the gun was produced and loaded, and Mr. Webster aimed it\\nat the bear, and when he said ready some one touched it off with a fire-brand.\\nFour or five shots were thus discharged which severely wounded the game but did\\nnot bring him down. Then Mr. Webster ran to the clearing, climbed on a stump\\nand shouted A bear! A bear! The neighbors heard and thought he said\\na fire a fire and that the gun had been firing as an alarm, so tliey ran with\\npails all out of breath to extinguish the flames. Reuben R. Smith came up with\\ntwo pails, and they laughed at him for coming to kill a bear with a pail in each\\nhand but he looked long and sharply up the tree and exclaimed Yes he is up there\\nI can see his tail hanging down! Among the rest who came to put out the fire\\nwas a hunter who brought along his gun and tlie wounded bear was soon brought\\ndown and skinned, and his meat went in chunks around the neighborhood for the\\ncomfort of those who were out of meat. While dressing it they often asked Reuben\\nwhere that part was which he saw hanging down, to which he had little to say.\\nThe country was soon cleared up, and bears, wolves and Indians sought the more\\nunsettled regions, but this little incident is kept in the memories of those still liv-\\ning who participated in it, as a remembrance of the brave days of old.\\npinch s wolf hunting.\\nA hunter named Finch caught a wolf in a trap on what was known as the\\nThurston Fort, and for some reason desired to take him home alive. The wolf was\\nextremely quiet and docile, yet he secured his head and jaws with strips of bark,\\nwinding it over and over again until the animal s head resembled that of a prize\\nfighter after a star engagement. He removed the traps, tied the wolf to a small\\npole, and started for the clearing. When he came in sight of the open fields the\\nwolf refused to be led in this way the bands about his head showed alarming signs\\nof inconstancy, and his teeth began to chatter in a most sociable as well as sugges-\\ntive way. With his eyes fixed on the wolf and pushing on the pole to keep him at\\na respectable distance, the hunter and his captive went round and round, with the\\npole between them, eying each other very suspiciously. At last the bands gave\\nway and the wolf took his leave in the most informal manner.\\n-V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0277.jp2"}, "278": {"fulltext": "HISTORT OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTHE TBAGIC END OP A WOLF.\\nErastus Day, one of the first settlers in the eastern part of Armada, was also\\none of the first to take sheep to that part having a few sheep to increase as his\\ncleared acres increased. He kept them in a stockade, made of palings, close by the\\nbarns but one night he forgot to enclose them in the yard. That night a wolf se-\\nlected three of the best for his own use. Ira Phillips killed this wolf shortly after,\\nand with tlie l)Ounty purchased a silk dress for Mrs. Phillips.\\nAN ORDERLY RETREAT.\\nLuke Fisher, who had settled in the northern part of Bruce, started home\\nfrom Romeo, just at dusk, carrying a piece of meat given by some friend. Think-\\ning he should be waited upon by wolfish company, he halted to cut a stout green\\nstick. Before long he heard the well-known whine in his rear, which announced\\nthe approach of his company, and accelerated his speed. He grasped his stick\\nmore firmly and sped on. The wolves gained rapidly, and were soon so near that he\\ncould hear their steps upon the leaves and the gnash of their teeth. Turning upon\\nthem he would shout and flourish his stick in their faces, thus checking their course,\\nand then turn and press on toward home. He increased his speed, held the meat,\\nand when he reached his cabin-door they were just at his heels. The wolves of\\nthis locality were very small and seldom did any damage save in the most cowardly\\nmanner. A few sheep and now and then a hog would be abducted when it could\\nbe done in a sneakish way, but the human arm and the human voice kept them in\\na wholesome fear.\\nMAKING SUGAR AMONG THE WOLVES.\\nWilliam Baker, who moved into the Townsliip of Ray, in 1828, tapped several\\nhundred maple trees the following spring, and commenced tlie work of sugar-\\nmaking. There soon followed a remarkable flow of sap, and as no help was at\\nhand. Baker, in gathering in the sap by day, and boiling by night, soon became\\nexhausted to such an extent, that he declared he could stand it no longer, as he\\ncould not keep awake, and the sap must go to waste. Mrs. Baker says, I will go\\nand boil one night, and let you sleep. Baker would not consent at first, but at\\nlast said, You may go and boil till midnight if you will take James for comj^any.\\nJames was their son, then five years of age. The woman took the boy and going\\nto the maple forest began operations. James soon fell asleep, when Mrs. Baker\\nlaid him on a blanket beneath a tree and continued the work soon after dark the\\nwolves began to appear about the boiling-place their soft feet could be heard\\npattering upon the leaves their eyes shining in the darkness, and the chatter of\\ntheir teeth sounding upon the still night air. The brave woman kept on her work\\nof replenishing the fires and keeping a sharp eye, lest the ferocious brutes should", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0278.jp2"}, "279": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MAC05IB COUNTY.\\ndart in and seize the sleeping child. To avert this she kept the long-handled dip-\\nper in the boiling sap, ready to sprinkle them with a hot shower-bath, if they\\nshould come too near. This continued for an hour or two when the pack disap-\\npeared and came no more.\\nTHE YELLOW CAT OF RICHMOND.\\nAlex. Beebe, of Richmond, was much annoyed, in the olden time, by a num-\\nber of cats, which were accustomed to assemble round his premises. One night he\\ndetermined to annihilate the whole tribe, and, accordingly armed himself with a\\nrifle. He crept noiselessly towards the cats meeting-place, fired, and returned to\\nhis room with the consolatory information, that he had given the old yellow cat\\nHail Columbia. Next morning Mrs. Beebe went forth to collect the culinary\\nutensils, when to her surprise she found a large hole in the bright brass kettle.\\nAfter a thoughtiul examination, she went into the house, and broached the subject\\nto Alexander, when the following dialogue took place\\n3Irs. B. Look here. Alec. Look at the brass kettle, with these holes in it\\nAlec. How came that kettle all smashed to pieces That kettle cost two\\ndollars\\nMrs. B. You tell I don t know nothing about it\\nAlec. Where did it sit\\nMrs. B. Out in the yard, not far from the house.\\nAlec (Cutely). Did you see anything of the okl yellow cat lying there?\\nMrs. B. No, and I think there has been none lying there.\\nAlec. Then I must have taken that brass kettle for that yellow cat.\\nMrs. B. Of course you must, and you never in the night knew the difference\\nbetween a yellow cat and a brass kettle.\\nIn this manner the yellow cat of Richmond escaped. In this quiet, sincere\\nstyle, the old people of Macomb acknowledged their little errors.\\nTHE BUILDING OP THE SHIP HARRIET.\\nThe following account of the first lake boat built at Mount Clemens, which\\nwas built by Isaac Russ for Christian Clemens in 1820-2, was prepared by Edgar\\nWeeks from facts furnished to him by old settlers. Where stands Mr. Golby s\\npresent residence, stood in those days a log house, and the same remark is true of\\nCzizek s residence. On the road or then open lot, between those log houses, the\\nstocks were put up and the ship was built. After a considerable time spent in\\nbuilding, the boat was ready for the launch, when lo it had never suggested itself\\nto the minds of the builders that it was a long distance to the river, and that there\\nwas a precipitous bank at the foot of that street. Nothing daunted, however,\\nevery man and Indian for miles around, who owned a yoke of oxen or a pony, was", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0279.jp2"}, "280": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsummoned to assist at the launch long ways were constructed, six yoke of oxen\\nand twenty-four horses attached, and the ship moved toward the river. It was\\nimpossible to launch her at the foot of that street, so around the corner of the\\nFlumer store they attempted to go, but alas, the boat slipped off the ways, and was\\nalmost hopelessly stuck in the sand. But this disaster only nerved the spirits of\\nthe builders. With fresh vigor they set to work all the soft-soap tubs of the vil-\\nlage were emptied, and the contents brought into requisition. Again the vessel,\\nafter prodigies of patience and strength had been exhausted, was placed upon\\nher ways; she slipped arouud the corner, the cattle strained and tugged, the men\\ncheered, and the Indians looked on with no little awe. The shij) finally reached\\nthe destined launching place at tlie foot of Market Street the last soft soap of\\nthe village was called into requisition, and the vast hulk glided into the river.\\nInstead of righting and swinging to her place, however, her prow was stuck in the\\nmud at the bottom of the stream. After a little the vessel was got out, however,\\nand with due ceremony was christened the Harriet, in honor of our respected\\ntownswoman, now Mrs. Harriet Lee.\\nThis vessel soon afterwards made a trip up the lakes to Mackinac and the Sault\\nSaint Marie, whereupon a strange adventure befell her and those on board.\\nThe ship was freighted with a number of private troops and officers who were\\naware of the tedious trip before them. -We infer from the sequel some one got\\ndrunk, also extremely careless. At any rate the compass fell overboard and sank\\nto the liottom of the lake The boat was then some fifty miles up Lake Huron.\\nThe captain, McPherson, was a good navigator, but did not dare to risk the voyage\\nwithout a compass. After inducing a passing vessel to hang out a liglit for him at\\nnight and permit him to trail along in its wake, the Harriet was sailed hull down so\\nsoon and left so far in tiie rear, that the captain announced his intention of coming\\nto anchor immediately and going ashore. Spite of protestations this he did. Pro-\\ncuring a pony of some Indians, he started alone, overland through wood and thicket,\\nand came to Detroit, where he obtained another compass. Taking passage in another\\nvessel he rejoined his own, still at anchor in Lake Huron, hoxed his compass in the\\nnautical and actual sense of the term, weighed anchor, and prosecuted his voyage\\nto a successful issue.\\nJACOB A. CRAWFORD AND THE SPECULATOR.\\nShortly after this pioneer located his first eighty acres in Ray Township, and\\nerected his log house thereon, he received a visit from a land speculator. This\\nshark was all business, aud relying upon his own energy was not shy to make\\nknown to Mr. Crawford his business to this district. He asked the pioneer to\\naccompany liim through the lands adjacent, to which the latter consented. He had\\nrr?", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0280.jp2"}, "281": {"fulltext": "ox\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe double object in view of taking the land shark through the lowland or marshes\\non the eighty adjoining his own, so that Mr. Speculator would not covet the little\\nproperty, particularly as it was the settler s desire to acquire it for himself. The\\njourney was accomplished, when, to the surprise of Mr. Crawford and his wife, the\\nman from Detroit stated that he would purchase all the land in the immediate\\nneighborhood including the very acres on which Mr. Crawford had set his thoughts.\\nThe old settler remonstrated Why, Mr. Speculator, said he, you don t intend\\nto buy the next eighty. I want that.\\nOh, that s all right, Mr. Crawford, said the traveler, but you must re-\\nmember the old motto of Uncle Samuel \u00e2\u0096\u00a0first here, first served. This brought a\\ncloud to the settler s face for a moment, which gave place to a look of resignation.\\nConversation grew dull, and the speculator signified his desLre to go to rest. After\\nthe shark retired, Crawford remarked to his wife I ll take an hour s rest, and\\nthen start for Detroit to outwit our visitor. Why, said the woman, that\\nman has a smart pony, and you have only oxen. If he finds you are gone he will\\novertake and outwit you. I ll start to-night on foot and reach the Detroit Land\\nOffice before him, replied the settler.\\nThis resolution made, he took one hour s sleep, rose quietly, and started on\\nfoot for Detroit. He proceeded expeditiously until a point south of Mt. Clemens\\nwas reached, where he sprained his ankle. Unconquered by fatigue and this acci-\\ndent, he cut down two saplings which he used as crutches and pushed forward on\\nhis journey. The next day, while within six miles of Detroit, near a tavern, then\\nlocated on the trail, he saw a horseman coming after him. He knew him to be no\\nother than his friend, the speculator. Entering the forest, he allowed his guest of\\nthe former night to pass, then casting away his crutches he pushed forward to De-\\ntroit, saw that the horseman was in the tavern, and taking an unfrequented path,\\npassed the house unnoticed. The denouement was happy in the extreme. The\\nsettler reached the Land Office, purchased the much prized eighty, together with\\neighty acres more for his cousin, David Crawford, paid the amount claimed, re-\\nceived his certificate, and was in the act of leaving the office, when the speculator\\nentered. After an interchange of salutations, Crawford remarked Mr. Specu-\\nlator, you remember Uncle Samuel s motto first here, first served. The Detroit\\nman remembered it.\\nLEISURE HOURS IN PIONEER TIMES.\\nPublic disputations and random discussions on election days were warmly en-\\ngaged in by the older men sometimes till they became quite personal. Among the\\nyounger ones, feats of physical strength and agility drew the crowds com-\\npetitive running, wi-estling, jumping, etc., were the order of the day, and the vic-\\ntors were held in honor by admiring friends. Such days availed for the transaction", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0281.jp2"}, "282": {"fulltext": "AJ^\u00e2\u0080\u0094 JJ^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof all sorts of business, and superseded the old time fairs of England and our\\ntrades rooms, gold rooms, Ijoards of trade and chambers of commerce. Buying,\\nselling, swapping, and trafficlcing of all sorts were in order. Everybody gave\\nheed to the advantages wliieh township gatherings offered. Bent on having a good\\ntime, the services of good story-tellers were always in requisition, and all sorts of\\nmerriment found place. The story of Squire Tackles and old John Soules affords\\ndemonstration of all this.\\nIt was in the early times when Bruce was yet unnamed and joined with Wash-\\nington, then called the Fourth Town, men were gathered from great distances.\\nThese two men were there and in their respective districts were noted for their\\ninherent aversion to all sorts of physical exertion, a characteristic evident to their\\nfriends and frankly acknowledged by themselves. At length a mirthful discussion\\nsprang up as to which was the lazier of the two. The conflict ended as such\\nmatters frequently do, in betting. But who should determine? It was finally\\nagreed that each should tell his own story, and the one who established himself as\\nthe lazier man, should have the stakes. By lot it fell to Soules to tell his storj\\nfirst. He did it, and did it well. It seemed as though no chance remained for\\nTackles. Tiie crowd awaited his effort in breathless silence. Finally he slowly\\ndrew himself up, in an indolent sitting position, looked languidly and solemnly\\naround upon the gazing crowd, then lifted, witii great effort, one foot upon the\\nother knee, and finally spoke in a lazy, drawling accent, thus I d rather lose the\\nstakes than tell how lazy I am! and again he lapsed into insensibility, while all the\\nwitnesses shouted long and loud and voted him the victor.\\nNUPTIAL FEASTS IN EARLY TIMES.\\nThe festivities attendant on the union of two souls in pioneer days, formed\\na great attraction. There was no distinction of classes, and very little of fortune,\\nwhich led to marriages from the first impressions of that queer idea called love.\\nThe family establishment cost but a little labor nothing more. The festivities\\ngenerally took place at the house of the bride, and to her was given the privilege\\nof selecting the Justice of Peace or clergyman whom she wished to officiate. The\\nwedding engaged the attention of the whole neighborhood. Old and young,\\nwithin a radius of many miles, enjoyed an immense time. On the morning of the\\nwedding day, the groom and his intimate friends assembled at the housej,of ^his\\nfatlier, and after due preparation set out for the home of his girl. This journey\\nwas sometimes made on horseback, and sometimes on the old time carts of the earl}-\\nsettlers. It was always a merry tour, made so by the bottle which cheers for a little\\ntime, and then inebriates. On reaching the house of the bride, the marriage\\nceremony was performed, and then the dinner or supper was served. After this", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0282.jp2"}, "283": {"fulltext": "k.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nmeal, the dancing commenced, which was allowed to continue just so long as anyone\\ndesired to step jauntily about to the music of the disti ict violinist. The figures of\\nthe dance were three or four handed reels, or square sets and jigs. So far the\\nwhole proceedings were, in the language of our modern aesthetic girls, too utterly\\nutter. The commencement was always a square four, followed by what pioneers\\ncalled jigging that is, two of the four would single out for a jig, and their exam-\\nple followed by the remaining couple. The jigs were often characterized by what was\\ncalled the cutting out, that is, when either of the parties became tired of the dance,\\non intimating a desire to retire, his place was supplied by one of the company,\\nwithout interrupting the dance for a moment. In this way the reel was continued\\nuntil the musician himself was exhausted.\\nAbout nine or ten o clock in the evening, a deputation of young ladies\\nabducted the bride, as it were, and placed lier in her little bed. In accomplishing\\nthis they had usually to ascend a ladder from the kitchen to the upper floor. Here\\nin this simple pioneer bridal chamber the young simple-hearted girl was put to bed\\nby her enthusiastic friends. This done a deputation of young men escorted the\\ngroom to the same apartment, and placed him snugly by the side of his bride.\\nMeantime the dance continued. If seats were scarce, which was generally the\\ncase, every young man when not engaged in the dance, was obliged to offer his lap\\nas a seat for one of the girls an offer sure to be accepted. During the night s\\nfestivities spirits were freely used, but seldom to great excess. Tlie infair was\\nheld on the following evening, when the same order of exercise was observed.\\nEVENING VISITS.\\nThe evening visits were matters long to be remembered. The chores of the\\nday performed, it was common for tlie farmer to yoke his cattle, hitch them to a\\nsleigh, and drive the whole family over the snow covered land to the fireside of\\nsome well-known friend many miles distant. Perhaps by agreement several\\nfamilies met, and then were there such chattering of politics, of live stock affairs,\\nof tradings made or prospective, in fact of the past, present and future.\\nThere were all those interesting matters of household care and labor as held\\nthe mothers in breathless, but rapid conversation.\\nThe shying and blushing of the older girls, because some boys, just about as\\nhig were there the nervous pinching of fingers and pulling of coat tails, told\\nplainly that big boys too were ill at ease boys and girls were bashful, blushing\\ncreatures in those olden days. In the back room how the little folks did play blind-\\nman s-buff, how they were joined by their seniors, and how the game went on until\\nsupper was announced at about the hour before midnight. Such setting out of all\\nthe substantials would be a sight to-day. Then came the sauces of all sorts, the\\nV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0283.jp2"}, "284": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\npies and cakes, and cookies, and honey, till all cried enough. Then came the\\ncounter invitations, the good-bys and leave-takings, after every and all approved\\nstyles. This performed the guests started for home to enjoy sleepiness and slight\\nheadaches the next day. Those were good old times. Social life at that day was\\neminently sincere.\\nLUMBERING IN EARLY DAYS.\\nLife in the lumber woods is, perhaps, the most peculiar feature connected with\\nthe lumber trade. Although lumbering operations virtually ceased in Macoml)\\nCounty so early as the pioneer times, it is well to revert in these pages, to that\\nperiod in the county s history, when its forests disappeared befoi-e the shanty-man s\\nax, when the very tree which added grace to the wilderness, was sent forward on\\nits course of utility.\\nThe first party of shanty-men usually went out in November. So soon as frost\\nset in, the men located a site for their shanty, as nearly as possible, in the center of\\nthe lot upon which their winter s labors were to be carried on, always taking care\\nto select a dry knoll in the immediate vicinity of a spring, lake, or brook. Here\\nthey constructed a log-house, and cut a road to the nearest stream on which the\\nlogs were to be floated down. This log-house was sufficiently large to accommo-\\ndate from ten to twenty men. In the center of this rude dwelling a raised fire-\\nplace was built, under the apex of the roof, which apex let out the smoke, and let\\nin the sunlight and the rain. The work of log-cutting began so soon as the road\\nwas completed, and the ground hard enough to haul the logs usually early in\\nDecember and continued until the ice broke up in spring. The choppers began\\nwork at dawn of day, and continued until the sun went down, after which the\\nhardy foresters sped to their log-house, eat a rude and hearty meal, smoked their\\npipes, played euchre, related stories, and sometimes organized a quadrille party\\nthe evening s entertainment continuing until about nine o clock, when all retired to\\nwell-earned sleep. Seldom or never was intoxicating drink introduced, as the\\ntrader was never allowed to bring in whisky, and when smuggled the men had no\\nmoney to pay for it, as their contract was to be paid at the close of their engage-\\nment, the employer supplying food and other necessaries in the interim. The deli-\\ncacies of their table consisted of wild game, which the shanty-men themselves might\\nkill. The morale of the men was equally as good as that of the average rover;\\nthey were very far from being saints yet they possessed many good qualities,\\nwhich compensated for the want of a few. They were gregarious in their habits\\nin cutting trees they went in pairs, and few of them were willing to live in separate\\nhuts or away from the camp. They slept along the sloping side of the log-house\\nwith their heads toward the walls, and their feet toward the great fire, which was\\nkept burning continually. As a rule those sons of the forest dispensed with pray-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0284.jp2"}, "285": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ners and preaching, and scarcely were aware of the Sabbath. A few had books, but\\nthe taste for reading was not by any means general, as their spare time was\\ndevoted to mending clothes, sharpening axes, with the few amusements already\\nreferred to. The men were always healthy and full of animal spirit, seldom\\nrequired medical aid, or needed any of the medicine which the employer provided\\nin cases of illness. With the growth of the industry the condition of the shanty\\nman has much improved. He of to-day is morally superior to him of the past, and\\nphysically his equal.\\nSEASONS OF SICKNESS.\\nAmong the numerous troubles which the pioneers and old settlers of Macomb\\nhad to encounter was the common ague, generated by miasms arising from the low\\nlands along the shore of the lake, and from the decaying vegetable matter in the\\nswales of the interior and along the Reviere aux Hurons. This disease, known also\\nas the chills and fever, formed, as it were, a stumbling-block in the way of progress,\\nand one of the great arguments presented by the traders against the settlement of\\nthe district by the American pioneers. The disease was a terror to the people who\\ndid make a settlement here. In the fall of the year every one was ill every one\\nshook, not hands as now but the very soul seemed to tremble under the effects of\\nthe malady. Respecting neither rich nor poor, it entered summarily into the sys-\\ntem of the settlers, and became part and parcel of their existence all looked pale\\nand jrellow as if frost-bitten. It was not literally contagious but owing to the\\ndiffusion of the terrible miasma, it was virtually a most disagreeable, if not dangei\\nous, epidemic. The noxious exhalations of the lake shore and inland swamps\\ncontinued to be inhaled or aljsorbed from day to day, until the whole body became\\ncharged with it as with electricity, and then the shock came. This shock was a\\nregular shake a terrific shake, with a fixed beginning and ending, coming on each\\nday or alternate day with an appalling regularity. After the shake came the fever,\\nand this last phase of the disease was even more dreaded than the first. It was a\\nburning hot fever lasting for hours. When you had the chill you could not become\\nwarm, and when you had the fever you could not get cool it was simply a change\\nof terrific extremes.\\nTliis disease was despotic in every respect. If a wedding occurred in the\\nfamily circle, it was sure to attack a few, if not all, of those participating in the\\nfestivities. The funeral processionists shook, as they marched to some sequestered\\nspot to bury their dead friend.\\nThe ague common had no respect for Sunday or holidays. Whether the people\\nwere engaged in the saci-ed, profane, or ridiculous, ague came forward to the attack,\\nand generally succeeded in prostrating its victims.\\nAfter the fever subsided you felt as if you were some months in the Confed-\\nw", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0285.jp2"}, "286": {"fulltext": "inSTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nerate hotels, known as Andersonville and Libhy prisons, or as if you came within the\\ninfluence of some wandering planet not killed outright, but so demoralized that\\nlife seemed a burden. A feeling of languor, stupidity, and soreness took possession\\nof the body the soul herself was sad, and the sufferer was driven to ask himself\\nthe question What did God send me here for, anyway?\\nYour back was out of fix, your appetite crazy, your head ached, and your e3 es\\nglared. You did not care a straw for yourself or other people, or even for the dogs,\\nwhich looked on you sympathetically. The sun did not shine as it used to, it\\nlooked too sickly by half, and the moon, bless your soul the sufferer never ven-\\ntured to look at hira but rather wished for the dissolution of himself, the sun,\\nmoon, earth, and stars.\\nDEATH OF AL ANSON CHURCH.\\nEarly in the history of Macomb County a man by the name of Austin Day\\nsettled in the northwest portion of Armada township, and cleared a farm of 125\\nacres of land. He was a man of fair intelligence and steady habits, and for many\\nyears kept his own shantee and had but little intercourse with the neighbors by\\nwhom he was surrounded. In his dealings he soon began to exhibit signs of aberra-\\ntion of mind, which grew into insanity. This waS at first noticeable in his ideas of\\nreligion. He believed that he was surrounded by evil spirits which at times led\\nhim astray, and caused him to seek public confessions by posting by the roadside\\nsuch notices as the following\\nI Austin Day, confess that I have sinned b} again mingling with evil spirits.\\nShow pity Lord oh Lord forgive,\\nLet a repenting rebel live.\\nHe would at times manifest symptoms of a bad temper, especially toward his\\ncattle and horses, and sometimes threatening those with whom he had dealings.\\nLater he became possessed witli the notion that all the State of Michigan, and other\\nStates, had been deeded to him and would call upon different settlers to give up the\\ndeeds which tiiey had stolen, and in many instances warned farmers to remove from\\ntheir homes as he wished to occupy them, before a set date. Impressed with this\\nidea of ownership, he refused to pay his taxes, and allowed his stock to be levied\\nupon and sold by the collector. He also had serious difficulties with persons who\\ndid for him any work, and bills of this kind had to be collected by the aid of law.\\nHis threats at length began to be noticed in the neighborhood, and men began to\\nsay he was not a safe man to be at large. He was often heard to say that he would\\nbe doing God service if he should kill such or such a one. Living about two miles\\noff, was a man named Alanson Church, who made it a part of his business to dig\\nwells for the farmers of the place, and had windlass, tubs, and other tools adapted\\n1) 1^", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0286.jp2"}, "287": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nto tliat purpose. Mr. Day, needing to deepen and restone a well at his house, bor-\\nrowed the tools of Church to do the work, with such help as he could hire. These\\ntools he kept for some weeks, and did not find any one to help him about the work.\\nAt length Church, having begun to dig a well on the adjoining farm of Erastus\\nDay, needed the tools and procured the team and a hired man of Mr. Day, to aid\\nhim in getting them. On reaching the place and applying for the tools, Austin\\nDay refused to give them up, stating that Church owed him a certain amount, and\\nhe was keeping the tools till that should be paid. Hot words followed, and Austin\\nwho had his gun, pointed it at Church and pulled the trigger, but the cap did not\\nexplode. Austin then retired into the house, and Church followed him, saying to\\nthe hired man we must take away his gun. He went to the door and pushed it\\nopen, when Austin met him, having put a new cap, and fired, the ball taking effect\\nin Church s breast, and passing through the lungs. Church staggered but did not\\nfall. The man had run down the road in fright, leaving the team which Austin un-\\nhitched and started after him. Church started after the team, falling and rising\\nagain ever} few rods. The man seeing there was no danger soon returned and\\nhelped Church on the wagon and drove to Erastus Day s where he soon died.\\nAustin at once began to fortify himself in his house and to provide against arrest.\\nTwo constables were procured from Romeo, and after a severe struggle he was\\novercome. During the melee Mr. Eggleston, one of the constables, caught hold of\\nAustin s gun which he held in his hands, and fired it off, the contents unfortunately,\\ntaking effect in the arm of John P. Smith, his comrade, entering at the wrist and\\nplowing its way to the elbow. This mishap came near being disastrous to the two\\nmen, as Day was a heavy and powerful man. He was, however, soon overcome and\\nbound and taken to the county jail. At the next session of court he had his trial)\\nwas pronounced insane and was sent to the New York State Asylum, where he died\\nin 1876. The crime was committed in 1864. Mr. Day was married early in life\\nand had one child. He was a native of New York.\\nA PIONEEK LAWYER.\\nAlex. OTveefe, mentioned among the names of the pioneer lawyers, of Macoml),\\nwas one of these erratic genii who are met at long intervals. He arrived at Detroit\\nabout the year 1819, chuck full of Anglo-Irish law, and still more replete in Celtic\\nwit. From a scrap in possession of the writer, it is learned that he was a man\\npossessing a very liberal education, a tliorough-hred lawyer, and a stranger to tem-\\nperance. His drinking bouts were frequent often continuing for weeks. He be-\\ncame acquainted with Judge Bunce, referred to in the pioneer reminiscences, and\\nthrough the judge s influence was elected Pros. Attorney of St. Clair Co. While\\nvisiting Mr. Bunce, on one occasion, he expressed a wish to represent St. Clair in", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0287.jp2"}, "288": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe Legislative Council. He stated publicly that the judge was favorable to his-\\ncandidature, a statement doubted by the leading men of the county. Shortly after\\nthis O Keefe visited St. Clair, and introduced the object of his visit by saying, that\\nhe had resolved to abstain entirely from drink, and vt^ould make the county his\\nhome. Very few believed the counsellor. Relying upon this reformation, and\\nmy own abilities, I come to offer myself as a candidate to represent vSt. Clair in\\nour Legislative Council, continued O Keefe.\\nVery good, replied one of the persons addressed, I am glad to hear of your\\nproposed reformation, and as to your abilities, no one who has known you or met\\nyou can doubt them. Come and make your home among us for one year, give us\\nproof of your reformation, and there is not the least doubt of obtaining the support\\nof the people. To be candid. Counsellor, I must insist on one year s reformation\\nbefore I can give you my support. O Keefe heard the language of common sense\\nin silence, then grew angry and roared at his friendly advisor, Sir, I wish you to know\\nthat I was educated at two of the best seminaries in England, and I was bred at the\\nIrish Bar, and sir, I can write your governor down. Then there was silence for\\na moment, until James Wolverton remarked, Counsellor, you remind me of the\\ncalf which sucked two cows. Indeed, what of that, sir, responded O Keefe.\\nNothing in particular, said Wolverton, only it is said the more he sucked, the\\nlarger he grew. O Keefe admired the witticism, and then settled down to discuss\\nthe subject calmly, and after going into the merits of Judge Bunce s friendship, wic\\nlawyer said well, boys, I shall cast myself upon the mercy of the Lord. In the\\ncase of the Fort Gratiot murder, O Keefe drew up the bill against the soldier\\ncliarged with the offense. He practiced in the courts of Macomb and St. Clair un-\\ntil the year 1830.\\nCHESTERFIELD IN EARLY DAYS.\\nFabien Jean was one of the earliest settlers along the shore of Lake St. Clair,\\nin the Township of Chesterfield. He settled on the present homestead before the\\nState was admitted into the Union as a State. The road at that time was a mere\\ntrail following the shore from Detroit to Fort Gratiot, through heavy timbered land.\\nMr. Jean s home was open to all, at all hours of the day and night; to this day there\\nare no locks to the doors. White men of redskins were at all times received with\\na cordial welcome. Many are the incidents that pertained to pioneer life in which\\nhe participated, connected with the Indians, as his land joined the Indian Reserva-\\ntion on tlie N. W. On one occasion some twelve or fifteen Indians came to the\\nhouse all more or less under the influence of liquor. They demanded of liim more\\nwliisky. He said no that they had had enough that they were too noisy. The\\nIndians said that they would have it if they had to kill him. He said to them that\\nhe was ready to die, and that they would all die too that the great Lord would", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0288.jp2"}, "289": {"fulltext": "V^\\n:iL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntake care of him, and that the great devil would take them. Taking a brand of\\nfire fiom the chimney, and pointing to a powder keg, saying, This is a keg of pow-\\nder, I will drop the fire into it and it will blow us all up, me to the great Lord, you\\nto the great devil, who will keep you in a great fire they all exclaimed, do not\\ndo it we will go away. So they did.\\nTo show the disadvantages that the pioneer had to contend with, Jean related\\nsome of the trips that had to be made. To obtain groceries and clothing it was nec-\\nessary for the pioneer to go to Pontiac or Detroit. It will be remembered that\\nPontiac was formerly in this county, that at that time a man by the name of Clem-\\nens kept a few articles for sale, at what is now the city of Mt. Clemens; for the\\ntootliache one had to go to Detroit to have it extracted.\\nIn 1842 Mr. Jean died. The funeral procession left the house in canoes, and\\nconve3 ed the corpse to the burying ground on the Clinton River, there being no\\nwagon-road at that time.\\nAnother incident with the Indians, was that about dark eight or ten Indians\\ncame to the house and wanted to stay all night. They were most all intoxicated\\nand Mr. Jean was afraid that they might do some mischief during the night, so he\\nprepared a place for them to sleep on tlie bank of a creek near by, taking care to\\nhave them all lie side by side. After they fell into a deep sleep, he took a cord and\\nfastened all their legs together, so that if one awoke he would wake the rest and\\nmake a noise, which would warn him at the house. All went well until morning\\none on awaking, finding himself fast, commenced to yell. Soon Mr. Jean was at\\nthe scene and told them that it was he that tied them together, that he done it to\\nsave their lives, that he was afraid that some of them might roll or get into the creek\\nwhile intoxicated and get drowned, and the rest could not help. They said that it\\nwas good in him to care for them in that way.\\nHunting and fishing was in its glory in those days. Tlie hunter could get a\\ndeer or two almost any forenoon once in a while a bear and a wolf. They have\\nall receded before the sound of the pioneer s ax.\\nMARRIAGE RECORD OF EARLY DAYS.\\nThe first marriage in the county among the American settlers may be said to\\nbe that of Richard Connor and the Indian captive the daughter of Myers of Mary-\\nland whose father was killed by the savages on the Monongahela River in 1775,\\nand herself with the other children carried into the wilderness of the West. This\\nRichard Connor is supposed to have made a temporary settlement in Macomb so\\nearly as 1781, and shortly after married this child of the Indian camp. For many\\nyears succeeding this event, marriages were as scarce as the white settlers were\\nfew. The record of marriages since the organization of the county shows that", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0289.jp2"}, "290": {"fulltext": "fc\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nmatrimony enjoyed a rare popularity throngliont though at intervals seasons of\\nabsolute dullness prevailed. This was particularly the case in 1836-7-8-9, when\\nthe financial crisis appeared to cast a peculiar gloom over every household, and\\neven quench the fire of love in young and old. In 1840, our boys and girls re-\\ncovered from the fear or cowardice, which the panic years engendered, and hence-\\nforth took courage to make the great venture of life. In many cases drink, ex-\\nti avagance and folly have led to the dissolution of unions that gave high promises.\\nHowever, when the great numbers of marriage contracts which have been faithfully\\ncarried out are compared with the small number of infelicitous marriages, there is\\nevery reason for congratulation on the part of the people.\\nThere are many peculiar, if not ludicrous, reminiscences associated with the\\nmatrimonial affairs of this as well as other counties in Michigan. In olden times\\nmen and women were not so precise in expression as are the people of our day,\\nthey were not cute enough to avoid words and deeds which might afford subject\\nfor gossip to the village wags. High hopes, that burn like stars sublime, wei e sup-\\nposed to possess the heart of every lover, when the moment arrived for him to\\ndeposit a dollar-and-a-half with the county clerk, in payment for a public permit to\\nmarry the girl of his choice. He feels that he is sure of possessing the loveliest of\\nher sex, and that in a few more days earth will not be big enough to contain the\\nhappiness of himself and his fair partner. Sometimes, however, he learns the point\\nof the old French proverb Entre le main et la bouohe souvent se perd la soupe.\\nA young man, who fondly imagined the pinnacle of happiness was about being\\nreached, took out a marriage license on Christmas Day long, long ago. What subse-\\nquently happened, how and why his hopes were shattered, how grief played upon\\nhis heart, and how his life became a burden, are set forth in the following wail,\\nthe untutored eloquence of sorrow\\nTo the County Clerk, Sir I will send you the license that you gave me to\\nget married with and stat that I was not married for this reason, because the girl,\\nwhose name is on the paper went back on me because she could get annother feller\\nhis name send them so that you can give him a license for her but bee\\nsure and get your fee for so doin. No more at present but believe me\\nYours most hart-broken\\nlevi.\\nA score of letters equally ridiculous mark the early times in this county all\\nbearing testimony to broken hearts and false loves.\\nIn this history it would be impracticable to give a full record of matrimonial\\nevents however we will make mention of many of such happy unions effected\\nbetween the date of the county s organization and 1838, arranging the list in the\\norder of time.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0290.jp2"}, "291": {"fulltext": "IIISTOUY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nlil^\\nNiimes of Contracting Parties. Date. Bv Wliom Married.\\nJohn Warren\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mila Freeman. Dec. 31, 1818.. Gideon Gates, J. P.\\nFreeborn Moshier\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary Cooper Oct. 16, 1S18 Gideon Gates, J. P.\\nCyreus A. Chipman\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary Lanson. Sept. 28, 1818 Gideon Gates, J. P.\\nSylvester Fincli\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Almeda Webster..- June 4, 1818 ..Gideon Gates, J. P.\\nA. McDougal\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eliza McGregor.. July 22, l8ig John K. Smith, J. P.\\nCharles Stewart\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eliza Peck 1819. John K. Smith, J. P.\\nJohn Rencillow\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Barbara French Aug. 4, 1819 John K. Smith, J. P.\\nSilas Miller\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Agnes McDonald Dec. 23, 1S19 John K. Smitii, J. P.\\nBaptiste Maure\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Felici Geneau .Jan. 30, 182 1 Ph. Janvier, priest.\\nEzekiel Allen\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Genevieve Russell .Dec. 2, 1S21 John Stockton, J. P.\\nJoseph Geard\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Marie Reine Pettit Nov. 10, 1S21 Ph. Janvier, priest.\\nWilliam Swift\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nancy Stanley Feb. 10, 1822.. John Stockton, J. P.\\nThomas Fowler\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mahaly Mou. Feb. 11, 1S22 John Stockton, J. P.\\nJohn Miller\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harriet Gould... Jan. 9, 1S24 John Stockton, J. P.\\nAlfred Ashley Euphemia Atwood Jan. 24, 1S25 Henry Closson, J. P.\\nBaptiste Blait\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Felice Sene Feb. 14, 1825 L. Dejean, priest.\\nHyacmthe Charthier\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Monique Boyd Feb. 8, 1825.. L. Dejean, priest.\\nTabor Willcox\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lucy P. Torrence .May 2, 1825 John Stockton, J. P.\\nHiram Atwood Fanny Maria Cook May 30, 1825 Henry Closson, J. P.\\nSilas Halsey\u00e2\u0080\u0094 LucyCady.. May i, 1825 ..Henry Closson, J. P.\\nHorace H. Cady Susanna Connor June 9, 1825 John Stockton, J. P.\\nByrum Guerin\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary Rowe ...June 10, 1825 ...John Stockton, J. P.\\nJean B.tpliste Maure Eleanor Thebeau April 18, 1825 L. Dejean, priest.\\nSmith H. Yancey\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary Connor. July ig, 1S25 Henry Closson, J. P.\\nJohnF. Cronk\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary McCall Sept. 5, 1825 ..Elisha Harrington, J. P.\\nZephaniah Cambell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Betsey Smith Feb. 19, 1S27 Joseph Lester, J. P.\\nAmasa Messenger\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sarah Squires ..March ii, 1S27. Joseph Lester, J. P.\\nRichard Butler\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abigail Hayes.. Aug. I, 1827 John James, preacher.\\nGeorge Lee\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harriet Clemens .March 11, 1828 G. H. Caston, preacher.\\nAle.-cander Arnold\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wealthy Nichols ..Jan. 19, 1828... William Runnells, preacher.\\nDaniel B. Nichols Electa Lockwood. ..Feb. 15, 1828 .William Runnells. preacher.\\nWashburne Blackmore- Lucy Hiskins. Dec. 25, 1827... James C. Edgerley, J. P.\\nSyl. F. .\\\\twood\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eliza Hill Feb. 22, 1829.- James C. Edgerley, J. P.\\nDarius Lampson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sarah Ann Connor April i, 1829 G. H. Caston, preacher,\\nJohn Price\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rosannah Chandler April 19, 1829 Noah Webster, J. P.\\nGerman Burges\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Victoire Joilett Sept. 29, 1829 Harvey Cook, J. P.\\nJoseph La Force Archange Trombley... Oct. 30, 1S29 Robert P. Lewis, J. P.\\nValorous Maynard Martha Ru,s Nov. 26, 1829 ..James C. Edgerley, J. P.\\nChauncy G. Cady\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Catherine M. Gerty Nov. 12. 1829. flarvey Cook, J. P.\\nGeorge Price\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Loreno Scott Dec. 27, 1829 Solomon Wales, J. P.\\nAlfred Bachellor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ladama Messenger. ...Jan. 21, 1830 ..Almon Mack, J. P.\\nLuman Squiers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rebecca Arnold Jan. 21, 1S30 Almon Mack, J. P.\\nMilton H. Webster\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eliza Sessions. Jan. 8, 1S30 Noah Webster, J. P.\\nThomas Willett\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fanny Debater ...Jan. 2, 1S30 .Ezekiel Allen, J. P.\\nHiram Willcox Jerusha Andrus Feb. 10, 1830. ..Curtiss Goodard, P. E.\\nRev. William T. Snow Electa Chamberlin Feb. 17, 1830 Curtiss Goodard, P. E.\\nEthan Squiers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lovina Huntley Feb. 23, 1830 A. Mack, J. P.\\nEzra B. Throop\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harriet Finch May 8, 1825 Gideon Gates, J. P.\\nAlvin Nye Lydia Price ...Jan. 29, 1826 Gideon Gates, J. P.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0291.jp2"}, "292": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nNames of Contracting Parties. Date. By Whom Married.\\nWilliam Nicholas Betsy Sammons Sept. 17, 1826 Gideon Gates, J. P.\\nRichard Elliott Mary A. Hovey Jan. 14, i827.._ Gideon Gates, J. P.\\nJames Starkweather Roxey Lesley Sept. 16. 1827 Gideon Gates, J. P.\\nBenjamin Kittredge\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ester Moore. Jan. 24, 1827 Gideon Gates, J. P.\\nJonathan Johnson Mary B. Marshall July 20, 1828 Harvey Cook, J. P.\\nCharles Mather Abigail Haskins March i, 1830 Job C. Smith, J. P.\\nJosiah A. Hamblin Mary Ann King _ June 28, 1830 Noah Webster, J. P.\\nWilliam Canfield Ann Clemens. May 13, 1830 Azra Brown, preacher.\\nDavid Bolten Lydia Inman April 21, 1830 John Norton, preacher.\\nSeymour Arnold Lydia Townsend ..April 18, 1830 John Norton, preacher.\\nJohn D. Holland Clarissa Hopkins Dec. 31, 182S Smith Weeks, preacher.\\nAlva Arnold Louisa Ruby..- June 3, 1S30 A. Mack, J. P.\\nEbenezer D. Mather Lucy P. Willcox June 13, 1830 Job C. Smith. J. P.\\nJonas G. Cook\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eliza Osgood Aug. iS, 1831 Job C. Smith, J. P.\\nHiram Squires Matilda Fowler Nov. 25, 1830 ._ Solomon Wales, J. P.\\nLevi F. Tuttle\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Susan Davis _.Mar. 28, 1831 Harvey Cook, J. P.\\nSamuel H. Giles\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harriet Covell April 6, 1831 Richard Butler, J. P.\\nAlex. Atkins Eliza D. Lewis.. June 29, 183 1 Richard Butler, J. P.\\nElisha Webster Harriet Thompson Jan. 26, 183 1 Noah Webster, J. P.\\nApollo A. Fuller Mary Howard Feb. 6, 183 1 Noah Webster, J. P.\\nElishaRice Clarissa Haskins Jan. 16, 1831 Harvey Cook, J. P.\\nElijah Bacheller Eunice Wales.. Jan. 27, 1831 Otis Lamb, J. P.\\nJames Collins Anne Wells ....Dec. I, 1830 ..Alex Tackles, J. P.\\nMr. Bozeas Felice Blait... June 30, 1831 Richard Butler, J. P.\\nCapt. James C. Allen Elizabeth Hayes ..Mar. i, 1S31 Arza Brome, M. G.\\nJohn F. Hamlin Laura Andrus Mar. 29, 183 1 Arza Brome, M. G.\\nJ. B. Sancea Margt. Beaubien Feb. 15, 183 1 F. N. Badin, Priest.\\nJohn Stewart Emily Barber June 25, 1 83 1 B. N. Freeman.\\nSamuel Boughton Susanna Smith Aug. 23. I S3 1 John Stead, J. P.\\nNathan Rogers Emeline Dudley Oct. 17, 1830 Abel Warren, M. G.\\nMathias Graves Rosilla Ruby June 2, 183 1 Abel Warren, M. G.\\nCharles Tubbs Rachael Arnold April 10, 1831 Solomon Wales, J. P.\\nWm. C. Bolamin Nancy Ellison Feb. 13, 1832 Abel Warren, M. G.\\nPhilo Gopt Susanna Arnold Aug. 4, 1 831... Abel Warren, M. G.\\nTiel Brainard Mary Brainard Nov. 27, 1831 ...Alex. Tackles, J. P.\\nNathan Rogers Eliza Anne Parker Feb. 13, 1832 Abel Warren, M. G.\\nRobert P. Eldredge Louisa Crittenden .Oct. 1831 Richard Butler, J. P.\\nJames A. Wing Juliana Lawson Sept. 22, 183 1 Abel Warren, M, G.\\nJames Allen Lucinda Townsend Dee. 25, 1831 John Norton, M. G.\\nJoseph Aldrich Caroline Parker July 3, 1832 Noah Webster, J. P.\\nThorp Mary Jane Nicholls Jan. 22, 1 83 1 Abel Warren, M. G.\\nJonah Richardson Rhoda Granger Jan. 12, 1832 Richard Butler, J. P.\\nCaleb Carpenter Matilda Freeman Nov. 14, 1831 L. Shaw, M. G.\\nHenry Porter Susan Stone Dec. 8, 1831 L. Shaw, M. G.\\nAmon Baker\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eleanor Hopkins Dec. 13, 1 83 1 L. Shaw, M. G.\\nWm. Roy Ann Connor May 25, 1832 Solomon Wales, J. P.\\nGeo. Twell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Louisa Dudley Mar. 3, 1832.. Solomon Wales, J. P.\\nPhilander Ewell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lydia Wells Oct. 13, 1S31 Solomon Wales, J. P.\\nWm. Arnold Mary Squiers July 5,1831 .Solomon Wales, J. P.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0292.jp2"}, "293": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nNames ot Contracting Parties. Date. By Wliom Married.\\nIsaac Hoard\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Delilah Price _.. May 13, 1S32 Otis Lamb, J. P.\\nJolin Nicholas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nancy Scratrton ._ May 13, 1832. Otis Lamb, J. P.\\nReus. Hollock\u00e2\u0080\u0094Phile Draper June 16, 1833 Noah Webster, J. P,\\nJohn Nicholas\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Louise Trevallian April 15, 1833..- Abel Warren, M. G.\\nPayne K. Leech Matilda Fuller _ April 25, 1833 Abel Warren, M. G.\\nZemrie Curtis\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Amanda Locke Nov. 11, 1833 _..Abel Warren, M. G.\\nJames P. Hooker\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thar. Allen Nov. 6, 1833 Solomon Wales, J. P.\\nHarley Brainard Martha Leech May iS, 1833 Calvin Davis, J. P.\\nAlonzo D. Youmans Julia Ann Tubbs... Aug. 16, 1833 _ Wells Waring, J. P.\\nHeil Preston Lydia Goffman Sept. 29, 1833. -.Calvin Davis, J. P.\\nCharles Chamberlain Caroline Knapp Aug. g, 1S32 Calvin Davis, J. P.\\nNathaniel Garvin Lydia Junman _.Nov. 20, 1S33 Abel Warren, M. G.\\nBingham Tubbs Ruth A. Sorel Jan. 24, 1833 Abel Warren, M. G.\\nWestley Hinman Alice M. Connel _. July 10, 1S33 Elisha L. Atkins, J. P.\\nH. Perkins\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sarah Ann Meek- Nov. 28, 1S33 Richard Butler, J. P.\\nJames Williams\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Delia Ann Cook Oct. 14, 1842.- Harvey Cook, J. P.\\nErastus Day\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Catherine Smith Feb. 3, 1S33 L. Shaw, M. G.\\nWm. M. Leech Clarissa Brainard.-- May 22, 1833 Calvin Davis, J. P.\\nHiram Atwood\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Aurelia Ann Douglass July 7. iS33 Richard Butler, J. P.\\nSidney S. Hawkins\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elizabeth Clemens April 23, 1833. Henry Coldager, M. G.\\nGeorge Stead\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nancy Scott... March 16, 1S33 Solomon Wales, J. P.\\nRobert Warren\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lois Wells Feb. 14, 1833.- Abel Warren, M. G.\\nGeorge Preastly Sylvania Hoard Dec. 10, 1832 Calvin Davis, J. P.\\nAnson Rawley\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Susan Becroft- April 17, 1833 .-.Noah Webster, J. P.\\nJohn Fairchild Lucy C. Herriman April 9, 1833 Richard Butler, J. P.\\nJames C. Chase Rachel Butterlield. Jan. 26, 1833 Richaid Butler, J. P.\\nHambleton Miller\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elizabeth Parks May 5,1833 -Abel Warren, J. P.\\nStephen Castle Susan D. Shaw Mar. 13, 1S32 Alexander Tackles, J. P.\\nH. M. Hopkins\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Polly Price Oct. 3, 1832 -Alexander Tackles, J. P.\\nAlvin Cleland\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harriet M. Wales. Dec. 5, 1832 Alexander Tackles, J. P.\\nOtis W. Colton\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Martha Fairchild Aug. 8, 1833 Harvey Cook, J. P.\\nJohn M. Crawford\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Polly Miller Aug. 19, 1.832 Noah Webster, J. P.\\nJames P. Keeler\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Annie Arlanhand ..Oct. 30, 1833 Abel Warren, M. G.\\nGeorge Adair\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rebecca Madison Aug. 26, 1833.. .Abel Warren, M. G\\nLester Lamles\u00e2\u0080\u0094Lorina Phelps .July 2, 1833 W. Waring, J. P.\\nCornelius Bivens\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Olive Tingley June 17, 1832 .Richard Butler, J. P.\\nAlexander Atkins\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eliza D. Lewis May 29, 1831 Richard butler, J. P.\\nGeorge Stroup\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Hannah Conklin Sept. 12, 1833 .Richard Butler, J. P.\\nFrom February, 1834, to May, 1838, a period extending over four year, there\\nwere only 151 marriages effected in the county, as shown by the records. In dealing\\nwith those matrimonial events, it will be merely necessary to give the names of the\\ncontracting parties:\\nWilliam Allen to Pembina Scott\\nSamuel Axford Summers\\nP. Adams\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Prentiss\\nP. Allen\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Russell\\nE. Auscom E. Fay\\nH. Beebe\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. J. Hill\\nS. S. Baxter S. Holeman\\nT. Bloss\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. D. Cusick\\nA. H. Barlley M. Dixon\\nD. Bennett\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. Wolf\\nWilliam Brown E. Lacox\\nT. Blakeley- E. Brayord\\nS. Bams E. Hovev\\nT. Hubbard\u00e2\u0080\u0094 T. S. Weeks\\nE. Howard N. Bolien", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0293.jp2"}, "294": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nll^\\nM. W. Harrington Miss Farns-\\nworth\\nE. C. Harriman P. Huks\\nJ. Hall\u00e2\u0080\u0094 B. Dailey\\nC. S. Snover M. Jersey\\nI.. Sole\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. Scott\\nC. Chapel A. Valentine\\nD. Crawford L. Fair\\nE. Cooley\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. Willis\\nA. Chortier R. Dunphin\\nT. Cherry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. More\\nL. Collins B. Hodgen\\nD. Cooley C. Andrus\\nA. Cherry M. Myers\\nD. Conklin\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. A. Stewart\\nA. Conklin\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. Witt\\nJ. Connu M. A. Funder\\nJ. M. Combs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Still\\nCrittenden M. Dudley\\nL. M. Collins\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. McKoon\\nS. Chattrick L. Lee\\nI.. Chatfield\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. Fi^shbough\\nE. Crampton P. More\\nC. Emerson T- Slioles\\nT.J. Ewell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. Lamb\\nH. T. Fox\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Mary Avery\\nJ. Flynn E. Ingiaham\\nA. A. Fuller\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. Shattuck\\nO. Fields\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C. Fi,h\\nJ. Frost- L. Aldrich\\nG. C. Fletcher\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. G. Hough\\nA. Farr\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Carl\\nG. W. Fish\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Brown\\nM.Goalpin M. Bennett\\nS. W. G. Gerill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 D. Allen\\nWilliam Goodrich A. Chambers\\nA. Ga!;non M, Pheni.x\\nZera Gray\u00e2\u0080\u0094 L. West fall\\nT. C. Gallup\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. McChesney\\nNoble G. Gunn\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sarah Miller\\nJ. C, Hinks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Clark\\nH. Haskins\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Greenley\\nJoseph Hinks J. Clark\\nN. R. Holdridge\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. Hudson S.\\nJ. C. High\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. A. Olds M\\nE. D. Haml.lin\u00e2\u0080\u0094 T. Smith D,\\nD. E. Haser\u00e2\u0080\u0094 R. A. Jennison T.\\nP. C. Hart\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. Leonard B.\\nS. L. Hill\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Chapel S.\\nH. Harvey H. Russ J.\\nThomas Hubble .S. Pooley C.\\nM. Haines B. Dusing J.\\nM. Johnson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 P. Baldwin C.\\nJ. James E. Watkins E.\\nD.Jacox H. Spaulding H.\\nT. M. Kirkham\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Hart C.\\nC. Lufkins S. Goodale T.\\nM. Ivingsbury E. Abernathy N.\\nK. Kittridge\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. Wells E.\\nJ. Lockwcod J. Tweedle E.\\nN. Keeler\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. J. Bates W\\nP. Mitter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 L. Ashley W\\nA. T. Merril\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. High L.\\nJ. Milton S. T. Herriman P.\\nJ. M. Millard\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. Brown P.\\nL. P. Miller\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. M. Cram T.\\nN. Moe\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C. Higgins M.\\nJ. B. Marlel\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Phillis Lablan A.\\nH. Mann\u00e2\u0080\u0094 P. Skinner H,\\nG. Newbury\u00e2\u0080\u0094 R. Butlerfield H,\\nD. Norris B. Carpenter J.\\nA. T. Powell\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. A. Field O.\\nA. Parker\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M.- A. Ray R.\\nJ. Price\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. Bardnell E.\\nT. H. Peek\u00e2\u0080\u0094 D. Congar E.\\nH. Pratt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. Dice C.\\nJ. D. Perry\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G. Welts M,\\nG. W. Preston\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. Gofif S.\\nE. Phelps\u00e2\u0080\u0094 P. Arnold W\\nA. W. Roger.-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 D. Scott F.\\nN. Rowley M. Beagle T.\\nN. Rowley\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .-v. Aldrich J.\\nT. Russ\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. Mitchell W\\nB. Randall\u00e2\u0080\u0094 B. Scott R.\\nA. Rowley\u00e2\u0080\u0094 B. GofF\\nS. Spencer E. Warner\\nD. Shattuck\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Briggs\\nStone L. McGregor\\nStroup M. Keyes\\nC. Snover L. Phelps\\nF. Skinner M. Moore\\nB. Spencer D. Graves\\nSelleck\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. Wells\\nH. Sweet\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. A. Bennett\\nSmith M. Gales\\nSpalding F. Fish\\nThorrington L. Brown\\nThomas^L. Pratt\\nThompson A. Mitchell\\nJ. Tubbs\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. Butterfield\\nTilloltson P. Hurd\\nB. Throop E. Turrell\\nWarner M. Billings\\nWoodan M. Bates\\nP. Wells\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. Ewell\\nWinans Jane Drake\\nT. Walker\u00e2\u0080\u0094 N. Gillett\\nWoodUck\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Finch\\nWood S. Anderson\\nWilber T. Gregory\\nWarner E. Johnson\\nWyncoop A. Mitchell\\nR. Witt H. Brown\\nWitney E. Shepherd\\nWing H. Crawford\\nWilson\u00e2\u0080\u0094 T. .Seal\\nWentworth E. Darling\\nL. Walton C. Stroup\\nF. Witt\u00e2\u0080\u0094 E. Brown\\nWinslow M. Welts\\nWilson L. Scott\\nG. Wilcox M. Webster\\nWilcox L. Hovey\\nWood T, Case\\nWhitney\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C. Crittenden\\nWylae A. Beattie\\nWickoff\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. A. Orr\\nThe great majority of those early alliances were attended with the most happy\\nresults. In almost every instance, husband was devoted to wife and wife to hus-\\nband: both were faithful to their country, and both traveled down life s course\\ncasting blessings along their paths. The old settlers of Macomb have, unlike the\\nold settlers of the more recently organized counties of the State, made this county\\ntheir home here they brought up their children, built their schools and churches,\\nand actually reared up a commonwealth of their own, years before the western\\ncounty of Kent was organized even before the American pioneer set his foot in\\nWashtenaw.\\nA few of those old settlers still survive, and dwell in the land. Their children\\nare here in numbers. Tlie traveler may readily distinguish them. Temperate in\\nr", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0294.jp2"}, "295": {"fulltext": "l^\\nHISTORY OF j\\\\IAt;OMB COUNTY.\\na high degree, they reflect the beauty of that virtue wliich makes amends for a\\nhundred faults; they possess the physical characteristics of their honored pi-ogeni-\\ntors, and still continue to follow in the walks of advancement which their fathers\\ntrod.\\nMARKS FOR CATTLE IN OLDEN TIMES.\\nAmong the ancient customs of the early inhabitants, that of marking the cattle\\nseems to the people of the present time as strange as the descriptions of those\\nmarks are ludicrous. The following specimens are taken from the records\\nCharles Tucker s mark for cattle, hogs, sheep, etc., was a hole in the right ear\\nand a slit in the left ear, a record of which was made March 11, 1822.\\nThe mark for Jacob Tucker s stock was, a slit in both ears, recorded April 1.\\n1822.\\nEbenezer Kittredge s cattle had an under bit out of each ear, recorded April\\n1, 1822.\\nHarvey Cook .s mark was a swallow s tail cut out of the right ear, a record\\nof which was made April 16, 1822.\\nThe cattle, sheep and hogs of John Tucker zvere cropped on both ears, and a\\nrecord of such mark made Feb. 22, 182.3.\\nJohn Stockton s cattle, sheep, etc., etc., had a slit in the right ear, a mark\\nrecorded Feb. 22, 1823.\\nJoseph Hayes cattle had a hole in the right ear.\\nJustus H. Barker s mark was a slit in the right ear, a square crop off the right\\near, and the brand, J. H. B., recorded Dec. 2, 1823.\\nThe mark on Nathaniel Squire s cattle was a square crop off the left ear, a\\nswallow s fork out of the right ear, with the brand, N. S. This was ijlaced on\\nrecord Dec. 2, 1823.\\nJohn Elliott s, senior, cattle were marked with a swallow s tail cut out of the\\nleft ear. Recorded April 30, 1824.\\nLeander Trombley s mark was a half crop off the under part of the right ear,\\nwhich mark was placed on record Sept. 13, 1826.\\nJoseph Miller s cattle were known by a square crop off the right ear, which\\nmark was published Feb. 7, 1827.\\nJohn Bennett s mark was a swallow tail out of the left ear, not bj^ any means\\nout of Mr. Bennett s left ear, notwithstanding what is implied in the records of\\nFeb. 7, 1827.\\nJohn Sawle s cattle were marked by a slit in both ears, and such mark was\\nrecorded Feb. 7,1827.\\nEzra Bellow s cattle were known by a half crop off the under part of the left", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0295.jp2"}, "296": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\near. Benjamin Gould s stock were marked similarly under the right ear while\\nWm. Allen s mark was a square crop off the left ear.\\nSolomon Wales adopted a square crop off right ear, and a half crop under part\\nof the left ear.\\nDaniel Miller s mark was simply a slit in the left ear, while that of Sardis\\nBurlingham s cattle was simply a half crop off the upper part of the left ear.\\nGeorge Wilson s cattle had a square crop off the left ear, a slit in same ear,\\nand a bit of under part of the right ear.\\nJob Hoxie s stock were marked by a crop off the right ear, or a bit out of the\\nunder part of the same ear.\\nAlvin Nye used a square crop on the right, and a slit in the left ear.\\nChauncey Throop adopted a square crop off the right, and a half crop under\\npart of the same ear.\\nEzra B. Throop s registered mark was a square crop off the right, and a half\\ncrop off the upper part of same ear.\\nElon Andrus used a square crop off the right ear and a slit in the same.\\nRussell Andrus mark for his cattle was a square crop in the left ear, and a\\nslit in the same.\\nJohn Keeler s cattle had a bit out of upper side of the right, and under side of\\nthe left ear.\\nIsaac Andrus mark was simply a half crop off the upper part of the right ear.\\nLester Gidding s cattle had a hole in the right ear.\\nPrice B. Webster s cattle showed a swallow s tail cut out of the right ear.\\nJeremiah Lockwood s were known by a square crop off the left ear, and a half\\ncrop off the upper part of the right.\\nEdward Arnold s stock was distinguished by a square crop off the right, and a\\nhalf crop off the upper part of the left ear.\\nHenry Moir s mark for his cattle was a hole through the right ear, and a bit\\nout of the under part of the left ear.\\nLucretia Haskiu s cattle bore a square crop off the I ight, and an under slit in\\nthe left ears.\\nRichard Butler s cattle, sheep, and hogs wore a slit in the under part of each\\near, and seemed to know all about it.\\nPONTIAG AND ST. CLAIR MAIL ROUTES.\\nIn 1827, a mail route was established from Pontiac to Port Huron, stopping at\\nWashington village, and this being the only of3Sce between the former place and\\nMt. Clemens, it necessarily served for a very large extent of country. Otis Lamb\\nwas the first post-master, and the mail bag was originally carried the entire dis-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0296.jp2"}, "297": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntance by a man on foot, and afterward on horse-back for ten or twelve years, the\\nmail carrier always remaining at Washington over night. Each letter cost the re-\\nceiver twenty-five ceuts, and such was the scarcity of money that a young man\\nliving there (now a wealthy resident of Oakland County) was obliged to leave a\\nletter in the office for three months before he could by any means obtain the re-\\nquired amount. In 1836, Dr. Dennis Cooley was appointed post-master, which\\nposition he held for twenty-three consecutive years, his own residence being the\\npost-office for the greater part of that time. Shortly after his appointment, the\\nmail was brought by stage from Detroit via Royal Oak and so continued until the\\ncompletion of the G. T. R. R., when it was transferred to that road stopping oif at\\nUtica Station, and a regular line of easy coaches, lumbering stages, or dilapidated\\nbuggies, were alternately the means of transit, the same being controlled by Ira\\nPearsall for very many years. This arrangement remained until the D. B. C. R.\\nR. was in running order when the nmil-bags and numerous passengers to and from\\nUtica were accommodated by S. L. DeKay, his stages making regular trips between\\nUtica and Romeo four times daily and through all these variations and the con-\\nditions of wind and weather we have known no such thing as a failure of first-class\\nmail arrangements until July 18, 1879, when, for some unexplained reason, the\\nroute ceased altogether, and the large amount of mail matter for this place and\\nDavis was left to the tender mercies of a chance carrier. The mail for Brooklyn\\nwas always received at Washington, they having had no separate office until 1876,\\nwhen a tri-weekly route was established between that village and Washington, and\\nan office established at Brooklyn under the name of Davis.\\nTEMPEKANCE AND HOUSE KAISING.\\nThe following paper on the rise and progress of the temperance cause in Mal-\\ncomb County, not only contains a moral, but also much interesting and historical\\nsubject matter. The writer is secretary of the County Pioneer Society, a man wed-\\nded to the cause of temperance, and thoroughly conversant with men and events\\nconnected with the county. He says At the date of settlement of the central and\\nnorthern township of Macomb, the use of intoxicants upon all noted occasions, and\\nindeed upon the most common events of pioneer life, was held to be a necessity.\\nLiquor was used as a cure for all diseases that assailed the system. At births,\\nweddings, and deaths, its inspiring aid was sought. Prominent in the history of\\neach new settlement were the bees, for the progress of work which one alone could\\nnot very well accomplish, such as loggings and raisings. At those bees whisky was\\nfree, and was to many the secret loadstone which attracted them to the place.\\nArriving at the place, if it were a logging, two expert hands chose sides, and select-\\ning the site and arranging the position of the heap, each led his men to the work.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0297.jp2"}, "298": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAt the close of this work results were noted, and one side or other declared victors,\\nnot in the amount of whisky each had consumed, but in the number of log heaps\\neach had erected. If it were a raising, for which they were called together, sides\\nwere chosen in the same way. Each party would take one end and a side of the\\nstructure, and proceed to roll the logs together in a lively fashion. At each corner\\na man was stationed, whose business it was to saw, trim, and shape the ends of the\\nlogs, so as to form the corner, and upon their skill and activity, depended largely\\nthe appearance of the house when completed. A man who could make a square\\nplum corner in the least time was in demand. Occasionally a frame was to be raised,\\nand men were invited from far and near, with the tacit understanding that whisky\\nwas to be an adjunct of the occasion. The timber used in construction was much\\nlarger than is used in similar structures now, and as no mechanical appliances were\\nbrought together in elevating it, a larger force was called together. Refreshments\\nmight be served or not at the option of the proprietor, but the liquor should be\\nin sight, and near at hand. After the frame was erected, the men gathered in file\\nupon the beam, and if a few drops of the contents of the jug remained, they were\\nswallowed, and a name was called for. If a barn, it might be named the settlers\\npride or the Queen of the settlement, if a house, the ladies pride, ox family pride, and\\nthen the jug was hurled into the air, when the company dispersed.\\nIt soon came about that a feeling of antagonism to the use of whisky strength-\\nened by the occurrence of sundry accidents, the results of whisky, began to pre-\\nvail, and very naturally as the sides were chosen, whisky was made the dividing\\npoint, and its friends, and the friends of temperance, were arrayed against each\\nother. At a raising of a frame house, the two parties went up to put the plates in\\nposition, and in the zeal of the former not to be beaten by the temperance party,\\nthey lifted the plate over the posts, and let it drop on the ground below. One man\\nwhose hat was caved in, seized the jug and cast it into a well close by. At another\\ntime, a man whose leg was broken, was carried home two miles upon a door.\\nAmong the first raisings in the northern townships was that of Nathaniel Bennett s\\nbarn. The mechanic who worked upon the frame was a staunch temperance man,\\nand wished that the raising of this barn should be accomplished without the aid of\\nwhisk} Bennett, although favorable to the cause of temperance, was fearful it\\nwould l)e a failure. The mechanic was so confident, however, that Bennett s ob-\\njections were overruled, and it was bruited round that the affair was to be of a\\ntemperate character. Both sides resolved to make this a test case, and men gath-\\nered from far and near to view the strife and see the fun. As fast as the forces\\nreached the premises, they naturally divided into two armies. The temperance men\\nsoon went to work, and the liquor men sat upon the timbers, and stood in the way,\\noffering obstacles. There was no scarcity of timber in those early days, and the", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0298.jp2"}, "299": {"fulltext": "l^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ngreat beams and plates of (^reeii timber sorely taxed the muscles as well as the\\npatience of the workers. When, at length, the sills were in their places, and the\\nbents put together, the liquor party came in a body and sat down upon the timbers\\ndirectly in the way of further progress. It required the use of some threats, and a\\ngood deal of persuasive eloquence to move them, and a portion went off in a huff,\\nwhile the remainder helped to put up the frame.\\nA similar test case was held atUtica about the same time. A large store house\\nwas to be raised, and the mechanic was very fearful that it could not be done with-\\nout whisky, but upon the promise of Payne K. Leach to assist with his mill hands\\nand tackle box, the attempt was made and success won.\\nIn the township of Lenox, a like test was made some years later, resulting in\\nfavor of temperance.\\nIf the case were that of a man, wlio was himself temperate, and who dis-\\ncouraged the use of spirits on principle, little was said but if stinginess was the\\ncause of it being withheld, sad work was often made of both timl^er and frames.\\nSometimes timber was carried back to the woods at other times a single bent would\\nbe setup, and all hands either go away or refuse to do more. At other times timbers\\nwould be united in all ways but the right one, and in each case the whisky should\\nappear before the work would be completed. After those test cases had been tried,\\ntrial beesoi all kinds without the use of liquors were of frequent occurrence, and\\npublic sentiment in favor of abstinence grew in favor and strength.\\nOrganized action against intemperance was first taken at Romeo. In the year\\n1830, Deacon Rnger^s Pled;ie was circulated and gained a few names. Those who\\nagreed to abstain from the use of wine and beer, and other alcoholic beverages, had\\na capital T prefixed to their names on the pledges, and were called T-T s or teeto-\\ntalers. At least one who signed Deacon Roger s Pledge has kept it for fifty-two\\nyears Dr. HoUister, of Chicago. The effects of this pledge was soon visible in the\\ncommunity. One after another, old and young, spoke against the use of spirits,\\nand arrayed themselves on the side of temperance. A farmer who had thought\\nthat haying could not be prosecuted witiiout liquor, sent his boy to the store at the\\ncorners with the little brown jug to get it filled. This was accomplished, the jug\\nemptied, and sent to be refilled. Soon after a storm came up, and the father and the\\nson left the field after hiding the jug. Upon their return the old man took up the\\npitcher to drink but before doing so, he paused and set it down. After a few\\nminutes thought he emptied it upon the ground, and said. My son let us never\\ntouch this stuff again as long as we live. The father kept this resolution, but the\\nson is a drunkard to this day. And thus the leaven was at work.\\nMen thought, spoke, and acted. In a letter from Dexter Mussey to the\\nSecretary of the Pioneer Society, under date April 7, 1881, that old settler states", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0299.jp2"}, "300": {"fulltext": "^|a w-\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThere was a Waslnnsrtonian Temperance society formed here as early as 1844,\\nbut accomplished but little. At a subsequent date the Sons of Temperance seemed\\nto take the lead in some parts of this State and the west shore concluded to imitate\\nthe Sons of Temperance by liolding weekly meetings, or at least once in two weeks.\\nThis we did during one winter, 1848-9, but failed to keep up an interest or ac-\\ncomplish much good. We then concluded to try the laws, and organized a division\\nof eleven members, and after working hard for one year found ourselves with\\nthirteen members, had received three, expelled one, dismissed one to join elsewhere.\\nThen we commenced an aggressive course and soon had one hundred names and\\nthen for three or four years succeeded well, prosecuted the rum-sellers and all went\\non well until the Prohibitory law passed, and then all seemed to think the work\\ncompleted and the Division dissolved and very little was done for the cause of\\ntemperance. After a time there was a lodge of Good Templars organized and went\\nvery well and with tolerable success for a time until it was turned into a political\\norganization, when it shared the fate of all its predecessors. (^Died. At still a\\nsubsequent date a Division of the Sons of Temperance was organized with tolerable\\nsuccess as to members, but not with much success in staying the tide of intemper-\\nance. This last organization is still in existence and is the only organization here\\nwhich proposes to amend solely against the liquor business, and it is doing very\\nlittle to what it ought to accomplish, the work it professes to have in hand. The\\npresent law has been enforced to a considerable extent, but not by the Sons of\\nTemperance. There were fourteen prosecutions for violations of the law, and in\\nevery case with success.\\nA RETROSPECT.\\nMy home the spirit of its love is breathing\\nIn every wind tliat plays across my track\\nFrom its white walls, the very tendrils wreathing,\\nSeem with soft links to draw the wanderer back.\\nWhat a change has come over the land since they first saw it The metamor-\\nphosis from the sickle and the cradle to the modern harvester is not more wondei\\nful than other changes which have been wrought and he who brings up sad re-\\nmembrances of a hard day s work, and a lumbago caused by the swinging of his\\ncradle or scythe, smiles, when he thinks of that semi-barbarous period that could\\nneither produce a harvester nor a mower, nor a sulky plow, nor any of these new\\nmachines, which make the practice of agriculture a luxury. To-day he mounts in-\\nto the seat of one of these farm implements, as he would into his buggy, and with\\nthe assurance that, no matter what the condition of the grain or meadow, whether\\ntangled, lodged, or leaning, he can master a quarter section of land more thoroughly\\nand with grea er economy than lie could have managed a five acre field a quarter of\\ni^i", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0300.jp2"}, "301": {"fulltext": "5\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\na century ago. The change is certainly material The old settlers realize it but yet\\nthey look back to the never forgotten past, when contentment waited upon the work\\nof the old cradle, plow and spade, to that time when the primitive character of all\\nthings insured primitive happiness. Then contentment reigned supreme, and con-\\ntinued so to do until knowledge created ambitions, and those ambitions brought in\\ntheir train, their numerous proverbial little troubles.\\nCHAPTER XVI.\\nORGANIZATION.\\nThe third decade of the Nineteenth Century will ever be memorable as the era\\nof emigration from the Eastern States, and the hunt after Western homes. During\\nthose years the people of the Original States rose to a full conception of the worth\\nof the land, and the almost unbounded country which the toilers of the Revolution\\nwon for them. They resolved to direct their steps westward. Michigan was not\\nforgotten. The country from the St. Joseph to the Grand River, along the valley\\nof the southern Huron, and northwards still to the Saginaw the home of the\\nOtchipwes was explored by them and settlements effected. Years before this,\\nhowever, Macomb County was not only explored, settled but also organized. In\\n1818, three years after the organization of Wayne, and one year after the organi-\\nzation of Monroe, Macomb County was erected by an act of the Territorial Legis-\\native Council.\\nFor some years previous to 1818, the American and French pioneers built their\\nlog huts, and transformed portions of the forest into spots of pastoral beauty.\\nMany acres were then fenced round, and the stacked harvest of the preceding year\\ncould be seen by the traveler. The country was then replete in beauty the\\nsingularly attractive monotony of the wild woods was varied by tracts of cultivated\\nland, the homes of the settlers, and the villages of the aborigines.\\nSolidarity of interests joined the pioneers in a bond of fraternity, the strength\\nof which tended to render their loves and friendships lasting. Solidarity of inter-\\nests tauglit the pioneers to offer the hand of fellowship to their savage neighbors\\nthe Otchipwes and solidarity of interests pointed out to them the results of seek-\\ning for the organization of the districts in which they lived into a little Republic.\\nOn the completion of the farm labors of 1817, those white inhabitants those\\ntrue foresters did not seek repose but turning their attention away from manual\\nlabor, embraced mental work, to the end that their political condition might\\nadvance hand-in-hand with their social status.\\nf", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0301.jp2"}, "302": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nBefore the spring-time called them to their fields again, they had established\\nfor themselves a county and a county government. The action of the Legislative\\nCouncil, and the State Legislature in regard to the townships of Macomb, is\\nreviewed in the following acts and summarization of acts\\nST. CLAIR TOWNSHIP.\\nThe act of the Legislative Council, approved January .5, 1818, provided, that\\nthe district beginning at the opposite shore of the River Huron, including the\\nshore, and running along tlie shore of Lake St. Clair, to tlie mouth of the river St.\\nClair, and along said river to Fort Gratiot, and extending in the rear as aforesaid,\\nshall form one township, and be called the Township of St. Clair.\\nMACOMB COUNTY ERECTED.\\nA petition was presented to Gov. Cass, signed by a number of the inhabitants\\nof tliis Territory, requesting that a new county may be laid out therein which\\nwas responded to as follows\\nNo w Therefore, Believing that the establishment of such county will be conducive to the public interest,\\nand to individual convenience, I do, by virtue of the authority in me vested by the ordinance of Congress,\\npassed the 13th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven, entitled\\nAn ordinance for the government of the Territory of the United States northwest of the river Ohio, lay\\nout that part of the said Territory included within the following boundaries, namely: beginning at the south-\\nwest corner of township number one, north of the base line (so called), thence along the Indian boundary line\\nnorth, to the angle formed by the intersection of the line running to the White Rock upon Lake Huron\\nthence with the last mentioned line to the boundary line between the United States and the British Province\\nof Upper Canada thence with the said line southwardly to a point in Lake St. Clair due east from the place\\nof beginning; thence due west to the eastern extremity of the said base line; and with the same to the place\\nof beginning, into a separate county, to be called the county of Macomb.\\nAnd I do hereby appoint William Brown, Henry J. Hunt, and Conrad Ten Eyck, Esquires, commission-\\ners for the purpose of examining the said county of Macomb, and of reporting to me where it is the most\\neligible site for establishing the seat of justice thereof.\\nAnd I constitute the said county a district for the purposes required by the act entitled An act to adjust\\nthe estates and affairs of deceased persons, estate and intestate, and for other purposes, passed the 19th day\\nof January, one thousand eight hundred and eleven.\\nIn testimony whereof I have caused the Great Seal of the said Territory to be hereunto aflixed, and have\\nsigned the same with my hand. Given at Detroit this 15th day of January, in the year of our Lord one\\nthousand eight hundred and eighteen, and of the Independence of the United States of America the forty-\\nsecond. LEWIS CASS.\\nBy the Governor;\\nWilliam Woodbridge, Secretary of Michigan Territory.\\nLOCATING THE COUNTY SEAT.\\nWhereas William Brown, Henry J. Hunt, and Conrad Ten Eyck, the com-\\nmissioners appointed to ascertain the most eligible site for the seat of justice of the\\nCounty of Macomb, have reported to me, that the Town of Mt. Clemens, recently", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0302.jp2"}, "303": {"fulltext": "1^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nlaid out upon the farm of Christian Clemens, Esq., in the said county, is the most\\neligible site for that purpose and whereas the said Christian Clemens, Esq., has\\nconveyed for the use of said county, the lot of ground designated by the said com-\\nmissioners, and has given to the Treasurer of the said county, his obligation for the\\nmon ey, work, and materials required by them, towards the execution of the public\\nbuilding I do, therefore, in consideration of the premises, and by virtue of the\\nanthorit} by law in me vested, establish the seat of justice for the said County of\\nMacomb, at the said Town of Mt. Clemens. This proclamation was signed by\\nLewis Cass, March 11, 1818.\\nORIGINAL TOWNSHIPS.\\nA proclamation of the Governor issued April 8, 1818, divided Macomb into the\\nfollowing townships, viz All that portion of the county soutli of a line drawn due\\nwest from the mouth of Swan Creek, to the Indian boundary line, shall form one\\ntownship, and be known as the township of Huron all that portion which lies\\nnorth of a line drawn due west from the mouth of Swan Creek, shall form one town-\\nship and be called St. Clair. Under the same proclamation all that portion of the\\ntown of Huron (whicli lies south of the base line) beginning at Forsyth s farm,\\nincluding the farm, extending along the shore of Lake St. Clair to the River Huron,\\nand west to the United States lands, was attached to the township of Hamtramck,\\nin Wa) ne County.\\nPerry Township was estaljlished by the Act Jan. 12, 1819. It comprised the\\nwestern sections of Macomb, all the unorganized territory north to the treaty line,\\nand west to the meridian, north of the boundaries of Oakland.\\nTHE NAME HURON CHANGED TO CLINTON.\\nAn act approved July 17, 1821, declared that confusion, uncertainty, and incon-\\nvenience may frequently arise from the variety of rivers and places called Hui-on,\\nand directed, for that reason, that the northern town of Macomb, which was estab-\\nlished under the name of Huron, Aug. 12, 1818, should be called Vlintoii and the\\nriver running through said town into Lake St. Clair, commonly called the Huron,\\nshould be named Clinton.\\nCHANGE OP BOUNDARY.\\nThe boundaries named in the Act establishing this county, Jan. 15, 1818,\\nwere changed in September, 1822, as shown in the following description\\nBeginning on tlie boundary line between the United States and the Province of\\nUpper Canada, where the northern boundary of the county of Wayne intersects the\\nsame thence with the said northern boundary, west, to the line between the\\neleventh and twelfth ranges, east of the principal meridian thence north to the", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0303.jp2"}, "304": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nline between the townships numbered five and six, north of the base line thence\\neast, to the line between the tliird and fourth sections of the fifth township north\\nof the base line, in the thirteenth range, east of the principal meridian thence\\nsouth to the southern boundary of the said township tlience east, to the line be-\\ntween the fourteenth and fifteenth ranges, east of the principal meridian thence\\nsouth to Lake St. Clair thence in a dii-ect line to the place of beginning.\\nGiven under my hand, at Detroit, this tenth day of September, in the year of\\nour Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-two, and of the Independence of\\nthe United States the forty-seventh. LEW. CASS.\\nORGANIC SUMMARY.\\nMacomb County formed a portion of Wayne, as organized in the days of the\\nNorthivest Territory. Old Wayne County comprised not only the Lower Peninsula,\\nbut also the strip of land along the western shores of Lake Michigan, and all west\\nof that strip so far as explorers migiit jjenetrate. Robert F. Eldredge, in his paper\\nstyled A Brief Outline of tlie History of Macomb Co., saj-s It was estab-\\nlished as a county in Michigan Territory in 1815. (Terr. Laws, Vol.1, p. 323.) It\\nthen included that part of Michigan to which tlie Indian title Jhad been extin-\\nguislied. In 1805, the Territory of Michigan was constituted. On the 1st of July,\\n1805, the government of the Territory was organized at Detroit, by Gen. William\\nHull, as first governor. The Indian title to the lands of Macomb County was\\nextinguished by the treaty of 1807. At that time the Pottawatoraies, the Ottawas,\\nthe Wyandots and the Chippewas ceded to the United States a tract of country\\nbounded south by the Maumee Bay and River, north by the principal meridian,\\nand on the northwest by a line running southwest from White Rock, cutting the\\nsaid meridian at a point where an east and west line from the outlet of Lake Huron\\nintersects the same. By a proclamation made by Lewis Cass, Jan. 15, 1818, all the\\nland thus obtained from the Indians wliich lies north of the base line was formed\\ninto the county of Macomb, and William Brown, Henry J. Hunt and Conrad Ten\\nE3^ck were appointed commissioners to ascertain the most eligible site for the seat\\nof justice of such county. The county seat was established at Mt. Clemens by\\nproclamation of March 11, 1818. May 4, following, the Legislative Council of the\\nTerritory granted $400 to the new county, to be expended in the erection of a\\ncourt-house and jail. At this period Macomb comprised all the territory now form-\\ning the counties of St. Clair, Oakland, Livingstone, Genesee, Lapeer, large por-\\ntions of Shiawassee, Ingham, Sanilac and Tuscola, together with the southeast\\ncorner of Huron, and a portion of the townships of Birch Run and Maple Grove,\\nin Saginaw County.", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0304.jp2"}, "305": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nESTABLISHMENT OF TOWNSHIPS.\\nThe county was divided into townships by executive decree, published April 8,\\n1818. That portion of the county lying north of a line drawn due west from the\\nmouth of Swan Creek was named St. Clair Township, while the portion south of\\nsuch a line was called the township of Huron. The township of Harrison was laid\\noff Aug. 12, 1818. The establishment of Oakland County, Jan. 12, 1819, was the\\nfirst move in reducing the dominion of the settlers of Macomb yet the act did not\\ncome into effect until Jan. 1, 1823, so that, virtually, Macomb ruled Oakland for a\\nterm of four years after the establishment of that county.\\nPerry Township was laid off Jan. 12, 1819. St. Clair County was established\\nMarch 28, 1820. The township named stretched along the eastern boundary of\\nOakland, northwards to the Indian treatj/ line, and westward, south of that line, to\\nthe principal meridian, including what forms now the counties of Lapeer, Genesee,\\nShiawassee, and portions of Sanilac, Tuscola, Saginaw and Shiawassee. St. Clair\\nCounty was organized May 8, 1820. Sept. 10, 1822, Gov. Cass proclamation,\\nestablishing the boundaries of Macomb, was issued, which proclamation is given in\\nthis chapter. The principal river of the county was called the Huron until 1824,\\nwhen the name was changed to Clinton by the act of July 17, 1824, and the name\\nof Huron Township changed to Clinton Township.\\nThe act, appoved April 12, 1827, laid off the county into five townships, viz:\\nHarrison, Clinton, Shelby, Washington and Ray. In 1832 the act to extend the\\nboundaries of Macomb was approved, when town 5 N. of R. 14. E., and the east\\nhalf of T. 5, N. of R. 13 E., were added to the county and attached for govern-\\nmental purposes to the town of Ray. March 9, 1833, the north half of Washington\\nwas formed into a new township to be called Bruce. April 22, 1833, town 5, N. of\\nRanges 13 and 14 E., were laid off under the name of Arrnadia. By the Act of March\\n7, 1834, Macomb Township was established, the boundaries of Ray were extended,\\nand the town line between Clinton and Harrison straightened. March 17, 1835,\\ntown 2, N. of R. 12, E. was laid off as the township of Jefferson. Hickory and\\nGrange townships were laid off March 11, 1837; Lenox was established March 20,\\n1837, and seven days previously the village of Mt. Clemens was incorporated.\\nAn Act approved March 6, 1838, authorized the organization of the town of Rich-\\nmond, and under authority of the same act the name Jefferson was abolished, and\\nthe town called Sterling. The Act of April 2, 1838, ordered that sections 12, 13,\\n24, 25 and 36 of town 1 N. R. 13 E., be taken from Orange and added to Hickory,\\nand also recognized the change of name from Hickory to Aba. Romeo was incor-\\nporated as a village, March 9, 1838, and on the same date the village of Utica\\nreceived authority to organize. The Act of March 26, 1839, changed the name\\nAha to Warren. On Feb. 16, 1842, the township of Macomb lost its eastern half.\\ns", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0305.jp2"}, "306": {"fulltext": "300 HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nhenceforth to be known as Chesterfield section 36 of Warren was ceded to Orange,\\nand b} an Act, approved March 9, 1843, the name of Orange gave place to that of\\nErin, by which name that picturesque division of the county continues to be\\nknown.\\nMISCELLANEOUS ACTS.\\nUnder the act of Jan. 3, 1818, the inhabitants of that portion of Wayne\\nCounty, comprehended within the limits of the District of Huron, as established\\nby that act, and subsequently altered, should meet at the house of Christian Clem-\\nens, under the superintendence of Christian Clemens, Daniel Le Roy and Francois\\nLabadie, to vote on the question of tiie organization of a General Assembly on the\\nthird Monday of February, 1818.\\nOn the 26th Feb. 1818, the Legislative Council decreed, that on the first Mon-\\nday of February and the second Monday of July in every year the County Court\\nfor the County of Macomb should be held.\\nMacomb County Court House. The Act of May 5, 1818, appropriated $400\\ntowards the erection of a Court House and Gaol for Macomb County, to be ex-\\npended by the Justices of the Court of General (Quarter Sessions, and to be paid\\nout of any moneys in the treasury, not otherwise appropriated.\\nThe Act of the Legislative Board, approved Aug. 26, 1819, directed that all\\nwills, inventories of estates, returns of administrators or executors, bonds, decrees,\\norders, and all documents, etc., connected with Macomb County, should be trans-\\nmitted at once to the County Register from the Register s office of Wayne.\\nAn Act of the Legislative Council was approved Aug. 4, 1824, authorizing\\nChristian Clemens, Ellis Doty, Justice H. Barker, and those who may associate\\nwith them to erect a dam across Clinton River at the village of Mt. Clemens, with\\ncertain provisos, one of which was that the water should not be raised higher than\\nthree and one-half feet above low water mark.\\nThe county commissioners of Macomb, were authorized, under an Act approved\\nAug. 4, 1824, to make such addition to the tax roll for that year, as they should\\ndeem necessary to meet the expense of completing court house and gaol, such tax\\nnot to exceed one-fourth of one per cent, on the valuation of real and personal\\nproperty.\\nThe construction of a territorial road from Mt. Clemens via\\\\ Romeo, Lapeer,\\nand Saginaw to the Sault de Ste. Marie was authorized March 4, 1831.\\nThe road from Detroit to Port Huron was laid off, under legislative authority.\\nThe Act approved April 12, 1827, authorized Nathaniel Millard, Jonathan", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0306.jp2"}, "307": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nKearsley, Levi Cook, Cliarles Larned, Ellis Doty, John P. Slieldon, Christian Clem-\\nrans, Alfed Ashley, Jacob Tucker, Ignace Morass, Joseph Hayes, and others who\\nmay associate with them, a company to remove obstructions from the Clinton\\nRiver, and render it navigable from the village of Mt. Clemens to MacFs Lower\\n3Iill. This company as organized was known as the Clinton River Navigation\\nCompany.\\nSept. 3, 1827, the counties of Macomb and St. Clair were erected into one dis-\\ntrict, and authorized to elect one member of the Legislative Council.\\nA second territorial road to the Clinton River from Detroit was authorized\\nunder the Act of June 23, 1828. This commenced at Detroit, continued by the Old\\nFrench Church to a \\\\)o u\\\\t on the Clinton River, betweeen Nathaniel Squire s and\\nEnoch Huntley s farms in Macomb Count3\\\\ William Meldrum and James Connor\\nof Macomb, and William Little of Wayne were appointed commissioners.\\nThe Act of June 23, 1828 decreed that there should be a territorial road estab-\\nlished, beginning at the northeast corner of Oakland County, and running thence\\nsouth along the division line between Macomb to Oakland to the base line;\\nthence continuing south until it intersects the turnpike leading from Detroit to\\nPontiac. Francis Cicot of Wayne, Alexander Faeles, of Macomb, and John Todd\\nof Oakland were the commissioners appointed under the Act.\\nThe Clinton Steam Mill Company was organized at Mt. Clemens, under power\\ngranted in an Act approved March 2, 1831. This act points out that the capital\\nstock was $20,000 in shares of 125 each. The subscriptions toward this stock were\\nordered to be opened at Detroit, the first Monday of Maj 1831, under the superin-\\ntendence of Lewis Cass, Jonathan Kearsley, James Abbott, Innis S. Wendell,\\nJohn Palmer, and also at Mt. Clemens, under Christian Clemens, Alfred Ashley,\\nJ. M. Cummings, and Job C. Smith.\\nAn Act approved June 18, 1832, provided that within six months, it should be\\nlawful for Antoine Dequindre, Barnabus Campau, Jacque Campau, Gabriel Cheine,\\nIsidore Cheine, Rene Marsac, Isidore Morin, Dominique Reopelle, who feel ag-\\ngrieved by laying out the territorial road from the citj of Detroit to the river Clin-\\nton so far as the Old French Church in the township of Hamtramck, to state their\\ncomplaints to any Circuit or County Judge in writing, when three disinterested\\nfreeholders will be appointed to decide and assess damages.\\nThe Romeo and Mt. Clemens Railroad was incorporated under authority given\\nin an Act, approved April 16, 1833, with Gad Chamberlain, Gideon Gates, Asahel\\nBailey, Lyman W. Gilbert, Azariah W. Sterling, Moses Freeman, Isaac Powell,\\nNoah Webster, Reuben R. Smith, Norman Perry, Ansou Bristoll, James C. Allen,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0307.jp2"}, "308": {"fulltext": "fe^\\n303 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nJoel Tucker, Wm. Canfield, Christopher Douglas, and N. T. Taylor. The capital\\nstock was $150,000.\\nShelby Liberal Institute. An Act to incorporate a society under this name was\\napproved April 22, 1833, granting to Daniel W. Phelps, Peleg Ewell, Samuel Ax-\\nford, Samuel Adair, Samuel Ladd, Lyman T. Jenny, Daniel Hurston, John S. Axford,\\nJoseph Lester, Luther R. Madison, John Stockton, and Calvin Davis, power to\\nestablish in the township of Shelby a literary institution, and appointing the men\\nnamed trustees of such.\\nRomeo Academy. Under an Act approved Mai ch 21, 1833, Gad. Cliamberlin,\\nNathaniel T. Taylor, Gideon Gates, Norman Perry, Noah Webster, Reuben R.\\nSmith, Hiram Calkins, John S. Axford, Abel Warren, Asahel Bailey, John Ben-\\nnett, James Starkweather, James Thompson, Azariah W. Steel, and William\\nAbbott of Macomb County were constituted trustees of Romeo Academy, with\\npower to establish such an institution for the education of youth.\\nThe Shelby and Detroit Railroad Company was authorized March 7, 1831,\\nwith Eurotas P. Hastings, Levi Cook, Shubael Couant, Gordon A. Leach, Daniel\\nW. Phillips, Lyman T. Jenny, John S. Axford, Jacob A. Summers, and Peleg Ewell,\\ncommissioners under tlie direction of a majority of whom subscriptions to the\\namount of JflOOiOOO capital stock miglit be received.\\nAn Act of the Legislative Council of the Territory of Michigan, approved\\nMarch 27, 1835, ordained, that the Supervisors of Macomb County, should, if they\\ndeem proper, discontinue all suits, pending in the Circuit Court, against Nathan B.\\nMiller, John Elliott, James Meldrum, and Francis Dequindre, as sureties of William\\nMeldrum, late treasurer of the county, and may release such bondsmen from all\\nliabilities.\\nRichard Butler for copying returns of the sheriif, containing 6,400 inhabitants\\nat $3.00 per thousand, received $18,02, March 21, 1358.\\nAn Act approved March 27, 1835, authorized the inhabitants of Harrison and\\nClinton townships to erect a bridge over the Clinton River at or near the village of\\nMt. Clemens, under the superintendence of Christian Clemens and Antoine Chortier,\\nand authorizing a tax to be levied on the people of these townships to meet the ex-\\npenses of the work. The conditions imposed were a bridge 1-4 feet wide, with a\\ndraw in the center of not less than 36 feet, and to be considered a free bridge for\\never.\\nThe Act to incorporate the Clinton Salt Works Company was approved April\\n3, 1838, giving authority to Robert S. Parks, Lawson S. Warner, Thomas B. Andrews,", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0308.jp2"}, "309": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCharles Hubbell, and Calvin C. Parks to form such a company and carry on the\\nbusiness.\\nAn Act for the relief of the township of Shelby was approved March 9, 1838,\\ndealing with the former absconding collector of taxes, and enabling the new collector\\nto receive the sums of money unpaid to the man reported as absconding.\\nAn Act appointing commissioners to establish State Roads was approved Feb.\\n28, 1838, directing that a State road from Mt. Clemens, by way of Crawford s\\nSettlement in Macomb Tp; Chubb s Settlement in Ray Tp., to Flower s store in\\nArmada, be laid out, and appointing Wm. Canfield, Stewart Taylor, and Azariah\\nPrentiss, commissioners.\\nCOTTNTY OFFICERS PAST AND PRESENT.\\nSHERIFFS.\\nJames Fulton 1818-22\\nWilliam Meldrum. ..1S22-28\\nN. Nye 1828-30\\nAddison Chamberlain 1830-32\\nWilliam Canfield 1S32-36\\nAbraham Freeland 1836-3S\\nCalvin Davis 1 838-40\\nAmos B. Cooley 1 840-44\\nJohn G. Dixon _ 1 844-46\\nVarnum Lutkin 1 846-4S\\nMilo SellecU .1848-50\\nWalter Porter 1850-52\\nThonjas Colby _ 1852-56\\nCharles C. Lamb. 1856-60\\nJoseph Hubbard _ 1860-64\\nGeo. E. Adair 1864-66\\nHas well Church 1866-70\\nFrederick G. Kendrick 1870-74\\nWinfield S. Hathaway _ 1874-7S\\nLouis Groesbeck 1878-80\\nT. W. Newton 1880-82\\nCLERKS.\\nJohn Stockton 1818-25\\nThomas Brandon 1 825-26\\nR. S. Rice 1826-28\\nR. P. Eldridge 1828-30\\nRichard Butler 1830-36\\nAmos Dalby 1836-46\\nRobert Thompson 1S46-48\\nIra Stout 1848-50\\nTheron Cud worth __ 1850-52\\nJohn S. Fletcher 1852-54\\nPerrin Crawford 1854-56\\nJohn B. Ellsworth ..1856-58\\nHenry O. Smith 1858-64\\nJames Whiting _ 1864-66\\nWilliam M. Connor 1866-70\\nCharles S. Groesbeck 1870-78\\nWilliam L. Dicken 1878-82\\nCOUNTY REGISTRARS.\\nJohn Stockton 1818-28\\nWilliam Meldrum 1828-32\\nRodney O. Cooley 1832-38\\nAmos Dalby ..1838-44\\nHenry Teats 1844-48\\nRobert H. Wallace 1848-52\\nJohn J. Traver 1852-56\\nNorton L. Miller 1856-60\\nGeo. W. French 1860-62\\nThomas L. Sackett 1862-68\\nAlonzo M. Keeler 1868-70\\nGeo. W. Robinson 1S70-72\\nAlonzo M. Keeler 1S72-74\\nTraugotte Longerhausen 1874-80\\nJudson S. Farrar 1880-82\\nJUDGES OF THE PROBATE COURT.\\nChristian Clemens. .1818-36\\nPrescott B. Thurston 1S36-40\\nPorter Kibbee 1840-48\\nPrescott B. Thurston 1848-60\\nIsaac B. Gilbert 1 860-64\\nHenry O. Smith 1864-68\\nThomas L. Sacket 1868-76\\nJames B. Eldredge 1876-80\\nJames B. Eldredge 18\\nrff-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0309.jp2"}, "310": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTREASURERS.\\nChristian Clemens iSiS-27\\nJohn S. Axford 1827-32\\nH iram Calkins .1832-34\\nHorace H. Cady 1834-36\\nRodney O. Cooley 1836-40\\nHenry M. Dodge 1840-42\\nThomas M. Perry 1842-48\\nAllen P. Bentley 1848-52\\nJoshua B. Dickenson. 1852-56\\nCharles B. Matthews 1856-60\\nEdward C. Gallup 1860-62\\nJustus R. Crandall 1862-66\\nJosiah T. Robinson 1866-68\\nJoseph Hubbard 1868.70\\nOliver Chapaton 1S70-78\\nCharles Tackels 1878-82\\nPROSECUTING ATTORNEYS.\\nEzraB. Prescott 1S18-20\\nGeo. A. O Keefe 1820-28\\nAlex. D. Frazer 1828-32\\nRobert P. Eldridge _ 1S32-34\\nCornelius O Flynn 1834-38\\nDewitt C. Walker 1838-40\\nJohn J. Leonard 1840-42\\nI larleigh Carter 1 842-44\\n\\\\Vm. T. Mitchell .1844-46\\nAndrew S. Robertson 1846-50\\nGiles Hubbard I S50-56\\nRichard Butler 1856-5S\\nGiles Hubbard 1 858-60\\nElisha F. Mead. ...1860-62\\nThomas M. Crocker 1862-64\\nGiles Hubbard 1864-66\\nEdgar Weeks 1 866-70\\nJames B. Eldredge. 1870-76\\nGeo. M. Crocker 1876-S0\\nIrving D. Hanscom iSSo-82\\n[Mr. Hanscom moved to Marquette in June, 1082.]\\nCOUNTY SURVEYORS.\\nJohn B. HoUister 1830-32\\nWilliam A. Burt 1S32-34\\nEphraim Calkins. 1S34-36\\nJoel Manley 1836-42\\nCharles F. Mallory ...1842-50\\nLudwig Wesolouski 1850-52\\nGeo. E. Adair 1S52-56\\nAddison P. Brewer 1856-60\\nGeo. H. Fenner 1860-62\\nLudwig Wesolouski 1862-64\\nOscar S. Burgess .1864-70\\nGeo. E. Adair 1870-72\\nOscar S. Burgess 1872-74\\nClarence Stephens .1874-76\\nGeorge E.Adair... 1876-82\\nSUPERVISOR S BOARD.\\nThe first record of the Board is given under date July 17, 1827. Henry\\nTaylor, John S. Axford, Josejjh Lester, Reuben R. Lester, Job C. Smith, super-\\nvisors, were present. One of the resolutions adopted at this meeting was that no\\nbounty should be allowed for wolf or panther scalps in the future, and that 14\\nbe allowed for scalps taken under the law.\\nIn October, 1827, the Board ordered that tliere should be raised for county\\npurposes one-third of one per cent, upon all taxable property, which equal-\\nized would entail a tax upon Harrison, $80 on Clinton, 170 on Shelby, $50\\nWashington, i70 Ray, $28.37.\\nThe first record of the issue of county orders is dated October 15, 1827, and\\nis as follows: B. W. Freeman, for services rendered the United States versus\\nGarret Vand der Pool, 93 cents Moses Freeman, in the same cause, $i Old David,\\nfor wolf scalps, $i William Olds, for services as constable and crier, $3.50 Robert\\nTownsend, for wolf scalps, $4 Isaac Andrews, for services rendered County Com-", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0310.jp2"}, "311": {"fulltext": "|V1/^C0|^/1B COU^fT/.CO^j)^T HOUSL^ 1881-2,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0311.jp2"}, "312": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0312.jp2"}, "313": {"fulltext": "te^\\nHISTORY OP MAUOJIB COUNTY.\\nmissioners, $3.50; John S. Axford, for duties as late County Commissioner, io;\\nAsa Huntley, #2; John S. Axt ord, as Supervisor, $6 Joseph Lester, $6 for services\\nas Supervisor Reuben R. Smith, for similar services, fO Job C. Smith, $4\\nEzekiel Allen, late C^lounty Commissioner, io; Ephraim McCall, as Clerk of Super-\\nvisor s Board, $1.50 Henr} Taylor, \u00e2\u0096\u00a0|!4, as Supervisor John S. Axford, for wolf\\nscalps, $4.\\nWhat changes have taken place since this record was made The old super-\\nvisors placed a quietus on the wolf hunters, exercised a false economy in every\\ndepartment of the public business of the county yet they were honorable men,\\nand acted only in the spirit of the times. A few years later they were among the\\nfirst to receive the teachings of the new immigrants from the Eastern States, and\\nsince 1835 may be said to equal in public enterprise tlie supervisors of the counties\\nerected during that year.\\nIn the paper on county organization, prepared in 1868 by Edgar Weeks, the\\nfollowing account of proceedings is given\\nThe County of Macomb was organized on the 18th day of Januaiy, in the\\nyear 1818. Prior to tliat date Macomb County was attached to the Judicial Dis-\\ntrict of Huron, and its limits embraced the present counties of Oakland, St. Clair,\\nLapeer, and several other more northern counties. The county seat was estab-\\nlished at Mt. Clemens, where it has remained to this day. On the organization of\\ntlie county, the governor, by commissions under the great seal of the territory,\\nappointed the following officers. We give the names of the persons appointed,\\nthe dates of the appointments, and the titles of tlie offices 1818, Jan. 20\\nChristian Clemens, Chief Justice Daniel Leroy and V/illiam Thompson, Associate\\nJustices; John Stockton Clerk of the Court of General and Quarter Sessions\\nConrad Tucker, Justice of the Peace Elisha Harrington, Justice of the Peace\\nIgnace Morass, Coroner; John Connor, Constable Rufus Hatch, Justice of the\\nPeace Feb. 9 Daniel Leroy, Justice of the Peace Francis Labadie, Justice of\\nthe Peace John K. Smith, Justice of the Peace June 22 John Connor and\\nJohn B. Pettit, Commissioners Aug. 13 James Robinson, Constable Benoit\\nTremble, Supervisor of Harrison Nov. 3 Daniel LeRo} Judge of Probate\\nJohn Stockton, Register of Probate Dec. 12 John Stockton, Justice of the\\nPeace. 18PJ, Jan. 4 Esra Prescott, Prosecuting Attorney.\\nUp to the year 1827, the municipal powers of the county were exercised\\nthrough a Board of County Commissioners, and at that time the county was\\nterritorially divided into five townships, named Harrison, Clinton, Shelby, Wash-\\nington and Ray. These townships were, geographicall} made up quite differently\\nfrom their present boundaries. We will not stop to describe more than our own\\ntown of Clinton as it then stood. In the old town of Harrison was then included", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0313.jp2"}, "314": {"fulltext": "IIISTOHY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\na portion of what is now Clinton, and what now constitutes Chesterfield and\\nLenox. Clinton then comprised what is now Erin, Warren, Macomb and the balance\\nof what is now Clinton, not then included in Harrison.\\nThe first election in this township was held at the Court House, in Mt.\\nClemens, and Job C. Smith was elected supervisor. The first supervisor of Har-\\nrison was our old townsman, Dr. Henry Taylor, senior. The first session of the\\nBoard of Supervisors of this county, was held at Mt. Clemens, and Robert P.\\nEldredge was chosen as its clerk. The apportionment of the taxes of the year\\n1827, cast upon this town the burden of raising the sum of $70.00, while Harri-\\nson was compelled to contribute $80.00, Shelby $50.00, Ray 28.37, and Washing-\\nton $70.00, a total for all purposes in the county of $298.37.\\nThe next year the total amount of taxes raised in this county, was $525.59, of\\nwhich amount Clinton raised $117.88. A resolution of the Board at this time, was\\nto the effect that the improved lands of Clinton and Harrison be valued at two\\ndollars per acre, while the same lands in the other towns were valued at eight\\ndollars per acre.\\nEvents in the history of our county transpiring subsequent to the year 1827, are\\npreserved in the records of the County Clerk s office, at the county seat, and to that\\nrepository of our county legislation the curious reader may at anytime resort,\\nand assuage his curiosity, or satisfy his thirst after knowledge of matters which\\nare interesting to the statistician, but which do not form an interesting feature for\\nthe general reader. They are facts which bear more intimately upon the physical,\\neconomical and industrial advancement made by the people of the county.\\nCHAPTER XVII.\\nPOLITICAL HISTORY.\\nThe interest manifested in public affairs by the people of Macomb becomes\\nevident from a review of the General. State and County elections, an account of\\nwhich is given in this chapter. For many years the political battle was carried on\\nbetween the Democrat and Whig, with victory almost always attending the former.\\nAs times moved onward, new ideas sprang into existence, varying, as it were,\\npolitical life, and urging the old politicians to advance in the paths of reform. At\\nne time a tendency existed to cast away the tyranny oi party, and give an untram-\\nmeled vote for the man. This tendency grows stronger with years. While\\nacknowledging the gi-eat benefits conferred upon the Republic by the two great\\nparties that claim to be President-makers, yet great numbers of the people are dis-\\n*C s^", "height": "2719", "width": "1954", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0314.jp2"}, "315": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsatisfied they can not overlook the magnitude of the abuses which have entwined\\nthemselves with the present system, and which contribute to lessen that great name\\nonce belonging to the greatest and most perfect of governments.\\nThe adherents of party in this county have not been silent when reform was\\nneeded. They have scanned the course of their representatives with jealous eye,\\nand rewarded or punished just in such measure as justice poiutetli, securing thereby\\na fair representation in the council of the Republic as well as in that of the State.\\nNativeism, sectionalism, know-nothingism and demouism, or religio-political big-\\notr3% appear to be on the margin of the grave some of the vices are already buried,\\nbut enough remain to cause some little disunion, if not disaffection, and so live\\nto destroy what would be otherwise a magnificent solidarity of public peace and\\nprosperity. Mercy, justice and patriotism require every corner of this land for\\ntenancy, so that sectionalism and all its concomitant vices must yield must give\\nplace to what is good and noble, and let peace rule the Republic forever.\\nDuring the first years of the county s history, party bigotry was not acknowl-\\nedged, but convention and caucus were held, the same as now, to select a man,\\nnot to serve his own or his party s interest, but that of the people. The first set-\\ntlers were attached to tlie Jacksonian political school, because they saw in the old\\nGeneral one who held the Constitution of the United States above all else. When,\\nin 1832, South Carolina assumed the right to ignore the laws of the United States,\\nand to oppose the collection of the revenue, Gen. Jackson, then President, acted\\nwith his usual decision, aud told the South Carolinians that the Union must be\\npreserved. He sent United States troops into that State, instructed the revenue\\ncollector at Charleston to perform his duty, and notified John C. Calhoun that he\\nwould be arrested on the committal of the first overt act against the law. TJiis\\ndecisive action, together with the terms of his proclamation, cemented, as it were,\\nall political parties under one leader. The power to annul a law of the United\\nStates, he says, is incompatible with the existence of the Union, contradicted\\nexpressly by the letter of the Constitution, unauthorized by its spirit, inconsistent\\nwith eveiy pi-inciple on which it is founded, and destructive to the great object for\\nwhich it was formed. To say that any State may at pleasure secede from the\\nUnion, is to say that the United States are not a nation because it would be a\\nsolecism to contend that any part of the nation might dissolve its connection with\\nthe other part, to their injury or ruin, without committing any offence.\\nThe States severally have not retained their entire sovereignty. It has been shown\\nthat, in becoming parts of a nation, they surrendered many of their essential parts\\nof sovereignty. The right to make treaties, declare war, levy taxes, exercise exclu-\\nsive judicial and legislative powers, were all of them functions of sovereign power.\\nThe States, then, for all of these important purposes, were no longer sovereign.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0315.jp2"}, "316": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe duty imposed on me by the Constitution, to take care that the laws\\nl)e faitiifully executed, sliall be performed to the extent of the powers vested in\\nme by law. In this manner President Jackson instructed tlie South Carolinians\\nin the principles of federal government, and in this manner, also, did he notify\\nthem of the intentions of the United States in the event of their persisting in the\\nviolation of any of its laws.\\nIn those olden times a man was chosen on his merits, and entrusted with the\\ntrue representation of the people in the Legislature as well as in the Supervisor s\\nCourt. A reference to the election returns will prove this statement precise in\\nevery particular. Years rolled on, and still party lines remained unobserved. In\\n1836 there was an apparent tendency to draw those lines closer but the effort was\\ncomparatively a weak one. Two years later, in 1838, the doctrine of abolition was\\nreceived with evident marks of disapprobation in this county. In 1840 Abolition.\\nand Liberty created some political excitement here but not sufficient to lead one\\nto conclude that within a quarter of a century, this count} would send forth thou-\\nsands of private soldiers and officers to do battle for the principle, which it held so\\ncheap in 1840.\\nIn 1841 James G. Birney was called from his quiet liome at Lower Saginaw to\\nenter the political battlefield against Henry Clay on one ticket and James K. Polk\\non the other. Birney was enthusiastic, honest, and honorable. As a politician he\\nlived before his time, and as a result did not occupy the Presidential Office. Ten\\nj ears later the greater number of those who followed the standard of the Liberty\\nParty, acquiesced in the doctrine preached under the oaks at Jackson, and the\\nname and fame of the Sons of Liberty were henceforth embosomed in tliat party.\\nTlie American Party, organized immediately afterward, soon passed away. In\\nthis county, its impracticable, unjust, and unholy principles were stigmatized, and\\nto the credit of the people, may it be said, entirely ignored. It was no more\\nAmerican in spirit, than was the Tea Tax and the other principles of its originators,\\nwhich roused American manhood to cast off all connection with them.\\nThe contest between the humble Abraham Lincoln, and the noted Stephen A.\\nDouglass, in 1860, was characteristically interesting. The result decided the\\nfate of the slave-holding Southerners, and gave to the seventh decade of the nine-\\nteenth century a nation of freemen such an one as the Fathers of the Republic\\ndreamed of such an one as the world liad never hitherto known.\\nIn 1864 George B. McClellan opposed the great War President. The claims\\nof the former were many and much appreciated but he who proclaimed the aboli-\\ntion of slavery, from the highest seat in the Union, was destined to occupy that\\nposition, and would doubtless be elected and re-elected, had not the foul assassin\\nsnatched from him a life, then in the spring-time of its fame.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0316.jp2"}, "317": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHoratio Seymour, a refined, enlightened Statesman, was nominated by tlie\\nDemocratic Party in 1868. The fortunate Grant was nominated by the Republican\\nPart} Notwithstanding all the high qualifications for that office, which Mr. Sey-\\nmour possessed, the man who cast thousands upon thousands of the best blood of\\nthe North, against the columns of the slave-holders deserved to be, and was elected.\\nIt were well for the famous General, if his political life ended in 1872; but it was\\nnot so ordered, evidently, in the destiny of the Republic.\\nIn 1872 Gen. Grant was renominated, to oppose Charles O Connor on the Demo-\\ncratic, and Horace Greeley on the Liberal-Republican tickets but the services of\\nthe soldier were too well remembered, and so the epauleted Grant was returned to\\nthe White House for a second term.\\nIn 1876 Samuel J. Tilden representing the Democrats, and R. B. Hayes, the\\nRepublicans, sought the favors of the people. The memory of that contest is too\\nfresh to require further reference. Mr. Hayes reached the White House, and held\\nit for four years. Owing to his quiet administration, and the return of prosperity,\\nhis party lost little ground, although many said the disputes and uncertainties of\\nthat election would militate against Republican success in 1880.\\nThe elections of 1880 were, perhaps, the most enthusiastic of all expressions of\\nthe popular will. Then was Greek opposed to Greek Gen. Hancock won distinc-\\ntion on the battle fields of the .South, his service was magnificent. Gen. Garfield\\nhad some little military experience but what was wanting in this respect, was fully\\nmade up in his knowledge of public economy and practical knowledge of every-day\\nlife. He was elected but who could then dream, that the new President would\\nfall beneath the blow of an assassin, while yet his Cabinet was unorganized?\\nAlmost before he entered on the duties of his high office, he fell at the hands of an\\nAmerican, and from this fall he never rallied, until death ended his terrible suffer-\\nings. His death placed the Republic in mourning throughout its length and\\nbreadth.\\nVice-President Arthur assumed the Presidential Chair, and under him the\\ntroubles in the Senate were smoothed down, and the Nation allowed to resume its\\nways of progress.\\nThi-oughout the various political campaigns, from 1818 to the present time, the\\ncitizens of Macomb, have, as a rule, given a popular vote. Previous to 185-4, the\\ncounty was decidedly Democratic. From 1851 to 1870 it may be said to have given\\nthe Republicans a majority; and since 1870 to the present time political power is so\\nequally balanced that representatives of both parties sliare the confidence of the\\npeople. A desire has existed and does exist, to witness the victory of virtue over\\nvice, and so far as such a laudable desire could be effected, the people were re-\\nwarded in their contests.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0317.jp2"}, "318": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCOUNTY ELECTIONS.\\nIn the following pages the results of the various elections, so far as this county\\nis concerned, are given. It is not to be presumed, however, that majorities given\\nfor candidates for the United States Congress, or for officers of State resulted in\\ntheir election. The vote received in this county alone is only given, to learn who\\nwas elected, reference must be made to the State History.\\nThe county officers elected in 1818, 1820, 1822, and 1824 are named in the\\nOrganic Chapter. The election returns, with the names of candidates before the\\npeople of this county for the honor of office, are given from 1825 to the present time.\\n1S25.\\nCongress, 1S25.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Christian Clemens, 52 James\\nConnor, 44; John Stockton, 63; Joseph Miller,\\n57. These returns were certified to by Chris-\\ntian Clemens, Chief Justice of the County of\\nMacomb; Elisha Harrington, Associate Justice of\\nMacomb Thomas Ashley and Nathaniel Squiers,\\nCommissioners and William Meldrum, Sheriff.\\nCountv commissioners, 1S25. John S. Axford,\\n30 Ezekiel Allen, 29 Joseph Hayes. 29.\\nTreasurer, 1S25. William M. Dannell, 10;\\nChristian Clemens, 12.\\nCoroner, 1823. Harvey Cook, 22.\\nConstables. 1825.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Daniel B. Webster, 24 Isaac\\nAndrus, 27 Gideon Gates, 6.\\n1826.\\nmissioners, 1826. Alexander Tackles\\nDavis VF, 14.\\n1S27.\\n1827. Ray Township: John Biddle,\\n18; Austin E. Wing, 2 Benj. N. Truman, i. Clin-\\nton Township John Biddle, 31 Austin Wing, 6\\nGabriel Richard, 7. Shelby Township John Bid-\\ndle, 15; Austin Wing, 26. Harrison Township:\\nGabriel Richard, -ai John Biddle, 9 Austin\\nWing, 45. Washington Township: John Biddle,\\n34; Austin E. Wing, 24.\\nMember Legislative council, 1827. Clinton:\\nJohn Stockton d., 40; Wm. A.Burt w., 2; John\\nK. Smith, I Shelby: John Stockton d., 15 Wm.\\nA. Burt w, 17. Ray; Wm. A. Burt w, 16; John\\nStockton d, y. Washington: Wm. A. Burt w, 40;\\nJohn Stockton d, 30. Harrison John Stockton,\\n45. John Stockton received 139, and Wm. A.Burt\\n75 votes.\\nCounty con\\nd, 50 Calvi\\nCong}\\nCom;\\n1829. Harrison: Gabriel Richard, 89;\\nJohn Biddle, 31 John R. Williams, 3. Wash-\\nington Gabriel Richard, 13; John R. Williams, I;\\nChristopher Arnold, i John Biddle, I. Clinton\\nJohn Biddle, Jg Gabriel Richard, 5; John R.\\nWilliams, I. Shelby: John Biddle, 37; Gabriel\\nRichard, g. Ray John Biddle, 35.\\nMember Legislative council, i82g. Harrison\\nJohn Stockton, 110; Wm. A. Burt, 13. Clinton:\\nJohn Stockton, 14 Wm. A. Burt, 12. Shelby: John\\nStockton, 32; Wm. A. Burt w, 12. Washington:\\nWm. A. Burt, 73 John Stockton, 51. Desmond,\\nSt. Clair, Coltrellville: John Stockton, 83; Wm\\nA. Burt, 97. Ray: Wm.A. Burt w, 29 John Stock-\\nton d, 5.\\nCounty coroner, 1829. Harvey Cook, Harrison,\\n32 Washington, 84 Clinton, 44 Ray, 29 Shel-\\nby, 2.\\nCountv Treasurer, 1S29. Harrison: Ezekiel Al-\\nlen, 34 John S. Vxford, 4. Washington: Ezekiel\\nAllen. iS John S. Axford, S3. Clinton: John S.\\nAxford, 25 Ezekiel Allen, 39. Ray Ezekiel Al-\\nlen. 4 John S. Axford, 26. Shelby, John S. Ax-\\nford, 23 Ezekiel Allen, 8. After the election of\\n1829, Mr. Burt became a Democrat, and observed\\nthe principles of that party ftntil his death in 1858.\\n1831.\\nCongress, 1831. Clinton John R. Williams, 40;\\nSam. W. Dexter, 27 Austin E. Wing, 44. Ray\\nAustin E. Wing, i John F. Williams, 5 Sam. W.\\nDexter, 31. Washington: Sam. W. Dexter, 100;\\nAustin E. Wing, 36 John R. Williams, 22. Harri-\\nson John R. Williams, 69; Austin E. Wing, 57\\nSam W. Dexter, 3. Shelby Sam. W. Dexter, 49\\nAustin E. Wing, 16; John R. Williams, 5.\\nMember Legislative council, 1831. -St. Clair\\nJohn Stockton, 91 Alfred Ashley, 89. Washington\\nAlfred Ashley, 122 John Stockton, 40. Clinton\\nriv", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0318.jp2"}, "319": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nt L.\\nJohn Stockton, 54; Alfred Ashley, 57. Ray: Al-\\nfred Ashley, 41; John Stockton, 25. Harrison:\\nAlfred Ashley, 10; John Stockton, 121. Shelby:\\nAlfred Ashley, 49 John Stockton, 36.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a21832.\\nl t /c- on expediency of State Government, October\\n22, 1832. Ray Township 33 yes, 2 no; Shelby\\nTownship 43 yes, 27 no Harrison Township I yes,\\n60 no Washington Township 45 yes, 9 no.\\nCounty Treasurer 1832. Shelby; Hiram Calkins\\n49 Ezra B. Throop, ig. Ray Ezra B. Throop, o;\\nHiram Calkins, 46. Harrison Hiram Calkins, I\\nEzra B. Throop, 76. Washington Ezra B. Throop,\\n19; Hiram Calkins, gg.\\nCoroner, 1832.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Shelby Anthony King, 28 Ray\\n46; Harrison 12 Washington 43.\\n1833-\\nCongress, 1833. Austin E. Wing, 36 Wm. Wood-\\nbridge, 220 Lucius Lyon, 259.\\nMembers Legislative council, 1833. Ralph Wad-\\nhams d, 249 John Stockton d, 402.\\n1835.\\nTreasurer.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 U. H. Cady d., 499; Syl. T. At-\\nwood w., 278.\\nCoroner. Harvey Cook d., 497 Lyman T. Jenny,\\n260.\\nRegistrar. John Stockton d., 487 Richard But-\\nler w, 271 Rodney O Cooley, 12.\\n1S36.\\nProbate Judge.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Vrescolt B. Thurston w, 288\\nChristian Clemens d, 146 Calvin Davis d, 201.\\nAssociate Judges. Ebenezer Hall w, 164 Samuel\\nS. Axford d, 550 Horace Stevens d, 487 Minot T.\\nLane, 78.\\nSheriff. Abram Freeland d, 507 Daniel Chand-\\nler w, 109 Orison Sheldon w, 18.\\nCounty clerk. Amos Dolby d, 447 Aaron\\nWeeks w, 20; Prescott B. Thurston w, 119 Benj.\\nM. Freeland d, 2.\\nRegistrar. Amos Dolby d, 245 James Brown\\nw, 107 G. W. Knapt d, 205 Gideon Gates w, 92\\nPrescott B. Thurston w, 9: Richard Butler w, i.\\nTreasurer. Rodney O. Cooley d, 516; Wm. A.\\nBurt d, 5 Aaron Weeks w, 102.\\nCoroners. William Olds d, 635 Harry B. Teed\\nd. 337 Benj. N. Freeman w, 79 Norman Perry w,\\n168.\\nCounty surveyors. Joel W. Manly d, 436 Wm.\\nA. Burt d, 192.\\nPresidential Electors. David C. McKinstry, 397\\nDaniel Le Roy, Wm. H. Hoag, Wol-\\ncott Lawrence, 44; William Draper Wm. H.\\nWalsh,\\nSci!ators.-]3.coh Summers d, 536 William Draper,\\nw, 89 Thomas J. Drake w, 35 Randolph Manning\\nd, 414 John Clarke d, 408.\\nRepresentatives. Isaac Munfore d, 679 Tinus\\nS. Gilbert vv, 23S William Canfield d, 134 Ephraim\\nCalkins d, 547 Alfred Goodell d, 28S.\\n1S37.\\nGovernof, 1S37. Charles C. Trowbridge w, 633;\\nStevens T. Mason d, 426; Ed. D. Ellis 88.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1837. Daniel S. Bacon w,\\n607 Edward Mundy d, 421 John Biddle w, 138.\\nSenafois, 1S37. S. V. R. Trowbridge w, 617;\\nThomas J. Drake w, 629; Elijah F. Cook d, 469;\\nJohn Barton d. 463.\\nRepresentatives, 1S37. Richard Butler vv, 6l6\\nOrison Sheldon w, 6o3 Caleb Wilber w, loi\\nMinot T. Lane w, 602 Robert P. Eldredge d, 488\\nEphraim Calkins d, 371 Alfred Goodell d, 472;\\nIsaac J. Grovier d, 47 Calvin Davis d, 39 Alex-\\nander Tackles d, 42.\\nCongress, 1837. Isaac E. Crary d, 265 Heze-\\nkiah G. Wells w, 275.\\n183S.\\nCongress, 1S3S. Isaac E. Crary d, 704; Heze-\\nkiah G. Wells w, 610.\\nState senators, 1S38. Jacob Summers d, 677\\nEbenezer B. Harrington d, 671 Reuben R. Smith\\nw. 611 Ira Porter w, 623.\\nRepresentatives, 1838. Isaac J. Grovier d, 693\\nSamuel Axford d, 661 Alexander Tackles d, 678\\nRichard Butler w, 565 Henry R. Schetterly d, 590\\nOrnon Archer w, 536 Minot T. Lane w, 45 Hiram\\nSherman w, 3 James L. Conger w, 25.\\nSheriff 1838. Calvin Davis d, 706 Orson Shel-\\ndon w, 595 Henry M. Dodge d, I.\\nCounty commissioners, 183S. Sanford H. Corbin\\nd, 692 Ephraim Calkins d, 720 Solomon Porter\\nd, 673 Ebenezer Hall vv, 582 Payne K. Leech w,\\n611; Azariah W. Sterling w, 613; Capt. Bachelor,\\nI Richard Butler, i.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1838. Thomas R. Bourne w,\\n585 Amos Dalby d, 719.\\nCounty clerk, 1S38. Amos Dalby d, 745 Calvin\\nS. Williams vv, 557.\\nCoroners, 1S38. William Lewis d, 696 Alfred", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0319.jp2"}, "320": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nGoodell d, 6S9 Isaac Russ w, 5gS Linus S. Gil-\\nbert w, 601 Ebenezer Hall. i.\\nCounty surveyor, 183S. Joel W. Manley d, 7S5\\nOrrin Southwell. 4S0.\\nCounty Treasuiet. Henry M. Dodge d, 689 Nor-\\nman Perry w, 610.\\n1839-\\nGovernor, 1839. William Woodbridge w, Soy\\nElon Farnsworth d, 7S6.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1839. James W. Gordon vv,\\n807; Thomas Fitzgerald d, 783.\\nSenator, 1839.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Robert Eldredge d, S19; Jus-\\ntin Rice w, 735.\\nRepresentatives, 1839. Dewitt C. Walker d, 797\\nSamuel Axford d, 792 John Stockton d, 789\\nAzariah W. Sterling w, 762 Hiram Andrews w,\\n761 James L. Conger w, 723 Alexander D.\\nThurston d, i Dexter Mussey w, i P. B. Thurs-\\nton w, I Richard Butler w, 2; Ebenezer Hall w,\\n2; Dr. E. Hall w, I.\\nCounty commissioners. 1839. Ephraim Calkins\\nd, S08; Payne K. Leach w, 718: R. Butler,, i.\\nConstitutional Amemhnent, 1839. For amend-\\nment, 266 against amendment, 453.\\nCourt-House Loan, 1S39. For the loan, 242;\\nagainst the loan, 1,024.\\n1840.\\nPresiJcntial Electors, 1840. Charles Moran d,\\nKinsley S.Bingham d, Charles E. Stuart d, :r24;\\nThomas J. Drake w, John Van Fo ;sen w, Hezekiali\\nG. Wells w, 9S2.\\nCongress, 1840. Alpheus Felch d, H39 Jacob\\nM. Howard w, 973; Asa Avers w, i Richard But-\\nler w, I Gardner D. Williams w, i.\\nSenator, 1S40. James L. Conger w, 9S5 Dewitt\\nC. Walker w, 1121.\\nRepresentatives, 1S40. John Stockton d. 1156;\\nGurden C. Leech d, 1122; Josiah Lee d, 1128;\\nWm. Henry Warren w, 947; Hiram Andrews w.\\n973 Minot T. Lane w, 971.\\nSheriff, 1840 Lyman B. Price d, 1137; .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\zariah\\nW. Sterling w. 975.\\nJudge of Probate, 1840.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter S. Palmer d,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a21128 Prescott B. Thurston w, 982.\\nTreasurer, :840. Henry M. Dodge d, I150;\\nJoseph Hubbard w, 963.\\nComity clerk, 1840. Orson Sheldon w, 943; Anios\\nDalby d, 1163.\\nCounty Registrar, 1840. Orson Sheldon w, 942\\nAmos Dalby d, 1162.\\nCounty Juilges, 1840. Azariah Prentis d, 11 14;\\nHiron Hathaway d, 1139; Ebenezer Hall w, 974\\nJustin H. Butler w, 974.\\nCoroners, 1840. Daniel Shattuck d, 1140; Masin\\nHarris d, 1 137; Solomon Lathrop w, 975; Valorous\\nMaynard w, 972.\\nSurveyors, 1S40. Joel W. Manley d, 1168; Joseph\\nCole, 940.\\nCounty commissioners. Neil Gray d, 1:26; Wm.\\nM. Willey, 976.\\n1S41.\\nGovernor, 1S4T. John S. B.irry d, 1033 Thilo\\nC. Fuller w, 660; Jnbez S. Fitch, 7.\\nLieutenant-Governor. 1840. Origen D. Richard-\\nson d, 1030; Edmund B. Bostwick w, 661.\\n.Senators, 1841. Jonathan Shearer d, I0I2 Ly-\\nman Granger d, 1014 Joshiah Snow w, 678 Syl-\\nvester Warner w. 663.\\nRepresentatives, 1841. Charles B. H. Fessenden\\nd, 994; Hiron Hathaway d. 982; Richard Butler\\nw, 705 Geo. Perkins w, 640.\\nCounty commissioners, 1841. Henry Teats d,\\n1027 Alfred Ashley w, 625.\\nJiiifye of Probate, 1S41, to fill Vacancy. Pres-\\ncott B. Thurston w, 425; Porter Kibbee d, 437;\\nCharles B. H. Fessenden d, 237.\\n1842.\\nSenators, 1842. Jonathan Shearer d, 809; Neil\\nGr.ay, Sr., d, 775 John Biddle w. 635 Minot T.\\nLane w, 658 Harvey .S. Bradley w, 46 Neil\\nGray. 40.\\nRepresentatives, 1 842. Samuel Axford d, 846\\nHorace H. Cady d, 797 Richard Butler w, 692\\nSolomon Lathrop w, 605 Linus F. Gilbert f s, 33\\nChauncey Church f s, 40.\\nSheriff, 1842.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 .^mos B. Cooley d, 816: Joseph\\nHubbard w, 597 Thomas L. Sackett f s, 44.\\nTreasurer, 1842, Thomas M. Perry d, S05\\nPrescott B. Thurston w, 677 Humphrey Shaw, 40;\\nAsa B. Ayres, i.\\nRegistrar of recti s. 1842. Amos Dalby d, 954\\nAlmerin Tinker w, 549 Norton L. Miller, 40.\\nCounty clet k, 1842. Amos Dalby d, 975; Norton\\nS. Miller w, 56S.\\nCounty Surveyor, 1S42. Joel W. Manley d, 946\\nCoUatinus Day w, 573.\\nCounty coroner, 1842. Josiah Lee d, 8gi; Daniel", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0320.jp2"}, "321": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n4A\\nShattuck d, Sgo Benj. T. Castle w. 6io; David\\nStone w, 606; John Sowle f s, 34; Samuel H.\\nMiller f s, 40.\\n1843.\\nGovernor, 1843. John S. Barry d, SSg; Zina\\nPitcher w, 594; James G. Birney f s, 72.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1S43. Origen D. Richard-\\nson d, S72 James B. Larne w. 590 Luther F.\\nStevens, 71.\\nCongress, 1843. James B. Hunt d, S93 Thomas\\nJ. Drake w, 487; William Canfield f s, 66.\\nSenators, 1843. Lorenzo M. Mason d, 839; True\\nP. Tucker w, 656.\\nCon. Ret reseniatives, 1843 Dewitt C. Walker d,\\n7S8 Philo Tillson d, S6g James L. Conger w, 702;\\nWm. A. Burt w, 587 James H. Green 56 Chaun-\\ncey Church. 57.\\nConstitutional Amendments of 1S42 submitted,\\n1S43. For Amendment, 1069. Against Amend-\\nment, 79.\\n1844-\\nPresidential Electors, 1844 Parley J. Spalding d,\\nLouis Beaufait d, Charles P. Bush d, 1359; George\\nReadfield d, Samuel Axford d, JohnBiddle d, Cogs-\\nwell K. Greene d, James L. Conger d, Morton H.\\nBeckvvith \\\\v. Darius C. Jackson w, 964; Arthur L.\\nPorter f s. Chandler Carter f s, John W. King f s,\\nErastus Hussey f s, Chester Gurney I s 140.\\nCongtess,\\\\%\\\\\\\\ James B. Hunt d, 1367 George\\nW. Wisner w, 977 William Canfield a, 116.\\nSenators, 1S44 Abner C. Smith d, 1313; William\\nHale d, 1362 Richard Butler w, 1013 Henry B.\\nHolbrook w, 964 James H.Green a, 114; Rufus\\nThayer, Jr. a, 118.\\nConstitutional Amendments submitted to the people\\n1844 For amendments, 1257 against, 143.\\nRepresentatives, 1844 Harlehigh Carter d, 1254\\nCalvin Davis d, 134S Henry D. Terry w, 1025\\nDexter Mussey w, looi Pliny Corbin f w s, loS\\nChauncy Church f w s. 113 Charles Chappel, 6.\\nCounty sheriff, 1844 John G. Dixon d, 13S3\\nPayne K. Leach w, 948 James H. Rose a, I2t.\\nCounty clerk, 1S44 Amos Dalby d, 1390\\nNorton L. Mdler w, 943 Carlton Sabin a, 116.\\nRegistrar of Deeds 1844 Henry Teats d, 1376\\nNorton L. Miller w, 951 Carlton Sabin a, n6.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1844 Thomas M. Perry d,\\n1374 Elias Scott w, 962 Humphrey Shaw a, 120.\\nJud ^e of Probate, 1844 Porter Kibbee d, 1359;\\nJohn J. Leonard w, 953 Humphrey Shaw a, 117.\\nAssociate Judges, 1844 Alexander Tackles d,\\n1361 Jacob Summers d, 1331 Hiram Andrews w,\\n967 Solomon Lathrop w, 967 James McKay a,\\n117 Hiram Granger a, 120.\\nCoroners, 1844 Abram Freeland d, 1334 William\\nT. Little d, 1375 Linus S. Gilbert w, 967 William\\nStevens w, 963; John Soules a, 117; Jeremiah\\nSabin a, 118.\\nCounty surveyor, 1844 Charles F. Mallary d,\\n1305 Collatinus Day w, gi6 Joel W. Manley 223.\\n1S45.\\nGovernor. 1S45\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alphpus Felch d, 7S8 Stephen\\nVickory w, 559 James G. Berney a, 136.\\nLieutenant-Governor 1845 William L. Greenly\\nH, 787 John M. Lamb w, 560 Nathan M. Thomas\\na, 133.\\nSenators, 1845 Gel Rix d, S07 Morgan Bates w,\\n551 William Canfield a, 120.\\nRepresentatives, 1845 Dewitt C. Walker d, 709;\\nChauncey G. Cady d. 674 Payne K. Leach, jr. w,\\n696 Linus S. Gilbert w, 607 Humphrey Shaw w,\\nno William A. Chapman, 22t.\\nMessrs. Cady and Gilbert were declared elected\\nbut lost such seats on account of the Committee on\\nElections deciding that the votes given for C. G.\\nCady could not be counted for Chauncey G. Cady.\\n1846.\\nCongress. 1846 Kingsley S. Bingham d, S77\\nGeorge W. Wisner w, 708 William Canfield a, 126.\\nSenators, 1846 Robert P. Eldridge d, 754;\\nAndrew T. McReynolds, d, 732 Andrew T.\\nMcReynolds d, 58; John E. Schwartz w, 613 John\\nE Schwartz d, 149 Jacob M. Howard w, 691 Eben\\nJ. Perrinman, 687 Linus S. Gilbert. 651 Silas M.\\nHolmes, 123; Wm. S. Gregory, 118; Jeremiah\\nSabin, 120.\\nRepresentatives, 1S46 Jacob Shooke d, 900\\nLyman B. Price d, S37 Alfred Goodell d, 764\\nHiram Sherman w, 697 George W. Merrill w, 71 1\\nGiles Hubbard w, 730; Robert McKay a, 126\\nDaniel Chandler a, 116 Nathaniel Carter a, 122.\\nCounty sheriff, 1846. John G. Dixon d, 757;\\nVarnum Lufkin w, Sio; Humphrey Shaw a, in.\\nCounty clerk, 1846. Thomas J. Rutler d, 737;\\nRobert Thompson w, 838, James Vaughn a, 114.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1846. Thomas M. Perry d.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0321.jp2"}, "322": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\n_\u00c2\u00ae|^\\n825; Norman Perry w. 746; John R. Tyson a, 117.\\nSeath Brannock, I.\\nA\\\\xh-lrar of Dffds, 1S46.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Henry Teats d, 840.\\nOrin Freeman w, 721; Mason Cole a, loS.\\nJml^e of rouiity court, 1846.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Robert P. EI-\\ndredge d. 720, John J. Leonard w, 777; William\\nCanfield a, 120.\\nSecond Judge Co. court, 1846,\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles Marble\\nJr. d, 848; Isaac B. Gilbert w, 705; Pliny Corbin a,\\nllg; Charles Marble d, 27.\\nCounty coroners, 1846. Asa R. Mosher d, 823;\\nGeo. W. Corey d, S72; Thomas F. Dryer w, 705;\\nAsa. M. Harris w, 6gg; Daniel Flagler w, ng;\\nJoseph T. Foster a, ilg.\\nCounty surveyor, 1846. Charles F. Mallory d,\\n765; Joel W. Manley d, 225; Ludwig Wessalouski\\nw, 2; Orson Inglesbee w, 544.\\n1847.\\nGovernor, 1847. James M. Edmunds w. 670;\\nEpaphroditus Ransom d, g72; Chester Gurney a,\\n39-\\nLieutenant-Governor 1847. Hiram L, Miller w,\\n677; William M. Fenton d, g67; Horace Hallock a,\\n39-\\nSenators, 1847. Eber. Ward w, 675; Jacob M.\\nHoward w, 67g; Geo. R. Griswold d. g7r; Charles\\nA. Loomis d, g70; William Gregory a, 23; Jeremiah\\nSabin a, 24.\\nRepresentatives. 1847. Henry D. Terry vv, S46\\nGeo. W. Merrill w, 684; Hiram Sherman w, 680\\nJohn B. St. John d, 982; Minot T. Lane d, gio\\nAldis L. Rich d, 787.\\n1848.\\nPresidential Electors, 1S4S.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John S. Barry d, 1340;\\nLorenzo. M. Mason d, 1340; Rix Robinson d, 1340;\\nHorace C. Thirbur d, 1340; William T. Howell d,\\n1340. Jacob M. Howard w, 855; Hezekiah G.\\nWells w. 855; Henry Waldron w, S55; Henry B.\\nLathrop w, S55; Hiram L. Miller w, 855. F. J.\\nLittlejohn 204; James F. Joy 204; I. V. Christiancy\\n204; S. B, Treadwell 204; Wm. Gilmour 204.\\nCongress, 1848. Kinsley S. Bingham d, 1237,\\nGeo. H. Hazleton w, 891; John M. Lamb a, 15S.\\nSenators, 1848.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Titus Dort d, 1328; Jacob Sum-\\nmers d, 1276; William Woodbridge w, 1080; Wm.\\nM. Campbell w, 1068.\\nRepresentatives, 1848. Israel Curtiss d, I32g;\\nChauncey G. Cady d, 1326; James Flower d, I24g;\\nGiles Hubbard w, 973; Albert E. Leete w, gog;\\nAlvin L. Gilbert w, 8g7 Joseph Ayres a, 177;\\nDan l Chandler a, 177; Jeremiah Sabin a, i6g.\\nJudge of Probate, 1848. Lyman B. Price d,\\n1 184; Prescott B. Thurston w, 1188.\\nCounty sheriff, 1848. Milo Selleck d, 1137;\\nVarnum Luf kin w, 1004 W. R. Blakeman, 214.\\nCounty cletk, 184S. Ira Stout d, 1350; Orin\\nFreeman w, 876; Harlow Green a, 175.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1848. Allen P. Bentley d,\\n1294; Robert Thompson w, 934; James Alexander\\na, 173-\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1848. Richard Butler w,\\n940; Robert H. Wallace d, 125S; Joseph D. Gilbert\\n187.\\nAssociate Judges, 1848.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alfred Ashley w, 702\\nHiram Andrews w, 704.\\nCounty coroners, 1S48.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abraham Freeland d,\\n1154; Moses T. Smith d, 1146; Elon Andrus w,\\n815; Aratus Smith w, 7gg.\\nCounty surveyor, 1848.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles F. Mallary d,\\n1 164; Justus R. Crandall w, 783; Joel W. Manley a,\\n183.\\niS4g.\\nGovernor, 18 19.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John S. Barry d,_li76 Flavins\\nJ. Littlejohn, 748.\\nLieutenant-Governor, iS4g. William M. Fenton\\nd, 1 177 George A. Coe, 773.\\ni /rt^f i84g.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rensselaer Ingals, 1175;\\nHubbard H. Duncklee, 765-\\nSenators, 1849.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph T. Copeland d, 1161\\nAndrew Harvie d, 1175; Daniel Pittman w, 765\\nTrue P. Tucker w, 751.\\nRepresentatives, 1849.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John Stockton d, 1098;\\nIlarlehigh Carter d, 997 Cortez P. Hooker d,\\n1 172; Richard Butler w, 6S9; Chauncey Church w,\\n751 Alvin L. Gilbert w, 778.\\nConstitutional Amendment suhmitted to the Peo-\\nple. 1849.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 For the Amendment, 131 1 against the\\nAmendment, II.\\note on calling a convention to make a general\\nrevision of the constitution, l84g.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 For the Conven-\\ntion, 1 106 against, 126.\\n1S50.\\nDelegates to convention, June 1850.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Pewitt C.\\nWalker d, 6g2 Charles W. Chappel d, 663 An-\\ndrew S. Robertson d, 669; Hiron Hathaway d,\\n696 Payne K. Leach w, 442 Alonzo A. Goodman\\nw, 437; Alvin L.Gilbert w, 427; Dexter Mussey\\nw, 442.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0322.jp2"}, "323": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nfcv\\nyudgi s of the supreme court, 1850. Warner\\nWing d, 1315 Sandford M. Green d, 1301 Abner\\nPratt d, 1300 Henry Chipman w, 868 Samuel H.\\nKimball w, 858 Charles Draper w, 860.\\nAuditor General, 1850. John Swegles, Jr. d,\\n1315 Elisha P. Chapman w, 836 S. J. M. Ham-\\nmond a, 23.\\nState Treasurer, 1S50. Bernard C. Whittemore\\nti. 1315; James Birdsall w, 836; Delemer Duncan\\npro, 22.\\nSecretary of state, 1850. Charles H. Taylor d,\\nI3r4; George Martin w, 837; Joseph Chudsey a,\\n24-\\nA ttoniey Genera/, iSso. William Hale d, 1319\\nAustin Blair w, 856.\\nSuperintendent Public Instruction, 1850. Francis\\nW. .Shearman d, 1319 Samuel Barston w, 839;\\nDewitt C. Leech a, 22.\\nSenators. 1850. Titus Dort d, 1307 Henry C.\\nKibbee d, 1202; Payne K. Leach w, 915; F. Liv-\\ningstone w, 848.\\nCongress, 1S50. James L. Conger w, Illg\\nCharles C. Hascall d, 944 Kingsley S. Bingham a,\\n10.\\nRepresentatives, 1850. David Shook d, 1 192;\\nGeorge Chandler d, 1302; Sanford Corbin d,\\nll92;Alonzo A. Goodman w, 944; H. Burke w,\\nS5S Aratus Smith w, 929.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1850. Dewitt C. Walker\\nd, 1018 Giles Hubbard w, 1118.\\nCounty Judge, 1850.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abner C. Smith d, 1 138\\nJohn J. Leonard \\\\v, 997.\\nSecond county Judge, \\\\?:%o. Samuel P. Canfield\\nd. 1252; Hiram Andrus w, 889.\\nCounty sheriff, 1850. Walter Porter d 1242;\\nJohn H. Kaple w, 904.\\nCounty cletk, 1850. Theron Cudworth d, 1246\\nE. L. Freeman w. 874.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1850.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Robert H. Wallace d,\\n1263 Charles A. Lathrop w, 895.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1850. Allen P. Bentley d,\\n125 1 Justus R. Crandrall w, S89.\\nCounty su -ryor, 1850. Harvey Mellen d, 998\\nLudwig Wesolouski w, 1161.\\nCounty coroners, 1850. Ira Spencer d, 1207\\nDavid H. Brown d, 1252 William A. Edwards w,\\n904 Orson Ingoldsby w, 901.\\nConstitutional Amendments, 1850. For the\\nAmendments, 1294 against, 582.\\nSuffrage to colored Persons. 1S50.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 For suffrage,\\n448 against, 1375.\\n1851.\\nGovernor, 1851. Robert McClellan d, 776;\\nTownsend E. Gridley w, 386.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1S51. Calvin Britain d,\\n774 George H. Hazleton w, 3S7 Gabriel Yates\\n2.\\nCircuit Judge, 1 85 1.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph T. Copeland d,\\n1244 Moses Wisner w, 923 Origin D. Richardson\\nd, 10.\\nRegent of the University, 1851.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles H.\\nPalmer d, 1413 Marcus H. Miles w, 756.\\n1852.\\nPresidential Electors, 1852. John S. Barry d,\\n1634 Wm. McCauley d, 1635 John Stockton d,\\n1633 Daniel I. Campau d, 1S34 Salmon Sharpe d,\\n1096 Abraham Edwards d, 1634 John Owens w,\\n1058 George A. Coe w, 1059 Townsend E. Grid-\\nley d, 1060 Daniel S. Bacon w, 1059 Alex. H.\\nMorrison w, 1060 Wm. M. Thompson w, 1060\\nChester Gurney a, 509 Horace Hallock a, 509\\nS. B. Treadwell a, 509 Robert R. Beecher a, 509\\nNathan M. Thomas a, =109 Dewitt C. Leach a,\\n509.\\nCongress, 1852. Hester L.Stevens d, 1631 Geo.\\nBradley w, 1 124 Ephraim Calkins a, 424.\\nSenator, 1852. John S. Smith d, 1590 Ira H;\\nButteifield w, 1176 Levi W. Stone a, 412.\\nGovernor, 1S52.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Robert McClellan d, 164S\\nZachariah Chandler w, iioo Isaac P. Christiancy\\na. 449-\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1852. Andrew Parsons d,\\n1665 David S. Walbridge w, 918 Erastus Hussey\\na, 474-\\nSecretary of state, 1S52. William Graves d,\\n1656 Geo. E. Pomeroy w, 1069 Francis Denison\\na. 479-\\nAuditor General, 1S52. John .Swegles d, 1653\\nWhitney Jones w, 1071 William Wheeler a, 419.\\nState Treasurer, 1852. Bernard C. Whittemore\\nd, 1657 Sylvester Abel w, 1066 Silas M. Holmes\\na, 478.\\nAttorney General, \\\\?ic,z. William Hale d, 1651;\\nNathaniel Bacon w, 1073 Hovey K. Clark a, 477.\\nSuperintendent of Public Instruction, 1852.\\nFrancis W. Shearman d, 1654 Joseph Penney w,\\n1066 Upton T. Howe a, 482.\\nCommissioner state Land Office, 1852. Porter\\n~a V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0323.jp2"}, "324": {"fulltext": "316\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nKibbee d, 1677; Jonathan R. White w, 1033;\\nNathan Power a, 482.\\nSfii/t- Board of Educai uni, 1S52. Isaac E. Ciavy,\\nd, 1522 Gideon O. Whittemore d, 1520 Chauncy\\nToslyn d, 1522 Joseph R. Williams w, 965 Syl-\\nvester Lamed w, 965 George Spencer, 79 James\\nA. B. Stone, 441 Edwin B. Fairfield, 440 Enoch\\nM. Bartlett, 441 Grove Spencer w. 884.\\nRepresentatives, 1852. Samuel P. Canfield d,\\n5 58 William Jenny w, 526 Arnold Hardwood w,\\ni; Oliver Adams w, 500 Arnold Hardwood w,\\nigg William Jenny w, 14 L. I. Wicker a, 217\\nWm. A. Burt d, 504 Hiram Calkin w, 281.\\nJudge of Probate. 1852.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harlehigh Carter d,\\n136S Prescott B. Thurston w, 1459 Robert Mc-\\nKay f s, 345.\\nCireuil court coiiitnissiouers. 1852. Andrew S.\\nRobertson d, 1645 Prescott B. Thurston w. 1256.\\nCoitntv sheriff Thomas Goldy d, 1518; Tru-\\nman R. Andrews w, 1162 James Alexander a, 437.\\nCounty clerk, 1852.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John S. Fletcher d, 1654\\nCharles Andrews w, 1058 Carlton Sabin a, 428.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1852. Abner C. Smith d,\\n1434 Giles Hubbard w, 1442.\\nRef^islrar of Deeds, 1852. John T. Traver d,\\n1517; Robert Thompson w, 1214; Henry C. Ed-\\ngerly a, 440.\\nCounty Treasurer. 1852. Joshua B. Dickenson\\nd, 1660 Justus R. Crandall w, 1034 David\\nChandler a. 481.\\nCounty surveyor, 1852. George E. Adair d,\\n1446; Ludwig Wesaloiiski w, 1253 Austin Burt a.\\n467.\\nCounty coroners. Abraham Freeland d, 1624\\nDavid 11. Brown d, 1635 Jacob P. Davis w, 1056\\nLewis Drake w, 1054 Herman Palmerlee a, 469\\nEd. I. Wooley a, 468.\\n1S54.\\nGovernor, 1854, John S. Barry d, 1509; Kings-\\nley S. Bingham r, 1349.\\nLieutenant-Governor 1854. William A. Rich-\\nmond d, 1500; Geo. A. Coe r, 1328.\\nSecretary of state, 1S54.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William L. Bancroft d,\\n1500; John McKenny r, 1363.\\nAuditoi General, 1 S4- John Svvegles d, 1499;\\nWhitney Jones r, 1365.\\nState Treasurer, 1854. Deraslus Hinman d,i4g6;\\nSilas M. Holmes r, 1368.\\nAttorney General, 1854.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Benj. T. H. Witheral d,\\n1479; Jacob M. Howard r, 1362.\\nSup. Pull. Instruction, 1S54. Francis W. Shear-\\nman d, 1497 Ira Mahew r, 1360.\\nCojnmissioner state Lands. 1854. Allen Good-\\nrich d, 1501; S. B. Treadwell r, 1364.\\nState Board of Education, 1854. Chauncey Jos-\\nlyn d, 1499; John R. Kellogg r, 1366; Elijah H.\\nBelcher d, 1498 Hiram L. Miller r, 1367.\\nCongress, 1854. Geo. W. Peck d, 1495; Moses\\nWisner r, 1 372.\\nSenator, 1854. Cortez P. Hooker d, 1429; Wm.\\nCanfield r, 1416.\\nRepresentatives, 1854. Hiron Hathaway d, 628\\nIsaac Gilbert r, 439 John L. Beebe r, 12 Philander\\nEwell d, 512 John L. Bebee r, 309; Hiron Hath-\\naway d, 13; Wm. A. Burt d, 324; Dexter Mussey\\nr, 60S.\\nCircuit court commissioners, 1S54. Abner C.\\nSmith d, 1595 Prescott B. Thurston w, 1448.\\nSheriff. 1854.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas Golby d, 1472; Elisha\\nCalkins r, 1 347.\\nCounty clerk, 1854. Perrin Crawford d, 1534;\\nAlvin L. Gilbert r, 1324.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1854. Harlehigh Carter d,\\n1301 Giles Hubbard r, 1492.\\nRegistrar of Deeds. 1854. \u00e2\u0080\u0094John Traver d, 1524;\\nJohn D. Standish r, 1311.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1854. Joshua B. Dickinson d,\\n14S7; Thomas L. Sackett r, 1344.\\nCounty surveyor, 1854. George E. Adair d\\n1492; Austin Burt r, 1363.\\nCounty coroners. 1854. Israel Curtiss d, 1492;\\nD. H. Brown d, 1499; Herman Palmerlee r, 1367;\\nAndred I. Heath r, 1368.\\n1S56.\\nPresidential Electors. 1856. Michael Shoemaker,\\nd, 1,845; Jonathan l ^i g d, 1,846; Robert Crouse\\nd, 1,846; David A. Noble d, 1,846; John C. Blan-\\nchard d, 1,846 Dewitt C. Walker d, 1,844; F- C.\\nBeaman r, 2,210; Harmon Chamberlain r, 2,210;\\nChauncy H. Miller r, 2,210; Oliver Johnson r,\\n2210; William H. Withey r, 2,210; William J.\\nDrake r, 2,210; Rodney C. Paine, 30; Peter R.\\nAdams, 30 H. W. Wells, 30 John V. Lyons, 30\\nGeo. W. Perkins, 30; Abram B. Covell.\\nCongress, 1856.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Dewitt C. Leech r, 2,217 J Geo.\\nW. Peck d, 1861.\\nRepreseritatives, 1856. Thomas M. Crocker d,", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0324.jp2"}, "325": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF JIACOMB COUNTY.\\n667; Alonzo A. Goodman r, S27 William Brow-\\nnell d, 610 Geo. Moorhouse r, 590 Dexter Mus-\\nsey r. 866 Dewitt C. Walker d, 4S2.\\nGovernor, 1S56 Kingsley S. Bingham r, 2,205\\nAlpheus Felch d, 1,872.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1856 Geo. A. Coe r. 2.217;\\nEdwin H. Lathrop d, 1,867.\\nSecretary oj slate, 1856 John McKenny r, 2,-\\n217; F. H. Steven.s d, 1867.\\nAuditor General, 1856.^ David B. Dennis d,\\n1,867; AY hltney Jones r, 2,215.\\nStale Treasurer, 1856.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Robert W. Davis d, 1,867;\\nS. M. Holmes r, 2,215.\\nAttorney General, \\\\%^t Amos Gould d, 1,864;\\nJacob M. Howard r, 2,215.\\nSuperintendent of Public Instruction, 1S56. F.\\nW. Shearman d, 1,864 Ira W. Mayhew r, 2,218.\\nCommissioner state Land Office, 1856.-- Allen\\nGoodrich d, 1,868 S. B. Treadwell r, 2,213.\\nMember state Board of Education, 1S56. Daniel\\nBlackman d, 1,862 George Willard r, 2,213.\\nSenator, 1856. William Canfield r, 2,293; Alon-\\nzo M. Keeler d, 1,761.\\nCircuit court commissioners, 1856. Harlehigh\\nCarter d, 1,780; Eli^ha F. Mead r, 2,281.\\nSheriff, 1856.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Robert S. Campbell d. 1870;\\nCharles G. Lamb r, 2,202.\\nCounty clerk, 1856. Julius Rottman d, 1,848\\nJohn B.Ellsworth r, 2,221.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1856. Andrew S. Robert-\\nson d, i,8gi Richard Butler r, 2,l6S.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1S56. Sanford M. Stone d,\\n1869; Norton L. Miller r, 2,208.\\nJudge of Probate, 1856.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 PhiloTillson d, 1,789;\\nPrescott B. Thurston r, 2,268.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1856. Robert Teats d, 1,862;\\nCharles B. Matthews r, 2,214.\\nCounty surveyor, 1856. Ludwig Wesalouski d,\\ni,g8S Addison P. Brewer r, 2,192.\\nCounty coroners, 1856. Henry O. Taylor d,\\n1,871 John Milton d, 1,869 Chauncey G. Cady r,\\n2,206; Herman Palmerlee r, 2,200.\\n1857-\\nChief jFustice supreme court, 1 85 7. George\\nMartin r, 1,291; Samuel T. Dougl.iss d, 1,169.\\nAssociate Justices, 1857. Isaac P. Christiancy r,\\n1,292 James V. Campbell r, 1,292 Randolph\\nManning r, 1,296; Warner Wing d, I,i6g; Abner\\nPratt d, 1,152 David Johnson d, 1,154.\\nCircuit Judge, 1857. Sanford M. Green r, 2,410;\\nHarlehigh Carter d, i.\\nRegents of the University, iZ^l.- G^o. W. Peck\\nr, 1,287; James B. Eldridge d, 1,176.\\nGovernor, 1858. Moses Wisner r, 1,791 Charles\\nE. Stewart d, 1,629.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1S5S. Edmund B. Fair-\\nfield r, 1,818 Geo. C. Munroe d, 1,622.\\nSecretary of stale. 1858.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Nelson G. Isbell r.\\n1,807; Jonathan P. King d, 1,625.\\nAuditor General, 1S58. Daniel L. Case r, i.Sog\\nJohn J. Adams d, 1,622.\\nState Treasurer, 1858. John McKinney r, 1, 812;\\nEdward Carter d, 1,620.\\nAttorney General, 1858. Jacob M. Howard r,\\n1,809: J.G.Sutherland d, 1,622.\\nSuperintendent Public Instruction, 1S58. John\\nM. Gregory r, 1,813; Dan. C. Jacokes d, 1,617.\\nCommissioner state Land Office, 1858. James W.\\nSanborn r, 1,806 John Ball d, 1,622.\\nState Board of Education, 1858.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Wittier J. Bax-\\nter r, 1,810; Andrew N. Moore d, 1.622.\\nCongress, I S5S.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Robert W. Davis d. 1,622\\nDeWitt C. Leach r, i,8ii.\\nSenator, 1858.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Canfield r, I.813 Wil-\\nliam Brownell d, 1,598.\\nRepresentatives, 1858. Robert Thompson r, 734;\\nGeo. F.Stewart d, 597 Henry L. Reeves d, 597\\nGeo. Bolam r, 42S Dexier Mussey r, 687 Har-\\nvey Mellen d, 35S.\\nCircuit court commissioner, 1858. Elisha F.\\nMeade r, 1,819; Harlehigh Carter d, 1,590.\\nCounty sheriff, 1858. Charles C. Lamb r, 1.824\\nJames P. St. John d, 1,593.\\nCounty clerk, 1858. Henry O. Smith r, 1,820\\nJohn A. Fletcher d, 1,596.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1858. Giles Hubbard r,\\n1,844; Andrew S. Robertson d, 1,569.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1S5S.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Norton L. Miller r,\\n1,867; Jackson Freeman d, 1,554.\\nCounty Treasurer, 185S. Charles B. Matthews r,\\n1,827; Justin R. Crandall d, 1,593.\\nCounty surveyor, 1858. Addison P. Brewer r,\\n1,813; John Mellen d, 1, 616.\\nCounty coroners, 1858. .\\\\aron B. Rawles r, 1,907\\nRobert D. Smith r, 1,919; Henry O. Taylor d,\\n1,623 George Chandler d, 1,618.\\nV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0325.jp2"}, "326": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MAC0M15 COUNTY.\\ntiL\\n1859.\\nChief yusticc superior court, 1859. George\\nMartin r, 1,932; Alpheus Felch d, 1,671.\\n1S60.\\nPresidential Electors, i860.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. G. Wells r, Riifus\\nHomer, Geoige W. Lee. Ed. Donah, Rhylota Hay-\\nden, Augustus Coburn, 2,534 George W. Peck d,\\nCharles E. Stewart, Augustus Weideman, Stephen\\nG. Clerk, P. H. Hodenpyl, Andrew S. Robertson,\\n2,166 Jacob Beeson, Robert P. Eldridge, Barnabas\\nCase, Peter Morey, 15 W.V.Morrison, II R. W.\\nAdams, 15; H. P. Bridge, 14; J. R. Jones, 15;\\nGeorge Warner, 15; Charles E. Niles. 14; John\\nCooper, 15 Henry H. Treadway, 14.\\nCongress, 1S60. Rowland E. Trowbridge r, 2,537;\\nEdward H. Thompson d, 2,197.\\nGovernor, 1S60. Austin Blair r, 2,523; John S.\\nBarry d, 2,213.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1S60. James Birney r,\\n2,527; William M. Fenton d, 2,212.\\nSeoetary of state, i860. James B. Porter, 2,534\\nWilliam Francis, 2,210.\\nAuditor General, 1S60. Langford G. Berry, 2.535\\nHenry Penoyer d, 2,209.\\nState Treasurer, i860. John Owen r, 2,532\\nElon Farnsworth d, 2,207.\\nAttorney General, 1S60. Charles Upton r, 2,532;\\nChauncey Joslyn d, 2,211.\\nSuperintendent Public Imtruction, 1S60. John\\nM. Gregory r, 2,539; Francis W. Shearman d,\\n2,201.\\nCommissioner state Land OJJice, i860. Samuel S.\\nLacey r, 2,533; Samuel L. Smith d, 2,210.\\nMember state Board Education, i860. Edwin\\nWillett r, 2,532; John V. Lyon d, 2,210.\\nSenator, 1S60. Ira H. Butterfield r, 2,516; Geo.\\nH. Stuart d, 2,210.\\nRepresentatives, i860. Thomas M. Wilson r,\\nS89 Joshua B. Dickenson d, 862 Payne K. Leach\\nr, 630; William Brownell d, 820; De.xter Mussey\\nf, 943; Joshua W. Davis d, 559; Charles Mal-\\nlary, 3.\\nSheriff, i860. Joseph Hubbard r, 2,449; John\\nL. Benjamin d, 2,274.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1S60. Edward C. Gallup r,\\n2,474; Jacob Hitchler d, 2,225.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1S60. George W. French r,\\n2,480; Justus R. Crandall d, 2,225.\\nCounty clerk, 1S60. Menry O. Smith r, 2,537;\\nWilliam H. Clark, Jr. d, 2,200.\\nJudge of Probate, i860.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Isaac B. Gilbert r,\\n2,466; John Stockton d, 2,262.\\nProsecuting Attorney, i860. Elisha F. Mead r,\\n2,544; Harlehigh Carter d, 2,169.\\nCircuit court commissioners, i860. Samuel S.\\nGale r, 2,538; Seth K. Schetterly d, 2,205.\\nCounty surveyor, 1S60, George H. Freeman r,\\n2.49S Milton Nye d, 2,251.\\nCounty coroners, iZbo. Aaron B. Rawles r, 2,530\\nChauncey G. Cady r, 2,530; John B. St. John d,\\n2,101 Joshua B. Dickenson d, 2;205 James B St.\\nJohn, 106.\\nState Laivs, 1S60. To amend banking law, yes,\\n1,760; to amend banking law, no, 295; legislative\\nsessions law, yes, 1,607 legislative sessions law, no,\\n421; Sec. 2, Art. 18, con., yes, 1,734; Sec. 2, Art.\\n18, con., no, 6g.\\n1861.\\nAssociate Justices S. C, 1861. Randolph Man-\\nning r, 1641 Charles I. Walker d, iioi.\\n1S62.\\nCongress, I iii. Augustus C. Baldwin d, 1794;\\nRowland E. Trowbridge r, 1911.\\nGovernor, 1862. Austin Blair r, 1903 Byron G.\\nStout d, igo6.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1862. Charles S. May r,\\n1895 Henry S. Ripley d, 1825.\\nSecretary of state, 1 862. James B. Porter r, 1 893;\\nWm. R. Montgomery d, 1924.\\nAuditor General, 1862. Emil Anneke r, 1899;\\nRodney C. Payne d, 1922.\\nState Treasurer, 1862. John Owen r, 1884\\nCharles C. Trowbridge d, 1925.\\nAttorney General, 1862.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Albert Williams r, 1895;\\nJohn T. Holmes d, 1924.\\nCommissioner state Land Office, 1862. Samuel\\nS. Lacey r, igo8 Charles F. Herman d, 1914.\\nSuperintendent Public Lnstruction, i86j. John\\nM. Gregory r, 1898 Thomas H. Sinex d, 1918.\\nMember state Board Education, 1862. Edward\\nDorsch r, 1896; Daniel E. Brown d, 1923.\\nSenators, 1S62. ^Andrew S.Robertson d, 192S\\nIra H. Butterfield r, 1884.\\nRepresentatives, 1862. James B. Eldredge d, 720;\\nGeo. B. Van Eps r, 6S2 Charles S. Groesbeck d,\\n734 A. W. Aldrich r, 407 Charles F. Mallary r,\\n817; John H. Brabbd, 417.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0326.jp2"}, "327": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n319\\nLiiw and constitutional Ameniimints, 1S62.\\nBanking, Yes, 343 No, 10 Removals from Office,\\nYes, 213 No, 4 Regents of University, Yes, 343\\nNo, I Election in Upper Peninsula, Yes, 353\\nNo, I Constitutional Amendments, Yes, 341 No.\\n16.\\nSheriff, 1S62.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Joseph Hubbard r, 1927; William\\nSummers d, 1888.\\nCounty clerk, 1S62. Henry O. Smith r, 1927;\\nEdwin R. Bentley d, 1SS5.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1S62. Thomas L. Sackett r,\\n193S Wm. H. Clark, Jr. d, 1873.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1862. Edward C. Galhip r,\\n1595 Justus R. Crandall d, 1915.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1862. Elisha F. Mead r,\\n1S60 Thomas M. Crocker d, 1945.\\nCircuit court commissioners, 1S62. Samuel S.\\nGala r, 1S86; Joseph Chubb r, 1S92 Harlehigh\\nCarter d, 1914 Seth K. Schetterly d, 1927.\\nCounty Surveyor, 1862. Geo. H. Cannon r, iSSS;\\nLudwig Wesalouski d, 1923.\\nCounty coroners, 1862. Aaron B. Rawles r, 1S92,\\nJoshua Dickenson r, 189S; John Moorehouse d.\\n1596 George Mead d, 1921.\\n1863.\\nAssociate Justices, 1S63. James V. Campbell r,\\n1S19 David Johnson d, 2006.\\nRegents of University, 1S63. Henry C. Knight\\nr, 1812; Thomas D. Gilbert r, 1S14 Edward C.\\nWalker r, 1S07 J. E. Johnson r, 1814 Geo. W.\\nMead r, 1S14 James A. Sweezey r, 1S12; Alvah\\nSweetzer r, 1S13 Thomas J. Joslyn r, 1814; Oliver\\nC. Comstock d, 2012 Wm. A. Moore d, 2015\\nZina Pitcher d, 201S Nathaniel A. Balch d, 201 1\\nCharles H. Richmond d, 2011; Adam L. Roof d,\\n201 1 Elijah F. Burt d, 201 1; Joseph Coulter d,\\n20U.\\nCircuit Judge, :863. Sanford M.Green d. 2004;\\nZephaniah B. Knight r, 1838; Robert P. Eldredge\\nd, 5.\\n1S64.\\nPresidential Electors, lit^. Samuel T. Douglass\\nd, 2177 Rix Robinson d, 2177; Henry Hart d,\\n2177; Royal T. Twombley d, 2177; D. Darwin\\nHughes d, 2177; John Lewis d, 2177 Michael C.\\nCrofoot d, 2177 Richard Edwards d, 2177 Robert\\nE. Beecher r, 2041 Thomas D. Gilbert r, 2041\\nFrederick Waldorf r, 2041 Marsh Giddings r, 2041;\\nChristian Eberbach r, 2041 Perry Hannah r, 2041\\nOmar D. Conger r, 2041 Geo. W. Peck r, 2041.\\nCongress, 1864. Augustus C. Baldwin d, 2177\\nRowland E. Trowbridge r, 2054.\\nJustice supreme court, 1S64. Thomas M. Cooley\\nr, 2052; Alpheus Felch d, 2180.\\nGovernor, 1864. Henry H. Crapo r, 2050; Wm.\\nM. Fenton d, 21S1.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1864. Eben. O. Grosvenor\\nr, 2052; Martin S. Bracketts d, 2180.\\nSecretary of State, 1864. James B. Porter r, 2052;\\nGeo. B. Turner d, 21S0.\\nAjiditor-General, 1864. Emil Anneke r, 2051\\nCharles W. Butler d, 21S0.\\nState Treasurer. 1S64. John Owen r, 2052 Geo.\\nC. Munro d, 21S0.\\nAttorney General, 1S64. Albert Williams r, 2051\\nLevi Bishop d, 2180.\\nCommissioner Land Office, 1S64. Cyrus Hewitt\\nr, 2051 Geo. M. Rich d, 21S0.\\nSuperintendent Public Instruction, 1S64. Ota-\\nmel Hosford r, 2051 John D. Pierce d. 21S0.\\nMember Board of Education, 1S64. Walter J.\\nBarden r, 2151 O. C. Comstock d, 2180.\\nSenator, 1864. Giles Hubbard r, 2276 Wm. M.\\nCambell d, 2204.\\nRepresentatives, 1S64. Peter Schaes r, 819 Geo.\\nH. Stuart d, 792 James B. Eldredge d, 2 Horace\\nH. Cady d, 975 Chauncey G. Cady r, 4S0 Chas.\\nF. Mallary r, 902 Philo Tillson d, 450.\\nSheriff, 1864.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Haswell Church r, 2256 Geo. E.\\nAdair d, 2226 Charles Barnes, i.\\nJudge of Probate, 1864. Henry O. Smith r, 2254;\\nThomas M. Crocker d, 2232 Henry A. Shaw, 2,\\nCounty cleik, 1S64. William M. Connor r, 2267;\\nJames Whiting d, 2217 J. R. Crandall, 2.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, \\\\i (i\\\\. Thomas L. Sackett r,\\n2315 Joshua B. Dickinson d, 2175.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1864. John W. Leonard r,\\n2223; Justin R. Crandall d, 2250; Thomas L.\\nSackett r, I.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1864. Joseph Chubb r,\\n2234 James B Eldredge d, 2245.\\nCounty surveyor, 1864- Oscar Burgess r, 2263\\nMilton Nye d, 2226 J. B. Eldredge, i.\\nCircuit court commissioners, 1864. Edgar\\nWeeks r, 225S David E. Earl r, 2231 Harlehigh\\nCarter d, 2214 Seth K. Shetterly d, 2217.\\nCounty coroners, 1S64. Joshua Dickinson r,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0327.jp2"}, "328": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\niL\\n2255 Aaion B. Ravvis r, 2258 John Moorehouse\\nd, 2225 John Van Horn d, 2229.\\n1S65.\\nAssociate Justici- supit-ine court, 1865. Isaac P.\\nL hristiancy, 1374.\\nRegents of the University, 1865. Edward C.\\nWalker, 1241 George Willard, 1241 Ebenezer\\nWells, 172 Oliver Comstock, 172.\\n1S66.\\nCongress, 1S66. Rowland E. Trowbridge r,\\n2475 William L. Bancroft d, 2i6g.\\nGovernor^ 1S66. Henry H. Crapo r, 2461 Al-\\npheus S. Williams d, 2185.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1S66, Dwight May r, 2465;\\nJohn G. Parkhurst d, 2193.\\nSecretary of state, l866. Oliver L. Spaulding r,\\n2468; Bradley M. Thompson d, 21S1.\\nSlate Treasurer, 1S66. Eben. O. Grosvenor r,\\n2467 Luther H. Trask d, 2182.\\nAuditor General, 1866. William Humphrey r,\\n2468 George Spaulding d, 2182 James Whiting,\\nI.\\nSnpointendent Pitblic Instruction, 1S66. Ora-*\\nrael Hosford r, 246S Samuel Clements, Jr. d,\\n2182.\\nCommissioner state Land Office, 1866. Benj. D.\\nPritchard r, 2469; Louis Dillman d, 2182.\\nAttornev General, 1866. William L. Stoughton\\nr, 2468; George Grayd, 21S2.\\nMember Board of Education, 1866. Edwin\\nWilletts r, 246S John W. Birchmore d, 21S4.\\nRevision of the constitution, 1866. For revision,\\n1224 against, 459.\\nSoldiers Voting, 1S66. For amendment, 1224\\nagainst, 375.\\nSenator, 1866. Charles Andrews r, 2453 Har-\\nvey Mellen d, 2191.\\nSheriff, 1866. Hasvvell Church r, 2462 George\\nE. Adair d, 2179.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1866. Thomas L. Sackett r,\\n2559 Joshua B. Dickenson d, 2080.\\nCounty clerk, 1866. William M. Connor r,\\n2508 James Whiting d, 2140; George E. Adair, i.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1866. Josiah T. Robinson r.\\n2360 Justus R. Crandall d, 2295.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 866. Edgar Weeks r,\\n2457 James B. Eldridge d, 2172.\\nCircuit court commissioners, 1866. Arthur L.\\nCanfield r, 2518; Irving D. Hanscomb r, 2479;\\nLorenzo G. Sperry d, 2177; Harlehigh Carter d,\\n2091.\\nCounty surveyor, 1866. Oscar S. Burgess r,\\n2446; Jdhn Mellen d, 2203.\\nCounty coroners, 1S66. Aaron B. Rawles r, 247I;\\nGilbert Longstaff r, 2470 William Summers d,\\n2183 John Milton d, 2183.\\nRepresentatives, 1866.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Sanford M. Stone d, 783\\nPeter Schars r, 991 Seth K. Shetterley d, 965\\nCharles S. Hutchins r, 560 Elisha F. Mead r, 878\\nOran Freeman d, 412.\\n1S67.\\nDelegates to constitutional convention, 1867.\\nOicar S. Burgess r, 1762 Dexter Mussey r, 1832\\nW. W. Andrus r, 1828; Thomas M. Crocker d, 1S43;\\nSanford M. Stone d, 1773. Seth K. Shetterly d,\\n1751 Hiram Barrows, i.\\nJustice of the supreme court, 1867. Benjamin\\nF. Graves r, 1S46 Sandford M. Green d, 1755.\\nRegents of the University, 1S67.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William M.\\nFerry, Jr. d, 1747 Ebenezer Wells d, 1747 Thos.\\nD. Gilbert r, 1858 Hiram A. Burt r, 1853.\\nCircuit Judge, 1867. James S. Dewey r, 1854;\\nWilliam T. Mitchell d, 1738.\\niel B. Briggs r, 1892 James Whiting d, 170S.\\nCounty superintendent of schools, 1867. Dan-\\n1S68.\\nPresidential Electors, 1868\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles M. Crosswell\\nr, John Burt r, William Doellz r, C. W. Clisbee r,\\nC. T. Gorham r, B. M. Cutcheon r, 2791 Giles\\nHubbard r, 2787 M. C. T. Plessner r, 2791 Peter\\nWhite d, Fred V. Smith d, Ed. Kanter d, George\\nB, Turner d, Fidus_ Livermore d, William M. Ferry\\nd, M. E. Crofoot d. William R. Stafford d, 2668.\\nCongress, 186S Omar D. Conger r, 2775 Byron\\nG. Stout d, 2704.\\nGovernor, 186S Henry P. Baldwin r, 2795 John\\nMoore d, 2681.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 186S Morgan Bates r,\\n2790; Salathiel C. Coffenberry d, 2684.\\nSecretary of state, 1 868 Oliver L. Spaulding r,\\n2790; Richard Baylis d, 2682.\\nState Treasurer, 1S68 Ebenezer O. Grosvenor\\nr, 2790; John F. Miller d, 2685.\\nAttorney General, 1868 Dwight May r, 2789\\nAugustus C. Baldwin d, 2686.\\nCommissioner state Land Office, 1868 Benjamin\\nD. Pritchard r, 2790 Henry Grinnel d, 2685.\\nc 1", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0328.jp2"}, "329": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nLliL\\nAuditor General, iS68 William Humphrey r,\\n2788 Louis Dillman d, 2788.\\nSuperintendent Public Instruction, 1868 Or.imel\\nHosford r, 2791 Duane Doty d, 2684.\\nMember itate Boaid of Education, 1S68\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Daniel\\nE. Brown r, 2788 Isaac W. Bush d, 2686.\\nSenator, 1868 Charles Andrews r, 2751 Harvey\\nMellen d, 2726.\\nRepresentatives, 1868 Norton L. Miller r, 10S4\\nSanford M. Stone d, 1815 Florell C. McCoy r, 643\\nFred G. Kendrick d, 1183 ;EUshaF. Mead r, 1023\\nHorace H. Spencer d, 487.\\nSheriff, 1S68\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Haswell Church r, 283S 1. Ward\\nDavis d, 2629.\\nJudge of Probate, 1868 Thomas L. Sackett r,\\n27S8, Thomas M. Crocker d, 2681.\\nCounty clerk, 1868 William M. Connor r,\\n2S12 Hiron F. Corbin d, 263S.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1868 Alonzo M. Keeler r,\\n2793 James Whiting d, 2669.\\nCounty Treasurer, 186S Joseph Hubbard r,\\n2752 Oliver Chapaton d, 2755,\\nPiosecuting Attorney, 186S Edgar Weeks r,\\n28i6;Seth K. Shetterly d, 2635.\\nCounty surveyor, 1868 Oscar S. Burgess r,\\n2792 Morgan Nye d, 2635.\\nCiicuit court commissioners, 186S Arthur L.\\nCanfield r, 2803 Irving D. Hauscomb r, 2804\\nLorenzo G. Sperry d, 2639 William H. Clark Jr. d,\\n2663.\\nCounty coroners, 1868 William R. Sutton r,\\n2795 Aaron B, Rawles r, 2789 George St. John d,\\n2680 William Roy d, 2683.\\nRevision of the constitution, etc., etc., 1 863 For\\nadoption, 1570; against, 2S77 for annual sessions,\\n178; for biennial sessions, 1369; for Prohibition,\\n1430; against Prohibition, 1977.\\nJustice of the supreme court, 1869.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas M.\\nCouley r, 1891 D. Darwin Hughes d, 1926.\\nRegents of the University, 1869 Jonas H.\\nMcGowan r, 1S7S Joseph Estabrook r, i3o6 John\\nF. Miller d, 2013; John M. B. Sill d, 1935.\\nCircuit Judge, 1869 Elisha F. Mead r, 137S\\nWilliam T. Mitchell d, 1953.\\nCounty superintendent common schools, 1869\\nDaniel B. Briggs r, 2012 James Whiting d, 1632.\\nCounty drain commissioner, 1869 Jonathan\\nWells r, 1886 George E. Adair d, 1915.\\n2574;\\n1870.\\nGovernor, 1870. Charles C. Comstock d,\\nHenry P. Baldwin r, 2382 Henry Fish, 38.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1870. Jacob A. T. Wen-\\ndell d, 2579; Morgan Bates r, 2379 Emory Cur-\\ntiss, 35.\\nSecietaiy of state, 1870. Jonathan W. Flanders\\nd, 2578 Daniel Striker r, 2384 John Graves, I\\nJohn Evans. 33.\\nSlate Treasurer, 1870. Andrew J. Bovvne d.\\n2579 Victory P. Collier r, 2382 Oliver Chapaton,\\n2 Luman R. Atpater, 32.\\nAttorney General, 1870. JohnAtkinson d, 2579;\\nDwight May r, 2304 Eben G. Fuller, 32.\\nCommissioner state Land Office, li-jo. John G.\\nHubinger d, 25S0 Charles A. Edmonds r, 2385\\nJames H. Ilartwell. 32.\\nAuditor General, 1870. Charles W. Butler d,\\n2579 William Humphrey r, 23S4 Charles K. Car-\\npenter, 32.\\nSuperintendent of Public Instruction, 1S70.\\nDuane Doty d, 25S7 Oramel Hosford r, 2879\\nAsa Mahan, 31.\\nMember State Board of Education, 1S70.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W.\\nIrving Bennett d, 3582 Witter J. Baxter r. 23S3\\nEbenezer Hunt, 31.\\nThe vote on allowing Supervisors Boards to\\nraise $2000 per annum for the repair and construc-\\ntion of public highways, buildings, and bridges the\\nvote for amending the article relating to the appor-\\ntionment of Representatives, and the qualifications\\nof electors, the vote relative to salaries of State\\nOfficers and Judges of the Circuit Courts the vote\\non impartial sufifrage the vote on the change in the\\nlaw, as it regarded railroads, were severally ap-\\nproved or condemned by the people of Macomb in\\n1S70 the county giving an affirmative vote ranging\\nfrom 775 to 1337, and a negative vote ranging from\\n4 to 2736.\\nCongress, 1870. Byron G. Stout d, 2581 Omar\\nD. Conger r, 23S3 James S. Smart, 25.\\nSenator, 1870. Horace H. Cady d, 2457 Gil-\\nbert Hathaway r, 2470.\\nRepresentatives, 1S70. Norton L. Miller r, 952\\nLucius H. Canfield d, 946 Hiram D. Runyan d,\\n991 Gustavus Schuchard r, 568 Seth K. Shetterly,\\n53 Deliverance S. Priest r, 930 Elias W. Lyon d,\\n506.\\nSheriff, 1S70.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fred. G. Kendrick d, 2637", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0329.jp2"}, "330": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHorace A. Lathrop r, 2325 Alonzo M. Keeler. l\\nHenry Meynell, 4.\\nCounty clerk, 1S70. Charles S. Groesbeck d,\\n2548 William M. Connor r, 2430.\\nRegistrar cf Deeds, 1870. Geo. W. Robertson d,\\n2529 Alonzo M. Keeler r, 2445.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1S70. Oliver Chapaton d,\\n2703. George J. Grovier r, 2272.\\nProsecuting Attorney, l ^o.\u00e2\u0080\u0094]s.me% B. Eldredge\\nd, 2613; Wm. Jenny Jr. r, 2369.\\nCounty surveyor, 1S70. Geo. E. Adair d, 2567\\nCortez Fessenden r, 2391.\\nCircuit court commissioners, 1870. W. H. Clark\\nJr. d, 25S4 Geo. M.Crocker d, 2604; Irving D.\\nHanscom r, 2364 Arthur L. Canfield r, 2401.\\nCounty coroners, 1S70. Sanfoid M. Stone d,\\n2576 Cortez V. Hooker d, 2576 Robert A. Barton\\nr, 2406 Levi Hoard r, 2407.\\n1871.\\nJustice supreme court, 1871. James V. Campbell\\nr, 1877; D. Darwin Hughes d, 2196 Albert Wil-\\nliamsi 87.\\nRegents of the University, 1871. Claudius B.\\nGrant r, 1908 Charles Rynd r, 1908; I. M. B. Sill\\nd, 216S C. B. Fenton d, 2168 Wm. W. Baldwin,\\n88; Jos. S. Tuttle 88.\\nCounty superintendent of common schaols, 1S71.\\nDaniel B. Briggs r, 17S4; Sidney H. Woodford d,\\n222S.\\nCounty drain commissioner, 1871. George E.\\nAdair d, 2035 James S. Lawson r, 2005.\\n1872.\\nPresidential Electors, 1S72.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eber B. Ward and ten\\nothers r, 2546; Geo. V. Lathrop and ten others d,\\n2161; Charles P. Russell and ten others 85; Austin\\nWales and ten others 72.\\nCongress, 1872. Omar D. Conger r, 3487; John\\nH. Richardson d, 2314; Squire E. Warren Pro., 61.\\nGovernor, 1872 John J. Bagley r, 2465; Austin\\nBlair d, 2311; Henry Fish pro, 70; Wm. M. Ferry\\n54-\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1872. Henry H. Holt r,\\n2452; John C. Blanchard d, 2330; Wm. G. Brown\\npro, 69 Charles Woodruff 54.\\nSecretary of state, 1872. Daniel Striker d, 2453;\\nGeo. H. House d, 2333; John Evans 68; Thomas C.\\nCutler 54.\\nState Treasurer, 1872.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Victor P. Collier r, 2461;\\nJos. A. Holton d, 2334; Elias C. Manchester 69;\\nClement M. Davison 54.\\nAuditor General, 1872. William Humphrey r,\\n2454; Neil O Hearn d, 2333; William Allmon 68;\\nCyrus Feabody 54.\\nAttorney General, 1S72.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Byron D. Ball r, 2446;\\nD. Darwin Hughes d, 2332; D. P. Sagindorph 68;\\nWm. A. Clark 54.\\nSuperintendent of Public Instruction, 1872. Dan-\\niel B. Briggs r, 253S; Willard Stearns d, 2239; M.\\nA. Daugherty 63; A. J.\u00c2\u00bbSawyer52.\\nCommissioner state Land Office, 1872. L. A. Clapp\\nr, 2454; G. H. Murdock d, 2333; Joseph S. Tuttle\\n68; Ira D. Crouse 54.\\nMember State Board of Education, 1872. Edward\\nDorsch r, 2445; Edward Feldner d, 2330; Martin A.\\nBrown 6g; Christian Vanderbeen 53.\\nSejiator, 1872, vacancy. Seymour Brownell d,\\n1016; J. S. P. Hathaway r, S85.\\nSenator, No. i, 1872. James S. P. Hathaway r,\\n2323; John N. Mellen d, 2461; Lafayette Warren\\n50; Riely C. Cone 40.\\nRepresentatives, 1872. Horace H. Cady d, 1426;\\nPayne K. Leech r, 856; James M. Payne 8; D. S.\\nPriest r, 1518; J. M. Potter d, 972; Alex Shelp 45.\\nSheriff, 1872. Nelson H. Miller r, 2269; Fred G.\\nHendricks d, 2559; James Gass 45; Peter Ladors\\nJudge of Probate, 1S72.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thomas L. Sackett r,\\n2481; Thomas M. Crocker d, 2336; Oran Freeman\\n53; Morgan Nye 53.\\nCounty clerk, 1872. David C. Cobuvn r, 2295;\\nCharles S. Groesbeck d, 2512; Clark Stephens 33;\\nWatson Lyons, 62.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1872. Alonzo M. Keeler r,\\n24*1: Geo. W. Robertson d, 2411; Theodore Mosher\\n29; Wm. R. Sutton 44.\\nCounty Treasurer. 1872. Geo. B. Van Eps r,\\n2213; Oliver Chapaton d, 2592; Judge Preston 37;\\nHiram Squires 63.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1872. Wm. Jenny Jr. r,\\n2365; James B. Eldredge d, 2438; Lorenzo G. Sperry\\n35; Joseph Chubb 62.\\nCounty Surveyor, 1872. Oscar S. Burgess r, 2450;\\nGeo. E. Adair d, 2308; Morgan Nye 64.\\nCircuit court commissioners, 1872. Dwight N.\\nLowell r, 2463; Lewis M. Miller r, 2463; Wm. H.\\nClark Jr. d, 2382; (ieo. M. Crocker d, 2337; John\\nStarkweather 66; Joseph Cliubbs62.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0330.jp2"}, "331": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCounty coroners, 1S72. Martin Buzzell r, 2424;\\nStephen S. Merrill r, 1577; George H. Stuart d,\\n2382; Cortez P. Hooker d, 2249; Hiram H. Kelsey\\n64; Alfred Van Voorhoes 65; Geo. N. Nunnerly 40;\\nVictor A. Morass 40; Stephen H. Merrill 856.\\n1873.\\nJustice Supreme court, 1S73. Isaac P. Christian-\\ncy, 3952.\\nRegents of the University, 1873. Duane Doty d,\\n2044; Andrew M. Fitch d, 2039; Edward C. Walker\\nr, 1S6S Andrew Climie, Oscar D. Spaulding, 17\\nReynold Kelley, 41.\\nCounty Superintendents of Schools, 1873. Spen-\\ncer B. Russell d, 2073; Robert G. Baird r, 1S40.\\n1874.\\nCongress, 1874. Enos Goodrich d, 2592 Omar\\nD. Conger r, 1S93 Henry Fish, 146.\\nGovernor, 1S74. Henry Chamberlain d, 2638\\nJohn J. Bagley r, 1S67; C. K. Carpenter p, 167.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1874. Fred. Hall d, 2639\\nH. H. Holt r, 1874; T. A. Granger p, 169.\\nSecretaiy of State, 1874. George H. House d,\\n2638 E. G. D. Holden r, 1872 Samuel W. Baker\\np, 16S.\\nState Treasurer, 1S74. Joseph M. Sterling d,\\n2637 W. B. McCreery r, 1S71 James J. Mead p,\\n169,\\nAuditor General, 1874. John L. Evans d, 2636;\\nRalph Ely r, 1872 Joseph Newman p, 171.\\nAttorney General, 1874. M. V. Montgomery d,\\n2637 Andrew J. Smith r, 1S72 Albert Williams p,\\n169,\\nSuperintendent Public Instruction, 1S74. Duane\\nDoty d, 2631; Daniel B. Briggs r, 1S76; John\\nEvans p, 159.\\nCom nissionee State Land Offce, 1S74. C. W.\\nGreen d, 2637 L. A. Clapp r, 1S74 T. S. Skinner\\np, i6g.\\nMember Board of Education, 1S74. E. W. An-\\ndrews d, 263S; Edgar Rexford r, 1S73 John D.\\nLewis p. 169.\\nRepresentatives, 1874. Casper P. Schettler d,\\n1552; Levi J. Stickney r, 605; Calvin Bush p, 99;\\nCortez P. Hooker d, 1093 Thomas M. Wilson r,\\n1124 Charles E. Davis p, 98.\\nSenator, 1874. John N. Mellen d, 2855 Norton\\nC. Miller r, 1654 Dwight P. Breede p, 142.\\nSheriff, :S74.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Winfield S. Hathaway d, 2677;\\nRobert A. Barton r, 1824; Harry Briggs p, 173.\\nCounty clerk, 1874. Charles S. Groesbeck d,\\n2741; Perry M. Bentley r, 1740; Morgan Nye p, 155.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1874. Traugott Longers-\\nhausen d, 2390; George McCioskey r, 2079 1 Wm.\\nR. Sutton p, 159.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1S74. Oliver Chapaton d,\\n2642 John Otto r, 1839; Loren Andrus p, 148.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1S74. James B. Eldridge\\nd, 2720; Wm. Jenney, Jr. r, 1805 Joseph Chubb\\np. 109.\\nCounty Surreyor, 1S74. Cl.irence M. Stephens d,\\n2709; Oscar S. Burgess r, 1791 Albert G. Jepson\\nP, 157-\\nCircuit court connnlssioners, 1S74. Geo. M.\\nCrocker d, 2625 Wm. H. Clark d, 2611 Dwight\\nN. Lowell r, 1930; Lewis M. Miller r, 1699; John\\nL- Starkweather p, i65 Clark Stanton p, 157.\\nCounty coroners, 1S74. Adam Bennett d, 2644;\\nGeo. H. Stewart d, 2637 Amsey W. Sutton r,\\n1847 John H. Williams p, 171 Hiram Squiers p,\\n171 Calvin Davis r, 1S60.\\n1S75.\\nJuilice Supreme court, 1875. Benj. F. Graves r,\\n3984; Lyman D. Norris d, 2138 Isaac Marston r,\\n1S32.\\nRegents of the University, 1S75. Samuel T.\\nDouglass d, 2218 Peter White d, 2203 Samuel S.\\nWalker r, 1748 Byron M. Cutcheon r. 1750.\\nCiicuit Judge, 1S75. Edward W.Harris r, 3966,\\n1S76.\\nPresidential Electors, 1S76. James B. Eldredge\\nd, and ten others, 3,453 Wm. A. Howard r, and\\nten others, 3,0:2 Moses W. Field g.b, and ten oth-\\ners, 18 Charles K. Carpenter pro, and ten others, 6.\\nCongress, 1876. Anson E. Chadwick d, 3,499\\nOmar D. Congar r, 2.981.\\nGovernor, lS^6. William L. Webber d, 3,465\\nCharles M. Crosswell r. 3,008 Levi Sparks pro,\\n14-\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1876. Julius Houseman d,\\n3,478; Alonzo Sessions r, 3,012; Emory Curiiss,\\npro, 5.\\nSecretary of Stale, 1876. Geo. H. House d,\\n3,463; E. G. D. Holden r, 3,011; Albert Stege-\\nman pro, 14.\\nState Treasurer, 1876. Jolin G. Parkhurst d.\\nP V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0331.jp2"}, "332": {"fulltext": "334\\nHISTOIIY OF MA-COMB COUNTY.\\n3,474 Willmm B. McCreery r, 3 oi5 Archibald L.\\nCliubb pro, 4.\\nAuditor General, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fred M. Holloway d,\\n3,476; Ralph Ely r, 3,012; Daniel J.Smith pro, 5.\\nCommissioner Slate Land Office, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 J. B. Fen-\\nton d, 3,466; Ben. F. Partridge r, 3.001; J. H.\\nRichardson g.b, 14; Emory L. Brewer pro, 6.\\nAttorney General, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Martin Morris d, 3,463;\\nOltoKirchner r, 3,012; Albert J. Chapman g.b,\\n14 Dan. Sagendorph pro, 4.\\nSuperintendent Public Instruction, 1S76.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Zelotes\\nTruesdel d, 3,463 Horace S. Tarbell r, 3,025\\n.T. W. McKeever pro, 5.\\nMember State Board of Education, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Chas.\\nJ. Walker d, 3.465 Witter J. Baxter r, 3,009\\nEthan Ray Clarke g.b, 14 I LukeR. Damon pro, 5.\\nAmendments, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 License For, 1207 against,\\n907. Salaries, Circuit Court Judges; For, 1626\\nagainst, 605. Constitution, For, 1447; against, 152.\\nSenator, 1S76.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John N. Mellen, 3,459 William\\nJenny Jr. r, 3,006; Crawley P, Drake, i.\\nRepresentatives, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lucius H. Canfield d,\\n1,845; Thomas Dawson r, 1,505; Seth K. Shetter-\\nly d, 1,554 Crawley P. Drake r, 1,533.\\nSheriff, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Winfield S. Hathaway d, 3,533\\nHaswell Church r, 2,943.\\nP obate Judge, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James B. Eldredge d,\\n3,337 Edgar Weeks r, 3,125.\\nCounty clerk, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles S, Groesbeck d,\\n3,517; Ezra Nye r, 2,946; Jacob L. Keller, 130.\\nResistrarof Deeds, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Traugott Longerhau-\\nsen d, 3,444; Peter F. H. Schars r, 3,035.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Oliver Chapaton d,\\n3,407 Wm. Heine r, 3,028.\\nProsecxiting Attorney, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Geo. M. Crocker d,\\n3,458; Irving D. Hanscom r, 3,008.\\nCircuit court commissioners, iSjG. Wm. H.\\nClark, Jr. d, 3,436; Chauncey R. Canfield d, 3,450;\\nOscar S. Burgess r, 2,999 Frank C. Lamb r, 3,076.\\nCounty Sunvyor.iS-jb.\u00e2\u0080\u0094Oarence M. Stephens\\nd, 3,455; Cortez Fessenden r, 3,023.\\nCounty coroners, 1876.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Adam Bennett d, 3,471;\\nGeo. H. Stuart d, 3,469; Judson C. Mason r,\\n3,010 Geo. R. Hoard r, 3,020.\\n1877-\\nJustice of the Sup)eme court, 1S77.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Henry F.\\nSeverens d, 2088; Thomas M. Cooley r, 1848.\\nRegents of the University, x il l. Anson E. Chad-\\nwick d, 2088; John Lewis d, 2088 Victory P. Col-\\nlier r, 1847 George L. Maltz r, 1847.\\nVote on Appointment of clerk supreme court,\\n1S77.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 For the appointment, 398; against the ap-\\npointment, 29S.\\nVote Relative to Law of corporation.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 \u00c2\u00a5ox amend-\\nment, 358; against amendment, 34S.\\n1878.\\nCongress, 1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William T. Mitchell d, 2,437\\nOmar D. Conger r, 2,012 Charles F. Mallary n,\\n617.\\nGovernor. 1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Orlando M. Barnes d, 2,391\\nCharles M. Crosswell r, 2,036; Henry M. Smith n,\\n615 Watson Snyder p, 36.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alfred P. Swineford\\nd, 2,393 Alonzo Sessions r, 2,036; Lysander Wood-\\nward n, 615 Isaac W. McKeever p, 35.\\nSecretary of State. 1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George H. Murdoch d,\\n2.340; William Jenney r, 2,112; George H.Bruce\\nn, 591 Travers Phillips p, 26.\\nState Treasurer, 1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alexander McFarlan d,\\nBenjamin D. Pritchard r, 2,034 Herman Goeschel\\nn, 617 Darius H. Stone p, 35.\\nCommissioner State Lands, 1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George Lord\\nd, 2,393 James M. Neasmith r, 2,038 John A.\\nElder n, 614; William G. Brown p, 35.\\nAuditor General, 1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 W. J. B. Schermerhorn\\nd, 2,392; W. J. Latimer r, 2,038; Levi Sparks n,\\n614 Leander L. Farnsworth p, 35.\\nAttorney General, 1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Allen B. Morse d, 2,399;\\nOtto Kercher r, 2,019; Frank Dumon n, 612;\\nDaniel Sazendorph p, 41-\\nSuperintendent Public Instruction, 1S78.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Zelo-\\ntes Truesdel d, 2,390; Cor. A. Gower r, 2,040;\\nDavid Parsons n, 613 Martin V. Rourke p, 35-\\nMember State Board Education, 1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Edwin F.\\nUhl d, 2,393; George F. Edwards r, 3,038 George\\nE. Hubbard n, 614 Marlin V. Brown, 35.\\nSenator, 187S.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John M. Wattles d, 2,356 Joseph\\nB. Moore r, 2,103 John J. Watkins n, 59I.\\nRepresentatives, 1878.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Warren Parker d, 1,180;\\nArthur N. Grovier r, 1,090; Charles C. Lamb r,\\n369; Alexander Grant r. 1,084; David C. Greene\\nd, 1,114 Eli G. Perkins n, 192.\\nSheriff, 1S78.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Louis Groesbeck d, 2,676 Alfred\\nStewart r, 1,905 Seth Davis n, 454.\\nCounty clerk, 1878. William L. Dicken d,\\n2,375; George F. Adams r, 2,160; Ambrose J.\\nHancock n, 506.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0332.jp2"}, "333": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n-4^\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1878. Traugott Longershau-\\nsen d, 2,358 Charles Steffins r, 2,087 Louis A.\\nAl or n, 599.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1878. Charles Tackles d,\\n-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0399; John Otto r, 2,031; Adam Bennett n, 601.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1878. George M. Crocker\\nd, 2,S02 Edgar Weeks r, 2,095.\\nCircuit court commissioner, 1S78. William H.\\nClark, Jr. d, 2,511 Chauncey R. Canfield d, 2,468\\nDwight N. Lowell r, 2,059 Silas B. Spier r,\\n2,050.\\nC unty Surveyor, 1878. George E. Adair d,\\n2,361 Cortez Fessenden r, 2,084; James S. Lawson\\nn. 592.\\nCounty cotoners, 187S. G. H. .Stuart d, 2,391;\\nJoshua B. Dickenson d, 2,387 GiUman Whitten r,\\n2,061; John J. Reimold r. 2,066 Charles S. Hutch-\\nings n, 612 William M. Campbell n, 594.\\n1879.\\nyustices of the Supreme court, 1879. John B.\\nShipman d, 2448 James V. Campbell r, 2287.\\nRegents of the University, 1879. Geo. P. Sanford\\nd, 2530; Henry Whiting d, 2528; Ebenezer O.\\nGrosvenor 2271 James Shearer r, 2275.\\nPresidential Electors, 1880.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Peter White d, and\\nten others, 3218 Charles P. Peck r, and ten others,\\n3136 Augustus Day n, and ten others, 201 Jo.seph\\nv. Whiting pro, and ten others, 10; Isaac J. Gray\\nand ten others, i.\\nCongress, 1880. Cyrenius P. Black d, 3283\\nOmar D. Conger r, 3090 John J. Watkins n, 1S4.\\nGovernor, 1880, Frederick M. Holloway d, 3266;\\nDavid H. Jerome r, 30S6 A. Woodman n, 193\\nIsaac W. McKeever pro, 22.\\nLieutenant-Governor, 1880. Edward H. Thorn-\\n,ton d, 3270; Moreau S. Crosbe r, 3082; Sulivan\\nArmstrong n, 193 Darius H. Stone pro, 22.\\nSecretary of Stale, 1880. Willard Stearns d, 3142;\\nWilliam Jenny r, 3197 I. A. Crouse n, igg; John\\nEvans pro, 22.\\nState Treasurer, iSSo. Isaac M. Weston d, 3220\\nBenj. D. Pritchard r, 3126 John M. Norton n, 200;\\nArthur Al. Power pro, 22.\\nAuditor General, 1880. Richard Moore d, 3221\\nW. Irving Latimer r, 3128 Sylvester B. Heverle n,\\n200 Watson Snyder pro, 22.\\nCommissioner State Lands, 18S0. James I. Davis\\nd, 3220; James M. Neasmith r, 3129 John H.\\nElder n, 200 Porter Beal pro, 22.\\nAttorney General, 1880 Henry P. Henderson d,\\n3221 Jacob J. Van Riper r, 313S; William Newton\\nn, 2D0; Milton N. Burnham pro. 22.\\nSuperintendent Puilic Instruction, 1880 Zelotes\\nTruesdel d, 3222; Cornelius A. Gower r, 3127;\\nDavid Parsons n, 200 William N. Moore pro,\\n22.\\nMembers Board of Education, 18S0 Albert\\nCrane d, 3231 Edgar Rexford r, 3128; Volney V.\\nB. Mervin n, 209 Uriah R. Evans pro, 19.\\nSenator, 10th District, t88o\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John N. Mellen d,\\n3415 John T. Rich r, 3094.\\nRepresentatives, 1880 Warren Parker d, 1726\\nEdgar Weeks r, 1669 Thomas W. Newton. I\\nByron J. Flumerfelt d, 1523 Alexander Grant d,\\n1579-\\nI ote on Bridging the Detroit River, 1 880 In\\nfavor of, 901 against the project, 567.\\nJudge of Probate, 1880. James B. Eldredge d.\\n3391 Charles Andrews r, 3100.\\nSheriff. 1880. Louis Grosbeck d, 3242; Thos.\\nW. Newton r, 3263.\\nCounty clerk, 1880. William L. Dicken d, 3354;\\nWilliam W. Vaughan r, 3137.\\nRegistrar of Deeds, 1880. Judson S. Farrar d,\\n3330 Charles Steffins r, 3171.\\nCounty Treasurer, 1880. Charles Tackles d,\\n3271 Jonathan Stone r, 3237.\\nProsecuting Attorney, 1880. George M. Crocker\\nd. 3237 Irving D. Hanscom r, 3250.\\nCircuit court commissioners, 1880. Frank F.\\nWilliams d. 3136 Franklin P. Montfort d, 3301\\n.Silas B. Spier n, 3221 Addison S. Stone n, 3325.\\nCounty Surveyor, iSSo. George E. Adair d,\\n3294 George H. Cannon r, 3200.\\nCounty coroners, 18S0. Humphrey Murphy d,\\n3301 George H. Stuart d, 3297 William G. Terry\\nr, 3215; William Norton r, 3216.\\ni8Sl.\\nCongress, 1881. Cyreni-us P. Black d, 2545; John\\nT. Rich r, 2418; John Kenny n, 61.\\nJustice of Supreme court, l88l, Augustus C.\\nBaldwin d, 2534; Isaac Marston r, 2495; John B.\\nShipman x, 156; Charles G. Hyde pro, 27.\\nRegents of the University, i88l.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Geo. V. N.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0333.jp2"}, "334": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nLathrop d, 2525; Henry Fralick d, 2526; James F.\\nJoy r, 241 1; Austin Blair r, 2401; Charles G. Wil-\\nlett n, 156; David Parsons n, 156, Isaac W. McKee-\\nver pro, 28; Edward C. Newell pro, 2S.\\nCircuit Judge, iGth J. C, 1S81.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William M.\\nMitchell d, 2703; Herman W. Stephens r, 2246; Val-\\nentine A. Saph g. b. n, 14S.\\nI ^aie on Loan o/Slcooo. iSSi. For the tax and\\nloan 2341; against 2179.\\nSenator 20 Dis.. iSSl.\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John V. Mellen d, 4861.\\nCHAPTER XVII I.\\nTHE PRESS OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTlie newspa]ier press of Macomb may, with justice, claim to be tlie true expo-\\nnent of popular ideas, as well as the zealous guardian of local interests. Seldom has\\nit extended recognition to terrorism at home or tyranny abroad never knowingly.\\nPossibly there may have been a few instances, where ignorance, pure and simple,\\ncaused the free citizen of our Union to wander away from his surroundings and en-\\nter the circle of flunkyism there may also be some cases where the people were so\\nshort-sighted as to permit an immigrant newspaper writer to indulge in eulogies on the\\nmagnificence of trans-Atlantic peoples. Sometimes cuttings are made from monarch-\\nical papers, because the heading conveys an idea to the busy editor that. the arti-\\ncle is newsy, when in reality it is only a fulsome laudation of expiring monarchy\\nan attempt to gain sympathy for that hideous principle. This article appears in the\\ncolumns of the local paper without even a qualifying paragraph, and contributes in\\na degree to foster a taste for royalty, pageantry, and all such criminal nonsense in\\nthe minds of the more unthinking portion of our people. Such insulting trash should\\nnot be placed before the public. Even though this unjustifiable, foundationless\\npraise of the enslavers of Europeans, of all their glittering palaces, of their gorgeous\\nparades, could win any serious attention from any other than the most imbecile\\nof ourpopulation, it is not fair to furnish imbecility with fuel; it is not right to place\\nbefore it new subject matter, which enables it, however falsely, to extol the glories\\nand the pageants of principles and men who cast a gloom over the civilization of\\nour day. There is little in trans-Athintic peoples, and much less in their govern-\\nments, which hold seven-eigliths of the people in most aliject servitude, to commend.\\nThe knowledge of this state of affairs in Europe, is so widespread in the United\\nStates, that it forms a full safeguard against the growth of that foolish, debasing,\\nand most pernicious vice commonly called flunkyism. The people understand their\\nduty to the Republic, and none among them more so than the indefatigable men, who\\nidentify themselves with the press of this county.\\nMacomb has reaped a rich harvest from the industry and honesty of her news-\\nrf*", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0334.jp2"}, "335": {"fulltext": "Ll^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\npaper conductors. All evidences point out her journalists of the past to have been\\nas truly honorable as are those of the present flunkyism was not the attribute of\\nany one of them they labored late and early in providing newsy and instructive\\nreading for the constituents and, if at any time, a ridiculous eulogy, on all that is\\npoliticall} and socially false, crept into their columns, they were the first to denounce\\nthe buffoon who penned the obnoxious lines.\\nThe press conferred inestimable good ujaon this disti-ict it oj^posed premature\\ninnovations, even as it urged necessary reforms it set its denunciations of arbitrary\\nand tyrannical measures in black letter, stigmatized moral cowardice, and claimed that\\nfrom the village council-room to the chambers of the National Government, vice\\nshould be subjected to rebuke and punishment, aiid virtue doubly cherished.\\nHere the press is a synonym for progress. Prescribe its liberty and the nation\\nsuffers. Very few liberties had been won in the long struggle for human freedom,\\ninvolving more far reaching and momentous consequences than that which secured\\nthe constitutional guaranty of freedom of speech and of the press. The antagonism\\nbetween a despotic government and the j^rinting press is as natural as it is intense.\\nThe heart of monarchy, claiming to be human, loves applause, and therefore could\\nnot willingly feed on the bitter herbs of censure. Neither king nor minister,\\nneither cardinal nor general desired a fair review of his official acts, nor submitted\\nto reproof. The exercise of power bred confidence in the hearts of rulers, and\\nbegot an impatience of criticism hence there was a natural inclination to restrain,\\nwhat those in authority might deem, an unwarrantable freedom in the discussion\\nof public affairs. On the other hand, the intelligent portion of the population\\ndesired to inquire into the proceedings of their governors, to complain of\\ngrievances, and to suggest reforms. Free thought and free speech were of little\\navail without free publications, and to suppress publications was to prevent prac-\\ntical results. Thus there was an irrepressible conflict between oppressive govern-\\nments, whatever their form, and the press one in which the press succeeded in\\nthese States, one in which it is still engaged in the eastern hemisphere up to the\\npresent time, and which is likely to continue until the sun sheds his light upon a\\ngreat European Republic.\\nIn a despotic state the government exercises a censorship over the press, while\\nin a free country the case is reversed, and the press is the censor of the govern-\\nment. Both forms of censorship were liable to abuse but judging by the past,\\nthe excesses of the press for a thousand years would be trifling in evil results,\\nwhen compared with the iniquities of a government censor for a single genera-\\ntion. If the people are to govern, or take any active intelligent part in the\\ngovernment, they must be cognizant of every fact pertaining to their country, and\\nbe in a position to give full expression to their opinions on public measures.\\n-J o\\nr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0335.jp2"}, "336": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTliose entrusted with the executive authority, those appointed to promote the\\ngeneral welfare in accordance with the public will, should favor the most free and\\nefficient means of communication with those for whose sake government is intended\\nto exist that means is the newspaper. No substitute for it has ,yet been devised\\nnot one can be imagined. Thus the newspaper is one of the most important\\nagencies of a free people, of a good government. Without its aid in instructing\\nand arousing the people, the national government could neither have raised the\\nvast armies, nor have commanded the pecuniary means required to carry on the\\nstruggle for the preservation of our Union against the wealthy planters of the\\nSouthern States and their foreign allies.\\nThe modern newspaper is not merely a private enterprise it is as truly public\\nand necessary as the railroad or the telegraph. Enlightened jurisprudence de-\\nclares that the newspaper, encouraged and protected by the highest guarantees of\\nconstitutional law as indispensable to free government, is subject not to the narrow,\\nrigid rules which appl) to merely private enterprises, but to broad and equitable\\nprinciples springing out of its relation to the public, and its duty to serve the\\npeople in the collection and publication of information relating to the public good.\\nThe business of journalism is no longer a mere incident to the printer s trade it\\nhas become a great, profound, and learned profession, with fraternal organizations.\\nIt has become the great educator of the masses, as well as the magnificent agent\\nof social and political reformation.\\nActing harmoniously in their respective spheres, free government and a free\\npress are the joint conservators of good, each the most powerful pillar of the other.\\nThe press and the bar, as well as the people and the Government of the United\\nStates, are all dependent upon one another, with the honest press as leader.\\nTherefore let us cherish the newspapers, stigmatizing what may appear corrupt in\\nthem, and applauding all that is honorable and just. This is due by the people\\nto the people and the press.\\nIn the following historical sketches a full effort has been made to deal with\\nthe newspapers and newspaper men of this county which effort, the writer\\nbelieves, has been attended with success being, as it is, an extract from the his-\\ntorical address, delivered December 28, 1881, at Armada, by Edgar Weeks, formerly\\nconnected with the press of the county.\\nForty years ago, there was not half a dozen newspapers in Michigan, and not\\none in Macomb County. At that time the country was new the telegraph not\\nwliat it is to-day the mails were slow, painfully slow, postage was dear, tlie\\npeople poor. In that day it took ten days or two weeks to get a letter from New\\nYork to Detroit. The means of communication was confined to stage coaches and\\nsteamboats, which would drive a modern traveler wild. The city of Detroit was", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0336.jp2"}, "337": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthen only a moderate sized village. There was not a town of 5,000 inhabitants in\\nthe State. Mt. Clemens was a village of some importance as tlie future of Michigan\\nthen looked. It was the seat of government and justice for all Michigan north of\\nWayne County. It numbered among its people some few enterprising men who\\nlooked forward to a large city where Mt. Clemens now stands.\\nJOURNALS OF ROMKO.\\nWay back in the history of Romeo, there was published there a paper called\\nthe Investigator. The files of this paper have disappeared, and no inquiry which\\nwe have made for them has been rewarded. The name of its publisher was Thomas\\nM. Perry. It first appeared in the fall of 1850 and lived about two j ears.\\nAnother paper called the Romeo Olive Branch was also published there, but\\nwe have been equall} unfortunate in regard to it, both as to date and name of its\\npublisher.\\nIn the year 1857 the Romeo Argus appeared, but its files previous to May 18th,\\n1861, are lost. From May 18th, 1861, to May 18th, 1802, the files have been pre-\\nserved. The Argus was started in 1857, in Ma} by Martin V. Bentley and John\\nM. Stone. Mr. Bentley bought out his partner in about a year after the publica-\\ntion began.\\nOn the 8th of May, 1861, S. H. Ewell bought the paper and published it about\\none year. It was edited by Ewell and Aiken. It was then leased to Hiram J.\\nAiken and George D. Mussey. In February, 1864, it was destroyed by fire. The\\nmotto of the Argus was The agitation of thought is the beginning of wisdom.\\nA State Temperance journal was started by John Russell sometime in 1863.\\nThis paper was really the old publication turned into a new channel, and was\\nprinted by Aiken and Mussey, at the Argus office. It was called the Peninsular\\nHerald, and was devoted to the cause of Prohibition and Total Abstinence. It ran\\na successful career for some time, and was finally removed tb Detroit, where it en-\\njoyed a broader field in journalism, and survived a brief career. Its proprietor is\\nso well known in this county as to require no introduction at my hands. His\\nprominence as a temperance agitator gave him a wide reputation and secured for\\nhim the nomination for the Vice-Presidency on the National Temperance Ticket in\\n1876.\\nOn the 30th of May, 1866, John Russell started the Romeo Observer, and the\\nhistory of newspapers since that time in Romeo is almost exclusively a history of\\nthe Observer. On the 9th of August, 1866, Irving D. Hanscom and Edward A.\\nTeall became its proprietors. They improved and enlarged the paper in 18G6, and\\nflung to the breeze the patriotic motto Wiiere libertj dwells, there is my country.\\nUnder this high sounding legend the Observer flourished until March 9th, 1867,\\n-r\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0337.jp2"}, "338": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwhen Edwin A. Teall and Lewis N. Moon took it in charge as publishers, and\\nprinted it until November 19, 1867, when Teall Co. became its proprietors, the\\ncompany being Harve}- E. Mussey. This Company continued until November 11,\\n1868, when Edwin A. Teall became sole editor and proprietor.\\nThe Observer became an out and out Republican paper in October, 1861), when\\nit adopted as its motto Republican in politics, neutral in nothing.\\nOn the loth of October, 1869, Irving D. Hanscom again became proprietor of\\nthe Obsei-ver, and on the twentieth of the same month, Samuel H. Ewell entered\\ninto co-partnership with him. The paper flourished under their management about\\nfour years when they sold out to Geo. A. Waterbury and S. H. Ewell. January\\n14th, 1874, Robert G. Baird purchased the interest of Mr. Ewell and this firm con-\\ntinued the paper a little over one year. On the 3d of February, 1875, Mr. Water-\\nbury became sole editor and proprietor, and has so remained up to the present\\ntime, with the exception of a single year during which time the establishment was\\nleased to S. S. Hopkins, now of St. Clair City.\\nDuring all these yeai-s the Observer has either been an out and out Re-\\npublican paper, or had a decided leaning in that direction. It has been a strong\\npartizan of Romeo in all her local, political, social, and business interests, and has\\nbeen rewarded with a liberal support by the citizens of that village. The Observer\\nhad every thing its own way (so to speak) and without a rival to molest or make\\nit afraid, with a rich field for country journalism, an intelligent class of citizens for\\nits patrons, was happy and felt satisfied.\\nThis charming condition of affairs was disturbed, however, on the 1st of May,\\n1880, by the appearance of the Romeo Democrat, Fred. C. and C. H. Buzzel, pro-\\nprietors. The Democrat is an enterprising, vivacious, and thoroughly wide-awake\\ncountry paper. Its proprietors are young men, both in years and journalism, but\\nthey are making their paper an important figure in the newspaper coterie of this\\ncounty.\\nJOURNALS OF UTICA.\\nA paper called the Enterprise was established at Utica somewhere about\\nthe year 1837 or 1838, and was published by Henry Fish and R. W. Jenny, with\\nC. B. H. Fessenden as editor but the files have been destroyed and we have been\\nunable to ascertain any thing more connected with it.\\nW. H. Marvin started the Utica Sentinel about five years ago, and has pub-\\nlished it up to the present tine. The Sentinel is independent in politics, is a good\\nlocal paper and has every appearance of a successful career before it.\\nMOUNT CLEMENS.\\nIn 1840 a newspaper called the Statesman was started at Mount Clemens by a", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0338.jp2"}, "339": {"fulltext": "fev\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMr. Avery. After a time he was succeeded by a Mr. Brown, and he by John N.\\nIngersoll. The Statesman was a lively and influential paper, published weekly.\\nIts editorials were characterized by ability, and it was noted as a hard fighter in the\\nfield of local politics. We have been recently shown certain political cartoons in\\ncaricature of John N. Ingersoll, Richard Butler, and other lights of the Whig\\nparty of that day, which show the spirit of political controversy as then conducted.\\nThe Statesman was intensely Whig, and its editor was then a leader of that party\\nin this State. Mr. Ingersoll remained in Mount Clemens a number of years, active\\nin political and social events, but finally removed to Corunna, Shiawassee County,\\nwhere he published the Shiawassee American until his death, which occurred a little\\nover a year ago. We can not state accurately the date of the demise of the States-\\nman.\\nThe Macomb County Herald, a Whig paper, was started by George F. Lewis\\nin 1848 or 1849, and edited by Richard Butler. In 1850 or 1851 it was purchased\\nby Fred B. Lee and published by him about one year, when it was sold to Thomas\\nM. Perry, former pul:)lisher of the Patriot, who j^ulilislied it for a short time, when\\nthe ofl ce was burned and the Herald ceased to exist.\\nThe Macomb G-azette was started by Allen P. Bentley, some time about 1849\\nor 1850. It was Democratic in politics, and so remained from the date of its birth\\nuntil its demise in 1856. After a short time Mr. Bentley sold the Macomb Grazette\\nofifice to Abner C. Smith, a lawyer, and one of the prominent men of that day at\\nthe county seat. The writer well remembers Mr. Smith as a tall, intellectual-\\nappearing man, who alwa3 s wore gold-bowed glasses, and was never seen except in\\nthe full dignity of his profession of law and journalism. The ofiice of the Gazette\\nwas on the south side of Court House Square. The writer was employed in the\\noffice as a printer s devil at a very tender age, and at that time its foreman was\\nMartin V. Bentley and its jours John Aiken and Trume Griffin.\\nOn the breaking up of the Whig party the Gazette was sold by Mr. Smith, who\\nmoved to Minnesota, where he practiced law until the time of his death, a few\\nyeai-s ago. The purchaser of the Gazette was William L. Canfield, who rechrist-\\nened his paper the Rejiublican Standard. The Standard, as its name implies,\\nwas a Republican paper, and was published up to 1866 by Mr. Canfield, who sold\\nit to Walter T. Lee and the writer, who enlarged it and started out under the\\nname of the Mount Clemens Monitor.\\nThe Monitor was also Republican in politics. It was a folio of respectable size,\\npublished weekly, and met with very good success. Tiie writer (Mr. Weeks) sold\\nout his interest some time in 1867 to W. T. Lee, who continued its publication\\nuntil he sold to D. M. Cooper. Mr. Cooper finally sold to a Mr. O Brien, who soon\\ns", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0339.jp2"}, "340": {"fulltext": "L^\\n333 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nafter sold to J. E. Nellis Son who are now publishing the Monitor, and publish-\\ning a successful and acceptable county newspaper.\\nWe have followed the Statesman through all its clianges and vicissitudes as\\nthe most convenient way of treating the subject. AVe will now retrace our steps to\\n1840, in which year Thomas M. Perry landed at Mount Clemens from a steamboat\\nwith printing material, which he moved to the old frame building known as the\\nLewis Building, then standing on the site of the present new and elegant countj^\\njail and Slieriff s residence, and commenced the publication of tiie Mount Clemens\\nPatriot. The Patriot was a Democratic newspaper, edited and conducted in the\\ninterest of the local Democracy, with more than the ordinary ability bestowed on\\ncountry newspapers. Mr. Perry was, in his way, a remarkable specimen of pug-\\nnacity and tenacity. He had seen much of the world, and was entirely absorbed\\nin his editorial profession, was a practical printer and would stand at his case\\nand put his leaders in type without manuscript or notes before him. When in one\\nof Ids frequent tempests of passion he was a terror to every one around him. The\\nPatriot was burned out in one of the big fires that visited Mount Clemens. It was\\nthen located on Pearl Street, when Mr. Perry was again heard from as a publisher,\\nand where he remained thereafter.\\nSome time about the year 1854 another paper made its advent in Mt. Clemens.\\nIt was brought there by Geo. F. Lewis. Lewis had been a publisher at Port Huron,\\nbut came here and established the Peninsular Advocate. The Advocate was a Dem-\\nocrat paper, and its office was located in wliat was known as the Leviathan\\nbuilding, which stood on Front street, on the site of the new block now occupied\\nby the post-office. It was a first-class county paper, quite pretentious in size and\\nappearance. Its editorial management was first class, as all who know Fred Lewis\\nwill readily concede. During the first years of the civil war, the Advocate contin-\\nued to be published, and the writer was its war correspondent from the army of\\nthe Potomac. Mr. Lewis, however, moved to Saginaw, and the Advocate ceased to\\nexist, but was soon followed by the Mt. Clemens Conservative Press, under the man-\\nagement of Jas. B. Eldredge and Wm.Longstaff. The Mt. Clemens Press had its\\norigin in the old Macomb Conservative Press, which was established in 1863 by a\\nstock company. The material was mostly purchased second-hand, and is sup-\\nposed to be the remnants of the Peninsular Advocate, established by Mr. Perry some\\nyears previous, and suspended. Several fonts of wood type still remain in the office\\nin almost a perfect condition. Messrs. J. B. Eldredge and Wm. Longstaff became\\nthe editors and general managers of the Conservative Press, and continued in this\\ncapacity until 1868, when John Trevidick, who had been the practical head of the\\noffice for a number of years, became the publisher, changing the name to the Mt;\\nClemens Press. Mr. Trevidick continued the publication until December, 1882,\\n;f^", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0340.jp2"}, "341": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 333\\nwhen the click of the type on the printer s rule ceased in the Press office. Until\\nfurther notice, no paper will be issued from this office, was the special announce-\\nment that greeted its readers on the 26th day of December, 1872. But the\\nfurther notice was destined to come from other quills than those that had hereto-\\nfore done service on the columns of the Press. In the following spring, May 1st,\\n1873, the former readers of the paper were greeted by its re-appearance under the\\nmanagement of S. B. Russell, editor and proprietor.\\nAmong the earlier pei iodicals of Mt. Clemens we must mention the Masonic\\nmagazine called the Ancient Landmark, which was published by A. C. Smith,\\nbefore mentioned, from the Gazette office. Mr. Smith was a man of literary taste\\nand an enthusiastic Mason. Tlie little magazine was published a number of years,\\nand ceased with the demise of the Gazette and the removal of Mr. Smith to Min-\\nnesota.\\nAbout 1872 another newspaper was started at Mt. Clemens, called the Me-\\nporter. Its editor and proprietor was Lew. M. Miller, and tliougli tlie career of the\\nReporter was soon cut short by the removal of Mr. Miller to another field, it will\\nlong be remembered in the Republican campaign of 1872.\\nLater, Walter T. Lee started the Mt. Clemens True Record, which, after a brief\\nand unsuccessful existence, was purcliased by W. N. Miller Co., and called the\\nMt. Clemens RepuMican, which has been published since October, 1880. The\\nRepublican is also Republican in politics, though principally devoted to matters of\\nlocal interest.\\nThis, we believe, completes the list of newspapers and periodicals which, from\\nthe earliest history of the county seat, have been published there. However, from\\ntime to time special publications have appeared, one of whicli was a holiday picto-\\nrial issued by Geo. F. Lewis from the Advocate office, about the Christmas of 1859\\nor 1860. The pictorial was a masterpiece of local talent and skill. Upon its pro-\\nduction was lavished the editorial ability of Geo. F. Lewis, Edgar Weeks and Michael\\nStapleton, whose sketches drew heavily upon the classics, both ancient and modern.\\nThe artists were Edgar Weeks and W. T. Lee, whose wood engravings rivaled\\nthose of the Aldine itself; all the patent medicine cuts in the offices of Mt. Clemens\\nwere utilized. One made to represent the Goddess Juno in her chariot of the\\nSun. Another, before taking was made to represent some doleful figure in\\npublic life, while the after taking made a good shift for the physiognomy of some\\nsuccessful and self-satisfied statesman, whose perennial smile was the principal\\nfeature of the artistic effort. The pictorial was a great local hit and a success. We\\nhave in our possession a copy of the carrier s address to the patrons of the Mt.\\nClemens Patriot, of January 1st, 1842. It was written by Miss Lewis, now Mrs.\\nN. L. Miller, and makes mention of local history long since forgotten by most of the\\nrv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0341.jp2"}, "342": {"fulltext": "fe^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nmen and women of the pi-esent generation. It was published soon after the death\\nof President Harrison, and in the midst of the political changes which were taking\\nplace alludes feelingly to the recent national bereavement, naturally lauds the new\\nPresident and finally speaks about the removal of the recent incumbents of the Mt.\\nClemens postoffice and deputy coUectorship, and mentions the appointment of Giles\\nHubbard to the first and Henry D. Terry to the second named place. The poet\\nsays\\nChanges political are few,\\nBut yet I think of one or two\\nOur good Post-master has been removed,\\nAlthough a faithful servant proved.\\nMay Giles, who fills his place of late\\nHis bright example emulate.\\nThe Custom it has been before,\\nFor General S to watch our shore,\\nBut the Mayor is now our Collector\\nOf smuggled goods a safe detector.\\nTliese allusions to Giles Hubbard, John Stockton and Henry D. Terry, all of\\ntliem once prominent in the social and political events of the country, and all now\\nlying in their graves, revive a sad and mournful regret over the memories of three\\nmen whose names will be carried down into the distant future upon the public\\nrecords of Macomb County.\\nDuring the years over which our sketch has extended, other men have figured\\nin the newspaper history of Mt. Clemens, prominent among them, William Long-\\nstaff, once a practical printer, and now a well-known citizen of Mt. Clemens. John\\nAtkins, a practical printer of merit, who many years ago removed to Council Bluffs,\\nIowa. Fred B. Lee, also a practical printer, now publisher of the Monroe Index.\\nW. T. Lee, of whom mention has been made before, now in Monroe engaged in his\\ntrade as a printer. Charles H. Lee, now proprietor of the Saginaw Republican, at\\nSaginaw City. David A. Stockton, a practical printer, who removed to Canada\\nsome years ago. W. C. Stockton, a practical printer, who lives in Mt.\\nClemens. Andrew S. Robertson, once one of the foremost lawyers of the county,\\na leading politician, a State Senator, and a man of I are abilities who was once editor\\nof the Peninsular Advocate also Mark H. March, who now pursues his vocation as\\na job printer in Detroit.\\nThese reminiscences are written largely from personal recollections and may be\\ninaccurate in respect to some of the dates. These can be hereafter verified by\\nsome member of the Pioneer Society who may have leisure to devote to the task, and\\nwho, we trust will be able to treat the subject more ably than the j^resent writer.\\nTo those men who have had charge through all these years, of that powerful engine,\\nthe local press, the city and county owe much which can be best paid by preserving", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0342.jp2"}, "343": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF 5IAC0MB COUNTY. 335\\nin the ajchives of our Pioneer Society, a memorial of their names and hiboi s, for the\\nemulation of those who come hereafter.\\nNEW BALTIMORE.\\nSometime about the year 1853, Tliomas M. Perry, mentioned as the founder of\\nthe Mt. Clemens Patriot, started a paper at Ashleyville, near New Baltimore. It\\nwas called the Ashleyville Independent. The writer was employed in this office\\npart of the first year of its publication. Ashleyville was then one of the most enter-\\nprising and promising villages in the county. It was the center of a large stave\\ntrade, and its mills gave employment to a large population of laborers. But the\\nIndependent did not long survive, and we believe that its material was afterward\\nbrought to JMt. Clemens and became a part of the Peninsidar Advocate, under George\\nF. Lewis, as heretofore mentioned. Some time afterward, another little paper bear-\\ning the same name was started at Ashleyville, by Martin V. Ferris, then a practicing\\nlawyer there. The mechanical work was done by Edgar Weeks. But this paper\\ndid not long survive, as the business of the village then did not justify the venture.\\nThese are the only papers ever printed in New Baltimore. Mr. Ferris removed to\\nIndiana and pursued tlie practice of law there, where he died a few years ago.\\nRICHMOND.\\nThe Richmond Herald was established at Richmond on the 8th of June, 1876,\\nby Del T. Sutton and George W. Kenfield. Mr. Kenfield only remained in the\\nbusiness a few weeks, but Mr. Sutton continued its publication until November,\\n1876, when he sold the establishment to David S. Cooper.\\nMr. Cooper published the Herald until June, 1877, when the publication was\\ndiscontinued. The good people of Richmond had not then conceived the thought of\\nthe future rapid growth of their little city and the Herald was born before its\\ntime. But Richmond began to move. Its importance as a manufacturing center\\nbegan to make itself apparent, and on the 8th day of November, 1877, William C.\\nWalter, an enterprising young man, started the Richmond Review. Walter pub-\\nlished the Review until the 23d of November, 1879, when it was sold to Frank S.\\nAbbott, then a practicing attorney at Richmond. Mr. Abbott continued the publi-\\ncation of the Review until the 7th of August, 1880, when it was purchased by Del\\nT. Sutton, its present editor and proprietor. Mr. Abbott removed to Wyandotte,\\nwhere he is engaged in publishing a newspaper.\\nThe Review lias alwajs been independent in politics, and devoted to the local\\ninterests of the village of its nativity. It is now a six-column eight-page paper, suc-\\ncessful, bright and enterprising, and a fair exponent of the intelligence and thrift of\\nthe pleasant village of Richmond.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0343.jp2"}, "344": {"fulltext": "-fe*\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nArmada village is one of the bright enterprising towns of the county, sur-\\nrounded by a wealthy and intelligent community, and inhabited by an industrious\\nand thorough class of business men, and it seems a good field for a newspaper.\\nIn 1874 the Armada Index was founded by Ed. H. Bently, the first number\\nappearing in October of that year. It was edited and managed at Armada thougii\\nprinted at Detroit. It was a five-column paper, independent in politics and issued\\nweekly. Though sprightly and intelligent it failed to survive the first year.\\nIn 1876, in April, Mr. A. F. Stowe, started a small job office at Armada, and\\non the 10th of May published the first number of the Armada Telegraph. It was a\\nsmall four-column pap$r, quarto in form, independent in politics. In the vicissitudes\\nof its early career it was reduced in size to a four-column bi-weekly folio, and its\\npublication continued by Mr. Stowe until January 1880, when he sold to Charles J.\\nSeel3\\\\ Mr. Seely immediately enlarged the paper, commenced the publication of a\\nweekly again, enlarged it to a six-column quarto in which form it is now published\\nby Mr. Seely, with every appearance and prospect of success. The Telegraph is in-\\ndependent in politics. In August 1880, J. E. Barringer, the enterprising secretary\\nof the Armada Agricultural Society, commenced the publication of the Armada\\nAgriculturalist. It is published during tlie months of August, September and\\nOctober of each year, and is devoted to the interests of the Agricultural Society of\\nArmada and the success of the Armada Fair held at that place.\\nPEESONAL NOTICES.\\nSpencer Boothe Russell, the present editor and proprietor of the Press, is the\\nson of John and Ruth Ann Russell, the former a native of Ireland, who immigrated\\nto the United States when but eighteen years of age, settling in the State of New\\nYork, where he continued to reside until his death in 1851. He was a hardy, wiry\\nsi^ecimen of that ancient Celtic race of whom it was truly said he was the\\nstraightest man in the county, an accomplished athlete, and without a peer, either\\nin the harvest field or in the garb of a Christian. His wife was Ruth Ann Bur-\\nton, nee Andrus. The Andrus family came from Rhode Island into Yates county.\\nNew York in an early da3^ The family dates its origin back to the landing of the\\nPilgrims, and proudly traces its progenitors to the blue-blooded Puritans who came\\nover in the May Flower. They are of that peculiar type of Rhode Island yankee,\\nwhose physiognomic traits and Quakerish drollery of dialect are all present. Not\\neven the Celtic blood, the quick wit and ready speech of a North of Irelander, have\\nbeen able to absorb the identit}^ of the Andrus type of New England s sturdy\\nstock. The town of Jerusalem, Yates Couuty, N. Y., became the home of the\\nRussells, and here the subject of this sketch was born, November 24, 1846. A few\\nM*", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0344.jp2"}, "345": {"fulltext": "IIISTOUY OF M.VCOMB COUNTY.\\nyears later the family moved to Ontario County where John Russell met his death\\nfrom the effects of overwork and exposure. The widow toiled on with her six\\nfatherless children for a few years, and then moved West, landing at New Balti-\\nmore, Macomb County, in the fall of 1853. The poor woman but journeyed to lier\\ndeath; for after a brief struggle with poverty and disease of the new West, she,\\ntoo, entered upon that long journey beyond the river, bequeathing her six little\\nones to the world. In the spring of 1855, the subject of our narrative, being left\\npractically homeless and friendless, started out to make a name and fortune in a\\nworld of which he knew nothing. Being recommended to the family of Abbot\\nVan Horn, who had just settled in the woods of northeastern Chesterfield town-\\nship, he went to the home of that settler, and entered into his first business\\ntransaction. Van Horn agreed to furnish him a home and give him what advan-\\ntages the district school afforded, until he was eighteen years old. On his own be-\\nhalf the boy contractor promised to stay the required term of years, to give his\\nassistance on the farm in summer season and such as he could while attending\\nschool. No contract, signed and sealed with all the impressive solemnities and\\nforms of law, was ever more sacredly observed. And to the influence of this Chris-\\ntian home, and the principles of business integrity and morality here inculcated,\\nMr. R. credits his success in life. After the expiration of his contract the\\nnext few years were spent in a course of schooling and private instructions at Mt.\\nClemens. In the spring of 1866 he entered the law office of Hubbard Crocker,\\nand began the study of law, which was continued, with the exception of the win-\\nter months spent in teaching district schools, until August, 1868, when he was ad-\\nmitted to the bar of Macomb Couuty. His examination was pronounced by the\\njudge and bar to be one of the best in the iiistory of the circuit. Visiting his native\\nState during the following winter a little incident happened that may not be out of\\nplace here. The reported loss of a party of sleigh-riders while crossing a lake, led\\nto the rumor at Mt. Clemens that Mr. Russell was one of the number. The report\\nspread rapidly and gained credence wherever it was told. Many were the expres-\\nsions of regret that so promising a career should be thus suddenly cut-off in the\\nvery beginning. One day, says Mr. Russell, there came a letter from a distant\\nfriend less credulous than those at Mt. Clemens informing me of my reported death\\nand the anxiety of friends at my old home. The anxious friends were at once re-\\nlieved, but the report was never publicly contradicted until my appearance ui^on\\nthe streets of Mt. Clemens the following April. I shall never forget the look of\\nblank astonishment with which I was greeted by those to whom my appearance was\\nthe first intimation of a resurrection. Instinctively following the Star of Empire,\\nMr. R. took his flight westward, and on the 9th of May, 1869, found himself in the\\ncity of Omaha, Neb. But a longing desire to enter his chosen profession never de-\\nD fy", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0345.jp2"}, "346": {"fulltext": "4\u00c2\u00ab\\n338 IIISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nserted him, and the following January he hung out his professional shingle at Fort\\nScott, Kan., upon which the empire star was at that time shedding its most effulgent\\nrays. But that season was very unhealthy, and after a severe attack of fever fol-\\nlowed by the Kansas shakes he decided to forever shake that country, which he\\ndid, retiring to western Michigan in the fall of 1870 very much broken in health,\\nand so found his way back to Mt. Clemens two years later. In the spring of 1873,\\nhe was elected to the office of County Superintendent of Schools, and on the first\\nday of May assumed the duties of his office, and also the editorial management of\\nThe Press. After two years of double duty the Superintendency Law was repealed,\\nsince which time he has given his entire attention to newsj^aper work. In 1878 he\\nassociated his brother in business with him, who still shares the duties of manage-\\nment.\\nMr. Russell took an active part in local politics, holding several minor offices in\\nthe village, afterwards city, until the spring of 1881, when he was chosen mayor of\\nthe city over a formidable opponent. The story of his subsequent removal by the\\nGovernor, on purely technical grounds, his re-nomination and re-election as given\\nelsewhere in this volume, is a fair and impartial recital of the facts. The legal\\ntechnicality upon which the Governor based the removal was the alleged interest of\\nMayor Russell in a contract for printing between the city and the firm of S. B. and\\nH. E. Russell, which, as shown by the testimony, amounted to less than $25 a year\\nand was entered into for the sole benefit of H. E. Russell. The case attracted the\\nattention of the Press throughout the State and never was the official act of an\\nexecutive more severely criticised and impartially condemned. Public sympathy\\nin Macomb Countj was all in favor of Mr. Russell and his re-accession to tlie may-\\noralty was a subject of congratulation for months afterward. Instead of the stain\\nwhich a few political enemies had confidently hoped to bring upon his public record,\\nit proved one of the happiest triumphs of his whole life. No more appropriate\\nwoi ds can be used in closing this short biographical sketch than the following from\\nthe pen of that veteran journalist and former citizen, Geo. F. Lewis. The article\\nis only one of the many handsome tributes paid Mr. Russell at the time by the daily\\nand weekly press of the State. It appeared in the Bay City Morning Call, of which Mr.\\nLewis was then managing editor, and may form a very apt conclusion to this sketch.\\nMr. Russell, says the writer, is a gentleman of no small individuality, a clever\\nman of some means, decidedly good financial ability, undemonstrative even to\\nreticence, but square and conscientious, if we know what is what in this direction.\\nHe is far from that morbid sensibility which magnifies every trifling trouble into a\\nthreatened disaster, and satisfied in his conscience that he meant to be fair and\\nhonorable, he paid very little attention to the proceedings which were taken for his\\nremoval.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0346.jp2"}, "347": {"fulltext": "-4h.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHenry E. Russell was born in the town of Jerusalem, Yates Co., N. Y.,\\nin 1848. Came to this State and county in 1852, moved to Oakland in 1860, and\\nto Allegan in 1863. where he lived until the late rebellion. He enlisted in the 24th\\nMichigan Infantry in 1864, and served until the close of the war. After the war\\nhe entered the Seminary at Allegan, and received such an education as that\\ninstitution affords. He left the Seminar}^ in 1869. Taught schools in Allegan up\\nto 1872, when he moved into Kent County. There he taught school in Alpine and\\nAlgoma Townships until 1874, when he returned to Macomb. He passed a short\\ntime at Memphis, this county, in 1874, and in the winter of that j ear entered the\\noffice of the Press at Mount Clemens. In 1878 he formed a partnership with S. B.\\nRussell. He is a practical printer and superintendent of office. Mr. Russell was\\nmarried to Miss Fanny M. Miller, sister of Lew M. Miller, of Lansing, April 23,\\n1878.\\nJohn E. Nellis, publisher of the Monitor, was born at Brantford, Canada West,\\nAugust 80, 1828. His father, John Nellis, was born in New York State about 1775,\\nand left that State with his father, who was one of the U. E. Loyalists of that time.\\nMr. Nellis was educated at Brantford. In 1856 he began mercantile life, which\\nhe continued in Michigan from 1866 to 1872, when he entered on the publication\\nof the Wayne County Courier. The first number of the Courier was issued in\\nJanuary, 1873. Mr. Nellis published the journal until March, 1879, when he dis-\\nposed of his interest therein, and moved to Mount Clemens, there he purchased tlie\\nMonitor from Edward O Brien, and entered at once on the publication of that jour-\\nnal, which now is considered one of the best managed and edited weekly newspa-\\npers in this State. He has filled the position of United States Custom Officer at\\nthe port of Mount Clemens since March, 1880. Mr. Nellis married Miss Eleanor R.\\nGriffin in 1855. The children of this marriage are Georgiana, born in 1856;\\nFrank E., born in 1857 Jesse M., born 1861 Nellie A., born in 1863, and Grace\\nR., born January 7, 1874.\\nFrank E. Nellis, editor of the Monitor, boru at Watertown, Canada, Marcli 27,\\n1857, settled in Wayne County, Michigan, in 1866. He attended the schools of\\nWyandotte until 1871, wlien he entered the Enterprise office, where he learned the\\nart of printing. When his fathei became publisher of the Courier he continued to\\nwork there as foreman until 1875, when he became local editor. In 1878 he\\nentered the Detroit office of the Courier. He remained at Detroit until March,\\n1879, when he came to Mount Clemens as editor of the Monitor, in which journal\\nhe claims a third interest. As editor of this journal he has won for himself the\\nname of being at once energetic, industrious, judicious and honest. They form the\\nmain characteristics of the man. Mr. Nellis, Sr., is business manager of the aper^\\nwhich position is admirably filled. Within the last two years the circulation of", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0347.jp2"}, "348": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe Monitor has inci eased from 300 to 1,000 copies per week while the value of\\nthe office has advanced from $1,200 to $6,000.\\nLew. M. Miller, formerly connected with the Press of Macomb, was born in Ray\\nTownship, March 3, 1849. In the summer of 1868 he entered the law office of Hub-\\nbard Crocker. Had charge of school at Davis or Brooklyn in 1869-70, and at\\nFreeman s Mill in 1870- 71, when he received the appointment of engrossing clerk\\nof tlie Mich. H. of R. Since that period he has served in the house as engrossing\\nand enrolling clerk or journal clerk, during three extra sessions and six regular ses-\\nsions of the Legislature. He was elected Circuit Court Commissioner for Macomb\\nin 1872. In the summer of 1873, he issued the Mount Clemens Reporter. In 1875\\nhe assumed control of the Big Rapids Magnet but severed his connection with that\\njournal in 1876. Returning to Mt. Clemens, he consolidated the Reporter with the\\nMonitor, the latter having been purchased by Tliomas H. Foster. He made it, what\\nis termed a red-hot Republican paper. In 1877 Forster Miller sold their inter-\\nest in the Monitor to Cooper. Since 1878 Mr. Miller has made Lansing his home,\\nwhere he is a member of the Secretary of State s staff. His marriage with Miss\\nMary A. Clippinger, of Lansing, took place Feb. 3, 1875.\\nGeorge Alvin Waterbury, son of John C. and Lory A (Parks) Waterbury, was\\nborn near St. Clair, St. Clair Co., Aug. 11, 1847. At an early day Mr. Waterbury,\\nSr., and family came to Micliigan. In 1845 he removed from Calhoun County and\\nsettled tinee miles north of Lexington, in Sanilac County, where he resided until\\n1852, when the family moved into Lexington village. There George A. attended\\nschool and continued there until 1863, when lie became a student at the Dickinson\\nInstitute, Ronieo. He attended tluxt institution for about two years; before it be-\\ncame the Union school. He then went to Oberlin in 1865- 6, which college he at-\\ntended until 1868. In 1868 he entered the law department of the University at\\nAnn Arbor, where he graduated in 1869. On leaving college he entered the law\\noffice of Newbury, Pond Brown at Detroit, where he remained about a year.\\nIn 1871, Mr. Waterbury was connected with the post-office at Lexington. Sub-\\nsequently he traveled extensively until June 1873. In Aug. 1873, he purchased\\ntlie office of the Observer from I. D. Hanscom, and entered upon the publication of\\nthat journal the same month. Mr. Waterbury married Miss Jennie Killam of\\nAddison Township, Oakland Co., daughter of Powell C. Killam, formerly of Bruce,\\nreferred to in the historical sketch of Bruce Township.\\nJohn C. Waterbury, father of G. A. Waterbury of Romeo, may be considered\\nan old resident of Sanilac County. He has served that district of Michigan, in the\\nLegislature for two terms, and in the Senate for two terms. He was appointed\\nUnited States Assessor during tlie war elected Judge of Probate for his County,\\nand held many offices of trust in the township of Lexington. He was born in Del-\\nj\\n^V^", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0348.jp2"}, "349": {"fulltext": "k^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\naware County N. Y., in 1815, came to Michigan, and settled in Calhoun County in\\n1838 moved thence to St. Clair County in 1840, and again to Sanilac in 1847,\\nwhere he now resides. He married Miss Lory Andrews Parks, in 1838. This lady\\nwas born in Saratoga County, N. Y., in 1815, and came with her husband to Mich-\\nigan in 1838.\\nF. C. Buzzell and his brother C. H. Buzzell, inaugurated a new paper in 1880\\nunder the name of the Romeo Democrat, and the first number was issued May 1 of\\nthat year. As individuals the Buzzells are strictly Republican in politics; yet\\ntheir journal is a faithful advocate of Democratic principles. The first named pro-\\nprietor, son of Martin and Julia A. (Wing) Buzzell, was born at Romeo, July 3,\\n1856; was educated in the schools of the village, entered on the study of law in the\\noffice of J. L. Starkweatlier, in 1876, and opened a law office in 1877, the business\\nof which office is conducted by liim at present.\\nClyde H. Buzzell, brother of F. C. Buzzell, was born at Romeo in 1858. He\\nis a practical printer, and holds the position of foreman in the Observer office since\\nApril 1881. In connection with the history of Romeo, a biographical sketch of\\nthis family is given.\\nWilliam H. Marvin, son of Milton and M. A. (Morse) Marvin natives of New\\nYork, was born at Ypsilanti, Mich., Oct. 14, 1842. He attended the district school,\\nand in 1866 entered the Normal School of Ypsilanti, where he studied for three\\nyears. After leaving the Noruial, he inaugurated a real estate and insurance office at\\nIthaca, Gratiot Co. There he continued in business until 1871, when he moved to\\nToledo, O. After some time devoted to insurance business at Toledo, he pub-\\nlished tlie first railroad guide ever issued there, which is now a prosperous publica-\\ntion bearing the endorsement of all the i-ailroad companies. In 1873 he entered\\nthe office, now known as the Northern Ohio Democrat. Here he continued until\\n1874. During that year he opened a printing office in company with E. V. E.\\nRanch. In 1856 he moved to Utica, Mich., where he established the Utica iS ewime/,\\nwith O. B. Culley as a partner. The first copy of this paper was issued Aug. 11,\\n1876, being the first newspaper published in the village since the collapse of the\\nUtica Enterprise over forty years ago. In 1877 Culley disposed of his interest in\\nthe Sentinel, and removed to Marine City. This journal is thoroughly independent,\\nwell conducted, and claimed to be one of the most prosperous newspapers in the\\ncounty. Mr. Marvin married Laura E. Smith, of Ithaca, Oct. 4, 1868. The chil-\\ndren are Luna, born Feb. 14, 1870, and Laura P., born Sept. 23, 1874.\\nCiiarles J. Seeley, son of Burton W. and Mary (Curtis) Seeley, was born\\nin Armada village, March 4, 1861. Has always lived in the village and has\\nengaged in various enterprises until Jan. 1, 1880, at which time he purchased\\nof A. F. Stowe the Armada Telegra2yh, and is the owner and manager of that", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0349.jp2"}, "350": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\npaper at the present time. It is published in the interest of the Republican\\nparty.\\nDel. T. Sutton, editor and publisher of the Richmond Revieiv, was born Oct. 1,\\n1858. The greater portion of the first seven or eight years of his life was spent\\non a farm, in what is known as the Kellogg neighborhood, in the township of Ray,\\nin this county. He then removed to Richmond, where his father William R.\\nSutton, engaged in the mercantile business. Residing at that place for some ye.ars,\\nhe removed to New Haven. He lived at this place for several years when\\nhe returned to Richmond. In June, 1876, in company with George W. Kin-\\nfield, he started the Richmond Ilendd. After an existence of about two weeks,\\nthe partnership was dissolved, Mr. Sutton assuming the whole business, which he\\ncontinued until November of the same year, when he sold out to David L.\\nCooper, in whose employ he remained for about eight montlis. He then assumed\\nthe position of local and assistant editor of the Port Huron Da thi and Wei Mij\\nTimes, where he remained for several months. His next enterprise was the estab-\\nlishing of the G^re.enhach Sentinel, a campaign journal. In October, 1878, he\\nremoved to Homer, Calhoun Co.. to edit and publish the Index. He was married\\nto Miss Lillie B. Thompson, of Richmond, Dec. 25, 1878. In August, 1880, he\\nreturned to Richmond, purchased the Richmond Review, of which journal he is\\nnow editor and publisher.\\nGeo. F. Lewis, known as the genial Saginawian, Fred Lewis, etc., etc.,\\nwas born at Harvard, Worcester County, Mass., June 7, 1828. Came with parents\\nto Mt. Clemens in 18.35. Set first type in office of Macomb Statesman, tlien edited\\nby John N. Ingersoll. Subsequently held positions in the office of the Mt. Clemens\\nPatriot, in 1838; the Detroit Daily Commercial Bulletin, in 1848; the ATacomh Co.\\nHerald, in 1849 the Port Huron Commercial, in 1851 the Peninsular Advocate, in\\n18.55. In March, 1868, he inaugurated the Daily Courier, at Saginaw; projected\\nthe Saginau ian, in 1869; the Mt. Pleasant t7b? r\u00c2\u00abrtZ, in 1880, and the Daily Morning\\nCall, at Bay City, in 1881.\\nWe have now given, in as much detail as the subject requires, a history of the\\nnewspapers of Macomb County. For many of the facts the writer is indebted to\\nfriends who have kindly aided him with memoranda of names and dates, and thus\\nmaterially lessened the labor of research. Among tliose whose kindness in this\\nrespect we desire specially to acknowledge are Fred. B. Lee, of the Monroe Index\\nDel T. Sutton, of the Richmond B^euiew; Chas. J. Seely, of tlie Armada Telegraph\\nS. H. Ewell, of Romeo A. J. Heath, of New Haven N. L. Miller, of Mt. Clemens.\\nTlie foregoing is but a sketch of the subject. There remains yet to be told\\nthe story of the newspaper man s struggle with poverty; the bitter disappoint-\\nment of his cherished plans and hopes when liis journal proved a financial disaster\\nrfr", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0350.jp2"}, "351": {"fulltext": "i^\\nHISTORY OP ]\\\\rAC0JII5 COUNTY. 343\\nthe heart burnings born in the midst of controversy the generous feeling of for-\\ngiveness when the controversy was ended the improvidence of the printer which\\nled to financial embarrassment the unappreciated talent expended upon a too\\nindifferent public; the loyal liberality of one of the profession toward another,\\nwhich is a distinguishing characteristic of the trade of printing and journalism\\nand last, the many happy social events which have been enjoyed at the ancient cel-\\nebrations of Franklin s birthday.\\nIt was once a rule of the profession in tiiis county to celebrate the birthday of\\nBenjamin Franklin, and over a generous banquet, with music and fair speeches, to\\nlaud the Printer, Statesman and Patriot, and keep green the memory of the distin-\\nguished men who have in the past adorned the printer s trade and the profession of\\njournalism. In the midst of such scenes we have heard the ringing oratory of An-\\ndrew S. Robertson, the witty response of Geo. F. Lewis, the quiet good sense of\\nFred. Lee, and the eloquence of other tongues, some of which are sealed with the\\nsilence of the grave.\\nOur county has had tlie services of these men. Their hearts and brains have\\nbeen taxed in promoting the interests of the people of this county, and these inter-\\nests have been generously served by them. There are many personal reminiscences\\nwhich belong to this sketch, but the time at our disposal prevents our entering upon\\ntheir detail. In the ranks of the profession have been numbered the political\\nleaders of the county, the leaders of our legal men, the leaders of the advance to\\nsocial and practical events within the borders of our county, and .the fraternity of\\nto-day can look back over the past history of their profession in this county with\\na just pride in their achievements, tlieir ability, their social and political standing,\\nand claim descent from a noble line of leaders. May we hope that at some future\\ngathering of the Pioneer Society the men of to-day may be recognized in the same\\nway by our followers, and that the good we do may live after us.\\nCHAPTER XIX.\\nPOETRY OF MACOMB.\\nFrom the earliest period in the history of man, poetry has maintained a relation\\nto him at once remarkable and mysterious. She always led him from the mate-\\nrialistic longings of nature, to a reverence for the Invisible Ruler of the Universe.\\nIn every age, in every land, she hesitated not for a moment in her admiration of the\\nworld s Great Architect she always believed and adored the Divinity, without\\nother proof than faith, without other demonstration of His being, than that which\\n?P", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0351.jp2"}, "352": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nNature spreads before her. In this poetry is alone sublime. Let us, for an instant,\\neast away hope, or set aside our belief that this world is the work of an Almighty\\nhand. What is the result? Our senses become enshrouded in a cloud which seems\\nto damp our energies, as well as to hide tlie beauties of Nature, and leave the animal\\nside of our own cliaracters alone visible. True religion and poetry have ever walked\\ntogether. Under the Old Dispensation, the commands of our God were entrusted\\nto her regular measures, and centuries after the Prophets, she was made the lan-\\nguage of the New Law. Poetry has been, is, and will be the language of Heaven,\\nthe language which at once soothes and elevates the soul of man, the language which\\nmaj^ be comprehended and felt, in a word the language of refined thought which\\ncomprehends by faith, and points out the end from the beginning.\\nThe propriety of introducing this chapter can not be questioned. Not only\\ndo the jioems contribute to show the character of the poetry, which flourished in\\nthe county from 1860 to the present time but they also serve, in some few in-\\nstances, to recall events and names in the history of Macomb, that might otherwise\\nbe forgotten. It may be stated, however, that no effort was made toward a special\\ncollection of verses, tlie few which do appear being selected from a very limited\\nrepertoire.\\nTHE WORLD S PIONEER.\\nBY JAMES I.AWSON.\\nOf Arts and Arms, let Virgil sing,\\nAnd Homer chant heroic lays\\nMy hands shall strike a nobler string.\\nThe world s bold pioneers to praise.\\nBe faithful, multiply, give birth,\\nReplenish and subdue the earth,\\nDetermined in the Heavenly plan\\nThe life and destiny of man\\nTo be a wanderer and he.\\nClad with dominion, conquers sea\\nAnd land. The empire of his reign,\\nTlie world s encircling, wide domain.\\nIf Adam s fall, and the great sin\\nOf disobedience had not been,\\nThe gates of Eden would in vain,\\nHave barred his exit to the plain\\nOf Edom. If from branded Cain\\nObedience had wiped the stain\\nOf murder, the submerging flood,\\nThat deluged earth, had not been blood.\\nThe wisdom of the times to be\\nSiill hangs upon the central tree\\nOf knowledge. Ignorance will taste\\nThe fruit, and learn at bitter waste.\\nThe evil with the good inwrought\\nFor ev ry blessing man has sought\\nThe wings of broken law have brought\\nFull mated with the punishment.\\nBut time and mercy have been lent\\nThe tresp.isser the respite been\\nProlonged beyond the day of sin.\\nAnd Enochs gone in many lands\\nAnd cities builded with their hands.\\nGreat Nimrods through the forests strayed,\\nAnd Tubals wrought the polished blade.\\nSubduing wastes, oceans subdued\\nUntil a singing multitude\\nHas peopled earth, repeopled o er\\nIsles of the seas, and distant shore\\nOf continent. The waves of time\\nHave borne his seed to every clime\\nAnd ebbed and flowed in end ess tide,\\nFar reaching as the ambient wide.\\nEmpires been founded, passed away.\\nAnd others built on their debris.\\nTill not an islet lone, or glen.\\nThat has not nursed the sons of men,\\nAnd every step the present tread\\nTo where the past has laid its dead.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0352.jp2"}, "353": {"fulltext": "K\\nf3 1.\\n^i\\n1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 345\\n(V\\nAnd foot-steps of the coming I ace\\nLong time his little fleet sails on.\\nWill soon disturb our resting-place.\\nTill doubt and murmuring faint had grown\\nNo ocean where his daring prow\\nTo mutiny. A coward s soul\\nHas ventured not, or ventures now,\\nCan never reach a higher goal\\nWhere yet tlie world great Argosies\\nThan its own littleness, and yet\\nAre searching for the Golden Fleece\\nThe noblest spirit may be met\\nOf Colchis and every day\\nAnd baffled by the meanest churl\\nSees other Jasons sail away\\nThat breathes. Envy would hurl\\nIn search of some new Colchian shore\\nThe pillars of the noblest fame\\nWhich golden skies ate flocking o er,\\nThat genius rears, though gods were slain.\\nSome Leon seeking for the Spring\\nAnd thousands perished in the fall\\nWhose waters youth immortal bring,\\nOnly to find life s voyage o er\\nMay his parched lips be quenched with gall,\\nWhile fires of hell consume his soul.\\nNepenthe on the distant shore\\nWho, envious of the good and great.\\nOf sweet forgetfulness. The cup\\nOf Death s dark fountain lifted up\\nWould rob them of their rightful state.\\nThough chains with triple steel are wrought,\\nUnto his lips the bitter draught\\nOf.Lethe s stream forever quaffed\\nThey have no power to fetter tliought.\\nNor daunt a hero s breast. Alone\\nSome Nordson with his tattered sails\\nThe daring pioneer leads on,\\nStill searching for Valhalla s dales.\\nWith thoughts as high above his clan\\nOr Cartier for the Acadian shore.\\nAs Alps above the marshy plain\\nWhich restless mortals would explore.\\nOf Lombardy. Steadfast his faith.\\nFor pleasures, which are found alone\\nAmid the taunts and threats of death\\nTo cluster round their own hearthstone,\\nFrom his vile crew. On bended knee\\nSome Cook, far seeking in the West\\nFor three days more for only three\\nThe Happy Islands of the Blessed,\\nBut other shores, whose feet have pressed\\nHe pleads. Momentous days, how brief,\\nWhat anguish, hope, distrust and grief\\nIn that dark sea of the unknown.\\nAre crowded there. What deed sublime\\nWhose waves in ceaseless sweep roll on.\\nHangs on that little space of Time.\\nA Moses, with a wand ring band\\nThrice at the close of day the sun\\nLong journeying to some Promised Land,\\nInto the waste of waves goes down.\\nWhose weary feet, for life have pressed\\nThe desert waste and found no rest\\nAnd yet no land. And can there be\\nNo farther shore to that vast sea.\\nOn Nebo s Mount, sinks down at last.\\nWide spreading as immensity?\\nThe Jordan of his hopes unpassed.\\nColumbus for the Eastern seas.\\nDies on the wave the midnight bell\\nTis twelve o clock and all is well,\\nStill sailing westward with the breeze\\nBut not to him, who sleepless lies\\nOf autumn late, while early spring\\nPerforce was spent in loitering.\\nUpon his couch. The next sunrise\\nIs life or death. Sad soul be calm\\nBy chance may gain, not what he sought.\\nHow little mortals know for them\\nBut objects widest of his thought.\\nWhat fate awaits the darkest night\\nColumbus Bravest of the brave,\\nWill often break with rosy light\\nBold mariners on ocean s wave\\nAt morn. The glass has marked the day\\nWith brow to plan, with soul to dare.\\nWhen he must fruitless turn away\\nTwin born with Faith, stranger to fear.\\nFrom his long search. Ah no a light\\nWith three small ships boldly sets sail.\\nWhere never keel had marked a trail\\nGleams through the darkness of the night.\\nAnd Hope with her swift pinions bright.\\nJ\\nUpon the chart, or pilot been\\nTo guide him o er the deep unseen.\\nSits perched upon the Pinta s prow.\\nFaith holds a steady rudder now,\\nk.\\nb\\n1\\n13 r-\\na)", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0353.jp2"}, "354": {"fulltext": "1 k.\\nj a\\nK\\n*7r~\\n1\\n346 HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nf\\nWith cautious lead they stand away.\\nAnd broader fields give broader view.\\nAnd anxious watch the break of day.\\nThe temple by the school-house stands.\\nIt comes at last the mists are curled.\\nTeacher and pastor shaking hands.\\nAnd shouts proclaim a new found world.\\nAnd towns and homes and temples stand,\\nCrowned with success the very morn\\nThe triumphs of his toiling hand,\\nSet for their hopeless, sad return,\\nAnd Freedom s banner of the skies,\\nThree gallant ships securely ride\\nFloats o er another Paradise.\\nAt anchor on Bahama s tide.\\nAnother spot of earth subdued,\\nRebellion, doubt, distrust, dismay.\\nThat toil has wrung from solitude\\nSwept with that morning s mists away,\\nWhere at the closing hours of day,\\nAnd he so late derided, jeered\\nContentment drives dull care away\\nHonored and flattered and revered.\\nAnd Retrospection s eyes are cast\\nUnknown upon the scroll of fame.\\nBack on the rugged hill that s passed.\\nAre heroes worthy of a name\\nWhile Faith points onward to the shore.\\nAnd place in history. The toil\\nWhere Care and Sorrow come no more.\\nThat rings rich harvests from the soil,\\nHeaven s blessings on their gray locks rest.\\nReclaims the forests, tills the plain,\\nWhile sinks their sunset in the West.\\nAnd scatters sheaves of golden grain\\nUpon the white wings of the sea.\\nIs worthy honor, more than he\\nA CHILD S PRAYER.\\nWho conquers armies, devastates\\nBY MRS. L. E. CANNON.\\nThe fnirest re-ilms, depopulates\\nA little maiden knelt beside her bed\\nWliole towns and cities; renders waste\\nA downy couch with snowy covering spread\\nThe proudest monuments of Art.\\nClasping her tiny hands with reverent mien.\\nAnd plays the conquering hero s part.\\nHer head, with golden ringlets, bowed between.\\nTo trample with the hoofs of war,\\nDear God, she said, my mamma says that you\\nThe products of the gleaming share,\\nKnow everything we think, or say or do\\nAnd barracks build where hamlets stood.\\nWhen we are naughty you are very sad.\\nGreat only in his deeds of blood.\\n.\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\\\\nd then when we are good it makes you glad,\\nGreater who builds, though but a cot.\\nAnd when we pray, whatever we request,\\nAnd cultures Peace to bless his lot;\\nYou ll surely grant it if you think it best.\\nWhat laurels bring how honor here\\nThere came a little sob and then she said\\nThe gray-haired, hardy pioneer,\\nPlease, God, my dolly needs another head.\\nWho, fronr a home where Eden smiled.\\nI was so frightened that I h.ad to run.\\nWent forth into a rugged wild\\nThough mamma says the dog was just in fun,\\nWith faith, new homes and hopes to build.\\nBut then I slipped and fell, and such a crash.\\nThe forest falls beneath his stroke.\\nAnd my poor Rosa s head broke all to smash.\\nHis plow, the stubborn fallow broke.\\nI picked the pieces up and cried and cried.\\nHis thoughtful hand the orchard plants.\\nFor mamma is so poor since papa died.\\nHis industry provides for wants.\\nAnd then I thought I d tell you all to-night,\\nThe trail grows wider with his feet.\\nFor I was very sure you d make it right,\\nAnd fear and doubt no longer meet.\\nAnd when you thought how lonely I would be.\\nAnd sit upon his threshold rude\\nYou d surely heed a little girl like me.\\nIn parlance with solicitude.\\nI have no brothers now, or sister dear.\\nHis barns with garnered store are filled,\\nBut poor mamma and I are all that s here.\\nThe hands that penury had chilled\\nThe rest are with you up in heaven you know.\\nGrow warm again his wife is blessed.\\nAnd sometime mamma says that we shall go.\\nThe children of their love caressed,\\nSo, if you ll fix my dolly up till then,\\nJ\\nThe old house stands behind the new,\\nI ll try still harder to be good. Amen.\\ni.\\nIs\\n*1\\n(s r-\\ne\\nir", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0354.jp2"}, "355": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF IMACOMB COUNTY.\\nA LEGEND OF SHELBY TOWNSHIP.\\nBY MRS. L. E. CANNON.\\nLong years ago at least so runs the story\\nThere lived, not far away,\\nA chieftain, covered o er with paint and glory,\\nA gorgeous array.\\nWhere rang the war-whoop or the scalp-knife glist-\\nened,\\nfie led his tribe along,\\nTill the few settlers held their breath and listened,\\nHearing their barbarous song.\\nThe little children s eyes grew big with wonder\\nAt mention of his name\\nAll feared they should from friends be lorn asunder.\\nIf that bold chieftain came.\\nThe story goes, one day a wee small maiden\\nOf summers only four\\nWandered along, with fragrant wild-flowers laden.\\nFar from the cottage door.\\nThe old chief saw the tiny, winsome creature.\\nAnd gloried in his might.\\nCovered with war-paint, every hideous feature\\nGrew harder at the sight.\\nHe snatched her up, and through the forest bore her.\\nWhere no pale-face would roam.\\nAnd all their faithful search could ne er restore her\\nTo anxious ones at home.\\nThe mother s heart the dreadful loss was pondering\\nTill resting neath the mound\\nThe father vowed he d never cease his wandering\\nUntil his child was found.\\nMeanwhile the chieftain cherished well his treasure.\\nHumored her every whim\\nThought nothing wrong that gave his Bright-eyes\\npleasure,\\nTil she grew fond of him.\\nAnd when ten times the snows had come and van-\\nished\\nSlowly from off the earth,\\nTheir different ways had from her memory banished\\nAll knowledge of her birth.\\nThen to his wigwam with its gaudy trappings\\nHe led her by his side.\\nGave her bright beads and shells, with furs for\\nwrappings.\\nAnd kept her for his bride.\\nOne ornament she had, a necklace golden.\\nClasped round her throat of snow.\\nThe only link that bound her to the olden\\nStrange life of long ago.\\nYears afterward, an old man, bent and ho.ary.\\nCame to the wigwam door.\\nTrying in broken ways to tell his story.\\nSo often told before.\\nHe saw the chain, and with a cry of pleasure\\nStarted to reach her seat,\\nCalling, Oh, mother, I have found our treasure.\\nAnd fell dead at her feet.\\nThey buried him beside the river flowing\\nThrough forest dark and wild.\\nAnd she lived on in ignorance, not knowing\\nShe was that old man s child.\\nUntil the chief from age and wounds lay dying\\nWith many a feeble wail.\\nCalled her beside the couch where he was lying\\nAnd told her all the tale.\\nAnd she forgave him then for the great sorrow\\nShe could not understand.\\nAnd laid him by her father on the morrow,\\nHonored by all his band.\\nWHO DONGLES THE BELL?\\nThe following lines were written by Samuel H.\\nEwell, February 19, 1S67. The subject of this hu-\\nmorous sketch, Cyrus Hopkins, was born at West\\nBloomfield, Ontario Co., N. Y., in i8o2, and came\\nto Romeo in about 1838. He rang the Congrega-\\ntional Church bell, which was the first church bell\\nof Romeo, from the time it was hung, for thirty-two\\nsuccessive years, and took care of the church that\\nentire time. He ceased ringing only about three\\nweeks before his death, which occurred November\\n10, 1878:\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nThere is a man with white whiskers who walks in\\nour streets.\\nWith a smile and ajoke foreach man that he meets.\\nThough his head has grown white and his eye has\\ngrown dim.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0355.jp2"}, "356": {"fulltext": "3)s HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHe still tells a story and laughs with a vim,\\nAnd thinks not though I wildly stray\\nWho is that queer man You will ask me to tell,\\nI never will return again\\nTis the jolly old joker who dongles the bell.\\nOh, no Those words are never lost.\\nA mother whispers to her child,\\nYou have heard, I presume, of one Cyrus the Great,\\nThe mem ry puts them safely by,\\nWell, this is cur Cyrus, not second in rate.\\nEnriched with pictures how she smiled.\\nHe s the power of old Cyrus, or even the Pope,\\nFor he draws folks to meeting by pulling a rope.\\nA tribute now this natal day.\\nAnd he struts up to church with a kind of a swell.\\nThy wayward son returns to you,\\nWhen he goes with the church key to dongle the\\nNot gems from islands far away.\\nliell.\\nNot Eldorado s golden dew\\nSut words of love, and happiness.\\nCyrus gazes with pride, on the church, and the\\nA tribute richly due to thee.\\nsteeple,\\nMy mother dear, to whom I owe.\\nThat holds his greater talker, who.se tongue moves\\nAll that I am, or hope to be.\\nthe people.\\nOn Sundays it gives them a sense of devotion.\\nOn week-days it sets the whole town in commotion.\\nTHE GARDEN OF THE HEART.\\nOh, Cyrus takes pride in its magical .spell.\\n\u00c2\u00abV J. K. DAY.\\nHow he loves to go up there and dongle the bell.\\nThere is a fragrant flower that maketh glad the\\nSometimes we complain that he works like a botch,\\ngarden of the heart.\\nTUPPER.\\nThat he rings by his dinner instead of his watch.\\nBut what should we do without Cyrus to chime\\nGod has placed a beauteous garden.\\nWe ll overlook his faults and comply with his time.\\nIn the power of man s control\\nFor Cyrus we know means to do his work well.\\nAnd has told us how to fill it,\\nSuccess then to Cyrus who dongles the bell.\\nWith the sweetest flowers of soul.\\nHe has placed a wall around it\\nCyrus moves, lives and breathes where much talking\\nStrength and beauty are combined.\\nis done.\\nAnd has left its portals guarded\\nHe talks by his fathers but rings by the sun.\\nBy the strongest powers of mind.\\nHe has rung the old bell since the day it was hung.\\nAnd if Cyrus was not Why it could not be\\nSweet within the terraced arches,\\nrung.\\nMusic s echoes wildly ring.\\nMay his old age be green, if tis green I ll not tell.\\nAnd through all its winding alleys,\\nSo long as he likes let him dongle the bell.\\nFloats the breath of constant spring.\\nThrough its midst bright crystal rivers.\\nO er their pearly bottoms flow.\\nMV MOTHER.\\nAnd .along their shining margins\\nBY H. F. PIIILLirS.\\nRichest flowers spontaneous grow.\\nIf I can boast a manly thought,\\nHeavenly place If well we till it.\\nA pure ambition, shameless\u00e2\u0080\u0094 free.\\nAs the Master bids us do\\nTo soar where earthborn spirits ought.\\nBut if not its flowers will wither,\\nMy mother, it is all from thee\\nChoked by weeds of bitter woe.\\nWhere first I learned to lisp the prayer,\\nAnd its walls are soon demolished.\\nThat cradled innocence to rest.\\nIts fair streams are stained with sin.\\nTwas then those first impressions came.\\nAnd in place of its sweet music.\\nThat longest stay are oftenest blest.\\nSwell the notes of keenest pain.\\nVou taught me then the lovely way.\\nAnd its alleys once so pleasant,\\nThat leads beyond this world of pain,\\nTales of awful misery tell;", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0356.jp2"}, "357": {"fulltext": "-Jk\\n1^ k.\\n-A 9 L\\nl w\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0J\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 349\\nAnd the air at first so balmy.\\nHAPPY TO-NIGHT.\\nSeems the burning breath of liell.\\nBY JOHN E. DAY.\\nLet us then improve this garden,\\nI m happy to-night, and this is just why,\\nTill it blossoms pure and bright,\\nThe cares of the day have gone quietly by\\nAnd our work will end with pleasure.\\nMy chores are all done and my supper dispensed,\\nIn a home of pure delight.\\nAnd the joys of the evening are fairly commenced.\\nMy wife, with her sock and a satisfied smile.\\nAPRIL STORMS.\\nSits by and converses serenely the while.\\nBY J. E. DAY.\\nOn topics the old as well as the new\\nLeaden clouds are o er us hanging,\\nMost important to me, though perhaps not to you.\\nGloomily the rain comes down.\\nMy little pet daughter, so pretty and gay.\\nAnd the winds are sadly wailing\\nHas dropped all her playthings and left off her play.\\nNature s universal frown.\\nHas given instructions her treasures to keep,\\nHushed the cheerful hum of business,\\nDropped her sunshiny head and gone sweetly to\\nNot a wagon on the street.\\nsleep.\\nNought overhead but wind and water\\nAnd now it may be that the tempest of life\\nMud and water under feet.\\nHas cast o er her dreams the first warning of strife,\\nOvercoats and wet umbrellas.\\nAnd swells her young bosom with pleasure or pain\\nFlit like ghosts from place to place\\nAs it rises and sinks on her infantile brain.\\nMuddy boots and spattered garments,\\nWho can tell us what beautiful thoughts may be\\nTell of hurry more than grace.\\npiled\\nLadies closely indoors staying\\nHigh up in the dreams of the innocent child?\\nStrive the dull hours to beguile.\\nWhat thoughts and ambitions of embryo size\\nAnd anon, the dark clouds watching\\nMay be brought by the goddess who closes her\\nThink of rain-di aus all the while.\\neyes?\\nCattle looking quite demurely.\\nWhat care we what pleasure or riches may bring\\nView the chilling storm with dread.\\nWhat care we how leisurely time moves his wing\\nAnd their sage brain doubtless thinking,\\nThere is hope in the Future and joy in the Past,\\nSomething must be wrong overhead.\\nAnd a strength in our hearts for adversity s blast.\\nSages tell us oft, that April\\nWe ll stand by each other whatever betide.\\nAugurs well the life of man\\nAnd pass down the pathway of life side by side\\nLights and sh.-tdes are intermingled\\nEnjoy what we can, bid adieu to the rest.\\nWe must catch them as we can.\\nAnd receive the reward of the Faithful at last.\\nEvery year must have its April\\nThere s pleasure in life, though storms may arise\\nEvery life its rainy day\\nIn the end we will find them but friends in dis-\\nLo, the sunshine, quickly turning\\nguise\\nStormy April into May.\\nMy hopes may be blasted, but that is all right\\nSo the storm of life may gather.\\nMy Faith s like a mountain I m happy to-night\\nDarkly o er my onward path\\nAnd around my heart may linger.\\nTHE LONELY GRAVE.\\nSigns of elemental wrath.\\nBY DR. W. H. HAMILTON, 1S57.\\nBut the bow of faith is hanging\\nCloudy is the day and cheerless.\\nIn the clouds of daily strife,\\nMoaningly the north wind grieves.\\nAnd Hope s sunbeams softly gleaming\\nAs I sit and watch the motions\\ny\\nHush the April storms of life.\\nOf the faded, falling leaves.\\nV\\nV\\nV*\\ns r-\\nt", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0357.jp2"}, "358": {"fulltext": "k.\\n350 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nWhile they slowly flit before me,\\nLincoln, the patriot, honest, just, and true,\\nFancy bears me o er the wave,\\nWe sigh, we weep, we mourn most sore for you\\nAnd I see them falling sadly\\n0, why should death eclipse thy glory bright.\\nOn a distant, lonely grave.\\nAnd pall the Nation with the darkest night.\\nIn humble life, at first, thy lot was cast,\\nDreamily the Past arises.\\nWe look admiring on thy history past\\nBringing back the loved one s form,\\nBut truth and fortune led thee up to fame,\\nAnd again his eyes beam on me\\nAnd on its summit stamped thy noble name.\\nWith a lovelight soft and warm.\\nWhen storms of treason and bitter hate,\\nBut my bosom heaves with anguish\\nHad almost whelmed our ship of State\\nAs I see him yield his breath.\\nWe asked, O, God a noble heart and hand,\\nHurried from his near and dear ones\\nTo be our pilot, and to take command\\nBy a sad and painful death.\\nGod gave us honest Abe that he might be\\nOur gallant captain on the raging sea.\\nThen appears the dreary graveyard,\\nStorms fiercely glared, and mountain waves us\\nAs upon that gloomy day\\ntossed.\\nWhen our cherished one was buried\\nSo high, so low, at one time all seemed lost.\\nFrom our grief-dim d sight away.\\nJust then, with beaming eye, he spied afar\\nAnd I hear the plaintive echoes\\nOf the low, funereal hymn,\\nSwelling like the wind-harp s music\\nThe brilliant rays of light from Freedom s star.\\nAt once across the noble ship he veered,\\nAnd for the light with steady hand he steered.\\nThrough the forest, old and dim.\\nJust as the storm was swiftly giving way.\\nAnd morn was dawning, of a glorious day\\nBut our deep, heart-breaking sorrow,\\nBehind our captain stole a wretch of hell,\\nPassion s wild, resistless flow,\\nAnd by his bloody hand our Lincoln fell.\\nAll our spirits, hid in struggles,\\nJustice flew swift along the villain s track,\\nThou alone, O God, can know.\\nHer fiery sword gleamed o er a crime so black\\nAnd quickly traced him to the hidden spot,\\nThou, who knowest all our frailties.\\nAnd like a guilty dog the wretch was shot.\\nAll our doublings and our fears,\\nCold be that hand, and palsied be that tongue.\\nStrengthen us to bear our trials.\\nWho dare declare they re glad the deed was done\\nComfort us amid our tears.\\nI m sure a blacker fiend dwells not below.\\nLight our darkened understandings.\\nWithin the precincts of eternal woe.\\nFill our souls with lively faith,\\nLincoln, though now with thee we have to part.\\nTill the mystery is unrivel d.\\nThy name, for aye, we treasure in our heart,\\nLife s dark problems solved in death.\\nAnd swear by Heaven, the work by thee begun,\\nBy traitors hands shall never be undone.\\nHard was thy task, the starry flag to save.\\nON THE DEATH OF LINCOLN.\\nRest quietly now within thy honored grave.\\nNo hostile bullet can again reach you.\\nBY REV. JAMES H. MORTON.\\nShot by Jeff. Davis and accursed crew.\\nA stai has fallen from our Nation ssky,\\nThe spirit pure has reached its home above.\\nIt rose so bright, it glistened far on high.\\nEntwined for aye by bands of kindred love.\\nBut, like a meteor, suddenly its light,\\nWe pledge with thee the joys of heaven to share,\\nHas been eclipsed within the folds of night.\\nFor traitors vile can never enter there.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0358.jp2"}, "359": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCHAPTER XX.\\nPROGRESS OF EDUCATION.\\nThe education of the masses is one of the leading characteristics of a good govern-\\nment. It is the guide to national gi-eatness and to salutaiy reforms. Without education,\\nthe people would be less than the Negroes of the darker days of the Republic. Without\\nit. man cannot sum up the blessings of liberty; cannot understand the principles of a\\nFederal government; cannot fulfill the duties of citizenshija. Though men maybe always\\nprepared for liberty, yet he who had not an opportunity, in his earlier yeai-s, to attain\\neven the rudiments of that education which a common school offers, is a dangerous\\nmember upon whom to confer liberty, because his animal passions generally overbalance\\nhis good intentions, and lead him from vice to vice, until those who won for him the pre-\\ncious are forced to cry out, Oh, liberty, what crimes are committed in thy name!\\nFrom the want of a well -organized educational system, many, if not all evils, spring.\\nThe teiTible forces with which the dangerous classes often threaten to annihilate the peo-\\nple are recruited from the haunts of ignorance and vice. Again, the tyrant may subject\\nan imeducated people with impunity without fear of encountering any disciplined oppo-\\nsition. All the shocking crimes which tarnish the annals of glorious revolutions have\\ntheir origin in and must be credited to ignorance. The hideous Parisian communist, the\\nblind followers of sectionalism in politics, the inhiunan religious bigot, all draw their\\ninspiratio)! from ignorance, and by it are lu-ged on to those terribly foul deeds which\\ndarken, as it were, the enlightenment of this age, and stain the pages of its history.\\nThough the secret tribunal of olden times comprised men of fair fame, the members of it\\nwere led to acts which, to-day, would be punished in the most severe form known to the\\nlaw of the country, and result in consigning their names to obloquy. In the dim past,\\nsuch men were heroes; they boasted of learning and cultm-e, and merely acted a part in\\nthe di-ama of their lives. The members of this tribunal dedicated themselves to justice,\\nand seldom never failed to punish the guilty and avenge the innocent. Yet the secret\\ntribunal, with all the terrific sublimity which sm-rounded it, all the high characteristies\\nwhich belonged to its members, was foimded upon ignorance. In recent years aye, in\\nom- own times political and religious parties have resorted to desperate and disreputable\\nmeans to assert supremacy. This could not occur had the people been educated up to the\\nrequirements of oiu- duty. All the evils attendant on a want of a true system of edu-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0359.jp2"}, "360": {"fulltext": "A\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncation have been carried down to the present time, as if to point out to us the dangers of\\nignorance and lead us far away from the shoals whereon it has wrecked so many. It is\\nevident here, in Macomb, that examples of ignorance have resulted in good; crime is\\nmerely nominal here; a peculiar friendship seems to exist between all classes, and a full\\ndesire exists in the hearts of young and told to study, that they may know what gives prom-\\nise of good results to themselves and their country.\\nMacomb County has, from a very early period, bestowed much attention on all mat^\\nters j)ertaiuing to education. Throughout this work, many references to the attempts\\nmade by pioneers and old settlers to establish schools appear, so that it is unnecessary to\\ntreat separately each school and school building, the histoi y of which belongs to the town-\\nships. However, for the purposes of the general history of the county, what has been\\nwritten regarding the schools first opened here belongs to this section of the work, and for\\nthat reason is subscribed as well as referred to in the township history.\\nProbably the first white settlement in the limits of Macomb County was made between\\n1790 and ISOO, in the present township of Harrison, on the banks of the Clinton River,\\nabout three miles from Mt. Clemens. The settlement was then and is now called the\\nTucker settlement.\\nIt was here that the first school was taught in Macomb County, on the farm now\\nowned by Franklin Tucker. Between 1795 and 1800, a Mr. Eoe, great-grandfather of\\nMilton H. Butler, swayed the rod. Schools were kept up almost continuously in this set-\\ntlement, but little can be learned of them till about 1816 or 1817, when Mi-. Charles Stew-\\nard taught in a house then standing just below the present residence of Lafayette Tucker.\\nMr. Steward was called a most excellent teacher for those early days, when he was sober\\nbut he was exceedingly fond of strong drink, and his sf)rees were not few nor far between.\\nHe nearly perished by freezing dm ing one of his carousals, when, attempting to cross the\\nriver on the ice, he fell and lay for sometime in the snow.\\nIn 1820, the eccentric Dr. Dodge was employed. Nothing delighted this old-time\\nteacher more than to dress up in some fantastic costume of flaming and incongruous col-\\nors. From 1820 to 1830, some of the teachers in the Tucker settlement were as follows:\\nDr. Chamberlain, about 1S21; an old soldier of the war of 1812, about 1822; Mr. Richard\\nButlex now living one mile south of Mt. Clemens, aged eighty-three, in 1823; a Mr. Haw-\\nkins, who was fond of the ardent, in 1825, 1826 and 1827; Dr. Hem-y Taylor, who died\\nin Mt. Clemens in 1876, about 1827 Mrs. McKinney, whose husband was at the same\\ntime teaching in Detroit, taught a private school in her own house in 1827 or 1828. and a\\nMiss Cook in 1830.\\nAll the foregoing record relates to the schools of Tucker settlement. Of course it will\\nbe understood that all these early schools were in the strictest sense private, public schools,\\nnot then being known in Michigan. Each pupil was required to jjay a stipulated sum per\\nquarter of twelve weeks, the teacher making his own collections and receiving no public\\naid.\\nThe following table shows the number of children in the county, in 1839, between the\\nr", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0360.jp2"}, "361": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COrNTY-\\nages of five and seventeen years, together with the amount of money apportioned by the\\nState:\\nNo.of Children be- Amount of State\\nTownship. tween o and 17 Tears. School Apportioned.\\nShelby 316\\nClinton 220\\nRichmond 106\\nErin 170\\nLenox 54\\nMacomb 176\\nBruce\\nArmada\\nWarren\\nSterling\\nWashington.\\nHarrison\\nTotal 2,624 \u00c2\u00a71.049 60\\nThe value of this table rests upon its comparative antiquity, and the opportunity\\nwhich it gives of obtaining an insight, into the school statistics of the county near half a\\neentmy ago.\\nSimilar statistics for 1881 show that the amount of primary school funds to which\\nthe county is entitled is $11,45436, or an average of $1.06 to every scholar. It is distrib-\\nuted among the townships as follows, Mt. Clemens being counted in Clinton as of yore:\\nTownships. No. Children. Amount.\\nArmada 590 $625 40\\nBruce 817 866 02\\nChesterfield 927 982 62\\nClinton 1,542 1,634 52\\nErin 1.044 1,106 54\\nHarrison 266 281 96\\nLenox 853 904 18\\nMacomb 870 922 20\\nRay 417 442 02\\nRichmond 988 1.047 28\\nShelby 730 773 80\\nSterling 582 616 92\\nWarren 801 849 06\\nWashington 379 401 74\\nTotal 10.806 $11,454 36\\nThe amount of primary school fund accruing to this county at present is almost eleven\\ntimes the sum granted in 1839, while the number of children increased from 2,624, in\\n1839, to 10,806 in 1880, being 4.118 as many as the cou.nty could boast of possessing in\\nthe years immediately following the Territorial days.\\nThe schools of Mt. Clemens, Romeo, Utica and Disco, together with the township\\nschools, are treated in the histories of the townships, villages, etc., of the county.\\nS.iBBATH SCHOOLS.\\nA Sabbath school was organized at Mt. Clemens so early as 1823. when a school was\\nheld in an old building used for the manufactm-e of pottery. It occupied a place where\\n-kr-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0361.jp2"}, "362": {"fulltext": "Alj\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe opera house now stands. The organizer was Richard Butler, and the number of\\nscholars was twenty, one of whom was Mrs. H. A. Cady. The next school was organized\\nby Samuel Evarts and Chauncey G. Cady, in 1825, and was held in the old log court\\nhouse. The Episcopalian Catechism was used in the school; probably it was the only one\\nthat conid be procured at that early day. Mr. Evarts died in 1826. and the school was\\nscattered.\\nIn 1880, William and Samuel Canfield and R. O. Cooley organized another school,\\nwhich was held in the coiu t house. Those three men were not Christians, but the early\\nhabit of attending Sabbath school followed them to the far West, and they could not rest\\neasy under the state of things they found here. IVIr. Canfield went to Detroit to procure\\nbooks, but could get nothing better than small primers, and they were distributed among\\nthe pupils. There seems to have been no one prepared to open the school with prayer, so\\nthey were obliged to use the Episcopalian prayer-book, Mr. Canfield reading the prayer.\\nThe teachers were Mrs. Silas Halsey, Mrs. R. O. Cooley, Mi-s. Ezekiel Allen and Mrs. Ch.\\nG. Cady. Col. J. Stockton was one of the oificers. The next school was organized by\\nmembers of the Methodist Episcopal Church, in 1832. It was held in a schoolhouse\\noccupying a position near the present home of George Pelton. It afterward became more\\nof a union schdol Baptists, Congregational ists and Methodists all working together.\\nElder Booth, M.is. Hosia Pratt, Mrs. Allen and others were teachers. In 1834, Rev. Mi*.\\nEastman, a Presbyterian, came to Mt. Clemens and organized the first church of that de-\\nnomination. The following summer of 1835, Mrs. Eastman and Mrs. Joseph Hubbard\\norganized a Sabbath school in the log com-t house. Mr. Eastman was Superintendent.\\nThe Deacons were W. H. Warner, Hosia Pratt, Mrs. Eastman, Mi-, and Mrs. Joseph Hud-\\nl)ard, Mi-s. E. Mather, Mrs. R. Butler, Miss M. MeChesney and others. This was not\\ndistinctly a Presbyterian enterprise. Churches of other denominations helped in the\\nwork. About the year 1836, the denominational schools commenced. The Methodists\\nheld a school in the schoolhouse hitherto referred to; the Presbyterians held a school in\\nthe covu t house. About the year 1840, the Methodist school was in a fiom ishing condi-\\ntion, the teachers being Mi-, and Mrs. Gary Pratt, John Lutes, Hosia Pratt, and others.\\nIn 1841, the Presbyterian Chm-ch divided, a part calling themselves the Old Line and a\\npart the New Line. They worshiped, one class in the court house, and the other over\\none of the stores. Soon after, the New Line got possession of the church building now\\noccupied by the Presbyterian society, and the Old Line built the church now belonging\\nto the Methodist society. The New Line adopted the Congregational form of government\\nwith Rev. Mi-. Hamilton as minister, and W. H. Warner or Col. Chandler, first Superin-\\ntendent. The teachers were William Canfield, Mr. and Mrs. H. Warner, Mrs. D. C.\\nWilliams, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. High, Samuel Axtell and others. The Old Line retained\\nthe Presbyterian form of government, their minister being Rev. Mr. Wells. James H.\\nSnook was an earnest worker connected with this church, and was probably the first Su-\\nperintendent. Mi-8. Wells, Miss J. Hall, Mrs. Lucy Mather, Mrs. Richard Butler, Miss\\nMary MeChesney, John J. Leonard, were teachers.\\nC i", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0362.jp2"}, "363": {"fulltext": "9 t.\\nJ n\\ni\\n1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 357\\n9\\nThe Baptist Chiu-ch was built in 1840. The main workers in the Sunday school\\nwere Elder Hillis, William Jenney, Thomas and Mrs. Gilbert. At this time, there were\\nfour Sabbath schools in operation, viz., Congi egational, Presbyterian, Methodist and Bap-\\ntist. The Presbyterian and Congregational churches re-united under Rev. Mi: Foot.\\nThese two churches, after a straggle to keep up a separate existence, found that, after all.\\nthere was not p)ast grievance of sufficient moment to keep them longer as separate organ-\\nizations; consequently, they are now working together as a Presbyterian Chiu-ch. The\\ncondition of the Sabbath schools of the county at the close of the last decade is set forth\\nas follows in a table prepared by the Secretary of the Sunday School Association of the\\ncounty, John E. Day, and shows the reports of various schools for the year 1878\\nNAMES of SCHOOLS.\\nNames of Superintend-\\n1\\n1\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2a\\ni\\ni\\ni\\n13\\n1\\nc\\nHymn Book Use.l.\\nA\\ns\\ni\\no\\n.\u00c2\u00a33\\n1\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a25\\nO\\nc\\na\\n1\\nB\\nArmada Cong\\nArmada Baptist...\\nBruce and Armada.\\n215\\n50\\n85\\n50\\n30\\n143\\n160\\n145\\n70\\n100\\n60\\n50\\n66\\n194\\n6\\n4\\n3\\n7\\n2\\n7\\n3\\n5\\n6\\n2\\n4\\n4\\n6\\n4\\n19\\n6\\n5\\n5\\n5\\n11\\n14\\n14\\n10\\n10\\n6\\n5\\nll\\n134\\n35\\n55\\n50\\n20\\n91\\n102\\n106\\n40\\n75\\n50\\n35\\n50\\n106\\n4\\n3\\n2\\n3\\n3\\n3\\n4\\n3\\nI\\n2\\n2\\n4\\n15\\n3\\n3\\n2\\n5\\n8\\n10\\n10\\n8\\n4\\n11\\n12\\n12\\n12\\n12\\n6\\n12\\n12\\n12\\n12\\n12\\n7\\n10\\n12\\n12\\n435\\n150\\n250\\n75\\n200\\n280\\n300\\n175\\n175\\n182\\n40\\n103\\n100\\n560\\nNo..\\nNo..\\nYes\\nNr,\\n|62 55\\nRev. E. N. Selleck\\nJ. E. Day\\n15 00 Gospel Hymns.\\n12 OO.Jov Bells.\\nP. M. Bentley\\n.John Common\\nGeorge Robinson...\\n.J. W. Porter\\nS. G. Taylor\\nH. E. Holcomb\\nD. M. Mills\\nGeorge Bottomley.\\nRobert Burns\\nM. H. Dewitt\\nM. A. Giddings....\\nJoy Bells.\\nS. S. Bell.\\nDiadem.\\nWelcome Tidings.\\nBrightest and Best.\\nWelcome Tidings.\\nDiadem.\\nGospel Hymns.\\nPure Gold.\\nDiadem.\\nErin Presbyterian..\\nMt. Clemens M. E..\\nMt. Clemens Pres..\\nMemphis Cong\\nNew Haven Cong...\\nNew Baltimore\\nRay Union\\nRichmond, Dist. 12.\\nRichmond Baptist..\\nRomeo Congregat l.\\nNo..\\nNo-\\nNo..\\nNo..\\nNo..\\nYes\\nNo\\nNo..\\nYes\\n1 60\\n135 00\\n85 00\\nf)4 78\\n15 00\\n35 00\\n10 43\\n2 00\\n13 00\\n43 46\\nIn every city, township and village of Macomb, progress remarkable, unusual, mag-\\nnificent has been made. No reasonable expense has been sjtared to render the workings\\nof the schools perfect, and it must be a subject for congratulation to a people who made\\nmuch sacrifice of time and money, to behold the results of their own earnestness in the\\nmatter, and the zeal manifested by both township, city and county school officials.\\nIt must not be thought, however, that our system is perfect. It is wanting in many\\nessential qualities. It is. in a measure, better adapted to a community of plutocrats, who\\ncan bestow upon their children a sufficient wealth to pass thi-ough this world without labor,\\nthan to a community of men who labored honestly to acquire a competence, and who ex-\\ne\\npect that for all time their children will be honest workers.\\nr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0363.jp2"}, "364": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCHAPTER XXI.\\nTHE (CHURCHES OF MACOMB.\\nThat there exists a God is doubted by few, and so generally received is the idea of the\\nexistence of a Divinity, that millions of men, called wise men, continue to adore Him,\\nceasing their inquiries into His atti ibutes. A writer who once entered the I egion of doubt\\nwhich leads to infidelity, returned to a calm incjuiry, after the mental storm which swept\\nover him subsided, and exclaimed passionately, There is a God! We see that Divinity\\nin everything that is beautiful; the herbs of the valley, the cedars of the mountain, bless\\nHim; the insect sports in His beam: the bird sings Him in His foliage; the thunder pro-\\nclaims Him in the heavens; the ocean declares His immensity; man alone has been the\\nexception in denying Him; man alone has said there is no God.\\nUnite in thought the same instant the most beautiful objects in nature. Suppose you\\nsee at once all the hoiu s of the day and all the seasons of the year a morning of spring\\nand a morning of fall; a night bespangled with stars and a night darkened by clouds;\\nmeadows enameled with flowers; forests hoary with snow; fields gilded with the tints of\\nautumn then alone you will have a small conception of that God of the universe. While\\nyon are gazing on that siin which is plunging in the vault of the West, another observer\\nachnires him coming through the golden gates of the East. By what inconceivable power\\ndoes that aged star, which is sinking, fatigued and burning, in the shades of the evening,\\nre-appear at the same instant, fresh and humid, with the rosy dew of the morning At\\nevery hour of the day, the glorious orb is at once rising, resplendent as noonday, and set-\\nting in the West; or rather oiu senses deceive us, and there is properly no oast or west, no\\nnorth or south, in this world.\\nPoetry never yet doubted the existence of the Deity. Some of the most astute think-\\ners were poets and Christians. The most gifted prose- writers devoted much attention to\\nthe question of a God, and proclaimed the existence of Him, who is at once the Omniscient\\nand Omnipotent Ruler. Every thing combines to prove and glorify a God. Man alone\\nquestions His reality. But hajjpily. the questioners are few and far between, and still\\nthe Christian majority here grants to Jew, Turk, Atheist and heathen Mongolian, every\\ntoleration, leaving them at liberty to worship at their respective shrines.\\nThis is the fii-st principle of liberty; its protection is guaranteed by the Republic, and\\nunder its genial, influence the Christian and non-Christian are enabled to make just such\\nprogi ess as each class merits.\\nIn this county, the varied forms of Christianity have made great advances. Churches\\nhave multiplied until every village and town show their spires and cupolas, containing\\nbells of harmony, which have long since ceased to jieal the hymn of debasing bigotry.\\nThe centennial of Yorktown witnessed peace throughout the land; religious dissensions.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0364.jp2"}, "365": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsavage bigotry entombed, and the Kepublic happy in the possession of.citizens each one of\\nwhom essays to serve God after his own notion, without impertinent interference with his\\nneighbor s faith. The people have evidently realized the fact that the evil example offered\\nby mt-mbers of every religious society does more to check Christianity than all the sophis-\\ntry of the infidel, the arms of the united Mussulmans, or the presence of one hundred thou-\\nsand Mongolian mandarins and high priests. Abuses will continue so long as the world\\nexists, but tha nuuibar may b3 lesssned if each section of the Christian Church will do its\\nduty by watching its interests closely by minding its own business.\\nIn the following pages, the oi ganization of each church in the county, as shown in the\\nrecords, is given. Tuere are no public records to base data regarding the ftrst Catholic\\ncongregation formed in this county, but it may be presumed that large numbers of the\\nFrench missionary fathers visited the camping-grounds of the Indians along the Huron,\\nerected temporary altars, and oft ered the sacrifice of the Mass in presence of the wondering\\nRed-men. After the French Canadians made settlements here, they were visited regularly\\nby the priests of Datroit until the establishment of permanent missions here. Since the\\nAmerican pioneer period, the following religious societies were formed within this county:\\nThe Moravian Church established a mission on the Huron and Clinton about 1781.\\nunder Rev. John Huckenwelder and sixteen Delaware Indians. This mission existed until\\n1786, when Mr. Huckenwelder and his disciples returned to Muskingum.\\nThe Congregational Church society of Romeo was organized February 6, 1832, with\\nGad Chamberlin, Asa Holman and N. T. Taylor. Trustees. The church was formed in\\n1828.\\nThe fii st Presbyterian Church of Mt. Clemens was organized May 4. 1835, with Rod\\nney O. Cooley. William H. Warner. Daniel Chandler. Noadiah Sackett. Aaron Conklin\\nand Joel Brown, Trustees.\\nThe Baptist Church of Mt. Clemens was organized October 14, 1836, with Horace H.\\nCady. C. Flinn. Benjamin Gamber, Manson Farrar, Ortin Gibbs and John Gilbert, Trust\\nees of the society.\\nThe Bruce and Armada Congregational society was formed November 19, 1835. with\\nErastus Day, Joseph Thurston and John Taylor. Trustees. The church was formed in\\n1832.\\nThe First Presbyterian Church of Utica was organized January 6, 1837, with Gurdon\\nC. Leech, Orson Sheldon, Albert G. Fuller, Joseph Lester and O. Stevens, Trustees.\\nFirst Methodist Episcopal society of the village of Utica was formed March 19, 1839,\\nwith Ralph Wright, Elias Scott, Peter D. Lerick, Hiram Squires and John Stead, Trust-\\nees. A record of re-organization appears May 11, 1844, and April 25, 1856.\\nThe Catholic Church of St. Felicite of L Anse Cruse, in the township of Harrison, was\\norganized July 16, 1839. with Joseph Pomerville. Joseph L. Sansfaiicon, Hubert Forton.\\nTrustees.\\nMethodist Episcopal Church of Romeo was organized January 28, 1839, with James\\nStarkweather. Ai-iel Pratt, Job Howell, Sewell Hovey and Samuel Coolev, Trustees.\\n-As r-\\nl\\\\^\\nriV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0365.jp2"}, "366": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFirst Methodist Episcopal Chixrch of !Mt. Clemeus was organized January 15, 184:1,\\nwith Edward Tucker, Chauncej- G. Cady, E- Gr- Pratt, Horace H. Cady, John Stockton, B.\\nT. Castle and Robert Little, Trustees.\\nThe first Congregational religious society of the township of Richmond was organized\\nApril 13, 1841, with Hugh Gregg, Araunah Gilbert and Jeremiah Sabin, Trastees. Re-\\norganized Novembt r 11, 1814, and January 8, 1867.\\nThe First Baptist Church of Utica was organized March 1, 184 J, with Ephraim Cal-\\nkin, Benjamin Morey, Dan W. Phillips, Daniel St. John, Ralph Sackett, Cephas Farrar,\\nJohn B. St. John, Morris Todd and Manson Farrar, Trustees.\\njThe First Christian Church of Washington was organized June 1, 1842, with George\\nWilson, George Hanscom, Levi Hoard, Hiram Andrews, Conley Bates, Nathan Keeler\\nand Zebulon Hayden, Trustees.\\nThe first Methodist Episcopal society of Washington was organized November 25,\\n1842, with Abel Warren, Benjamin McGregor, David W. Noyes, John Keeler, Justin H.\\nButler, Elon Audi iis and Ephraim Graves, Trustees.\\nFirst Methodist Episcopal Chiirch of Ray was organized February 4, 1844, with Jon-\\nathan E. Davis, Duncan Gass, John Inman, John Gass, Jr., William Lyons, Robert Mc-\\nGregor and Horace Myers, Trustees.\\nFirst Methodist Episcopal Church of A\\\\ arron was organized November 24, 1845, with\\nElijah Johnson, Isaac Barton, R. D. Smith, Peter Gillett, H. Leroy, John Wilson, Will-\\niam TeiTV, Trustees.\\nThe first union society was organized at Mt. Clemeus September 1, 1845, with Pres-\\ncott B. Thiu-ston, Aaron Weeks, Isaac J. Grovier, E. AVright Hall, William Beer and John\\nJ. Leonard, Trustees.\\nFirst Congregational Church of ^Vmiada was organized November 2(3, 1844, with Alvah\\nSibley, Perrin C. Goodell, Sumner Pierce and Solomon Stone, Trustees.\\nThe first Baptist .society of Romeo was organized February 9, 1847, with David Quack-\\nenboss, Nathaniel Bennett, Horace Bogart, Wiley Bancroft, David Green and Philo Will-\\nson, Trvistees.\\nThe first Baptist Chiu ch was organized January 28, 1854.\\nFirst Baptist Church and society of Mt. Vernon was organized May 23, 1848, with\\nHiram Calkins, William A. Burt, A. G. Benedict, Lewis G. Tanner and Elisha Calkins,\\nTrustees.\\nThe German Evangelical Lixtheran (St. Peter s) congregation of Wayne and Macomb\\nCounties, formed in 1846, was organized as a society under State law Februaiy 6, 1849,\\nwith Frederick Reh. George Nauvmer, Fred S}5eirs, Bernhard Christoph, Schroeder, J. F.\\nWinkler.\\nThe Baptist society of Macomb was organized January 22, 1849, with Benjamin Gam-\\nber, George Hall, John Crittenden, Jesse Goodsell, Leonard Weston and J. Hui^toon,\\nTnistees.\\nFirst Congregational Church of Chesterfield was organized June 2, 1S50, with Charles", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0366.jp2"}, "367": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nB. Matthews, Eber C. Denison and Samuel Coppernoll, Trastees. The church was formed\\nin 1847.\\nFirst Methodist Episcopal society of Chesterfield was organized November 15, 1S51.\\nby the appointment of John Hemman, Stephen Fairchild, S. B. Simmons. Roberts. Craw-\\nford and Andrew Ross, Trustees.\\nFirst Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mt. Clemens was organized -July 3, 1854, un-\\nder the name of Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church of Mt. Clemens, with John Vrocklen,\\nJ. C. Reimold, Abram Devantier, J. W. Miller, C. Roekr, John I. Murthum, Trustees.\\nThe Evangelical Emaniiel Lutheran Church was organized in the town of Macomb,\\nOctober 9, 1854, with C. F. Schultz, C. F. Pasner and J. F. W. Randts, Trustees.\\nThe First Congregational society of Utica was organized January 13, 1S55, with Payne\\nK. Leech, Ira H. Butterlield. George W. Giddings, John B. Chapman and Oliver Adams,\\nTriTstees.\\nThe first Methodist Episcopal Chiu ch of Macomb was organized February 15, 1855,\\nby the appointment of the following Trustees: R. S. Crawford, Samiiel Fan-, J. A. Craw-\\nford, L. Bloss and Jacob Ellis.\\nFirst Free-Will Baptist Chiu-ch of Bruce was organized June 1 2, 1855, with James\\nHosner. H. Hosner, Abram S. Powell, Absalom Brabb and Jacob Hosner. Trustees.\\nThe Free- Will Baptist society of Lenox and Chesterfield was organized March 15.\\n1856, with Benjamin D. Rogers, Levi S. Bement. Thadeus Hazleton, Allen Farr and\\nGeorge MeCaul, Trustees.\\nFirst Baptist society of Ai-mada was organized May 24, 1856, with Ezra Torey, Al-\\nbei tus A. Puison and Sanford H. Corkin, Trustees.\\nFirst Congregational Society of Ashley was organized April 29, 1856, with T. M.\\nWillson, L. Haskins, Charles Terry, S. F. Atwood, A. Ashley, S. B. Farnham, Trustees.\\nFirst German United Evangelical society of Mt. Clemens was formed January 31,\\n1859, with thirty-one members.\\nThe First Methodist Episcopal Church of Armada was organized Feljraary 19, 1859,\\nwith Allen L. Frost, Joseph Gleason, Gideon Draper, Warren Tibbits, William F. Mallary\\nand Benjamin Maybee. Trustees.\\nFirst Presbyterian society of Erin Township was organized January 7, 1861, with\\nJohn Common. James McPherson, Moses Bottomley, James !Middletou. George Moore-\\nhouse and Thomas Common, Trustees.\\nThe Church at Warren, presumably of the denomination known as the Church\\nof Christ, was organized February, 1858, with Hazeu Warner, Sylvauus B. Royce and\\nSylvester Haiwey, Tnistees.\\nFirst Methodist Episcopal Church of Richmond was organized February 12, 1858,\\nwith Anisey AV. Sutton, Asa Allen, Jen. B. Graves, Middleton Thompson and Hamilton\\nHolly, Trustees.\\nFirst Methodist Episcopal Church of Biuce was organized, with Daniel Smith, Elijah\\nSmith, William H. Pool, M E. Hunt, Trustees.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0367.jp2"}, "368": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe Protestant Methodist Chiirch of New Baltimore was organized June 15, 1863,\\nwith Marvin M. Saunders, Ransom Fox, William Fralick. A. J. Heath and James House,\\nTrustees.\\nThe Protestant Methodist Church of Shelby was organized April 13, 18 )3. with Will-\\niam Arnold, William Buxton, Austin McLellen, Joel Lewis. James McLellen, Henry\\nDecker and Heniy Singer, Trustees.\\nFirst St. Peter s United Reform Lutheran Chm-ch of Lenox was organized July 6.\\n1863, with John G. Meyer, Hemy Remer and William Beir, Trustees.\\nSeventh-Day Adveutists of Memphis organized a society January T). 1864. with James\\nPotter, Harford Phillips and Mitchell McConnell. Trustees.\\nFirst St. John s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Erin was organized February 8,\\n1864, with Justus Wormspecker, John Eberlein, John T. Elierlein, Trustees.