{"1": {"fulltext": "F572\\n.M5I4\\nyiy^^mM", "height": "3356", "width": "2068", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0001.jp2"}, "2": {"fulltext": "o\\nv.^\\nO A\\n\u00c2\u00b0\u00c2\u00abv\\n0.\\n^\u00e2\u0099\u00a6.o\\n^0-^^\\n.^A\\nw n\\n:p^^\\n^r^^* .v V\\nf\\ns^\\n^o\\naO\\n.0^ o\u00c2\u00ab- .V\\n^^i\u00e2\u0080\u00a2 v\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^dm^^\\\\ -^JUn^\\nbV\\nV\\nVV\\nA^^\\n0^ o\u00c2\u00ab ^c\\niT;-* aO\\n-it-.\\n,.0 o\u00c2\u00b0J^-*^ O\\n4.^\\n0*", "height": "3221", "width": "2079", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0002.jp2"}, "3": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3263", "width": "2017", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0003.jp2"}, "4": {"fulltext": "", "height": "3231", "width": "2007", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0004.jp2"}, "5": {"fulltext": "1776.\\n1876.\\nCENTENNIAL\\nlioiaaf\\nL^\\\\v\u00e2\u0080\u00a2^^^\\\\Vv\\\\^^^vw wwwwavv\\nMenominee County,\\nI.\\nHon, E. S. INGALLS,\\nMKNtlMIN KK:\\n1876.\\nSv-i-\\nJ", "height": "3258", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0005.jp2"}, "6": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN 1 8 76.\\nG. A. VVooDi-ORD, s^, C. E. Aiken,\\nC.E.Aiken, V^ Cashier.\\nG. A. WOODFORD GO S\\n\\\\\\\\\\\\v:\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\a\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\v\\nOF MENOMINEE,\\nDrafts drawn directly on ENGLAND, IRELAND, SCOTLAND,\\nNORWAY, SWEEDEN, FRANCE, GERMANY, and other\\nForeign Countries; also on CHICAGO and NEW YORK.\\nCOLLECTIONS EECEIVB PROMPT ATTENTION.\\nGeneral Banking Business Transacted.\\nMenominee, Mich.\\nSSSST ^SSS\\nJeweler Engraver,\\n-DEALER IN\\nFINE WATCHES, CLOCKS,\\nJEWELRY, C.\\nElgin Watches a Specialty.\\nPIANOS AND ORGANS,\\nSold on Long time if desired.\\nSPECIAL ATTENTION GIVEN TO REPAffilNS FINE WATCHES k JEWrL .Y.\\nAll Goods and Work Warranted.\\nMenominee, _ Micj-^in", "height": "3231", "width": "2007", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0006.jp2"}, "7": {"fulltext": "P R E F A C E.\\nThe Congress of tlie United States having recommended that\\nshort sketches of the history ot the various counties in the sev-\\neral States be prepared and read on the occasion of the celebra-\\ntion of the anniversary of our Independence on this our Centen-\\nnial year, and that afterwards a copy of the same, either written\\nor printed, be filed with the Librarian of Congress, a copy with\\nthe Librarian of the State in which the county is located, and a\\ncoi)y with the clerk of the county; and the Governor of Michi-\\ngan having joined in this request in behalf of our own State\\nand many jironiiiient ifizens having urged tne work upon me,\\nas 1 am an old settler 1 have undertaken to prepare a historical\\nsket( h of Menominee County. Mr. Charles McLeod is now the\\noldest living wh^te sittler in the county, and 1 am indebted to\\nhirn for many of the lacts recorded in this sketch. I have given\\nother facts as related to me by the late John (L Kittson, Esq..\\nwho was also an old settler. I have also referred for data to a\\nsmall ijamphlet ])ubli^hcd in iSyi by Lewis S. Patrick, and en-\\ntitled Sketches of the Mennminec IJiv.-r. 1 am satisfied that\\nthe statLMiients contained in this pami)hlet are substantially cor-\\nrect, for 1 was often a|)plied to during its preparation for infor-\\nmation previously obtained from older settlers, as well as for\\nsuch incidents as had come within my own observation. I have\\nendeavored to touch (jnly upon salient points, and to present\\nleadinif incidents in a succinct form. All the historv since the\\nsummer of 1.S59 has been made within my own observation, but\\nf)r facts occurring previous to that time, my authority is the\\nstatements of the settlers who were here when I came. It has\\nbeen decided to insert the cards of the business men of Menom-", "height": "3258", "width": "1930", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0007.jp2"}, "8": {"fulltext": "inee County, as in years to come these also become history, and\\nno doubt if this volume has readers twenty-five or fifty years from\\nnow, they will be as much interested in the cards as in the other\\nparts of the work, as we now are interested in men and events a\\nquarter or a half centuiy old. In writing a history of Menominee\\nCounty, I am compelled, in order to make it complete, to in-\\nclude parts of the history of Marinette and Menekaunee, Oconto\\nCounty, Wisconsin. These villages lying opposite, on the\\nnorth and south shores of the Menominee river, are so inter-\\nblended in their enterprises and interests, that a history of one\\nnecessarily includes much of the history of the other. In writing\\nthese few pages, I make no pretentions to literary merit; on the\\ncontrary, my desire is to present facts in a succinct form, so that\\nthey may be preserved, rather than to have them in flowery style.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094[The Author.]", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0008.jp2"}, "9": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER I.\\nHISTORIC SKETCH OF MENOMINEE COUNTY, MICH,\\nThe history of a new country can reach back but a few years.\\nThe unwritten history, if known, would possess a greater inter-\\nest than the written, and could the distant past unfold its\\nrecord we would read a page of history beside which the times\\nwithin the knowledge of man would seem tame and commonplace.\\nIt is so with Menominee County.\\nCould we go back to the days of pre-historic man, we would\\nprobably find history so full of tragic interest that it would seem\\nlike romance, and even if we had the history of the early Indian\\nraces who made this their homes for many generations, it would\\nundoubtedly furnish us much more of incident than we can ob-\\ntain since the white man first paddled his canoe, or pushed his\\nbatteaux into the mouth of the Menominee.\\nWe have no knowledge of the pre-historic man except what is\\ngained from the mounds scattered through the country, and some\\nremnant of streets and cities that have been exhumed, and occa-\\nsionally fortifications, the remains of which furnish satisfactory\\nevidence that the builders were of a race much more numerous\\nand farther advanced in civilization than the races that succeed-\\ned them and where found here by the white men.\\nAbundant evidence that such a race once inhabited Menomi-\\nnee County is found in the mounds within its borders. But", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0009.jp2"}, "10": {"fulltext": "8 CENTtlNNlAL HISTORY.\\ntlie^e iiiDumls are the beginning and the end i-f all the hislorv\\nwe have of the pre-historic race.\\nWhen the first whi^te man visited Green Bay the Menominee\\nriver was the home of the Menominee Indians, then very\\nnumerous, and Mencjniinee was their most popuhms hicality.\\nThe abundance of fish running out of (ireen Bay into the rixer:\\nthe check they received in climbing the rapids two miles trom\\nthe mouth: and the abundance of game in the woods around, en-\\nabled thein to obtain a nving \\\\er\\\\ easily. Their favorable loca-\\ntion, too, on the shores of the bay rich with fish, and at the\\nmouth of the river whose l)ranches enabled them to penetrate\\nthe vast regions to the north with their birch bark canoes these\\nadvantages drew large numbers ab ait the mouth of the Menomi-\\nnee. The peaceful character of the Menoniinees was early no-\\nted by the white traders, and although they were brave as a peo-\\nple, yet wars rarely arose between them and other tribes, and\\nviolence was seldom committed on those who visited them.\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nTradition tells of but one battle within the limits of Menominee\\nCounty, and that was between the Indians living near the mouth\\nof the river and those living in the villages near White Rapids\\nand Grand Rapids. The first were Menominees of course, but\\nit is not certainly known whether their opponents belonged to the\\nsame tribe or were Chippevvas, but the presumption is that they\\nbelonged to the latter tribe. The battle was fough: near the\\nhouse of Charles Mcl,eod, aud along the banks of the river near\\nBurying Ground Point. The trouble occurred in this way;\\nThe Indians in the village near the mouth of the river, were\\nliving on the fat of the land, that is Sturgeon, which they caught\\nin great abundance on the rapids. But an abundance was not\\nenough, for Sturgeon is the special delight of the red man. The\\nChief, therefore, ordered dams of stones to be built across the\\nriver at the rapids, in order to prevent the fish from ascending\\nthe river. This caused great suffering at the upper villages, rot\\nthe Indians there were largely dependant upon Sturgeon for their\\nsubsistence, so the Chief at Grand Rapids sent his son down to\\nask the potentate at the mouth of the river to tear away the ob-\\nstructions, and let the finny monsters wend their way up the\\nstream as usual, stating, at the same time, that his people were\\nsuffering for the need thereof. But to this most reasonable re-\\nI", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0010.jp2"}, "11": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nquest the Chief turned a deaf ear, and sent the son back to his\\nfather with an insulting message. But Sturgeon his people must\\nhave or starve, and tliis flict, coupled with the insults heaped\\nupon him by the Chief at the mouth of the river, aroused his\\nfighting blood. Calling together his warriors and those from\\nthe tribes farther up the river, who were in a like condition, he\\nprepared fur war. With Sturgeon for a war cry, they set out\\ndown the river to punish the inhabitants of the village, that had\\nwronged them by cutting off their supply of food. At early\\ndawn the wa-; whoop broke the stillness of the morning, and as\\nits death telling echoes and re-echoes were wafted upon the\\nmorning breeze, it fell with terrible meaning upon the ears of\\nthe Menominees at the mouth of the river, and every warrior\\nwas quickly ill irms and ready for fight, in a warfare that show-\\nno q larter and sought no mercy. The battle was short and\\nsharp. The squaws and children fled to the swamps or crossed\\nthe river for safety. The fight raged up and down the river bank\\nand upon the island for two or three hours, when the village fell\\ninto the hands of its assailants, and the shore Chieftain was a\\ncaptive in the bonds of his enemies. He was made a victim of\\nthe most terrible torture that savage ingenuity could devise,\\nwhich was endetl only by death. The loss was great on either\\nside but much more severe on the side of the down river tribe.\\nThe contpierors, foregoing farther bloodshed, tore r.way the oli-\\nnoxions dams, and returned to their homes, followed up by the\\nunsuspecting ;-4urgcon, which were again caught in peace and\\nplenty. The writer received this accouit from the late John\\nG. Kittson, and he, in turn, obtained the traditions from the\\nIndians living on the river vvhen he came here. The tradition,\\nas handed down, is much more full than is here given, but the\\nobject of this record is rather to preserve the fact of its existence\\nthan to make a story, and therefore much of the minutiae is\\nomitted.\\nThe Menominee Indians are fast fading away, and where there\\nwere thousands wlien the white men came, it is rare now to find\\none. When the writer came here, it was very common to se a\\nvillage of wigwams at the rapids, the occujjants busy catching\\nand smokir.g aseason s stock of the staff of life, t\\\\, Sturgeon,\\nas a su]))\u00c2\u00bbly of proxisions to la-.t until tlic deer were iat enough", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0011.jp2"}, "12": {"fulltext": "lO\\nCENTENNIAL HISTORY\\nto eat. It was also common to see fleets of bark canoes, loaded\\ndown with scjuaws and pappooses, coasting along the shores of\\nGreen Bay. Nearly all of these now live on their Reservations\\nat Keshena and Shawano. Many of them have become civil-\\nized and have good common schools and churches. A few yet\\nremain around Menominee, but their days are numbered. Like\\nthe pines of their native forests they cannot withstand the effects\\nof fivllization, and tlie time is not far distant when there will\\nnot be an Indian left on the Menominee to cherish the memory,\\nor even preserve the name of the peaceful tribe that once roamed\\nover these hunting grounds, proud in the freedom of savage life.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0012.jp2"}, "13": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER ir.\\nTHE FIRST WHITE SETTLERS ON THE MENOMINEE.\\nTradition says that the first white man on the Menominee was\\na negro; although old Joe Bart, as lie wascalled, a half breed,\\nalways claimed that honor. In sui)i)ort of the first claim, how-\\never, traditionary lore informs us that in early times, a negro\\nIndian trader, accompanied l)y a Canadian voyageur in his em-\\nployment, visited this shore many years before Chappee came\\nhere, and that both were killed U a i-lace on the Peshtigo river,\\nseveral miles above where the village of that name now stands.\\nIt is said he had previously traded with the Indians and given\\nthem credit, and that at the time he was killed, a party of Indi-\\nans living at Sturgeon Bay, came across to trade with him; that\\nhe insisted on their paying up for goods for wliic li lit had jncvi-\\nously trusted them before he began to trade with thcni again.\\nwhich they consented to do. This took about all the furs and\\ndeerskins they had with them, and after he had got scpiare with\\nthem he refiised to trust them any more or to sell them anything\\nfor which they eould not ])ay down. This arrangement flitl not\\nsuit the Indians. I hey thought the Trader had taken an unfair\\nadvantage of them and got their fiirs and peltries. They lost\\nsight of the fact that the\\\\ harl many months before had their i)ay\\nfor them, and had had so many mojiths enjoyment of the trader s", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0013.jp2"}, "14": {"fulltext": "12\\nCENTENNIAL IIIS J ORY.\\nproperty, and thought they had been wronged because he had\\ngot his pay for the property they had previously bought of him.\\nInhere are very many white men at the present day who reason\\njust Uke them, but, u dike the white men, theXhad the remedy of\\ntheir fancied wrongs in their own hands, which they immediate-\\nly applied; that is, they lifted the hair of the negro and his com-\\npanion, and confiscated his goods, and thus paid their debts and\\nobtained a large supply of plunder at the same time. This is a\\ntradition common among the early settlers. The only proof we\\nhave to support it is the fact that there is a place up the Peshtigo\\nriver called Nigger s Hill, where, the tradition says, the un-\\nfortunate trader lost his wool. The reader may call this history\\nor tradition, which he chooses, but in early times there were\\nmany who believed it, and there are some even now who believe\\nhe buried quite a sum of money in silver, wdiich still lies there.\\nThe first white man who came to Menominee to stay was\\nChappee, an Indian trader, who came here as an agent for the\\nAmerican Fur Company and established a post in 1796, At\\nthat time many thousand Indians visited the Menominee river ev.\\nery season, while at the north and about the headquarters of the\\nriver, and towards Lake Superior, the Chippewas had numerous\\nvillages which were accessible by birch canoes. There was an\\nabundance of beaver, otter, mink, muskrat, martin and fishers,\\nbear, deer, and less valuable game, throughout the country, and\\nthis post became an important trading point. Chappee was a\\nFrench-Canadian voyageur, with sufficient education to keep\\nwhat books were necessary for an Indian trading post, and was\\napparently the right man for the place. He was stirring and ac-\\ntive, and had sufficient courage and nerve for any emergency\\nthat might ,0.rise. He ^had a large number of men, picked up\\nfrom that class of Canadian voyageurs who preferred a life in the\\nsolitude cf the forests to a home with civilization, and his post\\nsometimes presented the appearance of a well garrisoned fort,\\nand at other times he was left almost solitary and alone to de-\\nfend it if hostile Indians approached. His post was solidly\\nbuilt of logs with palisades made of heavy timbeis set in the\\nground around it. Some portions of the one near Chappee s\\nRapids were remaining when the writer of this came in the coun-\\ntry in 1859.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0014.jp2"}, "15": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 1 3\\nA story is told illustrating his nerve in danger as well as the\\nuncomfortable position an Indian trader is sometimes placed in\\nwhen his post is far out en the frontier, away from civilized men.\\nI state the story as it was related to me by the late John G. Kitt-\\nson, several years before his death.\\nAll of the white men belonging to the post had been sent away\\non various expeditions, leaving only Chappee and one white man.\\nA band of Indians from a distance, who were none too friendly,\\ncame to the post, antl before Chappee had discovered the char-\\nacter of his visitors they had come within the stockade and in-\\nside the building used for the store-room. At first they began\\npeaceably to talk of trade, but soon got noisy and threatening,\\nand it was not long before he became satisfied, from their ac-\\ntions, that the object of their visit was to rob him of his goods\\nand probably to lift his scalp. To fight them was out of the\\nquestion, for not only were they inside of the stockade, but were\\ncrowding around his small counter inside of the store building,\\nand all of his reliable men were miles away and where he could\\nnot recall them. He tried by pleasant words to still the storm\\nand avert the danger, without avail; they grew more and more\\nthreatening, and when, as he thought, the crisis had nearly ap-\\n])roache(l, he nil led out a keg of gunpowder which was open at\\nthe end, and catching u]) a loaded pistol he cocked it and point-\\nted it into the gunpowder, and with flashing eyes turned to their\\nhief and told him that if every Indian was not out of the stock-\\nade in two minutes he would fire into the gunpowder, and send\\nthem and go with them into the haj)i)y hunting grounds. They\\nknew by his tone and the flash of his eye that he meant business,\\nand being suddenly impressed witli the idea that discretion was\\nthe better part of valor, in less than two minutes not an Indian\\nwas to be seen inside the stockade The be.^t of the matter was\\nthat they became so favorably impressed with his bravery, tney\\nimmediately made friends with him, and he got a good trade\\nwith them, and they always remained his friends, and often af-\\nterwards vi ited him, to hi.s and the An^erican l ur Company s\\ngreat profit.\\nChappee buill his first trading post on the Wisconsin side of\\nthe Menominee river, near where Marinette s house now stands,\\nand not far from where the railroad bridge reaches that bank of", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0015.jp2"}, "16": {"fulltext": "14 CENTENNIAL HIS JORY\\nthe river. He carried on his trade with the Indians for many\\nyears, until dispossessed by Farnsvvorth Brush, as will be\\nhereafter stated. Afrer| being dis-possessed of his property by\\nthem, he crossed the Menominee river and built a new trading\\npost near the foot t\u00c2\u00bbf Chappee s Rapids which were nam-\\ned after him about five miles up the river from the village of\\nMenominee, where he remained trading with the Indians until\\nhe died; in 1852. He surrounded this post with palisades in\\nthe same manner as he did the first one, and some oi these re-\\nmained standing until after I came into the country. Chappee\\ntook to himself a squaw, with whom he lived, and raised children,\\nas was the custom with the traders in those days, but to whom he\\nwas never married. Some of the descendants a few years ago\\nwere, and probably now are, living about the Peshtigo river, in\\nOconto County, Wisconsin.\\nThe next permanent white settlers who came were William\\nFarnsworth and Charles Brush, who came the same season, and\\noperated together after their arrival. They arrived in 1822.\\nThey were stirring, wide-awake business men, but without so nice\\na sense of vieum and teum as would stand particularly in the way\\nof their carrying out any enterprise that they might undertake.\\nAbout the first important enterprise they entered into was to\\nroot out Chappee from his trading- post, before alluded to. Un-\\nfortunately, Chappee, through want of discretion, or perhaps\\nforgetting that he was then the only white settler in the country\\nhaving authority, opened the way for them, and made the oppor-\\ntunity, of which they were only too ready to avail themselves.\\nOwing to some difficulty Chappee, soon after they came on the\\nriver, got into a quarrel with the chiefs Spaniard and Shenege-\\nsick, and a brother of the latter. During the fracas he lost a\\nthumb. Making more of the matter than prudence required,\\nhe caused these chiefs to be arrested and taken to Green Bay,\\n(Fort Howard) and imprisoned in the fort there by the Uni-\\nted States troops stationed at that place. These chiefs were told\\nthat they were to be taken to Detroit and imprisoned there, and\\nin some way they got the idea that as a punishment for the loss\\nof Chappee s thumb they were to have their teeth knocked out.\\nThese stories were, undoubtedly, started by some of the white\\nmen, and told the Indians to get a sell ow them, (to use a slang", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0016.jp2"}, "17": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. I 5\\nterm.) The Indians being very credulous, believed the reports\\nand told the chiefs, who, as well as their followers, were very\\nmuch frightened and supposed the offense was a very serious one.\\nThis was an opportunity for Farnsworth. For many years be-\\nfore he came to Menominee he had been employed by the Amer-\\nican Fur Company, and was well acquainted with Indian cus-\\ntoms, their language and habits of thought. Possibly he had\\nsomething to do in circulating the stories, though that such is\\nthe fact, tradition saith not. At any rate the chance was too\\ngood to be lost, and when their terror had approached its climax,\\nhe made his way to Green Bay and interceded for the chiefs\\nwith such good effect that he obtained their release. This made\\nthe tribe his fast friends for life, and a blow was thus struck at\\nChappee s popularity from which he never fully recovered. The\\nood will of the chiefs did not end with words. They strove to\\nshow their appreciation of one who had proved a friend indeed,\\nwhen they were in need, by making him a grant of all the land\\non that side of the river, from the mouth to the rapids, which\\ngrant included Chappee s trading post. How far back from\\nthe river the grant extended, tradition does not show, an i as\\nthere is no written record of the grant, there is now no means\\nof ascertaining, but as land at that time had no stated market\\nvalue, it is presumable that it extended as far back as he might\\nchoose to consider it, so that it did not interfere with anybody s\\nrights who might be living on the Peshtigo river. This presump-\\ntion is strenglhed by the fact that the Indians, who only wanted\\nthe land for hunting purposes, could continue to have just as\\nmuch use of it as if they had not given it away.\\nThe one thing that Farnsworth t//W want he got, and that was\\nChai)pee s trading post. One day when the latter was away,\\ntaking advantage of his absence, Farnsworth and his followers\\nentered and took i)ossession cf the post. They piled the goods,\\nwares, whiskey, furs, squaws, pappooses c., out, and as writs\\nfor forcible entry and detainer were not in fashion then on the\\nMenominee, and the aggressors were the stronger party, Chappee,\\non his return, feeling completely disgusted with the turn things\\nhad taken, piled his traps into his canoes and paddled them up\\nto the foot of the ra])ids which still bear his name^ and there", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0017.jp2"}, "18": {"fulltext": "16\\nCENTPZNNIAL IIISTORV\\nIniilt another stockade, as I have before stated, and made a final\\nstand for his rights.\\nWhile the course taken by Farnsworth in this matter, may not\\nhave been strictly according to the code now supposed to regu-\\nlate the acts of the people of the State of Wisconsin, it wa^, one\\nstep forward in the course of civilization on the Menominee Riv-\\ner; in fact it was the//-jVstep or led to it. Though Farnsworth\\nwas an Indian trader, he was also something mere; he had good\\nbusiness capacity, and Brush, who was associated with him, had\\nquite as good. They were not long in coming to the conclusion\\nthat there was something better than furs and peltries, and when\\nthey cast their eyes around as they journeyed up the Menomi-\\nnee, and saw the tall pines on its banks, they began to speculate\\non their probable value if sawed into boards, and got into a\\nmarket, where white men lived also seeing the schools of white\\nfish coming up the river, out of Green Bay, the thought struck\\nthem that they could be caught and packed in barrels and ship-\\nped to some place where whitefish would be esteemed a luxury\\nand return to them many a silver dollar for the silver scales of\\nthe whitefish.\\nIt is true there was then no Chicago to furnish a market for its\\nthousand million feet of lumber each year, nor to handle its ten\\nthousand barrels of fish. There was no Milwaukee to rival Chi-\\ncago, and no railroads to carry these articles of produce to thou-\\nsands of, cities and villages now ;-,piead out over the west no\\nsteamboats, even, to take them down the lakes to cities and vil-\\nlages of white men.\\nGreen Bay settlement was just where the city now stands, but\\nthere was very little of it then. There was the fort on the Fort\\nHoward side of the Fox river, and a small rambling village on\\nthe Green Bay side, whose inhabitants were principally fur trad-\\ners or men who were employed by the traders, and here and\\nthere, for a few miles up the river, were some of the old voyag-\\neurs, who, getting old and tired of wild life, had taken land and\\nopened up small farms. But these men were not to be discour-\\naged by the untoward prospects of a market. If there was no\\nmarket in the West there was in the East, and they would fintl\\none somewhere besides, they believed in the future of the west-\\nern country, and they lived to see their belief verified, though", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0018.jp2"}, "19": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. I 7\\nnot to the extent to realize to themselves all the advantages\\nwhich they expected to d \u00c2\u00b0rive from their labors. Their first en-\\nterprise was the building of a sawmill, which was commenced in\\n1832, and was the first mill built on the Menominee river. It\\nwas a water mill, and was built on the Wisconsin side, a short\\ndistance above where the Chicago and Northwestern Railway\\nnow leaves the bank in crossing. A dam was constructed across\\nto one of the islands, which gr.ve them a pond and head of wat-\\ner, and what we would now call an old fashioned sawmill was\\nbuilt, one that would cut six or eight thousand feet of lumber\\neach day, and not such an one as we have at present, with their\\nclock work machinery and capacity of from one to two hundred\\nthousand feet of lumber each day. The mill was run by them\\na few years. At some time not now precisely known, one Sam-\\nuel H. Farnsvvorth bought an interest either in the mill or in the\\nwater power formed by the rapids. It has been stated, however,\\nthat this mill had been sold at Sheriff s sale for debt, and\\nthe bid for it was purchased from the bidder, D. M. Whitney of\\nGreen Bay, for eighteen barrels of white fish, by Samuel H.\\nFarnsworth.\\nI cannot learn, fully, at what time or how he was interested,\\nbuc only learn the fact that about the year 1839, Dr. J. C. Kail\\ncame on the river and bought out Samuel H. Farnsworth s inter-\\nest, and also bought into this mill with Farnsworth Brush,\\nand within two or three years after that time, the dam went out\\nand the mill was abandoned, and in 1844 Dr. Hall built anoth-\\ner dam and mill which will be hereafter referred to.\\nBesides furnishing the power for sawing lumber, the building\\nof the dam opened the way for the fish business. After it was\\nconstructed, :hey built a wier along on the apron below the\\ndam; and in the season when the fish were running, they caught\\ngreat quantities, with no other trouble than going out in the\\nmorning with scoop nets and scooping them out of the wier.\\nIn some seasons they caught as many as five hundred and fifty\\nbarrels, with no expense, comparatively, except dressing, salting\\nand packing.\\nWilliam Farnsworth was lost on the steamer Lady Elgin,\\nwhicli was sunk in i860 by a collision with a vessel between", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0019.jp2"}, "20": {"fulltext": "I 8 CENTENNIAL IIIS lORY\\nWaukegan, Illinois, and Chicago. It is not now known what be-\\ncame of Brush, or whether he still lives.\\nThe next white man to follow those above mentioned and take\\nup a permanent resilience here, was John G. Kittson. He came\\nin 1826 as a clerk for the American Fur Company under Chap-\\npee. He was the son of a British officer who was, or had been\\nstationed in Canada. Mr. Kittson spent the remainder of his\\nlife in this vicinity, and died in 1872, his death being hastened,\\nas it is believed, by the exposure and suffering he and his fam-\\nily were subjected to, on the night of the great woods fire, in\\nOctober 1871. He was a very intelligent and stirring nian and\\nwas all his life actively engaged in the fur trade or in farming,\\nand he had the honor of clearing and working the first farms ever\\nopened in this County, one at Wausaukee Bend above Grand\\nRapids, and another at Chappee s Rapids, near the old trading\\npost, where he resided for many years before the great fire. He\\nhad great influence over the Indians, and was at all times a\\nfriend to their interests. The Indians always spoke of Mr. Kitt-\\nson as the writer, a name they gave him on account of his\\ndoing all the writing for them in iheir various transactions with\\nthe Government. He has left many descendants who still make\\nthe Menominee their home. One son, John Kittson, was killed\\nin the war of the Rebellion, in Slierman s marcli to the sea.\\nIn 1826 came also Joseph Duncan who was employed as a pack-\\ner by the American Fur Ccmpan} He was a brave soldier and\\nfought at the battle of Plattsburgh. He might be entitled to a\\npension, only, unfortunately, h.* was fi^\\\\iting on the wrong\\nside. He w^as a British soldier, is still li\\\\ing, and makes his\\nhome with Charles McLeod, and believes himself to be between\\neighty and ninety years old, though he cannot tell exactly.\\nThe next white men who came to stay permanently were\\nBaptiste Premeau and Charles McLeod, who arrived in 1832,\\nThey are still living here at Menominee, Charles McLeod being\\nnow 64 years old. Joseph De (]oto came the same year and is\\nstill alive. He is living on a farm at White Rapids, and is now\\n70 years old. A good story is told of De Goto, who is French,\\nand does not talk the best of English. A few years ago he had\\na lawsuit with John G. Kittson, with whom he was not on the\\nbest of terms, about a horse which Kittson replevined. De Goto", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0020.jp2"}, "21": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 1 9\\ncould not speak the name Kittson but always called it Dix-\\non. Soon after the time of the suit with Kittson, a Catholic\\nPriest, who made occasional visits to the Menominee river, and\\nthrough the wild settlements, came here and visited De Goto at\\nWhite Rapids, so De Coto made him a present of a pony to as-\\nsist him in his travels on his missionary journeys. The matter\\nof his suit with Kittson would occasionally come up, when he\\ninvariably worked himself into a passion, and after exhausting\\nevery ex])letive in the Canadian French vocabulary, he would\\ncool off with, Veil, I give vay two boss; I give von to de Lord\\nand I give von to de devil I give von to de Priest and I give\\nvon to John Dixon.\\nIn this connection it may be well to state that the Jacobs have,\\nsince an early day, been a prominent family, and although their\\nresidence was on the AVisconsin side of the river, their history\\nis blended with that of Menominee county, and it is proper that\\nit should have its place in this brief sketch.\\nWhen William Farnsworth first came to the Menominee, Ma-\\nrinette was a blooming young woman, bright and intelligent.\\nShe was the daughter of a daughter of Wabashish (the Marten),\\na chief of the Menominees, and P.artholomew Shevaliere, a\\nwhite man.\\nWhen Bartholomew Shevaliere came to the Menominee, or\\nwhether or not he ever made his home here, tradition saith not,\\nbut from the best information obtainable, it is thought that he\\nnever did.\\nJoseph Bartholomew Shevaliere (Joe Bart), a brother of Mari-\\nnette, was his son, and it is owing to that fact that he made the\\nclaim, as before stated, that he was the first white man who lived\\nat Menominee.\\nIt is not known whether or not Marinette was born on the\\nMenominee. Tlie first we know of her is, that John B. Jacobs,\\na man from Canada, who wasemjjloyed in the fur trade in early\\ntimes, had her for h.s wife at Mackinaw. While they lived to-\\ngether they had several children, two of whom, John B. Jacobs\\nand Elizabeth McLeod, are still living. John B. Jacobs is now\\nfifty-eight years old, and resides in Green Bay, Wisconsin Eliz-\\nabeth McLeod is sixty years old, and lives here in Menominee,\\ntile wife of Charles McLeod. For some reason not known John", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0021.jp2"}, "22": {"fulltext": "20 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nB. Jacobs Sr. parted froui Marinette at Mackinaw. Afterwards\\nWilliam Farnsworth becaipe enamored of her, and took her for\\nhis wife, and when he came to Menominee, in 1S22, brought\\nher and her children with him. He had children by her, one of\\nwhom, George Farnsworth, of Green Bay Wisconsin, is still\\nliving. John B. Jacobs (the son) grew up on the Menominee\\nand became closely identified with its interests, and was promi-\\nnent in all enterprises which were started for its advancement.\\nFor many years he owned and run the steamboat Queen City\\nbetween Menominee and Green Bay. Marinette died in 1863,\\nhighly honored by all the residents about the river. She was\\nseventy-two years old when she died, and had been looked to as\\namother by all the early settlers and Indians, for she had always\\nbeen ready to assist the needy and comfort the distressed. The\\nfirst orchard of apple trees was set out by her, which is still\\ngrowing and bearing fruit. Her house is still standing in Mari-\\nnette village, and is the first frame house built on the Menomi-\\nnee river.\\nThe earliest settlers came from Canada in Batteaux, sailing and\\npcling them up the St. Lawrence river and Lake Ontario, and,\\nbefore the Welland Canal was constructed, up the Niagara river,\\nby portage around the Falls into Lake Erie, up Lake Erie and\\nDetroit river through Lake and River St. Clair along Lake\\nHuron and through the Straits of Mackinaw into Lake Michi-\\ngan, and up Green Bay to the Menominee River; the voyage\\nrequiring several months, and being attended with great hard-\\nships and exposure. It was many years before a steamer was\\nseen here, or before even sail vessels became frequent on the\\nwaters of Green Bay. The country was then all wilderness,\\nfiom the Detroit river to the Pacific Ocean, excepting a kw\\ntrading posts; those at Mackinaw and Green Bay being the only\\nones in this section. We who can now step on the cars and in\\nforty-eight hours reach Montreal, can hardly realize that less than\\nfifty years ago it took a whole season to come from there nor\\ncan we understand the hardships the early traders had to endure\\nwhen they made the first settlement in Menominee.\\nThe next permanent settler was Andrew Eveland. He came\\nin 1842, and in 1853 built the first frame building in what is\\nnow the village of Menominee. He is still living here. His", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0022.jp2"}, "23": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 21\\nbusiness has usually been fishing. Charles McLeod built a frame\\nhouse In 1952 and still resides in it, on the river bank, just out-\\nside the village. This was the first frame house in the county.\\nNext among the old settlers is John Quimby, who came in 1845\\nand died in 1874, aged 65 years. At first he had charge of the\\nfisheries and the boarding house of Dr. Hall s water-mill at the\\nrapids. He afterwards built a tavern where the Kirby House\\nnow stands, wliich was destroyed by fire in i859- Quimby im-\\nmediately began to rebuild. He first put up a small building\\nwhich he added to from time to time until, with the exception\\not one addition made since he sold it, it formed what is now the\\nKirby House. Here he kept the only hotel in Menominee un-\\ntil 1S64, when he sold the pioperty to S. P. Saxton, and its name\\nwas changed to Saxton House. Saxton sold the house to a\\nman named Bopard, who made the last addition to it and sold it\\nto Fred Waltz, who sold it to Abner Kirby, of the film of Kir-\\nby-Carpenter Company, and ex-Mayor of Milwaukee, who fitted\\nit up again, and named it Kirby House, John Quimby wrs\\na man of marked characteristics and either a warm friend or a\\ngood hater. There was never any trouble in learning which\\nrelation he bore to a person, for he never hesitated to make it\\nknown, yet he was so kind hearted that if he saw an enemy suf-\\nfering and in want he would be the first to assist him. He was\\na great fighter, and so long as his opponent resisted would nev-\\ner give an inch, yet he never bore malice, and when the res st-\\nonce was over, if his opponent came to grief, he was the first to\\nextend a helping hand. He was also a great hunter, aud found\\nhis greatest enjoj .nent in going with rifle, hounds, and a few\\nfriends, to some place along the shore of Green Bay, there to\\ncamp out for a few days and run deer into the bay and, with a\\nboat, tocatchthem. When the writer first came to Menominee\\nhe frecjuenily joined him in these expeditions, and many a deer\\nhave they taken together. Quimby owned very much of the\\nland on which the village of Menominee now stands, and fully\\nperformed his part of the work in building it uj), though he\\ncould never fully realize that Menominee was to become a large\\nplace. When the writer first came, and after he had resided here\\nlong enough to become acquainted with its resources for build-\\ning up a large town, he frequently talked witli him about build-", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0023.jp2"}, "24": {"fulltext": "2 2 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\ning a railroad tlirough the county, and his reply usually was that\\nhe never wanted to live any longer than to see a railroad through\\nthese woods. He did live to see one several years. His widow\\nis still living here and she has always been considered a mother\\nto the white settlers on the river, and many a foot -sore and sick\\ntraveler or woodsman has been relieved by her care and sympathy,\\nsome there are who, without it, would have been long ago in\\ntheir graves. She is now nearly seventy years of age, and is\\nstill active. I have given a short history of the coming of\\nthe first settlers, none of whom are now living except Charles\\nMcLeod, Almira Quimby Andreas Eveland, and Baptiste Pre-\\nmeau, who may be truly called old settlers. Moses Hardwick\\ncame here in 1826, and lived here several years. He is still liv-\\ning at Bay Settlement, on the east shore of Green Bay. An-\\nother class, who may also be called old settlers as compared with\\nlate comers, and who built the mills now on the river and gave the\\ncountry its real start in prosperity, but who came later than those\\nhereinbefore referred to, will necessarily be named in connec-\\ntion with the building of the seyeral mills, and will thus appear\\nin the order of their coming here.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0024.jp2"}, "25": {"fulltext": "CHAPTER III.\\nTHE MILLS OK THE MENOMINEE.\\nThe mills built on the Wisconsin side of the Menominee riv-\\ner are so directly connected with the history of Menominee\\ncounty, that I feel a difficulty in writing the history of those on\\nour side of the river and the men connected with them without\\nat the same time writing of those on that side. The men who\\nbuilt them have had large interests in Menominee county, and\\nhave helped to make its history, and I shall not only feel compel-\\nled but also take pleasure in giving their history so far as is\\nnecessary to give a correct record of our own. In early times\\nno distinction was made in speaking of this part of the country,\\nand nothing was thought of the fact that the Menominee river\\ndivided the two states Michigan and Wisconsin. The people\\nwho resided here, on either side of the river, when asked where\\nthey lived, replied, at Menominee and a person coming here,\\nwhether to one side or the other, if asked where he was going,\\nanswered, to Menominee and even now the people, although\\ndivided off by the State line, and part of them living in Menom-\\ninee, Michigan, and a part in Marinette and Menekaunee, Wis.,\\nfeel they are one people that their interests arc identical, and", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0025.jp2"}, "26": {"fulltext": "24 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nhave always, in all things of general public utility, worked har-\\nmoniously together. As has been before stated the first mill\\non the river was built by Farnsworth Brush in 1832. The\\nsecond one was built in i84i by Charles McLeod, at Twin Island\\nRapids, about eighteen miles up the river from its mouth, and\\nwas also run by water. From this mill the lumber was floated\\ndown the river in rafts and out to the anchorage in the Bay.