\\nThe Baptist Church of Disco was organized, and the following-named Trustees elected,\\nDecember 18, 1865: James Payne. Alson Haines and Isaac Montfore.\\nThe Christian Union Association of Richmond was organized Jamiary 2, 18 )6, with\\nReuben Burgess, William Lamphire, Daniel Gleason, John Hicks. George H. Perkins,\\nHarvey G. Trench, Daniel Flagler, J. M. Hicks and Reuben A. Biu-gess, Trustees.\\nThe Religious Philosophical society of Sterling was organized April 7, 1866. with\\nJustus V. Starkey, James Bentley and Calvin More. Trustees.\\nThe German United Evangelical St. Paul s Chm-ch of Warren was organized June\\ni:^, 1864, with Ct. B. Berz. W. E. Hai-tsig, John B. Jacob, C. Ringe and Louis Hartsig,\\nTrustees.\\nSt. Emanuel s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Waldenburg was organized April 28,\\n1867, with Aug. Weber, Godlove Klockow and Aug. Posner, Trustees.\\nThe First Christian Church of Romeo was organized October 12, 1867, with Nathan\\nKeeler, Robert Hamilton, Daniel Flagler, Stephen Grinnell and Edward Soule, Trustees.\\nThe first religious society of Ray was organized February K), 1869, with A. B. Shel-\\ndon, John E. Day, Arad Freeman, S. A. Fenton, A. L. Ai-mstrong, R. S. Cairns, George\\nBottomley and Oran Freeman, Trustees.\\nThe First Congregational society of New Haven was organized November 17, 1868,\\nwith John Millard. Adam Bennett, Morgan Nye and James F. Dryer, Trustees.\\nSt. John s Evangelical Lutheran Church of New Baltimore was organized in January.\\n1871, with F. Miller, W. Heinemau, A. Stuth, J. Larch, H. Heidderck. Fred Harms,\\nTrustees.\\nFirst Baptist society of Richmond was organized June 15, 1869. with Manson Far-\\nrar, Harvey French, D. J. Stewart, James W. Coo))er and H. F. Douglass, Trustees.\\nFirst Methodist Chiu-ch of Warren was organized July 18, 1872, with Israel Hudge,\\npastor; Benjamin B. Smith, Secretary: John L. Beebe, Elijah Davy and Nelson Tupper,\\nTnistees.\\nThe Emanuel Church of Lenox was associated January 25, 1873, with William Kuhn,\\nAug. Kuhn. William Killman, Cai l Furstnem and Fritz Killman, Trustees.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0368.jp2"}, "369": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFirst Free Methodist society of Richmond was associated March 19, 1873, with Will-\\niam Carter, C. L. Harris, C. H. Coruuse, Trustees.\\nThe First Independent Methodist Church of Warren was organized March 12, 1873,\\nwith Richard Bai-ton, Isaiah Davy, James W. Hoyt, C. Davy, J. Norris, E. W. Halsey.\\nTrustees.\\nThe Methodist Chui-eh of Shelby Circuit was organized Sejitember 22, 1875, with Al-\\nfred Watters. Putnam McClellan, Harmon Vosbiu-g, Trustees.\\nThe Seventh-Day Adventists of Armada organized their society October 18, 1873,\\nwith D. H. Lamson, S. T. Beardsley and William Wellman, Trustees.\\nSt. Luke s Protestant Episcopal Chui-ch of New Baltimore was organized February\\n23. 1875, with P. F. H. Schars, John Johr. Rev. G. M. Skinner, C. L. Bradish. G. L.\\nPhelps and George Elsey. signers of agi-eement.\\nThe Methodist Chm-ch of Bay was incorporated March (J. 1876. with Dewitt Pretty,\\nJoy Warran. Abial Green, Trustees.\\nEvangelical Lutheran Trinity Church of Clinton was organized October 31, 1878,\\nwith Henry Marlow, John Meitz, Charles Dettrich, Trustees.\\nSt. John s Evangelical Lutheran congregation was organized November 8. 1878, with\\nF. Kline, Christ Rieek and Fred Hummell. Trustees.\\nSt. Paul s Evangelical Lutheran Church of Sterling was organized and rules for gov-\\nernment adopted January 10. 1880, with F. Schmidt. A. Newman. J. Beulet. G. Kukuk\\nand F. Teller. Trustees.\\nThe Methodist Protestant Chm-ch of Warren was organized ]\\\\Iareli 15, ISSO, with\\nCharles Kidd, Milo Ames and Elijah Davy. Trustees.\\nThe First Baptist Church of Macomb, in the town of Sterling, was incorporated Feb-\\nruary 21, 1880. with John Crittenden, George S. Hall and Samuel Goodsell, Tnistees.\\nThe Union Church society of Washington was organized in 1880. with William A.\\nStone. W. W. Vaughn, Henry Bennett and Timothy Lockwood, Trustees.\\nIn the pages devoted to township histories, an effort will be made to deal fxilly with\\neach of these organizations. Here, the subject of county churches only bears a general\\ntreatment for the purpose of rendering the general history of the county complete in this\\nparticular.\\nIn 1881, John E. Day prepared a history of the churches of Macomb. The paper is\\nreplete with historical interest, and will be found a most valuable addition to this section\\nof the general history. In the year 1781. all the Moravian missionaries laboring at three\\ndifferent stations on the Muskingum River in Ohio were taken prisoners and brought be-\\nfore Col. De Peyster at Detroit, charged with treason to the- English Government in act-\\ning in concert with United States troojis at Pittsburgh. Early in July, several of the\\nIndians who had been connected with the mission arrived at Detroit, among whom were\\nRichard Conner and his family. Col. De Peyster was much interested in their behalf,\\nand, through his influence permission was obtained of the Chippewas to settle upon their\\nlands. De Peyster then advised them to settle upon the Hiu on (Clinton) River, and to\\nX^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0369.jp2"}, "370": {"fulltext": "IH^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nbrini;r thfir Indian couveiis there. He furnished thein a vessel and provisions and such\\nutensils as they needed, together with two milch cows, some horses, and his lady also\\nmade them several useful presents, Ou the 20th of July, 1S71, Zeisburger and .Jungman,\\nwith their families, and Edwards and Jungsiugle, missionaries, set out from Detroit\\nwith sixteen Delaware Indians, and arrived at their new home on the Clinton River the\\nnext evening. They named the place New Grnadenhutten, in remembrance of the old home\\non the Muskingum. It was then a perfect wilderness. Soon more of the dispersed con-\\nverts were gathered to them, and a large settlement was in prospect. On the 10th of De-\\ncember, 1783, the first ordinance of baptism was administered within our county. Sus-\\nanah, daughter of Richard Conner, and afterward wife of Elisha Harrington, was bap-\\ntized at the mission. She was the first child of white parents speaking the English lan-\\nguage born within the county. She lived always in the cou.nty, and died at the age of\\nsixty-tive years. Col. De Peyster, in treating with the Chippewas, had arrans^ed that they\\nshould remain until peace was established between Great Britain and the United States.\\nAs they continued to remain after this, the Chippewas became jealous of them and as-\\nsumed a threatening aspect, and on the 20th of April, 1786, the whole was abandoned and\\nthe colony scattered. The United States Government gave to Mr. Conner a deed of 160\\nacres of land in consideration of the fact that he had occupied it prior to the year 1796.\\nLittle was done at this point, now called Frederick, until after the war of 1812. During\\nthe scenes of this war, the Indians and the British soldiers had made a total destruction\\nof the settlement, from which the few inhabitants fled at their approach. They bm-ned\\nand threw down the buildings, and used the fruit trees as hitching posts for their horses,\\nthus destroying most of them. Thus was closed the mission of this remarkable class of\\nreformers, and with it died the hope expressed by one of their most noted ministers, that\\nthe Gospel may yet find an entrance among; the wild Chippewa tribes inhabiting those\\nparts. Next we find the Roman Catholic religion taught in a log chapel on the Clinton\\nRiver, in 1806.\\nTurning next from these, the first missionary of which we find any record is a Method-\\nist of the name of Case. This man was located at Detroit in the early days of Methodism\\nin Michigan, about the year 1807. In that year, he preached repeatedly in the house of\\nMr. William Tucker, in the township of Harrison. He also preached at the house of\\nChristian Clemens. But no organization seems to have been effected until the people had\\nsomewhat recovered from the effects of the war of 1812. On the return of peace to cm-\\nborders, emigrants came from the East, and with them came missionaries of the Method-\\nist, the Presbyterian and the Episcopal orders. Meetings were held in the com-t house, a\\nlog structure built in the year 1818; in schoolhouses, where any existed; in bju us and in\\nprivate dwellings, and in the open woods.\\nIn December, 1821, Piatt B. Morey, a Methodist clergyman, was taken sick at Mt.\\nClemens, died, and was buried there, but whose body was removed to the cemetery at De-\\ntroit, where it now rests. He was the first Methodist minister whose body was buried in\\nMichigan soil.\\ni V", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0370.jp2"}, "371": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nIn 1824, a class was formed in HaiTison; in 1826, one at Mt. Clemens.\\nWho were the Moravians They were a society of brethren taking their name from\\nthe country of Moravia, from which they sprang in the twelfth centmy. They were of a\\nquiet and loving disposition, and so united were they in their beliefs and piu poses as to\\ngain the name of United Brethren. They were similar in religious belief to Luther, and\\nwere remarkable for zeal in missionary labors.\\nSoon after 1824, preaching was enjoyed at Utica, but no organization was formed un-\\ntil some years later. In the year 1825, Abel Warren, who, the year before, had settled in\\nthe township of Shelby, began to preach, and without doubt held meetings in the vicinity\\nof Utica. but the exact dates I am not at present able to give. At Romeo, religious wor.\\nship was first instituted by the Methodists previous to the year 1824.\\nElias Pettit, who at that time had charge of the Deti oit Circuit, came out as far as\\nthe Hoxie settlement (Romeo), and preached in the houses of the settlers. This pio-\\nneer of Methodism in Michigan was born in Vermont, and on his conversion and license\\nto preach, was sent into Canada on a missionary tour for some years. He was the first\\nminister of which we have any knowledge as preaching in the northern portion of the\\ncounty. He was a powerful man, of large and robust frame, and powerful lungs, and was\\nwhat the brethi en of those times were wont to call a powerful preacher. It, was said of\\nhim that he would travel a circuit as long as he could get anything to eat on it. and then\\ngo to work and earn something, and then take the circuit again. He died in Iowa, in the\\nyear 1860.\\nAssociated with the above as a local preacher was Elder Warren, whose memory is\\nstill fragrant in many a household. This man was the first who was licensed to preach in\\nthe State of Michigan. He was not a man of classical education, but brought to the work\\nwhat, for the place and times, was better still a kind and sympathetic heart and a large\\nstock of sound, i^ractical common sense. In the early years of the settlements, his serv-\\nices were often in requisition far and near, as he was the man desired to officiate at fu-\\nnerals, thus becoming endeared to nearly every family. He had also a fine musical talent,\\nand was usually the leader in the service of song on most occasions. Albert Finch, then\\nan old man, was the pioneer who opened his house for the religious services and for the\\nentertainment of the minister. It was in his house that the class was formed. This class\\nconsisted of Albert Finch, Joseph Freeman, James Leslie and their wives, and was the\\nfirst chm-ch of Protestant faith formed in the county. In the year 1826, a remarkable\\nrevival occurred in the little settlement, at which many young peojjle were converted who\\nhave since made useful members of society and lights in the Christian world. The per-\\nsons forming this society (class), with most who joined at the time of the first revival, have\\npassed away, and only their memory and the fruits of their toil remain (aliout the year\\n1827). This was very early in the history of Michigan s religious life, for a report of the\\nDetroit Circuit, three years jirevious, gives one circuit, one minister, twenty members\\nand one log meeting-house.\\nAbout the year 1827, a minister of the Congregational order visited the village of", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0371.jp2"}, "372": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUMTY.\\nRomeo, and preached in such places as seemed most convenient. Although living at Pon-\\ntiac, he felt an interest in the work of founding new churches and in ministering to the\\nspiritual wants of those who lacked the means of grace. He used regularly to make the\\njourney on foot to Romeo, and preach at this and iatermediate points once in four weeks\\nIt was under his aid and advice that a Congregational Church was formed in 1829, the\\nfirst in the county and second in the State, consisting of eight persons, one of whom still\\nsurvives (in 188 1). His wish to die in the harness was gratified, for he died while attend-\\ning General Oongi egational Association of Michigan.\\nAs Abel Warren was the pioneer of Methodism in this county, so was Mr. Ruggles\\nof Congi egationalism. His custom was to visit the family of each settler, tind out their\\nfaith and denomination, and so gather together those of his belief and preach to them un-\\ntil a settled minister could be procured. These two men have wrought out for northern\\nMacomb a religious history of which we have seen the blade and the ear, and it is hoped\\nwe may yet see abundantly the full corn in the ear.\\nThe church planted thus in the woods was blessed in numbers and in usefulness, and\\nwas the City of Refuge to many a soul seeking escape from the pursuit of sin. The lirst\\nminister to the chiu ch at Romeo was Rev. Luther Shaw, from 1830 to 1835; afterward.\\nRev. O. O. Thompson, J ames B. *Shaw, Mr. Kellogg. Hurd Ladd and others.\\nIn 1 835, Episcopal services began to be held by a Rev. Mr. Holister, which services\\nhave been maintained irregularly to the present time.\\nIn 1846, a Baptist Church was organized in Romeo, with nine members, of which Rev.\\nE. A. Mather was for a long time pastor. Still later, those of the Christian persuasion\\nbecame united, under the care of Elders Cannon and Richards, and built a chiu ch.\\nIn chru-eh building, the Congregational at Romeo takes the lead, the first being\\nerected in 1834, at a cost of about 1400. Some fifteen years later, this was removed and\\nused as a private school, and a more commodious house erected in its jilace. In 1878, this\\nsecond house was torn down, and the present edifice takes its place. The Methodists built\\na church in 1839, with a basement, which was used as an audience room one year, when\\nthe body of the house was completed. In 1855. it was found necessary to enlarge the\\nbuilding, and again in 1867. In 1872, the old church was removed from the ground and\\nthe present church edifice erected.\\nStill another of the early workers in the cause of religion was the Rev. John Taylor,\\nwho settled in the township of Bruce in the yeai 1832. He was thoroughly educated, re-\\nfined in his tastes, genial and noble in his bearing, and of kind and pleasing address a\\nfinished scholar of the old school. For some time he held Sabbath services in his own\\nhouse; then was instrumental, with the aid of his neighbors, in building ujwn his own\\nland a small building, which served for many years as chui ch and schoolhouse.\\nThe Scotch settlement was just being formed at this time, and they united with the\\npeople of Bruce, and. in July, 1833, a church was formed, of six persons as members,\\nmost of them bringing letters from churches to which they formerly belonged. Members\\nwere received into this church from Monroe County, N. Y. from East Hampton, L. I.\\nri^", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0372.jp2"}, "373": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nfrom Old South Church:, Boston; from Marlboro, N. H. from Monroe, N. Y., and\\nfrom Brighton, N. Y. and many from the Reform Presbyterians, or Seceders, in Scotland.\\nThis church prospered under the ministrations of Mi Taylor, and reached a membership\\nof nearly eighty. In the year 1830, a division arose, the history of which may be of in-\\nterest. The settlers, as mentioned above, were largely from New England, and brought\\nwith them the habits and customs of their native States. Among these customs was that\\nof commencing the keeping of the Sabbath upon the evening of the day previous, and\\nending at sunset of the Sabbath. Another was that of meeting upon the evening of the\\nSabbath to sing and practice in church music. Both these customs met the disapproval\\nof the Scottish brethren, and a breach was opened. Added to this was the fact that the\\nScotch bretlu-en clung with great tenacity to the use of the Psalms rendered in rhyme for\\nchurch music, and objected to the employment of any instrument of music in the church.\\nThese differences began to be talked about and agitated, until at last two or more of the\\nScotch brethren brought the whole matter to an issue by demanding a dismissal and\\na letter of recommendation. The ground of complaint was clothed in the following lan-\\nguage: 1. That the church violate the Sabbath in attending singing schools on Sabbath\\nevenings. 2. That the church make use of and sing Watts Psalms and Hymns in public\\nworship. 3. That some of the church consider the Sabbath as commencing at evening and\\nending at evening, and so violate their Sabbath.\\nDiscipline was followed by entreaty, and a church meeting was called to consider the\\ncase, and was adjourned hoping that the breach would in some manner be closed up. But\\nsuch was not the case, and the church reluctantly voted to grant the request of the two\\nbrethren, and also of any others who might be in a like manner disaffected. The gap\\nthus made continued to widen as one after another withdrew, until nearly one-half the\\nmembers had withdrawn, the church expressing the hope that when they have more thor-\\noughly weighed and considered the matter, they will return and renew their covenant and\\ncontinue to enjoy Christian privileges with us. The Scotch members all withdrew at this\\ntime, and formed a church in the midst of the Scotch settlement, in the township of Al-\\nraont, which church is still in a prosperous condition.\\nThis calamity was followed by another of greater effect upon the little church, which\\nwas the death of the pastor, who had borne it in his arms thus far. He died suddenly, in\\nDecember, 1840, di-essed to attend chui ch. He jsrepared to meet his God in the earthly\\nsanctuary, bitt met Him in heaven. They were now children without a father, and were\\nto continue in this condition for some years. Still another cause was the discipline\u00c2\u00abof un-\\nruly members. The jiulpit was supplied for a time from Romeo, and latterly the church\\nat Bruce and that at Armada Village acted jointly, and the same minister served in both\\nplaces.\\nThis was continued for many years, with mutual satisfaction, l)ut at length the mem-\\nbership had so decreased, and a change of pastors occurring at Armada, the appointment\\nat this place was di oj)ped.\\nIn 1834, a Methodist class was formed at what is known as the center of Armada, at", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0373.jp2"}, "374": {"fulltext": "368 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\na log schoolhouse lately erected at that place, I think under the direction of Rev. Leonard\\nHill, minister in charge at Romeo.\\nUrial Day was Class-Leader of this class, and regularly walked from his house three\\nmiles to meet his class. A Sabbath school was also held here, and Mr. Tenj cke. who lived\\non the Andrews farm, and Mr. Elijah Burke, of Armada, were regular attendants and officers.\\nAfter two or three years, a class was formed at West Armada, and the appointment at the\\nCenter was taken ujj. Urial Day was made leader of the new class. The class at West\\nArmada was maintained for many years, and preaching regularly supplied from Romeo,\\nand latterly from Armada. A Sabbath school was held in connection with the aj^point-\\nment a portion of the time. From deaths and removals of members, this appointment\\nwas taken up about the year 1860.\\nAt an early day the date I have not yet been able to fix ^Rev. John Cannon, of\\nWashington Township, with Mr. H. N. Richards, and a little later, with Bro. Reuben R.\\nSmith, began to hold meetings of Christian order, having as a center a schoolhouse four\\nmiles north of Romeo, on the Almont road. From this place as a center, meetings were\\nheld in a circle of ten miles diameter for many years, but I am not aware that any church\\nwas formed until that at Romeo, about the year 1865, soon after which a chm-ch was built\\nand the society has prospered. In the year 1840, Rev. Elisha D. Andrews took uj) his\\nresidence at the center of Ai mada. and aided very much in the development of the relig-\\nious sentiment of northern Macomb. He heli.1 meetings at the houses of the settlers or at\\nthe schoolhouse. He assisted often in the burial service for the settlers, and cheered by\\nhis counsel and comfort the sick and the dying.\\nThe first preaching in the village of Ai-mada, in the house of Elijah Bui-ke, by Isaac\\nRuggles, of Pontiac. Services had been held previously by a Baptist minister at or near\\nSanford Corbin s. A church organization was effected at this place, of whom Deacon\\nGoodale and wife and Sanford Corbin and wife, as also Mrs. Pliny Corbin, were members.\\nThe Baptist Chm-ch in the village was formed in the year 1856, and the appointment\\nat Deacon Goodale s taken up. Previous to this time, the people living south of this place\\nattended chiu-ch at Ray Center. The Baptist Church at Ray was formed at an early date)\\nas early, I think, as 1830 to 1834. The place was then known as the Chubb settlement,\\nand some of that name were among the movers or the new organization.\\nThe house of worship at the Chiibb settlement was a frame building, about 18x26\\nfeet, with a huge stone fire-place in one end. In later years, when it was concluded to\\nplace it stove in the building, the pulpit was placed over the stones of which the hearth\\nwas formed, and some of the ministers thought it was a sort of doing penance, standing\\nand kneeling on the stones during the service. Mr. Wright, commonly known as Elder\\nWright, preached at this house for some time, living on his farm some two miles south of\\nthe church.\\nA Congregational Church was also formed at Ray about the year 1834, I think by\\nRev. O. C. Thompson, which had a varying degree of prosperity, but is now extinct. The\\nohl Baptist Church served the people of all denominatioDS, until the year 1868, when a\\ni V", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0374.jp2"}, "375": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ndivision arose in the society on the qiiestion of a site for a church. The people living\\nsouth of and about the corners on vyhich the old chui-ch stood felt that that was the cen-\\ntral place, and the only proper place, for a church to stand, while that portion of the so-\\nciety living about the place known as Freeman s Mill, could not consent to pay most of the\\nbuilding fund and travel all the distance, to build a church in a mud-hole at the center.\\nThe result was that two churches were built, and two religious societies organized, the one\\nat the center as Congregational, under the leadership of Mr. England, and the society at\\nthe mill as a union society, with a sprinkling of nearly all denorbinations, but claimed by\\nthe i\\\\Iethodists, and a small class formed. A large and flom-ishing Sabbath school was\\nformed at the Union Chiu-ch, or rather in the schoolhouse, before the church was built.\\nThis school was organized through the efforts of J. E. Day, who was its Si^perintendent\\nfor several years- Services were held in the Union Church by the Free-Will Baptists, un-\\nder Rev. E. E. Clark, and Congregational under Rev. E. Gr. Baird and Rev. Samuel Phil-\\nlips. In 1879, Rev. J. Young Christian, of Romeo, commenced a series of meetings,\\nwhich resulted in an extensive revival and a greatly enlarged and active chm-ch member-\\nship.\\nThe Congi-egational Church in Armada Village was formed in 1N35, by Rev. John B.\\nShaw, of the church at Romeo, who ministered to it in spiritual things for a short time,\\nwhen Rev. S. A. Benton became its pastor, which position he held for fourteen years, and\\nwas succeeded by Rev. S. M. Judson, then by R. G. Baird.\\nThe Methodist Class in Armada was formed at a date somewhat later than that of the\\nCongregationalist, the precise time I have not been able to learn. It was for some time\\nconnected with the class at Richmond, the records of which do not come to hand. The\\nMethodist Episcopal Church edifice was built in the year 1860 or thereabout.\\nSocieties were formed at Memphis at a date not long after that at Armada, but the\\nexact dates I have not been able to learn. Rev. William P. Russell settled in that village\\nin 1848, and remained thirty- two years, met the religious wants of a very large commu-\\nnity, in whose houses he was often seen and always welcome. In growing up with this\\npeople, he had grown into their very hearts, and by his presence at every scene of joy or\\nson-ow, became very dear to them. He baptized their infants, married their young, and\\nin sorrow and with sympathy cheered the aged and the sick^ and buried their dead.\\nAnd here let us drop for the present the chain of history of religious development of\\nMacomb County, to be made more full and complete by some wiser pen than mine.\\nWere there better men and women then than now? Self-denial for the welfare of\\nChrist s cause was more common than it is to-day. Father Ruggles could walk from Pon-\\ntiac to the St. Clair River and retm-n a journey of more than one hundi-ed miles every\\nmonth, to preach to new-comers who had no other means of supply, and his coming was\\nanticipated and enjoyed with the keenest relish. Welcomed in every house, he blessed\\nand honored every one which he entered. Self-denial was practiced to attend public wor-\\nship. Women and men, with their children, walked from four to eight miles to hear the\\nsermon.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0375.jp2"}, "376": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe visit of the minister at the homes of the settlers was an event to be remembered\\nby each member of the household, for he talked to each of the one great end of life and\\ntheir prospects for a ha]ipy eternity. The minister was revered then more than now.\\nThe very name preacher carried with it a sacredness not now felt.\\nThey were austere in their lives, earnest in their work, and beyond reproach in their\\nlives. The duties of those of the first generation in this county were of a formative char-\\nacter. It is to them, under God, we owe our prestige. Religiously, morally, education-\\nally, they have made us what we are. The duties of us of the second generation are of a\\npreservative nature. To protect, to preserve pure and to perpetuate are no less important\\nthan to create. God grant we may discharge our duties as well as they have done theirs.\\nIf we do this, we shall see not only the blade and the ear, but each succeeding year will\\ndevelop abundantly the full corn in the ear.\\nCHAPTER XXII.\\nTHE WAR FOR THE UNION.\\nIn former pages, full references are made to the action taken by the old settlers of\\nthis county in the military afi airs known as the war of 1812, the Black Hawk war, the\\nToledo war and the Mexican campaign. Here let us deal with the county dm-ing that\\neventful period in the nation s history when the Republic demanded a first sacrifice from\\nthe newly erected States that period when the very safety of the glorious heritage be-\\nqueathed by the Fathers as a rich legacy was threatened by a fate worse than death a\\nlife under laws that acknowledged slavery, a civil defiance of the first implied principles\\nof the constitution.\\nMichigan was among the first to I espond to the summons of patriotism and register\\nitself on the national roll of honor, even as she was among the first to join in that joyous\\nhymn which gi-( eted the Republic, made doubly glorious within a century by the dual vic-\\ntory which snatched freedom fi-om the hands of tyranny at Yorktown in 1781, and won the\\nprecious boon for the colored slave in 1865.\\nThe history of the great rebellion comes next in importance to that of the Revolution;\\nbut yet the former is entwined more closely with the newer States and their various dis-\\ntricts. For this reason it seems just that, as the work of the wi iter proceeds, he should\\npass in review what one new State has accomplished in the interest of the Union, and make\\nspecial reference to those gallant men of Macomb County who left their homes to join the\\nthousands of defenders from Michigan, who appeared upon the field to maintain all those\\nprecious liberties guaranteed by the constitution; to preserve the most sublime political\\nunion that ever existed; to bind still closer the peoples of our gi-eat States together.\\nIn April. 1861, immediately after the electric wire flashed the tidings of war into\\nevery citv. town and hamlet of the United States, the President s call for volunteers was\\nir", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0376.jp2"}, "377": {"fulltext": ".,S\u00c2\u00abKS5\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00abSt\\ntr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0377.jp2"}, "378": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0378.jp2"}, "379": {"fulltext": "t^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nmade known. Then hui rying thousands from all parts of the State rushed forward to re-\\nspond; but amidst the volunteer.s, there were none more earnest, more enthusiastic, than\\nthe men of this county. Organization was pressed forward, ranks were tilled up, and,\\nwhen the crisis was apparent, few, if any, counties surpassed Macomb in the celerity of\\nmilitary movement, or in the number and quality of private soldiers and officers sent forth\\nto the field.\\nIn this history of Macomb in the war for the Union, each regiment comprising any\\ntelling niunber of her citizens claims a very full notice. This is due to the people. It is\\nalso necessai-y for the purpose of rendering the history of that important period more fa-\\nmiliar, and so the \\\\vriter deems it a matter of the greatest importance to deal with the\\nsubject as extensively as the plan of this work will permit. In the first part of the chap-\\nter, the history of company organization is given, which is followed by regimental sketches\\nand personal references to the troops and officers, in which the names of the soldiers of this\\ncounty who died during the war, or survived their campaigns to receive honorable dis-\\ncharge, are recorded. To this section much attention has been given, and if an en-or\\nshould appear, it must be credited to a generally accepted theory, rather than to a want of\\nattention or carelessness in compilation.\\nThe fall of Fort Sumter was a signal for the uprising of the State. The news of the\\ncalamity was flashed throughout the world on April 14, 1 S(31, and early the next morning,\\nthe proclamation of President Lincoln was telegraphed to the chief executive officer of\\neach State. The proclamation of Grov. Blair, adch-essed to the people of Michigan, was\\ngiven to the public April 16, 1861, and on the same day. every man within the county was\\nprepared to act a citizen s part. Notwithstanding the unparalleled enthusiasm, the great\\nmajority of the people retained their equanimity, with the result of beholding, within a\\nbrief ypace of time, every section of the State represented by soldiers prepared to light to\\nthe bitter end in defense of cherished institutions, and for the extension of the principles\\nof human liberty to all classes within the limits of the threatened Union. This, their\\nzeal, was not animated by hostility to the slaveholders of the Southern States, but rather\\nby a fraternal spirit, akin to that which urges the eldest brother to correct the persistent\\nfollies of his juniors; to lead them from criminal ways to the paths of family honor; to\\ndraw them far away from all that was cruel, diabolical and inhuman, and instruct them in\\nall that is gentle, holy and sublime in the Republic. Many of the raw troops were not\\nonly animated by a patriotic feeling, but were also filled with the idea of the poet, who,\\nin his unconscious republicanism, said:\\nI would not have a slave to till my ground.\\nTo carry me, to fan me while I sleep\\nAnd tremble while I wake, for all the wealth\\nThat sinews bought and sold have evfer earned.\\nNo! dear as freedom is and. in my heart s\\nJust estimation, prized above all price\\nI had much rather be myself the slave\\nAnd wear the bonds, than fasten them on him.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0379.jp2"}, "380": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThus animated, it is not a matter for surprise to find the first call to arms issued by\\nthe President answered nobly by the people.\\nPrevious to the beginning of hostilities, an independent military company was organ-\\nized at Mt. Clemens. Before the actual fonnation of this company, war meetings were\\nheld and speeches made by Andrew A. Robertson, Giles Hubbard, Harleigh Carter, William\\nM. Campbell and others. At length, a company was organized, with George C. Fletcher,\\nCaptain. This compaoay was mustered into service with Judson S. Farrar, Captain; Edgar\\nH. Shook, First Lieutenant; Henry C Edgerly, Second Lieutenant, Edgar Weeks, then\\na lawyer of Mt. Clemens, was elected First Sergeant; James Fenton was apjjointed Drill\\nSergeant, The muster roll comprised forty names, among whom were William M, Con-\\nnor, Sergeant; Peter Generous, H. \\\\V. Babcock, Alexander N. Delano, Capt. William\\nTucker, Nicholas Lacroix, Anson C. Town, Owen Cotten, Martin Conway, W, D*. Lerick,\\nIsaac Lerick, John R, Hubert, and others mentioned in the rosters.\\nThis company tendered its services to the Governor while the First Michigan Infantry\\n(three months) was being organized, but, on account of the large number of volunteers who\\npresented themselves, this company was ordered to await the organization of a second reg-\\niment. The uniform was gray, with green facings and large brass l)uttons, very showy in\\nitself, surmoitnted with a tall velvet military hat trimmed with gi een.\\nThe company, after failing to be incorporated with the first three months regiment,\\nwas disbanded, and the commissioned officers and musicians entered the camp of instruc-\\ntion at Fort Wayne, and remained there until after the first Bull Run, when those oiScei-s\\nwere ordered to retiu-n to Mt. Clemens, recruit the company at that place, and report\\nat Detroit. This instruction was carried out, and on August 28, 1861, the men mustered\\ninto service, under the same officers, with the Fifth Michigan Infantry, Col. Henry D.\\nFeiTy commanding. This was among the first military companies organized in the north-\\neastern counties of this State, and the first in Macomb County.\\nAPPOINTMENTS AND STATISTICS.\\nDexter Mussey was appointed Commissioner to carry out the di aft ordered by the\\nWar Department July 9, 1861\\nThe number of men enrolled by the Assessors of Macomli County September 1(\\\\ 186 2,\\nwas 3,485, of which number 2,666 were subject to draft, and 819 exempt. The whole\\nnumber subject to draft in the State at that time was 91,071,\\nCol, John Stockton, of Mt. Clemens, received authority from the War Dei)ai tment, in\\nAugust, 1862, to form a regiment of cavalry, which authority was approved by Gov. Blair,\\nand a commission issued to him October 3, 1862.\\nThe draft of February, 1863, was made on the basis of the census of 1860. The\\nnumber of men actually drafted in Macomb was 127, of whom 6-t reported at the rendez-\\nvous, 44 enlisted for three years, and 2 for nine months service. This di aft was carried\\nout in this county under Dexter Mussey, Under the United States act of March, 1863,\\neach Congressional district was formed into an enrollment canton. Macomb formed a\\n^C s r~ V", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0380.jp2"}, "381": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nportion of the Fifth District. The returns point out that, cKu-ing the summer of 1804,\\nthere were 2,068 white men and 11 colored citizens of the lirst class f5ubject to military\\nduty, aud 1,183 of the secoi^d class similarly subject, after the men of the first class had\\nbeen called out. Up to January 1, 1864, there were 1,347 enlistments reported for Ma-\\ncomb^County, and before the last day of October of that year, 760 more names were added\\nto the roll, aggregating 2,107 men, from the period of the organization of the three-years\\nregiments to October 31, 1864, not including the niimber who joined Col. Doyle s com-\\nmand at Detroit, or the men who enlisted in the three-months regiments.\\nUnder the Presidential call of December 19, 1864. for 30(),000 men, an enrollment\\nwas made in the several counties of the State. The report, dated December 31, 1864,\\npoints out the number of men liable to military service in Macomb County to be 2.018,\\nof which number 225 was the quota of the county.\\nFrom November 1. 1864, to the suspension of recruiting, A]iril 14, 1865, the county\\nwas credited with 263 enlistments, with 963 enlistments under the system of district en-\\nrollment, making a total of 1,216 men from September 19, 18(i3, to the close of the war.\\nThe total representation of Macomb Coiinty in the State regiments may be set down as 2,-\\n500, of whom 900 enlisted under the enrollment system, 149 re-enlisted as veterans, 17\\nentered the naval service, 16 di afted men commuted, and 134 resulted from the ch-aft.\\nOf th is number, 320 served for one year, 2 for two years, and 894 for three years. The\\nenlistments previous to September 19, 1863 numbered 1,144 men, which, with the 1,216\\nreferred to above, give a grand total of 2,360 men. At least 140 men entered Illinois and\\nIndiana regiments, whose names are not given in the reports of this State, though ajipear-\\ning in the military records of the States refeiTed to.\\nThe military vote of the Michigan troops was taken November 7, 1864. Under the\\nact of February 5, 1864, the Governor was authorized to appoint a nmnber of Commis-\\nsioners to take this vote, which authority was put in practice October 14, 1864, when forty-\\none appointments were made. Among the Commissioners was William Hulsart, of Ro-\\nmeo, to whom was apportioned the labor of receiving the vote of the Eighth Michigan\\nCavalry, then at Nicholasville, Ky. and of the L and M Batteries, Michigan Artillery,\\nserving with the Twenty-third Ai my Corps at Cumberland Crap, Tenn. The vote of the\\nEighth Cavah-y was 105 for the Republican Electors Robert R. Beecher, Thomas D. Gil-\\nbert, Frederick Waldorf, Marsh Giddings, Chi-istian Eberbach, Perry Hanuah, Omer D.\\nConger and George W. Pack. The Democratic Electors received 71 votes from the same\\ncommand. The roll of Electors for whom this vote was given comprises the names of Sam\\nT. Douglass, Rix Robinson, Henry Hart, Royal T. Twombly. D. Darwin Hughes, John\\nLewis, Michael E. Crofoot and Richard Edwards. Battery L and detachments gave 200\\nvotes to the Republican Electoral ticket, and 57 to the Democratic ticket. Battery M\\ngave 49 votes to the Republicans and 3 to the Democrats.\\nHon. Giles Hubbard, of Mt. Clemens, was appointed a member of the Board of Di-\\nrectors of the Soldiei s aud Sailors Monument Association, at a meeting held August 11,\\n1865. How well this board performed its duty is shown in the sculptured monument, de-\\n;t^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0381.jp2"}, "382": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsigned by Randolph Rogers, the corner-stone of which was laid at Detroit in less than two\\nyears after the organization of the association July 4. 1867.\\nThe amount of money raised directly in Macomb County for the purpose of carrying\\non the war was $289,029. 69. The sum of direct ex])enditm-es from 1861 to 1867, for the\\nrelief of soldiers wives and children was no less than $110,839.26. The subscription to\\nthe .f 28,000 fund of the Michigan Soldiers Aid Society to that of the Michigan Soldiers\\nRelief Association, and other charitable funds, must aggregate not less than $8,000, while\\nother charities of a like nature entailed an indirect charge on the county amounting to\\nseveral thousand dollars.\\nPrevious to the issue of the Adjutant General s report, December 24, 1862, no less\\nthan 841 men from this county were in active service, exclusive of the number enrolled\\non the roster of the three-months regiment, or recruits joining the old regiments between\\nJuly 1 and December 24, 1862. The representation of the county in the regiments of the\\nState fi om the formation of the first three-years regiment to the close of the year 1862\\nwas as follows: Twenty men belonged to the First Michigan Infantry; 1 to the Second\\nInfantry; 9 to the Fourth Infantry; 93 to the Fifth Infantry; 3 to the Sixth Infantry; 16\\nto the Seventh; 131 to the Ninth; IS to the Tenth; 2 to the Thirteenth; 34 to the Four-\\nteenth; 3 to the Fifteenth; 18 to the Sixteenth; 8 to the Seventeenth; 255 to the Twenty-\\nsecond; 3 to the Twenty-sixth; 5 to the Engineers; 50 to the First Cavalry; 45 to the\\nSecond; 10 to the Third; 10 to the Foiu-th; 90 to the Fifth; 2 to the Ninth Battery 14\\nto Dygert s Sharpshooters; and 1 to the Stanton Guard; with jirobably 50 to other com-\\nmands then organized.\\nRECORD OF COMMISSIONED OFFICERS.\\nAaron L. Abbey, Armada, was commissioned Second Lieutenant Eighth Cavalry, No-\\nvember 1, 1862; First Lieutenant, June 16, 1864. He was made prisoner August 5, 1864,\\nduring Gen. Stoneuian s raid; exchanged March 1, 1865, and discharged as Second Lieii-\\ntenant May 15, 1865.\\nGeorge E. Adair, Utica, commissioned First Lieutenant Second Cavalry, September\\n2. 1861; resigned September 3, 1862.\\nLouis Allor, New Baltimore, Sergeant Company E, Twenty-second Infantry, July\\n31, 1862; was commissioned Second Lieutenant November 17, 1862; First Lieutenant,\\nJune 6, 1863; Adjutant, October 11, 1863, which position he held when the command was\\nmustered out, June 26, 1865.\\nAlmiron P. Armstrong, Armada, was commissioned First Lieutenant Eighth Cavalry,\\nNovember 1, 1862, in which position he served until his resignation was accepted, Febru-\\nary 14, 1863.\\nAlfred Ashley, New Baltimore, commissioned Captain, Twenty-second Infantry, July\\n21, 1862; resigned November 27, 1862.\\nWillard H. Ashley, Sheridan, Sergeant Company A, Eleventh Cavalry, August 28,\\n1868; was commissioned First Lieutenant March 21, 1864; he resigned on account of\\ndisability June 10. 1865.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0382.jp2"}, "383": {"fulltext": "fe^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nJnlian H. Axtell. Mt. Clemeus. Sergeant Company B, First Infantry, July 9. 1861\\nwounded in action near Five Forks. Va., March 31, 1865; commissioned Second Lieuten-\\nant May 30. 1865. and discharged July 9, 1865.\\nSamuel Barton, Armada, Sergeant Company B, Thirtieth Michigan Infantry, Novem-\\nber 25, 1864; commissioned Second Lieutenant Jime 6, 1865: and discharged June 30.\\n1865.\\nHiram Barrows, Ai-mada, was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Ninth Michigan In-\\nfantry, October 12, 1861: First Lieutenant, December 10. 1861; and Captain, October 13.\\n186 2. He was wounded in the action of Murfreesboro, Tenn. July 13, 1862, and fell into\\nthe hands of the rebels. His exchange or release oceuiTed August 27, 1862. He served\\nfrom the date of his promotion to a Captaincy irntil the muster-out of the command. No-\\nvember 16, 1864.\\nCharles Bassett, Mt. Clemeus. Sergeant Company G. Twenty-second Infantry, August\\n12, 1862; was commissioned Second Lieutenant December 5, 1862 First Lieutenant,\\nFebruary 21, 1863: Captain, October 14, 1864, in which last position he was serving at\\nthe period of muster-out, June 2(5, 1865.\\nWilliam Belles. Chesterheld, commissioned Captain Thirtieth Infantry November 28.\\n1864; was mustered out June 30, 1865.\\nJohn W. Bennett, Mt. Clemens, commissioned Second Lieutenant. Eighth Michigan\\nCavalry, November 1, 1862; First Lieutenant, August 31, 1863: Captain, December 1,\\n1864; was mustered out with the command September 22, 1865.\\nJohn Britton, Ridgeway, Sergeant Company F, Twenty-sixth Infantry, August 12.\\n1862: was commissioned Second Lieutenant November 22, 1864; First Lieutenant, June 9.\\n1865 and was mustered out as Second Lieutenant June 4, 1865.\\nSeymour Brownell, Ftica, commissioned Battalion Quartermaster. Second Cavalry,\\nSeptember 2, 1861; received his discharge June 1, 1862, and on October 28 of the same\\nyear, was commissioned Captain and Assistant Commissary I nited States Volunteers;\\nthis position he resigned October 15, 1864.\\nSylvanus Bachelder. Clinton, entered service with Fourteenth Michigan Infantiy:\\nwas promoted Second Lieutenant December 29, 1864; First Lieutenant, :March 14, 1865,\\nand served in that jaosition to the close of the wai\\\\\\nWilliam Beekman, Clinton, promoted from the ranks to a Second Lieutenancy July\\n3, 1865, and to a First Lieutenancy July 31, 1865: was mustered out with the command.\\nAlbert D. Benjamin, Fowlerville, was promoted Second Lieutenant, Thirtieth In-\\nfantry, November 28. 1864, and served until the close of the war.\\nCharles L. Bissell, Chicago, was commissioned First Lietitenant and Adjutant,\\nTwelfth Michigan Infantry. October 10. 1861. This soldier died at Bolivar, Tenn.. Oc-\\ntober 26. 1862.\\nWilliam Brownell, Utica, was commissioned Assistant Surgeon, Second Cavalry, Sep-\\ntember 2, 1861. and Surgeon October 20. 1862, which position he occupied when the com-\\nmand was mustered out. November 3, 1864.\\nIV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0383.jp2"}, "384": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAxtgustus H. Canfield, Mt. Clemens, was appointed Sergeant Company I, Ninth\\nMichigan Infantry, August 15, 1861; commissioned Second Lieutenant September 23,\\n180 2; First Lieutenant April 25, 18(33; Adjutant, October 14, 18fi4, in which position he\\nwas serving when the regiment was mustered out.\\ni] Stephen B. Cannon, Disco, Sergeant Company B. Twenty-second Infantry, August\\n9, 1862; commissioned Second Lieutenant October 14, 1864; was mustered out June 26,\\n1865.\\nJQEdwin C. Chubb, llomeo. Sergeant Company A. Ninth Infantry. August 13, 1861\\nwas commissioned Second Lieutenant October 13. 1862; First Lieutenant. May 14, 1863;\\nand mustered out November 25, 1864.\\nWilliam H. Clarke. Jr., Armada, Sergeant Company G, Eighth Michigan Cavalry,\\nNovember 10, 1862; was commissioned Second Lieutenant April 23, 1863; wounded at\\nSweetwaterjOctober 26, 1863, and resigned on account of disability February 8, 1864,\\nJohn L, Cline, Eomeo, Sergeant Company L, Eighth Michigan Cavalry, March 8,\\n1868; was commissioned Second Lieutenant September 14, 1864, First Lieutenant De-\\ncember 27, 1864; and mustered out with the command September 22. 1865.\\nji; t Daniel W. Cole, Romeo, Sergeant Major, Ninth Infantry, August 13, 1861; was com-\\nmissioned Second Lieutenant July 15, 1865, and mustered out September 15, 1865.\\nwOwen W. Cotton, Mt. Clemens, Sergeant Company B, Fifth Infantry. August 28, 1861;\\ncommissioned Second Lieutenant September 12, 1862; First Lieutenant, October 21,\\n1862; was wounded at Chaneellorsville, Va. in the action of May 3, 1863, and resigned\\nAugust 19 following.\\nMartin Conley, New Baltimore, appointed Sergeant Company B, Third Infantry, Sep-\\ntember 27, 1864; was commissioned Second Lieutenant March 12, 1865; First Lieutenant\\nNovember 28, 1865; and mustered out with the re-organized Third Infantry June 10,\\n1866; he served with Fifth Infantry at the beginning of the war, and now, as a member\\nof the Soldiers and Sailors Union, is in charge of the old colors of the Fifth.\\nJohn M. Crawford, Ray Center, was commissioned Captain, Eighth Michigan Cavah-y,\\nNovember 1, 18()2, which position he resigned on account of disability June 16, 1864.\\nlayman G. Crawford, Romeo, commissioned Second Lientenant, Third Infantry, July\\n29, 1864; First Lieutenant January 8, 1865; Captain. February 25, 1866; was mustered\\nout as First Lieutenant June 10, 1866.\\nCharles D. Culver, Mt. Clemens, was commissioned First Lieutenant Battery M,\\nFirst Light Ai-tillery, April 1, 1863, which position he resigned October 26 following.\\nAugustus Czizek, Mt. Clemens, commissioned Second Lieutenant, Twenty- second In-\\nfantry, July 31, 1862; resigned December 3. 1862.\\nCrawley P. Dake, Armada, was commissioned Captain, Fifth Michigan Cavalry, Au-\\ngust 14, 1862; Major, December 31, 1862; and resigned August 9, 1864.\\nLewis P. Davis, Romeo, Sergeant Major, Twenty-second Infantry, August 9, 1862;\\nwas commissioned Second Lieutenant November 7, 1864, and mustered out June 26,\\n1865.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0384.jp2"}, "385": {"fulltext": "L^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nJonathan E. Davis, Macomb, was commissioned Assistant Siu geon, Twenty-seventh\\nInfantry, December 23, 1S62; resigned Januar} 4, 1S64.\\nGeorge W. Davenport, Sergeant Company F, Fifth Cavalry, August 15, 1862; was\\ncommissioned First Lieutenant, Eighth Michigan Cavalry, January 28, 1864, and mus-\\ntered out April 30 following.\\nAlanson P. Dickenson, Romeo, was commissioned Second Lieutenant, Ninth Infantry,\\nOctober 12, 1861; First Lieutenant, June 23, 1862; and resigned with the rank of Second\\nLieutenant. January 17, 1863.\\nAugustus Ditman, Eomeo, Sergeant Company A, Ninth Infantry, August 13, 1861;\\nSecond Lieutenant, November 23, 1864; and First Lieutenant, April 20, 1865; mustered\\nout with the command September 15, 1865.\\nCharles B. Donaldson. Roseville. Sergeant Company K, Eighth Michigan Cavalry.\\nFebruary 8. 1863; was commissioned First Lieutenant January 22, 1864. and resigned,\\non account of disability, Jiine 21, 1864.\\nWinchester T. Dodge. Orange, commissioned Second Lieutenant, Tenth Michigan\\nCavalry, October 15, 1862; resigned February 22,*1864.\\nWilliam H. Dimphy, Memphis, was commissioned Fii-st Lieutenant, Tenth Infantry,\\nOctober 1. 1861; Captain, March 31. 1863; Lieutenant Colonel. February 24. 1865;\\nColonel. June 7. 1865; and was mustered out July 19, 1865, with the rank of Lieiiten-\\nant Colonel.\\nAi-thm- L. Eastman, Mt. Clemens, was commissioned First Lieutenant, Eighth Mich-\\nigan Cavalry. November 1, 1862; wounded at Sweetwater October 26, 1863; he received\\nhis discharge on accoimt of disability, February 9, 1865.\\nHem-y C. Edgerly, Mt. Clemens, commissioned Second Lieutenant. Fifth Michigan\\nInfantry, January 19, 1862; was wounded at Chai-les City Cross Roads. Ya.. June 30,\\n1862; transferred to Eighth Cavalry.\\nHemy C. Edgerly, Mt. Clemens, was commissioned Major, Eighth Michigan Cav-\\nalry, November 17, 1862; served throughout the war, and resigned on account of disability\\nJanuary 8, 1865.\\nMarcus D. Elliott, Roseville, Sergeant. Battery H. First Light Artillery, October 22,\\n1861; was commissioned Second Lieutenant March 15, 1863; First Lieutenant, August 8,\\n1863; Captain, January 8, 1864; and was mustered out December 27, 1864.\\nJudson S. i arrar, Mt.Clemens, was commissioned Captain, Fifth Michigan Infantry.\\nJune 19, 1861, and received the commission of Lieutenant Colonel, Twenty-sixth Infantry,\\nSeptember 16, 1862.\\nAmos Finch, commissioned Lieutenant January 22, 1865 discharged July.\\n1865.\\nJudson S. Farrar, Mt. Clemens, was commissioned Lieutenant Colonel, Twenty-sixth\\nInfantry, September 16, 1862; Colonel, October 9, 1863; and discharged on account of\\ndisability March 29, 1864.\\nTriel S. Fan ar, Mt. Clemens, commissioned Firet Lieutenant, Twenty-sixth Infantry,\\np\\nV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0385.jp2"}, "386": {"fulltext": "liL\\n380\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nOctober 12, 1863, and Captain. \u00e2\u0080\u00a2Innc U. 1864; wa5 mustered out with the rank of First\\nLieutenant June 4, 1865.\\nThomas A. Fisher, New Baltimore, Sergeant, First Engineers and Mechanics. Novem-\\nber 26, 1861; was commissioned First Lieutenant January 1, 1864, and mustered out Oc-\\ntober 26. 1864.\\nEdwin Fishpool, New Baltimore, was commissioned Second Lieutenant, First Mich-\\nigan Cavalry, August 22, 1861, and resigned January 80. 1862.\\nPeter Generoux, Mt. Clemens, commissioned First Lieutenant, Fifth Michigan In-\\nfantry, September 12. 1862; Captain. September 16. 1862; was killed in the action of\\nGettysburg. Penn.. July 2. 1868.\\nJoseph Goetz, Mt. Clemens. Captain. Twenty-second Infantry, July 81. 1862; was\\ndischarged on account of disability May 17. 1865. after a period of almost three years.\\nJacob Goodale. liay Center. Sergeant. Eighth Michigan Cavalry, November 1, 1862;\\nSecond Lieutenant, January 5, 1864; First Lieutenant, June 21, 1864; was mustered out\\nat the date of consolidation with the Eleventh Cavalry. July 20. 1865.\\nAlexander Grant. Utica, commissioned Second Lieutenant. Second Cavalry, Septem-\\nber 2. 1861 resigned June 4. 1862.\\nCyril S. Hicks, Richmond, was promoted First Lieutenant. Ninth Michigan Infantry,\\nSeptember 27. 1864, and served until the close of the war.\\nDavid K. Halsey, Richmond, Sergeant. Fifth Infantry. August 28. 1861; wa:s com-\\nmissioned Second Lieutenant June 10, 1868.\\nEdgar B. Harris. Shelby. Sergeant Company C. Eighth Cavalry. December 18. 1862;\\nwas commissioned Second Lieutenant April 25. 1.S65, and mustered out September 22,\\n1865.\\nDelos L. Heath. Ridgeway. commissioned Assistant Surgeon. Seventeenth Infantry.\\nNovember 18, 1862; was transferred to Twenty-third Infantry.\\nDelos L. Heath, Ridgeway. commissioned Surgeon, Twenty-third Michigan Infantry.\\nMay 1, 1868; was discharged for disability December 27, 1864.\\nMatthew M. Hedges. North Branch, entered the Tenth Infantry as Sergeant. Decem-\\nber 22, 1861: was commissioned Second Lieutenant June 7, 1865. and discharged July\\n18. 1865.\\nMatthew Holmes, Baltimore, commissioned Second Lieutenant, Twenty-eighth In-\\nfantry, August 15, 1864; was killed at Wise Forks. N. C, March 8, 1865.\\nHenry H. Houghtalin, New Baltimore, mustered into service with the Eighth Cavalry;\\nwas commissioned Second Lieutenant June 17. 1864; First Lieutenant. January 8, 1865;\\nand was mustered out September 22, 1865.\\nIrving D. Hanscom, Romeo, commissioned officer Eighth Michigan Cavalry; for pro-\\nmotions, see biographical sketch.\\nHenrj W. Howgate, Armada, commissioned Second Lieutenant, Twenty-second In-\\nfantrj-, July 81, 1862: First Lieutenant, December 31, 1862; Captain, June 7, 1864; was", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0386.jp2"}, "387": {"fulltext": "i 1^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncommissioned First Lieutenant United States Signal Corps August 17, 1864; brevet Cap-\\ntain, United States Volunteers, March 13. 18(55, in recognition of services during the bat-\\ntle of Chickamauga: brevet Major of Volunteers, March 13, 1865, for services in Georgia;\\nSecond Lieutenant, Twentieth United States Infantry. October 22, 1867: and First Lieu-\\ntenant, August 4, 1868. The rapid advances of this officer were remarkable to a decree.\\nWilliam A. Hulsart, Bruce, was among the commissioned officers.\\nBeckford P. Hutchinson. Utica, commissioned First Lieutenant, Fourth Cavalry. Xn-\\ngust 13, 1862: resigned February 16, 1863.\\nWilliam Jenny, Jr.. Mt. Clemens, wa? commissioned Captain, Ninth Infantry, October\\n12, 1861; Major, February 6, 1863: and was mus^ered out September 15, 1865.\\nCharles L. Jenny, Utica, Sergeant Compnny H, Fourth Michigan Infantry. Sej)tem-\\nber 17, 1864; was commissioned Second Lieutenant October 24, 1865, and discharged\\nMay 26, 1866.\\nCharles C. Jennings, Washington, Sergeant, Twenty-second Infantry, August 11,\\n1862; was commissioned Second Lieutenant February 21, 1863: First Lieutenant. June\\n11. 1864; and mustered out June 26, 1865.\\nNathan Jersey, Romeo, enlisted August 19, 1S61, as Sergeant of Company A, Ninth\\nInfantry: he received his commission as Second Lieutenant March 25, 1802, and that of\\nFirst Lieutenant October 13, 1862. This soldier was wounded at Mui-freesboro, July 13,\\n1862, and. recovering, served until August 5, 1864.\\nJ. Delos Jewell. Vernon, Sergeant Company A, Tenth Michigan Infantry, November\\n4, 1861: was commissioned First Lieutenant and Adjutant July 9, 1864: Captain, Febru-\\nary 24, 1865; and served until muster out, July 19, 1865.\\nMiner A. Johnson, Utica, Sergeant Company H, Second Cavalry. August 27, 1861;\\nSecond Lieutenant, October 1, 1862; resigned November 19, 1864.\\nTheodore Kath, Ray, Sergeant Company G, Twenty-second Infantry: was commis-\\nsioned Second Lieutenant September 25, 1863. and mustered out June 26, 1865.\\nAlonzo M. Keeler, Shelby, commissioned Captain. Twenty-second Infantry, July 31,\\n1862; Major, October 14, 1864; and brevet Lieutenant Colonel United States Volunteers,\\nMarch 13, 1865; was mustered out June 26, 1865. This soldier fell into the hands of the\\nrebels at Chickamauga, Tenn., September 20, 1863: was paroled March 1, 1865, and ulti-\\nmately returned to his command.\\nJames S. Kelly, Disco, Sergeant Company B. Twenty-second Infantry, August 7, 1862;\\nwas commissioned Second Lieutenant December 31. 1862. and resigned^Februar} 21. 1863.\\nBenjamin Kenny, Sergeant Battery H, First Light Artillery, June IS, 1862: was\\ncommissioned First Lieutenant April 25. 1864: Captain, December 27. 1864: and mus-\\ntered out July 22, 1865.\\nJohn W. Kingscott, Sergeant Company H. Second Cavalry, August 24, 1861 First\\nLieutenant. October 1, 1862: Captain. June 7, 1864: was mustered out December 27.\\n1865.\\nWilliam G. Kingscott, Sergeant Company H. Second Cavalry, September 7. 1S61;\\nr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0387.jp2"}, "388": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFirst Lieutenant, September 20, 1864; was transferred to the One Hundred and Thirty-sixth\\nUnited States Colored Infantry June 2 2, 1805.\\nHenry F. Lake, Marion. Sergeant Company H, Twenty-second Infantry, August 9,\\n1S6 Second Lieutenant Aj^ril 1, 1865; was discharged June 9, 1865.\\nChai-les C. Lamb, Mt. Clemens, Captain, Eighth Michigan Cavalry, November 1,\\n1862; was discharged, on account of disability, June 3, 1864.\\nCharles C. Lamb, Mt. Clemens, commissioned First Lieutenant, Thirtieth Infantry,\\nNovember 28, 1864; Captain, March 16, 1865; was mustered out June 30, 1865.\\nJohn M. Lamb, Dryden, Sergeant Com])any E, Eighth Cavalry, December 4, 1862;\\nwas commissioned Second Lieutenant December 1, 1864, and mustered out September 22,\\n1865.\\nSeward S. Lampman, transferred from Eleventh Cavalry and commissioned Second\\nLieutenant, Eighth Cavalry. July 20, 1865; was mustered out September 30, 1865.\\nErastus W. Lawrence, Utica, Commissary Sergeant, Second Cavalry, September 2.\\n1861; was commissioned Second Lieutenant September 19, 1862; he acted as First Lieu-\\ntenant and Commissary, and was on detached service when the command was mustered out.\\nFrederick B. Lee, Mt. Clemens, Sergeant Company D, Eighth Cavalry, December 22,\\n1862; Second Lieutenant, February 9, 1864; was wounded during the affair at Baker s\\nFerry, Ga., July 5, 1864; he was mustered out with the command, July 20, 1865.\\nIsaac N. Lerick, Utica, commissioned Captain, Third Infantry, July 29, 1864, and\\njaromoted Major June 14, 1865; mustered out May 25, 1866.\\nWilliam H. Lowrie, Romeo, Commissary Sergeant, Ninth Infantry. August 13, 1861;\\nSecond Lieutenant, September 20, 1864; First Lieutenant and Quartermaster, November\\n16, 1864; mustered out September 16, 1865.\\nMuir A. McDonald, Washington, Sergeant Company D, Eighth Cavalry, December\\n8. 1862; Second Lieutenant. August 31, 1863; Captain, January 18, 1864; was mustered\\nout September 22, 1865.\\nJohn B. K. Mignault, Mt. Clemens, was commissioned Surgeon, Eighth Cavalry,\\nNovember 6, 1862, which position he held until his resignation, on account of disability,\\nSeptember 12, 1864.\\nMichael Nolan, Mt. Clemens, Sergeant Company L, Third Cavalry, September 20,\\n1861; commissioned Second Lieutenant June 9, 1862, and mustered out August 24, 1864.\\nGeorge Minnely, Mt. Clemens, Sergeant Company D, Eighth Cavalry, November 4,\\n1862; Second Lieutenant, May 14, 1864; was mustered out September 22, 1865.\\nEdgar A. Nye, Romeo, Sergeant Company F, Eighth Infantry, September 12, 1861;\\nSecond Lieutenant, April 20, 1864; was killed in the action of Spotlsylvania, Va., May\\n12, 1864.\\nAlbert Nye, Mt. Clemens, commissioned First Lieutenant, Ninth Infantry, October 12,\\n1861, and Captain, December 10, 1861; died at Murfreesboro, Tenn. June 23, 1862.\\nHerbert B. Pearson, New Baltimore, commissioned Second Lieutenant, Twenty-sec-\\nond Infantry, July 31, 1862; resigned June 5, 1863.\\n1", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0388.jp2"}, "389": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUN-T-i 383\\nAlbert L. Power, Mt. Clemens, Sergeant Company I, Ninth Infantry, August 15.\\n1861; Second Lieutenant, October 10, 1863; was discharged November 17, 1864.\\nAi-chibald Preston. Mt. Clemens, commissioned Second Lieutenant, Eighth Michigan\\nCavalry, August 81, 1863; was made prisoner during Stonemau s raid; subsequently ex-\\nchanged; rejoined his regiment, and served until its consolidation with the Eleventh Cav-\\nalry, July 20, 1865.\\nBenjamin F. Pritchard. Romeo, commissioned Chajtlaiu Fifth Infantry, September\\n12, 1862; was discharged, on account of disability, December 5, 1863, and re-commissioned\\nJune 10, 186-1. This soldier served until the muster-out of the command, July 5, 1865.\\nGeorge W. Robertson, Mt. Clemens, commissioned First Lieutenant, Twenty-second\\nInfantry, July 31, 1862, and Captain, November 17, 1863; was made prisoner at Chicka-\\nmauga, September 20, 1863; paroled March 1, 1865: and mustered out with his command,\\nJune 26, 1865.\\nEdgar H. Shook, Mt. Clemens, commissioned First Lieutenant, Fifth Infantry, June\\n19, 1861, and Captain, June 22, 1862; was discharged February 8, 1863. He joined the\\nregiment with the rank of Captain, February U, 1863, and was commissioned Major, May\\n21, 1864, serving in that position until the muster-out of the command, July 5, 1865.\\nThis soldier was wounded in the battle of the Wilderness, May 6. 1864.\\nJohn S. Smith, Armada, was commissioned First Lieutenant and Quartermaster,\\nEighth Michigan Cavalry, November 6, 1862, and resigned December 23, 1863.\\nWilliam A. Smith, Marion, was commissioned First Lieutenant, Twenty-second In-\\nfantry, Jiily 31, 1862 Captain, January 5, 1863; and died of wounds received at\\nChickamauga October 1 1. 1863.\\nHiram M. Snell, Armada, was commissioned Assistant Surgeon, Eighth Cavalry,\\nMarch 12, 1863, and died August 18, 1863.\\nCharles A. Snover, Armada, Sergeant Company E, Fifth Cavalry. August 14, 1862;\\nSecond Lieutenant, April 14, 1863: First Lieutenant, March 22, 1S65: was mustered out\\nJuly 22, 1865.\\nRobert F. Selfridge, Bruce, entered service August 22, 1862, as Quartermaster Ser-\\ngeant, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry; Second Lieutenant, August 26, 1864; was mus-\\ntered oiit June 26, 1863.\\nRobert O. Selfridge, of Tecumseh, after a brilliant term of service, was commissioned\\nMajor and Assistant Adjutant General, United States Volunteers. July 14, 1863, which\\nposition he resigned in 1865.\\nWilliam A. Snook, Mt. Clemens, Sergeant Battery M. First Light Artillery, April\\n13, 1863: Second Lieutenant, September 25, 1864; was mustered out August 1, 1865.\\nJohn Stockton, Mt. Clemens, commissioned Colonel Eighth Michigan Cavalry, Octo-\\nber 3, 1862: received his discharge April 15, 1864.\\nWilliam C. Stockton, Mt. Clemens, was commissioned First Lieutenant, Twenty-sec-\\nond Infantry, July 31, 1862; transferred to Eighth Cavalry.\\nWilliam C. Stockton, Mt. Clemens, transferred from Twenty-second Infautrv to the\\n\u00c2\u00ae1V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0389.jp2"}, "390": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COL NTY.\\nEighth Cavalry; was commissioned Captain in the latter command November 1, 1862. and\\nresigned April 15, 1864.\\nAddison R. Stone, Memphis, commissioned Assistant Surgeon Fifth Cavalry, Sep-\\ntember 25, 1862; was discharged, on account of disability, September 8, 1863.\\nWilliam Sumner, Utica, Sergeant Major, Twenty-seventh Infantry, August 11, 1862;\\nwas commissioned First Lieutenant May 15, 1805, and served iintil muster-out, -Tuly 26,\\n1865.\\nHoratio Van Sickle, Utica, Sergeant Company H, Seventh Infantry, August 22, 1861;\\nwas commissioned First Lieutenant June 22, 1863; Major, October 5, 1864; Lieutenant\\nColonel, November 18, 1804: and discharged with the rank of Major, May 15, 1865.\\nEzekiel Van Vliet, Ridgeway, was commissioned First Lieutenant, Thirteenth Infan-\\ntry, October 3, 1861; Captain, July 13, 1862; and resigned February 28, 1863.\\nEdgar Weeks, Mt. Clemens, was appointed Sergeant Company B, Fifth Michigan\\nInfantry, August 28, 1861, he being the first non-commissioned officer of the county. A\\nyear later, he was transferred to the Twenty- second Infantry.\\nEdgar Weeks, Mt. Clemens, was commissioned First Lieutenant and Adjiitant,\\nTwenty-second Michigan Infantry, August 2, 1862, and Captain, November 27, 1862,\\nwhich position he held until the acceptance of his resignation, November 17, 1863.\\nGeorge M. Wilson, New Baltimore, entered Battery E, First Light Artillery, Novem-\\nber 11, 1801: Second Lieutenant, March 16. 1864; First Lieutenant, March 27, 1865;\\nwas mustered out July 20, 1865.\\nn William AVilkiuson, Romeo, commissioned Captain, Ninth Michigan Infantry, Octo-\\nber 12, 1861; Major, October 13, 1862; Lieutenant Colonel, February 6, 1863; brevet\\nColonel United States Volunteers, March 13, 1865; was mustered out September 15, 1865,\\nafter a term of brilliant service. This soldier was made prisoner at Murfreesboro, Tenn.,\\nJuly 13, 1862, and paroled October 12, 1862.\\nWilliam W. Wilkinson, Romeo, was appointed Hospital Steward, Ninth Michigan\\nInfantry, August 31, 1864: commissioned Second Lieutenant August 10. 1865. and was\\nmustered out without rank September 15, 1868.\\nFIRST MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThe organization of the First Infantry began June 28, 1861, while yet the three-\\nmonths regiment was in the field. The command left en route for the seat of war Sep-\\ntember 16. 1861, under Col. John C. Robinson. From this period until July 1, 1862, it\\nparticipated in the affairs of Mechanicsville, June 20; Gaines Mill, June 27; Peach\\nOrchard, June 21): White Oak Swamp, June 30; and Malvern Hill, July 1. Entering the\\ncoi ps (Vnrmec under Gen. Pope, it was engaged at Gainsvillo August 29, and at Bull Run\\nAugust 30. It was present at Fredericksbm-g diu-ing the terrific fighting round that\\nposition; subsequently, it took a prominent part on the field of Chancellorsville. After a\\nseries of brilliant meetings with the rebels, it arrived at Gettysbm-g July 2, 1803, and,\\nduring that and the two succeeding days, added to its laurels.\\n:t*", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0390.jp2"}, "391": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTo notice the varied service of this cotamand is beyond our limits. However, the\\npart it took in the war for the Union will be evident from the following record of well-\\nfought fields: Williamsport, Md., July 12; Wapping Heights, Va., July 21; Culpepper,\\nVa., October 13; MineRim. November 29, 1S63; Wilderness, Va.. May 5. 6 and 7; Spottsyl-\\nvania. Va. May 12; Ny River. North Anna, Jerico Mills, Noel s Tavern and Tolopotomy,\\nbetween May 20 and 30, 1864; Magnolia Swamp and Bethesda Church, June 1 and 2;\\nPetersbui-g, June 18; Weldon Railroad, Va., August 19, 20, 21, 1864; Hatcher s Run,\\nFive Forks and Appomattox Court House, in February, March and April, 1865.\\nsoldiers record.\\nJohn Baptiste. killed at Gaines Hill June 27, 1862.\\nJohn Ross, killed at Gaines Hill June 27, 1862.\\nWilliam Biddlecomb, killed at Fredericksburg December 13, 1862.\\nFrederick Cady, missing at Gaines Hill June 27, 1862.\\nCharles Boyce, missing at Malvern Hill July 1, 1862.\\nJohn Boss, missing at Chickahominy June 27, 1862.\\nFred W. Cady, died of wounds at Chicago July, 1880.\\nAlexander McElroy, died from wounds at Washington, June 2, 1864.\\nJohn Tremble, missing at the Wilderness May 5, 1864.\\nDischarged Stephen Pickel, John Myers, Judson R. Smith. Sam F. Crawford, G.\\nRiley Granby, Thomas J. Langtry, John Trombly, Jared E. Pitts, Samuel F. Crawford,\\nFred W. Cady, Charles Eldredge, Cyrus C. Gregg, George Van Antwerp, John Tremble.\\nSECOND MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThe Second Michigan Infantry left its rendezvous at Detroit June 5. 1861, and was\\nthe first three-years command from Michigan to report at the front. Its strength, per-\\nfected July 1, was 1,115 men. From Blackburn s Ford, Va., July 1861, to the siege of\\nPetersburg, Va., April 3, 1865, it participated in no less than forty-two general actions.\\nThe command was mustered out at AVashington, July 29, 1865, and reported at Detroit\\nfdr discharge August 1, 1865. Albert E. Gates and Michael White were the only repre-\\nsentatives reported from Macomb in this command.\\nTHIRD MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThis regiment was organized at Grand Rapids, accepted May 15, 1861, and left the\\ncity under Col. Daniel McConnell, for the Potomac, June 13, 1861. It was consolidated\\nwith the Fifth Infantry June 13, 1864. The thirty-seven battles and skirmishes in which\\nit participated form its record. The principal affairs are: Blackburn s Ford, July 18,\\n1861; Bull Run, July 21, 1861; the siege of Yorktown. April 4 to May 5, 1862; the Wil-\\nderness. Todd s Tavern, Po River, Spottsylvania, North Anna, in May, 1864; Petersburg,\\nJune 16 to. 22, 1864; Strawberry Plains, August 14 to 17, 1864; Poplar Spring Church,\\nSeptember 30, 1864; Hatcher s Run Februaiy 2 to March 25, 1865, ending with the mill-\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0f-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0391.jp2"}, "392": {"fulltext": "0^\\n386 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntiiry aft air at Appomattox. April 9, 1865. Duriug its service, tlie command lost foiu offi-\\ncers and ninety-six privates on the field; forty-seven men died from wounds received, and\\ntwo officers and seventy-five privates died on account of disease. A partial consolidation\\nwith the Fifth Infantry was ordered June 13, 18G4, and the original organization mus-\\ntered out of service June 20, 1864. The Third was re-organized, and serv ed until mus-\\ntered out, May 2f), 18(iB The command was disbanded at Detroit June 10, 1866.\\nsoldiers record.\\nCharles H. Bartlett, died at Murfi eesboro January 17, 1865.\\nRansom Paine, died at Murfreesboro January 17, 1865.\\nAVilliam C. Paine, died at Huutsville January 17, 1865.\\nJudson Spaulding, died at Vicksburg June 22, 1865.\\nJames H. Han-ington, died at Green Lake, Texas, August 6, 1865.\\nSamuel Hedges, died at Nashville June 15, 1865.\\nLuther H. Ward, died at Murfreesboro February 7, 1865.\\nDischarged Alonzo Goss, Dexter M. Hulsart, John D. Hartman. Amos Trowbridge.\\nBernard Pettit, Rodman Coolidge, Harrison Wood, Lysander W. Evarts, Eden L. Arm-\\nstrong, Hemy A. Davis. Elijah L. Adams. Dwight A. Babbitt, William Bickle, Charles\\nL. Boughton, Rudolph Bm-gess, William J. Cook, Homer C. Everett, Ira A. Fitch, Will-\\niam Gunderman, John Hagnei N. C. Hays. Jr., Sylvester Hazleton, William Hines, Mer-\\nritt Hopkins, Thaddeus Hazleton, Isaac A. Healy, Hemy Sandford, Robert M. Still,\\nWilliam Kettler, Ira A. Rice, Leonard Hicks, Clarence H. Crawford, Fred Foss, Melvin\\nGi egory, Patrick Horan, Charles E. Ross. Albert Gillett, Charles H. Ward, Eugene C.\\nCheeney, Edwai-d C. Cross, Oliver B. Freeman, Robert Freeiand, Benjamin Hockwell, Eli\\nHollister, Joseph Stephenson, Wan-en Spink, George Talbot, George W. Tinsman, Frank\\nKoltz. John Smith. Roney Engleman, Henry Burnham, Philo Beardsley, Alex Gunn, H.\\nF. McKinzie, Fletcher P. Wright. Phillip Emburg, Moses Moore, Virgil S. Grant, Joseph\\nRankin.\\nFOURTH MICHIGAN INTANTRY.\\nThis regiment was organized at Adi ian, and mustered into service, under Col. Wood-\\nbury. June 20, 1861. Its term of service expired June 19, 186-t, when it was mustered\\nout, and proceeded to Detroit, where it arrived on June 26. That portion which remained\\nwas consolidated with the First Infantry, and served with this command until ordered to\\njoin the Foiu-th (re-organized) Infantry, June 24, 1865. The service of the old command\\nwas principally on the battle-fields of A^irginia. From the period of re-organization to\\nthe close of the war, it was present at Decatiu New Market, Ala. and Murfreesboro,\\nTenn. The command was mustered out at Houston, Texas, May 26, 1866, and was dis-\\nbanded at Detroit Jime 10, 1866.\\nsoldiers RECORD.\\nEzra Bates, missing in action at Meehanicsville June 26, 1862.\\nClinton M. Farrar, killed in action at Fredei icksburg December 13, 1862.\\nff^", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0392.jp2"}, "393": {"fulltext": "BISTORT OF MACOMB COU^TTT\\nHomer F. Dodge, died at XashviEe ITareli o. 1S65.\\nMartiiL L. Dryer, died at ITiirfreesboro December 22. 1864.\\nErwin O. Fairbrotker. died at Mnssej, llich.. October 20. lS6o.\\nNorman L. Flower, died at ilTirfreesboro Jamiary 22, 1865.\\nJTormaa HoUt, died at }s asiiville Decemier 1864.\\nGeorge Robinson, died at ilarfreesboro April 26, 1865.\\nGardner H. Wells, died at ICurfreesboro February IT, 1863.\\nWalter Clark, died at Xaahville February 15. 1865.\\nlEadiaon W. Churchill, died at ICurfreesboro January 12, lS6o.\\nDischarged WiUiam K. ITcClury, C. H. Weatherwax. John Wheeler. Alonzo\\nWaite, W. H. WUson. Henry W. Birch, John H Gibbs. Charles Kjng. Lenzer IL Ams-\\nden, George W. Curtiss, Simon H Heath. Charles L. Jenny, Benjamin F. Frost. Daniel\\nM. Jones. William C. Huggitt, Amos X. Scott, James HI BiiniilL }Sewell Bowen. Jared\\nCorey. Peter Churchill. Isaac Coddington. Charles H Deilree. Albert C. Ftmston. JQbert\\nGillett. Robert Haire. David Hawkins. Andrew Hicks. Joshua Hill. ^Nathan Hnrd. Sr.. R.\\nO. Jack man. William Jackson. Robert Huttart, John Sailes. Aug. A. Smith. Joel R. Ste-\\nphens. George Stipe, Daniel Wilson, W. H Wilson, Albert iL Cook, Andrew Emerson,\\nDavid Hawkins. Garrison K Smith. Charles T. Denton. Henry Lort^ngen, David John-\\nson, Jeremiah A. Sutton, Oliver Denton. D. ilcKenzie, Hilton E. Fisher.\\nFTFTH MICHI AS OFAirrHT.\\nThis regiment was organized at Fort Wayne, and mustere l into the Tnited States\\nservice y August 28, 1861. It comprised the following commands: Sherlock (xuarde, of\\nDetroit, Company A: Mt. Clemens Guard, Company B: East Saginaw Yolunteers. Com-\\npany C: IjigersoU Rifles, Company H: Govsmors Guard. Com.pany F: Saginaw City,\\nLight Infantry. Company K: Livingston Volunteers. Company I; Washington Guard,\\nCompany G: Pontiac Volunteers. Company D. and Huron Rangers, Company E. The\\ncommissioned officers belonging to this county, who went into service with the regiment,\\nwere; Capt. Judson S. Farrar, First Lieut. Edgar H Shook, Second Lieut Henry C.\\nEdgerly. The strength of the command at date of muster was 9 iri men and. officers, un-\\nder CoL Henry D. Terry. Previous to leaving Fort Wayne. BukL rewland Jt Co., of\\nthat village, presented the regimental color, which is now in possession c:)f the Soldiers\\nSociety, of ilacomb and St. Clair, who render it double honor on account of the service it\\nhas^seen. as well as in memory of the ten comrades who fell in its defense. The Fifth\\nInfantry left Detroit en route to the front September 11, 1861c went into camp near\\nAlexandria: sfcLrmished with the rebels at Pohick Creek. January y, 1862. ami. in March,\\nentered upon regular duty in Berry s Command, of PhiL Kearney s Division of\\nM!cClelland s Peninsular Corps. It was engaged in. the siege of Torfctown from April -t to\\nMay 5. 1862. losing thizty-four killed and, ll j wounded, at Williamsburg May o. The\\nplace of honor was bestowed on the Fifth Infantry that day by Gen. Eeamey, which place\\nwas well filled, since the command t(5ok the rebel ritie pit at the bayonet s pcDint. Fair\\nf", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0393.jp2"}, "394": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nOaks was contested May 31. The affairs of Peach Orchard, Glendale and Malvern Hill\\ntook place June 29, 30 and July 1, 1862. At Peach Orchard, thirty men were killed and\\n]1V wounded. Charles H. Hutehins was among the killed and Charles S. Traverse re-\\nceived wounds which resulted in his death at Washington, July 22. In the report of\\nCapt. Farrar. dated Harrison s Landing, July 4, special mention is made of Capts. Gillooly\\nand Matthews, Lieuts. Shook, Ladue, Edgerly, Pomeroy, Johnson and Adjutant John W.\\nO Callaghan. Maj. Fairbanks died of wounds at Washington July 25.\\nThe Second Bull Run. August 28, Grovetown, August 29, and Chantilly. September\\n1, won new laurels for the regiment. At Fredericksburg. December 13. Lieut. Col. John\\nGillooly. its commanding officer, was killed, with nine of his men. The body was searched\\nout by Lieut. H. B. Blackman, uf Howell, who brought it to Michigan for burial.\\nThe regiment crossed the Rappahannock May 1, 18(33, participated in the affair of\\nthe Cedars, May 2, and, on the 3d, entered the battle of Chaucellorsville, losing in those\\naffairs seven killed and forty-three wounded, together with Lieut. Col. Sherlock, who fell\\nat Chancellorsville. Gettysbui-g was fought July 2 and 3; Wapping Jleights, October 1\\nKelly s Ford, November 20; Locust Grove, November 27, and Mine Run November 29, 1863.\\nIn the affair at Gettysburg, the command lost nineteen killed, ninety wounded and five\\nprisoners. It suffered a small loss in the subsequent engagements. Among the killed at\\nLocust Grove was Lieut. Dan B. Wyker. After the affair at Mine Run, the Fifth went\\ninto camp near Brandy Station. Leaving that point December 28, 1863, with 177 officers\\nand men, it reached Detroit January 4, 1864, where a furlough of thirty-six days was\\ngranted.\\nThe regiment recruited at Deti-oit, and again left, under Col. Pulford, for the fi-ont,\\nFebruary 10, 1864, and arrived at Brandy Station February 14. Crossed the Rapidan\\nMay 3, and entered the Wilderness May 5, at Orange Coiu-t House. In the opening ac-\\ntion of the campaign of 1864, Capt. G. W. Rose was mortally wounded, and Col. Pulford\\nand Maj. Matthews severely wounded. On the 6th, Capts. E. H. Shook and W. W. Waken-\\nshaw were wounded, yet took a full part in the battle of the Wilderness. Capt. Hiorlbut\\nwas killed at Todd s Tavern, on the 8th. At Po River, 10th Spottsylvania. 12th North Anna\\nRiver, 23; Tolopotomy. 30th of May, 1864, the regiment well sustained its name. Lieut.\\nPierce was killed at North Anna. The Fifth. Michigan Infantry, as organized in 1861,\\nmay be said to have lost its individuality after the affair at Cold Harbor, June 2, 1864,\\nfor, on the 10th of that month, the Third Michigan Infantry was consolidated with it.\\nThe regiment as re-organized entered service at Petersburg, June 16 to 22; on the\\n25th and 26th. it served on picket and fatigue duty; on the 27th and 28th, was present\\nat Deep Bottom. It participated in the affairs at Poplar Springs Court House, September\\n30; at Boydton Road, October 27, 18()4. After this, it formed the garrison of Fort Davis,\\non the Jerusalem pike road. On March 26, 1865, it was present at Hatcher s Run, and\\nat Boydton Road; on April 2, on service wi tti the Massachusetts Heavy Artillery. Its\\nshare in the cajjture of Petersburg, Va., April 3, 1865, cannot be overestimated. Subse-\\nquently, the command served at Sailor s Creek, April 6; at New Store, Ajn-il 8, and closed", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0394.jp2"}, "395": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUXTY. 391\\na term of magnificent services to the Union at Appomattox Court House, Va., April 9,\\n1865, when Gen. Lee surrendered. The command participated in the grand military- re-\\nview at Washington. May 23, 1865: was mustered out -July 5: arrived at Detroit July 8,\\nand was disbanded July IT, 1865.\\nsoldiers becord.\\nJohn E. Hubert, killed at Williamsbiug May 5, 1862.\\nHiram P. Arnold, killed at Fair Oaks, May 31, 1862. J\\nAugustus Trombley, killed at Charles City Cross Roads June 30, 1S62.\\nSilas PoUuck, killed at Alexandria December 22, 1862.\\nCharles L. De Wolf, died in camp February 23, 1862.\\nEdwin Everetts, died in camp February 28, 1862.\\nEdward Ford, died in camp February 23, 1862.\\nGeorge Frederick, died at Meridian Hill May 22, 1862.\\nTillman Adams, died in camp February 23, 1862.\\nJohn Burt, died in camp Februaiy 15, 1862.\\nAlonzo A. Doty, died at Alexandria March 9. 1862.\\nDischarged, 1862 Edgar Weeks, Harvey G. French, John Sroman, Henry H. Van Du-\\nsen. -James E. Yan Yoorheis, Frank Williams, Martin Conley, George Cottrell. Joseph -Jock.\\nJames Potter, Eli Hollister, Stephen M. Collidy, Martin B. Clarke. William H. Robinson,\\nJohn W. Bennett, Joseph Le Croix, Edward Shanley, -John Roberts.\\nJerome Shook, killed at Gettysburg July 3, 1863.\\nCharles A. Turner, killed at Gettysburg July 3, 1863.\\nAlanson Carpenter, died at Camp Pitcher January 11, 1863.\\nJames Decker, died at Washington March 15, 1863.\\nThomas Berchall, died in action May 5, 1864.\\nWilliam Dykeman, died at Washington June 25, 1864.\\nWilber McKibbey, died June 1, 1864.\\nJoseph C. Halsey, died May 19, 1864.\\nWilliam F. Lerich. died April 10, 1864.\\nDischarged, 1863\u00e2\u0080\u00941 Zelotus Fessenden, Isaac X. Lerich, Ii-a A. Blumburg, Warren\\nSpink, Daniel L. Smith, Nicholas Le Croix, William Belles, Cortez A Hooker, L, Davis\\nOwen, John Gasper. Henry Pretzer, Heuiy W. Babcoek, Charles Hugot, -John J. Casey,\\nAlex De Land, William Tucker, Luke Stanton. Edwin R. Smith. Robert D. Shook, George\\nTaylor, David K Halsey. T. J. West, George Averson, Amos Button, Hemy Brad-\\nley, Anson Baker, N. D. Mussey, Arthur Giddings, Allen Hicks, William Lakon, Patrick\\nMcCafli-ey, Dan A. Mi llspaugh. William Rapp, W. A. Rowley, Hei-man Schmidt, Chancey\\nTorrey. George Turner. Theo B. Weldon. W. E. T. Wilson, Michael Stapleton, Sr., H. G.\\nSamist, William R. Bartlett, Mai-ion Dai-ling, Steadman B. FaiTar, James Casey, Oliver\\nDamant. William H. Halsey, George Galliard, Edward Ouillette, Patrick Xolan, Thomas\\nGibson, Josiah Wellington. Martin L. Wellington. Solomon Doty. Sterling Hannibal.\\nTransferred to Yeteran Resei-ve Corps\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David K. Halsey, George A, Turner. Sylvester", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0395.jp2"}, "396": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nBoycp. Herman Schmidt. W. R. F. Wilson, Henry Bradley, Abel Butterfield, Anson H.\\nBaker, Charles Chapman, Zelotus Fessenden, Allen E. Hicks, William Lake. Patrick Mc-\\nCaffrey, William Rapp, William Robinson, William A. Rowley, George Taylor, Michael\\nStapleton, Henry P. Siel, W. H. McKibbey, Charles Pretzer.\\nSIXTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThe Sixth Infantry left en route for the field, with 944 officers and men, August 30,\\n1861, adding to its roster within the half year 130 recruits. The regiment left Balti-\\nmore for New Orleans in April, 1862, and formed one of the regiments of occupation.\\nDuring the battle of Baton Rouge. August 5, 1862, it sustained a loss of sixteen killed.\\nDuring the year, no less than 143 died of wounds and disease, forty-eight wounded and\\nseven prisoners, which, together with losses due to other causes, reduced its strength to 756\\nrank and tile.\\nJanuary 14. 1863, the command aided in the destruction of the rebel gunboat Cotton;\\nPonchatoula was captured February 23; the camp at Tangissaho and sixty rebels captured\\nMay 6; the capture of Port Hudson occurred July 9, in all of which the Sixth Infantry\\ntook a leading part. In the first assault on Port Hudson, the command lost one-third of\\nits number. A regiment of Heavy Ai tillery was formed out of the material of the Sixth\\nRegiment, July 30, 1863. During the first six months of the year, there died 115 men\\nand twenty-two were severely wounded.\\nThe varied service of this regiment during the campaign of 1864 was of no ordinary\\ncharacter. The command lost three men killed, 155 died of disease and eighteeu taken\\nprisoners. Diiring the last months of service, it took part in all the affairs from Ashton,\\nArk., July 24, 1864, to the seige of Mobile, April, 1865, and was discharged at Jackson,\\nSeptember 5, 1865.\\nJohn C H. Klokow was discharged August 20, 1865, he being the only Macomb vol-\\nunteer reported in the ranks of this command.\\nSEVENTH INFANTRY.\\nThe Seventh Infantry was mustered in at Munroe, and left for the the seat of war\\nSeptember 5, 1861, with 884 men and officers, to which number 214 men were added before\\nJuly 1, 1862. It participated in the sanguinary affairs of Ball s Bluff, Antietam and Fred-\\nericksburg. It was the first Union regiment to cross the Rappahannock, where it annihi-\\nlated the rebel sharp-shooter brigade.\\nThe regiment passed through the Potomac campaign of 1863, with a loss of sixty\\ndead and eighty-three wounded, of which number twenty-one were killed and forty-four\\nwounded at Gettysburg July 3.\\nThis command took a very brilliant part in the campaign of 1864. with the Anny of\\nthe Potomac. It lost forty-one men killed, seven who died from the effects of hardships,\\n131 wounded and thirty-one prisoners. The Seventh Infantry served with distinction at\\nHatcher s Run, from Febi-uary 5 to March 29, 1865; at Cat Tail Creek, April 2; at Farm-", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0396.jp2"}, "397": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nville, on the 7th, and at the siege of Petersburg from June 17, 1864, to Ajjril 3, 1865.\\nThe command was mustered out at Jefferson, Ind., July 5, and was disbanded at Jackson\\nJuly 7, 1865.\\nSdLDIF.R RFCORII.\\nWilliam H. Clemens, killed at Fair Oaks May 31, 1862.\\nIra C. Denton, killed at Fair Oaks May 31, 1862.\\nGeorge Webster, killed at Spottsylvania May 9. 18(i4.\\nDischarged, 1862 -Joseph H. Dodge, Bruce Dengman, George Caton, Lyman Gilbert,\\nVolney Hicks, Alfred H. Newcomer, Levi L. Dudley, James H. Gregg, Cyinis Hicks, Porter\\nBeebe. George Oaks, James Isghman, Patrick Morris, William Phillips, Horatio Van\\nSickle, Isaac Kelly, Alex Gordon, .Joseph Barclay, Ferdinand Worth, .John W. Lamphei-e.\\nEIGHTH MICHIGAN INTANTRY.\\nThe Eighth Michigan Infantry was partially organized at Grand Rapids, and com-\\npleted organization at Fort Wayne. September 23, 1861, when it was mustered into serv-\\nice, and left for the held September 27. under Col. Fenton. Its first engagement was at\\nPort Royal, S, C, and its last at Petersbm g, Va., A.pril 3, 1865. This command was\\nsingularly fortunate in its varied travels, and gained for itself the name Wandering\\nRegiment. Having participated in thirty-seven important engagements, the survivors\\nof the war returned to Detroit August 1, 1865, where they were discharged two days\\nlater.\\nAdolphus Moore died at Washington September 20, 1864, and Anthony Shettler was\\ndischarged June 1, 1865, they being the only troops reported from Macomb in this regi-\\nment.\\nNINTH MICHIGAN INT.^NTRY.\\nThis command left the camp at Detroit en route for Louisville, October 25, 1861, un-\\nder Col, W. W. Duffield, with 913 officers and private soldiers. The Ninth was the first\\nMichigan regiment to take an active part in the Western military movements. In No-\\nvember, 1861, it moved to Muldraugh Hill, where it acted as engineers and mechanics\\nimtil January 4, 1862, when it entered on regular field duty. From Pulaski, Tenn,, and\\nthe pursuit of Morgan, in May, 1862, to its last engagement at Jonesbsro, Ga., September\\n1, 1864. the record of the command is e.xceptionally brilliant. The number of battles in\\nwhich it participated is not so large as that appearing to the credit of other regiments,\\nyet the importance of those great contests, and the round of duty which fell to the com-\\nmand, make up in greater measure what their actions want in number. In the State\\nrecords, an error gives credit to the Ninth for being present at Miu freesboro July 13,\\n1861, though not organized until October of that year. Beginning with Murfeeesboro of\\nJuly 13, 1862. and looking over the list of battles, we find that the Ninth took a brilliant\\npart at Jjavergne, December 27, 1862; at Stone River, from December 29, 1862, to Janu-\\nary 3, 1863; at Chickamauga, September 19 and 20, and Mission Ridge, November 25,\\n1863; at Rocky Face, Ga., May 8; Resaca, May 14; Dallas, May 27; Kenesaw. June 25;\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0fT", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0397.jp2"}, "398": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^t^ V^\\n394 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nChattahoochie River, July 5 and 6; siege of Atlanta, July 22 to August 25, and at Jones-\\nboro, September 1, 1864. The regiment left Marietta, Ga, October 31, 1864, for Chatta-\\nnooga, where it was placed on guard duty, and where it remained until transferred to\\nNashville. March 29, 1865. There it was mustered out of service, September 15, 1865,\\nand, returningto this State, was discharged, at Jackson, September 27, 1865.\\nsoldiers record.\\nPhili}) Cndworth, Jr., died at West Point, Ky., December 6, 1861.\\nAlmou Wright, died at Murfreesboro July, 1862.\\nClark W. Weston, died at West Point, Ky., December 4, 1861.\\nFranklin Waite, died at West Point, Ky., November 18, 1861.\\nEarlman Vaughn, died at West Point, Ky. January 18, 1862.\\nDischarged Henry Chapman, Edward Ewolls, August Fullen, Edwin Leonard,\\nFloyd Lufkins, Walter T. Lee, Joel Carpenter, W. H. Taylor, Archibald Preston, Barney\\nMcCaffrey, Robert Lee, Richard Trombley, James Remington, Josiah Remington, Daniel\\nMoran, Jay M. Warren, George Pickering, Elias Robertson, Hugh Sutherland, Andrew\\nLuttenbaoker, Lewis Tiu-ner, Horace R. Garlick, Ludwig Hintz.\\nAmong the large number of volunteers from Macomb County, who were discharged\\nfrom the Ninth for re-enlistment as veterans, the following names appear; Stillman Cran-\\ndall. Albert L. Power, George Wright, James M. Woolvin, Daniel Hockey, Charles Jones.\\nPt)rter L. Harris Philo W. Huminston, Rowland Crandall, James W. Proper, Richard\\nCliif, Joseph Barber, Elijah P. Draper, William Hogle, James D. Kellogg, Benjamin F.\\nLinderman, D. J. Sutherland, Judson Sturgis, Solomon Treadwell, James Venacker, M.\\nV. Weldon, Julius E. Barber, Merrill Fuller, Samuel Fuller, Truo Hai t, Jason Linder-\\nman. Ed D. Prentiss, Geoi-ge M. Phelps, Jo.seph H. Smith, Alonzo Cushing, Freeling\\nTownsend, Jacob T. Watrous, Franklin Whitlock. Thomas H. Pool, James F. Dove, John\\n]V[cKeel, Nathan H. Lee, Julian Buzzell, George Wright, Marcus Buzzell, James New-\\nman, Elias D. Drake, Daniel Hockey, Jonah H. Carj)enter, E. AV. Goodenough, Joseph\\nHanchett, Michael S. Howell, Archibald Houston, William G. Miner, C. J. Yager, Ebe-\\naezer Smith, Edward N. Case, Hamilton Davis, Isaac Coleman, Frank B. Stewart, C. W.\\nSylvester. Charles Jones, Roland Crandall. Porter L. Harris, Roswidd Pitcher, Isaac N.\\nCook, Henry Wixon, Philo Humiston.\\nLemuel Fillmore died at Nashville August 16; Roland Hicks died at Chatt anooga\\nFebruary 28, and John B. Bennett, Sr., died at Detroit August 28, 1865.\\nTENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThis command was organized at Flint, under Col. E. H Thompson, commandant of\\ncamp. It was mustered into service Februaiy 6, 1862, and left for the front under Col.\\nLum April 22, 1862. It served on thirty well-fought fields, from Farmington, Miss.,\\nMay 9, 1862, to Bentonville, N. C, March 19 and 20, 1865. It was mustered out at\\nLouisville, Ky. July 19, and disbanded at Jackson August 1, 1865.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0398.jp2"}, "399": {"fulltext": "HISTOEY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nSOLIIIKKS RECORn.\\nHamilton Holloway, died at Nashville March 25, 1803.\\nHiram E. Barrett, died at Farmington August 11, lSfi2.\\nAaron Walters, fell on the Held August 13, 1864.\\nJohn Derby, fell on the field August 28, 1862.\\nMiles O. Kugg, fell at Mound City October 29, 1862.\\nFranklin Knapp, fell at Nashville November 13, 1S62.\\nJoseph Gleeson, killed at Atlanta, Ga. 1865.\\nDischarged, 1865 Edward McConnell, Roland H. Hicks, George W. Gordon, Joseph\\nCudworth, Josiah Gibbs, Charles J. Ashley, Hem-y Spencer, Aaron Walters. Marvin Len-\\nnox, George A. Hanes, George M. Richards, James Mclntyre.\\nELEVENTH MICHIG.iN INFANTRY.\\nThe Eleventh Infantry left White Pigeon December 9, 1861, with 1,004 men and\\nofficers, for Kentucky. The only service rendered by the command in 1862 was the repulse\\nof Morgan at Gallatin, Tenn., August 13, 1862. Previous to November of that yeai no less\\nthan 118 soldiers of the Eleventh succmnbed to disease.\\nOn the Slst of December, 1862, and the 2d of January, 1863, the regiment, then in\\nthe Fourteenth Army Corps, was warmly engaged at Stone River, losing thirty -two killed,\\nseventy-nine wounded and twenty-nine missing, a total of 140, Soon after this engage-\\nment, the regiment was detached to act as provost guard at Murfreesboro, and it remained\\non that duty until the advance on Tullahoma, in June. On the 1st of July, it was en-\\ngaged in a sharp skirmish at Elk River, with the loss of one officer, taken prisoner.\\nAfter the conclusion of this movement of the army, the Eleventh went into camp at De-\\ncherd, Tenn., where it remained until the advance into Georgia, on the 1st of September.\\nThe march over the mountains was accomplished under gi eat difficulties, and at a test of\\ngreat endiu ance on the pai t of the troops. On the 11th of September, the command was\\n})resent at Davis Cross Roads, covering the retreat of Negley s and Bayard s troops. On\\nthe 19th of the same mouth, the regiment lost seven killed, seventy-six wounded and\\ntwenty-three prisoners.\\nThe total number of deaths in the ranks during the year was ninety, wounded,\\nninety, and prisoners, forty-two. At Mission Ridge and Graysville, the command rendered\\ngood service.\\nDuring the year 1864, the regiment took a most important pai t in the Georgia cam-\\npaign, losing thirty-seven men killed, seventeen died of disease- and eighty wounded. It\\nwas honorably discharged Sejjtember 30, 1864, after a term of brilliant service. The men\\nwho re-enlisted as veterans remained, and served with the new Eleventh, which arrived\\nat Nashville March 16, 1865. The command was discharged at Jackson September 23,\\n1865.\\nWilliam Anderson was discharged September 16, 1865, being the only representative\\nof Macomb in the command.\\n^U\\nriv^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0399.jp2"}, "400": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTWELFTH MICHIOAN INFANTKY.\\nThe organization of this command was begun under Col. Francis Quinn, at Niles, in\\nSeptemlser, 1861, and completed February .i l. 1S62; moved from camp for Pittsburg\\nLaudincr March 18, and was in time to participate in the action at that point, April 6 and\\n7. The regiment was present at luka, Miss., September 19; Metamora, October 5; Mid-\\ndleburg, Tenn., December 24, 1802; at Mechanicsville, Miss., June 4; Vicksburg, June\\nand July; Little Rock, August and September; Clarendon, Ark. June 26, and at Gregory s\\nLanding. September 4, 1864. The command arrived at Jackson, Mich., February 27,\\n1865, and was disbanded March 6, 1865.\\nDischarged Thomas Reed, Herman Trombley, Peter Landschoot, of Macomb County.\\nTHIRTEENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThis regiment was organized under Col. Charles E. Stuart, at Kalamazoo, and mus-\\ntered into service January 17, 1862. The command left for Pittsburg Landing February,\\n12, 1862, which point it reached in time to take part in the lighting. Its record shows\\ntwenty-six important engagements, beginning with Shiloh, Tenn., April 7, 1862, and end-\\ning with Bentonville, N. C, March lit, 1865. The regiment arrived at Jackson, Mich..\\nJuly 27, 1865, where it was discharged.\\nWilliam Mitchell was discharged May 25, 1862, and Albert Little July 25, 1865,\\nthey forming the only representatives of this county in the rank and tile.\\nFOURTEENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThis regiment left Ypsilanti April 17, 1862, for Pittsburg Landing, with a force of\\n925 rank and tile. Diu-ing the first ten months, it participated in numerous engagements\\nin the battle of Stone River, January 3, 1868, it won an enviable reputation, taking\\npart in that affair after a march of thirty miles thi-ough rain and mud. It formed the re-\\nlief for the cavalry at Franklin, from the 8th to the 14th of March, 1862; moved to Brent-\\nwood April 8 and retiu-ned to Nashville July 3. There it received orders to relieve the\\nforce at Franklin, where, on September 6, it was equipped as a cavalry regiment, and\\neight companies sent forward to Columbia. The service of this command was exceptionally\\nbrilliant, and its conduct san i reproche. Retui ning, it ref orted for discharge at Jackson,\\nMich., July 18, 1865, and was disbanded oq the 29th.\\nSOLDIKRS liECOIU).\\nPeter Connor died at Monterey July 22, 1862.\\nGeorge W. Stanley, died at Nashville; no date.\\nJames Branagan, fell at Nashville April 6, 1865.\\nBenjamin Getchell, died at Detroit March 15, 1864.\\nDischarged\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John McGuire, Matthias Hal ler, Daniel Donahue, Charles Fuller, Fran-\\ncis Haganer, William Lamb, Robert F. Montgomery, Seth Chase, George L. Myers, Fran-\\ncis Cherboneau, Charles J. Stephens, William Hockuell, Richard Lamb, Aldest L. Hock-", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0400.jp2"}, "401": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nnell, Joseph Tourbot, Henry Gillespie, Austin S. Phelps, Patrick Casey, Amos Armstrong,\\nJohn Franklin, John Cotterel, Daniel Donahue, William Lamb, Robert Montgomery. Riehai d\\nTrombley, Caleb Boss, George Gordon, Conroy Collier, Alex McMillan.\\nFIFTEENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThe Fifteenth Michigan Infantry was organized under Col. J. M. Oliver, at Monroe,\\nand mustered into service March 20, 1862, with a force of 869 men. The command\\nreached Pittsburg Landing in time for the military afifairs at that place April, 6 and 7,\\n1862, and served with distinction throughout the Mississippi, Georgia and Carolina cam-\\npaigns, concluding its services at Bentonville, N. C, March 19, 1865. Arriving at Detroit\\nSeptember 3. 1865, the regiment was disbanded.\\nsoldiers eecord.\\nJeremiah Wall, died at Corinth August 8, 1862.\\nDischarged Felix Morreil, James W.Brown, Ashel Crawford, Christian Ohrens, Carl\\nEckhart, Lafayette Giddings, Wallace Gamber, Carl Gloefk, George Hall, Jacob Bliss,\\nAug. Behn, George C. Heydenrick. Joseph Kader, Anthony Taylor, JohnC. Rowley, Noah\\nSage, Frederick Waterman, Louis Grant, David Grant, George Scott, Elias Stockwell, John\\nHartline.\\nSIXTEENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThe Sixteenth Michigan Infantry, originally known as Stockton s Independent Regi-\\nment, was organized at Camp Backus, Flint, by Col. T. W. B. Stockton, and left for Vir-\\nginia September 16,. 1861, with 761 officers and men. This command took part in no less\\nthan fifty-two important actions, beginning with the siege of Yorktown, Va. April 4, 1862,\\nand concluding with the siege of Petereburg April 3, 1865. The regiment was mustered\\nout at Jeffersonville, Ind., July 8, 1865, and reported at Jackson for discharge July 12,\\nwhere it was disbanded July 25, 1865.\\nsoldiers rkcord.\\nElijah B. Coffin, killed at Bull Run August 30, 1862.\\nJoseph McNall, killed at Gaines Hill June 27, 1862.\\nJames Stevens, died at Gettysburg July 2, 1863.\\nCharles H. Bancroft, died at City Point September 21, 1864.\\nGeorge M. Richards, died at Andersonville August 6, 1864.\\nCharles G. Morris, died at Hall s Hill February 21, 1862.\\nDischarged Oliver Hopkins James H. Sands. James Russell, Cash Megi ove. Charles\\nHetzler, Jeflerson L. Hetzler, James Hollister, Martin Bertman, AMlliam Palmer, Thomas\\nJ. Hollister, Hemy G. Lee, Charles H. Bancroft, J. W. Coykendall, Robert C. Warts. John\\nOpfer. William R. McCann. John Duggan, John Daly, Thomas Gilby, Benson McCall.\\nAdam Stefies. Magliore Cashway, Henry Rood, Charles Hetzler. Jefi L. Hetzler. Joachim\\nNieman. Charles L. Harris, James R. Moreland, Robert C. Worts.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0401.jp2"}, "402": {"fulltext": "Afz=z^\\n\\\\iL\\nHISTOllY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nSEVENTEENTH MICHIGAN REGIMENT.\\nThe Seventeenth Michigan Infantry, or the Stonewall Regiment, was organized at De-\\ntroit in May. 1862, and left for the front August 27, under Col. William H. Withington.\\nIt took a most important part in the war for the Union; won renown at South Mountain,\\nSeptember l-t, 1862, and finished a brilliant career at Petersburg April 3, 18(55. The\\ncommand aiTived at Detroit June 7, 1865. where it was disbanded.\\nSOLDIRES r-ICC iBD.\\nJohn T. Fox, killed at Antietam September 18, 1862.\\nJohn M. Robinson, died January 4 1863.\\nDiBcharged James Noonan. Frank Bockman, Alex Mosher.\\nEIGHTEENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThe Eighteenth Infantry was organized at Hillsdale by Hon. Henry Waldron. and\\nleft for Cincinnati, under Col. E. Doolittle. September 4, 1862. The force comprised\\n1.002 men and officers. On the 1st of November. 1862, this regiment was stationed at\\nLexington. Ky., and remained at that point until February 21. 1863. when it marched to-\\nward Danville, arriving on the 22d. On the 24th of February, 1863, with the forces un-\\nder Gen. Carter, it retreated from Danville to the Kentucky River, skirmishing with the\\nrebels under Gen. Pegram during the retreat. On the 28th, the regiment joined in the\\npursuit of Gen. Pegram, following the rebels as far as Buck Creek, making a long and\\nrapid march, partly over a rough, mountainous road. April 2. it returned to Stanford.\\nOn the 7th, it was ordei-ed to Lebanon, and thence proceeded by railroad to Nashville, ar-\\nriving at Nashville April 14. It was stationed at Nashville, doing duty as provost guard,\\nJune 14.\\nThe list of deaths from fatigue and hardships of war, during the year, was eighty\\nnine. There were thirty-live made prisoners. From November, 1863, to June 11, 1864,\\nthe regiment acted as provost guard at Nashville. From July to September, it served with\\ndistinction in Alabama. At Decatur, on September 24, a detachment of 231 officers and\\nmen encountered 4,000 rebels under Forrest, and, for hve hours, gave battle. The de-\\ntachment was annihilated. In October, the regiment played a most important part in the\\ndefense of Decatur. It remained in Alabama until June 20. when it left for Tennessee,\\nwhere it was mustered out, at Nashville. June 26. It received its discharge at Jackson\\nJuly 4, 1865.\\nNINETEENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThe Nineteenth Infantry was organized under Col. H. C. Gilbert. atDowagiac. August,\\n1862; left for the front September 14, and. entering on active service with the Army of\\nthe Ohio, took a prominent part in twelve well-contested fields fi-om Thompson s Station,\\nMarch 5, 1863, to Bentonville, March 19. 1865. The command was musteredj out at\\nWashington June 10, aud disbanded at Jackson June 13, 1865.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0402.jp2"}, "403": {"fulltext": "lUl\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUXTY.\\nTWENTIETH MICHIGAN INEANTRY.\\nIsrael J. Barry, discharged May 30. 1865. was the only soldier from Macomb re-\\nported in this command.\\nTWENTY-FIEST MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThis regiment was organized at Ionia, under Commandant J. B. Walsh, in July, 18*).3;\\nniiustered in September 4. and left for the seat of war, under Col. Stephens, September\\n12. Its service began at Perryville. Ky.. October 8, 1862, and finished at Bentonville,\\nMarch 19, 1865. The command returned and was disbanded at Detroit June 27. 1865.\\nTWENTY-SECOND MICHIGAN IfJEANTRY.\\nThe story of this command was graj)hically related by Capt. Edgar AVeeks, now a lawyer\\nof Moxmt Clemens, in his oration, delivered August 31. 1871, before the members of the old\\ncommand, then assembled at Port Huron. From his sketch of the regiment the following is\\ntaken I shall never forget that the 30th of July, 1862, brought me my commission as Adju-\\ntant of the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry, together with an order from the Command-\\nant of the rendezvous (the lamented Col. Wisner) to report at once for duty, at Pontiac.\\nThat, the evening of the same day found me. a stranger in that city, receiving orders from\\nmy superior officer, and siuTounding myself with the cares of my new position.\\nThe organization of the regiment commenced about that day, and, under the super-\\nvision of Col. Wisner, was rapid and successful, and who of us will ever recall with any\\nbut pleasant emotions, those glorious days from the 1st of August to ths 4th of September,\\n1862, which we spent upon the fair grounds in Pontiac, teaching ourselves what we could\\nof military discipline and preparing for the unknown duties of the future. Who among\\nus will cease to remember the crowds of friends who daily came to visit us, bringing with\\nthem such overwhelming kindnesses, and departed followed by such boundless thanks\\nfrom us. Almost every new-comer who joined our ranks was welcomed then as we can\\nfancy the armies recruiting for the conquest of Palestine were wont to welcome each high-\\nborn and valiant knight who joined the swelling host from the wide ends of Christendom.\\nThe scene and occasion with us was not wanting in some of the elements of that romantic\\nday, for those were loyal ladies at Pontiac. who. upon the eve of our departure, gave to\\nthe Twenty-second that splendid banner which was to lead the regiment to victory and\\nfame. That glorious flag, which proved, indeed, a harbinger of victory, and whose\\nfolds on many sanguinary fields became The sign of hope and triumph high.\\nIt was on the 4th day of September, 1862, that we bid adieu to Pontiac and our old\\ncamp ground. The incidents of that day will long preserve a place in our memory, for it\\nwas a day of sad partings from friends and from homes. A thousand tender things oc-\\ncurred which we shared in feeling with each other; a thousand hearts throbbed with emo-\\ntion at separations, which, alas, were final for so many. But with farewells to those dear\\nrelations and associations, the men of the gallant Twenty-second embarked for the perils\\nand chances of a long campaign and the days that opened then were days which possessed\\na charm which separate them from all the others we had ever known: days in which we", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0403.jp2"}, "404": {"fulltext": "fe^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nenjoyed the romance, as well as realized the realities of wars dangers and war s sometimes\\nharmless alarms. At the date of which we now speak, the war had been waged with various suc-\\ncesses for seventeen months, and the rebels, flushed with recent victories at Richmond and\\nLexington, Ky., had marched across that State and were laying siege to Cincinnati and Cov-\\nington. Their tlag Haunted in the breezes of the Ohio, and was almost mirrored in its\\nbosom. The whole Northwest was tilled with alarm at the prospect of an invasion of the\\nFree States, and all the available forces of the country were being hm ried to the scene of\\napprehended danger. On the southern bank of the Ohio were gathered the loyal sons of\\nthe Northwest to the defense of their Queen City \u00e2\u0080\u0094men from Indiana, Michigan, Illi-\\nnois and the Squirrel Hunters of Ohio, as well as her artisans and the business men of\\nher cities. The Twenty-second was on the way to join them.\\nMy comrades will not soon forget the grand ovation that welcomed us to Detroit.\\nThe martial jiride of our men was gratified by a parade through the streets of that city,\\nand on those streets were throngs of people, who everywhere cheered and greeted us with\\nkind enthusiasm. Our embarkation that night on the steamer Morning Star, for the\\ntrip across Lake Erie, was the last act performed in the presence of our friends, and we\\nwere soon receding from the last link that bound us to them and to home. The gleaming\\nlights of the city were soon fading away over the dark waters of the river, beyond whose\\nwidening tide stood mothers and sisters and friends, to whose hearts like perhaps to\\nours was rushing a new and quickening sense of the separation, and who were wafting\\nadieus to us in the same breath that uttered a mother s, a sister s or a father s prayer.\\nI pass hm-riedly over the unimportant incidents of our arrival at Cleveland on that\\nbeautiful September morning, after the quiet trip across the lake; the dusty ride by rail\\nto Cincinnati, the midnight arrival there, and the banquet spread for our reception at the\\nmarket-house. The same night of our arrival at Cincinnati saw us across the broad Ohio,\\nto Covington, and, under the light of a brilliant moon, which beautified the scene beyond\\nmy ])ower to describe, we marched into Covington and found ourselves upon the dark\\nand bloody ground of Kentucky. Albeit the ground was anything but dark and bloody,\\nand our slumbers that night were conducted upon the stone pavements of an inhospitable\\ncity. Prompt to the necessities of that stirring and dangerous time, the very next morn-\\ning, breakfastless, haggard and weary indeed, our place having been assigned to us in the\\nlong line defending C )vington, we marched out to our position and became a part of that\\nirregular, ill-organized army which saved Ohio from invasion, Cincinnati from phmder and\\ndestruction and the whole North from panic and disgrace. The incidents of that remark-\\nable time are yet fresh in our recollection. It was a time wherein the country witnessed,\\nperhaps, the grandest effort of patriotism which the war evolved. Martial law prevailed\\nin Cincinnati, and we saw the business of that great city suspended and its vast ware-\\nhouses and palatial mercantile establishments closed and deserted, that its leading citi-\\nzens, its wealthy merchants might march to the rifle-pits with mattock and spade to build\\nintrenchments, while the actual soldier and the squirrel hunter watched gi imly for that\\nhostile advance which seemed each hour ready to be precipitated upon om lines.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0404.jp2"}, "405": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThrough the intolerable heat and dust of those days, we saw gradually arise those\\nfrowning earthworks which stayed invasion, and from behind which we kept at bay an ex-\\nultant enemy, out of which at last we marched and hurled the invader back to the Cum-\\nberland Mountains. The limits of the hour forbid my enlarging upon the story of our labors\\nand adventures on that line, but I will not pass unnoticed the famous battle of the\\nCabbage Patch, a faithful and minute description of which, under hands accustomed\\nto such tasks, might be made to rival, if it did not pale the day of Hohenlinden or Water-\\nloo. Neither must I omit to mention, as we pass along, the day s excitement in om- camp\\nengendered by the reported capture of Company A, while out on a scout under he leader\\nship of its redoubtable commanding officer. Prolonging its stay beyond the time limited\\nby orders for the march, a rumor spread that the com[)any had been siu-rounded by a large\\nbody of the enemy and compelled to siuTender. Of course, the greatest regret ruled the\\nbosoms of all of us at this unfortunate affair, until Col. Wisner. on hearing the report, allayed\\nall our anxieties liy that well-remembered remark: No fear, gentlemen; Capt. Hatten cannot\\nbe sun ounded by any body of rebels out of which he will not talk himself with the great-\\nest ease and in the shortest possible time.\\nAnd sure enough Company A did ajjpear in time and marched gallantly back to\\nquarters, without the loss of a man.\\nDays of heat and dust on those dry, sandy hills; of marching and counter-marchiug;\\nof short rations and anxiety, followed until the grand march through the heart of Kentucky\\nto Snow s Pond, that delightful Siloam upon whose mai gin we halted for a few\\ndays to slake oui- thirst, and the waters of which we shall all remember to our dying day,\\nand finally, the arrival at Lexington. How many sad and how many cheerful memories com-\\nmingle in oui- minds at the mention of Lexington. It was here we arrived, the \u00e2\u0096\u00a02 2d\\nof October, 180 2, and here we remained until the 22d of March, 1863. Our delightful\\ncamp, with its fondly remembered name, Camp Ella Bishop, where that close friend-\\nship of oiu s was formed with the stiu-dy One Hundred and Twelfth Illinois, command-\\ned by that Chevalier Bayard, Col. Thomas J. Hender.son, and the versatile Eighteenth\\nMichigan, commanded by the Chi istian soldier, Charles C. Doolittle. The last-named\\nregimert, our subsequent companions, and always close but jealous friends in marches and\\ncampaigns, that lasted just a year and a day.\\nOur first sad bereavement met us here, at Lexington. On the 5th of January, 1863,\\nafter a brief illness, death struck from our muster rolls the gallant, self-sacrificing and\\nnoble-hearted Moses Wisner, our leader and our fi iend. What feeble words of om-s can\\ndo his memory justice to day. A man of iron will, yet fjender as a child; of sturdy and\\nripe intellect, of undoubted patriotism and unmatched abilities, he led his command to the\\nfront of the war with as pure a devotion to the cause of his imperiled country as animated\\nthe heart of any patriot who ever died in the cause of liberty. His ungraceful form at\\nthe head of his command always recalled the mental picture of Oliver Cromwell, leading\\nhis Ironsides regiment to victory. Like Hampden and Cromwell of an earlier time;\\nlike Lincoln and Hamilton of Revolutionary fame; like Alfi-ed H. Terrv and other notable", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0405.jp2"}, "406": {"fulltext": "HISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nexamples in om- own gi-eat war. Moses Wisner, bred in the arts of peace and perfect in\\nthe walk of a statesman, had, at the outset, but crude notions of the military art, but, when\\nhis country needed him on the field of war, he was there with a cool head, a stout heart\\nand a will to do all that presented itself to be done. He died, at his post of duty, sin-\\ncerely lamented by every one in his command, who appreciated the man and his motives,\\nand the pageant of his funeral day attested the sincere respect of all the troops on duty at\\nthe post. Not less lamented by his circle of personal acquaintances, we lost there, too, a less\\nconspicuous, but not less noble, officer, Lieut. John Sackett, of Company C, who died\\nafter a long sickness, regretted by those who knew him best. It was at Lexington that\\nthe men in the ranks of the Twenty-second displayed the most unconquerable fortitude in\\nconfronting the silent terrors of the hospital and the sickness incident to a winter of\\nexposure with insufficient shelter from rains and cold. We sadly remember how many\\nbrave men yielded up their lives there, victims of disease. No less heroes in dying thus\\nthan those who fall amidst the roar of battle pierced by the bullet of an enemy. The sad\\nand silent procession was startlingly frequent during this winter, and we paid the last sad\\nrites to many a comrade whose memory is cherished by every one of us who survive to\\ngather here to-day.\\nWhile lying here at Lexington, the spring of 18R3 opened gloomily for the Union\\ncause in Kentucky. A mounted force of rebels, under Gen. Pegram, emerged from East\\nTennessee, crossed the Cumberland Mountains and River, and gave themselves up to the\\nplunder of Southern Kentucky. Ingenious devices were resorted to by this foxy com-\\nmander to exaggerate his armament and numbers in the minds of the helpless people, and\\nthe greatest alarm sjwead over that State. We all remember the confusion that seemed\\ntc exist on our own side, and the marching and counter-marching, the movements hither\\nand thither which ensued. At last a plan of a campaign seemed determined, and we\\nmarched away from Lexington on the 2 2d of March, 1S()3, and traveled that wild road to-\\nward Cmnberland Gap, through Crab Orchard, and then back to Danville. It was at\\nDanville we were flanked by a clever enemy and had the lively skirmish in which Jen-\\nnings, of Company B, and Hodgson, of Company A, were wounded. It wa\u00c2\u00ab at this skir-\\nmish at Danville that oiu- Contrabands preferred to scent the battle from afar off,\\nand so incontinently fled the scene. It was during this bloody fray that the charger was\\nshot beneath the Captain of Company A, and following these movements that we crossed\\nthe Dix River and the Kentucky River on that most singular retreat, which subsequent\\nhistory demonstrated to have been the result of weakness in the General who commanded\\nus in the camjsaign. But we marched with a cheerful tread to the front of the war and\\non the wild mountains, amidst the snow and sleet of winter s parting compliments, so\\nnearly took part in the final overthrow of that host of rebel rough riders.\\nThe exigencies of the service soon called us from these stirring scenes, and, under\\norders to repair to Tennessee, we passed through and across Southern Kentucky, visiting\\nLancaster, Stamford, Danville. Camp Dick Robinson, we headed for the South. Brigaded\\nwith the Eighteenth Michigan, we marched them a race for Lebanon. And it was amidst", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0406.jp2"}, "407": {"fulltext": ",:U\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nadventures like these that we reached, at last, the city of Lebanon, where we waged war\\nfor a day with high officials on the nigger question, and where Kentucky chivalry\\nfailed to drive us from the position we had taken on that subject.\\nIn course of time, we reached Nashville (early in April), and there we remained\\ndoing gai rison duty until the following September. I might repeat here the remark\\nwhich we made of Lexington. How many sad, how many cheerful recollections start up\\nat the mention of Nashville. It was here we lost Capt. Carleton, of Company E, whose\\nsudden and tragic death cast a gloom over the whole command, while here Capt. Beards-\\nlee, of Company D, died, not to name the many brave men who fell victims to the diseases\\nof camj) in the hospitals of that city. The story we might tell of each humble soldier s\\ndeath, would but be the same recital of devotion and patience and heroic submission.\\nThe summer we spent at Nashville is not remembered by any startling military ad-\\nventiu e in which we took part, but its recollection is not embittered by a consciousness of\\nany duty not well performed by the regiment, nor by any act of vandalism or want of\\nmilitary discipline.\\nIt was tlirough the summer of 1863, that the crisis of the war was reached and passed.\\nThe glorious but valueless victories which had been gained heretofore, had but served to\\ndevelop the strength and perversity of the South, but, with the Battle Summer of\\n1863, came the fall of Vicksbm-g and Port Hudson, the great victory of Gettysburg, and\\nfinally, in September, the movement from Mm-freesboro southward by the Army of the\\nCumberland, under the leadership of Gen. Rosecrans. Speedily was all the country con-\\nquered that lay between Nasliville and Chattanooga, and that Ijand of veterans led by the\\nmaster spirit of Stone River prepared to close in dubious struggle with the hosts of Bragg\\nin front of Chattanooga. The Twenty-second received orders to repair to the front.\\nWillingly relinquishing the light duties and pleasant quarters at Nashville, the regiment\\nembarked for the field of active work, and, on the iOth of September, took part in the\\nmemorable battle of Chickamauga, one of the most gigantic and momentous conflicts of\\nthe war. A battle in which the total losses on the Union side were upward of \u00e2\u0096\u00a020,000 men,\\nand in which the rebels admit they lost 18,00(^ men. of whom 16,000 were killed and\\nwounded, a battle in which the rebels reaped a questioaable victory, for all its fi uits were\\ngathered on the battle-field; a battle where the victor won the actual field, but when van-\\nquished, had seciu ed the gi eat strategic object of the campaign Chattanooga and was\\nabundantly able to retain and defend it; and, with the prize of Chattanooga, we possessed\\nall East Tennessee, the Switzerland of America.\\nI shall not attempt to describe the part taken by the Twenty-second in that battle.\\nIt has been the just task of historians to hand down on the page of history the deeds of\\nthat great day, and for steady com age and reckless heroism, our regiment was not out-\\ndone on all that bloody field. Yom- deeds that day, soldiers of the Twenty-second Michi-\\ngan, made the name of Chickamauga resplendent with the glory of your arms.\\nBut oh! the price at which victory and fame had been piu chased. After the battle,\\nnothing remained of the Twenty-second Init a shattered fragment of its once glorious", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0407.jp2"}, "408": {"fulltext": "L\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nline. Where these noble men had gone was a tjuestion that needed not to be asked.\\nKilled on the field of battle, many lay like Capt. Snell, of Company D wonnded to the\\ndeath; many more, like noble-hearted Smith, the leader of Company H, and others,\\nwounded sorely and crippled for life like Sanborn, while the dark prisons and noisome\\npens closed around other brave hearts at Anderson vi lie and Libby.\\nWe pause to pay a tribute to those brave comrades, whose lives paid the forfeit of\\ntheir patriotism on the field of Chickamauga, and we would liken the task to that of the\\nwhite-haired Covenanter, busied in removing the gathering moss from the gray stones\\nwhich marked the resting-place of his fallen comi-ades of half a century gone. We would\\nstand itncovered in the presence of their precious memories and renew with our chisel the\\ndefaced inscriptions and repair the emblems of death with which their monuments are\\nadorned.\\nWh}- seek we wilh unwearied toil\\nThrough death .s dim walks to urge our way,\\nReclaim his long asserted spoil\\nAnd lead oblivion into day.\\nIt is because we owe it as a debt of justice to pay this honor to those who have de-\\nvoted their lives to their counti-y, and because we love to dwell upon the virtues and patriot-\\nism of these, our fallen comrades. Of them, how just to say\\nTypes of a race who shall the invader scorn,\\nAs rocks resist the billows round their shore;\\nTypes of a race who shall to time unborn,\\nTheir country leave unconquered as of yore.\\nWe turn from the contemplation of their deaths, our sadness assuaged by the thought\\nthat in the great hereafter much will be carried to the credit of men who have laid down\\ntheir lives in defense of liberty and their fellow-man.\\nThe campaign against Atlanta which now followed, saw the Twenty-second in active\\nand heroic service, till Sherman s march to the sea practically closed the war. The\\nstruggle lasted a few months after that great march, and the spring of 1865 saw the fall\\nof the gi-eat strongholds of the enemy, the captm e and dispersion of his armies and the\\ninglorious and final collapse of the great rebellion. With the fall of Richmond and the\\ncaptm e of Lee s army, the war was over and we realized the words of the old song, For\\nJohnny came marching home again. At Detroit, on the 29th of June, 18(55, the regi-\\nment was mustered out of the service and disbanded. As a military organization, it\\nceased to exist. Its scarred and sacred colors were folded away among the proudest ban-\\nners of the State, where they yet remain, the silent but eloquent witnesses of patriot-\\nism, with the record emblazoned on their folds that tells the story of Chickamauga, of\\nRossville and Atlanta.\\nSOLtilEBS RECOBD.\\nGeorge L. Bacon, died at Lexington. Ky., December 4, 1862.\\nMichael Woolven. died at Lexington, Ky., November 28, 1862.\\nWilliam H. Crandall, died at Lexington, Ky., December 12, 1862.\\nrF^", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0408.jp2"}, "409": {"fulltext": "Ll^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nLouis Pulcher. died at Lexington, Ky., December 24, 1862.\\nWilliam A. Senter, killed at Chattanooga October 14, 1868.\\nJoseph Swork, killed at Chattanooga Octobei- 14, 1863.\\nGeorge H. Canfield, killed at Chickamauga September 20, 1863.\\nEllery S. Eggleston, died at Lexington Ky., January 9, 1863.\\nWilliam Ogden, died at Lexington, Ky. March 3. 1863.\\nAddison B. Rice, died at Lexington, Ky., March 10, 1863.\\nGeorge R. Adams, died at Lexington. Ky.. March 14, 1863.\\nRobert K. Hulsarts, died at Lexington, Ky., April 23, 1863.\\nFrank R. Smith, died at Nashville May 25, 1863.\\nWatson Norton, died at Nashville June 20, 1863.\\nWilbiu- H. Fairchild, died at Lexington January 5, 1863.\\nPaul Rattell, died at Lexington January 23, 1863.\\nGeorge S. Harris, died at Lexington January 16, 1863.\\nJohn Hartz. died at Lexington March 4, 1863.\\nC. W. Ballard, died at Lexington March 24, 1863.\\nWilliHm H. Waldron, died at Nashville May 9, 1863.\\nGeorge N. Saddler, killed at Nashville February 7, 1864.\\nTimothy German, killed September 24. 1863.\\nJames Meyers, killed at Chattanooga November 19, 1863.\\nCharles W. H. Voss, killed at Chattanooga October 4, 1863.\\nFred Hintz, killed at Chattanooga October 29. 1863.\\nZara Parker, killed at Chattanooga September 20, 1863.\\nGeorge Thompson, killed at Chickamauga September 20, 1863.\\nHenry Butzler, killed at Chickamauga September 20, 1863.\\nHugli Mcllvaine. died July 20, 1864.\\nLewis M. Yerkes, died at Nashville August 31, 1863.\\nMilan M. Drake, died at Chattanooga April 21, 1864.\\nGeorge B. Drake, died on the cars August 21. 1864.\\nA. B. Abernathy. died near Atlanta September 24, 1864.\\nCharles Mosher, died at Bridgeport November 22. 1865.\\nJames H. Pool, died at Danville, Va., January 6, 1864.\\nJosiah German, died at Danville, Va., January 3, 1864.\\nElisha Chamberlain, died at Danville, Va., Febi-uary 14, 1864.\\nClarkston Harvey, died at Danville, Va., January 18j 1864.\\nRobert Sudden, died at Chattanooga April 28, 1864.\\nRnfus A. Snook, died at Chattanooga May 11, 1864.\\nCharles Wrightman, died at Chattanooga June 16, 1864.\\nLouis Alband, died at Chattanooga.\\nFrancis Dedire. died at Danville, Va., June 16, 1864.\\nW. Shaper. died at Andersonville June 14. 1864.\\nrpv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0409.jp2"}, "410": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB C0U:NTY\\nCalvin Metz, killed at Chickamauga September 20, 1863.\\nTheo F. Van Vliet, died in rebel prison September 18, 1864.\\nThomas Moreland, died at Chattanooga September 17, 1864.\\nJoseph C. Norton, died at Chattanooga May 28. 1865.\\nDavid C. Barr, died at Chattanooga April 24, 1864.\\nErnest Ai ndt, died at Chattanooga April 24, 1865.\\nEdward E. Ewolt, died in Jackson, Mich. March 4, 1864.\\nLviuim Gillett, died in Andersonville September 28, 1864.\\nJames G. Jackson, died in Andersonville July 29, 1864.\\nFrancis Robinson, died in Andersonville September 2, 1864.\\nCharles W. Scribner, died in Indianapolis February 28, 1865.\\nFred Schimer, died in Andersonville August 30, 1864.\\nWilliam Fritscho. died in Andersonville September 15, 1864.\\nCharles Biu khart, died in Ajidersonville August 15, 1864.\\nTheodore Fisher, died in Andersonville July 20, 1864.\\nFrancis Mueller, died in Andersonville September 1, 1864.\\nGotlob Schaufler, died in Andersonville June 20, 1864.\\nGeorge Walker, died in Andersonville September 5, 1864.\\nCharles S. Jonas, died in Chattanooga April 1, 1865.\\nJames Strong.\\nDischarged or Transferred Herman Birch, Peter Rumph. Antoine Peltier, James H.\\nStanley, Nathan Soper, W. H. Williams, Alfred B. Adams, Joshua Deal, George W. Wid-\\nrig, Benjamin Albund, Anthony Bodie, Henry Chapaton, William Grebe, William Rott-\\nman, William Morrison, Charles Hartgan, Julius Mandell, Fred Stienback, C. More, John\\nHazely, Peter Monier, W. H. Harwood, B. Mack Miller, Lyman H. Tewsbury, Edward E.\\nEwalt. Leauder A. Cotton, William H. Sutphin, Oren Vanderwort, Lewis Kuhne, Augus-\\ntus Mandell, Lorin G. Norton, William M. Smith, Maj. D. Gorton, David B. Leroy,\\nOliver Yax, Thomas P. Blasdell, Charles Lang, Charles Forton, Silas E. Halsey, Theodore\\nVan Fliet, John A. Fisher, Nelson B. Miller, Norbert Generous, Mortimer Hunter, James\\nMyers, Timothy German, Elisha P. Chamberlain, William Caldwell, Josiah German, Ly-\\nman Gillett, Austin Gaines, Florence Hunter, Clarkson Harvey, James Jackson, Calvin\\nMetty, James Pool, Francis Robinson, Zara Pai k\u00c2\u00abr, Ernest Stiger, Dositee Chortier, Will-\\niam Fritche, Chai les Bm-kheart, Henry Butzler, Francis Dictere, William Dubay, Theodore\\nFisher, Fred Hintz, Aug Necker, Gottlob Peter, Gottlob Shatter, Fred Schriner, Ckris-\\ntian Spawn, Silas Teats, George Thompson, George Walker, William H, Voss, Fortescue\\nWail, John B. Waltz, Francis Miller, Henry M. Smith, Marcus L. King, J. D. Merchant,\\nEdward Thompson, Hem-y Parish, John H. McLeod, Salmo Lesperance, James Moore,\\nPatrick Spellman, L. J. Comf)ton, William Newben-y, George W. Guiles, Albert Weso-\\nlowski, Roswell Petcher, George Hart, Socrates Addis, James R. Briggs, John W. Beat,\\nHugh Smith, Guy M. Young, William R. Lockwood, Peter Thire, Vivius S. Wood, Jona-\\nthan Widi-ig, Edward D. Bliss, George W. Griffith, Joseph C. Stark, R. L. Mott, D. S.\\nr", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0410.jp2"}, "411": {"fulltext": "-i^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMott, Francis O. Crocker, John C. Reaves, John Walker, James McBride. Edwin L.\\nHowe, Thomas F. King. Edwin Than-att, Royal A. Young, Antoine Ducklow. Louis Guy-\\nette, John Guyette. Moses Mai-tell. Joseph Peltier, Petre Peltier, Napoleon Papen, Lorenzo\\nE. Sergeant, George W. Wixon, Martin Allor, Chai-les Hogle. I. Smith, Leander A. Cot-\\nton, Oren Vandei-wort, Ciilbert P. Noble, William F. Hollister, Daniel W. Lewis, Oliver\\nRuby, Joshua Conklin, Isaac M. Whitney, William S. Church, Stephen B. Wawen, Jesse\\nGrover, Joseph Inman, James M. Widrig, John Norton. Windsor Norton, Andi-ew HaiTi-\\nson, David B. Leroy, Henry Bates, Frank Betwice, John D. Chiu ch, Levi M. Withey,\\nIsaac Smith, John H. McCracken, William S. McCracken, Samuel M. Leggett, Reuben\\nMitchell, George Youngblood, George W. Widrig, William Sheperd, Edward Payne,\\nCharles R. Clements, Augustus Finnest, William Rose, Vincent Layland. John Moore,\\nLeander Rose, Cyrus HaiTis, C. F. Wattensperger, Jacob Schrambling, Alanson A. Aus-\\ntin, William Smith, Byron Rosecrans, Reuben A. Howe. Ii a P. Jersey. Robert Kii-k-\\nham, George Jersey, John Stone, John J. Snook, Stewart Gorton, Ellery C. Cannon,\\nLouis Bonchai d, Alexander Stevens, Heniy M. Smith, Clarence Dixon, Isaac T.\\nNewton, William F. Drake, Isaac C. Cross, John Cp-us Cannon, Levi H. Can-\\nnon, John H. Delisle, N. AVasher Hartley, Alonzo Horey, George A. Wright, Crawford\\nAustin, Ed. M. Andrus, Dwight R. Andrus, David B. Andi-ews, Alanson Beardsley, John\\nBird. Greorge G. Bui-d, Isaiah Briggs. John M. Bm-gett. Gurdon P. Baird, Thomas R.\\nCrawford, Henry D. Coykendall. Hamion L. Cm-tiss, George H. Cannon, James S. Covell,\\nGeorge W. Davidson, George D. Frost, W. H. Fitzpatrick, James B. Fry, Orlan W.\\nGreen, William Hall, Sylvester P. Harvey, William H. Johnson. William L. Lee. George\\nW. Lockwood, William Mclntyre. Hem-y O. Mon-ison, B. Mack Miller, Robert D. Owen,\\nFrank Phillips, Roys S. Pearsol. Frederick A. Roth. Nathan Rowley, John Storey, R. C.\\nSchreeves, Reuben T. St. John, Myron St. John, Erastus H. Lipperly, George W. Torrey,\\nWilliam J. Wellstead, Reuben Warrener, George Ai-nold, George Babcock, Amander\\nRuby. I. K. W. Windt, Orrin Green, Henry Huderbray. John Dusser, Adolph Eckhai-t,\\nEmanuel Mandell, Andrew Ross. Norbert Generous, Nelson B. Mi lie) Orlando Devereaux,\\nLyman H. Tewkesbusy, W. W. Collins. S. H. Ballai-d. Aug E. Bacon, Jerome Foote, My-\\nron Bates, Anthony Beach, Anable Beson. Samuel Beacham, Aden Card, William Cald-\\nwell. W. A. Fraligh, Eugene Geddings, John M. Gilbert, John Henry, George Butzler.\\nWilliam Dubay, Horace Miers. Ed M. Monroe, Geo.-ge E. Newberry, William H. Sutphin,\\nJohn M. Thompson, Daniel Sutherland. Ira Kniffin. Elijah Howard. William H. MoitIs.\\nAustin M. Rowley. Sanford A. Rowley, James E. Monroe. Joseph Inman. Ernst Steiger,\\nChari ter Dositer. Louis Kuehne, James Walker. Ernest Alband, Philip Ballard, Thomas\\nBallard, Joseph Barnie. John Buetel, Charles Hintz, Joseph La Cirafl Louis Letourneau,\\nFrancis Letourneau. Aug Mandell. V\\\\ illiam Mar iuardt. Augustus Necker, Peter Gotlob,\\nCharles A. Rider, Silas R. Teats, Fortescue Wail, John B. Waltz, John Merritield, Dan-\\niel Tucker, John Strong, James Strong. Roselle Widrig. Burton H. Toueray, Lafayette\\nCarter, Charles Purschel, Louis Brockway, George C. Whitney, John B. Thomas, John\\nM. Dubay, illiam Petzold. Charles Marguardt.\\n26", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0411.jp2"}, "412": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF ilACOMB COUNTY.\\nTWENTY-THIRD MICHIGAN INIANTBV.\\nThe Twenty-third Michigan infantry was organized at Saginaw, under David H.\\nJerome, then commandant of camp, and left the rendezvous September 18, 1862, under Col.\\nM. W. Chapin, for Kentucky, with a force of 983 officers and private soldiers. The com-\\nmand was engaged on garrison duty until the summer of 1863, when it participated in the\\naffair at Paris, Ky., July 29. Subsequently, it took a prominent part in twenty-three en-\\ngagements, the last at Goldsboro, March 22, 1865, and, returning to the State, was mus-\\ntered out at Detroit, July 20, 1865. The soldiers of the command from Macomb were:\\nFrederick W. Miles, killed at Resaca, Ga., May 14, 1864.\\nWilliam P. Martin, died at Nashville April 12. 1864.\\nJohn Whitford, transferred to Twenty-eighth Infantry.\\nCharles J. Wynne, transferred to Twenty eighth Infantry.\\nTWENTY-FOURTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThis command was mustered into service at Detroit August 27, 1862. Among the\\ntroops were the following-named soldiers from Maaomb: John W. Hodgetts, Reuben W.\\nPage, Silas Aurankerlin, Adolphus Nulett. James A. Armstrong and William Havens, dis-\\ncharged June 30. 1865.\\nTWENTY-FIFTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThis command was organized at Kalamazoo, under Commandant H. G. Wells, l)y\\nCol. Orlando H. Moore, and mustered into service September 22, 1862, with a force of\\n896 officers and men. Its lirst battle was at Mumfordsville, Ky. December 27, 1862, and\\nits last at Nashville, Tenn., December 16, 1864. The command was mustered out at Sal-\\nisbury after the surrender of the rebel Gen. Johnson, and, returning to the State, re-\\nceived its discharge at Jackson, July 2, 1865.\\nTWENTY-SIXTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThis regiment was organized at Jackson and mustered into service December 12, 1862.\\nIt left, en route for Washington, under Col. Judson S. Farrai of Mount Clemens, Decem-\\nber 13, with a force of 903 officers and enlisted men. The regiment was engaged in doing\\nprovost duty at Alexandria, Va. until April 20, 1863, when it entered on regular service,\\nbeing present at Suffolk, from April 22 to May 14, 1863. The operations of the command\\nwere confined to Virginia, in which State it won laurels on no less than twenty-seven\\nfields, concluding a term of brilliant service at Petersburg, April 3, 1865. The regiment\\nwas mustered out at Bailey s Cross Roads, June 4, and, returning, was paid off at Jackson\\nJune 16, 1865. The command was on service in New York City during the riots of 1863.\\nUnder its Colonel, it was subsequently a garrison regiment, at Staten Island, from July,\\n1863, imtil October of the same year.\\nTWENTY-SEVENTH MICHIGAN INFANTRY.\\nThis command was organized at Ypsilanti April 12, 1863. The nucleus of the\\nTwenty-seventh was ordered from Port Huron to the former point, where it was consoli-\\nr^", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0412.jp2"}, "413": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ndated with the Twenty-eighth, under the name of the Twenty-seventh Infantry. Eight\\ncompanies of 108 men each were mustered in April 12, 1803, and ordered to report at\\nCincinnati, where organization was completed. This command was stationed at various\\nposts in Kentui;ky. until the advance of the Ninth Corps, to which it was attached, into\\nMississippi. From the battle of Jamestown, Ky., June 2, 1863, to that near Kjioxviller\\nTenn., January 23, 1864, its service was confined to Tennessee and Kentucky, with the\\nexception of the term passed before Vicksbiu-g, Miss., June 22 to July 4, 1863. It entered\\nthe Virginia campaign at the Wilderness, May 5, 1S64, and closed its service in that State\\nbefore Petersbiu g, April 3, 1865. The regiment received discharge at Detroit. June 30,\\n1865.\\nRobert Telfort, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps ^lay 1, 1864, and Richard Day,\\ndischarged July 26, 1865, were the only volunteers from ilacomb in the Twenty-seventh.\\nTWENTV-EIGHTH MICHIG.\\\\N INF.\\\\NTRV.\\nThis regiment resulted fi-om the consolidation of the Twenty eighth rendezvoused at\\nMarshall, under Commandant S. S. Lacey, and the Twenty-ninth, rendezvoused at Kala-\\nmazoo, Commandant W. B. Williams. This organization of ten full companies left Kala\\nmazoo, under Col. Delos Phillips, October 26, 1864, and arrived at Camp Nelson, Ky.,\\nNovember 10. 1864. Its regular service began at Nashville. Tenn.. December 12, 1864,\\nand closed at Wise s Forks, N. C March 10, 1865. The command was mustered out\\nJune 5, 1866, and. retm-ning. received its discharge at Detroit. June 8. 1866.\\nTWENTY-NINTH MICHIG.\\\\N INF.\\\\NTRY.\\nThis command was designated as the Thirty -first Michigan Infantry in the military\\norders of 1864. The name Twenty-ninth was. however, given to it, and its organization\\ncompleted under Commandant John F. Driggs, at Saginaw, October 3. 1S64. which city\\nit left October 6. en route to Nashville. Tenn., under Col Thomas Saylor. The command\\nwas mustered out at Detroit September 12, 1865.\\nJoshua Conklin. Jesse Grover. Peter Tliise, I. C. Stark, W. E. R. Lockwood, James\\nPincomb. Frank Beetwee, John C. Reenies and Antoine Ducle were discharged Septem-\\nber 6, 1865, together with the volunteers from Macomb hithei-t. i transferred to this com-\\nmand.\\nTHIRTIETH MICHIG.4N INFANT rY.\\nThis regiment was raised under authority from the War Department, for si)ecial sei-vice\\non the Michigan frontier, its term of service being for one year; and by orders from this\\ndepartment, dated November 7, 1864, its recruitment commenced, under Col. G.S. Wai-ner,\\nat Jackson. The organization was completed at Detroit January 9, 1865, and the com-\\nmand entered on service. The headijuarters were at Jackson first, then removed to Detroit,\\nand ultimately established at Fort Gratiot, where Companies A and B were stationed;", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0413.jp2"}, "414": {"fulltext": "Lliu\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COL NTY.\\nCompany D was stationed at St. Clair; E, at Wyandotte; K, at Jackson; H, at Fenton;\\nG. at Detroit, and C, F and I at Detroit Barracks. The regiment performed its duty well\\nand was mustered out of service June 30, 1865. Of the 1,001 officers and private soldiers\\nbelongiui^ to the command, eighteen died of disease during the term of service.\\nsoldiers record.\\nGeorge H. Dickenson, died at Fort Gratiot June 12, 18B5.\\nDischarged Samuel Barton, Dan Newkesberg, Henry Hagei-man, Wintield S. Hath-\\naway, Peter Jackson, Nathaniel Barringer, I. A. Andrews, Nathan Aldrich, Alonzo A.\\nAldi ich, Thomas Baird. Abel Brown, Vorces Bump, Charles O. Burton. Dan H. Cm tiss,\\nAmos L. Cole, William L. Cole. James J. Cm-tiss, William E. Corby, Ed Cutcher, Porter\\nConyer, Edward Elmer, Miles Flower, Justus O. Grout, Scott Hathaway, Charles Hen-\\nderson, Ira Henderson, Alex Henderson, Josepha Ingraham, Daniel Lewis, Uriah E.\\nLemon, George Maybee, Joseph Marshall, Martin M. Mm-ray. Albert S. Pierson, New-\\nberry Reynolds, Dan Rexford, William Smith, Sidney H. Sumner, Hem-y C. Stone, John\\nVan Horn, William H. Welden, Eli Summertield Henry Stevens, Horace J. Whitney,\\nFi-ank Allen, Dexter A. Adams, Charles M. Callow, William H. Croker, John J. Clure,\\nCharles Disbrow, Joseph Furton, Ezra Gardner, Edwin Gillespie, William H. Landin,\\nSam L. Miller, William A. Miller, John Milliard, Daniel McQuillan, Eugene O Neil.\\nChauncey J. Payne, James White, William Yax.\\nFIKST MICHIGAN COLORED INFANTRY.\\nThis regiment was organized in the fall and winter of 1863, under Col. Hemy Barns,\\nand mustered into service February 17, 1864. The command left Detroit March 28,\\n1864, under Lieut. Col. Bennett, and reported at Annapolis early in April, where it re-\\nmained until ordered to Hilton Head, S. C. April 19, 1864. Its first engagement was at\\nBaldwin, Fla,, August S, 1864, and its last Held day at Singleton s Plantation, S. C,\\nApril 19, 1865. The command was discharged at Detroit October 17, 1865.\\nSOI.DIPR.ii iircoRO.\\nDischarged, September 30, 1865: Edwin Lawson, John E.Taylor, Andrew J. Rawles.\\nEli Crockett, Henry Banks, Jerry Phtenix, William Pines, Henry Crump, William Mann,\\nHenry Daily, Peter H. Ebo, Daniel Egbert, King Grampione, George Hall, Lewis Fish-\\ner, Robert Valentine. Crawford Byrd. Richard AValker, W. H. Ferguson.\\nFIRST MICHIGAN ENGINEERS AND MECHANICS.\\nThis command was organized at Marshall, under Col. W. P. Innes, and left for the\\nfront December 17, 1861. A detachment of this regiment was the tirst to enter Bowling\\nGreen. October 31, 1864, its term of service expired, but the re-enlisted veterans, re-\\ncruits and officers enabled it to continue in the service. The record of the military aifairs\\nin which it was engaged begins with Mill Springs, Ky., January 19, 1862, and concludes", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0414.jp2"}, "415": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwith Bentonville, N. C. March 19, 1865. The command was mustered out at Nashville,\\nTenn.. September 22, and disbanded at Jackson October 1, 1865.\\nSOLOIKRS ItFCOBI\\nDischarged Hiram M. Rhodes, Oscar C Rhodes, William H. Fullerton, Orson Slo-\\nciimb, Alfred D. Rice, John Dulack, Miles AV. Davis, Augustus R. Rowe, Cornelius Spain.\\nFIRST MIOHIOAN CAVALRY.\\nThe First Michigan Cavalry was organized in August, 1861, under Col. T. F. Broad-\\nhead, and left Detroit for Washington with a force of 1,144 oiScers and private troops,\\nSeptember 29. It participated in all the actions along the Upper Potomac, Shenandoah\\nand east of the Blue Ridge Mountains before the close of the year, with the result of\\nlosing thirty men killed, fifty-eight wounded, sixty who died of disease and 170 who were\\nmade prisoners. During the early part of the year 1863, the regiment was engaged on\\nguard duty in front of Washington on a line extending fi om Edward s Ferry to the mouth\\nof the Ope((uon River. The duty was the most arduous and difficult the regiment had to\\nperform, requiring incessant watchfulness and vigilance; but while twocavalrv regiments\\nfi om^other States, who were sharing in the service, lost each about 200 men, the loss of\\nthe^First was only thirty. During the rebel Gen. Stuai t s raid in February, a detachment\\nof fifty-six men of this command was sent forth to watch his movements; near Opeqoun.\\nthe enemy came within range of this detachment and was driven back in confusion. On\\nJune 27, the regiment took up its line of march northward in the Gettysburg campaign,\\nand engaged in fifteen battles and skirmishes in as many days. It met Hampton s Legion,\\nJuly 3, and defeated it in six minutes, losing eighty men and eleven officers of the 300\\nwho went into the fight. The succeeding day, it defeated two regiments of rebel cavalry\\nat Fairfield Gap; at Falling Waters, it captm-ed 500 rebels and two stands of colors be-\\nlonging to the Fortieth and Forty-seventh Virginia Infantry. The number of men car-\\nried away by disease diu ing the year was twenty-nine.\\nThe operations of the command during 1864, from the expiratiun of its fm-lough at\\nDetroit, February 7, was of varied brilliancy. It made the crossing of the Rapidan May\\n4, 1864, and served in all the battles of the Army of the Potomac diu-ing the summer of\\nthat year. In August, it moved into Virginia, and was attached to the Army of the Mid\\ndie Division, iinder Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. The command marched 1,645 miles dm-ing\\nthe year; lost eighty-two men in battle, had 102 wounded and thirty-three who died of\\ndisease. Dm-ing the winter of 1864-65, the regiment participated in the following en-\\ngagements: Mount Crawford, Va., October 2, 1864: Woodstock, October 9; Cedar Creek,\\nOctober 19; Madison Court House, December 24, 1864; Louisa Com-t House, March 8,\\n186o; Five Forks. Mai ch 30 to April 1: South Side Railroad, April 2; Duck Pond Mills,\\nApril 4; Ridge sjor Sailor s Creek, April 6; Appomattox Court House, April 8 and 9, and\\nWillow Springs. D. T., August 12, 1865.\\nThe command re-enlisted at Fort Bridger, November, 1865, and consolidated with\\nfv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0415.jp2"}, "416": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe Sixth and Seventh Cavahy Kegiments, formiiiLr the First Veteran Cavahy. There,\\nalso, it was mustereil out AEareh 10, 1806.\\nSOI.DIEBS UECOBl).\\nDarius Dibble, killed at Cedar Mountain August 9, 18(52.\\nJoel Frost, killed at Cedar Mountain August 9, 1862.\\nOtis J. Ackerman, died in Woodstock, 1862.\\nJeremiah S. Abbott, died October 7. 1861.\\nElisha P. Biitteriield. died November 21, 1861.\\nDaniel Young, died May. 18()2.\\nAlexander Buttertield, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps November 12, 1862.\\nHenry L. Young, transferred to Veteran Reserve Cor[)s C)ctober 28, 1862.\\nElijah L. Bates, discharged January, 1862.\\nWilliam B. Sweet, discharged July, 1862.\\nErin Cleveland, discharged December, 18()2.\\nBenjamin Buttertield, missing at Gettysburg July 4, 1863.\\nAlonzo Smith, missing at Rob River September 23, 1863.\\nBenjamin Buttertield. regained, and discharged July 5, 1863.\\nJohn Chapaton. discharged: no date.\\nFrancis Bush, discharged January 3.\\nDavid L. Curtiss, discharged January 7, 1863.\\nThomas Weightman, James B. Lyon, Edward E. Clark, Jacob H. Hosmer, Jesse G.\\nHosmer, William H. Phelps. Alphonso Chilson. George Hopkins, were transferred to\\nVeteran Reserve Corps December 21, 1863.\\nCharles Bobbins, fell at Todd s Corners May 18(U.\\nAlphonso L. Chilson. fell at Yellow Tavern May 11, 1864.\\nJames B. Lyon, fell at Washington Jiine 4, 1864.\\nW. H. Price, fell at Trevillian Station June 11, 1864.\\nJames Nesbitt, fell at Trevillian Station June 12, 1864.\\nCharles Robinson, died at Washington March 23, 1864.\\nN. H. Barnes, died in Florence Prison, S. C. 1864.\\nJ. O. Hicks, died March 22, 1864.\\nLyman F. Washer, died at Frederick, Md., August 26, 1864.\\nDwight Coykendall, missing at Trevillian June 12, 1864.\\nWilliam H. Linton, missing at Trevillian -June 12, 1864.\\nLemuel Skellinger, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps February If), 1864.\\nCharles Mandell, discharged July 14, 1864.\\nJohn M. Doubay, discliarged October 8, 1864.\\nJed Predmore, James McPall, George E. Bui-ke. Hubbard Smith. David C. Smith,\\nJames Alger, Reuben BiU gess, discliarged August 22, 1864.\\nDaniel B. Moses, killed at Dinwiddie March 13, 1865.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0|V", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0416.jp2"}, "417": {"fulltext": "HISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nOliver H. Palmer, died at Camp Butler December 2, 1863.\\nJohn J. Bittmau, died at Andersonville October 24, 1864.\\nPeter Fiirtou, died at Fort Halleck September 13, 1865.\\nJay Gai-viu, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864.\\nKicbard Solan, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864.\\nA. Thomas, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864.\\nAugust H. Miller, missing at Gettysburg July 3, 1863.\\nGeorge M. Clark, missing at Trevillian June li, 1864.\\nLawrence Doan, missing at Trevillian -June 1 1, 1864.\\nFred Schramm, transferred to Illinois Cavalry, 1865.\\nDischarged Richard Cramer, Nathan B. Cleromer, Erastus E. Barrett, Feb Lapparl,\\nVolney Peters. Calvin Sylvester, David Tucker, John Bobzine, Nathan Gilbert, Wilbert\\nBrown, William A. Bai rett, James Cui l, Edward E. Clark, Elon C. Coles, John De Witt,\\nElijah Farrar, Isaac Labanty, James Lynch, John McCafTerty, Thomas Wartman, Jacob\\nH. Hosmer, Lemuel L. Harner, A\\\\ illiam R. Spencer, Theo S. Biu ke, Fred Beemer, Hemy\\nJ. Clark, William Robinson, Edward Odione, Edwin D. Traver, George Woolven, Edward\\nHasen, John M. Doubay, James BrowTi, Edward Harris, James Noonan, Ernest Stein,\\nJohn H. Wilkinson. Augustus Fennell, Michael Halman, Charles Hustgam, Ignatius Lu-\\ntenbacker, Robert Robinson, Isaac Williams, John O Neil, John F. Seelys, George Bui ke,\\nBurton H. Chapman, David W. Collis, Benjamin Ayer, Hem-y Bolensen, Latham Beach,\\nLyman C. Jalpin, Joseph Hartle, Robert Lee, Elias Robertson, Alonzo C. Wait, Alex\\nBevins. David Grant, Gelbert Preston, George B. Sanford.\\nSECOND MICHIGAN CAVALRY.\\nThe Second Michigan Cavalry was organized under Col. F. W. Kellogg, at Grand\\nRapids, and left for St. Louis November 14, 1861, with a force of 1,163 officers and men.\\nIn December and January, it participated in the raid, under Gen. Carter, into East Ten-\\nnessee, severing the rebel communications and destroying his stores. During this duty,\\nwhich occupied twenty-two days, the command was engaged in several severe skirmishes.\\nDm-ing February and March, 1862, it was stationed at Murfreesboro and Franklin. On\\nFebruary, it was engaged on the 18th, near Milton; on the 19th, at Cainsville, and. on\\nthe 27th, near Spring Hill. On the 4th and 5th of March, it engaged the rebels on the\\nColumbia pike road, in which affair it lost one killed, foiu- wounded and one prisoner.\\nFrom the 8th to the 12th, it participated in movements which resulted in driving the rebel\\nforce across the Duck River. It encountered the rebels, under Stearns and Forrest,\\nMarch 25, inflicting on them severe losses, and taking fifty-two prisoners, with commissary\\nwagons, etc., etc. Again, between Franklin and Triune, June 4, it lost two killed and\\nthree wounded. On the 23d, it was engaged at Rover; the succeeding day, pm-sued the\\nenemy thi-ough Middletown, and, on the 27th, charged the rebels into Shelby ville; July 2\\nand 3, it assisted in di-iving the rebels out of the Elk River position and through Cowan.\\nDuring the fall, it pai ticipated in the Georgia military enterprises.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0417.jp2"}, "418": {"fulltext": "i.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFrom Danbridge, December 24, 1863, to the Alabama battles, in October, 1865, it won\\nmany bonori5. During December. 1864, this regiment participated in the battles round\\nNashville, Pulaski, Richland Creek and Sugar Creek. In 1865, it was engaged at Price-\\nton Yard, Corinth, Tuscaloosa. Triune. Bridgeville and Talladega. After a magnificent\\nsei vice, the command reported at Jackson, and was discharged August 26, 1865.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0SULIllEKs lllii;(IHI\\nJohn Clark, died at Farmington February 26, 1862.\\nOscar Smith, died at Rienzi August 4. 1862.\\nHenry C. Rice, discharged March 10, 1862.\\nJacob Hieppell. discharged October 1, 1862.\\nCharles Bittner, discharged October 31, 1862.\\nJohn Johnson, killed on Sultana April 27. 1865.\\nRobert -Johnson, died at St. Louis in December.\\nGeorge Bentley. drowned in West Harpeth River May 15, 1863.\\nA. Lewis, died at Livingston. Mich.. 18t)3.\\nDischarged William Thomas. Hem-y Howard. Reuben Page, James Mason, Fred\\nHartmann, Benjamin C. Gamble. George St. Johns, Joshua Ferry. Henry Koth, Charles\\nJ. Stephens, William H. Scott. L win W. Benson, Charles Clark, Hemy A. Clark, Jerome\\nB. Harvey, Henry J. Holstein. Edgar Johnson. William G. Kingscott. James McCaffery,\\nF. C. McCoy. Heni-y S. Schuster. George W. Tripp. George Wentworth. Washington\\nAmes, J. M. H. Finch, Jerome McWithey. James McCaffery, Charles Clark, Benjamin\\nC. Gamble, Jerome B. Harvey, Henry I. Holstein, Edgar Johnson. F. C. McCoy. Alvis\\nRasch, Charles Burns, Henry Sinister. William Thomas, Stephen Curran. Edward Wilkins.\\nTHIRD MICHIGAN CAVAiRY.\\nThis regiment was organized at Grand Rapids, and left for the front, under Col. J.\\nK. Mizner, November 28, 1861, with 1,163 rank and tile. It entered upon full service at\\nNew Mach id, Mai ch 13, 1862, and concluded its th st and brilliant series of work at Coffee-\\nville December 5, 1862. During the first twelve months its losses were seven killed, forty-\\nfive wounded. 104 died of disease and fifty-nine were made prisoners. In 1863. the com-\\nmand was prominent in almost every well- foiight field in Northern Mississippi and Western\\nTennessee. In the affair at Grenada, the Third Cavalry was in the advance, and gained\\npo.s.session of the town after a sharp engagement. It destroyed at that point over sixty\\nlocomotives and 400 freight and passenger curs. The command aided largely in driving\\nthe noted rebels Dawson. Richardson and Cushman from Western Tennessee, together\\nwith the numerous bands of guerrillas infesting that district. From November 1, 1862,\\nto the close of the war, the Third Regiment captm-ed 1.100 privates and fifty officers and\\nmarched 10,800 miles. August 1, 1864. it was organized as a veteran regiment, and. during\\nthe succeeding twelve months, lost eleven men killed and 115 who died of disease. It\\nformed Maj. Gen. Canby s escort at the surrender of Gen. Taylor, and was subsequently\\nattached to Sheridan s army until mustered oiit, February 16, 1866.\\nt) i^", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0418.jp2"}, "419": {"fulltext": "^r\\n1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nSOLDIRBS RECOBP.\\nAaron G. Park, died at Corinth Jnne 4, 1862.\\nPhilip E. Kelly, died at Corinth January 28, 1862.\\nDischarged William A. Sheldon, William H. Ormsbee, James H. Hoffman, Fred La\\nForce, Paul Beach, Philip Ouillett. D. R. Orteal, Ormall Brown, Virgil Champagne, Wel-\\nlington Postal. Ben Van Dam.\\nFOURTH MICHIGAN CAV.\\\\LRY.\\nThi.s regiment was organized at Detroit July 21, 1862, under Col. R. H. G. Minty,\\nwith 1,233 men and officers fully equipped. The command left for Louisville September\\n26, 1862, and entered at once upon that brilliant service which may be said to end with\\nits capture of Jeff Davis. It participated in eight general engagements and over a hun-\\ndred skirmishes during the wai The command was mustered out at Nashville July 1,\\nand discharged at Detroit July 10, 1865.\\nS(JI.D1ERS KECllRll.\\nDischarged Angus McDonald, William Hamilton, John RevTiolds, George Med-\\ndaugh. Sam St. John, Joseph Stead, Wakeman L. Grant, Leslie M. Miller, George Spen-\\ncer, Albert Ra\\\\Tnond, Denis Twohey, Fred Devenstien, Francis Elliott, Heniy C. Ken\\nyon, Edward Lowman, Joseph Lee, John Nelson, Manuel Brazen.\\nFIFTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.\\nThis command was organized under Col. J. T. Copeland, in August, 1862, and left\\nfor Washington December, 4. A battery of light artillery was raised in connection with\\nthis command. Dm-ing the tirst months of its service, it was attached to the Army of the\\nPotomac. Toward the close of 1864, it belonged to the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, then\\noperating against Gen. Early, under Gen. Philip H. Sheridan. On November 12, 1864,\\nit advanced to Newtown and engaged a brigade of rebel cavalry, which it drove tlu-ough\\nthat town, when the enemy being re-enforced, the regiment was forced back, losing one\\nkilled and three wounded; advancing again in the evening, it charged the enemy s breast-\\nworks, and, after a sharp tight, the regiment was repulsed, with a loss of two killed and\\nfoiu wounded, when it returned to camp, where it was employed on the usual camp and\\npicket duties, until February 27, 1865, when it broke camp and moved with the cavalry\\ncorps, toward Stanton, Va., being the commencement of Gen. Sheridan s celebrated raid\\nto the James River. On the 8th of March, the regiment became engaged with a portion\\nof Rosser s C!avalry, near Louisa Court House, assisted in routing the rebel force, and capt-\\nlu ing the town, in which was destroyed a large amo\\\\int of property; the railroad depot,\\nwith rolling stock and telegi aph office, were also destroyed. The regiment also piu ticipated\\nin tearing up the track and burning the railroad property along the line of the Lynchburg\\nGordonsviile Railroad, and in destroying and rendering useless the locks, aqueducts and\\nmills on the line of the James River Canal The command reached White House.Landing\\non the 19th of March, and soon after, with the cavalry corps, joined the Army of the Po-\\ntomac and proceeded to the left of the line. On the 30tli of March, the regiment became", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0419.jp2"}, "420": {"fulltext": "lA\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COINTT.\\nengaged with the rebel cavalry, and assisted in driving them within their works at Fivi\\nForks. The 31st of March and 1st of April, it was engaged with the enemy at Five\\nForks, and, on the 2d, at the South Side Railroad; on the -Ith, at Duck Pond Mills; on\\nthe 6th, at the battle of the Ridges, or Sailor s Creek, and on the 8th and Uth, at Appo-\\nmattox Court House. After the sun ender of Lee, the regiment moved with tlie cavalry\\ncorps, to Petersburg. Va., where it remained for a short time and then went with the army\\ninto North Carolina; thence, it marched to Washington, D. C. and participated in\\nthe review of the Army of the Potomac, on the 23d of May, and iuuuediately thereafter,\\nwith the Michigan Cavalry Brigade, was ordered West, and proceeded by the Balti-\\nmore Ohio Railroad, and the Ohio and Mississippi Rivera, by steamer to St. Louis, and\\nthence by steamer by the Missouri River, to Fort Leavenworth, where the men of the\\nregiment, having two years or more to sei^ve, were transferred to the First and Seventh\\nMichigan Cavalry, and, on the 22d of Jmie, the organization was mustered out of service,\\nand immediately thereafter proceeded to Michigan. An-iving at Detroit July 1, it was\\npaid off and disbanded. Its I ecord of battles and skirmishes is as follows:\\n1863 Hanover, Va., June 30; Hunterstown, Penn., July 2; Gettysburg, Penn.,\\nJuly 3; Monterey, Md., July 4; Cavetown, Md., July 5; Smithtown, Md., July 6; Boons-\\nboro, Md., July 6; Hagerstown, Md., July 6; Williamsport, Md.. July 6; Boousboro,\\nMd., JulyS; Hagerstown, Md., July 10; Williamsport, Md., July 10; Falling Waters,\\nMd., July 14; Snicker s Gap, Va., July lU; Kelly s Ford, Va., September 13; Culpep-\\ner Com-t House, Va. September 14; Raccoon Ford, Va. September 16; White s Ford,\\nVa., Septeml)er 21; Jack s Shop, Va., Sejatember 26; James City, Va., October 12; Brandy\\nStation, Va.. October 13; Buckland s Mills, Va.. October 19; Stevensbiu-g. Va., Novem-\\nber 11\u00c2\u00bb; Morton s Ford, Va. November 26.\\n1864 Richmond, Va. March 1; Wilderness, Va., May 6 and 7; Beaver Dam Station,\\nVa., May 9; Yellow Tavern, Va., May 10 and 11; Meadow Bridge, Va., May 12; Milford,\\nVa., May 27; Hawes Shop. Va. May 28; Baltimore Cross Roads, Va.. May 29; Cold\\nHarbor, Va., May 30, June 1; Trevillian Station, Va., June 11 and 12; Cold Harbor. Va..\\nJuly 21; Winchester, Va. August 11; Front Royal. Va.. August 16; Leetown, Va., Au-\\ngust 25; Shepherdstown, Va.. August 25; Smithlield, Va., August 29; Berrj ville, Va.,\\nSeptember 3; Summit, Va. September 4, Opequon, Va., September 19; AVinchester, Va.\\nSeptember 19; Lm-ay, Va. September 24; Port Republic, Va. July 26, 27 and 28; Mount\\nCrawford, Va. October 2; Woodstock, Va. October 9; Cedar Creek, Va. October 19;\\nNewton, Va. November 12; Madison Court House, Va., December 24.\\n1865 Louisa Court House. Va. March 18; Five Forks. Va,, March 30, 31 and April\\n1; South Side Railroad, Va., April 2; Duck Pond Mills, Va., April 4; Ridges, or Sailor s\\nCVeek. Va. April 6; Appomattox Court House, Va. April 8 and 9.\\nAndrew T. Jackson, fell at Brandy Station October 12, 1863.\\nGeorge Hitchiler. fell at Gettysburg July 6, 1863.\\nnr^", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0420.jp2"}, "421": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 419\\nPhilip H. Hill, fell at Gettysburg July 3, 1S68.\\nDwight Smith, died at Fairfax Court House February 27, 1863.\\nRobert F. Sackett, died at Washington February 17, 1863.\\nHeniy Bisliee, died at Marton s Ford November 27, 1863.\\nJohn North, died at Marton s Ford March 28, 1863.\\nGan-ison North, died at Marton s Ford April 9, 1863.\\nDudley Whitlock, died at Marton s Ford April 15. 1863.\\nEben K. Wells, died at Marton s Ford May 4, 1863.\\nStephen North, died at Fairfax Court House May 23, 1863.\\nLeonard Defenbeck, died at Fairfax Court House May 28, 1863.\\nEzra A. Wood, missing at Gettysburg July 3. 1863.\\nPatrick Weldon. missing at Emmettsburg July 4, 1863.\\nJohn Fulton, missing at Robinson s River September 17, 1863.\\nAbel Haines, missing at Warrenton Junction August 8, 1863.\\nTompkins Abbey, discharged January 23, 1863.\\nWilliam Rogers, discharged November 14, 1863.\\nAndrew Abbey, discharged December 3, 1862.\\nEphraim Roberts, fell at Middletown October It), 1864.\\nEzra A. Wood, died at Washington February 7, 1864.\\nE. Van Berger, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864.\\nO. C Wood, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864.\\nJohn Dixon, missing at Trevillian June 11, 1864.\\nL. Spencer, died in Libby Prison. 1864.\\nB. F. Giles, died in Libby Prison. 1864.\\nRoswell Burlsee, missing at Falmouth August 29, 18()4.\\nNewton ^Vymon, missing May 1, 1864.\\nEzekiel Morris, missing May 1, 1864.\\nHiram Winas, missing May 1, 1864.\\nWilliam O. Martin, missing at Middletown August 15, 1864.\\nJohn R. Butterlield, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps January 15, 1864.\\nJudson A. Barber, transferred to Veteran Reserve Corps March 15, 1864.\\nWilliam Femer. discharged July 6, 1864.\\nFred Eryell, discharged December 4, 1862\\nCharles A. Gilbert, discharged February 13, 1863.\\nCharles A. Ballard. August 25, 1864.\\nAmos Finch, July 25, 1865.\\nJohn A. Huif, died of wounds Janiiary 23, 1N65.\\nWilliam Blodgett, died at Baltimore December 3, 1865.\\nWilliam V. Stewart, died at Andersonville September 21, 1S65.\\nRosswell Bugbee, died at Andersonville December 12, 1863.\\nElijah Bates, died at Andersonville July 10, 1864.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0421.jp2"}, "422": {"fulltext": "l\\\\^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHorace CLapman, died at Andersonville May 24, 1864.\\nWilliam A. Denton, died at Andersonville May 23, 1864.\\nIi-a A Parks, died at Andersonville April 27, 1804.\\nWilliam O. Martin, died at Washington April 27, 1865.\\nDischarged and transferred James H. Sands, Austin Mattingly, Robert A. Hamilton.\\nFrederick Beemer, Reuben W. Page. Theodore E. Biu-ke. Hem-y J. Clarke, JohnD. Fralegh.\\nMilton Landgridge, Walter L. Cullen, John Cxager. AVilliam L. Guiles, Nathan Gilbert, John\\nA. Bedell, Dighton Voorhies. Ephraim Vanburger, Isaac Crawford, James J. Boyd, Ashley A.\\nBi own, George H. Buzzell, John Dixon, Isaac W. Jones, Walter Jones, Joseph Kimball,\\nJohn Laughlin, William McCauley, John M. Overton, John F. Reid, Isaac Robinson,\\nTheophilus Syan,[Oscarj C. Wood, Collotion AVatkins, Orrin Guiles, G. W. Chapman,\\nOscar Cook. William O Connor, John L. Dillon, John Simpkins, Charles DowTuan. Hiram\\nWinas, Abel Haines. George H. Wilson, Ezekiel Morse. Elias North, Norman Smith, Heze-\\nkiah Smith, Sylvester A. Stone, Jeremiah Weatherwax, Lyman ^Villiams, Leonard W oods.\\nSIXTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.\\nThe Sixth Michigan Cavalry was organized at Grand Rapids by F. \\\\V. Kellogg,\\nunder Col. George Gray, and proceeded to Washington December 10, 1862. During the\\nyear 1863, this command gained distinction with the Army of the Potomac, losing thirty-\\nsix killed, seventy-live prisoners, sixty-five missing and forty-live who died of disease.\\nIn Februaiy, 1864, it advanced against the rebel Kilj^atilck, and served as Gen. Sheridan s\\nescort in the ride after Mosby s Gurrillas. The Sixth served in the same actions as the\\nFifth, beginning at Hanover, Va., June 30, 1868, and closing at Appomattox Court House\\nApril 9, 1865. It was mustered out at Leavenworth, Kan., November 24, 1865, and dis-\\ncharged at Jackson, November 30, 1865.\\nJohn Lemon, discharged July 7, 1865, is the only soldier fi-om Macomli reported in\\nthe ranks of the command.\\nSE%T:NTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.\\nThis regiment entered the field diuing the year 1863, two battalions leaving Grand\\nRapids for Washington February 20 and other companies joining in May. This regiment\\nwas in the field before either the Fifth or Sixth Cavalry, and remained in service for some\\ntime after the discharge of the latter regiments. The command was mustered out at Fort Leav-\\nenworth, Kan., and anlved at -Jackson December 20, 1865, receiving its dischai-ge Decem-\\nber 25, 1865. The soldiers were compelled to pay $25 railroad fare home, but this money\\nwas allowed them subsequently. Of the Macomb solUers serving with the Seventh, the\\nnames of William Moore, discharged August 29. 1863, and William L. Guiles, discharged\\nAugust 11, 1865, are the only ones appeai ing in the reports.\\nEIGHTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.\\nThis regiment was organized at Mount Clemens, under Col. John Stockton, in 1862\\nand 1863, and mustered into the service of the Union May 2, 1863, forming a command\\n-e^ y", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0422.jp2"}, "423": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof 1,117 men and officers. The command left for the front in detachments, eight squad-\\nrons being sent forward to Kentucky May 12, 1808, under Lieut. Gol. Warner.\\nThe officers furnished by Macomb County to this regiment were: Col. John Stockton,\\nLieut. Col Henxy C. Edgerly; Siu-geon, John B. K. Mignault; Charles G. Robertson,\\nHiram M. Suell, Edward Fisbpool, John S. Smith, Benjamin Treat, Adolphus C. Stock-\\nton, Arthm- Eastman, John AV. Bennett, Andrew J. Abbey, John M. Crawford, Almirou\\nP. Armstrong, William C. Stockton, Charles C. Lamb, Aaron L. Abbey, all noticed in\\nthe section of this chapter devoted to officers commissioned from Macomb County.\\nTo do justice to this command would require a volume in itself; therefore, it will\\nonly be necessary here to note the several engagements in which it took a very prominent\\npart\\n1863 Triplet Bridge, Ky., June 19; Lebanon, July 5; Lawi enceburg, July 9; Sal-\\nviea, Jvily 10; Biiffington s Island, Ohio, July 19; Winchester, Ky. July 25; Salineville,\\nOhio, July 2(5; Lancaster, Ky. July 30; Stanford, Ky. July 31; Kiagston, Tenn., Sep-\\ntember 1; Cleveland, Tenn, September 18; Calhoun, Tenn., September 26; Athens, Sep-\\ntember 27: Loudon, September 29; Philadelphia, October 23; Sweet Water, October 26;\\nLenoir Station, November 12; Cambells, November 16; Knoxville, November 13; Rut-\\nledge, December 10; Ream s Station, December 14; New Market, December 25.\\n1864 Mossey Creek, Tenn., January 10; Dandridge, January 17; Fair Garden,\\nJanuary 24; Sevierville, January 27; Kenesaw Mountain, Ga., July 1; Sweet Water,\\nJuly 3; Chattahoochie, July 4; Moore s Ridge, July 12; Covington, July 28; Macon,\\nJuly 30; Sunshine Church, July 31; Eatonton, August 1: Mtilberry Creek, August 3;\\nHeiu-yville, Tenn., November 23; Mount Pleasant, November 24; Duck River, Novem-\\nber 24; Nashville, December 14 to 22.\\nThe regiment lost during its term of service no less than 321 men and officers, of\\nwhich number twenty-three private soldiers and one officer were killed in action; seven\\nsoldiers died of wounds received in action, and 288 private soldiers and two officers died\\nfrom diseases caught and fostered in the field.\\nThe command was mustered out of service at Nashville, in September, 1865. and, on\\nthe 28th of that month, was discharged at Jackson. The 513 men transferred from the\\nEleventh Michigan Cavalry, July 20, 1865, were discharged with the members of the\\noriginal Eighth.\\n.SOLDIKBs RECORD.\\nHenry Harvey, died at Hickman Bridge September 24, 1863.\\nEdson P. Flint, died at Hickman Bridge September 24, 1863.\\nLuther H. Lyon, discharged April 1, 1863.\\nAlmon S. Carpenter, Austin Griffin, minors, discharged April 1, 1863.\\nSolomon Cooley, discharged, 1863.\\nRobert C. Grayson, discharged Murch 19, 1863.\\nBenejah Maynard, discharged September 16, 1863.\\nCharles G. Morse, discharged September 20, 1863.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0423.jp2"}, "424": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^1 y^t\\n422 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nDaniel Lee. discharged May 17. 1863.\\nGeorge N. Watson, discharged May 6. 1863.\\nWilliam Myers, fell at Knoxville Jiine 26, 1864.\\nAlonzo Maynard. fell at Knoxville Jime 20, 1864.\\nLeon Matt, died at Camp Nelson October 7. 1863.\\nMajor E. Bartlett. died at Camp Nelson March 6, 1864.\\nFred De Camp, died at Mount Sterling March 20, 1864.\\nCharles Latimer, was killed by accident at Westport. Ky., July 12. 1863.\\nTimothy Clark, died in hospital Junuary 15, 1864.\\nSimeon Parkea. died at Camp Nelson December, 1863.\\nReulwn Hamlin, died at Knoxville August 15, 1864.\\nJames Smith, died at Mount Sterling March 15, 1864.\\nTruman Sperry. missing at Macon, Ga., August 3, 1864.\\nSamuel Chapman, missing at Knoxville, Tenn., November 18, 1864.\\nEgrew Albertsou, missing at Kaosville, Tenu., November 18,*1864.\\nAlvin Fuller, George Kling. William Stroup, Forest Stock, Elliott Bacon, Edward\\nShanley, missing in raid on Macon August 3, 1864,\\nRichard L. Ford, missing at Richmond November 25, 1863,\\nThomas Bleekman, missing at Richmond.\\nJames Stevenson, missing at Annajjolis April 2, 1864.\\nLeander Sprague, missing at Richmond February 12, 1864.\\nJacob A. Hunt, missing at Cleveland, Tenn., September 18, 1863.\\nBenjamin S. Worts, missing on Stoneman s raid August, 1864.\\nAlvin D. Fuller, killed at Sunshine Church July 31, 1864.\\nFrank M. Campbell, died at Knoxville March 3, 1864.\\nAVilliam Stroup, died at Annapolis Mai-ch 11, 1865.\\nElliott Bacon, died at Camp Chase April 7, 1865.\\n_ Agnew Alberton, died at Richmond January 10, 1864.\\nGardner Briggs, died at Richmond February 6, 1864.\\nForest Stock, died at Florence January 24, 1865.\\nLewis D. Whitney, died in rebel prison January 26, 1865.\\nWilliam Wilson, died at Mount Clemens, 1863.\\nByron Wilson, died January 20. 1864.\\nDaniel C. Chase, died October 29. 1 864.\\nSeth Chase, died October 2, 1864.\\nJames Watson, died 1864.\\nAllen M. Frost, A. D. Stuset, Nelson Smith, Norris Lewis, Lorenzo Lutenbacker, Lo-\\nrenzo Schoonover, Lewis D. Whitney, Webster Dillrea, R. Waldron, Cory D. Stone.\\nHem-y Thede. George England, Henry Hardie, Nathan Lewis, John Day, Charles Fertz,\\ndied at Richmond November 12, 1864.\\nAntoine Dubay, missing on raid to Macon.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0424.jp2"}, "425": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nChai-les F. Ciuillott, died at Knoxville January 23. 1864.\\nMarion Wade, died at Spring Place June 18, 1804.\\nJudson W. Wright, died at Danbridge June 19, 1864.\\nWilliam Serl, Henry C. Green. John Johnson, Ethan E. Trim, missing on raid to\\nMacon August 3, 1864.\\nDischarged or transferred -John A. Eldred. Loriu Frink, A.bner Porter, Henry Wil-\\nson, Lorin Wade. F. C. Munroe, George H. Nutting. William H. Wells, Charles Van\\nAtter, Chapman Bullis, Samuel Clark. William E. Dillrea, John Mok, Levi B. Robinson.\\nVictor Willey, Moses Yax, Albert Fan-. Stephen B. Rice, Marion Kellogg. L. Bradford.\\nVictor Miller, James S. Smith, Manual J. Peirera. Harmon Prieger, Isaac Newton Willson.\\nAaron Winchester, Henry Cook, Daniel Hazleton, John Carpenter, Isaac W. Willson, C.\\nHarris, Levi Hoard, James H. Farrand. Hiram W. Cro./.er, James A. Ornisby, Eugene\\nDebbault, Charles C. Hulsart, James Walker, Albert Adams, William Gamber, William C.\\nLyon, Charles A. Haywood. Henry Wilson, Alexander Snay, Ambrose West, Stephen\\nBellow, Antoine Dubay, Daniel P. Kitchen, Lawrence Lutenbacker, Joseph Shear, Albert\\nWoolvin, Miles Wait, Rufus Waldron, Henry Thede, Jesse Gray, William May. Norris\\nLewis, Charles F. Guillott. Charles Fritz. Albert W. Crawford, Warren Cooley, Samviel\\nCooley, Webster G. Dillrea. Talbot L. Owen, Isaac Buttorfield. Abel H. Bla ir, Martin V.\\nLoucks, David Lanfier, James Marshall. Albert Stout, William Cargill. Nelson Blay. Jo-\\nseph Balloy, Robert Cochrane, Franklin Church. Samuel B. Camj)bell. John Day. Fran-\\ncis Dubay. Sr.. Francis Dubay. Jr.. George W. England, Joseph Fuller, Ljnnan Goodall.\\nJosiah Ct. Hicks, Isaac Hall, Anthony Kirkier. Frank I. Kellogg, George Kling, Henry\\nW. Lathrop, Richard Le Graff, Benjamin Miller. Norman W. Nichols, John W. Prince,\\nNorman B. Phelps, Lorenzo Schoonover, Charles R. AV oodworth. Milo Warner. James V.\\nWhitney, James L. Horton, Owen Button. J. Homer Fishpool, Aug A. Koths, William\\nC. Brown, William Serl. Theo C Green, Hemy Green, Royal Brown. James Cochran,\\nJohn Johnson. Samuel Needham, Myron H. Butterfield. James Huntley, Sylvester Widi-ig,\\nJames Walton, Jeremiah Whaling.\\nNINTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.\\nThe Ninth Michigan Cavalry was organized. 1862-63. at Coldwater. and, in May,\\n1863. left the rendezvous* for Kentuckj leaving two companies to follow when their ranks\\nwould be filled. This regiment sei-ved in fifty-six well-fought battles and skirmishes,\\nlosing 181 officers and private soldiers dm-ing its campaign. Its regular service began at\\nTriplett Bridge. Ky., June 24, 1863, and concluded at Morrisville. N. C, April 13, 1865.\\nIt was mustered out at Concord, July 21, 1865, and reported at Jackson for discharge\\nJuly 3t), 1865. There is no record of Macomb vohinteers serving with this command.\\nTENTH MICHIGAN CAVALRY.\\nThe Tenth Michigan Cavalry was organized at Grand Rapids, under Col. Thaddeus\\nFoote, of the Sixth Cavalry, and mustered into service November 18. 1863. with 912 men", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0425.jp2"}, "426": {"fulltext": "fe*\\nHISTORy OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nand officers. The regiment left for Kentucky December 1, 1863, and entered upon duty\\nat Burnside Point January 25, 1864, subsequently taking a prominent part in fifty-fom-\\nengagements with the enemy, and ending a term of splendid service at Newton, N. C,\\nApril 17, 1865. The command was discharged at Jackson, Mich., November 15, 1865.\\nGavin Hamilton, discharged November 11, 1865, and Tyler Mason, discharged on the\\nsame date, were the only soldiers from Macomb with this command.\\nELEVENTH MICHIG.A.N CAVALRY.\\nThe Eleventh Michigan Cavaliy, was organized under Col. S. B. Brown, in August,\\n1863, at Kalamazoo, which place it left for Lexington, Ky., December 17, 1863. It was\\nconsolidated with the Eighth Michigan Cavalry July 20, 1865, and mustered out with that\\ncommand at Nashville, Tenn., September 22, 1865.\\nAlfred H. Beens. Alfred Frost and John Snyder were transferred to the Eighth Cav-\\nalry from the Eleventh, and served with that regiment to the close of the war.\\nLIGHT ARTILLERY.\\nThe soldiers of Macomb who served with the Michigan Light Artillery were:\\nCharles R. Cory, who died at Nashville, November 23, 1864.\\nDischarged in 1865 Jotham J. Braferd, William C. Thayer, Russell Kenney, James\\nWood, Artemus C. Cook, Isaac E. Riggs, Josiah Hulbert. Frank G. Pearsall. George Pal-\\nmer, Moses Thomas and Charles Gamble.\\nWith Dygert s Sharpshooters were Owen M. Higgins, Geary Lee, Windsor Norton,\\nBarlow Davis, discharged October 25, 1862; Fred A. Smith, killed at Chancellorsville\\nMay 4. 1863; Nelson Carlton, and Isaac N. Owen, discharged February IS, 1863.\\nSTANTON GUARDS.\\nFrank Kellogg, the only Macomb man in the command, was mustered out September\\n25, 1862.\\nIOWA CAVALRY.\\nWilliam H. Carey entered Company A, Iowa Cavalry, January 1, 1864, and served to\\nthe close of the war.\\nPROVOST GUARD.\\nThe Macomb soldiers were, Calvin Barnes, discharged May 9, 1865, and Andi ew\\nJ. Cutcher, discharged May 9, 1865.\\nSOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF MACOMB AND ST. CLAIR.\\nThis organization of veterans maybe numbered among the great military associations\\nof the United States. Its re-unions are characterized by a desire to do honor to the past;\\nto keep the memory of fallen comrades green to lay down jjrecedents for the future. The\\nsociety may be said to date its organization from August 31, 1871, when the members of\\nthe Twenty -second Michigan Infantry assembled at Romeo and elected the following offi-\\ncers\\n4V", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0426.jp2"}, "427": {"fulltext": "w.\\nm\\n\u00c2\u00ae1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n427\\nPresident, Gen. William Sanbom, of Port Huron; First Vice President, Col.\\nH. S.\\nDean, of Ann Arbor; Second Vice President, Prof. O. D. Thompson, of Lapeer; Secretary,\\nLieut. E. G. Spaulding, of Port Huron; Treasurer, Capt, G. W. Robertson, of Mt.\\nClem-\\nens; Orator, Lieut. Irving D. Hanscom, of Romeo\\nCapt. Edgar Weeks delivered the oration on that occasion.\\nThe re-unions of the Twenty-second and Fifth Michigan Infantry, and of the Eighth\\nMichigan Cavalry, since that time have been held at various places in Macomb, St\\nClair\\nand Oakland Counties. The following poem, by William H. Clark, was read before the\\nveterans assembled at Mt. Clemens, August 31. 18S1:\\nWhy meet we coiurades, here to-day, But rail} sons of noble sires.\\nWhy gather friends; whj- this display? Light up your homes %vith patriot fires,\\nWar s rade alarms are past and gone. Wave high, the Starry Banner higli.\\nNo more we hear the warlike dnmi. And swear its fealty to stand by.\\nOr fife s shrill ery. Tho death has sway.\\nWhy burnish up our memories here Now Wayne, St, Clair and old Macomb,\\nWhat joys or sorrows are so near, With Oakland, Saginaw and Livingston,\\nThat wake to life .scenes of the past. And Shiawassee, all arise.\\nExciting scenes, dissolving fast The fighting Fifth to organize.\\nIn days of fear. And march away.\\nFull twenty years have passed away, In early day, down to the front,\\nThe time seems short, aye, but a day. To meet the foe, the battle s brunt.\\nThe martyred Lincoln called for men Its record shining mid the storm,\\nOur glorious Union to maintain. We weep to find four hundred gone.\\nThe Nation s stay. So brave and true.\\nA Union which our fathers wrought. And the gallant Twenty-Second, too.\\nA land for us so dearly bought. Bravely into the breach it flew.\\nIn days when men were sorely tried. On many a hot and bloody ground,\\nWho pledged their all, and nobly died. Nobly fighting, always found.\\nNot all for nought. A good name wins.\\nColumbia s sons, know ye not And next the hardy Eighth comes on,\\nThat traitors would with hideous blot, To breast the waves of secession,\\nDisgrace the Flag that patriots made. With stijrdy ranks and hearts so true.\\nStrike out the stars thereon displayed, John Morgan s troops to interview\\nIn tearful fray. And gain the day.\\nhear ye not those threat ning tones. And we surviving comrades now.\\nNow drawing nearer to your homes. With wrinkles gathering on eacli brow,\\nObserve ye not the coming storm, In^ mutual toil, privations met.\\nNow bursting near with loud alarm, The crown of victory there is set,\\nThen why delay. Without display.\\nSons of Macomb, and broad St. Clair. While mem ry brings years that have fled.\\nsee ye not that fearful glare Forget not those now with the dead.\\nWhich lighted up Fort Sumter s wall, Who bore with us the strife and heat.\\nThe opening strife on Southern soil. On silent camping grounds they sleep.\\nL\\nO do not stay. With arms at rest.\\n27\\n7\\na r", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0427.jp2"}, "428": {"fulltext": "428\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nIt is with joy, comrades, this day.\\nThat we here meet, in peaceful way.\\nAnd in each face rotiectinu: bright.\\nPreserved, thougli scarred from war s sat] blijrlit,\\nAll hall this day.\\nA Country saved, united land,\\nA Union worthy to command\\nTrue freedom In its broadest sense,\\nLiberty and Union its defense,\\nHail glorious land.\\nThe meeting held at Mt. Clemens in September, 1881, was perhajis the largest and\\nmost enthusiastic of all the happy re-unions of Michigan troops. Among the guests were\\nCapt. W. F. Atkinson, Col. Wormer. Col. W. D. Wilkins, Col. Duffield, Col. Pulford and\\nothers, of Detroit; Col. Dean, of Ann Arbor; Chaplain Jacokes, of Pontiac; George F.\\nLewis, and others from home and abroad. Several old battle-flags stood upon the stage,\\namong them the torn banner of the old Fifth. Col. Farrar was President of the Day.\\nMayor Russell made an address of greeting, in which he cordially welcomed the visitors.\\nHe considered that Mt. Clemens was honored by their presence; the homes and hospitali-\\nties of her people were at their disposal. The Mayor touched upon the pleasuVes of the\\nre-union, principal among such being the renewing of old friendships formed amid the\\ntrials of war, the recital of the experiences of camp and lield. Veterans of the Fifth could\\nfight again Fair Oaks and the Wilderness, while the hearts of the Twenty-second would\\nW arm once more as they told of Chattanooga.\\nCapt. W. F. Atkinson delivered the following oration:\\nWe are again together, not so many as of old, not so young as we were, but with the\\nsame true hearts, with the same love for our country, and willing, if necessary, to risk our\\nlives for its preservation. As the good citizens of Mt. Clemens kindly entertain ub, we will\\nrenew the friendships of the camp, and march, and battle-field, turn back on memory s golden\\nwings and call up faces long since among the missing; tramp again over the hard stone roads\\nand hills of Kentucky, Tennessee and Virginia, and sing once more the good old songs that\\nechoed so sweetly on the Southern air. At times like this, we can forget the bones that\\nached and the heels that were blistered, and remember the camps in beautiful groves, and\\nthe mellow squeak of the Confederate shoat as a bayonet sacrificed him on the altar of\\nliberty.\\nThe delicious odor of boiled hen and sweet potatoes comes to me now as sweetly\\nfragrant as the rose, while the flame from the top rail curls gracefully round the camp kettle\\nand soars upward to the clouds, where the spirits of departed foragers whift it with joy.\\nWe will be boys again for a day, and let the world take care of itself.\\nMichigan sent none btit good regiments to the war, and none of them did her more\\nhonor than the ones you represent. There is in the hearts of the people a great love for\\nand pride in the fighting Fifth. Its glorious record commenced early in the war, and on\\nevei-y battle-field of Virginia new laurels were won. One by one, sometimes hundreds at\\na time, brave men fell from its ranks, but always with their faces to the foe. Its flag was\\never seen in the thickest of the tight, and was never lowei-ed. Many a brave man s blood\\nwas given for that flag, and it is to-day, torn and tattered though it be. one of the fairest\\njewels in Michigan s crown of glory.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^S -r-", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0428.jp2"}, "429": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTattered, torn is the beautiful flair\\nFor which our brotliers fought and fell.\\nTattered, it loolis like a very rag.\\nThat flag they loved .so well.\\nBut wlien on resurrection morn\\nGabriel .sounds tlie reveille.\\nIn answer to tlie Angel s horn\\nA gallant sight you ll see.\\nFor once again the fighting Fifth\\nTheir glorious banner high shall lift.\\nAnd place it where in Heavenly hall\\nTwill wave the proudest of Iheni all.\\nI can see some of the boys smile at the idea of Col. Farrar and Maj. Matthews becoming\\nangels, btit you know heaven s ramparts are to be stormed when taken, and the old regiment\\nwill go at them and over them as it did over the rebel breastworks at Gold Harbor, at North\\nAnna, at the Wilderness and at Petersburg, where its Hag was fii-st to wave on the rebel\\nworks. On a May day nineteen years ago. the ladies of Mt. Clemens presented to a cavalry\\nregiment then just organized, a silken flag. On its face shone a star for every State. It\\nwas the flag of ashingtoll, of Jackson, of human liberty the Stars and Stripes; and as\\nthe eloquent tongue of your honored citizen, Kobert P. Eldredge, told them to take and\\n[)rotect that banner for the sake of themselves, their homes, and the generations yet to be,\\nevery man of the gallant Eighth vowed to shield it with his life, and well they kept that\\nvow. The regiment was baptized in blood before it was out a week. It caj ttired John\\nMorgan, If swept over Kentucky and Tennessee, carrying death in its path to the rebel\\nfoe. The mountains of Georgia heard the clatter of its horses hoofs. It was with Stone-\\nman at the Chattahootchie and Macon, and it faced Longstreet day by day, when the\\nUnion army fell back on Knoxville, It was in thirty nine battles, and the soil of four\\nStates has been made holy by the blood of its men. What has become of its beautiful\\nflag I do not know, but the ladies who gave it did not trust in vain. Men of the Eighth\\nCavalry, you may well feel proud of yotu- old regiment, and I did not wonder wheu I\\nheard that your brave old comrade, Col, Wormer. claims that it is higher honor to be a\\nmember of the Eighth than wear the stars of a Major General,\\nOf the Twenty second Michigan, what can I say that will even faintly do justice to\\nthat splendid regiment Its men are dearer to my heart than those of any other, for I\\nshared with them the many joys and sorrows of a soldier s life. I saw them as, with\\nproud steps and gallant bearing, they filed out of t\u00c2\u00abhe fair-ground at Poutiac. No body of\\nmen were ever better calculated for their work, and never in the trying scenes of war did\\nthey falter in the line of duty. I saw them day by day, on the march and in the camp,\\non the skirmish line and m the battle, do honor to their country and their State, They\\nhelped to drive the rebels from Kentucky, They marched with Rosecrans through Tennes-\\nsee, They forced their way over the mountains of Northern Georgia, and reached Chick\\namauga to find the Union army on the retreat, badly beaten and demoralized. They were", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0429.jp2"}, "430": {"fulltext": "^1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nordered to the front to stop the onward march of the victorious rebels while the rest of\\nthe army formed a new line. You all know the history of their terrible fight. You have\\nhe;uxl of the cjallaut charge they made; how.\\nSioruu ii al by shot and slu-ll\\nNobly tlify fouaht and fell.\\nHow live times Lougstreet s victorious troops were hurled against them, and live times\\ndriven back. You have heard how Col. Sanborn led the regiment in its brilliant charge,\\nand you know that round that tiag fought and fell that day some of Michigan s bravest\\nmen, and how at last, its ammunition gone, it was surrounded, and the remnant of that\\nheroic band taken prisoners. You have heard of their sufferings in the prisons of the\\nSouth, and when you hear of the Twenty-second you may all feel proud, for\\nSons of Macomb and broad St. Clair\\nAnd Oakland s rolling fluids w^re tluTo.\\nand as long as the Union lives, their names will be remembered in honor.\\nUpon conclusion of the speaking, the associations met at their headquarters and held\\nbusiness meetings.\\nThe Fifth, of which there were 150 members present, elected officers as follows:\\nPresident, W. D. Wilkins; First Vice President, E. H. Shook; Second Vice Presi-\\ndent, DeWit Walker; Third Vice President, D. Owen; Secretary, T. J. West; Treasurer,\\nD. P. Ejse; Historian, H. K. Sweet.\\nThe Twenty-second, 167 members present, elected the following officers: President,\\nA. M. Keeler; First Vice President, S. C. Mead; Second Vice President, A. P. McCon-\\nnell; Secretary, A. E. Collins; Treasurer, J. J. Snook.\\nThe Eighth Cavalry, 90 members, elected: President, J. H. Riggs; First Vice Presi-\\ndent, G. S. Wormer; Second Vice President, A. E. Calkins; Third Vice President, H. C.\\nWells; Fourth Vice President, W. L. Buck; Treasurer, C. Crowely; Secretary, T. M.\\nBirdsall; Historian, J. M. Lamb; Orator, W. H. Clark; Corresponding Secretary, E. F.\\nAllen.\\nThe Macomb an l St. Clair Association, 200 members present, elected officers as fol-\\nlows: President. William H. Clark; First Vice President, Peter Chiu-chill; Second Vice\\nPresident, James Smith; Third Vice President, Porter Beebe; Fourth Vice President,\\nWilliam Jonney; Secretary and Treasurer, E. A. Jennings.\\nAmong the Presidents of the Macomb and St. Clair Associations, as organized in\\nJune, 1877, were Col. Sanborn, Maj. A. M. Keeler, Col. J. S. Farrar, and the present\\nPresident, William H. Clark, Jr. The association was formed in 1877, by lifty-one sol-\\ndiei s of this district, to which number seventy-six have been added.\\nCONCLUSION.\\nIn the foregoing pages, the writer has essayed to give a measure of justice to the sol-\\ndiers of Macomb. Of those who labored at home, something must also be said. Imme-", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0430.jp2"}, "431": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\ndiately succeediiig the commencement of hostilities, the ladies of the county became thor-\\noughly imbued with a sense of that duty which they owed to their country. They formed\\nsocieties of aid to the sick and wounded soldiers of the armies, and so organized them-\\nselves as to be able to render most effective service.\\nThe citizens whose days for Held service ended with the close of the tu st half of the\\ncentury, acted well their part at home. Their co-operation with the State Military Board\\nresulted in most important aid to the Republic.\\nThe history of the times is one which speaks of duty done. The troops of Macomb,\\nattached to the various regiments sent forward from Michigan, were soldiers in the full\\nacceptation of the term. When they are considered, with what pride may their fellow-\\ncitizens and relatives look back to the seventh decade of the nineteenth century, when\\nsuch a number of gallant men went forth to offer themselves upon the altars of patriotism\\nto preserve the Republic. The most terrible fate thi-eatened the truest federalization\\nupon the earth. A visible enemy from within, aided by unnumbered enemies of liberty\\nfrom without, entered into a conspiracy to destroy all that which the Revolution acquired\\nfor us. The soldiers who eombatted the powers of the conspirators, who beat down every\\nobstacle which the wealth of the slaveholders and their aristocratic allies placed before\\nthem, must live forever in the hearts of the people. The soldiers of 1861-65 have, next\\nto those of Lexington and Yorktovro, left names wh- ch can never die so long as memory\\nlives; they left precedents, illustrious examples, which the present and the future must\\nalways observe when the Republic is threatened. Let the people follow in their tracks,\\nand transmit, fi om generation to generation, a land of illimitable possibilities, a patriotism\\nincorruptible, a government at once strong and just, a set of public principles honorable\\nto the age, that so happiness may reign in every home within tln Union, and teach\\nthe outside world the value of Freedom.\\ni\\n5", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0431.jp2"}, "432": {"fulltext": "IIISTOIJV or MACOMH COUNTY\\nCHAPTER XXIII.\\nOI.DKN KN I KKl UlSKs.\\nThu auciont cities of Miu-oinl) won soniothing iiiore than papiT villaijos. Thorn was\\nan carnHstnesH of purposo apparent in every act of thoir buililt rs which niwitod succosa--\\nn commodity never granted them, at least in their town-huihling entorpris( s. It is just\\npossibles that, had not the panic of 1887 prostrated enterprise, stayed immigration, and\\nplunged nterpri8ing men into a lake of ruin, Belvidero, Frederick. Wuisuw, Marcellus,\\nFrankfort, and other villages then proposed to be built up, would xist to day. as proud\\nand prosperous as any of the busy centers of our population.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0I HK CITY OK ma.VIDEHK.\\nThis city was a creature of that enterprise which marked the years imniediatc^ly pre-\\nceding the panic year of 18157. From a description of the location, [)ublished under direc\\ntion of James L. Conger, in August, 18;{(i, it is to 1m understood that the city was situate\\nabout twenty live miles a\\\\)ove Doti oit, at the mouth of the Clinton lliver, being directly on\\nthe (jrcat ami only route of iruicr conniiiinic(itio)i with the upper lake region and whole\\nWestern country. The advc^rtisemeut stated further that the location is, beyond all (puw-\\ntiou, one of the most healthy in IMichigan: and the surrounding country is well timbered\\nwith th( finest oak, ma| le, bhick wahiut, whitewood, and other trees, to be found in\\nAmerica. In f( rtility, richness and de|)th. the soil is not surpassed by any other iu the\\nWestern Stales. Along the margins of St. Clair and the various rivers, this country has\\nbeen setthul and W(^I1 improved for from thirty to sixty years, and exhibits some of th(\\nlinest farms in the world. And within th( last two or three years, n flood of emigrants\\nfrom New York and the Eastern States, possessing both euterpi ise and wealth, liave [HU\\nchased and s( ttled ujion netu ly a l the lands in this section of country. A railroad com-\\npany, with banking ju ivileges. has been rec( ntly chartered by the Legislature of Michigan\\nto constru(;t a railroad from Saginaw to Cliukm Kiver; and anotlier railroad is in conteni-\\n[)lation to connect I outiao. Utica and other villages west, with Belvidere. Clinton Kiver.\\nat th( mouth of which this i)lace is located, is one of the finest rivers that .empty into tlie\\nWestern lake being wider and dei^per than the Cuyahoga River at Cleveland, Ohio, and its\\nwaters being beautifully clear, pure and limpid in this i-espect, like the waters of Lake St.\\nClair, Huron, etc. This river is navigable to a considerable distance into the interior for\\nvessels of any size, after passing th( bar at the mouth, which has now about six and one-half\\nfi ot of water. At the last session of ongress. an api)ro[)riation of 000 was made to\\nlemove the bar at the mouth of this river, and no doubt is entertained of obtaining, at the", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0432.jp2"}, "433": {"fulltext": "HISTOIty OI MACOMH COLTNTy.\\nii\u00c2\u00abxt HOHHiijii of tliJit boily, hiicli furtliur miiiiih hs iii.iy 1) n !(f wHury tcj Ijiiil l ;i i ^r, i!ii t. n\\nlif^ht-hoiiw?, and tuaku hucIi othur iiii|)rovniiii iits as will ruiidur UiIh liarhor mjual Ui any on\\nthe W !Hfc(!rn lakoH.\\nTofjfithf rwith thiH uotici- of th\u00c2\u00ab (rity, tho a(]vnrtiH tiii iit mft forth that JOO vilhif^i! lotH\\nwouhl b 5 Hohl at atictioii Octohor JJ, ISIW, and alHo thu Jiolvidom Hotol, thon opriratod by\\nA. Wilcox. PurchaHerH wuri to pay 20 por \u00c2\u00abnnt cawh, and tho balanco in four payiiK^ntH\\nof 20 per c\u00c2\u00abnt ((ach, wh \u00c2\u00abn an indiHpiitabl titl and warranty duod would imhuh from thi-\\nagent H ofiie\\nThiH auction took placi on thi- aji|)oint -i| ilay. Ahraliai/i I itchi^r, of f anfaHt r, Oliio,\\nacted aH auctioneer, and Peter A. CaHHat aw Chsrk.\\nThe following Ik a HUininary of the record of Hale;\\n25 |HW ff: ;t on CUiitoii street\\nSO lOfl fi Ct on Huprjrior btrecl\\n31 106 f ;t on Superior street.\\nAZ 120 feet on Huperior street,\\n102 feet on Hiiperior street\\n68 ST feel on st famlio:il Unrljnf;.\\n37 KW feet on Clinton strert\\n18 150 fe ;t on (Unton street\\n1 ;104 feet on Clinton street\\n2 |104 feet on Clinton street\\n21 104 feel on Clinton street\\n28 Il04 feet on Clinton street\\nJames U. Con/^er\\nTliomas Wuterliouw!.\\n.lames I.. (Jon^er\\nConifer and Bhu^kweli,\\nZeras .Maynard\\n.James I,, (Jonger\\nTlionias II, Feck\\n.James I Conger\\n.James Congi;r\\n.James \\\\j. Conger\\n.James Conger\\n.James J Conger\\n$200\\nlUO\\n115\\n325\\n105\\nl.Vl\\n\u00c2\u00ab10\\n310\\n120\\nIW\\n175\\n178\\nA Bhanty, a short time [jreviously in the poHiwHHion of T, C, Forhw, wan sold to JamoB\\nL, Conger for loo.\\nBhanty No. 2, occupied by Sam (^uimby, wan wdd Conger for $2*5,\\nThe VV \u00c2\u00abt barn, with the cider-mill, threshing machine, etf;., et^;,, wi!r wold to L.\\nConger for ^K!0.\\nThe Tavf^rn House, or Belvidere Hotel, lands and a|)purt jnanc were ti( ld U) Con\\nger for %iiJ U), with the underHtanding that the hotel should be wnnpleted by the Uelvi-\\ndere Com[)any in the Htyl and manner explained by the auctioneer at the hhU\\nt nder dat November lo, 1S80, ThomaH \\\\Vat jrhou\u00c2\u00abe ti anKferred t j Conger Lot .Vo,\\niiO, purchased by him at the auction sale. On Dofiember 8, IH-W, Zera Miiymird made a\\nsimilar transfer of Lot and on December 27, Thomas H. Peck conveyed his lot, No,\\no7, to .Jarnes Ij. C jnger.\\nliKI.VllJKIlK l.\\\\SI TITLES,\\nIn giving the uam of [)atentees of the lands on which the city of IJelvidere was\\nplatt^;d, it is wjusidered unnecessary to follow iij) the various dianges in ownership from\\n1811 U) \\\\HV). In the section of this work devottxl U) the [doneer landholders, that s iction\\nof Harrison has been fully regardexl. The land forming the point east of Alexis Peltier s\\nclaim was patented t(j Ignace Morass Oct/jber 7, 1811.\\nThe tract idjoiiiiiig this ou the west was patent^jd Ut the widow and heirs of", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0433.jp2"}, "434": {"fulltext": "i\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAlexis Peltier July 24, 1811. who deeded the land subsequently to Ign ace Morass. Morass\\nconveyed his original claim and the tract acquired by piu chase to David Conger November\\n3. 18H5. This property covered the original Belvidere purchase.\\nTo Julian Forton, as assignee of Robert Robertjean. a patent issued Aj)ril 20. 1811,\\nfor his claim west of the line of Alexis Peltier s farm. This tract was conveyed to David\\nConger by Julian, Catherine, Charles and Leonore Forton, November 23, 1835. Those\\noriginal owners also deeded the west half of the lands descri -ed in the patent to David\\nCongei at the same time, and he in turn deeded this last tract, or west half, to S. G. Lang-\\ndon October 13, 1837.\\nOn May 22, 1838, Mr. Conger, Ed R. Blackwell, Louis Chapaton and A. C. Hatch\\nvisited the location to decide ultimately the boundaries of the Conger and Langdon farms,\\nas pm chased in 1835 from the Forton family.\\nThe transfers which subsequently marked the proprietary of the lands of Belvidere\\nup to 1838 may be learned from the following notices:\\nNovember, 1835. David Conger to James L. Conger, three-fourths of the Belvidere\\npm chase. or Morass and Peltier claiais: also one-eighth of the same to Thomas H. Peck,\\none-sixteenth to Thomas Bolton, one-thirty-second to D. B. Conger, and one-thirty- second\\nto James L. Conger and T. H. Peck.\\nThomas Bolton transferred his interest to Erick M. Segur, and Elizabeth Smith, June\\n6. 1836.\\nJames L. Conger conveyed the one-thirty-seeond part of Belvidere to Timothy Ingra-\\nham November 23, 1837; gave a quit claim deed to S. G. Langdon for Lots 553, 360,\\n205 and 200. April 18, 1838, and one of the Steam Mill Lot February 12, 1838; to Tim-\\nothy Andrews, in 1837, Lots 65 and 250; to Ralph Clarke, Lot 3-1:7, April 13, 1837; to\\nThomas C. Peck, Lots 59 and 385, January 12, 1838; eight lots to D. Garnsey March 5,\\n1838.\\nThomas H. Peck sold the one-sixty-fom th undivided partof Belvidere to CuUen Brown\\nJanuary 13, 1836; one-sixteenth part to Richard Hussey March 7. 1837; a similar part to\\nDavid B. Conger May 9, 1837, except Lot 300. which he deeded to Samuel Lyon May 9.\\n1837. He transferred thirty-one lots and a sixteenth part of the residue of the Belvidere\\npurchase to James L. Conger January 12, 1838.\\nDavid B. Conger transferred to Thomas H. Peck, December 15. 1837, a one-sixteenth\\npart of the Belvidere purchase, omitting Lots 117 and 300. and adding Lot 524 July\\n15. 1836. he transferred ten lots to Royal C. Knapp. and Knapp deeded this property to\\nThomas I. Howell November 11. 1836.\\nDuring June and Jul} 1838, a wholesale transfer of property to James L. Conger\\ntook place. David B. Conger and wife, Elizabeth Smith, Cullen Brown and wife. S. G.\\nLangdon and wife, T. H. Peck, NeLson Oviatt and wife, Erick M. Segm- and wife. Tim-\\nothy Ingi aham and wife, all joined in what appears to be a partition deed. June 29. 1838.\\nThe siu-vey of the city of Belvidere was made by Abel Dickinson. Wadsworth, Medina\\nCo.. Ohio, and the plat was di awn at the same time, by James L. Conger, of Cleveland,\\nf", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0434.jp2"}, "435": {"fulltext": "B J\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COLXTY.\\nOhio, in November. 1835. This survey began near the upper end of the first ox-bow bend\\nin th Clinton River, on the northern side of that river.\\nThe main thoroughfares of the city were Clinton street, running from the western\\nlimits to the extreme eastern j)oint of land, forming the north banli of the river, forming\\nan angle at the foot of Wayne Btreet, which was called St. Clair place. Conger avenue,\\none block north of Clinton street, ran west from Division street to the lake shore. The\\nstreets running east and west north of Conger avenue were named James. Madison. De-\\ntroit. Morass and Colton. Smith street ran south of Clinton, and parallel with it, on\\nwhat was to foiTn the north bank of the proposed channel, running west from the steam-\\nboat landing to the head of the ox-bow. On the south bank of this channel. Nelson street\\nwas laid off. and one block farther south was Ewing street. The three streets just named\\nextended east and west to the circular road round the ox-bow. called by the surs eyor River\\nstreet.\\nThe streets running north and south were named Division street, forming the west-\\nern boundary; Cleveland. Alric, Superior. Peck. Erie and Wayne streets. Washington\\nSquare, a space 300x232 feet, was on the north side of Conger avenue, a half- block wide\\non each side of Superior .street. Jefferson Landing was at the foot of Wayne street; the\\nsteamboat landing, at the foot of Peck street; in a word, the city looked majestic on paper.\\nFREDERICK OR CASINO.\\nThe village of Frederick, formerly called Casino, was platted for Frederick M. and\\nHorace Stevens. June 24. 1837. The location was on the old Han ington farm, where\\nformerly stood the Moravian town of New Gnadtenhutten. The village tavern and mill\\nsurvived the panic and prospered for many years; but little dow remains Ui tell of its ex-\\nistence save the ruin of the tavern, which building was blown down in December. 1881.\\nThe Stevens and Harrington dwellings are still there. The mill, built by Job Smith\\nabout 1828. was burned.\\nOTHER VILL.^GES.\\nWarsaw. Marcellus. Frankfort and Clifton are all villages of a past age. Like Fred-\\nerick, they flourished for awhile, and then drooped suddenly, never to bloom again. Those\\nwere all villages of Clinton Township. Each of them asjsired to excel Mt. Clemens, and\\neach of them fell in the attempt, leaving the enterprise which prompted their establish-\\nment alone to be admired.\\nTREMBLE CREEK.\\nA settlement was also made, as appears, by a Capt. Franijois Marsac. in about 1798,\\nat Tremble Creek, the stream just this side of New Baltimore, on the Ridge road, and\\nalso prior to 179(3, at Swan Creek, beyond New Baltimore some four miles.\\nFrom the early settlement of that section, a tradition has been handed down and this\\ntradition has many believers even now that an English Captain, or Lieutenant, who had\\nbeen largely successful in gathering together a quantity of bullion, being compelled to\\nflee from the Indians, buried his treasure in the earth about a mile from the prasent site", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0435.jp2"}, "436": {"fulltext": "IW\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof New Baltimore; that he was either killed by the Indians or died from exposure, and\\nthe secret of his treasure s hiding-place died with him. Many searches have been made\\nby infatuated individuals after this treasm-e, and many believe that the i^hostly shade of\\nthe deceased Captain guards the treasure trove so jealously and has such power of mov-\\ning its location, that all search is in vain.\\nRAILROADS AND NAVIGATION.\\nAt an early period in the history of the county, the thoughts of the settlers often ad-\\nverted to the existing necessity for either a canal or railroad to lead their civilization into\\nthe bleak interior. The ideas of the settlers were theoretically correct, but impracticable\\nbecause premature. Many great works were completed on paper. Not only was a canal\\nto lead from Mt. Clemens into the heart of the wilderness, but also a railroad was to con-\\nnect that little city with the land of the fierce Kishkawko. A few of the day-di-eams of\\nthe period assumed practical shape, but the financial crisis of 1837 placed a quietus on\\nenterprise, and even reduced the wild-cat banks to nothingness. For a few years the\\npeople battled manfully with the trials of that period of depression, rose superior to\\nthem, and ultimately succeeded in surpassing even the highest notions of their earlier years.\\nF ort St. Joseph Road. At this period 1798-1800 the means of communication\\nwith Detroit was by way of the river and lake. The Gratiot Tiu-npike had not then been\\nprojected or opened. This was siirveyed long after, in 1827, and cut through the\\nnext year as a road of communication between Fort Detroit and Fort Gratiot, at Port\\nHuron, and the head of the St. Clair River. In connection with the history of this tirni-\\npike, the traveler of modern days can scarcely appreciate the difficulty of the opening of\\nthis highway. We need not tell that fi oin Detroit to Port Hm-on was one vast stretch of\\nforest, with slough-holes, pit- falls, swails and mud, at such free juent intervals as would appall\\nthe traveler of to-day. It is said that about the site of James Patton s house, some four or\\nfive miles north of Mt. Clemens --now a high, di-y and pleasant location the road passed\\nthrough a swamp, which, in the wet season, fm-nished the wild duck and swan with a\\nswimming-place, and conseipiehtly the Indian with a splendid hunting-ground for bird\\ngame.\\nA few rods below the Carl farmhouse, three miles south of Mt. (Uemens, was another\\nslough, that would have compared well with the one described by John Bunyan in his\\nPilgrim s Progress. It was two days journey then from Detroit to the settlement at\\nHm on River or Mt. Clemens. This was then a trading-post and stopjiing-place for those\\nwhose business called them to and fi om Detroit and Port Huron.\\nThe Saginaw Mt. Clemens Railroad. So early as 1885, these villages di-eamed of\\ngreat deeds, and actually witnessed the organization of a company having for its object\\nthe construction of a railroad from Saginaw City to Mt. Clemens, via Lapeer. The capital\\nstock of those railroad builders was !|1, 000,000. With this sum of money, the company\\npromised to begin work within four years after the charter would be granted; to complete\\nten miles of the track within eight years; forty-five miles within fifteen years; and the", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0436.jp2"}, "437": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwhole distance of ninety miles within forty years. This company operated a banking; es-\\ntablishment in connection with its railroad business, and a few rods of the road were\\ngraded at Mt. Clemens.\\nDe Toequeville visited Mt. Clemens and Indian Village now Romeo in 1831, and\\npointed out almost precisely +he railroad routes now in ojieration.\\nIn 1822, the first stage line was established in Michigan, between Mt. Clemens and\\nDetroit, in connection with the Steamer Walk in the Water.\\nFrom Mt. Clemens to Sault St. Marie, the Territorial road from Mt. Clemens up the\\nNorth Branch of the Clinton, following as near as practicable the route of an old survey\\nby Romeo; thence on the most eligible and direct route to the seat of justice in the county\\nof Lapeer; thence to the town of Saginaw, to the northern extremity of the peninsula, and\\nthence to the Sault St. Marie, in the county of Chippewa, was authorized to be laid out\\nin 1839. Horace H. Cady, of Macomb, Daniel Le Roy and Nathaniel Squires, were the\\nCommissioners appointed to carry out the act.\\nAt the same time, there was ordered to be laid out a Territorial road from Romeo to\\nPort Hm-on. Ro.=iwell R. Green, Horace Foot and Thomas Palmer were the Commission-\\ners appointed to establish such road.\\nThe Clintnti cf- Kalamazoo Canal. The amounts appropriated for the construction of\\nthis public work equaled \u00c2\u00a740,000 in 1837; $205,000 in 1838; and \u00c2\u00a760,000 in 1839; ag-\\ngi-egating 1305,000 Of this sum, $115,202.92 were expended in 1838-39, leaving the bal-\\nance, $189,797.08, unexpended. The estimated expense of connecting the head of the canal\\nfrom Mt. Clemens to Rochester, in Oakland County, a distance of sixteen miles and sixty-\\nfour rods^ was .\u00e2\u0096\u00a0i253,919. The estimated expense of connecting the head of the canal at Mt.\\nClemens with Lake St. Clair, by way of the river between Mt. Clemens and the city of Bel-\\nvidere, was $37,915.75. The amount actually expended on the sixteen sections of the canal\\nup to November 4, 1839, was $101,r)40.2S. In a letter dated May 21, 1839, Civil Engineer\\nHurd advised the cutting of an aqueduct across the little peninsula on which the village of\\nFrederick was located, which advice was criticized in a letter signed by J. M. Berrien, J.\\nS. Dutton and Tracy McCracken, under date July 8, 1839.\\nSault St. Marie Canal. Under the act for the regulation of internal improvement\\nand for the appointment of a Board of Commissioners, Rix Robinson, of Kent County, was\\nassigned as Commissioner in charge of the construction of the Northern Railroad, the Sagi-\\nnaw Canal, Sault St. Marie Canal, the canal round the rapids of the Grand River, and the\\nimprovement of the Grand, Kalamazoo and Maple Rivers. Tracy McCracken was appoint-\\ned Engineer on the Sault St. Marie Cinal and other improvements. Fifty thotisand dol-\\nlars were appropriated for constructing a ship canal at the Sault in 1837, but of this sum\\nonly $2,952.93 were expended ujj to the close of December, 1839. although it is reported\\nthat a siun of $5,000 was advanced to the contractors.\\nThis subject becomes connected with the history of this county on account of the con\\ntractor, and the gi-eater number of his men being old settlers here. For that reason, it\\nobtains something more than mention in these pages.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0437.jp2"}, "438": {"fulltext": "438 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTHE WEEKS CONTRACT.\\nAn agreement made the 7th day of September, 1838, between Jame.s Smith and TJrial\\nDriggs, of the first part, and Aaron Weeks, of the second part, the party of the first part\\nin consideration of the stipuhitiuns herein contained, do agree to assign their interests to\\nan equal and undivided third of a certain contract executed by Rix Robinson, as\\nommissiouer, for constructing the canal at the falls of Sault de St. Jklarie.\\nThe party of the second part, in consideration of such assignment, doth agi ee to turn\\ninto the said company the vessel called the Eliza Ward, of seventy or eighty tons, to be\\ncompletely rigged and seaworthy, and to be used and owned by the said parties jointly.\\nThe second party also doth agree to bear one-third of the expense of constructing the\\ncanal, and receive one-third of the net profits, in case there should be any, and to bear one-\\nthird of the net loss. He also agrees to devote one-half of his time in superintending\\nconstruction of said work, to furnish Hour, pork and other materials necessary to cai-ry on\\nsuch work, at the prime cost and chai ges, to be paid out of the first moneys received from\\nthe said Commissioner. This agreement was duly signed by James Smith, U. Driggs, A.\\nWeeks, on the day named above, and fiu ther signed by Rix Robinson, Acting Commis-\\nsioner of the Works, at Detroit, April lU. lS3y.\\nACTION OF THE UNITED STATES TROOPS.\\nBy some strange oversight, the Executive of the State Government ur the Commis-\\nsioners of Public Improvements permitted the contractors to repair to the Sault St. Marie\\nwith their men without consulting the Indians, who were owners of the land on one side,\\nor the United States, the owners of the land on the other side. The affair is reviewed\\nin the following testimony of the prime actor in the drama, given December 30, 1839,\\nwhich was furnished o the Secretary of the Treasury:\\nAaron Weeks, of Mt. Clemens, county of Macomb, being duly sworn, doth depose and\\nsay that he is one of the contractors on the Sault de St. Marie Canal: that in April last,\\nhe employed James B. Van Rensselaer to assist him in the construction of said work, and\\nto take charge of and oversee the hands on the same during his absence; and that the said\\nVan Rensselaer, with about fifty men, provisions, tools and necessary implements, repaired\\nto the Sault a few days before this deponent; that this deponent arrived at the Sault de\\nSt. Marie on Satm-day evening, the 11th day of May, A. D. 1839; that on Sundaj- morning,\\nthe 12tli of May, the day after his arrival on the ground, Lieut. Root called on this de-\\nponent and handed him a written notice, prohibiting him to proceed with the work. This\\ndeponent then went and conversed with Lieut. Root on the subject of commencing opera-\\ntions on the canal, when Root replied that he was not prepared to argue the question\\nwhether it would be an injury or a benefit to the United States, but he should not go on\\nwith the work, as his orders were positive. This deponent then wrote to said Lieutenant,\\nand received a letter- in- reply from Capt. Johnson. The second day after the receipt of\\nthis letter, this deponent, with about forty men, commenced operations on the canal by re-\\nmoving the obstructions on the line and by commencing digging, when Capt. Johnson, the\\n4", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0438.jp2"}, "439": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nofficer in command at Fort Brady, ordered out a company f regulars, armed with mus-\\nkets and bayonets, and marched them down to where the said men were at work. The\\nCaptain ordered the m3n to stop work. This deponent, in reply, remarked to him that he\\ncould not, as he was under contract with the State of Michigan to complete the work by a\\ncertain time; that Capt. Johnson then marched his men down the line to a point where\\nVan Rensselaer had some men at work digging, and commanded the men to desist labor;\\nsome of the men felt disposed not to obey, whereupon Capt. Johnson stepped up to one of\\nthe foremen, James Sherrill, with his sword drawn, and wresteil from him the spade with\\nwhich he was working, saying that his orders must be obeyed, remarking that upon one\\nside of the mill-race was an Indian reservation, and that the other belonged to the United\\nStates. Upon this, the men ceased work, and Johnson marched them ofif the line of the\\ncanal. And this deponent would further say that, after being thus interrupted and pre-\\nvented in the prosecution of this work, and finally driven from the ground, through the\\ndirect interference of the military of the United States, he was compelled to abandon the\\nwork and leave there with his men.\\nThis statement was sworn and subscribed to before Richard Butler, Notary Public,\\nof Macomb County, December 30, 1839. ^Sfli\\nSimilar statements were made by James B. Van Rensselaer and John Levake, sworn\\nto before Justice Richard Butler. In Mr. Weeks letter to Hon. William Woodbridgei\\ndated Mt. Clemens, December 11, 1839, the affair was very fully explained. From Octo-\\nber. 1838, to May 1 2, 1838, he estimated his expenditures on the contract at $7,047.52.\\nR.\\\\ILR0.4IjS.\\nDetroif f- SlipJhy Railroad. The line from the Grand Trunk Railroad to Utica of the\\nDetroit Bay City Railroad runs on the embankment, thirty years old in 1872, construct-\\ned by the Detroit Shelby Railroad Company. An embankment was built so long ago as\\nfar as Utica, and was found to be in a good state of preservation, and needed but slight\\nchanges to make it fit for the modern railway. On the old road, flour and other products\\nwere brought to Detroit from Utica, the cars being drawn by horses, and the old Detroit\\nPontiac depot being used as the terminus. The road was something of a primitive affair,\\nbut was far more serviceable than the ordinary dirt road, which was visually in very bad\\ncondition. In not moi e than two or three spots does the embankment seem 1 1 have been\\nplowed down, and over this section of the line neither the cutting of trees nor grubbing\\nwas necessary. Gurdon C. Leech. Richard L. Clarke and others were the projectors of\\nthis primitive railroad.\\nThe Michigan Division of the Grand Trunk. The line of the railway known as the\\nPoi t Huron, Detroit Chicago Branch of the Grand Trunk Railway was completed in the\\nautumn of 1859. The entire expense of construction and equipment was borne by the gi-\\ngantic corporation known as the Grand Trunk Railroad Company of Canada. The Mich-\\nigan Division enters Macomb County at the southeast corner of Richmond Township, and\\ntraverses the county in a southwesterly direction. The company have stations at the fol-\\nt", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0439.jp2"}, "440": {"fulltext": "N^ ^l\\n440 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nlowing places: Ridgeway, Baltimore Station (now New Haven), Mt. Clemens and Utica\\nPlank. The road has proved of substantial advantage to every j art of the State and\\ncounty not otherwise accommodated with a railway outlet, while the connection has proved\\ninvaluable to merchants and shippers, and thereby to producers generally, in afford-\\ning a competing route to the East, as well as connection with points not reached by any\\nothei- line. The main branch runs from Port Sarnia to Portland, Me., a distance of 802\\nmiles. The Michigan Division runs from Port Huron to Detroit Junction, a distance of\\nfifty-nine miles, making a total length, under the Grand Trunk corporation, of Sfi] miles.\\n-^The Detroit d- Bay City Railroad. This railway is under the control of the Mich-\\nigan Central Railroad Company. It enters Macomb County near the center of the south-\\nern boundary of Warren Township, and traverses through the townships of Wai-ren, Ster-\\nling and Shelby, in a northwesterly direction. It leaves the county about the center of\\nIhe western boundary of the latter township, and enters the adjacent coiinty of Oakland.\\nThe stations of this company within the limits of Macomb are Warren, Glenwood, Spin-\\nnings and Utica. This division is 115 miles in length, and passes through a rich agi icult-\\nural region, while the lumber and silt trade contributes very materially to swell its traffic.\\nThe Michigan Air- Line. The Michigan Air-Line project was originally designed as\\na short line from Chicago to Buffalo, and was intended to run across the State from Chi-\\ncago, striking the St. Clair River just above the town of St. Clair, and there connect with\\nwhat is known as the Canada Southern. The Michigan Central, which aided in building\\nso much of this line as lies between Jackson and Niles, and furnished almost the entire\\ncapital with which it was built, finally made it a feeder for Detroit and the Central. This\\nroad enters Macomb County in the southeast corner of Richmond Township, then trav-\\nerses the townships of Armada aud Washington. There are stations on this line within\\nMacomb County, called Ridgeway, Armada. Romeo and Washington. This branch line is\\ntwenty-six miles in length. It cost the people of the townships through which it runs a\\nsnug sum of money, butjthe benefits which will be derived from the road ultimately will\\ndoubtless compensate in a large measure for the heavy tax its construction imposed upon\\nmany individuals. That railroads in general are a benefit no one will deny, but some are\\nconstructed at an immense sacrifice to property-holders, and the remuneration, in actual\\nvalue, is oftentimes imperceptibly slow in development. But on the whole, railroad en-\\nterprises, when conducted by persons who have the welfare of the several communities\\nthrough which they shall pass at heart, are means of much good, and vice versa when in-\\nstigated, carried on and controlled by speculators, who look only to their own personal\\naggrandizement. As a public emolument, railroads ought to become as popular as they\\nare generally successful.\\nCLINTON RIVER.\\nIn ISTO, the channel of entrance to this river was very shallow, the shoalest place\\nshowing only thi-ee and a half feet of water, while the river was ten feet in depth. A proj-\\nect of improving the river was adopted in LSTO, the object being to afford a channel fifty\\nfeet wide at bottom, with a depth of eight feet, and in the execution of the improvement,", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0440.jp2"}, "441": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe amount expended has been $5,000. Another appropriation of $8,000 was made last\\nspring, and this money is to be applied to dredging a channel cut eight feet deep and sixty\\nfeet wide at the entrance of the river. An appropriation of $25,000 was asked for in\\n1881, which is supposed to complete the improvement. This sum was granted.\\nHARBOR OF REFUGE. BELLE RIVER.\\nAfter a survey of the bar at the mcuth of Belle Kiver, an appropriation of $7,000\\nwas made for its removal. Belle River is about one hundi ed and forty feet in width, and\\nfrom seven to nine feet deep at the lower reaches, which it is intended to improve. The\\nproject adopted in 1880 is to afford a channel fifty feet wide, thirteen feet deep to the first\\nbridge, and twelve feet deep to the second. No money has yet been expended on the im-\\nprovement.\\nCHAPTER XXIV.\\nCOURTS AND BAR OF MACOMB.\\nThe fu-st session of the Macop^b County Court was held in the house of Christian\\nClemens, at Mt. Clemens, July 10, 1818. Christian Clemens, Chief Justice, with Daniel\\nLe Roy and William Thompson, Associate Judges, presided.\\nThe first case brought before this tribunal was the admission of Ezra Prescott to the\\nbar of Macomb. Having produced his certificate as an attorney of the Supreme Judicial\\nCourt of New Hampshire, it was ordered that he should be admitted an attorney and\\ncounselor at law of this county. John Stockton was Clerk of the Court.\\nThe next sitting of the court took place July 14, 1818. The Grand Jury made no\\npresentments, and was discharged. The only civil suit brought before the Judges was\\nthat of Mitchell and Leo Trombley versus Joseph Dupree, on appeal from Justice Le Roy s\\ncourt Mr. Le Roy retired from the bench when the case was presented; however, on ac-\\ncourt of not being ready for trial, the cause was continued.\\nThe session of 1819 began February 1, with the same Judges presiding. James Fulton,\\nthe Sheriff, returned the names of twenty- foiu Grand and twenty-fom- Petit Jurors. The\\nfollowing are the names of the Grand Jm ors who were present: Z. W. Bvince, Oliver\\nRecord, Andrew estbrook. Baptiste Yax. William Brown, Joseph Mini, John K. Smith,\\nElisha Hai-rington, Edwai-d Tucker, Jacob Tucker, John Connor, Isaac Russ, H. R. Un-\\nderhill, PieiTe Phenix, Felix Pelhy, Baptiste Nicla, Hugh McKay, Julius Forton, Francis\\nLabadie, James Graham, John B. Beaubien, Gideon Olmstead. This jmy retired under\\ncare of Constable J. B. Chapaton.\\nThe cases brought before the coui t were as follows:\\nMitchell Trombley, Supervisor of Huron Township, appealed from Justice Harring-\\nnv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0441.jp2"}, "442": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUJJTV.\\nton s coiu t his complaint against John Tucker, which was ordered discontinned. His com-\\nplaints versus Julius Forton, Louis Chortier, Charles Peltier, Edward Tucker, Francis La-\\nbadie and Benjamin Trombley. The other cases were those of Andrew Westbrook versus\\nA\\\\ illiam Austen, an appeal from Justice Smith s coiu t. and the continued case of Tromb-\\nley versus Dupree, which were continued.\\nThe session of the court in 1820 was merely marked by the granting of a license to\\nthe Chief Justice of that court, as follows:\\nMacomb County,\\nFebruary Term. 1820. f\\nChristian Clemens, of siiid county, having made application to said court for a license to keep a\\ntavern, and having satisfied said court that a tavern is nece.ssary at his phice of residence for tlie ac-\\ncommodation of travelers; that he is of good moral character, and has sufficient accommodation for\\n.sucli purpose; therefore said court have granted him this license.\\nWilliam Thompson,\\nJames Fuller. Daniel Le Roy,\\n.JOSEPH Hays. Assistant Justices of said Counli).\\ncircuit court.\\nThe tii-st record of the Circuit Court shows that Joseph Campau, of Wayne County,\\nsued Charles Peltier, of Macomb, for \u00c2\u00a354 14s., New York cuiTency, due the late Denis\\nCampau, of whose estate Joseph Campau was administrator. William Woodbridge, Pre-\\nsiding Judge of the Court, held at Mt. Clemens July 21, 1828, issued an order for the\\narrest of Peltier and his safe custody until the opening of the Circuit Court in October of\\nthat year at Mt. Clemens. Judgment, damages, 1185.36; costs, $15.50; total, $200.86.\\nRETIREMENT OF JUDGE MOKELL.\\nAmong the old records of the bar of Macomb County is one dealing with an event in\\nits histoi y, namely, the retirement of Hon. George Morell from the judiciary of this cir-\\ncuit, April 4, 1843. A meeting of the bar was held within the old court house at Mt.\\nClemens, which was presided over by Hiron Hathaway as Chairman, and Azariab Pren\\ntiss. Vice Chairman, both Associate Judges of the county. Amos Dolby, Clerk of the\\nCourt, was appointed Secretary. The meeting as organized appointed a committee of\\nnine on resolutions, the members of which were Conger, Butler, Leonard, Terry, Smith,\\nalker, Mitchell, Eldredge and Carter. This committee reported the following resolu-\\ntions, which werii adopted:\\nWhereas, The Hon. George Morell is about to retire from the Chief Justiceship of this State\\nand the Presiding Judgeship of this circuit, where he has long presided with honor to himself and the\\nState, therefore\\nResolved, That we do cheerfully bear testimony to the abilit3 fidelity, promptness and impartiality\\nwith which he has ever discharged his many high and responsible duties as Presiding Judge of this\\nCourt and as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, and that we do sincerely regret that the Judicial re-\\nlatioiis existing between us will terminate with the present session of this court.\\nThe reply of Judge Morell to the practicing lawyers was pathetic in a high degree, as\\nwell as a high testimony to the old bar of Macomb.\\n.|i", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0442.jp2"}, "443": {"fulltext": "ff^^e -f", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0443.jp2"}, "444": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0444.jp2"}, "445": {"fulltext": "liL^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTHE GRAND JURY AND THE JUDGE.\\nAfter submitting the presentments to the court, the Grcand Jurors re- assembled and\\nadoj)ted the following form of address:\\nThe Grand Jurors of the county of Macomb at the April term of tlie Circuit Court in the year\\n1843, having completed their incjuiries in and for said county, would respectfully present that, in com-\\nmon with their fellow-citizens of said county, they regret that this term of this court terminates, by\\nthe expiration of his temi of office, the judicial labors of the Hon. George Morell as the Presiding\\nJudge of .said county; that they have long regarded hun with sentiments of sincere esteem and respect:\\nand believing that he has ever discharged his judicial duties with impartiality, integrity, firmness and\\nability, they present to the court here this tolven of their continuing esteem and unwavering confidence\\nin him.\\nEphriam Calkin, Foreman, Tai.mon H. Gray.\\nAlfred Goodell. Henry S. Courter,\\nAsa Curtiss, Orasnrts Lathrop,\\nAnthony Chortier, D. W, Noyes,\\nWu.LiA.M Stevens, Ciiancey Goodrich,\\nHenry Jersey, James Cheney,\\nG. W. Summers, Heman Nye,\\nJustus R. Crand.vll, John Hicks.\\nJacob Summers. Stew.uw Taylor, Secretary.\\nSanford M. Green, formerly Judge of the Macomb County Circuit Court, was born at\\nGrafton, Rensselaer Co., N. Y., May 30, 1807. In 1S37, became to Michigan and located\\nlands where is now the village of Owasso. On the resignation of Judge Ransom, in 1848,\\nand the transfer of Judge Whipple, Mr. Green was appointed Circuit Judge of the Fourth\\nCircuit. He resigned this position in 18(17. In June, 1872, he was appointed Judge of\\nthe Eighteenth Circuit, to iill vacancy. In 1860. he published a hand-book in the prac-\\ntice of the Circuit Cotrrts, and took an active part in the revision of the Statutes of Mich-\\nigan. He also puljlished a work on the highway laws of Michigan.\\nIn the history of St. Clair County, references will be made to Judges Dewey. W. T.\\nMitchell, E. TV. Harris and H. W. Stevens, of this Circuit Court.\\nrecord of admissions to the bar of MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAmong the early lawyers of the county, or rather those practicing in the County\\nCom-ts, were Cornelius GFlj-nn, Alex D. Frazer. R. P. Eldredge, B. F. H. Witherell. O.\\nD. Richardson, William A. Fletcher, Charier W. Whipple, Backus. Jacob M. How-\\nard, Thomas Ashley, Ezra Preseott and James F. Joy.\\nThe record of persons admitted as attorneys and coimselors at law of this (bounty\\nshows the following names and dates:\\nEzra Preseott, July 10, 1818; Thomas Ashley, June, 1820; Spencer Coleman, Feb-\\nruary. 1821; George McDougall, February 4, 1823; Jacob M. Howard, July 16. 1833;\\nFranklin Sawj-er, Jr., July 10. 1833; James F. Joy, April 12, 1837; Dewitt C. Walker,\\nApril 12, 1837; Royal P. Grouse, April 13, 1837; Harlehigh Carter, Preseott B.\\nThurston, April 13, 1837; Solomon Lathrop, April 12, 1837; Edward W. Han-is,\\nOctober 12, 1837; H.D. Terrj-, April 11, 1838; Peter S. Palmer, October 17. 1839; John", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0445.jp2"}, "446": {"fulltext": "i^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nA. Hillis, October 10, 1839; John J. Leonard, October 16, 1839; Abner C. Smith, Octo-\\nber 16. 1839: Amos Dolby, appointed October 28, 1839; H. D. Terry, appointed Decem-\\nber 9, 1839; Amos Dolby, apjjointed April 8, 1839; Richard Butler, appointed October 8,\\n1839: R. P. Eklredge, appointed May 13, 1839; James L. Conger, April 15, 1840: C. B.\\nH. Fessenden. April 16, 1840: Sylvester Larned, April 4, 1845: Giles Hubbard, April 5,\\n1843; Andrew S. Robertson, October 4, 1846: Lafayette L. Jones, October 7, 1851; Per-\\nrin Crawford, June 20, 1854; James B. Eldredge, June 15, 1858; Thomas M. Crocker,\\nJanuaiy 17, 1859; Spencer Coleman, of New York; Dayton Andrews, October 24, 1859; Edgar\\nWeeks and Wm. A Lewis, October 17, 1860; Irving D. Hanscom, April 4, 1866; Michael\\nStapleton, October 19, 1867; Wm. Jenney, Jr., June 28, 1867; Spencer B. Russell, Au-\\ngust 28, 1868: James Reardon, June 15, 1869; Dwight N. Lowell, June 15, 1869; Will-\\niam M. Connor, October 28, 1869; George M. Crocker, April 12, 1870; Lewis M, Miller,\\nNovember 14, 1871; Franklin S. Abbott, November 14, 1871; Chauncey R. Canfield, Feb-\\nruary 5. 1873; Dewit C. Merriam, February 2, 187. Samuel S. Babcook, May 3, 1876;\\nOscar S. Boi-gess, February 17, 1875; Frank C. Lamb, August 3, 1876; Charles G. Con-\\nger, May 2, 1877; Silas B Spier, May 16, 1877; W. E. Leonard, May 20, 1878; Frank\\nF. Williams, February 11, 1879; Giles H. Hubbard, May 4, 1880: Addison G. Stone,\\nMay 4, 1880; William Self ridge, May 4, 1880; Charles H. Hutchin, August 4, 1880 Mar-\\ntin Crocker, August 24, 1880; James G. Tucker, August 24, 1880; Ai-thur L. Sleeper,\\nMay 10, 1881,\\nAnson Bm-lingame, the negotiator of the treaty of that name, and United States Min-\\nister to China, was admitted an attorney at law before the Circuit Court of Macomb\\nCounty.\\nHenry B. Hutchins was admitted as an attorney at law on a certificate issued from\\nthe Law Department of the University of Michigan.\\nArthur L. Canfield was admitted by the Judges of the Supreme Court iluring the\\nspring term of 1866, in session at Lansing.\\nThe following references to the first session of the County Court, to the lawj-ers of\\nthe period, and to the old court house, weie made by Mr. Weeks, of the present bar, and\\nJudge J. B. Eldredge:\\nThe first court for the trial of causes and the transaction of general business was held\\nat Mt. Clemens, at the residence of Christian Clemens, Chief Justice, on the 10th day of\\nJuly, 1818, and was presided over by the Chief Justice and his two Associates, whom we\\nhave already named in the list of appointments for this county. At this session was ad-\\nmitted to practice Ezra Prescott, of New Hampshire, whose appointment to the office of\\nProsecuting Attorney is also recorded in the list above mentioned.\\nThe first suit mentioned in the records is that of Mitchell and Leo Trombley versus\\nJoseph Dupree-, which was an appeal from a Justice s court, involving about $35, and\\nwhich was continued to the next term. This closed the labors of the court for that term.\\nJohu Stockton was Clerk. The next term was held at the same place, commencing Feb-\\nruary 1, 1819. The first indictment found by the Grand Jury of this county was for as-\\nr:v*", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0446.jp2"}, "447": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsault and battery against John Hurson. The first trial of a cause was at the second term,\\nand was the case above mentioned of Trombley and Trombley versus Dupree, in which was\\nrendered a verdict liy a jiu-y for the plaintiffs of 126.50. This verdict was rendered by\\nthe first Petit Jury of which any record is preserved, and their names are as follows:\\nNathan Coggswell, James Thorrington, William Smith, Harren ITnderhill, Ezekiel Allen,\\nLevi Blount, James A Claris, Robert Stockton, John Tucker, Benjamin Trombley, John B\\nVernier and Louis Chapaton. The third term of the coiu t was held at the same place\\nFebruary 7, 1820. At this session considerable business was transacted; eleven indict-\\nments were found, two of which were against one Henry Cottrell for contempt of law.\\nThis is an offense unknown to the books, either of common or stattitory law, though a\\nwholesome contempt of law has always been entertained by the great mass of the peo-\\nple.\\nWhile the educated legal mind tiu-ns back with a sensation of pride and satisfaction\\nthrough the pages of history in the contemplation of the majestic system of our jurispru-\\ndence, and makes the gi-and assertion that law is the perfection of human reason, we\\nfind here a recorded case of the popular ojiinion that law is an injustice and a humbug.\\nThe record of the next term of the eourb shows that a court house had been built, and\\ntherein the court sat. This court house was built of logs, and stood for some years on\\nthe site of the present court house. At this term was admitted to practice as an attorney\\nB. F. H. Witherell, who died recently in Detroit, then occupying the bench in that county\\nas Circuit Judge. There was at the same time admitted one Spencer Coleman, who pre-\\nsented the certificate of Hon. James Kent, Chief Justice of New York (author of Kenfs\\nCommentaries), that he (Coleman) was an attorney of that State. We cannot give the date,\\nbut the fact exists that about this period there was admitted to the bar of Macomb County\\na lawyer whose name and fame have since become familiar to the world. We refer to Anson\\nBurlingame, oiu recent Minister to China, known to all the treaty powers of the world.\\nHon. C. I. Walker, one of the Professors in the Michigan University Law Department,\\nwas admitted here, as was also the late Cornelius O Flynn, who died recently in Detroit.\\nIt was this court that admitted to citizenship Alexander D. Frazer, the oldest member\\nof the Michigan bar.\\nTHE PRESENT BAR.\\nThe jiresent bar of Macomb County comprises twenty-five lawyers, or one legal ad-\\nviser for every 1,264 persons dwelling within the boundaries of the county. The names\\nof these gentlemen at law are as follows:\\nRobert P. Eldredge, Thomas M. Crocker, James B. Eldredge, Edgar Weeks, Arthur\\nL. Canfield. George M. Crocker, H. B. Hutchins, Sponcer B. Russell. Silas B. Spier.\\nWilliam Selfridge, James G. Tucker, Martin Crocker and Franklin P. Montfort, all of\\nMt. Clemens: Ii-ving D. Hanscom, now of Marquette: Dwight N. Lowell, John L. Stark-\\nweather, and A. L. Sleeper, of Romeo; Seth K. Shetterly and F. F. Williams, of Utica;\\nLorenzo G. Sperry, of Memphis; William H. Clark, Ji-., and Bert C. Preston, of Armada;\\nJoseph Chubb, O. S. Bm-gess and A. G. Stone, of Richmond.\\ni\u00e2\u0080\u0094", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0447.jp2"}, "448": {"fulltext": "4^\\nidL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe officers of the Circuit Court iu 18S1 were: Edward W. Harris, Circuit Judge;\\nThomas W. Newton, Sheriff; William L. Dicken, Clerk; Iriving D. Hanscom, Prosecut-\\ning Attorney; William Longstafl and George Butchler, Constables; F. P. Montfort and\\nA. G. Stone; Circuit Com t Commissioners; and J. B. Mcllwain, Stenographer.\\nThe elections of 1882 resulted in the choice of Hon. H. W. Stevens, of Port Huron,\\nfor Circuit Judge.\\nIMP0RT.\\\\NT TRIALS.\\nAmong the civil cases brought before the courts of the county, few claimed moi-e im-\\nportance than those referred to under this head. These causes are selected on account of\\ntheir historical character, one being on the election of a county officer, one on the privi-\\nleges of executors, and one on the rights of a railroad corporation. The first is interest-\\ning to those who would preserve the pm-ity of the ballot box; the second, to those who\\ndesire to fulfill the wishes of a philanthropist; and the third, very instructive to all who\\nlove to rely on the justice of a corporation. The first arrests for murder were made by\\nSilas Halsey. Sheriff, and Chauucey G. Cady, Deputy, in 1827. near Detroit. The crim-\\ninals, named respectively Schneider and Rickett, were supposed to have murdered Donald-\\nsou, at the Turnpike Crossing at Salt Eiver. They were confined in the old jail, tried be-\\nfore Judge W oodbridge at Mt. Clemens, and acquitted.\\nELECTIONEERING IN 187:1\\nThe case of Alonzo M. Keeler versus George W. Robertson, involving the title to the\\noffice of Registrar of Deeds for Macomb C ounty, was tried before the June term of the Cir-\\ncuit Court, 1873, Judge E. W. Harris presiding. The case for the plaintift rested mainly on\\nthe fact that, out of a total of 246 votes cast in Sterling Township, A. M. Keeler was\\ncredited with fifty-four, while no less than 115 freeholders made affidavit that each of\\nthem recorded his vote for Keeler. The action, too, of Town Board of Inspectors appears\\nto have been of the strangest, if not of the most illegal, character. They counted the\\nvotes a few times, each coimt resulting in an increasing majority for Mr. Robertson. The\\nCoimty Canvassers, on counting the general vote of the county, found that an equal num-\\nber of votes was recorded for each candidate, and resorted to the lottery plan for the pur-\\nposes of declaring an election. Mr. Robertson drew the successful slip, ami received the\\ncertificate of his election from the County Clerk.\\nProceedings on the natiu e of quo warrnnfo were instituted in the Supreme Coiu-t,\\nwhere issues were framed and ordered to be tried before the Circuit Court of Macomb\\nCounty, which trial resulted in a judgment for Robertson, the finding being said to have\\nbeen directed by Judge Harris. The findings of the jury, etc., etc., were placed before\\nthe Sujn-eme Court, when the judgment of the Circuit Judge was reversed, and one de-\\nclaring Mr. Keeler elected, rendered. This celebrated case was conducted by Edgar Weeks,\\nassisted by A. B. Maynard and E. W. Meddaugh, on the part of Keeler, while the defense\\nwas carried out by Robert P. Eldredge, Giles Hubl)ard, A. C. Baldwin and James B.\\nI jl dredge.\\nVN", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0448.jp2"}, "449": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTHE HATHAWAY ESTATE IMBROGLIO.\\nThe Hatheway estate imbroglio, wherein Crockett McElroy was complainant, and James\\nS. P. Hatheway, Cortez P. Hooker and Ichabod L. Quimby, defendants, began in October,\\n1871.\\nThe lawyers. Edgar Weeks and E. F. Conely, representee^ McElroy; Messrs. Crocker\\nand Huchins represented Hooker; and Lyman D. Norris and F. Uhl, of Grand Eapids,\\nrepresented Hatheway and Quimby. The case was continued up to 188(1, when the a])pel-\\nlant appealed from the ruling of the Circuit Coiu t here to the Su}jreme Court. The judg-\\nment given in the lower court was contiimed.\\nTHE AIK-LINE SUIT.\\nThe litigation between the Michigan Air-Line Railroad Company and IJellens and\\nTackels resulted in a verdict for the railroad company.\\nIn 1877, the Mellens and Tackels brought an ejectment snit in the Circuit Com t of\\nthis county against the Michigan Air-Line, claiming title to the depot lands at Eomeo.\\nThe company then filed a bill in chancery to restrain by injunction the prosecution of that\\nsuit, and further claiming that the lands in question were purchased by Harvey Mellen,\\nJohn N. Mellen and John Phelps (from whom Tackels derived title), in trust for the Mich-\\nigan Air-Line Railroad Company, the gi-antor of the present company, and that Manag-\\ning Director McNaughton, in 1870, delivered to Harvey Mellen township aid bonds to the\\namount of $2,500, in payment of all claims for depot grounds and buildings. The de-\\nfendants answer denied the purchase as alleged, and set up the fact that the lands were\\npurchased through an understanding and agreement with J. E. Young that they were to\\nprocure the land to themselves, and proceed and erect suitable buildings; and that the\\ncompany, within two years, would reimburse them and gi-ant them certain exclusive privi-\\nleges for handling gi-ain. Defendants further claimed that the bonds received by Hai-^ ey\\nMellen were not received by him in payment, but simply as an officer of the road to see if\\nthey could be used in payment of the expenditures made, and that upon the refusal of\\nTackels and John N. Mellen to so accept them, he reported the fact to the Board of Di-\\nrectors, and that he would hold the bonds and account for them when the company might\\nwish to settle with him for some $4,000 advanced by him (aside from the depot purchase)\\nfor the construction of the road. The present company thus claimed that the bonds should\\nbe applied in payment, and the defendants that they had not been so applied. The de-\\nfendants further avowed their willingness to deed to the company upon fulfillment of the\\ncontract as they claimed it to be.\\nThe bill for an injunction was argued before the Circuit Court in Februai-y and dis-\\nmissed.\\nThe railroad thereupon appealed the case, with result as above stated. The lit-\\nigation was a long and expensive one, involving an expenditure of several thousand dol-\\nlars on both sides. I. D. Hanscom and E. W. Meddaugh were attorneys for the Air-Line;\\nJ. B, Eldi-edge. D. N. Lowell and A. B. Maynard, for Tackels et al.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0449.jp2"}, "450": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB CO LINT Y.\\nTHE COnNTY COURT HOUSE.\\nTile history of the establishment of the county seat is already told. That of the livst\\nand second houses built for the purposes of public busine.ss has been referred to in the\\nable historical address of George M. Crocker. Here it will be only necessary to regard\\nthe battle between the northern and southern citizens of Macomb the former seeking a\\nrelocation of the seat of justice, the latter protesting against such a relocation. On\\nFebruary 20, 1879, the Supervisors intimated that the board would receive the petition of\\nthe people of Romeo. This document was presented by Irving D. Hanscom. It was\\nsigned b\\\\ Harvey Mellen and 12fi others, under date Romeo, February 24, ISTU. and was\\ncouched in the following terms:\\nTi the Honorable Board of Supervisors of tlie county of Macomb: Your petitioners hereto\\nri spcctfully represent that tliey are citizens and taxpayers of said county of Macomb, and recognize\\nthe expediency of having a new com t house and jail for the use of this county. They further repre-\\nsent that the citizens of Rom io and vicinity have subscribed upward of $:M,000 as a free gift to the\\ncounty if county .seat shall be located at said village of Romeo. Thereby relieving the inhabitants of\\nthe county from the imposition of a heavy tax for the erection of said buildings.\\nYour petitioners further represent that the full sum of |30.()0() has been guaranteed to be paid\\naccording to the terms of said subscription and at the time therein specified, by wealthy citizens of\\nRomeo, representing a capital of, at least, $,500,000, your petitioners would therefore iu consideration\\nof the premises, respectfuUj- petition and ask your honorable Ijody to submit the question of removal of\\nthe county seat of Macomb County from the village of Mount Clemens to the village of Romeo at the\\nnext annual township meeting to be held in the several townships of the county to a vote of the quali-\\nJied electors of said county and your petitioners will ever pray, etc.\\nSupervisor Nimms then moved the following resohttion:\\nWhereas, Certain citizens of the county of Macomb, of the village of Romeo and vicinity in\\nsaid county, being desirous of procuring a removal of the county seat of said county to the said village\\nof Romeo, have by subscription promised to pay to the said county the several sums therein subscribed\\nby them, and aggregating the sum of more than .|30,000. provitled said county seat shall be removed to\\nthe village of Romeo as stated iu said subscription.\\nWhere.\\\\s, Certain citizens of Romeo and vicinity, in order to insure to said county the prompt\\npayment of said above-mentioned subscription to the amount of |30,000 provided said county seat of\\nsaid county shall be removed to the village of Romeo, have signed an obligation b} which obligation\\nguarantee the payment of fSO.OOO of said subscription to said county as stated in said obligation.\\nTherefore\\nRe.iolped. That the Board of Suiiervisors of said count} deem it expedient, in view of all the cir-\\ncumstances, to accept such subscription and oliligation of guarantee, and do hereby accept the same for\\nthe purpose therein stated.\\nResolned, That the county .seat of said Macomb County be removed from the village of Mount\\nClemens to the village of Romeo in said count}-.\\nMr. GofE moved the resolutions be adopted, which was lost by yeas and nays as follows:\\nAyes\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Messrs. Coyer, Ayers, Bennet, Xye, Goff, Murphy anil Nimms.\\nNays\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Messrs. Farrar. Parker, Dedenback. Teats, Stewart. Perkins and Lefever.\\nThe character of that memorable meeting of the Supervisors Board of Macomb\\nCounty is outlined in the following telegram to the papers of the State, dispatched about\\nthe time Mi\\\\ Mavnard, of Romeo, entered on his argument in favor of relocation:\\ny", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0450.jp2"}, "451": {"fulltext": "A\\n\u00c2\u00b1J^ ^b\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUKTY. 451\\nAt 9 o clock this morning, every Supervisor was in his seat, and in less than twenty\\nmimites the coui-t house was jammed full of citizens and Romeo s representatives and\\nlobbyists, to see the court house removal tight. The proposition of the Romeo people was\\npresented to the board by I. D. Hanscom. They want the Supervisors to vote to have\\nthe coimty seat removed to Romeo, and then submit it to the people at their spring elec-\\ntion. On motion, the legal gentlemen were invited to address the board. A. B. Maynard,\\nfor Romeo, made the opening speech, and asked for the closing speech. Granted. He\\nwas followed by T. M. Crocker, J. B. Eldridge, Edgar Weeks, William M. Campbell and\\nH. H. Cady for Mt. Clemens. Campbell said: Lay aside yom- $30,000 and submit the\\nquestion to the people without a gift and see if they demand a removal. Also that\\nRomeo was not willing to shake the dice in a fair way, but came down here with loaded\\ndice. Maynard commences his closing speech at 1:30. after which a vote will probably\\nbe reached. The excitement here is intense.\\nThe board at length voted the question; the gift of Mt. Clemens and the $5,000 con-\\ntribution of the citizens were accepted, and as a result, the corner-stone of the maguilicent\\nbuilding known now as the new county com-t house was laid October 21, 1880.\\nMEETING OF ROMEO CITIZENS.\\nA citizens meeting was held at Gray s Opera House, Romeo, January 11, 1879. I.\\nD. Hanscom was called to the chair, and D. N. Lowell was elected Secretary. The object\\nof the meeting being merely to get matters in shape for the raising of the $30,000 prom-\\nised for the erection of new county buildings should the county seat be removed to Romeo,\\na working committee to solicit subscriptions was appointed at once. The following gen-\\ntlemen were selected: Harvey Mellen, J. Mahaflfy, H. H. Spencer, of Ai-mada; E. S.\\nSnover. Charles Fillmore. F. S. Crisman, J. T. Robinson, W. W. Andrus. Samuel Cooley,\\nIra Killam. Hon. A. B. Maynard, being present, adch essed the meeting briefly, explain-\\ning the object and purposes of the citizens of Romeo in the matter under consideration.\\nHe asserted what all ought to undei-stand, that in this movement there is not the slightest\\nfeeling against Mt. Clemens; that Romeo is simply exercising undoubted and unquestioned\\nright, in a business point of view; if she succeeds, all right; if she fails, there is no harm\\ndone. Ml Maynard spoke about ten minutes, and his remarks were evidently well received.\\nAlthough no eftbrt was made at this meeting in the way of subscriptions, voluntary sub-\\nscriptions to the amount of S6,000 were recorded. The following gentlemen signed the\\nroll: J. H. Brabb, $1,000; Henry Stephens, $1,000; A. B. Maynard, $1,000; Harvey\\nMellen, $1,000; James Gray, $1,000; Hugh (X Gray, $1,000.\\nSubsequently, other citizens followed the example of the original signers, and within\\na short time the entire sum of $30,000 was forthcoming.\\nLOGIC OF THE CONSEEV.iTIVES.\\nBefore passing away from this subject, it may not be out of place to give a re-\\nview of the situation, previous to the day on which the Supervisors Board resolved", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0451.jp2"}, "452": {"fulltext": "-K\\nHISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nto maintain the spat of justice at Mt. Clemens. A contributor to the Mt. Clemens Presn\\nsaid:\\nA proposition to move the county seat of this county has been sprung by certain\\npersons in Romeo, and a great deal of discussion is going on, many meetings being held\\nand large subscriptions of money talked about, until many people are found who already\\nlook upon the removal as an accomplished fact. We propose to discuss the question fairly,\\nand show whv the present location should be retained; why it would be impolitic and im-\\npracticable to designate Romeo as the future seat of our county government.\\nIn the first place, the present excitement originated in a proposition, submitted at the\\nOctober session of the Board of Supervisors, to build a new county jail. This proposition\\nwas made by Supervisor Farrar, of Clinton. It is a fact which may as well be conceded\\nat once that Macomb County ought to have a new jail. The present structure is without\\none redeeming featui-e, and is a disgrace to the county. Immediately upon this proposi-\\ntion being submitted, there arose a great howl in certain quarters of the county about\\nthe biu den of expense this would impose upon the tax-ridden people of this county. The\\nhowl was the opening chorus of the grand concert we are now being treated with. A de-\\ncent and suitable jail can be erected for about $6,000, and it is easy to figure upon the\\nbasis of equalization adopted at the October session of the board what this will add to the\\nburden of individual tax-payers of the county. The whole taxable property of the county\\nwas estimated at $6,258,000. And the figures show that if each tax-payer of the county\\nis assessed 10 cents on each $100 of his assessed valuation, the sum of $6,258 is realized\\nan amount sufficient to build a good jail and suitable Sheriff s residence. Now, sup-\\npose a system of public buildings be built at a cost of only $30,000. on the same basis\\nthis would add 48 cents on every $100 assessed valuation. Thehistoi v of our county seat\\nshows that this is the third or fourth time this tempest in a teapot has raged, and we\\nbelieve, when the subject is carefully considered, it will end now as it always has hereto-\\nfore. Mt. Clemens is the oldest settlement in the county, and, as the saying is, all roads\\nlead to Rome, so all roads in Macomb County lead to Mt, Clemens. Examine the map\\nof the county and it will be easy to see that the systemjof roads and the location of the\\nGrand Trunk Railway favors this as the most central point in the county.\\nThe village of Mt. Clemens lies within six miles of the geographical center of the\\ncounty. We call the corner of Section 15, 16. 21 and 22 of the town of Macomb the geo-\\ngraphical center of the county. It is accessiljle by railway communication with the most\\npopulous jiart of the towns of Richmond, Lenox, Chesterfield and Erin, and accessible by\\ngood roads at all times with Erin, Warren. Harrison, Macomb, Chesterfield, Sterling,\\nShelby and Clinton, as well as every other town in the county. For the piu poses of\\nillustrating the grounds we take, we grouji the towns of the center as follows: As inter-\\nested in retaining the county seat at Mt. Clemens, Lenox, Chesterfield, Macomb. Clinton,\\nSterling, Harrison, Erin and Wai ren. As favorable (because of geography simply) to\\nRomeo, we take Bruce, Washington, Ai-mada, Ray, Shelby and Richmond. We give the\\npopulation of these townships according to the census of 1870:\\nr^", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0452.jp2"}, "453": {"fulltext": "l\u00c2\u00b1^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nClinton 5,358\\nMacomb I,8it5\\nHarrison 605\\nErin 2,466\\nWarren 1.938\\nSterling 1,.549\\nLenox 2,547\\nChesterfield 2.175\\nArmada 2,215\\nBruce 2,145\\nWa.shington 2,057\\nRay 1,555\\nRichmond 2,566\\nShelby 1.695\\nTotal 30,676\\nThis shows that iu the group we assume as interested in the county seat remaining\\nat Mt. Clemens there was in 1870 an excess of population over the other group of 6,210.\\nNow, it is well understood that population has been rapidly increasing in the group\\nof towns fii st given, while in the other towns population is not rapidly increasing. And\\nit is shown by the foregoing census table that the excess of population is equal to the\\npopulation of a good-sized eonnty. We take the same group of towns to show the fact\\nin regard to comparative wealth. The equalization of the Board of Supervisors of October,\\n1878, is as follows:\\n1360.000 Leno.v |3. w,000\\n760,000 Armada 44.5,000\\n98,000 Bruce 660,000\\n295,000 Washington 705,000\\n345,000 Ray 370,000\\n410,000 Richmond 445,000\\nShelljy 340,000\\nMacomb\\nClinton\\nHarrison.\\nErin\\nWarren\\nChesterfield.\\nSterling 340,000\\nTotal .f 6.028.000\\nHere the figures show that the excess of valuations fixed by the Supervisors is\\n$98,000. We take the same grouping of towns to illustrate still further. In the equal-\\nization of county taxes at the last October session of the Supervisors, the following\\nfigiu es were made:\\nClinton $2,8.53 95\\nMacomb 1,3.51 87\\nHarrison 368 00\\nErin 1,483 30\\nWarren 1.295 .54\\nSterling 1.276 77\\nChesterfield 1..539 63\\nLenox i^i.Hm 09\\nArmada 1,671 06\\nBruce 1,8.53 95\\nWashington 2,8.53 95\\nRay 1,389 43\\nRichmond 1,671 06\\nShelln- 1,764 95\\nTotal 124.706 55\\nShowing an excess of taxes paid for county piu-poses by the group which are claimed\\nwould be most interested in retaining the county seat, though the excess is small.\\nThe foregoing tigiwes are important to consider in connection with the erection of county\\nbuildings, providing it is done by public tax.\\nThe great cry, however, of those who advocate a removal to Romeo is that Komeo\\npeople will donate \u00c2\u00a730,000 for this purpose. Mt. Clemens has not yet been heard from", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0453.jp2"}, "454": {"fulltext": "iiL^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\non that subject, nor do we think it necessary to play any game of bluff of that kind.\\nWhen the time comes, this part of the county will be found ready to do all that is just and\\nright. We are considering the question of removal with reference to the public conven-\\nience, and we again assert that no point in the county will accommodate so well the ma-\\njority of our population as Mt. Clemens.\\nWhen we come to consider the coat of new buildings which are to cost say 130,000;\\nthen when we show that every tax-payer who pays on $100 valuation will have just 48\\ncents added to this amount, and when we consider that those who pay |10 valuation will\\nhave to pay jvist 4/|j cents, additional, we demonstrate to a large majority of the tax-\\npayers of this county that there is a great cry over a very little wool on the subject of\\nexpense and taxation, and that the expense would be far more than offset by the incon-\\nvenience of removal to a large majority of the people of the county. Don t forget that\\n4/^ cents on every |10 of assessed valuation will raise 130,138.40 for county buildings.\\nA set of men representing $6,258,000 assessed valuation, which is only about one-\\nfourth of the actual value, should not stop one moment to consider a proposition, or ask\\nthat a few private citizens should contribute from their own private purses a sum sufficient\\nto erect buildings for the use of as wealthy a county as Macomb, and we look upon a pro-\\nposition of that kind as a direct insult to the board of and the inhabitants of one of the\\nwealthiest counties of the State a coimty which has not built a public building in\\ntwenty-five years, except a county poor house, which was inexpensive, and that, too, some\\nten or twelve years ago.\\nThe arguments brought forward by the people of Romeo and adjoining townships\\nwere very forcible and clear; yet they did not prevail; the representatives of the northern\\ntownships were destined to lose all chance of obtaining for many years perhaps forever\\nthe boon for which they struggled so earnestly; yet they won for the county a sum of\\n$20,000 from the citizens of Mt. Clemens.\\nLAYING THE OOENEK STONE.\\nOctober 21, 1880, was a day that will be long i-emembered in Mount Clemens, and\\nthat will adorn one of the brightest pages of her history. The elements that all the week\\nhave been inauspicious, forgot their anger Thursday morning, and gave a bright and\\ngentle October day, well adapted indeed for the great event of that day, the laying of the\\ncorner stone of Macomb County s new court house. The enterprising and patriotic citi-\\nzens, more particularly the business men, had a full appreciation of what was required of\\nthem, and early in the moi-ning the court house scjuare and Pearl street were gay with\\ndecorations. Bunting and dags adorned the front of every business house, and swayed\\nacross the streets. Peoj^le began entering town at 9 o clock, coming on trains, in car-\\nriages and wagons, and when the ceremony took place there were between two and three\\nthousand strangers in the city. Grand Master McGrath came up on the early train, at-\\ntended by different members of the Grand Lodge, and the Port Huron band arrived at the\\nsame time. The music furnished was of the highest order. The beautiful melodies were", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0454.jp2"}, "455": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COU TY.\\nrendered to the great delight nf the large concoursB, aud withal were generously dispensed.\\nThe band played almost incessantly the whole day through. The Monitor counts itself\\namong the fortunate ones that were honored with an esjiecial serenade. The arrangements\\nof the day, in the hands of the Masons, were without fault, and progressed without unto-\\nward happening to a successful consummation.\\nAt 12 o clock the Grand Lodge, the Supervisors, the Council, and Mount Clemens\\nLodge, assembled in the opera house. They formed, and with the baud at their head.\\niiOok up the line of march. The order of the procession was as follows:\\n3 Baud; Grand Sword Bearer, with drawn sword; Grand Standard Bearer; Grand Mas-\\nter, supported by two Grand Deacons, with black rods: Grand Pursuivant; a Past Master,\\ncarrying the Book of Constitutions; Deputy Graud Master, carrying the golden vessel with\\ncorn; Senior Grand Warden, carrying the silver vessel with wine; Junior Grand Warden,\\ncarrying the silver vessel withoil; Bible, Square and Compass, carried by a Master of a lodge,\\nsupported by two Stewards, with white rods; Grand Chaplain; (Irand Treasurer; Grand\\nSecretary; Grand Architect and assistants, with Square, Level and Plumb; Grand Stew-\\nards, with white rods; Grand Tiler, with drawn sword; Mount Clemens Lodge, No. 6, in\\nreverse order; members of Board of Supevisors; members of Common Council.\\nThe pageant moved slowly round the square, and stojjped at the southwest corner\\nof the building, where the ceremony began. When all were disposed upon the jjlatform,\\nthe Graud Master rapped silence. Hon. George M. Crocker, the Mayor, then advanced\\naud addressed the large assembly.\\nHISTORICAL ADDRESS, BY MAYOR G. M. CROOKER.\\nWe are met together upon this occasion for the purpose of witnessing the ceremony of\\nthe laying of the corner-stone of our new court house. A mere ceremony, it is true, yet it is\\na ceremony that is fraught with interest and importance to the whole people of Macomb\\nCounty, and particularly to the citizens of Mt. Clemens a ceremony that probably not\\none of us alive to-day will ever witness again.\\nThe spot of ground upon which we are assembled to-day is sacred ground sacred\\nbecause it is more intimately connected with the past 3nd present history of our county\\nthan any other spot within its limits. It has, in fact, more of a history itself.\\nThe history of this spot of ground commences with the title page of the history of\\nMacomb County away back in the dim past, when Mt. Clemens was but a straggling\\nhamlet upon the banks of the river Huron; when all of the surrounding country was a\\ntrackless wilderness; when there were but few cabins here and there; when Detroit her-\\nself, now Michigan s pride, was but a mere village; when the only neighbors Mt. Clemens\\nhad were the Indian settlements on the north and east, and Detroit on the south when\\nthe only means the settlers had of getting to Detroit was by the batteaux that slowly crept\\ndown the crooked river, and thence through Lake St. Clair or to follow the trail along\\nthe river bank to the shore of the lake and thence along its margin: when the only trade\\nworthy of mention was the fiu trade.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0455.jp2"}, "456": {"fulltext": "456 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThen it was that the hardy pioneers of that day, a race of strong, determined men\\nmen who came here determined to subdue the difficulties that surrounded them, met to-\\ngether and resolved that they must have a forum where disputes should be legally settled,\\nand the rights of themselves and their descendants maintained and kept inviolate \u00e2\u0080\u0094and\\nthis was the spot then selected.\\nOn the first page of Liber A of deeds, in the Register s office, the first book of\\nrejDrds, you will find a deal of this spot of land from Christian Clemens, the founder of\\nMt. Clemens. This deed ran to the Governor, not of the State of Michigan, but of the\\nTerritory of Michigan, in trust for Macomb County. The main consideration in the deed\\nis that the court house be located here, upon this spot; the date of that deed is March 10,\\n1818. History tells us that Maj. Gen. Macomb, after whom this county was named, se-\\nlected and designated this as the spot where the Hall of Justice should be located and\\nhere ever since that time has Justice had her seat. It is true that the justice of that day\\nwas a crude and primitive justice, yet it was rugged justice. It is true that you find the\\ncourts of those days solemnly determining that Christian Clemens, their Chief Justice,\\nhad the ability to keep a tavern, and that he be granted leave to keep a tavern in his res-\\nidence for one year. It is true that you will find in their records indictments for assault\\nand battery against some of the lawyers and officers of the court: I had almost said against\\nthe court itself. It is true that you do not find the voluminous, lengthy records and files\\nof the courts of to-day, true that you could almost put the journal of the court in your\\npocket; yet, my friends, all these things were but the natm al incidents of the times.\\nAnd no man can sit down and read over those old records candidly, and fail to see that\\nthey ever honestly aimed at the right, and they almost invariably hit the bird in the eye.\\nMy friends all roads lead to the coiu-t house. Here, since 1818, have the people\\ncome fi-om every nook and corner of the county to settle their disputes. Here have they\\nsat and listened to the trials, and anxiously waited for the verdict. Here have been pre-\\nserved the evidences of the titles of the people to their houses. Here have been admitted,\\nand here have pleaded a galaxy of lawyers that made the bar of Macomb County the peer\\nof any in the State. Here, in da^ s gone by, have come as applicants for admission to\\nthe bar a number of young men from other places, who subsequently carved out for them-\\nselves brilliant records as lawyers, and some of them have written their names upon the\\nenduring pages of their country s history. Upon this spot of ground has been, to a certain\\nextent, the index of our county s prosperity; a gauge telling of our advancement before\\nthe days of steam and electricity, before the days even of highways, when the people\\nchiefly lived in cabins, when the face of the county showed little else but forests and\\nmarshes. Then the log court house was here.\\nIn 1840, when the county began to be partially cleared up, and the inhabitants\\nhad more comfortable dwellings, then the old log court house gave way to one of brick,\\nwhich, at the time of its construction, was deemed good enough to meet the demands of a\\nfuture age.\\nAnd now, here in 1881, when our county has grown rich, and fairly teems with fer-", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0456.jp2"}, "457": {"fulltext": "l\\\\^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntility. and abounds with good buildings and finely cultivated farms, we are erecting this,\\nour new coui-t house, which, though elegant in appearance, solid and firm in structure, is\\nnot out of keeping with the steady current of our advancement. And while we are glad\\nin our prosperity, while we are justly proud of our present strength, and are strongly con-\\nfident of future growth and progress, while we are to-day looking forward to a futui e that\\nbids fair to be golden, let us not fail to stop, reverently uncover our heads, look back and\\nremember with gratitude, those who were here before us those who struggled to transmit\\noui present blessings to us.\\nAnd it is but fit and proper that I should read to you from the history written forty\\nyears ago, and kept, until recently, in the safe and solid confines of the corner stone of\\nthe coiu t house of 1840. Kept by a solid custodian that, after having been itself a sup-\\nport for forty years of the second coiu t house, to-day is placed in this, the chief corner\\nof our third court house, and forms a part of its solid masonry, and unites the age of\\n1840 with that of 1880.\\nThe record says that the court house was built May 12. 1840; that the contractor\\nwas T. P. Castle; the mason, William Phelps. That the village of Mt. Clemens was\\ntii-st settled by Jiulge Clemens, in the year of oui- Lord 1805. The first plat was made\\nby Mayor Cien. Macomb, in the year 1818. At that time Lewis Cass was Governor of the\\nTerritory of Michigan. Gen. Macomb selected this spot as the location of the court house\\nfor this county. Christian Clemens was the first Judge appointed for the county of Ma-\\ncomb, and presided as such Judge for foiu teen yeai s. He was a native of Philadelphia,\\nin the State of Pennsylvania, and is now the greatest land-owner of the village. His age\\nis seventy years, and he is now present at the laying of the corner-stone of this building.\\nA business directory, deposited at that time, tells us that the following wei e the\\nbusiness men of that day:\\nAttorneys\u00e2\u0080\u0094 R. P. Eldredge, Richard Butler, A. C. Smith, H. D. Terry, P. B. Thurs-\\nton, and J. J. Leonard; blacksmiths D. Chandler, George Dixon, J. S. Parks; tailors\\nWilliam Roy, and J. C. Williams; cabinet makers C. Spaulding, William G. Page;\\nphysicians Henry Taylor, George Lee, Jr., Philo Tillson, Ebenezer Hall; merchants\\nH. M. Dodge, -Tohn Stevens, Porter Kibbe, Eastman Gallup, Hall Grovier, Green\\nFreeman; grocers John Conner, M. Stapleton, V. Maynard; inn-keep)ers Joseph Hub-\\nbard, Alfred Ashley, Jabez Hammond, Silas Hblsey; glass manufacturers Hall Grovier;\\nshoemakers William Lewis, J. S. Dixon, E. L. Atkinson; wagon-makers C. N. Mather,\\nCrittenden; printers T. M. Perry, J. Ingersoll; Treasm-er H. M. Dodge;\\nCoroner William Lewis; Postmaster A. C. Smith; Justices John Stockton, P. B.\\nThm ston; Presbyterian pastor Rev. C. Dudley; Chui-ches Presbyterian, Methodist, one\\nBaptist Society.\\nMy friends, since that record was made. Time, the change-maker, has not been idle.\\nChi istian Clemens, who was more closely and prominently allied with the interests of Ma-\\ncomb County than any man of his time, whose generous heart swelled with gratitude and\\nemotion as he witnessed the laying of the corner-stone of the building that marked another", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0457.jp2"}, "458": {"fulltext": "HISTOUY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nepoch in the prosperity of the community a prosperity that he labored so hard to secure\\nhas gone from you. He has long since solved the grand question. Where are the\\nlawyers mentioned in that record? The voices of the versatile and eloquent Terry and the\\nrugged John J. Leonard are hushed in death. All of the others are dead except R. P.\\nEldi-edge and Richard Butler, who are not in practice to-day. Where are the physicians\\nof that day? They are all dead except Philo Tillson, who is now a venerable resident of\\nRomeo. None of the merchants mentioned, in that record are in business here: most of\\nthem are dead, and those that are alive live elsewhere.\\nAnd in fact, most of the business men mentioned in that directory have crossed the\\ndark and silent river. A majority of those who are now living with us have retired from\\nthe strife of active life, and are now sitting in easy places, the cradle of reposing age be-\\ning rocked by hands that then were baby hands. Only two of the men now living with us\\nwhose names are upon that record ai e to-day pursuing the same avocations they were pur-\\nsuing flirty years ago. The one is our neighbor, D. C. Williams, a tailor, who still plies\\nthe needle and handles the shears. The other is William Phelps, then recoi ded as mason\\nof that building, and to-day the ring of his trowel may be heard ujson this building,\\nkeeping perfect time with the trowels of those who are his juniors by at least forty years.\\nMy friends, while we pause and realize that our county has greatly changed, and\\nthat a new lot of men have by the force of crowding events come to the front, and now\\ncarry on and administer the business duties of life, let us not lose sight of the fact that\\nsoon we all will, by a new, young and ever onward pressing life and by the ravages of\\ntime, be forced into oblivion, and that these places that now know us so well shall know\\nus no more forever. The action of Mt. Clemens and her near neighbors in building this\\ncourt house is no new thing. This duty seems to have been linked with the blessings to-\\nday enjoyed, and to have been transmitted to us by the regular line of descent. It is as-\\nserted by those who were here forty years ago, and the assertion I have not heard seriously\\ndenied, that the second court house was built by Mt. Clemens and vicinity, and that the\\nbuilding, like this, was but a monument upon the old spot telling to the world the unan-\\nimity of feeling between Mt. Clemens and her neighbors, telling of the sacrifices which\\nMt. Clemens and her friends had made and are still making to keep the Hall of Justice\\nupon the old, time honored spot.\\nIt is not my pui pose to enter into the details of the struggle in relation to that\\nbuilding. Those things are of the ]:)aHt. But I can say for the peoi)le of Mt. Clemens\\nthat they do not cherish any feelings of animosity toward their neighboring sister for en-\\ndeavoring to get this building located there. We recognize that in doing that Romeo did\\nnothing but to make an honest endeavor to protect her own interests. We do not forget\\nthat Romeo is our sister, and we rejoice in her solidity and prosperity. We remember\\nthe fact that we are all but parts of one common and prosperous county, and we never\\ncan forget the kindly and generous treatment that we received at the hands of the Super-\\nvisor who lives within the limits of Romeo; and I know T but faintly echo the feeling of\\nthe people when I say that we hope and trust the most amicable and friendly relations\\nw", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0458.jp2"}, "459": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nmay ever exist between the two towns. And to you, the members of the Board of Super-\\nvisors, I desire to publicly say that the city thanks you for the straightforward, upright\\nand coiu-teous line of conduct you have displayed toward us. and we particularly thank\\nyou for your generosity in assuming the responsibility of paying the architect and super-\\nintendent of this building.\\nTo the friends and neighbors of Mt. Clemens, whohave come to om- assistance, who\\ndonated $5,000 to be used in the construction of this building, I desire to here publicly\\non the part of Mt. Clemens, thank you for your generosity. We have caused every name\\nyou have signed to be copied, and propose to have this list deposited in this 8tone,:so that\\nin the far-off futm-e, when a sm ging progress shall force this stone from its bed of mortar,\\nand this list shall come to light again, your descendants can see and read the names of\\nthe persons who recognized that we were all united by one common interest, that the pros-\\nperity of one was the prosperity of another, and that the lines of oiu- incorporation were but\\nimaginary. And now to you, the Grand Master of the Masonic Fraternity of the State of Mich-\\nigan, the chief executor of a brotherhood that is almost as ancient as the ceremonj of lay-\\ning corner stones, I renew the request heretofore made on the part of the city, That you\\nwill lay this corner stone according to the customs and usages of your ancient order.\\nFollowing came a prayer by the Grand Chaplain, and then a list of the articles placed\\nin the stone was read. It ran as follows:\\n1. Proposition of city of Mt. Clemens to build court bouse, and vote of Council\\nthereon.\\n2. Resolution and vote of Board of Supervisors accepting proposition of Mt. Clemens.\\n3. Vote upon the proj)osition by the city electors April 5, 1880.\\n4. Memorandum of bonds issued by the city for the payment of the $20,000 voted by\\nthe city.\\n5. Vote of Council and Board of Supervisors accepting plans and specifications of\\nN. J. Gibbs, architect, and date of contract with builders.\\n6. List of names of persons who subscribed money toward the $5,000 raised over\\nand above the .$20,000 voted by the city.\\n7. List of the business men and firms now doing liusiness in the city.\\n8. Names of the present Board of Aldermen and officers of the city,\\ny. Names of present members of Board of Supervisors.\\n10. One copy of Detroit Daily Post and Tribune.\\n11. One copy of Detroit Daily Free Press.\\n12. One copy of Mt. Clemens Pces.s.\\n13. One copy of Mt. Clemens MonHor.\\n14. One copy of RoTneo Obserrer.\\n15. One copy of Mt. Clemens Republican.\\nIH. List of officers and membei s of Ladies Literary Society.\\n17. List of officers and members of Mt. Clemens Lodge, F. A. M.\\n18. List of officers and members of Grand Lodge.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0459.jp2"}, "460": {"fulltext": "4\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n19. List of officers and members of Odd Fellows Lodge.\\n20. Ijist of oificers and members of the German Working Men s Society.\\n21. Programme of day s proceedings.\\n22. Proceedings of Grand Lodge F. A. M. of Michigan, and Grand Chapter, 1880.\\n28. Memorial of the Juvenile Templars.\\n24. One copy of Romeo Democrat.\\n25. One copy of Detroit Evening New.t.\\n2(). Old coin taken from corner stone of old court house, dated 1781.\\nThe striking ceremony proceeded in regular form until its close. The acts of the\\nGrand Officers, with the responses of the craft, the music and sm ronndings served to con-\\nstitute an interesting and impressive service. It was entirely new to many of the audience\\nUpon its conclusion came an addi-ess by tho Grand Master. This, a brief history of Ma-\\nsonry, its accomplishments and aims, was an eloquent and masterly effort.\\nA Masonic ode followed, and then the benediction, which signaled the end. The crowd\\ndispersed. The Masons with their guests again assembled in the Opera House. Here they\\nformed, and took up the march to the Avery House, where dinner was served. Fully 200\\ntook seats in the splendid dining room of the hotel, and a fine collation awaited them.\\nThe banquet occupied more than an hour, and consisted of six com ses. Many of the visit-\\nors were in the house for the first time, and were surprised by its size and beauty. The\\ndance at the Opera House the same evening was a great success. It was, with one excep-\\ntion, the lai-gest party of its kind held in Mt. Clemens.\\nThe Committee on Appropriations reported in favor of allowing the architect of the\\ncourt house 11,000 for his plans, and for superinteading the work, of which amount $750\\nshould be paid at once. The total cost of the building and fiu-niture cannot be much be-\\nlow the sum of 152,000. The work has been performed well, and another beautiful ad-\\ndition to the public buildings of the State was formally opened in November, 1881.\\nThe members of the Court House Building Committee were Charles Ulrich, John\\nOtto and E. W. Lewis, representing the Common Council of Mt. Clemens City, and\\nJames Ayi es, L. H. Cantield and Thomas Dawson, rejiresenting the Supervisors Board.\\nThe Committee organized by appointing James Ayres, Chairman, and John Otto, Clerk.\\nJune 18, 1880. The Clerk was excused from acting on Committee July 7, 1880, and\\nThomas Dawson was appointed Secretary. This Committee continues to act at date of\\nwriting, and will i-eport when the building and furnishing are reported complete.\\nTHE COUNTY JAIL.\\nReference has been made, in Mayor Crocker s address, to the old county jail. This\\nrelic is in existence yet; and, as described in the following letter, must be a terrible place for\\nhabitation: As we entered the vault (it deserves no better name), a damp, sickening smell\\nweighed down the atmosphere, and the chilly air fairly penetrated one to the marrow.\\nThe main apartment of the jail runs the entire length of the building, and even then it is\\nhardly large enough to dance a French fom in. This room, in which the prisoners are", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0460.jp2"}, "461": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0461.jp2"}, "462": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0462.jp2"}, "463": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nallowed to stay during the day and hug the stove in order to keep from freezing, is flanked\\non either side by a row of cells. There are five in all, foui of them being about 6x8 feet\\nin size, the other probably 7x12. In each cell there are a few boards thrown together,\\nwhich answer for beds. In the larger cell there are two of these luxurious couches. Be-\\nsides the cells there are two small cubby-holes, one of which is used for a wood room, and\\nthe other for a water closet, and a jslace to stow away ashes. The walls were all reeking\\nwith dampness, and in one of the cells a coating of ice covered the floor, the water from\\nwhich it was formed having oozed out from the side of the building. There is not a win-\\ndow in the entire structure to admit light to the inmates, and consecj^uently they are com-\\npelled to remain in utter darkness, except when the iron door which closes over the grat-\\ning at the entrance is thrown open. The only places for ventilation, discernible to the\\nnaked eye, is a small hole in the ceiling of each cell about the size of the muzzle of a shot\\ngun not large enough, to tell the truth, to carry off the odor of a rose leaf.\\n.4. man from Armada sojourned there for a short time. On returning home, one of his\\nneighbors asked him how he got out. Why. replied the es-prisoner, the craik in\\nthe wall was so large, I fell out.\\nThe county tolerated this building for almost half a century. In 1880, the people\\ndetermined to build a new jail, and consequently voted $10,000 for that purpose. The ques-\\ntion was submitted to the people in March, 1881, when the following vote was recorded\\nfor and against such an outlay for such a purpose;\\nMount Clemens filW\\nSterling 14.\\nWarren 306\\nErin 30.i\\nClinton 284\\nHarrison 98\\nMacoml) 186\\nChesterfield 206\\nRay 15\\n83 Shelby 64\\n40 Richmond 126\\nWashington 6\\n4 Bruce 3\\nArmada 43\\n88 Lenox 33\\nAg st\\n270\\n222\\n193\\n341\\n397\\n249\\n373\\nTotals 2,342\\nThe majority in favor of this project was only IBH.\\nThis vote cannot be taken as the true voice of the people of Macomb. In fact, tue\\nlarge number who voted against the project were animated with a desire to show their\\ndissatisfaction with the action of the Supervisors Board in not showing a willingness to\\nsubmit the (juestion of relocating the county seat to the people. Immediately after the\\nvoice of the poople declared itself favorable, plans and specifications were called for, and\\nthe bttilding contracts made.\\nThe jail, as designed by Mr. Gibbs, is a very handsome and substantial structure,\\nand will be built to harmonize with the court house. In general, it will be constructed\\nafter the ideas of the Committee. It will consist of two parts, the dwelling and\\nthe jail proper, the latter being toward the river. The dwelling faces on Front\\nstreet, and will have a frontage of forty-two feet. The measurement from front to rear is\\n29\\n5 v^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0463.jp2"}, "464": {"fulltext": "fe^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthirty feet. The dimensions of the jail part will be 30x32. The dwelling will have two\\nstories and a basement. The basement will have two cellars, kitchen and dining room,\\nand one bedioom. On the first floor will be the Sheriff s office, parlor, sitting-room and\\none bedroom. On the second floor will be foiu- chambers, a bath-room, closet, etc.\\nHeight of ceilings, ten feet. The jail part, on account of the slope of the gi-onnd, will\\nhave three stories, taken up with cells, of which there will be room for eighteen.\\nA Biiilding Committee, consisting of Supervisors Thomas Dawson, William E. Hall and\\nHarvey Mellen, was appointed, April 25, 1881. This Committee organized with Harvey\\nMellen, President, and Thomas Dawson, Secretary. This Committee made a first inspec-\\ntion of the builder s work September 1 2, 1881, and continue up to the present time to ex-\\nercise a careful supervision over the work. The cost of the building, etc., maybe set down\\nat $11,000, This Committee reported finally in Mai ch, 1882.\\nCHAPTER XXV.\\nCOUNTY FINANCE.S AND .ST.VTISTICS.\\nThere is no more certain index to the condition of a Free State than its public ac-\\ncoimts. So it is with any portion of the State where the people manage their own affairs,\\nfor, as a general rule, the governing board of a county exercises sound judgment, and is\\nalways slow to authorize any outlay which is not justified by necessity, or which does not\\ngive promise of future profit. The annual exhibit of the Coiinty Treasurer is a safe basis\\non which to rest a review of the financial condition of the county; but to realize its de-\\nvelopment, the retm-us of Assessors have to be considered. The tabulation of the sums\\nresulting annually from taxation is of little consequence beyond the chance it oflers the\\ncurious of ascertaining the amount of money contributed directly by the people for the\\npurpose of County, State and General Government. The indirect taxation accruing to the\\nGeneral Government is much more extensive than our direct county taxes; but the possi-\\nbility of obtaining reliable figures in this regard is so far removed that the subject could\\nonly be treated in a speculative manner. Therefore, the reader must be content with a\\nknowledge of what is certain, viz. That the citizens of the United States, directly and\\nindirectly, pay as mu ,h as should render the General Government, State Government and\\nlocal Government as great as the principles of pure and simple Republicanism require\\nthem to be, and which they are not; as mindful in guarding and honoring the legacy\\nwhich the fathers of the Revolution left us as it should be honored, and as it is not; as\\npaternal in character, and as solicitous for the public good as a Republican Government\\nought to be, and which it is not. It is considered that the Republic under which we live\\nis the most liberal, the one alone under which man has attained his level in the universe,", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0464.jp2"}, "465": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nand the nearest approach to perfect government known to the civilization of our day. To\\nmake it what it is capable of being made, and to surround it with that halo of truth and\\nhonesty which alone should pertain to a Republic, is all that is required. Official perhdy\\nshould be stigmatized, and the guilty never allowed to escape, but punished, not nomi-\\nnally, but severely; for he who would prove unfaithful in an office bestowed by a free\\npeople deserves chains, not liberty a refuge among slaves rather than a home among\\nfreemen.\\nTOWNS AND VILLAGES.\\nPOPULATION 1S.50.\\nWhit... Ci loved. Wliite. f olorel.\\nArmada. Armada Village 1.14.5 1 Ma onili 744 13\\nBruce 1.5.54 1 Hay 1,232\\nClie.sU riield !\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb5 7 Richmond. Memphis 1,000\\nClinton 2,224 Shelby 1,482\\nMount Clemen.^ 1.297 .5 Sterling 876\\nErin 974 Warren 700\\nHarrison 483 Washington 1,540 1\\nLenox, New Haven 6.52\\nMACO.MB COUNTY, IS- lO.\\nNumber of acres of improved land, 50,056.V; number of acres sowed with wheat,\\n1849, 12.536i; nimiber of bushels of wheat raised in 1849, 97,867; number of bushels of\\nother grain raised in 1849, 289,935J; number of horses, 2,412; number of neat cattle,\\n8,782; number of swine, 4.772; number of sheep, 27.491; number of pounds of wool, 71,-\\n792i; number of steam saw-mills, 2; number of water saw-mills, 7; number of steam and\\nwater saw-mills, 14; number of feet of lumber sawed, 1849,3,746,725; capital invested,\\n$17,150; number of hands employed, 65; number of flouring mills. 8; number of runs of\\nstone, 13; number of ban-els of Horn- manufactured. 1849, 23,900; capital invested, $48,-\\n600; number of hands employed, 19; two tin and coppersmiths, one cabinet and chair\\nfactory, one pearlash factory, one carding-mill. one foundry and machine shop, one stave\\nfactory, one window glass factory, one leather factory, one pmnp factory employing 101\\nmen; capital invested, $53,000; value of products, 1849. \u00c2\u00a792,000; number of pounds of\\nsugar made in 1849, 44,022; merchandise imported for sale, 1849. $160,631: number of\\ninsane, deaf, dumb, and blind. 10.\\nTOWNS AND VILLAGES.\\nPdfULATIOX I860.\\nWliite ro1,.reii. While- Colored\\nArmada, Armada Village 1 ,48 8 Maeomb 1 .357 1\\nBruce 1,806 1 Ray 1.544\\nChesterfield 2.1.56 1 Richmond. Memphis 1.683 2\\nClinton. Mount Clemens 2.867 26 Shelby 1.068 7\\nErin 1,975 Sterling 1,077 5\\nHarrison .545 1 Warren 1,333 2\\nLeno.x, New Haven 1,4.52 1 Washington 1.837 8", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0465.jp2"}, "466": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUJJTY.\\nTOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES.\\nPOPULATION 1870.\\nArmiida\\nAniiiida Village.\\nBiuco\\nC hestci tield\\nClinton\\nMuuut Olemeus.\\nErin\\nHarrison\\nfieno.x\\nNew Haven\\nTotal.\\nNative.\\nForeign.\\nWllite.\\nCol d.\\n1.731\\n1,371\\n350\\n1,706\\n15\\n494\\n398\\n96\\n4H1\\n13\\n3,145\\n1.672\\n473\\n2,143\\n3\\n3.1751 1,644\\n531\\n3,175\\n3,.590! 3,458\\n1,133\\n3,564\\n26\\n1.768 1.331\\n437\\n1,757\\n11\\n3,466 1,543\\n924\\n2,466\\n605; 558\\n3,1341 1.543\\n47\\n604\\n1\\n592\\n3,115\\n19\\n413\\n333\\n80\\n413\\nMacomb\\nRay\\nRichmond.\\nMemjihis\\nShelby\\nSterling.\\nWarren\\nWashington\\nNative. Fereign. White. Cord,\\n805 1\\n.555 1\\n1811 1\\n385\\n6951 1\\n5491 1\\n938 1\\n0571 1\\n30,676!\\n601\\n348\\n566\\n141\\n303\\n472\\n1,805\\n1,555\\n2,165\\n379\\n1,695\\n1,533\\n1,932\\n3,040\\n30..528 133\\nSTATISTICAL, 1870.\\nThe entire population of Macomb County, according to the general State Census,\\ntaken in 1870, was 27,619. Of this population the priucijial elements are the agricultural,\\nfinancial, mechanical and industrial. Of these four items we propose to present a few\\ntigui es, the above quoted work being our authority.\\nThere was, in 1870, 153,691 acres of improved land; 91,988 acres of wood land: and\\nof other unimproved land 12,869 acres, at a total cash value of $11,985,486. The farming\\nimprovements and machinery were valued at 1485,946. The amount paid in wages during\\nthe year, including value of board, $284,388. Value of all farm products, including bet-\\nterments and additions to stock, $2,243,983. Forest pi-oducts realized S 103,038. Of the\\nvarious products the following quantities were returned: Spring wheat, 19,991 bushels;\\nwinter wheat, 865,985 bushels; rye, 7,482 bushels; Indian corn, 811,277 bushels; oats,\\n494,044 bushels; barley, 29,872 bushels; buckwheat, 20,817 bushels; peas and beans, 16,-\\n027 bushels; potatoes, 240,931 bushels; hay, 41,988 tons; clover seed, 671 bushels; grass\\nseed, 146 bushels; hops, 140,756 pounds.\\nLive stock returns repi esented by the following figures: Horses, 7,961; mules and\\nasses, 26; milch cows, 9,040; working oxen, 407; other cattle, 7,899; sheep, 64,694;\\nswine, 11,089; total value of all kinds of live stock, $1,616,087; value of animals\\nslaughtered or sold for slaughter, $371,282; wool, 320,591 pounds; dairy products but-\\nter, 880,969 pounds; cheese, 33,360 pounds; milk sold, 875 gallons; value of orchard\\nproduce, $81,010.\\nTotal of all taxes, $124,049, divided as follows: State taxes of all kinds, $13,018;\\ncounty taxes of all kinds, $32,373; township, village and city, of all kinds, $78,658.\\nThe principal business of the county is its lumber interest. In this branch of in-\\ndustry there are in the county twenty-seven mills, of which thirteen are propelled by\\nsteam, eleven by water, and thi ee by horse-power. Value of material used, $67,187;\\nwages paid for the year ending June 1, 1870, $21,715; capital invested in lumber, $87,-\\n500; expenses for material and labor, $88,902; value of total products, $148,090; number\\nof feet, 7,859,000. Of other mills there are in the county eleven, all flouring. In addi-\\nk^", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0466.jp2"}, "467": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF \u00e2\u0096\u00a0MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntion to the above we find the following industries and manufactures represented: One tan-\\nnery, six breweries; capital invested in latter, \u00c2\u00a722.500; one salt works, capital invested,\\n$12,000: establishments of all kinds in county, 208; number of persons employed per\\nmonth, 832; months of labor. 7,929; wages paid. \u00c2\u00a7228,891; capital invested, \u00c2\u00a7659,160.\\nTOWNSHIPS AND VILLAGES.\\nrOITLATION 1880.\\nEtiunieratiir Enumerator.\\nAi-niada 1,734. ..Vbram S. Hall. Rav l,54;i.Bela R. D.avis.\\nIn Village 5.56. .Almim S. Hall. RiHimond 2,611 ..Julin C. Keeler.\\nBruce 2,103. .Alexander H. Shelp. In .Smith Memphis. 367. ..Tnhii C. Keeler.\\nIn North Romeo. 921. .Alexander H. Shelp. In Kichinond 750. .John C. Keeler.\\nChesterfield 2,352. .Cli:iilr C.iinor. Shelhv 1,650. .William S. Andrus.\\nIn New Baltimore... 1,024. linlr, Minior. In Disco 100. .William S. Andrus.\\nClinton 2,002. .Auuii i llCanticUl. In North Utica 316. .William S. Andrus.\\nI .loliii E. Foster. Sterlins 2.088. .Richard H. Sliter.\\nMount Clemens 3.051 Robert Irvine. In South Ulica 177. .Richard H. Sliter.\\nArthur N. Grovier. Warren 2,401. .G. B. Walker.\\nErin 2,695. Gustave Sehuchard. In Beebes Corners. 106. G. B. Walker.\\nHarrison 740. Fredrick C. Porton. Washington 3,053. .Jonathan Stone.\\nLenox 2,516. .Ed. L. Raymond. In South Romeo 705. .Jonathan Stone.\\nIn New Haven 600. .Ed. L. Raymond.\\nMacomb 2.046. .Alfred Stewart. Total 31.603\\nThe following is the report of the cereal products of Macomb County for 1877-78:\\nTownships.\\nAcres Wheat\\nraised in 1877\\nBushels Wheat\\nin 1877.\\nAcres .m\\nGround in 1878.\\nAcres Corn.\\nAcres Oats.\\nAcres Barley.\\n3491\\n2816\\n15,59\\n1411\\n1783\\n1538\\n1839\\n1776\\n855\\n1435\\n1683\\n443\\n1035\\n81990\\n65166\\n35023\\n28958\\n36328\\n32018\\n43659\\n29606\\n17492\\n30135\\n392.50\\n9643\\n34773\\n3940\\n3099\\n^3056\\n1789\\n3390\\n3155\\n2386\\n2389\\n1:323\\n1503\\n2162\\n668\\n1:^38\\n1338\\n1444\\n1.560\\n1439\\n987\\n1443\\n964\\n1467\\n1829\\n1349\\n1378\\n1280\\n556\\n1631\\n1516\\n1453\\n1304\\n2536\\n2340\\n1625\\n1898\\n1638\\n1434\\ni:i54\\n1382\\n1726\\n639\\n2054\\n1983\\n342\\n113\\n305\\n396\\nRav\\n108\\n198\\nShelliy\\n13\\nSterling\\n91\\n97\\nChesterfield\\nHarrison\\nErin\\n337\\n109\\n53\\nWarren\\nFARM STATISTICS.\\nThe following statistical information is taken from the report of the Secretary of\\nState, dealing with the farms and farm products of Michigan for the year 1880. relating\\nto this county:\\nHorses, 8,829; milch cows. 9,549: other cattle. S,527; hogs, 11,761; sheep, 104,871;\\nacres devoted to apple orchards, 5,821; to peach orchards, 1,131; acres under clover. 4,274;\\nunder barley, 2,178; peas, 1,215; potatoes, 2,847: hay, 29,792; wheat, 34,308; corn, 18,-\\n010; oats, 21,035; number of acres of improved land, 158,746; of unimproved, 83,629;\\ntotal number of acres, 242,375; number of farms. 3.083; average number of acres per farm\\n78.62,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0467.jp2"}, "468": {"fulltext": "Ml\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe taxes, as apportioned for 1880-81, are set forth in the following table:\\nTOWNSHIPS.\\nStatf Tax.\\nCounty Thx.\\nTown Tax.\\n$1372 51\\n1871 -2\\n1018 80\\n103.5 M4\\n1.81)0 82\\n8-,Hi XH\\n112(i 00\\nlOli j ti.T\\nHtl 70\\n1851 40\\n1148 54\\nlOOO 05\\n\\\\-i:]K 10\\nmri 25\\n450 80\\n481 32\\n271 60\\n$2039 65\\n3158 75\\n1623 50\\n1660 60\\n3093 07\\n533 45\\n1805 00\\n1714 75\\n15.S8 40\\n3106 00\\n1841 10\\n1714 75\\n1984 50\\n3158 75\\n732 00\\n770 73\\n433 00\\n500 00\\n12032 52\\n2200 00\\nChesterfield\\n600 00\\nErin.\\n2i.5 66\\n565 00\\n776 68\\nRay\\n1150 00\\n675 00\\nShelby\\n700 00\\nSterlin;,\\n600 00\\n450 00\\n800 00\\nMniuil CI. -Ill\\nM. .111,1 CI. -Ill\\nMount Cli^iii\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2IIS. First Ward\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0lis. Scc.iiid Ward\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2ns, Third Ward\\n3501 85\\n8738 20\\n2109 95\\nTotal..\\n$18096 02\\n$29000 00\\n.$30114 20\\nThe total tax levy in this county for the years 1881-82 is $81,105.51, which sum is\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0divided as follows: State tax, $21,161.70; county tax, $85,650; town tax, $26,2y3.75.\\nEQUALIZED V.^LUATION- -1842 TO 1881.\\nTOWNS.\\n184-2.\\n1849.\\n1851. 1 IS. jS.\\n18.59.\\n1869.\\n1875.\\n1881\\nRichmond\\nHarrison\\n$45,519,\\n23,928\\n31.987\\n70,427\\n83,950\\n5 .l,0i;\\nOII. ^Cl\\n45,111(1\\n42, SI\\n42.1011\\n49. Sim\\n59.s,-,i;\\n$46,048\\n25,132\\n34,420\\n117,978\\n40,1\u00c2\u00bb!\u00c2\u00bb0\\n0: ,,T00\\nss.ii:;i\\nliir, ::!i!\\ns,s t;. i5\\nIS, OS?\\n81,\\n4(I.:!8S\\n5il.^js7\\nr, 1,01 14\\n47,161 $231,70:!\\n33.8.S!) 115, .580\\n40,604 280,4211\\n110. Oil ;:lo,s|0\\n(iO.OOO 8s-, .s, i7\\n07,5(iS ::s,-,.fj,-,\\nHI. IIS 05::.:|:;8\\nI|: ..5s0 5;8.771\\ns;.0|:; 5^J7,485\\n41l,SSil \u00e2\u0096\u00a0J72.:U1\\n.5,i):;2 iiKKo\\ni:i,225 i,i;^,-,\\n5:;, lis; CO, 510\\n;256,.551)\\n111,21)7\\n2:W,1)72\\n07s,7ri\\n:il)S,871)\\n4ii;l,4SO\\n01)1,1)25\\n5SI 1,178\\n140,1 \u00e2\u0096\u00a0.5\\n0 1, s,-,\\nr. ,oiHi\\n70,721\\n80, ,71l\\n;8T4,S-J0\\n97,0s 1\\n:!4(),0i)0\\n01)7,71)1)\\n42:!, Olio\\n110, DIM)\\n712,550\\nHC.s.ir.o\\nH15,^Ji)0\\n:;|o.:;i,s\\nHI. 1100\\n815. Olio\\n8si;.4::o\\n;4:iO,oi)l)\\nOS, 0011\\n:!S5,0()()\\n7:!(),0()i)\\n110,01)1)\\n441). 000\\ni;o oiio\\n810,(100\\nIII, 01)0\\n850^000\\n:lSi),()00\\n$1202,000\\n2ss,oiio\\n1121,01)0\\nWashiimlon\\nCliisicrtleld\\nArmada\\nBruce\\nClinloii\\nI 78S,000\\n914,000\\n1 122,000\\nI7ss,0(ii)\\nSIM 000\\nShelbv\\n1014,000\\n1)7:1,000\\n1014 000\\n1)118,000\\n953,000\\nRay\\n894,000\\nNote \u00e2\u0080\u0094In niUliiiun lo t e liguces for\\n.SSl.tl.,-\\n,li/...l V..I.I:,\\ni...i ..1 III. uv 1 Mt\\nCi,..-.,-\\na. sl,\u00e2\u0080\u009e!,j,.\u00e2\u0080\u009e\\nTho li(jiiur tax in this county, as tinally reported and collected. December, 1881,\\nstands as follows:\\nCilv of Mount Clemens $3735 43\\nUticii Village 665 00\\nRichmond Village 766 66\\nNew Baltimore Village 578 75\\nNew Haveu Village 130 00\\nRomeo Village 800 00\\nArmada Village 1.83 34\\nMemphis Village 175 00\\nWarren Township 935 00\\nErin Township 9.80 00\\nClinton Township 65 00\\nLenox Township 65 00\\n$8069 18\\nvl^\\nV", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0468.jp2"}, "469": {"fulltext": ".^1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe population of the district, organized as Macomb, from 1810 to 1880, is estimated\\nat follows:\\nYear.\\nP..p,.lHti..n.\\nColored.\\nYear.\\nPoijulation.\\nr, i..r..,i\\n1810\\n580\\n1850\\n15530\\n29\\n1820\\n898\\n2\\n1860\\n22843\\n63\\n1830\\n2418\\n1\\n1870\\n27616\\n118\\n1840\\n981()\\n33\\n1880\\n31603\\nCHAPTER XXVI.\\nAUlMcrLTrUE AXI) FARMERS A.SSOCIATIOXS.