\\nThis was a srnall mill with the old fashioned sash saw, and every\\nthing about it but the saw and such connections as necessarily\\nhad to be of iron was constructed of wood even the cogs of the\\nwheels of the running works were of wood. A large portion of\\nthe work was done by Charles McLeod in person. This mill\\nwas run but a few years, when, owing to the low price of lumber,\\nand the expense of getting it to market, it was abandoned and\\ngradually fell into decay, and now nothing remains of it but a\\nridge of stones across the river where the dam stood.\\nAfter the dam of the Farnsworth Brush mill broke away,\\nDr. Hall built another mill higher up the rapids. The dam of\\nthis was built across the river from the Wisconsin side to an\\nIsland; and from the Island to the Michigan side, and the mill\\nwas erected on the Menominee side, and soon quite a little vil-\\nlage was built ujj on the bank near it for the use of the people\\nemployed in and about it. This mill was built in 1844, and had\\na capacity for sawing equal to 6,000,000 feet per year. Here an\\nincident occurred that tends to illustrate life in those days. It\\nhad been the custom, previous to the building of this dam, for\\nKittson and Chappee to boat their supplies of provisons and\\nmerchandise up the river. They first sacked their loaded bat-\\nteaux up over the rapids, and when once above the rapids the\\ncurrent was not so strong as to prevent them from poling up the\\nriver to the next rapids, and then by sacking over those they\\nfound a light current again, and could continue to do the same\\nuntil they reached Pemina Falls, where they were compelled to\\nmake a portage.\\nAs I have and may again be compelled to use the words sack\\nor sacking, and although the word is perfectly familiar to river-\\nmen it may not be so to others, I will diverge from my subject\\nto explain its meaning.\\nThe river-men and all the lumbermen have two words that have", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0026.jp2"}, "27": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 25\\na peculiar and technical meaning to sack and to drive,\\nor sacking and driving. When the logs or sticks of timber\\nare ruryiing down the stream they call that driving. If they\\nget stuck in the rapids they are compelled to wade into the\\nwater and with hand-pikes and pevees (pike poles) lift and roll\\nthem off the rocks and to a place where the current is deep\\nenough to float them, and this is called sacking. Where a ca-\\nnoe or boat has to be forced up rapids where the current is so swift\\nthat the boatmen cannot force their boa:s up with poles, they\\njump into the water, and, with ropes attached to the canoe or\\nboat, wade in the water and drag it after them; the work being\\nof a similar character to that of sacking logs; they call it sack-\\ning, also. This reminds me of an anecdote\\nIn early times we had living here at Menominee a lumberman\\nand river-driver who was remarkable for the Munchausen stories\\nhe told. He was always the hero of every remarkable adven-\\nture he related. He told a story at one time to illustrate his\\nwonderful ability as a river-driver: He said he was once em-\\nployed with another man to take a batteau load of provisions to\\na camj) high up the river; that his comrade called himself a first\\nclass river-driver; that they got along very well until they came\\nto some very bad ripids, over which the river drivers usually\\nsacked their boats, but his companion boasted so much of his\\npowers they concluded that instead of sacking up the rapids they\\nwould attempt to pole up that he took the forward end of the\\nbatteau and his comrade tlie stern everything went well until\\nthey had got nearly to the he-ad of the rapids, where the great-\\nest pitch was, and where the water was coming down like a flood\\nfrom an open sluice he was facing up stieam and poling with\\nall the strength he had, when all at once he felt his end of the\\nbatteau lighten up, and looking around to see what occasioned\\nit he found that his comrade had not kept his end of the boat\\nup with him and he being in the bows had pulled the batteau in\\ntwo in the middle, and the cuss was going down stream in his\\nend of the batteau with the goods in that end. Munchausen\\nsaid he was so mad that he kept pushing his end of the boat up\\nthe rapids and safely arrived at the head of them and landed his\\npart of the load on the shore, then went down to the foot of the", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0027.jp2"}, "28": {"fulltext": "2 6 CENTENNIAL HISTORY-\\nrapids where his comrade had just reached shore wilh his part of\\nit. But the worst of it was, said he. we had then to go clean\\ndown to the mouth of the river and get another canoe and, pole\\nit up there, before we could go on with our load. He had told\\nthe story so many times that he actually believed it, and was al-\\nways ready to fight with any one who disputed him or made\\nlight of it. I started out with the intention of relating an incident\\nthat occurred at Dr. Hall s dam, and I draw on Sketches of the\\nMenominee River, by Lewis S. Patrick, for the incident.\\nJohn G. Kittson at that time lived at Wausaukee Bend, where\\nhe had a trading post and farm. Chappee lived at his trading\\npost at the foot of Chappee s Rapids. This dam stop])ed them\\nfrom navigating the river in the style they had followed for so\\nmany years, which raised the ire of both. The first time that Kitt-\\nson came down the river and learned that the dam had been\\nbuilt his indignation was aroused, and, like the Indi.Tn Chief\\nbefore mentioned, gathered his warriors about him and started\\non the war path\u00e2\u0080\u0094 that is, he collected the trappers and such oth-\\ners as stopped around his post and started down the river to\\ntear away the dam, fully determined to accomplish his object or\\ndie in the attempt: When they arrived at the dam Kittson was\\nthe first to mount it and assume all responsibility. He com-\\nmenced by establishing a dead line and forbidding any one to\\npass within it but his followers, on pain of death. Then, with\\nhis men, he soon cut away the ciam and made a passage for his\\nboats. While the work was being prosecuted De Coto, who did\\nnot fully understand the state of affairs, came up and, being cu-\\nrious to know what was going on, came within the dead line,\\nwhen Kittson, instead of shooting him down as he had before\\nintimated he would do to any one disobeying his orders, clinch-\\ned in with him; and in the struggle that followed they both\\nrolled into the river, and had not the other men interfered it is\\nprobable that De Coto would soon have been food for catfish.\\nWhen they had dragged De Coto to land and he had had time to\\nspout the water out of his mouth, his feelings could not be re-\\nstrained, and he burst out with, You sacre Got tam John Dix-\\non You sacr-r-r-e Got tam John Dixon and turning indignant-\\nly on his heel walked away, and until out of hearing could be\\nheard that, You sacre Got tam John Dixon. This act of\\ni", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0028.jp2"}, "29": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 2\\nJohn Kittson s in cutting away the dam led to considerable con-\\ntention and some lawing, but as the law machines were not in\\ngood working order nothing came of it. All the country from\\nMackinaw to the Menominee river was then within the\\ncounty of Mackinaw, and there was not an officer this side of\\nMackinaw Island, a distance by the shore of one hundred and\\neighty miles, and no way to get there but by following the beach\\non foot or by sail boat or batteaux. But Farnsworth determined\\nto have law, and went to Mackinaw for a warrant for Kittson.\\nWhen he arrived there and applied to a justice for a warrant, he\\nwas informed by him that he could have one by putting up five\\nhundred dollars to cover expenses, otherwise he could not.\\nFarnsworth thought that he could rebuild the dam for less than\\nthat amount, and therefore returned without a warrant. On his\\nreturn he was arrested on a warrant issued at Green Bay, Brown\\nCounty Wis., then embracing all of Oconto County. He was\\ntaken to Green Bay but discharged from want of jurisdiction or\\n.some other cause. The difficulty was afterwards compromised by\\nthe owners of the mill agreeing to put in a lock and slide, which,\\nhowever, proved to be of no practical benefit.\\nIt is said that one Jerome was connected with Dr. Hall in buy-\\ning into the Farnsworth Brush Mill, and that afterwards tho\\nlatter parties became dissatisfied and the entire interest was pur\\nchased by Hall Jerome. Afterwards Jerome sold his interest\\nto a man named Spaids, who sold to Zenas Cobb of Chicago.\\nCk)bb sold to Dr. Hall about the year 1847, who continued to\\nrun the mill until 1851, when, becoming pecuniarily embarrassed,\\nhis creditors took the mill in charge and sawed the logs for their\\nown use. The property finally went into the hands of Gardner\\nBaker, creditors of Hail, who sold it to Elsworth, Shepard\\nDouglas in 1853; they becoming involved assigned it to Luding-\\nton Fawes. This mill was burned in 1856, the dam afterwards\\nwent out, and the buildings along the shore gradually went to de-\\ncay, and now there is nothing left of the old works. The loca-\\ntion is known and will long continue to be known as Dr. Hall s\\nmill, or the Old Water mill. The Menominee River Manu\\nfacturing Company have since rebuilt a dam there on the .same\\nlocation, but the pond is only used to aid in booming and divid-\\ning logs in connection with their other dams.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0029.jp2"}, "30": {"fulltext": "28 CENTENNIAL HIS JORY.\\nI forgot to state that Henry Bentley, now living at Marinette,\\nwas interested in the Brush Farnsworth mill. He first came\\nto Menominee in 1847, but soon went away again, and returned\\nin 1849. H^ ^s son-in-law of Dr. Hall. He bought an inter-\\nest in that mill, fixed it up and run it until 1854, when it was\\nabandoned and suffered to go to decay.\\nThe next mill built in this county was on the Big Cedar river,\\ntwo miles up from its entrance into Green Bay, at the present\\ntown of Cedarville. This was also a water mill, and built by\\nHackbone \u00c2\u00abS Boyden in 1854. Joel S. Fisk, of Green Bay,\\nWis., (now of Ft. Howard,) bought Hackbone s interest in it,\\nand afterwarwards sold to Samuel Hamilton and Sylvester Lynn\\nin 1854 or 5. Hamilton Lynn, thinking that they could not\\nmake lumber fast enough by water power, built a steam mill at the\\nmouth of the river and suffered the water mill to go to decay,\\nand nothing is now left of it except a few ruins. Lynn parted\\nwith his interest to Boyden Spinner, who afterwards sold to\\nJames McCaffrey, who failed and the mill passed into the hands\\nof the Marine Bank, of Chicago, (J. Y. Scammon Co.) It\\nwas conveyed to J. M. Underwood, of Chicago, who in 1862,\\nput S. P. Saxton in charge of it. He remained there and run the\\nmill until the fall of 1864, when he removed to Menominee.\\nUnderwood sold to Jesse Spalding and Robert Law, of Chicago,\\nin 1862, who fitted it up and run it to a profit. Law sold his in-\\nterest to H. H. Porter, about the year i864. Finally the mill\\ncame by purchase into the hands of Lemoyne, Hubbard Wood\\nwho during the present year sold the mill back to Spalding, and\\nthe mill is now doing a good business. It has a sawing capacity\\nof 12,000,000 feet, board measure, per year, and may, by press-\\ning, cut more than that amount.\\nThe next mill built on the Menominee River was commenced\\nin 1856, by a corporation called The New York Lumber Com-\\npany. This mill was situated on the main shore of the river at\\nMenekaune, on the Wisconsin side, and it is said eighty thousand\\ndollars were expended on it before a board was sawed. Wheth-\\ner such was the fact or not, the company was not successful in\\nthe prosecution of its business, and was forced into an assign-\\nment for the benefit of Creditors about the year 1858. The", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0030.jp2"}, "31": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 29\\nmill wa5 then run by Hosmer Fowler, (Col. Roger Fowler)\\nand Hiram Fowler acting as their agent, until about the year\\ni860 when Cliarles Wrlls and Henry Wells of Pennsylvania\\nbought the j)roperty. In 1S61 Henry Wells sold his interest to\\nJesse Spaulding of Chicago, who. with the able assistance of\\nAugustus C. Brown who had charge of the business at the mill,\\nsucceeded in fully establishing the credit of the institution, and\\nnotwithstanding two burn outs, it has netted the owners a large\\namount of money. About the year 1865, H. H. Porter of Chi-\\ncago bought an interest in the mill, and was of material benefit\\nin bringing the business to a full head of prosperity. The prop-\\nerty was incorporated in 1872, under the name of the Menomi-\\nnee River Lumber Company. Hon. Philetus Sawyer, late mem\\nber of Congress from Wisconsin, and who has for many years\\nbeen prominently interested in lumbering matters at Oshkosh.\\nis now a large stockholder and President of the Company, repre-\\nsenting the Charles Wells interest, which was purchased by Mr.\\nPorter and sold by him to Mr. Sawyer. The Company now\\nowns between 80,000 and 90,000 acres of land, containing a\\nlarge amount of pine. A majority of these lands are in Menom-\\ninee County, anil consequently the interests of the Company\\nare identifi d with our own, although their mill is situated on\\nthe Wisconsin side of the river. But while the first proprietors\\nsuffered from pecuniary embarassment, the later owners have\\nexperienced severe losses from orher causes. In 1S69, the first\\nniili was burned with all its contents, proving a total loss. The\\nowners, Messrs. Spaulding Porter, immediately commenced\\npreparations for building a new and much better mill on the is-\\nland or middle ground lying in the river in front of where the\\nold mill stood. The new mill got in full operation the next\\nyear, but the great fire in October 1871, which raged through\\nMenckaune like a tornado, swept not only all the village away,\\nbut the wind carrying the fire across the channel to the Island\\nin a few numicnts the new mill was in ruins Nothing discoura-\\nged, the owners inmiediately commenced again, ond by the next\\nyear had up and running a new mill on the same spot occupied\\nby the last.\\nAs before stated the Company was incorporated in 1872,\\nwith the following ofiicers: W. I). Houghteling, President; H.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0031.jp2"}, "32": {"fulltext": "30 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nWillibton, Secretary and Treasurer; W. D. Houghtelirg, Jesse\\nSpalding, H. H. Porter, O, R. Johnson, F. 15. Stockl)ridge, Di-\\nrectors. The only change since that time has been the retire-\\nment of Mr. Houghteling and Mr. Poiter and the election of\\nMr. Sawyer.\\nThe amount sawed in 1S75, 17,000,000 feet of lumber;\\n1,878,000 pieces oflath and 169,500 pickets, and no work was\\nclone after the ist of October. The mill is averaging now about\\n160,000 feet, running daytimes only. The amount of logs cut\\nlast winter for this season s sawing, scaled 19,000,000 feet,\\nboard measure, and the Company has contracted to cut 5,000,-\\n000 feet for outside parties besides. Daniel Corry, who .came\\nto this river in 1847, Michael Corry, who came in 1S55,\\nhave been connected with the mill, and the latter gentleman is\\nthe present efficient Superintendent with J. F. Hancock as\\nbookkeeper.\\nDuring the years [856 and 57, N. Ludington Co. commen-\\nced erecting a mill at Marinette on what was then called Mis-\\nsion Point, and it is still running where it started up in 1857.\\nThe owners ot the mill at that time were Nelson Ludington, of\\nChicago, Harrison Ludington, (now Governor of Wisconsin,)\\nand Daniel Wells Jr., of Milwaukee. In May 1S58, Isaac Ste-\\nphenson bought out Harrison Ludington s one-fourth interest\\nand afterwards Anthony G. Van Schaick s one-eighth interest, the\\nlatter gentleman having in 1S63 bought of N. Ludington one-\\neighth of the property. The name was then as now The N.\\nLudington Co., although the mill was usually called the Isaac\\nStephenson mill. This company has been one of the most for-\\ntunate on the Menominee River. It has never met with severe\\ndisaster, either by fire or flood; with ample pecuniary resources,\\nit has always prospered through good and bad times alike. It\\nwas incorporated February 1868. The first officers were N. Lud-\\nington, President; A. C. Brown, Vice President; E. B. Rice,\\nSecretary. At the present time the officers arc N. Ludington,\\nPresident. Isaac Stephenson, Vice President; E. Dcnnison, Sec\\nretary. The Company owns 83,600 acres of land, situate in this\\nand Oconto County. It also owns a water mill on the Escana-\\nba river, four miles from the village of Escanaba, in Delta Coun-\\nty, and is one of the- strongest mill corapanys in the northwest.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0032.jp2"}, "33": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 3 1\\nHon. Isaac Stephenson was for many years the active manager\\nof the Company, and had entire charge of its affairs, but after-\\nwards he became General Superintendent of a large lumbering\\nconcern at Peshtigo, and for several years, Augustus C.\\nBrown, who had bought an interest in the property had charge\\nof it at the present time Caleb \\\\Villiams has the charge. Nel-\\nson Ludington has always resided in Chicago, and has had charge\\nof the business at that end of the route, and all the lumber made\\nis shipped there. The amount of lumber sawed during the year\\n1875 16,800,000 feet, board measure. Amount of logs cut\\nlast winter for present year s slock, 18,200,000 feet.\\nI he next mill built was what is called the old Kirby-Carpenter\\nCompany s mill, which was also commenced in 1856, and got\\ninto condition to saw lumber in 1857. This mill was built by\\nAbner Kirby, of Milwaukee, and is built on what was then asand\\nbar in the river, opposite Menominee village. The sand bar was\\nbuilt up with slabs and sawdust, until now it is an island with\\ngood dockage along it. In the year 1S59 Samuel M. Stephenson,\\nwho came to Menominee for the first time in 1856, became a\\npartner in the company and took full charge of the business at\\nthe mill.\\nIn 1 86 1 .\\\\ugustus A. Carpenter, and soon afterwards William\\narpenter came into the partnership. On the 29th day of\\n.\u00e2\u0080\u00a2\\\\pril, 1872, the Company was incorporated under the name of\\nThe Kirby Carpenter Company.\\nThe Irst officers of the Corporation were Augustus A. Carpen-\\nter, President; S. M. Stephenson, Vice President; S. P. Gibbs,\\nSecretary. There has been no change since except that Mr.\\nStephenson now holds both the last mentioned offices.\\nIn 1867 the ompany built a new mill, a little farther down\\nthe river, whi( h has a sawing capacity of 125.000 feet per day.\\nThis Company owns 107.000 acres of land, mostly covered with\\n])ine except where it has been cut off. It also owns a propeller,\\nthe Favorite, commanded by Ca\\\\n. Thomas Hutchinson, which\\ntows to Chicago three barges, carrying about 1,200,000 feet of\\nlumber each trip, while the remaining three barges which be-\\nlong to the line, are at the mills loading. The usual amount\\nsawed at these two mills each ycc^r is about 35,000,000 feet. The", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0033.jp2"}, "34": {"fulltext": "32 CENTENNIAL HIS JORY.\\nstock of logs for this year s cut for these mills is 216,040 logs\\namounting to 40,434,199 feet board measure, all of which it is\\nexpected will be sawed before the close of navigation. The\\namount cut last year (1875) ^s 170,997 logs, amounting to 30,-\\n417,096 of lumber, board measure, also 8,io3,ioo lath, and\\n456,600 pickets, or a daily average during the sawing season of\\n367,572 feet of lumber, and 52,465 lath; this being the cut of\\nthe two mills. The company also keep a store in connection\\nwitli the mills and for general trade, the business of which for\\n1875 amounted to ;^i 13,197.04. This is one of the strongest\\ncompanies on the river, and has prosecuted its business with\\ngreat success and very little loss.\\nWilliam Holmes came here with S. M. Stephenson in 1856,\\nand since 1859 has been, in some capacity, connected with\\nthis company. He has nearly all the time had full charge of the\\nlogging and general outside business. He was Supervisor of the\\ntown of Menominee one year.\\nWilliam Somerville, who came in 1868, has been the general\\nbook-keeper at Menominee, having charge of all cash and gen-\\neral accounts.\\nPeter A. Van Uergen, who has had chief control of all matters\\nrelating to the machineiy of the mills, came here in 1S67. He\\nwas also County Clerk and Register of Deeds of this county for\\nthe years X873 and 4, but the work in the office was mostly done\\nby his deputy, Joseph Fleshiem and clerks.\\nRoland Harris came in 1859, and has been with this company\\never since, usually acting as head sawyer.\\nIn 1858 Anson Bangs built a small mill on Little River, a\\nbranch of the Menominee, about five miles from the village of\\nMenominee. This was a water mill and was soon abandoned.