\\nA man may wander into remote parts of the earth as a traveler, where for the time\\nbeing he will lose sight of farms, and where he will be obliged to deny himself the food\\nand comforts they aflbrd. He may consent to prdsecute a lucrative business in an inhos-\\npitable clime, or where farming is wholly neglected, and its products can only be obtained\\nby long transportation at exorbitant prices, but he will not prolong his sojoiu-n after he\\nhas satisfied his curiosity, or succeeded in his temporaiy purpose.\\nPermanent and successful agriculture prs-suppose-^ the local existence of every con-\\ndition essential to popular enjoyment and prosperity. Whatever else of value may distin-\\nguish a place, them can be no substitute for this. Agriculture is necessary for the eco-\\nnomical development and to the localization of the proceeds ef every other resource.\\nHowever rich any locality may be in timber, salt water, or other substance convertible into\\nmarketable commodities, it cannot afford to ignore agriculture. It is true that, beyond\\nthe vicinage of a farmer, lumber may be minufautured, mines disemboweled and salt pro-\\nduced; put the money which is realized will take to itself wings. Such an undertaking\\nwill require the exportation to a foreign sovu ce of a (i icultm al supplies, of the means nec-\\nessary to procure them. The large sums paid for them, instead of going into the pockets\\nof those who reside in the neighborhood of the consumer to be thei-e expended in improve-\\nments, in supporting other branches of industry, and in sustaining an increased trade,\\ngo to the remote producers.\\nAGRICULTrR.\\\\L DEVELOPMENT.\\nA paper on the development of the agi icultm-al interests of Macomb County was read\\nbefore the Farmers Institute, at Utica, by Judge James B, Eldredge. The subject, as\\ntreated, is replete in data and event, and therefore forms a valuable addition to this section\\nof the work. Our county, says the Judge, is one of the oldest in the State, yet it is barely\\na half-century old. As to its agriculture, it was organized in 1818, and then comprised, in\\naddition to its present territory, a part of Oakland. Lapeer and Sanilac and all of St.\\nClair. The probable first settler was a Frenchman, one of a body of emigi-ants, sent over\\nby the French in 1756. to settle about the fort at Detroit to strengthen it. We learn\\nfi-om the State papers that along the shores of Lake St. Clair in this county, were set\\n;t^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0469.jp2"}, "470": {"fulltext": "4-\\nHISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntied here and there French families in 1796, and that in that year were found houses so old\\nas to be untenantable from decay at various points one at Point Aux Grapeaux, near the\\npresent site of New Baltimore. This body of immigrants was. on starting out. fiu-nished\\nwith a full supjtly of grain, seeds and fruits to enable them to test the soil of the new\\nland. Early, these Frenchmen located homes along the watery highway, cleared a few\\nacres very few erected log houses, tested seed and planted fruit trees; but it is well\\nknown that such were the enticements of the chase, that farming was not a material part\\nof their labors. The gun and spear were of tener used than the plow or spade. The woods\\nand waters more easily fiu nished food and raiment than the field. The early aettlers had\\nno market but their own mouths, no care but their own enjoyment. Agricultiu e did not\\nthrive in those days. The canoe was the only vehicle, the stream and lake the only high-\\nway. The labors of the day consisted in the sports of the chase. Food and raiment were\\ngathered from the woods and waters. This state of affairs continued in the main until\\nthe year 1820. Prior to this time, nearly all the settled lands in the county were held\\neither as squatters or as purchasers from the Indians, or as private claims. Those set-\\ntlers who could show a possession in themselves or grantors, back to 1796. were allowed\\nby the United States to survey off not to exceed 640 acres, and to receive a patent there-\\nfor. Those private claims fronted on the river or lake, and were mainly held by descend-\\nants of the immigrants of 1796. Now and then one of another nation had taken title to\\nthese private claims, or had set down beside the Frenchmen, like the (3onners and Tuckers,\\nwho were early on the Clinton River. It was not until about the year 1720 that there be-\\ngan a flow of farmers into the county men who came to clear and build, and plow, an d\\ncultivate and it is from that year we may date the commencement of the development of\\nthe agricultm al interests of our county.\\nThe land outside of the private claims was surveyed into sections about the year\\n1817. and, as a matter of ciu iosity, we go to the records and note who were the first to\\ntake up lands thus surveyed into sections. Let us see who were the first locators outside\\nof the private claims in each town and where they chose. This will enable us to form\\nsome idea of where the first settlements and farming began. It is doubtless true that the\\nfirst lands taken up were not in all cases the first improved, but it was so mainly. Bear-\\ning in mind that along the lake shore and up the Clinton River a few miles was a string\\nof hamlets, whose occupants were not farmers, but hunters and fishers, with little garden\\nspots and a few fruit trees, we strikeout into the wilderness of sections and see where farm-\\ning in the county began.\\nWe table the first three locations in each township, by whom and when. Some of\\nthem were mere speculators, but, as I name them, many of you will recall them as pio-\\nneers. I take the towns in order of time;\\nClinton Daniel Leroy, September 7, 1818, Section 14; D. G. Jones. February 18,\\n1822, Sections 3 and 10.\\nErin Christian Clemens. October 7, 1818. Section 14: Villiam Forsyth. May 11,\\n1820. Section 22.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0fv*-", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0470.jp2"}, "471": {"fulltext": "i^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMacomb G. and D. Greichir. August 12. 1820, Section 35: Alfred Ashley. June 26.\\n1821, Section 35; David B. Ford. May 22. 1822, Section 25.\\nChesterfield Robert Jean. August 28, 1820. Section 11; James C. Edgerly, June\\n24, 1823, .Section 30; Antoine Rivard. September 8, 1824. Section 21.\\nWashington Asahel Bailey. July 3. 1821, Section 33; Gideon Gates, July 5.\\n1821, Section 27; George Wilson. September 1, 1821. Section 33.\\nSterling Eleazer Scott, September 1, 1821, Section 3; James C. Underwood, Au-\\ngust 12, 1823, Section 24; Andrew Leon, October 4, 1823, Section 24.\\nShelby James Hazard, November 20, 1821, Section 5; Ezra Burgess, May 13, 1822,\\nSection 7; George Hanscom, June 8, 1822, Section 3.\\nBruce\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Daniel Hill, November 20, 1821, Section 35; A. Bailey, April 16, 1822, Sec-\\ntion 35; Leander Trombly, September 4, 1822, Sections 29 and 20.\\nArmada John Proctor, November 4, 1823, Section 31: Peter Daniels, .June 23,\\n1824, Section 31; Chauncey Bailey, June 23, 1824, Section 3(\u00c2\u00bb.\\nRay Benjamin N. Freeman. June 23. 1824, Section 5; Joseph Chubb, October 14,\\n1824, Section 22; Nathaniel Thompson, October 18, 1824, Sections 8 and 9.\\nWarren Charles \\\\V. Groesbeok, June 24. 1830. Section 33; Charles Rivard, June\\n18, 1831. Section 35.\\nLenox Phineas D. Pelton, June 4. 1831, Section 6; Joseph Comstock, Septem-\\nber 19. 1831. Section 33; Roswell Green, August 13. 3831. Section 33.\\nRichmond John Hale. December 1, 1832, Section 30: Edwin B. Rose, December 1.\\n1832, Section 30; Anson Pettibone, May 13, 1833, Section 19.\\nLet us picture to ourselves these settlers over so widely scattered locations. What a\\nmap we have! These men, I dare say, did not quarrel about line fences. Around these\\nlocations, in time, collected neighborhoods; forests were cut down, buildings erected,\\nfields cleared, harvests grown, needed mills sprang into existence, markets and larger har-\\nvests followed; churches and schoolhouses sprang up first among the buildings, to the\\ngreat surprise of the French, who had been in a line from Detroit to Lake Huron for a\\nhalf -century and over. From the opening of these locations to 1840. the progi-ess of this\\ncounty was marked by many improvements in lands and buildings, and the growth of in-\\ncreased crops was rapid and surprising. In 1827, the county consisted of five townships,\\nviz., Washington. Shelby, Ray, Clinton and Harrison. Improved lands in Harrison and\\nClinton were valued at $10 per acre, and in the other towns at $8 per acre, and all wild\\nlands at $2 per acre. The county tax of that yeai was $557.59.\\nIn 1832, the first towns were valued, real and personal together, at $263,304: in\\n1833. at $314,872; in 1834, at $366,902; in 1835, at $474,678; in 1838, $1,226,962.\\nQuite evident here we can see the influence of being the eastern end of the Clinton\\nKalamazoo Canal. Wildcat days jumped the value of the county from $474,670, in\\n1835, to $1,250,000, in 1837. I have been unable to find any reliable statistics prior to\\nthe United States census of 1840. I know that figures are dry, but in no other way can\\nwe so plainly place iu view the growth of the past, as by a table showing the amount of", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0471.jp2"}, "472": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY,\\nvarious agricultural products raised in the county at periods of ten years, from 1840 to\\nthe present time:\\nPRODUCTS.\\n184n.\\n1850.\\n1863.\\n187U.\\n1879\\nWheat, bushels\\n81,064\\n67,792\\n71,538\\n13,037\\n1,482\\n7,198\\n8,958\\n97,367\\n230,733\\n385,476\\n494,044\\n311,377\\n330,591\\n7,961\\n17,346\\n64,694\\n153,601\\n$5,864,073\\n532,730\\n802,060\\n232,988\\n300,588\\n6,363\\n16,073\\n83,663\\n106,077\\n103,500\\n71,792\\n2.667\\n9,443\\n33,762\\n57,876\\n339 390\\nHorses\\nCattle\\n2,329\\n19,426\\n64,373\\n158,746\\nValue, real and personal\\n1-16,191,981\\nThis table teaches us that since 1840 the crop of wheat has increased over 600 per\\ncent, oats over 1.000 per cent, corn ever 1,000 per cent; the number of our horses over\\n600 per cent, cattle over 300 per cent and sheep over 800 per cent, whose fleece has in-\\ncreased in weight nearly 400 per cent. The county was equalized in 1882 at $263,805,\\nand, in 1879, at $19,191,981\u00e2\u0080\u0094 an increase of wonderful magnitude, and mainly because\\nof the development of its agricultural interests.\\nAt the time of this assessment, the plan was adopted of assessing at the cash value.\\nPrevious to this time, the rate had been at two-third cash value.\\nStatistics of the various business interests of the county at large show us that of mer-\\nchants not to exceed 3 per cent make money and die wealthy. Of the professions, not 10 per\\ncent more than merely live, and it is about the same with the various trades. Surely the young\\nman who wishes to insure certain success financially, when he leaves the farm and goes to the\\ncity or village, leaves a business that is almost certain of financial increase, to engage in\\none where the percentage of success is exceedingly small. Recui-ring to the history of\\nthe past development, has not the farmer of this county cause to be proud of his achieve-\\nments and proud of his county Yet, while thus we regard our part with pride, the query\\ncomes up, Have we reached our highest point of development Is it necessary, or is it\\nour duty, to stop or decrease the rate of progress and stand still? Is there anything in\\nthe idea that we have now exhausted the virgin strength of our soil, and henceforward\\nmust resort to artificial manures to keep up the yield of our crops, so expressive that\\nfarming here cannot keep pace vrith other departments of life These and kinth ed ques-\\ntions are important. We learn that in countries of much less fertility, countries cultivat-\\ned for hundreds of years, by the exercise of a judicious system of farming, agricultm-e is\\nmade to thrive and jirosper.\\nIt may be that we need to exercise more care, learning and skill, to continue on in\\nthe rapid pace of the past, but, whether we need to do so or not. ought to be unimportant.\\nDoing so will add to our prosperity, elevate farming and ennoble us as individuals, and as\\na class farmers should need no other incentive. The question with us should not be. Is\\nit necessary, but. Is it well to do so? Situated as our county is, climatically considered,\\nit must be deemed favored land; while blizzards. grasshoppers and long droughts in\\nHr i\\nw", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0472.jp2"}, "473": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe West make farming uncertain, and floods and epidemics destroy whole communities\\nin the South, and the sterility of soil in the East makes farming almost impracticable, the\\nfarmer of Macomb County stands as upon holy land, where good crops form the rule, where\\nthere is fi-eedom from epidemics and devastating storms, where nature has placed no such\\nobstacle as absence of timber, want of water or unhealthy climate. Situated as we are,\\nthere is no need to stay the speed of our progress at all, and we hold it to be the duty of\\nall to so combine thought and action that greater results may be reached.\\nTHE MACOMB COUNTY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.\\nThe Macomb County Agricultural Society was organized in 1849, with Payne K.\\nLeech as President; William Canfield, Secretary; A. W. Sterling, Treasurer. The officers\\nthen elected ware continued in ISoO Since that time the officers have been:\\nPresidents James B. St. John, 1851; William Canfield, 1852 and 1853; ^larsliall\\nHadley, 1854; Ira H. Butterfield. 1855 and 1856.\\nSecretaries \u00e2\u0080\u0094R. P. Eldredge, 1851; Dexter Mussey. 18. )2 and 1863; J. H. Kaple,\\n1854: Charles F. Mallary, 1855 and 1856.\\nTreasurers Norman Periy, 1851; P. K. Leech, 1852-54; Charles Weston, 1856.\\nThe first fair was held at Utica, in September, 1850, opposite the site of the Con-\\ngregational Church. At this time, there were no fences, buildings, race-track, or, in fact,\\nanything which now is considered necessary to contribute to the success of such a meeting.\\nAfter the meeting of the society, a vote of thanks was passed to Ira H. Butterfield, Ira\\nPhillips, P. K. Leech and other stock-raisers for their efforts to improve the stock of the\\ncounty.\\nThe three men just mentioned, together with John B. St. John and R. P. Eldredge,\\npledged themselves to meet the expenses of the society, hut tli?ir liberal offer was not\\nrequisitioned.\\nThe agricultural society was re-organized at Brooklyn March 10, 1857. for the object\\nof promoting the interests of the agriculturists and horticulturists of Macomb County.\\nThe first officers of the re-organized society were: Ira H. Butterfield, President; Dexter\\nMussey, Vice President; Charles F. Mallary, Secretary; Charles W. Weston, Treasurer:\\nHarlehigh Carter, Andrew Sutherland, Sr., Allen P. Bentley, James Flower, Truman R.\\nAndrus, James Crawford, Carlos W. Brown, Directors. The charter members were Tru-\\nman R. .\\\\ndrus, Payne K. Leech, G. St. John, Loren Andrus, Elam Chajiin, Oran Free-\\nman, Charles F. Mallary, H. Carter. I. H. Butiertield. D. ^Y. Noyes. Leonard Lee, James\\nFlower and Calvin Davis.\\nThe Presidents of the society since 1n57 are named as follows: Ira H. Butterfield,\\n1857: Harlehigh Carter, 1858; George W Phillips, 1859 and 1860; Loren Andrus, 1861;\\nHarvey Mollen, 1862 and 1863: Charles C. Leech, 1864; Charles Andrews. 1865 and 1866:\\nGeorge W. Phillips, 1867 and 1868; WiUiardA. Wales, 1869; P. M. Bentley, 1872: Silas\\nColby; Era-stus Day, 1875, and William W, Andi-us, the present President.\\nThe Secretaries of the society have been Charles F. Mallary, John Wright, Charles\\nS^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0473.jp2"}, "474": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nW. Westou. C. W. Whitney. Daniel B. Briggs. Dwiglit N. Lowell. Henry W. Babeock\\nand A\\\\ H. Acker.\\nTHE UNION farmers CLUB.\\nThis organization sprang into being on the 27th day of October, A. D. 1S70, at the\\ncall of a few intelligent agriculturists, who had in some way become impressed with the\\nidea that an exchange of views aad opinioas, in regard to any occupation, is beneficial,\\nand especially so in the occupation of farming. The charter members of this society, as\\nwell as those who have united later in its history, are men of energy and forethought, the\\nbone and the sinew of the land. They are men whose hands are better acquainted perhaps\\nwith the neb of the scythe, hoe and plow than with the neb of the pen. Men who believe\\nthe earth was given to man as a bountiful mother, who gives freely and abundantly the\\nsupport of her sons. Not a stingy and reluctant mistress who must be coaxed and driven\\ninto the giving of the scantiest subsistence, earned by sweat and toil and discouragement.\\nThey are men who regard practical results as better than brilliant theory, and who dignify\\nthe labor of the farm by participating in it. believing that\\nHe by plowins wlifi would thrive,\\nHimself must either hold or drive.\\nThey are men, who, having labored faithfully and with persevering faith in the\\npromise that the harvest should follow the seed time, so long as the world should stand,\\ncan afford to wait. Intelligent thoughts and energetic action have ever been fruitful of\\ngi eat results.\\nUpon the first organization, sixty members were enrolled, consisting of forty-six\\nworking members, seven honorary members and seven ladies. The residences of a portion\\nof this membership have changed and others have dropped out for various reasons, one has\\nbeen removed by death, and the ladies have left because we did not hokl out to them suffi-\\ncient inducement to remain. We are less in numbers than at the outset, but our practical\\nworking force is larger than ever. Since the organization, the society has held forty\\nmeetings. We have been favored with six original addresses, and have considered upward\\nof twenty topics on some of the branches of practical agriculture. In these debates, it\\nhas not been the purpose of the club to draw the lines of parliamentai y usages too closely\\nfor fear it might cut off a certain freedom of expression so desirable in all social inter-\\ncourse. Our debates have taken an extended range, sometimes bearing u})ou the subject\\nin question, and sometimes bearing nowhere in particular. Whenever we have struck the\\nflint, sparks of wit and eloquence have been seen to follow. We have received seeds\\nfrom the department to the amount of about seven bushels, contained in upward of 500\\npackages. The department has been notified of the results of the tests to which the seeds\\nhave been put. Some of them have been of real value, and many have been worthless in\\nour climate and by our moie of cultivation. Prominent among the successful onej ma}\\nbe mentioned the Sohonen oats and various varieties of Mangelwortzels.\\nWe have gathered a library of nearly 100 volumes, and have received from various\\ni^f", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0474.jp2"}, "475": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nagricultural and horticultural societies and the department at Washington more than 300\\nvolumes for the use of members.\\nFour plowiu T-matches have been held under the auspices of the society, at which\\ncommendable skill has been exhibited. At these matches $107 in cash have been vfon, and\\npaid by the society, and other property, through its means, in the aggregate $120. But\\nbetter than this, vre have raised the standard of achievement in agriculture to a higher\\nplane, by jogging the sensibility of our members, and setting them in a train of original\\nthinking. Our iixduence has been felt in the community. Crooked furrows have grown\\nstraight, ends and corners have been brought to a neater finish, business has been rendered\\nmore systematic through our plan of statistics, which requires each member to know what\\nhe has accomplished upon his fai m. This much for the past.\\nAt present, we are in a prosperous condition, with a strong working membership and\\nmoney in the treasury. We have gained in experience and iniluenee, and stand high in\\nreputation with the public. We are recognized and aided by agricultm-al and other kin-\\ndred associations throughout the State and at the national capital. The duties of the fut-\\niire lie before us. Let progress and improvement be our motto. Profiting by the\\nexperience of the past, let us act wisely in the future.\\nGeorge W. Phillips is the President; George W. Phillips, Jr., Secretary, and John\\nH. Wilson, Treasiu er,\\nTHE GRANGE.\\nAs we look at the order to-day, we find it has yielded nothing to the drones.\\nIt has disappointed those whose chief idea was that it would break down middle-\\nmen and be a money- making institution. But it has, in numberless instances,\\nmore than fulfilled the expectations of its best friends. There are fewer gran-\\ngers to-day, but they are better ones. There are thousands of farmers now in the order\\nwho have learned to speak in public, to preside at public meetings, and to think and to\\nreason as they never did before. There are many who are readers and thinkers, and who\\nare becoming leaders and educators through the influence of the order. A regular plan\\nof work has been laid out and questions of farm management and home comfort are regu-\\nlarly discussed in their meetings. More agricultural papers are read, and, in many neigh-\\nborhoods, libraries are established and lecture coiu-ses siistained by the order. We speak\\nthat of which we have personal knowledge, in affinning that in many neighborhoods the\\nGrange has accomplished wonders. It has softened political asperities by bringing those\\nof opposite parties together; it has cultivated the social nature, educated the young in\\nmusic, and, to a lai ge extent, in literature. Hundreds of Grange halls have been built\\nand furnished, and, as the object of the order has been shown to be the education of the\\nfarmer, rather than war on other callings, the public have come to respect it.\\nMACOMB CODSTY GRANGE.\\nThe Grangers of this county met at Grange Hall, Mt. Clemens, November 30, ISSl,\\nand organized the Macomb County Grange. The attendance was large, and the lodge", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0475.jp2"}, "476": {"fulltext": "m,\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwas organized by James Cook, of Acb ian, a De] uty of the State Grange. Officers as fol-\\nlows: M.. A. H. Cantield; O., W. S. Hart; Secretary, T. J. Shoemaker; Lectm-er, John\\nMcKay; Treasurer, H. D. Atwood; Steward, W. A. Stone; Assistant Steward, A. J. Leon-\\nardsou: Chaplain, J. C. Cady; Gate-keeper, Albert Fuller; Ceres. Mrs. A. H. Canfield;\\nPomona. Mr.-;. W. S. Hart; Flora, Mrs. J. C. Cady; Steward, A. J. Leonardson.\\nFINE STOCK.\\nOne of the great industries of the county is that known as tine stock-raising. From\\nan early day in the history of Macomb, the attention of the farming community has been\\ndirected to the growth of fine stock, and, perhaps, in no other county of the State has this\\nattention been attended with higher results. Throughout the length and breadth of Ma-\\ncomb, the stock-raiser is found to have attained an excellence in his art, which has won\\nfor the county an enviable name.\\nFirst among the breeders of Short-Horu cattle was Ira Phillips, deceased. His son,\\nG. W. Phillips, continues what was so well begun by his father. The history of the\\nPhillips herd is as follows: In 1847, G. W. Phillips, of Romeo, commenced the breeding\\nof Short-Horns. The cows that were at the foundation of this herd were from the impor-\\ntations of Thomas Weddle, of Rochester. N. Y., and T. A. Newbold, of Conewagus, near\\nAvon, N. Y. The first bull used was Young Splendor 8611. This bull is said to have\\nbeen an extra good one, both in quality and make-up, and for which Mr. Phillips refused\\nliberal offers from parties who desired to return him to his native State, New York.\\nYoung Splendor won first premium at the first State fair held in Detroit, in 1849, being\\nled there by President Phillips when a boy, and continued to win first premium at each\\nsuccessive State fair until quite an aged bull. Following Splendor came Col. Fremont,\\n187(1; then came the Thirteenth Duke of Oxford. 8881; then Llewellyn 6956, Sheldon s\\nDuke, 7260, Hotspur 4030, Gloster of Ingham 17184, Rufus 1S275, allot which, except\\nSplendor, are the descendants of the famous Duke of Gloster.\\nCattle from this herd have been sent into the Eastern, Western and Sjuthern States,\\nwhere they have formed the basis of a new stock.\\nJohn McKay commenced the raising of Short-Horn cattle in 1869. At that time he\\npurchased Phcenix 11, from Mr. Phillips, and subsequently made additions to the same\\nfamily. At the head of this herd, on the male side, is Wild Eyes, No. 25167, bred by\\nAvery Murphy, of Port Huron. Mr. McKay is a successful breeder of cattle, and is\\nbuilding up a reputation in this department of agriculture. Among others equally noted\\nas cattle-raisers are John Hagerman, Robert N, McKay. William H. Reed. Robert Milli-\\nken, B. F. Poole, William Rowley, Lewis Drake. P. K. Leech, George Townsend, W. H.\\nCampbell, B, F. Poole and others. Mr. Poole established his stock in the fall of 1866.\\nSHEEP-KAISERS.\\nOne of the first to introduce an improved breed of sheep into this county was Hiram\\nTaylor, who imported fi om Vermont several fine Spanish msrinos. After him, the late", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0476.jp2"}, "477": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nXathaa Dickenson and John Taylor made important importations. Foremost among the\\nsheep-raisers of the pre.sent time is A. D. Taylor. .-Vbout 1848, he purchased a number of\\nsheep from Taft, of Bloomiield, N. Y. derived from the Avery flock of pure Atwood stock.\\nHe imported, also, from the Vermont flocks of L. P. Clark and O. H. W. Bascomb, and\\nfrom E. S. Hall, of Genesee County, N. Y., all of the finest breed. In February, 1879,\\nhe pm chased a ewe, aged ten years, for vrhich he paid $150. Within three months, this\\newe produced a pair of lambs, which sold for $250 each. In December following, a ewe\\nlamb was produced, which sold for $150. In the spring of 1881. a pair of lambs was\\nproduced, valued at $200, making a net profit of $850 in three years. The pair of lambs\\nwas sent to Vermont and thence to the National Exposition at New York. Recently, one\\nof the sheep from the Taylor flock was shipped to Australia.\\nEli G. Perkins is another successful sheep-breeder. He entered upon this branch of\\nfarming in 1870, when he purchased forty of the Taft flock from A. D. Taylor. These he\\nsold in 1873, and supplied their place by a flock from Lusk, of Bitavia, N. Y., to which\\nhe has added since, so that his sheep now number seventy Addison ewes. He and his son\\nare careful sheep-raisers.\\nJohn C. Thompson established a flock in the fall of 1870, by the pui chase of twenty\\newes from A. D. Taylor. In January, 1878, he purchased from the Sanfords, and from\\nBascomb, of Vermont, some tine breeds. In February, 1879, he purchased a stock-ram\\nfrom Atwood, of Vermont, and also from Ellsworth, of Middlebury, Vt., a flock of\\ntwenty-nine ewes. The .itock-ram Addison was purchased in 1881 from Clark, of Ver-\\nmont. He has made very important additions to his flock from time to time.\\nFulton P. Goyer purchased of J. C. Thompson ten Michigan merino ewes, and es-\\ntablished a flock in 1881; subsequently, he bought twenty-eight ewes from the same\\ngrower, together with seven ewes from A. D. Taylor, at a cost of $700. He also purchased\\nfourteen ewes from Mr. Taylor in 1882, all tracing back to the Atwoods and noticed in\\nthe Vermont Sheep Registry, and has thus founded a flock which gives promise of equal-\\ning that of any other breeder of the time in Michigan. Among the noted sheep-breeders\\nof the county, the names of the following are given: Tim Lockwood. Chester Andrus, the\\nThoringtons, P. M. Bentley, Edward Randall and others. Mr. Bentley is a prominent\\nbreeder of Spanish merino sheep; for the past twenty-two years. He established his stock\\nby the purchase of Michigan merino sheep, to which he added a number imported from\\nfrom Western New York.\\nF.IEMERS MUTUAL FIRJE INSUR-iNCE COMPANY.\\nIn the summer of 1874, a number of prominent citizens of Macomb County assembled\\nat the village of Washington to consider the advisability of forming a Mutual Fire In-\\nsurance Company, insuring farm property and detached residences, in Macomb County ex-\\nclusively. No definite action was taken at this meeting. The proposition, however, was\\nagitated thi oughout the fall of 1873 and the winter of 1874 and 1875. During the sum-\\nmer of 1875, the matter began to assume shape, and 100 citizens had engaged with Loren", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0477.jp2"}, "478": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAndrus and Wm. W. Vaiighan to insure their property to an amount not exceeding $200,-\\n000, in a company organized as above indicated. As a preliminary step to the organiza-\\ntion of the company, as required by law, the following declaration was published:\\nWe, the undereigned. citizens of Macomb County, in the State of Michigan, do hereby declare\\nour intention to form a Mutual Fire Insurance Company, agreeable to the provisions of an act of the\\nLegislature of this State, entitled. An act to provide for the incorporation of Mutual Fire Insurance\\nCompanies, and defining their powers and duties. Approved April 1.5, A. D. 1873.\\nThis declaration was signed by Loren Andrus, Washington; Horace H. Cady, Macomb;\\nJohn B. St. John, Sterling; Arnold Harword, Warren; Robert McKay, Bruce; P. M.\\nBentley, Macomb, and Willard A. Wales, Shelby.\\nA meeting of the corporators was held in the village of Washington August 22, 1875,\\nat which a charter and set of by-laws were adopted, and the following officers of the com-\\n])any elected: President, Robert McKay; Vice President, Horace Cady: Treasurer, T. S.\\nCrissman; Secretary, William W. Vaughan; Directors, John B. St. John, Loren ,\\\\ndrus,\\nP. M. Bentley, Ai-nold Harwood, Willard A.Wales.\\nSoon after this meeting and preivous to the commencement of business, T S. Ciissi-\\nnau and Willard A. Wales severed their connection. Charles Andrus, of Armada, was\\nelected to fill the vacancy caused by the resignation of Willard A. Wales, and Andrew J.\\nSykes that of T. -S. Crissman. The charter was submitted to the Attorney General and\\ncertified to by him as being in accordance with Act No. 382, Session laws of 1873. Same\\nwas approved by the Commissioner of Insurance November 20, 1875. The Farmers Mu-\\ntual Fire Insurance Company of Macoinb County was an assured fact, and its first jwlicy\\nwas issued on this day to Robert McKay, President of the association. The statistics of\\nthe company, taken from the annual reports to the Co mmissioner of Insurance will illus-\\ntrate its growth and present popularity: they also indirectly indicate the formation of this\\nassociation to be the result of an actual need felt by the farmers of Macomb County\\nNnniWr AniHunl Am.innt Number Amount Amount\\nTear. of Mpmbrra. of Ki\u00c2\u00abk. of .\\\\83es-ment. Year. of Membera. of Risk. of .iasesament.\\n1875 100 -.378,000 1879 976 $1,80.5,069 *1,700 41\\n1876 499 1,031,91.5 1S80 1,1.53 2,062,379 857 00\\n1877 666 1,347,896 1S81 1,2:^0 2,156,329 3,86146\\nlb78 801 1.529,409 f3,455 57\\nAsfipssments. Four assessments have been levied up to this date. In 1878, $2 jier\\n$1,000 insured; in 1879,11.14; in 1880,48 cents; in 1881, $1.94. An average cost of\\n92 cents per year on each $1,000 insured since the commencement of business, November\\n20, 1875.\\nThe present officers of the company are: President, Robert McKay: Vice President,\\nCharles Andrews; Treasurer, Andrew J. Sykes: Secretary, William W. Vaughan: Direc-\\ntors, P. M, Bentley, C. Cady, Loren Andrus, T. L. Common, William H. Harvey and\\nWilliam C. Milton.\\nThe company holds an aanual meeting for the election of officers the first Wednesday\\nin February each year.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0478.jp2"}, "479": {"fulltext": "--i^W7/ cM^^rry^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0479.jp2"}, "480": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0480.jp2"}, "481": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nNAMES OF LOSERS.\\nJ. J. Crissman\\nCharles Davis\\nGeo. E. Broman....\\nWilliam Harling....\\nF. Prieho\\nA. Klein\\nG. E. Graves\\nJ. E. Crawford\\nP. Gaghgin\\nGeorge Mulvey\\nEdvFard Pettibone.\\nAlbert D. Baker\\n.IWashington 20\\n.Ray 31\\n.A.rniada t 8\\n.jSterling\\n.^Clinton 0\\n.IWarren J 2. One oow\\n.Washington j30lDaraage to Barn\\nSterling |33;DwelliDg and contents\\n.Erin i32|Barn and contents\\nThree hogs\\nDvpelling\\nDwelling\\nDwelling and contents\\nOne sheep\\n16 Wm. A. Warwick\\n17C. C. Crisman\\n18 Robert McKay\\n191. B. Vaughan\\n20 David Fogo\\n21 0. and P. L. Harris..\\n22 C. G. White\\n23 Henry Moyers\\n24 Frederick Schroeder\\n2.5 H and A. E. De Grotf.\\n26 Albert Hovey\\n27 David G. Farr\\n28J. and C. Treufant...\\n29 Jo8eph Emerson\\n30 Mahaffy Knox\\nSllHenry Wales\\n32lDaniel E.Frost\\nSSlThomas F. Dryer\\n.jClinton\\n.!RicUmond\\niRay\\n.Bruce\\nWa ihington..\\n.Warren\\nChesterfield.,\\nWashington.,\\n.jBruce\\nWashington.\\nRichmond\\nLenox\\nWashington.\\nWashington.\\nErin\\nRay\\nWashington.\\nChesterfield.\\nt^linton\\nSterling\\nBruce\\nErin\\nWashington.\\nLenox\\n31Colt\\n19 Barns damaged\\n8! Barns and contents\\nand stacks of grain..\\n2 Damage to house\\nll|Damageto house\\n6: Damage to house\\n23 Damage to barn\\ni9 Daiiiage to house aid content!\\nHjBarn and contents\\n33\\n19\\n2(i:\\n17\\n21\\n21\\nLightning\\nFire\\nFire\\nFire\\nLightning.,\\nLightning.,\\nLightning.,\\nFire\\nFire\\nLightning\\nLightning\\nAug. 1, 1876\\nNovember. 187*i\\nApril 26, 1877\\nMay 19, 1877..\\nJuly 12, 1877..\\nAug. 31, 1877..\\nAug. 31, 1877..\\nFeb. 27,1878,..\\nMarch 14, 1878,\\nAug. 1, 1878,\\nAug. 1, 1878,\\nDamage to contents honse..\\nDamage to contents honse\\nOutside cellar\\nDamage to barn\\nDamage to barn\\n[iarn and contents\\n29 Barn, shed and contents\\n2 Damage to house\\nIJiDamage to house\\n8|BarD, contents and straw stack.\\n8, Tenant house\\n24 House and contents\\n20! Damage to house\\n13jDamageto house\\n18 Four sheep\\nFire\\nCbimnej burning out\\nSparks from chimnej.\\nSparks from cbimnej.\\nLigntning\\nFire\\nFire\\nFire\\nFire\\nFire\\nLightning\\nLightning\\nLightning\\nLightning\\nFire\\nFire\\nFii-e\\nFire\\nFire\\nFire\\nFire\\nLightning\\nDate of Lo89.\\nAug. 18, 1878.\\n,Ian. 1 1879....\\nMarch 16, 1879,\\nFeb. 14, 1879...\\nJuly 11, 1879..\\nDec. 14. 1879..\\nJan. 30, 1880..\\nJan. .l, 1880..\\nJan. 30, 1880..\\nFeb. 19, 1880..\\nJuly 10, 188U..\\nJuly 10, 1880..\\nJuly 10, 1880..\\nAug. 19, 1880..\\nNov. 15, 1880..\\nNov. 17, 1880..\\nNov. 30, 1880..\\nFeb. 29, 1881..\\n.March 10, 1881\\nApril 5. 1881...\\nMay 28, 1881..\\nJuly 12, 1881.\\nTotol amount losses paid since organized, to December 31, 1881.,\\n$50 00\\n300 00\\n900 00\\n300 0(1\\n3 00\\n23 IK)\\n25 10\\n308 00\\n425 00\\n90 00\\n40 00\\n730 02\\n25 00\\n1 00\\n6 26\\n6 00\\n2 00\\n250 00\\n2 60\\n6 00\\n10 00\\n1 45\\n8 00\\n100 00\\n911 76\\n125 00\\n16 91\\n795 00\\n500 00\\n629 45\\n8 00\\n6 58\\n8 00\\n1.512 87\\nr.4RMEKS MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY.\\nThe FaiTQers Mutual Fire Insiu-ance Company of Macoml) and St. Clair Counties was\\norganized at the Ridgeway Hotel, or Beebe House, August 1, 1 S63. Robert Irwin pre-\\nsided, with Samuel Goodsell Secretary. After the adoption of the charter, the following\\nofficers were elected; Aratus Smith, Presidei;tt; James S. Durfee, Vice President; Robert\\nIrwin, Secretary; C. D. Crittenden, Loren Ani:h-us, J. S. Kimball, A. W. Freeman and\\nManson Farrar, Directors. The charter members were Loren Andrus, P. W. Bentley,\\nCalvin Davis, George W. Phillips, Erastus Day, George H. Cannon, Charles C. Leech,\\nWilliam Canfield, Hemy Fries, Aratus Smith. Norman Peny, Hiram Taylor, Abraham\\nWells, George N. Chillser, Cornelius -Jeffers, James C. Cox. Ales S. Barnard. Peter F.\\nBrakeman, Charles McMullan and James O. Roberson.\\n3\u00c2\u00b0\\nnv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0481.jp2"}, "482": {"fulltext": "HISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAratus Smith continued President until 1865, when Joseph C. High was appointed.\\nMr. High was elected in 1866, and held the office until 1868. when R. H. Jenks was elected.\\nThe Secretaries of the company were Robert Irwin, elected in 1863; W. B. Bartlett,\\n1870; Watson W. Lyons, elected in 1874; holds the po.sition at present.\\nThe Directors have been:\\n1864 J. C. High, C. S. King, Amos N. Freeman, Charles McMullan, Loren Andrus.\\n1865 Same officers.\\n1866 H. H. Cady. R. H Jenks, Charles Andrews, William A. Parsons, L. S. King,\\nA. W. Clark.\\n1867\u00e2\u0080\u0094 H. H. Cady. C. S. King, W. A. Parsons, George H. Stuart.\\n1868\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Michael Plant, Silas Hart, E. W. True, Samuel Jones, Mason Cole.\\n1869 Officers re-elected.\\n1870 David Weeks, S. Jones, M. Plant, Henry Fries, S. S. Hart, James Dnrfee.\\n1871 \u00e2\u0080\u0094Albert Sperry, D. S. Priest.\\n1872\u00e2\u0080\u0094 David Weeks. C. D. Crittenden.\\n1873\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G. Schuchard, M. Plant.\\n1874\u00e2\u0080\u0094 D. S. Priest, John M. Hart.\\n1875\u00e2\u0080\u0094 P. D. Smith, C. S. King.\\n1876\u00e2\u0080\u0094 M. Plant, G. Schuchard.\\n1877\u00e2\u0080\u0094 D. S. Priest Myron Kinyon.\\n1878\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C. S. King, George H. Cannon.\\n187U -Gustave Suchard, M. Plant.\\n1880\u00e2\u0080\u0094 D. S. Priest. Myron Kenyon.\\n1881\u00e2\u0080\u0094 L. M. Sperry, Stephen B. Cannon.\\nThe following table points out the progress made since 1869. The statistics for the\\nprevious years are not given, but it may be said that the same ratio of advance marked\\nthe transactions of the company from 1863 to 1868:\\nYear.\\nNo. of Mrmbcrs\\nRisks.\\nAd.ied.\\n1869\\n1,830\\n1:3.818,2.55\\n1870\\n3.300\\n3,\u00c2\u00ab00,000\\n$681,745\\n1871\\n3,800\\n3,800,000\\n506,000\\n1873\\n3.383\\n5,308,809\\n433,135\\n1874\\n3,419\\n5,014,765\\n196,770\\n1875\\n3,415\\n4,936,685\\n78,080\\nYear.\\nNo. of Members.\\nRisks.\\nAdded.\\n1876\\n3,415\\n|4,964,.590\\nif 27,905\\n1877\\n3,990\\n5,631,044\\n6.56,4.54\\n1878\\n4,271\\n5,646,384\\n566.673\\n1879\\n4,496\\n5,790,395\\n.539,774\\n1880\\n3,839\\n4.809,302\\n325,918\\n1881\\n4,125\\n5,073.786\\n.363,577\\nAgricultural statistics will be found in the chapter of county finances and statistics.\\nTHE sheep-shearers ASSOCIATION.\\nThis society was organized a few years ago. Its second annual meeting was held May\\n2, 1882 in the Lirge building at the Fearnaugbt Driving Park, Romeo. Owing to the ex-\\ntreme coolness of the weather, two or three, at least, of our sheep men, declined to shear\\ntheir sheep after their an-ival on the grounds. Notwithstanding this and other drawbacks,\\nthe exhibition in point of attendance, and in quality of stock exhibited, was the finest ever\\nheld in this part of the State. There were many exhibitors, although all did not have\\ns r-", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0482.jp2"}, "483": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOi[B COUNTY.\\ntheir sheep sheared. There were nineteen shearers engaged the greater part of the day,\\nseven of whom competed for the prize. Outside of the building, the agricultural men had\\neverything their own way and exhibited their improvements to large crowds of interested\\npeople. Among the visitors from abroad were Editor Gibbon of the Michigan Fanner;\\nButterfield. of the Post and Trihnnr: J. M. Norton and J. Van Hoosen, of Avon, T. M.\\nWycoii of the Pontiac Gazette; J. Evarts Smith, of Ypsilanti, a noted breeder of merino\\nsheep\\nA citizens purse of \u00c2\u00a710 was competed for by the shearers with the following result:\\nFirst prize, Corueel Lewis, $4; second prize, David Tucker, \u00c2\u00a73: thir.l prize. E. F. Thomas.\\n12; fom-th prize, Levi W. Cole, $1.\\nThe whole number of sheep exhibited was ninety-three. The following is the tabu-\\nlated statement of the result of the shearing\\n123\\n.55\\n122\\n.56\\n65\\n315\\n313\\n104\\n266\\n256\\n63\\n41\\n378\\n401\\n27\\n9\\n336\\n34\\n69\\n170\\nJ. W. Thorington c\\nAV. E. Mvers i-\\nP. M. Bentk-v Son e\\nP. M. BuiitlrV Son e\\nP. P. Andrew.s r\\nC. E. Lockwood r\\nJ. W. Thorington r\\nJ. M. Thorington e\\nJ. M. Thorington e\\nJ. C. Thompson r\\nJ. C. Thompson r\\nA. D. Taylor c\\nA. D. Taylor e\\nJ. C. Thompson e\\nW. E. Myerse\\nJ. C. Thompson e\\n!J. E. Lockwood c\\nA. Taylor and J. M. Thorington r.\\nJ. G. Perkins r\\nBishop tt Chapin r\\nA. D. Taylor, Genesee r\\nJ. A. Paton r\\nP. M. Bentley e\\nJ. G. Perkins r\\n,1. W. Thorington e\\nP. P. Andrews e\\nJ. Thorington r\\nJ. W. Thorington c\\nP. M. Bentley r\\nA. D. Tavlorr\\nJ.M. Thorington e\\nJ. M. Thorington e\\nEd Randall r\\nDawson West r\\n352\\n383\\n345\\n345\\n413\\n395\\n352\\n375\\n395\\n401\\n381\\n356\\n356\\n.355\\n380\\n355\\n352\\n875\\n426\\n352\\n395\\n395\\n365\\n353\\n357\\n353\\n395\\n352\\n375\\n375\\n357\\n346\\n14\\n1\\nlOi\\n11\\n6\\n3i\\ni\\n2i\\n8\\n15\\n3i\\n14+\\n15\\n13\\n9i\\n6A\\n13A\\n4\\n2\\n10\\n14i\\nU\\n1\\n110\\n101\\n79i\\n78\\n105\\n88\\n78+\\n77i\\n87\\n67\\n114+\\n86i\\n91\\n57\\n68\\n71i\\n92+\\n109i\\n112\\n15U\\n93\\n69\\nm\\n96\\n71\\n114\\n98\\n81+\\n92\\n96+\\n96i\\n91i\\n115+\\nMr. John C. Thompson, of Romeo, exhibitea a fleece shorn a day or two before\\nthe exhibition, from a two-year-old ram, which weighed thirty-one and three-fourths\\npounds.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0483.jp2"}, "484": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY\\nCHAPTER XX VII.\\nNECIIOI.OGY.\\nIn the chapter devoted to township history and biography, reference is made to the\\npioneers and old settlers of Macomb who are gone to the land beyond the grave. To insure\\na more precise notice, their names are grouped under this heading, and, in a great num-\\nber of instances, a brief sketch is given, while in other cases, the name of the pioneer is\\nmerely subscribed. From the records of the Pioneer Society, it is learned that the necrol-\\nogy of the pioneers comprises the following names:\\nChi istian Clemens, Augustus Richards, Ashael Bailey, William Abbot. Nathaniel\\nBennett, N. T. Taylor, Isaac Thompson. James Thompson. George Smith. Reuben R.\\nSmith, John Smith, Ai-atus Smith, Isaac Powell. Abram Powell. George Powell, Joseph\\nSikes, Jonas Crissman, John Proctor, Josiah Hamlin, Normaij Perry. Hosea Northrup.\\nDarius Sessions, Seaman Fillmore, Alva Sibley, A. Draper, Charles Davis, A. Pettiboue,\\nSolomon Dewey, Solomon Lathi-op, Nathan Adams, Horace Heath, Michael Devine, Sam-\\nuel Snover, Silas Scott, Silas Hayden, Nathan Nye, Jefferson Nye, Albeit Nye, Henian\\nNj e, John Garvin, Prescott B. Thurston, Aaron B. Rawles. Thomas Eldred. Good-\\ning, Goodyear, Azariah Prentiss, John Townsend, William Baker, James Sharpstien,\\nJohn Stranahan, Crippen, Alexander Tackles, John Taylor, Joseph Chubb, John\\nCrawford, Charles Fowler, Elder Warren, George Bowerman, Z. Hayden. Russell Day,\\nDaniel Day, Nathan Dickinson, Carlton Newbury, Rev. Taylor, Dr. Neil Gray, B. Free-\\nman, Sr. Osni Miller, G. Powell, Sr., Wood, Sumner Pierce, Colatinus Day, Deloss\\nConklin, John Armstrong, Myron Armstrong. Whitbeck, Minot T. Lane, Bisho]\\nSr., Cyrus Hopkins, Chauncey Throop, George Throop, Nathan Keeler, Squire Parmellee,\\nHenry Collins, Gould. William Allen, Howaa-d, Isaac Taft, Elisha Smith, John\\nSoule, Clinton Soule, Squire Lawi-eoce, Hiram Hopkins, Roswell Webster, Albert Finch,\\nEzra Finch, Sylvester Finch, James Leslie, Benjamin Leslie. Gideon Gates, Se\\\\vell Hovey,\\nA. Sterling, Noah Cooley. Benjamin CooJey, George Brabb. Isaac Brabb. Marvel Shaw,\\nJames Thorington, Cusiek, James Hosner, Aden Taft, Deusing, John Holland,\\nWilbiu-, Stitt, Ed Ai-noM, Joel Turrell, Philip Price, Hem-y Price. John Price,\\nPeter Price. Noah Webster. Benjamin Freeman, Moses Freeman, William Hall, Carpus\\nRedway, Andrew Southerland, David Southerland, Charles Chamberlain, Joseph Peters,\\nAsa Curtis, Parker Adams. Asa Palmer, Asa Holmau. Levi Holman, Nathaniel Cole,\\nCharles Marble, Henry Lee, Deacon Goodell, Williard Church. Wiley Bancroft, Ira Phil-\\nlips, George Chamberlain, Chamberlain, James Starkweather. Job Howell, Albert\\nEdget, Peter Edget, Iddo Warner, Sylvester Warner, Edmund Stewart, Peter Woodbeck,\\nJoseph Donaldson. James Donaldson, David Donaldson, Rev. Andrews. Peter Aldi-ich,\\nFred Akh-ich, Ira Aldrich, Darius Finch, Tobias Finch. Melanchton Ghamberlin, Chaun-\\ncey Chambei-lin, Albert Aldrich, Elijah Burke, Norman Biu ch, Allen Frost, John Hall,\\nWilliam A. Burt, Deacon Calkins, Ben McGregor, Ben Crissman, Lazarus Green, Bur-\\nchard Thi-oop, George Wilson. Otis Lamb, and Messrs. Haines and Moyers.\\nIn the followins list, a l;u ge number of the deceased old settlers of JIacomb ai e treated\\nbiographically, and the list brought down to the present time:\\nReuben R. Smith, of Ray Township, died April 27, 1866, aged sixty-nine years.\\nV", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0484.jp2"}, "485": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMrs. Mary Matthews died May T), I8f36. aged seventy-one years.\\nMrs. Mercy A. Giddings died November 22, 1866, aged fifty- two years.\\nStephen Giles, of Ray, died suddenly March 18. 1867.\\nDr. Benjamin G. Sutherland died at his home in Ray Township, January 81. 1867. in\\nthe fifty-seventh year of his age. He was born in Rutland Gounty, Vt., June, 1810. He\\nstudied medicine at Lewiston, N. Y.. came to Michigan in 1836, and settled near Romeo.\\nGeorge Chandler died at Romeo Febraary 18. 1867, aged sixty-six years. He located\\nthere in 1845.\\nAsa Curtiss, of Ai-mada, died of ai)oplexy, at Romeo. March 15, 1867.\\nMrs. Matilda Ward, wife of Andrew Ward, of Armada, died suddenly March 19,\\n1867.\\nChaiincey H Whitney, Secretary of the Goiinly Agricultural Society, died at Utica\\nApril 21, aged fifty-five years.\\nJoshua Smith died at Almont July 29, 18(57, aged eighty years.\\nJames Benjamin fell forty feet from the staging of a church at Dryden, Lapeer\\nCounty, and was instantly killed, September 12, 1.S67.\\nE. L. Stone, of Washington Township, died November 7, 1867.\\nWesley Willey, of Ray. died suddenly January 25, 1868.\\nMrs. Hugh Norton died in Macomb Township February 14, 1868.\\nJoseph Moyres died in Washington Township in April, 1866.\\nMrs. Elijah Thorington died suddenly March 21, 1868.\\nMrs. Sarah Beekman died March 31, 1868, aged seventy-five years.\\nEli Mussey, father of Dexter Mussey. died August 18, 1868, aged eighty-eight years.\\nMrs. Sarah Harvey died suddenly September 19. 1868. aged sixty-eight years. She\\nwas born at Morristown, N. J.\\nWilliam Chandler, formerly of Romeo, was aceidentallv killed at Cleveland. Ghio,\\nOctober 10, 1868.\\nMrs. James Starkweather was killed a few miles north of Baltimore, Md., November\\n16, 1868, by being run over by the cars. She was born at Clarkson. N.. Y., July 14, 1807,\\nand came to Michigan in June, 1825.\\nDr. Neil Gi-ay died December 14, 1868. He was-born at Kenwilligg, Ayrshire, Scot-\\nland, in 1802, and, thirty years later located the Gray farm in Macomb County.\\nDr. Reuben Nims died at his home in Washington Township February 2. 1869, in\\nhis seventy-fifth year. He was born in Berkshire County, Mass.\\nGmxlon Hoveydied at Romeo June 11, 1870. It is stated that he was a centenarian.\\nMrs. Celia Van After died at the home of A. M. Leach, Romeo, December 13, 1870.\\naged seventj^-five years.\\nMrs. Emma Lathrop, of Armada, died March 21, 1871, aged seventy-five yeai s.\\nLuther Farrar died March 12, 1870.\\nMrs. Clarissa Goff died in Shelby, Mich., April 8, 1871, aged eighty-one years. She\\nwas the wife of Harvey Goff, and daughter of Squire Goff, the first Baptist preacher\\nwho settled at Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y. She was born near Hartford, Conn,\\nWilliam M, Connor, a soldier of theUnited States in the late war, died at Mt. Clem-\\nens May 14, 1871.\\nNeil trray, son of Dr. Neil Gi ay, died at Romeo June 10, 1871.\\nMrs. Lemrock Bailey died August 7, 1871, at Union, Canada West. As Miss Mary-\\nette Curson, she was favorably known to old settlers.\\nMrs. Eliza Carpenter, aged sixty-one years, died tragically August 25. 1871.\\nManly Thurston met a tragic death in 1870.\\nAaron B. Rawles, one of the pioneers of Romeo, and one of its most prominent citi-\\nn^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0485.jp2"}, "486": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COTXTY.\\nz \u00c2\u00bbns, died April 4, 1872. He was born at Albany, N. Y., in 1812. and came to Detroit in\\n18:32, and to Romeo in 1834.\\nMrs. Levi D. Chamberlain died at Romeo June 27, 1872. She was born in Schenec-\\ntady County, N. Y., Jiine 15, 17y;3. In 18 Ki, she was married to Levi D. Chamberlain.\\nCharles Peltier, aged seventy-eight years, died at Mt. Clemens June 27, 1872. He\\nserved with the L ish and French under Richard Smvthe in the war of 1812, and settled\\nat Mt. Clemens in 1814.\\nMi s. Fannie Baldwin was born in Sussex County, N. J., in 1794; married Nehemiah\\nBaldwin, who died in 1832; came to Michigan with her daughter, Mrs. Jeremiah Ayres,\\nin 1841, and died at Romeo August 24, 1872.\\nDr. 0. E. Davis was born in Shelby Township in 1825; settled in Macomb Township\\nas a practicing physician about forty years ago, and died there August 23, 1872.\\nMrs. Lydia Adams Buzzell died at the house of her son, Martin Buzzell, November\\n10, 1872, aged eighty-seven years. The lady was born in 1787, being the tirst white\\nchild born in the town of St. Johnsbury, Vt. She came to Romeo in 1831.\\nJeremiah Curtiss died in Shelby Township November 3, 1872, aged eighty years.\\nHe was born near Albany, N. Y., August 2. 1793; served in the war of 1812; married\\nMercy Ewell June 10, 1817; moved West in 1832 and settled in Shelby, where he lived\\ncontinuously until his death.\\nAaron Stone died in Washington Township November 28, 1872, aged eighty-two\\nyears. He settled in Washington Township in 1820, and dwelt there until his decease.\\nIsaac Moniore died April 28, 1871, in the sixty-eighth year of his age, at his resi-\\ndence in the village of Disco.\\nMrs. Sue! Hovey, formerly Lucinda Holmes, was born at Derby, Vt., October 13.\\n1798; married Suel Hovey in January, 18i8, and, coming with her husband and family\\nto Michigan in May, 1826, settled in Macomb County in June of that year. She died\\nAugust 31, 1877.\\nGeorge Hovey, born in Genesee County, N. Y., in 1819, came to Michigan about\\n1829; was married in 1843, and deceased November 25, 1879. His death was sudden.\\nHaving left for the timber lands of Nathan Eldred, for the purpose of chopping logs, at\\nan early hour, and not returning, his daughters induced some neighbors to go in search\\nof him. Those searchers found him in the woods dead.\\nMrs. Ruth Thurston, wife of B. H. Thurston, died March 1, 1873. She was born in\\nMadison, N. Y., in 1814.\\nSuel Hovey. born at Lebanon. N. H., March 9, 1875, died at his residence, one mile\\nnorth of Romeo, March 2. 1873. The deceased moved westward in advance of the civil\\nizers, and was from his boyhood a pioneer. After the war of 1812, he became acquainted\\nwith Lucinda Holmes, and married her January 25, 1818.\\nJohn Wesley Shaw, born in Canada October 3, 1839, died at Romeo March 3, 1873.\\nHe was married to Maggie Overton April 17, 18 37.\\nMiss Sophia Chamberlin, formerly of Romeo, died in Alabama December 2, 1872.\\nJames Starkweather was born October 26, 1801, at Norwich, Conn. He came to\\nMichigan in September, 1824, and settled in the township of Washington; moved into\\nBruce in 182(5, and to Romeo in 1872, where he died February 10, 1873.\\nHannah Jliller, wife of Daniel Miller, died March 8, 1873. Her maiden name was\\nPhillips. She was born at Rush, Mom-oe Co., N. Y., May 9, 1811. In 1833, she mai ried\\nNicholas Wheeler, and with him moved to Chicago, 111. He dying in 1841 left her at\\nliberty to marry Daniel Miller, October 9, 1843, with whom she came to Macomb County.\\nWilliam P. Washer, father of George Washer, died suddenly April 25, 1873. The\\ndeceased was born in Sussex County, N. J,, in 1801.\\n^1", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0486.jp2"}, "487": {"fulltext": "^^=4^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMrs. William McKay died suddenly while attending a meeting at M. E. Church, June\\n8. 1873. at Komeo.\\nGeorge Wilson died in Washington Township July 17, 1873, aged eighty-six years.\\nHe visited Detroit in 1810.\\nThe sudden death of Mrs Charles Washburne, of Armada, was recorded August 18,\\n1873.\\nMiss Elizabeth FaiTar, formerly of Romeo, died at Detroit August 24, 1873, aged\\nseventy years.\\nJohn S. Smith, father of Mrs. Samuel H. Ewell, was born at Galon, Monroe Co., N.\\nY., June 4, 1809; came to Michigan in February, 1832, and located near Tremble s mill,\\nin Bruce, moving subsequently into Lapeer. He died August 22, 1873.\\nAsa Jenner, of Ray Township, died September 3, 1873, at the age of seventy-foiu-\\nyears. He was born in New Jersey, and lived in Uay for over a quarter of a century.\\nMrs. Nancy Ewell died at Romeo September 4, 1873. She was born in Worcester\\nCounty, Mass., March 15, 1781; married Samuel Ewell December 13, 1806. She came\\nto Romeo with her husband in May, 1836.\\nAbram T. Powell died September 9, 1873. He settled in Washiugton Township in\\n1827.\\nJames Maher died at Romeo September 7, 18(3. aged sisty-two yeai s. He was born\\nin Oneida County, N. Y.\\nJohn Reynolds, of Bruce, died September 10, 1873, aged seventy-six years. He was\\nborn in Ireland in 1797.\\nJohn Campeau, one of the soldiers of the war of 1812, died at his home, in HaiTison\\nTownship, September 21, 1873, aged eighty-seven year.s. He was born at Detroit Jan-\\nuary 9, 1786, and served in Mack s company of Michigan infantry in 1812.\\nPeter Price, born at Rush. N. Y., January 16, 1806, settled in Washington Township\\nin 1823, and died at Brousou, Branch Co., Mich., October 22, 1873.\\nDr. Caleb Carpenter died at St. Louis, Mich., October 19, 1873. He settled at Romeo\\nin 1830, and resided there until he removed to Almont, in 1835.\\nMrs. Cynthia A. (Luman) Preston, born at Ridgeway, Orleans Co., N. Y., in 1826,\\nsettled in Macomb County in 1836; maiTied Luman Preston October 14, 1847: died No-\\nvember 15, 1873.\\nValaria E. French, daughter of Harvey G. and Mary S. French, born in Lenox, Ma-\\ncomb Co.. Mich., July 18, 1842, died November 12, 1873, fi-om the efl ects of poison ad-\\nministered by her own hand.\\nThe wife of Joel Thompson died December 30. 1873. Her request that she should\\nuot be buried for a week after her death was comj)lied with.\\nG. G. Deshon died at Utica December 27. 1873. He came to Michigan in 1831,\\naccompanied by his brother, A. G. and the Hon. H. P. Baldwin, both shoemakers.\\nEdmund Thompson, an old resident of Armada, died February 3, 1874, aged sixty-\\nnine years. He was born in Cayuga County. N. Y. He was a soldier in the late war.\\nJohn Townsend died January 5. 1874. He was born in Greene County, N. Y. July,\\n1793; came to Washington in 1832 and4ocated lands in Bruce Township.\\nVan R. Ames, of Romeo, died January 10, 1874. aged thirty-seven years, thirty-three\\nyears of which were passed in that village.\\nMrs. Mercy Curtiss, born at Norwich. Mass., September 20. 1798, died at Shelby,\\nMacomb Countv, Jauuarv 8. 1874, aged seveutv-six years. She was an immigrant of\\n1832,\\nE. W. True died at Armada January 18, 1874. He was born at Durham, Me., Octo-\\nber 4, 1806; came to Michigan in 1845, and located at Armada in 1848.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0487.jp2"}, "488": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OP MACOMB COUNTY.\\nliL\\nThomas C. Oolles. formerly a resident of Ray Center, died at St. Louis. Mo.. Jan-\\nnary 21, 1874.\\nJohn Garvin, boru at Hartwick, Vt., in 1789, came to Michigan in 1833. and died at\\nhis home, in Washington Township, April 23, 1874.\\nHarriet Stanton died at the residence of her son, El)er Deuison, Osford, A])ril 20.\\n1874. in her seventy-fifth year.\\nManilla L. Freeman, aged foi ty years, died May 1, 1874. She was an old resident\\nof Washington Townshi}}.\\nMi s. Raymond died June 12, 1874. She came to Romeo in 1838, and made it her\\nhome.\\nMrs. Margaret A. Foe, aged sixty-sis years, died at Armada June 22, 1874.\\nDarius Sessions died at his residence. Armada, June 30, 1674. He lived in the\\ntownship for forty-eight years. He was born May 8. 1804, a native of Tolland County, Vt.\\nGeorge Bowerman, an old settler of Washington Township, died February 3, 1875.\\nDavid Greene died February 18, 1875. He was born at Berlin. Rensselaer Co.. N.\\nY. in 1808, and settled in Michigan in 1845.\\nAlbert Finch, the senior member of the Finch family, was borji in Dutchess County, N.\\nY., in 1775. In 1800, he moved to Ontario County, where he located near the families of\\nBailey and Gates, whose names are so closely interwoven with the history of Romeo. In\\n1823-24, he located at Indian Village, near or on the site of the fair-grounds. The family\\nwas progressing, when their son. Alanson, was reported missing. From that moment,\\nsorrow and despair seem to hold possession of the household, until the father and mother\\nof the lost child were relieved of their sorrows by the grave. The sub-chief, Kanobe. was\\nalways looked upon liy these pioneers as the principal agent in the abduction.\\nIsaac Taft. one of the pioneers of Bruce, died March 18, 1875, aged seventy years.\\nHugh Morton, a prominent member of the Union Farmers Club, died in March, 1875.\\nilrs. Mary S. Johnson died March lU, 1875. aged sixty-five years.\\nMrs. John Orr, formerly Mrs. Weldon, died March 21, 1875, aged seventy-two years.\\nShe came from New York State at an early date, and was among the first settlers of Rich-\\nmond.\\nJoseph A. Holland died at Romeo A])ri] 23. 1875. He was born in Washington\\nTownship November 3, 1828.\\nMrs. George D. Hovey died April 26. 1878, aged about sixty years.\\nMrs. Phcebe Sikes, formerly a resident of Macomb, died at TaV)le Grove. Fulton Co..\\n111., May 1. 1875.\\nHiram Calkins died at Imlay City June 4, 1875, aged eighty-three years. His re-\\nmains were inten-ed at Mt. Vernon. Macoml.) County.\\nMrs. Castor died at Richmond June 19, 1 875.\\nMrs. Larzalier died at Lakeville June 30, 1875.\\nT. L. Saokett. Judge of Probate, died at Mt. Clemens in July. 1875.\\nDr. Lewis Berlin, formerly of Romeo, died July 18. 1875.\\nMrs. Elizabeth Thorington died July 25. 1875, in her thirty-ninth year. She was the\\ndaughter of Christian and Sarah Cole.\\nJeremiah Jewell, of Ray. died September 29, 1875. aged seventy-two years. He\\ncame to Michigan in 1831 and located in Ray Township.\\nMrs. W. J. French, Mrs. Henry Thurston and Mrs. George Parmelee died in Octo-\\nber. 1875.\\nThomas Axford died near Disco November 24, 1875.\\nAustin Day. of Macomb County, died at Utica, N. Y.. Februaiy 21. 1876.\\nAzariah W. Sterling died at his home in Washington Township February 27, 1876,", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0488.jp2"}, "489": {"fulltext": "L^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\najed sevanfcy-nin? years. He was bira at Saybrook. Cjnn. In 1831. he settled in Wash-\\nington Township.\\nGeorge D. Saudford died at Romeo March 18, 1876. aged tifty-three years. He\\nserved in the war of 1861-65, and afterward in the Western Territories, against the In-\\ndians.\\nMrs. Mason Cole, formerly Miss Charity Gamble, died May 24, 1876. aged tifty-four\\nyears.\\nAlbert Edgett died March 16, 1876. aged seveuty-one years. He lived two miles\\nnortheast of Romeo, in Bruce Township, since 1826.\\nJames Hosner died in July, 1876. He settled in Washington Township at an early day.\\nSylvester Seeley was born in New York, in June 18, 1807; learned the trade of\\ncarpenter in Niagara County: removed to Macomb in 1881, and settled on land on\\nSection 19. now owned by J. S. Warner. Mr. Seeley worked at his trade and at farming\\nin the county, except two years, u[) to the time of his death, which occurred March 27,\\n1878; married. September 16, 1827, to Julia, oldest child of Joseph Thurston, a native\\nof Vermont, born January 11, 1808; three children, one of whom is living. Mr. Seeley\\nwas an active man in all that pertains to the new settlement. The mother still lives in\\n.irmada Village.\\nMoses Freeman, son of Joseph Freeman, of Berkshire, Vt. was born May 4, 1801;\\nmarried Ann Powell August 2. 1829. and had four children; removed to Armada Town-\\nship in 1824. and was one of the first to locate land in Armada Township, which was a\\npart of Section 31, now owned by Abuer Lemon. Mr. Freeman was a military man. hav-\\ning held foiu- commissions of militia, all signed by Stevens T. Mason Lieutenant, Cap-\\ntain. Major and Colonel. He was an energetic and busy man to the time of his death,\\nwhich took place October 4, 1871. The wife died June 17. 1871.\\nBeekman Chamberlin was born in Canada June 20, 1793; arrived in Macomb County\\nin 1834: took up and cleared 160 acres of land, and spent most of his life in the county;\\nmarried Malinda Adams, a native of Ontario County, N. Y. and had ten children, seven\\nof whom are still living. She died on the homestead in 1875. Mr. Chamberlin died in\\n1870: served in the war of 1812 a short time.\\nWilliam Young, a native of New Jersey, born in 1801. married Zobida Masters, of\\nsame place; removed to Macomb in 1833. and lived twenty years in Bruce Township, then\\nin Washington six years, then to Armada Village, where he died October Iti, 1863. His\\nwife died eight days previously. He was a blacksmith in each place mentioned.\\nTimothy Adams, son of Isaac Adams, was born in Ontario County, N. Y., in 1813.\\nHis father and mother were natives of Massachusetts. He settled in Ai-mada. Section 12.\\nin the year 1842, on a fai m which he cleared up and made his home till the time of his\\ndeath. September 19. 1865. He married, in 1842, Betsey, daughter of Justus Grant, a\\nnative of Vermont, and had eight childi-en. one of whom sitrvives. Mi s. Adams lives\\nupon the homestead. Her father was a survivor of the war of 1812.\\nRoswell Webster, a native of Connecticut, came to Macomb in 1825, and took ninety-\\nsix acres in Washington, now lying in the village of Romeo; had six childi en, and was a\\nsoldier in the war of 1812: was wouuded-at the battle of Fort Erie, and received a pension:\\ndied at his home in Romeo.\\nJoseph Goodin was born in Bloomtield, N. Y. was a pensioner of the war of 1812;\\ncame with his father to Romeo in 1830: bought a tract of land in Bruce, upon which both\\nfather and son died. They were masons by trade, and had miVch to do with the building\\nin the earlier days of Romeo.\\nWarren Tibbits, familiarly known as Squire Tibbits, was born in Vermont in 1802;\\nmoved while a child to Canada, and remained till 1837; he then removed to Armada", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0489.jp2"}, "490": {"fulltext": "liL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTownship, where he lived till shortly before his death, when he removed to the village,\\nand died Deceiulier -*4, ISfil. His death was the result of disease of the heart, and was\\nvery sudden. His wife, Polly Hart, died January 2.2, 1S75, at the age of seventy-live years.\\nMl Tibbits was a successful school-teacher in Canada, and a faithful officer in the town-\\nship many years.\\nIra Spencer, one of the oldest settlers of Armada, died February (5, 1876, aged eighty-\\nfoui- years. He came into the couaty at an early day, and was well known as a Univer-\\nsalist preacher. He said. I was born a Democrat, and by the grace of God, I shall die\\na Democrat.\\nMrs. WilliaiQ Crittenden died April 4. 187t), from injuries received in an ettbrt to\\nsubdue the flames which destroyed her house that morning.\\nIsaac Brabb died at Romeo April 13. 1S7Q, aged eighty- one years. He was one of\\nthe old settlers of Macomb.\\nNathan G. Bates died at his home in Washington Township April S, 187(5, aged forty\\nyears.\\nMrs. Maria Maynard Spaalding died June 6, 1S76, aged fifty-one years.\\nMi-s. Aratus Smith died June 9, 1876, at Reading, Mich. and her remains brought to\\nRomeo for burial.\\nMrs. Anna Wilcox died Jiily 7, 1876, iu her eighty-second year. She came to Mich-\\nigan in 1831, and settled in Washington Township.\\nDuncan Gass, aged seventy-eight years, died August 1, 1876. at his home iu Ray\\nTownship. He was one of the early settlers of that township.\\nMrs. Frances Curtiss Smith, wife of Caivin Smith, died August 18, 1876, at her home\\nin Armada.\\nHenry Lawrence died August 16, 1876, in his forty-foui th year.\\nMarvel Shaw, one of the pioneers of Macomb County, died September 17, 1876. He\\nsettled at Romeo in 1830.\\nAi-galius Streeter died in Bruce October 18, 1876.\\nMi-s. Stitt. wife of Dr. Stitt. died at Romeo in June. 1876.\\nGiles Hubl)ard died suddenly November 6. 1876. aged fifty-three years. He was one\\nof the old settlers of Mt. Clemens, and a leading lawyer of the State.\\nJ. Banghart, an old settler of Macomb, died at Romeo November 5, 1876.\\nOratus Hulett. aged seventy-seven years, died at Armada Septemder 25. 1876.\\nE. R. Bentley, of Armada, died November 18, 1876.\\nJonas Crissman died at his residence December 15, 1876. aged ninety-one years. He\\nwas one o the pioneers of Macomb.\\nMrs. Diadema Crippen died January 16, 1877, in her eighty-ninth year. She was\\nborn in Washington County, N. Y., September 20, 1783.\\nFrances Day, wife of Porter M. Lathrop. died January J. 1877. She was born at\\nDryden March 5. 1838, and was the daughter of John W. Day. one of the first settlers of\\nthat town.\\nDavid Mansfield died January 20. 1S77, in his seventy-seventh year. He was among\\nthe first settlers of Memphis in 1836.\\nMrs. Lydia Rix, wife of Oel Rix, settled at Memphis in 1840; died January 4, 1877,\\naged sixty-two years.\\nMrs. Mary E. Kingsbury died March 11, 1S77. She was an old resilient of Disco.\\nMrs. Marv Ann Gilliert died March 18, 1877, aged seventy-five vears. Her husband,\\nL. S. Gilbert, died in 1.S67.\\nMrs. C. M. Palmer, formerly of Romeo, died at San Francisco, Cal.. March 12, 1877.\\naged forty- two years.\\nnv", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0490.jp2"}, "491": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMrs. Elizabeth Stone died at Richmond in Febrnaiy, 1S78. aged eighty-six years.\\nMrs. Smith, mother of H. O. and G. S. Smith, of Macomb County, died at Madison.\\nInd., Febnxary 6, 1878, in her ninety-second year.\\nRev. Daniel J. Poor, formerly pastor of the Congregational Church in Foxboro, and\\nteacher of the schools at Romeo, died at Lexington, 111., Januaiy 29, 1878.\\nMrs. Mariah Donaldson, wife of Joseph Donaldson, died at the residence of her niece,\\nin Detroit. November 14, 1877. Mrs. Donaldson was qnite well known in Macomb County,\\nhaving resided for a number of years in Romeo. She ha I reached the extreme age of sev-\\nenty years. Her remains were taken to Marshall for burial.\\nMrs. Palethorpe died November 27. 1877.\\nThe wife of Mr. Wilkes L. Stuart, of Newaygo, in this State, died November 29, 1877.\\nMrs. Stuart was the last sm-viving sister of Mr. Cyrus Hopkins, of this place, and will be\\nremembered by many of the older residents of this section as having been a resident of\\nRomeo in its early days, settling here in 1825. She was seventy-three years of age at the\\ntime of her death.\\nArnold P. Sykes, brother of A. J. Sykes, of Macomb County, died at Saginaw Decem-\\nber 14, 1877. He served in the United States Navy for thi-ee years.\\nFrisbie Spencer died in January, 1878, at Detroit, on his way home from California,\\nwhere he had been for his health.\\nJames Reside died in California in January, 1878.\\nMi-s. Josephine B. Stansbury, widow of the late Edwin A. Stansbury, died at the\\nresidence of Hon. A. B. Maynai d in June, 1878.\\nGreorge Scott, an old resident of Mt. Clemens, eighty-four years of age, died Septem-\\nber 9, 1878.\\nAlmon D. Manley died fi om brain disease, at Romeo, on the 10th of September, 1878.\\nHe was the only son of Mr. and Mi-s. J. W. Manley; was born in Macomb Township Au-\\ngust 4, 1844; his parents were among the oldest settlers of Shelby Township. He was\\nan inventor, and much of his machinery is now in practical use.\\nMrs. Taylor, wife of Thomas Taylor, died at her home in the town of Bruce Septem-\\nber 30, 1878. She was sixty-seven years of age.\\nMrs. Mary Brooks died September 30, 1878, aged seventy years; wife of E. Brooks,\\nof Armada.\\nElisha Briggs died at his residence in Davis. October 7, 187N, after a long and pain-\\nful illness, aged fifty.\\nMrs. Caroline Hartung, mother of Greorge Hartung, died October 20, 1878. Mrs.\\nHartung was seventy-eight j^ears of age, and the mother of twelve childi-en, nine of whom\\nsurvive.\\nCyrus Hopkins died November 10, 1878, aged seventy-six years. He was born in\\nOntario County, N. Y., in 1802. He came to Michigan in 1830, and, with the exception\\nof some two years, has been a resident of Romeo since that time. Previous to the build-\\ning of the new Congi-egational Church, he was for more than thirty years the sexton.\\nJoseph Sikes, who died at his residence two miles south of Romeo, November 5, lS7iS,\\nhad owned and lived on the same farm-for thirty-seven years along period for the West.\\nHe was well known to the )ieo]5le as a most industrious, honorable, enterprising and\\nsuccessful farmer.\\nMiss Adelia M. Miller, born at Warsaw. N. Y.. April 18, 1820, settled with her i)ar-\\nents in Washington Township in June, 1822; died December 11, 1878.\\nMrs. Grilbert Conklin died December 3. 1878, aged sixty-eight years. She dwelt in\\nthe neighborhood of Mt. Vernon. Macoml) County, for a period extending over forty\\nyears.\\nTt^-\\nV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0491.jp2"}, "492": {"fulltext": ":\u00c2\u00b1=^iL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMrs. Kimball, mother of Mrs. W. Coykendall, died at the latter s residence December\\n1, 1878. The deceased was quite aged, being about eighty-three.\\nCol. John Stockton, of Mt. Clemens, a pioneer of Macomb, and one of the early states-\\nmen of Michigan, died November 26, 1878.\\nCharles Moser died at Mt. Clemens February 2(). 1878.\\nAlbert Ely Leete was born in Stamford, Dutchess Co., N. Y., July 1. 1802, and died\\nat Romeo. Mich.. February 24, 1878. He was the seventh generation and lineal descend-\\nant of William Leete. who came to this country from England in lfi;^9, as Governor of\\nthe Colony of New Haven. After the consolidation of New Haven and Connecticut Colo-\\nnies under the name of Connecticut, in 1G65, Gov. Leete was chosen as Governor of the two\\nunited colonies, and held that honorable and responsible place till his death, in IfiSS.\\nDr. Leete s mother. Clarinda Gal^, was also descended from one of the old and reputable\\nfamilies of Connecticut. Dr. Leete was married, March 17, 1831, in Palenville, N. Y.\\nto Miss Catherine Palen. Seven chikhen four sons and three daughters are the fruit\\nof this marriage. Two sons have died one at the age of two and a half years, the other\\nin military service in 18()4. Mrs. Leete. two sons and three daughters, siu vive to mourn\\nhis loss.\\nGeorge Washer died suddenlv April 8, 1878, for many years a celebrated auctioneer.\\nMrs. Beagle, widow of Charles Beagle, died April 20, 1878.\\nMrs. Elizabeth Morrison died in Shelby April 24, 1878, iged seventy-eight years.\\nUna Miller died May 2, 1878, after a long and very painful illness of that terrible\\ndisease, cancer of the throat. He was an honored member of the Methodist Episcopal\\nsociety, and universally respected. The parents were the first permanent settlers in Wash-\\nington, coming in June, 1822, and the deceased is siipposed to have been the first white\\nmale child born in the town. He was born in the spring of 1823, and was accordingly\\nfifty-five at the time of his death.\\nThe wife of William Pool, an old resident of Bruce, died May 5, 1878. aged sixty\\nsix years. She came to Michigan in 1848. settling on the farm on which she died on the\\n5th of Jlay, 1878. She was married on the 7th dav of May, 1829, and was buried on the\\n8th of May. 1878.\\nHenry Collins died May 8, 1878, at the residence of M. I. Brabb. Mr. Collins was\\nseventy years of age, and was an old pioneer in this section, settling here hi 1831. He\\nwas a man highly esteemed by his neighbors and friends. He was one of the sti ongest\\nDemocrats in the town of Bruce.\\nJohn H. Williams, born in Washington County. N. Y., in 1815; died in Macomb\\nCounty, Mich.. May, 1878.\\nMrs. M. A. Dickinson, a former prominent resident of Romeo, died on the 25th of\\nApril, 1878, at the residence of her son-in-law, D. L. Gillette, at Westfield, Mass., at\\nthe age of seventy one years. Mrs. Dickinson was a pioneer in this section, coming to\\nRomeo with her husband, Nathan Dickinson, about the year 1838. and remaining here for\\nsome years after that gentleman s death, in 1861, going hence in 1869, and making her\\nhome with her daughter at Westfield until her death.\\nMrs. Charles Kennett, Sr., died June 2, 1878, aged seventy-nine years.\\nMrs. Nancy Lamb Andrus, of Washington Township, born at Wilbraham, Mass.. No-\\nvember 15, 1790, died June 19, 1878, in the eighty-eighth year of her age.\\nSylvester De Land, after a severe sickness of a few weeks, passed away December 8,\\n1878. He came to Michigan in 1833; lived for a short time in Romeo, then in Ray, but\\nfinally pui chased land near Memphis, where he resided about thirty years. For the past\\nten years he has been a resident of Memphis Village. He was sixty-seven years old, and\\nleft a wife and six children.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0492.jp2"}, "493": {"fulltext": "4^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAn old man seventy-eight years of age passed away from ns January 29, 1879. In\\nliis voutli, he had married the lady of his choice. He was a Catholic, and she was a Prot-\\nestant. The marriage ceremony was not performed by a priest. Dm-ing his last sickness,\\na few days before his death, a priest called, and, finding that he wished to die in the\\nCatholic faith and be bmied in their consecrated grounds, decided that, in order to have\\nthis favor, he must be mai ried according to the reijuirements of the chui ch, by one of their\\npriests. The old lady presented the wedding ring which she had received in her youth,\\nand the two were married by the priest. The husband soon died, and his remains were\\nbmied in the Catholic cemetery at Kenockee.\\nLester Giddings, a pensioner in the war of 1812, died January 2, 1879, in the eighty-\\nseventh year of his age. He was born in June, 1792, at Granvill Washington Co., N.\\nY. to which place his father, Niles Gidding.s, moved from Hartland, Conn., soon after the\\nRevohitionary war.\\nBroughton Adams, for many years a resident of Macomb, died on Christmas Day, 1879,\\nat Decatur. Van Buren Co., Mich., aged seventy-nine years.\\nMrs. Green Freeman was born in Meriden, Conn.. September 15, 1816, and was nearly\\nsixty-thi-ee years of age at the time of her death, which occmTed last Saturday morning,\\nJanuary, 11, 1879. She was man-ied July 7, 1842, moving immediately West, locating at\\nMt. Clemens, Macomb Co.. Mich.: moved to Poiitiac in iSGo. She leaves a husband and\\nsix children to mourn her loss. Her death was very sudden and unexpected.\\nOrrin Southwell, an old resident of Romeo, died at Wenona, 111., February 21, 1879.\\niVIrs. L. D. Owen died at Romeo from heart disease April 8, 1879.\\nJoshua B. Dickenson, Mayor of Mt. Clemens, died in May, 1879.\\nYarnum Lufkiu, of Mt. Clemens, died January 9, 1880, aged seventy years.\\nMi-s. Nancy Palmerlee, born at Goshen, Litchfield Co., Conn., August 4, 1786; died\\nin Bruce Township December 30, 1879, in her ninety-foiu th year. She settled there in 1832.\\nOrsel Dudlev, born in New York State March 21, 1800, died near Romeo January\\n18, 1880.\\nMrs. Ezekiel Allen died at Mt. Clemens January 25, 1880, aged eighty years. She\\nlocated there in 1821.\\n]Mi-s. Mary Crocker, mother of T. M. Crocker, of Mt. Clemens, died in May, 1880, at\\nNew Baltimore.\\nM. A. Holcomb, a former resident of Romeo, died at Oxford November 2, 1880.\\nHiram Bancroft died November 7, 1880, aged fifty-eight years.\\nMrs. Anna Cooley, relict of the deceased Noah Cooley, died at the old homestead\\nNovember 16, 1880, aged seventy-six years. Her husband died in 1877.\\nJoseph B. Hart died November 10, 1880. aged about sixty years. He was a resident\\nof Romeo for over forty-eight years.\\nJoseph Yates, of Washington Township, died November 17, 1800, aged seventy years.\\nMrs. Anne Lockwood died November 21, 1880. For a period of forty-four years, she\\nhad been a resident of Mt. Vernon, this county.\\nMrs. Uriah Haines died suddenly at the house of Samuel Bently, in Bruce Town-\\nship, December 10, 1880.\\nMrs. Cornelius Everett, of Bruce, sister of Amos and Lucius Palmerlee, died Decem-\\nber 11, 1880.\\nRev. W. P. Russell, born August 1, 1812, at Milton, Saratoga Co., N. Y.. settled at\\nMemphis, Macomb Countv, in LS-tS, where he remained, with the exception of one year,\\ntmtil his death. May 11, 1880.\\nCol. Noi-man Perry, born in Northumberland Townshij), Saratoga Co., N. Y., April\\n20, 1796; died July 19, 1880.\\nrt*", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0493.jp2"}, "494": {"fulltext": "A\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nDr. James P. Whitney, one of the early physicians of Northern Macomb, died in\\nCalifornia November 25, 1880.\\nBenjamin Cooley, of Bruce, died on the 7th of January, 1881. He was born in Ver-\\nmont August 7. 1811: moved to Michigan in 1832: cleared up a large farm, and died on\\nthe farm which he located nearly half a century ago.\\nJames Brooks, an aged citizen of Romeo, died in January, 1881.\\nHugh Hosner, an old settler of Macomb, died Jamiary 29. 1881, aged sixty-eight\\nyears. He was born in New York November 4, 1808.\\nMrs. Theodosia Lamb died February 2, 1881. aged eighty-nine years. She was born\\nat Bennington, Vt. March 26, 1792. She came with her husband, Otis Lamb, to Mich-\\nigan, in 1824. Her husband died in 185fi.\\nMrs. Laiu a Lowell, an old resident of Northern Macomb, died at Adrian February\\n9, 1881. aged seventy- two years.\\nThe oldest citizen of Macomb County, Jacques Thibault, died at his home, in Har\\nrison Township, March 6. 1881, aged one hundred and five years.\\nJ.G. Stranahan, an old resident, died March It), 1881, aged seventy-one years.\\nJames Sharpstein. an aged citizen of Bruce, died March 13, 1881, in his seventy-first\\nyear.\\nAsa Austin, a survivor of the Mexican war, aged seventy years, died at Romeo March\\n23, 1881.\\nMrs. Lucinda Overton, aged sixty-seven years, died in Richmond Township March\\n11, 1881,\\nDavid Anderson, of Bruce, died March 9, 1881, aged seventy-two years,\\nSamuel Waycntt, an old settler of Macomb County, died April 3, 1881.\\nMrs. Stephen Bailey died April 16, 1881, in Romeo.\\nMrs. Helen Harvey died at Utica, Mich., in April, 1881.\\nMrs. Bailey, widow of the late Asahel Bailey, and one of the first white women in\\nRomeo, died at her residence July 4, 1881, in her eighty-third year. She was the mother\\nof a number of children, the most of not all of them reside in this ]ilace.\\nMrs. John Varney died July 23, 1881, aged fifty years.\\nJ, Jackson Crissman, an old resident of Washington Township, died xYugust 5, 1881,\\naged sixty-two years.\\nMrs. C. P. Glaspie, daughter of Joseph Atkinson, of Romeo, died in August, 1881,\\nat Detroit.\\nMrs. Levi F. Giddings, daughter of P. M. Beutley, died in Shelby Township, Sep-\\ntember, 1881, aged thirty-five. She was born in Ontario County. N. Y., and came to Ma-\\ncomb County with her parents in 1846.\\nMi-s. Sarah E. Taylor, wife of Hiram Taylor, born in Rutland Co., Vt., August 23,\\n1836, died in Armada, Mich., September 24, 1881, in her forty-sixth year.\\nEzra Nye died October 9, I88I, aged forty-five years.\\nMrs. Leah Kiel was born in 1823; died October 1, 1881.\\nMrs. Le Roy died in East Saginaw October 12, 1881.\\nMi-s. Susan Mahaflfy. born in Tyrone. Ireland, November 11. 1807, married Hugh\\nMahafFy, and with him came to Michigan forty-nine years ago; died October 29, 1881,\\nJohn Bough ton, an old settler of Macomb Townshij). died November 4, 1881.\\nMichael R. Sutton died November 12, 1881, in his eighty-fom-th year.\\nHugh Harper, an aged citizen of Romeo, died suddenly November 28, 1881, aged\\nsixty-five years.\\nMrs. Nancy S. Axtell. died December 4. 1881 She was born at Mendham, Morris Co.\\nN. J., December 23, 1792. Her husband died in 1855.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0494.jp2"}, "495": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFrank Tremble, or Trombley. of Erin Township, died April 25, 1881. aged seventy-\\none yeai-o. He was one of the old residents of Macomb County, and a prominent member\\nof the Catholic Church.\\nJohn Stephens, who died in Detriot October 31, 1881, was a gentleman well known\\nto the older resi -nts of Macomb County. He came to Mt. Clemens in 1 838. and, in com-\\npany with his brother, Moore Stephens, went into general merchandise. They made a\\nlarge fortune. In 1852, Mr. Stephens went to Detroit and engaged in the wholesale gro-\\ncery business.\\nIVIrs. J. C. High, mother of William and John High, died November 24, 1881, in her\\neighty-sixth year. Mrs. High was an old resident of this city, and a most estimable lady.\\nShe was for many years a devoted member of the Methodist Episcopal Church.\\nJacob Allmond died in Erin October 17, 1881, in his seventy-tirst year. Mr. Allmond\\nwas born in France, and came to this city in 1856. settling in the township where he\\ndied. He was a well-known and highly esteemed citizen, to which fact a f imeral proces-\\nsion neai ly a mile long attested.\\nWilliam Gass, one of the earliest settlers in this vicinity, died on Decenlber 31,\\n1881, at his home in the town of Ray.\\nHugh Gray died January 1, 1882. He was born in Ayreshire, Scotland. December\\n31, 1806. He came to this country with his parents in 1832. He was brought up a farm-\\ner in his native county, and he located a farm near Romeo upon his arrival. With his\\nbrother. Neil Gray, he, for a number of years successfully operated a flouring-mill at Clif-\\nton a few miles southwest of Romeo. Subsequently, he removed to the latter place, where,\\nas we have said, he interested himself actively in good works. Next to the chiu-ch, the\\ntemperance cause interested him, and, during the last thirty years, he has been a promi-\\nnent member of the Sons of Temperance Society. In 1837, he mairied Emma A. Buit,\\nformerly of Coimecticut, who still siu-vives.\\nMrs. Orpha Adams, wife of A. B. Adams, of Utica, departed this life February 15,\\n1882, aged seventy-six years. The funeral was held at the Methodist Chm-ch on Sun-\\nday morning at 10:30. Mrs. Adams was one of the oldest and most respected citizens.\\nElias Hall, who lived one and a half miles east of Washington, died in 1882. aged\\neighty-three years. Deceased came to Macomb County in 1832. and lived on the same\\nfarm ever since.\\nAnson Grinnell died Februai-y 5, 1882. He was born in New York State Jauuaiy\\n21. 1807, moved to Michigan in 1827 and was a resident of Davis for fifty-five years.\\nMr. Wright, another old settler, died the same month.\\nCatherine Dickenson, daughter of Joshua B. Dickenson, first Mayor of Mt. Clemens,\\nand wife of Georsre M. Crocker, died Februarv 7, 1882. She was born at Mt. Clemens in\\n1848.\\nDavid Casey, an old resident of Romeo, died June 12, 1882, aged fifty-seven years.\\nHannah Book, a mute, residing at Clifton, near Romeo, set her house on tire and\\nofifered herself a victim to the flames. May 29, 1882.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0495.jp2"}, "496": {"fulltext": "4\u00c2\u00ab\\nLiL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCHAPTER XXVIil.\\nCHRONOLOGY.\\nIt is essential that the principal happenings should befnllyand impartially recorded,\\nand a mention made of every event possessing even the least historical merit. The writer\\ntimls it just possible to obtain such data as would enable him to deal specially with the\\ngreat chapters of this record book with the most important items in the history of this\\ncounty. Notwithstanding all diligence in inquiry, all the valuable co-o])eration rendered\\nby the survivors of early settlement, as well as of the citizens of the present time, many\\nfacts would escape notice, had not the chronological table been prepared for their recep-\\ntion. To render this valuable, an effort has been made to notice the happenings of our\\nown time, and mention the j^rincipal events of early years. The data given may be ac-\\ncepted as coiTect in every particular; for a great portion of it has been abridged fi om\\nwritten records, while all that is legendary and circumstantial point directly to the oeciu--\\nrences and men concerned.\\nThe histories of the city, villages and townships of the county, together with the\\npioneer chapter of the general history, contain a great deal of items which would offer a\\nfull chronological table from the organization of the county to 1866, when the present re-\\nview may be said to begin. Yet. to avoid repetition, such items are allowed to appear in\\nthat section of the work devoted to the locality where they belong.\\nThe massacre of the Sauks by the Otchipwes took place in 1520. Eev. Brebosuf and\\nDaniels visited the district in 1634-38. The great snow fell in 1755. Allouez and Du-\\nvall, or Dablon, came in 1665. The Griffin anchored at the mouth of the river in 1674.\\nLouis Pateuaude located here in 1751, and built a log cabin in 1758. The OtchipweB\\nmarched to the aid of Pontiac in 1762. Many of the Indians left the valley of the Huron,\\nor Clinton, to assist La Balme in his enterprise against the British post at Detroit, in\\n1780. The Moravians arrived at New Gnadtenhutten in 1781. Numerous settlements\\nwere made in the county from 1781 to 1795.\\nThe first marriage in the county among the American pioneers was that of Richard\\nConner and Mary Myers in 1781.\\nThe first white child boi-n in the district now known as Macomb County was the\\ndaughter of Richard Connor, or O Connor, and Mary Myers, the captive of the Otchipwes.\\nThis child gi-ew up and was one of the contracting parties in one of the first matrimonial\\naffairs among the American pioneers.\\nThe first tree-jilanting in Macomb County was upon the banks of the Clinton (then\\nHm-on) River, in the vicinity of Mt. CJlumens, one hundred years ago. This orchard was\\nprobably planted by the Moravians, who had moved from the Muskingum, in Ohio. These\\nfirst trees, some of which are still standing, show marks of great age, ai e of very large\\nsize and of a kind of fruit with which the orchardists of the present day are not acquaint-\\ned. At this time, a family by the name of Tucker settled on the Hm-on River and un-\\ndoubtedly planted fruit-trees.\\nRichard Connor, the first English speaking settler in Macomb County, located here in\\n178L\\nWilliam Tucker made a permanent location in the county so early as 1784, when he\\nbrought his family from Detroit hither.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0496.jp2"}, "497": {"fulltext": "Q^^.\u00c2\u00a3,-\u00e2\u0082\u00ac^i^^ji. ^-2^-^?-^^^ x:^(2).\\ndece/sed)", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0497.jp2"}, "498": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0498.jp2"}, "499": {"fulltext": "i)\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe first house of worship was the Catholic Church, erected a short time previous to\\n1795, on the south bank of the Huron, four miles distant from Mt. Clemens.\\nThe first Baptist house of worship was built in 1843. Two years previously, the\\nPresbyterians erected their ehiu ch at Mt. Clemens.\\nFrani;ois Tremble left the mouth of the Huron for the north, was stabbed by the Sag-\\ninaws, and. in an effort to retm-n to his home, was lost in Lake Hm on, 1792.\\nOnabouse, a fierce Otchipwe, was made captive near Mt. Clemens in 1806, taken to\\nDetroit, convicted of many murders, and hanged.\\nLouis Cam[)eau and Jacob Smith passed some months in this county in ISll, trading\\nwith the Indians.\\nThe Boyer faniily, made captive near Mt. Clemens during the war ot 1812, were res-\\ncued by Jacob Smith from their brutal jailors at the great camp of Saginaw.\\nThe village of Mt. Clemens was named by Gen. Macomb long before its incorpora-\\ntion, in honor of the pioneer. Christian Clemens.\\nMacomb County was named at the suggestion of Christian Clemens in 1818, in recog-\\nnition of Gen. Macomb s services to Michigan and the Union.\\nThe first fi ame sti uctm-e in the county was raised in 1817 for John Stockton. It was\\nan addition to the log house in which Judge Clemens dwelt, the attachment to his house\\nbeing accounted for by the conciliating fact that immediately prior to its building Col.\\nStockton maiTied Mile. Allen, the Judge s step-daughter.\\nThe sqviatters on the lands in Macomb County were summoned to Detroit in 1808-10\\nto prove their occupancy of claims previous to 1796.\\nMacomb CoTinty was organized in 1818.\\nThe Black Day rose over the county November 8, 1819.\\nKiskako, of Saginaw, the terror of Macomb, committed suicide at Detroit in 18 J5.\\nIn 1830. the Indians of the Clinton River entered on a Western movement.\\nIn 1837, an Indian of the Riley band, was killed by a falling tree. After months of\\nsearching, the body of the savage was found.\\nIn 1837-3,8, small-pox decimated the lodges of the Indians.\\nIn 1836, the Bank of Macomb received a charter fi-om the Legislature. Under the\\nlaw of 1837, the State Banking law was passed, when Representative Monfore, of Macomb,\\nwas one of the four members who opposed the dangerous law.\\nA bill of complaint was filed for violation of law against the Hm on River Bank,\\nI^raying for injunction and appointment of Receiver. The prayer was gi-anted by the\\nCommissioners.\\nDigby Y. Bell, writing December 30, 1839, states: The Macomb County Bank, it is\\nsaid, has not closed its doors, and the amount of its circulation is very limited and trifling,\\nwhich they redeem on presentation.\\nOf the 1.060 muskets received by the military authorities of the Territory of Mi_ihi-\\ngan, from Lieut. J. Howard, of the United States Army, in May and June, 1S32. only\\n450 stand could be found in 1839, of which number fifty were in the armory or distributed\\namong the people of Mt. Clemens\\nThe aboriginal inhabitants of Macomb left their land forever in 1838.\\nAnthony Wells, of Memphis, a pioneer, was killed by his horse in 1841.\\nThe Methodist Episcopal Society erected a church at Mt. Clemens in 1841.\\nMrs. Hoag was killed about the year 1850 by the splinters of a boiler which exploded\\nin the Hoag saw -mi 11.\\nRev. Mr. Case, of the Methodist Episcopal Church, of Detroit, was the first minister\\nof the Protestant denomination who visited Macomb County, coming into the Tucker set-\\ntlement in 1807.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0499.jp2"}, "500": {"fulltext": "3 J\\n!K\\nThe First German Evangelical Chxirch building was constructed in 1860.\\nThe Macomb Democrat was first issued at Mt. Clemens November 5, 1835.\\nAbraham Donaldson was crushed to death by a falling tree, April, 1838.\\nHarry Day. a son of Erastus Dav. aged about three years, was drowned in a well May\\n27, 1844.\\nThe first copy of the Romeo Argus was issued May 10. 1857. Among the first cor-\\nrespondents was J. E. Day, of Armada, who says: After an interval of six years press-\\nless silence, we are rejoiced with the prospect that the village of Romeo will soon be her-\\nalded by a weekly journal.\\nIn July, 1863, Col. Farrar, of Mt. Clemens, was in command of a division of the\\ntroops ordered out to suppress the anti-draft riots in New York.\\nThe tournament and celebration at Mt. Clemens, July 3 and 4, l S 68, was participated\\nin by over 5,000 people.\\nA meteor passed over the county November 1, 1857. The visiting comet was seen\\nJune 30, 1861.\\nThe trains ran over the Grand Trunk Railroad, through Macomb County, in 1859.\\nThe Mt. Clemens Press was established under the name Macomb Conserrative Press\\nin the year 1864. Spencer B. Russell assumed control of the joiu-nal May 1, 1873, and has\\npublished it since that time. Lewis M. Miller iuaugm-ated the Mt. Clemens Reporter in 1873.\\nThe Investigator was first published at Romeo in December, 1850. The first number of\\nthe Romeo Observer was issued May 3, 1866, J. Rnssell, editor and publisher.\\nAn old lady living within four miles of Romeo settled in the county at a very early\\nday, j et visited Indian Village only once in thirty years, this visit being i)aid in the year\\n1844.\\nCharles Bentley, son of Samuel Bentley, aged fourteen years, left home April 8, 1866,\\nand was not heard of for some time.\\nThe citizens of Utica held a meeting June 2, 1866, for the purpose of raatiu-ing plans\\nfor the construction of a railroad from Detroit to their village.\\nThe German Lutheran Church, of W aldenbiu-g, was dedicated June 24^ 1866.\\nThe stoi-m of June 14, 1866, resulted in the loss of 500 sheep in the northern towns\\nof Macomb, together with the numerous losses to persons and property.\\nA son of Mr. Geno, residing fom- miles southeast of Brooklyn, was accidentally shot\\nby a bo} named Ellis July 5. 1866.\\nIn July, 1866, Col. William Wilkinson received from the military department his\\ncommi-ssion as Brevet Colonel United States Volunteers, for distinguished services during\\nthe war.\\nFreedom Mom-oe, of Romeo, patented a land-leveler, invented by him, April 17, 1866.\\nThe squirrel-hunting match between Washington and Ray came oft September 2,\\n1866. The whole number of squirrels killed was 1,680. Ray claimed 180 squirrels over\\ntheir antagonists.\\nThe Bottomley hoop-skirt factory was inaugurated at Romeo in Sei)tember, 1866.\\nPearsall s stage, running between Ridgeway and Romeo, was upset September 10,\\n1866, and each of the nine passengers injured.\\nA barn owned by the Widow Pierce, of Washington Township, was destroyod by fire\\nSeptember 11, 1866. The day previous, the dwelling-house of Richard Jersey, two\\nmiles east of Romeo, was j^artially destroyed by fire.\\nThe Boys in Blue signed a declaration of unswerving fidelity to the Union, and reiter-\\nated their credo, no rebel bread and butter in our haversacks, September 15. 1866.\\nThe great addi-ess to the followers of the Republican party of Macomb was issued in\\nSeptember, 1866, signed by Edgai- Weeks, Irving D. Hanscom and T. M. Wilson.", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0500.jp2"}, "501": {"fulltext": "Jt^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe Washington and Ray Wolverine Sporting Chib met September 22, 1866, when\\n4,265 squirrels were killed, of which number the ashiiigtoniaas killed 2. 14-U, and the\\nboys of Ray, 2.116.\\nThe Soldiers Convention was held at Brooklyn in October. 1 S66.\\nThe Johnsonian policy of reconstruction created some excitement thioughout Macomb\\nCounty in September and October, 1866.\\nGeorge Cameron and Barton Bromley broke jail at Mt. Clemens November 5, 1866.\\nCharles G. Tinsman, of Washington Township, husked 122 biishels of coin in the ear\\nout of the shock within ten hoiu s, in November, 186(i.\\nIn November. 1866, Col. illiam Wilkinson entered a suit for $10,000 damages\\nagainst Ira 8. Pearsall, on account of injuries received while traveling in a stage coach\\nowned by the defendant. The plaintitf employed A. B. Maynard and E. F. Mead as at-\\ntorneys.\\nA child of William H. Brabb was rescued from a terrible death by bmming. owing\\nto the timely arrival of his mother, November 18, 1866.\\nThe stage-drivers between Romeo and Almont and Romeo and Ridgeway, in 1866,\\nwere called dniukards.\\nWilliam McBride attempted suicide within the State prison December U, 1866.\\nThe annual meeting of the ]\\\\racoml3 County Agi icultiu-al Society was held at the\\nhouse of Stephen H. Davis, at Brooklyn. December 13, 1866.\\nDwight R. Andrus, son of Loren Andrus, of Washington Township, was accidentally\\nshot at Central City, Colo., in November, 1866. The wounds were not fatal.\\nThe poisoning of the Culver family at Ripon, Wis., was recorded December 25, 1866.\\nThe Culvers were formerly citizens of Washington Township.\\nDaniel B. Briggs, of Romeo, was appointed Clerk to the House Judiciary Committee,\\nin January, 1867.\\nThe Young Men s Association of Romeo was organized January 16, 1867.\\nGeorge W. Powell, a youth of nineteen years, hanged himself February 13, 1867.\\nDegree Temple, Independent Order of Good Templars, was organized at Romeo\\nMarch 2, 1867.\\nA man named Armstrong, employed by Ignaee Morass, attempted to cut his throat\\nFebruary 24. 1867, which act his employer prevented. Two days later, however, he svic-\\nceeded in drowning himself.\\nHenry Seals was ch-iving a, team, loaded with hay, past the Rice farm, February 25,\\n1867. when the wagon glided from the slippery highway into the ditch, overturning th\u00c2\u00ab\\nload and bmying his wife and infant child, who were seated on the hay, beneath it. The\\ninfant was drowned, while the mother bai-ely escaped a similar death.\\nMajor Heciw Howgate, who succeeded Capt. William Hulsart as Postmaster at Ro-\\nmeo, was superseded by Col. William Wilkinson, in March, 1867.\\nA horse thirty-two years old was shot by the owner, Nathan Rowley, of Armada, in\\nMarch. 1867.\\nAn infant child of Charles Howland received a feed of blue vitriol from its little\\nsister, and died March Ki, 1867.\\nThe $10,000 action for damages entered by Col. Wilkinson versus Ira Pearsall\\nwas settled amicably in April, 1867, by a pajTneut of $1,000 and a free pass over the stage\\nline for life by the latter.\\nF. Pole, a stranger in Macomb County, was drowned in Cusiek Lake, April 29, 1867.\\nA lodge of Crood Templai-s was organized at Washington Village Ai)ril 30. 186/.\\nThe Good Templars Convention was held at Armada. May 14 and 15. 1867.\\nA German named Hartwig was accidentally killed at Clifton May 2, 1867.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0501.jp2"}, "502": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nA son of Thomas Oliver fell into the Clinton River at Mt. Clemens, May 23, 1S67,\\nand was drovpned.\\nA man named Carley shot an adversary named McCall near Memphis, May 21, 1807.\\nDeath was instantaneous.\\nA Good Templars Lodge was formed in Macomb Township, May 23, 18(37.\\nThe Robinson tract, near Mt. Clemens, was sold September 20, 18(37, the lands bring-\\ning from SjioO to 1125 per acre.\\nJames Benjamin, an old resident of Romeo, was killed at Dryden, Lapeer County,\\nSeptember 12, 18(37. by a fall from a church steeple to the roof of the building.\\nThe barn of Sanford Corbiu, the house of B. B. Redtield and that of J. J. Bentley\\nwere all damaged by lightning diu ing the storm of October 2, 18(37.\\nThe county ])oor house was destroyed by lire October 22, 1867. The Phelps House,\\none of the oldest buildings at Mt. Clemens, was totally destroyed December 11. 1867.\\nIt was built by Alfred Ashley in 1822, as a hotel, for which purpose it was used up to the\\ndate of its destruction.\\nJames Weightman, a soldier in the war for the Union, and a printer at Romeo, died\\nFebruary 13, 1868.\\nFreedom Alonroe ofl ered to the Grand Truuk Railroad, of Michigan, March, 1868, the\\nmodel of his patent bridge, provided such comj)auy would adopt this system of bridge-\\nbuilding on the new railroad.\\nWilliam McRoy committed suicide by hanging himself, April 30, 18(38.\\nMrs. Robert Ramsey, living near Richmond, was fouud drowned in Belle River, May\\ny. 18(58.\\nThe Grand Army of the Republic was organized at Romeo, May 9, 1868. with Col.\\nWilkinson, Commander.\\nWilliam Manchester, of Richmond, a boy nine years old, was killed May 17, 18(38, by\\na failing tree.\\nThe Romeo brass band was organized July 16, 1868.\\nThe fifth annual meeting of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Ma-\\ncomb and St. Clair, was held at Richmond Jtme U, 1868.\\nA fire at Armada, July 28. 1868, destroyed the E. F. Sibley building.\\n^Villiam B. Sutton committed suicide at Brooklyn August 22, 1868.\\nA large brick building being erected for Dr. J. S. Smith and Capt. Hiram Barrows\\nfell in September 19, 1868. Dr. Smith was killed and Marion Grout injured.\\nThe first charter election of Armada Village took place January 14, 1868.\\nAlbert Weightman. son of William Weightman. of Romeo, was drowned in Cusiek\\nLake, November 13. 1868.\\nCharles Phillips shot one of his employes, named Robert Wirtz, in December, 1868.\\nThe wound was slight.\\nA street preacher by the name of Clemens was arrested in Toledo in January, 1869.\\nThe following is the charge against him: One Alfred C. Clemens did unlawfully make\\na gi-eat noise, outcry and clamor, to the annoyance and disturbance of divers good and\\n]ieac( able citizens. He is the same gentleman who harangued the people of Macomb in\\n1868 upon his peculiar religious views. He is a nephew of the late Judge Clemens,\\nfounder of Mt. Clemens, and quite wealthy. Aside fi-om a slight derangement on the\\nsubject of religion, he is a gentleman and a scholar.\\nNearly 7,000 cords of hard wood were shipped from Mt. Clemens to Detroit during\\nthe season of 1868 by the following jiarties: William Hines, 1,000 cords; O. Chajiaton,\\n3,500 cords; J. Hubbard and Traver Van Eps, 750 cords; C. Barley, 1.200 cords; other\\nparties, 500 cojds. Also about 400,000 feet of hard wood lumber.\\nA, _ 4^\\nr T V", "height": "2755", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0502.jp2"}, "503": {"fulltext": "The Mt. Clemens salt works were leased to Charles Lamb and E. Wright Hall, in\\nJanuary, 1869. These gentlemen ran the well, giving the company one-seventh part of\\nthe salt mannfactiu ed for the privilege. The works were shut down for the winter in\\norder to put uji additional tanks, etc., but commenced running early in March following.\\nA man named Felix Laforge. residing in the town of Chesterfield, near New Balti-\\nmore, committed suicide, January 11, ISfi J, by shooting himself through the heart with a\\nshot-gun He was poorly provided with the goods of this world, and, having a large\\nfamily of little childi-eu dependent upon him for support, he became discouraged and\\ntired of life, and. in a fit of depression, adopted this means to free himself of earthly\\ntrouble. On the morning in question, he took his gun and started for the woods, with\\nthe avowed intention of going out hunting. He was accompanied by his little son.\\nWhen arrived in the woods, he ordered his son home. On refusing to go, he threatened\\nto shoot him if he longer disobeyed his command. In fear of his life, the boy at length\\nstarted. On his way home, he met a neighbor, to whom he communicated the unusual\\nmanner in which his father had treated him. The two then started toward the woods in\\nthe direction where the boy said he had left his father, and had proceeded but a short\\ndistance when the report of a giui was heard. Hastening forward, they soon ai-rived at\\nthe spot where the unfortunate man lay dead. He had deliberately fastened the giui to\\nthe trunk of a tree, and, placing the muzzle against his heart, fii-ed the fatal shot.\\nCol. Alonzo M. Keeler engaged in the work of preparing abstracts of title to all the\\nlands in Macomb County. April, 1869.\\nLewis Tanner committed siiicide by cutting his throat, April 15, 1869.\\nThe M. E. Chiu-ch of Chesterfield was dedicated October 3, 1869.\\nRev. P. R. Hui d, Pastor of the Congregational Chm-ch, Romeo, for two decades,\\nresigned in October, 1869.\\nThe second annual re-union of the Eighth Michigan CavaliT was held at Mt. Clemens\\nOctober 26, 1869.\\nSamuel H. Ewell became editor and publisher of the Observer October 20, 1869.\\nA son of Aratus Pool, of Bruce, fell from a wagon and dislocated his neck. He died\\nOctober 19, 1869.\\nMary Jane Terry died suddenly April 22, 1869, at Romeo.\\nThe dwelling house of Rev. W. P. Russell, of Memphis, was destroyed by fire April\\n24, 1869.\\nThe examination of Dr. Thomas Stitt, charged with the murder of Mary Jane Teiry,\\non April 22, 1869, took place before C. F. Mallary. May 7, 1869.\\nThe explosion of a Grand Trunk Raihoad locomotive. May 29, 1869, at Ridgeway.\\nresulted in the death of Joseph Grinnell, Robert Davis, and a daughter of Mr. Warren.\\nThe corner-stone of the M. E. Church at New Haven, formerly Baltimore Station,\\nwas laid June 16, 18( )9.\\nDwight N. Lowell and James Beardon, of Romeo, were admitted to the bar of ]\\\\Ia-\\ncomb County June 22, 1869.\\nGeorge Ironmonger, Barbara Stow and Eliza White were drowned in Aldrich s mill\\npond, near Utica, July 6, 1869.\\nThe foundation for the Gray Block, at Romeo, was laid in July, 1869.\\nA destructive storm swept over Macomb County July 15, 186Vt.\\nArthiu- Bottomlev, aged eight vears, was killed bv a kick from a horse, August 4,\\n1869.\\nGreen Bigsbv s dwelling, in Washington Township, was destroyed bv fire August 13,\\n1869.\\nThe comet of 1869 was visible in Macomb County.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0503.jp2"}, "504": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n-r^\\nA sou of Robert Rood was drowned in the race near Proctor s Mill. August. 25. 1869.\\nDinah Smith s will was established befoi-e Judge Sackett, September 0, 1869.\\nAn extensive conflagration at Richmond, Seiiteuiber 13, 1869, resulted in the destruc-\\ntion of property valued at S5,0 0.\\nLuther W. Farrar died March 12, 1870.\\nAll)ert Graham was accidentally shot by Ira WiM^ks, in Richmond Township, April T).\\nISTO.\\nA child of Mr. Rice, of Memphis, fell into a pail of boiling water, April 6, 18/0, and\\nwas scalded to death.\\nA tire broke out in the old Brabb warehouse April 21. 1871, entailing a total loss of\\n$13,000; insurance, $11,200.\\nA siu vey of the Romeo Almont Railroad was made in April. 1870, by Fessenden\\nMellen.\\nThe old well bored at Memphis in 1865 proved to l)e a magnetic well in 187(),\\nThe mill-race of N. W. Gray, in the town of Ray, bm-st its confines during the rain-\\nstorm of July, 1870.\\nThe house of George Johnson, at Mt. Vernon, was torn to pieces by the storm of July,\\n1870.\\nMrs. Sarah Robeson passed through Romeo in 183 en route to her husband s land,\\nfour miles northwest, since which time she never revisited the village, nor had she ever\\nseen a railroad up to 1870, though theu sixty-nine years old.\\nThe grist-mill built at Romeo in 1856, by S. H. Ewell and O. W. Hopkins, was burned\\nin April, l 870.\\nThe celebration of Memorial Day, 1870. was creditable to Macomb County.\\nThe Neil Gray steam grist-mill was inaugurated in September, 1870.\\nA young man suffered from religious mania at Memphis, as a result of attending a\\ncamp-meeting in Wales Township. During the first days of September, 1870, it required\\nthe strength of five men to hold him.\\nThe number of volumes in the public and private libraries in several villages of Ma-\\ncomb County, in 1870, were as follows: New Baltimore. 2,800; Memphis, 1,000; Armada\\nVillage, 1,400; Romeo, 9,757; Mt. Clemens, 9,000; not heard from Ttica.\\nThere is church capacity in this county for seating about one-sixth of the population,\\nand nearly one-half of the room is unoccupied on an average. If these figures are cor-\\nrect, only about one person in ten attends church on an average. Statistically speaking,\\neven the jieojde of this Christian county ai e irreligious, 1870.\\nManley Thurston hanged himself March 3, 1870.\\nThe corner-stone of the Protestant Ei)iscopal Church of Mt. Clemens was laid Sep-\\ntember 8, 1870.\\nThe Rejuiblican County Convention was held at Brooklyn September 28, 1870.\\nThe Democratic County Convention was held at New Haven October 4, 1870.\\nThe new Congregational Church of Ray Center was dedicated November 2, 1870.\\nDuring the earthquake of October 20, 1870. the shock was felt at Utiea by Prof.\\nBriggs, au(l ai? Uomeo by Ben Cityler.\\nThe new M. E. Church of New Baltimore, built at n cost of $4,000, was dedicated\\nOctober 26, 1870.\\nMary E. Garry committed suicide at Jackson. Mich., October 27, 1870. She was\\nformerly a resident of Romeo.\\nThe criminal charges against the patent- right men. Auimon F- Webster and Frank\\nM. Kimball, of Jackson, were inquired into by Justices Sackett and Crocker, at Mt. Clem-\\nens, in October, 1870, and the parties sent for trial.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0504.jp2"}, "505": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nR. F. Selfridge, one of the Trustees of the Michigan Homestead Colony, left for\\nKansas December 8, 1870, to locate lands.\\nThe fire at New Baltimore, December 21, 1870, resulted in the destruction of projierty\\nvalued at $37,500.\\nAt the annual re-union of the Gass family, held in Ray Township December 29, 1870,\\nof the 281 members then liviucr, 154 were present, representing five generations.\\nThe re-union of the Cannon family was held December 31, 1870, at the residence of\\nE. J. Cannon, in Shelby Township. It was stated then that no divorce was ever applied\\nfor or obtained by any member of the family.\\nThe Christian Chapel at Romeo was dedicated February 10, 1871.\\nPatrick Redmond was killed at Utica Station January 30, 1871, by being run over by\\nthe cars.\\nC. F. Mallary was elected a Director of the Romeo AVestern Railroad February 4,\\n1871.\\nA deficiency of $3,400 was reported in the accounts of Postmaster William Wilkin-\\nson, of Romeo, in February, 1871.\\nThe Utica Cheese Factory was inaugurated in April. 1871.\\nA Democratic victory in April, 1870, varied the monotonj of Macomb County politics.\\nThe (piestion of building a new M. E. Church was agitated at Romeo in April. 1871.\\nFleshout. a farmer of Erin Township, was killed April 12, 1871. by his runaway\\nteam.\\nThe Greneral Association of the Congregational ministers and churches of Michigan\\nconvened at Romeo May 17, 1871.\\nPalmer, Bottom ley Co. recovered .SI. 285 from the Michigan Air-Line Railroad\\nCompany, the amount sued for before the Macomb County Circuit Court, in Api-il, 1871.\\nThe Macomb County Teachers Institute met at Ai-mada .\\\\pril 20, 1871.\\nGiles Hubbard removed from Mt. Clemens to Chicago, April. 1871, yet without giv-\\ning up the practice of law at Mt. Clemens.\\nThe machine y for May Moser s woolen-mill arrived at Mt. Clemens in May.\\nThe steam fire-engine was brought into the village of Romeo May 23, 1871.\\nRandolph Reynolds died from the effects of injiiries caused by the running away of\\nhis horses. May 17, 1871.\\nThe St. Clair war created some escitement in May, 1871.\\nThe potato bug visited the county in swarms during May, 1871.\\nDecoration Day of 1871 was not observed at Romeo.\\nThe Union Club had a plowing match on George W. Phillips farm June 15, 1N71.\\nThe Grays. A. B. Rawles and Ketcham Bros, commenced work on their new brick\\nblocks in June, 1871.\\nThe subject of a railwav from Detroit to Bay Citv via Utica was agitated in June,\\n1871,\\nWilliam J. French, Mary French, Jane Carter, Daniel McLean, James French, Selena\\nFrench, W. H. French. Jennie A. Gates, Susan Buttertield, Philander Fillmore, Electa\\nMcLean and Matthew French gave notice of taking French leave from the membership\\nof the Chi istian Chiu-ch of Romeo, June I J, 1871.\\nThe wild horse of Brooklyn attacked Edwin Smith, Charles Whitney and others,\\nin June, 1871, and inflicted severe injuries on the men named.\\nThe CoTincil of the First Christian Chm-ch of Romeo convened May 24. 1871.\\nDuring the wool season of 1871. 158.500 pounds of wool were purchasfd at Romeo.\\nThe fourth anniversary of the Romeo High School was observed June 21 and 22,\\n1871. Jliss Lou M. Raid delivered a discourse on the newspaper.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0505.jp2"}, "506": {"fulltext": "i\\n506 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nJosiah Sanborn s barn was burned Jnly 3. 1871. The fire was supposed to be the\\nresult of an incendiary s mania.\\nThe Mt. Clemens City Mills were destroyed by fire June 28, 1871. The citizens\\noffered to assist Hess, Kellogg Co. in rebuilding the concern.\\nJohn R. Webster, convicted of murder, was sent from this county to the State Prison\\nin 1854. under a life sentence, and died in prison June 22. 1871.\\nThe Romeo District Camp Meeting, which closed -June 29, 1871. was the largest ever\\nheld here.\\nThe stockholders of the Romeo Western Railroad met at the American Hotel July\\n11, 1871.\\nThe re-union of the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry took place at Romeo August\\n31, 1871.\\nRev. J. WaiTen Weeks was arrested on a charge of slander July 24.\\nMorrisK. Henry, of Utica, shot S. M. Loveridge, at Pittsburgh, Penn., July 19, 1871.\\nJoseph French. Cashier in the office of the Detroit Advertiser and Tribune, was\\ndrowned in the Sydenham River July 30, 1871. He was engaged in the milling business\\nat Clifton, this county, and was a resident since 1833.\\nThe hoop-skirt factory of Bottomley Gray was inaugurated at Romeo, August 1871.\\nThe first engine house was built at Romeo in May, 1871.\\nThe Woman s Missionary Society was organized by the ladies of the Congregational\\nChurch, and the first (piarterly meeting held August 11, 1871.\\nThe question of boring for artesian water was first discussed at Romeo in August,\\n1871.\\nThe pioneers of Romeo and vicinity met September fi, 1871, for the urj)oes of organ-\\nizing a society.\\nJames Shingleton, formerly a resident of Romeo, was killed at Clinton, lovra, August\\n21, 1871, owing to the caving-in of a stone quarry. He came to the United States in\\n18()1, and located with his uncle in Ray Township.\\nThe Michigan Baptist Association held an anniversary meeting at Romeo September\\n19 and 20, 1871.\\nMellen, Tackels Co. began operating the steam mill for grist work and iiouriug in\\nSeptember, 1871, at Clifton.\\nThe subscrijjtion books of the Northern Michigan Railroad Company were opened at\\nthe office of C. F. Mallary. of Romeo, in September, 1871.\\nThe Macomb County Agricultural Society held the annual fair at Romeo, September\\n22, 1871.\\nThe modern tire departiuent of Romeo was organized in 1871.\\nThe foiu-th annual session of the Romeo District Sunday School Institute was held at\\nMt. Clemens October 24 and 25, 1871.\\nDuring that month of tires, October, 1871, a few houses were destroyed near Ridge-\\nway.\\nA sum of Si, 500 was raised in Romeo in aid of th- fire sufferers in October, 1871.\\nThe first agricultural exhibition of the Armada Farmers and Mechanics Club was\\nheld October 19, iS71, at Ai-mada.\\nCharles Mignault, of Mt. Clemens, was lost in the wreck of the steamer Coburn, on\\nLake Huron, October. 1871.\\nDavid Moore, of Warren Tovynship, shot himself September 28, 1871.\\nThe Rosa D Erina concerts, and the Laura Cuppy Smith lectures, were the principal\\nentertainments given in the village of Romeo in November, 1871. Miss Smith s lecture\\non Spiritualism was disturbed by members of the orthodox chiu ches.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2c^ls r- ~n 9 nT\\nt", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0506.jp2"}, "507": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COL NTY.\\nGilbert L. Hathaway willed $15,000 to the village of New Baltimore, to be applied\\non the building of a nnion school, in November. 1871.\\nThe Romeo Musical Union was organized November 25, 1871, with Watson Loud,\\nPresident: H. O. Smith. Vice President; G. D. Mussey, Secretary; and L. G. Norton,\\nConductor.\\nThe council of the Christian churches of the E. C. C. of Michigan met at Romeo\\nDecemlier 27, 1871.\\nDr. J. G. Holland delivered a lectiii e at Tlomeo January 15. 1872.\\nIn JanuaiT. 1872, there was but one criminal in the county jail.\\nJanuary, 1872. was something similar to January, 1882. Little or no snow fell until\\nthe 15th of that month.\\nThe Eastern Convocation of the Episcopal Church of the Diocese of Michigan was\\nheld at Romeo in January, 1872.\\nGeorge Francis Train came to lecture the Romeans March 4, 1872.\\nThe charter election of officers for the village of Romeo took place March 5. 1872.\\nThe dwelling house of James Jones, Macomb Township, was totally destroyed by fire\\nFebruary 27, 1872.\\nThe contract for building the new Methodist Episcopal Church of Romeo was granted\\nto J. C. Kanmeir. of Adrian, at $27,465, in February, 1872.\\nFrederickia Meitz, a young girl in the employ of the Ulrichs, of Mt. Clemens, com-\\nmitted suicide, March 21. 1872. by taking strychnine.\\nA large number of Macomb County citizens visited Detroit. April 9, 1872. to par\\nticipate in the ceremony of unveiling the soldiers monument.\\nJohn W. Cowles, a resident of Romeo, lost his life, April 3. 1872, while braking on\\nthe Marquette Iron Mountain Railroad.\\nA verdict for $10,000 in favor of James Starkweather, in his suit against the Balti\\nmore Ohio Railroad Company, was recorded April 13, 1872. The cause rested on the\\nfact that Mrs. Starkweather died from the result of injuries received November 18. 1868,\\nthrough the negligence of the company s servants.\\nThe Liberal Chi istian Union Society was organized at Romeo in April. 1872.\\nAn accident on the Grand Tnmk Railroad, April 21, 1872, between Ridgeway and\\nSmith s Creek, resulted in the death of two men.\\nA county convention was held at Mt. Clemens May 2, 1872.\\nThe corner-stone of the Arbeiter Hall, Mt. Clemens, was laid May 20, 1872.\\nDecoration Day of 1872 was observed at Armada.\\nDuring the spring of 1872, a few eases of smallpox were reported throughout the\\ncounty.\\nThe annual convention of members of Macomb County Sunday School was held at\\nMt. Vernon June 4, 1872.\\nThe dedication of the Union Church at Ray took place June 27, 1872.\\nBenjamin C. Gunn, Collector of Internal Revenue in this county, was tried, in June,\\n1872, for neglecting to account for public moneys said to have been received by him.\\nTwo judgments were rendered against him one for $5, J18.03. and one for $1,601.32.\\nJoseph Chubb was appointed a member of the State Central Prohibition Committee\\nJune 12, 1872.\\nAsahel Bailey and John Holland, of Romeo, were born in the same State, in the same\\ncounty, on the same day and month, and both came to Michigan about the same time. ^Ii\\nBailey was the first settler in the town of Bruce. For some years prior to 1872, the two\\nfriends were accustomed to visit each other on their birthday. In 1860, Bailey visited\\nHolland, and, upon leaving, said, It will be your turn to visit me nest year. At the\\ni", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0507.jp2"}, "508": {"fulltext": "apjiointed time, Holland went to the Bailey house, but it was to attend the funeral of his\\nlife-long friend.\\nIncendiaries set fire to the house and barn of Joseph Marshall, at the Corners, two\\nmiles north of Romeo, June 29, 1872.\\nThe suit of Joseph E. Young, of Chicago, to recover $25,000 on account of railroad\\naid bonds, gi anted by the township of Washington, was discontinued in June, 1872.\\nThe corner-stone of the Met.hodist E[)iscopal Church of Romeo was laid July 8u, 1872.\\nThe son of Rev. J. S. Smart, of Romeo, was drowned in Procter s mill pond June 1\\n1872.\\nThe officers of the E[)iscopal society of Rom9o wei-e appointed by Rev. A. M. Lewis\\nJuly 3, 1872.\\nAn attempt to kill Dr. William Brownell, of Utica, was made by Lewis C. Butler,\\nJune 24, 1872. The would-be murderer is a native of Troy, Oakland County.\\nHarry Warrington, of Sterling, died while under the influence of strong drink, at\\nMt. Clemens, November 21, 1872.\\nMarshal D. Ewell, formerly of Romeo, was elected Judge of Probate for Mason\\nCounty, Mich. November, 1872.\\nThe Agricultural and Mechanical Union was organized at Memphis in December, 1872.\\nMrs. Pamelia Lamphere, of Ridgeway, was accidentally shot by her daughter in Sep-\\ntember, 1872.\\nThe Detroit Bay City Railroad was opened for regular traffic ou October 7. 1872,\\nbetween Detroit and Rochester.\\nThe horse disease made its aitpearance in Macomb in November, 1872.\\nLentz s brewery, at Mt. Clemens, was burned December 31, 1872.\\n1873. The heaviest snow-storm that passed over Michigan within the last half-cen-\\ntury was that of January 23 and 24, 1873.\\nThe electric wire was laid between Romeo and Ridgeway January 31, 1873. The\\nlirst message was one from the })eople of Ridgeway to those of Romeo, sent by F. Walker,\\nH. Berlatotte, and William J. Elliott. The second was Romeo s reply, sent by Thomas\\nRobb, P. H. Casey and Eugene Sovereen.\\nA shocking accident, resulting from the careless use of gunpowder, happened near\\nMt. Clemens July 28, 1873. Five little boys Charlie Drake, Earnest Rottman, George\\nOrmsby, Joseish Dahm and Reuben Ullrich went up the river in a boat to a point just\\nthe other side of the Frederick bridge. On the bank of the river they built a lire, and\\nfor some reason they tried to pour a quantity of gunpowder from a flask into the fire. As\\na natural consequence, an explosion of all the powder in the flask was the i-esult. Char-\\nlie Drake and Earnest Rottman were severely burned on the hands and face. Young\\nRottman was so crazed by the pain that he jumped into the river. A double-barreled pis\\ntol in the hands of George Ormsby exploded at the same time, lodging three shot in the\\nboy s leg. not inflicting any very serious injury, however. The other two boys were un-\\nhurt, Reuben Ullrich being in the boat at the time. On their way home, they were over-\\ntaken by Dr. Hayward, who brought young Drake and Rottman home with him and\\ndressed their wounds.\\nSo recently as April, 1873, wrestling bouts were common in the stores of Romeo.\\nThe citizens of Mt. Clemens subscribed $25,000 toward the establishment of a na-\\ntional bank there in April, 1873.\\nThe result of the elections of April, 1873, in this county, was3,U52 votes for Chris-\\ntiancy; the Democratic majority for Regents of the State University, 171; and for S. B.\\nRussell as Superintendent of Schools, 233 majority.\\nThe brick work and roof of the M. E. Church of Romeo were finished April 22, 1873.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0508.jp2"}, "509": {"fulltext": "k^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe Mt. Clemens Pre.-is re-appeared May 1, 1873, with S. B. Russell as editor.\\nAeeordiug to the Mt. Clemens Monitor, Romeo struggled to become the great fashion\\ncenter of the United States in the spring of 1S73.\\nThe Masonic Hall at Brooklyn was biu ned May 14, 1873.\\nThe United States Collector s office for the Fifth Michigan District was removed to\\nRomeo in May, 1873, and opened at that place, under Maj. C. P. Dake, on May 2().\\nThe case of Keeler versus Robertson was carried before the Supreme Court of the\\nState June 18, 1873.\\nThe Mt. Clemens Bath House was opened to the juiblic July 10, 1873.\\nThe body of Robert A. Barton, of Erin, was found in Lake St. Clair July 13, 1873.\\nThe wool-buying season closed at Romeo in August, 1873, when a total of 211, jOO\\npounds of wool was reported.\\nThe steamer Emma Dwyer was launched at Mt. Clemens August 23, 1873.\\nThe body of a man supposed to be John Miller, of Royal Oak, was found in the woods\\nof Warren Township August 21, 1873.\\nThe Cxerman fanners of \\\\\\\\*ayne and Macomb Counties met at Mt. Clemens October\\n30, 1873, for the purpose of organizing a German Farmers Mutual Fire Insurance Asso-\\nciation.\\nThe twenty-fourth annual fair of the Macomb County Agricultiu al Society was held\\nat Romeo in September, 1873.\\nThe first fair of the Armada Agricultural Society was held at Armada October S, 9\\nand 10, 1873.\\nA Grand Trunk Railroad accident, near Mt. Clemens, October 28, 1873, resulted in\\nthe death of fifty hogs. None of the managers of that railroad were among the deceased.\\nWhile the railroad train was making its down trip, July 18, 1872, nine horses came\\non the track about a mile east of Arjnada, and, in spite of the screaming engine, that\\nthreatened them with a speedy death if they didn t get off the track, they insisted on a\\ntrial of speed as far as Armada. The race was very even and quite exciting, but. when\\nthe horses came to the bridge near Armada Station, one of the luckless racers fell through\\nand hung to the timbers. The engineer had anticipated this, and stopped the train in\\ntime to save the horse s life. The train hands and passengers rolled them on their sides\\nand slid them off the bridge with no other damage than a few slight bruises. The horses\\nbelonged to R. Bailey.\\nA party of citizens, comprising Edgar Weeks, H. W. Babcock, George Crocker, Dan\\niel C. Tilden, Frank Tucker, Brown, left the village June 4, 1873, in pm-suit of the\\nsail-boat Belle, which was stolen the previous night. The lioat had reached mid-channel\\nwhen one of those hurricanes jieculiar to the Lake and River St. Clair sprang up, capsiz-\\ning the craft one-half mile south of the Detroit Club House. The affair was witnessed\\nfrom that house by a boy named George Warner, who pushed off in a small skiff to the\\nrescue of the men. Warner reached the wreck, when Tilden and Crocker got into the little\\nboat, while Babcock held on to the stern, and the gallant boy pulled for the light-house\\nwhere he landed the trio. The propeller Mary Jarecki sent out a boat to the rescue of the\\nothers, on which Weeks and TuQker embarked. Brown, the owner of the capsized yacht,\\nremained on the wreck until help arrived. He succeeded in saving both himself and his\\nboat.\\nA son of Charles Eilbert, of Mt. Clemens, was poisoned, October 24, 1873, by eating\\nhenbane seeds. He died on the 25th of that month.\\nMrs. Ann Lavine s trial for the murder of Anson Henderson, at Ar-mada, on the\\nnight of November 5, 1873, came before Judge Han-is at the November session of the Cir-\\ncuit Court. The Jury returned a verdict of not guilty.\\nV*", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0509.jp2"}, "510": {"fulltext": ",u\\n510 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe biogi-aphical sketches of the Chamberlins began to be published January 7, 1874.\\nThe foiu-th annual meeting of the U. F. C. of Armada, was held at the Day School-\\nhouse January 13, 1874.\\nA number of houses were burned in the county during January. 1874.\\nThe Ai-mada Agricultural Society held its second annual meetino- at Armada. January\\n18. 1874.\\nThe annual session of the Macomb County Simday School Association was held at\\nRichmond January 20, 1874.\\nThe fourth annual meeting of the Union Temperance Association was held at Romeo\\nFebruary 29. 1874.\\nThe Romeo Pioneer and Historical Society was organized March 14, 1874.\\nRev. J. Weeks resigned the charge of the Christian Church of Romeo May 1, 1874.\\nThe Washington Grange was instituted April 18. 1874. with William A Stone, Master.\\nThe pledge was circulated in Armada Village April 1, 1874.\\nA marine engine, built at Romeo by Morton Hamblin. for a Clinton River barge,\\nwas finished May 2. 1874.\\nThe new M. E. Church of Romeo was dedicated June 7, 1874.\\nFrederick Hebblewhite, of .irmada, was drowned in Norway Lake, near Lapeer, June\\n1 2, 1874.\\nThe comet of July, 1873, caused much speculation.\\nDrs. Gi-eenshields and Tillson amputated the entire bi-east of Mrs. Gibson, June 9,\\n1874. The lady sm vived the ojieratiou until November 29, 1874. when she died.\\nThe electric storm of August 25 and 26. 1874. was the most terrific remembered by\\nthe American settlers of this county.\\nThe council of the Granges of Macomb County was organized September 2. 1874.\\nwith Henry Bennett, Washington, Master.\\nIn September, 1874. Samuel Aldrich. of Armada, possessed a hen aged twenty-one\\nyears.\\nThe twenty-fifth annual meeting of the Macomb County Agricultural Society was\\nhold at Mt. Clemens September 30, 1874.\\nIn October. 1874, Lee Stockton enlarged the Mt. Clemens Monitor.\\nThe annual re-union of the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry was held at Mt. Cle n-\\nens September 26, 1874.\\nIn October, 1874, Rev. J. E. Davis, of Macomb, was the oldest Mason in the State.\\nHe entered the organization in 1818, and was, in 1874, eighty-seven years old.\\nThe M. E. Church of Romeo was the first public building heated by steam in Ma-\\ncomb County, October 11. 1874.\\nMiss Rush, of Mt. Vernon, committed suicide October 6, 1874.\\nJohn Wilkinson, son of Col. Wilkinson, of Romeo, died at Fort Gi-iffin. Texas, No-\\nvember 5, 1874, He received a pistol bullet in the knee; amputation was necessary: but\\neven this extreme course failed to postpone death more than one day.\\nThe transit of Venus. December 8. 1874, caused much speculation in the little repub-\\nlic of Macomb. The people offered no resistance to the transit.\\nMiss Keturah Walker and a Mrs. Lockwood, both sisters, assaulted their aged mother,\\nand were fined $5 each by Justice Snover, December 28, 1874.\\nThe Mt. Clemens Monitor began agitating the citv charter question in December,\\n1874.\\nThe first sleighing parties of the winter of 1874-75 tm-ned out January 24, 1875.\\nWilliam E. Preston s mill, northwest corner of Richmond, was destroyed by fire in\\nthe last week in January, 1875.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0510.jp2"}, "511": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nJohn Chapman s house, in Kav Township, was destroyed bv tire Febiiiary 13,\\n1876.\\nThe annual meeting of the Union Farmers Club was in February, 187:1\\nJames IWhite, proj)rietor of the old Hoag Mill, of Lenox, was caught in the machin-\\nery and killed. 1875.\\nStephen S. Merrill hanged himself at Utioa Janiiary 26, 1875.\\nAmong the Indians encamped near Borneo in September. 1875, was one who, accord-\\ning to his own statement, hunted oyer this section of country more than fifty years ago.\\nThe people did not fail to note the starting tear in the eye of this aged hemlock as he re-\\ncounted the glories of the departed days, before railroad taxes became a bm-den and street-\\nsprinklers a necessity, and when the chief occupation of the citizens consisted in slinging\\narsenicated arrows into the bodies of the stately moose and elk, amid the dim aisles of the\\ngi-aud old forest. They were constrained to agi ee with our aged friend Lo that those\\nwere halcyon days.\\nIhe Congregationalists of Romeo agitated the Tjuilding of a new church March 23,\\n1875.\\nA. B. Sheldon, of Ray. met a tragic death at his own hands April 21, 1875.\\nAn insane man, called by the people the wild man, roamed oyer the county in May,\\n1875.\\nThe farewell seryices in the old Congregational Chiu ch of Romeo were held June\\n15, 1875.\\nOn June 22, 1875, the Grand Trunk Railroad fi-eight train was thrown from the\\ntrack, the engine and a number of cars wrecked; Matthew Bartle, the engineer, and Mor-\\nrison, the tii eman, fatally scalded.\\nFoster Galbraith, formerly of Romeo, was drowned in the Saginaw at Bay City in\\nJune, 1875. His remains were found and shipped to Romeo for interment.\\nThe Mt. Clemens Reporter was resurrected in June, 1875, with Messrs. Keeler\\nMiller, publishers.\\nThe Proctor saw-mill was destroyed by tii-e July 4. 1875.\\nDr. Balfom- left Romeo on Thureday night. July 22, 1875.\\nAbner Miller, of Mt. Clemens, shot himself accidentally in September, 1875. It ap-\\npears he was hunting and boating, when, through some carelessness, the charge in his\\nfowling piece exploded and entered his body beneath the ribs.\\nIn September, 1875, a number of Indians yisited Mt. Clemens and Romeo, among\\nwhom was Tipikaw. one who liyed in this county forty years preyious.\\nThe Atlas of Macomb County was published in September, 1S75. It proved a yery\\nuseful work.\\nThe Conger dwelling house, on the line between Sterling and Clinton, was destroyed\\nby fii-e Noyember 15, 1875, and a child four years old so badly burned that she died the\\nsame day.\\nA case of small-pox was i-eported in the neighborhood of Romeo November 26, and at\\nMt. Vernon in December, 1875.\\nEarly in 1876, the people in this district of Michigan thought of utilizing the old\\nClinton Kalamazoo Canal in connection with the new canal then proposed.\\nThe judgments against the town of Washington on railroad aid bonds were settled\\nin January, 1876, save a \u00c2\u00a71,00(1 bond.\\nThe small-pox raged around Mt. Vernon during the close of 1875 and beginning of\\n1876.\\nThe fii st meeting of the Michigan Agricultural Institute was held at .\\\\i-mada January\\n11 and 12, 1876.\\ny-.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0511.jp2"}, "512": {"fulltext": "liL\\nThe aunnal meeting ef the Macomb County Sunday School Association was held at\\nthe Congregational Church, New Baltimore, January 25, 1876.\\nJohn Keeler and Maria Fellows celebrated the fiftieth anniversary of their marriage\\nJanuary 8, 1876. at Disco.\\nA lire broke out in Flumerfelt Frost s store Janiiary 19, 1870, which spread to C.\\nN. Coe s store, and resulted in damage to property estimated at $20,000. The tire depart-\\nment alone saved the j^roperty in the neighborhood.\\nAnother tire broke out at Gray s Opera House February 12, 187 which destroyed\\nMessrs. Hanscom s. D. N. Lowell s and Maj. Dake s offices, the Masonic Hall, Mrs. Hor-\\nton s rooms, etc.\\nThe electric fluid entered the M. E. Chm-ch building at Romeo February 27, 1876,\\nand there played some extraordinary freaks.\\nThe biu ning of William Crittenden s house, April 4, 1876, resulted in the death of\\nMi s. Crittenden. The lady made a superhuman effort to extinguish the flames, but was\\nenwrapped by them, and would doubtless have been Vrarned to a cinder had not her hus-\\nband rescued her. She died, however, the same morning.\\nCyril Hicks, located on the line between Richmond and Lenox, hanged himself June\\n17, 1876.\\nThe Chippewas of Walpole Island visited Romeo June 19, 1876, and defeated the\\nContinentals in a game of base-ball.\\nThe corner-stone of the Congregational Church was laid July 4, 1876.\\nFrank Buzzell tlied at Romeo July 16. from the effects of sunstroke.\\nPhilip Jersey s house was burned at Romeo August 1, 1876.\\nThe frost of August 20, 1876, did much damage to the crops in Northern Macomb\\nand St. Clair Counties. A heavy thunder-storm contributed to render the damage even\\nmore serious.\\nCol. John Atkinson, of PortHirron and Detroit, addressed the citizens of Romeo Sep-\\ntember 28. 1876.\\nA ferocioiis Bengal tiger eloped from Barnum s Menagerie January 22, 1877, then at\\nRichmond. The presence of this animal and the small-pox kept the people in a state of\\nalarm for some time.\\nMai shall D. Ewell wrote his hand-book, Ewell on Fixtm-es, in 1877.\\nMatilda C. Shaw poisoned herself February 24, 1877.\\nZ. H. Daniels, formerly of Romeo, was reported to have been killed by Indians at\\nStilhvater, Montana, in February, 1877.\\nI. D. Hanscom resigned the office of Secretary of State Deaf and Dumb Institute, at\\nFlint, in. March. 1877.\\nOn the 12th of November, 1877. one of those fatal accidents which thrill a whole\\ncommunity occuiTed near Memphis. Two young lads about eighteen years of age went to\\nthe woods for a hunt. In crossing a small stream, James Dawson, one of the lads, slipped\\nfrom a log into the water. In order the more conveniently to climb again upon the log,\\nhe passed his gun to his companion, Henry Castle. He, taking the gun with the muzzle\\ntoward him, di-ewit through some bushes. In doing this, the loaded gun was discharged,\\nand the whole contents entered his left side, making a feai ful wound, severing the large\\nblood-vessels in the vicinity of the heart and causing almost instant death.\\nThe nephew of E. F. Sibley, of Armada, who shot himself in the head while tempo-\\nrarily insane, died July 6, 1878. The ball passed nearly thi-ough the brain, when it re-\\ntraced its course, and was found in the top of the head.\\nThe descendants of Lewis and Nancy Davis, about seventy in number, met at the\\nresidence of Charles Davis for their annual re-union July 4, 1878. There are nine chil-\\nr", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0512.jp2"}, "513": {"fulltext": "Lk.\\ndren MJrs. L. Andrus, Mi s. D. G. Stewart Mrs. J. Curtis, Homer and Charles Davis,\\nMrs. E. C. Ewell, of Borneo; Mi s. Rev. S. E. Warren, of Farmington: Barlow Davis, of\\nEvart: and Rev. L. P. Davis, of Plymouth.\\nThe Romeo town clock was placed in position August 14, 187M.\\nA teiTible storm of hail swept though a portion of the town of Richmond August 1(3,\\n1878. The fruit in the path of the storm was entirely destroyed. Someof the hail-stones\\nwere more than live inches in circumference.\\nAn aged citizen of Disco committed suicide in September, 1878.\\nDiu-ing the yellow fever epidemic at Memphis. Tenn., in 1878, the sum of S 264 was\\nsubscribed b\\\\^ Romeo people toward the relief of the sufferers.\\nThe electric fliiid played havoc on the preinjses of William Brabb, about two miles\\nnorthwest of Romeo, September 25. 1878. A large barn filled with wheat was struck early\\nin the evening, and, together with its contents, was totally destroyed. One or more stacks\\nin the immediate vicinity were also destroyed. The loss was jl.OOO, upon which there\\nwas no insurance.\\nThe first accident on the Michigan Air-Line Railroad occurred December 8, 1878.\\nThe death of Beecher Gates resulted.\\nCornelius IVLller, well known in Macomb County, was sujjposed to have committed\\nsuicide bj drowning, at Detroit, in October, 1878.\\nJames Whalen, of ^Varren, was run over and instantly killed on the night of the 24th\\nof Octob^, 1878, by a Grand Trunk train. He was literally torn to pieces. Deceased was\\ntwenty-six years old.\\nA meeting was held at the office of Irving D. Hanseom, November 23, 1878, for the\\npurpose of forming an association for the apjuvhension of horsethieves.\\nThe death of jMi s. C. N. Chamberlin and her two daughters, at Chattanooga, Tenn.,\\nin October, 1878, drew forth much sympathy from their friends in Macomb.\\nBenjamin Crissman had his feet crushed by the tumbling-rod of a clover-mill De-\\ncember 18, 1878, which necessitated amputation.\\nThe jury in the case of Sarah Finkle. charged with the murder of Alice Jackson,\\nSeptember, 1878, by aiding her to commit suicide, rendered a verdict of not guilty, diu ing\\nthe present tenn of com t. The jury required but one and one-half hours to come to their\\ndecision. The case was one of the most peculiar on record in this circiiit.\\nMrs. August Bliss took a dose of paris green in April, 1878, and died from its effects\\nbefore medical aid could be summoned.\\nClara Heater, a girl of eighteen, living in the family of Albert Hovey, took fifteen\\ngrains of morphine, and died April 20, 1878.\\nRiley J. Sjiencer was crushed to death bv the falling of the plates of a barn, near\\nRomeo, May 29, 1878.\\nBeecher Gates, who met his death in the Air-Line disaster, was biu ied, December,\\n1878.\\nIn Oliver Optic s story, Oi;t West, a part of the surprising adventures of the hero\\nare laid in Macomb County. Mt. Clemens is re fenced to as Mt. Mercy; the Clinton\\nRiver as Glinton River. The Sherman House is mentioned by name: also New Balti-\\nmore, and the club house at tbe mouth of the river. It will be remembered that Mr.\\nAdams spent a few weeks here in 1877.\\nThere is living at Davis, in the township of Ray, the Rev. J. E. Davis, who was\\nninety -one years old the 1st of February, 1879. He has been for many years a resident\\nof that place. On his ninetieth birthday, he preached a senaon in the M. E. Church at\\nDavis. Until a few weeks ago, he cut his own fii-ewoocl and took care of his own horse.\\nThat narrow gauge railroad from Detroit to Grosse Point, thence to New Baltimore,\\n:V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0513.jp2"}, "514": {"fulltext": "^1^\\n514 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nSt. Clair and Port Huron, at the latter place to connect with the Port Huron North-\\nWestern, was sti ongly agitated duriug the winter of LSTU-SO.\\nMt. Clemens was visited by a |f3,r)(H) tire duriug the last week of Jauuai-y, 1879.\\nThe buildino- destroyed was a large frame dwelling house on the corner of Robertson and\\nGrant streets, owned Ijy F G. Kendrick and occupied by G. H. Crane, the proprietor\\nof the principal drug store in the place. Both of the parties were insured to some ex-\\ntent.\\nJohn E. Nellis entered on the publication of the Monitor in March, 1879.\\nThe bill incorporating the city of Mt. Clemens passed March 17, 1S7U.\\nThe members of the Cannon family assembled at the old homestead, where Pearl and\\nMary Cannon located in 1831. New Yeai- s Day, 1880.\\nThe third re-union of the Gass family was held at Davis January 2, 1880.\\nThe childi-en and grandchildren ^f Elijah Thorington celebrated his seventy-first\\nbirthday January 9, 1880.\\nWarren LavvTence cut the old landmark on his farm known as the square-top pine in\\nJanuary, 1880. This made fifteen saw-logs, the shortest being ten feet, the longest sev-\\nenteen feet long. All gi-ew on one stump, about five feet across, and branched out twenty-\\nfoui feet above the gi-ound into three great branches.\\nThe following-named persons were appointed to take the census of 1880 in Macomb\\nCounty: Armada, A. S. Hall: Bruce. A. H. Shelp: Chesterfield, Charles Connor; Clin-\\nton, a H. Canfield: Mt. Clemens, G. C. Forster. Robert Ii win, A. N. Crovier: Erin, G. S.\\nSchuchard; Harrison, F. C. Forton: Lenox, E. L. Raymond; Macomb. Alfi-ed Stewart;\\nRay, B. R. Davis; Richmond, J. C. Keeler; Shelby, W. S. Andi-us; Sterling, R. H. Sliter;\\nWarren, G. B. Walker; Washington, J. R. Stone.\\nA son of Charles Evans, of Richmond, was crushed to death beneath a land -roller,\\nSeptember, 1880.\\nThe Chautauqua Club, of Romeo, was re-organized in October, 1880.\\nMrs. Rose, of Armada, while out driving, October 17, 1880, was thrown fmm the car-\\nriage and received such injuries as resulted in her death on the 18th of the same month.\\nThe corner-stone of the new court house was laid October 21, 18S0.\\nThe Michigan Air-Line Railroad Company ordered a regulai- train to run over the\\nroad in October, 1880.\\nGeorge Connor, of Richmond, was killed in the lumber woods in January, 1881, and\\nhis body brought to Armada for interment.\\nSurveyor W. W. Duffield and party were engaged in running a line for the proposed\\nnarrow gauge railroad through Macomb Coimty in January and February, 1881.\\nThe location of the Romeo mineral well was decided upon in February, 1881.\\nThe sudden, if not tragic, death of Miss Ann Reid, formerly a student of medicine\\nat Ann Arbor, took place in February, 1881. Prior to ridding herself of mortality, she\\nvsTote a letter to her mother, giving her resolve to try another world.\\nA cane was presented to Joseph Ayres by the members of the Supervisors Board, of\\nwhich he was a member for twenty-five years, in February, 1881.\\nThe Board of Supervisors appropriated $10,000 for the building of a new jail in Feb-\\nruary. 1881.\\nPeter McEachroii, in 1845 a carpenter in AVashiugton Township, died at Saginaw\\nFebruary 24, 1881.\\nL. E. Cannon returned from his surveying expedition in the neighborhood of Point St.\\nIgnace, in March, 1881.\\nThe first annual shearing festival of the Macomb County Sheep-Breeders and Wool-\\nGrowers Association was held at Romeo May 11, 1881.\\nV", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0514.jp2"}, "515": {"fulltext": "y/ iMtZi.]\\nCd ECE/.iiED)", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0515.jp2"}, "516": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0516.jp2"}, "517": {"fulltext": "tit,\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe Methodist Ministerial Associaion of Port Huron District held the anuual meeting\\nat Mt. Clemens May 31, 1871.\\nThe pioneers met at Romeo September 17, 1881.\\nThe contribution of the citizens of Romeo and vicinity to the sufi erers by fire in\\nNortheastern Michigan exceeded $5,000 at the close of September, 1881.\\nT. P. Kennedy celebrated his golden wedding in Octobor, 1881. He is now in his\\neighty-first year.\\nThe telephonic connection of Detroit and Mt. Clemens was established September 1\\n1881.\\nM. H. Butler, of Mt. Clemens, was robbed of $1,200 while waitiEg for a train at\\nWoodward Avenue Station, September 1, 1881.\\nCapt. Howgate was arrested, August 15, 188 J, at the Avery House, Mt. Clemens, on\\na charge of embezzlement and taken to Washington.\\nSeptember 26, 1881, was observed by all classes throughout the county. Mourning\\nemblems may be said to have enwrapped Macomb in honor of Garfield s funerel.\\nChauncy G. Cady, of Sterling, paid a visit to Mt. Clemens October 2, 1880. Sixty\\nyears ago that lay Mr. Cady first saw Mr. Clemens. There were then four log houses\\nthere. An old bridge spanned the river, and on the shore thereof was a whisky still.\\nMr. Cady was nineteen years of age when he came to Macomb County, and has been a\\nresident of the county over since. He has lived on his farm in Sterling forty years.\\nMr. William Beer celebrated his ninetieth birthday December 7, 1881.\\nCharles C. Foote was appointed guardian of Charles Foote, the Memphis centena-\\nrian, in December, 1881.\\nMrs. Lewis, of Lenox, Macomb Co., Mich., was eighty-nine years of age January 1,\\n18S2. She is also a pensioner, her husband, Laban Lewis, having been a soldier in the\\nwar of 1812. Grandma, as all call her, has learned the happy faculty of growing old\\ncheerfully and joyfully, having a heart large and warm enough to embrace the world of\\nmankind, and send a ray of liope and cheerfuln ss to all with whom she associates. Her\\nhands, though having been enijiloyed for nearly eighty years, are actively engaged in\\nsome useful labor. Within the past three years, she has pieced eighty bed-quilts. Since\\nshe was eighty, she has made a spread, on which she has taken two first premiums at the\\nArmada Agricultural Fair, where there are always large shows of fancy and needle work.\\nShe has been the hajipy mother of fifteen children, eleven of whom lived to years of ma-\\ntiu-ity eight are still living, the youngest being forty years of age. Five are residents of\\nthis county, viz.: Wesley Lewis, of Mt. Clemens; Nelson Lewis and Cliste M. Wilder,\\nof Lenox; Mrs. Harriet S. Wilder, of Ri(;hmond; and Mrs. Emeline McCain, of Mt. Ver-\\nnon.\\nThe citizens of Shelby tm-ned out 200 strong, October 28. 1881, and followed the\\ntracks of a bear three miles. They found Bruin docilely following a couple of tamj In-\\ndians.\\nDogs seriously interfered with the rimming of the train on the St. Clair Midland\\nRailway in the winter of 1881-82. It is said they ran out from farmhouses along the\\nline and licked the gi-ease off the journals, thus bringing the cars to a stand. At the next\\nannual meeting, the Board of Directors will ask that they be authorized to adulterate the\\naxle grease with strychnine. The stockholders say they will indorse this or some other\\nscheme, as they are bound to make eouneotions, even if it is necessary to bond the road\\nand hire a boy to run on ahead and tie up the dogs.\\nThe Democrat, of Romeo, stated there is less whisky sold in Romeo than in any other\\ntown of its size in the State, and a Mt. Clemens editor who has sampled the Romeo\\nbrand says this statement is correct and easily accounted for. In reply, the Romeo Ob-\\n9", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0517.jp2"}, "518": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nserver said: We don t brag on the quality of oiu- whiskj We are frank to admit that\\nMt. Clemens can beat us in that regard. The quality is regulated by the demand.\\nJacob Reimold. of Harrison, was at Mt. Clemens December 24, 1881, and created a\\ngreat sensation. He was drawing a stone boat through the main streets, with a huge box,\\non which was painted something like this:\\nCITY OP U.\\\\RKISON.\\nLEAVES\\nMARKET STREET EVEKY FIVE MONTHS.\\nBY ORDER OF COMMON COUNCIL,\\nS. B. Russell, Mayor.\\nMr. Reimold tried to get some of the Aldermen as passengers, but, with a strange\\npersistency, they all declined the friendly invitation of the jovial Charon. This morning,\\na large sign is up to the foot of Market street, on which is painted. Thus saith the Lord\\nof Hosts, Behold. I will deliver my people from the east country! A large hand points\\nin the direction of Harrison.\\nThe eclipse of the moon occurred at midnight, Jiuie 11-12, 1881. By some strange\\nfreak of nature, the jjeople of Macomb were favored with a tropical Christmas; but, to\\nremind them, as it were, that they were still north of the Torrid Zone, the Northern\\nLights shone in all their brilliancy on the night of December 24, 1881.\\nThe city election of Mt. Clemens took place December 13, 1881 with the following result\\nFirst Ward Fries, Republican, 40; Russell, Democrat, 60; Russell s majority, 20. Sec-\\nond Ward\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fries, 64; Russell, 92; Russell s majority, 28. Third Ward\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fries, 29;\\nRussell, 87; Russell s majority, 58. Russell s majority in the city, 106. The election\\nwas made necessary owing to the summary action of Gov. Jerome. It appears that Mr.\\nRussell, as Mayor of the city, entered into one or more contracts with the city, contrary to\\nlaw regai ding city otficers. The work contracted for was faithfully done, yet there\\nremained some justification for even a summary execution of the law in the case. Mr.\\nRussell s re-election was the surest sign of his popularity and business integrity.\\nIn December, 1881. Winsor Dixon, a former resident of Macomb County, and well\\nknown to the residents of Richmond Township, murdered a cattle- buyer of the name of\\nPhillips, in Sanilac County, and robbed him of $5,000 in money. Dixon was soon arrest-\\ned, and. the night succeeding his arrest, committed suicide by taking poison. He died\\nthe next day.\\nAt an early hour on the morning of February 10. 1882, an effigy was seen suspended\\nabove the main street of Romeo, of one who was charged with a heinous offense.\\nThe Romeo Magnetic Well was inaugurated in January, 1882.\\nEarly in February, 1882, there was an organic revival of the Grange in Macomb\\nCounty, occasioned princii)ally by the visit of C. L. Whitney, G. L. of the State Grange.\\nJanuary 18, 1882, the children and intimate friends of Mrs. G. W. Preston met to\\ncelebrate her sixty-fourth birthday. Mrs. Preston came with her parents, when a child of\\nten years, fi-om the town of Rush, county of Mom-oe, New York, to a home in the wilder-\\nness of Macomb, in 1828. She was a school-teacher at seventeen, and a bride at nineteen\\nyears of age. Miss Anise Ai nold, who was present at her marriage, was also married in\\nthis count} and, while accompanying her husband to the West, is supposed to have per-\\nished, with her whole party, in the Mountain Meadow massacre.\\nCharles B. Gillem. aged seventeen years, living four miles east of Armada, killed his\\nmother February 28, 1882.\\nThe iron for the new bridge across the Clinton at Mt. Clemens was placed on the\\nbanlc of the river March 11, 1882. The stone pier for the turning-table of the bridge was\\ncompleted in February, 1882, and the bridge opened in May, 1882.\\nV", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0518.jp2"}, "519": {"fulltext": "liL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFred C. Buzzell. editor of the Romeo Democrat, was married to Miss Agnes M. Sis\\nson. daughter of Orrin M. Sisson. of Romeo. March A, ISS i. The ceremony was per-\\nformed at the Church of Our Father (Universalist). Detroit, by Rev. Dr. Rexford.\\nlu May, 1881!. the house of Bruno Van Landerghem. at Mt. Clemens, was entered\\nand ransacked by biu-glars, who stole a 200 gold watch and a sum of money, the amount\\nof which is not stated.\\nA ]iroject was discussed of boring a third mineral well at Mt. Clemens and carrying\\nthe water by a pijie line into the Biddle House, Detroit, which would be converted into\\na vast sanitarium, in May. 188 2.\\nGJ-eorge Manning, of Detroit, leased the Romeo mineral well for live years, from May,\\n188 2. Mr. Manning will build a large bath-house just south of the American House, on\\nMain street, and fit it up in first-class style.\\nJohn Teats, son of Edward Teats, of Harr sou, living a mile down the river, was\\nkilled April 4, 1882, in a strange manner. He was leading a fractious horse fi-om the\\nbarn to the water-trough. Members of the family, who chanced to be watching him. saw\\nthe horse make a violent jumii to one side. Then Teats droi)] ed the halter and fell to\\nthe ground. He was picked up dead with a broken neck.\\nCHAPTER XXIX.\\nMT. CLEMENS CITY.\\nWhat jirogi-ess has been made within the last decade by the people of Mt. Clemens\\nis almost conveyed in the words which form the heading or title of this sketch. Here we\\nhave a city of over 3.000 inhabitants, holding the place of the pleasant little village of a\\nfew years ago; of the little distilleiy hamlet which marked the spot at the beginning of\\nthe century: of the Indian village which induced the first American pioneers to select it\\nas a most eligible site for a hamlet, a village, a city. Here did the beginnings of Macomb\\nCounty take root. Hither did the honest statesmen of Michigan s Territorial days hie for rest\\nand recreation, to find both amid the boundless hospitality of her first white citizens. She is\\nnot so old as Detroit, Fort Gratiot, Mackinaw or St. Ignaee: there is no distinct account of her\\nbeing visited by the exploring j^riest. Manpiette or Nicolet. or Menard: yet. apart from all\\nthis, she has a histoiy distinct from all her sister cities of the State, in the peculiarly quiet,\\nimostentatious way she leaped from her humble position to hold a high place among the\\ncities of the Union. Having once made this leap, she followed up her success, and con-\\ntinues to advance, slowly but steadily, to that point which her resources and geographical\\nposition render her capable of attaining. What Mt. Clemens may be when her centennial\\nyear comes round cannot be prophesied; but, if the same progress which marked the past\\ndecade of her history is upheld, the same enterprise which now characterizes many of her\\ncitizens fostered, and the same intelligence which guides her people far away from jeal-\\nous bigotry continried, the centennial day of platting the village of Mt. Clemens will\\ndav^u upon a community great and prosperous beyond the brightest day dreams of the\\npresent times.\\nEARLY SETTLEMENT.\\nSome years ago, the good work of compiling a history of the county was begun by\\nR-^v. H N. Bissell. Sinc3 that tima, the special papers of Judge J. B. Eldredge, Edgar\\nWeeks, John E Day and others, have shed much light on the history of this county. The", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0519.jp2"}, "520": {"fulltext": "following, extracted from Mr. Weaks history of Mt. Clem=^ii3, brings us back to those\\nolden times when the beginnings of Mt. Clemens began to take form: It is interesting,\\nat times, to survey the history of the country which every-day life makes so familiar to\\nus, and throughout the entire Northwest Territory no section afibrds so many interesting\\nrelics to those having an antiquarian turn of mind as the country around Detroit and\\nthese great hikes.\\nIn searching among the dusty records of ancient surveys and travels, it is singulai\\nto note the early opinions of those who made this immediate section a study. Detroit,\\nwith its varied story of Indian warfare and treachery, its recollections of Red Jacket and\\nPontiac, the chieftains of the tribes inhabiting the vast wilds which have now given way\\nto civilization and the graces of cultivation. The dark story of Bloody Run. the wild\\nadveutiue of the e;irly settler, who planted himself upon the outer selvage of civilization,\\nsustaining himself by the precarious chances of the chase and the hardly less profitable\\nproceeds of the fisheries, while agriculture planted in the rich soil bordering upon our\\nlakes labored under a want of skill which most conspicuously marked the early Canadian\\ninhabitants of the frontier all these things, nearly or quite forgotten in the whirl and\\nbusiness of our own day have a rosy tinge of romance that speaks the voice of silent\\nwoods, of slothful streams, of mm shes and unknown places. We recall, as we look around\\nuj)on the improvements which years of toil have brought about, the majestic grandeur of\\nsolemn loneliness which long ago reigned here, disturbed only by the prowling wolf and\\npanther, or by the not less savage aborigines. Many still live in our own vicinity whose\\nmemories carry them back to the first struggle made to plant a settlement at Mt. Clem-\\nens Our graceful Clinton River, which now bears upon its quiet bo.som the commerce of\\nom- village, or, perchance, the graceful barge of the pleasiu e-seeker, was then the Huron\\nRiver, whose glassy wave broke the prow of the bark canoe freighted for its brief voyage\\nwith the squaw and the papoose of the migratory Indian; later, the element that buoyed\\nu])on its bosom the dug-out of the trapper or the settler on his errand of trapping and\\nfishing. We can fancy the scenes that animated the landscape then the startled swan,\\nswinging into view, and soaring away to some more secret haunt; the otter (plentiful then)\\nand the muskrat game sought for and highly prized; the forests resounding to the cry\\nof the bird careering wildly into the dark wood, and the wild deer bounding away over\\nthe now site of cultivated farms and teeming villages. We can fancy how the quiet hills\\nand glades echoed the shot of the wild huntsman; and the silence that\\nseltk d wick and still.\\nOn the lone wood and mighty hill,\\nwhen no human being was there to invade nature s wide domain.\\nAgain, when night, the sable goddess, swayed her leaden scepter, and the deep\\ngloom of the untrodden forest was peopled only with the fantoms that ride upon the\\nsolemn stillness of the night. And yet again, when the glad day beamed from the portals\\nof the morning, bringing no retiu-u of husbandman to waving harvest fields; no opening\\nup of the fresh furrows to the busy plow. These are the scenes that fancy brings to the\\nrecollection.\\nThe earliest settlement of the country immediately surrounding this village was in\\nthe year 1781. In 178S, there were thirty-i om families in all the settlements from\\nthe mouth of the River Hui on e.xtending up the stream some nine miles. These people,\\nwe ascertain, were tolerably well situated, but extremely poor, and lacked greatly in agri-\\ncultural skill. The settlers were all of this description save four, who were said to be\\nEnglishmen of industry and enterprise.\\nTwenty of the farms were purchased of the Indians in 1788 ten in 179:1 171*0 and\\n1796; and four settled in the year 1800, without authority of any kind.\\n^7r", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0520.jp2"}, "521": {"fulltext": "We ascertain tbat, between Milk River and the mouth of the Huron River, a dis-\\ntance of twelve miles, and being the strip of lake shore now known as L ans creuse,\\nthere were, in 1797, thirty settlers. They were exceedingly poor, and were considered as\\nunfortunate in their location. They were even ignorant of the number of acres they jios-\\nsessed, and achieved a scanty subsistence by the chances of the chase, their traps and fish-\\ning. These people came into possession of their lands without authority even of the In-\\ndians.\\nPrior to 1808, and about 17114, a settlement had been made of a tract of land on\\nthe northwest side of the present village, near what is now Frederick; a saw-mill, a sHll\\nand a grist-mill had been erected. After some years of occupation, this tract of laud\\npassed into the hands of James Connor, who, after the organization of the Government\\nby the adoption of the constitution, and after the session of this territory to the General\\nGovernment by the State of Virginia, obtained a patent and a recognition of his title,\\nwhich was a grant from the Indians. We find this recognition was made by the Commis-\\nsioners of the Government in ISOU. This was the first openiug-uj) of the country on that\\nside of this village. As a curiosity to our citizens, we give below what is believed to be\\na copy of the conveyance to Christian Clemens of a part of the present site of this village:\\nKnow aiAj men by these presents: That I Henry Tucker, of River Huron, and Territory of\\nM uhigan, in consideration of the sura of |100, to me in hand paid by Christian Ch mens, of tlie .same\\nDislri l ;ind T.iritnrv af..n-;iid. tin- icc-i].! U linvuf I ,hi licni.v aiknowlr,!-,., hav, n iiUM-d, released\\nand foivviM- iiiiilii d cLiiiii, ,iiid I.\\\\ thr-c invsi-ni^ ivmUc ivlra^c and loiT\\\\Tr .|iiii rl:iiiu unto Christian\\nCleniiii-, hi- Ih ir- :iiid a--imi~ Iniw.T, all thai \u00e2\u0080\u00a2rlaiii li a.1 nr I,.| of bind siiuatr, 1\\\\ Jul; and being on\\nthe River Huron, in .said Di-lrin, wliieli farm or Irari nf land is huuinled mi flu- MUitli liy said River\\nHuron, on tlie east In huaU of Tohias Newcomer, and running up said river fifteen and a half acres,\\nand the usual depth of forty ai r. hack I do hereby release, and forever quit-claim all my improve-\\nments, right to said tract or lot of land to have and to hold th( same to him the said Christian Clem-\\nens, his heirs and assigns forever.\\nIn witness whereof. I have hi-reunto set mv hand and seal this fourth day of Mareh. in the vear\\nof our Lord 1808. Henry Tucker, [i.. s.]\\nIn ])resenee of j\\nRobert Tait.\\nJohn I. Xeweomer.\\nJohn Brooks came in and built a distillery about the year 1797. It used to stand\\nwhere Hess Kellogg s grist-mill is. This was the first improvement made within the\\nvillage corporation. Brooks continued the business until Clemens and Wisewell came\\nhere and bought the propei ty of him. The business is said to have flom-ished until there\\nbecame a scarcity of the raw material, when the proprietors procured a quantity of rye,\\nwhich they distribtited among the farmers of the neighboring cotintry, the same to be re-\\nturned after harvest. This was before the modern crusade, and no objections were raised.\\nA log house stood down the river near the site of the old glass factory (now discontinued).\\nAnother, built by Mr. Clemens, stood on the corner near the site of the storefi owned by E.\\nJ. Tucker, on Pearl street A log house was also built over the river, opposite Hess\\nKellogg s grist-mill. A distillery, also a log house, stood a little above the ship-yard of\\nJ. Saunders, built liy Henry Connor and a Mr. Grey. These improvements constitiited the\\nvillage previous to the war of 1812.\\nMany of the old families hail branched off and begun improvement above and below\\nthe village. Dm ing the war of 1812, many outrages were committed by hostile Indians.\\nTo such an extent were these depredations carried that many families sought safety by\\nmoving to Detroit. Mr. Clemens joined the army, and did good service for this country.\\nHe returned with his family to this place immediately after the close of the war. In Oc-\\ntober, 1817. John Stockton came to Mt. Clemens, having married one of Judge Clemens\\ndaughters diu ing the sojourn of the family in Detroit. The first frame structure erected\\nV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0521.jp2"}, "522": {"fulltext": "kT\u00c2\u00ab-\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwas an addition to Judge Clemens honse, built in 1817. The remnants of it stood oppo-\\nsite the gate of the old burial -ground.\\nThe growth of the town from the organization of the county to the present has been\\nas rapid and steady as circumstances would admit The old log court house was erected\\nin 1819, and after the seat of justice was permanently established, the general prosperity\\nof the village increased\\nThe first whisky manufactured in the county was that by John Brooks, who built a\\ndistillery at Mt. Clemens in 171)7 The iirst license to sell spirituous li(iuor granted by\\nthe County Court was that to Chief Justice Clemens, in 1818.\\nThe iiirst newspaper published in the county was the Macomb Detnocraf, with J. K.\\nAverill managing, the tirst copy of which was issued November 5, 1835.\\nThe tirst marriage celebrated after the organization of the county was that of Syl-\\nvester Finch and Miss Almeda Webster, June 4, 1818, before Justice John K. Smith.\\nThe ceremony was performed at Mt. Clemens.\\nAmbrose Tremble, or Trombley, actually improved Claim 695 in 1774, and continued\\nto make it his home until his decease, in 180r He was the second French pioneer of Ma-\\ncomb County.\\nThe third bona tide settler was Louis Groesbeck, who improved the lands subsequently\\nknown as Claim 2.7- in 1780.\\nEichard Connor, or O Connor, was the tirst actual English-speaking settler. He came\\nhere in 1781, with, or about the same time, as John Huckenwelder. the Moravian patri-\\narch.\\nThe Moravians came in 1781, a day or two after De Peyster s council at Detroit, and\\nsettled near Mt. Clemens.\\nThe ne,xt was George Baker, in 1785, whose dealings in land at that time are sur-\\nrounded with mystery.\\nJohn Askin and Maj. William Ancram. of the British garrison at Detroit jmrchased\\nClaim 068 from the Moravians in 1786, and rented the land to Robert Dowler the same\\nyear. Neither Askin nor Ancram ever settled on this laud, as, a few years later, they sold\\nit to Todd Co. of Montreal.\\nJoseph Socier located on Claim 585 in 1788, and the same year Louis Ciriffard began\\nimproving Claim 183.\\nThe Moravians left the Huron River settlement in 1781). some for Canada, and a few\\nfor their old home at Muskingum.\\nThe village of New Gnadtenhutteu was the first center of population in the_county.\\nThe tirst frame house raised in the county was that by John Stockton, in 181 i, form-\\ning an addition to Judge Clemens log house. Alfred Ashley and the Cady brothers raised\\nthe Iirst entire frame building.\\nTh(! tirst log house in the vicinity of the village was built by Nicholas Patenaude, in\\n1758-5\\nOliver Newberry opened a supply store early in 18 22, for he use of his men. who were\\nengaged in building the boat La Grange.\\nEllis Doty, a native of Chautauqua County, N. Y., was the tirst regular merchant, or\\nrather store-keeper, of the county. He opened a small business house at Mt. Clemens in\\n1822. A small store was inaugurated nearly opposite the Flummer mill in 1821, but the\\novmer s name is forgotten.\\nThe tii-st regular physicians of the county were Drs. Chamberlain and Thompson.\\nThey remained here so long as Gens. Cass, Brown, Clark, Judge Woodward, and the old\\nfriends of Christian Clemens, made it a custom to visit this point.\\nThe tirst banks were the Macomb County Bank, the Eastern Branch of the Clinton\\nf", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0522.jp2"}, "523": {"fulltext": "Oj^V\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nKalamazeo Canal Bank, and the Huron River Bank. Those financial concerns will be\\nregarded in another section of this work.\\nThe first census of that district now forming Macomb County was taken in 1810, for\\nthe General Government, while yet it formed a portion of the civil district of Hm-ou.\\nFrom Mt. Clemens to the mouth of the river offered subject for the enumerator.\\nThe first Congregational Church was organized in 1832.\\nThe first Baptist Church was established here October 17, 1834.\\nThe first Methodist Episcopal Church was organized October 27, 1836.\\nThe first Protestant Episcopal Church was established in 1819, under Rev. Edward\\nMcGee.\\nThe German Evangelical Cluu ch was legally established in 1860, when the society,\\nwhich had been previously organized, pm-chased the academy and fitted it up as a house\\nof worship.\\nThe first physician who made the county his home was Dr. Robert S. Rice, who es-\\ntablished an office at the county seat in 1823.\\nThe first lawyers were Corney O Flynn, George Alexandre O Keefe, Ezra B. Prescott,\\nAJex D. Frazer and Robert P. Eldi edo-e. Thomas Ashley practiced for a short time in\\n1820-21.\\nThe first Judges were: Judge Woodward, of the Territorial Supreme Court; Chief\\nJustice Clemens, of the County Court; Associate Judges Daniel Le Roy and William\\nThompson; Justices Richard Butler and John K. Smith.\\nThe first regular train passed through the county over the Port Huron Detroit\\nBranch of the Grand Trunk Railroad in lSr)9.\\nThe first post office was established at Mr,. Clemen= in 1818, with John Stockton as\\nPostmaster.\\nIn 1825 or 1826, Dr. Heni-y Taylor lo -ated at Mt. Clemens. Previously, he was a\\npractitioner at Stoney Creek. Dr. Hall, whose son and daughters are now residents of\\nthe city, was one of the early physicians of this district. His death took place in 1865.\\nDENTISTS AND DENTISTRY.\\nThe first dentist who located at Mt. Clemens was Dr. Jared Kibbee, who came in\\nMay, 1847, and opened an office east of the old American House, on Shelby street. Dr\\nKibbee continued practice here until May 1, 1854, when he moved to Detroit, and thence\\nto Port Huron in 1853. Dr. William Warren came in 1866. and ojsened an office in the\\nold woolen-mill, where the new jail now stands. He remained two years. Dr. White\\nwas the next dentist. He made regular visit to the village, and made headquarters at the\\nAmerican House. Dr. S. B. Axtell came in 1868 and practiced here until his death, in\\n1870. George Rackham, called by some citizens the alleged dentist, practiced here for\\na few months. Dr. Hutchins located here in the fall of 1872.\\nPLATTING THE VILLAGE.\\nThe original plat of the village of Mt. Clemens was made by Christian Clemens in 1818.\\nItcomprisedsixtybuildinglots northeast of Macomb street, extending to Gratiot street (no v\\nMarket), together with the slope-to the river: tweuty-one lots south of Cass street (now Shelby\\nstreet), and twenty-six lots between Court street on the east, Cherry street on the north-\\nwest, Cass or Shellsy street on the south, and Macomb street on the northeast. The court\\nhouse lot extended fi-om Court street to Front street. The last-named street was platted\\nalong the bank of the river from Gratiot, now Market street, to a point where the saw and\\nspoke mill stands, on the bank of the river, south of the brewery. Since 1818, no less\\nthan seventeen additions have been made to the original plat, viz. Mullett s, the city of\\nrV^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0523.jp2"}, "524": {"fulltext": "JA\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nWarsaw. Robertson s, Eldredge s, Hubbard s, Ashley s. Ferrin s. Morass Welts Weeks\\nEldredge s Second Addition. Weeks Subdivision, Greener s, Butler s, Beyne s, Lewis and\\nGroesbeck s Subdivision, and the Dickenson Addition, south of the river.\\nA deed granted to the people of Macomb hj Christian Clemens, dated March 10.\\n1818, conveyed 2,934 square feet of land to the county in consideration of the village be-\\ning made the location of the county seat. This tract is what is now known as the public\\nsquare. The deed bears the signatiu-es of Christian Clemens and his wife. Elizabeth, to-\\ngether with those of the witnesses, Charles Seymour. Isaac L. Webb, John Stockton and\\nJames Fulton. A deed of two lots for the uses of church and school buildings was made\\nat the same time.\\nA lot on Sect on No. 1. forming the northwest corner of Front and Macomb\\nstreets, was deeded by Christian Clemens to Adam H. Staring, of Herkimer County. N.\\nY.. July 17. 1818. in consideration of $100. Lot No. 7. Section 2. of the village, now\\njust north of the brewery, on Front street, was sold to George McDougall. of Detroit, for\\n$50, November 20, 1818. Ezi-a Prescott made the second purchase August 12. 1818.\\nORGANIZATION.\\nThe act of the Senate and House of Representatives, approved March 13, 1837, set off\\nthe land embraced within the following limits under the name the Village of Mount\\nClemens: Beginning at a point on the Clinton, where the west line of the farm of George\\nKellogg intersects the same; thence along the border of th Clinton to a i)oint where the\\nfarm of Alfred Ashley strikes the river: thence north on the east line of the Ashley farm\\nto a point whence a line due east would intersect the south line of the William Canfield\\nfarm; thence east on the range of Canfield s line to the intersection of the west line of\\nGeorge Kellogg s farm, and thence down this line to the place of beginning. The act au-\\nthorized the election of a President, Recorder and six Tnistees; but, owing to the number\\nof changes which marked the fii st year of the panic, as well as to the total prostration of\\nenterprise, the terms of the act were not observed.\\nThe act of the Legislature, approved April -t. 1851. ordained that the territory with-\\nin the following boundaries should be known as the village of Mount Clemens, viz.: Com-\\nmencing at a point in the center of the Clinton, on the line between Harrison and Clin-\\nton; thence following the center of the river up stream to a i)oint where the westerly line\\nof P. C. 139. originally jiatented to Richard Patterson, strikes the center of the river; thence\\nnorthwardly to a point from which a line running due east will form the south line of the\\nfarm owned by the heirs of Mitchell; thence easterly to the line between Clinton\\nand Harrison, and along that line to the place of beginning. The subject of amending the act\\nof 1851 was introduced into the State Senate, March 10. 1875. by Senator Mellen. This\\namendatory act provided that the following boundaries should constitute the limits of the vil-\\nlage: Commencing at a [)oint in the center of the Clinton River, where the line between\\nthe township of Harrison and Clinton intersects the center of river; thence along the cen-\\nter of the river up stream to a point between the lands owned by Cam|)l)ell and Sackett\\nand the lands of Samuel Wood; thence north three degrees east, parallel with the west line\\nof Private Claim 541. along the line between the lands of Campbell and Sackett and the\\nlands of Samuel Wood, and also between the lands of said Campbell and Sackett and the\\nlands of William PaiTot, and the lands of Nicholas Demmer, to the nortln^ast corner of\\nthe lands of Campbell and Sackett, in Private Claim 116; thence easterly at right angles\\nalong the line between the lands of Robert Little and Nicholas Demmer to a point on the\\nwest line of Private Claim 541; thence northerly along the west line of Claim 541 to the\\nnorthwest corner of that claim: thence easterly along the north line of Claim 541 to its\\nnortheast corner; thence southerly along the east line of claim to a point on the line be-\\nt\\nW", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0524.jp2"}, "525": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntween the lands of Giles Hubbard and Andrew Griner; thence easterly at right angles\\nalong the line between the lands of Giles Hubbard and Andrew Griner, and also along\\nthe north line of lands of Andrew Griner to the center of the North Branch road; thence\\nsoutherly along the center of that road to a point on the line between the lands of Fran-\\nces Mitchell and James Canfield; thence south 85^ 45 east, along the line between the\\nlands of Mitchell and Cantield to the center of the Fort Gratiot Turn])ike: thence south\\n21 15 west along the center of said tm-npike to a point, the center of John street; thence\\nsouth 37\u00c2\u00b0 east along the center of John street and continuation of the center line of John\\nstreet to a point on the line between the townships of Clinton and Harrison; thence south-\\nerly along the town line to the place of beginning.\\n1851 President, Daniel Liite; Recorder, George Scott; Treasurer, Koljert Thomson.\\n1852 President, Benjamin Robertson; Recorder, Robert Thomson: Treasurer, George\\nC. Fletcher.\\n1853\u00e2\u0080\u0094 President, Ed C. Gallup: Recorder, John S. Fletcher; Treasurer, D. C. Will-\\niams.\\n1854 President, John Stockton; Recorder, Joel C. McDonald; Treasurer, George C,\\nVan Eps.\\n1855 President, John S. Parks; Recorder, George Scott; Treasiirer. Silas Dixon.\\n185G President. Eben W. Hall; Recorder, Sam A. Fitch: T) easiu er, Wesley Hin-\\nman.\\n1857 President, -Joshua B.Dickenson; Recorder, John S. Fletcher; Treasiu er, Silas\\nDixon.\\n1858 President, Joshua B. Dickenson; Recorder, James B. Eldredge; Treasurer, D.\\nC. Williams.\\n1859 President, Giles Hubbard: Recorder, James B. Eldi-edge; Treasiu-er. Abe\\nWise.\\n1860 President, William S. Robinson; Recordar. Oliver Gbapaton: Treasm-er, J. H.\\nC!onnor.\\n1861\u00e2\u0080\u0094 President. William S. Robinson: Recorder, Oliver Chapaton; Treasurer, John\\nE. Van Eps.\\n1862 President, George B. Van Eps; Recorder, Oliver Chapaton: Treasurer, Joseph\\nHubbard.\\n1863 President, John E. Van Eps; Recorder, Ira Stout; Treasiu-er, Robert Shook.\\n1864 President, Joshua B. Dickenson: Recorder, Ira Stout; Treasurer, Oliver Cha-\\npaton.\\n1865 President, Oliver Chapaton Recorder, William S. Robinson Treasurer.\\nOliver Chapaton.\\n1866 President, Judsou S. Farrar; Recorder, William S. Robinson: Treasurer.\\nWilliam Flummer.\\n1867\u00e2\u0080\u0094 President, Thomas W. Snook; Recorder, T. C. Bradford: Treasurer, G. B. Van\\nEps.\\n1868 President, George B. Van Eps; Recorder, William S. Robinson; Treasm-er,\\nSilas Dixon.\\n1869 President, Oliver Chapaton; Recorder, T. J. West: Treasurer, T. W. Snook.\\n1870\u00e2\u0080\u0094 President, F. W. Sackett; Recorder, W. S. Rolnuson: Treasurer, E. J. Tuckai-.\\n1871 President, John H. Connor; Recorder, Jlyron White; Treasurer, John Otto.\\n1872 President, Myron White; Recorder, Charles S. Groesbeck; Treasurer. John\\nOtto.\\n1873 President, James B. Eldredge; Recorder, -Tames M. Heath; Treasurer, Paul\\nUlrieh.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0525.jp2"}, "526": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n1874-77 President, Thomas M. Crocker; Recorder, Hemy W. Babcock; Treasurer,\\nRobert Shook.\\n1875 President, Thomas M. Crocker: Recoi der. Heurv W. Babcock; Treasurer.\\nWilliam E. Hall.\\n1876 President. Thomas M. Crockt^r; Recorder, Heurv W. Babcock; Treasurer.\\nWilliam E. Hall.\\n1878 President. Charles S. Groesbeck: Recorder, Henry W. Babcock; Treasurer.\\nCharles Moser.\\nTRUSTEES.\\n1857 -.John E. Van Ejjs, A. L. Gurber, W. L. Rutter, Benjamin Rol)ertson, Giles\\nHubbard.\\n1858 Henry Taylor, Sr., Francis Latourueau, George Nicholls. Ed J. Tucker, D. C.\\nWilliams.\\n1859 George B. Van Eps, Charles ;\\\\Iosor, Oi-rin W. De Lano, Abe Wise, Loren\\nPhelps.\\n186(^ John H. Connor, Elisha West, Myron White, Joshua B. Dickenson, Henry H.\\nHuntington.\\n1861\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Myron White. Dennis MeCaffertv, Elisha West, J. H. Connor, John E. Van\\nEps.\\n186 i David Shook, John Tucker, Joseph Hubbard, John M. Sanders, Loren Phelps.\\n1863 Varnum Lufkin, Bruno Van Landeghem, George O. Nicholls, Robert Shook,\\nAug Dahm.\\n1864 --C. Generous, Dennis McCafferty, William Flummer, Fred Hatch, Oliver Cha-\\npaton.\\n1865\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elisha West, W. S. Donaldson, Charles Ulrieh, John I. Eraser, G. O. Nicholls.\\n1866 William Flummer, J. E. Van Eps, Michael Stapleton, Varnum Lufkin, John\\nRoskop.\\n1867\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Silas Dixon, A. Strong, G. B. Van Eps, Varniun Lufkin, Alvin Brandy.\\n1868 Silas Dixon. Varnum Lufkin, A. Brandv, Alex Strong, Thomas W. Shook.\\n1869\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Theo Traver, A. T. Donaldson. J. E. Van Eps. William M. Connor, T. W.\\nSnook.\\n1870-*S. Dixon, William Flummer, P. P. Griner. M. Peltier.\\n1871\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Varnum Lufkin, Robert Hunt. William Heine, John Otto. D. MeCaft erty.\\n1872 Ed Lewis, John Otto, William Heine, W. S. Donaldson. Varnum Lufkins.\\n1873 Robert Shook, Paul Ulrieh, John Rosskop, Edward Tremble, C. S. Groesbeck.\\n1874 Robert Shook. Caspar Peters, C. D Crittenden, Emanuel Mandel, J M. Heath.\\n1875\u00e2\u0080\u0094 C. S. Groesbeck. E. J. Tucker, B. B. Hess, D. C. Tilden, G. W. Robertson, J.\\nRossko]), William Heine, G. R. Law.\\n1876 B. Van Landigham, V. Lufkin, F. G. Kendrick, G. W. Robinson. John E. Van\\nEps Josejsh Lonsby.\\n1877 John Otto. John E. Van E})s, William S. Donaldson, Joseph Lonsby.\\n1878 Jacob Roessel, Ed W. Lewis, Ed Trojnbloy, Henry Fries.\\nThe last meeting of the Village Board was held April 10, 1879, for the jtm-pose of\\ncanvassing the votes given at the first election of city officers, April 7, 1879. The Council\\ndeclai-ed the following-named citizens elected to till the offices of the city government:\\nJoshua B. Dickenson, Mayor; Hemy W. Babcock, Clerk; Jacob W. Shook, Treasiu er;\\nMoses Savage, Marshal; George H. Pelton, Collector; James A. Savage, Street Commis-\\nsioner; T. M. Crocker, J. B. Eldredge, William J. Daly, School Inspectors; John E. Van\\nEps. James G. Tucker, F. C. Kettler, C. S. Groesbeck, Justices of the Peace; John Otto,\\nFred G. Kendrick, Aldermen at Large; Philip H. Shook, Edward Lewis, William S.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0526.jp2"}, "527": {"fulltext": "fe^\\nHISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nDonaldson, John W. Portei Ferdinand Miller, Julius Koehler, Aldermen; Judson S. Far-\\nrar, James A. Canlield, Arthur E. Van Eps, Superviors: William L. Rutter, William\\nLongstafi Mitchel Peltier. Constables.\\nThe members of the old Council present were Charles Groesbeck. President; H. W.\\nBabcock, Clerk; William S. Donaldson, John Otto, John E. Van Eps, Joseph Lonsby,\\nJacob Roessell, Ed W. Lewis and Henry Fries, Trustees.\\nThe city officers for ISSO were: George M. Crocker, Mayor: James G. Tucker,\\nClerk; George H. Pelton, Treasurer; Moses Savage, Mar.shal; A. C. Brandy. Street Com-\\nmissioner; S. B. Russell, Justice of the Peace; Charles Ulrich, Alderman at Large; James\\nB. Eldredge, School Inspector. The i-epresentatives on the city board were Philip H.\\nShook, Martin C. Kelly, William Heine, Aldermen. The representatives on the county\\nboard were Judson S. Farrar, H. W. Babcock, Arthur E. Van Eps, Supervisors; William\\nL. Rutter, William LongstaS and John B. Heath, were elected Constables.\\nThe oificers elected for 1.SS1-S2 were: Spencer B. Russell, Mayor; Augustus C. Dahm,\\nClerk; J. W. Shook, Treasm-er; Ferdinand Miller, Marshal; George H. Pelton, Collector;\\nR. Widrig, Street Commissioner; F. C. Kettler, Justice of the Peace; John Dankers, Al-\\nderman at Large: J. B. Eldredge, School Insiiector. The representatives to Council are:\\nMartin Crocker, John Kuljue, J. E. Brehler. Aldermen. The members of Supervisors\\nBoard were William E. Hall. Henry W. Babcock and Arthur E. Van Eps. The Constables\\nelected in 1881 were George Bulzter, William LongstaiF and J. B. Heath.\\nMT. CLEMENS ELECTION-\\nCANDIDATES.\\n1st Ward.\\n2d Ward.\\n:)D Ward.\\nT..A..\\nMajority.\\nMayor,\\nRus.scll D\\n89\\n66\\n98\\n63\\n91\\n67\\n106\\n55\\n98\\n62\\n63\\n93\\n94\\n70\\n82\\n74\\n94\\n66\\n91\\n154\\n106\\n163\\n102\\n154\\n107\\n164\\n101\\n180\\n86\\n139\\n116\\n160\\n107\\n138\\n115\\n160\\n96\\n158\\n148\\n47\\n153\\n42\\n136\\n39\\n143\\n48\\n146\\n43\\n126\\n59\\n140\\n53\\n123\\n64\\n139\\n46\\n140\\n386\\n319\\n414\\n207\\n;88i\\n213\\n413\\n204\\n424\\n191\\n328\\n268\\n394\\n230\\n343\\n253\\n393\\n207\\n389\\n167\\nGale, R\\nMaushal,\\nMiller D\\n207\\nSkillnian R\\nTkeasuker.\\nShook D\\n168\\nClp:rk,\\nRutter, D\\n209\\nDahm R\\nCollector,\\nPeltou, I)\\n2:^3\\nShackleton. R\\nStreet Com.mlssioner.\\nGuic tte, D\\n40\\nWiihiff, R\\nJfsTicE op the Peace.\\nTucker, D\\n164\\nSaulsburv, R\\nAlderman at Laroe,\\nBarr. D\\n90\\nWhite, R\\nSchool Inspector,\\nEldredge, D\\n186\\nSpier, R\\nKettler, D\\nSupervisor,\\nHall, R\\nMontford, D\\nFIRST WARD.\\n.100\u00e2\u0080\u0094 38\\n62", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0527.jp2"}, "528": {"fulltext": "Alderman.\\nShcfffilv, D 86\u00e2\u0080\u0094 13\\nLewis. R 78\\nConstable,\\nButzelcr, II 79\\nHuttcr, I) 79\\nSECONI WAUD.\\nSupervisor,\\nGroesbeck. D W)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 87\\nCantield, R 118\\nAlderman,\\nRoessell, D 171\u00e2\u0080\u0094 82\\nMathews, R 89\\nConstable,\\nLonffstaff D 1 68\u00e2\u0080\u0094 78\\nSimms, R 90\\nTHII!I) WARD.\\nSupervisor,\\nVanEps, D 168\u00e2\u0080\u0094130\\nRoliinson, R 43\\nAlderman,\\nDahm, D 140\u00e2\u0080\u0094 83\\nKoehler. R 67\\nThe following temperate review of the last city election is taken from the Mount\\nClemens Monitor: The election in Mount Clemens was painfully Democratic. It was\\nalso an eye-opener to those who have been singing for law and order. Mr. Russell for\\nMayor, Miller for Marshal and Tucker for Justice of the Peace three men especially ob-\\nnoxious to the self-styled law and order element, were re-elected by largely increased\\nmajorities, and they took the remainder of the Democratic ticket with them. It is, we\\nhope, now clear to all. as it has been from the start to reasoning men, ihat the law and\\norder issue was ill-judged. It failed because there was no aroused sentiment at its back.\\nAnd why should there be? Saloons are open in Mount Clemens, as in 99 out of 100\\nother towns in Michigan during proscribed hours. Despite this Mount Clemens is a very\\nquiet, law-abiding city. It is incontestably true that there have been many violations of\\nthe liquor law diu ing the past yeai-, but they have been no more flagrant than those of\\nother years. While his was the case and the peace of our streets remained secure, an\\nagitation for a more stringent enforcement of law was doomed to fail. Public temper is\\npatient and long suffering, and, as a general thing, must be grossly and e.Ktraordinarily\\nabased before it is thoroughly aroused. Fiu-thermore, the law and order people did\\nnothing while they had a chance. The Republican candidates for Mayor, Marshal and\\nJustice were acceptable to them, but they received very little, if any, assistance frojn the\\nvery men whom they were nominated to please. On the other hand, the whole liquor in-\\nterest, unnecessarily alarmed, as it seems, turned in for the Democratic ticket, which, it\\nmuy be observed, was on other grounds generally acceptable to the party.\\nThe Greenbackers ticket polled forty-three votes for Mayor, and from ten to seven-\\nteen votes for their ward candidates.\\nThe death of Mayor Joshua B. Dickenson, in May, 1879, occasioned a special meeting\\nof the Council. Aid. Otto moved a resolution of condolence, from the preamble of which\\nthe following historical paragraph is taken: Mr. Dickenson came to Moiuit Clemens at\\nan early day, and from the tii st has been prominently connected with the interests of this\\ncomnnuiity. The gi-owth of om- town has been his pride: the individual success of her\\ncitizens to him has been an apjiarent source of gratification. It was fitting that the suf-\\nfrages of om- people should make him our first Mayor. The election of George M.\\nCrocker as Mayor of the city took place in June, 1879, and his re-election in April, 1880.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0528.jp2"}, "529": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nDuring Mayor Crockei s administration, the building of the county court house was\\nbegun. The dismissal of Mayor Russell, in 1881, and his subsequent re-election, referred\\nto in other ])ages, mark the history of the jiresent time.\\n.\\\\MEEIC.\\\\N SETTLKKS IN 1821-22.\\nThe following is a list of the American settlers of Mount Clemens in 1821-22, as re-\\nmembered by H. H. Cady, who arrived in 1821: Christian Clemens, tanner, farmer and\\nhotel-keeper; John Stockton, coimty officer; Thomas Ashley, farmer; Ezekiel Allen, tan-\\nner, currier and shoemaker, had a shoj) on the bank of the river, where the Butler and\\nUlrich Blocks are now located: Ellis Doty operated a store where the Sherman House now\\nstands; Henry Halsey. pottery manufacturer, having his shop where is now the opera\\nhouse; Silas Halsey worked in the potter shop; James Connor resided two miles west, on\\nthe William Campbell farm; Harvey Cook was located on the present H. H. Cady home-\\nstead; Eichard Butler lived on the Gratiot road, a block south of the public square;\\nChauncey G. Cady, step-son of Thomas Ashley, lived in the Ashley House, at the corner\\nof Shelby and Front streets, opposite the new jail: Caj^t. Russ was engaged building\\nthe Harriet of Mount Clemens at the time; Israel Nobles and his wife. Miss Halsey,\\ndwelt a short distance east of Flummer s grist-mill. In 1821, Rev. Mi-. Morey, a Method-\\nist preacher, visited IMount Clejuens, was entertained by Nobles and died at the Russ\\nhomestead a week or so after his arrival; Nun Moe was the village cooper; he had his shop\\nwhere the Hall lumber yard is now located.\\nFIRST FLOURING MILL.\\nThe tirst mill at Mount Clemens was neither a water nor steam mill. It was simply\\na primitive something run by horse-power. It contained one run of stone about two feet\\nin diameter. Its capacity was about eighteen bushels per twenty-four hours. After the\\nbuilding of the Cady or Haskins Mill, on the North Bi-anch, the Clemens concern fell into\\ndisuse, and the little millstones were appropriated by the new Hour manufacturers.\\nFIRST ORCHARDS.\\nThe first attempt at gardening within the city was made by Chi-istian Clemens, who\\nset out apple and pear trees shortly after settlement. The principal oi chards extended\\nfrom the present AVilliam Tucker homestead to the Morass House, near the mouth of the\\nriver. The fu-st large orchard set out was that by Jim Allen, a step-son of Judge Clemens,\\nbetween the years 1837 and 184(_). This orchard still exists on the south bank of the\\nriver, opposite the Avery House. The property belongs to George Roberston, a member\\nof the firm of Snook Robertson, stave manufactiu-ers. The Clemens orchard referred\\nto ju-eviously was located close to the house on Front street, a little southwest of the Flu-\\nmer mill. The Tucker orchard of ten acres was the first set out in the county by native\\nAmericans. Charles Tucker was the owner and to him customers came from Oakland and\\nSt. Clair to obtain su])])lies of fruit.\\nFIRST CEMETERY.\\nHenry Halsey was the first person bui-ied in the old cemetery on the Gratiot Turnpike.\\nJim Allen, H. H. Cady, C. G. Cady were the first grave-diggers. Judge Clemens accom-\\npanied the funeral and pointed out the spot where the grave was to be made.\\nSENIOR SETTLER.\\nThe oldest living American settler in Macomb County is Chauncey G. Cady, Presi-\\ndent of the Macomb Pioneer Society, who settled in Mount Clemens in 1820. Richard\\nButler, of Mounc Clemens, and Elder Davis, of Macomb, are the senior old residents.\\nHiram Squires, born outside the United States, is the oldest settler.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0529.jp2"}, "530": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0096\u00a0j\u00c2\u00a3^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COI NTY.\\nTHE GLASS FACTORY.\\nA class factory was established here by Hall Grover early in the fourth decade of\\nthis century. The factory was located where the mineral works are now situated. U. H.\\nCadv remembers the works uja to 1837, when he moved into the town of Macomb. He\\nstates that the works were in full blast then, and continued in operation for some five or\\nsix years later.\\nTHE FIRST SAW MILLS.\\nThe first saw-mill was that known as the Plank Road Mill, erected about 1841). It is\\noperated by the Plank Road Company. The road was laid out by the State; the company\\nreceived a charter subsecjuently, erected this saw-mill and from it tiu-ned out the plank\\nnecessary for building the road. The charge over this highway is 1 cent per mile, for one\\nhorse, and 2 cents for two horses. So recently as 1882, it was a common practice among the\\nnew settlers of Macomb to attach two loaded wagons and have them di-awn over this road\\nby the same team. This was done to efifect a saving of 40 cents, the charge for the second\\nteam. C. Gr. Cady seems to think that a saw-mill stood a little north of the present min-\\neral springs long l)efore the plank road concern was built. However, it jiroved a failure.\\nINAUGUHATING THE CANAL.\\nThe opening of work on the Clinton Kalamazoo Canal was celebrated at Mount\\nClemens with Col. Stockton presiding. Gov. Mason. Conrad Ten Eyck and others were\\nguests of the villagers. Everyone in the county men, women and children was sup-\\nposed to visit Mount Clemens on that day. The supposition was very near correct, as\\nlai ge numbers of the people were present on the occasion.\\nThe first sod was dug by Gov. Mason, a few speeches were made, after which the visit-\\nors to the village were bantpieted by the people. The banquet table was spread where\\nnow is Shelby street, opposite the present com;t house. It is estimated that at least 200\\npeople participated in the dinner. About the dinner-hour, there were a few s]nritful\\nsouls in the village who ajipeared on the table and under it about the same time. There\\nare a few old settlers still here who may reiilize the description. The present residence\\nof Thomas Foster, built by Dr. Hall in the summer of 1837. is considered to be one of\\nthe first brick dwellings erected in the citj\\nMiss Hall, daughter of Dr. Hall, states that the salt wells were not begun until 1805.\\nThen a well was bored nearer the river than the present one; but. on account of the flow of\\nsurface water, the directors changed the machinery about twenty feet farther from the\\nriver bank.\\nMT. CLEMENS IN 18()8.\\nThe large number of dwelling-houses which were erected in the year 1808 is a pleasing\\nevidence that the village was in a jsrosperous condition and rapidly increasing in population\\nand wealth. The worst thing that can be said of a town is that the rents are low and there\\nare plenty of houses to let a thing that certainly could not be said of Mount Clemens then.\\nTo prociu-e anything in the shape of a dwelling-house here a person had to pay an exorbitant\\nprice, while respectable residences could not be had for love or money. Dwellings were con-\\ntinually going up on all hands, and yet the demand for houses to rent remained undimin-\\nished. In glancing over the list of the many new buildings which have been erected\\nhere in 1N07-8, the following are noted: On Gratiot street south, Mr. Schutt\\nbuilt himself a two-stovy residence (wood), while nearly opposite a two-story brick\\ndwelling, owned by W. B. Hubbard, stands nearly completed. A shore distance from\\nthis on the same side of the street. Potter and Henry Cook have both erected cottages\\nof a story and a half. The former gentleman intended next season to build a more com-", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0530.jp2"}, "531": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nruodious dwelling in front of the one he then occupied. On the same street. William Jen-\\nney greatly improved his residence by completely repairing the same at a cost of some\\n$3,000, making it, in point of style and beauty, attractive. On Gratiot street, north, a num-\\nber of new houses have been put u}) and extensive repairs made in old ones. John Guy-\\nette and W. J. Canfield have each built good substantial dwellings, while E. J. Tucker,\\nHenry Connor and others fitted up their respective residences so that they now jjresent\\nas fine an apjiearance as if brau new throughout.\\nOn Shelby street, Dr. H. K. Babcock had in an advanced state of completion a resi-\\ndence which, when finished, will be the most beautiful of the many that now adorn our\\nvillage. It is of brick, built in the Gothic style, highly ornamental in all its apjioint-\\nments, and reflects not only credit upon the architect who designed the model, but is a\\nmonument to the good taste and liberality of the Doctor. A short distance from this,\\nMrs. Joseph Goetz built a handsome two-story frame dwelling. Dwelling-houses have\\nalso been put tip on Shelby street. Many improvements have been made in the way of\\nnew fences, painting, ornamenting, etc., which, though small in themselves, taken as a\\nwhole add much to the general good appearance of the place. Altogether the past season\\nhas been one of unusual activity in building improvements, and citizens could review\\nthe same with feelings of just pride and satisfaction.\\nAmong the principal business men of the village were D. G. Williams, dealer in dry\\ngoods; Joseph Hubbard, successor of High Hubbard; Phelps Shook, produce mer-\\nchants; John Otto, flour dealer; F. H. Bentley, jeweler: J. H. Snook, stationer and Post-\\nmaster; Mrs. J. Mintonye, milliner; Charles Wiuegar, boots and shoes; John Rosskop,\\nbutcher; J. Batty, photographer; S. Dixon, gi-ocer; R. Waterson. furniture dealer: the\\nSherman House, together with a number of minor business houses.\\nPROGRESS IN ISNO.\\nThe first symptoms of the boom were noticeable in the summer of 1N79. when return-\\ning confidence and 2:)rosperity in the country generally, the fine business done here by\\nmerchants and manufacturers, and the continued development of the springs, made every\\none good-natiu-ed and speculative. Money began to be loosed in men s pockets, and the\\nfirst indication of a general disposition to invest in new enterprises became evident.\\nThere has been an immense amount of talk from that time to this, and even now, after\\nmuch of the talk has crystallized into tangible and substantial results, there is about as\\nmuch as ever.\\nThe building ojjerations in Mount Clemens during the year 18S0 surjaassed. almost\\nbej-ond comparison, those of any year in her history. The building business is always\\nspasmodic. There was a big run of it a few years previous: then came a lull and again\\ncame great activity. Everybody who can wants to build. Nothing contributes more to\\nthe advantage of a place than building. A town is beautified and substantially enriched\\nby it. Money is set loose, labor employed and a new impulse given to trade in all direc-\\ntions. The following is a list of the principal buildings, with the estimated cost of each:\\nCourt House ifS.S.OOO\\nNew hotel 30.000\\nGerman church. iil)out 10,000\\nButler Block 4,000\\nM. E. Church 3,500\\nBath house 1,.500\\nHagen, residence 3,000\\nSherman House addition, residences, repairs, etc 14,000\\nTotal 190. 00(", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0531.jp2"}, "532": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTHE ERA OF ADVANCEMENT.\\nEarly iu 1^81. the fiill tide of prosperity retui ued to Mount Clemens. The outlook\\nwas never brighter. The extraordinary activity and growth which made 1880 memoraljle\\niu her annals will be fully equaled in the season which the cheerful weather of the\\nspring of 1881 fairly opened. The boom continued and was mai ked by the same solidity\\nthat characterized it from the start; it was a normal and necessary growth. The most\\nsubstantial token of prosperity in a place is the building operations. They are the sign\\nof increase in wealth and population. Every stick of timber and every stone and brick\\nformed and put in place are so mucli clear gain. They represent money paid into the\\nhands of laborers, mechanics and merchants, that before sought other channels. They\\ngive an impetus to trade and result in permanent benefit to the entire community. It is a\\nmatter for congratulation that the building ojierations in Mount Clemens this year will be\\nunprecedented by those of any yeai in her history, with the probable exception of ISSO,\\nwhen they footed up in the vicinity of $90,000.\\nThe principal building erected this year was the new jail, the cost of which was SIO,-\\n000. The Supervisors met in special session to take steps in the direction of its erection.\\nDifferent sites for the structure were discussed, among them William Moser s lot, on the\\nsoutheast corner of Front and Shelby streets, and the Phelps property on South Gratiot.\\nThese are but two of many sites that were in the market.\\nOn the corner of Front and Macomb streets, John W. Porter and Charles Ullrich\\nbuilt, although not iu conjunction, a large three-story block. Each building is 20x70.\\nstrong and handsome.\\nOn the lot on Macomb street, between Hemmeu s and John Roskopp s, covered by a\\nlow wooden structure, Anthony Dahm erected a tine two-story block.\\nA large force of men was engaged in moving off the old building adjacent to the\\nAvery House, where the new corner is now built up. This corner cost about 14,000, and\\nis in harmony with the remainder of the structure, after plans made by Mr. Gibbs, under\\nwhose direction the building was constructed.\\nA large number of new residences were under contract in Mount Clemens ami imme-\\ndiate vicinity. Hall Shook alone furnished lumber for the following;\\nCharles Wood, two houses on Grand Trunk avenvie; Oliver Roberts. Lewis Roberts\\nand Charles Moore s liouses on Moross avenue; William Marquardt s house on South Gra\\ntiot; MinardBarr s house, corner Front and Ferry streets; Jacob Hubbard s house on Clin-\\nton street; Chris Hempke s house and part on Grand Trunk avenue; John Barr^- s house\\njust west of city limits: Patrick Quinn s brick house on Gratiot road; Jacob W. Miller s\\non Canal road; Fred Gossmire s house on Macomb and Clinton town line; Fred Cline\\nsmith s house at Cadv; Lemuel Shattuck s house in Macomb.\\nThe same firm supply lirmber for a considerable number of smaller buildings in town,\\nand for houses at Eraser, Utica and other contiguous points.\\nLonsby Bros, sold material for a number of buildings; among them John Duby s\\nhouse on Front street, a large house on Shelby street, the name of whose builder could\\nnot be learned.\\nS. S. Gale has decided upon the erection of a large house in ])lace of his present\\nresidence on Clinton street.\\nThese were the building projects so far as definitely settled. Other and important\\nones are almost certainties. In addition to the new buildings, a large amount of repair-\\ning was done. Property owners all over the city made great improvements. The opera-\\ntions as above set foi-th foot up nearly $40,000. The total jirobably exceeded 150,000.\\nA [a-omiuent indication of the growth of Mount Clemens is the addition which Don\\nM. Dickenson is laying out across the river. It is being regularly platted in streets and", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0532.jp2"}, "533": {"fulltext": "JOSH JA B. DICKlfslSOI^I", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0533.jp2"}, "534": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0534.jp2"}, "535": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nblocks, aud the erection of half a dozen houses entered upon,\\ntime to be one of the finest residence parts of the city.\\nThe addition promises in\\nTHE TELEPHONE EXCHANGE.\\nThe Telephone Exchange is steadily spreading out in Mount Clemens and now em-\\nbraces the following jjlaces: Babcock s drug store, central office: bath-house; G. T. R. R.\\nDepot; Dr. M. C. Kelly, residence: Law cV Shook, gi-oceries; Avery Saekett. boots and\\nshoes; Donaldson Bros., manufactory; John Rosskopp, meat-market; James Brennan, livery:\\nWilliam Flummer, grist-mill; H. Lodewyck. livery; E. J. Olde Co., diy goods; Dr. V\\nD. Wilson; Calkins Dahm, druggists: Sherman House; Avery House; William Moser.\\nmeat-market; William Campbell, Belvidere. The Avery alone is in direct communica-\\ntion with Detroit. These additions to the ways of progi-ess date back only to 1881.\\nT.\\\\XATION.\\nAmong the principal taxpavers of the city, in 1882, the following may be named:\\nMrs. Catharine Crocker, 8338.0] Hem-v Connor, 1219.96; O. Chapaton, \u00c2\u00a7295: Mrs. Julia\\nDebate, 8111.26: R. P. Ekb-edge, 8139.05: Mrs. E. Moser, 8118.76; John W.Miller,\\n8128.75: Don M. Dickenson, .$112.50: Mrs. Mary Saekett, 8146.25; Eugene Shook, 8100.-\\n02: Mrs. Charlotte Trufant. 8252,50; Charles Ullrich, 8434.45; Paul Ullrich, $121.98;\\nS. S. Gale. 8120.21: Grover Bros., 8133.54; Mrs. Giles Hubbard, 8103.19; F. G. Ken-\\ndrick, 8152.12; Mount Clemens Savings Bank, 8133.54; John Roskopp, 8160.99; T. W.\\nSnook, 8105.01: B. Van Landeghem. 8176.66; Van Eps Co., $149.09; C. Winegar,\\n8104.43; John E. Brehler, $158.80; J. B. Dickinson estate. $102.97; Avery House. 8192.-\\n48; William Flummer, $103.40; P. P. Greiner, $114.03; E. J. Olde, i96.24; T. M.\\nCrocker. $111.58; James A Canfield. .$91.05.\\nFrom the following statement of finances of the city of Mount Clemens, from April\\n8, 1880, to and including April 7, 1881, an idea of what the people have to pay for city\\ngovernment may be gleaned:\\ntreasukek s .\\\\CC0rNT. DR.\\nBalance on hand. April 8. 1880 2.007 37\\nCash for b.inils sold 20,.5li0 00\\nLiquor Tax i f County Treasurer 2,222 Oil\\nPines from .Justice of the Peace 50 01)\\nLicenses and impouudins; 83 60\\nSidewalk tax 90 48\\nOrder issued not redeemed 10 00\\nCash for stove sold 6\\nCash from City Collector 9.-113 30\\nTotal P5,049 83\\ncit.\\nOrders drawn on several funds f 20..347 30\\nInterest on bonds paid _ 800 00\\nBalance to be accounted for 13,903 .53\\nTotal f 35.049 82\\nTHE CLINTON EIVEE.\\nThe volume of the commerce of Clinton River is vastly greater than many people\\nsuppose, and. with the river properly improved, it would steadily and largely increase\\nfrom year to year. As it is one of tlie chief contributors to the prosperity, growth and\\nbusiness importance of Mount Clemens, every effort to increase its usefulness should be\\nmade. To this end little is necessary but some eompai-atively slight and inexpensive im-\\nS V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0535.jp2"}, "536": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB C0U2STY.\\nprovements in the channel. The need of these has, each season, for the past decade,\\nbeen more and moi-e pressing. The north channel of Lake St. Clair,. sweeping in, strikes\\nat right angles the channel extending out from the month of Clinton River, and since\\nthis was dredged some years ago. the lake current has unintermittingly been piling sand\\ninto it. Tlie channel has now a depth of little over five feet, and, unless improved, the\\nday is not far distant when the river will be isractically closed to the entrance of all ves\\nsels but those of the lightest draft. Two barges, the Monitor and Louis Gilbert, were\\nsold recently for the simple reason that they could not conveniently enter the river.\\nThe river boats best known since the time of the Harriet, of Mount Clemens, were\\nthe steamers Ida, Florence, Mayflower, Ida Burton. Monitor. Rouge. Mackinaw and\\nNoyles; steam vachts Euua and Marietta; scows Matilda. Snowball, Hero. Garibaldi,\\nEnreight, Forster, Home, Aunt Ruth and Curlew.\\nTlie boats now on the river, together with others on the stocks, for the lake and river\\ntrade, swell this list considerably.\\nThe shipments from this port form a considerable item. Last yeai thousands of bar-\\nrels of headings, millions of staves and thousands of cords of wood were shipped hence.\\nThe recent appro])riation of $25.(X)( for the improvement of the river, the construction of\\na new draw-bridge at Moimt Clemens and the removal of the pontoon bridge all jioint to\\nthe fact that a determination exists to draw forth all the advantages which the ri^ er offers\\nto the city and to the county.\\nTHE DEATH OF FOUB CITIZENS.\\nThe last boundary of liuman affairs is death, or, as the beautiful language, which,\\nthrough some mystery, is allowed to lie almost dead, would have it. mors idfima linea\\nrernm est. April 27, 18S1, will be remembered in the history of Mount Clemens as a day\\nwhich witnessed the death of four of her citizens, each well known and deservedly popu-\\nlar. It appears from the Monitor s report of the calamity that George H. Snook, Dr. W.\\nD. Decker, Charles Wood and Morey Ajctell went forth on a fishing expedition. Proceed-\\ning to the mouth of the river, they borrowed a small boat fi om AVilliam Tucker, in which\\nthey ventm ed out on the waters of the lake. Al;)out 3:06 in the afternoon, they reached\\nStrawberry Island, thi-ee miles east of the mouth of the Clinton, where they purchased a\\nfew fish from the fishermen. Re-entering their dangerous craft, they pulled for the moiith\\nof the river. The ice was running fast, which alone rendered the trip a very hazardous\\nundertaking. To add to the misfortune, one of those terrific squalls, well known by the\\nlake fishermen, swept across the icy waters, capsized the little boat, engulfed fom- human\\nbeings, created a little world of sorrow among widows and children, among fathers,\\nmothers, brothers and sisters, a season of mourning and gloom in their coiinty and a thrill\\nof sympathy throughout the State.\\nSearch for the bodies of the missing men was at once instituted. On Thursday and\\nFriday, 28th and 29th of April, the eastern part of the lake was traversed, with the result\\nof finding a jug, partly filled with cider and identified as one taken by the missing men.\\nOn April, the tug Perkins resumed the tour of the lake, and, at 2 o clock, the explorers\\nsaw a boat in the distance, floating low upon the water. Proceeding toward this ominous\\ntell-tale of tragedy, it was soon found that in it was the dead body of Morey Axtell. The\\nbody lay athwart the seats in the water, which almost filled the boat, while his head hung\\nover the side. It was surmised that the little craft swamped, that the men one by (me.\\nlost hold of it and sank, Axtell alone remaining to fight death a V oiitrnnce. At length,\\novercome by cold and weakness, he fell forward into the water-logged boat and was\\ndrowned.\\nRobert Morris Axtell was born in the township of Macomb November 22, 1858. He\\nattended the Saunders Institute at Philfidolphia. in 1870 and 1871, thence to Morristown,\\nw", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0536.jp2"}, "537": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nN. Y., to learn the carpenter trade, whei e he remained until his return to Mount Clemens,\\nin 1870. He was the only son of E. S. and F. M. Astell. He was a cousin of his fellow-\\nexcui sionist. Postmaster Snook, and a bosom friend of Charles H. Wood, with whom he\\nlearned his trade at Morristown and with whom he perished in Lake St. Clair.\\nThe bodies of Wood, Snook and Decker were not found up to May 22, and all hope\\nof finding their remains was almost lost, when the waters themselves yielded up one after\\nanother.\\nFollowing the example of Rev. Clarence Eddy, in his memorial sermon, we will here\\ngive a brief biographical notice of the deceased citizens, Messrs. Decker and Snook.\\nCreorge H. Snook was born in the township of Clinton. April 20, 1852. He attended\\nSanders Institute at Philadelphia one year, when he returned to his native county and\\nentered upon the school-teacher s profession. Subsequently, he entered the Cornell Uni-\\nversity, at Ithaca. N. Y. as a student of engineering, but, owing to a disease of the eyes,\\nwas forced to give up study and return to the walks of ordinary life. Resolutions of con-\\ndolence and respect were passed by the Rescue Hook and Ladder Company, by the Trustees\\nof the Presbyterian Church, and, in reality, by every family in the county.\\nDr. Wilhelmus Decker was born at the village of Ontario, Wayne Co., N. Y., in July,\\n1846. His father removed, with his family, to Shelby, in this county, early in the year\\n1856, and with him the deceased lived until 1864. when he was appointed teacher in one\\nof the townshi[) schools. He studied medicine in the State University, winning a grad-\\nuate s certificate to the scientific course so early as 1873, and a diploma in 1878. From\\n1878 to 1878 he devoted his time to school teaching and study. In September. 1878, he\\nestablished an office at Mount Clemens and married December 28, 1875.\\nThe body of Mr. Snook was found June 2, 1881, and, a few hours later, on the same\\ndav, that of Charles H. Wood was discovered. The remains of Dr. Decker were found\\nMay 30, 1881.\\nINDUSTRIES.\\nThe first and perhaps the most important industry of the city is that which centers\\nround the old salt wells. Here, in the early days of the county, were the old glass works:\\nstill later, the oil refinery of Call Culver, and again, the salt factory. The first well was\\nbored by Charles Stefifens, now of Fraser, and a second boring efi ected by Parke, now re-\\nsiding at Saginaw. The well project was undertaken in 1862, with the hope of striking\\noil but the attempt proved unsuccessful in that direction, although the salt brine which it was\\nfound to yield would undoubtedly, if treated economically, reward the enterprise of the\\nowners.\\nA manufactmnng association was formed at Mount Clemens January 31, 1865, for\\nthe purpose of carrying on an J conducting the manufacture of salt under the style, The\\nMount Clemens Halt Company. The charter of the association pointed out the extension\\nof its term to March 1. 1890, and the amount of capital stock $10,000 in 400 shares of $25\\neach. The stockholders were Thomas W. Snook, Thomas L. Sackett, Joshua B. Dicken-\\nson, Charles Moser, Bruno Van Landingham, Orsin W. De Lano, twenty shares each;\\nManuel Hymen, P. H. Stuart, August Czizik, ten shares each; Henry Connor and Jacob\\nRoskopp, eight shares each Theodore Traver, Geo. B. Van Eps. seven shares; John E. Van E]is,\\nsix shares; Jas. B. Eldredge, S! S. Ciale. five shares each; Dennis McCafiferty, Anthony Beyne.\\nWilliam Jones, Andrew Greiner, Henry Taylor, Aug. Dahm, T. M. Crocker, Varnum Lufkin,\\nJoseph Hubbard, Joseph Knall, George Murdook, George Weitz, Benjamin Robinson, Chas.\\nWinegar, Charles Ulrieh, William Flummer, William Miller, Thomas Puicher, Auglot\\nTuscaney, Adam Godice, Anthony Dahm, F. Miller, Justus R. Crandall, Clement Borden,\\nJoseph Lusk. John Otto, Henry Fries, E. (J. Gallop. William Jenny, Judson S. Fan-ar.\\nSam Wood, four shares each; Mrs. James Williams, C. W. Robinson, three shares each;\\nT", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0537.jp2"}, "538": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MAOOMI? COUNTY.\\nJohn Egloff. E. B. Drake. Edgar Weeks. John Tucker. William J. Can field, James F.\\nBrennan. Edwin R. Beutley. Wesley Lewis, James A. Cantield, Harlehigh Carter. Darius\\nG. Williams, Catherine Stephens, William Hart, Elijah Robinson, Francis X. Pheuenf, G.\\nG. Albaut. Lewis Arnill, Richard Johnson. Thomas Oliver. Elisha West, T. Gilbert, M.\\nPeltier. A. Heuguenett. Jr.. Sam Donaldson, A. AVise, Julius Mandell. two shares each;\\nI. O. Ferris, S. White. H. C. White, F. Lufkin. W. C. Tanner. L. N. Phelps, one share\\neach.\\nThe manufactiu-e of salt was carried on for about five years, though at a disadvan-\\ntage. The large proportion of foreign minerals existing in the water, as well as the ques-\\ntion of fuel, presented serious obstacles to a successful competition with other mannfactiu\\ning points. The method pursued seems to have been very wasteful, as a large quantity of\\nsalt was thrown away with the mother liquor, here termed bitter water, for want of the\\nproper knowledge to aid in its recovery. The discovery of the medicinal properties of the\\nwater was brought about under the following circumstances:\\nA Frenchman living on East street foundered his horse so badly that he turned him\\nout. The horse took shelter from the sim under the north si le of the tank. Here his\\ndaily stamping soon resulted in the formation of a foot bath, as the water drippings from\\nthe tank filled the hole thus formeJ. The horse was soon cured, which proved the first\\ndiscovery of the medicinal properties of the water. At this time, Dorr Kellogg was man-\\nager and stockholder of the floiiring-mill on the river bank, corner of Market and Front\\nstreets. He was afflicted with salt rheum and skin eruptions. It occurred to him from\\nhis esperieuce with the effects of salt air and water on ocean voyages that the water would\\nbe beneficial in his case. He used the water, October. 1870. in a pail; afterward, in the\\nvat itself, and, obtaining much relief, finally Bad a bath-tub constructed on the grounds\\nand contimied the treatment until entirely cured. Mr. Kellogg is still living at Mount\\nClemens. Another gentleman, a Mr. Tremble, also a resident, obtained like results.\\nAbout two years afterward, a bath-house was erected, various citizens contributing money\\ntoward the enterprise in all about $l,f)()0 or .$1,800. Dr. H. Taylor Son commenced it\\nwith a few tubs.\\nThe bath-house passed through various hands, among whom were Messrs. Thui ber\\nCarl and North Johnson, continually gi owing in favor and importance. The present\\nowners of the well are Seth D. North, of Hancock, Mich., and Charles B. Johnson, of\\nBrooklyn, N. Y. The lessees are the Mount Clemens Mineral Spring Company, Limited,\\nwho leased the concern for a term of thirty years, fi-oui July 1, 1880. The managers are\\nMorris Richter. Charles Avery, James F. Avery and A\\\\ illiam L. Avery, with the chemist.\\nProf. Hem-y F. Meir.\\nThe experience gained in the use of the water during the past ten years has been\\nsufficient to indicate the precise classes of diseases to which it is adapted and to bring\\nthousands of invalids yearly to be cured. The well from which the water is obtained\\nhas a dejjth of 1,380 feet, with a capacity of 1,000 barrels per day, the water rising to a\\nlevel of fifteen feet below the surface. From the well the water is pumped into large\\ncovered wooden tanks, elevated seventeen feet above the ground, from which tanks it is\\nconveyed to the bath-house in pijjes laid on the ground. No precautions are needed to\\nprotect it in winter, as the water reejuires a lower temperatiu-e than is met with here to\\ncause freezing. Before describing its uses as a curative agent, it may be well to consider\\nits jihysieal and chemical properties and composition.\\nWhen issuing from the pump, a sample of the water appears slightly colored, which\\nis principally due to .sulphui et of iron in fine suspension or quasi solution. After a time,\\nthis subsides, leaving the water colorless. Its taste is brackish and bitter, with a liberal\\nfiavor of sulphm-etecl hydrogen. Its temperature averages about 59\u00c2\u00b0 F., being at present", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0538.jp2"}, "539": {"fulltext": "4\\nHI. 5T0RY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwriting, March 3, 1882, 56| F. It has a specific gravity of l.llG, which indicates\\nthe presence of about 10 per cent of mineral ingredients. When exposed at ordinary\\ntemperatures, the greater portion refuses to diy, only a small part crystallizing out.\\nIts boiling point is 216 F. A decided smell of sulphui eted hydrogen pervades the at-\\nmosphere in the vicinity of the well and tanks, which varies in intensity with the weather.\\nIt has also been noted that atmospheric conditions influence the amount of suspended mat-\\nter (black iron sulphide) contained in the water, to such an extent that observers claim\\nthe ability to foretell a storm by the appearance of the water. Tlie atmosphere in the\\nvicinity of the well does not appear to be deleterious to healthy persons, as the gas exists in\\na much dil^^ted condition, though sulphm-eted hydrogen, when inhaled in large quantities,\\nproduces fatal results. One such case occiu-red here diu ing the cleaning of the tanks.\\nTwo workmen had entered, and, neglecting proper ventilation, one was brought out a\\ncorpse and his companion almost inanimate. The composition of the water, as ascertained\\nby Prof. Duffield, is given in the geological chapter of the general history.\\nKeeeut investigations have also shown the presence of iodine (in combination) and\\ntraces of ammoniiun and potassium salts. An examination of the blackish sediment ob-\\ntained from the water showed it to consist of sulphiu ets of iron and copper, the latter in\\nsmall quantity. A new analysis is promised shortly, which may discover traces of still\\nother elements present. A contirmatiou of the presence of iodine is the fact that sensi-\\ntive jiatients are able, after a bath, to recognize the peculiar metallic taste jwoduced by\\niodides, showing that a definite number of the ingredients are absorbed. This water cor-\\nrodes most of the metals and blackens silver, copper and iron, forming on them a sulphu\\nreted siu faee. Silver coins and watches QU ried in the pockets of patients bathing in or\\ndrinking the water are discolored. The hair and nails ai e sensibly darkened after bathing\\nor washing in the water, while the skin and hair of patients retains for a time a slight but\\nperceptible smell of the water. A property of the water which deserves mention is that\\nit renders wood uninflammable. White lead jaaint is discolored by the atmosphere of the\\nwell and bath-rooms. At the latter place, where the atmosphere is saturated with steam,\\na disagreeable effect of the gases is experienced by the attendants, who are frequently\\nafflicted with soreness of the eyes. This effect is probably due, not so much from the\\nsitlphureted hydrogen as to a product of its oxidation (sulphui ous acid gas), which has\\nirritating j)roperties. In fact, the odor at the bath-rooms differs perceptibly fi om that at\\nthe well, and a practiced nose can readily detect the presence of the latter gas.\\nThe water has still other properties which render it valuable for special purposes,\\nsuch as a disinfectant. It exercises a most beneficial influence upon various diseases,\\neffecting a pei-manent ctu-e in many instances where all other known remedies failed.\\nThe bath-house is connected with the Avery House by a heated hallway, and is\\nequipped with all needed arrangements for the comfort of patients.\\nAt present, fifty-four tubs are in use, with the business increasing at such a rate that\\nfiu ther enlargements ai e contemplated. Recently, a company has been formed for the\\nmanufacture of medicinal products from the water, under the style of The Mount Clem-\\nens Sulpho-Mineral Salt Compan} Limited, which is already doing an extensive business.\\nThe members of the company are Henry F. Meier, Charles Avery, Lyman B. Avery and\\nLizzie A. Avery. Their manufactures consist of Sulpho-mineral soap for the treatment of\\nskin diseases; bath salts, for reproducing th*^ water for bathing purposes; an effervescing\\nwater, termed Sprudel water, and a catarrh cure, for the treatment of which affection the\\nwater has long been held in esteem.\\nHOTELS.\\nEarly in the winter of 1879-80, there came to this place from New York a retired\\nlegal gentleman bv the name of Judge Averv. He came here to take baths for rheuma-\\nrfv^\\nt", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0539.jp2"}, "540": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY\\ntism. and was immensely benefited. Necessarily, he was deeply impressed with the great\\nmedicinal (qualities of the water. He took a comprehensive view of the business, saw that\\nan almost unlimited development was possible here, and came to the conclusion that a big\\nhotel, beautiful grounds and a large bath-house would be paying things to invest in.\\nSenator North, from Hancock, and C!. B. -Johnson, from New York, members of the spring\\ncompany, came to attend the annual meeting a short time later, and the matter came up\\nbetween the parties. Negotiations were begun looking to the objects above named. Judge\\nAvery and his partners secured the whole block on East street, where the Mineral Springs\\nHotel now is, and the corresponding block on the river. This large lot of land was im-\\n[)roved and devoted wholly to bath-house and hotel piu poses.\\nThe hotel structure is of magnificent proportions, and without doubt by far the larg-\\nest of its kind in Michigan. It fronts on each side of the large block, three stories high,\\nwith a mansard roof, equivalent to a fourth story; length, 2.S6 feet; width, I2S feet.\\nThere are SS; rooms, and accommodations for fully 500 guests. A spacious double veranda\\nsurrounds the building. It is substantially and carefully built, and every care is taken\\nas to architectural beauty.\\nThe hotel was built in sections, and the tii st of these, containing 100 rooms, was\\nready for opening June 1, 1880. The south wing of the building was opened in Febru-\\nary, 1881.\\nThe late pro})rietor of the Avery House was Morris Richter. Seymour Smith, favorably\\nknown in connection with the hotel circles of the State, was manager. The hotel is tele-\\nphonically connected with Detroit. The Avery House passed into the control of Mr. P. B.\\nBradt April 1, 1882. For many years this gentleman was a well-lcnown landlord in Syra-\\ncuse, N. Y., having kept the Exchange, Globe and other hotels iu that vicinity. Although\\na Syraeusan, Mr. Bradt is well known at Detroit, where he lived for several years. He is\\na quiet, genial gentleman, a thorough hotel man, and the Avery House already begins to\\nfeel the effect of new management. Mr. Bradt has taken the precaution to surround him-\\nself with able assistants, and the management of the otfice is entirely in the hands of Mr.\\nJerome Haight, late of the Vanderbilt House, Syraciise. Mr Haight seems to have been\\nborn to his calling, and has the happj faculty of making guests understand that it is a\\npleasure to attend to their wants. He is, moreover, a thorough disciplinarian, a great\\nrequisite in the manager of a hu ge hotel like the Avery. The steward under the new\\nmanagement is Mr. H. R. Johnson, late proprietor of the Crawford House, in Windsor.\\nMr. Johnson has been a practical hotel man nearly a (juarter of a century.\\nCfnt.ral Park Ilotrl. This house was erected in 1879 by Louis Shoman, who leased\\nit to the present proprietor, August Rose iburg. in 1881. It is located on the old William\\nCantield lot, contains twenty-eight well-furnished rooms, together with the accommoda-\\ntion which two large residences adjacent, belonging to the hotel, can offer. The Central\\nis near the mineral springs and steamboat landing, is said to be a most comfortable\\nhouse, well conducted, and a favorite with all who have made a stay there. Mr. Rosen-\\nburw, the proprietor, was born in Germany, came to Detroit in 1870. visited Texas in\\n1878. and located at Mount Clemens in 1881.\\nClifton House. The Clifton House was erected in 1875 by John E. Brehler. who oc-\\ncupied it as a I esidence until 1878. Additions were made in that year, when it was con-\\nverted into a hotel by North Elliott. John E. Brehler operated the house from the\\nfall of 1S7U to May, 1880, when J. C. Elliott became lessee. In May, 1881, B. R.\\nJackson assumed control, and operated the hotel until the advent of the present proprie-\\ntor, J. J. Strong, March 1 1882. The house is centrally located, standing on ornamental\\nground, solid brick structure and one of the best managed hostelries in the State, The\\nproprietor, Mr. Strong, is a n;itive of Canton, 111. was a resident of Chicago for seven", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0540.jp2"}, "541": {"fulltext": "fc\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nyears and fully conversant with tho management of a first-class hotel. Under him the\\nClifton was re-opened, March 7, 1882.\\nSherman Houfte. This important hotel was erected in the summer of 18fi5 by Henry\\nConner, and opened to the public in August, 1866. The house is 100x54 feet, three-story\\nbrick structure, containing forty-three rooms, together with jjarlors, etc. is specially ar-\\nranged for the purposes o a first-class hotel, is well conducted and Mnquestionably the\\nonly important commercial house between Detroit and Romeo. Mr. Connor, the proprie-\\ntor, has been in the hotel business for the last thirty-five years; is an old resident of\\nMount Clemens and one of her most enterprising citizens.\\nShnckleton House. This hotel was built in the s .mmor of 18S1, one block east of\\nbath-house, by Thomas Shackleton. It is the only temperance hotel in the city, and\\ngives promise of being conducted on the temperance plan so long as its builder lives.\\nThe hotel is now operated by John W. Cleveland, proprietor.\\nRELIGIOUS HISTORY.\\nThe Catholic Church. -Reference has been hitherto made to the first Catholic mis-\\nsionaries who visited Michigan previous to 1776. The Ijidl of Pope Clement, dated Jan-\\nuary 21, 1776, suppressed the order of St. Ignatius of Loyola, and deprived Michigan of\\nthe services of its faithful, wise and intrepid members. Subsequently, the whole territory\\nwas placed in charge of one priest the Transigrant Pere RecoUet, who acted as a priest\\nof the Bishopric of Quebec, founded in 1660. The teachings of Christianity within the\\ndistrict now known as Macomb County may be said to be introduced liy this remarkable\\nand pious man in 1776. although many missionary priests visited the Hurons here pre-\\nviously. Father Recollet was a regular visitant to the county ip to 171*3. Revs. Marin,\\nLouis Lefranc and Pierre du Jaimay were known to the whites and Indians of the Upper\\nHni on in 1764; liut their stay in the district was of very short duration, as they left for\\nMackinaw in 1 71\\nIn 179U, Rev. Gabriel Richard, refen-ed to in one of the first chajiters of the county\\nhistory, came to the Territory, and among the first missions which he established was one\\nwithin the i)i esent limits of Macomb, at L Anse Creuse. A small wood chapel was erected\\nthere, five miles from Mount Clemens. There that venerable jiioneer was accustomed to\\nmeet his congregation. On one occasion, struck with the negligence and spiritual cold-\\nness of his people, he warned them to reform, or otherwise the very church in which they\\nworshiped would be swept away by the waters, and the very land on which it stood hid-\\nden from their sight. This prophecy of Michigan s old Congressional Delegate .vas lit-\\nerally fulfilled. After Pere Richard came the Rev. Vincent Baden, and, succeeding\\nhim, came lather Boheim. Some time about the period of the organization of the county,\\na chapel was built on the Clinton, three miles east of Mount Clemens, which was attended\\nregularly by Rev. Dejean. Subsequently, Chi-istian Clemens granted a lot to every re-\\nligious denomination for the purpose of erecting a church thereon, and thither the little\\nchurch of the Clinton was moved. At this time, there were al)out fifty Catholic families\\nin the neighborhood. Rev. Father Kenny, the first resident priest of this city, came in\\n1843. The Abbe Maret came in 1845. During his administration, the fi-ont part of the\\nehiu ch was built, and the old chapel converted into a pastoral resideuce. Revs. Lawi-ence\\nKilroyaud Father Kendekins attended the mission until 184 when Rev. H. Van Renther-\\nghem was appointed resident priest. He was a Belgian, ordained March 15, 1845. by\\nBishop Lefevre. He officiated one year at Mackinaw, after which he came to Mount\\nClemens and was pastor of the churches of L Anse Creuse, Utica, Erin, New Baltimore and\\nMount Clemens for some years. Under him an addition to the chiu-ch building was com-\\npleted and a small schoolhouse built. This priest died in November, 1869. Dm-ing the\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2|V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0541.jp2"}, "542": {"fulltext": "l^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nclosing years of Father Van Eentherghem s life, he was assisted by Rev. C. Maes, a\\nstudent of the American College at Louvain. The latter was appointed pastor in 1869,\\nand under him St. Mary s schoolhoiise was built, which is now iu charge of three sisters\\nof the Monroe Convent. Rev. C. Ryckaert, ordained at Cihent, Belgium, in 1S47, was ap-\\npointed pastor in 1871, vice Rev. Maes, removed to Monroe. Mich. Father Ryckaert\\nerected a pai ochial residence in 1875. Early in 1882, he entered upon the work of pre-\\npai-ing to build a new church at an estimated cost of $20,000. Among the principal con-\\ntril)utors to the building fund are Bruno Van Landegham, Oliver Chapaton, Antoine De\\nHate. John Roskopp, Andrew Greiner, Mrs. C. Letourneau, Michael Benbennock, Louis\\nCharbonneau, John Irwin, Patrick Quinn and Andrew Quiun. Rev. Father Ryckaert gives\\n14,000 on condition that the people subscribe the remaining $16.(t00. The plans for the\\nbuilding are not yet perfected, but. from what can be learned of them, the building will\\nbe Gothic with central tower and spire, flanking turrets, chapel and vestries. The\\narchitect in charge is Mr. Wood, of Detroit. It will be the finest edifice of its\\nsize and cost in the State, and will be the first architectural ornament of Mount Clemens.\\nThe plans, prepared by Scott Co., Detroit, show a beautiful structure of brick and\\nstone, highly ornamented, and built iu a most substantial fashion. The extreme measure-\\nments of the building are 60x158, affording a seating capacity for between 800 and 900\\npHople. The auditorium is fifty-six feet wide and ninety- six feet long fi-om vestibule to\\nsanctuary, sacristies, etc. The gallery is above the vestibule, which has dimensions of\\n8x56. Back of the main building is a chapel 16x44. A beautiful tower rises from the\\nfront center of the chm-ch to the lofty height of 184 feet. It is built of brick and stone\\nhalf its height, the remainder wood. The building will be heated by furnaces in the\\nbasement. It will be lighted with stained glass windows and the interior will be marked\\nby rich and elaborate adornment.\\nMethodist Episcopal Church. This church may be said to havt- been organized at\\nMount Cleniens in 1820, when Rev. John P. Kent preached to the Methodists in a house\\nat Frederick, two miles west of the present Methodist Episcopal Chm-ch building. Piatt\\nB. Morey came in 1822. but, dying within nine days after his arrival, his place was sup-\\nplited by Samuel Barker and Alfred Briinson. Since that time, the following-named gentle-\\nmen have served the Methodist Episcopal Church at Mount Clemens; Elias Pettit.\\nand B. O. Plymton, in 1823; Pettit and J, C. Hunter, in 1824; John A. Baugh-\\nman and Solomon Manier, 1825; John Jones, 1826; Jones and William Revnolds. 182/;\\nW. T. Snow, 1828; Arzo Brown. 1829: Brown and William Sprague, 1830. From 1830\\nto 1835, the pulpit was supplied by a number of visiting preachers. In 1836, AVilliam\\nHerr was Presiding Elder, and Hiram trearing, preacher; A. B. Elliott, in 1837; Richard\\nLawi-ence in 1838; Jonathan Hudson and D. McCrregor, 1839; Josiah Drakeman. 1840;\\nJ, Blanchai-d and George F. Hemingbay, 1841 Elijah PiJeher, William C. Comfort and\\nH. Hall. 1N42; John Gray and Joseph Jennings. 1843: F. B. Bangs and F. W. Warren,\\n1844; S. D. Price and H. N. Brown, 1845; Hudson and E. W. Borden, 1846; John Rus-\\nsell, 1847-48; Seth Reed, 1849; W. Worthington. 1850; D. C. Jacokes, 1851-52; H.\\nMorgan. 1853; E. House and J. C. Wortlev. 1854; Wortley and R. Ward, 1855; J. A.\\nBaughman. 1856; AdamMinnis, 1857-58; D.B. Tracev, 1859; A. Allen. 1810; Wm. Taylor,\\n1861 Wm. Havener, 1802-64 F. M. May, 1865-67 Isaac Crawford, 1868 B. S. Taylor. 1 869-\\n72; J. T. Haukinson, 1872-73; Charles Simpson, 1873-76; Calvin Gibbs, 1876-(7; B, S.\\nTaylor, 1877-79; I. F. Berry, 1879-80; J. M. Gordon, 1881-82. The number of com-\\nmunicants belonging to this church is 129. The true organization of the Methodist\\nEpiscopal Chiu ch society was perfected October 27, 1836, with J. F. Seaman. J. Tuex-\\nbuiy, J. E. Hall, D. T. Bishop and H.Pratt, first officers. A church Iniilding was erected\\nin 1841, which is to give way to the new house of worship now being built. The Sabbath\\ni\\n7f^", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0542.jp2"}, "543": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nschool in connection with the chiu cb is in a floiu ishing condition. The new Methodist\\nChurch will be one of the handsomest buildings in Monnt Clemens. It is to built after\\nplans fiu nished by ai chitects connected with the Church Extension Society, and will be\\ndistinguished by an unique design and great convenience of arrangement. The structure\\nwill face Shelby street, and will have dimensions as follows: Over all, 44x102; audi-\\ntorium, 44x80: vestibule, lSs24; height of ceiling, 28 feet: height of tower. UO feet. In-\\ngi-ess will be had from Fraser street, into an open porch, thence into the ve-stibule.\\nAbove the latter will be the gallery, to be so arranged that it can be shut off by window\\npaneling from the body of the church, ant. thus used, whenever desired, for a class-\\nroom, or for other circumscribed purposes. The building will have a double roof and\\nstained glass windows throughout. The auditorium will have a seating capacity of 400,\\nthe gallery, SO; the choir will occupy a raised platform back of the pulpit.\\nFirst Presbyterian Church. This church was formally organized May 4. 1885. un-\\nder Rev. M. Eastman. From that period up to 1841, services were held in the old log\\ncoiu t house or other church buildings. In 1841, a commodious building was erected\\nwhich served as a house of worship until 1844, when the chiu ch divided, and. the mi-\\nnority forming a congregational society, built the church in which the Presbyterians now\\nworship, corner of Walnut and New streets. Rev. A. S. Wells was then delegated as\\npastor. The pulpit was vacant for some months previous to the coming of Rev. Thomas\\nFoster, in 1845; he served as stated supply until 1849. Under Mr. Foster, the Con-\\ngregationalists and Presbyterians united and ageed to wor.ship together in the Congrega-\\ntional, now the Presbyterian, house, which agreement is still observed. Rev. George\\nNewcomb suceeeded Mi Foster, anl continued pastor until the coming of Rev. H. N.\\nBissell, in 1854. Mr. Bissell served the church here for a jieriod bordering on a quarter\\ncentury; is still a resident of the county and one of its most esteemed citizens. Rev. Mr.\\nEllis occupied the jiulpit dimng the last-named pastor s leave of absence, and, when Mi-.\\nBissell resigned, in 1878, was stated supply. Ellis was succeeded by Rev. Mr. Eddy,\\nnow of St. Clair. Since ilr. Eddy s time, a number of people have filled the pulpit of\\nthis chm ch, until the coming of the present pastor. Rev. Mr. Ireland, in September,\\n1881. Among the prominent members of the church since its establishment, the names\\nof W illiam Canfield. of Elders Sackett. Snook. Bush, Shear. Drake, G. B. Van Eps. Ram-\\nsay, Hubbard, of the Donaldson brothers. A. Rowley, E. Teats, Greorge Grovier, Theodore\\nTraver may be mentioned. T. W. Snook was Clerk from 1849 until a few years ago.\\nThe number of members belonging to this society approximates 100 and the congregation\\nabout 400.\\nThe Episcopal Church. The above religious body was first established at Mount\\nClemens in the year 1849. The first services were held in the com t house, under the\\nministrations of the Rev. Edwai d McGee, who held the charge until 1851. From this\\ntime, the interest in the chiu ch was allowed to slumber, but not to die. for, in 1867, we\\nfind it again revived. The Rev. Milton Ward, from Detroit, held irregular services. He\\nwas succeeded by Rev. Mr. Hyde, who was the lu st resident minister since Mr. McGee.\\nThe present commodious and beautiful sacred edifice was erected and dedicated to the\\nservice of God in the year 1870. Since its erection, the following reverend gentlemen\\nhave officiated: Woodward. Martin. Skinner, and Rev. Mr. Rafter, the latter being the\\njaresent incumbent. The present officers are: Wardens. Daniel C. Tilden. Dr. W. C.\\nTenuant; estrymen. Thomas M. Crocker. George R. Law and John Trufant. The con-\\ngi egation now numbers 210. and is. in every respect, nourishing and prosperous.\\nThe Baptist Church. The Baptist (Jhm ch was organized on the 17th of October,\\n1834, with a total enrollment of thirteen members. The pastor who was first regularly\\nordained to officiate was the Rev. John Booth. The services for several years were held in\\n_ i C\\ns r- 1^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0543.jp2"}, "544": {"fulltext": "the old court house. As the demands of the congregation increased rapidly, it was deemed\\nexpedient to build a church, and the present edifice was erected in the year 1843. The\\nfu-st pastor who ministered in the new edifice was the Rev. Mr. Fult(in. The present offi-\\ncers ai e: Rev. William A. Kingsbmy, Pastor; George Wood and Harry Briggs, Deacons;\\nThomas Gilbert, Clerk. There is a jirosperous Sabbath school connecttjd with the church,\\nwith Samuel Wood, Superintendent. The total enrollment of scholars at the end of the\\nyear 1874 was fifty. The congregation of the church now numbers about 300 souls. The\\nfirst baptism in the Baptist Church was that of Martha Haines, now known as the Widow\\nStewai t, residing near Prattsbm-g, N. Y. This lady donated 1500 toward the erection of\\na parsonage as a memorial of her attachment to the First Bajitist Church of Mt. Clemens.\\n(ierman Evangelical Church. \u00e2\u0080\u0094In the year 1S47. the members of about twenty Ger-\\nman families, then settled at Mount Clemens and neighborhood, assembled at Mount\\nClemens to hear the services of the German Evangelical Chui ch in their own language.\\nThe first religious meetings were held in the court house, or in the homes of the mem-\\nbers, until May 4, LSB i, when they pm chased the old training barracks, formerly used by\\nthe Methodist Episcoi)al Church society, erected in 1835 for school purposes. The base\\nment was fitted up as a residence for the pastor. This building was used as a house of\\nworship until the dedication of the present German Church building, December 19, 1880.\\nIn 1870, a parsonage was built. The Sabbath school was inaugurated in 1870, and the\\nsame year the denominational school was opened.\\nAmong the traveling and permanent pastors of the church since 1847 were Rev. L.\\nHartmann, 1847; Winkler, 1849; Krause, 1850; Grebner, 1858-55; Krauschert, 1856; Her-\\nman, 1859. Rev. H. Hoff, the first permanent pastor, came in 1859; Rev. J. Keis, 18fi2-\\n64, and Rev. Hermann Gundert, April 24. 1864. who is the present pastor. The salary-\\npaid Rev. H. Hoif was $250 per annum; that now paid is $600, together with house, fuel\\nand fees. In January, 1880, the subject of building a new church was discussed. Be-\\nfore the close of the year, a modern Gothic structm-e, 42x82, with tower eighty-two feet\\nhigh, was completed at a cost of $9,000. The building was designed by Henry Shefierly.\\nof Mount Clemens, and liuilt from his plans by Minard Barr. The officers of the society\\nin 1880 were: Charles Ulrich, President; William Flummer. Secretary; Jacob Wolf, Treas-\\nurer; J. Bannow, William Conlon, G. Baenke, Ernest Okie, A. Schrade. William Mar-\\nquardt and Paul Ullrich. Trustees. The membership is about 114. The Sabbath school\\nnumbers 120.\\nSCHOOLS OF MT. CLEMENS.\\nBV I KdF. .SKARS.\\nThis history is most resjjectfully dedicated to the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2interviewed. who, with long\\nsuffering patience, have been plied with the numerous questions of the historian; and\\nwho have racked their brains to call up the information which has made the history\\npossible: Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Tucker, Richard Butler, J. B Eldredge. J. S. Farrar, Mrs. Cuf-\\nver and Miss Tucker, Maj. William Jenney, W. J. Daley, Mr. and Mrs. William Campbell,\\nDr. and Mrs. Taylor, Robert Shook, G. W. Robertson, H, W. Babcock, Mr. and Mi-s. N.\\nL. Miller, William Rutter, Jlrs. Dr. Babcock, Mrs. P. M. Pratt. Mr. and Mi-s. T. W.\\nSnook, George and Ed Grovler, Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Cady, J. W. Shook, Rev. and Mrs.\\nThomas Forster, Miss Zemira Hall, W. S. and A. T. Donaldson, Mr. and Mrs. James\\nWilliams, Miss Dr. ^\\\\j-nold. Mi-s. J. C. High. Mrs. Potter, Mi-s. Harriet Eastman. Fred G.\\nKondrick. Mr. and Mrs. James Cantiehl, Miss Ella Lee, Mrs. Hubbard. S. S. Gale. Edgar\\nWeeks, G. B. Van Eps, A. L. Cantield, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Van Eps. Mrs. E. C. Gallup.\\nMr. and Mrs. O. Chapaton. Charles Williams. William Longstafl Mr. and Mrs. T. M.\\nCrocker, Mrs. James Snook. Rev. Father Ryckaert, Rev. H. Gundert.\\n!r", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0544.jp2"}, "545": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nBefore entering upon the history proper of the Mount Clemens schools, it may be\\nwell to state for the understanding of the reader some of the difficulties under which the\\nhistorian has labored. When I was asked to prepare the history, I readily acceded to\\nthe request, .supposing that all the information I should desire might be obtained by sim-\\nply consulting the early records. My surprise was consequently great, when, upon in-\\nvestigation, I discovered that not a single line of the records of the school districts of\\nMount Clemens could be found. It is a question in my mind whether the officers of those\\nearly schools left any permanent records. Had they done so, it is probable that the rec-\\nords would have been turned over to the present imion school district at its organization.\\nAs a consequence, not a word of record can be found antedating the organization of the\\nunion school in 1857. Upon learning of this state of things, the historian had about decided\\nto write only a brief history of the present schools, but, after further consideration, he con-\\ncluded to tap the memories of old residents of the place and ascertain what facts could\\nbe produced. The dedication of this history will show to whom I am indebted for the\\nfacts and figures here contained.\\nThe plan of procedure has been substantially as follows: After learning all the opin-\\nions, probable and improbable, of those interviewed, if any discrepancies have been ob-\\nserved. I have weighed the testimony according to my best judgment and woven what\\nseemed to be the facts into the present nan-ative. No doubt there are those who will dis-\\npute some of the data, and possibly the occuri-ence of some of the events; but if I have\\nsucceeded in getting things doubtful within reasonable bounds of aecui acy and time of\\nevents, I shall feel that my labors have not been wholly improfitable. I have endeavored\\nto make this history an impartial story of all the past and present, ]iublic, private and\\ndenominational schools of this town. Should any who may read these pages be able to\\npositively assert that any fact has been erroneously stated, or should any event of interest\\nnot herein stated be recalled by any person, I shall be only too glad to make such altera-\\ntions or additions as can be positively affirmed.\\nSchoolhouses were a luxury unknovni in the school history of Mount Clemens pre-\\nvious to about 1838 or 1835. All schools previous to that time were taught in private\\nbuildings fitted up temporarily for school piu poses, and also in the old log court house--\\nthe first court house and jail, combined, that Macomb County ever called her own. It\\nwas built upon the site of the present Macomb County Court House, the fu-st tloor being\\nused for jail purposes and the second floor served the triple purpose of court room, school\\nroom and church. It was built in 1819 and biu^ned in 1839, being set on fii e by one of\\nthe prisoners.\\nThe lu-st school taught in Mount Clemens was held in a building then standing on\\nthe west side of Front street, about opposite M. Peltier s blacksmith-shop. The teacher,\\nalso singing-master, was Mr. Prescott. He taught in 1818 or 1819. The school was of\\nshort dm-ation, he having only three pupils, one of them being Mrs. Gallup, now living\\non North Gratiot street, and, as a conseqiience, he became disgusted with the prospective\\nliterary attainments of Mount Clemens and left in high dudgeon. In 18 2( Samuel B.\\nBeach a poet afterward a lawyer, taught in the log com t house. He had a large school\\nfor that early day and was a- successful teacher.\\nSoon after this time probably about 1821 a girl by the name of McCall taught in\\nthe court house. James C. Edgerly was teacher in 1S22 or 1823 in the coiu t house.\\nRichard Butler, whose name appears in the history of the schools in the Tucker\\nSettlement, came to this part of the counti-y in 1823. He first taught in a building\\nstanding near where Mrs. Czizek s house now is, on Court street. In 1824, the spring of\\nthe year, he taught in a school building that was called the old potter^ The building\\nstood on the present Opera House site. The first floor of the building was used for mak-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0545.jp2"}, "546": {"fulltext": "X.\\nJ\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\niiig a coarse kind of earthenware: the second floor was used for school purposes. Mr.\\nButler afterward taught in the Detroit schools a number of years. Linus Moore taught\\na school in 18 24. in the court house. In 182(j. the Cooley Building, a hewed-log affair,\\nwas standing on Front street. Just south of Mr. Heine s present stores. For a number of\\nyears, one of the rooms in that building was used for a school room. In 1820, a Mr.\\nHamlin taught there. After completing his school, he returned to Warsaw, N. Y.\\nMr. Warner, quite an old gentleman at that time, taught in the coiu t house in 1827 or\\n1828. He had a large school \u00e2\u0080\u0094twenty-five or thirty pupils. He taiight several quai ters\\nof twelve weeks each. He was a man especially fond of mushrooms, and his gathering\\nand taking them to his boai ding places of course he boarded around to be cooked,\\nused to be a caiise of much wonderment among the children. In the summer season, for\\n(pite a number of years, probably about 1828 to 1835, Miss Lucy Mather taught school\\nin the building on Front street, opposite M. Peltier s blacksmith shop, where Mr, Pres-\\ncott, the first Mt. Clemens teacher, taught. James Crouk taught in the court house about\\n1830. Mr. Richardson probably taught in the same place about 1830 or 1831.\\nFrom 1830 to 1840, the interest of the jieople in schools seemed to materially in-\\ncrease. It was during this period that the foundation of the present school system was\\nlaid, and the schools became, to a certain extent, public. Those who peruse this history\\ncannot but observe the multiplicity of places where, at some time or another, schools have\\nbeen taught. By careful computation, it has been ascertained that no less than fifty\\nplaces are mentioned in this history, wherein schools have been held in this town. Cer-\\ntainly we ought to be a most intellectual people, using this fact as a basis for our judg-\\nment. The old log court house was still the most prominent of school buildings. The\\nnames of the teachers, so far as could be ascertained, who taught there from 1830 to 1840,\\nare the following: Miss Parker, in about 1833; Mrs. Joel Tucker, in 1833 and 1834;\\nDaniel Daniels, in 1834 and 1835; Dr. Campbell, in 1835; Miss Zemira Hall, in the\\nsummers of 1830 and 1838; Dr. Philo Tillson, in the winters of 1837 and 1838, and 1838\\nand 18311; Miss Dana, in 1839. Miss Parker was a most genteel lady, and afterward\\nmarried a Presbyterian clergyman by the name of A\\\\ hite. Joel Tucker removed here from\\nPennsylvania. He was a merchant, doing business on Front street, near the site of Mil-\\nler s Brewery, Mrs. Joel Tucker teaching in the meantime. Mr. Tucker and Mr. Daniels\\nafterward removed to Algonac, where they engaged in the lumber and milling business.\\nThe historian is especially indebted to Miss Zemira Hall and Mrs. Thomas Foster for\\naccurate information of the schools of this period. Philo Tillson is at present a resident\\nof Romeo. Miss Zemira Hall had about thirty-five puj)ils belonging to her school. The\\ntuition charged was $2 per pupil for a quarter of twelve weeks. In 1832, Richardson\\ntaught in the Cooley building, on Front street. This school was a spring and summer\\nterm. Mi-s. John Gilbert had a private school in the Gilbert House, on New street, in\\n1835 and 1830, the building in which she taught standing on the site of the present Pin-\\ngree property. Her school numbered about twenty or twenty-five pupils. She probably\\ntaught in that place for a number of years from 1835 to 1838 or 1839. Miss Adeline\\nRutter, now Mi-s. John James, of Detroit, taught a school in 1837 or 1838. in a liuilding\\nthen standing on Market street, near the site of Heine s tailor-shop.\\nThe Brown building, on the present site of Jacob Shock s store and John Roskojip s\\nmeat market, was another school location. A room in this building on the second floor\\nwas fitted up for school and church pui poses. Norton tau_^ht a small select school in this\\nplace in 1837 and 1838. He was a good teacher, and afterward probably kept a school\\non Fi-ont street, about the site of M. Peltier s blacksmith shop. In the winter of 1840-41,\\nMr. Cilley had a school in the Brown building.\\nFrom about 1838 to 1840 or 1841, there was a school in Marcellus, South Gratiot\\n^l\u00c2\u00ae r~ i V\\nT", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0546.jp2"}, "547": {"fulltext": "street, presided over by Oran Freeman and Robert Thompson. Others taught in the same\\nplace, but the names of the teachers are not to be ascertained. Miss Delia Smith, after-\\nward Mrs. Dr. Babeock, taught a school in the Fiero House, on Front street, in the\\nwinter of 1889-40. She taught a twelve weeks term, enrolling forty-six pupils, averag-\\ning about forty per day. From 1840 to 1843, Miss Mary Bacon taught school in the Gil-\\nbert House, on New street, and in the Lee House, on Market street.\\nFrom the records in the office of Register of Deeds, I learn that Christian Clemens,\\nin November, 1834, deeded to School District No. 7 the southwest corner lot at the junc-\\ntion of New and Cheriy streets. Mr. Pelton s i-esidence now occupies the site. The con-\\nsideration was $1, with the proviso that the same be used forever for school purposes.\\nThe officers of the district at that time (1834) were John Stockton. Joel Tucker and\\nR. O. Cooley. I shall call this district Old No. 7, in contradistinction to New No. 7, which\\nhad an existence afterward. The district jirobably included all the village of Mt. Clem-\\nens, with considerable surrounding country. The schoolhouse was probably built in\\n1834. It was a good school building for those early days. The seats were placed around\\nthe walls, with desks in front, and another row of seats in front of the desks. As to the\\ntime this district had an existence, there seems to be some controversy. Mrs. Dr. Bab-\\ncock thinks the schoolhouse burned in 1841, and seems positive that she is right, as she\\nwas teaching there at that time. Others assert quite as positively that the house was not\\nburned until 1843. The preponderance of testimony seems to favor the latter opinion.\\nThe district was probably organized in 1834, and merged into New No. 7 in 1843 or 1844.\\nThe date of the grant to the district hj Mr. Clemens would seem to fix the first date.\\nSome think that the house was not originally intended for school purposes, but had to be\\nmade over, so to sjseak. for school uses. From what I regard as the most positive author-\\nity, I incline to the belief that the house was built for a school. The fu-st schools laught\\nhere were of the same character as those previously taught in other places in town. The\\nnew school law was not enacted until 1837 or 1838, after which time the school became,\\nto a certain extent, public. The first teacher was Thomas Richardson. The wages of\\nteachers were raised by subscription, all who were interested in maintaining the school\\npaying what they thought they were able for the support of the schools.\\nThe names of the other teachers so far as learned, of old No. 7. were Ii a Stout, 1834\\nor 1835; Miss Prudence Cook, now Mrs. Pratt, in 1835; Mi-s. John Gilbert, in 1835; Cary\\nWorden, probably in 1835 and 1836 (one term only); Mr. William Campbell, in the win-\\nter of 1836 37. About 1837 or 1838, a gentleman who was nicknamed Our Oruament.\\nThe true name could not be remembered. He was lather unpopular, but had been spoken\\nof at a prayer meeting as an ornament to the town hence the cognomen. Jefi eries in\\n1838 or 1839; Jones in the fall of 1839 or winter of 1840; Miss Delia Smith (Mrs. Dr.\\nBabeock), in 1841; Miss Elizabeth Sacket (Mrs. William Campbell), in 1841 or 1842, for a\\nyear or more; Miss Sarah Murray, now Mrs. McDonald, of Detroit, in 1843. It is\\nclaimed that when Miss Mm-ray was teaching, the schoolhouse burned, being set on tire by\\nashes left in a barrel in the vestibule. Of these teachers named, Mr. and Mrs. Campbell,\\nMrs. Pratt and Mrs. Dr. Babeock live on Shelby street. Mr. Campbell s school numbered\\nfrom 90 to 120.\\nCary Worden was excessively fond of strong drink. It is said that he would so far\\nforget his dignity as a teacher as to get gloriously drunk, then go to the schoolhouse and\\nthere sleep oft his deljauch sometimes in school hom s. When he awoke from his di-unk-\\nen stupor, almost invai iably he would beat the fkst pupil he saw for some imaginary\\nofi ense. The pupils at one time by preconcerted action, gave him a good sound drulibing\\nin payment of old scores.\\nAt the time the new school law went in force, there was much opposition to it because\\ni V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0547.jp2"}, "548": {"fulltext": "dA\\nit was surmised that expenses of maintaining schools would be increased. Under the new\\nlaw. Mr. James Williams was elected Moderator. He did much to assure the people that\\nthe cost would not be increased, while the gain in superior school facilities would be\\nliU gely augmented.\\nEven at what may appear a rather late date (1836 to 1840), the Indians were very\\nplentiful in this part of the State. They used to assemble in quite large numbers, build\\ntheir camp-fu-es and execute their war dances on the site of the present Methodist Church.\\nApropos to this subject, an interesting event occurred while William Campbell was\\nteaching in No. 7. The boys and girls used to have separate recesses. The boys at their\\nrecess time were in the habit of going to an old barn situated in the woods, about opposite\\nthe present residence of A. T. Donaldson, on North Branch street, to play. One day\\nwhile there, William Rutter and Floyd Allen, two school-boys, came unexpected u])on the\\ndead Ijody of an Indian covered by hay and straw. Of course, they did uot remain long\\nto investigate, but had a sudden call elsewhere. The whole town soon knew of the cir-\\ncumstances of the finding, and, upon investigation, it was ascertained that the body was\\none that had been decently interred only a short time before. The Indians were very\\nwroth and suspected that Dr. Campbell and Dr. Henry Taylor were instrumental in resur-\\nrecting the body for purposes of dissection. The suspicion growing, the Indians began\\nto mutter threatenings until they became so loud that Dr. Campbell sought safety in a\\nforeign locality and Dr. Taylor kept himself secreted for a time until the excitement had\\nabated.\\nOther versions are given to this Indian story. One is to the effect that the doctors\\nnamed did emj^loy a man to provide them a cadaver for dissection. The wi-ong body was\\nobtained and secreted in the barn. The Indian chief was called from Salt Kiver who\\npacified his people, and those who were regarded by the Indians as the sinners. ])urchased\\ntheir pardon with a gallon of fire-water.\\n^Ir. Jeffreys was a severe disciplinarian. He used to offer jtiayer twice a day. at\\nopening and closing of school. During one of the prayers, the hat of one of the pupils,\\nGranville Chappell by name, blew out of the window. Granville, not wishing to lose\\nhis hat, followed through the window. Mr. Jefl erys sent the guilty youth after some\\nswitches, which were emjsloyed in teaching Granville proper decoriun diu ing prayers.\\nMrs. Babcock received as tuition of pupils piu-suing the common English branches,\\ngi-ammar, arithmetic, geography, etc., $2 per quarter of twelve we^ks. For primary pu-\\npils, $1.50 per quarter was charged. Mrs. Babcock states that while she was teaching,\\nin 1841. the house burned, and she completed the term in a house then standing near the\\npresent old jail. The house has since burned. Thus endeth the history of old School\\nDistrict, No. 7.\\nNote. Previous to thu building of Mount. Clemens cliuiciirs. clninli services were held in some\\nof the numerous .sehool-roonis of the town. The Presbyteriiiii- \\\\v.ii^lii|,((l in the log court house. The\\nMethodists worshiped in the schoolhouse of old No. 7. The Haiitisis worshiped in an old log building\\nsituated about on the present site of E. J. Okie s store. The Episcopalians afterward used the log\\ncourt house, and the Presbj terians went to the Brown building.\\nI shall treat of the history of the schools from 1840 to 1857 as a unit, because diu-ing\\nthis period several new schools were organized, and afterward (1857) they were all merged\\ninto the union school.\\nThe order of discussion will be; 1. Private Schools 2, the .Academy 3. the\\nDistrict Schools.\\nPRIV.iTE SCHOOLS 1840 TO 1857.\\nFrom ISHil to about 1841, Mrs. John Dudley, wife of the then officiating Presby-\\nterian clergyman, taught a young ladies school, first, in Lawyer O Flynn s office, situated", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0548.jp2"}, "549": {"fulltext": "ix:\\n:tbout on the present site of Biewers brewery; second, in a building standing nearly op-\\nposite the Sherman House, and third, in the Goldby House, new standing in the rear o(\\nthe Robinson block. She was assisted by Rev. Mr. Dudley, and it is said they taught a\\nmost excellent school.\\nIn 184 1 and 184 2, Miss Frances Lewis (Mrs. Norton L. Miller) and Miss Hall (Mi-s.\\nThomas Forster) together taught a private school in the Lewis House, only recently torn\\ndovm to make way for the new Macomb County jail. Just previous to this (1840) Miss\\nHall (Mrs. Forster) had been teaching in the Cady District just north of Mount Clemens.\\nIn the winter of 1841-42, Miss Zemira Hall (Mrs. Forster s sister, taught a term in\\nthe Dryer Settlement, in the township of Lenox. The schoolhouse. which was a poor old\\nlog affair, burned during the term. It must have been about 1840 or 1842 when Simon\\nS. Hall taught probably in the Brown building.\\nMiss Delia Grosvenor (afterward Mrs. Goodman and now Mrs. Magee. wife of Rev\\nMr. Magee, an Episcopal clergyman, of Detroit), for a number of years, from 1840 to 1845\\nor 1846, taught in various places in town in the Goldby Hoiase, in the Lewis House, in\\nthe Lee House, in James Williams shop (about on the site of Mr. Bentley s jewelry-store),\\nin a building about on the site of Mr. T. W. Snook s store, and finally, as Mrs. Goodman,\\nshe taught in the academy. Her school was chiefly for young ladies. She was regarded\\nas a teacher of a high order.\\nMiss Eliza Hillis (afterward Mrs. William Jenney), in 1842 to 1844 or 1845, taught\\na private school in her own house just back of Father Ryckaert s residence on Pine street,\\nand also in the Lee House. Miss Ada Traver (Mi-s. J. E. Van E])s) taught a private\\nschool in the Lee House about 1842 or 184:1 Miss Harriet Allen, in 1842 or 1843, taught\\na private school on East street, in the house now occujued by Charles King. In 1842 or\\n1843, Miss Dana taught a school in the house now owned and occupied by Mr. Patton on\\nPine street. In 1847. Miss Hannah Brovsoi taught a private school on Fraser street.\\nMiss Annette Ward taught a private school in 1847. In the spring of 1850, Miss Gregory\\ntaught a private school in the Fenton House on Shelby street. The front room on the\\nfirst floor was used as the school-room.\\nEither late in the 40 s or early in the 50 s, Miss Sarah Murray (now Mrs. McDonald)\\ntaught a private school in a yellow house now standing on the site of Van Eps Co. s\\nstore. Slie also taught in a house on Shelby street near the i)resent residence of Mrs.\\nAxtell. About this time Miss Margaret Cook taught a private school on Macomb street.\\nMiss Clara Fulton, in about 1849 or 1850. taught a private school in the building which\\nstood on the site now occupied by A. Jacobi. The school was held on the second floor.\\nAt a time not far from this. Miss Vaughan, who had previouslj taught in the academy,\\ntaught a private school in the Mershon House, one door north of Mr. DeHate s residence.\\nNorth Gratiot street. In about 1850 or 1851, Miss Mary Power (afterward Mrs. Henry\\nWales, recently deceased), taught in the upper story of Brehler s wagon-shop, on North\\nGratiot street.\\nIn about 1840, Miss Mary Fiero taught a private school in the old tannery, formerly\\nstanding on the site of Snook Robinson s stave-mill. She also taught, about the same\\ntime, another school in a yellow house formerly standing on the present Avery House site.\\nThe last of the private Schools, previous to 1857, of which I have any record, was\\ntaught by Miss Dr. Arnold, now of Detroit. Let me introduce to the reader Miss Arnold\\nand permit her to speak for herself. Copy of letter received from Miss Ai-nold:\\nDetroit, Mrcn., September 9, 1881.\\nProf. 8e.\\\\r.s Sir During the spring of 18.57, the union school system of Moimt Clemens was\\nadopted, and the three districts made one. The plan met witli much opposition and it was thought\\nbest to experiment a few months on tlie workings of the system using tlie old buildings before levying\\ntax for new buildings? During the three j ears previous to this I had been teaching a large academic\\n^IV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0549.jp2"}, "550": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COrXTY.\\nschool. The first year in the old academy building, the building being in a rather dilapidated con-\\ndition, I rented and fitleil up a private building which stood directly in front of the Presbyterian\\nCliurch. and continued ti-.irhin^ there until the spring of 1857. I then reluctantly yielded to the im-\\nporliinities of thesclini.l hoiinl to help start them off under the new organization. I taught in the\\nbuilding near Mr. Eldn ili;i iisidence in the rear of the Methodist Church. My brother, S. O. Arnold,\\ntaught in I hi- lower district and a Mr. Coppernoll in the middle district, where Mr. Bingham had for a\\nnumber of years taught. The older scholars of the town were almost universally my pupils in private\\nsi-hddl, hi-iice it was thought best by the board to allow those who desired from tlie other districts Xv at-\\ntend my schiiol. The result was. I bail on my list over 150 pupils with one assistant. My salary was fol\\nper mimth which was thought to lie i:ener,,ii-, A-2S being the highest price paid before this. I taught\\nsi.x raoMths except two weeks, being nleaMil lur that time, with salaiy paid, to enable me to start for\\nPhiladelphia in time to enter my first course of medical lectures.\\nA part of the questions asked I cannot answer, but you should have no difficulty in securing the\\ndesired information and probabi} will not.\\nYours respectfullj-, Licv M. Ahxold.\\nii West Columbia Street.\\nThe three districts of which Miss Arnold speaks in the above letter will be discussed\\nimmediately after the history of the academy has been disposed of.\\nHISTORY OF THE ACADEMY.\\nIf your historian were to attempt to write the history of the barbarons tribes of Cen-\\ntral Africa, he conldlind but little less authentic record than he has been able to ascertain\\nconcerning the academy of Mt. Clemens. No one seems to know when its career began,\\nwho began it, how it was commencecl. how it was afterward managed, nor what was the\\norder in rotation of the instructors. The idea has Ijeeome pretty well fixed in the histor-\\nian s brain, that if evolittion is a natural process, it was most eminently true of the\\nacademy, viz., it began itself, ritn itself, and, when it rnu itself ottt, died a jVeaceful and\\nnatiTral death.\\nThe academy building was the original Methodist Chiu ch of Mt. Clemens, lately\\nowned iiy the German Church and recently torn down to make room for their present\\nbrick edifice. The bttilding was constructed with a basement, which, for some time, was\\nused for school purposes. It seems as far back as early in the 40 s, the school was called\\nan academy, but that title did not properly ajiply to it until later, probably about 1850.\\nFrom an old school record, lately handed me by E. right Hall, and belonging to Old Dis-\\ntrict Xo. I yet to be discussed I find that in 18-t3 to 1846. District No. 1 rented the\\nbasement of the building in which to hold its district school. The building vvas rented of\\nRobert Thompson, btit was then owned by the Methodists. I incline to the opinion that\\nMr. Thomi)son had a lease to the building for a term of years, and that he had previously\\n(1840\u00e2\u0080\u009442) taught a school there. From records in the county register s office, it appears\\nthat the Methodists did not dispose of the property ttntil 1850. It was then purchased by\\na corporation that styled itself the Clinton Instittite. The Trustees of said institute were\\nA. C. Smith. William Jenney, John I. Traver, John Stephens, H. H. Cady and David\\nShook. Probably previous to this time (1850), the schools taught in the building were\\nprivate schools, except when District No. 1 rented it.\\nIt had, however, in some way, aei|uired the name of academy, and that had seemed\\nto be its designating term, but it was not until after 1850 that so worthy a title belonged\\nto it. From 1850 to about 1853, the academy saw its palmiest days. After the Clinton\\nInstitute purchased the building, up to 1862 or 1863, when the Germans bought it, the\\nproperty passed through several hands, being owned at one time, about 1856 or 1856, by\\nWilliam Jenney.\\nEarly in the 40 s (1840-42). it appears that one Eobert Bob Thompson com-\\nmenced teaching in the academy building. Probably his was nothing more than an ordinary\\nprivate school, he renting the building of the Methodists and teaching on his own responsi-\\nbility. He evidently allowed considerable latitirde to the wild career of his pujails, and", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0550.jp2"}, "551": {"fulltext": "-i\\nHIGH SCHOOL BL LDIWG^ V1T, CLI", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0551.jp2"}, "552": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0552.jp2"}, "553": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nhence, when Mr. Chase aftei^ward taught, he being a sharp disciplinai ian. the boys really\\nand titily agi-eed that that was no Bob Thompson s school, but an academy.\\nAfter Prof. Chase, some of the teachers were the following: S. B. Axtell, about 1844\\nor 1845; Carlos Bacon, about 1845 or 1846; Mrs. Goodman, about 1846 or 1847; Justin\\nFuller, about 1847 or 1848: Luther Taylor, about 1848 or 1849; Nathaniel Culver, about\\n1849 or 1850; the Newcombs, in 1851 to 1853; Miss Dr. Arnold, in 1854-55. Mi-. Chase\\nhad for assistant teachers Mrs. Forster, Miss Mary Bacon and Miss Vaughn. Mr. Chase\\nwas considered a good organizer and manager. He was so jealous of his reputation as a\\ndisciplinarian than rather to pei-mit his honor in that regard to suffer, he would soundly\\nflog a boy foiu- times in a half day, one of Mt Clemens prominent professional men being\\na party to the transaction. S. B. Axtell has since been prominently connected with the\\npolitical afi airs of New Mexico and Utah TeiTilories, at one time being their Governor.\\nMrs. Goodman has been previously mentioned in connection with the private schools of\\nthis period. Carlos Bacon besides teaching in the academy also conducted one of the dis-\\ntrict schools aftei-ward. Justin Fulton is now a prominent Baptist clergyman of Boston\\n(formerly of New York). Nathaniel Culver was especially esteemed by the fair sex. He\\nwas an exemplary young man, not radically strict upon discipline, but probably better\\nliked on that account. Miss Catharine Traver (now Mrs. T. M. Crocker) and Miss Lucy\\nPost were his assistants.\\nWhen the Newcombs conducted the academy, it saw its most prosperous days.\\nGeorge and Hemy Newcomb, assisted by their father. Rev. SL Newcomb, the j^astor of\\nthe Presbyterian Church, were the principal teachers. They were ably seconded by Miss\\nCatharine Traver and Miss Julia Mui dock as assistants, and Miss Tregent as music-\\nteacher. At this time, the school was quite well supplied with school ajjparatus and it\\npartook of the nature of the seminary. The higher branches were taught, including\\nancient and modern languages. During this period, William Jenuey, father of William\\nJenney, present Secretary of State, was an earnest supporter of the institution and did\\nmuch to advance its interests. Henry Newcomb is now a lawyer of Ludington and George\\nNewcomb a lawyer at East Saginaw.\\nMiss Arnold afterward used the academy building for a year, but her school was a\\nprivate one. The Newcombs were the last teachers of the academy. Its light went out in\\ndarkness, and, as it apparently came into existence without an eftbrt, at least so far as\\nknown, so it came to its decease without a struggle.\\nIt will be remembered that the schoolhouse in old No. 7 was burned in 1843. Dating\\nfrom about this time (1843 to 1845). there were three districts organized, including ^bout\\nthe present territory of Mt. Clemens with some adjacent country. These districts were\\nnumbered 1, 7 and 12. The schoolhouse in No. 1 was built in 1846 at an expense of\\n\u00c2\u00a730(\\\\ Previous to this, however, District. No. 1 had maintained a school for several\\nyears in the basement of the academy building, renting it of Robert Thompson as already\\nrelated.\\nNo. 1 Schoolhouse was located on North Gratiot street, about on the site of A. E.\\nVan Eps residence.\\nNo. 7 Schoolhouse was located on Fraser street, south of the Methodist Chui ch.\\nNo. 12 Schoolhouse was located on Jones street near the jjresent location of the Avery\\nHouse barns. The school buildings were thought to be pretty good for those times.\\nNos. 1 and 7 were built of wood; No. 12 of brick. The old school building of No. 1 is\\nnow used by Charles Lamb for a work-shoj). It stands just back of his residence on the\\nsame lot. The No. 7 Schoolhouse is preserved in form and appearance without, and with-\\nin it has been fitted up for dwelling pui poses and is used for a residence. It stands on\\nits old site. The schoolhouse of No. 12 was larger and more modern than the others. It", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0553.jp2"}, "554": {"fulltext": "was destroyed by lire iu 1848 or 1849. but was rebuilt and used continuously for school\\npm poses until 1857, since which time it has been torn down.\\nFrom Mt. Clemens present business and professional men much has been learned of\\nthe secret history of these early primary schools. They recall with a shudder the stripes\\nreceived; but, with a keen relish, they relate the circumstances attending the tlu owing of\\na teacher out of doors or compelling his unconditional surrender.\\nUpon one of these occasions, in No. 7, as the boys story goes, after the master had\\nbeen obliged to run for his life, he retm-ned to the schoolhouse where the boys were hold-\\ning the fort, and. putting his head in at the door, shouted: O, boys, yoix ll catch it for\\nthis! But what cared the boys. School was out for the day, and, theyprobably reasoned,\\ntake no thought for the morrow.\\nConsiderable jealousy existed among the boys of the various districts and not unfre-\\nquently pre-arranged p)itched battles were fought on the commons near the school build-\\nings. In that barbarous fashion they tested their comparative prowess. Woul it\\nnot have been more civilized had they fought with their brains, rather than with their\\nhstsy It was customary among the teachers to visit each other at their school-rooms and\\ncompare notes. In this manner, they enlarged their own ideas, while at the same time\\nthey rendered assistance to each other. The means for acquiring the theory and art of\\nteaching were very meager, but of the teachers who were employed in these districts not a\\nfew used every aid in their power to perfect themselves for their work marks of true\\nteachers. Om- modern school-teachers should emulate their example.\\nThe record fiu nished by Wright Hall has rendered me valuable assistance in wi iting\\nthe history of this district. It was organized in December, 1843, Dv. Henry Taylor serv-\\ning the notice on the taxable inhabitants of the district, as required by law. The school\\nmeeting, and afterward, the school, was held in the basement of the academy building.\\nThe first officers were: William Cantield, Moderator; John S. Park, Assessor, and W. H.\\nWarner, Director.\\nNo fui-ther record of the district is found until 1845, when another notice was served\\non the taxable inhabitants and a meeting held in May of that year. A three months\\nschool was ordered for the summer. This district usually maintained nine or ten months\\nschool dm ing the year, but, in 1848, a vote was jsassed to have a twelve months school for\\nthe ensuing year. This vote, however, was afterward rescinded. It was quite generally\\nthe custom of this district to levy a tax of .Ijil per scholar tipon the taxable property of the\\ndistrict for defraying the ex2iense of teachers wages. The schoolhouse was ordered\\nIniilt in 1847, on a lot situated on the tuxnpike, 195 feet north of E. J. Tucker s lot.\\nThe officers of the district were the following: William Canheld, Moderator, 1843,\\n1844, 1845-47. 1853-1854. Director, 185(\u00c2\u00bb-1851, 1856-1857; W. H. Warner, Di-\\nrector, 1843-44, Moderator, 1848-49; John S. Park, Assessor, 1843-44, lS45-4(); C. Van\\nDusen, Director, 1845-46; W. S. Robinson, Director, 1846-48; Moderator, 1851-53; Ed-\\nward J. Tucker, Assessor, 1846-48; Dr. Henry Taylor, Moderator. 1847-4S. Director, 1848-\\n49; John I. Traver, Assessor, 1848-49. Director, 1849-50, 1851-53; Hiram Bentley, Assessor\\nin 1849 by appointment; D. W. Phillips, Moderator, 1849-50; Richard Stapleton, Assess-\\nor, 1849-50: E. C. (lallup. Moderator, 1850-51; Assessor, 1854-55; John Tucker, Assess-\\nor, 1850-51; George C. Fletcher, Director, 1851-52; Dennis McCaffrey, Assessor, 1851-\\n53; Hosea Pratt, Director, 1853-54; E. L. Raymond, Assessor, 1853-55, 1857; E.Wright\\nHall, Director. 1855-56; J. C. McDonald, Moderator, 1855-56; T. J. Rutter, Moderator,\\n1856-57.\\nThe teachers of No. 1, so far as learned, were the following; Pettibone, 1843 or\\n1844; Millard about 1844 or 1845; Norman Geddes, 1845\u00e2\u0080\u009446, now a prominent lawyer\\nof Adi-ian; Mervin Tabor, 1846-47, resigned in March. 1847; Joseph Corwin, about", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0554.jp2"}, "555": {"fulltext": "1847 to 1849, two years; Miss Josephine Cook, about 1849-51: H. A. Lathi-op, 1851; Miss\\nDelia Canfield, about 1850; Miss Catharine Traver (Mrs. Crocker). 1851, snininer terra;\\nMiss Kearney (Mrs. O. Chapaton), 185 2, summer term: A. L. Bingham, 1852 to 1855:\\nMrs. Mclntyre, Miss Woodi-uff, Miss Liva Beach, Miss Sarah Ormsby, Miss Scranton. as-\\nsistants to Bingham; Dunlap, 1853 or 1854; Mr. D. Abbey, about 1853; Miss Julia Dick-\\ninson, about 1854; Miss Fiero. 1854-55; Gilbert Bates, 1855-56, one year: G, W. Cop-\\npernoll, 1856-57, one year. I have been informed that Norman Geddes taught in the\\nacademy. The school of No. 1 which he taught, was held in the basement of that build-\\ning, hence I incline to the ojiinion that he did not conduct the so-called academy. Corbin\\nwas a first-class teacher. He did not believe in committing rules to memory, but believed\\nthat if a jnipil could solve a certain class of problems, he could state a rule for the pro\\ncess, a fallacy which can easily be proved. The house was seated in an old-fashioned\\nway seats running around the walls of the room. It is stated that Corbin was obliged to\\nenlarge the house, because of the number of pupils, which he did by building a rough ad-\\ndition to one side of the building. My informant rather thinks that Corbin did this at\\nhis own expense, but is uot sure that he was not aided by the district. Miss Josephine\\nCook, now Mrs. Ashley, is at present a very successful teacher in the pul)lic schools of\\nCohimbus. Ohio. Dunlap was a red-headed man with a crippled baud. During his\\nreign, the boys did about as they pleased. Upon rhetorical exercise days, after each ex-\\nercise the pupils would cla]i their hands and stamp their feet. It is proper to say that\\neach pupil was greeted with a round of applause. At one time, to add eclat to the scene,\\none of the boys threw a large bottle, which he had brought for the purpose, upon the\\nstove, breaking it into a thousand pieces, thus increasing the bedlam. Dunlap sent\\nout Hosea Pi-att for some switches one day, and Hosea brought in some rose-bush stalks\\ncovered with prickles. It is not related whether he used them on Hosea as he deserved.\\nIt is stated on good authority that the pupils respected Miss Traver very highly, and that\\nher influence over them, not only in the school-room, but upon the street, vras most salu-\\ntaiy. Miss Kate Kearney was the true type of a teacher, enthusiastic and earnest. She\\nalso taught in No. 7. A. L. Bingham is sjjoken of by all as a very excellent teacher.\\nHe has followed the profession of teaching almost continuously until the present, and, in\\nfact, is now teaching at Freeland, near Saginaw. He lives at East Saginaw and has held\\noffices of trust. I wrote to Bingham for information in regard to his work here as a\\nteacher. He did not seem inclined to comply with the retjuest, and stated as one of his\\nreasons as follows: It is far from being a pleasant subject. When poor and in debt,\\nneeding all my hard-earned wages, a Mt. Clemens school board refused to pay me a lial-\\nance of $100 honestly due me. when I left to labor with a peoj)le who did and who still do\\npay their teachers.\\nWhile he was teaching at Mt. Clemens, there was to be a teachers institute at TJtica.\\nBingham endeavored to prevail upon other teachers in town to make up a wagon-load and\\ngo over with him. All to no avail. Those teachers, like some of those at the present,\\nprobably thought they knew it all, and had nothing fm ther to acquire. Bingham went\\nalone and on foot. The others, who had refused to go. hearing of what he had done, re-\\npented, got up their load and siTrprised him by their attendance upon the institute. Bing-\\nham used to make Washington s birthday a sort of gala day. when his school pre]iared\\nexercises to speak and read, and addresses were delivered to the |iupils by prominent men\\nin town. It was a sort of W ashingtou s Memorial Day.\\nIn March, 1855, a teachers institute was held at Mt. Clemen^, which was largely\\nattended and very successful.\\nGilbei t Bates had formerly taught in No. 12, and was well liked. He was an e.wel-\\nlent mathematician. He afterward became a surveA or and gave much attention to civil\\nrrv*", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0555.jp2"}, "556": {"fulltext": "556\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nengineering. He was elected County Surveyor in one of the northern counties of this\\nState, a few years since. He died a few years ago. Coppernoll was a good man and a\\ngood teacher.\\nSince writing the above, I have received a letter from Mr. Geddes, who is Probate\\nJudge of Lenawee County. I give it in full;\\nProbate Court Lenawee County, Nok-Man Geddes, Judge.\\nAdkian, Mich.. November 1, 1881. S\\nMr. Wesi.ky Seahs, Mount Clemens Dear Sir Oii my return home after an absence of two\\nweeks. I fear yours t ilie l.Sth ult. I hasten to reply, but find that I shall not be able to ijve you any\\ninformation that will lie of service. I went to Mount Clemens in 184::i and remained until \\\\^^l was a\\nstudent in the office of Richard Butler and also of the late Ciles ilubbard. While there. I taught three\\nterms in what I think was called the north district, oci-upyin;;- the basement of a Methodist Church,\\nwhich then stood in a northwesterly direction from the cniiri Inmse, not far from the residence of the\\nlate Dr. Henry Tajior and Dr. Babcock, both of whom \\\\m iv ikiMmus. I do not know who preceded or\\nsucceeded me. It is my recollection that there were two districts, in one of which the late Andrew S.\\nRobertson taught at the same time. I know that Mr. Robertsim and I roomed together while we were\\nteaching in the village. We were friends and kept up a correspondence for several years. I have\\nknown many able men in my time, but have never known or associated with any man intimately, for\\nwhom 1 had such admiration as for Andrew S. Robertson. His knowledge of En.glish literature was\\nvery extensive his taste and appreciation of the beautiful, of the higliest order. He was a generous,\\nwarm-hearted friend, and I shall always remember iT.y association with him and the time spent in\\n[ount Clemens as one of the most delightful memories. In the school taught by me, only the English\\nbranches were taught. I think Mr. Roiicrtson had a L.itin la^s. luu it was very small. We each re-\\nceived $18 permon h and board among the patrons if we chose to avail ourselves of it. Think I\\naveraged some thirty pupils; that Gen. Canfleld, Dr. Babcock and Dr. Taylor were ofticcf^ of the dis-\\ntrict. I cannot ri. C the exact time in which I taught, but think it was in 1845 or 1846. Their wi- no\\nacademy at Mount Clemens while I was there, at least I have no recollections of theic U iu-^ -iicli.\\nAmong my pupils now living I only recall young Dr. Taylor. A Mr. Axtell was teaching ciijin l.ciore\\nor after I tau.i,dit, but I am not ciiinin whether in the village or not. I regret that I ctuiiiot gi\\\\i you\\nanything of interest, liut the tm t is that neither Robertson nor I taught school save a^ ,i means to\\nsomething else, and were alway- i;lad when the quarter ended and we could draw our large salaries.\\nHoping you may be more successful in other quarters, I am\\nVery truly yours. Noumax Geddes.\\nThe sehoolhouse of District No. 7 was located on Fraser street, south of the Method-\\nist Church. The building still stands on the same site and is used for a dwelling-hotise.\\nTeachers of No. 7 Andrew S. Robertson, 1845 or IS-tH, assisted by Miss Amorette\\nChilds; Rev. Mr. Hudson, about 184(5: Thomas Patton, about 1846 or 1847; Carlos Ba-\\ncon, about 1848 to 1850, assisted by Jeannette Lufkin and Josephine Cook: Mr. Pettibone,\\nabout 1848 to 1850, assisted by Miss Helen Dunham; A. L. Bingham, 1850-53. assisted by\\nMiss Cynthia Cole and Misa Leonard; Charles Dennison, 1853, in the fall of the year,\\nuntil the fall of 1854, assisted by Miss Catharine Kearney (Jlrs. O. Chapatou) and Miss\\nMary Dixon; Edward Bentley, about 1854 or 1855; Robert Campbell, about 1855 or 1856.\\nThe district was organized about 1845. Some of its officers were: Moore Stephens,\\nat one time Moderator; William Longstaif, at one time Director; William Roy. at one\\ntime Assessor; John Dixon, at one time Assessor; Silas Dixon and A. C, Smith.\\nA. S. Robertson, if he ivas not the first teacher in No. 7, w;is certainly one of the\\ntirst. He afterward was one of Mt. Clemens prominent professional and business men.\\nalso State Senator, and, for a long time, was connected with the union scliool as an officer.\\nHe was a thorough teacher and well liked. Hudson was pastor of the Methodist Church\\nat the time he taught. Thomas Patton was admitted to the bar in Mt. Clemens. He\\nafterward returned to New York State, where he soon after died of consumption. Carlos\\nBacon, also a teacher at one time in the academy, was not, strictly speaking, a success in\\ndisciplining. His failure in this respect resulted in sending some of the \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2unrulies to\\nthe Romeo Academy, then a branch of the State University. It is not reported that the\\nsaid unrulies ever succeeded, or even attempted, to Hog the Principal of that institu-\\ntion. Miss Lufkin is now JVIrs. Benjamin, of Romeo. Miss Josephine Cook has been", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0556.jp2"}, "557": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nmentioned in connection with the schools in No. 1. Ezra Pettibone taught in No. 7 a\\nyear or more, 1849 50. A. L. Bingham was the same thorongh-going teacher in No. 7 as\\nin No. 1. Miss Leonard, since Mrs. J. Brigg, of Chesterfield, died in 1880. Miss Cyn-\\nthia Cole is now Mrs. Melville Pashal, of Bay City, Mich. Charles Dennison is now a\\nprominent lawyer of Bay City, and qiiite a politician withal. He commenced teaching in\\nthe fall of 1853. and continued the school till about Thanksgiving. 1854. He then left,\\nand his assistant. Miss Kearney, assumed control, with Miss Mary Dixon as her assistant.\\nThe board earnestly re piested Miss Kearney to teach a year, but she prefen-ed to teach at\\nBed Run, where she had formerly lived, and where her services were also in great\\ndemand. She conducted a school at Bed Run in the winter of 1854-55. When Miss\\nKearney was assistant teacher, her wages were $3 per week; when Principal of the\\nschool, they were raised to \u00c2\u00a75 per week. Her board-bill had to be paid out of these\\nwages. Board cost in those days from $1.25 to $1.50 per week. Wages were low,\\nboard low and clothing cheap. Miss Kearney was a most enthusiastic teacher. She\\nhas now in her possession some of the contracts and certificates upon which she used\\nto teach. Edward Bentley recently died at Armada. Robert Campbell is now a farmer\\nnear Utiea. No. 7 was merged into the Union School District in 1857.\\nThe schoo house of No. 12 was situated near the present site of the Avery House\\nbarns. It was a brick building and was built in 1845. This was the largest district of\\nthe town, the eni ollment of pupils usually reaching the respectable number or 90 to 100.\\nNo. 12 was organized as a district in 1843, schoolhouse built in 1845, biu-ned in 1848 or\\n1849 and immediately rebuilt with improvements, making it by far the best schoolhouse\\nthen in Mt. Clemens.\\nTeachers of No. 12- Miss Zemira Hall, in the winter of 1843-44; Miss Eliza Hall\\n(Mrs. Thomas Forster), in the winter of 1844-45; Miss Josephine Cook, one year, 1845-\\n46; Miss Marv MiuTav, about 1846 or 1847; Miss May Fiero, about 1847, one term only;\\nMiss Jane Dodge, about 1847 or 1848; Mr. Gibbs, about 1847 or 1848; Mr. Corbin,\\nabout 1847 or 1848; Miss Rich, about 1848 or 1849; Mr. Sibley, about 1848 or 1849;\\nMl-. Flowers, about 1849 or 1850; Mr. Mason Cole, about 1850 or 1851: Mr. Perrin Craw-\\nford, about 1850 or 1851; Mr. Samuel Estabrook, about 1851 or 1852; Mr. Levi Craw-\\nford, about 1851 or 1852; Mr. Gilbert Bates. 1852-55; Mr. John Barry, 1855-56: Mr.\\nAsahel Crawford, about 1855 or 1856;- Mr. Arnold, 1856-57.\\nMiss Zemira Hall and Miss Eliza Hall taught in No. 12 before the schoolhouse was\\nbuilt: Miss Zemira Hall in the Brown building and Miss Eliza Hall in what was for-\\nmerly known as the Roskopp House, now remodeled and forming the i-ear of the Cen-\\ntral Park House. Miss Josephine Cook was the first teacher in the schoolhouse. After\\nMr. Ciibbs completed his school, he was acting fi-eight agent on the steamboat dock. He\\nafterward went East. During Miss Rich s school, the house took fire from ashes in a\\nbarrel standing in the vestibule of the building. The janitor at the time was James Ma-\\ngany, who cared for the building and took his pay in ashes from the school fires. The\\nhistorian is unable to say whether he was allowed to claim the ashes of the building.\\nMiss Rich finished her school in what was called the pot-room at the glass factory, lo-\\ncated on the site of the Mt. Clemens Mineral Spring. The room was fitted up for tem-\\nporary use only. The walls of the old school building were not seriously injured, and\\nwere largely used in the new house. The school in this district was larger than usual\\nabout this time, because of the increase in the number of families, due to the munerous\\nemployes of the glass works. Ctjrbin has already been mentioned in connection with the\\nschool of No. 1. He is now an Episcopal clergyman. Mr. Sibley was obliged to give up\\nhis school fi-om failing eyesight. Flowers was somewhat of a musician. He used to lead\\nthe singing with the violin. At the close of the term, his school had a picnic. They pa-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0557.jp2"}, "558": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nrailed the streets, brought up at the schoolhouse, spoke pieces, sang, picnicked on the\\nschool lawn, and had a grand time in general. Flowers is laconically described by one of\\nMt. Clemens merchants as business. Mr. Cole lives in the northern part of Macomb\\nCouutv, and is somewhat of a politician. He had some trouble with a b(j} named John\\nO Neil. Said John was so effectually scai ed by the declaration that there s power in\\nthat right ai m he (John) fled from the schoolhouse in terror.\\nPerrin Crawford was the first of three brothers who taught in No. 12. He read law\\nat the same time in the (jffice of Eldredge Hubbard. He taught one or two years, and\\ndied soon after at Mt. Clemens. Just previous to teaching in Mt. Clemens, Estabrook\\ngraduated from the State University, having been assisted in acquiring his education by\\nhis brother. He was not averse to using the birch, as some of Mt. Clemens business\\nmen well recollect. Levi Crawford was Crawford No. 2. An event occurred while he\\nwas teaching which few, if any, of his pupils ever forgot. One afternoon at rece.ss, some\\nred pepper was thrown upon the hot stove. The ascending fumes caused irritation to the\\nlungs and produced violent coughing. Crawford asked each pupil if he did it. All\\nsaid No, sir, of eoiu se. He accused some of falsifying, said he knew it was one of three\\nboys. The circumstance necessitated the close of school for the afternoon. In the light\\nof later events, it appears that three boys wore the guilty jsarties. Darius Conner fur-\\nnished the money to buy the pepper, George Wyles (now book-keeper for Viger, the De-\\ntroit coal dealer) bought the pepper, and William Walker put it on the stove.\\nWilliam Walker was a soldier in the rebel army. He lost a leg in a battle, from the\\neffects of which he died. These three Crawford probably had in mind when he said he\\nknew who did it. Bates was one of the best of teachers. He also taught in No. 1.\\nJohn Bany could wield the birch with evident relish. Some of his pupils can feel,\\nin imagination, the sting of the rod even now. His punishment of Nelson Edwards and\\nRichard Conner caused considerable excitement and nearly a law-suit. Barry, while\\nteaching, was a clerk in the County Register s office, doing his writing in the evening.\\nHe is now a lawyer in London, Ont. Asahel Crawford was Crawford No. 3. Ai-nold was\\nthe last teacher in No. 12 (1857). He after wai-d went out West and since died; some say\\nhe committed suicide.\\nSome of the officers of No. 12 were: James Snook, Cornelius Swartout. John Conner,\\nIsaac Grovier and C. Generous. The latter was a good officer, but could not write.\\nPRIVATE SCHOOLS.\\nThere have been but few private schools for this period, and these chiefly for children.\\nMiss Emily Allen (Mrs. William Tucker, now deceased) taught a private school in the old\\nacademy building about 18G0. In about 1861 or 1862, Miss Alice Traver (now Mrs. Har-\\nrington, of Detroit) taught a private school in a building standing about on the present site of\\nthe Cliftim House. Miss Scott taught a school for children on South Gratiot street, in a\\nbuilding then standing on the present location of Kimmeritz s cigar manufactory, in about\\n1863, 1864 and 1865. Mrs. Campbell, in about 1868, taught a private school for children\\nin the engine-house, a short summer term. Miss Cobb taught in the engine-house in\\n1869. A ])rivate school was taught in Mrs. Eastman s house, commencing 1868 and con-\\ntinuing for some time. Children under ten years of age were admitted. Mrs. E. M. As-\\ntell, at one time a teacher in the Union School, taught a private school at her own home\\non Shelby street, fi-om about 1872 to 1875. It was a school for children. In 1877, Miss\\nKate Skinner taught a school for children in Arbeiter Hall, South Gratiot street. En-\\nrolled about twenty pupils. Term continued eighteen or twenty weeks. Tuition, 25\\ncents per week. Miss Kittie Shepard, now Mrs. Simms, also taught a private school in\\nArbeiter Hall in the summer of 1880. In the summer of 1881, Miss Jennie Phelps taught\\nV I i r-", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0558.jp2"}, "559": {"fulltext": "4^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\na private school for children in Arbeiter Hall. Enrollment, nineteen. School continued\\nfor a few weeks only. Tuition, 13 per quarter.\\nEnd of history of jsrivate schools for 1857 to 1881.\\nDENOMINATIONAL SCHOOLS.\\nFrom Rev. H. Gundert I learn the following facts concerning the German School: It\\nwas established in 1860. It does not in the least conflict with the work of the public\\nschools, as the common branches are not taught there. The aim of the school is to teach\\nthe German language and to give religious instruction. All exercises are conducted in\\nGerman. The school is maintained only during the months from November to Ajsril.\\nAll who desire can attend. Frequently American children attend to learn the German\\nlangiaage. Instruction is given in church history also. The enrollment usually reaches\\nabout forty-five or fifty. The school-room is located in the rear end of the church build-\\ning.\\nI am indebted to Rev. Father Ryckaert for the following facts: St. Mary s Catholic\\nSchool is a parochial school, established in 1870 and annually enrolling about 170 pupils.\\nThe instructors are three Sisters of Mary, from Monroe, Mich. They receive $500 per\\nyear, besides a fiu uished house, wood and lights. Instruction is given in all the elemen-\\ntary branches, and church doctrine is thoroughly taught. After completing their work ia\\nthis school, many of the pupils enter the public school, being usually classified in the\\nsixth grade, sometimes in the fifth and sometimes in the seventh, depending, of course,\\nupon their attainments. So far as your historiau is aware, no jealousy exists between the\\npublic and the Catholic schools. The work of the one scarcely clashes with the work of\\nthe other.\\nI have received the following letter, which will throw some additional light upon the\\nhistory of the academy. I give it in full:\\nMacomb, November 2.3, 1881.\\nProf. Se.\\\\rs. Mount Cle.mens Sir I have l)een very much interested in reading your com-\\nmuniralioiis to the Monitor containing all that can be ascertained, of a reliable nature, of the history\\nof education in Mount Clemens during the prehistoric era. In the chapter on the Academy I observe\\nyou speak with uncc-rtainty about the time that the school was under the control of the Hon. S. B. Axtell.\\nAs I was an assistant during a part of the time of his Mccupaiii y of tin- school-room, I can speak\\nwith certainty in regard to the date of his teaching. He niii.cl t\\\\i r r.iMin c.f Bob Thompson, who\\nhad leased tlie first story of the building for a term of viar- lud liiii~li d it off for school purposes,\\nand, I believe, taught a term of school in it himself. Aly lirotlier rominmred his school in the latter\\npart of August or beginning of September, 1844. I was his assistant during the winter ,f iS44-4,i. I can-\\nnot say when he discoutiniTed the school, as I went to New Jersey early in tlie spriiin and did not return\\nimtil .autumn, when he was in other business. At this distant day, I have a distinct recollection of only\\na few of the pupils. Among them were William and Edgar Weeks, Henry and .Seymour Taylor and\\n.1. B. Eldredge. There were some Canfleld bo\\\\ s in the school, but I do not remember their names.\\nThe Taylor brothers u.sed to recite their Latin grammar to me. Miss Hillis taught a select school a\\nshort distance from the academy at the same time, and she was teaching as i-eccntly as 1,S4T.\\nIn your list of teachers in No. 13, you omitted the name ,of Miss Kinliiic Willi.iins, of Akron,\\nOhio, a sister of the wife of Gov. S. B. Axtell. She spent the summer of 184*; ,,r 1847 in Mount\\nClemens and taught one term of school in the Stephens house.\\nE. S. Axtell.\\nUNION SCHOOL.\\nThe organization of the iJnion School District met with much opposition from vari-\\nous sources. Although the system had been successfully tested in several parts of the\\nState, still Mt. Clemens hesitated a long time before choosing between the old and the\\ninferior and the new and superior. Some excuse may be found in the fact that for quite\\na ntunber of years the academy had furnished opportunities for acquiring a knowledge\\nof the higher branches.\\nBy the consolidation of Districts Nos, 17 and 12, of Clinton Township, the present\\nriV*", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0559.jp2"}, "560": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nUnion School District of Mt. Clemens was formed. The organization bears date of Feb-\\nmarv 20. 1857. The limits of the district and the boundary of the city of Mt. Clemens are\\nnot coincident, a portion of the district being in the town of Clinton, outside the city.\\nThe district should properly be called Fractional No. 1. of city of Mt. Clemens and\\nClinton To^Tiship.\\nThe first annual meeting was held March 9. 1857. The resohition for building a\\nschoolhouse to cost !?1 1,000 passed, at a regular annual meeting of the district. Septem-\\nber 26, 1859.\\nPrevious to 1861 the schoolhouse not being built until 1860 the school was taught\\nin the old academy building and in No. 7 Schoolhouse. The building is three stories\\nhigh, fifty-seven feet long and forty-six feet wide. It contains two rooms on first floor\\nfor primary departments, two on second floor for gi ammar departments, and on the third\\nfloor one large room, formerly used for the high school, one recitation-room and library\\nroom.\\nThe third story was entirely burned in 1861. The fire probably caught from light-\\nning, as it seemed to stai t in the tower. The flames were subdued before reaching the\\nsecond storj\\nWhile the house was being repaired, the schools were carried on in the present Bap-\\ntist Church and in the old No. 7 Schoolhouse. At the church, the body of the house was\\noccupied Ijy the high school, the vestibule and gallery being used for lower grades.\\nThe resolution for Ijuilding the second house was passed at a special school meeting\\nJune 30. 1875. The house was ready for occupancy the year following. The building\\nis fifty-seven feet long and forty-six feet wide, two stories in height. It has two rooms\\non the first floor, now occupied by primary departments, two rooms on the second floor,\\nbesides recitation-rooms now used by the high school.\\nA nucleus for a library was started in 1865 or 1866 by Prof. Wood; since that time\\nit has grown till at the present time it numbers 710 well- selected volumes, including en-\\ncyclopedias and books of reference.\\nTEACHERS UNION SCHOOL 1857 TO 1882.\\n1857-58 S. S. Gale, Principal: James Jenney, Elizabeth Stanton, Benjamin Eckler,\\nMiss Eice, Mary McLeod.\\n1858-59\u00e2\u0080\u0094 S. S. Gale, Principal; Miss Eice, Esther Jones, Mary McLeod, Miss M.\\nDixon. Miss Crawford.\\n1859-60 O. A. Hotchkise. Principal: Ed S. Jenney. Lucy Giddings. Alice Traver.\\nEsther Jones, Lorain Pratt, Mrs. Phillips. Miss Dixon.\\n1860-61 William Campbell, Principal: Miss Newman, Miss Bryan, Miss Dixon. Mrs.\\nPhillips. Miss Jennie Dean.\\n1861-62 Silas Wood, Principal; C. J. Wood, Miss Hitchcock, Miss Beebe, Miss\\nBrvan, Miss Davis.\\n1862-63\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Silas Wood, Principal; Mi-s. Wood, Miss H. M. Hale, Miss Smith, Miss\\nJennie Dean, Mr. Harley, Jane McChesney, Miss Allen, William Campbell, Mrs. Phillips.\\n1863-64 Andrew Montgomery. Principal Mary McLeod, Lizzie Moon, Mary Smith,\\nEsther Culver, Mrs. E. Shook. Lizzie Gleason. Frances Buck.\\n1864-65 Andrew Montgomeiy. Principal: Frances Buck, Helen Buck, Esther Cul-\\nver, Mary Montgomery, Isabell Eoss.\\n1865-66\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Silas Wood. Principal: Isabell Eoss, Lucy Nichols, Mrs. O. E. Verrall,\\nMary Wood.\\n1866-67 Silas Wood, Principal; Isabell Eoss, Mary Wood, Helen Buck, Anna Euck-\\nman. Lurk Nichols.\\nt\\nriV", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0560.jp2"}, "561": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n1867-68 Silas Wood. Priucipal; Mary Wood, Minnie Gibbs, Martha Harvey. Helen\\nBuck. Maggie Blackwood. Theresa Sterling. Mrs. S. Wood. Elinina Morton, Olive Dixon,\\nRev. H. Gundert.\\n186S-6y Slias Wood. Principal: Elmina Morton. Fannie CTilbert. Olive Dixon, Mary\\nWood, Lizzie McGovern. Rev. H. Gundert.\\n1869-70 F. A. Herring. Principal: L. D. Culver. Sarah Green, Lizzie McGovern,\\nFannie Gilbert. Mary Wood, Elmina Morton.\\n1870-71 F. A. Herring, Principal: Mary Wood, Fannie Gilbert, L. D. Culver, Miss\\nC. L. Smith. Fannie Loucks.\\n1871-72 D. B. Briggs, Principal; Carrie Richardson, Fannie Gilbert, Mary Wood,\\nL. D. Culver, Susie Watterson, Fannie Loucks, Mary Crocker, Mary Siegel.\\n1872-73 J. E. Bissell, Principal; Carrie Richardson, Maiy Wood, Fannie Loucks,\\nMary Siegel, Susie Watterson.\\n1873-74 J. E. Bissell, Principal; Miss Turner, Mary Wood, Mary Forster, Susie\\nWatterson, Miss C. Smith. Fannie Loucks.\\n1874-75 S. S. Babcock, Principal; Elmina Morton, Mrs. S. S. Babcock, Mary -Fors-\\nter, Susie Watterson, Miss C. Smith, Fannie Loucks, Miss M. Allen.\\n1875-76 S. S. Babcock, Principal: Elmina Morton, Mrs. S. S. Babcock. Mary Fors-\\nter, Mrs. E. M. Axtell, Caroline Smith, Fannie Loucks, Marie Van Eps.\\n1876-77 Wesley Sears, Principal: Miss Hari-iet Culver, Mary Foi-ster, Maria Tate,\\nMaria Mills, Emma Snook, Florence Dixon, Fannie Loucks.\\n1877-78 Wesley Sears, Principal; Han-iet Culver, Mary Forster, Maria Tate, Mercie\\nBriggs, Marie Van Eps. Cary Knox. Fannie Loucks.\\n1878-79 Wesley Sears. Principal: T. Forster, Mary Forster. Marie Tate, Lilian\\nNorton. Mercie Briggs. Marie Van Eps, Carrie Knox, Fannie Lou.ck8.\\n1879-80 Wesley Seai s. Priucipal; Maria J. Tate, Lilian Norton, Mercie Briggs,\\nEliza Wood, Mai ie Van Eps, Carrie Knox. Fannie Loucks.\\n1880-81 Wesley Sears. Principal; Maria J. Tate, Eliza Wood, Mercie Briggs. Ruth\\nRussell, Carrie Knox, Marie Van Eps, Julia Gundert, Fannie Loucks.\\n1881-82 Wesley Sears. Principal; Maria Tate, Eliza Wood (Tucker), Mercie Briggs,\\nRuth Russell, Carrie Knox, Minnie Martell, Julia Gundert, Fannie Loucks.\\nOFFICERS AND TEDSTEES.\\nE. Wright Hall, Moderator and Director, 1857.\\nMoore Stephens, Director and Moderator, 1857, 1860, 1862; Trustee, 1862, 1863.\\nE. L. Ravmond, Assessor, 1857, 1864; Trustee, 1864, 1865.\\nJ. E. Vaii Eps, Moderator, 1857, 1860.\\nA. S. Robertson, Director, 1857, 1863.\\nSilas Dixon, Trustee, 1857, 1862; Moderator, 1862, 1864.\\nW. S. Robinson, Tnistee, 1857. I860; Moderator. 1864, 1866; Assessor, 1867, 1870;\\nTrustee, 1866, 1867.\\nW. A. Edwards, Tri;stee, 1857, 1858.\\nGiles Hubbard, Trustee. 1857, 1864.\\nJ. B. Ekh-edge, Tnistee. 1867, 1864, 1865 and 1875: Director, 1864. 1865.\\nNorton L. Miller. Trustee. 1858, 1859.\\nAugust Czizek. Trustee, 1863, 1864, 1867, 1868: Assessor, 1864, 1867.\\nS. S. Gale. Director. 1862. 1864. 1867. 1869, 1875: Moderator, 1866. 1867. 1877,\\n1882; Trustee, 1864, 1866, 1876, 1877.\\nT. M. Crocker. Director. 1865, 1867: Trustee. 1864. 1865; Moderator, 1867. 1876.\\nH. Carter. Moderator. 1866, 1867; Trustee, 1865, 1866.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0561.jp2"}, "562": {"fulltext": "^J k. ^\\\\s^\\nO. Chapaton. Trustee, 1867, 1870; Assessor, 1870, 1875.\\nT. W. Snook. Trustee, 1866, 1867; Director. 1869, 1875.\\nG. B. Van Eps, Trustee, 1867, 1868, 1871, 1875; Assessor, 1875, 1882.\\nDr. L. Younghusband, Trustee, 1868, 1871.\\nWilliam Flumer, Trustee, 1870, 1876.\\nWilliam Canfiekl, Trustee, 1875, 1876; Moderator, 1876, 1877.\\nEdgar Weeks, Trustee, 1875, 1879; Director, 1878, 1882.\\nT. H. Forster, Director, 1876, 1879.\\nF. G. Kendi-ick, Trastee. 1876, 1882.\\nG. M. Crocker, Trustee, 1877. 1882.\\nA. T. Donaldson, Trustee, 1879, 1882.\\nST.aiTISTICS.\\nNo records of attendance, enrollment, averages, per cents, etc., have been j^reserved\\nthat antedate 1865. From 1865 to 1869, the record is not quite as full as since that time.\\nThe statistics of greatest imjjortance since 1869 have been preserved in tabulated form.\\nIt is the opinion of the historian that this table will give a satisfactory idea of the method\\nnow piu sued in preserving the records, and hence will not go back further than that date\\n(1869). The table is given in full on the following page;", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0562.jp2"}, "563": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^]i\\n:::3 2i iz! fei !zi \u00e2\u0096\u00bajj ;t) P 2; !z! !z; 1^ !Z| !zi !z;\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a05 o o c o o g\\nI Numbpi\\nli^Hif\\n3\\n2.E;^\\nX. i. S\\n2 3 si!:\\n^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2S3||3:\\nJ\\niiiiiiiiiEy??\\nTS\\n|i3 2-?-5:\\n1 T o^^i-i^z^^ i cfi^\\ns---- i;\\np 3\\nFi\\nr\\nCO \u00c2\u00ab0 ODCO\\nCT tc ic\\n00tio\u00c2\u00ab::c:aoccGD\u00c2\u00a3;\\nCO IC to wT\\nx cs ic\\nto -a to ic -3 :c\\ntDOD\\nOf \u00c2\u00abC r: to *.3 to O Oi\\n-3 C;iCCH-tO(314i GC wi- CC rf^GCOt\\nOw\u00c2\u00bb^^- ^-.i- c:ooi- Cs-j\\ni- Owt-:*. ocrrxocsoc-T. ciCn. \u00e2\u0080\u0094^^-i- O\\n1\\neo^\\n00=^ *-gs^ss;*.fc_:s9..\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^\u00c2\u00a7S ^\u00e2\u0096\u00a0.ii.-8gic\u00c2\u00abi-2cc\\nQcaso-jco\\ngto M (C CS\\nJl 01 -J 00 3: J- ii (i\\nS S 5 CC S c it^ c ic b ci IS c:\\ngfe coSc aj i\\n~1\\n_\\n=ll -\u00e2\u0080\u009edi gi g\\nM\\n3\\nC-, c-fe\\n15 *o\u00c2\u00ab CO\\ns\\n0=2 S-.?=.= rp. p So-\\ng83?s^g5i\u00c2\u00b0 -fe|rS\\n_^\\nu\\n0^ i^ -iO Oi p.\\nCt t^ CC _ ZC", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0563.jp2"}, "564": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe average per capita cost for superintendence and instruction, based on average\\nnumber belonging. has been as follows: 1874-75, $13.55; 1875-7fi, $12.70; 1876-77,\\n$9.45; 1877-78. $iU3; 1878-79, $9.68; 1879-80, .18.82; 1880-81. $7.92.\\nAll records are kejit in a satisfactory manner in the high school. The exact standing\\nof each pupil in every branch is on file.\\n5IASONI0.\\nLebanon Lodge, No. 7. was proposed at Mt. Clemens May 5, 1841. Among the mem-\\nbers present were A. C. Smith. Ebeu Hall, Henry M. Dodge, J S. Parke, Allen Fish,\\nThomas M. Perry, Dan Shattuck, Joseph Cole. The lodge was organized June 7, 1841:\\nEbeu Hall, W. M.; J. S. Parke, S. W.; A. Fish. J. W.; H. M. Dodge, Secretary.\\nThe principal olficers elected since that time were:\\nWorshipful Masters\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eben Hall, 1842-43; A. C. Smith. 1844; Eben Hall, 1845-47;\\nJohn S. Parke, 1848: Allen P. Bentlev. 1849: A. C. Smith, 1850-51: O. B. Smith, 1852;\\nHarelehigh Cai ter, 1853; Eben Hall, 1854; Harelehigh Carter, 1855; Henry Taylor, Sr.,\\n1856.\\nRecorders\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. G. Parke, 1842-16; Allen P. Bentley, 1847; Eobert P. Eldredge, 1848;\\nA. G. Parke, 1849; A. P. Bentley, 1850; James Fenton, 1851-52: A. C. Smith, 1853;\\nHarelehigh Carter. 1854; A. C. Smith, 1855; W. S. Robinson, 1856.\\nMf. Clemens Lodge, No. 6, was organized September 4, 1857:\\nWorshipfiil Masters- Robert P. Ekkedge, 1857-60; William S. Robinson. 1861-62;\\nR. P. Eldredge, 1863-66: T. M. Crocker. 1867 Cephas Farrar, 1861; James B. Eldredge,\\n1869-70; James Kurn, 1871: G. W. Robertson, 1872-78; A. E. Van Eps, 1879-80; Wes-\\nley Sears, 1881-82.\\nRecorders William S. Robinson, 1857-58; Judson S. Farrar. 1861; R. P. Eldredge.\\n1862; Theo Traver, 1863; H. B. Hall, 1864; W.S.Robinson, 1865-71: L. D. Culver,\\n1872; James M. Heath, 1873; L. E. Woodruff, 1874-75; Joseph Lonsby, 1876; A. E.\\nVan Eps, 1877; George M. Crocker, 1878; T. H. Foster, 1879; G. W. Robertson, 1880;\\nG. AV. Rol)ertson, 1881-82.\\nThe ])resent officers are: Wesley Sears, W. M. G. M. Crocker, S. W.; Joseph Lons-\\nby J. W. Alex Jacobi, S. D.; Philo Wiilrig, Jr., J. D.; G. W. Robertson, Secretary; G.\\nB. Van Eps, Treasurer: John Allmand, Tiler; E. W. Lewis and F A Keith, Stewards\\nThe Mt. Clemens Chapter, R. A. M.. was organized February 28, 1870. with R. P.\\nEldredge, H P. The High Priests elected since that time were: R. P. Eldredge,\\n1870-75: G. W. Robertson. 1875-77; S. B. Russell, 1877-78; T. \\\\V. Newton, 1878-79;\\nW. C. Teunant, 1879-80. The officers elected December 8, 1S81, are: Joseph L pleger,\\nH. P. T. W. Newton, K. Alfred Stewert, S. E. W. Lewis, C. of H. A. E. Van Eps,\\nP. S. F. Lonsby, C. of G. Abner Hayward, M. of 3d V. William G. Crittenden, M. of\\n2d v.; Alex Jacobi. M. of 1st V.; Paul Ulrieh, Treasurer; G. W. Robertson, Secretary:\\nand John Allemand, Sentinel.\\nI. O. O. F.\\nMacomb Lodge. No. 13, was organized under disjiensation March 9, 1846, in response\\nto the petition of Henry D. Terry, C. G. Cady, Henry C. Kibbee. Joshua B. Dickenson\\nand Horace K. Dickenson. The lodge was installed March 11, 1846, by Most Worshipful\\nGrand Asher S. Kellogg. The first officers were: C. H. Carey. N. G. H. D. Terry, V.\\nG. H. C. Kibbee, Secretary; J. B. Dickenson, Treasurer. This lodge continued in exist-\\nence until June 30, 1854. Subsequently, the charter was revoked by the Grand Lodge,\\nwhich, on the re-organization of No. 13. March 20, 1874. was returned, with the effects of\\nthe old lodge, by Deputy Harris. The first officers of Macomb Lodge, No. 13. re-organ-\\nized, were: John E. Van Eps, N. G.; C. C. Lamb, V. G. George B. Van Eps, Secre-\\ntary; Hem-y Connor, Treasurer; J. C. Ross, P. S. William Roy, Conductor.\\nrrf", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0564.jp2"}, "565": {"fulltext": "The Noble Grands from 1874 to 1882 were: John Van Eps, 1874; Charles C. Lamb\\nand Edgar Weeks. 1875; F. C. Lamb and John E. Van Eps, 1S7(k F. C. Lamb and F. H.\\nBentley. 1877: John Trnfani and Adolph J. Okie. 1878; M. L. Skillman and H. E. Rus-\\nsell, 1879; Julius Koehler and Hiram D. Atwood, 1880; James Broderick and E. J. Okie,\\n1881-82. The officers serving at present with INIi Okie are: Frank Ramsay, V. G.\\nCharles Fluemer, Secretary; R. Oesterich, Permanent Secretary; and Gustave Waltzer,\\nTreasiu er. The term for which these officers are elected expires July 1, 1882. The\\nnumber of members belonging to Lodge No. 13 is forty-five. The financial condition\\ncompares favorably with any Odd Fellows Lodge in the State, and the greatest harmony\\nprevails. Since 1874, it has taken a very important part in the benevolent work which it\\nis formed to carry on.\\nCamp No. 8 1, I. O. O. F., was established in August, 1881, with B. Rush Jackson,\\nChief Patriarch; Julius Koehler, S. W. R. Oesterich. Scribe; Adolph J. Olde. Treasurer;\\nH. D. Atwood, H. P. The officers of the camp at present are: Julius Koehler, C. P.;\\nRichard Stone, H. P.; E. J. Olde, S. W.; James Broderick, Scribe: Gustave Waltzer,\\nTreasiu er. The charter members numbered fifteen, to which five have been added. Like\\nthe lodge, the camp is a prosperous organization.\\nMt. Clemens Grange is one of the most im])ortant associations in the county. Its offi-\\ncers at the present time comprise: A. H. Cautield, M. H. D. Atwood, O. G. J. Shoe-\\nmaker, Lect.; J. J. Kelley. S. G. H. Little, Asst. S.: Mrs. T. Cantield. Chaplain: Will-\\niam Nunnelv, Treasurer: J. C. Cadv, Secretary: H. Carter. G. K. Mi-s. H. Canfield, C.\\nMrs. William Nunnely, P.; Mrs. J. R. Trufant, F. Mrs. William Green, L. A. S.\\nThe sporting circles of the city are represented by the Mt. Clemens Hunting and\\nFi.shing Club, of which James B. Eldredge is President, and H. W. Babcock, Secretary.\\nMANUF.^CTURING INDUSTRIES.\\nVan Eps Co. s tannery was established in 1839, by Hotchkiss Moody, who disjsosed\\nof their interests to the present firm in 1844. The tannery was destroyed by tire, again\\nbuilt and destroyed, rebuilt, and again burned June 5, 1881. The main building is 40x80\\nfeet, two stories high, with engine house. The product is about three thousand hides an-\\nnually, valued at SI 5. 000. The members of the firm are J. E. Van Eps and G. B. Van\\nEps. The former sujierintends the tannery, while the latter manages the boot and shoe\\nstore, harness-shop and leather store, located on the public square.\\nDonaldson Bros., manufacturers of can-iages, wagons and agricultm al implements\\nand castings, established this industry in 1859. During that yeai-, W. S. Donaldson\\nopened a blacksmith-shop. In 1860. he tiu ned out a few wagons. Subsequently, the\\nbusiness so increased that, in 1865, he entered into partnership with his brother. Andrew\\nDonaldson, entered on the manufacture of wagons extensively, and established a horse-\\nshoeing shop in the old Chandler building. Thomas Donaldson, who died in 1869. be-\\ncame a partner in 1868. In 1870. the foundry and agricultural implement departments\\nwere added. In 1874, the large brick factory building was erected, and in the fall of\\n1881, the brick foundry building was raised. The main building is 40x50 feet; the foun-\\ndry 45x62, with addition 1 2x22, together with a number of wooden buildings and a large brick\\nstructui e now proposed. This manufacturing industry gives employment to thirty skilled\\nworkmen, is growing yearly in popular esteem, and gives promise of still greater advances.\\nC. S. L. Groesbeck s stave factory was established by Charles A. Groesbeck in the\\nfall of 1880. The machinery employed is known as Greenwood s latest improved, which\\nis driven by a thirty-five horse-power engine. The capacity of the factory is 5.000.000\\nstaves annually, the manufactm-e of which gives employment to from twenty-five to thirty\\nmen. The elm and basswood used are obtained from the Canadian forests.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0565.jp2"}, "566": {"fulltext": "^l^\\n5G6 HISTORY OF MACOMB COU TY.\\nThe Groesbeck saw-mill, at Wallacebm-g, Canada, where bolts ai e prepared for the\\nstave-mill, as well as hard and soft lumber for the Detroit and Buffalo markets, must be\\nconsidered a branch of the Mt. Clemens establishment.\\nMt. Clemens City Mills were built in 1869, by William Flummer Co.: were bui-ned\\nin 1!S7] rebuilt the fall of the same year by S. Kellogg Co. Mr. Flummer purchased\\nthe interests of his partners in 1879. The mills contain three sets of buhi-s. Cosgrove\\nrollers, etc., etc. The machinery is driven by a seventy-five horse-power engine. The\\nbuilding is three stories high, with basement, supplied with all the modus operandi of a\\ntirst-class mill necessary for ciistom and merchant work.\\nVan Landeghem Son s stave factory was erected in the winter of 1862-63, by Bruno\\nVan Landeghem. The building is -10x50 feet, supplied with (i-reenwood, Dougherty\\nTrevor machinery, drivej by a thirty horse-) ower eugine. The product equals 7,000 cords\\nannually- The factory and vard are valued at \u00c2\u00a711,0] 10. The additions made in 1881 are\\nvalued at *rj,000.\\nThe saw-mill, hub and spoke factories now operated by this firm were purchased from\\nHall Shook in 1881. The mill wbs built in 1871, by the last-named firm. The pres-\\nent operators hHve converted the hub and spoke department of the concern into a stave\\nfactory. The lumber used is principally Canadian growth, and is rafted up the river to\\nthe saw-mill, where it is px-epared for the stave factory. The mill has a custom trade of\\n5,000 cords annually, together with 1.0 J0,000 feet of lumber. A seventy horse-power\\nengine drives the machinery. During the summer months, these industries give emjiloy-\\nmeut to 125 hands.\\nSnook Robinson s stave factory was erected in 1868 by Snook White, who ope-\\nrated it until 1873, when it became the property of the present owners. The concern was\\nburned in March, 1875, entailing a net loss of $12,000. It was rebuilt by T. W. Snook\\nas a stave and heading factory immediately after. The owners were among the first to in-\\ntroduce the Tomlin.son patent hoop machinery in 1874. The saw-mill was built in 1881,\\nwith all the advantages at the command of the firm. It is stated that orders already in\\nfrom New York, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh and Detroit insure a steady business until Jidy,\\n1883. Last year s product was 8,750,000 staves, together with the same number of head-\\nings. Steam power is used. The raw lumber is rafted to the mill, and there prepared\\nfor the factory.\\nLewis Brehler Co. s sash, door and blind factory was established August, 1868, by\\nPotter Ai-msby. The latter sold to Lewis in the fall of 1868. Five years later. Groes-\\nbeck purchased Potter s interest, and, in partnership witli Lewis, operated it until 1878.\\nwhen the concern was purchased by the present firm. It is the pioneer sash, door and\\nblind factory of the city. In its early days, it was a small shed, standing on elm posts;\\nto-day, it is a two-story building, 40x58 feet, with wing 20x20, shed 18x40, and storeroom\\n20x60 feet, giving employment to fourteen men. A full line of best machinery, including\\nthe Tompkins planer and matcher, is in use. The machinery is driven by a fifteen horse-\\npower engine.\\nKendi-ick s sash, door and blind factory and i)laniiig-mill is one of the principal man-\\nufactm-ing industries of the county. It was erected in the winter of 1874-75, by Benedict\\nBetts. In the summer of 1875^ Benedict sold his interest to Allor Betts. who, a few\\nmonths later, sold to F. G. Kendrick. Allor disposed of his interest to the present owner\\nin April, 1881. The laain building is 40x60 feet, two stories high, with an addition\\n26x78, and a wing, now being built. 22x60 feet. The concern furnishes timber for build-\\ning purposes, together with manufacturing articles of furniture Steam power is used in\\nthe various departments. The laud, buildings and machinery are valued at $11,000.\\nClinton River Brewery, established in 1873 by Aug Biewer, has a capacity of 1.000\\nS)", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0566.jp2"}, "567": {"fulltext": "jy\u00c2\u00b1\\n^Uv\\nbarrels per annum. Trade is principally local. The main building is 90x45. with ice\\nhouse 20x 24. and store 20x28. The grounds have 161 feet frontage.\\nMt. Clemens Lime Kilns were established in 1846. by Ed J. Tucker. He is the pres-\\nent owner of tne works, and a dealer in land plaster, calcimine plaster, cement, cut hair,\\nsheathing paper, etc.\\nLufkin s Brickyard was established about lS5o, by Varuuiu Lufkin, who operated it\\nsuccessfully until his death, in January. 1880. I*- is now managed by Floyd Lufkin.\\nDuring 1881. 675,000 bi ick were made. The Quaker brick machine has been recently in-\\ntroduced; also, Pallet s drying system is used, being the only yard whei eiu it is in use in\\nthis State. The capacity of the factory is 2,000,000 annually.\\nThis record of progress is very conciliating: but yet much remains to be done The\\nfirst, and perhaps most important, work in which the city could engage, is that of laying\\ndown a wooden pavement from the Grand Trunk Railroad depot to the public s(piare,\\nround the square itself, and thence easterly to the line of Harrison Township. The con-\\ndition of the public thoroughfares of Mt. Clemens from November, 1881, to the beginning\\nof the summer of 1882 was. to say the least, one which might characterize a village of the\\nlast centmy. The winter was a very exceptional one indeed. Throughout Macomb\\nCounty, the atmosphere seemed to shower down mud, and when the atmospheric phenom-\\nenon ceased, the very earth appeared to be undergoing a process of muddleizatiou. A street\\nrailway and paved thoroughfares are now the only rer[uisites to prove that this city keeps\\npace with the Century. In the personal history of the city, references are made to these\\nand other industries.\\nCLINTON TOWNSHIP.\\nSo much has been said and written already of this division of the county, that little\\nremains to l)e told. Within the limits of Clinton, the Moravian missionaries and their\\nconverts of the Delaware Indians made their fli st settlement in Michigan. Here, too, the\\nlu-st American pioneers located, and hither may be said to come all the white Americans\\nwho made the county their home previous to its organization. The beginnings of Ma-\\ncomb County were made here, and here stands to-day that well-built jiile, the county court\\nhouse, to show, as it were, that the spot which the first American settlers dedicated as the\\nseat of justice for their county, is still guarded by their descendants and the many v.-ho\\nhave reaped the rewai-d of their early enterprise and industry.\\nIn the following brief sketch of the township s history, the names of the priucii)al\\ntown of cers. from date of organization to the present time, are given. It is beyond the\\nrange of practicability to refer to the various acts of the different town boards or adminis-\\ntrations. That the well-being of this division of the county was their object cannot be\\ndoubted, since the present pros]ierous cordition. the growth of its educational affairs, and.\\nwe might add, the very habits, manners and customs of its population tell of precedents\\nlaid down by these township legislators and followed liy their constituents.\\nOEG.\\\\NIZATION.\\nClinton Township, or Town 1, in Range 12. and Towns 1, 3 and part of 2. in Ranges\\n18 and 14. was erected April 12. and the first town meeting ordered to be held in the\\ncourt house at Mt. Clemens May 2S. 1827. At the meeting held on the latter date, Will-\\n1am Olds presided as Moderator, with Ephraim McCall, Clerk. The election resulted as\\nfollows: Job C. Smith, Supervisor; Thomas Ashley, Town Clerk; William Olds. Collector;\\nHarvey Cook, Joseph Hayes and Joseph Sansfacon, Assessors; James Connor and Elisha\\nt", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0567.jp2"}, "568": {"fulltext": "568 HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHarringtou, Overseers of the Poor; Ezekiel Allen, James Connor and Elisha Harrington,\\nCommissioners of Hiuhways; Silas Haley ami William Olds, Constables; James Connor,\\nWilliam Olds, Ephraim McCall and Peter Alor. Overseers of Highways; Hiram Atwood,\\nJohn Miller and Charles Pivard. Fence Viewers; illiam McDonald, Poiuid keeper.\\nA special meeting was called June 16, 1827. when Alfi ed Ashley was erected Clerk,\\nvice Thomas Ashley, resigned. Baptiste Eattell was chosen Pound-master, vice William\\nMcDonald, resigned; John Cotteral was elected a third Constable, and John Rhodes\\nelected Overseer of Highways, vice James Connor.\\nTOWN ROSTER.\\nSupervisors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Job C. Smith, 1827-28; James Connor, 1828-29; Harvey Cook. 1829-\\n30; John Stockton, 1830-33; Christian Clemens, 1833-35; Rodnov O. Cooler. 1835-36;\\nRichard Butler, 1836-37; Rodney O. Coolev. 1837-38; Richard Butler. 1838-39; Pres-\\ncott B. Thiu-ston. 1839-40; Chauncev G. Cadv, 1840-41; Isaac J. Grovier, 1841-42;\\nRichard Butler, 1842-43: Porter Kibbee. 1843-45; David Shook, 1845-49; Anth-ew S.\\nRobinson, 1849-50; Charles H. Carey, 1850-51; Chauncey G. Cady, 1851-52; Wesley\\nHinmau, 1852-54; Lemuel Sackett, 1854-56; Andrew S. Robertson, 1856-57; John 1.\\nTrevor, 1857-59; Thomas L. Sackett, 1859-62; Joshua B. Dickenson, 1862-63; August\\nCzizek, 1863-65; Thomas L. Sackett, 1865-68: John I. Trevor, 1868-69 Thomas L.\\nSackett, 1869-70; George W. Robertson, 1870-75; Judson S. Farrar, 1875-79; Alfred W.\\nLittle, township, Judson S. Farrar. citv, James A. Cantield, Ai- hur Van Eps. 1879-80;\\nWilliam A. Rowley, township, Judson S Farrar, citv. Heurv W. Babcock. citv, Ai thur E.\\nVan Eps, city; 1880-81; William A. Rowley, township, William E. Hall, city, Henry W.\\nBabcock. citv, Arthur E. Van Ejis. city, 1881-82.\\nClerks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Thos. Ashley, Alfred Ash lev, 1827; Eobt, P. Eldi-edge. 1828; Richard Butler,\\n1829-31; Rodney O. Cooley. 1832-34; Elisha L. Atkins. 1835; Prescott B. Thurston. 1836-\\n38; Henry U. Terry, 1839; Ira Stout, 1840-41; Giles Hubbard. 1842; Ira Stout, 1843-45;\\nAndrew S. Robertson, 1846; Sam B. Axtell. 1847; Jesse Kibbee. 1848; Edward Fishpool.\\n1849-50; George Scott, 1851-57; Charles B. Lee, 1857; Theo O. Leonard, 1858; George\\nScott, 1859-60; Abram Wise, 1861; George Scott. 1862-65; Charles Wood. 1866; F. H.\\nBeney. 186^; George H. Pelton. 1868-71; John Trevidick. 18(1; Henry W. Babcock.\\n1872-79; Joseph Lumens, 1879-80; Leslie H. Duncan. 1880-81; John T.Weiss, 1881-82.\\nCollectors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William Olds. 1827-30; James C. Allen, 183(1; Hiram Atwood, 1831;\\nWilliam Olds. 1832; Charles S. Mather, 1833; Horace H. Cadv. 1834; Charles S.Mather,\\n1835; Joseph Hubbard, 1836-38.\\nTreasurers William Henry Wai-ner, 1839; Charles A. Emerson, 1840-41 Eleazer L.\\nGoodman, 1842; Sylvanus Leonard, 1843-45; William Roy, 1846; George Dixon, 1847;\\nHiram Bentley, 1848-49; Harvey Kibbee, 1850-51; Dennis McCaffrey, 1852-53; James Feu-\\nton, 1854; John Bany, 1855; Varnmn Lufkin. 1856-57; MjTon White, 1858-59; A.\\nCzizek, 1860-62: R. Steiger, 1863-64; John C. Riemold, 1865-68; Casper Peters, 1868-\\n69; Edward Tremble, 1870-71: Trangott Lungerhausen, 1872-74; Victor A. Morass,\\n1874-77; William E. Hall. 1877-78; George H. Pelton, 1878-79; John V. Wiegaud,\\n1879-81; JohuPriehs, 1881-82.\\nJustices of the Peace The Justices appointed by the Governor of the Territory pre-\\nvious to 1836 are referred to in the pages of the general history. William H. Warner.\\nPrescott B. Thurston, Elisha L. Atkins, Israel Curtiss, 1836; Richard Butler. Joseph\\nCole, 1837; Thomas R. Boiu-ne. A. B. Adams, 1839; John Stockton, Robert Welter,\\n1840; Chauncey G. Cady. 1841; T. B. Thm-ston. 1842; R. Weltes. 1843-17; John Stock-\\nton. 1844; Chauncey G. Cady, 1845; Allen P. Bentley, 1845-48; Lemuel Sackett, John\\nStockton. Fred Hatch, 1849; Porter Kibbee, 1850; Fred Hatch, 1851; Lemuel Sackett,", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0568.jp2"}, "569": {"fulltext": "l 4^ fe^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0569.jp2"}, "570": {"fulltext": "Jf", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0570.jp2"}, "571": {"fulltext": ",u\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n1853: Kobert B. Granbv, 1854; Fred Hatch, 1855-59; John Stockton, 1856-57; Henry\\nP. Mitchell, 1857; Robert B. Grauby. 1858; John Stockton, 1860; Harlehigh Carter,\\n1862; Fred Hatch, 1863; Robert B. Granby, 1864; John Stockton, 1865; James Whiting,\\n1866; Lemuel Sackett, Charles Cox, 1867: Fred Hatch. 1868. John Stockton, 1869;\\nGeorge M. Crocker. 1870; John Mitchell, 1871; William L Cvirtiss, 1872; Charles S.\\nGroesbeck, John T. Weiss, 1873; George M. Crocker, 1874; Patrick O SuUivan, 1875;\\nChai-les S. Gioesbeck, 1876; John T. Weiss, 1877; Spencer B. Russell. 1878; Lewis A,\\nFox, Horace R. Beebe, 1879; Louis A. Fox, 1880; August Dietrich, 1881. Henry D.\\nTerry was elected attorney for the township.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nReference is made to the early schools of Mt. Clemens in the historj^ of that city.\\nThe first record of township school matters appears under date April 9, 1839, when Ebe-\\nnezer Hall, Henry Taylor and Henry D. Terry formed the Board of School Inspectors. A\\nsecond meeting of the board was held May 22, 1839, when it was ascertained that the rec-\\nord of schools, if such ever existed, could not now be found in the Clerk s office, and the\\nboard resolved, that there is no legal school district organized in the township of Clin-\\nton. A second resolution provided for the division of the township into school districts,\\nwhich latter resolution was given effect to May 25. 1839, when the township was laid off\\ninto eight districts, the temtory in and adjacent to the incorporated village of Mt. Clemens\\nforming No. 1 District. The amount of first school and library moneys apportioned to Clin-\\nton Township was only $90.40, the notice of apportionment being made in February, 1840.\\nSCHOOL .STATISTICS OF THE PRESENT.\\nThe township is laid off into seven school districts and one fractional district. The\\ndirectors for the year 1881-82 are Edgar Weeks, of the Mt. Clemens School, known as\\nDistrict No. 1: Meudon Dunham, of No. 2: Charles Dans, of No. 4; Robert E. Miller, of\\nNo. 5; Ernest Hagan. of No. 6; Michael Barry, of No, 7, and Norton Savage, of No, 10.\\nAlfred Stead is Director of School No. 3. The total number of children, aged between\\nfive and ten jears, enumerated in the school returns as belonging to the township, is 1,552,\\nof whom 935 are in District No. 1; 75 in District No. 2; 66 in District No. 4; 174 in\\nDistrict No. 5; 42 in District No. 6; 54 in District No. 7; 114 in District No. 10, and 92\\nin fractional District No. 3. The two school brick buildings at Mt. Clemens, with other\\nschool property, are valued at S22,0OO. The other seven buildings in the township are\\nvalued at $3,500, showing the total value of school property in 1882 to be $25,500. The\\ntotal sum paid the teachers of the township for the year ending September, 1881, was $4,-\\n195, of which sum the teaching staff at Mt. Clemens received $3, 180. The total expendi-\\ntures for the year ending September, 1881, amounted to $7,454,68. The public school\\nfund yielded $1,634.52, the 1 mill tax, $1,565.65 and the balance received from the ordi-\\nnary school revenue of the township.\\nVILLAGES OF THE TOWNSHIP.\\nThe village of Cady, or Cady s Corner, is a small settlement composed chiefly of Ger-\\nman farmers and their families, dating from 1834. It is on Clinton River, in the center\\nof a rich agi icultural region, about seventeen miles above Detroit, five southwest of Mt.\\nClemens, the county seat, and near Eraser Station, on the Grand Trunk Railway, to which\\ndepot goods should be shipped. It has a German Lutheran Chiu ch and common school.\\nMt. Clemens was established an incorporated village in 1837. Warsaw, Frankfort,\\nMarcellus, Frederick and other little centers of population wished to he incorporated.\\nThe first allowed its village charter to lapse, and did not re-seek incorporation until 1851;\\nr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0571.jp2"}, "572": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe other villages died away in Mo. The last building of Frederick is now a total wreck,\\nits debris of timber and brick reminding the traveler of what the city of Mt, Clemens\\nmight have been had not the following citizens laid the foundations on which its present\\ncitizens built and continue to build: Christian Clemens. John Stockton. Giles Hubbard,\\nRobert P. Eldredge, Thomas L. Sackett, William Cantield. Henry R. Babcock, M. D.,\\nHeniy Taylor, Sr., M. D., George Lee, M. D., Pemn Crawford, Dr. Hall. J. B. Dickinson,\\nT. M. Cix)cker, Thomas Ashley, James L. Conger, Henry Harrington, Aaron Weeks. Varnum\\nLufkin, John Dixon, Abner C. Smith, Thomas M. Perry. Frederick Hatch, Henry D. Terry,\\nAndi-ew S. Robertson. William Jenny. .John Stephens, Moore Stephens. Henry M. Dodge.\\nPERSONAL HISTORY.\\nHistory is a relation of facts, while biography is actually a history of the lives and\\ncharacters of those men who caused such facts to have an existence. One should be in-\\nseparable from the other; and so apjaarent is this, so apparent has it been, that for some\\nyears we made it a practice to deal fully with the people who have made subject for the\\nhistories of our counties, and particularly with those whose intelligence now guides them\\nto place couiidence in our work, to realize its value, to take an especial pride in its success.\\nIn the following sketches, it will be evident to the reader that an effort has been made to\\ndeal fairly with the people of this city. We owe them a bona fide history for the special\\nsupport they have given the work. We owe them our thanks for the hearty co-operation\\nextended to ourselves and to our employes.\\nMOUNT CLEilENS AND CLINTON TOWNSHU\\nLOUIS A. ALLOR. son of Louis Allor. of Trois Rivieres, near Quebec City, was\\nborn in Jefferson County, N. Y., October 2, 1835; came to St. Clair County, Mich., in\\nNovember, 1852; to Macomb County in 18t)5 and settled in Ray Township; was foreman\\nin Schmoors stave and sawmill, in St. Clair County, for two years; in Cooper Lathrop s\\nmill, at Richmond, for one year; farmed in Ray for a few years; in Snook White s stave\\nand heading mill for about two years; in Hazleton s heading factory, at Baltimore Station,\\nfor about two years; came to Mt. Clemens in 1875, and was partner with F. G. Kendrick,\\nin sash, door and blind factory, until 1881, since which time he has had charge of the ma-\\nchinery in Lewis Brehler s j)laning-mill. Pi-evious to 18G2, he held the offices of Super-\\nvisor, Justice of the Peace and School Inspector, and was Notary Public for fom- years,\\nand taught school in one district for ten terms before the war. In 18(52, he enlisted in\\nComj)auy E. Twenty-second Michigan Infantry; promoted Orderly Sergeant at muster-in;\\nSecond Lieutenant October, 18()2; First Lieutenant, July, 1803; Adjutant, June, 1804;\\nwas commissioned Captain by President Lincoln, but declined; was appointed Assistant\\nAdjutant General Reserve Brigade, Division of the Cumberland, in 1804, which office he\\nheld until the close of the war. A reference to the military history of the county will\\npoint out the varied services of this soldier. Mr. Allor was married, in 1850, to Miss\\nOctavia Landi-y, who died in 1859. He married Miss Mary Jean some time after, to whom\\nwere born four children, two of whom are living Nellie and Elmer. Rolla was killed at\\nthe age of fifteen yeai-s by falling on a 8hai-) stick in a hay rack; Ellen died from natural\\ncauses^ Fabien Jean, father of Mrs. Allor. was born in Clinton in 1805, and died October\\n20, 18 /8. He man-ied Miss Magdaline Sear at an early date, and, after her death, married\\nMiss V. Grilfard. He was the father of six children by his first wife and eight by his\\nsecond. In the history of Chesterfield, a full reference is made to this native pioneer.\\nHIRAM ATWOOD (deceased), son of Peter Atwood, was born in Vermont June 9,\\n1801; was educated in the common schools of Vermont and Canada; settled on Section 1,", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0572.jp2"}, "573": {"fulltext": "iL,\\nClinton Township, in 1822, at a time when bear, deer and wolf would come leisurely to\\nthe dooryard. Mr. Atwood married Miss Fannie Cook, Maivh K lS2r). They were the\\nparents of three boys and one girl. After the death of this lady, he married Miss Aurilla\\nA. Douglass, July 7, 1S38. to whom were born three boys and one girl. Of Mr. Atwood s\\nchildren, Alonzo, Adeline, William and Phoebe A. are living: Charles, Sylvester, Richai-d\\nand Hiram D. Atwood are deceased. Hiram D. Atwood was bom in Clinton Township.\\nMacomb County, November 29, 1888; educated in Mt. Clemens schools and was a farmer.\\nHe married INIiss Allie M. Watterson, in 1865, daughter of Robert Watterson, of Vernon.\\nN. Y. They were the parents of three children Mary C, Agnes C. and Luallie. Mr.\\nAtwood died December HI. 1881.\\nFRED S. AVERY, partner with F. M. Sackett, born at Ann Arbor, Mich., is a son of\\nFrederick Avery, the original proprietor of the Cook House, at Ann Arbor, and now one\\nof the proprietors of the Mt. Clemens Mineral Springs. He was educated at Ann Arbor\\nand at Helmuth College. London. Ontario; came to Mt. Clemens in 1879. and mai-ried\\nMiss Jennie Sackett, daughter of the late Hon. Thomas Sackett, May 8, 1881. Sackett\\nAvery s boot and shoe store was established in the spring of 1879, by George C. Fenton,\\nwho sold his interest to F. M. Sackett soon after. The present firm took charge of busi-\\nness in May, 1881 keep a good assortment of line goods, and pay that attention to busi-\\nness which insures succes\\nHENRY M BABCOCK was born at Mt. Clemens December 1, 1842: son of Henry\\nR.. deceased, an early settler of Macomb. Mr. B. was educated at Mt. Clemens and at\\nthe normal school of Ypsilanti: served three years in the wai he enlisted as a drummer-\\nboy in Company C, Fifth Michigan Infantry, under Capt. Trowbridge, of Saginaw;\\nserved in the regiment nine moaths and left after the seven days tight at Harrison s\\nLanding. He then went into the hospital at Harrison s Landing as dispensing clerk;\\nwent thence to Craney Isle, Va. where he tilled the same office for a few months; then\\ndetailed on transport service for two mouths, and the remainder of the time (three years)\\nwas in Medical Purveyor s office, under Dr. J. Bernard Brinton. Assistant Surgeon United\\nStates Army: retiu-ning subsequently, he tilled the same office as a civilian until the close\\nof the war. He purchased a drug store in l8t)5 from J. S. Farrar, in Metropolitan Block,\\nwhere he still continues the business. Mr. Babcock was manager of the Western Union\\nTelegraph office here for twelve years; was Town Clerk four yeai-s, Corporation Recorder\\nfor three years and City Clerk for two years. He was also Secretary of the Macomb\\nCounty Agricultural Society four years. He is now Siipervisor second term. Mr. Bab-\\ncock married. May 10, 186 Miss Maria F. Bonnie, a niece of Lemuel Sackett, a pio-\\nneer of Macomb County. They are the parents of sis children Bernard B. Blanche B.\\nDelia F., Henry R., Frank and Courtney G. The drug business of -Mr. B. amounts to\\nabout $8,000 annually. Dr. H. R. Babcock died Thursday. September 28, 187 aged\\nsixty-two: was the father of six children, of whom two are living H. W. Babcock and\\nMi-s. J. H. Westendorf. He came to Mt. Clemens in the year 1887: graduated at Fairfield\\nMedical College, in the State of New York, at the age of twenty-two years; was one of\\nthe first original members of the Macomb County Medical Association: he carried on the\\ndrug business in connection with his profession from the year 1848 up to 1861: was Post-\\nmaster twelve years.\\nJOSEPH BARNEY, owner of fish market, was born at Chatham. Canada. May 1 T),\\n1848: son of Joseph Barney, of Quebec, a French Canadian, who settled at Detroit in\\n1844. !Mr. Barney was engineer on a lake boat for many years. In 1857. the family\\nmoved to Mt. Clemens. In June, LStil, he enlisted in Company B, Fifth Michigan In-\\nfantry, and served with that famous command until his discharge. He was made prisoner\\nat the Wilderness, held for five months, when he was exchanged. He was again taken at\\n^Rr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0573.jp2"}, "574": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0k\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nGettysburg, and passed some time in Libby and Belle Isle Prisons; was wounded and\\ncarries a bullet in lower limb. He married Miss Jane E. Sawyer, of Canada, December S,\\nISIi .t, to whom six children were born. Three are living Joseph W., Jane and James.\\nMr. Barney established the first regular fish market in the city in 1878. Previous to that\\ntime, peddlers supplied the villagers. A toy, notion an l candy store is connected with\\nthe market.\\nMINARD BARR was born in Wayne County, within four miles of Detroit, August\\n29, 18;52. His father was Reuben C. Barr. of New York, In 184. Mr. Barr left home\\nto seek employment at Detroit. There he worked at the cabinet trade for two years; sub-\\nsequently, he learned the carpenter s trade, and followed it until l8r)4, when he left De-\\ntroit. He came to Macomb County in 1857, having devoted the previous two years to\\nextensive travel throughout the States.\\nGEORGE H. BEATY was born at Burlington, Vt., May 20, 1822, locating in Ma-\\ncomb in 18r)r); in 1857, he brought his family hither. He was married, in 1849, to Miss\\nJane Gilbert, of Vermont, to whom two children were born \u00e2\u0080\u0094Charles B. and Carrie. The\\nformer married Miss Pearl Van Fleet, and resides on homestead. The family are mem-\\nbers of the Protestant Episcojjal Church.\\nHORACE R. BEEBE, born in Allegany County, N. Y., November 28, 1828; son of\\nHorace Beel^e, of Massachusetts, who settled in New York at an early day, and who came\\nwith his family to Wayne County, Mich., in 1884; was educated in the schools of Wayne\\nat that time, when a log cabin and slab benches formed the district school-room. He\\ncame to this county in 1857, and located lands on Section 28, Clinton, where he now owns\\na farm of forty five acres. He was married, in 1858, to Miss Philancia Bras, to whom\\neight children were born Bela, Cora E.. Ina E., Samuel H., Lucy E., Ira W. Bertha L.\\nand Eva V. Mr. B. is a member of Grange; has been Highway Commissioner for about\\nnine years, and is running for second term as Justice of the Peace, together with filling\\nother offices.\\nWILLIAM BEER, born in Somersetshire, England, in December, 1791; came to\\nNew Jersey in I81f), and to New York City in 1817. He retui ued to New Jersey in\\n1828, where he was engaged in farming until he went to Macomb County, in l885;\\nhere he entered land fi om the Government and brought his family late in 188\\nengaged in the saw-mill business in the fall of 188(), building a mill in company with\\nJames Shook. He took contracts on the canal in 1889, and constiiicted all the locks be-\\ntween Mt. Clemens and Utica. He was one of the company that built the first fiouring-\\nraill at Mt. Clemens, which was afterward burned. Mr. B. was mairied in England in\\n1811, to Sai ah Hollidge, to whom sis children were born, three of whom are living\\nMary A. (Hall), William and Hemy. Mrs. B. died at an early day. He maiTied his\\npresent wife in 1820, who is still living. Mr. and Mrs. B. celebrated their golden wed-\\nding in 1870. Mr. B. was one of the tir.st officers of the village of Mt. Clemens; has\\nbeen always identified with its interests, and is supposed to be the senior in ago of all the\\nold folks in the village,\\nMICHAEL BENBENNEK, sou of Michael, deceased, was born in Prussia, Germany,\\nOctober 11, 1828; came to Macomb County in 185t), and located in Erie Township ou a\\nfarm which he rented for three years. In 1859, he bought thirty acres of timbered land\\nin Sterling Township, which he cleared and sold, buying another tract of forty acres; of\\nthis he cleared twenty four acres, built a house and barn and planted an extensive orchard.\\nHe located on a rented farm in Clinton in 18r)8, remaining there two years, until his pur-\\nchase of eighty acres on Section 28, where he now owns a well-cultivated farm of 100 acres.\\nHe was man ied, in 1848, to Miss Josephine Ketchmark. Of eleven children born to this\\nunion, seven are living Au^uat, Hermann, Michael, Albert, Mina, Elizabeth and Emma.\\n^Fc", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0574.jp2"}, "575": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUXTY.\\niL^\\nThe three older bovs and Mina are married. The family belong to the Catholic\\nChurch.\\nFRANCIS H. BENTLEY. jeweler, was born in Scottsville, near Rochester, N. Y.\\nJanuaiy 2. IS-iT: son of Hiram, native of Western New York. Mr. B. came with his\\nfamily to Mt. Clemens in the fall of 1840, and established the second jewehy store in the\\nvillage, which he conducted until his death, in iSaS. Francis H. Bentley s father. Hiram\\nBentley, was born December 22, 1811: died January 81, 1858. His mother, Mrs. AnneC.\\n(Fosmire) Bentley, was born April 8, 1818. Their children were: Francis H. Bentley,\\nborn .Januar_y 25, 1887; Albert M.. born June 11. 18-12, and Alice S.. born November 14,\\n1848. F. H. B. at his father s death took charge of the business, and has conducted it\\nsince, with the exception of two years passed at Rochester. He married Miss Maria\\nLovell. of England, in December. 18fi2. daughter of Levi Lovell: they are the parents of\\ntwo children Susie and Jenny. He has been Town Clerk one term; is a member of the\\nI. O. O. F. and of the Protestant Episcopal Chvirch.\\nA.LVIN C. BRANDY, son of Alvin Bi^a ndy, a native of Vermont, of German ex-\\ntraction, was born four miles above BixJekviTle.lSanada, on St. Lawrence River, November 5,\\n1828. He came with his family to Mt. Clemens in 1880, and settled in Clinton Town-\\nship, where he was educated. He visited California in 1858, where he was engaged in\\nmining and farming until 185M. when he returned to Mt. Clemens. He mastered the car-\\npenter s art without instruction, aud followed that trade with success. He was married,\\nin September, 18()0. to Mi-s. Olive McCall, daughter of Daniel Frink, to whom three chil-\\ndi-en were born. viz.. Greorge. E. Belle and Jennie, the latter deceased. Mr. B. is a mem-\\nber of the A., F. A. M. and R. A. M. has held the offices of Marshal and Street Com-\\nmissioner of Mt. Clemens, where he has been favorably known for the last half centm-y.\\nALBERT BREHLER, born at Prussia. Germany, April 28, 1840, son of Andre.v\\nBrehler, of Prussia, who settled in Canada in 1847, aud at Detroit in 18( )4, came to Ma-\\ncomb County in IHCtiK Mr. B. married Miss Rosena Weiss, June 14. 18(14, to whom were\\nborn eight children Edward. John, Mary, Josephine, Katie. Francis, Joseph and An-\\ndrew. He has been connected with the sash, door and blind factory since August. 1878.\\nThe family belong to the Catholic Chm-ch.\\nJOHN E. BREHLER. son of Andrew Brehler. who came to America in the year\\n1847, and settled in the county of Waterloo, Canada, was born September 19, 188().\\nComing to Detroit in the year 1854, he engaged in the grocery business, continuing the\\nsame until 1808; came to Mt. Clemens and located on a farm three miles west of Mt.\\nClemens; lived on the farm two years; came to Mt Clemens in 1870, where, in partnershij)\\nwith his brother. Thomas B. Brehler. he started the hrst regular can-iage manuf actiu-ing shop\\nin Mt. Clemens: in LS78, he sold his interest in the concern to his brother; bought the\\nhalf interest of Charles Groesbeck in the sash. door, and blind factory of Lewis Groes-\\nbeck. in 1875, which he owns at the present time; in April. ISSl, he 0] ened a dry goods store,\\nin company with Arthur Deziel, to whom he disposed of his interest in January. 1882.\\nJohn E. Brehler married Miss Charlotte A. Campau, daughter of Maj. James Campau, of\\nDetroit. November 12. 1861; ili-s. John E. Brehler died February 20, 1.SS2; leaving a\\nfamily of six children living: Belle C. Lula M., Maud E., Alex A., Blanch M.. Edgar C.\\nMi. Brehler was elected Aldenuau in ISSl. His record shows him to be a man of thor-\\nough enteii^rise. The family belong to the Catholic Chiu ch.\\nHARRY BRIGGS was born at Potter, Yates Co., N. Y.. July 18, 1882; son of Abel\\nBriggs. deceased, from one of two brothers who came from England early in the seven-\\nteenth century. Mr. B. lived on the old homestead until thirty-two years of age; worked\\nfor some time at the car])enter and joiner s trade; came to Mt. Clemens in 1872. and\\nbrought his family hither in 1878. He was a dealer in fruit trees here for over three", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0575.jp2"}, "576": {"fulltext": "fc.\\nyears: is now auctioneer at public sales, and is said to be the senior as well as the best\\npatronized salesman in the county. He was married, in 18()4, to Miss Elvira H. Stephen-\\nsou, daughter of Daniel B. Stephenson, of New York, to whom one child was born. Mr.\\nB. is a Deacon in the Baptist Church, a member of F. A. M. and a Good Templar.\\nWILLIAM BROOME; son of Thomas Broome, of Shi opshire, England, was born in\\nthat country in December, 1828; was educated there and resided there until ](S52, when\\nhe left for Canada. In the fall of 1853 he came to Michigan. In 1881, he was ap-\\npointed Deputy Sherifi which position he now occupies. Mr. Broome was married to\\nMiss Catharine Bolty, April 21, ]8() to whom were born three children, of whom two\\nare living Mary M. and Thomas H. Mrs. Broome died in 1878; in 1N74, he married\\nMrs. Catharine Conner, who is the mother of one child Lillian E. Broome. The family\\nbelong to the Methodist Ejuscopal Church.\\nCALVIN BUSH, sou of Orry Bush, of Massachusetts, was bom in Rensselaer County.\\nN. Y., July 4, 1824. In 181)5, moved to Livingston Couuty, N. Y.. where he was -Ugaged\\nin manufacturing paper until 1870, when he came to Mt. Clemens. He serv d in th late\\nwar as First Lieutenant, Company E, Ou Hundred and Tweuty-tifth New York Infantry.\\nIn 1870, he engaged in lumbering, rafted logs from Lake Huron, manufactured lumber\\nat Mt. Clemens mill, in which he had an interest, and continued in this business until\\n1870. He was married, in 1858, to Miss Maiy E. Janes, of the historic Janes family, to\\nwhom were born two children William A. and Lizzie M. The former is a citizen of Green-\\nwood Couuty, Kan.\\nRICHARD BUTLER was born on Grosse Island, of the river of Detroit, April 1,\\n1797, and removed to Gostield, Canada, soon after with his parents. Owing to the death\\nof his father, he was apprenticed to a Pennsylvania Dutch farmer in 1802, for whom he\\nlabored until he obtained his majority. During all those years, his employer denied him\\nall chances of education, requiring from him an incessant round of hard work. Mr. But-\\nler entered upon a course of self- instruction in 1821; moved to Detroit September 22 of\\nthat year, where he continued his studies; subseqixeutly, taught school there for a term\\nof years, which school was attended by the childi-en of Gen. Cass and many others, who\\nare now prominent citizens of Detroit. Mr. B. also taught school at Mt. CJemens and at\\nother places within this county; he entered mercantile life in Detroit and pm sued it for a\\nshort time, imtil his removal to Mt. Clemens, in 1828. He was commissioned County\\nClerk in 1829 by Gen. Cass; soon after, appointed Justice of the Peace, holding each\\noffice for a term of four years; he was appointed Register of the United States land office\\nat Sault de St. Marie by Milhu-d Fillmore, which office he held diu-ing that administra-\\ntion. Mr. B. studied law without the aid of instructors and was admitted to the bar of\\nMacomb County in 1884, from which time until 1865, he made the practice of his profes-\\nsion very success Eul; he inaugurated the Macomb Statemuaii in 1887; held the office of\\nProsecuting Attorney, as noticed in the organic chapter: was admitted to the Supreme\\nCom t of the United States, at Washington, and elected member of the State Legislatm-e,\\nparticulars of which election are given in the political chapter of the general histoiy.\\nHis marriage with Miss Abigail Hayes took place in August, 1827, to whom were born fom-\\nchildren, one of whom Milton H. I5utler~- dwells on the old homestead, immediately south\\nof Mt. Clemens City. Mr. B. is now in his eighty-fifth year, and only sufi ei-s deafness\\noccasioned by a fall in 1805. His visits to Mt. Clemens are made almost daily, he per-\\nforming the joiu-ney on foot. During his sixty-four years citizenship of Macomb\\nCounty, he has proved a leader in all matters which promise good to the county, and now\\nin his old age looks back to the past with pleasure and forward to the future with higher\\nhopes.\\nCALKINS DAHM, druggists, purchased the business established in 1870 by L. H.\\n~5 V", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0576.jp2"}, "577": {"fulltext": "L^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nDuncan, from George H. Crane, the owner since 1878, in January, 1882. The stock kept\\nby this iirm is large and well selected; drugs, medicines, toilet articles, bathers and fish-\\ners supplies, soda fountains, etc., go to make up a store which compares favorably with\\nthe general retail di ug stores of om large cities. The offices of the Atlantic Pacific and\\nWestern Union Telegraph Companies are located in the store; it also connects with the\\nTelephone Exchange. H. W. Calkins, member of the firm of Calkins Dahm. was born\\nat Howell, Mich., in June, 1851 graduated P. H. C. from Ann Ai-bor in 1878; engaged in\\nthe di ug business at South Lj on. Mich., until forming a partnership with ]VIi\\\\ Dahm. in\\nDecember, 1881. He was maiTied to Miss Mattie McNaines. of Ann Arbor, in 1878.\\nWILLIAM M, CAMPBELL was born in Livingston County, N. Y., September 27,\\n1817; son of John Campbell, of Scotland, who came to the United States in 1794, and\\ndied in 1827. Mi Campbell s battles with the world began in his youth. After the\\ndeath of his father, he vowed never to use intoxicating liquor or tobacco, which vow has\\nbeen religiously observed by him. He labored on a farm iintil seventeen years old. Came\\nto Mt. Clemens m 188(), where he taught school for one year; then retiu-nedto New York,\\nwhere he lived on a farm dm-ing summer and taught school dm ing winter. In the fall of\\n1842, he settled permanently in Macomb, taught the Cady District School that winter;\\nsubsequently, he engaged in the manufacture of piunps at Mt. Clemens; was traveling\\nagent for about twenty years, but throughout has given a marked attention to agriculture.\\nHe made the first Free-Soil speech ever made in Michigan, on the public square of Mt.\\nClemens, and received the nomination for State Senator from Free-Soilers and Whigs,\\nwhen he ran ahead of his ticket. Mi Campbell married Mary E. Sackett, of Mom-oe\\nCounty. N. Y., January 17, 1844, to whom was born one child William T. Mrs. Camp-\\nbell is a member of the Baptist Church. Mr. Campbell is a member of the I. O. O. F.\\nWILLIAM T. CAMPBELL was born at what was once known as the village of Fred-\\nerick, Clinton Township, August 14, 1849: is the son of William M. Campbell, referred\\nto in these pages. He was married to Miss Mary Hubbard, daughter of the late Giles\\nHubbard, December 15, 1870. They are the pai-ents of four children, three of whom are\\nliving \u00e2\u0080\u0094Bessie, Blanche and George. Mr. Campbell devotes much attention to the train-\\ning of fast horses, and keeps sixtv-five cows in connection with a dairy.\\nARTHUR L. CANFIELD, member of the Macomb County bar, was born at Mt.\\nClemens January 27, 1844. Mr. C. received his education in the schools of Mt. Clem-\\nens, graduating fi-om the Union School in 1862. He studied at the Ypsilanti Seminary\\nfor two years; subsequently, entered the law office of Giles Hubbard and completed his\\ncom-se of law studies under Knight Jennison, of Detroit; he was admitted to the bar\\nbefore the Supreme Court in 1866; located at Mt. Clemens in 1867, where he has since\\nresided and where he has made the practice of law a complete success. He held the po-\\nsition of Circuit Court Commissioner for fom years; was nominated by the Republicans\\nfor Senator in 187 but declined the honor; was City Attorney for three years; above all,\\nhe is a lawver, to which busiue.ss he gives his undivided attention. His father, William\\nCanfield, was an old resident of Mt. Clemens, who located in the little village in 1829.\\nHe married a daughter of Judge Clemens, the founder of the village, and made the vil-\\nlage his home until his decease.\\nAUGUSTUS H. CANFIELD. sou of William Canfield. who died in 1877, was born\\non the homestead adjoining the city limits on North Gratiot street, June 11, 1841; was\\neducated at Mt. Clemens and at the Agricultural College. Lansing; entered the United\\nStates military service with the Ninth Michigan Infantry; was transferred in 1862 to\\nCompany G, and commissioned Second Lieutenant; in the fall of 1862, he was transferred\\nto Company H, and commissioned First Lieutenant; in 186H, he was commissioned Ad-\\njutant, and discharged with that rank in 1864. After a stay of three months at home, he", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0577.jp2"}, "578": {"fulltext": "11^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nleft for Chattanooga. Tenn., wiiere he remained one year. He visited New York City, in\\nOctober. 1S()0. and entered the em))loy of the wholesale hat, cap and fnr house of Will-\\niams \u00c2\u00bbfc Wliittlesey, whom he rej)resented in Michigan for live years. In 1871. he en-\\ngaged in the grocery business at Detroit; sold his stock in 1878, and entered the employ\\nof Ives, Miu phy Gore, of New York City, whom he represented in Michigan for two\\nyears, retiu uing to the homestead in 1875, where he now follows farming. Mr. C. was\\nmaiTied to Miss Alice Benton. His first wife was the mother of Guy M. Cantield. He\\nwas the first Master of the County Grange of Patrons of Husbandry, and is now holding\\nthe same jiosition.\\nOLIVER CHAPATON, a leading citizen of Macomb County for fifty-two years, and\\none of the most energetic and enterprising business men of Mt. Clemens City, was born at\\nDetroit January 18. I82(j. He is a lineal descendant of Dr. Louis Chapaton, surgeon, at-\\ntached to the French Army of Occupation, who arrived in Detroit about 171 2. Oliver\\nCha])aton came to Mt. Clemens in the fall of 1880, while yet it was a hamlet of a dozen\\nsmall houses. He was a merchant for thirteen years Treasui-er of Macomb ten years, and\\nis now part owner of the steamers City of Mt. Clemens and S. H. Johnson, engaged\\nin the carrying of lumber between Saginaw Bay and other lake ports. Mr. C. was one of\\nthe organizers of the Mt. Clemens Savings Bank in 1877. He was its first President,\\nwith J. W. Porter, first Cashier. He still holds the same position, while G. A. Skinner is\\nnow Cashier. The capital stock of the bank is $50,000. The business is well managed\\nand is a very important factor in the economic concerns of the city.\\nREV. M. A. CHURCHILL, sou of Charles P. Churchill, of Vermont, now of Buffalo,\\nN. Y., was born at Buffalo. July 0, 1845; graduated from Rochester University, New\\nYork, in 1871, and from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1874; he served as missionary\\nof the American Baptist Missionary Union in China for three years, leaving for that post\\nin September, 1874, and returning to the United States in January. 1878, on account of\\nillness; he was pa.stor of the Baptist Church at Northville. Mich., from September, 1878,\\nto September, 1870; he took charge of Hope Mission at Buffalo. January 1. 1880; he con-\\ntinued there until January, 1881; became pastor of Mt. Clemens Baptist Church May 1,\\n1881. He was mai-ried, June 25, 1874, to Miss Jennie R. Hoyt. of Penn Yan. N. Y., to\\nwhom was born one child Charles Hoyt. This lady died at Yokohama. Japan, Decem-\\nber 17, 1S75. October 80, 1878, he mai-ried for his second wife. Miss Eleanor E. Ches-\\nnutwood, of Brooklyn, N. Y., then of Buffalo, to whom were born two children Mary A.\\nand Sue O.\\nJOHN M. CLEVELAND, proprietor Shackleton House, was born at Thorold. On\\ntario, October 8, 1821: son of the late Joshua Cleveland, a native of Connecticut. Mr.\\nC. is a cooper, but has not worked at the trade since 1872. He came to Mt. Clemens in\\n1870, and sold the Howe Sewing Machine here for eight years. Together with his hotel\\nbusiness, he holds the position of janitor of the city school buildings. He was married\\nto Miss Margaret Swayze in 184t). They were the parents of seven childi-en, four of\\nwhom are living MaiT, Phcebe, Seward and Searford. the latter twins. Mr. C. is a mem-\\nber of the M. E. Chm-ch.\\nJOSEPH COLE (deceased) was born in .Saratoga County, N. Y. January 24, 1/92;\\ncame to Macomb County in 1884, and located lands in Clinton Township. He was one of\\nthe early sm-veyors of the county. Mr. Cole married Miss Sarah Macomber, of Greenfield,\\nN. Y., February 25, 1812, daughter of Mr. Macomber, of Columbia, N. Y. They were\\nthe parents of eleven children, viz., Catharine A, Ann., Jeanette, Lydia P., Martha,\\nSai-ah M., Cynthia M., Emily L., Sans L., Harriet, Phoebe E. Mrs. Martha Stout, of\\nAlpena, Mich., is one of the children of this old settler. Mr. Cole died while visiting his\\ndaughter at Bay City, July 81, 1878.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0578.jp2"}, "579": {"fulltext": "4\\nM-\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nJULIUS F. COULON was born at Newgen, Prussia, October 2(1. 184r): camf to the\\nUnited States iu lSo and settled in Clinton Township. He married Miss Cathai ine\\nKaiser. November 21. 1872. who was born August IH. LS4U. They are the parents of\\nthree children Otto, aged eight years. Alloin E. live years, and William C. Mr. Coulon\\nwas educated in the schools of Xewgen; was a soldier in the Regular Prussia Infantry for\\ntwenty-two months, from which he was honorably discharged. In this township, he has\\nheld the office of Highway Commissioner for two years. The family are members of the\\nLutheran Chiu ch congregation.\\nHENRY CONNER was born on the Conner homestead, one mile from Mt. Clemens.\\nOctober 25, 1818, now proprietor of the Sherman House: is the son of John Conner, a\\nveteran of the war of 1812, who was made prisoner by the British, taken to Halifax, ex-\\nchanged after the treaty of peace, and died at Romeo, aged ninety years. In the general\\nhistory of the county, a full reference is made to the pioneer, Richard Conner, who was\\nuncle of John Conner and father of Heniy Conner. Henry Conner married Anna Cran-\\nage, January 20, 1848. to whom were born five children Mary E. Edward H.. Helen R.,\\nWalter J. and Han-v A.\\nCHARLES D. CRITTENDEN, born in Ontario County, Phelps Township, N. Y.,\\nApril 10, 182 i son of John C. of Massachusetts, who went to Rhode Island when sixteen\\nyears old and to Orleans County, N. Y.. in 1S14. and of Ph ebe Goodi ich. of whom\\nCharles D. Crittenden is the third son: came with his family to Chesterfield in 1S81, and\\nsettled on Section 18, where his father still lives, aged eighty-six years. Mr. C. resides\\non part of the old homestead. For fifteen winters he was engaged in the lumbering busi-\\nness, devoting his attention to farming dm-ing the summers; he married Miss Knight,\\nMarch, 1855, to whom three children were born Thurston, Frank and Nettie. He is a\\nmember of the Masonic order; was Supervisor two years. Township Treasurer, two years,\\nSuperintendent of the Poor, eight years, and is the owner of :i24 acres of valuable land iu\\nthis county.\\nEDWIN F. CRITTENDEN, born at Junius. Seneca Co., N. Y.. Jamiary 22. 1.^24;\\nis the son of John Crittenden, of Massachusetts, who came to New York in 18ir), and set-\\ntled with his family in Michigan in 1881. Mr. C Sr., is still a resident of the county,\\nand, though aged eighty-six years, is compai atively active. E. F. Crittenden was raised\\non the fann and educated in the common schools. He experienced all the joys and sor-\\nrows of pioneer life: he married Miss Henrietta Wilson in 1851. who was the mother of\\nWilliam W. After the death of his first wife, he married Miss Martha Briggs. of Penn\\nYan, N. Y., December 7, 186S. The family moved into Mt. Clemens in 1S7().\\nWILLIAM G. CRITTENDEN was born iu Chesterfield Township January 10, 1835,\\nson of John C, of Massachusetts, who still resides in Chesterfield, at the age of eighty-\\nsix. His grandfather, John Crittenden, died in this county about 1852 or 1853, aged\\nninety years and five months. John C. came to Macomb in 1831. William G. Crittenden\\nengaged in business in 1855; ran threshing machine for foiu teen years: taught school\\nduring nine winter terms; bought forty acres of timber land in 185(), which he sold in\\n1862; built a steam sawmill in Lenox Township, in company with R. R. Robinson, in\\n18f)2; sold his interest to Robinson in 18()3; bought pine land in Midland County, Mich.,\\nin 1864, and lumbered thence- from the winter of that year until 1870. He piu chased an\\ninterest in 600 acres of pine land in Saginaw in 1869, and carried on hmiber operations\\nthere for one winter. This land he sold to difl erent parties. During the next three\\nyears, he worked on the farm and at the carpenter s bench during summers, and in the\\nlumber woods diu ing the winters, until 1874. He came to Mt. Clemens in 1875: worked\\nat carpenter s trade until 1876, when he engaged in the grocery and grain trade, with H.\\nC. M^hite as partner. He established a large hardware store at Mt. Clemens in Septemljer.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0579.jp2"}, "580": {"fulltext": "iht.\\nHISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n1880, with Robert Posner as partner. Mr. Crittonden married Miss Jane Hathaway,\\ndaughter of Julius Hathaway, an old settler of Armada, in January, 1879, to whom two\\nchildren were born. The Crittenden Posner hardware store is replete in the amount\\nand variety of stock carried. It is estimated that the annual sales amount to $30.\\nGEORGE M. CROCKER, son of Samuel Crocker, of Vermont, was born at Green-\\nville. Bond Co., 111., August 9, 184S. His father settled in Illinois about 1840, where he\\nwas Sheriff of Bond County for several years. Mr. Crocker was educated in Greenville,\\nagain at the Normal at Bloomington, and lastly at Newbmy, Vt. He came to Mt. Clem-\\nens in 18()7, where he entered the law office of his uncle, T. M. Crocker, who was then\\nProbate Judge. He was admitted to the bar in April, 1870; was elected Justice of the\\nPeace and Circuit Coiu t Commissioner same year; Prosecuting Attorney in 187(); re-\\nelected in 1878; Mayor of Mt. Clemens City in 1879; re-elected in 1880. He married\\nKatharine, daughter of Joshua B. Dickinson, September 6, 1870, to whom wei e born six\\nchildren, live of whom are living George D. Katharine, J. R., Margaret and Mary. Mr.\\nCrocker is connected with the Masonic Lodge of Mt. Clemens, and with the Romeo Com-\\nmaudery of Knights Templar. His record since coming to Mt. Clemens points out dis-\\ntinctly a man who has secured popular esteem by industry and integrity.\\nTHOMAS MARTIN CROCKER was born in Pawlet, Rutland Co.. Vt., November\\n-!8. 1825. He was the youngest of five children born to Thomas Crocker and Maiy\\nHooker, who were married in December. 1814. The Crockers were among the earliest\\nsettlers in Plymouth Colony, Mass. The exact date of their immigration cannot now with\\ncertainty be determined, bi;t they were in the colony as early as 1034, and the branch from\\nwhich he descends soon after that date settled in Barnstable County, Mass. Mary Hooker,\\nthe mother, was a descendant of the Rev. Thomas Hooker, who. with the people of his\\nchurch, took their flocks and herds through the wilderness from Massachusetts and foimded\\nthe Hartford colony in Connecticut in 1(535. Mr. Crocker was early taught to work upon\\nthe farm, and here he formed the habits of industry which still remain with him. The\\ncommon schools of Pawlet and Granville not affording all the advantages desired, he was\\nsent for several terms to a private school taught by Lyman Chandler, a graduate from\\nVermont University. He removed, in April, 1844, to Macomb County. In 1846 and\\n1847, he attended the school taught by Peter Moyers, at Rochester, Micli. In May, 1849,\\nhe was married to Fandira Emery, with whom he reared a family of fine children. He\\nremoved to New Baltimore in December, 1851. In the spring of 1852, he was elected\\nJustice of the Peace, and served a term of fotir years. In that then changing and increas-\\ning population, there was much litigation, and he had many suits brought before him.\\nFinding his knowledge of tne law unsatisfactory to himself, he purchased a small law library\\nand commenced in earnest the study of his future profession, and so careful was he in the\\nconsideration of the cases submitted for his judgment that no case where an appeal was\\ntaken from his decision was reversed in either the Circuit or Supreme Court. At the Jan-\\nuary term in 1859. Mr. Crocker applied for admission to the bar. The com-t was then\\nheld by the Hon. S. M. Green, who appointed the venerable Richard Butler, the Hon.\\nAndrew S. Robertson and Giles Hubbard as Committee of Examination. After his admis\\nsion. he entered ujion an active and large practice, and he has frequently been heard to\\nremark that business came to him as rapidly as he could properly qualify himself to attend\\nto it. In the general election in 18() 2. he was elected Prosecuting -Vttorney. having a ma-\\njority of eighty-five votes over his popular competitor, the Hon. E. F. Mead. In Novem-\\nber. 18(34, he was elected Judge of Probate, and served one term of four year s. He failed\\nto be re-elected in 18()8, as the party to which he belonged was then in the minority. In\\nNovember, 18( 2, the Hon. Giles Hubbard proposed to him a co-partnership, which was\\naccepted, and he removed with his family to Mt. Clemens. The business relations then\\nT\\nsjV", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0580.jp2"}, "581": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nentered upon between him and Mr. Hubbai d continuetl until the death of Mr. Hubbard,\\nNovember (i, 187(i. In ISfiT, Mr. Crocker was elected n member of the Constitutional\\nConvention. Acting with the minority, he took part in the deliberations of that body,\\nwhose labors were so signally defeated by the people upon the submission of the constitu-\\ntion to them. He served twelve years on the Mt. Clemens School Board, taking an active\\npart in raising the grade and character of the school. He was elected President of the\\nvillage in 1S74, and served four successive terms. He has been City Attorney since the\\nadoption of the city charter, and in whatever capacity he has served the people, he has\\nsteadily and unfalteringly advocated systematic progress. Mi Crocker has been twice\\nm;uTied, his present wife being the second daughter of the late John I. Traver, and widow\\nof the well-known Moore Stephens. Upon the death of Mi Hubbard, Mr. Crocker formed\\na copartnership with H. B. Hutchius, the husband of his eldest daughter, which copart-\\nnership still continues. As an attorney, Mr. Crocker stands in the front rank. He was\\ngifted by nature with a logical mind, which has been developed by study and discipline.\\nIf Mr. Crocker, in the ])resentation of cases, is noted for one thing more than another, it\\nis his habit of independent reasoning from tirst principles. Although an earnest student\\nof reported cases, he is in no sense a case lawyer. He looks npon the law not as a mere\\nbudget of decisions, but rather as a comprehensive fi-ame work of principles. Thoroughly\\ndevoted to his profession, active, industrious and untiring in his work, he has always en-\\njoyed the confidence and esteem of his clients, and the respect and friendship of his asso-\\nciates at the bar. Mr. Crocker has ever been a Democrat, Ijelieving the elementary princi-\\nples of that party those best calculated for the safety and prosperity of our Government.\\nHe has been on several occasions ofl ered the nomination for Congress in this district, but\\nhis duties to his family and his clients have so far prevented him from accepting the\\nhonor.\\nAUGUSTUS CZIZEK, son of Yensel Czizek, of Bohemia, was liorn in Prussia Septem-\\nber 17, 183:-^; came to Detroit in 1854, andtoMt. Clemens in 1S5 he, in partnership with\\nCharles Ulrich, operated the fii st butcher-shop in the village, and, buying Mr. Ullrich s in\\nterest, managed the business until his death, April 4, ISfiS. Mi Czizek was married, No-\\nvember 22, 18ot\\\\ to Gertrude Rosscopp, daughter of John Rosscopp, who came to Detroit\\nfi om Germany in 1854. andtoMt. (Jlemens in 18 Of ten children born to this marriage,\\nfive ai e living, namely: Annie, now ISIi s. B. Yanlandeghem, Jr.; Anthony, John, Jacol)\\nand Caspar. The family belong to the Catholic Church.\\nZEPHANLAH DAYISON, a native of Vermont, married :Mi s. Olive Davison, a native\\nof Bethel, Vt.. at Pittsford. N. Y., February 18, 1825. The following year, they moved to\\nMichigan, and located in Ray Township some time later. In 1844, the family moved to\\nMt. Clemens, where Mr. Davison died three years ago, and Mrs. Davison April 20, 1882.\\nThey were the parents of nine childi en, six of whom are living.\\nJ. D. AEiTHUR DEZIEL, owner of dry goods, ladies fur and notion store, established\\nin spring of 1881 by Brehler Deziel. was born at Montreal. Canada; was educated at\\nPoint Levis, opposite Quebec: came to Detroit in 18(59. where he served as clerk in the\\n(h-y goods store of L. A. Smith Co. for a period of twelve years previous to his settlement at\\nMt. Clemens in the spring of 1881. Mr. Deziel s trade is estimated at \u00c2\u00a72(),()()0i)er annum.\\nWILLIAM L. DIC;KEN. County Clerk, was born in Ray Township October 8. 1883,\\nson of John Dicken, of England, who settled in York State in 181S, and in Ray Township\\nin 1831. William L. received his education in the district schools of Ray, and also of\\nDisco, in Shelby Tovmship. He learned harness-making in 1852; established a shop at\\nRay in 1855, and operated it until 1878, when he was elected County Clerk. He married\\nMiss America H. Harris, daughter of Lovell Harris, June 3(t, 18(i(), to whom were born five\\nchikh-en, of whom three are living Carrie L., Je.ssie B. and Hugh W. The former is a\\nVll", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0581.jp2"}, "582": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COT NTY.\\ngraduate of Mt, Clemens High School, class of 1881. During Mr. Dicken s residence in Ray\\nLe has been honored with a few of the principal township offices. His services as Clerk of Ma-\\ncomb County are marked by strict attention to the affairs of his office and a genial method\\nof transacting public business.\\nJOSHUA B. DICKINSON, deceased, was born December U. 1811, in Orange County,\\nVt. He received a good common-school education, and passed his j ounger days in the\\nEastern States, variously engaged. In 1841. he came to Michigan, locating at Detroit.\\nOne year later, he moved to Mt. Clemens, which was his home fi om that time until his\\ndeath. He engaged in the mercantile business upon coming here, but, after some years,\\nconfined himself chiefly to real estate. He was one of the builders of the old Romeo\\nMt. Clemens Plank Road. By his thrift and good judgment, he accumvilated a consider-\\nable fortune. He had a large circle of warm friends in every town in the county. In\\npolitics, he was a stanch Democrat, being Chairman of the County Committee for many\\nyears. In 185 he was elected County Treasurer, and was re-elected in 1854, and was\\nsubsequently elected Register of Deeds, hen Mt. Clemens became a city, he was\\nelected as the first Mayor, an honor that he highly appreciated. At different times, he\\nwas placed in other positions of trust, and filled them all honorably and creditably. He\\njoined the Odd Fellows in Buffalo in 1843, and was a charter member of the society here\\nwhen organized in 1847, and we l)elieve at different times occupied the various official\\nchairs of the lodge. Mr. Dickinson was married, in 1846. to Katharine Lee, daughter of\\nGeorge Lee and granddaughter of Judge Christian Clemens. Ten years later, his wife\\nand three of his children died. The loss of his wife and children was a crushing blow to\\nMr. Dickinson. He never recovered from its effects. He never remarried, and the great\\nobject of his life was in watching over and caring for his remaining child, Katharine L.\\nHis efforts in this direction were gilded with sunshine. They were never separated dur-\\ning his life, and this child proved a kind, devoted, loving and reverential daughter to\\nhim. She developed into a pure and attractive woman. She married George M. Crocker\\nin Septembei 187(1. She was a constant and affectionate wife, and was a fond and ever\\nwatchful mother. Her sudden and seemingly untimely decease, which occim-ed in March,\\n188 2, was received with the deepest regret by all who knew her. Mr. Dickinson died in\\nMay, 187U. The news of his death was received with unfeigned regret by the entire\\ncounty. The Circuit Court adjoiu-ut^d out of respect for his memory. The Common\\nCoimcilof Mt. Clemens attended his funeral in a body; also the Odd Fellows society, and\\nmany of the business places of the city were draped in moiu-ning. As to the character of\\nMJr. Dickinson, the testimony oE all agrees. He was a kind and good man at home, cotir-\\nteous and considerate to all. He bore his trials with fortitude: was the young man s\\nfriend and adviser; was open-handed in philanthropic endeavor, and public-spirited in a\\nhigh degree. He was, in short, a true citizen. To not many men can be given greater\\npraise than this. Early identified with Mt. Clemens, he was ever solicitous of her wel-\\nfare, and lost no opportunity to advance the town in growth and improvement. It was\\nindeed fitting that he should be elected her fir.st Mayor.\\nSILAS DIXON, son of John, a ship-carpenter, son of William, was born at Chatham,\\nConn.. February i J, ISl came to Mt. Clemens in 1834, while Shelby sti-eet was still a\\nwilderness, and opened a shoemaking shop, which he operated for several years. He es-\\ntablished his gi-ocery business in 1848, and continued it with success for twenty years.\\nHe was appointed United States Revenue Collector here, and held the position for twelve\\nyears; was Village Trustee, and a Treasm-er for several years, and in early days was Con-\\nstable for four years. He was married. May 1834, to Miss Harriet Loomis. to whom\\ntwo childi-en were born. Mi-s. Loomis Dixon died August 21. 1837. Mr. Dison married\\nMiss Harriet Cleggett February 9. 1831t. to whom ten children were born. He is a mem-", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0582.jp2"}, "583": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n.k\\nber of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, and one of the sm-viving old settlers of the\\nvillage.\\nANDREW T. DONALDSON, of the Donaldson firm, was born in North Ii-eland Sep-\\ntember 1^1), 1S48; eame with his father and family, in 1S44. to the United States, and set-\\ntled with them in Macomb County. He was man-ied, November 9, 1S09. to Miss Olive\\nDixon, daughter of Silas Dixon, an old settler of the county. They are the parents of\\nthree childi-en Meta and Harry S. a third child is deceased. Mr. Donaldson has bet-n\\nhonored with position on the City Council Board, in the Masonic Order, and in the Pres-\\nbyterian Church., of which he is a member.\\nWILLIAM S. DONALDSON, son of James Donaldson, who came with his family\\nfrom North of Ireland in 1844 and settled at Cady s Corners, was born in Ireland October\\n10, 1841. ^Villiam S was raised and educated at Mt. Clemens, and learned the black-\\nsmith s trade in his father s shop there. He maiTied Miss Sarah Leonard, daughter of\\nthe late Sylvester Leonard, September 5, 18 )5, to whom was born Arthur L. After the\\ndeath of this lady, he married Miss Eliza L. Harrington, daughter of HaiTy Harrington,\\nan old settler of Macomb County. Mr. Donaldson is a member of the Masonic Order; has\\nbeen Alderman of the city, and one of the most enterprising citizens.\\nCAPT. WILLIAM DULAC, son of Louis and Josephine (Peltier) Dulae, the latter\\nborn at Detroit in 1798. was born in Han-ison Township December 21, 1887. The family\\nmoved into Mt. Clemens previous to 1840. In 1849, Capt. Dulac began his lake voyages;\\nwas cabin boy and pilot successively, and Captain for the last quarter of a centiuy. He is\\nthe builder of live boats, two of which were constructed in the winter of 1881-82 one 180\\nfeet long, with ii I feet beam; the other, 65 feet long, with 1(5 feet beam, is a tug-boat.\\nThe Captain has charge of the passenger and freight steamboat the Weston, from Man-\\nistee to Tonawanda, N. Y. He was married, January 20. 186H. to Nancy Peltier, daugh-\\nter of Joseph Peltier, of Harrison. They are the parents of six children, fom- of whom\\nare living, namely: Adele, Ai-thui-, Emma and Berton. The family belong to the Cath-\\nolic Chiu ch.\\nROBERT F. EASTMAN was bom at Chelsea, Vt., in 1814; eame to Mt. Clemens in\\n1835, and was one of the leading business men of the village for many years. Mr. East-\\nman was twice married. His second wife. Hairiet M. Rutler. a native of Philadelphia,\\ncame to Mt. Clemens in 1S;!9. She is the daughter of Thomas Rutler. a Captain in the\\nUnited States Navy, who died in Africa in 18 _ 8. Mrs. Eastman is the mother of fom-\\nchildren Frederick, Ai-thur. Fannie and Julia. Arthur served in Company I. Ninth\\nMichigan Infantry; made jwisoner; exchanged company Second Lieutenant Eighth Mich-\\nigan Cavalry; and lastly. First Lieutenant, which position Le held when discharged in\\n18(55, on account of wounds received at Sweetwater. Frederick served in the Second\\nPennsylvania Cavalry; passed seven months in Libby, Charleston and Macon, and, in\\n18(J3. was commissioned Captain, which position he held when discharged.\\nJOHN EBERLEIN, son of John L.. was born in Bavaria. Germany: April 25, 1828,\\nHe came to Detroit in 1854, and to Clinton Township in 185(5, when he paid $275 for\\na tract of twenty-five acres, since increased to 130 acres. Section 31, Clinton He was\\nmarried, at Detroit. June 3, 1854, to Miss Catherine Smith. They were the parents of\\nnine ehildi en, seven of whom are living Barbara. George. Fred, Caroline. Mary. John\\nand Leonard, ^hc. Eberleiu has not sought for public positions. The family belong to\\nthe German Lutheran Church.\\nJAMES C. EDGERLY was born in the State of Massachusetts November 22, 1791, of\\nEnglish parentage, his father being a son of one of the early colonists of New England;\\nhis mother s maiden name. Hannah Chadwick, a daughter of the younger son of the Earl\\nof Chadwick of England. The Edgerly family moved to Vermont; subsequently, to Gen-\\nTT\\nW", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0583.jp2"}, "584": {"fulltext": "esee Couuty. N. Y., 1814. James C. Edgerly served three months in the war of 1812, inKel-\\nlogg s company, of militia vohmteers, taking the place of an older brother who was drafted.\\nMarried in December of the same year; engaged in mercantile business; failed in 1821\\nsettled uj) business and went to Canada; stayed sis or eight months; bought lumber at\\nRunnel s Mill, rafted it. moved on to the raft, his family and household goods lioth being\\nsmall; weighed anchor, floated to the mouth of the Thames; sent raft to Detroit; hired a\\nrow-boat to bring him to Mt. Clemens, the Captain and crew of the boat being compo.sed\\nof one man and small boy; arrived at Mt. Clemens in the spring of 1822; entered eighty\\nacres of laud now known as Mosher farm; soon made a small opening in the dense forest,\\nwhere he planted potatoes, etc. potatoes yielded abundantly and of excellent quality, but\\nblackbirds, squirrels and many other natives of the country took the largest share of the\\ncorn, leaving but little to the disappointed planters. He stayed on the place two or three\\nyears; concluded to take his chance, on Judge Clemens farm, as the Judge wanted some\\none to take charge of it, so moved into town; this consisted of eight dwellings and one\\nstore; the whole stock in trade, whisky and all, could have be\u00c2\u00abn cairied away in a small\\nmarket wagon; there were also a shoemaker s shop, a blacksmith s shop and a cooper s\\nshop, a court house and jail, all in one, built of square timber. It was in this coiu-t house\\nthat the first school ever taught in Mt. Clemens held its session. Miss Jane Everett, teacher;\\nthis was in the summer of 1S25; the following winter, J. C. Edgerly taught school in the\\nsame place. In April of the same year, received the a[)pointment of Lieutenant in the\\nmilitia of the Territory, from Lewis Cass, then Governor of the Territory; in December,\\n182r was appointed Justice of the Peace for the county of Macomb by Gov. Cass; two\\nyeai s later, bought and moved on the farm now known as the Parker farm, where he spent\\nthe rest of his life; died of heart disease, after a few hours illness, November 14, 1851.\\nHON. R. P. ELDRIDGE, born on the banks of the Hudson, town of Greenwich, Wash-\\nington Co., N. Y., in 18(18; winter of 1814-15, his father moved to Lebanon, Madison County,\\nand thence to Hamilton Township, on east side of West Branch of Chenango River, in\\nsame county. In his fifteenth year, he entered the Hamilton Academy. New York, to pre-\\npare for college, but his mother died when he was sixteen. The ehikU en, eight in number,\\nwere separated; he taught in winter and studied in summer while attending college, from\\nnecessity. At the request of his father, he bi gan the study of law at the age of seventeen,\\nunder Stowe Girdly. the most eminent law firm of Madison County, while they were\\nrequired to labor hard at copying tables; at close of school, in spring of 182H, he had $20\\nin cash, with which he started for the Territory of Michigan; with no references except in\\nteaching, he landed in Detroit May 26. 182(), poorly clad, and with 10 shillings; taught\\nschool in the debtor s room of the Detroit Jail six weeks, at 18 a scholar per quarter, lint\\nwas taken sick and abandoned it. He went to Pontiac the same year, and taught there\\ndm ing the winters following, and devoted his evenings and Satui-days to recording deeds in\\nthe Register s oflice; was afflicted the same winter with sore eyes, which cost more than his\\nteaching brought him. He rode to Mt. Clemeus on a borrowed horse in the spring of\\n1827, and located here in July, walking the whole distance from Pontiac; worked for his\\nboard for a Mr. Ashley, a merchant; the next fall, received some law books from his fa-\\nther which he read. He began keeping bachelor s hall in the fall of 1827 in Mt. Clem-\\nens, and read law; admitted to the bar by examination in open coui-t in the fall of 1828;\\non that occasion, stopped at Uncle Ben s Steamboat Hotel in Detroit, and. in passing from\\nthere to the old capitol building where the court was convened, he did not pass a pedes-\\ntrian or pass a house; retiu ned to Mt. Clemens and hung out his shingle, being the tu st\\nlawyer in Macomb County. The people were industrious and peaceable, and his prospects\\nwere gloomy; would have sought other location, but poverty held him there. The county\\nimproved rapidly, settlers increased and grew wealthy, and other lawyers located in the\\nV^ S r- y", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0584.jp2"}, "585": {"fulltext": "u^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMli COUNTY.\\ncoiinty, and many Buddenly discovered that they had received injiu ies at the hands of their\\nneighbors, which duty to themselves and to society required them to have righted. From\\nthis lime Mr. Eldridge found it easy to support himself and family. He soon took active\\nparts in politics; being a Democrat, was a warm supporter of Jackson and Van Bui en, an;i\\nDemocratic nominees for State and county offices; in February, 1842, was appointed Secre-\\ntary of State by Gov. Barry, which office he held four years: in the fall of 1846, was elected\\nto the Senate, and attended first session of Legislatiu-e at Lansing in 1847; left politics\\nat the close of the session; when his term of office as Secretary of State expired, he re-\\nsumed law practice at Mt. Clemens, Mich., which he successfully pursued for many years.\\nHe looked upon the law as a noble science, and loves its practice, esteems and reverences\\nit, and has occupied an eminent position among the oldest attorneys of Michigan, but has\\nrecently retired from active life, and resides quietly at Mt. Clemens. He was man-ied, in\\nOctober, 18;U, to Miss Louise Crittenden, to whom thi ee children were born-\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Catharine,\\nJames B. and Carrie. After the death of Mrs. L. C. Eldridge, he married Miss Jane A,\\nLeonard, who is the mother of Miss Emma Eldridge, In the organic, pioneer, law, ]iolit-\\nical and other chapters of this woi k, the connection between this old resident and Macomb\\nC ounty is fiilly set forth.\\nJAMES B. ELDRIDGE, Judge of Probate for Macomb County, was born at Mt.\\nf Uemens November 25, 1885. His father, Robert P. Eldridge, one of the few sm-viving\\nold residents of the city, one of the early lawyers of the county and a well-knowa citizen of\\nthe State, confeiTed on him many of those educational advantages which, in common with\\nthe American pioneers, he esteemed. The Judge having passed some years in attending\\nthe Mt. Clemens school, was transferred to the Romeo Academy, then affiliated with the\\nMichigan University. He graduated from Ann Ai-bor with the class of 1855; studied law,\\nand was admitted to the bar of Macomb County in June, 1858. In 1S()2, he was elected\\nRepresentative; two years later. Prosecuting Attorney; this latter office he also held from\\n1870 to 187*); when he was elected Judge of Probate. In 188(1, he was re-elected Probate\\nJudge, which position he now holds. Judge Eldridge was married to Miss Helen S. Fitch\\nJanuary 27, 1859, daughter of Samuel Fitch. They are the parents of two children Julia\\nL. (Spier), and Robert F.. now a student of the Michigan University. A reference to the\\norganic, law and political chapters of the general history will show the part taken by\\nJudge Eldridge in the affiiirs of the county, A review of the organic and society sketches\\nof Mt. Clemens will show his public connection with the city.\\nALOIS EYTH, born at Binsdorf, Wurtemberg, Germany, March HO, 1850; came to\\nMt. Clemens in 1872. He was married to Miss Louisa Miller, of Alsace, November 29,\\n1877. They are the parents of Alois and Caroline Eyth.\\nJUDSON S. FARRAR, Register of Deeds, was born at Mt, Clemens August 23, 1836.\\nHis father, Manson Farrar, of New York, is an old settler of Macomb, now a resident of\\nLenox Township. Col. Farrar s military record will be foiuid in the history of the war\\nfor the Union, and his political record in the political and organic chapters. As a soldier\\nand citizen he is known throughout the State. He man-ied Miss Cari ie Eldridge, daugh-\\nter of Robert P. Eldridge, in June, 18(54, to whom were born five children, four of whom\\nare living.\\nJESSE O. FERRIS, son of Jonathan Ferris, was born in Cortland Township, N.\\nY., December 8, 1800. He was educated in the subscription school in Westchester County;\\nsubsequently was clerk in store of Clark Haight, of Peekskill, from 1817 to 1819; in\\n1820. settled at Big Sodus Bay, on Lake Ontario; in 1823, bought a half-interest in canal-\\nboat, while his cousin, named Hubbell, bought a second interest. This boat he ran on the\\nErie Canal in 1823 and 1S24. He engaged in grocery business at Lyons, N. Y.. for about\\ntwo years, then in the diy goods trade for two years; came to Mt. Clemens in 1831, and\\nrN^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0585.jp2"}, "586": {"fulltext": "584 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nboarded at Ashley s Tavern for two years. He superintended the construction of several\\nmiles of Gratiot Turnpike, and ultimately settled the homestead on Section 1. Clinton\\nTownship. In December, 18;^:{, Mi Ferris visited his father, who was a Captain in the\\nwar of IHI 2. He served ten days in the Toledo war. He was mairied, February 17,\\nl SH;i, to Jane S. Ed^erly. daughter of James C, who settled in Chesterfield Township in\\nspring of 18 2 2, while it was yet a wilderness. They were the parents of five children\\nMartin, who was a lawyer at Brownstown, Ind.. died at Minneapolis, Minn., in Septem-\\nber, 18(59; Marion A., James E., Jennie and Frank. Mr. FenuF was Assessor of Clinton\\nin ]8;^2; was Road Commissioner for many tei-ma, and one of the County Superintendents\\nof the Poor when the County Farm was purchased.\\nMARTIN FERRIS was born June 7, 1884. He attended the district school, also\\nselect school, at Mt. Clemens. At the age of seventeen, he entered the law office of Ferris\\nFrost, of Peekskill, N. Y., where he remained three years; returned to Michigan in\\n1855, read law in Detroit thi ee months, and was admitted to the bar in 1855. He went\\nSouth in 185(). and opened a law office at Brownstown, Ind. in 1857, and was soon ad-\\nmitted to all the higher courts of the State. He was highly successful in business until\\n18()5, when, his health beginning to fail on account of throat disease and bronchitis, in\\nJune, 18()8, he came home for the last time. In August of that year, he went to Minne-\\napolis. Minn., for his health and business, and died September 8, 1868. He was buried at\\nBrownstown, Ind.\\n(lEORGE C. FLETCHER, son of Jesse Fletcher, of Ludlow, Windsor Co., Vt., was\\nborn June 18, 1817; came to Newark, Ohio, with parents, in 18l! J; visited New Y ork City\\nin \\\\H 24, and Ludlow in 1825, and lived with his grandfather Fletcher; passed some time\\nat Keeseville, N. Y. in 1888, came to Cleveland, Ohio,, to Detroit in 1884, and to Mt.\\nClemens in 188(i, where he was engaged in mercantile life for twenty-two years. In 18(51,\\nmuch of his property was destroyed by fire. His valuable farm of 180 acres, on North\\nGratiot street, in Clinton Township, is an evidence of the success which waited upon his\\nlabors since that time. Mi-. Fletcher was married, in 188(5, to Eliza G. Hough, to whom\\nfour children were born, namely: Emma, Betsy C. Sydney M. and George W. Of these\\nchildren, Sydney is dead. Mr. Fletcher is the owner of stock in the Detroit Placer Min-\\ning Company, now operating in Idaho.\\nWILLIAM FLUEMER, son of Charles Fluemer, of Prussia, German Empire, was\\nborn February 8, 1825; came to Philadelphia, Penn. in 1844, and to Macomb County,\\nMich., in 1850. Here he engaged in farming until 18(50. when he moved into Mt. Clem-\\nens, opened a confectionery store, which he operated for nine years, until the completion\\nof his fiom-iug mill. Mr. Fluemer married Miss Mary Dierlam, of Philadelphia, in 184(5,\\nto whom Were born eight childi-en, of whom five are living, namely; Mary, William, Charles,\\nAmelia and Lewis.\\nREV. THOMAS FORSTER, born at Harrisburg, Penn., November 15, 1812, son of\\nGen. John Forster, of the war of 1812. He was educated at Dickinson College, of Car-\\nlisle, Penn., where he graduated in 1829. He graduated from the Western Theological\\nSeminary at Allegheny City, Penn., in 1889. He was educated first for law; was admitted\\nto the bar in 1888, and practiced for a short time. He united with the Presbyterian\\nChurch in 1884; was licensed and ordained in 184() to preach at Margaretta Furnace, York\\nCo., Penn., where he labored two years, then went to Wellsboro, P\u00c2\u00abnn., where he remained\\na short time, and in 1845 came to Mt. Clemens; was supply of the chiu ch here for five\\nyears, until he removed to Monroe, Mich., in 1850, where he was stated supjily for about\\ntwo years; was pastor at Middletown. Del., for three yeai s: retm ned to Michigan in 1857,\\nwhere he was stated supply at Southfield for nine and a half years. He returned to Mt.\\nClemens in 18(57, where he still resides. Mr. Forster was married, in February, 1848, to", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0586.jp2"}, "587": {"fulltext": "/Y^/^fp/l^k-/(;", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0587.jp2"}, "588": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0588.jp2"}, "589": {"fulltext": "l\\\\^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMiss Eliza R. Hall, daughter of Dr. Hall, deceased. They are the parents of four chil-\\ndren Mary E., Thomas H., John E. and George Chalmers. Thomas H. is married and\\nresides at Lansing, where he is clerk in the Secretary of State s office.\\nLEWIS A. FOX, son of Gustavus Fox, an early settler of Macomb, was born in Clin\\nton Township, Section 9, September It), 18:^5. His early experiences may be summed up\\nas follows: Limited school facilities, hard work; picked brush, rolled logs, made staves,\\ncut and hauled wood to Mt. Clemens the hauling being done with aid of oxen, and the\\nwood being sold for 50 cents per cord; morning calls made with aid of lumber drawn by\\noxen; mother accustomed to carry a blazing brand to restrain the wolves from seizing the\\nboy; Indian playmates, etc. etc. Mr. Fox survived these olden days: married Miss Sarah,\\ndaughter of David Tucker, of Harrison Townshij). November K), 18(U, to whom five chil-\\ndren were born, namely: Herbert, Elizabeth, Alice, Gertrude and Ai-thur. He has a valua-\\nble farm of sixty-five acres; is a member of Grange, and has been Justice of the Peace for\\npast five years.\\nGUSTAVUS FOX, son of Joel Fox, was born in Connecticut April 11, 1810. Joel\\nsettled near Batavia. N. Y. in 1815. and moved to Canada in 1825. Mr. Fox came to\\nMacomb County in IHH Z, worked for a short time at Mt. Clemens, and then entered sixty-\\neight acres on Section 9, Clinton, which is the homestead farm. He experienced all the\\nvicissitudes of pioneer life, and, like the pioneers, overcame all obstacles. He was mar-\\nried, in 1885, to Miss Sarah Burnham, to whom eight children were born Lewis A.,\\nGeorge W.. Sarah E.. Margai-et J., John G., Hen ick W., Henrietta M. and Robert B.\\nall living, the youngest being twenty-eight years eld.\\nHENRY FRIES, born in Dutchess County, N. Y., June 3, 1827, son of John A, of\\nsame county, and Margaret Mink, of Columbia County, N. Y. Mr. Fries was educnted\\nin the schools of Dutchess County. He moved to Wayne County, N. Y. in 1843, and to\\nMacomb County, Mich., in 1851, whei e he resided on a farm in Harrison Township, as\\nagriculturist and stock-raiser, until 1877, when he sold and removed to city of Mt. Clem-\\nens. He was married, in March, 1853, to Mrs. Gertrude Shook, daughter of William\\nPhillips, to whom were born five childi en by first husband, three of whom are living\\nJacob, Elizabeth (Hall) and Ada (Chasej. Mr. Fries was County Superintendent of the\\nPoor for over twenty years.\\nS. S. GALE. Over one hundred and seventy-five year- ago. there came to the\\nUnited States fi-om England thi-ee brothers named Gale, all of whom are supposed to have\\nlanded at New York City. William, presumably the senior, was the father of five sons,\\nwell-known settlers of Dvitchess County, N. Y. William, John, Noah, Roger and Joseph.\\nThe first was born in 1732. and died in 1804. He was the father of eight sons William,\\nIsaac. Joseph, Reuben. Nathaniel. Ira, Rufus and Jeremiah. William was born in 175B,\\nand died in 1780. He had one son, William, who was the father of Samuel S. Gale. He\\nwas born in Fairfield County, Conn., May 25, 1780; was married to Miss Mary Welch,\\nof Westchester County, N. Y. in May, 1804. To them were born John P. James M.\\nPeter B. and Samuel S. His daughters were Betsy, Maria and Hannah Ann. After the\\ndeath of his first wife, William Gale married Miss Lydia Smith, to whom were born Zenas\\nS., William W., Manly P., Polly, Eliza, Thirza J., Amelia D. and Mary E., of whom\\nPolly and Eliza died in infancy. S. S. Gale was born at Genoa, Cayuga Co., N. Y., Jan-\\nuary 4, 1819. His father was a teacher, a builder and a farmer. He moved into the\\nwilderness of Lock Township in 1822, and there young Samuel lived to see that wild tract\\nconverted into fertile fields. At the age of eighteen yeai s. he entered life on his own ac\\ncount. In 1837, he visited his brother. John P., at Mt. Morris, N. Y., where he worked at\\ncai pentry and joinery for one year. In 1838, he returned to the homestead, and soon\\nafter entered Groton Academy, where he studied for four years, giving most of his time", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0589.jp2"}, "590": {"fulltext": "2J^\\nin winter to teaching, and, during vacations, to manual labor. In his third year of acad-\\nemical study, he was elected School Inspector for Groton Township. During the build-\\ning of the new academy, he took the contract for roofing, by which, with other work on\\ntlie building, he realized a sum sufficient to pay his school expenses for the ensuing year.\\nReturning to Mt. Morris after completing his academical com se, he worked a short time\\nfor his brother, and then entered the law office of Wisner Fitzhugh, in 1 S41. In 1S4 2,\\nhe came to Michigan with a purse of $25. Arriving at Detroit June 7, leaving his trunk\\nthere, he pushed on foot to Pontiac, passed the cars on the Milwaukee Railroad at Bir-\\nmingham, and an ived there that evening. On this journey, he exchanged some good\\nEastern money for Pontiac bank bills, which proved entirelyvForthless. It was a valuable\\nlesson in Western Unances. At Pontiac he introduced himself to George M. Wisner,\\nbrother of Wisner of Mt Morris. He succeeded Prof, illiams as Principal of Pontiac\\nAcademy, and opened it as a high school, with two pxipils, which number increased to thirty\\nbefore the close of the term. He conducted the high school for four years, at the same\\ntime pursiiing law studies in the office of the Wisners. He was admitted an attorney at\\nlaw before Judge Whipple, December 11, 1840, at Pontiac. In 1847, he opened a law\\noffice at Farmington, Oakland County. There he married Miss Mai-y Collins, daughter of\\nGeorge W. Collins, one of the pioneers of Oakland, November 27, IS. This lady was\\nborn at East Bloomtield, N, Y., November 8, 1822. They are the parents of George C,\\nborn at Farmington July 29, 1852, and Cynthia Maria, both now residents of Mt. Clem-\\nens. G. C. Gale married Miss Florence Dixon October 10, 1878. In the fall of 1852,\\nMr. Gale was Princijml of the North City School at Ann Arbor. He was also a member\\nof the School Re-organization Committee, which originated the idea of primary ward\\nschools and a central high school. After three years at Ann Ai bor, Mi-. Gale returned\\nwith his family to Farmington and entered business as dry goods salesman. When the\\nUnion School of Mt. Clemens was organized, he was asked to become its Princii)al, which\\noffice was accepted. In the fall of l8()(l, he was elected Circuit Court Commissioner, and\\nas such was engaged in the celebrated cause of Gilbert Hathaway versus William Jenny.\\nAbout two months before the termination of his office as Circuit Court Commissioner. No-\\nvember ly, 18r)2, he entered a partuershi] with Stui-tevant, the hardware merchant, and.\\nJanuary 1, lSn8, became an active pai tner in the concern. March 21. 18l)4, Sturtevant\\nsold his interest to Mr. Gale, and since that time the latter has carried it on successfully.\\nA reference to the school history of Mt. Clemens will ])oint out Mr. Gale s relation to the\\nSchool Board. In the organic chapter, reference is made to his appointment as Judge of\\nProbate. In reviewing the foregoing notice. i ne must be forciV ly reminded of all that\\nwhich earnestness and energy, directed by principles of honor and honesty, are capable of\\nachieving. After a number of years devoted principally to what are known as the learned\\nprofessions professions which won for Mr. Gale both honors and emoluments we find\\nhim entering commercial life and making a marked success therein within a few years.\\nEDWARD C. GALLUP, deceased, was born in Connecticut in 1814; came to Mt.\\nClemens in 18:)4. and married Mrs. Eliza Hawkins, daughter of Judge Clemens, in 1838.\\nHe engaged in dry goods trade here; subsequently became wool-buyer, which business he\\nfollowed until his death, in August, 1878. His wife and one daughter, Mi s. Mai-tha (Gal-\\nlup) Crittenden, are living. The former is in possession of letters written to Judge Clem-\\nens as early as 1804, and of an account of a journey made b) Gen. Cass and himself to\\nnegotiate a treaty with the Indians on the lake shore.\\nDR. VALENTINE GARDNER, physician and sm-geon, was born in Bavaria, German\\nEmpire, September 19, 1821, son of Adam Gardner, who settled in Ohio in 1885. Dr.\\nGardner attended school in Bavaria until 1840, when he visited his father s home in Ohio.\\nIn the s|7i-ing of 1841 he returned to Europe, where he remained until 1843. when he", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0590.jp2"}, "591": {"fulltext": "A\\ncame to Ohio. There he attended the Cleveland schools for some years: graduated from\\nthe Erie Medical College in S4S His practice at Cleveland was continued for several\\nyears, until his removal to Defiance. Ohio, where he was a practitioner until November,\\n1879, the date of his settlement at Mt. Clemens. Dr. Gardner married Miss Catherine\\nHursh. They are the parents of four children, viz Mary. Jennie. Valentine and Charley.\\nDr. Gardner has built up for himself a good practice.\\nNORTHUP J. GIBBS. Architect and Superintendent of Mt. Clemens, was born in\\nSterling Township. Macomb, July 2. ISHS. His father. Orton Gibbs, of Albany, N Y.,\\nlocated in this county in 1826. Mr. Gibbs labored in the homestead farm and attended\\nthe district schools until he entered the Agricultural College at Lansing In 1857, he\\nbegan to take lessons in art and drawing, under Prof I. T. Smith, of Detroit. In 1859,\\nhe entered the United States Army for service during the INIormon troubles. In the late\\nwar, he served until 1S()4, and was present at the surrender of the United States troops at\\nSt. Augustine Springs, Texas, August 27. 18()1. Lyand s command was paroled on the\\ngi-ound and ordered to Fort Craig, thence marched to Leavenworth, Kan. After his dis-\\ncharge, he located at St. John s, Mich., and ojiened an ai chitect office there. He settled\\nat Mt. Clemens in 1874. while it was still an old-time French hamlet, and now holds the\\nposition of City Siuweyor and Civil Engineer. What improvements have been effected\\nunder his direction are evident to-day in the uew residences, hotels, county coiu-t house,\\njail, etc. Mr. Gibbs married Miss Emma Davy, daughter of Charles Davy, of Warren\\nTownship, .in iSfU. They are the parents of one child. Mr. Gibbs is deservedly popu-\\nlar, and his architectural designs are widely esteemed.\\nSAMUEL GIBBS, deceased, was born in New Ham])shire in October, 1/95. son of\\nSamuel and grandson of Samuel, of English ancestry, who were di iven from their homes\\ndiu-ing the religions persecution of Cromwell. Mr. Gibbs settled in Cattaraugus County\\nin 18(14: came to Washington, Macomb County, in 1881: was married, in June. 1824, to\\nMisB Hannah Rowell. to whom live children were born Charlotte. Samuel M.. Ogilvie.\\nMarv and Sarah. Mr. Gibbs died Julv V-l 1880.\\nrev. J. M. GORDON. Pastor of M. E. Church, was born at Lyons. Wayne Co.. N.\\nY..* November 12, 1834, son of Samuel Gordon, of Scotch descent, and a native of Wayne\\nCounty. He was educated in the public schools of Canada, Michigan, and at the Union\\nSchooi of Detroit: took a four-years theological eoiu se in Detroit Conference, from 18()8\\nto 1867: began as local preacher about 1800, on the old Farmington Circuit; entered the\\nregular ministry in 18(58:. was two years at South Saginaw, where he organized the M.\\nE. Church in a schoolhouse, and built the chm-ch in 1S()H: moved to Hancock, Mich., in\\nthe fall of I8(i5. and to Flushing in 1S()7. He was pastor of the two chiu-ches at Peters-\\nbm-g and Deertield. Mich., in the fall of 18()9: appointed Presiding Elder of Lake Super-\\nior District in 1871, where he served four years. He was stationed at Morenci, Mich., in\\n1875: at Howell in 1878; and came to Mt. Clemens in 1880, where he is now])astor. Mi-.\\nGordon married. December 80, 185(), Julia D. Ross, of Wayne County, Mich., to whom\\nfoiu- childi-en were born. Ella E.. Livingston R. and Frank L. are living.\\nJOHN B. GOULD, born at London, Canada West. August 14, 1854, was educated in\\nthe public schools of that citj-: came to Detroit in 1874, and to Mt. Clemens in same year.\\nHe entered on the trade of carriage-maker at the age of sixteen yeai-s, at which he con-\\ntinues to labor. His marriage with Miss Martha Biddlecomb took place in March. 187(1\\nThey are the parents of three childi-en -Ethel E., Frances M. and Carling J. Mr. Gould\\nis a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.\\nPETER P. GRHINER was born in Wayne County, Mich., February 22, 1840, son of\\nJohn Greiner, who came from France in 1S83, settled in W ayne County, and died in 1855.\\nISh: Greiner s mother is still living on the old homestead, aged eighty-two years. The old", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0591.jp2"}, "592": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nlady is healthy and active, aud has over one hundred and thirty children, grandchildren and\\ngreat-grandchildi-en. Mr. Greiner received a common -school education: passed one year\\nin the Lake Superior lumbering woods, and returned in the fall of 1S()4 to Wayne, where\\nhe farmed two years; came to Mt. Clemens in ISIil) as clerk for Joseph Knoll, whose in\\nterest he purchased in -January, IStiT. He operated a livery for five years, aud in ISSO\\nresumed grocery business. He mairied Miss Amelia Knoll in l S()5, to whom were born\\nnine children, one of whom, Albert, was drowned, in August, 18.S1, while returning from\\na jileasure trip on the lake with his parents aud others. Mi Greiuer was Village Trustee\\nand De})uty Marshal for four years.\\nCHARLES S. GROESBECK was born in Warren Township November 3, 1S88, son\\nof Louis Groesbeck, who was born near Detroit, and settled on Section 28, in Warren\\nTownship, in ISi^l, buying his land from the Cxovernment at 10 shillings ])er acre. This\\nold settler died in 18. Charles S. Groesbeck s gi-andfather, Walter G., came from Hol-\\nland in the pioneer days of Detroit. Mr. Groesbeck was educated in the Detroit public\\nschools; was elected to the State Legislature in 1S()2, and served till 1804; elected County\\nClerk in 1S70, which position he held eight years: was Justice of the Peace in this county\\nfor over twenty years. He moved to Mt. Clemens in May, 1871, where he now resides;\\nowns two farms in Warren Township; is a dealer in real estate; was engaged in manu-\\nfactiu-e of sash, doors and blinds for four years, and is now manufactm ing lumber and\\nstaves at Mt. Clemens. He was married, April 20, 1805. to Miss Lydia D. Beebe, a na-\\ntive of Illinois. Of eight children born to them, seven are living -Rosie. Jose])hiue.\\nJohn, Frank, Maud. Henry and Anna B. The family belong to the Catholic Chui-ch.\\nMr. Groesbeck was Supervisor of Warren Township several years, and has always taken a\\ndeej3 interest and active part in all matters pertaining to the welfare of this county.\\nERENST HAGEN, son of John aud Christina (Ronge) Hagen, was born in Prussia\\nOctober 18, 1822. He was educated in a religious school. Coming to the United States\\nin 1854, he located at New Baltimore, Macomb County, where he remained two years.\\nIn 185(), he moved into Sterling Township, and in 1859 to Clinton Township. He passed\\ntwo yeai s in Clinton, anil then came to Mt. Clemens, where he resided six mouths. Mov-\\ning to Wyandot, he made that village his home for a half-year, when he returned to Clin-\\nton and took up his residence on his farm of 170 acres. This tract of land he cleared\\nand brought under cultivation. He married Miss Finch in 1847, to whom ten children\\nwere born, of whom seven are living, viz. Rudolph, Amelia, August, Miner, Siner, Annie\\nand Paulina. Mr. Hagen served in the Schleswig-Holstein wa;- of 1847, and was a soldier\\nfor two aud one-half years in the Prussian infantry. He has held the position of School\\nDirector for two and one-half years. His removal into Mt. Clemens City, which he pur-\\nposes making his home, took place in April, 1882.\\nWILLIAM E. HALL is a son of E. Wright Hall, who established the glass works at\\n^It. Clemens at an early day. Mr. Hall was raised and educated here; engaged in the drug\\nbusiness in 18();!, which continued until 1871. He was the express and telegraph agent,\\nand the tirst to remove these offices, from the depot into the city. In partnership with. Mr.\\nShook, he erected a saw-mill aud hub and spoke factoi y at Mt. Clemens in 1871 he also\\ndealt extensively in hard-wood lumber until 1877. In 1880, Mr. Hall and Mr. Kandt\\nbuilt the steam barge William Rudolph; is now building the two large boats. Mr. Hall s\\nlumber business averages 8,000,000 feet annually. He was elected Township Treasurer\\nin 1N7(), and is now Supervisor of the First Ward of the city. He married Miss Letitia\\nJ. Shook, daughter of the late Robert Shook, December 10, 18(j8. They are the ])arents\\nof live children William R., Eugene E., Harrv W., Nelly B. and Blanche.\\nWINFIELD S. HATHAWAY, son of Hon. Hiron Hathaway, was born at Bristol,\\nOntai io Co., N. Y., December 25, 1882. His father, son of Seth Hathaway, of Massachu-", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0592.jp2"}, "593": {"fulltext": "-K^\\nHISTUKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsetts, of English descent, was born June 5. 1799. The family came to Richmond Town-\\nship in ISHC), where Mr. Hathaway was educated. In 1S()7, he held the position of lum-\\nber-sealer for Horace Perkins Sons until 1S7- He was elected Sheriif in November,\\n1S74, and entered on the duties of that office in January, 1S75, serving through two terms.\\nAfter retiring fi om this office, he managed his farm, two miles south of the city, for\\ntwo years. He married Miss Jane Dixon, daughter of Richard Dison. of Detroit, in 1IS57.\\nThe three children of this marriage are deceased. Hiron Hathaway was elected to the\\nLegislatiu e in 1N41; and in IsriTi was a member of the Constitutional Convention at Lan-\\nsing: in ISoO was Associate Judge of Macomb; in 1889 was Supervisor of Richmond and\\nin 1S52, President of Armada Village. W. S. is a member of Mt. Clemens Chapter,\\nR. A. M. and verj^ jropular throughout the county.\\nDR. ABNER HAYWARD. physician and surgeon, was born at Johnson, R. I., Seji-\\ntember -!6, 1S29. His father, Robert G. Hayward, of English descent, was born at\\nThompson, Conn., March 10. 1800. His mother, Eliza Cornell, niece of Ezra Cornell,\\nfounder of the Cornell University, was born at Somerset, Md., December 1. 1801. His\\nfathei- was engaged in a cotton factory in Rhode Island for several years: came to Mich-\\nigan in 1880 and settled in Monroe County; moved to Ingham County in 1887. after which\\nhe devoted his attention to farming. Dr. Hayward, the subject of this sketch, received\\nsuch advantages as the country school afforded, after which he attended the Hillsdale Col-\\nlege, and subsequently the Michigan Union College. He taught school six terms: read\\nmedicine under Drs. Watts Chubb, and attended medical leotiu es at the university at\\nAnn Arbor, in 1S59 and 180O. Having his attention called to the homoeopathic method\\nof administering medicine, he became convinced of its sujieriority, and, after having prac-\\nticed medicine four years at Aurelius, Mich., he attended lectures and graduated from the\\nHomceopathie Hospital College of Cleveland, Ohio, in 18()(). He then located at Romeo,\\nMacomb Co., Mich., and built up a fine practice where allopathic opposition was so strong\\nit was supposed a homoeopathist could not live. After remaining there five years and a\\nhalf, he removed to Mt. Clemens, and has, during a residence of moro than ten years, been\\nengaged in an extensive practice. He maiTied Miss Alice J. Smith, a native of Barring-\\nton. Orange Co. N. Y. who was then a resident of Jackson County. She was educated\\nin the Michigan Union College, and taught school several terms, in which she was very\\nsuccessful. Since her man-iage, she has read medicine with her husband, attended the\\nmedical college at Detroit, and is a skillful practitioner. They are the parents of foiu\\nchildren, of whom Maude Louise and Frank H. are living; Lillie J. K. and Charlie C\\ndied in infancy. Dr. Hayward is a member of the American Institute of Homoeopathy,\\nand also of the Homoeopathic Medical Society of the State of Michigan.\\nJOHN HEMMEN. deceased, was born in Luxemburg, CTermany, December 25, 1825;\\ncame to Detroit in 185G, where he was in the service of Michigan Central Railroad for sev-\\neral years. He was proprietor of City Hotel, opposite Milwaukee depot, for twelve years;\\ncame to Mt. Clemens in 1871, and took charge of hotel on northeast corner of square,\\nwhich he called the Hemmen House, and operated until his death. July 14. 18S0. He\\nmarried Miss Frederica Vogt March 10, 1858. to whom were born five children, of whom\\nLizzie and Laura are living. Mrs. Hemmen came to the United States alone in 1852.\\nThe family belong to the Catholic Church, of which Mr. Hemmen was also a member.\\nGOTHOLD HEMME. The subject of this sketch is a son of Andrew Hemme, who was\\nborn in Saxe Weimar, September 7, 1822; settled in Wayne County in 1854, and in Ma-\\ncomb County in April, 1859. He is the owner of twenty acres in Section 81, Clinton, and\\nby tfade a carpenter. He was married, in 1854, to Miss Caroline Apel, to whom five chil-\\ndren were born, namely: August, Charles, Louise, Elizabeth and Minnie. Mrs. Hemme\\ndied in 1868. He married Miss Sophia Dietzsch in 1871. to whom two children were", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0593.jp2"}, "594": {"fulltext": "l^\\nHISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nboru. The family are members of the Lutheran Church. Mr. Hemme is Secretary of\\nGerman Farmers Insiu ance Company of Macomb County.\\nWESLEY HINMAN was born in Chautauqua County, N. Y., March \u00e2\u0080\u00a2.:i2, 1^5 lO; came\\nto Mt. Clemens in May, ISHO, where he married Mis.s Alice Connor, daughter of John Con-\\nnor, July 10, lSi5;l This lady died in ISh I. He married Mrs. Catherine Cole Wyckoff\\nMay 4, isr)4, to whom was born one child, Clarence W. Hinman. Mr. Hinman was Super-\\nvisor of Clinton, and filled other offices, as given in organic histor y of Clinton.\\nGILES HUBBAED, deceased, son of Quartus Hubbard, of Marbletowu, Ulster Co.,\\nN. Y., was born in January, IN]?. He served at the cooper s trade until 1.S29, when he\\nvisited his uncle, Daniel Davis. After passing one year there, he traveled through New York\\nand Ohio, working at different points. In the summer of l i--il. he made a jom ney South,\\nand, on account of the yellow fever epidemic, turned his steps northward, and arrived at\\nMt. Clemens in the fall of that year. He read law in the office of Judge Thurston, with\\nwhom he entered in partnership for one year. He formed a partnership with R. P. El-\\ndredge, which continued for fifteen years; subseqviently formed a partnership with Thomas\\nM. Crocker, which was observed for several years. He was appointed Postmastei at Mt.\\nClemens under Harrison in 1IS4(); elected Prosecuting Attorney, as shown in the political\\nchapter; elected Senator, as referred to in same chapter; refused the appointment of Col-\\nlector of Internal Revenue for the district, and also nomination for Congress. Mr. Hub-\\nbard married Miss Euphemia, daughter of Homer and Mary Atwood Bingham, September\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0-!H, 1842. To them were born seven childi en, five of whom are living Mary, Giles,\\nCxeorge, Julia E. and Barton H. Mrs. Hubbard still lives, aged eightv-tive years.\\nJOSEPH HUBBARD, an old settler, boru at Mai bletown, Ulster Co., N. Y., August\\n4, liSl4, son of Quartus, native of Litchfield, Conn., and Elizabeth Davis, the former of\\nEnglish descent and the latter of Holland descent. He settled with his father, in Ontario\\nCounty, N. Y. in 1827, his mother having died before they left Ulster County; came to\\nMt. Clemens in 1888; resided at New Baltimoie for five years; engaged in stave business,\\nand then came back to Mt. Clemens, He was married, March 10, 18;^7. to Thankful S.\\nWeeks, to whom were born five children, of whom are living William B. and Martha E.\\nnow Mrs. High. He kept hotel Clinton House at Mt. Clemens from 1838 to 1841,\\nwhere the American House now stands; was in the stave business until 18(j0, wh^n he was\\nelected Sherifi held the office four years; appointed County Treasurer in February, 1805,\\nand held that office about two years; held office of Constable and Collector six years; in\\nearly days, was the first Village Marshal at Mt. Clemens; also took its first census in 1838.\\nHe represents five first-class insurance companies; is also engaged in sewing machine\\nagency. Mr. Hubbard was charter member of the first Odd Fellows Lodge here; member\\nof temperance societies; attends Presbyterian Chiu ch, to which the family belong. Diir-\\ning the last two years of the late war, he was Deputy Provost Marshal for Macomb County.\\nWILLIAM B. HUBBAED, boru at Mt. Clemens May 4, 1844, is son of Josephine\\nHubbard, of New York, who settled here in 1833. Mr. Hubbard married Miss Lizzie\\nShook in October. 18().j, to whom were born three children Robert, Catherine and Dun-\\ncan. Mr. Hubbard was a soldier in the late war; served on gun-boat Forest Rose; was a\\nresident of New Baltimore for several years, and is now engaged in the undertaking trade\\nwith Robert Shook, as established in 1879. The family belong to the Presbyterian Church.\\nH. B. HUTCHINS, born at Lisbon, Grafton Co., N. H.. April 8, 1847; prepared for\\ncollege at Newbury Seminary, Vermont; entered Michigan University September, 18(57;\\ngraduated from thei-e June, 1871; was Superintendent of the Owosso City Schools from\\nSeptember, 1871, to July, 1872; in June of 1872, was appointed Instructor in History and\\nRhetoric at Michigan University, which position he held until June, 1873, when he was\\nappointed Assistant Professor of English and History at Michigan Univereity, which posi-\\n(a r-\\nT", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0594.jp2"}, "595": {"fulltext": "A\\n4 t\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntion lie held until July, 1876, when he was admitted to the bar in Ann Ai bor, and came at\\nonce to Mt. Clemens, where lie has since been located.\\nDR. JESSE E. HUTCHINS, dentist, born in Oakland County, Mich., October 14,\\n1S42. son of Chai les S. Hutchins, of New York State, was educated at Watseka and\\nJacksonville, 111. studied medicine under Drs. Mowry and Black, of Jacksonville. Pre-\\nvious to beginning his studies, he conducted district schools for four terms; moved to\\nDanville in ISliS, where he practiced dentistiy until 187)^, when he located at Mt. Clem-\\nens. Dr. Hutchins married Miss Nellie Moore, October 24. 1S78, to whom was born one\\nchild Charles W. Hutchins.\\nREV. EBENEZER IRELAND, son of John Ireland, was born in Northampton,\\nEngland, September 1, 1889; was educated at the Congregational College, Nottingham,\\nand ordained at Dronheld. England, in 1870; he was pastor of the First Congregational\\nClim-ch at DrouHeld until the fall of 1878, when he was appointed the pastor of the\\nchm-ch at Brockville. Canada. After a term of two years, he was called to the pastorate\\nof the Congregational Church at Danville, Canada, where he remained until 187N; he sup-\\nplied Pine Grove Church, near Toronto, Canada, for a short time, when he came to Rich-\\nmond, Macomb County, in 1879, as pastor of the chm-ch at that village In August, 1881,\\nhe came to Mt. Clemens as supply of the Presbyterian Church, of which he is now the\\nregular pastor. Mr. Ii-eland s connection with the church is of the happiest character; he\\nis a Christian minister in reality as well as in name.\\nROBERT JEAN, son of Joseph Jean, a native of Grosse Point and grandson of\\nRobert of that locality, was born in Harrison Township, May 2o, 1883, His father was a\\nwell-known trader among the Indians, could speak their language, hunted and fished with\\nthem and was their trusted friend. The family moved to Clinton Township in 1847.\\nMl Jean is the owner of 100 acres of land on Sections 21 and 22, Clinton; engaged in\\nHorn- and feed trade at Mt. Clemens in 1880 and 1881. He was married, August 8, 18ri(),\\nto Catherine Norton, daughter of Hugh Norton, now of Macoml) Corners, an old settler\\nand an old man of eighty-five summers. To them seven children were born, of whom Eva,\\nFrank R., Charles, Jennie and an infant son are living.\\nHON. WILLIAM JENNEY, present member of Legislature, was born at Pough-\\nkee^jsie, N. Y., June 18, 1S87. He came to Macomb County, with his parents, in 1848,\\nand settled at Mt. Clemens. Mr. Jenney i-eceived his education in Brown Universitj\\nProvidence, R. I., where he graduated in 1859. Returning to Mt. Clemens, he studied\\nlaw, and was prepared for admission to the bar in 18()1, when the war called for his ser\\nvices. Dm ing that year, he raised Company I, Ninth Michigan Infantry, and was mus-\\ntered into service as Captain of that company. In 18(i8, he was commissioned Major,\\nand. in 18H5, was raised to a Colonelcy by Gov. Crosswell. His company was recruited at\\na time when it appeared that the county had exhausted her men. which fact of itself won\\ngreat credit for the organizer. A. reference to the military chapter will point out at once\\nthe military record of Col. Jenney and the commands with which he was connected. He\\nwas admitted to the bar in ISIKi. and enjoyed a good praciice until 1876, when his elec-\\ntion to the State Senate m ged him to retire. His intention was to resume the practice of\\nlaw, but his health would not permit. Col. Jenney was elected Secretary of State in\\n1878, which position he now holds. In the political chapter full references are made to\\nhis election. Among the delegates present at the memorable convention of 1880, held at\\nChicago, he was present. Col. Jenney was married to Miss Cora, daughter of the late\\nJudge Horace Stevens, in February, 1866. They are the parents of one child William\\nS. Jenney.\\nWILLIAM JENNEY (deceased) was born in Middlesex Couaty, Mass., in March,\\n1^12. Traveling westward, he located at Mt. Clemens in 1848, where he built the first", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0595.jp2"}, "596": {"fulltext": "JiL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB f OU JTY.\\nstave-mill, tbe maciiinery of which he moved to New Baltimore In other pages of this\\nwork, the part taken by the late Mr. Jenney in the commercial and social development of\\nMacomb County is regarded, -and. in the necrological chapter, a notice of his decease given.\\nRUDOLPH J. KANDT, the eldest of eight brothers, was born in Niagara County.\\nN. Y., October HI, 18-19 (son of Fred Kandt, a native of Germany): settled in Macoml)\\nwith his parents in isr)7; he received a common-school education; was a clerk in a gro-\\ncery store for four yeai s; in ISTT). he establislied a grocery house at Mt Clemens, which\\nhe conducted until 1880. During the winter of 1879-80, he was partner with AVilliam\\nE. Hall in building a steam barge, which he managed during the seasons of 1880 and\\n1881. In May of the latter year, he re-engaged in the grocery business, and now has a\\nlarge and daily increasing trade. He sold his interest in the boat in the fall of 1881.\\nMr. Kandt married Hattie, daughter of Henry Rose, of Everett, Mich., January 28, 1879.\\nThis lady is a native of Macomb.\\nJOHN KEILS. son of Gerhard Keils, was born in the Rhine Province. Germany.\\nFebruary 11. 18;:! 2: he was a soldier in the Prussian Infantry from April 1. 18r)4, to Sep-\\ntember 27, 1857: he came to Mt. Clemens July 22, 1861, and uas made the city his home\\nsince that time; he labored on a farm in 18 )1 next, entered the emjiloy of O. W. Delano\\nas clerk, which position he held for two years; afterward, was in the employ of T. W.\\nSnook Co. for eight yeai s: in 1872, he visit\u00c2\u00abd Germany; on his retm-n. in 1873, he es-\\ntablished his present business of flour, feed and grain, and has carried it on since that\\ntime successfully. Mr. K. married Miss Anna M. Dahm, December 29, 18()li, to whom\\nwas born one child, since deceased.\\nDOR KELLOGG, son of Alpheus Kellogg, a miller of Cayuga County, N. Y. was\\nborn in Cayuga County, June 11, 1822: came to Oakland. County, Mich., in 1839, where\\nhe engaged in the milling business at Clarkston for five years; in 1844 or 1845, he re-\\nturned to New York; came to Litchfield, Mich., in 18(i0. and to Mt. Clemens in 1870.\\nMiv K. has identified himself with the flom-milling interests of the city since that time;\\nhe married Miss Harriet McLean, July 4, 1844; this lady died in 1852; in 1853, he mar-\\nried Miss Eliza A. Dutcher, to whom were born three children Carrie C, Hattie E. and\\nAnna C. Mi*. K. is religiously a Baptist.\\nMARTIN C. KELLY, M. D., one of the leading physicians and surgeons of the\\ncounty, was born at Dexter. Washtenaw County, Mich., February 4, 1851 his father was a\\nnative of Ireland; came to the United States in 1844. and died in 1803; he was a Metho-\\ndist Episcopal minister until 1855, when he became a minister of the Protestant Episcopal\\nChiu ch. In 18()(), Dr. Kelly moved to Ann Arbor with his mother, where he gi aduatod\\nin pharmacy, in 1871, and in medicine in 1875. He located at Mt. Clemens the same\\nyear and ojaened an office there, May 18, where his j^ractice is fully established. His mar-\\nriage with Miss Alice Snook, daughter of T. W. Snook, of Mt. Clemens, was celebrated\\nMay 29. 1877, to whom three childi-en were born William T.. Ai-thur H. and Charles D.\\nKelly. The Doctor represents the Second Ward in the City Council; is a member of the\\nMasonic order and an ardent supporter of every movement to advance the interests of Mt.\\nClemens.\\nFREDERICK G. KENDRICK was born at Schlotheim, in Schwarzbm-g, Germany,\\nMay 14. 183( came to this country, with his parents, from Germany, in 1844; they set-\\ntled at Belvidere, Macomb County; from there they moved to Mt. Clemens; fi om there to\\nMarine City, St. Clair County. Mr. K. was educated in this country. From Marine, he\\nmoved to the township of Erin, Macomb County, and became a fsirmer and cattle broker.\\nTook part in politics, held several tovsmship offices of trust; was elected member of the\\nState Legislature in 1808. In 1870, he was elected Sheriff of Macomb County for two\\nterms. Removed to the city of Mt. Clemens and engaged in hardware business and in\\n^7=r-", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0596.jp2"}, "597": {"fulltext": "Lix:\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. o9:!\\nthe manufaetiu e of sash, doors, blinds, etc., and contractor of buildings, in ISTT), in\\nwhich he is still successfully engaged. He has an extensive sawmill in the township of\\nTaymouth, where he manufactures his lumber. He has taken full part in the social, po\\nlitical, and industrial advancement of the county. He was married. May 5, 1802, to Hen-\\nrietta Elsey, daughter of Henry Elsey, from Leipsi Germany. Mr. K. and wife were\\nthe parents of eight children, sis of whom are alive live daughters and one son oldest\\ndaughter, Caroline: Hattie, Emma, Bertha, Julia and youngest son, Frank. The family\\nbelong to the German Episcopal Lutheran Church.\\nWILLIA.M KLEIN, sou of Andrew Klein, was born in Prussia, Germany, September\\n27, 188(5; came with his family to Niagara, N Y.. in 1852, and settled in Erin Township,\\nMacomb County, in l!sr):l Mr. K. was head sawyer for several years in saw-mill, and\\nforeman for foiu years. j)assing eighteen years in mills at Hamtramek. He was married,\\nJanuary 1, 1861. to Miss Augusta Meir. to whom five children were born Amelia, Charles,\\nMinnie, Willey and Augusta. He resides on his farm. Section A\\\\, Clinton, where he owns\\nseventy-two acres well improved. He is at present Drain Commissioner. Tlie family\\nbelong to the Cxerman Lutheran Church.\\nALEXANDER KNIGHT (deceased), son of Robert, was born at Edinburgh, Scotland,\\nJune y, 180 J; came to Rochestei N. Y., iu 1833, and to Detroit in 1834; he was a black-\\nsmith by trade and did all the smithing for the C. K. Canal in its course through Ma-\\ncomb County. During this time, his family remained at Detroit. After coming to Mt.\\nClemens, he was very successful: at one time, he owned a large tract of land at Detroit\\nand several blocks in the center of Mt. Clemens: he was a dealer in real estate, a house\\nbuilder, a business man at New Baltimore and an active, industrious and honest citizen.\\nHe was married in Scotland in 1S32, to Miss Annie Anderson, who came to the United\\nStates a few months after her husband. They were the parents of eleven children, six of\\nwhom are living Jeannette, Margaret, Mary A., Alex, Rowena and Devena. Mr. K. was\\ntax collector for some time. His death took place August o, 1881.\\nJULIUS KOEHLER, son of John Koehler, of Germany, was born at Detroit October\\n27, 1843: his parents came to Detroit from Germany in 1839 or 1840: moved to Mt.\\nClemens in 18r)3. Mr. Koehler came here with his family and has made the city his\\nhome since that timi^. save six years passed at Detroit learning blacksmith s and wagon-\\nmaker s trades and working at these trades. He established a wagon, carriage and black-\\nsmith shop at Mt. Clemens in 18()8. beginning on a small sxiaieand gradually building up\\na good business, giving employment to five or six skilled workmen. He was married, De-\\ncember 17, 1874. to Miss Pauline Winkler, to whom three children were born Clara,\\nWilliam E. and Julius M. Mrs. K. is a member of the Lutheran Chiu-ch. Mr. K. is a\\nmember of the I. O. O. F. in which order he has passed all chairs, and represents the\\nMt. Clemens Lodge in the Council of the Grand Lodge. He was elected first Alderman\\nof the Third Ward of the city in 1879, and served two years.\\nJOHN KUHN was born November 30. 1842, at Niederwald, Hessen, Germauv. His\\nfather s name was Frantz Kuhn; he attended the common schools at home, from 1848 to\\n1857. He served his apprenticeship in a book and stationery store in Marburg for three\\nyears, and served them for teji years after his apprenticeship. After leaving Marbiu g, he\\nwent to Frankfort-on-the-Main, and entered a merchant and tailoring establishment as\\na salesman for three years: thence with the banking house of Seligmann Co., as col-\\nlector, with which firm he remained until 1N()5, when he emigrated to America: arrived at\\nDetroit, Mich., in November. 1865. and accepted an engagement with G. Doeltz Bros.,\\nwhere he remained as salesman for nine years; came to Mt. Clemens in the year 1874, and\\nentered into partnership with his brother-in-law, P. Ulrieh. under the firm name of P.\\nUlrich Co: since then, this firm has dissolved partnership and continues in the same\\n^rv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0597.jp2"}, "598": {"fulltext": "L^\\nline of business under the name of Ulrich, Kuhn Co. He was married, in 1S70, to Miss\\nCatherine Elizabeth Ulrich. There were born to them four children, two sons Frantz\\nand John and two daughters \u00e2\u0080\u0094Laura and Matilda. He was elected Alderman of the\\nSecond Ward, in ISSl: is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Lutheran Chui ch of\\nMt. Clemens; also a member of the Masonic Lodge of the same place; a member of the\\nRoyal Arch Chapter: also a member of the Knight Templar Commandery, of Romeo,\\nNo! f).\\nFRANCIS LETOURNEAU (deceased) was born in Harrison Township, two and one-\\nhalf miles below Mt. Clemens, December 2, ISOO; his grandfather was a native of France\\nand his father a native of Canada. In IS] 2, Mr. L. located at Detroit, where he learned\\nthe carpenter s trade; he subsequently studied architecture. He was married, in liS21. to\\nClotilde Girardin, born at Detroit November 7, 1797, daughter of James Girardin, of\\nLower Canada. They were the parents of eight childi en Moses F. deceased, was or-\\ndained priest; Emily, married Aug. Henquenet; Charles R. deceased; Louis J., was or-\\ndained priest, now of Notre Dame College, Indiana; Josephine, married the late Mr. Par\\nquette; Sarah, resides at home, and Timothy and EJeanor, deceased. Mr. L. came to Mt.\\nClemens in 1S54, and made the village his home until his death, in ISfiO. He built the\\nMichigan Exchange at Detroit in 18H2, superintended the building of Fort Wayne and\\nseveral light-houses for the United States Government, built the steamboats knovra as the\\nMichigan, the Detroit and the Illinois, together with many other boats; di-ew the plans\\nfor St. Peter and Paul s Catholic Church and St. Ann s Chiu ch, Detroit, and was a\\nprominent builder and contractor of the State. He held the position of Village Trustee\\nfor one year; was a most estimable citizen and a native pioneer of Macomb County, The\\nLetourneau family have always been members of the Catholic Church.\\nEDWARD W. LEWIw born in Macomb Township July 17, 1844; son of Wesley\\nand Hannah Lewis, of Massachusetts, where he was educated. He was married, in May,\\nISBS, to Anna Dutton, a native of Chautauqua County, N. Y., and daughter of Ransom\\nDutton, They are the parents of four children Jessie, Eddie, Hattie and Harry. Mr.\\nL. has been Councilman for four years and is a member of the Masonic Order and of I.\\nO. G. T,\\nWESLEY LE^VIS, born in Jefiersou County, N. Y., August 2-2. 1S14, son of Labin\\nLewis, of New Hampshire; he was educated in Massachusetts, to which State his parents\\nmoved when he was still yoimg; located in Genesee, N, Y., in ISHO, and in Macomb\\nCounty, in 1888, for a short time: he visited again in 1831), and located permanently in\\n1840; he followed agi iculture in Lenox for four years; kept the county house one yeai\\nlabored for some time at Mt, Clemens; shared in building the lighthouse at Point Bargue,\\nLake Huron, in co apany with Harrison Warren; bought Mt. Clemens saw-mill in 1848 or\\n1849, which he sold in 1852, remaining as foreman of the mill until 1877. He was mar-\\nried, to Miss Hannah Warren, in 1842; they are the parents of five children, of whom\\nMary, Edward, George H. and Frank W, are living.\\nWILLIAM LITTI,E was born in Colchester Township, Essex County, Canada, on\\nthe shore of Lake Erie, where he was educated; he caiTied on a farm there until 185H,\\nwhen he came to Clinton Township, Macomb County: here he farmed until 1S65, when\\nhe returned to Canada. In July, 187VI, he came to Mt, Clemens and opened a private\\nboai ding-house; subsequently, he Ijecame proprietor of the St. Cloud House, which he now\\nconducts. He was married, in March, 1851, to Sarah Butler, to whom five children were\\nborn: Delos, Charles, and Adelaide are living: one daughter. Georgia A, died December 14,\\n18S1, aged twenty-one years. Mrs. Little is a member of the Protestant Episcopal Chiu-ch.\\nHENRY LODEWYCK was raised and educated at Detroit; he came to Mt. Clemens\\nin 1S72; in 1879, be established his e.xtensive and well-managed livery concern, valued at\\n\u00c2\u00bbrv", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0598.jp2"}, "599": {"fulltext": "HISTORY (JF MACOMli COUNTY.\\n$6,000, together with buildings and grounds. This livery ih connected by telephone with all\\nthe principal hotels of the city. In February, LS70, Mr. L. mari-ied Pauline Rivard, to whom\\nwere bora seven children, live of whom are living Ida, Henry, Caroline, Rose and Fran-\\ncis. Aftpr the death of Mrs. L., he married for his second wife Rose Rivard, in 1880, to\\nwhom one child was born- Arthur Lodewyck.\\nJOSEPH LONSBY, an extensive dealer in lumber, shingles, laths, cedar posts and\\npart owner of the steamer, Ida Burton, and the barge, S. H. Johnston; established his\\nbusiness here in 1875, where he continued until ISSl, when he moved south of the river.\\nMr. Lonsby was born in Jefferson County, N. Y., July 24, 1887; his father, Peter Lonsby,\\nwas a native of Canada. Mr. L. came to Michigan in isr)4; clerked at Pine Run, Gen-\\nesee County, for three years, was engaged in lumbering in Alcona County for live years,\\nuntil coming to Mt. Clemens, in 1875. He married Miss Lucy Ann Webster, of Ohio, in\\n18()0, to whom were born Charles and John Lonsby, the latter of whom is dead. Charles\\nentered into partnership with his father in 1SS2. Mr. L. is a member of the Masonic R.\\nA. and a Master Mason.\\nFLOYD LUFKIN, son of Varnum Lufkin, an old and respected citizen of Mt. Clem-\\nens, was born in the village September 15, 1S45; was educated here, and labored in the brick\\nfactory until 18(U, when he went to Kansas, Colorado, Utah and Montana, returning to\\nMt. Clemens in 18r)7. He was married, December 81. 18(jy, to Miss Mary Walker,\\ndaughter of the late George Walker, of Mt. Clemens. They are the parents of Blanche,\\nKittie and Varnum.\\nTRANGOTT LUNGERSHANSEX, born at Ai-tern, Prussia, July 1, 1888, came to\\nthe United States in 1S52, where he leai-ned the carpenter trade, at which he worked in\\nDetroit for a term of four years; after that, he was farming, until 1871, when he opened\\na flour and feed store at Mt. Clemens; subsequently, a hardware store, which he operated\\nuntil his election as Register of Deeds, in 1874. He was re-elected in 187( and 187S,\\nholding the office with credit to himself and to the county until ISM, when Col. Farrar\\nsucceeded him, under whom he is now Deputy Register of Deeds. Mr. L. married Miss\\nEmily Stechert, in January, 185fi, to whom six children were born, live of whom are\\nlivincr.\\nT. F. MARRIOTT, born in Wayne Counjty, N. Y., November 8, 18( 7, son of T. F.\\nMarriott, of England, came to Mt. Clemens in January, 1881 has been employed by Mi-.\\nPeter Greiuer as clerk since March 14 of that year.\\nCHARLES MASON, sou of Thomas Mason, was born in Lincolnshire, England, Octo-\\nber 18, 1850: came with his family to Canada in 1852, where he attended the common\\nschools. He came to Mt. Clemens in 1873, where he worked for Van Eps Co. one year.\\nIn 1874, he visited Louisville, Ky. from there, he went to Brownsville, Tenn., thenceto\\nMemphis, Tenn,, in September, 1875, and returned to Mt. Clemens in the spring of lS/6,\\nwhere he established his boot and shoe house. He was married, in May, 1880, to Matilda\\nWood, daughter of Samuel Wood, of Mt. Clemens.\\nALMANZO MATTHEWS, son of Sidney Matthews, was born in Fairtield Township,\\nLenawee County, Mich., July 7, 1844. He was educated in Macomb County, whither he\\nremoved with his parents in 1S49. Mr. M. served in Company G. Eighth Michigan Cav-\\nalry, for three years, and participated in the brilliant services of that command. He was\\nwounded at Knoxville and subsequently served in hospital duty until transferred to the\\nVeteran Reserve Corps, at Chicago, in the fall of 18(U. He learned the mason s trade in\\nLSfK) and l.S()7, at wnich he has worked almost since that time. He moved from his farm\\nto Mt. Clemens in 1875, He was married to Miss Emma Sheldon in Janu;yy, ISIili.\\nThis lady is the daughter of the late Amariah Sheldon, an old settler of Macomb. They\\nare the parents of three children Angeline, Nettie A. and Frank B.\\n1^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0599.jp2"}, "600": {"fulltext": "^k\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHENRY F. MEIER, Professor of Chemistry, with the Mt. Clemens Sulpho-Mineral\\nSalt Company, son of the late Dr. Henry F., a prominent physician of Philadelphia; was\\nborn in Mecklenburg. Crermany. in April. 1S4S: came to the United States with his par-\\nents in 1S, )1: was educated in Philadelphia; entered the di ug business in 18 )2: studied\\nat the New York College of Pharmacy, and has been engaged as a manufacturing chemist\\nsince his arrival at Detroit, in the fall of ISfiO. where he was in the employ of Swift\\nBros, and, subsequently, in that of Parke, Davis Co.: he located at Mt. Clemens in July.\\nISSl, and connected himself with the Mineral Springs Company as chemist. To him is\\ndue much of the valuable information given to us on the subject of constituents of mineral\\nwaters, of Mt. Clemens.\\nDYKES MILLAR, son of John Miller, of Scotland, was born in Monroe County, N.\\nY. March 12, ISOH: came with his father to Macomb in 1881. and located land on Section\\n19, Clinton, on the south bank of the river. He encountered all the obstacles of the pio-\\nneer. He Iniilt a log house in 1N32, the walls of which are still standing. In January,\\n1838, he married Miss Emma Harvey, to whom four children were born, three of whom\\nare living John. James and Robert; the daughter. Belle, died at the age of twenty-foui\\nyears. Mr. Miller was Major on Gen. Stockton s staff diu ing the Toledo war, and more\\nrecently has tilled the quieter ofiSces of Notary Public and Highway Commissioner.\\nNORTON L. MILLER, born in Berkshire County, Mass., December 2, 1815, was son\\nof Ozni Miller, of Connecticut, son of Samuel Miller, a soldier of the Revolution, son of\\nMiller who came from England and settled in Connecticut prior to the Revolution. Ozni\\nMiller and family left Massachusetts in 1818 ;uid located in Monroe County, N. Y., ten\\nmiles south of Rochester; in 1882, the family settled in Ray Township, this county, where\\nthe elder Mr. Miller died in 1840. Norton L. taught school during the winter terms,\\nbut labored principally at his trade as miller until 18() v. he was elected County Register\\nof Deeds, in ISof), and re-elected in 18r)8 He bought the Lakeville mills, in Oakland\\nCoimty. in December, 1801, and operated them for five years: he was Postmaster at Lake-\\nville for four years, under apjsointment of the Lincoln administration. He retiu-ned to\\nMt. Clemens in June, 1867; was elected a member of the Michigan Legislatui e in 18(i8,\\nand re-elected in 1870: he married Miss Frances E. Lewis. July 4. 1848; they are the\\nparents of six children; Fred C. served in Company I, reorganized Third Infantry, and\\ndied in the late war; L. M. Miller is clerk in the Government office at Lansing: the other\\nchildren are Fannie M.. Abner P., William N. and Millie Miller. Mrs. Miller, daughter\\nof William Lewis, and sister of George F. Lewis, of Saginaw and Bay City, was born at\\nHarvard, Mass., and came with her parents to Macomb in 1885: William A. Lewis, ano-\\nther brother, is a resident of Everett, Mich.\\nROBERT E. MILLER, son of Dykes Miller, was born in Clinton Township, August\\nK), 1842. He married Miss Mary Shanley, February 22, 18()5: this lady was a daughter\\nof Edward Shanley, who came from Detroit to Macomb County in 1852. They are the\\nparents of nine children, of whom six are living\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Emma. Edward, Mattie. Florence, Rob-\\nert and Mar}-. In his early years, the Indian children then camped near his father s\\nhouse were his playmates: with them he hunted and jjassed his childhood days: subse-\\nquently, he attended common schools and laboi ed on a farm. He has been School Di-\\nrector for several years.\\nWALTER W. MITCHELL (deceased) was born at Chester. Conn., son of William\\nMitchell, sea captain, who came to Mt. Clemens in 1845 and settled on North Gratiot\\nstreet, adjoining the village. He was married, in 1837. to Frances Cantield. daughter of\\nJoel Cantield. To them were born two sons William W., a partner in the banking house\\nof Fisher Preston. Detroit, and Henry T., who manages the farm. Both brothers deal\\nin tine short-horned cattle. The leading feature of their herds is the young Aelrie\\n|V", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0600.jp2"}, "601": {"fulltext": "4.\\nDuchess, the only calf of Duke of Aelrie and Duchess, now in Michigan, and only full-\\nblood Duchess in the State. She was bought, when a few days old. from Avery Murphy,\\nof Port Hiu-on, for $5,500, in June, 1881. They have some full-blood Dui-hams on the\\nBrooks farm, at West Novi, Mich. W. W. Mitchell and this Mr. Brooks own the Duke\\nof Lexington. Henry T. is the owner of Lady Duchess, from Old Splendor, imported\\nfrom New York.\\nFRANKLIN P. MONFORT, son of Isaac Monfort, one of Shelby s pioneer farmers,\\nwas born June 1842, in Shelby; received his early education at the Disco Academy and\\nOxford Institute, under Profs. A. M. Keeler and S. A. Taft; attended the State Normal\\nand Union Schools at Ypsilanti. He married Miss Sarah E., daughter of Jacob Bowers,\\nof Addison, Oakland County, May l:i 1808; they have one child Merton B. he taught\\nschool in several places in Oakland and Macomb Counties, dtu ing the winters, and farmed\\ndiu ing the summers; i ntered the law department at the Michigan Univei sity, in 1878,\\ngi-aduated and was admitted to the bar in 1880; he was elected to the office of Circuit\\nCourt Commissioner the same year, and has since been practicing law at Mt. Clemens.\\nOLIVER MOORE, son of Si mon M. of Harrison Township, was born in Clinton\\nTownship February 20. 1840: his grandfather. Lawi-ence Moore, was forced into the\\nBritish service in Quebec during the Revolution, fi-om which service he and two co urades\\nescaped, and, walking to a point opposite Port Hiu-on. crossed the river and was among\\nthe iirst settlers in Harrison Township, where he bought land from the Indians. Oliver\\nMoore maiTied Miss Catherine Taylor April IH, 18f)0. May 22, 1870, he man-ied Miss\\nErzelia Rivard; the childi-en of the fii-st marriage were Victoria, Oliver, William and\\nJames; the children of the second marriage were Louis B. Gilbert, Nettie, Hattie,\\nFrank. Josephine and Louise.\\nJOHN MORDHORST. proprietor of the Detroit House, formerly the City Hotel,\\ntook charge of it in October. 1879. Mi-. Mordhorst was born at Kiel, Holstein, in\\n1842; came with his parents to Detroit in 1856; went to Missom-i in 1862; served in\\nCompany A, four months militia, principally on provost duty, until bis retui n to Detroit\\nin 1864; subsequently, he visited the Lake Superior District, and there manufactured the\\ntii-st cigars ever made in Keweenaw County. Mich., in 18()(): retm-ned to Detroit in 186/,\\nand was cigar manufacturer there until 1879, when he came to Mt. Clemens. He was\\nmaiTied, April 14, 1868, to Bertha Hochral, to whom three children were born Clara,\\nJohn and Rosa.\\nIGNACE A. MORASS, son of Anthony and grandson of Ignace Morass, was born at\\nBelvidere. Macomb County, September 1, 1827; his father and gi-andfather were born at\\nHamtramck, on Detroit River; former in 1796 and the latter in 1771; his great-grand-\\nfather came from France in the military corps under Montcalm; was at the surrender of\\nQuebec in 1759 and among those banished to Detroit. The grandfather helped to build\\nFort Gratiot during the war of 1812, and was one of the best carpenters in the Northwest\\nTerritory. He also built h saw-mill on Black River, which was the first mill used to saw\\nround logs. The Morass family moved to Macomb in 1805. G. T. Ignace Morass raised\\n2,000 bushels of wheat some years, and su^jplied the settlers with seed wheat, oats and\\nbarley in fact, he was the ijiost extensive farmer in Michigan. With the exception of\\na ride across the river into Canada, and his visit to the Centennial, the present Mr. Morass\\nhas never left his native State. He was married. Februai-y 20. 1855, to Miss Margaret\\nStapleton, daughter of William Stapleton. They were the parents of ten children\\nOlive, Mary, Anna, Ignace. Florence, Elizabeth and Joseph, are living. The family be-\\nlong to the Catholic Chui-eh.\\nCHARLES MOSER (deceased) was born near Paris, France, in July, 1805; came to\\nPhiladelphia in 1823; moved to Juniata County, Penn. shortly after, and was engaged\\nr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0601.jp2"}, "602": {"fulltext": "liL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nin mercantile work until 185. when he moved to Mt. Clemens. That year, he opened a\\nmoney office and also established a meat mai-ket here. Mr. Moser mai ried Mrs. Elizabeth\\nMiddlesworth, a dauojhter of Christian Fall, in March, 18:11. They were the parents of\\neight children Clotilda. Isaac. Jackson, Lydia A., Edward, Mary M., Jennie E. and\\nA^ illiara H. Mrs. Moser had one child by her previous marriage John Middlesworth.\\nWILLIAM H. INIOSER was born at Mt. Clemens July 2(j, 1857: son of Charles\\nMoser, who came from Pennsylvania to this city in 1855; was educated here; has been\\nengaged in handling cattle since his youth, and has made a success of the meat market\\nwhich he established in 1S78. Mr. Moser was married in October, 1S7N, to Miss Minnie\\nRutz, of Detroit.\\nSAMUEL R. MULVEY, son of Joseph Mulvey, of Ireland, who came to Montreal,\\nCanada, when young, was boi-n at Rochester. N. Y. May 14. IX M. Samuel came to Ma-\\ncomb with his parents in 1887, and located in Sterling Township. Joseph Mulvey was\\na farmer of Clinton until his death, in the fall of 1872. S. R. Mulvey was married to\\nMiss Susan Riley, daughter of Michael Riley, in 1868; to them five children wore born\\nMary A., Mattie E., George E., Emma and Robert S. He now lives on the farm that\\nJoseph Mulvey owned, ninety acres on Sections 150, 81 and 82, Clinton: was Constable for\\nseven years and is now Justice of the Peace for the town of Clinton. The family belong\\nto the Catholic Chiu ch.\\nTHOMAS W. NEWTON, Sheriff of Macomb County, was born in Lincolnshire, En-\\ngland, December (i, 1889. His father, Luke Newton, now residing at Bloomtield Center,\\nOakland County, located at Detroit in 1851. Thomas AV. passed his earlier years at his\\nfather s home in England, where also he was accustomed to walk three miles to school\\nand make the ivturn trip every day; he left home at the age of seventeen, labored in vari-\\nous employments, was engineer of one of the Lake Superior copper mines for over two\\nyears, worked at the cai penter s trade for a time, opened a butcher shop for mining trade,\\nshipped cattle to the lake region and was extensively engaged in the cattle shijjping trade\\nuntil his election as Sheriff of Macomb County, in 1880. Mr. N. is a member of the Mt.\\nClemens Masonic Lodge and also of the chapter. He married Miss Rebecca French, De-\\ncember 81, 1867, of England, to whom were born two children Ada M. and Hany T.\\nNewton.\\nERNEST J. OLDE, merchant of Mt. Clemens, established his house on North Gra-\\ntiot street in 1874. In 1869, he engaged in business with Paul Ulrich, under the firm\\nname of Ulrich Okie. Mr. Olde does a trade of $80,000 annually. His dry goods\\nwarehouse, wool department and business at Port Huron are all well conducted, purchase\\nfor cash being one of his leading characteristics or principles. It is his intention to add\\na first-class grocery and provision store to his Mt. Clemens establishment at an early day.\\nMr. Olde was born in Holstein, Germany, in 184(5: settled at New Baltimore, Macomb\\nCounty, in 1854; moved to East Saginaw in 1860 and to Mt. Clemens in 18( )2. He mar-\\nried Miss Matilda Bulte, in 1871, to whom were born five chilcken Grace, Hemy, Walter,\\nAlice and Odella. Mr. Olde is a man of business, worthy and judicious in all matters,\\nand determined to succeed in any enteri)rise he may embai k in.\\nJOHN OTTO, born in Prussia. Germany, January 1, 1882. came to the United States\\nin 1854: worked in a Buffalo brick-yaixl for four months and came to Mt. Clemens in Oc-\\ntober, 1854. In 1858. he entered the store of Sackett Dickinson: on the dissolution of\\npartnership. Mi-. Otto continued under Mr. Sackett, and entered into partnership with him\\nin 1861. He continued his bvisiness until 1871, vhen he sold his interest on account of\\nill health. He was appointed Postmaster at Mt. Clemens by the Arthirr administration,\\nand took po.ssession of the office November 1, 1881. Mi-. Otto was married, in Germany,\\nin 1854, to Miss Mary C. Schneider. This lady died April 22. 1872. He married for", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0602.jp2"}, "603": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nliis second wife Miss Sophia Dubois, November 2(), 1878. Frederica K. and John are the\\nchildi en of the first marriage. Mr. Otto has served as Trustee of the village for four\\nyears and Alderman for two years. This family belongs to the Catholic Chui ch.\\nGEORGE PAEEOTT was born in Bedfordshire, England. July 8, 1832: a son of\\nDaniel of same shire, who came to America in ISri-t. Mj-. P. came to Redford, Mich., in\\n1852; worked by the month there until he came to this county, in 1859, when he located\\nin Clinton Township, four and one-half miles from Mt. Clemens; he fanned for thirteen\\nyears; removed to the suburbs of Mt. Clemens in 1872; he is a farmer and stock-raiser\\nand the owner of two farms. He married, December 25. 185(), Miss Elizabeth Simms, of\\nEngland, to whom eight children were born, seven of whom are living Wallace, Ellen, Elsie.\\nHorace, Lewis, Charlie and Leonard. The family belong to the Methodist Church, called\\nthe Protestant Methodist.\\nELDRIDGE G. PRATT (deceased), son of Joel and nephew of the Peter Pratt, who\\ncompiled the Pratt genealogy, was born at South Boston. Mass., June 1805; came to\\nEocliester, N. Y., when a young man and to Mt. Clemens in 1832, where he engaged in\\nthe real estate business. He entered mercantile life here in 1835 and followed it success-\\nfully until his death, September 2(5, 18IU. Mr. Pratt was married March (i. 1835, tx) Miss\\nPrudence M. daughter of Phineas Cook, of Connecticut, descended from one of three\\nbrothers John who came from Northampton, England, early in the seventeenth ceutiuy-\\nTheir names were Richard, John and George. In 1N23, the Cook family showed forty,\\nthree collegiate graduates. Mrs. Pratt was born July ICi, 1819, in Otsego Count} N, Y.\\nShe is the mother of Almeda and Lorain Pratt, the former IVIi-s. T. C. Bell, of Lansing,\\nthe latter a graduate of the Philadelphia School of Elocution. Mr. Pratt built a frame\\nhouse on Walnut street in 1833, which still stands near the engine-house. He organized\\na Methodist class here and was the first class leader after coming here. He was charitable\\nin all things, a faithful Christian. He counted only thirty dwellings, stores, barns, etc,\\nin Mt. Clemens in 1832.\\nREV. WILLIAM WALLACE RAFTER, Rector of Grace Protestant Episcopal\\nChurch, of Mt. Clemens, was born on the 19th of April, A. D. 1842, in the parish of St.\\nLin, P. Q. His father, William Rafter, a native of Queens Coimty, Ireland, came to\\nCanada in 1829 with his family. His mother died when he was about ten years old,\\nafter which he lived with his aunt in Brooklyn, N. Y. subsequently, he was sent to a\\nselect school in New Haven, Conn. in 1857, he was sent to the grammar school at Gam\\nbier, Ohio, and, in 1859, entered the Freshman class in Kenyon College, Gambler: in the\\nfall of 1803, he entered the Theological Seminary at Nashotah, Wis., and was ordained\\nDeacon by Bisho}) Kemper, on Trinity Sunday. June, 1805. He immediately entered\\nupon his duties as Rector of St. Matthew s Chm ch, Kenosha, Wis., and was advanced to\\nthe priesthood on the 27th of December of the same year. In the spring of 18()G, he was\\nelected Rector of St. Paul s Chui ch, Kankakee, 111., and in the spring of 18()7 was\\ncalled to the rectorship of Christ Church, La Crosse, Wis. In the summer of 18fiS, he ac-\\ncepted an urgent call to the rectorship of Trinity Chiu ch. Alpena, Mich. while there,\\nhe built up a large and prosperous parish: in August, 1878, he was sent by the ecclesi-\\nastical authority of the dioeese to lay the foundation for a new parish in Cheboygan.\\nHe rented the town hall for his Sunday services and soon gathered round him a congrega-\\ntion. At the close of the first year, he had a Sunday school nimibering 100 scholars and\\ntwelve teachers: by the end of the second year, a new church had been built and conse-\\ncrated. In the fall of 188l), he removed to Saginaw, where he remained until he was\\ncalled to the rectorship of Grace Church, Mt. Clemens. June 12, 1881. Mr. Rafter mar-\\nried Miss Annetta Bradley, daughter of B. L. Bradley, M. D.. of Woodstock, Ontario,\\nMay 14, 1873, to whom were born three ehildi-en Josephine, Annetta and Emeline Cath-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0603.jp2"}, "604": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nerine, both deceased, and Mary Adele, uow in her seventh year. Mr. R. is a Mason and\\na member of tht Philomathian Literary Society, and one of the founders of the Psi\\nChapter of the Chi Phi fraternity in Kenyon College.\\nCfEORGE ROBINSON, of the firm of Snook Robinson, was born in Montcahn\\nCounty, Province of Quebec, Canada, February 7, 184 i; son of William and Jane A.\\n(Peyton) Robinson, the former a native of Ireland. Mr. Robinson moved with his parents\\ninto I^pper Canada in isr)4. where he resided until May, IST^S, when he came to the\\nlUiited States and located at Mt. Clemens. Since that time, he has been intimately asso-\\nciated with the manufacturing interests of the city. He married Miss Sabrina Tomlinson,\\nNovember 1870; this lady is the daughter of Jonathan Tomlinson, of the Toronto Dis\\ntrict, Canada, and gi-auddaughter of the British Captain, Osborne, who owned 700 acres\\non the site of Washington City, which was declared confiscated after the Revolutionary\\nwar and its claimant driven to Canada.\\nJOHN ROSKOPP, proprietor of Mt. Clemens meat market, was born in Prussia Oc-\\ntober 25. lS;!t); son of John Roskopp, who came from Prussia to Mt. Clemens in October,\\nLSr)4, and still resides there. Mr. R. went to Chicago in 1855. to St. Louis in 1857, and,\\nretm-ning in 1801, entered into partnership with A. Czizek and established a meat market in\\n18()5; this partnership was dissolved subsequently he gave an interest to his brother\\nJacob; since 1870, Mr. R. has conducted the meat business alone. Since Stevens patent\\nrefrigerator, charcoal -lined walls and large supply of ice enable him to keep a large stock\\nof the finest meats, his packing business for home and lake trade is extensive. He mar-\\nried Miss Margaret Stapleton in 1804. They are the parents of six children two daugh-\\nters and four sons. Mr. Roskopp is doing a very successful business. He uses steam\\npower for sausage making and lard rendering.\\nWILLIAM A. ROWLEY, son of Ransom M., of Monroe County, N. Y.. who came to\\nMacomb County about 18H2, was born in Shelby Township November 8, 184H; he enlisted\\nin Company B. Fifth Infantry, in July, 18()1; re-enlisted in 18(54, and served till the\\nclose of the war. He was one of the musicians attached to the command from its organi-\\nzation. He was married. December 5, 1805, to Miss Theodosia Adams, daughter of Oliver\\nAdams, an early settler of Macomb; the lady is a native of this county, and died here in\\nJanuary, 1807. February 10, ISOO, he married Miss Mattie M. Phillips, daughter of the\\nioneer, Ezra Phillips, deceased; they are the parents of three children Maud, Mattie\\nand Mary. Mr. R. was Treasurer of Shelby in 1808-09; came to Clinton Township in\\n1870. of which he has been Supervisor for the past three years; is an extensive dealer in\\nand breeder of pure Holstein cattle; has three thoroughbreds, two of which were imported\\nfrom Holland; he also deals in fine Berkshire hogs, paying as high as $()0 for one to its\\nowner, near Toronto, Canada; he imported Prince Bismarck, in May. 1879, from North\\nHolland, the animal Ijeiug then four years old and weighing 2,400 pounds.\\nF. W. RUTTER, born near Oxfo rd, England, June 24, 1850. son of Robert Rutter,\\nwho came with his family to Wayne County. Mich., in 1853, and to Macomb County in\\n1859; was educated in the common schools and at Mayhew s Business College, Detroit,\\nwhere he graduated in 1870; he was book-keeper for John Clancy, of Detroit, for six\\nmonths: clerk for George Law, of Mt. Clemens, for some time; fai mer from 1875 to 1881,\\nwhen he established the 99-ceut store in this city. Here he keeps a little stock of every-\\nthing, and has a well-conducted and prosperous business. Mr. R. married Miss Marion E.\\nSeely, October 20, 1874, to whom were born two children Maud M. and Leslie F.\\nWILLIAM H. RUTTER. born at Philadelphia August 28, 1828, is the son of\\nThomas Rutter, of Maryland, who was a sea captain and one of the I ^nited States survey-\\nors of the lakes in early days, and also died about 1882 or I83;l William L. came to Mt.\\nClemens with his mother in 1884, and made the city his home ever since, with the excep-\\nHv", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0604.jp2"}, "605": {"fulltext": "tion of a few years passed in Ohio with his uncle. He learned the carpenter s and joiner s\\ntrades in 1848, and, for the last thirty-four years, has aided in building up the village of\\nMt. Clemens. He attended school and ehm-ch in the old log coiu-t house, witnessed the\\nprogress of education and religion since that time, was one of the first Trustees of Mt.\\nClemens Village, in 1851, and was Constal)le of the village for twenty three years success-\\nively and an old and esteemed member of the Masonic and I. O. O. F. Societies. Mr.\\nButter married Miss Emma Campbell, March i:^, ISfiO, to whom were born two children\\nW. Harry and Frederick; the former is Clerk in the Coiu t of Probate, in which position\\nhis efficiency and business qualities continue to win him hosts of friends.\\nEEV. CHARLP:S RYCKAERT, pastor of St. Peter s Catholic Chiu-ch, Mt. Clemens;\\nwas bom in Belgiimi August 15, 1820; was educated in the College of Flanders; was or-\\ndained priest of the Catholic Chiu-oh. at Ghent, Belgium, in 1847. Father R. served ten\\nyears in the ministry of the church in Belgium. In 1857, he went to Sauvain, Belgiiun,\\nto help in establishing the American Seminary there, and, in 1858, left for the United\\nStates, arriving here in April of that year; he was appointed priest of the church at Hills-\\ndale, Mich., where he remained for a term of thirteen years; in April, 1871, he was ap-\\nj)ointed pastor of the St. Peter s, at Mt. Clemens: his administration of the parish has\\nbeen marked with the highest results; the denominational system of education has grown\\nto some importance inder his direction, church property has been improved, the congre-\\ngation has advanced in knowledge and prosperity. The new chm-eh was projected by\\nhim and, under his superintendence, will be carried through to completion.\\nLEMUEL SACKETT (deceased), sou of Lemuel Sackett, of English descent, was\\nbom near Pittsfield, Mass., November 8. 1808; came with his parents to Pittsford, N. Y.,\\nin 182 2, and to Clinton Township, Macomb County, in 1829; he cleared up a good farm\\nhere, which he cultivated until 1854, when he moved to Mt. Clemens; he lived in the city\\nuntil his death, January Ki, 1882. Mr. S. married Miss Mary Miller, daughter of John\\nMiller, a Scotchman, March 9, 1S29; the lady i- as born in New York State; they were the\\nparents of sis children, thi-ee of whom are living Lemuel, Frances Campbell and jVTartha\\nTravers; two sons, John and Robert F., died of disease in the war of I8()l-t35. Mrs. S.\\nis a member of the Presbyterian Chm-ch, of which her husband was a Deacon for over a\\nquarter of a century. She is seventy-fom- years of age and in the enjovTnent of good\\nhealth.\\nLEMUEL M. SACKETT, son of Lemuel Sackett, of Massachusetts, who came to\\nMichigan in 1828, was born in Clinton Township May 1, 1881, and was educated in\\nthe township and Mt. Clemens schools; taught school for two winter terms; began survey-\\ning in 1852, went to Port Huron in 1855, and was foreman in the lumber yard of A. H.\\nFish for three years; dm ing the winters, he scaled for the firm in the kunber woods; re-\\nturning to Macomb, he followed agriculture until 1877, when he settled at Mt. Clemens:\\nduring the past thi-ee years he has been engaged in surveying. He was married, in No-\\nvember, 1863, to Miss Emily L. Cole, daughter of Joseph Cole, who settled in the woods\\nof Clinton in 1884. and died in July, 1878; to this marriage one child was born Robert\\nL. Mr. S. was elected Clerk of Harrison Township for two terms.\\nEDGAR J. SALISBURY, manager for the Singer Manufactiu-ing Company, was\\nborn in Jefferson County, N. Y., March 20, 1S44; came, with his widowed mother, to La-\\npeer, in 1852, where he was educated. The family moved to North Branch Township,\\nLapeer County, where Mr. S. laid out for himself a farm of 120 acres: subsequently, he\\nlumbered for several years, and ultimately engaged with the Singer Manufacturing Com-\\npany in 1876. He came to Mt. Clemens in February, 1881. and took charge of the office\\nin March of the same year. He married Miss Louisa C. Hosner, daughter of Jacob Hos-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0605.jp2"}, "606": {"fulltext": "1\\nner, an old settler of Bruce, October 8, 1873. to whom has been born one child. Mr. S.\\nhas live branch offices in the county, and takes an important part in building up the trade\\nof the company which he represents here. The Singer factory has produced 561,036\\nmachines during the year 1881.\\nJOHN A. SANDERS, son of Russell Sanders, descendant of a family by that name\\nwho came from Wales in the seventeenth century, was born in Westerly, Washington\\nCounty, February 19, 1806. He followed the sea during his minority, aud then learned\\nhis trade, that of ship carpenter, at Providence, R. I. came to Macomb County in 1886,\\nand. in 1837, served in the Clinton Guards, called out by Gov. Mason. He bought a\\nfarm in Lenox, where he remained for eleven years, part of the time working at his trade.\\nHe then moved to Mt. Clemens, where he built the following vessels: Schooners Mariner,\\nEuphemia, Sea Bird. Elydia: sloop Francis: scows Argus. Dan Tucker. Mary Jane, Pike,\\nJohn A. Sanders, Union, Harriet, Lily Dale. Emily: steam barges Nevada. Arizona. Flor-\\nence, Ida, Morning Star, Louis Gilbert. He also repaired and superintended the building\\nof many others. He was married, in 1828, to Lavinia Crandall, who died in 1854. He\\nthen married Mvs. Anna L. Ryan, the daughter of John Russell, and a native of Lanca-\\nshire, England. He has one daughter Georgiana Sanders, and a step-son, the Rev. A.\\nAV. Ryan.\\nADOLPH H. SHEFP ERLY, foreman of Kendrick planing-mill. sash, door and blind\\nfactory, was born at Detroit November (i, 1851; son of John Sheiferly, who came from\\nSwitzerland to Detroit in 1848. IVIr. S. came to Mt. Clemens in January, 1876, and at\\nonce entered in charge of the factory: he is a practical architect, having designed the\\nLutheran Church building, the Porter Block, Dahm s store. S. M. Stone s residence at\\nRidgeway, and many of the finest residences of Mt. Clemens, inclu ing E. J. Olde s resi\\ndeuce: he was a member of the building firm of Shefferly Bros., of Detroit, for eight\\nyears: he is a member of the Catholic Cluu ch. He was married, June ]878. to Mary\\nAnn Kappeler. who was born in Switzerland: has one son Robert Joseph Shefterly, born\\nMarch lU, 187U; lost one son Clarence Henry Shefi erlv. He was elected Alderman for\\nthe First Ward early in 18S 2.\\nCHARLES (CARL) SCHROEDER. born in Mecklenbiu-g, Germany. February To,\\n1842, son of Frederick, who died in 1851: came to Wayne County, Mich., in 1859, where\\nhe labored on a farm for seven years; he was farm superintendent for Mr. AVilcox fom-\\nyears, after which he bought the farm and conducted it. He located in Clinton Town-\\nship in 1873, where he now owns 180 acres, on Section 29, well improved. Mr. S. married\\nMiss Minnie Buckmau in 1866; of seven childi-en born to this luiion, five are living\\nWilliam, Charles, Fred, Minnie and Bertha. Mrs. Schroeder died February 6, 1880.\\nFor his second wife, he married Miss Dorothea Siferliue, to whom one girl Caroline\\nwas born. The family belong to the German Lutheran Church.\\nPROF. WESLEY SEARS, son of the late David Sears, of Monticello. Wis., was\\nborn in Knox, Waldo Co., Me., October 22, 1851. Prof. Sears moved with his parents to\\nGreen County, Wis., in 1854; thence to Hillsdale, Mich., in June, 1866: in August, 1870.\\nthe family returned to Wiscimsin, with the exception of Prof. Sears, who remained at\\nHillsdale College and graduated with the class of 1874; during the six years that he\\nstudied at this college, he taught school for three winter terms. After graduating, he\\ntook charge of the Eaton Rapids School, in the fall of 1874, remaining there until the\\nfall of 1876, when he received the appointment of Principal of the Mt. Clemens Schools,\\na position which he has since held. Prof. Sears married Miss Nellie Law, December 29,\\n1880; this lady, the daughter of the late Rev. Hiram La y, was formerly a teacher in the\\npublic schools of Eaton Rapids and Centerville, Mich.\\nMRS. SARAH SHARBONEAU was born in Canada in 1832: came with her parents", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0606.jp2"}, "607": {"fulltext": "4\u00e2\u0080\u0094^\\nto Marine City, Mich., in 1835, and to ML Clemens in 1844. She was married to Joseph\\nSharboneau in 18;i 2; they are the parents of three children Edward, George and\\nCharles B., all of whom are married. Mi-s. C. is the owner of the Star laundry, of Sit.\\nClemens, established by hor in 1881.\\nTHOMAS SIL^civLETON. owner of the Shackleton House, was born at Lowell,\\nMass., November 4. 1841: son of John Shackleton, of England, who came to the United\\nStates when a young man. The family moved to Danwich T^ownship, Elgin County, On-\\ntario, in 1848, where Mr. S. was educated; since ISCt I, he has alternately resided in ihe\\nUnited States and Canada: in 187H, he came to Mt. Clemens and was engineer at the salt\\nworks for Snook. Bush Moser; he returned to Canada, where he remained vmtil his set-\\ntlement here in 1875: he built five houses in the city, together with the Shackleton House,\\nbuilt in 1881. Mr. S. is a painter by trade and also a licensed steamboat engineer; he\\nmarried Miss Nancy Gilbert in Canada. July Ifi, 1874.\\nEUGENE SHOOK, of the meroantilefirm of Law Shook, was born in Dutchess\\nCounty, N. Y., April 6, 1855. His father. Robert Shook, of Dutchess County, came to\\nMichigan in 1856, and located at Mt. Clemens: here Mr. Shook was educated. After\\nleaving school, he was book-keeper for George R. Law; from 1876 to 1880, he traveled\\nthrough the Southern and Northwestern States. He was married, to Mary B. Williams,\\nof Romeo, January 1, 1880, at Racine, Wis.: in February, 1882, he entered into part-\\nnershiji with Mr. Law in the grocery trade. This business was established by Mr. Law\\nin 1871. Now the amount of sales is e.stimated at 125,000 annually, with prospects of\\neven greater advance.\\nJACOB W. SHOOK, dealer in groceries, grain, feed and agricultural implements;\\nwas born in Dutchess County, N. Y., in February, 1840; son of Theron Shook, who came\\nwith his family to Mt. Clemens in 1848. Jacob W. resided on the farm until nineteen\\nyears old, when he visited Colorado and Montana au l was engaged in mining for eight\\nyears. In 1867, he returned to Mt. Clemens and engaged in the grocery and feed busi-\\nness with L. N. Phillips, which partnership continued until 1878. That year Mr. Shook\\nassumed sole control of the business and also engaged in the sale of agricultm-al imple-\\nments. This latter branch of his business is made a specialty in the summer seasons.\\nHe was married to Miss Mary C. Wilson, a native of Wayne County, N. Y., daughter of\\nGeorge Wilson, deceased. Mr. Shook has held the position of City Treasurer for the last\\nthree vears and is a member of the Masonic order.\\nROBERT SHOOK, born in Dutchess Coimty, N. Y,. Aiigust 24, 1848: son of the late\\nRobert Shook, who came with his family to Mt. Clemens in 1854; was educated at Mt.\\nClemens. Here, in partner.ship with William E. Hall and Philii) Shook, he engaged in\\nthe hub and spoke manufacture. Sold his interest in 1874, and engaged in the lumber\\ntrade for one year; in 1875, he entered on the manufacture of furniture, and, in 1879. in\\npartnership with W. B. Hiibbard, added the business i undertaker. Mr. Shook was mar-\\nried, October 6, 1868, to Miss Alice Roy, daughter of the late William Roy, of Mt. Clem-\\nens, to whom was born five childi-en, of whom Robert E., Letha Belle and Grace are liv-\\ning. Mr. Shook has been Trustee of the village from 1872 to 1874, and Treasurer in\\n1874. He is a member of the L O. O. F.\\nTHOMAS SMITH, son of Thomas, was born in Staffordshire, England, Juue 18,\\n18lii; he came to Wayne County in 1848; then located in Huron, Ohio, in 1845. and re-\\ntui-ned to Wayne County in 1847; a y( ar later, he made his home in Ohio; in 1849. he\\nlocated at Deti-oit. visited England in 1858 and located in Clinton Township (m his retm-n\\nin the fall oi the latter year. Mr. S. was married, in 1858, to Miss Ann Shenton; of her\\nthree children, Fr-ank S.. born August 18, 1859, survives. IVIrs. Smith died April 12.\\n1860. Mr. Smith married Miss Dorothea Franklin, January 8. 1861; to her six children", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0607.jp2"}, "608": {"fulltext": "J^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COINTV.\\nwere born, of whom Sidney, Clara J., Henry F., Alfred and Anna, are living. The home-\\nstead farm comprises sixty-three acres. Mr. S. has held the oifices of Highway Commis\\nsioner and School Director.\\nJAMES H. SNOOK (younger brother of John B., celebrated builder, 12 Chambers\\nstreet, New York), son of James and Mary (Sayer) Snook, was born in St. Bride s, Lon-\\ndon, England, November 13, ISIH; he came with his parents to New York in June, 1S17;\\nremoved with them to Cranberry (near Princeton), N. J., in 1881; joined the Presbyterian\\nChurch in ISS came with his parents and eight brothers and sisters to Mt. Clemens,\\nin June, 183(1; here he assisted his father and William Beer to build and run the first\\nsteam saw-mill in Eastern Michigan. In June, 183U, he married Sarah Ann, eldest\\ndaughter of Samuel L. Axtell, of Mendham, Morris Co., N. J., soon returning to Mt.\\nClemens for a permanent home. In 1840, he took a mile and a half of the Clinton\\nKalamazoo Canal to build; the work required the employment of fi om thirty-five to fifty\\nmen at once, and in those days it was generally believed that such work coidd not be done\\nunless the men were furnished regular rations of whisky, but J. H. S. and wife were strict\\nteetotalers, so she went to the shanty with him, and, by her superintending the board-\\ning-house and sanitary arrangements and his just and urbane treatment of the men, the\\ntemperance job became very popular with workmen, and none ever left it because\\nwhisky or whisky-drinkers were not employed. J. H, in \\\\SV2, bought 400 acres of land\\nin the west part of Clinton Township, and lived on it till his appointment as Postmaster\\nin Mt. Clemens, 1S()8, which he held till his death, July S, 18S0; he was teacher in the\\nSabbath school and member of the choir in the Presbyterian Church, without a break, from\\nJuly, 183(), till his last illness; also Ruling Elder and Deacon, from 1841. His character\\nwas noted for lu banity, firmness and purity; his children .all joined his chui ch before\\nreaching majority; they were John J., born 1842, enlisted in the Twenty-second Volun-\\nteer Infantry, l8r)2. married in lSl )6, farmer; Mary S. born 1844, man ied Dr. T. \\\\V.\\nHitchcock, liiC) widowed in 1877; Rufus A., born in 1S4(), enlisted in the Twenty-second\\nVolunteer Infantry, February 18()4, died May, 18()4; Kate S., born 1848, married J. W.\\nDavis, 1872, widowed 1879; George H., 1852, married 1874, Postmaster and Elder in\\nthe Presbyterian Chm ch in 1880, drowned April 27, 1881; Samuel, born IST) died Fel)-\\nruary, 1858; James E. born 1801, still living in Mt. Clemens.\\nGEORGE H. SNOOK (deceased), son of James and Sarah (Axtell) Snook, was born\\nnear Mt. Clemens April 20, 1852. He married Miss Nellie N. Slight, daughter of George\\nSlight, now of Sterling Township, to whom were born two chikkeu George J. and Mar-\\ngery Ethel. This estimable citizen was drowned on Lake St. Clair, April 27, 1881, a full\\nreference to which is made in the history of Mt. Clemens.\\nTHOMAS W. SNOOK, of the firm of Snook Robinson, son of James and Mary\\nSayer Snook, of England, was born in New York City -4.pril 10, 1822; parents came to the\\nUnited States in 1816; T. W. came with his parents to Michigan in 183(3; entered mer-\\ncantile life at Mt. Clemens in May. 1849, which continued until April, 1870; married\\nMiss Emily A. Hubbard, April K), 1844; the lady died in August, 1859; he married for\\nhis second wife Hairiet J. Rice, May 1, 18(31. Mr. S. has been President of the village\\nfor one year; Director of the School Board for six years; of the Presbyterian Church for\\nthirty years; is now a member of the Protestant Episcopal Church and of the Masonic,\\nOdd Fellows and Good Templars Societies.\\nSILAS B. SPIER, son of Samuel Spier, of Columbia County, N. Y., who settled\\nin Kalamazoo County, Mich., in 1860, and died there in 1875, was born in Ontario\\nCounty, N. Y., January 8, 1854; came to Michigan with his parents in 1S60; attended\\nthe schools at Kalamazoo; passed one year at the Agricultural College of Lansing, and\\ngi-aduated from Olivet College in 1876. He read law in Mr. A. L. Canfield s office, passed\\nsifV", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0608.jp2"}, "609": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nexamination in open com-t aud was admitted to the bar. in May. 1S77. and entered at once\\nupon th\u00c2\u00ab? practice of his profession. Uis marriage with Miss Julia L. El dredge, daughter\\nof Judge J. B. Eldredge. took place May 21, ISSO.\\nHENRY H. STEEVENS was born in Clermont, Columbia Co., N. Y., on the banks\\nof the Hudson. September 14, IS^fi: came with his parents to Michigan in 18H5, and was\\neducated here: he, with W. J. Canfield. started the tirst Republican journal of Macomb\\nCounty. Ml-. S. was married to Miss Eliza A. Miller, daughter of Milton Miller. January\\n1, 1N5S: they were the parents of five children, four of whom are living.\\nHORACE STEEVENS (deceased), born at Sharon. Conn.. August I d, 1/99; came to\\nMacomb County in ISHI^, and made a settlement at Frederick, which he named after his\\nbrother. Frederick, of Detroit, and platted in 1835: he and his brother purchased the\\nFrederick mills and in many other respects did much to develop the industrial resources\\nof the county; live of his children are living. Judge S. died in March. 1S4U. A reference\\nto the political and organic chapters of general history will point out Mr. S. s services as\\nAssociate Judge of Macomb County.\\nCHARLES TACKELS. Treasurer of Macomb County, was born at Romeo November\\n22, 1S27; son of Alex. Tackels, noticed iu the general history of the county, who died in\\n1861. IMr. T. left home at the age of eighteen, passed fifteen years lumbering, was a\\ndealer in real estate, grain, etc.. for some years, until his election as County Treasurer in\\n1878; his re-election in 1880 was another evidence of popular esteem, as deserved as it\\nwas freely accorded. IVir. T. married Cynthia King, daughter of Alexis King, deceased,\\nAugust 20. 1866; they are the parents of two children \u00e2\u0080\u0094Charles M., book-keeper in the\\nFirst National Bank, of Romeo, and Louise C. Since his election to the County Treas-\\nurership. Mr. T. makes Mt. Clemens his home.\\nHENRY TAYLOR, M. D., is a soq of the late Dr. Henry Taylor, who came from\\nNew York State to Oakland County in 1824, to Mt. Clemens in 1826, and a leading phy-\\nsician here, as well as the senior practitioner in the State until his death, I ecember 18,\\n1876. The present Dr. Taylor was born at Mt. Clemens February 14. 1882; was educated\\nhere, studied medicine under his father and graduated at Ann Arbor in the class of 1855;\\nretm-ning to Mt. Clemens, he entered upon the practice of his profession, which he con-\\ntinued up to the present time. Dr. Taylor, Sr.. was the first to have the mineral waters\\nanalyzed, and, in conjunction with his son. erected the first bathhouse at the springs.\\nDr. T. is a member of the N. E. Medical Association and also holds a membership in the\\nState Medical Society. His marriage with Miss Marion A. Ferris took place in October,\\n1859; they are the parents of two children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Harry F. and Jesse M. Taylor.\\nJ. C. THOMSON, born in Toronto. Canada, in August. 185:i, came to the United\\nStates in 1869; was employed as Deputy Collector of Internal Revenue in Mississippi\\nfor several years: came to Detroit. Mich., in 1873; was employed as commercial traveler\\nin boot and shoe business to the present time; opened a clothing, boot and shoe store in\\nMt. Clemens in September, 1880; business successful, and now occupies two stores; is the\\nson of William Thomson, of Barrie, Ontario; grandson of the late Col. E. W. Thomson,\\nof Toronto.\\nEMORY TRUFANT, d\u00c2\u00abceased, grandson of Trufant, of La Fayette s French troops\\nof the Revolution, and son of John Trufant, was born at Harvard, Mass.. in 1814. His\\nfather died in 1814, so. at the age of fifteen, Mr. Trufant had to enter on th- realities of\\nlife; in 1828, owned one-half interest in stage line, and drove from Harvard to Charleston,\\nMass.: sold stage line, bought interest in canal-boat on Erie Canal, and came to Mt.\\nClemens in US^S. He was one of the first white men who wintered on Lake Superior since\\nthe French explorers of early days. He passed a few years there as overseer of the copper\\nmines. Of late years, he has dealt extensively in pine and farming lands, and, at the time\\nr- a V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0609.jp2"}, "610": {"fulltext": ",k\\nof liis death, was President of the First National iiauk, Greenville, Mich. Mr. Trufant\\nwas married, July 2 i, 1847. to Miss Charlotte Gibbs, a native of Cattaraugus County, N.\\nY., daughter of Samuel Gibbs. deceased. They were the parents of three children John\\nR., Florence* J. and Alice M. He was a member of the Masonic and I. O. O. F. orders.\\nHis death took place April IH, 1874.\\nJOHN R. TRUFANT. son of Eniury B. Trufant (deceased), was born in Clinton\\nTownship June 1848. He was educated in the common schools of the district; labored\\non the farm, and passed several wintei s in the lumber woods of Montcalm, where his\\nfather had a saw-mill at Trufant Village. John R. resides on the old homestead. Private\\nClaim 188, where he owns a farm of 220 acres. He was married, in May, 1871, to Miss\\nAnnie MeChesney, daughter of Wallace McChesney. They were the parents of four\\nchildren, of whom three are living Arthur. Catherine and John. Mr. Trufant is a mem-\\nber of Masonic, I. O. O. F., Grauge and R. A. societies. He traveled through Dakota, Ne-\\nbraska, Minnesota and Manitoba in 1880.\\nCAPT. ALBERT H. TUCKER, son of Henry Tucker, was born in Harrison Township\\nNovember 18, 1889. His earlier years were passed on the farm; since 1858 or 1854, has\\nbeen engaged in lake navigation. At the age of seventeen, he was Captain of the scow\\nPresque Isle, and has held the position of Captain on various boats almost uuiuteiTuptedly\\nsince that time, being now in charge of the Ida. He has run between Mt. Clemens and\\nDetroit for the last twelve seasons. Capt Tucker was married, November 24, 1878. to\\nMiss Maggie Lacey, daughter of Michael Lacey. They were the parents of three chil-\\ndren, two of whom are living Arthur J. and Frank H.\\nEDWARD J. TUCKER, son of John Tucker, was the first white male child born in\\nthe county of Macomb; was born in Harrison Township January 18, 18ir). Regarding\\nthe family, a full sketch is given in the pioneer chapter of the general history. Edward\\nJ. Tucker located in Mt. Clemens in 1888, where he engaged in the building business;\\nwas a merchant for six years, and established the lime manufacture in 184(), which is his\\npresent business. Mr. Tucker married Sarah B. Snooks, of New York City, September\\n24. 1840. He has been a member of the City Council; is a strong temijerance and anti-\\ntobac(!0 man. and is numbered among the enterprising men of the city. He is descended\\non his mother s side of Frencdi ancestors, from Dr. Chapaton, a surgeon of the army of\\noccupation, posted at Detroit, at the time of surrender to the British.\\nGEORGE A. S. TUCKER, son of E. J. Tucker, was born on North (Jratiot street, Mt.\\nClemens, June 5. 1851; he is a carpenter and joiner. He was manned, May 15, 1878, to\\nMiss Cari ie C. Kellogg, daughter of Dor Kellogg, to whom were born two children, of\\nwhom Edward D. is living.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0JAMES G. TUCKER, attorney at law and Justice of the Peace, was born at Mt.\\nClemens November 80, 1855. His father. Rev. James G. Tucker, came to Mt. Clemens as\\ncashier of the old Macomb County Bank. Mr. Tucker moved with his parents to New\\nOrleans in 1800. where he resided until 1870. His mother died in that city in 1N07;\\nfather died there in 1871, one year after James G. and his sister, Miss Mary B., returned\\nto Mt. Clemens. Here he conducted school for four years; passed some years in office of\\nProbate Judge; was elected Township Superintendent of Schools in April, 187N; Justice\\nof the Peace in 1879; was admitted to the bar in 1880, and, the same yeai-. was elected\\nClerk of Mt. Clemens City. His marriage with Miss Eliza B. Wood, a teacher in the city\\nschools, took place September 9, 1881.\\nCHARLES ULLRICH was born November 27, 188( in the village of Diemerode, in\\nthe kingdom of Hesse, and is the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Ullrich. He attended school\\nin Eiu ope until he was foui teen years of age, at which time he left school and worked upon\\na farm until he arrived at the age of seventeen years, when he concluded to leave the Old", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0610.jp2"}, "611": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nWorld and try his fortune in the New. He landed in the country comparatively without\\nmeans, and a stranger to the people and their language. He came to Detroit, and at once\\nwent to earning his livelihood by working at the butcher s trade: worked there six months,\\nand then removed to Chicago, remaining there about one year. The following year, he\\nworked in St. Louis and New Orleans. At each of the last-named places, he carried on\\nthe business of butchering. He finally returned to Detroit, and, after a short time, came\\nto Mt. Clemens, and, on the idth of September, 1857, he entered into a copartnership with\\nAugust Czizek, of Mt. Clemens, and opened a meat market. They conducted this business\\nfor two and one-half years, when Mr. Ulrich sold out his interest to his partner, and at\\nonce went into the live stock business, which trade he carried on for a number of years,\\nand, during the war, he took many heavy contracts from the United States Government\\nfor furnishing horses for the cavalry. In many of these contracts, and in pine land spec-\\nulations, he was connected with the late J. B. Dickinson. He finally abandoned the live\\nstock business and went into the real estate business, buying and selling farms and city\\nproperty, which business he now devotes his time to. Mi-. Ullrich married Margaret S.\\nMiller, daughter of John W. Miller, November JT, ISriS, and now has three children^\\nWilliam J., now in his twenty-second year; Reuben C, aged nineteen; and Frank P.,\\naged sixteen. He was elected Alderman of the city of Mt. Clemens in the year ISSO,\\nwhich position he held for two years. As a member of the City Council, he was one of\\nthe most active and efficient workers; served upon many of the most important and stand-\\ning committees, and was one of the most able and prominent members of the Special\\nBuilding Committee, who had the matter of erecting the new court house in cliar.e. He\\nhas, by thrift and economy, amassed quite a large fortune; is the owner of some of the\\nfinest and choicest property in the city of Mt. Clemens. He is recognized as a man of\\nremarkably good judgment and very quick perception, in this and adjoining counties, where\\nhe is well and favorably known.\\nPAUL ULLRICH, a brotherof Charles, was born in Diemerode, Hesse, March 3, 1845.\\nHe attended school in Europe until he reached fourteen years of age, when he concluded\\nhe would follow his brother Charles to America, his entire family being opposed to the\\nidea. He persisted, however, with the scheme, and finally started alone for America,\\nwhich country he reached before he was fifteen years of age. He came to Mt. Clemens\\nand attended the Union School for two terms, when he commenced working for his Iwother\\nCharles, which employment he continued for eight years. When he was twenty -three\\nyears of age. he went into the dry goods trade with E. J. Olde. and. although he was\\nyoung and unacquainted with the business when he commenced, it was not long before\\nhe had made a success of it. and he at once came to the front rank of the Mt. Clemens\\nbusiness men a position which he has ever since held. The copartnershi)) with Olde\\nlasted about five years, when it was dissolved, and John Kuhn became a partner. This firm\\ncontinued to March I), ISS j, when it was dissolved, Mr. Ullrich retiring. He was manned\\nto Matilda Miller, daughter of John W. Miller, January 11, INTO. He has three living\\nchildren Paul Ullrich, eleven years of age; Marcus, three years old; and Leslie, one year\\nof age. He lost his son Carl, who died Janiiary 2, 1880, being in his sixth year. Mr.\\nUllrich has never entered the political arena, l)ut has strictly attended to business, without\\nany cessation. He is a Mlison, having taken the various degrees up to and including that\\nof Knight Templar being a memlser of Romeo Commandery. Mr. Ullrich is a young man\\nof untiring enei gy. a remarkably good judge of values, quick to see a point and act at\\nonce upon his own judgment. He has made, by his own efforts, quite a fortune, and is, at\\nthe date of this vsriting, jireparing to open a banking office. Of both Charles and Paul\\nUllrich it may be said that they are living examples of what it is possible for the foreigner\\nto attain in America. They both clearly demonstrate that it is not only possible for", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0611.jp2"}, "612": {"fulltext": ".iU\\n608 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nstrangers to seek our shore, and, by their own single-handed exertions, lay u]) a goodly\\nfortune of this world s goods, but that they may attain etninent and prominent stations in\\nthe business and social fabric of the country, thus storing up for their descendants the\\nbest possible of legacies.\\nJOSEPH F. UPLECtER, member of the firin of Ullrich, Kuhu Co., was bom in\\nParchow. Mecklenbiu g, January M, 1.S47; eniigrated with his parents to the United States\\nAjiril ITi. LSn:!, arriving at Mt. Clemens July 1, IH. settled on the farm of F. H. Wacker,\\none-half mile north of Haskius, now known as the Deuwith Flouring-Mills. on the North\\nBranch of the Clinton River, three miles n irth of Mt. Clemens. Of this farm his father\\nsubsequently became the owner, and is living there at this writing: received his primary\\neducation in the district schools: entered the German school at Waldenburg, preparatory\\nto contiriuation, in ISfiO: was appointed student of the Missouri Synod College at St.\\nLouis: resigned the appointment and completed his education at the high school of Mt.\\nClemens: entered the mercantile pursuit in 18()2, with John Schott. at Waldenburg; went\\nto Flint, in Michigan, in 1S()3, and accepted a position as time-keeper under Contractor\\nHilliker, of the Flint Holly Railroad; entered into Government service in 18(54, in the\\nWestern Engineer and Construction Department: served in several capacities on the Mis-\\nsouri, Pacific Leavenworth Railroad, and returned in 1867, but soon after entered the\\nemploy of D. C. Williams, general store: became a member of the firm of Upleger Bol-\\nensen, successors to D. C. Williams, in 1871; closed out business in November, 187t:i; con-\\ntinued his pursuit as salesman for Freedman Bros. of Detroit, and Pulchero Zange, Mt.\\nClemens, uni-il l87(i, when he began his service with Paul Ulrich Co., of which firm he\\nwas admitted a member in March, 188 2. He was married, January 8, 187!^, and has a\\nfamily of two childi-en.\\nGEORGE L. VOLKENING, born in Prussia, German Empire, January 15, 18:^1,\\ncame to New York City in 1847: to Newark, N. J., in 1848, where he worked at his trade\\nas jeweler until 1850, when he came to Macomb County. He was engaged in farming in\\nMacomb Township until 1870, when he moved to Mt. Clemens, where he now owns two\\nstores, a residence on Gratiot street, the farm in Macomb Township, with several houses\\nand lots scattered through the city. Mr. Volkening married Miss Christina Bleidorn, to\\nwhom were born three children Charles, Mary and William.\\nGEORGE B. VAN EPS, born in Madi.son County, N. Y.. October 1^0, 1S28, son of\\nJohn Van Eps, of Kinderhook, came to Detroit with parents in 1SH4. There his father\\nbecame very ill, sold his horses to Gov. Cass, and returned to Orleaus County, N. Y., same\\nyear, with his family. George B. learned the shoemaker s trade in New York; returned\\nto Michigan in 1N44: located in Mt. Clemens; bought interest in tannery in 1845, and\\nhas been engaged here in the boot and shoe business since the fall of 1S44, being the (mly\\nsurviving firm of all doing business here in that year. He was married, August 2 i, 184\\nto Maria A. Ashley, who died June 28, 1847; married for second wife Mai\\\\v E. Robertson,\\nMarch 17, 1849, who died July 4, 1851 on August 2, 1852, married Miss M. A. Fitch, of\\nAlbion, N. Y. Mr. Van Eps is a member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows, of the\\nMasonic Lodge and Chaj)ter; has been President of the village and Aldei man of the vil-\\nlage: member of the Board of Education for the past eighteen years, and is the senior in-\\nsurance agent of the city, having represented several companies since 185U. Mr. Van Eps\\nwas a member of the well-known dry goods firm of Graden, Van Eps Co., fi-om January\\n1, 18(i4, to January 1, 1873, and sold more goods in that time than were ever sold before\\nin Mt. Clemens. The present firm of Van Eps Co. is now actively engaged in manu-\\nfacturing aud dealing in boots and shoes, findings, leather, harness, etc.\\nJOHN E. VAN EPS, of Van Eps Co., son of John Van Eps, of Kinderhook, N. Y.,\\ni a\u00c2\u00ab born in Madison County, N. Y., January 15. 1S22: raised on the farm, and educated", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0612.jp2"}, "613": {"fulltext": "t\\\\iL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COrNTY.\\nat Oak s Corners, N. Y. He learned the tannery business at Fort Byron. N. Y., nnder Rob-\\nert Little: settled at Geneva, N. Y., in 1S43: worked at trade there until ]S44. when he\\ncame to Mt. Clemens, where he has carried on the tannery business ever since. He mar-\\nried Ada I. Traver. a New York lady, in February, 1S47, to whom were born nine children,\\nof whom six are living, namely: John F. Arthur E. Catherine A., Ada B. Effie and\\nMaud M. Alice M. died at the age of seventeen years. Mr. Van Eps has held positions\\non the Village Board and in the City Council, and has been Mayor of Mt. Clemens: is Jus-\\ntice of the Peace, and member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.\\nARTHUR E. VAN EPS, son of John E. Van Eps, was born at Mt. Clemens March 5,\\n1S51. He was educated in the .chools of the village; learned the tanner s trade at his\\nfather s works, and continues the manufacture of leather in the large brick tannery of Van\\nEps Co. Mr. Van Eps was married, October 28, 18SI), to Miss Hattie M. Church,\\ndaughte)- of Haswell Church, an old settler of Macomb Township.\\nBRUNO VAN LANDEGHEM, born in Belgium November 1 2, ISIS, son of Jacob Van\\nLandeghem, a native of Belgium, came to Mt. Clemens in 1S4S: operated the North Branch\\nFlouring Mills for seven years; engaged in the gi-ain and poi k business at Mt. Clemens\\nin IST)!); next, in the manufacture of staves, in \\\\S )9. which business he has continued\\ndown to the present time. He married Malanie Vanrenterghem in 1S50, to whom were\\nborn thii-teen children, of whom two are living Bruno. Jr., and Frank. Mrs. Van Lan-\\ndeghem died in 1S7;1 One daughter, who married Joseph Winkler, died at the age of\\nnineteen years. Mi-. Van Landeghem has been Alderman of the city for three years: is\\none of the best citizens of Mt. Clemens, and deservedly popular with all classes.\\nBRUNO VAN LANDEGHEM. Jr., of the iirm of Van Landeghem Son, was\\nborn at Mt. Clemens March (i. isru. He was educated at the University of Notre\\nDame, Ind. He became partner with his father in 1875, in the manufacture of staves,\\nheadings and lumber. He married Miss Annie Czizek in September. 1875; family belong\\nto the Catholic Church. He is prominently connected with the industries of the\\ncity.\\nEDGAR WEEKS, one of the pioneer lawyers of Macomb County, son of Aaron\\nWeeks, an old settler of the county, was born at Mt. Clemens August 3, 1889. In 1854,\\nhe was obliged to leave school and seek a position in a printing office then established at\\nNew Baltimore. In 1855, he entered the office of the Lake Superior Journal, at Sault de\\nSt. Marie. In 1S57, he labored at Detroit in both the Tribune and Free Press offices, and,\\nreturning to Mt. Clemens in 1858, began the study of law in the office of Eldi idge Hub-\\nbard. He was admitted as an attorney and counselor of the Macomb County bar in IStil,\\nby Judge S. M. Green. During the previous year, he participated in the Lincoln cam-\\npaign, and when hostilities began, he was among the tirst to share in the labor of organ-\\nizing a militaiy company. A reference to the military chapter of the general history will\\nbe sufficient to show the part which this soldier took in the war for the Union. After his\\nresignation on account of disability in IS(i4, he retmrned to his home and entered upon\\nthe practice of law. The same year, he established the Monitor, in company with W. T.\\nLee. He was elected Circuit Court Commissioner in 18B4. but, on account of the soldiers\\nvote being declared unconstitutional, he retired. In ISfjtt, he was elected Prosecuting\\nAttorney, and re-elected in ISfiS. He was appointed Judge of Probate in 1875, vice\\nThomas L. Sackett, deceased. In the Congressional Convention of Mai-ch. 1S81, through\\nforty-two ballots, he stood second to John T. Rich, who was finally nominated and\\nelected. Mr. Weeks has taken a deep interest in educational matter.s, and remains to day\\none of the strongest supporters of the public schools of his native city. His record as a\\nstanch Republican is fully sustained by twenty years of active labor with his party, while\\nhis professional record is marked by attention, integrity and ability. Mr. Weeks was\\nIs\\nri^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0613.jp2"}, "614": {"fulltext": "married to Miss Mary S. Campbell, by Rev. William McCorkle, of the Duffield Presbyte-\\nrian Churcli, Detroit. July 20, 1807. They are the parents of live children.\\nJOHN T. \\\\VELSS, son of Anthony Weiss, of Alsace, France, was born May :^0, 18:^1\\ncame to New York City May -M), 18.j 2; went thence to Upper Canada same year; to Noble\\nCounty, Ind., in 1854; to Fort Wayne in 1855, where he cast his first vote. In 1857, he\\nreturned to Canada; settled in Huron County, Mich.; in 18()l), revisited France, where he\\npassed one year; returned to his home in Huron County and remained there until 1867,\\nwhen he located in Macomb. He was married, in 1807, to Mrs. Mary Clore, daughter of\\nJacob Pflimlein, a Roman Catholic. Mr. Weiss served as School Director for twelve\\nyears; Justice of the Peace, eight years; Drain Commissioner, three years; then Clerk two\\nyears, which position, with that of Notary Public, he now holds.\\nMYRON WHITE, son of Elihu White, of Ontario County, N. Y., was born in Yates\\nCounty, N. Y., February 1 2, 182:); came with parents to Chesterfield Township in 1888,\\nand settled on .Section 0. At that time there were no roads; they had to clear a space on\\nwhich to erect their dwelling. There were a few bears prowling around, and numerous\\npacks of wolves. Mr. White attended school in the log cabin of the period. In 1889 or\\n1840, he left home, learned the carpenter s and joiner s trade. He came to Mt. Clemens in\\n1848; worked at his trade until 1848, when he purchased a stock of goods and opened a\\nstore at Vienna, now known as Mead Post Office. After eighteen months, he retiu ned to\\nMt. Clemens, and in 1850 opened a grocery store there; subsequently connected a meat\\nmai ket with it, both of which he operated until 1859. He was engaged in the manufact-\\nure of headings and staves for twelve years. He built two stave-mills, the first in part-\\nnership with Mr. Stiger, which was run until ISOIJ, and continued in partnership with T.\\nW. Snook until 1872. He sold his interest to Mr. Snook in 1872, worked for the new\\npurchaser one year, and since that time attends to his property. Mr. White was married,\\nFebruary 11, 1846, to Miss Elmira Gary, of Ontario County, N. Y They were the par-\\nents of three children, of whom Henry C. and Stephen are living; and Adelaide J., de-\\nceased.\\nJOHN V. WIEGAMT. son of Eckart, was born in Hessen, Germany, February 8,\\n1828. He came to the United States in 1849, aod located at Detroit in July of that year.\\nHe labored at various employments; was blacksmith in the Michigan Central Railroad\\nshops at Detroit for two year.s; came to Macomb in 1858, and, locating on Section 88,\\nClinton, made the first clearance in that district. His original entry he sold, and pur-\\nchased land on Section 27. in 1855. where he now resides. He was married, in 1858, to\\nMiss Eva Wenneg, to whom nine children were born Olive. Henry. John. Louise, Min-\\nnie, Mary and William. He filled the position of Highway Commissioner for eight years,\\nand Township Treasurer and Collector for two years. He is a member of the W. A. S. of\\nMt. Clemens; family belong to Presbyterian Church.\\nPHILO WIDRIG, Superintendent County Poor Farm, son of Michael G. Widrig,\\nwas born in Herkimer County. N. Y., March 28. 1821. Mr. Widrig was raised on a farm\\nand educated in the common schools of his native county. In 1848, he traveled West.\\nand located in Ray Township, where he farmed until 1865. when he moved to Macomb\\nTownship. He remained on a farm there three years, and then purchased 160 acres of\\ntimbered land in Clint(jn Township, which he converted into an excellent farm In\\nMarch. IS70, he took charge of the County Poor Farm, and continues to manage the in-\\nstitution well and eooaomically. Mr. Widrig was married, January 17, 1841. to Miss\\nSally Burt, to whom twelve children were born, seven of whom are living Rozell. Sylves-\\nter. Mary J.. Philo. Harbow. Rose and Barlow. Philemon died in November, 1881, aged\\nthirty-thi-ee years, leaving wife and one child. Rozell served in Twenty-second Infantry,\\nand Sylvester in Company G, Eighth Michigan Cavalry, during the war for the Union:", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0614.jp2"}, "615": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe latter was made prisoner at Cleveland, Tenn., and was an inmate of Libby and Belle\\nIsle Prisons for eicfht months. Subsequently, lia was sick in the hospital of Patterson\\nPark, Baltimore, whither his father went and took him home.\\nJOHN H. WILKINSON, sou of Thomas J. Wilkinson, of Litchfield. Conn., was born\\nin Cayuga County, N. Y., December 25, ISHSJ. His father was born January 14, 1790;\\nserved in the war of IS 1 2 came to Macomb Couuty in I S.5( where he resided until his death,\\nApril 11, IS79. John H. came here in I.S.IO, and worked at the mason s trade until August,\\nISni, when he enlisted in Company A, Ninth Michigan Infantry. He was discharged for\\ndisability in 18()2. He enlistel in the First Sliehigcan Cavalry in 18l)8-, commissioned\\nSecond Lieutenant July 21; discharged in Marc 1865. He man-ied Miss Sarah E. Wait\\nJune 2(), 1S59, to whom were born seven children Hattie M., Philomelia, Ammitta, Sarah\\nA., Samuel E., Katie J. and Nan. Mr. Wilkinson is a member of the Independent Order\\nof Good Templars, and also of the .Vlt. Clemens Reform Club and Baptist Church.\\nLOUIS Wolf, adopted son of Jacob F. Wolf, was born at Philadelphia. Penn. Au-\\ngust 10, 1849. His original name was Louis Fastnacht, but, on Jacob F. becoming his\\nstepfather, the name Wolf was applied. He was married, June 4. 1879, to Miss Caroline\\nEssig. They were the parents of one child, who died February 2f), 1882. The family\\nreside on Section 8, Clinton, where Mr. Wolf owns a farm of eighty-three acres. The_y\\nare members of the Lutheran Church.\\nOEORGE WOOD, born in Yorkshire, England, February Id. 18 Ki, son of James\\nWood, of that shire, came to Macomb County in the fall of 1848 and located land on Sec-\\ntions 4 and 5, Clinton Townshii). He was married, in November, 1845. to Miss Fannie\\nMiller, daughter of the late James Miller, a Franco-Canadian, and a soldier of the war of\\n1812. They were the parents of eight children Elizabeth (Wolvin). Mary (WaiTen).\\nFannie (Kohler). Eliza (Tucker), Sarah, .Jennie, Martha and James G.\\nWILLIAM WOOD, born in Yorkshire, England, July 8. 1851, son of Samuel Wood,\\ncame with his parents to Mt. Clemens in 1852. In his early days, he labored on a farm.\\nIn 1874. he engaged in mauufactiu ing tile with his father, which industry he still carries\\non successfully. He was married to Mrs. Letilia Cole, daughter of Sanford King, June 1,\\n1877. Both are members of the Baptist Church, of which Mr. Wood is Clerk. He is also\\na member of the Independent Order of Odd Fellows.\\nSAMITEL WOOD, son of James Wood, of Yorkshire, England, was born in Yorkshire\\nNovember 14, 1820; came to Mt. Clemens in 1852, and has made the county his home\\nsince that time. He engaged in farming and stock-raising; was a brick manufacturer for\\nsix years, and now has a tile factory in connection with his farm. He was married, Feb\\nruary 18. 1845, to Miss Eliza Armitage, to whom six children were born, foui of whom\\nare living Ann, William, Augusta and Matilda. He is the owner of seventy^eight acres\\nof land within the city limits; has been a member of Mt. Clemens Baptist Chm-ch for over\\na quarter of a century, and a Deacon of that church for eight or nine years.\\n711", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0615.jp2"}, "616": {"fulltext": "612 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCHAPTER XXX.\\nHOMEO.\\nFrom that day in the fii st year of the third decade of the Nineteenth C^entmy when\\nthe first settlements were made by American pioneers on the site of the present village of\\nRomeo, progress has been made which eclipses even the brightest day dreams of the old\\nresidents. The locality has had every ad vantige: nature made it beautiful; the American\\npioneer made it useful. The former conferred upon the district a rich soil; the latter\\nutilized it. transforming the virgin earth into well-cultivated fields and flowery gardens.\\nThe many changes which have marked the years of progress must exercise feelings of just\\npride in the hearts of the people. Few of the early occupiers live to realize the changes\\nwhich have taken place; the greater number of old settlers do not regret the transformation;\\nbut there are yet living men and women who look back to the never- forgotten past and\\nmoiu n the loss of those good old times when contentment waited on labor, and mourn the\\nolden manners and customs which have been so effectually revolutionized by the modern-\\nizers.\\nThe people of Romeo have from the earliest times paid much attention to educational\\nmatters. From the pioneer era to the 2:)resent time, the school has been the theme of gos-\\nsip and inquiry. A love of education formed a leading characteristic of the people. It\\nhas always been fostered and cherished by them. It has been raised up from a very mod-\\nest beginning to great heights, until now the establishments devoted to it, the high order\\nof its teachers and the number of its votaries, render the name of Romeo synonymous with\\nthat of cultm-e.\\nThe varied forms of Christianity have steadily advanced. Churches have multiplied\\nuntil their spires or minarets are visible from every quarter of the village. Their bells do\\nnot now bespeak intolerance or savage bigotry; they merely peal forth to remind the peo-\\nple of prayer, or perchance, summon a set of worshipers to meeting.\\nThe literary circles of the village have held a high place almost from the first years\\nof settlement. The organizations of the present time boast of a high excellence and good\\ngovernment. They afford many instances of the dignity which attaches itself to cultivated\\nnature in its highest form, and thus prepa;re the way, by precedent, for others to follow.\\nThe press of Romeo is ably conducted. The wi iters of the Observer and Democrat\\nhave risen above flunkeyism. and deal justly by the civilization of our days. They oppose\\ninnovation, when such does not afford positive proof that greater results must follow.\\nThey stigmatize moral cowardice, and teach the truth that from the village Council room\\nto the chambers of the National Government virtue should be doubly cherished, and vice\\nsubjected to rebuke and punishment.\\nThe streets of the village are laid out at right angles, graded, and )uany of them\\nshaded by a double line of thrifty ti-ees. The neat, and. in many instances, elegant, resi-\\ndences of the people spread out in all directions. A few of the churches are stately in\\nappearance; all of them large, substantial buildings. The hotels and business houses are\\nmetropolitan in character, and it may be said of the entire village that, for cleanliness,\\nfreedom from rubbish and poor buildings, it will more thun compare with any similar\\ncenter of population in the Union.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0616.jp2"}, "617": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nNAMING THE VILLAGE.\\nIn 1829, N. T. Taylor had reached Romeo. He had obtained that portion of the\\nHoxie fai in lying east of Main street, and a comer lot west, from Asahel Bailey, upon\\nwhich to place his store. Maj. Larned, of Detroit, had possession of the Hoxie tract west\\nof Main street, and Asahel Bailey owned the balance of the corners.\\nIn the fall of 1829. conference was had between these several parties, which resulted\\nin the employment of Col. Hoi lister, then County Surveyor, in the spring of 1830, to lay\\nout a village. That was the basis of the present plat. Main and St. Clair streets were\\nestablished as now, and lots four rods by eight in size, and appropriate streets and alleys,\\nwere designated, though not opened, in many instances, until many years later.\\nhen the proper survey had been made and the place was pronounced a village, the\\ngreat question was to tind a name for it. The conference was at Mr. Taylor s, and linally,\\nwhen the gentlemen failed to suit themselves. Mrs. Laura Taylor ventured to suggest the\\nname of Romeo, as being short, musical, classical and uncommon. The suggestion was\\nacted upon the name was adopted.\\nORGANIC.\\nThe act incorporating the village of Romeo was approved March 9, 1838. The bound-\\naries were Section 2 and the east half of Section 3. in the township of Washington, and\\nthe south half of Section 34 in the township of Bruce. On the first Monday of May fol-\\nlowing, the electors assembled at the schoolhouse, when Dexter Mussey and Horace A.\\nJennison were appointed Judges, and Asa B. Ayres, Clerk of Election. Oel Rix was\\nelected President; Dewitt C. AValker, Recorder; Linus S. Gilbert. Dexter Mussey, Aza-\\nriah Prentiss, Denis Scranton, Wilkes L. Stuai t and Gad Chamberlain, Trustees. These\\nofficers took the oath of office May 12, 1838, and entered upon their duties by appointing\\na committee to draft rules for the government of the Village Board, etc., etc. The report\\nof this committee was considered June 11. 1838, and a set of by-laws, comprising seven-\\nteen articles, adopted. At the meeting held on the latter date, Amos Palmer and John\\nW. Dyar were elected Assessors; Martin F. Southwell, Marshal; and Horace A. Jennison,\\nTreasurer. The Assessors failed to qualify, so that, on September 18. they were re-elected.\\nThe tirst important resolution of the board is recorded under date September 29, 1838.\\nIt provided for raising a tax of one-half of 1 per cent upon real estate within the corporate\\nlimits, and to apply the sum accruing to the purchase of such land in the town of Bruce as\\nmight be required to render Main street 100 feet wide. This resolution was adopted.\\nThe second annual meeting was not held in May, 1839. as provided for in the act,\\nbut was held over until Se[)tember 16, 1839, when the freeholders met within the store of\\nNathan Dickenson Co., under the Judges of Election, Dexter Mussey and Azariah Pren-\\ntiss. The result of this election was as follows:\\nPresident Aaron B. Rawles, 27 votes; Nathan Dickenson, 4; Dexter Mussey, 4;\\nAsahel Bailey, 2; D. C. Walker. 1; H. Van Atter, 1.\\nRecorder Dewitt C. Walker, 35 votes; A. B. Rawles, 1; Denis Scranton. 1; E. W.\\nGiddings. 1; Dexter Mussey, 1.\\nTrustees Asa B. Ayres, 35 votes; Almerin Tinker, 33; Dexter Mussey, 32; William\\nHulsart, 31; Edward S. Snorer. 30; Waldo Barrows. 27; Jacob P. Smith, 14; A. B.\\nRawles, 6; Azariah Prentiss, 6: Asahel Bailey, 4; M. F. Southwell, 3; John W. Dyar, 3;\\nNathan Dickenson, 3; D. Scranton, 2; E. W. Giddings. 1; A. Pratt, 1; Nathan Palmer.\\n1; Oel Rix. 1; H. Vankluk, 1; A. Holman. 1.\\nThe officers elected annually since 1840 are referred to in the following pages:\\n1840\u00e2\u0080\u0094 President, Minot T. Lane, 31 votes; Recorder, Algeron Tinker, 30 votes;\\nTrustees. Ariel Prall, 32 votes; Amoa Palmer, 30; Hiram Hopkins. 29; Horace A. Jen-\\nnison, 29; Jeremiah B. Ayres, 28; Aaron B. Rawles, 28.\\nRr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0617.jp2"}, "618": {"fulltext": "4^\\nHISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe officers elected in 1840 held their positions until May, 1844. when Gideon Gates\\nwas chosen President; Henry W. AVilliams. Recorder; Edward S. Snover, John Maitland.\\nWilliam Hulsart, Dexter M^issey. Nathan Dickenson and James P. Whitney.\\nTnistees.\\nH. W. Williams transcribed the old records in 1S44, shortly after his election as Re-\\ncorder of the village. A set of by-laws was adopted July 15, 1844, and for the first time\\nsince organization, the government of Romeo assumed regular form. Henry O Smith was\\nDeputy Recorder, and E. NewbeiTy, Treasiu-er.\\n1849 The election of 1849 resulted in the choice of Charles F. Mallary, President;\\nWatson Loud, Recorder; Philo Tillson, George Chandler, Amos Palmer, Nathan Dicken-\\nson, Joseph Ayres and Aaron B. Rawles, Trustees. Carlton B. Newberry was elected\\nTreasurer; Henry O. Smith. Marshal: Edwin W. Giddings and Edward S. Snover, As-\\nsessors. Newberry and Smith declined to accept offices, when Horace Bogart and Dexter\\nMussey were chosen to fill their respective positions.\\n1850 Charles F. Mallary, President; Watson Loud, Recorder; Nathan Dickenson.\\nGeorge Chandler. Joseph Ayres, Aaron B. Rawles, Amos Palmer. Philo Tillson, Trustees;\\nHorace Bogart, Treasurer; George Washer, Marshal.\\n1851 Nathan Dickenson. President; Watson Loud, Recorder; Charles F. Mallary,\\nJoseph Ayers. Heni-y Collins, John W. Dyar, Amos Palmer. Aaron B. Rawles. Trustees:\\nHorace Bogart, Treasurer; William Hulsart. Marshal; Marvel Shaw and Edward S. Sno-\\nver. Assessors.\\n1852 Gideon Gates, President; Luman Beebe, Recorder: Hem-y Collins, George P.\\nNewbury, D. H. Buel, Jacob P. Smith. Edwin C. Owen, Denis Scranton, Trustees; Martin\\nBuzzell, Treasurer; Luman Beebe, Marshal: George Chandler and Charles F. Mallary,\\nAssessors; D. C. Walker, Attorney.\\n1853 Officers re-elected. In 1854, the board appears to have been made up of the\\nsame men who were elected in 1852. The case was similar in 1855.\\n1856 Edward S. Snover, President; Charles F, Mallary, Recorder; George Washer,\\nMarshal; H. M. Case, H. A. Jennison, A. B. Rawles. Watson Loud, George Washer, Mar-\\ntin Buzzell, Trustees; M. Buzzell, Treasurer; D. Mussey and John W. Dyar, Assessors.\\n1857 Ed. S. Snover, President; Charles F. Mallary. Recorder; Horace A. Jennison,\\nA. B. Rawles, Watson Loud, Martin Buzzell, George Washer. H. M. Case. Trustees; Mar-\\ntin Buzzell. Treasurer; George Washer. Marshal.\\n1858 Ed. S. Snovei President; A. B. Rawles. Recorder; Albert E. Leete. George\\nH. Holman, A. M. Grover, George Washer, Alex. H. Shelp. C. L. Hoyt, Trvistees; An-\\ndi ew M. Grover. Treasm-er: A. E. Leete and G. A. Holman. Assessors: George Washer,\\nMarshal.\\n1S59 Alljort H Leete, President: Charles F. Mallary, Recorder; Dexter Mussey.\\nG. H. Holman, C. L. Hoyt. Elisha Calkins, A. B. Rawles, A. H. Shelj), Trustees; Charles\\nL. Hoyt, Treasiu er; George Washer, Marshal.\\nINfiO The same officers were re-elected with the exception of Dexter Mussey and C.\\nL. Hoyt, whose jilaces were bestowed on A. M. Grover and L. C. Mclntyre. Mr. Holman\\nwas elected Treasurer.\\n1861 Officers re-elected.\\n1862 Levant C. Mclntyre, President; George B. Norton, Recorder; Sam H. Ewell,\\nT. A. Smith. A. B. Bnell. S. W. Beller. Robert F. Selfridge. John McGill.\\nREORGANIZED BOARD\\n1863 Levant C. Mclntyre, President: Martin Buzzell. Clerk: Joseph Ayres, Assessor\\nEd S. Snover, Street Commis ioner; Henry Rawles, Marshal Caleb Nye. Treasurer: Will-\\ni^", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0618.jp2"}, "619": {"fulltext": "_\u00c2\u00ae L\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\niam Weyhlman, Pound Master: Sydney Eggleston. Fire Warden; T. A. Smith, Joel P.\\nMussey. Abijah Palmer, S. W. Belles. C. B. Newbury, George B. Morton, Trustees.\\n1864 Joel P. Muzzey. Pi-esident; Solomon O. CTiddings, Clerk: Joseph Ayres, As-\\nsessor: C. F. Mallary, Treasurer: A. M. Grover, Street Commissioner: Henry Rawles,\\nMarshal: S. Eggleston, Fire Warden; Cvrus Hopkins. Pound Master: Joseph Newman,\\nT. A. Smith. G. B. Morton, Abijah Palmer. W. Belles. John McGill. Trustees.\\n1865\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James Harvey, President; Joseph A. Holland. Clerk; T. A. Smith. Treasurer:\\nJoseph Ayres, Assessor: Dan Buzzell, Street Commissioner; S. Eggleston, Fire Warden;\\nJohn P. Smith. Pound Master: Elisha Calkins, S. H. Ewell, Alex H. Shelp, O. Nichols,\\nJohn A. Ketchum. Worden Fennor, Trustees.\\n]86() Moses A Giddings, President; Irving D. Hanscom. Clerk: Josei)h Ayres, As-\\nsessor; C. F. Mallary, Treasui er: John P. Smith, Marshal and Pound Master; W. S. Tur-\\nner, Street Commissioner: S. Eggleston, Fire Warden; Kandolph S. Bancroft, Aratus\\nSmith, Ed C. Newbury, Robert F. Sel fridge, Aaron B. Rawles. William R. Owen, Trustees.\\n1867 Aratus Smith, President; Edwin A. Teal. Clerk: C. F. Mallary, Treasurer;\\nIsaac Crawford. James Harvey. Albert Kennedy. Abijah Palmer, George Washer, George\\nD. Muzzev. Trustees.\\n1868 -William Wilkinson. President; E. A. Teal. Clerk; C. F. Mallary. Treasm-er;\\nAmos Palmer. Edwin W. Giddings. Henry O. Smith, Elisha Calkins, Joel P. Muzzey.\\nGeorge Spice. Trustees.\\n1869 William Wilkinson, President; Joseph Newman, Clerk; Abijah Palmer, Sam\\nH. Ewell, James Boden, Charles Fillmore. Albert Kennedy, George Hartung, Trustees: C.\\nF. .^lallary. Treasurer.\\n1870 William Wilkinson. President: Joseph Newman. Clerk: C. F. Mallary. Treas-\\nurer: John L. Benjamin. Milton Thompson. John H. Brabb. Noah W. Gray, James Bear-\\ndon. Charles Fillmore. Trustees.\\n1871 David H. Rowley, President; Dwight N. Lowell, Clerk: Isaac J. Carpenter.\\nTreasurer; Timothy Smith, .James E. Price, James Harvey, Trustees.\\n1872--David H. Rowley, President: Dwight N. Lowell, Clerk; Henry O. Smith. Treas-\\nurer; James Gray, Albert Kennedy and John L. Stai-k weather. Trustees.\\n1873 Irving D. Hanscom, President; Dwight N. Lowell. Clerk: Henry O. Smith.\\nTreasurer; Timothy A. Smith. Da-\\\\id H. Rowley and James E Price, Trustees.\\n1874 Irving D. Hanscom, President: Dwight N. Lowell, Clerk; Henry O. Smith,\\nTreasurer; Samuel H. Ewell, Philo Tillson and Nicholas Lazalier, Trustees.\\n1875 Irving D. Hanscom, President; D. W. Lowell, Clerk; Henry O. Smith. Treas-\\nxu er; James Gray, Henry Rawles and Moses A. Giddings, Trustees.\\n1876 Irving D. Hanscom. President: Dwight N. Lowell, Clerk: Henry O. Smith,\\nTreasiu-er: Isaac Crawford, Amos W. I almer, Erastus Day. Trustees.\\n1877 Ii-ving D. Hanscom, President; Charles C. Bradley, Clerk; Samuel A. Reade.\\nTreasurer: Ii-a F. Pratt. CTeorge G. Hartung. William Gray, Trustees.\\n1878 Ii-ving D. Hanscom, President: Charles C. Bradley, Clerk; Samuel A. Reade.\\nTreasurer: Thomas D, Coe, John D. Elliott and William S. Turner, Trustees.\\n1879 Irving D. Hanscom, President: Charles N. Coe, Clerk: Samuel A. Reade,\\nTreasurer; Edward S. Snover, Albert Kennedy and Edwin Starkweather, Trustees.\\n1880 Irving D. Hanscom, President; Charles N. Coe, Clerk; S. A. Reade, Treas-\\nlu-er; Samuel H. Ewell, Thomas D. Coe, Byron J. Flummerfelt, Trastees.\\n1881 Irving D. Hanscom, President; Charles C. Bradley, Clerk; Albert Kennedy,\\nEdward C. Newbuiy, Edwin Starkweather, Trustees; Samuel A, Reade, Treasurer; Charles\\nFillmore, Marshal: O. W. Hopkins, Street Commissioner; J. R. Moreland, Fire Warden;\\nCharles Washington. Pound Master: Joseph Ayres. Assessor.\\nX*", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0619.jp2"}, "620": {"fulltext": "1882-83 Irving D. Hanscom, President; Charles Tillman, Street Commissioner\\nJoseph Ayres, Assessor; Thomas R. Crawford, Marshal; S. A. Reade, Treasurer; Mort P.\\nOwen. Fire Warden; Charles Washington, Pound Master; Samuel H. Ewell, James B.\\nHarvey. Byron J. Flummerfelt, were elected Trustees. I. D. Hanscom was opposed by J.\\nL. Starkweather, who failed to obtain a majority of votes.\\nFIRST SETTLERS.\\nIt is said that a man by the name of Jeremiah Allen struck the tirst blow of any\\nwhite man in Romeo. He came here alone in 1821, his family remaining near where\\nWashington Village now stands. He put up a log house, biit, becoming sick of his enter-\\njM-ise, he sold his improvements to Asahel Bailey for $50, who then purchased the land of\\nthe Government. In January, 1822, Asahel Bailey and wife, Chauncey Bailey, his cousin,\\nwhose wife was a sister of A. Bailey, came to Romeo, and both families lived in the same\\nhouse about two-years. In 1824, Chauncey Bailey settled on the farm where Nathan El-\\ndred now lives. He soon sold his claim and took up land near Farrar s Mill, in Ai-mada\\nTownship, and was the tirst settler in that township.\\nThe Hoxie family came to Romeo eleven mouths after the Baileys. The first frame\\nbuilding was erected by the Hoxies. and was one of the many installments of what was\\nafterward known as the Red Tavern, which stood near the sovith end of the block, where\\nthe First National Bank Building is now located. It has been said by many who are con-\\nsidered worthy of credence that, soon after the war of 1812. Hoxie made his way into this\\nwilderness and located on the Hamngton farm; next moved to Utica, then to Washing-\\nton, and next to the eighty upon which nearly the whole south half of Romeo now^ stands.\\nHe was formerly a lumberman upon the St. Lawrence River, which occupation he cast\\naside to indulge in that life which a home in the wilderness of Michigan oflered.\\nThe first military organization was that of the Territorial militia. Gen. John Stockton,\\nof Mt. Clemens, was the ranking General of this whole division of the State. Old William\\nCaufield was his efficient Aid. Col. John B. Hollister commanded the regiment mustered\\nin Northern Macomb and the adjacent counties. The th-st grand military review in this\\ncounty was held in 1880. It was called The Three-Days Training. The gayly attired\\nofficers and plumed j^rivates bivouacked in the Big Field. Tents were duly pitched, field\\norders came and went; there was no trouble in the camp, biit there was a deal of fun,\\nwhich resulted in many a story of those nights, I epeated in confidence for years afterward.\\nThe tirst frame building was the barn of old Mr. Finch, where many of the larger\\nreligious meetings were held for several years. The second was the first section of the\\nold Red Tavern. Its frontage was sixteen feet, and it contained only two small rooms.\\nThis building was enlarged lo thirty-two feet, and later to thirty-two feet frontage, with\\nan upper story, and an extensive piazza was added. The first landlord was Hiram Wil-\\ncox, who afterward built the Wilcox Mill, near Tajishire, now Almont, Keeler, Vaughan\\nand others succeeded Wilcox.\\nThe first sign-board was raised upon a hickory jwle. six inches in diameter and ten\\nor twelve feet high, and stood nearly in front of the tavern, beside the old well. It was a\\nsingle board, twelve r fourteen inches wide, four feet long, and painted white; upon it\\nin black were the glaring letters, INN. To what extent people were taken wt is not\\nstated.\\nThe third frame building was the store of N. T. Taylor, on the corner west of Mr.\\nBailey s. It was afterward moved a little north, and was occuj)ied by Mr. Niles, with\\nHenry Smith in charge, and. for a long time afterward, by Maitland and Howarth. Who\\nof that olden time does not recall the name, \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Taylor s Store, jjainted on the south side\\nof the building in large black capitals?", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0620.jp2"}, "621": {"fulltext": "lilnilMilr\\ny", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0621.jp2"}, "622": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0622.jp2"}, "623": {"fulltext": "ihL^\\nHI^STORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nNext was built the frame residence of Mr. Taylor, diagonally across from his store.\\nThis house, still standing, was for a long time the residence of Elihu Newbury.\\nNathaniel T. Taylor was the first merchant in the place. He opened his store in the\\nfall of 1829. His clerks were John Conklin, Alexis Winchell and John W. Day. Mar-\\ntin Buzzell added the second in 1832, perhaps in 1831.\\nThe fii-st regular stage line to Detroit was established in 1830, by N. T. Taylor.\\nThe first millwrights were William A. Bm-t and John Allen, of the Foiu-th town. They\\nbuilt the saw-mill for Capt. Chamberlin (afterward Bancroft s) in 1827. Of the building\\nof Webster s mill, on the Branch, there is no record.\\nThe first shoemaker was John Becraft, then living near the Leslies. The family\\nlived later near the cemetery. He was succeeded by Azariah Prentiss, who early gave heed\\nto the understandings of men. first by culturing heads; next, by covering feet. He was a\\nman for extremes.\\nThe first village tailor was Daniel Buzzell, deferring later to Winans and Jacob\\nSmith.\\nThe first tannery in the settlement was that of Squii-e Lamb, down in Washington.\\nThe tLrst distillery was built by Horatio Nye, in 1S2G. It was situated a half-mile\\nwest of the cemetery. Thither a man eonld carry a bushel of rye and liarter for a gallon\\nof whisky. Happily, the institution took but feeble root and was short-lived. It disap-\\npeared with the wolves and Indians.\\nThe fii-st cabinet-maker was Mr. Benjamin. His shop was at Bancroft s mill. He\\nwas succeeded by Williard Guild at an early day.\\nMilling was done at Webster s and at Bancroft s, though the chief dependence for\\nflour was upon the mills at Stony Creek and at Rochester.\\nThe fii st of the village blacksmiths was Josiah Hamlin.\\nAmong the earliest of the carpenters was Daniel Day, the father of Colatinus Day.\\nHe came in 1827, with Capt. Chamberlin. raised some buildings for him, and then re-\\nturned East. The next year he came West to live, and settled in Bruce. There Colati-\\nnus Day died.\\nThe first wheelwright was Darius Ewell. His shop and home were where William\\nHulsart lived so many years.\\nThe fii st cooper was George Perkins. Jacob Beekman purchased his shop and lot\\nin later years, rebuilt the house and occupied it until the time of his sudden and lament-\\nable death.\\nThe first temperance pledge was circulated by Deacon Rodgers in 1830. Those who\\nnot only abstained from rum. and whisky, and brandy, but discarded wine and beer also,\\nhad a T before their names.\\nTiie first Sabbath school was organized in 1830. N. T. Taylor had been to New York\\nto buy goods. He brought a little library, the production of the Sunday School Union.\\nThe Sabbatli school was soon organized, and he was made the first Superintendent. Will-\\niard Guild succeeded him in that position.\\nSinging schools were the pride of the settlement as early as 1828. Gideon Gates had\\na sweet falsetto voice it could compass any notes within mortal range, and such was its\\nclearness as readily to be mistaken for that of a female. Asahel Bailey was a remarkably\\nfine bass singer. Each was a ready reader of the old patent buckwheat notes. Mrs.\\nChamberlin and her daughters, Mrs. Hollister and Aunt Lucy Gates, were all good sing-\\ners. Mr. Abbott, too, was very fond of music. Many others, too, might be numbered\\nwith these, so that, when music was the order of the day, there was no lack in quantity\\nand quality. Amos Hewitt, coming later, was one of the first to give thorough elemental\\ninstruction in music, and the singing in religious service was always creditable,\\n38\\na r e)", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0623.jp2"}, "624": {"fulltext": "The first partial benefaction was the giving of his best corner lot by Asahel Bailey.\\nThis was intended for the piirposes of a church, and is the same as that on which the pres-\\nent Congregational Church stands. The consideration was a pew in the church for the use\\nof himself or others, as he might think proper.\\nThe first village lot was sold by Asahel Bailey to N. T. Taylor for 2. On the same\\nlot was the store of Newbury Bros, in 1882.\\nDr. Hollister, a former resident of Romeo, in his historical address entitled The\\nBeginnings of Romeo, says: You know with what interest and scrupulous care the citi-\\nzens and historical societies of the old New England towns are alreadj gathering up the\\nminutest details which pertained to their oldest inhabitants; to the first plantings of their\\nchurches, their schools and their social institutions. Already they begin to summon home\\ntheir absent sons and daughters to grand reunions, as their bi-centennial and semi-centen-\\nnial come around. The time is not far distant when Romeo may celebrate her fiftieth\\nbirthday. All along since the time when oiu clustering residences assumed the dignity\\nof an incorporated village there have dwelt those among us who better than I can write\\nthe history of this dear old town. And were it not that its fii st beginnings and oldest\\nhistory might be lost, I should not presume to |)lace upon the records these memories,\\nwhich span the period of forty years and more. Indeed, there still remain a few whose\\nrecollections may serve them better than mine have done, and who, if they would, covild\\nbetter do this work. But they are not many, for nearly all of that old time have passed\\non before us to return no more. And lest these remaining neglect the task, I venture to\\nrefer to such events and persons as I think it would most interest the people of to-day\\nand the futiu e to know about. Yet how can I do all justice after these long years Some\\nwho should stand in the center and foregroimd of my picture may be. perhaps, unmen-\\ntioued, because now, for the moment, forgotten, or else to me unknown. Neither time\\nnor opportunity permit me to consult authorities and thus to verify my dates. Nor can\\nI certify impressions by conference with old friends; hence, here and there, a name and\\ndate will doubtless need correction, as I must trust alone to. memory.\\nThe dusky sons of the forest were not uinnindful of the worth as well as beauty of\\nthe plateau upon which our village rests. The uplands of the est and the timbered\\nforests of the East were wedded at our feet. There was a wealth of soil by the union,\\nwhich neither alone possessed. Grand old forest trees here and there reared their great\\nforms, indicative of the fertile plains, and here and there were beautiful prairie spots,\\nwhere little toil removed the slender shnibs, and gave to the Indian his coveted field for\\ncorn. Along our western slopes the antlered stag led the timid doe by night to graze\\nupon the first green foliage in the early spring-time, seeking again the tangled dells and\\ngroves just east of you for more secure retreat as the day di-ew on. His ways were beaien\\npaths, and hither the hunter was liu ed by reason of abundant game, and here beside their\\npathway he pitched his tent and made his winter home. Here, too, along our eastern\\nborder was that grand belt of lofty maples. Their wealth of swtets gave pleasing answer\\nto his toils and hu-ed him hither till the bxtrsting l)nds told that the siigar days were\\npassed. Then came the planting-time, and all along on either side of the beautiful ridge\\nupon which oiu Main street runs, the Indian corn-hills were visible for a long time after\\nthe white man s invasion in fact, until his plowsh;u e uptiu ued and laid most of them\\nin the cultured earth. Like the white man, the Indian, too, had faith that harvest should\\nbe born of plantings, and so with patient toil each year he piled afresh those little mounds\\nof earth, and in the summit of each mound dropped the corn-seeds, counting the days of\\nsunshine!, of early and later rains, till, returning from the summer s hunting, he should\\ngather for his winter s store the ripening ears.\\nThe planting season past and summer drawing on, the Indians were wont to strike", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0624.jp2"}, "625": {"fulltext": "1\\n^y^ i^,\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 019\\ntheir t nts. gather upon their patient burden-bearing wives and ponies the wealth of\\ntheir encampments and phmge deeper into the forests, in quest of more abiindaat game,\\nor along the banks of streams and shores of lakes, to add their treasures to their slender\\nstore. Thus wending their way by old frequented trails, to cherished haunts they made\\ntheir annual rounds. Happy the years when no wampum belt was sent from lodge to lodge\\nto summon the warriors to council, and from council, perhaps, to bloody battles. Happy\\nthe years when only friendly greetings were in store and pipes of peace were smoked in\\nformal round; when as the annual greeting of the bands came round, for days, whole\\ntribes were joined in gladsome, festive and religious rites. Those joyous meetings and\\nthose gi-eetings passed, hither these wanderers came, for now the corn harvests were at\\nhand, and now the home thanksgiving feasts began.\\nThe Indian s Maniton, like ours, was worshiped for the harvest gifts. The younger\\npitch their lodges beside their fathers or the elder brothers tents. Feasting, dancing,\\njoyous sports and sacred rites found each a place, and this one feature marked it best of\\nall. The fortunate and famished were alike fed. While the feast lasted, whosoever\\nwould might eat his till. The richest ones could do no more, and thus for once each had\\nenough and more. Come back, then, ye lovers of good thanksgiving dinners, learn from\\nthese forest sons that it is not enough that your tables groan beneath their weight of\\ntempting viands. l)ut that for one day in the year, at least, whenever the good old customs\\nshall prevail, there shall be such sending of portions to the poor that hunger for the time\\nshall be unknown.\\nHither again the Chippewas were accustomed to return from their summer wander-\\nings, and, on the veiy spot where Romeo stands, tradition tells of many a winter home;\\ncurling among the branches of stately trees, since destroyed, the smoke from hundreds of\\ncamp-fires was lost in the blue above; so that, when lirst the white man looked in iipon\\nthe great scene, h. gave it the name which our first post office bore the name of Indian\\nVillage.\\nThe peace of 181(5 had been secixred. The plottings of the brilliant aad brave Pon-\\ntiac had failed. The disgrace of Hull and the surrender of Detroit had been atoned for\\nby the victory of Tippecanoe and the fall of Tecumseh. The batteaux of the voyagenrs\\nwere giving place to the sailing vessels on the lakes; the first of the steamers had cut the\\ncrystal waters of the Hxu on, and the old pioneer steamboat, Walk-in-the Water, was ply-\\ning its regular trips away to the far Northwest away to Mackinac. I have now in my\\npossession one of her shijtping receipts, dated August, 1S20, in which is jn-omised the\\nsafe delivery of 480 bales of furs and pelts to parties at Black Rock (for Buffalo had not\\nthen the precedence), on account of the American Fur Company, the providence of God\\nand the danger of the sea excepted, and not impeding. The commerce of the lakes was\\nmultiplying every year. Detroit and Mackinaw were wakening with new life and vigor.\\nAround the latter grouped a swarm of adventm-ous travelers and traders. From the for-\\nmer spread Westward trains of eai nest workers, who, settling with their families, counted\\nthe cost and set themselves to the task of replacing the forests with fruitftil fields. A\\\\ ith\\nthis tide of travel came iacreased facilities for their transit. The Walk-in the- Water\\nwas no longer the only Erie gteamer, but the old Superior, the old United States, the Con-\\nstitution and others with them were soon busy in the canying trade of the Western immi-\\ngration. Slowly the t de.was turned northward also. Resting places for worn and hungry\\npioneers, often rude huts, dignified with the name of tavei-n. marked the site where Royal\\nOak naw stands, were scattered along the old Paint Creek road or along the trail from\\nPiety Hill (Birmingham) on to Pontiac, Flint and Saginaw. As earlyas 1820, the towns of\\nTroy, Pontiac, Rochester, Stony Creek were sparsely settled and were the nuclei of a very\\nlimited trade, furnishing to the incoming peo])le the all-important items of fiomnng-mills.\\n:f^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0625.jp2"}, "626": {"fulltext": ".1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFar older thau any of those was the French settlement at Mount Clemens. It had\\nthe impress of an old Fi ench town, boasting much of age, but giving very indifferent evi-\\ndence of thrift or enterprise. By position, as well as age, it should have been the life\\nand soul of our county; but, despite the efforts of a few, she patiently enjoyed the prog-\\nress suited to her French progenitors; while wealth and enterprise were turned to other\\npoints and she was fossilized.\\nThe most important events connected with our early history, previous to our christen-\\ning, center in the years 1824 to 1881, both inclusive. It was dm ing this period that habi-\\ntations came to be within hailing distances, and the region round about to assume the ap-\\npearance of a sparsely settled neighborhood. During this time, many of those families\\nsettled here, which contributed largely to the character our village was destined to assume.\\nDuring this period, oiu- first school was established, our first churches were planted, our\\nfirst mechanics came to supply the various public wants and society generally to take on\\nits lu st rude forms of organization. Not more to the Romans were Romulus and Remus\\nthan were those pioneer families to us.\\nTHE OLD INHABIT.A.NTS.\\nDr. Hollister states, that the pioneer of this settlement was old Mr. Hoxie,\\nwho died in 1827, and was buried beside the road in the Big Field, on the way to\\nCapt. Sterling s. The traces of his grave have long since been oBliterated. His\\nson. Job Hoxie, remined on the homestead but a short time and then settled near\\nUtica in the south part of the county. Not pleasm-able, but quite probable, are the\\nstories of this man s bloody adventm es in his earlier years, and this then remote\\nretreat was to him a welcome home, to share which, he deemed a dire calamity,\\na clear invasion of his rights. Not a few were the marvels recited of this old man,\\nand to us who gazed upon his featm-es in life, there never was a wish by one of us\\nthat he should re-appear, especially when we were passing by his resting place after night.\\nHoxie must have settled here sometime between 1818 and 1822. Two young men visited\\nhim here in 1823. They were Samuel Chamberliu, of Lima, N. Y. and Edward Brew-\\nster, of Riga, N. Y. They came West by waj of the lakes, landed at Detroit, came to\\nMount Clemens, procured ponies and came on to Hoxie s, retiirning to Detroit through the\\npresent town of Troy. When Farmer issued his sectional map of Michigan, in 1828, he\\nmarked the present site of Romeo as Hoxie s Settlement, but the postoffice. established\\nin 1826, bore the name of Indian Village. It is understood distinctly that Asahel Bailey\\nwas the pioneer.\\nGideon Gates, who had formerly served in the postoffice depai tment at Washington,\\nwas appointed the first Postmaster, with Jonas Cutler, the mail carrier, between this point\\nand Mount Clemens.\\nIn the year 1823, or earlier, Asahel Bailey located his farm, which is now a large\\npart of our village. As section lines would have it, the village corners should have been\\nupon the hills west of us; but the ridge afforded such a natural highway that the estab-\\nlished road was made to follow the old Indian trail, and so the corners were estffljlished\\nnear the middle of his eighty, which, lying north of St. Clair street, was afterward in-\\ncluded in the town of Bruce, so that two of the ioiiv village corners in the olden time be-\\nlonged to him.\\nIf I should call the roll of early settlers, few would now give answer, bvit as I remem-\\nber them located, say in 1827, their names would appear by families something as follows:\\nThe Hoxie family disappeared in 1827, and. therefore, can hardly be counted in.\\nAsahel Bailey had settled on the Corners on the same spot he occupied so many\\nyeai-s.\\nr~", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0626.jp2"}, "627": {"fulltext": "A\\nAlbert Fincla had locate;! his eighty, I thiak. as early as 1823. and had erected the\\nfirst frame barn on the site, occupied for a long time afterward by Samuel Ewell. Part\\nof his family were grown and married. Ezra, the oldest, had married Miss Becraft; John\\nmarried Miss Hopkins; Martha married Burchard Throop, and lived down in the Foiu-th\\nTown. The younger sons were George, Alpheus, Addison and Alanson, the little boy who\\nwas lost.\\nSquire Gates had located his farm the same he occupied for many years. His wife\\nwas a Miss Biinn. and here were born to them Jane, Wilbiu-. Martha. John, Lucy. Ann,\\nHubert and Barton.\\nCapt. Gad Chamberlin had this year (1827) arrived at the head of a large family,\\nwhich, with accompanying neighbors and friends, formed a colony of some sixty souls.\\nHe bought out Ebenezer Kittredge and settled on the farm next north of Asahel Bailey.\\nHis oldest daughter was the wife of Col. John B. Hollister, who was one of the younger\\nand moving spirits in the settlement till his death, in 1831. A son, Ste])hen Piatt Cham-\\nberlin. was married to a Miss Parkhm-st. and they numbered one of the colony founders.\\nAddison Chamberlin married Miss Leach, and they formed another of the group. The\\nyounger children of Capt. Chamberlin were Electa, afterward Mrs. Snow, Julia, who\\nmarried Rev. Luther Shaw; the brothers, Harvey, Joseph, Nelson and Jaines. are names\\nall familiar to the old settlers.\\nErastus Day, with his family, came West in company with Cajtt. Chamberlin. Mr.\\nDay located just east of the Leslie farm. His sons were Ei-astus, Russell, John, Daniel,\\nLevi and an only daughter, Lucinda.\\nThe Leslies located where they lived and died. The father s name was James. The\\nsons were James and Benjamin, and the daughter. Roxanua. The latter married James\\nStarkweather and subsequently lived on her husband s farm over west. This was the first\\nmarriage in the settlement.\\nAnother newly-married couple at that date was Freedom Monroe and Miss Mary\\nCooper, who worked in the family of Capt. Chamberlin. Monroe located at that time on\\nthe fai m where he has since lived.\\nNext north of him lived Suel Hovey. His sons were George and Albert; his daugh-\\nter s name. Betsey. They occupy the old homestead yet. On the road south of James\\nStarkweather, and a mile west of Romeo, lived Horatio Nye. His children were Eliza,\\nAnn, George and several younger out s.\\nOn the hill opposite the cemetery lived Roswell Webster. His wife was a Goodwin.\\nHis children were ChaiJes, Cyrenus. Wheeler, Lucius, Marietta and Emily.\\nWilliam Abbott lived one -half mile west of the Corners. His first v/ife was Miss Bur-\\nbank. His children by this wife were Franklin, Norman. Isaac, Jane, Elizabeth and\\nMaiy.\\nDr. Richards, the first physician, located east of Abbott. His children were Mary\\nJane, Guy and others whose names I cannot recall. East of these were the families of\\nThompson. Bennett, Radway, Reuben R. Smith. Benjamin and John Proctor and Noah\\nWebster, who built in that direction the first saw-mill, and subsequently, the first tlouring-\\nmill. Mrs. ^V ebster was afterward married to Dr Gray, who improved that property and\\nthere amassed a fortune.\\nSouth of the Corners, there we. -e no houses until you came to Mi Foot s. He parted\\nwith his farm to Azai-iah Sterling about 1830, when his family removed to Troy. He had\\nseveral children, the oldest of whom was Jane. Capt. Sterling came later to occupy this\\nplace. His wife was a Miss Leah, elder sister of Mrs. Addison Chamberlin. Mr. Sterling\\nwas fi-om a large and influeutiai family in Lima, Livingston Co.. N. Y. His children\\nwere Julia, Charlotte. Caroline. Esther, Lydia, Hai-riet and one son.\\nr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0627.jp2"}, "628": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nGurdon Hovey, who died in 1870, lived west of Mr. Sterling s. His childi-en were\\nSamuel, Augustus, Emeline and Alouzo.\\nSouth of this lived Alexander Tackels, formerly of Cayuga County, N. Y., and of\\n\\\\whom, in connection with old John Soules, who lives over west, I have a story to tell\\n.when I get time. Beyond these were other denizens of the Fourth Town, among whom\\nwere the Prices, Myers, Duciugs, John Holland, Squire Andinis, Dr. Cooley, Elder War-\\nren, Judge Thurston, and, over west, the Thorntons. Soules, and, a little later. Marvel\\nShaw, with others, whose names, perhaps, I ought to insert with the above.\\nOn the hill west of Squire Gates Deacon Rogers lived. His wife was a Taft. They\\nwere fi om Lima, N. Y. Their children were Charles, Audi-ew, William, Roxford and\\nJVIary Jane.\\nNorth and west of Indian Village lived at this time James and Samuel De Nean, and,\\na little later, the Bristols, the Hinx families, Renif, Eldei-kin, George Throoj), Mark Win-\\nchell, Bancroft, the Trembles, or Trombleys (a French family who built a saw-mill), Ben-\\njamin, Hopkins families, Rufus Hall and others.\\nBy the year 1831, so numerous had been the additions that time nor space will per-\\nmit me more tlian to name the families. Now Judge Prentiss had arrived, N. T. Taylor\\nand others laid out Romeo, and he was active in merchandise. The Buzzells were here,\\nDaniel was knight of the sheai s, and Martin was getting his store ready and paying at-\\ntentions to Miss Clarissa Winchell, the sister of Mrs. N. T. Taylor. Now John Taylor\\nwas opening up his farm. Possibly this was in 183 2. The Scotch settlement was being\\nmade, as the Wileys, Grays. Crawfords and other Scotch families settled in the northern\\npart of the Fifth Town, now Bruce. About this time came to this vicinity, besides Rev.\\nJohn Taylor and his son. the Parmelees, Collins, Bishops, Thurstons. Donaldsons, Ira\\nPhillips, the mighty hunter; Bushuell, who kept the Three-Mile House; Luke Fisher,\\nPorter, Rufus Prentiss, the Staudish family, Daniel and CoUatinus Day, and, on the\\nbranch, were located M. T. Lane, Asa Holman, Charles Farrar, Willard Guild and fami-\\nlies, and, beyond them, the Aldrich settlement.\\nNow, too, the volume of village population was rapidly augmented. Dr. Cyrus\\nBaldwin and family and many others came. The arrival of Lyman W. and Lems S. Gil-\\nbert was a matter of moment. If I should span on to or beyond 1886, with the coming\\nof Rix and Kidder, Dexter and Joel Mussey, Nathan Dickenson and before them of Major\\nAaron B. Rawles, John W. Dyar, D. C. Walker, Calvin G. Shaw, Asa B. and Jerry Ayers,\\nBeckman, Dr. Sabin and brother. Dr. Whitney, the Southwells, the Ewells, the Palmers,\\nScranton, the Skillmans, Jacob Smith, there would still be left such a multitude that no\\nman could number them. I go back, then, to 18 2y.\\nRoads were being opened and improved; sunshine and showers gladdened many a\\nlittle household, and fruitful farms were just coming to the light. Men aspired to the\\nownership of horses as well as farms, and women not only to tidy homes, but to many a\\ncherished little keepsake of boughten goods. People multiplied on every hand. Society\\nwas fast taking on its permanent forms of organization, modern improvements were being\\nintroduced, the Indians were fast disap})earing. It was the Indian Village no longer.\\nWhat should the new name be l\\nCOKnECTIONS .\\\\NI) ADDITIONS.\\nBefore passing awiiy from the first part of this review, it is well to notice that Dr.\\nHollister omitted a few important items in his brilliant paper, which are given or amend-\\ned in the following:\\nAmong the families missed, who were living here previous to 1883, there were living\\nhalf a mile south Nelson Lowell and his wife, and, a little farther west and north, Ste-\\n3P1\\nV", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0628.jp2"}, "629": {"fulltext": "^^t,\\ni^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nphen Goetchius, a widower, and his sons, William, Henry D. Irving, James, Thomas and\\nhis daughters, Mrs. Race, Mrs. Taylor and a young girl. Phoebe.\\nOn the east and northeast were the families of Col. Perry, Mr. Hamblin, Albert Ed-\\ngett. Job Howell and Iddo arner. Roswell Webster had three daughters not mentioned\\nMrs. Sylvester Finch, Mrs. Jonas Cutler and Mrs. Henry Vancleet; in the Leslie family\\nMrs. Burt and Mrs. Alverson, in Suell Hovey s family, Chaimcey, Perry and Susan; in\\nGurdon Hovej^ s family, Hiram, the oldest, who died in Texas, and the Widow Scott.\\nIn the Finch family, Sylvester. Hoxie was not buried in what has been known as the\\nBig Field. on the west side of the road, but on the east side of the road, very near\\nwhere Stephen Bailey s house now stands; and the family disappeared from the place in\\n1829 instead of 1827.\\nThe first physician was not Dr. Richards, but a Dr. Green, who lived near the dwell-\\ning-house now owned by John McGill, in the northeast part of the village. Rumor at\\nthis late day gives him the name of hurrying two of the early settlers over the silent rivei\\nThe two persons were Mr. Healy and Mi\\\\ Webster. Mr. Healy was the first white man\\nthat died in this vicinity. He was bui ied a little over one mile south of Romeo, on a knoll,\\non the west side of the road, on Benjamin s farm.\\nTHE FIRST POST OFFICE.\\nThe nrst post office was named Indian Village, up to 1820, although letters addi-essed\\nto Hoxie s settlement were just as sure of their destination. The first Postmaster was Gid-\\neon Gates. For many years, he distributed the mail at his house, a half mile north from\\nthe Corners, He usually wore, except in midsummer, a large bell-crowned hat, and\\nwrap])ed in a red bandana handkerchief, in that hat he was wont to can-y imdistributed\\nletters belonging to the settlement. If by chance you met the Squire, you came upon the\\npost office too. and he had only to summon his memory, or perchance tiu-n the parcel to\\ndetermine who had letters and who had not. Of coiu se, he was a man much sought\\nafter, and, fortunately, he was easy to find. A s])ecial event was the ai rival of the weekly\\nmail. The old red chest, ujxjn which the contents of the pouch were cast was often sur-\\nrounded theu, as such a one might be now, with palpitating hearts, waiting to be glad\\nor sad, as something or nothing was in store for them. There were lovers then as now,\\nand. to them as these, the mails were slow coaches. There were politicians, too, j anting\\nfor the latest news all alive to learn whether Adams ur Jackson was the victor.\\nAnd then there were those lonely hearts who had left the dear old homes far away to\\nthe eastward, who never ceased to dwell upon the memories of their childhood and to\\nthink of dear ones left behind. At eventide in more than one little hamlet, when tlie\\ntinkling of the cow-liell and the song of the whip-poor-will were just beside the door, and\\nthe ci-icket sang his hearth song, dew-di-oj)s were falling outside and tear-th ops within.\\nUsually a visit afterward to the old homestead was a panacea for all these ills, and\\nmost returned from the Eastern visit weaned from the old home and ever after hapjiy in\\nthe new.\\nLetters in such days as these, how precious they were; read and reread; worn out by\\nreading; worn into the memory. Letters then were of joyful import, and then, as now,\\nletters breathing saddest soitows, telling them as ouly stricken hearts can sometimes write\\nwhen griefs are too gi-eat for other utterance. Then as now these were anxiously sought\\nafter, and that bell-crowned hat was a central idea to more hearts than one.\\nThe names of the Postmasters since Gates time have been: Philoman Cook, Orin\\nSouthwell, Azariah Prentis-s, 18-14; Charles F. Mallary, 1846; A. E. Leete, 1849; George\\nChandler, Philo Tilson, D. Green, William Hulsart, Henry Howgate, William Wilkinson,\\nMilton Thompson and James Gray.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0629.jp2"}, "630": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nPIONEER PHYSICIANS.\\nThe pioneer among them was Dr. Cooley a man of fine form, good mind, well in-\\nformed, and, withal, a little eccentric in his habits. He resided until his death in the\\nsouth part of Washington. His home was here as early as 1826; perhaps earlier. His\\nservices were in requisition for long distances in all this region of country; few names\\nwere better known here. The Doctor was specially fond of the study of botany, and his\\nherbarium was one of the most extensive and best classified that ever was gathered in the\\nTerritory of Michigan. His eccentricities of dress, his flowing unshorn ciu ls, luxuriant\\nand beautiful as a woman s, gave partial evidence. He was a good physician and rendered\\ninvaluable service to the early settlers. He died where he so long lived, widely known\\nand much respected.\\nDr. Carpenter came in 1828. He boai ded for a time in the house of Capt. Chamber-\\nlin. A little later, he maiTied Miss Freeman, a sister of Asahel Bailey. He built a neat\\nlittle residence on the west side of Main street, a little north of N. T. Taylor s store, and\\nengaged in the general practice of medicine. He succeeded well, but removed from the\\nvillage at an eai ly day. An exploit of his adventurous rooster used to be well told. The\\nDoctor was accustomed to prepare his own medicines. He placed a lot on aboard outside\\nthe door to diy. At length he heard a gentle tapping. Was it a child? Was it some\\ntimid patient who sought his aid with only half resolve? The Doctor went forth to see,\\nwhen, to his hon or, he found the rooster just in the act of eating the last pill, and walk-\\ning proudly away. It was indeed a fowl proceeding; but the incensed doctor could only\\nwish their full efl ect upon the thievish bird. The rooster lived long, esteemed it a good\\njoke and only crew the louder. And, after all it gained a credit for the Doctor as being\\na safe j^rescriber. It surely might be safe to take the medicine which could not kill a\\nchicken.\\nDr. Cyrus Baldwin came in 1830, bringing his family with him, and dwelt here for\\nmany years. Baldwin was advanced in years, but was a man of sterling value and an\\nardent supporter of all that was for the jiublic good. After several years of successful\\n[iractiee. he removed to Grand Blanc, and there died at a very advanced age.\\nDr. AVebster, son-in-law of Baldwin, located at Utica in 1830. There he became ill,\\nwas brought to Romeo, and died after a short time. He was a young man of rare 2:)ro-\\nfessional attainment, and, had he lived, would be widely known and prized. He died\\nthe first year after his arrival, and was buried in the village grounds, near Mi\\\\ Finch s\\nhouse.\\nDrs. Sabin, Whitney, Powers. Andr .nvs and Teed were among the old settlers of\\nBorneo others may be mentioned in this work, but the men just named form the rank and\\nfile of the pioneer doctors of Romeo.\\nREMINISCENCES OF EARLY TIMES.\\nThe occurrence of religious worship was a stated means of friendly meeting, so that\\nmost of the settlers were in the habit of attending, although they were not all professors\\nof religion. To enjoy such meetings many came long distances. Nor were they so deli-\\ncate nor so daintily dressed that a threatening cloud kept them at home. Perhaps it was\\non funeral occasions that social sympathy found most conspicuous expression. Few of\\nthe settlers were absent at such times. There was no officiating sexton, no pall, no hearse\\nthen. The people met at the house of the bereaved, then formed in double file and slowly\\nwended their way to the schoolhouse, where services were held. In procession, the able-\\nl)odied men went first as bearers, and, by successive changes, carried on their shoulders\\nthe rude bier on which rested the coffin. The services over, the processionists resumed\\ntheir march, and. with silent tread, proceeded to the open grave. Here thanks were given\\n:fv^", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0630.jp2"}, "631": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nto the attendants by the clergy in behalf of mourning friends. Then followed timely ad-\\nmonition and the fervent prayer, the tilling of the grave by the same strong hands, then\\nthe benediction and then the wending of ways to the sad homes of those who mourned\\nand of those who most sincerely sympathized.\\nThe biu ial of the tirst Mrs. Abbott was such a scene. She was a woman of talent\\nand culture, the sister of Deacon Burbank, of Rochester. She had lived here but a little\\nwhile; yet her death was a sad loss, not only to her young family, but also to the whole\\nsettlement.\\nThe funeral of Clarissa Williams, an orphan girl of eighteen summers, was another\\nof those old-time meetings. This girl lived with the Finch family. She fell upon the\\nice and injui-ed her head, which resulted in her death. Elder Warren presided over the\\nfuneral services.\\nThe death and burial of old Mr. Finch and the decease of his wife immediately after\\ncaused deep mourning.\\nThe death of Dr. ebster and that of the second wife of William Abbott drew forth\\ndemonstrations of sympathy which can never be forgotten by the participants.\\nAgain the death of N. T. Taylor s child, and her burial in the garden close by the\\nTaylor dwelling, were events which excited the sympathies of those warm-hearted early\\nresidents. After the body was placed in the coSin, a white dove flew into the house and\\nalighted on the coHin.\\nThe sudden death of Col. Hollister and the accidental killing of Jacob Beekman,\\nformed subjeet-i for most impresssve demonstrations of sympathy and sorrow.\\nLEISURE HOURS.\\nAbout 1832, the settlement was all astir by the arrival of the lirst menagerie. The\\ncanvas was about fifty feet in diameter and had no awning. The animals comprised an\\nelephant, a young lion, a camel, a few guinea pigs, some Shetland ponies and a monkey.\\nThis was a great show indeed! The orchestra comprised a fiddle, a bag-pipe and a clar-\\nionet. The occasion was so important that one of the most respected citizens Martin\\nBuzzell was asked to play the last-named instrument.\\nThe three days training farce was another periodical amusement. The boys con-\\ntinued to meet until they laughed themselves to death, and so their meetings ceased. The\\nold ^Miigs of the settlement were commanded by Gideon Gates, Capt. Chamberliu and\\nN. T. Taylor. The powerful Jackson Democrats were often marshaled under Col. Hollis-\\nter and Gen. John Stockton.\\nA FEW WELL-REMEMBERED SETTLERS.\\nJonas Renter, who owned the lot now owned by Earl Hamlin, was killed in I82r) by\\na limb falling upon him in the woods. As he was in the habit of spending his Sabljath\\naway from his boarding-house, no search was made for him until Monday, when he was\\nfound beneath the limb. To all appearances, he was killed instantly by the branch falling\\nfrom the tree he was chopping.\\nJulius Millard carried the first mail to and from Detroit by way of Stony Creek.\\nDavid Froat carried the mailfrom Romeo to St. Clair; made the trip down and back in a\\nday. One Cutler afterward performed the same feat.\\nIn 1822, one Jennings lived in a little hut near where the Sterling House now stands.\\nHis pretended wife was a squaw, and his time was devoted to inflation of ciuTency, and\\nso proficient was he in the business that his money passed at par at the land office. He\\nsoon passed to other regions and his departiu-e was not regretted. This Jennings is re-\\nferred to in the Bailey reminiscences. He was blacksmith, trap-maker, bee-hunter, gun-\\nsmith. He caught the first bear in Washington Township, in a tamarack swamp on", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0631.jp2"}, "632": {"fulltext": "-i^\\nMarcus Nye s land. It appears that Junnings just found a swarm of bees out in the swamp\\nin an old hollow tamarack tree near the ground. At the same time, a bear found the\\nswarm and carried it off before the hunter could appropriate it. Jennings contented him-\\nself with setting a ti-ap that night, which resulted in trapping the bear on the following\\nday.\\nOld Uncle Wilson, a lone, taeitiu-n. well-read, intelligent Scotchman, settled in Wash-\\nington in 1824. He a[)[)eared to be an exile on account of religious or political intoler-\\nance in his own land, but never offered a word of ex]3lanation regarding his reason for\\ncoming here. When John Bates, with his mother and sisters, were coming to Macomb,\\nin 1832. they met the old man traveling toward Detroit, since which time his career i^\\nwrapped in mystery.\\nLyman Squires and Daniel Smith moved to Romeo in 1824, built a small log house\\nnear the middle of the Piatt Chamberlin lot, and made a commencement about half a mile\\nnorth of the fair grounds and set out a few fruit trees, some of which are still standing.\\nSquires sold to James Leslie and moved to Dryden. where his descendants now reside.\\nSmith owned the Chamberlin lot, also a lot southwest of the village a few _\\\\ears, aad also\\nmoved to Dryden.\\nCajit. Buell came to Romeo from Vermont in 1825, was a bachelor and lived with the\\nKittredge family; afterward with Col. Perry. He was killed at the creek one morning,\\nas he was washing his face, Ijy a stone thrown l)y some person who wished to startle him.\\nHis was the first grave made in the Proctor Graveyard.\\nROMEO IN 18;-56-37.\\nIn 183B, the streets were cumbered with stumps, and the traveler was brought to a\\nstand-still on dark nights too suddenly to enjoy any pleasure in the arrangement. The\\nonly back streets at the time was one running from the American House west to Holman\\nFarrar s shop; thence north to St. Clair; and one running south from Amos Palmer s\\nshop to the brick wagon-shop; thence west to Main street. The first plank was not then\\nlaid for a sidewalk. The road then north of the steam mill was a mere lane, so narrow\\nand full of knolls it was difficult to pass through with an empty wagon. In the sunnner\\nof 1886, sheep were killed by wolves within a few rods of the site of G. H. Holman s\\npresent residence, and the boys killed coons in the corn-lields within forty rods of where\\nIsaac Brabb s house now stands. A buggy or a cai-riage was among the unknown luxiu ies\\nof those early days. At that time, the hardware store of A. B. Rawles was the best and\\nalmost the only good house in town. Stage-coaches were only seen in the dim futirre,\\nwhile plank roads seemed so far down the river of time that the eye of faith could not reach\\nthem, and but few expected to live long enough to see the day dawn on that era.\\nIn June, 1826, the whole number of frame dwelling houses was thirty; log houses,\\nthree; frame barns, twenty-one; log barns, one; small Congregational Church, visited\\nonce in two weeks by Rev. Mi\\\\ Taylor, father of John Taylor, and Rev. IMr. Hollister, of\\nthe Episcopal Chiu ch. once in two weeks Revs. Shaw and Richard, of the Methodist\\nChurch, preached once every four weeks in 1837, or about that time; one small school-\\nhouse; an academy was opened in the church in 1836 or 1837. by Oman Archer; the\\nRomeo Exchange, kept by Keeler; the American Hotel was l)uilt in 1840, by Aaron B.\\nRawles, and opened, July 4, by A. Streeter; physicians, Sabin and Tead. in 1836, and\\nWhitney in 1838; three dry goods stores, kept by A. B. Rawles, Rux, Kidder Co. and\\nN. T. Taylor: Shaw Dyar, A. B. Ayers and Dickenson Mussey commenced in 1837,\\nand Dickenson Giddings in 1838; Pratt Price, in 1839; Dickenson, Giddings Newbm-y,\\nin 1840; Mallary Stei)heus, in 1843; Amos Palmer and W. B. Barrows, wagon-shops;\\nJ. P. Smith, tailor shop; Cuyler s tinshop; Noyes tannery and shoeshop; Isaac Skillman,\\n^f", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0632.jp2"}, "633": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nfurnace foundiy; Hemy Van Atter and B. L. Perkins, cooper-shops; L. Sage and C.\\nChamberlin s carpenter-shops; Emory Wilcox, chair factory; Gideon Gates was Post-\\nmaster and Justice of the Peace; there was a mail every two weeks; H. A. Jennison com-\\nmenced the joiners business in the fall of 1830, and William Hulsart opened ashoeshopin\\n1837.\\nE. W. Giddings Sons, proprietors of the house established in 1888 or 1839 by\\nDickenson, Giddings Newbuiy.\\nC. F. Mallary Co.. successors to Stephens MaUary, who established their hard-\\nware house in May, 1843.\\nLoiid Newbury, successors to C. B. Newbury, who established the hoiise in 1848.\\nGiddings, Rowley Co., successors to the business established in October, 1856, by\\nH. O. Smith and M. A. Giddings.\\nHolland Reade, owners of the drug store established in 1855 by B. T. Castle.\\nT. A. Smith inaugiu-ated his general store May .i3, 1803.\\nPrice Flumerfelt s general store was established by J. E. Price September 15,\\n1862.\\nPhelps, Newman Co. commenced business in April, 1857.\\nGeorge Washer combined the business of auctioneer and harness-maker, establishing\\nhimself here as early as 1850.\\nW. R. Owen succeeded to the business established in 1852 by A. B. Ayers, in 1861.\\nH. P. Piper commenced the jewelry business November 1, 1869.\\nI. M. Wilkinson Co. established a news agency and book store here August 1,\\n1869.\\nDurand Mussey succeeded Chester Dui-and in the drug trade April 11, 1867.\\nDaniel McCoy, grain dealer, succeeded J. F. Jackman, April, 1868.\\nI. P. Muzzy, successor to Muzzy Bro., opened a tlour and feed store in 1869.\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0James H. Boden opened a carriag( and wagon shop in July, 1866.\\nCaleb NVe and H. A. Jennison inaugurated the crockerv and glassware business in\\nMarch, 1868.\\nPrice Smith opened a crockery and grocery store in 1868 or 1869.\\nC. E. Sutherland, dealer in musical iustraments and sewing-machines, was here in\\nJ. G. Trpmaine, produce buj er, opened his store December 15, 1869.\\nC. W. Edson succeeded L. B. Gray in the livery business December 5, 1868.\\nE. Coykendal succeeded John Cawker as proprietor of the American House February\\n1. 1868.\\nA. B. Ellithorpe opened the Peninsular House July 1, 1869.\\nJohn B. Dyar succeeded to his father s dry goods business in 1868. John W. Dyar\\nestablished the house in 1839.\\nAyers Sibbet comnienced the business of machinists in 1852. Holman Carrar\\npurchased their interests in i860, who sold to Anson Hamblin in 1864, and he in turn to\\nHamblin Bates, January 2, 1869.\\nThe First National Bank was presided over by E. Giddings in 1869.\\nDr. J. Douglass commenced the practice of dentistry in March. 1852.\\nDr. R. S. Bancroft opened a dentist s office in May, 1852.\\nDr. Hay ward was the homeopathic physician here from 1866.\\nC. M. C. Snover made a plat of Romeo in 1869-70. This he loaned to Mr. Lowell;\\nwho loaned it to one of the men connected with the Atlas in 1875. A copy of this plat\\nappeared in the Alias, which was signed by O. F. Waegon, C. E., when it should bear\\nthe name of the original draftsman.\\nnv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0633.jp2"}, "634": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe First National Bank was organized March 30, I8fi4, with Neil Gray as President.\\nHe held the office until his death, Decemlier 14, 18GS. L. C. Mclntvre was first Cashier,\\nwhich office he resigned April 3. 1865. Henry O. Smith succeeded him in 1865. E. \\\\V.\\nGiddings was elected President January 7. 1S6U. The Directors then elected were E. W.\\nGiddings. Hugh Grav. Alvin B. Ayer. M. A. Giddings, E. F. Mead. Amlrew M. Grover,\\nJohn Smi^h, Jr., John H. Brabb, Noah W. Gray and H. O. Smith.\\nROMEO IN 18S1.\\nHow far superior Romeo of today is to the village of 1853 may be learned from the\\nfollowing list of Romeo taxpayers who are down on the books for $97 and upward: John\\nW. Dval^ $240.63: Hugh Gray, $395.69: E. \\\\V. Giddings, $455.59: Charles Burr, $158.-\\n88: A. B. Ayer. $104.60: Alden Giddings. $2^7.11; James Gray, $120.50: M. A. Gid-\\ndings. $122! 95: H. C. Gray, $253.03: William Grav, $105.60: Watson Loud, $210.17;\\nNewbury Bros.. $283.46: E. S. Snover, $192.45: A. J. Sykes. $176.39: Romeo Carriage\\nCompany, $124.53: Jerome Benjamin. $203.73: A. B. Maynard. $357.30; Newbury Es-\\ntate. $119.84; James Thompson. $168.18: Haryev Eldred. $116.29: G. G. Hartung,\\n$110.61: H. A. Shaw, $129.53; J. L. Benjamin. $153.26; J. H. Brabb, $120.95; J. M.\\nThorington. $192.17: Hiram Eldred. $109.29; Cynthia Bailey. $98.78; Andrew Winter-\\nmute, $97.87; Snover Crissman. $245.17.\\nSCHOOLS .^ND SCHOOL TEACHERS.\\nGideon Gates was the first Justice of the Peace, the first Postmaster, and also the\\nfirst schoolmaster. In many respects, he was well fitted in his yonnger years for that po-\\nsition. He was a man of more than ordinary attainment for those times; was of quick\\ndiscernment and lively turn of manner, which fitted him far better than others to be the\\ncountry schoolmaster.\\nThrough the enterprise of Capt. Chamberlin, Asahel Bailey and Gideon Gates, the\\nfirst schoolhouse was erected in 1828. It served as the district schoolhouse for many\\nyears, and was located on the roadside between the residences of Asahel Bailey on the\\nsouth, Gideon Gates and Capt. Chamberlin on the north, and of old Mr. Finch on the\\nnortheast, where the north district schoolhouse stands. The same site was for many years\\nlater occupied by a much better building for a similar purpose. The original house was\\naboiit twenty by thirty feet, an ample entry way reducing the school room to aboxit twenty\\nfeet square. This too was the country meetinghouse for many years, and here, by mutual\\nagreement, the various denominations of Christians held religious services.\\nHither was gathered the first school in the winter of 1828-29. Gideon Gates, as\\nschoolmaster, was not a man of unnecessary activity. He isually sat perched ixpon a lit-\\ntle stool, nearly in the center of the little room, and ruled his little kingdom, not with a\\nlittle rod of iron, but with a tremendously long hazel switch. Michigan can beat the\\nworld on hazel switches, and the largest of them grew right roun^ that schoolhouse. The\\nlai gest matured in 1828, and went into service that winter. The master seldom rose from\\nhis seat: the extended rod could reach to the farthest scholar, and the blows fell thick and\\nheavy in each rebellion until there was unconditional surrender. The classics were not\\neven pursued, but the King s English was captured, and, at times, pretty badly handled.\\nStill, it is our pride to write the first school a success, and the first schoolmaster more\\nthan equal to the situation.\\nThe next teacher was Miss Jnlia Chamberlin, a daughter of Gad Chamberlin, who sub-\\nsequently married Luther Shaw. Her remains rest in thf cemetery on the hill since\\n1835. She taught in 1828. and also in 1829.\\nAzariah Prentiss became head master of the school in 1830. Summer and winter he\\n7(^", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0634.jp2"}, "635": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsupervised the studies with marked success. True, his afternoon nap in the long summer\\ndays was a little prolonged, and the boys gained many an extra recess, yet, during his\\nwaking hours, there was a spun ing on in study which compensated fully for lost time.\\nMiss Sarah Baldwin, daughter of Dr. Baldwin; Miss Hopkins, sister of Cyrus Hop-\\nkins; Miss Sophrouia Ewell and Miss Standish, taught schools during the summer from\\n1830 to 1835, while the winter schools were presided over successively by Judge Prentiss,\\nGideon Gates, Halleck, Brown, Allen Buzzell, and perhaps another. There was a turbu-\\nlent spirit prevailing at that time among the youth; yet the school-teachers of the past\\npreserved order and maintained a standard much above the average of district schools.\\nAmong the best educators of that time was iMiss Jerusha Shaw, best known among the\\nlittle ones as Aunt Jerusha. She was the sister of Rev. John B. and Liither Shaw.\\nFIRST SPHUOL UUlsE IN ROIILU\\nAs early as 1834, the need of a higher grade of instruction than the district school\\nafforded was very generally felt. The boys were growing rapidly to manhood, and there\\nwere no schools near at hand where hopeful daughters could receive the finishing touches\\nof a liberal education. The advent of Ormou Archer marked a new era in the history of\\nschools at Romeo. He was originally from Grandville, N. Y., a graduate of Williams\\nCollege, and had been Principal of a seminary at Utica, N. Y., for two years. His acad-\\nemy was established here in 1835. It continued until 1839, during which time it pro-\\nduced some of the l^est students to be found iu the State at that time. Among the pupils\\nwere the younger members of the Chamberlin family, the childi-en of N. T. Taylor, of the", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0635.jp2"}, "636": {"fulltext": "A l\u00c2\u00ab ^r=\\n630 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAbbott family, the members of Ei astus Day s family, all the younger members of the\\nEwell family, of the Holman, of the Hollister, of the Gilbert, of the Bailey, families,\\nwith the Biu banks of Rochester, the Comstocks from St. Clair, the Benedicks from over\\nwest, Green and Oran Freeman of this district, Hurd and Bancroft of Detroit, H. H.\\nWells. D. R. Shaw, the Lookes, Harvey Fuller, Peter Myers, the Thnrstous. and many\\nothers fi om the neighborhood.\\nProfs. Nutting and Palmer are remembered among the early teachers. To these and\\ntheir immediate successors, next to the liberal and enlightened course pursued by the peo-\\nple of Romeo, the enviable success of the schools here is largely due.\\nTHE ROMEO ACADEMY.\\nThe Romeo Academy has been one of the mast notable schools of learning in the\\nState. It was the development, after the New England pattern, of the district school\\ninto a higher institution of learning, and was in its day well known and patronized through-\\nout all this region of the State. From its halls have gone forth many men and women\\nnow active antl prominent in all the walks of life. This academy was opened in J835.\\nDr. Hollister, speaking of the academy in 1878, recalled the names of Asahel Bailey\\nand Mr. Finch, of Gad Chamberlin. Gideon Gates and Roswell Webster, and the location\\nof the old schoolhouse nearly midway between them, while farther north was Sewell\\nHovey, northwest was Deacon Rogers, east was Erastus Day. southeast William Abbott,\\nsouth Mr. Foot and Gurdeon Hovey, and a few other families, active in the formation of\\nthe fii st district school, variously located, in the spring of 1828.\\nWhen, in the fullness of time, the academy was to be, he recited the names of many\\nof the old citizens, whose families were already growing up and in present need of such\\nan institution. Among those named were Jacob Beekman. N. T. Taylor, Asahel Bailej\\nthe Gilbert family. Willard Guild, Samuel Ewell. William Abbott, Capt. Chamberlin,\\nElijah Look, Henry Wells, Asa Holman, Standish. Erastus Day, Jacob Skillman. Sr. the\\nBuzzell family, Raymond, A. W. Sterling, and many others. Then he gave a list of the\\nyounger married men, who. while yet their families were young, still gave to the uew en-\\nterprise their hearty support. Among those named were M. T. Lane. Charles Farrar, Dr.\\nJeremiah Sabin, Dr. J. P. Whitney, Amos Palmer, Dennis Scranton, Martin Southwell,\\nMr. Winans, Mr. Sage, John Maitland, Henry Howarth, William Hulsart, Martin Buzzell,\\nLinus Gilbert, Isaac Gilbert, Amos Hewett, Darius Ewell. Gel Rix.\\nAnd still another was a class of young men, all marriageable, whose needs were all\\njirospective, the very mention of whom is to-day a little amusing as coming under this\\nlist. AiBong them as named were Aaj on B. Rawles, John W. Dyar, Calvin A. Shaw, D.\\nC. alker, Dexter Mussey, Asa and Jerry Ayers, Dr. H. B. Teed, Grin Southwell. Abijah\\nPalmer. Nathan Palmer, Allen Buzzell, Carlton Sabin, Silas McKeen. Charles Chamber-\\nlain. Sidney M. Kidder, Horace Bogart. James Snover, Jacob Smith, Blake Barrows, Jo-\\nseph Gilbert.\\nUnder the head of teachers, reference was specially made to Miss Jerusha Shaw, later\\nMrs. Owen, as the originator of the first private school, and to her personal agency in se-\\ncuring a Principal for the academy that was to be.\\nHe referred very fully to the coming to Romeo of Oman Archer as the. first Principal\\nof the Romeo Academy, and to the organization of that school in the fall of 1835.\\nThe Doctor ventured to recount, as far as memory would serve, the families repi-e-\\nsented in that school: Of the Abbotts. Franklin. Norman, Isaac. Jane, Elizabeth and\\nMary; of the Beelnnans, James, Caroline and John; of the Buzzells, Allan and Stephen;\\nof the Baileys, Prudence and Maria; of the Chamberlains, Joseph, Nelson and James; of\\nthe Days, Daniel. Levi and Lucinda; of the Dodges, Julia; of the Ewells, Holbrook, Hall,", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0636.jp2"}, "637": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nJane and Nancy: of the Gilberts, Joseph and Ira; of the Parrars. Merrill and Charles;\\nof the Holmans, Sumner, George. Lura. Elizabeth and Cynthia; of the Looks. Asher.\\nJames and Eliza; of the Raymonds, Samuel and younger sisters; of the Skillmans, Jacob,\\nAbram, Isaac and three sisters; of the Standishes. Susan: of the Wellses, Henry. From\\nanother list of those coming out of town, he noted the following; The Thirrstons, Stock-\\nton, Bancroft, Hiu-d, Freemans, Fuller. Benedict. Peter Myers. Ducing and others. Among\\nthe young ladies mentioned were Miss Juliette McKeau. the Misses Bm-bank. the Misses\\nComstock. Miss Westbrook, Miss Louisa Benedict. Miss Bancroft. Miss Lucesda M;u-k-\\nham, and perhaps others.\\nThe Doctor spoke of the ladies school of Miss Martha Makepeace, later, Mrs. E. W.\\nGiddings, refen-ing to the cultiu-e of the lady and of the remembrances that are to-day still\\ncherished by her pupils. He then spoke of his three years absence pm^suing his studies\\nelsewhere, and of his tinding, upon his retm-n, the school re-organized and flourishing un-\\nder the direction of Prof. Nutting and his estimable wife, and his daughter, Miss Marcia.\\nHe named some of the pupils in Prof. Nutting s school: Andrews, Johnson, the Trow-\\nbridges, the Parks. Wattles. Allison, Donaldson. Cooper. Poppleton, Welch, Hall. Lane,\\nthe Holmans, Farrars, Sexton. Leete. Ames, the Chandlers, the Hodges, the Harts. Ker-\\nchival. the Brownrows. the Biu-ts, the Taylors. Nuttings, ells. Newbmy. Beekmans,\\nParmelee. Owen, and of the young ladies, Misses Dickinson, Mary Taylor, Delia Newbiu-y.\\nMary Mack. Lorissa Prentiss, the Misses Leete, Maria Holenbeck, Kate Trowbridge, Caddy\\nBeekman, Augusta Abel, the four Windiates. Miss Henry. Melissa Crittendens. the Bron-\\nsons. Miss Cole, Miss Calkins and others. Up to Prof. Nutting s time, school was held in\\nthe First Congregational Chiu-ch building, when the clnu ch was moved west and called\\nthe academy. Nutting purchased this property and occupied it as long as he remained.\\nThe school was called the academy during Prof. Nutting s time. He was assisted by\\nthe members of his own family.\\nCharles H. Palmer succeeded Prof. Nutting as Principal of the school. He conducted\\nit for many years successfully.\\nIsaac Stone, son of Isaac Stone, an old settler of Ray Township, was the next Prin-\\ncipal. During his term, the principal citizens of Romeo organized a body corporate, under\\nthe name. The Dickenson Institute. This name was adopted in honor of Nathan Dick-\\nenson, who donated three acres of land for educational pruposes on the present site of the\\nUnion School. The Legislature had not previously provided for the organization of edu-\\ncational bodies, so that the school was organized under the lyceum act.\\nThen the school building, as now used, facing on Prospect street, was built. The\\nstyle of architecture was rather ecclesiastical, and the cost of building, over $3,000, to-\\ngether with \u00c2\u00a71,000 presented to Mr. Dickenson, which sum he donated toward the build-\\ning of the school. The Trustees were Edward S. Snover. P. R. Hurd. Dexter Mussey,\\nE. W. Giddings and Neil Gray, Sr. These gentlemen continued to hold the office of\\nTrustee until educational affairs here were organized under the general law.\\nThe first union school was formed after much opposition from a few members of the\\nBoard of Trustees of the Dickenson Institute.\\nProf. D. B. Briggs, noc Deputy Secretary of State, succeeded Mr. Stone in the win-\\nter of 1855. He remained imtil the close of the spring term of 1857, when Prof. G. W.\\nPerry, now of Chicago, succeeded Mr. Briggs. He conducted the school from the fall of\\n1857 to 1859.\\nDaniel Poor was the next Principal. AL-. Poor died recently at Wenona. 111. His\\nstated salary as teacher of the school here was S500 per year, together with tuition fees.\\nHe remained until Prof. K B. Wood took charge of the school, and he remained until the\\narrival of Prof. Jepson. Prof. A\\\\ ebster was the next teacher.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0637.jp2"}, "638": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe principal students of the school during Mi\\\\ Palmer s time were: I. Hubbell,\\nMember of Congi-ess; A. S. Welch, Moses Coit Taylor; A. W. Meaddaugh, lawyer;\\nFrance. William and Bruce Chandler, Knox Gavin, William A. Throop, D. J. Davidson,\\nCortez Fessenden, I. S. Newberry. Johnson. Setterlee. Gelucia A. Gibbs, S.\\nW. Fowler. David N. Cooper; James B. Eldredge. present Judge of Probate; Henry and\\nTheodore Chase, C. P. and Edward Leete, Milton H. Butler.\\nIn Stone s time: J. C. Lowell, now of Jackson. Mich.; Dwight N. Lowell, a la^vj er\\nof Romeo; Irving D. Hanscom. Prosecuting Attorney; George P. Andrews, now a physi-\\ncian at Detroit; Hugh James and Neil Gray; Henry and Jacob Rawles the latter a Major\\nin the United States Army and A. B. Chandler. J. P. Poppleton was one of the teach-\\ners in Prof. Palmer s time. Dr. Hamilton studied under Briggs. This gentleman is at\\npresent Treasurer of Lapeer County. Rufus P. Palen, now a lawyer of Santa Fe, studied\\nhere under Prof. Poor.\\nAll the records of the Romeo school district were burned February U2, ]87(). A dec-\\nlaration made by Albert E. Leete, M. A. Giddings, Harvey Mellen, and the Director, Irving\\nD. Hanscom, certified that the Trustees elect, and the time of the expiration of their terms\\nof office, at the time the records were bui ued, were as follows:\\nAlbert E. Leete, term expires 1877; Samuel A. Reade, term expires 1877; Moses A.\\nGiddings, term expires 1876; Timothy A. Smith, term expires 1876; Harvey Mellen. term\\nexpires 1878; Irving D. Hanscom. term expires 1878.\\nThis board held the first regular meeting at the office of Irving D. Hanscom October\\n5. 1875. Since that time, the officers of the board have been:\\n1875 A. E. Leete, Moderator; Irving D. Hanscom, Director; Samuel A. Reade, As-\\nsessor and Treasiu er.\\n1876 A. E. Leete. Moderator; I. D. Hanscom. Director; Samuel A. Reade. Assessor.\\n1877 The same officers were reelected.\\n1878 M. A. Giddings, Moderator; James Newman, Director; Samuel A. Reade, As-\\nsessor.\\n1879-\\n-M. A. Giddings, Moderator; Irving D. Hanscom. Director; Samuel A.. Reade,\\nThe officers elected in 1879 were re-elected in 18S1.\\nRELIGIOUS.\\nCoiiyrcgational Church. \u00e2\u0080\u0094The chm-ch was organized here in a log schoolhouse August\\n16, 1828. The town then consisted of a handful of houses of most jarimitive architectvu-e,\\nand was called the Indian Village. Rev. Isaac W. Ruggles, a missionary bearing a com-\\nmission from the American Home Missionary Society, and residing at Pontiac, came into\\nthis settlement and looked up the few scattered sheep, and organized them into a chm-ch,\\nand froin time to time thereafter came, always on foot, by an Indian trail, from Pontiac,\\nand broke to the little church in the wilderness the bread of life.\\nThe corporate members were only seven in number, viz.: Zelotus Stone, Gad Cham-\\nberlain, Deacon and ili-s. Rogers. William Abbott, Mi-s. James Leslie and Chauncy Thorpe.\\nAll these have tinisheil their earthly pilgrimage except Mi\\\\ Stone, who resides in the town\\nof Ray.\\nThe church has had, for a longer or shorter period each, the services of eleven differ-\\nent ministers: .J. W. Ruggles, L. Shaw. P. Barber, J. B. Shaw. S. Hardv, R. R. Kel\\nlogg. O. C. Thompson. G. W. Newcomb, P. R. Hurd, H. O. Ladd, T. B. Haskell, and the\\npresent pastor, M. W. Fairfield. Fom of these were duly installed Mr. Kellogg, in\\n184:3; Ml-. Hm-d, February 12, 1851; Mr. Ladd, February 16, 1870; and Mr. Fairfield,\\nMay 4, 1875.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0638.jp2"}, "639": {"fulltext": "1\\n^a\\nA", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0639.jp2"}, "640": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0640.jp2"}, "641": {"fulltext": "Eight brethren have served in the office of Deacon: Nathan Rogers, Dexter Mussey,\\nSeth L. Andi-ews, Ai-aunah Gilbert. Asa Hohnan, Watson Loud, M. A Giddings and H.\\nO. Smith. Of these, three have fallen asleep Deacons Rogers. Gilbert and Hol-\\nman.\\nThe Sunday school was organized early in the history of the church, but at what pre-\\ncise date is unknown. It has always been a prominent and Hom-ishing department of the\\nchiu-ch work. Fom-teeu different brethren have served in the office of Superintendent:\\nRev. L. Shaw, Mr. Giles O. Archer, J. R. Taylor, D. Musaev, Prof. Poor, M. T. Lane, Mr.\\nMclntyi-e, U. T. Nichols, W. F. Abbott, N. Dickenson, C. f. Mallary, W. Loud, M. A.\\nGiddings, O. C. Thompson who is the present efficient Superintendent, in his tenth year\\nof service. Brethren Giles. Lane and Dickinson have been transferred to the Great\\nTeacher s school above.\\nIn addition to ordinary religious interest and increase of membership by conversion\\nfrom time to time in connection with the usual means of grace, there have been sis seasons\\nof special revivals, when considerable numbers have been hopefully converted and gathered\\ninto the chiu-ch, and the church been specially strengthened. These revivals occui red in\\nthe years 1832, 1838, 1852, 1866, 1871 and 1876. At these times, the pastor has been\\nacceptably aided by ministerial brethren from abroad, both pastors and evangelists. The\\nspecial meetings resulting in these revivals have sometimes been held by the church alone,\\nbut ordinarily and the most powerful have been union services.\\nIt is with satisfaction, proud though sad. that we recall to-day the fact that this con-\\ngregation has not been wanting in self-sacrificing jsatriotism. For the preservation of the\\nintegrity of the Union, and for the maintenance of the national life against armed rebell-\\nion, it furnished thirty-six brave men, whose names we do well to cherish: Amos, Elam\\nand Sabin Abbott, Lyman B. Holman, Nathan D. Mussey, Jeduthan Predmore, Jacob T.\\nB. Skillman. Hem-y Wells, Jr., John S. Raymond. William A. Frazier. William Chand-\\nler, R. F. Selfridge, Frederick Rath, S. D. Raymond. Cyras Y. Dm-and. G. L. Crawford,\\nWilliam Hulsart and his three sons Dexter, Robert and Charles A. H. Leete. Thomas\\nand James Moreland. Hannibal Nims. Jacob Rawles. C. P. Dake, I. D. Hanscom. David\\nand Dwight Smith. Frank Barber, Eugene and Oscar WTiite, W. H. Pool, and Thomas,\\nJames and Albert Weigh tman.\\nOf these, the thi ee Abbotts, L. B. Holman, A. H. Leete, Robert Hulsart, Thomas\\nMoreland. Hannibal Nims, Dwight Smith and Eugene and Oscar WTiite died in the serv-\\nice nearly one-third of the whole number. The names of all these soldiers, and espe-\\ncially of these eleven dead heroes and martyrs for liberty the liberty of their country and\\nof all mankind ai-eamost precious and highly prized legacy of this Christian congi-egation.\\nThe service of song has always received special attention, and there have been brought\\nto it more than ordinary musical talent and culture. Great harmony has. for the most part,\\ncharacterized the choir, and marked fidelity and enthusiasm in their work.\\nWhen such names as, in the earlier choir, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Newbury. Mrs. N.\\nDickinson. Mr. and :Mi-s. M. T. Lane, A. Bailey. A. B. Rawles. W. Hulsart, Dr. Leete,\\nH. O. Smith, S. H. Ewell. Charles Farrai-, Dr. Loud, and in the later choir, Mr. and\\nMi-s. W. R. Owen. E. C. Newbury. John Ford. J. Yaughan. H. O. Smith. Dr. Loud, Miss\\nMary Smith, Miss Mattie Owen. Miss J. Mussey and Mi-s. Rolls, are recalled, this fidelity\\nand success will occasion no sui prise.\\nWe statedly contribute to the Foreign Missionary cause tlu-ough the American Boai-d:\\nto the Home Missionary cause through the American Home Missionary Society; to the\\nSouthern work through the American Missionary Association; to the church Iniilding\\ncause thi-ough the Congregational Union: and to the Bible cause through the American\\n:39\\nft) I I\\nr V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0641.jp2"}, "642": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COLTNTY.\\nBible Society. Our contributions to these various causes have been considerable, but\\ncould be wisely increased, as we hope that they will steadily be.\\nThere are connected with this chm-ch a Woman s Missionary Society, a Dorcas So-\\nciety, and Children s Missionary Society Little Sunbeams. These societies are all in\\ngood working oixler and doing satisfactory service.\\nWe have had three meeting-houses \u00e2\u0080\u0094the first erected in 1833. by Charles Chamber-\\nlain, builder; the second, in 1842, by Mr. Wilcox; and the present commodious and taste-\\nful one was completed in May, 1877. These have all been on the same lot. and no loca-\\ntion could be more desirable in the town.\\nThe house is gothic in style, with a commanding tower, and all most thoroughly and\\nsatisfactorily built. The work is first-class work fi*om foundation to tiuTet. inside and\\nout. The building embraces the audience room. 65sr 2 feet, seating fiUO persons, and can\\neasily accommodate 80U people by bringing in extra seats; a chapel, which seats 200, and\\ncan be made to seat 300 by throwing back the sliding doors; a ladies parlor, a library\\nroom and a Dorcas room all these oq the first floor. There are furnace and domestic\\napartments, cisterns, etc., in the basement. The building is lighted throughout with gas.\\nThe entire cost of this structm-e. including the fiu-nishing, gas works, clock in tower,\\netc., is about $32,0t)0. It is probably as good and as handsome a building as has ever\\nl)een erected in the State for this amount of money. We are particularly happy in saying\\nthat it is all absolutely paid for, and paid for in voluntary contributions in sums ranging\\nfrom 25 cents to $6,200.\\nThe Methodist Church. In 1824. Albert Finch, then an old man. was the pioneer\\nwho first opened his house in this district for religious worship. He made his home the\\nabode of the first ministers of the Gospel, and his house a chiu ch, while yet there were\\nneither churches nor hotels. At his house the first Methodist class was formed in 1824.\\nTwo circuit ministers were assigned to this and other points adjacent, viz., Isaac C Hun-\\nter and Elias Pettit. The first Presiding Elder, being for 1824, was Z. H. Carter. The\\npastors for 1825-20 were John James and James Armstrong; for 1826-27, John James;\\nfor 1827-28, William Runnells and John James; for 1828-29, William T. Snow; for\\n1829-30, W. T. Snow and Curtis Stoddard, Presiding Elder; for 1831, William Sprague\\nand Mr. Browning.\\nFrom 1824 to 1828, nieetings were held at the house jf Mr. Finch, until the school-\\nhouse was completed, in the winter of 1828. The first quarterly meeting and conference\\never held here was assembled in that schoolhouse in Febniary, 1829. The second quar-\\nterly meeting was at Niles Corners, in Troy.\\nFrom 1831 to 1835, Rev. Leonard Hill and Rev. Luther Whitney wers stationed on\\nthis circuit successively. In 1835. Henry Brakeman came. The pastors since that time\\nwere Revs. Comfort; Luther Whitney, second term, in 1839; H. Brakeman, 1841; Thomas\\nFox. 1843; John Russell, 1845; L. D. Price, 1847; David Thomas, 1849; M. B. Cambiu-n,\\n1850; J. Jennings, 1852; William Bigelowand Luther Shaw, Presiding Elder, 1853;\\nGeorge Taylor, 1855; John Biu-nham, 1857; E. W. Borden, 1859; William Mahon, 1860;\\nS. Clements, 1862; Elisha Pilchor, 1865; AVilliam Bigelow, second term, 1868; J. S.\\nSmart. 1871; E. E. Caster, 1873; A. J. Bigelow, 1875; John Kelley, 1878; Thomas\\nStocker, 1879; and H. S. White, 1881-82.\\nThe principal men connected with the building of the new chm-ch were John A. Tins-\\nman, James Starkweather; E. S. Snover, though not a member of the church, was a most\\nliberal subscriber. The movement to build this house of worship was originated byT. P.\\nKennedy. J. A. Tinsman and James Starkweather. The Trustees of the church at the\\ntime were: T. P. Kennedy, Chairman; Alex Shelj), Secrotai-y; E. S. Snover, Treasiu-ev;\\nJames Starkweather and John A. Tinsman. members of board. The corner-stone was laid\\n4", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0642.jp2"}, "643": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nin June, 1872, and the house was dedicated June 8, 1874. The total cost of building and\\nfurniture was 142,000. The society numbers 235 members. The Sabbath school numbers\\nabout 225.\\nThe Trustees are: Rev. S. S. White. Chairman: T. D. Coe, Treasiu-er; T. P. Ken-\\nnedy, J. A. Tinsman. Isaac N. Brabb. G. W. Brabb. William Braljb, James W. Thoring-\\nton. James Keel, Lyman Keudrick, with Alex Shelp, Steward and Secretary.\\nThe first church edifice was built in 1840. Since that time, the society has made\\nmarked progress. In numbers, it compares favorably with the Methodist Episcopal socie-\\nties of the county. The new chm-ch is one of the largest and most imposing structures in the\\ncounty, and is an evidence of that just zeal which characterizes the Methodists of the village.\\nChristia)! Church. This church owes its origin to and is the outgrowth of several\\nsocieties, gathered and organized within the limits of the county, as follows, viz.: Elder\\nJohn Cannon, now living in the town of Shelby, and known as the pioneer preacher of the\\nChristian denomination in Eastei-n Michigan, first came into the county in 1832. In 1833,\\nhe settled in the town of Shelby, and began preaching in the towns of Shelby and Wash-\\nington, extending his circuit as far south and west as Ypsilanti, Washtenaw County. The\\nfirst baptism administered by him was in the town of Macomb, May 23, 1835. The first\\norganization was effected in the tovni of Shelby, June 27, 1835. consisting of seven mem-\\nbers, with John Cannon, Pastor: Edward Hoard, Deacon; Levi Hoard, Clerk. This so-\\nciety continued to prosper, and in 1842 transferred its place of meeting to the town of\\nWashington, near where the village of Washington is now located. Elder Cannon contin-\\nued as pastor of this society mainly up to the year 1853, but it enjoyed the labors also of\\nElders James Knight, Horatio N. Richards, Thomas Mclntyre and others.