\\nJohn Breen, whi came to the Menominee in 1849, mill-\\nwright, and run it one season, which was about all that it ever\\ndid run. In 1870 the property fell into the hands of the writer\\nwho, with Timothy Cole, repaired it and put in machinery, and\\nmade a first class shingle mill of it, with one saw for lumber.\\nIt went by the name of T. Cole Co. s mill and run during the\\nwinter and spring following, but owing to the dry season in that\\nsummer was shut down and in the fall, (1871 with all its accom-\\npanying buildings, was burned in the great fire.\\nI", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0034.jp2"}, "35": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 33\\nIn the year 1857, William E. Bagley and William G. Boswell\\nbuilt a shingle mill on the shore of Green Bay, not far from where\\nthe Kirby, Carpenter Comj^any s store now stands. In 1858\\nHenry Nason and John G. Boswell bought the mill. In April of\\n1861 a remarkable shove of ice on Green Bay occurred, which\\ne.xtended south from a point between the Quimby House and\\nthe Kirby-Carpenter store, to South point; the ice was piled on\\nthe shore from thirty to forty feet high. Nason had a small\\ndwelling house near the mill, and his family where eating break-\\nfast when the ice moved almost the first warning they had was\\nwhen the ice had piled on top of the mill, and was coming down\\nupon the house. The mill was totally wrecked and the house\\ncrushed in. Ice was found there, where sand from the beach had\\nblown over it, on the next Fourth of July. Notwithstanding this\\nreverse of fortune, Nason was determined that he would have a\\nshingle mill, and in the fall of 1861 commenced building one on\\na little Island, in the Menominee river, between Tebo Island, and\\nthe Michigan shore, where the railroad crosses the river. The\\nmill was started up in 1862, but it seems that fate had decreed\\nagainst his rurming a mill, for in Julv of the same year, while the\\nmen were at dinner, the mill caught fire and burned down.\\nIn the summer of i860 Simon Strauss, who has previously been\\nengaged in the dry goods, groceries and fur trade at Menominee,\\nbuilt the mill now known as the Jones mill, on the shore of Green\\nBay, near the Kirby House, and got the same into running order\\nduring the next year, but it did not prove a success. He run it\\nfor two years and finding that he was losing money, he closed\\nit. Afterwards William McCartney bought and run it for a sea-\\nson or two, then sold out to John L Buell, who expended a large\\namount of money in putting in new machinery and other im-\\nprovements. He too failed to make a success of it. It has since\\npassed through several hands R. Stephenson Co. at one time\\nowning a half interest and running it; Clinton B^ Fay and\\nCharles H. Jones running it at another time until finallv it came\\ninto the hands of David H. Jones Co., who went into bank-\\nruptcy, and for the last two years the mill has been unused.\\nThe Ludington, Wells Van Schaick Company s mill in Me-\\nnominee was first built in 1863. The co-partnersliip was formed\\nof Daniel Wells, Harrison Ludington (now Governor of Wiscon-", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0035.jp2"}, "36": {"fulltext": "34 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nsin\\\\ Isaac Stephenson and Robert Stephenson. The mill was\\nknown here as the R. Stephenson Go s. mill. They built what\\nwas then called the best mill on the river; it was a steam mill.\\nOn the 14th day of June, 1864, the mill was burned proving\\na total loss. In fifty-four working days from that time, they nad\\nup a new and better mill, fully equiped and ready to run. The\\nmillwright, who had charge of the construction of it, was Wil-\\nliam E. Bagley, who, for many years has been considered one of\\nthe most skillful millwrights in the country, and has had charge\\nof the construction of several of the mills built in this section.\\nIn 1866 Isaac Stephenson conveyed his interest in the company\\nto Anthony G. Van Schaick. The company was incorj^orated\\nJuly ist, 1874; the first officers of the Gompany were Harrison\\nLudington, Pres t.; Daniel Wells, VicePres t. Anthony G.\\nVan Schaick, Sec y. Treas. and Robert Stephenson, Supt.\\nThe officers at present are the same. In 1871 the Gompany\\nbought what was known as the Gilmore mill, on the point where\\nthe Menominee river enters the bay. A short time afterwards\\nand almost before they got into possession, it was burned in the\\ngreat fire of 187 1. Soon after the fire the company began the\\nconstruction of another and nnu h better mill, and had it com\\npleted in 1873. They have not at all times had both mills run-\\nning; as the money panic of iS73affected their interest reducing\\nthe profits of manufacture. The sawing capacity of both mills is\\n35,000,000 feet per year. The last mentioned mill has a capac\\nity of 22,000,000 feet and theother 13,000,000. The mill on the\\npoint during the sawing season of 1875, ^awed 21,984,792 feet\\nof lumber, 4,058,940 lath and 153,450 pickets. The amount of\\nlogs outlast winter for the present year s stock, is 29,458,163\\nfeet board measure. The company keep a store in connection\\nwith the mill for the sale of dry goods, groceries and provisions.\\nThe gros amount of their sales for 1875 was $62,207.95. The\\ncompany is a very strong one and owns 75,000 acres of lands in\\nMenominee county and Oconto county, Wisconsin.\\nIn the fall of 1866 the Ingallston mill, in the township of In-\\ngallston, was built by Gharles B. Ingalls and myself. In the win-\\nter of i867- 8 I bargained my interest in it to Gharles B. Ingalls,\\nwho operated it for a season and then bargained it to Barnard\\nWyley, who failed to keep their bargain. Afterwards it was ru.:", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0036.jp2"}, "37": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 35\\nby Carter Jones and finally by Jesse L. Hamilton, who was\\noperating it on a contract with C. B. Ingalls. when it was burned\\nin the spring of 1874.\\nIn 1867 the Fred. Carney mill in Marinette, Wisconsin, was\\nbuilt by Daniel Wells, Jr., of Milwaukee, Andrew Stephenson,\\nof Menominee, and Louis Gram, of Marinette. Andrew Ste-\\nphenson and Cram afterwards sold their interest to Fred. Carney\\nand Henry Witbeck. The com])any was incorporated in 1870\\nby the name of the H. Witbeck Company. The first officers were\\nDaniel Wells, Jr., Pres t Henry Witbeck, Vice-Prest.; John\\nWitbeck, Sec y.; Frederick Carney, Supt. The present officers\\nare the same. The amount of lumber sawed in 1875 was i5,-\\n500,000 feet, 3,500,000 lath and 300,000 pickets. The stock of\\nlogs cut last-^vinter for the present year was 17,500,000 feet.\\nThe Company owns 53.000 acres of land.\\nIn the year 1866 William McCartney built a mill on the same\\nside of the river, below Carney s mill. It was used mostly for a\\nshingle mill. It was burned in the great fire October 8th, 1871.\\nThe same fall he commenced another which was completed the\\nnext summer and is now in operation. In 1870 71 William E.\\nBagley and Daniel Corry built on the high bank, not far from\\nMcCartney s mill, a very large i)laning, door and sash mill.\\nThey had only used it a short time when it was destroyed by the\\nsaiiie great fire.\\nAnother small mill was built by George Hawthorn at the vil-\\nlage of Menekaune as early as i860 or 61 for a shingle mill.\\nThe building, or what was left of it, was also burned in the fire\\nof 1 87 1.\\nIn t866 the Hamilton Merryman Company built their mill\\nin the town of Marinette, Wisconsin. This is also a large and\\nstrong company. This comi)any was incorporated in 1872. The\\nfirst officers were I. K. Hamilton, Pres. and Treas.; A. C. Mer-\\nriman, Sec y. and Supt. The officers are now the same with W.\\nC. Hamilton, Vice-Pres. Theamount oflumber sawed in 1875,\\nwas 1 2, Too, 000 feet, lath 3,008,000, pickles 120,000, shingles\\n5,000,000. Amount of logs cut last winter for this year s stock\\nis 15,000,000 feet board measure. The company owns 50,000\\nacres of land situated in Menominee county and Oconto county,", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0037.jp2"}, "38": {"fulltext": "36 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nWis. They also own a shingle mill which was built since the\\nerection of their main mill.\\nA planing, door and sash mill was built on a small island\\nin Marinette, where the bridge crosses the river, by William\\nGoddard and others.\\nD. C. Prescott first established his machine shop and foundry\\nat the same place in connection with it. It was afterwards\\nburned. Prescott rebuilt his shops on a much larger scale on the\\nhigh banks in the village of Marinette, where they now are. The\\nplaning mill was rebuilt in the same place, and again burned, and\\nwigain rebuilt.\\nIn 1874 Lemoyne, Hubbard and Wood, who had bought the\\nCedar River mill property, built a small mill at Spalding, a sta-\\ntion on the Chicago Jorthwestern Railroad, 42 miles noith of\\nMenominee village.\\nIn the fall of I872 Mellen Smith built a shingle mill on the bay\\nshore, in the town of Ingallston, about three-fourths of a mile\\nfrom the Ingallston mill. He has since moved it back about\\ntwo miles and sends all his shingles to market by railroad.\\nIn 1874 S. L. Benjamin built a shingle mill by the side of the\\nrailroad, eighteen miles north from the village of Menominee,\\nwhich has been in operation since that time\\nJohn W. Wells commenced the construction of a lumber and\\nshingle mill in the fall of 1875, which is now completed and run-\\nning. It is situated on the bay shore, north of the smelting fur-\\nnace.\\nIn the foregoing pages I have given a brief sketch of all the\\nlumber mills that have ever been built on the Menominee River,\\nor in Menominee county. All the mills named are steam mills,\\nexcept those mentioned as water mills. Although there is an\\nabundance of water power in the county it has always been\\nheld by mill men that steam was cheaper than water for\\nmanufacturing lumber, because the mills have a great amount of\\nwaste material, such as sawdust, slabs and edgings, which must\\nin some way be disposed of, therefore fuel costs them nothing\\nand the force is more regular.\\nOther mills may also be mentioned in this connection\\nIn 1872 William E. Bagley and Egbert M. Copp built a plan-\\ning, sash and door mill^ on the bank of the bayou, near the A.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0038.jp2"}, "39": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL l^s^ok^\u00e2\u0080\u00a2. 37\\nF. livons place, on the north side of Ogden Avenue, and carried\\non business in it until 1S74. During the summer of 1874 they\\nbuilt another planing mill between Main street and the Bay\\nshcM\\\\ south of the Kirby Carpenter store, but owing to the mon-\\ney panic that fall, they only run it one season, and have\\nsince taken the machiner\\\\ out of l)()th mills and remoNcd it to\\nStevens Point. AVisconsin, and the mills are abandoned.\\nCHAP rHR 1\\\\\\ncorxTV oR(;axi/aiion\\nAt ilie time of the first sctllemL-nt of Menoiviinee couniv all of\\ntiie country from tlv,,- Alenoniinee river to I/ike Huron, belonged\\nto .Mackinaw county it was a wihlerness with neither civil offi-\\ncers, nor white people to fill offices. Subsequently a county was\\nestablished reaching from Lake Michigan to the .Menominee\\nriver and called Delta count) Tiiere were but few white men\\nii; it \\\\\\\\h :n it was organized, and ii was attaiht-d to Mackinaw\\ncounty lor judic iai ])urposes.\\nIn 1S61 Anson liangs, wiio then resided at Marinette. Wiscon-\\nsin, and owneil considerable land on both sides of the river, and\\nhad, a short time before, built a smidl mill on Little River, a\\nbranch of the Menominee, was at Lansing during the session of\\nthe Legislature. He having private objects in view, without con-\\nsulting the pco[)le at Menominee, obtained the ]):vs.sage of an act\\nl i create a nuw ountv bv the lame of Hleeker an old Alban\\\\-", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0039.jp2"}, "40": {"fulltext": "38 CENTENNIAL IIIS JORY.\\nname he afterwards marrying into a family there by that\\nname. There were many [)rovisions of the act wliich were ob-\\nnoxious to the settlers in the county, and they refused to organize\\nunder it. At the time appointed for the meeting to elect officers\\nand perfect the organization, Bangs vv^as not in this section of the\\ncountry. The meeting was to be held at Quimby s tavern, and\\non the day set, there was quite an attendance of settlers, but they\\nrefused to organize a meeting and instead of doing so, got up\\nplacards and charcoal sketches of Bangs, which were not compli-\\nmentary to him. By the provisions of the act, if the people\\nfailed to organize, the new county was to be attached to xMar-\\nquette county for judicial purposes.\\nI am now brouglit to a point where I must arise and explain my\\nposition. I dislike as much as any one any exhibition of ego-\\ntism. I am well aware that when the })ronoun 1 ajjpears too\\noften, people are apt to form the opinion that the, writer desires\\nto make an exhibition of himself. From this time on 1 am so\\nmixed up with the affairs of Menominee cbunty; that I cannot\\nwrite it correctly without bringing myself into it, and for the\\npurpose of avoiding the use of many words, or frequently my\\nname, I shall use the pronoun when it becomes necessary hereaf-\\nter. As I must come into the arena, I may as well tell how 1\\ncame here One pleasant evening in July 1859, 1 was landed at\\nthe dock of the Mcnekaune warehouse, with my {JonV, buggy,\\ntent, rifle and dog, from the little steamer Fannie Fisk, Captain\\nDaniel M. Whitney, Master. I pitched my tent in that village\\nfor a few days, with the intention of looking around to see the\\ncountry, which was not a very easy task, unless as a walkist, tor\\nthere weie no roads leading out from the river in any direction\\nthat could be traversed with a wagon. Being fully satisfied that\\nMenominee had a bright future, of which its splendid water pow-\\ner, abundance of pine timber, hardwood forming lands, and fine\\nport on Green Bay gave promise, I made up my mind that it\\nwas a good place to set my stake. It is true it did not look en-\\ncouraging for a law, er, but I had become tired of the practice of\\nlaw, and my health much impaired by close application to tlie\\nlabors necessary in a properly regulated law office. My idea\\nwas that I would follow some active out-door business which\\nwould improve my health. Not being blessed with an overstock", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0040.jp2"}, "41": {"fulltext": "CKNTENNIAI. IlISTOKV. 39\\nof tliii world s goods, it was something of a study what business\\nI should go into, or ratlicrhow I sliould gel into it; feelingsome-\\nwhat like Micawbcr, 1 resolved to waitfor something to turn\\nup, and that the waiting might not be too expensive, I went\\ndown the bay shore about three miles, to the mouth of Little\\nRiver, and camped. Shortly afterwards, Andrew J. Easton (who\\nafterwards married my eldest daughter) joined me, Wc conclu-\\nded to stay awhile, so went to work picking up lumber on the\\nbeach, and built a small house, then I sent for my family, which\\nsoon afterward joined us.\\nWe planted a few acres of land, liunted deer, fished, and by\\npractising sell-denial and economy, managed to get a living. In\\n1 861 the Rebellion broke out and all the people about the Me-\\nnominee were patriotic. In fact, it was the worst possible place\\nin the world for a copperhead, and, although we had two or\\nthree, their mouths were shut as tight as if closed with sealing\\nwax. I became actively engaged in getting volunteers, and our\\nable-bodied men being aroused, began to volunteer. My son-in-\\nlaw was among the first. Missing him and feeling very lonely,\\nthere being no neighbors nearer than Menekaune, three miles\\nfrom where I then lived, I moved rny family, in the fall of 1861,\\ninto Menekaune and remained there during the winter.\\nIt was in the spring of i86r that the meeting referred to in\\nthe commencement of this cha}ner was held. There being no\\nsetlledlawyer nearer than Oconto, the people on the Michigan\\nside of the river were quite anxious that I should come over and\\ncounsel with them in regard to organizing a county, and I came.\\nAfter I nioved to Menekaune the Michigan people frequently\\nurged me to come over and become a Wolverine, so in the spring\\nof iS6 2 I comj^lied with their wishes. During thesimimer I built\\na small house in the, now village of Menominee, though it was\\nthen in the woods, and moved into it late in the fall.\\nThe next session of the Legislature commenced in January,\\n1S63. The people here concluded to send me to Lansing to\\njirocure the passage of an act to organize a county they\\nraised money for uiy expenses by contribution, and on New\\nYear s day 1863, I started. When I reached Lansing the Legisla-\\nture was organizetl and in v.orking order. I hev had elected", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0041.jp2"}, "42": {"fulltext": "40 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nPion. Zach. Chandler Senator, the clay I reached there, and many\\nof then-\\\\ were feeling so good o\\\\er it that night, that they must\\nhave woke up the next day with iheir hair pulling.\\nThe Member from our district was James S. Pentlall, from\\narciuette. I prepared such a bill as I thought we needed and\\nMr. Pendall presented it, and had it referred. Soon afterwards\\nit was reported favorably, passed and became a law, and Menom-\\ninee County took its place in the list of couiities of the State.\\nIts boundaries, excepting a slight alteration, were the same as\\nthose of the Bangs act Embracing the fractional Townships 35\\nand 36, Range 24, West: All of Range 25, from the bay shore\\nto town, 41 inclusive; all of Range 26 and 27, to Town 4r, in-\\nclusive all of the towns and tVactional towns in Ranges 28,\\n2(), 30, 31 to Town 41 inclusi\\\\-e. The name Menominee for the\\ncouiil) had been decided ui)on b\\\\ thi- pjeoiile before I left home.\\nAt that time there were no settlers in tiie coui ity excejjt those\\nliving at .Menominee and up the river, and those living at the mouth\\nof the Big Cedar River, therefore the county was divided into\\ntwo townships, vi/,. The township of Cedarville, which embraced\\nall the towns in the n -\\\\v county in ranges 24, 25 and 26 West,\\nand the T(nvnship of ^lenominee, which embraced all of Range\\n27, and the tov -ns and fractional towns in Ranges 28, 29, 30\\nand 31 West So far as territc)ry was concerned this furiiished\\ntwo pretty good sized towns. I he town of Menoniinee is about\\nas large as the State of Rhode Island, being sixty-one miles long\\nand thirty miles wide at the northern end, and tapering down\\nto a p(_)int, at its southern extremity. By the provisions of the\\nact, the county seat was to be located in town 31, North, Range\\n27, West. John (Jiuimb\\\\-. Sr., iNicholas Cewehr ami K. S. in-\\ngalls were aiJiJointed to locate the same. J he Commissioners\\nin the s])ring of 1863, located it on what is called C ourt House\\nSipuire, in Menominee, opposite tlie (^uimby Hotel Rirby\\nHouse; where a clerk s office and jail were afterwards erected.\\nIll 1S74, the people havi .g decided to build a Court House,\\nthe Board of Su])ervi ors bought two acres of land on Ogden Av-\\nenue, and removed the count v seat to that place. l he oh!\\nCoini House sipiare grrjunds were sold to the original own-\\ners.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0042.jp2"}, "43": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 4 1\\nThe first election of county officers was to be held on the\\nfirst Monday in May, 1863, and was so held.\\nThe act provided that John G. Kittson, Nicholas Gewehr and\\nJohn Quiniby, Sr. of the town of Menominee, should be a\\nBoard of County Canvassers to canvass the votes of the county,\\nand approve all the bonds of the county officers elected, and\\nshould meet on the Tuesday following the first Monday after\\nelection, and immediately after the vote was declared notice\\nshould be given to the officers elect, who should qualify and\\ntheir tcjms commence. By the middle of May 2S63, the officers\\nhad all (jualified and the county was fully organized.\\nThe county when organized became a part of the judicial dis-\\ntrict of the Upper Peninsula of Michigan. It was made a part\\nof the Representative district, composed of the counties of Mar-\\nquette, Chippewa, Schoolcraft and Delta and was then included in\\nthe 32d Senatorial and Sixth Congressional districts. By act of\\n1875 ^unties of Menominee and Delta constitute a Repre-\\nsentative district.\\nThe first County officers were\\nJudge of Probate\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Eleazcr S. Ingalls.\\nSherift John Quimby. t\\nCounty Clerk Salmon P. Saxton.\\nProsecuting Attorney E. S. Ingalls.\\nRegister of Deeds Josiah R. Brooks.\\nCircuit Court Commissioner E. S. Ingalls.\\nCounty Treasurer Leroy T. Ireland.\\nSamuel W. Abbott,\\nCoroners A,f 1\\nAndrew Mclver.\\nTown Officers of Menominee.\\nSupervisor Samuel M. Stephenson.\\nTown Clerk Austin W. Champney.\\nTown Treasurer Josei)h Van Anken.\\nJohn G. Kittson,\\nJustices of the Peace- 2- f Sl^^ lf\\nI Nicholas Gewehr.