\\nThe second organization was in the town of Bruce, March 21, 1858, under the labors\\nof Elder John Cannon, who was its fii-st Pastor, succeeded bv Elder Horatio N. Richards,\\nStephen Fellows, Caleb Mosher. The third was formed in the Stroup settlement, town of\\nMacomb, the same year, by Elder Cannon, and was afterward merged into the chiu^ch of\\nChesterfield, and removed its place of meeting to that town. Over this society Elder Can-\\nnon presided as pastor for nearly twenty years.\\nThe fourth organization was formed in the town of Richmond, of which the record is\\nnot at hand.\\nAll these societies, except the one in Chesterfield, have a representation in the\\npresent church of Romeo, which was organized, with nine members, July 6, 1867, by El-\\nder Cornelius Bearing, with Stephen Grinnell and Robert Hamilton, Deacons, and Edward\\nSoule, Clerk: Cornelius Dearing, Pastor. At the close of the year, the list of membership\\nwas twenty-nine. In the year 1868, the present chm-ch edifice was begun, and was com-\\npleted and dedicated in February, 1871. at which time the membership was fifty-six.\\nOriginal cost of building, $12,000. The pastoral relation between Elder Dearing and the\\nchurch was this year dissolved, and he was succeeded by Elder J. Warren Weeks, of Day-\\nton. Ohio, under wiiose labors the church enjoyed much prosperity and succeeded in li(|ui-\\ndating the debt yet resting upon the church building. The membership at the close of J.\\nW. Weeks pastorate, which terminated in March, 1874, was eighty-eight. He was suc-\\nceeded by his father. Elder Joseph AVeeks, who continued with the church but one year,\\nand was followed by Elder John A. Yoimg. of Omi-o, Wis. who has been with them seven\\nyears, since June. 1875. with prospects of continuance. Present membership, eighty-\\nfour. J. A. Young, Pastor: B. H. Thurston and Alanson Sleeper, Deacons: Miss Mary\\nL. Cannon. Clerk. As nearly as can be ascertained from records at hand, the whole num-\\nber of persons holding membership in this church, from the earliest date of its organiza\\ntion until the present, is about fom- hundred; the highest number reached at any one time,\\none hundred and five; present nimiber. eighty-four.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0643.jp2"}, "644": {"fulltext": "-4\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe Bnpfi.-tt Cliitrcli. The first Baptist Claureli of Romeo was organized June 16,\\n1840, at the house of Ira Phillips, in the town of Armada. Members present were: Ida\\nWariser. Sophia Warner. Nathaniel Bennett, Mary Bancroft, Jehial Campbell, Jane Camp-\\nbell, Phcebe Barnes, Hiram T. Bancroft, Wily Bancroft, Lydia Becraft, Lucinda Bennett,\\nJulia Warner, Cynthia Le.slie, Amelia Bancroft; Rev. William Tuttle, Chairman: Wiley\\nBancroft, Clerk. September 20, 1846, the brethren and sisters, under the leadership of\\nRev. Supply Chase, met at the house of Mrs. Nancy Ewell, in Romeo, where articles of\\nfaith were adopted. January 3, 1847, David Green chosen Clerk; David Quackenboss,\\nTreasiu-er, May 28, 1847; Jarvis Green chosen Deacon September 28, 1847. The chui ch\\nwas recognized as a regular Gospel church by a council composed nf delegates from the\\nchiu ches of Almont. Stony Creek, Washington. Ray, October 3, 1847. The church ap-\\nplied for admission, and was admitted into the Michigan Baptist Association, July 1,\\n1853. Rev. A. E. Mather was called to the pastorate of the chm-ch: J. D. Standish and\\nDavid Green were appointed to locate a site and act as a building committee. August 5.\\n1853, J. D. Standish elected Clerk and Treasurer. August 28. Wiley Bancroft and Jarvis\\nGreen were elected Deacons. September 4. Sunday school organized; A. H. Peck. Super-\\nintendent; J. D. Standish, Assistant; C. B. Standish, Librarian. December 16. 1853,\\ndedication services were held in the new church; cost of church, $3.00t); cost of parson-\\nage, $801): cost of lots, $500; indebtedness at date. $900. June 27, 1857, Rev. C. R.\\nNichols was called to the pastorate of the church. November 27, 1859, Rev. William\\nWilkinson was chosen Pastor. June 7, 1863, Rev. J. C. Baker was chosen Pastor. Au-\\ngust 19, 1806, Rev. T. S. Wooden was chosen Pastor. December 14, 1870, Rev. J. E.\\nBitting was chosen Pastor. August 12, 1872, Rev. A. D. Martell was chosen Pastor.\\nApril 27, 1875, Rev. C. H. Richardson was chosen Pastor. December 11, 1878, Rev. Mr.\\nMarshall was engaged as a supply. July 3, 1881, Rev. Mr. Ewell was chosen Pastor, who\\nis now in charge of the church. Membei ship at date, 100. Elisha Calkins. A. J. Sikes\\nand the Pastor are Trustees, with A. J. Sikes, Clerk.\\nProte.fiiaiit Episcopal Chwch. As early as 1834 or 1835, Asahel Bailey and Mr.\\nFreeman, with their families, together with other early residents, were active in support\\nof Episco|)al worship here. A Rev. Mr. Holland was located here for awhile, but no\\nformal organization of a church was effected. Rev. Mr. Lewis preached here for some time.\\nLIBBARIES AND MUSEUMS.\\nThe most certain evidence of culture is a carefully selected library. The love for\\nbooks is still only in its youth. Year after year we see its growth and results. In almost\\nevery American home in this county, the table or book-case manifests this fact. In the\\nvillages, private enterprise has gathered important books under its fold. In the law offices\\nof Romeo an example is set in this direction well worth following. The book collec-\\ntions of D. N. Lowell, I. D. Hanscom and John L. Starkweather form valuable libraries,\\nvieiug in variety and extensiveness with the best law libraries of the State. Among the\\nantiquarians of Romeo may be named Dr. Andrews, George A. Waterbiuy and Dr. Doug-\\nlass. Their collections are valuable.\\nS(_)CIETIES.\\nThe Romeo Chapter. R. A. M.. No. li was organized in 1857, and chartered January\\n14, 1858. E. P. Bentley, John Nichols, R. P. Eldi idge, Charles Terry. Greenleaf Wad-\\nleigh, A. B. Ayres, H. M. Case. George E. Funston and S. B. Allen were the petitioners.\\nFunston did not become a member.\\nThe present officers of Chapter 17 are: A. E. Palmer, H. P.: James Gray, K. M.\\nC. Hunt, S.; C. F. Newberrv. C. H.; R. W. Titus, P. S.; John McCafferty, R. A. C; S,\\nH. Ewell, G. M. Ist V.; R. S. M. Rittor, 2d V.; William E. McDowell, 3d V.; O. D.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0644.jp2"}, "645": {"fulltext": "lU\\\\\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThompson, Chaplain; Harvey Mel len, Treasurer; James K. McFarlane, Secretary. Among\\nthe High Priests of the chapter since organization were: Asa B. Ayres, H. M. Case. A.\\nE. Palmer, Isaac Crawford. Dwight N. Lowell.\\nThe Romeo Council was organized under dispensation, March 9, 1860, with R. P. El-\\ndredge. T. I. G. M. William Corbin. T I. G. M.; and D. B. Tracey. P. C. W. The\\npetitioners praying for a dispensation were: Abijah E. Palmer, Asa B. Ayres. \\\\V. W.\\nGray, William Mahon, C. C. Lamb, S. A. Fitch and William McDonald. The present\\nofficers of the council are: Abijah E. Palmer, T. M. James Gray, D. M C. F.\\nNewbury, P C. VV. Harvey Mellen, Treasurer; and Dwight N. Lowell, Secretary.\\nRomeo Chaj^ier, No. 52, of the Egyptian Masonic Rite, was organized January 22,\\n1879, with eighteen members. Calvin E. Burt, of Jackson, M. W., presided. The elec-\\ntion of officers resulted as follows: Most Wise, L-ving D. Hanscom: Senior Warden, C.\\nR. Greene; Junior Warden, William Gray; Orator, William Greenshields: Prelate, Rev.\\nJohn Kelly; Conductor, C. F. Newbury; Treasm-er, H. Mellen: Secretary, M. I. Brabb;\\nC. G., James Gray; G. S., W. S. McDowell.\\nThe Blue Lodge was chartered Januaiy 9, 1851, with the following officers: Asahel\\nBailey. Brewer Dodge, Trowbridge Benedict. The present officers are: W. C. McDowell,\\nAV. M.; R. W. Titus, S. W. O. D. Thompson, J. W. Oel J. Smith, Secretary: Harvey\\nMellen, Treasm-er; Lester Edson, S. D.; and S. M. Bitter, J. D. The W. M. s of the\\nlodge since organization comprised Asahel Bailey, Trowbridge Benedict, Greenleaf Wad-\\nleigh. Asa B. Ayres, H M. Case, A. E. Palmer, Isaac Crawford, S. Bellows, I. D. Hans-\\ncom, Dwight N. Lowell, Milton Thompson and William McDowell.\\nThe Romeo Com.mandcri/. No. (i. K. T., was organized April 30, 1858. At the first\\nregular meeting held iinder the charter, Asa B. A^Tes was elected E. C. H. M. Case, G.\\nW. P. Beach, C. G.; L. P. Mason, Prelate: R. P. Eldredge. S. W. Charles Terry, J.\\nW. A. P. Brewer, R. and T. H. Carter, S. B. C. C. Lamb, S. B. and W. From 1858\\nto the disbandment of the command, in 1862, Asa B. Ayres continued lirst officer. From\\n1862 to 1869, the lodge did not exist. This was due to the fact that almost its entire\\nmembership was enrolled under the banners of the Union in the wiir for the Union. Four\\nyears after the war, the commandery was re-organized, under the restored charter, with\\nAbijah E. Palmer, E. C. Since that time, the command has been held by Irving D. Hans-\\ncom, 1870-71; James Harvey, 1871-72; John Ford, 1872-74; and James Gray, 1874-82.\\nThe present officers are: James Gray, E. C. I. D. Hanscom, Generalissimo; C. F.\\nNewbury, C. G. O. D. Thompson, Prelate; M. I. Brabb, Recorder: Harvey Mellen,\\nTreasiu-er; William Gray, Senior Warden; D. N. Lowell, Junior Warden; A. E. Palmer,\\nStandard -Bearer; John Green, Sword-Bearer William C. McDowell. Warden; James H.\\nBoden, Sentinel; John N. Mellen, 1st G. John Ford, 2d G. George M. Crocker, 3d G.\\nThe membership niimbers fifty-foiu-. The attendance at the Chicago Conclave in\\n1880 comprised M. I. Brabb, I. D. Hanscom, James Gray, William Gray, M. C. Kelly, G.\\nW. Robertson, J. F. Ferguson, N. B. Ekhedge and a few others. They accompanied the\\nPort Hui on contingent.\\nRomeo Lodge, No. JH. I. O. O. F.. was organized March 23, 1847, with Minot T. Lane,\\nN. G. Philo Tillson, V. G.; jC. F. Mallary, Secretary; Henry Stephens, Permanent Sec-\\nretary; Asa B. Ayres, Treasiirer. The members admitted were: Abijah E. Palmer, J. B.\\nChamberlin, S. H. Williams, Ed C. Owen, T. Y. Jennings, Albert E. Leete. John R.\\nSharpsteen.\\nThe lodge, as then organized, continued in existence iintil January, 1860, when the\\nmembers ceased to meet regularly. In 1878, an effort was made to re-organize, which\\neffort was a success January 4. The election of officers resulted as follows: Abijah E.\\nPalmer, N. G. Ed S. Snover V. G.; C. F. Mallary, Secretary; Chester Cooley, Treasiirer;\\nrRT", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0645.jp2"}, "646": {"fulltext": "038 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAbijah E. Palmer, Representative to Grand Lodge: M. S. Hadley, D. D. G. M. The\\npresent officers are: Joseph Ayres, N. G. E. M. Bickford, Y. G. A. E. Palmer, Secre-\\ntary and Permanent Secretary; Chester Cooley, Treasurer. Among the l)est-kaown Presi-\\ndents of the lodge were M. T. Lane. Philo Tillson, A. E. Palmer, Joseph Ayres. A. E.\\nLeete, C. F. Mallary, Ed S. Snover, Asa B. Ayres.\\nK)iiglittt of Honor. The K. of H. was organized February 5, 1877, by District\\nDejnity R. A. MeCarty, with the following charter members: James Harvey, M. D., R.\\nSelfridge. William H. Rolls, C. P. Dake, S. Sib Hopkins. C. G. Conger. J. L. Starkweather,\\nB. J. Flumerfelt, I. D. Hanscom, Esq., P. H. McParland. The following were\\nelected for it, first term, ending June 30: J. L. Starkweather, Dictator; C. G. Conger,\\nReporter: S. Sib Hopkins, Financial Reporter; James Harvey, M. D., Treasiu er. Num-\\nber of lodge, 4-48. The second semi-annual election of officers re.sulted as follows: Dic-\\ntator. O. D. Thompson, Professor; Reporter, Charles G. Conger; Financial Reporter. S.\\nSib Hopkins; Treasurer, James Harvey, M. D. Third semi- annual election of officers,\\nsame as last, with the exception of Reporter, J. K. McPharlane being elected Represen-\\ntative to the Grand Lodge, J. L. Starkweather, with C. P. Dake, Alternate.\\nAt the fourth semi-annual election: Dictator, S. S. Hopkins; Reporter, R. F. Self\\nridge; Financial Rejiorter, C. Y. Durand; Treasurer, James Harvey, M. D. Lodge now\\nnumbered thirty-three members. R. F. Selfridge resigned during this term, and A. S.\\nPool elected Reporter to fill vacancy.\\nOctober 25, 1878, fifth semi-annual election, elected Dictator, S. S. Hopkins; Re-\\nporter, A. S. Pool; Financial Reporter, C. Y. Eurand; Treasurer, James Harvey, M. D.\\nRepresentative to Grand Lodge, S. S. Hopkins; Alternate, O. D. Thompson, Professor.\\nLodge now numbered thirty- eight members.\\nSixth semi-annual election, elected the following: Dictator, G. W. Spier; Reporter,\\nA. S. Pool; Financial Reporter. C. Y. Durand; Treasurer, James Harvey, M. D.\\nAt about this time, the lodge voted 50 cents per member for the relief of Knights of\\nHonor in the South suffering with yellow fevej-.\\nSeventh semi-annual election elected as follows: Dictator. O. D. Thompson; Re-\\nporter, A. S. Pool; Financial Reporter, C. Y. Durand; Treasui er, James Harvey. M. D.\\nRepresentative to Grand Lodge. G. W. Spier, with Alternate, S. S. Hopkins.\\nThe eighth, ninth and tenth semi-annual meetings resulted in a re-election of old\\nofficers. R. J. Hosner was elected Representative to Grand Lodge.\\nThe following officers were elected at the eleventh semi-annual meeting: Dictator,\\nJames B. Harvey; Reporter. A. S. Pool: Financial Reporter, R. H. Weller; Treasurer,\\nJames Harvey, M. D. Representative to Grand Lodge. R. J. Hosner. with Alternate. J.\\nL. Starkweather. The membership at present is thirty-two. Not one death has been\\nreported since its organization.\\nUnited Woykmen, Union Lodge, was organized September 3. 1878, with the fol-\\nlowing officers: James Harvey. P. M. W. Isaac Douglas, M. \\\\V.; Levant Bedell, G. T.\\nT. R. Crawford, Overseer: Thomas Marshall, Recorder; R. B. Owen, Financier; James\\nGray. Receiver; Frank W. Dash, Guide; Charles D. Hunt, J. W. P. H. McParland, O.\\nW. H. Vanberger, James B. Harvey and G. B. Loud, Trustees.\\nThe charter members comprised: James Mulvey, John Trueworthy, James Dickin-\\nson, G. H. Bristol, James H. Bodeu, Henry Rawles, John White, William Hamblin,\\nCharles C. Bradley, S. S. Hopkins, John Mellen. O.^car Hopkins, Albert Kennedy. D. P.\\nPage, J. K. Taylor and B. B. Ketchum.\\nDr. Douglass. L. Bedell and Dr. James Harvey have served as P. M. W. s of the\\nlodge. The officers for term commencing January, 1882, are F. W. Dash, P. M. W.\\nE. Vanberger, M. V E. P. Sanford, G. T. J. Trueworthv, O. W. A. Taylor, G. O.\\nriV", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0646.jp2"}, "647": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nBentley, Recordei- R. B. Owen, T. J. R. Moreland, Receiver: W. J. Page, I. W.\\nThomas Weightmau, O. W. E. Vanberger, Trastee; L. Bedell, R. G. L.\\nRoyal Arcanum. R. A. McCarty completed the organization of a Council of Royal\\nArcanum at Romeo July, 1878. The following officers were elected\\nPast Regent, J. L. Starkweather; Regent, John Ford; Vice Regent, J. Newman;\\nOrator, Irving D. Hanscom; Secretary, C. Y. Durand; Collector, T. D. Coe; Treasurer, S.\\nA. Reade; Guide, L. Bedell; Chaplain. R. F. Selfridge; Warden. Ira F. Pratt: Sentry,\\nDr. William Greenshields; Trustees, Dr. William Greenshields. L. Bedell. R. J. Hosner.\\nThe officers elected for 1879 were: Past Regent, John Ford; Regent. Joseph New-\\nman; Vice Regent, Aratus S. Pool; Orator, C. H. Richardson; Chaplain, Geoi-ge B. Loud;\\nSecretary, C. Y. Durand; Collector, T. D. Coe; Treasurer, S. A. Reade; Guide, R. J.\\nHosner; Wardon, G. G. Hartuug; Sentinel, James Mulvey; Representative to Grand\\nLodge, John L Starkweather.\\nThe present officers of the Romeo Literary Society: I. D. Hanscom, President; O.\\nD. Thompson, S. R. Dunlap and William A. Frazer, Vice Presidents; Frank N. White,\\nSecretarv; Charles M. Tackles, Assistant Secretary; Edwin Starkweather, Treasui er\\nNovember 25, 1881.\\nAmong the other societies of Romeo, the Literary Club, the Chautauqua, the Women s\\nChristian Temperance Union, and the Grange, hold a high place. The religious societies\\nin connection with the various churches are ably conducted.\\nTHE ROMEO CAERIAGE COMPANY.\\nIn the spriQg of 1865, the Peninsvilar Carriage and Wagon Mauufactory was estab-\\nlished by .John A. and Beujainin B. Ketcham. Their business gradually extended from\\na small beginning to pi oportions which secured for it an unequaled reputation throughout\\nMichigan and the West. The proprietors conducted their business connections in the\\nstrictest integrity, and when the linancial stringency of 1872 and the five following years\\nengulfed and crippled all business interests, they withstood the shock, but finally, in\\n1878, being unable to make collections, they succumbed. It was a disastrous day for\\nRomeo and the seventy-five employes thrown out of work. The contingency was one that\\nappealed strongly to the public spirit of the citizens of Romeo, and the Romeo Carriage\\nCompany was organized, its members including M. I. Brabb, John N. Mellen, H.\\nC. Gray, James Gray and Benjamin B. Ketcham. Since the interests of the concern have\\nbeen managed by these gentlemen, its repute has widened, until it ranks fairly with the\\nbest similar institutions of the United States. None but skilled workmen are einployed, and\\nonly first-class work is placed before the public. The works have a capacity for turning\\nout 2.000 vehicles per annum, and the yearly orders call for the manufactixre of twelve to\\nfifteen huudi ed c:uTiages, of nearly every known pattern and description, including all\\nkinds of buggies and carriages, phaetons (two and three spring), side bars, elliptic and\\nConcord springs, and everything thai the trade demands. The factory is in the village\\nof Romeo, and comprises three large two-story brick buildings, besides warehouses, shops,\\nand all needed accessor*- structures. The company repi esent a large amount of capital,\\nand can carry the business to any e.xtent. The field of patronage includes the entire West,\\nextending to California.\\nROMEO MINERAL WELL.\\nA few of the citizens of Romeo inaugurated a subscription paper for the purpose of\\nraising a fund to defi-ay the expense of boring a well. The sum so obtained was to be\\nheld until $5,000 was subscribed. On October 2, 1880. the sum named was subscribed,\\nwhen a meeting of thos who contributed to the stock was called. It was determined to\\nappoint a committee, with full power to act in regard to contract, to collect money and", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0647.jp2"}, "648": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncomplete the work connected with the jiroposed mineral well. The members of the com-\\nmittee were Ed S. Snover, Marvel I. Brabb and Dwight N. Lowell.\\nThis committee contracted with Matthew Porter to bore a well, beginning the work\\nApril 1, IbSl, and proceed with the work expeditiouBly. The consideration was $2 per\\nfoot for l.fiOO feet, Porter to furnish cast-ii on casing and boring machinery. The com-\\nmittee retained the privilege of stopping the work at any point, but bound the subscribers\\nto pay for 900 feet at least. The pump rod, pumja and land were to be purchased by this\\ncommittee. Porter finished the well to a depth of 1,545 feet December 12, 1881, when\\nthe committee accepted the work and jiaid him $3,(IU(I. The pump and tubing were pur-\\nchased by Porter for the committee.\\nThe lot was purchased in March, 1881. from J. S. Flummerfelt. the condition being\\nthat, if the well was not satisfactory, the contract should be declared null and void. Re-\\ncently, the sum of $500 wa.s paid, and a deed given to the committee for the lots.\\nThe stockholders or promoters of this well are Henry Stephens, who subscribed |500;\\nJohn AV. Mellen, A. B Maynard. A. A. Briggs and Newbury Bros.. $150 each; Harvey\\nMellen, Thomas D. Coe, James Gray, J. L. Benjamin and N. Larzelier, .f 100 each. The\\nfollowing citizens subscribed $125 each: D. H. Rowlov, M. A. Giddings. M. I. Brabb,\\nS. A. Reade, Ed S. Snover, N. W. Gray, E. W. Giddings. P. C. Killam, Amos Palmer and\\nElisha Calkins, John H. Brabb. J. S. Flummerfelt Son, A. J. Sykes. A. B. Ayer, Alden\\nGiddings, John Smith, Jr. The following-named citizens took two shares each, of $25 each\\nshare: Wellington Jersey, I. R. Moreland. Albert Kennedy, H. C Gray, M. Kelley, Ira F.\\nPratt, Eber J. Dudley, James Harvey, S. O. Giddings, I. D. Hanscom, W. R. Owen, John W.\\nDyar, Isaac Douglass. The under-named citizens subscribed $1)50. representing thirty-\\neight shares of $25 each: R. B. Owen. Charles Stranahan, R. W. Coykendall, Henry\\nRawles. John Dawson. Isaac N. Owen. Frank Culver. Amos O. Crissman, C. F. Mallary.\\nW. H. Tiusman. Edwin Starkweather, Neil G. Reid, James Kell, Hai vey Eldi-ed. Charles\\nN. Coe, F. V. Tedmon, James Burlison. James B. Lucas, S. H. Ewell, Joseph Newman,\\nAl)ijah E. Palmer, C. Y. Durand. J. L. Starkweather. Charles Fillmore. James Ayi-es, D.\\nN. Lowell, Ben Cuyler, Oscar Hopkins. William Greenshields, J. B. Fares, R. J. Hosner,\\nM. S. Hadley. G. A. Waterberry. Cornelius Virgil, John Ford, G. W. Brabb, Nathan H.\\nLee, H. H. Bradley. A reference is made to this enterprise at close of chronological\\nchapter.\\nThe record of boring and original analysis of water are referred to in the geological\\nchapter. The following is a description of the casing, tubing, etc.\\nThe five and a half inch casing extends to the depth of 170 feet, driven through\\nsand and gravel. At the depth of 123 feet inside the five and a half inch casing begins an-\\nother string of casing, extending down to 200 feet and resting on a shoulder in the rock.\\nA third string of four-inch casing beginning at the surface and extends to the depth of 1,100\\nfeet, supported by a ring on the outside of the casing, and resting upon the upper end of\\nthe four and a half inch casing, which is belled at the upper end. Inside of the four-\\ninch casing is the pump tubing, extending down to the depth of 1.420 feet and resting on\\na shoulder rif the rock. Inside the pump tubing is the pump rod, a three-fourth inch gas\\npipe extending to the depth at which the pump is set. The rock hole is four and one-half\\ninches in diameter to the depth of 1,420 feet, and three and a half to the depth of 1.-\\n545 feet from the 1.420 feet level. The building now in use is simply the derrick-shaped\\npumping house, known so well in the salt and oil well districts.\\nhosner s iron foundry.\\nThe iron foundiy now controlled by Riley J. Hosner holds an important place among\\nthe industries of the county. The work is first-class in every particular.\\n-a)[V", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0648.jp2"}, "649": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nKENNEDY SASH AND BLIND FACTORY.\\nThe f lunder of this factory was George H. Hohiian, who built it in 1844, at the north\\nend of the villacre, in the rear of the house he occupied as a dwelling. He afterward sold\\nan interest in the factory to Charles C. Farrar, and in 1858 these gentlemen moved the\\nbuilding to the center of the village, on the corner of Rawles and La Fayette streets, hav-\\ning bought an iron works and foundry known as the Sibbets property, and ran their fac\\ntcry in connection with it. In 1805, the business passed into the hands of Albert Ken-\\nnedy and Joseph Weller, who continued to run the business that was so well established.\\nIn 1868, the factory was destroyed by tire, the gentlemen meeting with a loss of 110,000,\\nand in ninety days they had a new building erected so as to begin operations again. The\\nwork was pushed ahead, and soon had everything in better order than it was before. New\\nmachinery, with all the latest improvements, were put into the building, and was able to\\nincrease their capacity of doing business. The building is in the shape of an L, the\\nsouth wing. 20x71, and the west wing, 22x50 feet, two stories high. The boiler and\\nengine room is 20x40 feet, besides an office and outsheds. On the same block is an iron-\\nshop 24x76 feet, and the whole machinery is run by a twenty-five horse-power engine.\\nThe stock of lumber on hand generally averages from $2,000 to $3,000, and the cost of\\nthe building and outfit is $15,0OO, which furnishes employment for eight to fifteen men.\\nThe partnership with Mi-. Weller closed in 1871, when his interest was purchased by\\nSamuel Wayeott, who continued in the business until the spring of ISSO. Mr. Kennedy\\nthen purchased his interest, and has since been the sole owner and manager of the fac-\\ntory.\\nAlexander A. Briggs, proprietor of tie American House, Romeo, Macomb Co., Mich.,\\nwas born November 27. 1841, in Colchester, Canada West. On November 13, 1878. he pur-\\nchased the American Hotel, with which he has since been connected. In the summer of\\n1881, an addition was built of brick, three stories in height, with basement, 100 feet\\nlong by 40 in width. It is lighted with gas, heated by steam throughout, and is fitted\\nwith all the modem improvements of first-class hotels. The first floor includes kitchen,\\ndining room, private, bath, billiard and sample rooms, parlor and office; on the second\\nfloor are twenty-one handsomely furnished sleeping rooms; on the third floor are also\\ntwenty-five well-fitted rooms. The house is admirabh situated for the accommodation of\\nsummer boarders, and forms, with the natural attractions of Romeo, a most desirable re-\\nsort for the class who seek rest and recreation in country retreats. As a landlord. Mr.\\nBriggs is deservedly popular in Romeo and with the traveling public.\\nThe Commercial House was built by Jacob Skillman for a livery stable about 1855.\\nA few years latei it was opened as the Peninsular House. Skillman disposed of his in-\\nterest in the hotel to Norman Perry, Jr., who in tm-n sold his interest to P. C. Killam in\\n1877. The latter rebuilt the hotel in 1880. The house has been conducted by the Jarvis\\nBrothers, next by Miles Bigsby, next by William H. Van Inwagen, who opened it November\\n20, 1879, and is now conducted by the present lessees. The hotel is well managed, and\\nmay be classed among the most comfortable hostelries of the State.\\nPERSONAL HISTORY.\\nMuch has been already written on the settlement and progress of Romeo. This vil-\\nlage of sixty-one summers, still in its youth, claims an interesting and instructive history\\none which would form a large volume in itself. To deal with it minutely was found to\\nbe impracticable; yet. to do justice to its story, the best citizens have been asked to aid\\nthe general historian, to which request they acceded cheerfully. Early in December, 1881,\\nW. M. Bucklin entered on the labor of collecting the personal history of the village; to-\\nward the close of February, 1882, his work was taken up by Mr. H. O. Brown, who com-\\na", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0649.jp2"}, "650": {"fulltext": "HLSTOUY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\npleted the collecfcion of biogi aj)hical matter there March 2, 1882. His sketches were all\\nrewritten, again reviewed by the writer of the general history, and in many instances\\nsubmitted to the per.son whom they concerned. In this manner we believe we have suc-\\nceeded in compiling a sketch of Romeo and her peojjle which is destined to give satisfac-\\ntion.\\nW. F. ABBOTT was born July m, lSl:i at Haverhill, N. H. is son of William and\\nPatience (Burbank) Abbott. His father was a native of the same place, and came to Oak-\\nland County with his family in May. 1827, where they remained until March, 1828. when\\nthey took possession of the homestead of ninety-six acres in Washington, contiguous to the\\neastern limit of Romeo. The senior Abbott died January 1, 18()2; his wife, June 11,\\n1829; t!ie former aged seventy-three, the latter forty-two years. Mr. Abbott, of this\\nsketch, left home at the age of eighteen and began his struggle with the wide world.\\nHe found employ as a farm hand, etc.. and, in the spring of 18:^8, he returned to the\\nhomestead, which he has managed since, with the exception of one year, when he rented\\nthe farm. He cast his first Presidential vote for Martin Van Bm-en. In 1840, he became\\na tariff man, and voted for Harrison. He act-vd with the Whigs until the merging of the\\nfactious into the Republican party, with whom he has since been identified. He has been\\nelected to some minor township positions, but preferred the quiet of a jirivate career. He\\nwas married, June 1, 1845, at Romeo, to Julia A., daughter of Brewer Dodge, who settled\\nin this county in the spring of 1838. They have two children Franklin S. man-ied\\nEmma Abbott, a distant connection, now editing the Wyandotte Hfrahl and Julia A.,\\nwife of Irving D. Hanscom, Acting Prosecuting Attorney of Macomb County. Mr. Abbott\\niinited with the Congregational Church of Romeo in 1838, and is a highly respected mem-\\nber of the communitv. He has been a sufierer from paralysis since the spring of\\n1879.\\nFRANKLIN ARNOLD, oungest son of Edward and Martha Arnold, was born in\\nWashington, Macomb County, March 20, 1830. He was educated while at home, and\\nspent his early life on his father s farm. He was maiTied, in October, 184:8, to Sarah Par-\\ndee, of Kalamazoo County, a native of New York State, born April 18, 1831. She died\\nSeptember 20, 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold had eight children, seven of whom are now\\nliving -Amanda M., born September 2, 1849, now Mi-s. George Dibble, of Bull Citj Os-\\nborne Co., Kan.; Hannah L., born April 15. 1852. now Mrs. William Covu t, near Romeo,\\nMacomb Co., Mich.; Martha A., born November 25, 1855, now Mrs. William H. Fowels,\\nTerry Station, Bay Co.. Mich.; George F. December 23. 1859, died when seventeen days\\nold; Evaline, May 10, 1861, now Mrs. W. H. Hovey, Warsaw, Wyoming Co., N. Y. Ed-\\nward D., boru February 17, 1864; Everette R., born August 28. 1869; and Sarah A., born\\nAugust 4, 1873. Mr. Arnold was again married, September 22. 1N74, to Mi s. Sarah A.\\nSmith. They have one child, F. Beecher, born January 25, 1876. Mrs. Ai-nold was born\\nat Holton, Warren Co., N. J., October 9, 1835. She was married. May 1, 1855, to George\\nStai-kweather, and had one daughter, Almeda S., born April 13, 185(5. She resides with\\nher mother. Mr. Arnold lived on his father s farm for about fifty years, and, in the spring\\nof ISSO. although he still managed the farm, he came to Romeo. Their fine residence on\\nSouth Main street was built in the fall of 1N79. He has always been a Democrat, and has\\nbelonged to the Masonic fraternity since 1S62. Edward Arnold, deceased, was boi n in\\n1790, in Eastern New York, and was the son of William Arnold, of English descent. He\\nwas married, in Moni-oe County, to Mrs. Martha Woodman, and in 1823 came to Macomb\\nCounty, Mich., and patented 24(* acres of land from James Monroe, situated on the south-\\neast quarter of Section 15. Mr. and Mrs. Arnold were the parents of five children. The\\nfirst town meeting of the township of Washington was held in 1827, in a log schoolhouse", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0650.jp2"}, "651": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\non tlie south end of his farm. He was a Democrat. Mrs. Arnold had one son by her first\\nmarriage. He settled in Ray, one mile west of Brooklyn, where he died. Horace Aimold,\\nthe oldest son, resides at Decatm-, Van Bnren (^ouaty. George, second son, died in Wash-\\nington, aged twelve years; Rebecca, third ;hild, died on the homestead, aged eighteen\\nyears. Mr. Arnold died in 1S()5. Mrs. Arnold died in ISoH.\\nSETH L. ANDREWS, M. D., is a native of Putney. Vt, born June 24, 1809. His\\nfather. Rev. Elisha D. Andrews, was born in Southington, Conn., and, after fitting for the\\nministry, was settled as Pastor of the Congregational Church in Putney, Vt., for more\\nthan twenty years; resided a few years in Central New York, and ultimately came with his\\nfamily to Michigan; in 1S4(), located a central section in Ai-mada, and organized a church.\\nHe preached occasionally during the remainder of his life, which terminated in January,\\n1.S52, at Ai-mada. His wife, Betsy Lathrop Andrews, died there in 18(i(). aged seventy-two\\nyears. Dr. Andrews received his elementary education in his native place, and in 182S,\\nmatriculated at Dartmouth College. Hanover, N. H., from which he graduated in 1881.\\nHe went to reside at Pittsford. N. Y., and commenced to study for his profession, attend-\\ning lectures at Fairfield Medical College: took his degree from that instittition in the\\nspring of 188(5, and at once entered upon practice at Lancaster, N. Y., where he continued\\nbut a short time, and, in the winter of lS85-8(), attended medical lectures at Philadel-\\nphia. In 188 he was married to Parnelly, daughter of Simeron Pierce, of Woodbury,\\nConn. December 14 of the same year, he sailed for the Sandwich Islands as a missionary\\nof the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions. He resided twelve years\\nat Kailua. Hawaii, where his wife died September 21), 184l He also buried there three\\nchildren, and retui-ued to the United States in 1S4S, bringing with him his son, George\\nP. Andi-ews, now a physician of Detroit Dr. Andrews attended a course of medical lec-\\ntures in New York, and in 1852, married Miss Amelia T. Dike. Januaiy 12, 1858, he lo-\\ncated at Romeo, Mich., and has been actively engaged in the practice of his profession\\nuntil the past few years. He has, on account of his years, somewhat reduced his business.\\nHis adopted daughter. Carrie E., married John H. Potter, of Delaware, Ohio. George\\nP. Andrews, of Detroit, married Sarah G., daughter of John W. Dyar, a pioneer of Ma-\\ncomb. Dr. Andrews has a tine museum of natural history, a large proportion of which\\nwas collected on the Sandwich Islands.\\nALVAN B. AYER was born in York County. State (jf Maine, December IS. 1809.\\nHe was the son of Aaron and Ruth Merrill .Iyer, who were both natives of Elaine, and of\\nEnglish origin. His father died at the age of thirty-seven years, and his mother at the\\nage of eighty. He was reared in the State of Maine; followed the business of a carpenter\\nin early life subsequently engaged in lumbering in the eastern part of Maine was mar-\\nried, in Massachusetts, in 1885, to Martha Lyon, born in Vermont August 17. ISIO. She\\nwas the daughter of Amos and Abigail Greenwood Lyon, both of English origin. They\\nhave had four chikU-en, named as follows: Sarah F., who died in 1S()0: Lucy M.. wife of\\nAdrian D. Taylor, of Bruce: Charles M. and AbbieL., wife of Daniel McCoy. Mr. Ayer\\ncame to Michigan in 1852 and engaged in lumbering, managing ihe business in the woods,\\nand became part owner of a mill in Detroit. At the age of sixty-eight, he retired from\\nactive business. He cast his lu-st Presidential vote for Gen. Andi-ew Jackson, but joined\\nthe Republicans when that party was organized. He has been connected with the First\\nand Citizens National Banks in the village of Romeo since their organization.\\nJOSEPH AYRES was born in Dover, Morris Co., N. Y.. November 18, 1812. He is\\nthe second son of William Ayres and Abigail Lewis, natives of New Jersey. Mr. Ayres\\ngrew to manhood in his native State. He learned the boot and shoe trade in Orange,\\nEssex Co., N. Y., receiving but a limited education. At the age of twenty-one, he en-\\ngaged in the boot and shoe business in the city of New York. Six yeai s after, he removed\\nrnr", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0651.jp2"}, "652": {"fulltext": "L\\n^1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nto Michigan, locating in the valley of Romeo, Macomb County, leaving his native State,\\nNew York, on the 17th of June, 1841, and arriving in Romeo July 17, after a month s\\ntravel. In the fall of the year 1841, he engaged in the boot and shoe business at Romeo.\\nA few years later, he combined harness-making with his other business. In 1S45, he\\nadded a small farm, located near the village, which ho has managed in connection with\\nhis business in the village. He has been prosperous the most of the time, but, owing to\\na disposition to assist friends, has met with serious losses that have crippled him much.\\nHe has always been ready to lend his aid to every movement that was calculated to elevate\\nsociety in the church and outsid^) of it. He was engaged a few years, in company with\\nother parties, as an iron manufacturer; conducted a fm nace and made castings of all\\nkinds. He was Free-Soil in political principles when he came to Michigan, and has\\nbeen identified with the Republicans since the organization of the pai ty. He has served\\nhis generation as Sujiervisor in the aggregate twenty-live years; has also been Village As\\nsessor and member of the corporation. He was married, in New Jersey, to Elizabeth\\nThompson, a native of Morris County, who died August 28, 1845, and left two children,\\nboth of whom are dead. September IS. 185(*, he was again married, to Miss Elizabeth\\nH. Sutton, of Sussex County. N. J. They have two children living at Detroit Josephs.,\\npracticing law, and Augusta, wife of P. A. Billings. In 1S56, when the business portion\\nof the village was nearly destroyed by tii-e, Mr. Ayres suffered the loss of a double frame\\nthree-story building. The brick structure now occupied by him was erected by Sutton\\nAyres in 18(57.\\nWILLIAM T. BADGER was born at Albui-gh. Grand Isle Co.,, Vt.. June VI, \\\\H2:i.\\nHis parents, James and Eleanor (Manning) Badger, were natives of the same place. His\\nfather died in 181)1; his mother is now living in Vermont, where he was brought up. In\\n1850, he went to Norwalk. Ohio, where he remained a year, and came to Romeo in 1851.\\nHe learned the business of painter, which he has made the vocation of his life. He has\\nseen Romeo grow fi om its wild state to its present prosperity. Mr. Badger was married\\nto Asenath Hill, a native of Vermont. She died at Romeo. They became the parents of\\nfive children, foiu of whom are living and married. The eldest son. Willard, died; the\\nsecond, William Anson, I esides at Detroit; Sanford is in the boot and shoe business with\\nJ. L. Benjamin; Sarah Jane and Georgiana live at Romeo. Mr. Badger was married\\nagain, to Mrs. Sophia McKinsey, a native of Scotland, where she was reared. Mi\\\\ Badger\\ncast his first Presidential vote for James Buchanan, and has always been a Democrat.\\nASAHEL BAILEY was born January 29, 1789, in Haddam. Conn. He was the son of\\nStephen and Lydia Freeman Bailey. His grandparents were Stephen and Eunice Crooks Bai-\\nley, the latter of Scotch origin. Stephen was the name of four paternal ancestors in a direct\\nline. The family came from England. Mr. Bailey had three sisters and two brothers. His\\nparents were Presbyterians in early life, but became communicants in the Protestant Episco-\\npal Church. Mr. Bailey was a churchman, and studied with Rev. Alanson W^elton, with the\\nintention of applying for holy orders; but his health failed from a life of inactivity, and\\nhe engaged in manufacturing, teaching at intervals, and later became a farmer. He mar-\\nried his cousin, Cynthia Freeman, at Richmond, N. Y., in 1819, Elder Wright, a Method-\\nist Episcopal preacher, officiating. Mrs. Bailey was the daughter of Joseph and Sylvia\\nNewman Freeman, and was Welsh by maternal descent. The Freemans came from En-\\ngland to Caj)e Coil, and thence to Chatham, Conn. The parents of Joseph were Moses\\nand Susan Brooks Freeman. His father was a sea captain; was lost with his vessel and\\ncrew when his soq was a child. The only trace of the wreck was a blanket marked with\\nhis name. Mrs. Bailey was born in Berkshire, Vt., September IS. 1798. Her parents\\nwere ^Methodists. She was a member of the Episcopal Church. Mi*, and Mrs. Bailey\\ncame from Richmond, N. Y., in 1821, to the Territory of Michigan. They crossed Lake\\n\u00c2\u00bbW", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0652.jp2"}, "653": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nErie in the Walk-in-the-Water, the first steamer on the lake. They reached Detroit Sep-\\ntember 14, and started from there in a small boat, intending to reach Mt. Clemens, then a\\nsmall French settlement, that day, bnt their boat sprang a leak, and, after vain efforts to\\nbail out the water, they calked the boat with their handkerchiefs. They lost so much time\\nthat all hope of reaching their destination died out. The sun was low when they discov-\\nered a log house in the woods and landed. They met with faint welcome from the French\\nsettlers, who had but slight knowledge of English. The man of the house was absent,\\nand the woman refused to prepare them supper, saying: Cook you own vit for you own\\npeep, and no offer of money could change the decision. In the morning, Mr. Bailey\\ntried in vain to induce the man to carry his wife, sister and baggage four miles to Mt.\\nClemens. While deliberating. Judge Clemens rode up. Mr. Bailey had become ac-\\nquainted with him during prospecting the previous spring. He directed Latisau, the\\nFrenchman, to accept the offered reward for the required service, and sent the party to his\\nhouse, and they set out in an ox-cart, the proprietor running beside his team, which he\\nui-ged into a run. It was a fearful joiu-ney, and one of great fatigue, but they remained\\nat Judge Clemens until they were well rested, when they procured horses and a wagon\\nand set out for their final destination. They had to make a road many times, and there\\nwas one of the worst of Michigan mud-holes on the route. When near it, they met Mayor\\nCook, of Detroit. He was on horseback, and rode back to see them through it in safety.\\nHe insisted on adding his horse to their team, though Mr. Bailey feared that the beast\\nwould lie down. As they made the venture, Mr. Cook shouted, Lick them, Bailey! lick\\nthem! and Mr. Bailey obeyed the high authority, and the horse lay down and rolled over:\\nbut they finally made their way through, and reached Town 4, now A^ ashington, in safety,\\nwhere a few persons had already settled, and they remained until January, 1822. Jere-\\nmiah Allen had made some improvements in Town 5, now Bruce, and, becoming discoui--\\naged. was anxious to dispose of his acquisitions- an ivutinished log house and an unstoned\\nwell. Mr. Bailey offered him iSoO in boots and shoes, which was gladly accepted. Mr.\\nBailey completed the building, and, in January, 1822, took possession, with his wife and\\ntheir new daughter, born December 1 J, 1821, of their new home in Indian Village, then the\\nonly dwelling in what is now Romeo. The Hoxies came eleven mouths later. Mr. Bail-\\ney s house was the home of all travelers, without compensation, as he was so desirous of\\npromoting the growth of Indian Village. He and his family became fast fi-iends with the\\nIndians, who trusted Asa Billy implicitly, ili Bailey went twice a year to Detroit\\nfor letters, paying 25 cents postage on each, and Pontiac was the nearest milling place.\\nThey exchanged equal measure of supplies with the Indians for blackberries, whortleber-\\nries and cranberries, which were abundant, and, as soon as practicable, a place was pre-\\npared for an apple orchard. Sickness had attacked the family, and Mr. Bailey, hardly\\nable to ride, drove his ox team to Mt. Clemens, procm-ed apple trees at 25 cents each, small\\nand closely trimmed by sheep, but gladly acquired, and he and his wife set them out in\\nthe rain, jn what is now the north side of East St. Clair street. Afterward, they set out\\nanother orchard on the west side of Main street. Mi-. Bailey sm-veyed the first public roads\\nin Macomb County, i-unning to Mt. Clemens and St. Clair. He was paid in county orders,\\ngood only for tax-paying. In 1S:i2, the village of Romeo was surveyed by John B. Hol-\\nlister, and platted by Mr. Bailey and N. T. Taylor. When the (pxestion of building a\\nmeeting-house came before the community, Mr. Bailey gave the Congregational society a\\nsuitable site, and on it have been built their houses of worship. The first schoolhouse was\\nbuilt on-land given by Mr. Bailey, and it is the present location of the North Primary\\nGrade of the Union School. He was one of the first School Inspectors of the township of\\nBruce. In Februaiy, 18:^7, Mi-. Bailey sold his farm in Romeo and bought a tract of new\\nland, which he called Goshen, and is now Berlin Township, but the parties failed in their\\n^1", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0653.jp2"}, "654": {"fulltext": "k.\\nagreement, and. much to the satisfaction of the family, they returned to their old home\\nat the end of three months. Mr. Bailey obtained the lumber for his first frame house by\\nlong and repeated journeys to tlie north woods, with his oxen, for logs. It was finished\\nin the fall of ISSri. Their third dwelling, at the south end of the village, was completed\\nin 185iS, and occupied by the family January 1, 1S59. It is now the residence of the\\ndaughters who survive. Mr. and ilrs. Bailey had seven children Prudence Cynthia,\\nMaria Matilda, Stephen, Lois Curtis, Newman, Lydia and Phebe Jane. Newman died\\nin infancy: Prudence died April 17, 1S7 2; Stephen maiTied Isabella Harriet Davis, of\\nJamestown, N. Y., at Strawberry Point. Clayton Co., Iowa, December HI, 1^56. He was\\nengaged in fanning for a time in Iowa, and afterward in mercantile business, and, in\\nMai ch, liS(U(, went to Pike s Peak, returning in December following to Romeo. They had\\ntwo children Edith Maud and Clai-a Marinda. The latter died March 11, 18S1. Mrs.\\nIsabella Bailey died April IB, lySl. Mr. A. Bailey died at Romeo January 27, 1862, and\\nwas biiried on his birthday, Januaiy 29. Mrs. Bailey smvived her husband more than\\nnineteen years. H( r death occurred Ji;ly 4, 1881.\\nCHAUNCEY B.4.ILEY was born February 28. I7U7, in Connecticut; was the son of\\nEdward Bailey and the grandson of Stephen and Eunice Crooks Bailey. His mother died\\nwhen he was young, and the childi eu, hauncey, Eliphalet and Harriet, were separated.\\nChauncey was married to Amanda Freeman, sister of Mrs. Asahel Bailey, December 25,\\n182(1, at Richmond, N. Y. She was born March 18, 1808, at Berkshire, Vt. was a mem-\\nber of the M. E. Church. They accompanied the Baileys to Michigan in 1821. nnd lived\\nsome time with them, and later located about one mile north and west of the Indian Vil-\\nlage. Their daiighter was born February 27, 1822, in the tii st dwelling in Bruce: was the\\nfirst white child born in that township. Mi-. Bailey sold his first location and took Tip\\nland farther east, near the location of the Farrar saw-mill. After several changes, they\\nremoved to Iowa, and afterward to Fairmont, Martin Co., Minn., where Mi-. Bailey died\\nin February, 1880. Mrs. Bailey is still living. They had five childi-en, tiiree of whom\\nsm vive.\\nJOHN L. BENJAMIN was born December 8, 1827, in the State of New York. Sara-\\ntoga County, son of Seth and Sarah Watkins Benjamin, of same place; came to Michigan\\nin J\\\\ine, 1831, and to Romeo in December, 1S48; commenced in the gi ocery trade June,\\n1849: was married to Jane A. Lufkin, of Mt. Clemens, December IB, 1850. They had a\\nfamily of nine children- -Arthur H., born April 7, 1852; Florence A., born September IB,\\nlN5;idied January 24, 187(); Varnum L., born May i. 1855, died May 20, 1872: Jenney\\nL. born August 10, 1858. died December 18, 18(58; Frank C. born June N. lSfi7; J. L.,\\nborn September 2B, 1869; Ira H,, born July 22, 1871; Monta, born August 17, 1872, died\\nSeptember 21, 1872; Emley S., born January 24, 187(5. John L. Benjamin moved\\none mile south of Romeo in April, 1875, and there made for himself, family and friends,\\na lasting monument in the way of fish ponds and other improvements. He has always\\nbeen a trxie friend to the poor and all laboring classes, a true Union Democrat of the old\\nJackson stamp: never took much stock in priests or their selfish schemes to get a fat liv-\\ning out of others hai d earnings. He believes in but one God of love and justice, from\\nwhom all good comes. He believes by his true record he must stand or fall. A God of just-\\nice demands that we must suffer for all laws broken, natural or spiritual, here and here-\\nafter. He is a true believer in a future, and that man never dies, and so let it be recorded.\\nJESSE BISHOP was born May 24, 1S08, at Pittstown. now Richmoud,^ Ontario\\nCo.. N. Y. He is the son of Isaac and Lucinda Short Bishop. The former was born in\\nBlandford, Conn. the latter was a native of Massachusetts. His father was a farmer, and\\npursued that vocation all his life. He died Sejttember 9. 1S58, at Canada, Ontario Co.,\\nN. Y. His mother died January 4, 1859, in Portage, Livingston Co.. N. Y. Mr. Bishop,\\nSrV", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0654.jp2"}, "655": {"fulltext": "HISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof this sketcli. lived on bis father s farm in Ontario County until he was nineteen yeai s\\nold, wHen he set out to make his own way in life. September 4. 1S 25. he was married to\\nAbigail Fox, a native of Ontario County, N. Y. He bought a small place near his father\\nand went to work as a carpenter, where he remained tmtil he came to Michigan. June\\n7. ISril, he left Ontario County for the West by wagon to Pittsford, thence by canal to\\nBuflalo, where he took passage on the Henry Clay for Detroit. Fi-om there he went by\\nwagon, following the trail to Troy, Oakland County, arriving June 14. June 18, he\\nbought 1()0 acres of land in Bruce. It was in its primeval condition, and Mr. Bishop\\ninvaded the wilderness with his eS ective as. cut down trees, cleared the land and built a\\nhouse. In 1852, he sold the place and bought a small one three miles northeast of Romeo,\\nwhere he remained until his wife s death, July 9, lHi\\\\2. She left nine childi-en. three of\\nwhom are dead. On the death of his wife, he sold his place and returned to New York on\\na visit. He was married at Dansville, November 15, 1865, to Rhoda F. Southwick, of\\nRichmond, Ontario Co., N. Y He bought a grist-mill, in company with his brother, in\\nArgentine. Genesee Co.. Mich., which he operated a year and then sold out. He bought\\nhis present property, corner of Bailey and Lafayette streets. Romeo, where his second\\nwife died November 21. 18fi9. He was married. May 24. 1870, to Susan H. Webster, a\\nnative of Ray, Macomb County. Her father, Mai. Webster, is an old pioneer of that\\ntown. Mr. Bishop cast his fii-st vote in New Y ork for Andi-ew Jackson, but was a Whig,\\nand remained in the Whig party until the organization of the Republican [larty. Mr.\\nBishop was a radical temperance man, which, in those days, was a much more venture-\\nsome matter than now. Such an event as a raising without whisky was one to arrest and\\nhold in abeyance nearly every consideration, exclusive of one of life and death, and Mr.\\nBishop believed that it could be done, and in 1882, he engineered such an enterprise on\\nthe farm of W. F. Abbott, just east of the village. The general invitation there was re-\\nsponded to, even though the conditions were understood, and the thing was accomplished.\\nMr. Bishop is in his seventy-ninth year, in good general health, though obliged to walk\\nwith a cane on account of an injiu-y received by a fall October 2, 1871t.\\nJOHN H. BRABB, son of Isaac and Hannah Hudson Brabb, was born in Yorkshire,\\nEngland, November 5, 1820: his jjarents came to America when ten years old, making the\\nroute via Quebec to Detroit, where they remained for a few weeks and then settled in\\nOakland County, on the old Sheldon farm, near Rochester. They made the joiu-ney be-\\nfore there was any direct highway to that point, via what was called the old Crook road.\\nThe wolves gave nightly expressions of their opinions upon the invasion of the intruders,\\nand necessitated extra precautions for the protection of calves and pigs. Dm iug their\\nresidence there, Govs. Cass, Porter and Mason were entertained at the hospitable pioneer\\nhome. Fom years later, in l S84, they settled in Washington Township, on a farm which\\nis still retained in the family. Mr. Brabb was married, November 12, 184H, to Sarah A.,\\ndaughter of Marvil Shaw, an early pioneer of the county, and soon after this event set-\\ntled upon a farm in Bruce, where he remained for fourteen years, which resulted in his\\nbeing the o\\\\vner of several fanns in the neighborhood. In 1857, he came to Romeo, and\\nfor eight years handled gi ain, wool, pork and other i: i-oduce with reasonable success, dis-\\ncontinuing about the close of the war. He has been Dii-ector of the First National Bank\\nfor the past twelve years and has officiated as its Vice President for six years. He is Di-\\nrector in the Detroit Union Iron Company, and is one of the heaviest financial operators\\nin this section. His only son, M. I. Brabb. is also a Director in the First National Bank\\nand negotiates loans extensively. Mi*. B. is a Democrat, with much iiitiuence in political\\ncircles. His integrity in his business transactions has insured him a well-deserved popu-\\nlarity in the commercial communitv.\\nCOLLINS BRADLEY was born Januarv 19. INOS, in Bennin.rton Coimtv. Yt. He\\nsff", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0655.jp2"}, "656": {"fulltext": "648\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nis the son of Ethan Allen and Ghristiany Wood Bradley; his paternal grandfather, Lem-\\nuel Bradley, was born in llytO, and was a Captain in the Federal army and fought in the\\nbattle of Bennington, Vt. he died in 1800. Ethan Allen Bradley was born in 1774;\\nlived in Vermont and served several terms in the Legislature of that State, dying\\nin IN-tS. Mr. Bradley of this sketch lived in his native county until the age of twenty,\\nwhen he went to Auburn, N. Y., where he remained for eight years; five years of this\\ntime, from 1882 to 1886, he was engaged in the importing and mauufactiu ing house of\\nP. Hayden Co., and, from 1886 to 1888, with the Hon. W. H. Seward, as cashier and\\ngeneral book-keeper in the land office, located at Westtield, Chautauqua Co.. N. Y.; from\\n1888 to 1840, he was employed in the same business with P. Hayden Co., at Columbus,\\nOhio: in 1840, he opened a branch house in Detroit. Mich., as a partner with P. Hayden\\nCo; in 1846, he came to Macomb County and located a farm, partly in Bruce and\\npartly in Washington, where he lived for twenty-seven years. During his stay at Detroit\\nand on the farm, he entertained Mi Seward as his guest on two occasions. Mr. Seward\\nspent one night at his house while he was United States Senator. Mr. B. was married, in\\n1886, at Auburn, N. Y., to Julieite E. White, who was born January 11, 1811, at Canaan,\\nConn.; they had live childi-en Helen, born in 1887, lived two years and died, lS8 .t, at\\nColumbus, Ohio; Henry W. was born 1889, and Charles C. in l840; Alice M., in 1846,\\nand Francis H.,in 1849. Henry and Charles are partners in an extensive tobacco business\\nin Romeo, Mich. In 1850, Mr. Bradley and wife united with the Baptist Church, at Mt.\\nVernon, and, in 1878, took letters and unite 1 with the Baptist Church in Romeo; they\\nmoved to Romeo in 1878, and located on Pleasant street, where they now live.\\nALEX. A. BRIGGS, proprietor of the American House, was born at Colchester,\\nCanada West, November 27, l841; he purchased the principal hotel building at Romeo,\\nNovember 18, 1878, and has since that time made Michigan his home; his hotel is noticed\\nin the history of Romeo. He moved to Detroit in 1853, and made that his home until he\\nmoved to Romeo.\\nDANIEL B. BRIGGS, P. O. Romeo, was born at Adams. Berkshire County, Mass..\\nFebruary 18, 1829; his parents were natives of the same State; after pm-suing for some\\nyears an academic coiu-se of study, he entered Williams College, Mass., in 1844, from\\nwhich he graduated in 1848; he immediately commenced the study of law, and was ad-\\nmitted in 1850 to practice in the com-ts of the commonwealth. About the close of that\\nyear, his native town established, in compliance with the Legislative enactment, a free\\nhigh school, and Mr. Briggs was chosen to the Priucipalship, which position he held for\\nthi-ee years. During this time, he also did service as a member of the School Committee\\nof the town. In March, 1854, he removed to Detroit, and, in the month of May follow-\\ning, located at Romeo, Macomb County, Mich., and entered upon the practice of law.\\nThe following year, he became Principal of the Dickinson Institute formerly a branch of\\nthe State University located at that place, and was connected with that institution for\\nthree years. During the years 1858, 1859 and 1860, he held the position of Superintend-\\nent of Public Schools in the citv of Ann Arbor; from thence he removed to Jackson, where\\nhe held a similar position for five years. On leaving school work in the summer of 1865,\\nhe returned to Macomb County and engaged in farming. During the Legislative session\\nof 1867, he acted as Clerk of the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives,\\nand, in the month of .4pril of that year, was elected County Superintendent of Schools for\\nMacomb County and, on the 1st of May following, he entered upon the duties of that\\noffice, in which he served four years. During his last official term, he was made President\\nof the State Association of County Superintendents of Schools. He was Director of the\\nRomeo Union School District for eight years, and, for about the same length of time, was\\nSecretary of the County Agricultural Society; he also had charge of the public schools of\\nV", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0656.jp2"}, "657": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY\\nd\\nMt. Clemens, the county seat of Macomb County, for the school year 1871-72; in Novem-\\nber, 1S72, he was elected State Superintendent of Public Instruction, which office he re-\\ntained for four years, having been re-elected at the close of his first term, in 1874. In\\n1879, Mr. Briggs was appointed to the office of Deputy Secretary of State, which official\\nposition he still occupies. Mr. B. cherishes the welfare of old Macomb, and during all\\nof his absence he has never lost his residence in the county.\\nMAETIN BUZZELL was born May 16, 1811, at Boston, Lower Canada; is the son\\nof Daniel and Lydia (Adams) Buzzeli, the former born in New Hampshire, the latter in\\nSt. Johnsbm-y, Vt. the tii st white child born there; her ancestors belonged to the old\\nPlymouth Colony of Massachusetts. The family went to Derby, Vt., soon after the birth of\\nMr. B. of this sketch, and, in 1 81 7, to Honeoye Falls, Monroe Co. N. Y., where they resided\\nuntil 1831, when he came to Michigan and settled at Grand Blanc, Genesee County, ili-.\\nB. came to Romeo in July of the same year, where his parents afterward joined him; his\\nfather died at fifty-one, his mother at eighty-five, years of age. He was married, Novem-\\nber 4, 1832, to Clarissa T. Winchell: she died in the autumn of 1836, leaving one son\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nJulius C, who married Phebe Hamlin: they buried three children in infancy. Mr. B.\\nwas married again in 1843, to Hairiet Burk: she died in 1846, and left one living son\\nMarcus H, who maiTied Mary Rogers; they have one child Helen M., born February 14,\\n1880; one child was biuied in infancy. Mr. B. was mairied, to Julia A. Wing, April 26,\\n1849; four children of this marriage siuwive Fred C, editor of the Romeo Democrat,\\nbom July 3, 1855; Clyde H., foreman of the Romeo Observer. February 27, 1857; Ida L.\\nand Eva R. (twins), November 2-1, 1S59; Eva is the wife of George E. Strauahan, and was\\nmai-ried August 7, 1878, they have one son Claude M., bom December 16, 1879; Frank\\nM. was born March 12, 1850 and died July 16, 1876; Helen C, September 27, 1851; died\\nMarch 2, 1880; Byi on L. and Biu-ton S. (twins), born September 26, 1854; died August 7\\nand 17, 1855; Malcom W. born December Kt, 1863; died March 1, 1880; he and his\\nsister were buried in one day. Mrs. B. is a native of Missisqiioi County, Province of\\nQuebec; on coming to Romeo, Mr. B. engaged in mercantile business as a clerk; in the\\nfall of 1837, he went to Natchez, Miss., and was similarly employed until the fall of\\n1840, when he returned to this county and was on a farm a few years, in Ai mada, remov-\\ning to Romeo in 1845; he was the first Town Clerk of Bruce, and, in 1861, was elected\\nJustice of the Peace, serving two terms in Bruce; in July, 1872, he was elected to the\\nsame office fi om Washington and has tilled the office continuously since. He is in the in-\\nsurance business, also, which he has been operating since 1861.\\nELISHA CALKINS, son of Hiram and Abigail (Lockwood) Calkins, was born Octo\\nber 1, 1816, in Cayuga County, N. Y. His father was born in Connecticut, his mother in\\nNew York. In 1825, his parents came to Michigan and settled in Washington Township,\\nwhere his father located 160 acres of Government land, to which he subsequently made\\nconsiderable additions; he died in June, 1875. On coming to Romeo, Mr. Calkins en-\\ngaged about eighteen months in general merchandise, when he sold out and went to Sault\\nSte. Marie, and had the management of a portion of the canal construction two yeai s,\\nafter which he retm-ned to Romeo and. opened a mercantile enterprise in connection with\\nA. McLeod, which he pursued two years. In 1861, he embarked in the drug business,\\nselling out six years later, and going to Detroit, engaged in the Union L on Company, in\\nwhich he still holds an interest. He was connected with Amos Palmer in the fiu-nitiu-e\\nbusiness, from March, 18N0. to May, 1881: he inherited Democratic principles and voted\\nfor one President in accordance with them, but, being a Radical in his views generally, he\\nbecame an earnest supporter of the Republican party on its organization. He was elected\\nSupervisor of Washington Townshijs, in 1848, and has held the office five years; has also\\nbeen Village Trustee. In 1850, he engaged in lumbering in Lapeer County, where he\\n40", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0657.jp2"}, "658": {"fulltext": "HISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncontinued two years. In the spring of 1(S88, he was married to Caroline Wales (born in\\nLower Canada), who died in 1852: from this marriage there were three children Horace,\\nwho died when two years old; Orpha and Abigail, both deceased. Mr. Calkins was juar-\\nI ied again, in the spring of 1854. to Eliza Wales, sister of his first wife: they have one\\nchild Cora G. Mr. Calkins owns village property at Romeo; also at Lnlay City, La-\\npeer Conntv.\\nCHARLES N. COE, jeweler, was born in Milford. Pike Co., Penn., July 28, 1848; he\\nis the son of Charles R. and Lucetta (Wells) Coe; when he was three years old, he came\\nwith his parents to a farm two miles west of Oxford, Oakland County, they removed to\\nRomeo two years later, where, with the exception of one year spent in the State of New York,\\nhe has since resided: he is engaged in the prosecution of the jewelry trade, on Main street;\\nthe concern was first established in 1858 in a small building on West St. Clair street, by H.\\nP. Piper, and was removed a short time after to the present location of the restaurant of J.\\nL. Benjamin: its second removal was to its present quarters, in Ciray s block. About that\\ndate, Mr. Piper associated Capt. Milton Thomjison with himself, and they continued in\\nthe partnership until November 26. 1873, when C. N. Coe became its pro])rietor by piu--\\nchase.\\nTHOMAS D. COE CO.. ch-uggists. The drug house of Coe Co. was established\\noriginally by a man named B. F. Castle; several years later, in 1856, it passed into the\\nhands of Pool Hosner. by whom it was managed until August 4, 1857. when the fii-m\\nstyle became Pool. Tilson Hubbard, by whom the business was prosecuted until early\\nin 1860, when Mr. Hubbard retired and it became Pool Tilson: February 20 of that\\nyear, another change was made to Pool Calkins, and soon after, on the death of the\\njunior partner, the concern became E. L. Calkins; in September, 1861, Joseph Holland\\nsucceeded L. Calkins by purchase, and the firm became Calkins Holland; September 20.\\n1866, another change occiu red, and the house did business under the name of Holland\\nReade; T. D. Coe Co, succeeded lo the proprietorship, March 22. 1875; predecessors\\nremained as silent pai tners until the death of Holland, about a month after, since which\\nMr. Reade has occupied that position alone. T. D. Coe was born in Pike County, Penn.,\\nJune 29, 1846: is the son of Charles R. and Lucetta (Wells) Coe; his parents moved to\\nMichigan when he was five years of age and settled in Oakland County, on a farm, coming\\nto Romeo two years later. Mr. C. entered the drug store of Calkins Holland in 1861,\\nand has been in the di ug business ever since, finally succeeding to the proprietorship of\\nthe established and reliable house where he began to familiarize himself with the details\\nof his life s pursuit. He was married, Februarj 16, 1874. to Anna Washer, a native of\\nNew Jersty. Mr. Coe has a residence on Prospect street\\nMASON COLE was born November 5, 1819, at Bristol, Ontario Co., N. Y.: is the son\\nof Nathaniel and Sally (Mason) Cole; the former was a direct descendant from the pil-\\ngrim stock of New England, and was born at Rehoboth, Bristol Co., Mass.. in 1794; his\\nwife was born at Attleboro, Bristol Co., Mass., in 1798, also of English Puritan lin-\\neage. Jime 16, 1837, Mr. Cole s father set out for Michigan, accompanied by his wife\\nand six children; the overland joiu-ney consumed eighteen days (Mr. Cole slept every\\nnight in the wagon). They located on the north line of Ray Township, where the father\\nbought 200 acres of land and they entered ujion pioneer life, clearing away the timber\\nand imjjroving the farm. They brought a year s provisions, consequently their first ex-\\nperiences were comparatively free from difficulties, but the next year, 1838, many hard-\\nships overtook them, consequent upon the large influx of emigrants, which rendered sup-\\nplies insufficient There was money enough, but everything must be brought from De-\\ntroit and no one had time to spare. During that year, Mr. Cole sometimes wore shirts\\nwithout sleeves, and subsisted on roasted corn with milk if the cow could be found.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2i* i\\nf-", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0658.jp2"}, "659": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHe was seventeen when his parents came to Michigan, and until he was twenty -one he\\nhad no opportunities for an education. After that age, he exerted himself to acquire\\nsuch attainments as he foresaw he should require to become a successfiil business man.\\nHe taught school thirteen consecutive terms, in Macomb County terms ranging from\\nthree to six months. During eighteen months of this time, he was troubled with fever\\nand ague, and had, besides, a school of seventy pupils on his hands, but he made no\\nstop, save for an occasional half day. The gleanings from pioneer experiences show how\\nadvantageous to the human mind is the necessity for struggle to attain, not the benefits\\nof the world, but the discipline that prepares a man to justly estimate his own value\\namong men. Mr. Cole studied law two years for the express purpose of managing his\\nbusiness intelligently. He was by heritage and training a Democrat, and, while a mem-\\nber of that party, was a delegate to five conventions; he adopted Free-Soil principles and\\neventually became a Republican, assisting in the organization of the party in Macomb\\nCounty; was once delegate to the Republican State Convention, and twice a delegate to\\nthe Eighth Republican District Convention; since 1^54, he has been, with two excep-\\ntions, a delegate to every County Convention; he has been identified with the politics of\\nthis count} since 1840; he was School Inspector of Ray eight years, and, in 1866, was\\nelected Justice of the Peace; was. during the time, elected Highway Commissioner, serv-\\ning four years; in 1879, was again elected Justice of the Peace, but resigned on coming\\nto Romeo; he has served as juryman on occasions for thirty-five years in this county, and\\none term on the United States jury at Detroit. He was married, in 1847, to Charity\\nGamber, a native of Ontario County, N, Y. she died May 24, 1877, leaving two sons\\nSimeon G. (married Ida Parker, and resides on the farm in Ray) and William B., a grad-\\nuate of Kalamazoo College. Mr. Cole was married a second time, January 2, 1878, to\\nMrs. Ann Eliza, widow of Burchard Throop; he has been Director of the Macomb and St.\\nClair Mutual Fire Insurance Company for two yeai s.\\nCHESTER COOLEY was born June 19, 1817, in Cambria, Niagara Co., N. Y,; he is\\nthe son of Samuel and Polly (Dyke) Cooley; at the age of eighteen, in the fall of 1835,\\nhe settled with his parents in the town of Bruce. He was married, August 24, 1838, to\\nJane, daughter of Jacob Kisoe, of Ontario County, N. Y. by request of his father, it was\\narranged that the patrimonial estate should revert to him, consequently it was his home,\\nand he cared for his father and mother through their declining years; in 1868, he left his\\nhomestead and bought his residence on Main street, north, where he has since resided; he\\nstill owns 200 acres the old farm in Bruce, a jiart inherited fi om his father and the rest\\npurchased from the several heirs; also owns two farms in Ray, including 227 acres; also\\ncedar and pine lands and village property in Romeo. He was an inherent Democrat, to\\nwhich party he adhered until the rise of the Free-Soil party, and afterward became a Re-\\npublican; they have seven children Noah, Polly, Anna, Chester Dike, Sarah Jane,\\nEunice Beach and Mauley Benjamin. Samuel Cooley was born November 14, 1775, in\\nVermont; his father was Benjamin Cooley, a Colonel in the Revolution, and was with\\nEthan Allen when he demanded the surrender of Ticonderoga, in the name of the Great\\nJehovah and the Continental Congress; Col. Cooley was one of the first settlers in Ver-\\nmont, from Massachusetts, and was for years a Representative in the Vermont Legislature;\\nhe was Clerk of his county, and, being a leading member of the M. E. Chui ch, he was\\nforemost in holding open doors for the entertainment of the itinerancy of that body of\\nChristians; on one occasion, when a quai terly meeting was in session at CoL Cooley s\\nhome, it took fire and was destroyed, the county records being preserved only through the\\nmost strenuous eiforts. Samuel Cooley was the second son; he came to Vermont, and. as\\nsoon as he was eligible, he was elected to the Legislature, and continued to serve there\\nuntil 1X15, when he went to Cambria, Niagara Co., N. Y. He was married, in Vermont,\\nr-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0659.jp2"}, "660": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nOctober o, 1797, to Polly Dyke, born August 4, 1781 he followed the occupeatiou of farm-\\ning in New York State until the fall of 1882. when he came to Michigan and entered \u00e2\u0096\u00a0i 20\\nacres of land, receiving his patent of ownership from Andrew Jackson; on this farm he\\nlived and died; he made the route to Michigan overland through Canada, bringing with\\nhim his wife and foui- sous; on the organization of the State, Mi C. was urged to accept\\na nomination as Representative in one of the first Legislatures, but he declined; he was\\na Democrat, acted as Assessor for Bruce for a number of years; he laid out the first road\\nof any extent in that township; he died February 2, 1848; Mrs. C died September 10, 1888.\\nAMOS O. CRISSMAN was born October 8, 1818, in Warren County, N. J.; his\\nparents, Benjamin and Mary (Kern) Crissman, were both natives of New Jersey, of Ger-\\nman descent; they settled in Washington, Macomb County, in 1880, and purchased 240\\naci-es of land having some improvements, afterward adding to it until it included 600\\nacres; the father died in 1861, the mother in 1855; there were six sons and one daughter.\\nThe estate was inventoried at $20,000 on the father s death. Mrs. Crissman acted as the\\nadministrator. He remained on the farm until he was tweuty-eight years old; after he\\nreached his majority, he received $110 a year, with board and clothes; he was married,\\nin 1846, to Abigail Pettinger, a native of New York; with the money he had earned, he\\nbought eighty-seven acres of land in Washington, which he afterward traded for a farm of\\n120 acres, in Brace, where he lived eighteen months. In the winter of 1868, he bought\\nhis property six acres in Romeo. Mr. and Mrs. Crissman have had three childi en,\\none of whom died when an infant; two daughters Mary F. and Addie L. reside at\\nhome. Mr. Ci issman was formerly a Whig but is now a Republican; he is one of the\\nsubstantial citizens of Romeo and represents a considerable amount of property vested in\\nmortgages, notes, etc.\\nWILLIAM B. CUYLER, photographic artist, was born March 22, 1847, East Guil-\\nlumbui-y. Province of Ontario, Canada; is the son of William E. and Julia A. (Purdy)\\nCuyler; his father was born in Vermont, June 28, 1809, his mother in New York, June\\n1. ISI).-); they had seven children three sons and four daughters. Mr. Cuyler, Sr. died\\nA[ ril 2 i, 1876; he was the son of John and Elizabeth (Thompson) Cuyler. Mrs. Cuyler\\nis still living; she is the daughter of William and Philinda (Vieder) Pm-dy, of Holland\\nextraction. Mr. Cuyler s paternal ancestors were of English lineage. Mi Cuyler of\\nthis sketch was trained to the vocation of a machinist in his native town, which he pur-\\nsued until 1869; he came to Michigan in 1865, locating at Attica, obtaining employment\\nat his trade; in 1869, he began the preliminaries of his profession and was under instruc-\\ntions until 1871, when he opened business independently in his present quarters, at Ro-\\nmeo, where he has since continued. Mr. Cuyler is entitled to distinctive notice as a sci-\\nentific empiricist in his profession, consequently his work exhibits merits of much more\\nthan ordinary pretension; he keeps pace with all modern progress in the art and is always\\nin readiness to exhibit to his patrons the latest and best styles of pictures. He was mar-\\nried, April 18, 1872, to Hattie E., daughter of Eli and Catharine (Rooney) Woodrow,\\nborn in Norwich, Province of Ontario, Canada, April 15. 1858; they have three children\\nN. Kitty, born September 19, 1878; Mauviette, March 27, 1876; Zoe, August 8, 1881.\\nMr. Cuyler adheres to the principles of the Democratic faith. Mr. Woivdrow was born\\nMay 14, 1809; his wife January 31. 1807.\\nFRANK W. DASH was born September 26, 1849, in Oxford County, Ontario, Can-\\nada; is the son of Charles and Louise Dash; came to the States April 28, 1868, when he\\ncame to Romeo; by occupation he is a tinsmith; learned his trade in Canada; is now\\nforeman of the tin department of Henry Rawles hardware establishment. June 5, 1872,\\nMr. Dash married Irene Washer, of Romeo; wife born January 5, 1852; she died Sep-\\ntember 30, 1878; had one child, Carl W., born September 17, 1878. Mr. Dash married", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0660.jp2"}, "661": {"fulltext": "HISTOBY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nfor his second wife May E. Washer, sister of his first wife: were married June 10, ISSO;\\nhis wife was born November 23. 1.S53; she was the daughter of George and Isabel Wash-\\ner, of Romeo; they have one child Frank G., born November I J, ISSl. Mr. Dash is a\\nmember of the Masonic fraternity. Both Mr. and Mrs. Dash are members of the Baptist\\nChurch of Komeo; politically, he is a Republican.\\nISAAC DOUGLAS, D. D. S.. was born in Troy, Oakland Co., Mich., May 25, 1830;\\nhe is the third son of Nathan Douglas, son of Rev. Caleb Doiiglas, of New London,\\nConn. Nathan Douglas came from Whitestown. N. Y.. in 1824, and settled in Troy, hav-\\ning six mouths previously been united in marriage with Frances Smith, of Whitesboro;\\nhe located in the primal wilderness, cleared a space and built a log home, in which they\\nlived four weeks before doors and windows could be procured. The time was made inter-\\nesting by the screeching of owls and howling of wolves; they reared eight children to ma-\\nturity; after the marriage of the youngest, in 1864, the farm was sold and the parents\\nwent to reside with their second son William in Otisoo. Ionia County, where Mr.\\nDouglas died December 6, 1874; he and his wife celebrated their fiftieth wedding anni-\\nversary March 8 of the same year. Mr. and Mrs. D. were two of the constituent mem-\\nbers of the Troy Baptist Church, having been dismissed from the Pontiae Church for that\\npurpose. Mrs. D. died at Pewamo, Ionia Co.. Mich., January 18, 1882; the ancestry of\\nDr. Douglas is reliably tr.iced to Deacon William Douglas, who came from Scotland in\\n1640, with his wife, Ann Mattie Douglas, to whom he was married in 16;-(6, at Ringstead,\\nEngland; they are the ancestors of the now famous New London family, which has spread\\nto all parts of this country; the line descends to Dr. Douglas as follows: William, Robert,\\nThomas, John, Caleb and Nathan; it is taken from a genealogical history of the Douglas\\nfamily. Dr. D. had in early life only the advantages for education common to the sons\\nof Michigan pioneer farmers; during his twentieth summer, he studied dentistry with\\nhis brother Caleb, who settled in Romeo at the season s close, and continued to study with\\nhim until March, 1852, and remained with him until his death, in June, 1852, and suc-\\nceeded to his business; he felt that he needed a knowledge of medicine of a wider scope\\nthan was to be obtained from dental books and he began to read with Dr. Wyker, of Ro-\\nmeo; in 1854, his health failed and he abandoned his profession, partly to receive medical\\ntreatment, which he did a year and one-half, under the old-school treatment, without\\nbenefit: he tested homeopathic remedies and method, and in four weeks resumed the du-\\nties of his profession at Romeo and commenced the study of homeopathy, under the direc-\\ntion of Drs. Ellis Drake, of Detroit; in the winter of 1858, he entered the college at\\nCleveland. Ohio; here he passed all the examinations and ranked among tbe highest in\\nhis class; he returned to Romeo in 1859. and began the practice of medicine, together\\nwith dentistry, which he continued until 1865, since which time he has confined his at-\\ntention to dentistry as closely as circumstances would allow; since that date, he has given\\ninstruction to a number of young men in dentistry, homeopathy and allopathy, who are\\npracticing in their professions. As a dentist. Dr. Douglas has been signally successful\\nfrom January 1, 1866, to January 1, 1872, he put in 4.394 fillings with but seventeen re-\\nplacements within two years of the first operation; February 1, 1852, he made his first\\nexperiment in removing nerv.es and filling nerve canals in roots, with a three-rooted tooth,\\nwhich was in good condition twenty-three years afterward: April 9, 1859, he exerted his\\nskill for the first time in filling ulcerated teeth; the experiment has proved a success to\\nthis date, twenty-thi-ee years after. Dr. D. is one of the organizing members of the\\nMichigan Dental Association, seldom tailing to attend its meetings, coutributing greatly\\nto their interest by verbal or written discussions, or both; has occupied or declined every\\nofficial position; he assisted in organizing the Michigan Homeopathic Institute, and was\\na member until its dissolution, in May, 1877; he was constituted a member of its sue-\\n-Ti.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0661.jp2"}, "662": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncesser, the Michigan Homeopathic Medical Society: in recognition of his experi-\\nence, reputation and as a contributor to dental science, the Ohio College of Den-\\ntal Surgery conferred upon him, in March, 1S71, the degree of D. D. S. He con-\\nnected himself with the Baptist Church at Troy, Oakland County, in 1S43, and at\\nsixteen was appointed one of the church committees; in \\\\HThi, he transferred his mem-\\nbership to the Baptist Church in Itomeo; in 1S72, his connection with that denomination\\nwas severed, in consequence of a change of his views, and he has since united with the\\nCongregational Church; he was Deacon of the Baptist Church seven years, and for live\\nyears was a leading member, paying from one-tenth to one-eighth of the current expenses\\nof the society; he was Superintendent of the Mission Sabbath School, near Eomeo, seven\\nsummers, and has always been a generous contributor to Christian societies of various de-\\nnominations, adding materially to the advancement of the same in his locality; he is\\nknown for his professional benevolence, moderating his charges to the circumstances of\\nhis patients, and rendering gratuitous services when the case requires; he is temperate in\\nhabits and a Republican in politics. He was married, October 2, IS52, to Elizabeth\\nClarke, a native of England, who emigrated with her parents from Bedford in 1884; they\\nwere on the ocean twenty-one weeks and were wrecked ofi New York harbor, escaping\\nonly with their lives; Dr. and Mrs. D. have had three daiighters and one son; two daugh-\\nters and the son are now living.\\nEBER J. DUDLEY, third son of Orsel Dudley, was born June 1-4, 18:30, in Wash\\nington, Macomb County; he received a common-school education and lived on a farm until\\nhe was twenty-one years old; after that age, he came to Romeo and attended school and\\nafterward taught about six yeare; in 1861, he engaged in mercantile business, in Brook-\\nhn, Ray Township, and, three years after, came to Romeo, entering the employ of John\\nW. Dyar as clerk; after a year and a half, he formed a partnership with Joseph Newman,\\nwhich relation existed nine years; in 1876, he began business where he is at present es-\\ntablished; he has a very tine assortment of goods, selected in the best of taste as to\\nquality and variety to suit his large trade; he deals exclusively in ladies goods; he and\\nMrs. Dudley give their attention exclusively to their business, and both are highly esteemed\\nby their customei-s. Mr. Dudley was married, November 27, 1863, to Elizabeth Warren,\\nborn in New York; they have one son Frank W., seven years old. Mrs. Dudley s father\\nwas a Methodist minister of her native State. Politically, Mi Dudley is a Republican,\\nthough not very active or aggressive; he served as School Inspector of Ray, and three\\nvears as Township Clerk of Washington.\\nORSEL DUDLEY (deceased) was born in EastBloomtield, N. Y, March 24, 1800; came\\nto Macomb County in May, 1S8(), and settled in Washington; he was married, May 30,\\n1822, in New York, to Lucinda Jones, a native of Pompey, Onondaga Co., N Y. she\\nnow lives with her son, aged eighty. Mr. Dudley had small opportunities for education,\\nbut he had a passion for books, and acquired a liberal education thi ough reading; he lo-\\ncated 168 acres of Government laud, which he sold afterwai d and bought eighty; there\\nwere five childi en, four of whom are now living; their record is as follows: Jerome, de-\\nceased; Olive, living in Wasliington; Eber (see sketch); Leonai d, residing in Mason, Ing-\\nham County; Yelora, wife of James Gass, of Ray. Mr. Dudley was a man of equable\\ntemperament, which made his judgment valuable to his friends; a strong advocate of\\ntemperance, interested actively in politics, leaving the Democratic for the Republican\\nparty when slavery became an issue; he died suddenly of apoplexy, January 18, 1880.\\nEDWARD R. EATON was born December 1, 1828, in Union, Tolland Co., Conn.; he\\nis the son of William and Fannie Sessions Eaton; his father was born September 16,\\n17U3; his mother August 14, 1795; the former came to Michigan in February, 1836, and\\nbought eighty acres of land in Washington preparatory to establishing a home for his family,\\nrnr", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0662.jp2"}, "663": {"fulltext": "i^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nconsisting of his wife, live daughters and two sons, who followed, July 8, 1836; the par-\\nents lived on the farm until their deaths, the father dying in 1861 and the mother in\\n1875. Ml Eaton remained with his father until he was twenty years old. when he en-\\ngaged as a farm hand until April 8, 1856, when he was married to Harriet Nichols, of\\nMacomb, Macomb County; he bought a farm of eighty acres iu Macomb, where he lived\\nseven years and cleared nearly the whole of it, when, iu 1S63, he sold out and bought a\\nfarm of 140 acres in Washington, which he has increased l)y pui chase to 215 acres; in\\nthe fall of 1881, he removed to Romeo. Mr. and Mi s. Eaton have had foui- children a\\ndaughter, Fidelia, died in February, 1864, nearly two years old; Van W., is married and\\nmanaging his father s farm; Fannie is married, and William lives at home. Until 1861,\\nMl-. Eaton was a Democrat, and has since voted the Republican ticket; he was Constable\\nand Justice of the Peace in Macomb County.\\nSAMUEL HOLBROOK EWELL was born January 18 IU, at Middlebmy, Wyo-\\nming Co., N. Y. his parents, Samuel and Nancy (Hoyt) Ewell, were both natives of Mas-\\nsachusetts, the former born at Norwich, Hampshire County, March 22, 177U, Scotch par-\\nentage, the latter at New Braintree, Worcester County, of Welsh extraction; in 1802,\\nSamuel Ewell and his brother Henry moved te the Holland Purchase, now the town-\\nship of Middlebury, Wyoming County, and were the iii st two of the settlers in the dis-\\ntrict who paid for their pre-emption of 160 acres from the products of the land. Mr. E.\\nwas married, in 1806, in Chesterfield, Mass., to Nancy Hoyt, and moved to Middlebiuy\\nthe same year; he came to Michigan in 1836, and died at Romeo June 16, 1842, and his\\nwife died September 4, 1873, in the ninety-third year of her age; both were baptized and\\nunited with the West Baptist Church, in Middlebmy, July, 1818, a membership which\\nlasted all their lives; they were the parents of nine childi en, whose record is as follows:\\nApphia died at Alexandi ia, N. Y., aged seventy-one: Laura died at Adi-ian, Mich., Febra-\\nary 1881, aged seventy-two; Sophronia, Widow Mix, lives at Aurora, 111.; Samuel H.\\nhas lived at Romeo since May 28, 1836; Aaron Hall resides in Dakota; Jane Hoyt is the\\nwife of Dr. J. Avery, of Greenville, Mich.; Nancy, Alvina and Sophia reside at Romeo;\\nLoranie died at three months old. Mr. E. of this sketch came to Michigan with his par-\\nents at the age of seventeen; he attended the high school three winters, and afterward\\nworked at the cabinet-maker s trade three years, with the Messrs. Palmer; in IS 43, he\\ncommenced working on his father s farm, near the village, where he remained until 1857;\\nhe spent thiee and one-half years in a grist-mill, and, in 1S60, went to Pike s Peak; re-\\ntui ned and purchased the Romeo Argus; a year after, it was biu-ned, with no insurance;\\nhe went to work in a wagon-shop, where he remained three years, and, in LSGU, iu com-\\npany with Irvin D. Hanscom, purchased the Romeo Obserner, and they continued its\\npublication until 1874; in 1877, he built a grist-mill on the corner of St. Clair and Bailey\\nstreets, where he has since operated; he was married, in December, 1S43, to Lucinda\\nWilcox, who died in July, 1845; in September, 1857, he was married to Cordelia, daugh-\\nter of John Smith, of Almout; they have one daughter Leoua, burn April 1, 1S60; she\\nis a young lady of scholarly attainments and graduated with honor at the normal school in\\nJune, 1881; a son, vSamuel Leon, born November 1, 1870, is pursuing his studies at Ro-\\nmeo. Mr. E. was in old times a Whig and became an active and aggressive Republican; in\\n1863, he was enrolling officer for the t ^wnship of Bruce, and has been a member of the\\nBoard of Village Trustees several terms; until the age of thirty-five, he was liberal iu his\\nreligious views, and at that time became a Spiritualist; in temperament, he is social and\\ngenial and inspires those whom he meets with a feeling of ease and confidence; he owns\\nvillage property and a small farm within the corjioration line, which he manages himself; in\\ntemperance, he is a radical, using neither whisky, tobacco, tea, coftee or other stimulants.\\nSEAMON FILLMORE (deceased) was born February 11, 17UU, in Genesee County,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0663.jp2"}, "664": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nN. Y. was the son of John and Ada (Simmons) Fillmore, the former of Irish descent,\\nthe latter of Scotch lineage; he came to Michigan in September, 1832. and located in\\nRay. Macomb County, taking np two eighty- acre tracts of Government land on the line\\nbetween Ray and Armada; it was all dense forest and Mr. Fillmore entered resolutely at\\noucc upon the self-imposed duties of the pioneer, clearing away the timber, improving the\\nland and making every preparation for the support and comfort of his family: this, at\\nthat time, included his wife and three children, which number increased to nine; all sur-\\nvive but two. Mr. Fillmore was married, to Philinda Ashley, in New York, February\\n16, 1828; she was born September 10, 1S06, and is still living at Romeo, corner of Bailey\\nand Washington streets. Mr. Fillmore was a Whig, but took only a moderate interest in\\npolitics; he died October 2. 184H. aged fortv-five vears.\\nCHARLES FILLMORE was born September 14, 1830, in. Genesee County, N. Y.;\\nis the son of Seamon and Philinda (Ashley) Fillmore; when he was two years old, his\\nparents settled in Ray, Macomb County, where he remained on the homestead farm until\\ntwenty-one years of age, when he set out for his single-handed struggle with the world.\\nIn 1856, he took charge of the Selleck Hotel, at Armada Corners, then a popular and\\nprominent resort on account of location; he managed the house two years, and, diu-ing\\nthe time, November U, 1857, was married to Hannah Lyons, a native of Canada; he en-\\nlisted in the civil war, in 1861, in Company A, Ninth Michigan Infantry, as a musician.\\nThe regiment was ordered to West Point. Ky., where it was stationed during the winter;\\nin the spring of 1862, it was transferred to Murfreesboro, Tenn. he was there appointed\\nDrum Major of the band and held music; July 12. 1862, he was captiu-ed at Murfrees-\\nboro, and was soon after paroled, and was discharged about the 1st of August after for\\nsickness and disability; he returned to Romeo and engaged with George Washer in the\\nmanufacture of boots and shoes, where he remained nearly nine years. Politically, Mr.\\nFillmore is a Democrat; he was appointed Deputy Sheriff of Macomb County in 1873,\\nand held the position six years; in March, 1876, he was elected Marshal of Romeo, and\\ncontinues to discharge the duties of the office, in connection with which he is acting as\\nConstable, a position he has tilled at different times since attaining his majority. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Fillmore have had four children, three of whom all sons they have lost; a\\ndaughter. Julia, still survives.\\nSTEPHEN H. FITCH was born July 17, 1807, at Kinderhook. Columbia Co.,N. Y.;\\nhis parents, Abel and Patty (Barnard) Fitch, were both natives of Connecfticut, of English\\ndescent; at sixteen, he went to Victor, Ontario Co., N. Y., and, at the age of twenty-one,\\nwent to Cattaraugus County, where he remained three years; he came to Michigan in\\n1831, and settled in that part of Washington which is now included in Bruce; previous to\\ncoming, he bought eighty acres of land, but. on seeing it. was disappointed, sold it and\\nbought another farm of eighty acres, three miles north of Romeo, adding forty acres by\\npurchase afterward; in April. 1864, he bought his present property at Romeo, including\\nsix and one-fourth acres, and moved into the village; in 1868. he located a farm in Jack-\\nson County, Ala., where he built a house and moved his family; he spent about live years\\nthere preparing a home for his family, who were with him two years; in 1873. they re-\\nturned to Romeo. He was married, in July, 1831. to Louisa Collins, of Erie County, N.\\nY. she died in 1844. leaving three of four children living Martha. Henry C. and Ste-\\nphen. Mr. Fitch was man-ied again, in 1847. to Julia Chamberlain, a native of Dela-\\nware County. N. Y. they had one son George B. Mr. Fitch cast his first Presidential\\nvote for Andrew Jackson, and has always belonged to the same party; he was Assessor in\\nBruce in 1836, and elected Justice of the Peace afterward.\\nWILLIAM V, GIBBS was born December 21, 1824. in Livonia. Livingston Co.,\\nN. Y. his parents, David and Ruth (Woodruff) Gibbs, were both of English descent; his", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0664.jp2"}, "665": {"fulltext": "J4V\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nfather was born iu Massachusetts, his mother in Connecticut, where they were married;\\nthey moved to Chenango County. N. Y. and afterward to Livingston County; they had\\ntwelve children, one of whom died at the age of two years: the rest lived to mature years;\\nthe father was a carpenter and died, in lS;-!5. from lockjaw, caused by a pistol-shot in the\\nfoot: the mother died in 1841. Mr. Gibbs remained at home until his mother s death\\nwhen he was sixteen years old: he worked about eight years at gunsmithing, and then\\nbegan studying as a portrait painter and came to Michigan, in 1S4U, locating at Kalama-\\nzoo, where he remained until June 6. 1!S52. at which date he came to Armada: January 1,\\n185H. he came to Romeo and has folloived his profession since, acquiring considerable\\ncelebrity both as a portrait and landscape painter. Mr. Gibbs sketches and studies in\\ncolor exhibit him as an artist of legitimate genius and taste, and one who fully merits all\\nthe success and fame he has won. He was married, in September, 1867, to Jane, daugh-\\nter of Oliver A. and Eliza Jane Lewis, of Dryden, Lapeer Co., Mich.: she was born in\\nthat town: they have one son Willie aged ten years; they lost a daughter Alice\\nwhen twenty months old. Mr. G. has been a Republican since the formation of the party;\\nhe has been a resident of the county for many years and an interested witness of its growth\\nand development. Some of the original paintings of Mr. G. that may be referred to are\\nthe portraits of Henry Stephens and Miss Jennie Mellens, of Romeo; J. Henry AVhitte-\\nmore, wife and child, and Miss Jessie Fox, of Detroit; family group of John Mellens:\\nideal sunset in the mountains, owned by Mr. Stephens, Jr,, Romeo; hunters camp in the\\npine plains in Crawford County, Mich., and moonlight on the ocean, owned by George H.\\nWaterbury.\\nEDWIN W. GIDDINGS was born June 11, 1815, at Preston, New London Co.,\\nConn. is the son of Jabez W. and Lydia (Alden) Giddings; his parents were of English\\ndescent; his mother was born in Stafford, Tolland Co., Conn.; thej removed, in 1880, to\\nHartford, Conn., where Mr. Giddings passed the succeeding four years on a farm, with\\nlimited advantages for obtaining an education. He was married, October 18, 1840, to\\nMartha S. Makepeace, of Brookfield, Mass., who died June 16, 1841. Mi-. Giddings was\\nmarried, November 28, 1848, to Mercy A. Leach, of Honeoye Falls, N. Y. they had two\\nsons and foiu- daughters. Mrs. Giddings died, November 22, 1866. In November, 1888,\\nMr. Giddings came to Michigan, with Nathan Dickinson, a merchant of Romeo, and an\\nextensive owner of pine lands; they formed a partnership January 1, 188U, under the\\nstyle of M. Dickinson Co., a relation which existed imtil the death of Mr. Dickinson,\\nin 1859; after that event. Mr. Giddings continued in the mercantile business with his\\nsons and others until 1874; on the organization of the First National Bank, he was elected\\nVice President, and, on the death of Neal Gray, in 1868, was elected President: in 1870,\\nhe organized a banking house under the name of Giddings Moore, resigning his po-\\nsition in the First National Bank; in 1874, Giddings Moore re-organized as the Citi-\\nzens National Bank, with Mr. Giddings as President, a position he still retains: August\\n80. 1878, be was appointed a member of the Constitutional Commission under the joint\\nresolution of the Legislature, approved April 24, 1878, Mr. Giddings became a member\\nof the Congregational Church in Hartford, Conn., and, in 1889, connected himself with\\nthat society in Romeo.\\nM. A. GIDDINGS was born at Preston. Conn., May 24, 1824; he is the son of Jabez\\nW. and Lydia (Alden) Giddings, natives of Connecticut. In 1830 his father removed\\nhis family to Hartford Conn., where he remained iintil 1846, when Mr. G. settled\\nat Romeo and opened mercantile transactions on a limited scale. Persistent at-\\ntention to business and careful management have extended his relations and rendered\\nthem successful. He commenced operations in an old building previously occupied\\nbv J. S, Jenness, and was associated for several vears with H. O. Smith: afterward", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0665.jp2"}, "666": {"fulltext": "658 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe firm style became M. A. Giddings Co.; in 1856, their new frame building, together\\nwith a considerable portion of the business houses of Eomeo, was destroyed by fire, when\\nthe brick block now occupied by the company was erected. IVL A. Giddings Co. became\\nGiddings, Mussey Co., and afterward, succeeded by M. A. A. Giddings; this connec-\\ntion continued for seven years, and, in ISIjU, the present house of Giddings, Rowley\\nCo. was established; it is one of the strongest business firms in the place; on the organiza-\\ntion of the First National Bank, in the fall of 1S68, Mr G. was one of the original incor-\\nporators and is one of the Directors; he was elected President in 1871, which position he\\nstill fills; he also owns stock in the Union Iron Company, of Detroit; he was a stanch\\nWhig and became a Republican in later days, and has since been deeply interested in all\\nthe i.ssues of politics; in ISGG, he was elected President of Romeo, and afterward served\\nfor one term as Trustee; he has been a member of the School Board for six years; acted\\nas its chief officer two years; he united with the Congregational Church soon after mov-\\ning here, and has been Sunday School Superintendent for thirteen years; he was married,\\nin 1855, to Cai oline. daughter of Jacob Beekman, a pioneer of the county; they have one\\nson and two daughters.\\nDR. WILLIAM GREENSHILDS, of Romeo, was born in the parish of Canui-\\nchael, Lauai kshire, Scotland, April 1, 1886; he received a thorough preparatory education\\nin the schools of Lesmahagow and entered the University of Glasgow in 1852, and re-\\nmained there as a student until 1S5U. then took his diploma from the faculty of physicians\\nand surgeons of Glasgow, after a rigid examination, in April, 1859; immediately there-\\nafter, commenced the practice of medicine in the town of Douglas, in the parish of his\\nbirth; receiving the appointment of surgeon to Riggside Gillespin Coal AVorks, which\\nposition he filled for five years, besides having a large private practice; in the month of\\nMarch, 1864, he emigrated to America, settling in the village of Romeo, and established\\nhimself in the practice of his profession, in which he has since continued to the present\\ntime; for four years, he was the Secretary and Treasurer of the N. E. District Medical\\nand Scientific Association; he is a jnember of the American Medical Association and\\nhealth officer of Bruce Township for many years; he is a member of the A., F. A. M.\\nand Royal Arch and Knight Templar; he is examining smgeon for several insurance com-\\npanies and enjoys an extensive general practice; he is a careful physician and a surgeon\\nof more than ordinary skill. He was married, February 21, 1866, to Mary, oldest daugh-\\nter of Robert McKay, of Bruce Township; she was born in Brace February 1, 1845; their\\nchildren are: John, born December H, 18(56; Jennie G., born May 1870; Robert McK.,\\nApril 2S, 1878. Dr. G. s father was born in Scotland, in June. 171(8, emigrated to America in\\n1866, located on the Carpenter farm, in Orion Township, Oakland County, where he still\\nresides; he has a family of five children, of whom the Doctor is the fourth.\\nIRVING DUANE HANSCOM was bom in Shelby, Macomb Co., Mich., June 80,\\n1S4(); he is the son of George and Sarah (Van Bruudt) Hanscom; his father was born in\\nGorham, Me., in 17 J6; his mother was a native of the Empire State, of Dutch extraction,\\nher parents being natives of Amsterdam, Holland. Mr. H. s parents came to Macomb\\nCounty in 1820, and took up 160 acres of land in Shelby, on Sections 8 and 4, which was\\nthe homestead until their father s death, in June, 1N55; the mother survived more than\\ntwenty years and died at the age of eighty-four; they had five sons and two daughters.\\nAlfred H. Hanscom, the eldest son, was a lawyer and politician of considerable promi-\\nnence. In 1S42, he was a member of the Michigan Legislatui-e. and, in January of that\\nyear, was elected Speaker of the House; he was then twenty-two years old; in 1850. he\\nwas a member of the Constitutional Convention, and, at the time of his death, in 1859,\\nhe was United States District Attorney for the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. Andrew\\nJ. Hanscom is also a lawyer, and resides at Omaha, Neb. he was Speaker of the first\\nt^ la", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0666.jp2"}, "667": {"fulltext": "V\u00c2\u00a3\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHouse of Representatives in the Territory of Nebraska. Mr. Hanscom of this sketch was\\nthe youngest; he was sent to Detroit to school at eight years of age, where he remained\\nfor three years; he subsequently attended the high school at Disco, Prof. A. M. Keeler;\\nthe Dickinson Institute, at Romeo, Prof. Isaac Stone, and Dr. Selden s high school at De-\\ntroit; at the age of seventeen, he entered Antioch College, Ohio; the next year, he went\\nto Omaha and began to read law in the oifice of Poppletou Lake, then the leading at-\\ntorneys of that city. He remained one year, and, becoming infected with the excitement\\ngrowing out of the discovery of gold at Pike s Peak, and, yielding to a desire to visit the\\ngold fields, he left Omaha for a short rest and vacation and to see the newly famous re-\\ngion, but he did not readily detach himself from the influences of the limitless prairies,\\nthe exhilarating atmosphere, the wild adventures and the spirit of unrest fostered by his\\nsmToundings there, and he forgot Blackstone; when the mines pi-oved a myth, he resolved\\nto solve the secrets of the siuiset side of the continent, and, instead of retracing his steps\\nwith the myriads who had failed to tind their El Dorado at Pike s Peak, he set out on foot\\nfor the Pacific coast and walked 2,000 miles. On the 24th of August, 185U, he reached\\nSacramento in a terribly demoralized state, physically considered barefoot, clothes in\\ntatters and nearly starved; he improved his condition by working in tlie mines and after-\\nward visited places of interest in California, and proceeded to Mexico, Central America\\nand Cuba and thence home; soon after, he entered a law office in Detroit. August U, 1862,\\nprevious to a contemplated examination for admission to the bar, he enlisted in Company B,\\nTwenty-second Michigan Volunteer Infantry; in six months, he was made Orderly Sergeant\\nby a vote of the company and was subsequently promoted to Second and First Lieutenant,\\nand, during the last year of service, was in command of Company G; he was honorably dis-\\ncharged with his regiment, in July, 1S65. He then entered the law office of Hon. Elisha\\nF. Mead, and was admitted to practice in x^pril. 1S66, by examination before Judge San-\\nford M. Green, and at once opened an office at Romeo; he was elected to the office of Cir-\\ncuit Com t Commissioner two successive terms, was nominated by the Republicans as\\nProsecuting Attorney, in the campaign of 1S76, but was defeated, the county being\\nstrongly Democratic; he was again nominated, in 18N0, for the same office, and, notwith-\\nstanding the strength of the ruling party, he was elected by a majority of thirteen votes\\nover his former competitor. He was appointed by Gov. Bagley a Trustee for the State Insti-\\ntute for the Deaf, Dumb and Blind, at Flint, and was elected Secretary of the Board,\\nwhich position he resigned four years later because of the press of his own business; he\\nis Acting President of Romeo, to which he has been elected eight times in succession; he\\nis also Director of the Union School, and has been for a long time Trustee of the Congre-\\ngational Church; at the burning of Gray s opera house block, in 1876, he lost a fine li-\\nbrary, which constituted the bulk of his possessions, together with all his papers, office\\ntiles and accumulations of yeai s. He was married, January 17, 1S67, to Julia Alice Ab-\\nbott; they have one child Bessie A., fourteen years of age and of unusually brilliant\\npromise. Mi-. Hanscom s character maybe inferred from his record genial, indomitable,\\npersistent, generous, he holds his friendships, compels respect and wins the confidence\\nof all. Irving D. Hanscom was the recipient of the following complimentary letter from the\\nMacomb County bar, June, 1882, previous to his departure for his new home: Dear Sir\\nYou have been on trial at the bar of this county for some sixteen years; you cannot be\\npermitted to escape to new fields of practice without having passed upon you oiu delib-\\nerate judgment of you. A brother lawyer of this county, you have been well and fairlj\\ntried, and we shall as fairly j)ronounce sentence. It is, by us. after due deliberation, con-\\nsidered, inasmuch as we have ever found you in all our association and interooui se, at the\\nbar and elsewhere, an honorable, able and courteous gentleman and attorney, that j ou\\nshould bear with you in the future, not only this oui- earnest indorsement of you as an able\\ns r- a) V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0667.jp2"}, "668": {"fulltext": "IL^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nand honest lawyer, worthy of the confidence of clients and attorneys, but also our hearty\\nand sincere wishes that the future of you and yours may be as full of happiness and suc-\\ncess as one s very best friends could suggest. Yours, etc., T. M. Crocker, A. L. Canfield,\\nD. N. Lowell, Ct. M. Crocker, H. B. Hutchins, Edgar Weeks, S. B. Russell. F. P. Mont-\\nford, A. B Mavnard.\\nGEORGEG. HARTUNG was born March 28, 1S85, in Warren County, N. J. he is\\nthe son of William and Caroline Hartung, both natives of Warren County, N. J., the former\\nof German and the latter of English descent. William Hartung was the son of Capt. Henry\\nHartung: the latter mai-ried Mary Kunkle, daughter of Adam Kunkle. of Sussex County, N.\\nJ., both Germans. The mother of George G. Hartung was the daughter of Dr. Jabez Gwin-\\nnup. an Englishman, born in Morristown. N. J. At the age of fifty-five, William came to\\nMichigan and located in Oakland County, where they remained until advancing age made\\nthe care of their children necessary, and they gave up housekeeping. Mrs. H. died at the\\nresidence of her son George. October 20, 1878; Mr. H. is still living with his son, in\\nCalhoun County, aged eighty-one years; there were twelve children in the family, all of\\nwhom reached mature years; three are deceased. Mr. H. of this sketch located on 160\\nacres in Addison. Oakland County, in 1855. which land he still retains with other pur-\\nchases, making the aggregate 255 acres. He was married. December 17, 1857. to Matilda\\nC daiighter of Marvil Shaw, an old settler of Macomb County; after his marriage, he\\nmoved on another farm in Oakland Township, where he lived for three years and sold\\nout: he bought 140 acres in Shelby. Macomb County, and resided on it for three years,\\nwhen he again fixed his residence in Washington, west of Romeo, on a farm of 200 acres,\\ngiven to Mrs. H. by her father; three years after, they moved to Romeo, where they have\\nsince resided: they first bought a place on the corner of Main and Pleasant streets and\\noccupied it three years, when he purchased the homestead of Dr. Tilson. Politically,\\nMr. H. is a Republican; he cast his first Presidential vote for Fremont in 1856, and has\\nserved thi-ee terms as a Village Trustee. Mr. and Mrs. H. have two daughters Vinnie\\nReam and Annie Brabb, both at home.\\nJAMES HARVEY, M. D.. was born in Canada West, August 21), 1886; his parents,\\nWilliam and Drusilla (Mills) Harvey, were farmers; Dr. Harvey remained in the Do-\\nminion until seventeen years old, and acquired there his early ed jcation and commenced\\nthe study of medicine with Dr. E. E. Duncorab, of St. Thomas; he attended a course of\\nlectures at the Medical College of Castleton. Vt. went to Ann Arbor, and, after one\\ncoiu se in the medical department of the University, returned to Castleton, where he took\\nhis degree in 1857. He began practice in De Witt, Clinton Co., Iowa, where he re-\\nmained until July, 1862, when he was commissioned Assistant Surgeon of the Eighteenth\\nRegiment. Iowa Volunteer Infantry, bj Gov. Samuel J. Kirkwoud: his commission bore\\ndate August 8. 1N62. and he held his position one year, when he was obliged, by ill-\\nhealth, to resign. In Sejitember, 1868. he came to Romeo, where he has since been en-\\ngaged in general ])ractice; he is a member of the American Medical Association, and also\\na meiuber of the Northeastern District Medical Association, of Michigan, of which he has\\nbeen Vice President and Secretary. Dr. Harvey was President of the village of Romeo in\\n1865. He was married, in 185U. at Ann Arbor. Mich., to Hattie E., daughter of Isaac\\nPennoyer. of that place; they have four children two sons and two daughters. His ances-\\ntors were Quakers; his father s line came to America fi om England under the grant to\\nWilliam Penn, and settled with the colony on lands included in the celebrated treaty: his\\nmother s forefathers came from Holland.\\nORMAN W. HOPKINS was born February 24, 1817, in Middlebury, Genesee Co.,\\nN. Y. is the son of Michael and Sally (Lee) Hopkins, the latter descended from the Lees\\nof Revolutionary notoriety; she died in New York in 1828; his father removed his family\\nW", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0668.jp2"}, "669": {"fulltext": "to Washington Township in 1S26, and died three months after his arrival, leaving seven\\nchildi-en. Mr. Hopkins of this sketch being the sixth. The family remained on their\\nfather s farm, and he continued there six years, when he moved to the west part of Ro-\\nmeo; he was among the pioneers and associated with the Indian lads, whose language he\\nsoon spoke with the fluency of a native; he was married. December 24, 1838, at Romeo,\\nto Matilda Turrell, born in Rush, Mom-oe Co., N. Y. they have three children -Merritt A.\\nand Emmett (twins) and Eva M. Merritt married Celestia Snover; Emmett mairied Sarah\\nBeach; all reside at Romeo. Mr. Hopkins worked as a mason some years, and, in 1856,\\nconjointly with a partner, built a steam grist-mill, which he operated foui- years; he has\\nbeen engaged during the last ten years as au engineer in a grist and saw mill; he spent\\none summer in gold hunting in the Rocky Mountains a season of pleasure and experi-\\nence, if not of profit; his earliest political views coincided with the principles of the Whig\\nparty, and since he has been an active supporter of Republican doctrines; has served one\\nyear as Constable of Romeo; his residence is on Minot street, which has been his home\\nsixteen vears.\\nSTEPHEN SIBLEY HOPKINS, printer, was born at Romeo June 4, 1847; his\\nfather, Cyrus Hopkins, descendant of the signer of the Declaratiim of Independence (Step\\nHopkins); was a longtime resident of Romeo, and is the subject of a poem, found\\nin the poetical chapter in this volume; his mother, M. C. Parker, a native of New York,\\nstill lives at the village; at the age of fourteen years, Sibley became connected with the\\npaper. Romeo Argus, and followed the fortunes of that jiaper through various names and\\nadministrations for about twenty years, a portion of the time being editor and publisher;\\nin the fall of 1881, he removed to the city of St. Clair, and became connected with the Re\\npubliran, which position he still holds. He married, October 20, 1868, Gertrude, daugh-\\nter of ^Yilliam Maj-nard, of Romeo; her parents were natives of Western New York, who\\nremoved to Michigan in 1844, and have been residents of Romeo for the past twenty years;\\nthey have had one child born to them, which died in infancy; they are members of the M.\\nE. Church and he is Republican in politics.\\nJAMES HOSNER was born in Otsego County, N. Y., March 29, 1811, his parents re-\\nmoved to Monroe Couuty, N. Y about 1816; was married to Fanny Spencer in 1882; in\\nthat year, they moved to Michigan and settled at Clifton, Macomb County, on the present\\nsite of the Clifton Mills; in 1836. he exchanged his land for a tract owned by Wilkes\\nStuart, in Bruce; on this he remained until within a short time before his death, when\\nhe moved one-half mile west, in Biiice; he died June 11, 1876. Mrs. Hosner was the\\ndaughter of iVi-nold and Lavina (Hay den) Spencer: her father was born at East Haddam,\\nConn., in 1788, and died in 1841; her mother was born in 1790. near Boston, Mass., and\\ndied in 1852. Arnold Spencer was the son of Timothy aud Sarah Spencer. James Hos-\\nner was the son of Hugh and Hannah (Snyder) Hosner, the former born in 1788, in\\nDutchess County, N. Y died in 1889. Hannah Hosner was the daughter of Jacob Snyder,\\nborn in 1785. in Dutchess County, and died in 1S68. Hugh Hosner was the son of Nich-\\nolas and Fanny Hosner. Mi-. Hosner of this sketch was the parent of nine children, born\\nas follows: William L.. Mav 18. 1885, died December 2, 1856; Fidelia E., January 15,\\n1888; Louisa, July 14. 1840. died December 26. 1S40; Daniel A. December 6. 1841;\\nOscar N., July 6, 1844: James R.. June 29. 1846; Emma L.. May 7. 1848. died Septem-\\nber 24, 1876; John E., July 18, 1850; Frank F., March 29, 1858. Mrs. Hosner still re-\\nsides on the place where her husband died. Mr. Hosner was Deacon of the Bruce Union\\nChm-ch over twenty years, which he joined in 1845; he was a radical Republican in po-\\nlitical views.\\nRILEY J. HOSNER, son of James and Fanny (Spencer) Hosner, was born in Bruce\\nTownship June 29, 1846; received his education in the schools of his neighborhood, and", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0669.jp2"}, "670": {"fulltext": "W\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY\\nlater, attended the Commercial College of Detroit; being of a mechanical turn of mind\\nand tastes, and, being disabled for farm labar. he gave his attention to machine work iu\\niroa and brass; this continued in a small shop on the farm for three years, with growing\\nsuccess and profit. On the 10th of November. IN? 4. he purchased the machine shop of\\nMorton Hamlin, in Romeo. This business he has jirosecuted with profit to himself and\\nsatifrfaction to his patrons to the present time; his skill and success are the result of his\\nown study and industry, as he has never labored in any shop but his own and served\\nno apprenticeship; he has built up a good business in all of its various branches. Mr.\\nHosner is unmarried; a member of the K. of H. and Royal Arcanum, a man of temper-\\nance principles, and, in politics, a Repubican.\\nJAMES KEEL was born December 17. 1S21. in Somersetshire. Engand: in 1S80,\\nhis parents, John and Hannah (Board) Keel, with five children, came to America; they\\nwent first to Rochester. N. Y.. where they remained until 1S86, and then came to Detroit;\\nin 1S8S, Mr. Keel of this sketch came to Clifton, Macomb County, and worked in the Clif-\\nton Mills, until they were destroyed by tire, in 1S44. when he went to Albion, Calhoun\\nCounty, and, two years later, bought a farm of 120 acres, in Oakland, Oakland County,\\nwhere he lived until 1S78; in the fall of that yeiff. he removed to Romeo, being employed\\nin the Clifton Mills, which had been rebuilt by Hugh Gray. Mr. Keel cast his first vote\\nfor James K. Polk, in IS44. and. up to the date of the rebellion, was a Democrat; his last\\nPresidential vote on that ticket was for Stephen A. Douglas; since the breaking-out of\\nthe civil war. he has acted with the Republican party; he was married, in 1S44. to Mary,\\ndaughter of James East, an old settler of Macomb County; she died in 1S5S. leaving two\\nsons and two daughters; he was married again to Leah Pierce, native of England; she\\ndied October 1. ISSl. Mr. Keel has a residence on St. Clair street; his children are\\nOmar, lives in Bruce; Alma, wife of Eugene Brown, of Addison, Oakland County; Elva,\\nwife of John Hipp, and Francis, resides in Kansas.\\nALBERT KENNEDY was born August S, 1S33, in Mendon. Monroe Co., N. Y. He\\nis the son of Theoj)hilus P. and Jane Caroline Johnson Kennedy, the former of Scotch\\nextraction, and the latter of mingled Irish and Dutch ancestry. His parents settled in\\nMacomb County when he was one year old. and located on the farm, which originally in-\\ncluded 200 acres, but was afterward divided between his father and brother-in-law. Mr.\\nKennedy was reared there to the age of sixteen, working on the farm summers and attend-\\ning the district school winters. He then placed himself with experienced buildere and\\nacquired the details of the joiner s trade, and began work on the Selleck Hotel, east of\\nRomeo.\\nAbout two and one-half years later, he returned home and built a house for his\\nfather, and followed the calling of a builder for many yeai s, and constructed buildings in\\ndiiFerent parts of the county. In the spring of 18()1, he engaged in the sash and blind\\nfactoiy of Holraan Fai-rar. In ISfiS, he and his brother-in-law, Joseph A\\\\ eller. pur-\\nchased the factoi-y, which was bm-ned in ISfiS, at a loss to them of $10,000. Within ninety\\ndays they were again running, and, shortly after, their entire works were in complete order,\\nwith new and improved machinery. (See chapter on manufactures.) In 1871, Samuel\\nWaycott pm chased the intei-est of Mr. Weller, selling in the spring of ISSO to Mr. Ken-\\nnedy, who still continues in the Inisiness. The factory is situated on the corner of Rowles\\nand La Fayette streets. Mr. Kennedy cast his first Presidential vote for Fremont, and has\\nacted since with the Republican party. In 1S()9. he became a member of the Boai d of\\nTrustees of Romeo, a position he has held for eight years. He was married, February 5,\\n1S57, to Sarah Gibbs, a native of Miicomb County. They have thi-ee children Nettie,\\nJosie L. and Eber L. all residing at home. Mr. Kennedy is a member of the Knights of\\nHonor, and of the Ancient Order of United Workmen. He is held in high estimation by", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0670.jp2"}, "671": {"fulltext": "0^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COrNTY.\\nhis townsmen, and resides on Tilson street. His father and mother are living on Bailey\\nstreet, Romeo. The former was born in 18()(i, the latter in LSI 2.\\nWATSON LOUD. M. D.. was born July 3, ISOO, at West Hampton, Hampshire Co.,\\nMass.: is son of Caleb and Jerusha Clark Loud. His father was born October 5, 1772,\\nand died June 11, 1839. His mother was born February 17, 1775, and died May 8, 1851.\\nHe went to school at Westtield. Mass. January 1, 1828, he began the study of medicine at\\nNorthampton. In the winter of 1828-29, he attended a coui Me of lectures at Boston;\\nin the fall of 1829-30, he taught school, and, during the summer, acted as Dep-\\nuty in the post office at Northampton. In the fall of 1832, he went to Philadelphia\\nand attended a winter and summer course of medical lectures, and graduated in July,\\n1833, at Jefferson Medical College. He commenced the practice of his profession at Had-\\nley. Mass, in the winter of 1835, where he remained until June 1, 1840: located at La-\\npeer, Mich., in October, 1840; he came to Romeo and practiced medicine until 1852; in\\nthat year, he fonned a copartnership with C. B. Newbm-y, as C. B. Newbury fe Co., which\\nrelation existed until 18()5. when he engaged in business with E. C. Newbury, under the\\nstyle of Loud Newbmy. In 1870, Dr. Loud retired fi-om commercial life, and in 1S73\\ncommenced operations in insurance. He was married, June 24, 1835, at Northampton, to\\nMary Ann Clark. She was born December 11, 1808, and died February 8, 1876. Four\\nof eight childi en are living: George B. married Helen A. McCandlish. is engaged in the\\nnursery business at Romeo; Julia C. is the wife of John Hevenor, a merchant of Lapeer;\\nCharles W. is a book-keeper at Grand Rapids, married Sai-ah E, Dodge: Flora M. resides\\nwith her father.\\nD WIGHT N. LOWELL was born in Washington, one mile south of Romeo, January 15,\\n1843. His descent on his father s side is traced from Percival, who came to Anierica from\\nBristol, England, in 1639, and settled near Newbtu-yport, Mass. His mother, Lam-a Ewell\\nLowell, was a descendant from John Ewell, who emigi-ated from Scotland in 1751 and settled\\nnear Scituate, Mass. Mr. Lowell was the youngest of four chikb-en. He spent the summers\\non his father s fai m and attended the district schools winters until be was twelve years\\nold, when the opening of the Dickinson Institute in the new school building at Romeo\\noccuiTed, and he attended school there winters until 1S59, when he commenced his i)rep-\\narations for college with Prof. D. J. Poor. He stiidied with him until the end of the\\nspring term of l862, going in the fall of that year to Jackson to complete his studies at\\nthe high school, under the management of Prof. D. B. Briggs; matriculated at the Uni-\\nversity of Michigan in September, 1863, and was graduated A. B. Jime 2(i. 18()7. In the\\nSenior year, he was elected poet of his class. He delivered a poem on class day. May 29,\\n1867, in the Presbyterian Chiu-ch, and was elected as one of the twelve from the class\\nnumbering forty-three to deliver an oration at the graduating exercises. He spent about\\ntwo months in canvassing for life insurance, and. in September, 1867, entered the law\\nofiSce of Hon. E. F. Mead, at Romeo, where he remained until November, 18(59, He was\\nexamined in open court, before Judge James S. Dewey, and was admitted to practice June\\n15, 1869. The following winter and a part of the summer of 1870. he officiated as Clerk\\nof the Judiciary Committee of the House of Representatives at Lansing. November 1,\\n1869, he opened an office in the third story of the brick block occupied by Giddings, Row-\\nley Co., his law libraiy cotisisting of Green s Practice and a copy of the compiled laws\\nof Michigan. March 10, 1870, he established his business in an office on the second floor\\nof Gray s Block, then just completed, where he has since continued. From June 15, 1881\\nto November 15 of the same year, he was Chief Clerk of the Sm-veyor General s office at\\nYankton, D. T. Politically, he is a Republican, and has held the position of Circuit Com-t\\nCommissioner one term: has been Clerk of Romeo three terms, and a short time acted\\nas Treasiu-er of that village. He was for some time Secretary of the Macomb County\\nFl\u00c2\u00ae\\nv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0671.jp2"}, "672": {"fulltext": "L^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAgricultviral Society, and is now President of the village of Romeo, and Prosecuting At-\\ntorney of Macomb County, having been appointed by Judge Stevens May 2(5, 1882,\\nto till the unexpired term of I. D. Hanscom. The Lowells are descendants from Percival\\nLowell originally spelled Lowle who came from Bristol, England, with his wife, Re-\\nbecca, and sons, John and Richard, and daughter, Joanna. Percival was the eldest son\\nof a Richard Lowell, son of John Lowle, who maiTied a Percival and drew his descent\\nthi ough eight generations, by the eldest son of each, from Walter Lowle, of Yardley, in\\ncounty of Worcester, England. Dwight N. Lowell is the youngest son of Nelson Lowell,\\nborn March 31, ISIO, who was the son of Josiah Lowell, born in 1755. who was the son\\nof David Lowell, Sr., burn in 1710, who was the son of John, born 1682, son of Benjamin,\\nborn lf)42, son of John, born 1595. His grandfather s grandfather came from England,\\nbut whether he was the John or Richard above, or a son of one of them, is not known,\\nas each was mairied when they emigrated to this country. The fii st settlement was made\\nbv Percival and his two sons in Newbui y, Mass., in 1639, and all the Lowells in this\\ncountry, so far as can be traced, claim their ancestry from this point. The change in the\\nfamily name was made by the Rev. John Lowell, the first ordained minister of Newbury-\\nport, and consisted in a change of spelling, as indicated, from Lowle to Lowell.\\nAARON B. MAYNARD was born in Peru, Windham Co., Vt, October 22, 1816. He\\nis the son of Timothy and Sarah Wliitman Maynard. His grandfather was a native of\\nMassachusetts. In his early years, his parents went to Washington County, N. Y., and\\nwhen he was sixteen they moved to Saratoga County. Two years later, they went to Cam-\\nbridge, Yt. He fitted for college at Jericho, and entered Middlebm-y College in 1836,\\nremaining dmung the fall and winter terms, going the next spring to the L niversity of\\nVermont, at Biu-lingtou. where he spent two years. He went to Talbot County, Md. and\\npassed three years as a tutor in two families, and reading for his profession as opportunity\\nserved He returned to Vermont in PS41 and studied law with Albert G. Whittemore,\\nand, in the fall of 1842, was admitted to the bar of Chittenden County, and opened an\\noffice at Richmond, in that county. He was maiTied, October 12, 1843, to Julia Edmunds,\\nsister of Senator Edmunds, of Vermont. He practiced law in that State until 1855, when\\nhe removed to Michigan and established his business at Detroit. 5Ii jNIaynard has a\\nwide celebrity in civil practice, and is rated as one of the most successful jury lawyers in\\nthe State. He was United States District Attorney during the administration of Grant,\\nand is still in practice. He has a tine farm of 150 acres in Raj where he spends much\\ntime, and where are the tinest farm buildings in the county. His family have resided at\\nRomeo since 1855. His daughters, Mrs. E. W. Meddaugh and Mrs. John B. Dyar. reside\\nin Detroit.\\nHARVEY MELLEN was born in Middlebury, Genesee Co., N. Y.. April 3, 1822.\\nHis parents. Leander and Cynthia (Selleck) Mellen, were both born in Hubbardton, Vt.\\nHis father died in Lenox. Macomb County, in 18()4. The family came to this county in\\n1837, settled in Washington, and, in 1841. located on a farm of 1( 0 acres in Lenox, the\\nold homestead, where his mother is now living. Since the age of twelve, Mr, Mellen has\\nreceived six months schooling. There were nine children in his father s family, and, be-\\ning in straitened circumstances, they all had to aid in the general welfare. At eighteen,\\nhe left home to earn his own living. In May, 1840, he joined a party under the manage-\\nment of Judge Bui-t, who was making public siuweys in the Upper Peuinsvila, and ope-\\nrated with them four years. In 1S48, he made a Government contract for public siuweys\\nin the iron region of Manjuette. He was compassman in the corps of Judge Burt when\\nthe discovery of iron was made. His contracts were renewed from year to year. He spent\\nhis winters in working as a carpenter. He was married, in 1849, to Elizabeth, daughter\\nof Michael Bowerman, a native of Ontario County, N. Y., and reared in Washington.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0672.jp2"}, "673": {"fulltext": "4", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0673.jp2"}, "674": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0674.jp2"}, "675": {"fulltext": "b^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHer father was a pioneer settler of Macomb County. Soon after this event, he located on\\na farm three miles northeast, in Bruce, and pursued farming, which he has carried on\\nsince, in addition to his other business. In 1870, he engaged in lumbering, in company\\nwith Henry Stephens, at Fish Lake (now Stephens). Three years after, he sold his in-\\nterest to his partner. Previous to this, he had been engaged seven years in lumbering iu\\nTmlay, Lapeer County. While on the farm, he managed his Government contracts simi-\\nmers, and his himbering interests winters. He has a large mill on Otsego Lake, Otsego\\nCo., Mich., which has a capacity of 40,000 feet per day. Mr. Mellen is a Democrat, and\\nhas always voted the general ticket, but consults his own judgment in many things con-\\nnected with politics. He served as Supervisor of Bruce in 1851 and 1852; in the spring\\nof 1881, was again elected to the same office over his competitor, who had held the office\\ntwenty-five years. He has run twice for State Legislatvire, and once for Senator. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Mellen have lost one son, Herschel H.. who died at the age of three years. The\\ndaughters are Helen E., who has been engaged as teacher in the public schools about\\neight years; Sarah J., wife o^ Henry Stephens, Jr. .of St. Helens, Roscommon Co. Mich.\\nand Marian.\\nHON. JOHN N. MELLEN was born in the town of Gerry, Chautauqua Co., N. Y.,\\nSeptember 30, 1831. His father, Leander Mellen, was born at Shaftsbiu-y, Bennington\\nCo.. Vt. February 17, 1797. The family removed to Macomb County in 1837 and settled\\nin Washington Township, and in 1841, removed to Lenox Township. Mr. Mellen received\\na thorough common- school education, and in 1869, settled in Romeo, in his present home.\\nFrom 1847 to 1853, he was actively engaged in the Government sm veys of the Upper\\nI eninsula, and explored the wild and pictiuresque scenery of the upper lake region. Soon\\nafter this, he made a two-years visit to the Pacific coast, and made himself familiar with\\nthe manners and customs of the people of that wild region; also was one of the Richard-\\nson party of the topographical survey of Northern California, Oregon and Washington Ter-\\nritory; in 1857, was engaged in the Government siu vey at the head of the Red River of\\nthe North, in Minnesota, and in 18(50, in Wisconsin. He was employed in the early sui\\nveys of Dakota Territory, under G. D. Hill, Surveyor General. Since then, he has spent\\nmuch time in exploring the unsettled portions of our own State and Wisconsin, in search\\nof pine and mineral lands, in which he is sn explorer and dealer. In 1881 and 1882, he\\nwas engaged on the Government survey of the Territory of Dakota. In 1870, he was\\nelected Senator for the Twenty-third Senatorial District of this State. He was married,\\nMarch 7, 1860, to Lucy M. French, who was born in Erie County, Peun. April 30, 1838.\\nHer parents were natives of Wyoming County. N. Y., and came to Macomb in 1842, and\\nwere residents of Lenox Township for thirty years. The children of Mi and Mrs. Mellen\\nare Jennie L., born August 16, 1864; Ira and Ila, twins, born November 1, 1868; Margie\\nH., born at Romeo July 22, 1870; Leander Harvey, born at Romeo August 26, 1872:\\nJohn M.. born at Romeo June 10, 1876. Mr. Mellen is a member of the Democratic party.\\nDANIEL MILLER was born February 18, 1798, at Brookfield, Madison Co.. N. Y.\\nHe was left motherless when a child, and at the age of eight years was sent to Sherbiu-ne,\\nChenango Co., N. Y. October 16, he went to Covington, Genesee Co., N. Y., and re-\\nmained until the age of twenty-thi-ee. He had to depend upon himself, and worked his\\nnwn way in the world, which left him little time and opportunity for obtaining an educa-\\ntion, in 1819, he married Miss Lueinda Hulbm-t, a native of Vermont, and in 1822 lo-\\ncated in the township of Washington. He is the oldest married man who came to the\\ncounty. At that time, there was but one house in Romeo. After spending ten years on a\\nfarm in Washington, he bought one of nearly two hundred acres in Macomb, where he\\nresided about thirty years. His wife died in 1842, leaving four childi-en Eveline, now\\nMrs. D. Cowles; William M., married Lorinda Austin; Marian M., now Mrs. N. R. Sut-\\n41\\nf^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0675.jp2"}, "676": {"fulltext": "ton; and Nelson M., married Caroline Dixon, residing at Ml. Clemens. Mr. Miller was\\nmarried, in 1N4 2. to Miss Hannah Wheeler. He moved to Romeo in ISCu, and in 18n9\\nbought his present residence on Benjamin street. His wife died in 1.S73. He was a\\nthird time married, in 1873, of Mrs. Joanna Smith, daughter of Jacob Beekmau. Mr.\\nMiller was a Democrat about thirty years of his life, but later he became a Republican.\\nHe has been a member of the Methodist Church sixty-four years. Mrs. Miller is a mem-\\nber of the same chiu ch. Mr. Miller has experienced all the vicissitudes of pioneer life,\\nand observed and participated in the advancement of this portion of the country to its\\npresent creditable and prosperous state. He is a zealous temperance advocate; was a sol\\ndier of the war of 1812; enlisted in 1S14, just before it closed, for which service he re-\\nceived a pension under act of March U, 1878. His religion is of a tyj)e that will and has\\nendured the test of trial.\\nJ. R. MORLAND was born May 3. 1839, in town of Berlin, St. Clair Co., Mich. His\\nparents were natives of Ii eland. His father died in the year 1858, and his mother is now\\nliving at Romeo, at the age of sixty-thi ee years. In 1840, Mr. Morland came to this\\ncountry, and received his education at the public schools, and was bred a farmer until he\\nwas twenty-two years of age. He enlisted in the war of the rebellion January 7, 18( )2,\\nas a sharp-shooter; served three years; his period of enlistment expired just before the\\nclose of the war. He was in the following engagements; Yorktowu, Hanover Court\\nHouse, Gaines Hill, Malvern Hill, and all through the seven-days battle before Richmond.\\nChancellorsville, Alder, Middlesbiu-g, Gettysburg. His regiment marched forty miles in\\none day. reaching Gettysburg in time to help check the advance forces of the rebels, and.\\nafter the battle of Gettysburg was over, drove the retreating rebels across the Rappahan\\nnock. The next engagement was at Mine Run, and then the regiment fell back to the\\nRappahannock River and went into winter quarters. The next engagement was in the\\nspring of 18fi4. the battle of the Wilderness, which lasted three days; and next a flank\\nmovement was made to Laurel Hill, where they encountered the rebel force and fought\\nthem two days, and the second day the battle lasted until 10 o clock in the evening, and\\nended in a hand-to-hand contest in the darkness. The regiment s next engagements were\\nat Spottsylvania and Cold Harbor, Petersburg. Erecting large forts on the lines of breast-\\nwork, they were under fire at the latter place about sixty days, and next made a flank\\nmovement and captured and held the Waldon Railroad. The next engagement was near\\nSouth Side Railroad, where they succeeded in routing the enemy, and captured a fort,\\nwith a loss of Col. Walsh, commanding his regiment; he was struck with a rifle ball in\\nthe head and killed instantly. This was the last engagement. Mr. Morland s time of\\nenlistment expired shortly, and he was honorably discharged January 20, 1865, and re-\\nturned to Romeo, and, after a short visit to Oil City, retvu ned. He bought a half inter-\\nest in a general mercantile enterprise, in which he was engaged about thirteen years, when\\nhe disposed of his interest, and, shortly after, embarked in the hardware trade, in 1878.\\nHe has a full line of goods; carries a large stock, and is having a reasonably successful\\ntrade. He has always been a Republican, and acted with the party. He was elected Vil-\\nlage Marshal for four years; was married, January 25, 1872, to Avis Humphrey, a native\\nof Almont, Lapeer Co., Mich. They have four children Myrtle, Howard, Grace and\\nLue. His residence is on First street, Romeo, Mich.\\nMATHEW atORTON, son of James Morton, a native of Scotland, was born in Ayi--\\nshire May 5, 1830; at the age of eight years, emigrated to America with his parents, set-\\ntling on Section 7, Armada, where he resided until attaining his majority, attending the\\nschools of the locality. His tastes and inclinations were mechanical, and the leisure time\\nof his youth was spent in the study and erection of some piece of machinery, often to the\\nvexation and against the wishes of his father. Soon after arriving at age, he engaged in", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0676.jp2"}, "677": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe business of foundry and machine-sho] at Armada Village about one year; from here\\nhe removed to Lapeer City. engaLjing on a larger scale in the same business (building and\\nrepairing engines), which he continued fourteen years, a portion of the time in connection\\nwith other parties: in 1871. he removed to Romeo and engaged in engine and railroad\\nwork, in eompaay with A. Hamblin: his first engine was built in 181)1, for a party in La-\\npeer City, on a conditional contract: when it was completed, it filled all the conditions,\\nand is still in use: he made the drafts and patterns, melted the iron and executed the\\nmechanical work, and set it running unassisted; on the completion of his first marine\\nengine, the contracting parties made him a voluntary bonus of $100; in 18(0, he made an\\nimprovement in the engine of a fioiuing-mill in Detroit, by which a saving was gained of\\nhalf in fuel, and more than half in time; upon two weeks notice, he invented and made a\\nmachine with which he bored out fom- cylinders for locomotives in twenty hours a saving of\\n75 per cent in time, and making as fine a job as could be made in any lathe. In 187-\\nthe company (Morton i^: Hamblin) removed their business in St. Clair, and continued for\\nthree and a half years, retm-niug at that time to Eomeo. In May, 1S7U, he invented a\\ncheck valve, on which he was granted letters patent, and soon after a company was\\norganized for this manufacture, which, together with the manufacture of tread-powers,\\nupon which he also secured a patent, forms the work of the company at the present time;\\nthe valves are now used upon the rolling-mills at Cleveland, Ohio, the Mississippi, in Col-\\norado and Australia, and are veiT popular. 1VL-. Hamblin retired from the firm in 1879.\\nMr. Morton was married, July 4, ISaO, to Sarah T., daughter of Lorenzo and Harriet\\nStrong, of Lapeer City, born April 29, 1841 the fi uit of this marriage has been Han-iet,\\nborn April 3, 18(i0, manied J. Milliken and lives in Lapeer County; Henry E., born Sep-\\ntember l(i, 1863; and Mason, born August 29. 1S73. Both Mr. and Mrs. Morton connected\\nthemselves with the Protestant Methodist Church in 1859, and are still in sympathy with it.\\nFREEDOM MUNROE was born January 24. 1796. in Dutchess County, N. Y. is\\nson of Lemuel and Anna (Potter) Munroe. His father was of Highland Scotch descent,\\nand was a soldier in the Revolution, and fought through sis campaigns; he was also in\\nthe wai- of 1812. and fought at Queenstown. He died at Howell, Livingston County, in\\n1853. aged ninety-six years: his wife died a few years previous. Mr. Munroe s parents\\nmoved to Otsego. N. Y.. when he was six yeai-s old. and six years after to Bloomfield, On-\\ntario County. In bS16. he went to Cincinnati, Ohio, retxuming after a short time to\\nBloomfield and remained with his parents until 1824. In the spring of that year, he\\ncame to Michigan, crossing Lake Erie in the steamer Superior, the only one then run-\\nning. He located in Bruce and took up 160 acres of land, built a shanty and lived alone\\ntwo and a half years. He was married, in 1827, to Mary E. Cooper, of Lima. N. Y. They\\nhad seven daughters and three sons, all of whom are living. His wife died October 8,\\n1854. and he was again married. September 30. 1867, to Mrs. Lucinda Doty, of Ohio. In\\n1868. he sold his farm and came to Romeo, where he now resides, with his daughter,\\nCharlotte H.. wife of Ephraim Vanburger. He is eighty-six years old; cast his first Pres-\\nidential vote for Harrison, and joined the Republican party on its formation. He served\\na term as Postmaster of Bruce; never used tobacco in any form.\\nDEXTER MUSSEYwas born in Worcester County, Mass., January 12, 1811. He\\nis the son of Eli and Persis Prontey Mussey. whose ancestors were the first settlers in that\\ncounty and State. He was reared there, and educated as liberally as the facilities of that\\nday allowed, and spent five jears in Lowell. Mass. In the fall of 1836. he came to\\nMichigan, and in January, 1837, settled at Romeo. In 1845, he entered public life, and\\nwas elected Justice of the Peace, which office he has filled continuously ever since. In\\n1854. he was elected by the Republicans to represent this district in the Legislature, re-\\ntaining the position for eight years. In the sessions of 1861 and 1862, he served as\\n*7^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0677.jp2"}, "678": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nSpeaker of the House. He was Collector of Internal Revenue for this district during the\\nwar, and was actively engaged in local politics. He was a raelnber of the Constitutional\\nConvention of lSt)7, to revise the constitution of the State. He has acquired much pojni-\\nlarity in his native neighborhood, and all throughout the State, through his disinterested\\neiiorts for the permanent benelit of the people. He was married, in I83(). m Lowell,\\nMass., to Lydia Russell. They have three sons and three daughters. Mr. Mussey was\\nchosen Deacon of the Congi egational Chm-ch of Romeo in 1838.\\nCHARLTON B. NEWBURY, deceased, was born June 9, 180 J, at Mansfield, Tolland\\nCo., Conn. About the year 1832, he went to Amherst, Mass.. and in 1840 settled at\\nRomeo, where he spent the remainder of his life. October 2, 183], he man-ied Mary H.\\nJames, of Brooklyn, Conn., and they had a family of four children, rearing three of them\\nto maturity. Mr. Newbury came to Romeo with Nathan Dickinson, an old settler and\\nprominent business citizen of Romeo, and they formed a copartnership with E. W. Gid-\\ndings. under the style of Dickinson, Giddings Co., which existed about eight years.\\n.On the dissolution of the tirm, Mi Newbury established his well-known mercantile house,\\nand in 1852, associated with himself Watson Loud. In 18(35, Mr. Newbury retired, and\\nEdward C. Newbury, his son, became junior partner of the concern. Five years later,\\nCharles F. Newlsury pm-chased the interest of Mr. Loud, and the firm of Newbury Bros,\\nwas organized. This is a business house of known and tested probity. Their stock com-\\nprises a large and line assortment of dry goods, carpets and clothing, representing a capital\\nof $20,000. Edward C. Newbury, senior member of the tirm of Newbury Bros. was born\\nNovember 13, 1838, at Amherst, Mass., and came to Romeo with his parents. He was\\neducated there, and received his business training in his father s store, to the proprietorship\\nof which, with his brother, he eventually succeeded. He was married, September 14, 18(54,\\nto Lucy Doan, of Kenosha, Wis. They have three daughters. Mr. Newbury has always\\nbeen a Republican. Chai les F. Newbury was born August 19, 1845, at Romeo, where he\\nobtained his education and grew to manhood. He was clerk with Loud Newbury live\\nyears, and ar terward purchased the interest of the former. He was married, at Kenosha,\\nWis., May 8, 18(57, to Ella M. Doan. He has always been a Republican, and in 187(5 was\\nelected Warden of the village fii e department; at present, is First Assistant Engineer of\\nthe Romeo steamer.\\nGEORGE P. NEWBURY, son of Elihu and Rhoda (Phelps) Newbury, was born No-\\nvember 24, 1817, in Oneida County, N. Y. His parents were natives of Connecticut. He\\nwas reared to the age of fifteen in New York, and, in the autumn of 1832, went to Detroit,\\nremaining until the summer of 1833, when he went to the city of New York. There he\\nengaged in the coast service about six years, meanwhile making a trip to London. In the\\nautumn of 1841, he came to Romeo, where he has since resided, with the exception of two\\nyears, which he spent on the lakes. In ]845, he learned harness -making, in which bus-\\niness he has since been engaged. He was married in New York, to Active C. Boynton,\\na native of Oswego County, N. Y. After her death Mr. Newbmy was married again, to\\nRebecca Ann Scramlin, of Macomb County. They have six children John S.. George E.,\\nMinnie P.. Alfred M., Fannie E. and Margaret A. all at home but the eldest, who is in\\nDetroit. Mr. Newbm-y was an adherent of the Whig party until the fusion of political\\nelements in which it was merged, when he became a Democrat. Dm ing the rebellion, he\\nwas special agent of the Provost Marshal, looking after deserters. He has been a member\\nof the Board of Village Trustees.\\nJOHN F. NICHOLS was born March 9, 1809, in Fort Ann, Washington Co., N. Y.:\\nhe was married, March 29, 1832. to Louise Terril, born June 12, 181(5, in Pittsford, Mon-\\nroe Co., N. Y, their children were born as follows: Fidelia, July 1, 1834; Ham-iet, De-\\ncember 3, 183(5; David, March 13, 1838; Isabell, April 14, 1840; James, November 16,", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0678.jp2"}, "679": {"fulltext": "1842; John F., Julv 1. 1S45; Georgiana, February 4. 1S4S: Manless. March IS, 1851;\\nThyrza, November 17. 1S58: Wallace, April 28, l 857. Elisha Nichols, father of the\\nabove, was born January 10, 1778: his wife, Mary Hyde Nichols, was born September 8,\\n1776; her maiden name was Bolton; she married Rawsel Hyde, and had one child An-\\nnie. Mr. and Mrs. Nichols moved from Middlebury, Genesee Co., N. Y., September 8,\\n1824, and reached Detroit September 1 1 they settled at Curtiss Corners, Shelby. Macomb\\nCounty. Ml N. died January 2U, 1S47; Mrs. N. died August 10, 1851; their children\\nwere born as follows: Huldah, April 2, 17119; Lucinda, October 211. 1802; Philena, Sep-\\ntember 6, 1808; William, February 6. 1805; Weltha, July 21, 1806; Daniel B.,\\nSeptember 30, 1807; John F., Mai-ch 1), 18011, died April 14. 1878; Ona, October 7, 1810:\\nMinerva, July 12, 1811.\\nISAAC N. OWEN was born in Genesee County. N. Y., November 12, 1823; is son of\\nAbijah and Sally (Davis) Owen. In June. 1825, his father settled in Shelby. Macomb\\nCo., Mich., taking a farm of eighty acres, where he resided until his death, in 1837. His\\nmother reared seven of a family of nine children, on the farm which passed into the hands\\nof her son, L. D. Owen, of Romeo, with whom she resided until the end of her life, in\\nSeptember, 1880. At the age of thirteen, Mr. Owen, of this sketch, began to learn the\\nchair-maker s trade at Rochester, Oakland County, at which he worked several years, after-\\nward learning the business of a wood-turner, which he piu-sued twenty years. In 1861,\\nhe enlisted in Brady s Sharp-shooters, commanded by Col. Dygart, of Detroit, and attached\\nto the Sixteenth Michigan Infantry. He was discharged in Febraary, 1863, having been\\ndisabled June 27, 1862, in the swamps of the Chickahominy. He receives a pension.\\nMr. Owen was a Democrat at the outbreak of his political career, but has adopted the\\nprinciples and measui-es of the Republican party. He has served as Deputy Sheriff of\\nMacomb County two years, and for several tei-ms as Constable, which office he still holds;\\nalso was Assistant Census Marshal in 1870. He was married, September 5. 18r)7. to Mind-\\nwell A. Tindall, a native of Michigan, and the following yeai built his present residence\\non Bailey street. Mi-. Owen came to this county among the pioneers, and has ob-\\nserved its gi-adual development from its primeval condition to its present prosperous state.\\nThere were Indians in those days, and the younger aborigines were the playfellows among\\ntheir peers in years among the white settlers.\\nAMOS PALMER was born January 2(). 1810, at Granville, Washington Co., N. Y.\\nis son of Amos and Laura White Palmer, the former a native of Connecticut, the latter\\nborn in New Y ork. Both died in the Empire State at an advanced age. Mr. Palmer\\nspent the first twenty-five years of his life in Granville, and, in the autumn of 1835, lo-\\ncated at Romeo, Mich. His first business enterprise was in wagon-making, which he pur-\\nsued one year. In 1838, he established a cabinet-shop, which he operated successfully,\\nand sold out a prosperous business in May, 1881. His brother. Abijah Palmer, was asso-\\nciated with him twelve years. He is now engaged in the manufactm-e of patent window-\\nshades, of which he is making a specialty. He belongs to the Republican party. He was\\nman-ied, in September, 1835. in the State of New York, to Lydia M. Felch, who died in\\nAugust, 1836. In 1837. Mr. Palmer was married to Ruth Barker. Their only surviving\\nson, Amos W. Palmer, resides ^t Romeo; married Lucretia Dake; they have one daugh-\\nter. A son, John B. died at Milwaukee in 1859, aged twenty-one years. Mr. Palmer s\\nresidence is in the north part of the village.\\nIRA S. PEARSALL was born August 1. 1810, in Cayuga County. N. Y. He is the\\nson of Henry and Phcebe Sommerton Pearsall, the former a native of Saratoga County. N.\\nY.. and the latter of Connecticut. They had a family of four sons and two daughters,\\nand in 1831 they settled in Troy, Oakland Co.. Slich. ilr. Pearsall was in a law office in\\nMoravia, Cayuga County, six years, and, on coming to Michigan, he settled in Washington\\ng J\\nVis\u00e2\u0080\u0094 s Pv", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0679.jp2"}, "680": {"fulltext": "l^\\nHI8T011Y OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTownship, and engaged in mercantile business; afterward located a farm in Shelby, where\\nlie lived for thirty-fom- years, engaged in agricultiu-al and other pursuits. He carried the\\nmail for two years fi-om Koyal Oak, Oakland County, through Rochester, Orion, Oxfortl and\\nMetamora to Lapeer, which place he furnished with all the mail received there. He went on\\nhorseback, and was also engaged extensively in stage contracts, driving from Port Huron to\\nLexington and Port Sanilac. In this he continued for four ye;irs. In 1 SHU, he gave his farm\\nto his children and came to Romeo, where he was connected with the stage mail routes\\nthrough this part of the State. He was married, in 1835, to Celia White, a native of New\\nYork, and moved to Cleveland, Ohio; she died in 1867. They had three children Dwight\\nE., married Mary Smith, of Missouri, and lives on the homestead; Adelia W., wife of John\\nM. Snook, of New York City, resides at Jackson, Mich.; Celia A., died at thirteen years of\\nage. Politically, Mi\\\\ Peai-sall was in early life a Whig, but identified himself with the\\nRepublican party, and, though not an oliice-seeker, has always taken a lively interest in\\npolitics. He has been connected with the Masonic and Odd Fellow orders many years.\\nHe was married, in 1809, to Augusta V. Lake, a native of Macomb County. Mi-. Pearsall\\nis a highly respet^ted citizen of the county, and is spending the latter days of his life in\\nwell-eaincd coiiifort. His residence is on Benjamin street.\\nJAMES PHELPS was born October 2, 1821, in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y. He was\\nthe son of David and Mary Merritt Phelps. They moved to Michigan October 24, 1829,\\nand bought I 30 acres of land, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Of their\\nfamily of nine children, three are living. The father died in Romeo, in April, 1808; the\\nmother, in February, 1800. Mr. Phelps remained on hie father s farm until he was\\ntwenty-seven years old, when he went to Lapeer County, on a farm in Dryden, 180 acres,\\nwhere he remained fom teen years. He was married, December 30, 1848. to Esther Dus-\\ning, and, after leaving Dryden, moved to Washington, on the farm owned by his wife s\\nmother, then a widow, adding to it other land adjoining. The family moved thither to\\ntake care of Mi s. Dusing in her old age, and resided there eighteen years. In Februai y,\\n1881, he l)uught his present residence on Benjamin street. His political views are of the\\nIndependent stripe. He represents the issues of no party, and votes as his judgment dic-\\ntates, irrespective of part} Mr. and Mrs. Phelps have reared three children Christina\\nM.,now Mi-s. Smith Taft; Helen E. and Eugene V. John J. died December 24, 1851, and\\nFrederick died October 4, 1855.\\nIRA F. PRATT was born August 29, 1844, at Romeo, Mich. He is the son of Ariel\\nand Harriet Hopkins Pratt His father was born November 12, ISOl, at Bridgewater, Vt.\\nwent early in life to Middlebuiy, Genesee Co., N. Y., and was there married. May 18,\\n1820, to Harriet M. Ho2:)kins. He went to Eden, Erie Co., N. Y., and afterward came to\\nRomeo, where he opened a general store. After a few years, he engaged in farming in\\nBruce, two miles north of Romeo, where he remained until 1858; retiu ued to Romeo and\\nstayed until 1802, when he sold his farm and moved to Laingsbiu g, Shiawassee County.\\nIn 1NG4, he went to Lansing, and, foiu- years later, to Cedar Creek, Muskegon County,\\nwhere he died on his farm, October 1, 1870. He had two sons and two daughters: the\\ndaughters are deceased. Mr. Pratt, of this sketch, was brought up and educated at\\nRomeo. At the age of nineteen, he entered a dry goods house at Detroit as a clerk, but,\\nafter two months, went to Laiugsburg, Shiawassee County, where he embarked in mer-\\ncantile business with his brother. Emory A. Pratt, under the firm style of E. A. I. F.\\nPratt. In 1S04, they sold out and went to Lansing, and opened a drug store under the\\nname of Pratt Bros. They were burnt out in the spring of ISO*), but immediately started\\nbusiness again. I. F. Pratt sold out April 1, 1806, came to Romeo and went into trade in com-\\npany with T. A. Smith. After three years, he engaged with Mr. Smith on a salary, and in\\n1N7-I bought out the crockery store of Caleb Nye, where he has since been in business.\\na", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0680.jp2"}, "681": {"fulltext": "fc.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHe has built up a prosperous trade, and carries a finely selected, valuable stock of goods.\\nHe was mairied. April 5, 1865, to Cornelia A. Prentiss, daughter of Azariah Prentiss.\\nThey have three sons Clarence A. I., Frank and Herbert P. They have buried one\\nchild. Alfred D.. who died in infancy. Mr. Pratt is a Republican. His residence is on\\nSt. Clair street.\\nJAMES E. PRICE was born October IS, 1830, in Washington Township. His par-\\nents. Peter and Emma (Hopkins) Price, were old settlers in the county, coming here fi-om\\nNew York in 1824. Peter Price came to Washington when he was seventeen years old,\\nand married a sister of Ormau W. Hopkins, of Romeo. He purchased a farm of 160 acres\\nfrom the Government August 1, 1S31. patented by Andrew -Jackson. In 1838, he removed\\nhis family to Romeo, where he engaged in mercantile business under the tii-m style of\\nPratt Price. This relation existed until 1844. In the spring of that year, he started\\na foundiy in Almont, which he operated until 1850, when he moved on the old Philip\\nPrice farm, three miles south of Romeo. January 2, 1868, he went to Bronson, Branch\\nCounty, where he died in October, 1873, in his sixty-seventh year. His wife is now living\\nwith her son, aged seventy-two. Mr. Price, of this sketch, was associated with his father\\nin the foundry at Almont, and, in the spring of 1850, went to Rochester, Oakland County,\\nand entered the employ of -Jennings Bro.. merchants, and remained until November,\\n1853, when he went to California. After about two years in the gold regions, he returned,\\nin June. 1855. He spent a few months in Wisconsin, and then returned to the employ of\\nJennings Bro. at Rochester. He was married, in November, 1857, to Ella Duncan, a\\nnative of this county, who died July 26, 1861. They had a daughter, the wife of Elliott\\nR. Wilcox, of Pontiac, Oakland County. In April, 1859, he went a second time to Cali-\\nfornia, and returned to his old employ at Rochester April 15, 1861, coming to Romeo Sep-\\ntember 15, 1862, going into company with O. W. Hopkins in crockery and gi-ocery store.\\nHe sold out February 20, 1863, and afterward opened a store in the frame building south\\nof the Commercial House, where he did business twenty months. April 22, 1865, he bought\\nthe premises where he is now located, called the Chapman property. Here he was mar-\\nried again. September 10, 1867, to Lucy A. Van Blarcom, of Newton, New Jersey. They\\nhave one daughter, Lulu A., twelve years old. Mi Price has always been a Republican.\\nFrom 1870 to 1874, he was Village Trustee; resides on Chandler street.\\nAARON B. RAWLES, deceased, was born April 14, 1812, near Albany, N. Y. His\\nmother was born in New England; his father was of English descent. Mr. Rawles was\\nbrought up and educated in Albany, and served an apprenticeship in the crockery and\\nglass store of Henry L. Webb. At the age of twenty, he came to Detroit and engaged in\\nthe di ug store of -John Truax. While there, he was one of the organizers of a young men s\\nsociety devoted to literary pursuits. In 1834. he came to Romeo and opened a general\\nmerchandise house, which he operated a few years and closed, engaging in the purchase\\nof i)ine lands. He owned a mill north of Almont, where he manufactured a great amount\\nof lumber. Three years after, he disposed of his lumber interests and opened a hardware\\nstore at Romeo, which he managed as long as he lived. Mr. Rawles took a zealous, active\\ninterest in politics and temperance, and was concerned in all matters pertaining to the\\npublic welfare. He was Commissioner for the construction of the turnpike road from\\nCapae to Clyde, St. Clair Ccfunty; was County Coroner several terms; was delegate in\\ncounty and State conventions on several occasions, and always shunned wire-pulling and\\ntrickeiy of political factions. He was an adherent of the Republican pai-ty after the decline\\nof the Whigs, whose principles he previously adopted. He was a radical in temperance\\naffairs, and never lost an opportunity to further the cause. When he traveled, he patron-\\nized temperance houses, and built the American House at Romeo, inDecember; 1837, with\\nthe intention of establishing a temperance hotel, but sold it before completion. He was", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0681.jp2"}, "682": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\none of the pi ojectors, stockholders and Directors t the plank road from Romeo to Detroit\\nvia Mt. Clemens, which was an opening for this entire section of country. He was mar-\\nried, N .vember 13, 1S38, to Elizabeth, daughter of Jacob Beekman, a pioneer of Macomb\\nCoimty. They had six childi en, live of whom are living -Henry and Jacob B., twins,\\nAaron B., James D. and Caroline. Jacob is a Major in the United States Army: Aaron\\nresides at Cadillac, Mich. James D. lives at Boston, Mass. Caroline resides with her\\nmother at the family residence on St. Clair street, built in 1872, and not completed at the\\ntime of the death of Mr. Rawlos, April 4, 1872. He was early in life an attendant upon\\nthe Episco|ial Church, but eventually connected himself with the Congi egational Church\\nat Romeo. Mrs. Rawles is in her sixtieth year.\\nHENRY RAWLES, son of Aaron B. and Elizabeth (Beekman) Rawles, was born at\\nRomeo August 4, 1839, in the old frame building on Main street, where his father kept\\nstore and resided. He was brought up and educated at Romeo, and in 1857 went into\\nbusiness with his father, continuing with and succeeding to him on his death, April 4,\\n1872. He is engaged in the hardware business, and carries a complete stock of stoves,\\ntinwai e and hardware, representing a cash value tf $10,000. He also does a large amount\\nof business in agricultural implements. Mr. Rawles is a Republican, and cast his first\\nvote for Abraham Lincoln in 1860. In 1876, he was a member of the Village Board of\\nTrustees, and has served one term as Marshal. He was mai-ried, June 16, 18/9, to Miss\\nM. M. Seymoiu of Marquette, Mich. They have one son, upward of two years old.\\nD. H ROWLEY was born in Livingston County, N. Y, April 18. 1831. He is the\\nson of Hezekiah and Clarissa Anthony Rowley, the latter a native of Connecticut, the for-\\nmer of New York. Mr. Rowley was educated at New Haven, Conn., and in Oakland\\nCounty, Mich., whither his father removed in 1835. In 1839, on the death of his mother,\\nhe was sent to Connecticut, remaining with his relatives there for two years. In 1845, he\\nentered the dry goods establishment of his father at Orion, Oakland County, where he\\nacquired experience preparatory to his present business enterprise. In 1853, he settled at\\nRomeo and entered the employ of M. A. Giddings as a clerk, where he remained for ten\\nyears. In 1863, he went to Pennsylvania and engaged in oil interests, which he operated\\nsuccessfully, returning to Romeo in 1869, and formed a copartnership with Mr. Giddings,\\nwhich still continues. Mr. Rowley is a Republican; has acted for two years as President\\nof the village, and two years as Trustee of Romeo. He was tendered the position of\\nCashier of the First National Bank at its organization, but, being in oil transactions in\\nPennsylvania, declined. He was married, in Oakland County, in 1852, to Eliza A., daugh-\\nter of Needham Hemingway, a prominent, citizen and early settler in that county. They\\nhave three children E. P. Rowley, eldest son, is a lawyer in Detroit; Bruce M. is Gov-\\nernment Clerk in the office of the Surveyor General at Yankton, D. T.; Helen, the only\\ndaughter, resides at home.\\nHENRY O SMITH was born January 1, 1817, at Hatfield, Hampshire Co.. Mass.\\nHe is the son of Obadiah and Susan Norton Smith, the former a native of Hadley, Mass.,\\nand the latter of Ashtield, same State. Mr. Smith lived at Hatfield until the age of four-\\nteen, where and at Amherst he acquired his education. He was in the mercantile house\\nof Sweetser Cutter, of the latter place, nine years previous lo his settling in Romeo in\\n1840. Here he remained twelve years, serving some time as clerk with N. Dickinson\\nCo., and afterward was associated in business with M. A. Giddings for several years. In\\n1852, he commenced mercantile operations at Armada, under the style of Lathrop Smith,\\nwhich continued four or five years, when he formed a business connection with Dr. John\\nS. Smith. In the fall of 1858, he was elected County Clerk, and went to Mt. Clemens,\\nand continued to discharge the duties of his office six years, being twice re-elected. In\\nthe autumn of 1864, he was elected Judge of Probate, and, after a service of three months,\\n\u00c2\u00aePv", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0682.jp2"}, "683": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nresigned, and was recalled to Romeo to All tbe position of Cashier of the First National\\nBank, which he still iiolds. In the days when the Whig party existed, Mi-. Smith sup-\\nported its measures, but, on the organization of the Republican party, he identified him-\\nself with it, and has ever since advocated and sustained its principles. He was married,\\nin December, 1843. at Armada, to Jane M. M., daughter of Edward Lathrop, of Armada.\\nThey have four daughters and three sons. Mr. Smith is attending carefully to the educa-\\ntion of his children, and securing for them the best advantages. His entire family be-\\nlong to the Congregational Church. He has owned a line residence on West St. Clair\\nstreet since 1865.\\nEDWARD S. SNOVER. son of Frederick and Charlotte (Squier) Snover, was born\\nin Warren County, N. J., April 5, 1813. His paternal ancestry was of German origin, and\\non the mother s side, English. His life, previovis to his coming to Michigan, was passed\\nin his native county, with the exception of one year. There he received his ediication in\\nthe common schools. He came to Michigan in 1837, reaching Detroit May 20, and locat-\\ned in Oakland County, where he remained one year. In May. 1838, he started tor a trip\\nwestward to the Mississippi River, and, retm-ning in August, settled at Romeo. He had\\nlearned the trade of a blacksmith, and opened a shop in the village, where he carried on\\nbusiness for twenty years in that line, and added other interests as his means increased.\\nTo his shop he added a tm-ning-lathe, and afterward a furnace and wagon-shop, and en-\\ngaged extensively as a manufaetiu-er. He also operated as a money-loaner, buying mort-\\ngages and speculating in various ways. Mr. Snover was a Whig, and transfened his po-\\nlitical views and influence to the Republican party, in whose issues and measiu es he has\\nsince been zealously interested^ He has served several terms as President and Trustee of\\nthe village; in I860, was elected Justice of the Peace, which office he held twelve years.\\nHe was one of the original incorporators of the First National Bank of Romeo, and was\\nactively concerned in its organization, and connected with it for six years, when he dis-\\nposed of his interest therein. During his period of office as magistrate, he served two\\nyears as executor on the Dickinson estate, and afterward acted five years as agent in its\\nmanagement. His resources comprise bonds and mortgages, and upward of one thousand\\nacres of land. His outfit was S300, the savings of his own industry after he was twenty-\\none years old. He was married, June 10, 1841, in Warren County, N. J., to Ann Cook,\\nalso a native of that county. They have had eight children. Alice (Mrs. George Parme-\\nlee) died October 19. 1877, leaving two children. Following are the names of those liv-\\ning: Charlotte, wife of F. A. Scott, resides in Washington: Josephine, widow of J. H.\\nReed: Cassias, married Ella Hulshart, resides at Yankton, D. T. Horace G., married\\nNellie Williams, resides at Port Austin. Mich.; Harriet S., Mrs. Harkman Cornell, of\\nBruce; Edward J., Detroit; Emma C. resides with her parents.\\nEDWARD SOULE was born at Middlebury. Genesee Co., N. Y, May 15, 1817. He\\nis the son of John and Sally Ward Soule. both natives of Massachusetts. His father was\\nof French descent, and came to Michigan in June, I8ii5, and located 160 acres of Gov-\\nernment land in Washington Township, which was patented by Andrew Jackson. The\\nfamily, including seven children, followed in September. They took the steamer Supe-\\nrior from Buffalo to Detroit. ,and made their route thence overland. The same year, the\\nfather purchased eighty acres more, and increased his landed estate to 1,500 acres, situat-\\ned in different parts of the State. He died in September, 1871, at the age of eighty-foiir;\\nhis wife, in March, 1865, at the age of seventy-iive years. Mr. Soule was a man of fine\\nphysical proportions, stood six feet in his stockings, and weighed 200 pounds. He pos-\\nsessed powers of keen discriminating observation, which supplied him with a valuable\\nknowledge of the world. He read extensively, and acquired the best mental discipline\\nfrom well-selected books. He took the greatest interest in politics and their bearing on", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0683.jp2"}, "684": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe well-being of the country; voted the Democratic ticket until the Free-Soil issues arose,\\nwhen he became a Republican. The progress of his own county was foremost in his in-\\nterest, and he held open doors for all strangers seeking homes. Mi Soule, of this sketch,\\nwas reared on the farm in Washington until twenty years old, when he located in Addison,\\n)aklan(l County, where he spent one year, and returned to the home farm, remaining for\\ntwo years. He was married to Mary A. Skidmore, bora in Wayne County, N. Y.. Decem-\\nber 30, LS-tO. She came to Macomb County in 1S46 with her parents, John and Sally\\nBishop Skidniore, who settled in Washington Township. Mr. and Mrs. Soule took up\\ntheir abode on the farm in Oakland County, where they lived for nine years. In 1S4U.\\nthey changed their residence to Washington, settling on a portion of the homestead farm.\\nIn ISTO, they came to Romeo, where they pm-chased village property. They have had\\nfour children, but one of whom survives. John C. Soule is a graduate from Meadville.\\nPenn., and an ordained minister of Washington, Macomb County. He resides on the\\nfarm in Washington. Another son. -James E. Soule, also graduated, an ordained minis-\\nter, died in March, 1N74, aged twenty-nine years. Two children died in infancy. Mr.\\nSoule is the sole remaining member of his father s family in Macomb County. He has\\nbeen a member of the Christian Church for forty-four years, and has held office in the\\nchurch nearly all this time, and his sons were ordained in its service. Mrs. Soule is a\\nmember of the same society. In politics, Mr. Soule was first a Democrat, and became a\\nradical Republican. He has been Constable of Washington for twelve years, and Justice\\nof the Peace for eight years, having been twice elected to the office.\\nJOHN L. STARKWEATHER, attorney, was born October 4, 1844, in Bruce, Ma-\\ncomb County; was the eighth child of James and Roxana Leslie Starkweather. (See\\nsketch.) Until he reached manhood, he worked on his father s farm summers and attend-\\ned school in the winter at Romeo, until 1863. He commenced teaching in the winter of\\nthat year. He taught two conseciitive winters, and took a course of study at Eastman s\\nCommercial College, at Poughkeepsie, N. Y., and graduated December 23, 1865. He was\\nelected President of his class. He took just piide in working and earning his way through\\nthe commercial and afterward the law college, wholly through his own exertions. In 1866,\\n1867 and IS6S, he was engaged in mercantile business in Romeo part of the time, as part-\\nner, devoting every spare moment to reading law. He has been all his life prominently\\nidentified with all temperance movements and societies. In 1863, he joined the independ-\\nent Order of Good Templars, and held all positions of trust successively; was District\\nDeputy Grand Worthy Chief Templar of Macomb County, and several times represented\\nthe county organization in the Grand Lodge. He joined the Sons of Temperance in 1874,\\nand has represented his local division in the Grand Division of the State every year since.\\nIn 1870, he was a representative at the National Division of the Sons of Temperance, held\\nat Washington, D. C, a position to which he has been elected annually since. He was\\nelected G. W. A. of the State organization of Sons of Temperance in 1878, and became\\nActing G. W. P. in 1879. He was elected G. S. of the Grand Division in 18S]. but re-\\nsigned through pressing professional business. Mi Starkweather became a member of the\\nPhi Delta Phi of the LTniversity of Michigan in 1870; of the order of Free and Accepted\\nMasons in 1867; the Knights Templar in 1868; the Independent Order of Odd Fellows in\\n1877; and belongs to the Knights of Honor and Royal Arcanum; has served several times\\nas representative of the two last-named orders in the Grand Lodges of Michigan. In 1876,\\nhe joined the Methodist Episcopal Church of Romeo, and has Ijeen one of the officers of\\nthe society ever since. He has been a Trustee of Romeo, and twice elected to the Board\\nof Education, to which body he now belongs. In 1868, he entered the Law Department\\nof the University of Michigan, where he was established some weeks before his determi-\\nnation was known by his parents or friends. He graduated in the class of 1870, and\\nrrr", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0684.jp2"}, "685": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUKTY\\nopened an office in the same j ear at Romeo, where he has since prosecuted a successful\\nand increasing business. He was examined in open court, in Washtenaw County, Mich.,\\nand admitted to the bar March 27, 1869. He spent the following summer in the Law\\nLibrary of Congress at Washington, D. C, where he wrote his thesis and prepared a brief\\nin the railroad case brought against the Baltimore Ohio Railroad Company by his\\nmother s heirs for indemnity for the accident by which she was killed. (See sketch of\\nJames Starkweather) He was admitted to practice in the United States Court at Wash-\\nington, D. C, November 11, 1S69. He married Laura E. Spencer, of Armada, June 14,\\n1871. They have had two sons and two daughters. The eldest child died at the age of\\ntwo years. Mr. Starkweather is one of the most valuable citizens of Romo. He is public-\\nspirited, generous, sympathizes with movements for the advancement of the general wel-\\nfare, and is a zealous promoter of the moral and religious interests of the community, and\\na man whose worth and integrity exert a strong influence upon the best interests of society.\\nIn politics, he is a zealous and earnest Republican.\\nJAMES STARKWEATHER, deceased, was born in Preston, New London Co., Conn.,\\nOctober 25, 1801. His paternal ancestry was of Scotch and English lineage, and his\\nfather was a soldier of the Revolution. The circumstances of the family were such as to\\ncompel the younger members to make early acijuaintance with the struggle necessary to\\naccomplish any career of merit in the world a condition, be it remarked, that has wrought\\nnoble results in Macomb as well as other counties in Michigan. At the age of seventeen,\\nMr. Starkweather turned his face westward, with his small possessions in a small bundle\\nat his back. He sought and found employment, and in IS i-l found himself able to visit\\ntwo brothers in Pennsylvania. He went thence to visit a sister in We.stern New York,\\nand started for Detroit, where he ai-rived October 9. He prospected thi ough Oakland and\\nMacomb Counties, and tixed upon Hoxies. uow Romeo, as his ultimatiuu, and, in Jan-\\nuary, 1825, located 160 acres of land near the village. lu the following June, he was\\ntaken with fever and ague, and, becoming disheartened, he abandoned his land prepara-\\ntory to returning East. He was fairly started, but met a man who gave him $250 for his\\nclaim. With renewed courage, he set out on another prospecting expedition. He wan-\\ndered in the forest some days, and, July 4, 1825, came to Trombley s Mountain, where\\nhe spent the night. From that point he took a view of the surroiinding country, and\\nonce more located 160 acres near the village, where he spent all his life, with the excep-\\ntion of six months before his death, when he resided in Romeo. He was married, Sep-\\ntember 6, 1827, to Roxana Leslie, of the State of New York. She was a woman in every\\nway worthy, and together they braved the vicissitude and struggles of more than forty\\nyears. Fortune was at last propitious, and they experienced the reward of coQscientious,\\nlaborious and well-directed exertions. September 1. 186 they set out to visit distant\\nfriends, going to Alabama, and returned via Washington, D. C. They took passage No-\\nvember 17, on the Baltimore Ohio Railroad. During the night, they were obliged to\\nchange cars at the Relay House, ten miles from Baltimore. While crossing to the other\\nline, Mrs, Starkweather was stnick by an incoming train and crushed. She lived but three\\nhours. Mr. Starkweather was maiTied again, June 18, 1872, to Mi-s. Adeline Mulligan, of\\nWashington, D. C. He died February 10. 1873. The pioneer element of Michigan\\nstands statuesque in the panoramic view of her history during the last seventy years, and\\nno one appears to better purpose than that of James Starkweather. He knew all the pos-\\nsibilities C/f his life and character; he recognized all his responsibilities, inherent and as-\\nsmned, and he bent his will and purpose only to the command of duty. He met trial with\\nChristian coiu-age, adversity with the hopefulness of integrity, and success with the hu-\\nmility of a true greatness of sjsirit. His career is held in honored remembrance l)y his\\nfriends, and regarded as a blessed legacy by his children.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0685.jp2"}, "686": {"fulltext": "1^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nELIJAH THOKINGTON was born June 9, 1809. at Ontario. Canada. His father,\\nJames Thorington, was a native of Rhode Island; his mother, Sarah Phillips, was born\\nin Vermont. They settled in Oakland County. Mich., when their son was seven years old.\\nand. a year later, removed to Shelby. At that time (IS IN), the county was in an almost\\nprimeval condition, and the surveying officers of the Government wei-e deciding limitation\\nlines between the towns of Clinton and Shell)y. The family were in straitened circum-\\nstances, and, the following spring went to the township of Washington and lived forty\\nyears on a farm in a district known as the Thorington settlement. January 18. 1836,\\nJames Thorington died: his wife died in March, 1853. Mr. Thorington lived on his home-\\nstead farm of 240 acres until 1870. when he bought his present residence on South Clark\\nstreet. He was married. February 6. 1834, to Lydia Brown, a native of New York. They\\nhad three sons and four daughters. Mrs. Thorington died March 19, 1868. and. in April.\\n1879. Mr. Thorington was married to Mrs. Phoebe (Lockwood) Mackey. She died in April,\\n1874. Mr. Thorington belongs to the pioneer element of the coimty. and has ever ranked\\namong its most respected citizens. He is a Democrat, and cast his first Presidential vote\\nfor Jackson He has accumulated a fine jtroperty, and was the owner of several farms,\\nwhich he has divided among his children. He has always been known as a plain, firm,\\noutspoken man. and his judgment accepted as reliable.\\nNORTON B. THROOP was born in Bruce. Macomb County. February 2. 1842; is\\neon of Cxeorge and Mary (Nye) Throop. George Throop was born in Lima, N. Y., in\\n1810. and was son of Birchard and Martha Throop. He was married, in the State of New\\nYork, to Mary P. Nye, and in bS30 came to Macomb County. They had two sons and\\nthree daughters; one of the latter is deceased. Mr. Tlu-oop located 160 acres of Govern-\\nment land in Bruce, which he cleared and improved. In 1851. he moved to Romeo, where\\nhe died in 1874, in his sixty-fifth year. Mrs. Throop died in 1877. aged sixty two. Mr.\\nThroop was a Whig in early life, and joined the Democratic ranks when the exigencies of\\npublic affairs brought new issues to the siu face. At the raising of the First Congrega-\\ntional Church in thci village, he broke his leg by a fall. Mr. Throop. of this sketch, came\\nto this village with his parents when biit nine years old. and in youth attended the pub-\\nlic schools. In 1864 (May 14), he was married to Harriet, daughter of William Hamilton,\\na Scotchman. He took charge of the homestead farm in Bruce, where he stayed three\\nyeai-s, and sold in 1876, engaging in teaming, which he prosecuted until 1878, when he\\nformed a partnership with F. V. Tedman in the grocery and provision business, locating on\\nthe west side of Main street. Nine months later, he embarked in the same business alone,\\nwhich he pursued a year on the east side of Main street, then changing his quarters to his\\npresent stand on the Wf^st side of the street. He carries a fine line of fancy groceries and\\nconfectioners goods, and is doing a prosperous and steadily increasing business. He is\\nnot a partisan politician, and only takes sufficient interest in party measures to give his\\nsupport to the man approved by his judgment in any party. Mr. and Mrs. Throop have\\none son, John W., born in 1S73.\\nW. H. TINSMAN was born August 21. 1836, in Washington, Macomb County. His\\nparents, John A. and Sarah A. (McCracken) Tinsraan, both natives of New Jersey, came\\nto this county in 1S32 and settled in Washington Township, where his father still lives\\non the same farm where he at first located. His mother died about ten years ago. Mr.\\nTiusman was reared on the farm and educated in the district schools of the township, and\\nalso attended the high school at Romeo. He was a farmer previous to his embarking in\\nmercantile business at Romeo. He came to this village in 1871. August 2S, 1880. he\\norganized, with Charles Willert, a mercantile establishment, which ranks fairly with other\\nbusiness concerns in town. He was married, in 1858. to Mary Jane, daughter of the late\\nHugh Hosner, of Macomb County. They have four children living three sons and a\\n-B)fv", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0686.jp2"}, "687": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00bbi\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ndaughter Charles W., Homer E.. ^L Florence and J. Lewis. The two first named are\\nat the University of Michigan. Edith died in 1870. Mi-. Tinsman owns a farm of 200\\nacres on Section 1(3. in Washington. He has been leader of the choir in the Methodist\\nChiu ch eight years, and a member of the choir thirty years; also has charge of a musical\\nsociety in town. Mi\\\\ Tinsman, politically, is a Republican.\\nJOHN R. TURRELL was born April 22, ISll, in the State of Pennsylvania. His\\nbirth-place was on the Susijuehanna River. He is son of Joel and Mary (Gray) Turrell,\\nthe former a native of Connecticut, the latter of Pennsylvania. They went to Monroe\\nCounty, N. Y., where Mr. Turrell was reared to the age of twenty and bred to the profes-\\nsion of farmer. He came to Michigan in LS31 and located a farm of eighty acres in\\nW.ishington. east of Romeo, but he lost his health, and, not being able to work his fai-m.\\ndisposed of it and worked at Jobbing, chopping, etc.. as opportunity presented. In 183(5,\\nhe went to Port Hm-on and opened a groceiy and j^rovision store, where he operated thi ee\\nyears, going thence to Grand River Rapids. He was afterward engaged in grocery and\\nprovision trade in Ionia, selling out at the end of tlu-ee years, and then peddled some\\nyears, finally returning to Romeo. He was man-ied, December 27, 1842, to Nancy Dus-\\ning, born in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y. He then bought a farm in Addison, Oakland County,\\nwhere he I emained a year, and afterward engaged in threshing about three years. He\\nworked a farm on shares in Lapeer County some years, and then took the Dusing farm in\\nWashington. In 1S()2, he settled at Romeo. His wife died in March, 1877, having be-\\ncome the mother of eleven children, nine of whom are living. He was man ied again, Au-\\ngust 28, 1878, to Mary Ann Galloway, a native of Canada. Mi-. Turrell is a hale, strong\\nman, and has seen many hardships. He has been a Republican since the organization of\\nthe party, and has served a term as Street Commissioner of Romeo.\\nEPHRAIM VANBURGER was born April 4, 1.S33, in New York; is son of Amos and\\nMahala (Andrews) Vanburger. They came to Michigan in 1S3(5 and settled at Silver Lake,\\nOakland County. The father, Ephraim, and a brother and three sisters, had the small-\\npox. All recovered. Mr. Vanbiu ger came to this county in 1848, and in 1852 settled at\\nRomeo, working as a carpenter about two yeai-s. He was then engaged five years in sur-\\nveying and examining land, and then worked as a shoemaker until August, 18(52, when he\\nenlisted in the civil war for three years. He was captured in Virginia, June 11, 18(34,\\nand was a prisoner at Andersonville, Ga., and Florence, S. C, and honorably discharged\\nJune 11, 1865. He was married, August 6, 1865, to Charlotte H. Munroe. They have\\nhad two children Levant, born March 19, 1869, died April 3(\\\\ 1880, of hip disease; and\\nElla, born July 25, 1875. Mr. Vanburger is a radical Republican; has followed the\\njoiner s trade since the war.\\nLEVI B. VANDECAR was born in Saratoga County, N. Y, September 15, 1850;\\nreceived his education in the primary schools of his native tovpn, and learned the brick-\\nlayer s trade, after which he removed to Macomb County, arriving in the year 1868. He\\nfollowed the mason s trade at Romeo and at Imlay City, Lapetr County, also at Oxford,\\nOakland County, and at Lapeer City, a few years, and in 1N79 removed to Isabella County,\\nwhere he located land and resides at the present time; man-ied, February 15, 1871, to\\nNancy H., youngest daughter of Erastus Day, of Armada Township. She was born Sep-\\ntember 1, 1851. The fruits of this marriage have been: Harry, born at Lapeer City\\nJune 12, 1872; Frank, born at Oxford May 18, 1879. While living at Imlay, the family\\nsuffered loss by fire of their dwelling house and contents, which calamity was repeated\\nDhree years later at Oxford. His present business is general merchant and dealer in tim-\\nber, in which he has been verj successful. A post office has been established at his store,\\nand he is the Postmaster, and the office bears his name. He is forward in all society\\nmatters, and is, in form of worship, a Baptist, of which both himself and wife are members.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0687.jp2"}, "688": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOJIB COUNTY.\\nCORNELIUS VIRGIL was born February 1, 1S34, in Tompkins County, N. Y. is\\nson of Ira and Betsey (Van Inwagen) Virgil. He remained in his native eounty until the\\nage of twenty-three. At nineteen, he went to Newlield, same county, to leai n the trade\\nof blacksmith. He served three years, and in lNr)7 came to Michigan and located at New\\nBaltimore, where he worked at his trade nearly two years. He then went on a farm in\\nRay, where he remained upward of three years. He was married, August 22, 1S()1, to\\nPolly, daughter of Joseph and Maria Chubb, a native of Ray. In August. ISOl, he en-\\nlisted in Company A. First Michigan Cavalry, and served about six months. The regiment\\nwent to Washington, then to Maryland. Mr. Virgil was taken sick at Capitol Hill. Wash-\\nington, and was discharged. December 1, 1861, at Frederick City, Md., for disability. He\\nreturned home, and. after recovering his health, he went fc Ray. where he spent two years\\nfc u ming one summer and working at his trade the balance of the time. In the spring of\\n18(34, he came to Romeo and went into business with Gilbert Burnett, who had a shop in\\noperation, and continued with him about six months, when he engaged with Alexander\\nShelp and worked with him now and then for two years. In 1S6N, he went to Oxford,\\nOakland County, and had a blacksmith shop there five years. In 1S73, he opened a shop\\nat Romeo, which he has managed eight yeai s. He jim chased his present residence, on\\nBenjamin street, in 1S66. Politically, he is a Republican.\\nJOSEPH WELLER was boru July 4, 1S81, in Chesterfield, Macomb Co., Mich. is\\nson of Elisha and Maria (Vannatta) Weller. His father was boru July 23, ISOO, and his\\nmother in 1(S02, the former in alTen County, N. J., the latter near Philadelphia. They\\nsettled in Chesterfield in the spring of 1S31, located three eighties of Government land,\\nbut retained but one of these tracts. The mother died March 25, 1N()3, aged sixty-one\\nyears. The father is still living, in his eighty-second yeiir. They were German by de-\\nscent. Mr, Weller was brought up on his father s farm, where he passed thirty-five years\\nof his life. His early educational advantages were very limited, owing to the unsettled\\nstate of the country. In addition to agriculture, he engaged in threshing some mouths\\nin each year for fifteen years, saving sufficient from his earnings to buy eighty acres adjoin\\ning his father s farm, which he brought to an advanced state of improvement, and sold in\\nISOP). He was married, January 26, 1865, to Jeanuette, daughter of Theophilus Kennedy,\\na pioneer of the county. In October following, he moved to Romeo, formed an association\\nwith Albert Kennedy, and bought the sash and blind factory of Holman Farrar, which\\nthey Continued until 187 1. Mr. Weller has since been engaged as a carpenter. In the\\nfall of 1866, he purchased a residence on Benjamin street, to which he made an addition\\nin 1869, and entirelv I emodeled in 1878. Politicallv, he is a Republican.\\nROBERT WHITE was born December 25, 1815! in Donegal, Ireland: is son of Da-\\nvid and Jane Elliott A\\\\ hite. His father died in 1826. He is the oldest f six children,\\nand came to .America in 1841, bringing with him his wife, Elizabeth Robinson White, and\\nfour children. They located at Romeo, and, four years later, he bought twelve acres of\\nwild land, cleared a space, wherein he built his house, and. with the aid of his childi en,\\nhas thoroughly improved the entire place, not a trace of a stump remaining. At the time\\nhe bought his land, Main street was inconveniently devoted to stumps, and one day he\\ntook up four large ones, receiving $1 for each one. Another party had refused $3 for the\\njob. In the fall of 1853, Mr, Whiie pm chased eighty acres north of the fair grounds,\\nwhich is in a state of advanced improvement. He is a mason, and worked at his trade\\nmore or less until 1867, when he met with an accident and broke his shoulder, which ne-\\ncessitated the abandonment of severe labor. Mrs. White died May 17, 1863, in her fiftieth\\nyear. She became the mother of nine children. Their records are as follows: Eliza\\nresides at Petrolia. Canada; David, twin, lives in Detroit and has five children; George,\\ntwin, died December 1, 1879, leaving six children; Robert lives at Lapeer, and has two\\n;t^", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0688.jp2"}, "689": {"fulltext": "iii.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nchildi en; James is on the farm, and has one child; John lives in Romeo, has two children;\\nAnna Maria lives at Almont, and has five children; the others are Lydia and Martha; the\\nlatter died in October, ISfil; all are maiTied but Lydia. There are twenty grandchildren.\\nMl-. White was maiTied again. April 16, 1S65. to Mi-s. Susan M. Drake, born in County\\nArmagh, Ireland. They have one daughter, Mary M., who lives at home. Four of Mr. White s\\nsons are masons, taught by himself; two are carpenters. He has always been an adherent\\nof the Republican party. He and Lis wife are enjoying the reward of frugal, well-ordered\\nlives, and passing their last years in comfort.\\nROBERT A. Y01TNG, D. D. S., was bom March 4. bS55, at Lodi, Columbia Co..\\nWis. His parents, John A. and Elsie (Erwin) Young, were natives of Pennsylvania. His\\nfather was Principal of the High School at Lodi. which he attended until he was nineteen\\nyears old. June 3. 1S74, he came to Romeo with his parents, where his father is pastor\\nof the Christian Church, and where he attended school. In the fall of 1S7H. he began\\nthe study of dentistry with Dr. Isaac Do\\\\iglass, D. D. S. He attended the university at\\nAnn Arbor two years, and graduated with honor in March, ISSO, entering upon dental\\npractice in September following. He is a member of the State Dental Society, and belongs\\nto the Sons of Temperance. He has tine rooms on Main street, handsomely fitted; is a\\ngentleman of social, genial character, and popular as a mechanical operator and as a citi-\\nzen.\\nCHAPTER XXXI.\\nIn the compilation of the histories of the townships, care has been taken to exclude\\nall descriptions which have been fully dealt with in the general history- of the county.\\nThe fact that large numbers of the people who made subject for history are treated bio-\\ngraphically, in connection with the history of the township to which they belong, ren-\\ndered an extensive historical sketch unnecessary, because in the jiersonal history inci-\\ndents and names are given so intimately associated witli the township, and withal so\\napjiropriate to the biography in which they occur, that to separate or remove the one would\\nhave a tendency to destroy the other. For this reason, a great portion of the history of\\neach tovraship will be found woven with the sketches of its principal inhabitants.\\nORGANIZATION.\\nThe to^vnship of Annadia, or Armada, was organized under a legislative enact-\\nment, approved April 22, 1833, laying off from the surveyed townships. Town 5 north,\\nRanges 13 and 14 east of the meridian, and ordering the first township meeting to be\\nheld at the house of Edmund Stewart the first Monday in April, 1834. The formal meet-\\ning of the people to consider the question of organization was held in the year 1832, at\\nArmada Corners (Selleck s), and the organization was strenuously opposed, as uncalled\\nfor and unnecessary, but was carried later in the day. When the subject of a name came\\nup, but little time remained. Several names were proposed which did not meet with\\napproval, until Hosea Northi-up jumped up and shouted the name Ai-mada. The name\\nwas earned at .once, and probably without a knowledge of its meaning or its fitness.\\nTHE FIRST TOWN MEETING.\\nThe first town meeting was held April 7, 1834. in accordance with the statute. Henry\\nB. Ten Eyck presided, with Roswell W. Green, Clerk; Darius Sessions and Minot T.\\n^1", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0689.jp2"}, "690": {"fulltext": "^A=\u00c2\u00b1z.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nLane were Inspectors of Election. The officers chosen were: Alfred Goodell, Supervisor;\\nLeonard Lee, Clerk; Erastus Day, Eden Ai-mstrong and Iddo Warner, Assessors: Edmund\\nStewart and Norman Burk, Overseers of the Poor: John Proctor. Chauncey Bailey and\\nHosea Northrup, Commissioners of Highways; Asa Palmer, Constable; Martin Buzzell,\\nAlfred Goodell, Mino: T. Lane, School Commissioners; Aden Ai-mstrong, E. Steward, M.\\nBuzzell, Asa Holman, Charles Farrar, School Inspectors; Henry B. Ten Eyck, A. Goodell\\nand Darius Sessions, Pound Masters; Joel Cartwi ight, Job Howell, Peter Woodbeitz, Jos-\\neph C. Donaldson, A Go xlell, Benoni Knapp and Nathaniel Carter, Overseers of High-\\nways. Justices were appointed by the Governor of the Territory.\\nRoll of Supervisors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alfred Goodell, 1833 to 1836; Minot T. Lane. 1836 to 1839;\\nSolomon Lathi-op, 1840 to 1844; Norman Perry. 1844 to 1852; Darius Sessions, 1852 to\\n1854; Norman Perry, 1854 to 1856; Warren Tibbetts, 1856 to 1859; Charles An di-ews,\\n1859 to 1864; Erastus Dav, 1864 to 1866; George E. Burke, 1866 to 1867; Hiram Bar-\\nrows, 1867 to 1869; Gideon Draper, 1869 to 1870; Charles Andrews, 1870 to 1873; Gid-\\neon Draper, 1873 to 1874; Hollv Goyer, 1874 to 1880; Charles Anckews, 1880 to 1881;\\nCharles Andrew, 1881 to 1882.\\nClerks Leonard Lee, 1834; Chauncev Bailev. 1835-36; James Flower, 1837; Urial\\nDav, 1838-39; Ira Selleck, 1840-11; Charles W. chamberlain, 1841; James McCracken.\\n18-12; Charles W. Chamberlain, 1843; James McCracken, 1844-45; Andrew Ward, 1846-\\n51; George Andrews. 1852-53; Andrew Word, 1854-55: Winfield Wisner, 1856; Charles\\nA. Lathrop, 1857; Crawley P. Dake, 1858; Winiield Wisner, l^i59- NathanAdams, 1860;\\nMichael R. Weir, 1861; Nathan Adams, 1862-64; Henry C. Aldrich, 1865-66; George\\nMcClusky, 1867; Perrin C. Goodell, 1868-70; Charles A. Snover, 1871; James E.Vin-\\ncent, 1872; David H. Barrows, 1873-75; Robert B. Vibbert, 1876; George F. Adams,\\n1877-81.\\nTreasurers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Asa Palmer, 1834; George T. Powell, 1835; J. S. Becraft, 1836; Abner\\nBarrington, 1837-38; Minot T. Lane. 1839; Sanford H. Corbin. 1840: Joseph C. Don-\\naldson, 1841; Elijah Bm-ke, 1842-44; Samuel Wizner, 1845-50; Pen-in C. Goodell,\\n1851-52; John Johnson, 1853: David T. Pratt, 1854-57; Thomas M. Gould,1858; Benja-\\nmin F. Kellam, 1859: Daniel D. Dunham, 1859; Dounce D. Dunham, 1860; Crowley P.\\nDake, 1861: H. H. Spencer, 1862; Bm-ton W. Seeley, 1863; Beach G. Whitney, 1864;\\nBurton W.. Seeley, 1865-67; Thomas Proctor, 1868-69; Michael R. Weir, 1870-71;\\nGeorge F. Adams, 1872-73; John E. Barringer, 1874-75; David H. Barrows. 1876-77;\\nElisha D. Lathrop, 1878-79; David H. Barrows. 1880-81.\\nJustices of the Peace Minot T. Lane, 1836; Joseph C. Donaldson, 1836; Alvah\\nSibley, 1836; Elijah Bm-ke, 1836; M. T. Lane, 1837; Darius Ses8ion.s, 1838; Sanford H.\\nCorbin, 1838; Erastus Day, 1839; Darius Sessions, 1840; Solomon Lathrop. 1840-41\\nWarren Tibbits, 1842; Daniel W. Day. 1843; Darius Sessions, 1844; John P. Hall, 1845;\\nWan-en Tibbits, 1846; Urial Day, 1847; Amassa W, Sutton, 1S48; Charles Farrar, 1848;\\nJohn P. Hale, 1849; Joseph P. Foster, 1849; Warren Tibbits, 1S5(): Gideon Draper, 1850;\\nSeth Aldrich. 1851; A. W. Sutton, 1852; Erastus Day, 1853; Holly Goyer, 1853; Timothy\\nAdams, 1855; AVarren Tibbits, 1855; Henry O. Smith. 1855; Erastus Day, 1857; Warren\\nTibbits, 1858: Horace H. Spencer, 1856: Gideon Draper, 1859; H. H. Spencer, 1860;\\nErastus Day, 1861; Michael R. Weirs, 1862; Charles A. Lathi-op, 1862; Gideon Draper,\\n1863; H. H. Spencer, 1864; William H. Clark, 1864; Eleazer W. True, 1865; David Mc-\\nCrossan, 1866; Gideon Drai)er, 1867; H. H Si eneer, 1868; Nathan Adams, 1869: Eli G.\\nPerkins, 1870; Nathan Adams, 1870; Henry A\\\\ Bradley, 1871; Gideon Drai)er, 1871;\\nLouis Granger, 1872; Erastus Day, 1872: Louis Granger, 1872, Merril P. Farrar, 1873;\\nHorace H. Spencer, 1874; Gideon Draper, 1875; Abram S. Hall, 1876; Merrill P. Far-", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0690.jp2"}, "691": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0691.jp2"}, "692": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0692.jp2"}, "693": {"fulltext": "4\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nrar, 1877; Horace H. Speacer, 1878; Gideon Draper, 1879; John E. Barringer. 1879;\\nAlbert F. Stowe, 1880; E. Wells True, 1880; Merril P. Farrar, 1881.\\nIn this town the whole Republican ticket was elected in 1882, as follows: Super-\\nvisor Charles Andrews, Republican, 196; A. H. Peabody, Democrat, 98; Sabin O.\\nStump, Greenback, 23; Andrews plurality, 98. Clerk B. C. Preston, Republican, 181;\\nThomas A. Flower, Democrat, 118; Preston s majority, 03. Treasurer Hiram J. Bar-\\nrows. Republican, 187; G. F. Hebblewhite, Democrat, 113; Barrows majority, 74.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Justice of the Peace George F. Adams, Republican, 156; H. H. Spencer, Democrat,\\n148; Adams majority, 8.\\nPIONEERS OF ARMADA.\\nAmong the first settlers of the township were John Proctor, Erastus, Day. Nathan\\nRowley. Neil Gray, Norman Pen-y. Eri Buttertield. Elisha D. Andi-ews. Elijah Burke,\\nNorman Bui ke, Chauucey Bailey, Leonard Lee. Darius Sessions, Israel G. Belknap and\\nDaniel Draper, and a man named Aldi-ich.\\nA trip fi-om the Eastern States to Armada, so late as 1831 was one attended with\\nmany difficulties. The usual vicissitudes of canal travel fi om Rochester to Buffalo, and\\nthence per steamer to Detroit, had to be experienced. The jom-ney from Detroit via Royal\\nOak to Armada, so well known by many an old settler, was traversed; Mother Handsom s\\nhouse was visited, and the nucleus of Romeo sui veyed. S. H. Corbiu and other settlers\\ncame in 1831. After a short time passed at Romeo, the land-hunters pushed forward by\\nthe locations of Leslie. Day. Edget. Farrar. Iddo Warner, Job Howell, and stayed that\\nnight with a man named Belknap, whose log shanty stood on the corner of Section 29.\\nThe travelers next packed the necessaries for a two-days journey, and jjroceeded en\\nroute to Section 25, driving their oxen in the yoke. The only houses on the trail at that\\ntime were Edmund Stewart s and Andrew Ward s. Previous explorers had cleared a road\\nas far east as Belle River, and so the present travelers had comparatively few obstacles to\\nencounter. They camped on the site of Holly Goyer s house, where they were entertained\\nby whip-poor-will songs and the hum of the ubiquitous mosquito. Goodell, who formed\\none of the i^ai ty, is inclined to think there were no less than one hundred whip-poor-wills\\nand ten millions of mosquitoes round their camp-tire that night. The next day, the party\\nwas joined by Goodell, Sr., who brought his family to Romeo fi om Detroit the day pre-\\nvious. Within a few days, the family went out to their future home, and entered the pro-\\nverbial log house of the pioneer June 17, 1831, just one month after they left the old\\nhomestead in York State. Here they found themselves in the position of Robinson Crusoe.\\nLeonard Lee was the nearest neighbor, two miles distant, and his home unknown the\\nWards were three miles westward, and Peter Aldrich was living on the John Corbin farm.\\nThere were no settlers between them and the Tittabawassee River on the northwest. Lake\\nHuron on the northeast, and St. Clair River on the east. Mrs. Goodell did not see the face\\nof a white woman for almost three months, until Mi-s. Nathaniel Carter and her sister\\ncame, in the latter part of September, and passed a portion of a day with her. The In-\\ndians were frequent visitors during the summer, and at one time they were in camp close\\nby for nearly two weeks. Those savages came from their village west of Romeo. They\\nbrought with them about live bushels of whortleberries in bark mocacks. which they traded\\nfor flom and meal. At this time, the forest was full of strawberries and blackljerries, so\\nin this respect the pioneers were fully supjilied. Diu-ing the smumer. an acre of land was\\ncleared round the house, and on July 1. 1832. a tract laid down under oats. During the\\nfall, six acres were cleared, and timber prepared for a story-and-a-half house. 18x24 feet.\\nThis house was boarded and shingled, the lumber being proom-ed at the Treml)le Mill,\\nthree miles from Romeo. Steward, Sessions and Mather came to assist the Goodells in\\nraising this house.\\n42\\nr-\\nT", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0693.jp2"}, "694": {"fulltext": "LkL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nLeonard Lee was appointed Postmaster about that time. Richards was mail-carrier\\nbetween Romeo and St. Clair, over the Hoxie trail.\\nS. H. Corbin left the Goodell settlement for Rochester, to follow his trade of house-\\nbuilder. In 1832, he revisited the place, and aided Mr. Goodell, Sr., in getting out tim-\\nber for his barn.\\nIn the summer of 1832, Ira Butterfield and Hinckman Bntterfield located just north\\nof the Goodells. In the winter of 1832-33. Erwin Rose came in. Elijah Biu ke came in\\nApril. 1833, and piu-chased the S. H. Corbin house frame, previously prepared, now form-\\ning a portion of William H. Clarke s barn. Ingraham came in September. 1833. About\\nthe same time, S. H. Corbin revisited the settlement, and, in partnershi]) with one of the\\nfirst settlers, raised the mill there, and inaugurated the industry in 1834. The wheat\\ncrop of 1833 was remarkably good, so that the new mill was a most useful addition to the\\nindustries or the entire district. Dui ing that year, the Black Hawk war, and the extraor-\\ndinary precautions taken by Asahel Bailey, troubled the settlers more or less.\\nThe district settled very fast from 1833 to 1838. Perrin Goodell cut a corner on log\\nhouses every month in those years, and sometimes assisted in raising four houses per\\nmonth.\\nThe neai est schoolhouse to the Goodell settlement was on the southeast corner of Nor-\\nman Perry s farm until 1834, when a school building was erected and Miss Betsy Day ap-\\npointed first teacher.\\nFrom 1831 to 1840, the roads through the timber lands were almost impassable in the\\nspring and fall. The Fort Gratiot Turn))ike was built by the State, and was laid out fi om\\nDetroit into the town of Lenox in 1831, and finished as far as Port Huron in 1833.\\nElijah Bui ke and a few neighbors laid out the Ridge road iu September, 1834, cut-\\nting a wagon road from the Parker Adams farm to the lands of Phillip Cudworth. This\\nroad soon became famous, and formed a part of the immigrant road from Port Huron to\\nRomeo, so that the Burke location was known to great numbers of immigrants as Burke s\\nComers, now Armada Village.\\nDuring the years 1834, ]83r) and 1836, the $5,000,000 loan created excitement, and\\nsettlers looked for railroads in every direction. One line the Northern Michigan Rail-\\nroad was rnn through on the quarter line of the south tier of sections in Armada Town-\\nship. It was the era of paper enterprises, yet settlers continued to come in great num-\\nbers, and, as a inile, had to {iass through The Narrows. The immigrants had a certain\\namount of money just enough to jiurchase a forty or eighty acre tract of laud, build a\\nlog shanty and begin housekeeping. Then they found their means were exhausted, and\\nthat they had to work for others. Many of them performed the duties of day laborers\\nuntil sufficient cash was saved to enable tliem to proceed with the clearing and cultivation\\nof their land. During this time, their waxdi obes were very limited, and the bottom of\\ntheir (lour and pork ban-els easily found. However, there were only five cases where peo-\\nple actually suffered, the interchange of kindnesses preventing anything like a famine.\\nWhenever a deer was killed, portions of the meat were distributed throughout the district.\\nAfter Hinckman Butterfield had been here some three years, he miscalculated his re-\\nsources, and found, to his sm prise, that his provisions could not last beyond June I. He\\nwas equal to the occasion. Without means to buy flom-, he still {possessed two good cows,\\nand, with the milk which they produced, and boiled basswood leaves, this settler contrived\\nto eke out an existence for thirteen days. Subsequently, he borrowed $10 from a neigh-\\nbor, which sum he invested in five bushels of corn.\\nOn another occasion, two brothers drove to N. B. Freeman s store, intent upon piu\\nchasing a barrel of flour. They had no money, so they said nothing on financial affairs\\nuntil tiie flour was placed in their wagon, when one drove off with it, leaving the other to", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0694.jp2"}, "695": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nexplain to Mr. Freeman that they had no money just then, biit, so soon as they would ob-\\ntain some, the barrel of flour should lie paid for. Freeman had no alternative but to wait.\\nIn 1832 or 1833, there was a small grocery store established at the Branch. The\\nowner was generally employed clearing land in the vicinity. To render himself equal to\\nthe work of watching two things at the same time, he himg a dinner-horn on the door,\\nwith a notice below, stating. If no one is here, blow the horn.\\nThe winter of 1842-43 was known as the hard winter. The weather continued severe\\nfrom Cold Friday, in Novem!)er, imtil the fii-st Monday of April. 1843. when the snow\\nwas two and one-half feet deep on the level.\\nThe fii st child born in the eastern part of the town was Solomon Buttertield.\\nThe first death in the eastern part of the town was that of Mrs. David Page. She\\nwas buried with her head to the north, on a spot where the old cemetery of years ago was\\nlocated.\\nThe number of acres of improved land in the township in 185(1 was .600; of imim-\\nproved lands, 9.711; total cash value of same. $222,880. Agricultm-al products: Wheat,\\n8,615 bushels; corn, 20,070 bushels; oats, 25,186 bushels; all other kinds of grair. 2.960\\nbushels; potatoes, 5,696 bushels; wool, 11,632 pounds. Dairy products: Butter, 23,-\\n916 pounds; cheese, 7,410 pounds. Value of orchard produce, 1729. Live stock:\\nHorses, 230; milch cows, 486; working oxen, 215; other neat cattle, 657; sheep, 5.191;\\nswine, 1.112; total value of live stock, f 34. 820.\\nThe above is quite a creditable showing, but appears somewhat meager when com-\\npared with the statistical report as returned by the Supervisor in the spring of 1874. We\\nquote: Number of acres of improved land in occupied farms, 11,922; wood and other un-\\nimproved land, 9,340 acres; cash value of farms, $935,895. Agi-icultural products:\\nWheat, 20,751 bushels; corn, 32,126 bushels; oats, 43,800 bushels; all other kinds of\\ngrain, 13,891 bushels; potatoes, 10,932 bushels; wool, 34,577 pounds; pork marketed, 73,-\\n211 pounds. Daii-y products: Butter, 45,070 pounds; cheese, 9,420 pounds; cheese, 9,-\\n420 pounds. Live stock: Horses, 605; milch cows, 625; working oxen, 17; mules, 3;\\nnumber of neat cattle (other than oxen and cows). 830; sheep, 16,592; swine, 875: value\\nof live stock of all kinds, $130,653.\\nThese figures show an average increase of 250 per cent for the past quarter of a\\ncentury. The population of the township in 1880 was 1,734, inchiding Armada Village. 800.\\nLi 1850, there were only 1,146 inhabitants: in 1874. 1,562.\\n.\\\\RM.\\\\D.\\\\ VILLAGE.\\nArmada is a thriving incorporated village of 800 inhabitants, settled in 1830, and\\npleasantly situated in Armada Township, JIacomb County, about midway between Romeo\\nand Ridgeway. It is on the Michigan Air-Line Railway, and is the \u00c2\u00abenter of a prosper-\\nous farming region. It has no water-power, and its manufacturing enterprises are lim-\\nited, embracing a stave and handle factory, sash and blind factory, cheese factory and a\\nflouring-mill. Ai-mada has four chm-ches\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Methodist. Cougi-egational, Baptist and Ad-\\nventist. The Telegraph is published by C. J. Seely. A good hall in connection with the\\nNational Hotel h s recently been built. Grain, flour, apples, cheese, staves and handles\\nconstitute the principal shipments.\\nAmong the principal business men of the village are Hiram Barrows, Postmaster,\\ngeneral store-keeper and cheese manufactvu-er; Elbert M. Cook. C. A. Lathrop, Theodore\\nH Hinchman. J. W. Jackmau. E. D. Latlirop, G. C. Phillips. William E. Preston, Rob-\\nert F. Robertson, S. B. Shaw, R.B. Stevens. A. H. Telfer and Ephraim A. Jennings, mer-\\nchants: Edward Bailey, operator of a grist-mill and foundry, three miles east of the vil-\\nlage; Lewis Granger, proprietor of Evaporated Fruit Factory: Horace, William and Albert\\nTV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0695.jp2"}, "696": {"fulltext": "_2)\\nPt-rkins, owners of the stave and handle factory; Henry Thomson, flom- and grist mill ope-\\nrator. The professions are represented by John E. Barringer, S. T. Beardsley, Charles\\nH. Lincoln, physicians; William H. Clai k, Jr., lawyer; Gurdon H. Millard, dentist;\\nCharles J. Seely, editor; Rev. Messrs. D. H. Lamson. of the Adventist; Silas Finn, of\\nthe Baptist; Rev. H. N. Bissell, of the Congregational; J. L. Av alker, of the Methodist,\\nare the ministers of the Gospel.\\nThe village of Armada was organized under authority given by the Board of Super-\\nvisors, October 15, 180 J. The original plat of the village comprised the northeast quar-\\nter of Section 28: the east half of the southeast quarter of Section 23; the northwest quar-\\nter of the southeast quarter of Section 33; the northwest qviarter of Section 24; the west\\nhalf of the southwest quarter of Section 24; the northeast quarter of the southwest quar-\\nter of Section 24, in Town 5 north, of Range 13 east, or the township of Armada. The\\nact of incorporation ordered the lirst election to be held at the National Hall, on the sec-\\nond Tuesday in January, or January 14, 1808, under the superintendence of William H.\\nClark, Jr.. William E. Preston and Francis M. Grout. The record of this election is set\\nforth as follows:\\nPresident Hiron Hathaway, 45 votes.\\nTrustees Elisha Davis, 19 votes; William E. Preston, 47; James Flower, 51; Eben-\\nezer Brooks, 32; J. E. Barringer, 31: Cyrus S. Farrar, 31; Silas Finn, 31; Charles A.\\nLathrop. 20; Allen L. Frost, 16.\\nAssessor Hiram Barrows, 30 votes; Eben Brooks, 19.\\nMarshal and Treasurer George McCluskev, 50 votes.\\nClerk\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William H. Clark. Jr.. 32 votes; Ezra F. Sibley, 15; William H. Clark. 4.\\nFire Warden Alfred Watson. 31 votes; Samuel Barton, 19.\\nStreet Commissioner Elisha Davis, 31 votes; F. M. Grout, 17; Spencer Phelps, 1.\\nPound Master Hiron F. Corbiu, 38 votes; Corbin received the entire vote under\\nvarious names.\\nAt a meeting of the board, held February 1, 1868, a series of twenty-seven rules was\\nadopted.\\nPresident -Hiron Hathaway, 1868; F. M. Grout, 1869; Hiron Hathaway. 1870;\\nCharles Lathrop, 1871; H. F. Corbin, 1872; John E. Barringer, 18 3; William E. Pres-\\nton, 1874; John E. Barringer, 1875; James Flowers, 1876; John E. Barringer, 1877;\\nHiram BaiTows, 1878; David H. Rarrows, 1879; L. H. Lincoln, 1880; H. H.Spencer, 1881.\\nRecorder ^William H. Clark, Jr., 1868; E. B. Bentley, 1869; Chai-les A. Snover,\\n1870; Charles A. Snover, 1871; George F. Adams, 1872; D. H. Barrows, 1873; D. H.\\nBarrows, 1874; D. H. Barrows, 1875; D. H. Barrows, 1876; Albert F. Stone. 1877; Albert\\nF. Stone, 1878; Ephraim A. Jennings, 1879.\\nTreasm er\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George McCluskev, 1868; Joseph P. Seeley, 1869; Theo D. Bui ke, 1870;\\nElisha D. Lathrop, 1871; W. E. Preston, 1872; W. E. Preston, 1873; E. D. Lathrop,\\n1874; E. D. Lathrop, 1875; Robert B. Vibbert, 1876: William E. Preston. 1877; Elbert\\nM. Cook. 1878; Elbert M. Cook, 1879.\\nThe officers for 1882-83 are: Horace H. Spencer, Village President; and George\\nC. Phillips, Edwin A. Frost, Samuel T. Beardslee, Elisha D. Lathi op, A. B. Palmerlee\\nand Dan C. Day, Trustees.\\nTrustees \u00e2\u0080\u00941868, William E. Preston. James Flower, Ebenezer Brooks, John E. Bar-\\nringer, C. S. Farrar, Silas Finn; 1869, Jabez Hebbelwhite, Cullen B. Clark, S. T. Beards-\\nley, Perrin C. Goodell, Allen S. Frost, Henry Mullen; 1870, James Flower, Aug A. Smith,\\nC. A. Lathrop, A. L. Frost, Charles Macauluy. Winlield S. Hathaway; 1871, William\\nYoungs, James Mahafly, J. Hebbelwhite, Charles Macaulay, W. S. Hathaway, Allen Frost;\\n1872, Lewis Granger, W. J. Brown, B. W. Ormsby, James E. Vincent, James Mills, D.\\nW", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0696.jp2"}, "697": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nH. Barrows; 1873, Ebenezer Brooks, Seth Smith. J. M. Mills. Elisha D. Lathrop, George\\nMcCluskey, B. W. Ormsby: 1874, Ezra F. Sibley. Charles E. Marble. Culleu B. Clark,\\nFred M. Garlick. George McCluskey. Seth Smith; 1875, Cyi us S. Farrar, Jonas Sutton,\\nBela W. Ormsby (for one year). Nathan Hurd, James Flowers. William F. Preston (for\\ntwo years): 1876, Charles W. Willett. Charles A. Lathrop. C. W. Millet, Nathan Hurd,\\nCvms S. Farrar. Jonas Sutton; 1877, William H. fJlai-k, Jr., Cullen B. Clark. J. Hebble-\\nwhite, Elbert M. Cook, Rufus Small, R-. F. Robertson: 1878. John England, Elisha D.\\nLathrop. William H. Clark. Jr., Rufus Small. J. Hebbelwhite, W. H. Youugs; 1879,\\nGeorge F. Adams. William E. Pi-eston. J. Neeper, George Barnes. N. H. Pillsbury, Will-\\niam Lewis.\\nPOST OFFICE.\\nThe first post office of the village was established in 1843, by the appointment of\\nSolomon Lathrop, Postmaster, and the office in the house of Rev. Samuel A. Benton, the\\nCongregational Pastor of that place. Previous to this time, the nearest office was at the\\nBranch, five miles away, from which mail was brought by any person whom business\\ncalled in that direction, or else a boy astride a horse was sent for it. The postage on a\\nletter from beyond the boundaries of the State was 25 cents, and often was not prepaid.\\nLetters were valuable in those days, from the fact that they cost so much, and also that\\nthey did not come very often. The revenue of the office was so exceedingly small that it\\nwas taken rather because some one must have it than because of any honor or emolument\\nit might bring. From Solomon Lathrop it jiassed to the bauds of John P. Hall, who lived\\nnear the middle of the village, and who removed it from the house of Mr. Benton to his\\nown house. This continued some years (abovit 1S48), when Charles A. Lathrop became\\nPostmaster, and established the office at his store. This was the first of its having a po-\\nsition in a public building. Dr. Snell succeeded Mr. Lathrop, and the office was kept on\\nthe northwest corner of the village square. From his hands it passed to William H.\\nClark, Jr., who kept it in the same jiiace. He was succeeded by Burton W. Seeley, who\\nkept it ou the south side of Ridge street. Mr. Hiram Barrows, the present incumbent, then\\nsucceeded to the office, and it was removed to the Corner Brick. and made a money\\norder office, on which basis it has since been continued.\\nTill ARM.\\\\D.\\\\ AGRICULTITTI.\\\\T, SOflETY.\\nThe Armada Agricultural Society is the outgrowth of the Armada Farmers and Me-\\nchanics Club, of the same place, which was organized at the call of a few men. who\\nthought to improve their occupation by free discussion of topics connected with their bus-\\niness. The organization was effected in 1870. with Hiron J. Hathaway. President; J. E.\\nBaiTinger. Secretary; and Nathan Adams. Treasurer. Meetings were held monthly for\\ndiscussion, and a plowing match was held each year. The last two years of its existence\\nas a club, a fair was held at the village of Armada, at which no entrance fee was chai ged\\nand no cash premiums were paid simply a ribbon to designate a preference. The offi-\\ncers the second year were the same as the first. The third year, John Paton, Sr. was\\nchosen President, and, upon the death of Mr. Adams, C. A. Lathi op succeeded him as\\nTreasurer.\\nIn February, 1873, a meeting was held responsive to a call of citizens for the purpose\\nof forming an agricultural society upon a broader basis, and capable of becoming an in-\\ncorporated body. All being favorably inclined, the object was effected, and the Armada\\nAgricultm-al Society began its existence with Hon. Charles Ancb-ews, President; John E.\\nBaiTinger. Secretaiy; Charles A. Lathrop. Treasurer: and a Board of Directors as follows:\\nThe first fair of this society was held at the society s grounds during the first week\\nin October. 1873. The number of entries was 800, and the amount paid in prizes about\\n-IB IV", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0697.jp2"}, "698": {"fulltext": "jyj\\n$300. The society paid all premiums and expenses, and had a balance left in the treas-\\nury. The society was organized on the basis of a jnirely agi icultnral fair, and no race-\\ntrack is provided, and no premiums oflered for speed. The people have supported it with\\ngreat liberality, and each year s finances have been a token of the success of the enter-\\nprise. The grounds are tastily arranged with evergreen and forest trees, nicely fenced,\\nand provided with hue offices, buildings and sheds, and the society has funds in its treas-\\nm-y.\\nThe following gentlemen have acted as Presidents: Charles Andrews, six years;\\nJohn McKay, two years; W. D. Fettibone, one year; George W. Phillips, at present.\\nJohn E. Barringer, Secretary fi om the organization. Treasiu er: Charles A. Lathrop,\\nthi ee years; James Steven, two years; W. D. Pettiboue, one year; Charles Andrews, one\\nyear; H. Barrows, one year; George C. Phillips, Treasurer at present.\\nNumber of entries last fair, 2,050; amoimt paid out in premiums, $548. 25.\\nTHE AKMADA C. L. S. C.\\nThe Armada Branch of the Chautauqua Literary and Scieutihc Circle was organized\\nin the fall of LSSO. The circle consists of two classes of members the regular, who are\\nmembers of the central oi ganizatiou, to which they are accountable for the amount of\\nreading done; and the local, who are simply members of the local circle, and in no way\\nresponsible to the central society, and who are at liberty to carry on the full course of\\nreading or not, as they see tit.\\nA four-years course of reading is designated, which embraces the general subjects of\\nhistoiy. science, literatm-e and the Bible study, and a diploma is given to the regular\\nmembers who complete the course in a satisfactory manner. The regular charter membern\\nwere: iVIi s. H. Barrows. President; Miss Lizzie Fletcher, Secretary and Treasurer; Mrs. A.\\nLincoln, Mrs. A. E. Johnson, Miss Jennie Macauley, Dr. C. H. Lincoln. Mrs. Charles\\nCarter, Miss Hattie Andi-ews, Miss Sophia Cryderman, H. J. Rarrows.\\nThe local charter members were: Rev. J. L. Walker, Mrs. E. W. Fletcher, Mrs. N.\\nH. Pillsbury, John E. Day, Mrs. W. D. Pettibone, William H. Yoimgs, George C. Fletcher.\\nAdditions have been made to both classes of members from time to time, and the\\nprospects seem to indicate for the future the same increase of interest that has marked its\\nhistory thus far. The circle meets every week for the discussion for the required reading\\nfor the week, and listening to original papers upon subjects pertaining to the lesson.\\nThe officers at the present time are: Mrs. Charles A. Lathroj). President; Mrs.\\nH. J. Barrows, Secretary and Treasurer.\\nBRUCK .\\\\.\\\\I) .Mi.M.VU.^ I.ITEUAEY .SOCIKTY.\\nThe young people met at the residence of G. W. Phillips December 11, 1S78, for the\\npurpose of organizing a literary society. A committee of three, consisting of R. J. Craw-\\nford, T. JVL Stephen and C. E. Phillips, were appointed to form a constitution and by-laws.\\nSaturday evening, December 24, 187S, met at residence of J. E. Day and adopted the con-\\nstitution, and also elected charter officers, viz.: President, J. E. Day; Vice President, G.\\nW. Phillips, Jr.; Treasm-er. T. M. Stephen; Secretary, C. E. Phillips; Librarian. Mrs. J.\\nE. Day.\\nTHE AltJlADA EITEUAHY SOI lETV.\\nThe Armada Literary Society was organized as the Athenoeum in 1877, with Hiram\\nJ. Barrows, President, and Albert Stow, Seoretaiy. In 1878, it was re-organized, under\\nthe name of the Armada Literary Society, with Hiram J. Barrows, President. With this\\norganization the Ladies Literary Society of the village consolidated in January, 1880\\nAmonu: the members who have held the office of President are Hiram J. Barrows, Bert C.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0698.jp2"}, "699": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nPreston, Albert F. Stowe, Sterry J. Lamson, Elisha D. A. True, Lewis M. Smith. The\\nsociety has a collection of tifty volumes.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nThe tirst schoolhouse in Armada Township was situate on the land of Col. Peny, near\\nArmada Corners, built of logs, cut and put up by a bee, and covered with lumber do-\\nnated by Noah Webster 1,000 feet. The deficiency was sup] lied with slabs. The name\\nof the first teacher is not remembered. The second house was a log one, near the house of\\nAlfred Goodale. A school had been kept in the barn of that gentleman by Miss Harriet\\nPerkins. Miss Betsey Day, now wife of Erastus Day, taught the second school. This\\nwas in 183*5. About this time, a schoolhouse was built at the village. This house was\\nbuilt of slabs stood up endwise, spiked to a frame made of poles, and covered with slabs.\\nThe first teacher in this school was a Miss Day. who came from Massachusf^tts, and soon\\nreturned lo that State. The first male teacher in this school was George Lathrop, son of\\nSolomon Lathrop. in 1838 or 1839. He was followed by Miss Anielia Bancroft, who was\\nsucceeded by Joseph Goodell. This young man was exceedingly tall. auJ it is said\\nthat, when he jumped the rope with the children, his head appeared above the ridge of the\\nbuilding. Charles A. Lathrop was a teacher in this school. In 1843, Rev. S. A. Benton,\\nwho had lately arrived from Vermont, where he had received a classical education, had a\\nclass of .seventeen pupils in the parlor of his house, in which he was assisted by Dr. J.\\nP. Gleason. This lasted one term, soon followed by Rev. Eleazer \\\\V. True, a fully edu-\\ncated man from the East, who opened a private academy in a building erected for that\\npm pose in the southeast part of the village. This school was successfully conducted from\\n1848 to 1853, and was the last of the select schools of Ai mada.\\nRev. Ml Benton was pastor of the Congregational Church of Armada several years;\\nremoved to Iowa, where he died about the year 1870. Rev. Mr. True died in Armada\\nTownship in 1874. Of the teachers in the public school, it is impossible to even mention\\nall. The following are some of them: Edwin Pettiljone, Clark Hall, S. E. AN hitney,\\nStowe, E. M. Plunkett, A. S. Hall. Kidder, A. M. Keeler. The first structure\\nsoon gave place to a frame Ijuilding, anj was superseded by a brick building. This was\\nenlarged to m^et the growing demands of the school, which is at present in a thi iving con-\\ndition.\\nKIOKKAI in\\nThis most important branch of township history must commend itself to every one.\\nThat it necessarily contains much valuable information, and the relation of a series of\\nevents more or less historic, must be conceded. Therefore, it is considered just and proper\\nthat anything which should clai)n a place in the pages devoted to it should be passed\\nlightly over in the foregoing chajiters in order to avoid repetition, and to intermingle with\\nthese interesting sketches the more comjilete facts gleaned from the party who knows them\\nbest.\\nEDWARD ADAMS, son of Nathan and Margaret A. (Smith) Adams, was born Au\\ngust 7, 1S36; he became a teacher in the public schools, at which he engaged for five\\nterms; was married. May 10. lN5i), to Elizabeth Coykendall, daughter of Emanuel Coy-\\nkendall, Ontario County, N. Y. they had two children, both of whom are living on the\\nhomestead Charles E., born April 12. 18(51; Ella. December 1, 1859. Mrs. A. was born\\nJuly 19, 1839, in Ontario County. N. Y. Mi-. A. is a successful farmer, takes a great in-\\nterest in the schools of the township and is politically a Republican.\\nNATHAN ADAMS, son of John and Susanna (Morse) Adams, natives of Massachu-\\nsetts, was born in Cheshire. N. H.. November 1. 1809; married Margaret A. Smith, Octo-\\ni V", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0699.jp2"}, "700": {"fulltext": "bw i;i. 1S8H. and moved to Macomb in the full of 1N;!4. aud settled on Section 18, in Ar-\\nmada Townshi]). where he took from the Government UiO acres of land, which he improved\\nand occupied niitil his death, which occiu red Se|)tember 12. 1NT2; they ha l ten children,\\nthree of whom ;u e living. Mrs. A. was born December 2(). IM 1; she was the daughter of\\nIsaiah Smith, a native of Orange County, N. Y., nesu- West Point, aud died December 27.\\nISfelO, on the homestead. Mr. A. was the first Town Clerk of the town of Armada, and\\nhas held responsible town offices since that time, and was Justice of the Peace at the time\\nof his death; he was Treasurer of an Agricultural Society: was forward in all the im-\\nprovements of the coxuity.\\nSETH ALDRICH was born in Berkshire County. Mass., November 2. 1804: removed\\nto Macomb County in 1 S;i8. and bought of the Government two lots since known as the\\nBriggs farm, on Section U, Ai mada; this he sold before moving his family, and, in 1835,\\nbought the farm on which he now lives, consisting first of eighty acres, to which he after-\\nward added M) acres; he married Rachel Burlingamo, a native of Berkshire, and had\\nthree children, all married aud living in Armada Township. Mrs. xlldrich died in 1844:,\\nand he again married, Louisa Wyman, of Ontario, N, Y., and had one son Charles who\\nlives on the homestead. The grandfather of the present Mrs. Aldrich, Isaac Page, served\\nin the war* of the Revolution and received a pension for faithful services.\\nCHARLES ANDREWS, son of Rev. Elisha D. Andrews and Betsey Lathrop, was\\nborn August 28. 1821 at Putney, Vt. the family removed to West Bloomlield. N. Y.. in\\n1828; lived there one year, and then removed to Mendon, two years; then to Pittsford,\\nMonroe County, for ten years; they moved to Macomb County in 1841, and settled on\\nSection 21, where they had previously piu chased 800 acres of land; this land had been\\nimproved by a man named Tenyck, who was in the employ of Mr. Andrews; he afterward\\nadded to this same 400 acres more. As an illustration of the strife to locate land in those\\nearly days, it is told that Mr. Andrews and a neighbor named Hulett. wanted the same lot\\nand both started for the office at Detroit at the same time to locate it. Mr Andrews had\\na team and the neighbor was on foot; the I oaiis were fearful, but the team won the race.\\nMr. A. made the required deposit, when Hulett came up out of wind and short of patience,\\nbut too late, when it was discovered that they were not after the same lot at all both went\\nhome satisfied. Charles Andrews settled on his present farm in 1845, which consisted of\\n840 acres. 170 cleared and a log house and a frame barn; a few years later, he built his\\npresent farm-house and more barns; he has lived here since that time, with the exception\\nof about seven years spent in Ai-mada Village; he was made an officer in the township in\\nan early day, and was made Supervisor in 1850. which office he held for eleven years,\\nwith satisfaction to the people, and is holding it at present; he was elected State Senator\\nin 186G. and served for two terms; he was then appointed Deputy United States Collector\\nfor Macomb County for four years. Mr. A. was an organizer and first Director of the Ma-\\ncomb County and Armada Agricidtiu al Societies, and was the first President of the Armada\\nsociety, which office he held six sviocessive year s; he was married, January 20, 1845, to\\nCharlotte Hewitt, daughter of Edmund Hewitt, of Ypsilanti, Mich,; she was born in Pitts-\\nford. N. Y.. in 1821; they had one son Edmund H.. born November 14. 1845. married\\nand lives in Ypsilanti. Mrs. A. died at that place May 27. 1846; married again. October\\n24, 1840, to Mary M. Elliott, daughter of Andi-ew Elliott, a native of New Hampshire; by\\nthis marriage, they had two childi en Minnie A., born January 20, 1855. married H. L.\\nKendi ick, and lives at Detroit, Mich.; Hattie B., born October 10, 1858, married H. J.\\nBarrows, aud lives in Armada. The present Mrs. A. was born December 14, 1825, at\\nNew Castle, Me. her grandfather Elliott was a soldier in the Revolutionary war,\\nand the family are descendants of the apostle John Elliott; her brother, the Rev. John\\nElliott, was a minister in the Presbyterian Chiurch, and was long a missionary to the Tus-", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0700.jp2"}, "701": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncarora Indians; they have been members of the Congregational Church of Armada for\\nmany years. Mr. A. has always taken a prominent part in all the interests of his town-\\nship: he has been a leader and a teacher of music since twenty years of age, and is at\\npresent a leader of the music in church and Sauday school.\\nWILLIAM H. BAKER, son of Samuel Baker, of New England, was born Noviember\\nI(\\\\ 171HJ. in Albany, N. Y. He was married, January 3. 182G, to Huldah Pettit, of Ben-\\nton, Herkimer Co.. N. Y., who was born May 21, ISdII; they came to Macomb County in\\nthe fall of 1!S27; settled in the town of Ray. on Section S. With the assistance of some\\nof his neighbors, he built a small log cabin and went into it without door or window.\\nHis doors, window frames and sash, chairs, table and bedsteads were the work of his own\\nhands, without ])aint or varnish. Their only neighbors within sight were wild beasts,\\nsuch as deer and wolves, which came around their dwelling in abundance. One night,\\nMrs. Baker was engaged in boiling sap to relieve her husband, who was tired out with con-\\nstant work, day and night. She had with her her little son, James, who was about five years\\nof age. He soon fell asleep, lying on a quilt beneath a tree near the boiling-place. Soon\\nafter beginning her work of the evening, the wolves came so near she could hear them\\nwalking, and see their eyes sparkling in the darkness. She kept the long-handled dipper\\nin the hot sajs and the fire burning brightly, and, after howling about an hour or two,\\nthey went off, and the brave woman kept on with her work until relieved by her husband.\\nThey had four children, one of whom still lives. In 1841, they went back to New York\\nto take care of Mrs. Baker s parents. In 1844, they retiu-ned to Michigan and settled in\\nSt. Clair County, at a place afterward called Baker s Corners, where they remained for ten\\nyears. The rest of his life was spent in various places in Macomb County. They were\\nmembers of the M. E. Chui-ch. In 1853, Mr. Baker was licensed to exhort, and shortly\\nafter was gi-anted local license, and followed this calling until his death. He died in\\n1870, July 9, six miles northwest of Ai-mada Village. ]Mi-s. Baker still survives, at the\\nage of eighty-two. Mr. Baker is remembered with the kindest of feelings.\\nMARIA L. BAKER, the second daughter of William H. Baker, and the only sTirviv-\\ning one, was born February 18, 1829. At the age of sixteen, she began life as a teacher\\nin the public schools, which continued twenty-three terms. She taught the first school in\\nthe Frost District School, consisting of nine scholars, five belonging to Mr. Frosfs family.\\nThe school was kept in Mr. Frost s house. She was married, September 6, 1865. to\\nCharles M. Lamphere, and lives on Section 4, Armada; has one daughter, Nettie, born\\nAugust 18, 1860, and living at home.\\nDANIEL BABNES, son of Simon and Rachel (Skinner) Barnes, was born in this town-\\nship July 1, 1797; mai-ried Mrs. Phoibe (Smith) Becraft, August 11, 1S24, and moved to\\nMacomb in 1835; lived on the Holman farm eight years; moved into Armada, where they\\nnow reside. Mrs. Barnes was born in New York, at Augusta, December 15, 1792: was\\nmarried to Isaac Smith, by whom she had seven children, two of whom ai e living; after\\nher second marriage, six children were born, five of whom are living.\\nDR. JOHN E. BARRINGER was born in Bristol, Ontario Co., N. Y.. July 16, 1841;\\nreceived his primary education in New York and at the Canandaigua Academy, and began\\nteaching in the public schools at the age of eighteen years, which was followed with suc-\\ncess for four years; studied medicine four years with Dr. D. J. Mallery. at Bristol, N. Y.\\nthen entered the Michigan University, from which he removed to Ai-mada. in November,\\n1863. where he has since been engaged in practice; was married, August 7, 1864, to\\nAntinette, daughter of Moses Perkins, of Bristol, N. Y. has two children Horace P.\\nborn May 12, 1866: Alice A., born Jime 11, 1870. Mrs. B. was born August 7, 1839.\\nDr. B. has held several important offices in the township and society: he attends the Con-\\ngregational Church and Sabbath school: in politics, he is a Democrat.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0701.jp2"}, "702": {"fulltext": "t\u00c2\u00b1^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHIRAM BARROWS, son of David and Ruth Barrows, both of Massachusetts, was\\nborn in Wyoming County, N. Y., October II, IS24; removed with his father s family to\\nWisconsin, remaining for four years. Mr. B. came to ]Macomb County in 1 S4S, and set-\\ntled on Section H, Ray Township, which ])lace he imjiroved and occupied until ISfir), ex-\\ncept the time spent in the army; he was twice elected Justice of the Peace; also Super-\\nvisor for some years: be was married. September 15, 1N46, to Bathsheba C. Hathaway, a\\nnative of Ontario County, N. Y. she was born March 20. 1(S22; the children ai-e David\\nH. born November S, bSSO, and Hiram J., born April 2. 1S5S. both married and living\\nin Armada. Mrs. BaiTows died June 12. ISfiO. Mi-. B. married again, April It, 1S6S.\\nMrs. Agnes Little Brownlee. of Mt. Clemens; she is still living; they have one daughter\\nRuth born December 1S6U. Mi-s. B. was born in Glasgow, Scotland, July 11, lS34;\\nshe had one daughter Marion Little born at Mt. Clemens August 20, 1^55. married\\nCharles Carter and lives in Armada. Mr. B. enlisted in the Ninth Michigan Regiment\\nInfantry, Comjjany A; was elected by the company Second Lieutenant; made First Lieu-\\ntenant December 10, ISOl; was wounded in action and taken prisoner at Murfreesboro\\nJuly 13, 1S62: exchanged August 27; made Captain October 18, lSfi2; mustered out No-\\nvember 16, 1S04; returned home in March. 1SB5. The regiment was engaged in twelve\\nbattles, in all but one of which Mr. B. himself was engaged. Soon after the war, he, with\\nDr. Smith, began the erection of the first brick block in the village of Armada, upon the\\ncompletion of which he commenced mercantile business; he was appointed Postmaster,\\nin February, ISGl), which office he still holds; in 1S75, in company with Cyrus Farrar, he\\ncommenced the manufacture of cheese in the village, but he soon bought out the partner,\\nand has since successfully prosecvited the work; he was elected Deacon of the Congrega-\\ntional Church of Armada in lS4y; also Superintendent of the Sabbath school soon after,\\nboth of which positions he still holds; in politics, he is a steadfast Republican; the sons\\nare engaged in business with their father, under the firm name of H. Barrows Sons.\\nDR. SAMUEL T. BEARDSLEE, son of Thomas Beardslee and Rachel Tuttle,\\ndaughter of E. Tuttle, of Sussex, N. Y., was born iii New Jersey August lU, 1S2N; moved\\nwith his parents to Oakland County in 1.S32; they cleared up a farm in the township of\\nIndependence, after which Samuel Beardslee commenced the study of medicine with Dr.\\nPaddock, of Poutiac, and attended the medical course at Ann Arbor two terms and a\\ncourse in chemistry; graduated from the Albany Medical Institute in 1S56; in IS came\\nto the village of Armada and began the practice of his profession, which he has prosecuted\\nwithout interruption to the present time. Married, December IS, 1S7(), Betsey A., daughter\\nof James McCanley, of Ontario Comity, N. Y. she was born January 3, 1844. and has one\\nchild J. Allen, born December 11, LSTS. Dr. Beardslee has a fine residence in the vil-\\nlage and a farm in Berlin of 257 acres; this property he has accumulated by his close at-\\ntention to his practice. Li politics, he is a Republican.\\nREY. HENRY N. BISSELL, son of Anson Bissell and Joanna Dart, daughter of\\nDr. Dart, of Vernon, Conn. his father was a native of East AVindsor, Conn. and a Deacon\\nof the Congregational Church of that place; he died December 28, 1S72, at Milan, Ohio,\\naged eighty-five years; the mother died at the same place October 28, 1846. aged sixty-one\\nyears. The family are direct descendants of John Bissell, the first of that name in\\nAmerica, who came from Somersetshire, England, and settled on the Connecticut River at\\nWindsor, where many of the same name still reside. The subject of this sketch was born\\nat East Windsor, Conn., June 2, 1816; he entered the Sophomore class of Yale College in\\n1886 and graduated in 188i); taught in the Huron Institute, in Milan, Ohio, three years;\\nthen entered the Theological Department of the Western Reserve College, of Ohio, sup-\\nporting himself and a brother, who afterward Ijeeame a missionarj in India; he spent the\\nfirst eight years of ministerial work in Lyme, Huron Co., Ohio; then as acting pastor for", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0702.jp2"}, "703": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntwenty-seven years at Mt. Clemens. Macomb County, from 1S54; moved to Armada as\\npastor of the Congregational Church in ISSl. He was married. May 5. 1846, in Man-\\nchester, Conn., to Elizabeth Hale, daughter of Nathaniel Hubbard, a native of Bolton,\\nConn. they have no children. Mr. B. has directed the education and assisted in bearing\\nthe expenses of two nephews, sons of the brother in India, who are now in the ministry in\\nthis State; he is and always has been a man of great energy and a hard worker and stu-\\ndent, and is firm in the faith of the orthodox church; he is a Republican in politics.\\nEBENEZER BROOKS, son of Ebenezer and Tamar (Ross) Brooks, natives of Wor-\\ncester County, Mass. was born January 15, ISOy, in Poultney, Vt. came to Macomb\\nCoimty in 1S34; remained one year, and then returned and married Eliza P. Davis, daugh-\\nter of Elisha Davis, of Lancaster. Mass.; she was born October 2, ISOU; he took eighty\\nacres of Government land on Section 7. Lenox Township, which he improved and sold in\\n1868, moving to Armada Village, where he now resides; had one child Charles D. born\\nMay 5, 1886, died September. 1S5U. Mr. Brooks took an active part in all the interests of\\nthe county; was forward in promoting chiu ch and Sabbath school work, and a Deacon of\\nthe Baptist Church, both in Lenox and at this place. In politics, he is a Whig, Free-\\nSoiler and Republican. Grandfather William Brooks served his country in the war of\\nthe Revolution, being engaged in the battle of Bunker Hill and died of disease resulting\\nfrom the war.\\nWILLIAM H. BUMP was born in Mariden. Monroe Co., N. Y., March 29, 1827; he\\nis the son of Robert and Cjmthia Btimp. The family moved to Romeo Village, May 1 5,\\n1884. where they remained one and a half years. Robert Bump was a shoemaker by\\ntrade and worked in a shop with Judge Prentice and in the families of the settlers, going\\nfrom home to home, a common practice of that day, styled whipping the cat; they moved\\nto their farm, on Section 85, -li-mada, in October, 1885; the mother died in 1864, and the\\nfather fom- years later. Mr. B. was married. November 2, 1856, to Martha, daughter of\\nRobert and Caroline Kelley, of Ontario; they have one daughter Geneva, born August\\n4. 1857. residing at home. Mr. B. has always been a Democrat in political faith and\\npractice.\\nELIJAH BTJRK is a native of Mexico. N. Y., born June 18, 1S07; he lived in Western\\nNew York as a farmer until 1888, when he removed to Macomb County, settling on what\\nis now the village of Armada; his brother. Norman Biu k, had settled near the center of\\nArmada Towushiii two years before. Mr. Bm-k moved through Romeo, thence to his\\nbrother s and cut his road from there to his land. He was married, December 20. 1S2U,\\nto Betsey A. Burdick, a native of Cajiiga County. N. Y., born in 1812, and had four chil-\\ndi-en, all living; two sons served in the civil war. Mr. Bm-k was forwai-d in all that\\nwould benefit the new settlement; the first religious services were held at his house and\\nhe was a willing helper in the Sabbath school and other means of moral growth \u00e2\u0080\u0094always\\na strong temperance man and a Whig in politics. Mr. Bm k is remembered with great\\naffection by the old settlers of Armada, for his house often sheltered them till one could be\\nbuilt for them. Though poor himself, he would always divide with those more needy: a\\nneighbor lost a cow Mr. B. gave him the use of one of his cows till the loss could be repaired\\nhis team was freely used by any who needed it, and people said: If all men were\\nlike Mr. Burk. much of the hardship of settling a new country would not be felt. He\\ndied at his home in Armada in 1S48.\\nNATHANIEL CARTER, son of Nathaniel and Eunice (Lincoln) Carter, of Leomin-\\nster, Mass.. was born at that place February 20. 1806; his grandfather. Nathaniel, was a\\nCaptain in the war of the Revolution, and his great-grandfather, Nathaniel, was one of the\\nfii st settlers of New England. The name Nathaniel has run through five generations.\\nThey are of English extraction. Mi-. C. left Massachiisetts for the State of Michigan, Sep-", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0703.jp2"}, "704": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntember 20, ISHl, arriving in Macomb County after a journey of twenty-five days; lie lo-\\ncated eighty acres of land on Section H-t. and afterward bought eighty acres adjoining,\\non which he has made his present farm and has lived upon it continuously fifty-one years;\\nin the month of March I l,. 1888, he was married to Chloe Stewart, daughter of Edmund\\nStewart, and has had three children George N. Cai ter, born March 31, 1S34, who resides\\nupon the old home farm; Mary J., born Ajsril 4, 1S58. died in infancy; Eddie B., born\\nNovember 12, 1859, died July 6, 1863. Mr. C. has been a Republican from the birth of\\nthat party and has held several imjjortant township oiSces; he has given much thought\\nand study to the subject of mechanism, and had at one time a mowing machine in opera-\\ntion before the present mower was invented he has also studied much ui)on the subject of\\naerial navigation, and also a plan to propel canal-boats by means of compressed air an\\nidea which has since been put into successful operation; he built a saw-mill on Coon\\nCreek, in 1833, being the second one east of Stony Creek; he has been a member of the\\nCongregational Church thirty years; in 1858, a candidate on the Free-Stjil ticket for leg-\\nislator. George N. Carter, son of the above, was born March 31, 1834, in Ai-mada Town-\\nship: has always lived upcm the home farm; was married, February 6, 1856, to Mary A.\\nSimons, daughter of Charles Simons, Genesee County, N. Y. they have had fom- children\\nCharles C, born May 4, 1857, who married Marion Little, August 19, 1880, and is now\\nin business in Armada Village; Lottie J., born April 30, 1864, and died June 19, 1866;\\nEva B.,born October 4, 1867; Mary E., born September 16, 1874. Mr. and Mrs. C. have\\nbeen members of the Congregational Church of Armada for many years. Mrs. C. was a\\nsuccessful teacher in the public schools. He is, in political belief, a Republican.\\nCHAUNCY R. CHAMBERLIN, son of Beekman Chamberlin, born in Armada Feb.\\n3, 1836; lived with his father s family on the homestead, on Section 4, Armada Township,\\nand, in company with his brother David, still occupies it. He was married, October 25,\\n1S63, to Mary, daughter of John C. Morris, of Pennsylvania; the children of this marriage\\nare: Chauncy, born November C 1865: Susan, born August 3, 1867; John, born March\\n24, 1870, died in infancy: Phebe, born August IN, 1871: Wilfred, born July 25, 1873;\\nalso an infant, who died March 9, 1875. Mrs. Chamberlin was born January 22, 1845.\\nMr. C. and brother are favorably known to the early settlers of the county as threshers for\\nmanv years; he is a Republican in politics.\\nMRS. DOROTHEA (THOMPSON) CHAMBERLIN, daughter of Isaac Thompson,\\nformerly of Yates County, N. Y. born at that place October 2, 1814; moved with her parents\\nto Macomb County October 1, 1825, and lived in Bruce Township, neai Romeo, until Febru-\\nary 29, 1840, when she was married to Charles W. Chamberlin, and settled on Section 33,\\nArmada Township. Mr. Chamberlin died on this farm August 22, 1844; they had three\\nchildren Oscar, born June 28, 1841, enlisted in Company A, Ninth Michigan Infantry,\\nat Armada, served three years, and was honorably discharged: he is married and now\\nlives in Ray Township: Jane E., born Sejitember 28, 1842. married E. ^V. True, and lives\\nat Ai-mada Village; Charles W., born November 29, 1844, now lives upon the homestead.\\nCharles W. son of above, was married December 1, 1869, to Mary J. Jury, of England;\\nis farmer on the homestead and has two children Adelbert, born September 17, 1871. and\\nFanny D., born July 30, 1876. The Chamberlins hoid to the doctrine of universal salva-\\ntion, and, politically, are Republicans.\\nGALEN CH.\\\\\\\\IBERLIN, son of Beekman Chamberlin. was born in Ontario Couuty,\\nN. Y., May 12, 1817; removed to Macomb County in 1834; from 1850 to the present time,\\nhe has owned fai ms in various places in Armada Township, and at present lives on Sec-\\ntion 9; was married, in 1851, to Millia, daughter of Stephen Harrington; he has one son\\nand one daughter, both at home. Beekman C, son of the above, born October 17, 1852,\\nhas always lived at home; was man-ied, September 17, 1876, to Hattie House, of St. Clair", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0704.jp2"}, "705": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCounty, and lias one child Myi-tie Belle, born August 21, 187S; botli the Chamberlias\\nare well known as threshers for many years; they are Republicans in politics.\\nWILLIAM H. CLARK, son of Peter and Elizabeth (Wilson) Clark, was born in Hop-\\nkinton, Mass., August 4, 1805. His father, Peter Clark, was a native of Newton, Mass.,\\nand was a soldier in the Revolution. Lived at that place until seventeen years of age,\\nand then moved to Medway, Mass., as an apprentice in the manufacture of cotton machin-\\nery; followed this business for fifteen years, and then engaged in the di-y goods trade,\\nat Springfield. Mass., now Chicopee, seven years; from here he moved to Michigan; in\\n1S45. settled in Elba, Lapeer County, as a farmer, on a new farm near the Chippewa\\nIndian Mission, and lived on this place; was Treasurer of Lapeer County for six years;\\nmoved to Macomb County in 1S(W, and settled on the ridge one mile west of Armada Vil-\\nlage, called the Chamberlin place, where he now resides. He married Frances Martin,\\ndaughter of Mrs. Elizabeth Rodgers Martin, natives of Portsmouth, N. H. she was a de-\\nscendant of the martyr, John Rodgers: they had ten children; six are living; his wife\\ndied at Lapeer City September 10, 187(3.\\nWILLIAM H. CLARK, Jr., is the son of William H. Clark, of Massachusetts; he\\nwas born in Dover, N. H. December 1 2, 1828; educated at Chicopee, Hampton Co.,\\nMass., in the common schools; from the age of foui teen to eighteen, he engaged in a\\nwholesale commission house in Boston; in 1846, he came to Lapeer County, being one of\\nthe pioneers; he lived on a farm for two years: he began the study of law at Lapeer,\\nMich. was admitted to the bar at the August term of the Circuit Court, held at Lapeer in\\n1858; he came to Ai-mada in November, 1858, and engaged in mercantile pursuits: at the\\nend of four years, he enlisted, November 10. 18(52, in Company G, Eighth Michigan Cav-\\nalry, of which he was Sergeant; he was promoted to Second Lieutenant, and was in active\\nservice until March, 1864, at which time he resigned on account of ill health; wasengaged\\nin eighteen battles and skirmishes and once wounded; on returning home and recovering\\nhis health, he commenced the practice of law in the courts of Macomb County, in which\\nbusiness he still continues; he held the office of Circuit Com-t Commissioner for six years\\nand Postmaster of Armada for four years; has always interested himself in agriculture;\\nwas one of the originators of the Armada Agi-icultural Society and a director in the same.\\nIn politics, he is a Democrat. He was married, October ID, 18 )2,to Mary Shafer, daugh-\\nter of John Shafer, a pioneer of Lapeer County: they have four children Mary F., born\\nMay 14, 1856, married K. S. Buck, and living in St. Clair County; William E., born De-\\ncember 2, 1858. died February 24, 18(54; Emma E., born November (5, 18()5, living at\\nhome: Josephine, born November 26, 1871. Mrs. Clark was born June U, 1828, in Hills\\ndale, Columbia Co., N. Y.: her father, who died February 22, 1SS2, located the land on\\nwhich part of the city of Lapeer now stands, and made a plat of the city on record of\\nShafer s plat.\\nJAMES CRA.WFORD. son of Robert Crawford, of Scotland, was born in Ayrshire,\\nScotland, June 24, 1827; emigrated to America in 18:51; they stopped at Buffalo two\\nyears, where the mother died of cholera: the family then moved to the vicinity of Romeo,\\nand lived two years there; purchased eighty acres of land, on Section 17, to which the\\nfamily removed; the father, Robert Crawford, was a farmer and gardener in the mother\\ncountry; he was born August 4, 1796, and still resides on the homestead. James Craw-\\nford was married. June 28, 1S56. to Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Borland, of Scotland,\\nand had three children Robert J., born September 1, 1857. a public teacher; Thomas,\\nborn December 10, 1858; Anna E., born April 28, 1N62, died February 15, 1876. Mr.\\nCrawford is a farmer and stock-raiser; has a hop-yard which yields annually 1500; there is\\na pioneer on this farm in the person of Old Nig a horse which has reached the age\\n^1", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0705.jp2"}, "706": {"fulltext": "of twenty-eight years, call of which he has spent on the farm. Mr. Crawford is a Ropuli-\\nlican in politics.\\nPHILIP C. CUDWORTH, son of David and Mary Cudworth, was born in the town\\nof Richmond. Ontario Co.. N Y., March HO, ISll; the grandfather on the mother s side\\nserved in the war of the Revohition, and both were of English origin: he moved to Ma-\\ncomb County in October, 1S;^5, and settled on Section -54, in Richmond Township, and\\ngave the name to that town; moved to his present farm in Ai-mada Township Ncivembei-,\\niSa^: was married, October 1, \\\\8-io, to Tamsin Tnbbs, of Ontario County, N. Y. they\\nhave liad six children, five of whom still live Xenophon O. ,born April IQ, 1887, mar-\\nried Martha Hicks and lives on Section 36, Armada: Philip, born December 24, J839, en-\\nlisted in Company A, Ninth Regiment, Michigan Infantry, under Col. Wilkinson, and\\ndied at West Point, Ky., of fever: Harriet, born November 10, 1842, married L. Fillmore\\nand died in Lenox November 28, 1801; Gerusha A. born Junuary H, 1844. married\\nCharles Chapman, and now lives in Iowa; Mary, born April 18, 1847, married Peter Scott\\nand now resides at Decatur, Iowa, in the town of Grand River, and built the tirst house\\nin that village: David S., born May 20. 1850. married Ilinda Fillmore, and lives on Sec-\\ntion 8. Ray Township. Mr. and Mrs. Cudworth have been members of the Methodist\\nChurch for thirty-eight years; he voted the Democratic ticket twice, siuee which time he\\nhas been a Republican. He was the first Postmaster in Richmond, Mich., when the office\\nsupplied mail to six townships; the route was from Lakeville to St. Clair, and postage\\nwas from 10 to 25 cents per letter and Canada letters a good deal more. The gi-andfather\\nof Mrs. Cudworth was a Revolutionary soldier; her family were of English and Scotch\\nblood.\\nXENOPHON O. CUDWORTH, son of Philip and Tamsin (Tubbs) Cudworth, was\\nborn in Richmond Township April 10. 1887; moved with his parents to Armada Town-\\nship in 1852. Was married, December 25. 1858. to Martha Hicks, and has three children\\nPhilip Elton, born February 14, 1862, now living at home; Burton H. born October\\n26, 1866; Frank S.. born February 21, 1868. Mr. Cudworth worked a farm on shares, in\\nRichmond Township one year, then purchased a farm of Mr. William Abbey, in Ai mada\\nTownship. Section 86. paying therefor the sum of $2,250; in 186U. he built a substantial\\nand tasty brick residence, in which he now resides; he has held responsible offices.\\nJAMES DAVIDSON, son of William Davidson, of Ontario, Province of Canada, was\\nborn in the Dominion August 14, 1829; removed to Michigan in 1856, to St. Clair County,\\nand to Macomb in May, 1862; settled in Section 8. Armada Township, where he now re-\\nsides; now owns and works a farm of 115 acres. He is a carpenter by trade. He was\\nmarried, October 12. 1855, to Lucinda Russell, of Ontario, who was born April 20. 1881;\\nthey have four childi-en Loder, born August 20, 1856, died October 22, 1862; Elvira,\\nborn June 28, 1858; AVilliam. Jime 18, 1860; Agnes, May 12, 1862; James, June 17.\\n1864. Mr. D. has made many improvements in his farm, and has succeeded as a farmer;\\nhe is a Republican.\\nCHARLES DAVIS was born in Rhode Island March 7, 17 .)8; was the son of Benja-\\nmin Davis, who was a pensioner of the war of the Revolution, and died in the State of\\nRhode Island in the year 1800; the wife of Benjamin enjoyed the pension for some years,\\nand died in Macomb County about the year 1840, at the age of ninety-two years. Charles\\nDavis removed his family to Macomb in 1886, and settled on Section 19, Richmond, which\\nwas then a wilderness; he died in Armada Village in May, 1880. Mrs. Davis died in 1888;\\nhe married again, Lucinda AVhite, who still lives in the village. Mr. Davis had seven\\nrhiklren, five of whom are still living.\\nRILEY DAVIS, son of Charles and Chelsa H. (Dodge) Davis, of Rhode Island and\\nNew Hampshire, was born in Genesee County, N. Y., April 26, 1836; removed to Macomb", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0706.jp2"}, "707": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nJuly, 1836: lived ia Eichmond till attaining his majority. Was married in 1865. to Eliza\\nBerry, of Ontario, Canada: married again. February 16. 1881, to Mrs. Charles Snover.\\nn6e Dulmadge: has one child\u00e2\u0080\u0094 George R. Davis, born December 4. 1881: was a farmer in\\nRichmond Township until 187U, at which time he removed to Ai-mada Village and engaged\\none year in a market; he still resides in the place and is a member of the Democratic party.\\nSETH DAVIS, son of Charles Davis, of Rhode Island, and Chelsa (Dodge) Davis, of\\nNew York, was born in Richmond Township July 13, 184(1: lived on the homestead until\\n1863: then enlisted in Company A, Michigan Provost Guards; was sent to the Upper\\nPeninsula, stayed one summer there, and then went as commissioned officer with Capt.\\nCioodell; left the State, October 22, for Alabama; was in active service; promoted to First\\nLieutenant and discharged in three years, June 10, 1866. He returned to a farm in Eichmond,\\non Section 16, and was married, in September, 1867, to Lois E., daughter of William Gil-\\nbert, of Iowa; she was born April 13, 1846; their children were: Ada M., born February\\n1, 1870; Nellie B,, May 22. 1873; Bert C, May 26. 1879; Harry G., September 17, 1881.\\nJune 10, 1873. Mr. Davis left the farm and kept a hotel in Annada Village one year;\\nthen built a residence in the village, where he now resides; politically, he is a member of\\nthe Greenback party.\\nDANIEL C. DAY, son of Russell and Charlotte (Smith) Day, was born in Bruce\\nTownship December U. 1849; always lived at home; was married, January 14, 1880. to\\nBelle Quick, of Macomb County, daughter of Henry Quick, of Ontario County, N. Y., born\\nJuly 17, 18r)7; has one child Clarence, born June 1, 1881. Mr. D. resides in the village\\nof Armada, manages a small farm and engages in the packing and sale of small fruit; in\\npolitics, he is a Republican. Elizabeth Day Bennett, sister of the above, born January\\n19, 1842, married, February 14, 1865, to Watson Bennett, who died in Illinois by an ac-\\ncident, March 4, 1873: she has one daughter and lives in Macomb County. Russell Day\\n(deceased), son of Erastus and Lucy Willard Day, natives of Dalton, Mass.. was born at\\nLeeds, Elizabeth Co., C. W., May 24, 1813. The family made but a short stay in Canada;\\nmoved to Genesee County, N. Y. the family removed to Romeo, Macomb Coimty, in\\n1828, a --d settled on land near Romeo; on the death of his father, he a.ssumed the home\\nfai-m until 1843. He was married. March 1, 1841, to Miss Charlotte Smith, daughter of\\nIsaiah Smith, of Aurelius, Cayuga Co.. N. Y. she was born September 15, 1815: they had\\neight children, of whom six are living, all in Macomb County; in 1843, he exchanged the\\nold farm for land on Section 19, .Armada: soon exchanged this for a farm on Section 24,\\nin Bruce, where he spent the greater portion of his life: in 1860, he sold this farm and\\nbought on Section 13. Bruce, where he lived sixteen years; went to a small place in Ai--\\nmada Township, Section 30, two years; then to Ai-mada Village, where he died June 13,\\n1880. Mi-s. D. still lives in Armada Village. He was a genial, kind-hearted man, foi-ward\\nin improvements and right in all moral questions; in politics, a Republican.\\nURIEL DAY, son of Harry Day, of Dalton, Mass., and Nancy Chamberlin. of the\\nsame place, was born in Otsego County. N. Y., December 10, 1810 lived nine years in\\nPennsylvania and moved to Macomb County in 1833, and cleared a farm on Section 7, Af-\\nmada Township, on which he still resides. He was married, September 12, 1833, to Olive\\nSperry, who was born August 22, 1812: they haa four children Emily, born June 25,\\n1834, married S. Hulett, andlives in Armada Township: Cordelia, born June 8, 183/, mar-\\nried H. Howgate, and lives in Washington, D. C. Caroline, born December 16, 1839, married\\nRobert McKay, and lives in Bruce Townshij); Lucinda E. ,born October 16, 1862, married\\nJohn McKay, and lives in Annada Township. Mr. Day has been a prominent man in the\\nearly history of Macomb County, and is, in politics, a Republican: he has been for many\\nyears a member of the M. E. Church and assisted in building churches at Romeo and\\nArmada.\\n:t^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0707.jp2"}, "708": {"fulltext": "S t^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nGIDEON DRAPER was born Juue 16, 1812, in Ontario County, N. Y.; came with\\nthe family of his father to Maoomb County in 18H1 his father was Daniel Draper, born\\nin the town of Rupert, in the State of Vermont, ou the 18th of October, 1778; he was\\nmarried in that place and had one child: in iSO i. he moved to the State of New York,\\nand had eight other children: three of his children still survive: he owned and improved\\nlaud in several places in Armada Township, and died in 18()(\\\\ Mrs. D. died three years\\nlater. On arriving at the age of twenty-one, Gideon Draper bought land in Armada which\\nhe sold to Uriel Day, and again bought on Section at the rate of per acre; this he\\nconverted into a home and occupies it at present. September 1. 18 !6, he married Eliza,\\ndaughter of Phebe Benedict, a native of New York, and they had seven children Adam\\nC. born December IT), 1887. Adamantha C, born March 8, 183 Cvnthia J., Januarv 1,\\n1841; Elijah P. June L H, 1848; Gideon. December 23, 1845; Alice, June 13, 1847,\\ndied June 24, 18/3: Milton W., born March 12, 1849, served in the late war, as did also\\nhis brother Elijah; Milton died at Huntsville, Ala., March 6, 1865. Mrs. D. died at the\\nhomestead May 23, 1877. aged sixty-one years. Mr. D. ha.^ been a member and steward\\nin the M. E. Church forty-four years, and held, most of the time, an office in the church,\\nand contributed to the erection of chm ches in several places; an officer in the township\\nand society, a Justice of the Peace for twenty-two years; politically, a Republican.\\nORSON C. DUNHAM, son of Daniel Dorreiice Dunham anil Julia A. (Clark) Dun-\\nham, was born January 11, 1836, at Rockport, Cuyahoga Co.. Ohio; moved from Ohio\\nwith his parents to Macomb County and settled on Section 36, Armada Township, where\\nhe lived two years and then moved to the west side of the same section, where they made\\ntheir home until 1876, when they moved to their present home, on Section 35. same town-\\nship; the father died at this place November 11, 1867. Orson was man-ied, November 13,\\n1864. to Salina Walton, of Richmond Township, and has one child (!harles, born Feb-\\nruary 2. 1874. The great-grandfather on the mother s side was a Revolutionary soldier,\\nand the grandfather served in the war of 1812. The mother is still living with him on\\nthe old farm. Politically, Mr. Dunham is a Republican.\\nTHE FARRAR FAMILY. Phineas Farrai- was a native of Marlboro, N. H. mar-\\nried to Abigail Stone, of the same jjlace, and all his children, ten in number, were born\\nat that place; he was a farmer in New Hampshire, from which he i-etired in the year\\n1850. and removed to Macomb with his son Charles, and died September 24, 1855; his\\nwife died in New Hampshire some years before. Charles Farrar, son of the above, was\\nborn November 10, 1796; he spent his younger yeai s in Boston as a carpenter and came\\nto Macomb County June I J, 1832, and settled on Section 30, Armada Township, and be-\\ngan at once to develop the water-power, since known as Farrar s Mill; he tirst put in ma-\\nchinery for the manufactui e of hand-rakes: afterward added the manufacture of clothes-\\npins, broom-handles, etc. after two years started a saw-mill, and in these branches of\\nbusiness he was engaged until the time of his death, which occurred April 26, 1863. j\\\\Ir.\\nFarrar was married. March 11, 1822, to Dorcas, daughter of Abram Cooledge, of Troy, N.\\nH., and had three sons Merrill P., born at Boston May 19, 1823, now living on the home-\\nstead; Charles C, born at Boston October 26, 1825, now living in the city of Flint; Cyrus\\nS born at Boston October 16, 1831, now at East Saginaw, Mich. Mrs. Farrai died at\\nthe homestead May 12, 1855. Mr. Farrar was afterward married to Mrs. Mary D. Bar-\\nbour, who still survives. Merrill P. Farrar, son of the above, was born May 19. 1823;\\ncame to Maeoml) County with his parents in 1S;)2, and became a farmer upon the home-\\nstead. He was married, September 12, 1848, to Sarah, daughter of Moses Perkins, of Troy,\\nN. H., and had two children Mary B., born Jul} 19, 1849, died at home December 10,\\n1871; Hattie M., born July 17, 1851, married Frank L. Day, September 2, 1873, died at\\nthe old homo February 27, 1880. Mrs, Farrar died January 19, 1854, Mr, Farrar again\\ni V", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0708.jp2"}, "709": {"fulltext": "4^\\nmarried. Ann M. Pringle, April 80, 1856. Han-iet Farrar, daughter of the above, mar-\\nried Frank L. Day, and had two childi en Harry, born September 24, 1874: Hattie E..\\nborn November 11. 1S77. The family has always been Congi-egational and Repiiblican\\nin polities, and Mr. Merrill Farrar has held responsible township offices many j-ears.\\nHEZEKIAH FARRINGTON. the son of James and Nancy (Ames) FaiTiiigton. was\\nborn in Canada January 29, 1882; his parents were natives of New England; his mother\\ndied in Ai-mada Febraary 186(3; his father lives at present at Almont, Mich., at the age\\nof eighty-eight years. Mr. Farrington settled on a farm near the center of Armada Town-\\nship; the mother died in Armada Township Februarys. 1865. Mr. F. was a sailor on the\\nlakes from tif teen to twenty-five yeai s of age. He man-ied Alvira, daughter of A_rchibald Dun-\\nham, of Macomb County, March 18, lSr)7, who died in Ai-mada Township January 5, 1861;\\nmarried again. October 1. 1868, to Theresa Pomeroy, daughter of Oscar Pomei-oy, of New\\nYork, who died in Ai-mada Township, Mich., in 1850; they have one child Austin, born\\nMarch 6, 1865 Mr. F. moved to his present farm in 1861 and has occupied it since that time.\\nMrs. Pomeroy. daughter of Hinksman Butterfield. a native of New Hampshire, was born\\nat Alden. Erie Co.. N. Y., February 20, 1826: she came with her parents to Macomb in\\nthe fall of 1882; her husband, Daniel O. Pomeroy, was born in Genesee County, N. Y..\\nAugust 10, 1821: they were married March 1 1, 1844: his father, John Trumbull Pomeroy.\\nwas born in Yennont April 4, 17U4, and died in Orleans County, N. Y., in 1888; the par-\\nents of Mrs. Pomeroy located in Anuada Township, where the family have since resided;\\nher father died November 12, 1865; her mother still lives, at the age of eighty-six. Mrs.\\nPomeroy had four children, two of whom. Mrs. Farrington and Mr. Pomeroy. are living in\\nAi mada Township. The family removed fi om New York to Tecumseh. Mich., with oxen\\nand wagon and one of the inconveniences lii st felt was the want of a spring wheel; their\\nown was left at Detroit, and no other could be obtained. After moving to Macomb, the But-\\ntertields were in straitened circumstances, and, for a short time, in 188(i. lived on buds\\nand young leaves gathered in the woods, boiled and eaten with milk and butter, of which\\nthey had plenty. After the death of the father. John, the Pomeroy family removed from\\nOntario. N. Y.. to Macomb, and settled in the townships of Ray and Ai-mada: they are\\nYermout people and have resided in various places in that State and in others: a mem-\\nber of the family. Mortimer C. is now living in St. Clair County.\\nAMOS FINCH, son of Sylvester and Almeda Finch, was born in Armada Township\\nJuly 11. 1886: enlisted in the army July 25, 1862. in Company E. Fifth Cavalry: spent\\nthree months in di-ill at Detroit; was engaged in the battle of Buckliu Mills; here all the\\nofficers of the company and many privates were taken prisoners, and many died. Mr.\\nFinch was elected Coi-poral at Detroit, and promoted to Sergeant at Washington; to Lieu-\\ntenant on July 3. 1865. and was mustered out at Leavenworth. Kan., June 27, 1865; took\\npart in three battles, and endured much hardship; upon leaving the army, he re-\\nturned to the old homestead, in Armada Township, upon which he has always lived. He\\nwas married. September 24. 1867. to Anna Smith, daughter of Isaiah Smith, of New\\nY ork. Mi s. Finch was born September 24. 1847: they have three children. Sylvester\\nFinch, son of Albert and Chloe (Knapp) Finch, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y.. March\\n1, 1805; came to Romeo in 1824 with the Finch family: in 1828. he bought land of the\\nGovernment, on Section 80. Armada Township, which he partly cleared, and sold in 1885.\\nand located on Section 15. where he died November 2, 1875; JIi-s. F. was born in West\\nBloomlield. March 1, 1810; she was the daughter of Roswell Webster, a native of Connec-\\nticut; she still lives on the homestead; they had ten children, eight of whom are living.\\nJAMES FLOWER, son of William and Eunice (Kilbourn) Flower, was born in\\nDelhi October IS, 1808; his father was a native of Ashiield, Mass., and his mother of the\\nsame place. Mi-. F. moved to Macomb County in the fall of 1854; opeueil a store of gen-\\n43", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0709.jp2"}, "710": {"fulltext": ".1^\\n698\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\neral merchandise at the branch, now called Armada Corners, in 1835, in which he continued\\nfor three years; in 1838, he bought 20 acres of laud on Section 3(t, Richmond Township,\\nwhich he cleai-ed up and made his home uutil 1874. adding to the original purchase 167\\nacres: iu 1S74, he removed to Armada Village, where he now resides. He was married,\\nDfCfiubcr I l. 1834, to Eliza, daughter of Asa Ingraham, of this county: they had six\\nchildren, four of whom are living. Mrs. F. was born in 1810, and died iu Armada No-\\nvember 4, 1881. Mr. F. was a member of the Legislature in 1849; has held offices in the\\ntownship for many years and was prominent in the advancement of the new country; he\\nhas always been a Democrat in. politics.\\nAMOS N. FREEMAN, son of Joseph and Syhia (Newman) Freeman, born in Onon-\\ndaga County. N. Y. moved to Macomb in 1824. and settled on a farm in Ai-mada Town-\\nship; in the year 18 i0. he bought a tract of wild land, where he spent most of his life;\\nhe was man-ied, in 1843, to Maria R. Fraleigh. and raised a family of six children; his\\nwife died in 1875, and he married Mrs. Cordelia Leviugs, of Richmond Township; they\\nare now living in Armada Township; a Republican in politics and a Methodist in religion.\\nARCHIBALD FREEMAN, son of Moses and Anna (Powell) Freeman, born in Wash-\\nington Township November 23. 1830; lived at home till the twenty-seventh year of his\\nage. He then married Emily Jewell, daughter of Jeremiah Jewell, November o. 1857; then\\n[)m-chased the farm on which he now resides, December 26, 1857, linown as the John\\nAVai-ner farm: they have two children, viz Adna J., born February 11, 1860; Hattie,\\nborn September 5, 1864, both of whom are now living on the homestead; in 186(\\\\ he\\nbuilt the residence in which the family at present reside; has good and tasty barns and all\\nthe appliances of a siiccessful business.\\nNEWMAN FREEMAN, son of Moses and Anna (Powell) Freeman, was born in Wash-\\nington Township April 27, 1832; has always lived on the farm inherited by his father;\\nwas married, June 2, 1864, to Mary A. Frost, of Armada Village, and has one child, Elva\\nA., born January 22, 1867, now living at home. Mr. Freeman is a successful farmer; has\\na fine and commodious residence and good surroundings. Mr. Freeman voted at the birth\\nof the Republican party for J. C. Fremont and has since voted with that party.\\nEDAVIN A. FROST, son of Aljen L. and Judith E. (Phelps) Frost, born in Armada\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2lanuary 11, 1848; always lived on the homestead, except three years spent in Richmi.nd\\nTownship; man ied. May 23. 1872, to Miss Laura J., daughter of David B. Grout, of On-\\ntario County. N. Y., and has the following children: Hattie E., born February 15. 1873;\\nJoel E., February 1. 1877. Mr. F. owns and occupies the homestead near the village of\\nArmada; he is prominently connected with several organizations of the county; in politics,\\nhe is a Republican. Allen L. Frost (deceased), son of Bezaleel and Nancy (Luce) Frost,\\nnatives of Massachusetts, was born at Williamsburg, June 28, 1804; moved to New Y ork\\nwhile a boy. thence to Macomb County, in 1835, where he bought and cleared up a farm\\nand made it his home for a life-time. He was married, at Gainesville, N. Y., January 2U,\\n1828, to Mary Smith, and had a family of four children, one of whom still lives. Mi-s. F.\\ndied October 2, 1844, when he married Judith Phelps, September 4, 1845, who has three\\nchildren sons Edwin A., born January 11. 1848; Walter I., born July 24. 1851; Fred\\nR., born July U. 185(i, a medical graduate. Mr. F. was ])ersonally identified with all the\\nimi)rovements of the new county, an organizer of the M. E. Chiu ch of Armada and a life-\\nlong member of the same: a strong supjiorter of the anti-slavery party and a firm Repub-\\nlican; his second son, Joel, was in the war of the rebellion, and was killed at Cedar\\nMountain August U, 1862; an uncle was a soldier of the Revolution, in the retreat from\\n(ijuebec, and suffered all the hardships of that time. Mr. F. died at the homestead April\\n24. 1874.", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0710.jp2"}, "711": {"fulltext": "HISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY. 699\\nHORACE GARLICK, fifth son of Samuel and Lucy (Mead) Garli-k, natives of Bos-\\nton, was born in Boston October 12, 180U. Samuel Oarlick, a soldier in the war of ISI J,\\nserved until the clos^of the war. His grandfather was born in England. Horace Garlick\\nmoved with the family to Connecticut; here the father owned a tide-mill, which was sold\\nin 1818, and the family moved to Auburn, N. Y. the father died in Oakland County in\\n1830, the mother in Jackson County in 1846. Mr. G. was in Black Rock, now Buffalo,\\nseven years, as miller: in Ingham County, Mich., on a farm of 120 acres, in 1837: re-\\nmained two years: retiu-ning to Buffalo, engaged in a flouring-mill: then to Jackson,\\nMich., in a grocery store, two years: thence to Macomb County, and engaged in milling at\\nMt. Clemens in 18-1:. He was married, September 20, 1SH2, in Ontario County, N. Y.,\\nto Delila Warner, who had three children, one of whom is living Mrs. Fitch, of Mt.\\nClemens. Mrs. G. died April 7, 1847. at Jackson, Mich. he married. September 7, 1848,\\nMrs. Nancy L. House: had one child. Dr. Fred M. Garlick. of Richmond. Tlie second\\nwife died at Mt. Clemens May 31, LS. jI; married. February 10, 1853. Mrs. Sarah Litfkin\\nGoodale. a native of New York, liorn February 10. 1820; they had one child \u00e2\u0080\u0094Lizzie E.,\\nborn March 20, 18uU, died iu Romeo August lU, 18G0; Mr. G. remained in Romeo foiir\\nyeai s. managing the Garlick House: in the fall of 1860. came to Ai tnada, where he has\\nsince remained, being in the hotel five years: then retired to a private residence of twenty-\\none acres of land in the village of Armada; the father and six boys were millers and en-\\njoyed the reputation of being first-class workmen; in politics, a Whig and then a\\nRepublican. The mother of Mrs. G., Sarah Goodale. was born in 17U6, March lU, on\\nthe Hudson River, at Charleston, N. Y. is now living with her daughter in Armada: she\\nis the mother of eight children, four of whom are living.\\nFULTON PAGE GOYER, son of Holly and Mary L. Goddell Goyer. was born Octo-\\nber 31, 1851. His father died at the homestead in Ai-mada Township, May 3, 1880. His\\nmother died at the same place July 2U, 1860. The subject of this sketch left home at the\\nage of seventeen, and worked with his uncle, Perrin C. Go xlell, at raih oad carpentering,\\non the Michigan Central Railroad, two years, then worked eighteen months for the same\\ncompany as locomotive fireman: at the ex^Jiration of the time named, changed to the Tole-\\ndo, Wabash k, Western Railroad, occupying the same position nearly three years. He then\\nreturned to his father s fai-m, and was maiTied, May 10. 1875, to Sarah E. Herbert, a na-\\ntive of Ontario County, N. Y. They have one child, Herbert, born October 13, 1878.\\nMr. Goyer is at present a farmer, and is making the breeding of fine Spanish Merino sheep\\na specialty.\\nLEWIS GRANGER, son of Thaddeus and Julia E. Granger, natives of Massachu-\\nsetts, was born March K 1N26, near Ala-on, in Portage County, Ohio. The father served\\na short time in the war of the Revolution, having enlisted at the age of sixteen, neai- the\\nclose of the war. He died in September, 1S25, and the mother received a land warrant\\nfor his services. She died in Memphis, this county, in 1S6N. Mr. Granger is a third\\ncousin of the Postmaster General, Gideon Granger, who was one of the first to hold that\\nposition under the United States Government; also, a relative of Lord Dudley, of England,\\nwho lived a centur} or more ago.. Mr. Granger removed to Macomb County in 1S46; set-\\ntled at Memphis and engaged in the mercantile business for about twelve years; removed\\nto Armada Village in 1871. and again engaged in mercantile business; was man-ied, Sep-\\ntember 26, 1S47, to Sarah J. Perkins, of New York, who died February 24, 1853, leaving\\none child, Hettie, born September 25, 1852, who married H. C. Mansfield, of St. Clair\\nCounty, present Register of Deeds for that county, formerh- Modos. ^Ir. Granger mar-\\nried, November 22. 1854, Han-iet A. Brownell, of New York. They have had fom- cliil-\\ndi-en Frank, born Mav 5, 1856, died in infancy; Francis B., born August 12, 1S59;\\nCharles L.. born Septeiinber 6, 1861; Libbie, born July 27, 1863. In February, 1880,", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0711.jp2"}, "712": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMr. Granger sold his store, and, after a short Irasiness engagement in Detroit, again com-\\nmonceil business, in a fruit evajwrating establishment at Armada, which he still pursues.\\nThe building devoted to this is 114x40 feet, a portion of which is frost-proof. The estab-\\nlishment is capable qf using annually 20. 000 bushels of green fruit, and of employing\\nforty persons. He is a prominent member of the Congregational Sabbath school of this\\nvillage; late a Justice of the Peace, and a strong advocate of temperance. In polities, he\\nis a Republican of the old anti-slavery type.\\nZARA GRANGER, son of Zara and Sally (Richardson) Granger, was born on Grosse\\nIsle, Detroit River, August 4. 1S30. His father was a native of New York: mother, of\\nMaine: moved to Macomb in 1830 and settled in township of Chesterfield, near Mt. Clem-\\nens, where they cleared up a farm. The father died in 1878; the mother, in 1874. In\\nNovember, 1878. Mi-. Granger bought a, farm in Richmond Township, which he kept till\\n1881, when he sold it, and removed to Armada Village and engaged in a meat market;\\nmarried, February 2(), 1851, to Miss Marilla Maybee, and had seven children \u00e2\u0080\u0094Elenor. born\\nDecember 1, 1855, died an infant; George L.. born August 31, 1857; Henrietta, torn in\\nApril. 1860; Ella, born in April, 186 2; Addie, born in October, 1864; Clara, born in Jan-\\nuary, 1870: Biirt, born in September, 1874. Mr. Granger has been a thresher of grain\\nthirty-live seasons; in politics, a Republican.\\nASA B. HAMLIN, son of Trmnau and Anna (Bowen) Hamlin, was born at Greenfield,\\nSaratoga Co., N. Y., March 5, 1813. His father was a native of Rhode Island and his\\nmother of Connecticut. They both moved to Jeft erson County, N. Y., while young, and\\ndied there. His father served by proxy in the war of 1812. The subject of this sketch\\nlived with his parents, in Saratoga County, till coming to Macomb County, which took\\nplace in 1866, stopjiing a season in Romeo. He then purchased the farm in Armada\\nTownship, Section 29. known as the Priest Shaw farm, on which he now resides; was\\nmarried to Lora Ann Wheeler, daughter of William Wheeler, of Jeflerson County, who\\ndied at her native place jNIarch 7, 1859. He afterward married Miss Maria F. Merriam,\\na native of Jeflerson County, who was born July 11. 1820, now living. His children are\\nLydia Ann, born February 28, 1841, married and living at Romeo Village; William T.\\nlx)rn November 10, 1847. now living at Port Huron, Mich.; Ella B., born June 17, 1855,\\nmarried and lives in Armada Towushiji; Abigail S., born March 5, 185U, married and\\nliving at Armada Village. The children were all by the former wife, and were born in\\nJeilerson County. Mrs. Hamlin s parents (Merriam) were formerly of Connecticut, and\\nmoved to Jefler.sou County, N. Y., in 1806, when that place was a wilderness, and were\\nforward in the development of it. The family name of the mother was Ca ly (Eunice).\\nShe died in September, 1862. The father died July 20, 1860. He served in the war of\\n1812, and was honorably discharged. Mr. Hamlin is Christian in form of worshij), and\\nwas a Whig, transferring his allegiance to the Republican party at its birth. He is and\\nhas always been a farmer, and makes the manufacture of clieese a sjjecialty. His cheese\\nhas always met with approval, and has commanded the highest market price.\\nALFRED HARRINGTON, sou of Morey Harrington, was born in Ontario County,\\nN. Y.. July 12, 182(X and, at the age of thirteen, went to work by the month till the fam-\\nily moved to Macomb, in 1839, after which he spent ten years clearing land for other peo-\\nple, when he bought the farm he now owns: married, in 1838, Abigail Beach, of Ontario,\\nN. Y., and had four children, two of whom are living. Mrs. Harrington died in March,\\n1876; married again. February, 1877, to Mary M. Webb, who still survives. Mr. Har-\\nrington joined the M. E. Church in 1859, and for the last sixteen years has been a local\\nand itinerant preacher of that denomination.\\nMOREY HARRINGTON was born at Rutland, Vt December 29, 1794. He moved\\nto Macomb Cottnty in 1839, and settled on Section 30, Armada, on the farm since known", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0712.jp2"}, "713": {"fulltext": "as the Howell place, where he stayed but a short time, then settled on Section 5, which\\nhe improved, and where he died in 1S59. He was the father of thirteen children, five of\\nwhom still live; was a local preacher of the Methodist Episcopal connection for forty years,\\nand aided in the development of religious sentiment in Northern Macomb. His wife died\\nat the homestead.\\nHIRON J. HATHAWAY, son of Chandler and Dency (Jones) Hathaway, born at\\nCarthage. Genesee Co.. N. Y.. August 15, 1S20. His parents were natives of Ontario\\nCounty, N. Y grandparents, of Vermont. The mother s jjeople were from Massachu-\\nsetts. Several uncles served in the war of 1812. The father died in New Y ork in 1820:\\nthe mother, in March, 1881, at Ai mada Village. Hiron J. came to Macomb in 1841 and\\nsettled on Section 35. where he now resides. He was married, September, 1841, to Cath-\\narine, daughter of Allen Briggs, of Ontario. N. Y., who served in the war of 1812 and\\ndied in Macomb County in 185(1. Mr. Hathaway had three children Chandler, born Au-\\ngust 24, 1842: Dency A., born November KX 1844. married Rock Bailey, and died in\\nJune, 1865: Sarah J., born October 5, 1847, married William Crittenden and lives at\\nMt. Clemens. Chandler Hathaway, son of above, maiTied, July 14, 1863, to Elizabeth,\\ndaughter of Richard Bailey, has two children Dency, born March 31, 1872; Jennie, born\\nFebruary 21, 1879. He resides on the homestead, and has always been a fanner, except\\nabout thi ee years, when he was engaged in the inauufactiu e of brooms in Romeo. He has\\na hop-yard, and makes the culture of that crop a specialty, in which he has met with good\\nsuccess. In political affinity, he has always been a Democrat.\\nMIRON S. HOLMAN is the son of Asa and Nancy Farrar Holmau, was born March\\n28. 1820. at Marlboro, N. H. His grandfather was a native of Boston, Mass., and re-\\nmoved at an early date to Roxbm-y. N. H. where his son Asa was born in 17U3. The\\nfamily removed to Macomb County in 1831: settled on Section 29, where he lived for six\\nyears, when he removed to Romeo, where the father died October Id, l.Sf)8. The mother\\nwas born in Maidboro. N H., in 1795. and died at Owosso. Mich., December 25. 1867.\\nThe subject of this sketch spent some years in the South, working at the carpenter s trade,\\nthen engaged in building in Romeo Village for about two years; he then engaged in busi-\\nness in Detroit for about twelve years, and in 185() made a trip to California, during the\\nheight of the gold excitement: his health failing, he soon returned, and then purchased\\nthe Farrar mill property in 1857, where he has since been engaged in the manufacture of\\nhorse and hand rakes. He was married, September 11, 1845, to Anna C, Quackenboss,\\ndaughter of Daniel and Abigail Quackenboss, natives of New York. They removed to\\nDetroit when she was eighteen years of age. Her gi eat-grandfather served in the\\nwar of the Revolution, and her grandfather enlisted in the war of 1812, Vnit, being under\\nage, was rejected upon examination. They have had children, as follows: Olin Q., born\\nMay 20, 1847. now living in Iowa, at Creston; Sarah E., born April 8, 1853, died in in-\\nfancy: Carrie G. born July 7, 1854, died January 5, 1857: RoUin G., born Januaiy 31,\\n1861, living in Creston, Iowa: Abbie L., born February 7, 1873. Mr. Holman still owns\\nand occupies the old factory, making good work out of the best material. He is a Repub-\\nlican in politics, and a Congregationalist in his form of worship.\\nS. SMITH HOLMES, deceased, was bom in Livingston County, N. Y.. October 4,\\n1811 removed to Macomb in 1834. and lived some years near Armada Village, then moved\\nto Section 4. Armada Township, where he lived to the time of his death, which occurred\\nNovember 5, 1876; married, in 182 Sally A., daughter of Beekman Chamberlain, and\\nhad five children, four of whom are living. Mrs. Holmes was born August 12, 181*). and\\ndied December 18. 1876. Mr. Holmes was a blacksmith, and had a shop in connection\\nwith his farm.\\nrr^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0713.jp2"}, "714": {"fulltext": "HISTOltY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nNEWTON HULETT, son of Oratus Hulett and Eunice (Carpenter), was born in\\nArmada Township September 7, 1845, and has always lived on the homestead. He has\\nadded to it 120 acres, and now owns 240 acres, with good buildings, and all in tine con-\\ndition for profitable work. He was married, January 23, 1808, to Huldah, daughter of\\nJohn Corbiu, of Macomb County, and has children as follows: Minnie, l)orn November 6,\\n1808; Orvy, born November 13, 1874; John N., born September 10, 1871: Narina B.\\nborn January 28, 1877; Cora A., born January 9, 1873; Orris, born May 12, 1881. Mi\\nHulett is a successful farmer, and strives to be at the head of his profession; in politics,\\na Eepiiblican.\\nORATUS HULETT, son of Paul Hulett, of Vermont, of Scotch descent, was b.jrn at\\nEutlaud, Vt., January 10, 1800: moved to Macomb County in 1830 and settled on land\\npurchased of Government, on Section 20, Armada, which he occupied to the time of his\\ndeath, which took place September 25, 187(5. He was married, first to Sally Spaulding,\\nof Vermont, September 21, 1820, who died March 20, 1829; by this marriage he had three\\nchildren, all of whom are dead. He then married Miss Eunice Carpenter, of Rutland,\\nVt., January ,14, 1830; by this marriage he had seven children, foiu- of whom still sur-\\nvive. Mrs. Hulett s ancesters, the Newtons, were siu vivors of the Revolution, and later,\\nthose of the same name served in the war of 1812. They were a hardy people, and lived\\nto extreme age.\\nSAMUEL HULETT, son of Oratus and Eunice Hulett, was born in Rutland, Vt., Feb-\\nruary 22, 1833; moved with his father s family to Macomb County in 1835. Mr. Hulett, in\\ncompany with his brother, carried on his father s farm for about eleven years, then bought\\na farm on Section 10, Armada, which piu-chase was made in 1803. This farm was known\\nas the Taylor place. The same year, he bought the Johnson place, adjoining his own.\\nHis farm now comprises 520 acres. He was married, July 22, 1800, to Emily, oldest\\ndaughter of Uriel Dav, of Armada Township. They have five children Ivy, born Jan-\\nuary 31, 1802; Uriel, born November 4,1865; Burton, born August 18, 1868; Eddie,\\nborn February i, 1871: Bruce, born January 1, 1876. Mrs. Hulett was born in Armada\\nTownship June 25, 1834. Mr. Hulett is a large dealer and feeder in fat stock; has\\nerected a fine brick residence, and has a good farm, wind-mill. etc. Politically, he is a\\nRei)ublican. Mr. Hulett has a family horse which is more than thirty years old.\\nW. IRVING HULETT. son of Oratus and Eunice Hulett, was born November 23,\\n1834; has always lived on the land which was secured by him at the time of his marriage,\\nwhich is on Section 20, known as the Bancroft farm. He was married, January 14, 1862,\\nto Anna McCati erty, of Bruce Township. They have foiir children, all living at home.\\nMrs. Hulett was born February 17, 1844. Mr. Hulett is a prosperous farmer, and a mem-\\nber of the Republican l)arty.\\nNATHAN HURD was born in Welland County, Canada West, August 7, 1825. His\\nfather was a native of Vermont, and, in the year 1834, removed to Lapeer County. This\\nwas at that time a wilderness, inhabited only by wild beasts and Indians. The nearest\\ncommercial point at that time was Pontiae, a small village of two or three stores and a\\ngrist-mill, to which they made a weary pilgi image at long intervals for their grists and\\nscanty gi-oceries. He lived here till 1853, then moved to Macomb County and settled in\\nAi-mada Township. In 1800, he removed to St, Clair County, and enlisted in Company\\nH, Fourth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, and did service in the army one year: in 1877,\\nreturned to Armada and engaged as general blacksmith and carriage-maker, and is so en-\\ngaged at present; married, in Armada, September 3, 1849, to Diana M. Perry, of Massa-\\nchusetts: she was boi-n in October, 1831, and has thi-ee children Alice, Celia M. and\\nAdelia J. He has buiit a tine house, and is a careful and industrious mechanic.\\ni V^", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0714.jp2"}, "715": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUXTY.\\nJOSEPH A. INGRAHAM was bom in Outario, N. Y., September 7, 1S2S; lived some\\nyears in Ohio, thence removed to Lapeer Conntj, and, in 1850, settled in Ai-mada, Sec-\\ntion 3, where he now resides; was married. February 9, 1852, to Amanda, daughter of\\nAbel Sumnei% a native of New Brunswick. The children of this marriage are Edmund\\nL., bom August 30, 1852; Charles E., born September 20, 1854; William I., born May\\n23, 1858; Ruth M., born September 13, 1860; Elizabeth M., born October 9, 1863; Rosa\\nv.. bom January 6, 1868, died June 15, 1869; Andrew J., born January 23, 1870. Mr.\\nIngraham is a carpenter and cooper, a close workman, and has a fann connected with his\\nbusiness; in politics, a Democrat.\\nGEORGE R. KIDDER, son of Sidney M. and Lorette Fisher Kidder, born in Berlin\\nTownship April 26, 1846, commenced business as a cari)enter in Almont: bought a farm\\nin Dryden and went to fanning; from there to Capac as a gi-ain merchant, then as a keeper\\nof a gi ocery store: afterward bought a farm in Berlin; from there as a cabinet-maker in\\nBrace; then to Armada as a butcher; in 1877, invented a land-roller, upon which be ob-\\ntained a patent; in 1S78, took out letters patent on barn door roller, which has become\\nvery popular both in the United States and Canada also invented a farm gate. ^Ir. Kidder\\nmai ried, May 4, 1870. Lora Dodge, daughter of Stephen Dodge, of St. Clair County. They\\nhave two childi-en Mattie. born February 22, 1871; Ruth, born August 22,1873. Mrs.\\nKidder was born March 4, 1847. Mr. Kidder now lives in Armada Village, and is iden-\\ntified with the Democratic party.\\nSIDNEY KIDDER, deceased, was born in Genesee County, N. Y., about the year\\n1810; removed to Romeo in 1836; began life as a country merchant in the village of Ro-\\nmeo; a few years later went in company with Mi\\\\ Oel Ris and formed a partnership for the\\nprosecution of the same business; from there went to Berlin, St. Clair County, on a farm,\\nthen back to Bruce for six years on a farm. He was living in St. Clair Count, at the\\ntime of his death, which occun-ed with his own hands; in 1857, married Lorette, daughter\\nof Luke Fisher; they had three children, all living. Mrs. Kidder died in February, 1868.\\nCHARLES A. LATHROP, son of Edward and Emma Andrews Lathrop, was born in\\nWest Springfield, Mass.. October 25, 1816. His father and grandfather were natives of\\nthe same place, his great-grandfather, of Norwich, Conn., descendant of Rev. John Lath-\\nrop, of Barnstable, England, who settled in Bai nstable, Mass., where he was the head of a\\ncolony. Mr. Lathrop s father died at Ai-mada Village September 11, 1863; mother died\\nseveral years later. They had eleven children, all living but two. In 1847, Mr. Lathrop.\\nin company with his brother, opened a store of general merchandise, it being the second\\nin the place. The first bill of dry goods amounted to 190, and was pm-chased of Zach\\nChandler, of Deti-oit. Two lirothers have been with him in the business, but both have\\nretired, and Mr. Lathrop conducts it alone. He was married, in May, 1858, to Rachel A.\\nYoungs, of Armada, and they have had two children Charles E., born June 17, 1859, is\\nin the store with his father; Lillie A., born October 1, I860, married Edwin F. Phillips\\nand lives in Armada Village. Mrs. Lathrop was born January (5, 1832. Mr. Lathrop was\\nan early officer in the township and the village; in politics, fii-st a Whig and now a Re-\\npublican.\\nDAVID McCROSSIN, M. D., son of James McCrossin, of Leland, was born in Ontario\\nCounty, N. Y., November 13, 1813; came direct to Michigan, arriving December 7, 1854.\\nHe had visited this county some years before and bought land on Section 11, Armada\\nTownship; moved the family in 1854, and settled in Berlin, St. Clair County, remaining\\ntwelve years; then to Armada Village, where he still resides: moved from Ontario County\\nthrough Canada with wife and one child, three trunks, and a hencoop lashed on behind,\\nin which were two Shanghai chickens, the tii st of the kind introduced in these ))arts. Mr.\\nMcCrossin studied medicine at Springwater. Livingston County, with Dr. Arnold Grey;\\n:f^", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0715.jp2"}, "716": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nadmitted to practice in Ontario County in 1829, which avocation he pursued dimng his\\nactive life: married, June 2. 1831, Amanda Short, who died February 5, 1851: four chil-\\ndren, all living: married, Septeaiber 27), 1851. Mary L. Wait, of Washington County, N.\\nY., and has one child, Dora, born Jiine 14, 1854, living at home. Mrs. McCrossin was\\nborn September 8, 1825. Mr. McCrossin was successful in his practice: in politics, a\\nWhig, afterward joining with the Republican party. The fathers of both Mi-, and Mrs.\\nMcCnissin served in the war of IS] 2, and the grandfather of Mrs. McCrossin, Peleg\\nWait, was a Kevolutionarj soldier. The families were from Vermont and Khode Island.\\nTHOM.^S McIL WRICK was born in Paisley, Scotland, December 24. 1826: served\\nthe regular term of five years as a cabinet-maker, and came to America in 1848. The\\nvessel in which he came was four months and eight days between ports. He worked a\\nshort time in Detroit, then reached the Scotch settlement in Bruce, and labored in the\\ntrade of house carpentering eight years; married Eliza Learmont, who was born in En-\\ngland June 21, 1833, and have no childi-en, except an adopted daughter. In LS51, he\\nbought land on Section 6, Ai-mada Township, and began to be a farmer, in which he has\\nsucceeded. He has several relics of the old country of great age; Republican in politics,\\nand Presbyterian in form of worship.\\nJOHN McKAY, son of Robert and Jean (Gray) McKay, was born in Bruce Township\\nAugust Ifi, 1843 married February 2 1, 186*5, and settled on a farm on Section 19, Armada,\\nknown as the Joseph Bennett farm, on which he has resided since that time. His wife\\nwas Lucinda, youngest daughter of Uriel Day, of Armada Township; was born October\\n16, 1842. Their children are: Robert U., born July 24, 1868: Olive J., born January\\n11, 1871. Mr. McKay s farm consists of 300 acres, in fine cultivation; makes a sj^ecialty\\nof Durham cattle, of which he has a superior herd. He has held responsible offices in\\ntownship and society: a charter member of the Grange, No. 414: also of Pomona Grange,\\nof Macomb; a member of several agricultural organizations, and President several terms,\\nalso a member of the Executive Board of the State Short-Horn Breeders Association;\\nCongregational in worshij), and Republican in politics.\\nGURDON H. MILLARD, son of Jesse and Elizabeth (Hopkins) Millard, he of Ohio\\nand she of New York, was born in the city of Detroit February 2, 1841; learned the trade\\nof fine coopering at Clarkston two years; entered the army in August, 1861, Company H,\\nFifth Michigan Volunteer Infantry: was discharged November 25, I8f)2, and again pur-\\nsued his trade at Clarkston eight years: in 1872, begin the study of dentistry; was licensed\\nto practice by Detroit Dental Association; pursued this business at Clarkston, at Birming-\\nham, and in 1875 came to Armada, where he is still in practice. His business is lai gely\\non the increase, and his work first-class. He married, October 15, 1863. Elizabeth Low-\\nrie, of Oakland County, who was born May 25. 1844. They have two children Fred A.,\\nborn February 6, 1867; and Frank G., born January 1, 1872. Mr. Millard s father was a\\nsoldier in the Mohawk war; his mother was a relative of the Hojjkins of Revolutionary fame.\\nGEORGE M. MILLS, son of Asii and Lucetta (Banister) Mills, natives of Orange\\nCounty, N. Y. was born in Richmond Township September 9, 1839. LTntil arriving at\\nmajority, he lived on the homestead and attended the schools of the place. He then\\nbought forty acres of land, to which he added 140 in Richmond. He sold this property\\nin 1872, and bought the Erie Buttertield farm, Armada, which is his present home. He\\nwas man-ied. May 15, 1867, to Miss Elizabeth McGreggor. daughter of Robert McGreggor,\\nof Ray, She was born in Ray June 16, 1848. Their children ar=^ as follows: Elmer,\\nViorn January 24, 1868, died March 24, 1873; Lillian, born February 25, 1873; Delmer,\\nbom April 6, 1875. Mr. Mills has held offices in township; a member of the order of\\nPatrons of Husbandry, and Democratic in politics. His farm lies in the outskirts of the\\nvillage of Armada, and consists of KiO acres of fertile land.\\nn*\\nw", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0716.jp2"}, "717": {"fulltext": "U\\\\\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMAETIN M. MILLS is the son of Asa D. and Lueetta Banister Mills, natives of\\nNew York State; he was born in Bruce Township, Section Ju; was married to Emma Gonld\\nMarch 11. ISdd; lived one year in the village of Almont. thence to Armada Village, thence\\nto Richmond Township, where he lived for eight years; then to the township of Shelby\\nfour years: then to Ai mada Township. Section 3 where he now resides. They have tonr\\nchildi-en John, born October 3. ISOli; Eddie, born June 3. 18(i9: George, born\\nJuly 15. 1873; Delia M., April 3, 1880. Mr. Mills parents were of American origin. He\\nis a farmer in easy circumstances, and pro.sperous. He makes the diseases of cattle and\\nhorses a study, and his services are often required in the neighborhood where he lives.\\nGrandfather Timothy Banister served in the war of 1812, and received a pension.\\nREV. JAMES H. MORTON, son of James Morton and Margaret Borland, natives of\\nScotland, was born April 11, 1833, in Ayrshire, Scotland; came to Macomb July 18, 1844;\\nsettled on Section 7, Armada Township; attended school at the Romeo Academy some\\nyears; taught in the public schools winters until reaching majority; afterward entered\\nJetferson College, of Cannonsburg. Penn. a short time; again engaged in teaching: in\\ncompany with a brother, carried on a fountlry business in Armada Township; also at La-\\npeer City: in 1858. entered the local ministry of the Methodist Protestant connection: then\\nentered the conference of the same chttrch, which relation was maintained for sixteen years\\nthree years in AVestern New York, and thirteen yeai s in Eastern Michigan. In the\\nautumn of 1875, he severed the connection with the Methodist Protestant Church and\\ntmited with the Methodist Episcopal Chuirh, which relation still exists. He is at present\\nPastor of the Methodist Episcopal Chiu-ch of Ai mada Village. Mr. INIorton was married.\\nNovember 19, 1857, to Harriet L.. daughter of Henry Strong, of Lapeer, formerly of Con-\\nnecticut. She was bora in 1838, and died May 1, 1859: one son died in infancy: married\\nagain, March 19. 18 )3. to Mrs. Anna Silsby, daughter of Benjamin Elliott, of Lenawee\\nCounty, Mich.: six children, live living at home: the oldest. John, died May 12, 1882.\\nMrs. Morton was born January 20, 1843. Mr. Morton has been connected with the litera-\\nture of the county, and is an acceptable minister in the church to which he belongs: in\\npolitics, faith and practice, always a Republican. In 1878, he, with his wife, made a\\nvisit to the old home in Scotland, and spent some v/eeks in reviewing the scenes of his child-\\nhood. A series of twelve letters written by him were published in the papers of the State.\\nTHEODORE G. MOSHER, son of Jabez and Ann Tubbs Mosher. natives of New\\nYork, was born in Ontario County, N. Y, October 23, 1832; removed with the family to\\nMacomVj and settled on Section 2, Armada, in 1840; married, October 23, 1854, to Urilla\\nEaton, of Connecticut: she died July 17, 185 maiTied, April 5, 1858, Jane C. Eaton, a\\nsister of his former wife, born February 7. 1835; one child, Everett, born October 23, 1859,\\nliving at home. Mr. Mosher began business life as a farmer: located on the land on n^hich\\nhe noTT lives in 1805 the farm now consists of 300 acres. Sections 1 and 2. Armada Town-\\nship. In 1875. he erected a tine residence, and has surrounded himself with all that is\\nnecessarv to a prosperous business. In politics, he is a Democrat.