\\nWilliam Holmes,\\nV 1 T 1 S. Intralls,\\nSchool Inspectors J Jy\\n^[u Joseph Van Auken.\\nJohn (t. Kittson,\\nCommissioners of Highways O. B. Richardson,\\nTown Officers of Cedarville:\\nSupervisor\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Josiah R. Brooks.\\nWilliam Holmes.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0043.jp2"}, "44": {"fulltext": "42 CENTENNIAL HIS l ORY.\\nTown Treasurer Salmon P. Saxton.\\nr .1 T, f Tosiah R. Brooks,\\nJustices of the reace b i aa^ n n \u00e2\u0080\u009ei\\nRobert McCuUough.\\nThe County Officers for the present year are\\nJudge of Probate Thomas B. Rice.\\nSheriff John Hanley.\\nCounty Clerk Joseph Fleshiem.\\nProsecuting Attorney E. S. Ingalls.\\nRegister of Deeds Joseph Flesliiem.\\nCircuit Court Commissioner E. S. Ingalls.\\nCounty Treasurer James H. Walton.\\nCounty Surveyor J. Weston Bird.\\nTown officers of Menominee\\nSupervisor Samuel M. .Stephenson.\\nTown Clerk John J. Farrier.\\ni Henry Nason\\nJustices of the Peace William H. Jenkins,\\n(john Breen and Charles Parent.\\nSchool Superintendent B. T. Phillips.\\nSchool Inspector William Somervilie,\\nTown Treasurer William H. Jenkins.\\nTown of Cedarville\\nSupervisor E. P. Wood.\\nTown Clerk John P. Macy.\\nTown Treasurer George F. Rowel 1.\\nJolin Farley,\\nCommissioners of Highway Alfred Brabois,\\n(W. E. Evarts.\\nAt the session of the Legislature in the year 1867 an act was\\npassed providing for the organization of a new township to be\\nknown as Ingallston. It included in its boundaries all the\\ntownships in range 26, from town 7,3 to 4i inclusive. There\\nbeing but few settlers in the township it did not adopt a town-\\nship organization until 1873.\\nThe first officers elected were\\nSupervisor Samuel C. Hayward.\\nTown Clerk Samuel Thomas.\\nTown Treasurer John F. Nelson.\\nr Nathaniel Thomas,\\nJustices of the Peace Mathias Baily,\\nCharles Smith.\\nCommissioner of Highways John R. Williams,\\nc 1 1 T I Tobn R. Williams,\\nSchool Inspectors i~. ion-\\nDaniel Sullivan.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0044.jp2"}, "45": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 43\\nThe pre:^ent ofificers are\\nSupervisor John Mur])liy.\\nTown Clerk- Charles Allen.\\nTown Treasurer George Haggerson.\\nCommissioner of Highways James Mordaunt.\\nl-ucius Russell,\\nJustices of the Peace Louis Desart,\\n(John Blessingham.\\nWhen the county was first organized the whole duty of doing,\\nor seeing done, the duties of county officers, was thrown upon\\nme; they all being in business could not afford to devote their\\nwhole time to county affairs. I sent to Waukegan, Illinois, for\\n(ieorge W. Jenkins to come and act as Deputy Circuit and County\\nClerk. He gave good satisfaction and was elected the next\\nyear and held the office until his death in 187 1.\\nAt the time of the organization there were no Judicial Circuits\\nin the Upper Peninsula. We had a court styled The District\\nC ourt of the Upper Peninsula, with the same powers as Circuit\\nourt.\\nThe Hon. Daniel Goodwin was Judge, and had held the position\\nsince the district was first judicially organized. He has long\\nbeen identified with the Judiciary of the State, and was Presi-\\ndent of the Constitutional Convention of 1850. He is a resi\\ndent of Detroit, and was sent from Wayne County to the Con-\\nstitutional Convention of 186S, of which I was also a member.\\nThe Upper Peninsula was organized into a Judicial District at\\nthe session of the Legislature in 185 1. The act providing for\\nits organization took effect July 8th, 185 1. The Judge was\\nelected on the last Tuesday of that year.\\nIn 1863 the Legislature passed an act creating the nth Ju-\\ndicial Circuit in place of the District Court, and Judge Good-\\nwin continued to preside as Judge of the Circuit.\\nIn 1865 the Legislature passed an act creating the 12th Judi-\\ncial Circuit from a part of the nth, leaving the counties of Me-\\nnominee, Delta,- Chippewa, Mackinaw, Sheboygan and Manitou\\nin the nth District, and Judge Goodwin has continued to pre-\\nside in this Circuit. He was re-elecfed in 1875 ^o term of six\\nyears, commencing in January 1876. Judge Goodwin has, during\\nall this long period, performed his judicial duties with such impar-\\ntiality and ability that he has won the approbation and respect of", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0045.jp2"}, "46": {"fulltext": "44 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nevery person in the district or circuit. There was but few peo-\\nple here when the count*y was organized, and many of those\\nbeing transient men were not voters. At the first election held\\nin Menominee the number of votes cast was 45 and in the town\\nof Cedarville 10, The officers of the county were occupying a\\ndwelling house owned by John Quimby (the house where his\\nwidow now resides). The Circuit Courts were held in the hall\\nof the Quimby House (now Kirby House.) At and before\\nthe time of the organization of the county all mail for\\nMenominee came to Menekaune, Wis.; but having organized a\\nCounty Seat it was necessary to have a Post Office, and the De-\\npartment established one at Menominee in the year 1863, and\\nNorman R. Soule was appointed Post-master (although I per-\\nformed the actual duties of it,) and held the office until the next\\nyear, when Samuel W. Abbott was appointed, and has held the\\noffice ever since. At first he had to go to Menekaune for the\\nmail-bag in the summer season, and sometimes in the winter.\\nIn summer the mail came three times a week from Green Bay bv\\nboat, and in winter by stage.\\nAt that lime trees covered the ground over where the greater\\npart of the village of Menominee now stands, and the writer\\nhas shot deer and assisted in a bear hunt in what are now the\\nmost public places. Where Main street now is was the best\\nplace to hunt wild pigeons i\u00c2\u00ab this section of the country. In\\nthe spring and fall the river was a favorite resort for wild ducks\\nand sportsmen who hunted them. Then there were no roads in\\nthe county except a very poor supply road leading up the Me-\\nnominee river, which the mill companies had cut out for a wint-\\ner road, aud which could hardly be traversed by a wagon during\\nthe summer.\\nWhile Anson Bangs was at Lansing during the session of the\\nLegislature, of 1861, he did do one thing which pioved a great\\nbenefit to the county, which ought to be set off against his mis-\\nmove in trying to organize the county of Bleeker. He caused\\nan act to be passed, granting two sections of land to each\\nmile for the purpose of constructing a state road from Menomi-\\nnee to Masonville, in Delta county, to be called the Green Bay\\nand Bay du Noc state road, and the same amount for a road from\\nthe mouth of the Menominee river to a point in Marquette coun-", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0046.jp2"}, "47": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 45\\nty to be called the Wisconsin Lake Superior State road. It\\nwas generally thought that no person could afford to build any\\nsort of a road for the grant. At that time plenty of land was to\\nbe entered for one dollar and twenty-five cents per acre, and by\\nbuying road script, state lands could be obtained for one dollar\\nl)er acre.\\nIt was thought that the country was so swampy between Me-\\nnominee village and Delta county, that a road could not be built\\nwithout great expense.\\nThe only way the people of Lake Superior could get to the out-\\nside world, as it was then called, in the winter, was by crossing\\nthe divide with dog trains, to the head of Little Bay du Noc and\\nthen follow the bench to Green Bay.\\nHon. Peter White, of Marquett? once told me, on one occa-\\nsion when he was compelled to come down into Wisconsin in\\nthe winter, it took him three weeks to make thejourney from that\\n])la(c to Green Bay city. They were therefore very anxious to\\nhave a road opencti and often wrote me on the subject, and dur-\\ning the winter of 1863-4, when coming through talked of it, and\\nnrgfd that the Menominee people should take some step to have\\na road constructed. In the summer of 1863 C. T. Harvey had\\nopened a road from Masonville to Marquette.\\nAccordingly in the spring of 1864 application was made to the\\nGovernor, and Josiah R. Brooks was appointed Commissioner to\\nlay out and cause the road to be constructed, and he had the\\nroad surveyed, (R. L. Hall having charge of the survey) and took\\nsteps to let a contract for its construction. But the greatest dif-\\nficulty was to find any one to undertake it. and when the time\\nappointed to let the contract came, there was not a person to put\\nin a bid. P.eing determined that a road should be built, the wri-\\nter put in a bid to construct all of the road that lay in Menomi-\\nnee county, for the grant, and executed the necessary papers.\\nSo sure were the people that a road could not be built for the\\ngrant that on the day my men met to commence work on it, one\\nof our ])rominent public men told me that he would give me his\\near, if I did not fail in the enterprise that year. I told him I\\nwould call on him for his ear before the snow would fly. My\\ncontract only required that the road should be cut through six-\\nteen feet wide, that year, so that the road would be available for", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0047.jp2"}, "48": {"fulltext": "46 CENTENNIAL HIS JORY.\\nwinter use, and provided for its completion afterwards. I calletl\\non the gentleman for the ear but I have not received it yet, al-\\nthough I am entitled to it according to the offer.\\nOn the fifth day of December my men had got through, and\\nT. T. Hawley coming through shortly afterward and finding tliat\\nhe could carry the mails through on it, in a few days had a\\nline of stages running over it. and thus secured the mail route\\nfor Lake Superior, through Menominee, instead of by way of On-\\ntonagon, where parties interested were trying to secure it.\\nWhen I was at Lansing in the winter of 1863 to obtain the\\npassage of the act to organize the county, I found the Legisla-\\nture favorably disposed towards the people here, and desirous of\\naiding them in opening the county to settlement.\\nWe had no bridge across the Menominee river and the only\\nway of crossing in tne s\u00c2\u00bbmmer v. as with small boats for men,\\nand scows for horses, which was very inconvenient.\\nI became impressed with the idea that a land grant could be\\nobtained to build a bridge.\\nThe people here could not afford to build it without help. I\\nhad friends in the Wisconsin Legislature, among whom was Col.\\nGeorge C. Ginty, of Oconto county.\\nI drafted a bdl for an act, giving five sections of land in Mich-\\nigan, to aid in the construction of the bridge, and another for the\\nWisconsin Legislature giving ten sections and sent it to. Col.\\nGinty. My reason for making that ten sections, was that the\\nlands in Michigan were much more valuable than in Oconto\\ncounty, Wisconsin, where the lands would be located. I then\\nwrote to Hon. Isaac Stephenson, of Marinette, and S. .M. Ste-\\nphenson, of Menominee, about the matter, asking them to use\\ntheir influence for the project, and to have petitions signed and\\nforwarded to each Legislature, which was done by them. The\\nMichigan Legislature readily passed the bill and Col. Ginty had\\nno difficulty in obtaining the passage of the bill sent there, but\\nit failed to become a law, although it killed the Governor of\\nWisconsin, so far as his political aspirations were concerned, and\\ngave Wisconsin one of the best war governors the state has had.\\nDuring that session, there was a strong feeling aroused on the\\nsubject of using the state swamp lands for the improvement of\\nroads in the counties where the lands were situated All of the", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0048.jp2"}, "49": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 47\\nmembers from the northern and northwestern parts of the state,\\nwhich were new, were in favor of it, while those from the south-\\nern and southwestern parts, which were old and had their roads\\nbuilt, were oj^posed to it. The bill passed with so large a vote\\nin its favor, that it was evident that it could be passed over any\\nveto the Oovernor might give.\\nThe Governor (Salomon) lived in Milwaukee, and his feelings\\nseemed to be with the opponents of the bill, for instead of veto-\\ning, and giving the Legislature an opportunity to pass it over his\\nhead, he put it in his pocket and kept it there, to the great in-\\ndiunation and distrust of its friends. That killed the bill for that\\nwinter. It happened that the :.ext summer when the state con-\\nvention met. Col. Ginty, was a delegate, and found that a ma\\njority of the convention were members, who had supported the bill\\nihe winter previous, and not having got over their disgust at\\nGovernor s Saloman s act (who was a candidate for re-election\\nfor Governor) they laid him on the shelf and nominated James\\nT. Lewis, who proveil one of the best Governors Wisconsin ever\\nhad. The next winter the bill was again passed, as originally\\ndrawn, and became a law.\\nMeanwhile the people here thought the fifteen sections of land\\ninsufficient to build the bridge, the length of which would be\\nabout one third of a mile, and the value of the grant could not\\nbe estimated at over one dollar per acre, as lands could be locat-\\ned with script at that: price.\\nThe next winter 1860) I again had occasion to go to Lansing\\nwhile tlie Legislature was in session, and our grant had expired\\nby limitation for the reason that the bridge had not been built. I\\nhad another bill presented extending the time for building it.\\nand giving ten sections of land, -which passed and became a law,\\nmaking the whole grant from both States twenty sections. The\\nconnnissioners appointed in the law to have charge of building\\nthe bridge were the board of Supervisors of Menominee County\\nanil the Board of Supervisors of the town of Marinette, Wis.\\nStdl there were difliculties in the way of its construction. The\\nMenekaune interest and a part of Menominee wanted it built\\nncur the mouth of the river, the Marinette people and a part of\\nthe Menomined i)eople desired it to be built across the river up\\nnear the ])r. Hall place, or at least across IVbo Island, where the", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0049.jp2"}, "50": {"fulltext": "48 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nrailroad now crosses. The contention about the location of the\\nbridge lasted nearly two years, when it was decided to build it\\nin its present location, and the N. Ludington Company took the\\ncontract to build it, and it was built for tne land grant in 1867.\\nIn 1866 the mill companies on both sides of the river being\\ndesirous of having abetter road up the Menoininte river than\\nthe supply road on which they had been compelled to rel) I was\\nappointed commissioner to locate and build the Wisconsin and\\nLake Superior State Road which runs up the Menominee river.\\nThe Board of Supervisors appropriated the necessary money to\\ndefray expenses of Survey. i he survey was immediately com-\\nmenced and carried through to completion. The contract was\\nlet to the Kirby-Carpenter Company, R. Stephenson Company\\n(now Ludington, Wells Van Schaick Co. and Spalding iS:\\nPorter Company, who commenced the work without delay. The\\nnext season I resigned as Commissioner and William Holmes\\nwas appointed in my place, who continued in charge of it un-\\ntil work was stopped. The road is now completed forty-tw)\\nmiles, and nearly up to the Kirby-Carpenter Company s farm,\\nand is a very good road. In constructing to that point nearly or\\nquite ten miles in distance is saved compared with the old route.\\nOur county had been without a Coiu t Rouse, holding our\\ncourts in public halls. Our officers had all believed that it was\\nbetter to wait until a good building could be erected than put up\\ni cheap one.,^\\nThe county had always been out of debt. When first organ-\\nized it was decided that pay as you go was the best policy, so\\nwe nave followed that rule, and the only debt the county had\\never incurred that was not paid during the same year was the\\nsum of five thhusand dollars, borrowed on bonds to pay soldier s\\nbounties during the war. These bonds were drawn to run 5 years\\nand were all taken l)y the people living here, and were paid at\\nthe expiration of three years. When the county was first organ-\\nized the assessable property in the county was valued at about\\n$160,001.25. It s o^^ valued at $1,363,319.83. Our people, in\\nview of these facts, came to the conclusion that we could well\\nafford to take the risk of building a good Court House, and is-\\nsue the bonds of the county to raise money for its constraction.\\nAccordingly in 1874 the necessary steps were taken and the", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0050.jp2"}, "51": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 49\\nbonds issued. They weie readily sold and the building begun\\nthat year and completed in 1875. the county has a Court\\nHouse which would do no discredit to any city of the state. It\\nis built of brick and stone, the first or basement story, being oc-\\ncu})ied as a jail and room for residence of the jailor. The cells\\nare entirely of stone and iron. The second story is fitted up for\\noffices, with fire and burglar proof vaults to every office while\\nin the upper story is the court room, jury and judge s rooms. It\\nis constructed with all the modern appliances and conveniences.\\nIt cost in round numbers $32,000.\\nDuring the same year (1874) the township of Menominee con-\\nstructed a good brick Town Hall at a cost of $8,000. The first\\nstory of which is used for an engine room for the steam fire en-\\ngine, owned by the town the second for a town hall, town li-\\nbrary and office for town officers. The building is a substantial\\none and would do credit to much larger and older towns.\\nCH.XPTER V.\\nSCHOOLS.\\nThe first school now remembered to have been kept in Menom\\ninee, was by Emily Burchard, in 1857, in a i)art of Henry\\nNason s huuse at his shingle mill, on the shore of (Ireen Bay.\\nIl was supported by subscription. There is a tradition llial one\\nhatl been previously kept at the old water mill, bv a daughter of\\nA. V. Lyon, but nothing definite is known of it.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0051.jp2"}, "52": {"fulltext": "50 CENTENNIAL HIS lORV.\\nThe first schoolhouse of the county was built by A. F. Lyon,\\nHenry Nason, W. G. Boswell, Andreas Eveland, E. N. Davis\\nand a few others in i(S57, near where the railroad now crosses\\nOgden Avenue in the village of Menominee. It was built of hewed\\ntimber by voluntary labor and contribution. It was used but\\none term. When the county was organized in 1863, the school\\nlaws were put in force, and districts were organized. District\\nNo. I, in Menominee, embraced all of the village lying along\\nGreen Bay and near the mouth of the river District No. 2 in-\\ncluded that part of the village now called Frenchtown District\\nNo. 3 was organized embracing within its limits all the settlers\\nabout John G. Kittson s place, near Chappee s rapids. Since\\nthat time a district has been organized at B.rch Creek settlement,\\nand another at ra lroad section 22, (22 miles from Menominee)\\nnow called Stephenson.\\nThe township of Cedarvil.le had one district established and\\nhas usually kept a school there since.\\nSince the organization of the township of Ingallston two dis.\\ntricts have been organized, one at Spalding (railroail section 42)\\nand one at English (railroad section 39).\\nIn all these small districts schools have been regularly kept\\nsince their organization, except the one at Chappee Rapids, in\\nthe township of Menominee, where the people failed to perfect\\ntheir organization. In the village of Menominee, which has al-\\nways contained the bulk of the population, the greater attention\\nhas been paid to schools.\\nThe first school inspectors for the village of Menominee were\\nE. S. Ingalls and Joseph Van Auken the first district board were\\nE. S. Ingalls, moderator and Robert Pengilly, assessor.\\nThe present school inspectors are Benjamin T. Phillips, super-\\nintendent, and Wm. Somerville, inspector.\\nThe present school beard of District No. i, Menominee, are\\nt^amuel M. JStephenson, moderator Edward L, Parmenter, di-\\nrector, and Robert Stephenson, assessor.\\nThe first schools held in District No. i, in Menominee were in\\na small building owned by Samuel W. Abbott, which had been\\nbuilt for storing fishing nets. It was about 16x18 feet built of\\nrough boards and filled between the joists with saw dust (the\\nsame building was also the first post office building after Mr. Ab-", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0052.jp2"}, "53": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 5 I\\nbott became P. M.) The seats were long, narrow benches, bet-\\nter calculated for the punishment of children than for their com-\\nfort, but they did not mind that much, so long as they could\\nwhile away the time, when the teachers eyes were not on them,\\nby digging sawdust out from the cracks.