\\nJAJBEZ MOSHER, deceased, was born in Western New York February 28, 1800. He\\nremoved to Macomb County in 1840 and settled on land in Section 2, Armada Township,\\nwhich he recovered from a -cilderness and added 120 acres; married Ann Tubbs, a native\\nof the same place; raised a family of nine children, seven of whom still live. He was a\\nprompt and energetic man. thoroughly alive to all the interests of the new county, and a\\nmember of the Whig party. He died where he had lived, on the homestead, January 23,\\n1855, Mrs. Mosher died October 1. 1870, at the age of eighty years.\\nELI Ct. PERKINS, son of Conde Perkins and Hannah GriiSths, he of Connecticut\\nand she of Vermont, was born in Canada, August 1, 1822. His father, Conde Perkins, was\\na volunteer of 1812; started for the battle of Plattsbiu g, but, the conflict being over, was", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0717.jp2"}, "718": {"fulltext": "discharged. Grandfather Nathan Griffiths served during the entire term of the Revolu-\\ntionary war, being at the headquarters at Valley Forge, and jiarticipating in all its\\nscenes. He was under the immediate command of ashingt(in, and was honorably dis-\\ncharged at the close of the war. Mr. Perkins came to Macomb in !March, 1S38; made a\\nclearing on his land in 1844; subsequently opened a cooper-shop in Richmond Township,\\nwhich he operated until 1853, when he went to Iowa; he returned after a short stay there,\\nrented the Gower farm: subsequently located on Section 14, Richmond Township, where\\nhe lived four 3ears, and next on Section J, Armada, where he now resides. Mr. Perkins\\nmarried Miss M. A. Mosher, daughter of Jabez Mosher, Ontario County, N. Y. September\\n16, 1844. There were six children by this marriage James G. B., born April 22, 1845:\\nGleason A., November 5, 184(5; Helen M., March 7, 184U, died December 14, 1854; Ro-\\nsetta A., March 28, 1851: Eli E., January 10, 1853, died October 11, 1854; Eli F., born\\nMarch 4, 18515. Mrs. Perkins was born in Richmond, Ontario County, in 1825. Mr. Per-\\nkins has a farm of 135 acres, well cultivated. His sheep-farming operations have been a\\nsuccess. Politically, he is a Gi-eenbacker. Freeman Perkins, brother of Eli G. served\\nin the Fifth Michigan Cavalry; was taken prisoner at Gettysburg, and died from harsh\\ntreatment while in the Confederate hotel at Andersonville, on his joiu ney homeward.\\nCOL. NORMAN PERRY was born in Northumberland, Saratoga Co., X. Y., April\\n20, 17UI5. In 18l he accompanied his father s family to Leroy, Genesee County, where\\nthey took up new land, and where Norman lived eight years. In the fall of 1824, he\\nstarted for Michigan; found the Hoxie settlement, and located eighty acres of land east of\\nthe village of Romeo, at a place since known as the Branch. Upon this land he\\nerected his cabin, built of logs, floored with puncheon and shingled with shakes, and\\ncleared about four acres. Having accomplished this, he returned to Genes e County. In\\nMarch, 1825, he was married to Miss Susan Scott, and started a few days after for his new\\nhome. Mrs. Perry was the daughter of Capt David Scott, the iirst settler in the county\\nof Clinton, Mich., a lady remarkably gifted in those qualities which made the pioneer\\nlife one of contentment and comi)arative happiness. In their jom-ney they were accom-\\npanied by Reuben R. Smith, who settled on a farm close by. The journey to Buffalo was\\nmade with teams, taking two days, over roads which were both difficult and dang-erous to\\ntravel. At Buffalo, they took passage on the steamer Superior for Detroit. From this\\nj)lace they proceeded by way of Royal Oak in search of Bailey s or the Hoxie settlement,\\nwhich point they reached aftei two days floundering in the mud, and over logs and cause-\\nways for twodays. They remained over night at the settlement, and in the morning set out\\nto find the cabin at the Branch. They had no sooner reached it than they found that, in\\norder to institute housekeeping, the} had to go back to the village for the necessary arti-\\ncles. While he was gone, the young wife left alone in the hut in the woods, went nY in the\\nchamber of the cabin and lay down upon some boughs to rest. AVhile there, two men,\\nwho had built further down the creek, came along the path to the village, and, seeing\\nthat the house was open, stopped to see how neighbor Perry was getting along. One of\\nthe men stepped up the ladder, and, looking into the chamber, exclaimed, Great heav-\\nens! there s a woman here! This was the young lady s Iirst introduction to her neigh-\\nbors. They had purchased a cow on the way to Detroit, and driven it to the fann, but\\nthe first night the animal became homesick and returned. Mr. Perry followed her twenty\\nmiles or more, but, finding her still ahead, and gaining on him, he gave up the chase and\\nreturned. Mr. Perry always lived upon the farm, and died Jul} I J, 1880, at the age of\\neighty-four. He was a frugal and industrious man, a good manager, and forward in all\\nthe necessary works of improvement in the new settlement, and many of the meetings for\\nthe transaction of township business were held at his house. Noah Webster settled a lit-\\ntle farther down the creek in 1825, and in the following spring, Josiah Hamlin built a", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0718.jp2"}, "719": {"fulltext": "blacksmith shop, and was a great help to the settlers. The oldest child of Mr. and Mi-s.\\nPerry, now Mrs. John Selleck, was the fii st child born east of Romeo. Mr. Perrj was a\\nmember of the State militia, and received a Lieutenant s commission in April, 1829, bear-\\ning the signature of Gen. Gass. In July, 1830, he was made a Captain of State militia\\nby Gen. Cass; in September, 1831, was advanced to Major by Stevens I. Mason, and pro-\\nmoted Lieutenant Colonel in Februaiy, 1832, by Mason, Governor of the Territory.\\nMRS. SUSAN (SCOTT) PERRY, daughter of Capt. David Scott, of Clinton County,\\nMich., was born at Shoreham, Vt., Februaiy 21, 180 2; moved with her parents to Le Roy,\\nN. Y. thence to Cattaraugus County, N. Y. and, after six months, retm-ned to Le Roy\\nafter a few years, moved to Covington, N. Y. and lived until 1825; in March of that\\nyear, marrie 1 Norman Perry, and moved to Macomb County and settled at the Branch,\\ntwo and a half miles east of Romeo, Mich., on Section 31, Armada Township. Mr. Perry\\nbought 320 acres of laud, which is still occvijjied by the family; have had seven children,\\nall of whom still live Delia, born January I .J, 182(5. married John Selleck, and now re-\\nsides in Ray Township, and was the first child born in the township of Ai-mada: Ozni S.,\\nborn October 3, 1827, now at the old jilace; Elem Maria, born January 10, 1831, married\\nJames Sanford (deceased), now lives at Charlotte, Eaton Co., Mich.; Manly C. born Jan-\\nuary 4, 1833, lives in Richmond Township); Norman, born August 7, 1840, married Ellen\\nWarner and lives at the old home; Norton M. born October 20, 184(^, maixied and lives at\\nLansing, Mich.; Marshall, born August 10, 1844, who is unman-ied, and, with Norman,\\nowns and occupies the homestead. Mrs. Perry is a hapjiy and cheerful old lady, full of\\nneighborly deeds and kindnesses.\\nW. DURFEE PETTIBONE, son of Anson and Hannah (Blakely), was born July 24,\\n1834. His father, a native of Vermont, was born at Bennington April 15, 17U4. His\\nmother was a native of the same place, born June 8, 17y7. The family moved from Ver-\\nmont to New York, and settled on a new farm in Wyoming County, N. Y. and lived till\\n1845. In the year 1831, he had visited Macomb County and located 620 acres on the\\nridge near where the village of Armada now stands. This farm he improved and occu-\\npied to the time of his death, which took place April 20, 18*U. He was married, January\\n1, 1822, to Hannah Blakely. and had six childi-en, two living. Mi-s. Pettibone also died\\nat Ai-mada. The suljject of this sketch spent his early yeai s on the homestead farm, and\\nattended school in the public schools of the village, and taught school one year. He was\\nmai-ried, March 28, 1800, to Annie A., daughter of Edward Lathrop, born in Pittsford, N. Y.,\\nApril 27, 1837. Their children were\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William E., born September 13, 1864, died Mai-ch 4,\\n1874; Jennie, born December 11, 1866, died February 3, 18()7; Eda, born June 23. 1868,\\ndied December 11, 1869: Fanny, born June 4, 1870; an infant daughter died October\\n12, 1875; Robert E. born April 20, 1878. Mr. Pettibone inherited 300 acres of the home-\\nstead, and has added 200 acres, erected tasty and complete buildings, good fences, etc.\\nHe was a charter member of the Armada Agricultural Society, and an officer therein; an\\nofficer in village and district; a member of the Congregational Church and Sabbath school,\\nand a Republican in politics; a strong temperance man.\\nEDWARD PETTIBONE, son of Anson and Hannah (Blakely) Pettibone. natives of\\nVermont, was born July 10, 1828, in Wyoming County, N. Y. came with bis father s\\nfamily to Macomb in 1845; has always lived on the homestead, situated on Sections 24\\nand 19, Armada and Richmond Townships; married, January 1, 18( )0, Antoinette Butler,\\ndaughter of William Butler, of Buffalo; she was born May 19, 1824; has one child, Mary,\\nborn January 1(5, 1862. Mr. Pettibone received from his father s estate 300 acres, and\\nhas purchased sixty acres in addition \u00e2\u0080\u0094one of the best locations in the town on the Ridge\\nnear the village of Armada; always voted with the Republican partv. Mrs. Pettibone\\ndied March 1874.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0719.jp2"}, "720": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAUSTIN H. PHILLIPS, son of John H. and Clarinda Briggs Phillips, was born in\\nArmada Anciist IT, 1854. He attended school at Armada, lived on the homestead, and\\nwas mai-ried. December 30. ISTIi, to Lillian, daughter of Ezra Sibley, of Armada. She\\nwas bom May 1, iS iU. They have two children William Sibley, born June Id. ISTS:\\nJohn Alva, born February 18. ISSO. Mr. Phillips is a farmer, meeting with good success.\\nHe is a member of the Baptist Chm-ch of the village, and Superintendent of the Sabbath\\nschool. He is a Republican in politics.\\nJOHN H. PHILLIPS, son of John Phillips, was born in Lima. Livingston Co. N. Y.\\nFebruary 17. 1811. He was a farmer in New York, and moved to Macomb in 1848. He\\nsettled on a farm in Armada, in Section 1 7, which he kept for three years. He then re-\\nmoved to a farm adjoining the village of Armada, consisting of 21 K) acres, which he kept\\nuntil his death, which took place May IH, 1879. His wife, Clarinda S. Briggs of Livings-\\nton County, N. Y. was born in 1824; she died in May, 18()4. They had nine children, eight\\nof whom are living. Mr. Phillips was a strong advocate of temperance, having taken the\\npledge when a small boy, and kept it sacred; a Baptist in religion, and anti-slavery in\\npolitics.\\nGEORGE W. PHILLIPS, son of Ira and Martha (Day) Phillips, of Livingstou\\nCounty. N. Y. was born at that place July 17. 1829. His father was born in October,\\n1802. A farmer in the East, he sought the West to pursue the same calling, arriving in\\nMacomb County September fi, 1831, and immediately entered upon K lO acres of land in\\nSection 19, Armada Township, where he reared a family of three sons, and died on the\\nhomestead September 4, 1855. Mrs. Phillips died July 14, ISfiO. G. W, succeeded his\\nfather on the homestead: was married, in 1856, to Lydia, daughter of A. W. Sterling, of\\nRomeo, and has children as follows: Carrie E., born December Ifi, 1857 Frank I.,\\nbom May 24. 1859: George W., born July 24, IStii: Charles J., born Ajiril 29. 18()3:\\nHattie M., born July 17. I8fi(i; Fanny S., born May 22. 1870: John S.. born March 17.\\n1872: L. Minnie, born June 8. 1874. Mr. Phillips has always been foremost m the agricult-\\nural interests of the county: a charter member of the county agricultural society, and. from\\nthe third year of its existence an officer, and seven times its President; an officer of the\\nState Agricultural Society twenty-two years, and President in 1880 and 1881: a member\\nof the State Board of Agricultiu e eleven years; also a leading officer in the Armada Agri-\\ncultural Society and the Union Farmers Club. Mr. Phillips is a fine musician, a promi-\\nnent man in society, and a Republican,\\nHENRY PRATT, sou of Josiah Pratt, a native of Vermont, was born in Westminster,\\nUpper Canada, February 13, 1845; moved with his father s family to Section 1, Armada\\nTownship, in 1850; man-ied, March 17, to Helen, daughter of John Stonehouse; one child,\\nNellie S., born March 25, 1881. Mrs. Pratt was born in Canada October 14. 1843. Mr.\\nPratt has added fifty-two acres to the homestead, built a fine residence, and has brought\\nthe farm into good condition for general farming, in which he has met with good success;\\ngrandfather served in the war of the Revolution as a soldier, and was discharged at its close.\\nJOSIAH PRATT, deceased, son of Josiah Pratt, a native of Massachusetts, was born\\nin Vermont January 8, 1793; spent a portion of his life in Canada, and removed to Ma-\\ncomb County in 1850. He was married, first to Rebecca R. Jackson, who died in 1837:\\nmarried Maria Gilbert, who died January 8, 1847; he then married Charlotte Waun, who\\ndied July 10, 1870. Mr. Pratt died at the homestead some years since. He was the fa-\\nther of twenty-three children, fifteen of whom ire living. The elder Pratt was a soldier\\nof the Revolution, and was granted a pension to himself and his widow. The sou was\\ndrafted by the British in the war of 1812, and served a short time reluctantly.\\nWILLIAM E. PRESTON, son of Earl C. and Harriet Fox Preston. was born at\\nEastford. Conn., June 20, 1822. His father was a native of Eastford. and his mother of\\ns r-", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0720.jp2"}, "721": {"fulltext": "1^\\nHISTOKY OF MACOMB COr TY.\\noodstock, iu the same State. The family are descendants from one Preston, who left\\nEngland for America in lfi40, but of whom very little is known. His descendant, John\\nPreston, of Andover. Mass., who is the fifth lineal ancestor of the subject of this sketch,\\nwas married iu ITOC). to Mary Haynes, of Newbury. Mass., and afterward settled in Win-\\ndom. Conn. Said Mary Haynes was the daughter of Jonathan Haynes, of Haverhill,\\nMass., of which family the following bit of history is related: On the 15th day of Au-\\ngust, ItiiK), he and his four children thi-ee boys and the said daughter Mary were in\\nthe field near their house, the father reaping and the childi-eu picking lieans. While thus\\nengaged, the Indians, who were at war with the whites, surprised them and carried them\\nall to Pennacook, now the city of Concord, N. H. There they separated, one paxtj going\\nto Maine, taking the father and one of the boys, Thomas by name; the other going to their\\nhome in Canada, and taking with them the other three children. The father and Thomas\\nsucceeded iu esca])ing. They pursued their way through the forests, making toward home\\nas best they could. The old man gave out, and could go no farther, and sank down to\\ndie. The boy. in despair, climbed a high hill and looked around. Nothing but the in-\\ntemiinable forests met his vision. In his trouble, the little fellow cried aloud, and the\\nonly response was an echo. At length his ears caught a familiar sound that of a saw-\\nmill. He proceeded in the direction of the sound, and at length came to a white settle-\\nment on the Saco River. Here he got help and rescued his father, who soon recovered\\nstrength sufficient to pursue his jOurney home. The other children were taken to Canada\\naud sold to the French. Maiy was afterward redeemed by IdO pounds of tobacco, which\\nWHS hauled to Canada on a hand-sled. The boys never came back. They were seen fifty\\nor sixty years afterward by troops from Haverhill diu ing the invasion of Canada in the\\nFrench and Indian war. They were wealthy farmers, and one of them asked for his sis-\\nter; said that he remembered her, and that one of her fingers had been cut off by a little\\nboy when a child, which was true. William E. Preston was married, in 1S46, to Lovinia\\nLeonard, the daughter of Halsey Leonard, of Woodstock. Conn. Their children are\\nCharles C, born November 5, 1847: Mary L., June 21. 1S. )0; John L., April 15. 1853;\\nHattie L., April ISod; Bert C, January 2, 185 Anna C. April 20, 1801. Mr. Pres-\\nton came to Macomb in 1855, settling on a farm two miles south of Armada Village, which\\nhe afterward sold. and. removing to Armada Village in lS(u, engaged in the mercantile\\nbusiness, in which he still continues. The family of both Mr. aud Mrs. Preston are from\\na long-lived New England ancestry.\\nBENJAMIN F. PROCTER is the son of John and Sarah Freeman Procter; was born\\niu Armada Township June 24, 1832. He attended the schools of Romeo and worked upon\\nthe farm, aud in 18f)5 went to Pontiac aud joined the firm of Procter Co., merchant\\naud custom millers, whose mill was situated on the Clinton River near the city. This\\ncontinued for about six years, when he purchased the farm in Armada, known as the Howell\\nfarm, on which he is still living. He also owns a large farm iu St. Clair County. He\\nwas married, in Pontiac, Mich., October 2, 18 )5, to Sarah A. Barkham. They have\\nchildren as follows: Ada A., born August 11, 1867; Edmond J., born April 13, IStiU;\\nReed, born September 4, 1871; Clarence, February 14. 1874. Mrs. Procter was born\\nSeptember 3. 1833; her father brought his family fi om England, and settled in Can-\\nada, and fi-om there moved to Michigan iu 183(1; settled iu Rochester, as a miller, in\\nwhich business he is still engaged. Mi*. Procter is a Republican in politics, having voted\\nfor Fremont in 1850.\\nJOHN L. PROCTER, one of the first settlers of .^-mada Township, was born at Alstead,\\nN. H., July 18. 17Uy. He was the son of Benjamin Procter, of New Hampshire, whose\\nwife, Sarah Freeman, of Berkshire, Vt,, was born April 13. 1805. He removed to Ma-\\ncomb in 1824. settled on Section 31, Armada Township, on land now occupied by the family.", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0721.jp2"}, "722": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHe was married in 1827; had seven ciiiklren, six of whom are still living. The deed of\\nbis land bears date as first jmrchased in the township. The farmhouse, one of the first in\\nthe locality, is a monument of stability, having withstood the storms of more than forty-\\neight years, and is still in good condition. John L. Procter, son of the above, inherited\\nthe homestead: is unmarried, and lives with his two sisters. He is asuecessfiU farmer, and\\na dealer in fine cattle and sheep for Eastern markets.\\nJOSEPH ROWLEY was born in Livingston County, N. Y., February i:^, ISTJ. He\\nis the son of Erastus and Lydia Richai dson Rowley, of Westfield, Conn. The father\\nstarted to move to Michigan in 1S85, but died on the way, in Ohio, and was bmied there.\\nThe mother died in Ai mada Townshi]i in IStU. Mr. Rowley bought land on Sections 7\\nand 8, in Armada, on which he still resides. He was mai ried, August 4, 183U, to Eliza-\\nbeth, daughter of A. Smith, and they were the first couple married in Berlin Township,\\nSt. Clair County. Their children ,ire Oi-y, born November 12, 1840: Polly B., born\\nJune (i, 1842: Marianna, born August 17, 1844, died December 5, ]8n5: Franklin, born\\nAugust 2( 184(); George H., born August 20, 1848: Joseph, born -June 1, 1850; Nettie\\nO., born February 11. 1852; Sarah E., born May I, 1854, died June 30. 1881; Elias,\\nborn May 21), 1851 Lydia, born October 9, 1858; Willie J., born June 22, 1801. Mr.\\nRowley was a keen and successful hiinter. He killed 180 deer the first three seasons on\\nthe place, and thirty per season for many years after. He is a Jackson Democrat.\\nNATHAN ROWLEY was the son of Erastus Rowley, of Westfield, Conn., and was born\\nMay 17. 1802. He removed to Macomb County in June, 1831, and was married. November\\n5, 1834, to Abigail, daughter of Frederick Alch ich. In 183(), he took up land on Sections\\n7 and 8. Armada, which he improved, and where he lived up to 1880. He died at Good-\\nrich, Genesee County, July 27, 1881. Mrs. Rowley was born in Canandaigua County, N.\\nY., August 12, 1800, and died October 5, 1877. The grandfather is a survivor of the Rev-\\nolution, and they are from a long-lived race of people.\\nLIBERTY ROWLEY was born at Armada Township October 10, 1838. He was the\\nson of Nathaniel and Abigail Rowley, of same place; was married, December 25, 18(i3, to\\nMary L. Banfill, who was born at Ypsilanti, Mich., December 20, 1847. Their children\\nare as follows: Arthiu- T.. born October 31. 1805, died Aiigust 7, 1872: Carrie E.. born\\nDecember 2, 1871; Rubie. born Januar}- 21, 1874, died in November. 1875; Mary L., born\\nNovember 8, 1878, Mr. Rowley purchased a }iart of his father s farm, on Section 8, Ar-\\nmada, on which he lives, and keeps a stock of general merchandise. Mr. Rowley and wife\\nhave been members of the Methodist Protestant Church for fifteen years, and he has\\nalways been a Republican.\\nSAMUEL SHEPARDSON, son of Samuel Shepardson, a native of Vermont, was born\\nin Windham County, in that State, November 10, 1810. At the age of twenty-one. he re-\\nmoved to Canada, and thence to Macomb County, arriving in the spring of 1 853. He pur-\\nchased a farm on Section 3, Armada Township, where he ha.s lived ever since. He has\\ncleared up the farm, built all the buildings and added forty acres. He married. January\\n13, 1853, Elizabeth M.. daughter of Abel Siimner, of New Brunswick. They have no chil-\\ndien. Mr. Shej)ardson is a cheese-maker, and has turned his farm to the production of\\nthat staple. He has fiu-nished a store in Romeo with cheese for the past eighteen years.\\nHis father served his country in 1812, and was honorably discharged.\\nALVAH SIBLEY was Isorn in Berkshire. Mass., in March, 1 790, where he lived un-\\ntil he was twenty-one years of age. He then removed to Brighton, Mom-oe Co., N. Y.,\\nwhere he was niiu-ried to Mary, daughter of Joseph Corbin. of Woodstock, Conn. She\\nwas liorn March 4. 1803. Her parents were pioneers of Western New York. Mr. Sibley\\nremoved his family to Macomb County in October, 1835. and settled on Section 25, town-\\nship of Armada, where his widow still resides. His father, Ezra Sibley, was a Revolu-\\nr", "height": "2741", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0722.jp2"}, "723": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntionaiy soldier, having served in the conflict for seven years, diu ing six of whicli he passed\\nwithout sleeping outside of camp. His gi-andfather was a British officer in the AVest India\\nser^ ice, and died of yellow fever. The family are of Norman origin. Mr. Sibley was a man of\\nstern principles of honesty and adherence to the Christian faith: a Deacon in the Congrega-\\ntional Chiu ch of Ai mada from its organization until his death, which occun-ed in February,\\n1870. Deacon Sibley is remembered with afl ectionate regard. His family consisted of\\nthree sons Alfred I. Sibley, born in Brighton. X. Y.. September 18. 1824. and is now a\\nresident of Cass County, Iowa: Ezra F. Sibley, still a resident of Armada: and William\\nH. Sibley, born in Annada December 2. 1838. He remained with his father s family and\\nattended school at Mt. Clemens and Komeo until the commencement of the civil war, when\\nhe laid aside his great ambition for an education and went forth in defense of his country.\\nHe enlisted in Company A. Ninth Michigan Infantiy, under Col. Duffield. and died of\\ntyphoid fever in January, 18()2, at Elizabethtowu, Ky. He is remembered as a worthy\\nChristian soldier.\\nEZRA F. SIBLEY, son of Alvah and Mary Sibley, was born in Brighton. N. Y,\\nNovember 2U. 1827. He removed T\\\\dth his father s family to Macomb County in 1835.\\nwhere he attended school and remained at home until he attained his majority. He then\\nbegan working at the carpenter s ti ade for a few years, and was man-ied. September 13,\\n1853. to Adaline A. Pierson, a native of Eush. Mom oe Co.. N. Y. In 185U, he engaged\\nin mercantile business, in company with William H. Clark, in Armada Village, and at\\nthe opening of the civil war. he enlisted in Company A, Ninth Michigan Infantry, under\\nCol. Duffield; served as a musician most of the time, and was captm-ed, July 13. 18()2,\\nby Gren. Forrest: was paroled, and soon after discharged by general order mustering out\\nall regimental bands from the service. He again engaged in carpenter work until 1809,\\nwhen he was appointed station agent on the Michigan Air-Line Eailroad at Armada.\\nMich., which office he has held since that time. His family consists of two daughters\\nLillian M. Sibley, born May 1, 185U, married, 187(), to Austin H. Phillips, and resides in\\nAi mada: Minnie A. Sil)lev. born August 22. I8n7.\\nCOLBY AND PHILIl SHORT, born in Ontario County, N. Y. Their father s name\\nwas Colby Short, who died in Ontario. Colby was born January 11, 1838; Philip, De-\\ncember 25, 183U. Colby came to Macomb in the autumn of IStHh Philip, in 18H2; set-\\ntled on Section 12: afterward bought laud on Section 2, Armada Township, where they\\nnow live. Philip married, July 10, 18* u. Angeline Woolman, born at Mt. Clemens Sep-\\ntember 20, 1S4( had five childi en, four of whom are now living. Colby is ni^t married.\\nThey are extensively engaged in the sale of farm implements. Colbj enlisted, September\\nlit, l8(il, in Company L, First Michigan Cavalry, and served four yeai-s: was Gen. Banks\\nPrivate Orderly three months. The company was body guard to Gen, Banks one year.\\nHe reached home in August, 18()5.\\nLEWIS SMITH, son of Calvin Smith, was born in Tolland County, Conn., Decem-\\nber 27. 1832: came with his father s family to Macomb County in 1842: was engaged\\nujjon raih oads three years, and then retiu-ned to the homestead, where he uow lives: mar-\\nried, July y, 1864. Frances Curtiss. daughter of Harrj Curtiss, of Richmond Town-\\nship. They had one child, which died in infaney. Mrs. Smith died August 18, 18711,\\nHe man-ied again, April 3, 1877, Anna Skidmore, of Troy, Oakland County no children.\\nMrs, Smith was born June 28, 1837. Mi: Smith has held offices in township and agri-\\neultm-al societies. He liuilt a good house on his farm, and added eighty acres to the same.\\nBefore the war. he was a Democrat in politics: since that time, he has been a Republican.\\nHis great-grandfather. James McNary. was in the war between England and France. Be-\\ning taken prisoner, he was confined in the hold of a vessel for seven days without food,\\nexcept a pair of calf -skin boots, which, being cut in small pieces, was eaten by himself", "height": "2740", "width": "1963", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0723.jp2"}, "724": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nand his comrades. They afterward overpowered the crew, brought the vessel to America,\\nentered the American Army and served in the war of the Revolution, being honorably dis-\\ncharged at its close; was also in the war of 1812.\\nCALYIN SMITH was born in Tolland County, Conn., in 171)3: entered the army in\\n1812 as a private, and was promoted to Sergeant in 1814; served during the war, and was\\ndischarged with a land warrant, which he located in St. Clair County; moved to Macomb,\\nand stopped a short time in Ray Township, then settled on a farm in Section 12, which\\nhe cleared up, and where he died in 1853. He was married to Mary McNary. of his native\\nplace, by whom he had eight childi-en, three of whom survive. She died at the homestead\\nin 1872, aged seventy-eight years. His father, David Smith, was a soldier in the war of\\nthe Revolution, and two of his sons served in the civil war, and in the Indian troubles in\\nMinnesota, and were wounded there.\\nSETH SMITH, son of Asa Smith, was born June 10, l.S2o, at Dightou, Mass.; moved\\nto Ontario County, N. Y. thence to Michigan in September, 18( )3; settled in Lenox Town-\\nship three years; moved to Armada Village in 18( where he has since lived. He was\\nmarried, July 2(1, 1852, to Sarah S. Htibbell, of Ontario County, who was born September\\n4, 1834. They have six childi-en. The gi-andfather of Mrs. Smith, Nathan West, served\\nin the war of 1812. Mr. Smith has been a dealer in fat stock. In polities, he is a Dem-\\nocrat.\\nDR. JOHN S. SMITH was born March 2l). 1822. His father, Asa Smith, was a na-\\ntive of Massachusetts, and moved to Macomb County in 1854, and settled on Section 24,\\nAi mada. where he died in 18(55. Dr, John Smith graduated fi om the Medical School at\\nCleveland, Ohio, in 1844; practiced medicine at Ontario County, N. Y., two year.s, then\\nremoved to Macomb County in 1847 and engaged in the practice of his profession at Ai--\\nmada Village. This was continued until 18()(). In 1858, he read and studied law, and\\nthe same year began the practice of law. He graduated from the Law De^iartment of\\nAnn Arbor, and was admitted to the bar; in the spring of 1S( )3, entered the army as\\nQuartermaster and remained for one year. On retiring, he engaged in farming and as a\\ndealer in hops, buying annually large quantities and sending them to distant markets. In\\n18()7, in company with Mi-. H. Barrows, he began the erection of a brick block in Ai-mada\\nVillage, which was to be completed the next year; when the walls were nearly completed,\\nthey fell, and Dr. Smith was killed. This took place September 19, 18()8. He was mar-\\nried, in 1845, to Linda B. Jones, of Ontario, N. Y. They had no children. Dr. Smith\\nwas always ready to promote the interests of the village and tovraship; was an houoralile\\nman, and a consistent Democrat.\\nHORACE H, SPENCER, of Armada, was the son of Ii-a and Sally (Earl) Spencer,\\nand was born in Trumbull County, Ohio, June 17, 1822. His father was a native of\\nSpeucertown, N. Y., and gave the name to that place. The family removed to INIacomb\\nin 1S3U, and settled in Richmond Township, where the father died in 187(), at the age of\\neighty-five; the mother died in 18()(5. The subject of this sketch was married, June 12,\\n1844, to Mary Chamberlin, who was born in Ontario County, N. Y., March 18, 1818.\\nAfter mai-riage, he bought land on Section 27, Armada, which he partly cleared, and then\\nsold, buying again on Section 14, which he kept till 1871, when he removed to the village\\nof Armada, where he still resides: have had seven children, foiu- of whom, sons, are still liv-\\ning. Mr Spencer has held office in the township twenty-eight years (Justice of the\\nPeace); always a Democrat, but often elected by Republicans.\\nJAMES STEPHENS, son of James Stephens, of Scotland, was born in that country\\nSeptember 2, 1817; left his fatherland in 1841 to become a farmer in Michigan. He\\nIjciught land in Lapeer County, on the line of Macomb, in 1848, where he resided some\\nyi ars. He afterward bought a farm on Section 7, Armada Township, where he now re-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0724.jp2"}, "725": {"fulltext": "it^\\nHISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsides. Married, Janiiaiy 0, 1848, Anna Morton, daughter of James Morton. Their chil-\\ndren s record is as follows: Margaret, born November 11, 1848, mamed and lives in\\nAi-mada Tovmship Agnes W., born August 27. 1850. married and lives in Bruce\\nTownship; James B. born March 16, 18 i(), married and lives in Romeo; Thomas M.,\\nborn November 24, 1855, married and lives in Vassar, Mich. Anna M., born March\\n23, 1858, man-ied and lives in Bruce ToANTiship; Andrew H., born April 3, 1860; John\\nW.. born May 21, 1863; Mertou H.. born September 8, 1866; George B.. born September\\n28. 1868. Mrs. Stephens was born January 28, 1825, in Scotland. Mi Stephens is a\\nfanner, and owns 325 acres, and is a successful grower of whoat. He has been a promi-\\nnent member of several organizations; a professor of religion, with his wife, for many\\nyears; a leader in Sundav school, and a Republican in politics.\\nJOHN H. STUMP, son of Levi Stump, of Ontario County, N. Y., was born in Ai--\\nmada Township Ajjril 23, 1855; moved to his present farm, known as the Albert Aldi ich\\nfann, consisting of 140 acres, in the fall of 1877; was married, August 21), 1877, to Fran-\\nces A. Ai-nold, of Ai-mada; they have no children. He is a general farmer and dealer in\\ngrain. Mrs. Stump was born April 15, 1858.\\nABEL SUMNER, born in New Brunswick June 17, 1793. In early life he moved to\\nVermont, thence to Canada, coming to Macomb in 1841; settled on land on Section 2,\\nAi uiada Township, which he improved and occupied previous to 1871, since which time\\nhe has lived with a daughter, Mi s. Ingi-aham. Mi-s. Sumner, formerly Miss Ruth Orms-\\nby, born at Middlebuvy, Vt., in 1803, died in Armada February 10. 1860, at tifty-seven\\nyears of age. The children of this marriage are live in number, four now living. Mr.\\nSumner is a pensioner of the war of 1812; was a musician at that time, and is still liv-\\ning.\\nDR. JOHN M. SUMNER, sou of Abel and Ruth (Ormsby) Siunner. was born in Lon-\\ndon, Westminster, Canada West, September 3, 1836; was a farmer till i-eaching the age\\nof twenty-foiu*, when he liegan the practice of medicine as the result of his own study and\\nobservation, and is engaged in practice at the present time. December 11, ]85 he mar-\\nried Julietta Holms, and has two childien Sarah J., born September 15, 1865, and John\\nS. born August H 1867. Mrs. Sumner was born in Armada January 27, 1838. The\\nDoctor has a small farm in connection with his practice.\\nJONAS S. SUTTON, son of Amsey and Abigail (Dowd) Sutton, he a native of Massa-\\nchusetts and she of Connecticut; was boi-n in Genesee County, N. Y.. March 17, 1835; removed\\nto Macomb County in 1837, with the family, and settled in Ray Township, where they lived\\nfor eight years, then to Section 32 in Armada and lived nine years, then to Richmond ^nd\\nlived for eighteen years, then again to Ai mada, where he has lived the past twelve years.\\nMarried, March 20, 1856, Calista, daughter of Asahel Bernard, who was a native of\\nConnecticut; she was born March 9, 1835; their childi en are as follows: Hattie A., born\\nJanuary 18, 1857, died March 26, 1858; Hattie J., born April 27, 1858, died November\\n18, 18r;2: Willie A., born August 27, 1864; Eddie W., born July 24, 1866. After his\\nmarriage, Mr. Sutton engaged in business as a machinist and engineer for twenty years;\\nsince that time, has followed the occupation of a painter. He is a tine singer, and teaches\\nmusic, and leads thechiu ch music. In politics, he is a Republican. Mrs. Sutton s parents\\nwere natives of .Connecticut, and moved to Macomb in 1844; father died in 1866, and\\nmother died in 1872.\\nHIRAM TAYLOR, son of Levi and Rhoda Madison Taylor, of Connecticut, was born\\nat Rutland, Vt., September 10, 1811. His mother s people were from Rhode Island, and\\nwere of English descent; came from the to^vnship of Clarendon, Vt., to Maeoml) County,\\nMich., June 17, 1846, and bought a farm of 200 acres on Section 32, Armada Township,\\nfor which he paid $3,601), on which he still resides. Mr. Taylor was married, October\\n44", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0725.jp2"}, "726": {"fulltext": "31, 1834, to Ann Melissa Walker, of Clarendon, Rutland Co., Vt. They have had two\\nchildren Melissa Ann. born at Clarendon, Rutland County, March 19, 1836, married Mr.\\nMoses WjTnan, of Ontai io County. N. Y. he died in October, 1872: she married again,\\nAndi cw Adams, and now resides in Aubui n, Oakland Co., Mich.; Sarah, born August 23,\\n1837, and died September 24, ISSI, at the old home. Mrs. Taylor died October 4. 1873,\\naged tifty-eight. When Mr. Taylor moved from Vermont, he brought forty thorough\\nMerino sheep, for which he paid from $U to $15 a head. He has been a careful breeder\\nof fine sheep, and has made several importations, at a later date bringing, at one time, a\\nflock of nearly one hundred sheep. He was a member of the Baptist Church in Vermont,\\nand, although not uniting with any church here, his preference has been toward that\\nchurch; cast his tirst vote for Jackson, and has been a Democrat since.\\nMRS. MARCIA THURSTON, daughter of Jesse Bishop, of Bruce Township, was\\nbom March K), 1845: married to Manly Thm ston, sou of B. H. Thurston, October 15,\\n18H2; after marriage, resided on the farm of his father one year, then bought the farm\\non Section 18 known as the Donaldson farm, on which the family still reside. Mr. Thurs-\\nton died March 3. 1870. They had four childi-en, three of whom are still living on the\\nhomestead. Mrs. Thm-ston has erected a tine and commodious residence, and has a tine\\nand prosperous farm business. She is and has for many years been connected with the\\nChristian Chiu ch of Romeo: a fine musician, vocal and instrumental, and a prominent\\nworker in the Sabbath school. Lillian, born October 29, 18(53, died October 24, 1879;\\nHenry J., born August 2, 1865; Abbie L., born September 27, 1867; Manly W., born Jan-\\nuary 1870.\\nBENJAMIN H. THURSTON, son of Joseph Thurston, was born October 22, 1816;\\nremoved from New York to Macomb with his parents about 1832 and settled on Section\\n19, in Armada Townshij): spent his boyhood at home and received the homestead farm;\\nwas married. September 29, 1839, to Electa Sperry, of Pennsylvania, who was bo) n Sep-\\ntember 14, 1820. They had three children, one of whom is still living. Mrs. Thurston\\ndied June 14.1849. He then married Mrs. Ruth B. Brown. April 28. 1852. who died\\nMarch 1, 1873; married again. September 23. 1873, to Mi-s. Caroline Hamilton, who died\\nOctober 20. 1875. Mr. Thurston has always been a tii m supporter of the anti-slavery\\nmovement, and a Christian in foiin of worship.\\nSETH E. WALKER, youngest son of Richard Walker, was born in Armada May 21,\\n1851. He came into possession of the home farm in 1872. and still occupies the same.\\nIt consists of 200 acres, situated on Section 16, Armada Townshij). He was married,\\nNovember 16, 1875, to Carrie I. Draper, of Warsaw. N. Y. They have one child, Charles\\nR., Ijorn September 13, 1877. Mr. Walker is a successful farmer, and has always been a\\nRepublican in folitics, and Congregational in form of worship.\\nRICHARD AVALKER, deceased, was born at Georgetown, Md.. September 4, 1797,\\nremoved with his father s family to Ontario County, N. Y., where he man-ied Elenor,\\ndaughter of .John Ray, of the latter place, and removed to Macomb County in the spring\\nof 184 4 and in night a large fann on Section 16, Armada, which he cleared and improved,\\nand where he died April 23, 1879. Mrs. Walker was born in Bennington County, Vt.\\nwho died at the home in Armada, and he afterward married a Mips Tibbits. who still\\nsurvives. They had ten children, fom* of whom still live.\\nIDDO WARNER, son of John Warner, of Vermont, was born Februan- 11, 1796,\\nand came to Macomb June 12, 1824, in Washington Township, where he lived three years,\\nthen moved to Ai-mada and settled on Section 31, on the North Branch of the Clinton\\nRiver, where he lived up to the time of his death, which took place August 15, 1852.\\nHe was married. July 13, 1819. to Sophia Phillips, at Lima, Livingston Co., N. Y. and\\nhad three children Julia, born August 1. 1820, married J. Smith, and died July 9, 1878;\\nG f\u00e2\u0080\u0094 5)", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0726.jp2"}, "727": {"fulltext": "i\\njyj\\nJames, born September 11, 1824, living in Armada Township; Elizabeth, born March\\nU. 1835, married Robert Coykendall and lives at Romeo. IVL s. Warner still lives with\\nher son.\\nJAMES I. WARNER, son of Iddo and Sophia (Phillips) Warner, was born at ash-\\nington Village, Macomb County. September 11, 1824; moved with the family to the farm\\non the Branch, where he lived till June. LSoO, when he piu chased the Gates farm. Section\\nIS, Armada, where he still resides; was married, June 2 K 1847, to Spedee Bishop, who\\nwas born at Ontario County. N. Y. and died July 1). 1852. They had two children\\nEllen, born April 22, 1848, man-ied Norman Peny and lives in Armada Township; Georg\u00c2\u00a9\\nI., born June 2f). 1852, and lives in Armada Township; married again. June 28, 1854. to\\nJane Walton, who died Aiaril 13, 18()(l; had one child, Terry, born November 1857,.\\ndied April. 18( )2; again married, July 2, 1872, to Phcebe Wilder, of Armada Township.\\nMr. Warner has added to the original purchase of land 784 acres, situated in various parts\\nof the State. He has erected one of the finest and most substantial farmhouses in the\\ncounty, good bai ns and sheds, wind-mills, and all the requirements for a first-class farm\\nbusiness: in politics, alwavs a RepiTblican.\\nREUBEN WAKRENER was born at Royal Oak, Oakland County. July 2U. 1832.\\nHe is the son of John Wan ener, of Brighton, near London, England. Reuben came to\\nthis county in 1855, and married, Jtily 4, 1855, Lydia, daughter of Nathan Rowley, and\\nbought a portion of the farm of his father-in-law, where he now resides. Section 7. Armada\\nTownship. They had two children Maiy. born October 5, 185 died Janiiary 11, 1857;\\nAbbie, born July 25, 1802, married E. J. Cross and lives on the homestead. Mi\\\\ War-\\nrener enlLsted, August Vl, 18( )2, in Company B. Twenty-second Michigan Volunteer In-\\nfantry, and served three years. He participated in six engagements, and served in military\\nprison, and contracted diseases from which he still suffers; is Republican in his politics,\\nSTEPHEN S. WELLS was born November 3, 1813, in Ulster County, N. Y. His\\nfather, Charles Wells, of the same place, moved to Macomb County in 1828; settled one\\nand a half miles south of Romeo; after some years, removed to Section 8, Armada, which\\nhe cleared from the stump, and where he died in 1844. Mrs. Wells was Anna Hood, a\\nrelative of Thomas Hood, the poet, and was born in Ulster County, and died in 1859.\\nThey had nine children, fom- of whom still live. On the death of his father, Stephen as-\\nsumed control of the homestead, and maiTied Sarah Stiles in 1S38; she dying, he married\\nSarah Hunt, who died in 1847; next married Isabella Tuttle, in 18()0; he then mai-ried\\nLemira Church, who, with her Husband, still lives on the farm. They have had six chil-\\ndren, four of whom still live.\\nJOHN AVILDER, son of Artemus and Catherine Sherburne Wilder, was born at Lan-\\ncaster, N. H.. January 1, 1812. His grandfather, Artemus Wilder, a native of England,\\nwas a Major in the war of the Revolution, served to its close, and died at Lancaster in\\n1808. The father was born at Lancaster in 1707 where he lived imtil the year 1810, then\\nremoved to Quebec, thence to Kingston when that place was a small village, surrounded\\nby a brush fence, and was engaged in the business of butchering. He died of cholera in\\n1832. His mother was a native of Portland. Me., daughter oi Harry Sherburne, of that\\nplace, of English descent. -She died at Wolf Island, St. Lawrence River, in 1858. John\\nmoved with the family to Kingston, where he lived till the time of his marriage, which\\ntook place August 8, 1835, to Mary, daughter of Hemy and Hannah (Wright) Harvey, of\\nEnglish descent, who came to Kingston, Canada, in 1822. Mary was boi-n September 25,\\n1815. When he moved to Wolf Island, St. LawTence River, he cleared u)i a farm of fifty\\nacres from a wilderness, which he bought for $5 per acre and sold for \u00c2\u00a752 per acre. As\\na sample of what Macomb people can do, we mention the following: Reaching Wolf\\nI.-^land, Mr. Wilder, with his wife, moved into a fisherman s hut, which had a fire-place in", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0727.jp2"}, "728": {"fulltext": "716 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\none comer and a hole in the roof through which the smoke might escape. Soon after, he\\ngot the help of neighbors and built a log house 13x20, and had lumber enough to cover\\nhalf the roof and half the floor; diu ing the tirst summer, had neither door nor window,\\nbut. used a bed-ijuilt to hang before the hole where there ought to be. These were at last\\nprovided, second-hand, fi om an old building in the vicinity. Wolves were fierce and\\nplenty, and at one time attacked Mr. Wilder s cattle, which at once formed in a circle,\\nthe calves and young cattle in the center, and the cows and oxen on the oiitside. One\\nwolf was shot, and the others Hed. Mrs. Wilder worked at clearing laud all day, with a\\nbaby in a cradle near at hand, and with a small lioy with a bell on his neck to keej)\\nhim from being lost. The wolves were at length driven fi om the island by a raid of all\\nthe inhabitants. After selling the farm on the island, Mr. Wilder pm chased land in\\nWales, St. Clair Co., Mich., but, on account of his wife s ill health, concluiled to pm-chase\\nan imjtroved place. After consiilerable search, he bought the farm of about one hundred\\nacres on Section 27 of Armada Township, where he has since resided. Mr. Wilder s fam-\\nily consists of the following: John W., born at Kingston July 8, 183(i, died at home\\nFebruary 11, I8t)l; Henry L., born at Kingston January 13, 1837, now living in Armada\\nTownship; Catherine H., born on Wolf Island December 2, 1839, maiTied and living in\\nllomeo Village; William H., born on Wolf Island December 4, 1841, served in the war of\\nof the rebellion, and died at home in July, 1874; Jonas W., born on Wolf Island August\\n6, 1843, married and lives in Armada Township; Phebe E., born on Wolf Island, Septem-\\nber 14, 1845, married and lives in Armada Township; Samuel S., born on Wolf Island Sep-\\ntember 25. 1847, married and lives in Armada Tovmship; Artemas T., born on Wolf Island\\nAugust 24. 1S51, married and living in Armada Township; Albert P. born on Wolf Island\\n1 )c(i iiil i i S. \\\\S i:]. married and lives in Armada Township; Almira, born on Wolf Island\\nFel)ruary in. IS. iC), died at the homestead February 17, 1874; Isaac 11., born at Ai-mada\\nJune 10, 18 died April li), 18()1. Mr. Wilder has always been a liepublican in poli-\\ntics, and a Methodist in i-eligion. Mr. W^ilder favors the Established Chm-ch. She boasts\\nof having fiu-nished from her family seven votes for Garfield. Mr. Wilder is a hale and\\nhearty man; never has taken a dose of medicine in his life. He has never drunk intoxi-\\ncants nor used tobacco in any form an example followed by all his large family. He has\\none of the most sightly, pleasant and commodious places in Armada Township. His farm\\nis supplied with a wind-mill, good barns, and all the necessary appendages of a prosper-\\nous business, and is makinjj the product of milk a leading feature.\\nJOHN H. WILSON, son of John Wilson, was born in Lincolnshire, England, Octo-\\nber 12, 1834; he came to St. Clair County with his father s family in 1842, vrho settled\\nin the woods in Berlin Township, in St. Clair County, in a bark-covered hut. In 1858,\\nJohn H. bought forty acres of land on Section (i. Armada, Macomb County, the same on\\nwhich he now resides. He was maiTied. October 13, 18( 0, to Mary Shepherd, who was\\nborn in Perthshire, .Scotland, Octobers. 1839. Their childi en were as follows: Albert N.,\\nborn July 21, 1801; Cyrus T., born May 0, 18()3, died March 17, 18 U; Peter H., born\\nDecember 31, 1804; Mary J., lioru January 7, 1807; John T., born October 20. 1808;\\nRobert A., born June 1, 1872; Sarah A., born July 3, 1875; David S., born June\\n23. 1877; James W., born October 4, 187U. Mr. Wilson has increased the acreage of his\\nfarm by 125 acres; has a tine new residence, barn, etc.; he is Republican in politics, and a\\nQtiaker in religion; he is also connected with several organizations.\\n-I g\\n5 V", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0728.jp2"}, "729": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXII.\\nSHELBY TOWNSHIP.\\nThe township is well watered, the principal stream being the (Jlinton River, which\\nenters the township about the center of its western boundary, and traverses the southwest\\nquarter of the township until it enters Sterling. Next in importance as a stream and\\nwater-power is the race, which was made out of the old Clinton Kalamazoo Canal.\\nThis canal was projected in 1837, and constructed in 1888. It was the original intention\\nof the constructors to complete it from Mt. Clemens to Kalamazoo, a distance of about 172\\nmiles, but it was never finished farther than Rochester, in Oakland County, and never\\nnavigated but from Mt. Clemens to Utica, some twelve miles. It has, since its discontin-\\nuance as a navigable thoroughfare, been used as a race to sujiply motive-jiower to the\\nUtica mills, for which purpose it is practically adapted. The land is level and fertile.\\nIn some sections, however, it may be considered slightly undulating and sandy.\\nIn 1850, the amounts of cereals, grain and general agricultural productions were as\\nfollows: Wheat. 10.286 bushels; corn, 30,073 bushels: all other kinds of grain, princi-\\npally oats, barley and lye, 12,991 bushels; potatoes. 12,174 bushels; wool. 19,509 pounds.\\nDairy products butter, 28,940 pounds: cheese, 3,548 pounds. Contrasted with there-\\nturns made for the year ending December 31, 1873, the showing stands; Wheat, 12,011\\nbushels; com, 38,000 bushels; all other kinds of grain, 41,170 bushels: potatoes, 14,380\\nbushels; wool, 20,010 pounds. Dairy products butter, 37,086 pounds; cheese, 15,575\\npounds. The largest increase is shown in wool and dairy produce.\\nIn 1850, the population was set down at 1,482. Thirty years later, in 1880, it was\\n1,650. The advance in population has not been remarkable, but the increase of wealth,\\nof production and the social advances made form a higher testimony in favor of the in-\\nhabitants. They prove that it is not the number, but rather the quality, of the laborers\\nthat builds up a State or any section of a State.\\nThe first American settlers of the township were Nathaniel Squier, George Hanscom.\\nElias Wilcox, Joseph Miller, Ezra Burgess, Elder Abel Warren, Peleg Ewell, Ii-a Preston,\\nJoseph Lester, the Axfords, Owens and others, whose names are recorded in other pages of\\nthis work.\\nThomas Squier was the first white inhabitant who died in the town of Shelby. He\\nwas a brother of Hiram Squier, by whom he was buried. Joelamy Squier, a half-sister\\nof Thomas Squier, was the first white child born in the township, her birth occmring in\\nJuly, 1817. She married James Muir at an early day. and is now known as the Widow\\nMuir. of Almont, where she still resides.\\nORGANIC.\\nThe township of Shelby was erected under authority given in the legislative enact-\\nment of April 12, 1827. and the first town meeting ordered to be held at the house of\\nPerez Swift, the last Monday in May following. Shelby originally comprised Towns 2\\nand 3 north, in the twelfth range east.\\nThe first meeting of the inhabitants of Shelby for the purpose of electing town officers\\nwas held at the house of Perez Swift. Calvin Davis presided, with Abijah Owen, Clerk.\\nThe result of this election was the choice of Joseph Lester, for Supervisor: Abel Warren,", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0729.jp2"}, "730": {"fulltext": "Clerk; Solomon Wales, Jedediah Messenger, William A. Davis, Assessors; Eleazer Scott,\\nAmasa Messenger and Rnssell Audrns, Overseers of the Poor; William Arnold and Isaac\\nRuss, Constables; Nun Moe and Elias Wilcox, Overseers of Highways; Enoch Huntley,\\nIsaac Russ, Elon Dudley, Orison Withey, Road Commissioners Eleazer Scott and George\\nHanscom, Pound-keepers; Joseph Lester, Abel Warren, Solomon Wales, William A. Davis\\nand Jedediah Messenger presided as Inspectors of Elections.\\nTOWN KOSTER.\\nSupervisors \u00e2\u0080\u0094Joseph Li^ster, 1827-28; Samuel Axford, 1828-35; Ephraim Calkins,\\n1835-88; County Commissioners, 1838-43; Oliver Adams, 1843-45; Pavne K. Leech,\\n1845-46; Oliver Adams, 1840-48; Jacob Scrambling, 1848-49; Philander Ewell, 1849-\\n57; WiUard A. Wales, 1857-60; Philander Ewell. 1860-61; Pavne K Leech, 1861-62;\\nWillard A. Wales, 1862-63; Chauncey W. Whitney, 1863-65; Philander Ewell, 1865-\\n66; Willard A. Wales, 1866-68; Phillip Price, 1868-69; VVillai-d A. Wales, 1869-71;\\nPavne K. Leech, 1871-73; James S. Lawson, 1873-74; Albert L. Gofi 1874-82.\\nClerks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abel Warren, 1827-28; John Chapman, 1829; Solomon Wales, 1830; Will-\\niam A. Davis, 1831-33; P. B. Thurston, 1834; D M. Price, 1835-36; Orson Sheldon,\\n1837; Orville Morrison, 183S; James B. Carter, 1839; C .W. Chappel, 1840; Hareligh,\\nCarter, 1841-42; D. M. Price, 1843-44; Jacob Summers, 1845; Francis B. Chappel, 1846;\\nGiu-donG. Deshore, 1847; Francis R. Chapel, 1848; Hareligh Carter, 1849; W. W. An-\\ndrus, 1850; Philip Price, 1851; Hareligh Carter, 1852; Chauncev W. Whitney, 1853;\\nWilliam Browuell, 1854; Elan Chapin, 1855; P. H. Knight, 1856; C. W. Weston, 1857-\\n58; John O. Smith, 1859; Alonzo M. Keeler, 1860; Marvin Satler, 1861; Josiah Kings-\\nbury, 1862-63, Albert L. Goff, 1864; Isaac Monfore. 1865; Philip Price, 1866-67; James\\nS. Lawson, 1868-70; Aug. E. Bacon, 1871-73; M. C. Keller. 1874; Milton B. Salter,\\n1875; George T. Connor, 1876; William S. Andrews, 1877; Gm-don C. Leech, 1878-80;\\nFrank F. Williams, 188L\\nTreasm-ers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Elias Wilcox, 1827-28; Nun Moe, 1829; Josiah Lockwood, 1830; Na-\\nthaniel Squiere, 1831; Joseph Lester, 1832; A. D. Yemmons, 1833; Josiah T. Robinson,\\n1834; George E. Adair, 1835; Albert G. Fuller, 1836; Jesse B. Gridley. 1837; Josiah\\nPrice, 1838-42; Layman B. Price, 1843-45; Jacob Summers, 1846; George Price, 1847;\\nJames B. St. John, 1848; Walter Porter, 1849; George W. Summers, 1850; George St.\\nJohn, 1851; James Cheney, 1852; William Brownell, 1853; John G. Marsh, 1854; P.\\nH. Knight, 1855; Jervis Winaus, 1856; George King, 1857; Isaac C. Cross, 1858; Ste-\\nphen s; Merrill, 1859; Orrin Goflf, 1860; Haswell H. Church, 1861-62; Ephraim Par-\\nmenter, 1863; Cyros C. Ladd, 1864; John W. Master, 1865; Samuel Ladd, 1866; Alson\\nHaines, 1867; William Rowley, 1868-69; David B. Aiidrews, 1870; Milo Bacon, 1871;\\nGurdon C. Leech, 1872-73; Ralph Wilcox, 1874; Reuben T. St. John, 1875-70; George\\nT. Connor, 1877; Reuben T. St. John, 1878-79; William S. Andrus, 1880; Martin C.\\nKeeler, 1881.\\nJustices of the Peace Daniel W. Phillips, Orson Sheldon, John Chapman, Russell\\nGoff, 1836; Daniel W. Phillips, 1837: Orson Sheldon, 1838; Harlehigh Carter, 1839;\\nRussell Goff, 1840; C. B. H. Fessenden, James Cheeney. 1841; Carey Worden, 1842;\\nHareligh Carter, 1843; Layman B. Price, 1844; Jacob Summers, 1845; Carey Worden,\\n1846; Jacob N. Merrill, 1847; Elam Chapin. Hareligh Carter, 1848; Jacob Summers,\\n1849; O. Morrison, Harlehigh Carter, 1851; Joshua Price, Orvill Morrison, Timothy J.\\nMarvin, 1853; Edmund P. Adair, 1854; Orrin Wilcox, 1857; Joseph Moser, 1858; La-\\nfayette Warren, 1859; Alonzo M. Keeler, 1856; Alonzo M. Keeler, 1860; C. W. Whitney,\\n1801; James S. Kelly, 1802; Lafayette Warren, 1863; Alex W. Warner, Oliver Adams,\\n1864; David W. Price, Chester Andrews, John Lintz, 1865; C. W. Whitney, Isaac C.\\nCross, 1866; Alonzo M. Keeler, 1867; Alex Grant, Isaac C. Cross, 1868; Palmer N.\\nr", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0730.jp2"}, "731": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nBaker, Hiram D. Runyan, 1869; Alexander Grant, 1870; Samuel W. Phillips, 1871\\nIsaac C. Gross, 1872; Palmer N. Baker, 1873; James H. Boughton, P. Price, 1874; J,\\nNewton Montfort, Harvey Wilcox, 1875; Alexander Grant, 1876; George H Cannon, M\\nFirman, 1877; J. H. Boughton, A. B. Adams, 1878; William Moe, 1879; James Williams\\nWilliam Moe, 1880; Harvey Wilcox. 1881.\\nThe elections of 1882, resulted as follows: Supervisor, A. L. Goft Democrat, 194\\nHaswell Church, Republican, 155; Democratic majority, 39. Clerk, W. H.Marvin, Repub-\\nlican, 185; R. J. St. John, Democrat, 167; Republican majority, 18. Treasurer, H. J. Swit-\\nzer, Republican, 265; D. E. Pearsall, Democrat, 79; Republican majority, 186.\\nscnoOL.s.\\nThe schools of Shelby Township are singularly fortunate in management. From\\nthat time referred to in the chapter of pioneer history, when the education of youth was a\\nmatter of great difficulty, the peoj)le have attended to school interests in a manner marked\\nby solicitude. To-day, there are seven school districts, each possessing a good school\\nbuilding. No. 1, comprised in Utica, claims a brick schoolhouse valued at if 10,000. The\\nnumber of children enrolled is 339. No. 3 building is valued at .fUOOO, $800 of which\\nsum is due. Number of children, sixty-four. No. 4 (fractional) is attended by sixty-\\nthree pupils. The building is valued at $1,500. No. 5 is a brick structure valued at $1,-\\n400, and capable of seating forty-seven pupils. No. 5 (fractional), a frame building, val-\\nTied at $450. This school is attended by 122 children. No. 6 claims sixty-one children\\nof sohool age, and a frame building valued at $1,000. No. 8 (fi actional) has a brick\\nbuilding, vahied at $1,000. The number of children belonging is thirty-three. The total\\nnumber of children of school age in the town of Shelbj in 1881 was 729, of which nmn-\\nber about 80 per cent attended school.\\nUTICA VILLAGE.\\nThe present village of Utica was named Harlow by Joseph Stead. In 1833, a num-\\nber of Americans who had settled in the neighborhood, assembled at Elias Scott s house to\\nadopt a name for the village, when Gm don C. Leech proposed the name Utica, which\\nname was adopted. Among the settlers in 1831 were John James, Gurdon C. and Payne\\nK. Leech, William A. Davis and family, William Smith, Ethan Squiers, Elias Scott,\\nJoseph Stead, George E. Adair, E. P. Adair, Lyman Wentworth. Sparks, the Chapel\\nbrothers, B. L. Watkins. B. Kittridge, Peter Moe, Lyman T. Jenny, Job Hoxie, Jedediah\\nMessenger, Amasa Messenger, Asa Huntley, Jonathan Allen, Joseph Lester, Luman\\nSquiers and Anthony King. In 1832, a large number located in the neighborhood.\\nWilliam Smith was the first Postmaster; Benjamin Kittridge kept the first tavern.\\nA. B. Cooley, who afterward settled at Oshkosh, Wis., was considered one of the tii st and\\nmost expert counterfeiters of Utica.\\nPrevious to 1828, a log schoolhouse stood on Cass street. Near the depot was a\\nsecond log house, in which school was taught for a number of years. One of the best re-\\nmembered teachers of this time was Prescott B. Thurston.\\nAdam Price built a grist and saw mill in 1828-29. The saw- mi 11 was erected in 1827\\nby Jacob Price, where the Utica mills now stand. At the same time, he constructed a\\nrace from the river, a distance of thirty rods, which gave a six-foot fall.\\nWilliam A. Davis built a distillery at Utica previous to 1828, on the site now occu-\\npied by Lyman Fuller s house. Payne K. Leech erected the second distillery about 1831.\\nThis was located opposite the present Utica mills. James Stephens built the third dis-\\ntillery about 1843 or 1844. In 1845, Charles W. Chapel built the fom-th distillery on the\\ncanal. Mr. Wentworth, at present of Utica, and one of its most enterjn-ising citizens,\\nwas connected with one of those early industries.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0731.jp2"}, "732": {"fulltext": "720 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nRichard L. Clarke, President of the Utica Bank, was well known in those early days.\\nThe company redeemed all notes, enabling the people to state that it was a very good\\nbank for a wild-cat bank.\\nThe Library Association was formed at Utica about 1S3(5, a few years before the\\nUtica Lyceum was organized.\\nThe Utica foundry, operated by James Carter and Covell, stood on the site of\\nthe Clinton House. The upper Hoor formed the meeting-house of the Presbyterians.\\nIn 1846, D. M. Price and C. W. Chapel built the Canal Mills, It was a general\\nthins to turn out 10(1 barrels of Hour every morning. This continued until the construc-\\ntion of the jilank road via New Baltimore diverted trade.\\nUnder an act apjiroved March 9, 1838, that portion of Shellty and Jefferson (Ster-\\nling) Townships, comjirisiug the northwest corner of the southwest quarter of Section 33,\\nin Town 3 north. Range 12 east, running thence east one and a half miles to the northeast\\ncorner of the northwest corner (quarter) of Section 3, in Town 2, north, of Range 12 e.ist;\\nthence westoneand ahalf miles, to thesouthwestcornerof the northwest ijuarter of Section 4\\nin that township, and thence north one mile, was erected with a village to be named\\nUtica, and the tirst village meeting was ordered to be held at the schoolhouse the fii-st\\nMonday in May, 1838. Organization was eflected under this act, but its body corporate\\nceased to have an actual existence after a short time.\\nIn the general history of Macomb, reference is made to a few Canadians who squatted\\non the HaiTington farm during the absence of its owner at Detroit, and remained there\\nuntil Harrington retm-ued to claim his land, when they ijuietly pushed forward westward\\nand located on the site of the present village of Utica. Among those settlers were Mr.\\nHoxie, referred to in the history of Komeo, and Mr. Squiers, the oldest resident of Shelby\\nTownship. It is related that the former was connected with the lake pirate the Black\\nSnake and that after the war of 1812 was over, he, with a few companions, sought a\\nrefuge in the wilds north of Detroit. Mr. Squiers arrived in 1817. The Cowies, Chapa-\\ntons, Siunmers, St. Johns and others mentioned in the list of original land purchasers,\\nfollowed, and the nucleus of the village was formed.\\nUtica was, years ago, connected with Detroit by a railway line then known as the\\nDetroit Shelby Railroad, a strap railroad, operated by horse-power. It is on the old\\nClinton Kalamazoo Canal, which, though not now in use, affords excellent water-power\\nfor oj)erating two large Hour-mills and a pulp factory. The D. B. C. R. R. passes\\nthrough the village, placing it twenty-fom- miles north of Detroit. Mt. Clemens, the\\ncounty seat, in nine miles east. The village contains three chiu ches Catholic, Congre-\\ngational and Methodist graded school, employing five teachers, two good hotels the\\nExchange and the Clinton House. William H. Marvin publishes a weekly newspaper\\nknown as the Utica Sen/inel. The post office is conducted by Mrs. Julia P. Grant. A\\nMasonic lodge, a musical society and a number of religious associations connected with the\\nvarious churches are in existence. The Union Schoolhouse is one of the principal evi-\\ndences of progress within the village. This building is valued at !{il(),()0(), and points out\\nvery distinctly the intuitive love of education entertained by the inhabitants.\\nThe population of the village, according to the census of 1880, is ^uO. Among the\\nbusiness and professional men of Utica, in the past and present, are found the names of\\nWm. W. Andrus, Wm. Bridges, AVm. Brownell, Seth K. Shetterly, Frank F. Williams, Elam\\nMoe, William Summers, George Wilkins, James Williams, John N. Young, Ralph Wilcox,\\nEdmund P. Adair, Dominick Chapaton, Martin Firman, Alex Grant, Philip A. Knight,\\nGeorge A. Ladd, James Gramby, Adam Wagner, John Ruby, Daniel Robinson, Peter\\nMontfort, C. O. Burgess, James Messmore, M. J. Rorick, James H. St John, Samuel P.\\nSt. John. F. J. Simmons, Gui-don C. Leech, Lyman Wentworth, George E. Adair and", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0732.jp2"}, "733": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCharles P. Smith. The location of Utiea is very favorable. In early years, the place\\nwas made famous by its enterprises. It was the last settlement in Michigan to snifer un-\\nder the effects of the financial crisis of 1837. and ainong the fii-st to show evidences of a\\nbusiness revival. Its early banking institutions, newspapers, churches, schools, all re-\\nferred to in other sections of this work, point out Utica to bs once the home of progi ess.\\nIn later years, it seems to have reached the limit of its growth but more recently the citi-\\nzens have shown a desire to advance their village, which desire is being made practical.\\nORGANIZATION.\\nThe village of Utica was incorporated a second time, May 10, 1877, with J. N. Young,\\nPresident; Alex Grant. Clerk: S. L. DeKay, Marshal; Mes.s rs. E. P. Adair, W. H. Har-\\nvey, James Kapps, J. H. St. John, Ladd and Mitchell, Trustees. The officers\\nfor 1878 were: William W. Anckus. President: Alex Grant, Clerk; E. P. Adair, J. H.\\nSt. John, J. S. Hollister, Martin Firman. Elam Moe, AV. H. Harvev, Trustees.\\nThe officers for 1879 were: William W. Ancb-us, President: Frank F. W illiams, Sec-\\nretary: James H. St. John. Daniel Robinson, H. Harvey, Marvin Abernethy, Elam\\nMoe, Trustees: Gurdon C. Leech, Treasurer; S. L. De Kay, Street Commissioner; Stuart\\nBeatty, Constable; Ralph AA ilcox, Assessor.\\nThe officers for 1880 were: William W. Andrus, President: F. F. Williams, Clerk;\\nJ. S. Hollister, M. Firman, Alex Grant, W. H. Harvey, D. Robinson, J. H. St. John,\\nTrustees: Gm-don C. Leech. Treasurer: R. E. Rogers, Assessor.\\nThe officers for 1881-82 were: William H. Hai-vey, President: F. F. Willams, Clerk;\\nCTurdon L. Leech, Treasiu-er; George E. Adair, Assessor: James Kapps, David Robinson,\\nJames H. St. John, Maitin Firman; J. S. Hollister and Alex Grant, Trustees.\\nThe village officers for 1882-83 are: W m. H. Harvey, President; Jehial S. Hollister,\\nCharles O. Bm-gess, Ralph Wilcox, Trustees; Erastus W. Lawi-ence, Clerk; Stephen D.\\nAdams, Treasm er: George E. Adair, Assessor; Andrew T. Sopher. Street Conamissioner;\\nFrancis O. Crocker, Constable.\\nDISCO VILLAGE.\\nThe hamlet of Disco was platted in 1849. The owners intended that the place\\nshould become an academical town, and carried out that intention. The men interested\\nin this laudable enterprise set apart ten acres of land and an endowment fund of $1,000.\\nIn 1850, the academy biiilding was erected, and Aloiizo M Keeler appointed Principal.\\nSubsecjuently, the common school of the district was taken under the academical wing,\\nand so the building continued in the service of high and primary education until 1864,\\nwhen the lower floor was given to the School Trustees and the upper to the religious so-\\ncieties of the neighborhood.\\nThe village is located on the Middle Branch of the Clinton River, fourteen miles\\nnorthwest of the county seat and four miles north of Utica. its shipping- point. Its popu-\\nlation is 110.\\nThe principal industries of the village are comjirised in a wooden bowl factory, feed-\\nmill, cider-mill and jilaning-mill. Among the business and professional men are A. E.\\nBacon, physician; G. T. Darby, grocer; J. H. Bell, bowl manufactiu er; John C. Adams,\\ndealer in produce: George Brown, wagon-maker; James Cole, hunber manufacturer: Cross\\nPayne, wagon-makers, eider manufactiu-ers and planing-mill operators; M. J. Monfore,\\nagricultm-al implements: H. N. Orcutt, James Ray and Selfridge, blacksmiths.\\nThe first settlers of Disco were John Keeler, Alonzo M, Keeler, Isaac C. Cross, James\\nB. Fry and Henry Skerritt. John Russell, the temperance lectm-er, is named among the\\nfirst settlers. Mrs. H. J. Salter had charge of the post office until the appointment of\\nMiss Emma A. Keeler.\\ntt PV", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0733.jp2"}, "734": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTIIK i;TICA LYCEl M.\\nThis association, for the promotion of education, was orgfanized November 1, 1839.\\nThe original members were Hareligh Carter, Peter S. Palmer, J. B. Carter, M. H. A.\\nEvans, D. M. Price, H. 0. Bronsou, C. S. Madison, C. B. H. Fessenden, Gurdon C.\\nLeech, N. D. Stebbins, C. \\\\V. Chapel, F. D. Watkins, Orson Sheldon, John James, L. T.\\nTen Eyek, H. R. Schetterly, J. C. McKisson, James Stephens, John Gray, G. W. Men-ill,\\nGary Worden, A. E. Fuller and Orville Stevens. The first meeting of the association was\\nheld in the Presbyterian session room, with Orson Sheldon in the chair and P. J. Palmer,\\nSecretary. A committee on constitution reported at an adjourned meeting, held December\\n2, 1839, when a series of rules for the government of the lyceum was adopted. The first\\nofficers were; O. Sheldon, President: N. D. Stebbins, Vice President: C. B. H. Fessenden,\\nSecretary: J. B. Carter, Treasui er: C. W. Chapel, Collector; R. L. Clai-ke, Librarian:\\nJ. C. McKisson, F. D. Watkins and G. W. Merrill, Committee of Arrangements. The\\nfirst question discussed was, Should the laws of Usiu-y be abolished The last record\\nof the association is dated January 9, 185S, and signed by C. L. Jenny, Secretary. Pre\\nvious to the organization of the lyceum. the Utica Library Association existed.\\nThe Mammoth Hotel was built at Utica in 1839, and opened for business January\\n1, 1840. Numbers of people from all parts of the county, as well as from Oakland,\\nAVayne and St. Clair Couaties were jjresent.\\nTHE CONfillEOATION.M. CHirRcni.\\nRev. William Piatt commenced labor in Utica, Mich., on the first Sunday in June,\\n1854. Januaiy 11, 1855, the scattered fragments of a Presbyterian Church and a few\\nothers were organized by Council into a Congregational Chiu-ch. The original mem-\\nbers of this church numbered sixteen. John B. Chapman and Oliver Nichols were the\\nfirst Deacons. Ths first-named still resides at Utica, and is at this date (February, 18S2)\\nthe sole Deacon of the church. Rev. William Piatt was the first pastor, and continued\\nto hold that office until his voluntary retirement, in the summer of 1871. He was suc-\\nceeded in August of the same year by O. Hobbs, whose ministry lasted six months. From\\nthe 1st of February, 1872, to the latter part of September, there was no pastor, but meet-\\nings were held, the lerk of the church reading sermons. Dr. Payson Breede, a young\\nman. commenced labors with the church as minister Sejitember 22. He continued to be\\npastor Tintil A])ril 1. 1877. During this ministry, the chiu ch made considerable additions.\\nThe house, though decorated within and fm nished with a f lu uace and pipe-organ, remains\\nessentially the same as when first built, if we except a small addition made in the rear for\\nthe accommodation of th? new organ. During the earlier history of the church, it was\\naided by the American Home Missionary Society. Some years since, however, it ceased to\\nreceive this aid, and is at present supported wholly by funds from Utica and the sur-\\nrounding country. In the building of its house of worship, the church received the aid\\nof the Congregational Union. The seats are at present mostly owned by individuals.\\nThe present (February, 1882) resident membership is* about sixty.\\nHIOGRAPIIICAL.\\nThe personal history of the township constitijtes a very essential part of the history\\nof the county. It is the record of industry, of enterprise and of duty done. This most\\nimportant branch of local history has been treated extensively, every effort was made to\\nrender it full and correct, and therefore, we have pleasure in referring oiu* readers to the\\npages devoted to it in this volume:\\nWILLIAM BROWNELL, P. O. Utica. Mr. B. was born November 1(5, 1830, in\\nFarmington, Oakland Co., Mich. is the son of George and Clarissa Grant Brownell: his", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0734.jp2"}, "735": {"fulltext": "A\\nfather was one of tlie pioneer settlers of Oakland County, was born in New Lisbon, Otsego\\nCo.. N. Y. and died August 1 ISTit; his mother was born January i. l^O l, in the State\\nof New York, and died September 17, 18. in the spring of IS.M, Dr. Brownell came to\\nthis county and began the practice of his profession, which he has since continued, with\\nthe exception of three years service in the war of the rebellion, as Sui geon of the Second\\nRegiment Michigan Cavalry; he was married, May 10, IS.jf), at -Jackson, Mich., to Jane\\nE. Scudder, born September 13, 1834, at Utica: two of thi ee children born to them are\\nliving Lizzie M. born May 21, 1851), died Sejjteraber 28, 1862; Kate G. February 23,\\n1865, and William S., May 14, 1868. Dr. B. was elected to represent his district two\\nterms in the Legislature: he has been a member of the School Board of Utica fifteen\\nyears, and has been its President since 1867; has been actively connected with school in-\\nterests thirty vears: he is a Democrat in politics.\\nIKA h! BITTTERFIELD, Sr., was born December 6, 1812, in Perry, Wyoming Co.,\\nN. y. removed permanently to Michigan in November, 1838, where he settled on Section\\n32, township of Shelby; there he resided continuously until the spring of 1866, when he\\nremoved to Lapeer, Lapeer County, where he still resides. Mrs. Rachel McNeill Butter-\\nfield was born in Antrim, N. H., in 1811, and was a direct descendant of the Scotch-Irish\\npeople who settled Londonderry, N. H. They were married in 1838, just before settling\\nin Michigan; this lady died iu October, 1846.\\nIRA HOWARD BUTTERFIELD, Jr., was born December 22, 1840, on Section 32,\\ntownship of Shelby, one and one-half miles northwest of the village of Utica, where he\\nlived until the spring of 1861, when he went to California overland, with stock, remaining\\naway nearly thi-ee years: was then two years at Utica on his father s farm; iu the spring\\nof 1866, removed to Lapeer, Mich., and purchased a farm, and, up to May, 187U. was en-\\ngaged in stock-raising and farming; since then and at present he is a Deputy Collector\\nand Inspector of Customs at Port Hm-on, Mich. and is also one of the Directors of the\\nState Agricultm-al Society. August 21.), 18()6, he married Miss Olive F. Davison, who was\\nborn August 8, 1842, in the township of Atlas, Genesee County, Mich. her father was\\nOliver P. Davison, a native of Nev,- York, who settled in that township in 1831; they were\\nthe parents of fiiur childi-en, two of whom died young; two boys are now living Kenyon\\nL. born in IStiS. and Clinton D. in 1878.\\nELIPHALET J. CANNON, P. O. Washington, farmer. Section 3, was borp Novem-\\nber 18, 1812, in Shrewsbury. Rutland Co., Yt. he is the son of Pearl and Mary (Fuller)\\nCannon (see sketch of Gen. G. H. Cannon). Mr. C. came to this county in September.\\n1806, and purchased eighty three acres of land: he now owns 164 acres of first-class land\\nwith good dwelling and commodious and substantial buildings. Mr. Cannon was mar-\\nried, November 30. 1834, to Tryphouia M. Prouty, a native of Granville, Washington Co..\\nN. Y. her mother was born July 4, 1793. in Hartford, Washington Co., N. Y., her father\\nin 1775, in Worcester County, Mass. her gi-andfather was a soldier in the war of 1812.\\nMr. and Mrs. Cannon have had six children, whose record is as follows: Mary J., born\\nMarch 19. 183r); Anna M., January 9. 1837, died January 23, 185. Paulina f., July 4,\\n1839, married James S. Lawson. May 22. 1861: Juliette I., April 25, 1842. died June\\n17, 1862; Levi E., April 21, 1844, married Lucelia M. Manley, December 16, 1868: Ella A.,\\nOctober 23. 1847, married Martin C. Williams, July 16, 1872, died April 19, 1880. Mr.\\nC. is a Republican in politics and himself and wife are members of the Chi-istian Chiu-ch,\\nof Romeo. Levi Cannon, only son of Eliphalet and Mahala Cannon, of English and Ger-\\nman descent, was born April 21, 1844, in Day, Saratoga Co.. N. Y. removed witli his\\nparents to Shelby, Macomb Co., Mich., in October, 185r); married, Decemlier 16. 1868, to\\nLucelia M. Manley, second daughter of Joel W. and Julia Manley, of English and Irish\\ndescent, bora June 28, 1846, in Shelby, Macomb County; they have always been residents", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0735.jp2"}, "736": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof Shelby and have no children. Mr. C. is a farmer and, for the past ten years, has de-\\nvoted considerable time to locating and estimating pine and hardwood lands in the northern\\npart of the States: latterly he is in the employ of the D., M. M. R. R. Company of\\nthe Upper Pennisiila.\\nGEORGE HENRY CANNON, P. O. Washington, was born in Day, Saratoga Co.,\\nN. Y., December HO, 1820; he is the son of Pearl and Mary (Fuller) Cannon, natives of\\nWarwich. Mass.; the latter was born April 10, 178(), the former in 1784; they were mar-\\nried in 1805, and had eleven children, seven of whom siu vive, as follows. Rev. John Can-\\nnon. September 21, 1808; Rev. Isaiah Fuller Cannon, September 1(5, 1810; Eliphalet\\nJohnson. November IS, 1812; Maiy\\\\ July Ki, J8l8: George H., December HO, 1S2 Levi\\nHathaway, April lU, 1880, and Sarah, April 11, 18H2. The senior Cannon removed his\\nfamily to Saline, Washtenaw County, in 18HH, and, fom- years later, to Bruce, Macomb\\nCounty, settling in Shelby in 184(): he died in that township January 18r 2, and his\\nwife died March 2.7), 18()2; both grandsires of Mr. Cannon were engaged in the country s\\nearliest struggle for existence, and their descendants have preserved names guiltless of\\ndivorce or criminal records. Mr C. is a creditable sample of what a man may make of\\nhimself: in his youth, Michigan had no free schools, and he obtained his education through\\nhis own exertion, working nights and mornings for his board and for the teacher at the\\nclose of his term to pay his tuition; at nineteen, he entered the service of a party explor-\\ning in the Lake Superior regions, with whom he remained one year, meantime coasting in\\nan open boat nearly around that lake. The record of his travels were publishea in a series\\nof letters soon after his retiu n; he attended the academy at Rochester, Oakland County, two\\nyears: the institution was under the charge of Peter Moyers, of Washington Township,\\nduring the lirst year: he died and was succeeded by Prof. R. C. Kedzie, now Professor of\\nChemistry of the Agricultural College at Lansing: after leaving the academy, Mr. C.\\ntaught two winters in Oakland County and two in Macomb County in the spring of 1849.\\nhe was employed by Judge W. A. Burt, in company with others, in making an examina-\\ntion of a district north and west of the Saginaws: in 18r)0, he had chai-ge of the surveys\\nfor Mr. Burt. and. during that season, made the sub-divisional lines of about ten tovvn-\\nships; on the Itth day of August, he was appointed United States Deputy Siu veyor, in\\nwhich capacity he has performed a large amoiuat of surveying on the Government lands\\nas embraced in nine contracts, including the Grand Traverse Region, many towns near\\nCheboygan and the islands of Saginaw Bay: he also did much work on the Upper Penin-\\nsula and examined by appointment the condition of the surveys in the territory between\\nLakes Superior and Michigan, and from the meridian line as far west as the pictured\\nrocks, consuming two seasons in the vFork and crossing the peninsula from lake to lake\\nseveral times; he was also appointed to survey an extensive district of township lines on\\nthe north shore of Lake Superior in Minnesota, which extended to Pigeon River, the\\nnational boundary line. During the summer of 185(), he made the survey of an extensive\\nIndian Reservation; since the closing of the public siu veys, he has been largely engaged\\nin examining and selecting pine and farming lands in Michigan and W isconsin. Mr.\\nCannon resides on Section 4: besides his homestead, he owns extensive lands in several\\ncounties of this State; he was married, October 81, 1852, to Lucy Marie, daughter of\\nIsaac Cole, of Erie County, N. Y. their children s record is as follows: Alice, wife of Dr.\\nA. Clarke, of Caunonsbm-g, Kent County, bom August 10, 1858; Eber P., born January\\n20, 1855, deceased; George Lee, November 18. 1850, deceased: Frank E., June 24, 1800,\\ndeceased; Howard B., February 5, 1808, and William A.. September 28, 1870. Mr. C.\\nis a man of quiet and retiring manners, yet sufficiently mindful of his inherent obligations\\nas an American citizen to respond cheerfully to the summons of his peers to official duty.\\nSince the days of Fremont, he has been an unwavering supporter of the principles of", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0736.jp2"}, "737": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nRepublicanism aud au uncompromising Union man during the rebellion and is always\\nfound in the service of practical Christianity; he contributed generously to the erection\\nof the Union Church at Washington, and is, with his wife, a non-resident member of\\nthe Mt. Vernon Baptist Church: his religious views are characterized by tolei-ance of the\\nopinions and beliefs of others; he is a warm-hearted friend to all worthy humanity and\\nentertains his guests with a marked generosity: his moral character is without a stain\\nhis word is a bond and his judgment in practical business life is considered justly uner-\\nring.\\nREV. JOHN CANNON (autobiography). I was born in the town of New Salem,\\nMass., September 21, 1808, and was the eldest child of Pearl Cannon and Mary Fuller,\\nhis wife; both parents were of English ancestry; my paternal and maternal grandfather\\neach served diu ing the Revolutionary war; my family moved westward, to New Hamp-\\nshire, in 1810; thence to Vermont, in 18 2(): thence to Day, Saratoga Co., N. Y. I shared\\nthe toils and hardships incident to a pioneer s life in the rocky, mountainous portion of\\nEastern New York, om- chief occupation being lumbering, shaving shingles and peeling\\ntanbai-k. March 28, 1830, I married Sally Cook, daughter of Stephen Cook, of Welsh\\ndescent, and Thankful Creal, whose parents came from Holland: we have raised a family\\nof seven childi-en Stephen B. born September 30, 1832 (see sketch): Sarah M,, Septem-\\nber 22, 1834; John W., Jan. 17. 183H; Hannah M., April 10. 1838; Ellery C, December\\n28, 1842: Mary L., August 21, 1846; Thedee A., August 30, 1841t. The year following\\nour marriage, we began to hear of the land of milk and honey, where porkers ran about\\nready roasted, with carving-knife and fork stuck in their back, and money grew on bushes\\neven the Territory of Michigan; being tired of climbing hills and desirous of obtaining\\na home, we left om- kindred aud set out for the promised land. After a weary joiu-uey,\\nwe arrived in Washtenaw County, in the fall of 1831; the following year, we purchased\\nland near Ypsilanti, building a comfortable frame house, and, feeling much elated with\\nour success, began to improve om home. I had been converted at the age of sixteen, and\\nunited with the Christian Church, whose creed is the Bible, and had early been impressed that\\nit was my duty to preach the word to a perishing world. After much prayer, I laid the\\nmatter before my faithful wife, who, with her accustomed bravery, answered: Do what\\nis yovu- duty, and I will do all 1 can to help you. In the year 1834, we sold our home\\nand moved to Royal Oak. Oakland County. I now gave my time to the work of traveling\\nand preaching, while my family lived upon short rations and fared hard, as the pioneer\\nminister s wife and children are often obliged to do. My circuit embraced Wayne, La-\\npeer, Macomb and part of Washtenaw Counties; my road lay through the forest, following\\nbridle-paths, or old trails, always on horseback, preaching on an average 250 sermons a\\nyear and traveling 3.000 miles. From the year 1838 to 1842, I held meetings each day\\nin the year. The people thronged to hear the Word, and in many a log schoolhouse, or\\nsimple settler s cabin, precious seasons of revival and wondrous outpourings of God s\\npower were manifested. Since the beginning of my ministry, I have baptized nearly UOO\\nbelievers, married 210couj)les and attended 419 funerals. In 1838. we pm-chased a small\\nplace in Shelby, Macomb County, aud have resided in the county ever since. By means\\nof farming aud other mechanical pursuits, and the small remuneration I received for my\\npreaching (having never received a salary), we brought up om- children, and now, in 1882,\\nremain an unbroken family circle. My wife and I celebrated om- golden wedding\\nMarch 28. 1880, ou which occasion we were generously remembered by a host of kind\\nfriends. As an illustration of the difficulties we encountered in those early days, I relate\\nthe following incident: Having an appointment to till at Ridgeway, Lenawee County,\\nwhile proceeding thither on horseback, I arrived at Ypsilanti and found that the high\\nwater, caused by a June freshet, had carried away the bridge over the Huron River; they", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0737.jp2"}, "738": {"fulltext": "had made a temporai y bridge to accoinmodate foot passengers, by placing saw-horses at\\nproper intervals, and placing a single plank from one to the other; on account of the high\\nbank on one side of the river and the low land on the other, this frail bridge was in some\\nplaces several feet from the water. I must cross this bridge with my pony, or fail to\\nreach my appointment at the hour, as this was the direct roiite. My horse had walked logs\\nwhen lying lengthwise over miry places, so I resolved to try her on the bridge. I dis-\\nmounted, and removed the saddle and indisjsensable saddle-bags. A crowd came out to\\nwitness the strange spectacle. I started out on my strange journey, the pony following,\\nnothing daunted by the unusual path, and we reached the shore in safety, amidst the\\ncheers of the crowd. Thits by hard paths, and through manifold trials, God led the pio-\\nneers of Michigan in all safety, imtil we who are left to tell the story of our simjile, la-\\nborious life of trials and triumphs, see our children and childi en s children inheriting a\\ngoodly land, and we look forward to a better country, whose Builder and Maker is the\\nLord.\\nALFRED CARLTON, farmer. Section 1 P. O, Disco, was born August 21. IN-iC), iu\\nMonroe County, N. Y. is the son of Richard and Lucinda Whitney Carltou; his father\\nwas born December 2. 1TS4. in Orange County, Yt., and was of English ancestry; his\\nmother was born in the same county in ITSH, and was of French extraction; they removed\\nto Macomb Cotuity, Mich., in October, 18H 2, and died, the former in 1862, the latter in\\n18()(i. Alfred Carlton s grandfather was born in Connecticut; his name was Richard\\nCarlton and he married Ruth Baker, of Tolland, Vt. he served live years in the Revolu-\\ntionary war under Gen. Washington: ho died at Brooldield, Vt., in 1824, and his wife\\nfollowed him in 18H7. The gi eatgrandfather s name was also Richard Carlton; he was\\nborn in Vermont and married Hannah Hutchins, of the same State. Alfred Carlton was\\nsix years of age when his parents moved to Michigan: he was the youngest of a family of\\nseven children, whose names and ages are as follows; William Carlton, born August 11,\\n181I-5: Aaron Carlton, August 9, 1815; John A. Carlton. August 22, 1817; Henry Carlton,\\nNovember 21. ISIU; Eliza Carlton. June 1821; Hannah Carlton. August 21. 1824; Al-\\nfred P. Carlton, August 20. l!S2t When twenty-two years of age, Mr. C. purchased\\nfifty acres of land in the township of ^Vashington, which he afterward sold and bought\\nsixty-seven acres in another locality; ho now owns 120 acres of valuable land under culti-\\nvation; he was married to Eliza A. Preston, daughter of Ira and Deborah Preston, Seji-\\ntember Ifi, 1852; they have two children Emma D. born January 28, 18()2; EttaL.,\\nAugust HO. ISfiC). Mr. C. held the office of Drain Commissioner and belongs to the\\nMasonic order: in politics he is a Republican.\\nELAM CHAPIN (deceased) was bom February IS, 1811. in Steuben pounty, N Y.\\nwas the son of Johnson and Phebe (Gaston) Chapin, respectively of Welsh and English\\ndescent; he came to this county in 1S82 and purchased ninety acres of land two years\\nlater; he afterward bought eighty-three acres of partially improved land, now owned by\\nhis widow; he married, for his first wife, Lavaucha S. Davis, born in Covington, Genesee\\n(now Wyoming) Co., N. Y., November 24, 1818; her father, Calvin Davis, was born April\\n27. 17yH. in Worcester County, Mass; his wife, Sylvia (Beardsley) Davis, was born in\\nCherry Valley, Otsego Co., N. Y.. February lit, 1798; they were man-ied, January 21),\\n1815, and have one child Andrew B.. born April 5, lS;-?9. He married, for his first wife,\\nJosephine H. Rose; they had thi-ee children Elam P.. Lavancha M. and Andrew B., Jr.\\nHis second wife was Alice Osborn; he was a sm-geon in the war of the rebellion, from\\nOctober, 1802. to its close; was with Gen. Butler in his expedition up the James River.\\nHe belongs to the Masonic fraternity and is a Knight of the Red Cross; also is a member\\nof the A. O. U. W. Mr. Chapin of this sketch was in the Toledo war and was a Demo-\\ncrat in politics: he died February 24. 18r)(i.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0738.jp2"}, "739": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUKTY.\\nHASWELL H. CHUECH, P. O. Utica, fanner, on Section 2U, was born March 7,\\n1S21, in Jericho. Chittenden Co., Vt. is the son of Ezra and Lucinda (Mead) Church; his\\nfather was boru in March. ITU J. in Chelsea. Vt., and died in August, ISSl; his mother\\nwas born in 171)7, in Underbill, Chittenden Co., Vt. .and died in January, 18 2ri. Mr.\\nChurch came to the township of Macomb, this county, in September, 1848, and, a few\\nyears after, pm chased eighty acres of wild land on Section 4, which he afterward sold,\\nand pm chased forty acres on Section 1, in Shelby; this he also disposed of and bought\\neighty acres in Kay, selling again and buying his present homestead of 120 acres. He\\nwas married, January 5, 184S, to Maiy A. Davis, a native of Shelby Township, born\\nJanuary 5, 1828: they have had ten children, sis of whom are living, born as follows:\\nFrank S.. December 28. 1848, in Shelby, mai-ried Millie H. Carter, January 11,\\n1870; Hattie M., March 4, IS in Macomb, married Ai thur E. Van Eps, October 28,\\n1881: Calvin D.. September 5, 1858: Libbie L.. January 7. 18r)2; Jennie L.. February\\nH, 181)4; Florence V., July 15, 18Hr). The ionr last named were born in Shelby Township.\\nMr. Church is a man whose whole life has secui-ed the confidence of his townsmen\\nwherever he has lived: he was School Director of Macomb several terms; has been Sheriff\\ntwo entire and a fraction of a third term: has also served as Treasui-er of Shelby two\\nyeai s. In politics, he is a Republican; is a member of the Masonic order and a Granger.\\nMrs. Chm-ch belongs to the M. E. Church, of Utica.\\nJOHN CLARK, Utica, son of Thomas and Matilda (Wooley) Clark, born September\\n16, 18.J8, in Lincolnshire, England: removed with his parents when eighteen months old\\nto- Detroit, Mich. removed from Detroit in the fall of 18 )2, with his parents, to Saginaw\\nCounty, Mich. lived at a munber of places in the State until the sjaring of 18 )5, when he\\nremoved with his parents to Sterling Township, Macomb County, Mich. where he has\\nlived until the present date, February 20, 18S2: was educated at the common schools and\\nfollowed the occupation of a farmer to the present time.\\nSYLVESTER DARLING (deceased), was born June 2, 178. in Oneida Coun-\\nty. N. Y. he was married July 4, 1814, to Amy luman: she was born May 2(5, 1 i .t\\nin Greene County, N. Y. Mr. Darling came to this county in October, 1828, and jnir-\\nchased eighty acres of land on Section 4, where his widow now resides; they had eleven\\nchildren, six of whom are living; they were born as follows: Orpha, October 28, 1820:\\nJohn, October. 1818; Mary, May 20, 1S22; Nathan, November 14, 1S28; Heniy, October\\n2U, 182(5: Clarissa. November 8, 1881; Martha Matilda, March 25, 1.S87: Francis Mar-\\nion, January 80, 1889; Abner, November 7, 1^114: Samuel, December 2^ 1815: Emily\\nwas born May 80, 1817, in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y.: she was married to Elisha Went-\\nworth, June 28, 188 he was born August 4. 1812, and they live on the homestead with\\nMrs. Darling. Mi-. Darling was a soldier of 1812 and his widow draws a pension.\\nJOSEPH EilERSON, P. O. Utica. son of Elemuel and Lydia (Emerson) Emerson,\\nborn December 10, 1S28, in Kennebec County. Me. removed to Section 8, Macomb.\\nMi(5h., in June, bS4S; has lived in Macomb County until the present time; educated in\\nthe common schools of Maine in his younger days: worked in a brickyard, and at farming,\\nand in running logs down the Kennebec. Penobscot. ^lerrimack and St. John s Rivers,\\nand in the lumber business in Western Pennsylvania; since removing to Michigan, he has\\nbeen engaged in farming and dealing in sheep, cattle, hogs and real estate, and is now\\ndealing in r^al estate. He was married to Elizabeth Hanscom, of Monroe County. N.\\nY., daughter of Cyrus and Martha (Matthews) Hanscom. December 18, 18()8, in Utica,\\nMich.: their child s name is Kate Emerson, born October 80, 18()5. His ancestors came-\\nfrom England about 100 years ago, and settled at Irish Hill, Me.\\nJAMES N EAVELL. P. O. Utica. farmer, on Section 1 7. was born November 20.\\n1882. in Shelbv. Macomb County, where Le has resided all his life: is the son of Phi-", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0739.jp2"}, "740": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY\\nlander and Lydia A. (Wells) Ewell. April 1, 1855, he located on the farm where he has\\nsince resided; he piu chased 195 acres in LSiiO, and now owns iSO acres of choice land in\\nan advanced state of improvement, with good buildings. Mr. Ewell was married, April\\n15. 1S55, to Elsie A.- Cannon; she was born in Day Township, Saratoga Co.. N. Y. her\\nfather was of Scotch lineage, her mother of Welsh parentage. Mr. and Mrs. Ewell have\\nhad five childi en. as follows: Lydia M. July 27, 1S5(), died October 7, 1N7H; Herbert t\\nJanuary i^i, lS(i 2; Ada M. Avigust ;^1, lS(i5: George N. September 1,S71; Frankie,\\nAugust 9, 1S76, died December 9, 1S7 Mr. Ewell is a Democrat in politics, and has\\nb^en Road Commissioner three terms. Both himself and wife are members of the Uni-\\nversalist Church, of Rochester, Oakland Co., Mich. Mr. Ewell has been and still is an\\nactive, energetic man, and has l)eeu zealoiasly interested in the prosperity of the schools\\nand educational interests of the township. When a boy, seated on a slab for a seat in\\nthe old log schoolhouse, where he obtained his early education, he hoped aud believed he\\nshould live to see a good school in a comfortable building. When the money was raised\\nto build the present schoolhouse, pai ties to take the contract were wanting, and Mr.\\nEwoll, in company with Mr. Wells, assumed the charge, and the result is one of the\\nhnest and most substantial l rick schoolhouses in the county.\\nJESSE GILLETT, P. O. Washington, fruit farmer on Section 5, Shelby, was born\\nDecember 10, 181(1, in Cairo, Greene Co., N. Y, is the son of Benjamin and Asenath\\n(Grimes) Gillett; his father was of French descent, born June 27, 1755, and died Septem-\\nber 28, 18H8; his mother was of Engli.sh extraction, born October 22, 1789, and died No-\\nvember H, 18t)4. Mr. Gilleit came to this county June 1, 18H/5, and purchased 120 acres\\nof wild land eighty on Section 21 and forty on Section 14; he afterward sold this and\\npurchased the farm where he now lives, in July, 1S55. February 4, 18H8, he was mar-\\nried to Anna Mook, of Ohio; she died November 12, 1857; they had live childi-en Maria,\\nborn March 5, 1839; Asenath K., December 2, 1844; Euella, March 10, 1850; Anna F.,\\nSeptember 10, 1855; Benjamin, February 21, 1847, died August 80, 1.S50. Mr. Gillett\\nwas married, a second time, January 81, 1859, to Mrs. Elizabeth (Johnson) Hawley, born\\nApril 2(), 18;!4, in Wheatland, Monroe Co., N. Y. her parents were natives of New En-\\ngland; they have two childi-en Jesse, born July 1(), lS(i5, and Nellie M., October 80, 18()7.\\nMrs. Gillett 8 first husband, Edgar J. Hawley, was born September 5, 1S2(), and died\\nDecember 185(5; they were married, February 2(), 1851, and became the parents of\\nthree children, born as follows: Lucy A., March 11, 1858; Olive E., Sejjtember 12. 1854;\\nEllen J., December 8, 185(). Mr. Gillett is a Republican in politics and liberal in his\\nreligious views.\\nORRIN GOFF, aged seventy years, was born in Monroe County, N, Y., May 10,\\n1812: his parents, Roswell and Fanny Goflf. were natives of Connecticut, Mr. Goflf re-\\nmoved from Monroe County to Orleans County, N. Y., at the age of thirteen years; he re-\\nsided there until 188(), then removed with his parents to Utica, Mich.; he was educated in\\nthe public schools of Monroe and Orleans Counties, N. Y. He was married, in November,\\n1887, to Sarah Eddy, aged twenty years, of Orleans County. N. Y.. daughter of Osmer and\\nHannah Eddy. Mr. Goff settled in November, 1887, at his present residence on Section\\n10. Shelby, where he has lived since that time; has had two children, one son, born\\nDecember 80, 1840, and one daughter, born December 9, 184 the daiighter died March\\n17, 18()1, at the age of foui-teen years and three months; her name was Amelia J. Gofi\\nthe son is now living on the old homestead; is Supervisor of the township and a very es-\\ntimable member of the County Board. Mr. Gofi Sr., is a plownnaher by trade, which bus-\\niness he pm sued until about 18()2, since which time he has been farming. When he\\nlocated in Shelby, the nearest house was one mile distant; the surrounding country was\\na wilderness; game was plenty and wolves were everywhere; the nearest store or mill was", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0740.jp2"}, "741": {"fulltext": "^^/f5\\nJ-o-^^^^rz^^^..^-*^^-", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0741.jp2"}, "742": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0742.jp2"}, "743": {"fulltext": "^t\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nfive and a half miles distant, and the whole neighborhood seemed as primitive as did this\\ncontinent to its first Genoese discoverers.\\nALEXANDER GRANT, son of James and Cynthia (Larnardi Grant, was born at\\nY]isilanti, Mich., March 24, 1838; in 184U. he removed with his parents to Livonia, N. Y.,\\nwhere he received a common-school education; in 1855. he returned to Michigan, working\\nin a store and teaching school at Birmingham, removing to Utica in 1858, where he has\\nsince resided. He maiTied Miss -Jidia P. Deshon, daughter of Albert and Julia Deshon,\\nof Utica. natives of Moravia, N. Y., November 5, 1S()1 has two chikh-en. a son and a daugh-\\nter James Alber. born November 22. 1802. and Mary E., July 18li5. Mr. Grant s\\nfather was a native of East Bloomfield. N, Y, and his mother of Sin-ingfield, Mass.; his\\ngrandfather. Thomas Grant, emigrated from the North of L-eland at the close of the last\\ncentm-y. Mr. Grant held the office of Postmaster at Utica ft-om April. 187H, until 1881,\\nbeing the longest time that any person held that position, at which time he resigned to\\naccept the nomination to the Legislature, to which body he was elected November 2, 1881,\\nby a majority of fifty-sis. being the first Republican ever elected in the district; has held\\nthe office of Justice of the Peace for eight years; has been a Trustee for the village of\\nUtica for three years, is a member of the School Board and of the Macomb County Repub-\\nlican Committee; he cast his fii st vote for Aljraham Lincoln, and has since been unswerv-\\ning in his fealty to the Republican party and its principles; is a member of the Commit-\\ntee of Municipal Corporati(3us. on Engrossment and Enrollment, of the special Committee\\non Appointment of the present Legislature. Mr. Grant enlisted in the Second Michigan\\nCavalry, Augirst, 18()1, and was elected Second Lieutenant, Company H. in which capacity\\nhe sei-ved until April, 1862, at which time he resigned; had two brothers, Weitman L.\\nand Thomas L. deceased). W. L. was present at the captiu e of Jeff Davis.\\nWILLIAM GRIFFITH, P. O. Disco, son of Daniel Griffith, was born inOutario,\\nC. W.. October lt 1815; his father. Daniel, was born in New York State, IdJO, and\\nmoved to Canada abon.t 181(t. not as a loyalist, as the British impressed him into service,\\nand he desei-ted, seeking a home in his native State; in 1840. he left New York for Mich-\\nigan, where his son William had been located since 188(); his mother was Lois, daughter\\nof George McNiel, of Johnstown. Canada, where she was married to Daniel Griffith.\\nWilliam Griffith attended the common schools of Florida Township. Montgomery County,\\nN. Y., until 1835, when he moved with his father to Ontario County, N. Y. The year\\nfollowing, he traveled west to Pontiac, and purchased forty acres in Orion Township, Sec-\\ntion 31, Oakland County; he located four farms in Oakland, built four houses, planted\\nfour orchards and lived there for twenty-two years. In 185 he settled a part of the Van\\nDorn farm, moving to his present land, on Section 12, in LSCiO. He was married to Rachel\\nC. Bardwell, of Ontario County. N. Y., in 1835; this lady died in Oakland County in\\n1853; in 1854, he man-ied Hannah B. Dewer, of Rose Township, Oakland County. He\\nwas married to Jane Kiles, of Macomb Towushi]). in 18ti( this lady died in November,\\n1878, and on July 5, 187U, he married Maria Sloat. of Pontiac. Mrs. Bardwell Griffith was\\nthe mother of six children, and Mrs. Kiles Griffith of three children, all living. Mr. G.\\nis a member of Shelby Methodist Protestant Chm-ch. and is politically independent.\\nHis childi-en are Adelia. now residing at Greenville; Lucius, at Fairplain; Elizabeth\\nresides at Greenville, Montcalm County; G. W. Griffith resides in Shelby; Philip is an\\nextensive farmer on Section 14. of Shelby; James, a farmer at Greenville, Montcalm\\nCounty, and Henry. Irving and Elmer, all residing in Shelby. George W. Griffith en-\\nlisted as recniit in the Twenty-second Michigan Infantry; Lucius enlisted in Twenty-\\nsecond Michigan Infantry, and was mustered in with the command in 18()1, serving until\\nthe regiment was disbanded.\\n4.5", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0743.jp2"}, "744": {"fulltext": "frr*\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHOEL WOSTER HAINES (deceased), son of Uriah and Amy (Perkins) Haines,\\nborn March 11. 1831, in the town of Hnnter, Greene Co.. N. Y. removed, in the\\nspring of 183(), to the town of Bruce, Macomb Co., Mich., with his parents, where he lived\\nuntil March, 180. when he removed to the town of Shelby, whore he lived until his\\ndeath, May 18,1877: was educated in the common schools and at the academy in Romeo,\\nMacomb County; married to Ancis Decker, daughter 6f Oliver and Mary Cheever Decker,\\nJune 17), 18()1; her parents were natives of Wheatland. Moni-oe Co., N. Y. Mr. H. taught\\nschool, when a young man, diiring the winter time, and worked on a farm during the sum-\\nmer, until the year 18() after which time he pursued the occupation of farmer until his\\ndeath; his ancestors came from Holland about the middle of the last centiuy and settled\\nin Greene Couoty. N. Y. Mr. H. left a family of six children, whose names and birth are\\nas follows: Mary Estella, born April 11, 18 ):2; Laura Adelaide, November 2U, 1863:\\nEdward Beecher, October 22, 18()r); Amy Elizabeth, November 18, 18()7; Willie Mahon,\\nJuly 22, 1870, died November 17, 187(1: Hoel AVoster, March 4, 1872; Benjamin Chee-\\nver, January t), 187-\\nJONATHAN W. HARRIS, Disco, Section 11, township of Shelby, was born Decem-\\nber 7. 1820, in Covington, Genesee Co., N. Y.; is the son of Jacob and Elizabeth Ozial\\nHarris: his father was born April 10, 17U1, in New Paltz, Ulster Co., N. Y., and died\\n.June 13, 18 )4; his mother was born January 1, 17U2, in Monroe County, Penn., and died\\nNovember 27, 1872. They came to this State from Genesee County, N. Y., via Detroit,\\narriving at that village on the steamer Henry Clay, May 14, 1830; they put up at a\\nprivate house owned by a Frenchman, where Mr. H. left his family and went after help\\nto move them and his goods to a temporary abode near the 240 acres of wilderness on\\nSection 3 Washington Township, which he had located and purchased of the Govern-\\nment the year before, his leed bearing the signature of Andi ew .Jackson. He obtained\\nthe services of Wilkes L. Stuart and two other men, each with his jiony team, and returned\\nto Detroit, when they started on their journey, going by way of Rochester and arriving\\nin Washington after two days of tiresome travel. Their log cabin was soon built; here\\nthey labored, bearing patiently all the trials of pioneer life until the dense forest was\\ntransformed into fruitful fields, until scarcely anything was left of the heavy timber\\nwhere the echo of the woodman s ax resounded upon so many frosty mornings of winter,\\nso many sultry days of summer: in due time they built a commodious dwelling near the\\nsite of the old log cabin. One incident of pioneer life is worthy of mentiou. In the year\\n1831, Mr. H.. in company with Braiuard Rowley and Bm chard Troop, made a trip to De-\\ntroit with ox-teams for i\\\\o\\\\\\\\r and salt; the time occu])ied was one week; the price paid for\\nflour per barrel in gold. Here they died. siuTounded by a family of foiu sons and\\nfour daughters Jonathan W.. Milton, Darius, Cyrus, Cynthia, Rose A., Sarah A. and\\nAmanda. Jacob Harris was one of the eleven children, one of the seven sons of Hemy\\nand Polly Harris. Hemy H. was born in 17()1, in New Paltz, Ulster Co., N. Y. he en-\\ntered the American Ai-my at the age of fom-teen, and served in Washington s division until\\nthe close of the Revolution. Soon after the close of the wiU for his faithful services, he\\nreceived a grant of 800 acres of land in Eastern New York. Joseph Harris, one of Hemy\\nHarris seven brothers, moved West and settled at Pittsburgh, Penn., when that town was\\nbut a military station. Henry H. s father was born in White Plains, Westchester Co., N.\\nY. his grandfather came from England and settled on Manhattan Island when it was in\\nthe possession of the Dutch; here he purchased ninety acres of land, where Broadway is\\nnow: this he leased for village lots and moved to White Plains; this tract recently came\\ninto the possession of those descendants of the paternal ancestors, who still reside at\\nWhite Plains. Perhaps no family has been more numerous, hardy or persevering, always\\naiding the move Westward. Jonathan W. Harris pm-chased 10(1 acres where he now\\ni\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0rr-^", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0744.jp2"}, "745": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nresides in 1847: he married Priscilla M. Crrover, December 31, 18r)0; she was born May\\n2(1, 1830, in Naples. Livingston Co.. N. Y. thev have had ten chikb-en, born as follows:\\nAdelbert O.. April 10, 1852: Amanda I., May 3. 1854; Arthur D., May 10, 1857; Alice\\nE., November 1). 1858; Agnes L., September 30, 18fi0, died January 23, 18()1; AnnellaB.,\\nMarch 23. 1862: Antoinette E., March 25, 18()4; Andrus E., December 21t. 1865; Addi-\\nson A., September 0, 18 )8. Amanda I. was married, December 31, 187(), to Austin\\nRowley; they have one child\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Cena M.. born December 25, 1880. Mi-s. H. died March\\n30, 1873. one week after the death of an infant child. She was a kind and indulgent\\nmother, ever laboring for the happiness of her husliand and children, even under the\\nkeenest ti-ials. To know her was but to love her, and the mention of her name ought ever\\nto jH-ove to her ehikii-en a safeguard fi-om all evil, a beacon to success, waking as it does,\\nonly thoughts of the deepest parental affection and the pm-est precepts of a mother s heart.\\nMr. H. is a Republican in jwlitics: he is of English and German descent.\\nJ. L. HETZLER, P. O. Utica. son of Fi-ederick (t. and Julia Ann Hetzler (Benedict),\\nborn in Dundas Village. AVentworth Co., Canada, November U, ]837: removed from Can-\\nada with his parents in the winter of 1838, to the State of New York, near Batavia; re-\\nmained there until the fall of 1845, at which time he removed with his father and step-\\nmother to the town of Erin, Macomb County, Mich. has lived in Macomb County until the\\npresent time; was educated at the common schools of Macomb County; has pursued the\\noccupation of a painter, farmer, brick-maker and canvasser, and is at present a painter\\nin the village of Utica; his ancestors came from Hamlnu g, Germany, about the middle of\\nthe last centm-y. Mr. H. assisted in laying out the first Ten-itorial road that was sur-\\nveyed out from St. Cloud to Boyes Deson. Minn. enlisted in Company I, Sixteenth In-\\nfantry Michigan Volunteers, on March 22, 18(i2, and served until July 1, 1862, at which\\ntime he was discharged on account of disability from injm-ies received while building a\\nponton bridge near Yorktowu, Va. was in the battle and siege of Yorktown. He married\\nArtimesia Cline. daughter of John and Mai-garet (Wilkens) Cline, December 30, 1863:\\nthey have had fom- children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Etta Bell, born Mai-ch 22, 18(58; Maiy Margaret, October\\n22, 1871, died January 2, 1882; Bertha Ii-ene, January 6, 1876, died Januaiy 3, 1882;\\nCharles Lindsley, August 20, 1878, died January 31, 1882.\\nLYMAN THOMPSON JENNEY (deceased) was born Jidy 27, 1798, at Leicester,\\nAddison Co., Vt.; son of Ebenezer and Chloe (Parker) Jenney, natives of New Bedford,\\nMass. his ancestors emigrated from England at an early day and settled at or neai- New\\nBedford: he was educated in the common schools of Vermont until he acquired sufficient\\neducation to teach school, by studying at nights and at leism-e hovu s, he qualified himself\\nfor teaching, working on a farm in summer time and teaching in winter until about the\\nyear 1823, when he entered the University Building, Burlington, Vt. where he re-\\nmained until August 10. 1S25, at which time he graduated, receiving his diploma as M.\\nD.; he then removed to Detroit, Mich., where he remained for a short time; then removed\\nto Washington, Macomb County, where he commenced practicing medicine in the spring\\nof 1826, being the first regular physician who settled in Macomb County; he continued to\\npractice until November, 1830, when he removed to Utica, where he continued to practice\\nuntil February, 1843, when he removed on to a farm, one mile north of Utica, where he\\nresided, practicing medicine occasionally, until August 23, 185U. at which time he died\\nsuddenly of heart disease, at the age of sixty-one years. He mairied Elvia A. Wyckoff,\\ndaughter of Edward and Martha A. (Parks) Wyckoff. residents of Washington, Mich.. De-\\ncember 30. 1826; his widow is now living in Utica. aged seventy-two years; their children\\nare Martha A., born November 3. 1828,. died February 13. 1873; Charles L.. bom\\nSeptember 14, 1830, now residing in Midland City, Mich.; Rollin A, February 12, 1839,\\nresides in Detroit. Mich. Helen E., April 7, 1841, resides at Utica, Mich. Emma A. Jrme", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0745.jp2"}, "746": {"fulltext": "l^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n1, 1846, died May 28, 1881; Edward B., May 27, 1S4U, married to Lucy Pierson, Juue 12,\\n1872, residence Goodrich. Genesee Co., Mich; Martha A., nian ied John W. Ewiug,\\nMarch, 184i), who died in June, 185:5; man-ied to Sihis S. Abernethy. September 10, 1857;\\nCharles L., married Miss Chira A. Williams (Crampton), March, 1868; Rollin Jeuney\\nmarried, July 20, 1880, to Mary N. Ryerson; Emma A., married, April 14, 1879, to John\\nWesley Parmeter; L. T. Jenuey served as surgeon in what was known as the Toledo\\nwar, in the year 183. held the office of Justice of the Peace for a number of years; he\\nwas also one of the original organizers and incorporators of the Utica Lyceum, which was\\nthe first lyceum organized in the county (organized November 21, 1831) was elected Pi-esi-\\ndent of the organization November 4. 1843; took an active part in jwlitical matters as a\\nDemocrat, and supported Gen. Cass, until the publication of his celebrated Nicholson\\nletter, when he withdrew from the Democratic party and identified himself with the Free-\\nSoil branch of the Whig party, to which he was attached until the organization of the\\nRepublican party, when he became a strong supporter of that party.\\nMARTIN C. KEELER, P. O. Disco, bom in Washington Township November V-K\\n1848, son of John and Mary Keeler; removed with his parents to Disco in 1850, which\\nvillage he has since made his home; he married Miss Flora Preston, daughter of ash-\\nington and Sarah Preston, May 2, 1871; they are the parents of one son Louis W.\\nKeeler, born August 18, 1877; a reference to the organic history of .the townshij) shows\\nthat Mr K. holds the office of Town Treasiu er; unlike his brother, of Armada, he bestows\\nmuch of his attention on agriculture and has made farming a success. John and Mary\\nKeeler, parents of Martin C. and Alonzo M. Keeler, were among the pioneers of Shelby.\\nReference is made to the members of this family in the general history; but, to complete\\nthe family history and at the same time notice the origin of Disco Village and academy,\\nthe following facts are given: In July, 1S4U, Alonzo Keeler was teaching school in Wash-\\nington when a proposition was made to him by three farmers then owning the land on\\nwhich Disco now stands, whose names were Isaac Monfore, John Noyes and Chauncey\\nChm ch. The proposition was for A. M. Keeler to go to Shelby and help to start a school\\nwhich was designated as the Disco Academy; he went and suijerintemied the building of\\nthe house now used for the district school. The building was commenced January 1,\\n18.50, and the following June was so far completed that A. M. Keeler began to teach the\\nschool therein upon a five years contract, the conditions of which were that he was to\\nteach the district schools in connection with the academy, for which he was to receive the\\ncommon district wages for schools of same size; he was to have the tuition of all foreign\\nscholars, and, if h( fulfilled his part of the five year.s contract, was to have a deed of ten\\nacres of land from the above-named farmers, located on the four corners of Sections V(, 10,\\n15 and 16, where Disco now is, excepting one acre for sohoolhouse site reserved on the\\ncorner of Section If). The contract was fulfilled by all parties. The first term of school\\nwas attended by eighteen scholars and one to the academy; but the school increased so\\nrapidly that in 1852 it required two assistant teachers Dr. J. M. Chapman and Maria\\nFebris assisted Mr. Keeler that year. Some time previous to this, John Keeler came into\\npossession of a fortune, which was left him by a rich uncle who lived and died on one of\\nthe islands of Lake C hamplain, he. John Keeler, was also ]iersuaded to go to help form\\nthe school; he left his farm in Washington in the fall of 1850, and built a dwelling-house\\nfor A, M. Keeler and a boarding-house for the accommodation of students of the academy;\\nthe latter is what is now used for the hotel; he also bought the faiTa owned by the above-\\nnamed J. Noyes, upon which he still lives. From time to time, his means have been used\\nto erect buildings in the jilace, five dwellings of which are now standing; also one store\\nand the main part of the hotel named, besides an interest in the academy building. This\\nfortune he freely used to benefit those about him both in advancing the educational p)rivi-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0746.jp2"}, "747": {"fulltext": "Afc\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nleges aud in striving to build u]i the little village that now is. They reared a family of\\nfive boys and two girls to manhood and womanhood; four sons aud oue daughter are\\nstill living. A. M. Keeler, the oldest, has spent a life in the school-room, as he is now\\nover fifty years old and still follows teaching, being at present Principal of the Ai-mada\\nUnion School two sons, younger, are practicing law in the State of Iowa, and the young-\\nest is on the old homestead at Disco, where the remaining daughter also resides.\\nDANIEL P. KETCHAM, P. O. Rochester, was born in Brownsville, Jefferson Co.,\\nX. Y.. Mai-ch 30, 1811: came to Michigan and settled in Macomb County November 25,\\nisrc^,: removed to Oakland County in ISdfi, where he still resides, ilr. K. enlisted in the\\nEighth Michigan Cavalry, November 24. lSf)2: served almost two years, when he was dis-\\nchai-ged on account of disability, April 23, 1S()4; be was married to Catharine Woolson.\\nborn August lU. 1815, at Poughkeepsie. N. Y., Februaiy Ifi. 1830: they are the parents of\\nnine children, thi-ee sons and six daughters. John Q. and Helen E. Ketcham are num-\\nbered among the dead. Regai diug the settlers, it must be said tl^at in 18()(), Oakland\\ngained a good citizen while Macomb lost one.\\nPAYNE K. LEECH, farmer. Section 31. P. O. Utica, was born January3i; 1809. in\\nBloomtield. Ontario Co.. N. Y. is the son of Payne K. and Joanna (Clark) Leech; he\\ncame to this county in Octolier. 1839, and. with his brother, pm-chased a gi-ist and saw-\\nmill, both in a somewhat dilapidated condition: they proceeded to repair and put them in\\ngood running order, and. in the spring of 1832, IMJf. L. purchased his brother s interest\\nand continued in the business until September. 1836, when he purchased KU) acres of\\npartially improved land, where he resides. He now owns 24(1 acres on Sections 30, 31 and\\n32, all under good cultivation and with fine buildings; he was married to Melinda Fuller,\\nApril 25, 1833; she was born April 30, 1811, in the State of New York; they had ten\\nchildren, fom- of whom are living, as follows: Gordon C, born February 9, 1845; Francis\\nJ., December 4. 1847; Albert F., September 19, 1851: Martha T., November 3. 1853.\\nMrs. Leech died May 10, ]S( 0, and Mr. Leech was man-ied, December 2 .l, ISfUl, to Sarah\\nGillette; she was born December U, 1.S29, in Lyme. New London Co.. Conn., and was a\\nteacher in her native State and in Michigan some years. IVIr. Leech laid the first track on\\nthe Detroit Utica Railroad, at Utica. about the year 1835; he was formerly a Whig in\\npolitics, but. on the organization of the Republican party, allied himself to it; has held\\nthe office of Supervisor four terms and was in the Legislature in the winter of 1845-4(i.\\nMrs. L. belongs to the Congregational Church of Utica. Mr. L. is engaged in the rearing\\nof Devonshire cattle, iu addition to his agrieultiu-al interest.\\nPETER D. LERICH. farmer. Section 29, P. O. Utica, was born in Warren County.\\nN. J.. May 20, 1810; is the son of Isaac aud Elizabeth Daniels Lerich; the former was\\nborn in Bucks County, Peuu., of English lineage: the latter was of English and German\\ndescent, born in 1785, in Northampton County, Penn. Mr. L. came to this county May\\n19, 1835, and purchased 220 acres of partially improved land on the northeast quarter of\\nSection 29, and afterward bought ll)0 acres on the northwest quarter of the same section:\\nthe aggregate constitutes his homestead; he owns also 130 acres on Sections 4 and 5, in\\nSterling; sixty-nine acres in Avon, Oakland County; twenty acres on Section Ifi, Shelby,\\nand eighty acres in Reed Township, Will Coimty. 111., making iu all (u9 acres; his home-\\nstead property is first-class land, under advanced improvements, with commodious aud\\nsubstantial buildings. He was married, April 18, 1835, to Sarah F., daughter of Jo.seph\\nFishbaughand Margaret Oglethorpe Fishbaugh; her father was of Gennan parentage, her\\nmother of English and Scotch descent; her gi-eat-grandf ather was Gen. James Oglethorpe,\\nfounder of Georgia: her grandparents v^ere among the first white settlers of Pennsylvania.\\nwhere her great-grandmother was killed by the Indians, and her son, Mrs. Lerich s great-\\nimcle, ^as captmred and kept by them thirteen years; the maternal grandfather of Mr.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0747.jp2"}, "748": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nLerich Daniels, was a soldier in tlie war of the Revolution; at its close, he had a con-\\nsiderable sum of Continental money, and went to New Jersey, where he purchased a large\\ntract of laud and secured to himself and posterity a handsome property. Mr. and Mrs. L\\nhad ten children, six of whom are living, boru as follows: Cleantha A., born Mav 1\\n1838; William F., March lo, 1840; Isaac N.. August 10, 1S42; Liberetta E., January 20,\\n184, Sarah J., July 27 1848; Lilian A., July H, 1854. Mr. L. s father died in Septem-\\nber, 181fi, his mother September 4, 1835; the father of Mrs. L. died in September, 1817,\\nher mother in the fall of 1845. The two surviving sons served with distinction in the\\nwar of the rebellion, Isaac rising by his own merits alone from the rank of private to that\\nof Major, and. at the close of the war, was in command of his regiment: he married an\\nexcellent lady of San Antonio, Texas, where he still resides. Both of these soldiers were\\nwounded and both confined for months in Libbj Prison. Mr. L. is widely known as a\\nman of sterling merit and enterprise; he is of unimpeachable integi ity, never belonged to\\na secret society and never owned a gun or dog; he belonged to the old anti-slavery element,\\nand was one of foiu* who first represented that issue in the towaship; the others were N.\\nC Narambre-. Albert Fuller and Benjamin Lee; all are dead except Mr. L. he is a Re-\\nliublican and lias been Road Commisr ionei Mr. and Mrs. L. formerly belonged to the\\nMethodist Ejuscojial Church, of Utica; the latter has been W. C. Templar for several\\nterms and is still a strong advocate for the cause.\\nHIRAM L. LINTZ, farmer, Section 8, P. O. Rochester, was born April 1). 1847,\\nin Washington, Defiance Co., Ohio; he is the son of Benjamin and Rebecca (Dull) Lintz.\\nboth of German extraction. Mr. L. came to this township March 14, 18(58, and, in 1875,\\npurchased sixty-six and two-thirds acres of land, subsequently increasing his lauded iirop-\\nerty to 133 acres: he was man ied, February 22, 1874. to Leora V.., daughter of Smith and\\nPolina K urtis) Davis; she was born February 24, 1850. in Brighton, Winnebago Co.,\\nWis.; her father was born December 10, 1820, in the State of New York; he lived in this\\ncounty about thirty years and died September 4, 1851); her mother, daughter of Jeremiah\\nCurtis, was born Se|)tember 22, 1825; was married, February 22. 1848, and died October\\n15. 1880. Mr. and Mrs. Lintz have two children Jessie, born September 12, 187(\\\\ and\\nTressie, November 2, 1881. Mr. L is a Rejmblican in jiolitics. Mr. L. and wife are\\nl a]itists.\\nJOEL W. MANLEY, P. O. Washington, was born February li), 1810, in Chittenden,\\nRutland Co., Vt. he is the son of Thomas and Mary B. (Jackson) Mauley: his parents\\nwere born in Massachusetts and came to Vermont in 1800, wliere they were married in\\n1802: his mother was a successful teacher; his father became Captain of the militia in\\n1812; was afterward a Magistrate and a member of the Assembly. Mr. M. of this sketch\\ncame to Michigan in 1834, took up Government land on Section 8, of Macomb Township,\\nand at once entered upon the work of improving it for a home; he was married, November\\n2*), 1835, to Olive E. Martin, of Underhill, Chittenden Co., Vt., who died December 4,\\n183(). At the fall elections of 183(), Mr. M. was chosen County Sm-veyor and held the po-\\nsition eight succe.ssive years; has also held the offices of School Inspector and Sujiervisor.\\nRoad Commissioner and Assessor until the office was abolished; was also a grand juror\\nmany terms of the Circuit Court. He was a second time married, to Julia Wilcox, of\\nShelby, April 13, 1840; she was born in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y. October 13, 1822; her\\nj)arents, Elias and Nancy Wilcox, came to Michigan in 1825, and took up land on Section\\n3. of Shelby. Mr. Manley had five children Olive Eliza wan born December 3. 1841, be-\\ncame a school-teacher and musical instructor, and was married, November 23, 18( )4, to\\nIsaac N. Brabb, of Washington Township; Almon D., born August 4, 1844, became a\\nskilled mechanic and inventor, and died September 10, 1878; M. Lucelia, born June 28.\\n184(), was married, December 16, 1868, to Levi Cannon, of Shelby; she has been a sue-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0748.jp2"}, "749": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nc.essful teacher aud an interesting and acceptable contributor to the local press; N. Ade-\\nlaide was born June 1 1849, and died January 31, 1854; Florence A., Mrs. Leman H.\\nChapman, of Cannonsbiu g, Kent County, married September I Z, 1874, was born Decem-\\nber 3, 18r)4, and became a fine scholar and good musician. ]VIrs. M. was. in addition to\\nher household responsibilities, an apiarist of some note for about thirty years, having at\\none time had the charge and managemeut of eighty-live colonies of bees. Mr. and Mrs.\\nM. moved to the northeast quarter of Section 3. in the township of Shelby, in the spring\\nof 184- where they now reside. Mr. M. is at this writing in his seventy-second year; he\\nhas been all his life a student of the Bible and actively interested in Sunday school and\\nBible instruction.\\nORESTES MILLERD. P. O. Rochester, born January U, ]8(t8. in Cayuga County,\\nN. Y. settled in Michigan in May, l S i3, and located in Shelby Township in October,\\n1827; he married Miss Webster the previoiis month; they were the parents of four chil-\\ndi en, each of whom must be considered a pioneer of Shelby. At the period of Mr. M. s\\ncoming to this State, he says that there was not a foot of sidewalk in Detroit, nor a vil-\\nlage in the northern portion of the county, save that known as Indian Village; he got the\\nfirst tickets printed in the Territory for election purposes. Mr. M. is now in his seventy-\\nfifth year; from 1827 to the present time, he has taken an important place in the economy\\nof the county; he cleared 3(50 cares of laud in Shelby, has aUvays been identified with\\nthe Democratic party aud religiouslv is a Baptist.\\nISAAC MONFORE (deceased), was born September 14. 1803. in Delaware\\nCounty, N. Y. was the son of Peter and Olive (Conerkoven) i\\\\Ionfore, natives of New\\nJersey; his father was born September U. 17r)7, of English and French parentage, and\\nwas a soldier of the Revjlutiou: his mother was born January 27, 1758, of Holland ex-\\ntraction; they were married October 27, 1779. Mr. M. came to this county in the fall of\\n1828, and purchased KiO acres of wild land in Ray Township, and returned to RiLsh, Mon-\\nroe Co., N. Y.; came back to Michigan in 1831, and purchased IfiO acres on Sections 15\\nand 10, in Shelby: he increased his estate to 500 acres; his widow resides on the home-\\nstead of 227 acres. He was married, July 15, 1836, to Mary D. Curtis, of Shelby, l)orn\\nMay 30, 1818, in Middlebury, Wyoming Co.. N, Y. they had five children, whose record\\nis as follows: Milton J., born July H, 1837. married Maria A. Black, of Detroit, Mich, De-\\ncember 2y, 1875; Franklin P., June 184tt, man-ied Sarah E. Bowers, May 13, 18r)4;\\nMary A., November 14. 1844: Isaac N., July 10, 1848, married Effie E. Brooks, July 4,\\n1871: Ann J., born February Vt, 1858, married Isaac Newton Gillespie, of Pavilion, N. Y.,\\nMay 17, 1882. Mr. M. studied for the profession of law and practiced for a short time;\\nhe was a Democrat in early life, but became a Republican after the admission of Michigan\\nas a State; he was Rei)resentative in the Legislatm-e in 1835-3 aud 1837; he held the\\ntownship offices of Supervisor, Justice of the Peace, Town and County Clerk, etc, lir^th\\nhimself and wife belong to the Baptist Church of Mt. Yernon.\\nMILTON J. MONFORE, sou of Isaac and Mary D. (Curtis) Moufore, born in Shelby,\\nMacomb County, Mich.. July ti. 1837. where he lived until the pi-eseut time; was educated\\nat the common schools; has followed the occupation of farmer, and, during the last eight-\\neen years, has dealt in agi icultm al implements; married, to Maria Black, of Detroit, De-\\ncemljer 25, 1874.\\nALLEN S. PEARSALL. farmer, P. O. Disco, residing in the township of Shelby, was\\nborn Januai-y 10, 1818, in Sempronius, Cayuga Co.. N. Y. he is the son of Henry and Phebe\\nSummertou Pearsall: the formf-r died November 15, 1850, the latter May 13, 1837; both\\nwei-e of English descent. Mr. P. s father located in Troy, Oakland Co., Mich., and piu--\\nchased 1 )0 acres of partly improved land, where he settled in 1832. Allen S. Pearsall\\nwas married, January 31. 1844, to Miss Lydia Ann Andi-ews, daughter of Hiram and Anna\\n7l r~ B", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0749.jp2"}, "750": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAndi-ews. a native of Hamilton. Madison Co.. N. Y.. bora December 25, 1824: they have\\none child Helen M.. born September 2, 184 and married Llewellyn Chapel, who was\\nborn August 13, 1840; they have one child Carrie M.. born September 12, 1871. Mr.\\nP. purchased his farm in Shelby in 1847. where he has since resided. Mrs. P. is a lady\\nof favoraljle repute as a lecturer on temperance, woman s rights and Spiritualism; she and\\nher husband are members of the Grange.\\nDWIGHT E. PEARSALL, P. O. Disco, son of Ii-a S. Pearsalh native of Genesee\\nCounty, N. Y., was born in Washington Townshij), January 15, 183 the parents were\\nIra S. Pearsall. born August 1. 1810, son of Henry Pearsall, and Celia (White) Pearsall.\\ndaughter of Mr. White, of Ohio, born September 1, 1817. Mi-. Pearsall. Sr., came to\\nWashington at an early date, with his father s family, and here m?.rried Miss Wiite. Oc-\\ntober lU, 1831): they were the parents of thi-ee childrea. viz., D. E. Pearsall. referred to\\nabove, residing on the homestead farm; Adelia W.. born April 10. 1831). married Morris\\nSnook May U. 185U. now living at Jackson. Mich. and Celia. born December 30. 1847, de-\\nceased. Dwighc E. Pearsall was raised and educated in Shelby: attended the Disco\\nAcademy until 1854, when he directed attention toward farming. In 1857. he entered on\\na Western journey and traveled through it for tliree years. He was married, in McDonald\\nCounty, Mo.. May 18(10. to Miss Mary S. Smith, daughter of John Smith, of Vermont,\\nthen a citizen of McDonald County: this lady died at the age of thirty-nine years. Novem-\\nber 22, 1879; to this marriage, three children were born Ira S.. born May 22, 18( )1\\nFannie E.. January 25. bS( i3. and Allen D.. March 3. 1872, the latter living at Jackson,\\nMich. The faiiu now owned by Mr. Pearsall. on Section 3. Shelby, contains 320 acres,\\n250 acres of which are cultivated, with good improvements. The water-course comprises\\ntwo living streams. Together with the agricultural interest, Mr. Pearsall has devoted\\nmuch attention to horses, cattle and sheep. He was engaged in mercantile business for\\nseveral years, at Disco, the interest in which he sold to John Sweetzer, in 188(1. and re-\\nturned to his farm. Politically, Mr. Pearsall is a Democrat.\\nIRA PRESTON (deceased) was born March U. 17S5, in Wallingford. Conn. was the\\nson of Samuel Preston; he moved to Rush. Monroe Co., N. Y.. when a young man. He\\nwas married to Deborah Gofl and lived there about fourteen years she was born February\\n11, 17U3: in 182fi, he came to Michigan and jsurchased 320 acres of land, on Sections 1,\\n2 and 13, when he returned to New York; in 1827. he came back to the wilderness of\\nMichigan, with his family, reaching Detroit the last of May: he brought with him his\\nhousehold furniture and a supjily of provisions and a cart; he jiurchased a yoke of oxen,\\nmade a rack for the cart, which he freighted with his possessions, and with his childi en\\nand a party of twenty friends and relatives set oiit for his anticipated home; at thfe end\\nof two days, he arrived at the place of Elias Wilcox, on the north line of the township\\nof Shelby, where his party spent the night and the following day underbrushed a road\\ntwo miles through the woods to the location of Mr. Preston; they set about building a log\\nhouse, and. in al^out a week, were settled in 2^ioneer life. The ring of the ax made their\\nmusic by day and the howl of the wolves by night: their table was bountifully supplied\\nwith venison, and the neighboring Indians kept them from loneliness and monotony; in 1828,\\nMr. P. built a saw-mill, the irons for which he brought with him from New York, on\\nwhat is called the Middle Branch, the only one for miles, and operated by himself and\\nsons for forty-four years; in the course of fifteen years. Mr. P. s farm was well improved,\\nand he had completed all the buikling re |uired, including two frame houses. The pio-\\nneer s privation and endurance were ended, and the outlook of his remaining years was one\\nof ease and comfort; in 1856, he distributed his real estate among his children, giving the\\nhomestead to his daughter. Mrs. Carlton, with whom he and his wife remained during the\\nrest of their lives; he died August 20, 1872, aged eighty-seven years. Mrs. P. died January", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0750.jp2"}, "751": {"fulltext": "H, LS*). aged seventy-two years; she was helpless twelve years, with palsy. Mr. P. could\\nnever be induced to ride on a railroad: he fii-st saw the ears and a locomotive at Mt. Clem-\\nens in 1S()8: his gratified surprise at the sight of them is most pleasantly remembered by bis\\nchildren; it was indeed an event to a man who. for many years, had never been but a few\\nmiles fi-om home. While the Bay City road was being built, he was jsersuaded by his\\nson. E. S. Preston, to go to a railroad picnic, near ITtjca. on the completion of the road to\\nthat place, and he rejoiced heartily in its construction through the town in which he had\\nlived tifty-tive years. He died a few months after, leaving his seven children to mourn\\ntheir irreparable loss. September 28, 1828, Emily, the eldest daughter, married Daniel\\nKniflin, who began pioneer life with her father; they settled two miles from ]VIi-. Preston\\nin the woods. October 8. 1837. George W. Preston was married to Sally Goff, daughter\\nof Russell Golf, a neighboring pioneer; he also went into the wilderness to make his life\\nstruggle. Ajiril 2(1, 1841, Riley S. Preston was married to Eliza Carlton, and occupied one\\nof his father s houses several years; his wife died February 28, 1852. Minerva Preston\\nwas maiTied to John Carlton November 7, 1844, and settled about two miles fi-om home.\\nIra L. Preston was married to Cynthia Allen, October 14. 1847; purchased some land and\\nsettled about one-fourth of a mile from hjme. Eliza Ann Preston was mari-ied to Alfi-ed\\nCarlton, September Ki. 18r)2. and located in Brooklyn, four miles distant. -Judge S.\\nPreston, youngest son. was married, November 1, 18. )3, to Caroline A. Bartlett; he was\\nborn January l(^ 1831, and his wife was born December 7, 1834; they remained three\\nyears on the homestead in charge of the pioneer father and mother.\\nJ. LUMAN PRESTON, P. O. Disco, was born February 21. 182r), in Rush. Monroe\\nCo., N. Y. he was two j eai s old when his parents came to this county, where he has since\\nresided; he was in the saw-mill business twenty-one years and is now piu-suing agricult-\\nure: he owns ninety-five acres of land, with fifty-five under cultivation, and the remainder\\nis choice timber. He married Cynthia Ann Allen, October 14, 1847; she was born June\\n18. 1820. in Ridgeway. Orleans Co.. N. Y. she died November la, 1873; they had four\\nchildren, born as follows: Ella V., March 29. 18. died September iS, 18r)4; Eli V., born\\nJuly 21, 18r r). married May Cooley. October 31.1877; Metta Y., born August ri. 18. )U,\\nmaiTied E. R. Wilcox, Angust 11, 1878; Jennie A., born January 2(), 18(U. Eli V. has two\\nehikh-en Clara C, born August 14, 1878, and Zoe M., born Februai-y 15. 1882. Mettle\\nV. has one daughter Gertie M., born July 8. 1881. December 20, 1874. Mi-. Preston\\nmarried Rachel C. Hough, a native of Bristol. Hartford Co., Conn., born June 8. 1840.\\nilr. Preston was married a second time. December 20, 1874, to Rachel E. Hough, of Bris-\\ntol. Hartford Co., Conn.\\nJUDGE S. PRESTON, P. O. Disco, farmer. Section 1, was born January 16. 1831.\\nin Shelby; is the son of Ira L. aad Deborah (Goff) Preston (see sketch of Ira L. Preston),\\nJudge S. Preston purchased eighty acres of land in 1854: it was partially improved and\\nis now in a state of advanced cultivation, with fine buildings; he was married, November\\n1, 1853. to Caroline A. Bartlett, born December 7. 1834. in Gates. Monroe Co., N. Y. she\\ncame to Macomb County in October, 183U; they have five chihh-eu, as follows: Lynd B.,\\nNovember 18, 1855; Helen A., January 10, 1862; Charles E., July 16, 186)6; May A.,\\nMay 5, 1871; John M., February 7, 1876. Mr. P. has held the position of Drain Com-\\nmissioner two years; held the office of Notaiy Public fom- years; has also been School Di\\nrector. Moderator and held other township offices; he is a Democrat in politics and be-\\nlongs to Grange. No. 334, Disco.\\nGEORGE SEAMAN, P. O. Disco, farmer. Section 5, was born September 4. 1821;\\nin Saratoga County, N. Y.; he is the son of Doty and Lydia (Fish) Seaman; both parents\\nwere of English descent. Mr. S. came to this county in May, 1835, and purchased eighty\\nacres of land in the township of Ray; in 1844. he sold out and went to Oakland Countv;", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0751.jp2"}, "752": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nl^\\nfifteen years later, he purchased 240 acres on Section 35, in Ray, and on Section 2, in Ma-\\ncomb, which he sold, and located on 100 acres on Section 18, in Lenox; he again sold out\\nand located 100 acres on Section in Shelby, where he Jiow resides; his farm is under\\ncultivation, well stocked and with good buildings. He was married, September 1844,\\nto Almira, daughter of Enoch Crawford; they have nine children, born as follows: Mary,\\nJuly 14, 184- married Andrew Seeley, March 20, 1871; Robert, born August 2U, 1853;\\nLydia, August 28, 1855, mai-ried George Dunkley March 22, 1878; Phebe, June 14, 1857.\\nmarried Virgil K. Dryer July 2, 1874; Charity A., March 18, 185U; Lovina, April 18,\\n1801; Josephine, May 13. 1803; Doty, March 28, 1865; John, October 17, 1807. Mr. S.\\nis a Republican in politics.\\nHIRAM SQUIER was born July 8, 1800, near Montreal, Canada, son of Nathaniel\\nand Jemima (Dilno) Sqnier. the latter born in Vermont, the former in Connecticut, in\\n1752; his father came to this county in May, 1817, from Westminster. Canada, and, in\\npartnership with John Cook, located 040 acres on Section 28, Shelby, where he resided\\nuntil his death, in Febrnai y. 1832: his mother died in 1811. Nathaniel Squier served in\\nthe war of the Revolution. Hiram Squier purchased 120 acres. Section 34, Shelby, in\\n1831. where he dwelt until September, 1881. He maiTied Mahala Moe, widow of Fowler,\\nwho died in February. 1810; he subsequently married Maria Harris, born at Toronto.\\nCanada, March 20. 1810. Mr. Squiers attended the first town meeting held in Shelby in\\n1827; he attended the first English school in the county in 18 111, which was taught by Asa\\nHadsell; helped to raise the first mill at Stony Creek, and to build the first three homes\\nin Shelby. He was a Democrat until 1840, when he accepted the platform of the Aboli-\\ntionists. In 1850, he voted for John C. Fremont, and, in 1870. for the Prohibitionist\\ncandidates. Mr. and Mrs. Squier are members of the Methodist Church. He heard the\\nfirst sermon preached in the township, in 1817, which was against intemperance. To\\nthis day. this old man is a Prohibitionist.\\nDAVID SUMMERS, P. O. Utica. born in Warren County, N. J., in 1824; married\\nCaroline Aldrich, October 2, 1850; they are the parents of thirteen children Mary Alice,\\nborn in 1851; Ella F., in 1853; Jacob L. in 1855; Whipple G. in 1850; Victoria Jose-\\nphine, in 1858; William _R. in 1800; Albert B., in 1802; Livingston L., in 1803; Evelena,\\nin 1805; Riverdy, in 180 Margaret, in 180t); George F.. in 1873 and Clayton in 1878, all\\nof whom are living, with the exception of George F. The head of the Summers family,\\nJohn Summers, came from Germany in 1752, accompanied by his five sons, of whom the\\nnames Jacob and John are remembered; the former was a Judge of Records in Philadelphia,\\nwhere he settled; the latter settled in Warren County, N. J., where he was Circuit Judge\\nfor over twenty j ears. Jacob Summers, father of the subject of this sketch, was the\\nyoungest son of five born to Judge Jacob Summers and his wife. Mary Hiles; he settled\\nin Shelby Township in 1831; was elected Supervisor in 1830; was chosen Representative\\nand subsequently, was elected Senator for three terms in succession. Befoi e the office of\\nAssociate Judge was abolished, he held the position while Judge Goodwin was Presiding\\nJudge of the circuit. The pioneer of Shelby died July 25. 1803; his children are as fol-\\nlows: Phebe. who married Samuel Axford, in 1830; Ann married Jacob Price; George\\ndied in 1877; Barbara died in 1801; Rebecca married Morgan Axford, and. for her sec-\\nond husband. Dr. V/illiam Beach, of Coldwater; David married Caroline Aldrich. October\\n3, 1850; the other children were John.. Margaret and William. As old residents of Shel-\\nby, the members of this family are held in high esteem.\\nGEORGE SWITZER. farmer. Section 20, P. O. Disco, was born August 15. 1811.\\nin Bavaria. Germany; he came to America in 1837; the passage was one of long-continued\\nstorm and peril, lasting seventy-two days; their provisions failed and starvation was close\\nupon them; he came from the State of New York, Erie County, to this country; to Ma-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0752.jp2"}, "753": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncomb County, Mich., in 18r)S, and purchased forty-seven acres on Section 7. which he\\nafterward sold and piu chased lU, acres of first-class land, where he now resides; his farm\\nis nearly all under a good state of cultivation, with tine buildings. He was married, No-\\nvember 1, 1842, to Elizabeth Fisher, a native of Bavaria, born May 14, 18 2(); they have\\nhad twelve children, of whom nine are living their record is as follows Mary E. born\\nAugust 1 1844, married Charles Andi ews, November 1, 1866; George, January 8, 1846,\\nmarried Caroline George Januarv 27, 1867: John W., January 7, 1847; Fanny C. June\\n10, 1848, married Perry Everett, October 11, 1868; Charles E., April 2H, 1850, married\\nMary Wal win; Hemy J. December 2. 1851, married Myrtie Smith; Abraham F., August\\n8, 185:-j; William F.. February 22, 1855, married Delia Dickens; Lucius E., August HO.\\n1856, married Matilda Burd; Perry R, January ll,]S5y, died September 15, 1868; Elmer\\nP., March 6, 1861, died November 20, 1861; Lydia Q,, November IH, 1862, died October\\n8, 186:1 Mr. S. is a Republican in political views, and has been elected School Assessor\\nseven years; he is highly esteemed by his townsmen as an honorable and upright man and\\ncitizen.\\nWILLIARD A. WALES, aged sixty-two years, was born in Covington, Genesee Co.\\nN. Y., December 7, 18111; son of Solomon and Urania Wales, natives of Vermont. AV. A.\\nWales married Amy Ann Chapman, April 10, 184H, daughter of John and Jane Chapman,\\nborn August 21, 1822, in the township of Livonia, Livingston County, N. Y. The children\\nof this marriage were born as follows: William Wert, May 24, 1845; Heni-y Lee, July 18,\\n1849; Amos Emmet. June 3, 1852. died August 22, 1868; Earl Wright, December 13.\\n1853; Mary, September 1, 1856; Ellie May, November 29, 1864, died January 8, 1880.\\nMr. Wales removed to Shelljy, Macomb County, in May, 1828, with his parents, where he\\nhas resided since that time; was educated at the common schools and has pursued the oc-\\ncupation of a farmer to the present date; has held the office of Supervisor for ten years;\\nwas elected a member of the Executive Committee of the State Grange for two years;\\nwrote and circulated the first call for a Republican convention in the county, in 1854.\\nMr. W. recollects seeing the Chief Wadson when a boj at which time Romeo was called\\nthe Indian Village, and bears and wolves were numerous; at that time, his mother spun\\nand wove linen and flannel to clothe the family.\\nABEL WARREN, deceased, was born in Hampton, Washington County, State of\\nNew York, .iugust 8, 1789, where he grew to manhood; enlisted and served in the war of\\n1812; held the office of Sergeant; was seriously wounded and taken prisoner at the battle\\nof Queenstown Heights; was paroled and retui-ued to his home, and was married to Sarah\\nHooker, of Poultney, Vt. January 16, 1814, and, in 1816, moved to Covington, Genesee\\nCounty, in his native State; in 1820. he came to Michigan and purchased eighty acres of\\nland, near Pontiac, but subsequently sold it, and, in lS24, he moved with his family to\\nMichigan and purchased an eighty-acre lot on Section 4, Shelby. Macomb County, where\\nhe lived and died; he was converted in Covington February 28, 1817, and joined the M.\\nE. Church; held for a time the office of Class-leader, and subsequently, was licensed to\\nexhort, which relation he held when he moved to Michigan: was licensed to preach at a\\n(juarterly meetiug held in Detroit, in June, 1825; in 1880. he was ordained Deacon at a\\nconference, held in Lancaster, Ohio, and subsequently, was ordained Elder; he was the\\nfirst man licensed in the Territory of Michigan, and no doubt preached at more funerals and\\nmaiTied more couples than any other one man in the county of Macomb, as when well, he\\nwas always ready at a moment s call for either, frequently leaving the haytield and going\\nten or fifteen miles to attend a funeral, and, as horses in those days were very scarce, not\\nunfrequently making the Journey on foot. As a f)ioneer local preacher, he was abundant\\nin labors, traveling on foot at times twenty-four miles on the Sabbath and preaching three\\ntimes, and that after a hard week s work on the farm, and preaching as regularly as any", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0753.jp2"}, "754": {"fulltext": "stationed preacher, and spending most of the winters in special revival work, in Macomb,\\nSt. Clair and Oakland Counties, in which hundreds were converted, thus helping to lay\\nthe basis on which rests the magnificent, moral and social superstructure of this beautiful\\nregion of country. And in reference to him, the language of the wise man seems appro-\\npriate The memory of the just is blessed: for he is enshrined in the hearts of the peo-\\nple, and his memorj will be cherished while our present civilization lasts. AVith refer-\\nence to his character as a man and minister, I quote from his biographer: His chief en-\\ndowment was strong common sense he had a quick perception and was a remarkably good\\njudge of human nature, and could addiess men in public or private so as to reach their\\nbetter natiu es, without arousing their prejudices: his education was very limited, but his\\nlanguage was always chaste and quite correct, and. his manner very imjjressive; an Epis-\\ncojial clergyman, after hearing him, said- He has neither education nor eloquence, but\\nsomething far better the j)ower to convince and move men. He was genial and sym-\\npathetic, could weep with those that wept, or rejoice and smile with the cheerful and\\nhappy, and thus was a welcome guest, either at the wedding festival, at the sick-bed or\\nfuneral obsequies. He had nine children, four sons and five daughters: one son died in\\ninfancy, the rest living to maturity; two of the sons are in the ministry, and the other\\nholds important official positions in the church, and one daughter is the wife of a promi-\\nnent minister of the Michigan Conference. Elder Warren died September 5, 18()2, in\\nthe seventy-ftmrth year of his age; his wife smwived him eleven years, and died December\\n1S73. Four only of the children are now living, the rest having passed with the par-\\nents to the home beyond. Many incidents, quite novel and of interest, might l)e given, of\\nElder Warren s early history in the county and Territory, but a few must suffice. At the\\nconference held in the court house at Pontiac, twenty-two years ago, in the love feast,\\ntwo or three of the old ministers claimed to have been the first there, but, after giving\\ntheir dates, he said he was ahead of all of them; that, in 1S2(*, stopping in town for the\\nnight, he came out into the brush, just about where the court house stood, for secret\\nprayer, and the wolves gathered around and commenced to liowl, and he held a prayer-\\nmeeting with them. One Salibath evening, while passing through the woods over an In-\\ndian trail, he saw just ahead of him a huge bear. The animal seemed inclined to dispute\\nthe right of way; without apparent fear, the traveler picked up a stick, saying, If you\\nbe good, I will, but otherwise we will try titles. The bear stepped aside and the Elder\\npiished forwanl on his journev.\\nHARMON A. WELLS, P. O. Rochester, farmer. Section 7, was born April 19, 1827,\\nin Steuben County, N, Y, is the son of Samuel D. and Lvdia (Parmenter) Wells; his\\nfather was born March 24, 17811, in Saratoga County, N. Y., and died August 12, 1883;\\nhe was of Welsh extraction and was a soldier of the war of 1812, Mr. Wells mother was\\nborn August 2, 17U2, at Oakham, Mass., and died September 22, IS her lineage was\\nEnglish. The senior AVells came to this country in August, 1829, and located on 24(*\\nacres of land on Sections ti and 7, where he resided until his death. Mr. W. of this sketch\\npiu-chased 14(1 acres of the old homestead, which he has placed under the best state of\\ncultivation, and which is supplied with good dwellings-aud convenient accessoiy buildings.\\nMr, Wells married Roxelnna Cannon, a native of Day, Saratoga Co., N. Y. born May 8,\\n1832. Seven children have been born to them, as follows: Mary A. Wells, born January\\n28, 1859; Frank D.. September 19. ISfi] Alice M., September IT). 18()3; George S., De-\\ncember 26, 18( Byron S.. May 23, 18()9; Emma M., May 28, 1S72; Lydia M., January\\n9, 187(i; Mary A. Wells died February 11. 1862. Mr. Wells is a Republican in politics,\\nand has held the j)osition of Road Commissioner four terms. Mr. and Mrs. Wells hold tt)\\nthe principles of the Universalist Chirrch.\\nHARVEY WILCOX, P. O. Washington, farmer, Section 2, was born August\\n-J)", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0754.jp2"}, "755": {"fulltext": "44\\nHISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\n8, 1828, in Eusli, Monroe Co., N. Y. he is the sou of David, and Anna (Brainard)\\nWilcox, both parents descendants of the English: his father was Itorn October 1. 178U,\\nin Connecticut, his mother October 22, 17U4. in Maine. Mr. D. Wilcox came to Michi-\\ngan in May. 1831, and settled on the farm of 178 acres, now under good improvements\\nand with commodious buildings, on which H. Wilcox now resides. H. Wilcox was mar-\\nried to Maria Hughes. April 7, 18 i2: she was born July 2(5, 1826, in Canada West; they\\nhave had three children, two of whom are now living E. R., born July 2- IS. and\\nCxeorge L., August 18, 18(51. E. R was married to Metta N. Preston. August 11, 1878;\\nshe was born August 1S. .I; they have an infant child, born July 8, 1881. Mrs. H. Wil-\\ncox s father died June 16, 1871, at the age of eighty-one years eight months and fifteen\\ndays, and her mother July 7, 1876, at the age of eighty-ono years eight months and six-\\nteen days. The former served nine months in the war of 1812. Mr. Wilcox of this sketch\\nhas held the office of Justice of the Peace for two yeai-s, and entered on his second term\\nof four years; he is a Democrat in politics, and is Master of Grange. No. 403.\\nJAMES WILLIAMS. P. O. Utica, Justice of the Peace and Deputy Town Clerk,\\nUtica, was born November IT), 1807, in Essex County, Ontario: is the son of Thomas and\\nMary (Loomis) Williams; his father was born in 1760, in Maryland; he was a soldier of\\nthe war of 1812, and was with Mad Anthony Wayne in the Wabash and Miami Indian\\nwar. and also with Cien. Harrison at the building of Forts Dehance, Wayne and Meigs.\\nMr. Williams came to this covmty in 1832, and located at Mt. Clemens, where he did\\nbusiness as a tailor and dry goods merchant; he was engaged for a time in oil specula-\\ntion, at Oil Springs, Ontario; in October, 1879, he came to Utica, where he now resides.\\nHe was married, in October, 1832, to Adelia Ann Cook: they had two children, one of\\nwhom. Mrs. Mary H. Wooley, is now living in Chicago. Mrs. Williams died in Febru-\\nary, 18-32, and Mr. Williams was married, in January, I8r)3, to Mrs. Mary A. Green; they\\nhave had three children, two of whom are living Frank F., married Miss Hudson; Julia\\nM., married James McGarvy. Mr. and Mrs. AMUiams belong to the Congregational\\nChurch of Utica. Mr. W. is a thoroughg iing Eepuljlican, and a jnember of the Masonic\\nfraternity.\\nBYRON WRIGHT, P. O. Utica, farmer. Section 28, was born February 2. 1830,\\nat Honeoye Falls, Monroe Co.. N. Y. is the son of Richard and Lany Scramlin Wright.\\nMr. W. settled in the count}- in 184*5, and purchased 120 acres of land, which had been\\npartially improved; it is now his homestead and is under a good state of cultivation, with\\nfine and substantial buildings. He was married, Augiist lo, 1880, to Mrs. Mary A.\\nBeech, born February 21, 1830. at Rochester. Monroe Co., N. Y. in 1850, Mr. Wright\\nwent to California, and remained there eighteen years; he had an adventurous passage\\nhome, there being several cases of yellow fever on the boat, a severe storm oft Cape Hat-\\nteras. Mr. Wright is a Democrat in politics.\\nrF", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0755.jp2"}, "756": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCHAPTER XXXill.\\nBHUCE TOWNSHIP.\\nOn one of the lirst days of April, 183 i, the inhabitants of the Foiu-th Town met in a\\nlog schoolhouse on the corner four miles north of Romeo, and half a mile west of Parme-\\nlee s house, for the purpose of forming a township. Mr. Goodi ich was called to the chair,\\nand Martin Buzzell was chosen Clerk.\\nVarious names for the new township were proposed, which, each in tiu-n, met with\\nvarious objections, until one of the Grays proposed the name of Bruce, in honor of Scot-\\nland s renowned chieftain. The name being short, easily written and pronounced, com-\\nmended itself to the people at once, and was accepted.\\nThat portion of Macomb County comprised in sm-veyed Township 5 north. Range l\\neast, was erected into a township under the name of Bruce March J, 18H3, and the first\\ntown meeting ordered to be held at the schoolhouse near James Bushnell s, the iirst Mon-\\nday in April, 1833.\\nThe first town meeting was held at the schoolhouse near James Bushnell s house, April\\n1, 1833. Gideon Gates was Moderator, and Martin Buzzell, Clerk. The election resulted\\nin the choice of CJ-ideon Gates. Supervisor; Martin Buzzell, Clerk; Isaac Thompson, J. W.\\nL. Collins and Jesse Bishop. Assessors; Erastus Day, George Throop and Hemau Holmes,\\nCommissioners of Highways; Gad Chamberlin, Poor Director; Asahel Bailey. Treasm-er;\\nHiram Ho] kins. Collector and Constable; Erastus Day, Ezra Finch. Lure Hovey, Rho-\\nminah Bancroft. Daniel Olverson, Levi Washburn and Mark ^Viuchell, Overseers of High-\\nways.\\nThe municipal officers elected since that time are named as follows:\\nSupervisors Gideon Gates, 1833-35; Isaac Thomp.son, 1835-37; Herman Parmalee,\\n1837-38; County Commissioners, 1838-43; Minot T. Lane, 1843-45; Hiram Sherman,\\n1845-50; Hugh Gray. 1850-51; George Chandler, 1851-53; Harvey Mellen. 1853-55;\\nJoseph Avres, 1855-59; Hiram Sherman, 185U-60; Joseph Ayres, 1800-81; Harvey Mel-\\nlen, 1881-82.\\nClerks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Martin Buzzell. 1833; Henry Porter, 1834: James Bushnell. 1835-36; Gid-\\neon Gates, 1837-38; Cornelius Everts. 1839; Colatinus Day, 1840-41; Oliver Canfield,\\n1842-44; Joseph A. C. Leech, 1845-46; Ebenezer French, 1847-48; Watson Loud. 1849;\\nOliver Canlield, 1850; Watson Loud, 1851-52; Jose])h Ayres, 1853; Dexter Mussey. 1854;\\nMartin Buzzell. 1855; William A. Frazier, 1856-60; Levant C. Mclntyre, 1861-63; Sam-\\nuel A. Reade. 1864; Charles Jones, 1865; William A. Frazier. 1866-68; George D. Muz-\\nzey, 1869-71; Henry P. Piper, 1872-73; Charles N. Coe, 1874-82.\\nTroasurers-Asahel Bailey, 1833-36; John W. Day, 1835-36; Jeremiah Miller,\\n1837-38; Hiram Hopkins, 1839; Cornelius Everts, lS4b; James Starkweather, 1841;\\nHemy Howm-th, 1.S42; Martin T. Southwell. 1843; Samuel H. Ewell. 1844; Jeremiah B.\\nAyres, 1845-4S: Nathan Palmer. 1849; Lewis D. Owen. 1850-52; William B. Sutton,\\n1853-56; Martin Buzzell, 1857; William B. Sutton, 1858-64; Almagi-o Pai-melee, 1865-(m;\\nRobert Turner. 1872-74; George D. Muzzey, 1875-77; Jed Predmore, 1878-79; Ejthraim\\nVan Burger. 1S80-82.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0756.jp2"}, "757": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nJustices of the Peace Gideon Gates, 1831); William Allen, 1N:^(}; William Cooley,\\nliS3H; Denis Scranton, 183(3: Ezra Standisli, 1887: Hem-y Porter, 1.S37: Martin Buzzell,\\n1837: Hiram Sherman, 1838; Jesse Bishop, 183S; Rufus Prentiss. ISMS; Hiram Sherman,\\n1839: Azariah Prentiss, 1S40; Jesse Bishop, 1841; Gideon Gates, 1S4 J; Hiram Sherman,\\n1843; Martin F. Southwell. 1844; Dexter Mussey, 1845: Jesse Bishop, 1845; Gideon\\nGates, lS4(i; Hiram Sherman, 1847: Dexter Mussey, 1848: Jesse Bishop, 1849; George\\nChandler, 1850; Gideon Gates, 1851; Stephen H. Fitch, 185 Dexter Mussey, 1853;\\nRobert McKav, 1.S54: Asa B. Avres, 1855: Joseph P. Foster, 18o(): Dexter Mussey. 1857;\\nRobert McKay, 1S5S: A. B. Ayres, 1859; Joseph P. Foster, ISliO, Robert Hamilton, 18 il;\\nMartin Buzzell, ISiU; Dexter M. Mussey, 1802; Robert McKaj 18(52; Edward S. Snover,\\n18C.3: -Robert Hamilton, 18()4; Martin Buzzell, 18(55; Robert McKay. 18(3(5; Achish H. Pool,\\n18()(); Edward S. Snover, 18(57: Chester Cooley, 18(5S: Robert Hamilton, 1S(5S; Hiram\\nSherman, 18(59; Dexter Mussey. 1870: Robert McKay, 187(1; Edward Snovel, 1871;\\nThomas Dawson. 187 2: John Smith, Jr., 1873: Daniel Wooden, 1873; Robert McKay,\\n1874; Dexter Mussey, 1875: William 7. French, 187(5: Daniel Woodiu, 1877; Alburtius\\nPierson, 1878; Robert McKay, 1878; Dexter Mussev, 1879 Georcre Townsend, 1879;\\nGeorge Townsend. 1880: Daniel Woodin, 1881-82.\\nThe election of 1882. resulted as follows: Supervisor, Mellen, Democrat, 187; Avers,\\nRepublican, 172; Democrat majority, 15. Clerk, F. N. White, Republican, 193; James\\nMcFarlane, Democrat, 1(58; Republican majority, 25. Treasurer, A. H. Shelp, Republican,\\n198: Charles Fillmore, Democrat; Republican majority, 3(3.\\nOKANl TRUNK E.\\\\ILROAD OK MKIIIOAN.\\nA resolution was adopted, at a meeting of tax-payers held February 12, 18(58, grant-\\ning a loan of $33,000 to aid in the construction of the Grand Trank Railroad of Michigan.\\nThe vote stood 201 in favor of the loan, and 2(( dissenting.\\nMICHIGAN AIR-LINE RAILROAD.\\nOn June 9, 1869, a meeting of tax-payers was held at Romeo, when 239 votes were\\nrecorded in favor of a loan of .125,000, and 8(3 votes against such loan.\\n.SCHOOLS.\\nIn this township there are six district and five fractional district schools. The Direct-\\nors for the year 1881-82 comprise Irving D. Hauscom, H. B. Cornell, Lawrence Hosner,\\nEnoch Wilson, John C. Thompson. Lucius Parmelee. M. D. Closson, Oscar C. Wood,\\nCharles Schanck, Carey Eldred and John Smith, Jr. The number of children of school\\nage in these districts is 831, of which number 544 belong to No. 1 School. There are\\nthirteen frame school buildings, valued at $13,(500. The amount paid teachers for the\\nyear ending September, 1881, was $5,225, while the aggregate expenditure was $8,922.\\nThe corps of teachers comprised four males and twenty three females.\\nTHE SCOTCH SETTLEMENT.\\nIn the year 1830 or 1831, the portion of the township known as the Scotch Settle-\\nment began to be occuj)ied. One or two families Crawford and Wylie, also David\\nTayloi? were there previously. Dr. Neil Gray and his brother Hugh came to Romeo,\\nand. acting on the advice of Jesse Bishoj), located the tract since known as the Gray farm.\\nThe relatives of the Grays came over fi om the country of Robert Burns and settled near\\nthe Gray farm. The Resides. Reids, Hopkinses, Muirs, Wassons, Hamiltons, Borlans,\\nStephenses and many others soon followed. Josiah T. Sanborn, one of the iu st settlers\\nof Bruce, still resides in the northeast part of the township.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0757.jp2"}, "758": {"fulltext": "nOUNTY FOR WOLF SCALPS.\\nAt the jseriod of organization, the northern and eastern sections of the township were\\nS|)arsel y settled, and were infested with wolves and other forest animals. Sheep and hogs\\ncould not be kept at all, unless closely watched by day and safely secured by night. The\\nState oflered a bounty of i^S for the destruction of each wolf, and the county added to this\\nthe sum of $8, in order to stimulate our hunters to greater exertion. The various town-\\nships offered bounties of from $3 to $5 for each wolf scalp brought to the Town Treasiu-er.\\nIn times past, the treasvu y of Washington suffered from the action of a man who pro-\\nduced a whole litter of wolves, in the most helpless state ox infancy. Bruce made it a\\nrule to provide against such an outlay by ordaining that the bounty of 13 should not be\\npaid to wolf -slayers who could not produce the scalp of a wolf which was not able to stand\\nand walk alone.\\nA bounty for wolf scalps was offered in this township, as well there might be, for, in\\nthe summer of 1836, sheejj were killed by wolves within twenty-five rods of where ]\\\\Ir.\\nWilkinson now resides, and the boys killed coons in those days in a cornfield, within\\nforty rods of the present residence of Isaac Brabb.\\nThe principal natiu al cm-iosities of Bruce are the miniatiu e lakes, of which there are\\nfour or five. The largest of them is called Cusic Lake, and is located al)out three miles\\nwest of Romeo. It contains about twenty-five acres, and is always full of clear water.\\nThe next in size is Hall s Pond, which covers about ten acres. Cusick Lake is on the line\\nbetween Washington and Bruce Townships, and gives promise of being a most pojiular re-\\nsort before many years.\\nThe township is watered by the North Branch of the Clinton River and Leslie s Creek.\\nThere are some saw-mills and other industrial institutions situated on these streams.\\nSTATISTICAL.\\nIn 1850, the township contained ]3r( farms, containing 11.851) acres of improved land,\\nwith l),ll!8 acres of wood and other unimproved land, the cash value of which was esti-\\nmated at |3iy,330. In live stock, it exceeded any township in the county, as indeed it\\ndid ia the above enumerations. Of horses there were 230 (only one ass, and no mules);\\nmilch cows, 4S(); working oxen, 21ir, other cattle, 038; sheep, o.fiS i; swine, T JU; total\\nvalue of live stock, $44,520 wheat, 34,98(1 bushels; rye, 430 bushels; Indian corn, 20,1)95\\nbushels; oats, 1(3,024 bushels; barley, 052 bushels; buckwheat, 2,141 bushels; potatoes,\\n2,231 bushels; w ol, 10,270 pounds. Value of oi-chard products, |99(;. Dairy produce:\\nButter, 23, 115 pounds; cheese, 9,2()5 pounds; maple sugar, 2,255 pounds. Contrasted\\nwith the statistical showing of 1874, it makes the following comparison: Number of\\nfarms, 205; acres improved, 16,30()|; wood and other unimproved land, 7,()75; total cash\\nvalue of same, \u00c2\u00a71,228,970. In live stock, the following figures are given: Horses, 714;\\nmules and asses, 6; milch cows, 514; working oxen, 10; other cattle, 595; sheep, 10,523:\\nswine, 579; total value of live stock, $145,834. Wheat, 50,0)00 bushels; rye, 40 bushels;\\nIndian corn, 33,803 bushels; oats, 48,450 bushels; barley, 8,405 bushels; buckwheat. 850\\nbushels; potatoes, 10,747 bushels; wool, 57,790 jiounds. Dairy produce: Butter, 48,815\\npounds; cheese, 1,048 pounds. Maple sugar, 345 pounds. Value of orchard jjroduce,\\n$11,72(). Pork marketed, 90,(^07 pounds. The statistics for 1880-81 show a still more\\nremarkable advance. The jjopulation of the township in 1850, including that portion of\\nRomeo north of Main street, was 1.555; in 1873. the number increased to 2.045: and in\\nINSO, to 2,112.\\nTHE LOSS OF TlIK RFSIDE CHILD.\\nIn the sjsring of 183(). or about that time, John Reside, a Scotchman, living in the\\nnorthern portion of Bruce, was engaged in sugar-making in the woods, and in the after-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0758.jp2"}, "759": {"fulltext": "j^9\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COU TY.\\nnoon of one day, his little daughter, Jane, about five years of age, who had spent the after-\\nnoon with her father, started to go home alone, and became lost in the woods. The\\nmother, supposing the child to be with her father, felt no alarm, and the father knew not\\nof her loss till his return late in the evening. Search was soon made, and neighbors\\nflocked in to give such aid and sympathy as they could, but, owing to the darkness in the\\ntimber, the search was unsuccessful.\\nThe weather was uite cold, and a storm threatening. The men, however, kept in the\\nwoods, and, by lights and incessant shouting, kept the beasts away. In the morning, Luke\\nFisher came with a dog, which was allowed to smell a stocking worn by the child. The\\ndog soon traced the way the girl had gone, and, followed by his master, soon came upon\\nher. She had become completely exhausted and overcome by the cold, and had fallen on\\nher face upon the ground. Her uncle, a doctor, was at hand, and she was restored to life\\nand brought home. Her hands were frozen, and the complete use of them never fully re-\\ntiu-ned. She still dimly remembers the scenes of that terrible night, and never forgets that\\nshe owes her life to the sagacity of a faithful dog.\\nPKK.SONAL HISTORY.\\nIn the personal history of Bruce are given brief biogi-aphical notices of prominent citi-\\nzens and old settlers of the town. They will prove as instructive and interesting as the\\nlegitimate history of the district, since they form the history of those who raised it to\\nits present prosperous condition.\\nRUSSELL BATES, P. O. Romeo, was born May 30, 1840, in Chestertield, Macomb\\nCo., Mich. He is the son of Russell and Elsie Bates, natives of the State of New York.\\nHis father died June 3, 1842; his mother died December 10, 1881, aged sixty-seven years.\\nMr. Bates has been a farmer all his business life, except six years when he was engaged\\nin trade at Romeo. In 1875, he settled on the fai-m where he now lives, including the 100\\nacres of fine land on Section 31, well stocked and supplied with a good home and suitable\\nbuildings. He was married. March 23, 1801, to Fidelia H. daughter of James and Fanny\\nHosner, of Bruce. She was born January 15, 1838, in Bruce. They have had two chil-\\ndren La Fayette H.. born March 17, 1866; and Alice, April 17, 1873, died September\\n25. 1873. Mr. and Mrs. Bates are members of the Free-Will Baptist Chm-ch of Bruce.\\nMr. Bates is an active member of the Republican party.\\nGILBERT S. BISHOP, P. O. Almont, was bom July 30, 1841, in the township of\\nBrace, Macomb Co. Mich. He was the sou of Truman and Mary Bishop. Truman was\\nborn in 1806, Livingston County, township of Richmond; died in the township of Bruce,\\nMacomb Co., Mich., in July, 1850. His wife, Mary, was born in Richmond, Livingston\\nCo., N. Y., in August, 1811. She died in Bruce in September, 1850. They came to\\nMichigan about the year 1837 and settled in Macomb; the same year, bought the farm on\\nwhich the subject of this sketch now lives, which now consists of 200 acres of choice land,\\nwith good dwelling and outbuildings, on Section 5. September 24, 1S02, Mr. Bishop\\nmarried Angeline Patch. She was the daughter of Anson B. and Ann L. Jewell\\nPatch; wife was born June 4, 1842, in the township of Ray. Macomb Co., Mich; her fa-\\nther was bom in Massachusetts in 1814; mother, born in New York in the same year:\\ndied in Oakland County, Mich., in 1846. Mr. and Mrs. Bishop have had live childi-en,\\nas follows: Frank L., born January 27, 1864; Mary A., born September 10, 1865; Flor-\\nence L.. August 25, 1867. died May 4. 1875; Jennie M., born November 22, 1S7 Emma\\nC, born August 30, 1880. They are members of the First Congregational Church of Al-\\nmont. Politically, he is a Republican.\\nTHOMAS BORLAND, of the township of Almont, Lapeer County, was born in Cragie\\nParish, Ayrshire, Scotland. Octolser 15, 1826. His father. Thomas, was a farmer in that\\n46", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0759.jp2"}, "760": {"fulltext": "country, and died there. Soon after coming of age, Thomas, Jr., having received an edu-\\ncation in the schools of his native ])arish, took, in accordance with the custom of that\\ncountry, UOd acres of the estate of the Duke of Argyle. This was a farm ada})ted to the\\ndairy and grazing business. A\\\\ hile moving from the old home to this new one, the drove\\nof cattle, consisting of sixty head, became scattered, and one cow was lost, and was\\ntaken up by a farmer and secured in his barn. She was soon recovered, and. soon after\\nreaching the faim, was seized with the disease, pleiu o-jmeiunonia, and soon died. The\\ndisease soon spread through the herd, and forty head were saeriiiced to the disease, many\\nof them worth $75 to$l(K) each. The loss extended into the second year, and the income\\nof both years became a total loss. This so aft ected his calculations that he could not re-\\ncover, and so conceived the idea of coming to America. Taking the benefit of a small\\npatrimony of Mrs. Borland, they took passage, and arrived in Macomb County May It,\\n1853, with good health and very little means. On leaving the old country, his chamber-\\nlain gave bin; a letter highly complimentary to his character and management, which was\\nan uncommon thing for a landlord to do. Spending a couple of years as laborer on the farm of\\nJohn Taylor, of Bruce, he bought forty acres of land in Armada, which he kept foiu- years.\\nThis he sold, and spent a year on a farm near Almont, and then bought eighty acres in\\nBruce, on Section 8, which he kept live years, and sold at an advance of 2,(HH). He then\\nbought a farm on the county line, in Lapeer County, of I iO acres, adding afterward 230\\nacres. He has erected tine buildings on this farm, and is out of debt, and prosperous\\nshowing that industry and perseverance are svu e to be rewarded. He was maiTied, in\\n1848, in Scotland, to Janet AVilsou, who was born January 13. 1S27. She was a daughter\\nof David Wilson, fanner, of Haining Mains, Ayrshire, Scotland. Of this marriage there were\\nlive boys, three of whom sui-vive David W., born May 11, 1850, married and living on\\nthe homestead; Thomas J., born July 0, 18(34; James W., born December 1, 1866; also\\ntwo sons who died in childhood. He has always taken an active interest in the various\\npolitical questions of the day, and has always been a Republican, voting lii-st for Lincoln in\\n1860. Ml and Mrs. Borland are members of the United Presbyterian Church, of which\\nMr. Borland is an Elder.\\nALEXANDER BRAID WOOD, farmer, of Bruce Township, was born in Ayrshire,\\nScotland, in January, 1818. In Scotland he was a clerk in a grocery store, and also clerk\\nin a ship-building yard in the city of Troon. In the year 1842, in company with two\\nbrothers, emigrated to America and located on the north line of the county in Bruce Town-\\nship, Section 2, in the Scotch settlement, and has since resided there; was married, in\\n1847, to Mary Milliken, daughter of John Milliken, of Scotland; she was born in Ayrshire\\nMarch 17, 1828 they have had ten chikh en, fom of whom are married and set-\\ntled in Lapeer County, and six still at the homestead. Mr. Braidwood has been a suc-\\ncessful farm( r and breeder of fine cattle, having 330 acres of fertile land, with good build-\\nings and otlicr things necessary to a profitable business. In politics, he is a Democrat.\\nCHESTER D. COOLEY was born Sei^tember 15, 1845, in Bruce, Macomb Co., Mich.\\nis son of Chester and Jane Kisor Cooley (see sketch of Chester Cooley), of Romeo. Mr.\\nCooley was married, June 22, 1873, to Hannah M., daughter of Aaron and Rhoda S. Cole\\nIngalsbe, of Ray, Macomb Co., Mich., natives of New York; the former was born Sep-\\ntember 26, 1823, in Camless, Onondaga Co., N. Y., and died August 16, 1877; the latter\\nwas born August 28, 1829, in Jerusalem, Yates Co., N Y.,and is still living. Mrs. Cooley\\nwas born August 11, 1851, in Lenox, Macomb Co., Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Cooley have one\\nchild. William M., born July 28. 1875, in Bruce, Macomb County They reside on Sec-\\ntion 21, Bruce Township. Mr. Cooley is a member of the Masonic Lodge, No. 41, of Ro-\\nmeo, and is ])olitically a Republican. Mrs. Cooley is a member of the Patrons of Hus-\\nbandry.\\n^T", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0760.jp2"}, "761": {"fulltext": "S. B. COOLEY W!is born in Bruce Township, Macomb County, July 1, 1S33. His\\nfather. Benjamin Cooley, referred to in these pages, came to Michigan in October. 1832.\\nHere Mr. Cooley was educated and at the Romeo Academy. In 1855, he left for Minnesota,\\nwhere he located 155 acres, near Mantorville, and remained thirteen months: returning,\\nhe bought the Willett farm, on Sections lU and 20. May 4. 1864, he entered on his West-\\nern trip to the gold mines, reaching the Montana mines June 1. 1865, he, with his party,\\nwintering at Salt Lake City, where he disposed of a \u00c2\u00a72,000 stock of boots and shoes, piu--\\nohased at Chicago, in company with his brother-in-law, Mr. George Schenck He returned\\nto Macomb County in June. 1866. and resumed farming. In 1870, he inherited the\\nhomestead farm, consisting of 280 acres, on Sections 17 and 18, Bruce, which he has con-\\nducted since that time. This landed projjerty in Macomb is 640 acres, of which 400 acres\\nare under cultivation. Recently, he has built farm laborers houses, or tenant houses.\\nHis stock consists of 375 sheep, eighty hogs, twenty-two horses and mules. Mr. S. B.\\nCooley is a member of the Blue Lodge. F. A. M., of Almont. and of the Romeo Com-\\nmandery and Chapter; is a charter member of Romeo Grange, and member of the Pomona\\nGrange. Mrs. Clarissa Wood Cooley, a native of Oneida County, N. Y. born in 1814,\\ncame to Michigan with her husband, Benjamin Cooley.\\nSAMUEL G. COOLEY. P. O. Almont, was borii September 20, 1853, in the township\\nof Bnice, Macomb Co. JMjoh. He was the son of Samuel and IMaretta Cooley. His fa-\\nther was born in Pittsbteg^ Vt., March 7, 1804; died November 0. 1872, in the township\\nof Bruce. His father came to Michigan in 1832, and first settled in Washington. Macomb\\nCounty; left Washington in 1840 and settled in Bruce, on ]67i acres of land on Section\\n6; on this he lived until his death. Samuel Cooley, father of this sketch, was married,\\nNovember 15, 1850, to Maretta Wood; they had one child. Samuel G., born September\\n20, 1853; his mother was born in Boonville, Oneida Co.. N. Y., March 211, 1808. On the\\ndeath of his father. Samuel G. came into possession of the homestead. December 10,\\n1872, he was married to Ada Bell Lane, of Dryden, Lapeer Co,, Mich. His wife was\\nborn July 26, 1858. She was the daughter of Charles and Elmina Lane. They have\\nthree children Saumel M., born August 28, 1874; Maretta May, born September 30, 18/6;\\nCharley Elwin, born December 28, 1880. They have on their homestead 120 acres of\\nchoice land, with good dwelling house and outbuildings. Politically, he is an Independ-\\nent. Chai-les Lane, Sr., was born in the year 1793, in the town of Queensbiu-y, Wairen\\nCo., N. Y. He moved to Michigan and died in 1856. Charles Lane, son of the senior,\\nwas also born in Warren County, in 1814. and died May 20, 1882, in Dryden, Mich., aged\\nsixty-seven years and seven months. When he was twenty-three years old, he came to\\nMichigan, and finally settled in Lapeer County. At the age of twenty-eight or twenty-\\nnine, he married Elmina Gould, who was born in New York State in 1828, and, with her\\nparents, moved to Michigan at the age of nine years. At the age of eighteen, she was\\nmarried to Mr. Lane. Ada Bell Lane was born iii the year 1858, in Lapeer County, town\\nof Dryden, Mich. At the age of foiu-teen, she maiTied Samuel G. Cooley.\\nWILLIAM COOLEY was born June 26, 1808. in Pittsford, Rutland Co.^Vt.; is son\\nof Samuel and Polly Dike Cooley. The former was born November 14, 1(75. in Pitts-\\nford, Vt., and died in Bruce, Micli., Februai-y 2, 1843; the latter was born in Chittenden,\\nRutland Co., Vt., August 4, 1781, and died September 10, 1838, in Bruce. Samuel Cooley\\nleft Vermont in 1816, and engaged in farming in Cambria, Niagara Co., N. Y., and in\\n1832 settled in Bruce, Mich. Mr. Cooley. of this sketch, was employed as a carder and\\ncloth-di-esser in Niagai a County, N. Y. In 1832, he came to Michigan and purchased 120\\nacres of land in Bruce, returning to New York in the fall of that year, intending to re-\\nmain. He was persuaded to come back with his father, to whom he sold his land and\\nbought eighty acres more, on which he has since pursued the vocation of a farmer. He", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0761.jp2"}, "762": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nhas been the owner of several farms and a considerable amount of timber land. He was\\nmarried, January 1, 1S3.J. to Lucretia Hiudz, of Cambria, N, Y., a native of Vermont.\\nShe was born February 22, 1812. They have one child, James H., born October 18, 183\\nand died September 5, 1837. Mrs, Cooley died June 23, 1836, in Bruce. Mr. Cooley\\nwas married, January 2 1840, to Henrietta L., daughter of Charles and Diadamia Scran-\\nton Crippen, of Washington, Macomb County. She was l:)orn March 1, 1821, in Coving-\\nton, Genesee Co., N. Y. They have one child, Charles D., born January 13, 1842, in\\nBruce, Mrs. Cooley belongs to the Free Baptist Church of Bruce. Mr. Cooley is a mem-\\nber of the orders of Masonry and Odd Fellows. In politics, he is a Democrat. His farm\\nincludes 160 acres of land, well improved with a substantial frame house and accessory\\nbuildings.\\nAARON CORNELL, P. O. Romeo, born May 1, 1822, in Elmira, N. Y., was son of\\nRichardson and Anna M. (Moshcr) Cornell, both parents natives of New York, father\\nborn May 9, 17U1, died in 1878, in Wisconsin; mother born June 8, 17U6: she died March,\\n1834 This old couple were married May 26, 1814: They had the following children:\\nAletta K,, born April 25, 1817; Dorcas. born September 7, 181U; Aaron, born Mayl, 1822;\\nHannah W.. born September 5, 1824; William D., born April 1, 182 The subject of\\nthis sketch was married to Elizabeth Lefever Septemlser U, 1844; from this marriage, had\\ntwo childi en Hartmon R, and Allace Josephine, both of whom are now living; wife died\\nSeptember 4. 1870. Mr. Cornell married for his second wife Lucy Streeter August 22,\\n1871; she died March 14, 1880. January 12, 1882, Mr. Cornell married, for his third\\nwife, Elizabeth Ann Sanford, widow of George Sauford, of Flint, Mich.; she was born\\nJuly 28, 1830; she was a daughter of Denis and Delia (Palmer) Scranton. The subject of\\nthis sketch is a farmer, and came to Michigan aad to the town of Bruce in April, 18G7;\\nthe same year of his arrival in Michigan, boiight his present homestead, which consists of\\n145 acres of choice land on Section 14, with large, commodious dwelling house and good\\nbarns; farm is on gravel road leading to Almont, four miles north of Romeo. Mr. and\\nMrs, Cornell are members of the Methodist Episcopal Church; politically, he is a Repub-\\nlican,\\nALBERT EDGETT, (deceased), born February 3, 1805, in Gorham, New York,\\nwas the son of Peter and Rhoda (Finch) Edgett. Peter, his father, was born in En-\\ngland in 1770; he died in Bruce, Macomb Co., Mich., in the yeai- 1832; his son died\\nMarch 16, 1876, in Bruce, Macomb Co.. Mich. His mother was Holland Dutch, and they\\nwere married in the State of New York, Schoharie County. Albert Edgett came to Mich-\\nigan in 1827 and settled on what is now Bruce, on Section 36, where he bought eighty\\nacres of land, where the family have since lived. January 1, 1828, Albert mai ried Lucy\\nAdams; wife born in Langdon, Cheshire Co., N. H. April 22, 1807; she was the daugh-\\nter of John and Susan (Morse) Adams. From this marriage they have seven children\\nCleora, born March U, 1821), now the wife of Samuel Babcox, of Orford, Mich; Phcebe\\nPaulina, born February 21, 1831; Harriet L., born December 13, 1832; Maryett, born\\nOctober 25, 1834; Jul iett, born March 20, 1837; Martha Jane, born June 25, 1831); Albert,\\nborn August 21, 1841. The daughter Martha is now the wife of Levi W. Cole, of Bruce;\\nthey were man ied November 7, 1878. Mr. Cole now lives on the homestead of his wife s\\nfather. Mr. Cole was born September 22, 1846, in Biu-ford. Brant Co., Province of On-\\ntario, Canada; was son of Nicholas and Anna (Richort) Cole. Mr. Cole is a Republican.\\nLEONARD ELDRED, P. O. Romeo, was born July 3, 1818. in Crafttown, Otsego\\nCo., N. Y. is son of Thomas and Phcebe (Myers) Eldred; the former was born in June,\\n17U4; the latter. April 5, 1800. They had nine childi on Nathan, Leonard, Olive, Ansel,\\nThomas, Margaret, Betsey, James and Hiram; moved to Clarence, Erie Co.. N. Y. and\\nafterward to Michigan, in 1836, and located on eighty acres of land in Bruce, which he", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0762.jp2"}, "763": {"fulltext": "iiL^\\npurchased of the Government, and whei-e he resided till his death. September 17, 1857;\\nhis wife died November 17. 187(1. Mr. Eldred came to Michigan with his parents. He\\nis a carpenter by trade, which he pvu-saed about ten years. He was married to Emily,\\ndaughter of I. W. S. and Permelia (Stranahan) Collins. February 18, 1844; she was born\\nin Aurora, Erie Co.. N. Y.. February 12. 1824; her father was born December 21. 1791;\\nwas son of Levi and Nabby (Stanton) Collins, who were the parents of ten children; the\\nfather died April 10, 1837; the mother died September 18, 1831. Permelia Stranahan\\nwas daughter of John and Annie (Crego) Stranahan, natives of New York, who came to\\nMichigan in 1836 and settled in Bruce. I. W. S. Collins came to Michigan in 1832,\\nwith his wife and eight children; three were afterwai d born to them; their names were\\nSeymour, Hamet. Cornelia, Julia, Emily, Cyrenus, Jackson. Lafayette, Annie, Ruth and\\nJames. Of these. Seymour. Julia. Jackson and Annie are dead. Mr. Collins died\\nSeptember 7. 1855; his wife died February 25. 1877. Mr. and Mrs. Eldred have\\nthi-ee children Permelia A., born April 24, 1845; mamed to James Hosner in November,\\n1862: they have had three children Emma. Eva (deceased) and Clare; Peter P., born\\nOctober 1(1. 1846, married, January 1. 1876, to Annie, daughter of Andi-ew and Catherine\\n(Falkner) Nickerson; they have one child, Fred C, born September S, 1877; Cary\\nJ. Eldred was born September 18. 1848; was mairied, in July, 1870, to Emma, daughter\\nof James and Fanny (Spencer) Hosner; they had two childi-en Fanny L. and Carrie E.\\nMrs. Eldred died in September, 1876; her husband was married, in November, 1877, to\\nEmma, daughter of Edmund and Mary Gould; they have one daughter, Florry, born April\\n18, 1880. Mr. Eldred, lives on his homestead of 150 acres on Section 33, where he located\\nDecember 25, 1872. His son Peter owns a farm of upward of one hundred acres on Sec-\\ntion 28, the original possession of Leonard Eldred.\\nCORNELIUS EVERETT, son of Elihu Everett, a native of Connecticut, was born\\nin Washington County, N. Y. December 27. 1800. His mother. Betsey Derl)y. a native\\nof the same place, died in Washington. The father died in 18()0, in Cattaraugus County,\\nN. Y. Mr. Everett was a teacher in the public schools of Western New York several\\nyears, and removed to Macomb County in the fall of 1833, and taught school the first sea-\\nson of his stay. In the spring of 1834, he bought a lot of land on Section 14 of Bruce\\nTownship, and made it his fu st home. In the year 1855, he added the Fisher farm,\\nwhich was situated across the street. He was mamed, August U, 1828, to Climena.\\ndaughter of Heman Palmerlee, of Connecticut. She was born at Shorehara, Vt., May 23,\\n1811. Their children were Leonard, born in New York August 16, 1830, married Annie\\nCollins and lives at Battle Creek, Mich.; Elizabeth. September 6, 1833. married S. Daniels\\nand lives in Detroit; Mar\\\\% born September 9, 1838, maiTied William Daniels and resides\\nin Chicago, 111.; Homer C. B., September 1 1845. Mrs. Everett died December 11,\\n1880. Mr. Everett has been an active and energetic man and a prosperous farmer; a\\nmember of the Democratic party. Mr. Everett s father served in the war of 1812.\\nHOMER C. EVERETT, son of Cornelius Everett, born in Bruce Township Septem-\\nber ly, 1845; remained at home and attended the schools of the neighborhood and at Ro-\\nmeo until becoming of age; married, October 21, 1874, Lorena, daughter of Abel Shel-\\nden, of Lenox Township; they have two sons Floyd, bom September 21, 1.S77; Clarence,\\nAugusts. 187U; also one daughter died in infancy. ]VIr. Everett resides on the homestead,\\nand is meeting with success as an agricultmnst; is a member of the Republican party.\\nHe enlisted, in 1864, in Company G. Third Michigan Volunteer Infantry; rcmiained nearly\\ntwo years, and was honorably discharged. He lived three years in the townships of Lenox\\nand Ray, and retuiTied to the homestead in the fall of 1880.\\nHENRY D. GOETCHIEUS, P. O. Almont, was born January 1. 1815, in Shawangunk,\\nUlster Co. N. Y. He is the son of Stephen and Catherine Goetchieus. Stephen Goetchieus\\n1*1^", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0763.jp2"}, "764": {"fulltext": "was born in New York; his wife, Catherine, in the State of Virginia. His father came to\\nMichigan in 1837; settled in Washington, Macomb County; father died in Almont. Lapeer\\nCounty, October 20, 1854, aged seventy-fom- years. His son Henry came to Michigan\\nwith his father. He had learned the trade of tailor in the State of New York. On his\\narrival at Romeo, he opened a tailor-shop and followed this business about eight years,\\nand then kept a hotel in what was the old Red Tavern. This house was burned after he\\nhad occupied it some four years. On the same ground he built a new hotel, called the\\nRomeo Exchange; kept this house about eight years, then sold the house to J. L. Benja\\nmin for $6,000, and with this money he came to Bruce, and bought his present homestead\\nabout 1850, which consists of 200 acres of choice land on Section 4, with good dwelling\\nand barn. On this farm, near his dwelling, he has a fine fish pond of about one acre,\\ntilled with pickerel, and with nearly every kind of fish that inhabits the lakes or Michigan.\\nJanuary 27, 1848, the subject of this sketch married Phuebe Cardnell, of Almont. She\\nwas born May 16, 1822, in Genesee County. N. Y. From this maiTiage they have the fol-\\nlowing children: lone, born January 9, 1843, now the wife of George Braidwood, of\\nBruce; Edwin E., June IS, 1S44, now lives at Grand Rapids; Phcebe L., born March 6,\\n1846, wife of Abram Hagar Marlette, of Sanilac County; Jay W.. born May 15, 1848;\\nIvan, born December 1, 1840, died May 1, 1850; George M., November 4, 1851, lives in\\nBruce and occupies part of the homestead; Unita C, born March 11, 1854, at home, sin-\\ngle; Julia, born October 3, 1858, at home, single. Mr. Goetchieus forefathers lived in\\nHolland. Mr. Goetchieus is a member of the Masonic fraternity. Politically, he is a\\nDemocrat. The son, Jay W., lives with his parents on the homestead. November 10,\\n1876, Jay was married to Ittary E. Miles, of Almont, Lapeer Co., Mich. They have two\\nchikh-en\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Phoebe Ann, born June 8, 1878; Hem-y D., born May. 12, 1881. Politically,\\nhe is a Democrat.\\nROBERT GRAY, deceased, was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, May 12, 1816; came with\\nhis parents to this county in 1832, where the family now reside, in the same old house,\\nwith additions. He was married, in 1851. to Miss Isabella Fogo, a native of Scotland.\\nThey had four children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Neil W., William M, Belle F. and Hugh J. D. William is\\nmarried to Belle Mahaffy, and has one child. Robert; Belle F. is the wife of James Coch-\\nlane. Mr. Gray was a prominent farmer and stock-raiser, and was very successful. He\\ndied October 5, 1877, respected by all. Noil Gray, deceased, the father of the above, was\\nalso a native of Ayrshire, Scotland; brought his family to America in 1832, and settled on\\nSection 11, Bruce Township, this county, where his descendants still live. He was the father\\nof ten children, all dead.\\nWILLIAM HAMILTON, P. O. Almont, born May 31, 1800, in Muirkirk, Ayrshire,\\nScotland; was the son of Robert and Elizabeth (Simm) Hamilton. Robert Hamilton, fa-\\nther of the subject of this sketch, was born in Scotland in 1784, and died in 1845, in\\ntownship of Bruce, Macomb Co., Mich. His wife, the mother of William, was also born\\nin Scotland, in 1785, and died in Bruce in 186S. They had six children, two of whom\\nare now living. The subject of this sketch came to America with his parents in the year\\n1830; landed at port of Boston and settled in North Andover, Mass.; parents lived in\\nAndover some two years, when they went to Simsbury, Conn., where they lived some five\\nyears, then came to Bruce, Mich., in the year 1837. William Hamilton commenced busi-\\nness life for himself in a woolen-mill in Andover, Mass; worked in this place some two\\nyears, then went to the State of Connecticut, to town of Simsbury, where he learned the trade\\nof carpet- weaver in the carpet factory of Livennore Kendall; followed this occupation\\nfive years; was engaged in weaving ingrain carpets. May 1833, Mr. Hamilton married\\nMary Meloine, of New York City. She was born in Port Patrick, Scotland, February\\n10, 1810; came to America in 1833; landed at port of New York. She was the daughter", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0764.jp2"}, "765": {"fulltext": "i.\\ni:\\ntif John and Mary (McCracken) Meloine; from this man-iago, had eight children, as fol-\\nlows; Robert A., born March 25, 1834. in State of Connecticut, township of Simsbury;\\nEliza Ann, born in Connecticut, township of Simsbury, December 3, 1885; Mary Jane,\\nin Bruce, Mich., June 27, 1844; Matilda E., born June 21, 184(5; Charlotte A., born\\nSeptember 17, 184U; William W, born May (5, 1851; John M., born December 6, 1853.\\nThe subject of this came to Michigan with parents; farmed with his father some two\\nyears; in the year 1841, bought a farm of 120 acres of land on Section on .this land\\nhas since lived; homestead now consists of eighty acres of choice land, with good dwelling\\nhouse and outbuildings. Mr. Hamilton is a member of the Presbyterian Church; has\\ntaken considerable interest in common schools, and held several school offices; politically,\\nis Republican.\\nJACOB H. HOSNER was born in Clarkson. Monroe Co., N. Y., in 1841. His par-\\nents came to Michigan in 1843 and located in Bruce Township, where they now reside.\\nMr. Hosner grew to manhood on his father s farm, and when nineteen years of age, en-\\nlisted in the Fir.st Michigan Cavalry. He was enrolled Augu.st 21, 1861, and served until\\nthe 12th day of June, 1864, when he was wounded at the battle of Trevilian Station, Va.\\nHe was in the hospital in consequence until June 2, 1865. when he received honorable\\ndischarge. Mr. Hosner was one of Michigan s most valiant sohiiers, and one whom his\\nfellow-citizens name with pride and honor. He was in every action in which his regiment\\nwas engaged during the lirst two years of service, and was under ixve at Yorktown, Will-\\niamsburg, Seven Pines, Fair Oaks, Mechanicsville, Cold Harbor, Malvern Hill, Cedar\\nMountain, Second Bull Run, Harper s Ferry, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Falling Waters,\\nBrandy Station, etc. Mr. Hosner was married, in 1866, to Lucy M., daughter of Isaac\\nand Harriet (Cusick) Taft, born in Bruce in 1844. Mr. and Mrs. Taft were natives of\\nClarkson, Monroe Co., N. Y.. and were both born in 1807. They came to Michigan in\\n1835, and accumulated several farms and considerable village property in Romeo. They\\nwere members of the M. E. Church. Mr. Taft died March 18, 1875: Mrs. Taft died Oc-\\ntober 28. 1877. Mr. Hosner owns 120 acres of fu-st-class, finely situated land, in Bruce,\\non Sections 2U and 30. His residence is on Section 2U, and his place is well supplied\\nwith accessory farm buildings; has recently built a barn at a cost of $1,000. Mj. and\\nMrs. Hosner have had two children Hiram Judson, born April 2U, 1868, died September\\n18. 1879; and Hattie May, born March 1, 1870, and died September 14, 1879, of malig-\\nnant diphtheria. The son died of paralysis of the heart succeeding diphtheria.\\nJAMES M. HOSNER was born July 28, 1838, in Clarkson, Monroe Co., N. Y. is\\nson of Jacob and Catherine Thompkins. His father is son of Hugh and Hannah Hosner.\\nnatives of New York, the former born in 1780, and died in 1839; the latter born in 1783\\nand died in 1867. Mr. Hosner came to Michigan in 1841. He was man-ied. in 1863.\\nto Permelia A., daughter of Leonard and Emily Eldred. They have had three children\\nEmana E., born May 20. 1864, in Bruce; Eva May, May 1, 1870, in Bruce, died July 14,\\n1870; Clare J., August 2, 1877, in Bruce. Mr. Hosner owns 210 acres of good laud on\\nSection 30, with tine home and accessory farm buildings; in addition to farming, buys\\nand sells cattle and sheep for the Eastern markets.\\nJOHN E. HOSNER was born July 13, 1850; is son of James and Fanny (Spencer)\\nHosner. His father was born in Otsego County, N. Y., in 1811; removed to Monroe\\nCounty, N. Y.. in 1816. He was married, in 1832, to Fanny Spencer. She was born in\\nOtsego County. N. Y. in 1813; moved with her parents to Monroe County in 1816. They\\ncame to Michigan, purchased the land where the Clifton Mill now stands: exchanged the\\nproperty for land in Bruce, one mile north and one-fom-th mile east of his former loca-\\ntion, where he remained imtil April, 1876. He then moved one-half mile west to another\\ntract of land; he died June 11. 1876; his widow lives on the place where he died. Mr.\\n^Tv", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0765.jp2"}, "766": {"fulltext": "^1\\n1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHosner, of this sketch, was married, October 16, 1870, to Caroline, (laughter of John and\\nChariot e (Hartung) Albertson, born in WaiTen County, N. J., December 25, 1851; her\\nfather was born in New Jersey September 2, ISIV); her mother was born in New York\\nMarch 3, 1823; they were maiTied September 15, 1844: came to Michigan in 1852, and\\nlocated at Addison, Oakland County, where they spont the remainder of their lives. Mrs.\\nAlbertson died July fi, 1868; Mr. Albertson died May 15, 1875. Mr. and Mrs. Hosner\\nhave one. child, Mary Lee, born in Bruce December U, 1877. Mr. Hosner occupies the\\nhomestead of his parents, 160 acres on Section 32; he is engaged in agriculture, and also\\nin breeding thoroughbred Spanish Merino sheep and Short-Horn Durham cattle: his Hock\\nand herd are of recorded jiedigree the former fi-om celebrated Vermont stock.\\nTHEODORE F. HOSNER. P. O. Romeo, was born in Washington Township in 1845;\\nwas married, March 24, 18611. to Amanda Schooley, of Addison Township, Oakland County;\\ntheir childi en are Frances May Hosner, born in 1870: and Amie E., Ijt)rn in ]875. He is\\na prosperous and successful farmer of the township of Bruce.\\nALBERT HOVEY. P. O. Romeo, born October 10. 1822. in Warsaw. Wyoming Co..\\nN. Y. was the son of Suel and Lucinda (Holmes) Hovey; Suel was of English extraction\\nand his wife. Lucinda, of Scotch extraction; Suel was born in the State of New Hamp-\\nshire. 1785; died in Bruce March 2, 1871: his wife, Lucinda, born in Vermont, October\\n13, 17yy. and died in Bruce, Mich.. August 30, 1879. Josiah Hovey. father of Suel, was\\nborn in England in the year 1754; came to America when but seventeen years of age; he\\nwas always a farmer and lived his life in this county, in New Hampshire and New York;\\nhe died in Warsaw, Wyoming Co., N. Y. in the year 1824; his son Suel, the father of\\nthis sketch, was a soldier in the war of 1812. The subject of this sketch came to Michi-\\ngan. June. 1S2(), with his parents; his father bought eighty acres of good land, on Sec-\\ntion 2(). township of Bruce; the same farm is now the present homestead of the subject\\nof this sketch, which now consists of 185 acres of choice land, with large commodious\\ndwelling house and good barns and outbuildings. A. Hovey located on thp road leading from\\nRomeo to Almont. one and a half miles north of the village of Romeo. April 14, 1856,\\nMr. Albert Hovey married Eliza A. Carpenter, of Almont, Lajieer C, Mich.; she was born\\nOctober 27, 183(), in Armada. Macomb Co.. Mich; was the daughter of Samuel and Sabria\\n(Perkins) Carpenter: both her parents were natives of Rutland. Vt. father still living in\\nOregon. Lapeer Co.. Mich. From this marriage, there are live children living Carson\\nF.. born January 31, 1857: Elmer A.. November 15. 1858; Samuel C. February 25,\\n1861; Cora B., November 28. 18(13: Lena S.. September 23, 18( 5, died June 4, 1867;\\nEmma S.. June 21, 1867, died December 29, 1870; Myrtie L, May 21, 1873, all born in\\nthe township of Bruce, Mich. Mr. and Mrs. Hovey are members of the Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch. Politicallv. he is a Republican.\\nFRANKLIN JONES, P. O. Romeo, was born April 24, 1851, in Bruce, Macomb\\nCounty; he is the son of Charles and Abigail Killam Jones, the former born February 1,\\n181 1, in New York, and died January 6, 1873, in Dryden, Lapeer County; the latter was\\nborn March 23, 1815, in Wheatland, Monroe Co., N. Y. her parents were natives of Penn-\\nsylvania. Ml Jones parents were married October 9, 1838, in Wheatland; his mother\\nhad eight brothers and sisters, four of whom are living; six of her seven chikh-en are\\nnow living; their record is as follows: Eunice L., born August 14, 1840. disd September\\n24, 1846; Maria, December 4, 1842; Charles K., February 6, 1846; Emma, Mav 15,1848;\\nFranklin. April 24, 1851; Evelyn, June 19, 1853; Ella A., March 23, 1855. Mr. Jones\\nwas married, March 24, 1880, to Eva. daughter of Rev. Lester and Susan Clark, of May-\\niicld, Mich the former was born in Rutland, Vt., April 22, 1883: the latter was born in\\nrpper Canada May 21, 1840; they were married July 9, 1855. The parents of Rev.\\nLester Clark were Amasa Clark, who was born January 18, 1812, in Rutland, Vt. and", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0766.jp2"}, "767": {"fulltext": "4\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUKTY.\\nRoxalana Carpenter, bora May 16, 1812, in Ira, Vt. they were married April 8. 1830.\\nThe parents of Airs. Susan Smith Clark were Albert Smith, born in New York State Feb-\\nruary 2, 1804:, and Lovina Atwell, born in the same State September 10, 1812; they were\\nmarried January 25, 182U; Lovina Smith died September 6, 1857; Albert Smith died June\\n3, 1880. The childi-eu of Rev. Lester and Susan Clark are as follows: Eva, born Mai-ch\\n3, 1858; Roxie, July 26, 1860; Lovina A., November 11\u00c2\u00bb, 1862, died September 15, 1866:\\nJason S., February 28, 1865; Carrie Belle. March 26, 1868; Annette C. M., October 6,\\n1870, died November 12, 1871; Allie May, May 25. 1SJ3; and Lester. Jr., August 5,\\n1881. Mr. Jones now owns his father s homestead of 200 acres on Section lU, in a state\\nof advanced improvement, with good outbuildings. The senior Jones settled in Rose.\\nOakland County, and in 1844 located in Bruce, where he passed the remainder of his life.\\nMr. Jones is a Democrat in political sentiment.\\nFRED P. KILLAjr was born in Bruce Township April 10. 1853; his father. Powell\\nC. Killam. and mother. Margaret Ferguson, came to Bruce Township at an early day,\\nfrom Wheatland, Caledonia Co.. N. Y. his grandfather, Charles Killam, did not move to\\nMichigan. In 1873, he took [wssession of 165 acres on Sections I J and 30. previously\\npurchased from Harvey Reid by Powell C. Killam. where he now makes his home. He\\nmarried Miss Zella Partch December 14, 1875. daughter of Enos Purtch, born in Vermont,\\nwho settled in Michigan about 1867; and Abba (Stone) Partch, a native of New York;\\nthey are the parents of three children, namely: Hallie. born January 18, 18. Bessie,\\nborn August 10, 1878; and Jessie, born November 21, 1880. Mr. Killam s grandfather\\nwas a soldier in the war of 1812, while Mrs. Killam s father served in the New York Vol-\\nunteers during the late war, while her Grandfather Stone served in the war of 1812.\\nMrs. F. P. Killam was born September 12, 1852.\\nIRA KILLAM, farmer, on Section 18, township of Bruce, Macomb Co., Mich., was\\nborn April 23. 1822. in Wheatland. Mom oe County. State of New York; was the son of\\nCharles and Sarah (Bingham) Killam. Both Chai-les and Sarah Killam were nati\\\\es of\\nPennsylvania. Chai les Killam died in May, 1859. His wife, Sarah, the mother of this\\nsketch, is now living with her son Ira; is in her ninetieth year, and a remarkably well-\\npreserved old lady. The subject of this came to Michigan in 1845. settled on the farm on\\nwhich he now resides, which now consists of 32(_) acres of choice land, with good dwelling-\\nhouse and outbuildings. Mr. Killam was married, September 20, 1847, to Christie A.\\nStewart, of Wheatland, Monroe Co., N. Y. she was the daughter of Donald and Christie\\nStewart; wife born December 11, 1822, in Caledonia, Livingston Co., N. Y. from this\\nmarriage, there were live childi-en, as follows William S. Delia and Zelia (twins), Donald,\\nIra, Jr. Politically, is Democratic.\\nROBERT McKAY, born March 4, 1813, in Renfrewshire, Johnston, fourteen miles\\nfrom Cxlasgow, Scotland, was son of John and Jane McKay; father born in the year 1(83;\\nhis wife, the mother of Robert, born in the year 1790; both born in Scotland. They came\\nto America in the year 1836; landed at port of New York; came on to Michigan the same\\nyear, and settled in Oxford. Oakland Co.. Mich., where he piu-chased 1,300 acres of good\\nland; on this land they lived till the time of their death, which occurred as follows: Fa-\\nther died July, 1861; mother, in the year 1858. They had six sons and three daughters,\\ntwo of whom are now living. Robert, the subject of this sketch, came to .Imerica six y^ars\\nprevious to his parents, and spent the first thr e years in the city of Baltimore, Md., and\\nthree in Nashville, Tenu. was engaged during this time in mercantile business and publish-\\ning house; when his parents came to Michigan, he came on to meet them, and has since re-\\nsided in Michigan; came to Macomb County in the year 1841; settled on the farm on\\nwhich he now resides, which now consists of 610 acres of choice land on Section 12, with\\ngood dwelling-house and outbuildings. December 16, 1841. Mr. McKay married Jane", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0767.jp2"}, "768": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nGray; from this marriage, there were five children three daughteis and two sons four now\\nliving; wife died January 24, 1861. April 24. 1805, he married Caroline M. Day, born De-\\ncember 16, 183 in Armada, Macomb Co., Mich.; have six children living, four sons and\\ntwo daughters. Mr. McKay is Republican in politics, he being one of the original\\nAbolitionists; in the year 1842, he cast his first vote for the Abolition party, when it had only\\ntwo anti-slavery votes in town; never cast any other than an anti-slavery vote in his life;\\nhas lived to see the complete triumph Of the principles he so early identified himself with\\non coming to Michigan; has always beeji a zealous worker in the temperance reform, and\\nso remains to this day; was identified with the Underground Railroad, so called, and as-\\nsisted many a poor slave to Canada soil to enjoy that freedom denied to them in this boasted\\nland of fi eedom; keeps 600 sheep; wheat and sheep are his specialties in farming: is\\nDirector in Citizens Bank; is President of Mutual Fire Insui-ance Company of Macomb\\nCounty.\\nROBERT N. McKAY, P. O. Romeo, son of Robert McKay and Jean (Gray), of Bruce,\\nMacomb County, was born in Bruce October 15. 1S47; was married November 1, 1870, to Mary,\\ndaughter of B. H. Thurston, of Armada, and for three years lived on the Thurston farm;\\nthen bought the fai m on which he now lives, known as the Campbell farm, on Section 24,\\nin Bruce Township. This farm consisted of 120 acres, to which forty acres have been\\nadded. He has good buildings and tine thoroughbred stock, and has been remarkably suc-\\ncessful in the cultivation of wheat, which for many years past has averaged twenty-two\\nbushels per acre. Mrs. McKay was born January 26, 1846, and has two childi en Electa,\\nborn October 27, 1876, and an infant son. Mr. McKay has always voted with the Repub-\\nlican party.\\nJOHN C. MILLER, P. O. Almont, born September 8, 1814, in Hunter, Greene Co.\\nN. Y.; was son of William and Margaret (Bruudrige) Miller; his father was born in\\nPortsmouth. England, August 14, 1763; he married Margaret Brundrige, who was born\\nDec. 2U, 1770, in Nova Scotia; they were married August 20, 1786. William Miller came\\nto America about the year 1782. After their man-iage, they settled in Hunter, Greene\\nCo., N. Y., where they reared a family of ten children. In the year 1833. he left Hunter\\nand came on to Michigan, and settled in what is now the town of Bruce, Macomb\\nCounty, where he took up 120 acres on Section 4, it now being the farm occupied by John\\nHagerman; the same year, he took up 160 acres on Section -4, on which he built himself\\na house and home, and where he and his wife resided till their vleath William Miller\\ndied March 25, 1851); Margaret died June 1, 1851. -John Miller bought his father s farm\\nin the year 1837, and with him the parents resided till their death. .John has since lived\\non the farm, which, in 1882, consists of 140 acres of choice land, with good house and\\noutbuildings. November 10, 1838, he married Sarah M. Cusick, of Attica, Lapeer Co.\\nMich.; she was born June 22, 1817; had four children John T., born October 22, 1831),\\ndied September 30, 1853; Ann E., born August 21, 1844; Hiram C, born October 2, 1846;\\nAlice E., born May 4, 1840, now the wife of H. H. Williams, of Almont; they have two\\nchildren Jennie B., born May 17, 1873; Clara, born December 3, 1875. Hiram was\\nmarried to Martha King, of Almont, December 31, 1860, and has three children- -Lizzie\\nA., born February 27, 1870; Estella L., born January 1, 1874; John H., born October\\n15, 1877; first wife died March 18, 1853. June 8, 1853. Mr. Miller man-ied Lydia J.\\nClasson, of Almont, Lapeer Co., Mich.; wife born March 12, 1831, in Jefl erson County,\\nN. Y. she was the daugther of Amasa and Sabina (Red way) Closson; bad four chil-\\ndren Truman B., born August 25, 1856, died March 11, 1874; Sarah M.. born October\\n21, 1858, now the wife of John H. Dodds, of Lapeer, Lapeer Co., Mich., married May 21,\\n1870; Martha J., born December 24, 1862, died March 17, 1864; David P., born November 13,\\n1871. l[r. Miller and wife are members of the M. E. Chiu-ch: politically, he is Re[)ublican.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0768.jp2"}, "769": {"fulltext": "ht.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nROBERT MILLIKEN was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, February 23. 182(5; the\\nfamily were farmei s iu that country and emigi ated to America in 1845, whou he engaged\\nas clerk in the store of Dickinson Giddings, in Romeo, in which business he was em-\\nployed for a period of three years; in the year IS- jO, he bought the farm on which he\\nnow resides, on Section 2, of Bruce. Before leaving Scotland, he was married to Jean-\\nuette Smith, who died in Almont Township in the year 1847. By this marriage, there\\nwere two children, both of whom are deceased. He married again. July 12. 1848, to\\nEllen Hopkin. daughter of John Hopkin, of Scotland; she was born in the year 1821);\\nthere were seven children in all. live of whom are still living in the locality of the home-\\nstead, save one. In the year 1870, Mr. M. engaged in the nursery business, in whicli he\\nhas gained an extensive trade, his sales amounting to ),000 annually, embracing both\\nfi-uit and ornamental trees. He is also a breeder of fine horses and Dui ham cattle; he\\nhas made his farm a fertile one. In politics, he is a Republican.\\nCYRUS A. M\u00c2\u00a3LLS was born iu the Province of Ontario. Canada. February 15, 1845;\\nis son of George and Margaret Mills; he came to Michigan in 186U and settled at Elk\\nRapids; in 187U, he moved to Washington, Macomb County, and a year later settled in\\nBruce, where he now resides. He was married, September 26, 1871. to Emily L., daugh-\\nter of William and Sarah A. Richardson, of Elk Rapids, Mich,; they have had three chil-\\ndren Walter A., born October 28, 1873. died August 10. 1875: Alice May, November 21.\\n1876; Charles E., April 27. 1878. Mr. Mills is a Republican.\\nLEWIS D. OWEN, P. O. Romeo, was born August 16, 1815, in Covington, Genesee\\n(now Wyoming) Co., N. Y. he is the son of Abijah aad Sally Davis Owen. In 1825, his\\nfather came to Macomb Coimty with his famil} of live children, which number afterward\\nincreased to eight; they located in Shelby, known in those days as the Third Town,\\nwhere his father took uj) eighty acres of Government land and remained there until his\\ndeath, in June, 1837. Mr. Owen left home in 1831. at the age of sixteen, to make his own\\nway in the world, engaging as a clerk at Utica with P. G. Leach, remaining imtil 1833,\\nwhen they closed their business connections, and he engaged with John James, of the\\nsame place, who was also a merchant there. A year later, in May. 1834, he came to Ro-\\nmeo and opened a stock of goods for Johnson Niles, of Troy. Oakland County he remained\\nuntil June, 1835. when he went to Mi-. Niles store in Troy, and remained oiie year with\\nhim. He received a proposition from his former employer. G. C. Leach, to embark in a\\nbusiness enterprise at Utica. Mr. Leach became a silent partner in the concern, managed\\nunder the style of Sheldon Owen; his connection with this tirm continued for two and\\na half years. In 1837. he was married to Jane E.. daiighter of Liicy Ann and Gideon Gates,\\nof Romeo, and in the fall of 1838 moved to this village. He became Deputy under his\\nuncle. Calvin Davis, then High Sheriff of the county, and served in the same jjosition with\\nhis successor; also acted as Collector and Constable of Bruce up to June, 1S42, when he\\nmoved with his family upon the homestead farm in Shelby, buying out the other heirs.\\nThis was his first experience as a farmer since his boyhood. Here he remained for two\\nyears, going with his brother-in-law to manage the farm, near Romeo, of his father-in-law,\\nwho then moved into the village of Romeo, He resided on the place for eight years, at\\nthe same time conducting his own estate in Shelby, where his mother still lived. In\\n1852, he sold out the property there and bought the premises of the late James Leslie,\\nJr., 120 acres, including three- fourths of the northeast quarter of Section 35, in Bruce,\\nof which he still retains seventy-six acres, and where he reside.s. He cast his first Presi-\\ndential vote for Martin Van Bm-en, in 1836. He was a Democrat until the organization\\nof the Republican party in 1854, when he joined its ranks. Mrs. Owen was born iu Rich-\\nmond, Ontario Co., N. Y., in May, 181(3, and died in 187U. in her sixty-fourth year. They\\nhad nine children eight sons and one daughter; five sons are deceased; those living have", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0769.jp2"}, "770": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00b1h^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe following record: L. Davis was born at Komeo January lU, 1841; Robert Dale in\\nShelby. January 80. 1843; John F., in Bruce, in March, 1856; and Rosa May. wife of\\nEmanuel Coykendall. in September. 1861. Sally Davis Owen, daughter of Bela and Ruth\\nDavis, was born in Hubbai dston. Mass.. September 17, 17U1. Bela Davi:?, father of Sally,\\nwas th, son of Eliezer and Sarah Ward Davis, who once lived in Holdeii. Mass., but w(\\nhave no further record of them or their son Bela. The family record of Lewis D. and\\nJane E. Owen is as follows: They were married in Pontiac December 20, 1837; their eld-\\nest son, M. Bliun Owen, born in Romeo December 23, 1838; L. Davis Owen, born in Ro-\\nmeo January lil, 1841; Robert Dale Owen, born in Shelby Januaiy 30. 1843; William\\nWirt Owen, born in Romeo December 12, 1S4U; Ralph K. Owen, born in Romeo January 20.\\n1852; Hibbard Owen, born in Brace September 27, 1853. Lewis D. Owen, son of Abijah\\nand Sally Owen, born in Covington, N. Y.. August 16. 1S15; Abijah Owen, son of Fi-ed-\\nerick and Peggy Owen, at Orwell, Vt.. November 11, 17 .t2; Frederick Owen, born at Tol-\\nland. Conn.. Febroary 27, 1752; Peggy Hibbard Owen, born in Windom. Conn.. Septem-\\nber 16, 1757; Jane E. Gates Owen, daughter of Gideon and Lucy Gates, born in Victor.\\nN. Y., May 7, 1816; Gideon Gates, son of Aiu on and Elizabeth Gates, born June 2 .t. 178\\nLucy Gates, daughter of Jonathan and Honor Blinn. born May 22. 17il2; M ilbur B.\\nGates, son of Gideon and Lucy Gates, born December 1, 1813; Jane E. Gates, daughter\\nof Gideon and Lucy Gates, born May 7. 1816, in Victor, N. Y. John B. Gates, son of\\nGideon and Lucy Gates, was born October 6, 1818; Martha Gates, daughter of Gideon\\nand Lucy Gates, born July 0, 1821. The following is the military record of Mr. Owen s\\nthree soldier sons; L. Davis Owen was private in Company B, Fifth Michigan Volunteer\\nInfantry; mustered into service in August, 1861. at Fort Wayne. Mich., under Hemy D.\\nFerry. Colonel, and Judson S. FaiTar. Captain, both of Mt. Clemens; arrived at the seat\\nof war in Virginia in September following; being assigned to the Army of the Potomac,\\nwas engaged in all the battles of the Peninsula, commanded by Gen. McClellan, also par-\\nticipated in the battle of Bull Run No. 2, under Gen, Pope, and at Fredericksburg, under\\nBm-nside. and at Chancellorsville. under Gen. Hooker, and Mead, at Gettysbm-g. as well\\nas all the subsequent battles and military movements engaged iu by the Anny of the Poto-\\nmac, including the battle of the Wilderness, the whole number amounting to not less than\\ntwenty-five or thirty, and. during the three-years service, in many of the hardest battles,\\nand received no injiu-y fm-ther than a slight wound upon the eyebrow from a spent ball,\\nwhich had struck a limb overhead and glanced downward; was mustered out of service the\\n23d of August. 1864. at camp near Petersburg. Va. M. Blimi Owen, now deceased, at the\\ntime the war broke out was a resident of New York City, and was a member of the Seventh\\nNew York Militia Regiment, who were called to Washington by the President in June,\\n1861. to guard the capital, and were encamped on Arlington Heights for six weeks, then\\nreturned to New York, and, in the fall received a captain s commission from the Governor\\nof Pennsylvania, and raised a company for the Fifty-seventh Pennsylvania Volunteer In-\\nfantry, which were assigned to the same division to which his brother, L. Davis, belonged,\\nand served during the Peninsular campaign, but soon thereafter resigned his commission.\\nhe having received so severe a shock from the bursting of a shell that he regarded his\\nphysical condition as inadequate to the hardships of a soldier s life, and his death, although\\nit did not occur until some years after that, was j)robably to be attributed to the injury\\nthen received. Robert Dale Owen enlisted under Lieut. William Hulsheart, and A. M.\\nKeeler. Captain, in Com2)any B, Twenty second Michigan olunteer Infantry. August U,\\n1862, at Pintiac. which regiment was assigned to the Army of the Cumberland, the seat of\\ntheir operations being confined mainly to Tennessee and Georgia, being at the surrender\\nof Atlanta; but he was more generally detailed as teamster or wood-chopper, and was\\nsometimes sent to Washington with lunatics; therefore, he was not much engaged in bat-\\nV*l\u00c2\u00ae~", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0770.jp2"}, "771": {"fulltext": "i^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntie. but from the kick of a mule received a breach, for which he now receives a half -pen-\\nsion; was mustered out of service in June, 1865, at Nashville, Tenn.\\nGEORGE H. PALMERLEE, son of Lucius and Louisa (Stone) Palm. rlee, was born\\nJune 22, 1S47. He has always remained upon the homestead, receiving the educa-\\ntion aflbrded by the school of the district and the academy at Romeo; married, June\\n1, 1871, to Alice M., daughter of E. S. Snover, of Romeo; she was born at Romeo December\\n5, 1849; their children are George H., Jr., born May II, 1872; Emma Ct., born May 0,\\n1874. Mi s. Palmerlee died October lU, 1875. The homestead consists of 175 aci-es, in\\ntine state of cultivation, with all things needed for a successful business. He is a meia-\\nber of the Congregational Chiu-eh of Romeo, and in politics is Republican.\\nHEMAX PALMERLEE, deceased, P. O. Romeo, was born in Litchfield. Conn., and\\nhis wife in Goshen, in 1786; they lived in Granville, Washington Co., N. Y. eighteen\\nyears after they were mairied; in Erie. Penn. one and a half years; and now, in 1882,\\nhis farm has been the home of the Palmerlees for fifty years. They were blessed with\\nten children, all of them living to grow up to manhood and womanhood. They came into\\nBruce with eight of their family, the oldest daughter being married and living in Gran-\\nville, and Joseph, the oldest son, remaining with her until the next spring, and in the au-\\ntumn, the sister, with her family, arrived at the new home in Bruce. All were having a\\ngay time when the accidental discharge of a gun hushed their sport by killing Joseph. Mi\\\\\\nHeman Palmerlee held the office of Justice of the Peace and Postmaster a number of\\nyears. He was a man of strict integi ity, but not a member of any church; his wife was a\\nmember of the Congi egational Chirrch. He died in 1851*; his wife, the 2yth of December,\\n187U. Amos Palmerlee, the youngest son, still lives at the old home; he was born in\\nGranville, Washington Co., N. Y., in 1826; was married, at the age of twenty-seven, to\\nMary Kidder, who lived with him six years, and left one son, Charles Sumner; he was\\nmarried again, in 1860, to Clara, daughter of James R. and Adelia Makepeace Taylor; the\\nfoimer was born in Westtield, Mass., in 1811, and died March 28, 1880; the latter was\\nborn in West Brooklield. Mass., April 5, 1815, and died November 4, 1859. Mr. and\\nMrs. Palmerlee have seven children Mary, Adelia, Alva M. Martha, Knight L., Amos B.,\\nClara B., Heman Viek.\\nLrCIUS PALMERLEE, son of Heman and Nancy (Brooks) Palmerlee, natives of\\nLitchfield. Conn.; was born November 20, J818; his father was born in Connecticut Sep-\\ntember 21, 1786; removed to Macomb May 7. 1832; settled on Section 14, Bruce, and\\ndied September 5, 1859; his mother was born August 4, 1786. and died in Romeo Decem-\\nber 30. 1879. The subject of this sketch remained with his parents and attended the\\nschools of his native place till coming of age; and for six years afterward made that his\\nhome, when he moved to the farm on Section 14, which has from that time been his home.\\nHe was man ied, November 20, 1845, to Louisa, daughter of Solomon Stone, of the town\\nof Richmond; she was born in Blonroe County, N. Y. October 22, 1N18; her parents were\\npioneers of Macomb County. The only child of this marriage was George H. born June\\n28, 1847. living on the homestead. Mrs. Palmerlee was educated in the schools of her\\nnative county, and also had the advantage of Gaines Academy, Orleans Co., and the ISIon-\\nroe Female Seminary. She is one of the pioneer teachers of the county, having taught\\ntwo years in Macomb, and eight years previous to coming to the State. ]Mi Palmerlee\\nis also an old teacher, a man of literary tastes and acquirements, and a ])rosperous\\nfarmer; in form of worship he is a Congregationalist; and in politics he is a Democrat.\\nMrs. Palmerlee is a member of the Congregational Church of Romeo.\\nJA:MES PARKER was born at Hartford, Mass.. June 17, 1788, and removed to Ma-\\ncomb County in 1830, and located a farm on Section 24, on which he lived to the time of\\ndeath, which took place January 18, 1861. Mrs. Parker was a daughter of James Adams,\\nrpv*", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0771.jp2"}, "772": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof Rutland, Vt, and second cousin to John Quincy Adams; she still lives on the homestead\\nand is remembered by the old settlers as a kind-hearted and benevolent person, a valuable\\nnvu se in all cases of want or sicijness. far and neai\\\\ and a conscientious. Christian\\nwoman. Mr. Parker was a jovial, generous-hearted man. full of kind words and deeds\\nand remembered with the kindest of feeling. They had ten children, all but one born\\nin Ontario County. N. Y. six of whom are still living.\\nALBERTUS A. PIERSON was born June 14, 1S2S, in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y.; is\\na son of Joseph and Rachel Dunham Pierson, the former born in Darbj Conn. May 4,\\n1780, and died in February, ]86iS; his grandfather, Joseph Pierson, was a Revolutionary\\nsoldier, born February 18, 1754; his wife was born July 21. 1756. Mr. Pierson settled\\nin Armada, Mich., in 1855; in October, 18()2. he returned to the State of New York, and,\\nseven years later, settled in Bruce, Mich., buying 107 acres of land on Section 10; he has\\na good farm, with every evidence of being a ])rosperous, thrifty Michigan farmer: his\\nbuildings are in good order, and everything about the place is well regulated. He was\\nmarried. September 15, 1853, to Mary A., daughter of Jeremiah and Rebecca (irinnell, of\\nRush, Monroe Co., N. Y. she was born October 31, 1833, in Grove, Allegany Co., N.\\nY. Mr. and Mrs. Pierson had ten chikh-en Flora R. born July 28, 1855; George A.,\\nSeptember 20, 1857; Charlie A., April 30, 1850, died October 8, 1864; Ida M.. May 25.\\n18(31: Ruby E., Jime 1, 1863; Marv C\u00e2\u0080\u009e August 13, 1865: Emma A., June 20, 1867; Clar-\\nence A., July 6, 1870: Wallace B. November 15, 1872; Alice A., September 20. 1874.\\nMrs. Pierson died October 23, 1S74. in Bruce Township. Mr. Pierson was married again,\\nApril 10, 1877. in Ciolden, Oceana Co., Mich., to Betsey, daughter of Anson and Ann\\nJewell Patch, in Golden. She was born July 31, 1830, in Ray Township. Both Mr. and\\nMrs. Pierson are Baptists in religious sentiment. He has held the office of Road Com-\\nmissioner, and is a Republican in jwlitics.\\nWILLIAM H. POOL, born in Ashtield, Mass., Januaiy 0, 1808. He. with his wife,\\nIrena Smith Pool, born in Williamstown, N. Y., January 28, 1810, and family of five children\\nmoved from Niagara County, N. Y., to Bruce Township. Macomb Co.. Mich., in 1848, hav-\\ning recently jiurchased the farm known as the Seward Walter farm, on which he still lives;\\nMrs. Pool having died May 5, 1878, beloved and mourned by her family and friends,\\nhaving proved herself a kind companion, a loving mother, a friend to the needy: she was\\nsister to Aratus Smith, the well-known Supervisor of Washington Township. Achish\\nPool, Sr., father of William H. Pool, was born in Ashfield, Mass., August 27. 1776, serv-\\ning in the war of 1812; his wife, Susannah Hersey Pool, was born in Massachusetts Sep-\\ntember 28, 1783. They selected them a home in Lewiston, N. Y.. about 1810, and, though\\nthey were driven off by the British and Indians, retui ned and remained there while they\\nlived, Mr. Pool reaching the age of soventy-six; Mrs. Pool, eighty-eight. The home-\\nstead is still owned by their descendants.\\nABRAM TEN BR0ECK POWELL, deceased, was born in Springtield, Otsego\\nCo., N. Y., December 23, 1803; he was the sou of Archibald and Sarah Ten Broeck\\nPowell; the former was born in 1763. and was a carriage-builder by trade, and died Sep-\\ntember 8, 1836; the latter was bora February 22, 1766. and died February 27, 1855. The\\nmother of Archibald Powell was of Scotch and Iri.sh descent; the Powells were of En-\\nglish origin. The ancestors of the mother of Abram Powell were fi-om Holland. Her\\nmother s family name was Vaness, and she had two brothers, Wassel and George, and one\\nsister, Nellie. Archibald Powell and his wife were married February 0, 1702, and had\\nthree sons and three daughters Elizabeth, Mrs. Isaac Skillman; Maria, Mrs. Isaac An-\\nderson; Anna, Mrs. Moses Freeman; Isaac, Abram and George. They moved from Otsego\\nCounty to Mendon, Monroe Co., N. Y., and in 1827 located in Washington, Macomb Co.,\\nMich., where they passed the remainder of their lives. In the spring of 1826, Abram T,", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0772.jp2"}, "773": {"fulltext": "44^\\nPowell came to Michigan with Isaac Skillman: returned to New York in the fall; was\\nmarried to Calista Rose December 25, 1866, and, the following spring, moved to Michi-\\ngan, locating in Washington, thi ee miles east of Romeo. His wife died August 21, 1827,\\nand he was married in August. 1832, to Hannah H., daughter of Samuel Pelton, of New\\nYork. She had two brothers, Samuel and Edwin, and one sister, Angeline. A daugh-\\nter, Sarah C, was born June IT), 1833, and Mrs. Powell died the following July T). Mr.\\nPowell was married, \u00c2\u00abAugiTst 21, 1834, to Sai-ah A., daughter of Joseph A. and Phcebe\\nWellman Field, born September 6, 1812. in East Guilford. New Haven Co.. Conn. Her\\nfather, son of Joseph Field, was born in the same place; his brothers were Wickham,\\nJohn. Nathan. Joshua and Harvey; his sisters. Hannah Crittenden. Louie Kelsie. Sal-\\nlie Merrill. Esther Parish and Ann Turner. Mr. Field was a ^hip carpenter; his father\\nmoved from Connecticut to Bergen. Genesee Co.. N. Y. in 1812, where he died. Phcebe\\nWellman was born December 2. 1771. in Killingsworth. Middlesex Co.. Conn.; she had\\nfive brothers and three sisters ^Zadoc, John. Joaathan. David and Horace. Hannah Davis\\nBetsey Cramton, and Jemima; she was married to Joseph A. Field in 17Uri; they had six\\nchildren Elias. Horace. Joseph. Betsey Patterson. Clarissa Judson and Sarah A. Powell.\\nMrs. Field died in East Guilford. Conn., in January. 1830. Sarah A. Field went from\\nConnecticut to Brockjiort. N. Y.. to live with her brother. Horace. In September. 1833.\\nshe came with her brother Elias to Bruce, where she was married to Abram T. Powell.\\nThe latter bought a farm on Section 7. in Bruce, and took possession of it the following\\nyear; he made additions to it until he owned 820 acres, all of which, except sixty acres.\\nis still in the possession of his children; he died at his residence in the town of Bruce\\nSeptember G, 1873. of paralysis. The following is the record of Mr. Powell s children.\\nSarah C. the only child of his first wife, was born June 1 1833, and married. Febru-\\nary 23. 1853, to Wesle) Miller; they have had live children Edwin S.. born January 23,\\n1854; James A.. August 15, 1855; Hannah. April 15. 1858; Anna P.. July 6, 1862; Ca-\\nlista, November 23. 1868. died March 4. 186U. Joseph, born July 25. 1835. married.\\nOctober 21, 1860. Lucinda Hosner: they have had six children Marv E.. born June 23.\\n1863, died September 27. 1863; Elsworth. June 27. 1864; Ezra A.. June 19. 1S67: Clark,\\nJune 4. 1872; Fred. January U. 1876: and Neil. June 16. 1860. Ai-chibald Powell was\\nborn Se])tember 22. 1837: was married. June 6. 1860. to Sarah L. Hosner; they have\\nthree children Abram Ten Broeck. born February 23. 1861; Lizzie. May 5, 1865; and\\nHugh H. October 6. 1872, Hannah M. was born April 5. 1840. and married, Septem-\\nber 20. 1858. to Abram Skillman: they have two children Alice, born June 23. 1862;\\nand Fred. March 2. 1N68; Abram C. was born October 7, 1842; he enlisted in the First\\nMichigan Cavalry. Compam A. in Augiist, 1861; went with his regiment to Washington,\\nD. C. where he died December 13. 1861. Anna E. was born June 21. 1844. and mar-\\nried. July 19, 1861, to John F. Hagaman; they have had three children A. Powell, born\\nSeptember 24. 186U; Carl. February 27. 1875. died March 27, 1875; John Bert Frederic,\\nOctober 7. 1876. Caroline L. Powell was born May 5. 1851.\\nNEIL GRAY REID. son of William and Mary (Gray) Reid, natives of Ayi-shire,\\nScotland, was born in Bruce Township January 14. 1841; he attended school in his native\\ntown and aided his father on the farm until becoming of age, except six mouths spent in\\na select school at Birmingham, Mich., and one term spent in District No. 10, Armada,\\nMich., as teacher; in 1862, he bought the farm known as the Jesse Bishop farm, on Sec-\\ntion 12, in Bruce Township, where he still resides; to the original purchase he has added\\nseventy acres; he was married. September 9, 1863, to Annie, daughter of John Hopkins,\\na native of Scotland: she was born in Almont Township, Lapeer County, October 21.\\n1841: three children were born Mary G. born May 14, 1864; Jennie H. September\\n21, 1866; Annie E. J.. July 22. 1871. The parents of Mrs. R. emigrated from the old", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0773.jp2"}, "774": {"fulltext": "A\\ncountry in 1833, and the father still lives near Almont at the age of eighty-five years;\\nher mother died in 1S()8. The parents of Mr. R. came from Scotland at an early day,\\nand his father still lives in Brvice Township; his mother died in the year ISTjlJ. Mr. R.\\nis a prosperous and successful farmer, makes the raising of wheat a specialty, in which\\nhe has met with remarkable success, and his average crop for some years has lieen twenty-\\ntwo bushels per acre; he has line outbuildings and a fertile farm; a member of the Pres-\\nbyterian Church, and a Republican in politics.\\nAVILLIAM REID, a farmer, native of Scotland, was boru in Ayrshire, Scotland, in\\nApril, 1814; was a farmer in the old country and emigrated to America in 1883, stopping\\na short time in New York State; thence to Ohio about one year; thence to Macomb, in\\n183. in 1836, he bought land in Lapeer County, which he kept about two years and then\\nsold this, and then bought in the eastern portion of same county; this he soon sold and set-\\ntled on Section 12, Bruce Township, in 1831), which is his present home. He was mar-\\nried, in the year 183U, to Mary (Iray, daughter of Neil Gray, of Scotland; she was born\\nin Scotland in 180U, and came to America with the Gray family in 1832: their children\\nwere Neil G. born January 14, 1841; Joseph, December 21, 1842, oi dained as a Presby-\\nterian minister, and died while mini.stering to the church at Vassar, Mich., September ll.\\n1877; William H.. February 1, 1847, a farmer of Macomb. Mrs. R. died June 17,\\n185^; he married again October 27, 18()2, Annie Borland, born in Scotland June 21),\\n1828; their children are Thomas B., bom September U, 1863; John L.. September 20,\\n186(); James H., July 30, 1873. Mr. Reid has cleared his farm from a state of nature to\\none of gi eat fertility, and has surrounded himself with all the comforts of life; he is a\\nmember of the Presbyterian Church of the Scotch settlement; also his wife for many\\nyears. He is a Republican in politics. Mi s. Reid s mother was born in Ayrshire, Scot-\\nland, in October, 1801, and lives with her daughter; her husband died in Scotland in\\n1841.\\nWILLIAM H. REID was born February 1, 1847, in Bruce, Macomb County, Mich.;\\nwas the sou of William and Mary (Gray) Reid; father born in Ayrshire, Scotland; his\\nwife Mary was boru in Ayr.shire, Scotland, April 211, 180U; died Jime 17, 18, in Bruce,\\nMacomb County, Mich. Mary Reid s parents, Neil and Mary Gray, cauie from Scotland\\nin the year 1832, and settled in what is now Bnice, the same yeai on Section\\n11, where they lived till the time of their death. October 6, 1864, William Reid, the sub-\\nject of this sketch, mai-ried for his wife Janet A. Reside; wife born May 4, 1844, in the\\ntownship of Bruce, and on the same farm on which she now resides; she was the daughter\\nof James and Margaret (Gray) Reside; both her parents were natives of Ayrshire, Scot-\\nland, the father born in the year 178il, died November 14, 1859, in Bruce; mother born\\nDecember 8. 1804; she died October 12, 1868, in Bruce. Mr. and Mi-s. Reid have hve\\nchildren living William J., born August 14, 186- James M., December 30, 186(5; Robert\\nG., December 27, 1868; Neil E., April 24, 1871; Janet A., December 28, 1872. Both Mr.\\nand Mrs. Reid and their three oldest sons are members of the United Presbyterian Church.\\nHe is a Republican, politically. Mr. Reid is now on the homestead of his wife s parents,\\non Section 1, which now consists of 27- acres of choice land, with good dwelling-house\\nand outbuildings. Mr. Reid is in a limited way engaged in breeding thoroughbred Short-\\nHorn Durham cattle.\\nJOHN R. ROBERTSON was born in Ayrshire, Scotland, November 3, 1830; emigrated\\nfrom Scotland in June, 1S33 and settled in the Scotch settlement in the edge of Lapeer\\nCounty, where he lived about live years. In 1838, he bought land in Bruce, on Section\\n2, and made it his home. The father died on this farm in l8. )2; the mother died in 1840.\\nThe subject of this sketch remained at home and came into possession of the homestead,\\nand has made it a very productive farm. He married, in November, l8r)4, Sarah, daugh-\\nvn", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0774.jp2"}, "775": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COU^^TY.\\nter of Andrew Braidwood, of Connecticut; she was born in Scotland in 18:56. Her fatLer\\ndied in Connecticut. They have had a family of eight children, seven of whom are living\\nand at home. Mi Robertson is a farmer, as were his ancestors in the mother country.\\nCHARLES A. SCHANCK, P. O. Romeo, was born August 7, 1843, in Bruce, Macomb\\nCounty; he is the son of David and Ellen (Sutphen) Schanck; his parents were born in\\nMonmouth Coimty. N. J., respectively December 1. 1798. and October fi. 1807: they died\\nin Bruce January 21, ISfi?, and November 17, 187B. William and Anna Sutphen, Mr.\\nSchanck s gi-andparents, were natives of New Jersey; the latter was born about 1783, in\\nMonmouth County, and died in Wayne County. Mich., November 24, 18 )3; the former died\\nSeptember 7, 1847, in Macomb County. Mich. David Schanck went from New Jersey to\\nWayne Coixnty and Monroe County, in New York, where he spent several yeai-s, and,\\nabout 1834. came to Michigan and settled in Washtenaw County; eight years later, he\\nlocated in Bruce, Macomb Coimty. He and his wife were mai-ried in W^ayne County, N.\\nY.. and had eleven children, ten of whom are now living, born as follows: Jane. February\\n26, 182(5; Mary. March 30. 1828. died October 10, LS2 .t; John. January SI, 1830; Martha\\nA., September6. 1831 Elizabeth. June It, 1833; William H., Jime 2, 1835: George, Febru-\\nary 10. 1^38: Ally M., March 3, 1839; Sarah A., September 14, 1841; Charles A., August\\n7, 1843; Lydia D.. May 22, 184--). W^hen David Schanck settled in Bruce, he boiight\\neighty acres of land on Section 30, and afterward purchased sixty-five acres across the\\nroad on Section 19, where the dwelling stands in is^hich he died. The homestead is now\\nowned by Mr. Schanck of this sketch, who has made an addition of eighty acres, making\\nan aggregate of 195 acres of first-class farming land. He was maiTied, October 1, 1873,\\nto Celia, daughter of Joseph and Julia (Lloyd) Ketcham. of Bruce; the former waa a na-\\ntive of New York and lives in Laingsburg, Mich. the latter died about seventeen years\\nago. Mrs. Schanck was born March 11, 1851. in Connecticut; she is the mother of two\\nborn September 12. 18 4. and Vernon J., July 18, 1876. Mr S. is u\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2rnal grandfather was Tunis Schanck. born July 27. 1770, and died\\nchildi-en David V., bori\\nDemocrat. His maten\\nSeptember 3. 1806; his wife, A.Vandevere, was born August 12. 1777. and died October 22,\\n1826: they were married December 13, 1792.\\nHIRAM SHERMAN was born March 9, ISIO. in Greenfield. Sai-atoga Co.. N. Y.: _was\\nthe son of Levi and Prudence (Denison) Sherman; his father was born in Januaiy, 17S0,\\nprobably in the State of New York; died, in 1819. in Richmond. Ontario Co., N. Y. his\\nwife. Prudence, was born in Stonington. Conn.. April 27, 1786; she died February 8.\\n1873. in Bruqe, Macomb Co., Mich. Levi Sherman and Prudence Denison were married\\nApril 2. 1809, in Saratoga County. N. Y. Caleb Sherman, father of Levi Sherman, was\\nborn jirobably in Rhode Island: his wife Mary was born about the year 1752. probably in\\nNew York; she died December. 1841. in Greenfield. Saratoga Co., N. Y. Hiram Sherman\\nwas married to Mrs. Mary W. Harris, of Almont, November 11. 1851 Mrs. Sherman as\\nborn July 21, 1812, in Pittsford, Monroe Co., N. Y.; she was the daughter of Solomon and\\nMartha Clai-k Stone. Solomon Stone was born in Halifax, Vt., and died in Richmond,\\nMacomb Co., Mich., February 3. 1853; his wife was born in Stonington, Conn., and died\\nin Pittsford, Monroe Co., N. Y. in 1814, the same year as the birth of her daughter Mary,\\nwho is now Mi s. Sherman, the subject of this sketch. Elias Stone, grandfather of Mr.\\nSherman, was a soldier of the Revolutionary war, and died in Pittsford, Mom-oe Co., N.\\nY., about the year 1S15. Mi-. Sherman settled in Michigan in 1836; has held the office of\\nJustice of the Peace, and also the office of Supervisor. Mr. and Mi-s. Sherman are mem-\\nbers of the Congregational Chm ch, of Almont. Lapeer Co., Mich.\\nANDREW J. SIKES was born May 19, 1829, at Granville, Washington Co.. N. Y.\\nhis ])areuts, Salmon and Betsey (Crippeu) Sikes, were both natives of the same county;\\nhis mother died when he was eight years old, and he stayed in his native place until March\\n47", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0775.jp2"}, "776": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n19, 1852, when he started for California in search of gold, and sailed from the city of\\nNew York April 1, 1852, in the ship Empire, via Cape Horn. The passage consumed 135\\ndays and they reached San Francisco August 13, 1852. He remained in the Golden\\nState until May 20, 1857; engaged in mining all the time save three months. At the date\\nnamed, he took steamer for New York: his father had died in 1855, and the family were\\nscattered. He spent four weeks there and decided to come West, having a brother at Ro-\\nmeo; he arrived here August 1, 1857. and found a number of relatives and concluded to\\nremain and invest his money. He was married. November 23. 1858, to Sarah C. daugh-\\nter of Jonas Crisman. and the next spring bought a farm of 234 acres on the western out-\\n.skirts of Komeo, also ten acres of timber four miles southeast of the village. He is chiefly\\nengaged in farming, and has also been Treasurer of the Macomb County Insurance Com-\\npany since its organization, in 1876; has also been connected with the County Agricult-\\nural Society for sixteen years; has been Treasurer eight years and one of the Board of\\nDirectors eight years; has been sexton of the Romeo Cemetery three years, and a member\\nof the First Baptist Church since April. 1858 has been Clerk of the church since June, 1858.\\nHe oast his first L- residential vote for James Buchanan while in California. His farm\\nis in an advanced state of improvement and finely located for a residence. His habits of\\ngood taste and order add much to the natural advantages of his place, and the general ap-\\npearance is apjjreciated bv the public. Mr. and Mrs. Sikes have one daughter living\\nHattie H., born March 7. 1872: a son\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Willie \\\\V. born July 20.1860, died June 13, 1876.\\nJOHN SMITH. Jr.. was born in Lancashire, England, of Scotch parentage, June 17,\\n1828; is a son of John and Anna Smith, and came to America with his parents in 1837.\\nand with them settled at Hudson. N. Y.. where he went to work in the Calico Print\\nWorks for about two and two-thirds years, and then engaged in the same business at\\nNorth Adams. Mass., for two and a Ijalf years; from there, in the fall ef 1842, went to\\nLake County, III. to work on a farm for twenty months, and came from there here in\\n1844, his father having bought a farm on Sections 15 and I i. in Bruce, upon which he\\nwent to work, eighty acres of which he now owns. He was married, in March. 1854, to\\nNancy A. Black, of Bruce, and, for about one year, lived in Texas; in March, 1855,\\nbought 130 acres of the farm he now lives on; has since, at various times, bought 270\\nacres in addition, making 480 acres in one body; he has about 700 acres of other lands in\\nMichigan; in 1863, he became a stockholder in the First National Bank of Romeo, and\\nstill remains so; was one of its Directors until 1874, when he helped organize the Citi-\\nzens National Bank, of Romeo, of whicn he has been a Director and Vice President since\\nthat time, but residing on his farm, on Section 3. about six miles from Romeo: his wife\\ndied in October, 1855. and left him with four children Agnes M., born Jamiary 5,\\n1858; Florence N. January 26, 18(51: Edward J., June 25, 1866: Philip Cameron, June\\n18, 186\\nOBED SMITH, Sr. His wife s father was born at Ashfield. Mass., .\\\\pril 6. 1770:\\nwith his wife, Rhoda Sears Smith, born at Yarmouth. Mass., in May, 1771, moved about\\nIN 12 to Lewiston. N. Y., remaining in that vicinity during their life. The live children\\nof William H. and Irena S. Pool were all born in Lewiston, N. Y. Achish Pool. March\\n3. 1830. married (jertrude S. Tillson. of Romeo. Mich.. November 25. 1858; are now\\nliving in Buffalo County. Neb. Aratus S. Pool was born January 11, 1832; married Per-\\nmelia A. Hosner. of Bruce. Mich.. M;u-ch 27. 1856. now living at Romeo. Mich. Will-\\niam H. Pool, born March 17. 1844, married Eva Hoyt Williams, at Oil City, Pt:nn.. July\\n11. 1872, now living in Buffalo County, near Kearney. Neb.; B. F. Pool. September 2\\n1N37; and Hattie M. Pool. March 12, 1846. still reside with their father on the home-\\nstead, unmarried. William H. Pool participated in Navy Island troubles, which manv in\\nMacomb County remember. The Methodist Church is and has been the family chm-ch.\\ni*~^\\n\\\\r", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0776.jp2"}, "777": {"fulltext": "SAMUEL B. SPENCER, P. O. Romeo, was boru June 2. 1807, in Springiielfl, Otsego\\nCo.. X. Y. be is the sou of Ai uold aud Laviua Speucer. the former a native of Couuecti-\\neut and the hitter of New York: they came to Michigan in 1S34 aud settled iu Washing-\\nton. Macomb County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. Spencer s pa\\nternal grandfather was a soldier in the Revolution, and was present at the siu render of\\nCornwallis at Y ^orktown. Mr. Spencer came to Michigan in l.SSH and settled in Washing-\\nton, where he bought 1 2(1 acres of Government land with John Hosner, and about a year\\nafter the purchase, the latter sold his half, and Mr. Spencer added eighty acres to his\\npossessions; nearly fifteen years later, he sold out aud piu-chased 280 acres of land on\\nSections 16 and 17, in Brace; the deed is dated in ISIS: this land is under tne best of\\ncultivation and has a good dwelling, commodious barns and other accessory buildings.\\nMr. S. was married, August fi, 1835, to Lucena Graves, of Batavia. X. Y she was born\\nNovember 25. 1S14: they have had tivo children two of whom are living; their record is as\\nfollows: William R., borfi November 26. 1886, now resides in Jackson, Grundy Co., Mo.,\\nengaged iu farming; he enlisted iu the First Michigan Cavalry and served for four years:\\nhe lost his right arm at Petersburg and was discharged in July following; Lucena was\\nborn November 21. 1838. and died in infancy: Lucian H.. boru December 15. 1839, enlisted\\nAugust 18, 1862. in the Fifth Michigan Cavalry aud served until June 11. 1864, when he\\nwas taken prisoner at Trevilian s Station, Va., transported to Libby Prison, Richmond,\\nVa., thence to Andersonville and Milieu. Ga., and finally to Florence, S C. he was taken\\nvery ill with fever and was prostrated when the order came for the transfer of every man\\nwho eoiild walk to the cars to be sent toGoldsboro, N. C. Oscar Wood (see sketch) refused\\nto leave his helpless comrade and townsman, but was di iven by a guard of armed rebels\\nto the waiting train; no further intelligence was ever received from the brave Lueiau H.\\nSpencer, whose memory is held most sacred by the friends of his youth aud the com-\\npanions of his sulferings for the integrity of his country s flag; Luciuda S., born March 8.\\n1842, died December 13, 1855; Adelia E., November II, 1846. now Mrs. John A. Robinson,\\nof Jackson. Grundy Co., Mo. Mrs. Spencer died September 3, 1854. Mr. S. was mar-\\nried again, September 13. 1855, to Mary J. Meeker, of Bruce, who died in the summer\\nof 1866. Mr. S. w.as again man-ied. March 12, 1867, to Julia E. Miller, of Dryden. La-\\npeer Co.. Mich. she is the daughter of James and Elizabeth Miller, and was born July\\n31. 1836. in Greene County, N. Y. Mr. S. is a Republican in iiolitics: both himself aud\\nwife are members of the M. E. Church.\\nA. D. TAYLOR, sou of John Taylor and Phebe Leech, was born at Mendon. N. Y.,\\nin 1831; his father, John Taylor, was born in Deertield, Mass., June 30, 17112; his grand-\\nfather, Rev. John Taylor, was born at Westfield, Mass.. in 1762, graduated at Y^ale Col-\\nlege in 1784, was pastor of the Congregational Church of Deerfield nineteen years. Los-\\ning his voice in 1802, when as missionary to the Indians iu Northern New York, he\\nremoved to Enfield, and from thence to Mendon, N. Y where he was for several years ac-\\ntive in the ministry; in 1832, at the age of seventy, he removed with his sou John to\\nMichigan: h,is father. Sir. E. Taylor, served the State many years aud died on his way to\\nthe Legislature of Massachusetts: his grandfather. Rev. Edward Taylor, left England for\\nAmerica iu 16 on account of the sufferings of the dissenting clergy, after the restora-\\ntion of Charles II: he was the first pastor of the Congregational Chxu ch at Westfield.\\nMass., ministering for nearly sixty yeai-s and helping also to carry the young colony\\nthrough the perilous wars of King Philip. Mr. Sibley s second volume of Harvard s\\nGraduates contains a full account of him. After having purchased a tract of laud five\\nmiles from Romeo, where Mr. N. T. Taylor was already located, John Taylor began to\\ndevelop the resources of the wilderness, where he made their novr home. The Rev. John\\nTaylor soon gathered the people of the neighborhood to that home for divine service.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0777.jp2"}, "778": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nand there helped to foi-m the Brvice and Armada CongTegational Church, of which he was\\npastor until the time of his death, December 20, 1M4(); his wife, whose maiden name was\\nEliz.Lhi th Terry, died September 16, 1848, at eighty-two years of age; his son, John Tay-\\nlor, was married iu Lima, N. Y., to Phebe Leech, May 30, 1827; their children were: M.\\nE. Taylor, born March 5. 1S28, and who lives at home; A. D. Taylor, was born July 1,\\nIS;]1, he was married to Lucy M. Ayer, of Romeo, Mich., in 1804, and they also live upon\\nthe home farm; Martha M. Taylor, born September 20, 183S, died July ll, 1853 Mr,\\nJohn Taylor was actively engaged in all the interests of his neighborhood, and was Deacon\\nof the cliiu-ch of Bruce, continuing so until the time of his death. May 21, 1865. Mrs.\\nT. died January 14, 1877. The children of A D. Taylor are Martha Lyon Taylor, born\\nJune 10, 1867, and Mavy Elizabeth Taylor, born June 12, 1875.\\nJAMES THOMPSON (deceased), familiarly known as Scotcb Thompson. resided on\\nthe county line; was l)orn iu Ayrshire, Scotland, about 1803; emigrated to America in 1834,\\nand bought laud on the county line, which was his home until 187 when he removed to\\nAlmout Village, where he died in March, 1881. He was a printer of calico in the city of\\nKilmarnock, and worked at that business in the city of Philadeljihia a short time; he was\\nnever married; he was something of an artist and a poet, rather inclining to the terrible\\nin imagination and description; he was a great lover of line horses, and made the breeding\\nof them a specialty: his peculiarities of disposition and erratic temperament often made\\ntrouble with his neighbors. At the time of his death, Hardier Hospital, of the city of De-\\ntroit, received a benetit of more than $10,000.\\nJOHN 0. THOMPSON, P. O. Romeo, farmer of Bruce Township, was born in Ca-\\nyuga County, N. Y., June 29, 1845; his father, Jarvis Thompson, born iu Cayuga County.\\nN. Y., in 1820, removed to Macomb in 1857, and died iu Bruce Township iu 1865, April\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2I; his mother. Alma Eldridge, of the same county, resides in Romeo at the age of fifty-\\nthree years. John C. remained at home, and, on the death of his father, bought the farm\\nknown as the Prentice place, in Bruce, and remained on it six years; he then went to the\\nhomestead, on Section 25, Bruce, where he has since resided. He was married, Sejitember\\n27, 1865, to Phebe, daughter of Russell Day; she was born May 22, 1848; the childi-en of\\nthis marriage are Myrtle May, born November 27, 1870; Hattie, December 21), 1873.\\nMr. T. is a successful farmer and breeder of Merino sheep; a history of his flock is fouud\\nin the agricultui al chapter of this work; he is a member of the Board of Directoi s of the\\nMacomb County Agricultm al Society, a member of the Vermont Merino Sheep Breeders\\nAssociation; also of that of the State of Michigan, and the Sheep Breeders and Wool\\nGrowers Society of Macomb County; also a member of the A, O. U. W. in form of wor-\\nship, he is a Baptist.\\nJAMES ^VEED THORINGTON was born October 15, 1,S3 iu ashington. Macomb\\nCo., Mich. is the son of Elijah and Lydia Thorington; his father was born iu Canada in\\n1801); his mother was born in Monroe County. N, Y., in 1818, and died in Washington,\\nMich iu March, 1868, Mr. Thorington is engaged in agricultm-e and owns 140 acres of\\nchoice laud on Sections 33 and 34, and good dwellings and commodious barns and out-\\nbuildings; he is extensively^ eugaged iu raising Spanish sheep, bred from the famous\\nTaylor flock, of Macomb County, and from that of L. P. Lusk. of New York; by careful\\naltentiou to breeding and giving sheep the best of care summer and winter. Mr, T. ex-\\nhibits a fiock second to few, if any. in the State. He was married, February 6. 1861, to\\nMiss Martha, daughter of James and Roxauna Leslie Starkweather; she was born March\\n23, 1841, and died February 10, 1803; was again married, March 10, 1864, to Maria S.,\\nsister of his former wife, born March 5, 1843; thev have an adopted son Lean H. born\\nApril 2. 1874. Both Mr. and Mivs. T. belong to the M. E. Church, of Romeo. Mr. T. is", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0778.jp2"}, "779": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\na temperance man in principles and action, voting only for candidates for office of de-\\nclared temperance proclivities.\\nJOHN TOWNSEND. of Brnce Township, was born July 20. 17114. in Dutchess County.\\nN. Y. in his early life, he was tanner by trade, which business he conducted with suc-\\ncess for many years In 1832. he visited Macomb County and located 1.400 acres of land\\non Sections 4, 5 and 8; also a small tract in Addison Townshiji. Oakland County, and re\\nturned home, closed out his business and removed his family to his purchase, and made\\nthat his home to the time of his death: he was a man of great energy and perseverance and\\nstern integrity and at the front of all the improvements of that locality in which he lived.\\nBoth Mr. and Mrs. Townsend were active members of the M. E. Church for many years,\\nwhich connection was maintained to the time of his decease; his family consisted of live\\nsons and three daughters, all of whom are living, save one son and one daughter. Mr. T.\\ndied January 5. 1874. Mrs. T. (.\\\\nn Miller) still survives at the age of eighty. George\\nTownsend. son of John and Ann (Miller) To^^Tisend. was born in Bruce Township. Sep-\\ntember 11, 1836; he was educated in the schools of his neighborhood, and for some years\\nconducted the home farm, and. in 1860. bought the Hopkins farm, in Bruce, which, after\\nfour years, he sold and bought a jiortion of the homestead located on Section 8, which is\\nhis present home. He was married. February 12, 1862. to Charlotte, daughter of James\\nBallard, of Lapeer County; she was born Jamiary 23. 1842: they have one child Gracie\\nB.. born Ajjril 22. 1872. Mr. Townsend s farm consists of 300 acres of land in good fer-\\ntility and is a pleasant home. He is a member of the Masonic fraternity and is a Repub-\\nlican in politics. Mr. John Townsend was a soldier of the war of 1812. and drew a pen-\\nsion a few of the latter years of his life.\\nEZRA WOOD (deceased) was born September 7. 1800, in Booneville. Oneida\\nCounty. N. Y. he was the sou of Andrew and Azubah (Adams) Wood: the father was\\nborn August 24, 1783. in Middlebury. Mass, and. at the age of ten years, moved to Pitts-\\ntown. Rensselaer Co.. N. Y., and, several years later, went to Booneville, where he was\\nmarried in 1806 or 1807. Mrs. Wood was born in Fairfield Town and County, Conn.\\nLemuel Wood, father of Andrew, was left an orphan at an early age, and. at fourteen,\\nwas serving at Fort Stanwix. now Rome, N. Y., as captain s waiter, and was afterward in\\nthe Revolutionary war. He married Rebecca Warner, of Middlebury, Mass. they have\\nhad eight children, of whom Andrew was the youngest son. Lemuel ood died at the\\nage of seventy-six: his wife in 1822, at the age of eighty. Azubah Adams was the\\ndaughter of Ephraim and Rebecca (Sherwood) Adams, who had three sons and six daugh-\\nters. Eplu-aim was a soldier in the war cf the Revolution, and died when about eighty-\\nthree years old: his wife died when tifty-three years of age. Ezra Wood went, in 1831.\\nto Wilson. Niagai-a Co., N. Y. and. five years later, came to Bruce. Macomb Co.. Mich.:\\nhe had two brothers and four sisters iVIaretta. Andrew, Marcus. Clarissa. Perlina and\\nEliza. He was married, March 1. 184(\\\\ in Bruce, to Phebe C. daughter of William and\\nElizabeth Hasbrouck Cusick: the former was born December 25, 1770, the latter Decem-\\nber 11, 17U2: they were maiTied, December 18, 1813: their childreti were born as follows:\\nHiram, March 11*. 1815; Sarah Maria. June 24, 1717; Phebe C. was born April 1._1820.\\nin AVoodstoek. Ulster Co.. N. Y., and moved into Bruce. Macomb County., in 183/: two\\nyears later, he went to Attica, Lapeer County, where he died in 1852. Ezra Wood and\\nwife had ten childi-en Oscar C. (see sketch); Ezra A., born October 27, 1842, enlisted\\nAugust 18, 1862, in Company A. Fifth Michigan Cavalry, served as a private and corporal;\\ndied of t\\\\i3hoid-pneuraonia, in Douglas Hospital. Washington, D. C., February 7, 1864:\\nHiram C, born January 28, 1845. married, in 1860, and went to Grundy County, Mo.:\\ndied July 20, 1870; Eliza, born June 17. 1847, died September 20, 1854; Ida, born Janu-\\nary 16, 1852, died September 16, 1854: Ai-thur A., August 20, 1854: Andrew H.. Decern-", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0779.jp2"}, "780": {"fulltext": "HlSTOllY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nbor 22. ISaC). These bvotliers together own the homestead in Bnice. and a considerable\\ntract of land in Missouri. Clara, born November 11. 1851t, married Duane Wales, of\\nAlmont, Lapeer County. December 2. 187U; Hattie, born March 26, 1868, died February\\n13, 1865; MeClellan, born September 1 1805; Ezra Wood, died June 3, 1873, of malig-\\nnant erysipelas: Oscar C. Wood was born December 31, 1840, in Bruce; he enlisted Au-\\ngust IS. 1862, in Company A, Fifth Michigan Cavalry: served as a private and Corporal\\nuntil June 11, 1864. when he was taken prisoner at the battle of Treviliau Station. Va..\\nand spent iipward of nine months in Libby Prison, Richmond, and in the stockade pens\\nof Andersonville and Millen. C4a. and Florence, S. C. Mr. Wood is a member of the\\nAndersonviile Siu vivors Association and says: I have read many accounts of the hor-\\nrors of the stockade prison at Andersonville, biit never saw one that was exaggerated.\\nHe was paroled at Cxoldsboro. N. C, February 25, 1865; went to Annapolis, thence to\\nColumbus, and received a thirty days furlough and came home. An order was issued for\\nthe discharge of paroled prisoners, and he was discharged May 30, 1865, at Detroit: he\\nwas married, December 31, 1866. at Wayne, Mich., to Belle, daughter of Ira and Mary\\nAnn Sever Munson; they had four children, born as follows: Perry E., August 14, 1868;\\nLouis I.. September 23, 1870; Hattie, September 25, 1872; Casius H., April 25. 1878;\\nall were born in Bruce. Hiram C. ^A ood married Lydia Schanck. of Bruce, November\\n10. 1868; their children were born as follows: Minnie, June. 1872; Cora, in 1876. died\\nin January, 1878; Dora. July 4, 1878, in Grundy County. Mo. Mrs. Belle ood was\\nborn January 11, 1842. in Bloomtield. Ontario Co., N. Y. she has one brother and two\\nsisters Louis R. Munson, born August 18. 1836, in Lima, Livingston Co., N. Y. married\\nHenrietta Stewart, of Wayne, Mich.. March 4, 1866; their childi eu are Stewart, born Feb-\\nruary 8, 1867; William, born August 10, 1868; Helen Munson, June 21, 1840; married\\nJacob Chamberlain, of Addison. Oakland (!ounty, September 14, 1865; Clara Munson.\\nborn October 25. 1853: married William Seeley, of Wayne, Mich., April 24. 1872; they\\nhave one son Jacob, born January 25, 1873; Ira Munson was born in Hebron, Washing-\\nton Co., N. Y. July 17, 1810; went to Western New York and married M. A. Seaver,\\nJanuary 20. 1834; in the fall of 1842. settled in Clifton, Macomb Co., Mich.; they\\nmoved to Oxford. Oakland Co.. Mich., in 1S()1: lived there five years, then moved to\\nWayne, where he still resides.\\nORRIN WOODBECK was born August 26, 1.S37, in Armada. Macomb Co., Mich.;\\nis the son of Peter and Mary (Finch) AN oodbeek. natives of the Empire State, the former\\nborn in 1808 inCojjake. N. Y.. and died September lU, 1863, in Armada, Macomb County;\\nthe latter was born in 1816. near Honeoye Lake, N. Y., and is still living in Armada.\\nMr. A\\\\()odbeck was married, September 12, 185VI, to Matilda Killam, of Armada; she was\\nborn in New York July 6. 1840. and died August 15. 1863. in Armada, leaving a son\\nFranklin P. born March 18, ISIiO. Mr. Woodbeck was married a second time. Janitsuy\\n1. 1.S66. to Polly, daughter of Chester and Jane Cooley (see sketch of Chester Cooley. of\\nRomeo); she was born February 14, 1842. in Bruce, in the same house where she now\\nlives; they have three children Peter, born December 4, 1866; Chester D., November\\n28. 1868; Ellnora. April 10. 1872. Mr. Woodbeck is a farmer and resides on the home-\\nstead of his father-in-law. wliich consists of 200 acres of land, on Sections 21. 17. 18 and\\n5, in Bruce; he owns ninety-five acres of first-class land on Section 28, in Ai mada: he is\\na Republican in politics.\\nJOHN B. YOFNGS. P. O. Romeo, son of Robert and Hannah (Hunuiwell) Youngs,\\nwas born at Livonia. N. Y.. September 1. 1S23: his father was a native of England, and\\nhis mother of New England. The family moved to Oakland County and lived a short\\ntime; then went to Cleveland. Ohio. The subject of this sketch came to Macomb County\\nin September, 1851, and, in company with his brother, bought 160 acres on Section\\nTV\\nY", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0780.jp2"}, "781": {"fulltext": "9\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwhich he cleared partly and sold out. He was married, January 2. IS54, to Martha.\\nyouugest daughter of James Parker, of Macomb Couuty. and has no children; he has\\nspent about nine years in Oakland Coiinty in farming, and has been lai gely engaged as a\\nsalesman and collecting agent of agricultiu al implements. He at present resides on the\\nParker farm, in Armada Township. !Mr. and Mrs. Youngs have been for many years\\nmembers of the Christian Chtu ch in Romeo; he is a Republican in politics.\\nCHAPTER XXXIV.\\nM.VCOMl} TOW Nsnil\\nThis town was settled in 1881. Among its first settlers were Calvin Davis, Daniel\\nMiller (now of Romeo I, Daniel Kniifeu and Lester Giddings, the latter being the only\\nrepresentative left here now. It was, prior to the forming of the Repulilican party, the\\nbanner Democratic town in the county, there being only ten Whig voters in the township.\\nWithin the past fifteen years it has increased rapidly with the German element and now\\nnumbers over 400 voters. The German element is mostly Democrat. There are five\\nstores and five churches in the town. One of the oldest men in the county, William\\nTodd, who is ninety-seven years of age, does all the work on a farm of thirty acres\\nof land and bids fair for a number of years yet. There is also a centennial tree\\nof the buttonwood order, which measures twenty-seven feet in circumference. Among\\nthe okl settlers of Macomb County who have done much toward the prosperity of the\\ntownship ai e Zephaniah Campbell, Manson Farrar. Lester Giddings, Calvin Davis, Daniel\\nKnilfin. Daniel Miller, Samuel Whitney, Charles Crittenden, Horace H. Cady and many\\nothers. The tu-st Sunday school established in this township was that by Chauncey\\nChurch, of Vermont. Church brought with him his own library and placed it at the disposal\\nof the pupils. The school was held in a building which stood on the site now occupied\\nby the Macomb Chiu ch.\\nFIRST SCHOOLS.\\nThe first school was that in the Davis settlement, Sections 17 and 18. Macomb Town-\\nship. The second was in the Crawford settlement, referred to in the sketch of Ray Town-\\nship. Among the pupils attending the fii st schools were the Giddings, Davises, Knifiins\\nand Millers. The children of No. 8 District who attended the school in Peatman s dwell-\\ning-house, about the year 1887, were James M. Rensallaer, Gordon H. Wade, J. H. C.\\nGarvin, Mehelah Stroup. Susan and Jane Perkins, Frank, William and Abigail Warner.\\nThis school was taught by Miss Minerva Olds.\\nFIRST SETTLERS.\\nIn the Stroup settlement wei e George Stroup, H. H. Wade, John Garvin, Sam Whit-\\nney, Reuben Warner, Elias M. Beach, James Perkins. The first blaL-ksmith was Stephen\\nHewey. In the Davis settlement were Dan Kuiffiu, Lester Giddings, Calvin Davis,\\nDaniel Miller, Chauncey Church. In the Cady settlement were the Cooks, Atwoods, Halls,\\nHaskius. The Cadys, of Mt. Clemens, were represented here shortly after.\\nORGANIZATION.\\nThe township of Macomb, comprising Town 3 north. Ranges 18 and 14 west, was\\nerected under authority of the Legislative Council, ajiproved March 7, 1884, and the first\\nmeeting ordered to be held at the house of Daniel Shattuck. Chesterfield was established\\nIV", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0781.jp2"}, "782": {"fulltext": "L^\\nby the act of February 16, 1842, setting off the eastern half of Macomb Township into a\\ntownship of that name.\\nTOWN OFFICERS.\\nSupervisoi-s Flaver Greenleaf, 1834-35; Calvin Davis. 1835-38; County Commis\\nsioners. 1838-43; Joel W. Manley, 1843-45; Stewart Taylor. 1845-47; William Mc-\\nDonald, 1847-49: Stewart Taylor. 1849-50: Calvin Davis. 1850-51; Hiram M. Jenny,\\n1851-54; Perry M. Bentley. 1854-55; Hiram M. Jenny. 1855-56; Samuel Whitney.\\n1856-57; Orange Foot. 1857-58; Samuel Whiting. 1858-59; Horace H. Cady. 1859-78;\\nJacob Stroup. 1873-78; Alfred Stewart. 1878-79; Jacob Stroup. 1879-82. John C.\\nBolty. 1882.\\nClerks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James Meklrum. 1834; Daniel Shattuck, 1885; Charles F. Witt, 1838: Dan-\\niel P. Shattuck, 1839; Samuel P. Canfield, 1841; David Stroup. 1842; H. R. Wilder.\\n1849; C. P. Crittenden, 1853; Damon B. Weston, 1854-55; J. H. C. Garvin, 1856; William\\nGamber. 1857; Jacob Stroup, 1858-60; Cyrus B. Rice, 1861; Jacob Stroup, 1862-64;\\nH. A. Haskin. 1865; Elisha L. Atkms. 1866-68; John Boltv. 1869; Jacob Stroup. 1870-\\n72; Gordon H. Wade, 1873-74; Elisha L. Atkins, 1875; Gordon H. Wade. 1876-83.\\nTreasurers Alucius Haskin, 1834; Daniel Miller and Charles Van Horn held the\\noffice for a nvunber of years; John Bacon. 1854; Benjamin Gamber, 1855; Dan Gid-\\ndings, 1856-57; John Jackson, 1858-29: Havilla H. Wade, 1860-61; W^illiam Norton,\\n1862-63: Charles Briggs, 1864: Fred Jasmund, 1866-68: John Klokow, 1869: Aug C.\\nPosner, 1870-77: Carl Jeungel. 1878-79; Fred Jasmund, 1880-82. C. Jeungle.\\nJustices of the Peace Daniel Shattuck, (Jalvin Davis. Harvey Cook. Robert P.\\nLewis, 1836: L. Haskins, R. P. Lewis, D. Shattuck, 1837; Sam Whitney. 1838; F.\\nGreenleaf. 1839; J. D. Burgess. 1840; Sam P. Cantield. 1841; Elias M. Beach. Calvin\\nDavis, Stewart Taylor. 1842; F. Greenleaf, 1843; Horace H. Cady. Calvin Davis, 1844;\\nJacob E. Hall, 1845; Elias M. Beach, Stewart Taylor. 1846; William McDonald, 1847;\\n(Jalvin Davis, Havila H. Wade, 1848; Stewart Taylor, 1849; Jesse Whitney, 1850; Joseph\\nHuntoon. Philo McDonald, 1851; Calvin Davis, 1852; Phi lo McDonald, 1853; O. Foote,\\n1855: Hiram Haskins, 1855; Havila H. Wade, 1855-57, Benjamin Gamber, 1857-58;\\nE. L. Atkins, 1859; Calvin Davis, 1856; Richard Wiltes, 1860; John B. Rice. 1861; H.\\nH. Wade, 1861-65; James Jones, 1862-66; Elisha L. Atkins, 1863; Edwin R. Eaton,\\n1864; Aug Wegener, 1867-68; John Kepsel, 1869; James Jones, 1870; C. F. Crittenden,\\n1870; E. L. Atkin.s, 1871; Charles Deitrich, 1871; Aug Wedeuer, 1872; C. P. Crittenden,\\nChai les Deitrich, Leonard Shattiick, 1873; Gustave H. Strezman, 1874; Elisha L. Atkins,\\nJohn Norton. 1875: Carl Jeungel. Charles Schram. 1876; Julius Drexler, 1877;\\nG. T. Strezman, Francis Furton, John Kepsel, 1878; John C. Cady. 1879; Elisha L. At-\\nkins, 1880; Francis Frn ton, 1881.\\nPHYSICAL AND STATISTICAL.\\nThe laud in Macomb Township is very level, and the soil generally very fertile and\\nproductive. It is watered by the Middle and North Branches of the Cbntou River, which\\nafford a plentiful su]iply formilling and agricultural urposes. The township isasexteu-\\nsively drained as any tuwnshij) in theci lunty .which adds mat cri ally to its agricultural facilities.\\nIn 1850, less than a decade after the organization of the township, we find the fol-\\nlowing statistics authoritatively given: Acres of improved land, 3,187; unimproved land,\\n6,098; cash value of same, $97,925. Live stock horses, 165; milch cows, 203; working\\noxen, 98; other neat cattle. 311; sheep. 1.248: swine. 447; value of livestock. $15,472,\\nAgricultural products wheat, 2,685 bushels; corn, 9,820 bushels; all other kinds of\\ngrain, 10,247 bushels; potatoes, 3,291 bushels; wool, 3,932 pounds. Dairy products\\nbutter, 14,785 pounds; cheese, 1,450 pounds. Value of orchard produce, $285.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0782.jp2"}, "783": {"fulltext": "*_,\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 709\\nr\\nAfter the lapse of about a (jnarter of a century, the showing is as follows, in 1S74:\\nNumber of acres of improved land, 10,000; woodland, 8,004; other unimproved laud,\\n2.014 acres; cash value of same. $776,305. Live stock horses, 024; milch cows, 894;\\nworking oxen, 8; other neat cattle, 524; sheep, 2,510; swine, 982; total value of same,\\n$124,490. Agricultural products wheat, 22,412 bu.shels; corn, 30,357 bushels: all other\\nkinds of grain, 47,416 bushels; potatoes, 18,296 bushels; wool, 10,141 pounds. Dairy\\npro lucts butter, 74,220 pounds; cheese, 500 pounds. Pork marketed, 67,113 pounds.\\nValue of orchard produce. $3,922.\\nMacomb has always ranked among the foremost townships in the county, in respect\\nto agriculture. At an eai ly day. a general influx of German citizens, of the industrious\\nand economical class, came in. With a laudable zeal in cultivating the soil and bringing\\nforth the best that its fertility afforded, they, in conjunction with the American farmers\\nalready in the township, succeeded in developing the resources of the township to the best\\nl^ossible advantage.\\nThe population of the township in 1850 was 757; in 1874, it had increased to 1,-791,\\nand. in 1880. reached 2.046.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nThere are ten buildings devoted to education in the township. The denominational\\nsystem is adopted in a few of them. In the following table, the present condition of the\\nsshools is shown, with the exceptioa of th.^ small number of pupils reported in attendance\\ndm ing the year ending September. 18S1;\\nXo. of Uistrict. Director. No. Pupils. Building.\\nValue.\\nExpenditure for 18S1.\\nfo. 1 District L. W. Giddings 106\\nXo. 2 District .Jo.scpli Klukow 59\\nNo. 3 District Hiram Stroup 38\\nNo. 10 District .luiiatlian Widrig 61\\nNo. 1 Fractional District H. B. Hall 96\\n1 frame\\n1 frame\\nI brick\\n1 frame\\n1 frame\\n1 frame\\n1 frame\\n1 frame\\n1 frame\\n1 frame\\nVo\\n250\\n400\\n1000\\n500\\n100\\n400\\n1000\\n600\\n1200\\n100\\n$6550\\n1 424\\n235\\n326\\n202\\n351\\n401\\n431\\n243\\n1455\\n247\\n$4315\\nNo. 3 Fractional District \\\\irl .Tu.n-rll 188\\nNo. 4Fraction:il DiNtrici .\\\\ltiv.l Sirwarl 1 38\\nNo. T Fractional District (i, nrnv S. Hall 84\\nNo. 11 Fractional District Evandcr Chapman 44\\n872\\nJ\\nM.\\\\COMB VILL-\\\\GE.\\nIn 1830. a po.st office was establi-shed atid a village started under the name of Ma-\\ncomb. This spot was one of the most eligible in the cotinty, being centrally located on\\nthe Middle Br.inch of the Clinton River, nine and a half miles north of Mt. Clemens, on\\nthe railway, same distance from XJtica, on the D. B. C. R. K., both used as shipping\\npoints, and thirty from Detroit. It has gone into premature disuse, however, the post\\noffice having been removed to Waldenburg. Frederick Jasmond was the th-st Postmaster,\\nThere is still a general store at the original site of Macomb. The jilace was started by\\nDaniel Kniffin, Calvin Davis. Daniel Miller and Lester Giddings. E. S. Axtel was Post-\\nmaster for a number of years. Among the best-known citizens of the hamlet are E. S.\\nAxtel, Notary Public; Calvin Davis, farmer; Joseph Denel, general store; L. W. Gid-\\ndings, farmer; A. W. Kniffin. farmer; John Longstaff, farmer; N. H. Miller, farmer;\\nW. Norton, farmer.\\nWaldenburg is a country post office m Waldenburg Township, Macomb County, six\\nmiles northwest of Mt. Clemens Court House, connected by semi-weekly mail line and\\n.^_fc\\n(a r-", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0783.jp2"}, "784": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nvia which it is thirty-one miles above Detroit. Has a steam saw and planing mill and\\nships crrain and lumber. The population is set down at 150 in the census of 1880.\\nMead is a post office for a farming community of about 200 people, in this township,\\nthirty miles from Deti-oit. eight above Mt. Clemens Court House and four north of Mil-\\nton, on the Grand Trunk Railway, connecting by weekly mail route; ship to New Haven\\non same line, about same distance. In the vicinity are two churches and a new district\\nschool. Arthur E. Collins, Postmaster. The business community is made up as follows:\\nM. Bentley. shoemaker; George Boden. blacksmith; Arthur E. Collins, general store;\\nSamuel Foster, blacksmith; Francis Furton, Justice of the Peace; Rev. E. W. Howe.\\nMethodist minister; Robert Warner, Justice of the Peace; Erasmus S. Wolvin, blackmiths.\\nThe German Church organization purchased five acres of land on the corner south of\\nStephen Whitney s, and. in February, 18S2, commenced to erect a church and parsonage.\\nThe building will be of wood, 32x52 feet, with burying-ground adjacent.\\nIn the pages devoted to biographies are many personal notices of citizens, whose lives\\nhave been more or less identified with the history of the township.\\nELISHA L. ATKINS was born in Broome County. N. Y.. town of Owego, May 3,\\n1803; he is the son of Hezekiah W. and Mary Lewis Atkins; his father was an Irish\\nAmerican, born in Connecticut; his mother was born during the passage of her folks from\\nFrance to America. Mr. Atkins lived in Elmira, N. Y. until twenty years of age; had a\\ncommon-school education; during this time, he learned the shoemaker s trade; he went to\\nBath, Steuben Co., N. Y. and afterward traveled over several States; he was married\\nthere, September 2, 182U, to Margaret Mather, a native of Bath, Steuben County; he came\\nto Michigan in 1831, located at Mt. Clemens, bought 104 acres of land in Clinton Town-\\nship, although he lived in the village most of the time; in 1832, he was appointed Justice\\nof the Peace for Mt. Clemens, and served fifteen years; he was, while in Mt. Clemens.\\none of the four Justices of the Peace in the State under the constitution of 1836: in 1848.\\nhe moved to Macomb Township; the following spring, he was elected Justice of the\\nPeace of Macomb Township, which position he has held ever since; has always voted a\\nDemocratic ticket up to ISSO, when he voted a Greenback ticket; he was Town Clerk of\\nMacomb about six years; his wife died about lSli2, leaving four children Maria, born\\n1830, in Bath, Broome County, wife of Alexander Gibson: John B., born at Mt. Clemens\\nMay 29, 1836. married Lydia Allen, residing in Council Blufls, Iowa; Charles S,, born\\nJuly 15, 1838, residing in Wyoming Territory; Lucy M. born at Mt. Clemens May 1.\\n1845, wife of Charles J. Harrison, residing in Wayne, Mich. On the 21st of March.\\n1838, he was appointed Captain of the Second Division, Fourth Brigade, Third Regi-\\nment, M. S. F., by Gov. Stephen F. Mason; he was Sergeant-at-Arms of the Legislature\\nof the Territory of Michigan at Detroit.\\nGEORGE BACON, Macomb, was boru January 1, l.S2(), in St. Lawi-ence County.\\nN. Y. moved to Ohio at tiie age of seven years; lived there ten years and then removed\\nto Michigan, and settled on school section in Washington; he moved to Section 3, Ma-\\ncomb, where he now resides; went to California in 1858; settled at Diamond Springs,\\nEl Dorado County; i-eturned home in 1862, and resumed life on the farm. He was mar-\\nried, July 12, 1864, to Miss Hannah M. Myers, of Macomb; she died June 20, 1874.\\nleaving five children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 William E. born June 17, 1864; Carrie E., May 31, 1866: Alvah\\nR.. October 17, 18()U: Minnie A.. September 5. 1871; George W.. died in infancy. Some\\ntime after the death of his first wife, he married, January 22, 1876, Jerusha Bates, of\\nChesterfield; her father, Alfred Bates, was born February. 17, 1S17, in New York; her\\nmother. Laney Wright Bates, was born August, 30, 1812. Mr. Bates died December 3,\\n1881. Mrs. Bates died October 17, 1881. Mr. Bacon owns eighty acres of land; never", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0784.jp2"}, "785": {"fulltext": "h^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsued a man; never was sued but once; in politics, he is a Republican; in religion, he is\\na Free Methodist,\\nPERRY M, BENTLEY was born August 10, IS 11), in Richmond. Ontario Co,, N.\\nY. is the son of Preston D, and Sophia James Bentley; his parents were natives of\\nRhode Island, and. in ISIS, settled in Ontario County, N, Y. in 1841. they came to\\nMichigan and settled on Section 6, Macomb Tovvnshiji. vhere the father died. April 8.\\n1851, aged sixty-three years: the mother afterward mai-ried Rev, Jonathan E, Davis, and\\ndied July 11), LSSO, aged eighty-seven years; in L So J, Mr, B, came to Michigan and took\\nhis father s farm, but bought out the interest of the other heirs, and still resides on the\\nold homestead. He was married. May 23. 1844. to Mary, daughter of Wheeler and Han\\nnah Reed; she was one of the family of twenty childi en; her pai ents wei-e natives of Ver-\\nmont, who settled in Ontario County, N, Y,, in 17 .)0, Mi and Mrs, B, have had six\\nchii ren, whose record is as follows: Mar} Augusta, Mi-s, L, F. Giddings, born March 25,\\n1846, in Richmond, N, Y. died August 30, 1S81: Preston M,, born in Richmond Sej)-\\ntember 1, 1851; Frank Reed, born in Macomb September 4, 1853; Ada M,, born in Ma-\\ncomb, January 17, 1855: Mary, born in Richmond August 10, 1850, died sis weeks after\\nbirth: Carrie, born in Richmond May 11, 1861, lives at home. All the members of the\\nfamily belong to the M, E, Church, He is a Republican in politics and was Supervisor\\nof Macomb in 1854: he has greatly improved his farm in Macomb and added fine and\\ncommodious buildings.\\nHOR.iCE H, CADY, P, O, Mt. Clemens, formerly fi-om the First District, Macomb\\nCounty, was born in Hadley, Windham Co,, Conn,, February 20, 1801, Mr, C, received a\\ncommon-school education; in 1821, he emigrated t j Michigan, embarking at Black Rock on\\nthe famous steamboat Walk-in-the- Water, He was one whole week in getting fi om Buffalo\\nto Detroit, and he related that it took twelve yoke of oxen and one span of horses to tow the\\nboat over the rapids belov? the mouth of Buffalo Creek. Mr, C. upon arriving in Michi-\\ngan, settled in the village of Mt, Clemens; in 1821, he removed to Macomb Township,\\nwhere he now resides; he has been Supervisor of the township for fifteen years. Justice of\\nthe Peace for one term and County Treasurer for two years; was a member of the House\\nwhen the State capital was located at Detroit; was a member of the House in 1805, Mr,\\nC s occupation was that of a farmer: he has always been a Democrat; cast his first Presi\\ndential vote for Andrew Jackson; his father was Joseph Cleveland Cady, a native of the\\nsame county and State: his mother was Lucy Hutchins. also a native of Hadley. Mr. C,\\nwas married, June 1.S25, to Susau E, Conner, a lady born in Detroit in 1806: they have\\nhad five children, four of them living Celia A,, wife of Thomas J, Rutter, residing near\\nChicago; John C, married to Mary E, Smith, living on the homestead; Cornelia A,, wife\\nof Henry B, Castle, residing on the homestead: Fannie C, widow of David B, Jordan,\\nresiding at Chicago; Henry C, died when only two years old. Mr. C s father died\\nin 1806, and left the boys to take care of themselves; H, H, Cady was bound as an ap-\\nprentice two different times before he was of age in his education, he probably went to\\nschool 100 days in all; had to depend upon himself when young; he began keeping hotel\\nin Mt, Clemens in 1831, and kept it until 1837, when he moved to his farm in Macomb;\\nhe has 100 acres on Section 35: he is the oldest living American settler in Macomb County,\\nARTIfUR E, COLLINS, Postmaster of Meade Post Office, Macomb Township, was\\nborn January 6, 1842, in Wayne County, Mich, is the son of William and Ann E, Collins:\\nhis father was a soldier in the British service nearly thirty years, and rose to the rank of\\nQuartermaster: he was in the war of 1812, and was at the battle of Waterloo; his mother\\nwas the daughter of Sergt, Mai-tin, of the Royal Ai-tillery. and was born on the Island of\\nMalta, in the Mediterranean Sea, Mr, C, enlisted June 8, 1861, in Company A, Twenty-\\nthird Illinois Infantry, and was at the battle of Lexington, Mo,, where he was captured\\n7F", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0785.jp2"}, "786": {"fulltext": "\\\\)t^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nby Gen. Price, September 20. and paroled. The following summer, lie re-enlisted in\\nCompany A, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry, and was again captm-ed at Chickamauga,\\nSeptember 10, 1868, he was a prisoner nineteen months and eight days at Richmond,\\nDanville, Andersonville. Millen, Blackshire and Thomasville. He was promoted to Ser-\\ngeant of his company while in prison, and was mustered oiit of the service at Camp Chase.\\nOhio. June J. 18(55, when he came to Macomb County, since which time he has been\\nengaged in the mercantile business. He was married, March 31, INTO, to Mary A.\\ndaughter of William and Ann Crreen, of Mt. Clemens; her parents were natives of En-\\ngland and came to America in 1852, and settled in Oakland County. Mich., re-\\nmoving to Mt. Clemens in 1862. Mr. C. is a member of the Masonic fraternity, and for\\nseveral years has been Master of Macomb Lodge, No. 64. F. A. M He has held the\\noffice of Postmaster nearly seventeen years: in politics, he is a Republican.\\nHON. CALVIN DAVIS (deceased) was born at Hubbardstou, Worcester Co., Mass..\\nApril 27, 1798; at the age of eleven, he came to the wilds of Western New York, with his\\nwidowed mother: settled at Covington, N. Y. where he remained until 1815, when he\\nmarried Miss Sylvia Beardsley. they being the first white couple married in the town; in\\n1824, came to Shelby Township, and pm-chased a farm: in 1826, was appointed, by Gov.\\nLewis Cass, Associate Justice of the County Court, which he held until the coiu t was\\nabolished a few years after: in 1832, he removed to the adjoining township of Macomb,\\nwhere he purchased a large and heavy timbered farm: there were very few settlers in this\\npart of the country, few neighbors nearer than Mt. Clemens, ten miles distant; in 1838,\\nJudge Davis was elected Sheriff of Macomb County, being jsrior elected to the position\\nunder the State constitution in the county; in 1841, he was elected to the Legislature; he\\nalso held the office of Postmaster twenty-thi ee years, at Macomb, and twenty- four years\\nJustice of the Peace, six of which were under appointments by Gov. Stephens F. Mason\\nand George B. Porter; few men in Eastern Michigan ever became more closely identified\\nwith the interests of the State than he, and none more favorably known; he is a man of\\nmore than ordinary sound judgment and mind: is a zealous worker in the cause of truth\\nand religion; he is a Methodist and a true friend and neighbor: became a Free and Ac-\\ncejited Mason in 1824; in politics. Judge Davis is a firm Republican, having left the\\nDemocratic j)arty in 1856: he died February 10, 1870: his children were George W,, born\\nSeptember 8, 1816; Lavancha, November 24, 1818: Smithy December 10. 1830; Eunice,\\nMarch 22, 1828; Jonathan A., August 30. 1825; Mary A., Januarv 5, 1828; Levi B.; March\\n12. 1830; Calvin. July 27. 1832; Sylvia. May 1. 1835. and Victoria. September 17,\\n1837: George W. died May 6, 1843; Smith died September 4, 1856; Eunice. January 15,\\n1854, and Jonathan, August 23, 1872. Calvin Davis, son of the settler just referred to,\\nwas born July 27, 1832; he mari-ied Miss Rosa Phillips, a native of Vermont, March 13.\\n1867. by whom he had three children. Mrs. D. died April 7. 1N76; a year later, he mar-\\nried Miss Julia E. Hayes, of Greene County. N. Y.. to whom three children were born; the\\ntwo youngest died in infancy. Mr. D. is politically a Republican. Mr. D. is a strong\\ntemperance man and always foremost in matters affecting the well being of the town; his\\nfarm and home are on Sections 5 and 8. pleasantly located.\\nJOHN A. FRIES, born in Milan, Dutchess Co.. N. Y.. April 18. 1S07: he was mar-\\nried to Margaret Mink. September 14. 1856: she was born March 2. 1N09. in Livingston\\nCounty: to them weie born ten children, all of whom are living and all natives of New\\nYork Henry, born June 3. 1827; Catharine E., September 10, 1829; Andrew, June 17,\\n1831; John. Jr.. Septembers. 1833: Mary Jane. July 30. 1836; William. May 6. 1S3S:\\nLewis. October 1840; Louisa, October 10, 1842; Jacob F., February IS, 1845; Charlie\\nE., June 10, 1S50. John A. Fries, grandfather of the subject of this sketch, was a na-\\ntive of Germany; when a boy he was stolen, brought to New York. sold, and served three", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0786.jp2"}, "787": {"fulltext": "f\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 773\\nyears for his liberty; then he settled in Columbia County, N. Y. Andrew, father of John\\nA. Fries. Jr., was born there and settled in Dutchess County: he married Christina Shraut.\\nof Dutchess County. N. Y. he died April 12. 1S17. at the age of tiftyone years; his wife\\ndied February 25, ISyO, aged eighty-two years. Mr. and Mrs. F. are the grandparents\\nof thirty-five children and thirteen gre.atgraudehildren. In 1S40. Mr. F. moved to Wayne\\nCounty. N. Y. lived there nineteen years; in 1861. he moved to Michigan, and settled\\nin Mt. Clemens: from thex-e he moved to the town of Macomb, bought a farm of 100 acres\\nof good land, and now has a good home. Mr. F. is an honest, upright man, and he and his\\nfamily are much respected b} their neighbors. He belongs to the Presbyterian Church\\nand his wife belongs to the Lutheran Church.\\nJOHN H. C. GARVIN was born December 18. 1826. in Genesee Coimty. N. Y.. near\\nRochester: son of John and Olive (Bacon) Garvin, both natives of Vermont, who came\\ninto New York State at an early date. The family came to Michigan in 1S32; settled in\\nRay; afterward, in the spring of 1835, moved to Macomb and located 160 acres, forming\\nthe southwest (quarter of Section 2: this land they piu chased from the Government; his\\nfather was a carpenter and joiner; he built the house of Col. Norman Perry, in 1831.\\nwhich is among the first frame buildings jjut up: he followed carpentering, which was his\\nmain business; worked at ship building at Mt. Clemens in the winter of 183-J:-35. walking\\nfrom his home in Macomb to the village in the morning and back at night, taking his\\nsujiplies of provisions, etc.. on his back. Mrs. Garvin died August 30, 1865, in her sev-\\nenty-fourth year: she was born April 12, 1T .)2. Politically, he was a Whig, and, in later\\nyears a Republican; he came here with a family of two daughters and one son, the\\ndaughter being among the first teachers in this part of the country; they lost two children\\nby death: both his father and mother were members of the Christian Church after it was\\norganized; two daughters were also members of the same chui ch; his father was well versed\\nin the Bible; h ad a strong mind and memory, and was accustomed to give a great deal of\\ntime to reading; was posted in all general matters, and carried a strong argument in his\\ndebates. He cut the road from Ray to his farm in Macomb, so that he could move his\\npersonal property to his home. John remained on the farm until his father sold it and\\nmoved to Washington, when he went to work with his father; having learned the carpenter\\ntrade of him, he followed it as a business for fifteen years, and has done some work at it\\nsince. He was married, December 15, ISol, to Rosanuah Harris, a native of Lester\\nCounty. N. Y.. who came to Michigan in 1830 with her father. Jacob Harris, an old\\nsettler of Washington; in 1850. he bought the homestead farm in Macomb Township, and\\nresided there until March. 1S81: he has been a Republican and a warm supporter of the\\ncause; has been Clerk of Macomb one year: takes great interest in gaming and sporting;\\nhas killed a great many deer and turkeys, and otherwise contributes to keep the spirit of\\nthe old hnutiug days living.\\nLESTER GIDDINGS (deceased) was l)orn June 28, 17 .\u00c2\u00bb2. at Granville, Washington\\nCo., N. Y. in 1810, he located at Warsaw, Wyoming Co., N. Y. remained there until\\n1825, when he settled in Michigan Township; he purchased eightj acres in the town of\\nWashington, Macomb County, from the Government, in 1823; returned to New York and\\nsettled here in 1S25: lived there until April. 1831. when he settled in Macomb Town-\\nship. Section 5, on his first purchase of eighty acres, and afterward took up twenty acres\\nmore the county was a wilderness with only one family in the neighborhood he lived on the\\nplace until he died. January 2, 187U. He married Rebecca E. Miller, in Warsaw, N. Y.;\\ncame here with a family of five childi en. and five more were born in this country, two of\\nwhom are dead; his wife died November 15, 1868. Politically, he was a Republican- -a\\nman who thought a great deal of his family; had a strong mind and was well posted\\nboth on things that have taken place in the past, as well as on more recent events: was well", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0787.jp2"}, "788": {"fulltext": "ihought of by all his neighbors and was very patriotic; served in the war of 18] 2. for which\\nhe received a pension; his children are Niles; Delia L.. who died October 20. 1875: Dur\\nM.. who died December 25, 1S76; Levi. Adeline C Lucy E.. Lafayette W.. Adam Clark.\\nAi thiir E. and C. Eugene. Lafayette A\\\\ Giddings. son of Lester and Rebecca Miller\\n(iiddings. was born iu the town of Washington. June 2. 1880; April. 1831. his parents\\nremoved to Macomb Township, where he was raised and has lived most of the time on the\\nold homestead, which passed into his hands after the death of his father. He was mar-\\nried. October 17. 1855. to Mary A. Pryor. a resident of Oakland County, town of Mil-\\nford; she died July 7. 185fi; was maiTied again, October 4, 18()6, to Mrs. Mary A. (Dryer)\\nSutherland, a native of Lenox Township; they have a family of four children Cleora.\\nGeorge R.. Delia and Fisk C. ilr. G. is a Democrat, though not strictly adhering to any\\nparticular jjarty.\\nCOLUMBUS C. HALL was born in 1840 at the Hall homestead. Section 80. Macomb\\nTownship; he married Miss Elizabeth C. Shook, to whom were born four children Ger-\\ntrude W.. Florence A.. Howard J. and Columbus C, Jr. Mi-. Hall is the owner and cul-\\ntivator of a 100-acre farm, just north of Mt. Clemens City boundary, in Macomb Township.\\nNELSON H. MILLER was born July 27. 1832. in Washington Township: son of\\nDaniel and Lucinda (Hulbert) Miller: his parents, when he was a year old. I emoved to\\nMacomb. Section 8. where his father took up 160 acres from the Government: he lived on\\nthe place until he was eighteen years old. when he had the gold fever in 1850. and went\\no California: traveled over the greater part of the State, mostly in the central and north-\\nera mines; spent most of his time in Sierra County; retiu ned in 1854, after an ab.sence\\nof nearlj live years, his farm being mostly the homestead he purchased while he was in\\nCalifornia; he started to Pike s Peak, got nearly there, when, being satisfied from report\\nthat it was a mere speculation more than anything else, he returned. In \u00e2\u0096\u00a018()2. August\\nU. he enlisted in Company F, Twenty-second Michigan Infantry; he went with his com-\\nmand to Kentucky, thence to Nashville. Tenn. next, to Chattooga, thence he went into\\nthe battle of Chickamauga. where he was captured bv the enemy, September 20. 1863; he\\nwas taken from Atlanta to Belle Isle, thence to Richmond. Ya. next, to Danville, and\\nsubsequently to Andersonville; next, to Charleston, and lastly, to Florence. S. C. at\\nFlorence, he was exchanged as nm se for the sick and wounded; rt ent back to Charleston.\\nand thence to Annajiolis. Md. then home on a thirty days furlough, making in all about\\nfifteen months imprisonment; he rejoined his regiment at Chattooga: soon after he ar-\\nrived there, he was detailed in charge of twenty men on board the steamer Chickamaiiga,\\nand served on the steamer until the regiment returned home; he first enlisted as Sergeant\\nand served as such through his time; returned July. 1865. He has been on the farm\\nsince; politically he is a Republican. He was married. September 12. 1855, to Caroline\\nI, Dixon, daughter of Silas Dixon, an old settler of Mt. Clemens, iu 18511: they have had\\nseven children, six of whom are living- Charles F., Hattie L,, Lena M. Carrie I.. Flor-\\nence E.. Willie H. and Daniel N.; the oldest son Charles F. died while Mr. M. was in\\nthe war. Mi-. Miller is a member of the Methodist Episcopal Church since 1850. Mrs.\\nM. is also a member.\\nJOHN NORTON was born in New Jersey January 8. 1776; was married to Miss\\nElizabeth Benjamin October 21. 1802; moved to Macomb. Mich., in November. 1834. and\\ndied September 2, 1861 Elizabeth Benjamin Norton was born Angust 27, 1787, died No-\\nvember 2U. 1875; to them seven children were born. viz.. Anna. January 1. 1805; Jesse,\\nAin-il 17, 1807; Sarah W.. August 27, 180 Lucinda, January 5, 1812: John N\u00e2\u0080\u009e March\\nU. 1810; Sylvia D., April 13, 1822: Loring G.. October 2s; 1828; Sarah died June 3,\\n187 John N. died May 14. 1867. Loring G. Norton enlisted in the Twenty-second\\nMichigan Infantry as Drum Major when the regiment was organized, and, at the battle", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0788.jp2"}, "789": {"fulltext": "^1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof Chickamauga, hf received a severe wound in the left shoulder while he was picking up\\nthe wounded on the battle-field; he was the fifth man of the command who fell from a rebel\\nwho was secreted in a tree. A\\\\ hen the sharpshooter was discovered, twelve men, with Sharp s\\nrifles, fired on him, every bullet taking effect. Mr. Norton s occupation is a musical teacher\\nand dealer in musical instruments.\\nALFRED STEWARD was born April -24, 1828; sod of Chai-les and Elizabeth Stew-\\nard, the former born in 17!)1, died March 5, 1S55, the latter born in ITUT, died Aup;ustl8,\\n1860: Chai-les S. came from Mt. Morris. N. Y.. to Detroit, in the summer of 1811, and\\nengaged in the manufacture of liquor; he was present at the surrender of Hull: was made\\nprisoner, paroled, joined Harrison s corps and marched with the troojis to Moravianville,\\non the Thames, in Canada; in 1817, he settled in St. Clair County, Clay Township, where\\nhe was married, in 181U, to Elizabeth Peck, a native of the district, eight miles below\\nChatham, in Canada, daughter of Col. Richard Peck, of the British Army. Daniel Erway\\nwas born in Seneca County, N. Y., in 1806, and came to Michigan in 1854: his wife, Hi-\\nlah Clark Erway, was also a native of Seneca County; they were the parents of one daugh-\\nter Mrs. Amelia Erway Steward, born October I d, 1835, and maiTied to Alfred Stewart,\\nat Ai-mada, by Rev. Mr. Shaw, December 13, 1855. The following-named children of this\\nmarriage are living: Willie I. Steward, born March 15, 1851); Ida S.. born February 16,\\n1861: Eugene S., December 27, 1863: Estella S., November 25, 1874; Nora D., December\\n16, 1872; Eai-nest A., August 27, 1876. The following-named are deceased: Fred, died\\nOctober 15, 1868; Guy, May 2, 1858; Byron, October U. 1866; Sherman, September 6,\\n1868; Grant, April 4, 186U; Elmer, September 6, 186i). Mr, Steward held some town\\noffices previous to his removal from Columbus Township, St. Clair County, to Macomb\\nTownship, in 185 in 1871, he located at Otsego Lake, Otsego County; he was honored\\nwith a few township offices and elected County Surveyor in 1875: his salarj-, while em-\\nployed by Smith, KelLim Dwight. ranged from \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00c2\u00a72,000 the first year, to .$2,500 the sec-\\nond: he returned to his farm in Macomb in June, 1876: here he was elected Supervisor\\nin April, 1878: received a unanimous vote of the convention in nominating Sheriff in\\n1878. and was beaten by his nominators, as he received a large Democratic vote; he was\\ncommissioned Census Enumerator for the Twenty-eighth District in 1880. Mi S. has\\nlived in five different school districts, and served as a Director in each. Politically, he\\nis a Republican: his farm of 200 acres is numbered among the best cultivated and im-\\nproved farms in the county,\\nJACOB STROUP was born March 26, 1811. in Seneca County. N. Y.; his father was\\nGeorge Stroup, a native of Pennsylvania, of German descent; his mother was Susan\\nRigel Stroup. also born in Pennsylvania and of German descent: they moved to the State\\nof New York in 17it6; his mother died in New York State in 1825. leaving a family of\\nthirteen childj-en: one of the childi-en died in New York State in 1S33; five children moved\\nto Michigan in 1827 and 1S28: his father married again and moved to Michigan, in 1834,\\nwith a family of seven children: of this family seven are now living three sons and four\\ndaughters. George Strouji located in Macomb Township, Section 10, soTitheast quarter;\\ntook up 240 acres of land, where he lived until his death, October 31, 1858, in his eighty-\\nsecond year Mr. S. received his education in New York State. He was married. Sep-\\ntember 16. 1841, to Betsey Jane Perkins, a native of Seneca County, N. Y., whose parents\\ncame to Michigan in 1837; he is a Democi-at and has never changed his political views;\\nin 1840, when the town of Macomb comprised that of Chesterfield, he was elected Consta-\\nble; in 1842, he was elected Town Clerk, the first one elected after the division of the\\ntownship: in 1873, he was elected Supervisor of Macomb, and has held the office eight\\nyears. Mr. S. is an influential man in the town, and carries a great deal of weight in\\npolitical matters; the office of Clerk he has held for twenty -three years at different times.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0789.jp2"}, "790": {"fulltext": "A^\\nMr. S. s family comprises five children Paulina, George M.. Samuel J., Charles M. and\\nFrank L. The daughter is residing in Seneca County, N. Y. Samuel J. resides in Mt.\\nClemens, and the others in the town of Macomb; he was Inspector for several years, and\\ncontinues to take a deep interest in ])olitieal matters, as he does in the social \u00e2\u0096\u00a0well-being\\nof his division of the countv.\\nGEORGE STROUP was born September UJ, 1806, in Fayette, Seneca Co., N. Y.\\n(The history and names of his father and mother can be found in Jacob Stroup s sketch.\\nHe was raised in Seneca County until seventeen years jld; his father moved to Potter,\\nYates County; September, 1831, he left Y^ates County for Michigan; lauded at Detroit\\nSeptember cS; from Detroit, on the (Jratiot Turnpike, then a wilderness road all the way\\nthrough, with the exception of a half-way house, kept by an American; traveled all the\\ndistance on foot and carried his rifle to Mt. Clemens; left Detroit about U o clock and got\\nto Mt. Clemens between 4 and 5 in the afternoon, a distance of twenty-sis miles by road;\\nlocated in Macomb on Section 14; this was an eighty-acre farm; he afterward exchanged\\nforty acres of this lot for the south forty- acre lot on Section 13, just across the road; he\\ntook the laud from the Government; he followed his trade of carpenter and joiner for two\\nyears after he came here. He married Hannah, daughter of Aaron Conklin, Jr., in 1833;\\nshe died July 1 INGG; the family comprised seven children, of whom four are living;\\nviz., Leander, Lorin, Lorinda (twins) and Hiram; Lorin resides in Shiawassee County,\\nLoriuda resides at Detroit; Leander, in town, and Hiram at home; Susanna died when six\\nmonths old, December, 1836; Alcina died April 20, 1852; Nancy, February 13, 1854.\\nMr. Stroup has always been a Democrat; was School Inspector soon after he settled in\\nthe town.\\nNOBLE R. SUTTON, born February IS, 1821, in Monroe County, N. Y.. son of Ben-\\njamin and Anna (Ward) Sutton; his father was of English and French descent: the father\\ndied when Noble was four years old; was brought up a fai-mer; in 1842, he, with his\\nmother and an elder brother, came to Michigan and settled in Macomb, where he bought\\nsixty acres of land, on Section 8; in October, 1S44, he maiTied Marion M. Miller, daugh-\\nter of Dani-el Miller, an old settler of the county; his mother lived with him during the\\nlatter years of her life, and died May, 1878, in the ninety-first year of her age; she was\\none of the pioneers of Western New York; in 1853, he kept toll-gate on the Mt. Clemens\\nRomeo plank road for two years, and returned to the farm in 1856, where he has since\\nresided. Politically, Mr. Sutton is a Republican; he never has been an office seeker;\\nthey have three children, all living Mary A., Nelson B., Corydon D. Mary A. is the\\nwife of T. M. Giddings. residing at St. Louis, Mich.; Nelson B. married Ida Clukey; in\\n1878, he made an addition to his farm, and now has viinety-six acres under cultivation.\\nJOHN WHITNEY, born October 25. 1801), in Middlesex, Ontario Co. N. Y\u00e2\u0080\u009e now\\nYates County, Potter Township, son of Isaac and Susanna (Turnbach) Whitney; his father\\nwas born in Massachusetts and his mother in Pennsylvania. Isaac Whitney left Massa-\\nchusetts and emigrated to New York at an early date and died in 1817; his mother died\\nFebruary 0, 1882, in Ray Township; the family came to Michigan and landed in Detroit\\nSeptember 2, 1834, from Pennsylvania, where they passed about two years previous to his\\ncoming to Michigan. In 1836. he settled on the farm he now owns; bought his place of\\nCaleb Culver, when in the wilderness state; worked hai d and has now 100 acres improved\\nand fertile lands. He married Phebe Nelson May 17, 1838. daughter of Richard and\\nAnn Vaughn Nelson, of Chesterfield Township. Richard Nelson was born in England in\\n1780; Ann Vaughn Nelson was born in England in 1783; Phebe Nelson Whitney was\\nborn December 24, ISIU. in Biohnor, Kent, England; she came to America in June, 1831;\\nher mother died in Chesterfield. Macomb County, October 20, I860; her father died De-\\ncember 3, 1860; seven childi-en wei-e born to ^Ii-. Whitney Sarah Ann Hartw.iy, born\\nVI\u00c2\u00ae-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0790.jp2"}, "791": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0080\u00a2!l^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMay 20, 1839, died September 21, 1876: Mary B., Augusts, 1842, died September 13.\\n1805; Electa M. Axtell. December 26, 1845, married March 15, 1864, to Julien H. Ax-\\ntell, M. D.; he served four years in the rebellion, was honorably discharged from the\\nFirst Michigan Infantry, on account of the wound received at the battle of Five Forks;\\nStephen was born May 12. 1850; Florence G. September 7, 1853, died October 15, 1865;\\nCharles, September 13, 1S56, died October 4. 1865. and Courtland. born August 23, 1862.\\nMl-. W. in politics is a Republican. Mrs. John Whitney was one of a family of twenty-\\nthree children, all of one father and mother.\\nSAMUEL WHITNEY, born July U. 1811, in the town of Middlese.x, Ontario\\nCounty, now Potter. Yates Co.. N. Y.. son of Isaac an l Susanna (Tm-nback) Whitney;\\nhis father was born in Massachusetts and his mother was born in Pennsylvania; his father\\ndied when Samuel was six years of age. Isaac Whitney left Massachusetts and emigrated\\nto New York at an early date and died in 1S17; his chances for education in the early\\ndays were limited, probably his attendance at school not exceeding in all two years; his\\nmother died February U. 1867. in Ray Townshij); the family came to Michigan, landed\\nin Detroit September 2. 1834. from Pennsylvania, where they passed about two years\\nprevious to coming hero; he located in Macomb Township on an eighty-acre lot. piu ohased\\nfrom the Government; the next yeai he added forty acres more of (irovernment land; in\\n1S53, he added eighty acres more, making in all a farm of 200 acres: when he first came\\nin, George Stroup was his nearest neighbor, and Mr. Whitney cut a road from the Sti oup\\nfarm to his own; he made all his improvements himself. He was married. April 21,\\n1836, to Ann Stroup. daughter of George Stroup. The Indians were plenty, often called\\nand stayed overnight. The wolves were also very plenty and committed depredations on\\nhis yoimg stock many times, carrying off a fine sheep or calf. Politically. Mr. Whitney is\\na Whig, and has always tried to fight the Democratic party all the way through; since the\\nWhig party went down, he was one of the first members of the Republican pai ty. When\\nthe town was connected with Chesterfield, he was elected one of the School Inspectors; in\\n1842. he was elected Justice of the Peace, which he held four years: in 1S5(), he was\\nelected Supervisor of Macomb, and again ran. in 1857. but lost it by four votes, owing to\\nhis strict temperance principles, which were opposed by many of the Germans of the town;\\nin 1858, he was elected Supervisor, which he held one year; he was a strong temperance\\nman and has done all in his power to advance that cause; he is a good friend and neigh-\\nbor and has been a witness of the advance of the county from its wilderness condition: he\\nis the father of thirteen childi-en, nine sons and four daughters Sophronia. Vv illiam II.,\\nEsther Ann, wife of Warren Crawford, of North Branch, Lapeer County; Jason C, mar-\\nried Elida Barney, residing at Fort Sanilac; William H.. man-ied Mary E. Kellogg, of\\nMaple Grove, Barry County; George C. man-ied to Martha J. Friese. resides in Macomb\\nTownship; Milton J., married Elizabeth Fuller, resides in Negaunee. Principal of the\\nschool thero; Samuel E.. Principal of the Hancock High School: Lora A., wife of .ra H.\\nBriggs. resides in Macomb Township; Allen S., teaching the Quincy School, near Han-\\ncock: Eugene C. Loton D.. Milo H.. Floi-euce H. two of the sons Milton J. and George\\nC. were in the war and honorably discharged at its close. When Mr. W. raised his house,\\nwhich was one of the first m the county, he was told it could not he put uj) without the use\\nof liquor; he made three efforts to raise the building without success, and finally went up\\nin the Macomb neighborhood, told the people the;-e the circumstances of his case, and they\\nturned in and raised the house, which was the first temperance building put up in the\\nWhitney neighborhood.\\nSTEPHEN H. WHITNEY was born May 12. 1850, son of John Whitney and Phebe\\nNelson Whitney; his mother was born in England, and came to this country with her\\nparents when she was voaug; his father was a native of Yates County, N. Y.; he came to\\n48\\n\\\\^s r-", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0791.jp2"}, "792": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMichigan at an early age. and boiight his land from the Government, in Macomb; Stephen,\\nthe oldest son. was born on the homestead farm, in a log house; grew up to manhood,\\nattended a district school when opportunity offered, and lived on the farm with his parents\\nuntil he was twenty-two years old. He was married, April 11, 1S72, to Emma S. Immen,\\nborn in New Baltimore August 28. l!Sr)4. daughter of John H. and Frances Taylor Immen,\\nearl} settlers in Chesterfield; he then went on a rented farm of forty acres, on the turn-\\npike I oad. one mile north of Mt. Clemens, and lived there two years; at the expiration of\\nthis time, he moved back on his father s place, on Section 15. and worked there for one\\nyear; in 1(S75, he had an opportunity of buying his farm, consisting of 166f acres, on\\nSection 8, then owned by Broughton Adams, originally purchased from the Government by\\nChauncy Church; his investment was a good one in every particular: he takes special\\npride in having everything in good order, and has one of the finest farms in this section\\nof the country. Politically, he has been and is a Republican; their family consists of\\nfour childi-en Florence L.. born August 17. 1S73; Clara E.. November 7. 1N75: Bertha\\nF.. March 27. 1878; Grace P.. April 23. 1881.\\nCHAPTER XXXV.\\nHICHMONL) TOWNSHIP.\\nThe township of Richmond was organized under Legislative authority March 6, 1838.\\nThe new township comprised within its boundaries Town 5 north, of Range 14 east. The\\nfirst meeting was held at the house oi George Perkins, or rather on the wood-pile close by.\\nThe name of the township was ]iroi)Osed by Phillip Cudworth. Hiron Hathaway was elect-\\ned Supervisor; George Perkins. Clerk: Durfee Simmons. John Hicks and Jesse Hufif.\\nAssessors; William Simmons and John Goodar, Overseers of the Poor: Jesse Welden and\\nRussell Peters, Commissioners of Highways; Jesse Welden, James Flower, Horace Ewell\\nand W. P. Simmons, Justices of the Peace; Jeremiah Robinson, J. S. Durfee, Constables;\\nJeremiah Robinson, Collector; Dm-fee Simmons, Pliney Corbin and Ben Elsworth, Com-\\nmissioners of County Schools; P. Cudworth, C. C. Davis and H. M. Curtiss, Fence View-\\ners; and John Bates, Poundmaster.\\nThe first clearing made in what is now called Richmond was in Section 30. by Edwin\\nRose. The entry of this land bears date December 1, 1832, and has since been known as\\nthe Goodar farm on Clay street. Another entry is made on the same day, and located on\\nthe same section, by John Hale. The next entry is dated May 13. 1833. by Anson Petti-\\nbone, still owned by the family. Charles Hicks settled on the ridge in 1834. and Phillip\\nCudworth in 1835. John Hicks, the Beebes. Mr. Halt Perkins and others moved in soon\\nafter. The tovsrasLiij) was organized and named after the township of the same name in\\nOntario, N. Y at the suggestion of Phillip Cudworth. This was done in the spring of\\n1838, on the wood-pile of Mr. Perkins, who had settled on the ridge. The meeting to or-\\nganize the town was called to meet at his house, and, the house being small and the meet-\\ning large, it was adjoiu-ned to the wood-pile, where elbow room wasplenty, and the young\\ntownship was brought into being and pioperly named there.\\nThe land on which the village of Richmond is situated was mostly taken from the\\nGovernment by Erastus Beebe, in 1835. and constituted for a long time his farm. The\\nlocation was well chosen, being a joint where the ridge running north crosses that extend-\\ning from east to west, and a little more than one mile from the Gratiot Turnpike. Eras-\\n^i:", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0792.jp2"}, "793": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 779\\ntus Beebe erected a shanty south of the village and kept bachelor s hall for a season, when,\\ngetting tired of this, he concluded to get married. He was in possession of a large white\\nmare and an Indian pony of small size and malicious disposition, and of these the bridal\\ncortege was made up. Placiug his bride upon the white mare, he bestrided the pony, and,\\nas the i-oads were not of sufficient width to admit of riding side by side, he took the lead\\nthrough the woods, she meekly following, in search of Squire Granger, who had just set-\\ntled some two or three miles to the northeast. They found the Squire at work on his fal-\\nlow, who came to the house, washe l his face, and in due form pronounced the pair man\\nand wife, instead of husband and wife. On their return home, the neighbors came in,\\nand they had a feast. Whether the wife was mai ried more than her husband does not\\nmatter now.\\nThe fii st school was taught in the house of Daniel Hall, a ijuilt being hung across\\nthe room for the purpose of partition. This school consisted of one-half dozen scholars,\\ntaught by Mahala eeks. The following year, a small log schoolhouse was built neai the\\nHall house, and Jliss Lucinda Clough became teacher. This gave place to the present\\nhouse in the Hall District in 1852.\\nThat portion of the township known as the Ridge was the first to be settled from the\\ntrail and from the settlement at Ai mada east, and then that between the villages of 1-tich-\\nmond and Memphis north of Daniel Hall were the Simmonds. Cxeorge H. Stuart and the\\nGilberts, and the vacant spaces between their farms filled up fast. One of the first exhi-\\nbitions of commercial enterprise was shown by George H. Stuart, whose domestic depart-\\nment was in a state of emptiness or nearly so. He took his oxen and wagon, and, going\\nto a mill on Mill Creek, he bought a load of cleai- pine lumber on credit With this\\nhe started south toward Birmingham. Having friends along the I oad, he found ready\\nand gi atuitous entertainment until he reached that j)lace, where he exchanged the lumber\\nfor three barrels of superfine floiir, about as white as a good quality of shorts- ought to be.\\nThis flour he brought home, and with one he paid for his lumber, and had two barrels left.\\nAs the country began to be still more developed, the corner at Beebe s was seen to be\\ncentral, and symptoms of a village began to appear. A blacksmith shop was ]n\\\\t up by\\nErastus Beebe and a grocery store by Jesse and H. P. Beebe a general store.\\nAfter a few years, the Richmond Post Office was kept by Phillip Cud worth; afterward, as\\nfollows: David Ward, Hiram Biu-k, H. P. Beebe. James M. Hicks. H. P. Beebe, D. G.\\nGleason, Seth Lathroj). H. P. Beebe the present incumbent.\\nThe filace was known as Beebe s Corners until 1879. when an election was held under\\na village charter just granted. This was on the 31st of March of that year, and A. M.\\nKeeler was elected President: A. G. Stone, Clerk: and W. H. Acker, Treasurer. The\\nsucceeding Presidents have been Thomas Conway and Sanford M. Stone. Del T. Sutton\\nsucceeded A. G. Stone as Clerk, and W. H. Acker has been Treasurer from the first.\\nUpon the building of the Grand Trunk Railway, the village began to grow and busi-\\nness to thrive, and when, some years later, the Michigan Air-Line Railway made this a\\nterminus, a still greater growth was manifest. Manufactories have sprung up and trades\\nhave multiplied. The stavo-mill, started by J. W. Cooper, made a market for timber and\\nfurnished employment to a large number of men. It has twice been destroyed by fire,\\nand, with remarkable promptness, has been rebuilt, and is still in operation. The manu-\\nfactories of Theo Miller also fill a large place in the industries of the illage. The same\\nis also true of Freeman Knight s packing establishment, and other industries. A more\\nextended history of the school will follow.\\nTOWN ROSTEK.\\nSupervisors -Hirou Hathaway, 1838-43: James Flower, 1843-45; Linus S. Gilbert,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0jPy", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0793.jp2"}, "794": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n1845-46; Plinv Corbiu, 1846-47; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1847-52; Hiron Hatliawaj, 1852-53;\\nIsaac B. CHlb ert, 1S53-54; George H. Stewart, 1854-56; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1856-59;\\nDaniel Flagler. 1859-62; Oscar A. Burgess, 1862-67; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1867-68: Daniel\\nFlagler, 1868-69; Charles J. Heath, 1869-70; Hiram Burke, 1870-71; George H Stewart,\\n1871-72; Daniel Flagler, 1872-74; Thomas Dawson, 1874-78 George L. Perkins,\\n1878-79; Thomas Dawson. 1879-82.\\nJustices of the Peace -William P. Simmons, 1838; Jesse Welden, 1838; James\\nFlower, 1838; Horace Ewell, 1838; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1839; James Flower, 1839; Pliny\\nCorbin, 1840; Isaac B. Gilbert, 1842; Jesse Welden, 1842; James Flower, 1843; Plinv\\nCorbin, 1844; Daniel Hall, 1845, Abel Sabin, 1846; Jesse Welden, 1847; George Per-\\nkins, 1848; Daniel Flagler, 1849; Daniel Hall, 1849; Linus S. Gilbert, 1850; James\\nHenderson, 1850; James Sage, 1871; Caleb Miller, 1851; D.aniel G. Stowe. 1852; Sey-\\nmour Allen, 1853; AVilliam S. Smith, 1853; Samuel S. Ealsie, 1854; Ira Spencer. 1855;\\nJohn Hicks, 1855; Amassey W. Sutton, 1855; Pendleton Ogden, 1856; Isaac B. Gilbert,\\n1857; Randolph Arnold, 1858; Daniel Flagler, 1859; George L. Perkins, 1859; A. W.\\nSutton, 1859; O. S. Burgess, 1860; C. S.Arnold. 1860; Willard Chiu-ch, 1861 George L.\\nPerkins, 1861; Lovell Arnold, 1862; Daniel Flagler, 1863; Oscar S. Burgess, 1864;\\nWilliam D. Walton, 1864; Fayette Harris, 1864; Oscar S. Bm-gess, 1865; George L.\\nPerkins, 1865; George H Stuart, 1866; James S. Durfee, 1866; William D Walton,\\n1867; David H. Olney, 1868, O. L. Bui-gess, 186)8; A. W. Sutton, 1869; Josiah Kings-\\nbury, 18()9; J. S. Dm-fee, 1870-73; I. H. Sutton, 1871; O. S. Burgess, 1872; Chester L.\\nDudley, 1873; James S. Durfee, 1874; Sanford M. Stone, 1875; William H. Morris,\\n1876; Sherman S. Eaton and Gilbert, 1877: Manlv C. Perry, A. G. Stone, 1880; S. S.\\nEaton, 1881.\\nClerks- Henrv P. Beebe, 1856-57; Oscar S. Burgess, 1858; Henry P. Beebe, 1859-62;\\nCharles J. Heath, 1863-68; James M Hicks, 1869; Simon H. Heath, 1870; George Peck,\\n1871; John G. Aiken, 1872; Thurston C. Knight, 1873; H. A. Haskiu, 1874; George M.\\nGranger, 1875-76; H. A. Haskins, 1876-78; James S. Hasting.s, 1879; Simon H. Heath,\\n1880-82.\\nTreasurers John B. Ellsworth, 1856; Jerome B. Graves, 1857 59 Russell E.\\nCombs, 1860-61; James L. Sutton, 1862; Alfred H. Newcomer, 1863-64; William M.\\nEaton, 1865-66; Simon H. Heath, 1867- )9; Reuben Burgess, 1870-71; James H.Sutton,\\n1872-73; Simon H. Heath, 1874-77; Israel Drver, 1878; George W. Carman, 1879-80;\\nFrank W. Fenner, 1881-82.\\nIn Richmond there was no opposition to the Republican ticket in 1882. Thomas\\nDawson was elected Supervisor. S. H. Heath, Clerk, and F. W. Fenner, Treasm er.\\nThe agricultiu-al products of Richmond, according to the Supervisors report, com-\\npleted in the spring of 1874. were as follows: Wheat, 20,099 bushels; corn, 22,044 bush-\\nels; all other kinds of grain, 61.489 bushels; potatoes. 10,413 bushels. All other yields\\nin like proportion. The statistics of the last few years show a most remarkable advance\\nin production.\\nIn 1850, Richmond contained a population of 1.000; in 1S73. it had increased to 2.-\\n105, and in 1880, to 2,611.\\nWith the villages and the large agricultural interests of the township, Ricnmoud\\nforms a most important portion of the county. The township is plentifully supplied with\\nchiu ches, schoolhouses, and industrial and manufacturing institutions, which, combined,\\nconduce to the morality, intelligence, wealth and prosperity of its inhabitants. Blessed\\nwith these various sources of general worth, Richmond cannot f;iil to increase in popula-\\ntion and value in the future, with even greater rapidity than has characterized it in the\\npast.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0794.jp2"}, "795": {"fulltext": "RrCIIMOXD VILLAGE.\\nTliis village was settled ia 1832. It is located near the junction of the Michigan\\nAir-Line and Grand Trunk Railroads, thirty-nine miles northeast of Detroit, foiu-teen\\nnortheast of Mt. Clemens, seventeen miles west of the St. Clair River, and five miles south\\nof Memphis. The IMethodist. Baptist, Free Methcdist and Congregational societies have\\nhouses of worship within the village. A weekly newspaper named the Richmond Review\\nis published by Del T. Sutton. The post office is conducted by Henry P. Beebe. Among\\nthe business men of the village are W. H. Acker, George W. Kenfield, D. T. Obert, Orrin\\nB. Reed, John G. Akin, B. F^ Doty, R, S. Freeman, Daniel G. Gleason, Hosea Fuller, D.\\nL. Harrison, John M. Johnson. James W. Coojier, David L. Raoelye. Alex Caster, A. B.\\nBatty, J. L. Sutton, D. J. Lathrop, Theo Miller. A. W. Reed Joseph Connell, W. E.\\nWalton, John A^ elsh, A. Y. Wright, Thomas A. Leach, Seth Lathrop, Christian Kihen and\\nSimon H. Heath.\\nTOWNSHIP sriiooi.s IN 1881.\\nThe first district school was organized April 7. 1838. The three pupils James M.\\nHix, Eliza A. Hix and William Hall with two other chikb-en, studied under Miss Mahal\\nla Weeks, the first teacher.\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nDistrict\\nTotals.\\n1 (fractional).\\n4 (fractional).\\n5\\n6\\nNumber Pupils. T\\nSchool Moil\\n9 (fractional).\\n10 (fractional).\\n11\\n12 (fractional).\\n13\\n292\\n60\\n59\\n65\\n59\\nIT\\n25\\n29\\n54\\n202\\n$309 83\\n63 67\\n62 60\\n68 97\\n62 60\\n30 77\\n46 ()9\\n5 18\\n18 04\\n26 .53\\n30 77\\n57 30\\n214 33\\nH 90\\n1 00\\nI 09\\n99\\n29\\n42\\n49\\n91\\n3 38\\n$314 73\\n64 67\\n63 59\\n70 06\\n63 59\\n31 26\\n47 42\\n56 05\\n18 33\\n26 95\\n31 26\\n58 21\\n217 71\\n$1047 28\\n116 .55\\n$1063 83\\nNote\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Tlie ilirect tax fcr sch.icl purposes for the year 188t-82 Wivs $:!,322.36, which added to the above makes a grand total of\\n\u00c2\u00bb4,3sei9.\\nThe taxes assessed in Richmond Township for the year 1881-8 are as follows: State\\nand county taxes, $4,567.97; township tax, 1785; di-ain tax, $188.60, assessed to town,\\ndrain tax to individuals, 1167. The school district taxes and the mill tax was $3,322.36;\\nThe professions are represented by Oscar S. Bm-gess, Chauncey R. Canfield, Joseph\\nChubb and Addison G. Stone, lawyers; Daniel G. Gleason. O. F. Reed, Garlick,\\nClark, Clement L. Chandler, I. Mills and Mrs. Sarah F. Kenfield, physicians; D. M. Clark\\nand Frank Emerson, dentists.\\nAmong the business enterprises of the village may be mentioned the egg and butter\\ntrade of Freeman Knight. This was inaugurated in 1872, under the fii-m name of\\nKnowlton Freeman (John A. Knowlton and Hariiip Freeman), dealing in both butter\\nand eggs the entire season in Western New York and in Macomb. This continued fonr\\nyears, when the New York branch was dropped, and the firm became Freeman Doty.\\nThis continued one year, when Doty retired, and Cooper Knight entered the firm for a\\nterm of two years. The style of the business at present is H. Freeman Co. in the\\nbutter branch, and Freeman Knight, of the egg branch. The business has gi-own fi-om\\nan annual shipment of 600 to 700 barrels to 3,000 to 4,000 barrels of eggs, and 250,000\\nV", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0795.jp2"}, "796": {"fulltext": "4^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\npounds of butter, requiring an expenditure of $120,000 annually, and giving constant em-\\n])loyment to twenty-five men and five teams. They annually preserve in solution 100,000\\ndozen of eggs, and hold an equal quantity in cold storage. The buildings are situated on\\nMain street, and consist of a refrigerator, a brick building 26x56, with basement; a ware-\\nhouse 26x80, two stories high and basement; and have in contemplation a brick ware-\\nhouse 26x40; have also a storing cellar, capable of storing 2,000 barrels, and a large re-\\npacking cellar; also an ice-house, whose capacity is 700 tons.\\nThe Richmond Post Office was established in 1840, with Phillip Cudworth as first\\nPostmaster. David Wai d was appointed in 1844; Hiram Burk, in 1848; H. P. Beebe.\\nin 18,-)!, James M. Hicks, in 1854; H. P. Beebe, in 1860; D. G. Gleasou, in 18(56; Seth\\nLathrop, in 1869; and H. P. Beebe, in 1872.\\nTHK li.Vl TIST (IIU KCII OF RI( [I.\\\\IO.VD VILL.\\\\GE.\\nPrevious to the year 1869, the residents of the village who were of the Baptist per-\\nsuasion worshiped in private houses, and at such times as circumstances seemed to favor.\\nPrayer meetings were held in a small building rented by Dr. 8. F. Teall, and a Sabbath\\nschool was organized at about the same time, with seven scholars. This building is now\\nthe Lenox Post Office. The organization of the church was efi ected June 15, 1869, with\\nManson Farrar, Deacon; H. F. JDou lass. Clerk; and D. Stewart, Treasurer; and a Board\\nof six Trustees; Rev. Silas Finn, pastor, and a membership of twelve persons.\\nMarch 1, 1870, a meeting was held preparatory to building a house of worship, which\\nwas almost immediately commenced, and was completed February 25, 1871. It was sit-\\nuated on a lot donated for the purpose by the late Mr. Gillet. The annual meetings of\\nthe society were regularly observed till 1880, when the society re-organized under the new\\nlaw. August 17, 1880, a lot was bought of Thomas Conway for $100, on which the society\\nproceeded to erect a parsonage. This building was completed the same year, at a cost of\\n$600. Mrs. A. W. Reed was the financial agent to raise this fund, and met with remark-\\nable success. The society is provided with an organ, a bell, horse-sheds, and other reqiiire-\\nments for the good of the religious service, and is out of debt. Estimated value, $5,000.\\nThe other religious societies of Richmond are fully regarded in the general history of the\\ncounty.\\nMUMI IIIS ILL.\\\\ ii;.\\nMemphis was settled in 1835, and incorporated as a village in 1865. In 1878, its\\n[)opulation was stated to be 800, while at present that portion of it in Macomb County\\nis only 600. This village is prettily located on Belle River, on the line between\\nMacomb and St. Clair Counties, twenty-seven miles northeast of Mt. Clemens, twenty-\\ntwo miles southwest of Port Hm-on, and seven miles north of Richmond, and\\nabout the same distance northeast of Ai mada. There are three churches in the vil-\\nlage, viz.: The Congi egational, Methodist and Adventist, with a graded school.\\nThe first efibrt to reclaim the land now occupied by the village of Memphis was made\\nby the Wells family, one member of which still lives just north of the village. James\\nWells, the father, was boi n in Albany in 1772, a descendant of one of two brothers who\\nemigrated fr.^m England and settled in New York shortly prior to the war of the Revolu-\\ntion. His family consisted of three sons and three daughters, of whom one son and one\\ndaughter are living. Their house, a comfortable log one, covered with shingles, was the\\nfirst structure oi any kind to succeed the wigwams of the Indians, and, in good old pio-\\nneer style, for all pm-poses of hospitality or for meetings, the latch-string was always out.\\nThe family had dealings to considerable extent, and learned much of tlieir ways, and bear\\ntestimony that in nearly all instances they were honest in their dealings and faithful to\\ntheir promises. Especial mention is made of the good qualities of John Riley, the Chip-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0796.jp2"}, "797": {"fulltext": "Ik,\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. f?83\\npewa chief. His family and that of Black Cloud, with some others, were leading spirits\\namong them. At this time (1835), the former owned a tract of land granted by Govern-\\nment at what is now Port Hui-on, on the south of Black River. Only two houses one log\\nand one frame\u00e2\u0080\u0094 were to be seen at that point. John Riley was born in the Mohawk Val-\\nley, of a Cxerman father and Indian mother, and possessed greater intelligence than the\\nfull Indian. He, with many of his tribe, made annual visits to the wonds near the vil-\\nlage for the purpose of making maple sugar, coming in February or March, and retm-n-\\ning when the season was over. In the spring of 1836, he came early for this purpose,\\nand one pleasant Sunday, as he would not allow any work to be done that day, he took a\\nwalk in the woods, accompanied with a boy. Coming upon a large hollow log, which\\nhad the appearance of being the home of some animal, he said to the boy, Abs-co-in,\\nHash-a-pun (John, a raccoon)! directing the boy to crawl in the log and investigate.\\nThe young Abs-co-in soon came out with great speed, shouting Mo-quash! mo-quash\\n(A bear! a bear)! Riley drew his hatchet, and, as the bear s head appeared, struck her a\\npowerful blow with the edge of the weapon, burying it in her brains. She weighed over\\nfom- hundred j)Ounds, and furnished material for a continuous feast. The Indians gave\\nnames to the whites to correspond with some habit or commemorate some gift. The elder\\nMr. Wells they called Mo-quash (bear) because he was a hunter of that animal. Abram\\nWells was Caw-ke-chee (porcupine); he had given them a porcupine, the flesh of which\\nthey relish. Anthony Wells was Mish-a-wah (elk): William Wells. Wah-wa-cash\\n(deer): Mr. Welch, Mus-co-dance (Indian hole or clearing), from the fact that he\\nbought land on which there was an Indian field, on which there were bearing apple trees\\nwhen the whites arrived. Riley afterward retired to the Saginaw country, where he died\\nin lNfi2. His lirst wife was buried on land since known as the Fitz Patrick place, and.\\nas the roads came to be straightened and worked, her body was e.^humed and stolen away.\\nOne of the chiefs of this tribe, Macompte, went to England previous to this time, and per-\\nformed the feat of shooting an apple, held in the lingers of one of the royal family, with\\nhis rifle. The bullet pierced the apple, and the hand was unhurt. Tip-se-co. an Indian\\nwell known to the settlers of Macomb, also made a visit to the same country. He was a\\nman of great speed and skill in wrestling, his principal feat being to run to a stake ten\\nrods away and retiun before a horse and rider could make the like trip. This Indian is\\nstill living in Isaliella County.\\nThe next family in the place was that of Potter; then Welch, Moore, Slater. Mansfield,\\netc. The first death was that of Bird, the first school-teacher, who was born in a lot a\\nlittle south of the Congi-egational Chiu ch. which Wells had designed for a cemetery. The\\nwife of Joshua Eaton was the next to be bm-ied here. Her body was afterwai-d removed,\\nbut that of Bird still lies where it was placed.\\nIn the winter of 1836-37. an Indian went out hunting and did not return. A hea\\\\7\\nsnow-storm prevailing at the time obliterated all traces of him, and, although a thorough\\nsearch was made, he could not be found. One day in spring, 1837. as Hartford Phillips\\nwas piloting a few lumberers through the woods, a gun was discovered standing by a tree,\\nand, near by. the body of the missing Indian, crushed beneath the fallen tree, which he\\nhad chopped down. The Indians identified the body and bvtried it. Tliree years later,\\nthe httfe settlement was called to mom-n its first fatal accident the death of Anthony\\nWells. About this time. Carleton Sabin jmrohased of Wells the eighty-acre lot on which\\nthe southwest corner of the village is located, and lots were generally sold over the plat.\\nIt was discovered that an excellent water-power existed here, which was developed in 1840\\nby Oel Rix and Dr. Sabin. The latter built a saw-mill, while the former built a flom-ing-\\nmill. The nearest post office was six miles distant, at Phillip Cudworth s; but now the\\nMemphians sought for an office of their own, which they did not succeed in obtaining\\n;t^", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0797.jp2"}, "798": {"fulltext": "until eio-ht years later- The naming of the village was then taken up. Belle River\\npasses through the northern portion of the village, and so some of its inhabitants urged\\nthe adoption of the name Belleview. Others, who admired James G. Birney and his\\nparty, desired it should be named Birney; while others urged the name Riley, in honor\\nof the Indian chief who resided there. The name Memphis was suggested at length, and\\nadopted. The first physician was Dr. Sabin, who came in 1844, and remained there until\\n1854. He was succeeded in practice by Dr. Cole.\\nThe first religious services held in the Wells Settlement was at the house of Mr.\\nWells, and was conducteil by Mrs. Chilson, whose son now lives in the village. This wo-\\nman was a member of the M. E. Church, and, having the ability to adckess an audience\\nin public, she thought herself called to preaching, which she did on many occasions. This\\nwas in the year of 1S37. Soon after this. Elder Simons also preached in the house of\\nMr. Wells. In 1839, a Baptist Church was formed at the house of William Smith, who\\nlived south of the village. The members at theorgauization were William Smith. William\\nWells, George. William and Deborah Simmons and their mother, Mrs. William Smith,\\nJohanna Eaton and wife, J. Eaton, Jr., and wife, Soloman Eaton, old Mrs. Wells and\\nDurfee Simmons, who was chosen Deacon. A house of worship was built for the church\\njust formed, in the south part of the settlement, on the east side of the street. This was\\na small building, and was afterward removed south and turned into a dwelling house. No\\nother edifice of that denomination has since been erected. Dm-ing the summer of 1837,\\na Sabbath school was organized, which was not imder the care of any denomination, but\\njoined in by all. Sabbath school exercises have been held almost continuously since that time.\\nThe Methodist class was the next to be formed, and in 1840 the Congregational\\nChurch was formed. This was eflected at the house of Deacon A. Gilbert, under the ad-\\nvice and direction of Rev. Seth Hardy, of Romeo.\\nSeventeen members constituted the chui-ch at its organization, six of whom were from\\nRomeo. Their house of worship was built in 1842. The Methodist house was erected a\\nfew years later. The first pastor of the Congi-egational Chm-ch was Rev. Charles Kel-\\nlogg, in 1841. He was succeeded by Rev. AV. P. Russell, who labored with the church\\nfor the welfare of the community from July, 1848, to the time of his death, in 1880.\\nThe first school was taught by jVIr. Bird, in a small log schoolhouse which stood on\\nthe west side of the village, in the town of Riley. This man was a great believer in the\\nefficacy of the birch in subduing the total depravity of average childhood, and it was\\nperseveriugly applied on the slightest provocation. The first female teacher was Harriet\\nStewart.\\nMarriages were undoubtedly celebrated at an early date, but who was first doth not\\nyet a})pear. Miron Salisbury and Amelia S. Ellenwood were the fii st couple married by\\nRev. W. P. Russell, and he did his work in so satisfactory a manner that he was called\\nupon afterward to unite the fates of 396 pairs.\\nThe first frame building was a barn erected for Anthony Wells; the first house, a\\nsmall frame one, by Mr. Rix; but the first substantial residence was that of Lewis Gil-\\nbert, in 1840, which is doing good service still. The first store was that of Oel Rix, who\\nhad a small stock of goods to meet the needs of his workmen. Among the fu-st settlers of\\nMemphis still living among us may be mentioned Hartfort Phillips, who was born in Chen-\\nango County, N. Y., in 1809. and came to Memphis in 1836, having lived here continu-\\nously since that time. His wife, Polly Wade, of Rhode Island, a descendant of Roger\\nWilliams, of Pm-itan fame, died in 1879, at the age of seventy-three years. There are\\nothers also who have given the helping hand to all the industries and improvements of\\nthe village, and to them all we say, peace to the closing days of life, and joy in the bright\\nhereafter.\\n^1", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0798.jp2"}, "799": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 785\\nThe village of Memphis was incorporated in the South Schoolhovise, on the 4th day\\nof April, 1865. The name was given some ten years previously. A portion of the citi-\\nzens wished the young village to have the name Birney, after J. G. Birney. Others\\nwanted the name Belleview, as the Belle River passed tlu-ough the place. The name Mem-\\nphis, however, prevailed, which was given after the Egyptian city, and custom has made\\nfirm the name then suggested. An election was hekl on the date above given, at which\\nthe following were chosen: Sherman S. Eaton. President: Lewis Granger, Linus Gilbert,\\nOel Rix, Solon Spafford, Joseph M. Beach. Hiram Bm ii, Trustees; L. G. Sperry. Clerk:\\nOrrin Granger, Treasurer.\\nThe principal village officers from 18f5G to the persent time ai e as follows:\\n1866 Sherman S. Eaton, President: Clark B. Hall, Clerk; O. Granger, Treasm-er.\\n1867 W. P. Russell, President; Ezra Hazen, Clerk; George L. Perkins, Treasurer.\\n1868 R. B. King, President: Joseph H Dutton, Clerk; Orrin Granger, Treasurer.\\n1869 Lewis Granger, Pre.sident; .Joseph H. Dutton, Clerk: H. C. Mansfield, Treas-\\nurer.\\n1870 -Augustus M. Hodges, President; H. C. Mansfield. Treasurer; J. H. Dutton,\\nClerk. _\\n18(1\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. M. Hodges. President; J. H. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer.\\n1872 Hiram Burk. President; J. M. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer.\\n1873 Sherman Eaton, President; J. H. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer.\\n1874 Sherman S. Eaton, President; J. H. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer.\\n1875 George L. Perkins, President; H. C. Mansfield, Clerk; Chester S. Gilbert,\\nTreasurer.\\n1876\u00e2\u0080\u0094 G. L. Perkins, President; J. H. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer.\\n1877 Francis E. Spencer, President; J. H. Dutton, Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treas-\\nurer.\\n1878 \u00e2\u0080\u0094Sherman S. Eaton, President; J. H. Dutton. Clerk; H. C. Mansfield, Treasurer.\\n1879 Sherman S. Eaton, President: George W. Carman, Clerk; Chester S. Gilbert,\\nTreasurer.\\n1880 Joseph H. Dutton, President; George H. Carman. Clerk; C. S. Gilbert. Treas-\\nurer.\\n1881 \u00e2\u0080\u0094J. H. Dutton, President: G. W. Carman, Clerk: C. S. Gilbert, Treasurer.\\nThe village election passed oft very quietly in April, 1882. There were three tickets\\nin the field, designated the Village, People s and Flag. Only 175 tickets were cast, of\\nwhich 28 were straight Village. 19; People s 5; Flag, 4. A large amount of slipping\\nwas done by different candidates. Below is the result of the election:\\nFor President Sanford M. Stone (village), 132; Oscar S. Bm-gess (people s), H();\\nscattering, 4.\\nFor Trustees Adam W. Reed (village and flag), 91; Zenas Corey (village and flag),\\n136; Theodore Miller (village and flag), 99; August Beier (people s), 29; John M. Johnson\\n(people s), 92; George \\\\V. Weston (people s), 74; scattering. 2.\\nFor Clerk Adelbert T. Sutton (village). 108: Addison G. Stone (people s), 57: A.\\nMartin Keeler (flag), 7; scattering. 3.\\nFor Treasm-er William H. Acker (village), 138; Thomas Conway (people s), 37.\\nFor Assessor \u00e2\u0080\u0094Simon H. Heath (village), 133; William D. Clark (people s). 30; John\\n^1. Johnson (flag), ID; scattering, 2.\\nFor Street Commissioner -James L. Sutton (village), 120; Ambrose J. Hancock (peo-\\nple s), 54; scattering, 1.\\nFor Constable William E. Jarvis (village), 137: James M. Hicks (people s). 35;\\nIsrael Dryer (flag). K scattering, 1.\\n^1", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0799.jp2"}, "800": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThis leaves the Council the same as in 1881, with the exception of John M. Johnson\\nin the place of E. S. Hunt. The result seems to give General satisfaction.\\nThe Memphis Post Office was established in 1S48, with Harry Rix as first Postmaster.\\nHis successors in office were: F. E. Gilbert. L. S. Gilbert, Thomas Robson. George\\nRobson, S P. Spaliford. James M. Beach, William Jenkinson, Orrin Granger, H. C.\\nMansfield, and George W. Carman, the present Postmaster.\\nPEUSONAL ULSTORY.\\nWe complete the history of this township with the biographies of many of its most\\nI)ul)lic-spirited and best citizens. In the pages devoted to them, much that is historically\\nvaluable is given.\\nMRS. SANFORD C. ALLEN (Helen Stone), daughter of Solomon Stone, of Richmond\\nTownship, was born November 27, 1822; commenced teaching school in New York\\nat the age of fourteen, and taught several terms; man-ied, in 184U, to Sanford C. Allen, a\\nnative of Tompkins County. N. Y., who engaged in the business of a furniture-dealer at\\nAlmont, Lapeer County, where he died in 1852; one son, Sanford C. Allen, born Octo-\\nberlS 1852: and a son who died in infancy. Mrs. Allen again engaged in teaching\\nmost of the time for fifteen years of her residence at Almont. In 1872, Mrs. Allen en-\\ngaged as teacher in the school at Armada two years of her residence at that place; re-\\nmoved to Richmond Village in 1875, where she now resides. Mrs. Allen has been a faith-\\nful and efficient teacher, and is kindly remembered by her numerous pupils. S. C. -lllen\\nwas born October 18, 1852; received an education at the village of Almont. and was in the\\ndrug store uf Vincent, at Armada, three years, and, on removing to Richmond, engaged\\nin various pursuits in the village; was married, July 4. 1880, to Clara Gorshin. of Can-\\nada: she was born December 20, 18r)2; they have one child. Charles B., born April 8,\\n1881. Mr. Allen is a thoi ough and active business man, and a Republican in politics.\\nASA ALLEN was the son of Barber Allen, a native of Vermont, who afterward re-\\nmoved to Genesee County, N. Y.. and died in 1838; his mother was Mary Peiry, a native of\\nVermont. Asa was born in Genesee County, N. Y., Le Roy Township, October 4, 1825;\\nin 1850, married Ellen Sanford, of Genesee, and at once removed to Lenawee and located\\n100 acres of land, which he improved and sold, going to Eaton County, Mich., and bought\\n300 acres near the village of Yermontville, which he soon sold, and retm-ned to New York;\\nin 1857, again took the Michigan fever, and arrived in Macomb County March 15 of that\\nyear, and bought land in Lenox Township, which he kept eight years, then bought a farm\\nnear Richmond Village, and set out 1,100 apple trees and a large quantity of other fruits.\\nWhile living on this farm, his wife died, January 25, 18()7. Frank E., born September\\n18, 1852: Emma J., born April 1, 1856, died in 1878; Kate Alida, born March 10, 1858;\\nHarley F., born October 26, 1862. The three oldest are now living in Oregon. In March,\\n1877, he sold the farm and erected a residence in the village of Richmond, and entered\\non the biisiness of house carpentering three years then engaged in the sale of agricultural\\nimplements; he is at present engaged in the grocery trade in the village. Mr. Allen helped\\nto cut down the first tree used in the erection of the M. E. Church, and has been a mem\\nber since that time; in politics, a Republican. Father Barber Allen served in the war of\\n1812, at the siege of Buffalo; grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution, married again,\\nMrs. D. A. Terry. September 18. 18 )7; she is a native of Wyoming, N. Y. one son, Charles,\\nborn July 26, 1862.\\nREV. WILLIAM ALLINGTON was born in England July 15. 1822; was educated\\nin his native country, and ordained as pastor of the Methodist Church; came to America\\nMay 12, 1853, and became Pastor of the Baptist Church in Maumee, Ohio; then went to\\nEast Toledo, and, in 1861), to Macomb County, staying one yeai in Ai-mada Village as", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0800.jp2"}, "801": {"fulltext": "Pastor of the Baptist Church; he then removed to Richmond Village, where he now re-\\nsides; during this time, he has traveled over many of the States and Canada, lecturing on\\nscientific and literary subjects, and has maintained services in a great many places in our\\ncountry, and is still so engaged. He was married, in England, to Miss Passmore; mar-\\nried, again. Miss Thompson, of England, in ISHfi, at Toledo, Ohio, and has three children\\nWilliam, born in September, 1853, now manager of the telephone and telegraph com-\\npanies of La Salle, 111.; Harriet, born December 2, 1868; Sarah, July 1870. He en-\\ntered the army as Chaplain of the Ninety- fourth Ohio Volunteer Infantry; was engaged\\nin twelve battles and skirmishes, and injured in three of them; served three and one-fourth\\nyears. He and others had raised this regiment at Clark and neighboring counties, and he\\nshould have been elected Colonel, for which he was well fitted, having been educated in\\nthe military maniial of England: but in his absence, political influence was brought to bear,\\nand another man was chosen, and he became Chaplain. His creed in politics is the best\\nman in the best place.\\nERASTUS M. BEEBE, brother of Henry P. Beebe, was born in Lewis County, town\\nship of Denmark, October 1 1 1801). He took up laud here from the Government under\\nthe Presidency of Martin Van Buren. He owned the land whereon the village of Rich-\\nmond now stands, and laid out the plat of the town, and sold lots therein to the value of\\n$25,000 and upward. He was married, by Elisha Granger, in the township of Columbus,\\nMarch 2U, 1838, to Sophronia, daughter of Consider Ewell, of Massachusetts. At the\\ntime of this marriage, the contracting parties went in search of a Justice on a couple of\\nponies bought of Black Cloud, father of the famous Tipseco; the road was not wide\\nenough to drive side by side, so they went Indian file; they found the Justice at work in\\nthe fallow; he came to the house and washed his face and performed the ceremony, when\\nthey returned to their shanty and held a pioneer feast. They had nine children, seven of\\nwhom are living Helen T.. born February 1, 1839: Henry C., born September 18, 1840;\\nPorter E., born October 25, 1843: Marion S., born March 27, 1S40: Rhoda A., born Octo-\\nber 1, 1847: Eliza M., born August 22, 1850; William S., born December 22, 1853; May\\nR., born October 27, 1854; Sarah R., born June 2(i, 1858. Mrs. Beebe died August l\\n1867. He was married again, to Mrs. Helen A. Stowe, of New York. Mr. Beebe has\\nnever used tobacco in any form, and never drank a glass of li(jUor, nor paid for one for any\\none else to drink. He is a member of the Congregational Church. Mrs. Erastus Beebe was a\\ndavighter of John Adams, of Dutchess County. N. Y. his father. Ebenezer Adams, was born\\nin Quincy, Mass., and was a relative of John Quincy Adams: she was born April 25, 1811\\nwas married, in 1829, to D. B. Stow, a native of Columbia County, N. Y also a Massa-\\nchusetts man; he died in 1852, in Kingston, N. Y she remained a widow twenty years,\\nand, in 1872, married E. Beebe, and has remained in Richmond Village since that time;\\nshe is a woman of culture and refinement; on her mother s side, she is a descendant of\\nChancellor Livingston, of N. Y. and is also a grand-niece of Peter Stuyvesant, the first\\nGovernor of New York; she witnessed many of the scenes of the anti-rent troubles on the\\nHudson; she was born in Hudson, N. Y.. and passed much of her life in that vicinit}\\nALEXANDER BEEBE, brother of E. M. came to Macomb County late in the same\\nyear, and located land in another part of the town; he kept the hotel in this place a num-\\nber of years. He married PriscillaComstock September 14, 1832; raised a family of four\\nchildren, and died June 2, 1879; Mrs. Beebe died September 23, 18r)7; their childi-en were\\nEliza J., born October 2. 1833, married May 1855; Martha M.,born February 15, 1835,\\nman-ied February 25, 1857; Almira, born May 12, 1840, married February 25, 1857: Ann\\nBeebe, born December 17, married March 11, 1866.\\nHENRY P. BEEBE. son of Henry and Betsey Archer, he a native of Chatham, N.\\nY. and she of Springfield, Mass. his father died at Gainesville, N. Y., at the age of fifty", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0801.jp2"}, "802": {"fulltext": "years; the mother died at Richmond December 24, 1859, at the age of seventy-nine: was\\nborn in Chatham. Cohimbia Co., N. Y., November 29, 1817; in the year 1818, moved on\\nthe Holland Piu-chase, N. Y. April, 1S3 Chauncy Smith, Sr., and son, Chester, H. M.\\nCm tis, John Knssell. Hiram Burke, E. Palmer (who afterward went to Jackson County),\\nH. P. and Erastus Beeb s. these started from Gainesville on foot for Cleveland;- this journey\\nwas made in eight days; then took passage on the steamer Robert Fulton for Detroit,\\nthen to Mt. Clemens on foot, to Ai-mada, to the house of Elijah Burk; located the Beebe\\nland in Richmoud Township, where the village of Richmond now stands; at a point where\\nthe ridge which runs east and west crosses the one running north and south, expecting that\\na village would be located here at some time, in which they were correct; the others locat-\\ned near by; they cut the bridge road eight miles form Armada to get here. Mr. Beebe\\nwas married, September 22, 1850, to Ellen M.. daughter of Jeny Norton, a native of Con-\\nnecticut; she was born February 27, 1830. in Portage County. Ohio; they have had three\\nchildi-en J. Asher, born July 8. 1851, and living at Fort Gratiot; Stella E.. born August\\n5, 1852, married and lives in Chicago, III.; May E., born June 5, 1865. Mr. Beebe was\\nPostmaster of the village for thirtj^ years, except about six years, and still holds the oiSce.\\nAt first, he was a Whig, but is now a strong Republican. Mi-. Beebe was engaged for two\\nyears in the copper mines, in 1S47 and 1848. Mrs. Beebe has been a member of the M.\\nE. Chm-ch for many years.\\nLEMUEL BISSELL, sou of Lemiiel Bissell and Mary Beaumont, was born Decem-\\nber 20, 1853, at Ahmednuggui India; his father, a native of Counecticut, was born at East\\nWindsor in that State; he graduated from the Western Reserve College of Ohio, and went\\nas a missionary to India in 1851, under the A. B. C. F. M., where they are both still en-\\ngaged. The subject of this sketch spent the first ten years of his life in India; lived two\\nyears in Milan, Ohio, then removed to Mt. Clemens, Mich., to live with his uncle, attended\\nthe schools of Mt. Clemens, and was under the tuition of the Rev. H. N. Bissell six years;\\nentered the Western Reserve College: graduated fi-om that institution in 1876; he then\\ntaught in public schools in Kansas; spent three years in Yale Divinity School; graduated\\nfrom this institution in 1880, and at once located as pastor of the Congregational Church\\nat Memphis, Mich., in which place he is still located. He was mairied, Octoter 20. 1880.\\nto Miss Anna A., daughter of Alfred Wolcott. of Boston, Summit Co., Ohio; she was torn\\nFebruary 23, 1856; her mother, Mary A. Scoville, was a native of Connecticut; the father,\\nof Ohio: IVL s. Bissell attended the union schools of the county and the seminaries of Hud-\\nson; spent four years in Lake Erie Female Seminary at Gainesville, graduating in 1879.\\nEGBERT L. BRIGGS. Principal of the Union School of Richmond Village, was\\nborn at Chesterfield Township, Macomb County, December 27, 1855; he is the son of Jer-\\nrub Briggs and Harriet Leonard, natives of Y ates and Seneca Counties, N. Y., who were\\npioneers of that township: his mother was a teacher in the public schools of Southern\\nMacomb for a number of years prior to her marriage. The subject of this sketch received\\nthe elements of his education in the schools of his township, then attended the Union\\nSchool at Utica, this county; thence went to the university in 1880 and 1881 taught four\\nterms in the public schools, and two years, 1875 and 1876, at New Haven Village; then\\nbecame Principal of the Union School of the village of Richmond three years; at the close\\nof this engagement, he entered the university as student: in September, 1881, again ac-\\ncepted the Principalship of the Union School of Richmond Village, in which he is now\\nengaged. Mr. Briggs is thoroughly identified with the work of education in the couuty,\\nan active member and officer in its educational organizations, and a member of the State\\nTeachers Association. In political preferences, he is a Republican, and in church rela-\\ntionship, a Congrtgationalist.\\nHIRAM BURK, son of Elijah and Hannah (Root) Burk, was born in Oswego County,", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0802.jp2"}, "803": {"fulltext": "tht.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nN. Y., February 17, 1810; his father, a native of Vermont, born at Woodstock: removed\\nto Macomb in the spring of 1833; lived some years, and retm ued to New York, where he\\ndied about 18()0, at the age of eighty-seven; his mother, a native of Connecticut, born at\\nWindsor, died at Gainesville, Genesee Count} in 1829; the relatives did protective duty\\nboth in the Revolutionary war and in the war of 1812. The subject of this sketch re-\\nceived his scanty schooling in the schools of his neighborhood, and worked upon the farm\\nuntil 1836, when he removed to Macomb, locating land near the village of Richmond,\\nwhich he cleared up and provided with suitable buildings, and occupied about twenty\\nyears, and then sold; remove to Memphis Village, buying there a farm and tannery,\\nwhich he soon sold, buying again, in the same locality, land on which he now lives; on\\nthis place he has erected a fine residence and surrounded himself with all the comforts of\\nlife; was married, in 1838, to Harriet Woodruff, of Genesee County; she was born in\\nLitchfield, Conn., in 1815, July 18. Hortense, born September 22. 1845, died November\\n15, 1848; Francelio, born August 23, 1849, married J. D. Turnbull and lives at Alpena,\\nMich., a member of Legislatui e; Eugene, born March t), 1854, living at home. Mrs.\\nBurk is a member of the Congregational Church. For many years Mr. Bui-k, was an officer\\nin his township; he vvas a Whig, and became a Republican at the formation of that party.\\nJOSEPH G. CARMAN, son of Joseph and Mina (Leete) Carman, she a native of Con-\\nnecticut and he of Eastern New York, was born in Greene County, N. Y., May 1, 1819;\\ncame to Macomb September 15, 1853; lived in Romeo a short time, and settled in Mem-\\nphis in 1854, as a farmer, near the village, where he lives at the present time. He was\\nmarried, September 1 5, 1846, to Susan Louisa Cirould, of Essex County, N. J. she was\\nborn in January, 1819; they had five sons, only one of whom survives. Mrs. Carman died\\nNovember 4) l856. George W. was born in New York August 28, 1852; lived at home,\\nexcept three years which he spent in lake survey, until his marriage. October 25, 1876, to\\nHarriet H, Lacy, of New York State, Livingston County, born June 18. 1856; they have\\ntwo children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ruth, born July 23, 1877; and Francis L., born August 19, 1880. Mr.\\nGeorge W. Carman has been Treasurer of the township of Richmond two years, aud has\\nbeen Postmaster of the village same time, aud holds the office at the present time. The\\nmother of Joseph Carman, Mina Leete, is a direct descendant of Gov. William Leete, of\\nGuilford. Conn., who was Governor of Connecticut provioixs to 1683. The Carmans were\\ndescended from two brothers who came from England in 16)31, and settled at Roxbuiy,\\nMass.\\nALEXANDER CASTER, son of John Caster, a native of Pennsylvania, was born in\\nCanada February 3, 1829; with his father, he removed to Michigan about 1851, aud set-\\ntled in Sanilac County; here his father died in the year 1859; his mother died a few years\\nprevious. Mr. Caster began life for himself as a blacksmith; afterward as a farmer in that\\ncounty, and as engineer of the mills of that and other places; removed to Macomb in\\n1855, and was an engineer some years; also owned a farm in Richmond, near the village.\\nIn 1873, December 18, he married Miss Elizabeth, daughter of Solomon Stone, of Rich-\\nmond Township; they have iwo children Mabel, born November 3. 1875; Charles A.,\\nJuly 21, 1879. In 1876, he erected a tine residence on Ridge street, in which he now\\nlives. In politics, he is a Republican.\\nWILLLiM CASTER was born in Canada May 2, IS 19; his parents were natives of\\nPennsylvania, and died at Lexington. Mich. Mr. Caster removed to Sanilac County in\\n1843, and bought a lot of land, which he improved and sold in 1^53, and, the following\\nspring, removed to Richmond Township, where he bought a farm; this he soon sold, and\\nthen removed to the village of Richmond, where he now resides. Mr. Caster was married,\\nin 1843, to Miss Jane Elliott, who was born in August, 1823; they have no children; they\\nare prominent in the Free Methodist Church in the village, and he is a Republican.\\nt\\n-siV", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0803.jp2"}, "804": {"fulltext": "J,\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUKTY.\\nJOSEPH CHUBB.\\nCHAUNCEY CHURCH, son of Asa Church, was bom in Chelsea, Vt., February 10.\\n1805: Asa Church was born in Mansfield. Conn.. May 16, 1766: his wife was Juliaette\\nHumphrey, of Winchester, N. H., and of English origin. Chauncey Church was married\\nto Laura Martin February 20, 1.S29; she was born in Underhill, Vt, April 14, ISOS. Mr.\\nChiu-ch, with his wife and one child, Lucy Ann now Mrs. A. M. Keeler moved to Mich-\\nigan in 1S84: he bought a farm in the township of Macomb, Macomb County, in the Davis\\nsettlement, where they had three children more\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Marlin, born October 11, 1S36: Emily,\\nliorn April 10, 1889; Emma A., born May 2S, 1844. The last three are not living. He\\nbrought from Vermont a Sabbath school library, and the same year organized one of the\\nfirst Sunday schools in Macomb County: was an active member of the first Bible society:\\noutspoken in temperance: was prominent among the first anti-slavery agitators; he moved\\nto the township of Shelby in 1845. where, in 1850, he became a Trustee, and took an effi-\\ncient part in the organization and support of the Disco Academy. His wife died January\\n23. 1853. and he was married to Mrs. Mary Bentley Aken July 21, 1864, who was born\\nJanuary 10, 1813, in Greenfield, Saratoga Co., N. Y. After having been an active mem-\\nber of the church for more than sixty years, he died. March 28, 1881. leaving his wife and\\nMrs. Keeler sole surviving member s of his family.\\nDR. W. D. CLARK was born in the town of Clarkson. Mom-oe Co.. N. Y., August\\n21: 1841: his father. Harley C. Clark, was a native of New York; his mother, Julia Lor-\\ning, a native of Massachusetts, both of English descent; his grandfather, Steven Clark,\\nserved in the war of the Revolution. W. D. received his early education in a district\\nschool at Webster s Mills, Monroe Co., N. Y. when fourteen years of age, moved to Roch-\\nester, N. Y., and there graduated at No. 14 High School; in 1859, commenced the study\\nof dentistry with Briggs Doolittle, in Albion, N. Y. after three years study, removed\\nto Erie. Penn.. and there worked for Dr. Chapin one year; while there, commenced the\\nstudy of medicine (allopathic); in 1863, received a call from Dr. S. Barns, of the United\\nStates Ai my, and joined his staff as an assistant. In 1866, he came to Michigan and\\ncommenced the practice of dentistry at Monroe, at the same time taking up the study of\\nhomoeopathy with Dr. A. S. Sanger: in the fall of 1866-67, also in 1867. attended lect-\\nures at Ann Arbor (Michigan) University; in 1872, February 12, he graduated f -om the\\nCleveland Hospital College, where he also received an extra diploma for his supei-ior skill\\nas a surgeon; he then returned to Monroe, Mich., and continued the practice of medicine\\nand surgery with Dr. A. S. Sanger, his former i reeeptor, for fo\\\\u years the 17th of\\nMarch, 1882, he came to Richmond, Macomb Co., Mich. Dr. Clark was among the first\\nto organize the State Homceopathic Society, and held the Chairmanship of the Board of\\nCensors for several years; he still belongs to the above society: he has built up a large\\npractice in this place, and has been very successful as a practitioner, and especially noted\\nas a surgeon. He was married, January 31. 1871, to Miss Emma, daughter of Lyman\\nCummings. of Ontario County. N. Y. his children are Abigail, born January 28. 1873;\\nBertha, May 22, 1876; Harley C, born December 1, 1881. Mrs. Clark was born in On-\\ntario County, N. Y. April 4. 1848.\\nJAMI ]S W. COOPER, a merchant of Richmond Village, was liorn in Herkimer\\nCounty, N. Y. September 30, 1819, son of Fred Cooper, of New England, and Hannah\\nSterling, of same place. Mr. Cooper attended school in the common schools of the place:\\nworked at the builders trade seventeen years; in 1857, engaged in the grocery and feed\\nbusiness in the city of Syracuse, N. Y. two and a half years, and returned with a loss of\\nall he had invested; he then removed to Richmond Village and er^aged in the business\\nof buying and selling hoops; this he made a profitable business; after three years, built a\\nstave mill in the village, and soon after engaged in mercantile pursuits, with other", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0804.jp2"}, "805": {"fulltext": "men as partners at various times: tlie stave mill was destroyed by fire in 1.S70; the same\\nbusiness was destroyed eight years later; in 187S. He was principal in the erection of the\\nCooper Block in the village; the next year, in company with Theo. Miller, he erected the\\nCooper Miller Block; in addition to this, he has added a fine hotel and a complete stock of\\ndry goods, fancy goods, boots, shoes, etc., which he owns in compau_y with his son, James P.\\nCooper. He was married, December 1, 1 S47, to Miss Louisa B. Allen, born August 24, 1 823, in\\nVermont. Their children are Alfloutta, born Jan. 1. IS died Feb. 4, 185(5: Frances H.,\\nborn in Oswego Feb. 23. 1N53. mai ried and lives in Romeo: Ella, born in Oswego June 13,\\n1854, married and lives in Toronto; James P., born in Syracuse August 24, 1858. James\\nP. Cooper, son of above, in company with his father in the store, was married, October\\n16, 1880, to Mary Stevens, daughter of William Stevens, of Riley Center; she was born\\nFebruarys, I860. Howard, born October 14. I SSI. Mi-. Cooper is still in the stave man-\\nufacture in company with Rapelye; is connected with the Richmond Driving Park Asso\\nelation, and President of the same. In politics, he is a Democrat.\\nTHOMAS DAWSON was born in Lancashire. England, in the cotton manufacturing\\ndistricts of that country. May 2, 1820; emigrated to Canada in 1840, where he lived near\\nToronto. Canada West, seventeen years, as a farmer, currier and school-teacher; was mar-\\nried, in Canada, October 29. 1843, to Mary Brooks, a native of Canada, and had seven\\nchildren, all of whom are living, two on the homestead. Mrs. Dawson died January 27,\\n1878: was married again, March 23, 1S7U. to Mrs. Belinda Braddock (Champion), a j alive\\nof Lyme, Conn, born March 26, 1829; her first husband died in Philadelphia: second\\ndied in Bay City; removed to Michigan in February, 1857, and settled in Great \u00c2\u00b1Jer-\\nville, St. Clair County, where he was a farmer twelve yearc; from here he remosed to the\\nvicinity of Romeo, where he bought the Caufield and Snover farms, near the -lllage, wbicli\\nhe kept four years: he then sold this and purchased the Linus Gilbert f^ffm. at Memi)liis.\\nMich., and removed to that place, where he now lives; previous to coipring to Macomb, he\\nwas Supervisor of Grant Township seven years: also in Macomb ^ght years, except one\\nyear; was the Secretary of all committees connected with the builOiing of court house and\\njails of Macomb County from 1880 to 18S2. and has been a valuuble aid to them all: also\\nowns, together with his son, the Rochester Flouriug-Mill of Oakland County: first became\\na voter in 1859, and has been identified with the Republican party since that time.\\nERASTUS DAY, SR.,born at Dalton, Mass., in August, 1780: he is the son of Daniel\\nDay, born July 21, 1747; of Benjamin, born February 7 1709; of John, born 1677: of John\\nDay, of Hartford, the son of Robert and brother of Thorn, j Uay, who emigrated to America in\\nApril. 1634, with his wife, Mary, and, on arriving settl^^d at Newton, now Cambridge,\\nMass. Erastus Day was a farmer in MassachusetU: while still young, he moved with his\\nparents to Otsego County, N. Y. where he was married to Lucy Willard, ol Worcester,\\nMass., at the close of the year 1807. In 1812, Mr. ay moved into Canada not, how-\\never, as a U. E. Loyalist, as he refused to join the Brftish, troops: he remained in Canada\\nseveral years: next made his home at Lima, N. V., for a fpw years, and came to Michigan\\nin May, 1826, locating lands on Section 26, Bruce, /where he resided until he died, July\\n12, 1836. His children were Erastus, now residing in Richmond Township: John W.,\\na resident of Mason, Ingham County Russell, died at Armada June, ISSO; Dan. W., liv\\ning at Greenville, Montcalm County; Levi, a physician of Grandville. Kent County; Lu-\\ncinda. who maiTied Volney Day. a resident of Kalamai;oo; and Lucy, who died at home,\\nin New York, in infancy. i\\\\Lr. Day s early settjiement in Macomb is alluded to in the\\ngeneral history of the county, as well as in that jbf the northern townshii s. Mrs. Day,\\nborn in August, 17S0, formerly Miss Lucy Wiilard, died in 1S55, aged seventy-five years;\\nher remains were brought from Kalamazoo, where she was staying with her daughter, and\\ninterred in the cemetery near where she first settled in Michigan.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0805.jp2"}, "806": {"fulltext": "ERASTUS DAY, Jr., son of the old settler just referred to, was born in Otsego\\nCounty, N. Y., October 15, 1808; settled with his pai-ents on Grenadier Island, of the St.\\nLawrence River, in 1812: returned to Lima. N. Y., in 1822, and remained there until\\nDecember. 1825, when he left Lima for Michigan, in company with Addison Chamberlin,\\nSvlvanus Taft and a young physician, who located in Rochester: the trip was made\\noverland through Canada on a sleigh, via Detroit, to a point two miles northwest of Ro-\\nmeo; tbe streams and rivers were fi-ozen, so that the incidents of s]iriug or fall travel\\nwere not experienced; the party took possession of a log shanty, built the year previous\\nbv Capt. Oad Chamberlin and his son. who visited the place in 1824: here they made\\ntheir winter s home, played cards for the privilege of cooking johnny-cake, and so amused\\nthemselves until spring-time, when they began to prepared for the coming of their fami-\\nlies. Mr. Day, Sr., and his family, an ived in June. 1820. and lived for two.months in\\nthe shanty erected by the Chamberlins. Mi-. Day, Jr., received a promise from his father\\nthat, if he would l)uy him a yoke of cattle, his time would be given: the proposition was\\naccepted, and, to perform his part, he entered the employ of Capt. Chamberlin at ipU per\\nmonth, and, after a period of seven months, a yoke of oxen was given him, which was\\nequivalent to his jiay for that time, which oxen he delivered to his father. Before he at-\\ntained the age of twenty -one, he purchased a yoke of steers and eighty acres of land locat-\\ned north of Almont, together with the oxen presented to his father, all resulting from his\\nown labors. After his term of employment with Capt. Chamberlin was concluded, he\\nchopped fifteen acres of land in the neighborhood of John Mellen s residence, at Romeo,\\nami previously took an important part in clearing the site of that village; he purchased\\nan eigiw^-acre lot north of St. Clair street and east of the railroad, of which he cleared\\nlift.H-n acres, in ii 4l: this land he sold, and bought 150 acres now known as the Thomp-\\nson lovm, Whlteh t- Id: in 183H, he purchased 165 acres on Section 18, Armada,\\nwhere L built th. in the northern sections of that township, now occupied by\\nGeorge M i.rner: cl :ty he owned until March 17, 187U, when he sold it to the pres-\\nent occupant. Mc^^^*. was married to Mi-s. Catherine Donaldson Smith, widow of Alan-\\nson Smith, of Men^* Genesee Co., N. Y. the ceremony was performed at Romeo, by\\nRev. Luther Shaw, Tt bruary 6. 1838, in the old Hoxie log house; to this marriage two\\ndaughters were born- -Lucy, who married Levi W. Crawford, and who is now a resident\\nof Stanislaiis County, Cal.; and Mary, married James Palmer, died January 31, 18()0.\\nMrs. Day died October 17, l835. For his second wife he married Betsey Day, daughter\\nof Capt. Han-y Day, of Erie County, Penn., September 13, 1836; to them six children\\nwore born, throe of whom are Hiring\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John E..born January 11, 1838; Malvina, born May\\n22. 1839: and Nancy, S^ptembsf 1, 1851. The former resides in Richmond Township;\\nMalvina married F. L. Beckwith, is now a resident of Oakland, Cal. Nancy married L.\\nB. Vandecar. of Isabella County. Of the children deceased, Harry was drowned May 27,\\n1S44: Sarah died in infancy in l. ~i43; and Martha died August 30, 1873. During the\\ntrying years fi om 1864 to 186(), he was Supervisor of Armada; has been Justice of the\\nPeace from 1839 to 1872: was the fi rst Assessor of the town in 1S34: he has filled many\\nother town offices, and has taken a very important place in the building up of the north-\\nern townships for the last fift}- -seven years; also served as Captain of the Independent\\nRifle Company of Macomb in the Toledo war, and succeeded in drawing one month s 2)ay;\\nprevious to this war. he served in the itnil .tary commands of his county, and was promoted\\ngradually until the period when peace yeas declared between Ohio and Michigan, when he\\nwas mustered out. Mrs. Day taught ;bcLoo1 in Erie County, and, after coming to Ma-\\ncomb, in 1835. taught the first school dn District No. 8 of Ai-mada. Mi-, and Mrs. Day\\nbelong to the Congregational ChuVch, aixd are Republicans.\\nJOHN E. DAY. son of Erastus Dpv. Jr.. was born in Armada Township Januai-y\\n7^^", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0806.jp2"}, "807": {"fulltext": "\u00e2\u0096\u00a0=^^.^4^^", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0807.jp2"}, "808": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0808.jp2"}, "809": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n4^\\n11. 1838; from that time until 1865. he resided with his parents, devoting his attention\\nto agriculture and education: he attended the district school until 1855. when he went to\\nthe Romeo Academy, under Daniel B. Briggs. and continued to study until 1859. From\\nthis period until 18()5. he was engaged on the farm; in August of the latter year, he en-\\ntered into partnership with Alex. Shelp. and opened a carriage, wagon and fanu imple-\\nment factor}- at Romeo, which proved very successful, and would doubtless have continued\\nto advance had not the tirns of July, 1867, destroyed the building, machinery and stock;\\nthe tirm rebuilt and established the factory, which was operated until February, 1868,\\nwhen J. E. Day sold his interest to Milton H. Thomson, receiving in consideration the\\ntract of ninety-two acres known as the Thomson faim, in Ray Township; for the succeed-\\ning six years, Mr. Day carried on this farm, until its sale to A. H. Shelp in 187-1; in\\n1875. he removed back to the homestead in Armada, and lived there until March, 187U,\\nwhen he located on the James Flower fai-m. Section 30, Richmond Township. Mi\\\\ Day s\\nconnection with the schools of Armada and Richmond is of the happiest chavactor; he was\\nelected School Inspector in 1859; held that office continuously until the Inspectorship\\nwas abolished; in 1877, he was elected Township Supervisor of Schools, which position\\nhe now holds: in 1876, was elected Secretary of the Sunday School Association, Macomb,\\nand Secretary of the Macomb County Pioneer Society in 188t). Mr. Day has held the\\noffice of Secretary of the Historical Society, Union Farmers Club, and Director of the\\nCounty Agricultm-al Society. With the spirit born of education, he has taken a deep\\ninterest in the history of his native county, and has for a niimber of years contributed\\ninteresting historical sketches to the press of Michigan, as well as to the archives of the\\nState Pioneer Society. Since 1877, he has been associated v/ith the press of the county.\\nHe was mairied. December 30, 1861, by Prof. John Morgan, D. D. to Miss Sarah C.\\nJudson. daughter of Isaac Judson. of Oberlin. Ohio, bom at Wakeman. Hui-on Co., Ohio,\\nOctober 23, 1842; they have three childi-en Nellie M.. born Januaiy 6, 1867; Erastus,\\nMay 25, 1868; and Fanny, June 4. 1872; a fourth child. Flora D.. born October 7, 1862,\\ndied June 19, 1865. Isaac Judson, father of Mrs. Day. is a native of Connecticut, born\\nat Woodbury in 1797. Mr.s. Judson was also a native of Connecticut, who settled iu Hu-\\nron County. Ohio, with her family, about the year 1831; she died Seplemder 21. 1851,\\naged forty-foiu- years. Mr. Judson is a tine type of the old Puritan stock lirm in the\\northodox faith, a strong advocate of temperance, and anti-slavery in politics. Both\\nMl and Mrs. Day are members of the Congregational Church of Armada, and are Repub-\\nlican in politics.\\nBENJAMIN F. DOTY, son of Elias and Zeviah Jayne) Doty, was born in Oakland\\nCounty, town of Rose, January 14, 1852; spent his early life on a farm in Oakland County;\\nhe engaged in breaking up new land, it not being in condition for culture; he attended\\nthe public schools of the neighborhood, and entered the Union School at Fentonville at\\nthe age of sixteen; then attended the Detroit Commercial College, received his diploma in\\n1871. and, the following year, engaged in the store of Cooper. Heath Co., Richmond.\\nMich., as book-keeper, until 1879; he erected a store in the Cooper Block, and tilled it\\nwith a new stock of boots and shoes and groceries; soon after, entered into partnership\\nwith C. S. Knight in the diy goods line; this continued one year; at this time, he bought\\nthe interest of his partner, and continued in the trade alone; he has two stores devoted to\\nthe business, and keeps a fine stock and desirable goods; aside from this, he conducts, in\\ncompany with Theodore Miller, a clothing store in the Miller Block since 1880. He was\\nmarried. June 11, 1874, to Miss Marilla H. Gleason, daughter of Mathias Gleason, of\\nPennsylvania; she was born December 19, 1850, at Townville; Edna, born March 26,\\n1878. Her father was a soldier of the rebellion; served two years, and was discharged at\\n4!l\\n:V*", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0809.jp2"}, "810": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nliL\\nthe close of the war; her grandfather was a soldier of the Revolution; in politics, a\\nRepublican.\\nALFRED A. DRESSER, son of George Dresser, was torn in Canada October 10.\\n1S62; his father moved to Macomb, settling on Clay street, Richmond Township, where\\nhe died in ISTl!. The subject of this sketch attended the schools of the neighborhood; is\\na persevering student, a constant reader, and a young man of good habits and princijiles.\\nMRS. RACHEL DRESSER, widow of Geoi-ge Dresser, was born in Canada Decem-\\nber 3. 1845; she is the daughter of William McLane. of Canada; she was married in Can-\\nada, and removed to Macomb in 18(58, settling on a farm on Clay street, on Section 3\\nwhere she still resides; her childi en are Robert V.. boru January 1^3, 1869; William, born\\nMarch !:!8, 1871: and a step-son. Alfred A. Dresser, born October 10, l8r)2. She conducts\\nthe farm of eighty acres; she has, by good management, provided herself with all the\\ncomforts of life. In form of worship, she is a Baptist. Her husband died Februarv H).\\n1876.\\nMRS. CHESTER L. DUDLEY (Lydia Leete Carman) was born in Cxreene County,\\nN. Y., June 18, 1816; came to Memphis with the Carman family in 185-4; she had been\\na teacher of young ladies in New Jersey. She was married, August 29, 1866, to Chester\\nL. Dudley, at Almont. Lapeer County and removed to Memphis in 1867, where Mr. Dud-\\nley died June 24, 1879. Mrs. Dudley is a member of the Congregational Chm ch of the\\nvillage and a worker in the Sabbath school and in society. Mr. Dudley was born in Berk-\\nshire Mass, July 4, 1806; came to Michigan and settled in Memphis in 1855; he was a\\nprominent man in all the interests of the society, village and township.\\nSHERMAN S. EATON, son of William and Hannah P. Shattuck, was born in Jef\\nferson County, N. Y.. September 25. 1822; his parents were natives of New Hampshire:\\nthey moved from New Hampshu-e to the State of New York in the year 1818. and settled\\nin Jefferson County, where Sherman was born; they moved from there to Niagara County.\\nNew York, in 1827; the father died in Tomjikins County, N. Y.. in 1845; the mother\\ndied in 1850. in Essex, Essex Co.. N. Y. Sherman, when but a boy. commenced working\\nin a woolen factory at Burlington. Vt. in the year 1833: he and his mother then renioved\\nto the head of Lake Champlaiu, on the place now known as Whitehall; ho then com-\\nmenced to di ive on the tow-path oa the Erie Canal, aad rose fi-om the position of driver\\nto that of Captain in the year 1845: ia the meantime, he had acquired some skill in the\\nart of molding, and. in the year 1846. on the 12th day of June, he arrived in Michigan\\nand worked two and a half years for Dexter Mussey as a molder; he then started in busi-\\nness for himself in a small foundry at Armada; he succeeded in accumulating some prop-\\nerty there, and, in the year 1852, he removed to the village of Memphis. Macomb County:\\nwhen he came to Memphis, there was but one shop, a blacksmith, which was kept by\\nWilliam Betts, and a small store; the first year, Mr. Eaton was obliged to go to Ai-mada\\nfor supplies to live upon; he continued his bixsiness. which proved a success, and it is\\nnow a leading enterprise in the village. His wife, Eliza, was the daughter of Andrew\\nConklin, of Herkimer Coimty. N. Y., and was born May 14, 1827; they had two sons and\\ntwo daughters, only one of whom is living Emeroy, born March K), 1862. Mrs. Eaton\\ndied JanuiU-y 15, 1868, at Memphis. He was married again, November 24, 1869, to Miss\\nKatie A., sister of the former wife. He has held important offices in the township and\\nsociety: he belongs to the enterprising, industrious class of citizens. Politically, he is a\\nmember of the Republican party.\\nWILLIAM F. FENNER, son of Turner Fenner, of Connecticut, was born January\\n27, 1803, in Onondaga County, N. Y. he moved to the township of Washington about\\n1N36. and located a farm there; this he sold in 1853 and removed to Richmond Town\\nship, settling on Section 14, on a farm of 160 acres; also owned 120 acres close by. He\\n~i ^V", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0810.jp2"}, "811": {"fulltext": "was married, in New York State, to Emily Amesbtiry, and had a family of live children,\\nall at home. His wife died, and he afterward married Betsey Martin Graves, a native of\\nWestern New York. Cayuga County; she was born December 24. 1800. Of the last fam-\\nily, there were three children, only one of whom is living. Mrs. Fenner died May .^0,\\n1880. Mr. Fenner is still living, at the age of seventy-nine years.\\nFRANK W. FENNER, son of W. Fenner. was born in the township of Washington\\nMay ly, 1848; at the age of live years, his parents moved to the township of Richmond,\\nwhere he attended school in the neighborhood, and at Memphis, under the tuition of Clark\\nHail, and gave his attention to farming; he succeeded to the ownership of the homestead,\\nand was married, September 30, 1874, to Miss Frank E. Ambrose, daughter of Thomas\\nReed, of Moni oe County, Mich. she was born May 31, 1850: they have one adopted child,\\nEdna, born March 31, 1874. Mr. Fenner is an intelligent and prosperous farmer, making\\nthe raising of horses a specialty. He was elected Treasurer tjf the township of Richmond\\nin 1881, which office he still holds. Politically, he is a Republican; religiously, he is a\\nBaptist. The relatives on the mother s side were soldiers in the Revolution.\\nDANIEL FLAGLER was born in Albany County, N. Y., May 14, ISU; he is the\\nson of John and Gertrude Bogart Flagler; are natives of Dutchess County, N. Y. In\\n1835, Ml-. Flagler moved to Canada, and, in the fall of 1836, came to Ar-mada, Mich. In\\nApril, 1838. he settled on his farm on Section 31. Richmond Township, where he haf\\nsince resided. He was married. May 2. 1835. to Serena Smith, a native of Albany Count}\\nN. Y. The record of their seven children is as follows: George, born May 30. 1836.\\ndied October 24, 1836: Alonzo, born May 16, 1838, married Jane Lemon and lives in Oak-\\nland County, Mich. Myron, born August 14, 1840. was killed at the battle of Murfrees-\\nboro in 1862; Emma E.. born May 7, 1845. married Carleton N. Brown and resides in\\nthis township; Henrietta, born July 1. 1849; Winfield. born October 29. 1850, married\\nMary A. Thomas and resides at Y ^ellow Springs. Ohio; Louisa, born October 9, 1852,\\nmarried Timothy P. Tiu-ner and resides on the homestead. Mr. Flagler has been a Re-\\npublican since the organization of the party; he has served several successive years as Su-\\npervisor of the townshij). and has been Ju.stice of the Peace for twelve years. In 1840, he\\njoined the Union Church, and afterward connected himself with the Christian society.\\nCHARLES S. GILBERT, son of Isaac and Rhoda A. (Sage) Gilbert, was born at\\nMemjjhis January 13, 1842; his father, a native of Massachusetts, was born in 1810; the\\nmother was born in Connecticut in 1811; both are living at Ypsilanti. Mich. Charles\\nGilbert spent his early life on the farm on which he was born: attended schook at the vil-\\nlage, and was married, in 18G6, December IX, to Matilda Pierce, daughter of Isaac C.\\nPierce, a native of England, where Mrs. Gilbert was born February 13, ISSU. Their chil-\\ndren are as follows; Leah, born January 31, 1868; Lilie. born April II, 18(19; Burton\\nI., born July 5, 1870; Halmer, born November IN, 1871; Jessie, born November 4, 1873:\\nEmma, born July 26. 1875; Georgiana. born February 2(1. 1877. Mr. Gilbert received a\\nportion of the homestead farm, situated just south of the village of Memphis, on which\\nhe has resided since that time, having made many improvements upon it; a Congregation-\\nalist in worship, and a Republican in politics. Mrs. Gilbert received her primary educa-\\ntion at the schools of St. Clair City, and entered the Albion Female College in 1S57, and\\nremained two yeai s; on leaving the school, she engaged as teacher of the public schools,\\na calling in which she had previously been engaged; she taught in all nineteen terms.\\nand always with satisfaction to pupils and patrons; she has for many years been a member\\nof the Congregational Chiu ch of the village. Mr. G. enlisted in Company E. Fifth Cavalry,\\nand serve! seven months; discharged on account of an accident.\\nDR. DAVID G. GLEASON, son of Joseph Gleason and Margaret (Francisco), na-\\ntives of Vermont, was born in Allegany County, N. Y. September 26, 1825; the family", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0811.jp2"}, "812": {"fulltext": "A\\nmoved into the State of Pennsylvania in 1834; stayed nine years, then removed to Liv-\\ningston County, N. Y., where David attained majority; studied at Middlobury Academy\\nand at Birmingham, Mich. stndied medicine, and began pi-actice in the township of\\nChestertield, Macomb Couuty, in 1S4S; continued the practice at this place seventeen\\nyeai s, then removed to the village of Richmond, bought a piece of land on Main street\\nand built a house and store, and, sis years after, bought the farm known as the Norton\\nfiU m, a little north of the village, which he conducts, together with his ju actice; at the\\ntime of the pm chase of the fai m, he was engaged in the business of general store, a black-\\nsmith shop and a livery stable, besides his practice of medicine, thus making business to\\nthrive antl giving employment to a large number of people;- he afterward, in 1N69, built\\nthe first In ick block in the village, which he still owns; he was one of the originators of\\nthe cheese factjry in the village, and owns one-third of the same; in 1878, he, in company\\nwith Lathrops, built the second block, making three stores owned by Gleason; one of these\\nlie occupies as a drug store, aud the other two are rented. He was married. January 27,\\n1851. to Miss Lucretia Mathews, daughter of Charles B. Mathews, of Chestertield, native\\nof Oswego County, N. Y. she was born in Chestertield February 24. 1886 Elmer P.\\nborn February 18, 1855; Ella, born February IN, 1S55 (a twin), died May fi. 1858; Allie,\\nborn June 6. 1ISG2. Mrs. Gleason s people were pioneers of Chesterfield, having moved to\\nthat township and erected a large log hotel, which was on the first Gratifit Tiu npike. just\\nthen bein^ built; this was made the point at which the Indians of that locality received\\ntheir annual appropriations from the Government, and was often the scene of much ex-\\ncitement. Mr. Mathews died May 5, ISfiiJ. at the age of sixty-sis; his wife died in 1878,\\naged seventy years; both died at the Doctor s house, in Richmond. In politics, the Doc-\\ntor is a Democrat.\\nDR. FRED M. GARLICK. son of Horace and Nancy (House), was born at Detroit.\\nMich., June 15, 1849; he received his primary education at Romeo, under the tuition of\\nD. B. Briggs, and at Aj mada; entered the Medical Dejiartment of the University of Mich-\\nigan in 1869; graduated from the Detroit Medical College June 28, 1871, and entered\\nupon the practice of medicine at Waterford, Oakland Co. Mich., one year; thence removed\\nto Armada, where he remained about three years; from there to Port Sanilac, where he\\nremained till 1881, when he took np his residence in Richmond, where he is still in the\\nju actice. On leaving Waterford. the citizens of that place presented him a paper express-\\ning confidence aud esteem in the ability and worth of the Doctor as a citizen and a physi-\\ncian, and r\u00c2\u00abgrets for his leaving them, and expressing a hope of a return to that place;\\nthis was signed by more than fifty of the citizens of the village; letters of a like character\\nare in receipt by the Doctor from other places where he has lived. He was married. May\\n20, 1872. to May Bentley. daughter of E. R. Bentley; she was born at Marcellus. this\\ncounty. Sejstember 13. 1852; children as follows: May E.. born June 6. 1873; Edwin\\nH.. born in Sanilac June 24, 1877, died November 7, 1N79; Edith M., born in Sanilac\\nJune 12, 1879; Fred B born March 1, 1881. Mr. Garlick is a young man of energy\\naud skill in his practice; a member of the Detroit Academy of Medicine; in belief, a Con-\\ngregationalist. and in politics, a Republican.\\nOKRAN GRANGER, son of Thaddens and Julia E. (Manly), was born in Akron,\\nOhio, August 2(), 1823; his father was born in Sandisfield. Mass.; moved to Ohio about\\n1810. and died in 1826; the mother, a native of same place, died in Memphis Village in 1866.\\nThe subject of this sketch was a carriage-painter, having learned that business in Ohio;\\nleft the business and the State in 1848. arriving in Memphis in July of that year, and\\nengaged in mercantile trade two years, then was a traveling salesman eight years, at which\\ntime he again engaged in trade, in company with his brother Lewis, three years; then\\nengaged in the same line of ti ade alone, in which he is still employed; the business has", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0812.jp2"}, "813": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ngrown from an investment of $500 to $12,000. He was married. July 19. 1840. to Miss\\nHarriet Rose, of Cuyahof^a Falls, born in September. 1823: CTOorge M. born Jnly 19.\\n1841. living in Detroit; Charles W. AugiTst 1 5. 1843. living in Chicago. Mrs. Granger\\ndied in 1847. Mr. Granger was married again. October 4. 1S49. to Sarah A. Ashly,\\ndaughter of David Ashly. of Vermont; she was born November 14. 1828; Isabella, boru\\nJuly 17. 1850, died September 12, 1850; Herbert A.. February 23. 1852, died May 12,\\n1853; Carrie A. Granger, born October 2. 1854. living at Memphis; and an adopted child.\\nC. Gus. born June 18, 1865. An officer in village and in society: a member of the Masonic\\nfraternity; a Republican in politics, and prominently identified with the improvements of\\nthe village.\\nDANIEL HALL, son of Benjamin and Beulah (Fowler) Hall, born in North Guil-\\nford. New Haven Co., Conn.. October 26. 1807. His gi-andfather, William Hall, came\\nfrom England in 1699. in company with one Thomas Norton, and Grace, his wife, and\\nsettled on the present site of North Guilford. His mother. Beulah Fowler, was of Dutch\\ndescent. Daniel Hall was married, in December. 1831. to Sarah D.. daughter t f Jeny\\nNorton, of Ohio; she was then visiting friends in Connecticut. In the following spring,\\nthe young couple went out to Ohio; here their eldest sou. Edward W.. was born; also two\\nchildi en who died in infancy. After a four-years stay in Burton, Ohio, they moved to\\nMacomb County and settled on land taken from the Government, cutting a road one and\\na half miles to reach the place. Mr. Hall immediately began to develop the new farm\\nand make his home; on this place the family still reside; shortly after coming to Michi-\\ngan, they lost another infant child; their other childi en were as follows: Daniel Web-\\nster, born in North Cxuilford, Conn., while his parents were there on a visit, now deceased;\\nEunice, died at the age of seven years; Adaline. born May 30, 1840, married T. Ward\\nand lives at Richmond Village; Emma, born January 24. 1843. married Ransom Odeon,\\nnow living at Romeo; Cai oline. born August 16. 1848, married Charles Mills and lives in\\nRichmond Townshij); Joseph A. and Benjamin R.. twins, born March 20, 1851; the for-\\nmer lives on the homestead, and the latter on a farm adjoining. The first school in this\\npart of the town was kept in a part of Mr. Hall s house, partitioned off by a blanket; this\\nschool is referred to in the general history. The parents of Mrs. Hall were pioneers of\\nOhio, and moved to Macomb County in 1835; her father died in Ohio in 1866, and her\\nmother in Macomb in 1875. Mr. Hall died January 22. 1880; Mrs. Hall still lives on the\\nhome farm, at the age of seventy-three; she has been a member of the M. E. Chm-ch for\\nforty-eight years. Webster, son of Mi Hall, enlisted in the Fifteenth Michigan Volun-\\nteer Infantry in the late war; served four years, and was honorably discharged; retiu ned\\nto his home, married and gathered around him a family and many of the comforts of life;\\nhe was killed by a threshing machine in 1875. In the fall of 1860. the family suffered\\nloss by lire; the dwelling house ami much of its contents were bm ued: the next summer\\nthey built the present residence; the situation is one of the most pleasant, and the farm\\na very fertile one. When the cemetery at Richmond was laid out. thirty years ago. Mr.\\nHall was the first sexton, and acted in that capacity for three years; since then, his son,\\nEdward W. Hall, has been the. sexton a period of twenty-seven years.\\nJOHN HICKS, one of the old settlers of Macomb County, was born in Ontario County,\\ntown of Bristol. N. Y. October 15. 1803; his father. Otis Hicks, was a native of Attle-\\nboro, Mass. his mother, Betsey Dunham, was a native of the same place. Otis Hicks be-\\ncame sixteen years of age just in time to enlist for the defense of the courts of his native\\ntown from the Hays men, who had bunded to prevent the sitting of the courts. The\\nfamily are descended from three brothers, who were Pilgrims, and arrived from England\\nsoon after the landing of the Mayflower; was engaged as a farmer in New York; moved to\\nMichigan in 1836, amving in Macomb in May of that year; the *amily arrived in the fol-", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0813.jp2"}, "814": {"fulltext": "A\\nJ^l\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nlowing autnmn: started from Detroit the 12th day of October, with a team hired for- the\\npurpose, at the rate of iST per day; the journey required three days, and, when within one-\\nhalf mile of the end of the jom ney, the driver upset the wagon and left the goods in the\\nwoods, refusing to load them up again; the load consisted of the household efi ects of the\\nfamil} the wife and three children, who went on foot most of the way. Mr. Hicks located\\non eighty acres of land on Section ;55. in Richmond, one-half of which is now covered by\\nthe village of Richmond. He was married, December 1, 1885, to Catherine Emmons;\\nshe was born in Northumberland, Saratoga Co., N, Y., December 1, 1804: have had nine\\n.children, six of whom died young, and three James M. Hicks, born August 17, 1830;\\nEliza A. Hancock, November 20, ISH I; Ophelia Corbin, Januaiy 14. 1846. Mr. Hicks\\nhas lived in the village of Richmond since 1836, except eleven years spent in Aimada\\nTownship; he has aided in the development of the county, and seen it emerge from the wil-\\nderness to the fruitful land; was a member of the Christian Church in Bristol, and trans-\\nferred his relations from that to the same church here; Democrat; voted first for Jackson.\\nMrs. Hicks died November II. 1875.\\nJOHN M. JOHNSON was born in County York. Ontario. April 28. 1845, where his\\npeople were farmers; moved to Macomb County in March, 1868, and settled on a farm,\\nMarch, 1869, Section 3. Richmond Township, known as the old Feuton farm, where he\\nremained ten years; thence to Richmond Village March 8. 1879, and engaged in the fur-\\nniture and undertaking business, which he is still engaged in; was married, February 7,\\n1869, in Canada, to Mary A. Baker, who died May 20, 1877; was again married, May 6,\\n1879. to Josie S. Gilbert, daughter of Lines Gilbert, of Memphis; she was born Septem-\\nber 15, 1843; they had no children. Mr. Johnson is at Richmond, still in the same line\\nof trade, and merits the patronage of the vicinity in which he lives; in politics, he is a\\nRepublican.\\nALONZO M. KEELER, sou of John and Mary M. (Fellows) Keeler, natives of Mon-\\nroe County, N. Y., she of Schoharie County; the father was born March 16, 1802; the\\nmother, November N, 1806; they moved to Washington Township in 1826 and settled on\\nSection 35; lived on his farm until 1854, then moved to Disco, where he still resides; they\\nhave been prominent in the development of the new country, and have been perhaps the\\nonh ones of the new settlers left to each other s company. Mr. Alonzo Keeler received\\nthe elements of his education in the schools of the neighboi hood where he lived, which\\nwas further pursued at Rochester, Mich., and at Oberlin. Ohio; at the age of twenty-one,\\nhe began life as a teacher; taught his first school in the Brindle Schoolhouse, and after-\\nward took the Priucipalship of the Disco Academy from 1850 to 1856. then went to Roch-\\nester and taught one year, when he returned and taught two years in Utica. Mr. Keeler\\ntaught the first school in the old brick school building in tHica Village, and then the last\\none. and also taught the first term in the new building. August 7, 1862, he enlisted\\nin Company B, Twenty-second Michigan Volunteer Infantry; raised a company of 115 men\\nin five days, and took them into camp; on the mustering in, Mr. Keeler was elected Cap-\\ntain, was taken prisoner at Chickamauga, and remained a prisoner at Libby and Macon,\\nGa., one and a half years; was one of the 600 under fire at Charleston; on release fi-oin\\nprison, went to parole camp, and entered active service May 15, 1865; was promoted, -Ian.\\n1865, to Major, and afterward to brevet Lieut. Colonel and brevet Colonel; was mustered out\\nJuly 12, 1865; retiu-ned home and began teaching again; he was elected Register of Deeds\\nfor the county in 1868 one term; during this time and immediately afterward, he pre-\\npared an abstract of the county a costly and very valuable work; in April. 1875. he re-\\nmoved to the village of Richmond and engaged as the Principal of the Armada Public\\nSchool, in which place he has since been engaged. He was married, December 31, 1849,\\nto Miss Lucy A., daughter of Chauneey Church; she was born in Vermont March 7, 1831,\\nV", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0814.jp2"}, "815": {"fulltext": "Ml\\nHISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nand they have had six children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 A. Martin, born December 19, 1850; Flora L., born April\\n12, 1852: John C, born February 22, 1859: Ezra Bruce, born December 25. 18(50: Ella\\nB., born November 6, 18G2; Henry A. born November 4, 1867. Mr. Keeler and wife have\\nbeen members of the M. E. Church for the past thirty- hve yeara: he has been an officer\\nin the same, a leader in th-^ choir, and the Superintendent of the Sunday school, and\\nTrustee in the society; vras appointed Collector of the Fifth District under Andrevp John-\\nson, and would not subscribe to my policy; the nomination was not confirmed: has\\nalwavs been a Republican since the war, and was a Democrat before.\\nROBERT KNIGHT. He is the son of Edward and Elizabeth, daughter of L. Worth,\\nof New Hampshire: was born in Stafford. N. H.. June 1. 1806; moved at an early age to\\nVermont, where he lived until the death of his pai ents, when he removed to Orleans\\nCounty, N. Y., where he was married, in 1828, to Cloe Wage, of Saratoga County, N. Y.\\nthey have one son, Charles S. Mrs. Knight died in Orleans County in August, 1884;\\nmarried again, April 14, 1835, to Miss Lois R. Chase, of Addison County. Vt., Ijorn De-\\ncember 2, 1815. Soon after the second marriage. Mr. Knight took his wife and son, and,\\nin company with a brother and brother-in-law and their families, i-emoved to Michigan,\\narriving in Macomb County in the fall of 1835, and located a farm in Chesterfield Town-\\nship, on Section 15; built a log shanty, with shake i-oof and split basswood for a floor,\\nand a quilt for door and windows, and thus began life in the new county: he sold this farm\\nand bought another near by which he still owns, and on which a son is still living. In\\n1878, Mr. Knight left the farm and removed to the village of Richmond, where he still\\nresides: has had a family of eight children, four of whom ai e living in the county. Mr.\\nKnight was an officer in the early history of Chesterfield, active in building roads and in\\nthe improvement of the place: tu st a Whig, and afterwai d a Republican.\\nCHARLES KNIGHT, son of Robert Knight, a native of New Hampshire, and Cloe\\nWage Knight, of New York, was born in Orleans County in April. 1821); removed with\\nhis father s family to Macomb County in 1885: lived with his father s family until mar-\\nriage, which took place Mav 4. 1S5V), to Miss Helen C. Haskin; she was born August 26,\\n1840, and died November 17, 18f)6; they had one child, Mary E., born July 29, 1862; mar-\\nried again. May 7, 1868. to Mrs. Maggie G. Hotchkiss; she was born October 26, 1834,\\nand died October 2, 1873: their children are Addie L., born February 27, 1869, died\\nApril 13, 1871: Gleason C, September 22, 1873. died November 12, 1873; married again,\\nFebruary 18, 1875, to Abbie J. Crittenden; she was born November 17. 1.S36; she is the\\ndaughter of Levi Crittenden, of Massachusetts, who moved to Oakland County in an early\\nday; her grandfather was a participant of the Revolution. After marriage, Mr. Knight\\nengaged in farming until 1S65, when he removed to Richmond Village and engaged in\\nmerchandise at that village and at White Lake, Oakland Co., Mich., where he remained\\ntwo years; he engaged in this business, together with the stave and heading business, with\\nCooper some years: in 1879, sold this store and engaged in the butter and egg business,\\nunder the firm name of Freeman Knight, in which he is at present engaged. Mr. Knight\\nhas been a member of the Congregational Church eleven j ears. and is now Deacon of the\\nchurch of that faith in Richmond Village: is also Superintendent of the Sabbath school,\\nand u as an officer of the township of Chesterfield always been a Republican.\\nSETH LATHROP. son of Edward and Emma Andrews Lathrop, was boi-n July 1,\\n1818, at West Springfield, Mass.; arrived m Macomb County in 1837: lived in Armada\\nuntil 1842, where he was engaged in farm labor principally until 1846. then built the\\nLathrop stoi-e; in company with Charles, engaged in the mercantile business until 1S(;2,\\nwhen he moved to Richmond and engaged in the same business, in which he is still en-\\ngaged. He was married, December 24. 1849, to Polly, dauc^hter of Richard Walker; she\\nwas born in New York April 1. 1827, and died July 18. 1854: they had two children", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0815.jp2"}, "816": {"fulltext": "IIISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ndied in iufancy. He was married again, in ISaG. to Lydia C. McAllister, daughter of\\nGeorge McAllister, of New Hampshire; she was born in Rockingham County. N, H.\\nMarch U], 18;i2: Alice E., born March 27. 1851); Seth D., born February 3, ISrU; an\\ninfant. September 28, ISft-t; Emma J., January 20, 18( )8; Clarence Eugene, March 7.\\n1870. died March S, 1873; Mary E. October 4, 1873. IVIr. Lathrop was for many years\\na prominent member of the Congregational Church and the Superintendent of the Sunday\\nschool at Armada Village, and, after moving to Richmond, took a prominent jiosition\\nin the Congregational society at that place. Mrs. Lathrop is a leader in the temperance\\ncause, and belongs to the Sabbath school of the place. Mr. Lathroj) owns a large farm\\njust at the outskirts of the village, and has erected a line residence on Main street. He\\nis a Republican. Mrs. Lathrop s relatives were engaged in the war of the Revolution.\\nTHOMAS A. LEACH, .son of f!apt. Thomas Leach and Electa (Abbot) Leach: his\\nfather was a wealthy Captain on the lakes; he owned vessels on Lake Ontario, one of\\nwhich he was Master of several years; he at last left the scenes of the lakes and returned\\nto a farm in Oakville, Ontario, where he died in 1848. His mother was born in Toronto,\\nwhose ancestors were jiioneers of the city of Toronto, Canada, and whose farm is now in-\\nclosed in the city limits; she is still living in this county. The subject of this sketch was\\nborn in Oakville, Ontario, November 14, 1847; attended the schools of his native town,\\nand removed thence to Buffalo, N. Y. at the age of eighteen, had a position as clerk in a\\nretail store in that city, where he remained two years; while in this store, he was asso-\\nciated with first-class bnsiness, whei-e he received a thorough biisiuess education; then\\npurchased a store and embai ked in the same line of trade for him.selE, in which he met\\nwith remarkable success for eight years; he sold his entire stock and removed to the village\\nof Richmond. Macomb County, where he established himself in the produce and commis-\\nsion business, being the fii st to establish a cash market for all kinds of produce, dealing\\nheavily in all kinds of fruit, potatoes, butter, eggs, etc.; this was continued two years, then\\nadding to tht) business the grocery trade, including the stock {)m chased of Bui-gess Bros.\\nhe soon found his trade too large for his rooms; he pm-chasod the large stock of grocery\\nand crockery ware of Cooper Son, and entered into business in the store known as\\nCooper Block; remained at the place one and a half years, then sold his entire stock, in-\\ntending to go out of the grocery trade; soon after, changing his purpose, he bought the\\nstock of S. H. Heath, and added to it fine groceries, crockery and glasswai e, in which he\\nstill continued, together with the jjroduce business. He was married, April 1 5, 1878, to\\nEmily J. Day, daughter of Capt. Augustus Day and Julia A. (Miner), of Detroit, Mich.\\nshe was born in Detroit October l(j, 184il; attended the jjublic schools of that city until\\n18(51, then entered the Detroit Female Seminary and remained until 1871, graduating with\\nhigh honors; one child. Norwood A., born February 27, 1880. Previous to his mai riage,\\nMr. Leach had purchased a house and lot in the village, and, soon after, bought a farm\\nof forty aci es near the village, which his mother now occupies; he is an energetic, ag-\\ngressive man, and is gaining a very extensive trade; he is a member of the Knights of\\nHonor, and also Free and Accepted Masons, and has held all the oflices couferable by the\\nlodge; he is a Repulilican in politics; he was elected Trustee of the village by a large\\nmajorit\\\\, which office he now holds.\\nRICHARD MKLLENS.\\nTHEODORE MILLER, son of Caleb Miller and Almica ^Nhitcomb, was liorn in\\n1842, July 11. Orleans County, N. Y. his father arrived in 184(), bought a farm on Sec-\\ntion 34, in Richmond, which he kept one year, then moved to Section 20, on the Ridge,\\nand bought a farm now owned by the family; in 1860, built a founchy and plo\\\\ factory,\\nin which he gained a wide reputation; in 18(58, added a grist-mill, rim by steam-power;\\nin 1874, moved the founcky to Richmond Village; in 1878, sold the mill, when the busi", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0816.jp2"}, "817": {"fulltext": "ness was all taken to the village. Mr Miller died at the farm, in July, 1878. The sub-\\nject of this sketch was married, October 5. 1868, to Ellen, daughter of Shephard Smith,\\nwho was born June 20, 1838. Mr. Theodore Miller removed to the village of Richmond\\nin August. 1873, and engaged in the manufacture of agi icultui al implements; erected his\\nhouse, and, in 1878, erected one-third of the Cooper Block, and placed there a complete\\nstock of hardwai e\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the best-fiu uished stock in the place, with which his brother is in\\ncompany; the following season, in company with James W. Cooper, built the Cooper\\nMiller Block, on the west side of Main street, in which he, with B. F. Daty, have a cloth-\\ning store; the manufacture of implements is still carried on, and is an important branch\\nof industry in the village. He has three children Adelbert, thirteen years: Nellie, eleven\\nyears; and Annie, eight j ears.\\nJOHN A. PATON, son of John and Margaret Wilson Paton, natives of Scotland,\\nwas born near Amherstbui g, Ontario. March IL 1849; came to Macomb County with his\\nparents when fifteen years old; they settled on Section 12, Armada Township; he worked\\nrented land mostly for about seven years after attaining his majority, and, in the spring\\nof 1870, he bought the farm he now occupies, on Section 3 2, Richmond Township, and\\nafterward added to it. Mr. Paton was married. March 2G, 1878, to Maggie A., daughter\\nof David Paton, of Lapeer County; they have two children Charlotte, born January 17,\\n187U; and Florence E., born October 13, 18S1. Mr. Paton is a farmer of great energy\\nand has made the raising of tine cattle and draught horses a prominent branch of his busi-\\nness; he has also a large Hock of sheep, and will in the futm e enlarge upon this branch;\\nhe has also fifteen acres oE apple orchard of the most choice varieties. Mi\\\\ Paton and\\nwife are members of the Congregational Church. He is a Republican, and votes for hon-\\nest temperance men.\\nBARTLETT PERKINS, son of George and Rebecca S. (Goddard) Perkins, was born\\nat Albany, N. Y., January S. 1828; came to Macomb with parents in May, 1831. and lo-\\ncated at Romeo, where he woi ked for N. D. Taylor; he moved to Richmond Township\\nFebruary 8, 1830, where his father died. Bartlett Perkins resided on a portion of the\\nhomestead lands until 1871), when he moved to the village of Richmond. He was married,\\nin January, 1853. to Amanda A. Ellenwood, of Jeflfert-on County, N. Y. two childi-en were\\nborn to them\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Franklin L.. October 2U, 1853, died February 3. 1865; and Eddie B. ,born\\nSeptember 13. INOO. Mrs. Perkins died July 10, 1870. Mr. Perkins married Mi-s. J. L.\\nBarnard (Sutton), born at Stratford, N. Y., September 23, 1833, to whom three children\\nwere born, one of whom is living. Mr. Perkins has always been a successful farmer, and\\na member of the Republican party.\\nCHARLES H. PERKINS, son of George and Rebecca S. Goddard Perkins, was born\\nin Richmond Township, Section 28, May 25. 1840; the parents were natives of Plymouth,\\nMass.; came to Macomb County in May. 1831. stopping in Romeo for five years; he bought\\neighty acres of land west of the village; also built a house and shop, where he carried on\\nthe cooper s trade; from the village of Romeo he moved to the Township of Richmond\\nand bought land on Section 28. where Charles now resides; their house was two miles\\nfrom the neighbors, and several of the elections were held there. The father died August\\n20, 1876, at the homestead; the mother still lives, at the age of eighty-one yeare. Mr.\\nCharles H. Perkins has always lived on his farm, and was maiTied. January 5, I860, to\\nMiss Adelaide Selleck. daughter of Ira Selleck, of New York State; they have four chil-\\ndren, viz.: Emma J., born November 15, 1860; Mary E., born July 21. 1862; Nora L.,\\nborn August 6, 1866; Hiram A., born Mai-ch t). 1869. All are living at home. The fam-\\nily have always been Methodist in form of worship, the mother having been a member of\\nthat chui ch for many years. Mr. Perkins has made the raising of fruit a specialty, in\\nTU", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0817.jp2"}, "818": {"fulltext": "HISTOUY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwhich he has met with remarkable success, apples, peaches and strawberries being of ex-\\ntraordinary size and excellence.\\nREV. DANIEL A. PERRTN, A. B.. Pastor of the Methodist Episcopal Church of\\nRichmond Village, was born near Brantford, Ontario, March 21, 188U: his father, Col.\\nThomas Perrin, was a native of Pittsljurgh, Penn. who emigi-ated to Canada in 1804, and\\ncarried on general merchant and milling busine.ss for many years in the village of Mt.\\nVernon, Ontario; he died in 1870. His mother. Mary A. Peet, was a native of Almira, N.\\nY., who emigrated to Canada in 1810; she died near Brantford, Ontario, January 10. 18(30.\\nThe subject of this sketch received his early education at the Central School, Gralt, and at\\nthe Mt. Pleasant Academy; at the age of seventeen, he entered the university of Victoria\\nCollege. Cobm-g, from which he received the degree of Bachelor of Arts in May, 1861; in\\n1859, while a student, he entered the ministry of the Wesleyan Methodist Church, in which\\nbody he remained eleven years, filling important positions; in 18()U, he severed his con-\\nnection with the Wesleyan Methodist Church of Canada, and removed to the State of\\nKansas. United States, and entered the ministry of the Methodist Episcopal Church,\\nwhere he remained, in connection with the Kansas and South Kansas Conference, eight\\nyears, filling both literary and ministerial positions; in 1878, he was received into the De-\\ntroit Conference, and has been successively stationed at Hamburg. Washington and Rich-\\nmond. Macomb County, where he still remains. He was mai-ried, June 23, 1863. to Miss\\nAnnabella Tyler, of Erin. Ontario, who was born July 12. 1840. in Lockport. N. Y.. and\\ndied in Kansas November 23. 1876; the issue of this marriage were Hedley V.. born De-\\ncember 16. 1864. and died August 7. 1865; and Frederick Tyler, born September 2. 1866.\\nHe was again married, to Miss Aehsah R. Perrin, Mistress of English Literature and\\ngraduate of Bordentown Female College. Jane 11. 1875); she is the daughter of James\\nW. Perrin. of Freehold. N. J., and was born March 1. 1841); by this marriage he has one\\nson. Willard Scott, born April lU, 1880. The father of Mr. Perrin was a Captain in the\\nmilitia of Canada in 1837, and was afterward jjiomoted to be Colonel, which honor he\\nwore till the day of his death. Mr. Pen-in is an acceptable Pastor of his church, and a\\nRepublican in politics.\\nEDWARD RANDALL, son of Felix and Maria Jngraham Randall, born in Rich-\\nmond August 3, 184U. lived on the homestead and attended the public schools of he town-\\nship until 1876: he then purchased the old village place on Clay street, where he has since\\nresided. He was married. February 2*), 1876. to Miss Etta, daughter of Hiram Goodar;\\nthe children of this marriage are Ethel E., bornApril 25. 1878; Arthur M.. liorn January\\n16. 1881; and Anna D.. born November 18. 1876. died August 24. 1878. Mr. Randall\\nis a farmer and breeder of fine sheep, having purchased of J. C. Thompson, in 187U.\\ntwenty ewes of his best breeding; afterward bought of the same party six in addition; in\\nJanuary. 1882. he purchased of Taylor Chapman, of Middlebury. Vt.. ten ewes, all\\nregistered in the Vermont Sheep Registry; he also bought of Thompson, in 1881, a ram-\\nPathfinder, recorded in Vermont Registry, grandson of Bismarck, who took the sweep,\\nstake prize at the Centennial Exposition, and yields twenty-five pounds of wool; he believes\\nin raising the best sheep only; together with this in ustry. he cultivates a farm of eighty\\nacres.\\nFELIX RANDALL, son of John and Sarah Smith Randall, natives of Orange County,\\nN. Y.. was born at that place October S. IS] 2; at the age of eight years, his parents\\nmoved to Canada, where they remained for thirteen years; they removed from Canada to\\nOhio in 1833. where the father died in 1858. aged sixty-seven years; the mother died in\\nIllinois, in 1873, aged eighty-four years. Felix Randall arrived in Macomb in the winter\\nof 1837; he had visited the county two years jn-eviously and located 120 acres of land on\\nSections 31 and 32, Richmond, on which he now resides; he moved from Talmage Town-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0818.jp2"}, "819": {"fulltext": "liL\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nship, Portcage Co., Ohio, with an ox team and wagon, with a chest of tools, clothes, and\\na barrel of pork; married, June 1, LS38, Maria, daughter of Asa Ingraham, of Canada;\\nshe was born in Canada April 18. 1818; their children are as follows: Climenia. born\\nJune 7, 188it, now Mrs. Harris, of Eichmond Township; Sarah M. born October 23,\\n1841, married Mr. Abbey, now of Iowa; Rhoda M., born December 17. 1843. married\\nMr. Hodges, of Richmond; Robert A., born May 5. 1847, married and lives in Lenox\\nTownshi]); Edward, born August 3, 184U. lives in Richmond Township; Phoebe, born\\nApril 1, 1842, married Marion P. Bates, now a resident of Richmond; Helen, born No-\\nvember 17. 1855. died at home March 22, 1856; Arthur F.. born November 3, 1858. mar-\\nried and living on the homestead. Mi-. Randall has always lived on the land first taken\\nfrom the Government: he redeemed it from the wilderness, and has made it a fertile farm;\\nhe has taken a prominent part in all the advancements of society, as an officer of the\\ntownship and a strong temperance man; by industry and economy, he has acquired a com-\\npetency for his declining years. The mother of Mrs. Randall died Februaiy 1. 185U, at\\nthe farm in Richmond; her father died at Mt. Clemens in 1864, at the age of eighty-three.\\nPolitically, Mr. Randall is a Republican.\\nORL RIX, a native of Vermont, was born at Royalton August 1, 1804; his father\\nwas a native of the same State; his mother also: both removed to Genesee County, N. Y..\\nwhere she died some forty years ago; he died in Memphis, in April, 1867. Mr. Orl Rix\\nremoved to Romeo in 1835 and engaged in the mercantile trade; this lasted about five\\nyears, when he sold out and went to Memphis and established himself as a miller, bulki-\\nng first a saw-mill, and soon after a grist-mill, now occupied and i-un by S. G. A. D.\\nTaylor, from 1856 to 185U: the family removed to Romeo, and then returned to the vil-\\nlage of Memphis. He was married, in 1836, to Lydia, daughter of Noah Sage, of Ver-\\nmont; she was born at Shaftsbnry, Vt., in 1814; they had a family of live children, three\\nof whom are still living Mrs. East. Mrs. Taylor and George H. Rix, of Lawton. Van Bu-\\nren Co., Mich. Mrs. Rix died in Kalamazoo, and was buried in Memphis, in 1877. Mr.\\nRix died September 8, 1880; he was a member of the Senate and House of Representatives\\nof the Legislature.\\nxMRS. WILLIAM P. RUSSELL (Miss Lucinda G. Stevens), daughter of Deacon O.\\nS. Stevens, of Clinton, Lenawee Co.. Mich., was born in Livingston County. N. Y., May\\n16, 1831; removed to Clinton May 16, 1831); educated in the public schools of that place,\\nand afterward under the tuition of Prof. Estabrook. now of the Olivette College; she be-\\ngan to teach in the public schools of the State at the age of twenty-two. which she fol-\\nlowed for three yeai-s. She was married, August 27, 1874, to the Rev. W. P. Russell, of\\nMemphis, Mich., and still lives at that place; her father was born at Claremont, N. H..\\nand moved to Michigan in an early day, and has spent his active life in this State; he now\\nlives with his daughter, Mi-s. Russell, and is in good health, at the age of eighty live years;\\nher mother died March Ki, 1.S66, at Clinton, Mich.; her maiden name was Matilda Goss:\\nshe became a member of the Congregational C!hurch, then Pre.sbyteriau, of Clinton, Mich.,\\nat the age of eighteen years, which membership was transferred to the chm-ch at Mem-\\nphis, and she is still an active member, a Clerk of the church, and a faithful worker in\\nthe Sabbath school.\\nJOHN K. SMITH, a native of Vermont, rendered a most important service to his\\ncountrj- s troops in 1813; was afterward appointed a Forage Master of a United States\\nregiment, and served with the command until discharge;! at Detroit in 1816; the same\\nyear, he visited Stromner s Island, leased the old Laughton House thereon from David\\nLaughton, and inaugurated the Smith Pottery there in May, 1S17; in the winter of 1818,\\nhe taught school on Harsen s Island, in a j)art of Jacob Harsen s house, at the same time\\nbeing engaged in trade with the Indians, in company with D. Laughton; he was commis-", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0819.jp2"}, "820": {"fulltext": "^1\\n1\\nsioned Justice of the Peace of Macomb County May 17, 181S, by Gov. Cass; was the first\\nPostmaster in St. Clair County, being appointed in charge of an office at Plainfield Au-\\ngust 26, 18 2(), and Special Commissioner of St. Clair April 20, 1S27, first Custom Inspec-\\ntor on the St. Clair River May J, 1832; and was the first Probate Judge of St. Clair, being\\nelected in 1835; he was Justice of the Peace from 1818 until his death, in 1855. Through-\\nout the chapters of the general history, the name of John K. Smith is given in close con-\\nnection with the aflairs of Macomb County in 1818, 1819 and 1821.\\nADDISON G. STONE, son of George H. and Melinda Farewell, natives of New York\\nand Ohio, was born at the village of Albion, Orleans Co., N. Y. March 16, 1S4U; he re-\\nceived a primary education in his native place, and then entered Eastman s Commercial\\nCollege, of Rochester, N. Y., and then to Georgetown College, of Washington, D. C,\\nwhere he gi aduated from the Law Department in June, 1875; was admitted to the prac-\\ntice of law by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia June l-t, 1875. entered upon\\nthe practice of his profession at once, which was continued one year; on leaving AVash-\\nington, he went South, and was in Savannah during the rage of the yellow fever, and was\\none of the sufferers; then he removed to Rutland County, Vt., and engaged in the practice\\nof law at that place about two years, where he was a member of the bar fur that county.\\nHe removed to Macomb County December 12, 1878, locating in Richmond Village, where\\nhe still resides, and is engaged in his profession. He was married, September 10, 1873,\\nto Lucretia M. Kent, a native of Wallingfqrd, Vt. she was the daughter of E. W. Kent,\\na farmer of that place; they have no childi en. At the township meeting next succeeding\\nhis arrival in the township, he was elected a magistrate, which office he still holds; in\\n1880, he was elected Circuit Court Commissioner of the county, and is still in office. Mr.\\nStone is well up in his profession, and is a Republican in politics: was elected by the larg-\\nest majority of any one on the ticket. Mrs. Stone was born in Wallingford. Vt. Mai-ch\\n31, 1850. Mr. Stone was Clerk of the village of Richmond for two years succeeding its\\norganization and incorporation 1870 and 1880.\\nSANFORD M. STONE, son of Solomon and Betsey, daughter of Amos Bradley, was\\nborn October 22, 1828, in Monroe County, N. Y. came to Macomb with his father s fam-\\nily in 1843; lived at home until attaining the age of twenty years, then attended private\\nschool at Armada Village from this time until 1857, when he was a public teacher in the\\nschools foui teen teims; then he bought land on Section 26, Richmond; he soon added\\nto the farm and improved it; he sold in 1863; since that time, he has been engaged in\\nagriculture in various places, and now owns several farms; was mari-ied, March 16, 185U,\\nto Caroline A. Halleck, daughter of Hinsdale Halleck, a native of Orleans County. N. Y.\\nshe w^s boi n in Lapeer County April 26, 1810; they have fom children Alice J., born\\nSeptember 6. 1861; Mary E.. June 21. 1863: Hiram H.. November 1, 1865. died March\\n25, 1866; Wan-en S., born September 23, 1860; Phoebe C, September 7, 1873. After\\nmarriage, Mr. Stone lived on the farm six years, then he moved to the village of Rich-\\nmond, and has since resided there: in 1878, he built a residence, which at that time was\\nthe finest residence in the place; he has been a towi^shi[) officer at several times; also an\\nofficer under the village char+er from the beginning, and at present is its President: a\\ndealer in real estate and securities, and always a Democrat: an officer at the organization\\nof the Union School of the village.\\nSOLOMON STONE. Was born January 17. 1788: he was the son of Elias Stone,\\na native of Massachusetts. Solomon was married first to Martha Stanton Clark, who\\ndied after a few years. A few years after, he married Betsey Bradley, who was born in\\nSalem, Washington Co., N. Y. they had one child, Mi s. Sherman, of Bruce Township;\\nby the two marriages there were twelve chiklren, six of whom are living. Mr. Stone was\\na farmer, having taken land from the Government, on which he lived until the time of his\\nel", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0820.jp2"}, "821": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n^1^\\ndeath, which occurred February 2, 185B. on the homestead. Mi-s. Stone died in Rich-\\nmond Village February 1. 1878. All but one are living in the count} came to Macomb\\nand located his land and moved his family in September. 1843.\\nDAVID STOXE, one of the old-time residents of Macomb, a fuller and carder by\\ntrade, was born in Massachusetts in 171)3. He distinctly remembers the scenes of Wash-\\nington s death, and the fact of his parents going to attend funeral service.s, which were\\nheld at many places; also the terrible shock attending the death of Hamilton at the hands\\nof Aaron Burr: during the war of 1812, was called out with the militia for defense. He\\nmoved from Genesee County, N. Y., to Macomb. Mich., about the year 183(3, and became\\na pioneer of that region, establishing himself in the trade of carder of wool and dresser\\nof cloth; this business was destroyed by fire, and soon after, his wife, only son and two\\ndaughters died. His present home is at Lapeer City. He became a Christian early in\\nlife, joining the Congregational Church, of which he is still a devoted and consistent\\nmember; he is an active politician, and has voted for every President since 1815; always\\nWhig and Republican. His only surviving daughter is Mrs. Dr. Hamilton, of Lapeer,\\nwith whom is his present home.\\nGEORGE H. STUART, son of Ebenezer and Susan (Hale) Stuart, was born in West\\nBloomtield, N. Y., October 20, 1813; his parents were natives of Massachusetts; his father\\nremoved to Ontario County, N. Y. and died there in 1817: his mother died at Detroit in\\n1858, at the age of seventy-live. Mr. Stuart passed his early life in Richmond, in the\\nfamily uf Mr. Xathan Hicks, attending school and working on a farm; in April, 18-1:2, he\\nremoved to Macomb, having been married the December previous to Miss Betsey A. Jones,\\nof the same i)lace, who accompanied her husband to his new home; they located on land\\npreviously purchased, on Section 10, Richmond, on which he has continuously resided\\nsince that time. Mrs. Stuart was born May 18, 1817; she is the daughter of Seth Jones,\\nof Bristol, Ontario Co., N. Y. they have no children. Mr Stuart has held important\\noflSces in township and society, and is a member of the Democratic party: he brought his\\nlaud fi om a state of nature to a pleasant and productive farm.\\nD. T. SUTTON.\\nBYRON SUTHERLAND, sou of Andrew and Naomi (Cooley) Sutherland, was born\\nin Cambria, Niagara Co., N. Y., February 4, 1824; his parents were natives oT Rutland\\nCounty, Vt, who removed to Western New York and died in 1836; he was a soldier of the\\nwar or 1812, and was promoted to the Colonelcy of a regiment, and was discharged with\\nhonor; his mother died at Romeo in 1871. The subject of this sketch removed to Ma-\\ncomb in the year 18411, and located land on Section 10, in Richmond Township, which is\\na portion of his present farm. He was married, January 1, 184U, to Sarah A., only child\\nof Noah Cooley, of Washington Township: she was born in Niagara County, N. Y., Sep-\\ntember 30, 1824; the fruits of this marriage have been Sarah, born November 26, 1841),\\nmarried H. Woodward and lives in Flint; Andrew B., born September 9, 1851, married\\nLou DeLand and lives in Memphis Village; Emma A. born January 13, 1854, living\\nwith a brother at Romeo; Noah C, born August 13. 1S56, married Stella Skillman and\\nlives near Romeo; Anna N., born July 0, 1858, lives at home; William D., born Novem-\\nber ly, 1860, lives at home; Elmer B. born June 22, 1862, lives at home; Irving C, and\\nEarnest A. (twins), born March 25, 1865, also at home. Mr. Sutherland has been an offi-\\ncer of the township, and is the owner of a well-situated and fertile farm of 250 acres.\\nThe father of Mrs. Sutherland was born at Rutland, Vt. November 26, 1804; moved to\\nRomeo in 1S31 and cleared the homestead farm, where he died April 10, 1877, Her\\nmother was born in Allegany County, N. Y., Noveiuber 14, 1807, and died at Romeo No-\\nvember 16, 18S0j~iier ancestors toolv_^ ai t in the Revolution.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0821.jp2"}, "822": {"fulltext": "^1\\n806 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nSTEPHEN G. TAYLOR, son of Elijah and Clarissa Taylor, a native of New Hamp\\nshire, and bis mother s gi eat-grandfather was Lord Granville, of England. Mr. Stejiheu\\nTaylor was born in Carroll County, N. H., October 13, 1835. one of eight children, all liv-\\ning but one; also their father and mother, in their native State, had lived together for\\nfifty-sevan years. He came to Michigan in 1856; was a school-teacher near Baltimore one\\nterm, and then engaged as a clerk in a diy goods store until 185U, when he removed to\\nMem])his and engaged in the dry goods trade in that village; this was continiied for a few\\nyears, when Orl Ris became associated with him, which partnership was continued until the\\nbusiness was closed out in 1864. At this time, Mr. Taylor engaged in the milling busi-\\nness with Ml Rix, and, on Mr. Rix retiring in 1877, Mr. A. D. Taylor became a partner,\\nwhich continues at the present time. Mr. Taylor was married, in August, 1861, to Sarah\\nA., daughter of Orl Rix, of Royalton, Vt. she was bora at Memphis July 13, 1843: their\\nchildi en are as follows: Charles R., born February 4, 1863, now in Detroit: Adrian G.,\\nborn May 20, 1867: May L., born September 6. 1877. Mr. Taylor has been a member of\\nthe Congregational Chm ch of the village for sixteen years, and a Deacon of the same:\\nMrs. Taylor has also been a member the same length of time. He has been for a long tiane\\nconnected with the Sunday school, and active in all the improvements of the village. In\\npolitics, he is a Democrat.\\nCHAPTER XXXVI.\\nW .V.sil IXGT( X l )WNSII I P.\\nThe meeting to organize the township of Washington was held at the house of Alvin\\nNye (where Emulous Stone lived in 1877) in April, 1827. Daniel Thurston was called\\nupon to preside, and Otis Lamb was chosen Clerk. It was then proposed that some one\\nwould propose a name: many names wei-e given and passed over, until at length the\\nChairman said: I move that we name the town in honor of the father of our country.\\nThe name was accepted enthusiastically, and confirmed by act of organization. At that\\ntime there were not over forty families in the township.\\noi;ct,\\\\.\\\\i/,.^tio.\\\\.\\nWashington Township, comprising Towns 4 and 5 north, in the twelfth range east,\\nwas erected under powers given in the act of April 12. 1827, and the first town meeting\\nwas ordered to be held at the house of John Holland, the last Monday in May, 1827^\\nThe first town meeting was held at the schoolhouse, near John D. Holland s, May 28, 1827.\\nGideon Gates was chosen Moderator, and Isaac Andrns, Clerk. The election resulted in\\nthe choice of John A. Axford, for Su^jervisor: John D. Holland, Clerk: Daniel B. Web-\\nster, Collector and Constable: Asahel Bailey, John Bennett and Nathan Nye, Assessors:\\nAlexander Tackles, John Bennett, James Starkweather, Commissioners: Albert Finch and\\nJoseph Miller, Overseers of the Poor, and Alvin Nye, Constable; Asahel Bailey, Elon An-\\ndrus, Edward Arnold, Poundmasters: (ieorge Wetson, Otis Lamb, Robert Townsend.\\nNathan Nye, Daniel Haydeu. William Allen. Philip Price, Albert Finch and Isaac Skill-\\nman, Overseers of Highways, appointed by the County Commissioners in March, 1827.\\nAmong the first acts of the new board was that to raise $25 for the support of the\\npoor. On August 15, 1827, a special election was held to select a Constable and Collector,\\nvice Daniel B. Webster, resigned, when William Price was chosen. The principal town-\\nship officers, elected since the year of organization, are named in the following list:", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0822.jp2"}, "823": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 807\\nTOM X liOSTEK.\\nSupervisors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John S. Axford, 1S27-2S: Gideon Gates, 1828-33: Caleb Wilbor, 1833\\n-38: Coiiutv Commissioners, 1838-43: John Keeler. 1843-44: Erastus Smith. 1844-45:\\nJohn Kf eler. 1845-47: Noah Coolev, 1847-49: Erastus Smith, 1849-50: Elisha Calkins,\\n1850-51: Noah Cooler, 1851-53: Elisha Calkins. 1853-55: Marshall S. Hadley. 1855-56;\\nGeorge H. Fenner, 18- 6-57: Hugii Gray, 1857-58: Eraslns Smith, 1858-72: Jerome\\nAV. Nyms, 1872-81; Stephen B, Cannon, 1881-82.\\nIn the foregoing list of Supervisors, it must be remembered that from 1818 to the date\\nof township election, in 1827, the county was governed by Commissioners; from that\\nperiod until 1838, by Supervisors: from 1838 until early in 1843, by County Commission-\\ners, when the Supervisors Board was reestablished.\\nClerks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 John D. Holland, 1827-31: Horace Foote. 1831-32; James Starkweather,\\n1832-33; John D. Holland, 1833-45; Otis Lamb, 1836-50: Albert Nve, 1850-51: Otis\\nLamb. 1852-53: George Washer, 1853-54: Charles F. Mallary, 1854-58: A. H. Poole,\\n1858-59; Albert E. Leete, 1859-60; C. F. Mallary, 1860-70; Nathan G. Bates. 1870-71:\\nCharles C. Bradlev, 1871-76; Collins Bradley. 1876-77: Byron J. Flumerfelt, 1877-78;\\nEber J. Dudley, 1878-82.\\nTreasurers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Daniel B. Webster, 1827: William Price. 1828: Alvin Nye. 1829; Gad\\nChamberlin. 1830: Hiram Calkins. 1831-33: H. Van Kleek, 1834; James H. Rose 1837;\\nHiram Calkins, 1840; Orin P. Southwell. 1842: James H. Eose, 1844; Orsel Dudley,\\n1851; Marvin Wilbur. 1855: Morgan Nye, 1857: Truman R. Andrus. 1858: John Cannon,\\n1861: Emulias Stone, 1863: Theron Cole, 1865; Elias L. Stone, 1867; Theron Cole,\\n1868; James H. Rose, 1870; Aaron B. Rawles. 1875; Jonathan Stone, 1877: Edward W.\\nAndras, 1879; Jonathan Stone, 1881.\\nJustices of the Peace Ezra B. Throop. 1827: Gideon Gates, 1829; Otis Lamb, John\\nBennett, 1830; J. B. Hollister. 1831: Alexander Tackles, 1832; Wells Waring, 1833;\\nAzariah Prentiss, 1834: Alexander Tackles. M. Shaw, D. W. Noyes, Orsel Dudley. C. F.\\nSnover, Wells Waring, 1836: Hiram Sherman, 1837; John Lawrenc Justin H. Butler.\\nAlexander Tackles. 1838: John Lawi-ence, 1839; Orsel Dudley, 1840; Justin H. Butler!\\nThomas \\\\Vheeler. 1841; Azariah W. Sterling, 1842: John Lawi-ence. Cortez P. Hooker,\\n1843: Orsel Dudley. 1844: Cortez P. Hooker. 1845: Azariah W. Sterling. John Bates,\\n1846: William Park. 1847: John Bates, 1848; Caleb W^ilbm-, 1849; Orsel Dudley, Azariah\\nAV. Sterling, 1850; William Park, 1851; Orsel Dudley, C. C. Lamb. 1853; A. W. Ster-\\nling. 1854: William Park. 1855: Aaron Stone, James N. Cole, 1857; A. W. Sterling,\\n1858; William Park, 1859: S. H. Burlingham. 1860; William A. Stone, 1861; A. W.\\nSterling, 1862; William Park, George W. Knapp, 1863; George W. Knapp, 1864; C. F.\\nMallary, James M. Vaughan, 1865: Azariah W. Sterling, 1866; Edward Soule, 1867;\\nChai-les F. Mallard. 1868: James M. Yaughan. 1869: James M. Vaughan, Azariah W.\\nSterling 1870; Martin Buzzell, 1871; John V. Rush, 1872; Edward Soule, 1873: Azariah\\nW. Sterling, 1874; Martin Buzzell. 1875: John J. Snook, Cortez Fesseuden, 1876; Albert\\nYates, 1877; Cortez Fessenden, 187S Martin Buzzell. 1879; John J. Snook. 1880; James\\nM. Vaughan. 1881.\\nThe officers elected in April, 1SS2. were Supervisor, S. B. Cannon, Republican. 225;\\nChas. T, Mallory. Democrat, 71: Republican majority, 154. Clerk. E. J. Dudley. Re-\\npublican. 212; William S. Badger. Democrat. 90; Republican majority. 122. Treasiu er.\\nJonathan Stone. Republican, 220: J. L. Benjamin. Democrat, 78; Republican major-\\nity. 142.\\n(ilt.VXI) Tl;UNM U.Mr.ROAD OK JIlrHIO.VN.\\nA petition to Supervisor Aratus Smith, dated January 8, 1868. requesting him to call\\na meeting of Washington Township, was acceded to January 16, and the meeting convened\\nSI fy", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0823.jp2"}, "824": {"fulltext": "i A\\n808 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFebruary 13, 1868. The jieople voted a loan of $33,000 to the Grand Trunk Railway of\\nMicliicran for the purpo,ses of constructintj a raih-oad from Kidgeway. or Richmond, to\\nPontiac: 230 freeholders voted for the loan, while lOfi o{)posed it.\\n.^Il( IIKi.VN .\\\\I1M.INE UAILIKI.MI.\\nOn May 15, 18()U, a petition, signed by thirty-two citizens of Washington, to Aratus\\nSmith, asking him to convene a meeting of freeholders to consider the question of grant-\\ning aid to the Michigan Air-Line Railroad, was acceded to and a meeting called June 10,\\nllSfU). Two hundred taxpayers voted a loan of $25,000, while li)() opposed such a loan.\\nA i;i:.Mi\\\\i.srE.\\\\ci of kaklv day.s i\\\\ WAsiiiN(; r( x.\\nThe gi-eatei portion of the families named in the following paper came from the State\\nof New York in the years 1822, 1823 and 1824; each piu-chased from SO to 100 acres,\\ngenerally at $1.25 per acre, and commenced clearing up the land for permanent homes.\\nIn the year 1824, in the fall, it was deemed advisable by the few settlers in the\\nnorthern part of the town of Washington to establish a school; consecjuently, a site for a\\nhouse was soon decided upon, a log edifice built, and a young lad named Silas Scott in-\\nstalled as teacher. The house, which was at the time designed to be centrally located, on\\nFreeborn Healy s land, was built in the woods, one mile and a half south of the present\\nvillage of Romeo, on the west side of the road on the hill, just beyond what is now known\\nas the Benjamin Model Farm. The number of pupils in attendance in the year 1824 was\\ntwenty-seven or twenty-eight, coming in from two or three miles in difi erent directions\\nthrt)ugh the almost unbroken wilderness. The principal roads at that time were Indian\\ntrails. There was also an Indian encampment at that time on the east side of the road\\nnearly opposite this schooUiouse, near where the railroad now crosses the brook. The\\ngathering of so many children seemed to greatlj puzzle the natives, and frequently they\\nwould, after ornamenting themselves with nose and ear jewelry, paint and feathers,\\nsteal up to the windows of the schoolhouse to take a peej) at the scholars. The scholars\\nof 18 ^4 were three sous and one daughter of Philip Price Samuel, Polly. Philip and\\nJames. Those of other families, Horace Arnold, Robert Arnold, Phtebe Arnold, Thomas\\nWoodman, Horace Tackles. Horton Healy, Paulina Healy, Rosanna Chandler, Orsamus\\nWebster, Samantha Webster, Edwin Gould, Adelia Gould, Elijah Thorington. Miranda Thor-\\nington. Lucy Phelps, Jed Smith, David Smith, George Finch, Alpheus Finch, Wesley Finch\\nthese Finch boys were brothers of the lost child: Harrison Kittridge, Jane Gates and Wilber\\nGates. About one-half of the number are still living. Silas Scott, the teacher, after\\nclosing his school in the spring of 1825, purchased a farm in sight of Romeo Village,\\nwhere he resided until his death, a few years ago, leaving one son, Frank Scott, who, at the\\npresent writing, resides on the same farm, and is also at the present time teaching school\\nin the same neighborhood that his father taught fifty-seven years ago. With three or four\\nexceptions (the familes of Thorington, Scott and Arnold), the early settlers at that time\\nhave either died or removed, and others have taken their places. Large, well-cultivated\\nfields, nice residences and splendid roads are now to be seen on every hand, instead of\\nIndian encampments, trails and dense forests. And the trials and privations endured by\\nthose early, hardy settlers are, by the present generation in their abundance, scarcely re-\\nmembered.\\nTill KISS.MAX sriiooi\\nThe Crissman School District was organized February 12, 1848, from fractions taken\\nfrom the surrounding districts. The first school meeting was held February 26, 1848, at\\nthe house of J. J. Crissman. when the following officers were elected: F. S. Crissman,\\nModerator; Clinton Sowles, Assessor; John Bates, Director. The first schoolhouse was", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0824.jp2"}, "825": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0825.jp2"}, "826": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0826.jp2"}, "827": {"fulltext": "biiilt by Alvin Baldwin, and was finished September 15, 1851. The size of this building\\nwas 20x25 feet, and its cost $238. 88. The first district school was taught by Miss Laura\\nParrish (now Mrs. Chai les Crissman, of Mt. Vernon) for a consideration of |2 per week.\\nShe taught fifteen weeks and had twenty-seven pupils. The schoolhouse in use at the present\\ntime was built by William H. Jersey during the summer of 1869. The cost of this build-\\ning was $1,000, and its location close by the site of the old house.\\n.SCHOOLS.\\nThere are five district schools and three fractional district schools in the township.\\nThe Directors for the year 1881-82 were Samuel C. Ritter. I. N. Brabb, D. T. Smith, M.\\nH. Crissman, Ira Wood. W. H. Balesole, W. W. Vaughan and E. Rowley. Tiiere are\\nsix frame and two brick school buildings, valued at $6,590. During the year ending\\nSeptember, 1881, no less than fourteen teachers were engaged, to whom the sum of $1,-\\n559.50 was paid. The number of children of school age in the township in 1880-81 was\\n370, of which number only 264 attended school. The total expenditm es of the township\\nfor school purposes diu-ing the year ending September 5, 1881. was $2,713.73, of which\\nsum $357.38 accnied from the State school fund.\\nA reference to the schools of Bruce will point out the fact that a niunber of children\\nbelonging to Washington Township are enumerated as belonging to the Union School of\\nRomeo, and noticed in the Bruce school statistics.\\nA TEMPER.\\\\N( E BUILDING.\\nThe first building raised in this vicinity without the use of whisky was the present\\nresidence of J. R. Manley, in 1838. The architect and builder, the late Chauncey\\nChm ch, was interested in the temperance cause and would have no spirituous liquors at any\\nof his raisings. After the work on this occasion was done, he mounted on the topmost\\ntimber and delivered the following original toast:\\nThis frame is of oak, it stands upou rocks,\\nTwas framril tipim lioiior for Elias Wilcox,\\nAnd since it is raised and tliinn s are all right.\\nTis Elias home and Nancys delight.\\nWe ve had no whisk}-, we don t care for that,\\nWe ll have something better than rum or wild cat.\\nSo let us be merry, both Democrat and Whig.\\nAnd we ll go to the house and get some baked pig.\\nMENTION OF A \u00c2\u00a5KV OLD SETTLERS.\\nIn August, 1823, Mrs. Nancy Anne Lamb Andrus and her husband, with John\\nHolland, Polly Greene and Laiu-a and Atu illa Miller, formed the tu st Methodist\\nclass in Washington Township, meeting from bouse to house, often several miles\\napart, for seasons of prayer and praise. They were models of hospitality and\\nall were made welcome, particularly the traveling ministers, and their houses were\\nknown for many year s as the preachers home. The Andrus house was also the head-\\nquarters for all the land-lookers and travelers, and hundreds were ted and lodged within\\ntheir small but hospitable dwelling. They struggled through almost incredible hard-\\nships, but reared all their ten children and saw them all married. Mr. Andrus died io\\nJuly, 1865, and the widow has since resided with her daughter-in-law, having lived to\\nwitness many changes in church and society, and never losing her interest in either, al-\\nthough for a few years she has been unable to leave home. She retained her faculties,\\nexcept hearing, to the last, and, until a few weeks of her death, she sewed as many hours\\nin a day as any seamstress, and her work was always very nicely done. Five of the chil-\\ndren have outlived the parents \u00e2\u0080\u0094Mrs. Laura Hamlin, of Rochester; Dr. W. W. Andrvis,\\n50", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0827.jp2"}, "828": {"fulltext": "ot Utica; Loren Andi-us, Mrs. S. A. Babbitt and Mrs. J. M. Vaughan. Mrs. Andrus be-\\nlonged to a family remarkable for their longevity, and there is one sister now living who\\ndoes her own work at the age of ninety- four.\\nKHMINDKKS OF THE I .\\\\.ST.\\nThere was I egiilar circuit preaching here before there was any schoolhouse built in\\nthis town. The minister s name was Petit, not Pattee, and he used to preach at the house of\\nJoseph Miller, standing on the ground where the hotel now stands. The going to Utica\\nwas on quarterly meeting occasions, and they used to go with ox teams or on foot. The\\nfirst schoolhouse was built about a hundred rods from the corners south, and on land be-\\nlonging to George Wilson, nearly opposite the residence of Mrs. Marquis Nye. The next,\\non the corners where the brick one now stands, three miles south of Romeo. The third\\nwas opposite the cemetery.\\nMETHODI.ST (UrnCH.\\nThe original class of Methodists was formed here in 1823, consisting of six persons\\nJohn Holland, Elon Andrus, Nancy Andrus, Polly Greene, Aurilla Miller and Laura Mil-\\nler. They met at tirst in prayer-meetings from house to house, the nearest jsreaehing be-\\ning at Utica, where they occasionally went, until the building of the log schoolhouse op-\\nposite the present cemetery. Rev. Elias Petit is siipposed to have been the tirst minister,\\nand his circuit extended nearly 500 miles. After a few years, a log schoolhouse was built\\non the main road, and, in 1839, a frame schoolhouse was erected, nearly opposite the\\nresidence of Loren Andi us, and religious services were conducted there until the building\\nof the present church edifice in 1846. There were always two ministers on the charge,\\nand Ebenezer Steele and Nelson Barnum were stationed here then. There is no record\\nof anything pertaining to the society previous to the building of the church, but under\\ndate of Fel)ruary 12. 1846, we find the following: The Trustees for the First Methodist\\nEpiscopal Church in Washington contracted with Chauncey Chm-eh to build a meeting-\\nhouse for said M. E. Church, on the west side of Section 24, in said towushiji, opposite\\nDr. Cooley s garden, said house to be 36x50 feet, without a belfry, to be finished by the\\n1st day of January, 1847, for the sum of $1,150. This was signed by Elon Andrus, Abel\\nWarner, Benjamin McGregor, David W. Noyes, John Keeler.\\nThe same Trustees afterward contracted with L. D, Cowles to build a belfry, to be\\ncompleted at the same time, for $150. The necessary money was raised for the building\\nb}^ the sale of slips, the prices ranging from $10 to $40, and. of the forty slips thus sold,\\nbut four of the original pm-ehasers are here to claim their property Jesse Norton, J. W.\\nManley. Loren Andrus and J. M Vaughan. The building was accepted and paid for on\\nDecember 28, 1846. at which time it was dedicated by Rev. Mi-. Crane, at that time Pre-\\nsiding Elder of this district.\\nMany changes were effected in the church building. In 1854, a bell was donated by\\nJ. Z. Kelsey. Other improvements were made in 1869. On January 80, 1878, the reno-\\nvation of the house was completed and its re-dedication accomplished.\\nTHE WASHINGTON I NION fllTTRCH S0CIP:TY.\\nFor many years previous to the organization of this society, all religious services\\nwere held in the church building dedicated by the Methodist Episcopal society, then the\\nonly house of worship in the village of Washington. The church, although dedicated by\\nthe Methodist Episcopal society, the expense incurred by extensive repairs and the erec-\\ntion of suitable sheds adjoining was shared in by the entire community, without regard\\nto religious belief.\\nIn the spring of 1879, the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal society asserted their\\nlegal right to the exclusive control and use of the property, soon after closing their doors\\n-^1\\nT", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0828.jp2"}, "829": {"fulltext": "s-\\nHI.STORY OF :\\\\IACOMB COUNTY.\\nagainst a denomination on account of its creed. This society was tlien organized, July 5,\\n1879, adopted the following: Any ehm-ch building that now, or that may hereafter, be\\nowned by this society, shall always be free from sectarian control, and no religious society,\\nor any claiming to be such, orthodox or unorthodox, shall be denied the use of said chuceh\\nbuilding, simply on account of its religious belief. The lirst Trustees were Timothy\\nLockwood, William A. Stone, Henry Bennett. Edward W. Andrus and William W. Yaughan.\\nDiu ing the fall of 1879. the society erected a commodious structm-e at an expense ex-\\nceeding $3.00l). which was formally dedicated February 26, 1880. Religious services are\\nheld each Sabbath, the Rev. C. W. Knickerbocker, of Wayne, alternating with Rev. John\\nYoung, of Romeo, and Rev. W^illiam Arlington, of Richmond. The society has a large\\nmembership and is in a prosperous condition.\\nson II lUT.i.M.-oiiorNP.\\nThe aft airs of the South Burial-Ground Society were at a stand-still, as there has been\\nno gathering of that association for twenty-two years, or since March, 1860. until the\\nClerk, J. M. Yaughan, called a meeting for A|)ril 29, 1882. The Trustees of that long-\\nago time have all passed away, but the officers were re-elected, and a new fence, with other\\nimprovements, will be the result of the gathering, the new and old officers standing as\\nfollows: President, Loren Andrus; Clerk, J. M. Yaughan; Collector, C. M. Bates; Sex-\\nton, Michael Widrig; Assistant Sexton, John Dotsert; Trustees, E. W. Andrus, Elijah\\nWilson, Albert Yates.\\nVILLAGES OF THE TOWNSHIP\\nWashington Village contains 225 inhabitants. The locality was first settled in\\n1818. The village is sixteen miles northwest of Mt. Clemens and thirty miles north of\\nDetroit, with which cities it is connected by the Michigan Air-Line and Grand Trunk\\nRailroads. Formerly, its nearest shipping-point was Utica. seven miles south, on the D.\\nB. C. E. R., and with which it was connected with a daily line of stages. It has Method-\\nist Episcopal and Union Chm ches, a graded school. ex]iress, daily mail, east and west.\\nPrincipal exports, wheat, wool and fruit. The business circle of the village is made up\\nas follows: Charles Bennett, blacksmith; Thoma? Brabb, capitalist; George H. Cannon,\\ncivil engineer; Miss L. Davis, music-teacher; Ida Lamb, teacher of public school: Jay\\nMiller, wind-mill agent; Byron Norton, pianos and music -teacher: W, W. Norton, pianos\\nand organs; H. M. Roberts, hotel and furnitTU-e dealers; J. H. Rose, carpenter and\\nbuilder; Abram Shepherd, boot and shoemaker: David G. Stewai t, carpenter: Adelbert\\nStone, general store and express agent: Stone Bros. general stort Isaac Terpening, wind-\\nmill agent; William W. Yaughan, insurance agent and Notary; George A. Woodward,\\nteacher in public school; Albert Yates, physician.\\nMt. Yernon is a small post office village in Washington Township, Macomb County,\\nseventeen miles northwest of Mt. Clemens Court House antl five northeast of Roches-\\nter, on the D. B. C. R. R., its nearest shipping-point connection therewith by semi-\\nweekly mail. In the immediate vicinity are two churches Baptist and Methodist\\nand district school. The businsss men of the village are named as follows: Alpheus\\nBaldwin, Constable; Jeremiah Cole, blacksmith; J. N. Fangboner, painter; Mark Fang-\\nboner, wagon-maker; Joseph McCluer, live stock; John ilajor, live stock; E. J. Mann,\\npainter; Rev. W. H. Mills, Baptist; J. J. Snook, Notary and Justice; M. L. Townsend,\\nlive stock dealer.\\nThe number of farms in the township in 1850 was 116: of acres under cultivation,\\n10,825; of bushels of wheat raised, 27,436; of corn, 26,983; of all other kinds of grain,\\n15,945 bushels; of potatoes, 5,775 bushels; of wool, 19,495 pounds; of butter, 28,710\\npounds; of cheese, 11,424 poimds.\\nnv", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0829.jp2"}, "830": {"fulltext": "k\\nl\\\\^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nTwenty-four years later, in 1874, there were 196 farms, containing 16,404 acres of\\nimproved land, valued at 11.215,990. There were 34,004 bushels of wheat raised; 35,-\\n5()0 bushels of corn, and 42,040 bushels of other grains. The potato crop yielded 9,873\\nbushels. The product of the dairy was 55.905 pounds of butter; 10,300 pounds of cheese;\\n34,922 pounds of wool were sent to market, and 70,675 ppunds of pork sold outside the\\ntownship.\\nThe population, in 1850, including the southern half of Romeo, was 1.541; in 1874.\\nit reached 2,099, and, in 1880, distinct from Romeo, contained a population of 2,052.\\ni;kjiixisckn p:s ok c. iiai:i,o\\\\v gi:kkn.\\nFrom an adikess delivered before the Macomb County Pioneer Society, at Washing-\\non. May 26, 1881, by C. Harlow Green, the following references to the early times in\\nWashington are extracted: In the fall of 1824, a log schoolhouse was built south of\\nWashington Village on the west side of the road, just beyond the hollow, where a stream-\\nlet flowed, nearly opposite the village residence of the late Marcus Nye. Evidences of\\nthis building were found scattered around even in 1881. The teacher for that summer\\nwas Miss Emeliue Allen, a younger sister of the early settlers William and John Allen.\\nDuring the winter of 1824-25, Isaac Andrus, a brother of Elon Andrus, presided over the\\nschool. During the summer of 1825, Miss Allen was employed as teacher, and the suc-\\nceeding winter she was succeeded by Isaac Andi us. The winter schools of 1826-27 and\\nof 1827-28 were conducted by Nathaniel Augustus Baldwin, an old settler near Rochester.\\nJohn Chapman, the mathematician the man, who, back in the State of New York,\\nwas equal to and performed the principal portion of the work in compiling Ostrander s\\narithmetic, while Tobias Ostrander managed to get all the credit taught the school in\\n1828-29. During the winter term of 1829-30, Abel AVebster, a younger brother of Price\\nB. Webster, presided over the school. Among the pupils of the sohool, the following\\nnames are remembered: Elias and Julia Wilcox; Sylvester, Emily, Orpha and John Dar-\\nling; Arba, Alphonso, Orlando, Arba, Jr., Calvin and James Richards;. John, Mary, Jane,\\nAmy Ann, Chauncey and Joseph Chapman; Lester Niles; Dm r and Adelia Giddings; Abel,\\nLaura, Elizabeth, Fayette, Olier, Mary and Squire Warren; Jeremiah, Electa, Ai-manda,\\nWilliam, Timothy, Maria and Rhoda Ann Lockwood; Solomon, Eunice, Harriet, Amarilla,\\nAlmeron and Amos Wales; George, Alfred, Eliza, Marvin, Jane Hauscom; Geoi ge Steb-\\nbins; Abram, Mary and Horace Wilson; Daniel and Eveline Miller; Elon, Laura, Jeri;sha,\\nClarissa, Truman; Loren, Calista, William, Elon, Jr., and Nancy Andrus: Joseph, Levi.\\nWorcester, Laura and Adela Miller; Iddo and Julia Warner; John, Harvey, Harry, Har-\\nmon and Hiram Bennett; Sardis. Orman, Sardis Hand and Mary Burlingham; Barnabas,\\nCyrus, Ransom and Edwin Miller; Charles, Emeliue, Lois and Maria Dudley Beagle;\\nOtis, Linus, Eliza, Hiram and Emily Lamb: Ezra, Samantha, John and Ezra, Jr.. Bel-\\nlows; Lazarus Green; C. Harlow Green; Price B., Harvey, Harlow and Hubbard Webster.\\nThe names of the teachers best remembered ;u-e Isaac Montfore. Isaac Andrus, John Chap-\\nman, John D. Holland, Baldwin, Webster, Dalby, Noyes, Price and Miss Allen.\\nThe tu st circuit ministers were Rev. Messrs. Plympton and Petit. The next was Mr.\\nJones. He it was, who, in a sermon in the Holland Schoolhouse about the year 1826,\\ngave the tii st sjiecimen of a radical temperance speech in Washington. In alluding to\\nthe whisky manufacturer, he called the distillery the Devil s tea-pot. There was also\\nin those days a circuit preacher named Reynolds a sleek young man with red hair, who\\nprized a good horse. A little later, came Frazee, a man of singular manner, sharp and\\nready for an emergency. Brother Baughman was also on the circuit about this time.\\nBrother Elliott came next. He preached his farewell sermon at the old Arba Smith\\nSchoolhouse, but retiu-ned to the circuit for another year.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0830.jp2"}, "831": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nFor a few years, from 1834 onward, the Xlniversalists employed a Mr. Wheeler to\\npreach for them in the neighborhood. The Universalists were not veiy numerous, so that\\nthe support of their 2:)ast r fell upon only a few. As report has it. Uncle George Hanscom\\nfinally became tired of paying out money, and declared that before he would continue to\\npay otit money for preaching, as he had done, he would bell his soul and tiu u it out to grass.\\nFrom 1N29 to 1S33, there, were a few Fi ee-Will Baptists and Christian ministers in\\nthe townships, staying among the brethren of the community, particularly with the Howard\\nand Carpenter families. Elders Shearer, Lambarker and Thomas visited the district in\\nearly years. Elder Thomas went to Ohio, where he adopted the doctrine of Alex Camp-\\nbell, and, retm-ning here, declared himself a disciple of Campbell faith.\\nJohn and his father. Joseph Holland, were in the town dm-ing the summer of 1823.\\nThe latter is well remembered among the old settlers. Other early preachers are referred\\nto in the pag(?s devoted to county history.\\nBIOGliAPHUAL .SKETCHES.\\nIn the sketches of the pioneers and leading men of the township may be found\\nmany instructive and entertaining incidents of settlement. The foregoing historic\\nsketch embraces much subject of a valuable character, but to prevent, as far as possible,\\nthe repetition of facts, nothing that has been fully treated in the biographical collection\\nis introduced into the historic sketch of the township.\\nJOHN ALLEN, a direct descendant of Ethan Allen, the hero of Ticonderoga, located\\nin Washington at a very early date in the history of the county. In IS lit, he traveled\\nWestward to St. Louis, Mo. in the general history, reference is made to him as being\\nthe builder of many of the early mills of Macomb; he is a man of sterling worth, highly\\nesteemed and one of the oldest members of the Masonic order in this State. Mr. Allen is\\nnow aged ninety years, and in the enjoyment of good health; he resides with his son. Lee-\\nman Allen, of Clarkston. Oakland Co.. Mich.\\nKEY. GEORGE A. AMES, P. O. Mt. Vernon, pastor of the Baptist Church, Mt.\\nVernon (Washington), was born December 11, 1826, in Fenner, Madison Co., N. Y. he\\nwas educated at Madison University and entered the ministry in 1850; in January, 1851,\\nhe was ordained, at Stockbridge, Madison County; he has filled the pastorate of the\\nchiu-ches at Sterling, Carthage, Gouverneur, Belleville and Pulaski, in the State of New\\nYork; McKeesport and Mt. Pleasant, Penn. Sturgis, Northville and Jackson, Mich. In\\n1864 and 1805. he was engaged in publishing the Christian Herahl, at Kalamazoo. He\\nentered upon the pastorate of the church at Mt. Vernon, in September, 1879; he was mar-\\nried, in August, 1850, at Lenox Furnace, Madison Co., N. Y., to Julia A., second daugh-\\nter of Joseph A. Palmer; she died in Ju.ne, 1860, He was married again, to Martha,\\ndaughter of Ebenezer and Betsey Cline, of Jefferson County, N. Y. in July, 1863; she\\nwas born December 8, 1835; her father was a native of New York, her mother of Rhode\\nIsland. Mr. and Mrs. Ames have had three children, two of whom are living Eliza Isa-\\nbella, born in McKeesport, Penn., September 12, 1808; and James N. B., in Pulaski, N.\\nY., Aiigust 15, 1873. The father of Mr. Ames, Rufus Ames, was born in Tunkhannock,\\nPenn., in May, 1797; his ancestors came from England and settled in Massachusetts at\\nan early day; his mother was a descendant of the house of Staft ords, Staft ordshire, En-\\ngland. Sophia Blanchard, the mother of Mi-. Ames, was born in April, 1798, in Rhode\\nIsland; her mother was Elizabeth Ballon, descended from the Rev. Maturin Ballon, a\\nHuguenot refugee, who found an asylum in the colonv of Roger Williams from the perse-\\ncutions of the mother country.\\nISAAC ANDRUS undoubtedly was cotemporary with John and Mary Anth-ews (An-\\ndrus), who settled in Hartford County, Conn., previous to 1672. The name appears as", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0831.jp2"}, "832": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nA\\nAndrews, AiKiras, Andriiss. Isaac. Jr., settled in Shaftsbury. Vt. Isaac, Jr., son of\\nIsaac, Jr., removed to Genesee County, N. Y. Lis family consisted )f six children, as\\nfollows: Elon, Linns, Truman, Russell. Isaac and Horace. Elon Anclfus was born Poult-\\nney, Vt., April 4, 178(5; he married Nancy, daughter of Gad and Jerusha (Ripley) Lamb,\\nborn in Tioga County, Penn.. November 15, 1791; her brothers and sisters names were\\nDaniel, Harry, Sally. Patty, Jerusha. Lorain. Clarissa, Maria and Ebenezer. In Sep-\\ntember, 18J1, Elon Andi-us left the State of New York to find a homo in the Territory of\\nMichigan, and located lands as now known in Washington Township. Section 33; the fol-\\nlowing fall, he embarked with his family from Bufl alo, N. Y., on the steamer Walk-iu-the-\\nWater; an accident occurred to the boat near what was then called Fairport, near the\\nmouth of Black River, Ohio; the passengers sailed thence via schooner to Detroit, where\\nom- pioneers were met by friends, and with ox teams were toted to their destination.\\nMr. and Mrs. Andrus early in life joined the M. E. Church, and remained firm in the\\nfaith to the end of their days; the former died July 16, 1865. Grandma Andrus, as\\nshe was known to all acquaintances, survived him thirteen years; she died at the old\\nhomestead the V.hh of July, 1878. Their family consisted of ten children, all of whom\\nthey saw married. The seven oldest were born in Genesee County, N. Y. the remaining\\nthree in Macomb County; their names are as follows: Lam a, born September .29. 1809.\\nmarried to John F. Hamlin, of Avon, Oakland Co., Mich. children John F. (died), Adol-\\nphus, Caroline, Belle and Laura; Jerusha, born December J, 1810, married Hiram Wil-\\ncox: children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Solon H.. Otho and Virginia (died); Clara, born July 12, 1812. married\\nDr. Dennis Cooley; Mr. Cooley practiced medicine for many years in Washington, and\\nduring his life accumulated an extensive botanical collection, now at the Agrieultm-al Col-\\nlege, in Lansing; he died May 1. 1862; two years later, Mrs. Cooley was married to Dr.\\nS. A. Babbitt, of Ypsilanti; Loren, born June 25, 1816; at the age of twenty-one, he was\\nemployed as Assistant Engineer in the survey of what was then called the Clinton\\nKalamazoo Canal; two years later, he was on the survey of the raih-oad between Port\\nHuron and Flint; at twenty-five, he was married to Lucina, daughter of Lewis and Nancy\\n(Kuapp) Davis; she was born May 1, 1821, in Genesee County, N. Y. children Flora,\\nborn October 19. 1S41, died Januarv 31. 1847; Dwight, July 23, 1844: Frank D., August\\n21, 1N50; L. Ward, July 13, 1852; Mary. December 5, 1N54; Nancy D.. March 6, 1860;\\nAlice and Agnes, February 12, 1862; Calista E., born December 3, 1818 (see sketch of J.\\nM. Vaughan); Truman R.. born August 3, 1814, married Betsey, daughter of Richard\\nHothaml childi-en -Helen (died), Edwai-d W., George F.. Fred H.. Charles L., Austin\\n(died). Truman B. died February 9. 1866; William W.. born July 25. 1821, married\\nEllen, daughter of John and Jane Summers, February 1, 1849; children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rosette, Will-\\niam S., Truman M. (died), Hemy J. (died) and John C; Mr. Andrus practiced medicine\\nfor a number of years iu Utica, where he now resides; was a member of the Constitutional\\nConvention at Lansing, in 1867; is the present State Senator from the Twentieth Disti ict:\\nElon A., born July 14, 1823. married to Avu-elia Eggleston; one child, Ada; he has not\\nbeen heard from for the past ten years; supposed he died in California: Nancy M. born\\nJuly 14, 1823, mairied lo Milo M. Davis, June 16, 1844; children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Albert E. (died), Lu-\\ncelia L., Marion B., Flora L., Ida M. and Clara B. she died October 4, 1871; Rosette,\\nborn July 14. 1S23, married, November 2(), 1846, to Dr. Myrou C. Kenney; died October-\\n17, 1847. The Andrus family, politically, are Republican.\\nJOHN BABBITT (pronounced Bah-bay), a Frenchman, with his wife, an English\\nwoman, came from England between 1600 and 1625, and settled in Massachusetts; his\\nson. John Babbitt, was born in 1(564; Seth, 1()90; Nath, 1731; Uri, ndO; Samuel A., Oc-\\ntober 4, 1811; Darwin, January 15, 1845; brother of the above, A. Dwight, January 13,\\n1850, died of yellow fever, at New Orleans, October 20, 1878.\\n^RT", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0832.jp2"}, "833": {"fulltext": "FRANK BAILEY, P. O. Romeo, was born November 10. 1855, in Oxford, Oakland\\nCo.. Mich.; is the son of James F. and Frances (Suover) Bailey; bis father was bom in\\n18 24, in Delawai-e County. N. Y. he was the son of John and Millie Bailey, born, re-\\nspectively, in Connecticut and Massachusetts; Frances Snover Bailey was born in 1832,\\nin Hiu-on County, N. J. was the daugther of Charles F. and Susanna Snover, and died\\nMarch 14, 1S77: her father died November 25, 1851, aged sixty; her mother died April\\n11, 1N37, aged forty-two years. Frank Bailey of this sketch was married, March 20, 187VI,\\nto Sarah M., daughter of William L. and Mary A. (McKibbin) Markle, of Oxford, Oak-\\nland Co., Mich., born December 24, 1837, in the Province of Ontario, Canada: her father\\nwas a native of Canada, born in 1825. son of John M. and Hannah Markle; her mother\\nwas the daughter of William and Mary (Sterling) McKibbin, born in 1832. Mr. McKib-\\nbin was born in 1808; his wife in 1801), in Scotland; her father, Archie Sterling, was a\\nnative of Scotland. Mi Bailey is by occupation a farmer, and has a farm on Section 15.\\nWashington Township.\\nISAAC N. BRABB. P. O. Romeo, was born August 23. 1832, in Avon, Oakland Co\\nMich. his father. Isaac Brabb, was born in Yorkshire, England, in 17U4. and came to\\nAmerica in 1830. settling in the Territory of Michigan, with his wife and tive children,\\nall of whom are living; after a few mouths stay in Detroit, he rented a farm near Roch-\\nester, Oakland County, and, foiu* years later, bought and located on the place known as\\nthe old Brabb farm, on Section 4. in Washington Township, where he lived for twenty-\\nthree years; he then removed to Romeo, where he died, April 13, 1S70; his wife, Hannah\\nHudson Brabb, was a native of Yorkshire, England, born in 17U and died at Romeo\\nMarch 24, 1872. Mr. B. has been mainly occupied as a farmer, but had also been en-\\ngaged to a considerable extent in the purchase and sale of real estate, and operating some-\\nwhat as a capitalist. His home estate in Washington includes 180 acres of tii-st-clasB land,\\non Section 4, with line and substantial dwelling and all necessary outbuildings. Mi\\\\ B.\\nis a fine type of the thoroughgoing, enterprising, public-spirited agriculturist one of the\\nsort of men who form the substance of American manhooc?; all enterprises for the benefit\\nof the whole of mankind engage his earnest interest: in 18 )2, he went to England to visit\\nthe place of his ancestors birth and to attend the World s Fair, held at London that year;\\nhe attended the Centennial celebration held at Philadel])hia and the Atlanta Exposition\\nof Georgia. Mr. B. was married, November 23, 1864, to Olive Eliza, daughter of Joel\\nW. and Julia Wilcox Manly: she was born in Macomb Township December 3, 1841; her\\nfather was born February 10, ]81(), and is now living in Shelby Township; her mother\\nwas born in Riish. Monroe Co., N. Y., October 13. 1822; they have. three children, born\\nas follows: Earnest Manly, May 0, 181)7; Howard S., August 1, 1871; Robert H., Jime\\n4. LS73; they have also an adopted daughter, Agnes M. born December 24, 1S74. Both\\nparents are members of the M. E. Church of Romeo. Mr. B. is a Republican in politics.\\nMrs. B. was a teacher for five vears.\\nTHOMAS BRABB was born January 22, 1820, in Yorkshire, England: he is thf son\\nof Geoi ge and Elizabeth Brabb; the f oi-mer was born in England March U, 1700; he came\\nto America in 1831; they landed at Quebec after a voyage of fom-teen weeks and one day;\\nthe ship s crew lost their bearings in a ten days fog, and di-ifted northward until they\\nfound themselves among icebergs and whales in great numbers; it was July and August,\\nbut it was so far toward the pole that winter wraps were a necessity. M Brabb, Sr., set-\\ntled in Washington, Macomb County, in October, 1S32, on forty acres of land, on Section\\n5, where he built a house which was his home for about eight years, when he piu-chased\\nland adjoining, on which he erected a more substantial dwelling; he continued to add to\\nhis landed possessions until at the time of his death, in April, 1S()4, he owned 322 acres\\nof srood laud. His wife was born January 23, 170il, in England, and died in Washing-\\nIV", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0833.jp2"}, "834": {"fulltext": "ton, December. 1S35. Mr. Brabb lived with his parents until the age of fourteen, when\\nhe became mail messenger from Mt. Clemens to the light-house at Port Huron, via Utica,\\nWashington, Romeo and St. Clair: he made one trip each week; he resumed farming,\\nand, in 1X55, bought a small farm, on Section 33; in ISfiS. he bought forty acres on Sec-\\ntion 27; in ISSa. he engaged in shoemaking and mercantile transactions on a limited\\nscale, which he continued until ISIiS. Mr. Brabb was married. June lU. 184fi, to Phcebe\\nR. Batchelder, of Romeo; she was born in Utica, this county, September 1, LS iS, and is\\nthe daughter of Asa and Mary R. Batchelder, the former of New England stock, the lat-\\nter born in Canada, of French lineage. Mr. Batchelder died in 1N56; his wife is still\\nliving. Mr. Brabb is a member of the Patrons of Hiisbandry and is a Republican; he has\\nled a life of fi ugal and persevering industry, and is moving down the sunset side of life\\nin a competency which is the result of his own efforts and good judgment; he has re-\\ntired from active life and lives on a small place of sixteen acres.\\nSTEPHEN B. CANNON was born in Lodi, Washtenaw Co.. Mich., September 30,\\n1832; his parents, the Rev. John Cannon and Sallie (Cook) Cannon, moved to Macomb\\nCounty, where they have since resided, in 1834: on the paternal side, Mr. Cannon s an-\\ncestors was English: his maternal lineage is Welsh. He was married, October 13, 1853,\\nto Sarah J., daughter of Wellborne and Jane (Littlewood) Twaddill; she was born Octo-\\nber 22, 1833, in Scarboro, England: her parents were born in the same place in England,\\nand her father in 1801. and died in Montreal, August 8, 1834; her mother was born May\\n20, 1803, and married to Wellborne. son of John Twaddill, October 16, 1830, at Scarboro;\\nher second husband was Jeremiah Lock wood, who died December 10, 1856: she died June\\n10, 1857. Mr. and Mrs. Cannon have had five children, born in the following order: Ar-\\nthiu- W., March 22, 1855; M. Jane. November 12, 1S57; Heber L., Axigust 1, 1862, died\\nSeptember 18. 1S63: Irving D., October 1, 1866; H. Bell, October 13, 186il. Mr. Cannon\\noccupies a tine fann of 160 acres, on Section 34, township of W.ishington, and is Acting\\nSupervisor at this date, January, 1882; he is a genial, companionable gentleman, prepos-\\nsessing in personnel, with a warmth of temperament and generosity of impulse that present\\nhis character in a strikingly favorable light; he wins and holds the confidence of his\\nfriends, is a promoter of all worthy charities and contributed greatly to the gi owth and\\nperpetuation of the Union Chm-ch Society in his vicinity. Mr. Cannon is most liberal in\\nhis religious opinions, conceding to all the right of private judgment and sympathizing\\nlittle with any form of ecclesiastical hierarchy; he has always been a Republican. Enlisted\\nAugust 9, 1862. in the civil war, in Company B, Capt. Keeler. Twenty-second Michigan\\nInfantry: he was mustered into the United Stairs service August 22; went into camp at\\nPontiae, Oakland County, leaving for the front Sc|itcinlic r 4, 18()2, es-Gov. Moses Wisner,\\nColonel, commanding: the regiment served mainly in Kentucky, Tennessee and Georgia;\\nat the terrible battle at Chickamauga, it became practically annihilated, going into the\\nengagement with 60(^ rifles and mustering about fifty at its termination, with most of its\\nofficers in tlu hands of the enemy, where they remained some months. Mr. Cannon held\\nan honorable jiosition in his regiment, was frequently promoted and honorably discharged\\nat the close of the war. Mr. Cannon is a member of the Grange and belongs to the Ma-\\nsonic order.\\nGILBERT F. CONKLIN, P. O. Washington, was born September IS, 1806, in\\nOrange County, N. Y. is the son of Gilbert and Mary Conklin; his parents were natives\\nof New York, of Engli.sh and French lineage; in 1S32, Mr. Conklin bought fifty acres of\\nland on Section 32, in Washington, which he has increased to 150 acres by purchase; at\\nthe time of his settlement, the countiy was in its primeval condition, and Mr. Conklin en-\\ncountered all the struggles and j^rivations of the early pioneer, which awakened all his\\nenergy and perseverance to overcome, but he made a success of his contest with circum-\\nj en", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0834.jp2"}, "835": {"fulltext": "stances, and ranks among the best element of Macomb County. He was married, March\\nn, 1S30, to Ennice Thompson, of Cayuga County, N. Y. they have had three children\\nJohn, born March 13, 1S81, died April 5, 1836; Peter T., born October N, 1,S35, and Mary\\nJane, July IN, 1S37; they have also an adoj^ted daughter. Hannah, born August 11, 1S52;\\nhis wife died December 5, 187S. He was a second time married, November 1881, to\\nMrs. Phoebe J. widow of Noah Baker, of Mentz. Cayuga Co. N. Y. she is the sister of\\nhis lirst wife, born August 17. 1817. Mr. and Mrs. Conklin are members of the Baptist\\nChurch, of Mt. Vernon; he is. politically, a Democrat and cast his first vote for Andrew\\nJackson.\\nDR. DENNIS COOLEY (deceased), the son of Chloe Allen, who was the daugh-\\nter of Caleb Allen, who was the son of Samuel Allen, who was the son of Edward Allen,\\nwho was the son of one Allen who emigrated to America from Scotland about the year\\n16()0. Edward married Mary Painter; Samuel married Hannah Hawks; Caleb married\\nJudith Hawks; Chloe married Eli Gooley; Dennis married Elizabeth Anderson, of Deer-\\nHeld, Mass., and, in 1836, married Clara Andrus, of Macomb County. Dr. Dennis Cooley\\nwas born at Doerfield, Mass., February 18, 178U; received his primary and ^preparatory\\neducation in the schools of his native town, and completed his studies at the Medical\\nCollege of Berkshire. Mass., from which he graduated in August, 18 22. The Massachu-\\nsetts Medical Society admitted him to practice in his jirofession by a complimentary note\\nin the same year; he soon after went South and engaged in the practice of his profession\\nin Georgia, live years; retui:ning from that State, he remained at home one year, and then\\nremoved to Macomb, in July, 18 27, and located in Washington Township, where he re-\\nsumed bis practice, in which he continued until the year 1856, when failing health caused\\nhim to relinquish his business; he was a great lover of science, a skilled botanist, and had\\ncollected a line and large cabinet of natural and scientific objects. The older residents of\\nthe county remember him with feelings of respect and greatest good will. He married.\\nMay If), 1N30, Elizabeth Anderson, of Deerfield, Mass., by whom be had two children\\nEtta, born September 6, 1831, died June 2, 1834; Belle; born February 1834, died\\nJanuary 12, 1844. Mrs. Cooley died October lU, 1834. He married again. May 13. 1886,\\nClara, daughter of Elon Andrus, of Genesee County, N. Y. she was born at that place\\nJuly 27, 1812; her father removed to Macomb in 1822, and lived here till his death, about\\nthe year 18()3. Dr. Cooley died at his home, in Washington Village. September 8, 1860;\\nthe widow was married to her present husband. May 1, 1862; she has no children; in\\nform of worship, a Methodist. Mr. Samuel A. Babbitt was born at Danville, V^t., Octo-\\nber 4, 1811; received his early education in his native State, and, at the age of twenty-\\ntwo, gave his attention to the study of medicine and physiology, attending the college\\ncourses devoted to that science, and afterward gave lectures on physiology and hygiene\\nin various places in the States of Michigan, Ohio and Indiana, for ten years. In the year\\n1862, he married the widow of Dr. Cooley, and since that time has resided at Wiishington\\nVillage. Dr. Cooley was ajipointed Postmaster of Washington Township, July, 183(),\\nbeing the successor of Otis Lamb, the first incumbent, which he held continuously twenty-\\nthree years under several administrations.\\nCHARLES C. CRISSMAN. P. O. Mt. Vernon, son of Benjamin Crissman and\\ngrandson of John Crissman, a native of New Jersey, and of Susan (Kern) Crissman, a\\nnative of Pennsylvania; he is one of the most ros[)erous agriculturists of Washington\\nTownship. In the Crissman family history can be found a more extended reference to\\nMr. Crissman. Mrs. C. C. (Parish) Crissman, daughter of Harvey Pai-ish. and grand-\\ndaughter of Jeremiah Parish, born in Connecticut February 17. 17( )5, and of Abott\\nSykes Parish, born in Bethel, Vt. February 16. 17()9, is referred to in the personal sketch\\n5)", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0835.jp2"}, "836": {"fulltext": "1\\nHISTORY OF MAC0M15 COUNTY.\\nof Mrs. J. J. Crissman, and again in that of the Sykes family; her sons, Jehiel and Jo-\\nseph, are extensive sheep farmers in Kansas.\\nDAVID H. CRISSMAN, P. O. Washington, was born July 15, lS2;i in Warren\\nCounty. N. J., is the son of Benjamin and Mary (Keru) Crissman, both natives of New\\nJersey (see sketch of M. H. Crissman); they came to Michigan in 1883, and settled in the\\nTownship of Washington, on l!40 acres of land, on Section 2U, where they lived until the\\nfather s death, May 7, 1 S()2. Mr. Crissman of this sketch commenced farming for himself\\nabout twenty-nine years ago, and bought 120 acres on Section 2IS, which he has increased\\nto 177 acres, and brought to an advanced state of improvement, with commodious dwell-\\ning and other fai-m buildings. He was married, December 2S, 1S4S, to Olive M. Meeker,\\nof Bruce, Macomb County; she was born June 21, 1S31, in Rochester, N. Y they have\\ntive children living Benjamin A., born December 4, 1S4 M. Jav, October 25, 1857;\\nJohn I., June 12, 185U; Charles O.. January 28, I8r)2; Mertie E., December 28, 1867.\\nPolitically, Mr. C. is a Democrat.\\nETtl O J. CRISSMAN, P. O. Romeo, was born July S, ISuC), in Washington, Macomb\\nCo., Mich.; is the son of Frederick S., and Eliza (Smith) Crissman. the former a native\\nof New Jersey, the latter of England (see sketch of F. S. Crissman). Mr. Crissman has\\nfollowed the vocation of farmer all his life; his estate comprises 1(50 acres, on Sections\\n15, 1(5 and 21; his new and elegant dwelling is situated on Section l(i, and was recently\\nconstructed, at a cost of $3,000. He was married, December 17, 1878, to Nellie D.*,\\ndaughter of Israel A. and Margaret (Moon) Park, of Oakland Township, Oakland County,\\nborn June 10, 1857, in Lapeer County, Mich.; her father is a native of Michigan; her\\nmother, of England. Mi-. Crissman is a Republican in politics.\\nFREDERICK SNOVER CRISSMAN, P. O. Romeo, was born at Sandiston, Sussex\\nCo., N. J., March 5, 1817; his paternal grandparents. Charles and Margaret (Snover)\\nCrissman, were natives of Germany and emigrated to America a few years prior to the\\nRevolution, as did his maternal ancestors. Both grandsires were engaged in the struggle\\nfor independence, his mother s father having a fort on his place garrisoned for frontier\\nduty. Jonas Crissman, father of Mr. C. of this sketch, was born in Knowlton, Sussex\\n(now Warren County), N. J., in 1781, and died December 14, 1S7H, in his ninety-fifth\\nyear. Susan (Snover) Crissman, wife of Jonas, was born in the same nlace, in 17U1, and\\ndied April 211, 1858; three of their ten children survive; they, with three daughters, are\\nbui-ied in the cemetery at Romeo. Mr. F. S. Crissman. with his sister, Mrs. A. J. Sikes,\\nof Romeo, has erected to their memories a handsome monument of Vermont granite, at a\\ncost of $l,00t). The Crissman family set out for Michigan in September, 1836. The\\nfather had bought thi-ee SO s in June previous, in Oreon. Oakland County. F. S. and\\nhis brother proceeded to Bufl alo with a horse and wagon, where they expected to join the\\nfamily party traveling by water, but the latter was delayed by a break in the canal, and\\nthe sons took passage on the Charles Townsend for Detroit, driving their team thence\\nto their destination. The family arrived two weeks later. Mr. Crissman was dissatisfied\\nwith his father s purchase and exjire-ssed his opinion of the stony, unpromising character\\nof the land without reserve, which resulting in his securing the means of making a pur-\\nchase of the northeast (piarter and south half of the southeast quarter of Section 20,\\nWashington. His father offered him -15300 for his bargain, and promised to buy for him\\nthe southwest quarter of the school section when it came into market, if he would\\nremain at home until that period. This arrangement was partly consummated, and Mr.\\nCrissman holds the patent from the Government for the possession of his homestead of\\n1()0 acres. It was virgin soil, and he entered upon the work of clearing in January, 1840;\\nin September the same year, the wheat crop was in, and the harvest the following yeai-\\nyielded 8,340 bushels of grain, which he sold at$l a bushel. In the winter he got out\\n^V\\nf", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0836.jp2"}, "837": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe lumber for his honse and bara, both of which stnictures, remodeled after modern\\nmethod, the family now occupy. He was married. March 31. 184 2, to Eliza, daughter of\\nFrancis and Dinah (Day) Smith, born in England Januaiy !28, 1S 20; her paternal ances\\ntors were natives of Thetford; those on her mother s side lived in INlinting. Lincolnshire,\\nEngland; her father sailed for America with his family in February, 1S31: she was a\\nchild of eleven years and remembers distinctly the mai ked incidents of the passage, which\\nlasted seven weeks, during two of which a severe storm raged, the hatchways being closed\\nand the ship lighted by side-lamps, which were kept burning; there were two deaths on\\nboard; the burial service was read by the Captain and the bodies ent 3mbed in the wilder-\\nness of waters. They landed at Staten Island; proceeded to the city of New York, up the\\nHudson, via canal to Pittsford. and thence to Mendon, Jlonroe Co., N. Y. in October,\\n1837. they went to Rochester, and traveled by canal and lake to Detroit; thence over cor-\\nduroy roads to Royal Oak, and eventuality to Washington, the journey consuming a week.\\nMr. Smith died May 31, ISdC). aged seventy-two years; his wife December 15, ISCiT. at\\nthe age of seventy. Following is the record of the childi-en of Mr. and Mrs. Crissman;\\nLorissa, born February lit. lS-13, died July 31. 1S75; Justina C, March 5, 1S44:, died\\nAugust 29, LS77; Emma C, March 2S, I.SIS, died August 27, 1845; Marsha E.. April 16,\\n184(i; Ferdinand S, November 22, 1847, died June 14, 1877; Francis J., May 18.-1841);\\nMarium S. D., Febi-iiary 5, 1N53; Etho J., July 8, 1855; Edwin S., September 7, 1857,\\ndied December 31, 1874; infant son, June 23. I860, died July U; Albert J., December 2,\\n1862. Mr. Crissman is rated one of the most substantial citizens of Macomb County; he\\nhas added to his real estate and personal possessions, has been Director in the Citizens\\nNational Bank, of Romeo, since its organization and holds stock in the First National\\nBank. Mi-s. Crissman enjoys a handsome heritage from her father s estate; she is a mem-\\nber of the Methodist Church at Mt. Vernon. Mr. C. was an uncompromising Abolitionist,\\nand has been known for years as a zealous advocate of temperance. The family monu-\\nment stands in the Central Cemetery, of Washington, where five children and Mr. and Mrs.\\nSmith are buried; it is four feet, eight inches square at the base, and with die, cap, dra-\\npery, spire and Grecian urn with drapery stands twenty-one feet. It is of Vermont gran-\\nite and cost $1,400; the coping is about 35x17 feet, with corner and joint caps, and cost\\n$700.\\nJAMES J. CRISSMAN (deceased) was born July U, ISl .t. in the township of Sand-\\niston, Sussex Co., N. J. was the son of Jonas and Susan (Suover) Crissman; the former\\nwas born in 1781, in Knowlton. Sussex (now Warren) Co., N. J., and died Deecember\\n14, 1876, in his ninety- fifth year: his wife was a native of the same place and was born in\\n1791, and died April 29, 1858; the ancestral lines of both parents were German. Mr.\\nC. came to Michigan in 1836, making the trip with his brother. F. S. Crissman, to Oak-\\nland County, where his father had previously purchased land, and not long after the family\\nsettled in Washington. He was married, in Washington, October 30, 1845, to Mary Par-\\nish, a native of Pike, Allegany Co., N. Y. In 1846, Mr. C. came into possession of 286\\nacres in Sections 3, 20 and 22. on which he lived the remainder of his life; he died August\\n7, 1881. Mr. and JIi-s. C. had a family of eleven children, born as follows: Catalina E..\\nNovember 16. 1846, died August 21. 1847: Sarah C, December 4, 1847, died October 22,\\n1864; Susan A., May 7, 1849: Elmina A.. September 23. 1850; Alma E., April 6. 1852.\\ndied September 8, l s67; Jonas H.. March 22, 1856; CaiTie E., July 7, 1858; Ida May,\\nSeptember 13. 1860. died May 7, 1866; Clark J., October 4. 1862: Mai-y E.. December 4,\\n1865. died October 4. 18()6; Estella M.. November 22. 1868; they were all born on their\\nfather s f ami. and have never resided elsewhere. Mi-s. Crissman was born February 21,\\n1826, and is the daughter of Harvey and Sybil (Sikes) Parish, the former born in Bethel,\\nWindsor Co., Vt.. August 29. 1796. the latter in Granville. Washington Co.. N. Y.. January\\nrpi-", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0837.jp2"}, "838": {"fulltext": "5. 1(S00: tliey came io Michigan in ()ctol)er. 1S43, and lived on a farm two miles south of\\nRomeo, until 1S5 2. when they moved to Addison, Oakland County, where they passed the\\nremainder of their lives; they had eight daughters and one son. Mr. P. died June S.\\n1S81. Mrs. P. died June 20. INTO. Jeremiah Parish, father of Harvey, was born in\\nConnecticut February 17. 1765. Thankful Abbott Parish, his wife, was born in Bethel,\\nVt.. February 16, 176*,); they had four daughters and five sons; the remoter ancestors\\nwere natives of Connecticut; they were married August 3. I S23.\\nMICHAEL HETZEL CRISSMAN. P. O. Washington, was born in Blairstown,\\nWarren Co.. N. J,, and is the youngest son of Benjamin and Mary (Kern) Crissman, both\\nnatives of Warren County, N. J.; the ancestors on each side were natives of Germany;\\nBenjamin, the son of John and Johannah Schoonover Crissman. John Crissman was a\\nsoldier in the Revolution. Benjamin was born June IS. 17M was a tailor by trade and\\nmarried Mary Kern. November 12. IS 12; they became the parents of seven children,\\nborn as follows: Henry K., March 21. IS13; John. November 21. 1814; Susannah. Sep-\\ntember 14. 1S16; Amos O.. October U. ISIS; Charles, November 10, 1820; David H.\\nJuly 15, 1823. and Michael H.. March 21. 1827. Mr-. C. moved to the Ten-itory of Michi-\\ngan in 1833. and settled thirty miles north of Detroit, whei-e he purchased of Benjamin\\nTubbs three eighty- acre tracts, with a comfortable log house on one. which was known as\\nthe Buckhorn Tavern. and had for a sign a huge pair of antlers fastened to a pole; it\\nwas at the junction of three roads the old Territorial road from Detroit throtigh Royal\\nOak. Rochester and Romeo, to Almont, then called Tapshire; the second was known as\\nthe Tromley trail, from a French settler who owned land in Mt. Clemens and Bruce; the\\nlatter was known as Tromley Mountain; the third road ran from Hui sey Mill to Washing-\\nton Post Office; these roads are now all vacated. M. H. Crissman of this sketch now owns\\nand occupies his father s farm. He was married, March 13, 1S55, to Margaret Kern, of\\nWantage, Sussex Co., N, J,; the following is the i-ecord of their children s births: Irene\\n(Mrs. Denison). January 5. 1857; Mellie (Mrs. Eaton). December 29. 1858; William L..\\nFebruary IS. ISfil; C. Elmer. April 2fi. 1863; OraG.. October 2. 1865; Loretta. Febru-\\nary 1. 1S()S; Laura. August 23. 1870; Alice. April 2 J. 1S73; Margaret. September 28.\\n1S75. and Michael Hugh. September 2S. lS7y.\\nEDWARD O. CURTIS. P. O. Romeo, was born November 11. 1843. in Oakland.\\nOakland Co. Mich.; he is the son of Zurial and Amanda Curtis, both natives of New\\nYork; he was trained to the vocation of a farmer, which calling he has pursued all his\\nlife; he resides on Section 8. of the town of AVashington. where he owns 120 acres of the\\nbest quality of land, purchased by him in 1870. He was married. April 2f). 1869. to Julia,\\ndaughter of Elijah and Lydia Thorington, of Washington (see sketch of George W.\\nThorington); .she was born July 24. 1849. in the house where she now resides; they have\\none child Vernon, born March 26. 1881. JiL s. C. is a member of the Mt. Vernon Baj)\\ntist Church. Mr. C. adheres to the principles of the Democratic party; he has acted as\\nSchool Director for three years and four terms as Road Commissioner.\\nOLIVER C. DUDLEY. P. O. Romeo, was born October 14. 1822, in Washington.\\nMacomb Co.. Mich.; is the son of Orsel and Lucinda Dudley, both natives of the State of\\nNew York. Mr. Dudley is a farmer, which has been his vocation through life. In 1Sr)7.\\nhe became the owner of 160 acres of land, near Romeo Village, which constitutes the\\nfamily homestead; it is well improved and judiciously managed, well stocked and has a\\nsubstantial dwelling, with creditable accessory buildings. Politically. Mr. Dudley is a\\nRepublican. He was married. May 1. 1834, to Mary A., daughter of Isaac and Mtiria\\nAnderson, natives of New York; they came to Michigan in 1832, and bought 160 acres on\\nSections 13 and 14. Mr. Anderson was born February 9. 1793. and died November 16.\\n1859; his wife was born November 18. 1795. and died September 13. 1877. Mrs. Dudley", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0838.jp2"}, "839": {"fulltext": "A\\n1^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwas born in Washington June 3, 1S33. Elijah Anderson and Sally (Lyon) Anderson, her\\npaternal grandparents, were born in New Jersey. Mr. and Mrs. Dudley have four chil-\\ndren, born as follows: Martha, November 11, 1S5B (Mrs. Thaddeus Hazleton; see sketch);\\nWesley A.. February U. IS.jD; Manlev J.. October 11. INOO; HattieM.. May 30. ISBS,\\nWAKNER H. EATON, P. O. Romeo, was born in Union, Tolland Co., Conn., No-\\nvember 20, 1N3(J, and is the youngest of a family of seven children, all of whom lived to\\nmature years; his father, William Eaton, was born in Connecticut September 16, 1793.\\nIn 1822, he was married to Fannie Sessions, a native of Tolland County, Conn, born Au-\\ngust 14, 1795. In February, ]S37, he set out for Michigan, in consonance with the idea\\nthat the new State oflfered better advantages for so large a family; he bought a farm in\\nWashington and sent East for his family; the character of Mrs. Eaton can be readily con-\\njectured from the fact that she made her way from Connecticut, more than a thousand\\nmiles, alone, with seven children, the eldest only twelve, the youngest a babe of six\\nmonths; she came through safely with her children in five weeks, reaching her destina-\\ntion July S, The staple product of Michigan was wolves, and they were more familiar\\nthan agreeable to the new settlers, but Mr. Eaton managed to captiu-e five in various ways,\\nsecuring the Government and other bounty of $13 a head, which was a feat held in high-\\nesteem by his fellow-pioneers, in view of its having been accomplished by a Yankee from\\nthe land of wooden nutmegs. Mr. Eaton entered courageously upon the work of improv-\\ning his farm, having only his strorig arms to help, no team nor farming tools being then in\\nhis possession. He died in March. LS(j2, having nearly reached man s allotted years; he\\nwas an indulgent father, an upright, sympathetic neighbor, a conscientious adherent to\\nprinciples in all matters of whatever importance; he was a radical Democrat and a con-\\nservative in religious opinions; his wife was in every way worthy and met her responsi-\\nbilities as a pioneer s wife with all the required strength and firmness of purpose; she\\ndied in November, 1.S75. W. H. Eaton was bred a farmer; he attended the di.strict\\nschool winters and helped on the farm summers, until the fall of 1N5S, when he went to\\nCalifornia: he was in El Dorado County until April ISCil, when he left for Michigan, arriving\\nhome May 2. July -i following, he was married to Alma, daughter of Samuel and Deborah\\n(Banister) Aldrich, born in Armada February 1-1, 1S43. Mr. and Mrs. Eaton reside on\\nthe farm where his parents lived, whither he was carried a babe of six months by his\\ncourageous mother from her far-away Eastern home; thev have three children, born as\\nfollows: Cappie, October 21, 18(U; Mary, February 19, 1860: Warner H., Jr., April 29,\\n1880. Mr. Eaton is giving his childi-en educational advantages in accordance with his\\nobligations as a kind and judicious father: he is a Democrat and a conservative in relig-\\nious views.\\nHARVEY ELDRED, P. O. Romeo, was born July 28, 1841, in Bruce. Macomb Co..\\nMich. he owns a fine farm of 240 acres in a state of advanced improvement, with sub-\\nstantial frame house and outbuildings; it is situated adjoining the corporation of Romeo;\\nhe also owns another farm of 240 acres, one-half mile north of Romeo. He was married,\\nin March, 1861, to Rachel Shaw, of Washington; she died in March, 1874, leaving one\\nchild Ratie, born March 7, 1873. Mr. E. was married again, in November, 1874, to\\nVirginia Sholes, of Bruce; they have one child Gracie, born April 1, 1882. Mrs. El-\\ndred is a member of the M. E. Church. Politically, Mr. E. is a Democrat.\\nEMORY P. EWELL was born in Sciota, Shiawassee County, April 12, 1859: is the\\nson of Samuel Day Edgar and Sarah (Lintz) Ewell; his mother is the daughter of Simon\\nand Elizabeth Lintz, natives of the Empire State, where the former still lives, aged ninety-\\none. Mr. Ewell traces his paternal line of descent to 1734, when his earliest authenti-\\ncated ancestor, John Ewell, was born in Scotland; the latter came to America in 1759,\\nand entered upon a seafaring life, settling at Scituate. Plymouth Co., Mass.; he became", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0839.jp2"}, "840": {"fulltext": "^i\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe father of nine children. Mr. Ewell of this sketch is Lis sixth descendant. James\\nEwell. first son and child of John, enlisted with his father in the Revolutionary service.\\nHe was the fifth in Mi EwelTs ancestral line. Following is a list in regular descent:\\nJohn. James, Peleg. Philander, Samuel. D. E. aud Emory. The family record clearly\\ntraced by Edwin H. Ewell. son of an elder brother of Peleg Ewell. is contained in a\\nneatly printed and carefully compiled volume, from which these statements were culled.\\nThe family name is one of honor, and, in many instances, of distinction. Samuel D. E.\\nEwell was born September 27, 1835, in Shelby, Macomb County, and died April 12. ISTN;\\nhis son, E. P. Ewell, succeeded to the management of the patrimonial estate, comprising\\n102 aci es on Section 2S. Washington. He was married, October 21. 1N79. to Clara A.,\\ndaughter of Alvin and Margaret Baldwin, (natives, respectively, of Vermont and New Jer-\\nsey), of Avon, Oakland County. Mrs. Ewell was born July 29, ISfiO, in that county, and\\nis a member of ^he Mt. Vernon Baj^tist Chm-ch. Mr. Ewell is a Democrat in political\\nviews; he has two brothers, born as follows: Samuel D. Ewell. August 19, 18(iO, and Ervin\\nE. Ewell, October 2l). ISliT; the foiTuer is a resident of San Francisco. Cal.: the latter\\nresides with his mother at Rochester, this county.\\nDANIEL E, FROST, P. O. Romeo, was born in Brookline, Windham Co,. Vt., July\\n2iS, 1818: is the son of Samuel and Lydia (Bixby) Fros,t the former born in Massachu-\\nsetts, the latter in Connecticut. Mr. Frost is one of a family of twelve children, ten boys\\nand two girls; ten of their children are living, the eldest seventy two years of age, the\\nyoungest, forty-six years old; his j arents moved to Bolivar, Allegany Co., N, Y., when\\nhe was six years old, and thi ee years later went to Ceres, McCane Co.. Penn. in 1830,\\nthey went to Covington, Genesee Co,, N. Y. seven years after. Mi Frost settled in Oak-\\nland County, Mich., where he was married, January 22, 1844, to Margaret Jarvis; she\\ndied June 4, 1N48, leaving one son, James J., born November 21. 1844. ]\\\\Ir. Frost was\\nagain married. Jannarj 30. 1849, to Belinda Brownson; she died August 4, 18(51, leaving\\nthree children, born as follows: Willard A., January 5, 1S50; Margaret A.. March 4,\\n1852, and William K., July 24, 1854. Mr. Frost was again married. March 6. 1802, to\\nMi s; Mary (Eaton) Sholes, who had one daughter Virginia, born May 12, 1855. Mrs.\\nFrost was born November 9, 1832, in Union, Tolland Co., Conn. the family moved to St.\\nClair County in 1849, and, eighteen years after, to Romeo, where they resided seven\\nyears and a half; in the fall of 1874, they bought a farm of 280 acres, three miles south\\nof Romeo, where thev have since resided.\\nOILMAN E. GRAVES. P. O. Rochester, Oakland County, was born November 20.\\n1839, in Washington, Macomb Co., Mich.; is the son of EphiHuu and Persis (Hall) Gravies;\\nhis father was born in Vermont and his mother in Consictiicnt; both descended from na-\\ntives of those States. His parents came to Michigan i:i June, 1827, and bought eighty\\nacres of land on Section 32, in Washington, where liirf father died September 5, 1 8(53.\\nMr. Graves of this sketch succeeded to the possession of the homestead, to which he has\\nadded eighty acres, making a fine fai-m of 160 acres; on this property there has never\\nbeen an incumbrance from the day of the original purchase. Mr. Graves was married.\\nFebruary 20, 1800, to Jeanette Healy, of Shelby; she died September 16, i860, and Mr.\\nGraves was married a second time. May 1, 1862, to Haniiah E., daughter of Lockwood\\nand Emeretta Russell; her father was a native of New York, her mother of Connecticut;\\nboth probably descended from English ancestry. Mr. and Mrs. Graves have had fom-\\nchildi-en, born as follows: Howard H., March 25. 1865; Jeanettie E., Novemb ^r 10, 1867;\\nAdalettie W., September 22, 1869, died October 10, 1870; Kezza L., January 17, 1877.\\nMi-s. Graves is a member of the Methodist Church, of Washington. Mr. Graves is an ac-\\ntive and zealous member of the Macomb County Agricultm-al Society, and has been for", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0840.jp2"}, "841": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nyears considered among the best authorities on breeding ponltry. He is a Democrat in po-\\nlitical views.\\nJOHN C. GRAVES, P. O. Romeo, was born August 22, 1S2S. in Leroy. Genesee\\nCo.. N. Y. is the son of Ames and Betsey (Martin) Graves, natives of New York; his\\nparents came to Michigan in 1S32. and settled in Washington; his father located on 240\\nacres, on Section 7. on which he lived four years, when he sold 10(1 acres and went to Mc.\\nClemens, where he engaged in keeping hotel and sold liquor three months; he then estab-\\nlished a temperance house and continued its management to the cLd of the year, when he\\nwent to Oakland, Oakland County, and engaged in farming, which he followed the re-\\nmainder of his life; he died January 2. 1S37; his wife died in May. ISSO. in Richmond,\\nMacomli County. Mi-. Graves of this sketch was married, November 12, 1S5(). to Ann\\nEliza, daughter of William and Fanny Park, of Washington, Macomb County; she was\\nborn March 6, 1S32, in Onondaga County. N. Y. her parents settled on Section 7, in\\nWashington, in 1836, and engaged in farming; in May. 1877, they moved to the village\\nof Romeo, where they now reside. Mr. and Mrs. Graves have four children, born as fol-\\nlows: Frances E., August 23, 1S52; Alice M.. October 24, 1853; Park C. April 10. 1.S56;\\nCarrie L., Febi-uary 15. lS(iO. Park was married, March 13, 1877, to Cora A. Thoring-\\nton, of Washington, and resides with his parents; Can-ie is the wife of J. C. Albertson,\\nof Oxford, Oakland County. Mr. and Mrs. Graves are members of the M. E. Church.\\nMr. Graves is a Republican in politics; he has been all his life a farmer, and owns 205\\nacres of tirst-class land, with good dwelling and convenient sulistantial outbuildings.\\nLEVI P. HAINES, P. O. Romeo, son of Benjamin and Betsey Haines, was born in\\nMendon, Mom oe Co., N. Y., November 14, 1N21; the parents reared a family of twelve\\nchildren, six boys and six girls both died at seventy-two years of age, the father in 1 85S,\\nthe mother in 1S65; thev came to Michigan in 1S32 and bought 160 acres of land on Sec-\\ntions 15 and 22, in Washington. When Mj. Haines reached his majority, he bought 160\\nacres of what is known as speculators land. and began himself to clear it for a farm;\\nthree years after, he made an exchange with a younger brother (James H. Haines) for the\\nhomestead faiTU in W^ashingtou, his present home. December 29. 1853, he was married\\nto Elizabeth, daughter of William and Betsey Flumerfelt: she was born in Oxford, War-\\nren Co., N. J., Januaiy 16, 1828; her parents came to Oakland. Oakland County, \\\\Fhere\\nher father now lives, aged eighty-two years. ]Mr. and Mrs. Haines have three children,\\nborn as follows: Mary Josephine, February 21. 1857; B. Frank. February 27. IMiO; Will-\\niam L., February 10, 1N65.\\nGILBERTE, HALL, P. O. Washington. Elias Hall was born in the State of New\\nHampshire Febniary U, 17 he moved with his parents to the State of New York, where\\nhe was man-ied to IMi-s. Lydia Rood in the year IM .t; he came with his family to Michi-\\ngan, in 1832, where he settled on a farm owned by John Price, two miles south and one-\\nhalf mile west of Romeo; here he lived one year; he then moved on a farm owned by a\\nMr. Porter, where he lived three years. With the mistaken idea that the timbered land\\nwas going to be the easier cleared and the Ijetter wheat land, he pm-ehased a farm of\\neighty acres, five miles south and one-half mile east of Romeo. On this farm he resided\\nuntil his death, a period of forty-six years. His trade was that of a blacksmith; in thfv\\nearly settlement of Macomb County, he was the only man in the ci unty who could make\\nedged tools. IVIr. Hall was a respected and loved neighbor and friend, living a quiet\\nhome life and one of industry; he was a Freemason, and a Repuljlican in politics: he was\\nof English descent; he died in his eighty-fourth year at the home of his youngest son,\\nGilbert, he having had the farm on condition of caring for his parents; the date of this\\npioneer s decease is Februarj 12, 1882. Lydia Whitney was torn in Vermont March 5,\\n1795; she was man-ied to Horace Rood, of New York State, in 1815; she had two children\\n^^f^", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0841.jp2"}, "842": {"fulltext": "*M^\\n824 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nLaura, born at Pittsbnrgli, in IS If), and Hannah, born at Pittsburgh, in bSbS. Her lirst\\nhtishand died in ISIS. She married Eh as Hall in ISIU, and, after a residence of thirteen\\nyears in New York, came to Michigan, in 1S32: she was a good and true wife, and labored\\nas only such a woman can to make a home and bring up her childi-en; she was a member\\nof the Christian Church; she died September 20, 1S76, having passed her eighty lirst\\nbirthday. To her seven children were born by her last husband Horace, born at Rush,\\nN. Y., in 1S2J, died in the Chattanooga Hospital in bS64; Cynthia, born in Rush, in\\n1S2;-]. died in infancy; Hiram, liorn at Rush in 1S26, is now a resident of Lamotte,\\nSanilac Co., Mich.; Sarah, born at Rush, in 1829. died at the home of her husband,\\nHarry Kimball, in Washington. Mich.; Minerva, born in Rush, in 1831, is now a resident\\nof Marlette. Mich. Cyrus. Iwrn in Washington Township, 1833, was killed at the battle\\nnear Warrentown Junction, Ya. Gilbert, born in Washington Township. 1836, is now\\na resident of Washington. Of the tirst two daughters Laura and Hannah Laura died\\nat the home of her husband, Anson Grinnell, in Washington Township. The present\\nresidence of Hannah (Pen-y) Rood is Fentonville, Mich.\\nP RANK C. HARPER. P. O. Romeo, son of Francis Harper, was born in Tyrone\\n(Jouuty. Leland. near Castlederg. June 2, 1857; he attended the national schools in te-\\nland for a year, when he came with his mother, six sisters and iive brothers to the United\\nStates. The father, Francis Harper, was born in Tyrone County, Ireland, in 181(3, and\\nlived in that county until 1864, when he came to tho United States; he was a son of Hugh\\nHarper, also a native of Tyrone. Francis Harper was married to Miss Esther Bovaird, of\\nCastlefinn, Donegal Co., Ireland, March 31, 1841; the children of this marriage were\\nHugh, born February 22. 1S42; Sarah, February 16. 1844; William, January 9,\\n184(); Mary Jane. November 5. 1848, died August, 18(35; Maggie, December 2, 1851;\\nJohn. January 9, 1853; Lizzie and Elliott (twins), Febiiiary 22, 1855; Frank C, June\\n2, 1857; Rebecca. June 27, 1859, died June 12. 1880; Esther and George (twins). May\\n31, 1862, all born in Ireland, and Matilda, born at Hibernia, N. J., July 18. 1866. Mr.\\nHarper. Sr. came to Michigan with his family in April, 1868, and resided at Romeo un-\\ntil 1871, when he bought the Sisson farm of seventy acres, in Washington Township;\\nhere Mr. Harper resided until his death. November 29, 1879, when the property passed\\ninto the possession of Frank C. the present owner. Hugh married Mary Faulkner, and\\nresides at Syracuse; Sarah inarried George Wadley, and resides in Florida; William mar-\\nried Eliza Spring, and lives in Sanilac; Maggie married James Hamilton, and resides in\\nLapeer; John married Mina Fox, and resides in Lapeer; Lizzie married Charles Oibbs,\\nand resides in Gladwin County; Elliott is a blacksmith at Disco. Shelby Township; Es-\\nther is unmarried and residing at Lapeer with her sister, Mrs. Hamilton; George resides\\nin Oakland County, and Matilda lives with her mother and brother on the homestead.\\nMrs. Harper, the mother of this family, was born at Castlefinn. Ii eland. December 25,\\n1821 is a member of the M. E. Chui-ch. Hugh and Sarah Harper were the pioneers of\\nthe family in the United States; they arrived in Michigan in 1863. one year before their\\nfather immigrated. Mr. Harper, politically, is a Democrat.\\nJOHN R. HAZARD. P. O. Mt. Vernon, was born in Shelby. Macomb County, Au-\\ngust 14, 1822; he is the son of James and Hannah (Beebe) Hazard, the former born in\\nRussell, Mass., July 26, 1796, the latter in Bennington, Vt.. July 18, 1798; she died July\\n3. 1845. Mr. H. of this sketch came to Michigan and lived for a time on the Hiu-on\\nRiver, near Detroit; the land had not come into market, and he came to Macomb County,\\nwhere he bought ninety acres of Government land, and, on the K^th of July. 1823, he\\nreceived his patent. No. 108, signed by President Monroe; here he lived the remainder of\\nhis life; his death occurred in 1825. Mr. H. of this sketch was reared a farmer, and has\\nmade agi iealture the business of his life; he owns 164 acres of improved land, which", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0842.jp2"}, "843": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0843.jp2"}, "844": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0844.jp2"}, "845": {"fulltext": ".1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncame into his possession in 1N57. This farm was formerly the homestead of Judge Hiirt.\\nwho purchased it in 1S22, and remained its owner until INST. Mr. H. was married. No\\nvemher 15, 1S53. to Almira. daughter of Ephraim and Persis Graves (see sketch of G. E.\\nGraves), natives, respectively, of Vermont and Connecticut. Mr. and Mrs. H. have had\\ntwo children John O.. born May 22, 1S59, and Alma V., June 1^4, LS()I. Mr. H. is a\\nRepublican, and both himself and wife are members of the Baptist Chui ch, of Mt. Ver-\\nnon. In 1S79, Mr. H. built an elegant and substantial residence on his farm at a cost of\\nnearlv S5.000.\\nRUSSELL T. HAZELTON, Superintendent of H. R. Hazelton s lumber-mills at\\nWashington, Macomb County, was born in Ray Township, this county. May 1 1. 1849, and\\nis a son of Thaddeus Hazelton, who was born in Canada September 12, 1812, and came to\\nMacomb County in 1838. Thaddeus Hazelton married Louisa Roberts, born in Connecticut\\nin 1819; they had eight children, of whom our subject is the seventh. At the age of fif\\nteen, he left his parental roof and lived with his brother, Hiram R., in whose employ he\\nstill remains, on a large salary. He was married, in October, 187(1, to Miss HaiTiet Du-\\nsett, by whom he had two children, one living, Jessie ]j. Mrs. Hazelton died September\\n17, 1877, and he again maiTied, January 1, 1879, this time to Miss Ida S. Jones. Mr.\\nHazelton is a member of the Congregational Church at New Haven; he has worked his\\nway up by his own efforts: is a self-made man, a shrewd business man, and very ingen-\\nious, and successful in all his undertakings.\\nTHADDEUS HAZELTON, P. O. Romeo, was born in Ingham County, Mich., June\\n25, 1845; came to Macomb County in 1849, and went with his father s family to Missouri\\nin 1857, returning to Michigan in 1861. He enlisted, when twenty years old, at Pontiac,\\nin the Third Michigan olunteer Infantry, Company G, and was honorably discharged\\nat Knoxville, Tenn. He commenced farming as an occupation in 18()S. November 9,\\n1871, he was married to Martha, daughter of Oliver Dudley, born December 11, 1S55: they\\nhave two sons Orsel. born December 18, 1872: and Ransom, born September 14. 1874.\\nRANSOM HAZELTON was born November 21, 1807. in Madison County, N. Y., and\\nwent to Canada with his ])arents when nine years old. In October, 1829, he was married\\nto Polly Whiting, a native of the State of New York; they came to Michigan in Febraary,\\n1837, and reached Detroit just in time to participate in a celebration in that city on the\\nadmission of Michigan as a State; they settled in Aiu-elius, Ingham County, where they\\nencountered all the vicissitudes and privations of pioneer life, and reared eight children\\nAllen, Delia, Adaline, Mary, David, Thaddeus, Sylvester and Clan-ie. Mr. Hazelton drew\\nthe fii-st load of lime to Lansing for the building of the capitol. In March, 1849. he set-\\ntled in Ray. Macomb County, where he remained until 1857, when he went to Missouri\\nand lived until the rebellion broke out, and. being a decided Union man, he was obliged\\nto secm-e safety by change of locality, and. with a great deal of trouble, moved his family\\nback to Michigan, which was no sooner accomplished than he enrolled as a soldier in the\\nFifth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Company F. enlisting March 19, 1862, at Mt. Clem-\\nens; he was afflicted with goiter, and was discharged February 11, 1863, at Camp Pitcher:\\nhe re-enlisted, November 1, 1863, in the First Michigan Cavalry, Company A, and was\\ndischarged June 19. 1805, at Cumberland, Md.. on the Surgeon s certificate of disability\\nfrom wounds received in the battle of the Wilderness; he was in the several actions at\\nWilliamsbiu-g, Fair Oaks, Malvern Hill, Seven Pines, Wilderness and Fredericksburg.\\nHe ret u-ned to Macomb County, where ho has followed the vocation of a farmer; he is\\nnow seventy-four yeai s old. and lives with his son Thaddeus.\\nIRA P. HOLCOMB. P. O. Romeo, was born in Hartland, Niagara County, N. Y.,\\nSeptember 24, 1817; is .son of Apollos and Mehitable (Bunnell) Holcomb; the former was\\n.51", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0845.jp2"}, "846": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COT NTY.\\nborn in 1701; was a soldier of 18] 2. and wounded at the burning of Bnifalo by the Brit-\\nish in 1814: a bullet struck his uplifted arm and sped to the shoulder; the knuckle\\nof the elbow joint was cut off and came out of the wound, which was in a state of suppm--\\nation two years, occasionally capping over; one day. he remarked to his son that he l elieved\\nthe bullet had returned to the place of entry, and. taking his knife, probed the cavity and\\ntook out the bullet, which, with the fragment of bone, is in the possession of Mr. Hol-\\ncomb, of this sketch. His father died October 16, 1828, in Hartland. Micha Holcomb,\\nfather of Apollos Holcomb. was born in 1752; served in the Revolution, and died in\\n1840. in Washington. Macomb Co., Mich.: his wife was Hannah Hays. Mr. Holcomb\\ncame to Michigan at nineteen, and, after some prospecting, settled in Dryden, Lapeer Co.,\\nMich. He was raan-ied to Elizabeth B., fifth daughter of Eben and Elizabeth (Corey)\\nTaft, of Kingsville, Ashtabula Co., Ohio: she was born in Harrison. Cortland Co., N. Y.,\\nMai ch 1. 1S21. Mr. Taft was a native of New Hampshire; was a man of singularly\\nnoble and upright character; he became deaf fifteen years before his death, which occurred\\nat Kingsville September 21), 1849; he felt his affliction most acutely, but only expressed\\nregret at being depriv(\u00c2\u00bbd of the privilege of hearing the Gospel preached: he used to say,\\nwith tears, that he had never expected to belong to the stay-at-home class. He was\\nseventy-eight years old. His wife was born in Vermont, and died at Kingsville Novem-\\nber 10, 1858, aged seventy-five years. Mr. and Mrs. Holcomb have five children born in\\nDryden as follows: Frank H., June S, 1847: Horace A., November i;j, 1N52: Ira P., Jr.,\\nDecember 29, 1854; Sarah J., March 6. 1,S57; Clara E., November 17, 1860. Mr. Hol-\\ncomb removed his family to Romeo December 1, 1S68, and. a year later, settled two miles\\nsouth on Washington Center; after a stay of four and a half years, he went to a farm of\\n160 acres on Section 10. township of W^ashington. which is the present homestead. The\\npatriot ancestor of Mr. Holcomb left in the family three varieties of ancient buttons\\none stamped with the Mayflower; one a relic of the Revolution, with the eagle,\\nand another sort whose date and meaning are unknown.\\nAUGL STUS M. HOVEY. P. O. Romeo, was born November 27. IS 10. in Warsaw.\\nGenesee Co.. N. Y is son of Gurdon and Anna (Starkweather) Hovey; the former was\\nborn June 6, 1779. and died June 11,1870; the latter was born in Williamstown, Mass.,\\nMarch 25, 1789, and died March 21, 18f)9; they came to Michigan in 1S25 and settled on\\nSection 2, Washington Township, buying eighty acres of Government land, where they\\npassed the remainder of their lives. Mr. Hovey has always pursued the calling of his\\nfather: at his death, he succeeded to the estate, and, in addition to agi iculture, has been\\nengaged some years in the manufacture of lumber in Lapeer County. He was maiTied,\\nJanuary 10, 1886, to Malvina Humphrey, of Almont. Mich. they had six children Jul-\\niette, born February 17, 1837; Hiram A., December 8, 1838; Lavinia, September 13, 1840,\\ndeceased; Asa M., August 24, 1842; Lovina E., August 23, 1847: Martha E., August 24,\\n1 N53. Mrs. Hovey died September 20, 1 N58. Mj\\\\ Hovey was married a second time, to\\nMargaret Harper, born in Ireland May 21, 1S3N: both belong to the M. E. Church. Mr.\\nHovey is a Rejjublican in politics.\\nJASON E. INMAN was born September 16, 1856, in Ray, Macomb Co., Mich.; is\\nson of William and Harriet Inman. both of whom were born in New York, and are still\\nliving in this township. (See sketch of Mr. Inman.) Mi-. Inman, of this sketch, was\\nmarried, September U 1879, to Mattie E., daughter of Henry and Amanda Shaw, who\\nare residing in the village of Romeo; Mr. Shaw was born at Johnstown, N. Y.; Mrs. Shaw\\nis a native of Onondaga. N. Y. Mrs. Inman was born September 9, 1859, in Washington,\\nand is a member of the Baptist Church at Romeo. Mr. Inman is a Republican in polit-\\nical views.\\nWILLIE J. INMAN. P. O. Romeo, was born in Ray, Macomb County, February 13.\\n-^fn=\\nrfxT", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0846.jp2"}, "847": {"fulltext": "l\\\\^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COl NTY.\\n1863; is son of William and Harriet (Teller) Inman; his father was born May 3, 1S31, in\\nGreene County. N. Y. his mother was third child of Jefferson J. and Margaret (Miller)\\nTeller, born February 24. bS82. in Greene County. N. Y., and mari-ied January 1. 1S52.\\nThey were members of the M. E. Church, and had four children, viz. Florence C. born\\nin Ray Township August 6. 1S53, is an artist: Jason E. born in Ray September Ifi. lS[)f),\\nmarried Mattie B. Shaw (see sketch); Willie J.; Cassius M. was born September K), ISfiS,\\nin Washington, is at school. James Teller, father of Jefferson J., was born in Holland\\nin 175U; was only son of Jacobus Teller, who died while he was young. James accom-\\npanied an uncle to America, and was a patriot of the Revolution, serving in the commis-\\nsary department, and was at the battle of Stony Point, on the Hudson River; he was en-\\ngaged in the business of a furrier afterward, and was drowned in 1S07. while crossing\\nLake Erie; his wife, Sarah (Woolsey) Teller, was born near Marlboro. N. Y. thej settled\\nat Waterford, N. Y. the husband died, and the wife married Joshua Sutton, a member of\\nthe Society of Friends; she came to Michigan in IN3(), and died at her son Jefferson s in\\n1810. William Miller, maternal grandfather of Harriet Teller, was born in Portsmouth,\\nEngland, August 14, 17H3; he was a marine in His Majesty s (King George) service, and\\nwas appointed Master of Arms on board the Rhinoceron in 17S2, and on the Nestal. Briti.sh\\nfrigate, in the Revohitionary war; after his discharge, he was licensed to exhort in the\\nMethodist Church. His wife. Margaret Brundige, was born in Nova Scotia December 20,\\n1770. and died June 1, 1S51 they came to Michigan from Hunter, Greene Co., N. Y., and\\nsettled in Bruce. Macomb County, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr.\\nMiller died March 25. 1859. They had seven sons and f oiu- daughters. Jefferson J. Tel-\\nler was born October 20. 1805. in Greene County. N. Y. came to Michigan in 1824 and\\nsettled in Addison, Oakland County, and was for many years a local preacher in the Protest-\\nant Methodist Church. Margaret (Miller) Teller was born February 14, 1805. in Greene\\nCounty, N. Y. and married in 1820. Jefferson Teller died in Richfield, Genesee Co.,\\nMich.. February 14, 1875; they had seven daughters and two sons. John Inman, father\\nof William Inman, was born in Greene County, N. Y.. November 23. 1801. He was mar-\\nried to Jane Gass October 20, 1820, and settled in Ray Townshiji in October. 1831, and\\ndied December 22. 1843. William and Eleaner Gass came from Scotland to America in\\n1774, and settled in Lexington. Greene Co.. N. Y. a son, John Gass, was born in 1770,\\nwho married Rebecca McGregor, of Scotch parentage; they had seven sons and seven\\ndaughters, one of whom was Jane, who married William Inman; they settled in Ray in\\n1837; thirteen children gi-ew to maturity and settled adjacent to each other, and formed\\nthe \u00e2\u0096\u00a0\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Gass settlement. The descendants by direct lineage and intennarriages number\\n330, of whom 275 are living, and 200 of whom attended a Gass re-union of recent date,\\nheld at Davis, Macomb Countv.\\nWILLIAM INWOOD, P. 0. Romeo, was born February 28. 1701, at Headley Park.\\nHampshire, England; is son of James and Mary Inwood, the former a native of Hamp-\\nshire. England, the latter of Batts Corners. Surrey. England. William Inwood and his\\nwife, grandparents of Mi Inwood of this sketch, were born in the same shire in England.\\nMr. Inwood was maiTied, in March. 1N21, to Charlotte Remnent. of Surrey, England; of\\nten children born to them, seven are still living three sons and four daughters, viz.\\nRuth. Mi s. Andrew Wood, of Feutonville. Genesee County; James, living in Cannon.\\nKent Co.. Mich. Mary. Mi-s. Henry Douglass, of Fentonville, Mich.; Esther, Mrs. Penn-\\nington, of Rockford, Kent Co., Mich.; William, farmer in Washington; Henry and Ara-\\nminta, residing with their parents. Mr. Inwood landed at New York in the spring of\\n1837, and settled in Washington, where he has spent the majority of his time, working at\\nhis trade of mason and bricklayer; about twenty years ago, he located on 200 acres of\\nland, which constitutes his present homestead; he and his wife are members of the Bap\\ny", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0847.jp2"}, "848": {"fulltext": "liL\\nHISTOHY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntist Church. Mr. Inwood is the second oldest man in the town, and is ninetj-one years\\nold: he served in the battle of Waterloo, and his grandfather was a soldier in the British\\narmy during the entire struggle between Great Britain and the Colonies. Mr. Inwood is a\\nRepublican in political views.\\nHENRY JERSEY (deceased), was born January 2S, 17i)l; was scm of Richard\\nand Isabelle (Palmer) Jersey: they vpere natives of New York; the former died\\nFebruary 10. ISSl. aged seventy-two: the latter, July 10, 1833, at seventy-two years of\\nage. He was married to Sophia Price, in Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y., and in liS23 came to\\nMichigan; he took up 120 acres of Government land in Washington, being the third set-\\ntler in that township; everything was in a state of jarimeval wilderness, and he built a\\nlog house; the family lived in it about eighteen years, when Mr. Jersey built a dwelling\\nof brick, made by himself from clay beds on his farm; they were worked until about 1.S75,\\nand supplied brick for the construction of many buildings in the village of Romeo. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Jersey had three childi en when they came to this township, and the fom-th child,\\nMary Jane -Jersey, was the first white child born in Washington; live others were born to\\nthem, and all remember the wandering bauds of Indians who were as plenty as the forest\\nleaves iu their young days; the trail of the dusky throng who made their trips to Detroit\\nfor their payments, while Cass was Governor, crossed the Jersey farm. Mrs, Jersey was\\nborn in Frederick City, Md., January 23, ITitU, and died Se2itember 7, 18()7; she was\\nentirely blind sixteen years; her parents. Philip and Ann Maria Price, were of German\\nextraction: they took up 100 acres of land in Washington, and, iu 1824, built a log house,\\nnow occupied i)y William W, Jersey, the oldest house in the township). Mr. Jersey and\\nhis wife wei-e adherents of the Uaiversalist Church; with the first money ($5) he earned\\nwhen a boy. he bought a Bible, which is still preserved in the family; his knowledge of\\nits contents was wonderful; he was never known to err in the place and diction of a quo-\\ntation from it. His pioneer experiences were as striking as others that have been related;\\nhe once shot a wolf from his open door, and at one time, when boiling sap in the woods\\nalone at night, he heard a gang of wolves overpower and kill a deer not far away; he took\\na biu-ning brand and hurried home, and the next night caught one of the marauders in a\\ntrap baited with the remains of the deer, which he found in the morning. Mr. Jersey\\ndied April IK, ISSU. The family burial-place is in the Central Cemetery of the township;\\nall the gi andparents, the parents and deceased children are bm-ied there. Following is\\nthe record of the children: Betsey Ann was born March 20, 1819: mai-ried Samuel Way-\\ncott, a native of London, England, a cai penter and joiner; she was a member of the Chris-\\ntian Church, and died July 4, 18(51. James Harlow was born February 25. 1.821 he was\\na teacher, and married Julia A. Davison; settled on IfiO acres in Hadley. Lapeer County;\\nin liSSS, he went to Pike s Peak; was heard from the next fall, since which time there is\\nno trace of him, William W. was born April 2S, 1822; he married Emily Beebe. a na-\\ntive of Rush, N. Y., and is a carpenter. Mary Jane was born February 12, 1S24; she\\nlives on the old homestead, where she has spent her life thus far. Peter Hazzard was\\nborn September 2(5, 1825; married Margaret Smith, and is a marble engraver. George\\nAlonzo was born March 13, 1S28; married Lydia Dudley and settled in Hadley. Lapeer\\nCounty; he died January (j. 187(5; like his father, he was remarkably well versed in the\\nBible. Ransom Wellington was born August 23. 18211; mairied Sarah Kennedy, and is\\na marble-dealer in Romeo. Sarah Ann was born July 14, 1831; man-ied J. P. Sisson, a\\nfarmer of Aa-mada, in March, 18(51, Philip Price was born December 28, 1833; married\\nAugusta Redtield; he was a musician in Gale s Band, of Pontiac, in the civil war; he is a\\nmusic teacher and marble engraver; is a member of the Masonic order. Henry Jersey\\nwas a soldier of 1812; the last general training in the township of Washington was\\nheld on his farm.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0848.jp2"}, "849": {"fulltext": "4\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nRICHARD JERSEY, son of Richard and Mablp (Palmer) .Jersey, was born October\\nI. 17U7: his parents were early settlers of Wiudom County, N. Y.. where, on the Catskill\\nMountain farm, the subject of this sketch was born. Mr. .Jersey immigrated in I.S 24. and\\nlocated a tract of land on Section 12, Washington Township. Seven years previously, in\\n1 S17. he married Miss Sallie P. Reed, daughter of Nathan Reed, who was murdered at\\nBlack Rock. N. Y. they are the parents of six children. Old residents of Washington\\nmay remember the sale of Mi Jersey s lauds for taxes during his absence from the home-\\nstead; fortunately, this early settler of Macomb possessed a receipt of all the taxes sup-\\nposed to be due on the land, and to this circumstance he in a great measm-e owes his pres-\\ntnt valuable fai m. Politically, Mr. Jersey is a Democrat.\\nNATHAN KEELER (deceased), was born October 13. ISOS, in Rush, Monroe\\nCounty, New York: he was son of Ezra and Hannah (Inman) Keeler: he came to\\nMichigan aliout the year 1N83 and bought 120 acres of Government land on Section 3;\\nwhere he lived until 1850, when he jnu chased 240 acres on Sections 21 and 2S: a few\\nyears later, he sold eighty acres, leaving 100 in the present homestead, where he lived\\nuntil his death, with the exception of two years, which he spent in Romeo, where he\\nowned valuable property: he died April 1, 1800. He was married, September 1, IS^.\\nto Mary J., daughter of John and Mary (Brown) Bates, of Washington, the former a na-\\ntive of New York, the latter of Vermont. Mr, and Mrs. Keeler have thi-ee chiltlren liv-\\ning Hannah, widow of Joseph Moyers, born June 3, 1836; Mary M. July 10. 1S40; and\\nZeolide L. December 9, 1848; the two last named reside with their mother, and, with\\nher. belong to the Patrons of Husbandi-y. Mrs. Keeler and her daughter Hannah are\\nmembers of the Chi-istian Church, to which Mr. Keeler also belonged. He was a Repub\\nlican.\\nFREDERICK KNIGHT, P. O. Romeo, was born in Surrey Coiinty, England, July\\n31. 1S28; he came to America in 1854 and i-eached New York March 11: he came to\\nMichigan the same year and settled in Washington Township, where he has since been\\noccupied in fai ming, with the exception of eight years, which he spent in Ray; four years\\nof that time he worked at this U ade, that of a mason; he liought forty acres of land on\\nSection 28 in Ray, which he cleai ed from the stump, together with eighty acres inherited\\nby his wife: he finally settled on his wife s fathei- s farm, on Section 23. in Washington:\\nhe still owns his original purchase in Ray. and thirty acres in this township. He was\\nmarried. December 31, 1854. to ULartha Maria, daughter of Henry and Margaret (Clark)\\nMoyers: she was boi-n February 7. 1825, in Rush, Monroe Co.. N. Y. IVIr. and Mrs.\\nKnight have two children -Albert C, born September 8, 1800; and Gilbert, February 0,\\n1804, both born in Ray. Mr. Knight is a Republican. Mi-, and Mrs. ]\\\\Ioyers were na-\\ntives respectively of Ha gerstown. Md., and HarrisbiU g. Penn. the former was born June\\n31. 17.S3. and died June 7. 1840; the latter was born May 27, 1702, an died Decembers,\\n1874. They had nine children, as follows: Anna, deceased; Peter Moyers lived until\\nthe age of thirty he was a gi-adnate of Hudson College (Ohio) founded the Rochester\\n(Oakland County) High School, and was its Principal at the time of his death; he was a\\nman of line character and abilities, a zealous advocate of temperance, and strong in his\\nanti-slaveiT principles; John Moyers, deceased, was a farmer in Oxford, Oakland County;\\nowned 730 acres of land; was an educated man, and a teacher some years; he was Super-\\nvisor and School Inspector several terms in his township; Henry (see sketch); Adam (see\\nsketch); Maria; Joseph, deceased: George, residing in Memphis, Tenn.. is a claim agent;\\nGilbert, of Washington. D. C. was gi-aduated from the Law Department of Poughkeep-\\nsie. and is a lawyer and claim agent: he enlisted as Captain in the Third Michigan Cav-\\nalry, and reached the rank of Colonel; two other children were bom. who died in infancy.\\nMr. and Mi-s. Moyers settled on Section 23, this township, June 1, 1825; took up 480", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0849.jp2"}, "850": {"fulltext": "^1\\nl^\\nHISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nacres of Goverument land, and occupied 160 acres of the same until their deaths. Alex\\nander Clark, Mrs. Moyer s brother, accompanied them to Michigan, and lived with them\\nuntil his death, in 18(iS. aged eighty-six years. Mr. Movers was a man well fitted by\\nuatiu al ability for a jiioneer; he understood nearly all mechanical trades, and, when his\\nnew brick house replaced the log cabin of his early pioneer life, he did with his own\\nhands all the work but lay the brick, which he made on his own farm. Mrs. Knight s\\nmaternal grandsire (Clark) was murdered by the desperado, Morgan, who could not be\\nidentified at the time, but, when about to suffer the death penalty for horse-stealing and\\nmurder, confessed the killing as the only one of nine he regretted. Mr. Clark started\\nfrom Presque Isle for the Alleghany Mountains with his wife and two children (Marga-\\nrette and Alexander), leaving two older children with his father; the joiu-ney was made on\\nhorseback, and Morgan followed them nine days, vainly trying to secm e possession of a\\nbeautiful mare; he at last decoyed Mr, Clark into a ravine and shot him, and took the\\nmare, which he was riding; the almost distracted wife sent for her husband s father, who\\ncame with the other children and helped in the search for his son s body; it was found\\nafter a search of forty days, and buried, and the party went on: the wife went back after-\\nward for the bones, riding 2()() miles on horseback; at that day. a superstition existed that\\nif a bone of a murderer s victim was preserved, it would aid in identification, if the mur-\\nderer was in the vicinity, and the collar-bone of Mr. Clark was not bm ied; when the par-\\nties had all passed away, the bone was and still is in tlie possession of Mi s. Knight. A\\nbrother of Mrs. Knight s mother (Margaret Clark) was mm dered by his father-in-law in\\nan altercation about property. The pai ents of Mr. Knight, Reuben and Louisa Knight,\\nwere born in Surrey Covmty, England, respectively in 17S2 and 3792; they were married\\nin 1812, and had nine childi-en; the olde.st died at the age of three years; following is\\nthe list: Reuben, Anne, Esther. Louisa, Frederick, Cyrus, Ellen and Caroline. The\\nparents died in England. Mr, Knight s sister Anne came to America with him, and died\\nhere in 1S74.\\nEDWIN LAMB, P. O. Washington, was born April 10. 1S25, at Washington, where\\nhe received a common-school education. He was married, June 2U, 1S51, to Caroline\\nStone; they have five children Eugene H., born March 25, 1852, married Ida M. Davis\\nMarch 25, lS7y, resides at home, and has one child, Leona, born July 4, 1880; Metta A.\\nwas born May 30, 1857; married Isaac Terpenning March 2S, 1877: has one child, Leroy,\\nborn July 20, 1880; Ida A. was born eptembor 18()0; completed a full com-se of study\\nat the State Normal School in 1881, and is now teaching at Northville, Wayne Co., Mich.\\nElmer E.. born January 29, 1862; and Aura R., March 22, 1864, and attending the Romeo\\nHigh School.\\nOTIS LAMB was born in Greenville, Mass., October H), 1790; he received a com-\\nmon-school education, and at the age of twenty yeai s removed to Durham, province of\\nQuebec, Canada, where he engaged in tanning and ciu-rying. He was there married, Au-\\ngust 3, 1814, to Theodotia Wales, born-in Bennington, Vt., March 26, 1792; at six years\\nof age, she went with her parents to Canada; the wedding ceremony was conducted in the\\nold English style; two years after their marriage, they went to Genesee County, N. Y.,\\nwhere Mi Lamb purchased a farm; the period was shortly after the war of 1812, when\\nproduce was high, and Mr. Lamb expected to pay for his farm in a short time by raising\\nwheat; but prices lowered, and he was obliged to abandon his plans; he worked at tanning\\nuntil he obtained sufficient money to bring his family to Michigan, where, in 1S23, he\\npurchased 160 acres of land in Washington, Macomb County, and settled with his wife\\nand four childi en in 1824: the place was a wilderness, and they encountered all the pri-\\nvations common to the pioneer of that day; on one occasion, when night fell, the last bit\\nof food was gone, and had absolutely nothing for breakfast; but they had the good fortune", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0850.jp2"}, "851": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 831\\nto capture a raccoon, which supplied their needs until more could be obtained. Mr. Lamb\\nworked at tanning and farming for a niunber of years. Before the organization, Mr. Lamb\\nwas appointed Justice of the Peace, and held the office a number of years; he was the\\nfirst Postmaster of the town, and was Town Clerk for twenty years; he died February I.\\n18S1. They had eight children, five of whom are living Linus. Itorn May io, 1M5,\\nresides at Groveland. Oakland Co., Mich. Eli^a, July .^S. 1817, lives at Lindeu, Genesee\\nCo., Mich.; Hiram, August 1. INl J, resides at Holly, Oakland County; Emily. December\\n18, 1820, died in Kose, Oakland County, in 1858; Edwin (see sketch): Dennis, born Oc-\\ntober 14, 1827, lives in Washington; Caroline. April 29, 1830, died November 1 1 Almeda.\\nMarch 29, .1838, died October 2, 1853. Mrs. Theodotia Lamb was born Miu-ch 21), 17U2.\\nat Barington, Vt. In rehearsing the pioneer experiences of a countj it is customary to\\ntreat the subject in such a way, so to speak, that renders strict justice; in a half sense, the\\nheavier trial rests on the half not considered in too many cases; a man s pioneer routine\\nis outlined; a woman s pioneer history is one of small exigencies, minor details, and seem-\\ningly insignificant trifles; but a want of forethought, a carelessness of the wants of her\\nhusband might be the trifle that lost the king his crown. On Mrs. Lamb devolved the\\nresponsibilities usual to the common settler s wife; her husband s time and attention- were\\nmonopolized by the duties to which he was called by his fellows, and she bore her double\\nburdens with credit to herself and honor to her husband; she lived on the farm where she\\nwent in her yoiing married life, for fifty-six years, and lived to see a mansion, with all\\nmodern comforts, where she first saw a small log house, and blooming fields in place of\\nthe wilderness, and a railroad where was an Indian trail. The improvements of Macomb\\nCoimtv are the enduring monuments of its pioneers.\\nALONZO D. LEE, P. O. Romeo, was born December 10, 1841. in Euclid. Cuyahoga\\nCo., Ohio; is a son of Rowland H. and Almira Lee; the former was born in Roxbury,\\nMass.. September 20, 1805; his parents, Elias and Lavu a Lee. moved to Cuyahoga County,\\nOhio, in 1811, making the entire joxu ney with an ox team, bringing with them their\\nhousehold goods and nails to use in building; they sold the nails for the first boat for\\nlake service built in the city of Cleveland. Elias Lee bought 1, acres of land in Cuya-\\nhoga County, and he and his wife lived and died there; he was a son of Capt. Benjamin\\nLee, who was a soldier of the French war. Mr. Lee, of this sketch, has in his possession\\na huge powder-horn, once the property of his warlike ancestor; it is an heirloom, and has\\nbeen owned successively by one generation after another; it is of a light yellow color, and\\nis covered with carving and inscriptions, most remarkable of which is the River Hudson,\\nwith the city of New York represented as a fort; the British coat of arms, with G. R.\\nsui-mouuting, and the following, proving its identity and genuineness: \u00e2\u0080\u00a2\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Captain Benge-\\nman M. Lee his born Fort Edward 31, 1758. The spelling is the same as present-\\ned. A. D. Lee was married, July 23, 1865. in East Cleveland. Cuyahoga Co.. Ohio, to\\nViola J., daughter of William and Emily Jersey, of Washington. Macomb Co.. Mich. In\\nMav, 18 )8. Mr. Lee removed his family to Washington; they have six childi en. born as\\nfollows; William H., July 11, 18(ifi: Arthur D., February 2(^ 18()8; Charles E.. January\\n15, 1872; Emily A., August Hi, 1873; Viola M.. September 5, 1878; Lucy Luella, July\\n6, 1881. The two eldest were born in East Cleveland, Ohio; the others, in Washington.\\nMr. Lee served three years in the rebellion, and was honorably discharged.\\nC. E. LOCKWOOD, P. O. Washington. About the middle of the eighteenth century,\\nthree brothers named Lockwood emigrated to America from Scotland. One of them.\\nTimothy, settled in Greenwich, N. Y., and reared a family of six sons and one daughter\\nStephen, Henry, Nathaniel, Timothy, Titus, Ebeuezer and Abigail. He served during\\nthe Revolution, under a Captain s commission; three of his sons were soldiers under him,\\nand Timothy, aged foiu-teen, was a drummer boy in the body guai d of Gen. Washington.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0851.jp2"}, "852": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCapt. Lockwood died iu Dutchess County, N. Y., in 17U5. Timothy, fourth son. was born\\nin Dutchess County in 17( 3; he married Mi-s. Esther (Townsend) Mead, who died in May,\\n1S4N: he went to Greene County, N. Y.. and, in February, ISll, to Cayuga County,\\nwhere he died in March. IS 12: he was the father of nine children Jeremiah. Polly,\\nLydia, Lebbeus, Abigail, Lucinda. .Jane, Zebulon and Stephen; the first six were born in\\nDutchess County, the last three in Greene County; Abigail and Stephen are now living;\\nJeremiah, eldest son, was born January 21, 17S5, and married. January 15. IHOS, to Han-\\nnah Arnold; in 1822, they came to Michigan and located on Section 33, in Washington,\\nMacomb County: they reared ten children- Electa, born October 6, 1808, married Daniel\\nNichols, and died September 12, 1842; Harry, October 8, 1810, died October 12. 1812;\\nAmanda, February 1813. married Zimri Curtis, resides in Addison, Oakland Co., Mich.\\nWdliam, November 2 J, 1 SI 4, married Mary Winslow, resides near Saginaw. Mich. Maria,\\nSeptember 11, 1820. man-ied Calvin Parker, living in Avon, Oakland Co.. Mich.; Rhoda,\\nJanuary lo, 1823. married Chester Andrews, resides in Shelby, Macomb County: Lydia,\\nFebruary 27, 1827, died April 15, 1844; Hiram, July 13, 1829, died in 18( Cyrenus,\\nAugust 27, 1832, drowned in the Straits of Mackinaw October 22. 1851; Thomas L., Jan-\\nuary!, 183U, died August 20. 1842: Welburn, May 4. 1841, enlisted in the war of the\\nrebellion, and died at Hospital No. 3, Jackson. Tenn. January Ifi. 18( )3. Mi-. Lock-\\nwood s wife died March 8. 1835. He was married again. October 7. 1837. to Mrs. Jane\\n(Littlewood) Tweddell: she died June 18(57, leaving two children: he died December\\n10, 185H, and is buried in the Washington south burial ground. Timothy, fifth child\\nand third son, was born in Genesee County, N. Y. November lU. 1817: married Mabel,\\ndaughter of Pelog Evvell, February 2, I84r) (see sketch of E. P. Ewell). Mi-. Lockwood\\nsettled on Section 32. Washington. Macomb Co.. Mich., where he resided until the fall of\\n1878, when he purchased his present residence on Section 33. Mr. and Mrs. Lockwood\\nhave had five children, all of whom are living. Following is their record: Murray,\\nborn December 7, 184(). married Lucinda Lintz January 2R. 1867, and lives in Oakland,\\nOakland Co., Mich. Thomas J.. June 1, 184S, married Clara Dairs October lU, 1S((),\\nlives near Portland, Ionia Co., Mich.: Flora G., September O, 1851, married T. C. Miller\\nMarch 10, 1S71. resides on Section 33, Washington; Cyi-enus E.,born December 14, 1855,\\nmarried Ida F. Dairs October 2. 1878: resides on the old homestead, Section 32, Wash-\\nington; Clara I., born August 10, 185H.\\nJOHN S. MAJOR, P. O, Mt. Vernon, was born February 29. 1841, in Warren County,\\nN. J.; is son of Conrad and Elizabeth Major. He came to Oakland. Oakland Co, Mich.,\\nin 1855, and engaged in farning; in iSril). he bought 110 acres on Section 18, in Wash-\\nington. Macomb County: besides the management of his farm, he is engaged to consider-\\nable extent in buying cattle, sheep and hogs for the Detroit and Eastern markets. He\\nwas married. December 31, 18()2, to Lanah V. Cole, of Oakland: she was born October 31,\\n1842, and is daughter of Christian and Sarah Cole; her parents were born in Warren\\nCounty, N. J. Mr. and Mrs. Major have four children Frank R., born June (i, 18()4;\\nSadie E., March 27, iSf)*): Melvin D.. November 10, I8()8: John M, March 3. 1S71. Mr.\\nMajor is a Democrat. His farm is finely situated, in the near vicinity of the post office\\nand village of Mt. Vernon, in Washington Township.\\nJAMES MASSIE. P. O. Romeo, was born in December, 1821, in Aberdeenshire,\\nScotland: is son of Andrew and Elizabeth Massio, natives of the same place. Mr. Massie\\nwas married. December 12, 184f), to Christian Tayler, of the parish of St. Fergus, Scot-\\nland; she is a daughter of Nathaniel and Mary fayler. and was born in October, 1821.\\nMr. and Mrs. Massie have eight children, born in Auld Scotia, as follows: William,\\nApril 4, 1847; Mary, June 10, 1849; James, August U 1852; Alexander, July 29, 1855;\\nMargaret, December 23, 1858; John, July 14, 18fj0; Robert, April P 1862: and Susan,\\n^a", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0852.jp2"}, "853": {"fulltext": "HISTOBY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nApril 2, 1865. They have au adopted son, James, horn in Scotland April 22, 1869. The\\nfamily landed at Quebec in June, 1872; they lived in Canada about three years, and then\\nlocated on a farm on Section 6, in Washington. Mr. Massie has always been a farmer, as\\nwas his father before him. Mrs. Massie is a daughter of a farmer, but her forefathers\\nwere fishermen.\\nADAM C. MOYERS, P. O. Romeo, was born January 7, 1S22, in Rush, Monroe Co.,\\nN. Y. was fourth son and fifth child of Henry and Margaret (Clark) Moyers (see sketch\\nof Frederick Knight). He came to Michigan with his parents in 1825, when about four\\nyears of age: his father liought KiO acres of land in Washington, where he grew to man-\\nhood and was reared to the calling of a farmer, which he has pursued through life. Mr.\\nMoyers purchased ISO acres of valuable land on Section 21 about thirty-two years ago,\\nwhich is his present homestead. He was married. February H. bS52, to Elsie, daughter\\nof Elisha and Mary M. Smith, natives of New Jersey; she was born April 3. 1S8H, in\\nWarren County, N. J.; they have six children, born as follows: Margaret E.. November\\n1, 1854: Mary M., March 21, 1856; Harriet E., October 2(), 1857; Cassius E., October 2,\\n18 )0: Judson C, August 1S( 6; Neil O., June 5. 1871. Mr. and Mrs. Moyers belong\\nto the Baptist Church of Mt, Vernon. Mr. Moyers is a Republican in political views.\\nHENRY MOYERS, P. O. Romeo, was born in Rush, Monroe Co.. N. Y.. February\\n1. 1S21; he is the son of Henry and Margaret Clark Moyers (see sketch of Frederick\\nKnight). They came to Michigan in 1825 and settled on Section 23, in Washington,\\nwhere they purchased a farm of 160 acres, and where they passed the remainder of their\\nlives. Mr. Moyers of this sketch purchased his first landed possessions in Oxford, Oak-\\nland County, including 105 acres of land; he lived on it about six years, and sold out,\\nbuying his present homestead, on Section 21, in Washington, where he owns 140 acres of\\nfirst-class land, situated about two miles from the post office of Mt. Vernon and five miles\\nfrom the village of Romeo; he also owns forty acres in the township of Ray. He was\\nmarried, March 17, 1834, to Cynthia Shoemaker, of Oxford. Mich.: they had three chil-\\ndren\u00e2\u0080\u0094Eva, born August 10. 18*54: Clarissa. May 26, 1857: Margaret M., August 2, 1859,\\ndied February 8, 1863. Mi-s Moyers died September 15, 1863. Mr. Moyers was man-ied\\nagain, March 13. 1872, to Mary L., daughter of Stephen and Hannah M. Warren, born\\nMarch 21, 1849, in Newport, Mich.; her father was born in New York, and her mother is\\na native of England. Mr. and Mrs. Moyers have two children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ward A., born October\\n10. 1877; and Beecher V., August 30. 1879. Mr. Moyers father was a German orator;\\nhis mother was of Irish extraction; the former was born June 3. 1783. died June 1. IS46;\\nthe latter was born May 27, 1792, and died June 18. 1874: Alexander Clark, her brother,\\nwas born in 1775, and died December 29, 1S()8.\\nJ. W. NIMS. P. O. Romeo, was born September 28, 1X39. in Huntington, Vt. is the\\nson of Dr. Eeul]. u and Sophia Whiton Nims: in 1854, his parents settled in Lexington,\\nMich., and. a year after, came to Macomb County and bought 120 acres of land on Sec-\\ntion 1, where his father died February 2. 1N()9; his mother was born March 15. 1799. in\\nMontague, Franklin Co., Mas.s. She was married, May 13, 1824, in Lee. Mass.. and be-\\ncame the mother of nine children, seven of whom survive: she is living on the homestead\\nwith her son. Mr. Nims, of this sketch, to whom the patrimonial estat descended on his\\nfather s death, and which now comprises 145 acres. Mi-. Nims has held the position of\\nSupervisor for nine years, and other minor township offices: politically, he is a Republican.\\nHannibal H. Nims, his brother, served in the war of the rebellion three years; was Captain\\nof Company K, Tenth Michigan Volunteur Infantry, and was killed in the battle at Jones-\\nboro, Ga.\\nSILAS NYE, P. O. Romeo, son of Jefferson Nye, who was born at Pittsford. N. Y.,\\nJanuary 9, 1802, was born June 21, 1832, in Washington Township, Macomb, whither his", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0853.jp2"}, "854": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nparents came in 1S24; the grandfather Nye was named Nathan, a native of Salem, Mass.,\\nwhose parents are supposed to have come from England; Grandmother Nye was a mem-\\nber of the Stone family, of Massachusetts, and a soldier of the war of IS 12. Jefferson\\nNye married Hannah Hayden April 2H, 1N2(); this lady was a native of Rush, N. Y., born\\nOctober 9, ISO. daughter of Silas and Bebecca Hayden, of Connecticut, the former serv-\\ning nearly six years in the Revolution. They were the parents of seven children, viz.\\nAlice, born March H, 1S27, now living on the homestead where she was born: Amelia,\\nborn August U 1S2S, died October Ki. lS4r): Norton B., May 14, ISHO, living at Fenton-\\nville, married to Miss Sarah C. Smith, daughter of Jacob Smith, of this county, formerly\\nof New York State; Silas Nye, born June 21, 1882, now residing on the homestead farm;\\nDaniel H., born May fi, 1884, died September 20, \\\\HH Delora, born September 4, ISIJT.\\ndied October 22, 1844; Viola, born March 27, 1848. died July 80, 184r)^all born in\\nWashington Township. Silas Nye was married, February (1. 18()(), to Miss Jane Eliza-\\nbeth Hopkins born February 19, 188. daughter of Hiram M. Hopkins, born at Middle-\\nbury. N. Y.. in 1S08, died February 2, 1842, and of Polly (Price) Hopkins, born October\\n18, 1810, at Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y., both settling in Macomb about 1824; the parents of\\nMrs. Polly (Price) Hopkins were Phillip Price, born at Frederick. Md., October U liSO;\\nand Anna Maria Sulzer, born at Frederick about the year 1781: they came to Michigan in\\n1824; the former died August 2(), 18. )8, and the latter February 4. 18.J7. Mr. Nye and\\nwife are the parents of Alvin Jefferson, born June 10, ISIJS; Hiram, infant son of Silas\\nNye, born December 7, died December 12, 1871. The children of Hiram and Polly (Price)\\nHopkins are Charles, born March 9, 1884; Jane E. (Mrs. Silas Nye), born February 19,\\n183 Maria, born October 28, 1887; George M., born June 18, 1889\u00e2\u0080\u0094 all natives of\\nWashington Township, Macomb County. Mr. Nye owns two fiu-ms in Macomb County\\none of eighty acres and one of forty acres together with 200 acres of wild land in Section\\n19, Township 2 south. Van Biu-en County, Mich. he devotes his time principally to agri-\\nculture and stock-raising; his nursery is one of the best-selected and kept in Michigan;\\nflowers, shrubs and trees are cultivated with great care, and meet with ready sale thi-ough-\\nout Macomb, Oakland and counties adjacent; he never sought for public office. The mem-\\nbers of the family are represented in the Methodist Episcopal, Congregational, Baptist and\\nUniversalist societies of Shelby and Washington: the Hopkins family belong principally\\nto the Methodist Episcopal Church, and both the Nye and Hopkins family ai-e stanch sup-\\nporters of the Republican party.\\nADDISON G. PRATT, P. O. Davis, farmer. Section 8- Washington Township, was\\nborn August 14, 1848, in Clinton, Macomb Co., Mich.; is son of Luther and Sarah Pratt,\\nthe former a native of Vermont and the latter born in the Province of Ontario, Canada;\\nthey settled in the township of Clinton in an early period of the history of the county.\\nMr. Pratt, of this sketch, was married, August 4, 18()7. to Melissa, daughter of Samuel D.\\nand Mercy (Briggs) Sbattuck, of Chestertield, Macomb County; she was born July II,\\nl84o, in that township; her iather was born in Hampshire County, Mass., February 1-\\n1811; her mother was born in Middlesex, Ontario Co., N. Y., July 22, 1818; the former\\ndied June 28, 18-11, in Chesterfield. Mr. and Mrs. Pratt have one child. Pearl L.. born\\nin Lenox March 29, 187- Mr. Pratt is a member of Macomb Lodge of Brooklyn, No.\\n64, F. A. M. he adheres to the principles of the Democratic party.\\nLUTHER PROCTER, P. O. Romeo, was born in Armada, Macomb Co., Mich., May\\n10, 1830; is son of John and Sarah Freeman Proctor; the former was a native of Alstead.\\nN. H., born July 18, 1799: the latter was born in Berkshire. VL, April 18. ISO. his par-\\nents came to Michigan and bought 120 acres on Section 81. in Armada, where they settled\\nOctober 11, 1824; the father died August 8, lS()t); the mother, December 28, 18()2. Mr.\\nProcter has been a fanner all his life, with the exception of seven years, when he operated", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0854.jp2"}, "855": {"fulltext": "jda\\n^4^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUKTY.\\na gi ist-mill in Ray Township. April 24. LS(i4, he bought his present homestead of eighty\\nacres in Washington, to which he has added by purchase until he owns 114 acres of lirst-\\nclass land, lying one mile east of Romeo Village. He was married, April H), 1861), to\\nHarriet L., daughter of Azariah W. and Miranda Leach Sterling, of Washington Tp. she\\nwas born April U 1S3(); her parents were natives of Lima, Livingston Co., N. Y. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Procter have one child, Charles S., born March 21, ISOT. Mr. Procter is a Re-\\npublican in political views.\\nBENJAMIN PROCTER, born in Gloucester. Mass., August 21, \\\\Hu. died at Al-\\nstead, N. H., March 20, 1854; his wife, Susanna Lowe Procter, born at Ipswich, Mass..\\nJanuary 21, 1773, died at Alstead, N. H., April 18- )8; the mother of Benjamin Procter\\nwas Rachel Woodbiuy, and his wife s mother, Martha Story; the great-grandfather of Lu-\\nther Procter, of Washington Township, was John Procter, who sold his farm in the Rev-\\nolutionary days, took his pay in Government money, and lost all; subsecjuently, he settled\\nwith his brother on Isle of Canchon, and, after the drowning of his brother Benjamin,\\ninherited that property. John removed to Alstead, where the grandfather of the present\\nProcters, Benjamin, lived many years, until his death, in 18r)4. Rufus Choate, a relative\\nof the family, was born in the island: the present Rufus Choate makes the locality his\\nhome.\\nDAVID B. RIBBLE, P. O. Romeo, was born April 10, 181(), in Warren County, N.\\nJ. is son of David and Sarah Ribble, both natives of New Jersey, of German pai entage.\\nMl-. Ribble was married, January 4. 184 to Mary, daughter of Henry and Mary Albert-\\nsou, both natives of Holland; they had two childi-en Albert, born August 30. l847; and\\nSarah, born July 20, 1S4U. Mi-s Ribble died February 4. 1850. Mi-. Ribble was again\\nmarried, April 27, 1854, to Margaret Ann, daughter of John and Elizal)eth Buchner. of\\nSussex County, N. J.; the record of their childi-en is as follows: Watson F., born May\\n25, 1856; Edwin C, July 2, 1859; Lizzie F., August 2, 18()5; Anna Mary, May 25, 1868;\\nCarrie E., June 24, 1872; Evangeline, October 12, 187( Mr. and Mrs. Ribble are mem-\\nbers of the Episcopal Church. Mi-. Ribble is a Reimblican in politics.\\nS. M. RITTER, P. O. Romeo, was born in Erie County, N. Y., February 10, 1833;\\nis son of John and Susan Ritter, natives oE Lancaster County, Penn. Mr. Ritter came to\\nMichigan August 19, 186)4, and settled in Avon, Oakland County, where he was engaged\\nthree years operating a grist-mill: on leaving Avon, he went to Mt. Clemens, and was em-\\nployed there as a miller three years; he next engaged in a mill in Ray, and, three years\\nafter, came to Washington, where he is now foreman in the Clifton Mill, located on Section\\n7, a position he has tilled eight years. He was married. June 27, 1856, to Sarah Ann,\\ndaughter of Reuben and Maria Lintz, of Erie County, N. Y. both her pai-ents were natives\\nof Pennsylvania. Mrs. Ritter was born in Erie County, N. Y., July 6, 1840. Following is\\nthe record of their childi-en s births: Lucy A., April 29, 1857; John H., September 28,\\n185,S; Reuben, July 26, IStiO; Franklin S., January 5, 18()2; Charlotte M., August 2().\\n18 Rosalie E., February 14, 18()8; Ai thiu-, December 12, 18 lO; Elmer, December 11,\\n1871: James B., February 9, 1S77; Olive P., August 9, ISSl; Amelia A., born December\\n24, 1864. Mr. Ritter is a member of the Masonic order, and acts with the Republican\\nparty.\\nJAMES H. ROSE was born November 12. 1797. in Bloomtield. Ontario Co., N. Y. is\\nthe son of Nathan and Elizabeth Rose, both natives of Massachusetts; the former was\\nborn in 1783. and died in 1N4S; the latter died in 1800. Ml-. Rose came to Michigan in\\nMarch. 1826, and settled in Washington, on Section 2 where he bought eighty acres of\\nland and lived one year on it; by occupation he is a carpenter and joiner, and, after his\\nfather s death, he retiu-ned to New York to settle the estate; he remained there fifteen\\nyears, and came back to Washington, where he has since lived: he has held the office of", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0855.jp2"}, "856": {"fulltext": "Constable and Collector fourteen years; he has also been Town Treasurer four years; pu-\\nliticaliy, he is a Republican; he was one of the earliest settlers, and was present at the\\nfirst town meeting, and suggested the name of Washington for the name of the town; he\\nis a member of the M. E. Church, which hi joined in 1S4 \\\\vas formerly connected with\\nthe Sons of Temperance, and belongs to the Washington Grange. He was married. De-\\ncember iH, 1817, to Phcebe Keeler, a native of Kush, N. Y., daughter of Nathan and Han-\\nnah Keeler; they have four childi-en, born as follows: Myrm H., July 11, 1818; Sabuna,\\nSeptember 27, 1820; John. September 8, 1822, died April 1845; and Mary Ann. born\\nMarch 2, 1825. Mrs. Rose died September 8, 1821), in Washington.\\nJOHN V. RUSH. P. O. Mt. Vernon, was born April IS, 1821, m Oxford. Warren Co.,\\nN. J. is son of Peter and Esther Rush, both natives of New Jersey; the former was born\\nin 1785, and died July 8, 1N41 the latter was born in 1787, and died April fi, 1848. The\\npaternal grandsire was a soldier in the Revolution, and lived more than eighty years, dy-\\ning in Warren County, when Mr. Rush, of this sketch, was about eighteen years of age,\\nhis wife having died some fifteen years previous to that event. Mr. Rush came to Mich-\\nigan in 1S44 and settled in Macomb County; he bought 110 acres, his homestead, on Sec-\\ntion 18. ^Vashington, in 1850, where he is pleasantly situated; his farm is in a jirogres-\\nsive state of cultivation, and has a substantial dwelling house and accessory buildings.\\nMr. Riish was married, December 7, 184S, to Samantha, daughter of Jesse and Harriet\\nFangboner, of Washington; Mrs. Rush was born December 8, 1827, in Oxford. Warren\\nCo., N. J.; her father was born in the same county October 20, 1S()4; her mother, April\\n211, 1804. Ml-, and Mrs. Rush have six children living Alma, born September 28. 1849,\\nwife of J. L. Petty, of Lansing; Lee, February 2, 1N57; Katie, December 15, 1858; Emma\\nA., August 13, 18()l; Maggie E., November 21, 18()H; and Susie. March 25, ],S()(); all but\\none live with their parents. Mr. and Mrs. Rush ai-e members of the Baptist Church of\\nMt. Vernoji. Mr. Rush is a Republican, and has acted three vears as Road Commissioner.\\nJOHN SANBORN, P. O. Almont.\\nFRANKLIN E. SCOTT. P. O. Romeo, was born in Washington. Macomb County,\\nAugust 25, 18Hy; is the son of Silas and Persis Scott, the former a native of Canada, who\\ncame to Macomb County in 181(); the latter of Connecticut; his father took up eighty\\nacres of land in Washington in 1824, adding to his estate by purchase until his farm ag-\\ngregated 120 acres; he died in 1870. Mr. Scott was married, October 31, 18( 5, to Char-\\nlotte E., daughter of Edward S. and Ann Suover. natives of New Jei-sey. Mrs. Scott was\\nborn June 13, 1842. They have six children, born as follows: Josephine L.. July 15.\\n1868; S. Franklin. June 5. 1870; E Ann, September 18. 1871; C. M. Clay, March 4,\\n1874; William E.. xMay 25. 187C): Charlotte E.. April 20, 1880. Mrs. Scott is a member\\nof the M. E. Church at Romeo. Mr. Scott is a Republican, and both himself and wife\\nbelong to the Patrons of Husbandry. The family reside on the old homestead.\\nLY SANDER K. SHAW, P. O. Romeo, was born June 11. 1827, in Jefferson County,\\nN. Y. is son of Marvil and Roxana (Kennedy) Shaw, natives of the State of New York.\\nThe parents came to Michigan (probably) about 1833. and took up forty acres of Govern-\\nment land in the township of Washington, Section 5; they afterward added to their estate\\nby purchase until the homestead possessions included 30O acres of selected land; he also\\npurchased 400 acres in Oxford, Oakland County; 520 acres neai- Romeo; and 1.200 acres in\\nWisconsin. 5()0 of which were improved. Marvil Shaw was born August 22, 1802, in Ful-\\nton County, N. Y. died September 17, 1S7(). in the village of Romeo: he left 3,020 acres\\nof land to his heirs, and $35,94(5 in notes and mortgages. Mr. Shaw, of this sketch, has\\nbeen a farmer all his life; he began his contest with the world on 140 acres of land be-\\nlonging to his father, and purchased 120 acres adjoining; on the death of his father, he\\nbecame ovraer of the whole, and on this farm has lived twenty years; he removed to Ro-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0856.jp2"}, "857": {"fulltext": "fe^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nmeo and spent six years, and then took up his abode where he now lives, comprising 3S()\\nacres, with good dwelling and suitalale and commodious accessory buildings. He was\\nmarried, January 27. INSO, to Mai-garet, daughter of Daniel and Belinda (Bronson) Frost,\\nof Washington; she was born March S, 1S52, in Berlin. St. Clair County. By a former\\nmarriaga, Mr. Shaw has three children. He has distributed among them about $8(),0()(),\\nestablishixig them in comfort. He is an adherent to the principles of Democracy.\\nJOSEPH SIKES (deceased), was born March 13, IS09. in Granville, Washington\\nCo.. N. Y. was the sou of Noah and Mehitable (Smith) Sikes; both parents died before\\nMr. Sikes attained his majority, leaving two children Joseph and Sybil. Joseph Sikes\\ncame to Michigan in 1S81. and worked some years at his trade of millwright. He was\\nmanied. OcLober 27. 183f). to Electa Wilcox, of Rochester, Oakland County; she died\\nMarch 24, 1S39. leaving a daughter, now Mi-s. Smith Cahoon, born December 1, 1838.\\nIn October. 1841, Mr. Sikes bought a farm in Washington, where he passed the remainder\\nof his life. He was a second time married, to Mrs. Emily (Turrell) Throop, March 29,\\n1846; her parents were Joel and Mary Grey Turrell, the former born in Connecticut,\\nJanuary 10, 1785, the latter February 27, 1791, in Pemisylvania; they were married Feb-\\nruary 3, 1810, and a few years after removed from Pennsylvania to the State of New York.\\nMr. Turrell was a mechanic. His wife was distinguished for her earnest interest in the\\ncause of temperance before the ublic agitation of the question. Their trip to the Em-\\npire State wes by the Susquehanna River, and Mrs. Turrell was much annoyed by the\\ndrunkenness of the sailors. The Captain noticed her discomfitui e, and, taking posse-ssion\\nof the passing bottle, discharged its contents into the stream and presented it to her.\\nHer daughter, Mi s. Sikes, still preserves the flask as a memento of her mother s devotion\\nto principle. An incident preserved in the family tradition was the capture of the\\ngrandmother of Mrs. Sikes, in the early period of the county s history, by the Indians.\\nHer captivity lasted seven years, when she was restored to the possession of her supposed\\nparents, but complete identification was never established. Joel TiuTell and his wife\\nmoved to Washington, Macomb County, in 1835; the former died March 3, 1867: the lat-\\nter July 19, 1874. They had sixteen children, of whom Mrs. Sikes was sixth in order;\\nshe was born in Henrietta, Monroe Co., N. Y.. January 21, 1M8, and was married, April\\n11, 1837, to Burchai d Ezra Throop, of Washington, Macomb County; Mr. Throop died\\nNovember 24, 1838, leaving a son, Burchard Ezra Throoj), Jr,, born April 7, 183S;\\nthe latter grew to manhood, and, in the fall of 1861, was married to Annie E.\\nAckerman, and soon after enlisted in the Ninth Michigan Infantry; he was dis-\\ncharged at the expiration of five mouths, permanently disabled; he died in Omro. Wis.,\\nJul} 13, 1864, leaving one son Willie, born February 14, IS63. Mr. Throop, Jr.. died\\namong sti angers of an acute disease, but smTounded by all the care and kindness of inter-\\nested friends. Delays in telegrams prevented the arrival of his wife until after his burial.\\nMr. T. B. Shipman, at whose house he stopped by chance, paid the highest tribute to his\\ncharacter as evidenced in his last hours. Joseph Sikes and his wife Emily (Turrell\\nThi oop) Sikes became the parents of four childi en, born as follows; M;iry Ellen, October\\n10, 1849; Mai sha Emma, Sei)tember5. 1851, died January 2, 1853; Mattie Elynn, Novem-\\nber 5, 1853, married to Homer J. Oxford, of Pontiac. Oakland County. April 16. 1879;\\nCharles B., December 24, 1S62. Mr. Sikes died November 5, 187N; in the character of\\nMr. Sikes was one to command the best esteem of his associates; he was upright, honor-\\nable and industrious, a most successful farmer, unblemished in character and of decidedly\\nreligious inclinations, though not a member of any church. Mrs. Sikes belongs to the\\nBaptist Church; her childi en are connected with the Congregational Society.\\nDANIEL T. SMITH. P. O. Borneo, farmer. Section 15, Washington, was born Feb\\nruary 11, 1841. in Washington; is the son of Elisha and Mary (Tinsman) Smith; he is", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0857.jp2"}, "858": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nthe fifth of nine children: was maiTied to Marcia H.. daughter of James M. and Calista\\nE. Vaughan (see sketch): she was born May 150, I.S4(). in AVashingtou: the marriage was\\nsolemnized by Rev. William Campbell. December IS, ISOP). at the Washington Church,\\nwhich was raised on the day of her birth, and is the only instance of a marriage ceremony\\nwithin its walls; they have four children, born as follows: Mildred Belle. September IS,\\n1S()7; Edna Louisa. April 28. INTO; Lulu Maud. February 13. 1872: Daniel Tinsman,\\nJanuary -JO. 1N75. Mr. Smith was reared a farmer and educated at Romeo: he owns a\\nfarm of 1()() acres, tinelv situated, on Sections 10 and 15; he was engaged about twelve\\nyears as a stock-buyer for Eastern markets; in 18(19, he bought the Washington Hotel, of\\nhis father-in-law. and nine months later exchanged it for the Fenton Mill projierty in\\nRay Township, where he was associated a short time in business with his brother: he has\\nsince been engaged in agricultiu-e and lumbering, which latter he has been, since ISSO,\\nprosecuting in Washington, under the style of Preston Smith.\\nELISHA SMITH (deceased), was born May 18. 1807. in Wan-en County. New\\nJersey; he was the sou of John and Elsie SmitJi. both of whom were from New\\nJersey. Mi Smith came to Michigan in the spring of 1889. and settled in Washing-\\nton on 1()0 acres of land, on Section 17, which he had bought three years previously, and\\nwhere he lived at the time of his death, which occurred March 14. l875: he was married,\\nDecember 4, iS28, in Hope. Warren Co.. N. J., to Mary M.. daughter of William and\\nElizabeth Tinsman: the former was born November 10, 1788, in New Jersey, and died\\nDecember 1852: the latter was born May 15, 1787, in New Jersey, and died March 2,\\n18( )8. Mr, and Mrs. Smith had nine children, born as follows: Elizabeth T., February\\n10, 1880: Elsie. April 8, 1888; Sarah A.. October 9, 1885; Harriet, May 28, 1S8S;\\nDaniel T,, February 11, 1841; John W.. December 19, 1848: Rachel M.. January 4,\\n1847; Lorissa Jane, December 2S, 1.S4N, and Emma L. June 9, 1852. Mr. Smith be-\\nlonged to the M. E. Church. Mrs. Smith is a member of the same society, and resides\\nwith her daughter Emma (Mrs. F. J. Crissman) on the homestead property. Francis J.\\nCrissman was born May 18, 1848, in Washington Mr. and Mrs. C. have had four chil-\\ndren, born as follows: Mary M., April 80, 1S75; Eliza S.. June 10, 187G; Nina E.,\\nMarch 11. 18()8, and Bruce, January 14, 1880, died September 15. 1881. Mrs. Crissman\\nbelongs to the M. E. Church.\\nJOHN J. SNOOK. P. O. Ut. Vernon, farmer, and author of the The Centennial\\nTrip in Rhyme. was born April 1(5. 1842, in Clinton. Macomb County: his great-grand-\\nfather, John Snook, was born in Wellington. England; his grandfather. James Snook,\\nwas a native of the same place, born January 5. 1794; he reached New York, June 8. 1817.\\nand settled in Clinton. Macomb County. June 8, 1886. James H. Snook, father of J. J\\nof this sketch, was born in London. November 18, 1810. Mr. Snook s mother. Sarah Ann\\nR. (Axtell) Snook, was born March 8. 1817. at Columbus. Ohio: her earliest traced an-\\ncestor was Henry Axtell. born in 1(541, in England. Following is the direct line from\\nhim: Daniel. born in 1()78. in Massachusetts; Henry, born in Massachusetts in 1715;\\nMaj. Henry Axtell, of Revolutionary fame, born in Massachusetts in 1788; Silas, born in\\nMendham, N. J., in 17()9; Samuel L.. born November 11. 1790, in Mendham, N. J.,\\nfather of Mrs. S. A. R. Snook. J. J. Snook was married. December 25. 18( (_i. to Ella C.\\ndaughter of Jacob P. and Maria S. (Davis) Davis, of Clinton, Macomb County, whore she\\nwas born. August 10, 1844. J. P. Davis was born July 18, 1798, in Shokan, Ulster Co.,\\nN. Y. he located in Clinton in 1841, and was the son of Peter and Theodocia Davis, who\\nboth died in Shokan, aged ninety-seven years. Mrs. Snook s mother was born May 24,\\n1812, in Orange County, N. Y. her grandfather, Jason Davis, was born in the same\\ncounty, September 20, 1782, and was the son of John Davis. Mr. and Mrs. Snook are\\nthe happy parents of five children, born as follows: Nellie M,, October 16. 1867: J. Eu-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0858.jp2"}, "859": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ngene. October 26. 1870: John H.. May 6. 1874: Burton Davis. June 18. 1878: Clai-ence\\nGr., October 15, 1881. Mr. Snook is an intelligent, scholarly, tbiukintr man, and is Acting\\nJustice of the Peace.\\nANDREW K. SNOYER was born in Warren County, N. J.. September 7, bSi;5, the\\nson of Moses and Margaret (Keen) Snover: they came to Michigan in 18;^:i, and settled in\\nOakland County: the greatgi andparents came from Germany about KUO, and settled\\nnear Philadelphia. Mi-. Andi-ew K. Snover was married, in February, 1845, to Acelia,\\ndaughter of Charles and Deiadama (Scranton) Crippen, of Washington; she was born\\nApril 21, ININ. in Washington County, N. Y.. and came to Macomb County in 18;!4 with\\nher parents. Charles Crippen died in 1S42. aged sixty-five years; he was a soldier in the\\nwar of 1812: his father. Joseph Crippen. was a soldier of the Revolution; he died at\\nQinety-six years of age. in Washington County. N. Y.. about 1N30. The earliest ancestors\\nof whom Mrs. S. has any knowledge, came from England and settled in Massachusetts in\\nits earliest days: they were Baptists in religion: in politics, Whigs. In bS4y. Mr. S.\\npm chased a farm of eighty acres, on Section 11. near Romeo, the old homestead of his\\nwife s pai ents. where his family still reside. Mr. and Ikli s. S. have one daughter and\\nthree sons.\\nSAMUEL STERLING- was born at Lyme. Conn., September 11. nCiO, and died Au-\\ngust 27. 183H: his wife, Mahetable Whittlesey, was born at Saybrook, Conn., March 29.\\n17*)9; she died February 15. 1N()4: they were married November 29, 1792; moved to Lima,\\nLivingston Co., N. Y. the family was composed of five sons and four daughters: of the\\nsons, Azariah W. Sterling, a pioneer of Macomb County, was the third; he was bo)-n in\\nLima June 29. 1797; reference is made to Mr. Sterling in the general history of the county,\\nas well as in the sketches of the northern townships; (me of the daughters is the wife of\\nLuther Procter, noticed in the sketch of that old resident.\\nAAKON STONE (deceased), was born in Pittsford. Monroe County. New York.\\nJune HO. 1790; he was married. January 80. bS14. to Margaret Hayden. of Pitts-\\nford; they came to Macomb County. District of Detroit, in 1^2:1 where Mr. Stone pur-\\nchased eighty acres of land, and lived on the same until his death, in 1872; they\\nhad ten children; the following is their record: Alma Ann, born October 15. 1815.\\nand died August 14. 1.S17. Henry. March ;50, 1817; he became a cooper and followed that\\ntrade uotil his death of typhoid fever. July 25, 1846. Emulous. April 18, 1821: he is a\\nfarmer, located a mile south of his father s fai m; man-ied Aurelia Bates, and has had\\nfour children Adelbert. was the Postmaster and merchant of Washington, a young man\\nof much promise; he died of heart disease, March 24. 18S1, aged twenty-seven years;\\nEva Adel. died of heart disease. April 18, 1N76, aged nineteen: John C.,aged twenty-fom-.\\nwas in partnership with his brother and continues the business: Frank, the youngest son,\\nwas born in 18(59. Alma Ann, second, was born December 7. 1N22, and died of di-opsy.\\nOctober 4, 11S45. William A. was born November 2fi. 1824: he was married to Caroline\\nLamb, of Washington, December 80, 1857: he has served as Justice of his township and\\nin several minor offices; he has four children, born as follows: Helen, Januai-y 28, 18-)9;\\nWilliam Addison, December 15, 18()8; Ai-thui- Wales, January 20, 18(55, and Omar Thomp-\\nson, March 5, I8fi7; the mother died November 11, 18t)9. Mr. S. was again married,\\nJuly 10, 1878, to Alice M. Garvin; they have one daughter\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Lottie Minette. born May\\n26, 1875; Helen graduated at the State Normal School and is a teacher at Cassopolis.\\nCaroline Stone was, born September 9, 1826, married Edwin Lamb and has five children,\\nviz., Eugene H., married Ida M. Davis; he has one daughter Leona: Metta A. mai-ried\\nIsaac Terpenning. of Jackson, lives in Washington, and has one son Roy; Ida graduated\\nat the Normal School, and is teaching at Northville, Mich. Elmer E. and Aura R. attend\\nschool. Addison Ray Stone was born May 21. 1S28: he has been a practicing physician,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2P", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0859.jp2"}, "860": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof Almont, Mich., tweuty-eight years, and was married. May 7, IS^T, to Ellen G. Jenness\\nof Detroit; they have one adopted son. Minerva Stone was born March 11, 18:29, and\\ndied April 1, IHi I. Margaret A. Stone was horn March 8. 1S3 2; Aurora, born July 15,\\n1833, is a milliner at Marquette, Mich.\\nCLINTON SOULE (deceased), was born May L O, 18l!l, in Wyoming County,\\nN. Y. he was the son of John and Sally Soule, natives of Massachusetts; the former\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0was born in 1788. and died in 1871; the latter was born in 1789, and died March\\nI i. 1865; they settled in Michigan in 1825, and took up 120 acres of land in Washington,\\non Section 17, buying additional tracts until they had seven farms; he transferred land to\\nhis children until at the time of his death, he had deeded all his real estate to them; the\\nhomestead came into the hands of Clinton Soule, of this sketch; he was married, to Sabra\\nA. Glaspie, daughter of David and Ruth Glaspie, of Oxford. Oakland County; she was\\nborn December 19, 1830, in Si)afford. Onondaga Co.. N. Y. her father was a native of\\nthe Empire State; her mother was born in Vermont. Mr. and Mrs. Soule had six chil-\\ndi-en. born as follows: Dennis M.. May_n. 18411; Vilatia F., October 20, 1850; Ruth E..\\nDecember 9. 1852. died October 31. LSm: Emma A.. March S, 1S57; George D.. March\\n10, 1S65. died July 16. 1S()6; Belle, November 4, 1867. Mr. S. died December 11.\\n1865; his widow owns the homestead, on Section 17 and 18. comprising 225 acres, with\\ngood substantial building and in an advanced state of improvement. She is a member of\\nthe Baptist Church of Mt. Vernon.\\nDENNIS M. SOULE, P. O. Mt. Vernon, was born May 6. 1 849. in Washington. Ma-\\ncomb County; is the son of Clinton and Sabra Soule (see sketch of Clinton Soule); he\\nw^as married. November 28, 1873, to Margaret E.. daughter of Adam C. and Elsie Moyers.\\nborn November 1, 1854; they have one son Burton A., born November 7. 1877. in Oak-\\nland, Oakland Co,, Mich. Mr. Soule is a Republican, and has been Constable one term.\\nHe and his wife are members of the Baptist Church, of Mt. Vernon, Mr. Soule is a\\nfarmer and owns forty acres of land, on Section 20; besides his stated business of farm\\ning, he is extensively engaged in the sale of agricultural implements; makes a specialty\\nof wind-mills.\\nNOAH C. SUTHERLAND. P, O. Romeo, was born August 13, 1856, in W ashington,\\nMacomb County; is the son of Byron and Sarah A. Sutherland, the former a native of\\nVermont, the latter born in New York, September 30, 1825. Mr. S. was married, Novem-\\nber 15, 1881, to Stella E., daughter of Jacob B. and Louis H. Skillman, a graduate of\\nthe Union School at Romeo. Mi-. S. owns a farm of seventy acres, about a mile from\\nRomeo; it is in an advanced state of imjarovement, with good dwelling and substantial\\nbuildings requisite for the convenience of the thrifty, prosperous Michigan farmers. Mr.\\nS. is a Democrat in political principles.\\nADON TAFT. P. O. Romeo, was born at Rush, Monroe Co., N. Y., August 16,\\n1800; he was married, November 13, 1823, to Hannah Wood, born in Connecticut July 4,\\n1804; in the spring of 1830, they settled on a farm, adjoining that now occupied by Viras\\nWood, and while there purchased land on Section 26, in Washington, where ho built a\\nlog house, and moved into it in 1835; in 1844-45, he built a frame house across the road.\\nMrs. Taft died October 4, 1869, and, in January, 1871, he married Abigail Goss, a na-\\ntive of New York; she died August 7, 1877; he was in a feeble state, but survived her\\nuntil May 13, 1879; by his first wife, he had seven children Sylvanus, born January 6,\\n1825; Daniel, August 12. 1826; Andrew, July 7, 1828; Smith, August 27, 1831; Smith\\nT., May 22. 1833; Emery, August 31, 1836; ^.da H., September 6, 1872; Smith died in\\ninfancy; Daniel died a few years ago; Smith T, Taft married Christina Phelps, May\\n13, 1880: they have one child\u00e2\u0080\u0094 L. Finney, born July 14, 1881; Mrs. Taft is a daughter\\nof James and Esther (Dusing) Phelps; her father was born October 4, 1821, in Rush,", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0860.jp2"}, "861": {"fulltext": "4\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMonroe Co., N. Y. was the son of David and Mary Phelps. He was married December\\n30. 1JS48. Mrs. Phelj^s was born October 3, 1S23, in Rush; she was the daughter of\\nJoshua and Christina Dusing; they have had four children Christina (Mrs. Taft). born\\nJuly 1853; Frederick J.. December I l, 1S54; Ellen E. December 4. IS.jO; Eugene V..\\nDecember 2t), 1S()5. Joshua Dusing was born July 4, 177*), at AVarwick, Lancaster Co..\\nPenn., died Febiiiary 3, 1853. He was married, March 17, 1^13, to Christina Moyers.\\nand moved to Michigan in 1832, settling in Washington. Christina Moyers was bom\\nApril 1, 1787, at Chambersburg. Penn., and died August 14, 187(5, aged ninety years; two\\nof their eight children are living.\\nNEHEMIAH THOMPSON, P. O. Mt. Vernon, was born June 18, 1854, in Oakland,\\nOakland Co.. Mich.: is the son of Jeremiah and Ellen Thompson, both of whom were na-\\ntives of New York. Mr. Thompson was married, April 29, 1876, to Ellen A. Lusk, of\\nChesterfield, Macomb County; she was born June 16, 1850, in Chesterfield, and is the\\ndaughter of Aldi ich and Amanda Lusk. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson have two childi-en\\nGeorge M., born July 25, 1877, and Frank Austin. June 17. 1881. Mrs. Thompson is a\\nmember of the Baptist Church, of Rochester; JIi-. Thompson is a Republican in politics,\\nand is a farmer on Section 30, Washington Township.\\nGEORGE W. THORINGTON, P. O. Romeo, was born January 15, 1846, in Wash-\\nington. Macomb County; he is the son of Elijah P. and Lydia Thoriugton. the former a\\nnative of Vermont, and the latter of New York. Mr. T. is a farmer and owns a farm of\\n140 acres on Section 8; he is engaged in raising sheep of excellent grade, and has re-\\ncently erected tiDe large commodious barns adapted to the needs of his stock; he has a\\nfirst-class herd of cattle and two horses of the noted Magna Charta breed, celebrated for\\nstrength and symmetry. Mr. T. was married, March 3, 1867, to Martha Barnaby, of\\nWashington; she was born September 13, 1847; they have two children Lydia M. born\\nMay 24, 1870, and Cassius W.. born August 13, 1877; both parents belong to the Baptist\\nChurch of Mt. Vernon. Mr. T. is a Democrat.\\nJAMES M. THORINGTON. P. O. Romeo, was born January 26, 1837, in Washing-\\nton, Macomb County; he is the son of James and Sally Brown Thoriugton: his father was\\nborn in Ira. Rutland Co.. Vt, and settled in Oakland County about fifty yeai s ago. re-\\nmaining there but a short time, when he came to Washington and took up a farm, on\\nwhich he lived for about thirty years: engaged in agi-iculture and buying land; when he\\nretired from active life, he owned 700 acres of land; he was the first to import the cele-\\nbrated Merino sheep, of Vermont, into Michigan; he moved to the village of Romeo,\\nwhere he died April 11, 1877. Mr. J. M. Thoriugton was married, December 22, 1857,\\nto Mary C, daughter of James and Roxanna Leslie Starkweather, of Bruce; their chil-\\ndren s record is as follows: Ceylon, born August 21. 1860; Martha G., June 24, 1862;\\nCharles C, July 16. 18(54; James A.. February 13, 1N70. died May 30, 1874; Homer O..\\nOctober 22, 1871, died May 22, 1874. Mr. T. has an estate of 320 acres of first-class\\nfarming land on Section 8, with all modern equipments and conveniences; he makes a\\nspecialty of raising pure-blooded Merino sheep, of which he has an assorted flock of over\\n100, and makes sales to all parts of the countiy; he has also a herd of Short-Horn Dm--\\nham cattle and a brood of eleven Hambletouian horses. Mr. and Mrs. T. are members of\\nthe M. E. Church. Mr. T. is a Democrat in political sentiment.\\nWILLIAM W. THORINGTON, P. O. Mt. Vernon, was born March 22, 1835, in\\nWashington, Macomb Co.. Mich. is the son of Elijah and Lydia Thoi-ington; he was\\nmarried. May 8, 1856, to Elizabeth Cole, born in 1837; there were three childi-eu born to\\nthem James W.. October 24, 1854, died January 9, 1868; Cora A. (Mrs. P. C. Graves),\\nSeptember 9, 1860, and Willie, February 9, 18(53. Mr. Thorington was married a sec-\\n52", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0861.jp2"}, "862": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nond time, April 9. l(S7iS, to Rebecca, daughter of Jacob W. and Nancy Metz, botli natives\\nof Warren County. N. J. Mrs. Thorington was born October Ki. 184S, in Warren\\nCounty. N. J. Mr. Thorington has followed the vocation of farming all his life, and owns\\n1 S7 acres of first-class laud, on Section 19. which is in a high state of cultivation, with\\ngood dwelling and accessory buildings. He is engaged in rearing Short-Horn Durham\\ncattle. Politically, he is a Democrat.\\nWILLIAM W. VAUGHAN, P. O. Washington, was born in AVashington April lH,\\n185 2; is the son of James M. and CalistaE. Vaughan; he received his elementary education\\nin the common schools of his native town, spent two years in study at Utiea and two years\\nat Hillsdale College, after which he was engaged in business in Chicago and Fort Wayne,\\nInd., and returned to Washington in June, 1875; he was married, October 1, 187.!. at La\\nPorte. Ind., to Ida Bell, daughter of Edward and Henrietta (Prouty) AVhitford; her mother\\nis the daughter of Dr. Hugh T. Prouty, who was drowned in 184 while attempting to\\npass the rapids of the Sault de Ste. Marie. Mr. and Mrs. Vaughan have two children\\nHarry Andrus, born May 9, 1874. in Fort Wayne, and Daisy Belle, born December 10,\\nI87(). in Washington.\\nJAMES M. VAUGHAN was born July 2 1819, at Manchester. Bennington Co.,\\nVt. is the son of David Vaughan and Ann Thompson the former was born at Manches-\\nter. Vt. October 18. 1778. and died February 11, bS. and was buried in the Washing-\\nton Society burial-ground, Macomb County, his grandfather, James Vaughan. was the son\\nof one of three brothers, who came from Wales about 1720; his father located in Rhode\\nIsland, the others in Nova Scotia, near Halifax, in 1770. This James Vaughan rode on\\nhorseback from Manchester to Boston, and went thence by sloop to Halifax, where he re-\\nceived \u00c2\u00a38 sterling as his share of the estate left by one of the two brothers a bachelor.\\nThe preceding ancestry is not definitely known; the name is reliably traced in AVales\\nfrom A. D. 1(39. to the battle of Agincomi. in 1415; In 17(55. James Vaughan removed\\nfrom Scituate, R. I., to the Hampshire grants in Vermont, where he purchased land, and\\ndied July 24. 1S19; Ann Thompson Vaughan was born August IH, 17S5, at Johnson,\\nMontgomery Co., N. Y. was the daughter of Nathaniel Thompson, who removed from\\nConnecticut to Johnstown. N. Y. and thence to Manchester, Vt. he served in the Revo-\\nlution under the immediate command of Cxen. Washington: was in the battles of Mon-\\nmouth, Trenton, Brandywine and others. James Vaughan was one of the Vermont minute-\\nmen. James M. Vaughan came to Romeo, Macomb County, in the fall of 18H9. where he,\\nwith an older brother, kept a hotel on the site now occupied by the First National Bank,\\nof Romeo; October IS, 184:-!, he removed to the village of Washington: he was engaged\\nfrom 1844 to 1847, under the style of Hayden Vaughan, in a general store, kejit in a\\none-story frame building, then standing on the corner opposite the residence of S. A.\\nBabbitt, in Washington. Mi-. Vaughan was in active business from 1847 to 1869, keep-\\ning a store in a building erected by himself and now occupied by J. C. Stone, in Wash-\\nington, manufacturing potashes and having in charge a tailor, harness and shoe sho])s and\\nthe hotel projierty; the latter he kept as a public house until the spring of 18(59. when he\\nbuilt his present residence, about sixty rods east. He was married. May 1. 1845, to Ca-\\nlista Edwards, daughter of Elon and Nancy (Lamb) Andrus, born at Middlebmy, Genesee\\nCo., N. Y. December 2;j, 1819. Elon Andrus came to Michigan in 1821 and located a\\nfarm on Section HH. in Washington. Macomb County, where he settled in the spring of\\n1822. Mr. and IVIrs. Vaughan had five children, three sons and two daughters Marcia\\nH. born May 80, 184(3; Mark K, September 23. 1850, died December 24. 1850: William\\nW., April 12, 1852; John F,, May 30, 1855, died December 27, 1859: Mary W.. June\\n29. 185(1\\nWALLACE WESTBROOK,P. O. Romeo, was born April 16, 1824, in Sussex County,\\nBp;", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0862.jp2"}, "863": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nN. J. his parents, Frederick and Elizabeth Westbrook. were natives of New Jersey, of\\nGrerman extraction. Mi*. Westbrook settled in Bruce in the fall of ISriC), on Section 2\\nwhere he lived for about eight years, and then piu chased 240 acres on Section 8, in Wash-\\nington, where he now lives; he has a first-class farm, with the facilities and improvements\\nof the modern farmer; he is making a specialty of blooded horses, cattle, sheep and hogs,\\nin which line of business he designs to rank among the leaders in the county. Mr. W.\\nwas married. October 10, lSr)4, to Jane A. Howell, of Armada; she died December 19,\\nIS. leaving an infant son Chilon F., born September 50. IS Mr. W. was married\\nagain, October 30, IS. id, to Betsey E.. daughter of Sewell and Lucinda Hovey. of Romeo.\\nMrs. Westbrook was born in Warsaw, N. Y. May IS i. her father was a native of\\nLebanon, N. H., her mother of Franklin County, Vt. her paternal grandsiro was born in\\nEngland July 25, ITo*). and died in IS 20; his father was a minister of the Church of\\nEngland; her grandmother was also an Englishwoman. Mi-, and Mrs. A\\\\ have had two\\nchildi on Cassius M., born January 7, 1859, and Frederick W. June IS, lSli5. died March\\n25, 1S()H; both parents are members of the M. E. Church. Mi s. Westbrook was educated\\nin the normal school of Ypsil^ti, and was a teacher foui teen years; she joined the chiu ch\\nwhen thirteen years of age, and herself and brother Albert are the only sui-viving members\\nof the chm ch of that period. Mr. Westbrook is a Republican, and has held the position\\nof Road Commissioner.\\nFRED C. WHITE. P. O. Romeo, was born in Foughkeepsie, Dutchess Co.. N. Y..\\nJuly 10, lS();-i; is the son of Otis and Hannah (Atwell) White, the former was born near\\nBoston and was a blacksmith: he belonged to the Puritan New England stock, and was a\\ndescendant of Peregrine White, the tu-st white child born in America; he died in Osceola.\\nMich., aged seventj -two years: his wife died in Swansea. N. H, aged thirty-eight; she\\nbecame the mother of eleven childi-en, six of whom survived her. Mi-. White is the only\\nliving representative of his fathers family. Circumstances rendered labor necessai-y to all\\nthe family as soon as old enough, and Mr. White, at seventeen, entered upon an apprentice-\\nship with a shoemaker, and received $20 a year; he served a second year with another in-\\nstructor, and began business for himself at Newark, in Arcadia, Wayne Co., N. Y. he\\nwas married, April 4. 1824, to Abagail Adams, of Manchester, Ontario Co., N. Y. where\\nshe was born December 29, 1804; in October, 1830, Mi-. White started for Michigan: he\\nmet N. T. Taj lor, of Romeo, at Buffalo, and came with him to Macomb Countj-; his busi-\\nness proved unfortunate, and. on settling with his creditors, he found himself S300 in\\ndebt, with no resources and shattered health. But his friends were lenient, and gave him\\ntime, as he says, to die or become able to pay them. He found suitable land fom- miles\\neast of Romeo, in Armada, proceeded to Detroit and secured it and went home: he set out\\nagain for Michigan the next spring with his wife and four children. Reaching Buffalo\\nby canal, they found the city full of emigrants and the lake full of ice. Three weeks\\nlater, they left for Detroit, which they reached in three days. A man brought them to\\ntheir place of destination for 110 and an ax, and when he was paid Mr. White had not\\na cent left. Darius Sessions took the family into his home, and in two days Mi-. White\\nhad a shanty for his family fui-nished with two chairs and a little Hour, ten pounds of\\npork and a few di-ied apples; but the humble home was the house of prayer, and whatever\\nelse was wanting faith in God was abundant. Mi-. White s trade soon made the family\\ncomfortable, and they have never since suffered from privation, although a large amount\\nof sickness and death has overtaken them, and twelve children have been reared to ma-\\ntiu-ity. The lirst year, he managed to chop three acres of laud, and projected a bee\\nfor the logging, but an objection arose; he was a temperance man. and sacrificed no prin-\\nciple to profit, and men would not work without it. On the day appointed men and teams\\nwere on the ground and a good dinner avraited them, but trouble was apparent at the out-\\n|v", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0863.jp2"}, "864": {"fulltext": "HISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nset. A neighbor informed Mr. White that they were bound to put down the temperance\\nmovement in the bud, and if he would furnish a pint of whisky, the logging would be done\\nin short order. He refused, and part of the men j)ut up aboiit an acre of logs, the rest\\nbuilt a log-pen ten feet high, set a pole thirty feet high, and named the pile White s\\nmonument, and drank from a bottle of their own providing. Mi White is the only one\\nliving of the participants of that day, but their places are tilled by intelligent, temperate,\\nChristian men. About three years after, sickness and disaster overtook Mr. White, and he\\naccepted an ofter of $r)00 for his place: he paid his debts in his native State, and settled\\non wild land two miles farther east. He cleared fifty acres and just as prosperity seemed\\nabout to dawn, his wife died and left six children. In a few mouths, Mr. White married\\nthe widow of Lyman Boughtou; her maiden name was Julina, daughter of Joel and Mary\\n(Gray) Turrell; she was born in Geneva, Cayuga Co., N. Y., November IS]. her par-\\nents settled in Macomb County, in 1^83, and died at the age of eighty-three respectively.\\nFollowing is the list of Mr. White s children: Mary, Eliza, William, Charlotte, Eugene,\\nOscar and Maria Antoinette; these were the children of his first wife, and the two last\\nwere born in Armada; Emily Adelaide was born in Almout, Lapeer County: Matilda J.,\\nin Armada; Frank M., Almira, Louisa and Fred C. were born in Bruce; all have been\\nmarried but the last. Mr. White has seventeen grandchildren and ten great-grandchil-\\ndren; his eldest son, William, was killed at the raising of a barn in St. Clair: Eugene\\nand Oscar were killed within ten minutes of each other in the war of the rebellion; Char-\\nlotte died with the scarlet fever and Almira with consumption; five sons-in-law are de-\\nceased. Mr. White became a Christian in IS^SO, and joined the Presbyterian Chui ch in\\nNewark. He transferred his membership to the Congregational Chm ch, in Romeo, the\\nnext year; his wife and four daughters belong to the same chiu ch.\\nDK. ALBERT YATES, P. O. Washington, of Washington Village, was born in Lin\\ncolnshire, England, September 13, 1842; emigrated to America in 1849. and settled in\\nWentworth Covmty, Ontario, where the Doctor received his early education in the schools\\nof Canada, and entered the Medical College, of Detroit, having previously studied medicine\\nin Canada under a preceptor; graduated from the college July 10, 1S7 2; he returned to\\nCanada and entered the practice of his profession at the village of Bismarck, which he\\ncontinued two years: he then, November, 1874, removed to Macomb County and estab-\\nlished an office at Washington, where he is still in practice; his father, Richard Y ates,\\nlives in Ontario at the age of sixty -six, a carpenter by trade; his mother died in 1854.\\nThe Doctor was married, March 9, 18(34, to Margaret, daughter of Joel Eastman, of Can-\\nada; she was born May 31, 1844, and died May 5, 1878; their chikb en were Henry W.,\\nFebruary 24, 18()7; Minnie A., January 7, 1869; Albert E., May 10, 1874; May M.,\\nApril 20, 1878. He was married again, July 23. 1879, to Clara B. Davis, daughter of\\nMilo Davis, of Washington Township; she was born January -j, 1860. Dr. Yates is Sec-\\nretary and Treasui er of the Northeastern District Medical and Scientific Associations,\\nsince February. 1870, and Superintendent of Schools for the township in which he lives\\nand Magistrate of the same. Both the Doctor and his wife ai e members of the M. E.\\nChiU ch, and he is in politics a Republican; he has a very pleasant home and a remunera-\\ntive and increasing practice.\\nJOSEPH YATES (deceased) was born Jvily 11, 181 1, in Charlestown, Montgomery\\nCo., N. Y. was the son of Abraham P. and Cornelia (Van Every) Gates; the former was\\nborn in Charlestown, N. Y. July 27, 1787, and died at Utica, N. Y., March 9, 1803; the\\nlatter was a native of Canajoharie, Montgomery Co., N. Y., born July 4, 1788; was mar-\\nried, June 8, 1800, and died March 17, 18-j4; Peter Yates, father of A. P. Yates, was born\\nin 1752, in New York; married Catherine Docstator, of Holland descent, in 1776, and\\ndied in 1822. Joseph Yates was one of three brothers who came to America in 1(301 dui", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0864.jp2"}, "865": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 845\\ning the rebellion in the last year of the reign of Queen Elizabeth. They belonged to the\\nnobility, and the family coat of arms is iu the possession of the descendants; the estates\\nwere confiscated. Mr. Yates was educated at the academy at Johnstown, N. Y., and at\\nsixteen he engaged as a clerk with Mr. Ehle in Canajoharie, N. Y. In 1 S8 2, he was\\nmarried to Jane, daughter of William and Lucinda (Culver) Kyte, of Utica, N. Y. four\\nchildren were born to them, viz., Francis J. (still living in Washington); Abraham P.,\\ndied in bSdS; William K., died in 18()9; Joseph C, living in Washington: he was named\\nfor Joseph Christojjher Yates, sixth Governor of New York. In 1S41, Mr. Yates went to\\nRochester, N. Y., and, in 1852, to Detroit, Mich.: he had formed a partnership with his\\nbrother, R. Y. Yates, of Utica, N. Y. for the manufacture of clothing at Syi-acuse; they\\nopened business houses at Utica and Detroit. Mr. Yates managed the latter until the\\ndeath of two of his sons, which occurred ten months apart, when he relinquished his busi-\\nness and piu-chased lliO acres of land one mile east of the village of Romeo, known as the\\nKelsey farm, to gratifj the inclination of his youngest son, who chose the vocation of\\nfarmer. Mr. Yates was in the clothing business over forty years; his last stand in Detroit\\nwas on the present site of the Chandler block; he belongs to the Odd Fellows and Masonic\\norders, and was made a Sir Knight in \\\\S ^9. He died in Washington, of apoplexy, in his\\nseventieth jear. Novemlier 14. I88(t. The record of Mrs. Yates is as follows: She was\\nborn in Ontai io, N. Y., December 28. 1814: AVilliam Kyte was born in Bath, England,\\nin 1787. came to the United States in 1794 and settled in Whitesbiu-g. N. Y. was mar-\\nried, in 1811. and died in Niagara, N. Y., June 1, 18(U: his father, William Griddings\\nKyte, was born iu England in 1747, came to the United States in 1794, and died in X^tica\\nin 1882; Jane (Hollway), his wife, was born in Bristol, England, in 1749, and died in\\n1791, in Cazenovia, N. Y. Lucinda (Culver), wife of Williani Kyte, was born in Ontario\\nCounty, N, Y., in 1798, and died June 2, 187(i, buried in Richmond, Canada. Joseph C.\\nYates came to Macomb County with his parents in March, 1S74; he was bora in Detroit\\nMay 14, 1857, and married Charlotte E. Secord. June 18, 1879; they have one child\\nJoseph Maltby Yates, born in Macomb Coimty, April 28, 1881. Mrs Yates parents are\\nLevi P. and Jane (Laycock) Secord, the former born in Niagara, Ontario, died May 31,\\n1878, in Richmond, Ontario; the latter was born in Princeton, Ontario, in 1885, and died\\nin Richmond. October 25, 1871. Levi P. Secord was the son of Daniel and Electa (Page)\\nSecord, the former was born in Monti eal in 1789. and died in Niagara. Ontario, in 188(i:\\nthe latter was born at Cazenovia, N. Y., in 1800, and was married in 1814; Jane, wife of\\nL. P. Secord, was the daiighter of Joseph H. and Eliza (Earnshaw) Laycock; the former\\nwas born in Colne, Yorkshire, England, iu ISOO, came to the United States in 1835. and\\ndied March l*^ 1872. in Richmond. Ontario: the former was born in Manchester. England,\\nin 180(\\\\ came to the United States with her husband and died January 25. 1872, at Rich-\\nmond, Ontario.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0865.jp2"}, "866": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER XXXVII.\\nSTERLING TOWNSHIP.\\nThis division of the coimty is similar in many respects to the township of Shelby\\nand Clinton. The Clinton River enters the town at the head-waters of the hydraulic\\ncanal in the village of Utica. flows through a tortuous channel southeast and leaves the\\ntownship in Section 24. Plum Brook flows parallel with the Clinton. This creek forms\\na confluence with Red Run Creek, at the northeast corner of Section 25, and the united\\nstreams enter the Clinton just east of the town line. Bsaver Creek waters the southwest-\\nern sections and flows southeast to the waters of Red Run. The soil is very productive,\\ngenerally level and carefully cultivated.\\nTHE FIRST SETTLERS.\\nThe tii st settlers include the names of Henry R. Schetterly, Chauncey G. Cady, Elea-\\nzer Scott, Peter Moe, Asa Huntley, John B. St. .Tohn, Jesse Soper, John Gibson, Oliver\\nCrocker, Henry J. Stead, David Stickuey, Washington Adams, Charles Hutchins, Richard\\nHotham, John B. Chapman, the Skinner family, John Wright and others referred to in\\nthe biographical history.\\nSterling has always been up to the average standard as a productive and fertile town-\\nship. The amounts of agricultural products, as given in the respective statistical reports\\nof 1850 and 1873, are as follows: In 1850\u00e2\u0080\u0094 wheat, 4,410 bushels; corn, 12,695 bushels;\\nall other kinds of grain, including, principally, oats, barley, rye, etc., 14,076 bushels; po-\\ntatoes, 3,679 bushels; wool, 4,582 pounds. Dairy produce butter, 17,885 pounds;\\ncheese, 1,450 pounds. Value of orchard produce, $319. Live stock horses, 108; milch\\ncows, 289; sheep, 1,521; swine, 370; other neat cattle, 230; working o.\\\\en, 70. Number\\nof acres of improved occupied farms, 4,314. In 1873 wheat, 9,241 bushels; corn, 18,-\\n315 bushels; all other kinds of grain, 39,645 bushels; potatoes, 12,165; wool, 9,269\\n])ounds. Dairy produce butter, 23,745 pounds; cheese, 4,020 pounds. Value of orchard\\nproduce, $2,205. Live stock horses, 553; milch cows, 733; other neat cattle (other than\\noxen and cows), 407; shee]), 2,228; swine, 504; working oxen, 18. Number of acres of\\nimproved laud in occupied farms, 9,500; whole amount of taxable land, 22,703 acres.\\nDuring the year 1881, the severe ch oughts caused very serious damage to crojis of all de-\\nscriptions. It was the first time in the history of the townshij) that such an unfortunate\\nevent could be recorded.\\nORO.^NIZATION.\\nlefferson Township was organized under authority of an act approved March 17,\\n1835, and the first town meeting ordered to be held at the house of Jonathan T. Allen.\\nThe district known in the United States survey as Township 2 north. Range 12 east,\\nformed the new division of the county. Under the act ap])roved March 6, 1838, the name\\nof the township of Jeflerson was changed to that of Sterling.\\nTHE FIRST ELECTION.\\nThe ofiicers elected April 6, 1835, were: William A.Davis, Supervisor; John M. Chip-\\nman, Clerk; John St. John, Elias Scott, Orton Gibbs, Assessors; Abraham Freeland, Col-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0866.jp2"}, "867": {"fulltext": "A\\nlector: Jolin T. Allen and Russell Audrus, Directors of the Poor; Samuel Merrill, Lewis\\nDrake, Joseph Stickney. Commissioners of Highways; Abraham Freeland, Constable;\\nNathan B. Miller, Elias B. Jackson and Cordello Curtiss, School Commissioners: Curtiss,\\nGibbs. Ober, Tooley, Miller, Scott, Kennedy, Merrill, Pathmasters and Fence Viewers;\\nAlex Warner and William A. Davis, Poimdmasters. The officers elected since that time\\nare named in the following lists;\\nROSTER OF OFFICERS.\\nSupervisors William A. Davis, 1835-36: Hilan Ober, 1830^38: County Commis-\\nsioners, 1838-43; William A. Davis, 1843-44; John B. St. John, 1844-49; Hilan Ober,\\n184U-51; Eli S. Scott, 1851-52; John B. St. John, 1852-56; Leonard M. Caster, 1856-\\n57; John B. St. John, 1857-60; Benjamin C. Gunn, 1860-61; A. W. Aldrich, 1861-62;\\nJohn B. St. John, 1862-70; Samuel H. St. John, 1870-71; Seymour Brownell, 1871-73;\\nHumphrey Murphy. 1873-82.\\nClerks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 James Wallace. 1836-37; Lvman T. Jenny, 1838-39; C. B. H. Fessenden,\\n1840; Chester W. Phelps, 1841-46; Julius A. Smith, 1847; William Cowie, 1848; George\\nE. Adair. 1849; Elias Scott, 1850; James Abernethy, 1851-53; L. L. Bailey, 1854; Seth\\nK. Shetterly, 1855: George Brownell, 1862; Elam Moe, 1869; George Brownell, 1870-71;\\nGeorge W. Abernethy, 1872; George Brownell, 1873-76; George W. Abernethy, 1877;\\nGeorge Brownell, 1878; Seth K. Shetterly, 1879-80; Erastns W. Lawrence. 1881-82.\\nTreasurers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Abram Freeland, 1836-37; Eleazer Edgerton. 1S38; James A. Hicks, 1839;\\nC. McKisson, 1840; Elias Scott, 1841; Amos B. Cooley, 1842; Ralph Wright, 1843; Wal-\\nter Porter, 1844: Hilan Ober, 1845-46; George E. Adair, 1847; Hilan Ober, 1848; John B.\\nSt. John, 1849: Cranson Belden, 1850: C. L. Rice, 1851; A. H. Welden, 1852; Elias\\nScott. 1853; George M. Davis. 1854; W. H. Lester. 1855; Eleazer Edgerton, 1856; Gil-\\nbert Rice, 1857: Phineas Andi-ixs, 1858-59: John B. Wright, I860: Charles S. Hutchins,\\n1861: Aug H. Morrison. 1862-63; Francis Wright. 1864-()5; William N. Soper, 1866-\\n69; George M. Davis, 1870-72; George Upton, 1873-74; Louis Burr. 1875-77; Henry\\nP. Mitchell, 1878-79; David Y. Robinson, 1880-82,\\nJustices of the Peace Benjamin L. Watkins, Eleazer Edgerton. Ralph Runyan,\\nJonathan T. Allen. Chester Naramour, Joseph Northrup, 1836; Lyman T. Jenny, 1837;\\nJohn A. Wood, 1838; Peter S. Palmer, Elea ^er Edgerton, 1839; Peter S. Palmer, John\\nB. St. John, 1840; James B. Carlter, Abraham Freeland, Orson Sheldon, 1841: William\\nWright. 1842: Eliakim Ober, John B. St. John. 1843; A. W. Aldrich, 1844; Hiram Skin-\\nner. 1845; John B. St. John, James Abernethy, 1846; Eliakim Ober, 1847; Robert D.\\nSmith. 1848; John B. St, John, 1849: A. W. Aldi ich, 1850; Hiram Ober, 1851; Alex\\nMarvin, 1853; Eleazer Edgerton, 1853; Seth K. Schetterly, Jedediah Millard, 1854; Cal-\\nvin Moore, 1855: Eleazer Edgerton. Channcey G. Cady, 1856; John B. St. John, 1857;\\nSylvester Hovey, Seth K. Schetterlv. 1858; Eleazer Edgerton, A. H. Morrison. 1859;\\nHilan Ober. I860; Charles S. Hutchins, P. W. Sumner, 1861; Seth K. Schetterly, 1862;\\nGeorge Brownell, 1863: Eleazer Edgerton, 1864; Joseph Jennings. 1865; S. K. Shetter-\\nly, 1866; G. Brownell, J. Jenning.s, 1867; E. Edgerton, B. C. Back, 1868; Louis Burr,\\n1869: Emanuel Case, John B. St. John, 1870; S. K. Schetterly, G. Brownell, 1871; Frank-\\nlin P, Moutfort, 1872: Seth K. Schetterlv. 1873; Charles Gust, 1874, George Brownell,\\n1875: John C. Priehs, 1876; Seth K. Schetterly, 1877: John B. St. John, 1878; George\\nBrownell, 1879; John C. Priehs, Emanuel Woodie, 1880; Seth K. Schetterly, 1881.\\nIn 1882, this township was Democratic as usual, although the Republicans elected a\\nTreasm-er; Supervisor. H. Murphy. Democrat. 177; Edward Hacker, Republican, 113;\\nDemocatic majority. 64. Clerk. E. W. Lawi ence. Democrat. 171; M, Abernethy. Repub-\\nlican. 110; Democratic majority. 61. Treasurer, M. Finan. Republican, 148: G. Miller.\\nDemocrat. 135; Rejsublican majority. 13.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0867.jp2"}, "868": {"fulltext": "g\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUlSTY.\\nThe schools of Sterling ai-e six in number. Charles S. Hutchins presides over District\\nNo. 1. as Director. The uumberof children belonging is seventy-five, of which number fifty-\\none attended school diu-ing the year endins September, 1881. The expenses incurred\\nwere \u00c2\u00a7397. District No. 2 claims 117 pupils, of whom forty-one attended school. The\\nexpenditures were $321. This district is under the direction of 0. C. Dubois. Wintield\\nS. Drake, Director of School No. 3, reported ninety-six childi-eu belonging, of which\\nnumber thirty-six attended school during the year 1881. The expenditures amounted to\\n$353. George P. Berz, of Warren, Director of No. 4, reported 13(3 children belonging,\\nof whom eighty-three attended school. The expenditm-es were $484. Lewis T. Cady,\\nDirector of School No. 8 (fractional), reported 165 pupils belonging, of whom thirty-\\nnine attended school during the year 1881. The total expenditures for school purposes\\nwas $689.46. No. 9, fractional, with G-urdon Hoard, Director, claimed sixty-seven chil-\\ndren enrolled, of whom forty- four attended during the year. The expenditures were $601.\\nThe school buildings comprise one brick and five frame houses. Schoolhouse No. 8 is\\nvalued .it $1,500, and No. 1, a brick structure, at $1,000. The total value of school prop-\\nerty in the township is $3,900. The schools of Sterling are not graded.\\nBIOGRAPHICAL.\\nThe personal sketches of old settlers and other citizens form an essential part of the\\nhistory of this district. They contain the minutiip of its history; therefore to these\\nsketches the attention of the reader is directed.\\nW. J. ADAMS.