\\n1 sliall never forget the disgust exhibited by the first teacher\\nthat went into that building to teach. I had been to Green Bay\\ncity and employed a lady teacher and had given her as good an\\nidea of the advantages and disadvantages as I could in\\nwords. But she could not understand the nature of a school\\nhouse in a new place just starting, until she came in person, yet\\nshe stuck to it until the term was out and kept a good school. It\\nwas not long however that such a building had to be used. The\\npeople determined to have a better one and in i864 built and\\nlurnished one 24x28 feet. It was thought that this would be\\nUrge enough for many years, but we soon learned our mistake.\\nSettlers came in so fast that in a short time not half of the schol-\\nars could be acconmiodated. So the school house was sold and\\nin 1868 another was built, planned for a graded school. This,\\nthough a wooden building; was a good one co ^ting$7,ooo. The\\nfirst story is divided in two apartments; the second story is all\\nin one though two teachers (the professor and assistant) are em-\\nployed therein, making it equivalent to two schools.\\nFor the last four years Prof. J. Wesley Bird has had charge of\\nthis and other schools in this district, and we may safely claim\\nthat our schools are as good as any in the State.\\nIt was soon found that this building did not furnish sufficient\\nroom and another school house was built in the district on\\nHolmes Avenue, and another building rented for a school room\\non Ogden Avenue.\\nDistrict No. 2 also built a school house, which they have\\nfound too small and have, during the present year, erected a\\nlarge two-story building, which will probably be sufficient for\\nseveral years. Their District board for the present year are\\nCharles Parent, Louis Young and Moses Frechette.\\nThe names of the School officers in other towns I cannot ob-\\ntain in time to prepare these sketches for the press.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0053.jp2"}, "54": {"fulltext": "CHAFER VI.\\nBANKS. HUNT FRASER S MENOMINEE KANK.\\nThis bank began to do business on March 7th, 1S73, ^ii ider the\\nname Menominee Bank. The original proprietors were H.\\nE. Hayden, Fredrick Stafford, (then of Negaunee), and H. J.\\nColwell of Clarksburg, Michigan. James Eraser was Cashier.\\nJune 5tji, 1874, Frederick Stafford bought out Hayden and Col-\\nwell, and carried on the business alone until December 14th,\\n1S74, when he sold out to M. R. Hunt and James Eraser, who re\\norganized under the name it now bears. Commencing business\\nas it did, the season before the panic came on, in the fall of\\n1873, it received a severe shock, but has, nevertheless, continued\\nto do a good business.\\nIts total exchange business since it commenced has been\\n^800,000; the amount paid out on checks $584,179.02; gross\\nbusiness of every kind $1,500,000. The amount paid out on\\nexchange for the fiscal year just closed is $175,000. The pres-\\nent officers are M, R. Hunt, Prest., andjames Eraser, Cashier.\\nTHE EXCHANGE BANK OE MENOMINEE\\nCommenced business in March 1873. It was begun in 1S70 by\\nGeorge A. Woodford, Clinton B. Fay and Charles H. Jones,\\nrather as a broker shop than a bank, The main object being to\\nbuy the drafts of the mill companies drawn on Chicago. George", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0054.jp2"}, "55": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 53\\nA. Woodford having the management of the business. After-\\nwards Fay and Jones sold their interest and in 1874 Charles E.\\nAiken, the present cashier, bought into it and has had the man-\\nagement of the bank since that time Woodford still retaining\\nhis interest. It has done a fair business considering the times.\\nThe gross amount of business for 1875 $35o ooO Total busi-\\nness of every kind since its commencement ^IjOOOjOoo- Pres-\\nent officers are George A. Woodford, Prest. and Charles E Ai-\\nken, Cashier.\\nTHE GERMAN BANK\\nCommenced busine:;s .March 1875. business is confined to\\nbuying drafts. The funds being furnished by the Stephenson\\nBanking Company of Marinette. The certificate is filed in the\\nname of Jacob Math, Cashier, who attends to the whole business.\\nThe gross amount of its ba.;iness for 1875 \u00e2\u0080\u00a2s $75,000.\\nCHAPER VII.\\nCHURCHES, SOCIETIES, RAILROADS, C.\\nFor many years there was no l^^es at Menominee, nor on\\nthe other side of the river. The first institution of a religious\\ncharacter of which tradition informs us was a mission established\\nfor the Indians at Mission Point, near where the Ludington mill\\nnow stands in Marinette. It is not known whether it was Cath-\\nolic or Episcopal, It is said the early traders did not fiivor it,", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0055.jp2"}, "56": {"fulltext": "54 CENTENNIAL HISJORV.\\nas they feared its influence on the indians would interfere with\\ntheir trade, especially in the sale of whiskey so to get rid of it\\nthey induced them to destroy it. Whether this be true or\\nnot, it has passed away and nothing remains but the name Mis-\\nsion Point. After the organization of the county in i86S the\\npeople here began to think it better to have churches. There\\nwere but few professed christians and they were of various de-\\nnominational belief. No one sect had sufficient strength to erect\\na building for worship. About this time Rev. John Fairchild,\\nwho was established as pastor of the Presbyterian church in\\nMarinette, organized a church in Menominee, called the First\\nPresbyterian Church, of Menominee, and Henry Loomis, a\\nyoung theological student, of Auburn Seminary, N. Y. (now a\\nMissionary in hina) came here to spend his vacation and re-\\ncruit his health. He was full of zeal and soon after he came he\\nbegan to agitate the question of building a church. The people\\nwere ready to support such a move and steps were immediately\\ntaken for the purpose. The Kirby-Carpenter Company gave a\\nlot and Mr. Loomis went to work and cleared away the bushes.\\nThe companies all subscribed liberally, as also did the people,\\naccording to their means. Tlie building committee appointed\\nwere Samuel M. Stephenson, E. S. Ingalls and William P. New-\\nberry. B, W. Porter, of Waukegan, 111., was employed to come\\nup and take charge of the construction. The church was com-\\npleted in 1869 and was dedicated July 1 8th of that year. A con-\\ntribution was taken up on dedication day and all arrearages were\\nthen paid. The first Trustees were Samuel M. Stephenson,\\nMiles Shephard, Thomas Murray, Edward L. Parmenter and\\nWilliam P. Newberry. The first pastor was Henry Loomis, Avho\\naccepted the pulpit for four months. The present Trustees are\\nSamuel M. Stephenson, Edward L. Parmenter, Salmon P. Sax-\\nton and Miles Shephard. The present pastor is Rev. A. W.\\nBill.\\nThe number of members when first organized was nine. The\\npresent number is seventy-three enrolled, eighteen of whom are\\nabsent from the county. The church for a long time was weak,\\nand without aid from those who were not members of any church,\\ncould not have been sustained, yet it has always received liberal\\nassistance, and has sustained steady preaching since that time.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0056.jp2"}, "57": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 55\\nTo illustrate their weakness and how churches were managed\\nhere, I must relate an incident One evening two or three\\nyears after the church was built, a friend said to me, come let s\\ngo down to the church meeting. Not feeling inclined to go,\\nne explained, saying that the time for which the preacher had\\nbeen employed was about out, that the church was somewhat in\\narrears, and a meeting was to be held, to see what could be done\\nabout it, and to see about employing a pastor for another year,\\nso I went with him and though not a member of the society, I\\nwas elected chairman of the meeting. There was but one mem-\\nber of the church present; the others being outsiders, though\\nmost of them were regular attendants at church.\\nThe business of the previous year was investigated aud some-\\nthing over sixty dollars found to be due from the society, which\\nwas raised on the spot. The question then came up about hiring\\na preacher, and it was proposed that the chairman should ap-\\npoint a committee to confer with the one then there (Rev. Pay-\\nson) and if he did not wish to stay, to employ some other one.\\nThere was one man present who had done more than any oth-\\ner one towards paying for building the church and supporting it\\nafter it was built, who was also a Trustee; though a moral man in\\nall other respects, he had an inveterate habit of swearing, and no\\ndoubt was often profane without knowing it. I immediately ap-\\npointed him chairman of the committee. As soon as he heard\\nhis name spoken in that connection, he jumped up, and object-\\ned, for, said he, By Mr. Chairman, you know I can t talk\\nit over with him n ithout swearing. This, of course, brought\\ndown the house I however told him that I did not consider\\nthat a good excuse, and if he did swear, perhaps the preacher\\nwould talk with him and assist him in breaking the habit. He\\ntook the position and a preacher was hired. This is the first time\\nthat I ever heard of non-members holding a church meeting, and\\ndoing business for the society even to the extent of hiring a\\npa.stor. It has not been repeated here, though the outsiders give\\nthe church a hearty support.\\nROMAN CATHOLIC CHURCH.\\nIn 1872 the Roman Catholics commenced the construction of\\na church which they comjjleicd in 1873.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0057.jp2"}, "58": {"fulltext": "56 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nThis is the largest church in the town and is in every respect\\na credit to the society.\\nThe persons who interested themselves in building this church\\nwere Thomas Breen, Bartley Breen, Edward Hatton, Joseph\\nGaron and Robert Pengilly, all of whom, except Thomas Breen,\\nwere the first Trustees. Father M. A. Fox was the first Priest\\nwho officiated in it. The present trustees are Bartley Breen,\\nGeorge Horvath, Moses Frechette, Joseph Garon and Edward\\nHatton. The present priest is Father Peter Menard.\\nGERMAN LUTHERAN CHURCH.\\nThe construction of this church vvas commenced in 1S73 J i^\\nwas completed in 1874.\\nThe members are all Germans and the services are usually con-\\nducted in that language. The church though not large is quite\\ntasty.\\nThe first officers of the society were George Harter, Brest.;\\nHenry Ammerman, Sec y Nicholas Gewehr, Treas., and C\\nToeppel, preacher, who still acts as pastor.\\nMETHODIST EPISCOPAL CHURCH.\\nIn 1874 Rev Richard Copp came here, having been sent to\\nestablish a society and erect a church.\\nHe found the people suffering from the effects of the financial\\npanic, and not able to respond as liberally as they had done in\\nsuch work previously-\\nNevertheless he began the work and found the people willing\\nto aid according to their means. He soon had a small snug\\nchurch up, and completed, ready for dedication.\\nOn dedication day enough money was raised, or nearly, by\\ncontribution, to pay off the balance due on the building. In\\nthe construction of it, he pulled off his coat and worked as hard\\nteaming lumber, c., as any man who works by the day. I\\nthink the secret of his success lay in this, for the people seeing\\nhis zeal in the cause, and that he did not spare himself in hard\\nwork, felt the more interested in his enterprise, and without\\ndoubt contributed more than they otherwise would have done.\\nThe Pastor was and still is Rev. Richard Copp. The present\\nnumber of members is 37, and nine probationers.\\nThere are no other churches in tne county. Those named\\nare all in the village of IMenominee.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0058.jp2"}, "59": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL IIISTQRV. 57\\nIn Marinette there is one of each denomination, the Catho-\\nlic, Presbyterian, Methodist and Scandinavian.\\nBENEVOLENT SOCIETIES.\\nThe first society of the kind instituted was the Menominee\\nLodge No. 269, F. A. M., which received its dispensation\\nfrom the Grand Lodge of Michigan August 9th, 1869. The\\nCharter members were WiUiam Somerville, P. W. M., Miles\\nShepard, P. W. iM., E. S. Ingalls, J- L. Buell, Dr. John Murphy,\\nJohn Hanley, S. P. Saxton, and E. Gilbert Jackson. The\\nfirst officers were, William Somerville, W. M iles Shepard,\\nS. W.; E. Gilbert Jackson, J. W.; S. P. Saxton, Treas.; John\\nMurphy, Secy.; C. B. Myers, S. D.; W. D. Gage, J, D.; John-\\nathan Barker, Tiler. The number of members when first or-\\nganized was 18, the present number is 50. The officers at pres-\\nent are, William Somerville, W. M.; J. R. Brooks, S. W.; Jo-\\nseph Flcshiem, J. W.; J. C.Sherman, Treas.; J. W. Bird, Secy.;\\nG. A. Woodford, S. U.; Albert Leonhard, J. D.; C. B. Knowl-\\nton. Tiler.\\nMENOMINEE LODGE NO. IT,/ 1. O. O. F.\\nWas instituted as a Lodge Oct. 15th, 1869, by dispensation\\nfrom the R. W. Cjrand Lodge, of Michigan. The charter was\\nreceived January 20th, 1870, from M. W. G. M., J. S. Curtis.\\ni he first elective officers were George Harter, N. G.; Clarence\\nRice. V, G.; Phillip Lowenstein, Sec y.; Robert McCullough,\\nTreas., who with George Reed were the charter members.\\nThe Lodge was installed by D. D. G, M., C. J. Bellows, of Es-\\ncanaba, Lodge No. 118, assisted by P. G., Jrtephen Goss. After\\nthe installation P. G., E. S. Ingalls was admitted and enrolled\\nas an ancient Odd Fellow, and John N. Theriault, Julius Ru-\\nl)recht, Theodore Lindner, William H. Jenkins and William\\nLehman were initiated and joined the Lodge then having\\neleven members. The present elective officers are Frank Seidel,\\nN. G.; Lewis Dobeas, V. G.; Phillip Lowenstein, Sec y.; Wolf-\\ngang Reindel, Treas.; 1). 1). G. M. Salmon P. Saxton. No. of\\nmembers at present 58. The lodge although yet young is the\\nparent of several lodges.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0059.jp2"}, "60": {"fulltext": "58 CENTENNIAL HIS JORY\\nAt the time this one was organized there was no lodge of the\\norder nearer than Green Bay city, Wisconsin, or Escanaba, in\\nthis state. By permission of the Grand I,odge of the respective\\nstates, members and candidates were allowed to join it, from\\nWisconsin, and many did join it from Marinette and Peshtigo.\\nWhen the membership became large enough the members from\\nMarinette withdrew, and established a lodge in that village. Af-\\nterwards those from Peshtigo withdrew and established a lodge\\nat home also. A lodge was also formed in Oconto, Wisconsin,\\nthe first members of which had been members of the lodtre in\\nMenominee.\\nSOCIETE ST. LOUIS DE SECOURS MUTUELS DE MENOMINEE,\\nThe first meeting for the organization of this lodge was held\\nSept. 22nd, 1873, in which the constitution of the French Societe\\nof Fond du l ac, Wisconsin, was received and accepted.\\nThe society was incorporated in the State of Michigan, Sept.\\n13th, 1874. The first officers elected were Theodolph Trudel,\\nPresl.; Louis J. Raiche, Treas. and George Allard, Sec y, On\\nthe 21st of Sept. 1874, the society was admitted into the Union\\nof the P ench Societe of the United States of America. The of-\\nficers for the present term are Joseph Bernheim, Prest.; L. J.\\nRaich, Vice-Prest.; Albert Pauli, Financial and Corresponding\\nSec y. The society at present has 88 members and the active\\ncash capital of the society is $462.39. This society, as will be^\\ninferred from its name, is composed of French speaking people.\\nIt has done much good; man who otherwise would have suffered\\nhave been relieved when they have met with accident, or been\\novertaken by sickness.\\nINDEPENDENT ORDER OF GOOD TEMPLARS.\\nA lodge of this order was established in 1870, and was in suc-\\ncessful operation for about three years. Its lodge room was\\nburned and it then became disorganized.\\nMENOMINEE IRON COMPANY.\\nThis Company was incorporated in 1872, the incorporators\\nwere H. J. Colwell, of Clarksburgh, Michigan, A. B. Meeker,\\nW. L. Brown, John H. Wrenn, of Chicago, 111., and Jerome T.\\nCase, of Racine, Wis. Morris R. Hunt, of Depere, Wis., was a\\nstockholder. The first officers were A. B. Meeker, Pres.; M. R.\\nHunt, Cashier; J. H. Wrenn, Sec y Treas.; Robert Jackson,", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0060.jp2"}, "61": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 59\\nSupt.; C. Sprong, Ass t. Supt. and Acc t. and Richartl Dundon^\\nFounder. The company commenced the construction of the\\nfurnace in October 1872, and went into blast Aug. 1873.\\nNotwithstanding the depression of the iron market\\nfollowing the panic of 1873, the furnace kas continued in\\nblast, only stopi)ing for repairs. Its average capacity with char-\\ncoal, made from pine slabs and other soft wood, is 20 tons of pfg\\niron per day. The furnace is situated on the bay shore, at the\\nnorth end of the village of Menom-inee It was erected under\\nthe superintendence of James White and cost $140,^000. The\\nl)resent officers are A. B. Meeker, Prest W. L Brown, Treas.;\\nM. R. Hunt, (;ash r., and Culbert Sprong, Sec and Supt.\\nTHE PENINSULA IRON AND LUMBER COMPANY\\nWas incorporated May 29th, 1876. Capital stock $500,000.\\nThe incorporators and stockholders are Samuel M. Nickerson,\\nHenry H. Porter, Augustus A. Carpenter, Samuel M. Stephen-\\nson and James B Goodman. The company owns 24,762 acres\\nof land. The ofificers are James I{. (loodman, Prest Samuel M.\\nStephenson. Vice-^^rest Samuel M. Nickerson, Treas. and Mar-\\nvin A Farr, Sec y.\\nKAILROADS.\\nThe Chicago Northwestern Railway Company for many\\nyears had contemplated extending its road to Lake Superior. Tiie\\nUnited States many year--- ago had made a grant of 8 sections of\\nland to the mile and the State of Michigan gave six sections of\\nland to the mile to aid in its construction, but it was not uiitU\\n187 I that work was begun between Gree.n Bay ci^y (Fort. How-\\nard) and Menominee, and in tiiat season the road was completed\\nto Menominee. In 1872 it was extended from .Menominee to\\nKscanaba, in Delta county, where it connected with the Penin-\\nsula Division of the Com])any s Railroad, which terminated at\\nNegaunee connet:ting with the Mar([uette, Houghton Onton-\\nagon Railroad\u00e2\u0080\u0094 this completed the line to Lake Superior. The\\nRailroad bridge across the Menominee was built in 1872. Tiie\\nline of their railroad was located somewhat with a view to the\\nopening of the mines in the .^^enominee Iron Range, being run\\nnorthcrl} from .^lenominee to a poiut twelve miles from the\\nBreen mine, the nearest known mine on the range, then turning\\nabruj)tly east to Escanaba.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0061.jp2"}, "62": {"fulltext": "6o CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nThe only man connected with Menominee interests who was\\ndirectly connected with this company was H. H Porter, who has\\nlabored hard in promoting the early completion of the road.\\nThis is the only railroad completed in the county.\\nDEER. CREEK AND MARBLE QUARRY RAILROAD\\nCompany was organized and incorporated in 1870 for the pur-\\npose of building a railroad from the Menominee Iron Range\\nand Marble Quarries to the shore of Green Bay at Deer Creek,\\nwhich is the nearest point on the shore from the mines where\\ndocks could be made, The officers were E. S. Ingalls, Prest.,\\nSalmon P. Saxton, Secretary, Miles Shepard, Treasurer. The\\nroad has not been constructed Another Company having been\\norganized for the purpose of constructing a railroad from the line\\nof the C. N. W. R. R. to the mines. The stock holders of\\nthis company have made application to the Circuit Court for an\\norder dissolving the Corporation.\\nTHE MENOMINEE RIVER RAILROAD COMPANY\\nWas incorporated in 1S75 purpose of the company being to\\nconstruct a railroad to the Menominee Iron Range, before al-\\nluded to. It is expected that the company will construct a rail-\\nroad from the C. N. W. R. R. to the mines this present season.\\nThis company has had a grant of land from the State of seven\\nsections to the mile, to be selected in Menominee and Delta\\ncounties, to aid in the construction of the road. The grant was\\nmade on the condition that ten miles of road should be con-\\nstructed within one year, which ended May 3d, 1S76, and ten\\nmiles each year thereafter but as the first ten miles has not been\\nbuilt, the act has become inoperative. It is intended to con-\\nstruct 26 miles this year to the Quinnesec mine, and it is be-\\nlieved that if the company shall do so the Legislature will renew\\nthe grant next winter.\\nSTEAMBOATS.\\nThe first steamboat that stopped at Menominee of which we\\nhave any record was the New York, which called here for\\nwood in 1836, on which was Daniel Wells, Jr., who has since\\nbeen so intimately connected with the mill interests of Menom-\\ninee. It is said Farnsworth Brush had just finished burning\\na pit of charcoal when the boat arrived, and the captain confis-\\ncated that with his other fuel. The steamer Fashion, run-", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0062.jp2"}, "63": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 6 1\\nning from Chicago to Green Bay, horn. 185 1 to 185-6, called at\\nthis port each way. The Columbia also came here in 1854,\\nand the old steamer Michigan occasionally stopped here, and\\nperhaps others that the old settlers do not remember. It was not\\nuntil 1856, or 1857 that boats began to run regularly to the\\nport of Menominee. The first among this class was the Morgan\\nL. Martin. a river boat brought from the Fox River, Wis.,\\nwhich ran from Green Bay city, to Menominee, two or three\\ntimes a week, but not very regularlv. Previous to that time the\\nmail and passengers were brought by a small open sloop called the\\nPolly. In 1857 the steamer Fannie Fisk, Capt (Daniel iM.\\nWhitney, master,) owned by Joel S. Fisk of Ft. Howard, Wis.,\\nwas put on the line from Green Bay to Menominee, and made\\nthree trips per week regularly. She continued on the line until\\nafter the rebellion broke out, during which she was taken up the\\nFox river, down the Wisconsin to the Mississippi, and down to\\nNew Orleans, where she was used as a government transport.\\nShe made one trip to Matamoras, in Texas, and on her return\\nwas sent up the Mississippi and Tennessee rivers, where, with\\nseveral others, she was burned by the rebels.\\nIn 1858 John B. Jacobs purchased and put upon the same line\\nthe steamer Queen City, running alternate days with the\\nsteamer Fannie Fisk this gave a daily boat from Green Bay\\nto Menominee. Jacobs continued to run her until he sold out\\nto the Green Bay and Menominee River Navigation Company.\\nIn the spring of 1866 the steamer Union, owned by Augustus\\nC. Brown and F.B.Gardiner, was put on the line. The Union\\nwas first built for a tug at Pensaukee by F. B. Gardner, in 1865,\\nand in 1866 was lengthened and fitted for a good sea boat. In\\n1867 she was sold to the Green Bay and Menominee River Navi-\\ngation Company this company being formed the same year.\\nThe incorporators were Isaac Stephenson, Samuel M Stephen-\\nson, Abner Kirby, Jesse Spalding, F. B. Gardner, William J.\\nFisk and Augustus C. Carpenter. The company continued to\\nrun the steamboats Union and Queen City until 1871. The\\nQueen City was sold and finally came into the hands of Capt.\\nTaylor and was burned in Green Bay, near Ford river, in the fall of\\n1875. The Union is still running from Green Bay to Efcanaba,\\nin charge of Ca])t. Thomas Hawley, who owns licr.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0063.jp2"}, "64": {"fulltext": "62 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nAfter the C. ii N. W. R. R was completed to Ft. Howard,\\nWis. (in 1 863), a company connected with that road put on a\\ndaily line of steamers, running from Ft. Howard to Escanaba,\\nstopping at Menominee each way. The first boats put on the\\nline were the Sarah Van Epps and Arrow. A new boat\\nbuilt by the company called George L. Dunlap was put on in\\n1864. The Sarah Van Epps, not giving satisfaction, was\\nsold, and the Saginaw put in her place in 1866. After the\\nrailroad was completed to the Menominee river the Saginaw\\nran only between Menominee and Escanaba, and was withdrawn\\naltogether when the road was completed to the latter place. In\\n1869 the Lady Franklin was put on the line as an independ-\\nent boat When these boats began running they could not get\\ninto the river on account of the sand bar at the mouth, and there\\nwere no docks on the shore. In 1868 the Kirby-Carpenter Com-\\npany built a dock, and the Saginaw and George L. Dunlap be-\\ngan stopping at it in 1869.\\nThe first tug owned on the river was the Bob Mills, which was\\nbought in Buffalo by the Kirby-Carpenter Company and brought\\nhere in 1868. The old Morgan L. Martin, after she had become\\ntoo old to trust to the rough seas of the Bay, was used as a tug.\\nIn 1869 George Coon and Andrew Stephenson built a tug which\\nthey named -Anr.ie Laurie, it being afterward owned by the\\nMenominee River Lumber Company. She was afterward sold\\nand has left the waters of Green Bay. In 1870 the Ludington,\\nWells Van Schaick Company bought the side-wheel tug, Mary\\nReed, which they used for towing for awhile, and then sold her to\\nparties in Saginaw. In 1872 the company bought the tug Bob\\nStephenson. In 1868 the N. Ludington Company bought the\\nside-wheel tug Isaac Stephenson, In i874 Isaac Stephenson and\\nS. M. Stephenson bought the tug Escanaba, and now own her.\\nPrevious to the purchase of the tugs the lumber of the various\\nmills was taken out to the vessels at anchor in scows, which were\\nhauled by men with lines made fast to the shore and to the ves-\\nsel that was to be loaded This was not only slow but very\\nlaborious and cold work, especially in the spring and fall, as the\\nlines had to be lifted from the water as they progressed. Until\\n1 87 1 nearly all the lumber made was shipped on sail vessels, and\\nit was not unusual to see twenty-five vessels at anchorage at one", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0064.jp2"}, "65": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 63\\ntime. In that year the Kirby-Carpenter Company purchased\\nthe propeller Favorite, a good sea boat, and barges that would\\nstow from 300,000 to 400,000 feet each. In 1873 the Menomi-\\nnee River Lumber C:ompany, H. Whitbeck Company, and N..\\nLudington Company bought a propeller, ihe Bismark, and six\\nbarges, with capacity for storing 3,000.000 feet of lumber. Now\\nnearly all the lumber from Menominee is transported to Chica-o\\nby steam. The Bismark is commanded by Capt. Joseph Po\\nrett.\\nSince 1869 the Goodrich Company of Chicago, who had a\\nline of propellers running from that place to Green Bay City,\\nhave had their boats stop regularly at Menominee. The propel-\\nlers Truesdell and St Joseph were the fust boats of their line\\nthat called here. The Oconto was afterwards put in the place of\\nthe St. Jpseph. and this year the Menominee takes the place ot\\nthe Oconto. The Menominee is of 800 tons burden, and one of\\nthe best propellers on the Lakes. Each boat makes two calls\\nhere every week, making a semi-weekly line by propellers from\\nthis point to Chicago, besides the trips of the Favorite and Bis-\\nmark. In 1869 Robert O Neil built a small steamer to be used\\nas a Ferry boat and to run around the Bay in good weather.\\nShe was called Kitty 0,Neil, and is still on the river.\\nThe only large vessel which has been built at Menominee is\\nthe scow Menominee, built by Abner Kirby, in 1S66 or 7,\\nwhich is still in use on the Lakes.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0065.jp2"}, "66": {"fulltext": "CHAFER VIII.\\nFARMS.\\nAs before statecl, the first farms opened were at Wausaukee\\nBend and at Chappee s Rapids, by the late John G. Kittson.\\nThe whole county is covered with dense forests of pine, hemlock,\\nbeech, basswood, maple, and other trees indigenous to a north-\\nern climate, with swamps covered with white cedar and tamerac\\ntrees. All of the beech and maple lands, and cedar swamps,\\nwhen cleared, become good farming lands; the cedar swamps\\nwhen drained being the best.\\nFor many years after the settlement was formed in the county\\nit was thought that farming could not be made profitable, and\\nthe main business carried on was fur trading, lumbering and\\nfishing. About 1855 several German families, among whom was\\nWilliam Hackerman, Henry Bade. Sr., Frederic and Henry Sie-\\nman; afterwards Xavier Algeyer and others, came and took up\\nand began to clear farms at what has since been known as the\\nBirch Creek settlement, about seven miles from Menominee.\\nThey settled upon Beech and maple lands, and now have large\\nfarms. The great fire of 1871 swept through the settlement, de-\\nstroying everything in its course, and many lives but nothing\\ndaunted, the survivors commenced again the next spring, fenced\\ntheir fields, and now have good buildings and larger clearings.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0066.jp2"}, "67": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 65\\nThe railroad runs through the settlement.\\nIn 1858 Thomas Caldwell commenced clearing a farm on the\\nLittle Cedar river, a branch of the Menominee, twenty miles\\nabove the mouth and cleared about forty acres.\\nA year or two before that Jessee L. Hamilton commenced\\nclearing a farm at the mouth of the Little Cedar, on the bank\\nof the Menominee, at the foot of the Grand Rapids. He clear-\\ned a large farm which Patrick Devine and his son bought and\\nlived on until the present year.\\nIn 1866 the Hamilton Merryman Company commenced\\nclearing a farm fifty-six miles up the river with a view of supply-\\ning their logging camps, and thus save the expenoC of transporting\\nhay and root crops. Their principal crop has been hay, oats,\\npotatoes and other roots. The company now has one hundred\\nand twenty acres cleared. The value of the crop raised last year\\non the farm is ^1800,\\nAdjoining the Hamilton Merryman Company s farm the\\nKirby-Carpenter Company has a farm with 230 acres cleared\\nthe value of the products of this farm for 1875 $4600. The\\ncrops were hay potatoes, turnips, cabbage and a small amount\\nof winter wheat as an experiment. Thomas Murray has charge\\nof the farm.\\nAbout one mile from these farms the H. Witbeck Company\\nhas a farm which was commenced in 1868 and now has 200 acres\\ncleared. The crop last year was 140 tons liay worth at the farm\\n$20 per ton, 1500 bushels potatoes worth 25 cents per bushel.\\nThe oat croj) was cut for hay.\\nAdjoining this farm the Ludington, Wells Van Schaick\\nCompany has a farm with 100 acres cleared; the value of the\\ncrops for last year was $1586. This company has two other\\nfarms, one at the Relay House, 25 miles from Menominee vil-\\nlage, with 120 acres cleared value of crops 1875, $1210, and\\none at Pike River, on the Wisconsin side, with 40 acres cleared.\\nAt the mouth of the Sturgeon river the .Menominee River Lum-\\nber Company has a farm. The clearing on this farm was com-\\nmenced in 1866 there are now loo acres cleared. The crops\\nraised are principally hay, oats and potatoes. The estimated\\nvalue of the crops at the farm for 1875 was $5,000.\\nAll crops on these farnis have a greater value than the}- would", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0067.jp2"}, "68": {"fulltext": "66 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nhave in the village of Menominee for they save transportation of\\ntheir products a great distance. The farms are also used as slop-\\ning places for the men and teams, going to and returning from.\\nthe logging camps in the winter.\\nThe Kirby-Carpenter Company has also three other farms be-\\ntween Menominee village and the farm mentioned. One, called\\nthe 9-mile farm; has 95 acres cleared; the total value of the pro-\\nduce of 1875 is $2325 One at the mouth of Pike river, in Wis-\\nconsin, has 18 acres cleared total value of product of 1875,\\n^1170 Also one at the Grand Rapids with 4o acres cleared\\ntotal value of products of 1875 ^885. Some of the crops suffered\\nfrom grasshoppers last year, which reduced the yield to less than\\naverage.\\nH. Witbeck Company has one other farm.\\nThe N. Ludington Company has a farm situated on the Me-\\nnominee, near Pemina creek. This is a large farm but I have not\\nthe statistics.\\nWilliam Holmes and George Henderson have opened a farm\\non the Sturgeon River in Town 40, N. R. 28, W., which is the\\nfarthest in the interior of any farm yet cleared.\\nSince the building of the railroad many farms have begun to\\nbe cleared along it and also in other parts of the county, but\\nspace forbids that I should make particular mention of them here.\\nThe principal products of the farms are hay, oats and potatoes^\\nbut other grains and roots will grow and mature well. In time\\nthe county will be a great dairy and sheep-raising district. All\\nthe cultivated grasses grow well and the soil and climate i? par-\\nticularly adapted to growing root crops.\\nFISHING\\nHas been a prominent business at Menominee and along the bay\\nshore since the first settlement. The fish caught for market are\\nwhite fish, lake trout and dory (a species of Pike.) Besides\\nthese the waters abound with sturgeon, bass, perch, suckers and\\npickerel, of eatable varieties,and several varieties that are worth-\\nless. The small inland streams contain an abundance of brook\\ntrout. In 1S74, 6,000 young salmon were deposited in the Me-\\nnominee river by the fish commissioners. None have been\\ncaught so it is not known whether or not they lived, though N.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0068.jp2"}, "69": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 67\\nR. Soule says tliat he has this season seen fish jumping out of the\\nwater on ihc Grand Ra|jids, that had the appearance and action\\nof sahiion.\\nCHAPTER IX.\\nNEWSPAPERS.\\nThe first newspaper published at Menominee, or about the\\nMenominee river, was The Herald, the first number of which\\nwas issued Sept. 10, 1863. E. S. Ingalls, editor and proprietor.\\nIt was Republican in politics. In 1866 7 Jesse Spalding, of\\nthe Menekaune mill, I. Stephenson, of the N. lAidington Corn-\\npan)-, the Kirby, Carpenter Company, the R. Stephenson Com-\\n])any and myself each put in ^200 and many of the other citizens\\nsums from $1 to ^50 each, and a press and type and other outfit\\nfor a printing office were bouglit. Andrew R. Bradbury came\\nhere and took charge of the paper, the purchasers allowing him\\nto take the property without interest, and pay for it as he could.\\nHe conducted the pajjcr until January 187 1, when he sold out to\\nJames A. (^rozer, who, in 1874, sold it to Dudley S. Crandall,\\nwho conducted it one \\\\ear and sold back to Oo/.er, who is now\\nits editor and publisher.\\nY\\\\\\\\ t Lumberman a/iii Mi/ier \\\\V3 established by a company\\nof wliom the most prominent were John L. Buell, Ceorge", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0069.jp2"}, "70": {"fulltext": "68 CENTENNIAL HIS J ORY.\\nHarter, Phillip Lowenstein, William H. Jenkins and Joseph\\nJuttner. They bought a press and materials in 1873 and pro-\\ncured A. R Bradbury to take charge of it, who conducted it\\nfor a short time when John L. McLaughlin took charge. In Jan.\\nof 1876, John L. Buell took the prsss and materials and began\\nprinting the Menominee Joiirnal, which he is still publishing.\\nCHAPTER X.\\nMENOMINEE IRON RANGE.\\nThe Breen mine was discovered in 1866 by Bartley and Thom-\\nas Breen. In 1872 the Breen mining company was incorporated\\nwith a capital stock of ^500,000. The company owns the Breen\\nmine containing 120 acres of land. The original stockholders\\nwere Eleazer S. Ingalls, Salmon P. Saxton, Bartley Breen, Thomas\\nBreen, and afterwards Seth C. Perry. The first officers were E.\\nS. Ingalls, Brest.; Thomas B. Rice, Sec y; Salmon P.\\nSaxton, Treas. The officers at present are E. S. Ingalls, Prest.;\\nThomas Breen, Treas,; Salmon P. Saxton, Sec y. Directors\\nE. S. Ingalls, Bartley Breen, Thomas Breen, S. P. Saxton and\\nOscar M. Saxton.\\nIn 1873 the Ingalls mining company was incorporated. The", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0070.jp2"}, "71": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 69\\ncompany owns tiie Ingalls mine including 240 acres of land. The\\ncapital ^tock was made $500,000. The first ofificers were E. S.\\nIngalls, Prest,; Andrew J, Easton, Vice-Prest.; Franklin S. Mill-\\nbury, Treas.; Charles L. Ingalls, Sec y. The directors were E. S.\\nIngalls, Andrew J. Easton and F. S. Millbury. The present officers\\nare E. S. Ingalls, Prest; Franklin S. Millbury, Sec y.; A. J.\\nEaston, Treas., and the same directors. The mine owned by\\nthis company is believed to be fully as valuable as any mine in the\\nMenominee Iron Ranges. No other company is known to be in-\\ncorporated owning mines in these ranges.\\nThe Quinesec mine was discovered by Jchn L. Euell, in Aug-\\nust, 1873. The Quinesec mine, under the superintendence of\\nMr. Buell, has been well tested and the richness of the ore and\\nvalue of the mine determined past a doubt. There are many\\nother mines in the Menominee district not yet named. When\\nthe Menominee ranges shall be opened by railroad they bid fair\\nto become the most valuable iron districts in the United States,\\nCHAPTER XI.\\nSECOND CLASS OF OLD SETTLERS.\\nAlexander Loughry came to Menominee in 1842 Jacob Kern\\nin i846; John Brecn, Adolph Wilson, Daniel Corry, Morris\\nHanly, in 1849; Thomas, Bartley, James. Daniel and Michael\\nBreen, and tneir mother; John Corry and his sister, Catherine\\nLouis Hardwick, Josiah R. Brooks and his father, Nathaniel, in\\n1850. Daniel Breen was killed in i860 while breaking a jam on", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0071.jp2"}, "72": {"fulltext": "JO CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nthe Little Cedar River by the logs rolling over him. George\\nW. Lovejoy came in 1851, Gilbert iMoreau in 1852, John N,\\nTheriault in 1853, Nicholas Gewehr, Kenry Newberry and Wil-\\nliam P. his son came in 1854. Henry Newberry built the first\\nhouse in the village of Menominee after those of Andrus Eve-\\nland and John Quimby. He perished in the great woods fire of\\n1S71, being then on his farm at Peshtigo Sugar Bush. John\\nHanley, Daniel Nason, Alanson F. Lyon, William G. Boswell,\\nWilliam Hackerman, Henry Bade, Sr. and family. Frederick\\nand Henry Sieman came in 1855 Samuel W, Abbott, Henry\\nNason, Andrew Mclver and Albert W. Boswell in 1856. Thom-\\nas Caldwell in 1857 Leon Cota, Frank Eggert and Lewis Do-\\nbeas in 1861 William Lehman in 1862. Jacob Johnson came\\n.as early as 1849 lived here several years. He now resides on\\na farm at Peshtigo Sugar Bush.\\nLAWYERS.\\nThe writer is the first lawyer who settled in the county. He\\ncame to the Menominee river in 1859 and to the Michigan side\\nin 1S62. The next was Thomas B. Rice who came in the spring\\n1871. He is now Probate Judge* Benjamin J, Brown came to\\nMenominee in 1873 from Saginaw, Michigan, William A,\\nFranklin came here in March 1876.\\nBRICK BUILDINGS.\\nThe first brick dwelling erected was the residence of S. M,\\nStephenson, which has once been burned and rebuilt. Augustus\\nA. Spies has lately completed another such residence. The first\\nbrick store erected was by Augustus A. Spies and Harlan P. Bird,\\n\u00e2\u0099\u00a6which was built in 1872, at a cost of $12,000.\\nFIRE ENGINES.\\nIn 1872 Engine No. i, a hand engine, was bought. About the\\nsame time the Kirby, Carpenter Company bought another, but\\nthese being insufficient an Amoskeag (N. H.) steam engine was\\nbought in 1874. The first officers of Engine No. i, were George\\nHarter, Foreman Henry Nason, First Assistant John J. Far-\\nrier, Second Assistant Augustus Spies, Treas.; Edward Leake,\\nSecy.; Charles E. Aiken, Assistant Sec y.\\nThe present officers are Henry Nason, Foreman, Pascal Perket,\\nist Assistant; Philip Harter, 2d Assistant, Albert Pauli, Sec y;\\nJoseph Wanek, Treas.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0072.jp2"}, "73": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 7 1\\nThe officers of No. 2 (steamer) are Robert Stephenson, Capt.;\\nJ. C. Sherman, ist Assistant; Harlan P. Bird, 2d Assistant;\\nJoseph Fleshiem, Secy; Wm. H. Jenkins. Treas.; Louis Gram,\\nChief Engineer; Nelson Gram, 2d Engineer. Edward Bent-\\nhouse and Nelson Gram have charge of the Engine and horses.\\nTHE HARBOR.\\nAn appropriation of $16,000 was made, which was used up in\\nsurveys; afterward an appropriation of $25 000 was made and\\nin 1874 the work of driving piles and building breakwaters was\\ncommenced. The channel of the river is wide but is obstruct-\\ned by a bar of sand running across the mouth. Other appro-\\npriations have since been made ar.d the work has progressed each\\nyear. Although the Harbor is not completed the ordinary sized\\n.vessels come in to load.\\nTHE MENOMINEE RIVER MANUFACTURING COMPANY\\nWas incorporated 1866, The incorporators were Jesse Spald-\\ning, Harrison Ludington, Nelson Ludington, Daniel Wells Jr.,\\nAbner Kirby, S M. Stephenson, Isaac Stephenson, Robert\\nStephenson. W. O. Carpenter, Truman Woodford, Ely Wright\\nand R. L. Hall, who were constituted the first board of direct-\\nors. The first officers were Harrison Ludington. Brest.; Isaac\\nStephenson, Vice-Prest.; Agustus C. Brown, Sec y and Treas.\\nThe first meeting for the election of officers w.is held at the\\nstore of N. Ludington Company in Marinette, Feb. 15th 1867.\\nThe company immediately constructed a dam across the river\\nat the head of the rapids, to set the water back and create a\\npond to hold the logs. They have since built another across the\\nriver where the old Dr, Hall mill stood, and a wing dam below\\nthat. The company has also put in a large number of piers and\\nbooms, and have now completed arrangements for holding and\\ndividing the logs, In 1875 there passed through the dividing\\nbooms 602,285 logs, amounting 112,056,280 feet of lumber\\nboard measure. The largest amount that has passed through the\\nbooms in one year is 142,917,228 feet (in 1872). The present\\nofficers are H. Ludington, Brest.; I, Stephenson, Vice-President;\\nC harles J. Ellis Sec y and Treasurei^. The Board of Directors\\nare Harrison Ludington, I. Stephenson, F. Carney, A. C Mer-\\nriman, S. M. Stephenson, and Jesse Spalding.