\\nCHARLES ACKLEY, P. O. Utica, was born May 2, 1829, in Yorkshire, England;\\nin 1834, he came to Wayne County, Mich., with his parents, William and Martha (Pres-\\nton) Ackley, where they passed the remainder of their lives. Mr. Ackley was married,\\nJuly in, 1864, to Amelia Watson, whose parents were natives of England, and came to\\nDetroit in 1X57. In ]1S7(), Mr. Ackley came to Sterling, Macomb County, where he owns\\nthirty-nine acres of land; he also owns eighty acres in Hamtramck, Wayne Co., Mich.\\nMr. and Mrs. Ackley have had eight children; all but the two youngest were born in\\nHamtramck; their record is as follows: Martha E., born March 18, 1856, died October\\n18, 1N56; Laura A., December 31, 1867; Cordelia. March 17, 1S68; infant, June 20, 1870.\\ndied same year; Ark A., June 9, 1872; Adelbert P., September 2, 18/5; Ethel M., March\\n12, 1879; Bessie L., Jime 27. 18S(). Mr. Ackley is a Republican.\\nC. CADY.\\nJOHN CLARK, P. O. Utica, sou of Thomas and Matilda Clark, was born September\\nIC), 1848, in Lincolnshire, England; removed with his parents, when eighteen months old\\nto America, settling in Rochester, N. Y. in the fall of 1852, came with his parents to De\\ntroit. Mich. removed from Detriot in the spring of 1862, with his parents, to Sterling\\nTownship. Macomb Co., Mich, where he has lived until the present date Februarj- 20,\\n1882; was educated in the common schools, and has always followed the occupation of a\\nfarmer.\\nLEWIS DRAKE. P. O. Utica, was born January 3. 1801, in Seneca County, N. Y.\\nis son of Thomas and Phoebe (Conklin) Drake; his parents were natives of New Jersey,\\nand his father was a direct descendant of Sir Francis Drake. Mr. Drake came to Mich-\\nigan in the fall of 1N32, and took up a farm of Govermnent land, for which he paid 18\\nshillings an acre; it was located on Section 14, in Sterling Township; there was at the\\ntime but one house between Frederick and Utica, and, as an incident illustrative of the\\ntimes, Mr. Drake relates that two of his younger sons tried to coax a wolf into the house,\\nunder the supposition that it was a neighbor s dog. He and his wife attended the wed-\\n1^", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0868.jp2"}, "869": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 849\\n(Jing of John James (now a noted merchant at Detroit), at Utica, going there in a cart\\ndrawn by oxen, and Mr. Drake remembers it as more enjoyable than many later pleasure\\ntrips in his family can-i age. He was married, in January, 1825, to Mary Broad well; they\\nhad ten children, born as follows: Bronsou B.. November 10, 1S 2(): Julia B.. August 10,\\n1S2S: Lewis B.. May 18, 1830; Milton M.. May U, 1882; Sybil M,. August 19, 1834;\\nByron, February 27, l83S; Mary, March 19, 1S39; George, June 21, 1S41; Francis, March\\n24, 1844. Mr. Drake was married a second time, December 2, 184H, to Charity Frippin;\\nthev have had live children Helen E., born September 11, 1S47, died November 2fi,\\n1879: Orton D., December 5. 1S48: Milton B.. April 2. 18r)l: Jettora B., July Ki, 1S54:\\nErnest B., August 11, 1X57. Mr. Drake owns 1S() acres of finel) situated and improved\\nland on Section 14. He is a Republican.\\nELEAZER EDGERTON, P. O. Utica, was born June Ki, 1801), in Oneida County,\\nN. Y. is a son of Raswell and Sarah (Shelden) Edgerton. He came to Michigan in 1829,\\nreturning the next winter to New York; in the spring of 1830, he came again to this\\ncounty and located 1(50 acres of Government laniL He was married, in 1833, to Nancy\\nHurlbut; her parents were natives of Connecticut. They had nine children Lovina,\\nborn August 18, 1837, died December 21, 18(53; Amorilla, April 8, 1838, died April 8,\\n1869; Jay R., April 14, 18()7, died same day; December 13, 1S42: Francis,\\nMarch 12, 1845. died April 21, 18( 4; Lorenzo, March 17, 1S47, died March 1871;\\nOrrin, March 31. 1849; James; April 14, 18 Charles. September 2. 18. The latter\\nwent on a sea voyage for his health, and was obliged to leave the steamship at the Cape\\nVerde Islands: this was the last intelligence from him, and it is supposed he died there or\\non the passage home. Mr. Edgerton now owns 190 acres of Section 23. He is a Demo-\\ncrat, and has held the office of Justice of the Peace several years; he is considered one of\\nthe substantial, reliable pioneer citizens of Macomb County; besides his farming interests,\\nhe is engaged in bee cultui e to a considerable extent. ]Mi Edgertnn s father died in New\\nYork, aged seventy years: his mother, at the age of seventy- five.\\nEDWIN HAFF, P. O. Utica, was born in 1S14; is son of Isaac and Susanna (New-\\nton) Haff; his pai-ents settled in Troy, Oakland County, in 1831 he took possession of his\\nl^resent location, in Section (5, in 1N4(\\\\ He was married, in 1837. to Lorenath Newton;\\nthey have foiu- children Susan, Amelia, Phcebe and Lorenzo; the latter was married,\\nNovember 22, 1877, to Prudence, daughter of Jesse and Elvira (Howe) Soper; they have\\ntwo children Laura L.. born December (i, 1880; and Emily M., November 24, 1881.\\nMl Haff and his sons are Republicans. He owns a magnificent farm, under first-class\\nimprovements.\\nDR. FRANCIS HILL, Veterinary Surgeon, was bom October 30, 1814, in Broxboiu-ne,\\nEngland; is son of Francis and Margaret (Powell) Hill; he was educated in his native\\ncountry for his profession, and was married, in the old church of Sheffield, Yorkshire,\\nEngland, to Sarah W. Cooper; they came to America in 1840, with three children under\\nfour years of age; they landed at New York, where they remained until the canal opened,\\nin the spring of 1841, when they proceeded to Detroit, and reached the place of an uncle,\\nin Shelby, Macomb County, May 10, ISll; he- bought a farm of Cornelius Crowley, un-\\nder improvement, and has since sold it, and prosecuted his business as a veterinary sur-\\ngeon, which he has practiced fifty years; he has twenty grandchildren; is a jolly, true-\\nheai ted type of his nationality. He is a Democrat in politics.\\nE. W. LAWRENCE, P. O. Utica, was born December 22. 180. in Montgomery\\nCoiinty. N. Y. is son of Benjamin and Louisa (Elliot) Lawrence; his father was born in\\n1780, and died at Glen s Falls. Washington Co., N. Y., in 1N70, aged ninety years; his\\nmother was bom in 17S7, and died in 1870, at the age of eighty-seveu. Mr. Lawrence is\\nable to trace his line of descent from John and Marv (Townlev) Lawrence, who came to", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0869.jp2"}, "870": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAmerica in 1713; they settled in Massachusetts, and left but one son. named Jonathan*\\nthe genealogy has been obtained from descendants living in Massachusetts, and is pre-\\nserved in a library in Detroit. Mr. Lavn-ence was married, in January, 18 28, to Julia E.\\nRussell, born in IMOS; they have tive children Cornelius, Henry M., Benjamin S., Helen\\nE. and Mr. Lawi enee came to Michigan in the spring of 1838. with his wife\\nand four children; he first settled in Pontiac, Oakland County, and. in the fall of 1S49,\\nwent to Rochester, same county, where he remained six years; was Postmaster four years.\\nunder Polk s administration. In 18r)0, he came to Utica, and in LS. started for Califor-\\nnia, he spent three years in the mines with pick and shovel, after which he traveled two\\nyears with his son. then eighteen years old, and visited Oregon, Washington Territory.\\nNew Mexico and the Sandwich Islands, returning home in 18(iO. In 18B1, he volunteered\\nas a private in the war of the rebellion, and was in active service four years; he was com-\\nmissioned First Lieutenant, and served under it three years; he received honorable dis-\\ncharge for disability from exposiu e, and was mustered out of service at Detroit in 18*55.\\nHo returned home and engaged in agriculture for a time, but is now leading a quiet life,\\nfree hum arduous labor; he has served a term as Town Clerk; politically, is a Democrat,\\nand lx liings to the Masonic order.\\nWILLIAM PETTS. P. O. Utica. was born September 19. 1829; is son of Thomas\\nand Jane (Joice) Petts, natives of England; his mother died in 184 2; his father, in 1852.\\nIn 18,57, Mr. Petts came to Sterling and bought the S. D. Adams farm, on Section 8. He\\nwas married, in 1857. to Ann. daughter of William and Mary Robinson, natives of En-\\ngland; they have four children Mary J., boi-n May 15, 1858; Christiana, May 31, 18()();\\nRobert W.. November 1. 18B1; George R. May 13, 1S()5. All the children reside at\\nhome. Mr. and Mi-s. Petts and their family are all members of the M. E. Church of Utica.\\nMr. Petts is a Republican in politics; a member of the Knights of Honor, and owns a fine\\nfarm of eighty acres.\\nGILBERT RICE. P. O. Utica, was born January 24, 1819. in Greene County, N. Y.\\nis son of Ira and Nancy (Avery) Rice; they came to Michigan in 1837, and settled in\\nSterling, Macomb County, on Section 15, where they passed the remainder of their lives;\\nhis father died at the age of seventy-one; his mother, at sixty-three years old. He was\\nmairied. in 1844, to Harriet, daughter of Samuel and Amelia (Seaman) Chapman; they\\nhave had tive children, born as follows: Amelia. February 12. 184(J; Oscar W.. Septem-\\nber 29, 1847 ;_ George L., September 20. 1849; Viola C. July 23. 1853; Carrie N., Au-\\ngust 17, 1857. Mr. Rice was married a second time. March 24, 1858, to Lydia A..\\ndaiighter of John L. and Esther Chase; they have had four children Lora B., April 15.\\n1854; Mary F., May 14, 1862; Isa L., January 2, 1877: and an infant. Mr. Rice owns\\na snug farm of sixty acres, all first-class land, on Section 11; he is a member of the Con-\\ngregational Church, and is a Republican.\\nGARDNER H. RUNYON, P. O. Utica. was born May K), 1831, in New Jersey; is\\nson of Ralph and Mary (Gardner) Runyon. natives of New Jersey. His parents came to\\nMichigan in 1834. and located a farm of Government land in Sterling. Mr. Runyon was\\nmarried, in 1864, to Estella, daughter of John and Mary Steed; they have three children\\nCora, born June 27, 18()3; Jennie, January 27, 18() Bruce. September 10. 1875. Mr.\\nRunyon is a Democrat. He enlisted in the civil war in 1862. in the band of the Fourth\\nMichigan Cavalry, and returned in 1864. after twenty months service; his hearing was\\nmuch impaired by the concussion of the air in action from explosion of shells. He is a car-\\npenter and joiner by trade, and owns a pleasant place on South Cass street, at Utica, with\\nfine dwelling.\\nCYRUS SCHOONOVER, P. O. Utica, was born March 6, 1812, in Mom-oe County,\\nN. Y. is son of Jacob and Luba Sikes Schoonover. He came to Michigan in 1847 and", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0870.jp2"}, "871": {"fulltext": "Lkl^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 851\\nsettled on a farm on Section in Sterling Township. Macomb County. He was maiTied,\\nin 1S42, to Elizabeth Wood; they have had tive children James, born May 7, 1848; Lo-\\nrenzo, 184. Phfebe, 1S41; Mary, 1847; John. IS yj.. James enlisted, in August, l i(V2.\\nin Comj auy E. Twenty-sixth Michigan Volunteer Infantry; he was enrolled in l/ivingston\\nCounty for thi ee years, and was mustered out of service June 4, 1865; Lorenzo enlisted\\nin the war of the rebellion; was taken prisoner by the rebels; suffered all the hoiToi-s of\\nthe Acdersonville stockade prison, came home and died. Mr. Schoonover and his sons\\nai e zealous Republicans. There are two more sons Cyrus A., bom October (i. 1858;\\nFred, bom April 18, 1850.\\nSETH K. SHETTERLY. P. O. Ttica. son of Dr. Henry R. and Susannah Keeley\\nShetterly. was born October 15, 182(1, in Union County, Penn. His parents came to Mich-\\nigan in August, 1882, and he obtained his elementary education in the district schools;\\nin 1840, his father moved to Ann Arbor, and he entered the law office of Miles, Ramsdell\\nWilson; he was admitted to the bar in 1848, and, June, 1844. opened a law office at\\nUtica. He was married, February 11, 1848, to Harriet H.Wright, who died April 2, 1849.\\nHe was mari ied again, May 25, 1858, to Amelia Sterns, of Howell, Mich., who died Sep-\\ntember 20, 1858; and he was again married. June 2, 1859, to Clara A. Wright, his pres-\\ne!it wife. Mr. Shetterly has had a family of ten children, born as follows: Marion T.,\\nApril 80, 1844, died May 22, 1882; Francis, in 1848, who died in infancy these are the\\nchildi eu of his first wife; Letitia J., August 11, 1854; Francis M., September 18, 185S,\\nare the children of his second wife: Clara A., March (5, 18(52, died March 17, 1802; John\\nB., M_ay 80, 18(^8, died August 2, 18(58 ;_ Charles K, October 11, ISfU; Nettie H, Novem-\\nber 2(. 1878; Jessie A., Au.gust 10, 18i(); Daisy C. December 1878. Mr. Shetterly is\\na Democrat in political sentiments, and has been in active service almost thirty years; he\\nwas elected Justice of the Peace in April. bS54, and has held the office ever since; in 18()2,\\nhe was elected Circuit Com-t Commissioner for Macomb County, and re-elected in 1804;\\nin 18(57, he was elected to the Legislatiu e from the Southern District, and in 1876 from\\nthe Western District; in 1846, he was appointed a Master in Chancery by Gov. Barry. He\\nhas been a member of the Masonic order for twenty-five years, and belongs to Utica Lodge.\\nNo. 75. Mrs. Shetterly is a member of the M. E. Church. Dr. H. R. Shetterly was born\\nJuly 29, 1798; in 18(51, he was appointed keeper of the light-house at Northport, Mich.,\\nwhere he died in 1873, aged seventy-five; his wife died March, 18(59, aged seventy-five\\nyears.\\nRICHARD H SLITER, P. O. Utica. was born February 9. 1848; is son of Cieorge\\nand Perlina (St. John) Sliter; his j)arents were of G-erman descent, and came to Michigan\\nOctober 20, 1S40; they bought a farm in Oakland County; his father died November 10,\\n187(5, aged seventy-eight years; his mother is still living, aged seventy-seven. Mr. Sliter\\nwas married, in 1862, to Jennie Charter; they had two childi en George E., born August\\n14, 1868; and Elmer, born July 28, 1865. He was a second time married. December 1.\\n1872. to Sarah, daughter of William and Ann Green; her parents were born in England\\nand came to America in 1851; she was born in LS50; they have one child, Perlina, born\\nNovember 8, 1879. Mr. Sliter owns a valuable farm of 157 acres, with elegant house and\\nother fine farm buildings; he is a Republican in political sentiment; is extensively en-\\ngaged in the sale of agricultural implements at Troy, Oakland County.\\nS. P. ST. JOHN, P. O. Utica, was born January 6, 1840; is son of James B. and Me-\\nlinda (Summers) St. John; his parents were natives of New York, and came to Michigan\\nin the spring of 1830; their three children were born in Michigan; the father died March\\n22, 1877, aged sixty-seven; he was born in 1810; the mother was born in March, 1816,\\nand died in 1879, aged sixty-seven. Mi-. St. .John, of this sketch, married Emma A.,\\ndaughter of Isaac S, and Almira Hurlbut; they have one child, Marion, horn August 9,", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0871.jp2"}, "872": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n1868. Mr. St. John is a member of the Masonic fraternity; he belongs to a business firm\\nlargely engaged in handling grain and lumber; he is well and widely known, and greatly\\nesteemed for his qualities as a neighbor and citizen; he is a Democrat in political senti-\\nment.\\nDAVID STICKNEY, P. O. Cady s Corners, was born in Weybridge, Vt., March 8,\\n180 j; is son of Lemuel and Martha (Scoville) Stickney, and is one of eleven childi-en;\\nhis father was bom February Ifi. ITfil, in Massachusetts; was a soldier of the Rovolution,\\nand was shot through the body; recovered, and, again enlisting, served through the war;\\nhe died in Franklin County, N. Y., at eighty -two; his wife died in Macomb County, Mich.\\naged ninety-two; she was born in Connecticut June 14, 17()0. Mi-. Stickney came to\\nMichigan in iXi A. and settled on Government land when Andrew Jackson was President;\\nhe reached Detroit May 1, 1881, having consumed two weeks on the jom-ney from the\\nState of New York to Detroit. He was married. February 2o, 1842, to Catherine Theresa\\nO Sullivan; her parents were natives of Ireland; they had but one child, Levi J., born\\nOctober 14, 1848: he was married. December 9, 18(U), to Delia Savage; they have had three\\nchildren Mary M.. born June 20, 1871, died November 18, 1874; Betsey C, September\\n28, 1872, died August 14. 1878; Harry L., September 9, 1875. Mrs. Stickney died July\\n13, 1881, aged sixty-eight. Mr. Stickney is a Republican. He has a genealogical me-\\nmoir of the descendants of William and Elizabeth Stickney, earliest known ancestoi s, cov-\\nering a period from 1()87 to ]8()9.\\nWILLIAM UPTON. P. O. Utica, was born Jamiary 8, 1885, in Leicestershire, En-\\ngland; his parents, John and Elizabeth (Mitchell) Upton, came to America in the fall of\\n1841, with seven children; they settled first at Detroit and remained four years, when they\\nremoved to Sterling, Macomb County, and located on a farm on Section 14; his father died\\nin 1854, aged fifty-two; his mother, in 18()7, aged sixty-three. Mr. Upton was married,\\nSeptember 8. 1861, to Sarah J., daughter of Whipple and Polly Aldi-ich, born March 5,\\n1844; her fa* her died in 1863; her mother is still living, at Fenton, Mich., aged seventy-\\nfour. Mr. and Mrs. Upton have had foiir children Charles W.. born August 4, 1862;\\nFrank E., March 15, 1864; Kena J., August 21, 1868, died August 21, 1879, aged eleven;\\nVictor Floyd, August 5, 1877. Mr. Upton has a valuable farm of 150 acres, finely located\\non Sections 14 and 15, with one of the best dwellings in Macomb County, and supplied\\nwith other commodious and convenient farm buildings; he is a genial and much-esteemed\\ncitizen, prominent in the general interests of the town; he is a Democrat in politics, and\\nbelongs to tue Masonic order, LTtica Lodge, No. 75.\\nE. WOOUIE.\\nCHAPTER XXXVIII.\\nWAHREN TOWNSHIP.\\nThe township of Warren was erected under the name of Hickory March 11, 1837.\\nUnder an act approved April 2, 1888, all that portion of Macomb known as Sections 12,\\n13, 24, 25 and 36, in Township 1 north, of Range 12 east, was set off from the town of\\nOrange and annexed to the town of Hickory. Under the same act, the name of the town-\\nship of Hickory was changed to that of Aba. It retained this name until March 25, 1838,\\nwhen it received its present title Warren. The first town meeting was held at the house\\nof Louis Groesbeck, April 3, 1837, with Avery Dennison, Moderator; Samuel Gibbs,\\nClerk; Louis Beaufait, Alonzo Haight and Jenison F. Glazier, Inspectors of Election.\\nSamuel Gibbs was elected Supervisor; Alonzo Haight, Clerk: Louis L. Beaufait, Col-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0872.jp2"}, "873": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nlector; Harris Corey, Loving Hawley, L. L. Beaufait, Assessors; Peter Gillett, Jolin H.\\nBarton. Loring Hawley, Commissioners of Highways; Northrap Jones and Louis Groes-\\nbeck. Overseers of the Poor; James X. Bruce, with Beaufait and Corey, were elected Con-\\nstables. Avery Dennisou. Sam Gibbs. Lyman E. Rhodes. Commissioners of Schools.\\nThe principal town officers elected since 1S37 are named in the following lists:\\nTOWN OFFICERS.\\nSupervisors Samuel Gibbs, 1837-39; John H. Barton. 1839-40; Henry W. Larra-\\nway, 1840-4 2; George Bolam. 1842-4t); Alonzo Haight. 1846-47; George Bolam, 1847-\\n49; John L. Beebe. 1849-54; George W. Corey, 1854-57; George Bolam. 1857-60;\\nLouis Groesbeck. 1860-63; Joseph T. De Coninck, 1863-65; Louis Groesbeck. 1865-67;\\nCharles S. Groesbeck, 1867-71; Louis Groesbeck. 1871-79; Paul Lefevre, 1879-82.\\nClerks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Alonzo Haight. 1837; Daniel A. Denison, 1838-40; George W. Corey, 1840\\n-42; Loring Hawley, 1842-48; George W. Corey, 1849-51; William C. Groesbeck, 1852-\\n53; Louis Groesbeck, 1854-56; Charles S. Groesbeck, 1857-61; Francis E. Groesbeck,\\n1861-64; N. H. Brown. 1865-()6; William J. Enright, 1867; John Kaltz. 1868; John\\nW. Kingscott. 1869; Royal A. Jennv. 1870; John Kaltz. 1871-72; George W Adair,\\n1873: Paul Lefevi-e, 1874-77; Henry W. Miller. 1878-82.\\nTreasm-ers- -Louis L. Beaufait, 1837-40: Loring Hawley, 1840-42; Avery Dennison,\\n1842; Cornelius Fehan, 1843-46; Avery Dennison, 1846; Cornelius Fehan, 1847; Elisha\\nW. Halsey. 1848; Cornelius Fehan. 1849-51; Samuel Jones. 1852; Loring Hawley,\\n1853; Joseph Tobiu, 1854; Prosper Le Due, 1855; Fred H. Walker. 1856; AVilliam E.\\nHartsig. 1857-58: Ai-nold Hardwood. 1859; John W. Kingscott. 1860-61; John Ward-\\nhoflf, 1862-66; Peter Rotarius, 1867; George H Briukers, 1868; Lewis Hartsig, 1869-71;\\nMathias J. Hoffman, 1872-74; Vincent Tremble, 1875-77: Mathias Hoffman, 1878-79:\\nLewis Hartsig, 1880; Peter Miller, 1881.\\nJustices of the Peace Samuel Gibbs, John H. Bai-ton, L. F. Rhodes, Alonzo Haight,\\n1837: Loring Hawley, Samuel Gibbs, 1838; R. D. Smith, 1839; H. W. Laraway, Harris\\nCorey, Louis L. Beaufait, 1840; E. W. Halsey, 1841; Jeremiah W. Wetson, Sylvester\\nRoyes, 1842: Horace P. Jennv, George W. Corev, Libertv Hartwell. 1843; Robert J.\\nMitchell, 1844; Cornelius Felian, 1845; George W. Corey 1846: Aiartin Blunt, 1847;\\nR, J. Mitchell, Liberty Hartwell, 1848; George W. Glazier. Robert Morris, 1849; Corne-\\nlius Fehan, George W. Corey. 1850; Ai-nold Harwood. Charles Davy, 1851; Robert D.\\nSmith, 1852; Hazel Horner, George Bolam, 1853; George W. Corey, 1854; L. Hartzig,\\nFrancis Groesbeck, George Eberth, 1855; George Bolam. Almond D. Jenny. 1857; S. W.\\nRovce. 1858; Charles Groesbeck, 1859; George Bolam. 1860; A. D. Jenny. l861; Prosper\\nLa Due. 1862: Casper Schettler, 1863: N. B. Brown. 1864; C. S. Groesbeck, George\\nBolam, 1865: N. B. Brown, 1866; John Bucklev. John W. Kingscott, 1867; Anthony\\nSchettler. A. D. Jenny, 1S68: Charles S. Groesbeck, 1869; George Bolam, 1870; Ai-nold\\nHarwood, Michael Schanherr, 1871; M. K. Plummer, William Simonds, John Buckley,\\n1872; John Hartman. 1873; M. Schanherr, 1874; Lewis Hartsig. 1875; William Si-\\nmonds, 1876: John Hartman. 1877: H. Engelman, 1878: Victor Schanherr, John Hart-\\nsig, 1879.\\nThere was no opposition to the Democratic ticket in this town in 1882. and the vote\\nwas small. Paul Lefever was re-elected Supervisor, Henry Miller. Clerk, for 1882-83.\\nVILLAGE OF WARREN.\\nThe village of Warren in this township was settled at an early day. It is twelve\\nmiles southwest of Mt. Clemens and fourteen north of Detroit. Its location is within a\\nhalf mile of the D. B. C. R. R. which renders the place a suburb of Detroit. It ia a", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0873.jp2"}, "874": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nfine agricultural section, which is devoted to farming, mai ket gardening, grain, vegetables\\nand fruit. There are Methodist and Lutheran Churches, a district school and a steam feed\\nmill and foundry in the hamlet. Its conservatism in respect to population is remarkable.\\nThe census returns of 1880 credit it with being the center of 150peof)le. Similar returns\\nfor years past have accorded to the little hamlet precisely the same number. Among the\\nearly settlers were the Groesbecks. Joseph Jei ome, Harris Corey, Joseph Mosho and\\nGeorge Bolam, many of whom have left families, members of which still reside in the\\ntownship. Among the business and professional men of the village are John Ames. Milo\\nAmes, Oliver Barton, J. L. Beebe, C. Davy. AVilliam Cole. D. L. Case. Frink Mur-\\nthum, L. Groesbeck, Silas E. Halsey, John Hartman, Rev. A. Harwood. W. Helzeuger,\\nE. Lawrence. F. McCall. William McMullen, Judson C. Mason, E. Mores. C. Sanderson,\\nEdward Tharrett. G. B. Walker, G. Whitten, Rev. AVilliam Young.\\nTOWNSHIP SCHOOLS.\\nThere are six district schools in the tovvnshi]), attended by 8L5 childi en. The school\\nbuildings are frame, valued at $4,00(). The total expenditures of the township for school\\npurposes dm ing the year 1881 were $8.0911.15. The school, in connection with the Cath-\\nolic Church at Center Line, is one of the leading educational establishments of the town-\\nship. The Lutheran school is another denominational establishment.\\nST. Clement s catholic church.\\nThe Catholic congregation of St. Clement s parish was founded in 1854, when the new\\nchurch was consecrated under permission of Bishop Lefe\\\\Te. The growth of the congre-\\ngation necessitated an addition to the church building in 18 )S. The senior membei s of\\nthe congi egation were Charles Groesbeck. Joseph Cramer, Josejjh Miller and a few otliers.\\nThe church was attended successively by Rev. Father Van den Driesche. of the Church of\\nthe Assumption at Connor s Creek, next by the priests of the Detroit Cathedral, again by\\nthe Redemptorist Fathers of St. Mary s. Detroit. The first resident priest was Rev. H.\\nHueffels. now of Anchorville, who came in 1857; he was succeeded, in 1868, by Rev. W.\\nJ. V. Hendricks. At that time, 140 families formed the congregation. Under Father\\nHendricks, an extensive addition was made to the church building, a new pipe organ was\\nintroduced, a cemetery laid out. which was blessed by Bishop Borgess, May 10, 1871.\\nThe schoolhouse was also enlarged by him, and a dwelling for the organist and teachers\\nerected. On January fi. 1880, he proposed the building of a new chm-ch; the people\\nacted promptly, so that on July 5, he laid the corner-stone of the present building. The\\nbig work was commenced September 3. 1880, and the church was dedicated by Bishop\\nBorgess November 6, 1881. The total cost, $18,000, was paid up in May, 1882. The\\nlength of the building is 13(5 feet, the width 54 feet. There are five entrances to the\\nbuilding, fifteen stained glass windows, a number of well-executed paintings, chaste fres-\\ncoes, rendering the building one of the most perfect sacred edifices in the county. The\\nparish of Centerline is one very difficult to administer, simply on account of the various\\nnationalities represented; the pastor is obliged to preach in the American, French, Bel-\\ngium and German languages, and in every-day life has to transact the duties of his office\\nin so many different tongues and with so many different peoples. The number of families\\nbelonging to St. Clement s congregation, in 1880, was 210. which niimber has met with\\nmany additions since that time.\\nPERSONAL in.STOliY.\\nThe biographical sketches of citizens of Warren, given in this volume, contain much\\nthat is specially interesting. Each one of these sketches is a lesson in itself, pointing the\\nway to progress.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0874.jp2"}, "875": {"fulltext": "ISAAC BRACE, son of Thomas and Ann (Green) Brace, of Hertfordshire. England,\\nwas born October 28, 1837; his parents came to the United States in lS;:i4: lived for two\\nyears at Detroit, one year in Canada, then at Royal Oak, Oakland Co., Mich., where his\\nmother died in 1859; at the age of twenty-one, went to the Marquette iron mines; next\\npassed some time in the lumber regions; engaged in fishing at St. Joe for one year; next\\nworked on a farm and in a brick factory, and, in 18(j 2. enlisted in the Fifth Michigan\\nCavalry, went into service at East Capitol Hill, and finished at Fort Leavenworth, Kan.\\nwith the muster-out of the command; a reference to the regimental history will show the\\nprincipal affairs in which this soldier was engaged. After the wai-. he bought an eighty-\\nacre farm at Troy. Oakland County, where he made his home until 1881; he then engaged\\nin the dry goods trade: sold his interest therein, and retired to his pleasant home in War-\\nren Township. He married Mrs. Louisa Dewandeler, a native of Belgium, who settled\\nwith her parents in Warren in 18(17 or 18(iS; they ai-e the parents of Mary, Julia and\\nAmelia Brace. Mr. Brace is the owner of eighty acres in Troy, Oakland Cotinty.\\nJOSEPH RAMER. Jk., son of Joseph and Magdalene (Aut) Cramer, was born Au-\\ngust 14, 1857; his parents were natives of Prussia, Germany, who immigrated in 1842,\\nsettling at Pontiac. Oakland Co., Mich.; he worked on the Detroit Michigan Railroad\\nfor some time, and then located eighty acres on Section 22, Warren. Mr. Cramer, the\\nsubject of this sketch, was educated at the Cincinnati Catholic College one year; at St.\\nVincents, near Pittsbm-gh, Penn., one year; at Sandwich, Canada, two years; and at\\nMilwaukee College three years; he taught school for four years, retiring on account\\nof ill health. He married Miss Catherine, daughter of William and Catherine (Cas-\\nperes) Otto, natives of Prussia. August lU, 1879; they are the parents of two children\\nCatherine and Gertrade. Mr. Cramer is engaged in business at Center Line. The fam-\\nilv are members of the Catholic Church.\\nLAVINrS DE SMET, P. O. Ceutei Line, sou of L. and Celia (Fromdefelia) De\\nSmet, was born at Hoist, Belgium, December 25, 1818. his father died in November, 1821,\\nand his mother in 1829; fi-om this period until 1839 he lived with his uncle; there he\\nlearned the wagon-maker s trade, and worked at it for about thi ee years; he immigrated\\nin 1845: aiTived at Detroit and located in Warren Township the same year, on a forty-\\nacre tract of unimproved land; this land he cleared and drained, raised dwelling house\\nand farm buildings, planted an orchard, vinery, etc. he was accompanied by his sister,\\nwho was married in Belgium. Mi-. De Smet man-ied Miss Elizabeth Dunne, daughter of\\nJohn and Rosie (O Brien) Dunne, natives of Ireland, to whom were born five children\\nMaggie, Julia. Elizabeth, Phillip and Peter. After the death of his fii-st wife, he mar-\\nried Miss D. King, a native of Holland, to whom two children were born. The family\\nlielong to the Catholic Chiu-ch. Mr. De Smet is a practical agricultm-ist, fruit and vine\\ngi-ower, and also superintends a wagon and blacksmith shop.\\nARNOLD HARWOOD, sou of Ahaz and Polly Carver Harwood, was born in Rutland\\nCounty, Vt., August 25. 1816; his father was born in Massachusetts in 1/91. and his\\nmother in Vermont in 1800; they settled in Marshall. Calhoun Co.. Mich., in 1839. Arnold\\nmoved to Richmond Township. Macomb County, in 1843; to Mt. Clemens in 1844, where\\nhe worked imtil 184(); he bought a farm of forty acres in Warren Township, which he\\npartially cleai-ed and sold: bought a farm of eighty acres, on which he cleared thirty, on\\nwhich he lived for ten years; he was engaged in locating lands for a land company; lo-\\ncated 12.000 acres for Gov. Crapo in 1852, and carried on his farm at the same time; he\\nsold his farm in 18()3. and purchased 12f) acres of improved lands on Section 4. where he\\nnow resides; he established a lumber-yard at Warren Station, and in other ways has taken\\nan active part in the development of the township; he was Justice of the Peace in 18o3;\\nappointed a Notary by Gov. K. S. Bingham in 1855, which office he still holds; and High-\\nr", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0875.jp2"}, "876": {"fulltext": "^1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nway Commissioner in ISTT). He was mamed, in ISiJS, to Elvira Crosier, daughter of\\nSamuel and Rhoda Orvis Crosier, natives of Halifax, Vermont, to whom eight children\\nwere born. He was married a second time. May 10, ISfiO. to Elizabeth C, daughter of\\nFrederick and Sarah A. Higgins Van Fleet, to whom four childi en were born. His family\\nbelongs to the M. E. Chm-ch, of which Mr. Harwood was local preacher for a quarter\\nof a centiiry.\\nHENRY HENDRICKX was born in the Province of Limbiu-g, Holland; his parents\\nwere natives of North Brabant; father died in 1871; the mother in 1S. )2. Mr. Hendrickx\\nwas educated in colleges in Belgium and Holland: after his father s death, he, with two\\nbrothers, came to the United States in 187 2; continued studies at Cincinnati, and at West-\\nmoreland County, Penn. settled in Warren Township, where he established a large gro-\\ncery house. In 1S74, Mr. Hendrickx married Miss Gertrude Raltz, daughter of John Jo-\\nseph Rahz, a native of Germany and a farmer of Warren; they are the parents of live\\nchildi en.\\nREV. W. J. V. HENDRICKX descended from the Hendrickx and Sassen families\\nof Holland, was born August US, 184:-!; at the age of eleven, he was sent to the C. B. Col-\\nlege of Kuwenerg, North Brabant, Holland; in 185(), he matriculated at St. Michael s\\nSeminary, near Bois Le Due, where he was educated for the priesthood; diiring six years,\\nhe studied Latin, Greek, French, Dutch and German languages; in 18H 2, he entered his\\ntwo-years study of philosophy, and in 18()4 began the study of theology at Roermond,\\nProvince of Limburg; there he was ordained priest by Bishop Paredis, March iS, 1868.\\nJuly y of that year, he left his native country for the United States, and arrived here July\\n19, 18()8; he was welcomed by the late Bishop LefevTe, who appointed him assistant to\\nRev. Van Den Dreische, at Connor s Creek; there he labored until appointed Pastor of St.\\nClemens Parish, of Center Line, January 27, 18(5 in 18S(), May 1, the foundation of the\\nbeautiful St. Clemens Church was laid, and finished and dedicated by Bishop Borgey on\\nNovember (i, 1881; the church cost about flfi.OOO, which smn has been paid already. It\\nmay be said with truth that this priest loves his people; and they return his love unmeas-\\nured.\\nALMON D. JENNEY, son of Ebenezer, of New Hampshire, was born in Addison\\nCounty, Vt., September 25, 181(5; came to Macomb County in 183(5; taught school at\\nStony Creek in ]8H(5 and 18l!7; in the neighborhood of Utica and Romeo for live or six\\nwinters, and entered his farm in 1838. three miles south of Utica, on which he located in\\n1841; in IM.JO, went to Oakland, where he remained till 1852, when he located on Section\\n3, Warren Township; he was Justice of the Peace for fifteen years; has been Notary Pub-\\nlic for many years past; Commissioner of Highways for three years, and is a member\\nof the Masonic order; married, July 1, 1841, Miss Zadia N. Haff. a native of Rensselaer\\nCounty, N. Y. were the parents of nine chikli-en, seven of whom are living.\\nROYAL A. JENNEY, son of Almon D. Jenney, formerly of Vermont, was born in Ster-\\nling, Macomb County, June 27, 1845; enlisted in Company D, Twenty second Michigan\\nVolunteer Infantry, in ]8(i5; he taught school in Wayne County and Macomb County for\\nseven years; in 1870, he entered the employ of the Union Iron Company of Detroit, and\\nthe same year piu-chased an interest in the concern; he is now Assistant Secretary of the\\ncomjiany; superintends the manufacture of charcoal, and is one of the managers of the\\nfirm. He was married, in December, 1871, to Miss C. Hoxsey, daughter of Edward Hox-\\nsey; their childi-eit are Edith, Estelle, Pearl and Lee. Mr. Jenney was Township Clerk\\nfor one year, and is a meml^er of the Masonic Lodge of Utica.\\nPAUL LEFEVRE, P. O. Center Line, son of .John and Amelia (Vandamme) Lefevre,\\nwas born in Passchendaele, Belgium; was educated in the township schools until 18(58,\\nwhen he entered the college of Trelinghien; in 18(54, he entered the high school at Zoun-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0876.jp2"}, "877": {"fulltext": "liL\\nHISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY. 85T\\ncbeke, Belgium. In 1805, he came to the United States with his parents, at Grosse Point,\\nWayne Co., Mich.; there his father died in 18()7. Paul remained on the homestead until\\nlN7 i, when he moved to Warren Township. He was married to Miss Elizabeth Tremble,\\ndaughter of Eustache and Cecilia (Rivard) Tremble, of Wayne County, July IT), 1S73-,\\nthey are the parents of foiu chikiren, viz. Edmund E., Amelia E., Alfonso D. and Delia\\nR. Mr Lefevre was elected Clerk of Warren in 1874, and served until 1878, when he was\\nelected member of Supei-visors Board from that township; he has been repeatedly re-\\nelected, and holds the office at present. Mr. Lefevre and family belong to the Catholic\\nChurch. Politically, he is a Democrat.\\nJ. C. MASON, son of Ichabod and Maiy (Beals) Mason, natives of Massachusetts, was\\nborn January 8, 1884; father died in February, 18H4; and mother, in August, 1841. In his\\nfifteenth year, he commenced working on a farm by the month; continued until 1854,\\nwhen he began to leara blacksmithing in New York; continued his trade in Oakland\\nCounty, Mich., and established himself permanently in Warren Township, Macomb County.\\nHe was married to Miss Elizalieth Davy, daughter of Elder Charles and Mary Davy, Feb-\\nruary 10, 18 )7, to whom six children were born, of whom two are dead. The family be-\\nlong to the M. E. Church. Mason s wagon, buggy and iron working shops were estab-\\nlished March 18, I8.3O; he began work as a blacksmith on a small scale, and, as business\\nincreased, added one department after another, until now his business includes the manu-\\nfactiu-e of buggies, wagons, a smithy, paint-shop, foundry, feed-mill, saw-mill; he deals\\nin agricultural implements, and is the owner of a valuable property.\\nEDWARD H. PECK, son of William and Ellen (Case) Peck, natives of New York,\\nformer of Ontario County, latter of Montgomery County, was born in the town of Phelps\\nDecember 0, 1850; he was employed on the State Scow, Seneca River Canal for two years;\\nin 1874, he came to Sterling Township, where he purchased a farm and lived for foiu-\\nyears; he visited his New York home in 187S, and, in June, 1879, purchased a farm in\\nWarren Township, and located there: he is now the owner of a farm of 1 10 acres on Sec-\\ntion 5. Ml-. Peck was married, March 1877, to Miss Martha, daughter of Franklin\\nAmes and Sarah (Moffit) Ames; this lady died November 27, 1878. He married Miss Celia\\nJ., daughter of Oixin Benson and Lydia M. (Perkins) Benson, natives of Vermont, January\\n15, 1880. The family are inclined to the Baptist Church. Politically, Mr. Peck is a\\nDemocrat.\\nABRAJI VAN FLEET.\\nCHAPTER XXXIX.\\nKAY TOWNSHIP.\\nThis towTiship is generally level, with very little flat land, and no swamps nor marshes-\\nThe varieties of timber common to Michigan formerly grew in large quantities in the\\ntownship, and a fair proportion of mo.st kinds still exists. The principal streams are the\\nNorth Branch of the Clinton River, which traverses the township near its eastern bound-\\naiy, due north, and enters Armada near its southwest corner; Coon Creek, which runs\\nthrough the township northerly. Besides, there is Healey Brook, which rises on the\\nLofvell farm, in Washington Township. Ray is a line agricultiu al locality, yielding an-\\nnually above the average of the principal farm productions. From the returns of 1873,\\nthe following figures are gleaned, as representing the amounts of the various staple arti-\\n53", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0877.jp2"}, "878": {"fulltext": "HI.STORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ncles raised during that year, being a fair general criterion: Wheat, 18. 555 bushels; corn,\\n38.000 bnshels; all other grain, principally oats, barley and rye, 41,170 bushels; potatoes,\\n14,69r3 bushels. The population of Ray Township, according to the census (special) of\\n1873, was 1,485. In 1880, it was reported to be 1,543.\\nJoseph Chubb, in his paper on the early settlement of Ray, states that among the first\\nsettlers was Joseph Chubb, in the year 1825. His patent of one section of land was signed\\nby John Q. Adams. At about this time. Zelottes Stone, John Gass, Duncan Gass, Na-\\nthaniel Thompson, Benjamin Freeman, J. T. Robinson and Samuel Buttertield with the\\nlargest family in Ray for many years also settled there. The first schoolhouse was\\nerected near what is now known as Ray Center in 1834. The first church building erected\\nin Ray was in 1839. for the Close Communion Baptist society. Their first settled minis-\\nter was William Tuttle, and among its first members were Andrew Sutherland, Russell\\nRoberts, Hiram Roberts and Josiah Parks. The Baptist Chiu ch proper was organized\\nin 1837. The first Congregational Church in Ray was organized on the 13th of Febru-\\nary, 1838, by the Rev. Philander Barber, of Romeo. The meeting was held at the house\\nof David Stone, who was elected Clerk. The members who joined at that time were David\\nStone and wife, William Stone. Theophilus Stone. Zelottes Stone, Orrilla Weltou. Orsa-\\nmus Lathrop and wife. Thomas E. Dryer, Carlos W. Brown. As we understand it. both\\nchurches still exist. Joseph Chubb buried his wife the first adult person biu ied in Ray\\nJanuary 9. IS 27. Edgar Freeman was the first male child born in Ray. and Lucinda\\nChubb the first female. Among the first settlers who were heads of families now living\\nare John Gass, Zelottes Stone, John Dicken, J. T. Robinson, Moroiah Chubb (widow of\\nJoseph Chubb), Electa Louck (widow of William Louck) and John Goodell.\\nIn addition to this statement. John E. Day relates that, at the time of its organiza-\\ntion, the township included Armada and Lenox in its boundaries. It was named by Noah\\nWebster, and the name was spelled Rhea, after the Latin name of a river in Euro])e.\\nAfter two or three years, the spelling was changed to Ray. On the Uth of July, 1827,\\nJohn Biddle was elected Delegate to Congress, receiving from this township sixteen votes.\\nNovember 5. 1827, William A. Burt was elected a member of the Territorial Legislature,\\nreceiving sixteen votes. There were only two road districts. Job Howell presiding over\\nthe work in one. and Joseph Chubb in the other. Joseph Chubb and Chauncy Bailey\\nheld the responsible oflSce of Fence Viewers.\\nORGANIZATION.\\nThe township of Ray, erected April 12, 1827, comprised all the county of Macomb\\nnorth of the third townships, and in the 13th range, and the first meeting was held at the\\nhouse of Noah Webster, the last Monday in May, 1827. The act of March 7. 1834, directed\\nthat surveyed Township 4 north. Range 14, be attached to and form a part of the town of\\nRay: and that the division botween the townships of Clinton and Harrison should there-\\nafter be the line dividing the 13th and 14th ranges. The act of June 22, 1832, attached\\nTownship 5, Range 14 east, and the east half of Township 5, in Range 13 east, to Macomb\\nCounty, and directed that the country so annexed should form a portion of the town of Ray.\\nThe first town meeting was held at the house of Noah Webster May 28, 1827. Reu-\\nben R. Smith was chosen Moderator; Edmund Steward, Clerk. The ele^^tion resulted in\\nthe choice of Reuben R. Smith, Supervisor: Edmund Steward, Clerk; Chauncey Bailey,\\nWilliam Stephens and John Proctor, Assessors: Norman PeiTy, Job Howell, Nathaniel\\nThompson, Commissioners: Moses Freeman, Constable and Collector; Joseph Chubb, Sr.\\nWilliam Hall ^nd Josiah Hamblin, Overseers of the Poor; Joseph Chubb, Chauncey Bai-\\nley, Fence Viewers; Job Howell and Joseph Chubb, Pathmasters.\\nThe first resolution of the Town Board was opposed to raising any money for the sup-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0878.jp2"}, "879": {"fulltext": "J^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nport of the poor. The board authorized the expenditiu e of $5 on a record book, and a])-\\npointed Noah Webster Poundmaster.\\nTmVN liOsTKl;.\\nSupei visors Reuben R. Smith, 1827-38; County Commissioners, 1838-43; Charles\\nMarble, 1839-40; Josiali Lee, 1840; Alexander Taejjles, 1842-43; Neil Grav. 1843-44;\\nJacob A. Crawford, 1844-45: Reuben R. Smith, 1845-46; Jacob A. Crawford, 1840-48;\\nJohnM. Crawford, 1848-49: Jonathan E. Davis, 1849-50; John M. Crawford, 1850-51;\\nCharles Marble, 1851-52; JohnM. Crawford, 1852-54; Joel Thompson, 1854-55; Hiram\\nBan-ows. 1855-5(J: Joel Thompson, 1850-58; Deliverance S. Priest, 1858-59; Elias W.\\nLyons, 1859-60; Joel Thompson, 1860-61; Deliverance S. Priest. 1861-62; JohnM.\\nCrawford, 1862-63; Deliverance S. Priest, 1863-70; Ezra Nve, 1870-81; Watson W.\\nLvons, 1881-82.\\nClerks-Edmund Steward, 1827-29; Noah Webster, 1830-35; Duncan Gass, 1836:\\nDavid Stone, 1837-39; W. M. Welley, 1840; Josiah T. Robinson, 1841; W. M. Welley,\\n1842; David Stone, 1843; Oran Freeman. 1844-45; Joseph Sutherland, 1846; William\\nM. Lee, 1847-48; Joel Thompson, 1849-51; Daniel F. Lake, 1852-53. William M. Lee.\\n1854; Joseph Chubb, 1855; John Tewksbmy, 1856; Oran Freeman, 185 /-58; Joel\\nThompson, 1859; John W. Goodell, 1860; Ezra Nve, 1861-64; Wesley W. Welley,\\n1865-66; Ezra Nye, 1807-70; Norman Crawford. 1871 William L. Dicken,_1872 Nor-\\nman Crawford, 1873; William L. Dicken, 18i4-i0; Norman Crawford, 18((~i8;Milo\\nW. Davis, 1879-81.\\nTreasurers \u00e2\u0080\u0094Moses Freeman, 1827; Normas Perry, 1828-29; Cai pus Redway. 1830;\\nWilliam Hall, 1831; Apollos A. Fuller, 1832; Norman Pen-y, 1833; Eli H. Webster,\\n1834-36; Elijah Stone, 1837-38; Wilson W. Miller, 1839-40 Benjamin Miller. 1841;\\nDavid Sutherland, 1842; Joseph Sutherland. 1843; Elijah Stone, 1844; Orsamus Lath-\\nrop, 1845-46; Elias W. Lyons, 1847-48; James H. Siitton, 1849; Thomas G. Omans,\\n1850; James Gass, 1851; Robert Sutherland, 1852-53; John Goodell, 1854; John E.\\nButterfield, 1855; Nelson Gass, 1856; Charles Fillmore, 1852; Elias Stone, 1858; Elias\\nL. Stone. 1859; William L. Dicken, 1860; Elias L Stone. 1861; William D. Thompson.\\n1862; Myron Thompson. 1863-64; Wesley W. Wellev. 1865; Nelson Gass. 1860; R. M.\\nStitt, 1867-08; George W. Garvin. 1869-70; Russell B. Bratton. 1871-72; Daniel T.\\nChubb, 1873-74; Orrin J. Gass, 1875; Voluey N. Ai-nold. 1876-77; Eugene W. Miller.\\n1878. Myron Thompson, 1879; Eugene W. Miller, 1880-81.\\nJustices of the Peace Duncan Gass, 1836; Charles W. Brown, 1836; George W.\\nKnapp, 1836; William H. Baker, 1836; L. Sharpstien. 1837; Duncan Ctes, 1837; David\\nStone, 1837; Duncan Gass, 1838; Charles Marble, 1838; L. Sharpstien. 1838; Duncan\\nCiass, 1839; Charles Marble, 1840; Josiah Lee, 1841; Alexander Tackles, 1842; William\\nM. Welley, 1843; Charles Marble, 1844; Jonathan E. Davis, 1845; Alexander Tackles,\\n1846; William M. Welley, 1847; Deliverance S. Priest, 1848; Norton L. Miller. 1848;\\nElias W. Lyons, 1849; Jonathan E. Davis, 1850; J. T, Robinson, 1850; Theron Cad-\\nworth, 1850; Jacob A. Crawford, 1851; Hiram Nye, 1851; William M. Welley. 1852;\\nHiram Barrows, 1853; William Willey, 1854; Barlow Davis, 1855; J. T.Robinson, 1857;\\nJames D. Roberts, 1858; Hiram Barrows, 1858; Dan Tewksbuiy, 1858; Joseph T. Robin-\\nson, 1859; J. \\\\V. Davis, 1859; Chauncey Sheldon, 1800; Milton Thompson. 1800; Hiram\\nBarrows, 1861; A. Sutherland, 1862; J. T. Robinson, 1862; Albert Lincoln, 1863; John\\nN. Sellick, 1863; William R. Sutton, 1804; Robert Warner, 1864; Stephen H. Davis.\\n1865; Josiah T. Robinson. 1806; Milton Thompson, 1866; Mason Cole, 1867; William\\nM. Dorie, 1868: Stephen H. Davis, 1869; Joseph T. Robinsou, 1870; Bela R. Davis, 1871;\\nE. L. Kendi-ick, 1871; William M. Dove, 1872; J. J. Bentley, 1873; D. Tewksbury,\\n1873-74; Robert Warner, 1875; Josiah T. Robinson, 1876; Bela R. Davis, 18 n; Daniel\\nIV", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0879.jp2"}, "880": {"fulltext": "i,\\nTewksbiiry, 187S; Robert Warnev, 1879; Mason Cole. 1880; Bela R. Davis, 1881; Helm\\nHazleton, 1881.\\nIn 1882. W. W. Lyons. Deniocrat. was elected Supervisor; the remainder of the\\nticket is Republican: Supervisor. W. W. Lyons. Democrat, 142; A. Hazelton. Republi-\\ncan. 129; Democratic majority, 1:1 Clerk, M. W. Davis, Republican. 179; William\\nDove. Democrat. 85; Republican majority, 94. Treasurer, J. Gass, Republican. 151; W.\\nT. Switzer. Democrat. 122; Republican majority, 29.\\nECCEN TKICITIES OF THE TOWN BOAIID.\\nThe vote of the township on the question of State government, taken October 3, 1832,\\nwas thirty-three for and two against.\\nThe survey of the Armada St. Clair Plank Road was made in April, 1853.\\nIn I860, the Town Board granted a bounty of 25 cents on every crow killed within\\nthe township. Under this rule, one Orrin Gass received in one payment no less than\\n$5.25; Orsamus Lathrop, $1.25; George Rowley, \u00c2\u00a71; D. Sutherland. 50 cents; and Mun-\\nson E. Lyons, 75 cents. Ray Township escaped the bonus of a railroad tax.\\nTE.\\\\CHERS ASSOCIATION.\\nThe first Teachers Educational Association organized in the county was that in 1847,\\nin Ray Township. Dr. Philo Tillson was President; Mason Cole, Secretary. Prof. Nut\\nting delivered the inaugural address. The first meeting was held in the Baptist Church,\\nRay Center. At the second meeting, held the same winter, in the Congregational Church.\\nRomeo, Peter Moyers, a native of Washington Township, and a graduate from Oberlin\\nCollege, addressed the teachers. The association existed for five years, when it mei ged\\ninto the Teachers Institute.\\nTHE PATRIOT WAK.\\nThe Canadian patriots claimed the sympathy of the early settlers of Ray. So intense\\nwas the feeling of the Americans, that Great Britain was about to declare war against the\\nUnited States. The people of Ray were among those prepared to treat Great Britain to\\nanother Yorktown. Weekly drill was held for six weeks under Capt Willey. of Mt. Clem-\\nens. The Ray company was present at the review held at Mt^ Clemens May 12, 1838.\\nTHE CUAWFOKD SCIIOOl..\\nThe schoolhouse of the Crawford settlement was located almost on the line of Ray\\nand Macoml). It was built in 1839. Among the early teachers were; Mary E. Garvin,\\nSarah O. Garviu, Mr. Thurston, in 1844-45. In 1846, Mason Cole took charge of the\\nschool. He says, speaking of the school of that time: It was the most interesting school\\nthat was ever in Ray, because the material composing the school was probably superior\\nto what was there before, and what has been there since. In 1846-47, algebra was in-\\ntroduced into the school at Crawford, being its first introduction into the district schools of\\nMacomb County. Among the pupils were the Crawford brothers, Henry Castle, the Misses\\nWycoff, the Misses Hall, Jones, Charles and Lorenzo Culver, the Misses Woodard, R.\\nAVycofi\\n.KcuooLs iM 1881-83.\\nThe School Directoi-s for 1881-82 were: George W. Garvin, Amos Van Horn, George\\nBottomley, John J. Hartway, Oscar Chamberlin, Elijah Co.star, Joseph A. Mclnnes and\\nHarrison Stone, presiding over Districts 1, 3, 4, 5 and 6, and Fractional Districts 2, 8 and\\n15, respectively. The number of children of school age in the township in September,\\n1881, was 429. There are eight frame school buildings valued at $3,250. The total ex-\\npenditure of the town on account of schools during the year ending September, 1881.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0880.jp2"}, "881": {"fulltext": "l\\\\\u00c2\u00b1,\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\namounted to $2,130, of which sum $1,070 was paid to teachers. The people speak hifjhly\\nof their schools, and seem to be thoroughly satisfied with the new order of school affairs\\nunder the recent amendment of school act.\\nR.VY CENTKR.\\nRay Center is situated near the center of Ray Township, as its name implies. It is\\na place of no growth now, even compared with what it was years ago. It is five miles\\nnorthwest of New Baltimore Station, or Milton, twelve north of Mt. Clemens, and forty-\\ntwo above Detroit. The hamlet is situated on the North Branch of the Clinton River, in\\na level and fertile grain-producing region. There is a post office at Ray Center: also a\\nCongregational Church and a common school. The population of the place is about one\\nhundi ed. Rev. John Gillam combines the dual office of Methodist Pastor and village\\nphysician. F. W. Miller operates a saw and floiu- mill. The water-power of the North\\nBranch of the Clinton is utilized at this point. H. Freeman is owner of a lumber manu-\\nfacturing concern.\\nD,4vrs.\\nDavis contains about twenty-five buildings, one general store, two blacksmith shops.\\na hotel, one saw-mill, one cider-mill, one cooper-shop. There is a Methodist Episcopal\\nChurch and a district school. The hamlet is located at the southwest corner of the town-\\nship, within half a mile of the corners of the torn townships of Shelby, Macomb, Wash\\nington and Ray. It contains about one himdredand fifty inhabitants, with good prospects\\nof a rapid increase. This place has been alternately known as Brooklyn and Davis. The\\npost office is administered by B. R. Davis.\\nThe churches of the township, referred to in the general history, comprise the Meth-\\nodist Episcopal. Free Methodist, Congregational, and a union chiu-ch, now attended by a\\nRev. Mr. Young, of Romeo.\\nThe Macomb Lodge, No. 64, F. A. M., was organized on the 29th day of April, 1853,\\nby Allen P. Bentley. George W. Knapp. Calvin Davis, Sr., Jedediah Millard, J. E. Davis,\\nOliver Adams, Ira F. Pearsall, William Bullock, James Kiles and Charles Bennett, Mas-\\nter Masons. The first meeting was held at the house of Daniel Benjamin, in Macomb, on\\nthe evening of the 29th day of April, A. D. 1853, Allen P. Bentley acting as Worshipful\\nMaster; George W. Knapp, Senior Warden; Oliver Adams, Junior Warden; Calvin Davis,\\nSr., Treasiu-er: J. E. Davis, Secretary. William Bullock, Senior Deacon; Charles Ben-\\nnett, Junior Deacon; and L. Hoard, Tiler.\\nThe names of the principal officers since organization are as follows:\\n1853 Allen P. Bentley, Worshipful Master; J. E. Davis, Secretary; Calvin Davis,\\nTreasurer.\\n1854 Allen P. Bentley, Worshipful Master: William Bullock, Secretary: Calvin\\nDavis, Treasurer.\\n1855 Allen P. Bentley, Worshipful Master; H. F. Keeler, Secretary; Calvin Davis.\\nTreasirrer.\\n1856 Allen P. Bentley, Worshipful Master; George W. Knapp, Secretary; Calvin\\nDavis, Treasurer.\\n1857 John Nichols. Worshipful Master; George W. Knapp, Secretary; Niles Gid-\\ndings. Treasurer.\\n1858 -Barlow Davis, Worshipful Master; Albert Lincoln, Secretary; Niles Giddings,\\nTreasurer.\\n1859 J. E. Davis. Worshipful Master; Albert Lincoln, Secretary; Francillo Davis,\\nTreasurer.\\n-H B V", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0881.jp2"}, "882": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n1 860\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Charles Bernett. Worshipful Master; S. G. Cole, Secretary: Barlow Davis,\\nTreasurer.\\n1N61 George W. Knapp, Worshipful Master; J. D. Rice, Secretary: Josiah Terwil-\\nliffor. Treasurer.\\n1862 Charles Bennett, Worshipful Master; A. H. Miller, Secretary; Jousithan Ter-\\nwilliger. Treasurer.\\n1863 Albert Lincoln, AVorshipful Master; John G. Atken, Secretary; Barlow Davis,\\nTreasurer.\\n1864 Hemy Bennett, Worshipful Master; Albert Lincoln, Secretary Barlow Davis,\\nTreasm-er.\\n1865 Hemy Bennett, Worshipful Master; Elisha Briggs. Secretary; Myron Thomp-\\nson, Treasiu er.\\n1866 Barlow Davis. Worshipful Master; Elisha Briggs, Secretary; Myron Thomp-\\nson, Treasui er.\\n1867 Henry Bennett, Worshipful Master; Herschal Gass, Secretary; Barlow Davis,\\nTreasu^rer.\\n1868 C. F. Apling, Worshipfiil Master; Oran Freeman, Secretary; Barlow Davis,\\nTreasurer.\\n1869 Henry Bennett, Worshipful Master; Oran Freeman, Secretary; Barlow Davis,\\nTreasarer.\\n1870 Henry Bennett, Worshipful Master; Oran Freeman, Secretary; Myron Thomp\\nson, Treasm-er.\\n1871 Hemy Bennett, Worshipful Master: Oran Freeman, Secretary; Myron Thomp-\\nson, Treasm-er.\\n1S7 2 Hem-y Bennett. Worshipful Master; Oran Freeman. Secretary Hoswell\\nChurch, Treasiu-er.\\n1873 Henry Bennett, Worshipful Master; Ezra Nye, Secretary; Hoswell Church,\\nTreasurer.\\n1874\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Henry Bennett, Worshipful Master; Ezra Nye, Secretary; Hoswell Chm-ch,\\nTreasurer.\\n1875 Hem-y Bennett, Worshipful Master; Ezra Nye, Secretary; Hoswell Church,\\nTreasurer.\\n1876 Henry Bennett. Worshipful Master; Ezra Nye, Secretary; Hoswell Church,\\nTreasurer.\\n1877 Henry Bennett, Worshipful Master: Ezra Nye, Secretai-y; Hoswell Church.\\nTreasurer.\\n1878- A. E. Collins, Worshipful Master; Charles Bennett, Secretary: George Garvin,\\nTreasm-er.\\n1879 Henry Bennett, Worshipful Master; Charles Bennett, Secretary; George Gar-\\nvin, Treasui-er.\\n1880 A. E. Collins, Worshipful Master: Watson W. Lyons, Secretary; Myi-on\\nThompson, Treasm-er.\\n1881- A. E. Collins. Worshipful Master; Watson W. Lj ons, Secretary; Myron\\nThompson, Treasurer.\\nISS-J -A. E. Collins, Worshipful Master; Watson W. Lyons, Secretary; Charles Beu-\\nn( tt, Treasurer.\\nI KRSONAL .SKliTCHES.\\nIn the pages, devoted to personal history, are given the biogi-ajihieal sketches of the\\npioneer and prominent citizens of the township. This very important section of the\\nTP", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0882.jp2"}, "883": {"fulltext": "d^\\nHISTORY or MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwoi k has been very fully treated; so that the history of this district may be said to be\\ncomplete in every respect.\\nSAMUEL ALDRICH. P. O. Davis, son of Peter Aldrich, was born April 12, \\\\SV2, in\\nOntario, N. Y. He came to Michigan in June. 183(j, and settled in Armada, where he re-\\nmained twelve years. He was married. March 1, 188(5, to Deborah Bannister; they be-\\ncame the parents of eight children Peter, married Lucinda Johnson, of Ray: Armada,\\nmarried Charles Curtis, and afterward Samuel Reed; Alma. Mr.s. \\\\V. H. Eaton, of Wash-\\nington (see sketch): John, married Lydia Bannister, resides in Washington; James Z.,\\nmaiTied Dora Loomis. resides in Armada; Ella. Mrs. George Ames, of Armada; Alden,\\nresides in Ray. Mr. Aldrich has always been a Democrat; he is a ])ioneer of Ray Town-\\nship, and owns acres of land, which he acquired by hard labor, economy and persever-\\nance. His tirst wife died September 5, ISTO, and he was married again, in 1S7 2. to Mrs.\\nSarah Rawlings, a native of Mom-oe Cou.nty. N. Y. they are members of the Christian\\nChm ch.\\nISAAC ANDERSON, P. O. Romeo, was born August 23. 182(5, in Cambria. Niagara\\nCo.. N. Y. In May. l S2it, his parents came to Michigan, and settled on a farm in Wash-\\nington Township, and afterward removed to St. Clair County. He was married, Januaiy\\n25. 184(5. to Mary, daughter of Viras Wood; she was born in Washington Township Feb-\\nruary 1(), 1830. they have had nine children, as follows: Sally Ann. born March 1847.\\nmaiTied Royal Beals. of Berlin, St. Clair County; Maria, born January 14, lN4y. now Mrs.\\nAlonzo Hoover, of Berlin; Deborah, born October 17. 1S )2, died March 2, LS58; Ellen,\\nborn February 9. 18ri4, now Mi-s. Andrew Thompson, of Ray; Sarah T.. born May 17,18ri\\ndied March 2 l8f5rn Ira, July 81, 18(50; Isaac, July 2(5, 18fi2; George. February 5. 18(54;\\nSamuel. December i, 18(59. Mr. Anderson has always been a Democrat.\\nCHARLES F. APLING, P. O. Davis, was born September 1, 1884, in Seneca\\nCounty, N. Y. is a son of Israel and Mary (Gilbert) Apling; the parents were natives of\\nPennsylvania, and went to Niagara County, N. Y., where they passed the remainder of\\ntheir lives; his father died in 18. i9, aged sixty-five years; his mother, in 18(50. Mr. Ap-\\nling came to Michigan and settled in Ray Township in 185ri. He was married, November\\n20. 18(50, to Emily E., daughter of Thomas and Sally A. Woodman, natives of New York,\\nwho came to Michigan in 1884 and settled on Section 80. in Ray Township: Mrs. Apling\\nwas born in Ray July 2(5, 1889; they have one child. Herman D.. born June (5, 18(58;\\nLeslie L. was born in August. 18(52, and died September 80. 18(58: another child was born\\nOctober 12, 18(58. and died August 21, 18(54: another child was born August 12. 1878. who\\ndid not live. Mr. Apling enlisted, at the time of the civil war. in the Thirtieth Michigan\\nVolunteer Infantry, and was in service on the border of Canada. He belongs to the Ma-\\nsonic order, Lodge No. (54, Macomb; in political faith, is a Republican.\\nJ. J. BENTLEY, P. O. Davis, was born April 28. 1829. in Richmond. Ontario Co..\\nN. Y. is a son of Preston D. and Sophia James Bentley: his parents were natives of Rhode\\nIsland; they came to Macomb County, where his father died in 18 )1. aged sixty-three; his\\nmother was married again, to Rev. J. E. Davis (see sketch of B. R. Davis), and died July\\n19, 1879, aged eighty-five. Mr. Bentley, of this sketch, came to Michigan with his father\\nin 1841. when twelve years of age. He was mai ried. November 28. 1858. to Cynthia,\\ndaughter of Bissell Robinson, born September 29, 1884: her father was born in Massa-\\nchusetts January 15, 1805, and came to Michigan in 1881. and is still living in Oxford.\\nOakland County; her mother was a native of New York, born February 9, 1811. and died\\nMarch 10. 18()7. Mi Bentley and wife have thi-ee children Fred, born November 22,\\n1857; Effie. June 11, 18(51 (Mrs. McGregor); Cora G., May 29, 18(5( resides at home. The\\nfamily are members of the M. E. Church in Davis, Ray Township. Mr. Bentley sold his", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0883.jp2"}, "884": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nfarm in Ray, and owns a house and lot in Davis. He acts with the Republican party,\\nand has served four years as Justice of the Peace.\\nGIOOIMJK BOTTOMLEY, of Romeo, was born in Manchester, England. January 1\\\\,\\n1825, and was the son of .Enos and Mary Bi ttora]ey; they moved from England in 1880,\\nand came to Macomb County, where they settled on a farm in the township of Erin. He\\nmai-ried Sarah Martin April 2, 1849; they had nine children, viz.: Mary Jane, born Feb-\\nruary 14, 1850, man-ied Joel Ingalsbee October 1, 1871, and now lives in Sanilac County;\\nSarah Maria, born September 8, 1857, married James Smith June 5, 1873, lives in Ray;\\nEdwin Joseph, born July 2, 1853, married Anna Brothers January 2, 1878, resides at Chi-\\ncago; Ellen, born August 23, 1855, man-ied William Smith December 28, 1875, lives in\\nLapeer County; Hannah Clara, born September 21, 1857, man-ied John Varney January 24,\\n1879, resides at Romeo: George Alfred, born January 17, 1860; William Charles, born\\nNovember 2fi, ISfil: Walter John, born April 25, 18(54; Alice Elizabeth, born August 27,\\n18r)(). Mr. Bottomley was drafted in 1S(U, and, but for a large family dependent upon him\\nfor support, would have gone to the war; he, however, fiu-nished a substitute, jiaying !j()50.\\nMr. Bottomley has always been a Republican; has been a member of the M. E. Church\\nfor thirty years, and has taken a prominent part as a class-leader, exhorter and Superin-\\ntendent of the Sunday school. He moved to Ray and settled on his farm in Section 8,\\nRav Townshij), November 25, 18fi5, where he still resides.\\nROBERT S. CAIRNS was born in Allegany County, N. Y., December 6, 1827; is a\\nson of Robert B. and Susanna (Nephew) Cairns; his father was born in Seneca County,\\nN. Y., April 5, 1798, and moved to Michigan about 18fil, where he died in December,\\n1880; his mother died in 18(i(i. Mr. Cairns was married, March 6, 1852, to Mary Reed,\\nwho died February 24, 1880; they had ten children John E., born June 8. 1853, resides in\\nKalamazoo, Mich.; Jane E., born June 25, 1855, man-ied BjTon Chm-ch January 7, 1875,\\nlives in Richmond Township; Robert A., March 2, 1857, married Sophronia Pennock in\\nNovember, 1878, resides in Oceana County, Mich. Clarence E., born January 1, 1859;\\nWillard W., bom May 4, 18()1; Mary A, June 7, 1803; Eda E.. April 29, I8\u00c2\u00abi5, died, Au-\\ngust 20, 18H i; Charles and Charlotte (twins), born July 29, 18()7; Hattie L.. born January\\n29, 1870. Mr. Cairns has always been a Republican, and has been actively engaged in\\nthe Methodist Church as a class-leader, and is a consistent member of that society.\\nJOHN CALDWELL, P. O. Ray Center, was born October 3, 1845, in Ray. Macomb\\nCounty; is the son of Jame? and Delight (Vitas) Caldwell, natives of Seneca County, N. Y.\\nMr. Caldwell was man-ied, January 1, 18H4, to Matilda, daughter of John and Louisa Smith,\\nnatives of New York; they have two children Estella, born May 11, 18()5; and Flora,\\nborn October 1, 1878; George (North) Caldwell was born March 4, 1876, and adopted in\\n1879. Mr. Caldwell is a Democrat in political faith, and owns a farm of 100 acres on\\nSection 14, Ray Township.\\nOSCAR CHAMBERLAIN, P. O. Ray Center, was born June 28, 1840; is the son of\\nCharles W. and Dorothy (Thompson) Chamberlain, the former born in Michigan, the lat-\\nter in New York. In 1801, Mr. Chamberlain enlisted for the war of the rebellion, in\\nCompany A, Ninth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, organized at Detroit and ordered to re-\\nport at West Point, Ky.; the regiment was in Buell s raid the next spring, and under\\nThomas until the expiration of its term of enlistment: Mr. Chamberlain was in action at\\nMurfreesboro, Tenn., July 4, 1802, in the skirmish with Foster s cavalry; was wounded\\nand taken prisoner; five entire companies were captured, the wounded paroled, officers\\nand privates were held prisoners, the latter being sent to Camp Chase, Ohio; Mr. Cham-\\nberlain s wound was in the left leg, below the knee; a spent ball went through his cap\\nand made a cut in his head; he came home on a thirty-days furlough; returned to Camp\\nChase, where he remained until exchanged. He was paid ofi at Columbus, Ohio, and sent", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0884.jp2"}, "885": {"fulltext": "9\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nto Cincinnati, and thence to Bowling Green. Ky. the regiment was next ordered to Stone\\nRiver, Tenn.. where it was guarding supply trains and prisoners, and. after the tight,\\nmarched to the old Ceim])ing-ground at Murfreesboro. where it remained until the re-or-\\nganization of the army, and went into winter quartprs at Chattanooga; in the spring, the\\nregiment Joined in the Georgia campaign, during whi\u00c2\u00abh its period of enlistment expired.\\nMl Chamljerlain was mustered out of service October 18()4, and returned to his home.\\nHe was married. March 1, lS( r to Julia Shattuck; their four childi en were born as fol-\\nlows: Eugene. May 2H, 18( 7; Charles. October I 4, 187(1; Lily. August 15. 1873: Mary\\nJ.. March 10, 1877. Mr. Chamberlain owns thirty acres of land on Sections 1 and 8,\\nin Ray Township; he is a Republican in political views, and is Postmaster of Ray.\\nENOCH CRAWFORD, P. O. Mead, was born October Ifi, 18lZ6, in Cohocton. N. Y.;\\nis a son of Enoch and Content (Parks). Crawford; he came to Michigan with his father -July\\n2, 1884: the latter located a farm of Government land in Section 3(). a section of the town-\\nship known as the Crawford settlement, having been settled by different members of the\\nfamily. February 18, 1851, Mr. Crawford, of this sketch, was married toMary B.Ben-\\nnett; they have seven children, born as follows; Omar, August .^5, 1852, married Louisa,\\ndaughter of Richard and Barbary Butler; Rollin, October 9, 185;-i; Mary, July 14, 1851),\\nmarried to George Gantield; Burton, August 9, 1859; JohnB., September 15, 18li4; Fanny,\\nJanuary 81, 18(i7; Hiram. November 28. 18()9. Mr. Crawford s father bought his land of\\nthe Government; he settled in that pai t of Ray known as Crawford settlement; he died\\nMay 20, 1872; his wife. December 7, 1869. Mr. Crawford belongs to the pioneer element\\nof Ray: he is a Democrat in politics, but votes according to his judgment; he owns 115\\nacres of land on Section 8H.\\nWILSON CRONK, P. O. Romeo, was born Mai ch 18, 1822, in Pittstown, Rensselaer\\nCo., N. Y. is the son of James and Laura (Wilson) Cronk; his parents went to Otsego\\nCounty, N. Y., and when he was ten years old, they moved to Perinton, Monroe Co.. N.\\nY., and in 1854 he came to Michigan, and settled where he now resides in December. 1855.\\nHe was married, in April, 1851, to Jeanette Cronk, who died December 1, 1858, and was\\nmarried again, February 19, 1855, to Julia, daughter of George S. Collins, of Perinton,\\nN. Y. they have two children Carrie, born October 22, 1857; and Lovilla M.. October\\n10, 18 )0. Mr. Cronk is a Republican, and has held the office of Commissioner in Ray\\nTownship.\\nDAVID T. CHUBB, P. O. Ray Center, was born November 17. 1881, at Ray Center,\\nMacomb County; he is a son of Joseph and Maria Stevens Chubb. He was mar-\\nried, September 24, 1864, to Mary Jane, daughter of Parker Hart; they have six childi-en,\\nborn as follows; Fred L., September 5, 18( Ai-chie, July 12, 18()8; Chettie, May 2\\n1872; Lena, April 22. 187(); Henry J., August 28, 1878; L. Guy, July 7, 1881. Mr.\\nChubb was formerly a Democrat, but, since the election of Lincoln, has been a Repub-\\nlican. He lives on the family homestead with his mother. Maria (Stevens) Chubb was\\nborn in Chateaugay, Franklin Co., N. Y.. May 12. 180(); she accompanied a brother-in-\\nlaw to Michigan mthe spring of 1825. and settled on Section 22, Ray Township, May 8.\\nShe was man-ied. May 20. lS27, to Joseph Chubb, who died May 27, 1889; they had six\\nchildi-en, whose record is as follows: Lucinda, born June 1828, man-ied Elias Lee\\nJanuary 7. 184(), and lives in Ray; Lucretia, born January 4, 1880, married Daniel\\nTewksbury and lives in Ray; David T. (see sketch): Polly A., born August 24. 1884,\\nmarried, Attgust 22, 18fil, to Cornelius Virgil, of Romeo (see sketch); Elijah N., born\\nJanuary 81. 1887, married Emma Tewksbury and resides at Utica Junction; Edwin C,\\nborn January 2, 1840, married Ai-abella Robinson August 17, 18(i2, and lives in Ray.\\nMrs. Chubb is a member of the Baptist Church of Ray, built about 1837; her early expe-\\nriences in Michigan were those of the pioneers of that day. In moving from Mt. Clemens\\n;f*", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0885.jp2"}, "886": {"fulltext": "J^\u00c2\u00b1\\nHISTOKY OF MAC0M15 COUNTY.\\nto Ray. they were obliged to cnt roads through the forest, build bridges, and where they\\nsettled it was primeval wilderness not a stick had been previously cut.\\nMARIA CURTIS, P. O. Romeo, was born in Saratoga County, N. Y., November 11,\\n1797: she is the daughter of John andOdra (Simons) Fillmore, and was married, June IH,\\n[8 21, to Asa Curtis; they came to Michigan September ;i(l, \\\\H -il\\\\, and took a farm, where\\nthey remained until the death of Mr. Curtis, March IT), 1S()7. Mrs. Cm-tis is eighty- four\\nyears old, and is still an active, energetic person; she has been the mother of ten chikh-en,\\nborn as follows: Marietta, January 1828; Louisa, October IT), 1824, died December\\n14, 1856: William W.. October 21, 182(); Clarissa, January 31, 1829; Edwin Mar, May 21,\\nISlU; Harriet, April 10, 1838, died August 24, 18- j4: Caroline, March 28, 183r); Sylves-\\nter, Ajiril 28, 1887, died July 14, 1887; James A., June 4, 1888; Matilda, born and died\\nOctober 2, 1840. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis are meml)ers of Christ Church; also their daughter.\\nMarietta; the latter o.\\\\ns a farm of fifty acros on Section 4, Ray, and her mother resides\\nwith her.\\nBELA R. DAVIS, P. O. Davis, was born in Covington, Genesee Co., N. Y., Jiily 24,\\n1829; in the spring of 1848, he came to Michigan with his parents; his father, Jonathan\\nE. Davis, was born in Hubbardton, Worcester Co., Mass. February 1. 1788 (Bela R. went\\nto California in November, 1852, and remained until June, 185(5), and now lives with his\\nSons; he is one of the oldest Methodist ministers in the State; was licensed to preach in\\n1815, and was traveling preacher frem that date to 1848; he is ninety-four years old, and\\nthe oldest Mason in the State; was installed in 1818. Mr. Davis, of this sketch, was mai\\nried, in April, 1852, to Harriet, daughter of Duncan Gass; they have had six children\\nBelle S.. born March 2, 1858. died November 5, 1877; Milo W., April 24, 1857; Fred G.,\\nNovember 4, 1859; Ella B.. December Ki, 18(12, died Augxist 9, 1878; Willie. April 19,\\n18()5, died August K), ISGC); Hattie E., July 24, 187( Mr. Davis is a Reimblican, and\\nhas always taken an active part in jjolitics; has been elected Justice of the Peace three\\nterms. He enlisted, in September, 1862, in the Twenty-second Michigan Volunteer In-\\nfantry, and was discharged for disability in December following; he was appointed Post-\\nmaster of Davis in March, 1876, and still holds the office; he and his wife are active\\nmembers of the M. E. Church.\\nJOHN DICKENS. P. O. Davis, was born in Shropshire, England, about 1811. He\\nemigrated to America about 1827. and first settled near the Catskill Mountains, in New\\nYork. He moved to Michigan in the spring of 1882, and located on Section IS, in Ray,\\nwhere he now resides; he received his deed from President Jackson. He was married,\\nabout 1881, to Jemima Gass: she was born in New York, and died in 185U; they have\\nhad eight children; Andrew, Nelson, Charlotte and Lewis are dead; John man ied Alice\\nBannister and resides in Brooklyn; Andrew married Eleanor Skellinger and resides in\\nIonia County, Mich,; William married America Harris, and is now County Clerk, and\\nresides at Mt. Clemens Jane married Mr. Crawford, and resides in Ionia County. Mr.\\nDickens is inde[)endent in political action, but inclines to Democratic principles; has\\nheld several township offices.\\nARAD FREEMAN. P. O. Romeo, was born in Onondaga County Co., N. Y., Febru-\\nary 2(), 1N15; he is the son of Benjamin and Hannah Green Freeman; the family went to\\nOntario County, N. Y, and came to Michigan June 1, 1825, buying a fann in Section 5,\\nRay Township; the mother died in March, 1852, an 1 the father died about three years\\nlater. In 1888, Mr. Freeman married Catherine Jewell, and began life as a pioneer in\\nthe wilderness, fifteen miles from Grand Rapids; a year later, he moved to this county\\nand bought a farm on Section 1(), Ray Township, where he has since resided; his father\\nbuilt the first house and barn in Ray. and he built the first house and barn in his section;\\nhe contributed largely to the building of the Union Chiu ch in Ray, and became a member", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0886.jp2"}, "887": {"fulltext": "fk\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof the same. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman have two children Lucius L.. born May 20, 1841,\\nand was mamed to Adelaide Thompson; he was married a second time, to HattieWaiTen,\\nand lives in Pontiac, Mich. Elvira A., born December iS, 1846, lives at home. Mr. Free-\\nman was a Whig, and has since voted with the Republican party; he has been Justice of\\nthe Peace for three years; he was a practical miller twenty years.\\nMOSES FREEMAN, about the year 17()0, left his native country with his wife and\\nfour young sons, to make a home on the American continent; the little vessel in which\\nthey sailed was his own, and. after a long and perilous voyage, they landed at Cape Cod\\nBay, and settled at Chatham, Conn. the father made his family as comfortable as possi-\\nble, and left them for another seafaring trip, which he romised should be his last, in-\\ntending, on his return, to sell his vessel and enter upon a farmer s life; he never retiu-ned;\\nbut a wreck, with a blanket marked with his name, was fotmd. which told the story of his\\nfate. The mother struggled, for her children s sake, to live and care for them, but died\\nin a short time, and the four sons were separated and pilaced in the care of kind families,\\nlosing, eventually, all trace of each other. Joseph Freeman, the youngest, was taken by\\na family named Newman, by whom he was brought up with religious care; he joined the\\nM. E. Church while yoiing, and remained a zealous member more than fifty years. In\\nITlin, he married Silvia Newman and went to Vermont, where he lived for twenty years,\\nand then removed to Pompey, Onondaga Co. N. Y. he remained there nearly ten years,\\nbut, not being able to obtain land, Joseph Freeman and his son Benjamin, with Edward\\nSteward and John Howell, removed with their families to Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y.\\nwhere they piu chased land articles and held them for four years. Asahel and Chauncy\\nBailey had previously removed to Romeo, Macomb Co., Mich., and there their favorable\\nreport induced the father and son Benjamin to sell their articles of land and move to\\nMichigan; they came in 1824, when the Territory was nearly all a howling wilderness;\\nthey went to Buffalo with teams, and drove a flock of sheep. Moses Freeman, the younger\\nson, in company with two sons of Albert Finch, was sent through Canada the fall before\\nwith the cattle and a span of horses; they wore seven days crossing the lake to Detroit;\\ncame to Romeo, and soon after bought farms. Joseph Freeman settled near Farrar s Mill.\\nBenjamin located near Gray s Mill, in Ray the first settlers east of Romeo. Joseph\\nFreeman had seven daughters and three sons CjTithia married Asahel Bailey (see sketch\\nof Romeo); Benjamin N., born in 1791, mari-ied Hannah Green; they had ten children,\\nnine of whom survive; came to Michigan in 1824; died in 1854; Clary, born in 1793, mar-\\nried Edward Steward; had eight children; came to Michigan in 1.82(i; died in 1867;\\nPhcebe, born in 1796, married Job Howell; had foiu- children; came to Michigan in 1826;\\ndied in 1865: Moses, born in 180], married Ann Powell; had foiu- ehildi-en; came to\\nMichigan in 1828; died in 1871; Amanda, born in ISOIJ, is yet living; came to Michigan\\nin 1824: Sarah, born in 180. mamed John Pi oc tor; had seven children; came to Mich-\\nigan in 1824; died in 18()2; Marilla, born in 1805, still living; married John Rattery;\\ncame to Michigan in 1824; Mila, born in 1808, married John Warner; had live children;\\ncame to Michigan in 1824; he is still living. Matilda, born in 1812, died in 1832; came\\nto Michigan in 1824: married Dr. Carpenter; Amos N., born in 18ir), married Maria\\nFralich; they had five children; came to Michigan in 1824: still living. Oran Freeman\\nis the son of Benjamin Freeman. Joseph Freeman was born in 176/, and died in 182.\\nhis wife was born in 1769 and died in 1831.\\nGEORGE W. GARVIN was born August 26, 1835, in the town of ashington, Ma-\\ncomb County, Stat of Michigan: he is the son of Anch-ew Stitt, who married Rhoda In-\\nman in the year 1812, in the State of New York, and moved to the State of Michigan (or\\nTerritory) in the year 1827, and settled in the town of Washington; his wife, Rhoda, died\\nSeptember 3, 1835; George was then adojated by Nathaniel and Lydia Garvin, who were\\nr^", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0887.jp2"}, "888": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nsettled on Section 21, iu the town of Ray. Mr. Garvin was married, January 19, 1861. to\\nElizabeth Ackerman they have five children Nellie F. born June 1 3, 1 SCi I Julia E. April\\n3(1. 18f 4: M. Jennie, January 14, ISCC); Wynne C, December 8, 18( 7; Emilia B., April\\n23. 1874. j\\\\Ir. Garvin, of this sketch, succeeded to the possession of the farm of 100 acres,\\non which he now lives, in ISfil; he has always been a Republican, and has been Consta-\\nble for twenty-one years, and has held the office of Treasiu-er and Clerk of the town; he is\\na member of the Christian Union Chiu-ch. and has taken an active interest in religious\\nand Sunday school work. Mrs. Garvin s mother, Emilia Ackerman, is now living with\\nthem; she is eighty-two years old, having lived in Michigan fifty-seven years.\\nJAMES GASS. P. O. Davis, youngest son of John Gass, was born January fS, 1823.\\nin Lexington. Greene Co., N. Y, his fattier was born in ITTfi, and had fourteen sons; he\\ncame to Michigan in July, 1837, bought the property of Eli Webster on Section 30, in\\nRay, where he died December 17, 18 U, aged eighty-eight; his wife was born September\\n25, 184(1, and died in April, 1881. Mr. Gass, of this sketch went to Osceola, where he\\nlived eight years, and then settled on the northwest corner of Section 32, and bought a\\nstore in Brooklyn. He was married, January 2 1843, to VeloriaM., daughter of Orsel\\nDudley, of Washington: they have had ten children Belle L. born June 12, 1844, died\\nAugust 17, 1864: Lucinda Y., born June 15. 1840, died September 21, 18()4: Rebecca,\\nborn August 23, 1848, married Rev. Alonzo Whitcomb and resides at L Anse, Upper Pen\\ninsula: North, Februaiy 10, 1851. married Florence Baker and resides in Oakland County;\\nVictoria E., November 3, 1853, married Charles E. Waffle, of Evart. Osceola County: East,\\nJune 19, 1856, married Elena Miller, of Macomb; South, June 15, I860, died May 7, 1862;\\nLydia L., October 16. 1S63: South West. January 15, 1S(;6; Kitty J.. June 5. 18()g.\\nThe three last named reside at home. Until the civil war, Mr. Gass was a Republican,\\nand since then has been a Prohibitionist: was a zealous adherent of the anti-slavery ele-\\nment: he has held the positions of Constable and Treasurer a number of years past. Mr.\\nand Mrs. Gass are members of the M. E. Chtu-ch.\\nJOHN GASS, P. O. Davis, son of John Gass, was born in Lexington. Greene Co.. N.\\nY., October 13, 1808. He came to Michigan November 14, 183(\\\\ and made his home with\\nDaniel Haydens, of Ray, and, in June, 1832. settled on Section 29. Ray Township, his\\npresent residence. He was married to Margaret, daughter of Andi ew Stitt, who settled\\nin Michigan in 1825: they have had nine childi-en, as follows: Andrew J., born Decem-\\nber 1836, married Mary Richards, of Illinois: James H., born March 15, 1839, died\\nSeptember 3, 1861; Lorenzo W. born February 9, 1M41, married Cynthia Thompson, of\\nLapeer; Herschel R. and Marshall T. (twins), born March 7, 1844: Marshall married Grace\\nBussy and lives at Flint; Herschel lives at Jonesville; John Wesley, born May 13, 1846,\\nmarried Sarah A Sutton, of Romeo; Rhoda A., born August 7, 1S48. married Samuel N.\\nGass. of New York, who was killed November 9, 1881, at Hazelton s Mill; lives in Ray,\\nSarah J., born April N. 1850, man-ied Truman Gass, of Ray; Frances M., born March 19,\\n1852, married John Switzer, of Disco. Mr. Gass has always been a Republican. He and\\nhis wife have been members of the M. E. Chiu-ch for more than forty years. Mr. Gass\\nleft the Empire Slate when there were but fifteen miles of railroad in the United States:\\nhe started on foot, and walked most of the way to Buffalo: he has encountered all the\\nprivations and hardships of a pioneer life.\\nJACOB GOODELL. P O. Ray Center, was born December 11, 1S33. in the town-\\nship of Darien, Genesee Co., N. Y. he is a son of John Goodell, and accompanied his [)ar-\\nents to Michigan in 1S37. In 1.S62, he enlisted as a soldier in the civil war, in Company\\nD, Eighth Michigan Cavalry; after a year s service, he was raised to the rank of Second\\nLieutenant in Company M. and, five months later, was promoted to First Lieutenant of\\nCompany H; his regiment was in service three years, and was mustered out July 20, 1865,", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0888.jp2"}, "889": {"fulltext": "J^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nat Pulaski, Tenn. Mr. Goodell was married, January 1, 18 V2, to Hannah Lee; they have\\ntwo childi en Theda, born June 1, 18H7; and Flora, September 3(1, 1809. Mr. Groodell is\\na Democrat in political faith.\\nABIAL B. GREEN, P. O. Mead, son of Francis and Polly (Stevens) Green, of New\\nYork State, was born January 10, 1832; his parents immigrated to Michigan about the\\nyear 1S47, and located a farm in Ray Township. Mr. Green married Louisa De GroflF\\nFebruary 1, 1855, and located on his present farm. Section 34, Ray. in the spring of 1856;\\nthe family comprises six childi-en John H. a resident of Ray; Emily, wife of Ales Me\\nInnes. of Ray; Adelbert, Ada, Gertrude and Carrie. The political faith of Mr. Green is\\nRepublican.\\nALLEN HAZELTON, P. O. Ray Center, was born October 21, 1830, in Canada; is\\na son of Ransom and Polly (Whiting) Hazelton; his parents came toMichigan in March,\\n183fi, and settled in Aurelius Township, Ingham County; thirteen years later, in the\\nspring of 1849, they moved to Ray and located on Section 21, where the mother died De-\\ncember 27, 1852. Mr. Hazelton was man ied, January 1, 1854; he has a family of\\nthree childi en Parsons, born April 17, 1858, married Austin P. Gofl at Oxford.\\nOakland County: Zelia P., born November 1, 185(); and William S., born Mai ch 12, 1877.\\nIn 1854, Mr. Hazelton located on Section 10, in Ray; moved to Section 23. and thence to\\nSection 30, Riley Township; he went from there to Lenox Township, Section 21; thence\\nto Section 18, Washington; and next engaged in keeping a store at Ridgeway Corners; he\\nnext moved to Section 1, Lenox, then to Section 3. Raisin Township, Lenawee County;\\nthence to Section 10, Hudson; thence to Tecumseh, and tinally to his present location.\\nHis farm includes 110 acres on Section 23, in Ray Township, Mr. Hazelton is a Repub\\nlican, and has been Commissioner and Justice of the Peace in Ray.\\nJOHN HOOVER. P. O. Davis, was born in Seneca County, N. Y., November 1(5,\\n1810; is a son of John and Mary B. (Singer) Hoover; his parents were natives of Pennsyl-\\nvania, and, early in life, settled in the State of New York; his father died at the age of\\nsixty-one years. Mr. Hoover cartie to Michigan in September, 1850, and settled on a farm\\nin Shelby; in 18()7, he moved to his present home, on Section 31, in Ray. He was mar-\\nried, December 11, 1834, to Fanny, daughter of John and Nancy Guamsey; her parents\\nwere natives of England; she was born August 30, ISll. Mrs Hoover died, and Mr.\\nHoover was married, January 30, 1842, to Elizabeth, daughter of David and Elizabeth\\nFesler. Following is the record of children born to Mr. Hoover: John G., October 5,\\n1835; Mary, wife of Samuel Apling December 12, 183(5; Nancy, August 15, 1838; Jeffer-\\nson, September 24, 1844, died in Missouri November 28. LS71; Cordelia, August 19, 184(\\nEmma C, March 25, 1852, died July 8, 1854; Henry D., July 3, 1854, died January 4,\\n1870; Sarah A., Mi s. Joseph Ackei man, February 2, 18(33. Mr. Hoover is a Republican\\nin political sentiment; he owns a line place, with residence, in Davis, Ray Township.\\nMrs. Hoover belongs to the M. E. Chiux-h.\\nELIJAH W. HOWE, P. O. Davis, was born March 29, 1823, in Marcellus, N. Y., and\\nwent with his parents to Monroe County, N. Y., and, in the fall of 1830, to Oakland\\nCounty, Mich. six years after, he went to Lapeer County, and from there to Macomb\\nCounty, settling on Section 27, in Ray Township, in 184(). He was married. May 30,\\n184(3, to Jane Miller; they have two children Precontia, born April 30, 1848, mamed\\nJoy Warner and resides in Ray; and Elva, born October 24, 1852, married John M. Green\\nand resides on the home farm. Mr. Howe is a member of the M. E. Church, and has been\\na local preacher twenty years; he is a Republican in political views. Mrs. Howe is a na-\\ntive of New York, and came to Macomb County when but three years of age; her parents\\nsettled on the place where is now her residence; she belongs to the M. E. Chiuch.\\nWATSON W. LYONS, P. O. Davis, was born in Ray Township September 26,\\nPv", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0889.jp2"}, "890": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n1S89; liio father. William Lyons, came from New York in the fall of 1S37, and settled on\\nSection 33; he died in August, 1S4(). aged thirty-four years; his wife is still living on\\nthe homestead. In 1S7( he commenced operating in insurance business, and, in 1S7 2.\\nwas appointed Deputy Secretary of Macomb ;ind St. Clair County Fire Insurance Com-\\npany; in June, 1S74, was elected Secretarj and still holds the position. Mr. Lyons is a\\nDemocrat; has been Road Commissioner and Constaljle several terms, and now holds the\\noffice of Supervisor.\\nJOHN McCAFFERTY, P. O. Romeo, is a son of John and Fanny (McManegal) Me-\\nCafferty; bis father was one of the earliest settlers in the township of Bruce, where he\\nlocated in the fall of 1N2(5. Mr. MeCafferty was born October 20. 1S8S. and lived at home\\nuntil the age of twenty-one, when he settled in Armada. January 1-1. 1S()2, he was mar-\\nried to Louisa, daughter of Horatio Hulett. of Armada. In ilarch, 1S78, he moved to his\\npresent farm on Section 1), Ray Township; he has always voted the Democratic ticket.\\nJOHN McINNIS. P. O. Davis, was born in Ireland March IT). 1821. He came to\\nCanada in 1S2S, and remained there until INC), when he settled in his present location, on\\nSection 21, in Ray Township, on a portion of the Joseph Chubb estate. He was maiTie 3.\\nJanuary fi. isr)3, to Susan Hogg, a native of Canada. Following is the record of their\\nnine children: Margaret J., born November 22. ISW^. married Alfred Bliss and resides\\nin Benzie County; James A., born March IS, married Emma Green and resides in\\nRay Township; Thomas K.. boi-n March 24, 1^57; Mathew H., born November 2S. IS.^S,\\ndied December 22. ISliO; Rachel A., born May 5, LSfil; Susan, August 1, lSfi2; Charlotte\\nE., January IS, INC) John H.. born December 2S, 1,SC)S. Mr. and Mrs. Mclnnis are\\nmembers of the Congregational Chm ch. and were actively interested in building the church\\nat Ray Corners. Mr. Mclnnis is a Republican, and is at present Road Commissioner.\\nMRS. MARIA J. NYE was born July S, 1SH7; she is the daughter of Ira and Betsey\\nVirgil. Mrs. Nye was a native of the State of New York; she came to Michigan in 1S. ]2,\\nand was married. December 7, IN- to Ezra Nye. of Ray. Mi\\\\ Nye was born October\\n1(1, 1N3C), and died October 9, ISSl. on the farm on which he was born, at the age of\\nforty-five; he was the son of Heman and Mary Ann Nye; they were natives of the State\\nof New York. Ezra Nye was a Republican, and held the office of Town Clerk, to which\\nhe was elected in ISIil, ten years, with the e.xception of two years within that time; he\\nwas elected Supervisor in 1S71. and held the position ten years. Mr. and Mrs. Nye had\\neight children, born as follows: Burt, born May 13, 1S. )S; Mary, born July 10, IS\\nmarried to Arthur Flint October IN U; May, born March 11, 1S()2; Frank, born Januarv\\n23, 1SC)4; Fred, born November N, 1SC)S; Ofive, born September 14, 1870, died May 19,\\n1S71; Olive (second), born September 13, 1875; Ivy, born November 21, 1876. Mrs. Nye\\nowns a farm of 180 acres, situated on Sections 17, 20 and 21.\\nTHOMAS PAINE, P. O. Davis, was born November 0, 1S0(), in the State of New\\nYork; is a son of Thomas and Sally Hartman Paine; the parents were natives of New York.\\nIn 1832, he came to Michigan with his mother, his father having previously died, Thomas\\ntook up four lots of Grovornment land two for his mother and two for himself; it was in\\nthe heart of the wilderness; not a tree had fallen by the white man s ax, and they were\\nobliged to cut a road to reach their possessions. Mr. Paine has experienced all the vicis-\\nsitudes of the Michigan pioneer in the Territorial days. He was married, in 1832, to Eliz-\\nabeth, daughter of Duncan and Margaret McGregor, natives of Scotland; Mrs. Paine was\\nborn in Greene County, N. Y. they have had seven children, born as follows: Duncan,\\nSeptember 4, 1833 (see sketch); Benjamin, July IS. 183(); Sarah, May IS, 1838; Ran-\\nsom, November 14, 1840; James. November 1, 1S42; Zaohary, July 2 lS4. n Margaret A.,\\nFebruary 25, lSr)3. Ransom was a soldier in the civil war, and died in the hospital at", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0890.jp2"}, "891": {"fulltext": "Murfreesboro, Tenn., of typhoid fever, January 17, 1862. Mr. and Mrs. Paine are mem-\\nbere of the M. E. Church; he is a Republican; owns a line farm of I iO acres.\\nDUNCAN PAINE, P. O. Davis, son of the above, was married, June iS, 1,S()8. to\\nAlvira. daughter of Crosby and Olive Wilber Gregory, natives of New York: they have\\nfour children Jesse M., born May II, 1S(U): Olive E.. August 18, 1871; Lewis C. Decem-\\nber 7, 1878; Ida M., February io. 1S7 Mr. Paine is a Republican, and owns lOO acres\\nof land on Sections li) and ilt.\\nNELSON PERRY, son of John and Rebecca King Perry, was born May 9, 1808, in\\nSaratoga County, N. Y. his parents moved to Seneca County, N. Y., where they passed\\nthe remainder of their lives. In the spring of 1888. Mr. Perry came to Michigan and\\nsettled where he now resides, on Section 1, Ray Township. He was married, in 1881.\\nto Aiu-elia Clark, who died July 2 188o, leaving one child. Clark, born November 22.\\n1882; he maiTied S;u ah Powell and lives in Lynn, St. Clair County. Mr. Perry was mar-\\nried a second time, to Susan Burlson, February 18, 188U; they have five children Min-\\nerva, born June 4, 1841, married Henry Ward October 5, 1861 Lucy, April 8, 1843, mar-\\nried Archibald Powell November 12. 18r)S: Manley, August 18, 1846, married Emily Butter-\\nheld: John S., February 26,1848, married Sarah Cooley January 1, 1S()S; Phoebe J., Jan-\\nuary 12. 18r)4, married Thomas Benson July 8. LS6y, died January It, LSSO. All the\\nchilcb en are living on or near the home farm. Mr. Perry has always been an adherent of\\nthe Democratic party.\\nD. S. PRIEST was born August 7. 1S14. at Arlington, Beuniagton Co., Vt. he is\\nthe son of Thomas Priest and Marj^ Ann Squires; his parents moved to Monroe County,\\nN. Y., when ]ie- Was iive years of age: they gave him a good common-school education,\\nand, at the age of nineteen, he commenced teaching school winters and working on the\\nfann in summer for fourteen years, and boarded around the most of the time. He lived\\nin the State of New York until he was twenty-four years old, when he moved to Michigan\\nand bought a farm on Section 8, in the township of Ray, in the fall of 1887. He was\\nmairied, September 28, 1S41. to Charity, daughter of Isaac Thompson; they have had\\nthree children Chester S. Priest, born March 12. 1848. married to Mary Adelia Allen in\\nJanuary, 186S,and now lives on the homestead; Laiu-a C. Priest, born November 20. iSlil.\\ndied February 28, 18r)0; MvTonD.. bom August 1, 18r)8, and died March 27. 186U. Mr.\\nPriest was an old-time Whig, and was in the merging of the political issues which signal-\\nized the end of the party: he became a Republican; lie took an active part in politics, and\\nwas elected a Re])resentative in the State Legislature from Macomb County in the fall of\\n186U, and again in 1871: he held that office two terms, in all, four years, accejttably to his\\nconstituents. When he first came to Michigan to live, he was elected fi-om time to time\\nSchool Insjaector. and Justice of the Peace for many years, regardless of party ascendency\\nthey also elected him Supervisor from time to time for thirteen years: he has been one of\\nthe Directors of the Farmers Mutual Fire Insm-ance Company of Macomb and St. Clair\\nCounties for several years, and is now Chairman of the board. He is a farmer, and they\\nown 211 acres of valuable and finelv improved land.\\nTHOMAS READ, P. O. Romeo, was born on the Isle of Ely September 22. 180, he\\nis the son of Thomas and Elizabeth Read, natives of England. He was married to Sarah\\nPoole in April. 1827: they had one child. Maiy Ann, born January 1828. who died in\\n1848. Mr. Read piu-sued the occupation of farrier in all its branches while in England.\\nHe left his native country for America in June. 1884, landing in New York; he settled in\\nLockwood, N. Y., and. the same fall, moved to Michigan and located in Erin. Macomb\\nCounty, where he resided for thirty-three years, and. January 81. 1867. removed to his\\nfarm on the southeast quarter of Section 4. in Ray. containing ninety-seven acres. He\\nwas married again, to Ann. daughter of vEneas and Maiy Gibson Bottomly. of Yorkshire.\\nit", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0891.jp2"}, "892": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nEnf^land; they have had six children, born as follows: Joseph, September 29, 1840, died\\nin ISfif); Sarah, born September 12. 1841, married Nicholas Smith and lives in Illinois;\\nThomas, born August 11, 1844, married Mary Amine;; she left two children at her death;\\nher husband married Alice Freeman and now lives in Ray; Elizabeth, born December 2:^,\\n1847. married P. B. Cade, of Ray Township. Mr. Read voted one Democratic ticket in\\nthis country, then acted with the Whigs and Free-Soil pai ty until the organization of the\\nRepublican party, when he became an adherent of that political element; he has held the\\nposition of Constable several successive years; he was one of the signers of the petition\\nto Congress for the admission of Michigan as a State; he was foiToerly a Methodist, and,\\nduring his membership, held the office of Steward, and took an active part as a class-\\nleader; he is now a member of the Christian Chm-ch: Mr. Read was a Presbyterian in\\nearly life, but now belongs to the Christian society.\\nNORiMAN REMINGTON was born April 4, 1818, in Mom-oe County. N. Y is the son\\nof Daniel and Hannah (De Groif) Remington, natives of Connecticiit; they settled in\\nNiagara, N. Y., where the mother died in l8:^tt, and soon after, the father, with his son\\nNorman, came to Michigan, where they took up a farm in Washington Township, and\\nanother on Section 18, in Ray Township. His father was married again, in Mich-\\nigan, to Hannah Shepard, since deceased. Norman Remington was married, in\\n184(), to Polly Gass; they have seven children R. J. (see sketch); Rufus E. born\\nFebruary 2, 18r)2; Elvira; Palmyra, February 2, 18fiO; Harriet. 1859, died February 4,\\n18(U; Arthitr, 1S()1, died in 1804; Elmer, November 9, 1867. All were married but\\nElmer. Mr. Remington is a Republican in jwlitical faith. Daniel Remington died at\\nninety-six years of age; he was a smart, active man. and died from the effects of an in-\\njury in a saw-mill from a Hying slab.\\nR. J. REMINGTON, P. O. Romeo, sou of Norman and Polly Gass Remington, was\\nborn February 4, 1849. Was married, October 17, 1877, to Ellen, daughter of Reuben\\nand Fanny Cole, born December 4. 1852. They have had two childi-en Leroy, born\\nSeptember ;^0, 1878, died September 5, 1881; and Nellie, born August 23, 1881. Mr.\\nRemington owns a farm of 1()() acres, and is a Republican in politics.\\nDONALD RCJBERTSON, M. D., P. O. Armada, was born in Aberfeldie, Scotland.\\nNovember 14, 1822; is a son of Robert and Susan (McDonald) Robertson. He received\\nhis medical education at Edinbm gh in the medical college under the instruction of Profs.\\nKnox, Jamison and others, and received his diploma in 1840. He was maiTied, August\\n24 1840, to Catherine, daughter of William and Isabella Fogo, who accompanied her to\\nAmerica. After he graduated, he went on a voyage to China and Hindostan. and while\\non the voyage discovered the cause of the aurora borealis. He sailed with his family for\\nAmerica in 1849, and arrived in the port of New York. He came to Michigan the same\\nyear and settled at Gray s Mill, in Ray, where he practiced his profession two years, and\\nthen settled on his present farm on Sections 11 and 12; he owns 250 acres of land, well\\nimproved, with a saw-mill and stave and heading manufactory; he has retired from the\\npractice of his profession, and devotes his time to his agricultiu-al and other interests.\\nThey have two children \u00e2\u0080\u0094Robert, born in Scotland Avigust 11, 1848, married Irene Rich-\\nards and is a hardware merchant iu Ai mada; William, born August 18, 1854. Mr. Rob-\\nertson was a Democrat when he came to this country, but the slavery question changed his\\nviews, and he has voted latterly with the Republicans. Dr. Robertson has held the office\\nof Commissioner one year. Mr. Robertson and wife were members of the Presbyterian\\nChurch in Scotland, and ]\\\\Irs. Robertson united with the Congregational Chm-ch at Ar-\\nmada about twenty years ago.\\nJOSIAH T. ROBINSON, P. O. Romeo, was born January 2, 1807, in the township\\nand county of Otsego, N, Y. is the son of David and Cattern (Tripp) Robinson; the latter\\ni V\\nt", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0892.jp2"}, "893": {"fulltext": "te-\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nwas daughter of Lot Tripp. He married Roxada Nye January ^(5, 1S2V(, and, in May,\\n1831, he moved to Deti-oit; he then located two miles from Brooklyn, Macomb County,\\nwhere he remained one year, and removed to Hanscom s Corners and kept a public house\\na year; dui ing the winter of 188. i-8 i. he went East, retm niug in the spring, and, -July\\n2(), 18 i(), bought his present farm, on Section 21, Ray Towushiji; he moved to Armada\\nOctober 12, 1888, and opened a hotel and grocery, where he remained eight years; in\\nMarch, 1846, he went to his farm. and. five years later, to the village of Baltimore; after\\na stay of over two years, he took up his residence again on his farm. Mrs. Robinson died\\nApril 21, 1881, leaving three children Mortimer, born July 15, 1829, married Martha\\nHeath and resides in Armada; Ruth, born July 188 2. married Charles R. Corey and\\nresides in Ray; Arabella, born February 2, 1845, married Edwin C. Chubb and resides on\\nher father s homestead. Mr. Robinson cast his hrst vote for .Indrew Jackson, and voted\\nthe Democratic ticket until 185(), when he voted for John C. Fremont, and has acted with\\nthe Republicans until the last Presideutial election, when he voted for James B. Weaver.\\nFor the last twenty-nine years he has been a strict temperance man, and, with the excep-\\ntion of one year, has held colmty or township offices. In 1872. he moved to Now Haven,\\nwhere he was elected Justice of the Peace, and remained two years: he has been engaged in\\nthe practice of law in this county for thirty years He has been a believer many years in the\\ntheory of mind controlling mind at any distance. When he came to this county, he was\\nentirely destitute of means, but. by thrift and energy, has worked his way, until he owns\\n3(111 acres of land. He was made a Mason in 1888. and is now a member of the Romeo\\nChapter.\\nJOHN N. SELLECK, P. O. Romeo, son of Jonas and Rhoda Nickols Selleck, was\\nborn February 17, 1808, at Middlebui-y, Genesee Co., N. Y. about 181(i, his parents weut\\nto Avon, Livingston Co. NY. Mr. S. went to Honeoye Falls, and there learned the trade of\\ncarpenter and joiner; in the spring of 1837, he moved to the place of his present home,\\non Section 5, Ray Township. He was married, in the spring of 1841, to Lucinda ]VL\\nDavis, who was born July 2(5, 181(). and died October 15, 1844. Mi Selleck was again\\nmarried, November 20, l849, to Delia, daughter of Col. Norman Perry; they have had\\nsix children Auston, born December 14, 1850, died February 17, 1876; Susan L., born\\nNovember 28, 1852; Harvey, born February 15, 1855, resides in Wisconsin; Rhoda B.,\\nborn April 17, 1857, married Bruce Rowley and resides at Yankton, D. T. Hattie E.,\\nborn August 28, 1859; Charles, bom December 6, 1861, lives in Wisconsin. About 1852,\\nMr. Selleck commenced keeping a public house, which he managed twenty-five years, on\\ntemperance principles; he has been Postmaster for six years; he was a Democrat by in-\\nheritance, but, since the organization of the Republican party, he has been one of its ad-\\nherents; he has acted as Chairman on the Committee on Bread, Butter, Cheese, etc., at the\\nMacomb County Agricultural Fairs for more thau twenty years in succession and was, by\\nvote of the society, tendered a diploma for long and faithful services.\\nMRS. AUGUSTA SHELDEN, daughter of Harvey Parish, of Vermont, was born May\\n28, 1883, in Portville, Cattaraugus Co., N. Y. She accompanied her parents to this\\ncounty in L848. where she attended school, under the tuition of Dr. Chapman, of Balti-\\nmore, Mich., and Prof. Alonzo M. Keeler, of Armada, Prof. Stone and wife, of Oberlin,\\nOhio. At the age of twenty, she entered the normal school at Ypsilanti, under the care\\nof Profs. Welsh. Sill, Mayhew and Frike, and was taught music and drawing by Profs.\\nGoodison and Foote. Thus prepared, she entered upon the career of a professional\\nteacher, which she piu sued with success in Romeo, Oxfoi-d and Rochester; at the latter\\nplace, she was associated with the celebrated poet. Will H. Carleton. During her career\\nas a teacher, she guided the elementary education of some twelve hundi ed pupils, manj\\nof whom are holding prominent positions in life. She was married, November 23, 1868,\\n.54", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0893.jp2"}, "894": {"fulltext": "to A. B. Shelden, and lias two childi-en Henry A., born December 31. 1804: and Edward\\nJ., born March 24. 18()(i both of whom are attending the high school at Romeo. Mrs.\\nSheldeu became a Christian under the ministry of Rev. Z. Coleman, of the Baptist Church\\nof Mt. Vernon, and subse juently united with the Congregational Church of Romeo; she\\nhas been actively engaged in church and Sunday school work since she was sixteen years\\nof age; many of her scholars in Sunday school have become consistent Christians, and\\nsome of them are preparing for the ministry; her Bible class at present includes tweuty-\\nfoiu- persons. She owns and occupies the Milton Thompson farm, on Section 17, Ray\\nTownship, where her husband died.\\nJAMES SMITH, P. O. Romeo, was born in Yates County. N. Y August 15, 1835;\\nhe is the son of John and Sarah Hall Smith; his father died December 8, 1838, leaving\\na family of eight children in rather limited circumstances, and, in 1842, Mr. Smith came\\nto Macomb County to live with William Hall, his uncle, who was one of the first pioneers\\nof the county, locating on Section 1) in 1827, with whom he resided until 1858; he then\\nlocated 24(* acres of land and several village lots in the Grand Traverse eountrj remain-\\ning two years, teaching school winters at Elk Rapids. In 1S()1, the war breaking out,\\nMr. Smith returned to Macomb, and, on August 15. lS(il. was enrolled at Mt. Clemens in\\nCompany I, Ninth Michigan Volunteer Infantry, Capt. William Jenny; the regiment was\\nordered to West Point, Ky., where Mr. Smith suiTered from a prolonged attack of typhoid\\nfever, with pneumonic symptoms, and was placed on detached duty, acting as Hospital\\nSteward. March 25, 18()2, he was ordered by Col. John G. Parkhiu st, commanding post,\\nto remove the sick to Louisville, Ky. after the transfer of the sick, he was ordered to\\nreport to his regiment at Nashville, Tenn., where, on April 1, he was again detached, by\\norder of Maj. Gen. Buell. to act as Captain in exchange or convalescent camp, where he\\nremained about eight months, when the cam]) was removed to Gallatin. Tenn., where he\\nvyas promoted to the rank of Major; by his refiuest, he was relieved from duty here, and,\\nNovember 25. lS(i J, ordered by Maj. Gen. Rosecrans to report for duty to Lieut. Irvin as\\nClerk in the Quai termaster s Department at Nashville, Tenn.. where he remained until\\nOctober 10. 18()3; his position here was such that he began to get an insigtt into the de-\\nvices TO rob the Government, and the Chief Clerk, Mr. Bull, of Louisville, having strong\\nrebel sympathies, and. as was believed, aiding and abetting the rebels, called out strong\\ndenunciations from Mr. Smith, which caused Mr. Bull to feel uneasy lest their rascality\\nmight be exposed, and he did his utmost to get rid of him, and he was ordered by Gen.\\nRosecrans to report to his regiment at Chattanooga. Tenn. Deceml.ier 25, 18fi3, he was\\nordered by Maj. Gen. Palmer to report to Capt. E. Marble as Clerk in the Subsistence\\nDepartment, Fourteenth Army Corps, where he remained until nmstered out of service at\\nAtlanta, Ga., October 2U, 18()-i. The following is the consolidated recommendations of his\\nsuperior officers: Headquarters of the Fourteenth Anny Corps, Galesville, Ala., October\\n25, 18 )4 Being jiersonally acquainted with James Smith, who has been my Issuing Ser-\\ngeant for the past six months, I take pleasure in recommending him as being a man of\\nmost excellent business qualities, perfectly moral, honest, ujiright, and in every respect\\ncapable of filling any position that may be given him. He has served his country as a\\nsoldier and patriot three years faithfully, never failing to do his duty in every respect,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0which entitles him to the highest commendation of all true Americans. A. L. Messmore.\\nCaptain and A. C. S. freely concurred in by W. Wilkinson. Lieutenant Colonel com-\\nmanding Ninth Michigan Infantry. Mr. Smith was married. June 5. 1S73, to Maria,\\ndaughter of George and Sarah Bottomley. He has always been a Republican, and taken\\na prominent position in church, Sunday school and all branches of Chi istian work. In\\n18()5. Ml Smith s mother came from the old home in New Y ^ork State, and the family set-\\ntled on Section 10 of Ray Township, where they still reside.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0894.jp2"}, "895": {"fulltext": "Ll^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nMINER STONE, P. O. Romeo, son of Isaac Stone, was boru in PittsforJ, Monroe Co.,\\nN. Y., March IC), LSI. In October, 18/51, he came to Michigan with his parents and set-\\ntled in Ray. He was married. May 5, 184 to Rusha Ann, daughter of Anson and Mary\\nAnn Bristol; she was born Maj 28, 1810; became the mother of four childi-en, born as\\nfollows: Gilbert, April 8, 1848, died February 1:!, 184, Hannah, October ;!1, 184o, died\\nJune 2 1871; William, March 0, 18r)l, married Roxada Willey and lives at home; Oscar\\nD.. May 7. 18. married Josephine Rowley. Deborah Bristol, grandmother of Mrs. Stone,\\nlived to the age of ninety-six, and left fom- generations of descendants to the niunber of\\n287; she died in Flint, Genesee County. Mr. Stone is a farmer on the east half of the\\nsouthwest quarter of Section 7; he settled on a wholly unimproved farm, which he has\\nplaced under good cultivation; was a Whig before the organization of the Republican\\nparty, and since that time has been an adherent to its principles.\\nWELTON A. TAFT, P. O. Davis, was born August 29. 18. );5, in Ray, Macomb County;\\nis the son of Daniel and Mary (Haines) Taft, natives of Vermont, as were their parents.\\nDaniel Taft and Mary Haines were married in 1850, and had five children, born as follows:\\nBm-ton J., Jauuarv 7, 18. )1; Welton A.. August 29, 18- ):i; Weston L. February 22,1855;\\nLeora E., January 10, 1858; Hannie E., June 1, ISOS, died August 2(). 18()8. Mr. Taft,\\nof this sketch, was married, January 2. 1878, to Nellie Cawker, a native of Canada; she\\ncame to Detroit in 18()2; they have two childi-en, Leoi-aE.. born June 14. 1880, and Glen\\nE., March 7. 1882. Mr. Taft lives on the homestead, wher? he was born; it is a splen-\\ndid farm, and includes eighty acres in Section 20. Politically, he is a Democrat.\\nROBERT WARNER was born December 22, 1811, in the State of New York. Some\\ntime before he left his native State, his father died, leaving a wife and family of eight\\nchildren. The principal business at this place, where he spent eleven years of his youth,\\nwas chopping and clearing land. Mr. W. now looks back with regret upon the mis-spent\\nhovu-s that passed in that period of his life. At the age of seventeen years, and in the\\nlast year of his stay here, he worked diu-iug the summer for John B. Norton, a doctor liv-\\ning in Spring Water Valley, a few miles above the head of Hemlock Lake, which lies be-\\ntween two mountains. This was in the summer of 1829. In the winter of this year he\\nstayed with his brother and attended school. In the spring of 18H0, he went to Richmond\\nand worked a short time for Lesse Stout He then worked for Barton Stout until about\\nMay 10, when he started for Michigan and walked as far as Bufi alo on foot, arriving on\\nthe morning of the r2th. Having missed the boat, he was obliged to wait until the next\\nday. While waiting, he met Lesse Stout and Mr. Crooks, who were also going to Michi-\\ngan. They took passage on the steamer Peacock. They landed in Detroit May 16, 1880.\\nIn the i-dl\\\\, he came to Macomb County, where he has since lived. His present farm is\\nsituated on a section corner, and embraces a part of Sections 29, 27. 84 and 3o, and con-\\ntains 305 acres. Mr. W. was maiTied February 14, 1833, to Lois Willey, who was born\\nMarch 24, 1813. They have six children, three daughters and three sons Clarissa, borii\\nDecember 14, 1833, married to Nathan Hinkley January 24, 1854; Robert H., bom July\\n3, 1836. mamed Almeda Houghton March 8, 1864; Milo, born November 28, 1838, mar-\\nried Mary Hate February 19, 1864; Rosetta, born December 15, 1841, married Eli Myres\\nFebruary 22, 1866; Lauretta, born September li, 1844, man-ied William Ellis_April 30.\\n1865; Riley, born November 29, 1850, married Lovina Willey December 31, 1874.\\nMAJOR WEBSTER, P. O. Davis, was born August 28, ISOl. in Pittsford, Monroe\\nCo. N. Y. is the son of Ransford and Triphena (Vaughn) A\\\\ ebster. In M ay, 1825, he came\\nto Michigan, and located a farm of Government land on Section 19, Ray Township. In\\nFebruary! 182(), he was man-ied to Diana Grossman, and not long after, they set out for\\ntheir pioneer home; they made the route from Detroit with an ox team, the fu-st ever di ivea\\nthrough that part of the country. When IVIrs. Webster was informed that she had reached", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0895.jp2"}, "896": {"fulltext": "Ml\\n876 HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nhome, she responded, courageously: Home it ia, and home it shall be; and it has\\nbeen ever since. Not long after their arrival, a letter came for them from the East; in\\nthose days, the postage on a letter was 25 cents, due at the end of the route; Mr. Webster\\novyned but 18 cents: he spent nearly a day trying to obtain some money, and finally found\\na neighbor who loaned him a dollar, which he repaid weeding onions at 50 cents a day.\\nMr. and Mrs. Webster have ten children, born as follows: Caroline J., January 27, 1827,\\nthe first white child born in Ray Township; Mary M., November 28, 1821); Charles H.,\\nAugust 4, ISai; Horace M June 8, 1838; Susan, March 30, 1835; Alice M.. January 7,\\n1837; Ransford M., January 4, 1839; Diana E., August 13, 1840; Aui-ora V., November\\n4. 1844; Hardy E., March 12, 1849. Mr. and Mrs. Webster are members of the Methodist\\nChm ch. Mr. Webster is a Democrat in political faith.\\nGEORGE WHITING, son of Peter and Margaret (Champion) Whiting, was born\\nAugust lU, 1833, in the Gratiot Light House, St. Clair County, Mich.; his father was\\nborn in Schoharie County, N. Y., January 1, 17U1, and moved to St. Clair County in 1818,\\nwhere he followed the occupation of a millwright: he died March 29, 1880. Mr. Whit-\\ning s mother still lives with her son, aged eighty-one. In 18G1, an excitement regard-\\ning the supposed discovery of petroleum broke out in the neighborhood where Mr. Whit-\\ning was living, and he sold his farm for a considerable amount, and removed to Macomb\\nCounty Sejitember H of that year, and purchased a farm on the North Branch of the\\nClinton River, known as the James Thompson farm, where he now resides. He was mar-\\nried to Jane, daughter of Nathan B. Elliott, of St. Clair County, September 18, 1859; they\\nhave had ten children Mary, born February 24, 18(Jl, married Zachaiy Payne and resides\\nin Ray; George C. was born January 19, 18()3. and died February 14, 18()3; Emma E.,\\nApril 22, J8( )4; Elmer U., June 1, 18(;r;; Lillie A., June 11, 18(iS; Eddie E., June 19,\\n1870; Ruby, Febraary 22, 1875; Hugh C, June 18, 1877; Neil, March 20. 1879; Jennie.\\nOctober 5, 1881. Eight children are living at home. Mr. Whiting has always been a\\nRepublican, and has held various positions of trust in his township. Both himself and\\nwife are members of the Christian Chiu ch.\\nWILLIAM M. WILLEY, deceased, was born in Oneida County, N. Y.. September\\n30, 1808. He went to Pittsford, N. V., and, in 1830, settled on Section 21. Ray Town-\\nship. He afterward bought on Section 27. December 9, 1838, he married Susan Gear;\\nthey had eight children, whose record is as follows: William Wesley, born November\\n1(5, 1839, married Irena Myers, resided in Ray, and died January 25, 1808; Henry H.,\\nJanuary 25. 1841, resides at home; Volney, January 3, 1843, married Harriet Van Horn,\\nresides in Ray; Mary J., March 21. 1845, married William Bliss and resides in Macomb;\\nDavid H., September 10, 1847; Roxada, Mai ch 10, 1849, married Gilbert Stone and re-\\nsides in Ray; Lavina Y.. April 5, 1851, married Rilej Warner, and resides in Ray; Ange-\\nline C, October 2 5, 1855. Mr. Willey was a Republican, and held several positions of\\ntrust during his life; he was Justice of the Peace for sixteen years in succession; he was\\nCaptain, and afterward Major, in the home iliilitia; was administrator and guardian for\\norphans a number of years; he died October 17, 1871; his widow still survives him.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0896.jp2"}, "897": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCHAPTER XL.\\nLENOX TOWNSHIP.\\nThe principal stream in Lenox is Salt River, which runs due south through the east-\\nern part of the township, affording motive-power for several mills along its coui se; next\\nin importance comes Deer Creek and some of its minor tributaries, which afford water for\\nagricultm-al and other purposes. With these streams the townshiji is fairly watered.\\nPui-e spring water is obtainable by digging a few feet in almost any spot in the township.\\nThe original settlers of the township were men of sterling worth, of great enterprise\\nand of untiring industry, .imong those who have left their names as the proudest portion\\nof the history of the township are Abner Stevens, Phineas D. Pelton, Richard D. Bailey,\\nLanson Flowers. Ebenezer Brooks, John Church. Beverly Robinson, Thomas F. Dryer,\\nApolas A. Fubler, Owen Sheridan, Silas Leonai-d. J. R. Crandall and many others of\\nequal prominence. The descendants of the larger part of the above are still inhabitants\\nof the township, though many of them are to be found throughout the entire county.\\nORG.\\\\NIZATI0N.\\nThe township of Lanos was organized in the year 1837. The first township election\\nwas ordered to be held at the dwelling-house of Sterling Case. There came a call from\\nthe Legislature through Linus Gilbert for the organization of the town in 1837. It was\\nproposed by the inhabitants that the three oldest men in the town should give the name.\\nBenjamin Haight, Mason Harris and Israel Dryer were selected, each selecting a name.\\nThe choice of Messrs. Haight and Harris was similar to those of other townships in the\\nState. The choice of Israel Dryer was adopted, and the name of Lenox confirmed. The\\nmembers of that committee died in the town at an advanced age, Mr. Dryer being\\nnear eighty-eight. Of the first voters, about forty in number, only five are liv-\\ning, viz., Oliver Cromwell, Hiram O. C. Harris, Justus R. Crandall, Thomas F. Dryer, of\\nLenox, and Ebenezer Brooks, of Armada. First Supervisor, Benjamin Haight; Thomas\\nF. Dryer, first Clerk, served eleven consecutive years. In the absence of all political\\nlines, peace and harmony prevailed for many years. Regarding the profits of office in\\nthose early days, Mr. Dryer thinks the whole township business was done for several j ears\\nfor $100 per year, or less, and his charges as Clerk did not exceed $10. He also had the\\npleasure of boarding the three Highway Commissioners about three days each year free of\\ncharge. The early settlers had a flourishing town library, which was well read for several\\nyears.\\nFinST MEETING.\\nThe first town meeting was held at the house of Sterling Case, April 3, 1837. Will-\\niam Francis, Thomas F. Dryer and Simon P. Miller were Inspectors, with Alanson\\nFlower, Clerk. The election i-esulted in the choice of the following officers: Benjamin\\nHaight, Supervisor; Thomas F. Dryer, Clerk; Justus R. Crandall, Collector; Jacob E.\\nHall, Mason Hairis, Justin Corey, Eben Carl, Justices of the Peace; A. T. Corey, A.\\nFlower, Jacob E. Hall, Assessors; Eben Carl, Abner Stevens, Eben Brooks, Road Com-\\nmissioners; Carlos W. Brown, Justus R. Crandall, James M. Millard, School Commis-\\nsioners: Oliver Bates, William Miller, Poor Directors; Mason Harris, W illiam Miller,", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0897.jp2"}, "898": {"fulltext": "s^\\nm HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nAlan. Flower, T. F. Dryer, School Inspectors; Justus R. Crandall, Justus Elsworth, Con-\\nstables; Allen Haeket, A. Flower, Eben Brooks, C. W. Brown, William Miller, Jacob E.\\nHall, Lyman Bates, Silas Leonard, William Warner, Overseers of Highways. The prin-\\ncipal officers elected annually since 1837 are named as follows:\\nTOWN ROSTEK.\\nSupervisors Benjamin Haight, 1S37; B. Wright, 1838; County Commissioners,\\n1838-43; Aldis L. Eich, 1843-45; Justus R. Crandall, 1845-48; Leander Millen, 1848-\\n49; Carlos W, Brown, 1849-50; Justus R. Crandall, 1850-52; Aldis L. Rich, 1852-53;\\nThomas F. Dryer, 1853-54; Justus R. Crandall, 1854-5r Carlos W. Brown, 1856-57;\\nJustus R. Crandall. 1857-58; George W. French, 1858-59; Justus R. Crandall. 1859-\\n63; Milo Selleck, 1863-( 4; Daniel Bates. 1864-70; Lucius H. Cantield. 1870-77; Adam\\nBennett. 1877-80; Lucius H. Canfield, 1880-82.\\nClerks -Thomas H. Drver, 1837-47; John Haire. 1848-50; Justus R. Crandall,\\n1852; N. C. Knott, 1853; Justus R. Crandall, 1854; William G. Carl, 1855; Mason Har-\\nris, 1856; Milo Selleck, 1857-58; Daniel Bates, 1858; William H. Mellen, I860; Abram\\nS. Devall, 1861-63; John W. Leonard. 1864-65; Benjamin L. Bates, 1866-67; William\\nH. Sutfin, 1868-69; Adam Bennett, 1870; Isaac N. Cook, 1871-73; Elias Duvall, 1874;\\nTheo M. Giddings, 1875; Isaac N. Cook, 1876; Clarence E. Fenton, 1877; William\\nWiethoff, 187S: Chester S. Fenton, 1879; Avander H. Shafer. 1880-81.\\nTreasurers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Justus R. Crandall, 1837; William A. Edwards, 1838; Gabriel Cox,\\n1839-40; Israel Dryer, 1841; Carlos W. Brown, 1842; John Church, 1849; Russell W.\\nGreen. 1850; Leander Millen. 1851; Alvin Davis. 1852-54: M. Van Winkle, 1855; John\\nChiu-ch, 1856; Sabiu Harris, 1857; Alvin Adams, 1858; Martin L. Drver, 1859-60; Asa\\nBlanchard, 1861-63; Tolcot Bates, 1864-65; Elijah Sutfin, 1866; David L. Carl, 1867-\\n68; Benjamin L. Bates. 1869-70; Ephraim Fullerton, 1871; James M. Rowley, 1872;\\nAdam Bennett, 1873-76; E. P. Fullerton, 1877; Russell T. Hazleton, 1878; Denis La\\nFiu-gey, 1879-80: Calvin A. Smith, 1881.\\nJustices of the Peace Ebin Carl, Justus Corey. Jacob E. Hall, Mason Harris, 1837;\\nGabriel Case, 1838; Justus R. Crandall, Hanson Flower, 1839; Abner Stephens, 1840,\\nAldis L. Rich, 1841; Justus R. Crandall, 1S42; Mason Harris. 1843; Apner Stephens,\\n1844; Benjamin Haight. 1845; Justus R. Crandall, 1846; Aldis L. Rich, 1847; Leander\\nMillen. 1848; Thomas J. Goodsell, 1849; Justus R. Crandall, 1850; Elias Suttin, 1851;\\nLeander Millen, 1852; C. W. Brown. 1853; J. R. Crandall. 1854; Elias Suttin. 1855;\\nWilliam Hare. Mason Harris, 1857; J. R. Crandall, 1858; C. W. Brown, 1859; Leander\\nMillen, 1856-60; John Church. 1861; J. R. Crandall, 1862; Walter C. Hulett, 1863;\\nDaniel Tewkesbury, Newell H. Roberts, 1864; David L. Carl. C. W. Brown, Edward L.\\nRaymond, 1865; Orland T. Green, J. R. Crandall, 1866; Daniel Tewkesbury, 1867; O.\\nT. Green, 1868; Edwai d L. Raymond, 1869; William R. Sutton, 1870; Daniel Tewkes-\\nbury, 1871; J. R. Crandall. 1872; Orlando T. Green, 1872; Leslie L. Miller, Josiah J.\\nRobinson, 1873; Clarence E. Fenton, 1874; Justus R. Crandall. 1875; James B. Davis.\\n1876; Asa Blanchard. 1877; Isaac Lemmon, 1878; Clarence E. Fenton. 1879; Zenas\\nCorey. 1880; Jared O. Jackson. 1881.\\nThe agi icultural production at the end of the first decade after its organization ex-\\nhibits a fair proportion. We [uote from a good authority: There were seventy- nine\\nfarms, with 2,637 acres of improved, and 5.147 acres of unimproved land, at a total cash\\nvalue of $51,700. In live stock the showing was as follows: Horses. 74; milch-cows,\\n291; working oxen, 128; other neat cattle. 253; sheep, 1.111; swine. 39(); value of live\\nstock. 112,330. Wheat, 1,910 bushels; corn, 7,590 bushels; all other kinds of grain.\\n9,468 bushels; potatoes, 1,849 bushels; wool, 2,800 pounds. Dairy products butter.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0898.jp2"}, "899": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 879\\n15,700 pounds; cheese, 7,900 pounds. Value of orchard produce, $201. The showing\\nat the end of the second decade from the above was: Acres of improved land, 10,018;\\nwoodland, 9.840; other unimproved land. 19 acres; cash value, $711,640. In live stock\\nthe subjoined is a correct statement: Horses, 571; milch-cows, 728; working oxen. 24;\\nother neat cattle (other than oxen and cows), 704; sheep, 888, swine. 663; total value of\\nlive stock, S120.905. Of agricultural products there were: Bushels of wheat, 19,902;\\ncorn. 19.265: all other kinds of grain (principally oats, barley and rye), 59,717: potatoes.\\n12,483 bushels; wool, 14,917 pounds. Dairy products biitter, 53,940 pounds; cheese,\\n4.340 pounds. Value of orchard products, $4,005, Population, 1880, 2,516.\\nICHOOLS.\\nThe school of District No. 2, Lenox, was organized from the original territory. The\\nfirst officers were: Charles Coi ey. Moderator; Thomas Warwick, Assessor; David Burt,\\nDirector. The tirst schoolhouse was built of wood, with a board roof. 16x17 feet in area,\\nand cost $67. It was built by David Burt in 1851. The old house was burned in 1860,\\nand a new frame building erected on the samesite, in 1861, ata costof $650. The fu st teacher\\nwas Jane Harris, now the wife of Robert Haore, of New Haven; her salary was 9 shillings\\nper week, for which sum she had to superintend the education of seven pupils. The early\\nschools of the township are referred to in the following reminiscences of Mrs. Amelia\\nBancroft Crawford. This lady s first essay in school-teaching was made in Lenox in 1840.\\nThe Isuilding was a primitive log one, located just west of Thomas Dryer s. In riding on\\nhorseback twelve miles to reach her school, she had to pass over about three-quarters of a\\nmile of submerged land and many other places of less distance in like condition. The\\nnext day after her arrival, she was examined by Justus Crandall, Mason Harris and Alan-\\nson Flower. The day following, in order to commence her school, she crossed the stream\\non a fallen tree, and then to reach the schoolhouse had to hold to the fence for a distance\\nof forty rods. This was owing to the condition of the stream, occasioned by a heavy\\nstorm and the lack of a bridge. In order to attend church, she had to travel afoot and\\nalone thi ee miles to the old Baptist Church at Ray Exchange. About the year 1846,\\nwhile retiu-ning home fi om the Gould Schoolhouse. at Berlin (a distance of eight miles),\\nwhile crossing a small stream, the girth liroke, and, although we give the name of terra\\nfirma to the place where she landed, her wai drobe was so well drenched that the prospect\\nof a winter ride of six miles in the evening was indeed uninviting ever afterwards. She\\ntook charge of the Hall School in I860. There she enjoyed the most active school term\\nin her school experience of thirty-live yeai s. She enjoyed molding the juvenile mmds of\\none school in Britce for five consecutive summers. Some of her pupils graduated at the\\nRomeo Academy and one at Ypsilanti Normal School.\\nThe schools of the present time n imber nine, one of which is graded. The Directors\\nare Alonzo Claggett, Albert E. Burt, F. M. Grout, C. Klopstock, John S. Parker, Asa\\nBlanchard, Robert Carpenter, Zonas Corey, Matthew McClatchie. School No. 1 was at-\\ntended diu ing the year ending September, 1881, by thirty pupils, the entire number of\\npupils being fifty-one. The expenditure for the year was $308.82. No. 2 (Fractional\\nDistrict) claims sixty-two children, of whom fifty attended school. The expenditm-e was\\n$300. District No. 4 claimed fifty-two pupils, of whom forty attended school, at an ex-\\npense to the tovm of $290. The niunber of children belonging to Fractional District No.\\n5 was 105, of whom sixty fom* attended school, the expense being $371. District No. 6\\nclaimed 101 pupils, of whom sixty-nine attended school, the e.xpenditiu e for the year being\\n$431. Fractional District No. 9 holds the only graded school in the town. The number of\\npupils belonging is 219, of whom 192 attend school. The expenditures for 1881 amount-\\ned to $1,409.42. Di.strict No. 1() School was attended by fifty pupils, the expense being", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0899.jp2"}, "900": {"fulltext": "HISTOBY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n$336. District No. 11 claimed forty-nine childi-en. of whom thirty-eight attended school\\nduring the year 18S1. Expenditure. $277. District No. 12 claimed 121 pupils, of whom\\nninety-one attended school. The expenditure for school purposes in this district for the\\nyear ending September 5, 1881, was $020.\\nNew Haven was fonnerly known as New Baltimore Station. It is situated on the\\nCxrand Trunk Railway, thirty miles northeast of Detroit and ten miles northeast of Mt.\\nClemens. The village contains a population estimated at 620 inhabitants. It is distant\\nfrom the village of New Baltimore five miles. The principal exports of the place ara\\nlumber and general agricultural products. Its chief manufactures are lumber,\\nflour and heading. The village contains live general stores, one diy goods store,\\ntwo boot and shoe stores, one drug store, one stove and tinshop, one harness shop, two\\nwagon-shops, one cooper-shop, two blacksmiths, one livery stable, one grist and one saw\\nmill and a good hotel. The resident physicians are M. Bates. A. Gunn, Peter McGregor,\\nEd N. HaiTis and Ed B. Hanis. Tolcott Bates is the present Postmaster. The depot of\\nthe Grand Trunk Railway, with a settlement called Ridgeway, is partly in Lenox Town-\\nship and partly in Richmond. The village contains three churches Baptist, Congrega-\\ntional and Methodist- -and a graded school. Fruit, grain and lumber are the shipments.\\nThe first meeting of the citizens of New Haven, under the village charter of 1869,\\nwas held at the Lake Hall, May 3, 1869. Morgan Nye and Adam Bennett were Inspectors of\\nElection and William H. Sutphin. Clerk. Benjamin L. Bates was elected President; W.\\nH. Sutphin, Recorder; Morgan Nye. Treasiu er; Isaac Cook, Adam Bennett, Assessors:\\nEphraim Fullertou, Conrad H. Gordon. Myron Bates, John Millard and William G. Carl,\\nTrustees.\\n1870 -President, Ephraim Fullerton; Recorder, William Sutphin; Treasurer, Myron\\nBates.\\n1871 President, Morgan Nye; Recorder. William G. Carl; Treasurer, Niles Gidding.\\n1872-75 President, Justus R. Crandall; Recorder, Clarence E. Fenton; Treasurer,\\nJacob D. Seaman.\\n1875-76 President, Adam Bennett; Recorder, Justus R. Crandall: Treasiu-er, Jacob\\nD. Seaman.\\n1877 President, Adam Bennett: Recorder, Justus R. Crandall; Treasurer, Russell\\nT. Uazleton.\\n1878 President, Clarence E. Fenton: Recorder, Justus R. Crandall: Treasurer, Rus-\\nsell T. Hazleton.\\n1879-82 President, Adam Bennett: Recorder, Justus R. Crandall; Treasurer, Rus-\\nsell T. Hazleton.\\nBurton Nye was elected Clerk in 1881, and was succeeded by Justus R. Crandall, the\\npresent Clerk.\\n1882-83\u00e2\u0080\u0094 President, Charles H. Sears: Clerk, J. R. Crandall; Treasurer, J. D. Sea-\\nman; Assessor, John C. Bates; Street Commissioner, Benjamin L. Bates; Constable,\\nOscar Slocum; George Welz, Isaac N. Cuok, C. A. Smith and D. C. Rowley, Trustees.\\nPEI:.S( )XA I. SKKT( IIES.\\nThe biographical sketches given in other pages deal with the personal history of\\nmany of the pioneers, together with that of old settlers and others, whose history is closely\\nidentified with this township.\\nADAM BEXNETT.\\nZENAS COREY, P. O. Lenox, son of Archibald J. Corey, v?ho was a native of Vermont,\\nand Mary Granger Corey, daughter of Elisha Granger, a native of Vermont. She was\\nborn in Sodus, Wayne Co., N. Y. was married, and emigi-ated with her husband to Mich-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0900.jp2"}, "901": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY. 881\\nigan. In 1833, they settled in what is now Chestertield, and from there, in Febniarv. 1837,\\nthey went to Lenox and settled on Section 11. They reared a family of nine children under\\ntrying circumstances, two of whom enlisted in the Union service George B. Corey, Fifth\\nInfantry: Jared Corey, Twenty-second Infantry. Mary Granger Corey still resides on\\nthe old homestead, which belongs to Zenas and Elisha Corey. They were both di afted;\\nZenas substituted by payment of $125; Elisha was not called out, as the war closed.\\nZenas was born in Chesterfield September 22. 1834. and married May 8, 1857, to Mary L.\\nJohns, of French descent; born at Frederick, Mich., October 21, 1842. They have resided\\nin Lenox since that time, he having tilled the office of Justice of the Peace, and other town\\noffices: is now Postmaster in Richmond Village and Lenox Post Office; came with his par-\\nents to Lenox in February, 1837; was sixteen yeai-s old before he ever had a new pair of\\nboots or shoes, consequently could not chase wolves and bears in the winter. They were\\nvery plenty. Many times he had to live on boiled wheat, hulled corn, potatoes and milk\\n(if they could get them). In 1842-43, he had a new milch cow. and used to gather moss\\nand twigs from trees to feed the cow. In the fall befoi e the hard winter, Mrs. Corey was\\nleft with nine children on a new place, where, by working out on the place, washing, sew-\\ning, and such other work as she could obtain in a new settlement of poor people, she man-\\naged to keep the family all together to the years of maturity. Logging bees and log rais-\\nings constituted the principal holiday amusements. Sometimes at the log raisings, there\\nwould be a Corey on each corner. Their fii st school was in a little log house, standing\\nwithin the present corporation of Richmond, about 1839, having to go one and one-half\\nmiles through the woods on trail: no road cut. In order to slide on the ice, they would lit\\nwood to their feet and make holes with bui ning-irons to fasten them on to their bai-e feet.\\nTheir first skates were made of wood bv Tipsico, the big Indian, and jiresented to Zenas.\\nJUSTICE E. CRANDALL. P. O. New Haven, He is the sou of Rowland Crandall\\nand Rhoda (Crandall) Crandall. Rowland was the sou of Benjamin Crandall and Alice\\n(Kinyon) Crandall, both natives of Washington County. R. I., and among the first settlers.\\nMi-s. Crandall was born April, 173f), in Washington County. Rowland was born\\nin 1709, in Hopkinton. Washington County, R. I. Rhoda, born in Westerly, Wash-\\nington Co., R. I. Justice R., born in Hojikinton, Washington Co., R. I., February 23,\\n1807; man-ied November 28, 1830, to Violet Beattie, who was born May 19. ISIO. in\\nLangholm, Scotland, a daughter of John Beattie. who was born in Langholm, Scotland,\\nin 1778. His mother, Sai ah Ray Beattie, was born September 1, 1742, in Langholm,\\nScotland, and -died February 20, 1846, aged one hundred and three years, five months\\nand nineteen days. Justus R. was married to Violet Beattie Crandall November 28, 1S30,\\nin Foster, Providence Co.. R. I.; came to Michigan in 1835, and settled in Lenox May\\n13. in the town then called Ray. He was elected Town School Inspector, and the first\\nConstable and fjollector, in the first town meeting, in 1S37; elected Justice in 1838: ap-\\npointed Supervisor in 1844; elected in 1845. and has served in various offices up to the\\npresent time; was married the second time to Miss Helen Harris. She was born in Boston,\\nMass., May 22, INCH, and was the widow of the Rev. Lovell F. Han-is, who has been mis-\\nsionary among the Indians and the Negroes.\\nROBERT S. CRAWFORD. P. O. New Haven, was born in Oppeuheim. Montgomery\\nCo., N. Y.. November 18, 1809: son of Robert Crawford, Sr.. who was born in Poundi-idge.\\nN. Y., February 1, 1770. and was man-ied to Hannah Albright December 25. 179S, and in\\n1824 removed to Richmond, Ontario Co., N. Y. with a family of seven sons and two\\ndaughters, all of whom lived to years of matiu-ity. One of Robert S. s uncles, John Craw-\\nford (from whom the settlement took the name), was a soldier in the Revolution, and re-\\nmoved from Benton. Yates Co.. N. Y. to the township of Clinton. Macomb County, in\\n1830, having no neighbors nearer than four or five miles. Robert S. and Jacob A. Craw-", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0901.jp2"}, "902": {"fulltext": "k\\nford came to Michigan in May, 1S32, and settled in what is now known as the Crawford\\nsettlement. A few days after, Jacob and Robert arrived. John had the tirst barn raised\\nin that settlement, requiring all the help that could be obtained within a radius of eight\\nmiles. Robert thinks they had whisky, also about five feet and eight inches of brandy, in\\nthe form of the boss workman. Robert belonged to the Mt. Clemens Rifle Company, J. O.\\nFerriss, Captain, and was called into service and served faithfully through the great\\nToledo war, in 1835, by which Michigan obtained that great store of wealth contained in\\nthe Upper Peninsula, and although Uncle Sam paid the State so well for that little strip\\nof little Lucas land, claimed by Ohio, he has never given him a pension. After the strug-\\ngle was over, Robert returned to the ])eaceful occupation of clearing up his land in the\\nCrawford Settlement, in Macomb Township. Feeling in need of help in his struggle for\\na home, and some one to enjoy it with him, he was married to Charity Ann Seaman March\\n27, 1S3 by Calvin Davis, Esq. Mrs. Crawford cheerfully and faithfully shai ed the ioi\\\\s\\nand hai dships of clearing a new farm and raising a family of fom children, and died\\nAugust 23, 1873, aged fifty-nine years. Mr. Crawford was married to Miss Amelia Ban-\\ncroft, of Bruce Township, September 9, 1874. Of his children, Hannah, the oldest daughter,\\nis now comfortably settled in New Hampshire, and is the wife of John J. Edwards.\\nLydia A. the second daughter, being a deeply pious young lady, and desirous to fit her-\\nself for lal)or in the missionary field, went to Albion College in September, 181)5. She\\ncommenced her studies on Thui sday, and a week fi om the following Sunday was taken\\nsick, and after thiiteen days suffering, passed to higher joys. Her stay at the college,\\nthough so brief, so much endeared her to the faculty and pupils that, when she was con-\\nveyed to the train at the solemn hour of midnight, they showed their appreciation of her\\nand sympathy for her grief -stricken friends by following her to the depot in silent proces-\\nsion. Jacob, the first son, is a worthy citizen, and resides on Section 31, in Lenox. Al-\\nvin, the second, a worthy representative of the Crawford family, now resides on the farm\\ncleared and owned by his father. In connection with developing a new farm, Mr. Craw-\\nford has aided much to the building up of the religious and educational interest. As\\nChairmau of the Building Committee, he bore the burden of the position, and paid $120\\ntoward building the tirst Methodist Episcopal Chiu ch in the vicinity, viz., Crawford set-\\ntlement; next aided liberally in building the Methodist Episcopal Church in Chesterfield;\\nalso in building the chiu ch in New Haven, where he now resides.\\nTHOMAS F. DRYER, P. O. New Haven, son of John Dryer, who resided in Massa-\\nchusetts, and emigrated to Junius, Seneca Co., N. Y.. in 1808. He was a soldier in the\\nRevolutionary war, and had one uncle killed in battle. His grandfather was a native of\\nMassachusetts, and there died, Thomas F. was born in the town of Richmond, Berkshire\\nCo., Mass., May 17, 1801; had a very limited district school education; was married to\\nCleora Ann Brown December 30, 1824, who was the daughter of Nathan and Anna Brown,\\nof Rome, Oneida Co., N. Y. Thomas F. and Carlos Brown piu chased land in 1833, on\\nSections 18 and I J, Town 4 north, and Range 14 east. Mr. B. came on to his land in\\n1834. Thomas F. came on to his land on Section 19, in the spring of 1^3(5, after raising\\na log house, with all the help obtained within a radius of five miles, and hiring the road\\nunderbrushed for three miles to enable him to get his family and goods to his new home,\\nwhere he now resides in hapjiy old age. Said road was surveyed by Judge Burt in 183y.\\nCleora Ann Brown Dryer died July 3, 18()1, and is buried in the Union Cemetery, in the\\ntownship of Richmond. They reared a family of four sons and three daughters John\\nF. of Lenox; Nathan W., deceased, and buried by the side of his mother by his request;\\n(jreorge Dryer, of Lenox; Chester Dryer, of Lenox; Almira Di-yer Bates, deceased; Anna\\nMaria Dryer Bates, of New Haven, and Mary Ann Dryer Giddings, of Macomb Township.\\nThomas F. Dryer was maiTJed to Elect B. Condit Brown Herbert, daughter of Moses", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0902.jp2"}, "903": {"fulltext": "^1\\nCondit and Electa Ball Condit, of Phelpstown, Ontario Co., N. Y. Mrs. Dryer came to\\nMichigan with her first husband, Carlton N. Brown, who tanght the first public school in\\nRomeo, in 1833-34, and settled on the Hix farm in Ai mada in September, 1834, and died\\nMarch i i, 1838. She had one son, Mjtou C. Brown, of Lapeer City, by Mr. Brown.\\nSubsequently, she married Thomas D. Herbert in New York, and had one daughter, Mrs.\\nSarah E. Herbert, wife of Fulton P. Goyer, of Armada.\\nMANSON FARRAR, son of Sullivan and Charity Judd Farrar, was a native of Mas-\\nsachiisetts, and married there and removed to Pitcher, Chenango Co. N. Y. subsequently\\nto Homer, Cortland Co., N. Y., where Manson was born September 14, 1809. They re-\\nturned to Pitcher, where they lived until they came to Michigan in 1834, and settled in\\nMt. Clemens. He and his father took a half-section of land in Macomb. Manson\\ncontinued to live in Mt. Clemens, and worked at the carpenter s trade. In 1835, he went\\nto Tully, Onondaga Co., N. Y., where he was married October 20. 1835, to Miss Sibbil\\nSmith, daughter of Dean Uriel and Sibbil Smith. He was born in Buckland, and she in\\nColerain, Mass. The young people retiu ned to Mt. Clemens, and resided there until 1848.\\nHe was elected Second Lieutenant in the Mt. Clemens Rifie Company, and called out by\\nGov. Mason for the Toledo war. They had four sons and three daughters. Mr. F. be-\\ncame a member of the Baptist Chiu ch at Pitcher, N. Y. at the age of twenty-one brought\\na letter from the church in Pitcher and joined the Baptist Chiu ch at Mt. Clemens, His\\nwife was also a Baptist from ten yeai s of age. and broitght a letter from Tully Chiu ch,\\nand united with the Mt. Clemens Church. They aided in building the present chiu ch\\nedifice as well as aiding largely in its spiritual interests, and also engaged largely in\\nSabbath school and temperance work, etc. They went to Detroit in 1848, where he\\nworked for two years for the Michigan Central Railroad Company, and helped to build\\nthe round house; also 200 farm gates to be used by the company at the farm crossings.\\nHe united with the Baptist Church at Detroit in 1850. He removed to Columbus, St,\\nClair County, on Belle River, two miles from Gratiot Tiu npike, where he lived for nine-\\nteen years. He found not only a forest of trees, but still worse, a mural waste, as many\\nwill remember, when the name of Coltunbus was a terror; but, believing in the power of\\nthe Gospel of love, he immediately went to work in the Sunday school and the temperance\\ncause, holding the Sunday school in his and Deacon Topping s houses. The first temper-\\nance society was formed in the schoolhouse. The Baptist Church was organized in his\\nhouse September 15. 1851, called the First Baptist hurch in Columbus, Mr. Farrar was\\nchosen Deacon, he having served in that cajiacity in Mt. Clemens. The church edifice\\nwas built in 1858. Here he lived to see the Sabbath school, temperance cause and relig-\\nious meetings well established, and a more healthy moral tone pervade the community, when\\nhe came to Lenox and located on Section 1. Here they were among the charter members\\nin the organization of the Baptist Church in Richmond Village, and he is acting as Deacon,\\nThey have also aided in building a church and defraying many other heavy expenses, as\\nwell as the other necessary work, 01 their children, the fom- sons went into the Union\\narmy. Col. Judson S. served through the war, and is now Register of Deeds in Macomb\\nCounty; Clinton M., color-bearer, was killed at Fredericksbiu-g; Capt, Uriel S. was on\\nGen. Mile staff, and was in Libby Prison and Dansville sis months. Stedman B. was\\ndischarged from the Army of the Potomac on account of sickness. The two eldest daughters,\\nHelen A., wife of John Parker, of New Haven, and Delia T. Craudall, of Lenox, were\\nschool teachers; Sybil E. AVescott. music teacher, and died at her father s in Lenox, May\\n20, 1877. The family still live at their pleasant home in Lenox.\\nH. FREEMAN, P. O, Lenox, general produce dealer of the village of Richmond, is\\nthe son of D. C, Freeman and Sarah M. (Vosburg) Freeman. H. Freeman was born at\\nSummer Hill, Cayuga Co., N. Y., August 22, 184", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0903.jp2"}, "904": {"fulltext": "1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nGEORGE W. FRENCH, deceased, was the son of Ebenezer Frencli, who emigrated\\nfrom New Hampshire with his own family and father and mother, and settled on the Hol-\\nland purchase, town of Weathersfield. Wjomiug Co.. N. Y. Here he cleared, by the help\\nof his sons, a large farm and filled offices of responsibility, and died at an advanced age\\nin Hermitage, Wyoming Co.. N. Y. His wife s maiden name was Cleavland. George W.\\nwas born in New Hampshire March 1, 1S16, and was brought when an infant to New York,\\nAfter working on the farm iiutil twenty years of age, he attended the Middlebnry Academy\\none or two terms and taught several schools successfully. He was married to Mary G.\\nBernard February 14, 183 J. She was the daughter of Asahel Bernard, from Vermont,\\nand Mary Dean Bernard, a native of Connecticut. They came to Warsaw. Wyoming Co.,\\nN. Y.. and from there to Gainsville and Weathersfield, of the same coiinty: from there to\\nRichmond, Macomb Co.. Mich., in October. 1844. where he settled and lived until his\\ndeath. George W. French came to Lenox, Macomb Co., Mich., in September, 1843, and\\nsettled on Sections 8 and 4. Prior to coming to Michigan, he worked at several branches\\nof mechanical work: then he devoted his time to clearing a new farm, and erected needed\\nfarm buildings. He filled the office of Supervisor one or two terms in Lenox. He was\\nelected lvei;ister of Deeds of Macomb County in ISfiO, and soon moved to Mt. Clemens.\\nHe tilled his office creditably up to his death, which occurred October 2, 18(52. His only\\ndaughter, Jenette M. who aided her father in the office, died about twenty- fom- hours\\nprevious to her father, and they were both bm ied at the same time, in Richmond. Maret\\nD. French, his only siuwiving son, was married October (i, 1874, to Cai-rie H. Welding,\\ndaughter of Oliver Welding and Mary (Taylor) Welding. Oliver Welding was born in\\nBucks County, Penn., and Mary Taylor in the same county. They came to Elgin County,\\nOntario, where Carrie was born July 27, 1841. She came with her parents to Richmond,\\nMacomb Co.. Mich., in 18()r Mary G. French resides on the same farm whei-e she first\\nsettled with Maret D. French and his wife, Carrie H. French, and their children, Gi-ace\\nand Mark.\\n\u00e2\u0082\u00acHARI.ES FURSTEIVAX.\\nWILLIA:\\\\r H. HALSEY. P. O. New Haven. He is the sonof Silas Halsey, who was\\nborn in Middlebury, Vt., and Lucy M. Cady Halsey, born in Batavia, N. Y.. in 1805.\\nWilliam H. was born in Mt. Clemens March 20, 1830. He lived with his father, who\\nkept hotel. His first license dates 1832. William attended the school in Mt. Clemens\\nbetween thirteen and seventeen years of age: then went to Cincinnati and learned the\\ncarpenter s trade; came back to his father, and then went to Lenox in 1852; then went to\\nNew Baltimore and worked for William Jenny; was married there September 25, 1853,\\nto Miss Charlotte Lamjihere, Her parents were natives of New York. She was born\\nNovember 15, 1830, in Niagara, Niagara Co., N. Y. came to Michigan in 1852. They\\nlived in Lenox one year. Subsequently, he was located in Richmond Village, and asso-\\nciated with his brother Joseph and his brother-in-law, James M. Hick, running stage\\nfrom Ridgeway Station to Romeo. August 13, IStil, he enlisted in the Ninth Michigan\\nInfantry as Sergeant; remained with them until 1802, when he was dischai-ged, and was\\nrecniiting officer from that time until ISIU. when here-enlisted in the Fifth Infantry,\\nand served until the close of the war. His wife died September 3, 18(4. He was mar-\\nried, May 13, 1875, to Mrs. Martha D. Shattuck Dryer, daughter of Dwight Shattuck and\\nMercy (Briggs) Shattuck; Dwiizht born February 15, LSll, in Massachusetts; sulisei|Uinitly\\nlived in Junius, Wayne Co.. N. Y. came to Mt. Clemens, and was married to Miss ^lerey\\nBriggs. daughter of Abel Briggs and Martha (Dickinson) Briggs. Abel Briggs was a native\\nof Rhode Island, and came to Wayne County, N. Y. Mr. Shattuck came to Macomb, Ma-\\ncomb Coimty, when it was in its early stages: was the first settler on his land in Macomb\\nCounty. Mrs. Martha Halsey was born in Macomb December 5, 183(3. Dwight and Mercy", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0904.jp2"}, "905": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nBriggs were married in January, 1835. Martha Shattuck married Nathan Dryer, son\\nof Thomas Dryer, April 24, 1S5(J. He died Februaiy 19, 1869.\\nH. R. HAZELTON, P. O. New Haven. The stave and himber man of New Haven\\nwas born near Brantford, Canada, April 5, 1S35, and is a son of Thaddeus Hazelton. of\\nLenox Township, who came with his family to Macomb County in 1S3S, settliug in Ray\\nTownship. It was here oui- subject was brought up in the woods, and early learned to\\nsling the ax and grubbing hoe. He attended school in a round log cabin and sat\\non a slab bench. The family residence was a round log cabin, with a stick chim-\\nney, and the old fashioned fire-place. At the age of eighteen, Mr. H. left his paren-\\ntal roof, and went to New Baltimore, this county, where, the same year, in company with\\nReuben R. Stewart, he built a sash and blind factory. The latter died in 1855, and our\\nsubject rentetl it to other parties one year. He then, having obtained his majority, took\\nhold of the business himself, ninning it successfully for several years. In the fall of\\nISOC). he traded his factory for a farm in Lenox Township; remained on the farm until\\nthe spring of 18(5 when he, with two others, erected a hardwood lumber mill at New\\nHaven. In 1870. he pm-chased their interests, and afterward added an extensive stave\\nand heading department to it. In this mill he employs constantly forty men, and at times\\nover one hundred. The daily capacity of the mill is 25,000 feet of lumber, 20,000 shingles\\nand eighty barrels of heading. In 1876, he erected a fine, large store building, in which\\nhe keeps a first-class general store, doing a business of \u00c2\u00a740,000 anmially, on a capital\\nstock of $18,000. During the summer of 18S1, Mr. Hazelton built an extensive lumber\\nand stave mill on the Air Line Railroad, near Romeo. His brother, Russell Hazelton,\\nsuperintends the latter mill, where, with a 120 horse power engine, they make large quan-\\ntities of lumber and staves, besides a car load of stave wood daily. He also has a store,\\nboarding house and blacksmith shop established at the new mill. He keeps eighty men\\nconstantly on his pay roll. His barn at New Haven is said to be the largest in Macomb\\nCounty. In it is a fountain of living watei-, which flows constantly. The hay is cut for\\nfeeding by steam cable power from the floui-ing-mill near by. But few men have started\\non nothing, as did Mr. Hazelton, and by hard work and energy risen to the fu-st rank of\\nwealth and popularity in the county. His profits from his business for the year 1S81,\\nwere a little rise of $16,000. When he began to manufacture sash and doors at Baltimore,\\nhe employed but one man, and that was only a portion of the time, doing most of the\\nwork himself. In the fall of 1855, he married Miss Adelia L.. daughter of Alanson Dusett,\\nof New Haven. She was born in Orleans County, N. Y., as also was Mr. Dusett. They\\nhave had seven children, of whom five are living Allison H., Frank B., Delia M., Lottie\\nBell and Arthm- D. Those deceased are\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Jennie M. and Edna. Mr. Hazelton owns a\\nfarm of 115 acres near New Haven, and rents 200 acres adjoining, making a farm of 315\\nacres of which his son Allison has charge. The other son Frank B., assists in the man-\\nagement of the business at the new mill.\\nWILSON JUNE, foreman in Hazelton s saw and stave mill at New Haven, was born\\nnear Montreal, Canada, September 4, 1.S39, aud is a sou of Robert June, a native of\\nNew York State, The latter resided on a f ai-m, and owned an ashery, in which our subject\\nbegan to work at the age of sixteen, and continued in that ca])acity several years. He\\ncame to Macomb County in 1S65, and for the ten years following worked for Austin Wales\\nin Erin Township. He then came to New Haven and engaged with Mr. Hazelton as\\nforeman in the woods at getting out logs. On June 4, 1875, Mr. June married Mrs. So-\\nphia Meartield, daughter of Joel Cartwright. Mi-. J. is an industrious man and a useful\\ncitizen.\\nJOHN G. LEONARD, P. O. New Haven, of Lenox, son of Silas Leonard and Mar-\\ngaret (Berdan) Leonard, both born near or at Newark; Silas, born in 1787, and his wife", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0905.jp2"}, "906": {"fulltext": "88U HLSTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nin 1789. Both died at eighty years of age. John G. was born in Pheli)B. Ontario Co.,\\nN. Y., October 21), ISlfi; lived there iintil seventeen years of age, and came with his\\nfather to Michigan in 1833; settled in Chesterfield, northeast settlement; was man-ied in\\nRay December fi, -1842, to Eliza A. Crawford, of Ray, daughter of Enoch Crawford, of\\nRay, and Content (Parks) Crawford. Content was born in Saratoga County, N. Y. Eliza,\\nborn in Steuben County, N. Y., April 11, 1822; came with her parents to Michigan in\\n1834; died March 2(), 1875. John G. married April 22. 1879., to Catharine Bates, relict\\nof Henry Bates. Catharine was born in Delaware County. N. Y. Religious reminiscence\\nby Mr. Leonard: First preaching in Crawford settlement by Rev. Booth, Baptist; second,\\nWilliam Tuttle, Baptist; third, John Cannon, Christian; first revival meeting by Elder\\nHemmiugway, assisted by Charles Wicof and John D. Seeman; first sermons in private\\nhouses; very small and uncomfortable; afterward circuit preaching established by the\\nMethodist Episcopal Chiu ch; they still continue schools; first school in 1831-32, Will\\niam Greeuleaf, teacher; wages SI 2 per month; second by John D Seeman, These were\\nin small log houses, covereil with elm bai k; houses known as mud schoolhouses. They\\nused to go live miles to logging bees, log raisings, and these were the holiday amusements;\\nused to go eight or ten miles to attend the sick at Isaac L, Estic s and Harley Beemau s, of\\nLenox; these families were sick and entirely destitute, and attended by Dr. Filson, of Mt.\\nClemens. Through his intercession. Christian Clemens sent each family a barrel of flour\\ntwelve miles over Indian trail; no road cut out.\\nHENRY LOWELL, P. O. New Haven, son of Peter Lowell, a native of Sweden:\\npressed into naval service and deserted at New York, and went to Vermont, and married\\nNanc} Smith Lowell, a native of Vermont. Peter and his wife lived in Vermont several\\nyears, where they lost all their property; had thi-ee children Henry, Mary Lowell Scovell\\nand Smith Lowell, who was in the cavalry service during the rebellion; died of disease\\ncontracted there, Henry Lowell, born September 2 1825; came with his mother to\\nOhio; then to Illinois, Rockford, Winnebago County, on Rock River; thence to Mt. Clem-\\nens and Baltimore; then to Lenox in 1850, and located on Section 22; was married to\\nSarah Warwick, in Chesterfield, January 12. 1853, She was the daughter of Richard War-\\nwick and Mary (Randal) Warwick, both of whom were natives of England, and married in\\nEngland September 10, 1825. Henry Lowell and his wife still i-eside on their farm iu\\nLenox, which they are developing into one of the best iu the township by a thorough sys-\\ntem of under-draining. They lend their influence to build up religious and scientific in-\\nstitutions, as all good citizens should.\\nGILBERT R. LOVEJOY, P. O. Lenox, son of Julius Lovejoy. who was born in\\nNew York in 1808. and Elizabeth A, (Parker) Lovejoy, who was born in Porter, Niagara\\nCo.. N. Y., June 27. 1818, and married to Julius Lovejoy in 1837. (Record burned).\\nThe Lovejoy family came to Michigan in 1842, or 1843, and located in Columbus,\\nSt. Clair County, and remained there up to 18()9; then came to their present residence,\\nLenox (Richmond Village), Macomb County, Two of her sons. John M. and Almesou M.\\nLovejoy were in the army in 1862, and died at home of sickness, John in 186/ and Al-\\nmeson in 1871. Fom- of her sons are yet living William, mechanic, at Memphis; Henry\\nE., conductor on Grand Trunk Railroad. Gilbert was the tirst Village Marshal elected in\\nRichmond Village, and served one year and a half, and resigned and went as foreman on\\ngrade construction on the Michigan Air Line Railroad between Rochester and Poutiac;\\ncommenced as general auctioneer in 1879, which business, in connection with other\\nbranches, he is conducting successfully. He is one of the firm of Lovejoy Brothers, in\\nthe agi icultiu-al imj)lement business, in Richmond; also partner in the firm of Perkins\\nLovejoy. coal, lime and building materials. Julius Ii-a, who also resides with his\\nmother, is a general produce dealer. The only daughter, wife of Mi Stoddard, died in\\nt", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0906.jp2"}, "907": {"fulltext": "1874, and is buried in Memphis cemetery. Reminiscences of ancestry: Mrs. Lovejoy\\nthinks she is a grand-daughter of Gen. Lee. of the Revolution. Her mother s name was\\nHildah Lee. youngest daughter of Gen. Lee. Soon after coming to Michigan, their house\\nand all its contents, including family records, was burned, leaving the family, consisting\\nof parents and three childi en, destitute, and as there were only ten or fifteen families\\nwithin a radius of ten miles, they commenced life again alone, and by dint of close\\neconomy and hard labor and suffering privations, have succeeded in securing a good home\\nand comfortable living.\\nA. lAJTTENBACHEK.\\nJOHN S. PARKER. P. O. New Haven, sou of John V. Parker, who was born m\\nMansfield. Windham Co., Coun.. and Harriet (Sandford) Parker, born in Coventry, Tol-\\nland Co. Conn. John U. Parker emigrated from Connecticut to Homer, Cortland Co.\\nN. Y.. in 1817. John S. was born in Mansfield, Windham Co.. Coun, May li. 1810.\\nand was man-ied to Delia Palmer Januarv 18. 1832: was born in Coventry, Tolland Co..\\nConn.. December 13. ISll. They removed to Michigan in September, 1835, and located m\\nClinton, now Warren, on Sections 21 and 22; from there to Columbus, St. Clair County, on\\nthe Gratiot Turnpike, in 1838; one of the first County Commissioners elected in St. Clan-\\nCounty, and for three years held the office. He cleared up two good farms, one of which\\nhe sold in 18t)6, and bought a hotel in New Haven, which he still conducts for the good\\nof hmnanitv, without the aid of liquor.\\nCALVIN A. SMITH was born in London, Canada West. June 13, 184 1, and is a son\\nof Thomas G. Smith. The elder Smith was born in the State of Vermont, and moved\\nwith TTis family from London, Canada, to this country in 1854. Om- subject, C. A. Smith,\\nspent the younger part of his days on his father s farm, and received a good education.\\nHe worked in his father s stave-mill for several years. This mill was biu-ned m 18(1.\\nHe began work for Mr. H. R. Hazelton, of New Hdven, in 1874, at scaling and measuring\\ntimber He is the chief stave cutter, and when his time is not occupied at the mill, he is\\nsalesman in Mr. Hazelton s extensive store. He was married November 14, 18(Ht, to Miss\\nMary E. McNellie. by whom he has five children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Rettie J.. Lilly May, Hattie Bell, Burc\\nA. and Gertrude L. Mi-. Smith is now serving his second tenu as Treasurer of Lenox R.\\nP. He is one of the Village Council, and is a member of the New Haven Cornet Band,\\nand a member of the K. of H.\\nABNER W. STEPHENS P. O. New Haven, is the son of John Scjuire Stephens,\\nof Richmond Village, of Irish descent, and Anna (Woodi-uff) Stephens, who was born m\\nConnecticut. Thev were married January 5. 1 .93. Aimer W. was born in Canaan, Litch-\\nfield Co., Conn., Jime 26, 1801. and emigrated to Pompey. Onondaga Co.. N. m March,\\n1807. He had a very limited education, but plenty of hard work, in a new country. He\\nwas married to Abigail Resseguie October 5, 1825, in Verona, Oneida County. He soon\\nremoved to Van Bm-eu, Onondaga County, where they resided until they came to Michi-\\ngan. He came and t -ok up 240 acres of Government land on Sections 1 and 12. Town 4\\nnorth. Range 14 east, Lenox. He came with his family in 1836. There was not a farm\\ntaken up within three miles. He and his brother John lived in a turnpike shanty while\\nbuildinir his first house. The shanty was burned while they were at work on the house.\\nand then- provisions, watch, rifle and most of their clothing, and some money, amounting\\nto 170. were consumed. They had to go to Mt. Clemens, fifteen miles, for supplies, ihe\\ntown was called Ray. He was so far from town-meeting that he never voted until Lenox\\nwas organized He voted for the first town officers, when no political lines were drawn.\\nHe voted the first Republican ticket in the town, and has continued on that line. He was\\none of the first Highway Commissioners; served one year as Assessor, and eight years as\\nJustice of the Peace, fi^m 1840. He says they had to use all the basswood m town to fall\\n^F", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0907.jp2"}, "908": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntli\u00c2\u00ab ollieiis. In the fall of 1 S:!0, his monov and provisions wore all gone and nothing raised.\\nWilli a family of a wif and six childrmi ho care for, th( future looked gloomy. As the\\nonly resort, and by request of A. f. I aird. himlierman of St. Clair County, and some of\\nhis neighbors, he consented to open a pulilic house on the Gratiot Turnpike. He was\\nfurnished his lirst barrel of flour for it by Lyman Grangt^r, of Lenox, and forty bushels\\nof potatoes by Mr. Simons, of Li uox, ight miles away. Ho had to be trusted by a\\nstranger. After navigation closed, he had plenty to do, and succeeded in living and\\nrearing a family of nine children, five of whom are living. He cleared up a good farm,\\nanil is now i-elired anil enjoying the fruit of his toil in ]ieuceful old age.\\nCHAPTER XLI.\\nII.MililSON TOWNSIIir\\nIn the chai)ters of the general history, the early settlement of this township is very\\nfully treated. So, also, is the story of the dead city of Uelvidere. Hero it will be merely\\nnecessary to review its organic history and perhaps mak( a few special references to its\\npresent inhabitants\\nThe first meeting was hold May 28, 1827, in accordance with the terms of the act,\\nwith William Meldrum, Moderator; Francis Labadie, Justice of the Peace, and Henry\\nTaylor, Clerk. The lirst otlicers elected were: James Meldrum, Clerk: Jacob Tucker,\\nCollector; Charles Tucker, B. Thomas and F. Labadie, Commissioners of Highways:\\nCharles I letier, Sr., Overseer of the Poor: John B. Chapnii\\ngiven for th( office of Supervisor. A special election was-\\nsupervisor. A speci\\nsuited in the choice of Henry Taylor to fill that ofll(\\nsince 1827 are named below;\\niiys\\nan, Constable. A tie vote was\\nas held June 1827, which ro-\\nThi iirincipal township officers\\nTOWN KO.STKl;.\\nSupervisors\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Henry Tavlor, 1827-29; Jacob T\\\\icker, 1829-38; David Lyon, 1888-\\nGeorge Kellegg, 1839-10; Heman Beal, 1840-41; Henry J, Tucker, 1841-42; Henry\\nTeats, 1842-45; William J, Tucker, 1845-48; Antoine Chortior, 1848-49; Alouzo A.\\nGoodman, 1849-50; Robert Teats 1850-55; William J. Tucker, 1855-01; Alonzo A.\\nGoodman, 18(31-63: Edward Teats, 18(33-()4: William J. Tucker, 1804-08; Edward Teats,\\n18( )8-73; Frederick C!. Forton, 1873-75; John FilUn-, 1875-77; Edward Teats, 1877-82.\\nClerks James Meldrum, 1827-33; Valorous Maynard, 1834-35; Robert Moldinim.\\n1835-38; A. C. Hatch, 1839; A. W. Flagg. 1840; Henry Teats, 1841; Henry J. Tucker,\\n1842-43; Robert Teats, lS44-4(); Alonzo A. Goodman 1847-48; Robert Teats, 1848;\\nJacob Tucker, 1850; David Tucker, 1851-53; Hom-y Van Allen, 1854-50; Randolph\\nStiger, 1S57; Robert Teats, 1858-59; Edward Teats, 1800-02; Simon Eackham. 1803-\\n00; Dositee Chortier, 1807-70; John Feller, 1871 72; Henry Frie.s, 1873-74; Lemuel\\nM. Sackett. 1875: Henry Campau, 1870-77; Stephen Lawtoii, 1878-80; Francis Chor-\\ntier, I SS1 S3.\\nJustit es of the Peace David B. Conger, David Lyons, 1837; Hemy Teats, Asher\\nWilco.t. 183S: A. C. Hatch, Alfred C. Hatch, John Connor, Nelson Oviatt, Aaron W. Flagg,\\n1S39: Asher Wilco.v 1839 10; George Kellogg, 1840-U; Henry Teats, Robert Meldrum,\\n1S42; Tliomas Lough, Robert Meldrum, 1843; Asher Wilcox, Edward Tuckar, Homen\\nBoal, 1841; Thomas Rowso, 1845; Henry Teats, 1840; Edward Tuckar, 1847; Joseph\\nDemati-essa, 1848; Samuel Shear, 1849; Nathan Mosher, 1850; Jeremiah Johnson, 1851;", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0908.jp2"}, "909": {"fulltext": "4\\nSam Shear, Homer Beal, Henry Van Allen, 1858; Alonzo A. Goodman, 1S54; Sam Shear,\\nHenry Van Allen, 1855; Robert Teats, Henry Frego, 1857; Alonzo A. (ioodman, Henry\\nFre ^e, Samuel Shear, 1858: Henry Teats, Samuel Shear, 1859; S. Raekham, 1.S5U (iO;\\nJoshua Dickins(m, 1801; Samuel Shearer, 1S62; H( nry Teats, ISfili; Robert Meldrum,\\n1S()4: Joshua Dickinson, 1S(15; David Tucker. ISfiO; Richard Chotier, 18()7; Sam Sh( iU\\nJohn Fuller, 1808; Philip Ballard, LSfUl; David Tuck-r, John A, Fries, 18(i l-70; Sam\\nShear, 1870; Fred Fint(m, Henry Teats, 1871; Phili|i J3aUard. William J. Tucker, 1872;\\nRobert Meldrum, 1878; Andrew Mayhew, 1N74: Itii-hard Tremble, 1S75; David Tucker,\\nIS70; Thomas J. Shoemaker, IS77; Jaeol) Hazenljuhlen, William J. Tucker, IS7S: Jo\\nseph P. Ballard, 1879; Thomas J. Shoemaker. 1S80; John J. Reimold. IS8I.\\nIn this township two tickets were run in 1882. the Union and Township, with Henry\\nCanipau at the head of each. The I nicm ticket was successful except for Clerk. Frank\\nChortier. on the Township ticket, beiny elected over Thomas J. Shoemaki^r. liy one major-\\nity. Jacob Hetzeubuhler was eltu ted Treasurer over John (Jampau y one majority.\\nOKOAMZATION.\\nIn acquiesence with the prayer of citizens of Macomb County, the district which lies\\neast of a line between a tract (jf laud confirmed to John Tucker and James Connor, and\\nextending to the Salin(\u00c2\u00bb River on the north side of the River Huron, and all the counti-y\\nwhich lies east of a line betwtien a tract confirmed to Lewis Peltier and a tract confirmed\\nto Pierre Phenix. on the soitth side of the River Huron, iiKduding the settlements north-\\neast of the base line, near Milk River on the lake shore, to the mouth of the said River\\nHuron, was erected into a township under the name of Harrison. This act was ap[)roved\\nAugust 12, 1818.\\nHarrison Township, as erectc^d under legislative enactment. .-Vpril 12, 1827, comprised\\nall the country between the county lin(? of Macomb and St. Clair, on the town line be-\\ntween Town 4, Range 13, and Town 4, in Range 14, running south to the lake, near the\\nfaiTU of Joseph Sansfacon.so as to include his farm in the town of Clint(m. which includes\\nTowns 4, 8 and a part of 2, in Range 14, was named Harriscm, and tlie first town meeting\\nwas ordered to be held at the house of Charles Peltier, Jr.. the last Monday in May, 1827.\\nThe first house of worship erected in the county was the Catholic Church, in 1775.\\nThis old house stood on the south bank of the Clinton, about four miles below the site of\\nMt Clemens, in Harrison Township.\\nThe first marriage among the white settlers is supposed to be that of Nicholas Paten-\\naude, in 1758 or 1759. The second that of Richard Connor, or O Connor, and Mary My-\\ners, the Indian captive, in 17S1.\\nThe first white female child born in the county was Susanna Cotmor, daughter of\\nRichard Connor, who maiTied Elisha Hairington.\\nThe first white male children were the sons of Patenaude and the son of l{ichar l\\nConnor, who was claimed by the Indians as their adopted child.\\nThe tirst school organiziid in the county was that under Joseph Rowe, in Harrison in\\n17Vt4. A room in William Tucker s dwelling formed the school-room. Rowe remained\\nt\u00c2\u00abn years in the settlement, leaving in ISOl.\\nI llVSK AI. iiai:A( Ti;l!ISTII s.\\nHan-ison contains a sufficient ([uanlity of the best varieties of timber, including\\nwhite and black oak, black walnut, hickory, beech and maple. The land is about equally\\ndivided between rolling and level. Near the mouth of the river it is inclined to be flat,\\nand, in some pla ces, swampy, l)ut. on the whole, very little irredeemable land exists within\\nits boundaries. The Clinton divides the township into two equal parts. The creeks\\n55\\nrV\\nt", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0909.jp2"}, "910": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nknown as Tucker sund Venire rle Bd uf drain the sonthern sections of the town, while a\\nsmall creek flowing northeastward into the lake, waters the northeastern sections.\\nAs an agriciilhiral region, Harrison ranks with the foremost townships in the county.\\nIn all of the staple agricultiiral productions it shows a fair proportion. The site of the\\nfallen city of Belvidere is an evidence of the progress of agricultural science. Here,\\nwhere once a city was di owned out, the model farm of Messrs. Campbell Sackett exists.\\nThe importance and value of land in Harrison Township is greatly enhanced by its\\nclose proximity to the county seat. It is bounded on the west by Clinton Township, and\\nthe corporation limits of Mt. Clemens also touch its western boundary. Its citizens gen-\\nerally are an industrious class of people, hospitable and good fanners, under whose guid-\\nance the prosperity of the township is assured.\\nEast of the mouth of the Huron River, commencing at the now site of the ruins of\\nBelvidere, and between that point and St Clair River, the only two Canadian families\\nhad settled. These men had squatted at a point neai the bank of Salt River, and had\\npossessed themselves there of a salt spring. This salt sjiring was regarded by them as\\nthe future source of considerable wealth. The salt spring is now well known by our people\\nas the one in the little glen where the plank road bridge crosses Salt River, about four miles\\nup the stream from the lake. The spring was looked upon as of gi eat value and impor-\\ntance by the agent of the United States Government, who was sent out to investigate and\\nsurvey (he Government interest here in 1S04, and, in a communication to Thomas Jeffer-\\nson, Secretary of State, we find mention made of this Salt Interest by C. Jouett, the\\nthen Indian agent at Detroit. In this report the agent says: From experiments that\\nhave been made, I am justified in saying that this spring deserves the public attention.\\nIt was wrought some time by a couple of men, who, owing to their want of. capital, were\\nincapable of conducting the business on an advantageous plan. By those men I have\\nbeen assiu ed that a quart of water did with them tm-n out a gill of salt; and in all their\\ntrials with greater quantities it never failed to produce a like proportion. There is asuffi\\ncient (quantity of water to supply works to any extent. This salt spring was claimed by\\na firm whose names are recorded in the State papers at Washington, as Meldrum Pai ks,\\nand whose title had been obtained from the Indians in some such manner that the Govern-\\nment refused to recognize their claim as of any validity-, affecting, as it did, so important\\nan interest.\\nFIRST EVENTS.\\nThe lii-st settlers were the Sauks up to 1520. The Otchipwes came in 1520, and\\ndrove out the small bands of Wyandots and Miamis.\\nWilliam and Joseph Tuckar and Maiy Myers are supposed to be the first English-\\nspeaJcing visitors to the district now comprised in Macomb County. They were caiTied\\ninto captivity by the Otchipwes from their homes in Virginia, while yet the elder brother,\\nWilliam, was only eleven years of age about the year 1754.\\nJoseph Tuckar died on a desolate island in the upper lake region some time after his\\narrival here, and must be considered the first white man known to the Indians of the Huron\\nwho deceased.\\nThe first actual white settler was Nicholas Patenaude, who acquired and improved\\nClaim 273. fronting on Lake St. Clair, in 175S. In his testimony before the United\\nStates Land Commissioners, in 1S08, he substantiated his statement under oath and by\\nwitness.\\nLITERAKV AND EDITC \\\\TIONAL.\\nThe litertuy privileges of the early settlers were on neither an exalted nor advanta-\\ngeous footing for many years. Many localities, while yet in their infancy, both east and\\nwest of this county, were far better situated in this respect. Here the increased and", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0910.jp2"}, "911": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nmanifold privations debaiTed the pioneers of our county from erecting either the primitive\\nlog schoolhouse or the equally original sanctuary. But when the harassing circumstances\\nof their situation would permit, they exerted every energy toward the development of\\nintellectual and moral cultme. At first, very little concert of action could be obtained,\\npartly because of the strangeness of the new situation, and partly because many enter-\\ntained doubts as to whether they .vould permanently remain in their new homes. Yet\\nthose who had families with them manifested a praiseworthy and zealous regard for the\\nfutm-e of their offspring. Doubtless the first schools taught in the county were those\\ntaught by the Moravian missionaries, those brave and heroic champions of religion and\\nlearning, justice and jiiety, whose works have left an indelible impress on the history of\\nevery settlement in this Western country. The first school taught in the English language\\nof which we have any definite authority was under the teaching of Joseph Rowe, in the\\nhouse of William Tucker, in Harrison This was eighty-one years ago. Edwai d Tucker\\nwas one of the scholai s in the primary department. The teachers wages were $10 per\\nmonth, with board, washing and mending included. Mr. Eowe acted in the capacity of a\\nsavant whenever an occasion ofiered. He frequently read the Episcopal burial service\\nat funerals, as there were none present to conduct any other exercises. He remained\\nabout ten years in this vicinity. After jieaee again pervaded the settlement, the families\\nresiding on the river east of Mt. Clemens built a log schoolhouse a few rods from the site of\\nthe residence of Lafayette Tucker. This was the first schoolhouse in the county. Benjamin\\nP. Dodge, a British Tory, was one of the first teachers who occupied it. Richard Butler\\ntaught school in it as early as 1S24, and Dr. Henry Taylor in IS 27. The school drew\\nscholars from the distance of five miles. Hemy Harrington was one of Dr. Taylor s pupils.\\nRobert Tate, a Scotchman, taught school in this county as early as 1S0(3. It was a family\\nschool, gathered at the house of William Clemens. After he had fulfilled his mission\\nhere as a pedagogue, he returaed to Canada, whence he came. After the war, Ezra\\nB. Prescott employed his spare time in advancing the interest of education. He built a\\nhouse just below the residence of John Stockton. To show his versatility of talent, he\\nlived the life of a bachelor and kept house for himself. The school was a literary cen-\\nter for the settlers, and, for want of artificial carriages to reach it, the children resorted to\\nthose which natm-e afibrded. John Hays, then a lad, would mount his pony, take on two\\nof his sisters behind him, and away to school, giving his pony the limits of ranging\\nthrough the hours of study. When their daily task was done, they retiu-ned by the same\\nconveyance.\\nPRESENT .SCHOOLS.\\nThere are three district schools in the township, now under the direction of David\\nTucker, James Perry and Edward Teats. The buildings are frame, valued at $1,70).\\nThe total expenditure of the township for school purposes, diu-ing the year ending Sep-\\ntember 5. INSl, was about 1,100. $292 of which were paid to the teachers. The number\\nof children of school age in the township is 285, of which number 170 atteaded school\\nregiilarly during the yeai-. The primary school interest fund amounted to $2S3; the 1\\nmill tax to $292.52, and the balance derived fi-om other sources.\\nB10GP.\\\\PIIirAL.\\nThe history of this township is continued in the personal sketches of its most i)rom-\\ninent citizens, given in the pages devoted to that branch of local history.\\nCHARLES BOOTZ. P. O. Mt. Clemens, Box ir.9, was born in Northern Germany,\\nSeptember 7, 1824: he was raised on a farm and received the education which the com-\\nmon schools of Germany afford; he lived with his parents until 1S4H, when he bought a\\nfarm for himself, and the same veai married Miss Anna Kunstman, Mav 27: there were\\n-71", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0911.jp2"}, "912": {"fulltext": "^4\u00c2\u00ab\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nnine cliildron born to them in Germany Minnie, Riecka, Alwine. Fred, Emily, Anna,\\nCharli s, Emil and Mary, of whom two are married Minnie and Riecka. Mr. B. and\\nfamily left Germany May HI, 1S7 2, and, arrived at New York June IS: goiufj- West, they\\nreached Detroit, where they remained until 1N74, when they moved to Macomb County and\\nlocated on seventy-one acres on P. G. 1()7; this proi)erty is estimated to be worth .f-i.oOO.\\nRICHARD B. CONNOR, P. O. Mt. Clemens, born at Detroit January IS, 1849; was\\neducated at the University of Notre Dame. South Bend, Ind. After leaving college, he\\nentered on the life of an agriculturist and stock-raiser, which he has made a success. He\\nmarried Miss Archange Rivard, daughter of Ferdinand and Pauline Rivard. Feb. 1, 1870.\\nTo them eight children were born, of whom Isabelle, Richard P., Allen R., Mary A. and\\nFrances C. are living. The family belong to the Catholic Chm ch. Mr. Connor has been\\nSuperintendent of the Schools of Harrison; filled other town offices and is the possessor of\\na valuable farm of sixty-two acres, on P. C. 1()3.\\nARNOLD JOBSA, P. O. Mt. Clemens, a native of Holland, settled at Ontario, Wayne\\nCo., N. Y., about the year 1844; he came to Macomb in 18()7, and located his farm; his\\nwife, Miss Nellie Johnston, is a native of Holland. Louis Jobsa was born March 2^ 1839;\\nwas raised on a farm; received a common-school education; has been elected Town Treas-\\nurer and Justice of the Peace and resides with his father.\\nFRANCIS LETOITRNEAU, P. O. Box No. (588, Mt. Clemens, father of Mrs. Jose-\\nphine Paquette. was born in Macomb County in 1800: he labored on the farm until ISl.\\nwhen he began the trade of ship and house builder. Mi s. Josephine Paquette was born\\nJixne 1, 1833, at Detroit, educated in the common schools, and subsequently studied in\\nher father s house. The family moved to Mt. Clemens in 1S. )4, where Miss Josephine\\nLetourneau was married to Jarvis Paquette, at Mt. Clemens. June If). 18- )7, by whom she\\nhad eight children, seven of whom are living Mary C, Joseph, Francis. Louis,\\nMarie, Charles and Fred; her husband was instantly killed. February 18, 1878, by a fall-\\ning tree or limb. The Paquette family resided at Detroit from 1857 to 1874, when they\\nlocated on P. C. No. 17 where the family now live: the property is valued at $3, (UK),\\nbeing seventy-two acres, with dwelling-house and improvements.\\nJAMES PERRY, P. O. Mt. Clemens, son of John and Mary (Kelly) Perry, natives of\\nIreland, was born Mareh 4, 183(5; he was educated in Ireland, and completed his studies\\nin Rochester, N. Y. his parents settled in the Canadas in 1841, moved to Rochester, N.\\nY., where James Perry joined them in 1848; he learned the cooper s trade and followed\\nit for four years, until 18 )4; he married the daughter of John A. and Margaret (Mink)\\nFries, September 2 IS. when they moved to Macomb County: they are the parents of\\ntwelve children John H. Ella R.. Eugene, Lucy and Lewis, twins, James, Mar-\\ngaret. Maiy J., Edith and Eva. Mr. Perry is a member of the Presbyterian Church; he\\nowns 100 acres on P. C. 17 2; he makes a specialty of horse-raising; two of his animals\\nwere awarded the first prize for two years at the State Fair, and always take the first pre-\\nmium at the county fairs.\\nJOHN J. REIMOLD, son of John J. and Catharine Reiraold, natives of Germany,\\nwas born at Wurtemberg October (5, IS iS; received a liberal education and left his home\\nfor the United States in lSr)3; arriving at Mt. Clemens, he resumed farming, and then\\nentered the butchering business, which he continued until 18(j3. He married Miss Pris-\\ncilla Moser, daughter of Nathan and Elizabeth Moser, February 18, IS- they are the\\nparents of eight children Alice, Fred, Rosa, Mary, Sarah, Charles, Henry and Jennie.\\nMr. Reimold holds the offices of Justice and Drain Commissioner; he is a member of the\\nMt. Clemens Grange, Lodge (337; owner of 13 2 acres in P. C. 229, Harrison; is an exten-\\nsive stock-raiser and a thorough agricultiu-ist.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0912.jp2"}, "913": {"fulltext": "^1\\ni\\nT. J. SHOEMAKER. P. O. Mt. Clemens, resides on French Claim 229, settled origi-\\nnally in lT9 i. by John Loveless, who sold to Joseph Eobertjeau in 179N.\\nFRANCOIS X. STARK, P. O. Mt. Clemens, was born in the Kingdom of Bavaria\\nApril I. 1840. Jacob Stark, who brought his family to this country in lS5 i. died shortly\\nafter his arrival. The family located on a farm (ju Swan Creek, where they lived for two\\nyears, then removed to New Baltimore, where two more years were passed: next, to Sjiring\\nWells, Wayne County, and ultimately, to Harrison, where Mr. Stark s mother and sister\\nhave a farm of :^30 acres, on P. C. 129. F. X. Stark married Miss Mary Livernois, of\\nWayne County, in 1 S()9; they were the parents of ten children, of whom seven are living\\nMary E., Francis M., Frances S., Joseph, Charles A.. Mary E. and Edward F. Mr.\\nS. carried on a brick factory at Spring Wells for seven years previous to his coming to\\nHarrison Township.\\nEDWARD TEATS. Supervisor of HaiTison, was born in Dutchess County, N. Y.. No-\\nvember 27. 1829. Henry Teats, who came to this county abovit 18;-i7, was County Register\\nof Deeds for two terms; he moved to Dickinson Coimty, Kan., in the spring of 18S0, and\\ndied there the same year, aged eighty- fom- years. Edward Teats came to Macomb in\\n1841, and now resides on Private Claim 107, Harrison Township, where he owns eighty-\\nfour acres of fertile land. Mr. Teats is a farmer and stock-raiser. He was married, in\\n18- Jl. to Harriet Rackham, of England, who came with her parents to Detroit about 1840,\\nand to this county in 1849; they are the ])ai ents of ten children, nine of whom are living\\nRhoda M. Elizabeth, Kate, Ai-thui John. Florence. Belle. Olive and Grace. A refer-\\nence to the organic section of the sketch of Harrison Towship will show the positions\\nwhich he has held.\\nNORRIS TUCKER, P. O. Mt. Clemens, a member of the pioneer family of that\\nname, is referred to in the general history of the county, where the Tucker family is\\ntreated historically.\\nCHAPTER XLII.\\nEIUX TOWX.slIIP.\\nThe same references that have been made to the settlement of Harrison apply eijually\\nto Erin. Here some of the first French squatters located.\\nErin is one of the most thickly settled townships in the county. In point of popula\\ntion, it ranks second. In 1874, the census shows the number of inhabitants to be 2,400:\\nnumber of families. 448, and of dwellings 433. The population in 1N80 was 2,095. The\\ntownship is a fine agricultm-al region: the product in the following staple articles being,\\nin 1874, winter wheat, 14.565: rye. 1.858; corn. 30.(511; oats, 42.0S0; barley, 2,5N3: jio-\\ntatoes, 20,119. The township has a fair proportion of timber, including the be.st Michi-\\ngan varieties. The principal stream in the township is Milk River, which rises in Wayne\\nCounty, and traverses Erin Township in a northeasterly direction, and empties into Lake\\nSt. Clair, at the southeast corner of the township.\\nORfiANIZATION.\\nErin Township was organized under the name of Orange, by authority given in the\\nact of March 11, 1837. It comprised all of Township 1 north, of Range 13 east, together\\nwith Sections 12. 13. 24. 25 and 30. of Township 1 north, of Range 12 east. Section 36\\n-Tj\u00c2\u00ae T^\\n^V", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0913.jp2"}, "914": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nof Warreu was added to this township iu February, 1S42. and a year later, March 9.\\nI S4;!, the name of the district, as organized, was changed to Erin. This change of name\\nis said to be due to the fact, that in the year 1S4:1 a hirge influx of Irish citizens had\\ncome to Orange, and, the name not corresponding to their Hibernian ideas of propriety,\\nthey had it changed to Erin, after their native isle.\\nTOWNSHIP OFFIl KK.S.\\nSupervisors John B. Cottrell. 1837-88; County Commissioners, 1S;!S-1:3; Israel\\nCurtiss, 1S48-44; Solomon Porter, 1.S44-45; Israel Cm-tias, 1845-52; William Stevens,\\n1852-58: Peter McGovern, 1858-55; Henry L. Reeves, 1855-59; Jacob Hetchler, 1859-\\n(52; James Whiting, 1862-65; Jacob Hetchler, 1865-66; Austin Wells, 1866-67; James\\nWhiting, 1867-78; Robert A Barton, 1878-76; John Dedenbach, 1876-81; Robert A.\\nBarton, 1881-82.\\nJu.stices of the Peace Allen Winslow, John R. Rivard, Moses Conn, Thomas Kailey,\\n1887; Allen Winslow, Israel Curtiss, Isaac Hall, 1S38; John Ready, Elias Stern, 1889;\\nThomas Willett, 1840; Israel Cm-tiss, Solomon Porter, 1841; Henry Diegel, 1842; Austin\\nWales, Charles Constantine, 1844; Israel Curtiss, 1845; Jacob Harder, Thomas Kailey,\\nElias Stone, 1846; Sam W, May, 1847; Silas Aldrich. Elias Stone, 1848; Israel Curtiss.\\n1849; Peter McGovern, Thomas Kailey, 1850; Peter McGovern, 1852; John Reddy, John\\nMorehouse, 1858; Israel T. Curtiss, 1854; Benjamin May, Henry L. Reeves, 1855; John\\nBrownlee, 1856; John B. Cottrell, 1857; Levi C. Lyon^ 1858; Moses Bottomley, 1856;\\nHenry Deagel, Peter McGovei-n, William H. Smith, 1859; John Brownlee, M. Bottomley,\\nI860; Henry Blake, 1861; Austin Wales, Peter McGovern, 1862; William L. Curtiss,\\nGeorge Mead, 1868; Francis De Fer, Henry Deagel, 1864; Peter McGovern, 1864-65;\\nAustin Wales, Hugh McCaiTon, 1865; Francis Ellair, John Strieker, 186( George C.\\nMead. John F. Eberline, James Whiting, 1867; Joseph Williams, 186S-6;); Jac(jb Ketch\\nler, George C. Mead, 1870; James Whiting, Charles Cox, 1871; Casper A. Schettler,\\nRobert A. Barton. 1872,\\nThe election of 1882 resulted as follows: Supervi.sor, R. A. Barton, Republican, 191;\\nJohn Dedenbach, Democrat, 155; Republican majority, 36. Clerk, Henry Bloss, Demo-\\ncrat, on both tickets. Treasui er, Chai-les Freehauf, Democrat, 196: William Bottomly,\\nJr., Republican, 148; Democratic majority, 48.\\nTOWNSIIir SCHOOLS.\\nDistrict No. 5 was organized in 1850 by Benjamin Wheat. After much difficulty in\\nselecting a location, a site was agreed upon, when the first log schoolhouse was erected.\\nEach one in the district furnished his quota of logs. The first officers were: Francis De\\nFer, Sr., Director; Nelson Labadie, Moderator, and Louis Frazer, Assessor. The first\\nteacher emjdoyed was Mrs. Catharine Moran. Her salary was $14 per month. The dis-\\ntrict comprises a French jiopulation. Through the influence of the teacher Charles\\nDomini, who has been employed since 1866 a new schoolhouse was built in 1870.\\n\\\\lI,LA(:i:S.\\nThe village of Frazer, in Erin Township, is a country post office and station on the\\nGrand Trunk Railway, six miles southwest of Mt. Clemens Court House and nineteen out\\nfrom Detroit. The depot is one-quarter mile distant from the post office In the vicinity,\\nthere is an Evangelical Lutheran Church, a district school and steam stave and heading\\nfactory, the products of the latter forming the only exports. The business aud profes-\\nsional circles of the hamlet comprise about a dozen persons. The post office is conducted\\nby F. C. Kollmorgen. The principal business is conducted by the stave and heading fac-", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0914.jp2"}, "915": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\ntory. There are some other manufactories. The Canadian Express Company and the\\nWestern Union Telegi-aph Company do business here.\\nThe village was founded in 1S57 by Alex Frazer. The first store was established by\\nFred Eberlein. a Bavarian, who settled there in 185(5. A stave-mill was built by Eberleiia\\nCo. in ISI). who operated it two years, when the company sold to F. Eberlein and Will-\\niam Beauclerc. The concern was sold to John Gapt, who sold his interest, in 1S72, to\\nCharles Knorr and John Gutow, and the latter selling to Charles Steffias resulted in the\\nformation of the present fii-m. The company manufacture at present staves, headings, hard-\\nwood lumber, ax-handles, whiffletrees, neck-yokes, and also operate a feed-mill.\\nThe first blacksmith shoj) was that of F. Eberlein, established in 1S56. Frazer is a\\nGerman village. A Lutheran Church, which sustains a large gi-aded school, is in a pros-\\nperous state. The schoolhouse now Ijeing built is estimated to cost $2,000.\\nOne of the most complete wood-working mills in this part of the State is that of\\nKnorr Stefleus, at Frazer. The establishment includes a large stave and heading mill,\\na saw-mill and an ax-handle factory, and gives employment to fifty hands. The firm\\nfinds itself, at the season s end, with 2r),000 in dry stock on hand, from which it will\\nrealize a handsome profit. Their business may be judged from the fact that last year they\\npaid no less than $S,000 in freight to the Grand Trunk. Enterprising manufactiu-ers like\\nKnorr Stefleus are a solid advantage to any community.\\nThere is a small and steadily growing settlement called the Junction. It is located\\nat a point where the Utica plank road intersects the Gratiot road.\\nRoseville is a village of 400 inhabitants, in Erin Township, Macomb County, four\\nand a half miles south of Frazer, on the Grand Trunk Railway, three miles from Lake\\nSt. Clair, nineteen miles above Detroit and ten south of Mt. Clemens. The place con-\\ntains six chiu ches\u00e2\u0080\u0094 one Catholic, thi-ee Lutheran, MetJiodist and Presln-terian and several\\nschools. Fruit, grain, hay and potatoes ai e the exports. Gustave Schuchard is Postmaster.\\nRev. Messrs. J. S. Schimdt, J. List and Amdt, of the Lutheran Churches:\\nRev. Andi eas Meyer, of the Methodist, and Rev. J. Van Straken, of the Catholic Church,\\nare the only resident pastors. The physicians are James Yates and Henry Feldman.\\nThere are three potash manufacturers, one stave factory, eleven stores, two saloons, one\\nhotel, with a number of wagon-makers and blacksmiths.\\nI KIisOXAL IIl.STORY.\\nThe biographical sketches of many of the most prominent citizens of the township,\\najjpeariug in subsequent pages, contain many valuable references to the history of this\\ntownship.\\nHENRY ACKERMAN, P. O. Roseville, son of George and Elizabeth Ackerman, who\\ncame fi om Germany to New York City in lS2t), to Wayne County in 1S82, where the for-\\nmer died in August, INTO, and the latter in OctoVier, ISH;! Henry was born November\\nIS, 18-t2, in Wayne County, which he made his h ime until twenty-eight years old. He\\nwas married, October 29, 1S70, to Miss Rebecca, daughter of D. McFarland and Eliza\\nApling, former of Scotland, latter of England; this lady was born August V), lS4r); they\\nwere the parents of two childi en, one of whom is dead. Mr. Ackerman is the owner of\\nfifty- eight acres on Section 8L\\nSTEPHEN ALLARD, P. O. Roseville, son of Louis and Therissa (Bellor), was born\\nin Wayne County, Mich., February 8, 1880; his father died in 1888, and his mother in\\n18r)8: was educated in France school; was raised on the farm; he inherited twenty-two\\nacres and now owns eighty acres on Private Claim ()2r). Erin Township. Mr. Allard was\\nmaiTied, June 28, 1S )1, to Miss Elizabeth Chapien, to whom were born twelve children\\nJames, Moses, Benjamin, Therissa, Stephen, Pontiff, Augu.st. Charles, Mary, Julia,", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0915.jp2"}, "916": {"fulltext": "Elleu aud Josepli. James Allarcl was married. November 21, 1S77, to Miss Mary Piett,\\n(laughtor of Michel and Eliza (Nurzel) Piett they are the parents of three childi en, two\\nof whom are dead. The family belongs to the Catholic Church.\\nROBERT A. BARTON, P. O. RoseviUe. was born in Hudson, N. Y.. May S, 1824;\\nhis fath( r was born in Georgia, and held the position of Second Lieutenant, First Dra-\\ngoons, under Col. Backus, and subsequently Captain of the Forty-sixth United States In-\\nfantry, during the war of LS12; he received the latter commission from Pi-esident Madison;\\nat the close of the war. he settled at Hudson, where he married. In 1S;^H, he moved to\\n^lichigan. where he died; his family consisted of eight children Frederick, James, John\\nL.. Elizabeth. Robert A., Theodore, Thomas J, and Henry C. Robert A. was married,\\nMay 29. 1849. to Julia A., daughter of Pierrs Gouiu. of Grosse Point. Wayne Co.. Mich.;\\nthis lady died April 8, 18()S; he married Miss Polly Vernier, of Erin Township, who died\\nFebruary 1, bS72. Mr. B. held the office of Supervisor for 1872-7ij and 1S81-S2; he\\nhas been Justice of the Peace for twelve years: he is the owner of si.xty acres on Private\\nClaim H2r), where he made his home. James. Louisa and Rhoda are the chiklren by the\\nfirst marriage; Abraham, Thomas, Henry S. and Robert by the second marriage.\\nHENRY BLOSS. P. O. Roseville, was born September 2. 184S; his father, Thomas\\nBloss. and mother, Catharine Mershel, natives of Germany, came to the United States in\\n1847, and were married the same year. Henry was raised on a farm and received a Ger-\\nman and English education; in 18()9, he went to Bay City, where he worked in a saw-mill\\nuntil ]N78; in the latter year, he returned to his farm in Erin Township; in 1878, he pm--\\nchased the Charles Rehfeld store, where he now conducts a general business. He was\\nman ied, in Mav, 1878; he was elected Town Clerk in 1879. which position he now holds.\\nTHOMAS common, P. O. Fraser, son of Richard and Jennette (Laing) Common,\\nnatives of Scotland, who were married July N. 1814, was born August 17, 18:58; he came\\nwith his parents to Detroit, in 1.S44, and lived there until 1S4H; his mother died June 28,\\n1845, his father April 11, 1852. Mr. Common. Sr., while working as a mason at Detroit,\\npurchased eighty acres in Erin Township, and settled on this farm in 1847. Mr. C, Jr.,\\nwas raised partly in Scotland, at Detroit and in Erin: he served one year in a drug store\\nbefore moving to his farm; at that time, neighbors were from four to six miles apart; his\\nfu st farming ojierations were attended with success, and down the years to the present\\ntime rich harvests have always attended his labors. He was married, September 27, 1857,\\nto Miss Marion, daughter of Samuel D. and Mercy (Briggs) Shattuck, the former born in\\nChesterfield, Hampshire Co., Mass., February 15, 1811, the latter born at Potter, N. Y.,\\nJuly 22, 1818; ten childi-en were born to this marriage. The family belong to the Pres-\\nbyterian Church. Mr. Common visited Great Britain and Ireland in 1877. leaving home\\nJuly 4. and retiu-ning in September.\\nCHARLES DEMRICK. P. O. Roseville, son of Frederick and Elizabeth Demrick,\\nwas born in Germany November 19, 1888; came with his parents to the United States in\\n1852, and settled in Oneida County, N. Y. four years later, the family located the home-\\nstead on Section lit, Erin Township, where Charles Demrick now lives. Mr. D. Sr. died\\nAugust 25, lSfi9, and. on July IS, 1880, his mother deceased. Mr. D., Jr., was married,\\nNovember 18. INtw. to Miss Amelia, daughter of Henry and Maiy A. Savage, the former\\nborn in New York, and the latter in England. Mi-s. D. was born June 27, 184(); they had\\nsix children, five of whom are living Almon H., Ray E., Edgar, Carl and Minerva.\\nJACOB A. GAUKLER, P. O. Roseville, Macomb Co., Mich. he is the son of Jacob\\nand Barbara (Wuneh) Gaukler, was born at Wurtemberg, Germany, June 8, 1845. The\\nfamily came to the United States in 1858, and located at Detroit for a short time, and in\\nErin Township. In 1854, Mr. G., Sr., purchased one iicre and a house; in 1855, he\\nopened a small gi ocery store and meat market; subsequently, moved to Gaukler s comer,", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0916.jp2"}, "917": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUJsTY.\\nwhere his son Jacob A. Gauklei- now carries on his extensive business. He was married,\\nJanuary 2(), ISliV). to Miss Josephine Weber, daughter of Frank and Elizabetli Weber,\\nof the city of Detroit, Mich.; they are the parents of six children, four of whom are living\\nMary E., Victor P., Arthur H. and Frank O. I. Mr. G. owns, together with his busi-\\nness, MO acres of land; he has been Clerkof the township for seven successive terms and\\ndelegate to conventions and prominent in all matters connected with the township. The\\nfamilv belong to the Roman Catholic Church.\\nJOHX HOUGHTON. P. O. Roseville. son of Thomas and Mary (Giles) Houghton,\\nwas born in Yorkshire. England, January 81, 1S21; he came to the United States June 9,\\n11S44, and located within iive miles of Detroit; subsequently, he rented a farm, which he\\nworked for two years, and next located a farm on Gratiot road, where he operated a brick-\\nyard. April 1. 185(5, he moved to Erin Tovraship, where he now owns and cultivates ViO\\nacres on Section 20. and ten acres on Section 2 Warren, joining; he is also the owner of\\na farm of tifty acres at Troy. Oakland County, and is an extensive stock-raiser. Mi-. H.\\nmarried Miss Margaret Galtry. daughter of Matthew and Mary Thomson Gal try, March\\n1. 1S44. to whom were born four children. In October, 1 855, he married his second wife.\\nMiss Mary A. Hersey, to whom were born eight children; lastly, he married Miss Mary\\nGoodwin. daughter oE Elijah and G. Hall Goodwin, to whom were three children born; of\\nthe fifteen children, there are thirteen living.\\nMATTHEW T. HOUGHTON. P. O. Roseville. son of John and Mary (Galtry)\\nHoughton, was born September 11, 1845; he married Miss Prudence, daughter of Henry\\nand Mary A. (Reed) Savage, January 14, 18( )8, to whom was born one child. Mrs. Sav-\\nage died April 17. 187(1. For the four succeeding years. ;Mi-. Houghton traveled a good\\ndeal. He man-ied Miss Mary A. Whiting, daughter of James and Mary (Young) Whiting,\\nApril 11, 1872, to whom was born one son\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Ai thur Houghton; in lS7;i he pm chased\\nforty acres, on Section 9, Erin. Mi-s. Houghton died in her new home March 21, 187();\\nhe subsequently married Miss Catharine Teats, daughter of Edward Teats, who is the\\nmother of Elmer Houghton. Mr. H, is a farmer and stock-raiser and a member of the\\nPresbvterian Church.\\nCHARLES KNORR, P. O. Fraser. born in Germany June 2H. 1 840. is the son of\\nChristian Knorr; he came to Detroit in lS(i4. and to Macomb County in 18(2, where he\\nengaged in the manufacture of staves, headings, handles, etc., with Mr. Steffens. He was\\nmarried, in lS6(i. to Miss Elizabeth Schmidt, a native of Germany; to them ten children\\nwere bom, seven of them now living\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Maiy, John, Caroline, George, Hermann, Julia\\nand Frederick. The family belong to the Lutheran Chui-ch.\\nDENNIS O CONNELL. P. O. Roseville. bom in Cork County, Ireland, in 181\\ncame to Montreal. Canada, in 1847; to Burlington. Vt., in 1S48, and to Detroit in 1850.\\nIVIr. O Connell received a liberal education in Ireland, where he was teacher in the schools.\\nOn coming to Detroit, in 1850, he turned his attention to the public works; in 1852. he\\nresumed the position of schoo -teacher, which he held until 18rM), when he retired to\\na farm, which he purchased on Section 19, Erin, where he now lives. IVIr. O Connell was\\nmarried to Miss Tamsin Smith, in October, 1N4(, by Rev. Mr. Connelly, of the Cathedral,\\nMontreal. He became acquainted with the lady on board the vessel which brought him to\\nthis continent, in 1S47; she died. September 2. 1859; she was the mother of five chil-\\ndren, the voungest of whom resides with his father.\\nLEONHARD SCHNEIDER, P. O. Eraser, this enterprising blacksmith and wagon\\nmanufacturer was born in Milwaukee. Wis., May 9. 1858; he is the son of George Schnei-\\nder, a native of Germanv. who emigrated fi-om his native country to Wisconsin m early\\nlife. When Leonhard was a small boy, the family removed to Lyon. Iowa, where they\\nremained antil 18(55, when thev came to Macomb Coimty. The following year, our sub-\\n^F s r~", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0917.jp2"}, "918": {"fulltext": "ject began to learn the blacksmith trade; in 1S74, ho began business for himself; he pur-\\nchased the old shop of Fred Heisner, at Fraser, and, in the fall of ISTC), built a new one,\\n47x30 feet; he carried on the business, which has so rapidly increased, that he built an\\naddition in ISS i, 44x10 feet; he has recently taken his brother George as a partner in the\\nbusiness; there is a wagon-shop in connection with his shop, which makes in all a very\\nextensive manufactory. Mr. S. s business is constantly increasing; in addition to his\\nshop and factory, he is doing a very extensive business in the sale of all kinds of agricult-\\nural implements. In 1874, he married Miss Anna Odoerfer, by whom he has two boys and\\nthree girls; their names are as follows: Anna, Elizabeth, George, Magdalena and Fred-\\nerick.\\nGUSTAVE SCHUCHARD, P. O. Roseville, is the son of George F. and Anna M.\\n(Lipp) Schuchard. natives of Ulrichstein, Darmstadt, Germany, was born November 1^7,\\nlfS29: his father was collector of taxes in Germany for fifty years previous to his death,\\nJanuary. IS.IS; his mother died May 20, 1847. Gustave attended school vintil 1848; in\\n184t), he entered the military school, where he studied until IHo l. save with the term of\\nservice with the ai tillery in the revolution of 1848; he was jH omoted to commissioned\\nofficer; received a medal for meritorious conduct from the Duke of Baden and one from\\nthe Duke Ludevig, together with a picture of the latter; he holds all his old school-books,\\ntogether with a certificate for military honors. He was married to Magdalene Spengler,\\ndaughter of the collector of internal revenue, at Hesse-Darmstadt, April 1), 1 8, 2 this lady was\\nborn August S, 1829. at the city of Worms, and started the day after her marriage with her\\nhusband for the United States; they settled in Erin Township, where he began work July 4,\\n18r 2, and worked six years in saw-mills; saw hai d times by clearing up a piece of land\\nand received no pay for it; then started in the peddling business, and then was engaged\\nin operating a thre.shing machine; in 1858. he cleared some land and became a trader and\\nfai mer; next, operated a threshing machine, and ultimately inaugm-ated his store at Rose-\\nville; he was appointed Postmaster in 1N()(), Notary in INliU, Census Enumerator in 1880;\\nhe has been Justice of the Peace since 1871; School Director three terms and Director of\\nMutual Fire Insurance Company of Macomb and St. Clair Counties for six years;\\nhe received Hr)0 majority vote for Justice of the Peace in 1881. and served foiu-\\nyears. Mr. and Mrs. Schuchard are the parents of twelve children, and members\\nof the Evangelical Chm-ch. The Benevolent Society of Roseville was organized\\nby Mr. S. and charter given from this State, July, 187(), being Secretary from beginning\\nof said society, and still holds said office. The meetings will be held in the hall free of\\ncharge diu ing the existence of said society.\\nGEORGE J. SEIFFERLEIN. son of George and Frederica (Purnberg) Seiffijrlein.\\nwas born in Bavaria. Germany. December 2. 188)5. Mr. S. came to the United States in\\n1852. and located in Macomb County; he woi-ked at the carpenter trade until the stave-\\nmill at Fraser was established, and afterward, until 18 )2: during that year, he purchased\\na threshing machine, and to this business and farming he devoted his attention; in 1879,\\nhe purchased a steam thresher. His marriage with Miss Elizabeth Measel took ])la3e in\\n1858; they had twelve children, of whom eight are living Dorothea, aged twenty-four\\nyears; Louisa L.. aged seventeen; George, fifteen; John, thirteen; Christ, eleven; Rosa\\nM., nine; Leouhard, five, and Frederica, seven months. Mr. S. held the office of\\nTownship Trea.surer in IS80-M. and is the owner of a valuable farm of 100 acres, in\\nErin Township.\\nCHARLES STEFFENS. P. O. Fraser; he is the son of Adolph and Mary (Magee)\\nSteffeus. who was born July 12. 1835. at Dusseldorf, Prussia, where he received a normal\\nschool education; he came to the United States in 1854, where he was joined by his\\nparents in 1857. He married Miss Aning, in 18()2, to whom were born six children", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0918.jp2"}, "919": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUKTY.\\nCharles W. is dead; Matilda E., Mary, George, Kosa and EmiUe are living. He married\\nMiss Caroline K. Hoffmeyer, November 80. 1875. to whom foiu- children were born Fred\\nW. G.. Ella, Clara D. and Andi ew. Mr. S. is now engaged in the mannfactui e of\\nstaves, headings and hardwood lumber, his trade aggregating $:iO,0()0 per annum; the\\nfactory was established in 1ST8; the company formerly belonged to a company of six,\\ncomprising John and Fred Eberlein, W. Beau.clair, H. Knorr, G, Seiferlein and F. Rein-\\ndell. Mr. S. now owns 250 acres of land in the county, together with the Eraser stave\\nfactory.\\nJOHN STKICKER, P. O Roseville, son of Jacob and Louise (Roechs) Strieker, na-\\ntives of Germany, was born January 18, 1825; the family came to Detroit and remained\\nthere six months, then moved to a farm at Grosse Point, in 1834, where the mother died;\\nin August, 185(), Jacob Strieker passed away. In his early days. John Strieker assisted\\nin clearing the homestead farm, and also attended the publi,; school established near his\\nhome, in 1N 57-H8. IVIi\\\\ Strieker married Miss Louise, daughter of Heniy and Eliza\\n(Schweinee) Strieker, born June 10, 182tt; her i)arents came to the United States in 1S4\\nand located in Wai ren Township, where her father died in A|)ril, and her mother Decem-\\nber 25, 1878.\\nGAZETTE VERNIER, P. O. Roseville. was born February 22. 1843; he is the\\nson of Leon and Archange (Tremble) Vernier, natives of Michigan, who were married in\\n1818; his grandparents were natives of Montreal. Canada; at the age of eighteen, Mr. V.\\nassisted in the United States survey of the city of Green Bay, Wis., in which duty he\\nwas engaged for two years; he was married, November 30, 1805, to Euphonia, daughter\\nof James and Jane (Galloway) Rankin, who came from Scotland in 1838; they were the\\n])arents of ten childi en, of whom seven are living James R, L., John S., David,\\nJane A.. Gideon G.. Ennis M., Francis J. Mr. V. inherited eighty acres, Private Claim\\n025.\\nHENRY VERNIER. P. O. Roseville, son of Antoine and Adeline (Socier) Vernier,\\nwas born January 12, 1847; his earlier years were devoted to the farm and school, until\\n1807, when he was married. Mr. Vernier owns twenty acres of the old homestead, to which\\nhe added twenty acres, making a valuable farm; his dwelling-house and farm buildings\\nform valuable additions to this property. He still carries on the farm and operates the\\nLake St. Clair store, founded in 1872. Mr. Vernier and wife were the parents of eight\\nchildi en, foui of whom died while rpiite young; the names of the living are Louis, Frank\\nW,, Henry J. and Frederick.\\nHENRY A. WALES. P. O. Roseville, son of Austin and Amy (Wilber) Wales, was\\nborn Jane 1, 1834; he passed his youth at Detroit, where he received a fair education; he\\ncame with his parents to Erin Township in 1849, where his father purchased 700 acres of\\ngood timber and built a sawmill. Hemy A. worked in connection with the mill for some\\ntime, then returned to Detroit to continue his studies, and, after nine months, took charge\\nof the concern in Erin; there he remained until 1804. when he went to Detroit; return-\\ning, he had charge of the mill until its destruction by lire, when he became a farmer and\\nveterinary surgeon. He was married. August 4, 1853, to Miss Mary E., daughter of Sul-\\nlivan L.and Lucy A. Power, the former born at Troy, N. Y.. 1815. died in January,\\n1871; the latter in Pennsylvania in 1811. died in December, 1880, both settling in Mt.\\nClemens in 1841. Mi-s. Wales was born November 27, 1835, in Pennsylvania, and died\\nMav 20. 1881; she was the mother of three children \u00e2\u0080\u0094Cornelia L., Willie H. and\\nJuHa D.\\nJAMES YATES, M. D.. P. O. Roseville, son of Richard and Caroline (Nicholson)\\nYates, the former born May 19, 1810, the latter born June, 181(5, in England, was born\\n]\\\\[arch 25, 1840; came to Canada with parents in 1850, where his mother died, June", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0919.jp2"}, "920": {"fulltext": "22, 185(): he learned tlie carpenter s trade from his father, at which trade he worked,\\ntogether with farm work, until 1857. when he visited Illinois. He married Miss Caroline\\nLeraux. daughter of Benjamin and Mary (Grantier) Leraus. May 5. IS.j J; this lady s\\ngrandfather came from France in the vessel which brought Gen. La Fayette to our shores;\\nher father was born at Boston: served in the war of 1812; again under Gen. Winfield\\nScott. After his marriage, he returned to Canada, in 18(.)0; in 181)1, he bought a 100-\\nacre farm, which he worked for eight years; in 1870, he commenced the study of medi-\\ncine, under Dr. Allen Crawford, of Duart. Canada; in January. 1872. he entered the\\nMedical College of Detroit, from which he received a diploma. March 4, 1874; he began\\n2 ractice the same year at Clarkston. Oakland County; continued at Waterford. returned\\nto Clarkston. and finally, locateol in Erin Township, in 1875; he is a member of the Both-\\nwell (Canada) Lodge, 179, F. A. M. was Sei-geant in the Canadian militia for some\\ntime. Mr. and Mrs. Yates were the parents of live children, four of whom are living\\nFlorence J., Benjamin, Josephine and Carrie G.\\nCHAPTER XLIII.\\nCHESTERFIELD TOWNSHIP.\\nThroughout this State there cannot be found a more beautifully located township than\\nChesterfield. Within its limits many of the early French settlers made their homes.\\nThere also that natm-al locator, the Indian, built his wigwam, and squatted, so to speak,\\nin the midst of [tleuty. The lake and streams of the townshi]) offered the lazy red men\\ntheir wealth of fi.sh; the forest, its game: and the soil, the wild fruits, herbs, and, in some\\ncases, corn.\\nSo many references have been made to the town of Chesterfield in the general history\\nof the county, and so complete are the biographical sketches of its citizens, little remains\\nto be written here beyond the special items pertaining directly to the township.\\nThe fii-st exodus of the Indians of the Macompte band took place in 1S;30. The rem-\\nnant of the band left the county in 1S38.\\nAmong the earliest and most prominent settlers of Chesterfield Township were the\\nAshleys. Louis La Forge (who died in 1872. nearly one hundred years old). Francis Yax,\\nthe Miltons, John Horriman. Robert W. Knight, William Little, Elisha Weller, John and\\nStephen Fairchilds, Zej^haniah Camj)bell. Zai a Granger. Joseph Horriman and John\\nLusk.\\nThe first actual white settler in Chesterfield was Charles Jennar, born at a point in\\nHarrison Township now called Liverpool, in 1816. He came with his grandfather, Charles\\nSeer, in 1819, to an Indian village then located one half mile below New Baltimore, where\\nSeer bought some land and there settled. Shortly after this, other pioneers came and lo-\\ncated near the Indian village, then standing by the Riviere Aux Vase.\\nAmong the first German settlers in Chesterfield were Mr. Barker, father of William\\nBarker, of New Baltimore; Seifert, Ai mand Rabe, Krause; Reumen, who set-\\ntled on Salt River in 1853: and J. J. Wuestenberg, who settled on Section 10, in 1854.\\nThe family of the latter settler numbered twenty-one. including children and gi-andchil-\\ndren.\\nThe first post office in Chesterfield was established in 1837. with Robert O. Milton.\\nPostmaster. The office was kept at his hoTtse, and bore the name New Haven Post Office.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0920.jp2"}, "921": {"fulltext": "^1\\n1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThis was moved to New Haven Village, and another established at Milton, now conducted\\nby Alfred D. Kice.\\nORGANIZATION.\\nThe fractional township of Chesterfield was organized in the year l.S4 J. It was taken\\nfrom Macomb Township, and the first election was ordered to be held at the schoolhouse\\nnear the residence of Charles B. Matthews.\\nTOWN EOSTEB.\\nSupervisors County Commissioners, 1842^3; Samuel P. Canfield, 1843\u00e2\u0080\u00941:4; Ben-\\njamin T. Castle, 1844-46; Cyrus B. Symmons, 1846-48; Chai-les B. Matthews, 1848^9;\\nCyrus B. Symmons, 1849-50; Samuel P. Canfield, 1850-51: Eber C. Denison, 1851-53;\\nSamuel P. Canfield, 1853-54: Eber C. Denison. 1854-55; Charles B. Matthews, 1855-56;\\nJoshua C. Parker. 1856-57: Joseph Hubbard, 1857-59; Parker Hart. 1859-60; Charles\\nD. Crittenden, 1860-61; John Milton, 1S61-65; Ford L. Milton, 1865-66; Parker Hart.\\n1866-67; Joel Hart, 1867-70: Charles D. Crittenden, 1870-71; Joel Hart. 1871-72:\\nJohn Milton, 1872-77: Warren Barker, 1.S77-79; Joel Hart, 1879-80; William Baker,\\n1880-81; William C. Jones. 18S1-82.\\nClerks\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Kobert A.Milton. 1842; Robert W. Knight. 1843; Charles B. Matthews,\\n1844-46: Joshua C. Parker. bS48; Hiram Denison, 1849: Robert O. Milton, 1N50-53;\\nLivingston Ax ford, 4854; Hiram Denison, 1855; William D. Holt, 1S56: Rodolphus Kern,\\n1857; D. N. Taylor, 1858; James Macaulay. 1861; Albert Hendilcks, 1861; John J.\\nCrocker, 1^62; Andrew J. Rose, 1863-64; Erastus Q. Chamberlin. 1865; Andrew J. Rose,\\n1866; Francis Johr, 1867; William Randall, 1868; C.J.Glenn. 1869; Lewis Rose. 1870;\\nEda W. .Shattuck, 1871: C. L. Braddish. 1872; Sidney O. Knight. 18(3; C. L. Braddish,\\n1874-75; P. F. H. Schars, 1876; John Hansien, 187 7-7.S: .Joseph M. Wilson, 1879-80;\\nChristian Schnover, 1881-N2.\\nTreasurers\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Zalmon M. Gray, 1S42: John Bates, 1843; Joshua C. Parker, 1844-46:\\nParker Hart, 1847-49; Charles B. Matthews, 1850-51; John Milton, bS52-53; Robert\\nA. King. 1854-55; Charles D. Crittenden, 1856-57; Charles S. Knight, 1858; Joel Hart,\\nI860; D. M. Mills, 1861-62; L. H. Canfield, 1863-64; Moses K. Bortree, 1865; Amos\\nVan Horn. 18()6; George W. Douglass, 1S67: William Baker, 186S-69; Addis L. Hack-\\nnell. 1870-71; William Baker, 1872-78; Sidney O. Knight, 1879-SO; William Baker,\\n1881-82.\\nJustices of the Peace\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Robert Douglass, bS42; Daniel Shattuck, 1S42; Sam D. Shat-\\ntuck, 1843; Robert Thompson, IS44; Zalmon Gray, 1845: David Meldrum. 1845: Robert\\nW. Knight, 1846; Joshua C. Parker, 1847; DanielHedges, 184S: Robert P. Crawford, 1849;\u00c2\u00ab\\nSamuel Goodsell, Stephen Fairchild, Thos. M. Crocker. 1852; Hiram Dennison, 1853;Chas.\\nD. Crittenden. William T. Little. 1S55; Robert Thompson, 1857; Josiah D. Bm-gess,\\n1858; John Bates. 1859: Ferdinand Morrell, I860; Jackson Freeman, 1861; Cortez P.\\nHooker, 1861; James F. Buffixm, 1S62; Alonzo Gilxson, 1863; Josiah D. Burgess, 1S63:\\nGeorge L. Phelps, 1864; Cortez P. Hooker, 1865; J. D. Burgess, 1866; John Bates,\\n1867; George L. Phelps. 186S: Cortez P. Hooker, 1869; D. Milo Heath, 1870; Josiah D.\\nBurgess, IST O; Warren Parker, 1871; J. S. P. Hathaway, 1872; D. M. Heath, 1873; S.\\nP. Fuller, 1874; Josiah D. Burgess, 1874; George Wallers, 1876; Ford L. Milton, 187\\nWilliam C. Jones, 1879; John McCinch, 1880; D. M. Heath, 1880: D. M. Heath, 1881.\\nThe elections of 1882 resulted as follows: Supervisor, Warren Parker. Democrat, 241;\\nGeorge Walter, Republican, 141 Democratic majority. 100. Clerk. Christian Schlosser.\\nRepublican. 202; G. C. Walker, Democrat, 183; Republican majority, 19. Treasurer,\\nWilliam Baker. Democrat. 247; J. L. Thompson. Republican. 13 c Democratic majority,\\n110.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0921.jp2"}, "922": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCHURCHES.\\nThe Catholic Cburch of New Baltimore was built under the direction of Rev. Theo-\\nphilus Buyse, in LS71. The parochial house was erected in 1S77, by Rev. A. J. Lambert,\\nand to him also is due the credit of erecting the Catholic school buildings in ISSl. The\\nearly history of this chiu ch is identical with that of L anse creuse and Mt. (Clemens.\\nThe congi egation is large.\\nSt. John s Lutheran Church, N. B., was organized under Rev. Mr. Engel. Rev. An\\ndrew Birsset became pastor in 1879. This church is referred to in the general history of\\nthe county.\\nSt. Luke s Protestant Episcopal Church of New Baltimore was organized by Rev.\\nMilton Ward in 1.S55. The congi-egation never had a house of worship, nor a permanent\\nrector, but has been attended by different clergymen from time to time. The present\\nminister is Rev. A. B. Flower, of Marine City. The membership is small, but very ear-\\nnest and faithful.\\nThe Congi-egational Church at New Baltimore was organized .Ipril 29, ISSfi.\\nThe Congregational Chiu-ch of New Haven was founded October 20, 1S68.\\nThe Free-Will Baptist Chiu ch and Methodist Episcoj^al Church at New Haven, and\\nthe Baptist Chiu ches of Macomb and Chesterfield were subsequently organized.\\nThe Congregational Chiu ch at Chesterfield was organized February 18, 1S47. The\\nfirst Methodist Episcojial clas.-* was organized in 1833. The first meeting held in this\\ntown, and the first sermon preached, were recorded in 183 Rev. Mr. Coe, a missionary\\nsent out by the Presbyterian Board, held this meeting at the house of Elisha M eller.\\ns ;hools.\\nThe following table will be sufficient to prove the interest taken in educational aS airs\\nby the people of Chesterfield. The school building at New Baltimore is one of the proudest\\nmonuments to educational zeal in this State:\\nDISTRICTS.\\nNumber of D -scrii ti.tn of Vwlue of\\nPupils. S hool Build gs. Sclioul Build gs.\\nDistrict No. 1\\nDistrict No. 2\\nDi.strict No. 3 (fractional)\\nDistrict No. 4\\nDistrict No. 5 (fractional)\\nDistrict No. 6\\nDisirict No. 7 (fractional)\\nDistrict No. 8\\nLake School District\\nTotals\\nFrame.\\nFrame.\\nFrame.\\nBrick\\nBrick\\n$150\\n1250\\n1400\\n,-)00\\n300\\n275 74\\n310 48\\n343 85\\n327 53\\n257 97\\n89\\nFrame\\n.1 1000\\n343 07\\n35\\nFrame.\\n1.50\\n259 52\\n36\\nFrame.\\n.1 600\\n224 6r.\\n398\\nBrick\\n2400S\\n2790 59\\n878\\n.i 129350\\ni $5133 36\\nMASONIC.\\nThe Lake St. Clair Lodge. F. A. M. No. S l, was organized tinder dispensation June\\n2(i, 1855. with S. B. Famham. W. M. J. P. Fuller, S. W. R. B. King, J. W. J. L.\\nThompson. S. D.; J. McChesuey. J. D. S. F. Atwood. T.; J. M. Chapman, Secretary:\\nand John Lutz, Tiler. The present officers, as installed by Past Master William Randall,\\nare: D. Hedges, W. M. S. A. Knight, S. W. A. H. Shafer. J. W. M. M. Sanders, T.\\nWilliam Randall. Secretary; E. F. Haight, S. D. C. Burgess, J. D.; and Abel Davis,\\nTiler.\\nNEW BAt.TIMORK.\\nNew Baltimore, formerly called Ashley, contains l.HXt inhabitants. Its location, on\\nthe lake shore, north of Anchor Bay, is very desirable. The village is thirty miles above", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0922.jp2"}, "923": {"fulltext": "Detroit, aud four and one-half southeast of New Haven, on the Grand Trunk Railway, its\\nnearest shipping point. The village has four churches Catholic, Congregational. Epis-\\ncopal and Lutheran and a school known as the Hatheway Institute, built at a cost of\\n\u00c2\u00a722,000, bequeathed by Gilbert Hatheway, deceased. Among its Inisiness men are\\nJames S. P. Hatheway, William Baker, Milo D. Heath, William W. Howe, AVilliam W.\\nParker. Horace Perkins, H. Petipren, C. Schlosser. C. Schnoor. John A. Smith, C. Tor-\\nnay. E. Willain. Hemy Rose, Joseph Busch and R. Teichman. The professions are rep-\\nresented by Joseph M. Chapman and David Hammell. physicians. The pastors of the\\nChi-istian churches of the village are Rev. Messrs. A. J. Lambert and H. H. Mautiels. of\\nthe Catholic Church; A. Deroset, of the Lutheran: and M. S. Augell, of the Congrega-\\ntional. The post office is conducted by Milo D. Heath.\\nNew Baltimore Lodge, No. 19(53. R. of H., was organized January 1, 18S0, with D.\\nM. Heath, G. H Benedict, John Carlson. L. S. Pai-ker. C. A. B. Hultgren, H. Zimmer-\\nman. Charles Woodgrift. S. J. Benedict, H T. Leonard. J. M. Chapman. E. F. Haight.\\nJ. W. Tavlor. George B. Parker and H. L. Brown, charter members. The present officers\\nare: C. A. B. Hultgren, D. Flovd L. Milton, Y. D.: J. M. Chapman, A. D.; Ford L.\\nM lton, R.; William Collofi F. R.: D. M. Heath. C: H L. Brown. T. E. F. Haight,\\nGuide; George H. Parker. Guard: R. L. D. German. Senior: and J. W. Taylor, John\\nCarlson aud August Colloff, Trustees.\\nChestei-tield, a hamlet of fifty inhabitants, is located five miles north of Mt. Clemens.\\nA few settlers located there in 1830, but not until the completion of the Grand Trunk\\nRailroad through the township did the place become a little business center. In fact,\\nuntil very recently, there was not a business house there. At present, Daniel McLean is\\nthe village blacksmith: James C. Patton. grocer: O. H. Patterson, cider-manufaetmer; J.\\nE. Tremain, railroad and express agent: and Samuel AVeller, dealer in cattle.\\nMilton Village is located on the Grand Trunk Railroad, eight miles northeast of Mt.\\nClemens and thirty-three above Detroit. It has three chiu ches Baptist, Congi-egational\\nand Methodist and a district school. The postoffice is conducted by A. D. Rice. The\\npastors of the chiu ches are Rev. Messrs. P. A. C. Bradford. Congregational; D. W. Ful-\\nler, Adventist; F. A. Hazen. Methodist; and Rev. W. King, Baptist. The business circle\\ncomprises E. C. Denison and A. D. Rice. A. Goodsell is the physician: John McKinch\\nand Ford J. Milton. Justices; William Hortenna, blacksmith.\\nMANUF.\\\\CTURING INDIISTRIKS.\\nHatheway s planing-mill, sash, door and blind factory was built by the Kern Brothers\\nin I8(j3. Those settlers disposed of their interest in the concern to the present owners. The\\nhimber for this concern is shipped in the Hatheway boats from Alpena. The machinery\\nis driven by a forty-five horse-power engine, and is of the newest j)attern. The building\\nis -1^0x60 feet, and the whole concern under the management of M. M. ~anders.\\nJ. C. Adams, proprietor of the Adams Planing-Mill, built by John A. Smith in 187\\nmust be numbered among the lai-ge lumber-manufacturers of Michigan. He pm-chased\\nthis concern in 1881. and introduced whatever machinery was necessaiw to render it a first-\\nclass factory. He is also owner of the EastTawas steam saw-mill, the capacity of which is\\nestimated at 35.000 feet per day. These industries give emplojTuent to fifty-two men. His\\nliunber harvest averages 4,000.000 feet every winter. This average will be increased din-\\ning the coming season, as it is his piu-pose to extend the business here, introduce more\\nmachinerv, and invest $10,000 more in the concern.\\nThe stave and heading factory erected in IS rl by William Jenny is still in operation.\\nBIOGRAPHY.\\nIn the pages, devoted to personal history, are given sketches of many of those men", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0923.jp2"}, "924": {"fulltext": "who made the township their home, and raised it from its primitive condition to the rank\\nof one of the first divisions of this county.\\nJ. C. ADAMS was born in Coshocton County, Ohio, February 2, 1830; here he re-\\nceived a liberal education; in lSt)2, he removed to Buchanan County, Iowa, where he\\nwas engaged for two years in the cattle trade; subsequently, he removed to East Tawas,\\nIosco Co., Mich., his present home, where he siiperintends the work of getting out lumber\\nfor his mills, one of which is located in that village: the other, to which is attached an\\nextensive lumber-yard, is situated in New Baltimore. Mich., and is managed by his son.\\nHe married Miss Mary W. Adams, of Coshocton County, Ohio, to whom was born, May\\n2. 1S()0. one child, alluded to above.\\nALFRED ASHLEY, deceased, was born in New Hampshire June 13, 1794; he was\\nthe son of Mr. Ashley, a well-known citizen of that State; came to Western Ohio when a\\nboy; studied law. but was forced to resign his chosen profession on account of ill health;\\nhe returned to Batavia. N. Y., where he was elected Constable; served several years in\\nsuccession; c;une to Mt. Clemens in 18-i() and built a saw-mill on the North Branch, to\\nwhich he added Hoiu--mill machinery in 1827. He was maiTied to Miss Euphonia Atwood\\nin 1824; moved into Mt. Clemens Village, where he operated a store for several years;\\nerected a hotel where Fleumer s flouring-mill now stands, which was the best hotel north of\\nDetroit: he constructed the steamboat Lady of the Lake in 1828. which was run by Ca2:)t.\\nS. F. Atwood. He moved to Chesterfield Township in 1845; founded the village of Ash-\\nley, now New Baltimore; built the first saw-mill in Ashley, and the plank road to Romeo:\\nconstructed the first steamboat at that place, and built the first dock there; reference to\\nthe political chapter of the general history will give the record of his election to the Leg-\\nislature in 1838. His children were Alfred, born October 7. 1825, and Maria, born Feb-\\nruary 11, 1828; the son married Mrs. Ellen Stone, and the daughter married George B.\\nVan Eps; the former died in New Baltimore in 1873; the latter died at Mt. Clemens June\\n28, 1847. Alfred Ashley. Sr.. died a faithful member of the Congi-egational Church. Se])-\\ntember 7. 1857. The saw-mill which he built in New Baltimore is still in operation.\\nWILLIAM BAKER, merchant, of New Baltimore, was born in Ohio February 22.\\n1845. During the last six years, he has built n\\\\ for himself a lai-ge trade in dry goods\\nand general merchandise.\\nCORNELIUS E. BALDWIN, P. O. New Haven, was born in Yates County. N. Y..\\nApril 9, 1824; came with his father to Mt. Clemens in 1833, and thence pushed into the\\nwilderness now known as Chesterfield; he received his education in his native county, and,\\nup to the present time, takes that interest in the education of the peo^ile so characteristic\\nof the pioneers of Michigan; he has continued to reside on the old homestead uj; to the\\npresent time. Mr. Baldwin manned Miss Margaret A. Leonard, of Lenox, to whom were\\nborn two children\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Fred C. and Arthur J. He married Miss Lam-a Cruttouden. of Ma-\\ncomb, born November Ki. 1833. to whom was born Mary A. Baldwin, April 25, 1872.\\nELI H. BATESisthesonof Ezra Bates, of Vermont, a native of West Haven, Portland,\\nConn., born in 17U(), a settler in New York of 1808, and a soldier of the war of 1812.\\nEzra was married to Margaret Green January 2 1822, to whom twelve children were\\nborn, five of whom are living: he died in 18711, while the mother is living with Eli H,\\naged seventy-eight years. Eli H. Bates was born in Clarkson Township, Monroe Co., N.\\nY., May 28, 1832; came with parents to Macomb County in 1835, and settled on the home-\\nstead. Section 5. Chesterfield, where he owns a well-improved farm of eighty acres. Ho\\nwas married, in 1858. to Miss Cerinda Hazelton. who was the mother of Arthur J. and\\nBerton T. Mrs. Bates died in 1872. In the fall of 1874, he married Miss Anna, daugh-\\nter of Samuel Wood, of Mt. Clemens. James E. Bates was a soldier in the late war.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0924.jp2"}, "925": {"fulltext": "\u00c2\u00b1z:A^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nserving in Company A, Ninth Infantry: he died May 3, 18f54. of disease contracted in the\\nservice.\\nJOHN BATES, deceased, son of Russel Bates, of Vermont, vras born in Monroe\\nCounty, N. Y., October 7, 1819; came with parents to Michigan in 183(), and settled on\\nSection 5, Chesteriield, in the midst of tlie wiklerness. He was married, October 1, 1845,\\nto Miss Roxauna Green, daughter of Mnj. Roswell W, Green, who settled in Macomb in\\n1830; they were the parents of three children, of whom Ellen M. and Warren L. are liv-\\ning: Ellen married the late Charles R. Lusk. Mr. Bates died November IJ, 1881: he\\nserved as Justice of the Peace for many years, and was a much- esteemed citizen.\\nH. L. BROWN, a native of Sandusky, Ohio, settled at New Baltimore with his par-\\nents in 1858; he was born in 185(5; in July, 18N1, he inaugurated a printing office at New\\nBaltimore.\\nALFRED BUECHLER, born at Detroit December 14. 185(3; he is the son of Paul\\nBuechler, of Switzerland, who settled in Detroit in 1848; in 1873, he returned to Switzer-\\nland, and is now living there; his sou makes New Baltimore his home. He is an active pol-\\nitician, and takes an especial pride in being a tirm supporter of the Republican platform.\\nJOHN CHAPMAN was born in Exeter, N. H.. January 30, 1783; moved with his\\nfather to Maine in 17U0; there he was educated at the Green Hill Academy; in 1804, he\\nsettled in Ontario County, N. Y., and there married Miss Jane Drake May 2(^, 1815; his\\nthree children. Mary Jane, John C. and Amy Ann, were born in Ontario County, and\\ncame to Michigan with their parents in 1824. Mr. Chapman located lands on the Shelby\\nand Washington town line. Joseph M. Chapman. M. D., and Henry Clay, were born\\nhere on the old homestead. The pioneer died at his home January 18, 1865. aged eighty-\\ntwo years; he was one of the clearest mathematicians of the United States, the original\\nwriter and compiler of the book known as Ostrander s Ai-ithmetic. After locating his\\nfamily, he retiu-ned to Detroit and engaged in building the First Presbyterian Church, on\\nthe corner of Rivard and Jefferson avenues, for which work he never received any pay he\\nwas accustomed to work at his trade during the summer months, and teach school during\\nthe winter. In 1845, he retired from his trade and became one of the most esteemed Jus-\\ntices of the Peace and Notaries known in the county; the duties of this office he fulfilled\\nup to a short period before his deafli. It is stated positively that to him much of the\\ncredit due to the invention known as the solar compass belongs; he assisted William A.\\nBm-t by the solution of all the difficult problems connected with such an instrument. Mrs,\\nChapman, who learned the weaver s trade in New York, was the only weaver, in 1S24 and\\n1825, between Tremble Mountain and Mt. Clemens; she was consequently well qualified\\nto aid her husband in the care of a large family, for the reason that her own earnings\\nsummed ui) a very respectable amount annually. It is related of this pioneer lady that,\\nwhile rotm-ning from a visit to a neighbor s. Mrs. Hiram Miller, who was ill, she was con-\\nfronted by a large, himgry-looking wolf; the mother had the jiresent Dr. Chapman, then\\na child, in her arms, but yet she lost none of her presence of mind; halting, she allowed\\nthe wolf to pass, and then ran homeward with all her speed. She lives with Dr. Chap-\\nman, past ninety years, in good health\\nJOSEPH M. CHAPMAN, M. D\u00e2\u0080\u009e son of John Chapman, a pioneer of Macomb\\nCounty, began his studies under Prof. Nutting, at Romeo, in 1844; continued imder Mey-\\ners, of Rochester, Oakland County, where he studied and taught mathematics for three\\nyears; in 1847, he was assistant teacher at Oberlin College, Ohio, where he remained\\nuntil 1851, when he entered the medical college at Cleveland, Ohio; after one yeai- s term\\nthere, he returned to Shelby, and resumed his favorite subject of mathematics as tencher\\nin the schools of Disco; subsequently, he entered the medical college at Ann Ai-bor; stud-\\nied under Drs. Pitcher and Brodie, of Detroit, who had charge of St. Mary s House of In-\\n56 _", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0925.jp2"}, "926": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nvalids; he graduated in the spring of 1854; he began practice with the late Dr. Cooley,\\nat Washington Corners; he established his office, September I l, 1854, at New Baltimore,\\nwhere he still resides, and he has won the confidence of a wide circle. He entered the\\narmy in 1804 as Assistant Surgeon; served ten mouths in the hospitals in Jeffersonville,\\nInd. and subseqneatly on the field before Nashville, where he had to labor day and uight\\namong the thcusands of sufi ering soldiers; again, at Tullahoma, Tenn., he did good serv-\\nice, and remained nntil the close of the war in that service which saved to the country\\nmany of the men who fell upon the field. Dr. Chapman was married to Miss Caroline\\nFellows, of Disco, by whom he had four children John H. born in 1850; Ella was born\\nin 1858; Harvey S., born in 1801; Leo M. Chapman was born March 22. 1877. Henry\\nClay Chapman, brother of J. M. Chapman, was born in 1832; he is favorably known as a\\npulilic s])eaker. politician and a member of the Masonic order.\\nWILLIAM COLLOFF. born at Berlin, Prussia. December 30. 1N4S, came to Buftalo,\\nN. Y. with his parents in 1851; next to Casco, St. Clair Co., Mich.: thence to Joliet in\\n180)5, and to New Baltimore in 1807, where he was engaged in mercantile business. He\\nmarried Miss Rossalee Lalond, of this village, May 12. lS72; they are the parents of two\\nchildren Urra. born September J, 1875; and Dora, born September 13, 18S(t. Mr. Col\\nlofi is a member of the Knights of Honor, in which society he has held the position of F.\\nR. since January, 1881.\\nJOHN CRITTENDEN, born January 3. 1790, in the town of Conway. Franklin Co.,\\nMass., came to Michigan in the fall of 1831, where he commenced to carve out his fortune\\nin the woods, as there was no clearing or even neighbors. This State was then a Terri-\\ntory. Mi\\\\ Crittenden was a militiaman in the State of New York in 1814, and stood his\\ndraft for the war. He was married, in Albion, Orleans County, in 1818. to Miss Phcebe\\nGoodi ich, of Manlius Square, Onondaga Co., N. Y. has three sons living. Mr. Critten-\\nden is still a hale old man, and has the use of all his mental faculties. He rode on the\\nfirst steamboat ever built.\\nALFORD M. DENISON. son of Eber C. Denison, was born at Guilford, Chenango\\nCo., N. Y., July 20, 1835, and in 1839 moved with parents to Broome County; in 1S4(),\\ncame to this State with parents; in 1800, went to California and Nevada. He was mar-\\nried to Anna B. Milton, of Chesterfield, September 24, 1874: thev have three childi-en.\\nEBER C. DENISON, born in Greene County, N. Y., October 30, INOit; in 1810,\\nmoved to Chenango County, N. Y., where he remained until after his father s death, which\\noccurred in 1S30, after living to the age of sixty-nine; in 183N, his mother died, and left\\nhim comparatively free; he moved to Broome County, same State, in 183 and lived there\\niintil 1840, when he moved to this State and bought a farm in Macomb County, where he\\nstill lives, and intends to spend the remainder of his days; he has always taken an active\\npart in the affairs of the township where he lives, having served the township as Super-\\nvisor and in other offices; he was elected Justice of the Peace, but did not qualify: was\\nman-ied to Miss Charlotte Mills October 23. 18:^4, of Chenango County, N. Y. they are\\nthe parents of three children.\\nGEORGE W. DOUGLASS, born in Middlesex County, Ontario, Canada, settled in\\nOhio with his parents, and. after one year s stay there, came to Michigan and located in\\nChesterfield Township; he was one among the number drafted for the war in this county,\\nbut, on reaching the rendezvous at Pontiac, received an honorable discharge. He came\\nto Macomb County while it was still a wilderness, and shared in many of the dangers and\\ntroubles of pioneer life; to-day his industry is rewarded, and his battle with the world\\nconceded to be successful. Mr. Douglass married Lucinda Denison, of Chesterfield, in\\n1860; this lady was a native of Chenango County, N. Y. for a long time a settler of\\nChesterfield; she died in 1876. He married Amelia Jacobs, of Lenox, in 1877. Mr.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0926.jp2"}, "927": {"fulltext": "-Ji 5\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nDouglass has two children Josephine, born March l(i, ISHO; and Stephen, born Febru-\\nary lU, 1N62. He is a relative of the Stephen A. Douglas family, being the fourth re-\\nmove, on the father s side, son of Robert and Hannah Douglass, natives of Vermont, who\\nmoved into Canada at an earlv day.\\nSTEPHEN FAIRCHILD, farmer, born in the town of Phelps. Ontario Co., N. Y., in\\n181(1, came here with his mother and sisters in 1832 and settled on the farm he now occu-\\npies. The first Protestant meeting ever held \\\\a Chesterfield was held in his house, by a\\nmissionary from Pennsylvania, in May. 1S82: the first town meeting was held in the same\\nhouse, in the same year: this was when the township was called Macomb. Mr. Fairchild\\nwas elected Highway Commissioner and Justice of the Peace: beheld both ofiiees for three\\nyears; was married to Miss Sophia Spoor, of Lyons, Wayne Co., N. Y., October 25. 1S3S:\\nhas had one son, who volunteered in Company L, Twenty-second Michigan Volunteer In-\\nfantry, and died of typhoid fever. Mr. Fairchild takes an active part in politics and edu-\\ncation.\\nALLEN FARR, farmer, was born at Paris, Oneida Co., N. Y., August 22, 181S, where\\nhe received a common -school education; came to Michigan in April, 1S33, arriving by the first\\nboat in the spring; settled on a Government grant, and commenced clearing his land. He\\nmarried Miss Mary Carl, of AVayne County, N. Y., July 4, 1836; Mrs. Farr was born April\\n4. 1S19, and was married at her father s house in Lenox. Mr. Fan- was a ([uiet. unassum-\\ning man: took an active interest in education, and lived a temperate and industrious life:\\nwas a strict churchman, having connected himself with the Free- Will Baptists a number of\\nyears ago. He passed away in peace at his residence. September 11, 1877.\\nHENRY F. FARR. born at Parish, Oneida Co., N. Y., December 30, IS 11), came\\nwith his parents from Livingston County, N. Y., to Chesterfield in 1S33. Mr. Farr re-\\nceived the education which the early schools of the East, as well as of Macomb County,\\noffered. When leaving New York, his father had $600. together with his personal prop\\nerty; the Western trip cost at least $100; the 160 acres which his father located cost |350:\\na cow and yoke of oxen, with provisions, etc. almost swallowed up the balance of the cash\\ncapital: the childi-en, as well as the parents, exerted themselves to be equal to the occa-\\nsion, and succeeded in their battle with the wilderness. Mr. Farr remembers attending\\nas manv as sis logging bees and one raising in one week. He married Miss Julia Ann\\ndemons, of Livingston County, N. Y.. September 2S, 1843: has had foiu- childi-eu\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Will\\niam Farr, born in August, 1844; and Merrit S., bom in September, 1850. He takes a\\ndeep interest in educational affairs, holding the offices of Director and Moderator for a\\nnumber of years; at the period of his settlement, red deer were so plenty that he could kill\\nthem at pleasiu e.\\nGEORGE M. FULLER, son of Solomon Fuller, of Vermont, and Eunice Gay, the\\nfirst woman who rode in a wagon in the Oak Hill neighborhood. New York, was born in\\nCastile Township, Wyoming Co.. N. Y., January 23, 1S24. George M. came with his\\nparents to Columbus, St. Clair County, in the fall of 1845: in 1846, he piu chased thirty-\\nsix acres of land in Richmond Township, Macomb: this farm he cultivated, making his\\nhome at his father s house, in St. Clair County. In 184S, he returned to New York.\\nwhere he married Miss Elizabeth Brainard and resided until 1852. when he retm-ned to\\nMacomb. In 1861, he had 176 acres, which he sold, pm-chasing 160 acres\u00e2\u0080\u0094 the Zara\\nGranger fann, on Section lit; he owns 280 acres at present, on Sections 11 211 and 30; is\\na successful agriculturist and stock-raiser. His children are Frank A., Albert P., Eva A.,\\nElla E., Elmer G.. Estella M., Mary E. and Etta. The two oldest are man-ied. Mr.\\nFuller was County Drain Commissioner for one term; he is a member of Patrons of Hus-\\nbandry, and of the M. E. Chiu-ch.\\nSAMUEL GOODSELL, M. D., born in Mobile, Ala.. July S, 1828, came here with\\nP^", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0927.jp2"}, "928": {"fulltext": "^1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nliis parents; be received a common-school education, and afterward went to Cle\\\\oland\\nCollege for two years. In 1N7 2 he went to Detroit and gi aduated from the Homceopathic\\nInstitute; returning, he commenced the practice of medicine. The Doctor was married\\nto Miss Alma Bacon, who was born October 6, 1S82, in St. Lawrence County, N. Y., town\\nof Pottsdam; the ceremony took place at RocHfester, Mich., in 1S54; they have three chil-\\ndren Lois Ada, born February I, ISIJ i; Alletta December S, lSfi4: Lowell G. April\\n17, 1869.\\nJOEL HART, P. O. Milton, born in Livingston County, N. Y., October 2, 1S27; set-\\ntled in this county with his parents in 1882; he is the son of James Hart, a well-known\\nold resident of Chesterheld, who died in 1S57 (referred to in the chapters of the general\\nhistory). Joel Hart was married to Rosetta M. Rice in 1858; six years later, this lady\\ndied. Iq ISOO, he married Miss Louisa Camtield; two children, now settled comfortably\\nin life, resulted from the first marriage, and one born from the second, a lady of fifteen\\nsummers, is now living with her parents. A reference to the organic hist(jry of this town-\\nship, and to the political history of the county, will show the piiblie offices to which Mr.\\nHart was elected.\\nPETER C. HART, farmer, born at Paris, Oneida Co.,N. Y., June 15, 1811; went to\\nAnnsvilleand lived thereuntil he reached the age of fourteen, when he settled in Livings-\\nton County, N. Y., and remained there for about two years; he labored on the Erie Canal\\nfor seven years, and, in 1N84, came to this county, took up land and became an actual\\nsettler. He was married, May 7, 1885, to Miss Eliza Ann Leonard, of Phelps Township,\\nOntario Co., N. Y. born March 28, 1814, by whom he has three childi-en.\\nPUTMAN HART, born in Anusville, Oneida Co.,N. Y., in 1820. received a common-\\nschool education and came here with parents in June, 1832; this part of Michigan was\\nthen wild no schools nearer than Cady s settlement. Mr. Hart takes an active interest in\\npolitics and education; married Miss Louisa Crawford, of Ray Township, in December,\\n1N42; has had one son and four daughters, of whom four are married.\\nHON. GILBERT HATHEWAY was born in Plymouth County. Mass., in 1812. He\\nmarried Miss Abigail D. Hammatt, of Nantucket; foiu- children were born to them three\\nsous and one daughter. He came to Michigan in 184(3, but did not reside here until some\\ntime after, and may be said to have inaugurated those important commercial concerns\\nreferred to in the sketch of his son, J. S. P. Hatheway. During his early life in Massa-\\nchusetts, he was well known in the military circles of the State, and bore the commission\\nand rank of militia Colonel. His life in Macomb County was characterii^ed by deeds of\\ncharity and benevolence. His death, which took place October 26, 1871, drew forth from\\nthe people unmistakable evidences of sorrow. What interest this citizen took in educa-\\ntional matters is best told by the fact that he bequeathed a sum of $15,(^00 to the village\\nof New Baltimore for the purpose of erecting a school building to be known as the Hathe-\\nway Institute.\\nJAMES S. P. HATHEWAY, son of the late Hon. Gilbert Hatheway, was born Au-\\ngust 15, 1S84, near New Bedford, Mass., about twenty miles from Plymouth Rock. In-\\ndian nomenclature gave the title Sippican (subsequently changed to Marion) to the village\\nin which stands the old Hatheway homestead. Mi Hatheway settled in New Baltimore,\\nMich., in 1S58, and engaged at once in those important business enterprises which have\\naided so much in the building up of the village. He married Miss E. L. Sampson, of\\nLakevillo, Plymouth Co., Mass., August 15, 185U. a lineal descendant of Miles Standish,\\nof Puritanical fame; they were the parents of one child, named Mabel Gilbert, who died\\nMarch 24, ]S81, having been married three months to Mr. Orin Dunham, of Paw Paw,\\nMich. Up to 1874, Mr. Hatheway enjoyed good health; during that year, a rheumatic\\nattack confined him to his house, since which time he has been an invalid; he is the eldest", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0928.jp2"}, "929": {"fulltext": "son of the late Hon. Gilbert Hathewaj, and, ou the death of that pioneer of New Balti-\\nmore, in ISTI. found it necessary to take charge of the business interests established by\\nhis father there. The greater portion of New Baltimore belongs to the Hatheway estate.\\nThis was well illustrated some few years ago. when a circus agent visited the village to\\nIjrejjare the way for his company, he wished to select an eligible site. and. coming to a\\ncorner- lot. asked his guide, To whom does this property belong? Mi-. Hatheway,\\nwas the rasponse. The same question was asked about several other places, and drew forth\\na similar response. At length the agent exclaimed. Where does this man live, and does\\nhe own the whole town\\nD. ]VnLO HEATH, son of Anth ew J. Heath, of Livingston County. N. Y. was born\\nin Livingston County April 2. 2.. 1.S44: he came with family to Almont. Lape\u00c2\u00abr Co.. in ISoD,\\nand settled at New Baltimore. Macomb Co., in 1 S53. He learned the harness maker s trade\\nwhen a boy. and has been engaged in that business since 1863. He was married, in 1866, to\\nMiss Elizabeth L. Donehue, to whom foiu- children were born, thi-ee of whom are living\\nRobert A., Percy C. and Oakes L. Mrs. Heath died in 1S76. In April, ISSO, he married\\nMiss Alice E. Smith, who is the mother of one child, Eva. Mr. Heath was first Recorder\\nof New Baltimore; is serving fourth term as Justice of the Peace; has been Notary Public\\nfor the past sixteen years; Deputy Collector of Customs since 186 Postmaster since ISTI I;\\na member of School Board: of the Knights of Honor, and a favoralily known insurance\\nagent.\\nDAYID HEDGES, born at Northtield. Washington Co., Vt.. April IK lS-2(), settled\\nat Mt. Clemens in September. IS-t i: he moved to New Baltimore subsequently, and built\\nthe third house in the village early in 1S4(J; he was the first village blacksmith; has been\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Justice of the Peace, and is now Worshipful Master of the Masonic Lodge at New Balti-\\nmore. Mr. Hedges was married, in 1 845. to Kate Chandler, by whom he had six chil-\\ndren, two of whom are living and foiu- dead.\\nJOHN HERRIMAN. farmer in Chesterfield, Macomb Co.. Mich., son of Joseph Her-\\nriman. Sr., born in Phelps, Ontario Co.. N. Y. January lo. ISO. where he i-eceived a\\ncommon-school education; left Phelps. February 10. 1831. with his father, brother Joseph\\nand brother-in-law John, Mr. Lusk, for Michigan Territory, with a sleigh and span of\\nhorses; they were three days getting to Buffalo: came through Canada to the head of Detroit\\nRiver; when one day s drive from Buffalo, one horse became lame (stifled); left the horse\\nand brother Joseph and the rest of the party came on to Detroit; while passing down De-\\ntroit River on the ice, on the Canada shore, at Windsor, the ice broke under them and the\\nhorse and sleigh went down: the men jumped on to solid ice, caught the horse and held him\\nup till help came and pulled him out. After caring for the horse they hired a man to pilot them\\nacross the river, the ice being very thin; stayed in Detroit two days, making inquiries about\\nthe country, etc. Detroit was then a very small village; then went to Royal Oak, then north\\nto Rochester and then to Romeo and then a few miles east of Romeo, and. after satisfj-ing\\nthemselves here, returned to Detroit, and was recommended to land on the L nited States\\nGratiot road, north of Mt. Clemens, where they soon purchased land, six miles north of Mt.\\nClemens; then, after getting the County Siu-veyor from two miles north of Romeo and\\nsurveying out the lands, commenced building their shanty (snow ten inches deep); got the\\nbody up the first day. piled brush on the inside, spread their bedding on it and a sheet\\noverhead for a roof and took their first night s lodging there, 14th of March: next day.\\ngot on a shake roof and split timber and laid a floor; then John and his brother in-law\\nbuilt a log hj.ise cjve.-jd wi -h shakes (long oak shingles), having only ten men to\\nhelp raise Ihe houses: all the men there were then living within three or fom- miles of\\neach other; then John and his father took a sail ves.sel for Buffalo, and went back to Phelps\\nafter their families, and retiu-ned to Michigan in June following, and thus began their\\nFie", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0929.jp2"}, "930": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\npioneering life in Michigan Territo y. Joseph Herriman and his nine children all settled\\nin Michigan; his wife died in IS- iO and he in 18()3; Joseph. Jr., stayed in Canada eight\\nor ten days with the lame horse: then traded it oflf and came on to Michigan. Mr. John\\nHerriman was married to Miss Matilda Kirkham. December 20. iSliU; they have raised\\nsix children, one son and five daughters; foiu of the daughters have died. Mr. J. Her\\nrimau superintended the building of the First M. E. Church, in Chesterfield, in 1869,\\nand the church now stands as a memorial of his last work. He has been very poorly in\\nhealth for several years, and several times not expected to live within five years past.\\nREV. THOMAS HOOKER, pastor of Christian Church in Hertfordshire, England,\\nwa\u00c2\u00ab born in ir)S(i, came to the American colonies in 163 .Z and died July Ifi47; his only\\nson. Rev. Samuel Hooker, died at Farmington, Conn. leaving ten children. John\\nHooker, son of Samuel, father of Hezekiah Hooker, who was the first son of John Hooker\\nand father of James Hooker, was the grandfather of Cortez P. Hooker, who settled in\\nClinton Township, Macomb County, in 1837. Cortez P. Hooker was born at Hampton.\\nWashington Co., N. Y. in 1814; on coming to this district of Michigan, in 1837, he lo-\\ncated lands in Clinton Township, where he remained three years; he next piu chased a\\nwild farm in Washington Township, where he has lived for ten years. He was married.\\nin 184 2, and moved to Ashley, now New Baltimore, in 18- Mr. Hooker carried the\\nfirst mails from the tavern at the Gratiot Road Crossing for a terra of one year, until T.\\nM. Crocker was appointed Postmaster, who retained the position for three years, when he\\nwas elected District Attorney and moved to Mt. Clemens. A reference to the political\\nchapter will show the popular vote which sent Mr. Hooker to the Legislature in 1849, and\\nto the Senate in 18. He was one of the leading merchants of the town, for about four\\nyears, but for the last eighteen years has devoted his entire attention to agi-icultm-e, being\\none of the most extensive, if not the most extensive, farmer in the county.\\nWILLIAM C. JONES, farmer and present Supervisor of the township of Chesterfield,\\nwas born at Manchester. Ontario Co.. N. Y. July 30. IH I l. and came to Michigan with\\nhis parents in the year 1831. and settled in Novi, Oakland Coimty, then a wilderness; he\\nthere saw the hardships of a pioneer life. W. C. moved to Detroit in 1848, and engaged\\nin the mercantile business. On the 18th of January. 1852, he was married to Miss Olive\\nS. Brown, of Coldwater. Branch Co., Mich.; he moved from Detroit, in April, 1859, to\\nChesterfield, his present home; he now holds the office of Justice of the Peace in his\\nsecond term; his father. Samiiel Jones, was born in Dutchess Co., N. Y., January 20, 1789;\\nhe moved to Ontario Co., N. Y. when a boy. He was married to Miss Barbary Hill, of\\nOntario Co.. N. Y.. her birthplace; she was born August 24. 1795, and is now living. She\\nwas the mother of eleven children, seven boys and four girls: seven boys and two girls are\\nnow living, all over fifty years of age.\\nSIDNEY A. KNIGHT was born in Chesterfield Township in 1S47; he received the\\nliberal education which the school of the township ofi ors, aud now follows the profession\\nof book-keeper and mercantile clerk. He was married to Miss E. J. Evans. April 5, 1870.\\nMr. Knight has been Town Treasm-er for some time; is S. W. of Lake St. Clair Lodge,\\nNo. 82. F. A. M. and an earnest worker in all matters affecting the township s well being.\\nFREDERICK KRIMEL was born in Wurtemberg, Germany, August 19, 1841; set-\\ntled in Detroit in 1871, and came to New Baltimore in 1874; he was married, in Ger-\\nmany, to Miss Rossa Kallar, in 18(i9; they are the parents of five boys and one girl. Im-\\nmediatelv after settlement at New Baltimore, he opened a hotel, which he now conducts.\\nABRAM LEONARDSON (deceased), born in Montgomery County, N. Y., March 12,\\nlN2r). was the son of Abram. of the same State. Mr. L. came with his mother to this\\ncounty in October, 1843, and located lands in Chesterfield, where he lived until his de-\\ncease, January 23, 1878. He was married. May 28, 1852, to Miss Julia, daughter of", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0930.jp2"}, "931": {"fulltext": "i.\\ni t^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nRichai-d Hedges; she was bom in Vermont and was visiting her brother in this county at\\ndate of marriage; they were the parents of four children Clara. Jay, John and An-\\nnie; Clara is the wife of M. S. Farr, residing at Lincoln, Neb. Mr. L. has been a mem-\\nber of the Christian Church for several years and resides on the homestead. Section o,\\nChesterfield.\\nJAMES LEONARDSON. son of Abram, of New York, was Isorn in Montgomery\\nCounty, N. Y., January 29. 1818; he settled near Maumee, Ohio, in the fall of 1848. and\\nlocated lands on Section 8, Chesterfield, in 1845, where he still resides; he took charge\\nof a farm when seventeen years ot age, and has piu-sued agi-iculture since that time. He\\nwas married, in February, 1843. to Miss Eleanor Meagley, of Montgomery County, N.\\nY., to whom eight children were born, seven of whom are living Abram and Francis\\n(twins), Elizabeth, Jane, Ella, Etta and Alice, all of whom are married except the last\\nnamed. Mr. L. was Commissioner of Highways for four years. Notary Public for two\\nyears and School Director for three years; is a member of the Patrons of Husbandry and\\nof the Clinton Church at Romeo.\\nF. C. LOSH, proprietor of the Grand Pacific House at New Baltimore, was born in\\nChesterfield September 3. 185fi; he married Miss Emma Springborn, who was born at\\nFair Haven, October 25, IS.jT. The hotel which he proposes opening next summer will\\nbe a great addition to the village, and doubtless will reward the enterprise of the owner,\\nsince it will offer to many an inducement to visit the beautifully located village.\\nCHARLES MEIYERS was born in Germany October 14,/l8. )4; he came direct from\\nhis German home to Macomb C/Ounty, and. taking a position as mill hand in the Perkins\\nSon Mill, entered upon that course of earn st labor and industry, which resulted in en-\\nabling him to carr} on that manufactui ing concern successfully. He married Miss Losh\\nin 1871; they have two children, a boy, aged four years, and a girl, aged two years. Mr.\\nMeiyers is the owner of the New Baltimore livery, which is a first-class concern in every\\nresjject.\\nFREDERICK MILLER, butcher and packer, was born at Wiu-temberg, Germany, in\\n1830; came to Philadelphia in 18 )3, where he remained until 18l)4, when he located at\\nNew Baltimore. He married Miss Louisa Sulcir, of Philadelphia, in 1855; since coming\\nto this village, his trade has made steady progress. In aLlditiou to the regular village\\ntrade, he packs about eighty barrels annually for the lake trade.\\nJOHN MILTON, P. O. Milton, born in Somersetshire, England, March 29, 1817; lo-\\ncated in Chesterfield in June, 1841; he entered the wilderness with a cash capital of $H(),\\ndetermined to carve out for himself the respectable f(n-tiine which rewarded his labars.\\nMr. M. married Miss Loretta Bm-gess, of this township, in 1849, to whom were born fom-\\nchildren, one son and three daughters. William Milton, born December 1, 1785, in Som-\\nersetshire, England, came to this country in June, 1855, and lived with his son until his\\ndeath, August 15, 1870, in tlie eighty-sixth year of his age. Mi-s. Milton, Sr., born January\\n10, 1786, died in her ninety-second year, March 25, 1877. John Milton, the subject of\\nthis sketch, filled the office of Supervisor from 1802 to 1876, with two exceptions, when\\nhe retired from the circle of local politics.\\nJOSEPH MILTON (deceased) was born in Somersetshire, England, October 2, 1810;\\nemigrated with his brother and landed August 2, 1832, and settled on a Government grant\\nof eighty acres; he only had one English farthing in money, when he lauded, but, with a\\nbrave heart and strong arm, he began to carve out his fortune in the wilds of Michigan.\\nIn order to get a living while clearing his land, he worked ac his trade in Mt. Clemens,\\nas ship carpenter in summer, and in winter cleared his land; being a large man and having\\na strong constitution, he succeeded; he labored on the Gratiot Turnpike and the Grand\\nTrunk Railroad when they were in course of construction. He married Miss Spiddy J.", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0931.jp2"}, "932": {"fulltext": "l\\\\\u00c2\u00b1.\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nHei-riman, of Wayne Co., N. Y., June 7. 183 she was born May 8. 1817. oVIr. M. re-\\nceived a common-school education in England and was adapted to most any position in\\nrural districts; was Commissioner of Highways for several terms, and School Director; the\\nlatter has always been his pi-ide; he took an active interest in politics, being a stanch\\nDemocrat, and when he passed away every one who knew him lamented his loss; the min\\nister who fficiated at his funeral said: Never has it been my privilege to see such a tri-\\num))liant death as was his; he was one of the happiest of men; the last word to his family\\nwas It is all satisfactory. His funeral was the largest one ever known in this district;\\nthe funeral services were conducted by Rev. John Armstrong. The names and ages of\\nhis family are as follows: Ford Lee Milton, born April 11. 1830; Obed Arnold. September\\nL 4, 1837; Charlotte Ann. February 13, 1839: Gaylord Donaldson, December 2, 1849;\\nMirthy Treasure, April 29. 18 !2.\\nWARREN PARKER, son of Joshua O. Parker, born in Putney, Vt., January\\n18()(). was born in Greig. Lewis Co., N. Y., November 15, 18 29. Jcshua C. and family\\ncame to Michigan in 1833, and settled in the township of Chesterfield; bought his land\\nfrom the Government, the same being the east half of the northeast quarter of Section 18.\\nAt that period, the Indians dwelt on the lake shore, three or four miles distant, while\\nwolves, bears and deer were plenty round the neighborhood. Mr. Parker. Sr., died July\\n2i, 18 Wan-en was married to Miss Adeline Snover, December 3, 1851. to whom one\\nchild was born. This lady died November 0, 18()1. He married Miss Mary A., daughter\\nof William Carpenter, November 9, bSfi. to whom two sons George and William were\\nborn. Mrs. Mary A. Parker died October 3, 1871. October 22, 1872, he married Helen\\nCarjienter, sister of his second wife, of whom two children were born Warren and Joshua\\nC, the first deceased. Mr. Parker has tilled the offices of Highway Commissioner, School\\nInspector. Justice of the Peace, Supervisor and was elected Representative of the Logis-\\nlatm-e in 1878 and again in 1880. The family in America dates back to the first settle-\\nment of Connecticut, when five brothers came from England; three settled in New En-\\ngland and two in Virginia. The great grand father of Warren Parker was the son of Ebe\\nnezer Parker, and named Joshua, born in Boston June 5, 1720. The son of Joshua was\\nSamuel D. born April 24. 17()3, and his son was Joshua C, father of Warren, and a pio-\\nneer of Chesterfield.\\nWILLIAM RANDALL, born at Benton, Yates Co., N. Y.. May 24, 1821; was edu-\\ncated in Ontario County. N. Y., and traveled West in 1840, locating in Illinois; in 1851,\\nhe an-ived at Mt. Clemens and the year aftei- settled in New Baltimore; he was engaged\\nthere as a photogi-aphic artist for a short time. During four years, he has been manager of\\nthe McElroy Mill and manager for Perkins Son for three years. He married Miss M.\\nM. Dean, of Winnebago County, March 27, 1851 they are the parents of five children\\nCornelia M., born September 8, 1857; Wintield E., March 4, ISfil; Caroline C. June 2().\\n1865; James W., April 4, 1868, and Arthur E., April 10, 1870.\\nJACOB REHFUSS was born in Germany November 30, 1828; came to Philadelphia\\nin 1852, where he engaged in shoemaking for one year; he settled in New Baltimore in\\n1853. He man-ied Christiana Scott, of PhiladeliJiia, in 1859, by whom he has five chil-\\ndren two boys and three girls. He has carried on business in New Baltimore for twenty\\nyears.\\nA. D. RICE, P. O. Milton, dealer in dry goods, groceries, hardware, etc., was born\\nin Madison County, N. Y.. in 1836; came to Michigan with his parents the same year;\\nentered the army at the outbreak of the rebellion, participating in its conflicts till its\\nclose, accompanying Gen. Sherman on his grand march to the sea; then returned and\\nsettled on the old homestead in Macomb Townshii). Mr. Rice resided on the farm until\\nhe established the business above referred to in October, 1880. His marriage with Miss", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0932.jp2"}, "933": {"fulltext": "Ll^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nCleantlie Storm took place. April 2, 18()7: they are the parents of four childi-en Rollie\\nE., born January U, 18(58; Hila Mable. June 29, 1870; Winfield S., June 18, 1873. and\\nAlford. November 20, 1881.\\nCAPT. PAUL RIVAED, born in Chesteriield September 24, 1847; received a com-\\nmon-school education there; in 18(51, he took to the lakes, shijsping before the mast, and,\\nin 18(57. he was jiromoted to the office of first mate, which position he held until 1870,\\nwhen he was appointed Captain, which office he holds at the present time. He was mar-\\nried in 1878, and has three children.\\nM. M. SANDERS, manager of the Hatheway planing mill and sash, door and blind\\nfactory, was born at Waterloo, Seneca Co., N. Y., in 1822; he is an engineer by profession,\\nhaving served under Johnson, of Geneva, and followed that trade for a number of years,\\nuntil he accepted the management of the New Baltimore Planing Mill, etc. He was mar-\\nried to Miss Elizabeth Hess, of Waterloo; to them was born one child, now aged thirty-\\ntwo years.\\nC. SCHLOSSER. dealer in hardware, stoves and tinware, who purchased the store\\nand the business established by Benedict in 1875; has carried on an extensive trade here\\never since May 1. 1878; he carries a stock valued at over $3,0110, and his business is based\\non cash principles. Mr. S. was born ih Alsace. LoiTaine, France. September 1. 1842;\\nemigi ated to Iowa in 18(5U, and settled in Detroit in 1872, where he learned his trade.\\nHe married Miss Eliza Wagnar. in January, 1874; they are the jjarents of one boy, aged\\nfour months, and one girl, aged six years.\\nCYRUS B. SIMMONS. P. O. Milton, was born in the town of Paris. Oneida Co., N.\\nY.. June 4. 181(); there he received a common-school education; his father died in 1818;\\nhis mother moved to Florence, north part of Oneida County, in 1820; he came to Macomb\\nCoimty in May, 1834, when the most of the State was a wilderness; he has held the office\\nof Supervisor for three years, and was elected Justice of the Peace, but did not qualify;\\nhe has ever taken an active part in education and politics; was Notaiy Public for one term.\\nMr. S. was married to Miss M. Stanford, of Rockdale, Erie Co., Penn., in 183(5; has two\\nsons and one daughtev living, who are married and settled in Michigan. His wife died in\\n1863 and one daughter in 1870.\\nGEORGE C. WALKER, successor to J. S. P. Hatheway s store, established in 1852,\\nby the Kern Bros., and sold to Mr. Hatheway in 1855. Mr. Walker bought the mercantile\\ninterest March 20, 1882, from Mr. Hatheway, and now carries on the business of general\\nmerchant under the name of George C. Walker; he was born in Tioga County, N. Y. in\\nOctober. 1832; he came to Michigan in 1855, and located at Fair Haven.\\nELISHA WELLER, born July 23, 1800, in Mansfield, now Washington, IN. J. came\\nto Michigan in May, 1831 he was married in his native county to Maria Van Atta, No-\\nvember 13, 1822, by whom he had twelve children, of whom eight are living, thi ee girls\\nand five boys, all of whom are married. Mr. Weller began life in Michigan as a black-\\nsmith; for years he labored earnestly at his trade, but was not exposed to the privations\\nof pioneer life in any serious form, as he brought with him some money and necessaries\\nof life, which proved an efficacious remedy against the evils entailed by the Michigan\\nNarrows and the panic of 1837,\\nF. M. WOOLLEY. P. O. New Baltimore, clerk and part owner on a boat, was born in\\nPoughkeepsie, N. Y., January (5, 1843; came to Michigan October 23, 1852. and received\\nhis education at Mt. Clemens; then went to New Baltimore, where he learnetl the harness\\nmaker s trade with A. J. Heath; he enlisted in the Ai-my of the Cumberland and served\\nfor two years; was wounded and taken prisoner July 13, 18(52, at the battle of Murfrees-\\nboro, Tenn; he was paroled by the rebels and rejoined his regiment and was afterward\\ndischarged for disability; came home and engaged as a commercial traveler. March,", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0933.jp2"}, "934": {"fulltext": "l\\\\^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\n187 he accepted a position as clerk on the steamer City of Baltimore. He was married\\nto Miss Fanny A. Wilson, of New Baltimore, in October, 18B8; they are the parents of\\nthree sons and one daughter. Mr. WooUey takes an active interest in education and\\npolitics.\\n;t^", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0934.jp2"}, "935": {"fulltext": "^1\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nRECENT HAPPENINGS.\\nTB.\\\\NSACTIONS OF THE PIONEEB SOCIETY, 1882.\\nm,MuX.pSo\u00e2\u0084\u00a2 to .It/nJ. the meeting did not attr\u00c2\u00abt the number, oipeoted About\\ni\u00c2\u00ab:E:itsr.^;trrr:= C zS:t, reXC^^^^^^\\n\u00e2\u0084\u00a2n.d S,\u00e2\u0080\u009er\u00e2\u0080\u009ed. \u00c2\u00bbidac\u00c2\u00ab\u00e2\u0080\u009en.itt.e a, \u00e2\u0080\u009eoint..d to -P \u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb\u00c2\u00bb3 S H T\\nSh,i;;intdT.\\\\Scl,7-.X-^S;S5:\\niedge o f Mt Clemls nd George W. Phillips, of Romeo. Execuhve Committee; John\\nC. Ctdy was designated as singing master. Andriis paper\\nG H. Cannon, in the necessary absence of the autlio. l Jf The C inton\\non me Clinton Canal and Shelby Railroad. This paper we b-efly sketch The Clmton\\nCanal and Shelby Raih-oad were two of the many re^^^^^^^^^^\\nfever of speculation that infatuated the pe^Ue of Mich ganm^^^^\\n1833 to 1840. The State ^v.s ^P-^ ^^t ^tcon t i^ stimulated\\nconnections was strongly felt. 1 tie succeshiui con j- qj^j^^.^^. to the\\nMichigan to alike endeavor and a cana from the Chnt^^^\\n!-r;erypre:^s.=^Er^^^^^^^^^^\\nrh::.r.?nsrBrrors:i.^iSfofS^^^^^^^\\nin charglthe canal work and a survey was ^f f/7,f ^V^^fe ^i l^est hopes were arous-\\ngreatexxitementamongthoselocanymterestednthec^n^^\\nId among the sturdy P-^^rs of Macomb Co^^^^^ the\\nyear there were changes ^^^^Xfrlwe iron those interested in the work at one\\n^n^mS;^I^:r:^^^HS.rtSt:trlt^^^^^^ across the Clin-", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0935.jp2"}, "936": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\niL,\\nton to supply the locks, and. in lH-i5. boats were running from Utica to Frederick. In\\nthat year, the revenue to the State from canal tolls was $46. UO; year following, it was\\n$43.44; in 11S47. the income was less yet, and, in 1S4S, the canal was in disuse. At that\\ntime the bottom fell out of the vast scheme of improvements inaugurated by the State, and\\nwork stopped on the canal as it did on the other works. The effect of the bankruptcy of\\nthe State, for such it was, virtually, on the Clinton Kalamazoo Canal was demoralizing\\nin the extreme. The locks were pillaged and bm-ned. the iron stolen, and, in 1850,\\nhardly one stone remained upon another. Such was the igaominious end of an enterprise\\nthat was to span a great State and join the waters of Lake Michigan and St. Clair.\\nTraces of the canal are still plainly discernible along its route and at Utica it has been\\nkept in good repair and is now utilized as a water-power.\\nThe companion project of the canal, the Shelby Railroad, was begun about the same\\ntime, and likewise came to naught. Just before the expiration of its charter, wooden\\nrails were laid down, and a hastily contrived car. drawn by horse-power to Detroit. Only\\none trip was made, but this was sufficient to preserve the charter, and, some years after-\\nward, when the Detroit Bay City was constructed, the old road-bed came into service\\nhere and there.\\nExcellent singing by the choir reminded President Cady of some happy reminis-\\ncences, which he related with zest. LewM. Millei of Lansing, read a paper on the Early\\nBanks and Bankers of Macomb County. This paper reminded President Cady that he was a\\nstockholder in the Bank of Macomb County, and didn t lose a cent by it, either, as he hastily\\nsold out. S. H. Ewell, of Komeo. said that he had been held accountable for the failure of the\\nUtica Bank, to which IVIr. Miller made reference, as one day he presented $1.0 in bills for\\nredemption, and it cleaned out the institution. They never redeemed a bill after that.\\nThe choir sang again, and this called to the mind of President Cady the fact that\\nsome fifty years ago. the Board of Supervisors of Macomb County, then embracing a large\\npart of Eastern Michigan, held its first meeting in Mt. Clemens. The boai d was com-\\nposed of six members and met in a store belonging to Mr. Cady, just north of the\\ncourt house, where Dahm s new block now stands. The board voted to have some whisky,\\ngot drunk, stayed up all night and adjourned the next morning without paying for the\\ndrink! A temperance sentiment existed among a certain class of people, who would\\ndrink nothing but cider, so he mixed five gallons of cider with five gallons of whisky, and\\nit was high fun to see the temperance folks boozy on Cady s cider.\\nGeorge H. Cannon read a paper on the life of Judge Burt, who died in 1858, one of\\nthe most remarkable men of the early Northwest. President Cady was reminded of a n\\nelection argument that was used against Burt when he ran for the Legislature. The Judge\\nhad a new suit of clothes and was so careful of it that he never sat down without putting\\na piece of clean paper on the chair. Mr. Cady said the argument!!) was used with no in-\\nconsiderable efl ect. Orrin Freeman, of Romeo, told tales of pioneer life, and put in a good\\nword for Freeman s great excursions to the West.\\nRepresentative Pai ker was called upon and addressed the meeting briefly. Mr.\\nParker dwelt especially upon the history of Chesterfield, and among many facts stated\\nthat the first land located in Chesterfield was on the site of the village of New Balti-\\nmore, in 1808, being private claim 848. taken up by Pierre Yacques. Mr. Parker was\\nproud of the fine progress of Chesterfield Township and of it people.\\nAfter the singing of Northfield. in j e old-fashioned way, the pioneers proceeded\\nto elect Vice Presidents, who were selected as follows:\\nRomeo S. H. Ewell. Armada Hiram Barrows.\\nMt. Clemens N. L. Miller. Utica James Alexander.\\nRichmond David Flagler. Washington Loren Andrus.", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0936.jp2"}, "937": {"fulltext": "The new Executive Committee was authorized to settle with the Treasurer, and, after\\nelecting several honorary members, among them John Martin, of Oakland County, and\\nL. M. Miller, of Lansing, adjournment was taken until evening.\\nThe evening session began at 8 o clock, and was devoted wholly to singing and rem-\\niniscences of Macomb County s early singers. S. H. Ewell, of Romeo, figured promi-\\nnently in the entertainment, and read a paper, in which he mentioned many of the pio-\\nneer singers. Horace H. Cady followed with an interesting recital of musical experiences\\nforty and fifty years ago. Mr. Cady was then chief fugleman among the singers and came\\nto the fr- Ut on all public occasions. He sang a Fench song with amusing eflect. S. H.\\nDavis, of Romeo, sang several old songs to the great delight of the audience, and Secre^\\ntary Day made a few remarks. This last meeting of the pioneers of Macomb adjourned to\\nmeet again at Utica.\\nE.\\\\BLY BANKS AND BANKERS OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nThe following paper on the above-named subject was prepared by Lew M. Miller, of\\nLansing, and read before the pioneers of Macomb, June 13, 1882.\\nSo far as can be at present ascertained, the first attempt to organize a bank in Ma-\\ncomb County was made in the yeai- 1834. At that time this county was one of the mosc\\nthickly settled in the Territory, having within tue same boundaries as at present a popula-\\ntion of more than 6, 000. The center of that population was here at Mt. Clemens, then\\nan ambitious little settlement, and one of the most important points in the Territory. In\\ncommon with the rest of Michigan, this village suffered great inconvenience from the\\nscarcity of currency. Business was hindered. The butcher, the baker and the candle-\\nstick-maker had to barter and trust in many of their commercial transactions. Great\\nenterprises were checked, and all the possibilities of the country were lying undeveloped.\\nSuch a state of affairs could not be otherwise than irritating to those who had cast their\\nlots in this community. A conference of public-spirited citizens was held and a commit-\\ntee appointed to di aw up a memorial to the Legislative Council. Who were most promi-\\nnent in this movement and who composed the committee, we now have no means of\\nknowing; but their memorial was duly presented to the Council by John Stockton, then a\\nmember from Macomb and St. Clair Counties, on January 20, 1834. It is mentioned in\\nthe journal as a memorial from a committee of citizens of Macomb County, praying for\\nthe passage of a law to establish a bank at the village of Mt. Clemens.\\nSimilar, though less formal, action was taken at about the same time by citizens of\\nShelby and the eastern part of Oakland County. They forwarded to the Council two pe-\\ntitions, numerously signed, praying that a charter might be granted to a, bank to be\\ncalled the Clinton River Bank, and to be located in the town of Shelby, county of Ma-\\ncomb. One of the petitions was presented by Elon Farusworth, of Wayne County, on\\nJanuary 21. and the other, on February 4, by Charles C. Hascall. of Oakland County.\\nThe memorial from Mt. Clemens and the two petitions from Shelby were referred to the\\nCommittee on Incorporations.\\nIt did not seem expedient, however, to a majority of that committee, from the facts\\nset forth in the memorial aal petitions, to graut any charters, at that time, to any banking\\ninstitutions in Macomb County. The committee, therefcii e, recommended that the prayer\\nof the petitioners be not granted, and the recommendation was concurred in.\\nThe reasons which led the majority to this conclusion are not set forth in the report of\\nthe committee. The whole matter is dispatched with the usual brevity of early Legisla-\\ntive journals. To us there may seem something curt in this refusal to gi-ant a request to\\nwhich Gen. Stockton and his constituents were so much concerned. Yet who can now\\nquestion the soundness of the committee s conclusions t One of the majority was Elon\\nFarnsworth, to whose opinions as Chancellor and Attorney General the State of Michigan", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0937.jp2"}, "938": {"fulltext": "ihL,\\nwas afterward wont to listen with attention and respect. Before be concluded that the\\nproposed action was inexpedient, he had doubtless considered well the subject: and it is\\ninteresting to note that his conclusions at that time were trulj prophetic. Befori; many\\nyears, it became his duty, as Chancellor, to allow writs of injunction against the only two\\nMacomb County banks under the old regime that ever rose to the dignity of an injunction.\\nNothing daunted by his first repulse, Mr. Stockton at once gave notice that on a\\nfuture day, he would ask leave to introduce a bill to establish the Macomb County Bank,\\nwith a capital of .1200,000. Upon his motion, the conem-rence in the committee s report\\nwas reconsidered, and the report tabled. Having thus cleared his way. he introduced\\nA bill to incorporate the Bank of Macomb County, which passed safely through the\\nvarious stages, until it reached the order of third reading. There it stop])ed, having re-\\nceived but five ayes to eight nays on the question of its passage. The next day. on motion\\nof Mr. Hascall. this vote was reconsidered, and the fm ther consideration of the bill post-\\nponed until the next session of the Council.\\nOf the provisions of Mr. Stockton s bill, we have no knowledge. Merely the title ap-\\npears in the journal, together with an incidental mention of $200,000 capital stock. It is\\nprobable, however, that its essential features were not very different from those of other\\ncharters granted to banking institutions in those days. Nothing more was heard of the\\nClinton River Bank, to be located in the town of Shelby, county of Macomb. Its light\\nhad gone out in utter darkness.\\nMr. Stockton made no fiu-ther attempt to organize a bank during either of the special\\nsessions of 1834. nor did he broach the subject at the regular session of 1835. Mean\\nwhile, measiu es were well under way for the organization of a State government. Dur-\\ning May and June, a convention had met and framed a constitution, and that document\\nwas ready for submission to the people. In the interim. Gov. Mason convened the Legis-\\nlative Council in special session. It assembled on August 17 and adjourned August 25.\\nDiu ing this nine days session, just when the Territory was merging into a State, was\\npassed an act. destined to till an important chapter in the histoiy of Macomb County. It\\nwas entitled An act to incorporate the Macomb Saginaw Raih oad Company, and for\\nother purposes. It was not the railroad company, but the other purposes that\\nmade the act conspicuous. The 2)rincipal one of the other purposes was the granting\\nof authority to the stockholders of the railroad company to establish a bank at Mt. Clem-\\nens, under the corporate name of The President, Directors and Comj^any of the Bank of\\nMacomb County. Gen. Stockton secured the enactment of that law. Whether he re-\\nvived and remodeled his old bill or began anew, it is now impossible to determine. The\\njournal of that session, might, perhaps, inform us; but that journal has long been a miss-\\ning book, and it is even doubtful whether there is a copy still in existence. So we have\\nbut tradition and conjecture to guide tis.\\nStrange as it may now seem to us, the combination of a railroad and a bank was no\\nnew proposition, when made by Mr. Stockton. The same Legislative Council, to which\\nhe now proposed it, had already, twice before, been guilty of encouraging that kind of\\nmiscegenation. During the regular session of 1835, the Erie Kalamazoo Railroad Com-\\npany and the Detroit Pontiac Railroad Company had been authorized by amendments\\nto their charters, to establish each a bank; and it is significant to note that the first part\\nof Mr. Stockton s bill was modeled after the original charters of those two railroad com-\\npanies, and the second part after the amendments. Hence, Mr. Stockton coiild point to\\ntwo irresistible precedents for the passage of his bill. Furthermore, as railroad projects\\nwere then quite popular, he may have shrewdly incorporated one in his bill to help his\\nbank scheme through. Whatever may have been the means adopted, the fact remains that\\nhe succeeded in removing enough of the opposition to his project to secure the passage of", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0938.jp2"}, "939": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nhis bill: and it would be iuterestnig to know whether Elon Farnsworth was finally won\\nover to a support of the bill, or whether he persisted in his doubt of the expediency of\\ngranting charters to any banking institutions in Macomb County.\\nThe bill became a law August 24, 1835. By its provisions. Christian Clemens,\\nJohn S. Axford, Neil Gray. Azariah Prentiss, James Brown, Rodney O. Cooley and Lan-\\nsing B. Mizner were appointed Commissioners to open books and receive subscriptions to\\nthe capital stock of the railroad company, which was to be $1,000,000, divided into shares\\nof $50 each. When 1,000 shares were taken, the subscribers were to become a body cor-\\nporate, by the name of the Macomb Saginaw Railroad Company. A single or double\\nrailroad, to be located by Israel Curtis. Jacob Tucker and Charles C. Hascall, was to be\\nconstructed from Mt. Clemens to Lapeer, and thence to the seat of justice of Saginaw\\nCounty. Nine Directors were to be chosen annually, on the first Monday of October, and\\na President from among the Directors or stockholders.\\nSection 21 confers upon the stockholders of the railroad comjiany the authority to es-\\ntablish a bank at Mt. Clemens, with a capital stock of $100,000, divided into shares of\\n$50 each. The banking eoriwration was to be known as The President, Directors and\\nCompany of the Bank of Macomb County. and its affairs were to be managed by the\\nPresident and Directors of the railroad company. Bills might be issued in denominations\\nnot less than $1, payable on demand at the company s banking house, within usual busi-\\nness hoMS, in the legal money of the United States. Upon failure so to redeem its bills,\\nthe corporation was liable to be dissolved, subject, however, to the provisions of the act\\nrelative to banks, approved April 23, 1S33, which allowed a limit of sixty days, within\\nwhich to make payment. Before bills were istued, the entire stock of the railroad com-\\npany was to be conveyed to the bank as security for their redemption, and the Directors\\nwere to give collateral security to the Territory for such redemption until ten miles of\\nrailroad had been completed. Unless forfeited sooner, the charter was to remain in force\\nforty years. Many other jirovisions, limitations and restrictions, which it is imnecessary\\nto enumerate here, are incorj)orated in the charter.\\nThe bank was not put into operation for more than a year after the charter was obtained.\\nThe majority of the stock appears to have been originally subscribed for by (ien. Stockton.\\nAmong the original subscribers appear also the names of Christian Clemens, Buel Ambrose,\\nH. H. Farley Co. James Brown, S. F. Atwood, Aaron Whitney, Jr., R. Steward, C. S.\\nMather, Rodney O. Cooley, De Garmo Jones, of Detroit. Enoch Jones, Edward Brooks,\\nEbenezer Hall. Isaac J. Grovier, A. B. Rawles, Jacob Beekman, E. G. Pratt, George l^ee,\\nJr.. William Cantield, Mrs. E. R. Hawkins, Miss Louisa Clemens (youngest daughter of\\nJudge Clemens and afterward wife of Col. Henry D. Terry). Daniel Chandler, James\\nWilfiams, William Roy. William Vandervoort, of Tonawanda, N. Y., James Brown and\\nIsrael F. Hatch and Lucius H Pratt, of Bufi alo. N. Y. If there were other original sub-\\nscribers, their names are lost, for the original subscription book disappeared very early in\\nthe history of the bank. It was destroyed for reasons best known to those who destroyed\\nit. The following persons became stockholders at an eai-ly date by subsequent j)urchase:\\nAaron Weeks, James Sweeney, Cornelius O Flynn. Charles A. Emerson, Dodge Kibbee,\\nLewis Godai-d, Creorge B. Martin, Richai-d Butler, R. Anderson, James C. Allen, Stephen\\nWhite, of Boston, Daniel F. Webster, of Peru. III., Cai-oline Webster, Lam-a Weeks, Mary\\nStockton. John Norton, Jr., J. H. Lathrop and S. F. Pratt, of Buffalo.\\nIn October, 1836, the following Board of Directors was cho.sen: Christian Clemens.\\nRodney O. Cooley, William Canfield, C. S. Mather. Enoch Jones, Edward Brooks, Daniel\\nF. Webster, Aaron Weeks and Isaac J. Grovier. John Stockton was elected President.\\nBy the 1st of February, two installments of stock, of 10 per cent, each, had been paid m,\\nand the bank was about to begin operations. Charles A. Emerson was then made Cashier,", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0939.jp2"}, "940": {"fulltext": "HISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY,\\nand bills were executed for the first time, bearing the signatures of John Stockton, Presi-\\ndent, and Charles A. Emerson. Cashier.\\nThe first business transaction of the bank was of a decidedly jieculiai nature. It\\ndates by com tesy on Saturday, February 11, 1N37, but was in reality executed on Sunday,\\nthe r2th. William Vandervoort and Lucius H. Pratt, who then owned a controlling in\\nterest in the stock, also stockholders, took each $10,000 of the newly signed bills, leavi ng\\nnotes of $10,000 each in place of them. They also took an additional $20,000, without\\nleaving any evidence of indebtedness, to create a credit for the Macomb County Bank with\\nthe Commercial Bank oi Buffalo, as they said. With this sum of $40,000, they left the\\ncountry on the Sabbath, and a knowledge of the transaction was for a long time kept from\\na majority of the Directors. When it became known, it created much dissatisfaction, and\\nfrom that date the hard feelings and mutual recriminations which characterize the history of\\nthe bank, date. Christian Clemens, Ebenezer Hall, Isaac J. Crrovier and William Caufield\\nspeak of this transaction and others with much indignation.\\nBesides the regular issue of bills, another was contemplated somewhat later, but not\\neffected. William Vandervoort caused to be engraved for the bank a plate of bills pay-\\nable at Tonowanda, N. Y. Impressions were taken and a few brought to Mt. Clemens,\\nbut none were ever signed.\\nWe have now reached the period of\\nWILD-CAT BANKS,\\na few of which made their appearance in this bounty. This term is applicable to those\\nbanks only which were organized under the general banking law of 1837. Hence, al-\\nthough closelj allied thereto, the Macomb County Bank was not of that species.\\nWhen the Legislature of 1837 convened, the whole State was wild on the subject of\\nbanking. Petitions for the organization of banks came from nearly every hamlet and foui--\\ncorner settlement of the State. Among them were two from citizens of Macomb County\\nfor a bank to be located at Romeo, presented in the house by Linus S. Gilbert. The\\nLegislature finally passed a general law for the organization of banking associations, which\\nwas approved March 1-3. This act passed almost without opposition. Only foiu Repre-\\nsentatives voted against it, one of whom was Isaac Monfort, of Macomb County. Under\\nthis act were organized the tamous wild-cat banks.\\nTHE BANK OF UTICA\\nwas the tu-st one organized in this county under the general law. The petition to the\\nClerk and Treasurer of the county bears date at Shelby, May 13, 183 and prays for the\\norganization of a bank, with a capital of $50,000. It is signed by Jacob Summers, Payne\\nK. Leech, Jr.. Asquire W. Aldrich, Benjamin L. Watkins. L. T. Jenney, Samuel Ladd,\\nA. G. Deshon, Giu-don C. Leech, Orson Sheldon, L. D. Owen, John James, James Covel,\\nJr., and Joseph Lester. On the 22d, notice was given by Rodney O. Cooley, Treasm-er,\\nand Amos Dalby, Clerk, that books would be opened at Utica, on Monday, June 2(), and\\nkept open for four days, for subscription to the capital stock. Coi)ies of the notice were\\nposted in twelve of the most public places in the county by Abraham Freeland, then\\nSheriff. On June 7, John James was ai)pointed temporary Treasurer to receive the th st\\ninstallments on subscriptions, giving a bond to the Clerk and Treasurer, conditioned to\\npay over to the Cashier, when appointed, on the order of the Directors, when elected, the\\namount paid to him, or to retm-n the same to the subscribers, if the organization of the\\nbank should not be completed. The sureties on this bond were Gurdon C. Leech, Lyman\\nT. Jenney, Orson Sheldon and Payne K. Leech, Jr. On August 31, the newly elected\\nDirectors, Jacob Summers, Orson Sheldon, Gurdon C. Leech, Payne K. Leech, Jr.,", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0940.jp2"}, "941": {"fulltext": "s^\\nHISTORY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nEphraim Calkins. Daniel W. Philips. William A, Davis. George Hanscom and -John\\nJames, with A. Freeland and Joseph Lester as sureties, in presence of Walter Porter and\\nWilliam Abernathy as witnesses, entered into bonds to the Auditor General, in the penal\\nsum of $12ri.000. conditioned for the punctual payment of all debts, notes, liabilities and\\nobligations, as required by law. The next day. a du[)licate was filed with the County\\nClerk, and then a certificate, issued by the Clerk and Treasurer, was tiled in the office of\\nthe Secretary of State, showing the due organization of the Bank of Utica. with a capital\\nstock of .\u00c2\u00a55(1.\\nJacob Summers was elected the first President, and John James appointed Cashier.\\nAt some subsequent election. Giu don C. Leech seems to have been made President. Thus\\norganized, the bank commenced business about September 9. and continued ojierations a\\nlittle more than a year, when its legal tribulations began. In addition to the Directors\\nnamed above, the following persons appear as stockholders in the institution: A. G. Fin-\\nden. E. Endres. J. S. Fletcher. Joseph Lester. Sheldon Owen. C. S. Madison, A Keeney.\\nS. Ladd. A. B. Adams. O. Steevens. L. D. Owen and A. Bond.\\nOn March 22. the bank paid a semi-annual State tax of $37.50, and contributed to\\nthe safety fund in the State treasury, for the redemption of its notes, just 23. 21. The\\nholders of its $14,225 worth of bills 7nust have fetched a long-drawn sigh of genuine\\nrelief when they read the State Treasurer s report for 183S. At the close of the year, its\\naffairs were in a sorry condition. Its liabilities were $33,753.04, while its only resources\\nwere $2,055.51, in real and personal property, and $31,114 of discounted jiaper, more\\nthan $22.0(10 of which was dne from stockholders and Directors. The bank was ut-\\nterly destitiite of specie, or any other ready means for the redemption of its notes. The\\nbank commissioners took immediate steps to wind up the concern. A bill was filed in the\\nCourt of Chancery bj- the Attorney General. Chancellor Elon Farnsworth allowed a writ\\nof injunction January 5, 183 and the days of usefulness of the Bank of Utica were\\nended. Its only reason for existence afterward was to play the part of shuttlecock to the\\nlegal battledoor. As Chancellor Farnsworth had allowed a similar injunction against the\\nBank of Macomb County, just 3( )4 days before, he must have indulged in a gi-im smile,\\nas he thought of the inexpediency of granting charters to any banking institutions in\\nMacomb County. Meanwhile, the bank s magnificent safety fund in the State Treasury\\nhad shrunk to $3.34, and what finally became of that is uncertain. Like all the rest of\\nthe bank s valuables, it probably kept on shrinking to infinity.\\nPeter S. Palmer, of Utica, was appointed Receiver February 4, 184(1; his report, riled\\nin April, shows $8,306.05 liabilities, of which $4,770 was for notes still unredeemed. The\\nresources wei e only $7,835.5( of which but ,775.32 were considered available. Notes\\nand accounts against citizens of Utica were generally considered good, while notes of other\\nwild-cat banks were accounted worthless.\\nThe Legislature of 1 842, passed an act to annul the corporate rights of certain banks,\\namong which was the Bank of Utica. Under that act, the Receiver caused an appraisal\\nof assets to be made. April 20, 1842. by James B. Cartter, James Covel, Jr., and C. B. H.\\nFessenden. This appraisal was signed by P. S. Palmer, Receiver, by J. James and Payne\\nK. Leech, Jr., his agents. The total valuation was $2,4( 2.77. Individual notes were ap-\\npraised at from par down to 50 per cent; Shelby Detroit Railroad checks at par; the\\nbanking house and lot, which cost $2,015, 98, at $80(139, or 40 per cent; bank fiu-nitui-e,\\nfrom 75 to 34 per cent, a claim against the Deti oit City Bank at 37i per cent. Then\\nfollows a batch of notes, wild-cat bills and claims, all thrown together without ap-\\npraisement, too worthless to be considered! The shuttlecock had now lieen banged about\\nby the battledoor, until it was too dilapidated for further use, and the game stopped\\nhere.\\n57\\nV", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0941.jp2"}, "942": {"fulltext": "1\\nHLSTOKY OF MACOMR COUNTY.\\nTHE FARMERS BANK OF ROMEO\\nwas the next venture. Ou October 30, 1837, a jietitiou was drawn ixp for the organiza-\\ntion of a bank with a capital stock of )0l to be located at Romeo and known as the\\nFarmers Bank of Romeo. It was signed by Daniel Trombley. Jacob Coddington.\\nGeorge Finch. Martin F. Southwell, Asahel Bailey, Marvil Shaw, Isaac Brabb, James\\nThorington, Charles F. Suover, Benjamin Crissmau, Abner Smith, Jr., Adam Armstrong,\\nA. B. Cooley, James Harvey, David Phelps, John A. Shaffer, A. B. Ayres. Ebenezer Kit-\\nridge. A. Prentiss. Orratns Hulett. Rnfus Carjjenter, John S. Axforth and Ephraim\\nGraves. The books were open for subscription on December I i. in the old red tavern.\\nThe capital stock was all subscribed, the requisite 10 per cent installment being paid on\\nthe spot in gold coin, a scarce commodity in those days. John James, of Utiea, was ap-\\npointed temporary Treasurer, and he gave the usual bond, with G. C. Leech. O. Sheldon,\\nA. B. Cooley. R. L, Clark. A. B. Rawls, G. Gates, A. B. Ayres, G. Rix and J. AV. Dyar,\\nas sureties, and H. A. Tutner and I. Cummings as witnesses. Directors and a Cashier\\nwere chosen, and John W. Dyar was elected President. An order for plates was made on\\na New York engraver, and in due time the bills were received. They were deposited for\\nsafekeeping in the Bank of Utica, but the great collapse came before any of them were\\nsigned by the officers of the bank, and all ideas of further business was indefinitely post-\\njioned. Yet some of the bills got out and went ou their way rejoicing in forged signatm es.\\nMartin Bnzzell, still living at Romeo, had a .i bill of that bank presented to him in 1838,\\nwhile doing business at Natchez. Miss. Not having much confidence in that kind of cur-\\nrency, he refused to take it.\\nMr. John W. Dyar. still a resident of Ruineo, informs me that the citizens of Romeo\\nreally wanted no bank at all; but a number of Penn,sylvania wild-cat schemers had fixed\\nupon that village as the scene of one of their nefarious swindles. In order to anticipate\\nthem the more substantial business men of the village organized a bank. and. with the\\nfi iendly aid of Messrs. James. Leech and Clark, of Utica, subscribed for all the stock.\\nTHE CLINTON RIVER BANK\\ncame next, and was the second of that name. The lirst, it will be remembered, was to be\\norganized by special charter and located at Shelby. The second was to be of the wild-cat\\nspecies, and located at Mt. Clemens. Its capital stock was to be 000 and book.s were to\\nbe opened for subscriptions on January 9, 1838. The petition was dated and filed Novem-\\nber 1^9. having been signed by C. S. Mather, Frederick Hatch. George Whitney, Porter\\nKibbee, G. C. Fletcher, E. L. Atkins, P. 8. Fletcher. James B. Van Rensselaer, William\\nLewis, R. P. Eldredge, H. M. Dodge, James Williams, H J. Higgins and R. F. Eastman.\\nBut the crash came like\\nAn envious, sneaking frost.\\nTliat bites the first-lioi-n infants of the spring.\\nand the Clinton River Bank, No. 2. went to meet its illustrious namesake.\\nThere was still another member of this wildcat family, which, as Ai-temus Ward\\nwould say, was the most amoosin little cuss of the whole litter. The general law having\\nbeen changed somewhat, as to the mode of organization, a document was drawn up, on the\\n2C)th of March, 1838, and filed in the office of the Secretary of State four days later, cer-\\ntifying that a banking association had been formed with a capital stock of iif )O,O0O, to be\\nlocated at the village of Belvidere or Belvidere City and to be known as\\nTHE BANK OF LAKE ST. CLAIR.\\nJames L. Conger was its President, A. C. Hatch, D. B. Conger, S. A. Hathaway, C.\\nW. Hussey, S. G. Langdon were its Directors, and A. Wilcox, D. G. Gtu nsey and Edwai-d\\nr", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0942.jp2"}, "943": {"fulltext": "HISTOKY OF MACOMB COUNTY.\\nR. Blackwell were the other stockholders. Bills were elaborately engraved and printed\\nin abnndance. but before they were regularly issued the bank was swamped by hard times\\nand the city by high water. The bills were extensively circulated by the boys of the\\nadjacent country, and in some instances, no doubt, were passed as money upon the igno-\\nrant or unwary.\\nCONCLUSION.\\nJudging the future of the county by the past, and that is the proper criterion to\\njudge by, what can be the limits to the progress that will be made by the genius of the\\nAmerican people of Macomb in the next fifty years? We can only entertain a hope for the\\nforeign element of the jiopulation a hoj)e that when the next history is proposed, the im-\\nmigrants will have reached that state of intelligence which will enable them to conceive\\nthe utility of such a work, and incite them to support it, so that they may learn more, and\\nbecome Americanized.\\nThat portion of the population properly termed the American people of Macomb,\\nseem to have made everything in which they engage so satisfactory in results, that\\nthe humau mind pauses in the midst of its bwundlessness, and almost seems to say the\\nwhole work is accomplished, and there is nothing left for the inventive genius of the rising\\ngeneration to do. But much as has been accomplished, the most scientific and constructive\\nminds, those that have accomplished the grandest results in fields of mechanics and inven-\\ntions, realize the fact that they have just made a beginning in the arts and sciences, and\\nthat a gi-eat undiscovered world lies beyond\\nS r- -s sfv", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0943.jp2"}, "944": {"fulltext": "ERRATA.\\nALEXANDER GRANT. The biography of this gentleuiau should read: His wife\\nwas the daughter of Albert and Mary Deshon, instead of Albert and Julia.\\nThe folhjwing biography was received too late for insertion in its proper place:\\nWILLIAM FREDERICK DRAKE, P. O. Utica, son of Hiram and Autha (Wolf) Drake,\\nnatives of New York, born in Sterling Town. Macomb Co.. Mich.. October 31. 1(S46; edu-\\ncated in the public school and lived in this county all his life, except three years, from\\n1867 to 1870. during which time he filled the position of superintending a gang of men\\nat the House of Correction, at Detroit; has followed farming the remainder of his life, and\\nis now farming on Section 21. Shelby Township, Macomb County; entered the army dur-\\ning the late rebellion at the age of nineteen as private; served six months, when he re-\\nturned home on account of sickne.ss; was married. December 2t 1S70. to Adelaide C.\\nRobinson, daughter of Joseph and Ann Brown (Smith), natives of Virginia. J. Brown\\nwas one of Gen. Harrison s stafl officers in the war of 1812, and was Judge of the Court at\\nShockton, Ohio for two years, previous to June. 1829, at which time he was accidentally\\nkilled. Mr. Drake s father removed to Michigan about the year 1840, where he has fol-\\nlowed the occupation of a farmer to this time, and now resides in Sterling Town, Ma-\\ncomb Co., Mich,\\n(i", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0944.jp2"}, "945": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0945.jp2"}, "946": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2720", "width": "1968", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0946.jp2"}, "947": {"fulltext": "", "height": "2733", "width": "1956", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0947.jp2"}, "948": {"fulltext": "LIBRARY OF CONGRESS\\n016 090 718 6", "height": "2841", "width": "2117", "jp2-path": "historyofmacombc00lees_0948.jp2"}}