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0073.jp2"}, "74": {"fulltext": "72 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nGILMORE MILL,\\nAt the mouth of the Menominee, on the point between the river\\nand bay shore, was built in 1867, by Charles H. Spafford, of\\nRockford, 111., and William Gilmore.\\nCHAPTER XII.\\nOUR SOLDIERS.\\nIt is proper before these sketches are closed to pay a tribute of\\nrespect to our soldiers. The space allowed will not admit of\\nan account of the many brave acts performed by them in our\\nlate war. Michigan received but little credit for the men who\\nwent from this section, as Menominee county was not organized\\nat the breaking out of the rebellion, and our men rushed to oth-\\ner localities where they could volunteer. The greater number of\\nthem joined Wisconsi.u regiments, yet, while other states receive\\nthe glory of their heroic deeds, Michigan is proud of them.\\nWant of space compels me to merely mention the name and reg-\\niment of those who went from or now live in Menominee county:\\nJohn Devine, Charles Ackerman, John Ackley, Lieut. Dean\\nRing, iSthU. S. Reg.\\nLieut. Octave Tetroit, Gilbert Moreau, John Chappee, John\\nKittson, (killed in Sherman s March to the Sea,) 17th Wis. Vol.\\nSeargent George H. Kittson, Alfred Beach, Peter Durocha,", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0074.jp2"}, "75": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nJoseph De Goto, Jerome De Goto, Frank Levine, Louis I.a\\nPlant, Wapenipinas (the Beaver), Louis Secor, Henry Levine,\\nAlexander Premo, Peousha Monetakakino, Odillon Benoit, Paul\\nAppetanacjuel, Michael Mulharon, Gustaff G. Miller, Go. G. 23d\\nMich. Vol.\\nSeargt. Bartly Breen, Thomas Breen, (wounded at the battle of\\nGumberland lost one eye,] John N. Theriault, [three months\\nin Libby prison,] James Reo, Joseph Bart Shevelere, Seargent\\nFrederick Hackerman. John Farley, Patrick Grone, George Glark,\\n[in prison at Andersonville, and after being exchanged died in\\nhospital at Annapolis, Md.,] Frank Dousey, Michael Wall, Pat-\\nrick Ennis, Jerry Daily, Ganute Ganuteson, Thomas Gaynor,\\nWilliam Enright, Nicholas Grosman rdied in Richmond prison],\\nJohn Davis, Michael Mclver, nth Wis. Bat. [at first a part of\\nthe Mulligan Brigade, afterwards attached to the ist 111. Light\\nArtillery].\\nJames Newman (killed at Fort Hudson, La.-), Patrick Timlin,\\nWillard Ebbs, John Bebo, Octave Flasure (leg shot off at Fort\\nHudson, La.)\u00e2\u0080\u0094 Go. H. 4th Wis. Vol.\\nSamuel G. Hayward, William Martin, Jack McGlemans, Wm.\\nHamilton, Sergt. John Avery, (at battle of Shiloh,the Gapt. and ist\\nLieut, were scared and went to the rear at the commencement of\\nbattle; the 2nd Lieut, was wounded, and he as Orderly Seargent\\ntook command of the company which fought with grea\u00c2\u00ab. bravery\\nthrough the day and captured one of the enemies batteries. It\\nis believed that he killed the rebel Gen. Johnson afterwards in\\nan attack on Petersburgh, while in another regiment, he lost an\\narm and died from the wound in hospital) Go. F. 14th, Wis.\\nVol.\\nWilliam Hooper, John Ham, 16 U. S.Reg.; John Mclvers,\\nU. S. Reg.; (regiment not known) Andrew J. Easton, James G.\\nSherman, Lorenzo Richardson, Albert Lyons (lost an arm at\\nAtlanta and died in hospital) Michael Mellen, Edward Leake\\n(wounded and still carries a bullet in his head) Terrance Gassidy,\\nArchibald Goodlet, Daniel Nason, Daniel Bundy, Lieut. Harlan\\nP. Bird (wounded) Alexander McGollom (died in the service)\\nLouis Brown, George T. Pease (wounded at Atlanta) Louis\\nGhai)pee, Alexander Loughery (horse Alleck) Alexander Patton,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Go. F. 12, Wis. Vol.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0075.jp2"}, "76": {"fulltext": "74 CENTENNIAL HIS JORV.\\nAlexander Loughrey, Thomas Davy io6 N. Y. Vol.\\nRichard Dousy 4th Ky. Cavalry.\\nFrederick Brandizer (was in Andersonville prison) Ferdinand\\nGable (killed at battle ot Mill Springs, Ky.) Timothy O Leary,\\nConrad Arnold 21 111. Vol. (Grant s regiment.;\\nGoodlet Goodletson (regiment not known) John Westfaldt\\n(brought home more rebel lead than any other one soldier, one\\nbullet passed through the body besides receiving 16 other wounds\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094Co. D. 3d Wis. Vol.\\nJames Lyons 3d Wis. cavalry (was present at the capture of\\nJeff. Davis)\\nTOWN LIBRARY.\\nIn 1872 the town of Menominee began to form a town library.\\nIt now contains about 1200 volumes.\\nCHAPTER XIII.\\nTHE GREAT WOODS FIRE.\\nTlie summer of 187 1 was very dry no rain fell after June un-\\ntil in October. The streams were nearly dried up the swamps\\nwere entirely dry, and where in the latter, water could usually be\\nfound on the surface, it became necessary to dig many feet to find\\nit. Almost all the swamps were filled with peat. The ground in\\nthe woods was covered many inches in depth with dead leaves,\\nand other decaying vegetable substance, which had become as\\ndry as tinder many fires had broken out which had not extend\\nover a great area of country, and as similar fires had been seen in\\nI864, no apprehensions were felt of any serious calamity. On\\nthe evening of October 8th the fires started up afresh a few miles\\nnorth of Oconto, Wis. The wind from the southwest freshened", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0076.jp2"}, "77": {"fulltext": "CENTENNIAL HISTORY. 75\\ndriving the fires in this direction and by dark had become a\\ntornado. The fires spread as the wind arose until they united\\nand had acquired a breadth of from ten to twelve miles, and raged\\nalong through the woods, sweeping through the Peshtigo Sugar\\nBushes, in which were forming settlements, and over the farms,\\nleaving only charred ruins and ashes, and dead bodies of human\\nbeings and animals reachnig the village of Peshtigo about eight\\no clock m the evening. By nine o clock thatvillage was in ashes\\nand hundreds of men, women and children, who at dark of that\\nday were unconscious of danger and in the enjoyment of happy\\nlife, were in eternity and nothing remained but their charred\\nbodies, crashes. By half-past nine the fire had reached the Me-\\nnominee river, above and below the village of Marinette fortu-\\nnately for that village, and the survivors having divided about\\ntwo miles before reaching it; on the east, it swept through the,\\nvillage of Menekaune, blotting it out of existence and crossed the\\nriver at the mouth, burning the Gilinore mill on the Menominee\\nside. On the west it crossed the Menominee river above the\\nrapids sweeping along until it struck the bay shore about one\\nmile north of the village of iMenominee, burning a path ten miles\\nwide for about sixteen miles north of Menominee. It also cross-\\ned the river at the mill of the Ludington, Wells Van Schaick\\nCompany and passed up the flat through the village. This flat\\nwas then a swamp covered by grass with but kw buildings on it,\\nand with streets on each side. By almost superhuman efforts the\\nfire was prevented from spreading to tlie buildings on eitherside.\\nThe ne.xt morning parties started out in various directions to\\nbring in the wounded and burned hospitals were established\\nand before night nearly all were brought in. The second day\\nparties went out to search for and bury the dead. The telegraph\\nline was destroyed so that word cjuhl not be sent to Green Bay\\ncity, and the next day after the fire it was thought necessar) to\\nkeep our steamboats to take away the people in case the fire\\nsh( uld revive and burn the villages of Menominee and Marinette.\\nThe night of the 9th the steamers left and carried the fearful\\nnews to Green Bay city, anil returned the next day freighted\\nwith i)rovisions and necessaries for the burnt sufferers, which\\nwere collectetl by the people there n a few hours. From Green\\nBay the telegraph quickly conveyed the sorrowfiil news in all di-", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0077.jp2"}, "78": {"fulltext": "76 CENTENNIAL HISTORY.\\nrections, and it was not long before food and clothing were com-\\ning from all parts of the country. The fire in its course swept\\nover an area of over 40 miles in length by 10 in width, in about\\nfour hours, and it is estimated that about 1200 persons perished\\nin it. The actual number burned to death in Menominee coun-\\nty was 28, but many were burned and otherwise injured who\\nhave since died. The space allowed me will not admit of my\\nmentioning the many acts of self-sacrificing generosity witness-\\ned here. If a person loses his faith in our common brotherhood\\nof man, he need to be but once in the midst of such a calamity\\nto regain it.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0078.jp2"}, "79": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN I 876.\\nR. Hunt, Prest., JAM^s Fraser, Cashier.\\nMENOMINEE BANK,\\nMENOMINEE, MICHIGAN.\\nForeign and Domestic Exchange for sale at low rates. Collec-\\ntions made and prom[)tly remitted for on day of payment less\\ncurrent rates of Exchange.\\nPASSAGE TICKETS FOR SALE\\nTo and from all parts of Europe by first class Lines of Steamers,\\nParties wishing to forward money to the old country, or who\\nmay desire to bring out their friends, will find it to their ad-\\nvantage to purchase Drafts or Tickets at this Bank.\\nGREEN BAY LINE!\\nTHE A I UPPER CABIN STEAMERS,\\nMenominee and Truesdell,\\nVvTLL FORM A SEMI-WEEKLY LLNE BETWEEN\\nCHICAGO AND MEI\\\\OMINEE,\\nEvery Tuesday and Friday F.venings, at 7:00 o clock: Arrive\\nat iNlenominee every Thursday and Sunday.\\nFor CHICAGO every Tuesday and Saturday morning.\\nFare from Chicago to Menominee and other Green Bav ports.\\nMeals and Births included, $6.00. Through rates very much\\nless than by Railroad to Green Bay.\\nFor information relative to freight or passage, apply to,\\nJ C. SHERMAN, Agent, A. E. GOODEICH, Prest,\\nMenominee. Chicago.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0079.jp2"}, "80": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN 1 8 76.\\nThe Working Man s Store, The Hotel Keeper s Store,\\nThe Contractor s Store, The Teamsters Store.\\nTHE PEOPLE S STOEE\\nH. P. BIRD,\\nDealer in\\nV^v,v, .o.. V,\\\\vvV\\nWXM.\\n.Y.A\\\\ A^\\\\ V^WW \\\\\\\\A\\\\\\\\\\\\N\\nAND PROVISIONS,\\nHAY, GRAIN, FLOUR, FEED,\\n\u00e2\u0080\u0094AND ALL KINDS OF\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nFARM PRODUCE,\\nCedar Posts, Shingles, Brick, Wood,\\nFRESH AND SALT\\nI^AKH HBHs\\nOur motto is to Give the Most Good Goods for the\\nLeast Money, and\\nWE ARE NEVER UNDERSOLD,\\nWith large stock, and by fair dealing we have sold over $100,-\\n000 in merchandise EACH YEAR, and hope to do better this\\nCentennial Year.\\nCor. Ludington and Main Sts, Menominee, Mich.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0080.jp2"}, "81": {"fulltext": "BUSINES.^ FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN I 8 76.\\nii^ W 0\\\\\\n\\\\\\\\V\\\\;.\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\v \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\v\\\\A\\\\\\\\v ^Tv^\\nWm^\\near?\\na^ma^iESi:\\nmm:mM)M^,.\\nBim\\n^^^-^s^m^jm^\\nAll work done in first-class style.\\nShop in Menominee House, Menominee, Mich.\\nJ. D. CRAWFORD,\\nmil\\nm\\n^^55^! V^^N^M \\\\^w!^\\\\!?^^p\\nOffice Parmenter s Block,\\nMain street, Menominee Mich.\\nARTHUR ALLARD,\\n-DEALER IN\\ni#i\\nPiSl\\nDHft\\nf\\nFine Custom Work a Specialty\\nLUDINGTON STREET,\\nMENOMINEE. MICK.\\nPHILIP LOWKNSTEIN,\\nWholesale and Retail Dealer in\\nWines and Liquors,\\nChoice Brands of Cigars.\\nMenominee,\\nMichitran.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0081.jp2"}, "82": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN 1 876.\\nA. A. Carpenter, Prest.\\nS, M. Stephenson, Vice-Prest-\\nThe Kirby-Carpenter Co.,\\n-Manufacturers of-\\nGREEN BAY\\nGang-Sav/ed\\n^Tgll^\\n^^W ^A^^^ ^^^W^^^^ W\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ s A-^ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\v\\\\\\\\A .^\\\\^v\\\\\\\\\\\\\\nSawing Capacity, 50,000,000 feet.\\nLumber Yard, Cor. 2 2d Loomis Streets,\\nCHICAGO,\\nILL.\\nALSO WHOLESALE RETAIL DEALERS IN\\nS\\\\v \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\AV\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\^ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\0\\nmmm.\\nGroceries, Hardware, Tinware,\\nGENTLEMEN S FURNISHING GOODS,\\nBoots ani Shoes, Yankee Motions, ^c. ^c.\\nBUILDING MATERIAL.\\nThe most Extensive Establishment; the Largest and best assort-\\ned stock of Goods on the Bay Shore.\\nMenominee,\\nMich,", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0082.jp2"}, "83": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN I 876.\\nE. S. INGAIXS, W. A. FRANKLIN.\\nINGALLS FRANKLIN,\\nATTORNEYS AT LAW.\\nMENOMINEE, MICHIGAN.\\nOffice on Main Street, near Ogden Avenue.\\n\u00e2\u0080\u00a2Attorney at Lavv^,\\nMENOMINEE, MICHIGAN,\\nOffice in Brown s Block, cor. Main and Quimby streets.\\nT\\\\^RICEy\\nATTORNEY AT LAW,\\nAlso Proliale Jiidp M U. S. Coinmlsslouer.\\nOffice in Post Office Blocic, Main st. Menominee, Mich.\\nJOSEPH FLESHIEM,\\nCountj Clerk and EoglstQi of DeedSj\\nOffice in Court House, Menominee, Midi.\\nAESTEACTS OF TITLE FUHNISHED ON APPLICATION,\\nTAXE.S PAID FOR NON-RESIDENTS.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0083.jp2"}, "84": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN 1 8 76.\\nDAVID BARCLAY,\\nProprietor of\\nCity Livery Boarding Stable\\nOffice and Stable on Quimby Street, near Kirby House.\\nMenominee, Mich,\\nHARTER DILLON,\\nManufacturers of and Dealers in\\nOIF- JLXjXj iCIHisriDS-\\nf\\nCustom Work a specialty. Repairing neatly Executed.\\nMENOMINEE, MICHIGAN.\\nHIGHEST MARKET PRICE PAID FOR FORS AND BUCKSKIN.\\nDEALER IN-\\nForeign Domestic Fruits,\\nCONFECTIONERY,\\nVegetables, Groceries, 8c Provasions.\\nMenominee, Michigan.\\nLEISEN HENES,\\nManf rs of and Dealers in\\nLAGER BEER\\nSODA WATER, ROOT BEER, GINCxER ALE, c.\\nBrewery and office on Main Street. Menominee Mich.\\nIlll", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0084.jp2"}, "85": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN I 876.\\nWm. somerville,\\nAND ACTING AGENT\\nFor the old and reliable Cunard Royal Mail Steamship Line.\\nJOHN J. FARRIER,\\n-DEALER IN\\nBOOTS AND SHOES,\\nBUYS FURS AND BUCKSKIN.\\nMenominee, Mich.\\nWM. L E H M A N\\nMENOMINEE\\nWagon and Blacksmitli Shop,\\nI HE F[RST SHOP ON THE RIVER.\\nIs prL-])ar(l to build Carriages, Buggies, Buckboards and Wag-\\nons in the best manner, and at reasonable rates.\\nA. B. STRYKER,\\nManufacturer of\\n-\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^UM^X^\\nAnd wholesale and retail dealer in\\nCHEWING AND SMOKING TOBACCO. PIPES, c.\\nParmcnter Hlnck, Main st., Menominee, Mich.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0085.jp2"}, "86": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN I 876.\\nIlMnisiiii Liiilington, Pros Jlilwniikoo. A. Van Scliaick, Sec. and Treas. at riiiciign.\\nDaniel Wells, Vice Pros., Jlihvaukoe, 11. Stephenson, Snperintentlent, Menominee.\\nThe Liidington, Wells Van Schaick Co.\\nManufacturers of and Dealers in\\nLUMBER.\\nMills in Menominee, Yards in Chicago.\\nCUT IN 1876 30,000,000 FEET.\\nGeneral Merchandise,\\nHaving enjoyed the rei)iitatiori of being\\nThe Cheapest Store on the River,\\nfor some time past, it has become so natural to us that we ])ro-\\npose to hold it until the next Centennial at least.\\nSMALL PROFITS AND QUICK SALES.\\nIS OTJE, DVCOTTO.\\nMenominee, Michigan.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0086.jp2"}, "87": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN 1 8 76.\\nJ. N. THERIAULT S\\nGrocery Provision\\nWe have Just received and have constantly on hand a full and\\ncomplete assortment of\\nIBSOHBIH\\nCAREFULLY SELECTED.\\nButter, Flour, Sugar, Tea, c.\\nDRIED A, CANNED FRUITS,\\nCANDIES AND NUTS,\\nChoice Cigars and Tobacco,\\nFRUITS AND VEGETABLES\\nin their season, which we will sell at\\nTHE LOWEST MARKET RATES.\\nMenominee, Mich,", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0087.jp2"}, "88": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN 1 8 76.\\nBUY YOUR DRY GOODS\\nOF\\nWe are offering a choice and complete assortment\\nin Staple and Fancy\\nHOSIERY NOTIONS,\\nat prices that will be found as low as elsewhere.\\nWhite uoo^s, Clullts, Napkins, Tabb Linsn, Towsls, Embroid-\\neries, Ties, Euchings, Collars, Cuffs, c.\\nParmenter Block, Main st., Menominee, Mich.\\nJACOB MUTH,\\nWatchmaker and Jeweler,\\nDealer in\\nWATCHES, CLOCKS, FINE JEWELRY,\\nMenominee, Michigan.\\nJACOB MUTH S\\nGERMAN BANK,\\nDrafts Cashed at Reasonable rates.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0088.jp2"}, "89": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN I 8 76.\\nH. E. EVANS,\\n\u00e2\u0096\u00a0^ju\u00e2\u0080\u0094irf\\nSign of the ^^fcBig Mortar,\\nDrugs Medicines,\\nWALL PAPER,\\nBEST GOODS AT LOWEST PRICES,\\nMain street, Menominee Mich.\\nB. T. PHILLIPS, M. D.,\\nPhysician Surgeon,\\nOffice Parmenter s Block,\\nMENOMINEE, MICHIGAN,", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0089.jp2"}, "90": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTV IN I 8 76.\\nMELLEN SMITH,\\n-Manufacturer of\\n-AND-\\nSHINGLES,\\nMill on R. R. Track north of Menominee,\\nORDERS SOLICITED\\nfrom all parts of the country, and\\n^\u00c2\u00a9^Ptly\\nAt current n-.arket rates.\\nAddress: MELLEN SMITH,\\nMenominee,\\nMich.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0090.jp2"}, "91": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS- FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN I 8 76.\\nJOHN ALLISON BRO.\\nhave opened a\\nOpi)Osite Kirby liouse, .Main Street.\\nWhiskers Dyed Brown or Black.\\nMenominee, Mich\\nJOSEPH WANEK S\\nHARNESS SHOP,\\nKeeps on hand a full stock of\\nWHIPS, SADDLES, BLANKETS, c.\\nMenominee, Mich.\\n%^v,^^ \u00e2\u0080\u0094J *-r.\\nTrudrP s Block, Menomi?iee, Mich.\\nFashionable Furniture, Frames, c.,\\nUpliolstering and Undertaking promptly attended to.\\nMenominee Livery Stable,\\nRUPRECHT, Proprietor.\\nThe stable, on Ludington street, is well stocked with\\nHORSES AND CARRIAGES", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0091.jp2"}, "92": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN I 8 76.\\nG. W. BAUDER S\\nri^. N^\\nb=r^^^T^\\nI^AI^T^OI^H,\\nParmenter Block, Main st.,\\nMenominee, Mich.\\nL. DOBEAS CO.,\\nDEALERS IN-\\nBUTTER, EGGS, PROVISIONS, c..\\nOdd Fellows Block, Menominee, Mich.\\nCHARLES PARENT,\\nDEALER IN\\nGroceries and Provisions,\\nDRY GOODS, CLO i HING, HATS, c.,\\nBUCKSKIN AND FURS BOU HT AND SOLD.\\nMENOMINEE, MICHIGAN,\\nHENRY NASON,\\nOffice in Town Hall^\\nMenominee,\\nMichigan.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0092.jp2"}, "93": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN 1 8 76.\\nA. B Mkekek, Prest., CIucjiko. W. L. Buown, Treas., Chicago,\\nM. R. Hint, Ca h r, De Fere. C. Spuong, Supt. Menominee.\\nMenominee Iron Company,\\nPRODUCERS OF\\nLake Superior\\nCHARCOAL PIG IRON,\\nSales Office, 93 Dearborn St.,\\nChicago, III.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0093.jp2"}, "94": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN 1 8 76.\\nNew Meat Market,\\nC. RAMME, Proprietor.\\nMain St., Opposite Kirby House, Menominee, Mich.\\nFresh and Salt Meats, Hams,\\nFlour Butter, Eggs, and Vegetables in their season.\\nHENRY AMMERMANN,\\n\u00c2\u00a9ip\u00c2\u00aeliiimi T\u00c2\u00aell#p\\nand dealer in\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nPIECE GOO DS,\\nMain street,\\nMenominee Mich,\\nGEORGE HORVATH,\\nSPIES BRICK BLOCK,\\nKt i ps a full ^tock cf\\n\\\\v^\\\\\\\\A\\\\\\\\\\\\w:^ \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\s\\\\\\\\\\\\v\\\\\\n.WW WKV\\nCLOTHING, BOOTS, SHOES, HATS, CAPS, S;c.\\nMenominee, Michigan.\\nA. PAALZOW S\\nSTSP\u00e2\u0084\u00a2\\nDealer in\\nMedicines, Perfumeries, Glass, etc.\\nPHYSICIAN S PRESCRIPTIONS CAEEFULLY COMPOUIsDED\\nMenominee,\\nMichigan.", "height": "3211", "width": "1946", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0094.jp2"}, "95": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN I 876.\\nThe Menominee Herald,\\nJ. A. CROZER, Editor.\\nThe OflS.cial Paper of Menominee, County,\\nAND THE\\nOLDEST. LARGEST. AND BEST PATRONIZED PAPER\\nIN THIS SECTION OF COUNTRY,\\nREPUBLICAN IN POLITICS.\\nSubscription Price, $2.00 per Year.\\nW.J. PENBERTHY,\\nl ;op:ii.tui of the\\n-AND\u00e2\u0080\u0094\\nSTATIONERY DEPOT,\\nChicago New York Dailies.\\nPost Office Block, .Main Street. Menominee, Mich.", "height": "3212", "width": "1885", "jp2-path": "centennialhistor00inga_0095.jp2"}, "96": {"fulltext": "BUSINESS FIRMS OF MENOMINEE COUNTY IN 1876.\\nL. E. HILDRETH,\\nGENERAL\\nOSTJEAITCE AGEITT.\\n^lain Street, Menominee, Michigan.\\nAssets Represented, $130,000,000.00,\\nContinental of New York. Assets, t\\nBritish American of Canada. Assets,\\nNiagara, of New York. Assets,\\nNorth British and Mercantile, London. xA.ssets,\\nAtlas, of Hartford. Assets,\\nPhenix, of New York, Assets,\\nShawmut of Boston. Assets,\\nBangor, of Bangor, Me. Assets,\\nGerman American, of New York. Assets,\\nTraders, of Chicago. Assets,\\nRhode Island Fire Assoa n. of Providence. Assets.\\nHartford Accident Insurance Co. 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